All of those things you mentioned are not a currency. When the stock market crashed, or the dot com bubble crashed, or the "global financial meltdown" happened, did the 10 dollars in your pocket turn into 2 dollars?
Because there is no way that just acting as an arbiter for standards can cost $4 billion. The article is a little veiled about it, but this appears to be a research effort in addition to that. Such a research effort would totally commendable, but if it duplicates what Google, et. al. are already doing, then why? Given $4 billion, NASA could probably give us a Europa lander.
That's why I said 'common-variety car'. People will continue to buy luxury dreamboats and camping SUVs. Gearheads who like to work on cars will continue to buy until the last user-serviceable car ever made goes out the dealership door. But for the 95-th percentile person, the lure of being able to get out from under the increasing costs of automobile ownership will be increasingly irresistible.
With the crash of the petroleum market, ransomware is now the only industry holding up the Russian economy. How is it going to function without Bitcoin? Ransomware sales in the US will have to fall back on older commercial money laundering systems, like GreenDot [https://www.greendot.com/greendot/getacardnow?utm_source=Google_Search_Brand]
What I see happening when autonomous car technology really gets going is unification of the automobile with mass transit systems. First, people will get used to no longer needing to own common-variety cars, just pulling one down from the autonomous network when they need to go somewhere.
Once the ride management software that this will take becomes pervasive enough to be used by everyone, the idea of pooling commuter rides will shift from being a troublesome special arrangement to being the normal process for getting through a workday. Then when mass transit becomes part of a ride you book from endpoint to endpoint and mass transit no longer means waiting at a lonely bus stop trying to figure out which route applies to you, regional train and bus travel will then fit right in.
Commercial interests seem to be handing the development of autonomous car travel just fine. Rather than having Washington jump into its own program of vehicle development, better to facilitate the development of the numerous industry standards, many of which will involve state and federal infrastructure, that we are going to need to make autonomous vehicles pervasive.
I'm thinking of cars that receive data from highways for local conditions, from NOAA for weather, and from each other to manage city traffic with least congestion.
In the US, ethnic neighborhoods sprang up whenever large numbers of immigrants - the old-fashioned, legal kind - came in from one country. They served as landing zones where new arrivals could be among their countrymen as they adjusted to life in a new society. Over time, all those ethnic neighborhoods faded out as their people spread out into the larger culture.
So for most of the people we deal with every day, we will access them using the personal information we know, which in most cases would be name and address, with some of our friends being communicated with by phone, some by email and others by text, without having to know just one kind of communication address for each person. It's the same way we tag airline tickets with a locator code without realizing that as a hash, the code is not unique and always has to be used in conjunction with other information in identifying a record. Nobody every has to see the giant number that is the real unique identifier.
When you're in the asteroid-deflecting business, lead time is everything. LONEOS was a good start, but our lomg-term existence may depend on being able to see deeper and deeper into the Oort Cloud.
Especially since most violations of the Approved Content Zone are subscribers who are temporarily away from home. It should not be difficult for Netflix to make sure that a subscriber lives in the place where he claims to be, and only a dedicated buccaneer would go to the trouble of keeping up a subscription at a US address while actually living in Thailand. VPN users are going to be Americans who happen to be in Germany the week they want to stream Netflix content that is tagged as US-only.
I'll watch my show where I want to, and the Hollywood lawyers can go f* themselves.
"A car used to be about independence, it was really the BIG first step in becoming and independent person from your parents, and was a symbol of individual freedom."
A cultural change is underway. To old people, those who read Kerouac and listened to Springsteen, motor vehicles represented freedom. To today's young people, not so much. They gladly Uber everywhere, and they no longer believe so strongly that public transit is the devil's work.
"Once both sides of a conflict start playing with nukes, even if it starts out with small, tactical, targeted nukes, the other side will too, and whichever side is losing will be tempted to scale up, "
Even if the conflict is with a non-nuclear country, or one with no long-distance delivery technology, there is a fear that a contained strike, say the US blasting an ISIS underground redoubt, would 'normalize' nuclear warfare in the future.
"Doctors are lazy and entitled, and can't be bothered to do anything beneath them."
During my IT consulting years, I saw this all the time. Regional medical systems are implementing electronic record systems, but the industry is still in the islands-of-automational era that other lines of business passed through years ago on their way to higher levels of technology.
Whenever you are referred to a specialist and see that wall of paper patient jackets behind the receptionist, you have encountered another prima donna who can't be bothered to join an integrated records system. As a new patient, you will have to fill out another one of those paper forms with medical history diseases and dates that should be being pulled from the central records system at the push of a button. If it's important that the doctor know how old you were when you had chicken pox, it's important to save that information once and not run the risk that the patient will eventually forget it.
The problem with ACA is that it while it makes an initial attempt at bringing more people into the insurance system, it does nothing to control cost. It needs to be modified to allow governments - any government that pays for health care - to buy in bulk and negotiate on the worldwide market. Just as importantly, the same power should be extended to private buying organizations, including groups of patients.
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I'll add proper attribution when my round tuit arrives from Amazon.
First World Problems.
Aquí en Arizona, no está solamente un problema del primero mundo.
All of those things you mentioned are not a currency. When the stock market crashed, or the dot com bubble crashed, or the "global financial meltdown" happened, did the 10 dollars in your pocket turn into 2 dollars?
No, it took Jimmy Carter to do that.
Because there is no way that just acting as an arbiter for standards can cost $4 billion. The article is a little veiled about it, but this appears to be a research effort in addition to that. Such a research effort would totally commendable, but if it duplicates what Google, et. al. are already doing, then why? Given $4 billion, NASA could probably give us a Europa lander.
That's why I said 'common-variety car'. People will continue to buy luxury dreamboats and camping SUVs. Gearheads who like to work on cars will continue to buy until the last user-serviceable car ever made goes out the dealership door. But for the 95-th percentile person, the lure of being able to get out from under the increasing costs of automobile ownership will be increasingly irresistible.
With the crash of the petroleum market, ransomware is now the only industry holding up the Russian economy. How is it going to function without Bitcoin? Ransomware sales in the US will have to fall back on older commercial money laundering systems, like GreenDot [https://www.greendot.com/greendot/getacardnow?utm_source=Google_Search_Brand]
What I see happening when autonomous car technology really gets going is unification of the automobile with mass transit systems. First, people will get used to no longer needing to own common-variety cars, just pulling one down from the autonomous network when they need to go somewhere.
Once the ride management software that this will take becomes pervasive enough to be used by everyone, the idea of pooling commuter rides will shift from being a troublesome special arrangement to being the normal process for getting through a workday. Then when mass transit becomes part of a ride you book from endpoint to endpoint and mass transit no longer means waiting at a lonely bus stop trying to figure out which route applies to you, regional train and bus travel will then fit right in.
Commercial interests seem to be handing the development of autonomous car travel just fine. Rather than having Washington jump into its own program of vehicle development, better to facilitate the development of the numerous industry standards, many of which will involve state and federal infrastructure, that we are going to need to make autonomous vehicles pervasive.
I'm thinking of cars that receive data from highways for local conditions, from NOAA for weather, and from each other to manage city traffic with least congestion.
In the US, ethnic neighborhoods sprang up whenever large numbers of immigrants - the old-fashioned, legal kind - came in from one country. They served as landing zones where new arrivals could be among their countrymen as they adjusted to life in a new society. Over time, all those ethnic neighborhoods faded out as their people spread out into the larger culture.
Gentlemen, start your VPNs!
The bad news is that the first application will be a parental lockout.
So for most of the people we deal with every day, we will access them using the personal information we know, which in most cases would be name and address, with some of our friends being communicated with by phone, some by email and others by text, without having to know just one kind of communication address for each person. It's the same way we tag airline tickets with a locator code without realizing that as a hash, the code is not unique and always has to be used in conjunction with other information in identifying a record. Nobody every has to see the giant number that is the real unique identifier.
When you're in the asteroid-deflecting business, lead time is everything. LONEOS was a good start, but our lomg-term existence may depend on being able to see deeper and deeper into the Oort Cloud.
"They're biased by the views of their listener/doner base."
I've heard NPR being accused of a lot of things, but I've never heard them run a kebab commercial.
This brings up an interesting side topic: now that we're exploiting more natural gas than ever before, are we finding any more helium?
The CEO detonated his bomb vest. He was wearing the nice Benetton one, too.
Especially since most violations of the Approved Content Zone are subscribers who are temporarily away from home. It should not be difficult for Netflix to make sure that a subscriber lives in the place where he claims to be, and only a dedicated buccaneer would go to the trouble of keeping up a subscription at a US address while actually living in Thailand. VPN users are going to be Americans who happen to be in Germany the week they want to stream Netflix content that is tagged as US-only.
I'll watch my show where I want to, and the Hollywood lawyers can go f* themselves.
"... here, with snow and -35C..."
Judging from your accent, North Korea?
Yeah, but how much does Big O want for a set of those three meter diameter tires?
"A car used to be about independence, it was really the BIG first step in becoming and independent person from your parents, and was a symbol of individual freedom."
A cultural change is underway. To old people, those who read Kerouac and listened to Springsteen, motor vehicles represented freedom. To today's young people, not so much. They gladly Uber everywhere, and they no longer believe so strongly that public transit is the devil's work.
"Once both sides of a conflict start playing with nukes, even if it starts out with small, tactical, targeted nukes, the other side will too, and whichever side is losing will be tempted to scale up, "
Even if the conflict is with a non-nuclear country, or one with no long-distance delivery technology, there is a fear that a contained strike, say the US blasting an ISIS underground redoubt, would 'normalize' nuclear warfare in the future.
"Doctors are lazy and entitled, and can't be bothered to do anything beneath them."
During my IT consulting years, I saw this all the time. Regional medical systems are implementing electronic record systems, but the industry is still in the islands-of-automational era that other lines of business passed through years ago on their way to higher levels of technology.
Whenever you are referred to a specialist and see that wall of paper patient jackets behind the receptionist, you have encountered another prima donna who can't be bothered to join an integrated records system. As a new patient, you will have to fill out another one of those paper forms with medical history diseases and dates that should be being pulled from the central records system at the push of a button. If it's important that the doctor know how old you were when you had chicken pox, it's important to save that information once and not run the risk that the patient will eventually forget it.
The problem with ACA is that it while it makes an initial attempt at bringing more people into the insurance system, it does nothing to control cost. It needs to be modified to allow governments - any government that pays for health care - to buy in bulk and negotiate on the worldwide market. Just as importantly, the same power should be extended to private buying organizations, including groups of patients.
"some asshole corporation will claim to own the genes and therefore any possible treatment."
Problems with the legal system are not faults of the technology. We are breeding too many lawyers, which is also not a problem with the technology.
"I hate coins. Please, just get rid of them entirely."
I never carry coins. I save them in a jar for a bimonthly visit to Coinstar, which gives full value if you take it out as Amazon certificates.