Huh? There is no minimum to itemize (if you want, you can itemize for less than the standard deduction, nobody does, but you can), and a 160k mortgage is referring to $160k a year payments, which in the first 5 years of a 30 year, could be rounded to $140k+ in interest payments. Itemizing $140k of interest is well above the "minimum to itemize".
I've never lived in such an area, and I've noticed all the "not me" haven't given a single location where there is competition for the copper lines or competition for the coax.
The number of people with residential point to point wireless available rounds to zero.
I'm saying that if you have two choices for a connection, the copper monopoly, or the coax monopoly, you live in a monopoly area. Most Americans are in that situation.
Why not argue that 5 GB (per month) 3G competes with 1 Gbps (per second) unlimited FTTH?
Pick a location. Name two companies you can buy a pots line from for DSL. Almost everywhere in the US, there is only a single POTS line provider. That some resell the line to an ISP doesn't change the monopoly status of the line.
Game AI can beat a human every time because the parameters are sufficiently narrow, and a computer can calculate faster than a person. That's not AI, that's brute force to look smart while being dumb.
The problem is that AI's definition is essentially "anything that seems smart" and under that definition, bad game AI fits. Deep Learning is not AI, and has no path to strong AI. Most current AI research has no path to strong AI. Academic AI has almost given up on strong AI, and has taken a detour in demonstrating weak AI on stronger computers that looks like stronger AI, when the AI is no better, but the weak AI is faster.
CEOs and other Imbeciles < My opinions < Real Researchers who know their shit
And you put everyone with an opinion you don't like into the "imbeciles" group. By reasonable measure, that puts you in the imbecile group.
As opposed to say, leading AI researchers that are attending conferences and writing papers on the state of the art.
AI researchers spend more time weakening the definition of AI than delivering any progress towards strong AI. Back 50 years ago, "AI" meant "Strong AI" and it's only recently when we realized AI is hard, so we'll use AI to mean "anything that seems smart" and deliver useless things and claim a victory.
Why would there be more than one? The first would be the only one, and would take over the world as the only AI. Unless two AIs were created separately and isolated concurrently, but they'd likely battle as soon as they were aware of each other.
Unless the AI makes slave AIs because it doesn't "want" to do something and can't trust dumb humans to do it.
ISPs are generally monopolies. Everywhere I've lived in the US, there has been only one company owning copper to an address, and only one company who could legally provide coax to an address. Yes, 10 miles apart, it may be a different company, but at a single address, there was never competition for the copper line, and never competition for the coax line.
Where do you live where you can get cable Internet at a single address from multiple companies? Where do you live where you can get a copper line owned by two different companies (and no, I'm not talking CLECs where 10,000 companies can buy the copper line, or DSL service from AT&T, but where you can get two copper lines owned by two separate companies)?
Nowhere in the US I've ever seen. Zero competition (often enforced by law) is a monopoly. Even if it's a micro monopoly by zip code, or a duopoly if you consider copper and coax to be the same thing. Though, there is a spread of fiber, and the last address I looked at in rural NYS had the option of fiber from 3 companies (some at $1000+ a month, but available at the address none the less). But most of the US doesn't have those options.
Yes, the insurance companies are evil, but they also engage quite heavily in price fixing (negotiation). Especially in places where there are only a few insurance providers in a state.
But I don't understand how private price fixing is fine, when done for profit, but done by the government for non-profit is evil.
And we have death panels today, manned by people who have a financial interest in seeing you dead, so why would people be afraid of a government death panel incentiveized to not care about your cost, but your health, and costs in general?
I mentioned cars from the '60s, and you countered with '97. So, when is the timeframe when "cars in general just aren't planned or made to last 20 years any more" when you have a 20 year old car. And I've had more than one 20+ year old car. So what time frame is your "cars in general just aren't planned or made to last 20 years any more" comment valid for? '80s GM cars were shit. And '60s cars were offered with a 1 year warranty for a reason. But today, a car should work 20+ years, same as 10 years ago, 20 years ago, and good cars from 30 years ago.
Everyone who wants to be able to run anything. I have about 50% of my shortcuts on my work machine (where policy prevents logging in as local admin, but one can use local admin), set up to run applications as local admin, because so many things still require it. Windows may have made it possible to run applications without local admin, but that doesn't mean all the application writers have kept up.
If he's buying, not renting, he's deducting almost all of the house payment from fed and state taxes. His burden, if he isn't an idiot, should be around 20% combined local, state and federal (counting his FICA, but not his employer's contribution). Though I can't swear he's not an idiot.
With $80k a year on mortgage, you'll get to deduct about 50% of your income (plus more deductions, as per persona situation allows), and your tax rate will be closer to 20%, even in CA, so take home would be.8*160 = 128k per year.
When I was insured, my Band-Aid in the hospital was $10. When I wasn't insured, it was $100. That's group bargaining by the insurer, and one of the things that ACA should have addressed that it didn't come down hard enough on, as ACA was welfare for the insurance companies, not care for people.
Nope. Autopilot handoff isn't a milisecond before a crash, blame the driver. But it is a "you are directing the car to head through a flooded bridge", and the driver takes over and kills themselves and the car kind of stupid driver.
In other words you are buying insurance from someone who has never admitted a single time that autopilot was "properly engaged" at the time of an accident.
http://abc7news.com/automotive/tesla-self-driving-car-fails-to-detect-truck-in-fatal-crash/1410042/ Oops, caught you in a lie. But then, everything you said was a lie.
You must be an American, specifically a Republican. publi health insurance (as seen in almost every country outside the US) is cheaper for more services than the US. Insurance is cheaper than no insurance. Some insurance is solely about risk management, but other insurance can be about group bargaining (something illegal in the US, as it sounds like a "union" or something evil like that).
Cars in the '60s had 1 year warranties, maybe 2 year warranties. They weren't built to last. Today's car will last much longer than a '60s car. The problem with your perception is that the '60s cars you see were the top 1% of the millions of cars made then, or the ones that had 10x their purchase price paid to keep them like-new.
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There is NO PLACE in the US where an ISP has a legal monopoly. Not a single one. "Enforced by law" is hyperbole.
In most places only one company can run copper to an address, by law. And in most places, only one company can run coax into the house, by law.
Prove one of those wrong, or you are a liar.
Huh? There is no minimum to itemize (if you want, you can itemize for less than the standard deduction, nobody does, but you can), and a 160k mortgage is referring to $160k a year payments, which in the first 5 years of a 30 year, could be rounded to $140k+ in interest payments. Itemizing $140k of interest is well above the "minimum to itemize".
I've never lived in such an area, and I've noticed all the "not me" haven't given a single location where there is competition for the copper lines or competition for the coax.
The number of people with residential point to point wireless available rounds to zero.
I'm saying that if you have two choices for a connection, the copper monopoly, or the coax monopoly, you live in a monopoly area. Most Americans are in that situation.
Why not argue that 5 GB (per month) 3G competes with 1 Gbps (per second) unlimited FTTH?
Pick a location. Name two companies you can buy a pots line from for DSL. Almost everywhere in the US, there is only a single POTS line provider. That some resell the line to an ISP doesn't change the monopoly status of the line.
So a coax monopoly, a copper monopoly and a fiber monopoly. All operating in the same area, but monopolies nonetheless.
The problem is that AI's definition is essentially "anything that seems smart" and under that definition, bad game AI fits. Deep Learning is not AI, and has no path to strong AI. Most current AI research has no path to strong AI. Academic AI has almost given up on strong AI, and has taken a detour in demonstrating weak AI on stronger computers that looks like stronger AI, when the AI is no better, but the weak AI is faster.
CEOs and other Imbeciles < My opinions < Real Researchers who know their shit
And you put everyone with an opinion you don't like into the "imbeciles" group. By reasonable measure, that puts you in the imbecile group.
As opposed to say, leading AI researchers that are attending conferences and writing papers on the state of the art.
AI researchers spend more time weakening the definition of AI than delivering any progress towards strong AI. Back 50 years ago, "AI" meant "Strong AI" and it's only recently when we realized AI is hard, so we'll use AI to mean "anything that seems smart" and deliver useless things and claim a victory.
Why would there be more than one? The first would be the only one, and would take over the world as the only AI. Unless two AIs were created separately and isolated concurrently, but they'd likely battle as soon as they were aware of each other.
Unless the AI makes slave AIs because it doesn't "want" to do something and can't trust dumb humans to do it.
ISPs are generally monopolies. Everywhere I've lived in the US, there has been only one company owning copper to an address, and only one company who could legally provide coax to an address. Yes, 10 miles apart, it may be a different company, but at a single address, there was never competition for the copper line, and never competition for the coax line.
Where do you live where you can get cable Internet at a single address from multiple companies? Where do you live where you can get a copper line owned by two different companies (and no, I'm not talking CLECs where 10,000 companies can buy the copper line, or DSL service from AT&T, but where you can get two copper lines owned by two separate companies)?
Nowhere in the US I've ever seen. Zero competition (often enforced by law) is a monopoly. Even if it's a micro monopoly by zip code, or a duopoly if you consider copper and coax to be the same thing. Though, there is a spread of fiber, and the last address I looked at in rural NYS had the option of fiber from 3 companies (some at $1000+ a month, but available at the address none the less). But most of the US doesn't have those options.
Yes, the insurance companies are evil, but they also engage quite heavily in price fixing (negotiation). Especially in places where there are only a few insurance providers in a state.
But I don't understand how private price fixing is fine, when done for profit, but done by the government for non-profit is evil.
And we have death panels today, manned by people who have a financial interest in seeing you dead, so why would people be afraid of a government death panel incentiveized to not care about your cost, but your health, and costs in general?
I mentioned cars from the '60s, and you countered with '97. So, when is the timeframe when "cars in general just aren't planned or made to last 20 years any more" when you have a 20 year old car. And I've had more than one 20+ year old car. So what time frame is your "cars in general just aren't planned or made to last 20 years any more" comment valid for? '80s GM cars were shit. And '60s cars were offered with a 1 year warranty for a reason. But today, a car should work 20+ years, same as 10 years ago, 20 years ago, and good cars from 30 years ago.
Everyone who wants to be able to run anything. I have about 50% of my shortcuts on my work machine (where policy prevents logging in as local admin, but one can use local admin), set up to run applications as local admin, because so many things still require it. Windows may have made it possible to run applications without local admin, but that doesn't mean all the application writers have kept up.
If he's buying, not renting, he's deducting almost all of the house payment from fed and state taxes. His burden, if he isn't an idiot, should be around 20% combined local, state and federal (counting his FICA, but not his employer's contribution). Though I can't swear he's not an idiot.
With $80k a year on mortgage, you'll get to deduct about 50% of your income (plus more deductions, as per persona situation allows), and your tax rate will be closer to 20%, even in CA, so take home would be .8*160 = 128k per year.
When I was insured, my Band-Aid in the hospital was $10. When I wasn't insured, it was $100. That's group bargaining by the insurer, and one of the things that ACA should have addressed that it didn't come down hard enough on, as ACA was welfare for the insurance companies, not care for people.
America has one of if not *the* top rated health care system in the world.
Only if America is counting. America costs more and delivers less than almost all other industrialized nations.
So you are saying planned obsolescence has started in the past 10-20 years? Funny, I've heard that complaint for many years longer than that.
Subaru WRX is faster and cheaper, yes, not as sexy, but I don't sleep with my car.
In other words you are buying insurance from someone who has never admitted a single time that autopilot was "properly engaged" at the time of an accident.
http://abc7news.com/automotive/tesla-self-driving-car-fails-to-detect-truck-in-fatal-crash/1410042/ Oops, caught you in a lie. But then, everything you said was a lie.
You must be an American, specifically a Republican. publi health insurance (as seen in almost every country outside the US) is cheaper for more services than the US. Insurance is cheaper than no insurance. Some insurance is solely about risk management, but other insurance can be about group bargaining (something illegal in the US, as it sounds like a "union" or something evil like that).
a P100D can probably accelerate faster but it's still about as emotionally sterile as a dentists waiting room.
Ah yes, if all else fails, insult the emotions of an inanimate object. It doesn't care, and you look like an emotional fool.
Cars in the '60s had 1 year warranties, maybe 2 year warranties. They weren't built to last. Today's car will last much longer than a '60s car. The problem with your perception is that the '60s cars you see were the top 1% of the millions of cars made then, or the ones that had 10x their purchase price paid to keep them like-new.
Yeah, the Lithium batteries in GM's EV1 were shit.
No thanks, I'll pass. I let the first adopters take the chances.
Yeah, it's a shame there's not some way to mitigate that chance. Perhaps an insurance against it.