It's a good start but we need communication protocols so cars can talk to one another and so traffic control devices can talk to them. We need uniform standards for road sensors, lane markers and broadcast obstruction warnings.
Maybe this is the incentive we need to finally fix our broken infrastructure.
Facebook is a megaphone for disinformation. True, there was disinformation around before they existed, before the internet existed, but to spread it you needed a budget. Facebook is like owning a printing press with a built-in distribution system.
If you're disseminating information that harms people, seriously harms them in some instances, where's the accountability?
The background cancer rate is one in three. So, with any environmental factor, the numbers are clouded with a lot of noise.
More likely people who eat organic food think about their health more than people who don't care what they eat. People who make organic choices are likely eating more vegetables, which has already moved the needle on their cancer risk. As an individual, you can't tell if this little thing or that little thing will really lower your cancer risk. What does work is eating like a sane person, exercising, and keeping your alcohol intake in the moderate zone.
Autonomous cars don't need stripes, street signs, speed limit signs or traffic lights. Are we going to continue spending billions on those human assist devices for a diminishing number of car enthusiasts?
You want to keep humans in the driver's seat, then find a way to pay for it.
We have young people saddled with debt during the most productive years of their life. All so rich people can get a tax break they don't need. This is wrong.
The Washington Post agreed to withhold certain details about the compromised missile project at the request of the Navy, which argued that their release could harm national security.
I keep the news on my office TV with the sound down. Does that count me as a watcher of traditional TV? I would argue I'm not really watching it and that's hardly traditional. Same when I'm watching Netflix. I might have the baseball game on one TV muted while I'm watching streaming on another. Even with all that going, I might be working and using the TVs for background noise.
None of those statistics really capture the new paradigm.
I don't think I've bought a song without previewing it on YouTube. I've found new songs previewing them on genre collections of music videos. YouTube sells music so helping identify songs is great for artists.
YouTube should move into direct sales. Click a tab to add a song to the cart.
The alternative to load and go is transporting the flight crew and personnel to the top of a rocket that's already fully fueled. Essentially personnel are working in areas with minimal protection and no ejection system standing next to a 230 foot tall bomb.
The way SpaceX does load and go, the flight crew is in a capsule with a functional abort system and the support personnel are a safe distance away.
Where would you rather be if there was an accident? In a crew capsule with an abort system or an elevator in the gantry? It's not rocket science...well, kinda is...but that's beside the point.
Bots are what you do when you want to pretend you're listening to your customers but don't really want to put any effort into actual engagement. Kind of like automated phone menus. Occasionally helpful but mostly a waste of time.
SpaceX will be able to build, test and fly the BFR before the SLS ever gets off the ground. NASA is great a running missions because there are no politics in space (yet). But when it comes to anything on the ground, forget it.
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The cable industry lost four quarts of blood over the last two years but next year they're only going to lose another pint.
Wooo! Pop the champagne.
It's a good start but we need communication protocols so cars can talk to one another and so traffic control devices can talk to them. We need uniform standards for road sensors, lane markers and broadcast obstruction warnings.
Maybe this is the incentive we need to finally fix our broken infrastructure.
How can they do that when they all look alike?
What are they going to do, roll tanks across the border of states that dare defy the time change?
You have to reach Mach 1.35 before it starts charging?
That's when the flux capacitor kicks in and turns your Tesla into a time machine.
Facebook is a megaphone for disinformation. True, there was disinformation around before they existed, before the internet existed, but to spread it you needed a budget. Facebook is like owning a printing press with a built-in distribution system.
If you're disseminating information that harms people, seriously harms them in some instances, where's the accountability?
I stopped logging in and now just use it to cruise the most popular stories. My stress level went way down and I spend far less time there.
Life is better without Reddit.
Because heroin and cocaine don't fuck you up enough?
I was working for the state out there 20 years ago and they said they were making progress.
The next scandal would be the Russians or Chinese hacking a close vote.
a big American tech executive being detained over unspecified charges while on a trip to Beijing.
Then don't travel to Beijing.
False equivalence.
Only for a raging hypocrite.
Sand is basically finely ground rock. That doesn't seem like an insurmountable technical problem by today's standards.
The background cancer rate is one in three. So, with any environmental factor, the numbers are clouded with a lot of noise.
More likely people who eat organic food think about their health more than people who don't care what they eat. People who make organic choices are likely eating more vegetables, which has already moved the needle on their cancer risk. As an individual, you can't tell if this little thing or that little thing will really lower your cancer risk. What does work is eating like a sane person, exercising, and keeping your alcohol intake in the moderate zone.
Autonomous cars don't need stripes, street signs, speed limit signs or traffic lights. Are we going to continue spending billions on those human assist devices for a diminishing number of car enthusiasts?
You want to keep humans in the driver's seat, then find a way to pay for it.
Woo! Victory lap!
IShouldn’t we give the same love to ULA?
SpaceX the launch cost would be $90 million. A ULA Delta IV launch is $400 million. Both get the payload where it's going.
So, no, we don't owe ULA the same love.
We have young people saddled with debt during the most productive years of their life. All so rich people can get a tax break they don't need. This is wrong.
The Washington Post agreed to withhold certain details about the compromised missile project at the request of the Navy, which argued that their release could harm national security.
Yeah, it might get out to the Chinese.
I keep the news on my office TV with the sound down. Does that count me as a watcher of traditional TV? I would argue I'm not really watching it and that's hardly traditional. Same when I'm watching Netflix. I might have the baseball game on one TV muted while I'm watching streaming on another. Even with all that going, I might be working and using the TVs for background noise.
None of those statistics really capture the new paradigm.
I don't think I've bought a song without previewing it on YouTube. I've found new songs previewing them on genre collections of music videos. YouTube sells music so helping identify songs is great for artists.
YouTube should move into direct sales. Click a tab to add a song to the cart.
The alternative to load and go is transporting the flight crew and personnel to the top of a rocket that's already fully fueled. Essentially personnel are working in areas with minimal protection and no ejection system standing next to a 230 foot tall bomb.
The way SpaceX does load and go, the flight crew is in a capsule with a functional abort system and the support personnel are a safe distance away.
Where would you rather be if there was an accident? In a crew capsule with an abort system or an elevator in the gantry? It's not rocket science...well, kinda is...but that's beside the point.
Bots are what you do when you want to pretend you're listening to your customers but don't really want to put any effort into actual engagement. Kind of like automated phone menus. Occasionally helpful but mostly a waste of time.
They already know about them and they're huge.
SpaceX will be able to build, test and fly the BFR before the SLS ever gets off the ground. NASA is great a running missions because there are no politics in space (yet). But when it comes to anything on the ground, forget it.