I wonder why this post has way more anonymous cowards commenting than typical. Are they afraid of people knowing that they're against social safety nets? Maybe they are yelling into the void, so as to assert their opinion without being challenged to support it.
I suspect MMC, a venture capital firm, doesn't have the expertise or resources to inspect the code, so how would they know that there's something like AI or ML powering the product? The article makes it sound like they simply looked at the company's marketing materials and maybe got a product demo from the marketing team.
The people begging for money on "go fund me" to cover the costs of treating their illnesses and injuries sure don't feel wealthy. The people working 60 hour work weeks so that they don't lose their jobs don't feel wealthy. The people working through their illnesses and injuries for fear of being fired don't feel wealthy. The guy living on my porch doesn't feel warm.
Look beyond your own living situation to see how maybe you are fortunate but others are not. Then look where all the national wealth is going. That's the root of the opioid epidemic; hopelessness caused by greed.
University research creates the jobs of the future. How are they behind in teaching what they're laying the path for? Maybe specific universities don't conduct research or integrate that research with their undergraduate program. Mine did though, so no problem here.
If they're talking about courses that are still being taught for careers which are disappearing, then that's a totally valid concern. The way to fix that is to rate the University programs on job placement success. My university did that too, it was part of their sales pitch even.
This article seems to be about some universities not performing well on the measures that are already in place for differentiating between good and not so good universities. What's the solution then? Research before applying.
With an increasingly dispersed workforce, knowing how to use asynchronous communication mediums like Snapchat, txt messaging and Instagram will become more important than reading body language and listening to tonal changes in someone's voice. I've been interviewing for remote jobs and they do filter people out who don't have these newer communication skills.
I think it's also wise to consider that the youth will determine the culture of the future, not us. So what they're doing now is what everyone will be doing in twenty years.
Knowing how to improvise when something deviates from the norm matters in manufacturing, accounting and farming. Literally every discipline needs critical thinking and creative problem solving, else everything grinds to a halt while all the peons wait for the specialist to arrive and get things going again when anything unexpected happens.
The state predicts that mandatory solar panel installations and other new improvements will add nearly $10,000 in the upfront cost of a home â" a cost that officials say will balance out over time, due to lower electricity bills.
A homeowner will save $19,000 over the course of a 30-year mortgage, Bohan said at Wednesday's meeting of the building commission.
So the mortgage payment for a middle class home goes up by 1-2% but their electric bill goes down by 2-4%. Seems like a good deal for the middle class.
Every carrier has an SMS gateway. They could simply require you verify your phone number with their gateway before being able to use it and then that way they could use your real number in the SMS.
These laws need some basic formatting and links. Markdown provides that and is much easier to use, read, understand and modify. So why are they using XML?
My guess is that they exported the laws from word as XML because that's built-in, not caring about what to do next.
Git supports PGP signatures on commits; so yeah, it's like blockchain but with less dispute resolution built in.
I had a job applicant farm out his code sample to an Indian contractor. I caught him because they used GitHub and the only commits that were his were merges from the contractor. Imagine having such a system show how many of our laws are written by lobbyists.
I'm sure there's no way that could possibly go badly with a species of blood-feeders that already routinely inject their DNA into their host's bloodstream.
This was my first thought after reading the article. Mosquitos are particularly risky to genetically modify due to how they interact with other species. What are the chances that they might bite and exchange the gene drive DNA with another species with a similar enough gene sequence to the target of the gene drive? And what if the gene drive mutates within the mosquito population in a way that better targets other species?
Hopefully one stage of lab testing involves a massive hermetically sealed warehouse full of millions of mosquitoes and a wide variety of their prey.
My point is there needs to be a sufficient financial penalty imposed on corporations who contribute disproportionately to climate change if we want to change their behaviour. If screwing mother earth is profitable, and a viable option for investors, then of course that's what they'll do. It's no good, giving them this option and then acting disappointed if they exercise it. Lawmakers need to understand the beasts they are governing and how to influence them to get the results they want. Appeal to their wallets, not their morals. That is more in line with how they measure their performance.
I agree 100% with you here. I was just pointing out that we can't rely on the algorithms themselves; we or our government needs to increase the immediate expenses of greenhouse gas pollution.
We can impact the financial calculations through boycotts and negative publicity. Eventually, companies that aren't even in our sights will lower their emissions to get good publicity.
The financial penalty for combating climate change is more immediate than the cost of letting it happen. So I suspect the algorithm will give people a pretty negative view on acting on climate change. Combating climate change is also very disruptive to existing markets which makes it hard to account for in existing financial models.
So Equifax lost really sensitive data to the hacker black market and doesn't get fined, while Uber recovers less critical data and gets a substantial fine? I'm no fan of Uber and I guess neither were these states.
I buy prepaid SIM cards when I travel as it's a lot cheaper than buying an international travel plan/allowance from an American carrier. With this system in place I wouldn't be able to access any of my apps or accounts.
I'm pretty sure the execs are rubbing their greedy hands together with sly smiles expecting us all to get even more locked into our overpriced American mobile service plans, which will become more expensive once this identification mechanism achieves general acceptance.
I had Social Anxiety Disorder and two things helped me the most in dealing with it: understanding that analyzing the situation made my anxiety much worse; exposure to social situations that I could handle but were mildly uncomfortable. Over time I broke out of the disorder.
Maybe teachers need better training on how to spot students who need additional help and assign them a therapist.
You're talking about outsourcing manufacturing of a product or product line to Chinese companies, not adapting a service to meet Chinese government requirements. What IP will Google give up in this process? What training will they provide? The answer is none.
The only part of your argument that applies to this situation is the one about Google compromising on their principles and I already agreed with you there.
Because it's a better product. The whole reason Google is considering adapting to Chinese censorship is because they know that they have the best product but can't "sell it" without Chinese government approval. The real problem is that Google would be relieving social pressure on the Chinese government to change its information policies.
While I agree that H1-B's suppress wage growth for tech jobs, we're currently experiencing a worker shortage. That shortage is improving salaries but also starves startups of talent needed to build their products. I don't think it's a bad thing but it is an important consideration.
That's how they'll make more money, not how to incentivize them to lower prices. Competition is key to lowering prices but it doesn't need to come from abroad as the parent comment suggests.
You already admitted that some economists make predictions, which means it's a "hard science" using your definition. As I said, it's immature as a scientific discipline but some of the practitioners are genuinely using the scientific method. This discussion also falls outside of the parent post which was claiming economics isn't a science at all.
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I wonder why this post has way more anonymous cowards commenting than typical. Are they afraid of people knowing that they're against social safety nets? Maybe they are yelling into the void, so as to assert their opinion without being challenged to support it.
I suspect MMC, a venture capital firm, doesn't have the expertise or resources to inspect the code, so how would they know that there's something like AI or ML powering the product? The article makes it sound like they simply looked at the company's marketing materials and maybe got a product demo from the marketing team.
The people begging for money on "go fund me" to cover the costs of treating their illnesses and injuries sure don't feel wealthy. The people working 60 hour work weeks so that they don't lose their jobs don't feel wealthy. The people working through their illnesses and injuries for fear of being fired don't feel wealthy. The guy living on my porch doesn't feel warm.
Look beyond your own living situation to see how maybe you are fortunate but others are not. Then look where all the national wealth is going. That's the root of the opioid epidemic; hopelessness caused by greed.
Are you prepared for your medical emergency? Carry around several quarts of your own blood in the trunk of your car?
Both you, AirBnB and the homeowner are equally prepared; you have insurance.
University research creates the jobs of the future. How are they behind in teaching what they're laying the path for? Maybe specific universities don't conduct research or integrate that research with their undergraduate program. Mine did though, so no problem here.
If they're talking about courses that are still being taught for careers which are disappearing, then that's a totally valid concern. The way to fix that is to rate the University programs on job placement success. My university did that too, it was part of their sales pitch even.
This article seems to be about some universities not performing well on the measures that are already in place for differentiating between good and not so good universities. What's the solution then? Research before applying.
With an increasingly dispersed workforce, knowing how to use asynchronous communication mediums like Snapchat, txt messaging and Instagram will become more important than reading body language and listening to tonal changes in someone's voice. I've been interviewing for remote jobs and they do filter people out who don't have these newer communication skills.
I think it's also wise to consider that the youth will determine the culture of the future, not us. So what they're doing now is what everyone will be doing in twenty years.
Knowing how to improvise when something deviates from the norm matters in manufacturing, accounting and farming. Literally every discipline needs critical thinking and creative problem solving, else everything grinds to a halt while all the peons wait for the specialist to arrive and get things going again when anything unexpected happens.
Don't worry, the CEO of humanity will save us.
There's a YouTube star who consistently gets over 30 million views?
From the article:
The state predicts that mandatory solar panel installations and other new improvements will add nearly $10,000 in the upfront cost of a home â" a cost that officials say will balance out over time, due to lower electricity bills.
A homeowner will save $19,000 over the course of a 30-year mortgage, Bohan said at Wednesday's meeting of the building commission.
So the mortgage payment for a middle class home goes up by 1-2% but their electric bill goes down by 2-4%. Seems like a good deal for the middle class.
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Every carrier has an SMS gateway. They could simply require you verify your phone number with their gateway before being able to use it and then that way they could use your real number in the SMS.
These laws need some basic formatting and links. Markdown provides that and is much easier to use, read, understand and modify. So why are they using XML?
My guess is that they exported the laws from word as XML because that's built-in, not caring about what to do next.
Git supports PGP signatures on commits; so yeah, it's like blockchain but with less dispute resolution built in.
I had a job applicant farm out his code sample to an Indian contractor. I caught him because they used GitHub and the only commits that were his were merges from the contractor. Imagine having such a system show how many of our laws are written by lobbyists.
I'm sure there's no way that could possibly go badly with a species of blood-feeders that already routinely inject their DNA into their host's bloodstream.
This was my first thought after reading the article. Mosquitos are particularly risky to genetically modify due to how they interact with other species. What are the chances that they might bite and exchange the gene drive DNA with another species with a similar enough gene sequence to the target of the gene drive? And what if the gene drive mutates within the mosquito population in a way that better targets other species?
Hopefully one stage of lab testing involves a massive hermetically sealed warehouse full of millions of mosquitoes and a wide variety of their prey.
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https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/impa...
My point is there needs to be a sufficient financial penalty imposed on corporations who contribute disproportionately to climate change if we want to change their behaviour. If screwing mother earth is profitable, and a viable option for investors, then of course that's what they'll do. It's no good, giving them this option and then acting disappointed if they exercise it. Lawmakers need to understand the beasts they are governing and how to influence them to get the results they want. Appeal to their wallets, not their morals. That is more in line with how they measure their performance.
I agree 100% with you here. I was just pointing out that we can't rely on the algorithms themselves; we or our government needs to increase the immediate expenses of greenhouse gas pollution.
We can impact the financial calculations through boycotts and negative publicity. Eventually, companies that aren't even in our sights will lower their emissions to get good publicity.
The financial penalty for combating climate change is more immediate than the cost of letting it happen. So I suspect the algorithm will give people a pretty negative view on acting on climate change. Combating climate change is also very disruptive to existing markets which makes it hard to account for in existing financial models.
So Equifax lost really sensitive data to the hacker black market and doesn't get fined, while Uber recovers less critical data and gets a substantial fine? I'm no fan of Uber and I guess neither were these states.
I buy prepaid SIM cards when I travel as it's a lot cheaper than buying an international travel plan/allowance from an American carrier. With this system in place I wouldn't be able to access any of my apps or accounts.
I'm pretty sure the execs are rubbing their greedy hands together with sly smiles expecting us all to get even more locked into our overpriced American mobile service plans, which will become more expensive once this identification mechanism achieves general acceptance.
I had Social Anxiety Disorder and two things helped me the most in dealing with it: understanding that analyzing the situation made my anxiety much worse; exposure to social situations that I could handle but were mildly uncomfortable. Over time I broke out of the disorder.
Maybe teachers need better training on how to spot students who need additional help and assign them a therapist.
You're talking about outsourcing manufacturing of a product or product line to Chinese companies, not adapting a service to meet Chinese government requirements. What IP will Google give up in this process? What training will they provide? The answer is none.
The only part of your argument that applies to this situation is the one about Google compromising on their principles and I already agreed with you there.
Because it's a better product. The whole reason Google is considering adapting to Chinese censorship is because they know that they have the best product but can't "sell it" without Chinese government approval. The real problem is that Google would be relieving social pressure on the Chinese government to change its information policies.
While I agree that H1-B's suppress wage growth for tech jobs, we're currently experiencing a worker shortage. That shortage is improving salaries but also starves startups of talent needed to build their products. I don't think it's a bad thing but it is an important consideration.
That's how they'll make more money, not how to incentivize them to lower prices. Competition is key to lowering prices but it doesn't need to come from abroad as the parent comment suggests.
You already admitted that some economists make predictions, which means it's a "hard science" using your definition. As I said, it's immature as a scientific discipline but some of the practitioners are genuinely using the scientific method. This discussion also falls outside of the parent post which was claiming economics isn't a science at all.