You misunderstood. I didn't mean it takes time to get around to investigating cracks, I meant it takes time to do the analysis and have the discussion. They actually did it straight away when they noticed cracks.
I didn't say I wasn't a total hypocrite, or even that I am a greenie (I'm not, I reduce my electricity usage only to reduce my monthly bill). Just pointing out that human superiority isn't a thing. Nature will fuck us right up, and me doing my bit* isn't going to change a damn thing.
*And this thinking is the reason why we as a species will fail.
**Posted from my energy saving iPad... while my desktop computer sits across the room idling away without even the screen off.
By wasting more energy in various more-harmful manners, don't forget that.
Reminds me of the people driving their cars to reach protests against oil. The short term doesn't need to make sense when the long term goal is in mind.
especially if done with no particular goal than to raise awareness
That I agree with. A world of protests have been horrible for the environment long term. But raising awareness about how much we waste electricity for no reason isn't done without a particular goal. It's truly jarring to see the number of commerical buildings that leave all their lights on when absolutely no one is in the office. Whether by earth hour or otherwise people are starting to think about it now. Even my own newly moved office, one of the first things they installed was timed lighting. After 7pm the lights go out and minimum emergency lighting stays on. If you need to work late, there's a button in every room that will give you an hour more light.
You jumped into a classic IT trap of trying to replace a platform without ever defining your requirements. To that the only answer is to replace Facebook with Emacs, since VI isn't up to the task.
More seriously though, what do *you* get out of Facebook? Do you use it to just post pictures? There's platforms that do that. e.g. Flickr Do you use it to share short rants? There's platforms that do that. e.g. Twitter Do you use it for personalised messaging? There's platforms that do that. Do you use it for finding events near you....
Wait let's address this for a moment. One of the most powerful features of Facebook is the network effect, it's widespread use. There are many platforms but the question is are they of use to you? Can you contact your local airline on Google+? Does your local underground music festival announce details of its events on Twitter? Are those things you want to buy available for sale on Craigs list? Is your family using WhatsApp? Are the pictures of your daughter that you're trying to monitor to ensure she doesn't do something silly on Instagram?
Those are the only kinds of questions you need to ask when trying to figure out how to replace Facebook. No one uses Facebook because it's a good service and they thing the app is awesome.... Except maybe Zuckerberg.
I've always been able to sign up for facebook (since it existed anyway) - but I still haven't seen a reason to.
The only losing move is not to play. There's nothing forcing you to use Facebook once you signed up, but by ignoring Facebook you ignore the huge network of information that is only available on Facebook.
Up above someone suggested we go outside instead. I thought this was a great idea, and according to Facebook there's an open air concert near me this afternoon. See my point?
By not playing you're also denying yourself opportunities that exist solely by playing. I know people who found rental apartments that were *only* advertised on Facebook. Many underground music gigs are *only* advertised on Facebook. I myself used to organise large gatherings with all my friends (typically 50-100 people showing up) they were *only* advertised on Facebook.
So if you're not going to play, at the very least partner with someone who does, because you're missing out on a whole world of stuff completely unrelated to Facebook.
Yes, I do. Your information to Google is the equivalent of the CocaCola recipe. It is the money maker, a closely guarded secret that gives Google power. Google sells access to *you* and they do so via many various means, provide data via APIs, advertising platforms, etc. Google sell your eyeballs but keep your personal information their closely guarded secret from which they gain quite a huge competitive advantage.
Stop, you've fallen into the trap. Facebook's staying power has nothing to do with Facebook and everything to do with people. It's staying power is the result of the people you want to communicate with using it, be that friends, family, businesses, event organisers, etc.
No one gives a crap about the apps or its capabilities (kind of self evident that people used them for so long despite them being absolute turds from the very beginning).
Except producing one of the best and most wide spread global awareness campaigns to energy wasting in history.
It's like people chaining themselves in front of an oil pipeline construction. They don't do it because they think they have any chance of preventing the construction, they do it because their message will be in the evening news.
To a handful of bankers that *really* managed to cause billions of dollars of damage by crashing the entire American economy back in 2007/2008- days they spent in jail: 0.
No. Wallstreet CEOs at the back of the trading chain haven't been jailed, but bankers and the industry have been targeted quite a bit. In the USA some 320 bankers at the front end (the people creating the fraudulent loans that were subsequently on-sold and traded on Wallstreet) have been jailed, and $150bn in fines have been levied across the industry due to the incident.
Ultimately the problem is the people on Wallstreet did nothing illegal. Unethical maybe, but not illegal. In Iceland (the country lots of people like to compare against) the situation is different because there was no segregation between those doing the lending and the trading. Hence the CEOs of the banks got jailed for the crimes that the mortgage brokers are being jailed for in the USA. e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Now back in reality: SpaceX reliability is right on average for the space industry even if you take into account early experimental failures. If you only count payloads lost it's better than average. They are beaten only by ULA, and only because of one single failure to deliver a payload.
Telsa's Autopilot according to the NHSTA drops the highway accident rate of these vehicles by 40% making an autopilot driven Tesla currently the safest way to move on the highway. https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/i... (Figure 11)
Mind you if you did get into an accident you'll probably want to be in a Tesla given that most of the models are widely considered the safest cars on the road, and the Model S achieved a record high rating by the NHTSA and NCAP and the Model X was the only SUV to ever be awarded 5 stars by the NHTSA as well. https://www.nhtsa.gov/vehicle/...
As for the Boring company, no doubt its safety will be a story as boring as your lame post.
It's why it's different, but it's not why anyone cares. Why anyone cares is due to rage of the day. Actually the only people here who care about the distinction are partisan defenders of their favourite orange MonkeyOTUS who insist that he can either do no wrong, or when caught that others were just as wrong.
But that isn't being reflected at all in the media.
So, Uber's cars look to be at the "what is the minimum that can make a car steer itself" end of the scale
You say this based on an accident, because it sure as hell has nothing to do with reality. Uber's cars are currently among the most expensive on the road (high end Volvo SUV, fully kitted out with about every instrument you can think of). Just because it doesn't work doesn't make it cheap. By comparison most of Waymo's fleet is significantly cheaper.
Jaywalking doesn't even exist in the rest of the world
It does in many places actually, but it is usually applied with some manner of common sense. E.g. Australia, It's only Jaywalking if you're within 10m of a traffic light that is red for pedestrians.
Self driving cars are mostly hype. They're primarily self driving on very good, very clean, very well mapped roads only. Take them out of perfect conditions, and they fail miserably.
I have a solution to this. Let's develop some technology and put it through an iterative improvement process combined with years of trials in the real world in increasingly complex scenarios. It's a shame no one has thought of doing this.
By the way, hype has two possible meanings: a) It's publicised a lot to which I say So? That's kind of the point of all new technology that many groups are working on. b) It's benefits are exaggerated: No they're not.
So yes, Self driving cars are currently hyped up. That is not a bad thing.
Then every single corporate decision has to go through them and they end up ruining your company like for example EA.
Sure that's one example, now with over 4000 publicly listed companies in the USA, care to name 3999 others? I'm sure we can play a game where we can name a privately own company that was driven into shit for every publicly owned one. Though we may be here for a while.
Just get a damn private or bank loan if you need funds.
Stop storing your files on someone else's servers!
Why? Those other people are far better at looking after your files than 99.9% of the population out there. In other news I also get my car serviced at a mechanic, pay for someone to wire my house, and keep my money in a bank.
Someone else's server is no different than any other specialist service I* pay for.
* Note I use Seafile on my own server with a decent 290/40 connection that I backup regularly and store offsite. This is also a solution that won't suite 99.999% of people (even more so than the 99.9% I pointed out above).
The "March for our Lives" gun control march has been kept at the top of the news BY THE MEDIA for the last 30+ days. Do you think a national pro-life (anti-abortion) march would gain the same favorable coverage? Hell no . . . the only coverage it would get would be of its pink hat-wearing counter-protesters.
And the relevance is what? It is still the very same example. Media gets a hold of something and dramatises it. If it is something that doesn't get clicks or (for some media outlets) fit their political agenda, then they move on.
They used to move on from gun control quite quickly as well, but right now it is a hot topic that people show interest in, so they keep running with the stories.
They could end up in trouble for destroying evidence
I never said anything about destroying evidence. You can't get in trouble for someone not finding something they expected to find in the location. If the prosecutor knows a document existed and there's evidence that it was destroyed THEN they can be charged. There are plenty of legal ways to avoid handing over something that isn't specifically mentioned. That's what raids are about. Typically when there is a raid on an office you're looking for evidence of a crime without knowing the specifics. If you know the specifics then they can already be discovered via court processes and there's very little reason for a raid / search warrant.
I don't recall plugins being much of a vector for viruses
So you clearly never looked then. But hey it's not just viruses. The old API can be blamed for much of the problems that were attributed to Firefox itself. Endless complaints about user's CPU and RAM usage. There were several high profile malware plugins. Many of the vectors have been closed and many of the issues the *users* were complaining about resolved as well by the API change.
but media of all political views that talks about mass shootings non-stop
We used to have that problem in Australia. Then we tackled the root issue and stopped mass shootings. Funny enough it stopped being a media sensation after that.
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You misunderstood. I didn't mean it takes time to get around to investigating cracks, I meant it takes time to do the analysis and have the discussion. They actually did it straight away when they noticed cracks.
I didn't say I wasn't a total hypocrite, or even that I am a greenie (I'm not, I reduce my electricity usage only to reduce my monthly bill). Just pointing out that human superiority isn't a thing. Nature will fuck us right up, and me doing my bit* isn't going to change a damn thing.
*And this thinking is the reason why we as a species will fail.
**Posted from my energy saving iPad... while my desktop computer sits across the room idling away without even the screen off.
By wasting more energy in various more-harmful manners, don't forget that.
Reminds me of the people driving their cars to reach protests against oil. The short term doesn't need to make sense when the long term goal is in mind.
especially if done with no particular goal than to raise awareness
That I agree with. A world of protests have been horrible for the environment long term. But raising awareness about how much we waste electricity for no reason isn't done without a particular goal. It's truly jarring to see the number of commerical buildings that leave all their lights on when absolutely no one is in the office. Whether by earth hour or otherwise people are starting to think about it now. Even my own newly moved office, one of the first things they installed was timed lighting. After 7pm the lights go out and minimum emergency lighting stays on. If you need to work late, there's a button in every room that will give you an hour more light.
I didn't say their end game had forethought, just that they were hoping to be in the news. And they were.
You jumped into a classic IT trap of trying to replace a platform without ever defining your requirements. To that the only answer is to replace Facebook with Emacs, since VI isn't up to the task.
More seriously though, what do *you* get out of Facebook? ....
Do you use it to just post pictures? There's platforms that do that. e.g. Flickr
Do you use it to share short rants? There's platforms that do that. e.g. Twitter
Do you use it for personalised messaging? There's platforms that do that.
Do you use it for finding events near you
Wait let's address this for a moment. One of the most powerful features of Facebook is the network effect, it's widespread use. There are many platforms but the question is are they of use to you? Can you contact your local airline on Google+? Does your local underground music festival announce details of its events on Twitter? Are those things you want to buy available for sale on Craigs list? Is your family using WhatsApp? Are the pictures of your daughter that you're trying to monitor to ensure she doesn't do something silly on Instagram?
Those are the only kinds of questions you need to ask when trying to figure out how to replace Facebook. No one uses Facebook because it's a good service and they thing the app is awesome. ... Except maybe Zuckerberg.
We've had Facebook for less than a thousandth of human history. Obviously we can live without it. It's a very brief, failed experiment.
Did you forget to take your anti-depressants this morning?
I've always been able to sign up for facebook (since it existed anyway) - but I still haven't seen a reason to.
The only losing move is not to play. There's nothing forcing you to use Facebook once you signed up, but by ignoring Facebook you ignore the huge network of information that is only available on Facebook.
Up above someone suggested we go outside instead. I thought this was a great idea, and according to Facebook there's an open air concert near me this afternoon. See my point?
By not playing you're also denying yourself opportunities that exist solely by playing. I know people who found rental apartments that were *only* advertised on Facebook. Many underground music gigs are *only* advertised on Facebook. I myself used to organise large gatherings with all my friends (typically 50-100 people showing up) they were *only* advertised on Facebook.
So if you're not going to play, at the very least partner with someone who does, because you're missing out on a whole world of stuff completely unrelated to Facebook.
Does anyone actually believe that?
Yes, I do. Your information to Google is the equivalent of the CocaCola recipe. It is the money maker, a closely guarded secret that gives Google power. Google sells access to *you* and they do so via many various means, provide data via APIs, advertising platforms, etc. Google sell your eyeballs but keep your personal information their closely guarded secret from which they gain quite a huge competitive advantage.
Facebook's main staying power is that two apps
Stop, you've fallen into the trap. Facebook's staying power has nothing to do with Facebook and everything to do with people. It's staying power is the result of the people you want to communicate with using it, be that friends, family, businesses, event organisers, etc.
No one gives a crap about the apps or its capabilities (kind of self evident that people used them for so long despite them being absolute turds from the very beginning).
Go OUTSIDE and give it a try.
Go where? Oooh there's an open air free concert in my city this afternoon. It was advertised on Facebook.
Wait you didn't think Facebook was used just to stare at posts from people you don't like did you?
The great triumph of nature will be our suffering as the result of our attempts to tame it.
Accomplishes NOTHING.
Except producing one of the best and most wide spread global awareness campaigns to energy wasting in history.
It's like people chaining themselves in front of an oil pipeline construction. They don't do it because they think they have any chance of preventing the construction, they do it because their message will be in the evening news.
To a handful of bankers that *really* managed to cause billions of dollars of damage by crashing the entire American economy back in 2007/2008- days they spent in jail: 0.
No. Wallstreet CEOs at the back of the trading chain haven't been jailed, but bankers and the industry have been targeted quite a bit. In the USA some 320 bankers at the front end (the people creating the fraudulent loans that were subsequently on-sold and traded on Wallstreet) have been jailed, and $150bn in fines have been levied across the industry due to the incident.
Ultimately the problem is the people on Wallstreet did nothing illegal. Unethical maybe, but not illegal. In Iceland (the country lots of people like to compare against) the situation is different because there was no segregation between those doing the lending and the trading. Hence the CEOs of the banks got jailed for the crimes that the mortgage brokers are being jailed for in the USA. e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Now back in reality:
SpaceX reliability is right on average for the space industry even if you take into account early experimental failures. If you only count payloads lost it's better than average. They are beaten only by ULA, and only because of one single failure to deliver a payload.
Telsa's Autopilot according to the NHSTA drops the highway accident rate of these vehicles by 40% making an autopilot driven Tesla currently the safest way to move on the highway. https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/i... (Figure 11)
Mind you if you did get into an accident you'll probably want to be in a Tesla given that most of the models are widely considered the safest cars on the road, and the Model S achieved a record high rating by the NHTSA and NCAP and the Model X was the only SUV to ever be awarded 5 stars by the NHTSA as well. https://www.nhtsa.gov/vehicle/...
As for the Boring company, no doubt its safety will be a story as boring as your lame post.
It's why it's different, but it's not why anyone cares. Why anyone cares is due to rage of the day. Actually the only people here who care about the distinction are partisan defenders of their favourite orange MonkeyOTUS who insist that he can either do no wrong, or when caught that others were just as wrong.
But that isn't being reflected at all in the media.
So, Uber's cars look to be at the "what is the minimum that can make a car steer itself" end of the scale
You say this based on an accident, because it sure as hell has nothing to do with reality. Uber's cars are currently among the most expensive on the road (high end Volvo SUV, fully kitted out with about every instrument you can think of). Just because it doesn't work doesn't make it cheap. By comparison most of Waymo's fleet is significantly cheaper.
Jaywalking doesn't even exist in the rest of the world
It does in many places actually, but it is usually applied with some manner of common sense. E.g. Australia, It's only Jaywalking if you're within 10m of a traffic light that is red for pedestrians.
Self driving cars are mostly hype. They're primarily self driving on very good, very clean, very well mapped roads only. Take them out of perfect conditions, and they fail miserably.
I have a solution to this. Let's develop some technology and put it through an iterative improvement process combined with years of trials in the real world in increasingly complex scenarios. It's a shame no one has thought of doing this.
By the way, hype has two possible meanings:
a) It's publicised a lot to which I say So? That's kind of the point of all new technology that many groups are working on.
b) It's benefits are exaggerated: No they're not.
So yes, Self driving cars are currently hyped up. That is not a bad thing.
Then every single corporate decision has to go through them and they end up ruining your company like for example EA.
Sure that's one example, now with over 4000 publicly listed companies in the USA, care to name 3999 others? I'm sure we can play a game where we can name a privately own company that was driven into shit for every publicly owned one. Though we may be here for a while.
Just get a damn private or bank loan if you need funds.
I see you've never had to raise capital before.
Stop storing your files on someone else's servers!
Why? Those other people are far better at looking after your files than 99.9% of the population out there. In other news I also get my car serviced at a mechanic, pay for someone to wire my house, and keep my money in a bank.
Someone else's server is no different than any other specialist service I* pay for.
* Note I use Seafile on my own server with a decent 290/40 connection that I backup regularly and store offsite. This is also a solution that won't suite 99.999% of people (even more so than the 99.9% I pointed out above).
The "March for our Lives" gun control march has been kept at the top of the news BY THE MEDIA for the last 30+ days. Do you think a national pro-life (anti-abortion) march would gain the same favorable coverage? Hell no . . . the only coverage it would get would be of its pink hat-wearing counter-protesters.
And the relevance is what? It is still the very same example. Media gets a hold of something and dramatises it. If it is something that doesn't get clicks or (for some media outlets) fit their political agenda, then they move on.
They used to move on from gun control quite quickly as well, but right now it is a hot topic that people show interest in, so they keep running with the stories.
They could end up in trouble for destroying evidence
I never said anything about destroying evidence. You can't get in trouble for someone not finding something they expected to find in the location. If the prosecutor knows a document existed and there's evidence that it was destroyed THEN they can be charged. There are plenty of legal ways to avoid handing over something that isn't specifically mentioned. That's what raids are about. Typically when there is a raid on an office you're looking for evidence of a crime without knowing the specifics. If you know the specifics then they can already be discovered via court processes and there's very little reason for a raid / search warrant.
I don't recall plugins being much of a vector for viruses
So you clearly never looked then. But hey it's not just viruses. The old API can be blamed for much of the problems that were attributed to Firefox itself. Endless complaints about user's CPU and RAM usage. There were several high profile malware plugins. Many of the vectors have been closed and many of the issues the *users* were complaining about resolved as well by the API change.
My kids' school has a locked front door and a fence around the school yard.
My wife's school is a building. You can walk in and out of it as you please. The fact you need more than that in the USA is troubling.
but media of all political views that talks about mass shootings non-stop
We used to have that problem in Australia. Then we tackled the root issue and stopped mass shootings. Funny enough it stopped being a media sensation after that.