I think this is a huge misconception and I don't think it works this way. have you heard people say 50 is the new 40, etc.? The same thing would work at older ages. Sure the last 10 years are a decline, but you are pushing those years out not adding more of them.
This. Expecting a "150 years lifespan" to look like "90 years of aging normally and then staying at 90 for another 60 years" is simply unrealistic.
The very reason you're expected to die in your 90s is that your body has decayed into a complete mess where nothing works properly anymore and every single capability reserve is at depletion. You die in old age because if you spend long enough at "one sliver away from the breaking point", statistics make going over it inevitable. Even a flu is a mild inconvenience to the young, but often lethal to the elderly.
To make it to the age of 150, you'd pretty much have to spend a lot more time as a healthy, well functioning adult.
It really depends on how you live your life. My grandfather on my dad's side never drank or smoked, got a ton of exercise, avoided candy etc. he's in his 80s and still lives in a detached house and walks his two very large dogs daily. My grandmother on my mom's side smoked multiple packs of cigarettes a day, drank a ton of sugary soda, rarely got any real exercise, and died in her 50s after a number of very rough years.
Everyone keeps talking about health care but IMO it's really downstream of you attending yourself. It's almost a spiritual thing really. American health is so bad because Americans don't feel like they themselves are worth taking care of. The contrast between the people who disagree here gets extreme as they age.
What if, instead of building a full carrier out of pykrete, you instead build very simple pykrete ships that follow around the outside of a carrier group to add a layer of protection from torpedoes and sea drones?
> By definition, a convoy consisted of two or more merchant ships under the escort of one or more warships, but typical transatlantic convoys during the war consisted of large numbers of ships—the largest composed of 166, with typical convoys consisting of 45 to 60 ships—steaming in 9 to 12 columns with 1,000 yards between columns and 600 yards between ships in the individual columns. Because of their extra vulnerability, tankers and ammunition ships were placed in the innermost columns, and the convoy commodore in charge would be in the lead ship in the center column.
That is a lot of attack surface. But they kind of already do your idea, just with metal ships carrying goods.
Yeah makes sense, if you already have metal ships carrying goods there is no need to make additional ships just for protection. I suppose there could be an economic advantage if the pykrete ships can be made significantly cheaper and faster than the cargo ships.
It makes me wonder why Ukraine is so successful in the black sea with their sea drones vs. the Russian navy? Why wouldn't Russia have ships or something else blocking their battleships at port? It seems Ukraine is able to sink everything with ease at the moment.
Ironically enough the Costco in San Francisco has more free parking than any other parking lot in the City, and is bigger than most all of the paid public garages also.
The whole argument comes down to bursty vs. non-bursty workloads. What type of workloads make up the fat part of the distribution? If most use cases are bursty (which I would argue they are) then the author's argument only applies for specific applications. Therefore, most people do indeed see cost benefits from the cloud.
The submission page has a text box for submitting the story on a Google form. This seems like a bad experience. Can you also allow for submitting via a link to a Google Doc at least to preserve formatting of the text? I think this might be a better experience for the author. Just include an email address that the author should share the google doc with so you get access.
Why would it circumvent DRM? I'm assuming they would use the same DVDs for rental they currently use (similar to physical rental DVDs used by Blockbuster in the past).
