Also what he's missing is that in practice this would just mean that the local library would contract this out to... google, aws (amazon), or azure / office365 anyway.
(I agree w/ the TFA that self hosting and staying on top of security threats, software updates etc is just a pain. but i don't think most towns really have the resources to run something like this reliably either. )
aw heck, i thought i was being original
(and no not that the clouds would be selective, but selectively deployed... e.g. perhaps to take the edge off a heat wave in rich US , but not in markedly less rich Bangladesh or any other place in "the global south" as it is sometimes called.
or that seeding clouds in over the US might make droughts worse in Africa or similar )
"because it 'cannot be governed globally in a fair, inclusive, and effective manner.'"
"inclusive"? Would the clouds somehow let different amounts of sun in for different races?
You know that word means more than your chosen narrow interpretation - right?
not the OP, but YOU know that that's exactly what it means in this context. Or rather not just "race" , but the whole "traditionally victimized groups" or "protected classes" or whatever the approved incantation is in your area.
it's ultimately a variation on the old quip
[if there was nuclear Armageddon, the next day's NY Times headline would read, ]
“WORLD ENDS, WOMEN & MINORITIES HARDEST HIT.”
Well, only a week and a half ago on
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fyro.slashdot.org%2Fstory...
let's not so soon forget: from "Thursday April 30 2020, 5.00pm BST, The Times"
Police have fielded nearly 200,000 calls from members of the public snitching on neighbours or reporting other lockdown breaches, it emerged yesterday.
House parties, public loitering and other coronavirus-related concerns are being swiftly reported to police, who have now issued more than 9,000 lockdown fines in England and Wales.
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thetimes.com%2Fuk%2Fpo...
That 1984 was written by a Brit about a future Britain was surprising to me when i found out, but over the decades i understand more why.
except the Yao Ming case. activity like that will probabilistic create "better at birth" athletes.
it's not about a bias in favor of clean athletes, it's an acknowledgement of how effective the PEDs are. i.e. these are explanations about how today's supposedly clean(er) athletes could possibly achieve performance level previously only seen with PED use.
W/o these explanations (and even with them) the assumption is that they're doping again in some new way.
"everyone agrees" that if you added EPO on top of the new obsession with eating and sleeping they'd get even better results.
Well in the short to medium term i'm more worried that the US can't make chips, rather than that China can't make chip making machines, but agree that there's nothing stopping them from catching up. (that we helped them along for the past 25 years with "technology transfer agreements" on top of the normal industrial espionage... well, that's on us. or more on our short sighted corporate execs drooling over the prospects of "the China market")
15 or even 10 years ago i'd have agreed with you on PRC intentions China seemed to be on a slow path to becoming a free-er country and just wanted more beer, BBQ and blue jeans for everyone.
But then Xi came along and they've taken a heel turn. What they did in Hong Kong going against their agreement and throwing protesters in jail and all that is
So... will they outright attack the US, probably not. But Taiwan , South Korea, Japan ? well... maybe. And then we'd have to sanction them which would be impossible to DO if we're as dependent on them as we are now.
Nutrition and training definitely get better over time increasing the expression of innate capability of the individual.
But so has selection of athletes (i.e. choosing those with higher innate capability from the population) so more people at say the 99.99th percentile might make their way into a sport today whereas maybe they were only at the 99.9th percentile before... The former China is the absolute best at this currently (but the Soviet Union was up there ). And capitalism / free market does stuff like this too e.g. by giving runners from poor countries some opportunity at wealth.
Now are we actually creating people with higher capability than before? Well... sort of: The Yao Ming (NBA dude) story is one way how https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tuko.co.ke%2Ffacts-l...
Arguably if the US could convince more pro athletes to have kids together rather than hooking up with models, we could also select for superior athletic traits over time.
after much boosterism and fanboing TFA gets around to the topic by the end of the article.
So that history does make one legitimately skeptical of claims about magical technical gains.
No one I spoke with would rule out that doping still exists in the sport. Occasionally, athletes are still caught at it—but that now seems to happen more at lower levels of competition where the monitoring is less comprehensive. One permitted practice that offers some performance benefit is sodium-bicarbonate loading. You read that right: Chowing down baking soda helps aerobic performance in some circumstances by buffering lactic acid, a by-product of intense exercise. But eating an extra muffin won’t do it, and the gastric distress associated with eating a lot seems a natural limiter. Another, more alarming method involves microdosing with carbon monoxide—a deadly gas—to mimic the effect of altitude training. Cycling’s governing body has moved to ban the practice.
They also point out that even "the gains" are, in part, from being obsessive about tracking food intake and fueling. And that carbon monoxide training is another way to do blood doping (though apparently harder an not as effective. maybe ~3% VO2max increases vs maybe 6%-10% with EPO or blood transfusions)
There's a lot more diversity of opinion on that in the US than you allow for.
You may have seen news that American pride, while still high is in decline esp. among non-Republicans (i.e. among independents and especially among Democrats and Gen Z). it's been going down slowly since 2000, but w/ some acceleration recently.
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnews.gallup.com%2Fpoll%2F6...
Fortunately, advanced chip fabrication tooling apparently is one of the things that China doesn't make. That's EU and US and some in Japan, Taiwan and Korea. T
Though Taiwan, unfortunately, we can't count on quite as much because of their geographical (and also political) vulnerability.
I'm somewhat of a globalist, and was soothed for a while by the observation that no two countries with McDonalds had gone to war.
But
they're clearly very interested in keeping the convenience users. Which implied they're making money from them.
Primarily because that's where the people carrying balances come from.
Here's how a Federal Reserve report puts it. note that the transaction function is "slightly negative"
we decompose credit card profitability into its main sources— the credit function, the transaction function, and fees—and present three main findings. First, we find that, on average, the credit function makes up approximately 80 percent of the credit card profitability, whereas the contribution of the transaction function is slightly negative, as rewards and other expenses on credit card transactions outpace banks' interchange revenues.5 In addition, fees—in particular late fees—comprise approximately 15 percent of credit card profitability.
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.federalreserve.gov...
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