Thanks for the links. The Japanese machine is very slow. The Agrobot is faster, but both machines are designed for greenhouse situations where the strawberries hang out into the aisles where the machine works. Picking strawberries in a field where the plants are in rows of soil raised perhaps 4 inches above the aisles is a more difficult problem, requiring a more clever movement of the berries once picked and the ability to move aside leaves to get the berries, etc..
This shouldn't be a technically difficult problem, but there is a lot of tedious engineering to be done.
I've found picking blueberries to not be physically difficult, but it is a rather unproductive activity. Blueberries are small, and in one 6 hour stint at a commercial pick-it-yourself farm I managed only 22 pounds. Perhaps I could improve with practice, but there's a reason blueberries aren't cheap.
No, he said he was only earning $2/hr because he was too slow. In other words, he was incompetent at that particular job and he has admitted it. The parking in his car all day was just to fool his parents.
Shari's Berries sells chocolate covered strawberries for more than $3.00 each. Somebody's buying them, so your claim is false.
Labor for picking is not the only cost in strawberries, so retail price is not just a multiple of the labor rate. Also, the market trend is for larger strawberry varieties, which lowers the labor portion of the market price.
Just picking what seems like reasonable numbers out of the air, a worker ought to be able to pick more than a pound of large strawberries each minute (these things weigh one or two ounces each.) At the absurd rate of $30/hr for unskilled labor, that still only adds less than 50 cents per pound to the producer's cost (not price).
Speed limits are set according to fixed rules that have been set by carefully examining statistics and the theoretical capabilities of cars and drivers. A self-driving car would be obeying the speed limit (well, this is Uber, maybe not). A human driver would assume that driving at the posted limit was safe for all but the most severe conditions (dense fog, or heavy snow, icy road, and night).
A cyclist crossing the road on foot, wearing dark clothing, should be able to see approaching headlights from hundreds of yards away. This seems like a case of extreme bad judgement on her part.
The fact that you are claiming the ill-defined term "assault weapons" are bad, assures us that you don't know what you're writing about. The laws that have tried to cover that territory are often grab-bags or include characteristics that are largely cosmetic. There are many firearms not fitting into the category that would advance the body count more quickly.
The extraordinary claim is that everything in the building is so contaminated that the risk involved in recovering even a few precious personal items is unacceptable.
If there was a large quantity of very toxic material involved in the explosion, it would have been scattered around the neighborhood in an uncontrolled manner and the whole neighborhood should be encased in impermeable concrete. Otherwise, some amount of careful recovery should be possible.
This seems like heavy-handed government overreaction, looking for the easy solution without regard to who it harms. No conspiracy, just laziness and contempt for those who are being hurt.
Fluorine is used to etch glass, make Teflon, and coat optical lenses. It's used in toothpaste and other dental preparations. It can be used as part of an extremely powerful rocket fuel, although the disadvantages are manifold.
Ultimately, the purpose is not to "prove reality", although Occam's razor ought to be given consideration. The purpose is to set up a system of rules and principles that allow humans to live a good life. If the system corresponds with reality, it stands a much better chance of promoting a good life than does a system which does not correspond well with reality. In particular, the assumption that hallucinations are universal, or even frequent, would not lead to a good life because it would discourage action.
Robots that don't use brush motors, for one thing. Robots that can't build up a static charge due to extensive use of non-conductive plastics and rubber. I'm thinking about the risk of a spark setting off an explosion from a puddle of volatile liquid.
You have access to information not available to the general public, that you've not reported to the police? No, you're just advertising your ignorant prejudices.
All versions of the Bible are big hodgepodges of random stuff thrown together without thought to consistency. They're all going to include many messages against material wealth, such as "Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God." Stop generating lies that make you look like the jerk you obviously are.
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Thanks for the links. The Japanese machine is very slow. The Agrobot is faster, but both machines are designed for greenhouse situations where the strawberries hang out into the aisles where the machine works. Picking strawberries in a field where the plants are in rows of soil raised perhaps 4 inches above the aisles is a more difficult problem, requiring a more clever movement of the berries once picked and the ability to move aside leaves to get the berries, etc..
This shouldn't be a technically difficult problem, but there is a lot of tedious engineering to be done.
What makes you think that human actions are not determined by math?
I've found picking blueberries to not be physically difficult, but it is a rather unproductive activity. Blueberries are small, and in one 6 hour stint at a commercial pick-it-yourself farm I managed only 22 pounds. Perhaps I could improve with practice, but there's a reason blueberries aren't cheap.
No, he said he was only earning $2/hr because he was too slow. In other words, he was incompetent at that particular job and he has admitted it. The parking in his car all day was just to fool his parents.
Racist comment.
Shari's Berries sells chocolate covered strawberries for more than $3.00 each. Somebody's buying them, so your claim is false.
Labor for picking is not the only cost in strawberries, so retail price is not just a multiple of the labor rate. Also, the market trend is for larger strawberry varieties, which lowers the labor portion of the market price.
Just picking what seems like reasonable numbers out of the air, a worker ought to be able to pick more than a pound of large strawberries each minute (these things weigh one or two ounces each.) At the absurd rate of $30/hr for unskilled labor, that still only adds less than 50 cents per pound to the producer's cost (not price).
The proper minimum wage is nonexistent. Government has no valid business setting wages.
Immigration status is not race.
You haven't figured out how to post in a readable fashion on slashdot.
Cameras vary by model. I doubt that Uber was using high end equipment.
Speed limits are set according to fixed rules that have been set by carefully examining statistics and the theoretical capabilities of cars and drivers. A self-driving car would be obeying the speed limit (well, this is Uber, maybe not). A human driver would assume that driving at the posted limit was safe for all but the most severe conditions (dense fog, or heavy snow, icy road, and night).
A cyclist crossing the road on foot, wearing dark clothing, should be able to see approaching headlights from hundreds of yards away. This seems like a case of extreme bad judgement on her part.
One favorite location for ripoff payphones is airports, where even a local call is several dollars.
Devil's Island is a French possession.
The fact that you are claiming the ill-defined term "assault weapons" are bad, assures us that you don't know what you're writing about. The laws that have tried to cover that territory are often grab-bags or include characteristics that are largely cosmetic. There are many firearms not fitting into the category that would advance the body count more quickly.
That doesn't make sense. The FBI gains nothing. The guns may be insured, in which case the owners suffer no loss.
You are also assuming that the FBI knows of the gun ownership, which is unlikely and possibly illegal.
The extraordinary claim is that everything in the building is so contaminated that the risk involved in recovering even a few precious personal items is unacceptable.
If there was a large quantity of very toxic material involved in the explosion, it would have been scattered around the neighborhood in an uncontrolled manner and the whole neighborhood should be encased in impermeable concrete. Otherwise, some amount of careful recovery should be possible.
This seems like heavy-handed government overreaction, looking for the easy solution without regard to who it harms. No conspiracy, just laziness and contempt for those who are being hurt.
Fluorine is used to etch glass, make Teflon, and coat optical lenses. It's used in toothpaste and other dental preparations. It can be used as part of an extremely powerful rocket fuel, although the disadvantages are manifold.
Oops! There go a whole lot of military contractors off to jail for making bombs.
Ultimately, the purpose is not to "prove reality", although Occam's razor ought to be given consideration. The purpose is to set up a system of rules and principles that allow humans to live a good life. If the system corresponds with reality, it stands a much better chance of promoting a good life than does a system which does not correspond well with reality. In particular, the assumption that hallucinations are universal, or even frequent, would not lead to a good life because it would discourage action.
Robots that don't use brush motors, for one thing. Robots that can't build up a static charge due to extensive use of non-conductive plastics and rubber. I'm thinking about the risk of a spark setting off an explosion from a puddle of volatile liquid.
All conventional, non-trivial definitions of God lead to contradictions, and consequently believing in a god so defined is an error.
You have access to information not available to the general public, that you've not reported to the police? No, you're just advertising your ignorant prejudices.
Is that measured in terms of lasers per shark?
All versions of the Bible are big hodgepodges of random stuff thrown together without thought to consistency. They're all going to include many messages against material wealth, such as "Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God." Stop generating lies that make you look like the jerk you obviously are.
I've planted my field with plants that exude a powerful lawyercide.
You want a like without profit? Then you want a life where all your efforts are not worthwhile, where all activity is futile.