it's the artists and record companies who want them to be counted like this. and who's to say they aren't actually listening to it?
the thing that will happen sooner or later is just going to go so that an account can either listen a song for only say 5-10 times in a day or any listens after that don't generate any royalties or chart advancement.
which way it goes depends on artists.
that's a problem with an all you can eat streaming service that pays per plays. from consumer side, why shouldn't they be able to stream the same song 24/7 if they want? from artist side, why shouldn't they get paid for those?
1/3rd of the price at same weight would already be something. even electrek.co advices to remain skeptical about new battery innovations, and that sites trash.
Even if the energy density per size of a lipo cell is already pretty dang high.
Besides, for cars the density isn't even now so much important. take a look at a tesla battery pack. how much of it is not battery? quite a lot!
the weight and safety and most importantly PRICE is the key for making a better battery technology for a car. there's just so much of these announcements that it's really hard to take any of them seriously - and frankly, we shouldn't even care before they have a production line running. they do these media announcements to boost up their visibility to have something to show to potential investors. the smart money doesn't care two fucks if it's featured on wallstreet times or whatever though - they care if it a) works b) can be produced at a good cost.
this makes it an automatic suspect when they go for high media visibility - because really, in their line of technology it's not needed. for actual breakthrough there's several billions of parked cash waiting to be dumped on it to bring some factory online. without any need to shoot for media visibility to get some investors onboard to keep the company going.
this.. this discussion about how should you teach or control or whatever ai is like two parents discussion what rules should they give their kid, before they even know how to fuck.
look, this stupid fucking discussion has been going in CIRCLES FOR FUCKING FIFTY YEARS - "researchers" and "experts" like to do this discussion because it's about 12312 times easier than actually trying to create an actual AI.
the institutions for this are also fabricated - and you know what they're fabricated for? FUCKING SWINDLING MONEY. these issues have been BEATEN TO FUCKING DEATH IN SPECULATIVE FICTION FOR FIFTY YEARS so much that NOBODY FUCKING CARES ABOUT STORIES ABOUT THEM.
what do you think 90% of the 2001 space odyssey is? it's the same fucking discussion - safety is in the eye of the guy giving the objectives to.
meanwhile "ai" is getting up, but it's really always just a complicated pattern matching algorithm. but they call it ai, because that sells.
ai is just the fuzzy logic of 2010's. it's gone as far that people are hyping up decision algorithms modeled in excel as artificial intelligence. the fuck does an excel sheet need cultural context for? it doesn't.
what pisses me off is all these people profiting/fleecing people way ahead of time. they won't have actual ai during their lifetime yet they feel like they should market themselves as true experts - on something they have no idea how it would even work, so they just equalize it with something like a wunderkin. it makes as much practical sense as debabating what would be the best daily routines for an angel in heaven so that earth would stay a happy place.
The whole idea is that when the drug would be free to be made by "small pharma" the "big pharma" has it declared illegal or no longer prescribed, preferably just outright illegal, which leads to the drug cartels.
Then there's less competition on the open market and big pharma can have the government fight their competition.
why do you think they come up with a new opioid every x years?
you think he didn't know the brass was leaving? now he can blame the stock drop on this and up play this while the situation cools down.
the real questions are: is model 3 profitable? why nobody wants to sign off on your bookkeeping shenigans? have you learn't anything about using twitter as an official way to communicate news that affect stock price, since you're banning people?
do you know how big of a crock it was to just casually announce all stocks being worth 420 - and now they're sub 300?
smoking the weed has nothing to do with being years late from profitability. you can only run a company only on your public image for so long. only tweet extravagant ideas lifted from ancient popular mechanics for so long.
the stock tanked due to persons privvy to the books running out like the house was on fire. the big thing people want and need to know out of those books is if they're getting money into the company from making and selling the model 3's. that they don't sell the cheapo model because it wouldn't make money doesn't really put that much confidence into it.
anyhow, for some funnies you can watch some investment advice youtube channels from few days back.
the cars are good/okay yes - but whats that got to do with the company making money or not?
Pretty sure there is plenty of profit in taking in a 4 figure sum amount of money in order to have some magic eyes(who are already getting funding as well from other sources!) look it through and put something on a website in addition to printing it on paper and sending it to people where it gets further peer review.
Some open access papers manage to do it for under 30 bucks. Actual peer review starts after it's published anyways.
the real reason they have been able to churn profits with them is the back catalog of papers, which are essential if you intend to publish anything in them, due to being referenced and being able to reference are the most important things ever, rather than explaining the process or proof from start to finish.
basically they have been getting paid twice already while holding the data as hostage.
Sure, there is a "need" for the journals but that's due to tradition more than anything and more than anything a tradition of your funding being tied to publishing in those journals - they are only used for scoring points in a system that the journals have had control over.
Like, can someone explain to me why a solidly done paper just published on an university webserver doesn't have the same impact? I mean, if it's like an actual new scientific discovery worth anyone getting their socks twisted over with properly documented steps to reproduce it, how is it any less solid than if it was published in Nature?
if someone came up with a cold fusion that _actually_ worked(fat chance) then what difference would it be where it was published or how many other papers it referenced to?
Somehow I can find better information on youtube on plating plastics with copper than on the scientific journals? so what gives, are they already going the way of the dodo. They seem just to be a points system now in order to gain access to proper laboratories later with those points to make discoveries you vaguely patent(not publish properly, mind you. modern patents are shit for reproducing the device or process, on purpose no less) later.
gun plans aren't illegal unless dod is evaluating them for use or something like that. they're not illegal even in countries with very tight gun laws.
manufacturing guns isn't illegal either in usa as long as you register it. it's really perplexing from what angle the judge is looking at this. besides than that what constitutes as the "gun" in usa is fairly fucked up to begin with.
furthermore, it's a really shitty gun and walmart sells everything needed for a better gun and ammo to go with it.
the right to bear arms refers specifically to military arms. not just guns, but everything that a military unit uses for warfare. battleships are arms. nuclear weapons are arms. guided missiles are arms. bows are arms. cannons are arms. rifled artillery pieces are arms. tanks are arms. the reason was quite simply that they didn't want to give the arms to the government, because the guys who came up with said amendment had their own military units.
I'm not american, so whatever, but that amendment hasn't been honored since the '20s and it's really fucking stupid to bring it up everytime gun control comes up since it really hasn't been in effect since fucking forever now. maybe if you want to actually control arms then take the amendment out. it's really simple for congress to do - but having it there and not honoring it makes all the amendments seem like jokes.
maybe they should just have studied how long those animals can stay alive without feeding.
and are the high metabolism(warm blooded animals) just evolving more quickly to combat it, thus going "extinct" as well at a higher rate, thus doing _everything_ at a higher rate ?
that has been on the table for 50 years. FIFTY YEARS yet there has been nothing to actually apply it to.
now what they need is MARKETING ETHICS as that's where it really is needed, the act of selling something thats not as self driving as self driving and so forth - there is actually no need to ponder should it hit a deer or a truck in a case it had to choose.
also marketing ethics about ai. ai just means information technology now. fucking excel sheets are sold as AI. anything making binary choices is being now sold as AI.
so these AI ethicists, robot rights experts etc - they're just selling bullshit. they want a cheque and way to get it is just to bullshit. that's what we need critical thinking against in the media.
the signing keys are only helpful for hacking phones that are already connected to a network and fetching updates.
and that's not what this is about anyways, this is about government wanting you to have encryption on your phone that is flawed by design, nothing more. if 10000 departments in usa would have boxes to decrypt your phones.. well, you might just as well not encrypt your phone in the first place since people who steal phones would also have those boxes.
Getting certified to bundle the google stuff is not free, including appstore. so installing a googlefied android is not free today - you're paying for it. and 1% of license fee for that stuff on top of what is already being paid(and agreed in backroom licensing deals!!).
it's not like you can just download android and start selling your device with google apps included without paying in one way or another. you are already paying in the phone price for that.
that wouldn't really change if they(device manufacturers, operators) wanted to keep any of the google packages installed, even if they wanted to bundle something else as default apps.. if they think someone would buy their device without googles appstore, then sure, they can just unbundle all of the google stuff right now today.
you think samsung is using android for free? fuck no, no. it's not free in the way google is implying here on making it not-free.
it's what they told us that we wanted because IT IS CHEAPER TO MAKE IT LIKE THIS. there's more profit. it's just cost optimizing while making it more expensive.
we didn't ask for unexpandable everything maximally cost minimized crap that in theory might work faster than the previous model in some situation if it's stuck in a freezer.
Microsoft is the brand. it started out as a MODEL. a specific name for a specific thing, namely just the table. then they released the tablets and started pretending the table never existed.
never mind that surface and surface pro weren't software compatible. surface go and surface pro are. that's the first surface pro, not the 2017 surface pro by the way. but they're sw compatible. surface 3 isn't. surface 3 pro is sw compatible with the pro.
I've seen supposed professionals get bitten by buying the windows rt versions...
and you think surface connect is the same as surface connect(the connector) ? of course not.
and which ones you can use the surface dial with? with surface pro or with surface pro? yes, with the surface pro. not with the another.
how the hell is tesla at an advantage when tesla isn't even breaking even?
and if you haven't noticed, all ice manufacturers could move into ev manufacturing in a few months if it was profitable. bmw, vw, gm etc have the capabilities to churn out them. but they need to be as good as the ICE equivalents in the 20-30k price range and today they simply aren't. VAG can drop billions and billions on it after it makes some sense to do.
anyhow, in most of the world teslas are way cheaper than bmw's etc. except that teslas only live in the really expensive car territory anyways in most of the world - usa is among the only places in the world where teslas don't have a major price advantage due to co2 taxes. yet teslas aren't really appealing, due to their high price.
that's why the thing about having a profitable 35k car for tesla has been seen as the make or break for the entire company.
the dude was compelled to incriminate himself prior to any arrest happening.
the cop didn't have probable cause to search the car, so he created probable cause by holding him at the spot and asking for a k9 mj sniffer unit to come by to give them probable cause to search the car in the first place.
now you might ask if the cop didn't have probable cause to search the car, how did he have probable cause to call the sniffer dog? well clearly mj is so bad that laws don't apply.
it's a frigging fine to be given. the people in that state have decided that it's not a biggie, just a fine, not worth a warrant, not worth a hassle. but the cops have decided otherwise on their own.
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they don't want the trains seem to be leaving too late.
that's the problem. they have the most horrible on-time record in the country.
it plays through. then it plays again. and again.
it's the artists and record companies who want them to be counted like this. and who's to say they aren't actually listening to it?
the thing that will happen sooner or later is just going to go so that an account can either listen a song for only say 5-10 times in a day or any listens after that don't generate any royalties or chart advancement.
which way it goes depends on artists.
that's a problem with an all you can eat streaming service that pays per plays. from consumer side, why shouldn't they be able to stream the same song 24/7 if they want? from artist side, why shouldn't they get paid for those?
Musks cars aren't that bad.
In fact, they're kinda too good.
The business of making them doesn't seem to be good.
yeah, he only needs to find 12 people with few billion to burn.
I bet there's SpaceX investors wondering the same exact thing.
whats next, tickets to mars?
Musk is losing it. this isn't business. this is a publicity stunt, that's not even original.
possibly.
1/3rd of the price at same weight would already be something.
even electrek.co advices to remain skeptical about new battery innovations, and that sites trash.
There's been so many now.
Even if the energy density per size of a lipo cell is already pretty dang high.
Besides, for cars the density isn't even now so much important. take a look at a tesla battery pack. how much of it is not battery? quite a lot!
the weight and safety and most importantly PRICE is the key for making a better battery technology for a car. there's just so much of these announcements that it's really hard to take any of them seriously - and frankly, we shouldn't even care before they have a production line running. they do these media announcements to boost up their visibility to have something to show to potential investors. the smart money doesn't care two fucks if it's featured on wallstreet times or whatever though - they care if it a) works b) can be produced at a good cost.
this makes it an automatic suspect when they go for high media visibility - because really, in their line of technology it's not needed. for actual breakthrough there's several billions of parked cash waiting to be dumped on it to bring some factory online. without any need to shoot for media visibility to get some investors onboard to keep the company going.
this .. this discussion about how should you teach or control or whatever ai is like two parents discussion what rules should they give their kid, before they even know how to fuck.
look, this stupid fucking discussion has been going in CIRCLES FOR FUCKING FIFTY YEARS - "researchers" and "experts" like to do this discussion because it's about 12312 times easier than actually trying to create an actual AI.
the institutions for this are also fabricated - and you know what they're fabricated for? FUCKING SWINDLING MONEY. these issues have been BEATEN TO FUCKING DEATH IN SPECULATIVE FICTION FOR FIFTY YEARS so much that NOBODY FUCKING CARES ABOUT STORIES ABOUT THEM.
what do you think 90% of the 2001 space odyssey is? it's the same fucking discussion - safety is in the eye of the guy giving the objectives to.
meanwhile "ai" is getting up, but it's really always just a complicated pattern matching algorithm. but they call it ai, because that sells.
ai is just the fuzzy logic of 2010's. it's gone as far that people are hyping up decision algorithms modeled in excel as artificial intelligence. the fuck does an excel sheet need cultural context for? it doesn't.
what pisses me off is all these people profiting/fleecing people way ahead of time. they won't have actual ai during their lifetime yet they feel like they should market themselves as true experts - on something they have no idea how it would even work, so they just equalize it with something like a wunderkin. it makes as much practical sense as debabating what would be the best daily routines for an angel in heaven so that earth would stay a happy place.
The whole idea is that when the drug would be free to be made by "small pharma" the "big pharma" has it declared illegal or no longer prescribed, preferably just outright illegal, which leads to the drug cartels.
Then there's less competition on the open market and big pharma can have the government fight their competition.
why do you think they come up with a new opioid every x years?
yeah the correct answer is "yeah, so?"
you think he didn't know the brass was leaving? now he can blame the stock drop on this and up play this while the situation cools down.
the real questions are: is model 3 profitable? why nobody wants to sign off on your bookkeeping shenigans? have you learn't anything about using twitter as an official way to communicate news that affect stock price, since you're banning people?
do you know how big of a crock it was to just casually announce all stocks being worth 420 - and now they're sub 300?
well it makes the weed last longer, burn better and hit harder(the tar etc acting as a carrier).
if you smoke anyways, who cares?
smoking the weed has nothing to do with being years late from profitability. you can only run a company only on your public image for so long. only tweet extravagant ideas lifted from ancient popular mechanics for so long.
the stock tanked due to persons privvy to the books running out like the house was on fire. the big thing people want and need to know out of those books is if they're getting money into the company from making and selling the model 3's. that they don't sell the cheapo model because it wouldn't make money doesn't really put that much confidence into it.
anyhow, for some funnies you can watch some investment advice youtube channels from few days back.
the cars are good/okay yes - but whats that got to do with the company making money or not?
Pretty sure there is plenty of profit in taking in a 4 figure sum amount of money in order to have some magic eyes(who are already getting funding as well from other sources!) look it through and put something on a website in addition to printing it on paper and sending it to people where it gets further peer review.
Some open access papers manage to do it for under 30 bucks.
Actual peer review starts after it's published anyways.
the real reason they have been able to churn profits with them is the back catalog of papers, which are essential if you intend to publish anything in them, due to being referenced and being able to reference are the most important things ever, rather than explaining the process or proof from start to finish.
basically they have been getting paid twice already while holding the data as hostage.
Sure, there is a "need" for the journals but that's due to tradition more than anything and more than anything a tradition of your funding being tied to publishing in those journals - they are only used for scoring points in a system that the journals have had control over.
Like, can someone explain to me why a solidly done paper just published on an university webserver doesn't have the same impact? I mean, if it's like an actual new scientific discovery worth anyone getting their socks twisted over with properly documented steps to reproduce it, how is it any less solid than if it was published in Nature?
if someone came up with a cold fusion that _actually_ worked(fat chance) then what difference would it be where it was published or how many other papers it referenced to?
Somehow I can find better information on youtube on plating plastics with copper than on the scientific journals? so what gives, are they already going the way of the dodo. They seem just to be a points system now in order to gain access to proper laboratories later with those points to make discoveries you vaguely patent(not publish properly, mind you. modern patents are shit for reproducing the device or process, on purpose no less) later.
gun plans aren't illegal unless dod is evaluating them for use or something like that. they're not illegal even in countries with very tight gun laws.
manufacturing guns isn't illegal either in usa as long as you register it.
it's really perplexing from what angle the judge is looking at this. besides than that what constitutes as the "gun" in usa is fairly fucked up to begin with.
furthermore, it's a really shitty gun and walmart sells everything needed for a better gun and ammo to go with it.
the right to bear arms refers specifically to military arms. not just guns, but everything that a military unit uses for warfare. battleships are arms. nuclear weapons are arms. guided missiles are arms. bows are arms. cannons are arms. rifled artillery pieces are arms. tanks are arms. the reason was quite simply that they didn't want to give the arms to the government, because the guys who came up with said amendment had their own military units.
I'm not american, so whatever, but that amendment hasn't been honored since the '20s and it's really fucking stupid to bring it up everytime gun control comes up since it really hasn't been in effect since fucking forever now. maybe if you want to actually control arms then take the amendment out. it's really simple for congress to do - but having it there and not honoring it makes all the amendments seem like jokes.
maybe they should just have studied how long those animals can stay alive without feeding.
and are the high metabolism(warm blooded animals) just evolving more quickly to combat it, thus going "extinct" as well at a higher rate, thus doing _everything_ at a higher rate ?
I find particularly non interesting.
Woman feeds plastic to fish unable to break it down. Then finds plastic inside fish.
like come on. what was there supposed to happen in this experiment? and if you force feed them enough, they die? SULPLIZE MUCHH?
what we would really care is .. say we converted all of the fossile oil into plastics, how much would there be? enough for a problem or not?
of course you're still being the internet connection and paying for the netflix as well.
sure it's just a few tens of bucks per month but that's still few tens of bucks per month.
that has been on the table for 50 years. FIFTY YEARS yet there has been nothing to actually apply it to.
now what they need is MARKETING ETHICS as that's where it really is needed, the act of selling something thats not as self driving as self driving and so forth - there is actually no need to ponder should it hit a deer or a truck in a case it had to choose.
also marketing ethics about ai. ai just means information technology now. fucking excel sheets are sold as AI. anything making binary choices is being now sold as AI.
so these AI ethicists, robot rights experts etc - they're just selling bullshit. they want a cheque and way to get it is just to bullshit. that's what we need critical thinking against in the media.
the signing keys are only helpful for hacking phones that are already connected to a network and fetching updates.
and that's not what this is about anyways, this is about government wanting you to have encryption on your phone that is flawed by design, nothing more. if 10000 departments in usa would have boxes to decrypt your phones.. well, you might just as well not encrypt your phone in the first place since people who steal phones would also have those boxes.
sure would make stealing phones more profitable.
Getting certified to bundle the google stuff is not free, including appstore. so installing a googlefied android is not free today - you're paying for it. and 1% of license fee for that stuff on top of what is already being paid(and agreed in backroom licensing deals!!).
it's not like you can just download android and start selling your device with google apps included without paying in one way or another. you are already paying in the phone price for that.
that wouldn't really change if they(device manufacturers, operators) wanted to keep any of the google packages installed, even if they wanted to bundle something else as default apps.. if they think someone would buy their device without googles appstore, then sure, they can just unbundle all of the google stuff right now today.
you think samsung is using android for free? fuck no, no. it's not free in the way google is implying here on making it not-free.
it's not what "we" wanted.
it's what they told us that we wanted because IT IS CHEAPER TO MAKE IT LIKE THIS. there's more profit. it's just cost optimizing while making it more expensive.
we didn't ask for unexpandable everything maximally cost minimized crap that in theory might work faster than the previous model in some situation if it's stuck in a freezer.
Microsoft is the brand. it started out as a MODEL. a specific name for a specific thing, namely just the table. then they released the tablets and started pretending the table never existed.
never mind that surface and surface pro weren't software compatible. surface go and surface pro are. that's the first surface pro, not the 2017 surface pro by the way. but they're sw compatible. surface 3 isn't. surface 3 pro is sw compatible with the pro.
I've seen supposed professionals get bitten by buying the windows rt versions...
and you think surface connect is the same as surface connect(the connector) ? of course not.
and which ones you can use the surface dial with? with surface pro or with surface pro? yes, with the surface pro. not with the another.
is it a tablet?
is it a phone?
is it a tv slapped on it's back and used as a table?
make something and fucking stick to it for a few years at least come on.. especially if you're making something actually newish like that table was.
how the hell is tesla at an advantage when tesla isn't even breaking even?
and if you haven't noticed, all ice manufacturers could move into ev manufacturing in a few months if it was profitable. bmw, vw, gm etc have the capabilities to churn out them. but they need to be as good as the ICE equivalents in the 20-30k price range and today they simply aren't. VAG can drop billions and billions on it after it makes some sense to do.
anyhow, in most of the world teslas are way cheaper than bmw's etc. except that teslas only live in the really expensive car territory anyways in most of the world - usa is among the only places in the world where teslas don't have a major price advantage due to co2 taxes. yet teslas aren't really appealing, due to their high price.
that's why the thing about having a profitable 35k car for tesla has been seen as the make or break for the entire company.
the dude was compelled to incriminate himself prior to any arrest happening.
the cop didn't have probable cause to search the car, so he created probable cause by holding him at the spot and asking for a k9 mj sniffer unit to come by to give them probable cause to search the car in the first place.
now you might ask if the cop didn't have probable cause to search the car, how did he have probable cause to call the sniffer dog? well clearly mj is so bad that laws don't apply.
it's a frigging fine to be given. the people in that state have decided that it's not a biggie, just a fine, not worth a warrant, not worth a hassle. but the cops have decided otherwise on their own.