Except that Libertarian principles do not say "do whatever you want". Many libertarians are strong environmentalists and believe the principle of non-aggression applies to spewing out unwanted particulates, sound or light (all forms of pollution) is a form of aggression and therefore prohibited. Certainly putting obtrusive displays in the night sky for all to see would fall under that and be prohibited as a form or pollution in any libertarian utopia.
Not necessarily. Believe what you want, but teams with diverse backgrounds and thoughts do actually create better software when targeting a global audience.
Now if I were building Call of Duty 9, I might want a lot of young white males on my team to make sure I capture the wants and desires of 95% of my target audience.:)
1. Tech companies are craving a diverse workforce and seek to hire more female software developers
2. For decades, women have been avoiding computer science and technical degrees as well as avoiding jobs in the tech industry.
Therefore
The demand to hire female coders has significantly exceeded the supply of talent to fill those jobs. Therefore, in order to hire a female tech worker, companies are having to offer above market salaries.
I do not understand the problem here. Isn't everything working as expected?
LOL! It's physically dangerous to bounce a ball and try and throw it through a hoop? prohibitively expensive to get a football and throw it around with friends? Most folks I know drive a car.
The difference is I can't do any of that at a world class level. The folks making big money in competitive gaming are very good at what they do. I would stand the same chance of winning a game of horse against Steph Curry, or a race against Jeff Gordon as I would a game of Fortnite against Ninja.
Have you ever watched someone play basketball? football? baseball? drive a car?
Let's face it, we are all going to be only so good at some things. Few of us will ever be among the best in the world. It's fun to watch the best in the world do their thing. Even more so when we understand the nuances and difficulties in their accomplishments.
Thank you! It should be called "The Far Side of the Moon". The moon's day is 29 days, 12 hours and 44 minutes long, which is how long it takes to circle the earth and end up in the same position with respect to the sun. Note: It's longer than a lunar month because in that time the earth travels almost 1/12 of the way around the sun and the moon has to make up that distance.
It's also worth noting that Amazon has been wanting to get into the financial business for awhile. NYC makes sense for that. Breaking into the government and defense industry is a huge plus for DC, not to mention the government is the single biggest threat to Amazon's business right now.
Are these really AIs? Or are they just expert systems trained to do a job?
Do they sport new issues? or are they just really good at spotting the issues they've been trained to spot? I argue that all this "artificial intelligence" craze we've got going on right now has nothing to do with intelligence. It's just training a computer program to do one thing and to do it very well.
Does anyone consider a calculator an AI? Why not, calculators are far more accurate than humans at math and do not make mistakes.
Even if we took all the WEALTH of all the billionaires in the US we might be able to run the government for half a year. If you took all the corporate profits we'd be able to run the government for another half a year! Congratulations we funded the government for a year...now the billionaires have no wealth to invest. Corporations have no profits to invest, no money to pay dividends, no money for bonuses to employees. What are you going to do now.
I've checked the link in the article. I've sourced the original press release. Where are the pictures? If you want to make a difference with this type of news, show us the impacted shoreline, instead of one shot that might be a few square feet of beach. It seems ridiculous that this is all the visual impact that accompanies such a dire press release. It leaves the skeptic in me feeling that it's not as bad as it sounds.
If girls are better at A than boys, but only as good as boys at B, it stands to reason that girls will favor A over B.
That's exactly what is happening. Girls go into subjects in which they excel.
It frustrates me that no one ever looks at why aren't more men teachers, nurses, social workers, etc. Part of the problem is that not enough women are going into STEM as "we" would like, but the flipside is that not enough men are going into non-STEM.
Why don't we try and get more men into non-STEM careers and see what happens?
Two candidates for the same job, they have equivalent experiences and qualifications for the job.
Candidate one is a single worker with no children.
Candidate two is a single mom with four children.
The wage is a "living wage" of $15/hr.
Guess which candidate is going to generate a ton of under the Sander's tax plan? That's right, the single mom with four kids. All of a sudden, it's in a companies best interest to find out if you have kids, to find out the size of your family, to find out if you are going to generate any tax liability because of who you are.
When you start to tax companies because of the people they hire, they will change the way they hire the people. The end result will ALWAYS hurt those the law intended to help.
Blue Origin isn't in just a different league, it's basically the difference between little league t-ball and the major leagues.
Suborbital is something college kids and maybe even high school kids can do with the right help. https://www.bostonglobe.com/id...
Putting a very heavy satellite into space is something entirely different. The Falcon 9 can put 18,300 lb into geo-stationary orbit of 55,000 lb into low earth orbit. The Falcon Heavy should be able to do 2.5x those numbers and has put a Tesla Roadster out into a heliocentric orbit past Mars. A Blue Origin rocket can't even get to orbit without a payload.
A 1998 basic civic got you 107 hp and 103 lb ft of torque.
A 2018 basic civic gets you 158 hp and 138 lb ft of torque.
The 2018 does push around a heavier can and the result of almost 50% better power and a slightly bigger and heavier car is the same fuel economy.
For the most part we've made HUGE gains in fuel economy. We've just wasted them on more power and bigger cars.
1) How often do we hear about military drones crashing?
2) Remote piloted drones would allow pilots to work anywhere and avoid having to travel. Just fire up Microsoft Flight Simulator 12, log into your assigned Passenger Drone and off you go.
Now if we can just automate flight attendants!
Even though caffeine is a fairly weak drug, this shows the power of addiction.
Caffeine addicts need that morning cup 'o joe so badly that they'll tell the Grim Reaper to bugger off and wait until they've had their coffee. Apparently it works!
Not quite so simple. There is plenty of new supply in Seattle, but nobody is building cheap places to live.
If there were plenty of supply, prices would not increase. If there were oversupply, prices would fall. The law of supply and demand is not hard to grasp.
It is not a surprise that no one is building any place cheap to live, I imagine the building code in Seattle continues to grow in size, complexity and demands on the builder. Evicting delinquent or bad tenants has most likely become more difficult. To adjust to the new reality, developers build to attract affluent tenants that are less likely to trash a place or be late on the rent. Don't blame developers for adjusting to what the Seattle City government is throwing their way.
If Seattle (or any large city) wants cheap housing, the need to make cheap housing something that can realistically be built and managed.
What about the babies those babies wil have? And the grandbabies? etc. Go out a few more generations and you could easily be at 2.4 million. No to mention, one of those babies could end up curing cancer, or discovering the warp engine and take humanity extra-solar! Maybe one of those will help defeat Thanos and find a way to rewind the big snap?
Let's face it, he could be responsible for humanity even having a future at all!....or he could have saved the next Hitler, Stalin or Mao....so really who knows?
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Except that Libertarian principles do not say "do whatever you want". Many libertarians are strong environmentalists and believe the principle of non-aggression applies to spewing out unwanted particulates, sound or light (all forms of pollution) is a form of aggression and therefore prohibited. Certainly putting obtrusive displays in the night sky for all to see would fall under that and be prohibited as a form or pollution in any libertarian utopia.
Not necessarily. Believe what you want, but teams with diverse backgrounds and thoughts do actually create better software when targeting a global audience. Now if I were building Call of Duty 9, I might want a lot of young white males on my team to make sure I capture the wants and desires of 95% of my target audience. :)
1. Tech companies are craving a diverse workforce and seek to hire more female software developers 2. For decades, women have been avoiding computer science and technical degrees as well as avoiding jobs in the tech industry. Therefore The demand to hire female coders has significantly exceeded the supply of talent to fill those jobs. Therefore, in order to hire a female tech worker, companies are having to offer above market salaries. I do not understand the problem here. Isn't everything working as expected?
LOL! It's physically dangerous to bounce a ball and try and throw it through a hoop? prohibitively expensive to get a football and throw it around with friends? Most folks I know drive a car. The difference is I can't do any of that at a world class level. The folks making big money in competitive gaming are very good at what they do. I would stand the same chance of winning a game of horse against Steph Curry, or a race against Jeff Gordon as I would a game of Fortnite against Ninja.
Have you ever watched someone play basketball? football? baseball? drive a car? Let's face it, we are all going to be only so good at some things. Few of us will ever be among the best in the world. It's fun to watch the best in the world do their thing. Even more so when we understand the nuances and difficulties in their accomplishments.
Thank you! It should be called "The Far Side of the Moon". The moon's day is 29 days, 12 hours and 44 minutes long, which is how long it takes to circle the earth and end up in the same position with respect to the sun. Note: It's longer than a lunar month because in that time the earth travels almost 1/12 of the way around the sun and the moon has to make up that distance.
It's also worth noting that Amazon has been wanting to get into the financial business for awhile. NYC makes sense for that. Breaking into the government and defense industry is a huge plus for DC, not to mention the government is the single biggest threat to Amazon's business right now.
Q? Where does Bezos have other homes? A: DC and NYC. HQ2 Location: Pick someplace within 10 miles of the Bezos' house!
Yup, next time I see someone homeless in my area, instead of giving them $5. I'll take them to the bus station and buy them a ticket to San Fran.
Obama is not Kenyan, he's a Keynesian. There is a difference.
Are these really AIs? Or are they just expert systems trained to do a job? Do they sport new issues? or are they just really good at spotting the issues they've been trained to spot? I argue that all this "artificial intelligence" craze we've got going on right now has nothing to do with intelligence. It's just training a computer program to do one thing and to do it very well. Does anyone consider a calculator an AI? Why not, calculators are far more accurate than humans at math and do not make mistakes.
Even if we took all the WEALTH of all the billionaires in the US we might be able to run the government for half a year. If you took all the corporate profits we'd be able to run the government for another half a year! Congratulations we funded the government for a year...now the billionaires have no wealth to invest. Corporations have no profits to invest, no money to pay dividends, no money for bonuses to employees. What are you going to do now.
I've checked the link in the article. I've sourced the original press release. Where are the pictures? If you want to make a difference with this type of news, show us the impacted shoreline, instead of one shot that might be a few square feet of beach. It seems ridiculous that this is all the visual impact that accompanies such a dire press release. It leaves the skeptic in me feeling that it's not as bad as it sounds.
If girls are better at A than boys, but only as good as boys at B, it stands to reason that girls will favor A over B. That's exactly what is happening. Girls go into subjects in which they excel. It frustrates me that no one ever looks at why aren't more men teachers, nurses, social workers, etc. Part of the problem is that not enough women are going into STEM as "we" would like, but the flipside is that not enough men are going into non-STEM. Why don't we try and get more men into non-STEM careers and see what happens?
It is against the law to ask those questions in an interview and a single mom of four would be a fool to voluntarily mention her situation.
Two candidates for the same job, they have equivalent experiences and qualifications for the job. Candidate one is a single worker with no children. Candidate two is a single mom with four children. The wage is a "living wage" of $15/hr. Guess which candidate is going to generate a ton of under the Sander's tax plan? That's right, the single mom with four kids. All of a sudden, it's in a companies best interest to find out if you have kids, to find out the size of your family, to find out if you are going to generate any tax liability because of who you are. When you start to tax companies because of the people they hire, they will change the way they hire the people. The end result will ALWAYS hurt those the law intended to help.
Blue Origin isn't in just a different league, it's basically the difference between little league t-ball and the major leagues. Suborbital is something college kids and maybe even high school kids can do with the right help. https://www.bostonglobe.com/id... Putting a very heavy satellite into space is something entirely different. The Falcon 9 can put 18,300 lb into geo-stationary orbit of 55,000 lb into low earth orbit. The Falcon Heavy should be able to do 2.5x those numbers and has put a Tesla Roadster out into a heliocentric orbit past Mars. A Blue Origin rocket can't even get to orbit without a payload.
A 1998 basic civic got you 107 hp and 103 lb ft of torque. A 2018 basic civic gets you 158 hp and 138 lb ft of torque. The 2018 does push around a heavier can and the result of almost 50% better power and a slightly bigger and heavier car is the same fuel economy. For the most part we've made HUGE gains in fuel economy. We've just wasted them on more power and bigger cars.
1) How often do we hear about military drones crashing? 2) Remote piloted drones would allow pilots to work anywhere and avoid having to travel. Just fire up Microsoft Flight Simulator 12, log into your assigned Passenger Drone and off you go. Now if we can just automate flight attendants!
This is the appropriate comment to my attempt at human. Some folks...yeesh!
Even though caffeine is a fairly weak drug, this shows the power of addiction. Caffeine addicts need that morning cup 'o joe so badly that they'll tell the Grim Reaper to bugger off and wait until they've had their coffee. Apparently it works!
Let's eat, Grandma.
Let's eat Grandma
Hmm...I think this is where things went wrong with Skynet, someone left out the comma!
In my computer science curriculum I had very few standardized tests. By the time I was in my 3rd and 4th year it was almost all project based.
Not quite so simple. There is plenty of new supply in Seattle, but nobody is building cheap places to live.
If there were plenty of supply, prices would not increase. If there were oversupply, prices would fall. The law of supply and demand is not hard to grasp. It is not a surprise that no one is building any place cheap to live, I imagine the building code in Seattle continues to grow in size, complexity and demands on the builder. Evicting delinquent or bad tenants has most likely become more difficult. To adjust to the new reality, developers build to attract affluent tenants that are less likely to trash a place or be late on the rent. Don't blame developers for adjusting to what the Seattle City government is throwing their way. If Seattle (or any large city) wants cheap housing, the need to make cheap housing something that can realistically be built and managed.
What about the babies those babies wil have? And the grandbabies? etc. Go out a few more generations and you could easily be at 2.4 million. No to mention, one of those babies could end up curing cancer, or discovering the warp engine and take humanity extra-solar! Maybe one of those will help defeat Thanos and find a way to rewind the big snap? Let's face it, he could be responsible for humanity even having a future at all!....or he could have saved the next Hitler, Stalin or Mao....so really who knows?