If Donald Trump were to make this kind of accusation, it would be dismissed out of hand
I think they'd check the facts first. And then dismiss it, because when Donald Trump says something like this, it's usually a lie. Because that's what he does. It's the safe assumption.
The truth is that the American media has been well-infiltrated by Chinese spies and is manipulating us to hate democracy
I think it's more Russia, but China also seems to be benefiting from the way right-wing media (not to mention right-wing politicians, obviously) are undermining democracy. Trump seems eager to hand power to Russia and China, and shake hands with North Korea.
8 am?! I'm still trying to get the kids to school at that time. I start work at 9:30.
But I know there are people who want to start earlier. My wife gets out of bed before 7 in order to beat the traffic, and I've had colleagues who start at 8 or 7 even.
And that's my point really: if you need to start early, then start early. If you want to start late, then start late. Don't try to force one view on everybody by messing with what time means.
But there is: the sun. Originally, noon was the point where the sun was at its highest. Of course that meant each town had a slightly different time, so with long distance communication and travel (telegraph and train), time became standardised in time zones.
Ideally, every country would be in the timezone closest to its natural time. In practice, of course many don't. Most of western Europe actually follows central European time, because Germany. But if they now decide to standardise on summer time rather than winter time, Madrid would end up in the eastern European timezone.
Yeah, but if people have different needs, shouldn't they be buying different phones? Why should everybody get the same phone and then customise it with inefficient add-ons that ruin the efficiency of the original design?
Well, with my Fairphone 2, the body itself is modular. If it gets damaged, I can replace the body while keeping the rest of the phone. Having the body and the case as two separate things is useless.
I'm fine with some smartphones being super thin, fragile and having no battery life if that's what some people want, but I'd like there to also be phones that are more sturdy and have better battery life. Buying a separate case that adds bulk without adding battery life is a wasted opportunity.
Winter time is actually the standard time. Summer time is the deviation from it. You're basically moving your country from its natural timezone to the timezone east of it. (Or, if you live in western Europe, from the timezone to the east to two timezones to the east.) So while summer time all year round sounds pleasant, it's not. Winter time all year round makes more sense.
If you want a bit more sun after work, you should just go to work a bit earlier.
Making DST the standard time would mean that much of western Europe would end up using Eastern European Time. Currently France, Spain and the Benelux are using Central European Time, which is one hour off for them, but it's practical because of Germany. But if Germany does the crazy thing and actually moves to Eastern European Time, I think I'd prefer if we just stuck to Western European Time again. With the UK and Portugal, I guess. But using St Petersburg time in Paris is just stupid.
Is there an EU mandate for daylight savings time? I didn't know.
It makes sense to coordinate internationally when the switch should happen, but I expected that whether to switch to DST at all was a national decision. Just like the timezone you're in.
But in an urban environment, they are kind of useless
Are you serious? Urban environment are filled with tunnels. From subways to bypasses to getting to the other side of a river, to anything that needs to from A to B with lots of houses in between, or specifically needs to be underneath those houses (sewers maybe?). Tunnels are primarily useful in urban environments because there's a shortage of space there.
I don't know how good or cheap the Boring Company's tunnels are, but cheaper tunnels would be incredibly useful. (I'm less convinced about Musk's vision of underground cars on moving platforms, but who knows how that works out.)
Why do we even need a separate case? All those super thin phones are pointless if you need to put them into a bulky case to protect them. Make the phones themselves thougher and case-like protection, add a bigger battery and camera, and you'll have a far better device that's not any bigger than a thin phone in a case.
You'd think Google would know that code running on your attacker's computer is inherently insecure. I admit it won't be easy to effectively subvert the javascript that Google wants to execute in your browser, but it's not impossible. I don't see this stopping a determined and knowledgeable attacker.
The economy was starting to recover prior to Obama taking office? I suggest you take another look at the data, because that is completely false.
You are claiming three contradictory things now: Trump is responsible for the recovery, Bush is responsible for the recovery, and Obama is responsible for the recovery being so slow. You are desperate to blame something, anything on Obama, while claiming credit for anyone who is not Obama, thought preferably Trump, no matter how undeserved.
I understand facts have gone out of fashion with Trump's election, but that doesn't make anything you say correct. Stick with your "alternative facts" if you must, but don't expect anyone else to believe them.
He mostly accomplished tax cuts for his buddies, cruel treatment of children, discrediting the US internationally, cozying up to all sorts of dictators and other authoritarians, and he's made DC even more corrupt than it was before. Really great things he has accomplished.
If 1/1024th ancestry makes Warren a native american then so is roughly half of the USA population.
Yet that is all she ever claimed: that she had one distant ancestor who was Native American. Or even that that's what the story in her family was, and she wasn't sure. She's not claiming she's Native American now, she's just showing that that family story turns out to be true.
This is both awful and stupid. The point of fines is not to have someone else pay them for you. It's punishment for an unfair advantage you created for yourself. This fine should come out of those profits.
But charging a fee for access to the Google Play Store is probably going to mean that we're going to have to get our apps at a Samsung store from now on, and that would definitely be terrible for everybody involved.
A better option would be an open store that sold the best and most popular Android apps, but with a better percentage of the revenue going to the app makers. That would give users less crap to wade through, it would give app makers a bigger share of the profit, and the app store itself could mostly leech off the work that Google has already done. A win for everybody except Google.
I think it would honestly be better for Google to just take the loss instead of ruining their business out of a misguided attempt to dodge this fine.
Socialism means a lot of different things. The "State Socialism" practiced by the USSR and its followers is hardly the definition of socialism. Many socialists strongly disagree with it, and even disagree that it is socialist at all. It's mostly a useful straw man for people who want to prevent the US from implementing some sensible policies that help poor people.
I don't quite follow the argument here. Is the argument that UBI is actively harmful and wage slavery is better? Or is the argument that UBI is not good enough and only a full blown revolution can set us free?
Because I strongly disagree with the former (and don't see any arguments to support it), and while I can understand the second position, I'd rather prevent a violent revolution.
AI is not remotely bullshit. It already got us a lot of things, from chess computers to Google Translate, navigation tools, image recognition, speech recognition, fraud detection, and tons of other stuff. Doing these things is harder than people originally imagined, and doing them perfectly is harder still. Combining different such tasks in the way humans combine them is even harder than that, but that doesn't mean it can't be done.
I keep getting the impression that these computer vision systems rely on a single vision system to get it right in one take. Why not have three independently trained systems watch simultaneously and vote on what they're seeing?
I remember reading ages ago that the F-16's fly-by-wire system has three computers voting on what to do, and that's 1970s technology. Why would we not use something similar for cars? Three systems are much harder to fool than one.
While this would be absolutely inexcusable behaviour for an OS, it doesn't match my experience with Windows 10. I haven't seen any unusual apps show up. My system looks remarkably clean. Almost suspiciously so...
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If Donald Trump were to make this kind of accusation, it would be dismissed out of hand
I think they'd check the facts first. And then dismiss it, because when Donald Trump says something like this, it's usually a lie. Because that's what he does. It's the safe assumption.
The truth is that the American media has been well-infiltrated by Chinese spies and is manipulating us to hate democracy
I think it's more Russia, but China also seems to be benefiting from the way right-wing media (not to mention right-wing politicians, obviously) are undermining democracy. Trump seems eager to hand power to Russia and China, and shake hands with North Korea.
8 am?! I'm still trying to get the kids to school at that time. I start work at 9:30.
But I know there are people who want to start earlier. My wife gets out of bed before 7 in order to beat the traffic, and I've had colleagues who start at 8 or 7 even.
And that's my point really: if you need to start early, then start early. If you want to start late, then start late. Don't try to force one view on everybody by messing with what time means.
But there is: the sun. Originally, noon was the point where the sun was at its highest. Of course that meant each town had a slightly different time, so with long distance communication and travel (telegraph and train), time became standardised in time zones.
Ideally, every country would be in the timezone closest to its natural time. In practice, of course many don't. Most of western Europe actually follows central European time, because Germany. But if they now decide to standardise on summer time rather than winter time, Madrid would end up in the eastern European timezone.
Yeah, but if people have different needs, shouldn't they be buying different phones? Why should everybody get the same phone and then customise it with inefficient add-ons that ruin the efficiency of the original design?
Well, with my Fairphone 2, the body itself is modular. If it gets damaged, I can replace the body while keeping the rest of the phone. Having the body and the case as two separate things is useless.
I'm fine with some smartphones being super thin, fragile and having no battery life if that's what some people want, but I'd like there to also be phones that are more sturdy and have better battery life. Buying a separate case that adds bulk without adding battery life is a wasted opportunity.
Winter time is actually the standard time. Summer time is the deviation from it. You're basically moving your country from its natural timezone to the timezone east of it. (Or, if you live in western Europe, from the timezone to the east to two timezones to the east.) So while summer time all year round sounds pleasant, it's not. Winter time all year round makes more sense.
If you want a bit more sun after work, you should just go to work a bit earlier.
Making DST the standard time would mean that much of western Europe would end up using Eastern European Time. Currently France, Spain and the Benelux are using Central European Time, which is one hour off for them, but it's practical because of Germany. But if Germany does the crazy thing and actually moves to Eastern European Time, I think I'd prefer if we just stuck to Western European Time again. With the UK and Portugal, I guess. But using St Petersburg time in Paris is just stupid.
Is there an EU mandate for daylight savings time? I didn't know.
It makes sense to coordinate internationally when the switch should happen, but I expected that whether to switch to DST at all was a national decision. Just like the timezone you're in.
Urban environments are poor places for his Hyper loop idea do to the short distances involved
That makes urban environment poor places for high speed traffic. It has nothing to do with tunnels.
Tunnels are *very* expensive to build at least for passenger and freight traffic.
That makes tunnels primarily useful for urban environments. Nobody is going to build an expensive tunnel in a place where ground is cheap.
But in an urban environment, they are kind of useless
Are you serious? Urban environment are filled with tunnels. From subways to bypasses to getting to the other side of a river, to anything that needs to from A to B with lots of houses in between, or specifically needs to be underneath those houses (sewers maybe?). Tunnels are primarily useful in urban environments because there's a shortage of space there.
I don't know how good or cheap the Boring Company's tunnels are, but cheaper tunnels would be incredibly useful. (I'm less convinced about Musk's vision of underground cars on moving platforms, but who knows how that works out.)
Why do we even need a separate case? All those super thin phones are pointless if you need to put them into a bulky case to protect them. Make the phones themselves thougher and case-like protection, add a bigger battery and camera, and you'll have a far better device that's not any bigger than a thin phone in a case.
Like, why are they even journalists? They're terrible. Terrible people.
Careful there, Elon. You're starting to sound like Trump.
You'd think Google would know that code running on your attacker's computer is inherently insecure. I admit it won't be easy to effectively subvert the javascript that Google wants to execute in your browser, but it's not impossible. I don't see this stopping a determined and knowledgeable attacker.
I don't know how much pressure scuba tanks hold
I don't know anything about scuba, but it's easy to google: 2400 to 3500 psi.
The economy was starting to recover prior to Obama taking office? I suggest you take another look at the data, because that is completely false.
You are claiming three contradictory things now: Trump is responsible for the recovery, Bush is responsible for the recovery, and Obama is responsible for the recovery being so slow. You are desperate to blame something, anything on Obama, while claiming credit for anyone who is not Obama, thought preferably Trump, no matter how undeserved.
I understand facts have gone out of fashion with Trump's election, but that doesn't make anything you say correct. Stick with your "alternative facts" if you must, but don't expect anyone else to believe them.
The economy has been on a rocket sled upward since two years after Obama's election. You need to ignore most of the data to credit Trump for that.
What great things has Trump done exactly?
Fiscal? The deficit is larger than ever.
Economy? Stockmarket is down.
He mostly accomplished tax cuts for his buddies, cruel treatment of children, discrediting the US internationally, cozying up to all sorts of dictators and other authoritarians, and he's made DC even more corrupt than it was before. Really great things he has accomplished.
If 1/1024th ancestry makes Warren a native american then so is roughly half of the USA population.
Yet that is all she ever claimed: that she had one distant ancestor who was Native American. Or even that that's what the story in her family was, and she wasn't sure. She's not claiming she's Native American now, she's just showing that that family story turns out to be true.
But of course people need to move the goal posts.
Don't move the goal posts. The issue was whether or not she had one distant Native American ancestor. She does.
I don't expect him to ever pay, though. He never pays money he owes, and he always lies about what he said. His word is as worthless as his deals are.
This is both awful and stupid. The point of fines is not to have someone else pay them for you. It's punishment for an unfair advantage you created for yourself. This fine should come out of those profits.
But charging a fee for access to the Google Play Store is probably going to mean that we're going to have to get our apps at a Samsung store from now on, and that would definitely be terrible for everybody involved.
A better option would be an open store that sold the best and most popular Android apps, but with a better percentage of the revenue going to the app makers. That would give users less crap to wade through, it would give app makers a bigger share of the profit, and the app store itself could mostly leech off the work that Google has already done. A win for everybody except Google.
I think it would honestly be better for Google to just take the loss instead of ruining their business out of a misguided attempt to dodge this fine.
Socialism means a lot of different things. The "State Socialism" practiced by the USSR and its followers is hardly the definition of socialism. Many socialists strongly disagree with it, and even disagree that it is socialist at all. It's mostly a useful straw man for people who want to prevent the US from implementing some sensible policies that help poor people.
I don't quite follow the argument here. Is the argument that UBI is actively harmful and wage slavery is better? Or is the argument that UBI is not good enough and only a full blown revolution can set us free?
Because I strongly disagree with the former (and don't see any arguments to support it), and while I can understand the second position, I'd rather prevent a violent revolution.
AI is not remotely bullshit. It already got us a lot of things, from chess computers to Google Translate, navigation tools, image recognition, speech recognition, fraud detection, and tons of other stuff. Doing these things is harder than people originally imagined, and doing them perfectly is harder still. Combining different such tasks in the way humans combine them is even harder than that, but that doesn't mean it can't be done.
I keep getting the impression that these computer vision systems rely on a single vision system to get it right in one take. Why not have three independently trained systems watch simultaneously and vote on what they're seeing?
I remember reading ages ago that the F-16's fly-by-wire system has three computers voting on what to do, and that's 1970s technology. Why would we not use something similar for cars? Three systems are much harder to fool than one.
While this would be absolutely inexcusable behaviour for an OS, it doesn't match my experience with Windows 10. I haven't seen any unusual apps show up. My system looks remarkably clean. Almost suspiciously so...