There were never wildfires before climate change was discovered.
Only if you promote false dichotomy arguments and don't bother to read even the summary: "Climate change makes fires there more frequent and more severe."
Right. Because human beings moving into those areas doesn't cause more frequent and more severe fires. Must be climate change.
Did you seriously just reply to the accusation of making a false dichotomy by piling on a second false dichotomy? Brilliant.
If San Francisco really cared about public safety, they would ban illegal aliens instead of welcoming them as an illegal "sanctuary city." But NO, technological innovation such as delivery robots are what these liberal/progressive knuckleheads are focused on.
Typical know everything youngin'! It jerks like you that don't have to pay robot attack insurance that's ruining it for us old folks!;)
There were never wildfires before climate change was discovered.
The is real problem is that we're been putting out the wildfires for over a hundred years when burning is part of the natural cycle of life for the ecosystem. As a result there are many millions of dead and dry trees just waiting for a spark. However, climate change is exacerbating the issue by causing more extreme weather (longer droughts and more extreme downpours) which ultimately kill more plants and turn them into fuel for the fire. Climate change definitely isn't the cause of these giant wildfires but it is making it worse.
It's about time they started acknowledging the risk of current lithium battery chemistry! I hope they also begun carrying a metal box to throw electronics into for each plane because the thermal runaway reaction isn't going to stop until the battery has completely burned up.
There seems to be some misunderstanding by the business types that we are on the verge of making AI that can do more than parlor tricks. Even if you formulated a way to make a generalized intelligence tomorrow, we are like the cutting edge researchers that created modern computer graphics algorithms: we have the idea but the means to realize are far beyond our reach.
If you really want to redefine the future of humanity then you need to turn an ultra-low power electronic scheme (like Quantum-Dot Cellular Automata) into a reality because then we'll be able to build the ultra-complex systems that AI need. We need billions of neurons per chip just to get started. Things will be interesting when we get quadrillions of neurons per chip.
People are giving away their information without fee under their own free will. It's not anyone's place to get the way of that until they begin to do so at their own detriment. The reason for this is that it will have crossed over from activity to addiction. That said, a proper tax structure is needed to keep a society from destructing. We currently have a regressive tax system which has been shown to be to the detriment of society and yet politicians keep pushing it further. The reason things are moving in the wrong direction is not because of political party X or Y but due to the crony capitalism has bought off the politicians on both sides to ensure that there will and not the will of the people is being executed.
We don't need a miracle solution, we need proper government representation that will work for the people. I've said it before but the less representative a government becomes the greater the level of crime, violence and civil unrest. If we do not do something in the near future then we're going to have riots breaking out sporadically and then regularly. The US has a lot of guns and when people get desperate then they are going to start using them to survive and I don't mean hunting.
I can't wait to transition to PWAs so that one day they can tell me it will stop functioning at the end of the month and all my related data will be deleted. This is much better than the garbage applications that keep working even when you are offline. Honestly, how do they expect to spy on my entire life without internet connectivity?!;)
The scumbag is also a "researcher" at Stanford who has published scientific articles about how safe GMOs are.
GMO plants are no more or less safe than other plants. The danger of GMOs is not the GMOs themselves but rather why they have been modified. Specifically, Monsanto modifies plants to be immune to extremely caustic pesticides and herbicides which can kill other farmers' crops miles away and have unquantified long-term effects on humans. What we really need is large-scale precision farming so that there is no need for pesticides or herbicides.
if you put a tax on them that is used exclusively to remove the CO2 byproduct from the air. Sure, it would be cheaper just to use electricity but if you really gotta have it, you can pay for it. Now we just need to build a hundred thousand of these machines. This is in line with "there is no free lunch" that insensitive clods love to tout on other issues.
Phasing fossil fuels out is not an impossible task but we need to slow and then halt the tragedy-of-the-commons that is happening every day that we do nothing.
Just the idea of doing that can make china change.
Nope! First of all, "China" doesn't make much money for their involvement in producing Apple products. Secondly, a shitload of other things are made in China so it's not a big deal.
How else will fools* learn to avoid malicious technologies? Also, if they don't lean, well, they earned all the wonderful things coming to them as a result.
* Please note that there is a large difference between a foolish person and a stupid person.
Am I alone in thinking that giving CPU-level access to our browser to ad networks, hackers, scammers, governments* from all around the world with no authentication and no accountability whatsoever** is a bad idea?
Nope, you are just one of many people. The bad news is that this outcome was inevitable but the good news is that this isn't the final outcome. After a drawn out tug-of-war, a new incarnation of HTML will come to being and it will have limited scripted CSS events that cannot be abused. Ads as we know them will cease to exist and will instead be replaced by a crediting system which will effectively pay sites for content based on various metrics. Credit can be purchased or earned through various means (e.g. executing computational units). Naturally, it will be the company that organizes the credit system that will develop the dominate browser. "Content piracy" is going to be a thing but it's impact will continue to be minimal (despite the vocal objections of corporations).
The world is changing but it's not entirely unpredictable. Prepare yourself for the ensuing tug-of-war that is about to go full scale.
Establishment "Republicans" are just globalists in disguise.
In disguise? When did the Republican party start rejecting globalism? You speak like nationalism is the norm but that hasn't been true for many decades.
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for the first amendment because it exists to ensure that political dissent cannot be silenced. However, this is a good example of another citizen who has been spoiled by the first amendment. While some may call his views as "opinions" the reality is that some people subscribe to factually incorrect narratives. Sadly our own president has been pushing these false narratives which only encourages more extreme behavior. The freedom of speech is not unlimited like some people (e.g. this guy) seem to think.
Actually, that's not what this is about. Smartphone addiction is a real thing not because of the amount of uninterrupted time but because of the compulsion and ability to interrupt other activities to satisfy their desire.
Some play sit on their smartphone, some play facebook games... others (like myself) sit and code for days on end...
The difference here is that an avid coder could go on vacation for a week without coding. A smartphone addict on vacation without their smartphone for a week is going to have actual withdraw symptoms.
The real difference here is that the smartphone is a device that can provide constant feedback and it's engineered purposely to behave like that. A lot of neuroscience has gone into the design of application to ensure that they develop what cannot be described as anything except an addiction. They did this with websites (like facebook) too but it wasn't nearly as successful until they had a LOT of people that always had immediate access to their platform. That immediate access is essential to forming the addiction.
The LA ICE office concludes that it, "assesses with high confidence the critical infrastructure and law enforcement entities using DJI systems are collecting sensitive intelligence that the Chinese government could use to conduct physical or cyber attacks against the United States and its population."
It's about time we developed cheap machines to do this work. Seriously, we have the knowledge to make soft robotic pickers for any type of fruits or vegetable. We have the technology, it's time to start putting it to good use.
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There were never wildfires before climate change was discovered.
Only if you promote false dichotomy arguments and don't bother to read even the summary: "Climate change makes fires there more frequent and more severe."
Right. Because human beings moving into those areas doesn't cause more frequent and more severe fires. Must be climate change.
Did you seriously just reply to the accusation of making a false dichotomy by piling on a second false dichotomy? Brilliant.
If San Francisco really cared about public safety, they would ban illegal aliens instead of welcoming them as an illegal "sanctuary city." But NO, technological innovation such as delivery robots are what these liberal/progressive knuckleheads are focused on.
Typical know everything youngin'! It jerks like you that don't have to pay robot attack insurance that's ruining it for us old folks! ;)
There were never wildfires before climate change was discovered.
The is real problem is that we're been putting out the wildfires for over a hundred years when burning is part of the natural cycle of life for the ecosystem. As a result there are many millions of dead and dry trees just waiting for a spark. However, climate change is exacerbating the issue by causing more extreme weather (longer droughts and more extreme downpours) which ultimately kill more plants and turn them into fuel for the fire. Climate change definitely isn't the cause of these giant wildfires but it is making it worse.
It's about time they started acknowledging the risk of current lithium battery chemistry! I hope they also begun carrying a metal box to throw electronics into for each plane because the thermal runaway reaction isn't going to stop until the battery has completely burned up.
There seems to be some misunderstanding by the business types that we are on the verge of making AI that can do more than parlor tricks. Even if you formulated a way to make a generalized intelligence tomorrow, we are like the cutting edge researchers that created modern computer graphics algorithms: we have the idea but the means to realize are far beyond our reach.
If you really want to redefine the future of humanity then you need to turn an ultra-low power electronic scheme (like Quantum-Dot Cellular Automata) into a reality because then we'll be able to build the ultra-complex systems that AI need. We need billions of neurons per chip just to get started. Things will be interesting when we get quadrillions of neurons per chip.
All PWAs rely on retrieving online data and always have an internet connection. The race to the bottom is fast.
People are giving away their information without fee under their own free will. It's not anyone's place to get the way of that until they begin to do so at their own detriment. The reason for this is that it will have crossed over from activity to addiction. That said, a proper tax structure is needed to keep a society from destructing. We currently have a regressive tax system which has been shown to be to the detriment of society and yet politicians keep pushing it further. The reason things are moving in the wrong direction is not because of political party X or Y but due to the crony capitalism has bought off the politicians on both sides to ensure that there will and not the will of the people is being executed.
We don't need a miracle solution, we need proper government representation that will work for the people. I've said it before but the less representative a government becomes the greater the level of crime, violence and civil unrest. If we do not do something in the near future then we're going to have riots breaking out sporadically and then regularly. The US has a lot of guns and when people get desperate then they are going to start using them to survive and I don't mean hunting.
I can't wait to transition to PWAs so that one day they can tell me it will stop functioning at the end of the month and all my related data will be deleted. This is much better than the garbage applications that keep working even when you are offline. Honestly, how do they expect to spy on my entire life without internet connectivity?! ;)
The invisible hand of the free market is going to give them the finger... again. ;)
Just how far does this guy have to go before he lacks the support to continue?
We'll likely found out at the conclusion of the Mueller investigation.
The scumbag is also a "researcher" at Stanford who has published scientific articles about how safe GMOs are.
GMO plants are no more or less safe than other plants. The danger of GMOs is not the GMOs themselves but rather why they have been modified. Specifically, Monsanto modifies plants to be immune to extremely caustic pesticides and herbicides which can kill other farmers' crops miles away and have unquantified long-term effects on humans. What we really need is large-scale precision farming so that there is no need for pesticides or herbicides.
if you put a tax on them that is used exclusively to remove the CO2 byproduct from the air. Sure, it would be cheaper just to use electricity but if you really gotta have it, you can pay for it. Now we just need to build a hundred thousand of these machines. This is in line with "there is no free lunch" that insensitive clods love to tout on other issues.
Phasing fossil fuels out is not an impossible task but we need to slow and then halt the tragedy-of-the-commons that is happening every day that we do nothing.
Ok, so who's getting fired?
apple can just pull out and make iphone's in usa.
of course they can... but that would cost money.
Just the idea of doing that can make china change.
Nope! First of all, "China" doesn't make much money for their involvement in producing Apple products. Secondly, a shitload of other things are made in China so it's not a big deal.
Is it 2004?
Well if it is, I'm sure Steve Jobs is about to have a revelation about the wonders of modern medicine.
How else will fools* learn to avoid malicious technologies? Also, if they don't lean, well, they earned all the wonderful things coming to them as a result.
* Please note that there is a large difference between a foolish person and a stupid person.
Intel Management Engine: the original Systemd. ;)
Am I alone in thinking that giving CPU-level access to our browser to ad networks, hackers, scammers, governments* from all around the world with no authentication and no accountability whatsoever** is a bad idea?
Nope, you are just one of many people. The bad news is that this outcome was inevitable but the good news is that this isn't the final outcome. After a drawn out tug-of-war, a new incarnation of HTML will come to being and it will have limited scripted CSS events that cannot be abused. Ads as we know them will cease to exist and will instead be replaced by a crediting system which will effectively pay sites for content based on various metrics. Credit can be purchased or earned through various means (e.g. executing computational units). Naturally, it will be the company that organizes the credit system that will develop the dominate browser. "Content piracy" is going to be a thing but it's impact will continue to be minimal (despite the vocal objections of corporations).
The world is changing but it's not entirely unpredictable. Prepare yourself for the ensuing tug-of-war that is about to go full scale.
Establishment "Republicans" are just globalists in disguise.
In disguise? When did the Republican party start rejecting globalism? You speak like nationalism is the norm but that hasn't been true for many decades.
all stadiums are under a TFR up to 3000 AGL above and around a stadium during NFL games.
It's been my experience that transferors usually have less than 3000 agility points but I don't see what this has to do with Newfoundland's games. ;)
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for the first amendment because it exists to ensure that political dissent cannot be silenced. However, this is a good example of another citizen who has been spoiled by the first amendment. While some may call his views as "opinions" the reality is that some people subscribe to factually incorrect narratives. Sadly our own president has been pushing these false narratives which only encourages more extreme behavior. The freedom of speech is not unlimited like some people (e.g. this guy) seem to think.
sitting in front of the screen is hypnotic.
Actually, that's not what this is about. Smartphone addiction is a real thing not because of the amount of uninterrupted time but because of the compulsion and ability to interrupt other activities to satisfy their desire.
Some play sit on their smartphone, some play facebook games... others (like myself) sit and code for days on end...
The difference here is that an avid coder could go on vacation for a week without coding. A smartphone addict on vacation without their smartphone for a week is going to have actual withdraw symptoms.
The real difference here is that the smartphone is a device that can provide constant feedback and it's engineered purposely to behave like that. A lot of neuroscience has gone into the design of application to ensure that they develop what cannot be described as anything except an addiction. They did this with websites (like facebook) too but it wasn't nearly as successful until they had a LOT of people that always had immediate access to their platform. That immediate access is essential to forming the addiction.
The LA ICE office concludes that it, "assesses with high confidence the critical infrastructure and law enforcement entities using DJI systems are collecting sensitive intelligence that the Chinese government could use to conduct physical or cyber attacks against the United States and its population."
Why are law enforcement entities using drones?
It's about time we developed cheap machines to do this work. Seriously, we have the knowledge to make soft robotic pickers for any type of fruits or vegetable. We have the technology, it's time to start putting it to good use.
Unfortunately socialists and communists have pushed to define a "free market" as pretty much the opposite of what it is supposed to mean.
Is that what they're calling republicans these days?