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  1. Re:maybe it will at least help sales of electric c on Trump Administration Plans To Freeze Obama-Era Fuel Standards (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    To some extent grab and dash is because people want a short break and a snack, and fill up when they are there. People could, longer term, change their habits, if in an electric SDC. I see a market for advertising your rest to SDCs via the entertainment system based on travel time, charge status, FaceBook status.

  2. I took the 90s reference to suggest wages are higher now, so don't grumble at mefir agreeing with you. I thought I was pretty close suggesting $50 is close to median over all devs if it's actually $49. I can't make 40 hour weeks, less vacation, make over $100k, unless you are counting paid holiday, but since devs are salary I worked on the basis of minimum hours worked. With working hours what they are in the USA the effective hourly wage is less. Headline, the UK pays less, but the gap might be less on a per hour basis given time off, but a full comparison would be PPP including taxes, healthcare, etc.

  3. Re:How did we come to this? on Two Koreas Agree To End War This Year, Pursue Denuclearization (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1
    Reagan was actually morally opposed to nuclear weapons, which was a significant factor in pushing for talks.

    Sure, us liberals loved to hate him back then, but he was a better man than we realised. An example would be his letters, with personal cheques, to distressed citizens.

  4. Re: Fipronil on EU Votes To Ban Bee-Harming Pesticides (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    It wasn't as arid 10,000 years ago, and the soil was more productive.

  5. Re:Badge of Honour on US Keeps China, Puts Canada on IP Priority Watch List (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Scientists in the USSR did a lot of the preparatory work in the 1950s, ironically based on work from Canada. Other preparatory work was done in the UK. I was taught by one of the UK researchers who related having the latest paper translated from Russian, only to discover it was his own paper.

  6. $50 an hour like most Software Devs make 3 years out of school.

    LOL! What's the weather like in the mid 90s?

    mid 90s? It's about $90k a year, which is fairly close to the current median.

  7. In other countries you get time off to bond with your kid, and time off for cancer treatment anyway.

  8. Re:How do you know if your echo has been patched? on Researchers Hacked Amazon's Alexa To Spy On Users, Again (threatpost.com) · · Score: 1

    I already have a me, but the sandwich would be great, thanks.

  9. Using a custom board at volume might save $1 per unit. If so, it will be done.

  10. Re: shaver and vacuum digital content on Appliance Companies Are Lobbying To Protect Their DRM-Fueled Repair Monopolies (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    The bluetooth in the washer is to allow a central unit to tell it to start a delayed wash when electricity price are low. Few have the smart meters, though

  11. Re: veterans? on Amazon Employee Explains the Poor Working Conditions of An Amazon Warehouse · · Score: 1

    Remember the vile misogynistic assault on Sarah Palin?

    You won't get any support for that sort of misogynism from this liberal. It is not OK.

    It's not exactly an absurd set of characterizations to say that the American Left despises the working class. They voted for Trump!

    You can dislike someone's choice without despising someone. You are making a leap of logic to vilify a group.

    It's because the Left regards the Right as "The Other" and doesn't feel that the rules of civilized discourse apply.

    That is true of a small minority, hence pointing out your absurd characterisations. I am liberal but have conservative friends and will debate with them. As long as they are honest and their hearts are in the right place and aren't suggesting something awful, that is fine as I don't believe I have some monopoly over 'the truth'.

  12. Re: veterans? on Amazon Employee Explains the Poor Working Conditions of An Amazon Warehouse · · Score: 1

    Ah, whataboutism.

  13. If people can roll over to that extent then the policy is wrong. In the UK being able to carry over five or ten days is typical. Time off otherwise doesn't seem to cause an issue, so I don't see why it should be a problem in the USA.

  14. Re: In other words. on The Higher Your Salary, the More Time Your Employer Will Pay You Not To Work (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Not really. Errors or failures become more likely or severe, opportunities cannot be exploited, staff turnover is higher. These things don't often appear on the same spreadsheet as staff costs, but they are real costs.

  15. Re:Soon AI Blockchain Clouds will rule the world. on AI Will Wipe Out Half the Banking Jobs In a Decade, Experts Say · · Score: 1

    It isn't pretending, as there is, or was, some biomimicry there, although some techniques have somewhat diverged. The issue is still often reasoning about the behaviour, i.e. rule extraction, and the assurance it can give you over and above validation and test sets. Just creating those effectively, along with training sets, is a difficult enough statistical problem, especially where you are also incorporating some expert gold standard.

  16. Re:Soon AI Blockchain Clouds will rule the world. on AI Will Wipe Out Half the Banking Jobs In a Decade, Experts Say · · Score: 1
    Not all ANNs cope with unstructured data. In fact most types don't, and it use various levels of preprocessing and selection. But then various 'AI' techniques achieve various things, such as clustering or classification, some of which can be achieved with statistical techniques. Back in the day when memory was at more of a premium you might use principal component analysis, a statistical technique, to do dimensionality reduction. We use Gestalt feature extraction, and graphs for image recognition at least fifteen years ago, and FaceBook seems to be doing something similar

    A lot of AI now has familiar features from then: graphs, clustering, TVP, MLP, arity, in memory distributed processing. It is tempting to get back into it.

  17. he was a bit early for the USA

  18. If 12 days a year slow down projects then there is a issue with project management or communication.

  19. If you routinely cannot take your vacation then you are understaffed,or have issues with project management or delegation.

  20. I get the same, and it seems about right.

  21. Re: veterans? on Amazon Employee Explains the Poor Working Conditions of An Amazon Warehouse · · Score: 1

    What an absurd set of cartoon characterisations.

  22. Re:veterans? on Amazon Employee Explains the Poor Working Conditions of An Amazon Warehouse · · Score: 1

    UK employment law is very different. You do not get fired for being slow, although a short-term contract may not be renewed. It is also not piece work, so working harder will not immediately increase pay.

  23. Re:Does ANYONE think this lawsuit is a solution? on Facebook Must Face Class-Action Lawsuit Over Facial Recognition, Says Judge (kfgo.com) · · Score: 1

    The issue is being tagged in pictures taken by others, I thought.

  24. As I understand it the objection is not that the images were uploaded (you'd have no defence in the USA or EU over that, if you were out in public, and if it was a private photo, possibly only against the uploader), but the creation of new metadata.

  25. Facebook didn't collect the information.

    If there is metadata that wasn't in the original, how did the photographer do it?