I suspect that partially interactive and/or assistive technologies will be deployed first.
This has ALREADY HAPPENED. Tesla Autopilot is available to consumers, and does 80% of what you would expect a self-driving car to do. Here is a video of some idiot who climbed in the backseat while his Tesla was driving on a busy freeway.
Unlikely. It will almost certainly be less severe than if humans were driving. Humans typically take 1 second to 3.5 seconds to realize something is wrong, and transfer their foot from the accelerator to the brake. During that time, a car going 70mph will travel 100 feet or more... before it even starts to brake. A self-driving car can begin braking in 10 milliseconds. With humans, the cars will begin braking in sequence, one after another. This can result in a chain reaction pileup, with the most severe accidents happening far back in the pack. SDCs will all brake simultaneously, with those further back having plenty of time to stop.
Believe it or not, the engineers designing these things have actually thought about these issues, and done extensive testing. If 1 meter spacing wasn't safe, they wouldn't be doing it.
This won't solve all accidents, but it will certainly improve the situation.
Indeed. The naysayers seem to forget that self-driving cars already have millions of miles of testing. If they were accident-prone, the data would show that, and it does not. Driving in close formation, or "platooning" is well tested. I remember seeing test car platoons on I-5, north of San Diego, in the 1990s. TFA is mostly nonsense and conjecture. It says that a single non-autonomous car will "slow the system down considerably". I see no reason that would be true. A human driven car would just mean one car would have a normal gap, but that wouldn't slow down other cars. I have heard the opposite: That even a few autonomous cars can make a big difference in preventing congestion, since they have more information about traffic conditions ahead, and can react quicker, so they smooth out the "accordion effect" for themselves as wells as all the cars behind them.
Comparing self-driving cars to trains is idiotic. I can't take the train to the grocery store. A stream of self-driving cars may have half the bandwidth of a passing train, but not if you consider the gaps between trains, which are usually far more than the length of the train. A mile of passenger rail costs about $100M. A lane of asphalt costs about $1M per mile.
ISPs are like Banks in that they are the only companies which exist with the dichotomy of incredibly high customer dissatisfaction but incredibly low churn rate
You left out a few: Insurance companies Homeowners Associations HMOs
All of these organizations provide a basic service, that people expect to "just work", so the only time you think about them is when they screw up, or when you pay the bill.
The problem is the recent habit of giving them multiple tax breaks...
The tax breaks are not a "problem". They are a benefit. Bill Gate's foundation has saved hundreds of thousands of lives, and may save millions in the future. Worldwide deaths from malaria have been cut in half since he statrted working on the problem... and malaria is just one of many problems he is trying to fix. If instead, that money had gone to the government, the entire endowment would have funded two weeks of social security spending. These foundations are putting their money to far better use than the government would. They are doing the things that governments should be doing, but aren't.
I once saw a TV interview of the WWN staff. They were all British ex-pats living in Florida. Most of them were retired before they came up with the idea of starting an American tabloid that was even more outrageous than British tabloids. They were a hilarious group of people, who seemed to thoroughly enjoy working together.
You wait N years for them to independently come up with your same invention, achieve market penetration, and sustain profitability. Then you sue them for $700 trillion.
I don't know why this is moderated "funny". This is actually a big money maker for independent inventors. Jerome Lemelson used submarine patents and other legal tricks, to extort billions from companies that independently developed the same ideas.
and one of us will send it up the chain if it looks useful
Many corporations have policies that ban employees from looking at patents. If you look at the patent, you can later be found liable for intentional infringement. It is better to just ignore existing patents, and document your research, so you can latter show it was independently developed, and maybe invalidate the patent by claiming it was "obvious". If you really need to check existing patents, it is best to do it through a patent attorney who is not involved in R&D.
Many corporations will also refuse to talk to independent inventors. Most of their "inventions" are crap, and it just leaves the corporation open to a lawsuit if they do, or are already doing, something similar.
That summary sounds like something you'd read in The Onion.
That is where it belongs. Helium-3 is the dumbest, most impractical solution to our energy problems imaginable. Unicorn farts would be a more realistic power source. We don't actual have any helium-3, and even if we did, it is far harder to fuse, with far less energy out, than deuterium, and deuterium fusion still isn't anywhere near breakeven after 60 years of effort.
They were not heard, and that's what the Court ruled on.
The real problem is that they were not paid off. Some native groups were paid off to abstain from protesting, but not all of them. UHH should have invested more time and money upfront to keep the right people happy. Now they are going to have to deal with bruised egos, and it is going to cost them even more.
Sanders can win if defeatist assholes like you would STFU.
Sanders has no conceivable path to the nomination. He might win in Iowa, because caucuses tend to be more partisan than primaries. He may win in New Hampshire, since it is a neighboring state. But that's it. Next stop is South Carolina, with a Democratic primary dominated by black voters. He will lose SC in a landslide. Then comes Super Tuesday, mostly in southern states where Sanders has no organization and no support. Then it will be over. Even if Hillary gets hit by an asteroid (or an arrest warrant), her support will go to O'Malley or Biden, not Sanders. Sanders has the same chance of being the nominee as Kim Jong Un (and mostly the same policies).
After you buy all the other components you need and piece them all together, you've spent way over $25!
I volunteer as an instructor for a after-school robotics program. We got all the cables we needed by emailing the parents and asking them to donate unused cables and old monitors. We got way more than we needed. The world has a lot of free junk. Ask and ye shall receive.
The value of a $5 computer is embedded project development.
Indeed. The Raspberry Pi is not very good for teaching general programming. A "real" computer is better for that. But it is great for teaching kids how to do hardware and embedded system hackery. I volunteer in an after-school robotics program, and we use Raspberry Pis to blink LEDs, and create intelligent sensors that can be interfaced to Lego Mindstorms. Right now, we are using the $35 devices, but if we can get them for $5, then each kid can have their own, we don't have to worry too much about them getting fried, and the kids can build permanent dedicated devices, rather than taking them apart to recycle for the next project.
Now if the AI can be programmed to weed out the...
That should be possible. If the AI can effectively discriminate between "good" edits and "bad" edits, then it should also be able to identify admins who revert a lot of "good" edits.
The biggest single reason is easy access to commodity prices. Farmers can see the market price for their crops, and avoid getting ripped off by middlemen. They can also make more informed choices about which crops to grow, which fertilizers to use, how to irrigate, and when to harvest. Once they have access to the Internet, many farmers in Africa soon stop growing low value subsistence crops like rice and maize, and switch to much higher value cash crops like mangoes and coffee, which are exported to Europe and the Middle East. Once they are growing crops that generate cashflow, they have access to credit, and can buy machinery, buy fertilizer, hire additional labor, and even buy out and consolidate neighboring farms.
Since he's selling his stock, he's also selling management of the company.
He may not be selling his stock. He can donate the stock directly to his foundation, and take the tax write-off, without selling it. Then he can name himself and Priscilla as trustees of the foundation. So he can give away his stock, but still retain full voting rights and control of Facebook.
Sadly, there are a million things that can go wrong on any/every flight
The root cause on this flight was cracked solder, likely do to European mandates for RoHS. Good old PbSn solder should be used on any mission critical electronics. The world uses millions of tonnes of lead every year. A few extra grams per plane would make a minuscule difference, but would have saved hundreds of lives.
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I suspect that partially interactive and/or assistive technologies will be deployed first.
This has ALREADY HAPPENED. Tesla Autopilot is available to consumers, and does 80% of what you would expect a self-driving car to do.
Here is a video of some idiot who climbed in the backseat while his Tesla was driving on a busy freeway.
it will cause a disastrous accident.
Unlikely. It will almost certainly be less severe than if humans were driving. Humans typically take 1 second to 3.5 seconds to realize something is wrong, and transfer their foot from the accelerator to the brake. During that time, a car going 70mph will travel 100 feet or more ... before it even starts to brake. A self-driving car can begin braking in 10 milliseconds. With humans, the cars will begin braking in sequence, one after another. This can result in a chain reaction pileup, with the most severe accidents happening far back in the pack. SDCs will all brake simultaneously, with those further back having plenty of time to stop.
Believe it or not, the engineers designing these things have actually thought about these issues, and done extensive testing. If 1 meter spacing wasn't safe, they wouldn't be doing it.
This won't solve all accidents, but it will certainly improve the situation.
Indeed. The naysayers seem to forget that self-driving cars already have millions of miles of testing. If they were accident-prone, the data would show that, and it does not. Driving in close formation, or "platooning" is well tested. I remember seeing test car platoons on I-5, north of San Diego, in the 1990s. TFA is mostly nonsense and conjecture. It says that a single non-autonomous car will "slow the system down considerably". I see no reason that would be true. A human driven car would just mean one car would have a normal gap, but that wouldn't slow down other cars. I have heard the opposite: That even a few autonomous cars can make a big difference in preventing congestion, since they have more information about traffic conditions ahead, and can react quicker, so they smooth out the "accordion effect" for themselves as wells as all the cars behind them.
Comparing self-driving cars to trains is idiotic. I can't take the train to the grocery store. A stream of self-driving cars may have half the bandwidth of a passing train, but not if you consider the gaps between trains, which are usually far more than the length of the train. A mile of passenger rail costs about $100M. A lane of asphalt costs about $1M per mile.
My guess is 0%.
ISPs are like Banks in that they are the only companies which exist with the dichotomy of incredibly high customer dissatisfaction but incredibly low churn rate
You left out a few:
Insurance companies
Homeowners Associations
HMOs
All of these organizations provide a basic service, that people expect to "just work", so the only time you think about them is when they screw up, or when you pay the bill.
The problem is the recent habit of giving them multiple tax breaks ...
The tax breaks are not a "problem". They are a benefit. Bill Gate's foundation has saved hundreds of thousands of lives, and may save millions in the future. Worldwide deaths from malaria have been cut in half since he statrted working on the problem ... and malaria is just one of many problems he is trying to fix. If instead, that money had gone to the government, the entire endowment would have funded two weeks of social security spending. These foundations are putting their money to far better use than the government would. They are doing the things that governments should be doing, but aren't.
I once saw a TV interview of the WWN staff. They were all British ex-pats living in Florida. Most of them were retired before they came up with the idea of starting an American tabloid that was even more outrageous than British tabloids. They were a hilarious group of people, who seemed to thoroughly enjoy working together.
How do insurers stand to gain from this?
Because fewer fires means fewer insurance claims. Duh.
You wait N years for them to independently come up with your same invention, achieve market penetration, and sustain profitability. Then you sue them for $700 trillion.
I don't know why this is moderated "funny". This is actually a big money maker for independent inventors. Jerome Lemelson used submarine patents and other legal tricks, to extort billions from companies that independently developed the same ideas.
and one of us will send it up the chain if it looks useful
Many corporations have policies that ban employees from looking at patents. If you look at the patent, you can later be found liable for intentional infringement. It is better to just ignore existing patents, and document your research, so you can latter show it was independently developed, and maybe invalidate the patent by claiming it was "obvious". If you really need to check existing patents, it is best to do it through a patent attorney who is not involved in R&D.
Many corporations will also refuse to talk to independent inventors. Most of their "inventions" are crap, and it just leaves the corporation open to a lawsuit if they do, or are already doing, something similar.
You can make helium-3 by bombarding lithium-6 with neutrons. As a bonus, you also get plenty of tritium.
The problem with shades for the Earth is that by reducing the sunlight that hits the Earth you also reduce the amount of photosynthesis that occurs.
An obvious solution would be to only shade the Earth at night.
That summary sounds like something you'd read in The Onion.
That is where it belongs. Helium-3 is the dumbest, most impractical solution to our energy problems imaginable. Unicorn farts would be a more realistic power source. We don't actual have any helium-3, and even if we did, it is far harder to fuse, with far less energy out, than deuterium, and deuterium fusion still isn't anywhere near breakeven after 60 years of effort.
That story was published by the Weekly World News. Compared to the WWN, the National Enquirer is serious journalism.
They were not heard, and that's what the Court ruled on.
The real problem is that they were not paid off. Some native groups were paid off to abstain from protesting, but not all of them. UHH should have invested more time and money upfront to keep the right people happy. Now they are going to have to deal with bruised egos, and it is going to cost them even more.
Sanders can win if defeatist assholes like you would STFU.
Sanders has no conceivable path to the nomination. He might win in Iowa, because caucuses tend to be more partisan than primaries. He may win in New Hampshire, since it is a neighboring state. But that's it. Next stop is South Carolina, with a Democratic primary dominated by black voters. He will lose SC in a landslide. Then comes Super Tuesday, mostly in southern states where Sanders has no organization and no support. Then it will be over. Even if Hillary gets hit by an asteroid (or an arrest warrant), her support will go to O'Malley or Biden, not Sanders. Sanders has the same chance of being the nominee as Kim Jong Un (and mostly the same policies).
I've never seen the FSF endorse a candidate ...
... and you never will. As a 501c3 non-profit, the FSF is prohibited from endorsing specific candidates.
Never attribute to altruism that which is adequately explained by self interest.
Many of those criteria are not necessary for pervasive corruption. Proof: Louisiana.
After you buy all the other components you need and piece them all together, you've spent way over $25!
I volunteer as an instructor for a after-school robotics program. We got all the cables we needed by emailing the parents and asking them to donate unused cables and old monitors. We got way more than we needed. The world has a lot of free junk. Ask and ye shall receive.
The value of a $5 computer is embedded project development.
Indeed. The Raspberry Pi is not very good for teaching general programming. A "real" computer is better for that. But it is great for teaching kids how to do hardware and embedded system hackery. I volunteer in an after-school robotics program, and we use Raspberry Pis to blink LEDs, and create intelligent sensors that can be interfaced to Lego Mindstorms. Right now, we are using the $35 devices, but if we can get them for $5, then each kid can have their own, we don't have to worry too much about them getting fried, and the kids can build permanent dedicated devices, rather than taking them apart to recycle for the next project.
Now if the AI can be programmed to weed out the ...
That should be possible. If the AI can effectively discriminate between "good" edits and "bad" edits, then it should also be able to identify admins who revert a lot of "good" edits.
I'd be interested to see the third-party sources that name you as the inventor of Scroll Lock.
Here is the source.
How is someone lifted form poverty?
The biggest single reason is easy access to commodity prices. Farmers can see the market price for their crops, and avoid getting ripped off by middlemen. They can also make more informed choices about which crops to grow, which fertilizers to use, how to irrigate, and when to harvest. Once they have access to the Internet, many farmers in Africa soon stop growing low value subsistence crops like rice and maize, and switch to much higher value cash crops like mangoes and coffee, which are exported to Europe and the Middle East. Once they are growing crops that generate cashflow, they have access to credit, and can buy machinery, buy fertilizer, hire additional labor, and even buy out and consolidate neighboring farms.
Since he's selling his stock, he's also selling management of the company.
He may not be selling his stock. He can donate the stock directly to his foundation, and take the tax write-off, without selling it. Then he can name himself and Priscilla as trustees of the foundation. So he can give away his stock, but still retain full voting rights and control of Facebook.
Sadly, there are a million things that can go wrong on any/every flight
The root cause on this flight was cracked solder, likely do to European mandates for RoHS. Good old PbSn solder should be used on any mission critical electronics. The world uses millions of tonnes of lead every year. A few extra grams per plane would make a minuscule difference, but would have saved hundreds of lives.