I bought one of those titanium backpacking cutlery sets last week, so now I get ads for climbing gear. Yeah, I ain't going to be climbing any fucking rocks any time soon.
Well, at least you've started taking the necessary steps in weight reduction.
Shit, even if I didn't weigh 250lbs, you won't find me willingly suspended from a cable high off the ground.
On the rare times i see ads, I only get them for things I have already bought on Amazon. Mostly when I am using the phone where there isn't uBlock.
Would I like "this specific camera I already own", or "this specific computer I already own".
I bought one of those titanium backpacking cutlery sets last week, so now I get ads for climbing gear. Yeah, I ain't going to be climbing any fucking rocks any time soon.
Block all ads, all the time, no exceptions. If you have an ad-supported business that runs ethically, too fucking bad. The 99% of other ads ruined it for you.
What, no apologists whining (in the Jim Sterling triple-hey voice) "but that stealing"?
Cars need to have their safety and guidance systems onboard and not rely on a possibly broken or misconfigured signal from outside the vehicle.
You don't get off the hook for causing an accident just because the traffic lights were not working.
If these were trains with very limited options, what you are saying would work fine. With unlimited possibilities and having to contend with flawed human drivers, the AI will need to be adaptable.
We don't have those metered lights here (god knows we could use them, nobody knows how to zipper merge), but my self adaptive driving software (my brain) can instantly figure out how to do them.
It can also deal with other oddities, such as an emergency vehicle that requries me to move off of the roadway to get past, construction workers operating stop-and-slow signs. And potholes, I think Uber and Argo paid to have the road outside my office repaved instead of coding their systems to avoid the potholes. I guess there is some good to the limited design.
Will AI be able to be more adaptive than humans? Probably, some day. Throw enough processing power at a problem and you can do speculative prediction and investigate multiple contingencies at once. But that is not this day. I see self-driving cars every day (my office is near both Uber and Argo's testing facilities) I have never once seen a self-driving car actually dealing with an unusual condition. Every time there is a stopped vehicle on the road, a closure, or some other condition, the driver has been in control.
Yeah, the media hypes it up after a school shooting, but they live on disaster.
Yeah, people want to talk about guns right after a shooting to control the narrative. What a coincidence! Instead, you and the NRA wants the control the narrative by only "allowing" talk of gun control when there has been no recent tragedy so you can say "see everything is fine, no need to change anything."
It makes sense. Most smaller municipality governments are run by older people. Those older people don't want to see their property values plummet back down to where they belong by new construction. They build apartments to keep younger and poorer people around and paying the bulk of the taxes to fund their government.
And that companies that rely on disposable income should be getting government handouts because the millenials are killing them, or something, I don't know.
Everybody will say they were trying to protect their job.
But that isn't a valid excuse to do illegal shit. Why were they allowed to get away with it? Even if it was just fines, why didn't the shareholders string up the management team?
I feel like this was the accidental real message behind Ready Player One. Endless nostalgia is ultimately self-serving, and leads leads to a crapsack world.
The movie would have been much more fulfilling if it wasn't just a big Hollywood and Spielberg wank-fest.
Well, Fucked Company was a parody of Fast Company.
But, really, how the fuck did Fast Company survive? The magazine was created to promote the pump-and-dump schemes of the dot-com era. I can imagine the articles are still all "this college dropout's company is going to CHANGE THE WORLD" is given venture capital funding and is promptly never heard from again.
The capitalism people idolize doesn't exist. Otherwise there wouldn't be subsidies for corporations, farming, or any social services.
People want to idolize an ideal. But in practice we have a thing that we made work.
If people wanted to be useful we would argue how much and what kind of subsidies to give, what social services to provide. Instead we get this randian "taxes are the government asserting its violence on the people" and antifa "all corporations are evil and we must have a people's revolution".
As always, the truth is somewhere in the middle. An on this scale, the middle is very, very far from either extreme.
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I bought one of those titanium backpacking cutlery sets last week, so now I get ads for climbing gear. Yeah, I ain't going to be climbing any fucking rocks any time soon.
Well, at least you've started taking the necessary steps in weight reduction.
Shit, even if I didn't weigh 250lbs, you won't find me willingly suspended from a cable high off the ground.
Oh, you mean the weight of my gear.
On the rare times i see ads, I only get them for things I have already bought on Amazon. Mostly when I am using the phone where there isn't uBlock.
Would I like "this specific camera I already own", or "this specific computer I already own".
I bought one of those titanium backpacking cutlery sets last week, so now I get ads for climbing gear. Yeah, I ain't going to be climbing any fucking rocks any time soon.
Block all ads, all the time, no exceptions. If you have an ad-supported business that runs ethically, too fucking bad. The 99% of other ads ruined it for you.
What, no apologists whining (in the Jim Sterling triple-hey voice) "but that stealing"?
Cars need to have their safety and guidance systems onboard and not rely on a possibly broken or misconfigured signal from outside the vehicle.
You don't get off the hook for causing an accident just because the traffic lights were not working.
If these were trains with very limited options, what you are saying would work fine. With unlimited possibilities and having to contend with flawed human drivers, the AI will need to be adaptable.
We don't have those metered lights here (god knows we could use them, nobody knows how to zipper merge), but my self adaptive driving software (my brain) can instantly figure out how to do them.
It can also deal with other oddities, such as an emergency vehicle that requries me to move off of the roadway to get past, construction workers operating stop-and-slow signs. And potholes, I think Uber and Argo paid to have the road outside my office repaved instead of coding their systems to avoid the potholes. I guess there is some good to the limited design.
Will AI be able to be more adaptive than humans? Probably, some day. Throw enough processing power at a problem and you can do speculative prediction and investigate multiple contingencies at once. But that is not this day. I see self-driving cars every day (my office is near both Uber and Argo's testing facilities) I have never once seen a self-driving car actually dealing with an unusual condition. Every time there is a stopped vehicle on the road, a closure, or some other condition, the driver has been in control.
It is important to Turn Left.
Electoral collage, lol.
Yeah, the media hypes it up after a school shooting, but they live on disaster.
Yeah, people want to talk about guns right after a shooting to control the narrative. What a coincidence! Instead, you and the NRA wants the control the narrative by only "allowing" talk of gun control when there has been no recent tragedy so you can say "see everything is fine, no need to change anything."
How are those two things any different?
Oh yeah, I am sure that site is "fair and balanced".
The "Time Cube" inspired website design really nails it home too.
It's a good thing we have nearly constant shootings so we are never allowed to talk about guns.
Nice story, tell it to Reader's Digest.
How the hell can someone get the idea that it's ok to spy on someone they allegedly love?
Thus the divorce. Looks like she should run fucking fast to restraining order land.
It makes sense. Most smaller municipality governments are run by older people. Those older people don't want to see their property values plummet back down to where they belong by new construction. They build apartments to keep younger and poorer people around and paying the bulk of the taxes to fund their government.
And that companies that rely on disposable income should be getting government handouts because the millenials are killing them, or something, I don't know.
Everybody will say they were trying to protect their job.
But that isn't a valid excuse to do illegal shit. Why were they allowed to get away with it? Even if it was just fines, why didn't the shareholders string up the management team?
This is the tower, we have a hot air balloon coming in at MACH 1!
I feel like this was the accidental real message behind Ready Player One. Endless nostalgia is ultimately self-serving, and leads leads to a crapsack world.
The movie would have been much more fulfilling if it wasn't just a big Hollywood and Spielberg wank-fest.
Well, Fucked Company was a parody of Fast Company.
But, really, how the fuck did Fast Company survive? The magazine was created to promote the pump-and-dump schemes of the dot-com era. I can imagine the articles are still all "this college dropout's company is going to CHANGE THE WORLD" is given venture capital funding and is promptly never heard from again.
True, you had better damn learn to swim in a country that averages below sea level.
Capitalism is great. Socialism is bad. If you want to redistribute wealth on society just do that rather than elect authorities.
Do you know what socialism is?
The capitalism people idolize doesn't exist. Otherwise there wouldn't be subsidies for corporations, farming, or any social services.
People want to idolize an ideal. But in practice we have a thing that we made work.
If people wanted to be useful we would argue how much and what kind of subsidies to give, what social services to provide. Instead we get this randian "taxes are the government asserting its violence on the people" and antifa "all corporations are evil and we must have a people's revolution".
As always, the truth is somewhere in the middle. An on this scale, the middle is very, very far from either extreme.
But the lakes are all frozen over 90% of the year.
I bet a lot more people in Germany have swimming pools than in Canada.
Yes, I too am not a pussy.
I bet you change your tune when someone calls for your murder.