Evil definition: adjective - profoundly immoral and wicked.
Society communally “decides” the definition of words.
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Society communally “decides” the definition of words.
No it is a company that removed the text “Don't be evil” from their motto.
There are market niches for many things that target things that are impractical for various reasons. There is nothing wrong with that.
https://backend.orbit.dtu.dk/ws/portalfiles/portal/158911010...
6000km from France to NY
3g * 6000km * 350tones / 1000 / 1000 = 6.3 metric tones of CO2.
I don't know how much disel the sail ship might use, but 6.4 tones of C02 is equivalent of 1974L of disel.
According to their own website https://graindesail-logistics.com/en/ they aim for 1.8 g off CO2 per km per ton.
1.8 is lower than 3g. If those aims are reached I guess they are "more green" than I thought. But the gain is quite small, if you truck that cargo for 160km all the CO2 savings are gone. A modern truck emits 45g of CO2 per km.
On top of that the sails will degrade with time and the ship will need to be repaired and there is allot more crew and manpower needed per unit of cargo.
Everything has environmental cost in CO2 emissions, and the amount of useful work you get from a large container ship per amount CO2 emissions is insane. The only thing that can get you those kinds of numbers is scale.
The fuel cost for moving one container over the Atlantic on a big container ship is about 30$. A container takes 30 tons. So 12 containers could move that cargo for a fuel cost of 360$, the scale is unbeatable; both economically and environmentally.
Things like this can only ever be a type of artistic thing rather than used for real shipping.
Saying that Maersk is at blame is like blaming the airline instead of Boeing.. if you want to make that parallel.
The mercator makes Africa look comparatively small on the y-axis which is a problem if you are trying to visualise the size of Africa and the time it takes to go around the continent.
If i visually compare the distance on the mercator and an equal area projection is looks to make the trip about 20% shorter on mercator (compared to the apparent visual distance going through Suez). Non of the projections will be 100% accurate but the mercator is less accurate for this specific case.
The extra distance around Africa looks comparatively small on the Mercator projection.
It will be successful in the price range where it is located. My guess is that it will even beat the sales quantities of the quest pro, a headset which is about a third of the price.
If you love switching tires.
QoS could be a problem, indeed. If QoS it is an issue in the case one is working on, exposing your data as SQL might not be best choice, and neither is exposing any type of api that causes the server to have to do hard work.
For small applications with a hundred to a few hundred users using the databases own user management is quite handy. You can be very sure that you don't leek information and you can be quite certain that potential bugs in your application code won't lead to many of the common security vulnerability's that exist.
Just create a sql user with the correct access rights. Don't reinvent the wheel.
It is an amount where I would definitely start to think that ones life would be degraded in certain ways by the amount of alcohol consumed.
Where I live the recommendations are that people that drink 10 or more units of alcohol per week should be provided support from the healthcare system to reduce their drinking.
People likely sleep on the side that causes least muscular tension in their body.
People tend to have a pelvis that is turned slightly to the left (something referred to as the "left aic, right bc pattern") this due to a combination of factors stemming from internal asymmetry, like the liver giving support to the diaphragm on one side, which effects how we use our muscles to breathe. With time many of our movement patterns become slightly asymmetric to make breathing more efficient.
This asymmetry is likely the main contributing factor in the dominance of right side sleeping.
In a prototype with batteries large enough to heat and power a house for weeks?
The power consumption of the navigation electronics is probably not a big concern.
I would have put linux and a fullscreen electron app on those screens.
I could have been more detailed in my comment, but that was not where my mind where when I wrote my comment. And in my defense the only part of your comment that I really understand thoroughly is the last paragraph, so I guess this holds true for both of us, we could both be more descriptive.
Things emerge in to something. In this case it emerged in to models of the world that exist in mine and your mind.
The pattern that was the anthill exists, but it has not emerged in to something before it has emerged in to a model of something.
So I guess it goes wrong cause we use different definitions for what it means for something to emerge.
On a side note. I am not quite sure what you mean with "a fact of nature", my best guess is something like: it is an axiom of truth that anthills exist. But that does not make sense to me. Maybe it is more like: we observe anthills so they must exist. Idk? Probably not relevant, seams more like you are refuting some postmodern idealistic idea which states that everything is mind, which I don’t subscribe to.
Even if I would not say that "A chair doesn't really exist". But it seams like that was more like a rhetorical argument from you given your last paragraph.
There is nothing that "emerges" in the physical universe, instead things emerge in an observer's model of the world.
Calculating the approximate wattage to lift all that water 26m:
9.8 w/s * 200000000 Liters * 26 m /60/60/1000/1000
200 000 000 liters was reported on wikipedia as amount of water used.
Its a very crude calculation probably of by quite a bit.
It's allot of electricity but the cost of that electricity would be essentially nothing when compared to what they charge. So I don't know why they don't install massive pumps. Maybe they don't want to contaminate the lake with salt water, but you would get small amounts of salt water with the current system to.
I might even get to experience 3333333333 if I am lucky. What a day, what a day, yes indeed!
Self reported data is always annoyingly unreliable.
This product would probably be better than self reporting, but not good enough.
The privacy issue is annoying thing. If it was a on-device ai model things might be easier to accept. But I such a device is further in to the future.
Looking at the past through a probabilistic lens is irrational, unless you are doing it to predict the future through information collection.
Sort of, of topic but anyway….
You can see it in the video.