It's very easy for people misinterpret statistical results. In your example, Asians may be 80% less likely to buy from a store, but if Asians are also 90% less likely to enter the store in the first place, then a given Asian who actually enters the store is twice as likely to buy than other people. So ignoring Asian customers would be an extremely bad business strategy.
Can't they just vent sections of the station to vacuum to (semi-) sterilize things?
Move everybody to other sections, close the hatches, vent. Wait 48 hours. Then restore air pressure and come back.
Repeat every so often with each section.
I think the confusion here is because it's called an "application PROGRAMMING interface". Despite having the word "programming" in it, an API is not a program.
APIs are to programming as plumbing is to water. Or as electricity is to an electric socket. NOT the same thing at all.
It's as if we said "you can copyright electricity", and then somebody said well it's called an "electrical connector", therefore I can copyright it.
1 - That's a reason to tax things that generate externalities, in proportion to the harm they cause to the public.
2 - That's what rich people are for. Rich people pay stupid high prices for new stuff, which pays for the R&D needed to make the next generation of stuff cheaper. Slightly less rich people buy that, and thereby fund making the next gen cheaper yet. Recurse.
No subsidy needed anywhere. In fact, subsidy is the root of all evil.
"Just following orders" didn't cut it at Nuremberg. If you're in a big company, your manager doesn't make the rules either, but does expect you to be productive.
If you want a successful career, you might do better to focus on getting the job done (despite the rules), instead of slavishly following the rules and saying "not my fault nothing works".
In every company, rules don't apply to top performers. Rules are for little people.
Which do you want to be?
Given that companies routinely give away money (in salaries) to hire developers, obviously they'd prefer to have the developers.
Of course, you can say the same about every employee in every job - the employer prefers to have the staff member rather than they money they pay them.
Don't make the mistake of thinking that everyone works for someone else. Many people work independently (and therefore don't need credentials - just skills). Others want knowledge for reasons other than making money with the knowledge.
No, some people learn better when taught than they do from a book. (I happen to be the type that just reads a book.)
But if everybody could learn from books alone, there would be no courses - just tests (to provide credentials for those who want them).
So courses are meant, at least in part, to teach knowledge. Some people want a credential out of them, but others want knowledge. (Of course some want both.)
What is the point of running anti-virus on your Android, if you're downloading apps only from Google, and Google has already run anti-virus on the executable?
Since most cars are junked before 250k miles, and virtually all are before 500k miles, this means that Telsa battery packs ought to outlast the car.
It'll be interesting to see what can be done with the resulting cheap secondhand battery packs.
OTOH, maybe Telsas will last longer than ICE cars. They have hardly any moving parts compared to ICE cars - even the brakes don't wear out because most braking energy goes back into the battery pack.
Esp. the Models S and X, which are made out of aluminum and so won't rust. I've yet to hear of a Model S dying from old age.
(Just got my long-awaited invite to order my Model 3. Yay!)
I'm in my mid-50s. My own programming productivity peaked around age 45. Youthful fast-learning minds that don't tire quickly have an advantage. Aged minds with lots of knowledge and experience have an advantage. The two trade-off, with a peak (in my case) around age 45.
Ya, if the government hadn't subsidized sales of that $10M worth of flamethrowers (well, torches) he'd be out of business.
Do you collect your tax refund? Unemployment when you're out of a job?
Even if you don't support those things, you'd be stupid not to pick up a check when it's put in front of you.
Musk has taken advantage of subsidies that already were on offer before he came along - just as anybody with a brain would. You don't have to be in favor of those subsidies to make use of them.
Just as you have to pay taxes whether you support them or not, you also get the benefit of government programs, including subsidies, whether or not you think it's wise that they exist.
That's all Musk has done. He doesn't deserve hate for being bright enough to take advantage of the system that was already there.
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It's very easy for people misinterpret statistical results. In your example, Asians may be 80% less likely to buy from a store, but if Asians are also 90% less likely to enter the store in the first place, then a given Asian who actually enters the store is twice as likely to buy than other people. So ignoring Asian customers would be an extremely bad business strategy.
Can't they just vent sections of the station to vacuum to (semi-) sterilize things? Move everybody to other sections, close the hatches, vent. Wait 48 hours. Then restore air pressure and come back. Repeat every so often with each section.
I read that as "Mars Had Big Rovers For Billions of Years".
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.
I suppose it could look up your medical records online, but HIPAA....
...the "exploding laptop market".
Either way, it'll make fantastic video.
Bagels are a New York thing. The Israelis didn't hear about it until 20 years later.
I think the confusion here is because it's called an "application PROGRAMMING interface". Despite having the word "programming" in it, an API is not a program.
APIs are to programming as plumbing is to water. Or as electricity is to an electric socket. NOT the same thing at all.
It's as if we said "you can copyright electricity", and then somebody said well it's called an "electrical connector", therefore I can copyright it.
1 - That's a reason to tax things that generate externalities, in proportion to the harm they cause to the public. 2 - That's what rich people are for. Rich people pay stupid high prices for new stuff, which pays for the R&D needed to make the next generation of stuff cheaper. Slightly less rich people buy that, and thereby fund making the next gen cheaper yet. Recurse. No subsidy needed anywhere. In fact, subsidy is the root of all evil.
This is a dark day. If bots act like people and respect the equal rights of others, they deserve the same rights as people.
We should't be practicing discrimination based on silicon vs. carbon substrate. Bots have rights!
This will go down, like Dred Scott, as an outrageous and immoral classification of bots as second-class citizens.
(I for one welcome our new AI bot overlords.)
Don't think payment has anything to do with it.
Volunteers aren't paid, and aren't slaves.
Making a person work at gunpoint and then paying them doesn't make them free.
Slavery is about *not being able to quit*. Has nothing to do with getting paid.
"Just following orders" didn't cut it at Nuremberg. If you're in a big company, your manager doesn't make the rules either, but does expect you to be productive. If you want a successful career, you might do better to focus on getting the job done (despite the rules), instead of slavishly following the rules and saying "not my fault nothing works". In every company, rules don't apply to top performers. Rules are for little people. Which do you want to be?
Given that companies routinely give away money (in salaries) to hire developers, obviously they'd prefer to have the developers. Of course, you can say the same about every employee in every job - the employer prefers to have the staff member rather than they money they pay them.
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Don't make the mistake of thinking that everyone works for someone else. Many people work independently (and therefore don't need credentials - just skills). Others want knowledge for reasons other than making money with the knowledge.
No, some people learn better when taught than they do from a book. (I happen to be the type that just reads a book.) But if everybody could learn from books alone, there would be no courses - just tests (to provide credentials for those who want them). So courses are meant, at least in part, to teach knowledge. Some people want a credential out of them, but others want knowledge. (Of course some want both.)
I don't want respect from an online course. I want knowledge.
What is the point of running anti-virus on your Android, if you're downloading apps only from Google, and Google has already run anti-virus on the executable?
From what I've read (I'm no expert), elliptic curve crypto was a scheme invented by NSA to weaken standardized crypto systems.
I esp. like "nobody wants one because they can't make them fast enough to fill the orders".
Since most cars are junked before 250k miles, and virtually all are before 500k miles, this means that Telsa battery packs ought to outlast the car. It'll be interesting to see what can be done with the resulting cheap secondhand battery packs. OTOH, maybe Telsas will last longer than ICE cars. They have hardly any moving parts compared to ICE cars - even the brakes don't wear out because most braking energy goes back into the battery pack. Esp. the Models S and X, which are made out of aluminum and so won't rust. I've yet to hear of a Model S dying from old age. (Just got my long-awaited invite to order my Model 3. Yay!)
What? Owners of regular manually driver cars aren't required to have driver's licenses. (You only need a license to drive a car, not to own one.)
I'm in my mid-50s. My own programming productivity peaked around age 45. Youthful fast-learning minds that don't tire quickly have an advantage. Aged minds with lots of knowledge and experience have an advantage. The two trade-off, with a peak (in my case) around age 45.
Ya, if the government hadn't subsidized sales of that $10M worth of flamethrowers (well, torches) he'd be out of business. Do you collect your tax refund? Unemployment when you're out of a job? Even if you don't support those things, you'd be stupid not to pick up a check when it's put in front of you. Musk has taken advantage of subsidies that already were on offer before he came along - just as anybody with a brain would. You don't have to be in favor of those subsidies to make use of them. Just as you have to pay taxes whether you support them or not, you also get the benefit of government programs, including subsidies, whether or not you think it's wise that they exist. That's all Musk has done. He doesn't deserve hate for being bright enough to take advantage of the system that was already there.