Let's say I go to work at 9 AM in California and my Swiss coworker goes to work at 11 AM. We'd like to meet over VC for 15 minutes. What time should the meeting be?
Now try to schedule a recurring weekly meeting between us. Can you schedule one that doesn't shift around throughout the year? Keep in mind both Switzerland and the US has DST, but change clocks on different days.
Compare that to a world where I go to work at 4 PM GMT, and he goes to work at 9 AM GMT. A bit of simple math is all you need. No need to check the calendar and no need to know each country's DST rules.
You make it sound like running a business is completely different today, but it's really not. Buy your supplies, make your product, sell it, hire an accounting firm, consult a lawyer and pay the government.
Yeah, there's a bunch of rules now, but you don't need to personally know all of it. You can just pay someone else to know it. Your competitors are in the same boat and paying the same costs. So in the end, you're still competing on product quality, marketing and supply chain costs.
I think my intelligence allows me to reason about why these drivers do these things and maybe extrapolate it to other situations. As far as recognizing the risk though, just experience alone should be sufficient. It just so happens that that's also what today's "AI" is not terrible at.
Maybe in 70% of the cases, a car edging towards another lane means they're trying to change lanes. If you drive for a million miles, you'll be able to come up with that using just statistics. If you record and label those million miles, you can also train a neural network to recognize it.
The hard part is not that one situation, but thousands of other situations that also need to be recognized. And after recognizing them, some action might need to be taken to mitigate the risk. That's where self-driving cars are having trouble, since that must still be programmed the old fashioned way.
Now if you want to go one step further, you might also want self-driving cars to also behave the same way as humans, so other drivers can continue to receive those cues.
As an adult, I wouldn't trade freedom of speech to fix harassment, but we're not talking about adult society here.
If you've read Lord of the Flies, you'd know that nobody would actually want kids to have the same freedom that adults do. They are way too inexperienced to know right from wrong, or that harming others will eventually come back to bite them in the ass.
If someone assaulted me now, the way some kids did in middle school, they'd be arrested in short order. And if for some reason that wasn't happening and I keep getting attacked, they'll eventually have a life-changing encounter with a spoon. But thankfully we have laws, and adults know not to push people too far.
The same cannot be said for kids though. That's why they're in school, to learn how to become adults in a safe environment. It's much easier to correct a bully right away than to wait until they've become adults. By then, the only way to teach them is to throw them in jail and hope they realize that their behavior that's been tolerated for years is actually unacceptable.
What do people do if, for whatever reason, they mess up the last year of university and don't get picked? Are they out of a job forever?
Those companies do hire experienced people, so they just need to find a job elsewhere for a few years. I've also heard that some students beg their professors to fail them, so they can stay in school for another year, which technically makes them new graduates again in the next round.
That's because they're actually in power. If you made fun of one while living in a blue state, even if it's done unintentionally, you will have your life destroyed.
Nowadays when someone tries to insult me, instead of feeling irritated, I'm just amused. It's cute that they think words will make me angry or whatever.
I can tell with a decent accuracy whether someone is planning to change lanes. Most of the time they'll shift slightly closer to the other lane first to get a better look. If there's a slow car in front of them, they'll also scoot a bit closer. Some will slow down a bit to let me pass more quickly.
Then every once in a while some idiot in the fast lane will suddenly brake. When I see this I know they're about to miss their exit and will try to cross 4 lanes of traffic in just as many seconds.
Other cases aren't so certain, but helps me prepare for sudden movements. If there's a long line of cars joining the freeway, a few of them will pull out into the 2nd lane, usually the ones doing the tailgating first. Same goes for anytime there's a sudden slowdown in the fast lane.
I'd go even further and say signaling is especially important when you think there are no other cars around. Chances are, they're hiding in your blind spot.
I'm with you until "massive amounts of hydropower". Only 16% California's power is hydro, which is very small compared to Oregon's 40% or Norway's 95%. On the other hand, coal and gas makes up 38%. Unless you're planning to turn central valley into a huge reservoir, hydro isn't going to cut it.
I think the problem is cultural. Americans glorify violence and generally avoid talking about other forms of conflict resolution. There aren't many movies where the bad guy isn't killed or at least beaten up.
Because we don't need 4 million more soldiers in the military. The US military owes its superiority to tech, not manpower, and throwing more at it won't make it better.
Besides, who's going to pay the cost of training them, housing them and feeding them? You?
So what year is your Model S? It's pretty pointless to talk about used cars if you don't take into consideration how old they are.
In any case, you clearly want the performance and are willing to pay a lot of extra dough for it.
As for me, I'm going to hold off until the improvements plateaus. My Corolla is probably good for another decade or two. By then I'll be able to pick up the equivalent of today's Model S for $20k.
Those files are on my hard drive now, nobody but me can edit them. If I got it before they edited it, it would've stayed that way, the same as a paper book.
Buy DRM free books then. I've bought ones that are just zip files of HTML documents.
There are so many books out there that there's no reason to buy anything under DRM except perhaps nonfiction or technical references. I don't even have the time to read every classic on Project Gutenberg and now there's free web novels popping up everywhere.
Gaming tried to go the DRM route and failed. So did music. Why should books should be any different?
The (relatively nerdy) young people I talk to tell me they're into gaming, Facebook, Netflix or YouTube. The more outgoing ones will mention various kinds of sports or festivals. A few will say drinking or recreational drugs.
The response I got basically was that they make more money pricing them this way, so this is the way they price them.
EBooks are more convenient, therefore people will pay more for them.
The book market is not a competitive market, so the only thing determining the price is where the optimal price x quantity value is. If it was, you'd see books priced based on their cost to produce & distribute.
The problem is movies being reviewed almost exclusively by people who are not the target audience and who don't understand them.
If it was a great movie, that wouldn't have mattered. The target audience will find it one way or another.
Of course, I don't expect much from people who blame the failure of a movie on others. Not to mention they decided the target viewership before they even knew what they wanted in the movie, so it never would've been great in the first place.
There's only so many explanations for why Africa hasn't developed as quickly as places like South America or East Asia. You can't blame everything on imperialism, since that happened in other regions too.
I'd say of all of the potential explanation, laziness is the most optimistic one, since it's something that Africans can actually change.
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Let's say I go to work at 9 AM in California and my Swiss coworker goes to work at 11 AM. We'd like to meet over VC for 15 minutes. What time should the meeting be?
Now try to schedule a recurring weekly meeting between us. Can you schedule one that doesn't shift around throughout the year? Keep in mind both Switzerland and the US has DST, but change clocks on different days.
Compare that to a world where I go to work at 4 PM GMT, and he goes to work at 9 AM GMT. A bit of simple math is all you need. No need to check the calendar and no need to know each country's DST rules.
You want energy savings? Charge more for electricity. Fucking with clocks does absolutely nothing.
You make it sound like running a business is completely different today, but it's really not. Buy your supplies, make your product, sell it, hire an accounting firm, consult a lawyer and pay the government.
Yeah, there's a bunch of rules now, but you don't need to personally know all of it. You can just pay someone else to know it. Your competitors are in the same boat and paying the same costs. So in the end, you're still competing on product quality, marketing and supply chain costs.
I think my intelligence allows me to reason about why these drivers do these things and maybe extrapolate it to other situations. As far as recognizing the risk though, just experience alone should be sufficient. It just so happens that that's also what today's "AI" is not terrible at.
Maybe in 70% of the cases, a car edging towards another lane means they're trying to change lanes. If you drive for a million miles, you'll be able to come up with that using just statistics. If you record and label those million miles, you can also train a neural network to recognize it.
The hard part is not that one situation, but thousands of other situations that also need to be recognized. And after recognizing them, some action might need to be taken to mitigate the risk. That's where self-driving cars are having trouble, since that must still be programmed the old fashioned way.
Now if you want to go one step further, you might also want self-driving cars to also behave the same way as humans, so other drivers can continue to receive those cues.
As an adult, I wouldn't trade freedom of speech to fix harassment, but we're not talking about adult society here.
If you've read Lord of the Flies, you'd know that nobody would actually want kids to have the same freedom that adults do. They are way too inexperienced to know right from wrong, or that harming others will eventually come back to bite them in the ass.
If someone assaulted me now, the way some kids did in middle school, they'd be arrested in short order. And if for some reason that wasn't happening and I keep getting attacked, they'll eventually have a life-changing encounter with a spoon. But thankfully we have laws, and adults know not to push people too far.
The same cannot be said for kids though. That's why they're in school, to learn how to become adults in a safe environment. It's much easier to correct a bully right away than to wait until they've become adults. By then, the only way to teach them is to throw them in jail and hope they realize that their behavior that's been tolerated for years is actually unacceptable.
What do people do if, for whatever reason, they mess up the last year of university and don't get picked? Are they out of a job forever?
Those companies do hire experienced people, so they just need to find a job elsewhere for a few years. I've also heard that some students beg their professors to fail them, so they can stay in school for another year, which technically makes them new graduates again in the next round.
That's because they're actually in power. If you made fun of one while living in a blue state, even if it's done unintentionally, you will have your life destroyed.
I guess in your book, all those kids who committed suicide due to bullying were just too weak to live?
What about those who went on a rampage? Or the innocent people who just happened to be in the way? Acceptable losses?
I agree 100%.
Nowadays when someone tries to insult me, instead of feeling irritated, I'm just amused. It's cute that they think words will make me angry or whatever.
I can tell with a decent accuracy whether someone is planning to change lanes. Most of the time they'll shift slightly closer to the other lane first to get a better look. If there's a slow car in front of them, they'll also scoot a bit closer. Some will slow down a bit to let me pass more quickly.
Then every once in a while some idiot in the fast lane will suddenly brake. When I see this I know they're about to miss their exit and will try to cross 4 lanes of traffic in just as many seconds.
Other cases aren't so certain, but helps me prepare for sudden movements. If there's a long line of cars joining the freeway, a few of them will pull out into the 2nd lane, usually the ones doing the tailgating first. Same goes for anytime there's a sudden slowdown in the fast lane.
I'd go even further and say signaling is especially important when you think there are no other cars around. Chances are, they're hiding in your blind spot.
I'm with you until "massive amounts of hydropower". Only 16% California's power is hydro, which is very small compared to Oregon's 40% or Norway's 95%. On the other hand, coal and gas makes up 38%. Unless you're planning to turn central valley into a huge reservoir, hydro isn't going to cut it.
I think the problem is cultural. Americans glorify violence and generally avoid talking about other forms of conflict resolution. There aren't many movies where the bad guy isn't killed or at least beaten up.
Because we don't need 4 million more soldiers in the military. The US military owes its superiority to tech, not manpower, and throwing more at it won't make it better.
Besides, who's going to pay the cost of training them, housing them and feeding them? You?
So what year is your Model S? It's pretty pointless to talk about used cars if you don't take into consideration how old they are.
In any case, you clearly want the performance and are willing to pay a lot of extra dough for it.
As for me, I'm going to hold off until the improvements plateaus. My Corolla is probably good for another decade or two. By then I'll be able to pick up the equivalent of today's Model S for $20k.
Those files are on my hard drive now, nobody but me can edit them. If I got it before they edited it, it would've stayed that way, the same as a paper book.
My time is not free. Often it's worth more than what the contractor's asking.
You still paid the 20% down, and the remodeling.
And if your tenant leaves, you'll need to find someone quick.
Yes, people are spending more and more on "services", which is to say, experiences, rather than physical goods. There's nothing bad about that.
Was that book The Communist Manifesto?
Buy DRM free books then. I've bought ones that are just zip files of HTML documents.
There are so many books out there that there's no reason to buy anything under DRM except perhaps nonfiction or technical references. I don't even have the time to read every classic on Project Gutenberg and now there's free web novels popping up everywhere.
Gaming tried to go the DRM route and failed. So did music. Why should books should be any different?
And before you tell me those don't count, let's take a look at the definition of the word "hobby":
hobby noun: a pursuit outside one's regular occupation engaged in especially for relaxation
So by that definition, even following trending stuff on Twitter counts, unless they're paid to do it of course.
The response I got basically was that they make more money pricing them this way, so this is the way they price them.
EBooks are more convenient, therefore people will pay more for them.
The book market is not a competitive market, so the only thing determining the price is where the optimal price x quantity value is. If it was, you'd see books priced based on their cost to produce & distribute.
The problem is movies being reviewed almost exclusively by people who are not the target audience and who don't understand them.
If it was a great movie, that wouldn't have mattered. The target audience will find it one way or another.
Of course, I don't expect much from people who blame the failure of a movie on others. Not to mention they decided the target viewership before they even knew what they wanted in the movie, so it never would've been great in the first place.
There's only so many explanations for why Africa hasn't developed as quickly as places like South America or East Asia. You can't blame everything on imperialism, since that happened in other regions too.
I'd say of all of the potential explanation, laziness is the most optimistic one, since it's something that Africans can actually change.