Dunno if Amazon is being wronged here or not. Quite possibly they are.
I must say though that it's heartening to see Democrats be so fond of multi-bazillionaire captains of industry also owning major media outlets. A tad unexpected, but heartening.
The Democratic Party is the more pro-business one these days as Republicans are regressing into protectionist alt-right populism, destroying stability, amassing debt, eroding the rule of law and damaging trade relations with the the world. Also blue states, on average, produce more private sector jobs and have more GDP per capita.
So how has Amazon hurt trump in teh past? I have heard mention that it hurts him by de-valuing brick-and-mortar retail space that he is heavily invested in.
Bezos is an actual billionaire, and his newspaper, the Washington Post, writes critical articles about Trump. That's more than enough "hurt". Trump is all face value; he doesn't have a "hidden agenda", except maybe with Russian and Chinese loaners and investors.
Trump will be willing to sign the exact same deal he just abandoned, just with his name on it instead of Obama's, which was the whole point from the beginning.
Devices Supporting Google Assistant Have More Than Tripled In Last Four Months
Devices can't triple because they aren't numbers or numeric quantities. The number of devices can triple. Devices can only do things that devices do, like ring, play music, break, or reboot.
I don't know what kind of bizaro world I've stumbled into where Republicans are defending a generous pension quasi government entity and democrats are defending the most cut throat capitalistic company in the US currently.
The Republicans aren't criticising Amazon, Trump does. Trump is a Republican in name only, in reality he is just Trump. He's literally too ignorant to possess or follow any consistent ideology. Instead, he just vents on Twitter about whatever he's last seen on TV that enrages him momentarily.
Consciousness depends on the physical state of the brain, but not on "continuity". Atoms don't have hairs. A C or H atom is identical to any other C or H atom, so if you recreate a body atom-by-atom, it doesn't matter whether those are the same atoms as before.
Forget the Lidar, or lack of (they were testing cameras?). Forget the dude (heh, the first 12 hours thought he was a she. That's gotta hurt).
Had I been driving that car, full alert, I would have killed that chick. I'd have felt bad, even knowing it was her fault. But the fact is, this dumbass walked in front of a fast moving car, at night, when she had no illumination, and the car had headlights. Her best hope of survival was a 100% functioning self driving car, anything less and she's dead.
First, the fact that the woman did something wrong doesn't mean that the car did nothing wrong. The Uber system is supposed to employ infrared cameras and a Laser radar, both of which are unaffected by "no (visible spectrum) illumination".
Second, the Uber video seems to be underexposed. A guy on Youtube drove the same road, also at night, here. The spot where the accident occurred (33 seconds into the video) is illuminated enough that the cyclist should have been visible.
Then they will just buy $60 billion worth of airplanes from Airbus. We just pissed off Europe not long ago. And they will import chicken feet and other farm products from somewhere else.
At the end of the day we can impose even more - they sell us more than we sell them.
That just means that China will probably lose something in this. It doesn't mean that the US will win something. In fact, it'll lose even more. At the end of the day, the rest of the world is bigger than the US. If the US isolates themselves from it, it'll be their loss.
I always thought that even something like Apple's requirement for app developers to use https instead of plain http violates net neutrality at least in spirit. The gatekeepers like Apple and Google effectively act as Internet service providers to their app developer community because there is this hard, mandatory separation inside the device between the access provider (the OS and system services) and the actual endpoint of the communications link (i.e. the application). If a real ISP, say a DSL service provider, blocked all its customers' network traffic except TLS, everybody would agree that that violates net neutrality rules. When a mobile OS provider does the same thing, the effect is quite similar.
And then you can speculate how long Apple or Google will still allow *any* non-SSL traffic, for example custom non-HTTP protocols, to pass through: A chat app that downloads ad banners via https and then sends chat messages using an unencrypted custom protocol would effectively circumvent the spirit, if not the letter, of Apple's "https only" rule. So you can bet that they're going to try and close that "loophole" too, which would then have many of the same negative side effects like stifling innovation that "real" net neutrality violations have.
You might argue that China's ascent into a global industrial powerhouse had little to do with the US and more to do with China. Basically, once they stopped doing stupid shit like killing all people with eyeglasses, the sheer size of their population meant that eventually they would eclipse pretty much everyone else. What could Reagan or Clinton have done to prevent any of this? Bomb them back to the stone age while they still could? Force-inseminate American women so they would have ten children each?
I'm saying that $2B a year into American research doesn't seem to have made a meaningful impact, as I can't differentiate the American EVs from the European, Japanese or Korean ones...
That might be because Europe, Japan and South Korea have made public investments into EE research too, and thus the US's own investments (until now) have enabled them to keep up.
Forbidding encryption is like forbidding the multiplication of large numbers. In fact, it's largely EXACTLY THE SAME THING. That's what most of government officials who call unbreakable encryption an "Urgent Public Safety Issue" don't get. They're not necessarily evil or corrupt, but they think of encryption as some kind of magic wand, highly advanced technology like guns or nuclear weapons, which you can prevent private citizens from acquiring, when in fact what it really is is -- mathematics.
Yes, in the old days the ballast was sand or water; a cherry red Tesla just seems cooler.
It'll only be cooler if the flight succeeds. If it fails, Musk will wish he had sent a boring ballast tank, as that would at least have made it seem like he didn't take failure too lightly.
I actually wonder whether this payload choice indicates that Musk's confidence in the success of the maiden flight is higher than he is willing to admit.
(abstract)
[...] This paper analyzes a corpus of 4.5 million non-fork projects hosted on GitHub representing over 428 million files written in Java, C++, Python, and JavaScript. [...]
The nuclear fusion community talking about helium diffusion in reactor walls is kinda like the space travelling community talking about the lack of clear sun hours in Martian wellness resorts.
Making cars is expensive. Making high tech cars is more expensive.
High tech gasoline cars, anyway. A combustion engine with pistons and valves and injection and associated powertrain is expensive. With modern electric cars, the main complexities are probably the battery and the software. Both areas in which Tesla has quite some expertise, not less than any others anyway -- I think no other manufacturers produce more *electric* cars than Tesla does (except maybe Renault-Nissan). The others just produce more gas cars -- you know, the ones that are more complex in all the areas that won't be all that relevant in the future IF e-mobility takes off.
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Dunno if Amazon is being wronged here or not. Quite possibly they are.
I must say though that it's heartening to see Democrats be so fond of multi-bazillionaire captains of industry also owning major media outlets. A tad unexpected, but heartening.
The Democratic Party is the more pro-business one these days as Republicans are regressing into protectionist alt-right populism, destroying stability, amassing debt, eroding the rule of law and damaging trade relations with the the world. Also blue states, on average, produce more private sector jobs and have more GDP per capita.
So how has Amazon hurt trump in teh past? I have heard mention that it hurts him by de-valuing brick-and-mortar retail space that he is heavily invested in.
Bezos is an actual billionaire, and his newspaper, the Washington Post, writes critical articles about Trump. That's more than enough "hurt". Trump is all face value; he doesn't have a "hidden agenda", except maybe with Russian and Chinese loaners and investors.
Trump will be willing to sign the exact same deal he just abandoned, just with his name on it instead of Obama's, which was the whole point from the beginning.
Devices can't triple because they aren't numbers or numeric quantities. The number of devices can triple. Devices can only do things that devices do, like ring, play music, break, or reboot.
Trump credited himself for the lack of U.S. aviation fatalities during his administration, so this one is on him.
I don't know what kind of bizaro world I've stumbled into where Republicans are defending a generous pension quasi government entity and democrats are defending the most cut throat capitalistic company in the US currently.
The Republicans aren't criticising Amazon, Trump does. Trump is a Republican in name only, in reality he is just Trump. He's literally too ignorant to possess or follow any consistent ideology. Instead, he just vents on Twitter about whatever he's last seen on TV that enrages him momentarily.
Consciousness depends on the physical state of the brain, but not on "continuity". Atoms don't have hairs. A C or H atom is identical to any other C or H atom, so if you recreate a body atom-by-atom, it doesn't matter whether those are the same atoms as before.
Forget the Lidar, or lack of (they were testing cameras?). Forget the dude (heh, the first 12 hours thought he was a she. That's gotta hurt). Had I been driving that car, full alert, I would have killed that chick. I'd have felt bad, even knowing it was her fault. But the fact is, this dumbass walked in front of a fast moving car, at night, when she had no illumination, and the car had headlights. Her best hope of survival was a 100% functioning self driving car, anything less and she's dead.
First, the fact that the woman did something wrong doesn't mean that the car did nothing wrong. The Uber system is supposed to employ infrared cameras and a Laser radar, both of which are unaffected by "no (visible spectrum) illumination".
Second, the Uber video seems to be underexposed. A guy on Youtube drove the same road, also at night, here. The spot where the accident occurred (33 seconds into the video) is illuminated enough that the cyclist should have been visible.
Then they will just buy $60 billion worth of airplanes from Airbus. We just pissed off Europe not long ago. And they will import chicken feet and other farm products from somewhere else.
At the end of the day we can impose even more - they sell us more than we sell them.
That just means that China will probably lose something in this. It doesn't mean that the US will win something. In fact, it'll lose even more. At the end of the day, the rest of the world is bigger than the US. If the US isolates themselves from it, it'll be their loss.
Trump will die a traitor in prison either way though.
Reality != Hollywood. The bad guys don't always lose in the end.
I always thought that even something like Apple's requirement for app developers to use https instead of plain http violates net neutrality at least in spirit. The gatekeepers like Apple and Google effectively act as Internet service providers to their app developer community because there is this hard, mandatory separation inside the device between the access provider (the OS and system services) and the actual endpoint of the communications link (i.e. the application). If a real ISP, say a DSL service provider, blocked all its customers' network traffic except TLS, everybody would agree that that violates net neutrality rules. When a mobile OS provider does the same thing, the effect is quite similar.
And then you can speculate how long Apple or Google will still allow *any* non-SSL traffic, for example custom non-HTTP protocols, to pass through: A chat app that downloads ad banners via https and then sends chat messages using an unencrypted custom protocol would effectively circumvent the spirit, if not the letter, of Apple's "https only" rule. So you can bet that they're going to try and close that "loophole" too, which would then have many of the same negative side effects like stifling innovation that "real" net neutrality violations have.
Why is Musk being celebrated for launching purpose-built space junk? I remember when space junk was considered a problem.
Should we ever manage to create a space junk problem in heliocentric orbits, it would be an amazing achievement.
You might argue that China's ascent into a global industrial powerhouse had little to do with the US and more to do with China. Basically, once they stopped doing stupid shit like killing all people with eyeglasses, the sheer size of their population meant that eventually they would eclipse pretty much everyone else. What could Reagan or Clinton have done to prevent any of this? Bomb them back to the stone age while they still could? Force-inseminate American women so they would have ten children each?
EE research
*RE (renewable energy)
I'm saying that $2B a year into American research doesn't seem to have made a meaningful impact, as I can't differentiate the American EVs from the European, Japanese or Korean ones ...
That might be because Europe, Japan and South Korea have made public investments into EE research too, and thus the US's own investments (until now) have enabled them to keep up.
Forbidding encryption is like forbidding the multiplication of large numbers. In fact, it's largely EXACTLY THE SAME THING. That's what most of government officials who call unbreakable encryption an "Urgent Public Safety Issue" don't get. They're not necessarily evil or corrupt, but they think of encryption as some kind of magic wand, highly advanced technology like guns or nuclear weapons, which you can prevent private citizens from acquiring, when in fact what it really is is -- mathematics.
Fake news. Cancer is not infectious.
Under Trump, "deep state" is code for "rule of law". -- David Frum
Yes, in the old days the ballast was sand or water; a cherry red Tesla just seems cooler.
It'll only be cooler if the flight succeeds. If it fails, Musk will wish he had sent a boring ballast tank, as that would at least have made it seem like he didn't take failure too lightly.
I actually wonder whether this payload choice indicates that Musk's confidence in the success of the maiden flight is higher than he is willing to admit.
Do they mean (obv. I didn't read TFA) code is duplicated in non-forked code
Yes they do mean that. The summary should've mentioned this. From https://dl.acm.org/citation.cf...:
(abstract) [...] This paper analyzes a corpus of 4.5 million non-fork projects hosted on GitHub representing over 428 million files written in Java, C++, Python, and JavaScript. [...]
The nuclear fusion community talking about helium diffusion in reactor walls is kinda like the space travelling community talking about the lack of clear sun hours in Martian wellness resorts.
Star Trek: Discovery Will Return On January 7th, 2018
...unless one of the lead actors gets accused of sexual harassment.
At our office we scrap things all the time. That doesn't mean we destroy it.
Yeah but the US dismantled that satellite, which does mean it destroyed it.
when this could at least be contracted out to someone
It was. Lockheed built the satellite.
Making cars is expensive. Making high tech cars is more expensive.
High tech gasoline cars, anyway. A combustion engine with pistons and valves and injection and associated powertrain is expensive. With modern electric cars, the main complexities are probably the battery and the software. Both areas in which Tesla has quite some expertise, not less than any others anyway -- I think no other manufacturers produce more *electric* cars than Tesla does (except maybe Renault-Nissan). The others just produce more gas cars -- you know, the ones that are more complex in all the areas that won't be all that relevant in the future IF e-mobility takes off.