I think you just said the same thing as the post you were replying to. The implication is that not everyone can be retrained, meaning that some of the people displaced won't be able to be retrained, not that everyone displaced would be untrainable.
AWS argues that while MongoDB is great at what it does, its customers have found it hard to build fast and highly available applications on the open-source platform that can scale to multiple terabytes and hundreds of thousands of reads and writes per second. So what the company did was build its own document database, but made it compatible with the Apache 2.0 open source MongoDB 3.6 API.
So, it seems that they created their own implementation that is better and more efficient at scale (since that's what they're customers needed), and made it compatible with the existing APIs (so their customers wouldn't need to modify their code). So yeah, looks like they improved upon it rather than "imitated" it. (though, the AWS implementation appears to not include some of the latest features)
it's really no stretch to imagine a border patrolled by a fleet of drones.
Being patrolled by drones seems like it would be more effective than a wall anyway ($120,000 wireless charging notwithstanding). Unless you have people monitoring every part of the wall, it's pretty easy to overcome with a ladder (people have been doing this since castle walls were invented, which is why they also had people manning the walls), a shovel, or a saw (apparently the prototype "walls" they're testing can be pretty easily cut through).
Of course, just having fixed towers / poles with cameras mounted on them spaced out across the border might work even better and cheaper than drones. I'm not sure about the specific economics of either.
A local gas station chain has an app that lets me save $0.10/gallon by charging my checking account directly (since they don't have to pay the credit card fee). But that required me putting in my bank's routing number and the account number, so they essentially just send an electronic check.
I would never type in my bank account credentials to anything other than my bank's website, that's just all kinds of dumb. But, I've seen some "financial services" companies / web-apps that require you to do that (because apparently banking institutions haven't figured out or are allergic to Oauth), and then they analyze your spending for you and try to offer you advice / services... and apparently people do this.
That's not a bad idea, and could be something you could build yourself for your existing flat screen TV (though it likely would lack the fancy features they have for when it's in it's "almost fully rolled down" state, i.e. displaying the time, weather etc on just the top of the screen).
The show is even toned down a bit in that respect from the books, but that's largely due to logistical constraints and a different medium. The most notable difference is the lack of the "crash couches" which help them survive the extreme g-forces; they're replaced with your standard sci-fi chairs that they strap into.
There's also enough differences between the books and and the show that you're not going to be bored experiencing one after the other, but the overall plot-lines remain the same.
That's pretty much in a nut-shell. The superhero movies are so popular and prevalent right now because they essentially are marketed for everyone. They try to make it appeal to the largest audience as possible, and it seems to be working, at least for the time being. Which also explains why there are so many of them: they're profitable and network execs are becoming increasingly risk-averse. Why take a chance on some new, fresh idea when we can just make more sequels, tie-ins or remakes of established IP?
Having read the books, being dropped by Syfy and picked up by Amazon was probably the best thing that could have happened to the show. They'll have less restrictions placed on them (language mostly, but also pacing and episode length) and possibly a bigger budget, plus they'll be in 4K.
It's one of my all-time favorite shows, and it's incredible how it evolved over the years. A lot of shows tend to lose steam or go off the deep-end the longer they're on, but Person of Interest is one of those shows that only gets better.
I would assume it is stored in both places. I didn't see any language suggesting that the data needs to only be stored inside the country. Seems logical that a transaction crossing borders would be logged on both ends.
Not necessarily, especially if they were going around and stealing packages from multiple houses like some of the thieves in the video were doing, He purposely put a fake label with fake names and addresses on it, so the thief might not remember which house he stole that particular package from.
I used to hate Comcast with a passion after I had used them many years ago, but when I moved into my house about a year ago, Comcast was my only option. However, I was able to get a gigabit connection for $90/mo which was cheaper and faster than the 75mbps Verizon Fios connection I had prior. I can't really complain about that.
That's not a very good example, because all of the streaming services aren't really competing in the same sense. There is very little overlap of content between Netflix, Hulu, etc and each service has their own exclusive content which they view as "premium content", so they charge premium prices for it. If these streaming services were all forced to license their original content to the other services for a reasonable fee, then we could see real competition.
This new game store will be closer to real competition, since there is nothing stopping the developers from publishing their content on both platforms to maximize their audience. This competition likely will improve things for consumers.
I have to say that it was awful nice of the Russians to give us this demonstration of how easily everything form simple navigation to weapons targeting can be disastrously disrupted due to our over-reliance on GPS
My guess is that they wanted to test the equipment to gauge NATO's ability to deal with the disruption. No point in using jamming equipment if it's not going to be effective (i.e. if they already have redundant systems to prevent this kind of jamming), and you'd want to go back to the drawing board and come up with something more effective.
And purchasing something from it often means taking a gamble dealing with someone who is halfway around the world and only wants your money - he is not interested in building his store's brand nor product quality.
To some extent, that is true, but the reviews mean that a lot of seller in fact do care a great deal about product quality, and making you happy. If they get bad reviews on Amazon, they're not going to sell very much. Unless it's some sort of really niche product, people will tend to buy a similar product that has better reviews.
My wife reviews almost everything she buys on Amazon, and as a result she gets contacted by various sellers who offer to reimburse her for the cost of their products if she writes a review (and it doesn't have to be a good review to get the reimbursement). She once wrote a bad review of a product that she bought herself and the seller contacted her and offered to refund her if she removed the bad review, but she declined.
But when they ask him silly questions like "How do you make money if you don't charge users for your service?", I can understand why he wouldn't want to waste his time flying around the world...
and then use Javascript to render a JPEG of the
message text on a HTML5 canvas using WebGL GPU rendering in a manner where the Operating System
won't see the content
So what are visually impaired people that rely on screen readers supposed to do?
One thing we can count on is that there WILL be a war between the wealthy and those who actually work for a living(or try to). Training for jobs that in turn will be eliminated by AI makes the future a lot more of a challenge, so figuring out how to provide services that AI just can't do, to adapt to unusual circumstances, that is the future.
The future could be pretty bleak if that war doesn't happen until after the wealthy have their own automated weapons systems powered by that same AI...
Also, these echos appear to be contained inside SLU-branded cases, like the ones that the kids edition come in. What's to stop someone for swapping out the echo in some one else's room, to one that they have hacked or have control over? Should be trivial to remove the case from the original and plug in the hacked version.
Seems like it would be worse than if the whole system is monitored, because it would be directly targeting specific students.
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I think you just said the same thing as the post you were replying to. The implication is that not everyone can be retrained, meaning that some of the people displaced won't be able to be retrained, not that everyone displaced would be untrainable.
which means that Amazon is likely not using any source they simply made a compatible product.
That's the impression I got while reading the articles.
AWS argues that while MongoDB is great at what it does, its customers have found it hard to build fast and highly available applications on the open-source platform that can scale to multiple terabytes and hundreds of thousands of reads and writes per second. So what the company did was build its own document database, but made it compatible with the Apache 2.0 open source MongoDB 3.6 API.
So, it seems that they created their own implementation that is better and more efficient at scale (since that's what they're customers needed), and made it compatible with the existing APIs (so their customers wouldn't need to modify their code). So yeah, looks like they improved upon it rather than "imitated" it. (though, the AWS implementation appears to not include some of the latest features)
it's really no stretch to imagine a border patrolled by a fleet of drones.
Being patrolled by drones seems like it would be more effective than a wall anyway ($120,000 wireless charging notwithstanding). Unless you have people monitoring every part of the wall, it's pretty easy to overcome with a ladder (people have been doing this since castle walls were invented, which is why they also had people manning the walls), a shovel, or a saw (apparently the prototype "walls" they're testing can be pretty easily cut through).
Of course, just having fixed towers / poles with cameras mounted on them spaced out across the border might work even better and cheaper than drones. I'm not sure about the specific economics of either.
A local gas station chain has an app that lets me save $0.10/gallon by charging my checking account directly (since they don't have to pay the credit card fee). But that required me putting in my bank's routing number and the account number, so they essentially just send an electronic check.
I would never type in my bank account credentials to anything other than my bank's website, that's just all kinds of dumb. But, I've seen some "financial services" companies / web-apps that require you to do that (because apparently banking institutions haven't figured out or are allergic to Oauth), and then they analyze your spending for you and try to offer you advice / services... and apparently people do this.
That's not a bad idea, and could be something you could build yourself for your existing flat screen TV (though it likely would lack the fancy features they have for when it's in it's "almost fully rolled down" state, i.e. displaying the time, weather etc on just the top of the screen).
Looks like the biggest difference is that the "new" one has a sounbdbar built into the base that it rolls up into.
Season 3 was in 2018
The show is even toned down a bit in that respect from the books, but that's largely due to logistical constraints and a different medium. The most notable difference is the lack of the "crash couches" which help them survive the extreme g-forces; they're replaced with your standard sci-fi chairs that they strap into.
There's also enough differences between the books and and the show that you're not going to be bored experiencing one after the other, but the overall plot-lines remain the same.
That's pretty much in a nut-shell. The superhero movies are so popular and prevalent right now because they essentially are marketed for everyone. They try to make it appeal to the largest audience as possible, and it seems to be working, at least for the time being. Which also explains why there are so many of them: they're profitable and network execs are becoming increasingly risk-averse. Why take a chance on some new, fresh idea when we can just make more sequels, tie-ins or remakes of established IP?
Having read the books, being dropped by Syfy and picked up by Amazon was probably the best thing that could have happened to the show. They'll have less restrictions placed on them (language mostly, but also pacing and episode length) and possibly a bigger budget, plus they'll be in 4K.
Season 3 of The Man in the High Castle really kicks things up a notch too...
Altered Carbon was incredible and completely unexpected.
Counterpart on Amazon Video was also great, and the second season just started.
It's one of my all-time favorite shows, and it's incredible how it evolved over the years. A lot of shows tend to lose steam or go off the deep-end the longer they're on, but Person of Interest is one of those shows that only gets better.
I would assume it is stored in both places. I didn't see any language suggesting that the data needs to only be stored inside the country. Seems logical that a transaction crossing borders would be logged on both ends.
the thief-turned-victim has your home address.
Not necessarily, especially if they were going around and stealing packages from multiple houses like some of the thieves in the video were doing, He purposely put a fake label with fake names and addresses on it, so the thief might not remember which house he stole that particular package from.
I used to hate Comcast with a passion after I had used them many years ago, but when I moved into my house about a year ago, Comcast was my only option. However, I was able to get a gigabit connection for $90/mo which was cheaper and faster than the 75mbps Verizon Fios connection I had prior. I can't really complain about that.
That's not a very good example, because all of the streaming services aren't really competing in the same sense. There is very little overlap of content between Netflix, Hulu, etc and each service has their own exclusive content which they view as "premium content", so they charge premium prices for it. If these streaming services were all forced to license their original content to the other services for a reasonable fee, then we could see real competition.
This new game store will be closer to real competition, since there is nothing stopping the developers from publishing their content on both platforms to maximize their audience. This competition likely will improve things for consumers.
I have to say that it was awful nice of the Russians to give us this demonstration of how easily everything form simple navigation to weapons targeting can be disastrously disrupted due to our over-reliance on GPS
My guess is that they wanted to test the equipment to gauge NATO's ability to deal with the disruption. No point in using jamming equipment if it's not going to be effective (i.e. if they already have redundant systems to prevent this kind of jamming), and you'd want to go back to the drawing board and come up with something more effective.
It makes no sense. If Russia has the ability to do this, of course they wouldn't show it during a NATO exercise.
It makes perfect sense that Russia would run their own exercise to test their jamming equipment and gauge NATO's ability to deal with it.
And purchasing something from it often means taking a gamble dealing with someone who is halfway around the world and only wants your money - he is not interested in building his store's brand nor product quality.
To some extent, that is true, but the reviews mean that a lot of seller in fact do care a great deal about product quality, and making you happy. If they get bad reviews on Amazon, they're not going to sell very much. Unless it's some sort of really niche product, people will tend to buy a similar product that has better reviews.
My wife reviews almost everything she buys on Amazon, and as a result she gets contacted by various sellers who offer to reimburse her for the cost of their products if she writes a review (and it doesn't have to be a good review to get the reimbursement). She once wrote a bad review of a product that she bought herself and the seller contacted her and offered to refund her if she removed the bad review, but she declined.
But when they ask him silly questions like "How do you make money if you don't charge users for your service?", I can understand why he wouldn't want to waste his time flying around the world...
I imagine cat hair clogging up the air intakes on the servers would become an issue...
and then use Javascript to render a JPEG of the message text on a HTML5 canvas using WebGL GPU rendering in a manner where the Operating System won't see the content
So what are visually impaired people that rely on screen readers supposed to do?
One thing we can count on is that there WILL be a war between the wealthy and those who actually work for a living(or try to). Training for jobs that in turn will be eliminated by AI makes the future a lot more of a challenge, so figuring out how to provide services that AI just can't do, to adapt to unusual circumstances, that is the future.
The future could be pretty bleak if that war doesn't happen until after the wealthy have their own automated weapons systems powered by that same AI...
Also, these echos appear to be contained inside SLU-branded cases, like the ones that the kids edition come in. What's to stop someone for swapping out the echo in some one else's room, to one that they have hacked or have control over? Should be trivial to remove the case from the original and plug in the hacked version.
Seems like it would be worse than if the whole system is monitored, because it would be directly targeting specific students.