Setting aside the remote possibility of a Chernobyl-level fuck up, and ignoring the fact that the long term costs of nuclear power are astronomical, the concern over disposal of nuclear waste is far from irrational.
It is hard to take seriously a report about the feasibility of explosives causing issues on airplanes when apparently, the report says people could get sucked out. Basic physics. Flow is from high pressure to low pressure because of the pressure differential. Blown out, not sucked out. If they don't even know that, how can we believe them about explosives?
If someone starts off inside a plane, passes through a hole and ends up on the outside of the plane screaming as they plunge to their doom, does it really matter whether they're blown or sucked?
For a lot of people on slashdot, the answer would be yes. But then again, that's because they would count a central heating thermostat as being "weak AI".
No objective measurements of pain, that is the problem. I've seen people with a simple toothache report their pain a 12 on scale of 10, while those who have tombstone ST segments and in the process of dying from a myocardial infarction say their pain is a zero. It's as if pain is a subjective thing or something. How is a physician to determine just how much a patient is hurting?
You hit them with a big hammer on another part of their anatomy and see if they notice. If they react, it means they weren't in that much pain originally.
Burroughs mentioned something about the injuries that result from thrashing around on a concrete floor... incarceration in small rooms with concrete floors being a corollary of addiction.
If you suddenly withdraw alcohol from an alcoholic, they can die sitting on a sofa, so I suppose it's the sofa that killed them?
The way I see it, you've got lots of tall mountains and lots of deep fjords. So why not just dynamite all the mountains, fill up the fjords, and turn Norway into Holland so you can cycle everywhere?
I see you have never been to Jail or Prison, Ive been to both. I would rather do a year in prison than 6 months in jail.
Could you explain to us non-Americans the distinction? Here in the UK we use the two words more or less interchangeably for any place where you're incarcerated.
As much as I'm a fan of law and order, clamping down on sex trafficking is way down on my priority list.
By and large - not all cases, certainly, but mostly - it's adults making consensual decisions about their own bodies.
No, "trafficking" by definition means it's not consensual.
The idea is that people are duped into coming to another country, then basically imprisoned and forced to work as prostitutes.
Someone travelling abroad and charging for sex wouldn't be said to be "trafficked" just because they were in a different country and working as a prostitute.
Indeed. And mostly by letting them know where you were.
And...so what?
If you were an international terrorist or drug smuggler, I imagine you wouldn't have registered in your own name and used your own credit card to pay the bill anyway. For the rest of us, if the police investigating a crime want to find out who was staying in Room X on Date Y, it's there in the fucking hotel register (or whatever electronic equivalent they have).
you don't just go into a market and act like the rules don't apply to you
You do if making money is your over-riding concern.
The whole point of the crop of "disruptive" businesses like Uber and Airbnb is that they've realised that any market where there is regulation can be under-cut by not following those regulations and having to incur the relevant costs.
If you are a psychopath, I imagine that disrupting the pesky regulations over food or drug safety is going to be a popular idea, for instance.
Localized government should have the power to make decisions about what they want to allow.
I'm not from the US, but here in the UK there is a very clear definition of who's responsible for what, depending on what level of government you're talking about. For instance, only the national government gets to decide to go to war. Similarly, the local town council will approve normal planning requests and not have to refer every decision to the Ministry of Sheds.
Said this before, they should form a cooperative. Every driver and maybe rider pays small yearly fee like 20 dollars, and the cooperative builds app and maintains infustructure, drivers keep 100% of their income. This could probably be done on global scale with 10-20 people who were lazy, and 1 highly skilled person with no life.
Uber is just middle men.
I imagine dropping the term "cooperative" into a meeting of Uber and their investors would produce the same effect as running into the Vatican shouting "the Pope's the fucking Antichrist".
Drivers are NOT staff. They are independent contractors. It says so right in their contract.
I don't understand why this is so hard to grasp for some people.
The law is a bit more complicated than that. Writing "you are not an employee" on an employment contract does not mean that you are magically not an employee.
Another interesting subject turned to trash by the Slashdot comments.
It used to be that you could go to the Slashdot comments and see some extremely insightful analysis by people who were seemingly highly knowledgeable on the subject. Now, this is what you get from the current highest ranked comment.
Why do I even bother coming here?
There is a difference between posting seriously stupid shit and making a joke.
I can't help but reflect on the irony of someone like you calling someone like Kurzweil, who has two degrees and several inventions under his belt, an idiot.
Like many people on slashdot, he is a programmer and sees everything as being just a programming challenge.
"Hmm.. we could have all our politicians in little boxes... very handy, that..."
- Breughel, "Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into the Future"
Mistah Kurz claims we have billions of AIs already. Where are they hiding? Or does he have a different standard for what he considers an AI than mine? I don't consider it an AI unless it can make jokes like a Culture Mind.
It's the same line of argument that you hear all the time on slashdot. A thermostat is a "Weak AI" as it "senses" things and "responds" to them. Therefore, it's just a question of improving computer power to get Strong AI.
Slashdot Mirror
Setting aside the remote possibility of a Chernobyl-level fuck up, and ignoring the fact that the long term costs of nuclear power are astronomical, the concern over disposal of nuclear waste is far from irrational.
It is hard to take seriously a report about the feasibility of explosives causing issues on airplanes when apparently, the report says people could get sucked out. Basic physics. Flow is from high pressure to low pressure because of the pressure differential. Blown out, not sucked out. If they don't even know that, how can we believe them about explosives?
If someone starts off inside a plane, passes through a hole and ends up on the outside of the plane screaming as they plunge to their doom, does it really matter whether they're blown or sucked?
What is the terminal velocity of a 1 kg box of vitamin C?
African or European?
I doubt anyone ever got modded down on slashdot for making a joke about Microsoft.
Real wit might challenge some of their fonder beliefs. Plus it might offend somebody (oh noes!!
Translation: I'm posting AC because I keep getting modded down for posting racist nonsense.
Is it AI?
For a lot of people on slashdot, the answer would be yes. But then again, that's because they would count a central heating thermostat as being "weak AI".
No objective measurements of pain, that is the problem. I've seen people with a simple toothache report their pain a 12 on scale of 10, while those who have tombstone ST segments and in the process of dying from a myocardial infarction say their pain is a zero. It's as if pain is a subjective thing or something. How is a physician to determine just how much a patient is hurting?
You hit them with a big hammer on another part of their anatomy and see if they notice. If they react, it means they weren't in that much pain originally.
Simple.
On slashdot, we like all drugs, except alcohol and tobacco. They're for neuro-typicals and other jocks.
Burroughs mentioned something about the injuries that result from thrashing around on a concrete floor... incarceration in small rooms with concrete floors being a corollary of addiction.
If you suddenly withdraw alcohol from an alcoholic, they can die sitting on a sofa, so I suppose it's the sofa that killed them?
Twat.
The way I see it, you've got lots of tall mountains and lots of deep fjords. So why not just dynamite all the mountains, fill up the fjords, and turn Norway into Holland so you can cycle everywhere?
"The dog ate my homework" type excuses don't go down very well with judges.
I see you have never been to Jail or Prison, Ive been to both. I would rather do a year in prison than 6 months in jail.
Could you explain to us non-Americans the distinction? Here in the UK we use the two words more or less interchangeably for any place where you're incarcerated.
As much as I'm a fan of law and order, clamping down on sex trafficking is way down on my priority list.
By and large - not all cases, certainly, but mostly - it's adults making consensual decisions about their own bodies.
No, "trafficking" by definition means it's not consensual.
The idea is that people are duped into coming to another country, then basically imprisoned and forced to work as prostitutes.
Someone travelling abroad and charging for sex wouldn't be said to be "trafficked" just because they were in a different country and working as a prostitute.
has anyone even ever SEEN any of these ads?
Are you contending that prostitutes don't ever advertise their services?
It's the GPS coordinates that will help the cops.
Indeed. And mostly by letting them know where you were.
And...so what?
If you were an international terrorist or drug smuggler, I imagine you wouldn't have registered in your own name and used your own credit card to pay the bill anyway. For the rest of us, if the police investigating a crime want to find out who was staying in Room X on Date Y, it's there in the fucking hotel register (or whatever electronic equivalent they have).
you don't just go into a market and act like the rules don't apply to you
You do if making money is your over-riding concern.
The whole point of the crop of "disruptive" businesses like Uber and Airbnb is that they've realised that any market where there is regulation can be under-cut by not following those regulations and having to incur the relevant costs.
If you are a psychopath, I imagine that disrupting the pesky regulations over food or drug safety is going to be a popular idea, for instance.
Localized government should have the power to make decisions about what they want to allow.
I'm not from the US, but here in the UK there is a very clear definition of who's responsible for what, depending on what level of government you're talking about. For instance, only the national government gets to decide to go to war. Similarly, the local town council will approve normal planning requests and not have to refer every decision to the Ministry of Sheds.
Said this before, they should form a cooperative. Every driver and maybe rider pays small yearly fee like 20 dollars, and the cooperative builds app and maintains infustructure, drivers keep 100% of their income. This could probably be done on global scale with 10-20 people who were lazy, and 1 highly skilled person with no life.
Uber is just middle men.
I imagine dropping the term "cooperative" into a meeting of Uber and their investors would produce the same effect as running into the Vatican shouting "the Pope's the fucking Antichrist".
Friedman was not an Austrian, he was from the Chicago school. You don't know shit, quit trying to pretend that you do.
-jcr
That's rather like differentiating between Mussolini and Franco's versions of fascism.
CEO of a midsized company here.
Seems legit.
Drivers are NOT staff. They are independent contractors. It says so right in their contract. I don't understand why this is so hard to grasp for some people.
The law is a bit more complicated than that. Writing "you are not an employee" on an employment contract does not mean that you are magically not an employee.
Another interesting subject turned to trash by the Slashdot comments.
It used to be that you could go to the Slashdot comments and see some extremely insightful analysis by people who were seemingly highly knowledgeable on the subject. Now, this is what you get from the current highest ranked comment.
Why do I even bother coming here?
There is a difference between posting seriously stupid shit and making a joke.
I can't help but reflect on the irony of someone like you calling someone like Kurzweil, who has two degrees and several inventions under his belt, an idiot.
Like many people on slashdot, he is a programmer and sees everything as being just a programming challenge.
"Hmm.. we could have all our politicians in little boxes... very handy, that..." - Breughel, "Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into the Future"
Mistah Kurz claims we have billions of AIs already. Where are they hiding? Or does he have a different standard for what he considers an AI than mine? I don't consider it an AI unless it can make jokes like a Culture Mind.
It's the same line of argument that you hear all the time on slashdot. A thermostat is a "Weak AI" as it "senses" things and "responds" to them. Therefore, it's just a question of improving computer power to get Strong AI.
Tosh, pure and simple.
It would have been nice to have this in TFS rather than having to infer it from the self-congratulatory puff that actually made it up.