Sadly, for those of us in the United States at least, this will just give additional motivation for domestic ISP's to start capping monthly data at home. Also, with net neutrality on the ropes, they can try and extract their "cut" by forcing streaming services to pay up so that they can bypass data caps and bandwidth limitations.
researchers found that the parents weren't nearly as happy as they claimed they were. Their kids caused them all kinds of stress and unhappiness.
Perhaps its a distinction between joy and happiness? Joy being the macro positive feelings associated with being a part of something bigger (i.e. raising a child, building a legacy through them, satisfaction of ego, that weird love thing) versus happiness which is focused on the general condition of the person day to day (sleep deprivation, resource sacrifice, emotional and psychological strain, etc.).
While I agree with you that any strong ideology or just general identity is fundamentally weaponizable, I disagree that we are somehow moving away from it. People have simply replaced religion with ideology, nationalism and other equally powerful forces. It's not as clear perhaps, but it's still very much alive and well. Western liberal democracy and human rights for example: in my opinion, it is not some universal view but an ideology that is accepted and driven by large numbers of people around the world. Yet that ideology has been used, like any other group think, to rally people to arms, sometimes justly (battling fascists), sometimes through questionable means (battling Marxists with brutality in the third world for "the greater good"), sometimes through questionable sincerity (US interventionism in the post Cold War era from Kosovo to Iraq). All these things done under the banner of the Western Liberal Order that is now being challenged by Islamists, the Chinese, the Russians and others.
If you want to take a less extreme example, you can just look at domestic politics in the United States: passionate people who believe they are engaged in a life or death struggle to "protect the nation" from the "others (the Donald, the religious, the gays, SJW, facists, communists, etc.)" to stop a perceived evil (massacre of the unborn! trampling of civil liberties! oppression of people of color!) with some believing that more and more extreme tactics are needed.
It's hardwired into who we are as humans, and it doesn't take much at all to nudge people into action.
I'm sure in Uber's management, they're seeing these protests and simply accelerating research into automated vehicles. That was always the end-state for them after all.
The irony of all may just be that the anti-Trump "half truth" system is ramping up as speculation runs rampant on what Donald Trump will do as President. Trump has said a lot of crazy things, so it works because then you can start adding other things to take it a step further and make it sound even more extreme. A classic example of what I saw recently was one that Trump was going to start making Muslims wear yellow stars in public (a la Hitler and the Jews). The sourcing is false on that, it's "merely" going to be registering them and maybe given them ID cards, but why not just give it that extra nudge to give a cleaner Hitler comparison?
If you care about the country so much and you believe it fell into the wrong hands, then why not fight to take back the Congress in 2018 and the White House in 2020? That makes more sense than selfishly plotting secession which is guaranteed to break the back of the progressive movement you claim to love by withdrawing one of its core financial and political bedrocks from the system.
A seriously flawed comment working under the assumption that somehow people of Asian descent aren't American. Many of the "Asians" working there were born and raised in the United States, raised in the same institutions as all other Americans.
A lot of this is probably around coordinating together to shape governance policies and regulations. Before governments around the world get around to creating policies on AI, they establish a self-regulating body to preempt them with their own recommendations.
If you read the article, that's exactly what they're exploring: time limits and other ways to prevent monopolization. The wifi services, free calls, and maps are still enabled. This is just a temporary measure until they come up with a better solution.
LinkNYC says that it's working with city officials to come up with potential solutions, like time limits, so that it can allow users to browse the web once more. In the meantime, people will still be able to use the tablets to make calls and look at maps.
While the article is a good description of what's going on in the new gig economy, I don't think it fully fleshes out the fact that the labor terms like wages, fees, etc. are still being set by human beings. If Uber or UberEats changes the wages, it wasn't an algorithm that decided this, but it was a manager somewhere who set these numbers. This is really no different than if you had a traditional employer who hires you at a promise of one wage but then hides a little clause in your contract that allows him to lower your wage on his whim. Maybe its a necessity, like in the case where Uber can't seem to make any profit, but that doesn't mean it isn't exploitative or misleading at best.
No denying that the South was very nasty from the 1950s through the early 1982s, from Rhee to Park to Chun. Purges, massacres, and even a nuclear weapons program. However, trying to draw too many parallels doesn't work either because the patron states behind both regimes had very different approaches. Given Rhee's unsavoriness, fear of a Southern led invasion triggering global war, and the broader political instability in the late 1940s, the United States never really bothered to equip the ROK with the heavy weapons needed to wage an offensive campaign. At the start of the Korean War, their forces were pretty much a glorified gendarmerie, and the United States held the leash tightly to prevent a war. The Soviets on the other hand, had no restraints and fully equipped the North Koreans with the latest heavy weapons and green lighted an invasion.
Even as you go through the Cold War, the United States played a very careful balancing act, trying to prop up the South while actively constraining them from launching a reunification campaign (that could spiral into WWIII) and actively squashed any efforts by the South to become a nuclear state. The North has always been much more openly aggressive, maintaining a forward positioned posture and threatening invasion at every turn.
There's also still no overlooking that the South has evolved into a relatively liberal, democratic society that is a responsible global player. Whereas the North is still very much an old school totalitarian dictatorship which continues to flout international norms.
Geekdom is torn. On one hand, they dance at the setback for the loathsome empire of Zuckerberg and his Book of Faces. On the flip side, that same event is a horrible setback to the great Musk's efforts to colonize Mars.
This is the same Federal government that uses a mainframe system from the Kennedy administration in the 1960s to manage tax collection. If the USG can't upgrade a system that is responsible for its own core revenue generation, what makes you think they'll prioritize the FOIA system?
I don't think you understand what's been going on for the groups described. These are the populations that have born the brunt of the losses from globalization. They heard for decades politicians and elites promise that integration and globalization would benefit them while at the same time seeing their heavy industry shut down and outsourced, watched "foreigners" enter into the country increasing competition for unskilled work and depressing wages. They're bitter and cynical and no longer believe what the elites in London are telling them - yes, maybe their lot can get worse, but since status quo means continuing to stagnate or lose ground, from their perspective what do they have to lose in rolling the dice?
In many ways, Congress created this mess, and it's frustrating that it's not getting more reporting. Back in 2013, TSA had 47,000 screening agents. Today, it has 42,000, a reduction in about 5,000 screeners. This reduction is a very large part of why TSA lines have gotten worse this year - fewer agents despite a trend of steadily increasing passenger traffic year-over-year. Why did they cut the number of screeners? Because since 2013, Congress diverted $13B of the 9/11 fee on airline tickets to spend on unrelated budget items. So it's no surprise that TSA screening times and quality have dropped: if you cut funding, which leads to 10% headcount reductions, it's not a big surprise that screening times increase.
I think your comment misses the point of why Apple is so attractive. It's not simply the form factor of the macbook, but its the entire ecosystem. That's why a lot of people are so loyal to it; one of Apple's great strengths is their ability to seamlessly integrate the different pieces of their hardware universe into a clean, unified experience. There are plenty of products with better form factors or raw technical stats for more affordable prices, but Apple commands their premium because if you're inside their ecosystem, you can move between devices with little trouble, especially compared to other alternatives, particularly Windows and Linux.
Yet it's not just money, it's also freedom from a very large and highly restrictive bureaucracy. Believe it or not, a lot of people don't mind the money persay, but they may get frustrated with the slow moving and extremely cumbersome government machinery which may not even recognize them well for what they do. If a consulting company like BRG offers them a chance to serve the country but with the greater freedom offered by a private company, I could see them jumping ship.
WMATA did an inspection of the jumper cables back in February 2015 and then replaced around 120 or so. They probably thought the problem was resolved at that point. Unfortunately, a new fire earlier this week revealed that the problem has not been resolved.
An interesting case study is the one of South Korea, which until 2009, the largest bill was the 10K Won note (~$8 USD). Banks would actually issue banker checks in denominations of 100K Won in order to fill the need. That said, in 2009, South Korea began to issue a 50K Won note (~$40 USD). What's interesting is that the collection rates of the notes has dropped down to about 27%, much lower than the 80-90% collection rate on other denominations. However, most Koreans believe that the large bills are being "pulled" out of circulation by the "underground economy" - basically under-the-table cash transactions which can be innocent (people hoarding cash) to gray (small businesses underreporting cash earnings for tax evasion), and black (corruption and criminal slush funds). It's a huge issue in Korea, where the underground economy is estimated between 17-25% of GDP... basically, a large chunk of the economy untaxed and regulated. The collection rate had peaked around 61.7% but dropped when the government began to more aggressively pursue tax dodgers. Short news article here andhere. Information on the underground economy here.
You have it backwards. When China was poor but growing, the government only had to grow the economy, and people are forgiving on other things for the sake of making a better economic life. Now however, with China prosperous, people want to improve the quality of life - "public goods" as political scientists call it. They want cleaner governance and a reduction in graft, fair and impartial justice, regulations of things like food safety, social safety nets, government that better responds to local needs, social liberalization, etc. These are interlocking demands that require greater transparency and accountability of the government... things that while possible even under the Chinese one party system, would still require senior CCP members to give up their lucrative side businesses and constrain their activities which is very, very hard to do.
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Sadly, for those of us in the United States at least, this will just give additional motivation for domestic ISP's to start capping monthly data at home. Also, with net neutrality on the ropes, they can try and extract their "cut" by forcing streaming services to pay up so that they can bypass data caps and bandwidth limitations.
Sounds like the Pluto debate of anatomy - is it an organ or a mere set of membranes?
researchers found that the parents weren't nearly as happy as they claimed they were. Their kids caused them all kinds of stress and unhappiness.
Perhaps its a distinction between joy and happiness? Joy being the macro positive feelings associated with being a part of something bigger (i.e. raising a child, building a legacy through them, satisfaction of ego, that weird love thing) versus happiness which is focused on the general condition of the person day to day (sleep deprivation, resource sacrifice, emotional and psychological strain, etc.).
While I agree with you that any strong ideology or just general identity is fundamentally weaponizable, I disagree that we are somehow moving away from it. People have simply replaced religion with ideology, nationalism and other equally powerful forces. It's not as clear perhaps, but it's still very much alive and well. Western liberal democracy and human rights for example: in my opinion, it is not some universal view but an ideology that is accepted and driven by large numbers of people around the world. Yet that ideology has been used, like any other group think, to rally people to arms, sometimes justly (battling fascists), sometimes through questionable means (battling Marxists with brutality in the third world for "the greater good"), sometimes through questionable sincerity (US interventionism in the post Cold War era from Kosovo to Iraq). All these things done under the banner of the Western Liberal Order that is now being challenged by Islamists, the Chinese, the Russians and others.
If you want to take a less extreme example, you can just look at domestic politics in the United States: passionate people who believe they are engaged in a life or death struggle to "protect the nation" from the "others (the Donald, the religious, the gays, SJW, facists, communists, etc.)" to stop a perceived evil (massacre of the unborn! trampling of civil liberties! oppression of people of color!) with some believing that more and more extreme tactics are needed.
It's hardwired into who we are as humans, and it doesn't take much at all to nudge people into action.
I'm sure in Uber's management, they're seeing these protests and simply accelerating research into automated vehicles. That was always the end-state for them after all.
The irony of all may just be that the anti-Trump "half truth" system is ramping up as speculation runs rampant on what Donald Trump will do as President. Trump has said a lot of crazy things, so it works because then you can start adding other things to take it a step further and make it sound even more extreme. A classic example of what I saw recently was one that Trump was going to start making Muslims wear yellow stars in public (a la Hitler and the Jews). The sourcing is false on that, it's "merely" going to be registering them and maybe given them ID cards, but why not just give it that extra nudge to give a cleaner Hitler comparison?
If you care about the country so much and you believe it fell into the wrong hands, then why not fight to take back the Congress in 2018 and the White House in 2020? That makes more sense than selfishly plotting secession which is guaranteed to break the back of the progressive movement you claim to love by withdrawing one of its core financial and political bedrocks from the system.
A seriously flawed comment working under the assumption that somehow people of Asian descent aren't American. Many of the "Asians" working there were born and raised in the United States, raised in the same institutions as all other Americans.
A lot of this is probably around coordinating together to shape governance policies and regulations. Before governments around the world get around to creating policies on AI, they establish a self-regulating body to preempt them with their own recommendations.
LinkNYC says that it's working with city officials to come up with potential solutions, like time limits, so that it can allow users to browse the web once more. In the meantime, people will still be able to use the tablets to make calls and look at maps.
While the article is a good description of what's going on in the new gig economy, I don't think it fully fleshes out the fact that the labor terms like wages, fees, etc. are still being set by human beings. If Uber or UberEats changes the wages, it wasn't an algorithm that decided this, but it was a manager somewhere who set these numbers. This is really no different than if you had a traditional employer who hires you at a promise of one wage but then hides a little clause in your contract that allows him to lower your wage on his whim. Maybe its a necessity, like in the case where Uber can't seem to make any profit, but that doesn't mean it isn't exploitative or misleading at best.
No denying that the South was very nasty from the 1950s through the early 1982s, from Rhee to Park to Chun. Purges, massacres, and even a nuclear weapons program. However, trying to draw too many parallels doesn't work either because the patron states behind both regimes had very different approaches. Given Rhee's unsavoriness, fear of a Southern led invasion triggering global war, and the broader political instability in the late 1940s, the United States never really bothered to equip the ROK with the heavy weapons needed to wage an offensive campaign. At the start of the Korean War, their forces were pretty much a glorified gendarmerie, and the United States held the leash tightly to prevent a war. The Soviets on the other hand, had no restraints and fully equipped the North Koreans with the latest heavy weapons and green lighted an invasion.
Even as you go through the Cold War, the United States played a very careful balancing act, trying to prop up the South while actively constraining them from launching a reunification campaign (that could spiral into WWIII) and actively squashed any efforts by the South to become a nuclear state. The North has always been much more openly aggressive, maintaining a forward positioned posture and threatening invasion at every turn.
There's also still no overlooking that the South has evolved into a relatively liberal, democratic society that is a responsible global player. Whereas the North is still very much an old school totalitarian dictatorship which continues to flout international norms.
Geekdom is torn. On one hand, they dance at the setback for the loathsome empire of Zuckerberg and his Book of Faces. On the flip side, that same event is a horrible setback to the great Musk's efforts to colonize Mars.
Simple: driverless cars. Survive long enough to get driverless cars perfected, dump your largest cost (driver pay), and there you go.
This is the same Federal government that uses a mainframe system from the Kennedy administration in the 1960s to manage tax collection. If the USG can't upgrade a system that is responsible for its own core revenue generation, what makes you think they'll prioritize the FOIA system?
And we criticise China?
The big difference is that in the UK, you can turn off the porn filter at home. In China, you don't have a choice in disabling the Great Firewall.
I don't think you understand what's been going on for the groups described. These are the populations that have born the brunt of the losses from globalization. They heard for decades politicians and elites promise that integration and globalization would benefit them while at the same time seeing their heavy industry shut down and outsourced, watched "foreigners" enter into the country increasing competition for unskilled work and depressing wages. They're bitter and cynical and no longer believe what the elites in London are telling them - yes, maybe their lot can get worse, but since status quo means continuing to stagnate or lose ground, from their perspective what do they have to lose in rolling the dice?
In many ways, Congress created this mess, and it's frustrating that it's not getting more reporting. Back in 2013, TSA had 47,000 screening agents. Today, it has 42,000, a reduction in about 5,000 screeners. This reduction is a very large part of why TSA lines have gotten worse this year - fewer agents despite a trend of steadily increasing passenger traffic year-over-year. Why did they cut the number of screeners? Because since 2013, Congress diverted $13B of the 9/11 fee on airline tickets to spend on unrelated budget items. So it's no surprise that TSA screening times and quality have dropped: if you cut funding, which leads to 10% headcount reductions, it's not a big surprise that screening times increase.
I think your comment misses the point of why Apple is so attractive. It's not simply the form factor of the macbook, but its the entire ecosystem. That's why a lot of people are so loyal to it; one of Apple's great strengths is their ability to seamlessly integrate the different pieces of their hardware universe into a clean, unified experience. There are plenty of products with better form factors or raw technical stats for more affordable prices, but Apple commands their premium because if you're inside their ecosystem, you can move between devices with little trouble, especially compared to other alternatives, particularly Windows and Linux.
Designers say the new game explores the endless paperwork, routine patrolling a modern day soldier endures in photorealistic detail.
Yet it's not just money, it's also freedom from a very large and highly restrictive bureaucracy. Believe it or not, a lot of people don't mind the money persay, but they may get frustrated with the slow moving and extremely cumbersome government machinery which may not even recognize them well for what they do. If a consulting company like BRG offers them a chance to serve the country but with the greater freedom offered by a private company, I could see them jumping ship.
The debate about "autopilot" versus "fully autonomous" is a very real concern, validated by Tesla drivers themselves. You have drivers that stop paying attention to the speed limit, abuse autodrive to violate traffic laws, take their hands off the steering wheel, or just climb into the back seat and let the car drive itself creates not just a danger for the Tesla driver but for every car on the road. This despite Tesla's insistence that people must still stay at the wheel and drive; the technology has advanced enough that people get a false sense of confidence to push the limits even if the technology is not truly ready for it. That's the point that the Volvo engineer is making.
WMATA did an inspection of the jumper cables back in February 2015 and then replaced around 120 or so. They probably thought the problem was resolved at that point. Unfortunately, a new fire earlier this week revealed that the problem has not been resolved.
An interesting case study is the one of South Korea, which until 2009, the largest bill was the 10K Won note (~$8 USD). Banks would actually issue banker checks in denominations of 100K Won in order to fill the need. That said, in 2009, South Korea began to issue a 50K Won note (~$40 USD). What's interesting is that the collection rates of the notes has dropped down to about 27%, much lower than the 80-90% collection rate on other denominations. However, most Koreans believe that the large bills are being "pulled" out of circulation by the "underground economy" - basically under-the-table cash transactions which can be innocent (people hoarding cash) to gray (small businesses underreporting cash earnings for tax evasion), and black (corruption and criminal slush funds). It's a huge issue in Korea, where the underground economy is estimated between 17-25% of GDP... basically, a large chunk of the economy untaxed and regulated. The collection rate had peaked around 61.7% but dropped when the government began to more aggressively pursue tax dodgers. Short news article here andhere. Information on the underground economy here.
You have it backwards. When China was poor but growing, the government only had to grow the economy, and people are forgiving on other things for the sake of making a better economic life. Now however, with China prosperous, people want to improve the quality of life - "public goods" as political scientists call it. They want cleaner governance and a reduction in graft, fair and impartial justice, regulations of things like food safety, social safety nets, government that better responds to local needs, social liberalization, etc. These are interlocking demands that require greater transparency and accountability of the government... things that while possible even under the Chinese one party system, would still require senior CCP members to give up their lucrative side businesses and constrain their activities which is very, very hard to do.