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These essays, and the root of all of the, the Charles Stross essay, are quite good! However, they are also 13 and 6 years old, respectively. Have you taken a look around to see if the assumptions behind them still hold? The landscape may have changed since they were written.

The world, and the technology of it is in constant change; I really like your essay examples, in that the goalposts for your viewpoints are set quite thoroughly. If only everyone were so clear in their arguments...

Just stating you've matured isn't very useful.

Matured in favor of, or in opposition to, or in a different path altogether?

How do you plan to spread that maturity to others if what you're sharing is not clear? I grew up on the same diet of SF authors, and while I do acknowledge the need for work to be done here on earth, we shouldn't let that need tear down progress towards space. Especially when space expenditures are such a small part of what we as a country and the world spend our resources on.

That was a disturbing read.

I'm wondering how they would handle the bodies of those who have signed up for cryonics... Is there even a way to notify these companies that someone has signed up for that?

When I was a kid, I made an alignment tool out of cardboard, and later plastic from old whipped cream containers.

$50 a kilogram makes it almost cheap enough that immigration to the moon would be practical. Certainly if a large enough group wanted to band together and pay for the launching of their own infrastructure and passenger rides, they could do it. Forget "just" the start of a new Space Race. This would be the opening of the space version of the Oregon Trail!

One of the problems is that many of the medical devices on hospital networks have badly outdated software, that runs proprietary applications. There should be a better job done by vendors to clean that up, but no-one seems interested in supporting this once the sale is made.

Sometimes the IT staff simply have their hands tied, and network isolation is the best they can do, at least for medical devices.

Billing and file sharing vendors should on the other hand have active maintenance contracts to prevent exactly this.

> and declined for reasons the author is unaware of.

This is such an incomplete report, it reminds me of the old adage "A lie can get halfway around the world before the truth can put it's pants on."

A proper, less sensational reporter would have waited until they knew why they declined to move the satellite before writing the piece.

I like that one as well as I think it's a great example of the intractability of coordination problems.

You can find code for several different implementations of ddate here:

https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Discordian_date

This paper rejects the existing definitions of memristors as in inappropriate expression (composition) of devices using magnetic flux and inductance. It really doesn't cover the systems that use electrically adjustable resistance.

Yes, memristors are real, and no, their properties are not magic[1]. As I stated elsewhere on this thread, you can even make them at home[2]. It's even been discussed here on Hacker News before[3].

[1] https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/76097/what-a...

[2] http://sparkbangbuzz.com/memristor/memristor.htm

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9853984

You can make memristors at home by joining together two dissimilar oxidized metal surfaces. Some details on a DIY project given here:

http://sparkbangbuzz.com/memristor/memristor.htm

The claim also appears to extend to everyone who has in their life ever read a library book.

I feel that this statement sets the perfect as the enemy of the good. If your alternative is to take this or die due to not being able to afford the proper medicine you need, what is your choice? What solutions do you put forward for fixing the pricing problems?

I find that their version of a middle future has two oddly lacking points:

* How does this technology service people in rural areas?

* How does this technology help people in poverty escape it?

Given the way everything else was discussed, it really seems strange that those topics are lacking. It's even more apparent when they discuss light rail as a means of replacing existing transportation, as much as I love the concept of light rail.

Maybe you could with some sort of mask that measures eye movement?

Reportedly, he had some botched plastic surgeries which made it hard to breathe normally, and in particular, made sleep painful.

Or with neural lace some time sooner...

Why would anyone wait a few hours after death to do the technique? Wouldn't it make more sense to do it right away, and get the brain into its new medium? Right now there's all the limitations of something that's a nascent technology, but the methods should surely be improved as time goes on.

If this technology pans out, and there doesn't seem to be anything fundamental against it, the future will be very different from what I imagined. Medical treatment, space travel and exploration, even retirement may have gotten a lot more interesting.

Unless the strike surface also contained an accelerant, as well as the igniter...:)

Brain scanning techniques and simulation software have a long way to go, but there have been significant advances made:

A full fly connectome: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41684-018-0183-8

Architecture of the Mouse Brain Synaptome: https://www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273(18)30581-6

So we are past just a simple worm simulation now.

Maybe make that type of debt dischargeable in 14 years, rather than 7? Or maybe make the clock on bankruptcy start ticking directly after graduation?

Are there any road structures that will last longer than 30 years? I've heard that there are other materials used overseas that do, but I don't know the subject well enough to ask effective questions about it.

I believe that most of this can be solved with better concept of respect. For myself, I choose not to use words that needlessly incite fear in others, or words that create an environment that makes them fear for their safety, or also needlessly and knowingly makes them feel bad about themselves.

It does seem that respect is lacking more and more these days.

How large is the project? I'd like to clone it to my drive account, but not if the data sets are too huge.

For my eBooks, I use a java app called DocFetcher. It's indexing and word search capabilities are pretty nice, and I've had great luck with it, especially as I can set it up portably.

I don't know if it's as effective to go after the company for this. In an ideal world, you'd go after the people who made the decision, even if they've left the company.

Here is a better DIY link: http://sparkbangbuzz.com/memristor/memristor.htm

And here's a where I did asked previous questions on the topic: https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/76097/what-a...

Need to catch a ride, but here's a quick link where you can make your own memristors and see for yourself. Basically requires two dissimilar metals and an oxidizer:

https://makezine.com/2011/11/03/how-to-homemade-memristor/