they also changed the settings on podcasts to poll for new episodes every hour, instead of every six hours. So at 5 am your cell wakes up and uses the insecure bluetooth to connect to your hacker neighbor kid in the basement. If that source is too far away, it uses insecure Join Any Network wi-fi to connect to your hacker neighbor kid across the street in her basement.
But, they are literally sitting on a pile of cash larger than the money the US government just wasted on the US military in budget increases this year.
1. Having a Canadian city means if they have H1-B or other visa problems, they can work in North America in the interim. Unlike the FamilyIsEverything USA, Canada prioritizes highly educated English and French capable people for visas, so it's not a big deal. This would mean Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, Montreal and Gatwick are all prime locations.
2. Seattle itself could easily handle the growth. For example, you could just upzone Crown Hill in Ballard to be 40-100 story MFH (apartment/condo) buildings and allow commercial arterials to go 40-100 story as well, provided you fast track an E-W light rail link from Northgate (where the light rail ends in 2021) and maybe extend the monorail from Seattle Center to Crown Hill via a switch bridge. Most employees who get options won't be paying any local Seattle income tax, unless they're really stupid.
3. Whatever city other than these is included will need a high speed rail link. Not Accela, a real high speed rail like Vietnam, China, Japan, and the EU have. So anyone planning to get Amazon II will need to bash their legislature into order fast. Nobody cares what your excuses are, just what you can deliver.
Look, robots are all well and good, but they aren't operating at the level where they have souls. To them, they operate on learned parameters from a test environment, and running over an 85 yo man is just as good an outcome as running over a 36 yo pregnant woman or two 3 year old toddlers.
Which they will do. Because physics.
Stuff happens. Our morality will be outraged when it does, if it's AI and not humans. We think we know how to deal with humans and blame and decisions. We still don't know how to deal with AI value systems and failure. Which... always... happens.
The Internet predates the period you think of as it's "creation". It used to be all scientists for the most part, before we badly misjudge people and let the lawyers in. Who promptly created spam.
There is another Internet nowadays. We don't tell you about it, but it's much faster than this (40-100 Gbps) and it's also just scientists for the most part. We don't miss you.
Why didn't you at least pick a rich person who hasn't famously said they don't want their kids to inherit that kind of wealth, and so they're giving away 99% of everything? Maybe someone who shares the same initials as the condition he probably suffers from if he doesn't get his nightly martini?
1 percent of 70 billion is... wait for it... $700,000,000...
As a Canadian Army veteran, I was trained as an Oracle developer, went to Canadian universities and colleges, and then moved to the US.
I didn't move for money, or because I didn't like the military or anything, I moved because I met someone who was a citizen of another country with a kid there.
You can make all the retention programmes in the world and I still would have moved.
Did I make more in the US? Sure.
Did I like Canada's single payer national healthcare, run by provinces? Loved it!
Worry more about the cost of housing and education and the rest will fix itself.
Insightful comment. The main problem is economy of scale and ROI. Selling dryer sheets allows one to use existing dryer and filter technology (like for swimming pools and air intake filtration). Selling sewage only ones avoids drains that go direct to water sources, and limits usage only to medium to large cities.
Starting with dryer sheets and air/water intake or outlet filters is a good first step to provide a scalable non-urban environment, and can then be adapted for commercial urban sewage treatment as a side usage.
Always look at scale and cost per unit and difficulty of usage when designing new products. Marketing Econ 220.
As we all know, you can make compostable and biodegradeable furniture from vegetable matter, and even print it in 3D printers. It's not difficult to make vegetable matter biofilm solids to replace much plastic usage, in terms of plastic bags, plastic wrap, shipping foam, etc. Then this problem disappears, other than for those resins used for microfleece.
But even microfleece can be replaced by vegetable based bioplastics.
If it's for fashion, having something that only lasts a few times becomes less of an issue, or you can use ones that aren't water soluble until exposed to specific wavelengths. But for jackets and sweaters and caps, it's still a minor issue.
The future is bioplastics, replacing plastics. Sadly, we do have to remove the existing micro plastic remnants from our drinking supply, air, and ground for a while after we phase out plastics.
And there is no truth to the ability of the new iPhone X to use your face to allow the feds to unlock your phone and turn on bluetooth without telling you.
Really.
Trust us.
We would never do that.
By the way, you really need to get that mole looked at.
Basically, after some of us pointed out that the bitcoin exchanges were enabling Russia and North Korea to delay climate change action, and China had decided to force all new vehicles to become electric, they had to do something.
You can still exchange bitcoin legally, but only in person.
Consequences are like that. China does what it's going to do.
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they also changed the settings on podcasts to poll for new episodes every hour, instead of every six hours. So at 5 am your cell wakes up and uses the insecure bluetooth to connect to your hacker neighbor kid in the basement. If that source is too far away, it uses insecure Join Any Network wi-fi to connect to your hacker neighbor kid across the street in her basement.
Faraday cages for iPhones make wonderful housewarming and birthday gifts IMHO.
And it's all part of the new Cold War III we're in right now.
Security is a myth. Computer security doubly so.
You need to post options.
But, they are literally sitting on a pile of cash larger than the money the US government just wasted on the US military in budget increases this year.
So ... never.
Aaaahhhhhh!
Sorry, it was the first thing I noticed, because I never pay for apps, so nothing broke.
1. Having a Canadian city means if they have H1-B or other visa problems, they can work in North America in the interim. Unlike the FamilyIsEverything USA, Canada prioritizes highly educated English and French capable people for visas, so it's not a big deal. This would mean Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, Montreal and Gatwick are all prime locations.
2. Seattle itself could easily handle the growth. For example, you could just upzone Crown Hill in Ballard to be 40-100 story MFH (apartment/condo) buildings and allow commercial arterials to go 40-100 story as well, provided you fast track an E-W light rail link from Northgate (where the light rail ends in 2021) and maybe extend the monorail from Seattle Center to Crown Hill via a switch bridge. Most employees who get options won't be paying any local Seattle income tax, unless they're really stupid.
3. Whatever city other than these is included will need a high speed rail link. Not Accela, a real high speed rail like Vietnam, China, Japan, and the EU have. So anyone planning to get Amazon II will need to bash their legislature into order fast. Nobody cares what your excuses are, just what you can deliver.
Look, robots are all well and good, but they aren't operating at the level where they have souls. To them, they operate on learned parameters from a test environment, and running over an 85 yo man is just as good an outcome as running over a 36 yo pregnant woman or two 3 year old toddlers.
Which they will do. Because physics.
Stuff happens. Our morality will be outraged when it does, if it's AI and not humans. We think we know how to deal with humans and blame and decisions. We still don't know how to deal with AI value systems and failure. Which ... always ... happens.
The Internet predates the period you think of as it's "creation". It used to be all scientists for the most part, before we badly misjudge people and let the lawyers in. Who promptly created spam.
There is another Internet nowadays. We don't tell you about it, but it's much faster than this (40-100 Gbps) and it's also just scientists for the most part. We don't miss you.
Or realize it's all gone downhill since we let lawyers on this thing.
Now that would have been interesting.
If the US lived under capitalism, the corporation would be dissolved and its executives would be jailed.
Luckily, we live in a Mercantilist society, where only the oligarchs make the rules, and our "elections" are fixed.
Why didn't you at least pick a rich person who hasn't famously said they don't want their kids to inherit that kind of wealth, and so they're giving away 99% of everything? Maybe someone who shares the same initials as the condition he probably suffers from if he doesn't get his nightly martini?
1 percent of 70 billion is ... wait for it ... $700,000,000 ...
My point stands.
Seriously, at least they didn't light them on fire this time.
As a Canadian Army veteran, I was trained as an Oracle developer, went to Canadian universities and colleges, and then moved to the US.
I didn't move for money, or because I didn't like the military or anything, I moved because I met someone who was a citizen of another country with a kid there.
You can make all the retention programmes in the world and I still would have moved.
Did I make more in the US? Sure.
Did I like Canada's single payer national healthcare, run by provinces? Loved it!
Worry more about the cost of housing and education and the rest will fix itself.
And you are welcome for not having to spend money on defense since your cousins down here do it for you.
I'm a veteran. "Spend money on defense"?
Privacy is a Constitutional Right. It doesn't end at the border. And I kept your "cousins" safe.
Blanket? NORAD just admitted they won't do anything.
You're welcome for the satellites that keep you safe.
In Canada, the Canadian Constitution mandates Privacy.
People spend years handling the privacy popups required.
Oh. Wait. They don't. They just say "No" once and then the ads can't steal their info.
Hmmm.
Insightful comment. The main problem is economy of scale and ROI. Selling dryer sheets allows one to use existing dryer and filter technology (like for swimming pools and air intake filtration). Selling sewage only ones avoids drains that go direct to water sources, and limits usage only to medium to large cities.
Starting with dryer sheets and air/water intake or outlet filters is a good first step to provide a scalable non-urban environment, and can then be adapted for commercial urban sewage treatment as a side usage.
Always look at scale and cost per unit and difficulty of usage when designing new products. Marketing Econ 220.
As we all know, you can make compostable and biodegradeable furniture from vegetable matter, and even print it in 3D printers. It's not difficult to make vegetable matter biofilm solids to replace much plastic usage, in terms of plastic bags, plastic wrap, shipping foam, etc. Then this problem disappears, other than for those resins used for microfleece.
But even microfleece can be replaced by vegetable based bioplastics.
If it's for fashion, having something that only lasts a few times becomes less of an issue, or you can use ones that aren't water soluble until exposed to specific wavelengths. But for jackets and sweaters and caps, it's still a minor issue.
The future is bioplastics, replacing plastics. Sadly, we do have to remove the existing micro plastic remnants from our drinking supply, air, and ground for a while after we phase out plastics.
Just let me get my shotgun, a barrel of whiskey, and we can try it again where you surprise me by having a car drive itself down my rural road.
No guarantees it will return, mind you. Don't truck with ghost cars round these here parts.
Ok, we get it, the driver was Ted Cruzing at the time, and was not fully engaged in observing traffic, or at least not the correct traffic.
And there is no truth to the ability of the new iPhone X to use your face to allow the feds to unlock your phone and turn on bluetooth without telling you.
Really.
Trust us.
We would never do that.
By the way, you really need to get that mole looked at.
Look, I don't care about the dumb Watch, I'm not buying the 8 or the X, they're too big and clunky and the X is too p3rvy.
I'll buy the Apple iPhone 9 when it comes out, the Asian version that is smaller with the guts of the 8 but has no FaceP3rv tech.
I'm pretty sure that's Google's motto.
Basically, after some of us pointed out that the bitcoin exchanges were enabling Russia and North Korea to delay climate change action, and China had decided to force all new vehicles to become electric, they had to do something.
You can still exchange bitcoin legally, but only in person.
Consequences are like that. China does what it's going to do.