Self driving cars will have more economic impact than cell phones have. Self driving taxis will be cheaper than owning cars, so most people will ditch owning cars (like a landline) and go with car on demand. Companies will own large fleet of cars to serve everyone and you just request when you want. Most personal cars are sitting around in parking lots and garages while company owned vehicles will be running around, so you will need very few cars (about 20-25% of current cars). Also, these will be fairly standard non-custom cars mass manufactured long lasting vehicles. They can offer ride sharing during peak hours to minimize traffic and may even let kids ride alone to school, libraries etc.
No more owning car, garages, insurance, gas, oil change, repair, gas stations, dealership, auto parts stores, parking fines, traffic violations, stuck vehicle on road. Manufacturing will be highly trimmed. Parking lots will be smaller and traffic will be lighter. People will be able to live in high density apartments without worrying about traffic. It will also reduce traffic accidents.
Oh and they will be all electric vehicles. Built in intelligence in vehicle will mean that they will go to charging stations on their own during low demand times of the day and night and serve users during peak hours. Long distance drive? No, problem. Just exchange the car when it is low on battery. Another car will pick you up while your current car goes to charging station.
Who will make first iPhone equivalent of self driving car? That is a trillion dollar question.
Based on my analysis of corporations filing lawsuits against their suppliers, it is usually when the buyer has sufficiently guaranteed win in the lawsuit or have an alternate supplier (internal or external) available. So either the Apple will win this suit or it will switch to some other supplier. Disclaimer: I own Apple stock and have no direct position in Qualcomm.
I am not a physicist, so I may be wrong, but I always thought that absolute zero is theoretically impossible. The temperature is a measure of random energy per degree of freedom. By Heisenberg principle delta_x * delta_p = h/2pi. So you have to get delta_p = 0 for absolute zero or delta_x = infinity.
The best you can get in lab by cooling atoms is to create a Bose Einstein condensate in which all the atoms acts as a single coherent wave. This can reduce random KE significantly. For particle of size of hydrogen atom and container of size of 1 ft, this value is of order 10^-9 K.
Self driving cars are the future. Once there is self driving cars, the taxis will be as cheap as private cars on per mile basis when averaged over entire year. Most people would stop owning cars and large families may keep only one car. Also, this naturally leads to all electric cars as well. The taxis will take people to work in rush hour and then will charge themselves and will be ready in the evening.
Any business that depends on traditional car ownership is in peril. Gas stations, repair places, parts, dealers, car insurance, paid parking etc. Even auto makers are in big trouble because you will need far fewer taxis as they can service more people per vehicle.
Anthropological principle states that the universal laws are tweaked in such a way for intelligent life to exist. So the universe tweaked its laws for intelligent life to exist and it took billions of years to evolve. Would such an universe be left extremely vulnerable to few mad men who could destroy intelligent life at the touch of buttons or some cosmic phenomena destroying intelligent life on the only planet? Based on this argument, you can say that intelligent life in the universe would be so robust that no matter what you do, you can't get rid of them, not at least in a fraction of evolution time. So, not only intelligent should exist in outer planet in our galaxy but it should exist all over the entire universe. Laws of cosmology prevents us from destroying significant portion of the intelligent life in the universe due to horizon limit (even if we can sent virus via rocket at the speed of light).
Self driving cars will increase adoption of electric cars. Currently, the range is limited due to high cost of battery and very few fast charging stations are there. Imagine your office is 30 miles commute and charging station is 0.5 mile away from your office. You can't use cheap electric cars with 75-80 miles range. But if these are self driving, then you just get down at your office and the car will go to charging station and park itself.
It is also possible that self driving cars will make taxis cheaper than owning cars and most people will get rid of cars and use taxis (or at least have only 1 owned car per family). The self driving cars or taxis will charge batteries overnight, drive people during peak hours, charge around noon and drive back in evening.
So the future is electric cars even at current battery prices.
I am an original customer of @Home (Around 1999) which was acquired by ATT and then sold to Comcast. I have tried many other ISP, but haven't found anyone working better than Comcast and have returned to Comcast within a year. I don't know whether it meets your criteria but for me, I can say at the least, they are the best of the worst. Nothing better has ever been available in my area. Recently ATT has started offering fiber based internet and I might try out but their prices are higher than my "promotional" (I am permanently on promotional rates) prices. If they offer better promotion, I don't mind giving it a try.
From the article: The Nashville One Touch Make Ready ordinance "permits third parties to move, alter, or rearrange components of Comcast’s communications network attached to utility poles without Comcast’s consent, authorization, or oversight, and with far less notice than is required by federal law and by an existing Comcast contract with Metro Nashville,"
You can sue anyone for whatever you like. Question is, will you win? BTW, I didn't say diapers are causing harm, just that they were wrong brand.
I have full freedom to decide how I want to raise my kids as long as I am not breaking any law. There is no law against using cheap diaper, buying ugly clothes or posting innocuous photos. If you can sue (and win) here, how will you prevent someone suing parent for sending him to soccer game causing injury?
Every parents in the world has done few things that their grown up kids might not like. If you think big brother should interfere than you are the one who needs to leave this world. Parents want freedom, not your diktat.
Seriously, she has more chance of winning this lawsuit than the one she is filing. If she wins, next people will start filing lawsuit against parents for buying bicycle since she fell off the bike or buying a wrong brand of diapers.
China plans to complete space station in 2022 and will have a mass of 64,000 kg. This is about half of the mass of Mir launched 30 years ago by USSR. Still a lot to catch up. The ISS launched in 1998 has a mass of 440,000 kg.
The study only says that kids who such thumb and bit may develop fewer allergies. This does not mean that there are no other side effects and it is overall good for them. The referenced article has a proper title, "Thumb Suckers and Nail Biters May Develop Fewer Allergies".
How does it matter what is the lowest storage? What should matter is highest storage because that is the real limitation. iPhone already offers 128 GB which is more than most latest Android phones and definitely more than any cell phone which was available at the time of iPhone 6 was released. No one is forcing anyone to buy 16 GB but the fact that people buy tells that there are lots of people for whom it is not worth extra money for extra storage.
Android and Windows have 32 GB because many of them come with bloats. I have used Android for 3 years and iPhone for 4 years. On Android (Google Nexus) if I leave my gps app open, my battery used to drain in few hours. I had to make sure to kill all unused app all the time to get 1 day of battery life on brand new phone. With iPhone, I get two day battery life running equivalent apps without worrying about shutting down each app every time.
I don't about SD card experience since my Nexus 5 didn't support it but my Windows phone (yes, I have used that too for 18 months), the SD card was flaky. Sometimes it will use it and other time it will just give error that I am out of memory even when the SD card was almost empty.
If you go to doctor's office and start video recording everyone to collect data on discrimination, will it allow it? Same way, website can limit recording of publicly available information. Doctor's office will also ask you provide true information just like websites do. I don't see much difference between the two. There are many private clubs which limit do the same. I don't see Facebook, Twitter any different than YMCA etc where if I want to be in, I have to become member, pay, provide my true information and then can do limited recording. If you ask online sites to allow fake id, unlimited recording, then why not doctor's office, gyms, hotels etc?
This one definitely qualifies for the term, "it is not a vulnerability, it is a feature". I don't see any harm by being able to record shows on my machine.
Number of deaths per 100,000 is not the right metric. The correct metric is average age of person dying. If this is falling, we have a genuine problem.
Electric cars means you charge using electricity and the biggest problem with that is that the charging time is too high. Hydrogen cars can fill hydrogen as fast as gasoline. Also, hydrogen can be obtained without electricity (Iceland hydrogen vent), so it is not necessarily an equivalent of battery either. There are many application of FC (one I know is the forklift usage indoor. Gas based one will cause indoor CO and hence can't be used. Electric requires long charging time. FC fits the budget perfect).
Personally, I hate FC and love electric but that does not mean you accept all lies about FC.
"Data about user batteries is collected because the app uses that information to know when to switch into low-power mode."
This is what really scars me. Every app collects lots of data on one or the other pretext and then they use this data for entirely different and highly invasive purpose. Google reads your chat and email. Next what, it will start showing diaper ads when it determines you are pregnant? Uber can start charging 10 times when your battery is low. Maybe google and uber can collaborate and determine when you are running late for your flight and surge the price to 10 times as well.
The funny thing is that, gadget minded young generation don't care. For them, the corporations are benevolent dictators.
Hamburger analogy can backfire. If a restaurant has completely new 1000 items, each with their unique complementary set of taste and nutrients on the menu and another restaurant copies the exact same menu, then the copyright law is very simple that the second restaurant stole it. The Java API are all interconnected set of thousands of methods acting like set of tastes and nutrients working to compliment each other. If you copy those, you are stealing them.
Technology creates more jobs than it takes away. As we increase technology and make things easier to do what was harder earlier, we start demanding more and that increases employment equivalent to what is displaced by automation. Robots can make cars with much faster than humans. But then what did we do? We started asking for an air bag, then 2, then 3,... then 5-10 air bags. Now we ask for rear camera, gps, satellite radio,.... blah.... and hence effectively, the employment in auto-sector hasn't gone down (auto sector does not mean manufacturers but all components, software, services providers etc too). Today, we have lots of tutorials, online classes available, but demands for teachers, professors etc is not down. So it is a fallacy to say tech advancement will cause unemployment. It is no more truer than what people used to believe that industrial revolution will cause unemployment.
Didn't windows have POSIX layer as early as 1995? I have used it and hence I know it. The POSIX layer was written on top of NT kernel (not on top of win32 subsystem) and didn't interact well with rest of Windows. E.g. no gui.
The problem with this and cygwin etc is that the interaction is not seamless. E.g. in unix, everyone uses.jpg for photos. In windows, it could be.JPG or.jpg. Since the filenames are case sensitive in shell, you get different behavior. As a unix/windows user, I have habit of typing "rm *.jpg" on linux and "del *.jpg" on windows. But with bash, you will have to do "rm *.jpg *.JPG". Very soon it gets confusing. Create a file name "a.htm" and "a.html" using bash. Go to cmd and type "del *.htm", your "a.html" gone, something you don't expect. The problem is interoperability between two distinct personalities.
Believe it or not, but his definition of "hurt economy" may not be same as yours. Suppose some regulation cuts down 10 billion from top billionaires (2% reduction in top 0.1% people) and increases by 5 billion for bottom 20% (> 10% increase), would you call it improvement or hurting economy? It has increased 5 times more income for 200 times more people but in absolute term, it has reduced total economy. People like Mark count hurting economy by checking if they (billionaires) benefits or not. Without the regulations, I would put all my money in CD and real estate. Even now, investing in anything other than index fund is not for normal people, but without regulations, even that won't work.
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Self driving cars will have more economic impact than cell phones have. Self driving taxis will be cheaper than owning cars, so most people will ditch owning cars (like a landline) and go with car on demand. Companies will own large fleet of cars to serve everyone and you just request when you want. Most personal cars are sitting around in parking lots and garages while company owned vehicles will be running around, so you will need very few cars (about 20-25% of current cars). Also, these will be fairly standard non-custom cars mass manufactured long lasting vehicles. They can offer ride sharing during peak hours to minimize traffic and may even let kids ride alone to school, libraries etc.
No more owning car, garages, insurance, gas, oil change, repair, gas stations, dealership, auto parts stores, parking fines, traffic violations, stuck vehicle on road. Manufacturing will be highly trimmed. Parking lots will be smaller and traffic will be lighter. People will be able to live in high density apartments without worrying about traffic. It will also reduce traffic accidents.
Oh and they will be all electric vehicles. Built in intelligence in vehicle will mean that they will go to charging stations on their own during low demand times of the day and night and serve users during peak hours. Long distance drive? No, problem. Just exchange the car when it is low on battery. Another car will pick you up while your current car goes to charging station.
Who will make first iPhone equivalent of self driving car? That is a trillion dollar question.
Based on my analysis of corporations filing lawsuits against their suppliers, it is usually when the buyer has sufficiently guaranteed win in the lawsuit or have an alternate supplier (internal or external) available. So either the Apple will win this suit or it will switch to some other supplier.
Disclaimer: I own Apple stock and have no direct position in Qualcomm.
I am not a physicist, so I may be wrong, but I always thought that absolute zero is theoretically impossible. The temperature is a measure of random energy per degree of freedom. By Heisenberg principle delta_x * delta_p = h/2pi. So you have to get delta_p = 0 for absolute zero or delta_x = infinity.
The best you can get in lab by cooling atoms is to create a Bose Einstein condensate in which all the atoms acts as a single coherent wave. This can reduce random KE significantly. For particle of size of hydrogen atom and container of size of 1 ft, this value is of order 10^-9 K.
Self driving cars are the future. Once there is self driving cars, the taxis will be as cheap as private cars on per mile basis when averaged over entire year. Most people would stop owning cars and large families may keep only one car. Also, this naturally leads to all electric cars as well. The taxis will take people to work in rush hour and then will charge themselves and will be ready in the evening.
Any business that depends on traditional car ownership is in peril. Gas stations, repair places, parts, dealers, car insurance, paid parking etc. Even auto makers are in big trouble because you will need far fewer taxis as they can service more people per vehicle.
Anthropological principle states that the universal laws are tweaked in such a way for intelligent life to exist. So the universe tweaked its laws for intelligent life to exist and it took billions of years to evolve. Would such an universe be left extremely vulnerable to few mad men who could destroy intelligent life at the touch of buttons or some cosmic phenomena destroying intelligent life on the only planet? Based on this argument, you can say that intelligent life in the universe would be so robust that no matter what you do, you can't get rid of them, not at least in a fraction of evolution time. So, not only intelligent should exist in outer planet in our galaxy but it should exist all over the entire universe. Laws of cosmology prevents us from destroying significant portion of the intelligent life in the universe due to horizon limit (even if we can sent virus via rocket at the speed of light).
Self driving cars will increase adoption of electric cars. Currently, the range is limited due to high cost of battery and very few fast charging stations are there. Imagine your office is 30 miles commute and charging station is 0.5 mile away from your office. You can't use cheap electric cars with 75-80 miles range. But if these are self driving, then you just get down at your office and the car will go to charging station and park itself.
It is also possible that self driving cars will make taxis cheaper than owning cars and most people will get rid of cars and use taxis (or at least have only 1 owned car per family). The self driving cars or taxis will charge batteries overnight, drive people during peak hours, charge around noon and drive back in evening.
So the future is electric cars even at current battery prices.
I am an original customer of @Home (Around 1999) which was acquired by ATT and then sold to Comcast. I have tried many other ISP, but haven't found anyone working better than Comcast and have returned to Comcast within a year. I don't know whether it meets your criteria but for me, I can say at the least, they are the best of the worst. Nothing better has ever been available in my area. Recently ATT has started offering fiber based internet and I might try out but their prices are higher than my "promotional" (I am permanently on promotional rates) prices. If they offer better promotion, I don't mind giving it a try.
From the article: The Nashville One Touch Make Ready ordinance "permits third parties to move, alter, or rearrange components of Comcast’s communications network attached to utility poles without Comcast’s consent, authorization, or oversight, and with far less notice than is required by federal law and by an existing Comcast contract with Metro Nashville,"
Any surprise here?
How would people use back camera on this?
You can sue anyone for whatever you like. Question is, will you win? BTW, I didn't say diapers are causing harm, just that they were wrong brand.
I have full freedom to decide how I want to raise my kids as long as I am not breaking any law. There is no law against using cheap diaper, buying ugly clothes or posting innocuous photos. If you can sue (and win) here, how will you prevent someone suing parent for sending him to soccer game causing injury?
Every parents in the world has done few things that their grown up kids might not like. If you think big brother should interfere than you are the one who needs to leave this world. Parents want freedom, not your diktat.
Seriously, she has more chance of winning this lawsuit than the one she is filing. If she wins, next people will start filing lawsuit against parents for buying bicycle since she fell off the bike or buying a wrong brand of diapers.
China plans to complete space station in 2022 and will have a mass of 64,000 kg. This is about half of the mass of Mir launched 30 years ago by USSR. Still a lot to catch up. The ISS launched in 1998 has a mass of 440,000 kg.
The study only says that kids who such thumb and bit may develop fewer allergies. This does not mean that there are no other side effects and it is overall good for them. The referenced article has a proper title, "Thumb Suckers and Nail Biters May Develop Fewer Allergies".
How does it matter what is the lowest storage? What should matter is highest storage because that is the real limitation. iPhone already offers 128 GB which is more than most latest Android phones and definitely more than any cell phone which was available at the time of iPhone 6 was released. No one is forcing anyone to buy 16 GB but the fact that people buy tells that there are lots of people for whom it is not worth extra money for extra storage.
Android and Windows have 32 GB because many of them come with bloats. I have used Android for 3 years and iPhone for 4 years. On Android (Google Nexus) if I leave my gps app open, my battery used to drain in few hours. I had to make sure to kill all unused app all the time to get 1 day of battery life on brand new phone. With iPhone, I get two day battery life running equivalent apps without worrying about shutting down each app every time.
I don't about SD card experience since my Nexus 5 didn't support it but my Windows phone (yes, I have used that too for 18 months), the SD card was flaky. Sometimes it will use it and other time it will just give error that I am out of memory even when the SD card was almost empty.
If you go to doctor's office and start video recording everyone to collect data on discrimination, will it allow it? Same way, website can limit recording of publicly available information. Doctor's office will also ask you provide true information just like websites do. I don't see much difference between the two. There are many private clubs which limit do the same. I don't see Facebook, Twitter any different than YMCA etc where if I want to be in, I have to become member, pay, provide my true information and then can do limited recording. If you ask online sites to allow fake id, unlimited recording, then why not doctor's office, gyms, hotels etc?
This one definitely qualifies for the term, "it is not a vulnerability, it is a feature". I don't see any harm by being able to record shows on my machine.
Going forward, I will not use "Going forward" in sentences. Also, going forward, I will not post such silly stuff.
Number of deaths per 100,000 is not the right metric. The correct metric is average age of person dying. If this is falling, we have a genuine problem.
Electric cars means you charge using electricity and the biggest problem with that is that the charging time is too high. Hydrogen cars can fill hydrogen as fast as gasoline. Also, hydrogen can be obtained without electricity (Iceland hydrogen vent), so it is not necessarily an equivalent of battery either. There are many application of FC (one I know is the forklift usage indoor. Gas based one will cause indoor CO and hence can't be used. Electric requires long charging time. FC fits the budget perfect).
Personally, I hate FC and love electric but that does not mean you accept all lies about FC.
"Data about user batteries is collected because the app uses that information to know when to switch into low-power mode."
This is what really scars me. Every app collects lots of data on one or the other pretext and then they use this data for entirely different and highly invasive purpose. Google reads your chat and email. Next what, it will start showing diaper ads when it determines you are pregnant? Uber can start charging 10 times when your battery is low. Maybe google and uber can collaborate and determine when you are running late for your flight and surge the price to 10 times as well.
The funny thing is that, gadget minded young generation don't care. For them, the corporations are benevolent dictators.
Hamburger analogy can backfire. If a restaurant has completely new 1000 items, each with their unique complementary set of taste and nutrients on the menu and another restaurant copies the exact same menu, then the copyright law is very simple that the second restaurant stole it. The Java API are all interconnected set of thousands of methods acting like set of tastes and nutrients working to compliment each other. If you copy those, you are stealing them.
Technology creates more jobs than it takes away. As we increase technology and make things easier to do what was harder earlier, we start demanding more and that increases employment equivalent to what is displaced by automation. Robots can make cars with much faster than humans. But then what did we do? We started asking for an air bag, then 2, then 3, ... then 5-10 air bags. Now we ask for rear camera, gps, satellite radio,.... blah.... and hence effectively, the employment in auto-sector hasn't gone down (auto sector does not mean manufacturers but all components, software, services providers etc too). Today, we have lots of tutorials, online classes available, but demands for teachers, professors etc is not down. So it is a fallacy to say tech advancement will cause unemployment. It is no more truer than what people used to believe that industrial revolution will cause unemployment.
The article defines emirp as below:
“It is the sixth ‘emirp.’ ” An emirp, he explained, is a prime number that remains prime when its digits are reversed.
Here are the emirp numbers: 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 31, 37, 71, 73. So it is eleventh emirp.
Didn't windows have POSIX layer as early as 1995? I have used it and hence I know it. The POSIX layer was written on top of NT kernel (not on top of win32 subsystem) and didn't interact well with rest of Windows. E.g. no gui.
The problem with this and cygwin etc is that the interaction is not seamless. E.g. in unix, everyone uses .jpg for photos. In windows, it could be .JPG or .jpg. Since the filenames are case sensitive in shell, you get different behavior. As a unix/windows user, I have habit of typing "rm *.jpg" on linux and "del *.jpg" on windows. But with bash, you will have to do "rm *.jpg *.JPG". Very soon it gets confusing. Create a file name "a.htm" and "a.html" using bash. Go to cmd and type "del *.htm", your "a.html" gone, something you don't expect. The problem is interoperability between two distinct personalities.
Believe it or not, but his definition of "hurt economy" may not be same as yours. Suppose some regulation cuts down 10 billion from top billionaires (2% reduction in top 0.1% people) and increases by 5 billion for bottom 20% (> 10% increase), would you call it improvement or hurting economy? It has increased 5 times more income for 200 times more people but in absolute term, it has reduced total economy. People like Mark count hurting economy by checking if they (billionaires) benefits or not. Without the regulations, I would put all my money in CD and real estate. Even now, investing in anything other than index fund is not for normal people, but without regulations, even that won't work.