Replacing nuclear and coal with wind or solar doesn't really change anything.
Right, replacing infrastructure which can output a predictable amount of energy 24/7 with power sources which fluctuate massively depending on environmental conditions... that doesn't change anything at all.
In his robot utopia the price of energy would for all intents and purposes be zero. All you need is robots pumping out solar panels and windmills, and other robots installing them.
Obviously you can't power mining machinery with solar directly, but once you have "free" energy it's also cheap to make hydrogen or methane or whatever else you want to use for that purpose.
That's slightly less wrong than the original dumbass, but still rather out to lunch.
In very simple terms stocks are just a representation of ownership. If I start a business, I own 100% of the stock. If I then decide I would like some cash instead of ownership, I can sell you 50% of my stock. Now you and I own an equal share of the business. If the business earns a profit, we each get 50% of the profit (this is known as dividends). When a major business decision needs to be made, we each get an equal say. If the business gets bought up by an outside entity, we split the price of the sale. Etc.
Of course each of us is free to further sell our one half to as many people as we like. And if we agree to it together, we can split our shares to slow for a finer grain of subdivision. This is where the other guy was confused. If you and I each own 50% of 1000, worth $100 each, we can agree that we each own 50% of 10,000 worth $10 each. The number of shares doesn't affect the goal value of the company, nor does it have anything to do with debt; it only affects the unit price of the stock.
People who have graduated college are, on average, more educated than those who have not.
Fair enough, they're not entirely unrelated. They're loosely correlated, which is certainly a type of relationship. You still shouldn't confuse graduating from college with being educated.
Sure, until there aren't any. See, that's the flaw in the free market that people like you try to get everyone to ignore with simpleminded answers.
It's a flaw with a built-in solution; in a free market you can manufacture and market your own phone which doesn't have these limitations. Granted, that can be difficult and costly, but today it is far easier than it has ever been historically. You don't even need venture capitalists to buy into your idea; you can develop a plan, put it up on kick starter, and start sending out links. If enough people are interested you will get plenty of cash; certainly enough to get through the design, development, and testing stages. That much interest will also make your business more attractive to investors, so you should have very little difficulty obtaining further funding for large scale manufacturing and distribution.
Don't pretend that this is a "free market" issue. It's not. Closed markets have the same problem without the solution. Just ask any citizen of the former USSR about their choice of vehicles, clothing, and electronics back in the 70s/80s.
This. The manufacturer of the phone I currently have provides bootloader unlocking for one of their US models, but not for any of the half dozen other models they manufacture. So the only way for me to unlock it was to use a shitty hack to install an unlocked US bootloader. The forums are full of people who screwed it up and got a brick, but there's not a peep from anyone bricking the phone which can be officially unlocked.
Then we will just have to band together and design, manufacture, and market a phone geared towards geeks. The major brands already have all kinds of shortcomings which most of us can agree on; there's a market there just waiting to be filled.
Nope, if your post leads trivially to absurd conclusions, then the fault isn't mine for nderstanding that, the fault is yours for writing something so patently absurd.
The thing is, any idiot can say that about any statement (obviously; one just did). Nothing in my comment in any way spoke or even hinted at your desire to be "murdered by a cop", and yet you somehow managed to dream it up with no prompting whatsoever. How in the hell is your overactive imagination my fault?
This kid graduated college. He's not uneducated, though it seems he hasn't bothered to learn much.
1. You should never confuse graduating from college with being educated. The two are entirely unrelated.
2. He actually didn't. He has said repeatedly in interviews that he does not have a degree, so unless you know something I don't then it seems that he's both uneducated and not a college graduate.
Poor millenials. Guess they'll just have to whine about their lack of wealth in longwinded Facebook posts from their $3,000 iCrack device while sipping $10 lattes at the local Starbucks.
Consider yourself in a taxi at the airport, about to board a flight, and all of a sudden you have no way to pay for the fare.
I think the bigger issue would be all the armed TSA agents surrounding your cab following it's rampage through the terminal building.
Unless you have multiple cards WITH DIFFERENT BANKS, you have a problem.
In this case that might not have helped either; many people were unable to pay because the merchant (or taxi) systems relied on a connection to the bank. If the driver can't accept CC transactions then it doesn't matter how many cards you have.
These kinds of things are fairly easily resolved even without cash, though; you show him your ID so he can get your name and address, sign an IOU, exchange phone numbers, and sort out payment later. If he doesn't agree to that, feel free to leave; you've made an honest effort to pay and there's nothing left to do.
Why would they disable a feature which works as intended?
If the autopilot were somehow "failing on" and refusing to give control back to the driver, that would certainly require a recall. Have there been any such cases? Or are you just comparing two completely different things because you see it as another opportunity to shit on someone you have an irrational hatred for?
You probably own a smartphone, which the FBI can remotely activate it to listen in on you any time it wants.
I would expect this kind of crappy claim from a website like the verge, but not from a Slashdot commenter. Ironically the verge manages to actually communicate what's going on lower down in the article, so they kinda got it half right even if their article is shit. You, on the other hand, seem to have gotten it completely wrong
The law isn't quite clear on this because it doesn't explicitly say if it values the actions or the consequences.
It values both, which is why we have different degrees of homicide and different amounts of punishment. If you kill someone unintentionally it's a lesser offence than if you do it willfully.
Yeah, toxic to bugs. Did you know that mint oil is a neurotoxin to wasps? You're ignoring half of the argument in order to demonize organics.
No, he's not. Some stuff - like mint oil - is mostly just toxic to bugs. Other approved "organic" pesticides - like copper sulphate - are toxic to pretty much every type of animal life. Some approved pesticides, like pyrethrin, are known neurotoxins. While pyrethrin tends to break down relatively quickly some residue still remains on produce, and it certainly poses a far greater risk to farmers themselves than roundup ever could.
'intelligence' is a notoriously difficult concept to nail down, much like 'consciousness'
Good point! This, I think, is the key; to the extent that the guy I was responding to may be right about "AI" being a "meaningless term", it's largely due to the fact that "intelligence" itself is so poorly defined. He may as well drop the word "artificial" and argue that the word "intelligence" is meaningless.
Agreed; should be fairly easy for any rational person to figure you out when they read that, in your opinion, increasing profit is "morally despicable".
You think that plants in the fields of different farmers around the world all evolved the exact same gene sequence independently? And the farmers just accidentally discovered this and then started spraying them with roundup?
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Replacing nuclear and coal with wind or solar doesn't really change anything.
Right, replacing infrastructure which can output a predictable amount of energy 24/7 with power sources which fluctuate massively depending on environmental conditions ... that doesn't change anything at all.
That would mean the battery in the Model S cost $80,000. Not likely.
In his robot utopia the price of energy would for all intents and purposes be zero. All you need is robots pumping out solar panels and windmills, and other robots installing them.
Obviously you can't power mining machinery with solar directly, but once you have "free" energy it's also cheap to make hydrogen or methane or whatever else you want to use for that purpose.
That's slightly less wrong than the original dumbass, but still rather out to lunch.
In very simple terms stocks are just a representation of ownership. If I start a business, I own 100% of the stock. If I then decide I would like some cash instead of ownership, I can sell you 50% of my stock. Now you and I own an equal share of the business. If the business earns a profit, we each get 50% of the profit (this is known as dividends). When a major business decision needs to be made, we each get an equal say. If the business gets bought up by an outside entity, we split the price of the sale. Etc.
Of course each of us is free to further sell our one half to as many people as we like. And if we agree to it together, we can split our shares to slow for a finer grain of subdivision. This is where the other guy was confused. If you and I each own 50% of 1000, worth $100 each, we can agree that we each own 50% of 10,000 worth $10 each. The number of shares doesn't affect the goal value of the company, nor does it have anything to do with debt; it only affects the unit price of the stock.
Your comment is a perfect example of why this policy is important.
People who have graduated college are, on average, more educated than those who have not.
Fair enough, they're not entirely unrelated. They're loosely correlated, which is certainly a type of relationship. You still shouldn't confuse graduating from college with being educated.
Sure, until there aren't any. See, that's the flaw in the free market that people like you try to get everyone to ignore with simpleminded answers.
It's a flaw with a built-in solution; in a free market you can manufacture and market your own phone which doesn't have these limitations. Granted, that can be difficult and costly, but today it is far easier than it has ever been historically. You don't even need venture capitalists to buy into your idea; you can develop a plan, put it up on kick starter, and start sending out links. If enough people are interested you will get plenty of cash; certainly enough to get through the design, development, and testing stages. That much interest will also make your business more attractive to investors, so you should have very little difficulty obtaining further funding for large scale manufacturing and distribution.
Don't pretend that this is a "free market" issue. It's not. Closed markets have the same problem without the solution. Just ask any citizen of the former USSR about their choice of vehicles, clothing, and electronics back in the 70s/80s.
This. The manufacturer of the phone I currently have provides bootloader unlocking for one of their US models, but not for any of the half dozen other models they manufacture. So the only way for me to unlock it was to use a shitty hack to install an unlocked US bootloader. The forums are full of people who screwed it up and got a brick, but there's not a peep from anyone bricking the phone which can be officially unlocked.
Then we will just have to band together and design, manufacture, and market a phone geared towards geeks. The major brands already have all kinds of shortcomings which most of us can agree on; there's a market there just waiting to be filled.
Anyone who doesn't realize just how long exponential growth can continue has no understanding of the sheer scale of the universe.
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Nope, if your post leads trivially to absurd conclusions, then the fault isn't mine for nderstanding that, the fault is yours for writing something so patently absurd.
The thing is, any idiot can say that about any statement (obviously; one just did). Nothing in my comment in any way spoke or even hinted at your desire to be "murdered by a cop", and yet you somehow managed to dream it up with no prompting whatsoever. How in the hell is your overactive imagination my fault?
This kid graduated college. He's not uneducated, though it seems he hasn't bothered to learn much.
1. You should never confuse graduating from college with being educated. The two are entirely unrelated.
2. He actually didn't. He has said repeatedly in interviews that he does not have a degree, so unless you know something I don't then it seems that he's both uneducated and not a college graduate.
Poor millenials. Guess they'll just have to whine about their lack of wealth in longwinded Facebook posts from their $3,000 iCrack device while sipping $10 lattes at the local Starbucks.
So basically if you don't want to be murdered by a cop you should volunteer to be one.
So, basically, you read my comment, and then pulled some retarded nonsequitur out of your ass.
Consider yourself in a taxi at the airport, about to board a flight, and all of a sudden you have no way to pay for the fare.
I think the bigger issue would be all the armed TSA agents surrounding your cab following it's rampage through the terminal building.
Unless you have multiple cards WITH DIFFERENT BANKS, you have a problem.
In this case that might not have helped either; many people were unable to pay because the merchant (or taxi) systems relied on a connection to the bank. If the driver can't accept CC transactions then it doesn't matter how many cards you have.
These kinds of things are fairly easily resolved even without cash, though; you show him your ID so he can get your name and address, sign an IOU, exchange phone numbers, and sort out payment later. If he doesn't agree to that, feel free to leave; you've made an honest effort to pay and there's nothing left to do.
Why would they disable a feature which works as intended?
If the autopilot were somehow "failing on" and refusing to give control back to the driver, that would certainly require a recall. Have there been any such cases? Or are you just comparing two completely different things because you see it as another opportunity to shit on someone you have an irrational hatred for?
You probably own a smartphone, which the FBI can remotely activate it to listen in on you any time it wants.
I would expect this kind of crappy claim from a website like the verge, but not from a Slashdot commenter. Ironically the verge manages to actually communicate what's going on lower down in the article, so they kinda got it half right even if their article is shit. You, on the other hand, seem to have gotten it completely wrong
9/11 truthers are an inside job. They are clearly government funded trolls meant to distract us from the real conspiracies.
I want cops to shoot second.
Then you should volunteer to be a cop, and put your desire into action.
The law isn't quite clear on this because it doesn't explicitly say if it values the actions or the consequences.
It values both, which is why we have different degrees of homicide and different amounts of punishment. If you kill someone unintentionally it's a lesser offence than if you do it willfully.
So basically you just cited your asshole for both of those "facts" and called it good.
Yeah, toxic to bugs. Did you know that mint oil is a neurotoxin to wasps? You're ignoring half of the argument in order to demonize organics.
No, he's not. Some stuff - like mint oil - is mostly just toxic to bugs. Other approved "organic" pesticides - like copper sulphate - are toxic to pretty much every type of animal life. Some approved pesticides, like pyrethrin, are known neurotoxins. While pyrethrin tends to break down relatively quickly some residue still remains on produce, and it certainly poses a far greater risk to farmers themselves than roundup ever could.
'intelligence' is a notoriously difficult concept to nail down, much like 'consciousness'
Good point! This, I think, is the key; to the extent that the guy I was responding to may be right about "AI" being a "meaningless term", it's largely due to the fact that "intelligence" itself is so poorly defined. He may as well drop the word "artificial" and argue that the word "intelligence" is meaningless.
Agreed; should be fairly easy for any rational person to figure you out when they read that, in your opinion, increasing profit is "morally despicable".
You think that plants in the fields of different farmers around the world all evolved the exact same gene sequence independently? And the farmers just accidentally discovered this and then started spraying them with roundup?
That's adorable.