An eInk display that updates every few seconds will not save you any power. These things only save power when you only turn the page every minute or two.
Given that this is a missile capable of hitting nearly anywhere in about 50% of the world, I highly doubt that it's low-tech enough that they don't know which direction it's going to go in.
Right, now we have an open standard byte code that any language can target, and any browser can implement, along with several competing implementations, and lots of eyes looking at the security of those implementations.
As far as I'm aware, no single scientific paper at all has been able to define what consciousness is in any way shape or form. Do you know somehow differently?
Net being able to brute force it, and it being a mathematical problem requiring no consciousness to devise a good strategy for, are not mutually exclusive concepts.
But pretty much every one of those sensors doesn't work as advertised, and instead starts turning things off because you sat still in bed for too long.
Quite the opposite. Google actually expected that the AI would lose a couple of matches while it learned the kinds of moves that a really top go player made, and then improve. I expect that no one will ever beat this AI unless they come up with a completely novel strategy for how to play Go, and even then, they're unlikely to win.
Of course there isn't - they're slowing the speed of the other services to 100GB per month, while not similarly slowing the speed of their own service.
The fact that "speed" is not measured across a second, but a month in this instance is irrelevant, it's still quantity of data per fixed amount of time.
If there are caps on their servers, but not on yours, then their servers are by definition slowed down. They can transfer a limited amount of data in a fixed set of time, yours can transfer an unlimited amount in the same time. Thus, theirs are slowed.
A human can self sustain on a smallholding, and stay alive. That gives us a reasonable lower bound on how much human labour is worth - you can build a house, farm, eat, and get by.
Lets see what $7.25 an hour (aka $15,000 a year at 40 hours a week) can get you. You can get a 6 pack of ramen for $2.19 at walmart, so that's $400 a year on food if you expect to eat a packet of ramen 3 times a day. Median one bed rent in the US is $1200 a month, so that's $14,400 on rent. To survive, you're going to need water and sewerage, so that's $200 a month to the local government - $2400. You're also going to need electricity to boil water for that kettle to eat your ramen, and basic heating, so call that $100 a month for the electric bill. Another $1200.
That's us at $18,400 *just* to eat ramen day in day out, doing nothing but that, sitting on a bare floor, staring at a wall while you're not out labouring.
In reality, what a human can produce on a smallholding is significantly better than a packet of ramen 3 times a day, so in reality, food will cost significantly more than that.
So we can pretty firmly establish here, no - human labour is *not* ever worth less than $7.25 an hour. Humans, even when doing the ultimate in unskilled labour, just literally doing nothing but scraping by surviving produce more value than $7.25 an hour. If you're trying to get someone to do something that's worth less than that, then you're actively making humanity less efficient, not more so. Minimum wage law preventing you from doing that is preventing you from making humanity worse.
They absolutely do try to put petrol car fires out, because they melt the tarmac underneath, and end up needing the road to be resurfaced if they don't get put out. They're relatively easy to put out - just need to throw foam at it.
Meanwhile, with lithium: 1) The fire burns hotter (around 600C rather than 450-500ish for petrol) 2) There's basically nothing you *can* put on it to put it out. Water will react with it, nitrogen will react with it, CO2 won't smother it, foam will react with it, dry powder can't smother it. About the only way you can put out a lithium fire is to bury it in sand, and that requires several dump trucks to somehow get near a 600C fire, and even then, you get a big blob of glass to clear up off a highway.
120F cars are not uncommon, even in not the south west. A car sat out on a 75F will be 120F inside in about an hour. On a 100F day it'll be 150F inside in the same time.
Which, given that these types of cars are pretty much exclusively commuter vehicles, and many workplaces provide plugs these days is pretty likely.
Generally, they're either sat at work, or at home, usually plugged in.
That's the big advantage of an electric car, no range anxiety, unlike with a petrol car. You never have to think about filling it up with petrol, because it just gets plugged in every time you stop.
Because it's really convenient to be able to start the air conditioning remotely, so that the car is already cool when you get in it. This is especially important with electric cars, where the power to cool the car down initially will then be drawn from the grid, not the battery.
She didn't badmouth them though. She announced what amount of money she was making. If the amount of money that they were paying her was embarrassing to them, then maybe they weren't paying her enough, even for their own peace of mind.
Her employer doesn't want her to do anything, they are offering her a job and a salary. She has to decide whether she can make ends meet. If she got roommates and lived frugally, it would be easy for her to live on that salary even in the Bay Area. If she wants her own apartment and her own car, the salary isn't enough and the job isn't for her.
Right, and when that salary is not enough to live, she has two options 1. Encourage them to offer her a higher salary 2. Find a different job.
She was carrying out 1, she probably had started on 2. I don't see why she should have been expected to act differently.
Okay, buy a non-Smart TV from Amazon instead... Shit, Amazon's into groceries now too. Uhhh.. Fry's I guess? There's plenty of non-grocery stores that sell non-smart TVs.
You realise that a lot of indians are second, third or nth generation Californians, right? California had *enormous* emigration from India, China and Japan in the early years. The fact that there's "nothing but indian faces" does not say anything at all about H1B abuse.
My personal experience at one of the very large tech companies in the bay area is that H1Bs are considered only for roles where it's really hard to hire a US citizen. Not necessarily because that's the rule (I'm sure that plays a large part), but instead, simply because it costs a frictin enormous amount to bring an H1B in:
To hire a European specialist, likely costs: 1) At least $170k a year, probably more - their wife won't be able to work, they'll use that as a bargaining chip and get a really good salary. 2) Even for a relative noob, who happens to have the rare skills you need, a substantial (read $150k RSU + $30k cash) hire on bonus 3) $12k to interview them - no really, that's how much it costs to fly someone across the atlantic without them being exhausted, and put them up in a hotel. 4) $24k to move them and their wife to the US assuming you hire them. 5) $10k to move all of their stuff across the atlantic in a shipping container. 6) $30k of relocation allowance and hiring of a relocation assistant, since they'll need to get started with a brand new car, or two, and probably re buy a whole bunch of furniture. 7) $10k to put them up in a corporate apartment in the bay area for a month and a half, while they find somewhere to live. 8) $10k to hire accountants to deal with their taxes for 2 years since you're about to make their life *incredibly* complicated in that department. Total: $130,000 + $150,000 RSUs + $170,000 a year
Compared to a native: 1) Probably a salary in the $130-150k region - there's much less risk for them. 2) A smaller hire on bonus - you don't need to give them a large enough pair of golden handcuffs to get them to take the risk of moving across a couple of states. 3) $1k to fly them in if you're unlucky. Probably $0, since such a huge amount of US talent is already in the bay area, or CA in general. 4) $10k to relocate them.
No company in their right mind is going to put themselves out to the order of basically a whole year's salary of an engineer just to put a US worker out of a job, especially when they can pay the US worker less in the first place!
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An eInk display that updates every few seconds will not save you any power. These things only save power when you only turn the page every minute or two.
Given that this is a missile capable of hitting nearly anywhere in about 50% of the world, I highly doubt that it's low-tech enough that they don't know which direction it's going to go in.
Because when there's only one single, or a very few implementations, that implementation gets rapidly stale and shitty.
See for example, Flash, and Java, or just with generic web techs... IE.
Add two implementations of generic web techs (i.e. Gecko and WebKit), and suddenly the quality has gone sky high.
Right, now we have an open standard byte code that any language can target, and any browser can implement, along with several competing implementations, and lots of eyes looking at the security of those implementations.
So yeh... HELL YEH, NOW THIS!!!!
What on earth makes you think you can say that?
As far as I'm aware, no single scientific paper at all has been able to define what consciousness is in any way shape or form. Do you know somehow differently?
Net being able to brute force it, and it being a mathematical problem requiring no consciousness to devise a good strategy for, are not mutually exclusive concepts.
But pretty much every one of those sensors doesn't work as advertised, and instead starts turning things off because you sat still in bed for too long.
Quite the opposite. Google actually expected that the AI would lose a couple of matches while it learned the kinds of moves that a really top go player made, and then improve. I expect that no one will ever beat this AI unless they come up with a completely novel strategy for how to play Go, and even then, they're unlikely to win.
Soap doesn't kill germs. All it does is makes oily substances more likely to be pulled along by water than they were before.
And thus how Aircraft bathrooms get in the state they do - everyone tries to use them without touching anything.
Of course there isn't - they're slowing the speed of the other services to 100GB per month, while not similarly slowing the speed of their own service.
The fact that "speed" is not measured across a second, but a month in this instance is irrelevant, it's still quantity of data per fixed amount of time.
If there are caps on their servers, but not on yours, then their servers are by definition slowed down. They can transfer a limited amount of data in a fixed set of time, yours can transfer an unlimited amount in the same time. Thus, theirs are slowed.
What makes you think that? How do you think they drive cooling water into the reactor?
A human can self sustain on a smallholding, and stay alive. That gives us a reasonable lower bound on how much human labour is worth - you can build a house, farm, eat, and get by.
Lets see what $7.25 an hour (aka $15,000 a year at 40 hours a week) can get you. You can get a 6 pack of ramen for $2.19 at walmart, so that's $400 a year on food if you expect to eat a packet of ramen 3 times a day. Median one bed rent in the US is $1200 a month, so that's $14,400 on rent. To survive, you're going to need water and sewerage, so that's $200 a month to the local government - $2400. You're also going to need electricity to boil water for that kettle to eat your ramen, and basic heating, so call that $100 a month for the electric bill. Another $1200.
That's us at $18,400 *just* to eat ramen day in day out, doing nothing but that, sitting on a bare floor, staring at a wall while you're not out labouring.
In reality, what a human can produce on a smallholding is significantly better than a packet of ramen 3 times a day, so in reality, food will cost significantly more than that.
So we can pretty firmly establish here, no - human labour is *not* ever worth less than $7.25 an hour. Humans, even when doing the ultimate in unskilled labour, just literally doing nothing but scraping by surviving produce more value than $7.25 an hour. If you're trying to get someone to do something that's worth less than that, then you're actively making humanity less efficient, not more so. Minimum wage law preventing you from doing that is preventing you from making humanity worse.
To be fair, your rockets also have a 100% failure record :D
Right, successfully inserting a communications satellite into geostationary orbit, exactly as contracted to do... Such a fuck up.
They absolutely do try to put petrol car fires out, because they melt the tarmac underneath, and end up needing the road to be resurfaced if they don't get put out. They're relatively easy to put out - just need to throw foam at it.
Meanwhile, with lithium:
1) The fire burns hotter (around 600C rather than 450-500ish for petrol)
2) There's basically nothing you *can* put on it to put it out. Water will react with it, nitrogen will react with it, CO2 won't smother it, foam will react with it, dry powder can't smother it. About the only way you can put out a lithium fire is to bury it in sand, and that requires several dump trucks to somehow get near a 600C fire, and even then, you get a big blob of glass to clear up off a highway.
To be fair, it's possible to put out a petrol fire. A lithium battery fire on the other hand, there's pretty much fuck all you can do about it.
120F cars are not uncommon, even in not the south west. A car sat out on a 75F will be 120F inside in about an hour. On a 100F day it'll be 150F inside in the same time.
Assuming you have the thing plugged in.
Which, given that these types of cars are pretty much exclusively commuter vehicles, and many workplaces provide plugs these days is pretty likely.
Generally, they're either sat at work, or at home, usually plugged in.
That's the big advantage of an electric car, no range anxiety, unlike with a petrol car. You never have to think about filling it up with petrol, because it just gets plugged in every time you stop.
Because it's really convenient to be able to start the air conditioning remotely, so that the car is already cool when you get in it. This is especially important with electric cars, where the power to cool the car down initially will then be drawn from the grid, not the battery.
She didn't badmouth them though. She announced what amount of money she was making. If the amount of money that they were paying her was embarrassing to them, then maybe they weren't paying her enough, even for their own peace of mind.
Her employer doesn't want her to do anything, they are offering her a job and a salary. She has to decide whether she can make ends meet. If she got roommates and lived frugally, it would be easy for her to live on that salary even in the Bay Area. If she wants her own apartment and her own car, the salary isn't enough and the job isn't for her.
Right, and when that salary is not enough to live, she has two options
1. Encourage them to offer her a higher salary
2. Find a different job.
She was carrying out 1, she probably had started on 2. I don't see why she should have been expected to act differently.
Okay, buy a non-Smart TV from Amazon instead... Shit, Amazon's into groceries now too. Uhhh.. Fry's I guess? There's plenty of non-grocery stores that sell non-smart TVs.
You realise that a lot of indians are second, third or nth generation Californians, right? California had *enormous* emigration from India, China and Japan in the early years. The fact that there's "nothing but indian faces" does not say anything at all about H1B abuse.
My personal experience at one of the very large tech companies in the bay area is that H1Bs are considered only for roles where it's really hard to hire a US citizen. Not necessarily because that's the rule (I'm sure that plays a large part), but instead, simply because it costs a frictin enormous amount to bring an H1B in:
To hire a European specialist, likely costs:
1) At least $170k a year, probably more - their wife won't be able to work, they'll use that as a bargaining chip and get a really good salary.
2) Even for a relative noob, who happens to have the rare skills you need, a substantial (read $150k RSU + $30k cash) hire on bonus
3) $12k to interview them - no really, that's how much it costs to fly someone across the atlantic without them being exhausted, and put them up in a hotel.
4) $24k to move them and their wife to the US assuming you hire them.
5) $10k to move all of their stuff across the atlantic in a shipping container.
6) $30k of relocation allowance and hiring of a relocation assistant, since they'll need to get started with a brand new car, or two, and probably re buy a whole bunch of furniture.
7) $10k to put them up in a corporate apartment in the bay area for a month and a half, while they find somewhere to live.
8) $10k to hire accountants to deal with their taxes for 2 years since you're about to make their life *incredibly* complicated in that department.
Total: $130,000 + $150,000 RSUs + $170,000 a year
Compared to a native:
1) Probably a salary in the $130-150k region - there's much less risk for them.
2) A smaller hire on bonus - you don't need to give them a large enough pair of golden handcuffs to get them to take the risk of moving across a couple of states.
3) $1k to fly them in if you're unlucky. Probably $0, since such a huge amount of US talent is already in the bay area, or CA in general.
4) $10k to relocate them.
No company in their right mind is going to put themselves out to the order of basically a whole year's salary of an engineer just to put a US worker out of a job, especially when they can pay the US worker less in the first place!