Your tone irritated me so I found myself reading TFA to see where they indicated they would be completely shutting down their current more conventional methods of producing electricity so that they would not be available to augment the production of this new plant. Because either Morocco is dumb or you are. The article contains no indication that Morocco is dumb.
IF that is going to be the scenario, that a car has a 0.0001% risk of getting in an accident and you are responsible for covering it when it happens, then I'll just keep driving myself thanks. I can't see how an automated car would ever sell that way. Too big of a risk.
If google pays it then I'm fine with that.. because then it becomes part of what the market will bear. I just don't want my premiums jacked up because there was a wicked snow storm last week and my automated car decided to get into an accident on its own accord.
I agree.. otherwise your self driving car becomes a game of Russian roulette. Will you have accidents and have to claim responsibility for them? Maybe, maybe not is not a good enough answer.
So then they give the kids a gui that has nothing to do with actual coding..... and that is supposed to help them determine whether they like coding or not?
"However, we have essentially no evolution conducted in an environment where three hundred people have to get along with some sort of democratic government."
I don't understand what you are saying here. Where do you get three hundred people from?
That's why we vote for the rulers, in theory. If you are saying the problem is that government doesn't react to people as it should, or that the rulers don't represent the people, then on that we can agree. But it doesn't mean we totally abandon the system of government and hand the reins over to private enterprise.
There is another word for the cohesion you speak of. It's 'civilization'. You cannot have a civilized society without it. Otherwise everyone does what they want, inevitably stepping on the needs of others. This happens until there is nothing left, except for the most ruthless and sociopathic.
Right... so a government that turns the other way and allows a business (ie. warlord) to set up and do anything that that they want to profit. That's pretty much the government that people are calling for here. No taxi regulations, no building regulations.. Food can be prepared and packaged or served from kitchens that don't have to be kept clean and can have vermin running over your plate. Full service drug dealers on the corner, selling everything from Tylenol to heroin. They just want the government to stay out of everything. And soon we have the same kind of society as various African nations do.
Unfortunately, the rating system is never going to work for the person in a wheelchair that needs a ride, or the minority that exists in the rough area of town that Uber drivers never want to go to.
At least the taxi's I have used have washable seats... How many Uber cars have back seats that will get years of sweat, urine, vomit, and other nastiness soaked into them.
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Your tone irritated me so I found myself reading TFA to see where they indicated they would be completely shutting down their current more conventional methods of producing electricity so that they would not be available to augment the production of this new plant. Because either Morocco is dumb or you are. The article contains no indication that Morocco is dumb.
IF that is going to be the scenario, that a car has a 0.0001% risk of getting in an accident and you are responsible for covering it when it happens, then I'll just keep driving myself thanks. I can't see how an automated car would ever sell that way. Too big of a risk.
If google pays it then I'm fine with that.. because then it becomes part of what the market will bear. I just don't want my premiums jacked up because there was a wicked snow storm last week and my automated car decided to get into an accident on its own accord.
It's driving or I'm driving.
I agree.. otherwise your self driving car becomes a game of Russian roulette. Will you have accidents and have to claim responsibility for them? Maybe, maybe not is not a good enough answer.
Why should I accept any accident that is 0% my fault, even if it is only .00001% likely??
I'm wondering what country's citizens will be getting the benefit of the work that comes from this.
The problem is that programming is really 90% tedious bits. Pipe dream was a great game, but I doubt it turned many people into plumbers.
So then they give the kids a gui that has nothing to do with actual coding..... and that is supposed to help them determine whether they like coding or not?
You are all just coding wrong, obviously.
"However, we have essentially no evolution conducted in an environment where three hundred people have to get along with some sort of democratic government." I don't understand what you are saying here. Where do you get three hundred people from?
That's why we vote for the rulers, in theory. If you are saying the problem is that government doesn't react to people as it should, or that the rulers don't represent the people, then on that we can agree. But it doesn't mean we totally abandon the system of government and hand the reins over to private enterprise.
There is another word for the cohesion you speak of. It's 'civilization'. You cannot have a civilized society without it. Otherwise everyone does what they want, inevitably stepping on the needs of others. This happens until there is nothing left, except for the most ruthless and sociopathic.
Lets not ignore the fact that those 3000 riders are mostly interested in themselves so they are the worst people to give any opinion.
Right... so a government that turns the other way and allows a business (ie. warlord) to set up and do anything that that they want to profit. That's pretty much the government that people are calling for here. No taxi regulations, no building regulations.. Food can be prepared and packaged or served from kitchens that don't have to be kept clean and can have vermin running over your plate. Full service drug dealers on the corner, selling everything from Tylenol to heroin. They just want the government to stay out of everything. And soon we have the same kind of society as various African nations do.
I assure you, there are people who think about other people. It just doesn't seem to be the overwhelming attitude in the US any more.
If there weren't people who thought about others, these kinds of provisions wouldn't have been put into taxi services already.
Just like people in Africa vote with their dollars to have warlords around that come for their voting dollars.
So as long as it works for you, that outweighs the fact that it doesn't work for others?
Unfortunately, the rating system is never going to work for the person in a wheelchair that needs a ride, or the minority that exists in the rough area of town that Uber drivers never want to go to.
And you think taking that industry and releasing it from any form of regulation at all will make things better?
At least the taxi's I have used have washable seats... How many Uber cars have back seats that will get years of sweat, urine, vomit, and other nastiness soaked into them.
Because as awesome as America is and everything, there are a lot of very desperate people out there.
The smartphone doesn't have to end. There just need to be enough products with better customer experience at a much lower price.
I have full backups... it would be nice to know that I could use them to restore the system and keep going if I ever ran that command by mistake.
But that isn't a new product. They can only milk the iPhone cow for so long, and that time is coming to an end.
Mint is so awesome