How much of can be attributed to reputation rather than tasteful design? For something to become a design icon, it does need to be designed well, but beyond that? According to that article, the design of the Parthenon was most unusual (perhaps even unique) in Roman times, but became an icon of Roman design as one of the best preserved buildings from that time. Mount Vernon is a well designed, well proportioned house of a type that has always been seen as stylish, because it is the kind of house a rich man with taste would build, it's rather unassuming... but you need to be wealthy to afford it. Such houses (in a similar style but a lot smaller) have become very popular to show wealth without being ostentatious. And there's no doubt that 501s are good jeans, but isn't the name a big part of that? Do people even recognize them when they try them on (without looking at the label)?
So, you are right that an AI might very will pick out the defining elements of those design classics. But I think it will then simply have come up with "good design" rather than "lasting style". Because while good design is almost a prerequisite for something to become a design classic, it is not enough. Luck plays a big part as well, there are plenty of examples of great designs that still were forgotten at some point (and are sometimes rediscovered).
Sure. That guy that drove up to my house in a sports car the other day, and offered me prime investment opportunities in luxury homes in the UAE, hardwood plantations in the Amazon, and even a mutual fund with a guaranteed monthly 10% return, also told me “there are no known risks associated with these projects”. My dealer also tells me heroin and krokodil are perfectly safe.
Just like that amazing BT capability, this will not be of much use to the owner of the phone, but will be used extensively to anyone capable of placing the required antennas in public spaces in order to track your every move six ways from Sunday.
I hope that's not it. The thing in that patent looks like a decidedly bulky concentrator that actually needs a mechanism to track the sun. And concentrators which funnel light from a large area into a small one aren't that useful for PV panels: you're better off putting more panels in the area taken up by the concentrator, plus concentrating light onto panels will heat them up and reduce their efficiency.
Now if it's something that makes PV panels more or less omnidirectional, he could be on to something. But modern panels already do quite well on that score, IIRC they lose only around 15-20% of output when the sun is 45 degrees away from the optimal angle, on properly positioned panels.
As a shareholder I'd be concerned. Google has a name for expecting the best while giving the best as well, something that enabled them to attract top talent. Do they still need that? Maybe not... but Google themselves are concerned as well apparently, since they felt they should do all of this in secret. I've been in places where morale went down the toilet precisely because of this sort of thing.
This is an established company following a predictable path. From the maxing-out-your-personal-creditcard days of the startup, to the exuberant days of VC money rolling in and the freedom to shape the company in your own ideal image, to the celebratory IPO and early bird employees getting their payday, to the bean counters taking over. So from bonuses and generous wages and free fruit and foosball tables, to the soon to be accelerated penny shaving. The only surprise is that it took this long to begin.
1) Resale value means bugger all on a relatively new vehicle that is in high demand. I bet that at some point the resale value on Tesla 3's was actually higher than the factory price, since people might be willing to pay for instant gratification.
3) Not over here they aren't. Problem is that they tend to focus on urban charging stations, which sort of makes sense because there are tons of Model S taxicabs here. In the Netherlands, FastNed have way more chargers, and many of them are on the highway. I suspect that Tesla will NOT get a license for Superchargers on the highways unless they open them up to other brands as well. Which they might well do, given that the European Model 3 uses standard CCS Combo 2 charging plugs.
A "Tesla killer" needs to have a decent price point (the long range Model 3 is still on the expensive side), with good range. Good range means that it'll fill your need as a daily driver under any condition, without ever having to worry about a roadside top-up of the battery. If you have that, fast charging isn't even that important for most people; just look at the insane demand for the Hyundai Kona which has good range (> 400km WLTP) but only charges at 50kW max (some say 70kW, not sure if that's the case). There's quite a few people who'll say Tesla's superfast charging is a must-have, but those are generally people who drive their car all day, like sales reps or taxi drivers. Tesla taxis are a very common sight here.
On the short range end, I really wonder how well the Tesla 3 will sell. It might still be too expensive compared to what the competition is offering.
"Install the app, and publicly shame the next debtor that comes on your radar... or be dinged 500 People's Social Points. Next time you might find yourself at the wrong end of public humiliation!"
Positive = the cook receives a notice
Negative = the boss receives a notice
Deceptive = both receive a notice. It will ostensibly be used to alert the cooks to unsanitary practices, but its ultimate goal is to give management another stick to beat them with.
They're getting better. I hadn't look at 3D printing a few years, but recently saw one in action at a friend's. You still get the scan lines, but the printer was apparently pretty reliable and had a print head with 5 filaments so you can do color or different materials too. And it wasn't that expensive (it was a Prusa 3D printer)
What's stopping me is the 3D modelling part. Maybe I just need to dive in.
I don't know. I've read a Dutch study that suggests going the whole hog on gender reassignment (SRS, plastic surgery plus hormone treatment) reduces suicide rates significantly but only doing part of it doesn't reduce rates, and there's a US study suggesting the same. I personally know a few transgenders who have improved mentally after having the surgery, but that's a small sample size with no control group... There are also studies that suggest no notable change in suicide rates post-op. What I do know for most of Europe at least: the evaluation leading up to surgery is pretty intensive, but I would call the post-op care garbage... if it even existed, that is. It's clear that the surgery does not fix all issues; it fixes some and introduces a few new ones, all of which are still pretty poorly understood and very rarely addressed. But still, I have yet to meet a transgender having regrets after the SRS.
The suicide rate for post operation trans is off the charts. If being the other faux-gender was what they really needed and would fix all their problems why do they suicide at such a high rate?
Two reasons:
1) Mental issues like depression, that result from gender dysphoria. Those are not magically fixed by having the surgery.
2) The stress of living in society, post-op. It is hard, because it is hard for other people to understand why you would undergo gender reassignment surgery. Even people who know and love you can have a hard time dealing with it all. As a result, you'll be reminded every day that you aren't really who you wanted and tried to be. Not everyone will take something like that in stride.
they aren't funny, they aren't famous, they don't do anything, they just film themselves wandering around their OWN house
Sounds like most sitcoms, but some people find that stuff entertaining too. And maybe it is, sometimes. For a long time I wondered about people streaming themselves playing games and thought: "Why on earth would anyone watch that", but then I found out that some actually are genuinely entertaining, and funny in the way they play and narrate what they do. So if one of the peeps I watch playing the games that I like, states that this or that game is awesome, I might give his opinion a little bit more weight than a paid reviewer or some random punter in the street.
And maybe it works like that for those social media celebrities as well. If kids watch them because for whatever reason they enjoy watching what they wear, eat, buy, or how they behave in public, and if their friends are watching the same thing, then it's rather likely that they will try and emulate them to some degree. It's probably more effective advertisement than some sports bloke wearing a brand T-shirt: the kids might admire him but they do so for his athletic achievements, not for his lifestyle (although that particular line is rather blurred these days).
The value of a currency is related to its money supply vs. the size of the economy in which that currency is traded. For instance, if your economy grows you can print more money without incurring inflation. On top of that, the value is influenced by speculators who bet on changes of the value of the currency vs. other currencies or commodities. In case of real money, it's mostly the size of the economy and the money supply setting the price. In case of Bitcoin, is pretty much all speculation. All grossly oversimplified to be sure, but that's the main difference between the value of real money and Bitcoin.
Speaking of insurance, Dutch insurer Centraal Beheer made some ratherfunnyads. These were the sort of advertisements talked about at the water cooler, and shared with friends on YouTube. The kind of ads that people watch voluntarily... but even so, they still suck when they interrupt a movie or TV show.
Besides, I prefer to pay for my content, especially if it's a more or less fair deal: get ads, or pay a reasonable fee to get rid of them. As soon as YouTube offered Red (or whatever they call it these days) in my country, I subscribed. We watch a fair amount of stuff on it.
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How much of can be attributed to reputation rather than tasteful design? For something to become a design icon, it does need to be designed well, but beyond that? According to that article, the design of the Parthenon was most unusual (perhaps even unique) in Roman times, but became an icon of Roman design as one of the best preserved buildings from that time. Mount Vernon is a well designed, well proportioned house of a type that has always been seen as stylish, because it is the kind of house a rich man with taste would build, it's rather unassuming... but you need to be wealthy to afford it. Such houses (in a similar style but a lot smaller) have become very popular to show wealth without being ostentatious. And there's no doubt that 501s are good jeans, but isn't the name a big part of that? Do people even recognize them when they try them on (without looking at the label)?
So, you are right that an AI might very will pick out the defining elements of those design classics. But I think it will then simply have come up with "good design" rather than "lasting style". Because while good design is almost a prerequisite for something to become a design classic, it is not enough. Luck plays a big part as well, there are plenty of examples of great designs that still were forgotten at some point (and are sometimes rediscovered).
Sure. That guy that drove up to my house in a sports car the other day, and offered me prime investment opportunities in luxury homes in the UAE, hardwood plantations in the Amazon, and even a mutual fund with a guaranteed monthly 10% return, also told me “there are no known risks associated with these projects”. My dealer also tells me heroin and krokodil are perfectly safe.
Just like that amazing BT capability, this will not be of much use to the owner of the phone, but will be used extensively to anyone capable of placing the required antennas in public spaces in order to track your every move six ways from Sunday.
I hope that's not it. The thing in that patent looks like a decidedly bulky concentrator that actually needs a mechanism to track the sun. And concentrators which funnel light from a large area into a small one aren't that useful for PV panels: you're better off putting more panels in the area taken up by the concentrator, plus concentrating light onto panels will heat them up and reduce their efficiency.
Now if it's something that makes PV panels more or less omnidirectional, he could be on to something. But modern panels already do quite well on that score, IIRC they lose only around 15-20% of output when the sun is 45 degrees away from the optimal angle, on properly positioned panels.
As a shareholder I'd be concerned. Google has a name for expecting the best while giving the best as well, something that enabled them to attract top talent. Do they still need that? Maybe not... but Google themselves are concerned as well apparently, since they felt they should do all of this in secret. I've been in places where morale went down the toilet precisely because of this sort of thing.
This is an established company following a predictable path. From the maxing-out-your-personal-creditcard days of the startup, to the exuberant days of VC money rolling in and the freedom to shape the company in your own ideal image, to the celebratory IPO and early bird employees getting their payday, to the bean counters taking over. So from bonuses and generous wages and free fruit and foosball tables, to the soon to be accelerated penny shaving. The only surprise is that it took this long to begin.
Why’d you have to bring race into it? Or would we somehow be better off it Gates was a dumb old black guy?
Julian Assange's aversion to posting Russian secrets
That's news to me. What's the reason behind his reluctance to touch anything out of Russia?
Or comparable specs (even without supercharging) but a lot cheaper.
1) Resale value means bugger all on a relatively new vehicle that is in high demand. I bet that at some point the resale value on Tesla 3's was actually higher than the factory price, since people might be willing to pay for instant gratification.
3) Not over here they aren't. Problem is that they tend to focus on urban charging stations, which sort of makes sense because there are tons of Model S taxicabs here. In the Netherlands, FastNed have way more chargers, and many of them are on the highway. I suspect that Tesla will NOT get a license for Superchargers on the highways unless they open them up to other brands as well. Which they might well do, given that the European Model 3 uses standard CCS Combo 2 charging plugs.
CUV (or "crossover") = small SUV. So that refers to both form factor and size.
A "Tesla killer" needs to have a decent price point (the long range Model 3 is still on the expensive side), with good range. Good range means that it'll fill your need as a daily driver under any condition, without ever having to worry about a roadside top-up of the battery. If you have that, fast charging isn't even that important for most people; just look at the insane demand for the Hyundai Kona which has good range (> 400km WLTP) but only charges at 50kW max (some say 70kW, not sure if that's the case). There's quite a few people who'll say Tesla's superfast charging is a must-have, but those are generally people who drive their car all day, like sales reps or taxi drivers. Tesla taxis are a very common sight here.
On the short range end, I really wonder how well the Tesla 3 will sell. It might still be too expensive compared to what the competition is offering.
"Install the app, and publicly shame the next debtor that comes on your radar... or be dinged 500 People's Social Points. Next time you might find yourself at the wrong end of public humiliation!"
Positive = the cook receives a notice
Negative = the boss receives a notice
Deceptive = both receive a notice. It will ostensibly be used to alert the cooks to unsanitary practices, but its ultimate goal is to give management another stick to beat them with.
They're getting better. I hadn't look at 3D printing a few years, but recently saw one in action at a friend's. You still get the scan lines, but the printer was apparently pretty reliable and had a print head with 5 filaments so you can do color or different materials too. And it wasn't that expensive (it was a Prusa 3D printer)
What's stopping me is the 3D modelling part. Maybe I just need to dive in.
I don't know. I've read a Dutch study that suggests going the whole hog on gender reassignment (SRS, plastic surgery plus hormone treatment) reduces suicide rates significantly but only doing part of it doesn't reduce rates, and there's a US study suggesting the same. I personally know a few transgenders who have improved mentally after having the surgery, but that's a small sample size with no control group... There are also studies that suggest no notable change in suicide rates post-op. What I do know for most of Europe at least: the evaluation leading up to surgery is pretty intensive, but I would call the post-op care garbage... if it even existed, that is. It's clear that the surgery does not fix all issues; it fixes some and introduces a few new ones, all of which are still pretty poorly understood and very rarely addressed. But still, I have yet to meet a transgender having regrets after the SRS.
The suicide rate for post operation trans is off the charts. If being the other faux-gender was what they really needed and would fix all their problems why do they suicide at such a high rate?
Two reasons:
1) Mental issues like depression, that result from gender dysphoria. Those are not magically fixed by having the surgery.
2) The stress of living in society, post-op. It is hard, because it is hard for other people to understand why you would undergo gender reassignment surgery. Even people who know and love you can have a hard time dealing with it all. As a result, you'll be reminded every day that you aren't really who you wanted and tried to be. Not everyone will take something like that in stride.
There are many, many problems with Zerohedge, but the fact that they are Bulgarian isn't one of them.
they aren't funny, they aren't famous, they don't do anything, they just film themselves wandering around their OWN house
Sounds like most sitcoms, but some people find that stuff entertaining too. And maybe it is, sometimes. For a long time I wondered about people streaming themselves playing games and thought: "Why on earth would anyone watch that", but then I found out that some actually are genuinely entertaining, and funny in the way they play and narrate what they do. So if one of the peeps I watch playing the games that I like, states that this or that game is awesome, I might give his opinion a little bit more weight than a paid reviewer or some random punter in the street.
And maybe it works like that for those social media celebrities as well. If kids watch them because for whatever reason they enjoy watching what they wear, eat, buy, or how they behave in public, and if their friends are watching the same thing, then it's rather likely that they will try and emulate them to some degree. It's probably more effective advertisement than some sports bloke wearing a brand T-shirt: the kids might admire him but they do so for his athletic achievements, not for his lifestyle (although that particular line is rather blurred these days).
Goods and services. In other words: GDP
The value of a currency is related to its money supply vs. the size of the economy in which that currency is traded. For instance, if your economy grows you can print more money without incurring inflation. On top of that, the value is influenced by speculators who bet on changes of the value of the currency vs. other currencies or commodities. In case of real money, it's mostly the size of the economy and the money supply setting the price. In case of Bitcoin, is pretty much all speculation. All grossly oversimplified to be sure, but that's the main difference between the value of real money and Bitcoin.
That would be great. You could fit a 5 pin DIN connector next to that plug.
Skill based hiring would be a game changer if they'd apply it to upper management. For one, you'd get fewer people using words like "new collar"
Speaking of insurance, Dutch insurer Centraal Beheer made some rather funny ads. These were the sort of advertisements talked about at the water cooler, and shared with friends on YouTube. The kind of ads that people watch voluntarily... but even so, they still suck when they interrupt a movie or TV show.
Not on Android TV devices...
Besides, I prefer to pay for my content, especially if it's a more or less fair deal: get ads, or pay a reasonable fee to get rid of them. As soon as YouTube offered Red (or whatever they call it these days) in my country, I subscribed. We watch a fair amount of stuff on it.