Despite the CNBC (and Slashdot) headlines Elon Musk didn't actually side with Trump.
He just tweeted at Trump that China was charging duties on US cars, and restricting US ownership of car factories in China, but the US wasn't doing the same in return.
And since Trump was in a mood to make tariffs Musk's reasonable sounding tweet is now well on its way to becoming policy.
Is anyone here really famous and has a 140 (280?) character argument about why a certain tariff should be enacted?
This is your opportunity to write US policy!
I wondered how/.ers would handle the cognitive dissonance. Nicely done.
Yes, Trump was totally against protectionism until Musk came up with it. Also, have you heard how orange the guy is? Yuk yuk
Except this things has not just been used for verification, the withdrawal of it has been used as "punishment" for people saying things that Twitter management and staff do not like.
I think most people understand that their job probably requires some degree of human-level intelligence. As such, they figure that their own job is safe until technology reaches that point AND costs less than their salary to rent such an AI. The only ones who really have to worry are those who know that a reasonably sophisticated algorithm could replace them.
But those same people who know their own job requirements probably have no idea what many other types of jobs entail, and I suspect they're likely to over-simplify them. As such, they're "good candidates for AI to replace."
At least, that's my hypothesis for the patterns of these answers.
Spot on, but it doesn't give that delicious "other people and especially other Americans are stupid" frisson that the mainstream Slashdot interpretation does:)
Never ever be confused by the difference between lower costs and lower charges, one hardly ever leads to the other and that is the purposeful function of public relations and marketing, the ability to confuse the gullible. Corporations charge the maximum they can only limited by diminishing returns with higher profit margins, the cost versus the charges.
Er, as do employees. They both charge their employers whet the market will bear.
If your rent goes down, you don't go to your employer and say "you can pay me less now; me rent went down."
"Every single person in San Francisco is talking about the same things, whether it's 'I hate Trump' or 'I'm going to do blockchain and Bitcoin,'" he said. "It's the worst part of the social network."
So, you're going to stop talking that way when you go elsewhere?
Europe would be better off without American giant corps siphoning off its residents' data. The world survived for all but the last few decades without those cloud crappers, Europe will be just fine without FB/Google/Apple/Amazon.
There is a reason why voting is a private matter and does not subject to voters to public criticism.
Well, that's how it used to work. Brendan Eich might disagree with you that that's how it works now. But that is a good example that does make your point.
Maybe if your product wasn't a 12 cent piece of plastic that you sell for $12 you wouldn't have such a hard time with counterfeits. What does your product do that the counterfeit product does not? It's a stupid plastic hook with a piece of double-sided tape on it.
So, it's a Command hook? You can get that for less than $12 and it won't damage most things you stick it to.
to change the calculus. So far the administration (who's in charge of the response) doesn't seem to have done anything. Wait, strike that, They actually haven't done anything. It's almost as if they somehow benefited from it...
Did the last one do anything about it? You know, when it was actually supposedly happening?
I mean do anything besides be the only ones to collude, that is.
Him going for a second term? Could you point to anyone who wants that?
Er... the people who voted him in for a first term?
Trump? He didn't even want a first term. He wanted a scandal to promote the media outlet he planned to spawn from the hype around it.
Republicans? The GOP wants to get rid of Trump more than the Dems could even want to, the problem is they can't simply say that they want to get rid of the annoying orange.
So who would want to see him a second time? Let alone a third one.
Slashdot Mirror
j/k
Despite the CNBC (and Slashdot) headlines Elon Musk didn't actually side with Trump. He just tweeted at Trump that China was charging duties on US cars, and restricting US ownership of car factories in China, but the US wasn't doing the same in return.
And since Trump was in a mood to make tariffs Musk's reasonable sounding tweet is now well on its way to becoming policy.
Is anyone here really famous and has a 140 (280?) character argument about why a certain tariff should be enacted?
This is your opportunity to write US policy!
I wondered how /.ers would handle the cognitive dissonance. Nicely done.
Yes, Trump was totally against protectionism until Musk came up with it. Also, have you heard how orange the guy is? Yuk yuk
Except this things has not just been used for verification, the withdrawal of it has been used as "punishment" for people saying things that Twitter management and staff do not like.
I'll bite ... why is Florida one of the most unlikely places to show common sense?
Because it isn't NY or CA? (Those bastions of common sense?)
I am shocked, shocked that paying ransom to criminals does not always result in getting what I paid for!
Strangely, no singularity yet
The "strangely" part would seem to support the skeptics.
I think most people understand that their job probably requires some degree of human-level intelligence. As such, they figure that their own job is safe until technology reaches that point AND costs less than their salary to rent such an AI. The only ones who really have to worry are those who know that a reasonably sophisticated algorithm could replace them.
But those same people who know their own job requirements probably have no idea what many other types of jobs entail, and I suspect they're likely to over-simplify them. As such, they're "good candidates for AI to replace."
At least, that's my hypothesis for the patterns of these answers.
Spot on, but it doesn't give that delicious "other people and especially other Americans are stupid" frisson that the mainstream Slashdot interpretation does :)
You think that's bad, look at google. Their product is just a form with a single field.
Ba dum ching!
The police were not called in either case.
Well of course not. This is California, where the lawbreaker is always in the right.
Never ever be confused by the difference between lower costs and lower charges, one hardly ever leads to the other and that is the purposeful function of public relations and marketing, the ability to confuse the gullible. Corporations charge the maximum they can only limited by diminishing returns with higher profit margins, the cost versus the charges.
Er, as do employees. They both charge their employers whet the market will bear.
If your rent goes down, you don't go to your employer and say "you can pay me less now; me rent went down."
No, you should stay there. Really. Please.
"Every single person in San Francisco is talking about the same things, whether it's 'I hate Trump' or 'I'm going to do blockchain and Bitcoin,'" he said. "It's the worst part of the social network."
So, you're going to stop talking that way when you go elsewhere?
There's an old saying - "it takes two to tango".
A large number of old saying are stupid.
European people use the services and European laws allow the tax strategies.
How exactly are two not tangoing here?
Grr, messed up the quoting.
There's an old saying - "it takes two to tango".
A large number of old saying are stupid.
European people use the services and European laws allow the tax strategies.
How exactly are two not tangoing here?
Europe would be better off without American giant corps siphoning off its residents' data. The world survived for all but the last few decades without those cloud crappers, Europe will be just fine without FB/Google/Apple/Amazon.
Then stop using them. Nobody is forcing you to.
Looks like your people want to use them though.
Actually what is good about keeping $100B sitting in a Cayman Island bank? I'm sure it earns interest and all. But it's just sitting there.
Er, just to play contrararian, don't Cayman Island banks invest their deposits in stuff?
What use is it to society to punish a 15-year-old and a 16-year-old that are in a relationship for having consensual sex?
Maybe we should tax them.
Leftists are fine with behavior control as long as it is framed as a "nudge" ...
Um...my other options are Time Warner and AT&T. If you think Google is evil, you really haven't looked into those two.
THIS ...
Now that these expensive 300-400 workers have been removed from the total cost of producing said jeans, the consumer price will surely drop.
It may, actually. Depends on the competition out there, and the willingness (or not) of customers to pay the same prices.
Maybe a better failure mode would be nice?
It's up! Oh, wait, it's down. Or it's only down when you try to log in. Or something.
Good thing there's a banner telling me what's going on ... oh wait.
There is a reason why voting is a private matter and does not subject to voters to public criticism.
Well, that's how it used to work. Brendan Eich might disagree with you that that's how it works now. But that is a good example that does make your point.
Maybe if your product wasn't a 12 cent piece of plastic that you sell for $12 you wouldn't have such a hard time with counterfeits. What does your product do that the counterfeit product does not? It's a stupid plastic hook with a piece of double-sided tape on it.
So, it's a Command hook? You can get that for less than $12 and it won't damage most things you stick it to.
We all know they do this. They all but admit it, that is when they aren't being sued for it.
It's a modern form of mass hysteria.
to change the calculus. So far the administration (who's in charge of the response) doesn't seem to have done anything. Wait, strike that, They actually haven't done anything. It's almost as if they somehow benefited from it...
Did the last one do anything about it? You know, when it was actually supposedly happening?
I mean do anything besides be the only ones to collude, that is.
Him going for a second term? Could you point to anyone who wants that?
Er ... the people who voted him in for a first term?
Trump? He didn't even want a first term. He wanted a scandal to promote the media outlet he planned to spawn from the hype around it. Republicans? The GOP wants to get rid of Trump more than the Dems could even want to, the problem is they can't simply say that they want to get rid of the annoying orange.
So who would want to see him a second time? Let alone a third one.
And yet ... it moves. -Galileo