Doesn't have such a negative visual aspect as a perfectly secure fence, doesn't involved major works such as a "medieval" moat etc? Would look like theres nothing there.
Fairly cheap as well.
Or turn over the outer lawns to rabid badgers.
Mantraps would also work. I.e. trap doors that open up with a 20ft fall (you could put a net at the bottom if you wanted to be nice. Basically, it would be rather simple to create an invisible moat and anyone that gets past the invisible moat should probably just be shot as it's then obviously not an accident.
Why use secrete service agents when instead it could be a dual use facility for the training of the US Olympic track and field team.
It would make more sense for them to practice at the "real" White House, and have Obama move to the remote "fake" White House. Is there any reason the POTUS needs to be physically located in downtown DC?
Or just practice when he's not there. It's not like he's there all day every day. He goes on plenty of out of town trips and even if he didn't there is no reason that you couldn't still practice with him there as long as everyone was properly informed. Lifeguards routinely have fake drownings to keep them on their toes. Guests are used to it and it doesn't cause any alarm.
The correct answer - no matter who is in charge - is first and foremost proper, safety conscious engineering, and then followed up with a culture of accountability and transparency *to everyone*. That means that there aren't reports that are "secret" because of some security theater. Everybody sees it, everybody knows what's going on.
Add to that that a nuclear plant should probably have a fixed lifespan. After 50 years, they shut it down, dismantle it, and haul it all away. It's too easy for an aging infrustructure to be neglected and shortcuts to be taken. It would be better to create a new one than to let an aging one hobble along until something breaks.
After RTFA it's pretty obvious this legislation is only meant to stop lazy downloaders
It won't even do that. 85% of the shows that I watch, I watch pirated versions on youtube just by typing in the episode title. This doesn't work for newly released movies but most older movies and almost all older tv shows are available for free on youtube. If they can't police youtube then they are fighting a battle they can't win.
Revoking a corporate charter would now affect shareholders too, so that those who own the company would know that if they allow their compny to go too far then they risk losing essentially everything.
This used to be assumed but now days, I can't imagine a state actually revoking a corporate charter. I wonder when the last time it was even attempted or if it could even be done to a multinational. Probably the best a state could do now days would be to pass a law outlawing that company's product.
Unfortunately installing the service isn't entirely down to the ISP. They have to find a route to the property and install equipment at locations on the way. That means buying land or easements, and going through planning permission processes.
This isn't entirely true. I've lived in several comunities that provide service via wifi. One of them all you needed was line of site of any watertower. Another had several large towers that blanketed the community. My father and my brother installed their own towers and beam a signal 5 miles from one house to the other. If you're on the fringe of their coverage there is no reason that they couldn't install a simple wifi tower and get it the remaining fraction of a mile.
Sadly, the powers that be disagree. They would rather have you dead than wounded. It's the reason that there is an international ban on weapons that make you blind or deaf. Wounded soldiers are costly and make people see the real cost of war while dead soldiers are quickly forgotten.
Why not? You allow only half the vehicles on the street today and the other half tomorrow. You have halfed your traffic and brought your pollution levels down. It is quite simple to enforce by number plates. Petrol today and diesel tomorrow on the other hand is difficult to enforce, makes no sense.
What's strange though is that the article makes no mention of an alternating schedule. If it was alternating between odd and even then this seems like a weird but reasonable solution. Just banning even number plates without alternating is very bizarre. Why not just ban all the cars?
What if both choices are bad? I actually had that problem once.
Yeah, you're lucky. South Park did a great episode on this where the two choices to vote for were a Giant Duche or a Turd Sandwich. I always vote but I also continue to "throw my vote away" by voting for a third party because to me voting for the "lesser of two evils" is no choice at all when for everything I care about the republicans and democrats are virtually indistiguishable. They pretent to be different but they are usually squabling over a few million here or there while the TRILLIONS they are spending on war, etc... are virtually the same. They'll brag about a 100 million dollar tax cut on a 4 trillion dollar budget. For anyone who isn't paying attention, that's the equivalent of bragging that you cut out 1 dollar of expenses from your 40k a year paycheck.
Basically, I would be in favor of specific penalties for non-compete
Great. "The penalty for violating the non-compete clause is $537 million payable in small bills."
Specific enough?
Great. "The penalty for violating the non-compete clause is $537 million payable in small bills." Specific enough?
This is exactly why there should be a specific amount. There is no way I would sign something like that and no sane person should either. If it went to court, no sane judge should allow it to stand and the person should be able to claim they signed it under duress as there is no other logical reason someone would sign something like that.
Great. Then you don't mind if I take a hit out on your life? I mean, its just a contract, the fact its to kill someone doesn't outweigh my liberty to enter into it, does it?
Congratulations, you've just said the stupidest thing I've ever read on the internet. That includes "Where does babby come from".
A hit contract is illegal because murder is illegal and furthermore isn't a contract between two people but rather involves a third person. A non-compete contract is more akin to a contract that says if you quit, you have to give us back your bonus or a prenumpt agreement. Yeah, it's a crappy contract and can be really unfair if one of the parties is desperate but I'm not sure if it should be illegal. I would be curious what the penalty is for a non-compete. If there is no penalty then I don't know how they would enforce it. If it's that they have to give them back the prior 3 years bonuses then this should be easily enforcable and also probably should be legal. Basically, I would be in favor of specific penalties for non-compete but not a vague "you can not work under any circumstance" clause.
And yet, strangely enough, millions of people each day arrive at their destinations unscathed. Really really bad at driving? Collisions would be daily or monthly events, instead of rare. My grandmother drove her entire life without a single incident. Even in countries where people really are bad at driving, still to be in a collision is a noteworthy event.
The reason there are not more accidents has alot to do with luck. People on average get to their destination safely because the route and the other cars are predictable. This is the same reason that texting while driving doesn't get you immediately killed. But given an unknown like the car in front of you slamming on it's brakes and people are not very good at responding (even less so if they are distracted by a phone or something else).
Perhaps because gates primary focus has been charity and philanthropy for almost as long as he was in the microcomputer game.
Why was this flagged -1? Bill Gates is president of one of the largest organizations helping to fight disease in the world. He has as much validity as the president of Red Cross or any other large relief organization. This is why his opinion matters. He's also uniquely positioned where he can help bankroll what is needed if necessary where most other large relief organizations would have a much harder time changing their focus.
a deployable care center that can be flown out to $3rdWorldShitHole in less than 24 hours, and be put to use immediately when an epidemic strikes. Hell, build a bunch of them, include a big pile of needed supplies with each, then pre-position them in or near areas that are most likely to see recurring epidemics.
This is exactly what the summary is talking about. We have "high-quality mobile units ready to be deployed quickly" for military but we don't have the equivalent on the medical side. It was insane that we did not have deployable quarantine units that could be sent to the location so instead we attempted to fly them to a quarantine unit elsewhere. To add to the insanity, the only plane that was capable of transporting an ebola patient could only transport ONE passenger at a time. I'm pretty sure that's the definition of being grossly underprepared for an epidemic when the solution is to fly people halfway around the world one at a time.
My guess is that they are going to learn what causes accidents and what doesn't cause accidents. We humans are really really bad at driving. You're basically stating all the bad things that we do. That is good input for a computer because it can see what causes accidents and remember not to do that and compare it to what doesn't cause accidents. I'm not sure I would trust a system like this to drive a car but it could easily be used to grade a computer (or a person) on their driving style.
Fewer and fewer people across the world are having kids, and will be seeking some alternative to leave a more lasting impact. I don't see why a mindfile based automation that carries on after you are dead could not be such a thing.
Even if you COULD get a script that responds almost exactly like you would, who would want to talk to it? While it might be interesting to talk to your great grandparent or someone famous, you said this would be for someone without children or any other legacy. Noone is going to want to talk to the dead you unless you have a some other sort of legacy that makes you interesting.
No if it could respond to responses for you while you're still alive and schedule meetups with the people you want and politely decline the ones that you would decline and ignore the ones that you would ignore, this might be something useful but don't count on it being very useful once you're dead.
Yes, because we know that the deniers can be swayed by an overabundance of evidence, and that they always seek to find answers for themselves instead of blindly parroting conspiracy-blog talking points!
You wouldn't need 100% agreement and also stopping an asteroid is in some ways easier than stopping climate change. Stopping an asteroid is mostly technical while stopping climate change has a fair amount of political. Stopping climate change requires some amount on consensus to make it happen. Also, stopping climate change has alot of people who make money from polution wanting to resist doing anything about it. Stopping an asteroid on the other hand would have alot of people with money potentially profiting off of it. Mainly, the aerospace industry could potentially profit quite a bit as well as the insurance companies while very few people have any incentive to try to resist attempting to prevent an asteroid strike.
Hell, why even bother to look since we don't have the technology in place to do something about it anyway, right?
Good point!
IF we can detect one that is in a collision course for earth and we have a decade to do something about it then we could develop the technology. Sure, there would be the "asteroid deniers" but if the evidence was good enough that people could calculate the trajectory themself and show that it had a high probability of wiping us out then we could do something about it.
Having used all three platforms, I don't see the point of this on iOS. Siri is good enough that I don't think you'll get many people to install Cortana, especially as Siri can be activated without having to start an app. Android on the other hand... OK Google hasn't worked as well for me. It's search dictation is fine, but some of those other things that Siri/Cortana can do aren't handled as well by OK Google. I would tempted to install Cortana on an Android phone.
My experience has been the exact opposite. Having gotten use to google voice search on android, I find siri very lacking. Now that I own an iphone, I still find myself getting very frustrated with siri not giving me the right answers so I open google on my iphone and ask the same question and get a much better response from google.
Which is why it is important to demand placebo treatments rather than let them use the "ethical" excuse to justify doing only equivalence tests.
Why is that important? Placebo is placebo. For the placebo effect to work it has to be as convincing as possible to the patient. Homeopathy accomplishes that quite well for it's followers and is pure water by the time they are done diluting it so is almost the perfect placebo. I don't see the problem with homeopathy if it works as water is about as harmless a placebo as you can get.
I'd like to see a salary floor for H1-B at 15 times minimum wage (or 10 times the poverty level, whichever is higher)... + a 20% administrative fee.
That would probably curtail abuses of said system... it couldn't be abused for the purpose of bringing in cheaper labor then.
I think requiring them to pay prevailing wage to the worker plus put an equal amount into a fund for STEM scholarships would work decent as well. Even if they fudge the numbers (which they do) and say it's only a 40k position, requiring them to pay an additional 100% premium to a scholarship fund should minimize the abuse that we're currently seeing.
This could also work for other industries like truck drivers where the complaint is there are not enough drivers when the reality is that there are plenty of people who would be willing to drive if the pay was higher.
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Doesn't have such a negative visual aspect as a perfectly secure fence, doesn't involved major works such as a "medieval" moat etc? Would look like theres nothing there.
Fairly cheap as well.
Or turn over the outer lawns to rabid badgers.
Mantraps would also work. I.e. trap doors that open up with a 20ft fall (you could put a net at the bottom if you wanted to be nice.
Basically, it would be rather simple to create an invisible moat and anyone that gets past the invisible moat should probably just
be shot as it's then obviously not an accident.
Why use secrete service agents when instead it could be a dual use facility for the training of the US Olympic track and field team.
It would make more sense for them to practice at the "real" White House, and have Obama move to the remote "fake" White House. Is there any reason the POTUS needs to be physically located in downtown DC?
Or just practice when he's not there. It's not like he's there all day every day. He goes on plenty of out of town trips and even
if he didn't there is no reason that you couldn't still practice with him there as long as everyone was properly informed.
Lifeguards routinely have fake drownings to keep them on their toes. Guests are used to it and it doesn't cause any alarm.
The correct answer - no matter who is in charge - is first and foremost proper, safety conscious engineering, and then followed up with a culture of accountability and transparency *to everyone*. That means that there aren't reports that are "secret" because of some security theater. Everybody sees it, everybody knows what's going on.
Add to that that a nuclear plant should probably have a fixed lifespan. After 50 years, they shut it down, dismantle it, and haul it all away.
It's too easy for an aging infrustructure to be neglected and shortcuts to be taken. It would be better to create a new one than to let an
aging one hobble along until something breaks.
After RTFA it's pretty obvious this legislation is only meant to stop lazy downloaders
It won't even do that. 85% of the shows that I watch, I watch pirated versions on youtube just by typing in the episode title.
This doesn't work for newly released movies but most older movies and almost all older tv shows are available for free
on youtube. If they can't police youtube then they are fighting a battle they can't win.
Revoking a corporate charter would now affect shareholders too, so that those who own the company would know that if they allow their compny to go too far then they risk losing essentially everything.
This used to be assumed but now days, I can't imagine a state actually revoking a corporate charter. I wonder when the last
time it was even attempted or if it could even be done to a multinational. Probably the best a state could do now days would
be to pass a law outlawing that company's product.
Unfortunately installing the service isn't entirely down to the ISP. They have to find a route to the property and install equipment at locations on the way. That means buying land or easements, and going through planning permission processes.
This isn't entirely true. I've lived in several comunities that provide service via wifi. One of them all you needed was line of site of
any watertower. Another had several large towers that blanketed the community. My father and my brother installed their own
towers and beam a signal 5 miles from one house to the other. If you're on the fringe of their coverage there is no reason that they
couldn't install a simple wifi tower and get it the remaining fraction of a mile.
Sadly, the powers that be disagree.
They would rather have you dead than wounded. It's the reason that there is an international ban on weapons that make you blind or deaf. Wounded soldiers are costly and make people see the real cost of war while dead soldiers are quickly forgotten.
Why not? You allow only half the vehicles on the street today and the other half tomorrow. You have halfed your traffic and brought your pollution levels down. It is quite simple to enforce by number plates. Petrol today and diesel tomorrow on the other hand is difficult to enforce, makes no sense.
What's strange though is that the article makes no mention of an alternating schedule. If it was alternating between odd and even
then this seems like a weird but reasonable solution. Just banning even number plates without alternating is very bizarre. Why not
just ban all the cars?
You realize that even the creators of that episode think they were being stupid about it.
I'm pretty sure that's the definition of satire. They exagerate something stupid to make it sound stupider so people realize how stupid it is.
What if both choices are bad? I actually had that problem once.
Yeah, you're lucky. South Park did a great episode on this where the two choices to vote for were a Giant Duche or a Turd Sandwich.
I always vote but I also continue to "throw my vote away" by voting for a third party because to me voting for the "lesser of two evils"
is no choice at all when for everything I care about the republicans and democrats are virtually indistiguishable. They pretent to be
different but they are usually squabling over a few million here or there while the TRILLIONS they are spending on war, etc... are
virtually the same. They'll brag about a 100 million dollar tax cut on a 4 trillion dollar budget. For anyone who isn't paying attention,
that's the equivalent of bragging that you cut out 1 dollar of expenses from your 40k a year paycheck.
This reminds me of the movie Paycheck: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt03...
The ultimate non-compete because you don't remember what you did.
Basically, I would be in favor of specific penalties for non-compete
Great. "The penalty for violating the non-compete clause is $537 million payable in small bills."
Specific enough?
Great. "The penalty for violating the non-compete clause is $537 million payable in small bills."
Specific enough?
This is exactly why there should be a specific amount.
There is no way I would sign something like that and no sane person should either.
If it went to court, no sane judge should allow it to stand and the person should be
able to claim they signed it under duress as there is no other logical reason someone
would sign something like that.
Great. Then you don't mind if I take a hit out on your life? I mean, its just a contract, the fact its to kill someone doesn't outweigh my liberty to enter into it, does it?
Congratulations, you've just said the stupidest thing I've ever read on the internet. That includes "Where does babby come from".
A hit contract is illegal because murder is illegal and furthermore isn't a contract between two people but rather involves a third person.
A non-compete contract is more akin to a contract that says if you quit, you have to give us back your bonus or a prenumpt agreement.
Yeah, it's a crappy contract and can be really unfair if one of the parties is desperate but I'm not sure if it should be illegal.
I would be curious what the penalty is for a non-compete. If there is no penalty then I don't know how they would enforce it. If it's
that they have to give them back the prior 3 years bonuses then this should be easily enforcable and also probably should be legal.
Basically, I would be in favor of specific penalties for non-compete but not a vague "you can not work under any circumstance" clause.
And yet, strangely enough, millions of people each day arrive at their destinations unscathed. Really really bad at driving? Collisions would be daily or monthly events, instead of rare. My grandmother drove her entire life without a single incident. Even in countries where people really are bad at driving, still to be in a collision is a noteworthy event.
The reason there are not more accidents has alot to do with luck. People on average get to their
destination safely because the route and the other cars are predictable. This is the same reason
that texting while driving doesn't get you immediately killed. But given an unknown like the car
in front of you slamming on it's brakes and people are not very good at responding (even less so
if they are distracted by a phone or something else).
Perhaps because gates primary focus has been charity and philanthropy for almost as long as he was in the microcomputer game.
Why was this flagged -1? Bill Gates is president of one of the largest organizations helping to fight disease in the world.
He has as much validity as the president of Red Cross or any other large relief organization. This is why his opinion
matters. He's also uniquely positioned where he can help bankroll what is needed if necessary where most other large
relief organizations would have a much harder time changing their focus.
a deployable care center that can be flown out to $3rdWorldShitHole in less than 24 hours, and be put to use immediately when an epidemic strikes. Hell, build a bunch of them, include a big pile of needed supplies with each, then pre-position them in or near areas that are most likely to see recurring epidemics.
This is exactly what the summary is talking about. We have "high-quality mobile units ready to be deployed quickly" for military but
we don't have the equivalent on the medical side. It was insane that we did not have deployable quarantine units that could be sent to
the location so instead we attempted to fly them to a quarantine unit elsewhere. To add to the insanity, the only plane that was
capable of transporting an ebola patient could only transport ONE passenger at a time. I'm pretty sure that's the definition of being
grossly underprepared for an epidemic when the solution is to fly people halfway around the world one at a time.
Avoid them like the plague.
Usually their pricing is enough to scare away most of the normal human beings.
Yeah, but if you register with them for 100 years, their prices are only $9.99 per year.
What are they going to learn?
My guess is that they are going to learn what causes accidents and what doesn't cause accidents.
We humans are really really bad at driving. You're basically stating all the bad things that we do.
That is good input for a computer because it can see what causes accidents and remember not to
do that and compare it to what doesn't cause accidents. I'm not sure I would trust a system like
this to drive a car but it could easily be used to grade a computer (or a person) on their driving
style.
Will this app be bought out and buried by the Facebook?
There is no need to buy a piggyback program when it's much easier to just detect and block it.
Fewer and fewer people across the world are having kids, and will be seeking some alternative to leave a more lasting impact. I don't see why a mindfile based automation that carries on after you are dead could not be such a thing.
Even if you COULD get a script that responds almost exactly like you would, who would want to talk to it?
While it might be interesting to talk to your great grandparent or someone famous, you said this would be for someone without children or any other legacy.
Noone is going to want to talk to the dead you unless you have a some other sort of legacy that makes you interesting.
No if it could respond to responses for you while you're still alive and schedule meetups with the people you want and politely decline the
ones that you would decline and ignore the ones that you would ignore, this might be something useful but don't count on it being very useful
once you're dead.
Yes, because we know that the deniers can be swayed by an overabundance of evidence, and that they always seek to find answers for themselves instead of blindly parroting conspiracy-blog talking points!
You wouldn't need 100% agreement and also stopping an asteroid is in some ways easier
than stopping climate change. Stopping an asteroid is mostly technical while stopping climate
change has a fair amount of political. Stopping climate change requires some amount on consensus
to make it happen. Also, stopping climate change has alot of people who make money from
polution wanting to resist doing anything about it. Stopping an asteroid on the other hand
would have alot of people with money potentially profiting off of it. Mainly, the aerospace industry
could potentially profit quite a bit as well as the insurance companies while very few people
have any incentive to try to resist attempting to prevent an asteroid strike.
Hell, why even bother to look since we don't have the technology in place to do something about it anyway, right?
Good point!
IF we can detect one that is in a collision course for earth and we have a decade to do something about it then we could develop the technology.
Sure, there would be the "asteroid deniers" but if the evidence was good enough that people could calculate the trajectory themself and show
that it had a high probability of wiping us out then we could do something about it.
Having used all three platforms, I don't see the point of this on iOS. Siri is good enough that I don't think you'll get many people to install Cortana, especially as Siri can be activated without having to start an app. Android on the other hand... OK Google hasn't worked as well for me. It's search dictation is fine, but some of those other things that Siri/Cortana can do aren't handled as well by OK Google. I would tempted to install Cortana on an Android phone.
My experience has been the exact opposite. Having gotten use to google voice search on android, I find siri very lacking.
Now that I own an iphone, I still find myself getting very frustrated with siri not giving me the right answers so I open google
on my iphone and ask the same question and get a much better response from google.
Which is why it is important to demand placebo treatments rather than let them use the "ethical" excuse to justify doing only equivalence tests.
Why is that important? Placebo is placebo. For the placebo effect to work it has to be as convincing as possible to the patient.
Homeopathy accomplishes that quite well for it's followers and is pure water by the time they are done diluting it so is almost the
perfect placebo. I don't see the problem with homeopathy if it works as water is about as harmless a placebo as you can get.
I'd like to see a salary floor for H1-B at 15 times minimum wage (or 10 times the poverty level, whichever is higher)... + a 20% administrative fee.
That would probably curtail abuses of said system... it couldn't be abused for the purpose of bringing in cheaper labor then.
I think requiring them to pay prevailing wage to the worker plus put an equal amount into a fund for STEM scholarships would work decent as well.
Even if they fudge the numbers (which they do) and say it's only a 40k position, requiring them to pay an additional 100% premium to a scholarship
fund should minimize the abuse that we're currently seeing.
This could also work for other industries like truck drivers where the complaint is there are not enough drivers when the reality is that there are
plenty of people who would be willing to drive if the pay was higher.