And despite the hype about "6000 per week", Tesla's actual production goal for this quarter is 50-55k, which is 4k per week average, which they're well on track for.
Yea that's probably pretty easy to do when you stop giving a shit about safety, QA, and production standards.
Are their cars still losing bumpers in the rain and randomly crashing into firetrucks/jersey barriers? Oh wait, nevermind, because I found this cool "easter egg" that makes my doors flap to a certain song; that's far more important to me as a consumer than having a quality, safe vehicle to transport my family in. Look at the shiny!
Touchscreens fucking suck for any real typing that you want to do; there's no tactile feedback to tell you where your fingers are, so you're constantly having to break focus to look at the typing surface. Plus there's a far greater chance for mis-typing, which will slow you down even further.
I feel like your opinion on this matter comes from a person who's never actually done any real writing... Try this on a touch keyboard, then again on a regular keyboard, and post your results. Assuming that you're honest and don't try to doctor the results to favor your existing beliefs, I wager the difference in WPM will be extreme.
Like I could say "you're an idiot", and that wouldn't be hate speech, even though it makes you sad.
However, if I said "let's kill all the idiots" it would definitely be hate speech against you.
At the point where you make an actionable threat against another person or group of people, your speech stops being "speech" and becomes "assault." We don't need any new laws or algorithms to deal with this, because assault is already illegal and well-defined.
So let's be honest with ourselves - assaultive language is not what most people are calling 'hate speech' these days, and the idea of censoring people online has less to do with actionable threats and more to do with unpopular ideologies.
Private site, private terms of service. Don't like it, build your own site.
Ignoring how "build your own platform (that costs millions of dollars and is wholly unreasonable to expect a private citizen to engage in)" is a bullshit argument, would you also say that about a private business that's "open to the public?"
E.G. if a baker wants to refuse to bake goods for certain minority demographics, you think they should be able to? Or if a toll road owner wants to bar people of a certain political ideology from travelling the roads they own, they have that right? Just trying to see how consistent you are in your beliefs.
The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.
Speculation about things that haven't happened (and might not) is kind of the definition of "fact-devoid posturing."
It can't be a fact if it hasn't happened, so if we're talking about "the future" then we're talking about things that haven't happened, and thus, are fact-devoid.
You need shelter, so let's put you in a studio hovel for a fair $500/mo (serious lowball figure); so that's $6,000/yr for housing, leaving you with $7,388. Oh, but wait - you probably need utility service too... well the national average is about $200/mo, so there's another $2,400 for housing, so once that's all paid for you're looking at $4,988 left.
We don't yet live in this fantasy utopia where magical AI robots do everything, so you need a job, and to get a job in Average America, you need a car. Let's say you get lucky and come across a reliable vehicle for $200/mo (haha, right); that's $2400/yr, taking your total down to $2,588. Of course that car isn't going to get far without gas, which costs Americans between $1400 and $2200 a year, depending on fuel prices; let's split the difference and call it $1,800, taking your total income for the year down to $788./Deity help you if you have any maintenance costs...
Do you see what's going on? We've put you in tenement housing and given you shitty, unreliable transport, and we've got less than a grand for a years worth of everything else. Let's keep going anyway...
According to this chart, the average American couple spends about $7,500/yr, so a single person would be at half that, or $3,750. But you only have $788 left after transport and housing for the year... better not get sick, either.
So no, take it from a guy not only bothered to run the numbers, but who actually lived in that very situation before - the poverty line is not even close to what any rational first-world citizen would consider "livable," it's a shit situation that forces you to rely on government services just to survive.
From the first paragraph of the article you posted:
Three of the most common barriers for potential recruits are failure to graduate high school, a criminal record, and physical fitness issues, including obesity.
You don't need special treatment to A) stay in school, B) not commit felonies, and C) exercise.
Those limitations exist for a reason; were I enlisted I sure as hell wouldn't trust an obese meth-head with a 9th grade education with a machine gun, let alone ordnance.
If 75% of Americans between 17-24 are ineligible for being too fat, too stupid, or too criminal, that's the fault of 75% of parents, not the military.
Also when I was 25, I figured out that any reduction of the workforce would push wages up and make jobs better by way of competition from supply and demand.
That's probably how it should work, however decidedly not how it actually works; reductions in workforce typically end up increasing stock value, not wages.
TL;DR McDonald's isn't going to start paying their cooks twice as much after they replace the cashiers with kiosks.
How dare you inject reality and historic consequences into this discussion! Don't you know lazy assholes are trying to fantasize about their personal utopia?!?!/s
A full-time minimum wage job is perfectly "livable" for a single person. Poverty line for a single person in the US is $12,140. Full-time minimum-wage (federal) is 2000 hours at $7.25 is $14,500.
Pre-tax.
Post tax you're looking at about $11,000.
FYI, having been that poor before (way back when I was an "overpaid government worker"), I can assure you that's not what any first-world inhabitant would consider "perfectly livable" - it's shit. A shit way of living.
Try and get Internet access through Twitter, see how you go.
How about Facebook or Google? Both of those companies operate ISPs as well as websites.
Either "open to the public" means that the business is subject to public accommodation law and civil liberties, or it doesn't; you can't cherry-pick when the definitions apply.
I'd rather not risk the circumstance where I need something immediately (such as an emergency situation), but have to wait to access it because I don't own one myself. For example, I may never actually use either of the fire extinguishers in my home, but I sure am glad I already own a couple, rather than trying to rent them.
WE SHOULD HAVE SOME KIND OF CREDIBILITY RATING SYSTEM. It's a necessity.
If you are a Foxtard...
Arbitrarily dismissing people because they get news from an outlet you don't like*? How do you think such an emotional (ie, illogical) response would affect your own Social Credit Rating?
* I don't care for Fox either, but even a blind sow finds a truffle now and again; you should be questioning the data, not the source.
It's a necessity. Credit ratings for example.
Credit ratings are absolutely NOT a necessity, and in fact Americans in general were far more prosperous before they were invented.
I would gladly pay a few dollars a month for access to a toolbox and not have to keep a bunch of rarely used tools in my garage.
And I would gladly charge you those dollars, until my toolbox earned enough profit that I could move into a nicer neighborhood, where people own their own tools.
Buy DRM free books then. I've bought ones that are just zip files of HTML documents.
That doesn't resolve the issue of shadow editing - your DRM free version of Tom Sawyer still says Injun Jim (as if that's somehow less racist than the original character's name...)
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And despite the hype about "6000 per week", Tesla's actual production goal for this quarter is 50-55k, which is 4k per week average, which they're well on track for.
Yea that's probably pretty easy to do when you stop giving a shit about safety, QA, and production standards.
Are their cars still losing bumpers in the rain and randomly crashing into firetrucks/jersey barriers? Oh wait, nevermind, because I found this cool "easter egg" that makes my doors flap to a certain song; that's far more important to me as a consumer than having a quality, safe vehicle to transport my family in. Look at the shiny!
Touchscreens fucking suck for any real typing that you want to do; there's no tactile feedback to tell you where your fingers are, so you're constantly having to break focus to look at the typing surface. Plus there's a far greater chance for mis-typing, which will slow you down even further.
I feel like your opinion on this matter comes from a person who's never actually done any real writing... Try this on a touch keyboard, then again on a regular keyboard, and post your results. Assuming that you're honest and don't try to doctor the results to favor your existing beliefs, I wager the difference in WPM will be extreme.
Like I could say "you're an idiot", and that wouldn't be hate speech, even though it makes you sad.
However, if I said "let's kill all the idiots" it would definitely be hate speech against you.
At the point where you make an actionable threat against another person or group of people, your speech stops being "speech" and becomes "assault." We don't need any new laws or algorithms to deal with this, because assault is already illegal and well-defined.
So let's be honest with ourselves - assaultive language is not what most people are calling 'hate speech' these days, and the idea of censoring people online has less to do with actionable threats and more to do with unpopular ideologies.
Private site, private terms of service. Don't like it, build your own site.
Ignoring how "build your own platform (that costs millions of dollars and is wholly unreasonable to expect a private citizen to engage in)" is a bullshit argument, would you also say that about a private business that's "open to the public?"
E.G. if a baker wants to refuse to bake goods for certain minority demographics, you think they should be able to? Or if a toll road owner wants to bar people of a certain political ideology from travelling the roads they own, they have that right? Just trying to see how consistent you are in your beliefs.
The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.
- H. L. Mencken
Speculation about things that haven't happened (and might not) is kind of the definition of "fact-devoid posturing."
It can't be a fact if it hasn't happened, so if we're talking about "the future" then we're talking about things that haven't happened, and thus, are fact-devoid.
The posturing seems pretty obvious to me.
I will be very happy when door-to-door service that costs less than the 50 cents a mile of owning your own vehicle arrives...
You would be a lot easier to take seriously if you weren't making shit up. Whose ass did you pull "50 cents a mile" out of?
$13,388.
You need shelter, so let's put you in a studio hovel for a fair $500/mo (serious lowball figure); so that's $6,000/yr for housing, leaving you with $7,388. Oh, but wait - you probably need utility service too... well the national average is about $200/mo, so there's another $2,400 for housing, so once that's all paid for you're looking at $4,988 left.
We don't yet live in this fantasy utopia where magical AI robots do everything, so you need a job, and to get a job in Average America, you need a car. Let's say you get lucky and come across a reliable vehicle for $200/mo (haha, right); that's $2400/yr, taking your total down to $2,588. Of course that car isn't going to get far without gas, which costs Americans between $1400 and $2200 a year, depending on fuel prices; let's split the difference and call it $1,800, taking your total income for the year down to $788. /Deity help you if you have any maintenance costs...
Do you see what's going on? We've put you in tenement housing and given you shitty, unreliable transport, and we've got less than a grand for a years worth of everything else. Let's keep going anyway...
According to this chart, the average American couple spends about $7,500/yr, so a single person would be at half that, or $3,750. But you only have $788 left after transport and housing for the year... better not get sick, either.
So no, take it from a guy not only bothered to run the numbers, but who actually lived in that very situation before - the poverty line is not even close to what any rational first-world citizen would consider "livable," it's a shit situation that forces you to rely on government services just to survive.
From the first paragraph of the article you posted:
Three of the most common barriers for potential recruits are failure to graduate high school, a
criminal record, and physical fitness issues, including obesity.
You don't need special treatment to A) stay in school, B) not commit felonies, and C) exercise.
Those limitations exist for a reason; were I enlisted I sure as hell wouldn't trust an obese meth-head with a 9th grade education with a machine gun, let alone ordnance.
If 75% of Americans between 17-24 are ineligible for being too fat, too stupid, or too criminal, that's the fault of 75% of parents, not the military.
Also when I was 25, I figured out that any reduction of the workforce would push wages up and make jobs better by way of competition from supply and demand.
That's probably how it should work, however decidedly not how it actually works; reductions in workforce typically end up increasing stock value, not wages.
TL;DR McDonald's isn't going to start paying their cooks twice as much after they replace the cashiers with kiosks.
How dare you inject reality and historic consequences into this discussion! Don't you know lazy assholes are trying to fantasize about their personal utopia?!?! /s
Stupid fact-devoid posturing is stupid. This is about the future.
So... did you not realize this sentence is self-contradicting?
You can buy a novelty 3D printer on Amazon for $199.
FTFY.
We're talking industrial-grade equipment here, not tabletop gadgets that print out inferior replicas of Darth Vader.
A full-time minimum wage job is perfectly "livable" for a single person. Poverty line for a single person in the US is $12,140. Full-time minimum-wage (federal) is 2000 hours at $7.25 is $14,500.
Pre-tax.
Post tax you're looking at about $11,000.
FYI, having been that poor before (way back when I was an "overpaid government worker"), I can assure you that's not what any first-world inhabitant would consider "perfectly livable" - it's shit. A shit way of living.
People have to figure out what is real, and what is not, without censorship!
You know, some of the stuff Trump says could be truly profound, if not for the source...
You're confusing A&T and Comcast with Twitter.
Try and get Internet access through Twitter, see how you go.
How about Facebook or Google? Both of those companies operate ISPs as well as websites.
Either "open to the public" means that the business is subject to public accommodation law and civil liberties, or it doesn't; you can't cherry-pick when the definitions apply.
I'd rather not risk the circumstance where I need something immediately (such as an emergency situation), but have to wait to access it because I don't own one myself. For example, I may never actually use either of the fire extinguishers in my home, but I sure am glad I already own a couple, rather than trying to rent them.
WE SHOULD HAVE SOME KIND OF CREDIBILITY RATING SYSTEM. It's a necessity.
If you are a Foxtard...
Arbitrarily dismissing people because they get news from an outlet you don't like*? How do you think such an emotional (ie, illogical) response would affect your own Social Credit Rating?
* I don't care for Fox either, but even a blind sow finds a truffle now and again; you should be questioning the data, not the source.
It's a necessity. Credit ratings for example.
Credit ratings are absolutely NOT a necessity, and in fact Americans in general were far more prosperous before they were invented.
I don't mod often, but when I do, I meta-mod
The Left: "The internet is a public utility, and Service Providers have no right to control what content we see on their platform!"
Also the Left: "Service Providers have an absolute right to control what content is allowed on their platform!"
The Right: "The internet is NOT a public utility, it is a business tool for commerce, and you have no free speech on private platforms!"
Also the Right: "Businesses on the internet have no right to censor speech on their platforms!"
No wonder we're going to hell in a handbasket...
Can't it be both?
Psychotropic narcotics would help explain his Twitter posts.
Doesn't excuse them.
So you want the house you can afford to become unaffordable?
Amazon data centers don't increase neighboring property value...
I would gladly pay a few dollars a month for access to a toolbox and not have to keep a bunch of rarely used tools in my garage.
And I would gladly charge you those dollars, until my toolbox earned enough profit that I could move into a nicer neighborhood, where people own their own tools.
Then what are you going to do?
Buy DRM free books then. I've bought ones that are just zip files of HTML documents.
That doesn't resolve the issue of shadow editing - your DRM free version of Tom Sawyer still says Injun Jim (as if that's somehow less racist than the original character's name...)