Well, I agree that there should be a MAJOR reform over the way the feds have abused the Interstate Commerce clause to expand their powers where they frankly should not be....
I think fights against things like the federal prohibition against marijuana and such, for example...should be overturned. I mean, we had to get a constitutional amemdment to prohibit alcohol, and another one to legalize it again....yet, the stroke of a pen created the drug schedule and pot is on the top level?
How does that work?
I'd love to see states band together and fight this one, especially if they can show the product is grown ONLY for their state legally...
However, while I cheer the efforts for keeping Net Neutrality, I don't think the states can win it this way....the internet crosses state lines and so much commerce on it...I think federal regulation over it does fit the intent of the interstate commerce powers of the feds.
I'd like to see federal overreach be addressed, but I think you gotta pick your battles on that.....
States should get their congress critters to make Net Neutrality laws we want....and not have a bureaucracy dictate things that can be changed when the next political wind changes direction....
Is anyone familiar with these? Recommendations from this list or other suggestions?
Also, while I'm researching the specs (freq response, etc)....it find it is a drag to not really be able to often find a local place with the cans so you can try them on for fit, comfort and sound....
Anyway, I have some good Qbuds, in ear phones for biking and outdoors (or gym) for when I also want to hear ambient sound (like cars behind you)....but I was on a flight recently and I thought it would be nice in that environment to have good high end wireless headphones with noise cancellation...but don't want Beats or Bose I saw lots of kids wearing....
While of course, I'd rather not spend a ton of $$ and a good deal suggestion is welcome that has high fidelity...I"m not opposed to spending good money for good sound reproduction.
There's already too much Chrome-specific stuff and the point is: it's growing.
I've not really used Chrome, except trying it a day or two years and years ago.....what things out there are chrome specific?
What would I be missing since I don't use chrome? I do mainly FF when on linux and windows, Safari when on a mac, and occasionally when something only works on IE....IE.
I know a few people who swear by CBDs and a few more who would like to go that route instead of the alternatives. The problem is security clearances -- the "Evil Dope Fiend" federal tests aren't particularly accurate at targeting THC vs CBD.
Yep, and if you get caught using/posession of weed, you can lose your gun ownership privileges..
Hell, I"ve heard talk of the Feds revoking your rights to guns if you have a medical or even recreational weed permit.
The Federal laws need to be changed...period.
I"m still wondering why it took a freakin' Constitutional Amendment to prohibit alcohol and another one to legalize it again....yet, pot and other drugs have been made illegal by the stroke of a pen? What's the constitutional basis for the "scheduling"?
I've yet to have that explained to me...wish that question would pop up at EVERY congress critters open forums and election debate questions.
I love it because there is now no reason to ever risk drinking and driving like in the past...it is quick, easy and economic to get an uber, whereas it is not with a cab.
Oh, there's plenty of innovation coming from Apple engineers, just as there's always been. The problem is that Jobs is no longer there to tell them when their ideas are complete shit, so it all gets released. It seems like all someone at Apple has to do to get approval for their pet project under Cook is dangle the promise of a dollar in front of him.
I agree...this is how it looks to me too.
I"m particularly worried about this, as that it would mean dumbing down apps to the lowest common denominator....ie which device has the least resources.
For instance, a photo editing app, like Affinity Photo.
They have a desktop version that is amazing, and is about as close to Photoshop as it can be...and I find it often beats PS with performance.
Affinity Photo put out a very good, and amazingly powerful version of AP for the iPad Pro. It works great, however, it cannot perform as well or do somethings that the desktop version can, due it being a less powerful hardware platform and also being limited in that you can't have external tools like a mouse, keyboard and IMHO most importantly...an external pen and tablet
Sure, you can do a lot on the iPad version, but with keyboard and mouse, you can't do keyboard shortcuts which are often invaluable, and you have to jump through hoops on the iPad interface to make up for this....
I'd not like to see the power player features that are on the desktop go away in favor of the lessor platforms like tablets and phones.
Don't get me wrong, nice to be able to do some things while away from the main workstation, but it doesn't cover everything.
I would find this true for most other heavy applications I use.
That's something to take up with either your city or state. In most places, they're not like that at all.
Actually in MOST cities I've been to in the US, what I described as the deplorable state of most cabs and drivers holds true.
I consistently have a better Uber experience with reference to the vehicles and the drivers.
I have almost always felt safer in an Uber car, than with an official taxi cab.....and that's not even getting into the more reasonable Uber rates and quick response times.
In other words....government finds a way to get in and mess up something that has been innovative, proven popular and successful.
These days, you can't do much to try something new or a new slant on things, without the government having to jump in and make new regulations and burdens on companies that isn't needed.
Solutions in search of a problem.
Good thing govt wasn't this bad a 100 or so years ago....we'd otherwise still have a thriving buggy whip industry.
Wow..rated "Troll", eh?
I'm constantly amazed at all the Uber Hate around here....I love and use the service all the time.
Always a much better experience than a taxi cab IMHO...
I think the better answer is to remove regulations from the cab, rather than foist them upon Uber and its like.
In that case, you probably need to seriously re-evaluate your toxic materialistic outlook on life, or learn how to balance a budget.
Or you seriously need to change careers, if your current employment pays so little.
Actually, I pretty much hate my job now, but I can't quit because I can't think of anything else that would ramp up quickly enough to be as lucrative.
While I like material things...and I DO....I pretty much have darned near everything I really want at this time, except for perhaps, a nicer house more customized in layout for my interests and needs.
But to be truly happy, and maybe you missed this in my post...is to have enough money to NOT have to work, and just spend my days doing what I like and find interesting.
But short of a lottery win, I don't see that happening.
If they played by the rules then I would not care, but because they've demonstrated time and again that they will break the rules, I hope that they implode before self-driving cars are ready.
Maybe it is the RULES themselves that need changing...break the monopolies that the taxi companies have had all these years, and force the entrenched companies to compete, and perhaps we'd see marked improvement on the taxis that are available.....
I mean because right now, a taxi cannot compete on cleanliness, promptness or price with Uber. They have no incentive to at this time.
The only thing they've come up with that could be described as an innovation and just not an attempt at skirting customer protection regulations
What customer protection regulations are you talking about?
Geez, the last cabs I've been in, where ragged, shitty and frankly, the person driving it scared me....looked like a hardened convict.
On the other hand, many of my Uber rides that have picked me up at home, turned out to be neighbors that I newly met, they lived in my area. I'd say that 99% of all the Uber cars I've ridden in, not only have been nice, but the driver had gone out of their way to make it really nice...air fresheners, mints and water for the customers, asking what you'd like to listen to on the radio, and just well...plain friendly!!
I"m not sure the regulations you speak of are to protect the customer, but to protect the entrenched taxi businesses that have had virtual monopoly and no incentive to improve or give a good customer experience.
I live in a taxi city, and even here in New Orleans....unless you are in the Quarter, you call a cab the quickest it comes in 30+ minutes...but then again, that's faster than the cops come on a call, but I digress.
I call an uber and average time to pickup in like 6-8 minutes. And it is MUCH cheaper.
No...I don't think the protections I see are for the customer at all......apparently the taxis just pay the politicians locally a bit better than Uber does.
In other words....government finds a way to get in and mess up something that has been innovative, proven popular and successful.
These days, you can't do much to try something new or a new slant on things, without the government having to jump in and make new regulations and burdens on companies that isn't needed.
Solutions in search of a problem.
Good thing govt wasn't this bad a 100 or so years ago....we'd otherwise still have a thriving buggy whip industry.
What if I don't feel any drive to earn more money than I actually need to live an enjoyable life? What if I care a lot more about doing enjoyable things, than I do about raising some imaginary "productivity" stat on an imaginary character sheet.
Sure, go ahead and try to maximize your productivity, if that actually, genuinely and honestly increases your happiness. If you take a deep look inside yourself, I think you'll find that there are other things you would rather do with your life.
There's lots of things in life that make me happy....unfortunately, they all pretty much require money, and a good deal of it.
The ONLY reason I work, is to earn money so that I can afford to buy and do the things I like and enjoy doing.
Short of winning the powerball and having enough money to live the rest of my days on without having to work again, I don't know that I'll ever earn quite enough to say it is enough to make me truly enjoyable life.
To me, the ultimate enjoyable life, would be to be fiscally set, and be able to spend my days doing things I love an not have to worry about earning money to provide myself a living (and it likely wouldn't be terribly much more extravagant than I currently live) and fund my various interests and activities.
Well, let's say that you start training the AI with more recent data....and if that still shows, without using race as a factor....that black people still are less likely to pay back loans and default or mortgages, negating the factors of the past, is it still wrong to do so?
What if for the sake of argument (not saying it is true), that black people in general by virtue of data analysis, are more likely to be a credit/loan risk, is that still not basis to see it as a trend that should be considered?
Of course, that trend may be in large part due to more blacks being in the lower economic groups...then again, there are a lot more poor white people than black people in the US...so, I guess that might moot that point.
While I agree that you have to be careful in training the AI, I feel we have to be also careful not to try to throw the results out JUST because they happen to fall along racial lines.
If it is true, it is true....no matter how uncomfortable that truth is, you know?
What's a bonafide trend? How do you distinguish it from correctly identifying racism/sexism in the training data?
I"m not an AI expert, far from it....
But I would have to imagine that you could at least start with training data that did NOT list race/sex categories and the just turn it loose and see what it finds on its own?
And look, there ARE differences between the sexes and the races in things. I'm sure if you never told a race and AI studied the NBA vs all other careers...you'd find a lot of trends that went down racial lines. Would you even consider that not to be true?
Just because things do show up and fall along racial/ or sex lines, doesn't make them racist or sexist in the bad connotations we have put on those terms today. They can just be facts of nature, no?
Until we see a preponderance of shorter jewish men infiltrating the ranks of the NBA, I"m gonna have to keep my opinions on this as they are...
Don't get me wrong, I think everyone needs to enjoy life, as that work isn't the ONLY thing in life, and it shouldn't define you.
That being said, however.....there is NOTHING wrong with trying to make your work life as productive as possible. To do your best and to maximize your money making is a good thing to strive for!!!
This guff right here in this article, putting down work ethic, etc...sounds very millennial snowflake-ish.
I guess it is another one expecting a trophy for doing little more than showing up to work....occasionally.
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I think fights against things like the federal prohibition against marijuana and such, for example...should be overturned. I mean, we had to get a constitutional amemdment to prohibit alcohol, and another one to legalize it again....yet, the stroke of a pen created the drug schedule and pot is on the top level?
How does that work?
I'd love to see states band together and fight this one, especially if they can show the product is grown ONLY for their state legally...
However, while I cheer the efforts for keeping Net Neutrality, I don't think the states can win it this way....the internet crosses state lines and so much commerce on it...I think federal regulation over it does fit the intent of the interstate commerce powers of the feds.
I'd like to see federal overreach be addressed, but I think you gotta pick your battles on that.....
States should get their congress critters to make Net Neutrality laws we want....and not have a bureaucracy dictate things that can be changed when the next political wind changes direction....
But, I"ve always understood it that the words "Rap" and "Music" were mutually exclusive terms...???
Can someone recommend to me, some high end bluetooth (wireless) over hear headphones...preferrably with noise canceling tech?
I've just started researching and have found these candidates....
Sony Noise Cancelling Headphones WH1000XM2
Sennheiser Momentum 2.0 Wireless
Sennheiser HD1 Wireless Headphones with Active Noise Cancellation
Bowers & Wilkins PX Active Noise Cancelling Wireless Headphones
Is anyone familiar with these? Recommendations from this list or other suggestions?
Also, while I'm researching the specs (freq response, etc)....it find it is a drag to not really be able to often find a local place with the cans so you can try them on for fit, comfort and sound....
Anyway, I have some good Qbuds, in ear phones for biking and outdoors (or gym) for when I also want to hear ambient sound (like cars behind you)....but I was on a flight recently and I thought it would be nice in that environment to have good high end wireless headphones with noise cancellation...but don't want Beats or Bose I saw lots of kids wearing....
While of course, I'd rather not spend a ton of $$ and a good deal suggestion is welcome that has high fidelity...I"m not opposed to spending good money for good sound reproduction.
Thanks in advance!!
I've not really used Chrome, except trying it a day or two years and years ago.....what things out there are chrome specific?
What would I be missing since I don't use chrome? I do mainly FF when on linux and windows, Safari when on a mac, and occasionally when something only works on IE....IE.
I guess due to being in an older crowd...I don't know anyone that uses Chrome really.
I looked at it a couple of days years ago, but never really got into it, never found a reason to.
Yep, and if you get caught using/posession of weed, you can lose your gun ownership privileges..
Hell, I"ve heard talk of the Feds revoking your rights to guns if you have a medical or even recreational weed permit.
The Federal laws need to be changed...period.
I"m still wondering why it took a freakin' Constitutional Amendment to prohibit alcohol and another one to legalize it again....yet, pot and other drugs have been made illegal by the stroke of a pen? What's the constitutional basis for the "scheduling"?
I've yet to have that explained to me...wish that question would pop up at EVERY congress critters open forums and election debate questions.
I installed both browsers, I still click the YouTube app and then choose which browser and it works.
I tried with FireFox and it locked up my FireTV box....but Silk seems to run ok.
I mean, people got upset that all Hurricanes used to have female names, and they changed it to have names of both genders....
Shouldn't there be an upset contingent that Mint is only female names with no masculine ones....?
Or...does the outrage only work "one way"?
I love it because there is now no reason to ever risk drinking and driving like in the past...it is quick, easy and economic to get an uber, whereas it is not with a cab.
I agree...this is how it looks to me too.
I"m particularly worried about this, as that it would mean dumbing down apps to the lowest common denominator....ie which device has the least resources.
For instance, a photo editing app, like Affinity Photo.
They have a desktop version that is amazing, and is about as close to Photoshop as it can be...and I find it often beats PS with performance.
Affinity Photo put out a very good, and amazingly powerful version of AP for the iPad Pro. It works great, however, it cannot perform as well or do somethings that the desktop version can, due it being a less powerful hardware platform and also being limited in that you can't have external tools like a mouse, keyboard and IMHO most importantly...an external pen and tablet
Sure, you can do a lot on the iPad version, but with keyboard and mouse, you can't do keyboard shortcuts which are often invaluable, and you have to jump through hoops on the iPad interface to make up for this....
I'd not like to see the power player features that are on the desktop go away in favor of the lessor platforms like tablets and phones.
Don't get me wrong, nice to be able to do some things while away from the main workstation, but it doesn't cover everything.
I would find this true for most other heavy applications I use.
Does this also affect the Plus versions of all these phones?
Actually in MOST cities I've been to in the US, what I described as the deplorable state of most cabs and drivers holds true.
I consistently have a better Uber experience with reference to the vehicles and the drivers.
I have almost always felt safer in an Uber car, than with an official taxi cab.....and that's not even getting into the more reasonable Uber rates and quick response times.
Wow..rated "Troll", eh?
I'm constantly amazed at all the Uber Hate around here....I love and use the service all the time.
Always a much better experience than a taxi cab IMHO...
I think the better answer is to remove regulations from the cab, rather than foist them upon Uber and its like.
Actually, I pretty much hate my job now, but I can't quit because I can't think of anything else that would ramp up quickly enough to be as lucrative.
While I like material things...and I DO....I pretty much have darned near everything I really want at this time, except for perhaps, a nicer house more customized in layout for my interests and needs.
But to be truly happy, and maybe you missed this in my post...is to have enough money to NOT have to work, and just spend my days doing what I like and find interesting.
But short of a lottery win, I don't see that happening.
Maybe it is the RULES themselves that need changing...break the monopolies that the taxi companies have had all these years, and force the entrenched companies to compete, and perhaps we'd see marked improvement on the taxis that are available.....
I mean because right now, a taxi cannot compete on cleanliness, promptness or price with Uber. They have no incentive to at this time.
What customer protection regulations are you talking about?
Geez, the last cabs I've been in, where ragged, shitty and frankly, the person driving it scared me....looked like a hardened convict.
On the other hand, many of my Uber rides that have picked me up at home, turned out to be neighbors that I newly met, they lived in my area. I'd say that 99% of all the Uber cars I've ridden in, not only have been nice, but the driver had gone out of their way to make it really nice...air fresheners, mints and water for the customers, asking what you'd like to listen to on the radio, and just well...plain friendly!!
I"m not sure the regulations you speak of are to protect the customer, but to protect the entrenched taxi businesses that have had virtual monopoly and no incentive to improve or give a good customer experience.
I live in a taxi city, and even here in New Orleans....unless you are in the Quarter, you call a cab the quickest it comes in 30+ minutes...but then again, that's faster than the cops come on a call, but I digress.
I call an uber and average time to pickup in like 6-8 minutes. And it is MUCH cheaper.
No...I don't think the protections I see are for the customer at all......apparently the taxis just pay the politicians locally a bit better than Uber does.
These days, you can't do much to try something new or a new slant on things, without the government having to jump in and make new regulations and burdens on companies that isn't needed.
Solutions in search of a problem.
Good thing govt wasn't this bad a 100 or so years ago....we'd otherwise still have a thriving buggy whip industry.
There's lots of things in life that make me happy....unfortunately, they all pretty much require money, and a good deal of it.
The ONLY reason I work, is to earn money so that I can afford to buy and do the things I like and enjoy doing.
Short of winning the powerball and having enough money to live the rest of my days on without having to work again, I don't know that I'll ever earn quite enough to say it is enough to make me truly enjoyable life.
To me, the ultimate enjoyable life, would be to be fiscally set, and be able to spend my days doing things I love an not have to worry about earning money to provide myself a living (and it likely wouldn't be terribly much more extravagant than I currently live) and fund my various interests and activities.
Well, let's say that you start training the AI with more recent data....and if that still shows, without using race as a factor....that black people still are less likely to pay back loans and default or mortgages, negating the factors of the past, is it still wrong to do so?
What if for the sake of argument (not saying it is true), that black people in general by virtue of data analysis, are more likely to be a credit/loan risk, is that still not basis to see it as a trend that should be considered?
Of course, that trend may be in large part due to more blacks being in the lower economic groups...then again, there are a lot more poor white people than black people in the US...so, I guess that might moot that point.
While I agree that you have to be careful in training the AI, I feel we have to be also careful not to try to throw the results out JUST because they happen to fall along racial lines.
If it is true, it is true....no matter how uncomfortable that truth is, you know?
I hate to see ANY US citizen lose their job to a H1b.
But wow...I'm impressed that you've not only read but actually remembered some of my rants over the years.
I'd not have thought that anyone here really ever remembered much of what anyone said here, much less care about it.
Very interesting.
I"m not an AI expert, far from it....
But I would have to imagine that you could at least start with training data that did NOT list race/sex categories and the just turn it loose and see what it finds on its own?
And look, there ARE differences between the sexes and the races in things. I'm sure if you never told a race and AI studied the NBA vs all other careers...you'd find a lot of trends that went down racial lines. Would you even consider that not to be true?
Just because things do show up and fall along racial/ or sex lines, doesn't make them racist or sexist in the bad connotations we have put on those terms today. They can just be facts of nature, no?
Until we see a preponderance of shorter jewish men infiltrating the ranks of the NBA, I"m gonna have to keep my opinions on this as they are...
Don't get me wrong, I think everyone needs to enjoy life, as that work isn't the ONLY thing in life, and it shouldn't define you.
That being said, however.....there is NOTHING wrong with trying to make your work life as productive as possible. To do your best and to maximize your money making is a good thing to strive for!!!
This guff right here in this article, putting down work ethic, etc...sounds very millennial snowflake-ish.
I guess it is another one expecting a trophy for doing little more than showing up to work....occasionally.
But, if you're going for purely predictive results....what part does "causation" play in this at all?