They weren't foolish enough to settle where there was insufficient water in the first place.
Take Phoenix for example. 4.x million people, in the middle of a desert. The only way the city has any water is by bleeding the Colorado dry. In what universe does having such a large city in a *desert* make any sense at all?
Jesus fucking Christ. This 100%. Not even getting into the 'Trump did this, Obama did that bullshit'..
These clowns have been hoovering as much fucking data as possible about everyone, going so far as building shadow profiles for non-members. Why else would they do this, other than to sell it?
Zuck, no one fucking believes you, I hope you, and your your company goes the way of Myspace.
I'd say an amoeba is on par with these machines.. it's basically just a stimuli -> output type situation, which these machines can approximate pretty well.
Had you said 'rodent', or 'dog', i'd totally agree with you. But makes one wonder, how far down the evolutionary tree do you have to go before you get anything approximating a 'mind' ? And when / what caused that change to occur.
I forget how fucking pedantic people can be. If they aren't hit over the head with precise, literal phrasing it's almost like they intentionally miss the point.
Oil economies are typified by extreme wealth inequality. The firms/families/oligarchs/whatever get the lion's share of the profit. Compare this to something like manufacturing.. how many different companies produce parts That go into a Chevy for example?
So, Nigera is/was an extremely poor country. They started producing Oil in the 70's (joining OPEC even). On paper their GDP per capita is higher than many of the their neighbors. But the distribution of that wealth is *NOT* distributed throughout the entire economy; the majority of people are still subsistence farmers.
Not bothering to look up the numbers, but the GDP per capita is somewhere around the range of $6k (PPP) Which is pretty close to China's (~$8k)
I only mentioned Nigeria because of it's status as an 'up and coming' economic power in the region. But the same pattern is present throughout the world in countries/regions with similar economics (concentrated/single source of income)
Robotics and automation will have a similar effect; further concentration of wealth among producers.
tl;dr: GDP per capita's relevance as a metric is directly related to income inequality/distribution.
A good approximation of what will happen with increased AI/Automation is what you see currently in oil rich nations (like.. Nigeria for example)
GDP does go up, and there is a token increase in standard of living, but by and large, all it does is fuel income inequality.
It's the same damn thing with automation. Only as an added bonus you have an even higher proportion of the workforce out of work, poorer, and angrier at the 'haves'.
Well, do you know how much paperwork is involved in a suspected squirrel murder? Plus those little fuckers get all their acorns in a knot if you accuse one of them of something.
I mean; we all know the guy was in the park, feeding the ducks; and then from behind, one of those bushy tailed little shake-down artists whispered in his ear "Mr., gimme all your acorns. Now." (Despite the fact that humans almost never carry around acorns...)
When he refused to pay up, they shot him, then hid the weapon (This is also where the saying "squirreled away" comes from by the by).
I hope that's sarcasm. There's always been hucksters trying to convince you of nonsense. There always will be hucksters. It's the same game, just with ever so slightly different rules -- and the marks are easier to find.
Common sense and critical thinking cannot be legislated -- how can having mommy government step in and protect us help in the long run? All it'll do is further erode the very things that got us to this point in the first place (critical thinking and common sense)
If things like Facebook and twitter are influencing elections, it's our own god damn fault -- and we have much, much deeper problems to address first.
Slashdot Mirror
Apparently it did have a lidar system for obstacle detection; so the darkness is irrelevant.
Also the nice thing with lidar is that unlike infrared, it doesn't rely on the object's heat signature for detection
this also took place in the PHX metro; a car going the speed limit will get shot at and/or run off the road.
Except when they you know, help the economy go tits up every 15-20 years or so.
Sort of like a broken clock I suppose?
This is not good for anyone, as the slew of economists and economic reporters have been putting out there for the last few weeks.
I mean you might be right, you might not... but these people are almost never worth listening to.
Economists are only ever right in hindsight, and even then; they still take a few laps around track to get it right.
What makes you think that they care about what powers their cars; as long as it's profitable?
https://www.popsci.com/how-la-...
there ya go.
They weren't foolish enough to settle where there was insufficient water in the first place.
Take Phoenix for example. 4.x million people, in the middle of a desert. The only way the city has any water is by bleeding the Colorado dry. In what universe does having such a large city in a *desert* make any sense at all?
Stop calling plans with limits 'unlimited'.
Throttling, data-caps, whatever else are still limits.
Jesus fucking Christ. This 100%. Not even getting into the 'Trump did this, Obama did that bullshit'..
These clowns have been hoovering as much fucking data as possible about everyone, going so far as building shadow profiles for non-members. Why else would they do this, other than to sell it?
Zuck, no one fucking believes you, I hope you, and your your company goes the way of Myspace.
that book should be required god damn reading in highschool.. now more than ever.
Did you really think they'd let cord-cutters win
sensible_chuckle.jpg
Above all else, they'll find a way to extract their revenue.
If the ad market tanks, hopefully it will kill facebook and neuter google. Is that naive? It sounds naive.. but hope springs eternal.
Dear god, please let that happen.
could also just use audacity and record the audio that way.
It's tedious, and you have to copy in real time -- but here we are.
I'd say an amoeba is on par with these machines.. it's basically just a stimuli -> output type situation, which these machines can approximate pretty well.
Had you said 'rodent', or 'dog', i'd totally agree with you. But makes one wonder, how far down the evolutionary tree do you have to go before you get anything approximating a 'mind' ? And when / what caused that change to occur.
is there anything more humiliating for a grammar Nazi than getting called out for pulling a 'Ted', and being wrong?
Good times.
I forget how fucking pedantic people can be. If they aren't hit over the head with precise, literal phrasing it's almost like they intentionally miss the point.
Oil economies are typified by extreme wealth inequality. The firms/families/oligarchs/whatever get the lion's share of the profit. Compare this to something like manufacturing.. how many different companies produce parts That go into a Chevy for example?
So, Nigera is/was an extremely poor country. They started producing Oil in the 70's (joining OPEC even). On paper their GDP per capita is higher than many of the their neighbors. But the distribution of that wealth is *NOT* distributed throughout the entire economy; the majority of people are still subsistence farmers.
Not bothering to look up the numbers, but the GDP per capita is somewhere around the range of $6k (PPP) Which is pretty close to China's (~$8k)
I only mentioned Nigeria because of it's status as an 'up and coming' economic power in the region. But the same pattern is present throughout the world in countries/regions with similar economics (concentrated/single source of income)
Robotics and automation will have a similar effect; further concentration of wealth among producers.
tl;dr: GDP per capita's relevance as a metric is directly related to income inequality/distribution.
Productivity and workforce participation are both much higher since the 1940's, yet real wages are considerably lower.
Gee. why on earth would that be?
Automation is absolutely guaranteed to reverse that, right?
A good approximation of what will happen with increased AI/Automation is what you see currently in oil rich nations (like.. Nigeria for example)
GDP does go up, and there is a token increase in standard of living, but by and large, all it does is fuel income inequality.
It's the same damn thing with automation. Only as an added bonus you have an even higher proportion of the workforce out of work, poorer, and angrier at the 'haves'.
yep.. MS still needs to learn that only apple can get away with abusing their customers and have them begging, salivating, and quivering for more.
(am i trolling? maybe. but using this type of lock-in bullshit seems to be right out of apple's playbook.)
I for one take redheads very, very seriously -- thank you very much!
Well, do you know how much paperwork is involved in a suspected squirrel murder? Plus those little fuckers get all their acorns in a knot if you accuse one of them of something.
I mean; we all know the guy was in the park, feeding the ducks; and then from behind, one of those bushy tailed little shake-down artists whispered in his ear
"Mr., gimme all your acorns. Now." (Despite the fact that humans almost never carry around acorns...)
When he refused to pay up, they shot him, then hid the weapon (This is also where the saying "squirreled away" comes from by the by).
and yet had the FDIC existed back then, the fallout would have been much less severe.
Not all regulation is bad, not everything a government does is bad.
Those damn libertarians always pushing to throw the baby out with the bathwater.
oh the hyperbole, come the fuck on.
pretty much this 100% =/
I hope that's sarcasm. There's always been hucksters trying to convince you of nonsense. There always will be hucksters. It's the same game, just with ever so slightly different rules -- and the marks are easier to find.
Common sense and critical thinking cannot be legislated -- how can having mommy government step in and protect us help in the long run? All it'll do is further erode the very things that got us to this point in the first place (critical thinking and common sense)
If things like Facebook and twitter are influencing elections, it's our own god damn fault -- and we have much, much deeper problems to address first.