I flew from Istanbul to London last week and was very impressed with Turkish Airlines handling of this. They impounded all large electronic devices at the gate and wrapped and packed them straight into a special container and gave the owners bar-coded receipts. And, hey presto, that container was by the carousel in London with ground crew handing out the devices. All very slick.
(That's not to say I agree with the policy)
Difficult to comment on a court ruling about posts you haven't read. I think we all would all know the difference between reasonable criticism and hate speech but how can we judge the judge without quoting the offending material?
Do some research, and look up the meaning of Sectarian Violence. The Troubles were catholic vs protestant at the base line.The IRA were nationalistic in that they wanted a Catholic Republic.
No, they were Irish and wanted a united Ireland free from foreign rule. Just like any other independence struggle. I don't condone their violence but it was not primarily a religious war.
In US, discrimination is illegal UNLESS it is demonstrable that discrimination is directly related to one's job.
In the UK (according to ACAS http://www.acas.org.uk/index.a...) "an employer [...] can insist on recruiting a job candidate who has skills in English necessary for the job, but it must not select based on assumptions about race, nationality, or ethnic or national origins."
Not if we take the whole thing to it's conclusion. If robots are capable of making themselves, then robots will eventually be had for the cost of materials. So maybe in the future poor people will have their own unemployed robots....
And robots mine, refine and transport the materials too.
I've interviewed people for software jobs whom I thought HR had screened but who turned out to be useless. How do you establish competence with seeing how they handle some basic computer science questions? It's only a bit of white-boarding, not water-boarding.
Nothing to do with Brexit. The London mayor, Sadiq Khan (a Muslim and son of a Pakistani bus driver) backs the language test. It is part of a campaign to improve quality and reduce the number of rogue mini-cabs on the road.
The people who call themselves "coders" already do little more than paste together half-assed open source projects they find on github and snippets copied from Stack Overflow.
Replacing them with an AI would increase the quality of software by orders of magnitude, and increase the productivity of everyone who can't be replaced.
Modern dev ops: understand the problem; find existing tools and glue them together with bespoke code and help from stackoverflow; test; understand why it doesn't work; debug; decide it fixes the problem; phased deployment.
Maybe AI could one day do bits of that but it'll be a long time before you would trust it to do it all.
But I say all this in the knowledge that there are lots of people I know without a driveway so can't charge at home, or who live more than 50 miles from work, or can't afford 2 (new) cars, or can't park 2 cars or...
Certainly in my inner city area about 1/3 of households have a car but I'd guess the vast majority of those are parked far from their domestic supply.
I really can't see EVs catching on. Early car pioneers carried cans of spare fuel but you can't do that with a pure EV. And 30 mins to charge? And how long is the queue for the charge point even if you manage to find one? I've read reports of UK public chargers being unreliable.
EVs are probably a good thing but range anxiety will take a lot of overcoming.
I was looking forward to a quieter life when the slowing moving traffic outside my window would be near silent. Instead it'll be all sorts of crap synthetic noises.
The UK might become the new India for outsourcing. Perfect command of English, only 5 hours time difference so at least there is some overlap, similar culture... But much lower wages. As the value of our currency continues to decline and we push for cheaper labour and lower pay, we will start to become very competitive with India for highly skilled developers.
Except the UK has an IT skills shortage and has to import EU and non-EU engineers to deal with local demand as it is.
Do they really think that if some ISIS guy flies in, he's going to fill out the customs form honestly and say "Yep, my Twitter handle is @jihad4lyfe!" It's preposterous to think this would be effective at gathering any sort of reasonable intelligence.
The USA citizenship application form has the question: "Have you ever advocated (either indirectly or directly) the overthrow of any government by force or violence?" I remember there used to be something similar on landing cards about overthrowing the US government. There are various apocryphal stories of wits writing "sole purpose of visit".
The old TV detector vans were a hoax to scare people into getting a TV licence. Enforcement was actually done by visiting addresses with no record of a licence. This is another con.
If people are driving properly, and obeying the speed limit, then your complaints are groundless. You can kvetch all you want, as that's your right? But unless you buy the street and make it private, then you have to accept it as part and parcel of living in a civilized society.
In British cities, the local authorities often close off parts of roads to prevent "rat running" through residential areas. That's more civilized.
The idea that we are living inside a simulation is far from original from Musk.
Perhaps the most prominent contemporary proponent of this idea is the philosopher Nick Bostrom.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
When I first heard this hypothesis I started thinking about how you would model an infinite universe. The distances between the stars compared to the lifespan of a human could be an artificial barrier to limit the size of the simulation.
You might as well say you know how to touch type but are staring at a blank sheet of paper. Programming is a tool for solving problems. You need to have a problem domain you're interested in (or somebody is paying you to be). Everything else is reinventing the wheel for practice.
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I flew from Istanbul to London last week and was very impressed with Turkish Airlines handling of this. They impounded all large electronic devices at the gate and wrapped and packed them straight into a special container and gave the owners bar-coded receipts. And, hey presto, that container was by the carousel in London with ground crew handing out the devices. All very slick. (That's not to say I agree with the policy)
Difficult to comment on a court ruling about posts you haven't read. I think we all would all know the difference between reasonable criticism and hate speech but how can we judge the judge without quoting the offending material?
Do some research, and look up the meaning of Sectarian Violence. The Troubles were catholic vs protestant at the base line.The IRA were nationalistic in that they wanted a Catholic Republic.
No, they were Irish and wanted a united Ireland free from foreign rule. Just like any other independence struggle. I don't condone their violence but it was not primarily a religious war.
In US, discrimination is illegal UNLESS it is demonstrable that discrimination is directly related to one's job.
In the UK (according to ACAS http://www.acas.org.uk/index.a...) "an employer [...] can insist on recruiting a job candidate who has skills in English necessary for the job, but it must not select based on assumptions about race, nationality, or ethnic or national origins."
Not if we take the whole thing to it's conclusion. If robots are capable of making themselves, then robots will eventually be had for the cost of materials. So maybe in the future poor people will have their own unemployed robots....
And robots mine, refine and transport the materials too.
I've interviewed people for software jobs whom I thought HR had screened but who turned out to be useless. How do you establish competence with seeing how they handle some basic computer science questions? It's only a bit of white-boarding, not water-boarding.
Nothing to do with Brexit. The London mayor, Sadiq Khan (a Muslim and son of a Pakistani bus driver) backs the language test. It is part of a campaign to improve quality and reduce the number of rogue mini-cabs on the road.
Maybe radioactive diamond batteries - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The people who call themselves "coders" already do little more than paste together half-assed open source projects they find on github and snippets copied from Stack Overflow.
Replacing them with an AI would increase the quality of software by orders of magnitude, and increase the productivity of everyone who can't be replaced.
Modern dev ops: understand the problem; find existing tools and glue them together with bespoke code and help from stackoverflow; test; understand why it doesn't work; debug; decide it fixes the problem; phased deployment.
Maybe AI could one day do bits of that but it'll be a long time before you would trust it to do it all.
"We couldn't be more excited about Apple Watch" is marketing speak for "we don't want to admit that we're quite disappointed".
But I say all this in the knowledge that there are lots of people I know without a driveway so can't charge at home, or who live more than 50 miles from work, or can't afford 2 (new) cars, or can't park 2 cars or ...
Certainly in my inner city area about 1/3 of households have a car but I'd guess the vast majority of those are parked far from their domestic supply.
EVs are probably a good thing but range anxiety will take a lot of overcoming.
then they can spy on me as well. I don't mind, since I'm not trying to overthrow any government.
Neither are about 99.9999% of the Muslims in Britain.
Probably more like 99.99% We are many, they are few but how do you catch those bad apples?
I may not be smarter than Hawking but I'm easily smart enough to recognize when even geniuses are speaking with the wrong orifice.
Well I guess a speech synthesizer is a different orifice from usual but a lot of sense does come out of it.
I was looking forward to a quieter life when the slowing moving traffic outside my window would be near silent. Instead it'll be all sorts of crap synthetic noises.
The UK might become the new India for outsourcing. Perfect command of English, only 5 hours time difference so at least there is some overlap, similar culture... But much lower wages. As the value of our currency continues to decline and we push for cheaper labour and lower pay, we will start to become very competitive with India for highly skilled developers.
Except the UK has an IT skills shortage and has to import EU and non-EU engineers to deal with local demand as it is.
The UK government has such a great history of wise IT investment that I'm sure this new money will be well spent.
Elon had already done so...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/tec...
That article includes the wonderfully tautologous statement that we may live in a computer simulation run by our descendants.
Do they really think that if some ISIS guy flies in, he's going to fill out the customs form honestly and say "Yep, my Twitter handle is @jihad4lyfe!" It's preposterous to think this would be effective at gathering any sort of reasonable intelligence.
The USA citizenship application form has the question: "Have you ever advocated (either indirectly or directly) the overthrow of any government by force or violence?" I remember there used to be something similar on landing cards about overthrowing the US government. There are various apocryphal stories of wits writing "sole purpose of visit".
The old TV detector vans were a hoax to scare people into getting a TV licence. Enforcement was actually done by visiting addresses with no record of a licence. This is another con.
Sorry if I'm not nerdy enough to run my own SMTP server. And why isn't Copy Link Text built-in? I use it very often.
Yes, it's called "don't be a fucking retard and save multiple copies of everything locally".
Seriously. If you can't be bothered to make the tiniest bit of effort to preserve your work then it obviously has no value.
Clearly he should have copies of the artwork but you can't back up social media and the relationships you build there.
If people are driving properly, and obeying the speed limit, then your complaints are groundless. You can kvetch all you want, as that's your right? But unless you buy the street and make it private, then you have to accept it as part and parcel of living in a civilized society.
In British cities, the local authorities often close off parts of roads to prevent "rat running" through residential areas. That's more civilized.
The idea that we are living inside a simulation is far from original from Musk. Perhaps the most prominent contemporary proponent of this idea is the philosopher Nick Bostrom. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
It's also peripherally related to the idea of a Boltzmann brain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
When I first heard this hypothesis I started thinking about how you would model an infinite universe. The distances between the stars compared to the lifespan of a human could be an artificial barrier to limit the size of the simulation.
You might as well say you know how to touch type but are staring at a blank sheet of paper. Programming is a tool for solving problems. You need to have a problem domain you're interested in (or somebody is paying you to be). Everything else is reinventing the wheel for practice.