It's bloody obvious, and always has been, that there are 24 hours in a day, 8 of which you typically spend asleep.
This is not right though. Smartphones changed the game by increasing where we could consume digital media, thus allowing us to spend more time on it. Of course this came at the cost of paying attention to the kids' soccer game, or having a conversation with the person whose car we're riding in, or whatever we used to do with that time. But it was an increase in the amount of those 24 hours that was monetized.
Good post, but does any of it mean Cringely's prediction of them following this path is incorrect? Maybe it's sort of a black hole that companies get pulled into when they are too successful for too long and the money pushes out the actual business.
Yeah, the blurb talks about managers. But at some point somebody has to do stuff. If I make email my priority all the time, I just get more and more stuff to do and less and less time to do it. Rate-limiting my email is the only way to make progress on anything else.
"The story also looks at how much revenue Silicon Valley companies that count India as one of their biggest markets is generating there[i.e. in India] - Spoiler alert: it's very little."
What this is saying is that revenue from the Indian market is being captured by Silicon Valley instead of India, and India is sick of it.
The point is that everybody benefits about equally from clean air and less global warming, whereas certain people are impacted disproportionately by shutting down the coal industry (those who produce and consume it), so using public funds to soften the blow for them creates an offramp.
Sure, if the sustainable option also happened to be cheapest in the short run, there would be no need for any measures because it would just happen. Not the case unfortunately.
"The AI agent was hobbled in some ways. For example, it was restricted from performing more clicks per minute than a human"
https://www.theverge.com/2019/...
I can't get used to successful companies doing big layoffs just to rebalance for the current workload. I guess it is rational given the assumption that plenty of well-qualified people will always be looking for work - although I'm surprised this is the case here - but beside that if there is no weight given to continuity for employees it just seems impossible to have a stable career + marriage + life.
Print and later TV used to be the gatekeepers of information. What made it into mass media tended to be true. Now there are no gatekeepers, for better and for worse.
Sad to say, but no, nature cannot now take care of itself - which today means protect itself from the invading hordes of human beings and our machines. Particularly the National Parks, which are designated precisely wherever too many people want to go. That's why the parks need to exist.
If the shutdown persists the parks will need to be locked up.
If you get to drive away in your own car when you hop off the tracks, I think a road is a more fair comparison.
That said, the metal guide wheels, I dunno it seems sort of like a carnival ride. I would have though self-driving would be easy in these controlled conditions and electric power would be great for not filling the tunnel with exhaust.
Bobby Fischer felt the same way and proposed Chess960 which has a random initial board configuration for that reason:
In a 2006 Icelandic Radio interview, Fischer explained his dissatisfaction with the current chess:[575]
[In] chess, so much depends on opening theory, so the champions before the last century didn't know nearly as much as, say, I do and other players know about opening theory. So if you just brought them back from the dead they might not do too well, because they'd get bad openings. You cannot compare the playing strength, you can only talk about natural ability, because now there is so much more opening theory, so much more memorization. Memorization is enormously powerful. Some kid of fourteen today, or even younger, could get the opening advantage against Capablanca, or especially against the players of the previous century, like Morphy and Steinitz, easily. Maybe they'd still be able to outplay the young kid of today, but maybe not. Because nowadays when you get the opening advantage, not only do you get the opening advantage, but you know how to play the opening advantage â" they have so many examples of what to do from this position. So it's really deadly, it is very deadly... that's why I don't like chess anymore... It's all just memorization and prearrangement, it's a terrible game now. A very un-creative game now.
When somebody says "we" are not "ever" going to do XYZ, it's usually safe to read as, "nobody reading this will be around to see the day when..." I think people generally understand that making predictions about technology 10,000 years from now is impossible, beyond the very basics like speed of light or conservation of energy.
Oh, that reminds me when I asked my chemistry teacher why water would evaporate even below the boiling point. He said something similar, the temperature is the average but on occasion a molecule gets enough energy to exceed the threshold (thus cooling the others when it leaves with its heat).
Similar? Or not?
Or, maybe there is no problem. Perhaps the typhoon was stronger than it's worth engineering wind turbines to survive, and the most cost-effective solution is to engineer them so this is rare (as is already the case), and prohibit residences within the falling radius.
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This is not right though. Smartphones changed the game by increasing where we could consume digital media, thus allowing us to spend more time on it. Of course this came at the cost of paying attention to the kids' soccer game, or having a conversation with the person whose car we're riding in, or whatever we used to do with that time. But it was an increase in the amount of those 24 hours that was monetized.
Good post, but does any of it mean Cringely's prediction of them following this path is incorrect? Maybe it's sort of a black hole that companies get pulled into when they are too successful for too long and the money pushes out the actual business.
Institute a carbon tax, then pay out the negative of that for carbon sequestration, and then let it take its course.
I wonder if commercial kitchens have any air quality standards. Those people are in there all day.
Yeah, the blurb talks about managers. But at some point somebody has to do stuff. If I make email my priority all the time, I just get more and more stuff to do and less and less time to do it. Rate-limiting my email is the only way to make progress on anything else.
What this is saying is that revenue from the Indian market is being captured by Silicon Valley instead of India, and India is sick of it.
History ain't what it used to be...
If it is tied to the USD (fixed exchange rate), then I think so too.
Push this button, and you will make millions. More than in two lifetimes of honest work.
What sort of transceiver will these satellites require on the ground though? Will this require a dish like satellite TV does?
The point is that everybody benefits about equally from clean air and less global warming, whereas certain people are impacted disproportionately by shutting down the coal industry (those who produce and consume it), so using public funds to soften the blow for them creates an offramp. Sure, if the sustainable option also happened to be cheapest in the short run, there would be no need for any measures because it would just happen. Not the case unfortunately.
"The AI agent was hobbled in some ways. For example, it was restricted from performing more clicks per minute than a human" https://www.theverge.com/2019/...
Occasionally the future is just as bad as all the dystopian sci-fi guessed it might be.
That is interesting. Does "male counterparts" here mean "single males without dependents," or "all males"?
I can't get used to successful companies doing big layoffs just to rebalance for the current workload. I guess it is rational given the assumption that plenty of well-qualified people will always be looking for work - although I'm surprised this is the case here - but beside that if there is no weight given to continuity for employees it just seems impossible to have a stable career + marriage + life.
Print and later TV used to be the gatekeepers of information. What made it into mass media tended to be true. Now there are no gatekeepers, for better and for worse.
Sad to say, but no, nature cannot now take care of itself - which today means protect itself from the invading hordes of human beings and our machines. Particularly the National Parks, which are designated precisely wherever too many people want to go. That's why the parks need to exist. If the shutdown persists the parks will need to be locked up.
Welcome to /. where half the people complain it's too easy and the other half complain it's too dangerous.
Not necessarily. The difference is that making everybody pay into the subsidy removes the individual incentive to economize or find alternatives.
If you get to drive away in your own car when you hop off the tracks, I think a road is a more fair comparison. That said, the metal guide wheels, I dunno it seems sort of like a carnival ride. I would have though self-driving would be easy in these controlled conditions and electric power would be great for not filling the tunnel with exhaust.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
When somebody says "we" are not "ever" going to do XYZ, it's usually safe to read as, "nobody reading this will be around to see the day when..." I think people generally understand that making predictions about technology 10,000 years from now is impossible, beyond the very basics like speed of light or conservation of energy.
Oh, that reminds me when I asked my chemistry teacher why water would evaporate even below the boiling point. He said something similar, the temperature is the average but on occasion a molecule gets enough energy to exceed the threshold (thus cooling the others when it leaves with its heat). Similar? Or not?
Wait, so how did the story end? Are you posting this from inside a dumpster behind a McDonald's with free WiFi, or what?
Or, maybe there is no problem. Perhaps the typhoon was stronger than it's worth engineering wind turbines to survive, and the most cost-effective solution is to engineer them so this is rare (as is already the case), and prohibit residences within the falling radius.