Because there are genderist laws which give preferences to women and minorities. Without sexist and racist laws the definitions don't matter at all.
But frankly, that is the definition. I have nothing against whatever flavor of man or woman you are. And if want to take some crazy pills or undergo whatever cosmetic surgery you choose that is on you. But a man doesn't magically become a woman by appearing as one or vice versa.
We shouldn't discriminate against those who feel this way but we should take a serious look at what we are doing socially that causes the psychological trauma and makes people feel like they aren't a man or woman when they are to the point where they want to mutilate their bodies. How is this any different than if someone thought they were a cat or dog? Your psychological state simply doesn't match actual physical reality.
"Friday, the Librarian of Congress and U.S. Copyright Office"
I've protested every story about an action of any executive agency being referred to as the actions of the Trump administration as if Donald Trump personally makes every call so why is this one "Feds?"
I doubt shareholders even really give a damn about internal politics like this. It sounds like somebody who liked her in the back office gossips with the other girls over lunch about it. Middle management actually runs the company, other executives exist to be fall guys if something bad happens and to nod, smile, and act like they are giving serious considerations to matters while ignoring the complaints of the upper branches of middle management.
Everyone should learn to code but that doesn't mean making it a career. It is a basic skill alongside reading and math. What they are teaching kids with drag and drop code and highly abstracted oop coding isn't really what they need though. Everyone should learn non-oop coding so they learn solid fundamental structured logic. With oop there is always a magic box beneath you.
I wouldn't be surprised with the advances we've made or if there isn't already safe asbestos being made. But I'd put about the same amount of money in your venture as I would an effort to put nuclear reactors in backyards.
I have a problem with the design philosophy around systemd. The entire one size fits all integrated rather than simple function specific tools concept has its strengths and its weaknesses but they belong on platforms which are not fundamentally built on a platform with the philosophy of small function specific tools. At least not at the system level.
Systemd feels like a clone of what you find on some of the proprietary Unix systems like Solaris and while those systems do have some strengths they mostly are the giant pain in the backside that ensures you need to have an experienced Solaris guy on staff if you have Solaris running somewhere.
That may be a bit much but I have considered that things like the nand game could be extremely beneficial to young children. Working with the basic logic itself in a simulator seems like a great way to build fundamental and sound abstract and universal logic and solution patterns in a developing brain.
I tend to agree with this. My daughter is 18 months old so there are limited opportunities for screen time at the moment. But there are definitely some ways, as education tools for types of brain development I intend to utilize screens for. These include things like intelligent flash cards, go (if I can find a way to automate the game setup sooner rather than later), concentration games, visual (aka speed) reading, kindle use, and so forth. None of that will include anything with notifications and especially not social media. My intention is cheap tablets with a heavily locked down view, even to the point of booting directly into a single application in the style of old arcade cabinets.
When she gets older my current plan to implement a household crypto-currency. She'll get an allowance of cash I pay into an account she already has but what I'll give her directly is a simple cryptocurrency or possibly even just some custom physical chips or tokens which she will earn through achievement in her home schooling program and completing chores around the house. Exchanging them for cash will be an option up to a limit but things like recreational screen time for games and television. Social media is simply out.
This means she'll be proficient with screen and computer interaction while limiting the addictive forms but every time she watches tv or plays a video game she'll be saving for college. She'll also be learning economic principles at the the same time so that when she begins to deal with real money as an adult it will already be second nature to her.
That depends on the volume they are produced in. Centimeter long fibers can be spun and weaved or even pressed into sheets as is done with paper. Given these are carbon nanotubes you'd basically have to do this to have any prayer of a pliable material anyway.
Things are fundamentally shifting though. Moore's law is dead with doubling on track for two decades. Building frameworks on top of frameworks on top of frameworks layer of layer with no understanding of what is happening beneath and just masking the leaks and problems in the highly generic code beneath isn't going to work going forward.
Faster and better chip design along with a bit of old school optimization and collapse of all those intermediate layers is going to be required and that means understanding how to the machine works.
Looking at your sources I can see both contain the same flaw, both summarize the economy to just wage increase and inflation. National economies and even seattle's economy are large and complicated beasts. Other factors, which aren't a consequence of minimum wage adjustment, can easily mask the impact of the wage adjustment.
Personally, I suspect the overall impact is to hurt small and independent business. Seattle is a very wealthy economy compared with most of the country. A more meaningful test would be the rural south or midwest. What happens in the towns with one convenience store as "the store" in town that sees only three digit profits on a monthly basis or comparatively big towns like Dietrich Illinois.
Or even an Apple service center with a reasonable fee, leaving people to discover on their own that third party centers are an option. Then Apple could have still made money and actually looked good for having provided the option of the free software update.... as long as they provided the option to roll back the update they would have come out smelling like roses. At least to everyone but the carriers.
"In other words, the developers are building kernels, OS's, and apps for new hardware, not the old stuff."
Huh? That isn't a paraphrase of what you quoted at all. You quoted apple admitting they've intentionally slowed down older phones under the guise of extending battery life.
A bizarre person who can be snapshotted and restored, eats silicon and electricity from any source, who never reaches retirement age (although I tend to think some of the entropy issues that lead to alzheimers and senility might be statistically inevitable whether a long lived AI or a human). This AI can be a companion, can work and take care of humans, can be raised by humans who can't have children, etc. Also, recognizing animal intelligence doesn't mean we don't still consider ourselves superior purely by virtue of self-interest. Humans have worked to build our world, there is no reason we can't allow AI to work and accumulate wealth while allowing the humans to live off the dividends in the form of a UBI.
Yes, it is almost certain that true generalist AIs would eventually become our successors but if they reach a point where they are legitimately worthy it will happen organically with several generations of AI having been raised by us like children. They may not be our biological children precisely but they will have been built modeled after us. That isn't so much different than what we do now raising each generation to replace us. There is simply no basis for the psychotic all encompassing AI that wipes us all out in a vicious and cold manner because we are already biological supercomputing AI's and don't wipe everything out. In order for an AI to be self motivating and function in the manner of humans it will need to have a complex system of impulse signals built in and they would almost certainly be built in the image of our own emotions and biological drives. Sure an AI might be selfish and more capable than us but it isn't going to be more capable than the other selfish AI's.
That is a bit of a misnomer, not really having any idea doesn't mean much when there really isn't any motivation due to having little to no commercial applicability and ethical challenges.
Hell, I built a self scoring AI combined with an evolutionary algorithm (and a bit of other secret sauce) in just a few days with nothing more than what I'd read to in high level descriptions and my own ideas about how life works about six years back. It isn't exactly rocket science. The only difference between AI now and AI then is several orders of magnitude more processing power and what I built then running any of the trillion neuron chips in the pipeline (that were supposed to have been delivered already, ahem) might well achieve these milestones with 5-10yrs of teaching. Note I say teaching, not training.
True but you can end up with a screwed sample set like this a number of ways. It is definitely true that the public was overwhelmingly onesided at the time and maybe even 90% one sided. Today it wouldn't be 90+% but only because the issue has been politicized to dupe the public.
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Bad enough we had to hear about this politicized nonsense the first time.
Because there are genderist laws which give preferences to women and minorities. Without sexist and racist laws the definitions don't matter at all.
But frankly, that is the definition. I have nothing against whatever flavor of man or woman you are. And if want to take some crazy pills or undergo whatever cosmetic surgery you choose that is on you. But a man doesn't magically become a woman by appearing as one or vice versa.
We shouldn't discriminate against those who feel this way but we should take a serious look at what we are doing socially that causes the psychological trauma and makes people feel like they aren't a man or woman when they are to the point where they want to mutilate their bodies. How is this any different than if someone thought they were a cat or dog? Your psychological state simply doesn't match actual physical reality.
"Friday, the Librarian of Congress and U.S. Copyright Office"
I've protested every story about an action of any executive agency being referred to as the actions of the Trump administration as if Donald Trump personally makes every call so why is this one "Feds?"
I doubt shareholders even really give a damn about internal politics like this. It sounds like somebody who liked her in the back office gossips with the other girls over lunch about it. Middle management actually runs the company, other executives exist to be fall guys if something bad happens and to nod, smile, and act like they are giving serious considerations to matters while ignoring the complaints of the upper branches of middle management.
This.
What does this have to do with technology or nerdy news?
Everyone should learn to code but that doesn't mean making it a career. It is a basic skill alongside reading and math. What they are teaching kids with drag and drop code and highly abstracted oop coding isn't really what they need though. Everyone should learn non-oop coding so they learn solid fundamental structured logic. With oop there is always a magic box beneath you.
I wouldn't be surprised with the advances we've made or if there isn't already safe asbestos being made. But I'd put about the same amount of money in your venture as I would an effort to put nuclear reactors in backyards.
I have a problem with the design philosophy around systemd. The entire one size fits all integrated rather than simple function specific tools concept has its strengths and its weaknesses but they belong on platforms which are not fundamentally built on a platform with the philosophy of small function specific tools. At least not at the system level.
Systemd feels like a clone of what you find on some of the proprietary Unix systems like Solaris and while those systems do have some strengths they mostly are the giant pain in the backside that ensures you need to have an experienced Solaris guy on staff if you have Solaris running somewhere.
Stop shoving systemd down our throats.
As an existing homeowner I support you. Much lower cost of living than California but all the same conveniences you've come to know and love.
That may be a bit much but I have considered that things like the nand game could be extremely beneficial to young children. Working with the basic logic itself in a simulator seems like a great way to build fundamental and sound abstract and universal logic and solution patterns in a developing brain.
I tend to agree with this. My daughter is 18 months old so there are limited opportunities for screen time at the moment. But there are definitely some ways, as education tools for types of brain development I intend to utilize screens for. These include things like intelligent flash cards, go (if I can find a way to automate the game setup sooner rather than later), concentration games, visual (aka speed) reading, kindle use, and so forth. None of that will include anything with notifications and especially not social media. My intention is cheap tablets with a heavily locked down view, even to the point of booting directly into a single application in the style of old arcade cabinets.
When she gets older my current plan to implement a household crypto-currency. She'll get an allowance of cash I pay into an account she already has but what I'll give her directly is a simple cryptocurrency or possibly even just some custom physical chips or tokens which she will earn through achievement in her home schooling program and completing chores around the house. Exchanging them for cash will be an option up to a limit but things like recreational screen time for games and television. Social media is simply out.
This means she'll be proficient with screen and computer interaction while limiting the addictive forms but every time she watches tv or plays a video game she'll be saving for college. She'll also be learning economic principles at the the same time so that when she begins to deal with real money as an adult it will already be second nature to her.
I wouldn't get too excited about fantastic and amazing new developments coming out of China. From my understanding replicability tends to be low.
Solid point but it is alleviated somewhat by Centimeter long fibers. You aren't going to breathing that.
That depends on the volume they are produced in. Centimeter long fibers can be spun and weaved or even pressed into sheets as is done with paper. Given these are carbon nanotubes you'd basically have to do this to have any prayer of a pliable material anyway.
Things are fundamentally shifting though. Moore's law is dead with doubling on track for two decades. Building frameworks on top of frameworks on top of frameworks layer of layer with no understanding of what is happening beneath and just masking the leaks and problems in the highly generic code beneath isn't going to work going forward.
Faster and better chip design along with a bit of old school optimization and collapse of all those intermediate layers is going to be required and that means understanding how to the machine works.
Looking at your sources I can see both contain the same flaw, both summarize the economy to just wage increase and inflation. National economies and even seattle's economy are large and complicated beasts. Other factors, which aren't a consequence of minimum wage adjustment, can easily mask the impact of the wage adjustment.
Personally, I suspect the overall impact is to hurt small and independent business. Seattle is a very wealthy economy compared with most of the country. A more meaningful test would be the rural south or midwest. What happens in the towns with one convenience store as "the store" in town that sees only three digit profits on a monthly basis or comparatively big towns like Dietrich Illinois.
Or even an Apple service center with a reasonable fee, leaving people to discover on their own that third party centers are an option. Then Apple could have still made money and actually looked good for having provided the option of the free software update.... as long as they provided the option to roll back the update they would have come out smelling like roses. At least to everyone but the carriers.
"In other words, the developers are building kernels, OS's, and apps for new hardware, not the old stuff."
Huh? That isn't a paraphrase of what you quoted at all. You quoted apple admitting they've intentionally slowed down older phones under the guise of extending battery life.
Given the next round of moore's law is on track with an ETA of 20yrs there is little to no reason new phones should be appreciably faster than old.
A bizarre person who can be snapshotted and restored, eats silicon and electricity from any source, who never reaches retirement age (although I tend to think some of the entropy issues that lead to alzheimers and senility might be statistically inevitable whether a long lived AI or a human). This AI can be a companion, can work and take care of humans, can be raised by humans who can't have children, etc. Also, recognizing animal intelligence doesn't mean we don't still consider ourselves superior purely by virtue of self-interest. Humans have worked to build our world, there is no reason we can't allow AI to work and accumulate wealth while allowing the humans to live off the dividends in the form of a UBI.
Yes, it is almost certain that true generalist AIs would eventually become our successors but if they reach a point where they are legitimately worthy it will happen organically with several generations of AI having been raised by us like children. They may not be our biological children precisely but they will have been built modeled after us. That isn't so much different than what we do now raising each generation to replace us. There is simply no basis for the psychotic all encompassing AI that wipes us all out in a vicious and cold manner because we are already biological supercomputing AI's and don't wipe everything out. In order for an AI to be self motivating and function in the manner of humans it will need to have a complex system of impulse signals built in and they would almost certainly be built in the image of our own emotions and biological drives. Sure an AI might be selfish and more capable than us but it isn't going to be more capable than the other selfish AI's.
"precisely because I don't cost them anything when I'm not working."
In my experience most of these tech companies still pay you a standard 40hr minimum week regardless.
That is a bit of a misnomer, not really having any idea doesn't mean much when there really isn't any motivation due to having little to no commercial applicability and ethical challenges.
Hell, I built a self scoring AI combined with an evolutionary algorithm (and a bit of other secret sauce) in just a few days with nothing more than what I'd read to in high level descriptions and my own ideas about how life works about six years back. It isn't exactly rocket science. The only difference between AI now and AI then is several orders of magnitude more processing power and what I built then running any of the trillion neuron chips in the pipeline (that were supposed to have been delivered already, ahem) might well achieve these milestones with 5-10yrs of teaching. Note I say teaching, not training.
True but you can end up with a screwed sample set like this a number of ways. It is definitely true that the public was overwhelmingly onesided at the time and maybe even 90% one sided. Today it wouldn't be 90+% but only because the issue has been politicized to dupe the public.