The whole IRC and XMPP compatibility of Slack was used as an argument to placate the old timers at my company.
Mostly I've found that people waste too much time making custom emoji and spend too little time working out real business due to the security and retention policies inherent in the Slack services.
Hopefully this can trigger some businesses to walk away from this seemingly useless tool.
If you have a game like described in the article, then a human being can get a little endorphin kick when they feel like they are getting closer to success. A machine learning system would need training and would not normally assume that progress is being made unless you bias it by including that in the training.
Now things become more difficult for a human if I made a [shitty] game where walking toward the goal could never lead to success, and perhaps the player moved along a non-euclidean map. You can level the playing field between humans and machine learning if the game is designed in a way to challenge any assumptions that a human might have from past experiences with video games or even reject physical reality. It would be a very alien and probably unpleasant experience to play it, so that might make it hard to compare test results of the now very unmotivated and unhappy humans.
We have rent control in the bay area too. San Jose still operates rent control on buildings built and occupied before 1979. And it takes some pretty elaborate measure for the rent control to be removed from the property, so I was one of the lucky people to move to the area in the 90's and benefit from that program.
Rent control, as implemented in San Jose, doesn't make the rent lower than every place else. It is more like a dampener to price fluctuations. You aren't out of your apartment in a year because they added another $400/mo to your rent on your next lease, unlike what I experienced in Campbell ($800->$1200).
It's not really so much about giving people some imaginary "right" to live in a particular city (like NY). It's about having neighborhoods that aren't full of transient workers. If you think a town of transients and migrant works at every income level is a nice place to be, then move to Abu Dhabi. (I'm not saying it's bad. But I wouldn't want to raise a family there)
The problem with Uber and Airbnb is that it's not clear how our politicians can collect payoffs. Is it like through an app, or an envelope full of cash? These modern times are confusing to our old befuddled ruling class.
swap their Surface Book with an identical looking one that you have modified. They might be surprised the next time they turn it on that they have to log in again to sync their cloud data, but this is the perfect time to hijack their passwords and accounts.
First person to build a ride-sharing broker app wins. I go to that app and it calls Uber, Lyft, whatever. For example I use an obscure local company (New Golden Horse Car Service) instead of Uber/Lyft when I'm on Long Island, especially to get to an airport. Golden Horse has an app, it's not amazing or innovative but it is functional. Which is convenient because I don't speak Chinese (Mandarin or Cantonese) and they can't always understand my accent (American, but a rural dialect).
Never have I understood the appeal of a glorified taxi central.
I definitely see the appeal of hailing a taxi from a smartphone versus calling and talking to a person. As a user it is convenient for me to click a few menus. And for a business it means your central dispatch doesn't need as many people operating phones.
As to how Uber turns that into a $1B/year business when they have no way to monopolize exclusive use that basic idea is beyond ludicrous.
My parents grow them in Michigan too, after converting the deck into a large sun room / green house (I call it The Conservatory). The lemons are small and not very abundant. I probably throw out a bushel of oranges a year at my California home because they start to pile up on my yard waste, and they don't seem to compost that well. It's amazing how many things I can grow here in Silicon Valley, but not so amazing when I realized that this land used to be cherry, peach, plum, apricot and orange groves some 70 years ago.
There are certainly advantages and disadvantages to either location. And I love winter sports, but I don't like driving to work in bad weather. I'd like to add that fishing is far superior in Michigan than it is in California in terms of accessibility and fun (subjective, I know). But you can eat the fish in California more readily, especially if deep sea fishing, as there is less environmental contamination in California's lakes and coasts than Michigan (with obvious exceptions like Santa Clara's Almaden Lake and other lakes part of the old mercury mining industry).
It's a lot easier to get a house on a large lot and commute a reasonable distance in Michigan than it is in California. But the large cities in California all seem to have better infrastructure than anything I experienced in Michigan (but not as good as NYC). There are cheaper places to live in California than in the big coastal cities, but it's harder to get a tech job if you're in some remote town. (the towns are often lovely though. on my list of places I'd like to retire would be in a little mountain town in the Sierras)
Incompetent city and state government is what prevents any significant tech investment in Michigan or Wayne County. A large portion of the technology and industry is attached to the auto industry, and most of the nice things we have in our schools are because Ford or GM donated. Betsy DeVos is from my part of Michigan. She works hard to ruin public schools for the middle and working class. Not that they were so great before she got involved.
Operating a business in Michigan is about making sure every little pissant gets their cut. And while your business taxes will be lower, that most of the infrastructure is missing or broken means you'll end up having to spend money to work around it. In rich parts of California like SF Bay or LA you can find real infrastructure for businesses, shipping, schools, and commuting. (even if just highways that are in perpetual gridlock, it's still better than what I used to do in Michigan)
Also I think most people would rather live where you can grow orange and lemon trees in your yard rather than where you have to shovel snow. (although if I didn't have to work for a living I would love to live on the lakeshore in West Michigan)
I don't see how it is different. If you hire a company to do work for you, you should expect them to hold to the same standard practices as your own company. That Walmart doesn't give a shit that a sub-contractor might be using child labor or indentured servants from rural families, tells us that the company doesn't have standards that match American standards. The only thing keeping a company like Walmart from human rights violations in the US is that we have laws in place to prevent it from happening on our soil. A good company wouldn't have to be told not to use slave labor.
Many companies operate as sociopaths. Others operate as a mindless ever-consuming amoeba. Capitalism as a societal system can only work if everyone understands that we should promote good behavior and exclude bad behavior. But most of us don't think this way, and don't look beyond the price tag printed on the things we buy.
And this is why Americans are assholes, because they believe such idiotic shit.
American company must operate by American standards at the bare minimum, no matter where they operate. Nothing arrogant or idiotic about that.
That many so-called American companies operating outside of the US get away with performing vile services, conduct business with slavers, and tolerating pedophilia is not something we should accept.
If your country has high standards, perhaps even higher standards than American companies (we're not setting the bare unreasonably high here), then you should also expect the businesses of your nation to operate according to the values and laws of your nation even when operating outside of your borders.
The important thing about laws, the thing that truly matters and why we have them, is that laws represent the standards that society has. Having an appendage of your society reach into another that is utterly corrupt reflects badly on the whole of your society. (also having corrupt laws within your own borders, like we experience to some degree in the US also reflects badly on our society)
What is there to understand? If you can't make two pairs of jeans the same, how would to build them to any other standard?
You can make two pairs of jeans the same, but at a different production cost than Levi's currently enjoys.
It's not that the capabilities doesn't exist. It's that they don't give a shit. Partially because consumers don't give a shit about anything beyond how their clothes cost or how their clothes look in advertisements on people with exceptional bodies.
I thought that by now 3D scanning and automated factories should be providing everyone with custom-tailored clothing at mass production prices. That seems no closer than flying cars.
I believe the technology is here. But the problems lies in that people of the off-the-rack generation don't understand the value of custom tailored clothing, so the demand isn't there.
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The whole IRC and XMPP compatibility of Slack was used as an argument to placate the old timers at my company.
Mostly I've found that people waste too much time making custom emoji and spend too little time working out real business due to the security and retention policies inherent in the Slack services.
Hopefully this can trigger some businesses to walk away from this seemingly useless tool.
If you have a game like described in the article, then a human being can get a little endorphin kick when they feel like they are getting closer to success. A machine learning system would need training and would not normally assume that progress is being made unless you bias it by including that in the training.
Now things become more difficult for a human if I made a [shitty] game where walking toward the goal could never lead to success, and perhaps the player moved along a non-euclidean map. You can level the playing field between humans and machine learning if the game is designed in a way to challenge any assumptions that a human might have from past experiences with video games or even reject physical reality. It would be a very alien and probably unpleasant experience to play it, so that might make it hard to compare test results of the now very unmotivated and unhappy humans.
We have rent control in the bay area too. San Jose still operates rent control on buildings built and occupied before 1979. And it takes some pretty elaborate measure for the rent control to be removed from the property, so I was one of the lucky people to move to the area in the 90's and benefit from that program.
Rent control, as implemented in San Jose, doesn't make the rent lower than every place else. It is more like a dampener to price fluctuations. You aren't out of your apartment in a year because they added another $400/mo to your rent on your next lease, unlike what I experienced in Campbell ($800->$1200).
It's not really so much about giving people some imaginary "right" to live in a particular city (like NY). It's about having neighborhoods that aren't full of transient workers. If you think a town of transients and migrant works at every income level is a nice place to be, then move to Abu Dhabi. (I'm not saying it's bad. But I wouldn't want to raise a family there)
The problem with Uber and Airbnb is that it's not clear how our politicians can collect payoffs. Is it like through an app, or an envelope full of cash? These modern times are confusing to our old befuddled ruling class.
Just you wait, the invisible hand of the free market will sort this out.
Polls show most people think they are above average drivers. Let the math sink in on that one.
Nobody cares. They just want tedious human interactions to be done with as quickly as possible and services to be as cheap as possible.
6 people to implement. 2994 people to figure out how to monetize your fake business model.
swap their Surface Book with an identical looking one that you have modified. They might be surprised the next time they turn it on that they have to log in again to sync their cloud data, but this is the perfect time to hijack their passwords and accounts.
First person to build a ride-sharing broker app wins. I go to that app and it calls Uber, Lyft, whatever. For example I use an obscure local company (New Golden Horse Car Service) instead of Uber/Lyft when I'm on Long Island, especially to get to an airport. Golden Horse has an app, it's not amazing or innovative but it is functional. Which is convenient because I don't speak Chinese (Mandarin or Cantonese) and they can't always understand my accent (American, but a rural dialect).
Never have I understood the appeal of a glorified taxi central.
I definitely see the appeal of hailing a taxi from a smartphone versus calling and talking to a person. As a user it is convenient for me to click a few menus. And for a business it means your central dispatch doesn't need as many people operating phones.
As to how Uber turns that into a $1B/year business when they have no way to monopolize exclusive use that basic idea is beyond ludicrous.
My parents grow them in Michigan too, after converting the deck into a large sun room / green house (I call it The Conservatory). The lemons are small and not very abundant. I probably throw out a bushel of oranges a year at my California home because they start to pile up on my yard waste, and they don't seem to compost that well. It's amazing how many things I can grow here in Silicon Valley, but not so amazing when I realized that this land used to be cherry, peach, plum, apricot and orange groves some 70 years ago.
There are certainly advantages and disadvantages to either location. And I love winter sports, but I don't like driving to work in bad weather. I'd like to add that fishing is far superior in Michigan than it is in California in terms of accessibility and fun (subjective, I know). But you can eat the fish in California more readily, especially if deep sea fishing, as there is less environmental contamination in California's lakes and coasts than Michigan (with obvious exceptions like Santa Clara's Almaden Lake and other lakes part of the old mercury mining industry).
It's a lot easier to get a house on a large lot and commute a reasonable distance in Michigan than it is in California. But the large cities in California all seem to have better infrastructure than anything I experienced in Michigan (but not as good as NYC). There are cheaper places to live in California than in the big coastal cities, but it's harder to get a tech job if you're in some remote town. (the towns are often lovely though. on my list of places I'd like to retire would be in a little mountain town in the Sierras)
Incompetent city and state government is what prevents any significant tech investment in Michigan or Wayne County. A large portion of the technology and industry is attached to the auto industry, and most of the nice things we have in our schools are because Ford or GM donated. Betsy DeVos is from my part of Michigan. She works hard to ruin public schools for the middle and working class. Not that they were so great before she got involved.
Operating a business in Michigan is about making sure every little pissant gets their cut. And while your business taxes will be lower, that most of the infrastructure is missing or broken means you'll end up having to spend money to work around it. In rich parts of California like SF Bay or LA you can find real infrastructure for businesses, shipping, schools, and commuting. (even if just highways that are in perpetual gridlock, it's still better than what I used to do in Michigan)
Also I think most people would rather live where you can grow orange and lemon trees in your yard rather than where you have to shovel snow. (although if I didn't have to work for a living I would love to live on the lakeshore in West Michigan)
Hopefully while it's still plugged in.
You'd want to put the keyboards into an autoclave. yeesh!
I don't see how it is different. If you hire a company to do work for you, you should expect them to hold to the same standard practices as your own company. That Walmart doesn't give a shit that a sub-contractor might be using child labor or indentured servants from rural families, tells us that the company doesn't have standards that match American standards. The only thing keeping a company like Walmart from human rights violations in the US is that we have laws in place to prevent it from happening on our soil. A good company wouldn't have to be told not to use slave labor.
Many companies operate as sociopaths. Others operate as a mindless ever-consuming amoeba. Capitalism as a societal system can only work if everyone understands that we should promote good behavior and exclude bad behavior. But most of us don't think this way, and don't look beyond the price tag printed on the things we buy.
I don't think Walmart's contractors outside of the US are conforming to US law.
A cheap mechancial watch can lose 5 minutes a day and it wasn't the end of the world.
Golly that sounds sensible. It's unfortunate that you have to point out the obvious.
It is unfortunate, I can think of several examples where they do not. Maybe nobody cares anymore, as long as Walmart has low low prices.
And this is why Americans are assholes, because they believe such idiotic shit.
American company must operate by American standards at the bare minimum, no matter where they operate. Nothing arrogant or idiotic about that.
That many so-called American companies operating outside of the US get away with performing vile services, conduct business with slavers, and tolerating pedophilia is not something we should accept.
If your country has high standards, perhaps even higher standards than American companies (we're not setting the bare unreasonably high here), then you should also expect the businesses of your nation to operate according to the values and laws of your nation even when operating outside of your borders.
The important thing about laws, the thing that truly matters and why we have them, is that laws represent the standards that society has. Having an appendage of your society reach into another that is utterly corrupt reflects badly on the whole of your society. (also having corrupt laws within your own borders, like we experience to some degree in the US also reflects badly on our society)
What is there to understand? If you can't make two pairs of jeans the same, how would to build them to any other standard?
You can make two pairs of jeans the same, but at a different production cost than Levi's currently enjoys.
It's not that the capabilities doesn't exist. It's that they don't give a shit. Partially because consumers don't give a shit about anything beyond how their clothes cost or how their clothes look in advertisements on people with exceptional bodies.
Sanding blue jeans all day makes you at least qualified to be on Slashdot's network Ops team.
I thought that by now 3D scanning and automated factories should be providing everyone with custom-tailored clothing at mass production prices. That seems no closer than flying cars.
I believe the technology is here. But the problems lies in that people of the off-the-rack generation don't understand the value of custom tailored clothing, so the demand isn't there.
Then you won't need to have someone sand your jeans for you.
I thought this would have already decided by federal law? It doesn't seem like it is even up to Facebook or its userbase.