It coincided with the arrival of the alt-right. Not saying that the people here are necessarily alt-right, just that the alt-right popularized a lot of techniques that are used by everyone on the right now.
Essentially they updated populism for the social media age. Previously it was harder for populists because the media was the primary way that politicians could reach voters, and journalists had seen it all before and didn't let the bullshit slide. Then social media pushed them aside, people started getting their news from each other, and politicians with a small army of followers could speak to the electorate directly.
Ordinary users adopted techniques like framing, alternative facts, whataboutism and never playing defence. Often not even consciously, just copying what they saw working for other people. And the progressives, the left were too proud to do it, too hung up on principals and bogged down trying to use the truth as their sword when politics had already moved to the post-truth world.
I think this is just crap journalism. The "AI" is just an algorithm, like fitting the measurements to a curve that correlates the flow of oxygen and glucose with age. They calibrated the scale against male brains and then noticed that if they applied the same curve to female brains it tended to predict an average of four years younger.
It's not that complicated. Apple certainly knows precisely how much profit it is making, and there is a corporate tax rates levied on profits... So the amount they owe is a percentage of the profit made selling hardware and services in each country.
They try to hide it by paying bullshit licencing fees to a parent company based in Ireland, but we just ignore that. If they have R&D centres in a country they can show the accounts for them.
The IRS is irrelevant for EU taxation. It's up to the US if it wants to double-tax on profit made in the EU, but either way we are getting what is owed to us. That's the price of doing business in our extremely lucrative market.
Shame there's no way to generate electricity with diesel fuel. Or out of thin air, for that matter. If only someone could convert sunshine into power... We can dream I guess.
Google has done this before and it worked quite well. Remember Flash? They first restricted it to running by default only on whitelisted pages, everything else became click-to-play by default. Then that became blocked by default. Finally after several years it was removed entirely, having given everyone plenty of time to stop (ab)using it.
They will likely do something similar if they decide to go ahead with this. Enable one aspect at a time, in a way that causes minimal breakage, keep nudging developers to fix their sites.
I meant in general you can't avoid these technologies completely. Sure you don't have to have a smart thermostat... Yet. Eventually they may end up like TVs and cars, you can't buy one without a microphone in it. Okay, less likely for a thermostat, but you see my point.
I don't know what the solution is. Laws harshly punishing misuse are a good idea. I remember reading a sci-fi book where it was possible to spy on anyone at any time (using micro wormholes) so some people started living in complete darkness and communicating by silently tapping their fingers on each other's hands. Simpler times I guess, these days we know that tapping your fingers is detectable with microphones and can be decoded at a distance.
Same thing happened in the UK, "fibre" internet is really just fibre to the cabinet and then the same crappy copper as before. Now we need to invent a new name for real fibre.
Also we need to think of a new name for actual hoverboards when we finally invent them in 2015.
I completely agree, a stop every 2 hours should be mandatory in fact.
Even with the current crop of 100/150kW chargers they can get you another two hours driving by the time you have been to the bathroom and grabbed a bit to eat or drink. You might have to spend another 10 minutes relaxing if the charger is only 50kW.
It's basically a solved problem, all that is really needed is more chargers.
Google controls the entire browser, so how can it be any worse? They could nerf ad blockers any time if they wanted to, but instead went out of their way to provide the original deep API for blocking (it was actually extended a couple of times to allow blocking earlier in the loading process) and the new high performance one.
This is the reason behind the decision to introduce the new ad-blocking API that everyone was moaning about last week. It removes potentially slow add-ons from the critical performance path of the browser and replaces them with a native one that is presumably optimized and respects the time budget.
Current discussion is around keeping the old API for add-ons that need it, but encouraging use of the new API. Google's usual pattern is to let that go on for a few years and then eventually retire the old API once the new one is has matured enough.
I doubt they could get 100 people on a spacecraft for 7 days, just due to the logistics. Food, water, waste management, and of course providing some entertainment because much of that time is just uneventful travel through the void. Even just the need for people to exercise and move around presents a challenge you wouldn't get on an airliner - can't expect people to stay mostly seated for a week.
There would also be issues with regulators interested in passenger safety. It's not like if someone gets sick or they lose an engine they can just divert to the nearest airport.
The Republicans refused to even hold hearings for Obama's SC candidate. He could have just appointed them anyway, after all if the Republicans aren't going to pay any attention to constitutional norms why should he? But he didn't, he took the moral high road and tweeted about it now and then.
It really is time that you reformed the SC. Limited terms for justices at the very least, and a much more robust vetting process.
350kW chargers are being tested in Europe now. In a decently efficient car that's 1200-1600 MPH. Take the lower end for high speed motorway driving.
If you work it out that means you need to stop for about 12 minutes every 3 hours if cruising at 75 MPH. Maybe I'm just getting old but I don't think I could plug the car in, go take a piss, grab another bottle and get back to unplug in much less time than that.
In fact I doubt you could do it faster in an ICE, given than you need to wait by the car while it is being fuelled.
Do many sites actually use the hard to block techniques in your test suite though? I note that the smallest one is 2.5x larger than the basic MP4 video file version, and that ratio increases exponentially with the length of the video. Seems like a lot of effort and bandwidth just to play back something that they know the user doesn't want to see.
This used to be true but people are learning to be more careful now. Facebook/Cambridge Analytica seems to have been the watershed. When Facebook started running real-world ads trying to restore trust people realized just how bad it was.
Could they at least return the Nest thermostat now? In the UK you could return it under consumer laws for being "not as described" and "not fit for purpose", get a refund and probably ask the retailer to cover some reasonable costs if you felt like pushing it.
What choice do you have though? Unless you want to drive a pretty old car you will find that all modern ones have a microphone for Bluetooth support. And in this case the buyers would have had to disassemble the device to even find out that it had a mic.
It's like how it's hard to buy a dumb TV these days. If you want something with a tuner you either buy a used one or it's going to have smart features and quite possible a microphone.
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Of course, we hold all the power here. As much as we like Apple products, Apple likes our money even more.
It coincided with the arrival of the alt-right. Not saying that the people here are necessarily alt-right, just that the alt-right popularized a lot of techniques that are used by everyone on the right now.
Essentially they updated populism for the social media age. Previously it was harder for populists because the media was the primary way that politicians could reach voters, and journalists had seen it all before and didn't let the bullshit slide. Then social media pushed them aside, people started getting their news from each other, and politicians with a small army of followers could speak to the electorate directly.
Ordinary users adopted techniques like framing, alternative facts, whataboutism and never playing defence. Often not even consciously, just copying what they saw working for other people. And the progressives, the left were too proud to do it, too hung up on principals and bogged down trying to use the truth as their sword when politics had already moved to the post-truth world.
I think this is just crap journalism. The "AI" is just an algorithm, like fitting the measurements to a curve that correlates the flow of oxygen and glucose with age. They calibrated the scale against male brains and then noticed that if they applied the same curve to female brains it tended to predict an average of four years younger.
Is anyone really that sensitive? I doubt it, but would be interested to see anyone actually complaining about this.
More likely is people complaining about a lack of effort/money put into men's health, which isn't entirely fair either.
Can confirm it works on cats, but fortunately there is an easier and less drastic way to produce a somewhat similar effect in humans.
It's not that complicated. Apple certainly knows precisely how much profit it is making, and there is a corporate tax rates levied on profits... So the amount they owe is a percentage of the profit made selling hardware and services in each country.
They try to hide it by paying bullshit licencing fees to a parent company based in Ireland, but we just ignore that. If they have R&D centres in a country they can show the accounts for them.
The IRS is irrelevant for EU taxation. It's up to the US if it wants to double-tax on profit made in the EU, but either way we are getting what is owed to us. That's the price of doing business in our extremely lucrative market.
I'm glad it's Apple too, because they are one of the worst abusers. They invented the Double Irish with Dutch Sandwich tax dodge.
By tackling the worst one first they set a precedent that will make it much easier to get the rest to pay their fair share too.
They don't use that terminology for consumers though. They need a simpler, catchy name.
Everyone was moaning for years that other countries had fibre, it became the holy grail of not-shit broadband, so they gave people "fibre".
Shame there's no way to generate electricity with diesel fuel. Or out of thin air, for that matter. If only someone could convert sunshine into power... We can dream I guess.
Google has done this before and it worked quite well. Remember Flash? They first restricted it to running by default only on whitelisted pages, everything else became click-to-play by default. Then that became blocked by default. Finally after several years it was removed entirely, having given everyone plenty of time to stop (ab)using it.
They will likely do something similar if they decide to go ahead with this. Enable one aspect at a time, in a way that causes minimal breakage, keep nudging developers to fix their sites.
I meant in general you can't avoid these technologies completely. Sure you don't have to have a smart thermostat... Yet. Eventually they may end up like TVs and cars, you can't buy one without a microphone in it. Okay, less likely for a thermostat, but you see my point.
I don't know what the solution is. Laws harshly punishing misuse are a good idea. I remember reading a sci-fi book where it was possible to spy on anyone at any time (using micro wormholes) so some people started living in complete darkness and communicating by silently tapping their fingers on each other's hands. Simpler times I guess, these days we know that tapping your fingers is detectable with microphones and can be decoded at a distance.
Same thing happened in the UK, "fibre" internet is really just fibre to the cabinet and then the same crappy copper as before. Now we need to invent a new name for real fibre.
Also we need to think of a new name for actual hoverboards when we finally invent them in 2015.
I completely agree, a stop every 2 hours should be mandatory in fact.
Even with the current crop of 100/150kW chargers they can get you another two hours driving by the time you have been to the bathroom and grabbed a bit to eat or drink. You might have to spend another 10 minutes relaxing if the charger is only 50kW.
It's basically a solved problem, all that is really needed is more chargers.
Google controls the entire browser, so how can it be any worse? They could nerf ad blockers any time if they wanted to, but instead went out of their way to provide the original deep API for blocking (it was actually extended a couple of times to allow blocking earlier in the loading process) and the new high performance one.
This is the reason behind the decision to introduce the new ad-blocking API that everyone was moaning about last week. It removes potentially slow add-ons from the critical performance path of the browser and replaces them with a native one that is presumably optimized and respects the time budget.
Current discussion is around keeping the old API for add-ons that need it, but encouraging use of the new API. Google's usual pattern is to let that go on for a few years and then eventually retire the old API once the new one is has matured enough.
I doubt they could get 100 people on a spacecraft for 7 days, just due to the logistics. Food, water, waste management, and of course providing some entertainment because much of that time is just uneventful travel through the void. Even just the need for people to exercise and move around presents a challenge you wouldn't get on an airliner - can't expect people to stay mostly seated for a week.
There would also be issues with regulators interested in passenger safety. It's not like if someone gets sick or they lose an engine they can just divert to the nearest airport.
The Republicans refused to even hold hearings for Obama's SC candidate. He could have just appointed them anyway, after all if the Republicans aren't going to pay any attention to constitutional norms why should he? But he didn't, he took the moral high road and tweeted about it now and then.
It really is time that you reformed the SC. Limited terms for justices at the very least, and a much more robust vetting process.
350kW chargers are being tested in Europe now. In a decently efficient car that's 1200-1600 MPH. Take the lower end for high speed motorway driving.
If you work it out that means you need to stop for about 12 minutes every 3 hours if cruising at 75 MPH. Maybe I'm just getting old but I don't think I could plug the car in, go take a piss, grab another bottle and get back to unplug in much less time than that.
In fact I doubt you could do it faster in an ICE, given than you need to wait by the car while it is being fuelled.
So far it's only for people they are actively persecuting: https://www.rfa.org/english/ne...
Do many sites actually use the hard to block techniques in your test suite though? I note that the smallest one is 2.5x larger than the basic MP4 video file version, and that ratio increases exponentially with the length of the video. Seems like a lot of effort and bandwidth just to play back something that they know the user doesn't want to see.
This used to be true but people are learning to be more careful now. Facebook/Cambridge Analytica seems to have been the watershed. When Facebook started running real-world ads trying to restore trust people realized just how bad it was.
You are going to have to open it up and unplug the wifi antenna, and attach an attenuator in its place.
Or just install tinfoil wallpaper in your living room, but I've heard that may amplify the mind control rays.
Could they at least return the Nest thermostat now? In the UK you could return it under consumer laws for being "not as described" and "not fit for purpose", get a refund and probably ask the retailer to cover some reasonable costs if you felt like pushing it.
What choice do you have though? Unless you want to drive a pretty old car you will find that all modern ones have a microphone for Bluetooth support. And in this case the buyers would have had to disassemble the device to even find out that it had a mic.
It's like how it's hard to buy a dumb TV these days. If you want something with a tuner you either buy a used one or it's going to have smart features and quite possible a microphone.
Most Google devices with microphones have a physical on/off switch that disconnects the mic. Seems like they should have added one to the this thing.