I agree whole heartedly with this. But I think we are a long long way away from that kind of rational discourse.
I have 2 young kids and so am involved in lots of conversations around safety, paedophiles and murderers from other parents and their compass for risk assessment is so far off it's scary. They genuinely believe that every public toilet has a child molester waiting inside for the chance to grab their kid. The fact that where I live there are almost no cases of strangers attacking children (it's always a family member or close friend), Point out that putting their kids in the car is several orders of magnitude riskier and they will argue it or say that that risk doesn't matter because apparently being killed or seriously maimed is so much less worse than being molested that it doesn't even count.
While people's mindset is like that even having a constructive conversation is impossible.
This guy was charged with accessing and possession, not creation. If he had been a content creator then prosecution would not have been stopped.
Lets put this a different way. Would you grant pardon to a person who viewed child porn if it meant you could catch someone who made it? It's the same as offering deals to a street drug dealer to catch their supplier.
If you have enough local talent then yes. But with a population of only 4 million NZ doesn't have enough local talent for the highly specialised skill sets. The small population means there simply isn't enough opportunities for the growth and development of those specialist skill sets, so you import them.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with importing talent, in fact it is massively in your countries favour as you are off loading the cost of education and training to someone else and deriving the benefit. Where there are problems is when you have no wage protection for those people coming into the country allowing companies to use H1B style visas for cheap labour.
In the end NZ could offer 10 figure salaries for these roles. It doesn't mean that someone who can do the job would magically appear. This is also not restricted to IT.
My work machine is linux mint and is great. My main home pc is dual boot and spends most of its time in mint as well. But there is no substitute for the media editing tools of windows in Linux. Openshot is ok but doesn't hold a candle to CyberDirector. Gimp is not a substitute for photoshop. So in the end I still keep a windows install around.
Lots of RC models use the 5.8ghz spectrum as their video transmitter band. Technically most of the power limits are 25mw, but that power output severely restricts range and is highly effected by objects such as trees. As a result people often run switchable transmitters that are 25/200/600mw and sometimes higher.
It's one thing to momentarily effect a localised wifi network. Another thing entirely if you are taking out someones phone calls.
True if you are replacing an existing level crossing with a bridge structure. I was more imagining a new road and new bridge crossing.
Once you are dealing with legacy installs it is terrible.
We clearly have a difference structure for bridge management to you though. Roads are broken into 3 levels. Federal, state and council. All roads and bridges will fall into one of those 3 categories and will be their responsibility for maintenance. Also per perspective the annual budget for my local council is $2.6billion per annum
I dunno I use the auto CC all the time. Some of the guesses are terrible but normally seems to have the biggest issues around random nouns. So assuming that I know what the topic of the video is I can use the CC, I just have to substitute the proper noun at the right time.
I tend to use it when watching a technical video with a single talker and I don't actually want the sound on for what ever reason.
Why the hell is your maintenance cost so high?!?!?! A stabilised earth embankment with suitable drainage will last ages. If you are having to retain it you have done it wrong. The whole idea of an earth ramp is that it has settled to its natural angle of repose. Planting some grasses and initial covering with a geo-membrane is all you need to do.
Maintenance of the bridge is going to be tiny. You would have regular yearly inspections checking for concrete cancers and cracking but thats about it.
Maintenance of a level crossing on the other hand is continuous. The bituminous surface will spread under the loads of cars and trucks, this will push the surface closer and closer to the rail. This has to be continuously cut back otherwise bad things happen. The rail cutting also acts as a water channel causing the sealed surface to break up.
As for the lawsuits that is never something you can control for.
Not really. You probably don't even notice the vast majority of the ones you drive over. Every small water course will be crossed by a small pre-stressed concrete bridge. Installation costs on those are tiny, they last for ages and the engineering component of them is minimal. Generally when people say bridge they imagine the large span ones, where as the huge majority are tiny tiny things.
Construction wise pushing 2 piles of dirt each side of railway line, waiting 12 months for it to settle and harden and then sticking a 6m concrete span across is a very cheap. very easy way of crossing the rail line. It is marginal on cost on a controlled crossing and heaps more efficient and safer.
Wow. THough not sure that qualifies as a bridge that needs to be built! For that money it would have been cheaper to buy all the residents a seconds house somewhere!
I was agreeing with you on the state if your dams. Even if all were 100 year life spans they are coming due.
Also, purely for interest sake, the construction design standards that the US works to aren't high enough for most other developed countries. This is particularly true for concrete span bridges. And a big part of that is life span of the structures.
Some structures in the US though are designed to last way way longer. Hoover dam is a great example. Its life expectancy would far exceed 100 years.
Delivery truck has 2 stops. One to the right which is close, 1 to the left that is further away. Default human behaviour is to turn right to the closer 1 first. UPS system gets you to go left first and then come back for the right. The time saved by not turning right across the traffic is greater than the time lost by going further.
Agreed completely. I have an LG G4 which you can add wireless charging to for a $5 sticker that goes inside the back of the case. I use a wireless pad on my desk to keep my phone topped up during the day.
My Comment was referring to this part of the OP's comment "Wireless charging is the next step toward eliminating the charging port. I've been using wireless charging for about 4 years now and I've only ever plugged in to upload music. I'd guess most people don't even do that."
I take it you don't play many games on your phone?
Some of the games will eat an iPhones battery in 3 hours. So if you sit down of an evening after a full days work then you may only have 30 minutes of play time on the phone. So people plug in. You can't do that with wireless charging.
Think about how many millions of those battery packs have been sold. That is so people can charge on the move.
In the UK selling the Kodi boxes preloaded with software to access pirate streams is illegal. It's a stupid rule, but basically if you sell something for the purpose of pirating then you are committing a crime.
If you sold the same box with vanilla Kodi and none of the pirate steam plugins you're fine.
Thats due to the Dodd-Frank rules. Prior to them UBS was able to gamble on the markets with their clients money for their own benefit. Thats what that trading floor was for. They are not allowed to do it any more.
That is what is terrifying about the roll back of those laws by Trump. It brings the gambling by the banks back into the system.
I guess I don't expect to see many self driving cars on the road in 10 years time. I expect there will start to be a few on the road at that stage, but I don't really expect to see many. And the current average age of cars on the road in the US is 11 years at the moment. So if they appear when I expect them to we won't see them being the norm for at least 20 years from today.
Take the DJI Inspire 2 then. It's basically the top of the line prosumer camera drone. It's batteries are 4280mah lipos running 6S @ 22.8v. For that amount of power an unloaded Inspire will have a maximum flight time of 25 minutes. Max lift capacity on that inspire is about 3lbs, anything more than that and it becomes un-flyable.
Next consideration is that a quad rotor has absolutely no redundancy, at all. A failure of a single component, from battery to esc to motor to flight controller will see it fall out of the sky. Given that there is no way that a 6lb (assuming loaded) quad will be allowed to fly over populated areas. So now you are needing a minimum of a hexcopter to give some redundancy, but you still need to base the carrying capacity on the quads specs. You would also need redundant flight controllers and navigation system which will add a small amount of extra weight (a pixihawk flight controller is only about 20g but wiring and housing probably brings that to 100g).
I think then, given the extra weight and complexity of the system a max flight time of 10 minutes is reasonable assumption when carrying a load. Lets also assume a max loaded speed of 15kph (the inspires max speed unloaded is about 70kph in a straight line no altitude changes)
Lets assume that the problems around navigation, power lines, trees, birds, kite strings, idiots with shotguns and the like are all solved and that there is some kind of system which means kids fingers don't do into props at delivery. If your autonomous car parks 500m from delivery point, 60 seconds to get to delivery point, 60 seconds to deliver, 60 seconds to land. I think those a probably optimistic but lets go with it. That means it can do a max of 3 deliveries, before battery is totally flat. The batteries can't really be charged any faster than 1c if you want them to have any kind of service life so you would need a large reserve of them. How many packages do you think fit in the back of a delivery van? 100? No idea but its a lot. So lets assume its 100. And lets spread the delivery timeline over 3 hours. That is 33 deliveries per hour, a minimum of 22 batteries are needed then to keep 1 drone aloft assuming your first batch of batteries are charged by the car and are online for the final hour.
But this is the killer. The delivery capacity of the drone is low. Even if we assumed it was massively higher than currently an option and said 10lbs. Huge numbers of parcels exceed that weight. So they still need to be delivered directly. So the vehicle is already going to be close to the destination, with someone running back and forth carrying bigger parcels anyway. I just can't see the economic advantage of a massively difficult, expensive solution to pick up the part of the workload when a significant portion will still need to be done manually and the cost of extending the human to deliver the small parcels is low.
As for the fast food. A simpler system would be a conveyor onto which a bun is placed and it passes under tubes that drop the layers on top. But here is the problem. A human can see that that piece of tomato looks gross. Or that that isn't onion, its chilli. This is far far far from being a solved problem with AI.
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I agree whole heartedly with this. But I think we are a long long way away from that kind of rational discourse.
I have 2 young kids and so am involved in lots of conversations around safety, paedophiles and murderers from other parents and their compass for risk assessment is so far off it's scary. They genuinely believe that every public toilet has a child molester waiting inside for the chance to grab their kid. The fact that where I live there are almost no cases of strangers attacking children (it's always a family member or close friend), Point out that putting their kids in the car is several orders of magnitude riskier and they will argue it or say that that risk doesn't matter because apparently being killed or seriously maimed is so much less worse than being molested that it doesn't even count.
While people's mindset is like that even having a constructive conversation is impossible.
This guy was charged with accessing and possession, not creation. If he had been a content creator then prosecution would not have been stopped.
Lets put this a different way. Would you grant pardon to a person who viewed child porn if it meant you could catch someone who made it? It's the same as offering deals to a street drug dealer to catch their supplier.
Or catching 10 trumps catching 1.
If you have enough local talent then yes. But with a population of only 4 million NZ doesn't have enough local talent for the highly specialised skill sets. The small population means there simply isn't enough opportunities for the growth and development of those specialist skill sets, so you import them.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with importing talent, in fact it is massively in your countries favour as you are off loading the cost of education and training to someone else and deriving the benefit. Where there are problems is when you have no wage protection for those people coming into the country allowing companies to use H1B style visas for cheap labour.
In the end NZ could offer 10 figure salaries for these roles. It doesn't mean that someone who can do the job would magically appear. This is also not restricted to IT.
Ah if only it was that simple.
My work machine is linux mint and is great. My main home pc is dual boot and spends most of its time in mint as well. But there is no substitute for the media editing tools of windows in Linux. Openshot is ok but doesn't hold a candle to CyberDirector. Gimp is not a substitute for photoshop. So in the end I still keep a windows install around.
If I buy a fridge and the fridge keeps saying "Cottee's codial tastes better than x brand you're using" I would have an issue with that.
I hate that Windows 10 is an advertising vector.
Lots of RC models use the 5.8ghz spectrum as their video transmitter band. Technically most of the power limits are 25mw, but that power output severely restricts range and is highly effected by objects such as trees. As a result people often run switchable transmitters that are 25/200/600mw and sometimes higher.
It's one thing to momentarily effect a localised wifi network. Another thing entirely if you are taking out someones phone calls.
True if you are replacing an existing level crossing with a bridge structure. I was more imagining a new road and new bridge crossing.
Once you are dealing with legacy installs it is terrible.
We clearly have a difference structure for bridge management to you though. Roads are broken into 3 levels. Federal, state and council. All roads and bridges will fall into one of those 3 categories and will be their responsibility for maintenance. Also per perspective the annual budget for my local council is $2.6billion per annum
I dunno I use the auto CC all the time. Some of the guesses are terrible but normally seems to have the biggest issues around random nouns. So assuming that I know what the topic of the video is I can use the CC, I just have to substitute the proper noun at the right time.
I tend to use it when watching a technical video with a single talker and I don't actually want the sound on for what ever reason.
Why the hell is your maintenance cost so high?!?!?! A stabilised earth embankment with suitable drainage will last ages. If you are having to retain it you have done it wrong. The whole idea of an earth ramp is that it has settled to its natural angle of repose. Planting some grasses and initial covering with a geo-membrane is all you need to do.
Maintenance of the bridge is going to be tiny. You would have regular yearly inspections checking for concrete cancers and cracking but thats about it.
Maintenance of a level crossing on the other hand is continuous. The bituminous surface will spread under the loads of cars and trucks, this will push the surface closer and closer to the rail. This has to be continuously cut back otherwise bad things happen. The rail cutting also acts as a water channel causing the sealed surface to break up.
As for the lawsuits that is never something you can control for.
Not really. You probably don't even notice the vast majority of the ones you drive over. Every small water course will be crossed by a small pre-stressed concrete bridge. Installation costs on those are tiny, they last for ages and the engineering component of them is minimal. Generally when people say bridge they imagine the large span ones, where as the huge majority are tiny tiny things.
Construction wise pushing 2 piles of dirt each side of railway line, waiting 12 months for it to settle and harden and then sticking a 6m concrete span across is a very cheap. very easy way of crossing the rail line. It is marginal on cost on a controlled crossing and heaps more efficient and safer.
Wow. THough not sure that qualifies as a bridge that needs to be built! For that money it would have been cheaper to buy all the residents a seconds house somewhere!
Out of interest is there somewhere that a long span bridge should be built?
I was agreeing with you on the state if your dams. Even if all were 100 year life spans they are coming due.
Also, purely for interest sake, the construction design standards that the US works to aren't high enough for most other developed countries. This is particularly true for concrete span bridges. And a big part of that is life span of the structures.
Some structures in the US though are designed to last way way longer. Hoover dam is a great example. Its life expectancy would far exceed 100 years.
Most dams in the US were built in the 20-30s and had an engineered life span of 50-100 years.
Working in LH drive.
Delivery truck has 2 stops. One to the right which is close, 1 to the left that is further away. Default human behaviour is to turn right to the closer 1 first. UPS system gets you to go left first and then come back for the right. The time saved by not turning right across the traffic is greater than the time lost by going further.
Agreed completely. I have an LG G4 which you can add wireless charging to for a $5 sticker that goes inside the back of the case. I use a wireless pad on my desk to keep my phone topped up during the day.
My Comment was referring to this part of the OP's comment "Wireless charging is the next step toward eliminating the charging port. I've been using wireless charging for about 4 years now and I've only ever plugged in to upload music. I'd guess most people don't even do that."
Imagine not being able to use your phone while it's charging....
I take it you don't play many games on your phone?
Some of the games will eat an iPhones battery in 3 hours. So if you sit down of an evening after a full days work then you may only have 30 minutes of play time on the phone. So people plug in. You can't do that with wireless charging.
Think about how many millions of those battery packs have been sold. That is so people can charge on the move.
Unfortunately in the UK there is already precedent with people selling these Kodi boxes facing huge fines.
This wouldn't be illegal in the US, or pretty much anywhere else at the moment.
In the UK selling the Kodi boxes preloaded with software to access pirate streams is illegal. It's a stupid rule, but basically if you sell something for the purpose of pirating then you are committing a crime.
If you sold the same box with vanilla Kodi and none of the pirate steam plugins you're fine.
Thats due to the Dodd-Frank rules. Prior to them UBS was able to gamble on the markets with their clients money for their own benefit. Thats what that trading floor was for. They are not allowed to do it any more.
That is what is terrifying about the roll back of those laws by Trump. It brings the gambling by the banks back into the system.
Same reason you would buy a German car or a Japanese camera or a Korean TV or a French sparkling wine. Because not all things are equal.
I guess I don't expect to see many self driving cars on the road in 10 years time. I expect there will start to be a few on the road at that stage, but I don't really expect to see many. And the current average age of cars on the road in the US is 11 years at the moment. So if they appear when I expect them to we won't see them being the norm for at least 20 years from today.
Take the DJI Inspire 2 then. It's basically the top of the line prosumer camera drone. It's batteries are 4280mah lipos running 6S @ 22.8v. For that amount of power an unloaded Inspire will have a maximum flight time of 25 minutes. Max lift capacity on that inspire is about 3lbs, anything more than that and it becomes un-flyable.
Next consideration is that a quad rotor has absolutely no redundancy, at all. A failure of a single component, from battery to esc to motor to flight controller will see it fall out of the sky. Given that there is no way that a 6lb (assuming loaded) quad will be allowed to fly over populated areas. So now you are needing a minimum of a hexcopter to give some redundancy, but you still need to base the carrying capacity on the quads specs. You would also need redundant flight controllers and navigation system which will add a small amount of extra weight (a pixihawk flight controller is only about 20g but wiring and housing probably brings that to 100g).
I think then, given the extra weight and complexity of the system a max flight time of 10 minutes is reasonable assumption when carrying a load. Lets also assume a max loaded speed of 15kph (the inspires max speed unloaded is about 70kph in a straight line no altitude changes)
Lets assume that the problems around navigation, power lines, trees, birds, kite strings, idiots with shotguns and the like are all solved and that there is some kind of system which means kids fingers don't do into props at delivery. If your autonomous car parks 500m from delivery point, 60 seconds to get to delivery point, 60 seconds to deliver, 60 seconds to land. I think those a probably optimistic but lets go with it. That means it can do a max of 3 deliveries, before battery is totally flat. The batteries can't really be charged any faster than 1c if you want them to have any kind of service life so you would need a large reserve of them. How many packages do you think fit in the back of a delivery van? 100? No idea but its a lot. So lets assume its 100. And lets spread the delivery timeline over 3 hours. That is 33 deliveries per hour, a minimum of 22 batteries are needed then to keep 1 drone aloft assuming your first batch of batteries are charged by the car and are online for the final hour.
But this is the killer. The delivery capacity of the drone is low. Even if we assumed it was massively higher than currently an option and said 10lbs. Huge numbers of parcels exceed that weight. So they still need to be delivered directly. So the vehicle is already going to be close to the destination, with someone running back and forth carrying bigger parcels anyway. I just can't see the economic advantage of a massively difficult, expensive solution to pick up the part of the workload when a significant portion will still need to be done manually and the cost of extending the human to deliver the small parcels is low.
As for the fast food. A simpler system would be a conveyor onto which a bun is placed and it passes under tubes that drop the layers on top. But here is the problem. A human can see that that piece of tomato looks gross. Or that that isn't onion, its chilli. This is far far far from being a solved problem with AI.