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  1. Re:Rats fleeing a sinking ship on Tesla Autopilot Crisis Deepens With Loss of Third Autopilot Boss In 18 Months (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    What you say is true with a big dependency, how long are you holding the shares for. If this is a 20 year investment then you are correct, if it is a 6 month or 1 year investment then take into account the PE ratio.
    With respect to the 4 1/2 times richer that would depend on holding the shares for the intervening period most traders have a 1 year/ 2 year kind of ball park to take profits.
    If in 1 year they will not increase their profits then it is hard to hold the news cycle on positive indefinitely (people might be killed while driving on your autopilot) without the strong fundamentals on your side then what is going to hold the share price up?

    I would not buy Tesla presently as it is a gamble, there is plenty of reasons why it would come down and potentially never go back up. However I have seen companies with strong fundamentals go down too. Tesla is overvalued even if they produce all the cars they are planning/hoping to they are overvalued. They don't really believe they will grow to match their value Musk admitted it.

  2. Re:Autopilot Design Process on Tesla Autopilot Crisis Deepens With Loss of Third Autopilot Boss In 18 Months (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Radar would be a problem if you were using 10kW pulsed kind of powers but for different radar technology (FMCW) this can be overcome. FMCW is unsuitable because of having multiple units operating in one area but there is pulse compression radar which is code-able and for the kind of range you need (probably 250m) can be low power. The way these radars work is to put the power on the target over time rather than instantaneous or pulsed, however pulse compression is still a pulse it is spread over a much greater time period. Radar is better than LIDAR at some things, particularly fog or difficult optical environments.

  3. Re:Rats fleeing a sinking ship on Tesla Autopilot Crisis Deepens With Loss of Third Autopilot Boss In 18 Months (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The reason that everyone is shorting Tesla stock is it is over valued.
    Current the Price to Earnings for their stock is 145 (this is forward PE)
    Compare that say to Amazon 98, Facebook 20, apple 12.6

    A little insight into the numbers lower is better from an investor point of view and anything over 25 would be considered well overvalued.
    However due to the bigger fool scenario you can make a lot of money from an overvalued stock. But at some point people start to see that the emperor is wearing no clothes and start shorting.

  4. Even though a bank could create shares out of "thin air" doing so has a cost of dilution of the existing shareholders.
    Example 100M company with 100Million shares (each share $1 in value) now create million new shares and you need to bring in $10 million new $ otherwise you have diluted shareholders and they do not look upon this with favor. In other words you cannot do that without going to jail, shares are of no value the represent ownership of the company which is where the value is.

    back to your giving 1 share to each person where is the value. You cannot force a store to accept your shares, as they will just close their doors and cease operating unless you pay them to accept them equal value to the food.

    you every person with CPU/GPU creating shares is another way of saying mining. (electricity is money spent so it really needs to create value, the only value is the cryptographic security added.) crypto currencies are a failure in terms of their ability to add value to society, no value has been added for a fairly significant cost ($100s of billion in power spent I would guess among other wastes.) so forget them as a solution as they really are not sound on value add basis.

  5. Re:Human Caused Global Warming? on Since 2016, Half of All Coral In the Great Barrier Reef Has Died (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    The ice age. Mammoths eating grass died and were frozen still with green grass in the stomach. From green field to frozen wasteland before they had time to finish digesting. Now is the credibility regained for the parent?

  6. Re:Human Caused Global Warming? on Since 2016, Half of All Coral In the Great Barrier Reef Has Died (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Just since you asked here is 3 scientists actually asked about global warming vs the Great Barrier reef.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    In case you don't have 10 minutes to watch it when they address global warming on the Great Barrier reef:
    1. In warming climates like Papua New Guinea where there is coral it does better (it prefers warming water)
    2. If the sea levels rise it will cause the reef to grow, what limits reef growth is the water level.

    Now you may disagree but do go on about needing a scientist or proof or whatever, just say you disagree.

  7. Obama did far worse but he had a different style.
    Trump is rude brash and does (mostly) the right thing.

    The list of Obama crimes are long and heinous, like Uranium 1, IRS scandal, Benghazi ....
    However he looked good while destroying the US.

  8. Re:No on Europe Divided Over Robot 'Personhood' (politico.eu) · · Score: 1

    It should be on a case by case basis. If the machine is just out of factory then it should be the company. If the machine was brought as a kitset from various manufacturers then maybe the builder is the person not the company that made the parts. If the Gun I have kills someone it is not the gun maker that is at fault unless the bullet come out the back or it explodes or something. This is not a universal here is the answer, there are times when the answer could be one or the other.

  9. Re:Jumping the gun just a bit? on Europe Divided Over Robot 'Personhood' (politico.eu) · · Score: 2

    How about with a car runs over you from uber? is the car to blame or the company? Kind of already there and already happened. Settled out of court and company took the blame.

  10. Re:No good outcomes for 99% on The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Innovation (nber.org) · · Score: 0

    However this is not proven out by history. As the US prosperity increases it sees all increase. For the $15/ hour working their buying power and wages increase for the $10 Million CEO they increase For the billionaire they increase However many complain that they are not rich yet. If everyone has a 10% increase then you have increased if you had $10 now you have 11 if you had $1 Billion now you have a extra million. This is what increase is. If you don't like it go live in communist China or where ever and enjoy all the benefits of their system.

  11. It is the utilitarian thinking, it does not matter what is actually right but rather I need to achieve the right outcome even if I break laws or morals in doing it.

  12. You don't need evidence to accuse the president of treason, just vague hear say hinted at on MSNBC by some commentator.

  13. Re: Nevermind that shit, here comes Mongo on YouTube Is Littered With Mass-Produced Videos Made By Automated Bots (hackernoon.com) · · Score: 0

    Funny how I get down modded as a troll for posting facts, it shows that people are not interested in truth and facts just winning their arguments (even when their arguments are totally wrong, winning is all that matters. If you disagree you must be a troll.)

    Those who are under the control of the leftwing thinking can justify doing the wrong thing for the "right" reasons. This is why the modding system on this site does not work too many left wing utilitarians who believe the 1st amendment should be struck off.

  14. Re: Nevermind that shit, here comes Mongo on YouTube Is Littered With Mass-Produced Videos Made By Automated Bots (hackernoon.com) · · Score: 0

    Do you mean you are smarter than history? If you don't learn the lessons of history you will be doomed to relearn them. What I posted was fact, the idea that people are basically good and you don't need to enforce laws, fight wars etc is just plain wrong idealistic crap. There are very real enemies in the world and criminals. If we do nothing they will not stop. This does not mean that Trump was correct to bomb Syria, but it means he is very correct not to bow to Russia and act in fear of them. Russia is wrong here, very wrong. That does not make the US right but it does mean we should not listen to the Russians.

  15. Re:These were not the ones who invented the Intern on 'An Apology for the Internet -- from the People Who Built It' (nymag.com) · · Score: 0

    Absolutely Agree.
    Most people do not know what the internet is. But sort of equate it to the web, that being said each of these innovations built on what was already there.

    The web was no small thing while being simple in concept, and it was invented to solve a problem. However compared to the internet itself which had been in development for a long long time it is tiny even if it has made the internet what it is and created all the popularity.

    The IPhone even though it was awesome, it was just a step forward not really an invention at all just a me too product done very well with a brand name. We already had other phones which had Symbian and touch screen and apps. However the iPhone captured the market due to being a step forward with their own app store and building on the popularity of the ipod also on the ipod app store and all that they had done with it. The crazy thing about the iPhone at the time and still is that iTunes is such a dog, it is the weak link in the chain for Apple.

    As for the law of unintended consequences such basic utilities as phones and web are like water and it is the people and the companies that deterime the direction that it all flows. The water is never to blame for where it ends up.

  16. Re:Firms: Evil by default? on Firms Relabelling Low-Skilled Jobs As Apprenticeships, Says Report (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Why do you think this is firms, try people. It is people who make these decisions not firms. A firm does what the people who run it decide.

    Don't worry it is not just the CEOs people right down to the drug dealer who kills the competition or the student who cheats on an exam, or the homeless guy who has a sign need money for food and then gets whiskey.

  17. Re:Nevermind that shit, here comes Mongo on YouTube Is Littered With Mass-Produced Videos Made By Automated Bots (hackernoon.com) · · Score: -1

    Great off topic post, can you go further off topic? I doubt it.

    Trump has taken us further from WWIII, not closer. If you are worried by Putin saying a few things you need to check the overall picture. Firstly all sorts of enemies threaten the US all the time. Putin has nukes but other than that he is no threat. Even though he can put up a war he cannot sustain a war. They have a $1Trillion economy (under $2 Trillion anyway) and is about as extended as he can get. Unless he goes full Nuke what can he do other than talk?

    However if you look back to Hitler and what started WWII it was in part this statement "Peace in our Time." Basically the British PM Chamberlain had a negotiation with Hitler in which he gave over Czechoslovakia to him in exchange for peace but actually just fed Hitler so that he wanted more and did not see anyone who was going to stop him. Look up "Peace in our time" as it is very famous and shows that if you want to solve issues through generosity and weak willed negotiations you will just empower those who are evil and strong. Putin fits in this category, he may not be Hitler yet but if everyone runs from him he will just keep increasing his influence and take country by country and then he may just turn into another Hitler or Stalin. It may take a little nerve to stand up to evil but if you don't you are laying down to it.

  18. Re:AI? Oh wait, "algorithm" on AI Can Generate a 3D Model of a Person After Watching a Few Seconds of Video (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 0

    AI meaning a program or system using A Nural network with deep learning.
    Don't confuse AI with actual intelligence it can look like it is intelligent especially with a specific task (which it has been trained for.) Similar to how a human learns a task in some ways but still obviously takes some steps all of which need to be trained to produce the required result.
    If you think of these tasks as functions any of which may or may not require a Nural network they you can see that AI can provide advanced programming techniques. But you don't just load it onto your car and say learn to drive, it is a bit more step by step like understand this input and that input and produce these outputs form that.

    AI is a buzz word but it is not inaccurately used in the situation where someone is actually using these techniques.

    What the article shows them doing is cool their method aside.

  19. save on cost of batteries on World's First Electrified Road For Charging Vehicles Opens In Sweden (theguardian.com) · · Score: 0

    Battery savings $2000
    Extra cost for road $200 Million

    Also lasts until they have to repair the road, then I am guess the road will be broken and no more charging.
    I also guess that all the cheap skates trying to maximize their "free" charge time will go so slow that the road will be impassable almost.

  20. Re:Smoke and Mirrors on Zuckerberg: Facebook Doesn't Use Your Mic For Ad Targeting (engadget.com) · · Score: 0

    Probably main point here is that they do not legislate facebook somehow, which is motive to lie so that he and FB looks clean and no regulation required. if you can follow pretty clear reasoning.

  21. Re:Anyone that trusts facebook is asking for it on Zuckerberg: Facebook Doesn't Use Your Mic For Ad Targeting (engadget.com) · · Score: 0

    so with your signature you are interested in identity as long as it is not real name? That is pretty clear.

  22. Re:Do they really need an AI? on Zuckerberg Testimony: Facebook AI Will Curb Hate Speech In 5 To 10 Years (inverse.com) · · Score: 0

    Also works on slashdot. Once your Kama goes low enough you get posting limitations effectively muting conservative opinion.

  23. This AC comment is obviously hate speech against us Republicans so the AI will quickly delete it off the thread.

  24. I hate to break it to you but you actually need money to invest in anyway and with the shape of your investment strategy giving a window into your whole financial picture the only investments you will be making is with borrowed money.

  25. Re:No shit Sherlock. What do you think Facebook do on Steve Wozniak Drops Facebook: 'The Profits Are All Based On the User's Info' (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0

    I fully agree! We knew all this about facebook long ago, I have seen videos explaining what they are doing and how. Suddenly it is bad because a political campaign targeted adds and that political campaign was for Trump. That is just getting best bang for advertising buck. Exactly what you would want from someone who might be managing national spending. (Not that I am saying that a 1.3Trillion spending bill is good.)