While interception of email is possible (although you would hope that they were mostly using transport encryption these days) there are far bigger risks, e.g. sending to the wrong person or the wrong people seeing the paper as it comes out of the fax machine and sits in the in-tray. At least with email there is a decent audit trail too, fax machines at best might store the last N numbers dialed but certainly not the message content.
Some places have done, at least for on-shore. Of course to be fair we need to drop the subsidies on other stuff too. Every nuclear plant will have to close I'm afraid, they can't afford their own meltdown insurance. Coal is obviously gone, gas might survive.
How about you show us a link to a similar design on a rival manufacturer's web site for a start. Let's see if any of them are bringing something to market. Something that makes economic sense in terms of price and performance.
YouTube is a different thing. Most of it is amateur or pro-am stuff. Far more niche than any other broadcast format. Videos are typically much shorter than TV programmes. It's a very different beast to Netflix or traditional TV.
That also explains why YouTube's Premium service is such a joke. 12 quid for no ads and a few original shows. Netflix HD is 8 quid. I'd gladly give them a couple of bucks for no ads, but they only seem to be interested in being some kind of very premium music video service.
Cheaper is not the same thing as more profitable. In fact it's quite often the exact opposite.
There is a lot of money sunk into generating CO2. Mines, wells, refineries, transport, storage, power stations... And they are all quickly becoming worthless thanks to cheaper renewables. Battery storage is making peaker plants uneconomical too.
The absolute worst thing for them is that renewables are democratizing energy production. Instead of being the preserve of big businesses with hundreds of millions to invest now individuals can generate their own power. Communities can get together and buy a turbine or a battery pack. Farmers can install some panels on the craggy land they can't grow on, or in an unused field.
This happens every time there is a big disruption to an industry.
Yes, you are right. But what is the point of saying that? Does it make their efforts to curb the worst behaviour of video game companies any less worthy?
If we can't even admit that they did something positive then our efforts to get them to fix the human rights abuses probably won't be very effective.
The alt-right's tactic was to try to make Nazism more acceptable to normal people by providing them with gateways like Brietbart. They love to appear in suits, complaining about how they are persecuted and no-one is listening to them as if it's all just a legitimate concern. They use words like "establishment" and "elites" rather than "Jews", to avoid being too obvious.
So the best way to deal with them is not by argument, it's to simply expose what they really are. Then all the people suckered in by their semi-respectable bullshit will mostly just run a mile. That's one reason why Charlottesville was so destructive - the swastikas were on open display and what was supposed to be the point where they went mainstream turned into the point at which people started distancing themselves.
Around 20-25% of the fuel used in a conventional flight is just for take-off. The first time you see the fuel gauge falling fast in the first 10 minutes of your flight it can be a bit panic inducing, until you remember this fact.
Once at altitude and cruising the amount of energy required is substantially lower.
It's a question of getting a working, saleable product to market in a few years or gambling on experimental tech that may or may not be commercially viable and then hoping you can sell the concept.
That's not true. Even if you ignore the externalized costs (e.g. healthcare) from coal and gas, on-shore wind is now cheaper than coal and going to overtake gas in the next few years.
The real problem is that powerful people are invested in dirty generation and don't want to see their assets become worthless. Plus nuclear is a massive welfare programme for energy companies and they will cling to it for as long as they can.
Actually no, it's not due to a lack of nuclear power. Coal use isn't even increasing, it's decreasing because gas and renewables are cheaper. Even Japan didn't jump up that much after the force 100% nuclear shutdown, only around 10%: https://ycharts.com/indicators...
The reason we are seeing this increase now is twofold.
1. Some countries are still on the upward part of the curve, e.g. China. Expecting them to immediately start reductions would be insane, it would destroy their economy. But they are on track for their Paris target, which is aggressive to say the least.
2. Many developed countries are finally recovered from the 2008 financial crash that caused an exceptional fall in emissions due to reduced economic activity. I'm sure someone will start screaming about European emissions increasing any moment now, but in reality they are falling as planned if it were not for that artificial depression.
The problem with nuclear is that it's way too expensive for what it provides. There is simply no way to justify spending money on it would be much better spent on renewables. Spending on renewables will have a much greater effect on emissions per Euro/Dollar/Yuan spent, and will lessen the economic impact of making the change.
TFA is fine. It explains clearly in layperson language what the three main issues that the AI handles are (interruption, nonlinear conversation and implicit intent) and then explains that Google's similarly pre-recorded demo did not demonstrate an ability to handle them.
She then notes the limitations of the system and what was not demonstrated or revealed by Alibaba (a live demo or opportunity to test it herself, and the exact training method beyond a mention of the vast number of similar calls they handle every day in their call centre).
Can you state exactly how this is misleading or how Hao failed to understand it? It seems like she has a better grasp of the demonstration than you do.
The idea with rote learning was to provide the tools to do problem solving and other more creative stuff. If your flow is interrupted by having to slowly work out a multiplication, or if you can't estimate a division in your head quickly it limits your ability to concentrate on the problem.
It's less of an issue now that we have calculators. Same as having good handwriting is less of an issue now that we mostly write with keyboards or touchscreens. Poor handwriting (due to undiagnosed arthritis) really held me back for a long time at school, until I got past the point where they were trying to force handwriting and could just type everything.
No, they mean ethical issues such as making free games pay-to-win and highly addictive, or getting kids to gamble on loot boxes. You know, the same shit we are trying to deal with.
China does censor games, but that's not what this is about.
While China is one of the worst the same argument can be made about many countries. The US and UK both murder people without any due process, yet also pontificate on human rights issues. The UK is a surveillance state but feels able to lecture others on freedom.
For China though this is actually a very positive and welcome development. In the west we have loot box gambling and highly addictive "free to play" games that constantly encourage you to spend money on them. We are starting to address the problem and so is China, although China typically acts a lot more quickly and strongly e.g. by simply banning such games from being played by children.
As someone who did move to Japan for a while I can tell you that it's not quite that simple. It depends where you are for a start, but more generally it tends to be hard at first because the language is hard and the culture is very different and many people are a bit frightened of you. Not frightened of violence of crime or anything like that, but worried that they won't be able to understand you or help you and end up being embarrassed.
After a while you reach a point where that doesn't happen any more. I don't know how it works exactly, but at some point you start giving off subconscious signals that you fit in. I remember quite distinctly when I first noticed it. An old woman at the bus stop asked me to open a bottle for her, and then to keep an eye out her for bus because she couldn't see well in the twilight. It might have been my accent, or rather lack of it... More than once people have asked if I am Japanese, but the plight of white Japanese people is another story.
Your numbers are a bit off. The current Hyundai Kona has a ~68kWh pack* which weighs 453kg. So for 900kWh that would be around 6 tonnes, or 6.6 tons.
It would probably be less than that though, because the Kona pack includes all the support structures and water cooling. That stuff won't scale linearly, assuming they even are using water cooling.
* the listed 64kWh is the usable amount, not the full capacity which is secret but seems to be at least 68kWh.
It's not competing with common turboprop commuter aircraft any more than a Tesla is competing with common petrol commuter cars. It's for businesses who use private aircraft to ferry the C levels around.
Okay but how does Chinese companies holding some of the 5G patents block publications in America? How does using a Huawei router running firmware that was certified at source and binary level independently in the US stop freedom of speech?
There is evidence that censorship does actually work. If it didn't it wouldn't be a problem, or so popular.
Take the alt-right. Some of them have been deplatformed and shunned, e.g. Milo Yiannopoulos who is now massively in debt and not getting anything like the exposure he used to. So apparently deplatforming does actually work.
Even more interesting is how the Nazis massively over-estimated their support and their ability to control the narrative at Charlottesville. That rally set them back hugely, and destroyed several of them (loss of jobs, investigations by law enforcement, and more deplatforming). And they made that mistake because they were banned and shunned and blocked until they ended up in an echo chamber that made it seem to them like they were doing a lot better than they were.
I'd say the problem with censorship is the loss of unpopular ideas or its use to control people, not that it's ineffective against fascism.
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While interception of email is possible (although you would hope that they were mostly using transport encryption these days) there are far bigger risks, e.g. sending to the wrong person or the wrong people seeing the paper as it comes out of the fax machine and sits in the in-tray. At least with email there is a decent audit trail too, fax machines at best might store the last N numbers dialed but certainly not the message content.
Some places have done, at least for on-shore. Of course to be fair we need to drop the subsidies on other stuff too. Every nuclear plant will have to close I'm afraid, they can't afford their own meltdown insurance. Coal is obviously gone, gas might survive.
Oh of course they will fail to hold back the tide eventually. But for now they are resisting, slowing down adoption.
How about you show us a link to a similar design on a rival manufacturer's web site for a start. Let's see if any of them are bringing something to market. Something that makes economic sense in terms of price and performance.
YouTube is a different thing. Most of it is amateur or pro-am stuff. Far more niche than any other broadcast format. Videos are typically much shorter than TV programmes. It's a very different beast to Netflix or traditional TV.
That also explains why YouTube's Premium service is such a joke. 12 quid for no ads and a few original shows. Netflix HD is 8 quid. I'd gladly give them a couple of bucks for no ads, but they only seem to be interested in being some kind of very premium music video service.
Cheaper is not the same thing as more profitable. In fact it's quite often the exact opposite.
There is a lot of money sunk into generating CO2. Mines, wells, refineries, transport, storage, power stations... And they are all quickly becoming worthless thanks to cheaper renewables. Battery storage is making peaker plants uneconomical too.
The absolute worst thing for them is that renewables are democratizing energy production. Instead of being the preserve of big businesses with hundreds of millions to invest now individuals can generate their own power. Communities can get together and buy a turbine or a battery pack. Farmers can install some panels on the craggy land they can't grow on, or in an unused field.
This happens every time there is a big disruption to an industry.
How is it if a proof of concept if it uses a proven concept and delivers a working, viable product to the market?
Yes, you are right. But what is the point of saying that? Does it make their efforts to curb the worst behaviour of video game companies any less worthy?
If we can't even admit that they did something positive then our efforts to get them to fix the human rights abuses probably won't be very effective.
Interesting, someone was trolled by economics. Slashdot mods really are snowflakes these days.
The alt-right's tactic was to try to make Nazism more acceptable to normal people by providing them with gateways like Brietbart. They love to appear in suits, complaining about how they are persecuted and no-one is listening to them as if it's all just a legitimate concern. They use words like "establishment" and "elites" rather than "Jews", to avoid being too obvious.
So the best way to deal with them is not by argument, it's to simply expose what they really are. Then all the people suckered in by their semi-respectable bullshit will mostly just run a mile. That's one reason why Charlottesville was so destructive - the swastikas were on open display and what was supposed to be the point where they went mainstream turned into the point at which people started distancing themselves.
Around 20-25% of the fuel used in a conventional flight is just for take-off. The first time you see the fuel gauge falling fast in the first 10 minutes of your flight it can be a bit panic inducing, until you remember this fact.
Once at altitude and cruising the amount of energy required is substantially lower.
It's a question of getting a working, saleable product to market in a few years or gambling on experimental tech that may or may not be commercially viable and then hoping you can sell the concept.
The cheapest energy also emits CO2.
That's not true. Even if you ignore the externalized costs (e.g. healthcare) from coal and gas, on-shore wind is now cheaper than coal and going to overtake gas in the next few years.
The real problem is that powerful people are invested in dirty generation and don't want to see their assets become worthless. Plus nuclear is a massive welfare programme for energy companies and they will cling to it for as long as they can.
Actually no, it's not due to a lack of nuclear power. Coal use isn't even increasing, it's decreasing because gas and renewables are cheaper. Even Japan didn't jump up that much after the force 100% nuclear shutdown, only around 10%: https://ycharts.com/indicators...
The reason we are seeing this increase now is twofold.
1. Some countries are still on the upward part of the curve, e.g. China. Expecting them to immediately start reductions would be insane, it would destroy their economy. But they are on track for their Paris target, which is aggressive to say the least.
2. Many developed countries are finally recovered from the 2008 financial crash that caused an exceptional fall in emissions due to reduced economic activity. I'm sure someone will start screaming about European emissions increasing any moment now, but in reality they are falling as planned if it were not for that artificial depression.
The problem with nuclear is that it's way too expensive for what it provides. There is simply no way to justify spending money on it would be much better spent on renewables. Spending on renewables will have a much greater effect on emissions per Euro/Dollar/Yuan spent, and will lessen the economic impact of making the change.
Shenzhen is where all that has changed. It's like the Silicon Valley of China.
TFA is fine. It explains clearly in layperson language what the three main issues that the AI handles are (interruption, nonlinear conversation and implicit intent) and then explains that Google's similarly pre-recorded demo did not demonstrate an ability to handle them.
She then notes the limitations of the system and what was not demonstrated or revealed by Alibaba (a live demo or opportunity to test it herself, and the exact training method beyond a mention of the vast number of similar calls they handle every day in their call centre).
Can you state exactly how this is misleading or how Hao failed to understand it? It seems like she has a better grasp of the demonstration than you do.
The idea with rote learning was to provide the tools to do problem solving and other more creative stuff. If your flow is interrupted by having to slowly work out a multiplication, or if you can't estimate a division in your head quickly it limits your ability to concentrate on the problem.
It's less of an issue now that we have calculators. Same as having good handwriting is less of an issue now that we mostly write with keyboards or touchscreens. Poor handwriting (due to undiagnosed arthritis) really held me back for a long time at school, until I got past the point where they were trying to force handwriting and could just type everything.
No, they mean ethical issues such as making free games pay-to-win and highly addictive, or getting kids to gamble on loot boxes. You know, the same shit we are trying to deal with.
China does censor games, but that's not what this is about.
While China is one of the worst the same argument can be made about many countries. The US and UK both murder people without any due process, yet also pontificate on human rights issues. The UK is a surveillance state but feels able to lecture others on freedom.
For China though this is actually a very positive and welcome development. In the west we have loot box gambling and highly addictive "free to play" games that constantly encourage you to spend money on them. We are starting to address the problem and so is China, although China typically acts a lot more quickly and strongly e.g. by simply banning such games from being played by children.
As someone who did move to Japan for a while I can tell you that it's not quite that simple. It depends where you are for a start, but more generally it tends to be hard at first because the language is hard and the culture is very different and many people are a bit frightened of you. Not frightened of violence of crime or anything like that, but worried that they won't be able to understand you or help you and end up being embarrassed.
After a while you reach a point where that doesn't happen any more. I don't know how it works exactly, but at some point you start giving off subconscious signals that you fit in. I remember quite distinctly when I first noticed it. An old woman at the bus stop asked me to open a bottle for her, and then to keep an eye out her for bus because she couldn't see well in the twilight. It might have been my accent, or rather lack of it... More than once people have asked if I am Japanese, but the plight of white Japanese people is another story.
Your numbers are a bit off. The current Hyundai Kona has a ~68kWh pack* which weighs 453kg. So for 900kWh that would be around 6 tonnes, or 6.6 tons.
It would probably be less than that though, because the Kona pack includes all the support structures and water cooling. That stuff won't scale linearly, assuming they even are using water cooling.
* the listed 64kWh is the usable amount, not the full capacity which is secret but seems to be at least 68kWh.
It's not competing with common turboprop commuter aircraft any more than a Tesla is competing with common petrol commuter cars. It's for businesses who use private aircraft to ferry the C levels around.
Confrontation rarely works to change people's minds. They just get defensive and belligerent.
They are Nazis, rational arguments clearly have little effect on them, and the truth is of little consequence.
Okay but how does Chinese companies holding some of the 5G patents block publications in America? How does using a Huawei router running firmware that was certified at source and binary level independently in the US stop freedom of speech?
There is evidence that censorship does actually work. If it didn't it wouldn't be a problem, or so popular.
Take the alt-right. Some of them have been deplatformed and shunned, e.g. Milo Yiannopoulos who is now massively in debt and not getting anything like the exposure he used to. So apparently deplatforming does actually work.
Even more interesting is how the Nazis massively over-estimated their support and their ability to control the narrative at Charlottesville. That rally set them back hugely, and destroyed several of them (loss of jobs, investigations by law enforcement, and more deplatforming). And they made that mistake because they were banned and shunned and blocked until they ended up in an echo chamber that made it seem to them like they were doing a lot better than they were.
I'd say the problem with censorship is the loss of unpopular ideas or its use to control people, not that it's ineffective against fascism.