Because they are creating genetically modified human beings.
All humans are the result of genetic modification, usually as a result of a technique called "sex".
The issue of designer babies is a moral question, not a scientific one.
Moral decisions should be made by individuals, not governments. As long as the procedure is technically safe (and presumably it is, since it is already legal in Britain), then the government has no business telling individuals how and when they reproduce. Keep your laws off my body.
Not even 4 posts down and someone is defending the insane, thumb sucking, safe space needing, microagression fearing, losers that occupy campuses today.
Indeed. The issue is not whether some people will be offended (someone will be offended by almost anything), but whether we cave in to the whiners, and censor speech. At a public university, censorship of speech is unconstitutional. If the KKK wants to hold a rally on the campus quad, they absolutely should have the same right to do that as anyone else.
... making your existing phone obsolete for no reason whatsoever.
Except for weight, poor battery life, and lack of memory and features needed for new apps. Also, no one with an old phone is going to be able to hang out with the cool kids. New phones are being pushed by "providers", they are being pulled by consumers.
Yeah, it is a stupid article. People don't buy a new phone because some random part wore out. They buy a new phone because it is better, lighter, and more fashionable than their old phone. Phone manufacturers would be idiots to focus on longevity when that is not something that is important to most people, especially if they had to increase cost or decrease thinness.
The vehicle-covered to not covered duty cycle on a rural highway is pretty high.
The duty cycle on rooftops is a lot better, plus there are no trucks driving over them there. I could see looking for alternatives once all the rooftops are full, but they are less than 1% covered so far. Ségolène Royal has a long history of advocating crazy policies with little thought about how to pay for them.
Change it to a ranked, approval, or any of the numerous systems which are better than plurality.
Plenty of countries use, or have used, these alternatives to plurality voting. There is little evidence that they lead to better government. In fact, there is little evidence that better reflection of the will of the people leads to better government. If you want to really reform the system, we should get rid of voting based on geography. Of all the issues I care about, almost none of them are specifically tied to the state I live in. Rather than a senator representing the people of California, it would be better to have one senator representing all the nerds, another representing all the construction workers, and yet another representing all the medicare recipients, etc. Each voter can then pick whomever best represents their views and interests, regardless of where they live.
As long as you don't print the LEGO trademark on them, it is legal. But it is not possible, at least on a cheap 3D-printer. Legos are made in custom injection molds with 0.005mm precision. A 3D printer is not going to even get close to that. Making Lego Bricks.
Because the value of the dollar is rising. So if the price in Euros, Yuan, or Yen stays the same, then the sales price is going down in dollar terms.
But talking about marginal costs is silly, because most of Apple's expenses are fixed, not marginal. Software development and engineering are not marginal expenses (they don't vary with the number of items sold). Apple's manufacturing is done in Asia (where costs have fallen in dollar terms) but Apple's development is mostly done in America. Apple has been more reluctant than other tech companies to move development and engineering to Asia, because they are a neurotically secretive company, and they are worried about information leakage.
health is not something that can or should be traded on the free market.
America's healthcare system is about as far as you can get from a free market. Patients have no ability to compare prices, or even know what services cost when they are provided. If socialized medicine was the sole answer, America would have a wonderful healthcare system, because our government spends more on healthcare than any other country in the world, and is near the top in per-capita government medical spending as well. Our medical system is bloated, inefficient, and bureaucratic, and at 18% of GDP it is bigger than the entire economy of Canada. If our medical system became as efficient and effective as other developed countries, it would wipe out 10% of our economy, and eliminate the jobs of more than 7 million well paid people. There is a huge amount of inertia and resistance to change.
What makes this especially interesting, is the victory was not achieved with the sort of brute-force approach used by Deep Blue in chess. This used a deep neural net, and algorithms similar to how we believe that humans think. Last time I heard about this, they could consistently beat humans on a 9x9 board, and were working on 13x13. I was surprised to hear that can already win on a full sized 19x19 board. I thought that was still a few years away. This is amazing progress.
Your trades as an Etrade customer are not at all executed as "HFT" in any way that gives any meaning.
How do you think Etrade executes your transaction? Many of their trades are pooled and settled internally (you buy shares from another Etrade customer that is selling). But if they need to balance their pool by purchasing from the exchange, it almost certainly is done by HFT.
Okay, but can you provide evidence they were wrong about this?
Of course not. He cannot even provide a theoretical reason why faster transactions would lead to instability. Systems with hysteresis, or lag, tend to have less stability (ask any helicopter pilot). In theory, faster transactions should lead to more stability, and this is true in practice as well.
HFT is good for market stability, good for retail investors (far lower transaction costs), and, by making capital markets more efficient, good for the overall economy. The only losers are the old inefficient and expensive brokerages, which mostly no longer exist. Good riddance.
The faster the trading, the worse the swings will get.
The SEC's investigation into the 2010 Flash Crash, came to the exact opposite conclusion: that HFTs have a stabilizing influence on markets by providing liquidity. One of the reasons for the crash was that when prices moved outside of the expected range, many HFTers stopped trading, and the resulting drop in liquidity, and rise in spreads, caused some investors to panic.
"Normal traders" have NEVER had direct access to the exchange. In the old days, an investor would use a broker to execute the trade manually. Today, all of the trades are executed by HFT. There is no conflict between manual traders and HFT because there are no manual traders. The only difference to retail investors is that transactions prices today are far lower.
If someone is willing to ignore your NDA, then they're also willing to walk off with a copy of the code.
This is assuming the source code is actually worth something to someone else. Most companies have a wildly inflated idea of what their code would be worth to a competitor. In general, your competitors have no interest in seeing your crappy code, and are too busy with their own problems.
I once consulted for a company that decided to "open source" some of their code. There were objections that they were giving away their "crown jewels", but they went ahead and did it. A year later, they had this many downloads of the code: 0.
Because the technology (smart meters) for on-demand pricing is not yet widely available. Even when smart meters are available, many people opt-out of on-demand pricing.
My electric company installed a smart meter at my house last year. Since my wife has an electric car, we immediately opted-in for demand based pricing, and programmed the car to charge at 2am. We also have a smart switch on our AC compressor that will shut if off if power demand is peaking. I figure that we save about $30 / month, and the power company saves money as well.
If you don't sit on your ass in work, your boss will eventually rightfully fire you cause most jobs today are about sitting behind computer.
Use a standing desk. I use mine for about four hours per day.
If you don't eat those 3 meals, your will be tired and your productivity (and logic and focus etc) will drop
You don't want to eat fewer meals. You want to eat more meals. Try eating six much smaller meals spread out through the day. Since you are not as hungry, you will not overeat, and will eat just enough to satisfy yourself.
Exercises is fun and pleasant, but when it comes at the cost of not seeing kids at all that day...
Try exercising with your kids. Every weekday morning, my kids ride their bikes to school, and I ride with them.
No it isn't. My entire life, I have eaten whatever I want, whenever I want. I am skinny. Many others get fat while struggling to lose weight. Twin studies have shown that the genetic component of obesity is very high. Many ethnic groups (Polynesians, desert nomads, etc.) have a strong genetic propensity to store fat when sufficient food is available. Quit acting like you are morally superior just because you happen to have inherited the right genes.
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Has everything to do with Scientists ignoring Darwinism
You could make the same argument against smallpox vaccination. Or indoor plumbing.
Because they are creating genetically modified human beings.
All humans are the result of genetic modification, usually as a result of a technique called "sex".
The issue of designer babies is a moral question, not a scientific one.
Moral decisions should be made by individuals, not governments. As long as the procedure is technically safe (and presumably it is, since it is already legal in Britain), then the government has no business telling individuals how and when they reproduce. Keep your laws off my body.
Not even 4 posts down and someone is defending the insane, thumb sucking, safe space needing, microagression fearing, losers that occupy campuses today.
Indeed. The issue is not whether some people will be offended (someone will be offended by almost anything), but whether we cave in to the whiners, and censor speech. At a public university, censorship of speech is unconstitutional. If the KKK wants to hold a rally on the campus quad, they absolutely should have the same right to do that as anyone else.
have you looked at other communities on the internet lately?
Yes, I have. All of them had Unicode support at least a decade ago.
... making your existing phone obsolete for no reason whatsoever.
Except for weight, poor battery life, and lack of memory and features needed for new apps. Also, no one with an old phone is going to be able to hang out with the cool kids. New phones are being pushed by "providers", they are being pulled by consumers.
We get it, you're a hackaday shill.
Yeah, it is a stupid article. People don't buy a new phone because some random part wore out. They buy a new phone because it is better, lighter, and more fashionable than their old phone. Phone manufacturers would be idiots to focus on longevity when that is not something that is important to most people, especially if they had to increase cost or decrease thinness.
I was just going to say that we, here in LA, were going to try this on the 405, but it's always covered with cars.
Here in San Jose, we have solar panels over many parking lots. They generate electricity while providing shade for the cars.
The vehicle-covered to not covered duty cycle on a rural highway is pretty high.
The duty cycle on rooftops is a lot better, plus there are no trucks driving over them there. I could see looking for alternatives once all the rooftops are full, but they are less than 1% covered so far. Ségolène Royal has a long history of advocating crazy policies with little thought about how to pay for them.
Change it to a ranked, approval, or any of the numerous systems which are better than plurality.
Plenty of countries use, or have used, these alternatives to plurality voting. There is little evidence that they lead to better government. In fact, there is little evidence that better reflection of the will of the people leads to better government. If you want to really reform the system, we should get rid of voting based on geography. Of all the issues I care about, almost none of them are specifically tied to the state I live in. Rather than a senator representing the people of California, it would be better to have one senator representing all the nerds, another representing all the construction workers, and yet another representing all the medicare recipients, etc. Each voter can then pick whomever best represents their views and interests, regardless of where they live.
I wonder if this is even legal?
As long as you don't print the LEGO trademark on them, it is legal. But it is not possible, at least on a cheap 3D-printer. Legos are made in custom injection molds with 0.005mm precision. A 3D printer is not going to even get close to that. Making Lego Bricks.
There are legit concerns of google just swarming over the world and stomping over any existing carriers
Increased competition is not a "legit concern".
Communities should be able to choose how to evolve their infrastructure
Individuals should be able to choose what infrastructure they use. This is not a decision to be imposed by "communities".
people typically learn object recognition with far fewer examples than a computer requires using a deep learning approach.
Single Sample Face Recognition using Deep Learning Autoencoders.
IMHO deep learning is just the latest fad, popular with AI programmers who otherwise don't have a clue.
How many world class Go players have you defeated?
Arduino clones on eBay with a stepper motor shield and non-NEMA stepper motors shouldn't cost that much.
Broken printers can be scrounged for free. They contain lots of stepper motors, timing belts, cogs, shafts, etc.
Why would sale cost go down at all?
Because the value of the dollar is rising. So if the price in Euros, Yuan, or Yen stays the same, then the sales price is going down in dollar terms.
But talking about marginal costs is silly, because most of Apple's expenses are fixed, not marginal. Software development and engineering are not marginal expenses (they don't vary with the number of items sold). Apple's manufacturing is done in Asia (where costs have fallen in dollar terms) but Apple's development is mostly done in America. Apple has been more reluctant than other tech companies to move development and engineering to Asia, because they are a neurotically secretive company, and they are worried about information leakage.
This benefits the owner of the router how exactly?
In a competitive market, it would mean lower prices.
In a monopolistic market, it doesn't matter if the customer benefits, because the customer doesn't have any choice.
health is not something that can or should be traded on the free market.
America's healthcare system is about as far as you can get from a free market. Patients have no ability to compare prices, or even know what services cost when they are provided. If socialized medicine was the sole answer, America would have a wonderful healthcare system, because our government spends more on healthcare than any other country in the world, and is near the top in per-capita government medical spending as well. Our medical system is bloated, inefficient, and bureaucratic, and at 18% of GDP it is bigger than the entire economy of Canada. If our medical system became as efficient and effective as other developed countries, it would wipe out 10% of our economy, and eliminate the jobs of more than 7 million well paid people. There is a huge amount of inertia and resistance to change.
What makes this especially interesting, is the victory was not achieved with the sort of brute-force approach used by Deep Blue in chess. This used a deep neural net, and algorithms similar to how we believe that humans think. Last time I heard about this, they could consistently beat humans on a 9x9 board, and were working on 13x13. I was surprised to hear that can already win on a full sized 19x19 board. I thought that was still a few years away. This is amazing progress.
Your trades as an Etrade customer are not at all executed as "HFT" in any way that gives any meaning.
How do you think Etrade executes your transaction? Many of their trades are pooled and settled internally (you buy shares from another Etrade customer that is selling). But if they need to balance their pool by purchasing from the exchange, it almost certainly is done by HFT.
Okay, but can you provide evidence they were wrong about this?
Of course not. He cannot even provide a theoretical reason why faster transactions would lead to instability. Systems with hysteresis, or lag, tend to have less stability (ask any helicopter pilot). In theory, faster transactions should lead to more stability, and this is true in practice as well.
HFT is good for market stability, good for retail investors (far lower transaction costs), and, by making capital markets more efficient, good for the overall economy. The only losers are the old inefficient and expensive brokerages, which mostly no longer exist. Good riddance.
The faster the trading, the worse the swings will get.
The SEC's investigation into the 2010 Flash Crash, came to the exact opposite conclusion: that HFTs have a stabilizing influence on markets by providing liquidity. One of the reasons for the crash was that when prices moved outside of the expected range, many HFTers stopped trading, and the resulting drop in liquidity, and rise in spreads, caused some investors to panic.
"Normal traders" have NEVER had direct access to the exchange. In the old days, an investor would use a broker to execute the trade manually. Today, all of the trades are executed by HFT. There is no conflict between manual traders and HFT because there are no manual traders. The only difference to retail investors is that transactions prices today are far lower.
If someone is willing to ignore your NDA, then they're also willing to walk off with a copy of the code.
This is assuming the source code is actually worth something to someone else. Most companies have a wildly inflated idea of what their code would be worth to a competitor. In general, your competitors have no interest in seeing your crappy code, and are too busy with their own problems.
I once consulted for a company that decided to "open source" some of their code. There were objections that they were giving away their "crown jewels", but they went ahead and did it. A year later, they had this many downloads of the code: 0.
I wonder why they don't already do that?
Because the technology (smart meters) for on-demand pricing is not yet widely available. Even when smart meters are available, many people opt-out of on-demand pricing.
My electric company installed a smart meter at my house last year. Since my wife has an electric car, we immediately opted-in for demand based pricing, and programmed the car to charge at 2am. We also have a smart switch on our AC compressor that will shut if off if power demand is peaking. I figure that we save about $30 / month, and the power company saves money as well.
If you don't sit on your ass in work, your boss will eventually rightfully fire you cause most jobs today are about sitting behind computer.
Use a standing desk. I use mine for about four hours per day.
If you don't eat those 3 meals, your will be tired and your productivity (and logic and focus etc) will drop
You don't want to eat fewer meals. You want to eat more meals. Try eating six much smaller meals spread out through the day. Since you are not as hungry, you will not overeat, and will eat just enough to satisfy yourself.
Exercises is fun and pleasant, but when it comes at the cost of not seeing kids at all that day ...
Try exercising with your kids. Every weekday morning, my kids ride their bikes to school, and I ride with them.
It's incredible fucking simple.
No it isn't. My entire life, I have eaten whatever I want, whenever I want. I am skinny. Many others get fat while struggling to lose weight. Twin studies have shown that the genetic component of obesity is very high. Many ethnic groups (Polynesians, desert nomads, etc.) have a strong genetic propensity to store fat when sufficient food is available. Quit acting like you are morally superior just because you happen to have inherited the right genes.