I work on boats at sea a lot, which also contributes to that, but the major obstacle is that I'm poly but prefer to live rural. In my experience, the great majority of the few poly women (quite sensibly from many points of view) prefer to live urban. It's been a decade and a half since I gave up looking.
I work 84 hour weeks (7 12s) as my standard shift, and I'm fine with that. The thing one does is to follow it with a chunk of off time to compensate. I'm actually much happier to have my work time focused on work and larger contiguous chunks of work-free time to focus on not-work. I am not a parent or involved in a long term romantic relationship, and I don't see that every job everywhere needs to be exclusively scheduled so as to be agreeable to those who are. Three people filling two continuous positions in a 2 months on - one month off scheme can work quite nicely. For jobs where there's crunch time, the way to prevent those who are adverse to breaking from their standard work week from being comparatively penalized is to give the crunchers a chunk of off time so that the total time worked is the same for all.
Or, they spin off a separate legal entity to own and operate hardware that is inside California. Then, each legal entity obeys the laws that apply to their hardware. It would surprise me a little if it wasn't that way for the end customer facing parts of the companies already.
Since I'm old and fat, I hope they're forced to check. I'll work on my "cold penetrating stare," although in the past, I've found that the penetrating part is in the illumination, The stare perceives the reflected illumination, but by then any penetration is already done.
I don't think I communicated correctly. I don't know of anyone renting general access to their AI for it to perform various tasks like an AI MTurk. However, all the usual network services that people use every day are using prime time AIs to help with the service they perform for you. Google has AIs to decide what you're thinking of when you write search terms and what to show you when you visit Google News. Facebook has AIs to decide what advertising to show you. When you talk to a virtual assistant, there's AIs helping to try and get the assistant to do what you say, and helping to decide what advertisements your requests suggest would be best to throw your way when you're at a site with advertisers that pay for the AIs' suggestions. I feel confident that they're using AIs to help make catchpas that other AIs can't defeat. IBM bought the digital part of The Weather Channel so that they could use its data for selling weather predicting services of its AI. Here's an article telling how more than 100 web services are using Watson instances to power apps and other online business. Here's another article telling how Ross Intelligence is using a Watson to help lawyers act like they've read all the recent decisions. Eviebot and Cleverbot will chat with you. None of these are at the level of science fiction AIs, but they are providing actual value to their owners, and often to the customers of their owners.
Lots of prime time computing doesn't run on your hardware. Can everyone with internet access connect to an AI and get it to help with daily tasks and issues? I think we do. Frequently, the daily tasks and issues with which these AIs help are not our own.
I wasn't suggesting that Amazon is acting in a fraudulent manner. I was suggesting that they're making themselves vulnerable to fraudulent customer behavior. Because prime memberships are purchased, this is more similar to Costco or Sam's Club letting people check out using a phone number rather than a membership card than it is to Kroger or Wal-Mart taking a phone number instead of a free loyalty card.
Inputting the phone number of a prime member at checkout sounds like a big opportunity for fraud, so I have to think that this is a loss leading measure to drive traffic to those stores. I suppose they'll never tell us how much it helps.
I have to wonder if Trump was actually unaware of which groups of people have what opinion about vaccines (regardless of his knowledge about the actual science), which makes me wonder if his repeated questions weren't intended to deliberately make Gates uncomfortable. The word "innovation" coming from MS similarly makes me feel uncomfortable. Perhaps Gates can have someone innovate a way to help his daughter fool digital photography. Maybe strong IR emitters in the cloths coupled with IR reflecting particles in makeup or CNC face painting that subtly gives the impression of bone structure that isn't there.
Holographic looking video chat might be a nice toy for those who can afford to get multiple phones for family members, and I am curious to see the sensor size on the Red version of QX100, but it all feels like incremental improvements in a design that suggests that more is happening than actually is. I get the impression of lots of cooling fins but nothing that generates much heat. My smartphone ownership path has been Treo650 -> N900 -> XZ Premium so it's possible that the sameness of what's out there has made less of an impression on me, and so making this departure from that sameness seem less wild.
I hope they teach them to pull over at the wide spot and wait when they see oncoming traffic on a 1.5 lane road. Flashing their lights to alert oncoming drivers of new hazards would also be nice.
This sounds like a business opportunity. Some GDPR compliant EU company can have a single shipping address and the rest of a process to make EU customers anonymous to businesses outside the EU. Then, they can set up a server outside the EU and allow EU customers to anonymously shop the world. Businesses outside the EU don't have to worry about compliance and customers inside the EU will have access to products from anywhere. Plus, for the EU customers, another small delay and another fee will seem very ordinary. It won't be long before such a business will find non EU customers who prefer private shopping as well, especially when the customer data is stored in the EU, and organizations in the non-EU customer's government have to deal with delays and fees to obtain that data and de-anonymize the shopping.
When heating a house with hydronic tubing through a concrete floor, the air temperature in the room is often about 5 degrees (Fahrenheit) below the temperature of the floor. I like air temperature in the 65 - 75 (F) range, but I like to touch 95 -105. So, if the floor where I put my feet is going to be 30 degrees warmer than the air, then I need other parts of the floor to be colder in order to maintain an average that will give me the air temperature I like.
Having experienced the pleasure of walking barefoot on stone that was warmed by the sun, the use case is trying to replicate that experience. Certainly it's not necessary for survival, but if one is pouring an hydronically heated concrete floor, the results of decisions made beforehand will actually be set in stone, so it's worth thinking about what might be the nicest in the future.
Graphene also makes concrete more thermally and electrically conductive. While many articles on electrical conductivity of graphene impregnated concrete focus on the usefulness of the finished product, the conductivity also benefits the possibility of electrical curing.
It doesn't work to make an entire heated concrete floor feel warm to walk on with bare feet, because that will make the room's air temperature too warm to be comfortable. So, I have looked for ways to make just the pathways where one commonly walks warmer than the rest of a concrete floor, and I ran across mentions of graphene.
I could see the current administration expressing willingness to withdraw troops, in the hope that SK would counter with a proposal to pay the expense of keeping the troops there. And, I could see SK considering the expense & deciding that Samsung could provide robots for cheaper.
I wonder whether this merger will meet with regulatory approval. The current administration doesn't appear to hold a favorable opinion of anything German.
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I work on boats at sea a lot, which also contributes to that, but the major obstacle is that I'm poly but prefer to live rural. In my experience, the great majority of the few poly women (quite sensibly from many points of view) prefer to live urban. It's been a decade and a half since I gave up looking.
I work 84 hour weeks (7 12s) as my standard shift, and I'm fine with that. The thing one does is to follow it with a chunk of off time to compensate. I'm actually much happier to have my work time focused on work and larger contiguous chunks of work-free time to focus on not-work. I am not a parent or involved in a long term romantic relationship, and I don't see that every job everywhere needs to be exclusively scheduled so as to be agreeable to those who are. Three people filling two continuous positions in a 2 months on - one month off scheme can work quite nicely. For jobs where there's crunch time, the way to prevent those who are adverse to breaking from their standard work week from being comparatively penalized is to give the crunchers a chunk of off time so that the total time worked is the same for all.
Or, they spin off a separate legal entity to own and operate hardware that is inside California. Then, each legal entity obeys the laws that apply to their hardware. It would surprise me a little if it wasn't that way for the end customer facing parts of the companies already.
It isn't that hard for isp's to distinguish the last mile, or they couldn't throttle your service when they want more money.
Since I'm old and fat, I hope they're forced to check. I'll work on my "cold penetrating stare," although in the past, I've found that the penetrating part is in the illumination, The stare perceives the reflected illumination, but by then any penetration is already done.
Is Watson beyond your budget?
I don't think I communicated correctly. I don't know of anyone renting general access to their AI for it to perform various tasks like an AI MTurk. However, all the usual network services that people use every day are using prime time AIs to help with the service they perform for you. Google has AIs to decide what you're thinking of when you write search terms and what to show you when you visit Google News. Facebook has AIs to decide what advertising to show you. When you talk to a virtual assistant, there's AIs helping to try and get the assistant to do what you say, and helping to decide what advertisements your requests suggest would be best to throw your way when you're at a site with advertisers that pay for the AIs' suggestions. I feel confident that they're using AIs to help make catchpas that other AIs can't defeat. IBM bought the digital part of The Weather Channel so that they could use its data for selling weather predicting services of its AI. Here's an article telling how more than 100 web services are using Watson instances to power apps and other online business. Here's another article telling how Ross Intelligence is using a Watson to help lawyers act like they've read all the recent decisions. Eviebot and Cleverbot will chat with you. None of these are at the level of science fiction AIs, but they are providing actual value to their owners, and often to the customers of their owners.
Lots of prime time computing doesn't run on your hardware. Can everyone with internet access connect to an AI and get it to help with daily tasks and issues? I think we do. Frequently, the daily tasks and issues with which these AIs help are not our own.
Another legitimate problem is if they don't ship what you ordered, like when I ordered green tea and they shipped black tea.
I wasn't suggesting that Amazon is acting in a fraudulent manner. I was suggesting that they're making themselves vulnerable to fraudulent customer behavior. Because prime memberships are purchased, this is more similar to Costco or Sam's Club letting people check out using a phone number rather than a membership card than it is to Kroger or Wal-Mart taking a phone number instead of a free loyalty card.
Inputting the phone number of a prime member at checkout sounds like a big opportunity for fraud, so I have to think that this is a loss leading measure to drive traffic to those stores. I suppose they'll never tell us how much it helps.
I have to wonder if Trump was actually unaware of which groups of people have what opinion about vaccines (regardless of his knowledge about the actual science), which makes me wonder if his repeated questions weren't intended to deliberately make Gates uncomfortable. The word "innovation" coming from MS similarly makes me feel uncomfortable. Perhaps Gates can have someone innovate a way to help his daughter fool digital photography. Maybe strong IR emitters in the cloths coupled with IR reflecting particles in makeup or CNC face painting that subtly gives the impression of bone structure that isn't there.
Holographic looking video chat might be a nice toy for those who can afford to get multiple phones for family members, and I am curious to see the sensor size on the Red version of QX100, but it all feels like incremental improvements in a design that suggests that more is happening than actually is. I get the impression of lots of cooling fins but nothing that generates much heat. My smartphone ownership path has been Treo650 -> N900 -> XZ Premium so it's possible that the sameness of what's out there has made less of an impression on me, and so making this departure from that sameness seem less wild.
I believe that every winter Alaska sends their homeless to Seattle.
Did Atlanta ever fix that situation with the storm drains running into the sewage treatment?
I hope paranoia social network is equally paranoid about their networks security, because the paranoid are always such fun to hack.
I hope they teach them to pull over at the wide spot and wait when they see oncoming traffic on a 1.5 lane road. Flashing their lights to alert oncoming drivers of new hazards would also be nice.
This sounds like a business opportunity. Some GDPR compliant EU company can have a single shipping address and the rest of a process to make EU customers anonymous to businesses outside the EU. Then, they can set up a server outside the EU and allow EU customers to anonymously shop the world. Businesses outside the EU don't have to worry about compliance and customers inside the EU will have access to products from anywhere. Plus, for the EU customers, another small delay and another fee will seem very ordinary. It won't be long before such a business will find non EU customers who prefer private shopping as well, especially when the customer data is stored in the EU, and organizations in the non-EU customer's government have to deal with delays and fees to obtain that data and de-anonymize the shopping.
When heating a house with hydronic tubing through a concrete floor, the air temperature in the room is often about 5 degrees (Fahrenheit) below the temperature of the floor. I like air temperature in the 65 - 75 (F) range, but I like to touch 95 -105. So, if the floor where I put my feet is going to be 30 degrees warmer than the air, then I need other parts of the floor to be colder in order to maintain an average that will give me the air temperature I like.
Having experienced the pleasure of walking barefoot on stone that was warmed by the sun, the use case is trying to replicate that experience. Certainly it's not necessary for survival, but if one is pouring an hydronically heated concrete floor, the results of decisions made beforehand will actually be set in stone, so it's worth thinking about what might be the nicest in the future.
Graphene also makes concrete more thermally and electrically conductive. While many articles on electrical conductivity of graphene impregnated concrete focus on the usefulness of the finished product, the conductivity also benefits the possibility of electrical curing.
It doesn't work to make an entire heated concrete floor feel warm to walk on with bare feet, because that will make the room's air temperature too warm to be comfortable. So, I have looked for ways to make just the pathways where one commonly walks warmer than the rest of a concrete floor, and I ran across mentions of graphene.
the thing that occurs to me most strongly is "Soothing beige cries out for skins - needs giant googly eyes in front."
I don't know. I think the name that appears in Trump's mind when he hears East German is Merkel.
I could see the current administration expressing willingness to withdraw troops, in the hope that SK would counter with a proposal to pay the expense of keeping the troops there. And, I could see SK considering the expense & deciding that Samsung could provide robots for cheaper.
I wonder whether this merger will meet with regulatory approval. The current administration doesn't appear to hold a favorable opinion of anything German.