I think we can all agree that a Javascript variant is not something that should be used to make a server and yet, this is exactly what they used to write a server.
I was in the lab when they wanted people to help test if it worked right. We all had sensors attached to our bodies but as a fellow genius, I was thinking outside the box, so I immediately pulled off a sensor and dropped my drawers so that I could test how the sensor reacted to urine but wouldn't you know it, before I even peed on it, everyone else's sensors started going off! It's clear I've made a breakthrough in pee detection technology!;)
People don't like change or unexpected tastes. There is a reason that green ketchup died.
A faaar better use would be to make healthy foods slightly more palatable without sacrificing it's high nutritional value. Sadly, I foresee this being used to make fruits far sweeter which would make them very unhealthy.
What we need the government to start doing is evaluating goods based on their heath impact and how addictive they are and then place a tax on the food that will later be used to pay for the healthcare you'll need from consuming them. Humans are bad a long-term decision making therefore turning the long-term decision into a short-term one helps people make better choices.
Many pundits are predicting that autonomous cars are the future and once you have autonomous cars, owning a car would be lot more expensive than ride sharing services.
How about we at least look into some ways to defend against this?
That would require throwing the political party that is current in power, out of power and literally the only thing they care about is staying in power. To make things worse, they are about 40% of the nation and hate the rest of us for being "coastal elites".
That 'SlaughterBot' video that Elon Musk helped fund was overly hyperbolic bullshit.
How do you figure? A simple ASIC could make a database of millions of people easily searchable in real time with low power consumption. I think the least realistic part was the requirement to actually get close to you when a simple bullet could do all same damage at a greater range without destroying it which would enable multiple rounds to be on a single quadcopter.
If you are going to commit genocide then the SlaughterBot idea seems to be quite close to how a small group of people could realistically achieve it with no danger to themselves.
So using trains and repairing railroad tracks would be cheaper than using trucks and repairing roads? Sure you can add taxes to make one method cost more than another but ultimately the consumer pays either way.
The difference is that the cost is part of the products shipped (which you may or may not buy) instead of being paid by the government which will take money from all tax payers.
This is the difference between the cost of business and subsidies.
Not only did he call a guy who rescued kids a "pedo"
Indeed, he proved that is vulnerable to human emotion and misdirected his frustrations onto someone else. I understand it but that doesn't mean it's ok. A price will be paid for his words.
he also turns out to be one of the biggest contributors to Republican PAC's
There’s no doubt that Musk’s commitment to climate change is a life-long dedication: he has declared himself politically independent and announced comparative contributions to PACs aligned to the Democrats. His donation says more about the pernicious role of private money in the U.S. political system but it also shows the pragmatism of a man desperately striving for progress in a complex environment over someone who is a staunch ideologue.
If everyone depends on something is it actually subsidized?
Yes. Also, if properly taxed then the transport industry would likely shift toward using trains and other transportation methods. The result would be reduced damage to the roads which would require a smaller budget to maintain.
I'm just thrilled about all the new platforms! I already got a prototype of the Microsoft paperweight! It flawlessly holds papers down and only beeps, screeches and occasionally catches fire every so often when it needs to be rebooted after an update. Sure, it needs to be charged daily but my old paperweight never provided ultra-targeted advertisements. It's like I'm in the future, specifically 1984!:)
EVs will remain cheaper than ICE vehicles as long as they get to use the roads, bridges and tunnels for free.
Even if there was a 100% tax on the electricity used to power EVs, it would still be cheaper!
If you are serious about infrastructure taxes then you should tax based on damage done by weight. Big rigs with heavy loads do 10000x the damage as a your run of the mill two ton car. Trucking companies are effectively being subsidized by everyone else.
Much cheaper perhaps, until they figure out how to move the gas taxes per gallon to electric car taxes per kilowatt (or just plain tax you by the mile when you renew auto registration).
By the time that's required, ICE will be an expensive sinking ship.
There's just no such thing as a cheaper way to power cars... just a different way of doing things.
Actually, it's much cheaper to power an electric car.
if there was a better way to move fuel, everybody would be going for it.
And everybody would move to electric cars if the cars themselves cost the same amount of money.
Eventually, EVs will be similarly priced to ICE cars and ICE will quickly evaporate. The problem we currently face is mass manufacturing batteries in a way that will lower their cost.
Before "smart" TVs were even popular, experts warned everyone all about this. I mean, what's next, are they going to say that the voice assistants are a privacy threat? Seriously, everything that communicates with the manufacturer ("phones home") is a threat to your privacy and security and yes, should be investigated!
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I think we can all agree that a Javascript variant is not something that should be used to make a server and yet, this is exactly what they used to write a server.
I was in the lab when they wanted people to help test if it worked right. We all had sensors attached to our bodies but as a fellow genius, I was thinking outside the box, so I immediately pulled off a sensor and dropped my drawers so that I could test how the sensor reacted to urine but wouldn't you know it, before I even peed on it, everyone else's sensors started going off! It's clear I've made a breakthrough in pee detection technology! ;)
People don't like change or unexpected tastes. There is a reason that green ketchup died.
A faaar better use would be to make healthy foods slightly more palatable without sacrificing it's high nutritional value. Sadly, I foresee this being used to make fruits far sweeter which would make them very unhealthy.
What we need the government to start doing is evaluating goods based on their heath impact and how addictive they are and then place a tax on the food that will later be used to pay for the healthcare you'll need from consuming them. Humans are bad a long-term decision making therefore turning the long-term decision into a short-term one helps people make better choices.
Putin is not the boogeyman
Putin is an ex-KGB Lieutenant Colonel. If you don't qualify him as being a serious threat then you don't know shit.
If I'm about to be hit by a nuke then I don't want to be interrupted while I'm watching the new season of The Disastrous Life of Saiki K.! ;)
Many pundits are predicting that autonomous cars are the future and once you have autonomous cars, owning a car would be lot more expensive than ride sharing services.
Many pundits are also stupid.
It is known that it is not based on Linux. It uses a microkernel called Zircon.
The real shame is that they discontinued to project that the Zircon microkernel was being used for, a great roboassistant called Mr. Zirkon.
He had great features like:
* Voice interface
* Internal power source
* 100% homicidal
Frankly, I don't understand why they discontinued the project!
How about we at least look into some ways to defend against this?
That would require throwing the political party that is current in power, out of power and literally the only thing they care about is staying in power. To make things worse, they are about 40% of the nation and hate the rest of us for being "coastal elites".
Frankly, we deserve what we're getting about now.
I'm confused. Didn't Elon fall off everyone's carelist after his twitter gaf the other day?
You would completely disregard a person in all venues because they said a mean thing on Twitter? Allowing your feelings to blind you is a weakness.
That 'SlaughterBot' video that Elon Musk helped fund was overly hyperbolic bullshit.
How do you figure? A simple ASIC could make a database of millions of people easily searchable in real time with low power consumption. I think the least realistic part was the requirement to actually get close to you when a simple bullet could do all same damage at a greater range without destroying it which would enable multiple rounds to be on a single quadcopter.
If you are going to commit genocide then the SlaughterBot idea seems to be quite close to how a small group of people could realistically achieve it with no danger to themselves.
If your electronic voting booth runs a commercial operating system then you have already failed to secure your systems.
CloudPainter painted the worst clouds I've ever seen! ;)
So using trains and repairing railroad tracks would be cheaper than using trucks and repairing roads? Sure you can add taxes to make one method cost more than another but ultimately the consumer pays either way.
The difference is that the cost is part of the products shipped (which you may or may not buy) instead of being paid by the government which will take money from all tax payers.
This is the difference between the cost of business and subsidies.
Congrats on being retarded. ;)
Malware for free? You've got to be kidding, right?! :)
Not only did he call a guy who rescued kids a "pedo"
Indeed, he proved that is vulnerable to human emotion and misdirected his frustrations onto someone else. I understand it but that doesn't mean it's ok. A price will be paid for his words.
he also turns out to be one of the biggest contributors to Republican PAC's
I think you a missing the bigger picture.
Forbes:
There’s no doubt that Musk’s commitment to climate change is a life-long dedication: he has declared himself politically independent and announced comparative contributions to PACs aligned to the Democrats. His donation says more about the pernicious role of private money in the U.S. political system but it also shows the pragmatism of a man desperately striving for progress in a complex environment over someone who is a staunch ideologue.
If everyone depends on something is it actually subsidized?
Yes. Also, if properly taxed then the transport industry would likely shift toward using trains and other transportation methods. The result would be reduced damage to the roads which would require a smaller budget to maintain.
I'm just thrilled about all the new platforms! I already got a prototype of the Microsoft paperweight! It flawlessly holds papers down and only beeps, screeches and occasionally catches fire every so often when it needs to be rebooted after an update. Sure, it needs to be charged daily but my old paperweight never provided ultra-targeted advertisements. It's like I'm in the future, specifically 1984! :)
Two problems:
A) Many in PR don't want to be a state.
B) Existing states don't want to let anyone become a new state. (see also Statehood movement in the District of Columbia)
The problem here is that you are assuming that the amount of damage done is directly proportional to the weight of the vehicle because that is false.
"... like a bitch." ;)
EVs will remain cheaper than ICE vehicles as long as they get to use the roads, bridges and tunnels for free.
Even if there was a 100% tax on the electricity used to power EVs, it would still be cheaper!
If you are serious about infrastructure taxes then you should tax based on damage done by weight. Big rigs with heavy loads do 10000x the damage as a your run of the mill two ton car. Trucking companies are effectively being subsidized by everyone else.
Much cheaper perhaps, until they figure out how to move the gas taxes per gallon to electric car taxes per kilowatt (or just plain tax you by the mile when you renew auto registration).
By the time that's required, ICE will be an expensive sinking ship.
There's just no such thing as a cheaper way to power cars... just a different way of doing things.
Actually, it's much cheaper to power an electric car.
if there was a better way to move fuel, everybody would be going for it.
And everybody would move to electric cars if the cars themselves cost the same amount of money.
Eventually, EVs will be similarly priced to ICE cars and ICE will quickly evaporate. The problem we currently face is mass manufacturing batteries in a way that will lower their cost.
If you aren't removing things that aren't news from the "news feed" then it's not actually a news feed, it's just stories with a chance of truth.
Before "smart" TVs were even popular, experts warned everyone all about this. I mean, what's next, are they going to say that the voice assistants are a privacy threat? Seriously, everything that communicates with the manufacturer ("phones home") is a threat to your privacy and security and yes, should be investigated!