Only the courts, or congress can break up a company.
No, only the courts can break up a company. Congress has no authority to do that, and it is specially banned from doing so in Article I, Section 9, paragraph 3 of the Constitution which prohibits any bill of attainder.
Also, "breaking up a company" can only be done if a company is declared a monopoly. There is no legal basis for using a breakup as punishment for leaking data or any other crime.
If you still have humans in the loop, decisions will be delayed when seconds count, and the biggest mistakes will happen when the controllers are exhausted and confused.
The worst aircraft accident in history was the 1977 Tenerife airport disaster in the Canary Islands. 583 people died in a cascade of errors, miscommunication, and poor judgement calls, as exhausted controllers dealt with heavy fog, delayed flights, and frustrated pilots.
One pilot thought he had clearance to takeoff on a runway that another plane was given clearance to cross. Automated cameras would have detected this problem, and could have automatically ordered the planes to stop. This wouldn't even need AI. Just a dumb algorithm would have saved hundreds of lives.
This outbreak is happening in liberal suburbs of Portland.
Anti-vaxxers do not follow the normal pattern of political polarization. Instead, it is common among extremists in either direction. Left-wing anti-vaxxers believe vaccinations are a corporate conspiracy. Right-wing anti-vaxxers believe vaccinations are a government conspiracy. Moderates on both sides vaccinate their kids.
Also, you may want to look at a map. Clark County, Washington is a long way from the southern border.
Clark County is a prosperous suburb of Portland, and not many poor Mexicans can afford to live there. It is only 4% Hispanic, and they are not causing this problem.
Intelligence is heritable, so if they are anti-vaxxers or their direct descendants, we may want to give them an IQ test before we treat them. It may be better to let natural selection run its course. We'll all be better off in the long run.
Clark County is directly across the Columbia River from Portland, so we may be able to purge the entire metro area of idiots.
but these diplomats when the spotlight suddenly shines on them sometimes have no idea what to do.
It is very simple: Don't comment on ongoing judicial proceedings.
Canada has repeatedly explained that they have an independent judiciary, outside of political influence and control. The ambassador's verbal diarrhea undermines Chinese perception of that independence.
Photography is protected by the first amendment as affirmed by federal courts.
Photography in public, where there is no expectation of privacy, for noncommercial purposes is protected. Most people would not consider a fingerprint scanner to be collecting public information.
The collection of facial biometrics can be defended based on that.
Quite likely. But they didn't scan the kid's face. They scanned his fingerprints. Most people would consider that a greater impingement on privacy.
Furthermore, the collection of fingerprints can be argued to be a form of photography.
Maybe. But that is the point of this ruling: they have to make that argument in court. They can't just have the case dismissed with a lack of standing argument. The court didn't say the plaintiff win, just that the case can proceed.
Six Flags may also argue that they didn't store the fingerprint, but only a hash. Since there are many ways to generate a hash, and not every hash is unique, they could argue a hash is not "personally identifying information". Not sure if the court would agree.
AFAIK Ebola didn't care much how much money you had in the countries it hit.
Yes it does. Ebola hits the poor much harder. Rich people are generally literate, understand the germ theory of disease, have cell phones, and own soap. They quickly learn how the disease spreads, and then wash their hands so they don't get it. It took much longer to convince the poor to practice basic sanitation.
The 2014 outbreak started in the Guinea highlands, and spread to Liberia and Sierra Leone, which all have very low literacy rates. It did not spread to Senegal, Ghana, Nigeria, or any other country with literacy rates over 40%.
An ebola outbreak can be stopped dead in its tracks with soap and hand sanitizer.
I support medical research, but poor countries mostly need education and better public health measures.
Clean water makes a huge difference. But electricity makes a huge difference too. Electric cooking and lighting removes soot from indoor air, relieving respiratory problems, allows students to read and study later, and saves money that people otherwise spent on fuel. Electric pumps make the clean water easier to achieve.
Decentralized electricity based on solar panels is making a big difference in poor countries.
Did you seriously just claim we have "rising wages" and "better living standards"?
NO, I did NOT say that. What I said was we had rising wages and living standards while jobs were being automated.
Automation leads to higher productivity, making labor more valuable, and thus leads to higher wages.
They've been stagnant for a long time.
They have indeed, and this is due to stagnant productivity growth. The problem is not automation, but a lack of automation. Manufacturing and agriculture jobs were easy to automate back in the 20th century, but those days are over, and modern service jobs are proving much harder to make more productive.
If TFA is correct, and the pace of automation improves, then we should see wages start rising again.
The best business reason to limit hours is so the crew has enough in the tank to handle a real emergency.
There is no "real emergency" when you making games.
If 40 hour weeks made people more productive, game companies would have figured that out decades ago. The industry is dominated by companies that demand 60-80 hour work weeks because that is the sweet spot for peak profit.
That means you can't be in constant emergency mode.
EA has been in business for 37 years. No problem so far.
Some more recent examples: Telephone switching equipment put hundreds of thousands of switchboard operators out of work. ATMs put thousands of tellers out of work (although overall bank employment went up). Typesetters are gone. "Secretary" is mostly a job that no longer exists. Same for "filing clerk".
Yet somehow, despite all these jobs disappearing, we have a full employment economy, and our economy has grown 500% since 1960.
30% of workers change jobs annually, and many of them switch to different occupations. Absorbing 25% job changes over a decade or so is something we have done many times before, with strong economic growth, rising wages, and better living standards.
Verilog is Turing-complete and can do anything any other programming language can do. The difference is that it doesn't do stuff in sequence. It all happens at the same time.
Whereas Verilog is a hardware description language.
Verilog can be run on a CPU just like any other language. That is usually how it is initially debugged and tested. Even when deployed, most Verilog programs run on FPGAs, not custom hardware.
The inherent parallelism requires a different mindset. Many programmers have a hard time with that, or even with GPGPU programming in C, or writing shader pipelines. Ascending the learning curve is going to take more than 24 hours. It is a lot more than new syntax.
If you have a decade of experience, it usually only takes about 24 hours to learn a new language well enough to get shit done in it.
That is only if the new language is a "normal" computer language that consists of statements executed sequentially, with loops and branches, and the only new thing is a change in syntax.
If the new language, such as Prolog or Verilog, doesn't fit that paradigm, many programmers will struggle, and the "years of experience" can actually be a detriment. Some will never "get it".
The market was doing pretty damn well in the first quarter of 2000
Indeed. NASDAQ peaked on March 10th, 2000.
In reality, the actual Y2K computing event didn't have much of an impact, and was pretty much forgotten about 72 hours after midnight.
Y2K was mostly a non-problem. Some companies expended a lot of effort, and avoided problems. Other companies did absolutely nothing, and they didn't have any problems either.
The story was, that to save memory, programmers would store the year in two bytes instead of four. But this was mostly nonsense. In the olden days programmers would store the year in ONE binary byte, and add it to 1900. So the real crash will happen on January 1st, 2156.
Jigger? Could I get that converted into Football fields please?
I have always used the term informally to mean more than a spoonful but less than a cup. But according to Google, "jigger" actually has a precise definition of 1.5 fluid ounces, or 44.36 ml. It is mostly used when mixing alcoholic drinks, and the device for measuring out precisely one jigger is also called a "jigger".
A "football field" is an area, not a volume, so no conversion is possible. But the Rose Bowl has a volume of 20,000,000 cubic feet, which is 12,766,753,247 jiggers.
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"Nuclear is ideal for dealing with climate change, because it is the only carbon-free, scalable energy source that's available 24 hours a day,"
Geothermal would also meet this criteria.
Only the courts, or congress can break up a company.
No, only the courts can break up a company. Congress has no authority to do that, and it is specially banned from doing so in Article I, Section 9, paragraph 3 of the Constitution which prohibits any bill of attainder.
Also, "breaking up a company" can only be done if a company is declared a monopoly. There is no legal basis for using a breakup as punishment for leaking data or any other crime.
Answer: Yes.
If you still have humans in the loop, decisions will be delayed when seconds count, and the biggest mistakes will happen when the controllers are exhausted and confused.
The worst aircraft accident in history was the 1977 Tenerife airport disaster in the Canary Islands. 583 people died in a cascade of errors, miscommunication, and poor judgement calls, as exhausted controllers dealt with heavy fog, delayed flights, and frustrated pilots.
One pilot thought he had clearance to takeoff on a runway that another plane was given clearance to cross. Automated cameras would have detected this problem, and could have automatically ordered the planes to stop. This wouldn't even need AI. Just a dumb algorithm would have saved hundreds of lives.
This outbreak is happening in liberal suburbs of Portland.
Anti-vaxxers do not follow the normal pattern of political polarization. Instead, it is common among extremists in either direction. Left-wing anti-vaxxers believe vaccinations are a corporate conspiracy. Right-wing anti-vaxxers believe vaccinations are a government conspiracy. Moderates on both sides vaccinate their kids.
the 10's of thousands of medical unknowns flowing across our open southern border and it is no wonder measles, tb and such are making a real come back
Measles vaccination rate in America: 92%
Measles vaccination rate in Mexico: 96%
Measles vaccination rates by country
Also, you may want to look at a map. Clark County, Washington is a long way from the southern border.
Clark County is a prosperous suburb of Portland, and not many poor Mexicans can afford to live there. It is only 4% Hispanic, and they are not causing this problem.
30 cases in 26 days in a State of 7.4 million people is a state of emergency?
Exactly. It would make so much more sense to wait, and let the situation spiral out of control before acting.
Intelligence is heritable, so if they are anti-vaxxers or their direct descendants, we may want to give them an IQ test before we treat them. It may be better to let natural selection run its course. We'll all be better off in the long run.
Clark County is directly across the Columbia River from Portland, so we may be able to purge the entire metro area of idiots.
He is probably a great ambassador
Great ambassadors know when to STFU.
but these diplomats when the spotlight suddenly shines on them sometimes have no idea what to do.
It is very simple: Don't comment on ongoing judicial proceedings.
Canada has repeatedly explained that they have an independent judiciary, outside of political influence and control. The ambassador's verbal diarrhea undermines Chinese perception of that independence.
The first thing that is cheaped out on is good IT support. Hire the best IT guys.
If you don't know anything about IT, then how do you know who is "best"?
Stop passing the buck, if you paid them then your company shares the blame.
Many individuals paid points on their loan. So by your logic, it is their own fault their data was leaked, since they paid for it.
Publicly traded companies are required, by law no less, to seek ever greater and greater revenue.
This is a myth. Public companies have no legal obligation to maximize profits.
Photography is protected by the first amendment as affirmed by federal courts.
Photography in public, where there is no expectation of privacy, for noncommercial purposes is protected. Most people would not consider a fingerprint scanner to be collecting public information.
The collection of facial biometrics can be defended based on that.
Quite likely. But they didn't scan the kid's face. They scanned his fingerprints. Most people would consider that a greater impingement on privacy.
Furthermore, the collection of fingerprints can be argued to be a form of photography.
Maybe. But that is the point of this ruling: they have to make that argument in court. They can't just have the case dismissed with a lack of standing argument. The court didn't say the plaintiff win, just that the case can proceed.
Six Flags may also argue that they didn't store the fingerprint, but only a hash. Since there are many ways to generate a hash, and not every hash is unique, they could argue a hash is not "personally identifying information". Not sure if the court would agree.
The 10th Amendment says exactly that the States can do this.
The 10th Amendment is routinely ignored by justices on both the left and right.
If the 10th Amendment were interpreted literally, most of the federal government would have to be dismantled.
AFAIK Ebola didn't care much how much money you had in the countries it hit.
Yes it does. Ebola hits the poor much harder. Rich people are generally literate, understand the germ theory of disease, have cell phones, and own soap. They quickly learn how the disease spreads, and then wash their hands so they don't get it. It took much longer to convince the poor to practice basic sanitation.
The 2014 outbreak started in the Guinea highlands, and spread to Liberia and Sierra Leone, which all have very low literacy rates. It did not spread to Senegal, Ghana, Nigeria, or any other country with literacy rates over 40%.
Ebola thrives on poverty and ignorance.
An ebola outbreak can be stopped dead in its tracks with soap and hand sanitizer.
I support medical research, but poor countries mostly need education and better public health measures.
Clean water makes a huge difference. But electricity makes a huge difference too. Electric cooking and lighting removes soot from indoor air, relieving respiratory problems, allows students to read and study later, and saves money that people otherwise spent on fuel. Electric pumps make the clean water easier to achieve.
Decentralized electricity based on solar panels is making a big difference in poor countries.
Working hours: 50+ hours a week in white-collar jobs is now the norm.
Back in 1942, people worked even longer hours.
Did you seriously just claim we have "rising wages" and "better living standards"?
NO, I did NOT say that. What I said was we had rising wages and living standards while jobs were being automated.
Automation leads to higher productivity, making labor more valuable, and thus leads to higher wages.
They've been stagnant for a long time.
They have indeed, and this is due to stagnant productivity growth. The problem is not automation, but a lack of automation. Manufacturing and agriculture jobs were easy to automate back in the 20th century, but those days are over, and modern service jobs are proving much harder to make more productive.
If TFA is correct, and the pace of automation improves, then we should see wages start rising again.
The best business reason to limit hours is so the crew has enough in the tank to handle a real emergency.
There is no "real emergency" when you making games.
If 40 hour weeks made people more productive, game companies would have figured that out decades ago. The industry is dominated by companies that demand 60-80 hour work weeks because that is the sweet spot for peak profit.
That means you can't be in constant emergency mode.
EA has been in business for 37 years. No problem so far.
Some more recent examples: Telephone switching equipment put hundreds of thousands of switchboard operators out of work. ATMs put thousands of tellers out of work (although overall bank employment went up). Typesetters are gone. "Secretary" is mostly a job that no longer exists. Same for "filing clerk".
Yet somehow, despite all these jobs disappearing, we have a full employment economy, and our economy has grown 500% since 1960.
30% of workers change jobs annually, and many of them switch to different occupations. Absorbing 25% job changes over a decade or so is something we have done many times before, with strong economic growth, rising wages, and better living standards.
Verilog isn't even a programming language though.
Verilog is Turing-complete and can do anything any other programming language can do. The difference is that it doesn't do stuff in sequence. It all happens at the same time.
Whereas Verilog is a hardware description language.
Verilog can be run on a CPU just like any other language. That is usually how it is initially debugged and tested. Even when deployed, most Verilog programs run on FPGAs, not custom hardware.
The inherent parallelism requires a different mindset. Many programmers have a hard time with that, or even with GPGPU programming in C, or writing shader pipelines. Ascending the learning curve is going to take more than 24 hours. It is a lot more than new syntax.
Long work weeks make developers exhausted. Exhausted workers make mistakes.
Sure, but that doesn't kick in at 40 hours. You can easily squeeze 60-80 hours of work out of young developers before you hit the inflection point.
If they want a family and a social life, then what the heck are they doing in the game dev business?
If they keep whining, their jobs are going to India.
The demand for big data is yet another bubble.
In 1999, the demand for CS grads was from unprofitable VC funded startups. Most were bound to fail.
The current demand for data wranglers is mostly from big obscenely profitable multinational corporations. They aren't going away.
If you have a decade of experience, it usually only takes about 24 hours to learn a new language well enough to get shit done in it.
That is only if the new language is a "normal" computer language that consists of statements executed sequentially, with loops and branches, and the only new thing is a change in syntax.
If the new language, such as Prolog or Verilog, doesn't fit that paradigm, many programmers will struggle, and the "years of experience" can actually be a detriment. Some will never "get it".
The market was doing pretty damn well in the first quarter of 2000
Indeed. NASDAQ peaked on March 10th, 2000.
In reality, the actual Y2K computing event didn't have much of an impact, and was pretty much forgotten about 72 hours after midnight.
Y2K was mostly a non-problem. Some companies expended a lot of effort, and avoided problems. Other companies did absolutely nothing, and they didn't have any problems either.
The story was, that to save memory, programmers would store the year in two bytes instead of four. But this was mostly nonsense. In the olden days programmers would store the year in ONE binary byte, and add it to 1900. So the real crash will happen on January 1st, 2156.
Jigger? Could I get that converted into Football fields please?
I have always used the term informally to mean more than a spoonful but less than a cup. But according to Google, "jigger" actually has a precise definition of 1.5 fluid ounces, or 44.36 ml. It is mostly used when mixing alcoholic drinks, and the device for measuring out precisely one jigger is also called a "jigger".
A "football field" is an area, not a volume, so no conversion is possible. But the Rose Bowl has a volume of 20,000,000 cubic feet, which is 12,766,753,247 jiggers.