>>...prioritize iron formation in the blood over creating new _-_-cytochrome-_-_ C oxidase since transporting oxygen to cells is more
important than running the Krebs cycle at full speed.
Whats really interesting to me is the above statement related to a longtime conspiracy-curriosity about the 'Russian kid from Mars' ala an 'Indigo Child' and when back in the ~1990s or some time when he was interviewed, he was ~10 years old and he said that "Humans came from Mars, and after we got to earth, is when we started to age - because Earth is oxigen based, and breathing oxygen is what makes you age."
And this crazy piece talks about the iron found in the martian atmosphere:
>>The atmosphere of Mars is 95.7% carbon dioxide (CO2), which is available everywhere at the surface and which can readily be compressed. The Martian carbon dioxide can be, simultaneously, a source of carbon monoxide (CO) and a source of oxygen (O2) through the thermal decomposition reaction:
>>*2 CO2 → 2 CO + O2 (20.2)*
>>Reaction Eq. (20.2) requires a temperature of about 1100C. Note that the iron reduction reaction Eq. (20.1) can take place at about 700C, but a higher temperature, such as 900C, would be desirable.
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What happens if a Nuke goes off in the Martian atmosphere?
No conspiracy, most people will be easily pressured when their livelihoods/job/grant is on the line. Most countries politicians want to be favorable to China, the experts sadly just toe the line.
Few scientist are the learned aristocrats of before who did not depend on grant money to live comfortable lives.
So why are we getting it anyway? We are getting it because it is essential to the smart cities agenda. It is planned that everything be micromanaged by a technocratic elite.
Think of China's social credit score on steroids. Have you used up your allocation of credits? Your fridge/heating/etc can be switched off.
Have you been a bad citizen, posting dissenting comments online? Then you can't travel, will have your bank account frozen/constrained.
A digital pass and smart technology everywhere are required. Then technocrats can have fine-grained control of everything.
This will be done in the name of the environment - in the name of 'saving the earth' most of us will choose digital enslavement and will even force it on others.
^ That's the plan in a nutshell - which is aimed to be in place for 2030.
It's relevant because it reflects their priorities and how they view developers.
The giant banners say this: although these are technical docs you may need to do your job, the most important thing you must see above all is an announcement of how morally pure we (think we) are. Once isn't enough. On our blog isn't enough. It must be the biggest and most eyecatching thing on literally every single page of our documentation. This indicates a lack of respect for the time and attention of devs. The implementation is also incompetent - the banner text appears to have leaked into search result snippets, thus reducing the utility of their docs search engine.
When Steve Ballmer jumped around on stage yelling "developers! developers! developers!" he was ridiculed because the outburst of energy seemed absurd and out of place for a CEO. But many of us appreciated the sentiment - that if you're developing an operating system then developers matter and their time/attention matters. Ballmer knew that. Platforms aren't chicken/egg situations where it's unclear what comes first. Apps come first. Users come for the apps. Then more apps come to follow those early adopter users, but ultimately, there had to be some apps to kick things off.
When the first thing you see at the top of the Fuschia docs is something totally unrelated to programming / the reason you were at that site, and which is irrelevant to most of the world as well, this sends a powerful message that the Fuschia devs are:
a. Staggeringly US centric. Their mindset isn't international at all. This is offputting to those of us outside the US. Fuschia's front page claims it's "an inclusive, open source effort". Not only have they never even tested it with a non-English locale, but they ignored the critical locale bug for so long other people had to fork the project to even make the emulator start up for non-English users [1]. That's about as non-inclusive as you can get yet is also absolutely predictable. Did we really need the blog to tell us that? Not really, we could guess it quite easily. The sort of people who demand such banners always seem to be hypocrites. It's called virtue signalling for a reason - people who do it announce their principles but never seem to live by them.
b. Not really rewarded for making developers happy. It reinforces a general impression about modern Google, that the personal success of the employees and executives is tied to things like the size of a giant black banner as much as whether their kernel is secure or their API docs are actually accurate.
c. As such extremely likely to manipulate their platform to prioritize the happiness of activists over that of developers. It's a bold statement of ideological allegiance. Who in their right mind is going to write an app for Fuschia that's braver than a shopping cart when they see that? Nobody smart, because you can guess what will happen if Fuschia actually does get apps: half of them will end up banned for some inane, impossible to understand reason, probably related to mundane use of language that's inexplicably become unacceptable since yesterday in California. The financial risk of developing for this platform is huge.
BTW: the Google doodles are pretty political these days, but in the beginning they were mostly reflecting things like national holidays.
Utopians like Harari don't actually have any ideas about even the most fundamental questions like the nature of consciousness, the nature of free will, whether it is right to force someone to do something they don't want to do, or what is the significance of freedom of association.
They rely on that poverty of discourse for validity and probably find disagreement, debate and the constant tension of these questions to be irritating and they want it to end, so their propositions simply assume a position on these things then assert some moralistic or otherwise utopian vision of plenty to be derived from them at some undefined point in the future. This is what irrational and religious people do in order to justify their own power, because ultimately that's what really matters to them.
Well let me put it to you this way. He whines about proof of work, as is popular to do. Proof of work means to expend resources to produce a true statement such that the cost of lying is prohibitive, because producing an accurate record is better than producing nothing, given the same expenditure.
Cost of refutation is a related rhetorical concept. If this worthless article is going to can a few common critical tropes, all previously addressed, even by other technologies in the same space it aimed at, why should I do anything other than respond with equivalently low effort?
Because you want me to expend the resources? I thought wasted resources were bad? That's the premise of the whining after all, isn't it? Disingenuous, worthless article, preying upon stupidity, fear and moral outrage, which just happened to be filed within days of most cryptos dropping 25% in price, roughly, in the middle of a bear market.
i would especially attract attention to the question of how much can the Beam effect of 5G increase oxidative stress vs homogenous Wi-Fi signal.
extract:
Wi-Fi and 5G increase empirically oxidative stress which is the multiplier of aging. There are some debate as to wether Wi-Fi can promote diseases, including mental disorders. This is where you will find conflicting evidence and that is irrelevant. The main worry of Wi-Fi is not that it might or not increase those rates, it is that it increase oxidative stress and DNA breaks. An effect far too subtle and diffuse in time to show such symptoms in studies. However it is a certainty that an increase in O.S and DNA breaks act as a multiplier on the aging process, a statement which I can totally back with my expertise in gerontology. This is extremely worrying and longitudinal studies are inexistant, one of the reasons is that no human has been consistently exposed to the Wi-Fi range for more than 22 years yet. Therefore it is primordial to quantify the potency and tissue locality of the oxidative stress and DNA breaks increase and to compare it with other stressors.
Here's a meta-analysis of 100 papers https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Biological-and-patholo...
The selected studies have all been published in peer-reviewed journals. Result: More than 100 studies on 2.45 GHz radiation were analyzed, most of which found changes compared to the control groups at levels below the safety guidelines of the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP) (issued as exposure limits of the 26th Federal Pollution Control Ordinance (BImSchV) in Germany). The available studies document damage to the reproductive system, impacts on the EEG and brain functions, as well as effects on the heart, liver, thyroid, gene expression, cell cycle, cell membranes, bacteria, and plants. As a mechanism of action, many studies identify oxidative stress. Adverse effects on learning, memory, attention, and behavior are the result of cytotoxic effects. Conclusions: Based on the extensive body of research and the adverse health effects demonstrated in the majority of the studies, it is recommended that steps should be taken to minimize RF radiation exposure in accordance with official recommendations. Wired solutions should be given preference. Current exposure limits and SAR values do not protect from health risks associated with Wi-Fi radiation.
I have only found one short term study showing no effect on oxidative stress vs ~all others that have investigated the question. Moreover sadly most of the studies examined the effect of the 2.45 Ghz range.. The 5Ghz and now 6Ghz range is criminally understudied. The effects of 5G are even more worrying given that it could go up to 24 GHz in the future and especially, while Wi-Fi is homogenous, 5G is "laser"-like, it forms a directed beam towards the device and therefore the human tissues. https://www.metaswitch.com/knowledge-center/reference/what-i...
So scientifically there is solid evidence to think that Wi-Fi over the span of a lifetime can increase the rate of cancers and worsen ageing related diseases and lifespan. As said the 5-6 Ghz is a dangerous unknown vs the 2.45. As for 5G, the beam directed approach is the most dangerous unknown.
Tailscale has a fantastic product, I’ve been extremely happy from day one. If you’re waiting for a weekend to have a few hours to try out Tailscale, don’t, it takes 15 minutes to get every device you own up and running and talking. This is the lowest friction personal VPN to ever exist, and once you see how easy it is for your own devices, you’ll wish you had it at work.
The biggest risk that this company has is that Cloudflare (in all reality) should just buy them or reimplement it. It’s the type of product cloudflare would make, that’s for sure. Being based on open source wireguard, and being just a STUN/TURN server at its core… I’m sure that Tailscale will be the first but maybe not the best.
I’ve been dreaming lately of a tor-like network that’s based loosely on the idea of tailnets. Rather than blockchain bullshit, you’d have a direct ring of trust with friends, and then you could set up access policies to forward packets for people you don’t trust, but who know someone you do trust.
Web3 happens when people can host stuff on their phones, and Tailscale is something that lets you host things on your phone.
> Fully agree on the typechecking. That's probably part of why LISP is so under-represented in commercial software projects.
Yeah after a friend re-introduced me to lisps, and I watched the original SICP classes along with some other things I got really into lisp and started building things in Clojure/SBCL (more so clojure).
After trying lisps my next foray was Haskell and now I can't imagine.
It's like a bad after school special -- Haskell, don't even try it once if you want to go back and live happily in untypechecked land. Now I have to have at least Typescript.
> Keeping the combinatorics to a minimum is critical, so if I wanted the benefits of erlang/OTP, I'd use it directly. Wrestling with these VM-in-a-VM languages is for the birds!
Yup, I feel that.
> Only thing I miss about Elixir is its function composition operator.
I've seen mobile phone users as
distinctly different mentally,
microwaving your brain all day can't be good, despite all these
mental gymnastics about "non-ionizing radiation".
I see this as 20th century shoe
fitters using X-rays liberally,
then discovering that X-rays aren't that good for you and cause cancer.
With Groff+ms you can typeset equations, letters and articles with a 486 and less than 50MB of used space.
It's a gem.
Postscript can be set with -Tps for Groff, it may be lighter on rendering.
The GV viewer opens both PDF and PS files.
Their Achilles heel is mtor/igf-1 and the tool we have to keep those from being activated is autophagy.
But no one wants to hear they should scale back protein intake to 0.5/g per kg of body weight or less. (which basically means being mostly vegetarian or vegan, with some exception)
No one wants to hear they should be exercising 5-6 days a week
No one wants to hear that you should be having 20g-150g of net carbs a day and thus doing without bread, pasta, cereals, and reducing starchy veggies.
No one wants to hear that they should fast semi-regularly
No one wants to hear we shouldn't be eating 3 meals a day plus snacks once we're past growing age.
Seeing this play out in the media reminds me of the Iraq War hysteria in 2003. Completely one-sided coverage, classic war-time propaganda (ghost of kiev), banning Russian arts and paralympians, etc. I've lost all faith in the media. Period.
You may think that there is an absolute answer to this situation, but there isn't. I recommend that you study commentators and scholars such as: John Mearsheimer, Zbigniew Brezinski, George Friedman, Peter Zeihan, George Kennan, Noam Chomsky, Peter Hitchens, Gonzalo Lira, Tim Marshall, Robert D Kaplan, etc., etc. to gain some insight into the other and more complex side of this story. Their books are a good and quick read.
I am a proud American -- but, I am convinced that my country started this entire episode and planned to have it be so for a long, long time. 9/11, Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, etc. just got in their way. Instead of drawing a rational meet-me-in-the-middle red-line with Russia (ex: Poland and the Baltics) that we could live with, we decided to take Ukraine for this ride. We did that. We encouraged Zelensky to talk about acquiring nukes, grabbing Crimea back, grabbing Luhansk and Donestk, joining NATO and the EU, etc. -- instead of encouraging Austria-like neutrality, we promoted our-way-or-the-highway.
And now what are we doing? Fighting to the last Ukrainian? Fighting until they lose even more in a country that has lost ~20% of its population from its peak? We are literally sacrificing their country and encouraging suicide. This. is. just. wrong!
Do you know about what Victoria Nuland (leaked intercepted tapes), Senator John McCain, Senator Lindsay Graham, Hunter Biden, CIA John Brennan, etc. did in Ukraine?
Do you know that Zelenskyy had a sub-28% approval rating from his own population because he threatened to acquire nuclear weapons, threatened to join NATO, join the EU (comes with military connections also, BTW), take back Crimea and the entirety of the Donbas, etc.? His population mostly wanted Austria-style neutrality but he was being strung along by the US because we wanted to turn it into a battering ram against Russia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytochrome
Whats really interesting to me is the above statement related to a longtime conspiracy-curriosity about the 'Russian kid from Mars' ala an 'Indigo Child' and when back in the ~1990s or some time when he was interviewed, he was ~10 years old and he said that "Humans came from Mars, and after we got to earth, is when we started to age - because Earth is oxigen based, and breathing oxygen is what makes you age."
And this crazy piece talks about the iron found in the martian atmosphere:
http://www.nuclearplanet.com/Martian%20Iron.html
>>The atmosphere of Mars is 95.7% carbon dioxide (CO2), which is available everywhere at the surface and which can readily be compressed. The Martian carbon dioxide can be, simultaneously, a source of carbon monoxide (CO) and a source of oxygen (O2) through the thermal decomposition reaction:
>>Reaction Eq. (20.2) requires a temperature of about 1100C. Note that the iron reduction reaction Eq. (20.1) can take place at about 700C, but a higher temperature, such as 900C, would be desirable.---
What happens if a Nuke goes off in the Martian atmosphere?