If I invite a passerby into my house every day, and freely give them all of by valuables every day, sometimes every hour - who is to say that person has stolen anything?
The problem is that some panned out (a user base that liked what they were doing), and Google killed them anyway, in a lot of cases like taking a kitten that you loved and exposing it to powerful miutagens just to see what it would transform into. Or just plain shot the kitten, as per Google Reader.
Although getting rid of coal is a nice effort from the standpoint of pollution, if you are truly serious about climate change, why is Germany getting rid of THIER use of coal.
I mean, whatever coal fired power plants they already have probably have really strict emission control equipment, right?
Meanwhile, what if you took 98 *billion* dollars and used that money all to improve the electrical power grid in India. From solar projects to simply putting CO2 and emission scrubbers on coal plants they have, would that not be a vastly more efficient use of money?
The whole point of the Paris accord was to shift money from rich to poor nations anyway. So why not make that shift a lot more direct, and actually focused on improving the worst emissions?
As it is the Germany effort just looks like virtue signaling that will have almost no real impact on worldwide CO2 levels.
The reason they can attract so many great employees
Like who now? Where is the evidence that in the past five years, they have attracted "so many great employees". I see a LOT of failed projects and an inability to stick to anything. Core search remains really good as always, but don't you get the impression of a group of ten people in a small room, who have barricaded all the doors and are trying to keep the howling mob at bay from the one area of Google that still functions perfectly?
because of a culture of taking care of their employees
Yes they certainly have a. culture of "taking care" of employees now. Just ask Damore...
The moment they become just another HP, IBM
Google has chosen a different path, far less boring and far more self-destructive.
What this article ignores is a long, long history of science telling us to do one thing, while eventually having to recant the whole thing,
How many people still believe that aluminum causes Alzheimers? That eggs are bad for your health? There are a lot of other examples where consensus has been wrong, and not just by a little bit.
So why should we not be skeptical of what climate scientists say now? Why should we not say, even if the prognosis for warming is right, what if they are wrong about root cause?? The reasonable person with any kind of understanding even of just modern, never mind ancient, history SHOULD be a skeptic, always - with good reason. It's the rabid non-skeptics you learn over a lifetime to distrust completely.
Does you stack overflow score prevent you from using public transport? No? That's the difference in China.
As I said a trillion billion times, of course that aspect is bad. I find it odd technologists here seem unable to separate two distinct concepts and argue the merits of each independently.
Does your boss come and "coach" you in any hour in which you had a compiler error?
Are you fucking kidding me, here???? Have you EVER programmed in a team. If you check a compiler breaking error into the build system it's a LOT more people than just your manager, that are going to be coming to you and "coaching" you immediately, and if it happened with any regularity you would be gone.
Pack less than the desired number of boxes per hour in an Amazon warehouse and you'll be made to feel the pressure
As you should because that is the qualification for the job. Amazon knows how many packages is reasonable to expect someone to process, why should slackers get breaks while the rest of the people work hard to make up for them? Screw that, underperforms are welcome in no industry.
I said in other comments that China had obviously taken things too far. Here I am talking purely about the technology of monitoring cooks. Do you not think that is a good idea? Or would you rather life a life wallowing in filth and disease because you are afraid other countries may go the direction of China?
I would argue one data point does not a slope make. This is just data being collected on job performance, the way a LOT of other jobs have performance monitored. Why is it a problem now that we can actually monitor food handling as well as we can monitor output from other work, like programming or accounting work?
And if those compiler errors affected your social credit score?
For programmers they already do, if you spend any time on sites like StackOverflow, or passing along advice on Twitter - all of the casual mistakes you might make are revealed there with the effect of a very real social score (in the case of Stack Overflow, quite a literal score).
They also do, in that every person you work with (including managers) can (and will) see and evaluate your code...
Programmers of all people should be used to the idea of social credit, as we have been living the reality of it forever.
There will always be a positive reason for embracing each creep forward by the totalitarian panopticon.
Knowledge by itself is not totalitarian. Helping to correct food preparation is an excellent idea, the employer knowing is an excellent idea. Where it starts to get tricky is beyond that realm - should the state know? Maybe in some cases to understand something like an outbreak of food poisoning? Maybe it's a pool of info about you that should only be released with your permission to potential employers, except in the case of emergency... but there are a lot of useful ways that information can end up in a score that is not totalitarian. Sure China's system itself probably crosses the line in a lot of ways, but even that is useful in understanding better where the line actually is - and where others think it is.
I've worked directly with the automated systems that monitor the minute-by-minute performance of Amazon warehouse employees. It's creepy as fuck.
If I were working there I would not find it creepy at all, because you expect warehouses with lots of easily snagged goods to be monitored out the wazoo.
Remember cameras also protect YOU, from false allegations. In a world that is increasingly prone to false charges if people do not like you, an absolute record of truth is so useful that normal citizens should probably be wearing body cameras 24x7 whenever out in public.
So, how do you feel about TFA, which isn't talking about something to alert the cooks to food safety problems, but alerting the EMPLOYER of the cook to food safety problems caused by the cook?
As someone who strives for excellence, I feel pretty damn good about that - the effect is the same, where the employer would tell me if there were any problems.
Something you are discounting is finally truly good employees could be recognized and rewarded on the merit of how well they work, rather than on how good they are at looking like they are working when the employer is paying attention.
Some may find that as creepy but honestly if I were a cook I would welcome something that alerted me if I could be doing better with food safety.
Similar to how in coding, I do not mind a plethora of warnings and errors from a compiler, because cleaning those up I can realize if I've started to slack in some ways with regards to good coding habits or proper use of the language at hand.
Food prep is such an area that can make a big difference in public safety though, it's great to see AI being used in this way.
I kind of agree with you on #1, Apple media content is a strange fit.
#2 makes sense as a moon shot, that they wisen dropped - but it gave them a lot of benefits in understanding modern machine learning, so like all moonshots it had good side products.
#4 you are just flat our wrong on, Apple in the last year has done a lot of stuff - hardwire and software - for the Mac world.
Now this one:
Making components that Samsung does better.
How do you know Samsung "does this better"? It seems like at this point Apple could easily do at least as good a job AS Samsung, batteries being a pretty well understood item - furthermore Apple spending a lot of money has a chance they can come up with some unique take that is actually better.
Furthermore, Samsung is more a direct competitor to Apple than most companies. Why on earth would you NOT want to avoid giving money to your direct competitor, where at all possible?
Fools - chasing jobs that will be replaced by AI before their work careers are probably 1/2 over.
A lot of jobs will be replaced by AI, but frankly AI cannot handle how illogically real computers behave well enough to take over programming.
The day you'll know we are near to AI being able to handle programming well is the day the search for "Robot arm to slam keyboard" does not come up empty handed with real keyboard-slamming action.
Back when I went to college, there was a similar rush - to the extent that one college I applied to, said I couldn't get in because the CS major I had chosen was full! Lucky that wasn't my first choice, but it was a big state school so it was quite a surprise as that was one of the backup choices...
Hopefully this is a more sustained rise in CS interest, which does need good people that understand most CS principals.
The letting go of people from this car group is proof they do.
Just because this did not work out does not mean they do not have other ideas under way that might.
FaceID, the Apple implementation, was very new (who else was doing 3D face auth in mobile profile before that) and just was released last year... cut them some slack man! Can't have something new and amazing every year.
When the NASA guy tried to patiently explain why it would be 2030 when NASA was there, Trump should have responded with:
"Well SpaceX says they'll be landing people there in 2025, why is NASA so slow? Maybe I should just send more government money to SpaceX. Why do you think you deserve it instead?"
Apple I smart I think to not build a whole car, integration into car systems is the better idea for Apple.
I'm just not sure how Apple could bring anything extra to the driverless car space, which has quite a lot of players of all kinds feverishly working to deliver results.
Maybe after that area has solidified they might find some way that makes sense to enter, but for now sitting back and waiting is a good idea.
As long as they support tap on their terminals, they support it because there is no difference.
That's not exactly right - due to the whole consortium that kept Target from using ApplePay, some vendors that had tap to pay systems explicitly blocked ApplePay. I encountered it a few times (not the case anymore).
It's not like Twitter (or anyone else) gets any face data with FaceID though... all they know is the system has used biometric authentication successfully with the user.
If you are not a blue check, or not authenticating via touch/face, maybe you get some lower views on your tweets, maybe they only show for 10% of your followers.. something like that. Explain that and it doesn't matter how "easy" the other paths are.
I still feel like bots will figure out some way around those systems though... also not sure how that works in a world where Twitter themselves have driven people to use the web more by killing off as many native clients as possible - including some of theirs.
My card worked fine at Five Guys. And then it also worked fine for the guy at Five Guys that stole my number...
I use cash sometimes also, but you don't want to have to carry a ton of cash around, and credit cards give rewards. Presently you are paying for those rewards anyway through higher merchandise prices, no matter if you use cash or not - so why not use a card and get in on that?
Using Apple Pay when I can, means I do not have to worry about my number being stolen. So it does add benefit to me and no drawback to the merchant (other than not being able to track me - so I guess that's another benefit in my favor).
Speaking of competition, this is why I think that ultimately, Google and Apple will exit the payments business.
I can't speak for Google, especially after the large number of efforts they have dropped... but I can say for sure Apple will never drop Apple Pay, because it's one of many features that makes apple devices (from iOS to OSX) more valuable.
Isn't Apple / Google / Samsung pay ubiquitous over there?
No, in part because there was a consortium of companies (including Target and CVS) that wanted to promote some completely different standard... so NFC readers are slower to work down into retail than they should have been.
I think the question seems a little strange as if you have an iPhone you'd be using Apple Pay, otherwise some Google variant.
But personally I really like Apple Pay, because it's easy to set up, use, and I feel is really secure.
Great news too is that soon (if not now?) ApplePay support is coming to Target and some other places - Target was one of the last big holdouts of places I go.
Note that Target will also finally be supporting Google Pay and Android Pay as well, so we ALL win here!!
Another thing I will say in favoritisms of Apple Pay is that Apple Pay over the web works really well and I use it if at all possible (it uses your device to authorize payment).
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If I invite a passerby into my house every day, and freely give them all of by valuables every day, sometimes every hour - who is to say that person has stolen anything?
Some will pan out, most will not.
The problem is that some panned out (a user base that liked what they were doing), and Google killed them anyway, in a lot of cases like taking a kitten that you loved and exposing it to powerful miutagens just to see what it would transform into. Or just plain shot the kitten, as per Google Reader.
Although getting rid of coal is a nice effort from the standpoint of pollution, if you are truly serious about climate change, why is Germany getting rid of THIER use of coal.
I mean, whatever coal fired power plants they already have probably have really strict emission control equipment, right?
Meanwhile, what if you took 98 *billion* dollars and used that money all to improve the electrical power grid in India. From solar projects to simply putting CO2 and emission scrubbers on coal plants they have, would that not be a vastly more efficient use of money?
The whole point of the Paris accord was to shift money from rich to poor nations anyway. So why not make that shift a lot more direct, and actually focused on improving the worst emissions?
As it is the Germany effort just looks like virtue signaling that will have almost no real impact on worldwide CO2 levels.
The reason they can attract so many great employees
Like who now? Where is the evidence that in the past five years, they have attracted "so many great employees". I see a LOT of failed projects and an inability to stick to anything. Core search remains really good as always, but don't you get the impression of a group of ten people in a small room, who have barricaded all the doors and are trying to keep the howling mob at bay from the one area of Google that still functions perfectly?
because of a culture of taking care of their employees
Yes they certainly have a. culture of "taking care" of employees now. Just ask Damore...
The moment they become just another HP, IBM
Google has chosen a different path, far less boring and far more self-destructive.
What this article ignores is a long, long history of science telling us to do one thing, while eventually having to recant the whole thing,
How many people still believe that aluminum causes Alzheimers? That eggs are bad for your health? There are a lot of other examples where consensus has been wrong, and not just by a little bit.
So why should we not be skeptical of what climate scientists say now? Why should we not say, even if the prognosis for warming is right, what if they are wrong about root cause?? The reasonable person with any kind of understanding even of just modern, never mind ancient, history SHOULD be a skeptic, always - with good reason. It's the rabid non-skeptics you learn over a lifetime to distrust completely.
Does you stack overflow score prevent you from using public transport? No? That's the difference in China.
As I said a trillion billion times, of course that aspect is bad. I find it odd technologists here seem unable to separate two distinct concepts and argue the merits of each independently.
Does your boss come and "coach" you in any hour in which you had a compiler error?
Are you fucking kidding me, here???? Have you EVER programmed in a team. If you check a compiler breaking error into the build system it's a LOT more people than just your manager, that are going to be coming to you and "coaching" you immediately, and if it happened with any regularity you would be gone.
Pack less than the desired number of boxes per hour in an Amazon warehouse and you'll be made to feel the pressure
As you should because that is the qualification for the job. Amazon knows how many packages is reasonable to expect someone to process, why should slackers get breaks while the rest of the people work hard to make up for them? Screw that, underperforms are welcome in no industry.
I said in other comments that China had obviously taken things too far. Here I am talking purely about the technology of monitoring cooks. Do you not think that is a good idea? Or would you rather life a life wallowing in filth and disease because you are afraid other countries may go the direction of China?
I would argue one data point does not a slope make. This is just data being collected on job performance, the way a LOT of other jobs have performance monitored. Why is it a problem now that we can actually monitor food handling as well as we can monitor output from other work, like programming or accounting work?
And if those compiler errors affected your social credit score?
For programmers they already do, if you spend any time on sites like StackOverflow, or passing along advice on Twitter - all of the casual mistakes you might make are revealed there with the effect of a very real social score (in the case of Stack Overflow, quite a literal score).
They also do, in that every person you work with (including managers) can (and will) see and evaluate your code...
Programmers of all people should be used to the idea of social credit, as we have been living the reality of it forever.
There will always be a positive reason for embracing each creep forward by the totalitarian panopticon.
Knowledge by itself is not totalitarian. Helping to correct food preparation is an excellent idea, the employer knowing is an excellent idea. Where it starts to get tricky is beyond that realm - should the state know? Maybe in some cases to understand something like an outbreak of food poisoning? Maybe it's a pool of info about you that should only be released with your permission to potential employers, except in the case of emergency... but there are a lot of useful ways that information can end up in a score that is not totalitarian. Sure China's system itself probably crosses the line in a lot of ways, but even that is useful in understanding better where the line actually is - and where others think it is.
I've worked directly with the automated systems that monitor the minute-by-minute performance of Amazon warehouse employees. It's creepy as fuck.
If I were working there I would not find it creepy at all, because you expect warehouses with lots of easily snagged goods to be monitored out the wazoo.
Remember cameras also protect YOU, from false allegations. In a world that is increasingly prone to false charges if people do not like you, an absolute record of truth is so useful that normal citizens should probably be wearing body cameras 24x7 whenever out in public.
So, how do you feel about TFA, which isn't talking about something to alert the cooks to food safety problems, but alerting the EMPLOYER of the cook to food safety problems caused by the cook?
As someone who strives for excellence, I feel pretty damn good about that - the effect is the same, where the employer would tell me if there were any problems.
Something you are discounting is finally truly good employees could be recognized and rewarded on the merit of how well they work, rather than on how good they are at looking like they are working when the employer is paying attention.
Why would you feel any differently?
Some may find that as creepy but honestly if I were a cook I would welcome something that alerted me if I could be doing better with food safety.
Similar to how in coding, I do not mind a plethora of warnings and errors from a compiler, because cleaning those up I can realize if I've started to slack in some ways with regards to good coding habits or proper use of the language at hand.
Food prep is such an area that can make a big difference in public safety though, it's great to see AI being used in this way.
I kind of agree with you on #1, Apple media content is a strange fit.
#2 makes sense as a moon shot, that they wisen dropped - but it gave them a lot of benefits in understanding modern machine learning, so like all moonshots it had good side products.
#4 you are just flat our wrong on, Apple in the last year has done a lot of stuff - hardwire and software - for the Mac world.
Now this one:
Making components that Samsung does better.
How do you know Samsung "does this better"? It seems like at this point Apple could easily do at least as good a job AS Samsung, batteries being a pretty well understood item - furthermore Apple spending a lot of money has a chance they can come up with some unique take that is actually better.
Furthermore, Samsung is more a direct competitor to Apple than most companies. Why on earth would you NOT want to avoid giving money to your direct competitor, where at all possible?
Fools - chasing jobs that will be replaced by AI before their work careers are probably 1/2 over.
A lot of jobs will be replaced by AI, but frankly AI cannot handle how illogically real computers behave well enough to take over programming.
The day you'll know we are near to AI being able to handle programming well is the day the search for "Robot arm to slam keyboard" does not come up empty handed with real keyboard-slamming action.
Back when I went to college, there was a similar rush - to the extent that one college I applied to, said I couldn't get in because the CS major I had chosen was full! Lucky that wasn't my first choice, but it was a big state school so it was quite a surprise as that was one of the backup choices...
Hopefully this is a more sustained rise in CS interest, which does need good people that understand most CS principals.
Does Apple do anything new these days?
The letting go of people from this car group is proof they do.
Just because this did not work out does not mean they do not have other ideas under way that might.
FaceID, the Apple implementation, was very new (who else was doing 3D face auth in mobile profile before that) and just was released last year... cut them some slack man! Can't have something new and amazing every year.
When the NASA guy tried to patiently explain why it would be 2030 when NASA was there, Trump should have responded with:
"Well SpaceX says they'll be landing people there in 2025, why is NASA so slow? Maybe I should just send more government money to SpaceX. Why do you think you deserve it instead?"
Apple I smart I think to not build a whole car, integration into car systems is the better idea for Apple.
I'm just not sure how Apple could bring anything extra to the driverless car space, which has quite a lot of players of all kinds feverishly working to deliver results.
Maybe after that area has solidified they might find some way that makes sense to enter, but for now sitting back and waiting is a good idea.
As long as they support tap on their terminals, they support it because there is no difference.
That's not exactly right - due to the whole consortium that kept Target from using ApplePay, some vendors that had tap to pay systems explicitly blocked ApplePay. I encountered it a few times (not the case anymore).
It's not like Twitter (or anyone else) gets any face data with FaceID though... all they know is the system has used biometric authentication successfully with the user.
By "Force" I mean the Shadow Ban engine.
If you are not a blue check, or not authenticating via touch/face, maybe you get some lower views on your tweets, maybe they only show for 10% of your followers.. something like that. Explain that and it doesn't matter how "easy" the other paths are.
I still feel like bots will figure out some way around those systems though... also not sure how that works in a world where Twitter themselves have driven people to use the web more by killing off as many native clients as possible - including some of theirs.
Repeat a lie enough, and it becomes the truth.
The masses will happily fear what you tell them to fear. Just like decades ago, they were told to fear Global Cooling...
Anything it claims is untrue, should probably be paid extra attention to so that you can get a sense of what the mainstream media is trying to hide.
My cards work fine, cash works even better
My card worked fine at Five Guys. And then it also worked fine for the guy at Five Guys that stole my number...
I use cash sometimes also, but you don't want to have to carry a ton of cash around, and credit cards give rewards. Presently you are paying for those rewards anyway through higher merchandise prices, no matter if you use cash or not - so why not use a card and get in on that?
Using Apple Pay when I can, means I do not have to worry about my number being stolen. So it does add benefit to me and no drawback to the merchant (other than not being able to track me - so I guess that's another benefit in my favor).
Speaking of competition, this is why I think that ultimately, Google and Apple will exit the payments business.
I can't speak for Google, especially after the large number of efforts they have dropped... but I can say for sure Apple will never drop Apple Pay, because it's one of many features that makes apple devices (from iOS to OSX) more valuable.
Isn't Apple / Google / Samsung pay ubiquitous over there?
No, in part because there was a consortium of companies (including Target and CVS) that wanted to promote some completely different standard... so NFC readers are slower to work down into retail than they should have been.
That side effort utterly failed...
I think the question seems a little strange as if you have an iPhone you'd be using Apple Pay, otherwise some Google variant.
But personally I really like Apple Pay, because it's easy to set up, use, and I feel is really secure.
Great news too is that soon (if not now?) ApplePay support is coming to Target and some other places - Target was one of the last big holdouts of places I go.
Note that Target will also finally be supporting Google Pay and Android Pay as well, so we ALL win here!!
Another thing I will say in favoritisms of Apple Pay is that Apple Pay over the web works really well and I use it if at all possible (it uses your device to authorize payment).