Isn't this the same thing gamers have been saying for years?
No. There has never been much evidence that video games have a harmful effect, and yet another study using "psychological tests" doesn't really add anything. It is more important to look at ACTUAL VIOLENCE. Video game players have significantly LOWER arrest rates for violent crimes than peers who spend little time playing. The most plausible explanation for this is that spending time gaming leaves less time out in the street getting in trouble, but gamers also have different social connections, and are less likely to join gangs and associate with criminals. Gamers are also less likely to use drugs or alcohol.
Manipulating markets with lies. Actually I thought that *was* grounds for prison.
They are not lying. They are stating facts and opinions, and mixing them to confuse naive investors. They preface many sentences with "We believe" and "We may". This "obituary" was almost certainly reviewed by lawyers, to ensure that it got as close to "the line" as possible, without crossing it.
You can fool some of the people some of the time, and for securities manipulation, that is enough.
My suggestion: Immediate payout of $500 to anybody affected
You need to get a grip on reality. A quick Google search says Limoges Jewelry has annual revenue $7.5M. Let's say they have a 10% net profit (unlikely to be that high). That gives them $750k in available cashflow. So for the 1.3M affected, that is 57 cents each. Metered first class mail costs 46 cents, plus 5 cent for the envelope and check, and that leaves 6 cents. If you really think that $500 per person is realistic, you need to explain where the other 99.9% of the money is going to come from.
China and Russia probably kill a lot of the people we would throw in jail.
Russia has no de facto capital punishment. It has not been formally abolished, but no one has been judicially executed in more than 2 decades.
China executes about 2000 people annually. Although that is far more than any other country, it is still a minuscule fraction of their prison population.
The 13th Amendment makes a specific exception for compelled labor as criminal punishment:
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
If by "accountability" you mean that they'll have to pay a fine that's a fraction of the money they stole
They can't pay more because the money they stole is gone. They were charging $X for the blood tests, and then paying someone else $3X to actually run them. They made up the difference by burning up investor money.
... and not face any actual jail time, then yes.
Jail/prison should only be used for violent people that are physically dangerous. For everyone else, there are more constructive punishments. For instance Ms Holmes could spend the next 10 years cleaning bedpans in a nursing home.
America imprisons more than four times as many people per capita as China, Russia, and Iran, yet we have one of the world's highest recidivism rates. We need to stop looking at prison as the solution to every problem.
what about the investors do some due diligence and not throw money at a worthless company.
FOMO. If you don't jump on the opportunity, someone else will.
TBH I didnt RTFA
Then you missed the best part: They are going to make a movie about Theranos, with Jennifer Lawrence starring as Ms Holmes!
did they falsify data, or just make large false claims?
Mostly just lying, exaggerating, and hand-waving. Liz almost certainly started out believing the technology would work. Then schedules slipped, so she told a few fibs to buy time to fix the kinks. But then the schedule slipped some more, so she made the lies a little bigger. The it became clear that there were major problems, and she faced a choice: Either come clean and give up her status as a feted young billionaire on mission to save the world, or... keep digging deeper. Given that choice, what would you do?
Hail one of these flying taxis, load a bomb in the passenger seat, tell it where to go. Smartphone triggers the bomb when GPS tells it "you have arrived at your destination".
You can already do that today. Just put your bomb in a Fedex package.
I'm sure VTOL designs use a tremendous amount of power to lift
... but only for a very short time. Once it transitions to forward flight, the power consumption goes way down.
... which means even if these were viable, they're going to be super expensive taxis.
I don't think so. If you look at the videos and estimate the wingspan, there is no way this plane has a laden takeoff weight of over 2000 lbs (a Cessna weights about 1600 lbs fully fueled, and Cora looks significantly smaller). So figure 600 lb structure, 400 lb cargo/crew, and that leaves a 1000 lb battery. A 1000 lb battery will hold roughly 50 kwh of energy. 50 kwh * $0.10 = $5.
They may indeed be expensive, but not because of the energy consumption.
These drones use brushless DC motors, which are extremely reliable, without gearing. The only mechanical part that can fail is the bearing. Software bugs, obstacle collisions, and weather are all far bigger worries than mechanics.
Human driven vehicles kill 30,000 Americans every year, and injure hundreds of thousands more. If package delivering drones can't improve on that, they shouldn't be legal.
Regulation should be based on data, not fear-mongering.
regulating gene research just moved all such gene research underground (or to other less-regulation heavy nations).
Indeed. My daughter is a biotech major at the Univ of California. She was offered internships for this summer by 5 different companies. Many of her classmates received zero offers. Why the difference? She was told explicitly that it was her ability to speak fluent Mandarin. Most gene research is moving to China. Yet another industry in America has been regulated out of existence.
his proposal is absolutely worth considering seriously
No it isn't. If America starts seriously talking about regulating AI research, companies will move their research and funding out of America. Attempts to regulate will create even less democratic accountability.
It is a stupid idea, and we need to make clear that in America "freedom to program" is an inalienable right.
Does free speech cover Russian government paid for propaganda, done by people posing as ordinary Americans
If you can find an exception for Russians when the Constitution says "no law", please let me know.
... and spreading false information to influence an American election
You mean like how the Russians leaked info about the DNC colluding with Hillary to cheat Bernie out of the nomination? Except that turned out to be true.
Ah yes, the one thing that is a pretty sure bet whenever Russia comes up in the news in a none positive way is whataboutism.
It is not just about whataboutism. It is also about setting a precedent for censorship and thought control. We have gone from "Congress shall make no law..." to "Censorship is okay if the speaker is Russian". The next step is a prohibition on speech by other "bad people". Anyone who stands up to defend the scoundrels is obviously one of them.
Except it doesn't because there are too many cars.
Autonomous robo-taxis will solve that problem. It is silly to design the hyperloop for private cars when they will soon be fading away. Elon should focus on the future, not the past.
1. Wake up at home in Rancho Cucamonga. 2. Take a 5 minute ride in a robo-taxi from your home to the hyperloop terminal 3. Zip to downtown LA at 600 km/hr 4. Take another robo-taxi the last mile to your office.
Number of minutes driving on the Santa Monica Freeway: 0.
DT fusion emits copious neutrons that irradiate everything around the core. You can put a "lithium blanket" around the reactor, to absorb the neurons and breed more tritium, but you are not going to catch them all. Fusion is cleaner than fission, but still produces radioactive waste.
Kinda like real AI (vs. AI lite)... which one will come first, true AI, Nuclear fusion, flying cars, or hover-boards....
1. Flying cars already exist. You can't buy one because they don't make economic sense. 2. Nuclear fusion will come next. It is just an engineering problem. 3. Hard AI is not yet on the horizon. We don't know how to achieve it. 4. A hoverboard, like in "Back to the future 2" violates the known laws of physics. That will have to wait until we discover that dark matter emits an anti-gravity force. This discovery will also explain why dark matter was so hard to find. Physicists were looking for something that pulls, but dark matter pushes.
That ex-security-engineer must be violating like 20 different agreements that Apple makes their employees that build their products sign
Many of those agreements are very difficult to enforce under California law.
almost as severe a breach of IP a product engineer can commit....
He is using knowledge that Apple willingly gave him to create a product that does not compete with any Apple product. It is questionable if he is breaking any law, much less one that can be enforced.
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Isn't this the same thing gamers have been saying for years?
No. There has never been much evidence that video games have a harmful effect, and yet another study using "psychological tests" doesn't really add anything. It is more important to look at ACTUAL VIOLENCE. Video game players have significantly LOWER arrest rates for violent crimes than peers who spend little time playing. The most plausible explanation for this is that spending time gaming leaves less time out in the street getting in trouble, but gamers also have different social connections, and are less likely to join gangs and associate with criminals. Gamers are also less likely to use drugs or alcohol.
Manipulating markets with lies. Actually I thought that *was* grounds for prison.
They are not lying. They are stating facts and opinions, and mixing them to confuse naive investors. They preface many sentences with "We believe" and "We may". This "obituary" was almost certainly reviewed by lawyers, to ensure that it got as close to "the line" as possible, without crossing it.
You can fool some of the people some of the time, and for securities manipulation, that is enough.
My suggestion: Immediate payout of $500 to anybody affected
You need to get a grip on reality. A quick Google search says Limoges Jewelry has annual revenue $7.5M. Let's say they have a 10% net profit (unlikely to be that high). That gives them $750k in available cashflow. So for the 1.3M affected, that is 57 cents each. Metered first class mail costs 46 cents, plus 5 cent for the envelope and check, and that leaves 6 cents. If you really think that $500 per person is realistic, you need to explain where the other 99.9% of the money is going to come from.
They destroy so much that could be banked away for the future in a good clay-lined landfill.
Same with nuclear waste. In the future, all those isotopes are going to be very valuable. We just haven't figured out how or why yet.
The power companies should sell options/futures on the waste, and use the money to pay for the (temporary) storage.
China and Russia probably kill a lot of the people we would throw in jail.
Russia has no de facto capital punishment. It has not been formally abolished, but no one has been judicially executed in more than 2 decades.
China executes about 2000 people annually. Although that is far more than any other country, it is still a minuscule fraction of their prison population.
That would be akin to slave labor...
The 13th Amendment makes a specific exception for compelled labor as criminal punishment:
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
If by "accountability" you mean that they'll have to pay a fine that's a fraction of the money they stole
They can't pay more because the money they stole is gone. They were charging $X for the blood tests, and then paying someone else $3X to actually run them. They made up the difference by burning up investor money.
... and not face any actual jail time, then yes.
Jail/prison should only be used for violent people that are physically dangerous. For everyone else, there are more constructive punishments. For instance Ms Holmes could spend the next 10 years cleaning bedpans in a nursing home.
America imprisons more than four times as many people per capita as China, Russia, and Iran, yet we have one of the world's highest recidivism rates. We need to stop looking at prison as the solution to every problem.
Apple phones are a multi-gigahertz computing devices with more DSP power inside them than your PC has.
Except for a tiny bit of initial processing, modern voice recognition doesn't use DSPs. It uses GPUs.
what about the investors do some due diligence and not throw money at a worthless company.
FOMO. If you don't jump on the opportunity, someone else will.
TBH I didnt RTFA
Then you missed the best part: They are going to make a movie about Theranos, with Jennifer Lawrence starring as Ms Holmes!
did they falsify data, or just make large false claims?
Mostly just lying, exaggerating, and hand-waving. Liz almost certainly started out believing the technology would work. Then schedules slipped, so she told a few fibs to buy time to fix the kinks. But then the schedule slipped some more, so she made the lies a little bigger. The it became clear that there were major problems, and she faced a choice: Either come clean and give up her status as a feted young billionaire on mission to save the world, or ... keep digging deeper. Given that choice, what would you do?
But you have to blame the population and government for these tragedies.
That would mean admitting that the Nobel Peace Prize was given to the wrong person.
Here is a complete list of all the things necessary to turn the oppressed into oppressors:
1. Power
Hail one of these flying taxis, load a bomb in the passenger seat, tell it where to go. Smartphone triggers the bomb when GPS tells it "you have arrived at your destination".
You can already do that today. Just put your bomb in a Fedex package.
Presumably the thinking is that there are so many of them that the chances of all of them stopping at the same time are virtually nil.
But do they all run off the same battery? If so, that is still a single point of failure.
I'm sure VTOL designs use a tremendous amount of power to lift
... but only for a very short time. Once it transitions to forward flight, the power consumption goes way down.
... which means even if these were viable, they're going to be super expensive taxis.
I don't think so. If you look at the videos and estimate the wingspan, there is no way this plane has a laden takeoff weight of over 2000 lbs (a Cessna weights about 1600 lbs fully fueled, and Cora looks significantly smaller). So figure 600 lb structure, 400 lb cargo/crew, and that leaves a 1000 lb battery. A 1000 lb battery will hold roughly 50 kwh of energy. 50 kwh * $0.10 = $5.
They may indeed be expensive, but not because of the energy consumption.
They're not OK. Really, it's worth the effort to try to cover them up as much as possible.
It depends on the color. Red LEDs are best. Blue are the worst.
Also, the best material to darken windows is aluminum foil. Put it on with furnace tape. Use small fragments of furnace tape to cover any pinholes.
My bedroom has a red LED digital clock, angled so I have to lift my head to see it. Otherwise, it is pitch black even in the middle of the day.
Sleeping well is a wise investment. It will help you be healthy and productive.
If a delivery drone has a mechanical failure ...
These drones use brushless DC motors, which are extremely reliable, without gearing. The only mechanical part that can fail is the bearing. Software bugs, obstacle collisions, and weather are all far bigger worries than mechanics.
Human driven vehicles kill 30,000 Americans every year, and injure hundreds of thousands more. If package delivering drones can't improve on that, they shouldn't be legal.
Regulation should be based on data, not fear-mongering.
regulating gene research just moved all such gene research underground (or to other less-regulation heavy nations).
Indeed. My daughter is a biotech major at the Univ of California. She was offered internships for this summer by 5 different companies. Many of her classmates received zero offers. Why the difference? She was told explicitly that it was her ability to speak fluent Mandarin. Most gene research is moving to China. Yet another industry in America has been regulated out of existence.
his proposal is absolutely worth considering seriously
No it isn't. If America starts seriously talking about regulating AI research, companies will move their research and funding out of America. Attempts to regulate will create even less democratic accountability.
It is a stupid idea, and we need to make clear that in America "freedom to program" is an inalienable right.
The Bill of Rights doesn't apply to foreign citizens on foreign soil, so your slippery slope argument is misplaced.
Bullcrap. The Bill of Rights says Congress shall make NO LAW abridging freedom of speech. It says nothing about an exception for foreigners.
Does free speech cover Russian government paid for propaganda, done by people posing as ordinary Americans
If you can find an exception for Russians when the Constitution says "no law", please let me know.
... and spreading false information to influence an American election
You mean like how the Russians leaked info about the DNC colluding with Hillary to cheat Bernie out of the nomination? Except that turned out to be true.
Ah yes, the one thing that is a pretty sure bet whenever Russia comes up in the news in a none positive way is whataboutism.
It is not just about whataboutism. It is also about setting a precedent for censorship and thought control. We have gone from "Congress shall make no law ..." to "Censorship is okay if the speaker is Russian". The next step is a prohibition on speech by other "bad people". Anyone who stands up to defend the scoundrels is obviously one of them.
Except it doesn't because there are too many cars.
Autonomous robo-taxis will solve that problem. It is silly to design the hyperloop for private cars when they will soon be fading away. Elon should focus on the future, not the past.
1. Wake up at home in Rancho Cucamonga.
2. Take a 5 minute ride in a robo-taxi from your home to the hyperloop terminal
3. Zip to downtown LA at 600 km/hr
4. Take another robo-taxi the last mile to your office.
Number of minutes driving on the Santa Monica Freeway: 0.
Less polluting than fusion?
DT fusion emits copious neutrons that irradiate everything around the core. You can put a "lithium blanket" around the reactor, to absorb the neurons and breed more tritium, but you are not going to catch them all. Fusion is cleaner than fission, but still produces radioactive waste.
Fusion reactor waste management
Kinda like real AI (vs. AI lite)... which one will come first, true AI, Nuclear fusion, flying cars, or hover-boards....
1. Flying cars already exist. You can't buy one because they don't make economic sense.
2. Nuclear fusion will come next. It is just an engineering problem.
3. Hard AI is not yet on the horizon. We don't know how to achieve it.
4. A hoverboard, like in "Back to the future 2" violates the known laws of physics. That will have to wait until we discover that dark matter emits an anti-gravity force. This discovery will also explain why dark matter was so hard to find. Physicists were looking for something that pulls, but dark matter pushes.
I thought it was 50. MIT must have misread the memo.
That is for economic breakeven. The MIT project described in TFA is a proof-of-concept pilot plant. It is not expected to be commercially viable.
That ex-security-engineer must be violating like 20 different agreements that Apple makes their employees that build their products sign
Many of those agreements are very difficult to enforce under California law.
almost as severe a breach of IP a product engineer can commit....
He is using knowledge that Apple willingly gave him to create a product that does not compete with any Apple product. It is questionable if he is breaking any law, much less one that can be enforced.