Highly trained heavily geared up professionals should not have itchy trigger fingers and need to at least get professional consequences!
People make mistakes on the job and big ones result in consequences including being fired. I'm not saying firing is required as an idiotic zero tolerance policy; especially when properly handled that employee may never make that mistake ever again. As a TEAM failure the whole team needs to feel the failure; more training and at least but a dock in PAY should be minimum. If your team fucks up you don't get bonuses or raises and are lucky to not get reassigned or laid off... if not fired if you are the reason the team failed.
When you are nearly invincible against most every likely handheld weapon you can take the TIME to wait for that LARGE heavy 50 caliber to rise into view. It is cowardice or mental illness or a SYSTEM which promotes "extreme" caution with the exact opposite reasoning of innocent until proven guilty. Furthermore, better training so you don't question breaking windows and entering from ALL sides and eyes seeing his hands can communicate to the others. They often just smash in the door; maybe the back door too -- this is life or death stuff, they should break windows and using a drone to peak in windows should be cheap...
Blaming the victim for involuntary ass scratching (cell phone same thing) or pulling up loose clothes or sneezing is so unprofessional an excuse somebody needs to be fired.
Finally, WTF are they using guns? It is a TEAM where the front guys can have beanbag guns and stun guns and heavier armor. the others can have the bazookas. This wasn't a known criminal or bad location... WTF do we have local prosecutors who must work with the police be the ones to look into their buddies? massive conflict of interest!
Germany structured it's corporate law to require that the corporate boards INCLUDE labor. The very definition and function of corporations are done by government; you can do it foolishly or smart... So, NO it would not happen in Germany because labor has a real voice in management.
Emissions is another whole issue and one where labor is aligned with management. A solution on this one could be to have a government official on the board... except that could be a nightmare in so many ways... but you could REQUIRE full accounting of everything that transpires so accountability is possible when they get caught. Some of which does happen if they don't manage to shred and wipe all the evidence; which so far they often miss bits but get enough that you can't beat their army of lawyers and bribed officials. This is a place where a blockchain style ledger would be quite useful. It would make it hard to remove evidence; they'd have to manage in secret to avoid any records... and that should be a crime. Also could stop all these golf informal meetings where a lot of bad things happen. I bet the world would be a better place if you just outlawed golf... (strip clubs are impossible to ban; just try running a black market golf club...) losing golf would be a small price to pay.
We shouldn't always wait for a disaster to react to. We should be wise and make moves in advance of "market conditions" to form. The invisible hand of the market is NOT god and it's not wise either; it's mostly reactionary and short sighted.
Alternatives needed to get jump started and they did... but they need to grow faster than they have and most importantly, they need to be large enough to bribe government officials on a competitive scale with the fossil fuel industry. THEN we can seriously talk about sitting back and letting the chaos unfold hopefully in the right direction.
Old energy is still heavily subsidized and far too influential. It is not a fair competition.
I'm serious, it's literally creating brains that are underdeveloped and it will retard their mental abilities. The actual literally meaning of the label. It need not be permanent or have equal levels of damage to do a society great harm.
Creativity is severely lacking in people who never have to stimulate their own mind (imagine. No, consuming media that spells everything out does not count. It's akin to using training wheels and thinking you are good at riding a bike. ) Their attention spans, patience, and "normal" delaying of gratification (which is already lower in their parents) are also being harmed. Think of the Standford marshmallow experiment then think of freemium apps... It should be at least viewed as neglect to give a young child smart devices... Give them building blocks and dolls in their holodeck but phase in the devices as they develop and learn to properly incorporate them into their lives.
The ramifications of all of this are never going to be clear cut hard science but even if it reaches tobacco levels, the senseless defenders of the new status quo on this topic are vast and more powerful than big tobacco.
Yes, the USA is messed up in a lot of ways and refuses to intelligently discuss anything; maybe in the past, but no longer.
I have a cabin. It's in a rural area that didn't even get cell service until about 8 years ago. There is no internet, just a lousy old noisy phone line. I doubt dial-up would even go full speed. Maybe some slow cell internet is possible up there now but it's not that cheap. The locals seem to have many accidental fires and thefts and I'm beginning to think it's the two primary sources of income up there. (No business goes out of business there, they have a fire.) Seriously, the only jobs up there are tourism related - the farmers are all on corn welfare.
I have also done some online job applications involving session timeouts and rather large downloads. Will internet get them jobs so they can still boink their sisters without being noticed? I think not. But maybe they'll learn something? Me, I'd like access when I'm up there-- but you see, I go up there to ESCAPE like all the tourists.
Lets migrate the whole company to the new 1.0 because it has more buzzwords! The developer has a decent track record with only a few major scandals and those were only the fault of some traitor whistleblower. We don't need to waste time testing it, everything will be perfect! Vendor lock in is perfectly safe.
Why is it so many tech people won't allow me to install free apps on their servers BUT will insult my intelligence for not promoting Monsanto monopoly GMO crops in my body or my yard or my environment? Without even external tests? Oh, and when things go wrong I can't cautiously roll it back either.... am NOT I even allowed the personal option (ex labeling, cross contamination.)
Hell, if Oracle created a VIRUS which infected your computers and then used the DCMA to force you to pay them for their software... you'd all be OK with that in the farming domain.
More insurance companies and middlemen are going to find more ways to screw you over using information you never cared about or never thought would reach their twisted minds. AI or not or just some AI -- doesn't matter because this stuff is making people think about doing things that probably were already thought about but abandoned as impractical in the past.
Facebook and these other companies can keep your DATA private but they can profile and deduce their own information from your DATA and sell that information they created and own without literally disclosing your DATA. Derivative data is the real threat and we are over a decade behind just on simple data privacy today.
We have POWER and PHONES in the rural areas because of taxes placed on the city folk who have larger numbers but did not prevent the taxes imposed upon them to help the redneck racist inbred buggers who constantly preach about picking themselves up by their own bootstraps. City dwellers seem to have empathy and a better grasp on reality; not all, we have plenty of isolated selfish pricks that manage to not learn anything despite having more opportunities to open their eyes.
The phone taxes were shifted to pay for free mobile phones for the poor during Bush but somehow the program was referred to as people getting Obamaphones. Some money was also shifted towards funding internet and access to internet. You have one hell of a time doing your own taxes without internet or computer access now and just try to apply for jobs without it. Libraries have been a means since the 90s when the same old selfish morons opposed tax money to get libraries online. So when you get a job offer... and you don't have a phone how do you reply? When you get an EMAIL do you go to the library every day to check it? Assuming you are homeless and live in the ditch next to the library then it's not a problem...
What is classified as broadband is not so great and that is whole other political issue about changing that definition. Some old 56k modem is not going to get you thru a lot of online job application forms... probably your session would timeout before you downloaded the bloated page.
I actually know somebody in that subsidized broadband program. It was not free, it was cheap and it was the ONLY option in that area outside of finding somebody who still did dial-up (nobody locally. maybe in that area code there might have still been one.) The ONLY reason that whole county has "broadband" internet at all is due to subsidies. Hell, they have more paved roads than they probably could pay for from local taxes. It's all Trump county so I'll be just fine if they all lose the welfare they hate so much.
Internet is more and more like ROADS and when it's that important it should not be a toll service. I'm fine with slower users on bikes slowly using it for free. We don't have to make them walk... we are supposedly a rich nation. If they want a car... then they can pay to use the roads (and we do; although we've been messing that whole process up to the point of bridges falling down. which is 100% preventable-- that bridge was behind schedule... and finally being fixed when it fell. too little too late.)
I forget details-- you look it up but the Tesla plan is a solid one which will put it on par with Ford in REAL numbers soon.
Ford only makes about $1000 per car they sell. It's quite low, look it up. They make more on higher ones but it's mostly a profit by volume (and support fees.) Other profit goes to the car dealers. Ford makes about 5 million cars or so per year. So thats about 1 billion profit (on new cars, not all the tons of other stuff they are doing.)
Tesla's plan is to make about 1 million cars per year. They make 5x the profit per car, part of that profit comes from NOT having to share profits with dealers etc. That means when they reach 1 million cars per year (which is not far away) they will have about equal the profits of Ford. Since they don't do all the other stuff Ford does, you can't compare with those... plus Ford doesn't do solar or power storage (yet.)
Somebody picked the wrong kind of bolt... a standard bolt of the wrong kind metal. I'm no engineer, but I know I'd forget about something like that while thinking about everything else... including mixed metal contacts.
Computers are more complex but they also could leave out unfinished features or leave in lesser bugs by the shipping date. Assembly was easier than a car; all the hard components were made by others.
Main difference-- building a large complex machine that costs 10x as much as a computer. Complex in engineering, manufacturing and in regulations. Infrastructure investment is considerably higher too. Also keep in mind they have their own more computer as part of the car and it's more sophisticated than Apple's computers were (and like Apple, they use off the shelf parts-- but unlike apple they probably didn't design their out circuit boards.... although they did that for the car's other electronics.)
It takes longer to pay off the debts from any growth to meet demand. They simply can't hire factories to make what they need for many of the parts. For the batteries they are working with panasonic but nobody can output the volume required so they are making that product too.
Have you ever even met somebody who is in business selling products? Retail markup + box + packing + manuals + shrinkwrap + media (CD/DVD) + sales processing (credit card 2% tax) and finally marketing & product placement all take a sizable chunk out of a product's price. The general recommendation I've been told JUST for marketing overhead is 30% of the budget!
Now 30% might seem at the high end of the classic business model but it depends on the market. Apple wants to keep all the gains of going online for themselves rather than for the publishers (who often take an undo share while developers... like everywhere else the value creators often get the least in the chain of leeches.) The App store has a massive exposure with the promise to move much higher volume -- like how major brands PAY for shelf placement in the isles. Apple doesn't yet do a version of this but makes everybody pay more to be in the store.
I don't know if 30% is a good deal. It doesn't sound all that bad if you price accordingly and are clever in selling direct at a lower price-- where it is likely that the App store sales beat your own website... I've noticed more apps going on their store exclusively. They must have done the math for their situation.
Why not have pills INCLUDE something to make people feel back. Chemotherapy is not as bad today but it used to be a horrible experience people just suffered thru because they had to do so to possibly get better. People did it despite it not being a sure thing.
I see nothing wrong with having the treatment cost in some suffering and not tell the general public... even if they find out, you will also find out that you will not be cured if you stop taking the drugs early.
Addiction drugs actually make the most sense but only if you have a better way to avoid a serious addiction than we have today. Less extreme drugs exist which could be used. Caffeine is pretty harmless and quite addicting... the users are likely stuck on coffee already. (combine it with advice you can't drink coffee with the medication.)
World domination... well, the 3rd globally reaching economic empire in history may be worth a steep price or taking a great risk. Especially if one is being nudged in that direction by the great empire falling apart before your eyes.
Think of all the insecure men and their hangups caused by their misconceptions on manhood... and how some special plastic surgery or good therapy (unlikely) would have changed the world today.
Myths about tiny hands or untrained men being poor lovers should addressed so we don't end up with more big problems stemming from petty personal shortcomings...
China owns a lot of the USA; they have serious power now. The WTO was bad in so many ways and they don't seem to be making things fair or allowing corrections to be made... I wonder if Trump even is aware of the WTO?
The whole interconnected mess is likely not fixable without a bad bad transition period. It looks like we are headed for a shake up that is not planned. All that avoidance and procrastination I guess was for nothing?
Correction: Venezuela is no real threat, I messed up that sentence. Point was that there are different perspectives which can result in logical honest conclusions. The perspectives can involve lies or just be false and obviously dishonest people are involved in creating bubbles of alternative realities for others as a way to control them. This doesn't just happen at Fox News or at that scale. We do it on small scales with people we know-- facebook is loaded with people feeding distorted images of themselves to their peers - who belief it and make incorrect judgments based upon that. Ripple effects...etc.
Obama is a professional liar like every lawyer, it was not habitual nor was he gifted at lying. After being elected to office, any politician trying to be popular MUST lie and since they are paid and maintain their job hinging upon that skill; therefore, politicians are professional liars.
National Security is the last resort excuse to justify anything and to the paranoid people with wild imaginations anything is honestly possible. Multiple cogent arguments can be made against Venezuela's threat... I disagree with most the premises upon which all of those are based but some people DO believe those. So to assume they lie when some batshit crazy decisions come out-- you underestimate the power of the dark side of the force.
Fox News and Friends have become so powerful instead of merely being a propaganda arm they now have taken over control of the Republicans. The suckers who were just supposed to be managed (vote & donate) are now literally running and getting into positions of power!
It's now an incestuous insular cycle. The end result of too much success.
Sterile GMO bug killing plants YOU DO NOT EAT which exist solely to kill pests! No contamination, corps get their money replanting without banning sane farming (seed collection, replanting, not infecting the genepool,etc.)
Time for the rodent eating venus fly trap mixed with snake DNA! How about a spider plant-- made with real spider DNA? Scarecrow plants... ah, no... we didn't put in human DNA... (hey, did that plant just move towards us?)
Instead of wasting efforts to hide harm done to our foods by biohacking analog systems we don't hardly understand at any level, we can just make some seriously fatal plants that get the job done! NO NEED to seriously regulate them-- because nobody eats them except pests!
You left out solar. Way more powerful than wind or anything else except nuclear. Oil and coal are chemically stored solar. It is true that massive power is spread out over the whole daytime surface of earth... but space has a lot more if you can transmit it (remember intensity is higher; and duh... space.) Furthermore, we do not utilize most solar spectrum with today's PV.
Every 1 calorie of food we eat takes 10 calories of fossil fuels... and I never found a good estimate on calories of solar... but it must take a massive amount of calories to grow a plant... and keep everything from absolute zero! The atmosphere is our daily thermal battery.
Put any loser who can probably drive legally into ambulances and you'd cut costs!
Why does it take TWO people? Half the waste is the typically 2 people just to bring 1 person to the hospital!
Then you can save all that weight/space/fuel because nobody will be performing any medical aid at pickup or during the ride so why have a mini ER in a big heavy truck?
You can afford to wait before bleeding out! Just keep pressure on the wound with your cell phone! Your Uberlance will be right with you after completing their popular routes to the airport to drive way over to your low volume neighborhood.
Unconscious? Well you should have pre-tipped or pre-payed because how are they going to get a good rating from you now?
Seems like apple is still stuck in the past... They even gave microsoft the idea for clippy...but with Bill the Science Guy (predates him too:) https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
not a problem: 1st off, the degree of accuracy would be a factor in any half done system. Part #1 would get more influence!
Just like a spam filtering system today, it's all statistics... if you just keep it simple, you have RULES like spam assassin does which have huge factors of influence then you have a lesser impact from the Bayes classifier. I'm not saying to make the Bayes classifier more important or even equal to other factors. (which works with tiny training sets unlike what you're thinking as typical AI, the perceptron filters.)
I'm thinking simple actuarial science + statistical classifier having maybe a 25% influence on the recommendation. The other 100% could be rule based and get more weight as more calls confirm the report... the whole thing averaged... lots of ways to figure out how to do it. Case history logs of everything that has been input into a computer could be compiled to design rules and training data to give the best results.
Fixing VoIP doesn't stop the problem. it minimizes just the crank calls. There is still a lot of inaccurate reports leading to problems that always has existed; and it happens more in larger communities where the cops don't know most the people they interact with. Think of the mentally impaired people who are shot because the cops don't realize the person is not going to respond as expected of a normal person. Simply indicating it's likely the perp is autistic could save a life.
People SUE for every stupid thing imaginable; it is not a reason to avoid doing something. The cops ultimately decide and while it does give the cops something to use an excuse, the city gets sued regardless! Rarely does it ever come down to just the cop who gets sued for money.
It's just a ball park which WILL reduce how many innocents are harmed. Right now you have an INFORMAL process at best. "Black man seen climbing into window" already has a % bias being applied which is NOT in writing. Lawsuits happen all the time, it's hard to prove anything -- this does provide more paper trail...
One defense of actuarial science (like insurance companies do to us all already) is that you can trace down the unbiased statistics or have a black box AI -- but you can't claim unfair HUMAN BIAS. Now when the cop gets a 5% warning but shoots the black suspect 1st then you have a much stronger case for the lawsuit against the city.
People ALREADY make these judgements by neighborhood, history, looks, race, gender, nature of the threat... Crazy people do call -- aliens invading a house is not going to get a SWAT reaction. Judgement calls are made and small towns even more so-- local policing is the thing people often idealize. A system which brings more of that into reality would be nice. The cop doesn't need to know you like a small town cop would, the system doesn't need to invade your privacy as much as a small town cop does either but it can provide useful context beyond you just being a unknown situation where biases are influencing every decision by the second.
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Highly trained heavily geared up professionals should not have itchy trigger fingers and need to at least get professional consequences!
People make mistakes on the job and big ones result in consequences including being fired. I'm not saying firing is required as an idiotic zero tolerance policy; especially when properly handled that employee may never make that mistake ever again. As a TEAM failure the whole team needs to feel the failure; more training and at least but a dock in PAY should be minimum. If your team fucks up you don't get bonuses or raises and are lucky to not get reassigned or laid off... if not fired if you are the reason the team failed.
When you are nearly invincible against most every likely handheld weapon you can take the TIME to wait for that LARGE heavy 50 caliber to rise into view. It is cowardice or mental illness or a SYSTEM which promotes "extreme" caution with the exact opposite reasoning of innocent until proven guilty. Furthermore, better training so you don't question breaking windows and entering from ALL sides and eyes seeing his hands can communicate to the others. They often just smash in the door; maybe the back door too -- this is life or death stuff, they should break windows and using a drone to peak in windows should be cheap...
Blaming the victim for involuntary ass scratching (cell phone same thing) or pulling up loose clothes or sneezing is so unprofessional an excuse somebody needs to be fired.
Finally, WTF are they using guns? It is a TEAM where the front guys can have beanbag guns and stun guns and heavier armor. the others can have the bazookas. This wasn't a known criminal or bad location... WTF do we have local prosecutors who must work with the police be the ones to look into their buddies? massive conflict of interest!
Germany structured it's corporate law to require that the corporate boards INCLUDE labor. The very definition and function of corporations are done by government; you can do it foolishly or smart... So, NO it would not happen in Germany because labor has a real voice in management.
Emissions is another whole issue and one where labor is aligned with management. A solution on this one could be to have a government official on the board... except that could be a nightmare in so many ways... but you could REQUIRE full accounting of everything that transpires so accountability is possible when they get caught. Some of which does happen if they don't manage to shred and wipe all the evidence; which so far they often miss bits but get enough that you can't beat their army of lawyers and bribed officials. This is a place where a blockchain style ledger would be quite useful. It would make it hard to remove evidence; they'd have to manage in secret to avoid any records... and that should be a crime. Also could stop all these golf informal meetings where a lot of bad things happen. I bet the world would be a better place if you just outlawed golf... (strip clubs are impossible to ban; just try running a black market golf club...) losing golf would be a small price to pay.
We shouldn't always wait for a disaster to react to. We should be wise and make moves in advance of "market conditions" to form. The invisible hand of the market is NOT god and it's not wise either; it's mostly reactionary and short sighted.
Alternatives needed to get jump started and they did... but they need to grow faster than they have and most importantly, they need to be large enough to bribe government officials on a competitive scale with the fossil fuel industry. THEN we can seriously talk about sitting back and letting the chaos unfold hopefully in the right direction.
Old energy is still heavily subsidized and far too influential. It is not a fair competition.
I'm serious, it's literally creating brains that are underdeveloped and it will retard their mental abilities. The actual literally meaning of the label. It need not be permanent or have equal levels of damage to do a society great harm.
Creativity is severely lacking in people who never have to stimulate their own mind (imagine. No, consuming media that spells everything out does not count. It's akin to using training wheels and thinking you are good at riding a bike. ) Their attention spans, patience, and "normal" delaying of gratification (which is already lower in their parents) are also being harmed. Think of the Standford marshmallow experiment then think of freemium apps... It should be at least viewed as neglect to give a young child smart devices... Give them building blocks and dolls in their holodeck but phase in the devices as they develop and learn to properly incorporate them into their lives.
The ramifications of all of this are never going to be clear cut hard science but even if it reaches tobacco levels, the senseless defenders of the new status quo on this topic are vast and more powerful than big tobacco.
Yes, the USA is messed up in a lot of ways and refuses to intelligently discuss anything; maybe in the past, but no longer.
I have a cabin. It's in a rural area that didn't even get cell service until about 8 years ago. There is no internet, just a lousy old noisy phone line. I doubt dial-up would even go full speed. Maybe some slow cell internet is possible up there now but it's not that cheap. The locals seem to have many accidental fires and thefts and I'm beginning to think it's the two primary sources of income up there. (No business goes out of business there, they have a fire.) Seriously, the only jobs up there are tourism related - the farmers are all on corn welfare.
I have also done some online job applications involving session timeouts and rather large downloads. Will internet get them jobs so they can still boink their sisters without being noticed? I think not. But maybe they'll learn something? Me, I'd like access when I'm up there-- but you see, I go up there to ESCAPE like all the tourists.
Lets migrate the whole company to the new 1.0 because it has more buzzwords! The developer has a decent track record with only a few major scandals and those were only the fault of some traitor whistleblower. We don't need to waste time testing it, everything will be perfect! Vendor lock in is perfectly safe.
Why is it so many tech people won't allow me to install free apps on their servers BUT will insult my intelligence for not promoting Monsanto monopoly GMO crops in my body or my yard or my environment? Without even external tests? Oh, and when things go wrong I can't cautiously roll it back either.... am NOT I even allowed the personal option (ex labeling, cross contamination.)
Hell, if Oracle created a VIRUS which infected your computers and then used the DCMA to force you to pay them for their software... you'd all be OK with that in the farming domain.
More insurance companies and middlemen are going to find more ways to screw you over using information you never cared about or never thought would reach their twisted minds. AI or not or just some AI -- doesn't matter because this stuff is making people think about doing things that probably were already thought about but abandoned as impractical in the past.
Facebook and these other companies can keep your DATA private but they can profile and deduce their own information from your DATA and sell that information they created and own without literally disclosing your DATA. Derivative data is the real threat and we are over a decade behind just on simple data privacy today.
We have POWER and PHONES in the rural areas because of taxes placed on the city folk who have larger numbers but did not prevent the taxes imposed upon them to help the redneck racist inbred buggers who constantly preach about picking themselves up by their own bootstraps. City dwellers seem to have empathy and a better grasp on reality; not all, we have plenty of isolated selfish pricks that manage to not learn anything despite having more opportunities to open their eyes.
The phone taxes were shifted to pay for free mobile phones for the poor during Bush but somehow the program was referred to as people getting Obamaphones. Some money was also shifted towards funding internet and access to internet. You have one hell of a time doing your own taxes without internet or computer access now and just try to apply for jobs without it. Libraries have been a means since the 90s when the same old selfish morons opposed tax money to get libraries online. So when you get a job offer... and you don't have a phone how do you reply? When you get an EMAIL do you go to the library every day to check it? Assuming you are homeless and live in the ditch next to the library then it's not a problem...
What is classified as broadband is not so great and that is whole other political issue about changing that definition. Some old 56k modem is not going to get you thru a lot of online job application forms... probably your session would timeout before you downloaded the bloated page.
I actually know somebody in that subsidized broadband program. It was not free, it was cheap and it was the ONLY option in that area outside of finding somebody who still did dial-up (nobody locally. maybe in that area code there might have still been one.) The ONLY reason that whole county has "broadband" internet at all is due to subsidies. Hell, they have more paved roads than they probably could pay for from local taxes. It's all Trump county so I'll be just fine if they all lose the welfare they hate so much.
Internet is more and more like ROADS and when it's that important it should not be a toll service. I'm fine with slower users on bikes slowly using it for free. We don't have to make them walk... we are supposedly a rich nation. If they want a car... then they can pay to use the roads (and we do; although we've been messing that whole process up to the point of bridges falling down. which is 100% preventable-- that bridge was behind schedule... and finally being fixed when it fell. too little too late.)
I forget details-- you look it up but the Tesla plan is a solid one which will put it on par with Ford in REAL numbers soon.
Ford only makes about $1000 per car they sell. It's quite low, look it up. They make more on higher ones but it's mostly a profit by volume (and support fees.) Other profit goes to the car dealers. Ford makes about 5 million cars or so per year. So thats about 1 billion profit (on new cars, not all the tons of other stuff they are doing.)
Tesla's plan is to make about 1 million cars per year. They make 5x the profit per car, part of that profit comes from NOT having to share profits with dealers etc. That means when they reach 1 million cars per year (which is not far away) they will have about equal the profits of Ford. Since they don't do all the other stuff Ford does, you can't compare with those... plus Ford doesn't do solar or power storage (yet.)
Somebody picked the wrong kind of bolt... a standard bolt of the wrong kind metal. I'm no engineer, but I know I'd forget about something like that while thinking about everything else... including mixed metal contacts.
Computers are more complex but they also could leave out unfinished features or leave in lesser bugs by the shipping date. Assembly was easier than a car; all the hard components were made by others.
Main difference-- building a large complex machine that costs 10x as much as a computer. Complex in engineering, manufacturing and in regulations. Infrastructure investment is considerably higher too. Also keep in mind they have their own more computer as part of the car and it's more sophisticated than Apple's computers were (and like Apple, they use off the shelf parts-- but unlike apple they probably didn't design their out circuit boards.... although they did that for the car's other electronics.)
It takes longer to pay off the debts from any growth to meet demand. They simply can't hire factories to make what they need for many of the parts. For the batteries they are working with panasonic but nobody can output the volume required so they are making that product too.
Have you ever even met somebody who is in business selling products?
Retail markup + box + packing + manuals + shrinkwrap + media (CD/DVD) + sales processing (credit card 2% tax) and finally marketing & product placement all take a sizable chunk out of a product's price. The general recommendation I've been told JUST for marketing overhead is 30% of the budget!
Now 30% might seem at the high end of the classic business model but it depends on the market. Apple wants to keep all the gains of going online for themselves rather than for the publishers (who often take an undo share while developers... like everywhere else the value creators often get the least in the chain of leeches.) The App store has a massive exposure with the promise to move much higher volume -- like how major brands PAY for shelf placement in the isles. Apple doesn't yet do a version of this but makes everybody pay more to be in the store.
I don't know if 30% is a good deal. It doesn't sound all that bad if you price accordingly and are clever in selling direct at a lower price-- where it is likely that the App store sales beat your own website... I've noticed more apps going on their store exclusively. They must have done the math for their situation.
Why not have pills INCLUDE something to make people feel back. Chemotherapy is not as bad today but it used to be a horrible experience people just suffered thru because they had to do so to possibly get better. People did it despite it not being a sure thing.
I see nothing wrong with having the treatment cost in some suffering and not tell the general public... even if they find out, you will also find out that you will not be cured if you stop taking the drugs early.
Addiction drugs actually make the most sense but only if you have a better way to avoid a serious addiction than we have today. Less extreme drugs exist which could be used. Caffeine is pretty harmless and quite addicting... the users are likely stuck on coffee already. (combine it with advice you can't drink coffee with the medication.)
World domination... well, the 3rd globally reaching economic empire in history may be worth a steep price or taking a great risk. Especially if one is being nudged in that direction by the great empire falling apart before your eyes.
Think of all the insecure men and their hangups caused by their misconceptions on manhood... and how some special plastic surgery or good therapy (unlikely) would have changed the world today.
Myths about tiny hands or untrained men being poor lovers should addressed so we don't end up with more big problems stemming from petty personal shortcomings...
China owns a lot of the USA; they have serious power now.
The WTO was bad in so many ways and they don't seem to be making things fair or allowing corrections to be made... I wonder if Trump even is aware of the WTO?
The whole interconnected mess is likely not fixable without a bad bad transition period. It looks like we are headed for a shake up that is not planned. All that avoidance and procrastination I guess was for nothing?
Correction: Venezuela is no real threat, I messed up that sentence. Point was that there are different perspectives which can result in logical honest conclusions. The perspectives can involve lies or just be false and obviously dishonest people are involved in creating bubbles of alternative realities for others as a way to control them. This doesn't just happen at Fox News or at that scale. We do it on small scales with people we know-- facebook is loaded with people feeding distorted images of themselves to their peers - who belief it and make incorrect judgments based upon that. Ripple effects...etc.
Obama is a professional liar like every lawyer, it was not habitual nor was he gifted at lying.
After being elected to office, any politician trying to be popular MUST lie and since they are paid and maintain their job hinging upon that skill; therefore, politicians are professional liars.
National Security is the last resort excuse to justify anything and to the paranoid people with wild imaginations anything is honestly possible. Multiple cogent arguments can be made against Venezuela's threat... I disagree with most the premises upon which all of those are based but some people DO believe those. So to assume they lie when some batshit crazy decisions come out-- you underestimate the power of the dark side of the force.
Fox News and Friends have become so powerful instead of merely being a propaganda arm they now have taken over control of the Republicans. The suckers who were just supposed to be managed (vote & donate) are now literally running and getting into positions of power!
It's now an incestuous insular cycle. The end result of too much success.
Sterile GMO bug killing plants YOU DO NOT EAT which exist solely to kill pests! ,etc.)
No contamination, corps get their money replanting without banning sane farming (seed collection, replanting, not infecting the genepool
Time for the rodent eating venus fly trap mixed with snake DNA!
How about a spider plant-- made with real spider DNA?
Scarecrow plants... ah, no... we didn't put in human DNA... (hey, did that plant just move towards us?)
Instead of wasting efforts to hide harm done to our foods by biohacking analog systems we don't hardly understand at any level, we can just make some seriously fatal plants that get the job done! NO NEED to seriously regulate them-- because nobody eats them except pests!
You left out solar. Way more powerful than wind or anything else except nuclear. Oil and coal are chemically stored solar. It is true that massive power is spread out over the whole daytime surface of earth... but space has a lot more if you can transmit it (remember intensity is higher; and duh... space.) Furthermore, we do not utilize most solar spectrum with today's PV.
Every 1 calorie of food we eat takes 10 calories of fossil fuels... and I never found a good estimate on calories of solar... but it must take a massive amount of calories to grow a plant... and keep everything from absolute zero! The atmosphere is our daily thermal battery.
Put any loser who can probably drive legally into ambulances and you'd cut costs!
Why does it take TWO people? Half the waste is the typically 2 people just to bring 1 person to the hospital!
Then you can save all that weight/space/fuel because nobody will be performing any medical aid at pickup or during the ride so why have a mini ER in a big heavy truck?
You can afford to wait before bleeding out! Just keep pressure on the wound with your cell phone! Your Uberlance will be right with you after completing their popular routes to the airport to drive way over to your low volume neighborhood.
Unconscious? Well you should have pre-tipped or pre-payed because how are they going to get a good rating from you now?
Seems like apple is still stuck in the past...
They even gave microsoft the idea for clippy...but with Bill the Science Guy (predates him too:)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
not a problem: 1st off, the degree of accuracy would be a factor in any half done system. Part #1 would get more influence!
Just like a spam filtering system today, it's all statistics... if you just keep it simple, you have RULES like spam assassin does which have huge factors of influence then you have a lesser impact from the Bayes classifier. I'm not saying to make the Bayes classifier more important or even equal to other factors. (which works with tiny training sets unlike what you're thinking as typical AI, the perceptron filters.)
I'm thinking simple actuarial science + statistical classifier having maybe a 25% influence on the recommendation. The other 100% could be rule based and get more weight as more calls confirm the report... the whole thing averaged... lots of ways to figure out how to do it. Case history logs of everything that has been input into a computer could be compiled to design rules and training data to give the best results.
Fixing VoIP doesn't stop the problem. it minimizes just the crank calls. There is still a lot of inaccurate reports leading to problems that always has existed; and it happens more in larger communities where the cops don't know most the people they interact with. Think of the mentally impaired people who are shot because the cops don't realize the person is not going to respond as expected of a normal person. Simply indicating it's likely the perp is autistic could save a life.
People SUE for every stupid thing imaginable; it is not a reason to avoid doing something. The cops ultimately decide and while it does give the cops something to use an excuse, the city gets sued regardless! Rarely does it ever come down to just the cop who gets sued for money.
It's just a ball park which WILL reduce how many innocents are harmed. Right now you have an INFORMAL process at best. "Black man seen climbing into window" already has a % bias being applied which is NOT in writing. Lawsuits happen all the time, it's hard to prove anything -- this does provide more paper trail...
One defense of actuarial science (like insurance companies do to us all already) is that you can trace down the unbiased statistics or have a black box AI -- but you can't claim unfair HUMAN BIAS. Now when the cop gets a 5% warning but shoots the black suspect 1st then you have a much stronger case for the lawsuit against the city.
People ALREADY make these judgements by neighborhood, history, looks, race, gender, nature of the threat... Crazy people do call -- aliens invading a house is not going to get a SWAT reaction. Judgement calls are made and small towns even more so-- local policing is the thing people often idealize. A system which brings more of that into reality would be nice. The cop doesn't need to know you like a small town cop would, the system doesn't need to invade your privacy as much as a small town cop does either but it can provide useful context beyond you just being a unknown situation where biases are influencing every decision by the second.