I would argue that the bigger problem is that no area should be so incredibly expensive that housing becomes an intractable problem for the low skill workers that the area still requires. The property values in that area have been crazy for decades now because the tech industry has made for many people that can afford to spend lavishly on housing pushing up values. While at the same time development is limited by communities that don't want apartment tower blocks filling up the horizon. The developments that do get through are predominantly aimed at the luxury market.
I agree that their best option is to move somewhere else. However I can also see how moving to a new area can be a very daunting risk. They could easily end up destitute somewhere far from whatever support networks they currently have.
I spoke with a young adult from the San Jose area a few years ago and he said there had been quite an exodus of young people from the area as their parents retired and moved out. Previous generations had been able to stay with family until they found jobs earning enough to afford the cost of housing.
On top of that I knew plenty of people that needed meds for blood pressure, major heart attack risk. Then there were the folks that were prescribed brain chemistry altering medications.
Still didn't buy anything. There were a couple games I thought about buying but decided the odds of me actually playing them were low enough that I'd just hold on to my cash. I've gotten more play time out of a couple bucks spent on Terraria than almost any other game in my library. Most huge budget AAA games have to get down to below $5 before I'll seriously consider buying them, because I know I'll likely only get a few hours out of them if I ever bother installing them to begin with.
Faster flights would be nice, and it would make some longer trips better. But on relatively short trips the layovers and TSA garbage is what eats up most of the time. There is a 700 mile trip I make a couple times a year. Flying is still an hour or two faster most of the time and I can spend most of the time reading. Driving however is cheaper and minimally slower, I don't have to rent a car when I get there, and I can let the wife pack for the apocalypse.
I think the critical step to general intelligence will be a system that can observe a problem and determine if it should be solved with an existing specialized AI system. Or determine that the problem is one for which it does not yet have a specialized AI, and spin off a new learning system for it. Bonus points for recognizing when a problem is similar to an existing problem for which it has an AI, and so hands it off to an already partially initialized learning system.
My memory in that area is pretty hazy, but would that system really favor the poor? I would think it would favor whoever had the land first. So established families formed from concentration of heirs would end up being the rich and powerful. It also strikes me as being strongly anti-foreigner, as they'd not be able to own property in the long run until they've been so thoroughly absorbed as to be indistinguishable.
The published articles I've read have all indicated that it might be capable of working as a missile defense system but that the military had not commented on that. The problem with using it for that purpose is going to be speed of target acquisition and engagement. When faced with a missile moving at such high mach speeds there simply isn't likely to be time to fire more than once or twice given the distance to the horizon, and that is ignoring whatever the engagement range actually is on the laser and targeting system.
Such a system deployed in orbit would have a much better chance of successfully engaging targets. That is essentially what the Star Wars System of the last century was trying for. The problem with such a system though is its location is both an advantage and a handicap, being subject to destruction via ground based or orbital energy weapons. Which of course brings up the thorny issue of weaponizing outer space, which violates standing treaties.
There has been some published work regarding putting such systems in large planes. The operating altitude of the system would help by granting more time for targeting, but I'd bet that the main limitation would be the laser having a limited effective range because of the atmosphere. So you might have a few minutes to pick targets but in the end you only have a few seconds to fire before the missiles have passed out of range again.
The solid rock substrate is unlikely to be a cause for concern. There have already been numerous tunnels dug all over the world using similar technology, as well as techniques far more ancient, through solid rock. I expect the economy gains will mostly come from the fact that the proposed hyper loop tunnels are very small compared to other bored tunnels. Consequently less rock has to be removed, and less materials used to line and seal the tunnel.
It's a bit of a mixed bag. Currently the states are individually allowed to pass laws restricting what they'll allow on their roadways, to an extent. California for example established standards for new vehicles sold in the state. And many states require inspections for vehicles before granting registrations. The auto companies as a result produce better cars which they sell in all of the states. Granted this works because the regulations in the various states aren't contradictory, which I could see being a problem.
As implausible as that example sounds the reality is even worse. Countless people have had wads of cash confiscated because the only "reasonable" cause to have more than a hundred dollars in cash is obviously related to drug trafficking. Then there are the cases of homes being confiscated because a resident that was not the owner had possibly sold drugs to a friend.
I don't know how they handled it in the show but in the books Jon Snows death was the huge cliffhanger at the end of the most recent book. It was left very open as to whether or not he'd be dead come the next book. Was his death more final in the show or something? I seem to remember The Hound being presumed dead because he was left in dire straits, but his body wasn't recovered. In both cases those are obvious setups for the character returning, or at least leaving the other characters and reader in suspense.
Meh, I'm a slacker. But I don't flake or bail unless something serious comes up, in which case that other thing is a higher responsibility and it would be more morally reprehensible to not bail or flake. What I do though is refuse to commit to doing things that I don't intend to follow up on. Just because someone is a slacker in respect to one or more things doesn't mean they'll behave the same way when it comes to an unrelated activity.
It's been awhile since I traveled in the bay area. But when I was there the HOV lane was frequently the only lane moving at more than 10mph during peak hours. In fact I remember moving over into the HOV lane was always a little harrowing because you had to get up to speed very quickly to avoid an accident. We could often spend more time merging from the on ramp and across four or five lanes of traffic to the HOV lane, and then reversing that process at the exit, than we spent actually in the HOV lane.
Hydrogen has some serious downsides as a fuel, and more so in cars. The physics of getting the hydrogen means that for every 2 units of electricity spent producing hydrogen you only get 1 unit of electricity back from the hydrogen, given that you can capture 100% of the released energy. Storage for hydrogen is also a problem, even when highly compressed it's hard to store very much of it when it comes to powering a vehicle at road or highway speeds. There are alternatives using less compression but they are bulky, which of course is a problem again when implementing it in cars on roads.
For forklifts the situation is different. The forklift moves at a relative crawl compared to a road vehicle, which means its energy needs are much lower, even if the total miles driven in the day ends up being equivalent. The bulk and weight of the hydrogen storage is also not an issue but a positive feature for a forklift which needs it to counter balance the pallet loads it is meant to shift.
The electric savings you talk about seem improbable given the inherent disadvantages of generating hydrogen. However I suppose with very poorly performing batteries and chargers anything is possible.
If any country does have the existing infrastructure to handle more power on its grid, France would be it. They have been generating lots of excess electricity for decades now and selling it as an export to neighboring countries.
Selling fresh air is already commercially viable in some parts of the world. I'll include a link here to an old article, I couldn't find the more recent one I read before. The newer article I had read said they were selling more than a thousand bottles a month now.
They probably didn't even try. A significant number of those subscribers are also likely to be from outside the USA. All that said 150 million subscriptions probably represents at least a tenth of that in actual US Citizens. And that is not an insignificant number of constituents.
I kind of doubt that, or at least I'd be pretty damned surprised. If we look at the experiment we can do some math to see what kind of population density we're talking about.
Cage dimensions: 108 x 108 x 54 inches 629,856 cubic inches in volume
If we make a silly and low ball guess that his mice were 2 cubic inches in volume, that gives each mouse an environment which is 143.15 times it's own volume.
If the average human is 0.0711 cubic meters in volume then you end up with 10.178 cubic meters of habitat. If you go with very low ceilings then you're looking at 5 square meters per person. And keep in mind that's not just the place where you crash for the night, that represents the entire space that you spend your whole life in. On top of that the experiment didn't actually give the mice the run of that entire space, they were limited to the sides and bottom of the box.
Not that I disagree with that, but why the hell would I want to work? The only reason I have ever wanted to work in my life has been to get money for the things that I want. Doing more work than is required of me is counter productive because it eats up my time for doing things that actually interest me. If I could, I would gladly work fewer hours for proportionately less pay, but my employer isn't interested in that kind of schedule and it doesn't seem like there are many professional jobs with that kind of option.
There is some moral ground to object on as well but it's pretty slim in my mind and I wouldn't let it stand in the way of establishing such a system where I live, albeit without a contractor taking a cut.
My moral concern is that the drivers which would, in my completely fail able guess, bear the brunt of these fines would be the poor. I know for myself as a member of the middle class that my insurance rates are just one of the necessary expenses of owning a car and that expense isn't worth trying to dodge. However there are plenty of people who are in dire enough financial straights that insurance premiums become worth dodging because feeding your kids and having running water is more important than the risk of not having insurance. To make matters even sillier large segments of the poor population seem to be unfairly targeted by various insurance companies for higher rates, Propublica has an article on the problem.
I don't know what that lady was quoted for her colonoscopy but when I just googled for the price I got results saying anywhere from under $1,000 to over $5,400. Also I don't know what her deductible was but $8,000 doesn't sound unbelievable either before or after Obamacare. I know I had "good" insurance before Obamacare and the deductible was $3,000 or more. I passed on the plan that would have left me with a $10,000 deductible.
Why would Oliver apologize for a deranged individuals actions just because they liked his show? I could see him making some statement about how he doesn't endorse that kind of behavior like Sanders did, but apologizing for it doesn't make any sense. I mean, did you expect Trump to issue a public apology when that other nutcase climbed the exterior of Trump Tower to try and get a one on one?
I don't see how you could expect any other sort of behavior for point 1. Why would you expect any business to provide extra product or work without billing for it?
I'm not sure what is meant by number 2 exactly, but unless I was given explicit direction to negate the prior guidance then why would I stop following it.
I would concur that 3 is very likely true for most contracts. However given that most contracts stipulate providing so many hours of labor instead of some specific deliverable, it makes sense to maximize labor over automation.
I wouldn't doubt that 4 is happening however in nearly every case I've ever seen the new contractor hired on 95%+ of the previous employees. And again this isn't something I'd fault them over, it is behavior I would expect out of any business unless the contract stipulated doing otherwise explicitly.
It would seem that you are unfamiliar with how VidAngel actually works. As a user you pick which filters are used. The list of options includes a variety of profanities, nudity of varying levels, violence and gore, and of all things starting and ending credits. Or at least that is how it has been described to me by users of the service. It would seem that as a user there is a huge variety in what you can choose to filter, or not. They essentially let you preprogram the viewing of a movie or show such that you don't have to fiddle with the remote to skip content you don't want to see. So yes, it is essentially a DVR situation where people are skipping parts they've decided not to view.
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I would argue that the bigger problem is that no area should be so incredibly expensive that housing becomes an intractable problem for the low skill workers that the area still requires. The property values in that area have been crazy for decades now because the tech industry has made for many people that can afford to spend lavishly on housing pushing up values. While at the same time development is limited by communities that don't want apartment tower blocks filling up the horizon. The developments that do get through are predominantly aimed at the luxury market.
I agree that their best option is to move somewhere else. However I can also see how moving to a new area can be a very daunting risk. They could easily end up destitute somewhere far from whatever support networks they currently have.
I spoke with a young adult from the San Jose area a few years ago and he said there had been quite an exodus of young people from the area as their parents retired and moved out. Previous generations had been able to stay with family until they found jobs earning enough to afford the cost of housing.
On top of that I knew plenty of people that needed meds for blood pressure, major heart attack risk. Then there were the folks that were prescribed brain chemistry altering medications.
Still didn't buy anything. There were a couple games I thought about buying but decided the odds of me actually playing them were low enough that I'd just hold on to my cash. I've gotten more play time out of a couple bucks spent on Terraria than almost any other game in my library. Most huge budget AAA games have to get down to below $5 before I'll seriously consider buying them, because I know I'll likely only get a few hours out of them if I ever bother installing them to begin with.
Faster flights would be nice, and it would make some longer trips better. But on relatively short trips the layovers and TSA garbage is what eats up most of the time. There is a 700 mile trip I make a couple times a year. Flying is still an hour or two faster most of the time and I can spend most of the time reading. Driving however is cheaper and minimally slower, I don't have to rent a car when I get there, and I can let the wife pack for the apocalypse.
I'm afraid, despite recent events and quite a storied past, we've yet to plumb the depths of human stupidity.
I think the critical step to general intelligence will be a system that can observe a problem and determine if it should be solved with an existing specialized AI system. Or determine that the problem is one for which it does not yet have a specialized AI, and spin off a new learning system for it. Bonus points for recognizing when a problem is similar to an existing problem for which it has an AI, and so hands it off to an already partially initialized learning system.
My memory in that area is pretty hazy, but would that system really favor the poor? I would think it would favor whoever had the land first. So established families formed from concentration of heirs would end up being the rich and powerful. It also strikes me as being strongly anti-foreigner, as they'd not be able to own property in the long run until they've been so thoroughly absorbed as to be indistinguishable.
The published articles I've read have all indicated that it might be capable of working as a missile defense system but that the military had not commented on that. The problem with using it for that purpose is going to be speed of target acquisition and engagement. When faced with a missile moving at such high mach speeds there simply isn't likely to be time to fire more than once or twice given the distance to the horizon, and that is ignoring whatever the engagement range actually is on the laser and targeting system.
Such a system deployed in orbit would have a much better chance of successfully engaging targets. That is essentially what the Star Wars System of the last century was trying for. The problem with such a system though is its location is both an advantage and a handicap, being subject to destruction via ground based or orbital energy weapons. Which of course brings up the thorny issue of weaponizing outer space, which violates standing treaties.
There has been some published work regarding putting such systems in large planes. The operating altitude of the system would help by granting more time for targeting, but I'd bet that the main limitation would be the laser having a limited effective range because of the atmosphere. So you might have a few minutes to pick targets but in the end you only have a few seconds to fire before the missiles have passed out of range again.
The solid rock substrate is unlikely to be a cause for concern. There have already been numerous tunnels dug all over the world using similar technology, as well as techniques far more ancient, through solid rock. I expect the economy gains will mostly come from the fact that the proposed hyper loop tunnels are very small compared to other bored tunnels. Consequently less rock has to be removed, and less materials used to line and seal the tunnel.
It's a bit of a mixed bag. Currently the states are individually allowed to pass laws restricting what they'll allow on their roadways, to an extent. California for example established standards for new vehicles sold in the state. And many states require inspections for vehicles before granting registrations. The auto companies as a result produce better cars which they sell in all of the states. Granted this works because the regulations in the various states aren't contradictory, which I could see being a problem.
As implausible as that example sounds the reality is even worse. Countless people have had wads of cash confiscated because the only "reasonable" cause to have more than a hundred dollars in cash is obviously related to drug trafficking. Then there are the cases of homes being confiscated because a resident that was not the owner had possibly sold drugs to a friend.
I don't know how they handled it in the show but in the books Jon Snows death was the huge cliffhanger at the end of the most recent book. It was left very open as to whether or not he'd be dead come the next book. Was his death more final in the show or something? I seem to remember The Hound being presumed dead because he was left in dire straits, but his body wasn't recovered. In both cases those are obvious setups for the character returning, or at least leaving the other characters and reader in suspense.
Meh, I'm a slacker. But I don't flake or bail unless something serious comes up, in which case that other thing is a higher responsibility and it would be more morally reprehensible to not bail or flake. What I do though is refuse to commit to doing things that I don't intend to follow up on. Just because someone is a slacker in respect to one or more things doesn't mean they'll behave the same way when it comes to an unrelated activity.
It's been awhile since I traveled in the bay area. But when I was there the HOV lane was frequently the only lane moving at more than 10mph during peak hours. In fact I remember moving over into the HOV lane was always a little harrowing because you had to get up to speed very quickly to avoid an accident. We could often spend more time merging from the on ramp and across four or five lanes of traffic to the HOV lane, and then reversing that process at the exit, than we spent actually in the HOV lane.
Hydrogen has some serious downsides as a fuel, and more so in cars. The physics of getting the hydrogen means that for every 2 units of electricity spent producing hydrogen you only get 1 unit of electricity back from the hydrogen, given that you can capture 100% of the released energy. Storage for hydrogen is also a problem, even when highly compressed it's hard to store very much of it when it comes to powering a vehicle at road or highway speeds. There are alternatives using less compression but they are bulky, which of course is a problem again when implementing it in cars on roads.
For forklifts the situation is different. The forklift moves at a relative crawl compared to a road vehicle, which means its energy needs are much lower, even if the total miles driven in the day ends up being equivalent. The bulk and weight of the hydrogen storage is also not an issue but a positive feature for a forklift which needs it to counter balance the pallet loads it is meant to shift.
The electric savings you talk about seem improbable given the inherent disadvantages of generating hydrogen. However I suppose with very poorly performing batteries and chargers anything is possible.
If any country does have the existing infrastructure to handle more power on its grid, France would be it. They have been generating lots of excess electricity for decades now and selling it as an export to neighboring countries.
Selling fresh air is already commercially viable in some parts of the world. I'll include a link here to an old article, I couldn't find the more recent one I read before. The newer article I had read said they were selling more than a thousand bottles a month now.
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
They probably didn't even try. A significant number of those subscribers are also likely to be from outside the USA. All that said 150 million subscriptions probably represents at least a tenth of that in actual US Citizens. And that is not an insignificant number of constituents.
I kind of doubt that, or at least I'd be pretty damned surprised. If we look at the experiment we can do some math to see what kind of population density we're talking about.
Cage dimensions:
108 x 108 x 54 inches
629,856 cubic inches in volume
If we make a silly and low ball guess that his mice were 2 cubic inches in volume, that gives each mouse an environment which is 143.15 times it's own volume.
If the average human is 0.0711 cubic meters in volume then you end up with 10.178 cubic meters of habitat. If you go with very low ceilings then you're looking at 5 square meters per person. And keep in mind that's not just the place where you crash for the night, that represents the entire space that you spend your whole life in. On top of that the experiment didn't actually give the mice the run of that entire space, they were limited to the sides and bottom of the box.
Not that I disagree with that, but why the hell would I want to work? The only reason I have ever wanted to work in my life has been to get money for the things that I want. Doing more work than is required of me is counter productive because it eats up my time for doing things that actually interest me. If I could, I would gladly work fewer hours for proportionately less pay, but my employer isn't interested in that kind of schedule and it doesn't seem like there are many professional jobs with that kind of option.
There is some moral ground to object on as well but it's pretty slim in my mind and I wouldn't let it stand in the way of establishing such a system where I live, albeit without a contractor taking a cut.
My moral concern is that the drivers which would, in my completely fail able guess, bear the brunt of these fines would be the poor. I know for myself as a member of the middle class that my insurance rates are just one of the necessary expenses of owning a car and that expense isn't worth trying to dodge. However there are plenty of people who are in dire enough financial straights that insurance premiums become worth dodging because feeding your kids and having running water is more important than the risk of not having insurance. To make matters even sillier large segments of the poor population seem to be unfairly targeted by various insurance companies for higher rates, Propublica has an article on the problem.
I don't know what that lady was quoted for her colonoscopy but when I just googled for the price I got results saying anywhere from under $1,000 to over $5,400. Also I don't know what her deductible was but $8,000 doesn't sound unbelievable either before or after Obamacare. I know I had "good" insurance before Obamacare and the deductible was $3,000 or more. I passed on the plan that would have left me with a $10,000 deductible.
Why would Oliver apologize for a deranged individuals actions just because they liked his show? I could see him making some statement about how he doesn't endorse that kind of behavior like Sanders did, but apologizing for it doesn't make any sense. I mean, did you expect Trump to issue a public apology when that other nutcase climbed the exterior of Trump Tower to try and get a one on one?
I don't see how you could expect any other sort of behavior for point 1. Why would you expect any business to provide extra product or work without billing for it?
I'm not sure what is meant by number 2 exactly, but unless I was given explicit direction to negate the prior guidance then why would I stop following it.
I would concur that 3 is very likely true for most contracts. However given that most contracts stipulate providing so many hours of labor instead of some specific deliverable, it makes sense to maximize labor over automation.
I wouldn't doubt that 4 is happening however in nearly every case I've ever seen the new contractor hired on 95%+ of the previous employees. And again this isn't something I'd fault them over, it is behavior I would expect out of any business unless the contract stipulated doing otherwise explicitly.
It would seem that you are unfamiliar with how VidAngel actually works. As a user you pick which filters are used. The list of options includes a variety of profanities, nudity of varying levels, violence and gore, and of all things starting and ending credits. Or at least that is how it has been described to me by users of the service. It would seem that as a user there is a huge variety in what you can choose to filter, or not. They essentially let you preprogram the viewing of a movie or show such that you don't have to fiddle with the remote to skip content you don't want to see. So yes, it is essentially a DVR situation where people are skipping parts they've decided not to view.
For that very reason I sometimes really miss my old night shift security job. Being able to read a book for 75% of my working hours was very nice.