Has years of not having access to google at all weakened chinas resolve in their great firewall? If I sell vegetables to a parent that is forcing their children to be vegetarians, am I violating the kids rights by giving the parents something they will allow. Or am I margionally lessening how much the kids are starving?
Google is currently blocked in china, china ain't going to unblock google.. and with or without china-google the people still use vpns or whatever they can to sneak past the wall and access real google.
right but the general point that's for just a few days. American automotive standards aren't magically going to make tanker trucks with rocks, dirt, sand etc... stuck in the tires, and solar panels a good mix. Trying to combine the 2 in the same way is like trying to combine pizza delivery and plumbing into the same business. They may have occasional need to go to your house in common, but that is where the similarities end and the contradictions become quite apparant.
yet others say it probably was just damaged by normal physics... AKA solar panels and heavy things don't mix so well.
https://www.scmp.com/news/chin...
The point in comparing them to roof designs isn't in saying that you should put them on private roofs, the point is you can put them anywhere that allows you the benefits of being on a roof. There's more or less 3 ways you can set up a solar panel. The most efficient is tracking, where the panel is smart and tilts itself to face the sun. Next best is to angle it and face the most common directions the sun will face, and of course the worse idea is to just leave it flat on the ground.
The china roadway has pretty much been failing miserably, the government is mostly blaming theft of solar panels (another reason why it isn't so viable), but many engineers are still saying the same thing... between the hit of being flat on the ground, having the extra layers of protection, and of course traffic blocking the sun, it isn't breaking even anyway.
Anyway as you were comparing it to rooftops because putting the burden on private proporty is bad... what's being completely ignored is best of both worlds options, like what Korea did https://inhabitat.com/could-th...
Where you get panels, the option to angle them as needed, you don't have the added challenges of needing needing to withstand rocks/sand attached to multi ton moving objects, and it even adds extra benefits of shielding the bike path from weather.
Didn't solar roadway take like 3 million dollars between indie gogo and DoT grants, and all they have to show for it is a small patch of sidewalk with LED lights you can't see during the day, has already caught fire once, and currently is producing under 5 cents worth of power a day in the peak of summer. That's of course before asking what kind of solar pannel surface is supposed to remain good at absorbing light with rocks and sand grinded into them under litteral tons of weight.
Solar is great... but a good solar panel and traveling surface do not benefit from the same things. want efficiant solar that matches the legnth of the road... build an overpass.
I don't think that's netflix's choice. Netflix doesn't own the rights to the stuff they license it, and as everyone and their grandmother is opening their own streaming service, some of these content owners are chosing where to go on their own. It isn't purely netflix's choice, it's a negotiation. Maybe the content owners are wanting more money, or have a stake in one of netflix's competitors, it could be netflix (maybe they want to pay these guys less, or determined the shows are not popular enough to merit the cost) but soley blaming netflix for losing shows may appropriate blame placement.
Of which the arguement isn't relevant. They are well within their rights to design whatever they want to ban/block/detect cheaters in their online servers etc...
Which is a whole other topic from punishing people who make tools, just because some users might take them online.
Just as I can modify a car, I can sell or give a modified car to a friend, or teach him how to modify it himself, totally OK..
the only one who is breaking the law, is the idiot that drives a car modified outside of road standards, onto a public road. As roads are government the idiot who chose to drive it on such deserves to go to jail. If he uses it on a private track (that still outlaws the modifications), then he should be kicked from the track. However, The person who makes or documents how to make the car modifications, isn't responsible for either of those.
The real question is when thinking of the overall public good, logically the system should be made in the way to incentivize you to keep making us more and good things. Because obviously if you are such a genius we want to encourage you.
obviously too short of a window is bad. If you spend 300 hours coming up with a great idea, and 5 minutes after you go to market someone copies you and decides to sell at just barely above cost because it only took them 5 minutes to copy your work (or in the case of information just plain give it away free), that's terrible, you'd say screw this and go work for mcdonnalds where at least you could get paid for the hours you work.
On the other hand, there is the oposite. If money is constantly rolling in at you from your great idea 40 years ago, you don't actually have any need or incentive to make more stuff,
What is it that extreme conservatives fear about universal basic income, oh yeah that if people actually have rent, food and heaven forbid some level of luxury expenses covered that they would almost never chose to work.
Long story short, patents and copyrights do the most good for society as a whole, if they last long enough to make sure the inventor can fully make back his investment, and get a meaningful return that rewards that investment. but not infinately past that.
Admitted the same can be said about daytraders.
But all that being said IMO I think they really killed good oprotunites, would it be possible to make proof of work... actually tie to something we need cycles for? Aren't there like hundreds of programs that need cpu cycles to go into folding proteins or even searching for aliens etc.... would it be possible for us to actually make or redirect a crypto currency into actually helping with real world things?
reminds me of the old joke where (insert scaryish government group or organization). Gives a loyalty test to have someone kill their wife/mother. Then (insert loyal or agressive type). People on the other side hear "Bang" followed by *snap, *crash, smack, bam. Guy comes out "some reason the gun you gave me was all blanks, so I beat her to death with the chair".
long term sooner or later AI is going to reach the point where the differences between are smaller, In some ways we are just really complex deep learning/evolutionary algorythms. that duplicated themselves based on which ones didn't die.
Also I suppose such a time won't be the first time in our history that we had something that effectively matched or exceeded our emotional intelligence, but we managed to define it as "less than animal".
Yeah I know obviously right now we are talking a robot with litterally zero intelligence, explicitly programmed to do nothing more than play a recording begging for it's life. But at some point we will be hitting a point where robots that literally chose to want to live.
I'd assume the pre-human animals (and probably a good portion of past humans), stayed below using 1 earths worth of stuff, and thus we're eating into the surplus from past generations.
well because I don't think they are "legally binding" contracts, more collusion between the companies "if you don't hire our workers, we won't hire yours, once you start hiring our guys, we'll start hiring yours".
Outlawing agreements like that are like outlawing hiring people based on race, you can't really do that. IE yes it is 100% illegal to refuse to hire someone because they are black. But you also aren't under any obligation whatsoever to hire anyone ever, and a face to face interview is a fairly standard part of hiring and explaining why you chose someone else over them isn't even expected. So... as long as they don't outright say "I'm sorry I don't want to hire you because you are black", there's almost no chance that a company would face repercussions if they never hire a black person.
He never said it outlawed unions. It just creates a challange for the unions model.
Normally union gets dues from all the employees, then the union pays and sends fancy lawyers to negotiate and force the company to pay people in that position more money, or fix whatever makes the job worse etc.... With right to work basically the people can chose not to join/pay the union. So at first say 75% of them join the union, 25% pass on it. The union does their job well, everyone gets more money, problems are fixed etc... but then people start realizing that the 25% got their cake and ate it too, they got all the benefits of the union's negotiations, without paying the union, as things go on people stop joining the union (as they get all the perks of the negotiations with or without paying)... but now as only 25% are paying union dues... the union can't afford good lawyers etc... The union doesn't have the power to demand higher wages, or better work environment etc... things start getting worse for everyone, inside and outside the union.
well yeah true, for those devices router level monitoring is the ideal solution. and if you are concerned with where your kids go online, don't get them data for their phone, or I know with apple products, you can always set restrictions and go with a White list method if you do want them to have data. (again I don't personally see a reason to actually stress or worry about it that much, but I know some parents who desire that above all else).
doesn't actually have to be a bluff, VNC would work for that. Sure they can turn it off... but then you'd easilly be able to see that it is turned off. Plus no shortage of routers etc... can see what pages are visited etc...
Though I also gotta go with... why the fuck are we doing so much work to censor a pretty natural and inevitable act. Meanwhile 90% of the people who sweat about their kids god forbid finding their way to porn... won't bat an eye with their kids seeing hundreds of heads blown up and people dismembered.
I agree that's probably it in practice.. Where I may disagree is "will start to act", with, might think about it. I suppose I'd need to see the 1.721 part refrenced, but what exactly does a formal complaint force them to do besides look at it.
I don't know about you but I personally love RSS. Have 14 sites that add new articles daily (this place included), go to one page scroll through what has been added, don't need to refresh or look to see if any of them would have updated. Basically I can pretty easily keep up with reddit, Slashdot, and random other news sites. Plus the places that barely update once a week or so I don't have to check them, but since I'm checking my feed anyway I see their new posts right away.
I think they are trying to be like american health care... except for on a service that people barely want and nobody needs that is likely going to be dying on it's own in a few years.
In short their business plan is more or less. First spare no expense, do whatever it takes to become the means people use to go to movies. Get positioned to the point where if a cinema were to say "no we don't take movie pass here", means turning away half or more of their customers. Then use that new leverage to tell the theatres that they need a 75% discount for all of the customers they are bringing in. The theaters can accomplish this and keep their existing profit margins by raising their prices for non movie-pass customers (If they do this moviepass will just raise their fee, but it will be a bigger "savings" because of the new jacked up prices the theaters charge).
I do agree though it's still a stupid ripoff, while they are working to secure theatre rights, less people can really afford to go to the theatres, and more are waiting to see things on netflix etc... to save themselves from leaving their houses and paying ridiculous prices to begin with.
I'd have to disagree, psudonymity gives you a consistant personality. You still can be yourself, Assuming the service doesn't betrey you, and you don't poorly link or leave some kind of connection to your real world identity you can have a personality that is judged purely on what you've posted (yes past posts included), and have some kind of dialogue. Total anonymity I haven't really seen any serious discussions occur with, to me that always degrades into just trolling etc... with a good chance that many involved are arguing both sides for drama rather than anyone actually speaking their mind on the topics. Which can be good for humor, not so good for real discussion.
Welcome to the world of business. If you want to power the world you can... but if you can look good and speak with charisma you can get more fame regardless of knowledge level. Same reason why Jobs was center stage for so long.
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Has years of not having access to google at all weakened chinas resolve in their great firewall? If I sell vegetables to a parent that is forcing their children to be vegetarians, am I violating the kids rights by giving the parents something they will allow. Or am I margionally lessening how much the kids are starving? Google is currently blocked in china, china ain't going to unblock google.. and with or without china-google the people still use vpns or whatever they can to sneak past the wall and access real google.
right but the general point that's for just a few days. American automotive standards aren't magically going to make tanker trucks with rocks, dirt, sand etc... stuck in the tires, and solar panels a good mix. Trying to combine the 2 in the same way is like trying to combine pizza delivery and plumbing into the same business. They may have occasional need to go to your house in common, but that is where the similarities end and the contradictions become quite apparant.
hell if I know, but apparently there are conflicting stories, some say it is theft http://www.latimes.com/world/a...
yet others say it probably was just damaged by normal physics... AKA solar panels and heavy things don't mix so well. https://www.scmp.com/news/chin...
The point in comparing them to roof designs isn't in saying that you should put them on private roofs, the point is you can put them anywhere that allows you the benefits of being on a roof. There's more or less 3 ways you can set up a solar panel. The most efficient is tracking, where the panel is smart and tilts itself to face the sun. Next best is to angle it and face the most common directions the sun will face, and of course the worse idea is to just leave it flat on the ground. The china roadway has pretty much been failing miserably, the government is mostly blaming theft of solar panels (another reason why it isn't so viable), but many engineers are still saying the same thing... between the hit of being flat on the ground, having the extra layers of protection, and of course traffic blocking the sun, it isn't breaking even anyway. Anyway as you were comparing it to rooftops because putting the burden on private proporty is bad... what's being completely ignored is best of both worlds options, like what Korea did https://inhabitat.com/could-th... Where you get panels, the option to angle them as needed, you don't have the added challenges of needing needing to withstand rocks/sand attached to multi ton moving objects, and it even adds extra benefits of shielding the bike path from weather.
Didn't solar roadway take like 3 million dollars between indie gogo and DoT grants, and all they have to show for it is a small patch of sidewalk with LED lights you can't see during the day, has already caught fire once, and currently is producing under 5 cents worth of power a day in the peak of summer. That's of course before asking what kind of solar pannel surface is supposed to remain good at absorbing light with rocks and sand grinded into them under litteral tons of weight. Solar is great... but a good solar panel and traveling surface do not benefit from the same things. want efficiant solar that matches the legnth of the road... build an overpass.
I don't think that's netflix's choice. Netflix doesn't own the rights to the stuff they license it, and as everyone and their grandmother is opening their own streaming service, some of these content owners are chosing where to go on their own. It isn't purely netflix's choice, it's a negotiation. Maybe the content owners are wanting more money, or have a stake in one of netflix's competitors, it could be netflix (maybe they want to pay these guys less, or determined the shows are not popular enough to merit the cost) but soley blaming netflix for losing shows may appropriate blame placement.
Of which the arguement isn't relevant. They are well within their rights to design whatever they want to ban/block/detect cheaters in their online servers etc... Which is a whole other topic from punishing people who make tools, just because some users might take them online. Just as I can modify a car, I can sell or give a modified car to a friend, or teach him how to modify it himself, totally OK.. the only one who is breaking the law, is the idiot that drives a car modified outside of road standards, onto a public road. As roads are government the idiot who chose to drive it on such deserves to go to jail. If he uses it on a private track (that still outlaws the modifications), then he should be kicked from the track. However, The person who makes or documents how to make the car modifications, isn't responsible for either of those.
actually really currious which card and what time, every radeon I've tried in the last 4 years seems to go full compatibility off the bat.
The real question is when thinking of the overall public good, logically the system should be made in the way to incentivize you to keep making us more and good things. Because obviously if you are such a genius we want to encourage you. obviously too short of a window is bad. If you spend 300 hours coming up with a great idea, and 5 minutes after you go to market someone copies you and decides to sell at just barely above cost because it only took them 5 minutes to copy your work (or in the case of information just plain give it away free), that's terrible, you'd say screw this and go work for mcdonnalds where at least you could get paid for the hours you work. On the other hand, there is the oposite. If money is constantly rolling in at you from your great idea 40 years ago, you don't actually have any need or incentive to make more stuff, What is it that extreme conservatives fear about universal basic income, oh yeah that if people actually have rent, food and heaven forbid some level of luxury expenses covered that they would almost never chose to work. Long story short, patents and copyrights do the most good for society as a whole, if they last long enough to make sure the inventor can fully make back his investment, and get a meaningful return that rewards that investment. but not infinately past that.
I switched to bleachbit entirely after the malware incident. Now I feel even better about my decision.
Admitted the same can be said about daytraders. But all that being said IMO I think they really killed good oprotunites, would it be possible to make proof of work... actually tie to something we need cycles for? Aren't there like hundreds of programs that need cpu cycles to go into folding proteins or even searching for aliens etc.... would it be possible for us to actually make or redirect a crypto currency into actually helping with real world things?
Or better yet, lets train robots to shock people with increasingly high voltages until they are trained.
reminds me of the old joke where (insert scaryish government group or organization). Gives a loyalty test to have someone kill their wife/mother. Then (insert loyal or agressive type). People on the other side hear "Bang" followed by *snap, *crash, smack, bam. Guy comes out "some reason the gun you gave me was all blanks, so I beat her to death with the chair".
long term sooner or later AI is going to reach the point where the differences between are smaller, In some ways we are just really complex deep learning/evolutionary algorythms. that duplicated themselves based on which ones didn't die. Also I suppose such a time won't be the first time in our history that we had something that effectively matched or exceeded our emotional intelligence, but we managed to define it as "less than animal". Yeah I know obviously right now we are talking a robot with litterally zero intelligence, explicitly programmed to do nothing more than play a recording begging for it's life. But at some point we will be hitting a point where robots that literally chose to want to live.
I'd assume the pre-human animals (and probably a good portion of past humans), stayed below using 1 earths worth of stuff, and thus we're eating into the surplus from past generations.
Oh they absolutely are embracing open source. It's just something that should make us more worried. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
well because I don't think they are "legally binding" contracts, more collusion between the companies "if you don't hire our workers, we won't hire yours, once you start hiring our guys, we'll start hiring yours". Outlawing agreements like that are like outlawing hiring people based on race, you can't really do that. IE yes it is 100% illegal to refuse to hire someone because they are black. But you also aren't under any obligation whatsoever to hire anyone ever, and a face to face interview is a fairly standard part of hiring and explaining why you chose someone else over them isn't even expected. So... as long as they don't outright say "I'm sorry I don't want to hire you because you are black", there's almost no chance that a company would face repercussions if they never hire a black person.
He never said it outlawed unions. It just creates a challange for the unions model. Normally union gets dues from all the employees, then the union pays and sends fancy lawyers to negotiate and force the company to pay people in that position more money, or fix whatever makes the job worse etc.... With right to work basically the people can chose not to join/pay the union. So at first say 75% of them join the union, 25% pass on it. The union does their job well, everyone gets more money, problems are fixed etc... but then people start realizing that the 25% got their cake and ate it too, they got all the benefits of the union's negotiations, without paying the union, as things go on people stop joining the union (as they get all the perks of the negotiations with or without paying)... but now as only 25% are paying union dues... the union can't afford good lawyers etc... The union doesn't have the power to demand higher wages, or better work environment etc... things start getting worse for everyone, inside and outside the union.
well yeah true, for those devices router level monitoring is the ideal solution. and if you are concerned with where your kids go online, don't get them data for their phone, or I know with apple products, you can always set restrictions and go with a White list method if you do want them to have data. (again I don't personally see a reason to actually stress or worry about it that much, but I know some parents who desire that above all else).
doesn't actually have to be a bluff, VNC would work for that. Sure they can turn it off... but then you'd easilly be able to see that it is turned off. Plus no shortage of routers etc... can see what pages are visited etc... Though I also gotta go with... why the fuck are we doing so much work to censor a pretty natural and inevitable act. Meanwhile 90% of the people who sweat about their kids god forbid finding their way to porn... won't bat an eye with their kids seeing hundreds of heads blown up and people dismembered.
I agree that's probably it in practice.. Where I may disagree is "will start to act", with, might think about it. I suppose I'd need to see the 1.721 part refrenced, but what exactly does a formal complaint force them to do besides look at it.
I don't know about you but I personally love RSS. Have 14 sites that add new articles daily (this place included), go to one page scroll through what has been added, don't need to refresh or look to see if any of them would have updated. Basically I can pretty easily keep up with reddit, Slashdot, and random other news sites. Plus the places that barely update once a week or so I don't have to check them, but since I'm checking my feed anyway I see their new posts right away.
I think they are trying to be like american health care... except for on a service that people barely want and nobody needs that is likely going to be dying on it's own in a few years.
In short their business plan is more or less. First spare no expense, do whatever it takes to become the means people use to go to movies. Get positioned to the point where if a cinema were to say "no we don't take movie pass here", means turning away half or more of their customers. Then use that new leverage to tell the theatres that they need a 75% discount for all of the customers they are bringing in. The theaters can accomplish this and keep their existing profit margins by raising their prices for non movie-pass customers (If they do this moviepass will just raise their fee, but it will be a bigger "savings" because of the new jacked up prices the theaters charge).
I do agree though it's still a stupid ripoff, while they are working to secure theatre rights, less people can really afford to go to the theatres, and more are waiting to see things on netflix etc... to save themselves from leaving their houses and paying ridiculous prices to begin with.
I'd have to disagree, psudonymity gives you a consistant personality. You still can be yourself, Assuming the service doesn't betrey you, and you don't poorly link or leave some kind of connection to your real world identity you can have a personality that is judged purely on what you've posted (yes past posts included), and have some kind of dialogue. Total anonymity I haven't really seen any serious discussions occur with, to me that always degrades into just trolling etc... with a good chance that many involved are arguing both sides for drama rather than anyone actually speaking their mind on the topics. Which can be good for humor, not so good for real discussion.
Welcome to the world of business. If you want to power the world you can... but if you can look good and speak with charisma you can get more fame regardless of knowledge level. Same reason why Jobs was center stage for so long.