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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.

i've lived in manhattan since 1993.

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.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anoxic_event

Hydrogen sulfide caused Permian extinction.

My favorite theory is that it was caused by massive increase in volcanic activity which was itself caused by a giant meteor hitting earth.

run for the bitcoin hills!.

carbon capture is billions of waste JUST LIKE the synfuels fiasco of the carter administration.

There is NO scarcity of carbon as an input in industrial processes. so producing it through the MOST inefficient means , just like making FUEL OUT OF ETHANOL , is not just unprofitable and dumb, but environmentally destructive and stupid.

capturing carbon is just making it more expensive to burn more carbon based fuel. capturing carbon means you are getting a lower EROI on the input energy. so you are actually winding up getting a more carbon intensive energy production as a result Albeit ----some of that carbon is going to be 'captured'. BUT this means the more carbon capture you achieve, the more carbon intensive your energy source!!!!! moral hazard anyone?

the support for carbon capture amongst the greenies is one of the best examples of internal inconsistency and thoughtlessness amongst the greens. the total rejection of nuclear power on any and all terms, is the another.

but let's get on with it. consider that all this 'captured carbon' will just be magically stored underground or somewhere else it won't escape for a 100 million years. MASSIVE VOLUMES in the atmosphere, cheaply and easily 'CAPTURED' and now of course, we assume it can all be stored perfectly. just like nuclear waste right!?

no. that was sarcasm. c02 sequestration is the biggest joke of all. despite the nonexistence of effective sequestration methods ( which all COST ENERGY, and are thus more carbon intensive ) ------why not assume it already exist.

ok what then, consider that within 100 years, any given earthquake let alone the basic erosion of nature will eventually lead to this carbon somehow coming back to the atmosphere one way or another.

so now , the final piece of stupidity is introduced, let's take the carbon and use it for industrial production instead of sequestering it. yes , PERFECT!!!!! LET'S INVENT NEW THINGS THAT DON'T EXIST AND ARE UNPROFITEABLE EVEN IF THEY DID AND USE THE MOST EXPENSIVE THEORETICAL SOURCE OF INPUTS OF CARBON TO MAKE THEM.

this is how sovietized economies reason, based on a goal centric output, rejecting ALL COMMON SENSE about investment to achieve the perfect recipe for optimal levels of destructive malinvestment.

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let me break it down for you liberals. the only effective way to sequester carbon is to plant trees, or otherwise encourage nature to run her own course (perhaps by stopping clearcutting trees to begin with) , because natures' course naturally consumes oxygen and sequesters carbon by way of...THE CARBON CYCLE!. seeding the ocean with iron for algea has not worked because our science is lacking in the area. we know SO LITTLE about the ocean, including to what extent it controls our atmosphere. YES, every year a whole new ton of research comes out about the oceans previously unknown influences on the atmosphere. why is this? because it is deep and huge. and so much of the ocean has not been subject to study without physical penetration in many different simultaneous locations ( like the worlds biggest scientific gang bang ) . Only now are we even beginning to understand ocean currents below the surface of the ocean ( where 99.999 percent of the ocean's water exists )

as for carbon, capturing it from smokestacks is just stupid. It is uneconomical let alone more carbon intensive. please by all means continue to pursue your interests in renewable energies. but stop being dumb. carbon capture for the sake of smoke stack 'cleansing' is a cruel joke.

One word, cruithne

Classic typical misleading statistics in this article.

Energy is 1% of Israel's gross capacity plus this is solar so it only provides daytime loads which makes the economics worse.

Google's major investment in solar thermal has already gone bust. This is a small financial disaster. The economics of solar thermal are crap. Mirrors break or stop tracking well a lot in high winds of a dessert.

Any problems with a steam turbine atop a high tower are costly to fix.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eyidi2HaMY

this unauthorized repairman explains how apple and others prevent people from hacking/repairing devices, including both owners and pretty much anyone who is not restricted legally by signing an authorization.

i wonder how the hackern news and the peasantry of the startup community at large will respond to the next major blowout of this tech bubble.

it will be interesting.

i lived in a 140 square foot apartment in new york which had formerly been a single room occupancy built over 100 years ago.

small tenement like housing is nothing new.

small apartments slowly create cabin fever-------ANXIETY.

if you live in a small space you must spend a lot more time outside of it than inside of a normal sized space.

also, it is vital to have minimum 9 foot high cielings for a small space. i had 8 foot ceilings that are standard in new york.

finally, a loft in a room with lower than 10 foot cielings means you cannot have a 5'10 foot person stand comfortably underneath the loft and have a 5'10 foot person on their knees in bed on top of the loft without one of them hitting their head on the underside of either the celiing or the bottom of the loft.

furthermore, a loft gets very hot in the summer and remains somewhat warmer than the floor in the winter. this effect increases inversely with measure of distance between the loft surface to the cieling

2) we ARE SEEING A DRAMATIC ECONOMIC CRASH IN THE WEST.

electricity rates in europe have skyrocketed and this is part of the artificial scarcity of electricity , and the suckout of savings that is draining the european economy by rising costs (electricity costs as input to industrial goods) and declining supply ( of money that could have been spent or saved and reinvested in other things other than ridiculous high cash payments for electricity)

the smartest energy investors from the green energy bubble which burst 3 YEARS AGO NOW, have all basically concluded that we are not YET at the tipping point, accelerating up the curve, of scaling the construction of industrial solar .

perhaps the cheerleaders who pout about our 'slow' progress are doing us a service by trying to motivate us. but i also see them as pesky and annoying.

while some measure of r&d benefits from the feedback loop of failure to industrialize or failures learned from in the industrialization of extant technologies, ------the reality is that basic r&d needs to be done. much much more of it.

pushing relentlessly for industrialization at a stage in time where the technology IS NOT YET READY TO SCALE RELATIVE TO OUR EXISTING BASE---------is just foolishness and a waste of money.

BETTER TO SPEND THE MONEY IN R&D, THAN TO WASTE TOO MUCH OF IT ON NON-SCALEABLE SYSTEMS.

the next tech bubble bursting in the u.s. will see the reformulation of outsourcing to india and china as the 'solution' to the next tech recovery.

the great depression lasted 12 years from 29 to world war 2.

every time the tech bubble has popped since 99 the fed lowered interest rates and increased money supply. i dont think that one will work so easily after the next bubble because interest rates will have to go negative and money supply has EXPLODED in the last 8 years.

the fed doesn't like high gold or oil prices so how much more can they increase money supply after the next bubble busts?

the fed has taken 25 years post volcker to paint itself into this corner. the results of the next bubble bursting will be multi-decade cycle in nature meaning a bigger bustup than any of the 2008, 2004 , 99 bubbles.

i watched seaquest as a kid. lots of us were disspointed it never happened.

so when i got older , i researched the history of sealab(s) and , after having gone scuba diving, did a bunch of research on human biological response to partial pressure of gasses, as well as high pressure and low pressure.

knowing what i know now , the clickbait title might be misleading if you think china is proposing HOUSING HUMAN BEINGS underneath 10,000 feet of water. there is no fucking way in hell that is going to happen.

you can barely get a manned MOBILE submarine to depths below a couple thousand feet. and the static bathyscapes ( deep diving manned diving structures) that do exist have pretty much demonstrated you can do little to nothing under the current design constraints of a deep ocean high pressure bathyscape.

any sophisticated machinery or equipment you build on or outside of the bathyscape, allowing interaction between the environemtn inside of the structure with the surface of, or the environment outside of , the structure, are severely limited by the crushingly high pressures.

i'm not saying there is no future where this technology could exist, i'm saying the timeline is at least as distant as that for human beings colonizing mars. and honestly, as nuts as it sounds, i think the technological innovation required to place a small colony at 3000 meters below the ocean surface is far less advanced now, than is the technology that is in development for putting men on mars.

living and functioning on the ocean floor is FAR DIFFERENT than sending james cameron to the bottom of the marianas trench for an hour and coming right back up. and if the only point of going down there is to be isolated in a black box that does not interact with its environment , than what is the point of going down there to begin with. it would be like going to mars, getting there, while asleep, and returning back to earth before waking up.

10,000 feet. nuh-uh.

i just want to clafiry i am talking about building an underwater housing structure that allows human beings to send robots in and out of it and interact with the environment through rov's that can be controlled from inside the bathyscape by human operators.

gerry mandering is a symptom of democracy not the problem.

democracy is the problem, or rather it is a form of self governance which presents many dillemas.

historically , we know the bigger and more mature a democracy gets , the more it ages into socially defunct patterns of corruption , lowest common denominator, the decay of ethics, and embedded social passivity.

the solution to 'gerrymandering' is the end of our current democratic system, not some 2 bit claim that an algorithm is a solution to a symptom of a bigger problem .

all insurance of all types are a scam. worse, they are tax subsidized.

gambling is also a scam. gambling is a version of 'insurance' for the activity of 'entertainment' that is called 'gambling'. there is NO gain to be had for the gambler in the long run.

similarly, the insured will lose MORE money in the long run paying for insurance as he would , statistically, in the short run. the idea that insurance would prevent you from sudden ruin in case of an accident is also a lie. plenty of insurance companies don't pay out entirely or resist paying enough to prevent ruin.

by paying for insurance, society is guaranteed higher overhead in the long run , higher litigation costs, and higher moral hazard as well as the rise of scammers of insurance companies.

all this activity is a total waste and only works because of the tax subsidy of the insruance industry scam.

if working people simply didn't have to pay ANY tax on labor including the scam of payroll ss. and healthcare tax on labor than you would see how rich the working classes would become how quickly. insurance companies have stolen the right not to pay tax on a scam, which guarantees that their scam's attract even more investors.

it's called the FIRE economy. READ ABOUT IT.

'doomed' , really?

we are in an epic financial bubble right now that DWARFS all previous bubbles of the past 20 years so much so that janet yellen herself said "cash is not a good store of value"; meaning the bubble is so big that those who created and sustain it with unlimited cash are so scared of it popping that they will publicly allude to the possibility of unending limitless printing ( and the inevitable hyperinflationary boom it would conclude with ) .

all of the self congratulatory lying and self deception of silicon valley is that it is 'libertarian' and 'independent' , when in fact ALL THE NEW MONEY IN SILICON VALLEY COMES FROM THE FED THROUGH EITHER BANKS OR THE TREASURY BY WAY OF VC AND THE MILITARY RESPECTIVELY.

the boom will end as all booms do and the headline of what 'doomed' makerbot will seem like a joke.

laying off 20% isn't 'doom' by any stretch of the imagination.

if there are problems with makerbots business model, then they were relegated to the parent company which now owns it.

bri pettis is a political genius for ousting his 2 compatriots and keeping the control, and the spoils of the buyout , all for himself.

pseudoscience.

one step removed from phrenology.

we do not have a comprehesive theory of the brain yet and so we are using a libary of fairly unreliable pattern matching to make conclusions.

i applaud you for your open mindedness.

as a lover of bikes, and of recumbents, i kind of get annoyed at the very predictable 'recumbents are the fastest most aerodynamic bikes' thing that you get alot from folks.

there might be many reasons the uci banned recumbents. but there is one primary reason recumbents never have and never will sell well; they are invisible in urban riding environment due to low seat height.

that and their problems with long chains, heavier weights, and poor climbing are all very good reasons to accept the generic superiority of the 20th century generic bicycle.

some things are so perfect, they cannot really be improved upon.

krugman cannot be trusted. everything he writes is with the angle of getting a job as federal reserve chair or treasury head.

economics is not a science and his nobel prize is on par with obama's nobel piece prize, given for every piece of the middle east he was about to surge with troops.

hint for non lawyers-------if you want to understand a document or a legal set of rules-----skip ALL THE BULLSHIT FIRST---------go straight to that part of the document which describes the 'default' or 'termination' and those rules pertaining to 'recourse' 'punishmnet' and 'jurisdiction' .

knowing what defines the actual breakage of the agreement, or when something breaks, ---what happens.

then you can go back and read all the boring crap that your laywer might need to know at some point after you did whatever you wanted to do.

our entire financialized wall street economy flunks the bbb test as well.

our ENTIRE FINANCIALIZED WALL STREET economy flunks the better common sense bureau test.