Well, realistically, the car does need to park somewhere if the occupant is going to be working for eight hours, or shopping for over ten minutes.
But the autonomous car can drop someone off at work or the store, then drive a couple miles away to a central parking facility and wait to be summoned. The future parking facility could even be mechanized to rack-em-and-stack-em to maximize space.
If we could get an AI that can kill for a parking space, I'd be fine with that.
If you go through the quiz.. many of the situations involve people crossing the street against the hand... sometimes this was the only difference between two groups and you had to choose which to mow down. This reminds me a lot of Seattle too. If people on foot knew that a driverless car isn't going to stop if they were crossing illegally they might think twice about stepping off that curb.
You generally don't swerve INTO something to avoid an accident. You would swerve instead of breaking to avoid hitting something. Which brings us to the solution:
1) Avoid the accident (breaking)
I hate being the grammar nazi here, but I just can't read any more of your post after this.
I don't think anything on the computers really helps learning these concepts any more than textbooks and handouts did before them. At least, not to the extent of the money spent on all of the tech.
If kids don't want to learn, blinking lights and synthetic music won't change that. Computers just give another way to avoid actually learning.
They aren't going to teach students much about real-world economies, which are based entirely on fiat currencies these days, with a game economic system based on gold - with a simplistic 'spend only what you tax' system, that doesn't represent the real world of debt-funded governments, who perpetually roll-over debt through GDP growth and inflation, instead of paying it down.
The Civ game makers, should do a bit more to study the history of money and resources, going back to ancient times - it could add a very interesting and educational twist, to their gameplay dynamics.
They could start with getting a proper understanding of money (something economists themselves barely have a grasp of - failing to accurately model money, debt and banks) - David Graeber's book Debt, would be a good start.
Just because it pokes someone's political/economic view in the eye isn't reason for an Offtopic mod.
We didn't have computers in the schools when I started. I learned division by looking at a quarter in the third grade. The cirriculum didn't have it for another few months, as it was just getting into multiplication.
I also taught my daughter the Pythagorean Theorem using pennies, the week before she started kindergarten. And the week before first grade, and the week before second grade. By the fourth grade she remembered it.
The machine isn't there to prevent all intrusions, such as someone with a screwdriver or prybar. It is there to prevent medications from randomly going missing. I repair the machines at a few local hospitals. Yes, they are more secure than having unlocked cabinets of pills, and as secure as having locked cabinets of pills.
The major purpose of them is the fact that the staff have to log in, identify a patient, verify that the patient has certain medicine prescribed, take that medicine, and confirm quantity. For the controlled substances, they are in locked bins within the drawers, so that you can't steal them while getting something else. The common medicines aren't worth the trouble of stealing, so are in unlocked bins.
But, hey, if you can push the cart down the hall to your truck and drive away, you can have all those dosages of opiates. Good luck on that.
So Norway has managed to have the best of the EU, without having Brussels micromanage their internal governing. Sounds like a good bargain for the UK to look into.
Now that UK voted to stop inmigration. And before they begin to expel migrants they should begin accepting the migrants they sent to North America and Australia. Specially the North Americans ones that plan to make a wall to stop the Native Americans of the South (aka Mexicans).
Don't you mean the descendants of English migrants who want to stop the descendants of Spanish migrants?
Or are you under the impression that the Spanish Conquistadors let the native populations survive in meaningful numbers?
"Quite uninformed" is a bit much since the most important part of your post that directly contradicts mine is whether Croatia is in the EU. I was working from a spreadsheet I have from a couple years ago, and apparently it needs minor updating. Similarly, Latvia and Lithuania have recently adopted the euro, so I have to update those items in my spreadsheet as well. So, thank you for bringing that to my attention.
Other than these three minor issues, which are my fault for not keeping my spreadsheet updated, my post is not incorrect. Your points are noted, but they don't change the reality that the UK is simply joining the many European countries which are not currently in the European Union.
Now the UK is in the unenviable situation to serve as the showcase by which even poor people will learn how much they actually benefit from a huge common market in Europe and how damaging the decision to leave is.
Yeah, because Norway and Switzerland weren't example enough of how bad it is to not be in the European Union.
Anyway, good for UK. I am sure that it will still trade with the rest of the EU countries as do countries that never participated in the EU project in the first place. China is not in the EU, neither is the USA or Australia, etc., yet they trade with the EU. UK will trade with the EU of-course and it will do so on terms that will not put its sovereignty in a questionable position.
The funny part is that many European countries never joined the European Union to start with anyway. Of course there is Russia and most of the other former USSR states: Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, etc. Then the former Yugoslavia states: Serbia, Croatia, Albania, etc.
But even 'mainstream' Western European countries stayed out of it, notably Norway, Switzerland, and Iceland.
In addition several members of the EU never adopted the euro currency: Denmark, Sweden, Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Latvia, Lithuania, and the Czech Republic. Since the UK kept the pound, they don't even have to work on reforming their currency, or making massive changes in their banking institutions.
So for all the bluster of how the UK is doomed for leaving the EU, it seems several countries in Europe are doing fine
Tell you what. Go watch the Conjunction Junction video, so that you can learn how to formulate a sensible argument. Throwing a lot of ideas out, and stapling them together with three "and"s doesn't help your case.
I realize you're making a joke, but LeBron had the right to show the video to his teammates, because it was a private viewing, and no admission fee was charged.
That's not the simple limit that "private viewing" implies. Did he show the video to his team mates as a business function? Did he show the video in a business environment? Did he prevent the viewers from leaving the area if they so chose? It isn't simply whether an admission fee was paid.
Now, had they played the video on the Q Arena's Jumbotron to 20,000 people then there would be licensing issues involved (but still not copyright infringement, as you say).
Incidentally, Stanford holds the copyright to the video, no Jobs' estate.
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Well, realistically, the car does need to park somewhere if the occupant is going to be working for eight hours, or shopping for over ten minutes.
But the autonomous car can drop someone off at work or the store, then drive a couple miles away to a central parking facility and wait to be summoned. The future parking facility could even be mechanized to rack-em-and-stack-em to maximize space.
If we could get an AI that can kill for a parking space, I'd be fine with that.
If you go through the quiz.. many of the situations involve people crossing the street against the hand... sometimes this was the only difference between two groups and you had to choose which to mow down. This reminds me a lot of Seattle too. If people on foot knew that a driverless car isn't going to stop if they were crossing illegally they might think twice about stepping off that curb.
Only after the herd is thinned significantly.
That is the worst definition of morality I have ever seen.
Of course they're making their own choices. That's what this is all about, that's what "autonomous" means.
But they aren't really making choices. They are following mathematical algorithms.
The question here is do the algorithms save pedestrians or vehicle occupants?
Your car stops in 10 feet from a speed of 45mph? Where do you buy your tires?
You generally don't swerve INTO something to avoid an accident. You would swerve instead of breaking to avoid hitting something. Which brings us to the solution:
1) Avoid the accident (breaking)
I hate being the grammar nazi here, but I just can't read any more of your post after this.
... saw a scouts matching band in front, ...
Good story, but this part was slightly confusing for a few seconds.
Whoooooosh!
I don't think anything on the computers really helps learning these concepts any more than textbooks and handouts did before them. At least, not to the extent of the money spent on all of the tech.
If kids don't want to learn, blinking lights and synthetic music won't change that. Computers just give another way to avoid actually learning.
Why was this modded down?
They aren't going to teach students much about real-world economies, which are based entirely on fiat currencies these days, with a game economic system based on gold - with a simplistic 'spend only what you tax' system, that doesn't represent the real world of debt-funded governments, who perpetually roll-over debt through GDP growth and inflation, instead of paying it down.
The Civ game makers, should do a bit more to study the history of money and resources, going back to ancient times - it could add a very interesting and educational twist, to their gameplay dynamics.
They could start with getting a proper understanding of money (something economists themselves barely have a grasp of - failing to accurately model money, debt and banks) - David Graeber's book Debt, would be a good start.
Just because it pokes someone's political/economic view in the eye isn't reason for an Offtopic mod.
For clarity, I was not the AC that posted it.
We didn't have computers in the schools when I started. I learned division by looking at a quarter in the third grade. The cirriculum didn't have it for another few months, as it was just getting into multiplication.
I also taught my daughter the Pythagorean Theorem using pennies, the week before she started kindergarten. And the week before first grade, and the week before second grade. By the fourth grade she remembered it.
well, for some of us the time suck was Lemonade Stand, ...
... loaded off a cassette tape.
The machine isn't there to prevent all intrusions, such as someone with a screwdriver or prybar. It is there to prevent medications from randomly going missing. I repair the machines at a few local hospitals. Yes, they are more secure than having unlocked cabinets of pills, and as secure as having locked cabinets of pills.
The major purpose of them is the fact that the staff have to log in, identify a patient, verify that the patient has certain medicine prescribed, take that medicine, and confirm quantity. For the controlled substances, they are in locked bins within the drawers, so that you can't steal them while getting something else. The common medicines aren't worth the trouble of stealing, so are in unlocked bins.
But, hey, if you can push the cart down the hall to your truck and drive away, you can have all those dosages of opiates. Good luck on that.
Pencils are very resistant to virus attacks.
So Norway has managed to have the best of the EU, without having Brussels micromanage their internal governing. Sounds like a good bargain for the UK to look into.
That attitude changes after November.
Now that UK voted to stop inmigration. And before they begin to expel migrants they should begin accepting the migrants they sent to North America and Australia. Specially the North Americans ones that plan to make a wall to stop the Native Americans of the South (aka Mexicans).
Don't you mean the descendants of English migrants who want to stop the descendants of Spanish migrants?
Or are you under the impression that the Spanish Conquistadors let the native populations survive in meaningful numbers?
Yeah, the 'back' part threw me for a second, but your point still came across ok.
"Quite uninformed" is a bit much since the most important part of your post that directly contradicts mine is whether Croatia is in the EU. I was working from a spreadsheet I have from a couple years ago, and apparently it needs minor updating. Similarly, Latvia and Lithuania have recently adopted the euro, so I have to update those items in my spreadsheet as well. So, thank you for bringing that to my attention.
Other than these three minor issues, which are my fault for not keeping my spreadsheet updated, my post is not incorrect. Your points are noted, but they don't change the reality that the UK is simply joining the many European countries which are not currently in the European Union.
Now the UK is in the unenviable situation to serve as the showcase by which even poor people will learn how much they actually benefit from a huge common market in Europe and how damaging the decision to leave is.
Yeah, because Norway and Switzerland weren't example enough of how bad it is to not be in the European Union.
Anyway, good for UK. I am sure that it will still trade with the rest of the EU countries as do countries that never participated in the EU project in the first place. China is not in the EU, neither is the USA or Australia, etc., yet they trade with the EU. UK will trade with the EU of-course and it will do so on terms that will not put its sovereignty in a questionable position.
The funny part is that many European countries never joined the European Union to start with anyway. Of course there is Russia and most of the other former USSR states: Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, etc. Then the former Yugoslavia states: Serbia, Croatia, Albania, etc.
But even 'mainstream' Western European countries stayed out of it, notably Norway, Switzerland, and Iceland.
In addition several members of the EU never adopted the euro currency: Denmark, Sweden, Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Latvia, Lithuania, and the Czech Republic. Since the UK kept the pound, they don't even have to work on reforming their currency, or making massive changes in their banking institutions.
So for all the bluster of how the UK is doomed for leaving the EU, it seems several countries in Europe are doing fine
Tell you what. Go watch the Conjunction Junction video, so that you can learn how to formulate a sensible argument. Throwing a lot of ideas out, and stapling them together with three "and"s doesn't help your case.
I realize you're making a joke, but LeBron had the right to show the video to his teammates, because it was a private viewing, and no admission fee was charged.
That's not the simple limit that "private viewing" implies. Did he show the video to his team mates as a business function? Did he show the video in a business environment? Did he prevent the viewers from leaving the area if they so chose? It isn't simply whether an admission fee was paid.
Now, had they played the video on the Q Arena's Jumbotron to 20,000 people then there would be licensing issues involved (but still not copyright infringement, as you say).
Incidentally, Stanford holds the copyright to the video, no Jobs' estate.
Interesting detail.
Don't worry about the AC who responded to you. Some people just can't handle the fact that there are better people than them in this world.
I wish I had mod points. I loved that alot.