I followed Pebble pretty closely because they had a loyal app developer base and a major focus on battery life. I never did buy one though.
When the Pebble 2 and Core were announced, I just right on Kickstarter and pledged. The Core itself was an absolutely brilliant idea. It allowed you to get that cellular communication *when you wanted it* in a smaller package than a phone AND it didn't force the watch to become obnoxiously bulky. This was the holy grail solution for runners.
And then came the Fitbit announcement and refunds. And the sadness.
I had hoped that Fitbit would have adopted the Core idea at least, but I've seen nothing come if it. I still haven't purchased a smartwatch.
Back when I was at UC Irvine, the campus had come out with a donor marketing plan that many, many people found pompous and condescending. Check it out here: ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?... ). The general feel was "If you just see a normal every day object, you're an idiot."
The problem is that so many people have so much money "invested", that I don't think it will crash so much as slowly peter out over a couple years. Unless there's a major legal crackdown throughout multiple nations... that'll crash it right quick.
I've been building best-bang-for-the-buck, low-electricity, low-noise gaming PCs since 2005 when I left college and became wholly responsible for my own electricity bill. I've built ~4 since then with each computer lasting ~3 years before wanting to build another. When I caught wind of the new micro towers from MSI (Trident) and ASUS (GR8 II), thought to myself, "That's what I want next! If they can sell those for $1,000, I should be able to do it for $750 or less."
Boy was I wrong. Now, I was under no illusion that I would be able to get everything into a super slim case, but I thought I could get a mini case and all the same power. I priced it all out and I couldn't get under $1,300. The problem? The nVidia GTX 1060 3GB. Now, as the linked article expresses, this isn't a powerhouse card. It's a lower-end, lower-power (thus lower electricity consumption and lower heat) option that can still run everything I want to play with ease. It should be ~$150 right now. But the cheapest one on Newegg is $400 right now. The cheapest that PCPartPicker can find is for $320 at B&H. Amazon only has used cards.
It's looking like I'll have to go OEM or just wait for crypto currency to die to build a new PC.
Consider it: Within the public sphere of viewing (politics, entertainment, history), how is high intelligence portrayed? It's either evil or it's magic.
Your evil genius and mad scientist is a trope to be sure, but it's one that American's love. From Bond villains to Frankenstein and Doctor Moreau to Professor Moriarty, the idea that there's a fine line between genius and insanity (Sheldon Cooper) perpetuates the fear of very intelligent people.
And then there's a magical intelligence. Since American's can't stand (as a whole) to be told they need to know more than they do, they'll treat the high intelligence of people they like as magic. Consider the leader character from Numb3rs (Charlie Eppes)-- every time he would have an idea to use math to solve a case beautiful graphics of numbers and abstract equations would float around his head. If you don't see those numbers when thinking math, you probably can't do complex math (or so the trope suggests). Or consider two of the more well-known geniuses to the common man: Einstein and Tesla. Einstein myths include that he was been a poor student in school ("So, it's OK if you dropped out!") or that his ideas were so out there that only a handful of people could initially understand them ("And thus you're a genius for 'getting it'."). Tesla is mythologized to be a down-trodden genius whose most amazing discoveries are being covered up by conspiracy. He's embraced because people can control and mythologize him from the distance of history. Were he alive today and doing similar work, he would be labeled a mad scientist or fit into the exception below.
I think the only exception here is that Americans on both extremes of the political spectrum are both leaning toward more authoritarian preferences (wishing for benevolent dictators) and should a left-authoritarian party faction off, they may try to get Elon Musk to run for president because they correlate the developments of his companies' engineers to his own mental capability.
Americans really like their smart people, but they tend not to want them to lead because they may eventually display with ulterior (evil) motives. That's why they'd rather elect someone "who they could have a beer with" (Ronald Reagan, George W Bush-- even Obama made sure he had photographed conversations with people while drinking beers). They'd much rather very smart people be used as magical pets to be summoned to solve explicit problems in the safe confines of their cages. And they don't want the smart people to try to teach them anything. That would imply that the American public isn't already exceptional by virtue of being American.
The original purpose of the expense was for the vehicles to be used as "get around" cars. From the 2016 article:
"'The i3s will be used in a "non-emergency"' capacity — in other words, you won't likely see them engaged in high-speed police chases, but rather for basic department transportation needs and community outreach."
So they're not going to be used for beats and thus won't have the massive amounts of miles as the Crown Victorias, Taurus, Chargers, or Explorers. Moreover, you have to compare the EV mileage logs against the mileage logs of the internal combustion engine get-around cars. Lastly, with 21 police stations within the LAPD, that's FIVE of these vehicles per station and that's even if they were evenly distributed and not just placed where you could most easily install the EVSEs. That's a lot. There's very little gettting-around needed daily for most staff, so don't expect these to be used constantly.
Lastly, there's the cost of installing the Level 2 chargers. For non-fleet chargers (ChargePoint point of sale stations), you're looking at $4k-$7k per piece of hardware depending on your bulk negotiating skills. Then there's the cost of trenching out power, installation, and (god forbid) new actual electrical infrastructure like a transformer. That adds up quick.
To me, it looks like someone thought this would be a great feather in the cap for the Department, but I don't see any malfeasance. Public departments with large fleets are facing *massive* pressure to switch to hybrid, plug-in hybrid, electric, and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles. The public agencies really want to show their environmental sustainability (per public pressures) and the auto manufacturers know that only fleets can sufficiently bolster their alt-fuel divisions until the demand for those vehicles expand beyond the West Coast.
Seriously. How many are on the roads in NON-TESTING situations? Have you seen the testing reports? GM reports every collision they have with their autonomous vehicles in California to the state. (https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/dmv/detail/vr/autonomous/autonomousveh_ol316+) The others?
Do you know how your state would handle a collision involving a driverless vehicle? Who, as a person or corporation, is liable for damages if the driverless vehicle broke the law in does damage to something/someone?
Step away from the hype and futurism, let the researchers research, the engineers engineer, and tell the marketers to calm down because all the non-research oriented VC is in cryptocurrency right now. Autonomous vehicles will be here eventually, but if we can't even get automatic braking, dynamic cruise control, and lane assist all modern vehicles, then we're nowhere near having 100% autonomous vehicles on the road in any significant number.
Oh you and your sneaky use of percentages with very small values!
My favorite: "Did you you age slower and slower every year? True story. Going from 1 y/o to 2 y/o, you've increased in age by 100%. Going from 100 y/o to 101 y/o, you're aging only 1%. Isn't life amazing?"
If you're in California, you can get a $2,500 check from the State for purchasing a pure EV. It's simple.
If you're looking to capitalize on the $7,500 Federal tax credit, it's less simple. Since it's a non-refundable tax credit, you have to make sure you have a $7,500 tax bill at the end of the year. If you qualify for a $2,000 tax refund, then your $7,500 tax credit just poofed. You get nothing.
If you have a $2,000 tax bill, then $5,500 of your tax credit went up in smoke.
Thus, those who like to minimize the complexity of their tax bills don't like the Federal incentive because it means having to mess with tax withholdings in one year and then switch back to a previous setting for the next year. Thus, claiming the credits on a purchased EV is complex.
On the other hand, a dealership will claim the $7,500 tax credit on your behalf and reduce the cost of your lease by the same amount. Thus, getting the $7,500 value is easier and much more tangible for most consumers.
I think it comes down to market research not being done because companies would rather use market-ing to sell what they want to make.
I would like a smartwatch, but here's what I want from one without a smartphone being handy:
- Watch
- Heart-Rate Monitor w/heart-rate alarms (let me know when I'm out of my 130-170bpm range)
- GPS and route navigation synced from phone in advance (good for riding a bike in a new area)
- Activity Monitor with Interval Alerts (sometimes I want to run intervals, let me know when I've run.1 miles or some amount of time)
- MP3 Player (w/ 4GB+ storage)
- Bluetooth
- WiFi
When a phone is near, I want any automatic synchronization to happen periodic and infrequent (I don't need a battery burning out because it keeps telling my phone "He's still sitting"). I also want to be able force a sync.
I also want it to be no bigger than a classic watch (not these monster-sized watch faces that are popular today) and want 12 hours battery life with GPS and at least 24 hours w/o GPS running.
Depressingly, the Pebble Time2 and Pebble Core would have combined to bring all of this to fruition, but Pebble is no more. =\
Absolutely. I'm glad someone else sees it. If it's not an explicit pump-and-dump strat with this one particular company, then it's, at the very least, part of the greater pump-and-dump speculators plan for the entirety of crypto/blockchain. They're willing to partake because they know they have the massive amounts of small money investors in now and when some of the bigger money panics and pulls out, the rest of the big money will be able to sell quicker than the small investors who will be left with severely devalued cryptocurrency.
The bitcoin pump-and-dump is income redistribution from armchair speculators who don't understand the limits of their low-tier transaction speeds.
We all know about the issues with users being tracked along with profiles being made and identities sold, but I can't be the only one who automatically distrusts someone who sells a product tells me how dangerous the world is without their product. It reads too much like paid advertising. (https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/marketing-campaign-invented-halitosis-180954082/)
It's funny. The first part of your post is absolutely 100% rational. The vague use of a word that is re-definable per context for the purpose of restricting a fundamental human right (free speech) is too much and too far. I like the Supreme Court standard for restricting a fundamental right.:
- The restriction must be justified by a compelling/necessary/crucial governmental interest
== The compelling government interest would be to prevent the spread of prejudice and scapegoating akin to 1930s Germany. (Test Passed)
- The restriction must be narrowly tailored to achieve that goal or interest.
== Requiring internet companies to scrub the existence of content of an indeterminate nature, location, etc. is not narrowly tailored. (Test Failed)
- The restriction must be the least restrictive means for achieving that interest.
== I can probably think of lesser restrictive means of achieving the goal. Example: Create a system for "reporting and reacting" asking people to point out media online calling for the harming of another person or calling for the expulsion for any type of person. (Test Failed)
So that's all well and good, but then you vomit out that prejudicial shit from your gob in the second part of your post. You break my heart, semi-rational person!
Every big stretch of wildfires are caused by the same thing:
1. High winds
2. Low humidity
3. Unmanaged brush
4. Either a lightning storm or (more likely) some human doing something stupid (camp/bonfire, trash burning, arson, cigarette, etc.)
This year was particularly bad for both Northern and Southern California because this past winter's rain was so significant that it almost completely erased the multi-year drought. That means lots and lots of greenery growing in the spring and waiting to burn throughout the summer and fall.
I will question the validity of the statement "Enough that current modes of transit are inefficient and congested". Consider these modes that exist today:
- Walking, Bicycling (Transportation on demand, short distance, lowest cost)
- Bus, Bus Rapid Transit (Transportation by schedule along fixed routes, short to medium distance, low cost per person)
- Commuter Rail, Passenger Rail (Transportation by schedule along fixed routes, medium to long distance, medium cost per person)
- Carpool, Vanpool (Transportation by negotiated and variable routes and schedules, short to long distance, variable cost based on people per vehicle)
- Driving alone (Transportation on demand, short to long distance, high cost per person)
The only thing that's truly congested are roads/freeways (from personal automobiles) and rail lines (from freight and passenger/commuter rail having to share the same rails). Getting more people on buses for shorter trips would ease congestion on the roads which would make bus trips more convenient. Rail could be expanded to get passenger/commuter services off of freight lines, but as evidenced in California, the second you say you're going to build rail, speculators come buy up land and wait for their paydays.
Thus, current modes are not inefficient and congested. One particular mode (driving alone) is/congesting/ and the other modes are affected by said congestion. Get more people out of their cars and Musk's Boring Company disappears in a puff logic.
News Flash! Recently Discussed "Artificial Intelligence" Unmasked as Stock-Manipulating Hype
Yesterday, insiders from numerous think tanks and advanced computing companies came together to announce to the world that everything they've heard about Artificial Intelligence (or "AI") over the last few years has been false. "There are still no computers that can think unique thoughts on their own. It's all techno mumbo-jumbo and marketing speak to convince investors to invest in one company or the next. In fact, you may have been part of the entire effort to make AI seem more real.," said the spokesman for the group, Nerdy McSoontobejobless. "Chances are that you're in on the act, but just don't know it. If you've ever been asked to prove that you're 'not a robot' by selecting squares that include street signs, you're basically spoon-feeding an database algorithm what a sign is so that standard text-recognition software can figure out what the sign says."
"Oh ya," another representative amended, "Fully autonomous vehicles are still nowhere near ready for mass adoption. It's still going to be a decade or more until they're ready for personal ownership and, when they are, they're going to be extremely expensive."
The NASDAQ has dropped 15% since the announcement.
Because that's where the BIG inflation is coming from. People with multiple (business with hundreds) of Twitter accounts. I'm pretty sure Twitter were to release how many active HUMAN users there are in their system, their ad revenue just might take a nose dive.
Correct. Here's what the article headline/thesis should have been: "Anti-Semitism and Homophobia So Prevalent Online, Google's Sentiment Analyzer Finds Being Jewish/Gay Bad".
Electric Cars don't "emit" any greenhouse gases. That's why there's no tailpipe. However, their powersources may emit carbon and that is extremely variable per vehicle, not just per region.
That map divides the nation up into various regions as determined by their emissions profile for electricity generation. But the profile isn't uniform throughout the region. While I live in CAMX where it's estimated that each MWh is responsible for X metric tons of carbon, there's a big variation between customers of Southern California Edison and Pacific Gas & Electric. Moreover, there's a large amount of rooftop solar here. One of my former employees has 2 electric cars would get paid ~$11/month by SCE because of the electricity he was sending into the grid. Thus, his two EVs were responsible for ZERO carbon emissions.
Moral of the story: you can't compare apples to oranges. Just as the MPGe figure is a horrible way to describe EV "fuel efficiency", saying that an EVs "emit 50% less greenhouse gas" is a really bad statement.
It all comes down to enforcement of the traffic laws. It's useless having the laws if the majority of the population has thoroughly self-justified their ignoring the laws and no one is holding them accountable. I've worked with police officers. They hate doing traffic duty. It's boring and, to them, results in too many head aches (paperwork, ticket appeals, etc.). Moreover the city council and/or mayor get complaints when the police are slowing traffic and thus "keeping people from jobs" and "slowing commerce".
They're between a rock and a hard place when it comes to PR... but that'd the job. Enforce the damn traffic laws.
In a large organization, non-IT employees will outnumber IT members 100:1. IT members will be focusing on a billion different things throughout the day... but Janine in Accounting is freaking out because her monitor is flickering and Allen, her assistant, knows how to troubleshoot but got his head bit off the last time he unplugged a cable. So IT has to send someone over to give a once over and hear the bullshit from Janine about how this has completely ruined her day, etc.
Get to know Allen. Allen knows shit. He just doesn't code. Use Allen, don't hate on him.
Bring Allen in to meetings when discussing the new procurement system you're building for Accounting because he knows enough of the Accounting side and enough of the IT side to bridge the gap for both groups.
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I followed Pebble pretty closely because they had a loyal app developer base and a major focus on battery life. I never did buy one though.
When the Pebble 2 and Core were announced, I just right on Kickstarter and pledged. The Core itself was an absolutely brilliant idea. It allowed you to get that cellular communication *when you wanted it* in a smaller package than a phone AND it didn't force the watch to become obnoxiously bulky. This was the holy grail solution for runners.
And then came the Fitbit announcement and refunds. And the sadness.
I had hoped that Fitbit would have adopted the Core idea at least, but I've seen nothing come if it. I still haven't purchased a smartwatch.
Back when I was at UC Irvine, the campus had come out with a donor marketing plan that many, many people found pompous and condescending. Check it out here: ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?... ). The general feel was "If you just see a normal every day object, you're an idiot."
The problem is that so many people have so much money "invested", that I don't think it will crash so much as slowly peter out over a couple years. Unless there's a major legal crackdown throughout multiple nations... that'll crash it right quick.
I've been building best-bang-for-the-buck, low-electricity, low-noise gaming PCs since 2005 when I left college and became wholly responsible for my own electricity bill. I've built ~4 since then with each computer lasting ~3 years before wanting to build another. When I caught wind of the new micro towers from MSI (Trident) and ASUS (GR8 II), thought to myself, "That's what I want next! If they can sell those for $1,000, I should be able to do it for $750 or less."
Boy was I wrong. Now, I was under no illusion that I would be able to get everything into a super slim case, but I thought I could get a mini case and all the same power. I priced it all out and I couldn't get under $1,300. The problem? The nVidia GTX 1060 3GB. Now, as the linked article expresses, this isn't a powerhouse card. It's a lower-end, lower-power (thus lower electricity consumption and lower heat) option that can still run everything I want to play with ease. It should be ~$150 right now. But the cheapest one on Newegg is $400 right now. The cheapest that PCPartPicker can find is for $320 at B&H. Amazon only has used cards.
It's looking like I'll have to go OEM or just wait for crypto currency to die to build a new PC.
Consider it: Within the public sphere of viewing (politics, entertainment, history), how is high intelligence portrayed? It's either evil or it's magic.
Your evil genius and mad scientist is a trope to be sure, but it's one that American's love. From Bond villains to Frankenstein and Doctor Moreau to Professor Moriarty, the idea that there's a fine line between genius and insanity (Sheldon Cooper) perpetuates the fear of very intelligent people.
And then there's a magical intelligence. Since American's can't stand (as a whole) to be told they need to know more than they do, they'll treat the high intelligence of people they like as magic. Consider the leader character from Numb3rs (Charlie Eppes)-- every time he would have an idea to use math to solve a case beautiful graphics of numbers and abstract equations would float around his head. If you don't see those numbers when thinking math, you probably can't do complex math (or so the trope suggests). Or consider two of the more well-known geniuses to the common man: Einstein and Tesla. Einstein myths include that he was been a poor student in school ("So, it's OK if you dropped out!") or that his ideas were so out there that only a handful of people could initially understand them ("And thus you're a genius for 'getting it'."). Tesla is mythologized to be a down-trodden genius whose most amazing discoveries are being covered up by conspiracy. He's embraced because people can control and mythologize him from the distance of history. Were he alive today and doing similar work, he would be labeled a mad scientist or fit into the exception below.
I think the only exception here is that Americans on both extremes of the political spectrum are both leaning toward more authoritarian preferences (wishing for benevolent dictators) and should a left-authoritarian party faction off, they may try to get Elon Musk to run for president because they correlate the developments of his companies' engineers to his own mental capability.
Americans really like their smart people, but they tend not to want them to lead because they may eventually display with ulterior (evil) motives. That's why they'd rather elect someone "who they could have a beer with" (Ronald Reagan, George W Bush-- even Obama made sure he had photographed conversations with people while drinking beers). They'd much rather very smart people be used as magical pets to be summoned to solve explicit problems in the safe confines of their cages. And they don't want the smart people to try to teach them anything. That would imply that the American public isn't already exceptional by virtue of being American.
The original purpose of the expense was for the vehicles to be used as "get around" cars. From the 2016 article:
"'The i3s will be used in a "non-emergency"' capacity — in other words, you won't likely see them engaged in high-speed police chases, but rather for basic department transportation needs and community outreach."
So they're not going to be used for beats and thus won't have the massive amounts of miles as the Crown Victorias, Taurus, Chargers, or Explorers. Moreover, you have to compare the EV mileage logs against the mileage logs of the internal combustion engine get-around cars. Lastly, with 21 police stations within the LAPD, that's FIVE of these vehicles per station and that's even if they were evenly distributed and not just placed where you could most easily install the EVSEs. That's a lot. There's very little gettting-around needed daily for most staff, so don't expect these to be used constantly.
Lastly, there's the cost of installing the Level 2 chargers. For non-fleet chargers (ChargePoint point of sale stations), you're looking at $4k-$7k per piece of hardware depending on your bulk negotiating skills. Then there's the cost of trenching out power, installation, and (god forbid) new actual electrical infrastructure like a transformer. That adds up quick.
To me, it looks like someone thought this would be a great feather in the cap for the Department, but I don't see any malfeasance. Public departments with large fleets are facing *massive* pressure to switch to hybrid, plug-in hybrid, electric, and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles. The public agencies really want to show their environmental sustainability (per public pressures) and the auto manufacturers know that only fleets can sufficiently bolster their alt-fuel divisions until the demand for those vehicles expand beyond the West Coast.
Seriously. How many are on the roads in NON-TESTING situations? Have you seen the testing reports? GM reports every collision they have with their autonomous vehicles in California to the state. (https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/dmv/detail/vr/autonomous/autonomousveh_ol316+) The others?
Do you know how your state would handle a collision involving a driverless vehicle? Who, as a person or corporation, is liable for damages if the driverless vehicle broke the law in does damage to something/someone?
Step away from the hype and futurism, let the researchers research, the engineers engineer, and tell the marketers to calm down because all the non-research oriented VC is in cryptocurrency right now. Autonomous vehicles will be here eventually, but if we can't even get automatic braking, dynamic cruise control, and lane assist all modern vehicles, then we're nowhere near having 100% autonomous vehicles on the road in any significant number.
Oh you and your sneaky use of percentages with very small values!
My favorite: "Did you you age slower and slower every year? True story. Going from 1 y/o to 2 y/o, you've increased in age by 100%. Going from 100 y/o to 101 y/o, you're aging only 1%. Isn't life amazing?"
If you're in California, you can get a $2,500 check from the State for purchasing a pure EV. It's simple.
If you're looking to capitalize on the $7,500 Federal tax credit, it's less simple. Since it's a non-refundable tax credit, you have to make sure you have a $7,500 tax bill at the end of the year. If you qualify for a $2,000 tax refund, then your $7,500 tax credit just poofed. You get nothing.
If you have a $2,000 tax bill, then $5,500 of your tax credit went up in smoke.
Thus, those who like to minimize the complexity of their tax bills don't like the Federal incentive because it means having to mess with tax withholdings in one year and then switch back to a previous setting for the next year. Thus, claiming the credits on a purchased EV is complex.
On the other hand, a dealership will claim the $7,500 tax credit on your behalf and reduce the cost of your lease by the same amount. Thus, getting the $7,500 value is easier and much more tangible for most consumers.
I think it comes down to market research not being done because companies would rather use market-ing to sell what they want to make.
.1 miles or some amount of time)
I would like a smartwatch, but here's what I want from one without a smartphone being handy:
- Watch
- Heart-Rate Monitor w/heart-rate alarms (let me know when I'm out of my 130-170bpm range)
- GPS and route navigation synced from phone in advance (good for riding a bike in a new area)
- Activity Monitor with Interval Alerts (sometimes I want to run intervals, let me know when I've run
- MP3 Player (w/ 4GB+ storage)
- Bluetooth
- WiFi
When a phone is near, I want any automatic synchronization to happen periodic and infrequent (I don't need a battery burning out because it keeps telling my phone "He's still sitting"). I also want to be able force a sync.
I also want it to be no bigger than a classic watch (not these monster-sized watch faces that are popular today) and want 12 hours battery life with GPS and at least 24 hours w/o GPS running.
Depressingly, the Pebble Time2 and Pebble Core would have combined to bring all of this to fruition, but Pebble is no more. =\
Absolutely. I'm glad someone else sees it. If it's not an explicit pump-and-dump strat with this one particular company, then it's, at the very least, part of the greater pump-and-dump speculators plan for the entirety of crypto/blockchain. They're willing to partake because they know they have the massive amounts of small money investors in now and when some of the bigger money panics and pulls out, the rest of the big money will be able to sell quicker than the small investors who will be left with severely devalued cryptocurrency.
The bitcoin pump-and-dump is income redistribution from armchair speculators who don't understand the limits of their low-tier transaction speeds.
When you accept that they're not investors, but speculators, it all make sense. They're complicit in the pump-and-dump plan of this particular bubble.
We all know about the issues with users being tracked along with profiles being made and identities sold, but I can't be the only one who automatically distrusts someone who sells a product tells me how dangerous the world is without their product. It reads too much like paid advertising. (https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/marketing-campaign-invented-halitosis-180954082/)
It's funny. The first part of your post is absolutely 100% rational. The vague use of a word that is re-definable per context for the purpose of restricting a fundamental human right (free speech) is too much and too far. I like the Supreme Court standard for restricting a fundamental right.:
- The restriction must be justified by a compelling/necessary/crucial governmental interest
== The compelling government interest would be to prevent the spread of prejudice and scapegoating akin to 1930s Germany. (Test Passed)
- The restriction must be narrowly tailored to achieve that goal or interest.
== Requiring internet companies to scrub the existence of content of an indeterminate nature, location, etc. is not narrowly tailored. (Test Failed)
- The restriction must be the least restrictive means for achieving that interest.
== I can probably think of lesser restrictive means of achieving the goal. Example: Create a system for "reporting and reacting" asking people to point out media online calling for the harming of another person or calling for the expulsion for any type of person. (Test Failed)
So that's all well and good, but then you vomit out that prejudicial shit from your gob in the second part of your post. You break my heart, semi-rational person!
Every big stretch of wildfires are caused by the same thing:
1. High winds
2. Low humidity
3. Unmanaged brush
4. Either a lightning storm or (more likely) some human doing something stupid (camp/bonfire, trash burning, arson, cigarette, etc.)
This year was particularly bad for both Northern and Southern California because this past winter's rain was so significant that it almost completely erased the multi-year drought. That means lots and lots of greenery growing in the spring and waiting to burn throughout the summer and fall.
Proof that there are too many forum posts to be read by sufficiently knowledgeable staff.
I will question the validity of the statement "Enough that current modes of transit are inefficient and congested". Consider these modes that exist today:
/congesting/ and the other modes are affected by said congestion. Get more people out of their cars and Musk's Boring Company disappears in a puff logic.
- Walking, Bicycling (Transportation on demand, short distance, lowest cost)
- Bus, Bus Rapid Transit (Transportation by schedule along fixed routes, short to medium distance, low cost per person)
- Commuter Rail, Passenger Rail (Transportation by schedule along fixed routes, medium to long distance, medium cost per person)
- Carpool, Vanpool (Transportation by negotiated and variable routes and schedules, short to long distance, variable cost based on people per vehicle)
- Driving alone (Transportation on demand, short to long distance, high cost per person)
The only thing that's truly congested are roads/freeways (from personal automobiles) and rail lines (from freight and passenger/commuter rail having to share the same rails). Getting more people on buses for shorter trips would ease congestion on the roads which would make bus trips more convenient. Rail could be expanded to get passenger/commuter services off of freight lines, but as evidenced in California, the second you say you're going to build rail, speculators come buy up land and wait for their paydays.
Thus, current modes are not inefficient and congested. One particular mode (driving alone) is
I wish this itself could become a press release.
News Flash! Recently Discussed "Artificial Intelligence" Unmasked as Stock-Manipulating Hype
Yesterday, insiders from numerous think tanks and advanced computing companies came together to announce to the world that everything they've heard about Artificial Intelligence (or "AI") over the last few years has been false. "There are still no computers that can think unique thoughts on their own. It's all techno mumbo-jumbo and marketing speak to convince investors to invest in one company or the next. In fact, you may have been part of the entire effort to make AI seem more real.," said the spokesman for the group, Nerdy McSoontobejobless. "Chances are that you're in on the act, but just don't know it. If you've ever been asked to prove that you're 'not a robot' by selecting squares that include street signs, you're basically spoon-feeding an database algorithm what a sign is so that standard text-recognition software can figure out what the sign says."
"Oh ya," another representative amended, "Fully autonomous vehicles are still nowhere near ready for mass adoption. It's still going to be a decade or more until they're ready for personal ownership and, when they are, they're going to be extremely expensive."
The NASDAQ has dropped 15% since the announcement.
For the youngin's: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
This might be the least relevant Slashdot post I've ever seen. And I'm proud to be a part of it.
There's not even an argument for the abolition of the time change and the programming task ahead if such a decision is made!
Because that's where the BIG inflation is coming from. People with multiple (business with hundreds) of Twitter accounts. I'm pretty sure Twitter were to release how many active HUMAN users there are in their system, their ad revenue just might take a nose dive.
Correct. Here's what the article headline/thesis should have been: "Anti-Semitism and Homophobia So Prevalent Online, Google's Sentiment Analyzer Finds Being Jewish/Gay Bad".
Electric Cars don't "emit" any greenhouse gases. That's why there's no tailpipe. However, their powersources may emit carbon and that is extremely variable per vehicle, not just per region.
For context: https://www.epa.gov/energy/egr...
That map divides the nation up into various regions as determined by their emissions profile for electricity generation. But the profile isn't uniform throughout the region. While I live in CAMX where it's estimated that each MWh is responsible for X metric tons of carbon, there's a big variation between customers of Southern California Edison and Pacific Gas & Electric. Moreover, there's a large amount of rooftop solar here. One of my former employees has 2 electric cars would get paid ~$11/month by SCE because of the electricity he was sending into the grid. Thus, his two EVs were responsible for ZERO carbon emissions.
Moral of the story: you can't compare apples to oranges. Just as the MPGe figure is a horrible way to describe EV "fuel efficiency", saying that an EVs "emit 50% less greenhouse gas" is a really bad statement.
It all comes down to enforcement of the traffic laws. It's useless having the laws if the majority of the population has thoroughly self-justified their ignoring the laws and no one is holding them accountable. I've worked with police officers. They hate doing traffic duty. It's boring and, to them, results in too many head aches (paperwork, ticket appeals, etc.). Moreover the city council and/or mayor get complaints when the police are slowing traffic and thus "keeping people from jobs" and "slowing commerce".
They're between a rock and a hard place when it comes to PR... but that'd the job. Enforce the damn traffic laws.
In a large organization, non-IT employees will outnumber IT members 100:1. IT members will be focusing on a billion different things throughout the day... but Janine in Accounting is freaking out because her monitor is flickering and Allen, her assistant, knows how to troubleshoot but got his head bit off the last time he unplugged a cable. So IT has to send someone over to give a once over and hear the bullshit from Janine about how this has completely ruined her day, etc.
Get to know Allen. Allen knows shit. He just doesn't code. Use Allen, don't hate on him.
Bring Allen in to meetings when discussing the new procurement system you're building for Accounting because he knows enough of the Accounting side and enough of the IT side to bridge the gap for both groups.