Wow.
Less than 1% of Swedish trash ends up in a landfill
http://www.theplaidzebra.com/less-than-1-of-swedish-trash-ends-up-in-a-landfill/
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On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 11:57 PM, John Mikes jami...@gmail.com wrote:
Telmo, pls. tellme:
what should we call 'information'?
I agree with John Clark's definition. If you ask for a definition of
surprise, I think that can be formalized too. Surprise is inversely
proportional to the performance
Current global growth estimates are that every two days, the world is now
creating as much new digital information as all the data ever created from
the dawn of humans through the current century. It has been estimated that
by 2020, the size of the world’s digital universe will be close to
I'm not sure there's too much more information generated in the receiver
sitting looking at images and text as opposed to going outside and meeting
people, admiring the view, etc. Obviously there's *some* more, especially
since we've discovered a lot in recent centuries (and decades) - but how
Current global growth estimates are that every two days, the world is now
creating as much new digital information as all the data ever created from
the dawn of humans through the current century. It has been estimated that
by 2020, the size of the world’s digital universe will be close to 44
On 20 April 2015 at 06:48, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
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Civilization could never reboot if our present effete environmentalists
were still calling the shots, but I don't think they would be. I
hypothesize that in a post collapse world
Weighing in on this thread:
Comments here are quite vague, compared with the mathematical
crispness of algorithmic information theory.
@John - the amount of surprise actually related to the concept of
mutual information, which is the amount of information some message
tells you about some other
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The Fermi paradox gets sharper.
http://arxiv.org/abs/1504.03418
This makes it even more important that we don’t blow it on our own little
world. Or perhaps it is evidence that *we are
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Subject: Re: Interesting speculation: Could an advanced industrial civilization
emerge again from a
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Current global growth estimates are that every two days, the world is now
creating as
http://existentialcomics.com/comic/58
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On 4/19/2015 11:33 AM, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List wrote:
I agree on some level; however in the case of the one million zero bits I would argue
that in the context of the given query or search this result may be the precise
information that is desired and the noise bits are rejected
On 4/19/2015 4:42 PM, John Clark wrote:
On Sun, Apr 19, 2015 LizR lizj...@gmail.com mailto:lizj...@gmail.com wrote:
I think environmentalists tailor their message to their target audience,
and to what they
consider is achievable.
I don't think achieveability or truth or logic has
Some colourless green ideas on a similar subject... we are racing towards
a precipice
http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/29706-noam-chomsky-us-responsible-for-qworst-terrorist-campaign-in-the-world-by-farq
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In my opinion extensive Dysonisation will only occur later in the
stelliferous era - in the 100 trillion years when the galaxy (and the few
others still visible in the far distance) glow rose-red from having a
population exclusively made of stellar remnants and M class dwarfs. At this
point some
On Sun, Apr 19, 2015 LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote:
I think environmentalists tailor their message to their target audience,
and to what they consider is achievable.
I don't think achieveability or truth or logic has anything to do with it.
I think environmentalists tailor their message to
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On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 11:57 PM, John Mikes jami...@gmail.com
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On Sun, Apr 19, 2015 at 3:23 AM, Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
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the Brazilian steel industry (the 9nth largest ranked producer in the
world) utilizes sustainably produced (for the most part) charcoal to
produce pig iron from iron ore.
It's sustainable
On Sun, Apr 19, 2015 at 3:23 AM, Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.com
wrote:
It sems that one image is worth a thousands Shakespeare books.
Mathematics can tell you how much information something has, but it can't
tell you how important that information is because that is a function
of
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Subject: Re: Food for thought
Current global growth estimates are that every two days, the world is
On Sun, Apr 19, 2015 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
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in the case of the one million zero bits I would argue that in the
context of the given query or search this result may be the precise
information that is desired [...] without knowledge
On Sun, Apr 19, 2015 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote:
I don't think achieveability or truth or logic has anything to do with
it. I think environmentalists tailor their message to scare their target
audience as much as possible, because without fear they would not have a
job.
You mean
No mention of NZ. Is that because rather than invest they simply bought the
entire country outright? Who Flung Dung, the famous Chinese economist says they
want the whole of the South Island as a retirement village, haven’t you heard?
K
On 20 Apr 2015, at 2:17 pm, LizR lizj...@gmail.com
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-29835057
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