so what is the motive for the government to go 'big' on climate change?
One possibility here is that once people accept that climate and the environment in general needs to be continuously managed, this would mean that left wing interventionist governments need to be the de facto standard.
Well that's what this Intel thingy is. There's already a standard slot in TV sets but it's not really for user applications (I think!). If the Compute Card slots become mainstream for different screen devices, this is yet another form factor that might be useful at a (hopefully) low price.
OK more battery life is good. Now, if we are using a 15" screen, what benefit is there to using 4K resolution and use up more of that battery capacity? Can't we find a middle ground between 1368x768 and some overkill and expensive screen resolution?
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Actually owning the vehicles would cost a ton of money for no obvious benefit to Uber. Uber owning the vehicles (autonomous or not) would
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I'll agree but for a different reason. Banks and car manufacturers will be in a better position to own these vehicles, leasing them to whoever wants to run a Uber-enabled taxi service. With self-driven vehicles, human drivers cease to take a cut of the sales, but other types of company will step in to make money from their assets.
The benefit for Uber is to carry being seen as the tech people that facilitate business and take their slice of the cake, while avoiding that investment in cars, insurance, maintenance, etc. For now all they need to do is get those self-driven vehicles on the road and legal. The expansion of fleets can be handled by other companies.
Next step: buy or get bought by a payments processor.
That's quite possible. In parallel, it can also have happened that younger and urban voters were over-represented in polls, while a significant number of older people that voted Trump (and other republican party candidates before him) may have been reachable only off-line. Here on Slashdot I also read that there were online forums advising Trump voters to not disclose their preference in polls, as a tactic to lead overly confident HC voters to not make the effort to go and vote, as she was pretty much guaranteed to win. Quite clever if this happened, as the more radical voters on every election are guaranteed to turn up, while the moderates are more prone to apathy. I don't think it will be possible to ever measure or confirm this idea.
The first link (a fairly long article I admit) then links to an official gov.uk document that explains the purpose of the subsidies. Here's an excerpt from the introduction:
Petroleum revenue tax reduction Who is likely to be affected? Oil and gas companies that operate in the UK or on the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS). [...] Policy objective This package of measures supports the government’s objective of providing the right conditions for business investment to maximise the economic recovery of the UK’s oil and gas resources, at a time when the North Sea industry is facing considerable challenges.
From the 2nd link I randomly looked for any source with the named subsidy or benefit. Those that clearly are specific to fossil fuels and can be traced to industry associations rather than fossil fuel opposition groups include:
Credit for Production of Nonconventional Fuels (annual subsidy: $14 billion)- IRC Section 45K. This provision provides a tax credit for the production of certain fuels. Qualifying fuels include: oil from shale, tar sands; gas from geopressurized brine, Devonian shale, coal seams, tight formations, biomass, and coal-based synthetic fuels. This credit has historically primarily benefited coal producers.
Exclusion of Alternative Fuels from Fuel Excise Tax (annual subsiy: $343 million) - IRC Section 6426(d). This section applies to liquified petroleum gas (LPG), P-series fuels (defined at 42 U.S.C. 13211(2)), compressed natural gas (CNG), liquefied natural gas (LNG), liquefied hydrogen,3 liquid coal, and liquid hydrocarbon from biomass.
To me it looks like YES, there are broad tax breaks for anyone, and Yes, there are tax breaks/subsidies that are specific to fossil fuel industries. It would take a much more detailed reading and serious factchecking of all these documents and tax codes to figure out just how big the tax credits and subsidies are, and whether that industry has an expecially good (or bad!) deal with the government. For now though, I think it's clear that there is more than Jedi handwaving, and that decisions to stabilise prices and sweeten some tax deals for coal/oil companies are taken both by the UK and the USA governments.
me too!:) This week I used the 2nd SIM slot on my Lenovo K5 for the first time. The usual phone number is still on for calls and SMS, and EUR10 bought me 10Gig to use for the week long trip. It might not be an actual saving, but it certainly gave me 100% certainty around the price for accessing the internets.
Yes, I'm sure that with enough time someone will come up with these and other downsides. However, these are all things that can and should be mitigated. The obvious way to implement V2V technology broadly and in a cheap way is to put it in mobile phones rather than in the car itself. For those who get a new vehicle with V2V, it is useful if it uses shared software with people who are using mobile phone based V2V. That's how more errors will be detected, how vulnerabilities are addressed, how machine learning can get started, and how more people can benefit in a shorter time frame.
The privacy aspects will be a struggle as there will be valid reasons to want to ID each driver and vehicle, and valid reasons to want to avoid that (or subject individual ID to court order, for example). Again, if there are apps for V2V (apps! appers! luddites! etc.) then buyers will choose whichever suits their preference, and everybody needs to get a call in to their elected representatives to guide them in setting out what's the legal baseline that is acceptable.
Problem is, it's kind of useless to have all that expensive gear in my car if no one else does. There'd be no one listening and no one talking to me. So how to get the ball rolling?
Well if the device is well made for 2 wheel vehicles (small, not power hungry, cheap, not worth stealing) then I'll volunteer to carry one from the get go. Other cyclists and motorcyclists would do well to consider doing the same and this means retrofitting the tech to existing vehicles, not waiting for the next purchase.
I don't know about other people, but IMHO, self-driving and AI-assisted vehicles hold great promise for those of us who travel on two wheels and therefore are more vulnerable in case of accident.
Sometimes the guys at Science Based Medicine blog about this subject. In general those guys object to "right to try" because: a) patients who are desperate enough to try *anything* are potential victims for quacks to sell stuff under the guise of "clinical trials" (the results of those trials never being published is a good clue as to whether the trial was genuine in the first place) b) pharmaceutical companies could use "exceptionally urgent trials" as a conduit to get products to the market earlier than normal regulation allows.
Maybe if all trials could be published properly this could be a good way to weed out the quacky ones from actual attempts to treat really sick people.
And yet if you put an iPhone 4 next to a more modern phone, the iPhone 4 will look chunky and dated. There is an expectation of improvement, and the size of phones has always been a factor.
Obviously, they should learn from older forums on the internet and use moderation and meta moderation. The use of "Agree" and "Disagree" buttons along those that add or subtract karma points is also a good step, but of course, Facebook wanted everyone to just have a positive outlook on life, hence the Like button being the only one they had for years.
ahaha. I've been keeping this in my bookmarks/bucket list for years. I don't think VR would be an acceptable replacement. Even if I have to dodge a few bullets here and there:)
Yep. The barcode scanner is used for all items, if some restricted products are scanned, the till won't let you go through to payment before the supermarket attendant comes over and approves the transaction.
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so what is the motive for the government to go 'big' on climate change?
One possibility here is that once people accept that climate and the environment in general needs to be continuously managed, this would mean that left wing interventionist governments need to be the de facto standard.
Well that's what this Intel thingy is. There's already a standard slot in TV sets but it's not really for user applications (I think!). If the Compute Card slots become mainstream for different screen devices, this is yet another form factor that might be useful at a (hopefully) low price.
I believe it's a Beowulf cluster you're supposed to be imagining!
OK more battery life is good. Now, if we are using a 15" screen, what benefit is there to using 4K resolution and use up more of that battery capacity? Can't we find a middle ground between 1368x768 and some overkill and expensive screen resolution?
Given that there is this limitation imposed on the software authors:
It can process the most common media files and DVD/Blu-ray sources that don’t have any type of copy protection.
What is handbrake good for?
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Actually owning the vehicles would cost a ton of money for no obvious benefit to Uber. Uber owning the vehicles (autonomous or not) would
[..]
I'll agree but for a different reason. Banks and car manufacturers will be in a better position to own these vehicles, leasing them to whoever wants to run a Uber-enabled taxi service. With self-driven vehicles, human drivers cease to take a cut of the sales, but other types of company will step in to make money from their assets.
The benefit for Uber is to carry being seen as the tech people that facilitate business and take their slice of the cake, while avoiding that investment in cars, insurance, maintenance, etc. For now all they need to do is get those self-driven vehicles on the road and legal. The expansion of fleets can be handled by other companies.
Next step: buy or get bought by a payments processor.
That's quite possible. In parallel, it can also have happened that younger and urban voters were over-represented in polls, while a significant number of older people that voted Trump (and other republican party candidates before him) may have been reachable only off-line.
Here on Slashdot I also read that there were online forums advising Trump voters to not disclose their preference in polls, as a tactic to lead overly confident HC voters to not make the effort to go and vote, as she was pretty much guaranteed to win. Quite clever if this happened, as the more radical voters on every election are guaranteed to turn up, while the moderates are more prone to apathy. I don't think it will be possible to ever measure or confirm this idea.
Too bad they are not a taxi company, they could ring the Lost & Found department.
Everyone knows you need to use an anti-laser to get the appropriate results.
no need. you can just turn the knob to "anti-blast".
The first link (a fairly long article I admit) then links to an official gov.uk document that explains the purpose of the subsidies. Here's an excerpt from the introduction:
Petroleum revenue tax reduction
Who is likely to be affected?
Oil and gas companies that operate in the UK or on the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS).
[...]
Policy objective
This package of measures supports the government’s objective of providing the right
conditions for business investment to maximise the economic recovery of the UK’s oil and
gas resources, at a time when the North Sea industry is facing considerable challenges.
(the link is to: https://www.gov.uk/government/...)
From the 2nd link I randomly looked for any source with the named subsidy or benefit. Those that clearly are specific to fossil fuels and can be traced to industry associations rather than fossil fuel opposition groups include:
Credit for Production of Nonconventional Fuels (annual subsidy: $14 billion)- IRC Section 45K. This provision provides a tax credit for the production of certain fuels. Qualifying fuels include: oil from shale, tar sands; gas from geopressurized brine, Devonian shale, coal seams, tight formations, biomass, and coal-based synthetic fuels. This credit has historically primarily benefited coal producers.
Exclusion of Alternative Fuels from Fuel Excise Tax (annual subsiy: $343 million) - IRC Section 6426(d). This section applies to liquified petroleum gas (LPG), P-series fuels (defined at 42 U.S.C. 13211(2)), compressed natural gas (CNG), liquefied natural gas (LNG), liquefied hydrogen,3 liquid coal, and liquid hydrocarbon from biomass.
To me it looks like YES, there are broad tax breaks for anyone, and Yes, there are tax breaks/subsidies that are specific to fossil fuel industries. It would take a much more detailed reading and serious factchecking of all these documents and tax codes to figure out just how big the tax credits and subsidies are, and whether that industry has an expecially good (or bad!) deal with the government. For now though, I think it's clear that there is more than Jedi handwaving, and that decisions to stabilise prices and sweeten some tax deals for coal/oil companies are taken both by the UK and the USA governments.
Here's some names and dates, which appear to be specific to energy companies:
link 1
link 2
link 3
me too! :) This week I used the 2nd SIM slot on my Lenovo K5 for the first time. The usual phone number is still on for calls and SMS, and EUR10 bought me 10Gig to use for the week long trip. It might not be an actual saving, but it certainly gave me 100% certainty around the price for accessing the internets.
Yes, I'm sure that with enough time someone will come up with these and other downsides. However, these are all things that can and should be mitigated.
The obvious way to implement V2V technology broadly and in a cheap way is to put it in mobile phones rather than in the car itself. For those who get a new vehicle with V2V, it is useful if it uses shared software with people who are using mobile phone based V2V. That's how more errors will be detected, how vulnerabilities are addressed, how machine learning can get started, and how more people can benefit in a shorter time frame.
The privacy aspects will be a struggle as there will be valid reasons to want to ID each driver and vehicle, and valid reasons to want to avoid that (or subject individual ID to court order, for example). Again, if there are apps for V2V (apps! appers! luddites! etc.) then buyers will choose whichever suits their preference, and everybody needs to get a call in to their elected representatives to guide them in setting out what's the legal baseline that is acceptable.
Human drivers are already expected to dodge obstacles and other road users, and AI-driven vehicles are replicating that behaviour :)
Problem is, it's kind of useless to have all that expensive gear in my car if no one else does. There'd be no one listening and no one talking to me. So how to get the ball rolling?
Well if the device is well made for 2 wheel vehicles (small, not power hungry, cheap, not worth stealing) then I'll volunteer to carry one from the get go. Other cyclists and motorcyclists would do well to consider doing the same and this means retrofitting the tech to existing vehicles, not waiting for the next purchase.
I don't know about other people, but IMHO, self-driving and AI-assisted vehicles hold great promise for those of us who travel on two wheels and therefore are more vulnerable in case of accident.
Sometimes the guys at Science Based Medicine blog about this subject. In general those guys object to "right to try" because:
a) patients who are desperate enough to try *anything* are potential victims for quacks to sell stuff under the guise of "clinical trials" (the results of those trials never being published is a good clue as to whether the trial was genuine in the first place)
b) pharmaceutical companies could use "exceptionally urgent trials" as a conduit to get products to the market earlier than normal regulation allows.
Maybe if all trials could be published properly this could be a good way to weed out the quacky ones from actual attempts to treat really sick people.
Can someone please mod this up.
And yet if you put an iPhone 4 next to a more modern phone, the iPhone 4 will look chunky and dated. There is an expectation of improvement, and the size of phones has always been a factor.
In this case, the hyphen is replaced by a live studio audience laughing really loud. Maybe that's what Facebook needs.
Obviously, they should learn from older forums on the internet and use moderation and meta moderation. The use of "Agree" and "Disagree" buttons along those that add or subtract karma points is also a good step, but of course, Facebook wanted everyone to just have a positive outlook on life, hence the Like button being the only one they had for years.
Thanks!
ahaha. :)
I've been keeping this in my bookmarks/bucket list for years. I don't think VR would be an acceptable replacement. Even if I have to dodge a few bullets here and there
nope, but I'd like to visit one day :)
Yep. The barcode scanner is used for all items, if some restricted products are scanned, the till won't let you go through to payment before the supermarket attendant comes over and approves the transaction.