Not only is there no money to pay anyone anything, nor is there money to pay for maintenance, what would people DO with money if they had any to be paid?
Its not even like you can buy WATER now.
So instead of working, people are busy just finding food and water for the most part. How does the basic machinery that holds up civilization work long term under those conditions? It cannot.
Except now that the LA tunnel is drilled, hasnâ(TM)t Musk walked back the promise of pods there and gone back to his original intent of modified Teslas>
What he said that was that pods would be used by general transit but that Tesla cars could ALSO be slotted in to drive the tunnels as well (autonomously).
Just wanted to let you know that the person who made that was so stupid and uninformed, I worry about you being able to die your own shoes or go outside in a rainstorm without drowning since you felt it should be shared... hope you are OK and you recover high mental functions soon!
No-one uses the Las Vegas Monorail anyway, why would they use the Boring Tunnel?
The reason few people use the Monorail is that it is utterly useless. Every stop it makes takes around ten minutes of winding through a casino and shops to get in or out of it (except I think for one entry point on the strip itself). So you are talking 20 minutes of dead time, at least, trying to get on or off. You are better off getting an Uber, or in lots of cases just walking.
By contrast, the tunnel they are talking about having the Boring company build is made for ease of use and access. You get in on one side, you go to the other side of the convention center that would take 15-20 minutes of walking to reach, it's a huge time savings even with a few minutes to do down to the entry point.
If they did the same tunnel under the strip with entrances/exits right on the street, it would be a massive hit (traffic up and down the strip is almost always slow and fairly horrible, garages also are a long way away from things if you bring your own car).
"The city will unofficially imply there's wiggle room, saying it only enforces certain ordinances against 'bad operators,' but that leaves businesses subject to shifting political winds or personal whims,"
So the real story here is the busses missed the subtle hints as to who they needed to pay off to let the business keep working.
Why anyone would start a business in Chicago of all places is beyond me, unless you were sure of profitability after paying out the substantial graft required.
You must be prepared in order to have success, and merit can improve your chances, but they're still chances.
I invite you to read Mark Twain's story "Science vs. Luck".
What appears to you to be chance is not seeing all of the actions taken to deliver what is in essence a sure victory, the only thing in question is exactly what path it will take.
The only way chance enters the picture is by sometimes derailing those who have set up a path of otherwise certainty.
You truly can make your own luck, I have seen it in my life coming from a poor background, and I have seen it in others as well.
This successful person rises at three am, clips his toenails before breakfast, and deletes every second e-mail, therefore these must be keys to success!
It's very true that a lot of those cooks on success are not sure recipes, but that is just because the actual process of finding success involves a lot more than will fit into a book or even than the person quite understands.
But to call a successful persons success "chance" is to ignore that put in any circumstance, they will continue to be successful. There is obviously a skill there, not chance.
The Y is not built for off-road at all. OK, maybe on a lawn.
It could handle most forest roads OK. I've taken less capable cars on those kinds of roads, they are OK if you are careful.
I would buy a Rivian, it is getting back to the essentials of a 4x4.
On paper it seems like that, but can they really deliver even at the high price already stated? At 60k you have a lot of very impressive 4x4 options. Electric is already kind of a negative in a lot of places you might take a vehicle like that, I like to explore Utah and I'm not sure how close we are to having the be practical for electric cars even if you stick to roads... even with the 400 mile range, you are going to be needing to re-charge mid day with much travel.
You'd have to be a complete idiot to believe this at this point.
So do you have a real reason for saying that?
There's no reason to think Tesla cannot deliver full self driving at some point in the future. They are basically already for a lot of simple cases. so what leads you to conclude it's not possible for them to evolve what they have until it handles pretty much any case?
However, it is (A) somewhat expensive, (B) the company has no track record yet producing anything, and (C) not sure it will offer a self-driving option.
The Rivian looks way more properly built for offload use than the Y though, for sure. And 400 miles range is great (assuming it really gets that range). I especially like the suspension...
I still think his changing his name to pretend to be Hispanic is super stupid, but I relish the thought of a for-real hacker becoming president and having inside access to pretty much every government computer network...
Too bad there is zero chance of a white male of any dirt getting to be the Democratic candidate.
It's not that Toyota is "losing the electric car race". It's that they are betting on hydrogen but it takes more time to get right.
Personally I still think a long term bet on hydrogen as the ultimate electric car tech makes way more sense, in terms of being able to refill a car quickly, and even home power units based on hydrogen...
Until then they get by with hybrids, but it's not because they are losing - it's because they are Japanese and really thinking way longer term than any American company (except Musk of course).
Adding a new step to the GPU process, not only do you have to feed the card textures and shaders, now you ALSO have to feed it arbitrary state machines to compute in order to provide the power it needs to perform.
The reason justice Kavanaugh was taken to task, was not that he had a beer, it is that he lied about his conduct
All the people that could have verified those accusations said either they were false or they could not be verified.
Occam's Razor people, Occam's Razor... If a Democratic worker claims a Republican did something evil with no proof, and indeed cost counter-proof - they were/are lying. Doesn't take a genius to figure that out, but it does take pulling some of that wool off your eyes to see reality.
I'll let you have the last response, as I am quite sure you too are a tool - I respond to help others, since you are beyond help.
The only way for them to E3 it that is left, is to get into crossplay.
Although some might confuse your shorthand for the three E words for the E3 game conference, I knew what you meant here....
Although I also now have the unfortunate image of Balmer in a dress.
Shaking that off, I agree that they are attempting to steal something of real value from other platforms, the relationships between gamers - I really can't see Sony allowing this. I could see Apple not caring much, as they'd have to care about GameKit in the first place to care about it losing users...
I really do not see this happening on the Switch either for the same reason.
Rarely does anyone save them the way previous generations may have stored away paper notes from friends.
Kids aren't stupid. They see people almost being denied a supreme court seat because they once had a beer while in school.
Under such circumstances, would the natural inclination not be to go totally dark? To leave no permanent record of your existence to critique, so that at any time you could conform to the current popular GroupThink?? No wonder SnapChat is also so popular.
The only mistake they are making I would say, is in trusting Google to actually delete something... but Google has the tools they need - for the moment.
10 years? Where have I heard that before? Oh, right, AI in the 1960s.
AI is all based on the ability of software, which is why predictions of reaching a specific point (which itself wasn't all that specific anyway, very nebulous) can and will be wildly inaccurate.
When talking about quantum computing though, you aren't talking about anything nebulous or so hard to predict progress of. Generally predictions around when hardware will be developed by have been pretty accurate (if not underestimated).
That was the exact same point I stopped using Evernote.
And nothing of value was lost (to Dropbox).
I stopped using Evernote because it sucked, not because of how much I could mooch off them for free (or not).
I think a limit of three devices for free cloud syncing is pretty reasonable, to get a sense of if dropbox will work for what you are trying to do.
The device limits seems especially reasonable given than number of connections are almost worse than amount of data stored...
The thing is, Dropbox works really well. Good luck finding an alternative that does everything Dropbox does and works as well for free across more than three devices!!!
Maybe it's worth a few dollars a month for reliability and sanity? Just sayin'
If I choose Google, I get the integration with Email and Google Docs/Sheets which allow easy editing of documents by multiple different people, and pictures get hosted for free on google photos.
Well obviously, the primal answer is FUCK GOOGLE.
To clarify further I have heard about Google locking people out of files they deem "bad", like either copyright infringement or porn (ask a cosplayer). So what happens to documents I have synced on Googles doc cloud...
Not to mention, what if I have some photos I want no risk of being shared on Google? I do photographic sessions with clients at times who do not want images to be public ever.
There is just way, way too much risk exposure to put any file on Google, and from an ethical standpoint I do not want to give Google more material to scan.
The second answer is, Dropbox is really, really stable. It works super well, and Dropbox has thought through the use cases really well. Delete a shared folder locally and be able to easily choose if that is permient or just local? Check. Easily share with outside users via web? Sure. Syncing? Always, always works as expected.
Dropbox is simply put the gold standard for web storage, you can use options that may seem cheaper but you will pay eventually, oh how you will pay.
On a side note I also use Apple iCloud, which does sync pretty well - but it's not as flexible as Dropbox in terms of how I can use it on multiple devices, or how I can choose to share with others...
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I'll take "Things That Didn't Happen" for $1000, Alex
I'll take the "things that happen daily - Double" for $2000, Alex.
Not only is there no money to pay anyone anything, nor is there money to pay for maintenance, what would people DO with money if they had any to be paid?
Its not even like you can buy WATER now.
So instead of working, people are busy just finding food and water for the most part. How does the basic machinery that holds up civilization work long term under those conditions? It cannot.
Except now that the LA tunnel is drilled, hasnâ(TM)t Musk walked back the promise of pods there and gone back to his original intent of modified Teslas>
What he said that was that pods would be used by general transit but that Tesla cars could ALSO be slotted in to drive the tunnels as well (autonomously).
Just wanted to let you know that the person who made that was so stupid and uninformed, I worry about you being able to die your own shoes or go outside in a rainstorm without drowning since you felt it should be shared... hope you are OK and you recover high mental functions soon!
No-one uses the Las Vegas Monorail anyway, why would they use the Boring Tunnel?
The reason few people use the Monorail is that it is utterly useless. Every stop it makes takes around ten minutes of winding through a casino and shops to get in or out of it (except I think for one entry point on the strip itself). So you are talking 20 minutes of dead time, at least, trying to get on or off. You are better off getting an Uber, or in lots of cases just walking.
By contrast, the tunnel they are talking about having the Boring company build is made for ease of use and access. You get in on one side, you go to the other side of the convention center that would take 15-20 minutes of walking to reach, it's a huge time savings even with a few minutes to do down to the entry point.
If they did the same tunnel under the strip with entrances/exits right on the street, it would be a massive hit (traffic up and down the strip is almost always slow and fairly horrible, garages also are a long way away from things if you bring your own car).
"The city will unofficially imply there's wiggle room, saying it only enforces certain ordinances against 'bad operators,' but that leaves businesses subject to shifting political winds or personal whims,"
So the real story here is the busses missed the subtle hints as to who they needed to pay off to let the business keep working.
Why anyone would start a business in Chicago of all places is beyond me, unless you were sure of profitability after paying out the substantial graft required.
You must be prepared in order to have success, and merit can improve your chances, but they're still chances.
I invite you to read Mark Twain's story "Science vs. Luck".
What appears to you to be chance is not seeing all of the actions taken to deliver what is in essence a sure victory, the only thing in question is exactly what path it will take.
The only way chance enters the picture is by sometimes derailing those who have set up a path of otherwise certainty.
You truly can make your own luck, I have seen it in my life coming from a poor background, and I have seen it in others as well.
This successful person rises at three am, clips his toenails before breakfast, and deletes every second e-mail, therefore these must be keys to success!
It's very true that a lot of those cooks on success are not sure recipes, but that is just because the actual process of finding success involves a lot more than will fit into a book or even than the person quite understands.
But to call a successful persons success "chance" is to ignore that put in any circumstance, they will continue to be successful. There is obviously a skill there, not chance.
The Y is not built for off-road at all. OK, maybe on a lawn.
It could handle most forest roads OK. I've taken less capable cars on those kinds of roads, they are OK if you are careful.
I would buy a Rivian, it is getting back to the essentials of a 4x4.
On paper it seems like that, but can they really deliver even at the high price already stated? At 60k you have a lot of very impressive 4x4 options. Electric is already kind of a negative in a lot of places you might take a vehicle like that, I like to explore Utah and I'm not sure how close we are to having the be practical for electric cars even if you stick to roads... even with the 400 mile range, you are going to be needing to re-charge mid day with much travel.
You'd have to be a complete idiot to believe this at this point.
So do you have a real reason for saying that?
There's no reason to think Tesla cannot deliver full self driving at some point in the future. They are basically already for a lot of simple cases. so what leads you to conclude it's not possible for them to evolve what they have until it handles pretty much any case?
I also like the sound of the Rivian.
However, it is (A) somewhat expensive, (B) the company has no track record yet producing anything, and (C) not sure it will offer a self-driving option.
The Rivian looks way more properly built for offload use than the Y though, for sure. And 400 miles range is great (assuming it really gets that range). I especially like the suspension...
To me it feels like cut and paste is not heavily used on mobile devices, so I'm not sure if this move hurts more than it helps...
A pasteboard is just one of many conduits to get data to another application, and should be the choice of last resort.
I still think his changing his name to pretend to be Hispanic is super stupid, but I relish the thought of a for-real hacker becoming president and having inside access to pretty much every government computer network...
Too bad there is zero chance of a white male of any dirt getting to be the Democratic candidate.
It's not that Toyota is "losing the electric car race". It's that they are betting on hydrogen but it takes more time to get right.
Personally I still think a long term bet on hydrogen as the ultimate electric car tech makes way more sense, in terms of being able to refill a car quickly, and even home power units based on hydrogen...
Until then they get by with hybrids, but it's not because they are losing - it's because they are Japanese and really thinking way longer term than any American company (except Musk of course).
Adding a new step to the GPU process, not only do you have to feed the card textures and shaders, now you ALSO have to feed it arbitrary state machines to compute in order to provide the power it needs to perform.
The reason justice Kavanaugh was taken to task, was not that he had a beer, it is that he lied about his conduct
All the people that could have verified those accusations said either they were false or they could not be verified.
Occam's Razor people, Occam's Razor... If a Democratic worker claims a Republican did something evil with no proof, and indeed cost counter-proof - they were/are lying. Doesn't take a genius to figure that out, but it does take pulling some of that wool off your eyes to see reality.
I'll let you have the last response, as I am quite sure you too are a tool - I respond to help others, since you are beyond help.
He just used it, therefore you are wrong and a liar to boot.
The only way for them to E3 it that is left, is to get into crossplay.
Although some might confuse your shorthand for the three E words for the E3 game conference, I knew what you meant here....
Although I also now have the unfortunate image of Balmer in a dress.
Shaking that off, I agree that they are attempting to steal something of real value from other platforms, the relationships between gamers - I really can't see Sony allowing this. I could see Apple not caring much, as they'd have to care about GameKit in the first place to care about it losing users...
I really do not see this happening on the Switch either for the same reason.
Other countries: Ban the U.S. manufactured plane based on nothing but a feeling.
U.S.: Bans plane based on actual compelling link between two crashes.
I wonder who behaved more rationally and correctly here...
If the plane had been an Airbus, you would have seen equal caution from other countries in an outright ban on the model.
Rarely does anyone save them the way previous generations may have stored away paper notes from friends.
Kids aren't stupid. They see people almost being denied a supreme court seat because they once had a beer while in school.
Under such circumstances, would the natural inclination not be to go totally dark? To leave no permanent record of your existence to critique, so that at any time you could conform to the current popular GroupThink?? No wonder SnapChat is also so popular.
The only mistake they are making I would say, is in trusting Google to actually delete something... but Google has the tools they need - for the moment.
10 years? Where have I heard that before? Oh, right, AI in the 1960s.
AI is all based on the ability of software, which is why predictions of reaching a specific point (which itself wasn't all that specific anyway, very nebulous) can and will be wildly inaccurate.
When talking about quantum computing though, you aren't talking about anything nebulous or so hard to predict progress of. Generally predictions around when hardware will be developed by have been pretty accurate (if not underestimated).
Scientist: Hey guess what, turns out Mercury is really closer to the Earth, even though it orbits closer to the sun than Venus *snickers a bit*.
Me: Well, Ok, I guess maybe if you consider speed of rotation around the sun it technically is closer more often but...
Scientist: *leans way over beaker and takes a bit whiff* In fact... Mercury is closer to all the planets!! *eyes glaze over scientist slumps on floor*
Me: Pours contents of beaker over prone scientist, storms out of room.
Visits to the Tumblr website fell from 521 million in December to 437 million in January and 370 million in February,
300 million of those February visits were just to confirm the porn was gone. Good luck with March!
The "experts" say "not possible for 10 years".
There's also the aspect of, the NSA is about 10 years ahead in relation to crypto and computing related technologies so...
Nothing to worry about! Move along!
That was the exact same point I stopped using Evernote.
And nothing of value was lost (to Dropbox).
I stopped using Evernote because it sucked, not because of how much I could mooch off them for free (or not).
I think a limit of three devices for free cloud syncing is pretty reasonable, to get a sense of if dropbox will work for what you are trying to do.
The device limits seems especially reasonable given than number of connections are almost worse than amount of data stored...
The thing is, Dropbox works really well. Good luck finding an alternative that does everything Dropbox does and works as well for free across more than three devices!!!
Maybe it's worth a few dollars a month for reliability and sanity? Just sayin'
If I choose Google, I get the integration with Email and Google Docs/Sheets which allow easy editing of documents by multiple different people, and pictures get hosted for free on google photos.
Well obviously, the primal answer is FUCK GOOGLE.
To clarify further I have heard about Google locking people out of files they deem "bad", like either copyright infringement or porn (ask a cosplayer). So what happens to documents I have synced on Googles doc cloud...
Not to mention, what if I have some photos I want no risk of being shared on Google? I do photographic sessions with clients at times who do not want images to be public ever.
There is just way, way too much risk exposure to put any file on Google, and from an ethical standpoint I do not want to give Google more material to scan.
The second answer is, Dropbox is really, really stable. It works super well, and Dropbox has thought through the use cases really well. Delete a shared folder locally and be able to easily choose if that is permient or just local? Check. Easily share with outside users via web? Sure. Syncing? Always, always works as expected.
Dropbox is simply put the gold standard for web storage, you can use options that may seem cheaper but you will pay eventually, oh how you will pay.
On a side note I also use Apple iCloud, which does sync pretty well - but it's not as flexible as Dropbox in terms of how I can use it on multiple devices, or how I can choose to share with others...