That and they don’t understand what privacy and their data is to begin with.
Or they do understand, and just don't care. Seriously, what "Bad Thing" will happen to me if Facebook knows my shopping and browsing history? The only consequence that I can see is advertising more attuned to my interests, which is hardy "bad". Maybe I will also get better recommendations for movies and books. The way I see it, the more they know about me, the better.
What about actually talking to people you care to keep in touch with?
Because phone calls and face-to-face conversations are interruptions. Textual communications can be handled in batch mode, and I can type much faster than I can talk. Also, on the phone or in person, it is hard to break off the conversation, especially with the people who have the least to say.
Volcanoes are almost a measurement error these days.
I think he is referring to Kilauea, which is only 20 miles from Mauna Loa, where these CO2 measurements were taken.
But Kilauea wasn't erupting much in April. The new vents are not in Kilauea's main caldera, but are another 20 miles east in Pahoa, and the prevailing winds blow from NE to SW, which is out to sea, not up the slopes of Mauna Loa, which towers more than 9000 feet above the summit of Kilauea.
Indeed. TFA makes it sound like they are going to confiscate cars. The proposed ban is only on sales of NEW cars, and since the effective date is 22 years from now, it should be of no concern to anyone making or buying a car today.
How much horsepower are we talking about, and does OSS which performs this task parallelize, or do you need single-thread performance?
OSS VR is still way behind proprietary VR. But some pretraining on your own voice may bring them up to the level of Alexa and Siri, since they are designed to recognize anyone with any accent right out of the box.
Most VR uses NNs, which are inherently parallel. The Raspberry Pi contains the Broadcom VideoCore GPU, which can run OpenCL, so most of the work can be offloaded from the CPU.
Hardly. There are only a handful of working Maglev systems, and they are all heavily subsidized and uneconomical. I have taken the Pudong-Shanghai Maglev, and it was a fast and smooth ride, but it was also nearly empty since it is twenty times the cost of the bus, while only shaving 30 minutes off the trip time.
No. Washington DC is 50% black, much higher than any state, yet it has a low incarceration rate. Arizona is 3% black, and has a very high incarceration rate.
I'm saying it's a bad idea for society, practically speaking.
That is your opinion, based on zero evidence.
As it stands, random chance is better at keeping us prepared for a flexible future than we would be on the whole.
Yet obese people run up our heathcare costs, and prisons are filled with people on the wrong side of the brain's bell curve. Randomness doesn't seem to be working very well.
Better educated parents provide their children with better nutrition, thus fostering brain development. So their children are intelligent and learn rapidly, causing the gap to open even wider.
So is your solution to outlaw good nutrition and force everyone to eat junk? After all, that would "level the field".
How is giving your kids good genes any worse than giving them good food?
If you're planning on committing a murder, the death penalty might be off-putting. Other than that, I wouldn't worry too much.
You are assuming that only guilty people get convicted. When the Innocence Project first started using DNA, they found that 10% of convicts couldn't have committed the crimes. That doesn't mean the other 90% are all guilty, just that 10% is the floor on wrongful convictions.
Incarceration rate in Canada: 114 per 100k. Incarceration rate in America: 660 per 100k
A lot of property is being bought up by Chinese investors
That is only half the problem. The other half is severe restrictions on new construction.
for tax purposes
It is not about taxes. China is backsliding into a Mao-style personality cult, and Xi Jinping is talking up "traditional" socialist values, while using "anti-corruption" to target his political enemies. This could go in some really bad directions, so prosperous Chinese are looking to move money abroad so they have a bolt hole if there is another Cultural Revolution.
This is bad for China, but is a GOOD THING for Canada. They import Chinese goods, and they "export" development and investment in their own cities.
But if I were going to live in Canada, it would definitely be somewhere in BC. Lots of beautiful country up there.
I agree that the Vancouver area is the nicest in Canada, but it still has no where near the professional opportunities of the SF Bay Area... where the weather is even nicer.
Just as if Americans weren't into enough debt already...
America over consumes and under invests. Going into debt at 6% to invest at 8% is very sensible, especially since that 6% is tax deductible for most low and middle income homeowners.
I mean, solar panels are light and easily put on roofs that weren't designed to 'handle the weight.'
Agreed. In addition, about half the cost of rooftop solar is the installation, which should be significantly cheaper if it is done as part of the construction.
Also, the cost issue is bogus. The FHA is offering 3% down mortgages to first time buyers, at less than 6% APR, and the cost of solar can be part of the mortgage. Since solar in California (where power costs are high, and sunshine is plentiful) has an ROI of about 8%, this means the house with solar has LOWER monthly payments than the same house without.
It's another to have designer genetics, carefully controlling height, eye color, hair color, whatever
So because you "feel" this is wrong, you want to impose your morality on others? Look, if you want to have a baby the old fashioned way, and just randomly mix your DNA with someone you met on OkCupid.com, that is your right. But those of us preferring a more scientific method should have equal reproductive rights.
Indeed. My daughter is a biotech major in college. She received four internship offers for this summer. Most of her classmates received zero. She was explicitly told that the difference was her ability to speak fluent Mandarin. Biotech is moving to China. America is regulating yet another industry out of existence.
We don't need an alternative to concrete. We just need an alternative to fossil fuel fired kilns. Kilns can be nuclear or solar, and since they use pure heat, there is no Carnot inefficiency. They could be used in a co-generation process, using low grade waste heat to warm the lime, and high grade heat to finish.
Cement production could be used as a nuclear load leveler. During periods of high electric power demand, send the heat to a turbine. When demand drops, switch the heat to the kiln.
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Caller ID spoofing should require pre-approval from the phone company with appropriate documentation available to law enforcement.
Too much bureaucracy. A simpler solution is to just send a 6-digit authorization code that needs to be entered on the targeted phone.
Because that would disrupt all the legitimate VOIP operators and so forth that also need access to the phone system.
Why would a legitimate VOIP operator need to spoof a caller ID to make it appear to come from a number that they do not own or control?
That and they don’t understand what privacy and their data is to begin with.
Or they do understand, and just don't care. Seriously, what "Bad Thing" will happen to me if Facebook knows my shopping and browsing history? The only consequence that I can see is advertising more attuned to my interests, which is hardy "bad". Maybe I will also get better recommendations for movies and books. The way I see it, the more they know about me, the better.
Also stupidity. Lots and lots of it.
But you're one of the smart ones, right?
What about actually talking to people you care to keep in touch with?
Because phone calls and face-to-face conversations are interruptions. Textual communications can be handled in batch mode, and I can type much faster than I can talk. Also, on the phone or in person, it is hard to break off the conversation, especially with the people who have the least to say.
CO2 from a volcano would be completely depleted of C14, and would look like CO2 from fossil fuel.
Volcanoes are almost a measurement error these days.
I think he is referring to Kilauea, which is only 20 miles from Mauna Loa, where these CO2 measurements were taken.
But Kilauea wasn't erupting much in April. The new vents are not in Kilauea's main caldera, but are another 20 miles east in Pahoa, and the prevailing winds blow from NE to SW, which is out to sea, not up the slopes of Mauna Loa, which towers more than 9000 feet above the summit of Kilauea.
So you want your own chemistry set?
You don't even need a chemistry set. You can get a pretty good measurement of CO2 with an IR LED and a phototransistor.
With governments pushing for carbon taxes ...
What government is pushing for carbon taxes?
And somehow a hyper-loop over the same distance will be cheaper?
What's your point? That maglev makes sense because there is something else that is even stupider?
I'm thinking of the new maglev shinkansen.
Since it isn't working yet, I wouldn't call it "proven technology".
It just NEW cars.
Indeed. TFA makes it sound like they are going to confiscate cars. The proposed ban is only on sales of NEW cars, and since the effective date is 22 years from now, it should be of no concern to anyone making or buying a car today.
How much horsepower are we talking about, and does OSS which performs this task parallelize, or do you need single-thread performance?
OSS VR is still way behind proprietary VR. But some pretraining on your own voice may bring them up to the level of Alexa and Siri, since they are designed to recognize anyone with any accent right out of the box.
Most VR uses NNs, which are inherently parallel. The Raspberry Pi contains the Broadcom VideoCore GPU, which can run OpenCL, so most of the work can be offloaded from the CPU.
* Have you seen the scale at which next-day parcel delivery services operate? Fed-Ex, UPS, USPS, DHL all spend fantastic amounts on air cargo
Indeed. FedEx had revenues of $60 Billion last year, and has a fleet of 650 aircraft.
There is enormous demand for fast delivery. Replacing aircraft with a series of tubes could be a big cost saver and a big win for the environment.
Maglev is proven technology
Hardly. There are only a handful of working Maglev systems, and they are all heavily subsidized and uneconomical. I have taken the Pudong-Shanghai Maglev, and it was a fast and smooth ride, but it was also nearly empty since it is twenty times the cost of the bus, while only shaving 30 minutes off the trip time.
cheaper
Total hogwash.
Oh, so it's black people then?
No. Washington DC is 50% black, much higher than any state, yet it has a low incarceration rate. Arizona is 3% black, and has a very high incarceration rate.
90% of prisoners are in state prisons and 10% are in federal prisons.
7% of state prisons are privately run. 18% of federal prisons are privately run.
Rising state prison populations have little to do with privatization.
Maine imprisons the smallest percentage of its population.
Louisiana imprisons the most.
I'm saying it's a bad idea for society, practically speaking.
That is your opinion, based on zero evidence.
As it stands, random chance is better at keeping us prepared for a flexible future than we would be on the whole.
Yet obese people run up our heathcare costs, and prisons are filled with people on the wrong side of the brain's bell curve. Randomness doesn't seem to be working very well.
Better educated parents provide their children with better nutrition, thus fostering brain development. So their children are intelligent and learn rapidly, causing the gap to open even wider.
So is your solution to outlaw good nutrition and force everyone to eat junk? After all, that would "level the field".
How is giving your kids good genes any worse than giving them good food?
If you're planning on committing a murder, the death penalty might be off-putting. Other than that, I wouldn't worry too much.
You are assuming that only guilty people get convicted. When the Innocence Project first started using DNA, they found that 10% of convicts couldn't have committed the crimes. That doesn't mean the other 90% are all guilty, just that 10% is the floor on wrongful convictions.
Incarceration rate in Canada: 114 per 100k.
Incarceration rate in America: 660 per 100k
List of countries by incarceration rate
A lot of property is being bought up by Chinese investors
That is only half the problem. The other half is severe restrictions on new construction.
for tax purposes
It is not about taxes. China is backsliding into a Mao-style personality cult, and Xi Jinping is talking up "traditional" socialist values, while using "anti-corruption" to target his political enemies. This could go in some really bad directions, so prosperous Chinese are looking to move money abroad so they have a bolt hole if there is another Cultural Revolution.
This is bad for China, but is a GOOD THING for Canada. They import Chinese goods, and they "export" development and investment in their own cities.
But if I were going to live in Canada, it would definitely be somewhere in BC. Lots of beautiful country up there.
I agree that the Vancouver area is the nicest in Canada, but it still has no where near the professional opportunities of the SF Bay Area ... where the weather is even nicer.
Just as if Americans weren't into enough debt already...
America over consumes and under invests. Going into debt at 6% to invest at 8% is very sensible, especially since that 6% is tax deductible for most low and middle income homeowners.
I mean, solar panels are light and easily put on roofs that weren't designed to 'handle the weight.'
Agreed. In addition, about half the cost of rooftop solar is the installation, which should be significantly cheaper if it is done as part of the construction.
Also, the cost issue is bogus. The FHA is offering 3% down mortgages to first time buyers, at less than 6% APR, and the cost of solar can be part of the mortgage. Since solar in California (where power costs are high, and sunshine is plentiful) has an ROI of about 8%, this means the house with solar has LOWER monthly payments than the same house without.
It's another to have designer genetics, carefully controlling height, eye color, hair color, whatever
So because you "feel" this is wrong, you want to impose your morality on others? Look, if you want to have a baby the old fashioned way, and just randomly mix your DNA with someone you met on OkCupid.com, that is your right. But those of us preferring a more scientific method should have equal reproductive rights.
China will dominate
Indeed. My daughter is a biotech major in college. She received four internship offers for this summer. Most of her classmates received zero. She was explicitly told that the difference was her ability to speak fluent Mandarin. Biotech is moving to China. America is regulating yet another industry out of existence.
What are the alternatives?.
We don't need an alternative to concrete. We just need an alternative to fossil fuel fired kilns. Kilns can be nuclear or solar, and since they use pure heat, there is no Carnot inefficiency. They could be used in a co-generation process, using low grade waste heat to warm the lime, and high grade heat to finish.
Cement production could be used as a nuclear load leveler. During periods of high electric power demand, send the heat to a turbine. When demand drops, switch the heat to the kiln.