If the NSA comes asking Amazon for data, there are strict rules that apply. They may simply not be able to tell anyone about what information they give over. Especially if it is backed by the FICA court.
I've just spent the last hour looking through those reports. All of the accidents as far as I can tell where caused by human error on the part of other drivers.
When the Cruise AV decelerated to merge into the left
lane, the driver of the Honda Accord-who appears to have been distracted, looking at a person standing on the sidewalk-failed to notice
and rear-ended the Cruise AV.
The signal changed, giving the vehicles a green left-tum arrow. The Cruise AV began making the tum and was then rear-ended by the Volvo
The Waymo AV was rear-ended by a Toyota Camry while slowly creeping forward with traffic at the red light. The Waymo AV was travelling around 1 MPH at the time of collision, the Camry was travelling around 7 MPH at moment of collision
While passing through the intersection at 11thStreet, the Cruise AV
followed the lane markings, which shift to the left as the road transitions to a one-way street starting east of 11th Street. All lanes on Folsom
Street shift left that that intersection and are clearly marked. A Toyota Camry traveling behind and to the left of the Cruise AV, and gaining
on the Cruise AV, did not shift left with its lane and instead crossed over its lane boundary and lightly swiped the side of the Cruise AV.
Really all you are proving is that humans shouldn't be allowed to drive.
It takes a certain amount of technology just to do the modifications and ensure everything is working again There simply will be outages.
You speak as if would be the first time Google has done this. As if they are experimenting with installing broadband on existing infrastructure. Austin TX, Provo UT, and Kansas city all currently have Google fiber. In all of those cities this procedure was used. Perhaps there were outages caused by it but I was unable to find any reports of it happening.
Ok. So maybe I'm not understanding something. Currently, the law stipulates that broadcasters “shall not broadcast any false or misleading news.” Now I have not been able to find even one instance of that law being enforced in Canada. It does however set a precedence. Now there will always be an argument for "what is truth" It's very circumstantial and is profoundly influenced by belief, so one person's "truth" is not the same as everyone else's. There are however instances where a news reporter is given, or finds information and then reports the opposite for political, religious or corporate interests. If we are to believe what is reported to us there has to be a baseline from which we can decide for ourselves what is in our best interest. If anyone can say anything and claim it's new then every conspiracy theory on the planet no matter how crazy is now just as real in the minds of the consumer. If we go around telling everyone that jumping off the golden gate bridge is safe then we are doing no one any good at all. Now I might believe that it is safe and that tons of people have done it safely because I saw a youtube video about it and this guy shows proof that you can do it safely, but if the news starts reporting it then we may end up with a bunch of people jumping off the bridge. While that might seem like a silly anecdote the reality is that major political and social decisions are made by people that watch or read the news every day. The idea that reporters knowingly outright lie to people is disturbing at best.
Interesting perspective. So you believe that being honest is more sneaky than lying outright. I don't really see how that works but the world is pretty screwed up now so right being wrong and up being down.. ok. what can I do anyway.
In Canada knowingly lying while reporting the news is illegal. I see no reason to believe that restricts free speech in any way. You can still lie all you want, you just can't call it "news". I don't see Macron calling for the elimination of speech. Simply honest clarification of who is speaking and from where.
Or perhaps you are just another one of those suffering from confirmation bias, with the inability to assimilate any information no matter how scientific or well thought out that does not apply to your point of view.
Medical insurance companies tell the hospitals what they can charge for any given procedure based on the individual plan the customer has purchased. Depending on your plan the the cost of the procedure and the copay will differ. There are only two major health care insurance providers in the US. On the west coast this is Bluecross/Blueshield for instance. Every other provider is a reseller of their products who make money by slightly changing the packages and adding things like vision and dental (also provided by other carriers). To deal with the ever complex series of plans and payment schedules hospitals and insurance companies have had to increase their administrative costs by over 60% in the last 20 years. Most major hospitals now have at least one entirely separate building complex dedicated to nothing but billing. Where as in Japan (where the insurance/medical costs are regulated by government) an MRI will cost 500 USD in the US an MRI will cost anywhere between $600-$3000 and that often doesn't even cover the staff required to operate or analyse the results.
Now while you may not trust government bureaucracy (and hell I'm right with you) it's really hard to imagine how it could get any more bloated and screwed up than it is.
But lets just look at some basic known quantities. Medicaid. Now mind you copays on Medicaid are very low to almost nonexistent so keep that in mind when searching for a health care plan. Use this chart to find your state and then see if you can find a comparable private health care plan at a comparible cost. There is nothing more simple than looking for yourself.
Most software engineers don't produce anything. They code intangible goods that are often never used or never redeem the value that someone else worked for and they got just for sitting at a desk typing into a computer for nothing but money. How many millions of lines of code are produced every day that will never be used, never be seen and never add value to anything. Yet people are paid good money to do it.
This is about as true as it gets. This site used to be a very educated place where people would post actual informative concepts and ideas. It used to be fun. Recently I've been modded down for literally mentioning that the FCC's job is to regulate communications. I don't even know why I would have to tell someone that or why I would lose points for mentioning it.. but there you go.
So what you are saying is that you don't like the way that rules against baby eating were put in place, therefore people should be allowed to eat babys.
Never mind the fact that designating title II is clearly within the mandate of the FCC. That mandate was put in place by congress. Congress regulates tittle II only through the mandate specifically given to the FCC. You are also ignoring the fact that the reason for the FCC's decision to apply title II was sparked by a request from the FTC who does not have the authority to go after ISP's for anticompetitive behavior and the fact that the court rulings specifically told the FCC that without applying title II designation they had no authority to deal with said behavior. It was only after a string of bad behavior by ISP's that led to reaction by the FCC and the court cases that title II designation was given to ISP's. The same designation that your phone company, water company, and power companies have had for almost a century.
Your not adding reason to the argument just a strange obfuscation of the facts
There are many more examples but in all these cases the FCC did their best to step in. Now imagine a world where the FCC just lets telcoms do what they want. Look at the list again, expand it and imaging the new world we are looking at
hmm, the last time we had a balanced budget was when Clinton left office. Now I've heard the excuse that it was because of the republican congress but that doesn't line up with the fact that the republicans had both congress and the presidency before and after Clinton and in both cases drove up the debt. Obama inherited an economy that he had to duct tape together to keep stable and you can make all of the excuses in the world but that is just what happened.
The problem is that those materials tend to have different tensile elongation and yield rates. At one end/corner/center of your hypothetical part the metal has already started to fracture starting a cascade failure of the structure that would not have happened if the part were made of a single alloy.
From personal experience I can tell you that working with stainless steel is quite different. It likes to burn up tools. It's a combination of the right bit materiel the right tool/part speed and the right feed. I can easily see how people never having worked with it before would just shake their head and say no.
As stated the area has a history of seismic activity. Earthquakes are not anything new to Seattle. Many of these brick houses were built in the 1920's and 30's and have been surviving earthquakes for nearly a century. To add to that these brick houses are often some of the most sought after properties because of their architectural uniqueness. Most people who own them at this point have retrofitted the homes to survive earthquakes by hiring a structural engineer and adding internal structure and tying things together. It's not nearly as crazy as it seems.
It's actually crazy easy to get a building permit in Seattle right now. (sic. My brother works as a building inspector in the area.) The fact is that why would anyone buy a crazy expensive piece of land and then build something "affordable" on it. That's insane. You can toss up one of those square box stick houses with 4 bedrooms and a postage stamp yard and sell it in a day for more than $750K. It isn't zoning and restrictions it's just the market working the way it's supposed to.
Now if you want to bitch about the city council.. I'm ready to sing right along with you. They've forced landlords to lower what they can screen for, for applicant's to a point that now more and more rental properties won't even offer you an application unless you can show a better than 700 credit score. 690 is a pretty good score, but not enough to rent many places in Seattle. Instead of making it easier for lower income people to find housing they've actually made it harder for the average working class person to find it.
As a blue collar worker living in Seattle and currently looking to buy. I can tell you there is no way you can find a house in seattle for anything near $200k. You might be able to find a studio or one bedroom condo in seattle for around $250k but it's either going to be something the size of a cardboard box or have HOA dues in excess of $800 (often more than the payment will be). Actually anything within 1/2 hr driving to Seattle is quickly becoming the same. Houses are non-existent for >$250k. I'm actually just trying to find something like a one bedroom condo within driving range of seattle with a monthly payment of >$1500 because within a year the average rent will be much higher than that and the only chance anyone will have of being able to afford to live here unless you are making six figures will be near zero. Unless you want to live in a tent by the road.
I'm not blaming Amazon for this though. We expect progress, so when it arrives it's kind of pointless to bitch about it, but the same goes for those people needing my services. It costs a lot to live here so don't cry when you get my bill:)
ya.. I get what you are saying but you could have shortened your response to.. "video games have nothing to do with what they are using the GPU's for".
In the end you kind of obfuscated the issue and turned it into a "you don't understand video game realities thing" instead of a "automated car computers don't work in any way that resembles video games' argument.
This situation is just like the "we need charge stations before electric cars become viable" argument. In the end simple low power radio transponders at signs and intersections will allow navigation to be precise and fluid. Even if one of the transponders were moved it would be a simple thing for the system to notice the out of place navigation marker among all of the other data.
Self driving cars are coming. 12,000 auto related deaths a year is reason enough.
This is the biggest problem that social media companies face. How to protect not only their business interests but also the people behind the data. At one level you are giving dissidents a platform to speak, but also a platform for raw propaganda.
On the other hand you are storing a social map that will make rounding up and executing or imprisoning so much easier. I don't envy their position but a lot of people have pointed out that something should have been done about these issues years ago.
AvePoint.. why have I never heard of AvePoint?
Perhaps for the same reason I won't remember who they were two minutes from now. That's great that they found budget workers in a city that has almost nothing going for it outside of soccer moms yelling "hi ya'll" out their SUV windows. Seriously. They went to Richmond to hire dead end workers just so that they could move them from one dead end job to another. People that have drive go places where other people have drive.
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If the NSA comes asking Amazon for data, there are strict rules that apply. They may simply not be able to tell anyone about what information they give over. Especially if it is backed by the FICA court.
Japanese. If you are looking for organized grammar.
I've just spent the last hour looking through those reports. All of the accidents as far as I can tell where caused by human error on the part of other drivers.
When the Cruise AV decelerated to merge into the left lane, the driver of the Honda Accord-who appears to have been distracted, looking at a person standing on the sidewalk-failed to notice and rear-ended the Cruise AV.
The signal changed, giving the vehicles a green left-tum arrow. The Cruise AV began making the tum and was then rear-ended by the Volvo
The Waymo AV was rear-ended by a Toyota Camry while slowly creeping forward with traffic at the red light. The Waymo AV was travelling around 1 MPH at the time of collision, the Camry was travelling around 7 MPH at moment of collision
While passing through the intersection at 11thStreet, the Cruise AV followed the lane markings, which shift to the left as the road transitions to a one-way street starting east of 11th Street. All lanes on Folsom Street shift left that that intersection and are clearly marked. A Toyota Camry traveling behind and to the left of the Cruise AV, and gaining on the Cruise AV, did not shift left with its lane and instead crossed over its lane boundary and lightly swiped the side of the Cruise AV.
Really all you are proving is that humans shouldn't be allowed to drive.
It takes a certain amount of technology just to do the modifications and ensure everything is working again There simply will be outages.
You speak as if would be the first time Google has done this. As if they are experimenting with installing broadband on existing infrastructure. Austin TX, Provo UT, and Kansas city all currently have Google fiber. In all of those cities this procedure was used. Perhaps there were outages caused by it but I was unable to find any reports of it happening.
Ok. So maybe I'm not understanding something. Currently, the law stipulates that broadcasters “shall not broadcast any false or misleading news.” Now I have not been able to find even one instance of that law being enforced in Canada. It does however set a precedence. Now there will always be an argument for "what is truth" It's very circumstantial and is profoundly influenced by belief, so one person's "truth" is not the same as everyone else's. There are however instances where a news reporter is given, or finds information and then reports the opposite for political, religious or corporate interests. If we are to believe what is reported to us there has to be a baseline from which we can decide for ourselves what is in our best interest. If anyone can say anything and claim it's new then every conspiracy theory on the planet no matter how crazy is now just as real in the minds of the consumer. If we go around telling everyone that jumping off the golden gate bridge is safe then we are doing no one any good at all. Now I might believe that it is safe and that tons of people have done it safely because I saw a youtube video about it and this guy shows proof that you can do it safely, but if the news starts reporting it then we may end up with a bunch of people jumping off the bridge. While that might seem like a silly anecdote the reality is that major political and social decisions are made by people that watch or read the news every day. The idea that reporters knowingly outright lie to people is disturbing at best.
Interesting perspective. So you believe that being honest is more sneaky than lying outright. I don't really see how that works but the world is pretty screwed up now so right being wrong and up being down.. ok. what can I do anyway.
In Canada knowingly lying while reporting the news is illegal. I see no reason to believe that restricts free speech in any way. You can still lie all you want, you just can't call it "news". I don't see Macron calling for the elimination of speech. Simply honest clarification of who is speaking and from where.
Or perhaps you are just another one of those suffering from confirmation bias, with the inability to assimilate any information no matter how scientific or well thought out that does not apply to your point of view.
Medical insurance companies tell the hospitals what they can charge for any given procedure based on the individual plan the customer has purchased. Depending on your plan the the cost of the procedure and the copay will differ. There are only two major health care insurance providers in the US. On the west coast this is Bluecross/Blueshield for instance. Every other provider is a reseller of their products who make money by slightly changing the packages and adding things like vision and dental (also provided by other carriers). To deal with the ever complex series of plans and payment schedules hospitals and insurance companies have had to increase their administrative costs by over 60% in the last 20 years. Most major hospitals now have at least one entirely separate building complex dedicated to nothing but billing. Where as in Japan (where the insurance/medical costs are regulated by government) an MRI will cost 500 USD in the US an MRI will cost anywhere between $600-$3000 and that often doesn't even cover the staff required to operate or analyse the results.
Now while you may not trust government bureaucracy (and hell I'm right with you) it's really hard to imagine how it could get any more bloated and screwed up than it is.
But lets just look at some basic known quantities. Medicaid. Now mind you copays on Medicaid are very low to almost nonexistent so keep that in mind when searching for a health care plan. Use this chart to find your state and then see if you can find a comparable private health care plan at a comparible cost. There is nothing more simple than looking for yourself.
Most software engineers don't produce anything. They code intangible goods that are often never used or never redeem the value that someone else worked for and they got just for sitting at a desk typing into a computer for nothing but money. How many millions of lines of code are produced every day that will never be used, never be seen and never add value to anything. Yet people are paid good money to do it.
This is about as true as it gets. This site used to be a very educated place where people would post actual informative concepts and ideas. It used to be fun. Recently I've been modded down for literally mentioning that the FCC's job is to regulate communications. I don't even know why I would have to tell someone that or why I would lose points for mentioning it.. but there you go.
So what you are saying is that you don't like the way that rules against baby eating were put in place, therefore people should be allowed to eat babys.
Never mind the fact that designating title II is clearly within the mandate of the FCC. That mandate was put in place by congress. Congress regulates tittle II only through the mandate specifically given to the FCC. You are also ignoring the fact that the reason for the FCC's decision to apply title II was sparked by a request from the FTC who does not have the authority to go after ISP's for anticompetitive behavior and the fact that the court rulings specifically told the FCC that without applying title II designation they had no authority to deal with said behavior. It was only after a string of bad behavior by ISP's that led to reaction by the FCC and the court cases that title II designation was given to ISP's. The same designation that your phone company, water company, and power companies have had for almost a century.
Your not adding reason to the argument just a strange obfuscation of the facts
Claiming your ignorance of history is some sort of unseen knowledge is absurd.
here let me help you with a simple internet search https://www.freepress.net/blog...
There are many more examples but in all these cases the FCC did their best to step in. Now imagine a world where the FCC just lets telcoms do what they want. Look at the list again, expand it and imaging the new world we are looking at
there were Packard Merlin's built too.
hmm, the last time we had a balanced budget was when Clinton left office. Now I've heard the excuse that it was because of the republican congress but that doesn't line up with the fact that the republicans had both congress and the presidency before and after Clinton and in both cases drove up the debt. Obama inherited an economy that he had to duct tape together to keep stable and you can make all of the excuses in the world but that is just what happened.
The problem is that those materials tend to have different tensile elongation and yield rates. At one end/corner/center of your hypothetical part the metal has already started to fracture starting a cascade failure of the structure that would not have happened if the part were made of a single alloy.
From personal experience I can tell you that working with stainless steel is quite different. It likes to burn up tools. It's a combination of the right bit materiel the right tool/part speed and the right feed. I can easily see how people never having worked with it before would just shake their head and say no.
As stated the area has a history of seismic activity. Earthquakes are not anything new to Seattle. Many of these brick houses were built in the 1920's and 30's and have been surviving earthquakes for nearly a century. To add to that these brick houses are often some of the most sought after properties because of their architectural uniqueness. Most people who own them at this point have retrofitted the homes to survive earthquakes by hiring a structural engineer and adding internal structure and tying things together. It's not nearly as crazy as it seems.
It's actually crazy easy to get a building permit in Seattle right now. (sic. My brother works as a building inspector in the area.) The fact is that why would anyone buy a crazy expensive piece of land and then build something "affordable" on it. That's insane. You can toss up one of those square box stick houses with 4 bedrooms and a postage stamp yard and sell it in a day for more than $750K. It isn't zoning and restrictions it's just the market working the way it's supposed to.
Now if you want to bitch about the city council.. I'm ready to sing right along with you. They've forced landlords to lower what they can screen for, for applicant's to a point that now more and more rental properties won't even offer you an application unless you can show a better than 700 credit score. 690 is a pretty good score, but not enough to rent many places in Seattle. Instead of making it easier for lower income people to find housing they've actually made it harder for the average working class person to find it.
As a blue collar worker living in Seattle and currently looking to buy. I can tell you there is no way you can find a house in seattle for anything near $200k. You might be able to find a studio or one bedroom condo in seattle for around $250k but it's either going to be something the size of a cardboard box or have HOA dues in excess of $800 (often more than the payment will be). Actually anything within 1/2 hr driving to Seattle is quickly becoming the same. Houses are non-existent for >$250k. I'm actually just trying to find something like a one bedroom condo within driving range of seattle with a monthly payment of >$1500 because within a year the average rent will be much higher than that and the only chance anyone will have of being able to afford to live here unless you are making six figures will be near zero. Unless you want to live in a tent by the road.
I'm not blaming Amazon for this though. We expect progress, so when it arrives it's kind of pointless to bitch about it, but the same goes for those people needing my services. It costs a lot to live here so don't cry when you get my bill :)
ya.. I get what you are saying but you could have shortened your response to .. "video games have nothing to do with what they are using the GPU's for".
In the end you kind of obfuscated the issue and turned it into a "you don't understand video game realities thing" instead of a "automated car computers don't work in any way that resembles video games' argument.
This situation is just like the "we need charge stations before electric cars become viable" argument. In the end simple low power radio transponders at signs and intersections will allow navigation to be precise and fluid. Even if one of the transponders were moved it would be a simple thing for the system to notice the out of place navigation marker among all of the other data. Self driving cars are coming. 12,000 auto related deaths a year is reason enough.
This is the biggest problem that social media companies face. How to protect not only their business interests but also the people behind the data. At one level you are giving dissidents a platform to speak, but also a platform for raw propaganda. On the other hand you are storing a social map that will make rounding up and executing or imprisoning so much easier. I don't envy their position but a lot of people have pointed out that something should have been done about these issues years ago.
And what will someone with an average IQ work as in the future?
hmmm.. how about help desk and middle management?
AvePoint.. why have I never heard of AvePoint? Perhaps for the same reason I won't remember who they were two minutes from now. That's great that they found budget workers in a city that has almost nothing going for it outside of soccer moms yelling "hi ya'll" out their SUV windows. Seriously. They went to Richmond to hire dead end workers just so that they could move them from one dead end job to another. People that have drive go places where other people have drive.