Gee, is it just slightly possible that all forms of power have drawbacks but that doesn't mean we should throw up our hands and embrace the worst possible option that kills millions of innocent people every year to save a buck?
This is about selling/sharing, not collecting. Collection of data will continue same as ever. You can certainly make an argument that it's in the interests of Facebook to stop sharing people's personal info and start protecting their data hoard. That's the approach Google has taken all along -- Google doesn't like to share your info, they like to make advertisers pay to benefit from proprietary Google data that won't be shared with them.
Being paid by youtube is not some sort of natural right -- you're working for them, so you play by their rules and procedures if you want to work for them. Youtube themselves lose money by demonetizing videos, so it seems rather uncharacteristically praiseworthy of them to stop showing ads when they're not sure if they should be monetizing something.
The average age of a car on the road in the USA is 11.5 years. Personally, I drive a 1998. If only 50% of new cars in 2040 will be electric, then we're looking at sometime between 2050 and 2060 for a slight majority of cars on the road to be electric. So this plan had better work with a fairly small percentage of cars being electric, or it'll come way too late to do any good.
A better use of electric cars may be simply using their depleted otherwise-worthless batteries as part of the grid. That way you don't have to convince people to let their battery be worn down, either -- getting people to allow their car battery to be used to balance the grid will really require that they be getting free replacement batteries, because it can't be good for battery longevity.
Tesla's autopilot isn't meant to be autonomous, and Uber's technology was laughably far behind. Citing their accidents is almost as irrelevant as citing someone driving into a wall on cruise control. I don't know if self-driving cars are ready or not, but you haven't cited any relevant evidence.
The Linux part is free, because Microsoft wasn't going to lower the price of Windows if they didn't include WSL. It's improving their value for money proposition from where it was before.
I've been using exclusively Linux of 15 years now, but the existence of WSL certainly increases the chances of me using Windows someday. How could it not?
MS can't possibly lose from being able to say their product can do everything their competitors can, including running those competitors for free. The "best of both worlds, no risk" argument is just what business wants to hear. And any home user who bothers to figure out WSL is someone who was likely to have tried dual-booting anyway so they can only gain there too.
Only a tiny fraction of the population completed much schooling back in the old days. If only the smartest 10% of your population is going to school, of course you're going to be able to teach them faster. The subjects that were considered important were also narrower back then.
There's no doubt that second languages should be taught at a younger age, though.
Building new city in Saudi at vast expense to attract businesses and tourists. Pitch: "If getting hanged and flogged is your bag then you're coming to the right place!"
The Hubble isn't the telescope doing 99% of the magnification work here. The galaxy cluster and the star within are the two powerful telescopes being used.
The secret to staying in space is actually wanting your object to stay in space, and not designing the mission to de-orbit soon.
Of course, doing that with an experimental station that's only in use briefly would be irresponsible. Nobody wants objects remaining in space beyond their useful lifetime, it's always best if they can be crashed into the atmosphere.
They weren't. Self-publishing was a money loser for virtually everyone until Amazon provided the audience and platform. Of course, providing the audience and platform makes it no longer really self-publishing or indie, but simply publishing through Amazon, which happens to have almost no editorial standards unlike other publishers.
Strife between major powers often results in proxy wars simply because teh big powers have too much to lose so they support other countries and let them fight it out.
But it results in proxy wars with each other's allies and spheres of influences, which may still be beneficial to a far away non-aligned country like Ecuador.
We've been failing at speech recognition so long, maybe it's time to re-train humans to speak in a non-ambiguous language designed with clear sounds that machines can better understand.
It's easy for something to be cheap when it's still on the drawing board. The space shuttle was going to drastically reduce the cost of space flight, too, until it actually flew. Hopefully it all works out with generation IV, but we can't assume and plan on that.
We should've invested much more heavily in nuclear 50 years ago all around the world, and then we wouldn't be in the climate bind we're in today. But since this is today, frankly nuclear is an irrational investment today. That's partly because of the insane legal hoops nuclear plants have to clear which make it take decades to build a plant, but even that is partly due to their centralized giant-project nature. Wind and solar work at any scale, which makes it a lot easier to get them built.
the growing need for energy
It's important to note that the need for energy in the USA is -- for the first time since the invention of electricity -- no longer growing. That's one of the problems for nuclear, a nuclear plant has to replace a huge chunk of the local energy market at once whereas wind and solar can be added gradually as previous sources are retired.
"While the pedestrian was legally at fault our vehicle should have avoided the accident, and barring that, the safety driver should have been more attentive and avoided the situation. We are suspending all tests until we have determined the nature of the failure and taken steps to make sure it won't be repeated."
But that was their narrative, almost word for word. They immediately suspended all tests and put out a press release saying the above. Uber is a horrible company, but in this case they've done exactly what you suggested. The problem is that they could've easily foreseen this accident if they hadn't been cutting corners and trying to pretend their tech was better than it was for the sake of the next round of funding.
Part of the problem is that by the time the information comes out it's not newsworthy anymore. It's a traffic accident with an experiment that was supposed to fail and rely on a safety driver. That's worth a news article on the day it happens, but it's not worth mainstream news updating with details as they develop. Makes it easy for Uber's spin to be the only thing most people see.
Intellectual property kills. Drug patents kill millions every year. Self driving car patents will kill people too. The only solution would be legislatively-enforced openness/collaboration, done in a careful way that ensures there's enough profit incentive left for developing the tech.
Making an X11 killer is easy. The problem is nobody will install that because it won't work with everyone's X11 stuff, so the developers have to go back and make their X11 killer do everything exactly like X11 does so that it works with decades of legacy software and workflows.
A government...any government...would much rather face an unarmed populace than an armed one.
A government that needs an excuse to shoot protesters -- which is most all of them, even Assad needed some protester violence to justify his crackdown -- would rather face an armed populace. For most countries (possible exceptions: North Korea, China), fighting a Gandhi is a lot more difficult than fighting armed terrorists.
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Right, all education in the world must stop until clean water and nutrition are fully addressed everywhere. What are you, a Taliban activist?
Gee, is it just slightly possible that all forms of power have drawbacks but that doesn't mean we should throw up our hands and embrace the worst possible option that kills millions of innocent people every year to save a buck?
This is about selling/sharing, not collecting. Collection of data will continue same as ever. You can certainly make an argument that it's in the interests of Facebook to stop sharing people's personal info and start protecting their data hoard. That's the approach Google has taken all along -- Google doesn't like to share your info, they like to make advertisers pay to benefit from proprietary Google data that won't be shared with them.
It's hard to get more expensive than System76 already is. Home of $900 desktop towers with 250 GB hard drives and 8 GB RAM.
Being paid by youtube is not some sort of natural right -- you're working for them, so you play by their rules and procedures if you want to work for them. Youtube themselves lose money by demonetizing videos, so it seems rather uncharacteristically praiseworthy of them to stop showing ads when they're not sure if they should be monetizing something.
The average age of a car on the road in the USA is 11.5 years. Personally, I drive a 1998. If only 50% of new cars in 2040 will be electric, then we're looking at sometime between 2050 and 2060 for a slight majority of cars on the road to be electric. So this plan had better work with a fairly small percentage of cars being electric, or it'll come way too late to do any good.
A better use of electric cars may be simply using their depleted otherwise-worthless batteries as part of the grid. That way you don't have to convince people to let their battery be worn down, either -- getting people to allow their car battery to be used to balance the grid will really require that they be getting free replacement batteries, because it can't be good for battery longevity.
Tesla's autopilot isn't meant to be autonomous, and Uber's technology was laughably far behind. Citing their accidents is almost as irrelevant as citing someone driving into a wall on cruise control. I don't know if self-driving cars are ready or not, but you haven't cited any relevant evidence.
The Linux part is free, because Microsoft wasn't going to lower the price of Windows if they didn't include WSL. It's improving their value for money proposition from where it was before.
I've been using exclusively Linux of 15 years now, but the existence of WSL certainly increases the chances of me using Windows someday. How could it not?
MS can't possibly lose from being able to say their product can do everything their competitors can, including running those competitors for free. The "best of both worlds, no risk" argument is just what business wants to hear. And any home user who bothers to figure out WSL is someone who was likely to have tried dual-booting anyway so they can only gain there too.
Only a tiny fraction of the population completed much schooling back in the old days. If only the smartest 10% of your population is going to school, of course you're going to be able to teach them faster. The subjects that were considered important were also narrower back then.
There's no doubt that second languages should be taught at a younger age, though.
Saudi Arabia is actually a tourist Mecca.
b0s0z0ku is probably American. Our passenger trains are lucky if they get up to 40 MPH.
The Hubble isn't the telescope doing 99% of the magnification work here. The galaxy cluster and the star within are the two powerful telescopes being used.
The secret to staying in space is actually wanting your object to stay in space, and not designing the mission to de-orbit soon.
Of course, doing that with an experimental station that's only in use briefly would be irresponsible. Nobody wants objects remaining in space beyond their useful lifetime, it's always best if they can be crashed into the atmosphere.
They weren't. Self-publishing was a money loser for virtually everyone until Amazon provided the audience and platform. Of course, providing the audience and platform makes it no longer really self-publishing or indie, but simply publishing through Amazon, which happens to have almost no editorial standards unlike other publishers.
But it results in proxy wars with each other's allies and spheres of influences, which may still be beneficial to a far away non-aligned country like Ecuador.
We've been failing at speech recognition so long, maybe it's time to re-train humans to speak in a non-ambiguous language designed with clear sounds that machines can better understand.
It's easy for something to be cheap when it's still on the drawing board. The space shuttle was going to drastically reduce the cost of space flight, too, until it actually flew. Hopefully it all works out with generation IV, but we can't assume and plan on that.
We should've invested much more heavily in nuclear 50 years ago all around the world, and then we wouldn't be in the climate bind we're in today. But since this is today, frankly nuclear is an irrational investment today. That's partly because of the insane legal hoops nuclear plants have to clear which make it take decades to build a plant, but even that is partly due to their centralized giant-project nature. Wind and solar work at any scale, which makes it a lot easier to get them built.
It's important to note that the need for energy in the USA is -- for the first time since the invention of electricity -- no longer growing. That's one of the problems for nuclear, a nuclear plant has to replace a huge chunk of the local energy market at once whereas wind and solar can be added gradually as previous sources are retired.
But that was their narrative, almost word for word. They immediately suspended all tests and put out a press release saying the above. Uber is a horrible company, but in this case they've done exactly what you suggested. The problem is that they could've easily foreseen this accident if they hadn't been cutting corners and trying to pretend their tech was better than it was for the sake of the next round of funding.
Part of the problem is that by the time the information comes out it's not newsworthy anymore. It's a traffic accident with an experiment that was supposed to fail and rely on a safety driver. That's worth a news article on the day it happens, but it's not worth mainstream news updating with details as they develop. Makes it easy for Uber's spin to be the only thing most people see.
Intellectual property kills. Drug patents kill millions every year. Self driving car patents will kill people too. The only solution would be legislatively-enforced openness/collaboration, done in a careful way that ensures there's enough profit incentive left for developing the tech.
Making an X11 killer is easy. The problem is nobody will install that because it won't work with everyone's X11 stuff, so the developers have to go back and make their X11 killer do everything exactly like X11 does so that it works with decades of legacy software and workflows.
A government that needs an excuse to shoot protesters -- which is most all of them, even Assad needed some protester violence to justify his crackdown -- would rather face an armed populace. For most countries (possible exceptions: North Korea, China), fighting a Gandhi is a lot more difficult than fighting armed terrorists.
UK homicide rate: 0.92 per 100K
US homicide rate: 4.88 per 100K
So what we see is that guns are about 5 times as efficient.