This particular 3,000-vehicle experiment, fwiw, is not intended to test the crash-avoidance technology in a live trial, but rather to collect a data set. The indicators aren't going to be displayed to the drivers on a HUD or anything, but just recorded for analysis, along with vehicle position/telemetry.
So why are MRI machines also cheaper in medical systems that are more regulated than the US's, like Scandinavia's? Could it just have something to do with the US being particularly inefficient, not the role of government per se?
Yeah, I agree with the difficulty of setting up a study. I'll have to check to see if I can find a good reference, but I do believe there is some good historical evidence that a significant number of pregnancies have resulted from mass rape during wartime—enough that these events can be traced in population genetics. Admittedly it's at least theoretically possible that rape within a civilized society during peacetime is different from mass-rape during wartime in some biologically important way.
The hypothesis is that women do not get pregnant through sex unless the sex was consensual, and the evidence is that in fact they do. I suppose some statistics would be involved if you wanted to do a hypothesis test. But it's not some complex mathematical model, nor hugely contested.
Yeah, I don't think this is competitive with tape robots for large operations. I see it as gaining inroads, at least at the current price point, among customers who don't have that kind of equipment onsite, so would be otherwise using regular backup services for their archival needs. By adding Glacier to the existing S3 service, as a cheaper but higher-latency storage option for stuff that you're keeping "just in case" (lawsuit/whatever) as opposed to for likely access, Amazon basically incrementally expands the range of use-cases they're competitive in.
I believe this is intended for archival data that is unlikely to be needed, especially not in full, not operational data that you might need to do a full restore from. The kind of data that, in the past, you might file into a tape archive stored in a basement somewhere, "just in case" it was ever needed.
I would expect a computer-controlled car to do well in these kinds of situations. On a fixed course with no other cars, it comes down to calculating the optimal trajectories, and being able to accurately estimate things like when your tires are about to lose traction. Computers are probably better at that than humans are, given enough data. I mean, cars and tired are already designed with computer simulations of those kinds of conditions.
Google's self-driving cars being able to drive in regular traffic was more of a surprise to me: something I would've have expected for another decade.
While that's generally true, in the U.S. it's also really the only way to actually enforce a wide range of things. The European approach is to make it hard to bring class-action suits, and instead to regulate businesses' conduct directly. So for example there is an EU directive on data privacy, and there are national regulators who will go after violations.
The American approach instead is to use the adversarial court system as the primary means of regulation. If there were a suspected auto defect, for example, a European government would investigate it, and then based on the results of their investigation would issue orders to fix the problem (if real) and/or fines. In the American system, instead, it is up to people who allege they have been harmed to bring a lawsuit and prove their case in court.
They're increasing comfort at the high price point quite significantly as well. Most major airlines have lie-flat seats in international first-class now, which used to be uncommon. Some of them have private first-class suites. Of course, you're going to have to pay a hefty multiple of an economy-class ticket to get that kind of luxury. But then you had to pay a high price if you wanted to fly in 1970, too.
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Sure, rich people looked rich back in the good old days. Same thing with the ocean liners in 1st class: very upper-class, luxurious, glamorous. But most people who traveled on ocean liners didn't travel in 1st class, so it was hardly the norm. The difference with early planes was that there was basically only a 1st class, due to a lack of room to include a 2nd class or steerage section.
Unless they're considering the need for such devices entirely, I'm not seeing how an alternate vendor is going to come in much lower than that. The Kindle is pretty reasonably priced as far as hand-held reading devices go, probably even moreso in a bulk purchase.
When he says there are players who "want" Day-1 DLC, what he means is that there are players who will buy Day-1 DLC. Therefore Bioware is going to keep doing it.
Are there any existing programs to do that? I know they use the same principle of operation, but I would be surprised if they were easy drop-in replacements.
The market doesn't really care about lowering pollution, though, since pollution is an unpriced negative externality. Sometimes it'll favor more-polluting energy sources, and other times less-polluting energy sources, due to completely unrelated factors. So if you're waiting for the market to lower pollution without pollution actually being priced, you're just hoping for luck. Sometimes it does come along; the current cheapness of natural gas vis-a-vis oil is one of those instances. Other times it doesn't; the cheapness of coal is one of the other kinds of instances.
It produces around 30-40% less CO2 than coal for the same power output. Coal is particularly bad, both in terms of CO2 production, and other kinds of pollution (though with currently mandated scrubbers it's not as bad a contributor to things like acid rain as it once was).
"There's a very clear lesson here. What it shows is that if you make a cleaner energy source cheaper, you will displace dirtier sources"
Sure, that's what everyone's been saying. The disagreement is over how to get there. Should we offer insurance guarantees for nuclear power plants? Should we mandate feed-in tariffs for household solar? Should we loosen restrictions on fracking? Should we increase science funding for alternative energy R&D? Should we institute a carbon tax?
EA still has some good development studios; they're not a pure publisher. For example, EA Tiburon develops the quite profitable Madden series. Maxis also has some good talent, although EA's mismanagement means it has less good talent than it used to.
But probably the franchises are the biggest win, yeah. They have a lot of high-profile ones: Medal of Honor, Dragon Age, The Sims, Dead Space, and the whole EA Sports line.
I'm most familiar with Maxis, which they bought years ago, and from what I hear it's been a long, slow, EA-style attempt to strangle their creativity and success, which eventually worked. More and more formal management, accounting for your time, meetings, etc.
Most of the good developers that used to be there have left as it got more corporate: Chris Hecker went indie (working on SpyParty), Richard Evans went indie too (since acquired by Linden Labs, working on Cotillion), Chaim Gingold went indie and then went back to grad school, etc.
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Here is the DOT project page on the experiment, which includes a nice FAQ, and a description of the purpose.
This particular 3,000-vehicle experiment, fwiw, is not intended to test the crash-avoidance technology in a live trial, but rather to collect a data set. The indicators aren't going to be displayed to the drivers on a HUD or anything, but just recorded for analysis, along with vehicle position/telemetry.
So why are MRI machines also cheaper in medical systems that are more regulated than the US's, like Scandinavia's? Could it just have something to do with the US being particularly inefficient, not the role of government per se?
Yeah, I agree with the difficulty of setting up a study. I'll have to check to see if I can find a good reference, but I do believe there is some good historical evidence that a significant number of pregnancies have resulted from mass rape during wartime—enough that these events can be traced in population genetics. Admittedly it's at least theoretically possible that rape within a civilized society during peacetime is different from mass-rape during wartime in some biologically important way.
The hypothesis is that women do not get pregnant through sex unless the sex was consensual, and the evidence is that in fact they do. I suppose some statistics would be involved if you wanted to do a hypothesis test. But it's not some complex mathematical model, nor hugely contested.
Yeah, I don't think this is competitive with tape robots for large operations. I see it as gaining inroads, at least at the current price point, among customers who don't have that kind of equipment onsite, so would be otherwise using regular backup services for their archival needs. By adding Glacier to the existing S3 service, as a cheaper but higher-latency storage option for stuff that you're keeping "just in case" (lawsuit/whatever) as opposed to for likely access, Amazon basically incrementally expands the range of use-cases they're competitive in.
I believe this is intended for archival data that is unlikely to be needed, especially not in full, not operational data that you might need to do a full restore from. The kind of data that, in the past, you might file into a tape archive stored in a basement somewhere, "just in case" it was ever needed.
Wish it had been named after an astronomer, like the Hubble was, not a NASA administrator.
I would expect a computer-controlled car to do well in these kinds of situations. On a fixed course with no other cars, it comes down to calculating the optimal trajectories, and being able to accurately estimate things like when your tires are about to lose traction. Computers are probably better at that than humans are, given enough data. I mean, cars and tired are already designed with computer simulations of those kinds of conditions.
Google's self-driving cars being able to drive in regular traffic was more of a surprise to me: something I would've have expected for another decade.
Having good backups would greatly complicate one's ability to accidentally lose email, though, so isn't recommended as enterprise best practice.
So you're saying the free market can't work in America, because consumers can't be trusted to make their own decisions?
A more likely short-term motivation is that they want exclusive ability to sell expensive repairs and required-for-maintenance devices.
Unfortunately, learning how big-data methodologies work just isn't scalable.
While that's generally true, in the U.S. it's also really the only way to actually enforce a wide range of things. The European approach is to make it hard to bring class-action suits, and instead to regulate businesses' conduct directly. So for example there is an EU directive on data privacy, and there are national regulators who will go after violations.
The American approach instead is to use the adversarial court system as the primary means of regulation. If there were a suspected auto defect, for example, a European government would investigate it, and then based on the results of their investigation would issue orders to fix the problem (if real) and/or fines. In the American system, instead, it is up to people who allege they have been harmed to bring a lawsuit and prove their case in court.
They're increasing comfort at the high price point quite significantly as well. Most major airlines have lie-flat seats in international first-class now, which used to be uncommon. Some of them have private first-class suites. Of course, you're going to have to pay a hefty multiple of an economy-class ticket to get that kind of luxury. But then you had to pay a high price if you wanted to fly in 1970, too.
Sure, rich people looked rich back in the good old days. Same thing with the ocean liners in 1st class: very upper-class, luxurious, glamorous. But most people who traveled on ocean liners didn't travel in 1st class, so it was hardly the norm. The difference with early planes was that there was basically only a 1st class, due to a lack of room to include a 2nd class or steerage section.
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Now it's taken to social media to turn public opinion against lasing of rocks.
Unless they're considering the need for such devices entirely, I'm not seeing how an alternate vendor is going to come in much lower than that. The Kindle is pretty reasonably priced as far as hand-held reading devices go, probably even moreso in a bulk purchase.
When he says there are players who "want" Day-1 DLC, what he means is that there are players who will buy Day-1 DLC. Therefore Bioware is going to keep doing it.
Are there any existing programs to do that? I know they use the same principle of operation, but I would be surprised if they were easy drop-in replacements.
The market doesn't really care about lowering pollution, though, since pollution is an unpriced negative externality. Sometimes it'll favor more-polluting energy sources, and other times less-polluting energy sources, due to completely unrelated factors. So if you're waiting for the market to lower pollution without pollution actually being priced, you're just hoping for luck. Sometimes it does come along; the current cheapness of natural gas vis-a-vis oil is one of those instances. Other times it doesn't; the cheapness of coal is one of the other kinds of instances.
It produces around 30-40% less CO2 than coal for the same power output. Coal is particularly bad, both in terms of CO2 production, and other kinds of pollution (though with currently mandated scrubbers it's not as bad a contributor to things like acid rain as it once was).
"There's a very clear lesson here. What it shows is that if you make a cleaner energy source cheaper, you will displace dirtier sources"
Sure, that's what everyone's been saying. The disagreement is over how to get there. Should we offer insurance guarantees for nuclear power plants? Should we mandate feed-in tariffs for household solar? Should we loosen restrictions on fracking? Should we increase science funding for alternative energy R&D? Should we institute a carbon tax?
EA still has some good development studios; they're not a pure publisher. For example, EA Tiburon develops the quite profitable Madden series. Maxis also has some good talent, although EA's mismanagement means it has less good talent than it used to.
But probably the franchises are the biggest win, yeah. They have a lot of high-profile ones: Medal of Honor, Dragon Age, The Sims, Dead Space, and the whole EA Sports line.
I'm most familiar with Maxis, which they bought years ago, and from what I hear it's been a long, slow, EA-style attempt to strangle their creativity and success, which eventually worked. More and more formal management, accounting for your time, meetings, etc.
Most of the good developers that used to be there have left as it got more corporate: Chris Hecker went indie (working on SpyParty), Richard Evans went indie too (since acquired by Linden Labs, working on Cotillion), Chaim Gingold went indie and then went back to grad school, etc.
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