So if the choice is between death and quadriplegia... I don't know about you, but I'd rather try out being a quadriplegic first, BEFORE the dying thing.
I think your understanding of the word robot is flawed. Google's driverless car is a robot. Does it really need to know what is and is not human? It's just trying to go from point A to point B. Running over things, like people, would impede this goal.
Collier argues that there are also downsides to the tech giants' plans to shift more bright, young, enterprising people from the poorest countries to the richest
MOST of those young, bright and enterprising people from the POOREST COUNTRIES won't get ANY chance to tap on their potential in their own country, and I am speaking as someone who had been through exactly that scenario.
When I came out of China, back in the early 1970's, China was in a VERY TERRIBLE STATE.
Millions of ordinary citizens had died of hunger.
Social upheaval were everywhere - goons waving that little red book were ransacking/looting people's houses they accused of "anti-revolutionary".
If I WERE to stay in China, I had only two choices:
Well, there was the third choice... Do something to make it better.
Allowing people like you out of the country also acted as a kind of relief valve, reducing the internal pressure to change. You leaving has retarded the social growth of China. That is just one of the downsides.
We had a VP that had his home locks changed to match the building front door because he only wanted to ever carry two keys. When I was going through his termination interview and asked for his key, the prospect of not being able to get into his house brought the flaw in his plan to light.
... and cannot be trusted to use a revision control system without causing a mess that somebody else will have to clean up. On top of that, he is really resistant to the idea of code reviews;
Where are you from that these are that these are "current" concepts that you wouldn't know about unless you've been keeping up? How old is this guy? When he programs, is he plugging/unplugging vacuum tubes?
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How do all the bad actors in this case just get to walk away?
"You tell everybody. Listen to me, Hatcher. You've gotta tell them! Soylent Green is people! We've gotta stop them somehow!"
Too bad there isn't a mod for "didn't get the joke."
So if the choice is between death and quadriplegia... I don't know about you, but I'd rather try out being a quadriplegic first, BEFORE the dying thing.
Unless you have an iron lung. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... These aren't even new.
Because when the police jam cellular, they don't jam FM. http://gawker.com/5830458/san-...
What can you do with it besides edit lidar and sonar information? Does it have some sort of big data application?
I'm sorry, but no. Until there is a Liu Cixin version of the Clarke Orbit, you need to pick another scifi writer as a comparision.
Johnny Mnemonic?
Dang, wish I saw this great summary before reading this stupid click-bait of a... this fine article.
Too bad there isn't a website like groklaw that would track these things and provide some pretty nifty analysis too.
I think your understanding of the word robot is flawed. Google's driverless car is a robot. Does it really need to know what is and is not human? It's just trying to go from point A to point B. Running over things, like people, would impede this goal.
Yeah, generally, people with that kind of money and exposure, already have a protection detail.
...cue the snide C/C++ programmer remarks.
cagraham, Data Warehouse doesn't mean what you think it means. The fire was at just a warehouse.
Collier argues that there are also downsides to the tech giants' plans to shift more bright, young, enterprising people from the poorest countries to the richest
MOST of those young, bright and enterprising people from the POOREST COUNTRIES won't get ANY chance to tap on their potential in their own country, and I am speaking as someone who had been through exactly that scenario.
When I came out of China, back in the early 1970's, China was in a VERY TERRIBLE STATE.
Millions of ordinary citizens had died of hunger.
Social upheaval were everywhere - goons waving that little red book were ransacking/looting people's houses they accused of "anti-revolutionary".
If I WERE to stay in China, I had only two choices:
Well, there was the third choice... Do something to make it better. Allowing people like you out of the country also acted as a kind of relief valve, reducing the internal pressure to change. You leaving has retarded the social growth of China. That is just one of the downsides.
Mini Computer? Inigo Montoya says, "I don't think that word means what you think it means."
Were you sacrificing them?
We had a VP that had his home locks changed to match the building front door because he only wanted to ever carry two keys. When I was going through his termination interview and asked for his key, the prospect of not being able to get into his house brought the flaw in his plan to light.
Where are you from that these are that these are "current" concepts that you wouldn't know about unless you've been keeping up? How old is this guy? When he programs, is he plugging/unplugging vacuum tubes?
Not only does nobody know what kind of changes this genetically altered Salmon will affect in the ecosystem and food chain it is released into;
I'm pretty sure the article was about farm raised salmon.
...tastes like chicken.
Why would you dig? If you don't want it outside, bury it. You don't need to first dig a hole to do that.
it'll have to be removed once it grows to six feet long."
Or translated, "It's belt length now, but we're going to wait till it's belt and a pair of shoes length"
Did you hear they are going to cut Alaska in half and make Texas the third largest state?