Great! By turning off your cell phone in the ER, they know for sure you entered the ER and not just drove in front of it. Like the summary says, they can spam you for two months after you've visited an ER, so getting to you while in the ER may not be their top priority.
I thought I was sharing everything privately, but after reading the summary, I am not so sure anymore since I only saw one setting for setting privacy, not two.
By Australian mandate, do you mean the same thing that the Australian mandate did to the aborigines, separate children from their parents, make them work as maids and servants, and whip and rape them?
That's what San Francisco did before the Arizona accident. It specifically banned Uber back in December because its self-driving car ran a red light. See video (wait until the 10 seconds mark).
After that, Uber was allowed to test in California, just not in San Francisco. After the Arizona accident, Arizona, California, and one other State pulled Uber's permit to test cars on their public streets.
Now Uber can only do testing on its own private track with fake pedestrians and fake bicyclists, and I really doubt that it will ever be allowed to test its cars on the public roads in California again. Thankfully, there are 50 other self-driving car companies in the US. And in the San Francisco Bay Area, I now see 7 different types of self-driving cars which seem to multiplying in numbers, I just no longer see the Uber ones anymore.
The fact that he has a cult following is the reason he'll be successful. The Chevy Bolt is $30,000 after rebates, but a replacement battery which is only warrantied for 100,000 miles will cost $35,000.
This is the iPhone all over again. A Tesla model 3 is a lot sexier than a Chevy Bolt. And the Elon Musk cult really doesn't care how much it will cost to repair and maintain their model 3, even if they have to pay $35,000 multiple times.
The child has been missing now for 24 hours - the time taken for the parent to notice they didn't come home from school, call the school, let the school search and check their records, call the police, have the police send an officer over to collect full details, organise a local search, and finally conclude that the child should be declared potentially abducted and an amber alert issued.
First of all, Amber alerts (the ones in California) are not used for parental abduction unless the kid's life is really in danger. Otherwise, we would be inundated with such alerts. https://www.amberalert.gov/gui...
Also, an amber alert would never be issued for the details you mentioned. Your example doesn't contain nearly enough actionable information. For an Amber alert to be issued, the kid would need to be in immediate danger. Either, it's a 5-year-old kid that was seen walking out at night during freezing weather, or it's a kid that was seen abducted by someone in a car and the plate number was written down or captured by video.
In other words, an amber alert is just a text alert. It's very limited in the kind of information it can convey and it has to be sent out almost immediately after an event occured. And the authorities are not going to send out generic physical descriptions, because probably, they do not want private citizens to take it upon themselves to set up roadblocks and ask passers-by to open the trunk of their car.
They could just get a job at Apple. Apple has a clause in their terms of services against military use.
All top brass sees is maybe a 6 month setback hiring and training,
A 6 months delay before Skynet, I'll take it!
No, but seriously, even if their departure doesn't delay anything, they could just be happier going to work for someone else.
They obviously can't control what Google does, but they can at least control what they personally do as individuals. And just like Google can easily replace them, they can also easily replace their employer.
I completely agree. But there are times where Duplex could be useful.
"Ok Google, call the radio show. I need to be the 99th caller to win.", "Ok Google, buy me this ticket for this show before it gets sold out.", "Ok Google, call Xfinity, pretend that I want to move to AT&T unless they cut me a new discounted rate", "Ok Google, pretend you're an elderly woman and waste as much of this scammer's time as possible.", "Ok Google, please pick up whenever my mother-in-law calls. Tell her I am busy. Ask her what she wants and send me a summary of her complaints by SMS."
Most people who resell their car don't necessarily do it through the original dealership they used to buy the car. They either do a private sale, or they use a different dealership.
If the old owner is too clueless to go to a website to reset her account, what makes you think she'll go to an authorized dealership to do the same?
If this were a new drug or treatment or medical procedure they would be shut down.
Uber self-driving tests have been (mostly) shut down.
Uber makes it sound like they suspended their testing operations voluntarily, but the fact is they lost their testing permits in Arizona, California, and one other state.
And if there is any testing going now with Uber, it's only happening now in computer simulations, or in mocked up urban environments with fake pedestrians and bicyclists.
Google News lets you blacklist any news source you want from the "sources" tab, so if you dislike youtube that much, you can just add it to the block list.
Next time, please be direct with your allegations.
What you're implying is completely false. This does nothing to illegals. Illegals can not drive for Uber/Lyft. Period.
And this does nothing to legal immigrants either, for instance, refugees, that can prove they've been driving in the State with a State's driver's license for more than one year. Those will still be allowed to drive for Uber/Lyft (assuming they can maintain more than ~4.6 stars after they've given more than 50 rides, the exact cut-off point varies by areas, but below 50 rides, they're allowed to have a low star rating unless the complaints are really bad).
...as well as commanding his people do lots of overtime work to create various useful and helpful inventions.
Yes, not only he simultaneously invented both the "How to learn a new language in 4 hours" genre and the "For Dummies, Learn a new language in 10 days" genre.
"A wise man can acquaint himself with them before the morning is over; a stupid man can learn them in the space of ten days," the "Hunminjeongeum Haerye" says.
But I can easily tell he's the type of boss that tells you to do something that will take you realistically at least 4 months to do, but that only gives you 1 hour to do it in, thus forcing you to do unpaid overtime to make up the difference -- all the while berating you that you're constantly late at meeting his super short arbitrary deadlines.
King Sejong is a celebrated Korean ruler who can literally say he invented the alphabet. He was also one of two rulers in the country's history awarded the titles "the Great." Sejong the Great was the fourth king of the Joseon Dynasty, and ruled from 1418 – 1450.
He created 28 letters for a Korean alphabet. As time went on, revisions were made. Currently, 24 characters are used and are still under ongoing studies.
Government officials and aristocrats opposed the spread of "Hunminjeongeum," but they were outnumbered. The publication was completed in 1443 and approved in 1446. It spread among lower-class citizens, who were finally able to read and write.
After the publication of "Hunminjeongeum," longer documents followed. The next volume was called "Hunminjeongeum Haerye."
"A wise man can acquaint himself with them before the morning is over; a stupid man can learn them in the space of ten days," the "Hunminjeongeum Haerye" says.
And if this Korean historical drama is accurate (I personally have no idea if it is), I believe this is the same king who commissioned an architectural structure to serve as an almanac of the stars so that Korean farmers who couldn't read would know when to plant and harvest their crops.
You may have been downsized because of this, but don't believe all the hype. AI only helps partially. Youtube still needs human reviewers (even if they're unwilling to pay them).
Remember what prompted the advertiser pullouts last year, youtube was still incapable of filtering very obvious unambiguous swear and racist language from the text subject lines and the text descriptions of its hosted videos. To me, that just means that they didn't care, and/or that they were unwilling to pay for that kind of manual sifting by actual human beings.
For me, my biggest beef is not with the events themselves (his events are ok), but all the deceptive ways Calacanis uses to promote them.
If his contests said, the prizes include $10,000 of other's sponsors money + prestige + several chances (which may or may not come to fruition) for you to exchange a 6% financial stake in your future company in exchange for $100,000 (that Calacanis would still need to raise through his syndicate charging another 5% of any future gains to the investors themselves and that Calacanis would get back in part as well by charging you rent and other fees inside his incubator). Then, I would have no problem with that.
And sure, maybe he doesn't need to be completely upfront, this is marketing after all, and the guy has got to eat. But he shouldn't use words like 'prizes', or in this latest case, 'grants', those are explicit lies on his part. Those 'investments' of other people's money in exchange for a 6% ownership are neither of those things, they're neither prizes, nor grants.
No need to worry. Jason Calacanis is a publicity whore and little more than a con artist.
I've been to one of his hackathons before. They're huge. I'll give him that. He promises huge prizes from his own (supposed) fund, but then if you read the fine print, he reserves the rights not to offer any such prize to the winners if they don't meet his (unspecified) criteria. Plus in addition to that, should he select you, you have to give him a part of your future company in exchange for the prize money. No thank you, Jason. If you do go to his hackathons, make sure that the sponsors (other than him) are offering decent prizes. Do not believe in the BS he personally tries to sell you. If you represent a company interested in sponsoring a hackathon, my suggestion is that you sponsor other hackathons than his.
The event I was at ran out of food super quickly. Jason Calacanis begrudgingly ordered more pizza, but only after participants complained on Twitter that the event had no food. But you had to write something nice about him on Twitter and you had to show them your comment on your phone before you could get your slice of pizza. I kid you not. That's the kind of maturity you're dealing with when you're dealing with this guy.
You didn't read the last paragraph about blockchain.
Essentially, they want to do just what Russia did with its national assets.
Privatize them, give out shares to every citizen in the country, allow those citizens to trade those shares in an open market.
A few years later in Russia, all those shares held by the common people had been traded away to buy food or luxury goods. The real winners were the people with the cash who rounded up as much as those shares as possible. They had enough shares to take over the control of those companies and now those people are known as oligarchs. They were able to rob their country blind with this system.
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Speaking of which, there are probably ads that are geofenced around the Mar Lago golf course and the White House right now.
It shouldn't be difficult to reach the President. By all accounts, his travel schedule is mostly public and he's the only one with an insecure phone.
Great! By turning off your cell phone in the ER, they know for sure you entered the ER and not just drove in front of it. Like the summary says, they can spam you for two months after you've visited an ER, so getting to you while in the ER may not be their top priority.
Not me, I used VenMo for the convenience.
I thought I was sharing everything privately, but after reading the summary, I am not so sure anymore since I only saw one setting for setting privacy, not two.
By Australian mandate, do you mean the same thing that the Australian mandate did to the aborigines, separate children from their parents, make them work as maids and servants, and whip and rape them?
If I were a mayor or town manager I'd ban them.
That's what San Francisco did before the Arizona accident. It specifically banned Uber back in December because its self-driving car ran a red light. See video (wait until the 10 seconds mark).
After that, Uber was allowed to test in California, just not in San Francisco. After the Arizona accident, Arizona, California, and one other State pulled Uber's permit to test cars on their public streets.
Now Uber can only do testing on its own private track with fake pedestrians and fake bicyclists, and I really doubt that it will ever be allowed to test its cars on the public roads in California again. Thankfully, there are 50 other self-driving car companies in the US. And in the San Francisco Bay Area, I now see 7 different types of self-driving cars which seem to multiplying in numbers, I just no longer see the Uber ones anymore.
This is a fantasy and will never happen.
Why do you say that?
GM has no problem doing it with its Chevy Bolt.
Elon Musk is a religion.
The fact that he has a cult following is the reason he'll be successful. The Chevy Bolt is $30,000 after rebates, but a replacement battery which is only warrantied for 100,000 miles will cost $35,000.
This is the iPhone all over again. A Tesla model 3 is a lot sexier than a Chevy Bolt. And the Elon Musk cult really doesn't care how much it will cost to repair and maintain their model 3, even if they have to pay $35,000 multiple times.
The child has been missing now for 24 hours - the time taken for the parent to notice they didn't come home from school, call the school, let the school search and check their records, call the police, have the police send an officer over to collect full details, organise a local search, and finally conclude that the child should be declared potentially abducted and an amber alert issued.
First of all, Amber alerts (the ones in California) are not used for parental abduction unless the kid's life is really in danger. Otherwise, we would be inundated with such alerts. https://www.amberalert.gov/gui...
Also, an amber alert would never be issued for the details you mentioned. Your example doesn't contain nearly enough actionable information. For an Amber alert to be issued, the kid would need to be in immediate danger. Either, it's a 5-year-old kid that was seen walking out at night during freezing weather, or it's a kid that was seen abducted by someone in a car and the plate number was written down or captured by video.
In other words, an amber alert is just a text alert. It's very limited in the kind of information it can convey and it has to be sent out almost immediately after an event occured. And the authorities are not going to send out generic physical descriptions, because probably, they do not want private citizens to take it upon themselves to set up roadblocks and ask passers-by to open the trunk of their car.
Emotions don't have to make sense.
They could just get a job at Apple. Apple has a clause in their terms of services against military use.
All top brass sees is maybe a 6 month setback hiring and training,
A 6 months delay before Skynet, I'll take it!
No, but seriously, even if their departure doesn't delay anything, they could just be happier going to work for someone else.
They obviously can't control what Google does, but they can at least control what they personally do as individuals. And just like Google can easily replace them, they can also easily replace their employer.
We are creating a generation of sociopaths, who have inverted their priorities and have no notion of right or wrong.
We're talking about AI being used to control drones.
It's a slippery slope. At a certain point, those drones won't need any humans remote controlling them.
And those drones definitely won't "have any notion of right and wrong".
This problem is actually super easy to solve.
Insert random overlays that criticize the Saudis and the Saudi royal family.
Once that happens, the Saudis will censor the bootleg channel themselves. That's it. Problem solved.
No need to worry. His record will be sealed when he turns 18. No one will have access to it.
His school record, however, that's not going to look good to prospective colleges.
I completely agree. But there are times where Duplex could be useful.
"Ok Google, call the radio show. I need to be the 99th caller to win.", "Ok Google, buy me this ticket for this show before it gets sold out.", "Ok Google, call Xfinity, pretend that I want to move to AT&T unless they cut me a new discounted rate", "Ok Google, pretend you're an elderly woman and waste as much of this scammer's time as possible.", "Ok Google, please pick up whenever my mother-in-law calls. Tell her I am busy. Ask her what she wants and send me a summary of her complaints by SMS."
This works both ways.
If you're black, having one of those on your porch could help you when you're being harassed by neighbors or by the police.
Most people who resell their car don't necessarily do it through the original dealership they used to buy the car. They either do a private sale, or they use a different dealership.
If the old owner is too clueless to go to a website to reset her account, what makes you think she'll go to an authorized dealership to do the same?
If this were a new drug or treatment or medical procedure they would be shut down.
Uber self-driving tests have been (mostly) shut down.
Uber makes it sound like they suspended their testing operations voluntarily, but the fact is they lost their testing permits in Arizona, California, and one other state.
And if there is any testing going now with Uber, it's only happening now in computer simulations, or in mocked up urban environments with fake pedestrians and bicyclists.
Did you see the entire video? The street is very well lit all the way through, except at the point where the woman was crossing.
Google News lets you blacklist any news source you want from the "sources" tab, so if you dislike youtube that much, you can just add it to the block list.
Next time, please be direct with your allegations.
What you're implying is completely false. This does nothing to illegals. Illegals can not drive for Uber/Lyft. Period.
And this does nothing to legal immigrants either, for instance, refugees, that can prove they've been driving in the State with a State's driver's license for more than one year. Those will still be allowed to drive for Uber/Lyft (assuming they can maintain more than ~4.6 stars after they've given more than 50 rides, the exact cut-off point varies by areas, but below 50 rides, they're allowed to have a low star rating unless the complaints are really bad).
...as well as commanding his people do lots of overtime work to create various useful and helpful inventions.
Yes, not only he simultaneously invented both the "How to learn a new language in 4 hours" genre and the "For Dummies, Learn a new language in 10 days" genre.
"A wise man can acquaint himself with them before the morning is over; a stupid man can learn them in the space of ten days," the "Hunminjeongeum Haerye" says.
But I can easily tell he's the type of boss that tells you to do something that will take you realistically at least 4 months to do, but that only gives you 1 hour to do it in, thus forcing you to do unpaid overtime to make up the difference -- all the while berating you that you're constantly late at meeting his super short arbitrary deadlines.
King Sejong is a celebrated Korean ruler who can literally say he invented the alphabet. He was also one of two rulers in the country's history awarded the titles "the Great." Sejong the Great was the fourth king of the Joseon Dynasty, and ruled from 1418 – 1450.
He created 28 letters for a Korean alphabet. As time went on, revisions were made. Currently, 24 characters are used and are still under ongoing studies.
Government officials and aristocrats opposed the spread of "Hunminjeongeum," but they were outnumbered. The publication was completed in 1443 and approved in 1446. It spread among lower-class citizens, who were finally able to read and write.
After the publication of "Hunminjeongeum," longer documents followed. The next volume was called "Hunminjeongeum Haerye."
"A wise man can acquaint himself with them before the morning is over; a stupid man can learn them in the space of ten days," the "Hunminjeongeum Haerye" says.
And if this Korean historical drama is accurate (I personally have no idea if it is), I believe this is the same king who commissioned an architectural structure to serve as an almanac of the stars so that Korean farmers who couldn't read would know when to plant and harvest their crops.
You may have been downsized because of this, but don't believe all the hype. AI only helps partially. Youtube still needs human reviewers (even if they're unwilling to pay them).
Remember what prompted the advertiser pullouts last year, youtube was still incapable of filtering very obvious unambiguous swear and racist language from the text subject lines and the text descriptions of its hosted videos. To me, that just means that they didn't care, and/or that they were unwilling to pay for that kind of manual sifting by actual human beings.
For me, my biggest beef is not with the events themselves (his events are ok), but all the deceptive ways Calacanis uses to promote them.
If his contests said, the prizes include $10,000 of other's sponsors money + prestige + several chances (which may or may not come to fruition) for you to exchange a 6% financial stake in your future company in exchange for $100,000 (that Calacanis would still need to raise through his syndicate charging another 5% of any future gains to the investors themselves and that Calacanis would get back in part as well by charging you rent and other fees inside his incubator). Then, I would have no problem with that.
And sure, maybe he doesn't need to be completely upfront, this is marketing after all, and the guy has got to eat. But he shouldn't use words like 'prizes', or in this latest case, 'grants', those are explicit lies on his part. Those 'investments' of other people's money in exchange for a 6% ownership are neither of those things, they're neither prizes, nor grants.
No need to worry. Jason Calacanis is a publicity whore and little more than a con artist.
I've been to one of his hackathons before. They're huge. I'll give him that. He promises huge prizes from his own (supposed) fund, but then if you read the fine print, he reserves the rights not to offer any such prize to the winners if they don't meet his (unspecified) criteria. Plus in addition to that, should he select you, you have to give him a part of your future company in exchange for the prize money. No thank you, Jason. If you do go to his hackathons, make sure that the sponsors (other than him) are offering decent prizes. Do not believe in the BS he personally tries to sell you. If you represent a company interested in sponsoring a hackathon, my suggestion is that you sponsor other hackathons than his.
The event I was at ran out of food super quickly. Jason Calacanis begrudgingly ordered more pizza, but only after participants complained on Twitter that the event had no food. But you had to write something nice about him on Twitter and you had to show them your comment on your phone before you could get your slice of pizza. I kid you not. That's the kind of maturity you're dealing with when you're dealing with this guy.
An overreaching lawyer or an overreaching CEO, it doesn't matter to me who it is.
That person needs to be fired.
You didn't read the last paragraph about blockchain.
Essentially, they want to do just what Russia did with its national assets.
Privatize them, give out shares to every citizen in the country, allow those citizens to trade those shares in an open market.
A few years later in Russia, all those shares held by the common people had been traded away to buy food or luxury goods. The real winners were the people with the cash who rounded up as much as those shares as possible. They had enough shares to take over the control of those companies and now those people are known as oligarchs. They were able to rob their country blind with this system.