Get ready for federal 'tweaking' to prevent further renewable growth.
If by "tweaking", you mean removing subsidies, then that is a good thing. Subsidies are supposed to be a temporary incentive to innovate, not a permanent crutch.
Time to tax renewables so that coal can be competitive again.
Coal is dying. Killed by shale gas, not renewables. The coal companies don't have money to invest in a lost cause political campaign, and the coalminers soon won't have enough votes to matter.
In some ways, Japan is more open about it. For instance Japan has sex dolls for pedophiles. Although data is preliminary, these dolls appear to reduce predatory behavior by giving pedos a harmless outlet. It is unthinkable that America could do something this sensible.
Conflating strong AI with weak AI has caused no end of confusion in the popular press, at least some of it intentional.
Indeed. But that shouldn't happen in a tech forum, where people should know the difference. But still, everytime there is a story about AI or ML we have nitwits popping up like whack-a-moles says "This isn't AI" "This isn't AI", because it doesn't match what they saw in a Will Smith movie.
Clue for the clueless: When AI researchers talk about "AI", 99.9% of the time they are talking about "Weak AI" which has little to do with emulating human consciousness. For that, go to Netflix.
I don't even think the analogy is valid. I, and most people I know, have automatic security updates turned on, and many OSes come with that as the default, so even dumb people get them automatically. I don't even know if I get an update, unless it requires a reboot. The main culprits that don't have auto-update turned on are some Windows users, because Microsoft has a bad habit of abusing the update process to push out annoying marketing crap.
It's too bad that "collective responsibility" doesn't extend to preventing the groping of female subway riders in Japan.
They provide "women-only" subway cars during busy periods. Other than that, anyone that has boarded the Yamanote line at at Shinjuku station at rush hour will know that there isn't any obvious solution. Courts have been tightening up penalties, but that only works if the groper gets caught, which is rare. There has recently been a backlash because of people falsely accused. Since Japan has such a low crime rate, any criminal conviction has severe social consequences, often resulting in losing your job, becoming unemployable, and basically destroying your life.
There are cultural difference between how children are raised in Germany vs America. In Germany, kids are viewed as more of a collective responsibility rather than just the concern of the nuclear family. Other cultures take it even further. In Japan, it is common to see five year olds traveling alone on the subway everyday on their way to kindergarten. That would be unthinkable in America, and probably get the parents arrested. But in Japan, it is perfectly safe, because everyone is watching out for those kids, and stepping in at the first hint of a problem.
So either expand bag limits and/or the dates of deer hunting season.
Good luck getting approval to kill Bambi from urban California voters.
a bigger dent in the population, since fewer males=less breeding.
Did you sleep through biology class? Bucks provide zero parental care, and one buck can "service" many does. So unless you kill all the bucks, shooting them will not affect the birth rate.
The crypto export bans of the 1990s were also extremely damaging. The main effect, besides turning t-shirts into munitions, was that companies did much of their crypto development outside the USA.
This proposed law would likely have the same effect. AI research would migrate out of America. Politics should be implemented as an LSTM RNN so we can remember failures and avoid repeating them.
I am not sure it matters. Forests don't disappear because of a "lack of seeds", so just spraying seeds won't bring them back. What happened to the original forest?
Here in California, our live oak forests are slowly disappearing. It is not due to a lack of seeds, but a lack of wolves. The wolves were exterminated more than a century ago. Since then, the deer population has exploded, and they devour the oak seedlings, but don't eat the foul tasting invasive eucalyptus seedlings. In the presence of wolves, there are not only fewer deer, but they also stay on the high ground, and avoid streambeds where they can be cornered, thus allowing the oaks to flourish there.
We have big gnarly oaks that are hundreds of years old, a few tiny seedlings that will soon be eaten... and nothing in between.
This isn't about calling lawyers. This is about inmates keeping in touch with their families. Many states, including California, ship inmates to out of state prisons, where it hard for their families to visit. Putting even more barriers between these inmates and their families is idiotic, since there is plenty of evidence that family bonds reduce recidivism.
Flippant statements like "just get a virtual phone number" are not constructive. If these people had the wherewithal to do that, they wouldn't be in prison in the first place. These are dysfunctional people on the bottom rung of society. We shouldn't be trying to kick them even lower.
The people running the prisons know damn well what they are doing. They profit from squeezing money from desperate families, and they profit even more from the high recidivism rates that keep their facilities occupied.
Going back to a day when someone works at the same company for 40 years...
You can't go back to something that never existed. A "golden age" of lifetime employment is a myth. Average job tenure today is higher than it was in at almost anytime in the past. Sure, there were some people that worked in a factory their whole life in the 1960s, but that was not common, and many more people were day laborers moving from job to job.
This, the only way to get a raise that isn't a cost of living adjustment these days is to hop from company to company.
That is not a bad thing. Cities with lots of job hopping tend to be more productive and have lower inequality. Ideas spread faster, and people can avoid getting stuck in jobs that don't fit their skills.
the same kind of sexist bullshit that I saw in every small or startup company I worked for in the valley.
There is also sexist bullshit outside of SV. I have seen no evidence that sexism is worse in tech than in any other industry. Sexism is a real problem, but it should be addressed as a "human problem" not as a "tech problem".
Many of the SDC patents are owned Google. Google has said that they don't want to build cars. They want to license technology. To do that they need to set prices reasonably, so other companies pay for them rather than working around them. Their track record on Android and other IP is pretty good. License fees are reasonable and Android is very widely adopted. They want to repeat that success with SDCs.
Well, they are right about this. An industry can revolutionize society while producing very little profit for participants. Look at the airline industry: cheap air travel has bound the world together, but the airlines themselves have been perpetual subsidy sucking money losers. In aggregate, they have failed to return any profit to investors.
The anti-vax crap is on both sides of the political spectrum.
Sure. But there is a difference. The leftists believe vaccines are a corporate conspiracy, while the rightists believe vaccines are a government conspiracy.
The current President (a far right-winger)
Trump's views may be stupid and incoherent, but they are not "far-right", and many of them are not "right" at all. For instance, his views on trade are leftist.
I don't normally ask this, but if she were a dude instead of a passably cute chick, would she have even lasted this long?
The Yahoo board booted Jerry Yang, but he was arguably worse than Marissa. Yahoo was in decline when she took over. She didn't fix the problems, but she didn't cause them either. By the time she took the reins, I am not sure that Yahoo was fixable.
Slashdot Mirror
Get ready for federal 'tweaking' to prevent further renewable growth.
If by "tweaking", you mean removing subsidies, then that is a good thing. Subsidies are supposed to be a temporary incentive to innovate, not a permanent crutch.
Time to tax renewables so that coal can be competitive again.
Coal is dying. Killed by shale gas, not renewables. The coal companies don't have money to invest in a lost cause political campaign, and the coalminers soon won't have enough votes to matter.
Not really, it's just not talked about.
In some ways, Japan is more open about it. For instance Japan has sex dolls for pedophiles. Although data is preliminary, these dolls appear to reduce predatory behavior by giving pedos a harmless outlet. It is unthinkable that America could do something this sensible.
Tell them its either Bambi or they will run out of trees to hug.
That very argument has been made many times to justify wildlife culls to urban voters. It has never worked. Especially with cute animals.
Although that moral dilemma might just make their heads explode.
Their attention span is not long enough for that to happen.
Could you define AI in a way that excludes stuff like the one in article but is still a credible definition please?
It has to be at least twice as smart as a human, and it has to be evil.
Examples:
1. Skynet
2. Roy Batty
3. Ava
Conflating strong AI with weak AI has caused no end of confusion in the popular press, at least some of it intentional.
Indeed. But that shouldn't happen in a tech forum, where people should know the difference. But still, everytime there is a story about AI or ML we have nitwits popping up like whack-a-moles says "This isn't AI" "This isn't AI", because it doesn't match what they saw in a Will Smith movie.
Clue for the clueless: When AI researchers talk about "AI", 99.9% of the time they are talking about "Weak AI" which has little to do with emulating human consciousness. For that, go to Netflix.
This was a case of a modern machine beating an antique machine.
No. It is a case of a modern machine beating humans at playing an antique game.
I don't even think the analogy is valid. I, and most people I know, have automatic security updates turned on, and many OSes come with that as the default, so even dumb people get them automatically. I don't even know if I get an update, unless it requires a reboot. The main culprits that don't have auto-update turned on are some Windows users, because Microsoft has a bad habit of abusing the update process to push out annoying marketing crap.
It's too bad that "collective responsibility" doesn't extend to preventing the groping of female subway riders in Japan.
They provide "women-only" subway cars during busy periods. Other than that, anyone that has boarded the Yamanote line at at Shinjuku station at rush hour will know that there isn't any obvious solution. Courts have been tightening up penalties, but that only works if the groper gets caught, which is rare. There has recently been a backlash because of people falsely accused. Since Japan has such a low crime rate, any criminal conviction has severe social consequences, often resulting in losing your job, becoming unemployable, and basically destroying your life.
There are cultural difference between how children are raised in Germany vs America. In Germany, kids are viewed as more of a collective responsibility rather than just the concern of the nuclear family. Other cultures take it even further. In Japan, it is common to see five year olds traveling alone on the subway everyday on their way to kindergarten. That would be unthinkable in America, and probably get the parents arrested. But in Japan, it is perfectly safe, because everyone is watching out for those kids, and stepping in at the first hint of a problem.
The US is the most business and investment friendly country on the planet.
Actually, Singapore and Hong Kong are consistently rated as more business friendly.
Low taxes, low energy prices, cheap infrastructure in the form of affordable land and office space
If those were so important, American AI labs would be in Louisiana rather than California.
So either expand bag limits and/or the dates of deer hunting season.
Good luck getting approval to kill Bambi from urban California voters.
a bigger dent in the population, since fewer males=less breeding.
Did you sleep through biology class? Bucks provide zero parental care, and one buck can "service" many does. So unless you kill all the bucks, shooting them will not affect the birth rate.
The crypto export bans of the 1990s were also extremely damaging. The main effect, besides turning t-shirts into munitions, was that companies did much of their crypto development outside the USA.
This proposed law would likely have the same effect. AI research would migrate out of America. Politics should be implemented as an LSTM RNN so we can remember failures and avoid repeating them.
We don't know that this was a libtard. I would not be surprised if it was a tea-tard that is angry that the Republicans are not extreme enough.
I am not sure it matters. Forests don't disappear because of a "lack of seeds", so just spraying seeds won't bring them back. What happened to the original forest?
Here in California, our live oak forests are slowly disappearing. It is not due to a lack of seeds, but a lack of wolves. The wolves were exterminated more than a century ago. Since then, the deer population has exploded, and they devour the oak seedlings, but don't eat the foul tasting invasive eucalyptus seedlings. In the presence of wolves, there are not only fewer deer, but they also stay on the high ground, and avoid streambeds where they can be cornered, thus allowing the oaks to flourish there.
We have big gnarly oaks that are hundreds of years old, a few tiny seedlings that will soon be eaten ... and nothing in between.
State prisons and county jails each have their own arrangements, but many are similar to the Feds'.
Anecdote: When I was in the Santa Clara County Jail, there was no restrictions on who I could call, although toll calls had to be collect.
Partisan politics brings out the worst in people?
Or perhaps the worst in people brings out partisan politics.
Outsource the IT to India.
You didn't RTFA. That is on the list.
This isn't about calling lawyers. This is about inmates keeping in touch with their families. Many states, including California, ship inmates to out of state prisons, where it hard for their families to visit. Putting even more barriers between these inmates and their families is idiotic, since there is plenty of evidence that family bonds reduce recidivism.
Flippant statements like "just get a virtual phone number" are not constructive. If these people had the wherewithal to do that, they wouldn't be in prison in the first place. These are dysfunctional people on the bottom rung of society. We shouldn't be trying to kick them even lower.
The people running the prisons know damn well what they are doing. They profit from squeezing money from desperate families, and they profit even more from the high recidivism rates that keep their facilities occupied.
Going back to a day when someone works at the same company for 40 years ...
You can't go back to something that never existed. A "golden age" of lifetime employment is a myth. Average job tenure today is higher than it was in at almost anytime in the past. Sure, there were some people that worked in a factory their whole life in the 1960s, but that was not common, and many more people were day laborers moving from job to job.
This, the only way to get a raise that isn't a cost of living adjustment these days is to hop from company to company.
That is not a bad thing. Cities with lots of job hopping tend to be more productive and have lower inequality. Ideas spread faster, and people can avoid getting stuck in jobs that don't fit their skills.
Churn is good.
the same kind of sexist bullshit that I saw in every small or startup company I worked for in the valley.
There is also sexist bullshit outside of SV. I have seen no evidence that sexism is worse in tech than in any other industry. Sexism is a real problem, but it should be addressed as a "human problem" not as a "tech problem".
Many of the SDC patents are owned Google. Google has said that they don't want to build cars. They want to license technology. To do that they need to set prices reasonably, so other companies pay for them rather than working around them. Their track record on Android and other IP is pretty good. License fees are reasonable and Android is very widely adopted. They want to repeat that success with SDCs.
Gotta love MBA's :-)
Well, they are right about this. An industry can revolutionize society while producing very little profit for participants. Look at the airline industry: cheap air travel has bound the world together, but the airlines themselves have been perpetual subsidy sucking money losers. In aggregate, they have failed to return any profit to investors.
The anti-vax crap is on both sides of the political spectrum.
Sure. But there is a difference. The leftists believe vaccines are a corporate conspiracy, while the rightists believe vaccines are a government conspiracy.
The current President (a far right-winger)
Trump's views may be stupid and incoherent, but they are not "far-right", and many of them are not "right" at all. For instance, his views on trade are leftist.
I don't normally ask this, but if she were a dude instead of a passably cute chick, would she have even lasted this long?
The Yahoo board booted Jerry Yang, but he was arguably worse than Marissa. Yahoo was in decline when she took over. She didn't fix the problems, but she didn't cause them either. By the time she took the reins, I am not sure that Yahoo was fixable.