I'll probably be modded down into oblivion for having a contrary opinion but I wish the USA would just get it over and annex Canada and Mexico already. Once people get over the knee-jerk reaction and actually think about what this would mean
Unless you get their permission first (and you can't), what it would mean is war on at least two fronts, and probably more.
It's more likely the us splits apart and pieces join canada . There are plenty of people on the west coast who'd be fine with joining Canada. It can't happen because of needing congressional approval. Can we imagine a scenario where say Trump is impeached and there are riots all around the us, and then southern states succeed to protect slavery, i mean the right of idiots like trump to be our president. It could happen.
speak honestly about Trump and the horrible behavior of the republican party,
The horrible behavior of your own party doesn't bother you?
I think the difference between liberals and conservatives is that absolutely i don't like illegal behavior. I thought hrc should have lost her security clearance when she was sending email to a private server. anyone else would have. i didn't vote for her in the primary because of that. trump is a whole different area of cartoonish idiotic billionaire behavior. he is the best argument about why we need inheritance taxes to avoid building oligarcy in the us.
"When the president does it, it's not illegal."
"When Democrats do it, it's not reprehensible."
As a representative of all liberals (snark), I can say that plenty of us don't like when the president abuses his power. in the bad choice department (not exactly abuse), I thought it was a mistake when obama didn't bomb syria after chemical weapon attacks during his term. But whats the right amount of attack in deadly syria? I think trump didn't do enough. it's an impossible challenge because no one knows what the future holds, what the response will be to any action there. we have lots of troops there, how will we get them out? whats the end game?
i thought it was a terrible mistake when hillary clinton was found to have used her own stupid email service. i thought it was wrong when she was using private email in a govt role. I didn't vote for her in the primary because of that reason. I think this is still wrong with the trump govt employees doing much worse, like hope hix using 4 email accounts.
You're no liberal and stop saying you are. You're a leftist.
Okaay, can you define for stupid people like me what you mean by the difference between the leftist and liberal? I would use them pretty interchangeably. My first attempt at defining these things is someone who is interested in tolerance, freedom, who wants to avoid violence and racist speech. Who wants to protect the weak (kids who are born to poor families shouldn't just die if they get sick). I support using reason to make decisions, not ideology. I believe in the scientific method. People should be free to practice the religion they want and believe what they want, but they shouldn't be able to use it to hurt other people back. As an example, someone can't use their belief in say the idea that two women or two men shouldn't be able to marry as an excuse to hurt people who do get married that way.
I think when conservatives and liberals talk about differences, they don't really talk to the same points.
We liberals don't worship Comey, etc. We just see that they are trying to do the right thing in a very difficult circumstance. The easy thing is just go away. The hard thing is to stand up for what's right. In this case, the right thing is to speak honestly about Trump and the horrible behavior of the republican party, the part that is trying to justify trump as normal behavior and totally legal and fine.
This is something that's a real tragedy and it feels very wrong to joke about it, based even on the fact that some companies want to not cure things but reduce them to get continuing money. My grandmother had it, it was the worse thing to see her go slowly.
You might want to note that China rejected Marxism after the disastrous Cultural Revolution. Nowadays, they are capitalist -- perhaps more so than the US. What they aren't is a representative democracy. But then neither, in practice is the US which is more of a two party oligarchy Hard to think of a country that actually is a representative democracy.... Iceland maybe. Switzerland somewhat I'm told
China is not really captialist. The govt can step in and change things whenever it suits them, and they do it all the time, like restrictions on money, propping up failing govt loans and real estate overbuilding. They blocked cryptocurrency.
The us is a democracy, we do have real third parties that sometimes win elections. Not much, but the main reason is the vast majority of people vote for one of the candidates they know. And of course dem and rep don't exatly encourage the rise of third parties, plus our govt system kind of accidentally discouraged third parties with winner take all style congress. We have a lot of problems like too much influence by rich people, the attacks of rich people have been winning for a while but it's not as bad as you say. We aren't quite living in idiocracy but we are moving that way. If we have another president like trump it might be that we are doomed. following the roman empire decline of a series of bad leaders.
Yes, let's be like Nazi Germany, Stalinist Russia, Marxist China, Pol Pot Cambodia. Let's take away everyone's ability to defend themselves from government overreach. Then we'll only have millions killed! Yay!
Hitler did zillions of bad things, you can't use his choices as a childish negative reason just because he did it. Hitler built up industry, supported engineering, so we shouldn't do those things? Hitler & his generals were pretty good at tactics, they used tanks well for a time, should we not use tanks? There are endless things like this. Hitler was an almost beyond belief evil leader, who was able to motivate an entire country to do horrible things together. But he brushed his teeth occasionally, don't make idiotic comments that just because he did something we shouldn't.
It's like saying "socialism is bad", I am calling X socialism, so it's bad.
But the authorities have already been using the dna registries in criminal checks. They have done both the "do you have anything on this person". Because they connect up likely family members and unknown brothers automatically I think it's very likely to be a problem.
I don't get why you are so hostile about this.
When you're tech worker who's thrown on the street in your 40s, you're out of the game.
Why can't these 'tech workers' who are 40+ practice, study, learn, get a new job? I'm a tech worker in my 50s. I'm a principal engineer with some lead experience. In my last job search, I interviewed 4 times and got 4 job offers. I'm in seattle, and I'm a middle aged white guy, so how come I can get a job? Because I study, learn the new variants of c++. I also picked a few 'test interviews' with companies I had no interest in to practice on (uber was one). You do the interview on the phone with a computer. Do this until you have current market skills? I have been working on infrastructure software my whole career, so I have a lot of experience.
I can see that there could be age discrimination. The new kids coming from college have only programmed in stupid lamdas. Is it that you can't even get interviews, or aren't in a place that is hiring, or what? If you don't have tech skills (in hacker new yesterday there was a guy who said he hadn't learned anything since 2001 and was looking for a job). I think it's because these folks are putting other packages together to solve problems, and aren't "bespoke software engineers".
I know I am lucky to be in a place with good job opportunities, but in the last 5 years I've done 3 jobs searches and found lots of jobs each time. Practice, do some remote interviews, you can do it!
We don't need to pay that much of our income to get UBI. First, because w have too low taxes on really rich people, like the idiot inherited classes that do nothing useful, such as our president. But also because think about how much money we waste figuring out who should have welfare, verifying they spend it on welfare allowable foods, not booze, etc. If we just gave people freaking money we could remove all that waste of time stuff (err, some of those people might lose their jobs who used to supervise welfare, but lets not get off topic). Repeal the Republican/oligarch/trump tax cuts and that provides a lot (150 billion a year).
or build the bridge. Instead, only woman or minority owned business were picked from. The president of FIU even bragged about that during the ground breaking ceremony. I bet he already regrets saying that.
Your comments look like the rantings of an angry white male. First, we don't know that was true, second why cast aspersions at someone because of their sex. You know nothing about that. How about if you said that about a black engineer? It would be obvious racism. Somehow you don't seem to see that.
See AvE on youtube for a breakdown. It looks very clear it was a problem with assembly, where they had to move something and weren't able to adjust it. By the way, there appear to only be men standing in front of it, working on it, leading the team. Nothing wrong with men, I'm one myself. But your comment looks doubly idiotic.
> Bigquery is the worst analytics engine ever?
it supports incredible data load scale and query volume greater than any other analytics i'm aware of. billions of records a second can be loaded. you are wrong if you think google doesn't know how to be large scale data processing pipelines. they might not be faster in some limited issue, like say latency, but in throughput they are awesome.
If you read the attached article at The Guardian, you might note that Nasa could extend this mission, it's a question of budgeting. This is the first I heard that the spacecraft could continue operating past this point. It will cost billions for the next mission to the outer planets, 3 or 4 billion a year on the pointless job creator/SLS mission, shouldn't we extend this mission if we can?
Yes, they containers and virt are different yet very related. So besides bashing the article, you should advise us of what the source changes are pointing towards.
[automation is not going to result in lots of lost jobs]. It's already happening in the US. There are lots of people that can't find meaningful work that pays even to have a decent life, above minimum wage, living close enough to a job to not have an hour commute each way, with health insurance. It's already here for janitors, part time drug store workers who can't get full time, fake "managers" that don't get overtime at riteaid. There are not other jobs for people like that. Kick out a million truck drivers, then fewer mechanics. What is the next job for them?
This is an utterly ahistorical argument. Economists have long argued, on mere speculation, that pre-industrial revolution everyone worked like a dog. Anthropologists and historians have shown that this is not true--there are certainly times in the crop calendar (in temperate zones) when everyone has to work long days for weeks at a time. But these are the exception, and most of the year was spent with lots of free time (see Fernand Braudel, The Structures of Everyday Life)...
Sure, I believe there was lots of free time in the past. No time clock, no taxes, no divorce court or speeding tickets. But, and it's big "BUTT", a lot of people died in childbirth, war, famine, pestilence. One hope for less work in the future is we share jobs. Maybe my programming job is divided into two parts, I could almost work for half pay if I really had to work half time.
Even Moore agrees that we're running into the limit of that law, and it will basically come to a full stop around 2020-2025.
There were research papers saying we'll never have 64kb (this was before megabit or kilobit) drams. Then many research papers saying we'll never get past a certain reduction in gate size, transistor speed. People invented new techniques. There's just too much money looking at the problem to claim that we won't get past current manufacturing limitations. We might do things in another ways, we can have faster networks, more cores, and then there is quantum. So someone thinks we'll reach the max in 2 years potentially? Hogwash.
Tesla's were much better than Mercedes. Teslas don't go from left to right hunting for the lane, like people have reported on older mercedes. I don't know about current era merc.
They are first or near first in one important way, having had a vehicle with many self-driving car features on the road, testing and improving them for 3+ years. Other companies like the volt now are getting there, but Tesla is not lost in the part about actually have working cars with some features.
This replacement with automation is not about crossing a mystical line of wage cost, it's more about reducing uncertainty of human labor, and reducing costs of automation. It's just an excuse to do it now. Or let me put this another way, once jack in the box starts doing this, they'll also replace humans cashiers in places with much lower wages.
I'm all for discussion of politics, esp. if they can manage the trick of making it in interesting in a movie. But star wars never seemed to have much complexity in any of their movies. The 3 prequels were just pointless exercises. I'd love to understand what I am missing.
Covering the globe with internet via low earth orbit would take a LOT of satellites, or you could use just three. Like these folks are planning.
https://www.viasat.com/product...
If they are geostationary, they won't have low latency because too far away. If they are leo then they will be moving and three won't be enough to cover everything, so how can 3 sats work?
I don't think Lucas really understood the campyness possibility inherent in his script. But regardless of whether he made it terrible / "like a 1930s Saturday serial" on purpose (I am skeptical, that was Raiders of the Lost Arc! and it wasn't terrible), his 'edits' on the original star wars movie actively hurt it! There's no doubt his changes made it less artistic and interesting.
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I'll probably be modded down into oblivion for having a contrary opinion but I wish the USA would just get it over and annex Canada and Mexico already. Once people get over the knee-jerk reaction and actually think about what this would mean
Unless you get their permission first (and you can't), what it would mean is war on at least two fronts, and probably more.
It's more likely the us splits apart and pieces join canada . There are plenty of people on the west coast who'd be fine with joining Canada. It can't happen because of needing congressional approval. Can we imagine a scenario where say Trump is impeached and there are riots all around the us, and then southern states succeed to protect slavery, i mean the right of idiots like trump to be our president. It could happen.
speak honestly about Trump and the horrible behavior of the republican party,
The horrible behavior of your own party doesn't bother you?
I think the difference between liberals and conservatives is that absolutely i don't like illegal behavior. I thought hrc should have lost her security clearance when she was sending email to a private server. anyone else would have. i didn't vote for her in the primary because of that. trump is a whole different area of cartoonish idiotic billionaire behavior. he is the best argument about why we need inheritance taxes to avoid building oligarcy in the us.
The left is channeling its inner Richard Nixon.
"When the president does it, it's not illegal." "When Democrats do it, it's not reprehensible."
As a representative of all liberals (snark), I can say that plenty of us don't like when the president abuses his power. in the bad choice department (not exactly abuse), I thought it was a mistake when obama didn't bomb syria after chemical weapon attacks during his term. But whats the right amount of attack in deadly syria? I think trump didn't do enough. it's an impossible challenge because no one knows what the future holds, what the response will be to any action there. we have lots of troops there, how will we get them out? whats the end game? i thought it was a terrible mistake when hillary clinton was found to have used her own stupid email service. i thought it was wrong when she was using private email in a govt role. I didn't vote for her in the primary because of that reason. I think this is still wrong with the trump govt employees doing much worse, like hope hix using 4 email accounts.
You're no liberal and stop saying you are. You're a leftist.
Okaay, can you define for stupid people like me what you mean by the difference between the leftist and liberal? I would use them pretty interchangeably. My first attempt at defining these things is someone who is interested in tolerance, freedom, who wants to avoid violence and racist speech. Who wants to protect the weak (kids who are born to poor families shouldn't just die if they get sick). I support using reason to make decisions, not ideology. I believe in the scientific method. People should be free to practice the religion they want and believe what they want, but they shouldn't be able to use it to hurt other people back. As an example, someone can't use their belief in say the idea that two women or two men shouldn't be able to marry as an excuse to hurt people who do get married that way. I think when conservatives and liberals talk about differences, they don't really talk to the same points.
We liberals don't worship Comey, etc. We just see that they are trying to do the right thing in a very difficult circumstance. The easy thing is just go away. The hard thing is to stand up for what's right. In this case, the right thing is to speak honestly about Trump and the horrible behavior of the republican party, the part that is trying to justify trump as normal behavior and totally legal and fine.
Do we even want a cure? Alzheimers generates a lot of revenue....
This is something that's a real tragedy and it feels very wrong to joke about it, based even on the fact that some companies want to not cure things but reduce them to get continuing money. My grandmother had it, it was the worse thing to see her go slowly.
You might want to note that China rejected Marxism after the disastrous Cultural Revolution. Nowadays, they are capitalist -- perhaps more so than the US. What they aren't is a representative democracy. But then neither, in practice is the US which is more of a two party oligarchy Hard to think of a country that actually is a representative democracy .... Iceland maybe. Switzerland somewhat I'm told
China is not really captialist. The govt can step in and change things whenever it suits them, and they do it all the time, like restrictions on money, propping up failing govt loans and real estate overbuilding. They blocked cryptocurrency.
The us is a democracy, we do have real third parties that sometimes win elections. Not much, but the main reason is the vast majority of people vote for one of the candidates they know. And of course dem and rep don't exatly encourage the rise of third parties, plus our govt system kind of accidentally discouraged third parties with winner take all style congress. We have a lot of problems like too much influence by rich people, the attacks of rich people have been winning for a while but it's not as bad as you say. We aren't quite living in idiocracy but we are moving that way. If we have another president like trump it might be that we are doomed. following the roman empire decline of a series of bad leaders.
Yes, let's be like Nazi Germany, Stalinist Russia, Marxist China, Pol Pot Cambodia. Let's take away everyone's ability to defend themselves from government overreach. Then we'll only have millions killed! Yay!
Hitler did zillions of bad things, you can't use his choices as a childish negative reason just because he did it. Hitler built up industry, supported engineering, so we shouldn't do those things? Hitler & his generals were pretty good at tactics, they used tanks well for a time, should we not use tanks? There are endless things like this. Hitler was an almost beyond belief evil leader, who was able to motivate an entire country to do horrible things together. But he brushed his teeth occasionally, don't make idiotic comments that just because he did something we shouldn't. It's like saying "socialism is bad", I am calling X socialism, so it's bad.
But the authorities have already been using the dna registries in criminal checks. They have done both the "do you have anything on this person". Because they connect up likely family members and unknown brothers automatically I think it's very likely to be a problem. I don't get why you are so hostile about this.
When you're tech worker who's thrown on the street in your 40s, you're out of the game.
Why can't these 'tech workers' who are 40+ practice, study, learn, get a new job? I'm a tech worker in my 50s. I'm a principal engineer with some lead experience. In my last job search, I interviewed 4 times and got 4 job offers. I'm in seattle, and I'm a middle aged white guy, so how come I can get a job? Because I study, learn the new variants of c++. I also picked a few 'test interviews' with companies I had no interest in to practice on (uber was one). You do the interview on the phone with a computer. Do this until you have current market skills? I have been working on infrastructure software my whole career, so I have a lot of experience.
I can see that there could be age discrimination. The new kids coming from college have only programmed in stupid lamdas. Is it that you can't even get interviews, or aren't in a place that is hiring, or what? If you don't have tech skills (in hacker new yesterday there was a guy who said he hadn't learned anything since 2001 and was looking for a job). I think it's because these folks are putting other packages together to solve problems, and aren't "bespoke software engineers".
I know I am lucky to be in a place with good job opportunities, but in the last 5 years I've done 3 jobs searches and found lots of jobs each time. Practice, do some remote interviews, you can do it!
We don't need to pay that much of our income to get UBI. First, because w have too low taxes on really rich people, like the idiot inherited classes that do nothing useful, such as our president. But also because think about how much money we waste figuring out who should have welfare, verifying they spend it on welfare allowable foods, not booze, etc. If we just gave people freaking money we could remove all that waste of time stuff (err, some of those people might lose their jobs who used to supervise welfare, but lets not get off topic). Repeal the Republican/oligarch/trump tax cuts and that provides a lot (150 billion a year).
or build the bridge. Instead, only woman or minority owned business were picked from. The president of FIU even bragged about that during the ground breaking ceremony. I bet he already regrets saying that.
Your comments look like the rantings of an angry white male. First, we don't know that was true, second why cast aspersions at someone because of their sex. You know nothing about that. How about if you said that about a black engineer? It would be obvious racism. Somehow you don't seem to see that. See AvE on youtube for a breakdown. It looks very clear it was a problem with assembly, where they had to move something and weren't able to adjust it. By the way, there appear to only be men standing in front of it, working on it, leading the team. Nothing wrong with men, I'm one myself. But your comment looks doubly idiotic.
> Bigquery is the worst analytics engine ever? it supports incredible data load scale and query volume greater than any other analytics i'm aware of. billions of records a second can be loaded. you are wrong if you think google doesn't know how to be large scale data processing pipelines. they might not be faster in some limited issue, like say latency, but in throughput they are awesome.
If you read the attached article at The Guardian, you might note that Nasa could extend this mission, it's a question of budgeting. This is the first I heard that the spacecraft could continue operating past this point. It will cost billions for the next mission to the outer planets, 3 or 4 billion a year on the pointless job creator/SLS mission, shouldn't we extend this mission if we can?
Yes, they containers and virt are different yet very related. So besides bashing the article, you should advise us of what the source changes are pointing towards.
[automation is not going to result in lots of lost jobs]. It's already happening in the US. There are lots of people that can't find meaningful work that pays even to have a decent life, above minimum wage, living close enough to a job to not have an hour commute each way, with health insurance. It's already here for janitors, part time drug store workers who can't get full time, fake "managers" that don't get overtime at riteaid. There are not other jobs for people like that. Kick out a million truck drivers, then fewer mechanics. What is the next job for them?
This is an utterly ahistorical argument. Economists have long argued, on mere speculation, that pre-industrial revolution everyone worked like a dog. Anthropologists and historians have shown that this is not true--there are certainly times in the crop calendar (in temperate zones) when everyone has to work long days for weeks at a time. But these are the exception, and most of the year was spent with lots of free time (see Fernand Braudel, The Structures of Everyday Life)...
Sure, I believe there was lots of free time in the past. No time clock, no taxes, no divorce court or speeding tickets. But, and it's big "BUTT", a lot of people died in childbirth, war, famine, pestilence. One hope for less work in the future is we share jobs. Maybe my programming job is divided into two parts, I could almost work for half pay if I really had to work half time.
Even Moore agrees that we're running into the limit of that law, and it will basically come to a full stop around 2020-2025.
There were research papers saying we'll never have 64kb (this was before megabit or kilobit) drams. Then many research papers saying we'll never get past a certain reduction in gate size, transistor speed. People invented new techniques. There's just too much money looking at the problem to claim that we won't get past current manufacturing limitations. We might do things in another ways, we can have faster networks, more cores, and then there is quantum. So someone thinks we'll reach the max in 2 years potentially? Hogwash.
That's how evil super villains are created and super heros.
We were close to have Herpes-Man running around!!!
This is almost the plot of "Future Man" on Hulu.
Tesla's were much better than Mercedes. Teslas don't go from left to right hunting for the lane, like people have reported on older mercedes. I don't know about current era merc.
They are first or near first in one important way, having had a vehicle with many self-driving car features on the road, testing and improving them for 3+ years. Other companies like the volt now are getting there, but Tesla is not lost in the part about actually have working cars with some features.
This replacement with automation is not about crossing a mystical line of wage cost, it's more about reducing uncertainty of human labor, and reducing costs of automation. It's just an excuse to do it now. Or let me put this another way, once jack in the box starts doing this, they'll also replace humans cashiers in places with much lower wages.
I'm all for discussion of politics, esp. if they can manage the trick of making it in interesting in a movie. But star wars never seemed to have much complexity in any of their movies. The 3 prequels were just pointless exercises. I'd love to understand what I am missing.
Covering the globe with internet via low earth orbit would take a LOT of satellites, or you could use just three. Like these folks are planning. https://www.viasat.com/product...
If they are geostationary, they won't have low latency because too far away. If they are leo then they will be moving and three won't be enough to cover everything, so how can 3 sats work?
I don't think Lucas really understood the campyness possibility inherent in his script. But regardless of whether he made it terrible / "like a 1930s Saturday serial" on purpose (I am skeptical, that was Raiders of the Lost Arc! and it wasn't terrible), his 'edits' on the original star wars movie actively hurt it! There's no doubt his changes made it less artistic and interesting.