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There’s a great book called The Sixth Extinction that goes into detail about how we are in the Anthropcene and how we’ve killed off more species of wildlife than we even know. I highly recommend it.

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> May I the dose you took and procedure you used?

• I do not condone drug abuse

• Therapeutic doses depend on weight, previous use and about a million other factors. It's better to use too little than too much

• MDMA has been shown to cause permanent brain damage in multiple human studies. If you don't think you absolutely need MDMA to cope with a psychiatric illness, DON'T ABUSE THIS DRUG.

• This book taught me everything I needed to know about MDMA - history, risks, benefits, proper administration, recommended supplementation etc. If you have a verified source of real MDMA, read this book before even considering buying it.

And most importantly

NEVER BUY DRUGS AT A RAVE.

NEVER.

Depends what you mean by "country." It is a surprisingly vague term. Greenland and the Faroe Islands are called constituent countries within the Kingdom of Denmark. So yeah they are countries. But they are not nation-states, and are represented in international dealings by Denmark.

I think usually when people say how many countries there are in the world they just mean UN member states, of which there are 193, or it might include non-member observes of the Vatican and Palestine, which makes it 195. It's 196 if Taiwan is it's own country.

Once you add in recognizes dependencies and other regions you actually get... 233. the number stated in the title.

http://www.worldometers.info/geography/countries-of-the-world/#example

I run a pi-hole. Network wide ad blocking. Even blocks ads in phone apps like games, etc. It’s not perfect obviously but it helps and you can configure the block lists to be more or less restrictive.

Oil - $35.05 vs $87.52 / Solar - $4 per watt vs $0.74 per watt

What cost $1 in 2000 would cost $1.25 in 2010

The average American (median) in 2003 made $53,500 and in 2013 made $48,111.97 adjusted for inflation

US 2003 GDP 9.898 Trillion Debt 5.674 Trillion
2013 GDP 14.41 Trillion Debt 13.561 Trillion

China GDP 2003 1.198 Trillion 2013 5.930 Trillion

I think the biggest change was the expansion of the internet and its integration into society. Every two days now we create as much information as we did from the dawn of civilization up until 2003

I recommend this book:

Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming

It helps in understanding why we have become tribal on this issue. It was by design.
Fun fact: 25% of Americans still don't believe that smoking is harmful to health. This technique of instilling doubt is terribly effective.

> will provide more jobs than each of the manufacturing, utilities or government sectors.

> lying

Came to say the same. That's a ludicrous claim. The article cites a report behind a paywall for that claim unfortunately. I don't have to read a report to know that is preposterous.

With the below data in mind, does anyone think 'marijuana' is going to be the top of this list?

https://www.bls.gov/emp/ep_table_201.htm

Stupidity, thy name is Robert Tankson.

People really don't understand what's going on.

How long do you think until the AI is making better music than any human?

How long until an AI can generate unique human voices that aren't of anyone - just like it's been doing for years with faces?

AI is doing some impressive creative writing these days too.

The collective everything of humanity is being leveraged to emulate humans better than average and with less resources.

The end result is going to be worth it (seriously), but yes - it's definitely going to cause disruptive changes along the way.

It never ceases to amaze me how even here in /r/Futurology, people think technology like the printing press can be compared to technology like AI and self-driving cars.

News flash: technology has already been having a big effect on our labor markets, all over the world for decades without our making the proper adjustments to our systems to compensate for it all.

If you want to go ahead and pretend everything will be okay because someone is just crying wolf again, don't forget that at the end of the story, that wolf did actually arrive.

>For experimental purposes, we inserted a vulnerability into this utility. To do so, we first copied fqzcomp from https://sourceforge.net/projects/fqzcomp/ and inserted a vulnerability into version 4.6 of its source code; a function that processes and compresses DNA reads individually, using a fixed-size buffer to store the compressed data

...

>We ran the target program in a simplified computing environment and disabled common security features. Specifically, we disabled stack canaries and ASLR, and we marked the stack as executable.

"Yeah we can totally take over a computer while sequencing dna, given that we modify the program and the computer specifically to allow us to do so."

Yea, that's exactly how it works. For instance, I have something called Concierge Medicine. I pay my doctor $1400 a year and get 24 hour access, same day appointments, quarterly physicals, his cell phone number, and if I want to spend an hour sitting in the room just bullshitting about World War 2, he's totally game. In fact, the first time I did that he recommended I read Viktor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning and the next time we talked about it for about 30 minutes. It really is a whole different level of care that's not accessible to someone without some disposable income.

However, I still carry a platinum level insurance plan for everything else.

That said, this is a horrible, fucked up way of doing business. Lets just move to single payer and be done with it.

My friend, the keys to cellphone encryption have already been stolen, meaning the NSA and GCHQ can already monitor all communication from your phone. All because of completely illegal breaking-and-entering and blackmail carried about by the governments of the US and UK, mind you...in order to commit further criminal acts with illegal mass wiretapping.

What the United States' Justice Department now wants is backdoor access to the information on everyone's phone that hasn't been communicated in any way...and compelling companies to create/rewrite phone operating system software (and presumably all mobile devices that could be used for telephony, such as iPads, etc) to allow them to access your devices for your information whenever they want, without oversight.

We really are living in the '1984' world that Orwell foretold, where the "Justice Department" is more about circumventing justice than administering it.

its this there was a post just a few days ago that i saw it on, i figured why not give it a shot.

Lots of people donate their bodies to science. You have to make those arrangements while you're still alive.

Here's a wikhow with some very basic details.

> the jobs of the future are ones such as waiting on tables, cleaning, child care and nursing care

That's the current situation, not a trend for the future. As soon as AI gets good enough, those jobs will disappear.

This book gives a good explanation why: jobs like housekeeping are surprisingly difficult to automate on some cases. Given that housekeepers get paid a low salary, there isn't much incentive to automate their jobs, but it will happen some day.

How many crashes would there likely be per day in the US with self driving cars?

Edit just found this link that predicts a 90% decline.

Not to be that piss-ant, and it should go without saying, but these will not work as well as you're imagining.

Their auto-translate tech isn't new, they use it in their Google Translate app, as well as YouTube auto-caption. Both are spotty at best, and require the translated language be spoke In. A. Clear. And. Simple. Way. to be error-free.

Do yourself a favour and go download Google Translate and throw it into Conversation Mode, and have a coworker or whomever speak in a fluent, natural pace on a topic that isn't a simple interchange. It's fun and sad.

If you have no friends go find a non-English YouTube video and throw it into auto-caption mode to translate to English. Similar outcome, same tech.

It gets even spottier when the person speaking has a heavy dialect, something that isn't standardized. Like the equivalent to a thick southern drawl. Or when it's in 'reverse' where you're trying to translate English into a tonal language.

Sure -- the experiment would be be a pretty trivial download of a packet & network analyzing program, and then monitoring whether there is outbound voice data being sent by the browser or any other apps. (spoiler alert: it isn't)

There are 233 countries if you separate out a lot of the little islands and things that 'belong' to others. AKA mostly the British.

http://www.worldometers.info/geography/countries-of-the-world/

This has a list of both.

I find it unlikely that they received responses from every single country.

Not a conspiracy theoriest, but this podcast did a great episode on the Prison Industrial Complex.

https://www.iheart.com/podcast/409-conspiracy-theories-28854501/episode/prison-industrial-complex-29783236/

Here is the paper.

This image explains the authors' model.

It's already too late for that. This is a pretty good book on the subject. In short, access to the latest and best medicine has always, and will always be better for the wealthy/elite. But once that technology makes the jump to gene editing & nanites, we will see a separate type of human being emerge (homo deus.) Being smarter, stronger, more resilient to illness & injury and possibly immortal (or substantially longer natural lifespans,) they will in every way outclass regular humans. And we have no reason to think they'll treat homo sapiens any better than homo sapiens treated homo neanderthalensis.

TL;DR: You'd be lucky if things turn out as well as they do in the movie Elysium.

1. Yes this is a downside with 3D printers of that size instead of industrial sized 3D printers

2. Software is the most likely to change and improve out of everything. Once there's a higher demand (more common, powerful 3D printers) I'm sure we'll see rapid changes to the tools and how common they are.

3. I feel like this is a facetious point. It could print a drill that scoops out a new floor underground, if you really want to argue. It prints the floors of anything flying or in space or on the ocean.

4. Those are general purpose robots using a tiny 3D printer, not house-building robots. And look, house-building robots already exist and can print 10 houses a day.

5. Correct. Not sure how that affects what 3D printers can do. There will always be an industrial version that can make things better. Just because there's a printing press doesn't mean regular printers are useless.

I personally am super excited for what it could bring. I'm trying to imagine the tech ~10 years in the future, and I think there's a possibility they will become as common as microwaves in every home.

Software wise nothing happens, but hardware wise is breaks down. Here is a article i found by a quick google search.(there is a table at the bottom of the page if you dont want to read.

The short live of such common hardware is also why backup History bunkers (if a nuclear strike happens you can still figure out what happend before the war even a few generations after the strike) Use 8 mm film which has a lifespan of 80 years minimum when in a good place and properly lubed.

Everyone should learn to use things MORE THAN ONCE!!!

Metal reusable drinking straw.. Why produce tonnes of paper straws just to be thrown away as well!

Looks like a classic pump and dump scheme to me. See this SA article for a good breakdown. If you're willing to make risky bets OP, I'd get out IF the stock pops.

http://seekingalpha.com/article/3245496-sunvault-energy-late-filings-arent-the-only-problems

IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation-Expanded Edition https://www.amazon.com/dp/0914153277/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_9iXkDb81D4P54

I acknowledge the irony of posting an Amazon link.

If you want to understand the thinking behind this, I highly recommend reading the book that Bill Gates just gifted to every person graduating college this year: Factfulness https://www.amazon.com/Factfulness-Reasons-World-Things-Better/dp/1250107814

In fact, I recommend reading it anyway, if for no other reason than for the good tips on improving your critical thinking skills.

Not really, the hippie counter culture consisted of between 200-400,000 Americans during the 1960s. That's about 1 percent of the population. How many of them do you think continued the lifestyle for long enough that it would have had a dramatic effect on their life expectancy? source

~~I feel like your username should be idiotman~~

EDIT - My username should be IdiotMan. I did zero research and jumped to a shitty conclusion that ECT was something terrible and outdated. It actually works and is still being practiced today.

EDIT 2 - Link: https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/electroconvulsive-therapy/about/pac-20393894

This has been known for over 50 years. I wish the original researchers could have gotten credit for their amazing work. if anyone is interested in knowing more about the rigorous scientific research done on psychoactive substances before the war on drugs, check out this book. It's essentially a series of interviews with phd level researchers (psychologists, psychiatrists, pharmacologists etc) who did tens of thousands of hours of research. Some of these chemicals are among the most heavily researched substances we know of. The research has been squashed, the players in the research had to go silent after the bans. The book is an attempt to get their perspectives down for posterity before they all died. Looks like it's all finally becoming relevant again.

https://www.amazon.com/Higher-Wisdom-Psychedelics-Transpersonal-Psychology/dp/0791465187

> Honestly until a third party gets to test it I wouldn't pay much attention to the press releases.

Google has released several independent tests. The short version is "Yes, it really is a quantum computer. No, it's not particularly useful."

http://www.cnet.com/news/d-wave-quantum-computer-sluggishness-finally-confirmed/

Yes, I have tried it and happen to have a bottle here. It's good but unexpected and that causes some conflict. The color made me think of a mustard bbq sauce - so there was a bit of cognitive dissonance there. Overall it wasn't too great on ribs, but was very good in a pulled pork sandwich.

The team has had other opportunities for people to try the meals from Watson. Prior to SXSW we had a number of folks out to Mettle in Austin for a menu developed by Watson. I, being on the tech team, wasn't there, but from what I've heard it was pretty terrific.

Guys, genetic algorithms is nothing new. In fact, here is something almost identical that you can run in your browser. Having the iterations carried out in the real work is just a gimmick, and a useless one at that given how long each iteration/generation takes to complete and test.

For anyone still on the fence around the potential dangers of surveillance like this please read this book immediately:

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power https://www.amazon.com/dp/1610395697/

We have unknowingly given these companies ultimate power over our future. Three men control the majority of the world's opinions and have the ability to force their worldview on everyone.

Whoa, and here's an interesting site on it. While part of me is upset this isn't an original idea, most of me is overjoyed that it's actually been given some serious thought. Thanks for the name!

WBN is a great video series that explains a lot of different aspects of bitcoin. This video talks about what it would take to spoof anything: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bi2thGzzNSs

Anyway, you don't have to understand all this to use it (just like you don't have to understand how a tv works to use it), but you asked, so there's a brief into into the math.

Also check out the bitcoin whitepaper, which breaks down the economic incentives that keep everything in line: https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf

Edit: words

Edit 2: obligatory thanks for the gold - my first!

Yep. This is what Generative Adversarial Networks do. The thing creating the content continually tries to trick the thing trying to catch fakes, and they go back and forth until (theoretically) there's actually no detectable difference between the real and created content.

This same process is behind the demos like This Person Does Not Exist.

Need the list of people who bought the Terminator 2: Plasma Rifle. It can be converted to the real deal with a kit off the dark web.

When the Rivers Run Dry - The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-First Century

I had to read this over one summer in college as a prerequisite prior to arriving to school--one of those assignments that ensures all arriving students have a common academic experience they can discuss during their orientation sessions and classes.

Back then, I wryly thought "this is a damned dry read for a book warning us about water issues", but son of a bitch if it isn't playing out as the years go on.

Check out the documentary Blood on the mountain.

It is an interesting look into the lives of people who rely on coal so much that they look the other way as it kills their families.

Edit: If Netflix link doesn't work: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/18/movies/blood-on-the-mountain-review.html

Here's why you should invest in Google:

Currently the biggest challenge of UBER is regulatory - cities are fighting it tooth and nail. One way to exert strong political pressure is to offer a real breakthrough new service for the mass population(and not something like UBER which is an incremental innovation targeted for a small section of the population). This also fits with the breakthrough mentality shown by google's leaders.

Such service could work like UBER for public transit[1], basically enabling people to share rides with multiple other people while decreasing the costs significantly and highly optimizing routes and travel time and maybe/probably making such a service a viable alternative to private car ownership.Low cost, fast transportation, without the need to drive, with much less pollution, traffic jams and accidents - today. Such an offer would be hard for politicians to resist for long.

One key to enable such service at scale, is access to plenty of people and their real-time travel data, and having an ability to offer them an highly targeted ad + route + service. That sound perfect for google+UBER. Like a huge market they're positioned perfectly for.

But that's just phase I.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7391885

forgot to add to title that patient recruiting may start as early as the end of 2016.

edit: here are the complete documents outlining the study, for those interested

There is a lot more to aging...

1) cell loss or atrophy (without replacement),

2)oncogenic nuclear mutations and epimutations,

3)cell senescence (Death-resistant cells),

4)mitochondrial mutations,

5)Intracellular junk or junk inside cells (lysosomal aggregates),

6)extracellular junk or junk outside cells (extracellular aggregates),

7) random extracellular cross-linking.

https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategies_for_Engineered_Negligible_Senescence

You'll like this cynical Admiral Rickover quote:

>An academic reactor or reactor plant almost always has the following basic characteristics: (1) It is simple. (2) It is small. (3) It is cheap. (4) It is light. (5) It can be built very quickly. (6) It is very flexible in purpose. (7) Very little development will be required. It will use off-the-shelf components. (8) The reactor is in the study phase. It is not being built now. > > On the other hand a practical reactor can be distinguished by the following characteristics: (1) It is being built now. (2) It is behind schedule. (3) It requires an immense amount of development on apparently trivial items. (4) It is very expensive. (5) It takes a long time to build because of its engineering development problems. (6) It is large. (7) It is heavy. (8) It is complicated.

As a nuclear engineer, all I'll say is that Admiral Rickover was a pretty smart guy. I hope we can get past this at some point. The ThorCon idea is actually really neat, with its ship-yard construction and all. Very impressive.

'I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.' -Albert Einstein

No Really, it was Einstein!

>And with the power levels of fusion, the leakage and waste is not dangerous, but the potentially redonkulous bomb that you accidentally make.

Huh?

If a future fusion power plant has an accident the plasma will just hit the outer wall and damage the tokamak (I'm assuming it'll be a tokamak) potentially costing millions or more in repair costs but that's all.

A tokamak has pretty much nothing to do with a hydrogen bomb as the density is orders of magnitudes lower so you are generating a lot less fusion events and extracting the energy in a steady-state manner.

Remember that even in a nuclear fission power station it isn't a nuclear explosion - the explosion is a steam explosion as the coolant superheats, the problem is that when it explodes it then spreads highly radioactive fissile material everywhere and can be carried off in ash in fires etc.

I strongly recommend the following books:

• Atomic Accidents for learning more about how nuclear fission plants work and how and why accidents have occurred.
• The Future of Fusion Energy for learning more about the current state of Nuclear Fusion research and how tokamaks work.

Wow where did you get that idea?
Not everyone feels the same way as you do and, just as there are people who want children, there are many who do not. I don't know how old you are, but accepting the reality that people feel differently about different things is a basic concept that most adults should understand.

Also, there are people in the world who regret having children as much as there are people who regret not having children. Regret can happen to anyone.

You should go to r/childfree or read a book like this one to educate yourself: https://www.amazon.com/Maybe-Baby-Infertility-Childlessness-Ambivalence/dp/0060737824/ref=pd_aw_sim_14_of_15?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=0060737824&pd_rd_r=faf2e8be-e42b-11e8-bb4e-ddb7811c53a7&pd_rd_w=iOD4o&pd_rd_wg=m6ToO&pf_rd_i=mo...

I recommend using the app. It makes everything much easier

One solution is to not participate in porn or be filmed while having sex. Problem solved.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/how-pornography-fuels-exp_b_6187936

I think Khan Academy does an excellent job "within" the current model, and in their many test runs of reversing the school system when the kids study at home (with their online classes) and come to school to do the homework with a teacher and the other kids (who help each other learn actively) have produced great results

If you haven't seen Khan's ted talk this is a must: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gM95HHI4gLk

This is a much more complicated issue than most people think. I would recommend people this presentation https://www.slideshare.net/ifpri/transforming-agriculture-experiences-and-insights-from-brazil-and-beyond that shows how much land is already protected in Brazil. It will blow your mind. These studies were conducted by Embrapa (using one method) and NASA actually had better results in an independent study (with another method).

>because they’ll effectively be the AI that would replace them

It kind of depends on how we define the "they", the "I", the conscious. If the biological part of the new entity over time ends up being the part responsible for 0.1% of the thinking (decision making, reflecting, inventing etc.), we'll have to ask tough questions on whether it's still "us", or just the intelligence carrying around a decorative flesh remainder of a human... a human who might not even understand much of the 99.9% that's going on in the thinking. In a positive reading of this, on the other hand, we can argue that even in that case we merely upgraded our own conscious but it's still us. And maybe Elon's bet is that whether 0.1% or a proper upgrade, it's better -- facing an emerging Superintelligence -- than 0%.

For Windows People: If you don't like this, you can still use qbittorrent (http://www.qbittorrent.org/), Deluge (http://deluge-torrent.org/) or other opensource clients.

BUT PLEASE don't use µtorrent. Yes everybody is using it, you don't have to - most of the parts are closed source, the client was taken away from the inventor and some mysterious devs are working on this tool now.

It is only a wet dream for people whose idea of SpaceX is made up of only what they see on the reddit front page.

From the people I've talked to, this post gives you a pretty accurate idea of what working with Elon (and SpaceX) will be like: https://www.quora.com/What-is-it-like-to-work-with-Elon-Musk/answers/5559684

It is not a glamorous job, and no one is in a real rush to join these days.

I couldn't agree more with this, especially after learning about stuff like facebook's shadow profiles built without any user input.

I think at this point trying to actively manage your public persona is a better option than trying to hide it entirely.

Star trek economy

This is a great read. He basically describes star trek's post scarcity economy. How does a society that has no money, no need for most forms of menial labor to be done by humans, and nothing is rare. When nothing is rare, nearly everything can just be replicated and possessed, what would currency be based off of?

My favorite part about the article is the idea that since you don't have to work, and anything and everything is available to you, to include education, why wouldn't you pursue exactly what you want to do? Want to live your life as a musician? Go ahead, you can't starve from lack of money. Want to be a physicist, but afraid of how well you'll be able to apply yourself, don't worry about it. You can take as long as you want to grasp the lessons in school because tuition is free, lessons are mostly automated (teachers are basically glorified study buddies at that point) and you can take your time.

I love how he suggests a stigma would start to form. And it makes sense. I am personally a useless human being at heart. I work simply because money is a need. But if basic living arrangements were supplied with out the need for work, I would be a slug. Sit at home, playing video games all day every day. Maybe eventually take on hobbies. But if money was no issue, and time no relevance for the exception of how closer you are too death, I would probably become a permanent part time student. So even me, useless human being, would go to school for the joy of learning. Imagine how someone more useless then I would be treated by a population allowed to do ANYTHING.

TL:DR the article attacks your specific question more then my ramblings above. It's a great read.

I love AI research. I dabble in it myself and keep up to speed pretty frequently. So when an article like this comes along, I'm elated to read it. Then comes a quick punch to thr gut near the end: 'building the intellectual property base....'. No, this isnt to advance computing in general and make money later. Its to rack up patents.

AI research will stagnate quickly if these early, mildly successful researchers instantly patent everything and anything. AI has come as far as it has because people shared methods, ideas and research freely.

Edit: /u/IAmTheOneWhoKnocks has pointed out that they do some work at http://numenta.org so its not all bad. I am still quite unnerved by that statement though.

Uh no it wasn’t: https://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/KMCO/2017/12/25/DailyHistory.html?req_city=Orlando+International&req_state=FL&req_statename=Florida&reqdb.zip=32827&reqdb.magic=6&reqdb.wmo=99999

This year it only got to 72, and the highest it has ever gotten in Christmas in any year is 86.

Actually, the funny thing is it hasn’t gotten to 95 at all yet in 2018 in Orlando (you can toggle through previous months): https://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/KMCO/2018/6/21/MonthlyCalendar.html?req_city=Orlando%20International&req_state=FL&req_statename=&reqdb.zip=32827&reqdb.magic=6&reqdb.wmo=99999

These are MCO airport readings which are usually in line with the ghcnd data that is formally recorded.

SponsorBlock for Youtube is a browser extension that gets rid of the built in ads in the video stream (looking at you LTT)

It relies on users reporting the affected segments, so now that it has a substantial userbase - it's working quite well for me.

Hijacking just to leave this link here. In case other laypeople like myself want to know the difference between the different terms (toughness, hardness, stiffness, etc), the link is a nice discussion of them.

This would make a big difference. This is discussed in Daniel Kahneman's book "Thinking, Fast and Slow" (Here is a small review)[http://www.canadianbusiness.com/lifestyle/book-review-thinking-fast-and-slow/]

>High-donation countries like Austria follow an opt-out format; if you don’t want to be an organ donor, you have to tick a box. The low-donation countries feature an opt-in model, whereby you have to check a box to have your liver harvested by medical science when you die.

They are taxes at a significantly reduced rate (-20 percentage points or so, depending on tax bracket). Most proposals like this are too tax them as income instead of at 0/15/20.

https://www.schwab.com/resource-center/insights/content/taxes-whats-new

You don’t even need to go to an Asian grocery store. Accent is 100% MSG and is in almost any grocery store.

I’ve had coworkers that used it because their parents used it, but complained MSG in Chinese food gives them headaches 🤦‍♂️.

Buycott is an app that lets you scan a product and see the corporate tree responsible for it. Makes it easy to boycott Nestlé and the Koch Brothers!

It is a valid question. Many studies have tried to measure the health of policies for cities to rank the next "Eldorado" of innovation clusters. One of my favorite ones was the "Startup Genome" ranking. There are others with different results, but one trend is that while USA cities are still a dominant part of the lists, they are not hegemonic anymore. Any of the following places offer competitive advantages, many are not US cities: 1. Silicon Valley 2. Tel Aviv 3. Los Angeles 4. Seattle 5. New York City 6. Boston 7. London 8. Toronto 9. Vancouver 10. Chicago 11. Paris 12. Sydney 13. Sao Paulo 14. Moscow 15. Berlin 16. Waterloo (Canada) 17. Singapore 18. Melbourne 19. Bangalore 20. Santiago

The '2025' article was about Uber buying 2500 cars from Google. Google really did invest 258 million in Uber.

/r/Selfdrivingcars

Only in the middle of last year did smartphone penetration reach 50% in the United States. So it isn't much of a stretch to assume most poor people in America don't have smartphones.

I think what everyone is ignoring is that yes, poor people will eventually get some of the benefits of technology. Cars have been with us for a century and still poor people in many places can't afford them. Disease is still rampant in many parts of the world, long after they've been in decline in the West.

We can not afford a century lag. Can you imagine the consequences of well off people living on powerful anti aging technologies for a century ahead of everyone else?

>>Sci-fi stands for science fiction, so... sci-re for science reality? Sci-non-fi? Maybe just sci.

Alvin Toffler came close with Future Shock.

But that doesn't quite capture what i'm after here, which is the element of not merely something new, but something you'd expect in sci-fi becoming actually real.

Friendly FYI, you can buy canned drinking water! It’s often used in disaster relief. Longer shelf life than bottled, and much more recycle friendly. There’s versions in “soda cans” as well.

http://www.amazon.com/Case-Canned-Drinking-Water-cans/dp/B005FM5YAE

Biodiversity is comercially very valuable. Clean water as well. If there were private property rights onto water sources, it's owners would be protecting the integrity of their property by suing polluters, per exemple. Water can be explored for tourism, sports, scientific research, drinking water, piped water supply, etc. It's a resource like any other. Using it like a garbage dump is just stupid.

The trouble is, if the water source is state-owned but not state-protected, the Tragedy of Commons will ensue. People will dump their trash and chemical residuals in the water sources because it doesn't hurt them financially.

In this case specifically, the federal government is wrong in stripping the protection from all these water sources. Nevertheless, the action taken by the government doesn't have anything to do with capitalism.

If you want to heat the complete argument for privatisation of water sources, read this book:

https://www.amazon.com/Water-Capitalism-Privatizing-Capitalist-Philosophy/dp/1498518826

Exactly. This will be awesome for shit like engineering, 3d animation and design, and maybe a few games, but what would the average user ever need it for?

On the other hand it's worth noting that people like GabeN think stuff like this will be a paradigm shift for modern UI. Time will tell, I guess.

Just remember to leave a button to collapse or expand everything. I know a few people who would be pretty ticked off if they couldn't see the full story without clicking everywhere.

Also, as a web developer myself I would like to note that this telescopic text is just a hop and a skip beyond the html5 details/summary tag and with a little javascript it can be imitated trivially. The site's implementation using span tags and custom classes is probably the best way to go for now given browser support, but well, this is /r/futurology.

I have recommend this book to all my students: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1492032646?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share

It covers high level usage of machine learning libraries and a wide variety of concepts. It also has a github which hosts all of the example code in Jupiter notebooks which is neat. From there you can drill down on any concepts that interest you.

You'd be surprised

>In Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids, contrarian economist Bryan Caplan argues that we've needlessly turned parenting into an unpleasant chore, and don't know the real plusses and minuses of having kids. Parents today spend more time investing in their kids than ever, but twin and adoption research shows that upbringing is much less important than we imagine, especially in the long-run. Kids aren't like clay that parents mold for life; they're more like flexible plastic that pops back to its original shape once you relax your grip. These revelations are wonderful news for anyone with kids. Being a great parent is less work and more fun than you think—so instead of struggling to change your children, you can safely relax and enjoy your journey together. Raise your children in the way that feels right for you; they'll still probably turn out just fine. Indeed, as Caplan strikingly argues, modern parents should have more kids. Parents who endure needless toil and sacrifice are overcharging themselves for every child. Once you escape the drudgery and worry that other parents take for granted, bringing another child into the world becomes a much better deal. You might want to stock up

Aircraft engines especially the jets put out a lot of power on the order of 10,000kW.

Edit. To all you Muppets saying aircrafts don't put out enough power for effective lasers, here's a 30kW one. And before you point out how big it is, this whole thread is about the miniaturisation. It's point defense not tank buster.

Conveniently, there are sufficiently many distinct geopolitical power blocks with developed internet services these days that for any given location, someone will not bother censoring it.

https://www.amazon.com/Genpak-Harvest-Disposable-Utensils-Starch-Based/dp/B00J9SNCLI/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=genpak+fork&qid=1552737770&s=kitchen&sr=1-3

Cheaper and you get more and I'll stand by the quality of those myself.

This is SO important. We should be doing this faster than China.

A branch of artificial intelligence is that of breeding and gene editing. Selectively selecting for genetic intelligence could lead to rapid advances in human intelligence. In 'Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies', the most recent book by Oxford professor Nick Bostrum, as well as his paper 'Embryo Selection for Cognitive Enhancement', the case is made for very simple advances in IQ by selecting certain embryos for genetic attributes or even, in this case, breeding for them, and the payoff in terms of raw intelligence could be staggering.

This was created as one of the early parts of the internet: it is called Usenet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet

It has thousands of discussion forums. Most people use a newsreader like Forte Agent, but you can access it via: https://groups.google.com/

It only has one basic flaw: large amounts of spam as it is not moderated.

Taken from Silicon-air batteries article

>Thermodynamically, silicon is an attractive fuel for battery (fuel cell) purposes. Silicon–oxygen couple has a specific energy of 8470 W h/ kg and an energy density of 21,090 W h/l . It is outperformed theoretically by only the H2/O2 system, and is comparable to Al/ O2 couple, having a specific energy of 8146 W h/kg and an energy density of 21,994 W h/l [5]. Furthermore, silicon is plentiful (eighth most plentiful element in the universe and the second most plentiful in the earth’s crust), is non-toxic, and the reaction product SiO2 is readily reduced back or can be disposed of safely or used in a multitude of applications (e.g., building materials).

If I'm not reading something wrong lithium-ion batteries have energy density of: 676 Wh/l, 243 Wh/kg. If they could make silicon-air batteries feasible Battery electric vehicles would be amazing. Their range would be better than ICE cars with best mpgs.

High speed, cheap neutrino communication would fit those criteria. Think about it: no wires, no RF required. Point a neutrino beam in any direction, and with some math, orient a neutrino detector to match it. Down the street, across town ... or straight through the planet ... and you can communicate. It would mean a total end to all corporate and government interference with the Internet.

EDIT: Because people are apparently missing the article that I linked to (on archive.org because the current version has an awful "black text on a dark blue background" thing going on) let me summarize it here: communication via neutrinos has been DONE. It's been proven possible (and more than two years ago, no less). What I'm day-dreaming about here is it someday being shrunk down in size and cost to where anyone could have that technology in their home. I know this is an extreme longshot, but I'm just throwing an idea out here, not submitting an article to a physics journal for peer review. :-(

I can't help but think that this article is exaggerating a bit when it comes to 1. the student's talent and 2. the effect of that software. I don't know if it's just me but as a student in the same domain of software programming I can't praise that app as high as the article does because the code is very simple to program for something as trivial as yes/no question.

Printing the Appeal out after a pre-coded template isn't rocket science either and it's not like he is the first to come up with an idea like that. Hell, even The Akinator works in a similar fashion.

Also I think the programmer thinks a bit high of himself, going as far as to request his app to be included in entrepreneurs driverless cars which are truely innovative and masterful pieces of software engineering. They could code something like this during their lunch break (exaggerating here a bit of course).

He could have just made an mobile app out of it and market it like that instead.

I came here to say this too

edit: if anyone is interested in knowing more about the rigorous scientific research done on psychoactive substances before the war on drugs, check out this book. It's essentially a series of interviews with phd level researchers (psychologists, psychiatrists, pharmacologists etc) who did tens of thousands of hours of research. Some of these chemicals are among the most heavily researched substances we know of. The research has been squashed, the players in the research had to go silent after the bans. The book is an attempt to get their perspectives down for posterity before they all died. Looks like it's all finally becoming relevant again. https://www.amazon.com/Higher-Wisdom-Psychedelics-Transpersonal-Psychology/dp/0791465187

Did you see this post here today?

5 story 3D printed apartment.

>This process saves between 30 and 60 percent of construction waste, and can decrease production times by between 50 and 70 percent, and labour costs by between 50 and 80 percent.

Realistically, this is the biggest societal change I've seen in my lifetime. I used to think it was the internet/digital revolution, but it's actually the employment crisis that it has brought. I've gone from buying albums and going to the movies, to streaming all my media more or less for free. From uber to automatic checkouts, to 3D printing. There is simply less and less need for workers, especially skilled ones. It's a race to the bottom.

The notion that we can all be entrepreneurs selling our apps to each other for 1/10th cent, or changing our education and specialty 3 or 4 times in our lives isn't going to cut it.

The problem isn't just wealth distribution. It's also the fact that skilled work is going away in favor of menial work, or highly specialized work. This simply isn't sustainable. It's going to leave a world full of have-nots.

I'm just glad to be nearing retirement and escaping with my hide in tact.

It was like that before it got defaulted. Seriously, you just remember the best stuff. Here is a snapshot from early last year before the default.

Sorry but, this is the winner.

This source is good for how it works.

"In layman's terms, StoreDot has created a 'buffer' that stores electrical current coming from the wall socket over a period of around thirty seconds, then letting it flow slowly into the lithium."

"The NanoDots cover the tiny 'cavities' that cover an electrode found in a standard battery, extending its reactive surface, and allowing its capacity to be increased tenfold. Through the addition of the NanoDots, the electrode becomes "multi-function" — at one end, the electrode stores electrical energy creating a capacitor, and at the other, lets it flow into the battery's lithium."

> I don't know how it compares to Wisconsin, but we get like -15...-30C for one to two months(usually january and february or february and march, depends on the year), though not every year, snow for about 4-5 months in a year, rubbish like that.

So in other words, pretty much exactly like Wisconsin.

https://weatherspark.com/averages/30954/1/Madison-Wisconsin-United-States

https://weatherspark.com/averages/28667/1/Tartu-Estonia

> I'd wager even intermittent fasting would improve blood sugar numbers in almost all type 2 diabetics.

It does. Dr. Jason Fung's book demonstrates that most type 2 cases he treats are off their meds after a month or so.

While electrostatics are around (and can sound really good, ex: Magnepan), this tech is unrelated.

This is a "surface transducer". Basically, a device that causes vibrations in the surface it's mounted to, which we hear as sound. In this case, the surface it's mounted to is the screen.

Sony released a Bravia TV that used this tech last year, and consumer grade universal transducers have been available commercially for a while now.

The big innovation here is implementing it into a mobile device. Things like acoustically decoupling the screen from the chassis and miniaturizing the transducer is something no one else has achieved.

Well we all make negotiations when we take a position.

If you don't have rare skills, or aren't vital to a business, then you don't have to worry about negotiating for equity - you just get paid market rate or go elsewhere.

If you do have rare skills and are vital to a business, then you need to negotiate to get your share. And you will, if you have a rational business partner. If you don't have a rational business partner, then don't go into business.
Everyone has to do this eventually (if they have rare skills/aptitudes/knowledge) - it should be taught in school.

This is the negotiation bible, "Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getting_to_Yes

Username... I guess username checks out, horrifyingly.

But yes, Man's Search for Meaning is an excellent book, and makes me think that there almost certainly are people who manage to have meaningful inner lives in the face of being locked in.

"640K ought to be enough for anybody." -- Bill Gates, 1981

He never actually said this. >QUESTION: I read in a newspaper that in 1981 you said, ``640K of memory should be enough for anybody.'' What did you mean when you said this?

>ANSWER: I've said some stupid things and some wrong things, but not that. No one involved in computers would ever say that a certain amount of memory is enough for all time.

>The need for memory increases as computers get more potent and software gets more powerful. In fact, every couple of years the amount of memory address space needed to run whatever software is mainstream at the time just about doubles. This is well-known.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/alt.folklore.computers/mpjS-h4jpD8/9DW_VQVLzpkJ

The storage piece is missing a key point: the availability of lithium. Fool had an article about lithium production, reserves, and Tesla's Gigafactory ideas. That storage problem isn't easily solved, unfortunately. Not right now with current tech/resources, unfortunately.

Here's an interview Sam Harris had with Stuart Russell last year: https://www.samharris.org/podcast/item/the-dawn-of-artificial-intelligence1

> Stuart Russell is a Professor of Computer Science and Smith-Zadeh Professor in Engineering, University of California, Berkeley and Adjunct Professor of Neurological Surgery, University of California, San Francisco. He is the author (with Peter Norvig) of Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach.

But, I think since no one has created an AI yet in the sci-fi way we imagine a self-aware AI to be, I'm not sure there are any "AI experts" in that sense. At the end of the day, even the most accomplished Computer Scientist and AI researcher is just making educated guesses about the future.

Also, watch or read anything you can find with Ilya Sutskever. He's the research director for OpenAI and spent three years as a Research Scientist on the Google Machine Learning team.

Author of article says:

> 125,000 retail workers have been laid off over the past two years.

But Amazon hired 110k workers just this year.

Selling online doesn't mean you don't need employees. Those boxes in amazon warehouses are not packed by machines. Web servers are not maintained by robots. Packages are not delivered by self-driving cars. Amazon hires more and more people, there is absolutely no evidence it kills jobs - on the contrary it creates them.

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/138442/corporatism

From the article: >orporatism, Italian corporativismo, also called corporativism, the theory and practice of organizing society into “corporations” subordinate to the state. According to corporatist theory, workers and employers would be organized into industrial and professional corporations serving as organs of political representation and controlling to a large extent the persons and activities within their jurisdiction. However, as the “corporate state” was put into effect in fascist Italy between World Wars I and II, it reflected the will of the country’s dictator, Benito Mussolini, rather than the adjusted interests of economic groups.

It's closer to "syndicalism" rather than "rule by money".

Onto part 2: http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/93927/capitalism

From the article: > Capitalism, also called free market economy, or free enterprise economy, economic system, dominant in the Western world since the breakup of feudalism, in which most of the means of production are privately owned and production is guided and income distributed largely through the operation of markets.

There is no demonstrable relationship between "capitalism" and "bad businesses".

That is a cool graphic! And if I'm reading it correctly the deltaV is high for Venus only if you're going down to low orbit or landing. To actually intercept it's less to get to Venus (640 vs 1060). Also, once you're at the planet you can do aerobraking rather than using fuel so getting down into the Venusian atmosphere can use less fuel even if the ultimate deltaV is larger.

Plus, time, you can get to Venus is 5 months where as it takes about 9 months to reach Mars. So if you're looking at sending people the reduced time can seriously cut down on the amount of mass you need to transfer.

There is a reason NASA thought about going to Venus and not Mars to prove interplanetary travel was possible.