I haven't seen evidence that Uber is bad for everyone. Having been in places (NYC, boston, Orlando, New Orleans) that have significant Uber and taxi services, the uber service is cheaper and easier. So, certainly better for me. Talking to the uber and taxi drivers, the uber drivers are considerably happier doing what they are doing. Taxi drivers hate uber drivers, that's true, but they also hate the companies that they are working for and hate the medallion fees they have to pay.
In this case taxi companies are clearly paying their drivers more and treating them better. When making a decision like this, I look solely at how the people with the least bargaining power get treated, and taxis are clearly ahead of Uber in that regard.
Clearly paying more? Where? I haven't seen evidence of this generally. What I have seen is that it depends greatly upon the cost of medallions, the presence or absence of competition, local regulations, etc. I have not seen that taxi drivers have any more bargaining power than uber drivers. at least Uber drivers can do Lyft or one of the other services at the drop of a hat.
Much of the code that you need has already been written, and you just have to find it. So, have a system read in github, figure out what each of the pieces of software do, take the best parts and stitch them together into the program that you need. A great deal of 'computer science' has devolved into looking in stack overflow for what you need and copying and pasting into your program. Just automate that. (Some assembly required, your mileage may vary)
Exactly. I start watching NFL at (what is supposed to be) half-time. By skipping the ads and timeouts, I catch up to live in the last couple of minutes of the 4th quarter. Also, if I start watching it at half time, I'm well into my 'bubble' so nobody can spoil the game for me.
I buy that. Even more to my point. Saving lives should be the last thing on anybody's mind.
That makes no sense at all. Early death has a huge negative impact on society at large. The way to demographic transition includes reducing unnecessary and random sickness and death, allowing people to expect to live their lives smoothly. Cancer takes people out when they are productive and contributing members of society. Ironically, one of the keys to reducing rapid population growth is to reduce death.
Nah, boring. What I want is the ability to breathe underwater, see clearly underwater without a mask, not get the bends, and better thermoregulation. Man, just imagine being able to free dive in (the rapidly dying) coral reefs.
So really it looks like for some period the Royal Navy simply won't have the capability to fight other warships except with their seven submarines. This means they can't really contest command of the sea anywhere or project military power without assistance from the US.
Does it matter? Do they need to have a blue water navy capable of acting independently? Probably not, unless the US pulls out of NATO. Who would they need to contest command of the sea with? Russia did a little saber rattling recently in the channel, but it's only a matter of time before they run out of money too given Russia's dire economic situation.
If I was the Royal Navy, I would not be too worried about Russia, I'd worry about China. Why China? Because they are trying to take over the South China Sea, which means that any ships traveling through there will be controlled by them. Freedom of navigation, for commercial and scientific vessels, fishing, mining and drilling are all under threat, and, as a seafaring nation, Britain has a stake in maintaining it.
It is the default for Office 365 Outlook Web mail. Which I use because I am a developer, which means I use Linux so I don't have Outlook. Microsoft has made Outlook web almost unusable at this point. And the contact list is even worse, now called 'People' with extra formatted information, head shots, icons, flags, etc. and not just a frigging list like I want.
Where are you going to get the money to buy that farmbot? The steel the robots used to build it isn't free, you know?
The steel will be very low cost, since it will also be produced by robots. I'm wondering about the end game here. When almost everything is automated, then the cost of goods is almost (but not quite) zero. So, everyone can have the basic necessities for almost nothing, which could be paid for with unemployment benefits (maybe?). The asymptotic result is 90+% of humanity getting necessities provided to them, with
Ugh. Is it as good as Paint.net? If I want to do real work, I use Gimp or Photoshop. If its minor / quick, I use paint.net. That's been my go-to for years. I really, really don't think that they should be doing a 3D app until they get 2D right. Looking at the demo video, this latest iteration reminds me of TuxPaint!
Do you really think that DHS is supposed to ignore a threat to the US? Space weather is not a new thing: See: https://www.dhs.gov/publicatio... . The Department of Commerce (i.e. NOAA) has been working on space weather for a long time. The Air Force has a whole group devoted to it. All these things have gone through the funding cycles and been part of the budget for a while. The executive order tells the different departments to coordinate and who does what to respond; this is all in implementation to a National Space Weather Strategy document which went through the normal cycle of drafting, public comments, and approval.
The idea that this came out of nowhere, is not funded, or is not part of the legally directed activities of the executive branch is just insane.
The Department of Homeland Securty is supposed to help protect the US, as funded by Congress. The Department of Commence, of which NOAA is a part, covers space weather, as funded by Congress. There is an office of science and technology policy (funded by Congress) that has the job of advising the government regarding science. They are have been working together to make strategy (see this NATIONAL SPACE WEATHER STRATEGY document.
The executive (i.e. Obama) is telling the different parts of government to implement the strategy. It coordinates the different parts of the government on which parts should do which things. They already have the budget and legal authority to do the things, but it requires coordination. Which is exactly what a chief executive should be doing.
You don't have the court's DECLARATION that is was always void until the court gets around to it (if it ever does - like when you successfully fight it "all the way up to the Supreme Court" AND win there). But it's void, always was, and if the courts agree with you any penalties and such from the period between the passage and the declaration go "poof". (You may even be entitled to some compensation, though you're usually out your costs and suffering.)
That's absurd. That only works if you have a long-range crystal ball.
You have no idea what the Supreme Court is going to do with a law ten years from now. You're trying to run a business and not get screwed by the government and getting fined. Your lawyers look at a law and say 'well.... I think it might be unconstitutional, depending on who gets elected President in the next 3 elections'. You want to bet the company on that?
Lest you think I'm exaggerating about the time, the Voting Rights Act was the law of the land from 1965 to 2013 when big parts of it were declared unconstitutional. In another case, a private party can't get forced off their land via eminent domain to be given to another private party. That's flatly unconstitutional; you'd argue that a company has to fight against that and get their compensation. But in the Kelo decision, the Supreme Court ruled that it was not unconstitutional, so you'd be screwed.
You must live in a fantasy world where business decisions are black and white and the business can reasonably argue that they know what is consitutional and what is not. They don't, and can't afford to take that chance.
From what I read, the immunity deals were arranged in order to get their hands on the laptops in question. Why they didn't just use subpoena or search warrants is beyond me - unless the reason is the most obvious, which is a DOJ sponsored cover-up.
The most obvious reason is that they could not get subpoena or search warrants for those laptops. The emails were on a server (which got wiped,etc.). These are laptops and so might not have been covered by any warrants they could get. So the way to get to them was for the owners to agree to give them over with conditions.
What happened is not normal (i.e. everyone gets to do this). Real estate developers have a special callout in the tax code (see: https://www.law.cornell.edu/cf...) because they have paid off the Congress. The result is that qualified "real estate professionals" with certain other qualifications get to take 'net operating losses' that non professionals do not. NOL is not the same as capital loss.
As to your conclusion, there are guys in prison today for violations of the exact same laws, and several are now attempting to appeal their sentences. At the time they were convicted, those laws were seen as strict liability, so their trial records do not include proof of intent. If those same laws, which haven't changed, require mens rea now, at the very least they need a retrial to establish intent.
Can you please name a couple of these guys? I don't know who you are referring to.
Also, I'm confused about what you said about 'intent'. Are you saying that these guys did not have intent, or simply that the government did not have prove it? It would seem that the recommendation to prosecute or not (by Comey?) would partly depend on that.
For something more recent, was it Republicans or Democrats that were blocking Zika funding. HMM!
Looks to me like: Republicans put poison pills into the funding bill, and the Democrats therefore blocked it. So, if someone says 'here's a bill that everyone really, really need, but we're going to eviscerate these 3 other things that you like', then you should vote for it? What do you think this shows? To me it shows that the Republicans are holding the Zika funding hostage, but I'd love to hear your explanation for it.
By 2021, robots will have eliminated 6% of all jobs in the U.S., starting with customer service representatives and eventually truck and taxi drivers.
Bullshit. I work with robots and automation in my day job. This is a complete fabrication. We are not going to eliminate truck drivers within 5 years. End of story. Will not happen. The technology just isn't even close to being there yet.
The summary and article are a poor representation of the Forrester document. Look at the summary of the original here. It focuses primarily on cubicle work, office drones, assistants, etc. And it says 7% by 2025. The self-driving car / truck aspect is further in the future.
I think robots replace jobs for less skilled labor.
There's no reason to think that this will continue into the future, especially since people are trying to replace the more skilled jobs.
More importantly, one of the things that the next generation of robots will do is greatly change the jobs that are not replaced. Robots will make a single worker far more efficient, replace most of the workers. An historical example is that machines have not gotten rid of farmers, they still exist. However, there are far, far fewer of them, as one farmer with machines can do the work of tens or hundreds of others; factory workers still exist too, and will indefinitely, just not very many. The same will happen in the 'skilled' jobs in the future. It's not that there will not be paralegals, doctors and nurses, photo-intepretation analysts, stock traders, programmers, etc,; there will be fewer (and eventually far fewer) of them.
The big change here is that they are releasing marked-up data sets. That makes all the difference. A good chunk of the progress in computer vision (along with better algorithms and processing power / gpus) has been the availability of good data sets, such as ImageNet.
Machine learning algorithms, and deep learning algorithms in particular, require a lot of labeled training data. That has been largely missing from satellite imagery, for two reasons. First, nobody wanted to give up the data itself. Second, nobody wanted to go through the pain of marking up the data (by hand). This means that people that went through the bother of getting the data and labeling it (meaning large defense contractors primarily) have had a lock on wide area search, finding ships at sea, etc.
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I haven't seen evidence that Uber is bad for everyone. Having been in places (NYC, boston, Orlando, New Orleans) that have significant Uber and taxi services, the uber service is cheaper and easier. So, certainly better for me. Talking to the uber and taxi drivers, the uber drivers are considerably happier doing what they are doing. Taxi drivers hate uber drivers, that's true, but they also hate the companies that they are working for and hate the medallion fees they have to pay.
In this case taxi companies are clearly paying their drivers more and treating them better. When making a decision like this, I look solely at how the people with the least bargaining power get treated, and taxis are clearly ahead of Uber in that regard.
Clearly paying more? Where? I haven't seen evidence of this generally. What I have seen is that it depends greatly upon the cost of medallions, the presence or absence of competition, local regulations, etc. I have not seen that taxi drivers have any more bargaining power than uber drivers. at least Uber drivers can do Lyft or one of the other services at the drop of a hat.
DARPA is working on this in the MUSE program. Here is one of the performers: http://pliny.rice.edu/index.ht....
Much of the code that you need has already been written, and you just have to find it. So, have a system read in github, figure out what each of the pieces of software do, take the best parts and stitch them together into the program that you need. A great deal of 'computer science' has devolved into looking in stack overflow for what you need and copying and pasting into your program. Just automate that. (Some assembly required, your mileage may vary)
Exactly. I start watching NFL at (what is supposed to be) half-time. By skipping the ads and timeouts, I catch up to live in the last couple of minutes of the 4th quarter. Also, if I start watching it at half time, I'm well into my 'bubble' so nobody can spoil the game for me.
I buy that. Even more to my point. Saving lives should be the last thing on anybody's mind.
That makes no sense at all. Early death has a huge negative impact on society at large. The way to demographic transition includes reducing unnecessary and random sickness and death, allowing people to expect to live their lives smoothly. Cancer takes people out when they are productive and contributing members of society. Ironically, one of the keys to reducing rapid population growth is to reduce death.
Nah, boring. What I want is the ability to breathe underwater, see clearly underwater without a mask, not get the bends, and better thermoregulation. Man, just imagine being able to free dive in (the rapidly dying) coral reefs.
... the chinese not very advanced either.
Yet.
So really it looks like for some period the Royal Navy simply won't have the capability to fight other warships except with their seven submarines. This means they can't really contest command of the sea anywhere or project military power without assistance from the US.
Does it matter? Do they need to have a blue water navy capable of acting independently? Probably not, unless the US pulls out of NATO. Who would they need to contest command of the sea with? Russia did a little saber rattling recently in the channel, but it's only a matter of time before they run out of money too given Russia's dire economic situation.
If I was the Royal Navy, I would not be too worried about Russia, I'd worry about China. Why China? Because they are trying to take over the South China Sea, which means that any ships traveling through there will be controlled by them. Freedom of navigation, for commercial and scientific vessels, fishing, mining and drilling are all under threat, and, as a seafaring nation, Britain has a stake in maintaining it.
It is the default for Office 365 Outlook Web mail. Which I use because I am a developer, which means I use Linux so I don't have Outlook. Microsoft has made Outlook web almost unusable at this point. And the contact list is even worse, now called 'People' with extra formatted information, head shots, icons, flags, etc. and not just a frigging list like I want.
Where are you going to get the money to buy that farmbot? The steel the robots used to build it isn't free, you know?
The steel will be very low cost, since it will also be produced by robots. I'm wondering about the end game here. When almost everything is automated, then the cost of goods is almost (but not quite) zero. So, everyone can have the basic necessities for almost nothing, which could be paid for with unemployment benefits (maybe?). The asymptotic result is 90+% of humanity getting necessities provided to them, with
Ugh. Is it as good as Paint.net? If I want to do real work, I use Gimp or Photoshop. If its minor / quick, I use paint.net. That's been my go-to for years. I really, really don't think that they should be doing a 3D app until they get 2D right. Looking at the demo video, this latest iteration reminds me of TuxPaint!
Do you really think that DHS is supposed to ignore a threat to the US? Space weather is not a new thing: See: https://www.dhs.gov/publicatio... . The Department of Commerce (i.e. NOAA) has been working on space weather for a long time. The Air Force has a whole group devoted to it. All these things have gone through the funding cycles and been part of the budget for a while. The executive order tells the different departments to coordinate and who does what to respond; this is all in implementation to a National Space Weather Strategy document which went through the normal cycle of drafting, public comments, and approval.
The idea that this came out of nowhere, is not funded, or is not part of the legally directed activities of the executive branch is just insane.
The Department of Homeland Securty is supposed to help protect the US, as funded by Congress. The Department of Commence, of which NOAA is a part, covers space weather, as funded by Congress. There is an office of science and technology policy (funded by Congress) that has the job of advising the government regarding science. They are have been working together to make strategy (see this NATIONAL SPACE WEATHER STRATEGY document.
The executive (i.e. Obama) is telling the different parts of government to implement the strategy. It coordinates the different parts of the government on which parts should do which things. They already have the budget and legal authority to do the things, but it requires coordination. Which is exactly what a chief executive should be doing.
The law is void from the day it was passed.
You don't have the court's DECLARATION that is was always void until the court gets around to it (if it ever does - like when you successfully fight it "all the way up to the Supreme Court" AND win there). But it's void, always was, and if the courts agree with you any penalties and such from the period between the passage and the declaration go "poof". (You may even be entitled to some compensation, though you're usually out your costs and suffering.)
That's absurd. That only works if you have a long-range crystal ball.
You have no idea what the Supreme Court is going to do with a law ten years from now. You're trying to run a business and not get screwed by the government and getting fined. Your lawyers look at a law and say 'well.... I think it might be unconstitutional, depending on who gets elected President in the next 3 elections'. You want to bet the company on that?
Lest you think I'm exaggerating about the time, the Voting Rights Act was the law of the land from 1965 to 2013 when big parts of it were declared unconstitutional. In another case, a private party can't get forced off their land via eminent domain to be given to another private party. That's flatly unconstitutional; you'd argue that a company has to fight against that and get their compensation. But in the Kelo decision, the Supreme Court ruled that it was not unconstitutional, so you'd be screwed.
You must live in a fantasy world where business decisions are black and white and the business can reasonably argue that they know what is consitutional and what is not. They don't, and can't afford to take that chance.
Evidence:
... 6) Lying about "Russians" hacking the DNC. etc. etc. etc.
The other ones I get, this one I don't. It's not Clinton saying it was the Russians, it's the US intelligence community.
From what I read, the immunity deals were arranged in order to get their hands on the laptops in question. Why they didn't just use subpoena or search warrants is beyond me - unless the reason is the most obvious, which is a DOJ sponsored cover-up.
The most obvious reason is that they could not get subpoena or search warrants for those laptops. The emails were on a server (which got wiped,etc.). These are laptops and so might not have been covered by any warrants they could get. So the way to get to them was for the owners to agree to give them over with conditions.
What happened is not normal (i.e. everyone gets to do this). Real estate developers have a special callout in the tax code (see: https://www.law.cornell.edu/cf...) because they have paid off the Congress. The result is that qualified "real estate professionals" with certain other qualifications get to take 'net operating losses' that non professionals do not. NOL is not the same as capital loss.
If it was classified, and on an unclassified computer, isn't the right thing to do to destroy the hard drive?
As to your conclusion, there are guys in prison today for violations of the exact same laws, and several are now attempting to appeal their sentences. At the time they were convicted, those laws were seen as strict liability, so their trial records do not include proof of intent. If those same laws, which haven't changed, require mens rea now, at the very least they need a retrial to establish intent.
Can you please name a couple of these guys? I don't know who you are referring to.
Also, I'm confused about what you said about 'intent'. Are you saying that these guys did not have intent, or simply that the government did not have prove it? It would seem that the recommendation to prosecute or not (by Comey?) would partly depend on that.
For something more recent, was it Republicans or Democrats that were blocking Zika funding. HMM!
Looks to me like: Republicans put poison pills into the funding bill, and the Democrats therefore blocked it. So, if someone says 'here's a bill that everyone really, really need, but we're going to eviscerate these 3 other things that you like', then you should vote for it? What do you think this shows? To me it shows that the Republicans are holding the Zika funding hostage, but I'd love to hear your explanation for it.
By 2021, robots will have eliminated 6% of all jobs in the U.S., starting with customer service representatives and eventually truck and taxi drivers.
Bullshit. I work with robots and automation in my day job. This is a complete fabrication. We are not going to eliminate truck drivers within 5 years. End of story. Will not happen. The technology just isn't even close to being there yet.
The summary and article are a poor representation of the Forrester document. Look at the summary of the original here. It focuses primarily on cubicle work, office drones, assistants, etc. And it says 7% by 2025. The self-driving car / truck aspect is further in the future.
I think robots replace jobs for less skilled labor.
There's no reason to think that this will continue into the future, especially since people are trying to replace the more skilled jobs.
More importantly, one of the things that the next generation of robots will do is greatly change the jobs that are not replaced. Robots will make a single worker far more efficient, replace most of the workers. An historical example is that machines have not gotten rid of farmers, they still exist. However, there are far, far fewer of them, as one farmer with machines can do the work of tens or hundreds of others; factory workers still exist too, and will indefinitely, just not very many. The same will happen in the 'skilled' jobs in the future. It's not that there will not be paralegals, doctors and nurses, photo-intepretation analysts, stock traders, programmers, etc,; there will be fewer (and eventually far fewer) of them.
I don't even see a car. I see car-related bits, and a wheel. Pretty area though. Nice place to drive through.
If I remember Equus correctly, the young antagonist doesn't 'straddle' horses, he blinds them. That's a rather weird error to make.
The big change here is that they are releasing marked-up data sets. That makes all the difference. A good chunk of the progress in computer vision (along with better algorithms and processing power / gpus) has been the availability of good data sets, such as ImageNet.
Machine learning algorithms, and deep learning algorithms in particular, require a lot of labeled training data. That has been largely missing from satellite imagery, for two reasons. First, nobody wanted to give up the data itself. Second, nobody wanted to go through the pain of marking up the data (by hand). This means that people that went through the bother of getting the data and labeling it (meaning large defense contractors primarily) have had a lock on wide area search, finding ships at sea, etc.
Since I don't see it, here is the link to the data on AWS: https://aws.amazon.com/public-...