I predict this will backfire against lady gaga. A lot of people out there are going to hear this story and ask themselves if they wouldn't shoot someone just for being able to offer a half million dollars for dogs. there's a lot of jealousy out there. all i'm saying is, #doglivesmatter.
now that the dogs have been returned , gaga may constantly be in fear of people kidnapping her prescious ones, now that they know how much they can fetch.
i wonder if the original dognappers aren't a bit frustrated . humorous but so so sad really. America is two steps from being a 'developing' country, but whose fault is this really? blame the dogs.
zerohedge , like drudgereport.com before it , has finally sold out. whether it was forced to sell out or not, it is hard to say.
zerohedge has never had a 'premium' or 'membership' option until today, the day where it became clear the deep state were taking over the government in force.
zerohedge used to be a contrarian treasure hole. today , I have witenessed a sudden change in tone of the article coinciding with an announcement that there is a 'new' membership option.
Along with an anomolously bad change of the font type of the site which is both distinctly uglier and distinctly less practical,
this is fairly clear evidence of new ownership, or some new 'deal' that the current management is making in transitioning to cashout of the website , allowing it to die.
for true contrarian news, you will now search elsewhere.
filecoin will be a useful protcol for independent warehouses of data, all in an effort to consolidate in a pool against the biggest players. it will NOT be for the 'masses' of people, except to the extent they enjoy donating a few dollars of their electricity every month to someone's file storeage for shits and giggles.
the dollar is too strong, it means you get less for your production ( barrel of oil) than you used to. so little, that you might not be able to feed the people in your country that pump the oil.
a strong dollar creates problems for the entire rest of the world. this is how the king of the throne applies coercive force to the 'developing world'. because their own currencies are even that much shittier, so they CHOOSE to rely on the dollar. because...it's far more useful than trying bilateral trade ( oil for food) , which isn't so easy, using a currency is far better, and if you think it's not, try bilateral trade, see what happens. in the rare cases that it may work, you'll have the u.s. navy knocking at your door too!
Better idea ultra high speed megascale nuclear powered cruise ships that never dock. They pull in 1 km from port and use deckside drones to transport tens of thousands of passengers safely on shore in different places all at once or as needed. Speed should reach at least 150mph. And with nuclear power become the domina t coastal form of circuit/belt transport. Not just people but cargo. Nuclear powered merchant marine should have happened. One day it will.
Problem with zepllins is the skin will never be robust...because the bigger and faster the zepplins go the thicker the skin must be and the more difficult self healin smart skin systems will be to invent iterate and operate.
Forget c02 and global warming. Think about simple economics. Next generation systems must be an order of magnitude more efficient in delivering a passenger to his ultimate goal or to any goal. That doesnt always mean only energy efficiency and operation and fuel price per passenger mile but these are strong factors in the equation.
It's effectively impossible to run a large surface ship at much over 40kts no matter how much power you have. The drag on a displacement hull is too high, and planing hulls and hydrofoils don't really work for anything large.
There was a company working on hydrofoils for cargo ships in one of the recent YC batches. No idea how it’s going, but they at least seem to think it’s possible to put foils on something large.
Boundary Layer Technologies is developing small cargo hydrofoils to compete with air freight. This may be a viable niche market. But their design looks like it has only about 1% of the capacity of the largest displacement hull container ships. Hydrofoil technology doesn't scale. And the cruising speed won't be much over 50kts.
You are right on that we're developing small cargo ships at about 1% of the largest containers ships. However, a comparison to the largest container vessel is not fair. Our concept has 160 twenty-foot containers (TEU), which is the same as fourteen 747 cargo airplanes and can complete on freight duration with airfreight. Most air freight takes 3-7 days despite a 12 hours in-air transit time, and the remaining time is sitting around airports. We can deliver in 6 days across the pacific ocean, and port wait times are minimal because of our small vessel. Though, if you pay 10x the premium, you can get FedEx or DHL to deliver up to a 1 ton anywhere overnight. Airfreight moves 35% of the world's cargo value and is a $100b market, and a single airplane is only 0.06% capacity of the largest container ship. Hardly niche.
If the hydrofoils ships are too large, they will spend too much time filling the vessel rather than delivering point-to-point cargo, improving the service. Most ocean lines make 4-6 stops at ports, while a small foil ship can load quickly and make no stops, thus significantly reducing the door to door duration.
Correctly pointed out, hydrofoils do not follow the same scale laws as standard buoyancy vessel. The amount of cargo that can be delivered increases with the cube of the length assuming all else scales, meaning the fuel and crew cost per container decreases drastically with larger ships. That's why we see mega-20,000 TEU-container-ships. Hydrofoil ship lift capability scales linearly with plan area of the foil, so we don't gain much making them mega-ships.
What about cargo torpedoes? I imagine you could fit an airplane load into a very large submarine/torpedo and send it at 200 km/h with a nuclear powered propulsion.
So? The idea is batshit insane, but I'm not sure it's against physics. Imagine a supercavity nuclear powered submarine cargo ship. I can't run the calculations for that. It would probably kill/scare all whales left in the ocean, but it might "work".
If we're already fantasizing about going nuclear, why not also use classified military submarine propulsion systems? That ought to keep the noise down.
For the mega nuclear powered cruise ship, you can have a sliding deck that everyone pre-loads onto for fast boarding and exit. Imagine if an entire floor could slide out onto the dock, and the floor above could slide into the ship at the same time. Both floors hold all people exiting and entering the ship.
never underestimate the stupidity of people in large groups with guaranteed income , i.e. bureaucracy.
having been a cyclist my wholelife, since childhood. i have no faith in the government to implement sensible policy. i have faith in them to tax more. and more , and more. uber and lyft have been DISASTERS for new york, but they were inevitable because of the disaster that was the method by which the tlc was creating artificial scarcity in the yellow tax licensing system.
and congestion pricing? no. it won't work. it wont' make the city more liveable or better. it's just a cash grab plain and simple.
the 'post 2017' bubble truth of the answer is this:
any successful network running proof of work will become a massive supercomputing cloud where only commercially centralized entities , including mining farms, and successful mining POOLS , are able to participate in a vast network which becomes dominated by a cartel of players who can bring the COST OF WORK DOWN AT SCALE. this doesn't necessarily mean the network dynamic leads to LESS decentralizatin over time, but it sort of means it does at the 'non-commercial' level of doing work. this is WORK WORK at the industrial scale.
proof of stake is everything else, where network participation doesn't require WORK as the core of ensuring a cryptophraphic signing system for a bunch of data.
in the modern sense, work is electricity or some proxy for electricity ( proof of compute cycles in the case of 'compute' coins like golem )
theres no disagreement .
moderate strength training preserves muscle mass as you age, consistent preservation of skeletal muscle mass is required to stave off acute muscle degeneration beyond some point in you late 60 to 70s.
heart muscle doesnt waste as easily, but moderate cardio, including moderate sprinting can be very useful for keeping a strong heart.
endurance cardio has no longevity/healthspan benefits beyond those wrought by virtue of stressing the heart and muscles in the initial moderate dose.
freqiency and consistency
of above average myscle useage are key to preserving muscle function. also range of motion helps all muscle get used and keeps loads balanced to prevent injury.
my grandma is 96. never did a day of cardio running in her life.
i wonder if the original dognappers aren't a bit frustrated . humorous but so so sad really. America is two steps from being a 'developing' country, but whose fault is this really? blame the dogs.