People keep forgetting probably the most important aspect of any kind of flight: knowing where the other planes (aerial vehicles) are.
The major limitation of aerial delivery systems is not the landing zones, it's the flight path and avoiding other aerial vehicles.
Such a system will not only need a sophisticated shared information system with real-time, accurate GPS coordinates from each drone, but be able to communicate information about potential collisions to drones in flight.
Unlike most car crashes, people in the area can't just step on the brakes to avoid the collided vehicles. They'd be falling out of the sky.
Plus, offshoring of manufacturing and so on not only leads to trade deficits, but a notable secondary effect is loss of jobs in the same industries at home.
For some reasons most economists don't talk about that one very much, but it's very important.
It doesn't matter how cheap your goods are, if you don't have a job to pay for them. Yes, employment is booming now, but part of that is because many manufacturing jobs have been brought back home.
Of course people with a safety net are happier and feel more secure. Anybody who needs to do a study to find that out is brain-dead.
BUT... this is NOT the first national-level UBI system to be tested. Their neighbors in Sweden implemented a very similar -- but not exactly the same -- program back in the 1970s. For practical purposes it was a UBI: if you were not working, you simply got a check from the government, basically no questions asked. And it was a decent, living-wage amount, too. A Swedish employee of our company said, "Man, you people work HARD. I like that. Back home, if someone doesn't want to work, they just don't. They get a check from the government anyway."
As a result, over a period of about 20 years, Sweden's per-capita GDP went from 4th in the world to 14th.
This illustrates that a short-term "test" is probably insufficient for a real measure of the program.
And lest anyone doubt it was cause-effect, in the 90s they realized that their system was causing productivity issues, so they cut it way back. Over time (about another 20 years) their per-capita GDP went right back up where it was in the early 70s.
Lesson learned. Or it should be, anyway. All other trials of similar systems have resulted in a conclusion of "unsustainable".
There is absolutely nothing remarkable about these results. They have been fully expected for years.
I mean, it might actually matter that the circulation patterns in the Pacific are pretty well known.
Washington State was given a warning to watch for radionuclides shortly after the Fukushima incident. It is absolutely no surprise to anybody that it gradually made its way further northward.
What I think is funny about the Medium article is this:
"Founded in 1920 as a maker of postage meters -- the machines that stamp mail with proof it's been sent..."
What nonsense.
Postage meters are only evidence that the postage was paid for, and when.
Unless it's being used by the post office, there is no proof that it was ever mailed.
You can use the postage meter in your office to stamp something today... and send it next year. And since the post office is very lax about cancelling letters these days, nobody would be the wiser. In fact you could probably mail it twice.
Making electricity for yourself with solar has become more affordable than traditional electricity fuel sources like coal.
The above quote is utter BS. I really have to wonder where such claims come from.
Among other things not mentioned, is the fact that now that China has cornered the market on photovoltaics, the Chinese government is ceasing its massive subsidies and prices will be going up. Way up.
Gee, who'd have thought? (Actually lots of people, and we were hardly quiet about telling others... most of whom refused to listen.)
In this part of the U.S., solar is completely useless for a very significant part of the average year. I'm talking like 30%.
And nobody ever seems to talk about the cost of local storage, or the ludicrously expensive interface gear you need to buy to hook to the grid.
Among them: (1) Windows 10 is generally just awful. And (2) it's dog slow compared to 7. Personally I see no benefit to 10 over 7, except that new software is designed to use it. And 7 performs much better.
Example 1: Facebook and Twitter track you on every web page you ever visit with Facebook or Twitter "share" icons (or "like" in the case of Facebook). They don't tell you that. (In fact they track people who have never been to Facebook or agreed to a damned thing.)
Example 2: It is illegal in the United States to track people who are less than 13 years old, without explicit parental consent. Yet not only to Google, Facebook, and Twitter do this on a massive scale, they don't care about the law and don't even try to abide by it.
The latter is BIG. The fine per violation is significant. If it were actually enforced, those companies would be out of business very quickly.
1) Google has NEVER been honest about the data it extracts or keeps.
2) It is quite possible they were truthful about information stored in BigTables, but dollars to doughnuts the TOS never mentioned the data being stored elsewhere, outside of BigTables.
If the reporting here is accurate, what Gupta actually said was that Redis never was open-source.
And this really gets me too:
the RSAL forbids you from using any application built with these modules in a database, a caching engine, a stream processing engine, a search engine, an indexing engine, or a machine learning/artificial intelligence serving engine. In short, all the ways that Redis Labs makes money from Redis.
That's not just all the ways it makes money; it's pretty damned close to a list of all the things that are practical to do with Redis.
Many of the pictures I saw had lopsided faces, and many others had "blotchy" looks, like someone had a skin graft from a donor whose skin wasn't quite the same color.
All in all, I don't think it's ready for prime time.
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People keep forgetting probably the most important aspect of any kind of flight: knowing where the other planes (aerial vehicles) are.
The major limitation of aerial delivery systems is not the landing zones, it's the flight path and avoiding other aerial vehicles.
Such a system will not only need a sophisticated shared information system with real-time, accurate GPS coordinates from each drone, but be able to communicate information about potential collisions to drones in flight.
Unlike most car crashes, people in the area can't just step on the brakes to avoid the collided vehicles. They'd be falling out of the sky.
Rarely, maybe, but very dangerously.
Agree with Bill.
Plus, offshoring of manufacturing and so on not only leads to trade deficits, but a notable secondary effect is loss of jobs in the same industries at home.
For some reasons most economists don't talk about that one very much, but it's very important.
It doesn't matter how cheap your goods are, if you don't have a job to pay for them. Yes, employment is booming now, but part of that is because many manufacturing jobs have been brought back home.
The article is both meaningless and misleading.
Of course people with a safety net are happier and feel more secure. Anybody who needs to do a study to find that out is brain-dead.
BUT... this is NOT the first national-level UBI system to be tested. Their neighbors in Sweden implemented a very similar -- but not exactly the same -- program back in the 1970s. For practical purposes it was a UBI: if you were not working, you simply got a check from the government, basically no questions asked. And it was a decent, living-wage amount, too. A Swedish employee of our company said, "Man, you people work HARD. I like that. Back home, if someone doesn't want to work, they just don't. They get a check from the government anyway."
As a result, over a period of about 20 years, Sweden's per-capita GDP went from 4th in the world to 14th.
This illustrates that a short-term "test" is probably insufficient for a real measure of the program.
And lest anyone doubt it was cause-effect, in the 90s they realized that their system was causing productivity issues, so they cut it way back. Over time (about another 20 years) their per-capita GDP went right back up where it was in the early 70s.
Lesson learned. Or it should be, anyway. All other trials of similar systems have resulted in a conclusion of "unsustainable".
There is absolutely nothing remarkable about these results. They have been fully expected for years.
I mean, it might actually matter that the circulation patterns in the Pacific are pretty well known.
Washington State was given a warning to watch for radionuclides shortly after the Fukushima incident. It is absolutely no surprise to anybody that it gradually made its way further northward.
It will be a cold day in Hell before I'll buy a car that tells me what to do.
Ain't gonna happen.
The U.K.'s spy chief has indicated that a ban on Huawei is unlikely, citing a lack of viable alternatives to upgrade British telecom networks.
... is pretty lame.
I mean, it isn't as if Huawei hasn't been caught spying on people through their phones, and stealing others' inventions.
To me, that's the equivalent of saying, "We don't know how to build the phone infrastructure ourselves, so we'll just buy it from Russia."
Where's the difference?
I wouldn't let Huawei build my phone infrastructure any more than I'd voluntarily feed my private phone conversations to the NSA.
It was an easy way for Google to see what all the technical communities were doing.
People need to get this aspect of Google into their heads, and keep it there.
Google sees everything anyone on Google does. Whether it's Docs, or +, or gmail.
And they can flag it for anything they happen to be looking for that particular week.
I used Google+ reluctantly and infrequently, I don't use Docs, and I do not use gmail for important business. It's my "junk drawer" of email accounts.
"Founded in 1920 as a maker of postage meters -- the machines that stamp mail with proof it's been sent..."
What nonsense.
Postage meters are only evidence that the postage was paid for, and when.
Unless it's being used by the post office, there is no proof that it was ever mailed.
You can use the postage meter in your office to stamp something today... and send it next year. And since the post office is very lax about cancelling letters these days, nobody would be the wiser. In fact you could probably mail it twice.
Making electricity for yourself with solar has become more affordable than traditional electricity fuel sources like coal.
The above quote is utter BS. I really have to wonder where such claims come from.
Among other things not mentioned, is the fact that now that China has cornered the market on photovoltaics, the Chinese government is ceasing its massive subsidies and prices will be going up. Way up.
Gee, who'd have thought? (Actually lots of people, and we were hardly quiet about telling others... most of whom refused to listen.)
In this part of the U.S., solar is completely useless for a very significant part of the average year. I'm talking like 30%.
And nobody ever seems to talk about the cost of local storage, or the ludicrously expensive interface gear you need to buy to hook to the grid.
In a year, for $200,000, I could build a hell of a website.
By myself.
In healthy markets, service gets better as prices go down.
In monopolistic (oligopolisitic) markets, the cost of providing services goes down while end user prices go up.
Can't say I didn't warn you.
I think the very concept of Salon complaining about "propaganda" is hilarious.
There's an old saying for that: "The pot calling the kettle black."
Pendant (noun): someone who hears truth from a pedant but doesn't listen.
There are plenty of solid reasons to downgrade.
Among them: (1) Windows 10 is generally just awful. And (2) it's dog slow compared to 7. Personally I see no benefit to 10 over 7, except that new software is designed to use it. And 7 performs much better.
Not really.
Example 1: Facebook and Twitter track you on every web page you ever visit with Facebook or Twitter "share" icons (or "like" in the case of Facebook). They don't tell you that. (In fact they track people who have never been to Facebook or agreed to a damned thing.)
Example 2: It is illegal in the United States to track people who are less than 13 years old, without explicit parental consent. Yet not only to Google, Facebook, and Twitter do this on a massive scale, they don't care about the law and don't even try to abide by it.
The latter is BIG. The fine per violation is significant. If it were actually enforced, those companies would be out of business very quickly.
Oops... (2) isn't a known "fact".
But I wouldn't be surprised at all if it were a fact.
You were foolish to use Google BigTables EVER.
We know for a fact that:
1) Google has NEVER been honest about the data it extracts or keeps.
2) It is quite possible they were truthful about information stored in BigTables, but dollars to doughnuts the TOS never mentioned the data being stored elsewhere, outside of BigTables.
Indeed. But it's even worse than that, in a way.
Even if they wanted to block disinformation -- and they don't -- they are incapable of knowing disinformation from the other kind.
Not just because of normal human limitations, but also because of their inherent (and by now obvious) biases.
This fantasy yellow-peril BS is racism by another name.
"Fantasy BS"??? Are you kidding?
We KNOW how Huawei cheats and spies. It's neither fantasy or speculation.
Trusting your communications infrastructure to lying, spying Huawei would be an act of sheer stupidity.
If the reporting here is accurate, what Gupta actually said was that Redis never was open-source.
And this really gets me too:
the RSAL forbids you from using any application built with these modules in a database, a caching engine, a stream processing engine, a search engine, an indexing engine, or a machine learning/artificial intelligence serving engine. In short, all the ways that Redis Labs makes money from Redis.
That's not just all the ways it makes money; it's pretty damned close to a list of all the things that are practical to do with Redis.
No use in a database? Get real.
I suspect this is a real problem, but specific to New York Times reporters and their ilk.
I wish more people would see the reality of this.
Why are we expected to believe anything CrowdStrike says these days?
The quality isn't that great.
Many of the pictures I saw had lopsided faces, and many others had "blotchy" looks, like someone had a skin graft from a donor whose skin wasn't quite the same color.
All in all, I don't think it's ready for prime time.
I don't know where you're from, but in the USA:
The water in lakes and rivers is much cleaner than it was 20 years ago. And even cleaner compared to 30 years ago.
The air is much cleaner than it was 20 years ago. And even cleaner compared to 30 years ago.
Trash and littering are much less of a problem than 20 or especially 30 years ago.
Groundwater has always needed filtering, in most parts of the world.
Those are just facts. If you live somewhere else, where it's getting dirtier instead... that's YOUR problem, and your fault.