20 year old Land Rover... still runs great. 5 year old Nexus 5... still runs great. 60 year old house... still runs great. (I won't go into my clothes... what's a few holes?)
Does your motorized desk drive itself around the office (like Spicer's podium)?:)
I've had a Tesla for the past three years and every time I drive it, it's a thrill and adventure (even if only to the grocery). Only other car that came close was a Porsche 911... but that was 40 years ago.
It's a lot healthier to stand. You'll be sitting at your desk all day and letting your arteries and bones degenerate. Best to stand as much as possible. Also, get a standing desk at work.
Comcast is negotiating for the right to use public right of ways and for a monopoly on services. It's perfectly acceptable for Vermont to put conditions on the contract. If Comcast doesn't like it, they can try to negotiate individually with thousands of property owners and try to compete with others.
PNG has over 700 languages (plus many undiscovered tribes and languages). The rugged terrain led to isolated groups each developing their own language. The common language of the country is a pidgin (Tok Pisin) plus English.
I might as well chime in here since I seem to be part of this group. I started programming in university in 1966 (IBM 7090 mainframes and DEC Linc-8) and have been coding fairly continuously since including starting several software based companies. I'm retired now but still coding (health data collection and analysis). Some early computers I have programmed (as far as I can remember): IBM 7090, 360, 1620 DEC Linc-8 Systron-Donner (analog) Intel 8008 Osborne Cosmacelf 1605 Commodore PET Apple II, III, Mac Radio Shack TRS-80 MS-DOS based computers Novel Netware (3.14 forever...)
Millennials are 1000 times better than live beyond yo u reans baby boomers who have racked up 22 trillion in debt and are going to make their grandkids pay it off for them.
Right now to reach break even government spending we need 10% annual growth in tax revune. Instead we get tax cuts and vague promises. By 2040 the us government will be completely bankrupt at the current rate of spending vs income. As it sits now 25% of our federal budget goes to pay interest payments on debt. Not prinicipal just interest. That debt is primiarily owed to the be people of the USA.
Put that on perspective. That means if you earn $300k annually your interest payments are $88k and your principals is in millions.
There is no way out of this and that is 100% due to the lazy fucking stupid boomers
I'm trying to parse your post: You seem to have a call to generation warfare in your first mangled sentence. I don't know if any generation has a monopoly on debt but lack of free university education has certainly caused debt to rise to unsustainable levels. I don't think we can blame it on a particular generation but we can blame the current old white male Republican party.
Regarding taxes. Yes, you are right. However, the cause is Republicans giving tax breaks to their corporate sponsors (bribes). We have a corporate kleptocracy and high (and increasing) income inequality which will give the Republicans an excuse to make further cuts to programs such as education and health. As long as we allow corporations and rich people to run the government through their bribes, we are screwed.
These are all subsidies that go to big business and they are obsolete, ineffective technologies.
Nuclear just keeps getting more expensive. It's more expensive than coal, gas, solar, wind, geothermal, etc. It's inflexible and has nasty waste problems. The only people who like it are the big utilities since it lets them raise electricity rates.
Fuel cells are fool cells. The most inefficient way to generate electricity. There are no natural stores of H2 so you have to generate it using natural gas (good for fossil fuel companies) or electricity (very expensive). By the time you go through the whole generate H2, compress it, ship it, run it through a fuel cell you only get about 20% efficiency. Complete waste.
Carbon capture is the wet dream of coal companies and other fossil fuel companies. "Clean coal" doesn't exist. It has never worked. It will always be too expensive for anything but a pilot plant. Waste of money and an excuse to burn more fossil fuels.
So far, Tesla has produced enough so that people are eager to throw money at it. No problem raising funds. They are making cars and have plans for new models and trucks and energy storage and solar panels and roofs. That takes money. As long as they deliver, they can continue to raise money to grow. If they stopped spending on new stuff today, they would be profitable but wouldn't have much of a future. It took Amazon years to become profitable and now Bezos is world's richest man.
To your point, yes, medical knowledge is based on generations of doctors each standing on the shoulders of the giants before them. But the analogy still breaks down badly because if we tried to continue it, you would have small groups of heart surgeons divvying themselves up into different camps who all proclaim that their software is the best and insist on re-inventing the same medical procedures over and over again because of NIH syndrome.
Your "different camps" are just like proprietary software developed by different companies who don't share trade secrets. Open source heart surgery publishes results for everyone to learn from.
To continue your analogy... Would you rather have a heart surgeon who learned his craft from a secret society using methods which have not been openly peer reviewed OR would you like a heart surgeon who studies all of the open literature on heart surgery and learns the best practices from his/her peers.
1. Change the clutch on my car. Robots already assemble the clutch in your car. What makes you think they won't be able to change it.
2. Fix my home's AC. AI can diagnose the problem for some low level wrencher to fix
3. Trim my trees. Robots already trim and cut trees.
4. Talk to me about my investments. AI can do a better job than the typical investment advisor who is looking to scam you out of fees.
5. Diagnose my illness (without a doctor as the interface) AI already can do a good job of symptom diagnosis and suggest lab tests. It does a better job than doctors who don't look for "zebras".
6. Teach my kids. Computer based training is better than teachers.
7. Police my neighborhood. AI can better predict crime patterns than you local cops at the donut shop.
8. Put out a house fire. Robot fire hoses already exist. AI will make them more effective.
9. Rescue someone. AI can predict where the person is lost. Rescuers already use drones, helicopters and other aids to reach victims.
10. Get elected and participate in government. Any moron can do that. AI would be be much better.
AI is a tool that could help with all this, but it isn't a thing that can do all of this.
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Just incremental improvements to efficiency.
Nothing radically better.
20 year old Land Rover... still runs great.
5 year old Nexus 5... still runs great.
60 year old house... still runs great.
(I won't go into my clothes... what's a few holes?)
Does your motorized desk drive itself around the office (like Spicer's podium)? :)
I've had a Tesla for the past three years and every time I drive it, it's a thrill and adventure (even if only to the grocery).
Only other car that came close was a Porsche 911... but that was 40 years ago.
Or perhaps, this:
Alien Wall From X-Files Season 11 Episode 4
https://youtu.be/T3AiWL-UHuY
Do you realize that "the optimal life style that I and my family choose to have" is killing you and the environment?
It's a lot healthier to stand. You'll be sitting at your desk all day and letting your arteries and bones degenerate. Best to stand as much as possible.
Also, get a standing desk at work.
Comcast is negotiating for the right to use public right of ways and for a monopoly on services. It's perfectly acceptable for Vermont to put conditions on the contract. If Comcast doesn't like it, they can try to negotiate individually with thousands of property owners and try to compete with others.
PNG has over 700 languages (plus many undiscovered tribes and languages).
The rugged terrain led to isolated groups each developing their own language.
The common language of the country is a pidgin (Tok Pisin) plus English.
I might as well chime in here since I seem to be part of this group.
I started programming in university in 1966 (IBM 7090 mainframes and DEC Linc-8) and have been coding fairly continuously since including starting several software based companies. I'm retired now but still coding (health data collection and analysis).
Some early computers I have programmed (as far as I can remember):
IBM 7090, 360, 1620
DEC Linc-8
Systron-Donner (analog)
Intel 8008
Osborne
Cosmacelf 1605
Commodore PET
Apple II, III, Mac
Radio Shack TRS-80
MS-DOS based computers
Novel Netware (3.14 forever...)
Paperless bathroom?
What does paper jam taste like?
Is it good on toast?
Millennials are 1000 times better than live beyond yo u reans baby boomers who have racked up 22 trillion in debt and are going to make their grandkids pay it off for them.
Right now to reach break even government spending we need 10% annual growth in tax revune. Instead we get tax cuts and vague promises. By 2040 the us government will be completely bankrupt at the current rate of spending vs income. As it sits now 25% of our federal budget goes to pay interest payments on debt. Not prinicipal just interest. That debt is primiarily owed to the be people of the USA.
Put that on perspective. That means if you earn $300k annually your interest payments are $88k and your principals is in millions.
There is no way out of this and that is 100% due to the lazy fucking stupid boomers
I'm trying to parse your post:
You seem to have a call to generation warfare in your first mangled sentence. I don't know if any generation has a monopoly on debt but lack of free university education has certainly caused debt to rise to unsustainable levels. I don't think we can blame it on a particular generation but we can blame the current old white male Republican party.
Regarding taxes. Yes, you are right. However, the cause is Republicans giving tax breaks to their corporate sponsors (bribes). We have a corporate kleptocracy and high (and increasing) income inequality which will give the Republicans an excuse to make further cuts to programs such as education and health.
As long as we allow corporations and rich people to run the government through their bribes, we are screwed.
Don't spend money on these obsolete technologies.
Spend money on solar, wind and storage.
Is that clear?
These are all subsidies that go to big business and they are obsolete, ineffective technologies.
Nuclear just keeps getting more expensive. It's more expensive than coal, gas, solar, wind, geothermal, etc. It's inflexible and has nasty waste problems. The only people who like it are the big utilities since it lets them raise electricity rates.
Fuel cells are fool cells. The most inefficient way to generate electricity. There are no natural stores of H2 so you have to generate it using natural gas (good for fossil fuel companies) or electricity (very expensive). By the time you go through the whole generate H2, compress it, ship it, run it through a fuel cell you only get about 20% efficiency. Complete waste.
Carbon capture is the wet dream of coal companies and other fossil fuel companies. "Clean coal" doesn't exist. It has never worked. It will always be too expensive for anything but a pilot plant. Waste of money and an excuse to burn more fossil fuels.
I guess they'll have to think of an alternative to security by obscurity.
Hopefully there are no glaring security holes revealed in the code.
Maybe you can arrange to be the driver of the next Tesla to go into space.
So far, Tesla has produced enough so that people are eager to throw money at it. No problem raising funds.
They are making cars and have plans for new models and trucks and energy storage and solar panels and roofs. That takes money. As long as they deliver, they can continue to raise money to grow. If they stopped spending on new stuff today, they would be profitable but wouldn't have much of a future.
It took Amazon years to become profitable and now Bezos is world's richest man.
Musk already has a Boring Company... I think he is going for something else here.
I believe that this is destined (if successful) for a solar orbit which should last "forever".
Yes, the government does own these roofs. These are council homes (low income housing).
To your point, yes, medical knowledge is based on generations of doctors each standing on the shoulders of the giants before them. But the analogy still breaks down badly because if we tried to continue it, you would have small groups of heart surgeons divvying themselves up into different camps who all proclaim that their software is the best and insist on re-inventing the same medical procedures over and over again because of NIH syndrome.
Your "different camps" are just like proprietary software developed by different companies who don't share trade secrets.
Open source heart surgery publishes results for everyone to learn from.
To continue your analogy... Would you rather have a heart surgeon who learned his craft from a secret society using methods which have not been openly peer reviewed OR would you like a heart surgeon who studies all of the open literature on heart surgery and learns the best practices from his/her peers.
1. Change the clutch on my car.
Robots already assemble the clutch in your car. What makes you think they won't be able to change it.
2. Fix my home's AC.
AI can diagnose the problem for some low level wrencher to fix
3. Trim my trees.
Robots already trim and cut trees.
4. Talk to me about my investments.
AI can do a better job than the typical investment advisor who is looking to scam you out of fees.
5. Diagnose my illness (without a doctor as the interface)
AI already can do a good job of symptom diagnosis and suggest lab tests. It does a better job than doctors who don't look for "zebras".
6. Teach my kids.
Computer based training is better than teachers.
7. Police my neighborhood.
AI can better predict crime patterns than you local cops at the donut shop.
8. Put out a house fire.
Robot fire hoses already exist. AI will make them more effective.
9. Rescue someone.
AI can predict where the person is lost. Rescuers already use drones, helicopters and other aids to reach victims.
10. Get elected and participate in government.
Any moron can do that. AI would be be much better.
AI is a tool that could help with all this, but it isn't a thing that can do all of this.
I have a Nexus 5 with the bootloop problem.
Anybody had success in getting LG to fix this?