I think the difficultly here is in part that when making decisions for yourself you have to concentrate on detail, since you are the one who will be carrying out the action. Saying "You should ask for a raise" completely ignores any of the when and how that the person doing the asking needs to figure out, so it's categorically easier.
If there is a fault in the "cautious mindset" it might be trying to calculate the overall success of an endeavor as the product of the success of all its parts, not taking into account that taken as a whole there may be more of a margin of error. As an example using the "asking for a raise" scenario, the asker might think that they need to wait for the perfect time, when in fact their boss's decision would likely not be overly affected by the time they were approached, and be based instead on long-term performance.
It is a matter of giving room for escalation. If you continue to park illegally, and/or don't pay your fines, your car will be towed. (I can speak from experience) Now you have to pay your fines, and additional fines on top of that. This prevents people from just deciding it's more expedient to not pay.
Now let's go back to fare evasion. There is nothing to impound except the person. I can issue you a fine, but what if you refuse to give me your name? Who do I make the ticket out to? What if you do give me ID, but it turns out you already have 10 unpaid tickets over the last year, can I put you in jail then? If there is no room to escalate, then I just give you an 11th ticket and you go on your way.
Not to mention a $50 fine is only about 10% of a rush hour fare. At a point fare evasion starts to be cost effective, considering that pretty much nobody gets caught. (I've personally seen a lot of metro fare evasion, and never seen anyone actually stopped for it)
That being said, if the penalties are too harsh, then metro employees are more likely to look the other way, so there is a reason not to go overboard.
It's strange this is happening now when it seems Sci-Fi as a genre seems to be a historic low. I was just talking to a good friend about the difficultly of finding anything good among recently written sci-fi novels, it seems everything has devolved into incoherent fanfic-like neofantasy. I tend to think we've just moved to a point where trying to imagine the world in 40 years is almost impossible, the few futurists we do have seem to produce what would have been regarded in the past as modest goals and short horizons. I wonder if this is related: does the lack of public futurism mean that the private businesses have to create their own?
The buyout of Toys'R'Us was in 2005, Deval Patrick joined Bain Capital in 2015. Not to say he's an angel, but it is disingenuous to say he was part of this.
GM was actually a leader in electric back around 96-97, and even in the early 2000s they still had some engineering and patents that could have made them a contender in that space, but nothing ever came of it. If they weren't able to capitalize before I'm not sure how they are going to do so now.
The problem is not "public" services, it is deciding that certain "public" services should be operated as businesses. Expecting public transit services to pay for themselves is as ridiculous as expecting that the highway department should be revenue neutral. Transportation in its many forms is necessary to a healthy economy, the best way to facilitate it is through taxes.
The issue is this isn't a map of the moon, the maps need to be changed and updated all the time. Currently the data collectors have a reason to do this, if they fall behind their opposition will gain the edge of being seen as "more reliable". Now if they have access to their competitors data there will be the parity that you point out, and with no fear of being left behind there will be no reason to spend money to unilaterally update.
I think the odd thing not being pointed out is that these companies do this work through a gigantic network of subcontractors, nationalizing the process is going to completely change that ecosystem as well, not necessarily for the better.
I think what they are looking at here is not long term delivery, but what is the quickest point-to-point in an urban setting. Having a helicopter ready to go airborne is not cheap, whereas a drone can literally be left in a shed until it's needed. Also helicopters will ostensibly have tighter regulations on when and where they can fly since they do a lot more damage in a crash than a drone. Take the example of a helicopter grounded in bad weather- it can't fly because if it wrecks in can cause considerable damage and kill the pilots. In comparison, a drone is potentially expendable, isn't very likely to do much damage if it crashes, so all you are risking is the organ itself, which will soon be worthless if it doesn't get a move on anyway.
Seeing as how Amazon still has no idea what I might actually be interested in buying despite me doing quite a bit of shopping and browsing with them, (You bought a part for your car, so how about the same part, for a different car?) I have a hard time believing they would be able to make a full length book that would be anything more than a poor remix of something I had previously read.
The thing that seems to be lost in these discussions is that it wouldn't be difficult for the FBI or someone to actually investigate the scammers and put a stop to it that way. If the scammers are receiving money then there has to be a way to trace it back to them. I strongly suspect there are far fewer scammers than one would imagine, as I recall a huge volume of scam phonecalls were traced to one guy in Florida.
Crystal city is built out, but the occupancy rates are in the toilet. Vornado would gleefully tear down some of its 60's era office towers for new construction with higher paying tenants.
So while reading the "comments" where it seems everyone is accusing everyone else of being a shill, I couldn't help but thinking any number of them could actually be from Chinese or Russians, working against each other to either discredit the story or hype it up. As an American it seems strange to live in a world where everything around you has the potential to be tainted by foreign psyops, I imagine this must be a little bit like the third world felt during the cold war.
So examining the links, apparently this type of thing is basically grunt work that lawyers are called on to do. They don't really say what the issues were, but I imagine they are mistakes of a very basic nature, important clauses left out, contradictions that may invalidate the document, not things that one side or the other would actually try to include (unless they wanted a worthless contract, which they might) The impression I got was that this is more like comparing a spellchecker to an editor, this software might be better at this task but that it doesn't make it some sort of lawyer-replacing AI. Now calling it a paralegal-replacing AI might be more accurate.
This makes a good point. There should be enough of the boards in question around to study (if there aren't, that would be its own interesting point to consider) Before we make this all about motives, lets see what the physical evidence is or is not. With that in hand, we can go the other way, and get a much better idea of what the actual motives are.
Nothing, really. I recently got a new work phone, and while I have hardly ever used it and never put the number out in public I get a significant amount of spam calls on it. The majority are in what I believe to be Chinese, which in all honesty makes them more amusing than annoying.
I'm actually amazed at how graceful and light it looks as it moves. I imagine some of that is because its limbs and body are rigid and don't flex the way a human would, but just watching it looks light as a feather, not the 82 kg it actually weighs.
"Lacerations on her head and neck" coupled with "was found slouched in her chair with a kitchen knife in her hand, appearing as if she killed herself" makes me think this was the weakest plan to throw the cops off of all time. Who kills themselves by wildly stabbing at their head and neck? C'mon guy at least open the window and try to make it look like an intruder or something.
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Why wouldn't you be able to rub it across your shoulder blades? The small of your back no, but you should be able to touch your shoulder blades.
I think the difficultly here is in part that when making decisions for yourself you have to concentrate on detail, since you are the one who will be carrying out the action. Saying "You should ask for a raise" completely ignores any of the when and how that the person doing the asking needs to figure out, so it's categorically easier.
If there is a fault in the "cautious mindset" it might be trying to calculate the overall success of an endeavor as the product of the success of all its parts, not taking into account that taken as a whole there may be more of a margin of error. As an example using the "asking for a raise" scenario, the asker might think that they need to wait for the perfect time, when in fact their boss's decision would likely not be overly affected by the time they were approached, and be based instead on long-term performance.
Now let's go back to fare evasion. There is nothing to impound except the person. I can issue you a fine, but what if you refuse to give me your name? Who do I make the ticket out to? What if you do give me ID, but it turns out you already have 10 unpaid tickets over the last year, can I put you in jail then? If there is no room to escalate, then I just give you an 11th ticket and you go on your way.
Not to mention a $50 fine is only about 10% of a rush hour fare. At a point fare evasion starts to be cost effective, considering that pretty much nobody gets caught. (I've personally seen a lot of metro fare evasion, and never seen anyone actually stopped for it)
That being said, if the penalties are too harsh, then metro employees are more likely to look the other way, so there is a reason not to go overboard.
Also, if anyone has some good sci-fi book recommendations let me know.
It's strange this is happening now when it seems Sci-Fi as a genre seems to be a historic low. I was just talking to a good friend about the difficultly of finding anything good among recently written sci-fi novels, it seems everything has devolved into incoherent fanfic-like neofantasy. I tend to think we've just moved to a point where trying to imagine the world in 40 years is almost impossible, the few futurists we do have seem to produce what would have been regarded in the past as modest goals and short horizons. I wonder if this is related: does the lack of public futurism mean that the private businesses have to create their own?
The buyout of Toys'R'Us was in 2005, Deval Patrick joined Bain Capital in 2015. Not to say he's an angel, but it is disingenuous to say he was part of this.
This is an underrated comment.
GM was actually a leader in electric back around 96-97, and even in the early 2000s they still had some engineering and patents that could have made them a contender in that space, but nothing ever came of it. If they weren't able to capitalize before I'm not sure how they are going to do so now.
Energy densities have certainly not been increasing by 20% per year, more like 5-8% per year.
This is an underrated comment.
The problem is not "public" services, it is deciding that certain "public" services should be operated as businesses. Expecting public transit services to pay for themselves is as ridiculous as expecting that the highway department should be revenue neutral. Transportation in its many forms is necessary to a healthy economy, the best way to facilitate it is through taxes.
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The issue is this isn't a map of the moon, the maps need to be changed and updated all the time. Currently the data collectors have a reason to do this, if they fall behind their opposition will gain the edge of being seen as "more reliable". Now if they have access to their competitors data there will be the parity that you point out, and with no fear of being left behind there will be no reason to spend money to unilaterally update.
I think the odd thing not being pointed out is that these companies do this work through a gigantic network of subcontractors, nationalizing the process is going to completely change that ecosystem as well, not necessarily for the better.
I think what they are looking at here is not long term delivery, but what is the quickest point-to-point in an urban setting. Having a helicopter ready to go airborne is not cheap, whereas a drone can literally be left in a shed until it's needed. Also helicopters will ostensibly have tighter regulations on when and where they can fly since they do a lot more damage in a crash than a drone. Take the example of a helicopter grounded in bad weather- it can't fly because if it wrecks in can cause considerable damage and kill the pilots. In comparison, a drone is potentially expendable, isn't very likely to do much damage if it crashes, so all you are risking is the organ itself, which will soon be worthless if it doesn't get a move on anyway.
Seeing as how Amazon still has no idea what I might actually be interested in buying despite me doing quite a bit of shopping and browsing with them, (You bought a part for your car, so how about the same part, for a different car?) I have a hard time believing they would be able to make a full length book that would be anything more than a poor remix of something I had previously read.
The thing that seems to be lost in these discussions is that it wouldn't be difficult for the FBI or someone to actually investigate the scammers and put a stop to it that way. If the scammers are receiving money then there has to be a way to trace it back to them. I strongly suspect there are far fewer scammers than one would imagine, as I recall a huge volume of scam phonecalls were traced to one guy in Florida.
Say what? There is nothing slow about it, and it's pretty far from a pit.
Crystal city is built out, but the occupancy rates are in the toilet. Vornado would gleefully tear down some of its 60's era office towers for new construction with higher paying tenants.
So while reading the "comments" where it seems everyone is accusing everyone else of being a shill, I couldn't help but thinking any number of them could actually be from Chinese or Russians, working against each other to either discredit the story or hype it up. As an American it seems strange to live in a world where everything around you has the potential to be tainted by foreign psyops, I imagine this must be a little bit like the third world felt during the cold war.
So examining the links, apparently this type of thing is basically grunt work that lawyers are called on to do. They don't really say what the issues were, but I imagine they are mistakes of a very basic nature, important clauses left out, contradictions that may invalidate the document, not things that one side or the other would actually try to include (unless they wanted a worthless contract, which they might) The impression I got was that this is more like comparing a spellchecker to an editor, this software might be better at this task but that it doesn't make it some sort of lawyer-replacing AI. Now calling it a paralegal-replacing AI might be more accurate.
Wow. Why would you say something like that publicly? "Yeah our customers want to leave, but we got 'em by the balls!"
This makes a good point. There should be enough of the boards in question around to study (if there aren't, that would be its own interesting point to consider) Before we make this all about motives, lets see what the physical evidence is or is not. With that in hand, we can go the other way, and get a much better idea of what the actual motives are.
Nothing, really. I recently got a new work phone, and while I have hardly ever used it and never put the number out in public I get a significant amount of spam calls on it. The majority are in what I believe to be Chinese, which in all honesty makes them more amusing than annoying.
I'm actually amazed at how graceful and light it looks as it moves. I imagine some of that is because its limbs and body are rigid and don't flex the way a human would, but just watching it looks light as a feather, not the 82 kg it actually weighs.
"Lacerations on her head and neck" coupled with "was found slouched in her chair with a kitchen knife in her hand, appearing as if she killed herself" makes me think this was the weakest plan to throw the cops off of all time. Who kills themselves by wildly stabbing at their head and neck? C'mon guy at least open the window and try to make it look like an intruder or something.