What medium-sized quadcopter has an hour long flight time?
Is this something you follow very closely?
Do you know of any write-ups on the economics and other feasibilities of drone delivery?
Seems like for a cargo of any much heft and a delivery distance beyond a handful of km a battery improvement of 3x is a good start but still wanting.
I may be off base here and drone delivery may in fact currently be more feasible than I suspect. I'm mainly basing this thinking on the 20-30min flight times of current prosumer camera drones. I know there're other kinds.
Policies intended to limit exposure to backwards, barbaric culture and ideas, and to low skill individuals is not shutting the US off to new and innovative ideas, in fact just the opposite. The US has a carrying capacity of only so many people, might as well make those people the ones most likely to have new and innovative ideas.
New and innovative ideas come hugely, disproportionately from Europe and people of European descent, no one is saying immigration of Europeans to the US should be restricted.
There are no genetic markers that taken together say "this person is black" or "this person is white".
Actually, there very much are.
I think what you're trying to say is that not all black people have all the "black people genetic markers," and likewise for other groups. This is true, but this is not necessary to distinguish well-defined groups.
Family resemblance is a philosophical idea made popular by Ludwig Wittgenstein
It argues that things which could be thought to be connected by one essential common feature may in fact be connected by a series of overlapping similarities, where no one feature is common to all.
Biological populations certainly do exist, it's just that they don't correlate well with prevailing concepts of "race". The average western African is more similar to the average European than to the average southern African.
While this article isn't entirely, reality denying non-sense, in fact mostly the opposite. The researchers do themselves and their readers huge a huge disservice with notions like,
“These data suggest that the interplay between race and ethnicity as social constructs and genetic ancestry as a biological construct is more complex than we had realized,
Putting forth these notions makes study and understanding of genetics far more convoluted and difficult than it needs to be.
Race is ancestry, ancestry is race, plain and simple.
Race is ancestry, ancestry is relatedness. Ancestry is the factor of relatedness, relatedness is the factor of race. For example an Englishman has a relatedness factor to a Dane that is hundreds of times greater than than the relatedness factor the Englishman has to a Nigerian. An Englishman and a Dane are of the European race, a Nigerian is of the (sub-Saharan) African race.
You'd think this would be the simplest thing in the world to understand, but something about the modern world has caused otherwise for some people.
Races are simply large extended families that came about due to imposing natural barriers in the ancient world, deserts, oceans, mountain ranges.
"Social constructs" are claptrap that came about from nihilist "post-modernists," and "critical theory" lunatics and agitators seeking to attack and disrupt western society.
Skin color is a relatively minor component of race, race describes the clustering of a whole host of traits and characteristics in a group of individuals.
Yellow-skinned Africans would still be Africans, purple-skinned Asians would still be Asians, and green-skinned Europeans would still be Europeans.
I'd probably edit my children to be darker. Having spent a few days on the beach in Thailand, the genetic inferiority of my own fair skin is quite visible and painful.
Is this like reductio ad absurdum of PC signalling? Where do you spend the other 362 days of the year? In an environment that fair skin provides advantages for things like vitamin D production perhaps?
The reality and existence of race, which people inherently know, but which cultural forces attempt to beat out of them. White people seem to take the brunt of the beatings.
You see race "doesn't exist," but so much is "too white!" so we must diminish the prevalence of the white race(which doesn't exist btw) in the systems and institutions that they created.
Race doesn't exist, but white people who essentially invented the modern world, who's influence is inescapable in every corner of the globe, yes those white people/Europeans, yes they "have no culture."
Race doesn't exist, but the BBC will discriminate on race in hiring.
Race doesn't exist, but go La Raza! go BLM!
No, what you're saying is that "hey look at me! I'm joining in and parroting the modern destructive and discursive forces and saying that nature in her infinite wisdom made my skin pale, but pale skin is bad, bad, bad, oh the noble savage, oh to not be so pale, oh and race doesn't exist, but hey let's disparage whites, and promote inflated and romantic notions of all other races. "
Oh, and also in this ridiculousness I was quickly caught up in a logical fallacy, but no, no "that's not what I'm saying."
crude adaptation
Who are to you to say what adaption is and isn't crude?
It is reasonable to think that there the significant drawbacks associated with that hacked-together solution
What is the relevance of the image at the top here of a sub-Saharan African to an article about an ancient European philosophy.
An ancient European philosophy we know of today thanks to written language and a European civilization that developed, preserved and cultivated countless worldchanging ideas.(like the controlled conveyance of photons into your eyes relaying this information)
Written language was never even devised in sub-Saharan Africa!
These agenda driven, Magical Negro juxtapositions are becoming obscene.
Thomson grants for the sake of argument that the fetus has a right to life
Thomson says, abortion does not violate the fetus's legitimate rights, but merely deprives the fetus of something—the use of the pregnant woman's body and life-support functions—to which it has no right.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Defense_of_Abortion
This has a real sleaziness to it. Her argumentation is to separate into two, something that cannot logically be separated.
It's like saying you have a "right to breathe all you want from our oxygen rich biosphere," ... while in outer space.
I'll say this again, because it has just struck me so strongly, and it is so strange. What is it about our society that we have people so passionately arguing for killing off our progeny?
But if you're solving/addressing a problem efficiently, you should work out a solution where the event space can be mapped such that events classed 'typical' should far outnumber events classed 'edge.'
Yes it's never going to be perfect when trying to overlay a closed system of logic on the open system that is the universe, but we've shown ourselves pretty capable at getting to good enough.
In this case it is a question of what is "good enough"? Meaning, what are we trying to accomplish?
I'd always been mostly ambivalent toward abortion but thinking about it more recently, it does seem quite the tragic and brutal practice.
I'm inclined to believe you that no one does it for fun, at least in retrospect. I think there is a problem of too much of a glib attitude about it from the SJW/Tumblr types which hides a lot of the torment an abortive mother is likely to feel after going through with the procedure.
I'll repeat:
What is it about our society that compels women to do this?
No not really. Going back millennia, there has always been an elite within a society. The difference that is recent to emerge is that there is a growing disconnect between the interests of the elite and the societies to which they supposedly belong.
Nationalist vs Globalist is a pretty good summarization.
The globalists seem primarily interested in using their positions of power to enrich themselves and gratify their egos, and they perhaps feel they are doing something right in their policy prescriptions, but it is driven by complete lack of understanding of human nature.
The nationalists understand that humans have concentric (genetic) loyalties, from self, to family, to nation/race. These are just facts of nature, fighting against them is a losing battle and arranging our societies along these natural lines will produce the best outcomes.
The nationalists want the best for the whole world, not just a tiny trans-national elite.
Trump is a nationalist.
(Yes I know this seems antithetical to the experience of many in SV, elite universities, etc. What these supposedly smart people fail to understand is that they are among outliers of outliers. Exceptions to rules are not unknown, but basing our policy on exceptions is an invitation to disaster.)
So you're basically saying that all babies in the womb should be regarded as having an illness. The illness being whether or not the mother chooses to terminate the pregnancy in an unnatural way.
Just think about that, the stark unnaturalness of abortion. What other animal acts in such a way? There is nary a stronger force in nature than a mother's protection of her young.
What is it about our society that compels women to do this?
Does it have something to with the mixed messages being sent to women telling them they should act like men?
Then by that logic, they should be arguing for organ donation to be mandatory.
The crux of the illogic in this is that, left to take the natural course a baby is more often than not, not going to die.
Whereas a terminal kidney disease patient, resulting from particular circumstances will die without intervention.
Tell that to a woman who gets pregnant from being raped.
I thought of that as I wrote that,(almost added a parenthetical). I think we can both agree that that is an edge case. An over-attention on edge cases can cloud our thinking about the larger issues.
Is this something you follow very closely?
Do you know of any write-ups on the economics and other feasibilities of drone delivery?
Seems like for a cargo of any much heft and a delivery distance beyond a handful of km a battery improvement of 3x is a good start but still wanting.
I may be off base here and drone delivery may in fact currently be more feasible than I suspect. I'm mainly basing this thinking on the 20-30min flight times of current prosumer camera drones. I know there're other kinds.