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Thanks, great insight, this explains a lot I wonder if you get overcompensation of adenosine when it is no longer being suppressed? I think I may actually get a big boost of adenosine from coffee and then a lack of it later, sometimes with an elevated level again the next day. The opposite of what should happen.

I've seen this in (computer) gaming. Large companies buy more and more of there smaller competition, consolidating into one. Until one huge and several "small" organisations remain, with few employees, and very strong ideologies, which is why they never sold out, making more profit than the large companies because the large companies are so broken and attract no talent, only now being able to exploit and disgust customers again and again. I don't see this as being sustainable and at some point the large organisations operating like this will collapse, theres no such thing as "too big to fail". However even if this doesn't happen, it's already worked to funnel an enormous and growing amount of money into organisations and individuals with strong ideologies, while destroying nearly all those "in it for the money", that wouldn't have occurred if the large organisations weren't so swamped with people who cared about buisness but not the actual domain of the organisation. Is this even more prevalent elsewhere? Is this a good or a bad thing long term?

Coffee, for being awake, focused and alert. I find it a relaxing and creative experience, but I'm subjective, one data point does not a sample make. Research on Google Image for coffee adds exposed some rather odd results, here are the first 10. Stay awake longer. Tastes good. Sex. Variety and Creativity. Wake up. - Original and Traditional. Prevent your husband from beating you. - However coffee commercials I've seen often sell coffee as being a relaxing, social experience. On the motivation when at work front, I imagine if it was acceptable to have a bear instead at work in the morning, many people would become more motivated too, but also be more likely to waste time, discuss non work related matters or try and bunk off. I get the feeling that coffee for many makes even tedious work more enjoyable, "Coffee - Enjoy enjoying things your doing, even things you hate." But I notice this as a contradiction, that with coffee, I can do things that need doing as opposed to things I want to do, and enjoy them, in that I can feel the emotion of enjoyment telling me I'm enjoying the thing, and I believe it, while at the same time, as strong as it was before, knowing that the task is tedious and, for lack of a better word, dumb, but necessary, with a gap in the middle, between the two contradicting certainties.

I hope this doesn't immediately look like spam or advertising, if so I apologise, but nevertheless must publish these thoughts before they become yet again inaccessible. The Island is a highly textural musical piece by the band Pendulum, that I think holds insight beyond the following few easily apart facts, particularly by the time it progresses, a considerable way into the piece: It's a popular piece and therefore will have fans, who like it by accident of finding it appealing. There may be an association (that I do not have) with positive experiences when hearing this piece in clubs. The piece has common musical conventions such as at least somewhat familiar instruments and 4/4 timing. However, I feel there is more, and this goes deeper including: A viscerally, kinetically, tangibly strong drop, although currently much less noticeable or strongly and abruptly relaxing as usual against the surrounding bars. Not only 4 beats in a bar, but 4 bars in a group of bars, a property shared with the conventionally considered to be very different genre of Power Metal. Hold and release, or recursive patterns of attack and decay. Texture or rhythm, on both a 'micro' scale with the subtilises of the organ like instrument, and a larger scale with the exploration of overlapping rhythms throughout the piece. Influence on state of mind that takes more time to flow into than shorter popular tracks allow for, but require more intensity than I can appreciate than from classical tracks. Rarely used although powerful organ "acceleration", that combines the feeling of accelerating movement or moving air such a storm, with instrumentation, contrasting with parts of the track where it is not used, as was also the case with tracks such as "The Human Equation" album by Ayreon. In other ways too, parts of the sound seem to simulate the momentum sensation or falling, either downwards or forwards. Smoothness and chunkiness. Perhaps also related to ASMR (SKSKSK...), Frisson, Flow etc...

lol No cracks in the walls issues with the Tri design, however you have caused me think of another potential issue, sea sickness. Can an ifell tower like design really be as tall or cheap as the masts approach? I'm not sure as the ifell tower was built years ago. This is the tallest I can find, it is however really solid looking. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Ta Compaire to this, and other only slightly shorter ones. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_Radio_Mast The thing I don't know that really would matter is carrying capacity of the three together, for floors, contents and the fabric walls.

It would be very tall for a very minimal price, this must more than make up for loosing some space for wind. I imagine the insides of the masts themselves could be used, for example one for a lift, one for stairs and one for pipes and wires. Other disadvantages, worthwhile given the advantages may then include it being more difficult to heat or cool and weight restrictions for each story. A good location could alleviate both of these potential problems. There is still tension in opposite (3 total) directions on each mast, I'm having difficulty imagining the bending. Even if it's the case can't the cables be adjusted in position and tension to compensate, extra cables could also if required be added between each mast and positions along it's ground-ward cable directly or though small solid intermediate parts. You mention flexibility, this is desirable in the worlds tallest buildings.

Could three buildings of this type be constructed to form a triangle, where the inner support wires connect between the towers instead of to the ground? http://www.thebigtower.com/live/SandyHeath/Index.htm Floors could then be inserted and thick fabric sheets be wrapped around the structure. To deal with wind the structure could be fragmented, such that only every other floor was used, the wind blowing though the thiner empty stories.

It's a language but must be used with it's IDE or another suitable one, Notepad can't be used. Intelisence in Visual Studio only shows members and the such. Ideas like "extends" in C# go a bit further. However to do sufficiently would require a re-thinking of how programatic elements like objects work. I've never seen an intelisence like system where parameters can be specifed and the system can show you the most appropriate function to take those parameters.

I don't know those systems and would love to know more. I know in order of proficiency best to worst, not order of preference C# (including with XNA), C++, C, Java, Javascript, Ruby, Python, QBasic and Pascal. I also understand some of the principles behind functional programming like lazy evaluation. It's not just a collection of libraries, it abstracts away the idea of libraries, like a C++ program starting with hundreds of #include lines, one for every library the system knows about. This means that when you run a program it will probably have to download or use directly operations newly referred to since the last time the program was run. Depending on preferences set, the dynamicness of the code written in a given program and the interconnectedness of the respective operations in the central library, the language may even sometimes have to briefly pause execution of the program, or some part of the program to download or directly use operations from the central library online. It is also very contextual, being able to produce a list of available operations or even short chains of operations, sorted by relevance, involving any collection of objects where the objects have comparatively detailed meta information to facilitate this. Using these operations syntactically in the form required, avoiding the troublesome sort of ambiguity by storing in the file more detailed information than is made available to the programmer. This is done in the spirit of even something as simple as a byte of memory being not only a number, but having numerous other uses that could change regularly, with some uses being specific to your stated intention for it's use in it's program. Does this cover what you wanted to know, if in any way it dosn't, feel free to ask.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gycrYIa2C_iX5YHfDB6NyqxPXKhpQdb1OA77FjSbrvE/edit I've created a design for a programming language, it's in a commentable google doc. Feedback is very welcome.

Whats more being able to code isn't the same as having a high proficency or motivation with confidence, in all the areas required to create the thing you want, or to be able to handle the buisness end. I too would love to know the answer.

Your example code: Car (Name -> "Car", Use -> "Ordinary", ScapeType -> "GroundScape"); Reminds me of C# where functions such as constructors can be used as so. Car("Car", "Ordinary", "GroundScape"); Or like this. Car (Name: "Car", Use: "Ordinary", ScapeType: "GroundScape"); I have this too: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gycrYIa2C_iX5YHfDB6NyqxPXKhpQdb1OA77FjSbrvE/edit All going a off topic though.

My idea is that a raster image file format could be created where the data for the image was interpreted as instructions in an algorythm language. That way people could encode however they liked, PNG, JPEG or some other means that hasn't been designed yet, regardless of if the recipient's computer has previously known about the algorithm or not. Directed search could also be used such as Genetic Algorithm (genetic programming), A* (it's a search too) or a varient of Monty Carlo Tree Search for this task to create the perfect algorythm for the image being compressed.

There unlikely to invite you to there BBQ a 2nd time if they dislike your politics that much.

Possibly it was not the right time or state of mind to post coherently. Thank you everyone for your replies, this really is a good place for politics. I generally like the EFF, but you'r correct. I can imagine there and other similar left wing orginisations views reguarding privicy. Information gives everyone more power if it is open, it only gives the goverment, or at least law enforcement in situations where they can access a companies private data more power if the data is private. A company can only make profit selling your information in a drought of information, misinformation is easier where there is less of it to check things agains't etc... Goverments find a lack of transparency much harder when there is lots of information about everone who works in the goverment, there actions can be easily computibly compared agains't past events etc... Theres also the utility that where everyones skills and personality are recorded and searchable, not forcibly but because the benifits are so great, then it reduces overheads for all employers enormously. Maybe an emloyer won't employ you if you drink heavely, but another employee who also likes his drink will be able to actually contact you, without you lifting a finger or having to pester hundreds of other employers with several pages of "gimme a job". Then you won't have to put on a front around you'r employer and will be employed where you wouldn't otherwise be, with the total effort by everone reduced considribly. I heard it's going to be an interesting election next time in the US where all the candidates seem supringly human where so much is now known about there real lives. Maybe datasets should be more distriuted or more centralised, more govermentally orginised or more to do with private companies. I'm not sure it matters, or that it's possible for the goverment to be inovative, let alone inovative enough to be a big player in any of this. But any of the many possible ways will do. In England. I don't know if the 'privicy' concept is necceraly right wing here, but it seems to me to serve the right wing sinercism about techoligy, progress and any sort of change at all. I don't think it makes a lot of sence as a concept, at least not one thats so prominent, that must have come from somewhere, quickly and recently, that indirectly effects so much, even things like colabrative content creation or cloud computing seem to reduce in many to such worries at some point. Iv'e seen the libertarian right wing movement that seems assoceated with the US. I'm not keen on the specifics but I admire there attitude that things are not as good as we know how to make them, so we can improve things until they are.