The Uber car does not magically come into existence when a transit rider uses it. It already exists.
The edge case: A transit rider takes an Uber instead of taking a train he normally walks to. Because an Uber costs more on the average than a transit ride, people will do this only if they have a toothache or an urgent appointment. Net change in traffic, zero cars, because he is taking an Uber instead of his own ride.
The common case: A transit rider normally drives to the train station, but takes an Uber instead. Zero net change in traffic that day, but a parking place at the station is saved. People living in East Coast cities with on-street parking in the snow where you have to get up at 2 am to move your car because it better not be found in the morning in the same spot where you parked it last night are going to ditch the car and always Uber to the station. Net change: minus one car and plus one parking place at the station.
The scientific term you're looking for is not 'coincidence' but 'bullshit'. Every Uber ride carrying a passenger is a car drive not taken by that passenger. Because rideshare drivers do not have to loiter or deadhead like cabdrivers, there is no net contribution to traffic.
Instead we mostly have people shouting at each other, refusing to listen to or even to interact with each other simply because they have different viewpoints. Because both sides "know" that their side is right and the other is wrong.
The Godwin online meme used to reference a twentieth-century dictator. Now it's any reference to Uber.
And there is nothing peculiarly American or peculiarly modern about it. There have always been obsessions and escapes, and they exist everywhere. If you think that getting away from the mechanized complexity of an industrial society will insulate you from the problem, just try keeping New Zealanders away from their rugby.
A "huge expensive job" that you hardly ever need to do beats constantly repairing overhead power lines and trimming trees by a, well, hugely expensive amount.
And obviously the reality is that there are 92 genders.
And that some of the special characters, taken from alphabets like Telugu, that we have to use to represent them in the gender identification string are crashing computers.
This is not embedded flight control hardware, but an advanced general-purpose machine. The basic mission of ISS is to characterize the response of people and their things to microgravity, radiation and other aspects of the long-term spacecraft environment.
Large computers in spacecraft will become necessary once you're far enough from Earth that latency over a comm link would be a problem. Though this is obviously not the case on ISS, this test will characterize any special problems that might arise in just running one of these things in microgravity, such as heat dissipation.
We all have lists of books we would love to have made into movies, but trust Hollywood to adapt a good movie into a bad movie. So we're about to get a version of Fahrenheit 451 with gunplay and explosions?
We made it to the Moon on ten years' notice, and with the technology of fifty years ago. Furthermore, in those days space programs moved at the speed of governments. Now that the private sector is leading the way, the real race is on.
I figure at best we've got 200-300 years left on this planet before a major collapse of civilization. We used it up before we were able to go elsewhere. We blew it.
And you know this how? To put it another way, since this statement could have been made with equal predictive power at the collapse of Rome, at the time of the Black Death, or at the time of peak child mine labor in the nineteenth century, what is special about this time that makes your prediction more certain right now?
But let's assume you're right. 200-300 years is not only plenty of time to get civilization started elsewhere, but in several different elsewheres.
People of below average intelligence using guns is how we get muggings and carjackings. But what's really dangerous and prevalent these days is crazy people wandering around loose and being able to use guns. This is of course why taking guns away from everybody will magically cause crazy people to become sane and stop annoying the rest us in any way. San Francisco will no longer have to take its BART stations offline on a regular basis to clean human excrement out of the escalators.
Artificial Intelligence is the not yet found solution to a problem that has not been solved. Once an algorithm exists, it is no longer considered AI because it is obvious that there is nothing but a dumb routine doing easily explainable stuff, and therefore the magic is gone.
In the early days of AI research, we established chess as the criterion for true machine intelligence. When computer chess was cracked, it was "obviously" not true AI, se we get Go as the criterion. Now that a computer can play Go, we "know" that the heuristics and algorithms used are not AI.
Catch your breath, grab those goalposts once again, and let's move them still farther down the field.
Exactly, I tend to agreed with answer, and it really is all over for humankind. Russia used misinformation to install Trump and look what we have: mass shooting after mass shooting. At this rate all humanity will be gone in years. It is too bad Hillary has not yet gotten into power, she would be our savior from this kind of misinformation Russian tyranny.
I'd have to say that from current and historical evidence, that non-market economies based around central planning, nationalization of industries, or other communist policies tend to perform poorly.
Which is why ordinary high-speed rail, let alone the Hyperloop, will not be built in California, at least until the Chinese get there.
...having flat-pack components that are expanded in situ
This will be a great human factors test: If astronauts can assemble structures in orbit from Ikea instructions, we are assured they will stay sane during a long voyage to Mars.
Ah yes, the big bad tracking beast. Accumulating demographics on how many people searched for new cars on Tuesday in my town is something I consider totally normal and unobjectionable. I’m being surveyed without having to stop what I’m doing to fill out surveys.
And the personal tracking? Either I see ads for specific items I recently searched for and already bought or I see ads for specific items I searched for but did not buy. In either case, you’re welcome to waste your money.
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The Uber car does not magically come into existence when a transit rider uses it. It already exists.
The edge case: A transit rider takes an Uber instead of taking a train he normally walks to. Because an Uber costs more on the average than a transit ride, people will do this only if they have a toothache or an urgent appointment. Net change in traffic, zero cars, because he is taking an Uber instead of his own ride.
The common case: A transit rider normally drives to the train station, but takes an Uber instead. Zero net change in traffic that day, but a parking place at the station is saved. People living in East Coast cities with on-street parking in the snow where you have to get up at 2 am to move your car because it better not be found in the morning in the same spot where you parked it last night are going to ditch the car and always Uber to the station. Net change: minus one car and plus one parking place at the station.
The scientific term you're looking for is not 'coincidence' but 'bullshit'. Every Uber ride carrying a passenger is a car drive not taken by that passenger. Because rideshare drivers do not have to loiter or deadhead like cabdrivers, there is no net contribution to traffic.
Instead we mostly have people shouting at each other, refusing to listen to or even to interact with each other simply because they have different viewpoints. Because both sides "know" that their side is right and the other is wrong.
The Godwin online meme used to reference a twentieth-century dictator. Now it's any reference to Uber.
And there is nothing peculiarly American or peculiarly modern about it. There have always been obsessions and escapes, and they exist everywhere. If you think that getting away from the mechanized complexity of an industrial society will insulate you from the problem, just try keeping New Zealanders away from their rugby.
A "huge expensive job" that you hardly ever need to do beats constantly repairing overhead power lines and trimming trees by a, well, hugely expensive amount.
If this were to happen, then how would the Eurocrats know that he's a terrorist?
And obviously the reality is that there are 92 genders.
And that some of the special characters, taken from alphabets like Telugu, that we have to use to represent them in the gender identification string are crashing computers.
This is not embedded flight control hardware, but an advanced general-purpose machine. The basic mission of ISS is to characterize the response of people and their things to microgravity, radiation and other aspects of the long-term spacecraft environment.
Large computers in spacecraft will become necessary once you're far enough from Earth that latency over a comm link would be a problem. Though this is obviously not the case on ISS, this test will characterize any special problems that might arise in just running one of these things in microgravity, such as heat dissipation.
Please stop this nonsense
Our planet earth have been so polluted by all kinds of man-made radio-noises that astrologists had to go somewhere really remote...
When you made this comment, was the Moon in the house of Libra with Mars rising?
We all have lists of books we would love to have made into movies, but trust Hollywood to adapt a good movie into a bad movie. So we're about to get a version of Fahrenheit 451 with gunplay and explosions?
We made it to the Moon on ten years' notice, and with the technology of fifty years ago. Furthermore, in those days space programs moved at the speed of governments. Now that the private sector is leading the way, the real race is on.
I figure at best we've got 200-300 years left on this planet before a major collapse of civilization. We used it up before we were able to go elsewhere. We blew it.
And you know this how? To put it another way, since this statement could have been made with equal predictive power at the collapse of Rome, at the time of the Black Death, or at the time of peak child mine labor in the nineteenth century, what is special about this time that makes your prediction more certain right now?
But let's assume you're right. 200-300 years is not only plenty of time to get civilization started elsewhere, but in several different elsewheres.
"teams of Los Angeles police officers and other rescue personnel who believed two people had just hung themselves."
I understand that this one turned out to be just a pair of Hollywood plastic surgeons practicing on each other.
People of below average intelligence using guns is how we get muggings and carjackings. But what's really dangerous and prevalent these days is crazy people wandering around loose and being able to use guns. This is of course why taking guns away from everybody will magically cause crazy people to become sane and stop annoying the rest us in any way. San Francisco will no longer have to take its BART stations offline on a regular basis to clean human excrement out of the escalators.
Artificial Intelligence is the not yet found solution to a problem that has not been solved. Once an algorithm exists, it is no longer considered AI because it is obvious that there is nothing but a dumb routine doing easily explainable stuff, and therefore the magic is gone.
In the early days of AI research, we established chess as the criterion for true machine intelligence. When computer chess was cracked, it was "obviously" not true AI, se we get Go as the criterion. Now that a computer can play Go, we "know" that the heuristics and algorithms used are not AI.
Catch your breath, grab those goalposts once again, and let's move them still farther down the field.
like the worlds most imfamous pedo who was just captured
and turing
this school pumps out deviants
why listen to them
Gee, we don't see many Taisho-era haiku these days. The perfect icebreaker for your next Nazi warlord gathering.
Exactly, I tend to agreed with answer, and it really is all over for humankind. Russia used misinformation to install Trump and look what we have: mass shooting after mass shooting. At this rate all humanity will be gone in years. It is too bad Hillary has not yet gotten into power, she would be our savior from this kind of misinformation Russian tyranny.
That's how you level up in the game, folks!
EDIT: Leland Stanford.
You mean "get back there". Didn't the Chinese build the existing railways to California?
That was as Lelend Stanford's cheap labor. This time around, we will need their capital and their ability to ignore the yammerheads and git 'r' done.
I'd have to say that from current and historical evidence, that non-market economies based around central planning, nationalization of industries, or other communist policies tend to perform poorly.
Which is why ordinary high-speed rail, let alone the Hyperloop, will not be built in California, at least until the Chinese get there.
Got any more made up statistics you'd like to cite?
That you, in particular, will not be going out there. Musk and the Chinese have their own plans.
...having flat-pack components that are expanded in situ
This will be a great human factors test: If astronauts can assemble structures in orbit from Ikea instructions, we are assured they will stay sane during a long voyage to Mars.
Ah yes, the big bad tracking beast. Accumulating demographics on how many people searched for new cars on Tuesday in my town is something I consider totally normal and unobjectionable. I’m being surveyed without having to stop what I’m doing to fill out surveys.
And the personal tracking? Either I see ads for specific items I recently searched for and already bought or I see ads for specific items I searched for but did not buy. In either case, you’re welcome to waste your money.
I can't help to wonder though - waste of CPU cycles through ads or through a mining operation. At least they are honest about it.
But are we sure that the mining takes place only while Salon pages are being viewed?