Also, the controls are through the headphone jack. That simplifies the design and means that the robot doesn't need to be linked with only one brand of smart phone.
My smart phone doesn't have an audio jack. Everything is done through the USB port.
Sure, but it is the first step towards more effective studies. You don't just start with sending people in to space for two years. Imagine if the opposite outcome of this study had occurred, i.e. they all went batshit crazy. Well then we could say, "locking people up for two years in these relatively benign conditions made them crazy, it's just going to be a whole lot worse when we add in the stress of space. Maybe we should rethink our plans." But that didn't happen, so the results of this experiment tell us that two years in relatively benign conditions are ok, now we can up the ante and try something a little more stressful.
The problem here is that the plural of "anecdote" is not "data". What the article is saying is that although you may have been saved by the test, ten* other people who took the test got a false positive and had potentially dangerous treatments that they didn't need. So yes, from your perspective the tests look great. But when you take a step back and look at the numbers objectively we discover that some tests are doing more harm than good.
*This is a number I pulled out of my ass to illustrate the point. I'm too lazy now to go back and RTFA for the real number, but the point is the same.
If a lower end worker wants to "negotiate", but there are 12 people behind him in line for the job, then why should that employee have any leverage? That's capitalism. Supply and demand works for labor, too. If somebody thinks they're worth $15/hour, but there's a line of people willing to work for $12/hour, shouldn't the employer just hire the $12/hour employee?
That's all fine and good until every company decides to hire the cheapest workers. Then the wages of the whole working population crash to sweatshop levels and we're back to working conditions in the 1800s. The "market" doesn't work here because working is not a choice. When all employers drop their wages to $0.50/hr your choice is between $0.50/hr and not working at all. Workers can't "vote with their feet" in this case.
Redbox realizes that there are few other options and since Netflix has raised prices they can get away with it too because there is nowhere else for customers to go.
E-PARASITE? Really? I fucking hate forced acronyms. At my undergrad university there was a group called DREAM - Discovering the Reality of Educating All Minds. Their goal was good (building schools in developing countries) but I refused to ever donate to them because I hated their acronym.
But this shit has always existed, just with different names and different fads. If you think otherwise I would have to say you have your "fetishism of the past" pants on. It doesn't preclude good books from existing or being offered in bookstores.
This is crazy talk. If people continue to live productive lives, they will continue to consume, providing demand for additional jobs to service that consumption which would otherwise be lost if they died
I guess this depends on what happens with population. If the size of the population increases in tandem with increases in age then yes, there are certainly industries where more jobs will open up. There are still lots of industries where they won't. Longer living people probably won't increase demand for teachers. This will have interesting implications for education because there will be much less 'new blood' in the teaching system that bring the latest information with them. I had a high school physics teacher who simply could not properly explain modern physics to us because he became a teacher before these topics were widespread. Expect more teachers like this.
Alternatively, if population does not increase in step with extensions to life expectancy (perhaps fewer people are having babies because they know they won't be getting inheritances to send them to school) then this certainly will be a problem
Thinking about this has brought me to another alternative/problem. We generally expect our wages to go up over time. What happens when we expect these wages to go up for 100 working years instead of 45? Either senior employees are going to get VERY expensive, or VERY disgruntled with their stagnant wages, or they're going to get fired at 65 or 80 anyways and we'll have a bunch of unemployed who are expected to live for another 80 years.
I suspect that there will be a HUGE spread of inequality between the old and the young.
First of all, the increased retirement age will mean it takes a lot longer for positions to open up. Young people will be stuck waiting for their turn to be a teacher or urban planner or whatever.
Second, inheritances won't come at a time when they're particularly useful. Currently in western society you get an inheritance (if there is one) anywhere from the time when you're getting married to the time when your last children are going to university. The years between these two events are the years where you have some of your biggest capital expenses (wedding, buying a house, cost of having children, sending kids to uni, etc.) and inheritances tend to help with at least one of these things and reduce the financial strain on the family. Now people will get them at the age of 110 instead, which means they're going to buy a boat instead of earlier times when it would reduce financial strain.
Third: compound interest. People who make sound investments at the age of 25 will be absolutely loaded by the age of 150. This in turn increases the lobbying power of old people. The AARP is already a huge lobbying force in the United States. What happens when enough old people are gazillionaires that they basically set policy (answer: I doubt it will be to the benefit of the young).
Assuming everyone is getting an equal cut here they've each only made around $115,000 for a year-and-a-half's work. So ~$80,000 a year. Granted, it's not taxed and $80,000 is nothing to sneeze at, but that amount of money hardly seems to be worth the risk. If I'm going to be a criminal I want to be pulling in way more money than I could ever make if I just got a basic professional job. I would need something like $500k a year to make it worth the risk.
The soundbite is not the fault of politics per se. It's the fault of a worthless news media that fragments every story into bite sized chunks so that they can get back to commercials as quickly as possible. Unless it's worthless celebrity news or even sports, then the entire segment is a commercial and can run as long as needed.
Have you ever read celeb magazines? Nothing is longer than 100 words.
This isn't the fault of news media, it's the fault of human nature. We live in a world of constant information and our brains can't process it all. 5 second sound bites are all that stick in the flood of information. Can you blame news media for not wanting to write/broadcast things that 98% of the population won't remember or won't even bother looking at?
I think some of the battery arrays should be able to pulled out of the car and swapped in with a charged battery array. This process could happen in under a minute.
I imagine it's quite a lot easier getting right-of-way access in Alaska and Siberia than it is in California. ROW is one of the biggest challenges of high-speed rail (and a huge associated cost) because the curves have to be so wide that there is little flexibility in where you plan to put your track.
He gives away the endings to all of his movies at the very start. I think he's a pretentious twit for making movies that way and I don't really enjoy them, but I seem to be in the minority as his movies are perennial favorites.
Slashdot Mirror
Do not want!!
(not that a big majority of the population won't want this)
Are we sure this isn't fake? I mean, is "beat your meat" really a phrase that also exists in Urdu? Or is English just that popular there?
Also, the controls are through the headphone jack. That simplifies the design and means that the robot doesn't need to be linked with only one brand of smart phone.
My smart phone doesn't have an audio jack. Everything is done through the USB port.
you managed to get me on your website with the flash game.
From the technologizer article:
as Intel churned out more powerful chips throughout the rest of the 1970sâ"the predecessors of the ones inside every current Windows PC and Mac.
Really? I was pretty sure my computer has an AMD inside.
*Well, not really a typo but more of a poorly considered sentence.
The tracks are perfectly executed, and they seem to be designed to be seen from orbit.
Keep in mind most Google Maps imagery comes from airplanes and not satellites*
*No, I did not RTFA or look at the images yet.
Sure, but it is the first step towards more effective studies. You don't just start with sending people in to space for two years. Imagine if the opposite outcome of this study had occurred, i.e. they all went batshit crazy. Well then we could say, "locking people up for two years in these relatively benign conditions made them crazy, it's just going to be a whole lot worse when we add in the stress of space. Maybe we should rethink our plans." But that didn't happen, so the results of this experiment tell us that two years in relatively benign conditions are ok, now we can up the ante and try something a little more stressful.
The problem here is that the plural of "anecdote" is not "data". What the article is saying is that although you may have been saved by the test, ten* other people who took the test got a false positive and had potentially dangerous treatments that they didn't need. So yes, from your perspective the tests look great. But when you take a step back and look at the numbers objectively we discover that some tests are doing more harm than good.
*This is a number I pulled out of my ass to illustrate the point. I'm too lazy now to go back and RTFA for the real number, but the point is the same.
If a lower end worker wants to "negotiate", but there are 12 people behind him in line for the job, then why should that employee have any leverage? That's capitalism. Supply and demand works for labor, too. If somebody thinks they're worth $15/hour, but there's a line of people willing to work for $12/hour, shouldn't the employer just hire the $12/hour employee?
That's all fine and good until every company decides to hire the cheapest workers. Then the wages of the whole working population crash to sweatshop levels and we're back to working conditions in the 1800s. The "market" doesn't work here because working is not a choice. When all employers drop their wages to $0.50/hr your choice is between $0.50/hr and not working at all. Workers can't "vote with their feet" in this case.
This is simply a case of fish that have a certain trait mating and passing on that trait to offspring, not a case of spontaneous evolution.
That is evolution...
Redbox realizes that there are few other options and since Netflix has raised prices they can get away with it too because there is nowhere else for customers to go.
E-PARASITE? Really? I fucking hate forced acronyms. At my undergrad university there was a group called DREAM - Discovering the Reality of Educating All Minds. Their goal was good (building schools in developing countries) but I refused to ever donate to them because I hated their acronym.
Have you been to a bookstore lately?
Sparkly Vampire #16 [...]
But this shit has always existed, just with different names and different fads. If you think otherwise I would have to say you have your "fetishism of the past" pants on. It doesn't preclude good books from existing or being offered in bookstores.
This is crazy talk. If people continue to live productive lives, they will continue to consume, providing demand for additional jobs to service that consumption which would otherwise be lost if they died
I guess this depends on what happens with population. If the size of the population increases in tandem with increases in age then yes, there are certainly industries where more jobs will open up. There are still lots of industries where they won't. Longer living people probably won't increase demand for teachers. This will have interesting implications for education because there will be much less 'new blood' in the teaching system that bring the latest information with them. I had a high school physics teacher who simply could not properly explain modern physics to us because he became a teacher before these topics were widespread. Expect more teachers like this.
Alternatively, if population does not increase in step with extensions to life expectancy (perhaps fewer people are having babies because they know they won't be getting inheritances to send them to school) then this certainly will be a problem
Thinking about this has brought me to another alternative/problem. We generally expect our wages to go up over time. What happens when we expect these wages to go up for 100 working years instead of 45? Either senior employees are going to get VERY expensive, or VERY disgruntled with their stagnant wages, or they're going to get fired at 65 or 80 anyways and we'll have a bunch of unemployed who are expected to live for another 80 years.
I suspect that there will be a HUGE spread of inequality between the old and the young. First of all, the increased retirement age will mean it takes a lot longer for positions to open up. Young people will be stuck waiting for their turn to be a teacher or urban planner or whatever. Second, inheritances won't come at a time when they're particularly useful. Currently in western society you get an inheritance (if there is one) anywhere from the time when you're getting married to the time when your last children are going to university. The years between these two events are the years where you have some of your biggest capital expenses (wedding, buying a house, cost of having children, sending kids to uni, etc.) and inheritances tend to help with at least one of these things and reduce the financial strain on the family. Now people will get them at the age of 110 instead, which means they're going to buy a boat instead of earlier times when it would reduce financial strain. Third: compound interest. People who make sound investments at the age of 25 will be absolutely loaded by the age of 150. This in turn increases the lobbying power of old people. The AARP is already a huge lobbying force in the United States. What happens when enough old people are gazillionaires that they basically set policy (answer: I doubt it will be to the benefit of the young).
Assuming everyone is getting an equal cut here they've each only made around $115,000 for a year-and-a-half's work. So ~$80,000 a year. Granted, it's not taxed and $80,000 is nothing to sneeze at, but that amount of money hardly seems to be worth the risk. If I'm going to be a criminal I want to be pulling in way more money than I could ever make if I just got a basic professional job. I would need something like $500k a year to make it worth the risk.
The soundbite is not the fault of politics per se. It's the fault of a worthless news media that fragments every story into bite sized chunks so that they can get back to commercials as quickly as possible. Unless it's worthless celebrity news or even sports, then the entire segment is a commercial and can run as long as needed.
Have you ever read celeb magazines? Nothing is longer than 100 words. This isn't the fault of news media, it's the fault of human nature. We live in a world of constant information and our brains can't process it all. 5 second sound bites are all that stick in the flood of information. Can you blame news media for not wanting to write/broadcast things that 98% of the population won't remember or won't even bother looking at?
Laser eye surgery is ruined by high g-force.
CEO Wenchi Chen is married to the head of HTC
Holy fuck they must be rich.
It's cell phones all over again. Except 100 times the cost. Also, obligatory xkcd reference.
I think some of the battery arrays should be able to pulled out of the car and swapped in with a charged battery array. This process could happen in under a minute.
Someone is working on that.
I imagine it's quite a lot easier getting right-of-way access in Alaska and Siberia than it is in California. ROW is one of the biggest challenges of high-speed rail (and a huge associated cost) because the curves have to be so wide that there is little flexibility in where you plan to put your track.
when it detects you are drowsy? Shut the car off? Shock you? Pour you a cup of coffee?
He gives away the endings to all of his movies at the very start. I think he's a pretentious twit for making movies that way and I don't really enjoy them, but I seem to be in the minority as his movies are perennial favorites.
Still exist?