I doubt that this will be the end of humanity, as we've lived through the ice age as well. But certainly parts of the planet that were inhabitable before will become uninhabitable in the future, and this will create wars and maybe our whole civilisation will collapse. Maybe we will lose everything industrialisation has brought us, and likely it will be harder in the future to get a similar industrialisation going due to the energy resources of the planet being depleted. But at least those coal miners could keep their jobs... or wait, they were replaced with machines. Well, whatever.
Leo I think wants to increase awareness for the issue to enable people like Elon to actually perform the transition to an emission free economy.
Humans do actually have an influence over earth. Maybe not as individuals, but certainly as species.
CFC has caused a hole in the ozone layer, and measures were taken to abandon OFC for most purposes, and now the ozone hole is getting smaller again: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07...
Also, some clues have been pointing towards a possible cause for a "little ice age" that struck europe during the middle of the last millenium and caused death and starvation amongst europeans to have been man made in some sense: http://phys.org/news/2011-10-t...
Billions of people live already in warm climate, which is going to become warmer. In many of these warm areas gigantic droughts are expected. Those droughts are expected for the US as well.
But let's say you only care about yourself and your village where you live and think that its actually enjoyable to have a warmer climate because its nicer to have it warm in winter. Let's assume you'd be fine with those people dying from thirst or starvation.
The thing is, before these people die, they will first stir up world peace. This has led the Pentagon to call climate change a security risk: http://www.defense.gov/News/Ar...
Trump is consistent in this single point: if we continue to speed up climate change (like he proposes), the US and all other patches of still usable land will get flooded with refugees, and one needs to expand spending in defense (which trump proposes too).
And if you don't like dark winters, I'm afraid it will get worse, as they'll become darker if the snow melts due to more light absorption.
Btw, the "agressive action" doesn't imply much of agression. As the renewables are almost competitive, all you need to do is to lower the subventions on coal and other fossil energy sources to give renewables a better standing.
All three of these things are hopefully undisputable.
Yes, science isn't sure about everything, but it is quite sure about this, sure enough that it should be trusted. And please do base your political decision on what the scientific consensus provides, everything else would be totally irresponsible.
Well Uber serves a few important tasks: they make sure that quality is okay. Obviously its not perfect, but really bad offenders can't hide, but will be baned quickly. Compare that to taxis, where in some cities you couldn't be sure whether you'd be robbed or raped when taking a ride. Uber solves this problem, at least mostly.
Yes, they are the evil middlemen, but they aren't much different from McDonalds or other franchise model companies. Even CocaCola does this:
What about not putting it there in the first place? THEN we can start thinking about removing it from the atmosphere. It takes far more energy to take CO2 out of the atmosphere than to not put it there.
Hardware may be a "solved problem" for x86 cpus, but anything beyond that is still unexplored territory. Elon musk is sad that so much talent is focussed on some cloud solution while that talent is terribly missed engineering. I agree with that. We need electric cars that can replace ICE ones, we need robots that can take care of the elderly, and this is only partially a software problem.
Agreed, Putin shouldn't try to play cheap by appointing his own puppet instead of paying Clinton like everyone else is doing it. He isn't something special, same rules apply for all bribers. If he's outbid by Qatar, he shouldn't be mad, but instead raise his bid.
The problem is that Trump is far less predictable than Clinton. He may promise to "dry up the swamps" and that may be a nice goal by itself, but he has proven that he's changing his positions more than any of the "all talk no action" politicans. For example, look at the primaries, where he switched his positions about abortion: https://www.washingtonpost.com...
So yes, maybe Trump will change America, but you can't be sure at all into which direction he will change it. And even when he becomes president, the only people who will help him are probably the republicans, and they will only let through laws that follow the republican party line, which is far less progressive than the democratic one.
Clinton may be corrupt, yes, but her proposed policies are much better than anything trump has proposed outside of feelgood promises like "we will replace it with something much better that I can tell you".
Yeah, essentially they say that their cars can only be used for noncommercial purposes. I just hope that the other car manufacturers don't follow the tesla lead on this, as often when the leader in an industry decides to fuck customers, the followers do the same.
* it has bash plus coreutils and all the other command line toolset * its software is free as in beer (this is what made me try out linux) * its software is free as in software (this is what made me stay on linux for so long) * all the things I do with computers can be done with it, and when there is a case I can't do it on linux, I can always fire up the windows VM (happens very very rarely) * it has working package management. updating software is no nightmare. Windows has to force its customers to update it, because its a nightmare. * most support issues are talked about and you find something you can instantly do not where you have to download this little exe then execute it (and god knows what it may contain). Maybe this will get worse if/when linux adoption reaches the non technical people, its very hard to find such things for android for example.
many other things I have forgotten, but I will surely miss when I have to use windows or mac.
Self driving cars don't need to be safer than the most safe human driver, they only need to be safer than the average human driver. And those are pretty disregarding of safety. So yes, maybe for a safe driver stepping into a self driving car will the risk will be increased, but for most people it will be lower.
This is declared intent to cause injury
If it crashes into the tree, it injures the driver. It will cause injury one way or another.
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I'm sure that people who had negative interactions online are horrible for your ad based business.
Isn't this literally what pagerank has been invented for?
This sounds more like some advertisement for some AI corporation than something actually relevant.
I doubt that this will be the end of humanity, as we've lived through the ice age as well. But certainly parts of the planet that were inhabitable before will become uninhabitable in the future, and this will create wars and maybe our whole civilisation will collapse. Maybe we will lose everything industrialisation has brought us, and likely it will be harder in the future to get a similar industrialisation going due to the energy resources of the planet being depleted. But at least those coal miners could keep their jobs... or wait, they were replaced with machines. Well, whatever.
his position on climate change: doesn't exist, and we need to fire up america's coal mines again, regardless of the pollution.
I'm not even sure whether this is legal. Or probably it is, because tesla lawyers have made it part of the preorder conditions.
You compare timespans of hundreds of thousands of years with timespans of a hundred years. That's where the problem lies.
Leo I think wants to increase awareness for the issue to enable people like Elon to actually perform the transition to an emission free economy.
Humans do actually have an influence over earth. Maybe not as individuals, but certainly as species.
CFC has caused a hole in the ozone layer, and measures were taken to abandon OFC for most purposes, and now the ozone hole is getting smaller again: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07...
Also, some clues have been pointing towards a possible cause for a "little ice age" that struck europe during the middle of the last millenium and caused death and starvation amongst europeans to have been man made in some sense: http://phys.org/news/2011-10-t...
Billions of people live already in warm climate, which is going to become warmer. In many of these warm areas gigantic droughts are expected. Those droughts are expected for the US as well.
But let's say you only care about yourself and your village where you live and think that its actually enjoyable to have a warmer climate because its nicer to have it warm in winter. Let's assume you'd be fine with those people dying from thirst or starvation.
The thing is, before these people die, they will first stir up world peace. This has led the Pentagon to call climate change a security risk: http://www.defense.gov/News/Ar...
Trump is consistent in this single point: if we continue to speed up climate change (like he proposes), the US and all other patches of still usable land will get flooded with refugees, and one needs to expand spending in defense (which trump proposes too).
And if you don't like dark winters, I'm afraid it will get worse, as they'll become darker if the snow melts due to more light absorption.
Btw, the "agressive action" doesn't imply much of agression. As the renewables are almost competitive, all you need to do is to lower the subventions on coal and other fossil energy sources to give renewables a better standing.
Just dropping three points here:
* Sea levels *are* rising, and its negatively impacting the lives of people already, today: http://www.newyorker.com/tech/...
* greenland ice is melting http://www.independent.co.uk/e...
* glaciers are melting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
All three of these things are hopefully undisputable.
Yes, science isn't sure about everything, but it is quite sure about this, sure enough that it should be trusted. And please do base your political decision on what the scientific consensus provides, everything else would be totally irresponsible.
Well Uber serves a few important tasks: they make sure that quality is okay. Obviously its not perfect, but really bad offenders can't hide, but will be baned quickly. Compare that to taxis, where in some cities you couldn't be sure whether you'd be robbed or raped when taking a ride. Uber solves this problem, at least mostly.
Yes, they are the evil middlemen, but they aren't much different from McDonalds or other franchise model companies. Even CocaCola does this:
http://www.coca-colacompany.co...
So if many well established companies have been doing this for decades and centuries, then why not Uber?
What about not putting it there in the first place? THEN we can start thinking about removing it from the atmosphere. It takes far more energy to take CO2 out of the atmosphere than to not put it there.
Hardware may be a "solved problem" for x86 cpus, but anything beyond that is still unexplored territory. Elon musk is sad that so much talent is focussed on some cloud solution while that talent is terribly missed engineering. I agree with that. We need electric cars that can replace ICE ones, we need robots that can take care of the elderly, and this is only partially a software problem.
Agreed, Putin shouldn't try to play cheap by appointing his own puppet instead of paying Clinton like everyone else is doing it. He isn't something special, same rules apply for all bribers. If he's outbid by Qatar, he shouldn't be mad, but instead raise his bid.
also, look at watergate. Journalists both used that content.
Well its better for the NSA to publicly pretend to not have the emails so that when clinton is president they have something to extort her with.
The problem is that Trump is far less predictable than Clinton. He may promise to "dry up the swamps" and that may be a nice goal by itself, but he has proven that he's changing his positions more than any of the "all talk no action" politicans. For example, look at the primaries, where he switched his positions about abortion: https://www.washingtonpost.com...
So yes, maybe Trump will change America, but you can't be sure at all into which direction he will change it. And even when he becomes president, the only people who will help him are probably the republicans, and they will only let through laws that follow the republican party line, which is far less progressive than the democratic one.
Clinton may be corrupt, yes, but her proposed policies are much better than anything trump has proposed outside of feelgood promises like "we will replace it with something much better that I can tell you".
AI cant even have a believable conversation at the 3rd grade level.
Are you saying the debates exceeded it?
Yeah, essentially they say that their cars can only be used for noncommercial purposes. I just hope that the other car manufacturers don't follow the tesla lead on this, as often when the leader in an industry decides to fuck customers, the followers do the same.
why update the country if you can just build a wall around it?
Windows is already shipping with lots of crap. Compare that to linux, where only very few parts are crap.
* it has bash plus coreutils and all the other command line toolset
* its software is free as in beer (this is what made me try out linux)
* its software is free as in software (this is what made me stay on linux for so long)
* all the things I do with computers can be done with it, and when there is a case I can't do it on linux, I can always fire up the windows VM (happens very very rarely)
* it has working package management. updating software is no nightmare. Windows has to force its customers to update it, because its a nightmare.
* most support issues are talked about and you find something you can instantly do not where you have to download this little exe then execute it (and god knows what it may contain). Maybe this will get worse if/when linux adoption reaches the non technical people, its very hard to find such things for android for example.
many other things I have forgotten, but I will surely miss when I have to use windows or mac.
This post is the first one in this thread.
We can keep working instead. Just pass laws that ban progress and you are done.
Self driving cars don't need to be safer than the most safe human driver, they only need to be safer than the average human driver. And those are pretty disregarding of safety. So yes, maybe for a safe driver stepping into a self driving car will the risk will be increased, but for most people it will be lower.
This is declared intent to cause injury
If it crashes into the tree, it injures the driver. It will cause injury one way or another.
China wants every corporation to be owned by locals, no? Or is stuff changing?