If one of my friends was charged with sexual assault, I would publicly support him up until it was proven beyond a reasonable doubt in court. In fact, I would still support him even after that, perhaps by helping his family deal with the situation or help give him a new start after he is discharged.
If you stop being friends with them the moment they've done something wrong, then they're just people you have fun with, which could be acquaintances or even complete strangers. To call them friends means there's something more. To me that means acceptance, not only of their best parts, but also their worst parts.
As previous accidents have shown, a human is a lousy backup for a self-driving car. Very few humans, if there exists any at all, can maintain constant vigilance over a system that does what its supposed to do 99.999% of the time.
We don't understand self-driving tech and their failure modes well enough to create the equivalent of a driving test. People will die before that can be developed, and the faster and more frequently they die, the faster the development. The only alternative is to let someone else develop it first and buy the tech from them.
He can always add something that breaks over time and then lose the source code. And I mean actually lose it so FBI can't raid his house and find a copy there. If he needs it again, it doesn't take that long to rewrite it.
My salary is about 30k/year. I feel like I'm not getting paid as much as what I'm worth of and there is pretty much nothing I can do about it, because I'm too lazy to do anything about it. I wish that there was a method to pay people what they are actually worth of.
Yeah, it's called quitting and working for someone else. If the company's paying 30k for software devs, they better have blackjack and hookers to make up the difference.
Take Google search: it serves something like 38,000 queries per second. In a world where software doesn't exist, you would need a humongous library containing something like 1.5 billion books (that's 1000 Library of Congresses). When you issue a query, it would take a human at least 30 minutes to flip through the indices, drive to the bookshelves, pick out the 10 books that best answers your query, and write a short snippet for each one to deliver to you.
To answer as many queries as Google does, you would need an army of 200 million people working in 3 shifts... and a way to fit them all in that library.
Now consider banking, online shopping, or scientific research. A single supercomputer can do quadrillions of computations a second. You would need thousands of Earth's worth of people to take the place of one, and there several hundred supercomputers in the world, with new ones being added all the time.
Keep in mind this is a startup, they probably haven't figured out how to do that yet, but will likely do so in the future. It's not like they can just take John Deere's tech and run with it.
If you make viewers work to find their shows by making them have to subscribe and pay for each network individually, they will just put that work into finding the 'free' content instead.
I know you're referring to piracy, but I think YouTube might actually the biggest winner from all of this.
Video games have gotten the distribution right. Sites like Steam and GoG have huge selections and make it easy to buy individual games. If you don't like the middlemen, a lot of game devs also offer direct purchases for the same price. If you prefer something more like a subscription, then you have the humble indie bundle and the like. The more popular games can be expensive, but you get plenty of entertainment from affordable indie or older games.
Compare that to TV shows, where your options are: get multiple streaming subscriptions, or pay exorbitant prices for ondemand streaming.
The idea that everyone should have a streaming subscription needs to die. It's an idea taken from cable TV, and just like cable TV, it's decades obsolete. If I hear good things about a show, I'm willing to pay for it directly. Right now I'd be lucky to even find it available for purchase, and even when it is, one season of the show costs multiple times the monthly subscription.
Most of those companies have foreign operations in places like India and Africa, who are just getting online now. Granted, they're still very poor so you wouldn't expect profits there to scale at the same rate with respect to the number of users.
Why does that matter though? It's not the achievement of black people so much as the achievement of President Obama. Your life as a black person didn't suddenly get better because he was in charge. You're still making a third of what Indians do and getting thrown in jail at 5 times the rate of whites.
So average income doesn't matter? What about homelessness? Incarceration rate? Number of single parent families? Life expectancy? You know, the things that actually affect people's lives?
If I had a choice, I'd rather be Indian. I'll give up having a president of my race any day for the $126,906 median household income, which is 3 times what blacks get.
Replace "women" with "blacks" and you have 60 years of affirmative action to look back on. If it really does work, then why are blacks still at the bottom of society by just about every metric?
If you take affirmative action to its logical conclusion, what you end up with is South Africa. Having dismantled apartheid in 1994, South Africa has turned the tables on its white citizens and has been actively oppressing them for 2 decades. Any white person that had the means to leave has already left. And now the country is falling apart. The government is hopelessly corrupt, murder rates are through the roof, and the economy is declining year over year.
Did one cause the other? I wouldn't know. But I do wonder, if we try too hard to put unqualified people in charge, would we also end up in such a downward spiral?
Eric's problem is that he tried to write a shitty Python parser instead of doing it the proper way by using the built-in ast module. There would be no mucking about with white space if you start from the parsed ast.
This would makes a lot more sense if you read the disassembled program. Per common C calling conventions, the return value is stored in the eax register before handing the control flow back to the caller. Suppose function A calls function B, which in turn calls function C. C would set the eax register to some int value that it wants to return, since B does nothing after calling C, eax would be unmodified. When A checks eax for the return value of B, it would get C's return value instead.
The whole point of any regulatory body is to protect people from their "own stupidity".
No, the primary purpose of a regulatory body is to protect people from other people's stupidity, and sometimes malice.
The SEC exists to protect investors from businesses that want to lie their way into profitability. The EPA exists to protect people from toxic waste produced by factories. The FDA exists to protect people from being sold relabeled rat meat. And the DMV protects good drivers from people who really shouldn't be driving.
I've not seen any evidence that the right wing is for low wages. They're against raising the minimum wage, but that's completely different from being against raising wages. They're are also against immigration, which if actually implemented would push wages up. Income tax cuts are also effectively increasing wages, and the right wing is totally for that too.
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Sounds like you're a terrible friend.
If one of my friends was charged with sexual assault, I would publicly support him up until it was proven beyond a reasonable doubt in court. In fact, I would still support him even after that, perhaps by helping his family deal with the situation or help give him a new start after he is discharged.
If you stop being friends with them the moment they've done something wrong, then they're just people you have fun with, which could be acquaintances or even complete strangers. To call them friends means there's something more. To me that means acceptance, not only of their best parts, but also their worst parts.
As previous accidents have shown, a human is a lousy backup for a self-driving car. Very few humans, if there exists any at all, can maintain constant vigilance over a system that does what its supposed to do 99.999% of the time.
We don't understand self-driving tech and their failure modes well enough to create the equivalent of a driving test. People will die before that can be developed, and the faster and more frequently they die, the faster the development. The only alternative is to let someone else develop it first and buy the tech from them.
Why not negotiate a bonus or promotion before you do it? You can have both the interesting problems and the commensurate pay.
That's fine, but since his productivity went up 40x, the company should give him a 40x increase in salary. To not do so would be stealing from him.
He can always add something that breaks over time and then lose the source code. And I mean actually lose it so FBI can't raid his house and find a copy there. If he needs it again, it doesn't take that long to rewrite it.
My salary is about 30k/year. I feel like I'm not getting paid as much as what I'm worth of and there is pretty much nothing I can do about it, because I'm too lazy to do anything about it. I wish that there was a method to pay people what they are actually worth of.
Yeah, it's called quitting and working for someone else. If the company's paying 30k for software devs, they better have blackjack and hookers to make up the difference.
No. Those jobs wouldn't exist anyways.
Take Google search: it serves something like 38,000 queries per second. In a world where software doesn't exist, you would need a humongous library containing something like 1.5 billion books (that's 1000 Library of Congresses). When you issue a query, it would take a human at least 30 minutes to flip through the indices, drive to the bookshelves, pick out the 10 books that best answers your query, and write a short snippet for each one to deliver to you.
To answer as many queries as Google does, you would need an army of 200 million people working in 3 shifts... and a way to fit them all in that library.
Now consider banking, online shopping, or scientific research. A single supercomputer can do quadrillions of computations a second. You would need thousands of Earth's worth of people to take the place of one, and there several hundred supercomputers in the world, with new ones being added all the time.
Keep in mind this is a startup, they probably haven't figured out how to do that yet, but will likely do so in the future. It's not like they can just take John Deere's tech and run with it.
That says more about Tesla than automation. There are plenty of fully automated factories out there, if Modern Marvels episodes are to be believed.
If they're paying $100 per hour instead of $10, I'd grab a pitchfork myself.
If you make viewers work to find their shows by making them have to subscribe and pay for each network individually, they will just put that work into finding the 'free' content instead.
I know you're referring to piracy, but I think YouTube might actually the biggest winner from all of this.
Video games have gotten the distribution right. Sites like Steam and GoG have huge selections and make it easy to buy individual games. If you don't like the middlemen, a lot of game devs also offer direct purchases for the same price. If you prefer something more like a subscription, then you have the humble indie bundle and the like. The more popular games can be expensive, but you get plenty of entertainment from affordable indie or older games.
Compare that to TV shows, where your options are: get multiple streaming subscriptions, or pay exorbitant prices for ondemand streaming.
The idea that everyone should have a streaming subscription needs to die. It's an idea taken from cable TV, and just like cable TV, it's decades obsolete. If I hear good things about a show, I'm willing to pay for it directly. Right now I'd be lucky to even find it available for purchase, and even when it is, one season of the show costs multiple times the monthly subscription.
Wouldn't that be the other way around? It's more of an accomplishment if he got there without the help of AA.
killing the princess and rescue the dragon
Is that from the Bowsette meme that's been going around? Sounds like an interesting plot twist actually.
To be fair, explosions don't look nearly as cool in book form.
Most of those companies have foreign operations in places like India and Africa, who are just getting online now. Granted, they're still very poor so you wouldn't expect profits there to scale at the same rate with respect to the number of users.
Why does that matter though? It's not the achievement of black people so much as the achievement of President Obama. Your life as a black person didn't suddenly get better because he was in charge. You're still making a third of what Indians do and getting thrown in jail at 5 times the rate of whites.
So average income doesn't matter? What about homelessness? Incarceration rate? Number of single parent families? Life expectancy? You know, the things that actually affect people's lives?
If I had a choice, I'd rather be Indian. I'll give up having a president of my race any day for the $126,906 median household income, which is 3 times what blacks get.
So what happens if an Asian starts a business? Does that mean he can't be on the board of his own company?
Replace "women" with "blacks" and you have 60 years of affirmative action to look back on. If it really does work, then why are blacks still at the bottom of society by just about every metric?
If you take affirmative action to its logical conclusion, what you end up with is South Africa. Having dismantled apartheid in 1994, South Africa has turned the tables on its white citizens and has been actively oppressing them for 2 decades. Any white person that had the means to leave has already left. And now the country is falling apart. The government is hopelessly corrupt, murder rates are through the roof, and the economy is declining year over year.
Did one cause the other? I wouldn't know. But I do wonder, if we try too hard to put unqualified people in charge, would we also end up in such a downward spiral?
Eric's problem is that he tried to write a shitty Python parser instead of doing it the proper way by using the built-in ast module. There would be no mucking about with white space if you start from the parsed ast.
This would makes a lot more sense if you read the disassembled program. Per common C calling conventions, the return value is stored in the eax register before handing the control flow back to the caller. Suppose function A calls function B, which in turn calls function C. C would set the eax register to some int value that it wants to return, since B does nothing after calling C, eax would be unmodified. When A checks eax for the return value of B, it would get C's return value instead.
The whole point of any regulatory body is to protect people from their "own stupidity".
No, the primary purpose of a regulatory body is to protect people from other people's stupidity, and sometimes malice.
The SEC exists to protect investors from businesses that want to lie their way into profitability. The EPA exists to protect people from toxic waste produced by factories. The FDA exists to protect people from being sold relabeled rat meat. And the DMV protects good drivers from people who really shouldn't be driving.
So you making unfounded claims is now me trolling.
Oh? Where? Can you quote the comment?
Like I said, you're a troll.
I've not seen any evidence that the right wing is for low wages. They're against raising the minimum wage, but that's completely different from being against raising wages. They're are also against immigration, which if actually implemented would push wages up. Income tax cuts are also effectively increasing wages, and the right wing is totally for that too.