I think B5 generally had the better story. DS9 had much better production values. Not to say DS9 didn't have some great stories, but B5's was just better thought through and more cohesive. The story arc was clearly planned from the beginning with B5 with all the details that get seeded in early seasons and pay off in later seasons. DS9 is much more episodic (except for the whole Dominion war thing) with not nearly as much development.
Bridges can be really hard to take out, depending on the kind of bridge and how it was hit. If the bombs just punched a hole in the deck, that's a pretty easy repair. The Kerch Strait bridge has been hit by Ukraine many times and is still standing and has been fixed (arguable though that Ukraine hasn't yet intended to bring it down). The Francis Scott Key Bridge was just demolished. When it collapsed, there wasn't really anything worth repairing left. Which means it isn't a quick repair job, it's a whole new build. And some kinds of bridges are way easier to build than others. A big suspension/cable stayed span/etc bridge is a major undertaking. A simple causeway type bridge, not so much. Also much harder to completely destroy - you can damage sections, to be sure, but most of the rest of the sections will be relatively undamaged unless you specifically hit them too.
I get the love of physical books and understand it. But I'd rather poor people get the very latest electronically by pirating it via Annas Archive or the like rather than get a substandard education by reading out of date textbooks. In fact, when I was in college, I pirated textbooks I had paper copies of simply because I was tired of lugging around all that weight.
Can't say I've done that. Went to Boston for a work trip, spent the weekend exploring. Nice city, I can see the charm and why people would want to live there. But it also wasn't a place I'd want to live in.
Not to defend the AI crowd, but ever go to a Goodwill Outlet store? They usually have at least 1 gaylord box (the giant box on a pallet watermelons come in) full of books. Not sure how often they cycle those out, but I'm guessing pretty regularly. Multiply that by every semi major city Goodwill has a presence in. Add in other thrift sores with a similar quantity of books. You're talking ALOT of books. SO MANY books are thrown out everyday. Including by libraries. I don't really have a problem if some of those get diverted for a bit to be scanned. Yes, it's sad to see books getting destroyed. But there's alot of stuff people just really don't want. And, if you REALLY want a villain, maybe you can blame copyright law? That's part of the reason AI companies destroy the books - it helps to make their scanning efforts more legal. Absent that, they could probably be convinced to spend just a little more for nondestructive scanning, assuming they could find a home for the books they scanned (the sellers of these things couldn't, so good luck).
Some of us are quite well armed. There's a saying: if you go far enough left, you get your guns back. There's lots of gun clubs, all across the country, that are left wing. See Pink Pistols and the John Brown Gun Club.
One thing I wonder is what if he's not technically dead, just practically. As in, his heart still beats, he still has some minimal brain function, but he's lost so much functionality that he either can't speak at all or can't in any way ever be effective as a senator ever again.
For sure, but I focused on just the easily quantifiable economic returns because most people who would call the Green New Deal the Green New Scam are also climate change deniers. So, focusing on just their own pocketbooks with things that can easily be measured and calculated seems a better approach.
Green New Deal is also incredibly sound economics and conservative ethos. Economically speaking, which is better: something you have to spend a bunch of time and effort mining for and then can only ever use it once or something you spend a bit more effort mining and manufacturing, but then can receive gains off your investment for decades? Gains that exceed your initial investment well before expected end of life.
Don't feel too sorry. For most Amber alerts, the child was never in any real danger (often some custody battle thing where a parent "stole" the kid, often to try to protect them), or, by the time the alert went out, it was already too late. I went and looked it up and it's not clear if there's ever been a case where Amber alerts actually helped to save a kid. If there has been, it's extremely rare. In some ways, they actually hurt because the police get flooded with a bunch of reports that are just wrong.
I actually think that AI might be closer to Web 2.0 than blockchain. Where I see it's biggest potential though isn't in the stuff most people do everyday, but in specialized applications. I see some of the uses in stuff like medical research and find the potential there to be wild. In alot of ways, it's sort of a revolution in how we think about doing computing. We're still really early on it, so its hard to know just where it takes us. Even on the more mundane stuff, it really does help programmers be alot more productive (though it's hardly a replacement for talented programmers). Which is a huge for helping us build the next generation of tech.
There's alot of stuff they say is obsolete but really isn't. For example, in my day job, I'm an analog IC design engineer. The most advanced process I work on is sort of 90nm (but not really). The previous silicon process I worked on was basically a 0.5um process. Ask most people and that's all stupidly obsolete - should have died out in the 90s or something. But I work on power products. Power is analog, not digital. We may have some digital stuff, to be sure, but what we fundamentally do is analog. And you can't use 5nm processes to deal with "high" voltages - that's all on "old", "obsolete" silicon processes. Oh and you know what we power with all this? Among many other things, those fancy AI chips. So yeah, alot of these transitions do obsolete stuff, but there's often still important niches in older technologies. I mean you still have people learning COBOL so they can program mainframes for banks.
I think B5 generally had the better story. DS9 had much better production values. Not to say DS9 didn't have some great stories, but B5's was just better thought through and more cohesive. The story arc was clearly planned from the beginning with B5 with all the details that get seeded in early seasons and pay off in later seasons. DS9 is much more episodic (except for the whole Dominion war thing) with not nearly as much development.
Bridges can be really hard to take out, depending on the kind of bridge and how it was hit. If the bombs just punched a hole in the deck, that's a pretty easy repair. The Kerch Strait bridge has been hit by Ukraine many times and is still standing and has been fixed (arguable though that Ukraine hasn't yet intended to bring it down). The Francis Scott Key Bridge was just demolished. When it collapsed, there wasn't really anything worth repairing left. Which means it isn't a quick repair job, it's a whole new build. And some kinds of bridges are way easier to build than others. A big suspension/cable stayed span/etc bridge is a major undertaking. A simple causeway type bridge, not so much. Also much harder to completely destroy - you can damage sections, to be sure, but most of the rest of the sections will be relatively undamaged unless you specifically hit them too.
I get the love of physical books and understand it. But I'd rather poor people get the very latest electronically by pirating it via Annas Archive or the like rather than get a substandard education by reading out of date textbooks. In fact, when I was in college, I pirated textbooks I had paper copies of simply because I was tired of lugging around all that weight.
Yo ho ho, it's a pirate's life for me.
Can't say I've done that. Went to Boston for a work trip, spent the weekend exploring. Nice city, I can see the charm and why people would want to live there. But it also wasn't a place I'd want to live in.
Not to defend the AI crowd, but ever go to a Goodwill Outlet store? They usually have at least 1 gaylord box (the giant box on a pallet watermelons come in) full of books. Not sure how often they cycle those out, but I'm guessing pretty regularly. Multiply that by every semi major city Goodwill has a presence in. Add in other thrift sores with a similar quantity of books. You're talking ALOT of books. SO MANY books are thrown out everyday. Including by libraries. I don't really have a problem if some of those get diverted for a bit to be scanned. Yes, it's sad to see books getting destroyed. But there's alot of stuff people just really don't want. And, if you REALLY want a villain, maybe you can blame copyright law? That's part of the reason AI companies destroy the books - it helps to make their scanning efforts more legal. Absent that, they could probably be convinced to spend just a little more for nondestructive scanning, assuming they could find a home for the books they scanned (the sellers of these things couldn't, so good luck).
Some of us are quite well armed. There's a saying: if you go far enough left, you get your guns back. There's lots of gun clubs, all across the country, that are left wing. See Pink Pistols and the John Brown Gun Club.
I don't see the problem here.
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One thing I wonder is what if he's not technically dead, just practically. As in, his heart still beats, he still has some minimal brain function, but he's lost so much functionality that he either can't speak at all or can't in any way ever be effective as a senator ever again.
For sure, but I focused on just the easily quantifiable economic returns because most people who would call the Green New Deal the Green New Scam are also climate change deniers. So, focusing on just their own pocketbooks with things that can easily be measured and calculated seems a better approach.
Sometimes the CDs are even cheaper than the digital download. And there's always thrift stores. Once you have the CD, rips are easy.
Green New Deal is also incredibly sound economics and conservative ethos. Economically speaking, which is better: something you have to spend a bunch of time and effort mining for and then can only ever use it once or something you spend a bit more effort mining and manufacturing, but then can receive gains off your investment for decades? Gains that exceed your initial investment well before expected end of life.
Don't feel too sorry. For most Amber alerts, the child was never in any real danger (often some custody battle thing where a parent "stole" the kid, often to try to protect them), or, by the time the alert went out, it was already too late. I went and looked it up and it's not clear if there's ever been a case where Amber alerts actually helped to save a kid. If there has been, it's extremely rare. In some ways, they actually hurt because the police get flooded with a bunch of reports that are just wrong.
There was a test a few years ago. That's the only one I've ever seen.
Only good news is these particular uruks leave a documentation trail via their social media. So we can still put meat back on the menu.
As bad as proliferation of standards is, the only thing worse is no standard at all. That's how we got that. Everybody just did whatever they wanted.
I just set it up with my Docker setup. Point it at the appropriate volumes and it pretty much goes. GUI tools for Docker help. I like Dockge.
How many is a dozen?
I actually think that AI might be closer to Web 2.0 than blockchain. Where I see it's biggest potential though isn't in the stuff most people do everyday, but in specialized applications. I see some of the uses in stuff like medical research and find the potential there to be wild. In alot of ways, it's sort of a revolution in how we think about doing computing. We're still really early on it, so its hard to know just where it takes us. Even on the more mundane stuff, it really does help programmers be alot more productive (though it's hardly a replacement for talented programmers). Which is a huge for helping us build the next generation of tech.
There's alot of stuff they say is obsolete but really isn't. For example, in my day job, I'm an analog IC design engineer. The most advanced process I work on is sort of 90nm (but not really). The previous silicon process I worked on was basically a 0.5um process. Ask most people and that's all stupidly obsolete - should have died out in the 90s or something. But I work on power products. Power is analog, not digital. We may have some digital stuff, to be sure, but what we fundamentally do is analog. And you can't use 5nm processes to deal with "high" voltages - that's all on "old", "obsolete" silicon processes. Oh and you know what we power with all this? Among many other things, those fancy AI chips. So yeah, alot of these transitions do obsolete stuff, but there's often still important niches in older technologies. I mean you still have people learning COBOL so they can program mainframes for banks.