This is kinda silly. The fastest supercomputer is going to be whomever has built the newest one. Moore's law is slowing down a tiny bit, but it's still going. Someone spending $100,000,000 on a supercomputer today is going to have a slower machine than someone building one for the same amount in a year's time.
Google bought Android when they were already developing a smartphone OS. It originally was going to compete with the Blackberry, as early prototypes had a Blackberry style keyboard and windows-style task switcher. Once the iPhone came out, they redesigned the OS to be touchscreen-based.
You're right, I missed the article "the" Now take a pill and relax, 'cause it doesn't mean I'm not right. Something similar happened seventeen years ago, which isn't that long a time.
That's at the current limited level. Once the program becomes more widespread, the odds of litigation shoot up. The drug companies have pretty much come out and said explicitly that this is a main factor in their reluctance to participate in these programs.
It doesn't sound like anyone is denied effective treatment in the current system (unless they end up control in a clinical trial) so I'm not sure what the new bill is going to do other than potentially open the doors to snake oil sellers.
The bill protects doctors and pharmaceutical companies from liability for giving experimental treatments to terminally ill patients, which is one of the reasons drug companies don't want to give these out. Drug company liability has gone bonkers in the last few years - people are suing because chemotherapy drugs are causing their hair to fall out, and blood thinners are causing them to bleed more easily. It's insane.
As long as the doctors and patients are fully informed that the drug is experimental I don't see a problem with this.
In QA circles there's a pretty standard distribution that says the first 80% of something will take 20% of your effort. Finishing the last 20% will take 80% of your effort. It's not true for everything, but it's true for quite a lot of things.
That's the point. It's an integral kill-switch for the engines. If the wing-lock isn't engaged, you can't run the starter for the engines. There's no breaker or bypass.
Sure a mechanic could probably hot-wire the kill-switch or something. This is what FAA audits are supposed to catch. But at that point you might as well not build planes at all, because all a pilot has to do is ram the yoke forward on takeoff to crash. You can't build a plane completely idiot-proof.
They start the engines after they push the plane away from the gate. There's usually too much stuff near the gate to safely start them up.
The noise you hear when you're at the gate is the APU running. It's *really* loud 'cause it's usually mounted on top of the cabin in the back of the plane. Once they use it to start up the main engines they shut it off and the cabin gets quieter.
What is the maximizing stockholder wealth justification for "solving global problems like poverty and disease"?
If you can mitigate/fix/whatever disease, which makes workers less productive, and make poor workers more productive, generating more wealth for themselves and others, governments will pay for that technology.
Heck, simply knowing what the problem is gets you halfway to solving it. If the government is spending tons of money mitigating bird flu, which affects maybe a few dozen people a year, but, in aggregate, people miss hundreds of thousands of days of work from regular flu, then maybe some funds should shift to getting the flu vaccine out to more people.
1. It's a meta-study, so they grabbed data from a variety of other studies, ie the data had to be "massaged" to get it to line up properly 2. It only found a difference in men, not women, which is odd 3. There were studies they rejected that showed there was no difference, or an inverse correlation 4. It found an 18% difference, which... 5. Isn't clear if it's significant or not, since they list their confidence interval but not their p-value.
The problem with the homeless in Seattle is there is no cheap housing. The way to fix that is to rezone a whole lot of real estate to be multi-family / apartments. The way to NOT do that is to subsidize the expensive housing.
By sheer numbers, LG and Qualcomm own half of the 4G encumbering patents. Nokia is the only European company that holds a significant number, which is about on par with a small US company called InterDigital that exists basically to license cell phone patents.
A LOT of the IP for cell phone technology is covered by loads of patents in the US (and most anywhere else a Japanese, Korean or European cell phone company sells phones, which is pretty much everywhere) Good luck building anything that connects to a 4G network without running through a gauntlet of patent infringement claims.
ZTE looks like a huge company with operations all over the world. According to Wikipedia, cell phones only account for roughly 29% of their operations. So being shut out of one market (albeit a major one) in one sector of their business is enough to knock out the entire company? Something doesn't smell right.
They really don't invest in you because they believe in your business and business model anymore.
Uh, that's exactly why they invest. If they think your business model will work and generate income, then they will invest.
In any case, IT'S NOT ELON'S MONEY. He's taken 12.7 BILLION dollars of investor money after 27 rounds of financing. Yeah, investors get to ask some questions. If he doesn't like answering those questions HE SHOULDN'T HAVE TAKEN THEIR MONEY.
Only reason I know about them is the Skeptic's Guide to the Universe podcast talked about them a year or so ago. On the surface they look pretty legit, it takes some scientific-paper-reading-skill above my pay grade to understand how they take stuff out of context and over-inflate the warnings some papers issue.
Yeah, sorry but that group is full of quacks. Read up on their cell phone radiation coverage, which pretty much goes against all mainstream scientific studies.
True, plastics are organic compounds. However, what defines a toxin is that it is a result of an organic *process* meaning it was produced in a living organism.
Also, I'm not being pedantic - these are scientific terms that have specific meanings. Exchanging the terms poison and toxin is just as dumb as calling toxic substances "chemicals."
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This is kinda silly. The fastest supercomputer is going to be whomever has built the newest one. Moore's law is slowing down a tiny bit, but it's still going. Someone spending $100,000,000 on a supercomputer today is going to have a slower machine than someone building one for the same amount in a year's time.
Legislation may help, but the GDPR is a nightmare. This Week In Law had an entire episode critiquing it.
Google bought Android when they were already developing a smartphone OS. It originally was going to compete with the Blackberry, as early prototypes had a Blackberry style keyboard and windows-style task switcher. Once the iPhone came out, they redesigned the OS to be touchscreen-based.
Android Pre-iPhone:
https://www.androidcentral.com...
Android Post-iPhone:
https://support.t-mobile.com/_...
You're right, I missed the article "the" Now take a pill and relax, 'cause it doesn't mean I'm not right. Something similar happened seventeen years ago, which isn't that long a time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
it's hard to remember a more contentious period between the two countries in recent times.
Well, Saudi Arabia is bombing the crap out of Yemen. Russia has been covertly sending troops into Ukraine. Israel and Iran are almost at war.
So yeah, one country increasing tariffs on another is probably the most contentious thing going on right now.
That's at the current limited level. Once the program becomes more widespread, the odds of litigation shoot up. The drug companies have pretty much come out and said explicitly that this is a main factor in their reluctance to participate in these programs.
It doesn't sound like anyone is denied effective treatment in the current system (unless they end up control in a clinical trial) so I'm not sure what the new bill is going to do other than potentially open the doors to snake oil sellers.
The bill protects doctors and pharmaceutical companies from liability for giving experimental treatments to terminally ill patients, which is one of the reasons drug companies don't want to give these out. Drug company liability has gone bonkers in the last few years - people are suing because chemotherapy drugs are causing their hair to fall out, and blood thinners are causing them to bleed more easily. It's insane.
As long as the doctors and patients are fully informed that the drug is experimental I don't see a problem with this.
In QA circles there's a pretty standard distribution that says the first 80% of something will take 20% of your effort. Finishing the last 20% will take 80% of your effort. It's not true for everything, but it's true for quite a lot of things.
That's the point. It's an integral kill-switch for the engines. If the wing-lock isn't engaged, you can't run the starter for the engines. There's no breaker or bypass.
Sure a mechanic could probably hot-wire the kill-switch or something. This is what FAA audits are supposed to catch. But at that point you might as well not build planes at all, because all a pilot has to do is ram the yoke forward on takeoff to crash. You can't build a plane completely idiot-proof.
They start the engines after they push the plane away from the gate. There's usually too much stuff near the gate to safely start them up.
The noise you hear when you're at the gate is the APU running. It's *really* loud 'cause it's usually mounted on top of the cabin in the back of the plane. Once they use it to start up the main engines they shut it off and the cabin gets quieter.
Make it so you can't turn the engines on unless the wings are down and locked. Seems like a no-brainer feature.
What is the maximizing stockholder wealth justification for "solving global problems like poverty and disease"?
If you can mitigate/fix/whatever disease, which makes workers less productive, and make poor workers more productive, generating more wealth for themselves and others, governments will pay for that technology.
Heck, simply knowing what the problem is gets you halfway to solving it. If the government is spending tons of money mitigating bird flu, which affects maybe a few dozen people a year, but, in aggregate, people miss hundreds of thousands of days of work from regular flu, then maybe some funds should shift to getting the flu vaccine out to more people.
1. It's a meta-study, so they grabbed data from a variety of other studies, ie the data had to be "massaged" to get it to line up properly
2. It only found a difference in men, not women, which is odd
3. There were studies they rejected that showed there was no difference, or an inverse correlation
4. It found an 18% difference, which...
5. Isn't clear if it's significant or not, since they list their confidence interval but not their p-value.
So, yeah, not a slam-dunk finding here.
The median home price in Seattle is $722,000. I'd say, at the very least, it's a factor.
https://www.seattletimes.com/b...
The problem with the homeless in Seattle is there is no cheap housing. The way to fix that is to rezone a whole lot of real estate to be multi-family / apartments. The way to NOT do that is to subsidize the expensive housing.
By sheer numbers, LG and Qualcomm own half of the 4G encumbering patents. Nokia is the only European company that holds a significant number, which is about on par with a small US company called InterDigital that exists basically to license cell phone patents.
A LOT of the IP for cell phone technology is covered by loads of patents in the US (and most anywhere else a Japanese, Korean or European cell phone company sells phones, which is pretty much everywhere) Good luck building anything that connects to a 4G network without running through a gauntlet of patent infringement claims.
That makes sense. I was missing the supply chain component of the ban.
ZTE looks like a huge company with operations all over the world. According to Wikipedia, cell phones only account for roughly 29% of their operations. So being shut out of one market (albeit a major one) in one sector of their business is enough to knock out the entire company? Something doesn't smell right.
They really don't invest in you because they believe in your business and business model anymore.
Uh, that's exactly why they invest. If they think your business model will work and generate income, then they will invest.
In any case, IT'S NOT ELON'S MONEY. He's taken 12.7 BILLION dollars of investor money after 27 rounds of financing. Yeah, investors get to ask some questions. If he doesn't like answering those questions HE SHOULDN'T HAVE TAKEN THEIR MONEY.
According to Nvidia, all it asked of its partners was to "brand their products in a way that would be crystal clear."
My laptop has a sticker on it that says "Powered by nVidia Quadro" How much more clear do they need to be?
Only reason I know about them is the Skeptic's Guide to the Universe podcast talked about them a year or so ago. On the surface they look pretty legit, it takes some scientific-paper-reading-skill above my pay grade to understand how they take stuff out of context and over-inflate the warnings some papers issue.
Yeah, sorry but that group is full of quacks. Read up on their cell phone radiation coverage, which pretty much goes against all mainstream scientific studies.
True, plastics are organic compounds. However, what defines a toxin is that it is a result of an organic *process* meaning it was produced in a living organism.
Also, I'm not being pedantic - these are scientific terms that have specific meanings. Exchanging the terms poison and toxin is just as dumb as calling toxic substances "chemicals."
A toxin is a poisonous substance created by organic mechanisms. What do micro-plastics and heavy metals have to do with toxins?