Humanity May Have Reached its Maximum Lifespan.
Global life expectancy has now reached an average that’s regularly in the 80s in Japan and Canada —and in the United States it’s reached a high of 78 years. Have we reached the end of the line when it comes to living longer and healthier lives? Is there a point at which diminishing returns just mean any gains in lifespan are bound to be insignificant and temporary?
Tuesday marked the inauguration of Museo Atlántico, a museum located roughly 50 feet below the ocean off of the coast of Lanzarote in the Canary Islands.
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Rituals of Shaming in the Software Industry.
Many teams have some sort of ritual where the developer that committed a change that broke the build get called out publicly. Perhaps on the team chat, or perhaps you need to wear a funny hat or costume.
How do we solve the crisis in cancer communication?
Better communication is needed to help patients find experimental cancer therapies that might work for them and to improve enrollment in clinical trials.
With the Flüchtlinge.
Something has gone badly wrong with our atheists.
Village Atheists, Village Idiots.
All these self-styled intellectual titans, scientists, and philosophers have fallen horribly ill. Evolutionist faith-flayer Richard Dawkins is a wheeling lunatic, dizzy in his private world of old-fashioned whimsy and bitter neofascism. Superstar astrophysicist and pop-science impresario Neil deGrasse Tyson is catatonic, mumbling in a packed cinema that the lasers wouldn’t make any sound in space, that a spider that big would collapse under its own weight, that everything you see is just images on a screen and none of it is real. Islam-baiting philosopher Sam Harris is paranoid, his flailing hands gesticulating murderously at the spectral Saracen hordes. Free-thinking biologist PZ Myers is psychotic, screeching death from a gently listing hot air balloon. And the late Christopher Hitchens, blinded by his fug of rhetoric, fell headlong into the Euphrates.
Watching parliaments fight worldwide.
Maybe the Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas was a bad place to take LSD for the first time.
“I Dropped Acid and Saw Into the Future: My Surreal First Time At CES.”
What finally brought me to the edge of emotional break was the carpeting.
Blinded by the light.
I just learned that Docker originally was just an application of LXC, Ubuntu’s container management software.
LXC containers “will typically be long running and based on a clean distribution image”, while “Docker focuses on ephemeral, stateless, minimal containers that won’t typically get upgraded or re-configured but instead just be replaced entirely”.
This 12-part series about LXD 2.0 (a daemon to drive LXC containers) by its project leader, Stéphane Graber, provides a very good introduction into other corners of virtualization with containers.
The list of 2016 visualization lists.