When was the last time that America was invaded and occupied by a foreign country? How much is that worth to you?
Wrong question. It's not how much it's worth, but how much it costs. Your life might be worth $10 million to you, and you might have $10 million in the bank, but if the life-saving drug costs $10, you're an idiot if you paid $10 million.
No country armed with nuclear-tipped ICBM's has ever been invaded. No other country has even tried, let alone succeeded. If you want defense, that's all you need.
How much does that kind of iron-clad defense cost? Well, an Ohio-class nuclear submarine costs $700 million, and can carry 16 SLBM's costing $37 million each. For the annual military budget of $600 billion, you can buy 450 nuclear submarines plus 7200 nuclear missiles. Every year. By year 2, we'd be running out of targets. By year 5 we'd be out of seaports to dock the subs at at. Now would you please remind me what we're trying to defend against?
You want the media to be discerning and detailed in their reporting, to show the various levels of gray rather than simply reporting black and white, and to not chase after the latest fad.
Actually the Russians did figure out a way to split it in 1/2 their super deep drilling project, if you pack the bottom if it with a lot of nuclear warheads and then detonate the 900MT ish bomb you will technically give the planet an exit would on the other side as the shockwave travels through the magma and will rupture the crust.
so yes, we CAN do some serious damage to the planet if we really tried hard enough. And that is the problem NOBODY IS TRYING HARD ENOUGH!
Not sure if you're joking, but you're off by at least 10 orders of magnitude. The Chicxulub asteroid crashed into the Earth with the power of 100 teratons of TNT. It dug a crater 20 km deep, which is 8 km deeper than the Russian drill hole you mentioned, but it only displaced 200,000 km^3 of dirt. For comparison, the Earth is made up of 1,083,210,000,000 km^3 of dirt.
To actually blow up the planet, you would need 2.25 x 10^32 Joules of energy, which would take 578 billion years to generate at the world's current energy generation capacity (3.89 x 10^20 Joules per year).
Humans are puny. Even if everyone in the world tried their hardest, it's not going to make much of a difference. The surface or the living things on it? Yes, we can affect them. The body of the Earth? No.
I am not a 20 year old hipster doofus who has to watch everything on his phone and I have a real job and a real TV with a real cable subscription at my house, I can't really say much about that.
So you pay extra to have ads shoved down your throat. What a privilege.
If the US politicians ever decided they wanted unrestricted open warfare against a country there are only a couple of countries (Russia and China, mostly due to their nuclear arsenal) that would be able to stop the US military from simply steamrolling over them.
Right, because we totally won in Vietnam and Korea.
If new hires aren't immediately productive after spending 16-20 years in the educational system, then the educational system is fundamentally broken.
A university education is not job training. Every industry has a diverse selection of tools they use and they differ from company to company. If universities taught students how to use every single industry tool, then students would waste even more time studying. So instead, universities teach the underlying theory, which is the essential part that's common to everything the industry uses. Students don't really need to know all the tools when they graduate. They can pick up the details once they start working and they only need to learn the tools that a particular company uses.
The other problem with job-specific training is that it needs to be redone every once in a while, whereas a university education lasts a lifetime. When new technologies come out, someone who understands the theory will pick it up very quickly. But someone who only had training on a particular tool will need to spend a long time learning to use the new thing.
The smart meter freaks out for no reason and charges you $500 extra. You complain to the utility, they say it's your fault. You complain to PUC, they ask you for proof. You have none. Congrats, you're now out $500.
The problem isn't just some 0.X% being over charged, it's being over charged and being unable to do anything about it. The power company's response is always "you used more this month", and there's literally nothing you can do about it. It's in the same problem category as cops shooting black people. Nobody is saying we can avoid all the accidents, but everyone wants justice system to stop shielding the cops from any and all liability.
If a farmer can run a diesel pump, then a power company can run a diesel plant for even less. Either the government's diesel subsidies are too high or they let the power company get too greedy.
I honestly don't understand why it matters which time zone we end up in. Businesses that want to open early will open at 7 AM if we go with UTC -8:00 and 8 AM with UTC -7:00. If a business needs daylight to do work, then they can adjust their own working hours throughout the year. If dawn is 5 AM in the summer, then start work at 5 AM. If it's 9 AM in the winter, then start work at 9.
If you want people to have more daytime after work, you might as well just make a law that says work must end no later than 3 PM. Or better yet, end overtime exemptions. That'd prevent people from working 80 hour weeks.
I have a hard time believing their costs. I'm sure everything is cheaper in Russia, but can you really build a foundation for $277? I mean, they're generally $5-10k here in the US. They also don't take into account the design cost, which would be pretty significant, given how frequently people want to customize their homes.
Why don't they just enforce the speed limit? I mean, you can put in speed bumps that makes your own commute more annoying, or you can put in some speed cameras.
Enjoy your "no right turn 4:30 PM - 7:00 PM". Hope you never need to get home in a hurry because you're going to get lots of those signs in your neighborhood.
DOJ didn't say it was fine to drop the courses. It only said Berkley should ensure disabled people should have access to it, and "Pay compensatory damages to aggrieved individuals for injuries caused by UC Berkeley’s failure to comply with title II."
Iran's internet penetration is very good. So many people use internet there, that they had to ban the use of sites like YouTube and Facebook to prevent "western influence". Compare that to NK, where you are allowed to use this one government-run social network and a handful of other government sites.
The North barely has any internet-connected computers, or just computers at all. I highly doubt their missiles use anything advanced enough that someone can hack into.
I don't understand people who buy them. You not only pay more for the discs, you buy shelves to put them on, rent a bigger apartment for the shelves, pack more boxes when you move, and spend more time looking for that one disc with the movie you want to watch.
There might be more human work at some locations. Faster service using kiosks might bring in more customers in that restaurant, but the total number of meals people eat always stays the same, which means other non-automated restaurants are losing customers. Since the automated restaurant is serving more people with the same number of employees, the overall effect is a decrease in labor.
if you "completely" eliminate tabs, you break compatibility with POSIX Make
Syntactically important tabs is the worst part of Make. God help you if your editor shows tab and spaces in the same way. I for one would be glad when that "feature" is gone.
In my experience, tab-separated values format is more efficient than comma-separated values format because a value is far more likely to need escaping because it contains a comma than because it contains a tab.
If you want space-efficiency, compress them before writing to disk. You'd get far more savings that way.
Genetic algorithms can only come up with solutions to meet pre-programmed criteria.
This is just false. If you don't program a criteria, the system will still do things, just not necessarily the ones you want. It can exhibit complex behavior on its own.
The novel thought (determining your own training sets, deciding on success criteria, new thought) are limited to extremely complex systems (like a human).
Why can't extremely complex systems exist in a computer? Why must it be composed of a bunch of neurons? Why can't I build a simulation of a brain in a computer?
Your brain is just a complicated machine. With a big enough computer, I can simulate everything that that machine does, including all of those "uniquely human" behaviors. The computer doesn't need to understand how consciousness works to simulate it.
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When was the last time that America was invaded and occupied by a foreign country? How much is that worth to you?
Wrong question. It's not how much it's worth, but how much it costs. Your life might be worth $10 million to you, and you might have $10 million in the bank, but if the life-saving drug costs $10, you're an idiot if you paid $10 million.
No country armed with nuclear-tipped ICBM's has ever been invaded. No other country has even tried, let alone succeeded. If you want defense, that's all you need.
How much does that kind of iron-clad defense cost? Well, an Ohio-class nuclear submarine costs $700 million, and can carry 16 SLBM's costing $37 million each. For the annual military budget of $600 billion, you can buy 450 nuclear submarines plus 7200 nuclear missiles. Every year. By year 2, we'd be running out of targets. By year 5 we'd be out of seaports to dock the subs at at. Now would you please remind me what we're trying to defend against?
You want the media to be discerning and detailed in their reporting, to show the various levels of gray rather than simply reporting black and white, and to not chase after the latest fad.
You're asking too much of mainstream media.
Don't worry, the Italian taxis will prevail. They will regain their right to take you on the scenic route.
Actually the Russians did figure out a way to split it in 1/2 their super deep drilling project, if you pack the bottom if it with a lot of nuclear warheads and then detonate the 900MT ish bomb you will technically give the planet an exit would on the other side as the shockwave travels through the magma and will rupture the crust .
so yes, we CAN do some serious damage to the planet if we really tried hard enough. And that is the problem NOBODY IS TRYING HARD ENOUGH!
Not sure if you're joking, but you're off by at least 10 orders of magnitude. The Chicxulub asteroid crashed into the Earth with the power of 100 teratons of TNT. It dug a crater 20 km deep, which is 8 km deeper than the Russian drill hole you mentioned, but it only displaced 200,000 km^3 of dirt. For comparison, the Earth is made up of 1,083,210,000,000 km^3 of dirt.
To actually blow up the planet, you would need 2.25 x 10^32 Joules of energy, which would take 578 billion years to generate at the world's current energy generation capacity (3.89 x 10^20 Joules per year).
Humans are puny. Even if everyone in the world tried their hardest, it's not going to make much of a difference. The surface or the living things on it? Yes, we can affect them. The body of the Earth? No.
I am not a 20 year old hipster doofus who has to watch everything on his phone and I have a real job and a real TV with a real cable subscription at my house, I can't really say much about that.
So you pay extra to have ads shoved down your throat. What a privilege.
Winning one war means winning them all. Nice logic there. Also, the Russians won WWII, we didn't even show up until the very end.
If the US politicians ever decided they wanted unrestricted open warfare against a country there are only a couple of countries (Russia and China, mostly due to their nuclear arsenal) that would be able to stop the US military from simply steamrolling over them.
Right, because we totally won in Vietnam and Korea.
If new hires aren't immediately productive after spending 16-20 years in the educational system, then the educational system is fundamentally broken.
A university education is not job training. Every industry has a diverse selection of tools they use and they differ from company to company. If universities taught students how to use every single industry tool, then students would waste even more time studying. So instead, universities teach the underlying theory, which is the essential part that's common to everything the industry uses. Students don't really need to know all the tools when they graduate. They can pick up the details once they start working and they only need to learn the tools that a particular company uses.
The other problem with job-specific training is that it needs to be redone every once in a while, whereas a university education lasts a lifetime. When new technologies come out, someone who understands the theory will pick it up very quickly. But someone who only had training on a particular tool will need to spend a long time learning to use the new thing.
Way to miss the point.
The smart meter freaks out for no reason and charges you $500 extra. You complain to the utility, they say it's your fault. You complain to PUC, they ask you for proof. You have none. Congrats, you're now out $500.
The problem isn't just some 0.X% being over charged, it's being over charged and being unable to do anything about it. The power company's response is always "you used more this month", and there's literally nothing you can do about it. It's in the same problem category as cops shooting black people. Nobody is saying we can avoid all the accidents, but everyone wants justice system to stop shielding the cops from any and all liability.
If a farmer can run a diesel pump, then a power company can run a diesel plant for even less. Either the government's diesel subsidies are too high or they let the power company get too greedy.
I honestly don't understand why it matters which time zone we end up in. Businesses that want to open early will open at 7 AM if we go with UTC -8:00 and 8 AM with UTC -7:00. If a business needs daylight to do work, then they can adjust their own working hours throughout the year. If dawn is 5 AM in the summer, then start work at 5 AM. If it's 9 AM in the winter, then start work at 9.
If you want people to have more daytime after work, you might as well just make a law that says work must end no later than 3 PM. Or better yet, end overtime exemptions. That'd prevent people from working 80 hour weeks.
I have a hard time believing their costs. I'm sure everything is cheaper in Russia, but can you really build a foundation for $277? I mean, they're generally $5-10k here in the US. They also don't take into account the design cost, which would be pretty significant, given how frequently people want to customize their homes.
Why don't they just enforce the speed limit? I mean, you can put in speed bumps that makes your own commute more annoying, or you can put in some speed cameras.
Enjoy your "no right turn 4:30 PM - 7:00 PM". Hope you never need to get home in a hurry because you're going to get lots of those signs in your neighborhood.
DOJ didn't say it was fine to drop the courses. It only said Berkley should ensure disabled people should have access to it, and "Pay compensatory damages to aggrieved individuals for injuries caused by UC Berkeley’s failure to comply with title II."
Iran's internet penetration is very good. So many people use internet there, that they had to ban the use of sites like YouTube and Facebook to prevent "western influence". Compare that to NK, where you are allowed to use this one government-run social network and a handful of other government sites.
The North barely has any internet-connected computers, or just computers at all. I highly doubt their missiles use anything advanced enough that someone can hack into.
I don't understand people who buy them. You not only pay more for the discs, you buy shelves to put them on, rent a bigger apartment for the shelves, pack more boxes when you move, and spend more time looking for that one disc with the movie you want to watch.
There might be more human work at some locations. Faster service using kiosks might bring in more customers in that restaurant, but the total number of meals people eat always stays the same, which means other non-automated restaurants are losing customers. Since the automated restaurant is serving more people with the same number of employees, the overall effect is a decrease in labor.
if you "completely" eliminate tabs, you break compatibility with POSIX Make
Syntactically important tabs is the worst part of Make. God help you if your editor shows tab and spaces in the same way. I for one would be glad when that "feature" is gone.
In my experience, tab-separated values format is more efficient than comma-separated values format because a value is far more likely to need escaping because it contains a comma than because it contains a tab.
If you want space-efficiency, compress them before writing to disk. You'd get far more savings that way.
Genetic algorithms can only come up with solutions to meet pre-programmed criteria.
This is just false. If you don't program a criteria, the system will still do things, just not necessarily the ones you want. It can exhibit complex behavior on its own.
The novel thought (determining your own training sets, deciding on success criteria, new thought) are limited to extremely complex systems (like a human).
Why can't extremely complex systems exist in a computer? Why must it be composed of a bunch of neurons? Why can't I build a simulation of a brain in a computer?
They would hate it, it would remove their power over man.
Plenty of men get married and don't want kids.
Your brain is just a complicated machine. With a big enough computer, I can simulate everything that that machine does, including all of those "uniquely human" behaviors. The computer doesn't need to understand how consciousness works to simulate it.
Robots and AI will obviate a lot of jobs, and people will still rise up and do more sophisticated work.
This is hilarious. Do you really think AI will never be more sophisticated than you?