This might vary by region. Last time I went through one it was about 10 seconds of officer talking to driver to see if they seemed intoxicated and then sending anyone who seemed 'off' to the side.
Ahm.... these are DUI checkpoints. The revenue is not much, but they get drunk drivers who are currently drunk off the road. This isn't speed cameras or other big ticket revenue generators.
Eh, the checkpoints and people trying to get around them is an issue going back decades, and a pretty contentious one since it tries to address one of those areas where 'but my freedom!' ends up killing 3rd parties.
Ahm.. wasn't blitzkrieg something that ultimately did well as a short term tactic but failed as part of a larger strategy? Blitzkrieg is great if you care about winning the battle but don't care about losing the war.
Which I guess is the point of their advice. If your objective is to be healthy enough to get a nice profitable IPO or buyout, but not healthy enough to survive past that, then it might be a great strategy.
If I understand correctly, they are not looking at producing a consumer device, but instead custom hardware that would be optimized for their hosted services. Probably chips designed around the most processor intensive types of tasks their software does that can then be used by people running their cloud versions. So something like having a checkbox where they can run their render locally or send it out to these special servers for a fee and get them back quicker.
It would go in the data centre. It sounds like they are looking into building some custom hardware for running their services, so not something end users would have on-site.
It sounds like they want proprietary hardware running parts of their cloud services. So it would be invisible to the user and probably sitting in some data centre.
Well, it all comes down to how much better it runs. They are looking to companies that already host services and are using custom chips to speed up the hosting of their specific software. Some of their stuff is pretty processor intensive, they might have identified some places where having dedicated hardware would make a noticable difference.
Also without reading the book, if one tones down the drama of the conclusion, it actually lines up with a lot of predictions. The 'overpopulation' meme that people take as a given today was an outgrowth of racism/xenophobia from half a century back and as that fades researchers are finding that developed nations generally fall into patterns of reduced birthrates. For the last century or so this has been countered by developing nations being on a different part of the population curve and thus able to provide immigrants, but as they develop too it has been long predicted that we would eventually hit a point of global population decline. The interesting question will be how the impacts the economy since we are kinda stuck between 'robots will reduce the need for workers' and 'we constantly need more workers'.
Eh, the UN is a good reminder that while the US and Europe often believe they are the only countries in the world, the are not. I am not sure how you picture it being restructured since it already gives unparalleled power to a small number of founding nations, so not sure how much more skewed you can make it unless you just federalize the world under US control.
Eh, trust is all about predictability. UN committee assignments, like US Congressional ones, are tokens that nations pass between each other as part of deal making and rewards. So it behaves in a fairly predictable manner.
Sounds like he took much smaller amounts from a large number of people. So he did something on par with installing a card skimmer and emptying people's bank accounts.
He stole millions in something that can be exchanged for money. Doesn't matter what it was, and the severity of the crime should not be minimized simply because it was something the speaker does not value. If he had stolen gold bars or stacks of cash hopefully it would produce a similar sentence.
Juvee is pretty much useless if your goal is turning kids into productive members of society. Its only real use is making suburban parents feel safer and getting votes for prosecutors who list sending kids there as an accomplishment. If the police are going to do anything that might 'scare' the kid in a helpful way, community service or even probation would work a lot better, or, well, at all.
The other end of it, it is a great way to shame people from enforcing regulations on businesses. So there is a bit political/cultural advantage in deciding which laws are DIY and which have law enforcement supporting them.
Earlier this month I was paying my power bill and discovered I could control my heat/AC right the power company's website. I... think I'm gonna have another thermostat installed.
*nod* which is how permanent injury is supposed to work. The other party can not undo the damage, but can potentially face their own repercussions if they are found at fault for the horse getting away.
If the person had a case of privileged communication actually being recorded due to this bug and the recording getting into the hands of opposing council/police/media, then they might have a case. The potential though? Yeah... no standing.
It is how due to how the US legal system was written. A lot of US regulation depends on DIY justice. Rather than reporting a violation and having the state investigate and enforce, private citizens have to pony up the time and money to take each other to court. So it is less that people love lawsuits and more that is how one actually triggers the legal and regulatory process in many cases.
If such a recording happened, and it was done by someone involved in the case, it could cause permanent injury in terms of people having information in the case they should not have, which is a horse that is very difficult to put back in the barn.
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This might vary by region. Last time I went through one it was about 10 seconds of officer talking to driver to see if they seemed intoxicated and then sending anyone who seemed 'off' to the side.
For speed traps this is great. DUI, not so much.
Ahm.... these are DUI checkpoints. The revenue is not much, but they get drunk drivers who are currently drunk off the road. This isn't speed cameras or other big ticket revenue generators.
Eh, the checkpoints and people trying to get around them is an issue going back decades, and a pretty contentious one since it tries to address one of those areas where 'but my freedom!' ends up killing 3rd parties.
Ahm.. wasn't blitzkrieg something that ultimately did well as a short term tactic but failed as part of a larger strategy? Blitzkrieg is great if you care about winning the battle but don't care about losing the war.
Which I guess is the point of their advice. If your objective is to be healthy enough to get a nice profitable IPO or buyout, but not healthy enough to survive past that, then it might be a great strategy.
If I understand correctly, they are not looking at producing a consumer device, but instead custom hardware that would be optimized for their hosted services. Probably chips designed around the most processor intensive types of tasks their software does that can then be used by people running their cloud versions. So something like having a checkbox where they can run their render locally or send it out to these special servers for a fee and get them back quicker.
It would go in the data centre. It sounds like they are looking into building some custom hardware for running their services, so not something end users would have on-site.
It sounds like they want proprietary hardware running parts of their cloud services. So it would be invisible to the user and probably sitting in some data centre.
Well, it all comes down to how much better it runs. They are looking to companies that already host services and are using custom chips to speed up the hosting of their specific software. Some of their stuff is pretty processor intensive, they might have identified some places where having dedicated hardware would make a noticable difference.
But.. insulting people is how you get them to like you! It is the negging of international diplomacy.
It is amazing how upset people can be about the idea of others committing the ethical violations they want to commit.
Yeah, point, that was poor phrasing. Closer would be 'the US and the nations of western europe' or something.
Also without reading the book, if one tones down the drama of the conclusion, it actually lines up with a lot of predictions. The 'overpopulation' meme that people take as a given today was an outgrowth of racism/xenophobia from half a century back and as that fades researchers are finding that developed nations generally fall into patterns of reduced birthrates. For the last century or so this has been countered by developing nations being on a different part of the population curve and thus able to provide immigrants, but as they develop too it has been long predicted that we would eventually hit a point of global population decline. The interesting question will be how the impacts the economy since we are kinda stuck between 'robots will reduce the need for workers' and 'we constantly need more workers'.
Eh, the UN is a good reminder that while the US and Europe often believe they are the only countries in the world, the are not. I am not sure how you picture it being restructured since it already gives unparalleled power to a small number of founding nations, so not sure how much more skewed you can make it unless you just federalize the world under US control.
Eh, trust is all about predictability. UN committee assignments, like US Congressional ones, are tokens that nations pass between each other as part of deal making and rewards. So it behaves in a fairly predictable manner.
Sounds like he took much smaller amounts from a large number of people. So he did something on par with installing a card skimmer and emptying people's bank accounts.
He stole millions in something that can be exchanged for money. Doesn't matter what it was, and the severity of the crime should not be minimized simply because it was something the speaker does not value. If he had stolen gold bars or stacks of cash hopefully it would produce a similar sentence.
That the system is distributed and trustless is not a requirement of the problem, it is only a particular class of solution.
Juvee is pretty much useless if your goal is turning kids into productive members of society. Its only real use is making suburban parents feel safer and getting votes for prosecutors who list sending kids there as an accomplishment. If the police are going to do anything that might 'scare' the kid in a helpful way, community service or even probation would work a lot better, or, well, at all.
The other end of it, it is a great way to shame people from enforcing regulations on businesses. So there is a bit political/cultural advantage in deciding which laws are DIY and which have law enforcement supporting them.
Earlier this month I was paying my power bill and discovered I could control my heat/AC right the power company's website. I... think I'm gonna have another thermostat installed.
*nod* which is how permanent injury is supposed to work. The other party can not undo the damage, but can potentially face their own repercussions if they are found at fault for the horse getting away.
This.
If the person had a case of privileged communication actually being recorded due to this bug and the recording getting into the hands of opposing council/police/media, then they might have a case. The potential though? Yeah... no standing.
It is how due to how the US legal system was written. A lot of US regulation depends on DIY justice. Rather than reporting a violation and having the state investigate and enforce, private citizens have to pony up the time and money to take each other to court. So it is less that people love lawsuits and more that is how one actually triggers the legal and regulatory process in many cases.
If such a recording happened, and it was done by someone involved in the case, it could cause permanent injury in terms of people having information in the case they should not have, which is a horse that is very difficult to put back in the barn.