A billionaire who nails lots of hot chicks. Yeah, it must be so awful for him...
Based on his wife's behavior in public, and the multitudes of other women who seem to be involved, I would posit that the number of encounters with each woman approaches 1. That doesn't sound appealing to me, but maybe some people enjoy it.
Many years ago during the summer between University semesters I was unable to find a conventional job. My parents wanted me to to try anything, so after much cajoling I tried becoming a professional strawberry picker... It didn't turn out so well. Those that do it for real work, are really good at it, and probably a bit crazy as well. At the time in the mid-late nineties minimum wage where I was located was 5.85$ I think. Strawberry picking you were paid by volume. After working for a couple weeks, I figured out one day that I was probably pulling in less than 2$ an hour because I was so slow at it. Not willing to face my parents without seeming to give it at least the old college try, I dutifully drove to the farm each morning, parked my car by the side of the road, and read a book all day, returning at the end of the day. I did this for a couple more weeks, until I could finally go and say I tried but it really wasn't working out. It is really hard, dirty, hot work...
Best left to the Robots, or at least once they figure it out...
I had a similar experience picking potatos and blueberries. I did it when I was 12 or so. Both are backbreaking labor that paid by volume/weight. I think I lasted 2 weeks at the potato farm. The tractor dug the potatos up but they had to be put into baskets and then transferred to barrels. I lasted 3 days at the blueberry field. In both places, there were hispanic kids who couldn't have been more than 8 years old who were putting me to shame. They were fast and they never seemed to get tired.
This was back around 1995 or so. 98% of potato farms were using conveyor machinery even then, which is much faster and less labor intensive. The farm I was at did not. My parents wanted me to have the true hard labor experience.
Go half-way down the article, and you'll find this nugget:
Also, he admits, the machine is slower than human hands. On the other hand, it has some advantages. It can work right through the night, when berries are cooler and less fragile.
Another two years, he says, and this machine will be in the fields working for real. "There's quirks to work out, but it's getting there. We're close," he says.
While the headline makes it seem like the robot picker is far from reality, the people working on it don't think so. And it's not just a minor project:
I have been hearing that fruit-picking robots are "nearly there" for years now. I'm sure it will happen someday but any statement that someone is "close" should be taken with a salty grain.
The US does not grab your property for personal crimes. It only confiscates property belonging to nation states it has disagreements with.
So once you have made your money and would like to go clean you invest it in USA and retire to the US.
This reputation is hard won and many a constituional and moral principle has been sacrificed for this key pillar of prosperity.
You dont want to endanger it just to feel some Schadenfreude over the Chinese losing money on their investments.
Rather you should keep rooting for a booming US economy with constant inflow of foreign money. A booming economy lifts all boats.
I generally agree this is good. If you're in Mexico and your family is sending you money every month, that is good both for you, and for Mexico in general. If your company is on the ropes and an overseas company buys it when no domestic firm would, that is good too. But in other cases it is not good.
Property prices in several cities are skyrocketing in part due to foreign buyers who neither rent nor reside in them. This makes housing less affordable to people who would actually live there.
College ownership by Chinese companies is problematic as well. Ostensibly, the companies are only motivated by profit, and nothing changes. But what if the college has courses that the Chinese government doesn't like? What if the Chinese government puts pressure on the Chinese company to change the curriculum? Having foreign organizations in our education system is too potentially problematic to be acceptable.
The run of the mill for the past few years is that graphics cards are for mining the cryptocurrency flavour of the month and creating magical AI bots. This is the first time in years I have seen an article that refers to the use of graphics cards for actual graphics.
My guess is that the graphics companies are seeing that cryptocurrencies may be peaking or on the decline. Between various countries banning them, municipalities banning them or charging more for electricity, and people starting to wise up that many cryptocurrencies are scams, the writing may be on the wall. AMD and Nvidia may be seeing a dropoff in sales, they would be the first to know if cryptocurrencies have peaked.
It is not mentioned in the Wikipedia article, but it is stated in one of Ricardo Semlerâ(TM)s books that fully transparent accounting (including all expenditures and salaries) was a key to Semcoâ(TM)s success.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik...
So basically, someone has a theory that a counter-intuitive result which doesn't match people's experience and implies people getting off a stopped freeway makes traffic worse (but that people can't figure that out over time in a scenario which plays out frequently on their daily commute), but hasn't actually come up with evidence for that theory (at least, not in this article nor paper), but hey, look at the shiny theory!!!
Anecdotal evidence is enough for me to agree that these apps are causing problems. Take a look at 1717 North Sam Houston Pkwy W eastbound. An exit ramp leads to an entrance ramp with no stoplights in between. Waze routinely directs me to exit the highway and then get back on. There is not that much traffic on the feeder road coming from TC Jester / Veterans Memorial Dr. Traffic backs up on the highway due to all the cars merging back on. The shortcut itself causes a traffic jam.
Painting with a broad brush are we? R/The_Donald also has high quality posts such as the one detailing the over 500 companies DT ran prior to his run for the presidency. Mass amounts of research went into that thread and I quoted it quite often. Even google put it as a top link in a search for "Donald Trump companies".
Searching for "Donald Trump companies" doesn't turn up the reddit thread the 1st 3 pages. Which means it may as well not exist. (not to say that it isn't a good post)
Google is likely customizing your search results, I see this quite often for pages I sometimes or frequently visit.
Given that Sandra Dickinson was Married to Peter Davidson (Time Lord known as The Doctor) and their daughter Georgia Moffett (Also a Time Lord and daughter of The Doctor) is married to David Tenant (Also a Time Lord known as The Doctor). Christmas dinner round there's must have been a hoot!
Don't confuse the role with the actor. They could all be assholes privately.
It turns out that even simple things are complicated when you drill down to all of the details.
When someone asks a question like this, I like to point to the Slack decision flow to decide whether or not to show a notification. Seems simple on the surface, right? If the user is in the channel and they get a message then notify. But in reality it's considerably more complicated:
Now multiply this across every feature and it turns out that even a simple chat app is complicated. Throw in build engineers, QA, SRE's,24x7 monitoring, etc and it's easy to get to 100 engineers.
That is an absolutely ridiculous chart. The user can customize their experience so finely that it seems impossible to get the desired result. Per-device preferences, per-channel preferences, both with different levels of settings and actions. DND and DND overrides, user presence online or not, subscribed to thread messages, etc.
I'm not a user of Slack but if that's how the app handles notifications, I shudder to think about how one could possibly understand how to use the software effectively.
Given that North Korea is a high profile hacking target by just about every other government, is it any wonder that their computer networks are separated from the rest of the world? "Repressive" regimes tend to do this to control dissent, but reducing exposure to worldwide networks could be another reason for running a national intranet.
I also wondered why the heck New Zealand is in the Five Eyes. The wikipedia article is probably not surprising to many people but interesting nonetheless.
I can recall that one of the Easter eggs in Fallout 1 or 2 was the cookie. If you ate one, your hard drive seeked and the light blinked (no other item had this action). This was back in the day when games werenâ(TM)t reading constantly from the disk, and hard drive seeks were noisy, so it was noticeable.
A quartz crystal has excellent short-term accuracy, but lousy long-term accuracy.
And you don't grasp that his statement makes no sense?
because the power companies handle all of the necessary corrections.
No. Power companies make no "corrections". They attempt to keep the grid frequency _stable_
If the grid was below desired frequency in the morning, because of people suck unexpected more power, they do nothing in the evening to compensate for that. Why would they?
"And the funny thing is, the old technology does it better because the frequency was controlled by a large physical inertia."
It wasn't really just inertia. The generators also act as synchronous motors. Each ends up loaded more by the grid more when they're getting a bit ahead of the "consensus" frequency and less when they get behind. So once they get synchronized they stay that way. (Barring the occasional screw-up - which usually leads to a regional blackout.)
But if they're heavily loaded they slow down, and if lightly loaded they speed up. They have no inherent absolute speed referenc. So the power companies have to keep them "on time" by comparing them to a good time reference and giving a little extra push (with more steam or whatever) when they're getting behind, less when they're getting ahead - or by lowering the voltage (a brownout) or cutting off parts of the grid (rotating blackouts) when the load is getting too big for them to keep up to speed. If they don't, the generators get slowed down a tad and the clocks slow down. (That's what happened in Europe.)
Manual frequency corrections are becoming less and less common in the US, as described in this white paper. In fact, it is proposed to eliminate them.
A different NERC document tries to explain how balancing authorities work. It is quite complicated but a lot of very smart people have worked on the problem for the past 120 years.
The MIT authors seem to be taking the criticism seriously so maybe I just suck at reading
Nah, they just may have academic integrity and want to look into it in detail in case they did somehow miss something.
Or somebody at Uber reminded the author that on a Friday night last September, they took a ride from a bar to a residential property that was not their home. And the next morning at 6:35AM they took another ride from that property back to their home. Perhaps they further suggested that the author must love his wife and kids, and it would be a shame if the author's ride information was made public.
Our government works so hard to bypass security protocols for consumer technology. OK, so perhaps I'm naive. But a government what works for it's citizens should not be so focused on breaking into our computers without due process. (thank you Patriot Act).
Israel's approach to cybersecurity is very different than the USA. Firstly, a majority of citizens must serve in the military for around 2-3 years. The cybersecurity division of their armed forces is quite substantial. Then, many if not most of those trained individuals are turned loose in the private sector. The skills learned in the military are very transferable to private practice, even if the exact vulnerabilities that a servicemember found in the military are classified and can not be used. Is it any surprise that Israel has a comparatively high percentage of cybersecurity companies?
The US system appears to work mostly in reverse (to an outside observer). The NSA and other agencies find vulnerabilities and then keep them secret. Turnover to and from the private sector isn't as high as the Israeli system. The US military sector does a comparatively worse job training these skills and distributing them to the market, where they may do more good than spying on Angela Merkel.
We'll need a basic income for all and higher taxes to pay for it.
And folks who are hung up on insisting that people work are gonna have to get over it because when folks get displaced and have nowhere to make living, they're gonna revolt. So, we gave them basic income to keep them from reaching for the guns and torches.
Revolution is what will happen if the negative effects of AI are ignored. The thought that some other parts of the economy will soak up the displaced workers is just a fantasy.
People do revolt. When a significant part of the population gets fed up with one political party, they revolt and vote the other one in. Redundant political parties is a feature of the current American democracy. It doesn't change anything for the individual, but the illusion of change is an innovative improvement compared to direct rulership by kings, dictators, and oligarchs.
Many of the new products we have today are the result of filling a market for the disabled or the elderly. Many as-seen-on-tv products are good examples of this. The Has this ever happened to you? lead-in probably hasnâ(TM)t happened to you. But if you have Parkinsonâ(TM)s, or the use of only one hand, or arthritis, or are in a wheelchair, or have reduced strength due to age, most of those products make perfect sense.
Capturing the data is a good reason for Amazon, but another one is to prevent competitors from looking at the code. Hard to reverse engineer or copy software that you donâ(TM)t have access to.
If ppl want to stop this, then ALL NATIONS MUST STOP. Not just 1 or 2.
And that will never happen. I see a lot of talk about China in this thread but Russia is the #2 emitter of pollution. The US is reducing emissions, both per-capita and overall. Russia's emissions per GDP are increasing (albeit not as rapidly as China). Here's a nice graph of emissions per capita for the top 3. The difference is that China is seeing a lot of negative effects related to pollution, and politicians are under pressure to fix the problem or risk destabilizing the country. China has incentives to act.
Russia, on the other hand, doesn't have many developed low-lying coastal areas. Weather patterns are becoming more habitable, arable land is increasing, icecaps limiting shipping are melting, more natural resources (fishing, oilfields, etc) are becoming accessible, etc. Climate change may cost Russia's economic competitors in both money and political stability. A decent chunk of the Russian economy is based on oil and natural gas exports. Many other countries have some of these incentives, but Russia is the big winner of climate change, and they have every incentive not to take action. I would not be at all surprised if Russia was actively promoting anti-climate change ideology. They have a strong motive, means, and opportunity.
Disclaimer- I am an engineer in the North American fossil fuel industry
Millennials are 1000 times better than live beyond yo u reans baby boomers who have racked up 22 trillion in debt and are going to make their grandkids pay it off for them.
Right now to reach break even government spending we need 10% annual growth in tax revune. Instead we get tax cuts and vague promises. By 2040 the us government will be completely bankrupt at the current rate of spending vs income. As it sits now 25% of our federal budget goes to pay interest payments on debt. Not prinicipal just interest. That debt is primiarily owed to the be people of the USA.
Put that on perspective. That means if you earn $300k annually your interest payments are $88k and your principals is in millions.
There is no way out of this and that is 100% due to the lazy fucking stupid boomers
Sooner or later, most forms of government fall into this trap. Politicians or the powers-that-be want to stay in power, and delivering benefits to constituents (lobbyists and individuals) while not raising taxes is a surefire way to keep getting elected. Just look at for how long the gas tax has not been raised (25 years). The only potential problem is to not be the guy in charge when the debt becomes unsustainable. And even then, the worst that will likely happen to the politician is they will have to retire from politics and be a consultant for the companies that they did favors for.
It is difficult for a politician to take actions that have short term pain but long term gain. It is hard or impossible to get elected under such a platform - the attack ads become insurmountable. So the platforms become extremely vague and it is impossible to tell what a politician will do if elected. In these situations, there is little the voters can do to solve the problem. It generally takes a banking crisis or high interest rates to trigger meaningful reform.
Sport used to be something you played just for fun. Now only those competitors whose sponsors have the deepest pockets stand a chance.
That's not completely true. Despite Under Armour spending millions of dollars on the 2014 US speed skating team suits. The skates were similarly highly engineered. And yet, they failed to win a single medal. Several other countries with (I assume) lower budgets won medals. Initial blame was on the equipment but it turns out that a better skater will win despite a competitor using cutting edge technology.
Sport is something that people should do for fun. Being a winner is icing on the cake, but camaraderie and challenging oneself physically is satisfying enough for many people. If that isn't happening with our children, I blame the parents for focusing too much on winning. Sports are just physical games and getting too excited about winners and losers is equivalent to flipping over a Monopoly table.
The difference is that Android's source code has been out there and scrutinized by many people and organizations. Apple's has only been scrutinized by Apple until now. Even if significant amounts of the code are outdated, it could give people a better idea of what kind of attacks may be possible. Plus the fact that it is news may spur more attention to IOS exploits, if only out of curiosity.
People donâ(TM)t care about privacy because most internet privacy policies are dozens of pages long and hidden behind a very boring link. It is arguably something that needs more regulation. Banks are required to send a 1-page form explaining how and who they are sharing your data with. That form was carefully designed by the Consumers Financial Protection Bureau to be easily understandable. There was an NPR show a while back that got a bunch of (3rd? 5th?) graders and they were able to understand the form. There isnâ(TM)t any reason why the same or similar form could not be applied to all businesses that collect personal data.
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A billionaire who nails lots of hot chicks. Yeah, it must be so awful for him...
Based on his wife's behavior in public, and the multitudes of other women who seem to be involved, I would posit that the number of encounters with each woman approaches 1. That doesn't sound appealing to me, but maybe some people enjoy it.
Or at least not this Human.
Many years ago during the summer between University semesters I was unable to find a conventional job. My parents wanted me to to try anything, so after much cajoling I tried becoming a professional strawberry picker... It didn't turn out so well. Those that do it for real work, are really good at it, and probably a bit crazy as well. At the time in the mid-late nineties minimum wage where I was located was 5.85$ I think. Strawberry picking you were paid by volume. After working for a couple weeks, I figured out one day that I was probably pulling in less than 2$ an hour because I was so slow at it. Not willing to face my parents without seeming to give it at least the old college try, I dutifully drove to the farm each morning, parked my car by the side of the road, and read a book all day, returning at the end of the day. I did this for a couple more weeks, until I could finally go and say I tried but it really wasn't working out. It is really hard, dirty, hot work...
Best left to the Robots, or at least once they figure it out...
I had a similar experience picking potatos and blueberries. I did it when I was 12 or so. Both are backbreaking labor that paid by volume/weight. I think I lasted 2 weeks at the potato farm. The tractor dug the potatos up but they had to be put into baskets and then transferred to barrels. I lasted 3 days at the blueberry field. In both places, there were hispanic kids who couldn't have been more than 8 years old who were putting me to shame. They were fast and they never seemed to get tired.
This was back around 1995 or so. 98% of potato farms were using conveyor machinery even then, which is much faster and less labor intensive. The farm I was at did not. My parents wanted me to have the true hard labor experience.
Go half-way down the article, and you'll find this nugget:
Also, he admits, the machine is slower than human hands. On the other hand, it has some advantages. It can work right through the night, when berries are cooler and less fragile.
Another two years, he says, and this machine will be in the fields working for real. "There's quirks to work out, but it's getting there. We're close," he says.
While the headline makes it seem like the robot picker is far from reality, the people working on it don't think so. And it's not just a minor project:
I have been hearing that fruit-picking robots are "nearly there" for years now. I'm sure it will happen someday but any statement that someone is "close" should be taken with a salty grain.
The US does not grab your property for personal crimes. It only confiscates property belonging to nation states it has disagreements with.
So once you have made your money and would like to go clean you invest it in USA and retire to the US.
This reputation is hard won and many a constituional and moral principle has been sacrificed for this key pillar of prosperity.
You dont want to endanger it just to feel some Schadenfreude over the Chinese losing money on their investments.
Rather you should keep rooting for a booming US economy with constant inflow of foreign money. A booming economy lifts all boats.
I generally agree this is good. If you're in Mexico and your family is sending you money every month, that is good both for you, and for Mexico in general. If your company is on the ropes and an overseas company buys it when no domestic firm would, that is good too. But in other cases it is not good.
Property prices in several cities are skyrocketing in part due to foreign buyers who neither rent nor reside in them. This makes housing less affordable to people who would actually live there.
College ownership by Chinese companies is problematic as well. Ostensibly, the companies are only motivated by profit, and nothing changes. But what if the college has courses that the Chinese government doesn't like? What if the Chinese government puts pressure on the Chinese company to change the curriculum? Having foreign organizations in our education system is too potentially problematic to be acceptable.
The run of the mill for the past few years is that graphics cards are for mining the cryptocurrency flavour of the month and creating magical AI bots. This is the first time in years I have seen an article that refers to the use of graphics cards for actual graphics.
My guess is that the graphics companies are seeing that cryptocurrencies may be peaking or on the decline. Between various countries banning them, municipalities banning them or charging more for electricity, and people starting to wise up that many cryptocurrencies are scams, the writing may be on the wall. AMD and Nvidia may be seeing a dropoff in sales, they would be the first to know if cryptocurrencies have peaked.
It is not mentioned in the Wikipedia article, but it is stated in one of Ricardo Semlerâ(TM)s books that fully transparent accounting (including all expenditures and salaries) was a key to Semcoâ(TM)s success. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik...
So basically, someone has a theory that a counter-intuitive result which doesn't match people's experience and implies people getting off a stopped freeway makes traffic worse (but that people can't figure that out over time in a scenario which plays out frequently on their daily commute), but hasn't actually come up with evidence for that theory (at least, not in this article nor paper), but hey, look at the shiny theory!!!
Anecdotal evidence is enough for me to agree that these apps are causing problems. Take a look at 1717 North Sam Houston Pkwy W eastbound. An exit ramp leads to an entrance ramp with no stoplights in between. Waze routinely directs me to exit the highway and then get back on. There is not that much traffic on the feeder road coming from TC Jester / Veterans Memorial Dr. Traffic backs up on the highway due to all the cars merging back on. The shortcut itself causes a traffic jam.
Disappear to a nonextraditing country?
Painting with a broad brush are we? R/The_Donald also has high quality posts such as the one detailing the over 500 companies DT ran prior to his run for the presidency. Mass amounts of research went into that thread and I quoted it quite often. Even google put it as a top link in a search for "Donald Trump companies".
Searching for "Donald Trump companies" doesn't turn up the reddit thread the 1st 3 pages. Which means it may as well not exist. (not to say that it isn't a good post)
Google is likely customizing your search results, I see this quite often for pages I sometimes or frequently visit.
Given that Sandra Dickinson was Married to Peter Davidson (Time Lord known as The Doctor) and their daughter Georgia Moffett (Also a Time Lord and daughter of The Doctor) is married to David Tenant (Also a Time Lord known as The Doctor). Christmas dinner round there's must have been a hoot!
Don't confuse the role with the actor. They could all be assholes privately.
It turns out that even simple things are complicated when you drill down to all of the details.
When someone asks a question like this, I like to point to the Slack decision flow to decide whether or not to show a notification. Seems simple on the surface, right? If the user is in the channel and they get a message then notify. But in reality it's considerably more complicated:
https://twitter.com/mathowie/s...
Now multiply this across every feature and it turns out that even a simple chat app is complicated. Throw in build engineers, QA, SRE's,24x7 monitoring, etc and it's easy to get to 100 engineers.
That is an absolutely ridiculous chart. The user can customize their experience so finely that it seems impossible to get the desired result. Per-device preferences, per-channel preferences, both with different levels of settings and actions. DND and DND overrides, user presence online or not, subscribed to thread messages, etc.
I'm not a user of Slack but if that's how the app handles notifications, I shudder to think about how one could possibly understand how to use the software effectively.
Given that North Korea is a high profile hacking target by just about every other government, is it any wonder that their computer networks are separated from the rest of the world? "Repressive" regimes tend to do this to control dissent, but reducing exposure to worldwide networks could be another reason for running a national intranet.
I also wondered why the heck New Zealand is in the Five Eyes. The wikipedia article is probably not surprising to many people but interesting nonetheless.
I can recall that one of the Easter eggs in Fallout 1 or 2 was the cookie. If you ate one, your hard drive seeked and the light blinked (no other item had this action). This was back in the day when games werenâ(TM)t reading constantly from the disk, and hard drive seeks were noisy, so it was noticeable.
A quartz crystal has excellent short-term accuracy, but lousy long-term accuracy. And you don't grasp that his statement makes no sense?
because the power companies handle all of the necessary corrections. No. Power companies make no "corrections". They attempt to keep the grid frequency _stable_ If the grid was below desired frequency in the morning, because of people suck unexpected more power, they do nothing in the evening to compensate for that. Why would they?
Actually, they do correct average frequency. Not necessarily every day, but it is done. At least in 1st world countries.
Why do they do this? Because the grid frequency is supposed to be 50 or 60Hz, and it is run by engineers who take pride in their work.
"And the funny thing is, the old technology does it better because the frequency was controlled by a large physical inertia."
It wasn't really just inertia. The generators also act as synchronous motors. Each ends up loaded more by the grid more when they're getting a bit ahead of the "consensus" frequency and less when they get behind. So once they get synchronized they stay that way. (Barring the occasional screw-up - which usually leads to a regional blackout.)
But if they're heavily loaded they slow down, and if lightly loaded they speed up. They have no inherent absolute speed referenc. So the power companies have to keep them "on time" by comparing them to a good time reference and giving a little extra push (with more steam or whatever) when they're getting behind, less when they're getting ahead - or by lowering the voltage (a brownout) or cutting off parts of the grid (rotating blackouts) when the load is getting too big for them to keep up to speed. If they don't, the generators get slowed down a tad and the clocks slow down. (That's what happened in Europe.)
Manual frequency corrections are becoming less and less common in the US, as described in this white paper. In fact, it is proposed to eliminate them.
A different NERC document tries to explain how balancing authorities work. It is quite complicated but a lot of very smart people have worked on the problem for the past 120 years.
The MIT authors seem to be taking the criticism seriously so maybe I just suck at reading
Nah, they just may have academic integrity and want to look into it in detail in case they did somehow miss something.
Or somebody at Uber reminded the author that on a Friday night last September, they took a ride from a bar to a residential property that was not their home. And the next morning at 6:35AM they took another ride from that property back to their home. Perhaps they further suggested that the author must love his wife and kids, and it would be a shame if the author's ride information was made public.
Our government works so hard to bypass security protocols for consumer technology. OK, so perhaps I'm naive. But a government what works for it's citizens should not be so focused on breaking into our computers without due process. (thank you Patriot Act).
Israel's approach to cybersecurity is very different than the USA. Firstly, a majority of citizens must serve in the military for around 2-3 years. The cybersecurity division of their armed forces is quite substantial. Then, many if not most of those trained individuals are turned loose in the private sector. The skills learned in the military are very transferable to private practice, even if the exact vulnerabilities that a servicemember found in the military are classified and can not be used. Is it any surprise that Israel has a comparatively high percentage of cybersecurity companies?
The US system appears to work mostly in reverse (to an outside observer). The NSA and other agencies find vulnerabilities and then keep them secret. Turnover to and from the private sector isn't as high as the Israeli system. The US military sector does a comparatively worse job training these skills and distributing them to the market, where they may do more good than spying on Angela Merkel.
We'll need a basic income for all and higher taxes to pay for it.
And folks who are hung up on insisting that people work are gonna have to get over it because when folks get displaced and have nowhere to make living, they're gonna revolt. So, we gave them basic income to keep them from reaching for the guns and torches.
Revolution is what will happen if the negative effects of AI are ignored. The thought that some other parts of the economy will soak up the displaced workers is just a fantasy.
People do revolt. When a significant part of the population gets fed up with one political party, they revolt and vote the other one in. Redundant political parties is a feature of the current American democracy. It doesn't change anything for the individual, but the illusion of change is an innovative improvement compared to direct rulership by kings, dictators, and oligarchs.
Many of the new products we have today are the result of filling a market for the disabled or the elderly. Many as-seen-on-tv products are good examples of this. The Has this ever happened to you? lead-in probably hasnâ(TM)t happened to you. But if you have Parkinsonâ(TM)s, or the use of only one hand, or arthritis, or are in a wheelchair, or have reduced strength due to age, most of those products make perfect sense.
Capturing the data is a good reason for Amazon, but another one is to prevent competitors from looking at the code. Hard to reverse engineer or copy software that you donâ(TM)t have access to.
If ppl want to stop this, then ALL NATIONS MUST STOP. Not just 1 or 2.
And that will never happen. I see a lot of talk about China in this thread but Russia is the #2 emitter of pollution. The US is reducing emissions, both per-capita and overall. Russia's emissions per GDP are increasing (albeit not as rapidly as China). Here's a nice graph of emissions per capita for the top 3. The difference is that China is seeing a lot of negative effects related to pollution, and politicians are under pressure to fix the problem or risk destabilizing the country. China has incentives to act.
Russia, on the other hand, doesn't have many developed low-lying coastal areas. Weather patterns are becoming more habitable, arable land is increasing, icecaps limiting shipping are melting, more natural resources (fishing, oilfields, etc) are becoming accessible, etc. Climate change may cost Russia's economic competitors in both money and political stability. A decent chunk of the Russian economy is based on oil and natural gas exports. Many other countries have some of these incentives, but Russia is the big winner of climate change, and they have every incentive not to take action. I would not be at all surprised if Russia was actively promoting anti-climate change ideology. They have a strong motive, means, and opportunity.
Disclaimer- I am an engineer in the North American fossil fuel industry
Millennials are 1000 times better than live beyond yo u reans baby boomers who have racked up 22 trillion in debt and are going to make their grandkids pay it off for them.
Right now to reach break even government spending we need 10% annual growth in tax revune. Instead we get tax cuts and vague promises. By 2040 the us government will be completely bankrupt at the current rate of spending vs income. As it sits now 25% of our federal budget goes to pay interest payments on debt. Not prinicipal just interest. That debt is primiarily owed to the be people of the USA.
Put that on perspective. That means if you earn $300k annually your interest payments are $88k and your principals is in millions.
There is no way out of this and that is 100% due to the lazy fucking stupid boomers
Sooner or later, most forms of government fall into this trap. Politicians or the powers-that-be want to stay in power, and delivering benefits to constituents (lobbyists and individuals) while not raising taxes is a surefire way to keep getting elected. Just look at for how long the gas tax has not been raised (25 years). The only potential problem is to not be the guy in charge when the debt becomes unsustainable. And even then, the worst that will likely happen to the politician is they will have to retire from politics and be a consultant for the companies that they did favors for.
It is difficult for a politician to take actions that have short term pain but long term gain. It is hard or impossible to get elected under such a platform - the attack ads become insurmountable. So the platforms become extremely vague and it is impossible to tell what a politician will do if elected. In these situations, there is little the voters can do to solve the problem. It generally takes a banking crisis or high interest rates to trigger meaningful reform.
Sport used to be something you played just for fun. Now only those competitors whose sponsors have the deepest pockets stand a chance.
That's not completely true. Despite Under Armour spending millions of dollars on the 2014 US speed skating team suits. The skates were similarly highly engineered. And yet, they failed to win a single medal. Several other countries with (I assume) lower budgets won medals. Initial blame was on the equipment but it turns out that a better skater will win despite a competitor using cutting edge technology.
Sport is something that people should do for fun. Being a winner is icing on the cake, but camaraderie and challenging oneself physically is satisfying enough for many people. If that isn't happening with our children, I blame the parents for focusing too much on winning. Sports are just physical games and getting too excited about winners and losers is equivalent to flipping over a Monopoly table.
The entire source code for Android was leaked online. Rumor has it Google was the one to leak it.
You can find the leaked code at https://source.android.com/
The difference is that Android's source code has been out there and scrutinized by many people and organizations. Apple's has only been scrutinized by Apple until now. Even if significant amounts of the code are outdated, it could give people a better idea of what kind of attacks may be possible. Plus the fact that it is news may spur more attention to IOS exploits, if only out of curiosity.
People donâ(TM)t care about privacy because most internet privacy policies are dozens of pages long and hidden behind a very boring link. It is arguably something that needs more regulation. Banks are required to send a 1-page form explaining how and who they are sharing your data with. That form was carefully designed by the Consumers Financial Protection Bureau to be easily understandable. There was an NPR show a while back that got a bunch of (3rd? 5th?) graders and they were able to understand the form. There isnâ(TM)t any reason why the same or similar form could not be applied to all businesses that collect personal data.