VladRussian2

>Really? Since when is the FDA (actually, USDA in this case) a private, for-profit operation?

i already addressed that - the Republicans forced for it to be done through private for-profit operations instead of a government agency like FDA/USDA/etc...

you're not forced to buy insurance. There is a new tax and you're just given a chance to avoid it by buying some specific product. For example i avoid some taxes by paying mortgage. Nobody forces me to have a mortgage or medical insurance. Either of it just reduces taxes and provides some benefits to me as perceived to me.

yes, i kind of imagine how the Chinese bistro nearby (less than a mile from Google) wouldn't let, say, a city inspector in until s/he signs NDA/etc... I guess the bistro owner is just not aware about such an idea :)

well, i truly doubt that the law mandates for male coverage to include maternity or female coverage - prostate cancer. The law just mandates the same insurance price for males and females.

It is pretty much the same as me paying [through taxes] for the FDA beef inspectors even though i don't eat beef. Just a socialization of the cost of basic government services (healthcare is among them, it is just Republicans are slower as usual to recognize the facts of reality, and thus "socialization" of the cost happens inside an insurance pool instead of society-wide as it would be in the case of single-payer )

They also regulated away spoiled beef in stores, non smoke detectors equipped bedrooms and poisoned tap water. You can't have it. Minimum floor.

This is why it should be a law. Losing video/camera to be like losing a badge,gun,etc

i see this as fair game. 80(or 90 on a good pieces of 280) in a 65 is fine as long as you pay enough attention to the driving to notice a cop and slow down a bit. If you don't pay enough attention - well, you just shouldn't drive 80 ( sometimes, when i'm really tired late after work, i drive in the right at 60-65)

>For years, I wanted cams on every Cruiser.

reading (and watching on Youtube when available) about a bunch of recent beatings and shootings, i think it should be made into a law that a police officer may apply force only when the action is being recorded (by a helmet or Glass-style camera of the officer). Without recording on, police officers should be considered "off-duty" and be subject to regular rules just like any other citizen.

there is no need for Non-Newtonian locomotion. We just need to learn how to get reaction from vacuum/space. Space expansion is an existing phenomenon providing for FTL speeds. We just don't know how to control it, like ancients couldn't control say electricity.

Before FTL, we need to get control of fusion - emitting alphas [aneutronic reactions because directing/reflecting alphas is much easier than neutrons] at 0.05c would make for comfortable colonization of the Solar system and even for the first probes/missions to the closest stars. (and fusion is not a pipe dream if you look at the right development - ie. Sandia MagLIF (fusion target inside large coin shrinker :) instead of NIF (non-starter) or ITER (for Earth based energy production only, DT at best, no aneutronic even in the wildest dream)) Fusion is also about engineering of precise energy focusing - space expansion is the next level (or 2 :) of precision and energy levels after that.

there is also very easy other way around - "ask for help" [to fight terror and defend Motherland, err... USSR wording, today in the US it is "Homeland"] an existing Google employee.

yes, the submarine screws will generate waves on a lull day

now they just need to lease a nuclear submarine to power the barges datacenters.

only in software engineering tools and runtimes are choosen based on what is best for the project/customer.

real numbers are a closure of the set of rational numbers under the limit operation. It just happens that the closure is uncountable.

It is pretty standard device in mathematics - having a set and an operation, to produce and explore another set built as a closure of the first set under the operation. Seems pretty intuitive to me :)

What is really unintuitive, puzzling is the starting point of it all - natural numbers... 1, 2, 3... why there is a one stone, a one star, ... why this discretization?

"Anarchy is the mother of order". Each new generation gets that virus for a time. Summer of love. Summer of code.

>Does anyone think Google's floating barge is a way to evade compliance when it comes to data monitoring? Theoretically they could go further offshore

the compliance is mainly enforced through the company execs being onshore, not the data/servers. The barges will be waiving 2 Irish flags with 1 Dutch flag in-between at the same time.

an ID-verified person - 1st level, 100%. Everything s/he tagged, communicated with, etc... - 2nd level, 95%, everybody "touched" by 2nd level - 90%,... Just a few hundred thousands optimally selected, and the graph is well verified while maintaining an impression of the ID-checks being rare exceptional events.

now if there were a printer that could print a 5000 sq feet lot for the house, with all the building permits approved, kickbacks/bribes/political donations paid and utilities connected...

The 3D printed houses will be a life-saver on Moon and Mars though.

well, you seems to be on to something. These other kilos are kept at different places that have different gravitation (no mentioning that they control for that) - thus different time. So 1 year for IPK in Paris isn't a precise 1 year for its copy in another place. So whatever changes happen to the kilos they happen a bit quicker for some and a bit slower for the others.

it isn't just about capitalism, it is generic principle of living systems evolution - it isn't possible to stay in static balance with environment forever as environment will change [will be "disrupted" or "paradigm shifted" in local parlance] sooner or later.

>We have disinfectant sprays, chlorhexidine, bleach, UV radiation shot by Cylon looking robots, and surfaces made of copper and patterned after shark skin.

And the bacteria which survives all of this, i think it should look something like this:

http://www.imdb.com/media/rm617979392/tt0088944?ref_=ttmi_mi...

>A simple, open and hackable OS..

lets hope that like 20+ years ago, somewhere some young Linus is making it right now ...

previously they were flying mig-25 & 31 and these planes can go higher, especially mig-25, yet they are older and seems to be more harder(expensive) to maintain.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izIClWYKK1o

>We have a strong national military... what's to stop us from having a strong national development team?

not having another $600-700B/year to spend?

> during which time he sent himself, through a so-called “subversion repository,”

i just can imagine how every FBI agent jumps when reading that there is a whole repository of subversion (or subversions?) out there.

> His solution was just to become certified as a procurement officer (apparently it's 72 hours of coursework) and deal with the bids himself. He said these kinds of problems have pretty much disappeared for him since then.

sounds like a loophole one can procure a truck through :)

>which allowed millisecond level real-time guarantees using garbage collected java threads.

an anti-ship missile at 2 Mach would move 0.7m during an ms and it wouldn't be a lateral move - sounds like Java has reached the level of getting into fire control systems :)

the beauty here that it sometimes produces a Musk at all. Nothing else does it. The closest we'd got is Gates - while not SV geographically, it is the same approach - make money in hi-tech and apply it to solve a big problem.

>I mean no offense to you personally, but I fail to understand how this problem fits in a world in which 2.5 billion people lack basic sanitation.

some of the people making big on some app will become the next Musk (though unfortunately some will become the next Thiel) and will work on the big problems our civilization faces. That is is the beauty of SV - it allows people doing business here (or even merely employed) to generate resources to try to tackle something bigger. It is like springboard.

>The idea that there's no war going on the world, or that you don't need universities is complete nonsense.

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> the insular, ignorant, and shallow attitudes that pervade Silicon Valley

these ideas and attitudes pervade only very young or very rich heads. It is also natural that such heads are the most vocal ones, especially when they are both - very young and very rich - at the same time.