The vast majority of the world where those deaths occur feature unnavigable "roads" for a self driving vehicle.
The country with the most traffic fatalities is China, with about 260,000 deaths annually. China's road infrastructure in many areas is better/newer than America's.
Can you configure Android or iOS to queue some or all notifications in the background
Yes. Here is a complete list of apps on my phone that have permission to push notifications: {}
I can go to each app to "pull" notifications, but I rarely do that. If I am expecting a message from, say, WeChat, I will temporarily enable notifications from only that app. Once the conversation is over, I disable it again.
If you want my immediate attention, call me. If I don't answer because I am asleep, and it is a life threatening emergency, then call 911 and ask the police to wake me up. If it is not a life threatening emergency, it can wait till morning.
Can someone please explain how what the Red Sox did was wrong? Is there a rule against observing your opponents? Is it only wrong if it involves an Apple product?
"You can observe a lot by watching." -- Yogi Berra
The problem with this argument is that wealth isn't created. It's like energy conservation
If that were true, we would all still be in the stone age.
If I pay someone $10, I have $10 less and they have $10 more, but the only way wealth can be created or destroyed is by changing the money supply.
Nonsense. This would only be true if things were worth the same to everyone. If someone pays $5 for my app, I am $5 richer since that app had a marginal value of $0 to me (I can make as many copies as I want). The buyer is also richer, since that app is worth more than $5 to him, or he wouldn't have bought it.
the preferred option is to stifle people's freedom by ownership of the means of production.
Apple is the world's most valuable company. Their "means of production" is a laptop and an open source compiler. You need to take your nose out of Das Kapital and look at the modern world, where wealth comes from innovation not subsidy sucking steel mills.
We'll all remember your instance that weather is climate the furst extreme cold snap that occurs this winter
That would be a valid argument if "cold snaps" were becoming statistically more likely or more severe. They are not. Instead we have a million square miles of open water where we used to have ice pack.
But hurricanes are becoming more intense. Ocean surface temperatures have risen 0.7C, which has lead to about a 10% rise in max wind speed.
I remember Camille. My mom woke me up at 2am, and told me to grab everything I own and take it upstairs. The flood waters from the neighborhood creek were already at our front porch. About 10 minutes later, muddy water started gurgling out of the heater vents on the floor of my bedroom. The water rose another 30cm over the next few hours.
My room was a muddy mess the next morning. But it was worth it because school was cancelled for a week.
This was more than 400 km from landfall.
I happened almost exactly a month after Apollo 11 landed on the moon.
When deciding on a restaurant I always prioritize the least human interaction as possible.
Greetings fellow Aspie! I also try to minimize human interaction. But I understand that neuro-typicals don't share my preferences. Automated and semi-automated restaurants have been tried many times, and they have either failed because of poor customer reception, or succeeded only by offering significantly lower prices.
It wasn't more than 30 years ago that we had "Automats" for food where people despised waiters
Yet where are those "Automats" today? Even when they existed, they had to offer food at a discount compared to a sit-down restaurant. So most people clearly prefer to be served by other humans, and are willing to pay a premium for the service.
Some "sushi boat" restaurants dispense with waiters, but that has not spread to other restaurants types.
Their Great Firewall and overall surveilance programs of all citizens, and resulting imprisonments, is totally against this Declaration.
So are European bans on "Holocaust denial". Nearly all countries restrict speech that could cause offense or social disorder. Americans are often surprised to learn that our robust protections for free speech mostly don't exist outside our borders. Even in America, we are increasingly seeing silly restrictions on "hate speech".
When we have burger flipping and order taking, shelf stocking, part picking robots, where do the people who do not, can not, or will not get an education work?
There are plenty of jobs that will never be automated. We may have burger flipping robots, but waiters will be human because customers want, and are willing to pay for, human interaction. Likewise with barbers, manicurists, masseuses, hairdressers, concierges, etc. These fields already employ millions, and will employ even more in the future as more people can afford them due to productivity advances in other areas of the economy.
In the 19th century many people felt there was no where for displaced farmers to go. Factories were "obviously" not the answer since they were automating as well, so needed fewer workers per unit of production. Yet rather than dropping, incomes soared. To understand why "surplus labor" in the face of productivity improvements leads to mass prosperity rather than mass poverty (as you are still claiming) read about Jevon's Paradox. When a resource can be used more effectively, demand often goes UP rather than down.
The study has a huge flaw. It just shows that people don't like to binge watch a show that they don't particularly like and weren't otherwise planning to watch.
I have binged watch a few shows with my family. Most recently "Silicon Valley". I enjoyed it.
Would I enjoy binge watching a random show that I was assigned to watch? Very unlikely.
Also, the "binge" duration in the study was six hours. That may be too much even for a millennial. My typical binge session is about 3 hours.
It can be sort-of automated using Fivver or Mechanical Turk. On Fivver, you can find people that specialize in UI critique, and they can often give really good feedback. MT is better for single interactions, like "page A" vs "page B".
Most likely they were not waiting for replication... which is dangerous.
If the DB is corrupted before replication, they can recover manually from the logs. But that is only possible if they still have the money. So it is better to "fail safe" with the money in neither account, so it can be restored later, than to "fail bad" and have the money in both accounts. The customer could then withdraw or transfer the "double money" before the error is corrected, compounding the problem, and maybe even requiring expensive legal action to clean up the mess.
How could they roll out something which doesn't provide feedback/makes it look like your transfer didn't work?
My bank shows the transaction gone from the source account and grayed out and marked "pending' in the receiving account. A few minutes later, the transaction is complete.
It takes five minutes for the balance page to update.
That is not a UI issue. It is a DB issue. They are waiting for confirmation that the transaction has been replicated. Replication is often done in batches with a minute or more of granularity.
Because UX/UI designers now days obviously never read a book regarding the subject of user interface design.
Also a lack of usability testing. My UI designs were subjected to usability testing a few times, with customers video recorded while attempting to accomplish a task. Watching those videos was a very humbling experience. I kept trying to scream "NO! Not THAT button!", but since it was a recording, they didn't hear me. Afterwards, my designs got much simpler.
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The vast majority of the world where those deaths occur feature unnavigable "roads" for a self driving vehicle.
The country with the most traffic fatalities is China, with about 260,000 deaths annually. China's road infrastructure in many areas is better/newer than America's.
Hard AI does not exist.
AI does not need to be hard/strong in order to be useful to businesses.
Pattern recognition is not 'AI'.
Pattern recognition is what your brain does. So how is it "not AI" when a computer does it?
it's still useful to test the hell out of automated cars to make sure we know what they do
No, that is not useful. Considering that 3000 people per day die worldwide in HDC accidents, any delay in the adoption of SDCs is unconscionable.
dealer only service with oil changes each 3000 miles will drive profits up.
So far most SDCs are electrics. There is no oil to change.
Tried that but people show up at my desk, which is even worse
Here's the American solution.
Can you configure Android or iOS to queue some or all notifications in the background
Yes. Here is a complete list of apps on my phone that have permission to push notifications: {}
I can go to each app to "pull" notifications, but I rarely do that. If I am expecting a message from, say, WeChat, I will temporarily enable notifications from only that app. Once the conversation is over, I disable it again.
If you want my immediate attention, call me. If I don't answer because I am asleep, and it is a life threatening emergency, then call 911 and ask the police to wake me up. If it is not a life threatening emergency, it can wait till morning.
Can someone please explain how what the Red Sox did was wrong? Is there a rule against observing your opponents? Is it only wrong if it involves an Apple product?
"You can observe a lot by watching." -- Yogi Berra
The problem with this argument is that wealth isn't created. It's like energy conservation
If that were true, we would all still be in the stone age.
If I pay someone $10, I have $10 less and they have $10 more, but the only way wealth can be created or destroyed is by changing the money supply.
Nonsense. This would only be true if things were worth the same to everyone. If someone pays $5 for my app, I am $5 richer since that app had a marginal value of $0 to me (I can make as many copies as I want). The buyer is also richer, since that app is worth more than $5 to him, or he wouldn't have bought it.
the preferred option is to stifle people's freedom by ownership of the means of production.
Apple is the world's most valuable company. Their "means of production" is a laptop and an open source compiler. You need to take your nose out of Das Kapital and look at the modern world, where wealth comes from innovation not subsidy sucking steel mills.
What will you do when universal basic income causes hyperinflation
Do you mean the way that trillions in QE caused the 0% hyperinflation we have today?
Gains in productivity cause deflation. For price stability, we need monetary expansion to offset that.
We'll all remember your instance that weather is climate the furst extreme cold snap that occurs this winter
That would be a valid argument if "cold snaps" were becoming statistically more likely or more severe. They are not. Instead we have a million square miles of open water where we used to have ice pack.
But hurricanes are becoming more intense. Ocean surface temperatures have risen 0.7C, which has lead to about a 10% rise in max wind speed.
I remember Camille. My mom woke me up at 2am, and told me to grab everything I own and take it upstairs. The flood waters from the neighborhood creek were already at our front porch. About 10 minutes later, muddy water started gurgling out of the heater vents on the floor of my bedroom. The water rose another 30cm over the next few hours.
My room was a muddy mess the next morning. But it was worth it because school was cancelled for a week.
This was more than 400 km from landfall.
I happened almost exactly a month after Apollo 11 landed on the moon.
When deciding on a restaurant I always prioritize the least human interaction as possible.
Greetings fellow Aspie! I also try to minimize human interaction. But I understand that neuro-typicals don't share my preferences. Automated and semi-automated restaurants have been tried many times, and they have either failed because of poor customer reception, or succeeded only by offering significantly lower prices.
It wasn't more than 30 years ago that we had "Automats" for food where people despised waiters
Yet where are those "Automats" today? Even when they existed, they had to offer food at a discount compared to a sit-down restaurant. So most people clearly prefer to be served by other humans, and are willing to pay a premium for the service.
Some "sushi boat" restaurants dispense with waiters, but that has not spread to other restaurants types.
Their Great Firewall and overall surveilance programs of all citizens, and resulting imprisonments, is totally against this Declaration.
So are European bans on "Holocaust denial". Nearly all countries restrict speech that could cause offense or social disorder. Americans are often surprised to learn that our robust protections for free speech mostly don't exist outside our borders. Even in America, we are increasingly seeing silly restrictions on "hate speech".
May I kindly ask you to advise us what exactly is there to understand by [China] blocking Facebook.
For obvious reasons, the CCP does not allow direct one-to-many communication in forums they do not control. Banning Facebook is a no-brainer.
Chinese users have WeChat instead, which is superior to Facebook in many ways, including the benevolent protection of social harmony.
When we have burger flipping and order taking, shelf stocking, part picking robots, where do the people who do not, can not, or will not get an education work?
There are plenty of jobs that will never be automated. We may have burger flipping robots, but waiters will be human because customers want, and are willing to pay for, human interaction. Likewise with barbers, manicurists, masseuses, hairdressers, concierges, etc. These fields already employ millions, and will employ even more in the future as more people can afford them due to productivity advances in other areas of the economy.
In the 19th century many people felt there was no where for displaced farmers to go. Factories were "obviously" not the answer since they were automating as well, so needed fewer workers per unit of production. Yet rather than dropping, incomes soared. To understand why "surplus labor" in the face of productivity improvements leads to mass prosperity rather than mass poverty (as you are still claiming) read about Jevon's Paradox. When a resource can be used more effectively, demand often goes UP rather than down.
I live in Northern Virginia ... No programmers at all and very few sysadmins.
The overall unemployment rate in Northern Virginia is 4%, significantly lower than the national average, and the rate for programmers is under 3%.
If you can't get hired in that job market, you are doing something wrong.
The study has a huge flaw. It just shows that people don't like to binge watch a show that they don't particularly like and weren't otherwise planning to watch.
I have binged watch a few shows with my family. Most recently "Silicon Valley". I enjoyed it.
Would I enjoy binge watching a random show that I was assigned to watch? Very unlikely.
Also, the "binge" duration in the study was six hours. That may be too much even for a millennial. My typical binge session is about 3 hours.
Usability is not a test that can be automated
It can be sort-of automated using Fivver or Mechanical Turk. On Fivver, you can find people that specialize in UI critique, and they can often give really good feedback. MT is better for single interactions, like "page A" vs "page B".
Never had this problem with the old design.
Most likely they were not waiting for replication ... which is dangerous.
If the DB is corrupted before replication, they can recover manually from the logs. But that is only possible if they still have the money. So it is better to "fail safe" with the money in neither account, so it can be restored later, than to "fail bad" and have the money in both accounts. The customer could then withdraw or transfer the "double money" before the error is corrected, compounding the problem, and maybe even requiring expensive legal action to clean up the mess.
How could they roll out something which doesn't provide feedback/makes it look like your transfer didn't work?
My bank shows the transaction gone from the source account and grayed out and marked "pending' in the receiving account. A few minutes later, the transaction is complete.
It takes five minutes for the balance page to update.
That is not a UI issue. It is a DB issue. They are waiting for confirmation that the transaction has been replicated. Replication is often done in batches with a minute or more of granularity.
Because UX/UI designers now days obviously never read a book regarding the subject of user interface design.
Also a lack of usability testing. My UI designs were subjected to usability testing a few times, with customers video recorded while attempting to accomplish a task. Watching those videos was a very humbling experience. I kept trying to scream "NO! Not THAT button!", but since it was a recording, they didn't hear me. Afterwards, my designs got much simpler.
One book that helped me is Microinteractions.