Is there an objective reason you think that Citizen Kane has to be better than Black Panther?
Of course not. Movie ratings are entirely subjective. People have different tastes. I have not found RT to be a good guide to whether I will like a movie.
I use Amazon Prime Video because I am already a Prime member for the free shipping, so the videos are effectively freebies.
Some islands have problems with sand pirates sneaking in at night with dredging machines and stealing their sand.
On the Hawaiian island of Kauai, sand harvesting is a political issue. Commercial dredgers collect the sand and sell it to beach owners on the newer islands, especially Maui and the Big Island.
The average person uses far more consumer packaging and other consumer goods in their lifetime than building materials.
I doubt this is true. About 7.5 billion cubic meters of concrete, weighing 18 billion tonnes, are used annually. That is about 2.5 tonnes for every human on the planet. That is 7 kg, or 15 pounds, per person per day.
The world also produces 1.8 billion tonnes of steel annually.
I don't know that the employees of the various foxconn factories are required to live on site
They are not. Some factories still have dormitories, but most workers don't live in them, and those that do usually transition to outside housing when they can afford to.
many of those factories are in the middle of bumfuck nowhere
Foxconn's biggest factories are in Shenzhen, an enormous metropolis of 20 million people and one of the fastest growing cities in the world.
Most German coal is lignite, which is filthy low-grade crap that generates even more CO2 per KwHr than bituminous coal.
If the Germans had any sense they would have kept their nukes running and shutdown these coal plants long ago. I can understand not building new nukes, but shutting down perfectly good reactors that were humming along, producing clean power at very low cost, made no sense.
There was a story last year about a woman who had endless trouble with telephone banking because the system was convinced her voice sounded male.
Do you have a citation? I am curious why a bank would treat one gender differently than another, and give "endless trouble" only to males.
I have a Vanguard account, and they use voice recognition as an optional extra security feature, but they treat males and females exactly the same. The VR identifies each customer as an individual. Categorizing voices by gender would be pointless and unnecessary.
If a bird ate one of those apples, shat it out on another farmer's field and a tree grew...no one would sue that farmer....if that farmer then harvested those apples and started planting HC trees to commercially profit from his accidental tree growth
I agree with everything you said, but one minor quibble: This scenario would never happen. Apples (and most other fruit) have highly heterologous chromosomes and can't be propagated with seeds. They do not breed true. They have to be propagated by grafting.
they let the seeds spread to neighboring fields so they can sue any farmer who doesn't get with the program.
Re-read my post (which was modded down despite being accurate and giving citations).
Monsanto has never sued anyone for unintentional infringement.
The myth that they did comes from the film David vs. Goliath, which was a wildly inaccurate documentary.
Terminator genes would be a blessing.
They would indeed. They were a good idea, and were stopped by protests from anti-GMO activists, including Greenpeace, because they took away one of their best arguments against GMO: That the genes might spread into the wild.
Machine learning doesn't work like that. You feed data into it and it works out the algorithms itself.
Data can be biased. If the training set is 90% photos of white people, then the NN is going to be better at identifying white people.
But it isn't clear why bias is a problem here. If it correctly identifies a white thief 90% of the time, and a black thief 80% of the time, is it really better to "fix it" so that the white identification rate is lowered to 80%, so that it is "fair"?
We already have adequate temporary storage: The cooling ponds at the nuclear plants.
Just leaving the rods in the cooling ponds for the next 30 years is a good solution. As time goes by, they become less radioactive and easier to handle. Meanwhile we are developing robotics that will make processing the spent fuel way easier and cheaper in the future than it is now.
Also, it is very likely that over the next few decades we will find alternative uses for many of the isotopes in the fuel rods, so we will no longer consider them "waste" at all.
There are plenty of reasons to wait, and no good reason to be in a rush.
we can affordably transmute lead into gold. How cool is that?
Converting lead into gold is a very messy process that produces lots of radioactive contaminants.
It is easier to convert bismuth into gold, but still no where near worth it. Even getting gold from asteroids would be more cost effective than nuclear transmutation.
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CNBC estimates the total size of the bank bailout at $29 trillion..
That absurd number says way more about CNBC's credibility than it does about the actual cost of the bailout.
That and this is prolly changing the Java that is taught with JS.
The AP courses are standardized on Java. That decision was made by collegeboard.org, not Amazon.
Is there an objective reason you think that Citizen Kane has to be better than Black Panther?
Of course not. Movie ratings are entirely subjective. People have different tastes. I have not found RT to be a good guide to whether I will like a movie.
I use Amazon Prime Video because I am already a Prime member for the free shipping, so the videos are effectively freebies.
Some islands have problems with sand pirates sneaking in at night with dredging machines and stealing their sand.
On the Hawaiian island of Kauai, sand harvesting is a political issue. Commercial dredgers collect the sand and sell it to beach owners on the newer islands, especially Maui and the Big Island.
Good quality sand is a limited resource.
The average person uses far more consumer packaging and other consumer goods in their lifetime than building materials.
I doubt this is true. About 7.5 billion cubic meters of concrete, weighing 18 billion tonnes, are used annually. That is about 2.5 tonnes for every human on the planet. That is 7 kg, or 15 pounds, per person per day.
The world also produces 1.8 billion tonnes of steel annually.
I don't know that the employees of the various foxconn factories are required to live on site
They are not. Some factories still have dormitories, but most workers don't live in them, and those that do usually transition to outside housing when they can afford to.
many of those factories are in the middle of bumfuck nowhere
Foxconn's biggest factories are in Shenzhen, an enormous metropolis of 20 million people and one of the fastest growing cities in the world.
Android is the one original thing theyâ(TM)ve done on that list.
Android was acquired.
Gmail and Waymo were built internally.
What has panned out?
Google Maps.
Google Docs.
Gmail.
Android.
YouTube.
Waymo (still in progress).
Each of these is worth billions.
There is no such thing as "low cost" nuclear power, derp. You're leaving the investment off the balance sheet dishonestly.
The nuke plants were already built and running. So the capital investment was a sunk cost, and irrelevant to the cost of ongoing operations.
Nukes are very expensive to build, but dirt cheap to operate.
I see a LOT of failed projects and an inability to stick to anything.
This is what happens when you try lots of new ideas, and explore all the options. Some will pan out, most will not.
Google's new owners, the shareholders, probably care less about that the original owners did.
The original owners still control most of the voting rights.
Most German coal is lignite, which is filthy low-grade crap that generates even more CO2 per KwHr than bituminous coal.
If the Germans had any sense they would have kept their nukes running and shutdown these coal plants long ago. I can understand not building new nukes, but shutting down perfectly good reactors that were humming along, producing clean power at very low cost, made no sense.
There was a story last year about a woman who had endless trouble with telephone banking because the system was convinced her voice sounded male.
Do you have a citation? I am curious why a bank would treat one gender differently than another, and give "endless trouble" only to males.
I have a Vanguard account, and they use voice recognition as an optional extra security feature, but they treat males and females exactly the same. The VR identifies each customer as an individual. Categorizing voices by gender would be pointless and unnecessary.
If a bird ate one of those apples, shat it out on another farmer's field and a tree grew...no one would sue that farmer....if that farmer then harvested those apples and started planting HC trees to commercially profit from his accidental tree growth
I agree with everything you said, but one minor quibble: This scenario would never happen. Apples (and most other fruit) have highly heterologous chromosomes and can't be propagated with seeds. They do not breed true. They have to be propagated by grafting.
they let the seeds spread to neighboring fields so they can sue any farmer who doesn't get with the program.
Re-read my post (which was modded down despite being accurate and giving citations).
Monsanto has never sued anyone for unintentional infringement.
The myth that they did comes from the film David vs. Goliath, which was a wildly inaccurate documentary.
Terminator genes would be a blessing.
They would indeed. They were a good idea, and were stopped by protests from anti-GMO activists, including Greenpeace, because they took away one of their best arguments against GMO: That the genes might spread into the wild.
Machine learning doesn't work like that. You feed data into it and it works out the algorithms itself.
Data can be biased. If the training set is 90% photos of white people, then the NN is going to be better at identifying white people.
But it isn't clear why bias is a problem here. If it correctly identifies a white thief 90% of the time, and a black thief 80% of the time, is it really better to "fix it" so that the white identification rate is lowered to 80%, so that it is "fair"?
I find it interesting that it is supposed to be ok to tamper with the food source, oh, but not the environment.
Humans have been tampering with their food sources for at least 10,000 years.
As you get more experience with similar projects the estimates become more reliable.
With nuclear, cost and time estimates have become LESS reliable.
Selectively bred is not the same as genetically modified.
Yes it is.
We have NOT been eating genetically modified bananas.
Yes we have. I have actually eaten a wild banana. It was red, about 3 inches long, and tasted like a really tough potato with pebbles in it.
the terrible business practices, such as making the plants purposefully infertile so you have to keep buying monsanto seeds,
Bullcrap. This is called the "terminator gene". It has never been deployed in a commercial product.
Genetic use restriction technology
the part where you get sued if a monsanto crop accidentally grows on your terrain
Bullcrap. Monsanto has never, not once, sued anyone for accidental pollination,
What they have done is sue people like Percy Schmeiser for repeated, blatant, INTENTIONAL infringement.
You are a perfect example of what TFA is about: Someone who speaks with authority, while knowing nothing.
It's not unusual for Congress to pass a law that applies to a single company, though.
Citation needed.
They can pass a law saying: "All social networks founded in Cambridge, MA in 2004 must be broken up"
This is an example of a bill of attainder, which is prohibited by the U.S. Constitution.
The law would be invalidated in the time it takes Facebook's lawyers to drive from their HQ to the courthouse.
1 To get a temporary waste repository in place.
We already have adequate temporary storage: The cooling ponds at the nuclear plants.
Just leaving the rods in the cooling ponds for the next 30 years is a good solution. As time goes by, they become less radioactive and easier to handle. Meanwhile we are developing robotics that will make processing the spent fuel way easier and cheaper in the future than it is now.
Also, it is very likely that over the next few decades we will find alternative uses for many of the isotopes in the fuel rods, so we will no longer consider them "waste" at all.
There are plenty of reasons to wait, and no good reason to be in a rush.
You have places where you go down a thousand feet or so and you're good. You have a suitable hot spot.
Solution: You build your geothermal plants in these locations, and then you run HVDC to the areas without suitable locations.
Per mile, moving electricity by HVDC is cheaper than moving coal by train, and we do plenty of that.
There is already existing nuclear technology that is relatively cheap per kWh generated.
This is true in theory. In practice, there are always massive cost overruns.
Feel free to list all the excuses, and the reasons the overruns won't happen next time.
we can affordably transmute lead into gold. How cool is that?
Converting lead into gold is a very messy process that produces lots of radioactive contaminants.
It is easier to convert bismuth into gold, but still no where near worth it. Even getting gold from asteroids would be more cost effective than nuclear transmutation.