A female director could still direct "male gaze" shots because she's got a hundred years of past movies to study; "female gaze" shots she would have an instinct for.
It sounds like you've never taken a serious film class. There is plenty of female, for lack of a better term, "fan service" to be had. Watch the last 50 years of soap operas on US TV, or Mexican Telenovellas, or any one of the slew of TV shows on BBC or ITV.
You can't just expect to remove a lot of water from a lake and nothing to happen. I don't think this particular factory is going to be a huge issue, but the point made in the summary is an important one: This is the first major exemption granted. If it sets the stage for more of them in other states, they could eventually add up to enough to be really significant.
If it's an issue, there's the Great Lakes Compact that all the bordering lakes and Canada have signed in to. Any member state can ask for a hearing where all the other states can decide that a diversion is OK or not.
In the grand scheme of things, even if there were dozens of these factories opening up, it would have a negligible impact on the amount of water in the entire great lakes region. The largest impact has been dredging the Detroit river for shipping, since they re-dredged a bit deeper about ten years ago the lakes have dropped a couple of feet. Huge snowfalls and rain have replenished them a bit, but if lower lake levels is your concern, dredging the Detroit river is a MUCH larger problem than industrial use.
Make it easier to get jobs. Enact earned income tax credits. Get rid of pointless, non-health related occupational licensing regimes. Find out what jobs the unemployed can do and make it as easy as possible to get those jobs. Lower minimum wage so it's cheaper for companies to hire more people instead of automating their jobs out of existence. Get more internship and co-op programs going so high-school and college kids aren't competing for these jobs.
"Beyond garbage" lawsuits are easy to defend against.
Assuming you have the money to do so. If a single one of those lawsuits made it to trial, the legal costs alone would have wiped out the business. The only thing protecting the store, ironically, is that it is not worth a lot.
So, if the store was a bit more valuable, you are saying that they would have deserved to have been wiped out over a stupid lawsuit?
I have a family member who owns a small store. The only reason they haven't been sued into oblivion three or four times is because the store itself isn't worth much, and limited liability prevents people from suing my family member directly to take their personal possessions away.
Keep in mind every single one of these lawsuits was beyond garbage. Some lady drove her car into the side of the store then tried to sue the store for... I honestly have no idea. Failing to make the store car-proof? Her lawyer wanted to know how much money the store made every year, my family member told him, and never heard from the lawyer again.
One thing that might give Intel an edge is the upcoming AVX-512 extensions in the next cycle of processors. It'll allow two more registers for vector operations, along with a bunch more opcodes. It doesn't accelerate all operations, but what it does accelerate usually gets a pretty good speed boost. There's an HPC blogger that benchmarked the heck out of a couple of SSE/AVX/AVX2 chips, and each successive part increased some SPEC operations by 20-40%. Video encoding in particular got a good 30% boost from generation to generation - much more of a boost than the CPU optimizations alone.
Of course, AMD could clone these features, but they've been lagging in support for AVX. The Ryzen parts have half the AVX registers of the Intel chips. Sometimes they can make up for it through sheer parallelism, but not for every workload.
What I fear the most is that due to the monopolistic control of our virtual town squares is that they can (and already to some extent, are) be used to exert undo control over the national and international conversations by those who own the town squares... I mean, social media websites.
I think "monopolistic" might be the key phrase here. To have a monopoly, by definition, you have to be able to keep competitors out of the market. As I pointed out, there are hundreds of alternatives to Reddit, or Facebook, or whatever.
The issue is that once you start treating these companies as monopolies via regulation, you are essentially allowing them to operate as monopolies. In the context of the internet, this is an incredibly bad idea. The correct way to fix something you don't like on the internet is to build something better. The cost of the end user switching from Reddit or Facebook to something else is nearly zero. Maybe an hour of your time setting up your new account. Maybe getting your friends to join.
If we start putting burdens on creating something new, you are going to get fewer new things, and you're going to have to put up with what you have, like it or not.
It's simple. If you don't like Reddit's terms and policies, you can use some other website that matches what you want. There are a whole bunch out there.
If you want nearly unlimited freedom of speech you can go to one of the chans. If you want something more locked-down you can post to the somewhat ironically named freethoughtblogs. There are all kinds of communities you can be a part of. Or with a tiny bit of technical know-how, you can create your own. Isn't it great?
We just have no idea what intelligence and consciousness are. Not a freaking clue.
We have a good idea of what is required to implement autonomous intelligence and "consciousness," and that is a massively parallel system of simple logic gates that are, nearly, infinitely cross-connected. Computers are terrible at this. Parallelism doesn't scale well, and communication across nodes is abysmal.
Computers are designed to run streaming, or vectorized, computations in a linear fashion as quickly as possible. They aren't designed to move huge amounts of data around in arbitrary ways to perform arbitrary systems of computations on it.
"After their Kickstarter was funded, Nightdive had explored making a "bigger, better game" after receiving a verbal commitment from a game publisher, but then "were left high and dry after making crucial, consequential changes in staff and scope..."
Holy cow has nobody learned their lesson about Kickstarter?
1. MAKE THE THING YOU SAID YOU WERE GOING TO MAKE. 2. DO THE EXTRA STUFF.
People seem to always skip to step 2 and never manage to hit step 1.
I would like to see Tesla succeed as well. However, they have been running on borrowed time for a while now. They've never turned a profit. They have persistent quality issues. They have a huge service backlog. They have supply chain issues. They have launch issues (the 3 is their fourth product launch, they should have this stuff nailed down by now.)
Tesla shipped around 100,000 cars last year and lost $2 billion dollars. Ford shipped roughly 2.5 millions cars last year and made $6 billion dollars. Tesla's market cap is $4 billion higher than Ford.
This sounds like bean-counter nonsense, but it's critically important. The only way Tesla can continue to operate is to keep it's stock price up so it can fund operations by selling this expensive stock (and bonds.) This is entirely based on it's ability to continue to grow it's sales by double digits year after year. They can't get their numbers up if they can't build cars.
The critics are right. They are dropping the ball on their fourth launch, which is inexcusable. This isn't a minor point. If one of the big three botched a launch this badly, they'd be torched by wall street and executives would be flung into the Detroit river.
The EU is actively cancelling the accounts. Keeping the accounts would entail them doing nothing. I would say they are going out of their way to cancel them.
sorry but that seems idiotic, The UK is screwing over the EU but the EU should go out of its way to accommodate that?
In what way is the UK "screwing over" the EU? The EU charter has a provision saying a country can leave if it wants to. The UK is taking advantage of that provision.
especially as people have plenty of options to keep the domain name just by registering a local presence in the EU which many of the registry services offer.
Keep in mind that we're talking about an entry in a lookup table here. TLD owners can put whatever rules they want on their TLDs, but seriously, most do not care that much.
Simply discriminating against certain groups does not mean you are necessarily breaking the law.
" the NFHA was able to place advertisements that "[excluded] families with children"
You are advertising single bedroom efficiencies that families with children do not rent. I don't think that those big houses on college campuses that rent rooms out to college kids would get in trouble if they didn't advertise in the local parenting weekly.
" and women"
That's a problem.
"from receiving advertisements, as well as users with interests based on disability"
Not sure what disability based interests are. You could be renting a house that does not meet with modern disability standards.
" and national origin"
That could be a problem, but I think drawing a line between national origin "interests" and actual national origin could be tenuous.
Considering that the UK jails 1/5 of the people that the US does (per capita), I'd say the UK is doing fine. Meanwhile, the US wastes a lot of tax money and lives being the greatest incarcerator in the world. Kudos to the UK courts for not throwing another person into the pit of the US injustice system.
So as long as someone else seems to be doing worse, you think it's OK? And, why are you bringing up the US specifically? By North Korean standards, the UK's legal system is absolutely stellar.
Breaking into a foreign government's computer systems - perfectly fine under UK law. Teaching your dog to give a nazi salute as a joke - you will be persecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
I would however like to point out that Venezuela has put itself in a precarious position because any motivated nation-state could easily perform a 51% attack on "petro" and utterly destroy it.
I'm guessing the blockchain is closed, so Venezuela can control how many clients connect to it. I don't think the Petro is designed for regular people to use, but as a method for the government to do forex trading with other countries.
You're assuming the government wouldn't sell one if properly motivated. Well, since Germany controls the central bank of Europe, it could just print money and buy it's way out of an economic crisis, until hyperinflation kicks in, of course.
But if the government of France goes on a hiring binge and ends up underfunding it's pension system, it'll have to get the money from somewhere.
This is why it's pointless building your company next to a renewable power source just so you can advertise that your company is being green. Unless that renewable plant was built specifically to generate power for you (i.e. it wouldn't have been built otherwise), all you're doing is depriving someone else of renewable energy that they would've gotten if you hadn't built your company there. You haven't reduced the country's fossil fuel consumption, you've just pushed your fossil fuel consumption onto someone else just so you can claim the bragging rights of being green when in fact you're having zero net effect on the nation's pollution generation.
Doesn't that contradict your statement about power generation being national? If the effects of increased power consumption are globalized, then it wouldn't matter where you put your factory/business/house/whatever, right?
My unbelievably excellent chemistry teacher in high school guaranteed at least one explosion per week in class. Kept our attention grinding through stoichiometry, with the side benefit that most of us went through AP chemistry the next year and got some cheap college credits. The last week he filled a huge balloon with a perfect mixture of oxygen and some exotic relative of pentane, detonated with a remote piezo device he concocted himself. The shockwave blew covers off of the fluorescent lights and rattled windows on the opposite side of the fairly good sized school building.
My AP chemistry teacher was a bit more pedestrian, but as a bonus for attending a study session on Saturday, he demonstrated thermite burning a hole through 1" thick plate steel.
Of course, nowadays this would be completely vorboten, and such activities would end you up on an FBI watchlist.
But relaxing the existing rules to allow competition would be DE-REGULATION! Nobody wants that, right? It's not like regulatory capture is often used to stifle competition by existing markets or anything.
1. Is an Uber driver really a private contractor? That's an open question in a number of jurisdictions.
In general, you are a private/independent contractor if:
1. You are under no obligation to work a specific time or place 2. Your employer doesn't tell you how to do your job
The first requirement is usually the primary delineation. If you can show up whenever you want and work as much as you want, you are clearly not a traditional employee.
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A female director could still direct "male gaze" shots because she's got a hundred years of past movies to study; "female gaze" shots she would have an instinct for.
It sounds like you've never taken a serious film class. There is plenty of female, for lack of a better term, "fan service" to be had. Watch the last 50 years of soap operas on US TV, or Mexican Telenovellas, or any one of the slew of TV shows on BBC or ITV.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
There are entire TV shows based, more or less, around this one scene.
You can't just expect to remove a lot of water from a lake and nothing to happen. I don't think this particular factory is going to be a huge issue, but the point made in the summary is an important one: This is the first major exemption granted. If it sets the stage for more of them in other states, they could eventually add up to enough to be really significant.
If it's an issue, there's the Great Lakes Compact that all the bordering lakes and Canada have signed in to. Any member state can ask for a hearing where all the other states can decide that a diversion is OK or not.
In the grand scheme of things, even if there were dozens of these factories opening up, it would have a negligible impact on the amount of water in the entire great lakes region. The largest impact has been dredging the Detroit river for shipping, since they re-dredged a bit deeper about ten years ago the lakes have dropped a couple of feet. Huge snowfalls and rain have replenished them a bit, but if lower lake levels is your concern, dredging the Detroit river is a MUCH larger problem than industrial use.
How many Libraries of Congress is that?
Make it easier to get jobs. Enact earned income tax credits. Get rid of pointless, non-health related occupational licensing regimes. Find out what jobs the unemployed can do and make it as easy as possible to get those jobs. Lower minimum wage so it's cheaper for companies to hire more people instead of automating their jobs out of existence. Get more internship and co-op programs going so high-school and college kids aren't competing for these jobs.
That would be a start.
Out on the open sea, when it's calm, all you need is a radar to look out for other ships, and a GPS to know where you're going.
"Beyond garbage" lawsuits are easy to defend against.
Assuming you have the money to do so. If a single one of those lawsuits made it to trial, the legal costs alone would have wiped out the business. The only thing protecting the store, ironically, is that it is not worth a lot.
So, if the store was a bit more valuable, you are saying that they would have deserved to have been wiped out over a stupid lawsuit?
So are you for limited liability?
I have a family member who owns a small store. The only reason they haven't been sued into oblivion three or four times is because the store itself isn't worth much, and limited liability prevents people from suing my family member directly to take their personal possessions away.
Keep in mind every single one of these lawsuits was beyond garbage. Some lady drove her car into the side of the store then tried to sue the store for... I honestly have no idea. Failing to make the store car-proof? Her lawyer wanted to know how much money the store made every year, my family member told him, and never heard from the lawyer again.
You're right. Capitalism is terrible. And yet, preferable to any other economic system anyone has thought of.
One thing that might give Intel an edge is the upcoming AVX-512 extensions in the next cycle of processors. It'll allow two more registers for vector operations, along with a bunch more opcodes. It doesn't accelerate all operations, but what it does accelerate usually gets a pretty good speed boost. There's an HPC blogger that benchmarked the heck out of a couple of SSE/AVX/AVX2 chips, and each successive part increased some SPEC operations by 20-40%. Video encoding in particular got a good 30% boost from generation to generation - much more of a boost than the CPU optimizations alone.
Of course, AMD could clone these features, but they've been lagging in support for AVX. The Ryzen parts have half the AVX registers of the Intel chips. Sometimes they can make up for it through sheer parallelism, but not for every workload.
What I fear the most is that due to the monopolistic control of our virtual town squares is that they can (and already to some extent, are) be used to exert undo control over the national and international conversations by those who own the town squares... I mean, social media websites.
I think "monopolistic" might be the key phrase here. To have a monopoly, by definition, you have to be able to keep competitors out of the market. As I pointed out, there are hundreds of alternatives to Reddit, or Facebook, or whatever.
The issue is that once you start treating these companies as monopolies via regulation, you are essentially allowing them to operate as monopolies. In the context of the internet, this is an incredibly bad idea. The correct way to fix something you don't like on the internet is to build something better. The cost of the end user switching from Reddit or Facebook to something else is nearly zero. Maybe an hour of your time setting up your new account. Maybe getting your friends to join.
If we start putting burdens on creating something new, you are going to get fewer new things, and you're going to have to put up with what you have, like it or not.
It's simple. If you don't like Reddit's terms and policies, you can use some other website that matches what you want. There are a whole bunch out there.
If you want nearly unlimited freedom of speech you can go to one of the chans. If you want something more locked-down you can post to the somewhat ironically named freethoughtblogs. There are all kinds of communities you can be a part of. Or with a tiny bit of technical know-how, you can create your own. Isn't it great?
We just have no idea what intelligence and consciousness are. Not a freaking clue.
We have a good idea of what is required to implement autonomous intelligence and "consciousness," and that is a massively parallel system of simple logic gates that are, nearly, infinitely cross-connected. Computers are terrible at this. Parallelism doesn't scale well, and communication across nodes is abysmal.
Computers are designed to run streaming, or vectorized, computations in a linear fashion as quickly as possible. They aren't designed to move huge amounts of data around in arbitrary ways to perform arbitrary systems of computations on it.
"After their Kickstarter was funded, Nightdive had explored making a "bigger, better game" after receiving a verbal commitment from a game publisher, but then "were left high and dry after making crucial, consequential changes in staff and scope..."
Holy cow has nobody learned their lesson about Kickstarter?
1. MAKE THE THING YOU SAID YOU WERE GOING TO MAKE.
2. DO THE EXTRA STUFF.
People seem to always skip to step 2 and never manage to hit step 1.
I would like to see Tesla succeed as well. However, they have been running on borrowed time for a while now. They've never turned a profit. They have persistent quality issues. They have a huge service backlog. They have supply chain issues. They have launch issues (the 3 is their fourth product launch, they should have this stuff nailed down by now.)
Tesla shipped around 100,000 cars last year and lost $2 billion dollars. Ford shipped roughly 2.5 millions cars last year and made $6 billion dollars. Tesla's market cap is $4 billion higher than Ford.
This sounds like bean-counter nonsense, but it's critically important. The only way Tesla can continue to operate is to keep it's stock price up so it can fund operations by selling this expensive stock (and bonds.) This is entirely based on it's ability to continue to grow it's sales by double digits year after year. They can't get their numbers up if they can't build cars.
The critics are right. They are dropping the ball on their fourth launch, which is inexcusable. This isn't a minor point. If one of the big three botched a launch this badly, they'd be torched by wall street and executives would be flung into the Detroit river.
why should the EU go out of its way?
The EU is actively cancelling the accounts. Keeping the accounts would entail them doing nothing. I would say they are going out of their way to cancel them.
sorry but that seems idiotic, The UK is screwing over the EU but the EU should go out of its way to accommodate that?
In what way is the UK "screwing over" the EU? The EU charter has a provision saying a country can leave if it wants to. The UK is taking advantage of that provision.
especially as people have plenty of options to keep the domain name just by registering a local presence in the EU which many of the registry services offer.
Keep in mind that we're talking about an entry in a lookup table here. TLD owners can put whatever rules they want on their TLDs, but seriously, most do not care that much.
Simply discriminating against certain groups does not mean you are necessarily breaking the law.
" the NFHA was able to place advertisements that "[excluded] families with children"
You are advertising single bedroom efficiencies that families with children do not rent. I don't think that those big houses on college campuses that rent rooms out to college kids would get in trouble if they didn't advertise in the local parenting weekly.
" and women"
That's a problem.
"from receiving advertisements, as well as users with interests based on disability"
Not sure what disability based interests are. You could be renting a house that does not meet with modern disability standards.
" and national origin"
That could be a problem, but I think drawing a line between national origin "interests" and actual national origin could be tenuous.
Considering that the UK jails 1/5 of the people that the US does (per capita), I'd say the UK is doing fine. Meanwhile, the US wastes a lot of tax money and lives being the greatest incarcerator in the world. Kudos to the UK courts for not throwing another person into the pit of the US injustice system.
So as long as someone else seems to be doing worse, you think it's OK? And, why are you bringing up the US specifically? By North Korean standards, the UK's legal system is absolutely stellar.
Breaking into a foreign government's computer systems - perfectly fine under UK law.
Teaching your dog to give a nazi salute as a joke - you will be persecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
Looks like the UK has it's legal system in order.
I would however like to point out that Venezuela has put itself in a precarious position because any motivated nation-state could easily perform a 51% attack on "petro" and utterly destroy it.
I'm guessing the blockchain is closed, so Venezuela can control how many clients connect to it. I don't think the Petro is designed for regular people to use, but as a method for the government to do forex trading with other countries.
You can't buy a german or french university.
You're assuming the government wouldn't sell one if properly motivated. Well, since Germany controls the central bank of Europe, it could just print money and buy it's way out of an economic crisis, until hyperinflation kicks in, of course.
But if the government of France goes on a hiring binge and ends up underfunding it's pension system, it'll have to get the money from somewhere.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Well, as of 2016 they are 36 billion EU of their way to a 150 billion EU goal. Hmmm...
This is why it's pointless building your company next to a renewable power source just so you can advertise that your company is being green. Unless that renewable plant was built specifically to generate power for you (i.e. it wouldn't have been built otherwise), all you're doing is depriving someone else of renewable energy that they would've gotten if you hadn't built your company there. You haven't reduced the country's fossil fuel consumption, you've just pushed your fossil fuel consumption onto someone else just so you can claim the bragging rights of being green when in fact you're having zero net effect on the nation's pollution generation.
Doesn't that contradict your statement about power generation being national? If the effects of increased power consumption are globalized, then it wouldn't matter where you put your factory/business/house/whatever, right?
My unbelievably excellent chemistry teacher in high school guaranteed at least one explosion per week in class. Kept our attention grinding through stoichiometry, with the side benefit that most of us went through AP chemistry the next year and got some cheap college credits. The last week he filled a huge balloon with a perfect mixture of oxygen and some exotic relative of pentane, detonated with a remote piezo device he concocted himself. The shockwave blew covers off of the fluorescent lights and rattled windows on the opposite side of the fairly good sized school building.
My AP chemistry teacher was a bit more pedestrian, but as a bonus for attending a study session on Saturday, he demonstrated thermite burning a hole through 1" thick plate steel.
Of course, nowadays this would be completely vorboten, and such activities would end you up on an FBI watchlist.
All that sweet, sweet NRA lobby money has nothing to do with it.
Ever notice how nobody actually says how much money the NRA spends on campaigns? That's because, in relative terms, it's almost nothing.
https://www.opensecrets.org/or...
Median payout to individual campaigns? $1,000. Average cost of a congressional campaign? $10,000,000.
Whoo boy, with the NRA funding a whopping 0.1% of your campaign, you had better toe the line!
But relaxing the existing rules to allow competition would be DE-REGULATION! Nobody wants that, right? It's not like regulatory capture is often used to stifle competition by existing markets or anything.
1. Is an Uber driver really a private contractor? That's an open question in a number of jurisdictions.
In general, you are a private/independent contractor if:
1. You are under no obligation to work a specific time or place
2. Your employer doesn't tell you how to do your job
The first requirement is usually the primary delineation. If you can show up whenever you want and work as much as you want, you are clearly not a traditional employee.