This reminds me of bananas, which are also all clones. When a suitable predator evolves, an entire bread breed of bananas can be wiped out, because it cannot evolve to protect itself. This happened to bananas in the 1950s and could happen to our bananas. In the long run I suspect it will happen to the crayfish.
Make an image that's all one color. Say #FFFFFF (white). Then set some of the pixels to #FFFFFE. A machine will instantaneously be able to tell the difference. The human eye won't. Why do you need anything more complicated than that?
But they didn't get meaningful output. They got "She made recommendations to the priest, man of the house and me and people". This makes little sense as the first line of a book on herbology. This is AFTER "making a couple of spelling corrections" (how many is a couple?) and AFTER "de-anagraming" every single word (i.e. arbitrary picking one of the thousands of permutations of letters in the word). Not to mention that Hebrew is written without vowels, so any string of several characters is as likely as not to be a word.
When I was in high school I used a script to find dictionary anagrams of my name and my friends' name. A few of the anagrams looked pretty cool. Did they have any deeper meaning? Of course not. This is basically the same methodology.
I'm actually surprised Musk hasn't hedged his bets on this and offered to have the Boring Company help build small networks of tunnels to make direct routes by rail cheaper
There's no Amtrak service to Phoenix because it's not competitive with airplanes.
Really 90% of Amtrak service is not competitive with airplanes, and it only still exists because the congresscritters whose districts it goes through refuse to let it be cancelled. Amtrak would be happy to dump it and focus on further improving the popular and profitable routes on the coasts.
The fact is that automation and increases in productivity do not put money in the pockets of people who work for a living, they put money in the pockets of people who own for a living
That is very true.
how many of you are working fewer hours than you were 5, 10, 15, or 20 years ago? I'm willing to bet it's damn few of you.
That is only true in a technical sense.
In the last 3 decades, along with the growth in automation, there has been a growth in free trade between the first and third worlds. This has meant massive gains for several billion people in the third world, and also for the first world elite for whom they work. It has also meant losses for the average first world worker, who now has competition from much cheaper labor elsewhere. So free trade has helped many more people than it has hurt, but it has hurt more Slashdot readers than it has helped.
If they fired him, but wouldn't have fired a conservative woman or conservative racial minority in the same situation, then it's still race or sex discrimination.
Not sure if the lawsuit makes this clear though...
If a person is a menace to society, we have two ways of removing them from society: prison or the insane asylum.
The procedure for sending someone to prison is very well defined. Your rights at trial are even spelled out in the Constitution. Sure, there are still abuses, but at least there are multiple defense mechanisms and a public expectation that the process be transparent.
The procedure for sending someone to the insane asylum is much looser. The details are obscure (they vary from state to state) and have little constitutional protection. The decision can essentially rest in the hands of a single expert (or "expert") who declares you to be mentally incompetent. There is no expectation that the evidence be examined openly in the same way as at a trial.
As much as possible, we should try to remove dangerous people from trial using the transparent and rigorous procedure, rather than the more arbitrary one.
The other side of the argument is that the best way to diversify your investments is to not own your employer's stock. Because when that stock goes down, you are likely to get fired, so you have lost both paycheck and job.
Even with totally renewable transportation and energy, oil is still needed to manufacture many products such as plastics.
What they should really do is prohibit imports of oil from OTHER countries that are undemocratic or have lower environmental standards. That would actually make a difference for the environment, and at the same time help their security (most major oil producers are nasty/hostile dictatorships like Saudi, Iran, Russia, and Venezuela).
Are the three houses in different school districts? People will pay a lot to have their kids go to a good (public) school. For some, it's either that or send them to a private school.
How much would it cost to protect Bangladesh, Miami, Shanghai, Mumbai, and other affect areas to the same extent? Maybe a few hundred or thousand times as much, thus a few hundred or thousand dollars per world resident? (this would be a one-time, not recurring, cost)
Maybe that's cheaper than retrofitting our entire economy to avoid carbon emissions?
NYC covers an area of what, 30 square miles? if that?? Yet due to its population density, it has control over the entire state,
Really? It looks like the opposite to me. The NYC subway is falling apart, yet the NY state governor recently forced the subway system to pay millions of dollars to bail out ski resorts in upstate NY.
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it also causes them to drink, do drugs, have sex, and do other potentially irresponsible things less frequently than previous generations of kids.
Basically it is replacing other forms of abuse and addiction.
Is this a net benefit? Who knows?
This reminds me of bananas, which are also all clones. When a suitable predator evolves, an entire bread breed of bananas can be wiped out, because it cannot evolve to protect itself. This happened to bananas in the 1950s and could happen to our bananas. In the long run I suspect it will happen to the crayfish.
This is London. The surveillance cameras on every street corner already have a picture of you entering and leaving the restaurant.
Make an image that's all one color. Say #FFFFFF (white). Then set some of the pixels to #FFFFFE. A machine will instantaneously be able to tell the difference. The human eye won't. Why do you need anything more complicated than that?
The Bay, LA, and San Diego areas are all unaffordable and that's where a large majority of the people live.
You might be lucky enough to live in an affordable village somewhere, but most people would not be able to find work there.
Only problem is that housing is unaffordable.
Though there is a bill in the works to fix that.
But they didn't get meaningful output. They got "She made recommendations to the priest, man of the house and me and people". This makes little sense as the first line of a book on herbology. This is AFTER "making a couple of spelling corrections" (how many is a couple?) and AFTER "de-anagraming" every single word (i.e. arbitrary picking one of the thousands of permutations of letters in the word). Not to mention that Hebrew is written without vowels, so any string of several characters is as likely as not to be a word.
When I was in high school I used a script to find dictionary anagrams of my name and my friends' name. A few of the anagrams looked pretty cool. Did they have any deeper meaning? Of course not. This is basically the same methodology.
Failing to find any Hebrew scholars who could help validate their findings, the researchers eventually resorted to using Google Translate,
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This "research" is a joke.
I'm actually surprised Musk hasn't hedged his bets on this and offered to have the Boring Company help build small networks of tunnels to make direct routes by rail cheaper
Because boring tunnels is expensive and Musk hasn't managed to make it cheaper.
There's no Amtrak service to Phoenix because it's not competitive with airplanes.
Really 90% of Amtrak service is not competitive with airplanes, and it only still exists because the congresscritters whose districts it goes through refuse to let it be cancelled. Amtrak would be happy to dump it and focus on further improving the popular and profitable routes on the coasts.
The fact is that automation and increases in productivity do not put money in the pockets of people who work for a living, they put money in the pockets of people who own for a living
That is very true.
how many of you are working fewer hours than you were 5, 10, 15, or 20 years ago? I'm willing to bet it's damn few of you.
That is only true in a technical sense.
In the last 3 decades, along with the growth in automation, there has been a growth in free trade between the first and third worlds. This has meant massive gains for several billion people in the third world, and also for the first world elite for whom they work. It has also meant losses for the average first world worker, who now has competition from much cheaper labor elsewhere. So free trade has helped many more people than it has hurt, but it has hurt more Slashdot readers than it has helped.
If Obama was like Trump, he would have never been elected.
A lot of people were saying "If Trump is like Trump, he will never be elected." Up until the moment when he got elected.
If they fired him, but wouldn't have fired a conservative woman or conservative racial minority in the same situation, then it's still race or sex discrimination.
Not sure if the lawsuit makes this clear though...
That sounds very prone to abuse.
If a person is a menace to society, we have two ways of removing them from society: prison or the insane asylum.
The procedure for sending someone to prison is very well defined. Your rights at trial are even spelled out in the Constitution. Sure, there are still abuses, but at least there are multiple defense mechanisms and a public expectation that the process be transparent.
The procedure for sending someone to the insane asylum is much looser. The details are obscure (they vary from state to state) and have little constitutional protection. The decision can essentially rest in the hands of a single expert (or "expert") who declares you to be mentally incompetent. There is no expectation that the evidence be examined openly in the same way as at a trial.
As much as possible, we should try to remove dangerous people from trial using the transparent and rigorous procedure, rather than the more arbitrary one.
"He's better than Kim Jong Un" is such a bad defense that it could only be used for Trump...
Perhaps "replace the hardware" was the correct advice before a software patch was released, and "apply updates" after the patch was released?
Germany emits almost twice as much CO2 per capita as France. Hard to call that a success.
I don't quite understand, why can't new peat bogs be formed nowadays?
The other side of the argument is that the best way to diversify your investments is to not own your employer's stock. Because when that stock goes down, you are likely to get fired, so you have lost both paycheck and job.
Even with totally renewable transportation and energy, oil is still needed to manufacture many products such as plastics.
What they should really do is prohibit imports of oil from OTHER countries that are undemocratic or have lower environmental standards. That would actually make a difference for the environment, and at the same time help their security (most major oil producers are nasty/hostile dictatorships like Saudi, Iran, Russia, and Venezuela).
Are the three houses in different school districts? People will pay a lot to have their kids go to a good (public) school. For some, it's either that or send them to a private school.
Apparently Telsa's cars cost $2000/year to service on average. This sounds like a real issue that has not been sufficiently discussed.
$7 billion is one dollar per world resident.
How much would it cost to protect Bangladesh, Miami, Shanghai, Mumbai, and other affect areas to the same extent? Maybe a few hundred or thousand times as much, thus a few hundred or thousand dollars per world resident? (this would be a one-time, not recurring, cost)
Maybe that's cheaper than retrofitting our entire economy to avoid carbon emissions?
Partly, it's that back then not all kids stayed in school through 8th grade. Only the academically promising ones did.
NYC covers an area of what, 30 square miles? if that?? Yet due to its population density, it has control over the entire state,
Really? It looks like the opposite to me. The NYC subway is falling apart, yet the NY state governor recently forced the subway system to pay millions of dollars to bail out ski resorts in upstate NY.