I find applications of machine assistance more promising. I'm still waiting for a way to program the original starcraft so that the AI can manage the tedious resource management while a human player can work on strategy. Even something like self driving cars make more sense as an assist. For someone who is elderly do they really care if the car is being driven by a computer or by a human sitting in an office somewhere. If the human sitting in the office gets the advantage of an AI highlighting the road for them and the elderly only has to pay the human for the 10 minutes to and from the appt. The reason chauffeurs are so expensive is because you have to pay them to sit. If you have AI drive the interstates and a human drive the final 10 minutes on each end, it would be very economical.
Machines are great at determining play-field collisions in 2d. That's, pretty much, what a strike box is. Either the ball is inside or outside the box. Sure the box is moving but it's still not insanely complicated to compute.
Now talk about the catcher tagging out a runner - you've got a 3d object (the ball) that is usually inside another 3d object (the mitt) that needs to fully touch another 3d object (the runner) within 3d space. Unless you have full coverage of every conceivable angle I'm not sure how you can make a reliable call - at least significantly more reliable than an umpire.
I don't think anyone is requesting to replace umpires completely but rather just for the strikezone. The strikezone is the easiest for computers and the hardest and most error prone for the umpire. Basically, like all other automation, let the computer do what it is good at and the human do what it is good at.
About the charging: That can be done wirelessly. Just place your headpones on the charging mat while not in use.
One of the big problems with Apple is they assume a single use case. For example, their calendar only has a single option of the time to alert someone of an all day event the following day excluding night shift people and anyone else with a slightly different schedule. Like most people, I don't have a charging mat and I rarely use headphones. When I do need them though, I need them. I have some in the car for my kids so they don't disturb each other. I have some next to my bed so I can occasionally listen to something after they go to bed. The pair next to my bed is shared with my ipad, my iphone, and my laptop depending on which one I am wanting to use. It would be a royal pain to keep 3 pair next to my bed as well as to try to keep headphones all charged for my kids on road trips. It's hard enough to keep phones charged. For all the singles in silicon valley, not sure they have much of a concept of shared devices, shared headphones, shared space, budget constraints, or all the other factors that go into buying decisions.
We'd still be setting 9600,N,8,1 for our Printers and using Parallel Ports for our Scanners if we lived in YOUR world.
Remember that Henry Ford quote about "If I asked people what they wanted, they would have said 'A faster horse' "? Same thing applies.
People want change ONLY if they feel no change.
Again, parallel ports were dropped AFTER people switched to usb. For several years, most computers had both usb ports and parallel ports and even serial ports. Bluetooth has been around for a decade but people aren't switching to it because it is more expensive, more clunky, and something else to charge. If you want people to switch to wireless headphones then create something that people actually want to switch to.
It would probably help if Bluetooth audio had a universal standard codec that didn't sound like shit. But it doesn't.
Another huge problem with bluetooth is that it is another device to keep charged. Also, they cost considerably more than regular headphones for the same quality. Also, the pairing adds a bunch of problems from failing to pair, needed to re-pair for each new device, not being able to quickly share, etc..
Bluetooth works ok for handsfree car units where you pair once, you don't have to worry about keeping it charged, etc... and some people like active joggers find it worth the hassle but for the average person who only occasionally needs headphones it is not worth the cost or headache.
Did you finally stop complaining about how the iMac didn't have a floppy disk?
The floppy disk was replaced by something better, faster, cheaper, more reliable and with more storage. Computers stopped having floppy disk drives several years after people stopped using them. Same with CD drives. People started rarely using the CD drives so companies started dropping them. Bluetooth has been around for years but hasn't had a significant effect on the use of the 3.5 jack. A large percentage of people still prefer the 3.5 jack. You drop a technology AFTER people stop wanting it not to force people to stop using it.
Recycling plastic is cheaper in dollars and CO2 than producing new plastic from oil. Why are you so retarded? Dropped as a child on your head?
Most plastic is not recycled as much as downcycled into an lower quality product. Many current uses of plastic require virgin plastic and can't be economically done with recycled plastics which is why you see a lot of things like park benches made with the old recycled plastic.
Regardless, the point remains that if you want to bury 100 tons of carbon, the most economical way of currently doing this is to buy 100 tons of household plastic waste and bury it. If this seems silly then you might want to also rethink most of the other carbon sequestering plans which make even less sense.
Getting news served up inside a bubble is a goddam mistake.
Exactly. The whole concept of "likes" and recommendations based on passed viewing habits is a disaster. Netflix, facebook, youtube, even public education is moving to "personalized content". Personalized content doesn't create a well rounded person, personalized content turns a slightly one sided person into a completely one sided person over a very short amount of time. Silicon Valley needs to completely abandon most forms of personalized content but I predict instead they will likely double down and instead start using a person's friends list to decide what is and is not fake news.
Trees are just temporary storage. If I recall, Canada thought they'd hit the jackpot in terms of selling their carbon-credits, until they realized that forest-decay just releases most of the collected carbon back into the atmosphere.
This has the potential to be a much better long-term solution.
So encase the trees in plastic first. Or better yet, just bury the plastic directly. Recycled plastic is a low dollar product. Burying recycled plastic or using it for roads and park benches locks up a ton of carbon and is probably more cost effective than any of these exotic solutions. Ironically, a simple way to bury a ton of plastic is to just not recycle it in the first place and allow it to go to the landfill.
So subways are "voluntary", as is using the public libraries. Court houses need scanners for "safety". Walmart is "a private business". Oh, and interstates are also "voluntarily", you can take an alternate route (or walk).
How many years of bugfixes? Are you supposed to sell an app once and support it on all new devices for the next 20 years?
It seems like there needs to be a way to either charge for updates at some point or make it so that someone can't roll all their purchased apps onto their new device indefinitely. It doesn't matter how much you charge, over a long enough timespan the cost of maintenance will eventually be more than the initial price.
Not everyone is an asshole. I've been plenty of places without trashcans and I carry my trash until I find one. I also sometimes even pick up other trash I find if I have some easy way to carry it. I then wait till I find a trashcan. I've also never shit on the street. I always seem to manage to find a bathroom. The people who litter are assholes and many of them will litter even when there are nearby trashcans. Granted, frequent trashcans likely would reduce some of the trash but aggressive policing and zero tolerance for the behavior would likely be more effective.
I agree that 25 down is fine especially because many places still don't even have that but I wish they would raise the upload. The ratio originally was 4/1 and now has dropped to 10/1. 10/1 prevents any innovations that require real 2 way communication. 10/1 basically says that download is all that matters and upload is just for assisting downloading. There are likely a ton of innovations that could benefit from symmetrical connections.
120 is absolutely ridiculous especially for abandoned property. Copyright and patent law is supposed to encourage creation of new works by granting temporary monopolies. It's hard to argue that copyrights longer than 20 years still serves this purpose.
The better question might be - why are you expecting to get paid when working for a Russian pseudonym?
That's how Upwork works. You put money in escrow, some untrusted person does the work for you (or you do the work for some untrusted person), and upwork releases the money. It's similar to ebay where you are buying from chinese pseudonyms and ebay has a system in place to make sure you receive your product. The logging/monitoring is one of the ways upwork tries to protect the buyer/seller. I've personally never used the logging but I have used Upwork for lots of small $50-$150 USD jobs and it works great. I can put a 1-3 hour job up there, get some bids, accept a bidder, escrow the $50-150, and then release it once I'm satisfied with the result. Even the couple times that it's went into arbitration, the process has been smooth. With the right system in place whether it is uber, taskrabbit, ebay, or upwork, it's easy to build up a trust network that allows untrusted parties to interact.
I think it's mostly used as a failsafe. Most employers likely only look at it if they suspect a problem. Kindof like cop cams. It's nice protection for both sides.
Good luck using small claims to sue a pseudonym in russia. Even if you could identify the individual or company, what jurisdiction and is it really worth the hassle for a few hundred bucks?
Job creation and the ability to attract magnet companies that net thousands of high paying jobs is part of a local government's jobs.
The way to attract businesses is to improve your infrastructure so that your city is more attractive. Doing things like improving your roads, your parks, etc... Even something like increasing the length of your runway so that larger planes can land falls or training locals so they are more qualifies for jobs falls under the ability to attract companies. I'm even ok with a limited amount of lobbying and talking up your town to businesses but you shouldn't be paying a business to set up shop in your town or giving tax breaks specifically designed for a specific company. Making your town more attractive to companies is completely different than outright paying them. The other problem with outright paying them is that many times as soon as the tax breaks stop, they move to the next town with tax breaks causing even worse unemployment and leaving behind a bunch of now wasted infrastructure.
The Citizens United ruling said that closely held corporations have the same rights as partnerships - if a small group of people want to pool their money to engage in political advocacy, it doesn't matter whether they incorporate or not. The First Amendment is pretty clear about the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government.
Nothing at all to do with public corporations.
Funny how those "closely held corporations" aren't bound by the 3k per person limit that everyone else is. I have no problem with a small group of people pooling their money but they should have the same campaign limits as individuals. I would like it to go one step further and if someone gives money to a union, the NRA, etc... and that company donates on their behalf then it should count again their 3k limit as well.
We'll give you the exact same deal. You spend $5 billion developing local real estate and provide 50,000 high paying jobs here in Dallas, we'll make it easier for you to bring $5 billion here by deferring the property taxes for a few years.
The point is that a city shouldn't be allowed to reduce or defer property tax or any other tax for a single entity. They shouldn't be making any kind of deals with a private person or organization. Something like "we'll build a road out to your new place" or "we'll increase the capacity of our sewer system to accomodate the new people" is one thing but the deals that cities make by giving away property tax or sales tax is extremely unethical and they end up cutting each other's throats. It shouldn't be legal.
Im sorry, but i absolutely cannot take them seriously when they say shit like this " If we’re going to move the entire Web to HTTPS, ".
With this stance, NO ONE should be supporting Lets Encrypt. Their philosophy is anathema to a free and open web. Enough! Lets Encrypt should be considered neutral at best, and outright harmful at worst. Im tired of it being touted as a good thing. This madness has gone too far already.
Google has the same stance of encrypting everything. They are even starting to penalize sites that are not encrypted. I believe the idea is that if everything is encrypted then not only does it make MITM harder, it also makes it harder to distinguish between "regular" traffic and traffic a government or organization might want to monitor/restrict. As a parent who has tried to use parental controls, it does work. It's extremely hard to censor/monitor youtube because everything is now encrypted.
The relatively short length is intentional: https://letsencrypt.org/2015/1... It's long enough so that you *can* manually update but short enough that it's a hassle to encourage people to automate.
You are confusing peak speed with average speed. Peak speed is a useless metric unless you are always using the internet at 2am. Average speed during normal usage is what a customer cares about. You can still oversell the bandwidth but you have to be honest about what kind of bandwidth a customer can expect. Who cares if you are on a T1 or a T3? Who cares if you have a 100mbps or 1000gpbs connection if your 1000gbps connection is so saturated that it is really only 10mbps? Giving the average real world speed is much easier to compare companies (for those lucky enough to have competition and choice)
That's just the form factor. It's a start. But if you want more than 500mA, there are multiple competing proprietary options for how to deliver higher current. USB Power Delivery is the favored choice, but there is Qualcomm Quickcharge, Samsung Adaptive Fast Charge, and more all still on the market.
The reason that there are competing technologies is because they are each innovating. If you make everyone use only one quick charging standard then you halt progress on innovation on this front. You likely could be causing more problems that you are solving.
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I find applications of machine assistance more promising. I'm still waiting for a way to program the original starcraft so that the AI can manage the tedious resource management while a human player can work on strategy. Even something like self driving cars make more sense as an assist. For someone who is elderly do they really care if the car is being driven by a computer or by a human sitting in an office somewhere. If the human sitting in the office gets the advantage of an AI highlighting the road for them and the elderly only has to pay the human for the 10 minutes to and from the appt. The reason chauffeurs are so expensive is because you have to pay them to sit. If you have AI drive the interstates and a human drive the final 10 minutes on each end, it would be very economical.
Machines are great at determining play-field collisions in 2d. That's, pretty much, what a strike box is. Either the ball is inside or outside the box. Sure the box is moving but it's still not insanely complicated to compute.
Now talk about the catcher tagging out a runner - you've got a 3d object (the ball) that is usually inside another 3d object (the mitt) that needs to fully touch another 3d object (the runner) within 3d space. Unless you have full coverage of every conceivable angle I'm not sure how you can make a reliable call - at least significantly more reliable than an umpire.
I don't think anyone is requesting to replace umpires completely but rather just for the strikezone. The strikezone is the easiest for computers and the hardest and most error prone for the umpire. Basically, like all other automation, let the computer do what it is good at and the human do what it is good at.
About the charging: That can be done wirelessly. Just place your headpones on the charging mat while not in use.
One of the big problems with Apple is they assume a single use case. For example, their calendar only has a single option of the time to alert someone of an all day event the following day excluding night shift people and anyone else with a slightly different schedule. Like most people, I don't have a charging mat and I rarely use headphones. When I do need them though, I need them. I have some in the car for my kids so they don't disturb each other. I have some next to my bed so I can occasionally listen to something after they go to bed. The pair next to my bed is shared with my ipad, my iphone, and my laptop depending on which one I am wanting to use. It would be a royal pain to keep 3 pair next to my bed as well as to try to keep headphones all charged for my kids on road trips. It's hard enough to keep phones charged. For all the singles in silicon valley, not sure they have much of a concept of shared devices, shared headphones, shared space, budget constraints, or all the other factors that go into buying decisions.
We'd still be setting 9600,N,8,1 for our Printers and using Parallel Ports for our Scanners if we lived in YOUR world.
Remember that Henry Ford quote about "If I asked people what they wanted, they would have said 'A faster horse' "? Same thing applies.
People want change ONLY if they feel no change.
Again, parallel ports were dropped AFTER people switched to usb. For several years, most computers had both usb ports and parallel ports and even serial ports.
Bluetooth has been around for a decade but people aren't switching to it because it is more expensive, more clunky, and something else to charge.
If you want people to switch to wireless headphones then create something that people actually want to switch to.
It would probably help if Bluetooth audio had a universal standard codec that didn't sound like shit. But it doesn't.
Another huge problem with bluetooth is that it is another device to keep charged.
Also, they cost considerably more than regular headphones for the same quality.
Also, the pairing adds a bunch of problems from failing to pair, needed to re-pair for each new device, not being able to quickly share, etc..
Bluetooth works ok for handsfree car units where you pair once, you don't have to worry about keeping it charged, etc... and some people like active joggers find it worth the hassle but for the average person who only occasionally needs headphones it is not worth the cost or headache.
Did you finally stop complaining about how the iMac didn't have a floppy disk?
The floppy disk was replaced by something better, faster, cheaper, more reliable and with more storage.
Computers stopped having floppy disk drives several years after people stopped using them.
Same with CD drives. People started rarely using the CD drives so companies started dropping them.
Bluetooth has been around for years but hasn't had a significant effect on the use of the 3.5 jack.
A large percentage of people still prefer the 3.5 jack. You drop a technology AFTER people stop
wanting it not to force people to stop using it.
Recycling plastic is cheaper in dollars and CO2 than producing new plastic from oil.
Why are you so retarded?
Dropped as a child on your head?
Most plastic is not recycled as much as downcycled into an lower quality product. Many current uses of plastic require virgin plastic and can't be economically done with recycled plastics which is why you see a lot of things like park benches made with the old recycled plastic.
Regardless, the point remains that if you want to bury 100 tons of carbon, the most economical way of currently doing this is to buy 100 tons of household plastic waste and bury it. If this seems silly then you might want to also rethink most of the other carbon sequestering plans which make even less sense.
Getting news served up inside a bubble is a goddam mistake.
Exactly. The whole concept of "likes" and recommendations based on passed viewing habits is a disaster. Netflix, facebook, youtube, even public education is moving to "personalized content". Personalized content doesn't create a well rounded person, personalized content turns a slightly one sided person into a completely one sided person over a very short amount of time. Silicon Valley needs to completely abandon most forms of personalized content but I predict instead they will likely double down and instead start using a person's friends list to decide what is and is not fake news.
Trees are just temporary storage. If I recall, Canada thought they'd hit the jackpot in terms of selling their carbon-credits, until they realized that forest-decay just releases most of the collected carbon back into the atmosphere.
This has the potential to be a much better long-term solution.
So encase the trees in plastic first. Or better yet, just bury the plastic directly. Recycled plastic is a low dollar product. Burying recycled plastic or using it for roads and park benches locks up a ton of carbon and is probably more cost effective than any of these exotic solutions. Ironically, a simple way to bury a ton of plastic is to just not recycle it in the first place and allow it to go to the landfill.
So subways are "voluntary", as is using the public libraries. Court houses need scanners for "safety". Walmart is "a private business". Oh, and interstates are also "voluntarily", you can take an alternate route (or walk).
How many years of bugfixes? Are you supposed to sell an app once and support it on all new devices for the next 20 years?
It seems like there needs to be a way to either charge for updates at some point or make it so that someone can't roll all their purchased apps onto their new device indefinitely. It doesn't matter how much you charge, over a long enough timespan the cost of maintenance will eventually be more than the initial price.
Not everyone is an asshole. I've been plenty of places without trashcans and I carry my trash until I find one. I also sometimes even pick up other trash I find if I have some easy way to carry it. I then wait till I find a trashcan. I've also never shit on the street. I always seem to manage to find a bathroom. The people who litter are assholes and many of them will litter even when there are nearby trashcans. Granted, frequent trashcans likely would reduce some of the trash but aggressive policing and zero tolerance for the behavior would likely be more effective.
I agree that 25 down is fine especially because many places still don't even have that but I wish they would raise the upload. The ratio originally was 4/1 and now has dropped to 10/1. 10/1 prevents any innovations that require real 2 way communication. 10/1 basically says that download is all that matters and upload is just for assisting downloading. There are likely a ton of innovations that could benefit from symmetrical connections.
The original copyright term adequately addressed this: 20 years automatically and 40 if you registered.
120 is absolutely ridiculous especially for abandoned property. Copyright and patent law is supposed to encourage creation of new works by granting temporary monopolies. It's hard to argue that copyrights longer than 20 years still serves this purpose.
The better question might be - why are you expecting to get paid when working for a Russian pseudonym?
That's how Upwork works. You put money in escrow, some untrusted person does the work for you (or you do the work for some untrusted person), and upwork releases the money. It's similar to ebay where you are buying from chinese pseudonyms and ebay has a system in place to make sure you receive your product.
The logging/monitoring is one of the ways upwork tries to protect the buyer/seller. I've personally never used the logging but I have used Upwork for lots of small $50-$150 USD jobs and it works great. I can put a 1-3 hour job up there, get some bids, accept a bidder, escrow the $50-150, and then release it once I'm satisfied with the result. Even the couple times that it's went into arbitration, the process has been smooth. With the right system in place whether it is uber, taskrabbit, ebay, or upwork, it's easy to build up a trust network that allows untrusted parties to interact.
I think it's mostly used as a failsafe. Most employers likely only look at it if they suspect a problem. Kindof like cop cams. It's nice protection for both sides.
Good luck using small claims to sue a pseudonym in russia. Even if you could identify the individual or company, what jurisdiction and is it really worth the hassle for a few hundred bucks?
Job creation and the ability to attract magnet companies that net thousands of high paying jobs is part of a local government's jobs.
The way to attract businesses is to improve your infrastructure so that your city is more attractive. Doing things like improving your roads, your parks, etc... Even something like increasing the length of your runway so that larger planes can land falls or training locals so they are more qualifies for jobs falls under the ability to attract companies. I'm even ok with a limited amount of lobbying and talking up your town to businesses but you shouldn't be paying a business to set up shop in your town or giving tax breaks specifically designed for a specific company. Making your town more attractive to companies is completely different than outright paying them. The other problem with outright paying them is that many times as soon as the tax breaks stop, they move to the next town with tax breaks causing even worse unemployment and leaving behind a bunch of now wasted infrastructure.
The Citizens United ruling said that closely held corporations have the same rights as partnerships - if a small group of people want to pool their money to engage in political advocacy, it doesn't matter whether they incorporate or not. The First Amendment is pretty clear about the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government.
Nothing at all to do with public corporations.
Funny how those "closely held corporations" aren't bound by the 3k per person limit that everyone else is. I have no problem with a small group of people pooling their money but they should have the same campaign limits as individuals. I would like it to go one step further and if someone gives money to a union, the NRA, etc... and that company donates on their behalf then it should count again their 3k limit as well.
We'll give you the exact same deal.
You spend $5 billion developing local real estate and provide 50,000 high paying jobs here in Dallas, we'll make it easier for you to bring $5 billion here by deferring the property taxes for a few years.
The point is that a city shouldn't be allowed to reduce or defer property tax or any other tax for a single entity. They shouldn't be making any kind of deals with a private person or organization. Something like "we'll build a road out to your new place" or "we'll increase the capacity of our sewer system to accomodate the new people" is one thing but the deals that cities make by giving away property tax or sales tax is extremely unethical and they end up cutting each other's throats. It shouldn't be legal.
Im sorry, but i absolutely cannot take them seriously when they say shit like this " If we’re going to move the entire Web to HTTPS, ".
With this stance, NO ONE should be supporting Lets Encrypt. Their philosophy is anathema to a free and open web. Enough! Lets Encrypt should be considered neutral at best, and outright harmful at worst. Im tired of it being touted as a good thing. This madness has gone too far already.
Google has the same stance of encrypting everything. They are even starting to penalize sites that are not encrypted. I believe the idea is that if everything is encrypted then not only does it make MITM harder, it also makes it harder to distinguish between "regular" traffic and traffic a government or organization might want to monitor/restrict. As a parent who has tried to use parental controls, it does work. It's extremely hard to censor/monitor youtube because everything is now encrypted.
The relatively short length is intentional: https://letsencrypt.org/2015/1...
It's long enough so that you *can* manually update but short enough that it's a hassle to encourage people to automate.
You are confusing peak speed with average speed. Peak speed is a useless metric unless you are always using the internet at 2am. Average speed during normal usage is what a customer cares about. You can still oversell the bandwidth but you have to be honest about what kind of bandwidth a customer can expect. Who cares if you are on a T1 or a T3? Who cares if you have a 100mbps or 1000gpbs connection if your 1000gbps connection is so saturated that it is really only 10mbps? Giving the average real world speed is much easier to compare companies (for those lucky enough to have competition and choice)
That's just the form factor. It's a start. But if you want more than 500mA, there are multiple competing proprietary options for how to deliver higher current. USB Power Delivery is the favored choice, but there is Qualcomm Quickcharge, Samsung Adaptive Fast Charge, and more all still on the market.
The reason that there are competing technologies is because they are each innovating. If you make everyone use only one quick charging standard then you halt progress on innovation on this front. You likely could be causing more problems that you are solving.