We moved to a shared desk model at the start of the year and it's going great. It was adopted as part of making hybrid schedules permanent and I see the trade off as a win-win. Company gets to consolidate space and shed a lease, employees get to spend more time remote with some assurance the rug on remote work won't be pulled out from under us. The office environment is also more lively compared to the ghost town we had over the past couple of years which is a nice change of pace (minus the extra noise of course). I also prefer the shared desk model to the hotdesk model as I always have a dedicated space, but only on a part-time basis.

What was that movie where you could get an android of your best friend who died? We’re not far off are we?

Edit: Replicas (2018)

I'm not so sure. I live somewhere with public healthcare and it is accomplished by giving employees less money (doctors nurses etc.). Since we're paying doctors less money many qualified doctors leave the country for places which pay more. Since we have a shortage of doctors and nurses the waiting times are long, we have many deaths due to long waiting times.

They also put a lot of money towards things which help their stats rather than things which improve quality of life for people eg. Keeping elderly people barely alive while they're bed bound for years to improve life expectancy.

I'm from Ireland and I'm familiar with the UK, it seems both have the same problems. We are one of the wealthiest countries in the world and this is the situation, I imagine the situation would be even worse in poorer countries.

The majority of Americans I have talked to about it don't give a fuck about privacy as long as they can get on Facebook or TikTok for free..

There’s an amendment that’s designed to help us in these situations ya know.

Wife just bought a new car but refused to look at Genesis because they're logo is too similar to Bentley or whatever.

Just trying to understand.

If the other part sends 1 continuously and you know that (communication initialisation). You send 1 to ack "alignment". Then do the same with 0.

The question is. If I send 1 continuously, will the resulting behaviour in the entangle particule be the same or similar in anyway? Or will it change randomly and so we can't "align" on something without another communication method before?

This is ridiculous. Our own government has been railroading us on this for over 25 years now. The Constitution is going to Hell in a hand basket. If the average American was even aware of the extent to which their privacy has been invaded there would be rioting in the streets. But they make the rules and ultimately get what they want.

What can you do???

Jerry: Kramer, where are you gonna get all that energy from.

Kramer: from nothing, jerry! You see scientists figured out a way to get energy from nothing! And Newman and I are going to tap into it.

Newman: we’re gonna be rich, Kramer!

Jerry: I think that’s what you would call… “kooky talk”

Thats so not the Google Way. The Google way is develop innovative product, launch while still immature. Promote the team to a new project. Kill all support while the B team tries to fix all the problems. Kill the project within 3 years of launch.

Unless the product is mining the userbase for new ways to advertise in invasive ways, then it will be pushed to the absolute limits.

Their once vaunted search engine - Top 3 results are now ads (sponsored links). 1 actual result (barely fits in the screen of my 27" monitor), followed by 4 "Suggestions"

Just like Find My Friends, which already exists.

It’s a new kind of theft. You essentially take a writer’s work away when you replace it with AI non-writing created by grifters as another side hustle when the drop shipping thing didn’t pan out.

Actually no, you would have to know the state of the particle at your departure point, which you can't know without that info being transmitted at the speed of light.

It’s true that all that money affords us the newest medical technology and nicest accommodations for in patient medical procedures. But I don’t think that should be reserved for only foreign oil barons and other billionaires that can afford it. If we can ever work together to demand proper universal healthcare with the funding it deserves we’d all be much better off.

I could make a quick buck right now by stealing my neighbor’s amazon packages, but I don’t.

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You pivoted and continued to talk about nonsense. Classic “I have all the answers” response. Source: I live by a farm and know all about horseshit

The scientists put a spatially tessellated void inside a modified temporal field until a planet developed intelligent life. They then introduced that life to the wonders of electricity, which they now generate on a global scale.

We had off unit battery charging stations. No need to say air pod.....

Rich for 7 years.... then patent it up.

It's a complex, highly structured house of cards -and everyone knows it too. Just like Russia, everyone is afraid to make the first move but everyone knows it's going to get bloody as a result of the concentration of power in the executive/ kingship.

Get out the popcorn.

Sorry, there's a delivery delay for Timmy's heart transplant

Our company is doing hot desking unless you want to come in at least 3 days a week. It’s not surprising at all that Google is too.

Is this from all of those Ant people running around?

Presuming you are not thinking of Tesla's work on resonant inductive coupling (like a Tesla coil), you are probably thinking of Wardenclyffe tower. That was suppose to be a ground - air conduction system. Many people incorrectly think it is an induction or radio system.

If you think about a classic circuit, electricity flow into one end, round the circuit and returns to the source at a lower voltage.

If you put a button and buzzer into this circuit and stretch to many kilometres / miles you have a telegraph.

The problem with this is your wire has to travel the distance twice. Once when it comes from the source through the button to your buzzer and then it has to go all the way back to complete the circuit.

But people eventually noticed you didn't need to do that. If the wire went into ground after buzzer, telegraph still worked. It was believed the circuit was completed through the Earth. It was also believed that the atmosphere had an extremely good conducting layer that was separated from the Earth. So this is basically two wires.

So the idea was to feed electricity into the ground, it would travel through the Earth, you would put a wire into the ground going through what ever you want to power, and the electricity would flow into the sky and back to Wardenclyffe tower completing the circuit.

This would allow relatively large amounts of energy anywhere on the planet as long as you had a wire. And would have been truly transformational to humanity.

But this doesn't work. We now know that the ground flow rate is extremely limited and drops off fast. But Earth has significant capacitance. So the telegraph lines were just feeding charge into that. The amount that telegraph lines used was low enough that the slow discharge rate didn't impact it that much. That capacitance gets used today with neutral and grounding / earthing lines, they just go into the ground. AC pushes and pulls that capacitance without needing a return path.

So Tesla's idea (and other people who attempted similar) ultimately wouldn't work.

Tesla however did work on resonant inductive coupling which is used on modern wireless power transfer systems, just no where near the scale of what Wardenclyffe tower was meant to achieve. It is extremely short ranged, normally used in lower power embedded circuitry but does have some larger use cases like magnetically levitating vehicles and the Tesla coil.