Huh? Canuck here. Sick at home Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday last week. Slacked my co-workers (not even head office) said, "Sick, staying home"... response was "Okay, great." I get 10 sick days and 10 personal health days off, none of which I need any documentation for. I also worked nearly a decade in the US and was docked pay (and verbally berated) for taking a measly three days off after my second son was born and my wife wasn't mobile. I call BS, AC.
To be fair, a lot of menial labour jobs like making sandwiches or working in fast food are casual in most western countries (zero hour contracts). This means they dont get the protection of paid sick leave, not sure about Canukistan but certainly in the UK and Australia so I'd be surprised if it's much different. At least in Australia I know you get paid extra loading in exchange for not getting paid leave (about an extra 25% per hour).
Here in the UK, we dont get a set number of sick days, but you can only self certify for 1 before needing a doctors note. In Oz, it was the same as Canada, 10 days paid sick leave.
Not reasonable when your employers are greedy bastards, that is. Paid sick or better yet personal days should be the norm.
It is in most western countries. We've long since recognised that workers aren't chattel and that making them work whilst sick not only results in bad work, but also in making the other serfs unwell.
We've also got at least 4 weeks of personal leave and usually 2 more weeks of public holidays I've got an additional 4 days personal and 6 days paid leave whilst the company shuts down over Christmas, basically 8 weeks leave (although I can only choose when 5 of them are).
I HATE planning roadtrips across Texas, Kansas, and Oklahoma... not because of all the stereotypes about flyover country (I actually love the scenery), but because of all the damn toll roads. For each road, I have to figure out: do they take cash, are they toll by plate (with a hefty surcharge for being unregistered), or do they use any of a number of incompatible tolling systems? If I register my rental car's tags in one city will my registration be valid in another? And avoiding the tolls in places like Kansas just to cross the state means you have to go MILES out of your way on two lane roads. Is it reasonable to expect that someone will be able to raise enough money to build a competing toll road, parallel to an existing one? In contrast, I can drive anywhere in a dozen northeastern states and know that any toll road will take EZpass.
Google Maps has an "Avoid Toll Roads" option.
I admit I've used it once when I realised a route took me onto the M6 toll, one of the few toll roads in Britain.
It's not a huge risk, it's a money-making public asset. Airports are gold mines. Besides gate fees, there are lots of bucks to be made renting space, parking spaces, food/taxes, fuel/taxes, and far more.
Other nations might sell off their assets, and they're idiots.
This is the standard plan of modern conservative economists... find your best performing assets and sell them off for a pittance, screw the future. It's going to be the other guys who'll have to get us out of it.
John Howard in Australia did the same thing, selling off public assets and utilities including several major airports because that was the only way he could balance a budget.
Instead, sell off and stop the tax monies to private airports, thousands of them that serve general aviation, and make them stand on their own feet without tax dollar support. Make private aviation have to pay its own dues, rather than shifting the cost to the cattle car carriers we call airlines.
Whoa cowboy, that sounds like communism there. You don't want Communism in 'Merika do you?
Without public funds and tax money going to hard working private corporations how do you expect CEO's and other High Net Value Individuals to receive massive bonuses and incentives to keep making more money. Without those essential tax dollars, corporations may have to run responsibly and cut senior management remuneration or restrict stock options. Why do you hate 'Murika?
YouTube has announced a more formal and wider set of sanctions it's prepared to level on any creator that starts to post videos that are harmful to viewers
Neither will Margret Thatcher. Both are non-offensive because they aren't trying to be racist, sexist or in any other way bigoted... And I'm not a fan (of Maggie or Che, both too extremist for my tastes).
There isn't a conspiracy against the right, if you find your idols and demagogues are getting in trouble for being bigots too often, maybe you should find better people to worship.
I hope you're being facetious. First amendment applies only to the government silencing people.
Also, YouTube isn't silencing anyone - they are just not placing ads and putting them in a spotlight. It's their platform. Don't like it? Don't use it.
You're quite correct. They are free to implement any lawful policies, rules, terms, conditions, etc that they wish as it's a private company not a government entity and thus not bound by the 1stA.
What they're *not* free to do however is to enforce policies, terms, and rules arbitrarily, unequally, and unfairly.
Actually they are. Discrimination is not illegal, what they cannot do is discriminate on a protected class (I.E. race, gender, religious affiliation).
USB was created by a large consortium of companies as a replacement for a myriad of ports, long before Apple picked it up. It was just an accident that they used it first. Even though it's largely supplanted a large number of ports, most motherboards you buy still have a LPT, PS2 and RS232 port or at least the provision of one. I remember for years having to use a very unreliable USB to serial connector for switches and routers for years in the early 00's.
People also forget the mistakes Apple made, supporting Firewire over USB, ZIP disks, the "puck" mouse and not embracing the right click. I'm certain the removal of the headphone jack will be remembered in the same light.
[ sarcasm ] And HDMI? Yeah, that's a useless, antiquated standard. Don't bother with that anymore. [/sarcasm ]
I'd wap HDMI for VGA but your point stands. I bought a 2017 laptop that still had one because there's no benefit to removing it (plus it means I can have two screens on my laptop). Just because it's old does not mean it's useless, likewise, just because it's new does not mean it's better.
I wish I had some similar anecdotes. Ideally, a team should be assembled with complementary skills like that. But most of the teams I've ever been a part of were usually just a sloppy way of covering up for some boss's bad hiring decisions or to help some kids graduate who hadn't earned it.
Erm... remember that the same boss hired you.
From the sounds of it... and the fact you use SJW in your sig (always an indicator that your aren't attached to reality) you have difficulty working with others.
I've worked with people like you, but never for very long because you don't work well with others and end up producing crap that has to be redone. Most of my colleagues are highly talented, but they're also aware that others are talented also, so they'll bounce ideas off each other. If you haven't worked in a place like this its usually because the hiring manager has picked up on your passive aggressive streak and entitlement complex. I.E. you go around telling people "they haven't earned it".
When I encounter someone who cant play well with others, I always suggest they go into contracting. If you are as good as you think you are, you'll get ahead... most of the time they crash and burn in a spectacular because they're rarely as good as they think they are.
I'm an avid gamer... but I've got no idea what these loot boxes are?
I spent over 8 hours yesterday playing Endless Space 2 (and must have sunk at least another 2 into Cities Skylines) but none of them seem to have anything like this. I'm assuming it's another pay to win scheme that has become common in online FPS's (which is why I rarely play them these days) but by the sounds of it, they aren't keeping up their "to win" side of the bargain.
It seems obvious to me that if delivery isn't profitable, your business shouldn't be offering it.
Ahh, to live in such a simple world where everything is distinctly black and white. I'm jealous of you, my world has far too much grey in it.
In reality, restaurants are often at the mercy of these delivery companies for business. Because these app companies have gotten big enough that they can advertise on television, unless you pay them they'll redirect business to your competitors. At this point they can act like standover men demanding payment for no to minimal services under the threat of making your business harder to operate. Few people are smart or motivated enough to look around their local area for restaurants and take out when the Hungry House app will distil that information for them and offer "unbiased" reviews.
Its a case of damned if you do and damned if you don't. These app manufacturers saw how well these kind of standover tactics worked in the hotel industry and thought they could get another racket like that in other forms of hospitality.
I have noticed a lot of tech/computer nerds have a significant interest in language nerdery. I've seen/. threads devolve into arguments over correct Latin grammar. This certainly piques the interest of people who have a bit of language nerd in them, because it's as much about knowledge of old writing systems and abbreviations as it is ability to look at squiggly lines and pattern-match.
I wouldn't say so, but nerds do tend to be grammar nazis at least up until the point in their lives that they stop caring about what others think (usually mid 30's, about the same time you unashamedly start listening to the greatest hits of the 60's, 70's and 80's in your car). However we have nothing on the kind of pendants that come from old universities like Cambridge and Oxford. If you would like to see a truly vicious argument over a minor point of Latin grammar computer nerds with an interest in language are severely outclassed (and outnumbered).
Why would any gaming company chose to support Linux when gamers have shown to be more than happy* to run Windows / stuff around with Wine to play their games.
*And by more than happy I mean they whine less about running Windows for games than the do about something in Linux not being 100% perfect.
Exactly. They exist to sell hardware to people willing to pay for overpriced stuff (i.e., gamers, the new audiophool).
What do you mean by "new"?
Overpriced junk has always been targeted at gamers, although 90% of us just ignore it (a cheap Logitech laser mouse is as good as, if not better than Razer and will almost certainly last longer) there are enough posers that these companies remain in business.
Exactly. They exist to sell hardware to people willing to pay for overpriced stuff (i.e., gamers, the new audiophool). Practically all of them run Windows and knows nothing else, and they probably get their sales from people who see their boxes at Best Buy, go "ooh shiny" and whip out their credit card.
Many of us PC gamers run multiple OS's. However I rarely game on Linux because it's not what Linux is good at.
However we're price conscious purchases (if we didn't care about costs.. we'd buy consoles) and rarely shop at Best Buy. Our needs are best served by online stores (Amazon, Newegg) and the best deals are often found through PC Part Picker.
Your ignorance of the gaming community is astounding.
So how does converting a US dollar tax bill amount to bitcoin in real time
The tax department will simply use their own rate which chances are, will be the day rate from their chosen source + x%.
The infrastructure is already there, banks have been giving people spot rates + x% on their credit cards for overseas purchases for decades now.
It would likely be cheaper for you to turn your bitcoins into USD via your broker and pay with that, but saying "OMG, you can pay with bitcoin.. much progression, very future" makes for nice headlines.
I personally find AI and aliens to be much less threatening than physical destruction... but truly the most fearsome of all is FUNDAMENTALISM in any of its forms.
I dont fear Artificial Intelligence as much as I fear Human Stupidity.
So far, Tesla has produced enough so that people are eager to throw money at it. No problem raising funds.
They are making cars and have plans for new models and trucks and energy storage and solar panels and roofs. That takes money. As long as they deliver, they can continue to raise money to grow. If they stopped spending on new stuff today, they would be profitable but wouldn't have much of a future.
It took Amazon years to become profitable and now Bezos is world's richest man.
Amazon went into a completely uncontested market, in 1995 no-one had even considered e-commerce. Musk is entering a market where he will not only compete with existing ICE cars, but electric cars from existing manufacturers with far deeper pockets.
Single trick companies are notorious for failure in the automotive world. Musk is depending on subsidies to make his products palatable to buyers and isn't profitable. If you've ever seen a map of who owns bits (or in entirety) of who you'd realise why Tesla is doomed to failure, the entire industry is incestuous.
"A human navigator can't see ahead for optimizing against current traffic patterns as can GPS"
Really now? Anyone I have ever met knows things like, "If I don't leave in 15 minutes the 340 is going to be crowded, but I could take the 225. The 225 is longer but would end up being faster". And " since it is the holidays and there is a game that lets out soon, I'll take the 720, use high street, go through Clear Water subdivision, get on the 225 and miss the surge".
If a person is familiar with an ares, human usually wins.
This,
My car's GPS (which allegedly received live traffic updates) regularly tries to send me down the M3 eastbound in the morning despite it being well and truly blocked and the A30 is much faster (Google, which is much better sends me down the A30). Even Google can be wrong though.
Locals will know established traffic patterns and the best way to avoid them. Roads that aren't marked or used, little used short cuts and long cuts (sometimes taking a few miles extra to go around the problem is a lot faster, a lot of the time its better than negotiating a one way system).
I was in London last year, and used Uber extensively.
You'd probably be better off using citymapper or some equivalent to be honest and doing a mix of walking and public transport.
It's what us locals do innit.
Google Maps is pretty damn good at navigating London's public transport network.
Seriously, trying to get through London by car is a royal PITA... and I say that as a dedicated petrol head (who lives outside of London for just that reason).
This should show everyone how much security and validation is lacking in almost every aspect of our lives. The best thing to do, is to learn from what happened and evolve systems that can deal with the real threats. When security legs behind, you get scenarios such as this!
Ooooh, and a unicorn. I'd also like a unicorn.
We have many simple ways to secure money in our lives like one time passcodes which will eliminate most card fraud. The problem is that it will reduce credit card usage as people will find cash less annoying than having to enter a passcode to buy something online. Given that credit card companies and banks make money from transactions (they take it from the merchant and threaten the merchant with lawyers if they tell you about it) a drop in usage is a significant drop in profit. Right now they're making significantly more than they're losing in fraud (which is an excuse to put fees up, for you and the merchant).
Even now with contactless cards, I have an app on my Android phone that can get your card number, name and expiry date (everything I need to do an online transaction) just by waving my phone near your cards. Security researchers demonstrated this in 2012, have banks done anything? Hell no, I'm willing to bet that most card numbers harvested now are via contactless.
Sure the AI has some flaws now, but it will eventually get better. Also, a lot of the problems are going to come from the quality of the picture. The lens usually distorts the image. I remember doing an AI project one and we had to account for the fish-eye effect of the lens. Also, our adjustments only worked for our camera and would have been broken for another camera.
That's the least of their worries, even if the system worked perfectly human tailors have little to worry about. The reason you go to a tailor these days is for the service. A proper tailor will do 2 or 3 fittings at a minimum as nothing ever comes out perfect. A made to measure tailor let alone a completely bespoke one will have you try the clothing on to determine if it needs adjustment to your body shape and it usually does.
The AI tailor will be competing with off the rack stores for business.
Not as much as Google or Amazon. Because all the reviews are saying how limited Siri is. And Siri is limited because Apple is holding it back. Siri is limited to simple on-device commands that are handled locally without cloud involvement, or when using the cloud, very limited engagements.
Hmmm, you're assuming it isn't recording you 24/7 and selling that data to third parties because the interface is terrible.
Apple are as bad as Amazon at selling your data and worse than Google. Google are at least honest about it and give you a reasonable assurance that they've taken steps to anonymise it. In fact I'd say they're worse than Amazon too, Amazon advertise products you might like based on your search and buying patterns, Apple tries to make sure your next purchase has to be an Apple device.
So, what about all of those "porn parody" videos? Those have been sold for years by commercial studios ("Who's Nailin' Palin" comes to mind). Will they be banning all of those videos, too? Are they passing moral judgment on SNL sketches, too (like Alec Baldwin's Trump sketches), even though they are not explicit? Can we expect demands for SNL to be banned in the future?
(personally, I wouldn't mind if SNL were banned - they haven't been funny in many, many years. And even back then, their funny moments were very few and far between.)
Parodies are clearly marked as such (I.E. actors will be credited). Photoshopping the face onto someone else and calling it "Secret Angelina Jolie sex tape" is misrepresentation at the very least, deformation and possibly slander as well. PH are just covering their arses by restricting it (which is ironic for a porn site).
Turns out the wage gap really is simply because of personal choices.
In other news, the leading cause of poverty (that is, people who *become* poor) is getting knocked up at a young age and having a bunch of children you cannot afford instead of completing your education and establishing a career.
Yet if you dare suggest things like delayed gratification, birth control, the fact that we all know where babies come from... well it's amazing how people will villify you for that. Even people who did it that way themselves!
I agree with your point about life choices... but the leading cause of poverty is still being born into poverty. A young girl from Bello, Colombia isn't going to magically elevate herself out of that place because she resists having a kid, it still takes money to go to school, money her family is short of.
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Huh? Canuck here. Sick at home Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday last week. Slacked my co-workers (not even head office) said, "Sick, staying home" ... response was "Okay, great." I get 10 sick days and 10 personal health days off, none of which I need any documentation for. I also worked nearly a decade in the US and was docked pay (and verbally berated) for taking a measly three days off after my second son was born and my wife wasn't mobile. I call BS, AC.
To be fair, a lot of menial labour jobs like making sandwiches or working in fast food are casual in most western countries (zero hour contracts). This means they dont get the protection of paid sick leave, not sure about Canukistan but certainly in the UK and Australia so I'd be surprised if it's much different. At least in Australia I know you get paid extra loading in exchange for not getting paid leave (about an extra 25% per hour). Here in the UK, we dont get a set number of sick days, but you can only self certify for 1 before needing a doctors note. In Oz, it was the same as Canada, 10 days paid sick leave.
Not reasonable when your employers are greedy bastards, that is. Paid sick or better yet personal days should be the norm.
It is in most western countries. We've long since recognised that workers aren't chattel and that making them work whilst sick not only results in bad work, but also in making the other serfs unwell.
We've also got at least 4 weeks of personal leave and usually 2 more weeks of public holidays I've got an additional 4 days personal and 6 days paid leave whilst the company shuts down over Christmas, basically 8 weeks leave (although I can only choose when 5 of them are).
I HATE planning roadtrips across Texas, Kansas, and Oklahoma... not because of all the stereotypes about flyover country (I actually love the scenery), but because of all the damn toll roads. For each road, I have to figure out: do they take cash, are they toll by plate (with a hefty surcharge for being unregistered), or do they use any of a number of incompatible tolling systems? If I register my rental car's tags in one city will my registration be valid in another? And avoiding the tolls in places like Kansas just to cross the state means you have to go MILES out of your way on two lane roads. Is it reasonable to expect that someone will be able to raise enough money to build a competing toll road, parallel to an existing one? In contrast, I can drive anywhere in a dozen northeastern states and know that any toll road will take EZpass.
Google Maps has an "Avoid Toll Roads" option.
I admit I've used it once when I realised a route took me onto the M6 toll, one of the few toll roads in Britain.
It's not a huge risk, it's a money-making public asset. Airports are gold mines. Besides gate fees, there are lots of bucks to be made renting space, parking spaces, food/taxes, fuel/taxes, and far more.
Other nations might sell off their assets, and they're idiots.
This is the standard plan of modern conservative economists... find your best performing assets and sell them off for a pittance, screw the future. It's going to be the other guys who'll have to get us out of it.
John Howard in Australia did the same thing, selling off public assets and utilities including several major airports because that was the only way he could balance a budget.
Instead, sell off and stop the tax monies to private airports, thousands of them that serve general aviation, and make them stand on their own feet without tax dollar support. Make private aviation have to pay its own dues, rather than shifting the cost to the cattle car carriers we call airlines.
Whoa cowboy, that sounds like communism there. You don't want Communism in 'Merika do you?
Without public funds and tax money going to hard working private corporations how do you expect CEO's and other High Net Value Individuals to receive massive bonuses and incentives to keep making more money. Without those essential tax dollars, corporations may have to run responsibly and cut senior management remuneration or restrict stock options. Why do you hate 'Murika?
Somehow I'm sure, Che Guevara will not be deemed offensive...
Neither will Margret Thatcher. Both are non-offensive because they aren't trying to be racist, sexist or in any other way bigoted... And I'm not a fan (of Maggie or Che, both too extremist for my tastes).
There isn't a conspiracy against the right, if you find your idols and demagogues are getting in trouble for being bigots too often, maybe you should find better people to worship.
I hope you're being facetious. First amendment applies only to the government silencing people.
Also, YouTube isn't silencing anyone - they are just not placing ads and putting them in a spotlight. It's their platform. Don't like it? Don't use it.
You're quite correct. They are free to implement any lawful policies, rules, terms, conditions, etc that they wish as it's a private company not a government entity and thus not bound by the 1stA.
What they're *not* free to do however is to enforce policies, terms, and rules arbitrarily, unequally, and unfairly.
Actually they are. Discrimination is not illegal, what they cannot do is discriminate on a protected class (I.E. race, gender, religious affiliation).
Apple wasn't right. They were irritating.
This.
USB was created by a large consortium of companies as a replacement for a myriad of ports, long before Apple picked it up. It was just an accident that they used it first. Even though it's largely supplanted a large number of ports, most motherboards you buy still have a LPT, PS2 and RS232 port or at least the provision of one. I remember for years having to use a very unreliable USB to serial connector for switches and routers for years in the early 00's.
People also forget the mistakes Apple made, supporting Firewire over USB, ZIP disks, the "puck" mouse and not embracing the right click. I'm certain the removal of the headphone jack will be remembered in the same light.
[ sarcasm ] And HDMI? Yeah, that's a useless, antiquated standard. Don't bother with that anymore. [ /sarcasm ]
I'd wap HDMI for VGA but your point stands. I bought a 2017 laptop that still had one because there's no benefit to removing it (plus it means I can have two screens on my laptop). Just because it's old does not mean it's useless, likewise, just because it's new does not mean it's better.
I wish I had some similar anecdotes. Ideally, a team should be assembled with complementary skills like that. But most of the teams I've ever been a part of were usually just a sloppy way of covering up for some boss's bad hiring decisions or to help some kids graduate who hadn't earned it.
Erm... remember that the same boss hired you.
From the sounds of it... and the fact you use SJW in your sig (always an indicator that your aren't attached to reality) you have difficulty working with others.
I've worked with people like you, but never for very long because you don't work well with others and end up producing crap that has to be redone. Most of my colleagues are highly talented, but they're also aware that others are talented also, so they'll bounce ideas off each other. If you haven't worked in a place like this its usually because the hiring manager has picked up on your passive aggressive streak and entitlement complex. I.E. you go around telling people "they haven't earned it".
When I encounter someone who cant play well with others, I always suggest they go into contracting. If you are as good as you think you are, you'll get ahead... most of the time they crash and burn in a spectacular because they're rarely as good as they think they are.
I'm an avid gamer... but I've got no idea what these loot boxes are? I spent over 8 hours yesterday playing Endless Space 2 (and must have sunk at least another 2 into Cities Skylines) but none of them seem to have anything like this. I'm assuming it's another pay to win scheme that has become common in online FPS's (which is why I rarely play them these days) but by the sounds of it, they aren't keeping up their "to win" side of the bargain.
It seems obvious to me that if delivery isn't profitable, your business shouldn't be offering it.
Ahh, to live in such a simple world where everything is distinctly black and white. I'm jealous of you, my world has far too much grey in it.
In reality, restaurants are often at the mercy of these delivery companies for business. Because these app companies have gotten big enough that they can advertise on television, unless you pay them they'll redirect business to your competitors. At this point they can act like standover men demanding payment for no to minimal services under the threat of making your business harder to operate. Few people are smart or motivated enough to look around their local area for restaurants and take out when the Hungry House app will distil that information for them and offer "unbiased" reviews.
Its a case of damned if you do and damned if you don't. These app manufacturers saw how well these kind of standover tactics worked in the hotel industry and thought they could get another racket like that in other forms of hospitality.
I have noticed a lot of tech/computer nerds have a significant interest in language nerdery. I've seen /. threads devolve into arguments over correct Latin grammar. This certainly piques the interest of people who have a bit of language nerd in them, because it's as much about knowledge of old writing systems and abbreviations as it is ability to look at squiggly lines and pattern-match.
I wouldn't say so, but nerds do tend to be grammar nazis at least up until the point in their lives that they stop caring about what others think (usually mid 30's, about the same time you unashamedly start listening to the greatest hits of the 60's, 70's and 80's in your car). However we have nothing on the kind of pendants that come from old universities like Cambridge and Oxford. If you would like to see a truly vicious argument over a minor point of Latin grammar computer nerds with an interest in language are severely outclassed (and outnumbered).
Exactly. They exist to sell hardware to people willing to pay for overpriced stuff (i.e., gamers, the new audiophool).
What do you mean by "new"? Overpriced junk has always been targeted at gamers, although 90% of us just ignore it (a cheap Logitech laser mouse is as good as, if not better than Razer and will almost certainly last longer) there are enough posers that these companies remain in business.
Exactly. They exist to sell hardware to people willing to pay for overpriced stuff (i.e., gamers, the new audiophool). Practically all of them run Windows and knows nothing else, and they probably get their sales from people who see their boxes at Best Buy, go "ooh shiny" and whip out their credit card.
Many of us PC gamers run multiple OS's. However I rarely game on Linux because it's not what Linux is good at.
However we're price conscious purchases (if we didn't care about costs.. we'd buy consoles) and rarely shop at Best Buy. Our needs are best served by online stores (Amazon, Newegg) and the best deals are often found through PC Part Picker.
Your ignorance of the gaming community is astounding.
So how does converting a US dollar tax bill amount to bitcoin in real time
The tax department will simply use their own rate which chances are, will be the day rate from their chosen source + x%.
The infrastructure is already there, banks have been giving people spot rates + x% on their credit cards for overseas purchases for decades now.
It would likely be cheaper for you to turn your bitcoins into USD via your broker and pay with that, but saying "OMG, you can pay with bitcoin.. much progression, very future" makes for nice headlines.
I personally find AI and aliens to be much less threatening than physical destruction... but truly the most fearsome of all is FUNDAMENTALISM in any of its forms.
I dont fear Artificial Intelligence as much as I fear Human Stupidity.
The latter is more likely to lead us to our doom.
So far, Tesla has produced enough so that people are eager to throw money at it. No problem raising funds.
They are making cars and have plans for new models and trucks and energy storage and solar panels and roofs. That takes money. As long as they deliver, they can continue to raise money to grow. If they stopped spending on new stuff today, they would be profitable but wouldn't have much of a future.
It took Amazon years to become profitable and now Bezos is world's richest man.
Amazon went into a completely uncontested market, in 1995 no-one had even considered e-commerce. Musk is entering a market where he will not only compete with existing ICE cars, but electric cars from existing manufacturers with far deeper pockets.
Single trick companies are notorious for failure in the automotive world. Musk is depending on subsidies to make his products palatable to buyers and isn't profitable. If you've ever seen a map of who owns bits (or in entirety) of who you'd realise why Tesla is doomed to failure, the entire industry is incestuous.
"A human navigator can't see ahead for optimizing against current traffic patterns as can GPS"
Really now? Anyone I have ever met knows things like, "If I don't leave in 15 minutes the 340 is going to be crowded, but I could take the 225. The 225 is longer but would end up being faster". And " since it is the holidays and there is a game that lets out soon, I'll take the 720, use high street, go through Clear Water subdivision, get on the 225 and miss the surge".
If a person is familiar with an ares, human usually wins.
This, My car's GPS (which allegedly received live traffic updates) regularly tries to send me down the M3 eastbound in the morning despite it being well and truly blocked and the A30 is much faster (Google, which is much better sends me down the A30). Even Google can be wrong though.
Locals will know established traffic patterns and the best way to avoid them. Roads that aren't marked or used, little used short cuts and long cuts (sometimes taking a few miles extra to go around the problem is a lot faster, a lot of the time its better than negotiating a one way system).
I was in London last year, and used Uber extensively.
You'd probably be better off using citymapper or some equivalent to be honest and doing a mix of walking and public transport.
It's what us locals do innit.
Google Maps is pretty damn good at navigating London's public transport network.
Seriously, trying to get through London by car is a royal PITA... and I say that as a dedicated petrol head (who lives outside of London for just that reason).
This should show everyone how much security and validation is lacking in almost every aspect of our lives. The best thing to do, is to learn from what happened and evolve systems that can deal with the real threats. When security legs behind, you get scenarios such as this!
Ooooh, and a unicorn. I'd also like a unicorn.
We have many simple ways to secure money in our lives like one time passcodes which will eliminate most card fraud. The problem is that it will reduce credit card usage as people will find cash less annoying than having to enter a passcode to buy something online. Given that credit card companies and banks make money from transactions (they take it from the merchant and threaten the merchant with lawyers if they tell you about it) a drop in usage is a significant drop in profit. Right now they're making significantly more than they're losing in fraud (which is an excuse to put fees up, for you and the merchant).
Even now with contactless cards, I have an app on my Android phone that can get your card number, name and expiry date (everything I need to do an online transaction) just by waving my phone near your cards. Security researchers demonstrated this in 2012, have banks done anything? Hell no, I'm willing to bet that most card numbers harvested now are via contactless.
Sure the AI has some flaws now, but it will eventually get better. Also, a lot of the problems are going to come from the quality of the picture. The lens usually distorts the image. I remember doing an AI project one and we had to account for the fish-eye effect of the lens. Also, our adjustments only worked for our camera and would have been broken for another camera.
That's the least of their worries, even if the system worked perfectly human tailors have little to worry about. The reason you go to a tailor these days is for the service. A proper tailor will do 2 or 3 fittings at a minimum as nothing ever comes out perfect. A made to measure tailor let alone a completely bespoke one will have you try the clothing on to determine if it needs adjustment to your body shape and it usually does.
The AI tailor will be competing with off the rack stores for business.
I will buy from an online tailor named Garek. That is all.
Is he off Keeping up with the Kardaisans?
Not as much as Google or Amazon. Because all the reviews are saying how limited Siri is. And Siri is limited because Apple is holding it back. Siri is limited to simple on-device commands that are handled locally without cloud involvement, or when using the cloud, very limited engagements.
Hmmm, you're assuming it isn't recording you 24/7 and selling that data to third parties because the interface is terrible.
Apple are as bad as Amazon at selling your data and worse than Google. Google are at least honest about it and give you a reasonable assurance that they've taken steps to anonymise it. In fact I'd say they're worse than Amazon too, Amazon advertise products you might like based on your search and buying patterns, Apple tries to make sure your next purchase has to be an Apple device.
So, what about all of those "porn parody" videos? Those have been sold for years by commercial studios ("Who's Nailin' Palin" comes to mind). Will they be banning all of those videos, too? Are they passing moral judgment on SNL sketches, too (like Alec Baldwin's Trump sketches), even though they are not explicit? Can we expect demands for SNL to be banned in the future?
(personally, I wouldn't mind if SNL were banned - they haven't been funny in many, many years. And even back then, their funny moments were very few and far between.)
Parodies are clearly marked as such (I.E. actors will be credited). Photoshopping the face onto someone else and calling it "Secret Angelina Jolie sex tape" is misrepresentation at the very least, deformation and possibly slander as well. PH are just covering their arses by restricting it (which is ironic for a porn site).
Turns out the wage gap really is simply because of personal choices.
In other news, the leading cause of poverty (that is, people who *become* poor) is getting knocked up at a young age and having a bunch of children you cannot afford instead of completing your education and establishing a career.
Yet if you dare suggest things like delayed gratification, birth control, the fact that we all know where babies come from ... well it's amazing how people will villify you for that. Even people who did it that way themselves!
I agree with your point about life choices... but the leading cause of poverty is still being born into poverty. A young girl from Bello, Colombia isn't going to magically elevate herself out of that place because she resists having a kid, it still takes money to go to school, money her family is short of.
You would not believe Trump if he told you the sky was blue.
Given Trumps record, if he told me the sky was blue and water was wet, I'd still have to go outside and check for myself.