No. Smoking and obesity are higher in rural areas. But the majority are not smokers nor obese.
"open areas" to exercise in
If you live in the city, there are plenty of places to walk to, and even if you have a car, finding parking is a hassle. The bigger the city, the fewer fat people you see. In NYC, even the chefs are skinny. But if you live on a soybean farm in Iowa, anyplace you want to go is too far to walk. So you drive.
Robots should be taxed to cover the universal basic income for those whose jobs they are taking.
Clothes washing machines put millions of laundresses out of work, as well as the thousands of people that made washboards and wringers. These washing machines certainly need to be taxed.
My Roomba has a kill switch, but that didn't stop it from attacking me. It was vacuuming the living room, when I went outside to fetch the dog bowl, leaving the backdoor ajar so I could get back in. Just as I picked up the dog bowl, I heard a "thump... click". The robot had bumped the door, closing it, and locking me out of my house. I had to get a ladder from the shed and climb in through a 2nd floor window.
Yes, Staples created many jobs, but at the cost of many other jobs (probably more) at small stationery shops.
No. This is the "broken window fallacy". Unproductive work is not "good for the economy" and does not create jobs. Staples drove those other shops out of business because of greater efficiency and lower prices. But if the customers are now spending less on office supplies, then they are spending more on OTHER THINGS, and more people are employed producing those other goods and services. Those other jobs are diffused through the economy, so they are not visible, but they are still real jobs, and Staples customers are better off because they have those additional things.
Speaking of acceleration, I wonder how many brick and mortar businesses (and jobs) they've left in their wake...
Steel plows put a lot of farmers out of business. Automatic looms put a lot of weavers out of business. Backhoes put a lot of ditch diggers out of business. Progress happens.
I think most people would rather see 10,000 quality jobs added rather than 100,000 verging on slave labor jobs.
Unemployment is much higher among the unskilled, so those "quality" jobs would go unfilled since the unemployed are not qualified for them. Most households below the poverty line are not there because of low pay, but because of NO pay. 60% of poor households have no one in full time employment. Entry level jobs help these people, and get them onto the employment ladder where, with effort, they can move up.
Also, many of the 100k are "quality" jobs for engineers, programmers, etc., and all of them come with benefits (health care, vacation, parental leave, etc).
Has tearing the bill of rights to shreds been decreasing the number of terror attacks so far?
The data is too sparse to reach a conclusion. The number of attacks was near zero both before and after 9/11, and the operations you mentioned were not the only variable. We have better security, more public awareness, etc. Either way, terrorism isn't a significant risk, and our government should be diverting resources to finding solutions to far bigger risks, like obesity and dementia.
You can buy a used cassette player at a garage sale for like 25 cents. The seller will throw in a pile of cassettes for free. Those of us old enough to remember the 1970s look at cassettes as garbage to be disposed of. There is no rational reason to use them, and the only reasons listed in TFA are BS like being "tangible", as if having physical clutter in your life is a good thing. Also, stupid metrics like "up 140%" are meaningless without giving the base number, which TFA doesn't.
But they want to push without fixing the problems they already have.
If you want rapid progress, you have qualified people work on current problems, while other people work on anticipated future problems.
Have you ever watched six-year-olds play soccer? They all cluster around the ball, in a tight little group, with everyone 100% focused on just the immediate problem of kicking the ball. By the time they are eight, they understand that is not a winning strategy.
dude if you're worried about pictures you send getting flagged as child porn or snuff films, maybe it's you with the problem
You are assuming the pictures came from the sender. If these Microsoft employees get bonuses for finding kiddie porn, like Best Buy empolyees do, then that is a big incentive to plant evidence.
If you think that only the guilty need to fear a moral panic, you should read up on the Satanic Ritual Abuse panic that gripped American in the 1980s. Thousands of innocent people had their lives destroyed by false accusations. Many of these accusations were financially motivated by psychologists charging high fees to retrieve "repressed memories" of "victims", and politicians trying to advance their careers by "saving" children.
This situation is not quite the same as the EU targeting Google or Facebook. 1. VW clearly broke the law. 2. Their actions were illegal in both the US and the EU. 3. VW employs a lot of people in America, and has a big factory in Chattanooga, TN. When the EU goes after American tech companies it is for questionable infractions about some BS European censorship issue like "the right to be forgotten" or a random user expressing unpopular historical opinions, or maybe a photo of some chick wearing a burkini on a French beach. Americans care much less about what people wear, and even less about what they say.
LED bulbs over their lifespan are now far more cost effective than incandescent
You can now buy 60W replacement bulbs for about 50 cents. At that price, they pay for themselves in just a couple months of typical use, which is 1% of their lifespan.
By planting seeds and growing plants on a live fire training range they are potentially hiding unexploded ordinance.
Troops are very rarely sent into the impact areas of live fire ranges. During training, the only place I ever advanced over ground where explosive ordinance was fired was Twentynine Palms. I believe the Army does the same at Fort Irwin. Grass isn't going to grow in either of those locations.
In addition to concealing ordinance, the other problem with grass is brushfires that can trigger detonations. But if the ground is fertile, weeds are going to grow anyway, so I don't think these seeds are going to make much difference.
1. The import duties are not "stiff". They are only a few percent. 2. Apple is not "dodging" them. The import duties would still apply for any imported components if the final product is consumed domestically. But no duties would be paid if the final product is exported... but without the waiver, Apple would be entitled to a refund on those duties anyway, so the net result is just simplifying the paperwork.
Who's winning here? Looks to me like it isn't the American People.
A modest number of jobs will be created. Unnecessary bureaucratic overhead will be eliminated. How is that not a win?
What worries me is the charging. 300+ mile range is 100Kwh or so of power.
This is not about home chargers, in your garage. This is about charging on the road, during long trips. 100Kwh in 20 minutes is 300 Kw. At 220v, that is about 1400 amps. For an industrial connection, that is not unusual. A Tesla Supercharger delivers close to that amount of power, and there are often several of them co-located.
When you charge at home, you usually do it overnight, and are just topping up the 10-20% you may have used during your commute.
In 1913 the average income was about $15,000 and a car cost about $30,000
"Nothing has spread socialistic feeling in this country more than the use of automobiles. To the countryman they are a picture of arrogance of wealth with all its independence and carelessness." -- Woodrow Wilson
For this specific example (total loss of traction on 4 wheels) what makes you think self-driving car would do any better?
Because the SDC is more likely to be driving slower when road conditions are bad. Also the SDC can use vehicle-to-vehicle communication to learn about black ice 200 meters ahead.
Correct. So when the car encounters fog, it should slow down. Just like a human would. But Google cars also have radar, which can penetrate fog, so they can still do better than humans.
Also it needs to stop for every shopping bag blowing in the wind
The "plastic bag problem" was solved a couple years ago, using ANNs. The vision system can differentiate between a rock and a plastic bag as well as a human that is alert and paying attention, and do way better than humans yakking on their cellphones or yelling at the kids in the backseat.
This is likely the dumbest thing I will read today.
I have read something dumber: TFA. The headline and the very first sentence contradict each other. The headline says the jobs are going TO India. The first sentence says they are going to immigrants FROM India. Which is it? TFA is obviously biased smear journalism, but geez, at least the basic facts should be clearly stated.
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Locking yourself out is convenient?
I didn't lock myself out. The robot did it. Stop blaming the victim.
Most rural people smoke and are overweight.
No. Smoking and obesity are higher in rural areas. But the majority are not smokers nor obese.
"open areas" to exercise in
If you live in the city, there are plenty of places to walk to, and even if you have a car, finding parking is a hassle. The bigger the city, the fewer fat people you see. In NYC, even the chefs are skinny. But if you live on a soybean farm in Iowa, anyplace you want to go is too far to walk. So you drive.
No. Sex robots are not banned. You just have to pre-program them with a safeword.
Robots should be taxed to cover the universal basic income for those whose jobs they are taking.
Clothes washing machines put millions of laundresses out of work, as well as the thousands of people that made washboards and wringers. These washing machines certainly need to be taxed.
My Roomba has a kill switch, but that didn't stop it from attacking me. It was vacuuming the living room, when I went outside to fetch the dog bowl, leaving the backdoor ajar so I could get back in. Just as I picked up the dog bowl, I heard a "thump ... click". The robot had bumped the door, closing it, and locking me out of my house. I had to get a ladder from the shed and climb in through a 2nd floor window.
Lesson learned: Never turn your back on a robot.
Yes, Staples created many jobs, but at the cost of many other jobs (probably more) at small stationery shops.
No. This is the "broken window fallacy". Unproductive work is not "good for the economy" and does not create jobs. Staples drove those other shops out of business because of greater efficiency and lower prices. But if the customers are now spending less on office supplies, then they are spending more on OTHER THINGS, and more people are employed producing those other goods and services. Those other jobs are diffused through the economy, so they are not visible, but they are still real jobs, and Staples customers are better off because they have those additional things.
Speaking of acceleration, I wonder how many brick and mortar businesses (and jobs) they've left in their wake...
Steel plows put a lot of farmers out of business. Automatic looms put a lot of weavers out of business. Backhoes put a lot of ditch diggers out of business. Progress happens.
I think most people would rather see 10,000 quality jobs added rather than 100,000 verging on slave labor jobs.
Unemployment is much higher among the unskilled, so those "quality" jobs would go unfilled since the unemployed are not qualified for them. Most households below the poverty line are not there because of low pay, but because of NO pay. 60% of poor households have no one in full time employment. Entry level jobs help these people, and get them onto the employment ladder where, with effort, they can move up.
Also, many of the 100k are "quality" jobs for engineers, programmers, etc., and all of them come with benefits (health care, vacation, parental leave, etc).
Has tearing the bill of rights to shreds been decreasing the number of terror attacks so far?
The data is too sparse to reach a conclusion. The number of attacks was near zero both before and after 9/11, and the operations you mentioned were not the only variable. We have better security, more public awareness, etc. Either way, terrorism isn't a significant risk, and our government should be diverting resources to finding solutions to far bigger risks, like obesity and dementia.
Who has disposable income?
You can buy a used cassette player at a garage sale for like 25 cents. The seller will throw in a pile of cassettes for free. Those of us old enough to remember the 1970s look at cassettes as garbage to be disposed of. There is no rational reason to use them, and the only reasons listed in TFA are BS like being "tangible", as if having physical clutter in your life is a good thing. Also, stupid metrics like "up 140%" are meaningless without giving the base number, which TFA doesn't.
But they want to push without fixing the problems they already have.
If you want rapid progress, you have qualified people work on current problems, while other people work on anticipated future problems.
Have you ever watched six-year-olds play soccer? They all cluster around the ball, in a tight little group, with everyone 100% focused on just the immediate problem of kicking the ball. By the time they are eight, they understand that is not a winning strategy.
dude if you're worried about pictures you send getting flagged as child porn or snuff films, maybe it's you with the problem
You are assuming the pictures came from the sender. If these Microsoft employees get bonuses for finding kiddie porn, like Best Buy empolyees do, then that is a big incentive to plant evidence.
If you think that only the guilty need to fear a moral panic, you should read up on the Satanic Ritual Abuse panic that gripped American in the 1980s. Thousands of innocent people had their lives destroyed by false accusations. Many of these accusations were financially motivated by psychologists charging high fees to retrieve "repressed memories" of "victims", and politicians trying to advance their careers by "saving" children.
I think paying taxes would be more effective.
Because people benefit from B2 bombers more than from free bananas?
methane gas release in it's place resulting in acid rain that further destroys vegetation.
Acid rain does not come from methane. If you flunked high school chemistry, you probably should avoid discussing chemicals in a public form.
Steel has one other really important quality: It is cheap.
The world price for bulk mild steel is about 30 cents / kg.
Only allowed when the EU targets a USA company.
This situation is not quite the same as the EU targeting Google or Facebook.
1. VW clearly broke the law.
2. Their actions were illegal in both the US and the EU.
3. VW employs a lot of people in America, and has a big factory in Chattanooga, TN.
When the EU goes after American tech companies it is for questionable infractions about some BS European censorship issue like "the right to be forgotten" or a random user expressing unpopular historical opinions, or maybe a photo of some chick wearing a burkini on a French beach. Americans care much less about what people wear, and even less about what they say.
Also known as 2:1
No way. At 2:1 the screen would be too small to read. You obviously don't understand how ratios work.
LED bulbs over their lifespan are now far more cost effective than incandescent
You can now buy 60W replacement bulbs for about 50 cents. At that price, they pay for themselves in just a couple months of typical use, which is 1% of their lifespan.
By planting seeds and growing plants on a live fire training range they are potentially hiding unexploded ordinance.
Troops are very rarely sent into the impact areas of live fire ranges. During training, the only place I ever advanced over ground where explosive ordinance was fired was Twentynine Palms. I believe the Army does the same at Fort Irwin. Grass isn't going to grow in either of those locations.
In addition to concealing ordinance, the other problem with grass is brushfires that can trigger detonations. But if the ground is fertile, weeds are going to grow anyway, so I don't think these seeds are going to make much difference.
Apple legally dodges stiff import duty.
1. The import duties are not "stiff". They are only a few percent. ... but without the waiver, Apple would be entitled to a refund on those duties anyway, so the net result is just simplifying the paperwork.
2. Apple is not "dodging" them. The import duties would still apply for any imported components if the final product is consumed domestically. But no duties would be paid if the final product is exported
Who's winning here? Looks to me like it isn't the American People.
A modest number of jobs will be created. Unnecessary bureaucratic overhead will be eliminated. How is that not a win?
What worries me is the charging.
300+ mile range is 100Kwh or so of power.
This is not about home chargers, in your garage. This is about charging on the road, during long trips. 100Kwh in 20 minutes is 300 Kw. At 220v, that is about 1400 amps. For an industrial connection, that is not unusual. A Tesla Supercharger delivers close to that amount of power, and there are often several of them co-located.
When you charge at home, you usually do it overnight, and are just topping up the 10-20% you may have used during your commute.
In 1913 the average income was about $15,000 and a car cost about $30,000
"Nothing has spread socialistic feeling in this country more than the use of automobiles. To the countryman they are a picture of arrogance of wealth with all its independence and carelessness." -- Woodrow Wilson
For this specific example (total loss of traction on 4 wheels) what makes you think self-driving car would do any better?
Because the SDC is more likely to be driving slower when road conditions are bad. Also the SDC can use vehicle-to-vehicle communication to learn about black ice 200 meters ahead.
I've heard lidar is blinded by fog.
Correct. So when the car encounters fog, it should slow down. Just like a human would. But Google cars also have radar, which can penetrate fog, so they can still do better than humans.
Also it needs to stop for every shopping bag blowing in the wind
The "plastic bag problem" was solved a couple years ago, using ANNs. The vision system can differentiate between a rock and a plastic bag as well as a human that is alert and paying attention, and do way better than humans yakking on their cellphones or yelling at the kids in the backseat.
This is likely the dumbest thing I will read today.
I have read something dumber: TFA. The headline and the very first sentence contradict each other. The headline says the jobs are going TO India. The first sentence says they are going to immigrants FROM India. Which is it? TFA is obviously biased smear journalism, but geez, at least the basic facts should be clearly stated.