So you want the arbitrary metrics they used to be a different kind of arbitrary?
That is not what he said. He said they should report things like income in addition to IQ. My dope head friends don't really seem to be particularly stupid, but they sure seem to be apathetic and lacking in ambition. So it would be interesting if that was measured and quantified along with IQ.
The age of majority in the USA is 18. Yes, it is. I don't know where you got your 16 from.
The subjects of the test had already been smoking pot for at least 10 years. So they are likely in their mid to late 20s. They are full adults, and can make their own decisions about what studies to participate in.
Hypocrites. Amnesty International workers and members who use an Apple, Samsung or Sony phone or laptop are just as "guilty" as Apple, Samsung or Sony.
Baloney. Just because I use a company's products, that does not mean I approve of every aspect of their behavior, nor does it mean I forfeit my right to criticize them.
I don't necessarily agree with what Amnesty International is saying, but they certainly have a right to say it, regardless of what cellphones they use.
The US is closer to communism than China. In China, if you lose your job - no unemployment. Have no income - no welfare. No food - no food stamps. No housing - no section 8. We "give stuff" to our residents much more than China...
Yup, but it is even worse than that. In China, the urban poor are not even allowed to use public hospitals, or send their children to public schools. Those facilities are reserved for the mostly richer citizens with urban hukous.
Norway and Sweden are closer to true communism than China,Cuba or russia(was).
Both Norway and Sweden ditched command economic mode in favor of regulated capitalism.
Using Norway and Sweden as role models is not realistic. They are sparsely populated, ethnically homogeneous countries with a strong work ethic and plenty of natural resources. It is ridiculous to think we can take their model and apply it to, say, Detroit. We know that will not work because Scandinavian-style socialism is exactly what caused Detroit's problems.
Well regulated capitalism means strong anti-trust laws to encourage competition, and strong environmental and safety laws so no company can "cheat" by dumping waste in a river.
"European socialism" means governments "picking winners" and taking ownership stakes in industries. This leads to inefficient companies, inflexible labor markets, and high structural unemployment. Some examples of this are France, Italy, and Greece. Germany is more capitalist, and Britain even more so.
Bernie wants to make America more like France, with small private businesses but government ownership and control of heavy industry and big businesses. He will not be getting my vote.
the planet and in extension the universe is better off without human.
The problem is that humans compete with other life forms for food, light, warmth, moisture, etc. But computers need none of those things, and do best in a cool, dry, dark environment. So we should migrate our consciousnesses to silicon. AI is not the problem, it is the solution.
Tour rates will be different than "air taxi" rates in any event; they are regulated quite differently.
Exactly. Helicopters are not inherently expensive. They are expensive because of administrative/regulatory overhead and the lack of a transparent and competitive market.
WIth a few minutes of searching, I could not find any advertised rates for helicopter air taxi rates in the Bay area.
Of course not. There is no "air taxi" market. You call the helicopter company, then the next day their sales dept calls you back. They they fax you some forms. A few days after that you get a quote for $8000/hr, for a helicopter ride next month.
Meanwhile, the heli-tour in Hawaii is charging $150/seat with a five minute transaction time.
It was never a secret. Anybody that cares has long known that America runs drone ops out of Djibouti. We also have an artillery range there. When I was a Marine, we made a training stop in Djibouti. The people there were very friendly and very pro-American, which surprised me since I had never before met any friendly pro-American French speakers.
The cost of helicopters is related to things like fuel, landing pads, helicopters being very high-precision things, and the fact that being a helicopter pilot is *hard*.
I don't believe that. I rode on a helicopter over the Mauna Loa caldera. Each group flew with minimal admin overhead. There was another helicopter tour company across the street, and yet another next door, so there was plenty of competition. I paid $150 for a one hour tour. That is a tiny fraction of a typical per-person booking fee for a helicopter in the SF Bay Area (where I live). The difference was low overhead and competition.
And yet, in fields dominated by women (education, childcare, nursing, human resources) we see practically zero push for diversity in order to hire more men.
Actually, there is a push to get more men involved in early education. Boys, and especially black boys, tend to do significantly better if their teachers are male, and girls do no worse. Female teachers are four times as likely to refer boys to be medically evaluated for HDD. Males teachers are more likely to make the kid run some laps around the playground.
Its not like asteroids offer much material, only about 5% of an Earth-mass.
If converted to O'Neill Cylinders, the asteroids contain enough mass to create a several million times as much surface living space as an intact earth sized planet.
The surface of a planet is a terrible place for a civilization.
there's no general market for on-demand helicopter rides.
There is little demand at current prices, but if an app can reduce the price by eliminating administrative overhead and increasing utilization, then prices could fall dramatically.
so you have to use electricity to generate it (like by hydrolysis of water)
Most hydrogen is made by steam reforming of NG, not by electrolysis. Although, if people are going to recharge at home, then electrolysis of water is most likely the way to go.
EVs work great, and only need cheaper batteries to be practical
HFCs work great, and only need better fuel tanks to be practical.
Maybe a trillion dollar industry can explore more than one option.
A Dyson Sphere is NOT a sphere with a continuous surface. It is a swarm of independently orbiting satellites. No special scrith-like materials are needed.
but you would need to mine 100 planets like mars in the time, kind of.
Nope. Just one is enough. To build a Dyson sphere at one AU (the distance of the earth from the sun), or about 150,000,000 km, the sphere would have an area of 4 * pi * r^2 = 9e23 m^2. The mass of Mars is 6.39 × 10^23 kg. So if you build the sphere with a mass of about 1 kg / meter squared, you could do it with just a little over one Mars sized planet.
I bet the guy who invented those fancy disposable plates had a week's worth of dishes waiting for him.
I had a sink full of dirty dishes when I came up with the idea of throwing them all out except for one plate, one fork, one cup. That way, the next time I ate I had to wash them, because there was nothing else to use. I never had a sink full of dirty dishes again. There would have been a problem if I had company over, but that never happened anyway.
Google will be paying some accident victim millions of dollars in the future. It is inevitable.
... which will be covered by their insurance company... the same insurance companies that are already paying millions to accident victims. The only thing that will change with SDCs, is that they will be paying a lot less.
SDCs don't need to be perfect. They just need to be better than human drivers. That is not a high bar.
While many lament the seeming lack of quality, in-depth journalism today, a Gawker article
Ok, stopped reading here.
In defense of Gawker: TFA doesn't say what the summary says it says. TFA explains why journalism is mostly garbage. It does NOT say, as the summary claims, that the problem is getting worse, and journalism was once better than it is today. Journalism has always been 90% crap (Sturgeon's Law). In decades past, journalists almost missed Watergate, and the Monica Lewinski scanal was first reported by tabloids. The mainstream media was too busy reporting on the millions of abused and murdered children by Satanic Ritual Abuse. Only years later, after many lives were ruined by false accusations, did it become clear that the actual number of SRA victims was zero. Crappy journalism is nothing new.
He is not asking what the acronym means. He is asking what it has to do with Stackoverflow. I have no idea. I use SO regularly, and have never seen race, gender, or sexual pref mentioned.
It is almost never the right way to do it. Specs change, or are incomplete, or don't even exist. So it is better to hack up something quick, make sure it is what the customer (or your boss) actually wanted, and then go back and do it "right". It is silly to waste time making code "perfect" when it most likely will be thrown out.
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So you want the arbitrary metrics they used to be a different kind of arbitrary?
That is not what he said. He said they should report things like income in addition to IQ. My dope head friends don't really seem to be particularly stupid, but they sure seem to be apathetic and lacking in ambition. So it would be interesting if that was measured and quantified along with IQ.
The age of majority in the USA is 18. Yes, it is. I don't know where you got your 16 from.
The subjects of the test had already been smoking pot for at least 10 years. So they are likely in their mid to late 20s. They are full adults, and can make their own decisions about what studies to participate in.
Hypocrites. Amnesty International workers and members who use an Apple, Samsung or Sony phone or laptop are just as "guilty" as Apple, Samsung or Sony.
Baloney. Just because I use a company's products, that does not mean I approve of every aspect of their behavior, nor does it mean I forfeit my right to criticize them.
I don't necessarily agree with what Amnesty International is saying, but they certainly have a right to say it, regardless of what cellphones they use.
Would not Tesla be the biggest offender.
No. Tesla sources cobalt from North American mines.
Are they not the biggest user of lithium batteries?
No. Several cellphone manufacturers use more lithium batteries than Tesla. Tesla is not even the biggest manufacturer of electric cars.
Good luck with that, never going to happen within several generations.
Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk think it will happen much sooner than that. However, for some reason, they see it as a bad thing.
The US is closer to communism than China. In China, if you lose your job - no unemployment. Have no income - no welfare. No food - no food stamps. No housing - no section 8. We "give stuff" to our residents much more than China...
Yup, but it is even worse than that. In China, the urban poor are not even allowed to use public hospitals, or send their children to public schools. Those facilities are reserved for the mostly richer citizens with urban hukous.
Norway and Sweden are closer to true communism than China,Cuba or russia(was).
Both Norway and Sweden ditched command economic mode in favor of regulated capitalism.
Using Norway and Sweden as role models is not realistic. They are sparsely populated, ethnically homogeneous countries with a strong work ethic and plenty of natural resources. It is ridiculous to think we can take their model and apply it to, say, Detroit. We know that will not work because Scandinavian-style socialism is exactly what caused Detroit's problems.
European socialism ... well-regulated capitalism
Can you explain the difference please ?
Well regulated capitalism means strong anti-trust laws to encourage competition, and strong environmental and safety laws so no company can "cheat" by dumping waste in a river.
"European socialism" means governments "picking winners" and taking ownership stakes in industries. This leads to inefficient companies, inflexible labor markets, and high structural unemployment. Some examples of this are France, Italy, and Greece. Germany is more capitalist, and Britain even more so.
Bernie wants to make America more like France, with small private businesses but government ownership and control of heavy industry and big businesses. He will not be getting my vote.
the planet and in extension the universe is better off without human.
The problem is that humans compete with other life forms for food, light, warmth, moisture, etc. But computers need none of those things, and do best in a cool, dry, dark environment. So we should migrate our consciousnesses to silicon. AI is not the problem, it is the solution.
Tour rates will be different than "air taxi" rates in any event; they are regulated quite differently.
Exactly. Helicopters are not inherently expensive. They are expensive because of administrative/regulatory overhead and the lack of a transparent and competitive market.
WIth a few minutes of searching, I could not find any advertised rates for helicopter air taxi rates in the Bay area.
Of course not. There is no "air taxi" market. You call the helicopter company, then the next day their sales dept calls you back. They they fax you some forms. A few days after that you get a quote for $8000/hr, for a helicopter ride next month.
Meanwhile, the heli-tour in Hawaii is charging $150/seat with a five minute transaction time.
So much for the secret base
It was never a secret. Anybody that cares has long known that America runs drone ops out of Djibouti. We also have an artillery range there. When I was a Marine, we made a training stop in Djibouti. The people there were very friendly and very pro-American, which surprised me since I had never before met any friendly pro-American French speakers.
The cost of helicopters is related to things like fuel, landing pads, helicopters being very high-precision things, and the fact that being a helicopter pilot is *hard*.
I don't believe that. I rode on a helicopter over the Mauna Loa caldera. Each group flew with minimal admin overhead. There was another helicopter tour company across the street, and yet another next door, so there was plenty of competition. I paid $150 for a one hour tour. That is a tiny fraction of a typical per-person booking fee for a helicopter in the SF Bay Area (where I live). The difference was low overhead and competition.
And yet, in fields dominated by women (education, childcare, nursing, human resources) we see practically zero push for diversity in order to hire more men.
Actually, there is a push to get more men involved in early education. Boys, and especially black boys, tend to do significantly better if their teachers are male, and girls do no worse. Female teachers are four times as likely to refer boys to be medically evaluated for HDD. Males teachers are more likely to make the kid run some laps around the playground.
Its not like asteroids offer much material, only about 5% of an Earth-mass.
If converted to O'Neill Cylinders, the asteroids contain enough mass to create a several million times as much surface living space as an intact earth sized planet.
The surface of a planet is a terrible place for a civilization.
there's no general market for on-demand helicopter rides.
There is little demand at current prices, but if an app can reduce the price by eliminating administrative overhead and increasing utilization, then prices could fall dramatically.
so you have to use electricity to generate it (like by hydrolysis of water)
Most hydrogen is made by steam reforming of NG, not by electrolysis. Although, if people are going to recharge at home, then electrolysis of water is most likely the way to go.
EVs work great, and only need cheaper batteries to be practical
HFCs work great, and only need better fuel tanks to be practical.
Maybe a trillion dollar industry can explore more than one option.
I see you've reinvented scrith.
A Dyson Sphere is NOT a sphere with a continuous surface. It is a swarm of independently orbiting satellites. No special scrith-like materials are needed.
but you would need to mine 100 planets like mars in the time, kind of.
Nope. Just one is enough. To build a Dyson sphere at one AU (the distance of the earth from the sun), or about 150,000,000 km, the sphere would have an area of 4 * pi * r^2 = 9e23 m^2. The mass of Mars is 6.39 × 10^23 kg. So if you build the sphere with a mass of about 1 kg / meter squared, you could do it with just a little over one Mars sized planet.
If a viewing tax restricts the footage from being released, then cameras are worthless except to protect the innocent law enforcement officers.
The video would also be very useful to a falsely accused defendant, who would be able to subpoena relevant video without paying a fee.
So to summarize, these people benefit from body cams:
1. Innocent police officiers
2. Innocent defendants
3. Crime victims
These people are worse off:
1. Guilty criminals
2. Crooked cops
I bet the guy who invented those fancy disposable plates had a week's worth of dishes waiting for him.
I had a sink full of dirty dishes when I came up with the idea of throwing them all out except for one plate, one fork, one cup. That way, the next time I ate I had to wash them, because there was nothing else to use. I never had a sink full of dirty dishes again. There would have been a problem if I had company over, but that never happened anyway.
Airbus killed 20-30 people
So software killed a few dozen. Pilot error has killed thousands.
Google will be paying some accident victim millions of dollars in the future. It is inevitable.
... which will be covered by their insurance company ... the same insurance companies that are already paying millions to accident victims. The only thing that will change with SDCs, is that they will be paying a lot less.
SDCs don't need to be perfect. They just need to be better than human drivers. That is not a high bar.
While many lament the seeming lack of quality, in-depth journalism today, a Gawker article
Ok, stopped reading here.
In defense of Gawker: TFA doesn't say what the summary says it says. TFA explains why journalism is mostly garbage. It does NOT say, as the summary claims, that the problem is getting worse, and journalism was once better than it is today. Journalism has always been 90% crap (Sturgeon's Law). In decades past, journalists almost missed Watergate, and the Monica Lewinski scanal was first reported by tabloids. The mainstream media was too busy reporting on the millions of abused and murdered children by Satanic Ritual Abuse. Only years later, after many lives were ruined by false accusations, did it become clear that the actual number of SRA victims was zero. Crappy journalism is nothing new.
Social Justice Warrior
He is not asking what the acronym means. He is asking what it has to do with Stackoverflow. I have no idea. I use SO regularly, and have never seen race, gender, or sexual pref mentioned.
What you suggest is the right way to do it
It is almost never the right way to do it. Specs change, or are incomplete, or don't even exist. So it is better to hack up something quick, make sure it is what the customer (or your boss) actually wanted, and then go back and do it "right". It is silly to waste time making code "perfect" when it most likely will be thrown out.