meanwhile the rest of us want timely service, properly cooked food, correct change...can't wait for robots to have the jobs.
This has mostly been not true. Semi-automated restaurants have been tried many times. They tried phones at every table, so you can call your order in directly to the kitchen. Then they tried touch pads at every table. In general, these have not been popular. When they go out to eat, people want human interaction. Otherwise, they would just microwave something at home.
The bad thing about this is that apple is allowed to invest its money abroad while evading taxes in the first place.
They are not "evading" taxes. What they are doing is perfectly legal. What is idiotic is that the US government thinks it should have the right to tax income made by selling products manufactured in China to Chinese consumers. No other country on earth tries to collect taxes on extraterritorial transactions. America needs to fix its tax laws.
Yes, we should thank Amazon for allowing workers to sleep in tents.
Once an employee leaves Amazon's premises it is none of Amazon's damn business what they do or don't do. They have no right to "allow" or "prohibit" their employees from using, or not using, any sleeping arrangement.
Disclaimer: When I first moved to Silicon Valley, I lived in a van for two years.
Fusion produces less waste than fission, and it is shorter lived. But it doesn't help with the political problems. The Greenies and NIMBYs are going to oppose fusion just like they oppose fission.
If he's been working double the recommended hours a week, like an Uber driver,...
For most Uber drivers, driving is not their main job. They do it part time for 3-4 hours per day to earn extra money. Taxi drivers are under greater pressure to work more hours because many of them went deep in debt to buy their medallion, or took out loans using the medallion as collateral back when medallions were worth far more than they are today.
The thing is that, in the U.S., there are vast swaths of the country where there is no taxi service
There are far more places without Uber and Lyft. Even small cities have taxis. Uber and Lyft mostly serve cities of 100k or more. I am unaware of anyplace that has Uber or Lyft but does not have taxis.
False dilemma. Neither should be "protected". Both should be allowed to compete.
employs thousands of people
Many people use Uber regularly that rarely or never used taxis. So total employment goes up with Uber-like services.
rather then protect a single corrupt company
It is not a "single company". There is Uber, but also Lyft, and a few other smaller companies competing. There is little to stop additional companies from entering the market. I am mostly a Lyft user, but would be happy to switch to save $1 on a ride.
Can you provide a citation for evidence that the medallion racket made taxis safer?
If regulation wasn't required then it wouldn't be there.
So all regulations are obviously required? Do you really believe that there has never been an unnecessary regulation, imposed for, say, rent-seeking cronyism, rather than the public interest?
Would you eat at an unregulated restaurant if it meant you had a chance of getting food poisoning every time you ate there?
False analogy. We regulate restaurants because unregulated restaurants had a track record of making people sick. Health inspections of restaurants are designed to insure they are clean and healthy. The are NOT designed to restrict entry and limit competition. Comparing restaurant health inspections to the taxi medallion racket is absurd.
unlike corporations, the US holds private citizens liable for tax on foreign earnings
There is a $90k exemption before that kicks in. Also, any citizen can avoid the tax by incorporating, which can be done on-line in about 20 minutes for about $200.
Generally the corporations lobby, often with hard cash, for these laws that they've written.
Not in this case. There is pretty much universal agreement from business and economists that our current corporate tax laws are stupid and need to be reformed, especially the extraterritorial taxation that no other country does.
The problem is that many politician do not want to be seen as "giving in" to corporations, so they just keep the rates high, and then hand out plenty of loopholes to their donors.
Donald says he wants to fix this, but Donald says a lot of things.
most teachers still want hard copy versions of student work, because it is faster and easier to grade 30 assignments on paper than it is to do so on digital
This seems backwards to me. Digital docs can be automatically scanned for spelling, grammar errors, run-on sentences, and even poor paragraph structure. Then the human grader can just focus on the quality of the points being made.
"Price gouging" is just the free market at work. Movie rentals are far from a necessity, so if you don't want to pay what the market will bear, then don't rent it. Government intervention to prevent "price gouging" is only justified in emergency situations, such as the aftermath of natural disasters, and even then it often does more harm than good. Gasoline shortages after Hurricane Sandy lasted several days longer than necessary because government imposed price controls disincentivized fuel deliveries. Low prices don't help when the storage tank is empty.
Ok..well, the civility has broken down greatly over the past 20 years or so...
By every measurable criteria, the opposite has happened. Crime has gone down. Violent crime has gone down even more. Formerly marginalized groups are doing better.
That and parents not raising their kids to respect others over the past 30 years...
Can you point to any actual evidence that kids today are less respectful than they were in 1986?
Cut out the greedy RIAA pigs and give the money straight to the artist.
The RIAA represents the labels and distributors. There is no requirement for musicians to sign with a label, or to use a distributor. The are completely free to go-it-alone, and many do. However, many independent artists would leap at the change to sign with a label, since 10% of something is better than 100% of nothing.
It is common for creative people to assume that they create the only value that matters, and that marketing, promotion, and distribution are all worthless.
Actually, it is. Until the early 1990s, a "super computer" was a really fast computer. That is not true anymore. Today a "super-computer" is big array of commodity CPUs and/or GPUs. You can rent these by the hour or minute from AWS or Google.
The current version of Watson runs on a cluster of 90 Power7 CPUs with 8 cores each, and a total of 16 TB of RAM.
The main reason that Apple is now allowing work to be published is recruitment. In the past, many of the best AI people refused to work for Apple because they couldn't publish their work. Excessive secrecy has a price.
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there's just too many people (as other than prostitutes and bodyguards
You might want to read up on the latest advances in sexbots and security robots.
meanwhile the rest of us want timely service, properly cooked food, correct change...can't wait for robots to have the jobs.
This has mostly been not true. Semi-automated restaurants have been tried many times. They tried phones at every table, so you can call your order in directly to the kitchen. Then they tried touch pads at every table. In general, these have not been popular. When they go out to eat, people want human interaction. Otherwise, they would just microwave something at home.
You're being sexist there. All jobs are women's jobs.
Not "sperm donor".
"And the second beast required all people small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand...."
An obvious way to avoid this end-of-days prophecy would be to put these barcodes on the left hand.
The bad thing about this is that apple is allowed to invest its money abroad while evading taxes in the first place.
They are not "evading" taxes. What they are doing is perfectly legal. What is idiotic is that the US government thinks it should have the right to tax income made by selling products manufactured in China to Chinese consumers. No other country on earth tries to collect taxes on extraterritorial transactions. America needs to fix its tax laws.
Yes, we should thank Amazon for allowing workers to sleep in tents.
Once an employee leaves Amazon's premises it is none of Amazon's damn business what they do or don't do. They have no right to "allow" or "prohibit" their employees from using, or not using, any sleeping arrangement.
Disclaimer: When I first moved to Silicon Valley, I lived in a van for two years.
it still produces lots of radioactive waste.
Fusion produces less waste than fission, and it is shorter lived. But it doesn't help with the political problems. The Greenies and NIMBYs are going to oppose fusion just like they oppose fission.
Pardon me but what the actual fuck is "mansplaining?"
lmgtfy
If he's been working double the recommended hours a week, like an Uber driver, ...
For most Uber drivers, driving is not their main job. They do it part time for 3-4 hours per day to earn extra money. Taxi drivers are under greater pressure to work more hours because many of them went deep in debt to buy their medallion, or took out loans using the medallion as collateral back when medallions were worth far more than they are today.
The thing is that, in the U.S., there are vast swaths of the country where there is no taxi service
There are far more places without Uber and Lyft. Even small cities have taxis. Uber and Lyft mostly serve cities of 100k or more. I am unaware of anyplace that has Uber or Lyft but does not have taxis.
I'd rather protect a corrupt industry
False dilemma. Neither should be "protected". Both should be allowed to compete.
employs thousands of people
Many people use Uber regularly that rarely or never used taxis. So total employment goes up with Uber-like services.
rather then protect a single corrupt company
It is not a "single company". There is Uber, but also Lyft, and a few other smaller companies competing. There is little to stop additional companies from entering the market. I am mostly a Lyft user, but would be happy to switch to save $1 on a ride.
cares about benefiting no one but themselves.
How is that any different from any other company?
And unregulated taxis weren't safe
Can you provide a citation for evidence that the medallion racket made taxis safer?
If regulation wasn't required then it wouldn't be there.
So all regulations are obviously required? Do you really believe that there has never been an unnecessary regulation, imposed for, say, rent-seeking cronyism, rather than the public interest?
Would you eat at an unregulated restaurant if it meant you had a chance of getting food poisoning every time you ate there?
False analogy. We regulate restaurants because unregulated restaurants had a track record of making people sick. Health inspections of restaurants are designed to insure they are clean and healthy. The are NOT designed to restrict entry and limit competition. Comparing restaurant health inspections to the taxi medallion racket is absurd.
unlike corporations, the US holds private citizens liable for tax on foreign earnings
There is a $90k exemption before that kicks in. Also, any citizen can avoid the tax by incorporating, which can be done on-line in about 20 minutes for about $200.
Generally the corporations lobby, often with hard cash, for these laws that they've written.
Not in this case. There is pretty much universal agreement from business and economists that our current corporate tax laws are stupid and need to be reformed, especially the extraterritorial taxation that no other country does.
The problem is that many politician do not want to be seen as "giving in" to corporations, so they just keep the rates high, and then hand out plenty of loopholes to their donors.
Donald says he wants to fix this, but Donald says a lot of things.
How much have we "effectively paid" oil, pharma, and defense contractors?
Also my grandmother. She bought a lot of government bonds during WW2, so she was also "stealing" from taxpayers.
most teachers still want hard copy versions of student work, because it is faster and easier to grade 30 assignments on paper than it is to do so on digital
This seems backwards to me. Digital docs can be automatically scanned for spelling, grammar errors, run-on sentences, and even poor paragraph structure. Then the human grader can just focus on the quality of the points being made.
I didn't know people printed from phones/tablets. I'm a 1980s guy.
Me too. So I asked my millennial daughter if she uses a printer from her phone, and she said "What's a ``printer``?"
There is a word for such behavior: Price Gouging.
"Price gouging" is just the free market at work. Movie rentals are far from a necessity, so if you don't want to pay what the market will bear, then don't rent it. Government intervention to prevent "price gouging" is only justified in emergency situations, such as the aftermath of natural disasters, and even then it often does more harm than good. Gasoline shortages after Hurricane Sandy lasted several days longer than necessary because government imposed price controls disincentivized fuel deliveries. Low prices don't help when the storage tank is empty.
Having 35 websites for gaming info is not going to make a more inclusive or civil society either.
Why not?
Ok..well, the civility has broken down greatly over the past 20 years or so...
By every measurable criteria, the opposite has happened. Crime has gone down. Violent crime has gone down even more. Formerly marginalized groups are doing better.
That and parents not raising their kids to respect others over the past 30 years...
Can you point to any actual evidence that kids today are less respectful than they were in 1986?
Bitcoin, lacking government interference, seems to be a bit less stable than the government controlled currencies.
Bitcoin is far more thinly traded. If the Bitcoin market expands, it will become less volatile.
Cut out the greedy RIAA pigs and give the money straight to the artist.
The RIAA represents the labels and distributors. There is no requirement for musicians to sign with a label, or to use a distributor. The are completely free to go-it-alone, and many do. However, many independent artists would leap at the change to sign with a label, since 10% of something is better than 100% of nothing.
It is common for creative people to assume that they create the only value that matters, and that marketing, promotion, and distribution are all worthless.
Poor A/C, it's not a super computer.
Actually, it is. Until the early 1990s, a "super computer" was a really fast computer. That is not true anymore. Today a "super-computer" is big array of commodity CPUs and/or GPUs. You can rent these by the hour or minute from AWS or Google.
The current version of Watson runs on a cluster of 90 Power7 CPUs with 8 cores each, and a total of 16 TB of RAM.
The main reason that Apple is now allowing work to be published is recruitment. In the past, many of the best AI people refused to work for Apple because they couldn't publish their work. Excessive secrecy has a price.