This clearly illustrates the one area where schools lack: critical thinking
Our school system is really only designed to enable rote memorization:
Memorize your multiplication tables. Memorize the dates of the Egyptian empire Memorize the themes in To Kill a Mockingbird Memorize that mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell
They are given a book, told "this book is truth, memorize this book," and so yeah, seeing an article with ulterior motives would throw them for a loop.
If you want better politicians, you need a better populace. If you want a better populace, you're going to need a better public school system that teaches students more than just numbers and facts. We need to teach them how to think critically, how to examine the world around them, and how to leverage the internet as a nearly unlimited resource, while being wary of the ability for any random jack-hole to post some spurious shit on their blog.
Maybe Musk just doesn't give a shit about short term "investors" that jump around from stock to stock, but rather is more concerned with the long-term sustainability of the planet?
There's a level cognitive dissonance here that I find amusing
On the one hand, we shouldn't paint all Trump supporters as racists. We can't judge a large and diverse group by the worst among them. Not all Trump supporters are David Duke, and you're 100% correct to point this out.
On the other hand, much of Trump's campaign is based on doing exactly that. Not all Muslims are KSM, but we're asked to unilaterally ban them from entering the country as if they were. Not all Mexicans are rapists (or even criminals at all) yet we're asked to treat them as China did the Mongols.
If you want me to see the nuance and struggles among the varied Trump supporters, Trump supporters should be able to see the nuance and struggles of others.
I like the concept -I really do- but I don't know how practical it is. Mostly depending on exactly what data is being stored.
Simply put, text is tiny. The URL for this page is 126 characters in total, requiring 126 bytes of space to store. Using that as a baseline, storing 24,000 websites would consume about 3 MB of space.
If a million customers did that, you'd need about 3 TB per day, which isn't nothing, but isn't going to crash any enterprise level storage solution.
Of course, there's probably some overhead and extra space, plus that's just the URL for this page, others could be longer or shorter... but I don't think you're going to gain many orders of magnitude.
Minor correction, I don't think "many liberals" take the stance espoused in #6. At least, none that I know.
From my own (admittedly limited) experience, the sentiment was that a private business already has the right to refuse service to anyone. Creating a specific "because gay" law was unnecessary and petty.
Music seems like a bad analogy, as the requirements to play are minimal. My coffee pot probably has enough computational power to play an MP3.
Music can also be a passive experience. I can just put the headphones on and zone out. Games are, well, games. They require input.
So, no... vidya gaems will not reach the ubiquity of music.
One aspect he is somewhat correct on: games will become more integrated: console, PC, mobile, etc. will all have games that interact, if not directly. You'll have a mobile game to walk around and catch Pokemon, which fills the roster for your Pokemon MMO on your PC. Or maybe your mom can play Bejeweled to increase your salary cap in Madden.
I could very easily see this going awry (i.e. a game give you bonus gold for visiting a starbucks) but if executed well, games could become much more accessible, allowing people to play together and enjoy the same overall narrative, while contributing in their own personal way.
Even if you doubt the science and don't believe that humans are screwing up the planet, there are still plenty of selfish reasons to "go green"
First and foremost is money. At a personal level, solar panels are cheaper than coal-fired grid power for many people. On a broader scale, an energy company that has fewer options will charge more. Here in San Diego, they decommissioned our nuke plant a few years ago, and home energy prices have increased significantly as a result. People should be supporting alternative energy sources to reduce their bill.
Secondly is supply. We are going to run out of oil at some point. Coal, too. It's already getting harder and harder to dig up. Check out how deep the Deepwater Horizon drill actuall was. The oil pocket was 2/3 down the Mariana's Trench. That reeks of desperation. Fracking is even more desperate. It's like trying to wring the last few drops of booze out of a bar towel.
The sun, on the other hand, isn't going anywhere. Not for a few billion years at least. Wind, tidal, geothermal, and nuclear power are similarly long duration. Even if you believe that "clean coal" is actually a real thing, it would behoove you to move away from a power source that might not last your lifetime
Thirdly, smog. Have you been to Beijing? The air is insane over there. It's like London pea soup fog, except with dirt and soot instead of water condensation. There is seriously a business selling cans of air in China. Whether or not you think that's bad for the planet is immaterial. That's bad for YOU. And if you think "it's on the other side of the world, I'll be fine," I would like to introduce you to the concept of wind.
Trump could destroy Net Neutrality.
Trump could invite Obama and Putin on a "The Bachelor" style third-wheel date
Trump could drop trou during his inauguration and moon the nation
Trump could do a lot of things... but I wouldn't count on any of the things I listed.
First off, it wasn't an Obama thing, it was an FCC thing. So his decree to erase Obama's legacy won't matter here. Secondly, Trump is smart. Scary smart. Or he has some ridiculously smart advisors to whom he pays very close attention. His entire run was by the book. "Which book," you ask... the book. Sun Tsu: Art of War (note, this post was made 8 months ago.) All that stupidity, all the sound bites ("mexican rapists"), all the vague promises ("Make America great again")... it was all 100% intentional and by design.
"First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win." -Mahatma Gandhi
That said, Trump and/or his advisors are smart enough to know that killing Net Neutrality doesn't really get them anywhere. He didn't make any promises regarding it, so there's no reason for him to focus any attention there. And really, he's going to have his hands full building a wall and repealing health care. Comcast v Netflix is small potatoes that won't even register on his radar.
Hell, Arizona alone (which Californian politicians often scoff at) provides California with 25% of its electricity. I'm curious how Silicon Valley would deal with that.
We'd probably turn the nukes back on. San Onofre has been sitting idle for half a decade now. We'd probably invent new nuclear reactors, too; get some molten salt thorium reactors up and running. Barring that, Mr. Musk lives in Cali, so maybe we'd just get Solar Panels on every roof and batteries in every garage. Or turn to tidal, since we have all that coastline to play with.
Most of the landmass of California is in fact very red.
Most of the landmass of EVERY place is very red, because that tends to be the space without any people in it. Either farmers (as you point out) with a single family living on 100+ acres, or far far right conservatives living in the boonies of the deserts or high up in the Appalachian mountains with all the guns they can muster and the nearest neighbor 10 miles away. Liberals tends toward cities and other people, where they make things like computers, medicine, solar panels and interracial porn.
The popular vote numbers this year are Clinton: 59.6m... Trump: 59.3m
Four years ago, those numbers were Obama: 58.7m... Romney: 56.1m
The D voters stayed about the same, with a small uptick of about half a million.
The big change was R voters coming out in droves. 3 million more people voted for Trump than Romney. They're your shift. That's what won the election.
Not necessarily less corrupt. Just different corrupt.
Donald Trump's faults, while legion, stem from different sources than faults of a Clinton or a Bush.
Trump flip-flops because fuck it why not, the old guard flip flops because someone paid them to do so.
Trump is racist because he doesn't like brown people (except exceedingly hot ones), the old guard is racist because polls show brown people as an unnecessary voting bloc, and because the biggest donors are old white guys.
Trump lies because it makes him happy. The old guard lies because a focus group said they could get away with it.
Trumps world is a simplistic one. His sins are those of a child. For a lot of Americans, that mindset is easy to understand. All the political cloak and dagger bullshit, all the doubletalk, all the everything that we equate with politicking... it's gotten old. If we're going to have to elect some one corrupt, we've apparently opted for the more relatable corruption.
Really that just highlights a bigger problem: requiring a literal act of congress to allocate emergency relief funds.
How about we spend some time to create a bill to set aside an appropriate amount of money that can only be accessed by a governor or the president declaring a state of emergency (or some other harder-to-abuse threshold)
If random Joe middle class can keep some money squirreled away in case the car breaks down, or the roof falls in, certainly the country can do the same thing, right?
Apple can support 4 year old hardware because they only release one new device per year (with a few minor variations.)
There are probably more new Android-capable phones released in a given month than all of the iPhones ever released since ever.
So Android dominates the market using the old tried and true method: zerg rush. The new droid OS doesn't need to support old hardware cuz twe've got new hardware platforms flying out of every orifice.
Prisons move. New prisons are built, old ones close down. Are we going to require OTA updates to keep the latest and greatest info on hobby grade equipment?
It also introduces a vector for error. Some SW monkey accidentally fat-fingers a lat.long and suddenly your entire residential area is off limits instead of a prison.
There are several ways this could go wrong or be abused... and the trade off is non-existent. There is no upside, because it will not work for the intended purpose: keeping drones away from prisons. It would be a week at most before someone has a firmware update that removes these restrictions. Or someone could just buy a basic model that doesn't have GPS at all, or an older model from before these restrictions were implemented.
This introduces potential hardships onto law abiding citizens while doing little to nothing to stop those breaking the law. A prison guard with a shotgun has no impact on law abiding citizens and might actually stop a drone near a prison.
Just have a few guards patrolling outside the fences with a shotgun. Load them up with birdshot or rocksalt (we can do some testing for effectiveness) and tell them to pop any drones they see.
If prisons want to keep drones out, then they need to step up their game and do something about it. Trying to hamstring every legally purchases hobby drone is not the way to go.
There are a grand total of 10 smart phones that can run the latest iOS, or one previous version.
On the Android side, LG, Samsung, Huawei, HTC and Motorola each have as many compatible devices or more. Significantly more in some cases.
I can't find a comprehensive list of all the smart phones that are android compatible (mostly because the market is so fragmented on versions) but it seems very likely that Android has 10x as many platforms as iOS, if not more... so it seems reasonable that they'd have 10x the market share (give or take)
Any impact with enough force to damage these tiles will utterly destroy conventional tiles.
So yes, the freak hail storm with grapefruit-sized chunks of ice will probably cause significant damage to your tesla solar roof. That same storm will also turn your neighbors house into Swiss cheese.
You are correct, there are a lot of devices at very small increments infringing on each other.
Your phablet might make a full tablet obsolete, but I prefer a smaller phone in my pocket day to day (still rocking my iPhone 5) so a Samsung Tab 10.1 is a great tool for browsing on the couch or watching videos while I cook. The on-screen keyboard won't replace a physical one, but it's certainly better than trying to type with a D-pad on my Roku.
There is certainly no need to have every device at every marginal size increase, but for some people, a tablet fits perfectly into their setup.
People who want tablets already have them by now. People who don't want them aren't going to buy one.
You're left with a very small market segment. People who have a tablet old enough to warrant replacing, people who always wanted one but previously couldn't afford one, but then got a nice promotion at work or something... and that's it?
Unlike the smart watch market however, people do want tablets. It's a good form factor for media consumption. Sales should stabilize at some point. We're still just getting over the initial "gold rush" period to find the actually year-to-year purchase rate.
Making it illegal to post your "Ballot Selfie" on social media does not achieve the goal they claim to desire: preventing Vote Buying.
If someone is buying your vote, you can just take the picture/video and send it directly, or upload it to a private group, or any number of things. Publicly posting is not required at all.
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This clearly illustrates the one area where schools lack: critical thinking
Our school system is really only designed to enable rote memorization:
Memorize your multiplication tables.
Memorize the dates of the Egyptian empire
Memorize the themes in To Kill a Mockingbird
Memorize that mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell
They are given a book, told "this book is truth, memorize this book," and so yeah, seeing an article with ulterior motives would throw them for a loop.
If you want better politicians, you need a better populace. If you want a better populace, you're going to need a better public school system that teaches students more than just numbers and facts. We need to teach them how to think critically, how to examine the world around them, and how to leverage the internet as a nearly unlimited resource, while being wary of the ability for any random jack-hole to post some spurious shit on their blog.
Because he's shooting from the hip with no rationale or forethought.
The fact that he actually got one right does not excuse the reckless manner in which he acts.
Maybe Musk just doesn't give a shit about short term "investors" that jump around from stock to stock, but rather is more concerned with the long-term sustainability of the planet?
FTFY.
There's a level cognitive dissonance here that I find amusing
On the one hand, we shouldn't paint all Trump supporters as racists. We can't judge a large and diverse group by the worst among them. Not all Trump supporters are David Duke, and you're 100% correct to point this out.
On the other hand, much of Trump's campaign is based on doing exactly that. Not all Muslims are KSM, but we're asked to unilaterally ban them from entering the country as if they were. Not all Mexicans are rapists (or even criminals at all) yet we're asked to treat them as China did the Mongols.
If you want me to see the nuance and struggles among the varied Trump supporters, Trump supporters should be able to see the nuance and struggles of others.
I like the concept -I really do- but I don't know how practical it is. Mostly depending on exactly what data is being stored.
Simply put, text is tiny. The URL for this page is 126 characters in total, requiring 126 bytes of space to store. Using that as a baseline, storing 24,000 websites would consume about 3 MB of space.
If a million customers did that, you'd need about 3 TB per day, which isn't nothing, but isn't going to crash any enterprise level storage solution.
Of course, there's probably some overhead and extra space, plus that's just the URL for this page, others could be longer or shorter... but I don't think you're going to gain many orders of magnitude.
Minor correction, I don't think "many liberals" take the stance espoused in #6. At least, none that I know.
From my own (admittedly limited) experience, the sentiment was that a private business already has the right to refuse service to anyone. Creating a specific "because gay" law was unnecessary and petty.
Music seems like a bad analogy, as the requirements to play are minimal. My coffee pot probably has enough computational power to play an MP3.
Music can also be a passive experience. I can just put the headphones on and zone out. Games are, well, games. They require input.
So, no... vidya gaems will not reach the ubiquity of music.
One aspect he is somewhat correct on: games will become more integrated: console, PC, mobile, etc. will all have games that interact, if not directly. You'll have a mobile game to walk around and catch Pokemon, which fills the roster for your Pokemon MMO on your PC. Or maybe your mom can play Bejeweled to increase your salary cap in Madden.
I could very easily see this going awry (i.e. a game give you bonus gold for visiting a starbucks) but if executed well, games could become much more accessible, allowing people to play together and enjoy the same overall narrative, while contributing in their own personal way.
I'd suggest that you go one step further:
"I wouldn't be surprised if someone stuffs him feet first through a woodchipper."
I don't condone such actions, of course, but based on the rhetoric and general divisiveness, I wouldn't be shocked to read that headline.
Even if you doubt the science and don't believe that humans are screwing up the planet, there are still plenty of selfish reasons to "go green"
First and foremost is money. At a personal level, solar panels are cheaper than coal-fired grid power for many people. On a broader scale, an energy company that has fewer options will charge more. Here in San Diego, they decommissioned our nuke plant a few years ago, and home energy prices have increased significantly as a result. People should be supporting alternative energy sources to reduce their bill.
Secondly is supply. We are going to run out of oil at some point. Coal, too. It's already getting harder and harder to dig up. Check out how deep the Deepwater Horizon drill actuall was. The oil pocket was 2/3 down the Mariana's Trench. That reeks of desperation. Fracking is even more desperate. It's like trying to wring the last few drops of booze out of a bar towel.
The sun, on the other hand, isn't going anywhere. Not for a few billion years at least. Wind, tidal, geothermal, and nuclear power are similarly long duration. Even if you believe that "clean coal" is actually a real thing, it would behoove you to move away from a power source that might not last your lifetime
Thirdly, smog. Have you been to Beijing? The air is insane over there. It's like London pea soup fog, except with dirt and soot instead of water condensation. There is seriously a business selling cans of air in China. Whether or not you think that's bad for the planet is immaterial. That's bad for YOU. And if you think "it's on the other side of the world, I'll be fine," I would like to introduce you to the concept of wind.
Be selfish. Go green.
Trump could destroy Net Neutrality.
Trump could invite Obama and Putin on a "The Bachelor" style third-wheel date
Trump could drop trou during his inauguration and moon the nation
Trump could do a lot of things ... but I wouldn't count on any of the things I listed.
First off, it wasn't an Obama thing, it was an FCC thing. So his decree to erase Obama's legacy won't matter here. Secondly, Trump is smart. Scary smart. Or he has some ridiculously smart advisors to whom he pays very close attention. His entire run was by the book. "Which book," you ask ... the book. Sun Tsu: Art of War (note, this post was made 8 months ago.) All that stupidity, all the sound bites ("mexican rapists"), all the vague promises ("Make America great again") ... it was all 100% intentional and by design.
"First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win." -Mahatma Gandhi
That said, Trump and/or his advisors are smart enough to know that killing Net Neutrality doesn't really get them anywhere. He didn't make any promises regarding it, so there's no reason for him to focus any attention there. And really, he's going to have his hands full building a wall and repealing health care. Comcast v Netflix is small potatoes that won't even register on his radar.
Hell, Arizona alone (which Californian politicians often scoff at) provides California with 25% of its electricity. I'm curious how Silicon Valley would deal with that.
We'd probably turn the nukes back on. San Onofre has been sitting idle for half a decade now. We'd probably invent new nuclear reactors, too; get some molten salt thorium reactors up and running. Barring that, Mr. Musk lives in Cali, so maybe we'd just get Solar Panels on every roof and batteries in every garage. Or turn to tidal, since we have all that coastline to play with.
Most of the landmass of California is in fact very red.
Most of the landmass of EVERY place is very red, because that tends to be the space without any people in it. Either farmers (as you point out) with a single family living on 100+ acres, or far far right conservatives living in the boonies of the deserts or high up in the Appalachian mountains with all the guns they can muster and the nearest neighbor 10 miles away. Liberals tends toward cities and other people, where they make things like computers, medicine, solar panels and interracial porn.
Not true.
The popular vote numbers this year are Clinton: 59.6m ... Trump: 59.3m ... Romney: 56.1m
Four years ago, those numbers were Obama: 58.7m
The D voters stayed about the same, with a small uptick of about half a million.
The big change was R voters coming out in droves. 3 million more people voted for Trump than Romney. They're your shift. That's what won the election.
Not necessarily less corrupt. Just different corrupt.
Donald Trump's faults, while legion, stem from different sources than faults of a Clinton or a Bush.
Trump flip-flops because fuck it why not, the old guard flip flops because someone paid them to do so.
Trump is racist because he doesn't like brown people (except exceedingly hot ones), the old guard is racist because polls show brown people as an unnecessary voting bloc, and because the biggest donors are old white guys.
Trump lies because it makes him happy. The old guard lies because a focus group said they could get away with it.
Trumps world is a simplistic one. His sins are those of a child. For a lot of Americans, that mindset is easy to understand. All the political cloak and dagger bullshit, all the doubletalk, all the everything that we equate with politicking ... it's gotten old. If we're going to have to elect some one corrupt, we've apparently opted for the more relatable corruption.
No. But the machines' owners certainly will.
Well, yeah. You saw what they did to robocop, right
Really that just highlights a bigger problem: requiring a literal act of congress to allocate emergency relief funds.
How about we spend some time to create a bill to set aside an appropriate amount of money that can only be accessed by a governor or the president declaring a state of emergency (or some other harder-to-abuse threshold)
If random Joe middle class can keep some money squirreled away in case the car breaks down, or the roof falls in, certainly the country can do the same thing, right?
That's kinda the point, right?
Apple can support 4 year old hardware because they only release one new device per year (with a few minor variations.)
There are probably more new Android-capable phones released in a given month than all of the iPhones ever released since ever.
So Android dominates the market using the old tried and true method: zerg rush. The new droid OS doesn't need to support old hardware cuz twe've got new hardware platforms flying out of every orifice.
Prisons move. New prisons are built, old ones close down. Are we going to require OTA updates to keep the latest and greatest info on hobby grade equipment?
It also introduces a vector for error. Some SW monkey accidentally fat-fingers a lat.long and suddenly your entire residential area is off limits instead of a prison.
There are several ways this could go wrong or be abused... and the trade off is non-existent. There is no upside, because it will not work for the intended purpose: keeping drones away from prisons. It would be a week at most before someone has a firmware update that removes these restrictions. Or someone could just buy a basic model that doesn't have GPS at all, or an older model from before these restrictions were implemented.
This introduces potential hardships onto law abiding citizens while doing little to nothing to stop those breaking the law. A prison guard with a shotgun has no impact on law abiding citizens and might actually stop a drone near a prison.
Birdshot.
Just have a few guards patrolling outside the fences with a shotgun. Load them up with birdshot or rocksalt (we can do some testing for effectiveness) and tell them to pop any drones they see.
If prisons want to keep drones out, then they need to step up their game and do something about it. Trying to hamstring every legally purchases hobby drone is not the way to go.
There are a grand total of 10 smart phones that can run the latest iOS, or one previous version.
On the Android side, LG, Samsung, Huawei, HTC and Motorola each have as many compatible devices or more. Significantly more in some cases.
I can't find a comprehensive list of all the smart phones that are android compatible (mostly because the market is so fragmented on versions) but it seems very likely that Android has 10x as many platforms as iOS, if not more... so it seems reasonable that they'd have 10x the market share (give or take)
Any impact with enough force to damage these tiles will utterly destroy conventional tiles.
So yes, the freak hail storm with grapefruit-sized chunks of ice will probably cause significant damage to your tesla solar roof. That same storm will also turn your neighbors house into Swiss cheese.
Pick your poison.
You are correct, there are a lot of devices at very small increments infringing on each other.
Your phablet might make a full tablet obsolete, but I prefer a smaller phone in my pocket day to day (still rocking my iPhone 5) so a Samsung Tab 10.1 is a great tool for browsing on the couch or watching videos while I cook. The on-screen keyboard won't replace a physical one, but it's certainly better than trying to type with a D-pad on my Roku.
There is certainly no need to have every device at every marginal size increase, but for some people, a tablet fits perfectly into their setup.
Is this surprising?
People who want tablets already have them by now. People who don't want them aren't going to buy one.
You're left with a very small market segment. People who have a tablet old enough to warrant replacing, people who always wanted one but previously couldn't afford one, but then got a nice promotion at work or something ... and that's it?
Unlike the smart watch market however, people do want tablets. It's a good form factor for media consumption. Sales should stabilize at some point. We're still just getting over the initial "gold rush" period to find the actually year-to-year purchase rate .
It looks a lot like the past
Making it illegal to post your "Ballot Selfie" on social media does not achieve the goal they claim to desire: preventing Vote Buying.
If someone is buying your vote, you can just take the picture/video and send it directly, or upload it to a private group, or any number of things. Publicly posting is not required at all.