whatever -ism, Germany is having another bout of authoritarianism
It never went away. The Germans have always prioritized conformity over liberty. But they pay a price for that. There is a bit of a startup-culture in Berlin, but Germany has produced few tech companies. The biggest is SAP, which actually has a rather authoritarian culture. If you were planning to start a tech company today, would you do it in Germany? $57 million says that you wouldn't.
Disclaimer: I live in Silicon Valley, and there are several German expats in my neighborhood. They are doing startups, but the aren't doing them in Germany.
If your point is just that "abstract art is usually bs anyway so it's easier to imitate", then I agree with you.
No. My point is that an intelligence (AI or BI) should be judged by what it produces, not on some subjective qualification like "feelings" or "has a soul".
Try harder Bill. Exclusive rights for towns and communities exist.
So you were obviously unable to find a SINGLE example either. Now I am more convinced than ever that there are NO exclusive agreements anywhere in America.
Local governments sign agreements with the ISPs.
You are full of crap. There are NO exclusive agreements. None. Feel free to prove me wrong by providing a single citation.
It's true in many jurisdictions (google "franchise agreements")
Ok. I just googled. I found ZERO examples of even a single EXCLUSIVE agreement anywhere in America. So I find it very, very unlikely that "most" or even "many" of these agreements are exclusive.
in most jurisdictions the local government sells monopoly rights for service to a single cable provider.
Do you have a citation for this? I doubt this is true.
Most ISPs are monopolies because it just isn't worth it to build out duplicate infrastructure when the resulting competition will lead to a fall in prices insufficient to recoup the investment. But it is rarely illegal.
What art does is convey feelings. So far, machines have none.
If you lay out a hundred abstract paintings, half made by humans and half by this GAN, do you think you could tell which were made with "feelings"? I doubt if you could do any better than chance. It is silly to say there is a difference if the difference is undetectable.
There are places like this in Japan, one a few minutes walk from my work place in Downtown Tokyo. It's basically sound proof, clean, even offers some tea etc. They are great.
I have stayed in the Capsule Inn in Roppongi several times. It is the best deal in Tokyo. There is a TV built into the ceiling of each capsule, so you watch it laying flat on your back. The best part is the hot tub in the basement. The water in the tub is nearly hot enough to make tea, which lowers the sperm count of Japanese men so much that they have one of the lowest birthrates in the world.
The theory is that once they win "market dominance", they can raise rates to earn profits. I just don't see that happening. There is no "lock-in" for ride sharing, for either drivers or riders. Many Lyft drivers also drive for Uber, and take the fares from either as they come in. Customers will be happy to switch if they can save a nickel. So I just can't see how they can ever get the excess profits needed to justify their valuation.
In addition to all their other problems, Uber can't even write an app properly. The Uber app drains my cell battery at about 5% per minute. I can't imagine what they are doing to suck so much power. I have to let it cool down before I put it back in my pocket.
Then WHY did they haul this issue into court multiple times?
Those are DIFFERENT restrictions, aimed at keeping muslims out, not Swedes. Those were almost certainly illegal, especially since Donald tweeted that they were specifically aimed at muslims, contradicting his own staff who had claimed otherwise. Multiple courts have declared them illegal, and SCOTUS will hear the case soon, and will likely find at least some of the restrictions illegal.
This is why many tech firms provide free on-campus lunches. When random employees share a meal, the conversation often leads to sharing of ideas and opportunities for collaboration.
Because a "sane security model" uses defense in depth. There no one single "silver bullet" solution. Any security layer can fail, so you need additional layers to contain or mitigate the damage.
Your first layer of defense is your firewall... your last layer is your offsite backups. You should have many more layers in between.
as much as people want to complain. traveling to the US is not a right.
I don't think many people are arguing that these travel restrictions are illegal, just that they are stupid and counterproductive. My company has offices in San Jose and Shanghai. Since our employees in China have difficulty getting visas to come to America for meetings and conferences, the Americans go to Shanghai instead, putting money into the Chinese economy, eating at Chinese restaurants, and staying at Chinese hotels.
Since American employees incur these additional travel expenses, we are more biased toward hiring in China instead.
No country has ever thrived by shutting itself off from the world.
Anyway, I am going to Shanghai in July for 3 months, and my family is going with me. We plan to spend plenty of American dollars trying every new restaurant on Nanjing Road, all at company expense (tax deductible). Thank you Donald Trump!
You don't to need take advanced math courses to understand ordering and pigeonholing, nor were those things taught in any math class that I took.
Instead, math classes focus on teaching things like how to integrate the cosecant of the reciprocal of X cubed. Probability that will be useful in your professional life as a coder: 0%.
You're claiming that over 60% of all iPhones/ever/ sold are still in use? That seems pretty unlikely.
60% seems reasonable to me. Keep in mind that iPhone popularity has grown, so way more current models are manufactured than iPhone-1 and iPhone-2. So those old phones may be retired, but there just weren't that many of them.
When my wife got a new iPhone, she gave her old one to our daughter. My daughter gave her old one to me. I donated my old one to Goodwill, who, I presume, sold it to someone else.
There was a time decades ago where quality actually meant something time be damned.
No there wasn't. There is zero evidence that code quality was better decades ago. In many ways it was worse, because of crappy or nonexistent libraries, a lack of memory protection, and poor static and dynamic analysis tools.
Anyone who had to work with Fortran spaghetti code from the 1980s would laugh at the notion that code quality is worse today.
Many areas of CS require very little math. You need math for 3D graphics, and physical process simulation, but many, many people work in business process programming, embedded device programming, etc. that require very little.
Many programmers spend their entire career without using calculus, trig, or linear algebra even a single time.
I have heard that "you need advanced math to understand big-O", but that is nonsense. Big-O requires addition, multiplication, exponentiation, and logarithms. Kids learn all of those by 5th grade.
That is true. But they used to have scientific validity. There was solid evidence that the probiotic bacteria in yogurt resulted in extended lifetimes in the valleys of the Caucasus Mountains, where yogurt consumption was unusually high, and always prepared with live cultures.
... but then in comparing age listed on birth certificates and baptismal records, with age determined by physical examination, there were wide discrepancies. It turns out the real reason for high longevity was forged documents used to avoid conscription during the First World War. The yogurt eaters actually had expected longevity well within the normal range.
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whatever -ism, Germany is having another bout of authoritarianism
It never went away. The Germans have always prioritized conformity over liberty. But they pay a price for that. There is a bit of a startup-culture in Berlin, but Germany has produced few tech companies. The biggest is SAP, which actually has a rather authoritarian culture. If you were planning to start a tech company today, would you do it in Germany? $57 million says that you wouldn't.
Disclaimer: I live in Silicon Valley, and there are several German expats in my neighborhood. They are doing startups, but the aren't doing them in Germany.
If your point is just that "abstract art is usually bs anyway so it's easier to imitate", then I agree with you.
No. My point is that an intelligence (AI or BI) should be judged by what it produces, not on some subjective qualification like "feelings" or "has a soul".
No. I don't know the one. After googling I still don't know. Has anyone figured it out?
I lived in China for several years, speak Mandarin, know several hundred chengyu, and I have no idea what TFS is referring to.
My wife is Chinese, and I just asked her if she is aware of any ancient Chinese proverbs that refer to megaphones, and she said no.
In a few of those places, the ones that are most "red," it is actually true
Bullcrap. It is not true anywhere.
Philadelphia, and Comcast
I see nowhere in that article where it mentions exclusivity.
Provo, Utah, and Google Fiber
Nowhere in that contract does it say it is exclusive.
Try harder Bill. Exclusive rights for towns and communities exist.
So you were obviously unable to find a SINGLE example either.
Now I am more convinced than ever that there are NO exclusive agreements anywhere in America.
Local governments sign agreements with the ISPs.
You are full of crap.
There are NO exclusive agreements.
None.
Feel free to prove me wrong by providing a single citation.
It's true in many jurisdictions (google "franchise agreements")
Ok. I just googled. I found ZERO examples of even a single EXCLUSIVE agreement anywhere in America. So I find it very, very unlikely that "most" or even "many" of these agreements are exclusive.
in most jurisdictions the local government sells monopoly rights for service to a single cable provider.
Do you have a citation for this? I doubt this is true.
Most ISPs are monopolies because it just isn't worth it to build out duplicate infrastructure when the resulting competition will lead to a fall in prices insufficient to recoup the investment. But it is rarely illegal.
What art does is convey feelings. So far, machines have none.
If you lay out a hundred abstract paintings, half made by humans and half by this GAN, do you think you could tell which were made with "feelings"? I doubt if you could do any better than chance. It is silly to say there is a difference if the difference is undetectable.
Yet every example I saw on that page was abstract.
What were you expecting? Realistic paintings would required a general understanding of the world that is far beyond the capabilities of this system.
American lignite is mined in Mississippi, Louisiana, North Dakota, Texas, and Wyoming. None of those are swing states.
There are places like this in Japan, one a few minutes walk from my work place in Downtown Tokyo. It's basically sound proof, clean, even offers some tea etc. They are great.
I have stayed in the Capsule Inn in Roppongi several times. It is the best deal in Tokyo. There is a TV built into the ceiling of each capsule, so you watch it laying flat on your back. The best part is the hot tub in the basement. The water in the tub is nearly hot enough to make tea, which lowers the sperm count of Japanese men so much that they have one of the lowest birthrates in the world.
List of countries by birthrate
The theory is that once they win "market dominance", they can raise rates to earn profits. I just don't see that happening. There is no "lock-in" for ride sharing, for either drivers or riders. Many Lyft drivers also drive for Uber, and take the fares from either as they come in. Customers will be happy to switch if they can save a nickel. So I just can't see how they can ever get the excess profits needed to justify their valuation.
In addition to all their other problems, Uber can't even write an app properly. The Uber app drains my cell battery at about 5% per minute. I can't imagine what they are doing to suck so much power. I have to let it cool down before I put it back in my pocket.
Then WHY did they haul this issue into court multiple times?
Those are DIFFERENT restrictions, aimed at keeping muslims out, not Swedes. Those were almost certainly illegal, especially since Donald tweeted that they were specifically aimed at muslims, contradicting his own staff who had claimed otherwise. Multiple courts have declared them illegal, and SCOTUS will hear the case soon, and will likely find at least some of the restrictions illegal.
This is why many tech firms provide free on-campus lunches. When random employees share a meal, the conversation often leads to sharing of ideas and opportunities for collaboration.
You do realize that setting up a video conference would greatly reduce your travel costs
You do realize that using video conferencing instead of face-to-face collaboration doesn't work near as well in practice as it does in theory?
If Skype was a perfect substitute for commuting, the highways of Silicon Valley would be empty every morning.
Why not implement a sane security model instead
Because a "sane security model" uses defense in depth. There no one single "silver bullet" solution. Any security layer can fail, so you need additional layers to contain or mitigate the damage.
Your first layer of defense is your firewall ... your last layer is your offsite backups. You should have many more layers in between.
as much as people want to complain. traveling to the US is not a right.
I don't think many people are arguing that these travel restrictions are illegal, just that they are stupid and counterproductive. My company has offices in San Jose and Shanghai. Since our employees in China have difficulty getting visas to come to America for meetings and conferences, the Americans go to Shanghai instead, putting money into the Chinese economy, eating at Chinese restaurants, and staying at Chinese hotels.
Since American employees incur these additional travel expenses, we are more biased toward hiring in China instead.
No country has ever thrived by shutting itself off from the world.
Anyway, I am going to Shanghai in July for 3 months, and my family is going with me. We plan to spend plenty of American dollars trying every new restaurant on Nanjing Road, all at company expense (tax deductible). Thank you Donald Trump!
You don't to need take advanced math courses to understand ordering and pigeonholing, nor were those things taught in any math class that I took.
Instead, math classes focus on teaching things like how to integrate the cosecant of the reciprocal of X cubed. Probability that will be useful in your professional life as a coder: 0%.
You're claiming that over 60% of all iPhones /ever/ sold are still in use? That seems pretty unlikely.
60% seems reasonable to me. Keep in mind that iPhone popularity has grown, so way more current models are manufactured than iPhone-1 and iPhone-2. So those old phones may be retired, but there just weren't that many of them.
When my wife got a new iPhone, she gave her old one to our daughter. My daughter gave her old one to me. I donated my old one to Goodwill, who, I presume, sold it to someone else.
There was a time decades ago where quality actually meant something time be damned.
No there wasn't. There is zero evidence that code quality was better decades ago. In many ways it was worse, because of crappy or nonexistent libraries, a lack of memory protection, and poor static and dynamic analysis tools.
Anyone who had to work with Fortran spaghetti code from the 1980s would laugh at the notion that code quality is worse today.
Many areas of CS require very little math. You need math for 3D graphics, and physical process simulation, but
many, many people work in business process programming, embedded device programming, etc. that require very little.
Many programmers spend their entire career without using calculus, trig, or linear algebra even a single time.
I have heard that "you need advanced math to understand big-O", but that is nonsense. Big-O requires addition, multiplication, exponentiation, and logarithms. Kids learn all of those by 5th grade.
Does anyone have a metric on how many unique iPhone users are out there?
There are roughly 700 million iPhones in active use. About 200 million of those are 2nd hand.
Roughly 60% of the people in the world, or about 5 billion people, have a cell phone (more than have toilets). But many of those are not smartphones.
"Probiotics" have _Zero_ scientific validity.
That is true. But they used to have scientific validity. There was solid evidence that the probiotic bacteria in yogurt resulted in extended lifetimes in the valleys of the Caucasus Mountains, where yogurt consumption was unusually high, and always prepared with live cultures.
... but then in comparing age listed on birth certificates and baptismal records, with age determined by physical examination, there were wide discrepancies. It turns out the real reason for high longevity was forged documents used to avoid conscription during the First World War. The yogurt eaters actually had expected longevity well within the normal range.
Oh well, it was a good theory while it lasted.