"Your life choices causes a negligible impact on the environment! It must be stopped!"
Why are people who are for the environment always end up being against freedom? Or humans in general for that matter? What's wrong with bio-degradable straws?
People might be the same, but technology is always progressing. Per-worker productivity in the US is at an all-time high[1], yet income has lagged far behind. In 200 years, we'll have even more technology, and if we're lucky, also a system of wealth distribution that allows the fruits of progress to trickle down to the common man.
Now if we're really lucky, it'll be the robotic 80% of humanoids who are poor, and the fleshy 20% doing well.
There is a high potential of this being a case of throwing gas into the fire. Optimistic scenario, sure, the guy will leave home, get a job and reform himself. But people in the US really should not ignore the potential of someone mentally unstable becoming enraged with the situation and turning into yet another nightmare scenario that we all know pretty well by now having multiple cases a year.
You're talking about shootings, but the more common case is just becoming homeless. I'm pretty sure the main character from Welcome to the NHK would've been one of those crazy homeless people. He even had the same delusions as them.
In most of the world the land is so much more than the dwelling, that a new owner will rarely "move in". They will buy, demolish, and build/redesign their new home/flat.
Reality is... most of the world can afford a home even less than most Americans.
If they're having trouble paying for the house, why the heck are they adding the cost of rebuilding it on top of that?
I don't know what rules your part of Europe has, but in most of the US, you can't build or sell a house without a bathroom and a kitchen. Are you going to complain about people wanting walls and windows next?
And of course they also 'need' a summer holiday and at least a skiing weekend trip.
Yeah, because a $200 ski trip is totally unreasonable... If you can't afford doing that at least once a year, you're not living in a first-world country.
Legalized Bribery is the worst thing ever to happen to political campaigns, except for all other forms of bribery.
Political corruption always exists. Unlike cigar-smoke-stained backroom deals, if corruption of elected officials is above board, theoretically, we'd be aware of it as voters in a democracy and snuff it out at the ballot box...
In what way is backroom deals worse than legalized bribery?
In a country where corruption is illegal, a politician who was seen partying on a $50 million yacht can end up in prison, or worse. Maybe there will be corruption still, but it will be more difficult to pull off than in one in which it's entirely legal.
If ordinary Americans want better lives for themselves then they need to take a hard look in the mirror and resolve to be better people: more honest, more generous, and with much more integrity.
Having been to other countries, Americans are plenty honest, generous and upstanding. I've met maybe 3 Americans lie or act disrespectfully towards me, out of thousands. Most of them go out of their way to help.
The problem is, none of those attributes actually make anyone wealthy. Do you ever wonder why "making an honest living" is synonymous with not being rich? If anything, Americans are too naive and trusting. Just by being told "I'm going to bring back jobs", half of the country votes for Trump. Nevermind that he's a billionaire who could not possibly understand what poor folks go through, or the fact that the only thing of note that he did so far was giving himself a tax cut.
The whole point of writing is to get ideas across. If most of your audience reads at the 6th or 7th grade level, then there's nothing wrong with writing at that level. And I think the author of the article understands that. There aren't a lot of abstruse words and besides paragraph length, it's pretty standard as far as journal articles are concerned.
If you want to improve your reading comprehension, read The Economist or The Wall Street Journal
Frankly, I find the poorly written stuff, such as fan fiction, much harder to read than Anna Karenina. It takes a much better reader to make sense of crack fiction or Trump's tweets. To make an analogy, any ordinary pilot can land the most advanced aircraft at the world's most sophisticated airport, but it takes an amazing one to land an engineless plane in the Hudson River.
It can be easily quantified. They can force the casinos into a 20-year contract that says no layoffs of any kind except those approved by the union. Alternatively, they can ask for an ownership stake, which ensures they'll get the profits from automation even if they're laid off.
If Waymo's developers go on strike, do the self driving cars stop? I'm not so sure. New development stops sure, but that doesn't have nearly the same business impact. They just need a few non-union members to keep a skeleton crew running and the employers could keep it up much longer than the strikers.
That's true, but at the same time, they have an even worse threat than striking: heading over to the competition. If you remember, the head of Waymo went over to Uber, and they tried to stop him by suing. If the they were unionized and the entire team all went at once, Waymo would be dead.
A better example might be Zynga. In 2011, they had money-making products already and was ready to IPO. They thought that the devs were no longer needed now that the system was running on its own. So the owners demandedemployees give back not-yet-vested stock or face termination.
A whole bunch of people left as a result, and those who didn't leave right away started looking around. After the initial IPO hype that boosted the stock price to $12, it fell all the way down to $3, and pretty much stayed the same ever since. Now that doesn't necessarily prove Zynga would've done well if those employees stayed on, but I haven't heard of any other startups trying this since then.
The number of restaurants that make their own burger buns, minced meat or ketchup is extremely small. In other words, everything except for heating it and putting it together is already automated.
Will that last 2 steps be automated? Well, the gas stove does most of the heating already. And putting it together can be done by machines, but it requires some dexterity and flexibility, both in the appendages and in software. QA is also missing right now.
At least in the near future, those problem won't be solved by machines. Not just because there's no easy way to do it, but also because there's not enough incentive. Restaurant workers are cheap and a lot of people visit restaurants for the human experience.
Not necessarily. A tiny union of the only 3 people in the world who knows how to run your automated factory has more power over you than a union of 10,000 manual laborers who used to do that work by hand. The first is almost impossible to replace, while the second only takes some time.
Plants that share the same photosynthesis pathway as rice and wheat do indeed grow larger and produce greater yields in higher carbon dioxide concentrations by creating more carbohydrates... But they don't increase the amount of other nutrients in their grains relative to that yield gain. "They're basically getting a dilution effect of the nutrients in the grains"
For the poor parts of world, malnutrition from the lack of carbohydrates is much harder to deal with than a lack of vitamins. It doesn't take a lot of land to plant a vegetable garden.
In this area, northbound Mill Avenue is separated from southbound Mill Avenue by a center median
containing trees, shrubs, and brick landscaping in the shape of an X. Four signs at the edges of the brick
median, facing toward the roadway, warn pedestrians to use the crosswalk. The nearest crosswalk is at
the intersection of Mill Avenue and Curry Road, about 360 feet north of where the crash occurred.
The accident could've been easily avoided, if either she or the driver been paying any attention at all. But really, what do you expect when a phone-addicted ex-con encounters a homeless meth-addict while "driving" a vehicle with experimental software from a "ride-sharing" company?
There's no evidence besides her own report of the situation. Look at how her facial expressions changes in the video. It's initially neutral, then a smirk, then neutral as she looks at the road, then amused as she looks down, and then finally horrified as she looks up for the last time.
She was, without doubt, looking at something much more interesting than a list of vehicle status updates.
Self driving cars are not sold to the public at the moment. Because e.g. Lidar technology is still to expensive for mass production.
I don't think that's the case at all. Only the market gets to decide if something is "too expensive". Just think of all the parents who no longer have to pick up their kids from soccer practice and those retirees with more money than hand-eye coordination. There'll be people who would pay $50,000 on top of the car itself for a true self-driving car.
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"Your life choices causes a negligible impact on the environment! It must be stopped!"
Why are people who are for the environment always end up being against freedom? Or humans in general for that matter? What's wrong with bio-degradable straws?
Depends on the parents, the good ones provide food and counseling, and if you have kids, free childcare.
People might be the same, but technology is always progressing. Per-worker productivity in the US is at an all-time high[1], yet income has lagged far behind. In 200 years, we'll have even more technology, and if we're lucky, also a system of wealth distribution that allows the fruits of progress to trickle down to the common man.
Now if we're really lucky, it'll be the robotic 80% of humanoids who are poor, and the fleshy 20% doing well.
[1] BLS (chart 5)
Yeah, GP clearly misread that. It's the daughter's SO that fucks like a porn star.
There is a high potential of this being a case of throwing gas into the fire. Optimistic scenario, sure, the guy will leave home, get a job and reform himself. But people in the US really should not ignore the potential of someone mentally unstable becoming enraged with the situation and turning into yet another nightmare scenario that we all know pretty well by now having multiple cases a year.
You're talking about shootings, but the more common case is just becoming homeless. I'm pretty sure the main character from Welcome to the NHK would've been one of those crazy homeless people. He even had the same delusions as them.
That's just not true. For any given distance traveled, walking is far more dangerous than driving.
In most of the world the land is so much more than the dwelling, that a new owner will rarely "move in". They will buy, demolish, and build/redesign their new home/flat.
Reality is... most of the world can afford a home even less than most Americans.
If they're having trouble paying for the house, why the heck are they adding the cost of rebuilding it on top of that?
And of course they also 'need' a summer holiday and at least a skiing weekend trip.
Yeah, because a $200 ski trip is totally unreasonable... If you can't afford doing that at least once a year, you're not living in a first-world country.
Legalized Bribery is the worst thing ever to happen to political campaigns, except for all other forms of bribery.
Political corruption always exists. Unlike cigar-smoke-stained backroom deals, if corruption of elected officials is above board, theoretically, we'd be aware of it as voters in a democracy and snuff it out at the ballot box...
In what way is backroom deals worse than legalized bribery?
In a country where corruption is illegal, a politician who was seen partying on a $50 million yacht can end up in prison, or worse. Maybe there will be corruption still, but it will be more difficult to pull off than in one in which it's entirely legal.
If ordinary Americans want better lives for themselves then they need to take a hard look in the mirror and resolve to be better people: more honest, more generous, and with much more integrity.
Having been to other countries, Americans are plenty honest, generous and upstanding. I've met maybe 3 Americans lie or act disrespectfully towards me, out of thousands. Most of them go out of their way to help.
The problem is, none of those attributes actually make anyone wealthy. Do you ever wonder why "making an honest living" is synonymous with not being rich? If anything, Americans are too naive and trusting. Just by being told "I'm going to bring back jobs", half of the country votes for Trump. Nevermind that he's a billionaire who could not possibly understand what poor folks go through, or the fact that the only thing of note that he did so far was giving himself a tax cut.
Force isn't a problem. Energy is. It takes much more energy to heat up a cup of water than lifting the weed a few inches off the ground.
If you want to improve your reading comprehension, read The Economist or The Wall Street Journal
Frankly, I find the poorly written stuff, such as fan fiction, much harder to read than Anna Karenina. It takes a much better reader to make sense of crack fiction or Trump's tweets. To make an analogy, any ordinary pilot can land the most advanced aircraft at the world's most sophisticated airport, but it takes an amazing one to land an engineless plane in the Hudson River.
It can be easily quantified. They can force the casinos into a 20-year contract that says no layoffs of any kind except those approved by the union. Alternatively, they can ask for an ownership stake, which ensures they'll get the profits from automation even if they're laid off.
If Waymo's developers go on strike, do the self driving cars stop? I'm not so sure. New development stops sure, but that doesn't have nearly the same business impact. They just need a few non-union members to keep a skeleton crew running and the employers could keep it up much longer than the strikers.
That's true, but at the same time, they have an even worse threat than striking: heading over to the competition. If you remember, the head of Waymo went over to Uber, and they tried to stop him by suing. If the they were unionized and the entire team all went at once, Waymo would be dead.
A better example might be Zynga. In 2011, they had money-making products already and was ready to IPO. They thought that the devs were no longer needed now that the system was running on its own. So the owners demandedemployees give back not-yet-vested stock or face termination.
A whole bunch of people left as a result, and those who didn't leave right away started looking around. After the initial IPO hype that boosted the stock price to $12, it fell all the way down to $3, and pretty much stayed the same ever since. Now that doesn't necessarily prove Zynga would've done well if those employees stayed on, but I haven't heard of any other startups trying this since then.
The number of restaurants that make their own burger buns, minced meat or ketchup is extremely small. In other words, everything except for heating it and putting it together is already automated.
Will that last 2 steps be automated? Well, the gas stove does most of the heating already. And putting it together can be done by machines, but it requires some dexterity and flexibility, both in the appendages and in software. QA is also missing right now.
At least in the near future, those problem won't be solved by machines. Not just because there's no easy way to do it, but also because there's not enough incentive. Restaurant workers are cheap and a lot of people visit restaurants for the human experience.
Higher wages, naturally. But the workers are also looking for better job security, especially from robots.
Not necessarily. A tiny union of the only 3 people in the world who knows how to run your automated factory has more power over you than a union of 10,000 manual laborers who used to do that work by hand. The first is almost impossible to replace, while the second only takes some time.
Plants that share the same photosynthesis pathway as rice and wheat do indeed grow larger and produce greater yields in higher carbon dioxide concentrations by creating more carbohydrates... But they don't increase the amount of other nutrients in their grains relative to that yield gain. "They're basically getting a dilution effect of the nutrients in the grains"
For the poor parts of world, malnutrition from the lack of carbohydrates is much harder to deal with than a lack of vitamins. It doesn't take a lot of land to plant a vegetable garden.
Then what your explanation for the movement of her mouth corners between 0:10 and 0:13? She was already looking down by 0:09.
Based on her facial expressions in the video, she must've found that diagnostic information very amusing.
To quote the NTSB report itself:
In this area, northbound Mill Avenue is separated from southbound Mill Avenue by a center median containing trees, shrubs, and brick landscaping in the shape of an X. Four signs at the edges of the brick median, facing toward the roadway, warn pedestrians to use the crosswalk. The nearest crosswalk is at the intersection of Mill Avenue and Curry Road, about 360 feet north of where the crash occurred.
The accident could've been easily avoided, if either she or the driver been paying any attention at all. But really, what do you expect when a phone-addicted ex-con encounters a homeless meth-addict while "driving" a vehicle with experimental software from a "ride-sharing" company?
I, for one, would love to see someone try to enforce a 3 mile separation between vehicles. Also that stall warning horn will be hilarious in a car.
On the down side, we'll have to go back to driving cars made in the 1970's, complete with leaded gas and carburetors.
There's no evidence besides her own report of the situation. Look at how her facial expressions changes in the video. It's initially neutral, then a smirk, then neutral as she looks at the road, then amused as she looks down, and then finally horrified as she looks up for the last time.
She was, without doubt, looking at something much more interesting than a list of vehicle status updates.
There's also Twitch. At least some people manage to make a living by streaming.
How do you get paid on Vimeo?
Self driving cars are not sold to the public at the moment. Because e.g. Lidar technology is still to expensive for mass production.
I don't think that's the case at all. Only the market gets to decide if something is "too expensive". Just think of all the parents who no longer have to pick up their kids from soccer practice and those retirees with more money than hand-eye coordination. There'll be people who would pay $50,000 on top of the car itself for a true self-driving car.