Presumably they enabled the facial recognition back end ages ago. Maybe even for EU citizens. Even if the user part has only just been turned on, that database exists somewhere.
Just wait until that leaks out. Of course I'm assuming GCHQ and the NSA hacked it long ago anyway.
Morally the issue is if that person can really consent. So age isn't as important as their mental state/capacity.
I'd feel worse if I thought that person hadn't been given proper sex education, for example. Or if they had some kind of mental illness / disability. Age isn't really relevant, even if they are over what the local age of consent is that doesn't affect the moral factors.
It's worth differentiating between people who become prostitutes because they enjoy the work and those who are not coerced directly but would rather be doing something else. It's like refuse collection - people do it voluntarily, but most of them would rather do something else.
The majority would prefer it if they could make a good living some other way. Not all, but the majority. That's why charities and NGOs concerned with prostitution treat it as a form of poverty. Something that shouldn't be illegal, just regulated and supported, and which is mostly a symptom of other problems in that person's life.
The worst part is that when Apple moved to flat island keys a lot of other manufacturers followed them. Flat key tops are the worst kind. Slightly concave key tops allow your fingers to sense when they are a little off centre and correct, making your typing more accurate and faster.
That's the problem with any kind of screen or projected keyboard. It's not just the lack of feedback from a moving key, it's the lack of positional feedback that allows positioning errors to build up until you make a mistake.
The law says no. The right to be forgotten only allows for certain crimes to be hidden.
In European countries some lesser crimes get hidden from the record after you have paid your due to society. You don't have to tell employers, it doesn't appear on your credit report etc. And you can ask Google to remove it from searches for your personal details like name.
Pushing to meet 100 percent of demand with these resources would require building a huge number of additional wind and solar farmsâ"or expanding electricity storage to an extent that would be prohibitively expensive at current prices. Or some of both.
Translation: it gets expensive if you do it the stupidest possible way.
It then doubles down on the stupid by investigating the stupid way in more depth:
Just getting to 80 percent of demand reliably with only wind and solar would require either a US-wide high-speed transmission system or 12 hours of electricity storage. A storage system of that size across the US would cost more than $2.5 trillion for a battery system.
Yeah, a giant battery would be expensive, but fortunately you already gave us the solution and Europe has demonstrated that it works just fine. But nah, let's ignore that because look, $2,500,000,000,000 battery!
The summary is even worse, leaving out the obvious, tried and tested solution completely and instead trying to give the impression that it's just really really expensive and there is no alternative except non-renewable sources.
The best option would be for the national government to do a scrappage scheme where you get a tax break on a new vehicle if you trade in an old diesel. Typically the government offers a tax break and the manufacturer has to chip in a bit too (which is made up for by increased sales).
EVs are better in the cold weather than fossil cars. No issues getting them started in the cold, ready supply of energy everywhere, low centre of gravity and great performance on snow and ice...
Look at Norway as a great example of how they are extremely practical in a country where it snows heavily for many months of the year (in the north it's more than 4), yet EVs have proven extremely suitable and proven their many advantages in cold weather.
Fortunately those developing nations seem to care more about doing it right than we did coming up. China leads the world in renewable energy and in cleaning up. They hit peak coal a 4 years ago, something many developed nations can't claim. India is making a big effort too.
Aside from helping their own people, they see it as their chance to leapfrog the developed nations. They represent vast markets in themselves, and are developing (i.e. patenting) a lot of the clean technology that will be key this century. 80% of new bus sales in China are pure electric, for example, and they are all built on domestic technology and domestic parts.
We analyze 36 years of global, hourly weather data (1980â"2015) to quantify the covariability of solar and wind resources as a function of time and location, over multi-decadal time scales and up to continental length scales. Assuming minimal excess generation, lossless transmission, and no other generation sources, the analysis indicates that wind-heavy or solar-heavy U.S.-scale power generation portfolios could in principle provide â¼80% of recent total annual U.S. electricity demand. However, to reliably meet 100% of total annual electricity demand, seasonal cycles and unpredictable weather events require several weeksâ(TM) worth of energy storage and/or the installation of much more capacity of solar and wind power than is routinely necessary to meet peak demand. To obtain â¼80% reliability, solar-heavy wind/solar generation mixes require sufficient energy storage to overcome the daily solar cycle, whereas wind-heavy wind/solar generation mixes require continental-scale transmission to exploit the geographic diversity of wind. Policy and planning aimed at providing a reliable electricity supply must therefore rigorously consider constraints associated with the geophysical variability of the solar and wind resourceâ"even over continental scales.
Which contradicts what is said in the summary and TFA. In fact it seems like the author of TFA is illiterate and can't understand clear, simple English statements.
Hand writing is still useful for making quick notes. We are in an awkward time period where tablets aren't cheap enough and batteries don't last long enough for them to be adequate paper replacements, but at the same time we want everything to be digital and searchable. There are bridging technologies like Evernote and Google Keep that can OCR your scrawlings, but I'm really looking forward to having a pile of tablets and a stylus on my desk.
Yes, a stylus. As well as being able to sketch, on-screen swipe keyboard + stylus is the next best thing to a decent physical keyboard.
As someone with arthritis that makes his handwriting bad and painful to do, I can confirm that it's not much of a hindrance these days. The only major issue is reproducing my signature.
Of more interest would be the effect of touch screen use on children's ability to type.
Or even sneak them in as individual frames in other shows and let everyone else distribute them, but not notice their existence without a special TV: one frame of book every 200 frames would give you one novel every half hour to hour of TV show.
I never really understood how this is supposed to work. Maybe I'm unusual but these "hidden" frames are always painfully, jarringly obvious. Films like Fight Club that use them are really obvious to me.
I can see them on high frame rate computer monitors (50-75Hz) as well as on film (24Hz). Can most people really not see them?
This is hardly new though. That Picasso has little value as a wall covering or as fuel on your fire, but courts don't have difficulty assigning a value of millions to it.
So why should the owners (who were not harmed any more than the general public) get a sack of money?
Because their cars are devalued. In some places they made VW buy the car back too, which stopped it harming the general public and fairly compensated the owner for the loss of their property and hassle of replacing the car.
I have a Pixel (last generation) and it's fine. The only new stuff is stuff that you need Pixel 2 hardware for, otherwise all the OS updates and software features are available on my device too.
Specifically what am I missing that constitutes a "fuck you"?
That wouldn't be a problem if you were not simply counting the cash-out value of bitcoin. If you instead added value to your bitcoins by using them to buy stuff semi-anonymously, dodge taxes, support dissidents etc. then it's much harder to calculate their worth.
There are lots of scam crypto currencies, but I think with bitcoin it's just that people had an expectation of getting rich from mining and buying in early, like a mixture of gold rush and currency speculation. If you want to use bitcoins for other reasons then actually those guys are really screwing things up for you and their losses are a good thing (for you).
The Bugatti Chiron is kind of hilarious. They invested untold millions eeking out the last bit of performance from their fossil fuel engine, and it's still slower than a stock Model S from 0-60. Also, it costs 20x as much.
Sure, but let's not forget companies like Nissan who have produced the world's most successful EV that also happens to be fairly affordable. Nissan invested in networks of rapid chargers too.
To get 144Mb you need multiple antennas and multiple channels. It's available in Japan but you need a special mobile router (phones have only one antenna) and a special extra expensive SIM card. It's marketed to business users and I doubt you get that full speed, but it should be faster than single antenna.
Peak speeds are a pointless measurement anyway. What users care about is if they are in the town centre how congested is the network and how bad will their browsing/app experience be.
Latency is the biggest factor. If every packet gets delayed by hundreds of milliseconds due to congestion then it takes much longer to open web pages, get map data, pull down emails etc. The back-and-forth packet exchange is where what makes it slow.
Seems like going to and from your place of work twice a day would create more congestion and more wear on the roads and more pollution than doing it just once.
The key is to build towns and cities around public transport. It's much harder to retrofit it.
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Presumably they enabled the facial recognition back end ages ago. Maybe even for EU citizens. Even if the user part has only just been turned on, that database exists somewhere.
Just wait until that leaks out. Of course I'm assuming GCHQ and the NSA hacked it long ago anyway.
Morally the issue is if that person can really consent. So age isn't as important as their mental state/capacity.
I'd feel worse if I thought that person hadn't been given proper sex education, for example. Or if they had some kind of mental illness / disability. Age isn't really relevant, even if they are over what the local age of consent is that doesn't affect the moral factors.
It's worth differentiating between people who become prostitutes because they enjoy the work and those who are not coerced directly but would rather be doing something else. It's like refuse collection - people do it voluntarily, but most of them would rather do something else.
The majority would prefer it if they could make a good living some other way. Not all, but the majority. That's why charities and NGOs concerned with prostitution treat it as a form of poverty. Something that shouldn't be illegal, just regulated and supported, and which is mostly a symptom of other problems in that person's life.
The worst part is that when Apple moved to flat island keys a lot of other manufacturers followed them. Flat key tops are the worst kind. Slightly concave key tops allow your fingers to sense when they are a little off centre and correct, making your typing more accurate and faster.
That's the problem with any kind of screen or projected keyboard. It's not just the lack of feedback from a moving key, it's the lack of positional feedback that allows positioning errors to build up until you make a mistake.
The law says no. The right to be forgotten only allows for certain crimes to be hidden.
In European countries some lesser crimes get hidden from the record after you have paid your due to society. You don't have to tell employers, it doesn't appear on your credit report etc. And you can ask Google to remove it from searches for your personal details like name.
You are confusing coal generation capacity with coal consumption.
The amount of coal they burn but peak a few years ago. Old plants are being replaced with more efficient, cleaner ones.
http://ieefa.org/ieefa-update-...
They don't value communication and collaboration over coding skills. They just don't know for to measure coding ability.
TFA first states that
Pushing to meet 100 percent of demand with these resources would require building a huge number of additional wind and solar farmsâ"or expanding electricity storage to an extent that would be prohibitively expensive at current prices. Or some of both.
Translation: it gets expensive if you do it the stupidest possible way.
It then doubles down on the stupid by investigating the stupid way in more depth:
Just getting to 80 percent of demand reliably with only wind and solar would require either a US-wide high-speed transmission system or 12 hours of electricity storage. A storage system of that size across the US would cost more than $2.5 trillion for a battery system.
Yeah, a giant battery would be expensive, but fortunately you already gave us the solution and Europe has demonstrated that it works just fine. But nah, let's ignore that because look, $2,500,000,000,000 battery!
The summary is even worse, leaving out the obvious, tried and tested solution completely and instead trying to give the impression that it's just really really expensive and there is no alternative except non-renewable sources.
The best option would be for the national government to do a scrappage scheme where you get a tax break on a new vehicle if you trade in an old diesel. Typically the government offers a tax break and the manufacturer has to chip in a bit too (which is made up for by increased sales).
EVs are better in the cold weather than fossil cars. No issues getting them started in the cold, ready supply of energy everywhere, low centre of gravity and great performance on snow and ice...
Look at Norway as a great example of how they are extremely practical in a country where it snows heavily for many months of the year (in the north it's more than 4), yet EVs have proven extremely suitable and proven their many advantages in cold weather.
Fortunately those developing nations seem to care more about doing it right than we did coming up. China leads the world in renewable energy and in cleaning up. They hit peak coal a 4 years ago, something many developed nations can't claim. India is making a big effort too.
Aside from helping their own people, they see it as their chance to leapfrog the developed nations. They represent vast markets in themselves, and are developing (i.e. patenting) a lot of the clean technology that will be key this century. 80% of new bus sales in China are pure electric, for example, and they are all built on domestic technology and domestic parts.
TFA is nonsense anyway. The actual paper appears to be this one: http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content...
The abstract says:
We analyze 36 years of global, hourly weather data (1980â"2015) to quantify the covariability of solar and wind resources as a function of time and location, over multi-decadal time scales and up to continental length scales. Assuming minimal excess generation, lossless transmission, and no other generation sources, the analysis indicates that wind-heavy or solar-heavy U.S.-scale power generation portfolios could in principle provide â¼80% of recent total annual U.S. electricity demand. However, to reliably meet 100% of total annual electricity demand, seasonal cycles and unpredictable weather events require several weeksâ(TM) worth of energy storage and/or the installation of much more capacity of solar and wind power than is routinely necessary to meet peak demand. To obtain â¼80% reliability, solar-heavy wind/solar generation mixes require sufficient energy storage to overcome the daily solar cycle, whereas wind-heavy wind/solar generation mixes require continental-scale transmission to exploit the geographic diversity of wind. Policy and planning aimed at providing a reliable electricity supply must therefore rigorously consider constraints associated with the geophysical variability of the solar and wind resourceâ"even over continental scales.
Which contradicts what is said in the summary and TFA. In fact it seems like the author of TFA is illiterate and can't understand clear, simple English statements.
Hand writing is still useful for making quick notes. We are in an awkward time period where tablets aren't cheap enough and batteries don't last long enough for them to be adequate paper replacements, but at the same time we want everything to be digital and searchable. There are bridging technologies like Evernote and Google Keep that can OCR your scrawlings, but I'm really looking forward to having a pile of tablets and a stylus on my desk.
Yes, a stylus. As well as being able to sketch, on-screen swipe keyboard + stylus is the next best thing to a decent physical keyboard.
As someone with arthritis that makes his handwriting bad and painful to do, I can confirm that it's not much of a hindrance these days. The only major issue is reproducing my signature.
Of more interest would be the effect of touch screen use on children's ability to type.
Or even sneak them in as individual frames in other shows and let everyone else distribute them, but not notice their existence without a special TV: one frame of book every 200 frames would give you one novel every half hour to hour of TV show.
I never really understood how this is supposed to work. Maybe I'm unusual but these "hidden" frames are always painfully, jarringly obvious. Films like Fight Club that use them are really obvious to me.
I can see them on high frame rate computer monitors (50-75Hz) as well as on film (24Hz). Can most people really not see them?
This is hardly new though. That Picasso has little value as a wall covering or as fuel on your fire, but courts don't have difficulty assigning a value of millions to it.
So why should the owners (who were not harmed any more than the general public) get a sack of money?
Because their cars are devalued. In some places they made VW buy the car back too, which stopped it harming the general public and fairly compensated the owner for the loss of their property and hassle of replacing the car.
I have a Pixel (last generation) and it's fine. The only new stuff is stuff that you need Pixel 2 hardware for, otherwise all the OS updates and software features are available on my device too.
Specifically what am I missing that constitutes a "fuck you"?
That wouldn't be a problem if you were not simply counting the cash-out value of bitcoin. If you instead added value to your bitcoins by using them to buy stuff semi-anonymously, dodge taxes, support dissidents etc. then it's much harder to calculate their worth.
There are lots of scam crypto currencies, but I think with bitcoin it's just that people had an expectation of getting rich from mining and buying in early, like a mixture of gold rush and currency speculation. If you want to use bitcoins for other reasons then actually those guys are really screwing things up for you and their losses are a good thing (for you).
The Bugatti Chiron is kind of hilarious. They invested untold millions eeking out the last bit of performance from their fossil fuel engine, and it's still slower than a stock Model S from 0-60. Also, it costs 20x as much.
Sure, but let's not forget companies like Nissan who have produced the world's most successful EV that also happens to be fairly affordable. Nissan invested in networks of rapid chargers too.
Renault and GM deserve some credit as well.
To get 144Mb you need multiple antennas and multiple channels. It's available in Japan but you need a special mobile router (phones have only one antenna) and a special extra expensive SIM card. It's marketed to business users and I doubt you get that full speed, but it should be faster than single antenna.
Peak speeds are a pointless measurement anyway. What users care about is if they are in the town centre how congested is the network and how bad will their browsing/app experience be.
Latency is the biggest factor. If every packet gets delayed by hundreds of milliseconds due to congestion then it takes much longer to open web pages, get map data, pull down emails etc. The back-and-forth packet exchange is where what makes it slow.
Seems like going to and from your place of work twice a day would create more congestion and more wear on the roads and more pollution than doing it just once.
The key is to build towns and cities around public transport. It's much harder to retrofit it.
My bet is that they installed Meltdown patches and took a massive performance hit.