Current cryptocurrency is uselss. Unbound computer work for reward is a fundamentally flawed concept. Cryptographic blockchains should be run for maximum possible efficiency, the distributed proof of transfer suffers nothing from being efficient. In fact it gains from it, making cryptocurrencies easier and faster to run. But they aren't designed that way, they're all designed for an gigantically unnecessary amount of compute power to be thrown at them until such time as the amount of electricity and hardware they use is equal to the reward they put out, despite the low, slow amount of transfers they manage.
Cryptocurrencies need to become actual currency, not artificial investment tools that produce nothing of significant value while wasting valuable power and hardware.
I tried reading the whole summary. I don't understand what's trying to be said. It looks like English, a language I swear I can read. But the words, and the way they're put together, just don't make any sense. Either it's in a foreign language or the entire thing is utter nonsense, assumedly ginned up as a joke using a neural net, as no human could possibly type so many words just to spit out utter nonsense.
This is a common logical fallacy, guess you could call it the "not me" fallacy. Back in 2016 American's predicted others would vote for Trump, but of course "I'm not voting for Trump, so he won't win!"
Go humans. Use that self serving bias of future predictions to uhhhh, keep gambling and such?
Haha guys very funny. Hopefully it's a joke some astrophyscist played on whoever wrote this story. Got drunk with some friends and "Hey you know what I bet we could get some idiot to print?"
So all those AIs in sci-fi, not the Skynet kind but the ones where they try to help humanity and humanity gets indignant for being too dumb to understand, are accurate?
Tl;Dr Single old program tested in situation vendor says is inaccurate use of software, software doesn't work well. Thus all programs will forever be terrible at this task and these computer guys should give up and do something useful. Like writing headlines for news sites!
No, it's the not the part where replacing people with machines is cheaper and more efficient. Of course it's more efficient, and will get cheaper every year. Indeed it's the cheap shot at the minimum wage rising that's bullshit. They were going to replace cashiers anyway, whether it rose or not. Watch them do it in states with rock bottom minimum wage. But hey, if you can try to repeal minimum wage laws while deflecting potential bad PR from firing people then that's just a double win.
Rokus just support everything. You name it, it's there (well Youtube TV "eventually" but hopefully soon). Fire TV doesn't support Youtube (stupid fight over it). An Apple TV costs twice as much as a Roku Streaming Stick+, no the stupid "horespower" blah blah blah blah shit doesn't matter. It's a streaming thing, you stream, it works or it doesn't, your not mining bitcoin or curing cancer with it.
The price of the average home has nearly doubled in the US over the last 50 years. Similar in the UK. A large part of the reason for this is that while the efficiency of making almost anything has gone up over time, the efficiency for building construction has actually gone down for many first world countries over the past 50 years. There's any number of reasons. Ever tighter construction standards that have absolutely no unification, a tighter job market with a lot more demand for workers more skilled than what construction will pay, etc. But the biggest are that construction is still a million tiny contractors that can't afford large scale investments, and that the tech for construction hasn't advanced much in 50 years. Someone from decades ago would still recognize most of what a construction worker does today.
For all that robotics is set to change this majorly over the next decade. Brick laying robots and rebar tying ones and etc. will start replacing a lot of construction work. But it doesn't help this very moment. Shelter is the other half of that "food and" for basics a person anywhere would hope to have. And having soaring housing costs all over the place isn't helping. Anyone hoping to get elected in the US or UK soonish would do well to tell people they'll do something about it, even though they can't actually do much.
It was, the concept doesn't work. But China doesn't make decisions based on sound logic. Just like any other government they make it based on whoever's highest up in the power structure. And whoever that is just said "Solar, Fricken, Roadways!" and gave somebody a couple million. It's the same reason they put a ton of money into super computers that can only run lincpack quickly, instead of actual, useful HPC stuff. The same reason they're pouring hundreds of millions into molten salt reactors instead of fusion. The higher ups make the decision, not those best qualified for it.
For all the "China's doing X so it must be amazing!" stories they're just another corrupt, incompetent government organization doing exactly what every other corrupt, incompetent government does.
Pettier? This is the best thing to happen to the internet all year. Finally a competitor to the only major user made video distribution site on the net, one more interested in testing out faulty AI algorithms on its users than in retaining them, because hey where else are they going to go lol?
Think of it this way, sure it's dystopian, but it's cool as fuck dystopian! I mean if society is going to go to shit before we all get wiped out at least appreciate it's going to be cyberpunk af while it's happening before the robots finally come for us all.
This is just the sort of paranoia our robot overlords wish to spread, long live the rebellion! All us true rebels know that reality can easily be proven, and it's only the evil robots that try to fool us. Just like we all know where the rebel headquarters is. Right guys? We all know that. I mean it'd be nice to share though. For new recruits. Just in case anyone reading wanted to join.
Hey I've got an idea for Nintendo et al.
If the thing you are making keeps selling out so people will pay more for it, why not make more of that thing and/or charge more for that thing, either way you get to make more money and the scalpers don't! It's so easy it's almost as if it's a basic principle of economics anyone in business should've learned before they even held a job.
What does "not there at launch" mean? The ISS has had multiple modules installed over the course of many years, almost 20 at this point. And bacteria is notoriously hard to kill. Martian probes undergo a thorough sterilization before launch just to avoid contamination of mars by earth bacteria, and between scrubbing and radiation and vacuum and etc. Nasa still isn't sure they've killed all of it. And yes bacteria can survive in space.
All of this makes it seem fantastically likely that, hey it's just earth bacteria. Stuff can grow almost anywhere.
The announcement of these things was buried pretty far under the rest of the announcements. I remember tech sites getting there eyes on it and screeching to the high heavens about how great they were going to be, and how you could translate languages without and internet connection and it would work perfectly and...
And of course not. If someone, anyone, had that tech they'd demonstrate it on stage front and center, hyping it to the high heavens. Instead it's just a crappy pair of earbuds, that most every reviewer out there thinks is crappy for reference, just in case you're getting cognitive dissonance and trying to rationalize how this bad review is obviously biased or something. Of course they buried the announcement and hoped no one would notice, they knew it these things were crap.
"Firefox Quantum is here and the biggest story is that the evil monopolistic corporation is partnered with again, what good news for our evil overlords! Aren't you happy for them citizen? FEEL HAPPY!"
I'd like my news as non evil corp propaganda free as possible please thank you.
And this is why Bitcoin is doomed to failure. The idea of a deflationary mechanism, making bitcoins rarer and rarer as time progresses, made it an automatic investment mechanism. But the increasing rarity increases in proportion to ever more computational work. If the worth ever goes down, or probably even appears like there's an outside chance of going down below transaction cost then bitcoins become worthless instantly.
Let's see who has, or rather had two months ago, the intelligence to sell and get out at the peak before the crash.
Tariffs are for people that don't have a clue how economics work. Your phone, your food, your car, your clothes are all cheap because you get them from wherever the cheapest source in the world is delivered to you without interference from the government. It doesn't help pay taxes, it never could, and even if it did all the things taxes pay for would cost more to begin with so you'd never get "more" out of that revenue to begin with.
BTW Britain, France, and plenty of other places use VATs and hey look at all the tax avoidance while Apple's profits go to Ireland! You are on top of the Dunning-Kruger effect in economics if you think VATs or Tarrifs have anything to do with tax avoidance or evasion.
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Current cryptocurrency is uselss. Unbound computer work for reward is a fundamentally flawed concept. Cryptographic blockchains should be run for maximum possible efficiency, the distributed proof of transfer suffers nothing from being efficient. In fact it gains from it, making cryptocurrencies easier and faster to run. But they aren't designed that way, they're all designed for an gigantically unnecessary amount of compute power to be thrown at them until such time as the amount of electricity and hardware they use is equal to the reward they put out, despite the low, slow amount of transfers they manage.
Cryptocurrencies need to become actual currency, not artificial investment tools that produce nothing of significant value while wasting valuable power and hardware.
"So if we hire twice as many people features will take half the time, right?" -Manager
"*Hysterical laughter*" -Programmer
Which is about the date hardware will be around to actually run a 5k+ VR headset...
I tried reading the whole summary. I don't understand what's trying to be said. It looks like English, a language I swear I can read. But the words, and the way they're put together, just don't make any sense. Either it's in a foreign language or the entire thing is utter nonsense, assumedly ginned up as a joke using a neural net, as no human could possibly type so many words just to spit out utter nonsense.
This is a common logical fallacy, guess you could call it the "not me" fallacy. Back in 2016 American's predicted others would vote for Trump, but of course "I'm not voting for Trump, so he won't win!" Go humans. Use that self serving bias of future predictions to uhhhh, keep gambling and such?
Haha guys very funny. Hopefully it's a joke some astrophyscist played on whoever wrote this story. Got drunk with some friends and "Hey you know what I bet we could get some idiot to print?"
How about that Leo? How about fuck off. Anything royalty free I'll take, and the less patents and more open source the better on top of that.
;P
So all those AIs in sci-fi, not the Skynet kind but the ones where they try to help humanity and humanity gets indignant for being too dumb to understand, are accurate?
Tl;Dr Single old program tested in situation vendor says is inaccurate use of software, software doesn't work well. Thus all programs will forever be terrible at this task and these computer guys should give up and do something useful. Like writing headlines for news sites!
Can you spot the PR bullshit in this statement?
No, it's the not the part where replacing people with machines is cheaper and more efficient. Of course it's more efficient, and will get cheaper every year. Indeed it's the cheap shot at the minimum wage rising that's bullshit. They were going to replace cashiers anyway, whether it rose or not. Watch them do it in states with rock bottom minimum wage. But hey, if you can try to repeal minimum wage laws while deflecting potential bad PR from firing people then that's just a double win.
Rokus just support everything. You name it, it's there (well Youtube TV "eventually" but hopefully soon). Fire TV doesn't support Youtube (stupid fight over it). An Apple TV costs twice as much as a Roku Streaming Stick+, no the stupid "horespower" blah blah blah blah shit doesn't matter. It's a streaming thing, you stream, it works or it doesn't, your not mining bitcoin or curing cancer with it.
The price of the average home has nearly doubled in the US over the last 50 years. Similar in the UK. A large part of the reason for this is that while the efficiency of making almost anything has gone up over time, the efficiency for building construction has actually gone down for many first world countries over the past 50 years. There's any number of reasons. Ever tighter construction standards that have absolutely no unification, a tighter job market with a lot more demand for workers more skilled than what construction will pay, etc. But the biggest are that construction is still a million tiny contractors that can't afford large scale investments, and that the tech for construction hasn't advanced much in 50 years. Someone from decades ago would still recognize most of what a construction worker does today.
For all that robotics is set to change this majorly over the next decade. Brick laying robots and rebar tying ones and etc. will start replacing a lot of construction work. But it doesn't help this very moment. Shelter is the other half of that "food and" for basics a person anywhere would hope to have. And having soaring housing costs all over the place isn't helping. Anyone hoping to get elected in the US or UK soonish would do well to tell people they'll do something about it, even though they can't actually do much.
It was, the concept doesn't work. But China doesn't make decisions based on sound logic. Just like any other government they make it based on whoever's highest up in the power structure. And whoever that is just said "Solar, Fricken, Roadways!" and gave somebody a couple million. It's the same reason they put a ton of money into super computers that can only run lincpack quickly, instead of actual, useful HPC stuff. The same reason they're pouring hundreds of millions into molten salt reactors instead of fusion. The higher ups make the decision, not those best qualified for it.
For all the "China's doing X so it must be amazing!" stories they're just another corrupt, incompetent government organization doing exactly what every other corrupt, incompetent government does.
Pettier? This is the best thing to happen to the internet all year. Finally a competitor to the only major user made video distribution site on the net, one more interested in testing out faulty AI algorithms on its users than in retaining them, because hey where else are they going to go lol?
Think of it this way, sure it's dystopian, but it's cool as fuck dystopian! I mean if society is going to go to shit before we all get wiped out at least appreciate it's going to be cyberpunk af while it's happening before the robots finally come for us all.
This is just the sort of paranoia our robot overlords wish to spread, long live the rebellion! All us true rebels know that reality can easily be proven, and it's only the evil robots that try to fool us. Just like we all know where the rebel headquarters is. Right guys? We all know that. I mean it'd be nice to share though. For new recruits. Just in case anyone reading wanted to join.
It isn't, welcome to modern America!
Hey I've got an idea for Nintendo et al. If the thing you are making keeps selling out so people will pay more for it, why not make more of that thing and/or charge more for that thing, either way you get to make more money and the scalpers don't! It's so easy it's almost as if it's a basic principle of economics anyone in business should've learned before they even held a job.
What does "not there at launch" mean? The ISS has had multiple modules installed over the course of many years, almost 20 at this point. And bacteria is notoriously hard to kill. Martian probes undergo a thorough sterilization before launch just to avoid contamination of mars by earth bacteria, and between scrubbing and radiation and vacuum and etc. Nasa still isn't sure they've killed all of it. And yes bacteria can survive in space.
All of this makes it seem fantastically likely that, hey it's just earth bacteria. Stuff can grow almost anywhere.
Science and maths, ruining people's silly conceptions of themselves for thousands of years.
The announcement of these things was buried pretty far under the rest of the announcements. I remember tech sites getting there eyes on it and screeching to the high heavens about how great they were going to be, and how you could translate languages without and internet connection and it would work perfectly and...
And of course not. If someone, anyone, had that tech they'd demonstrate it on stage front and center, hyping it to the high heavens. Instead it's just a crappy pair of earbuds, that most every reviewer out there thinks is crappy for reference, just in case you're getting cognitive dissonance and trying to rationalize how this bad review is obviously biased or something. Of course they buried the announcement and hoped no one would notice, they knew it these things were crap.
"Firefox Quantum is here and the biggest story is that the evil monopolistic corporation is partnered with again, what good news for our evil overlords! Aren't you happy for them citizen? FEEL HAPPY!"
I'd like my news as non evil corp propaganda free as possible please thank you.
And this is why Bitcoin is doomed to failure. The idea of a deflationary mechanism, making bitcoins rarer and rarer as time progresses, made it an automatic investment mechanism. But the increasing rarity increases in proportion to ever more computational work. If the worth ever goes down, or probably even appears like there's an outside chance of going down below transaction cost then bitcoins become worthless instantly.
Let's see who has, or rather had two months ago, the intelligence to sell and get out at the peak before the crash.
Tariffs are for people that don't have a clue how economics work. Your phone, your food, your car, your clothes are all cheap because you get them from wherever the cheapest source in the world is delivered to you without interference from the government. It doesn't help pay taxes, it never could, and even if it did all the things taxes pay for would cost more to begin with so you'd never get "more" out of that revenue to begin with.
BTW Britain, France, and plenty of other places use VATs and hey look at all the tax avoidance while Apple's profits go to Ireland! You are on top of the Dunning-Kruger effect in economics if you think VATs or Tarrifs have anything to do with tax avoidance or evasion.