Google employees got played so hard. Google executives didn't want an AI ethics board. Google intentionally put a controversial figure on the board, and then begged their employees not to throw them in the briar patch. Google employees gleefully did it and Google executives obligingly eliminated the AI ethics board they didn't want all along and said, "You made us do it!"
SJWs are some of the most gullible fools going in the world today.
When you're burning millions of dollars worth of fuel per second, anything less than ideal is really bad... Yeah ok I was exaggerating, hyperbole is a sin I regularly commit.
Including in that sentence. The total fuel load of a Falcon 9 costs approximately $200,000. Super Heavy might make it over $1 million for its fuel load, but that's still several minutes of burn time to even hit $1 million. It might not even hit $1 million, too. Methane is cheaper than kerosene. There's no public data about how much methane a Super Heavy will need. SpaceX might not even know themselves for certain yet. Super Heavy design keeps changing.
5 million years ago there was no land mass at the south pole. The land mass that is at the south pole now was around the tropics 5 million years ago.
Ah, no. The plates move, but they don't move nearly that fast. The Antarctic plate is moving away from the Pacific plate and into the Atlantic plate, but it's moving at 12-14 mm per year at the moment. At the top end it may move at 1 cm per year. So at the beginning of the Pliocene, its Atlantic edge was no more than 50km further south and its Pacific edge was no more than 50km further north. That's about it.
Now that difference could result in radical differences in climate due to changes in ocean currents. There's essentially no data about historical ocean currents because most of what is ocean now was ocean then, so it's hard to study the changes to the sea bed, and even harder to ascribe changes to the sea bed to any particular change in water motion. At the moment, the models of ocean currents are severely lacking. There are efforts underway to produce detailed maps of deep ocean currents, but it's a difficult problem in data acquisition. The kinds of radio frequencies we know can get through water don't lend themselves well to lots and lots of small subsurface buoys that can follow currents.
Over the course of multiple geologic epochs, it has moved considerably. There's reason to believe it was once connected above water to the North American plate. But that was back in the Ediacaran period of the Neoproterozoic era, 600 million years ago. The Pliocene started 5.3 million years ago. Prove the fossil trees are 600 million years old and not 6 million and you'll have an argument.
Systemd is here to stay and there is nothing you can do about it.
You were wrong. Again.
Lennart will die eventually. And we're developers. We CAN rip it out and replace it with something else. We already do, in Devuan, so we have a modern distro that isn't rotting that also does not have systemd. Amazing, isn't it? Oh, and you lose, Coward.
They really had a 20% margin to spare, or this is an April fool's joke?
There was a reason they were called Whole Paycheck. They really did have a 20% margin to spare, and then some.
Unfortunately for them, this is a mistake. They can't move down market without losing the people who shopped there specifically because it was upmarket enough to keep the riff-raff out, and they can't move down market enough to pick up enough riff-raff to make up the difference. Unless they stop selling asparagus water. That'd help.
Plenty of modern comedians still preach the truth. Jesus, just listen to Chappelle sometime.
Dave Chappelle has already been assaulted for what he's said, despite his skin color. Skin color is no longer any protection from the looniest of the SJW Stasi.
No one has any idea about the "savings" that SpaceX has, other than their claims.
Their savings are a matter of public record. SpaceX has filed lawsuits against the US government for awarding contracts to higher priced launch providers, in violation of the law. As part of that filing, they have to quote legitimate prices. Which they did.
If you're going to argue that the prices they quote are somehow bogus, even though they're determined legitimate by US government formulas, then you must also conclude that all ULA prices are bogus. Neither is true.
"Maths" sounds stupid because it's objectively wrong. The 's' in mathematics is the nominative 's', not the plural 's'. Attempting to abbreviate the word as if it were plural is simply incorrect English.
If you lived in Alberta, traveling 6hrs to see a specialist or being flown out to a major city is the norm for any type of critical care. In Ontario, traveling 2-5hrs for a specialist is common.
Canada's really big, and almost no one lives there. There are only five major metropolitan areas with a million or more people, and only 10 with half a million or more (including those five with over a million). And they're spread across the entire breadth of the continent. Your problem with access to specialists is a problem of demographics and geography, not politics or economy. As such, they're probably unsolvable.
Instead, we would be better off working to reduce the total amount of waste by making one-time use packaging more efficient...
That's where all the plastic came from in the first place.
I'm old enough to remember when many more things in the grocery came in glass containers, especially condiments. The squeeze bottle was a rare thing only two generations ago. But glass that can be handled and shipped safely is thick and heavy, which increases the costs of both. The loss rate of glass is also dramatically higher than it is for plastic. Plastic bottles are thinner, lighter, and more short-term durable than glass, which translates directly to efficiency.
...and switching to durable reusable packaging where possible.
We did that too. My grandmother still got milk delivered in glass bottles when I was a child. Glass bottles which were returned, washed, sterilized, and reused. That worked fine when there was a specialist handling the delivery, but that doesn't happen anymore. Nowadays you can find milk in glass bottles in the grocery, but it's vanishingly rare, costs a lot more than the milk in plastic (because marketing), and the bottles aren't returned or reused.
People forget that we got where we are today in pursuit of efficiency. The American economy overall is only barely capitalist, with the exception of bulk commodities, which includes all foods. In bulk commodities, it's viciously capitalistic, which means price is a very good proxy for efficiency. Food packaging especially has been subjected to Darwinian selection for efficiency like few other things on the market today.
Now... If Tesla were, instead of just superchargers which really only solve the "road trip" problem, to buy one of the major gas station brands and convert it to superchargers chain-wide... I think *THAT* will be the watershed moment that will cause the quick switch of the general masses to electric.
Never happen, and it would be extremely foolish of Tesla to try.
Gas stations are notorious for leaking tanks. Converting a gas station site to any other use requires an enormous amount of EPA-supervised, expensive work. Sometimes (frequently) the only acceptable solution to the contamination problem is to remove all of the contaminated soil (to a depth of 20 feet or more) and replace it. Tesla wants no part of that mess.
Paul Moller has been trying for 40 years now. Sometimes it turns out first-mover advantage is no advantage at all.
He's 82 years old. He probably won't live long enough to see the first commercial "flying taxi" flight, even if Bell or Boeing or Airbus eventually succeed.
I don't think he was put into holding cell/prison waiting for the trial (which is the meaning of arrest in case of flight risk or possibility of muddling up the case). I think he was handled as arrested person, with mug shot and related paperwork and let out, asking him to come back to court (which did not happen, as case was dismissed beforehand).
Yes. He was arrested. The police made a record of that. It's not the mug shot or the fingerprints that are the problem. It's the arrest record which now exists.
As a pastor, he probably runs youth programs at his church. He has to cancel them all until this is straightened out. He currently fails the state-required background check for working with kids, because he has an arrest record. There's a good chance he would be committing a felony if he continue holding his regular youth group meetings. Lots of states have draconian "think of the children" laws.
If he's not very very careful, his legal troubles may be just beginning.
To all those asking, "How could this happen?" It didn't. This is MySpace taste testing the idea of nuking their old data to see if anyone really cares. If their page hits drop precipitously, if new uploads drop dramatically, they will "find a backup" and put (some of) the old stuff back online. If none of the metrics they care about change much, the loss will persist and MySpace will go on as it has been.
As all classified information is only classified under the authority of the POTUS (i.e. under an executive order), if you get elected to the presidency, you ARE THE authority and can grant yourself any and all accesses to classified information. So, your election is your clearance, effectively.
Exactly. There was more than a bit of whinging about this fact when Bill Clinton was in office. I heard repeated many times "he would never have gotten a clearance if he wasn't elected president."
You're probably correct. I guess I was thinking that anyone that can afford to spend $450K on their kid's social scene, would have already been a member of that social scene.
They are. The point of these elite schools is for all of the elite children to rub shoulders and get to know one another. You can't manage to run an elite without some cooperation. Quid pro quo is what makes their world go 'round, and it's harder to accomplish that if you don't have a well-placed frat brother.
As reported by themselves. That's some serious Hollywood Accounting right there. Compare to Zenni's prices for a dose of reality. Luxottica is hiding their real profit margin by vastly overpaying for something somewhere.
When the hell has making something illegal ever gotten rid of it?
After the Chicago Beer Wars, automatic weapons were banned in the United States. There's been only two crimes committed with a legally owned machine gun since 1934. Since the 1990s, ATF gun trace requests for even illegally owned machine guns have been less than 0.1% of all trace requests. Machine guns were banned and automatic weapon crime is basically nonexistent.
The military is seeking commercial partners to help develop aiming systems to "acquire, identify, and engage targets at least three times faster than the current manual process."
Humans will always retain the veto? Over a system that is literally designed to be three times faster than human reaction speeds are physically capable of being? Uh, no? It's in the damn spec that no human will be able to react fast enough to veto a kill. That sentence has three verbs, "acquire, identify and engage". Engage means pulling the trigger. And that's going to be a kill when it's a bot doing the aiming. Aimbots have been doing headshots on virtual heads for two decades now. Ones capable of functioning in the real world will do the same.
How is it that a moron beat out so many other people for the presidency?
He's a moron with a message other morons can relate to. And most of the time he's a really affable guy. He's eminently electable. Totally incompetent. But perfectly electable.
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Google employees got played so hard. Google executives didn't want an AI ethics board. Google intentionally put a controversial figure on the board, and then begged their employees not to throw them in the briar patch. Google employees gleefully did it and Google executives obligingly eliminated the AI ethics board they didn't want all along and said, "You made us do it!"
SJWs are some of the most gullible fools going in the world today.
Just put it into our water lol...
As if these lunatics aren't paranoid enough. They already think fluoride treatment of water is some huge conspiracy too.
Assholes should meet my mother, who has more crowns and bridges in her mouth than real teeth, for lack of fluoridated water when she was a child.
When you're burning millions of dollars worth of fuel per second, anything less than ideal is really bad... Yeah ok I was exaggerating, hyperbole is a sin I regularly commit.
Including in that sentence. The total fuel load of a Falcon 9 costs approximately $200,000. Super Heavy might make it over $1 million for its fuel load, but that's still several minutes of burn time to even hit $1 million. It might not even hit $1 million, too. Methane is cheaper than kerosene. There's no public data about how much methane a Super Heavy will need. SpaceX might not even know themselves for certain yet. Super Heavy design keeps changing.
5 million years ago there was no land mass at the south pole. The land mass that is at the south pole now was around the tropics 5 million years ago.
Ah, no. The plates move, but they don't move nearly that fast. The Antarctic plate is moving away from the Pacific plate and into the Atlantic plate, but it's moving at 12-14 mm per year at the moment. At the top end it may move at 1 cm per year. So at the beginning of the Pliocene, its Atlantic edge was no more than 50km further south and its Pacific edge was no more than 50km further north. That's about it.
Now that difference could result in radical differences in climate due to changes in ocean currents. There's essentially no data about historical ocean currents because most of what is ocean now was ocean then, so it's hard to study the changes to the sea bed, and even harder to ascribe changes to the sea bed to any particular change in water motion. At the moment, the models of ocean currents are severely lacking. There are efforts underway to produce detailed maps of deep ocean currents, but it's a difficult problem in data acquisition. The kinds of radio frequencies we know can get through water don't lend themselves well to lots and lots of small subsurface buoys that can follow currents.
Over the course of multiple geologic epochs, it has moved considerably. There's reason to believe it was once connected above water to the North American plate. But that was back in the Ediacaran period of the Neoproterozoic era, 600 million years ago. The Pliocene started 5.3 million years ago. Prove the fossil trees are 600 million years old and not 6 million and you'll have an argument.
You lost. Get over it.
Systemd is here to stay and there is nothing you can do about it.
You were wrong. Again.
Lennart will die eventually. And we're developers. We CAN rip it out and replace it with something else. We already do, in Devuan, so we have a modern distro that isn't rotting that also does not have systemd. Amazing, isn't it? Oh, and you lose, Coward.
They really had a 20% margin to spare, or this is an April fool's joke?
There was a reason they were called Whole Paycheck. They really did have a 20% margin to spare, and then some.
Unfortunately for them, this is a mistake. They can't move down market without losing the people who shopped there specifically because it was upmarket enough to keep the riff-raff out, and they can't move down market enough to pick up enough riff-raff to make up the difference. Unless they stop selling asparagus water. That'd help.
Plenty of modern comedians still preach the truth. Jesus, just listen to Chappelle sometime.
Dave Chappelle has already been assaulted for what he's said, despite his skin color. Skin color is no longer any protection from the looniest of the SJW Stasi.
No one has any idea about the "savings" that SpaceX has, other than their claims.
Their savings are a matter of public record. SpaceX has filed lawsuits against the US government for awarding contracts to higher priced launch providers, in violation of the law. As part of that filing, they have to quote legitimate prices. Which they did.
If you're going to argue that the prices they quote are somehow bogus, even though they're determined legitimate by US government formulas, then you must also conclude that all ULA prices are bogus. Neither is true.
Legos sounds stupid, like "meccanos" or "sheeps."
Or "maths"
"Maths" sounds stupid because it's objectively wrong. The 's' in mathematics is the nominative 's', not the plural 's'. Attempting to abbreviate the word as if it were plural is simply incorrect English.
I love it when techo-geeks think they're Constitutional lawyers.
There's more than one actual practicing lawyer who read and post to this site.
If you lived in Alberta, traveling 6hrs to see a specialist or being flown out to a major city is the norm for any type of critical care. In Ontario, traveling 2-5hrs for a specialist is common.
Canada's really big, and almost no one lives there. There are only five major metropolitan areas with a million or more people, and only 10 with half a million or more (including those five with over a million). And they're spread across the entire breadth of the continent. Your problem with access to specialists is a problem of demographics and geography, not politics or economy. As such, they're probably unsolvable.
Instead, we would be better off working to reduce the total amount of waste by making one-time use packaging more efficient...
That's where all the plastic came from in the first place.
I'm old enough to remember when many more things in the grocery came in glass containers, especially condiments. The squeeze bottle was a rare thing only two generations ago. But glass that can be handled and shipped safely is thick and heavy, which increases the costs of both. The loss rate of glass is also dramatically higher than it is for plastic. Plastic bottles are thinner, lighter, and more short-term durable than glass, which translates directly to efficiency.
...and switching to durable reusable packaging where possible.
We did that too. My grandmother still got milk delivered in glass bottles when I was a child. Glass bottles which were returned, washed, sterilized, and reused. That worked fine when there was a specialist handling the delivery, but that doesn't happen anymore. Nowadays you can find milk in glass bottles in the grocery, but it's vanishingly rare, costs a lot more than the milk in plastic (because marketing), and the bottles aren't returned or reused.
People forget that we got where we are today in pursuit of efficiency. The American economy overall is only barely capitalist, with the exception of bulk commodities, which includes all foods. In bulk commodities, it's viciously capitalistic, which means price is a very good proxy for efficiency. Food packaging especially has been subjected to Darwinian selection for efficiency like few other things on the market today.
Now... If Tesla were, instead of just superchargers which really only solve the "road trip" problem, to buy one of the major gas station brands and convert it to superchargers chain-wide... I think *THAT* will be the watershed moment that will cause the quick switch of the general masses to electric.
Never happen, and it would be extremely foolish of Tesla to try.
Gas stations are notorious for leaking tanks. Converting a gas station site to any other use requires an enormous amount of EPA-supervised, expensive work. Sometimes (frequently) the only acceptable solution to the contamination problem is to remove all of the contaminated soil (to a depth of 20 feet or more) and replace it. Tesla wants no part of that mess.
Paul Moller has been trying for 40 years now. Sometimes it turns out first-mover advantage is no advantage at all.
He's 82 years old. He probably won't live long enough to see the first commercial "flying taxi" flight, even if Bell or Boeing or Airbus eventually succeed.
I don't think he was put into holding cell/prison waiting for the trial (which is the meaning of arrest in case of flight risk or possibility of muddling up the case). I think he was handled as arrested person, with mug shot and related paperwork and let out, asking him to come back to court (which did not happen, as case was dismissed beforehand).
Yes. He was arrested. The police made a record of that. It's not the mug shot or the fingerprints that are the problem. It's the arrest record which now exists.
As a pastor, he probably runs youth programs at his church. He has to cancel them all until this is straightened out. He currently fails the state-required background check for working with kids, because he has an arrest record. There's a good chance he would be committing a felony if he continue holding his regular youth group meetings. Lots of states have draconian "think of the children" laws.
If he's not very very careful, his legal troubles may be just beginning.
To all those asking, "How could this happen?" It didn't. This is MySpace taste testing the idea of nuking their old data to see if anyone really cares. If their page hits drop precipitously, if new uploads drop dramatically, they will "find a backup" and put (some of) the old stuff back online. If none of the metrics they care about change much, the loss will persist and MySpace will go on as it has been.
To be fair - what else were they going to hack?
SunOS. SunOS had a TCP/IP stack and a version of NFS running in 1985.
As all classified information is only classified under the authority of the POTUS (i.e. under an executive order), if you get elected to the presidency, you ARE THE authority and can grant yourself any and all accesses to classified information. So, your election is your clearance, effectively.
Exactly. There was more than a bit of whinging about this fact when Bill Clinton was in office. I heard repeated many times "he would never have gotten a clearance if he wasn't elected president."
You're probably correct. I guess I was thinking that anyone that can afford to spend $450K on their kid's social scene, would have already been a member of that social scene.
They are. The point of these elite schools is for all of the elite children to rub shoulders and get to know one another. You can't manage to run an elite without some cooperation. Quid pro quo is what makes their world go 'round, and it's harder to accomplish that if you don't have a well-placed frat brother.
Luxottica's net profit margin is about 15.8%...
As reported by themselves. That's some serious Hollywood Accounting right there. Compare to Zenni's prices for a dose of reality. Luxottica is hiding their real profit margin by vastly overpaying for something somewhere.
When the hell has making something illegal ever gotten rid of it?
After the Chicago Beer Wars, automatic weapons were banned in the United States. There's been only two crimes committed with a legally owned machine gun since 1934. Since the 1990s, ATF gun trace requests for even illegally owned machine guns have been less than 0.1% of all trace requests. Machine guns were banned and automatic weapon crime is basically nonexistent.
The military is seeking commercial partners to help develop aiming systems to "acquire, identify, and engage targets at least three times faster than the current manual process."
Humans will always retain the veto? Over a system that is literally designed to be three times faster than human reaction speeds are physically capable of being? Uh, no? It's in the damn spec that no human will be able to react fast enough to veto a kill. That sentence has three verbs, "acquire, identify and engage". Engage means pulling the trigger. And that's going to be a kill when it's a bot doing the aiming. Aimbots have been doing headshots on virtual heads for two decades now. Ones capable of functioning in the real world will do the same.
What could possibly go wrong...
...until a Terminator-like AI takes control over the whole supply chain down to factories and refineries a rouge robot army would fizzle.
Well naturally. They'll run out of cosmetics fairly quickly. There are only so many Walgreens stores.
How is it that a moron beat out so many other people for the presidency?
He's a moron with a message other morons can relate to. And most of the time he's a really affable guy. He's eminently electable. Totally incompetent. But perfectly electable.
"The net mass transported by a sound wave vanishes" is a result based on conventional simplifying assumptions that are frequently used in the field.
Dig deep enough in any physics paper and eventually you'll find the spherical cows in a vacuum.