All the while when blue collar workers were crying about their loss of livelyhood the very same ivory tower denizens were calling them Luddites, and talked about march of time, buggy whip makers and seriously were arguing that despite their loss of jobs for most people cost of living is dropping and living standards are improving. The "most of the people" they were talking about were educated middle class of affluent nations.
The once proud cultures of China and India were reduced to abject poverty these academics did not even notice it. When job loss reduced large swaths of land to permanent internecine wars, they did not care.
Finally automation threatens educated middle class of affluent nations (mostly white) suddenly these guys wake up and talk about robocalypse.
All that could be true and still they could be right about the dangers of automation. I am not denying that. But if they would show some remorse about the casual way they waved away the job losses of blue collar workers, and the devastation caused by industrialization to Asia they would get some sympathy. Else we will be arguing about it, while the "Free Market" and the "Invisible hand" will transfer more wealth from bottom 995 permill to top 5 permill. (percent, cent=100, permill mill=1000).
To some extent most of us in the 990 permill to 995 permill thought we are immune. Till the top 5 permill bastards betrayed us and started taking from us too.
Human beings are notorious for seeing patterns in noise. They see a man in the craters of the Moon, various objects in cloud formations, deduce cause and effect for natural events, (Saturn in the seventh house means, Mr Bhagat Singh Thonde will lose his case in the Supreme Court, because Justice Sutherland has Jupiter in the seventh house. Because Jupiter and Saturn are insanely jealous of each other and they never pass a chance to beat each other up, everyone knows that).
And there is no better noisy environment than "high art" where paint by numbers picture might win the first prize much to the embarrassment of the officials, and museums mount art works upside down unbeknownst to the patrons as well as the artist!
AI pitted against humans in seeing patterns in noise, is probably a high point, acme, zenith of intelligence. What next? Illusions of grandeur?
If it is cheap enough for home use, it is cheap enough for utilities too! So they might adopt grid scale solar. The cost for utilities is maintenance of the grid and the lines. The cost for home owners is the battery backup.
Since demand follows the sun utilities can use on demand gas turbines instead of batteries. Before the batteries become cheap enough for the home owner, it would have become cheap enough for the utilities.
The Grid is not a static target for residential solar to take pot shots at. It too would co-opt viable technologies and it is a moving target. If static analysis predict 2028 for break even in sunny Arizona, dynamic analysis where grid too uses viable solar technology, would move the date to 2050 or beyond.
On the other hand, as people start defecting from the grid, the cost for the rest would go up. Like the transition from street car lines to private automobile showed, it could happen fast.
Not that simple. Every one assumes the reliability of these communications network and design systems around it.
I am closing on a home on Friday. I got some paperwork from mortgage lender on Tuesday at around 1 PM, with a voice mail saying, I need to sign it electronically before midnight, else we miss the closing deadline. 11 hour window? It is a half mill deal, 10K security deposit. Seller has another closing lined up contingent on this sale going through, that is another half mill deal most likely. It is possible the contingent sales have been set up like dominoes many times over. The interest rate went up two weeks back, summer season is coming to a close. Any interruption here would reverberate through.
But they simply assumed, I will get the voice mail, and I will be able to reach a desktop or laptop, will be ale to reach their secure communications server, two factor authenticate using a cell phone, sign and complete the paper work. In an earlier era they might have provided for 24 or even 48 hours for the borrower to show up physically to a specific branch of the bank and sign the paper document in person.
There were some news reports about solar spot activity causing traffic jams. Some solar flare knocked off one communication satellite. Most gas stations were using that satellite for the pay-at-the-pump systems. When people had to pump gas and pay inside the convenience store, the throughput of the gas stations dropped, lines formed, the lines snaked out of the gas stations, starting jamming up turning lanes, leading to a huge traffic jam.
Efficient systems have no cushion left in them to handle unexpected situations.
All the researchers had smart phones in their pockets when the planned the test, ran the tests, and analyzed the results. Since they are all dumb due to the presence of their cell phones, their conclusions must be all dumb.
Most Indians in India too bought the same bull shit that ALL Indian techies are superior to Western grads. They were so bad they did not even know how bad they were. This hubris is making India not realize the phase 3 as fast as American companies realize it.
To run multiple cars in one shaft you need to ditch the cable. Already some designs are being tried like this. Each car has its own traction motors, cog wheels,
and guide rails. With emergency braking too.
They are experimenting with two adjacent shafts, one up and the other down. Cars move horizontally to transfer from on shaft to another at the top floor
and the basement.
They are also moving the floor request button outside the car. Thus if three cars are going up, there is one request for floor A from floor B, only one car will stop at B and then at A. A very adaptable system, sort the passengers by destination before they enter a car, this alone doubles the capacity of elevators in large buildings.
When Japan was enamored with huge American companies in the 1960s, they created companies like Ordinary Oil, Common Motors. Well, they learned quickly it is not very wise to use a thesaurus with imperfect understanding to name conglomerates....
They had a win7 machine exposed to the net? And it took the hackers this long to find it? Back when I was playing apache server at home, I exposed one port to the net, UDP, nothing standard, some random port I wanted to test. It was hit by probes within 10 minutes. That was 8 years ago.
It is not simply having a win7. Someone did something dumb. Click on something or opened a booby trapped file.
It is more human interest general interest piece. Other than the fact the hack happened via a Windows7 machine that was on the network unbeknownst to the company, there is no info about the technical details of the hack. The attack vector, whether anyone clicked on a spearphish etc. No details at all
For most people, labor is the only thing they have got, to sell. It could be intellectual or manual, but labor is all most people in the world have to sell.
There is only one thing to do to give some hope the wretched masses yearning to breath free.
Make it legal for people to sell any surplus organs they might have. The lazy bums don't need both the left eye and the right eye. Right?
It is supposed to be an auto pilot car stuffed with instruments. If the driver does not respond correctly to a challenge, alarm will blare inside the car, horns will sound outside the car, it will sense the cars behind and safely pull over to the shoulder and stop. Isn't this better than saying, "I can't slam the brakes ate 70mph, so I will continue at 70 mph for ever"
It is basic safety design. Implemented even in steam engines. Trains are a good analog of autopilot because the locomotive drivers don't have to steer. They only control the speed manually. The biggest safety issue in locomotives is boredom. Eyes glaze over looking at the endless track, they ignore signals, their reaction time becomes very slow. Deadman's Treadle was introduced to make sure the loco drivers tread it once in so many minutes, else the train stops. In modern diesels they constantly issue alert and if the driver does not react it stops the train. Japan's bullet trains have their own methods to keep driver alertness. They always point to whatever they should be looking at, and look at it and say it aloud.
Given the history of how to handle inattentive drivers on machines that require very infrequent action, they should have designed the auto pilot with random reaction testing alerts and challenges.
The 3D printing is new, and it would take several years of FAA to approve the parts and certify the manufacturing process. That is to be expected. FAA and certification will not move very fast.
Having said that, the very same certification and process would become a very important factor in 3D printing dominating aircraft/nuclear engineer parts and components.
These ares nuclear power stations and aircraft are one of the most heavily regulated for safety and compliance. 3D printing can implant sensors and failure detectors deep inside the structures during manufacturing. Strain gauges, crack/fracture detecting strips can be placed and rest of the component "poured" around it. Once this technology matures, FAA might demand failure detectors to be embedded inside all critical components. Traditional manufacturing like casting, forging, drawing, rolling, machining, turning, milling and welding can not do this, or do this efficiently. When that switch happens, 3D printing will be the only way to make the critical components for aircraft and nuclear reactors. It will be pure gravy after that for 3D printers.
All those old ladies who live with dozens of cats living among the stench of them might have been infected with Toxoplasma virus. This virus infects the brain and creates a liking for cat urine and excreta! The life cycle of this virus is that it reproduces in cat bodies but matures in mice bodies. Makes the mice lose their fear of cats, and the cats eat them. It seems to have jumped to humans and humans find cats lovable because of this infection.
Thus one can seriously argue cats have been domesticating humans. We domesticated other animals and plants by careful selection and breeding programs. But cats have been domesticating us using a virus without either the cats or us being aware of it.
Jobs wore black every day to avoid having to decide what to wear on that day. That is the trouble with the young whippersnappers without culture and upbringing. Hire some Jeeves to lay out the trousers, belt, undershirt, shirt, jacket, hat, socks and the walking stick on the bed while you take a bath belting out Sonny Boy. Except for some minor dispute involving a smoking jacket from the French Riviera there is never a problem of having to decide what to wear.
He knows Amazon is flush with cash. Full of investor infused cash being used to undercut the competition. So he took the best way out. Sold the company out to Amazon to get his share of the investor cash. Now he will leave Whole Foods soon and start a Complete Foods or Whole Fools company. He got the seed money from Amazon.
Amazon, Uber etc are very innovative in creative lawyering. Like Uber's drivers are not its employess and how Uber is not a taxi company. Amazon will call Whole Foods not a grocery store or something.
An average pizza order is about 20$. There is nothing more perishable than a pizza. They can be delivered in 30 minutes. So Amazon (or Walmart or Home Depot for that matter) can accept orders in the web site, have robot assisted people fill the order and make a grocery basket all saran wrapped and be ready to deliver, for the time it takes to bake a pizza. So it is not impossible. And Walmart can create a franchise just to deliver stuff from its warehouse to homes. Mom and pop pizza shop owners can carve up the territory and get Walmart delivery franchises. UPS+Walmart alliance or a Target+FedEx alliance can do the warehouse to mom-and-pop pizza shop run once or twice a day. The pizza shops can take care of the last five miles delivery leg.
There was a time when milk bread and eggs were delivered daily to homes. The point is, even if it demonstrates such a gee-whizz method, others can follow quickly and undercut Amazon. What can amazon do that others can not simply copy? Unless Bezos has a ridiculous one-click-purchase patent up his sleeves, what gives? BTW that abominable patent finally expires this year.
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The once proud cultures of China and India were reduced to abject poverty these academics did not even notice it. When job loss reduced large swaths of land to permanent internecine wars, they did not care.
Finally automation threatens educated middle class of affluent nations (mostly white) suddenly these guys wake up and talk about robocalypse.
All that could be true and still they could be right about the dangers of automation. I am not denying that. But if they would show some remorse about the casual way they waved away the job losses of blue collar workers, and the devastation caused by industrialization to Asia they would get some sympathy. Else we will be arguing about it, while the "Free Market" and the "Invisible hand" will transfer more wealth from bottom 995 permill to top 5 permill. (percent, cent=100, permill mill=1000) .
To some extent most of us in the 990 permill to 995 permill thought we are immune. Till the top 5 permill bastards betrayed us and started taking from us too.
Only you know you got a power conditioner. All the neighbors know Hirojigosi San makes loads of money so that his son could buy a private power pole.
And there is no better noisy environment than "high art" where paint by numbers picture might win the first prize much to the embarrassment of the officials, and museums mount art works upside down unbeknownst to the patrons as well as the artist!
AI pitted against humans in seeing patterns in noise, is probably a high point, acme, zenith of intelligence. What next? Illusions of grandeur?
Since demand follows the sun utilities can use on demand gas turbines instead of batteries. Before the batteries become cheap enough for the home owner, it would have become cheap enough for the utilities.
The Grid is not a static target for residential solar to take pot shots at. It too would co-opt viable technologies and it is a moving target. If static analysis predict 2028 for break even in sunny Arizona, dynamic analysis where grid too uses viable solar technology, would move the date to 2050 or beyond.
On the other hand, as people start defecting from the grid, the cost for the rest would go up. Like the transition from street car lines to private automobile showed, it could happen fast.
I am closing on a home on Friday. I got some paperwork from mortgage lender on Tuesday at around 1 PM, with a voice mail saying, I need to sign it electronically before midnight, else we miss the closing deadline. 11 hour window? It is a half mill deal, 10K security deposit. Seller has another closing lined up contingent on this sale going through, that is another half mill deal most likely. It is possible the contingent sales have been set up like dominoes many times over. The interest rate went up two weeks back, summer season is coming to a close. Any interruption here would reverberate through.
But they simply assumed, I will get the voice mail, and I will be able to reach a desktop or laptop, will be ale to reach their secure communications server, two factor authenticate using a cell phone, sign and complete the paper work. In an earlier era they might have provided for 24 or even 48 hours for the borrower to show up physically to a specific branch of the bank and sign the paper document in person.
There were some news reports about solar spot activity causing traffic jams. Some solar flare knocked off one communication satellite. Most gas stations were using that satellite for the pay-at-the-pump systems. When people had to pump gas and pay inside the convenience store, the throughput of the gas stations dropped, lines formed, the lines snaked out of the gas stations, starting jamming up turning lanes, leading to a huge traffic jam.
Efficient systems have no cushion left in them to handle unexpected situations.
All the researchers had smart phones in their pockets when the planned the test, ran the tests, and analyzed the results. Since they are all dumb due to the presence of their cell phones, their conclusions must be all dumb.
Does yelling "get off my grass" counts as interaction and the kids count as acquaintances?
Most Indians in India too bought the same bull shit that ALL Indian techies are superior to Western grads. They were so bad they did not even know how bad they were. This hubris is making India not realize the phase 3 as fast as American companies realize it.
They are experimenting with two adjacent shafts, one up and the other down. Cars move horizontally to transfer from on shaft to another at the top floor and the basement.
They are also moving the floor request button outside the car. Thus if three cars are going up, there is one request for floor A from floor B, only one car will stop at B and then at A. A very adaptable system, sort the passengers by destination before they enter a car, this alone doubles the capacity of elevators in large buildings.
When Japan was enamored with huge American companies in the 1960s, they created companies like Ordinary Oil, Common Motors. Well, they learned quickly it is not very wise to use a thesaurus with imperfect understanding to name conglomerates ....
It was just a debugging training facility and all the bugs have been trained raised for that purpose.
We know how it ended. Now we know where /how it started.
It is not simply having a win7. Someone did something dumb. Click on something or opened a booby trapped file.
It is more human interest general interest piece. Other than the fact the hack happened via a Windows7 machine that was on the network unbeknownst to the company, there is no info about the technical details of the hack. The attack vector, whether anyone clicked on a spearphish etc. No details at all
There is only one thing to do to give some hope the wretched masses yearning to breath free.
Make it legal for people to sell any surplus organs they might have. The lazy bums don't need both the left eye and the right eye. Right?
Picked up a rumor that CVS was planning to move to AWS, they decided not to go to AWS.
Technically there was only one World War, from 1914 to 1945, with a large ceasefire in the interim.
It is supposed to be an auto pilot car stuffed with instruments. If the driver does not respond correctly to a challenge, alarm will blare inside the car, horns will sound outside the car, it will sense the cars behind and safely pull over to the shoulder and stop. Isn't this better than saying, "I can't slam the brakes ate 70mph, so I will continue at 70 mph for ever"
Given the history of how to handle inattentive drivers on machines that require very infrequent action, they should have designed the auto pilot with random reaction testing alerts and challenges.
Having said that, the very same certification and process would become a very important factor in 3D printing dominating aircraft/nuclear engineer parts and components.
These ares nuclear power stations and aircraft are one of the most heavily regulated for safety and compliance. 3D printing can implant sensors and failure detectors deep inside the structures during manufacturing. Strain gauges, crack/fracture detecting strips can be placed and rest of the component "poured" around it. Once this technology matures, FAA might demand failure detectors to be embedded inside all critical components. Traditional manufacturing like casting, forging, drawing, rolling, machining, turning, milling and welding can not do this, or do this efficiently. When that switch happens, 3D printing will be the only way to make the critical components for aircraft and nuclear reactors. It will be pure gravy after that for 3D printers.
Thus one can seriously argue cats have been domesticating humans. We domesticated other animals and plants by careful selection and breeding programs. But cats have been domesticating us using a virus without either the cats or us being aware of it.
Jobs wore black every day to avoid having to decide what to wear on that day. That is the trouble with the young whippersnappers without culture and upbringing. Hire some Jeeves to lay out the trousers, belt, undershirt, shirt, jacket, hat, socks and the walking stick on the bed while you take a bath belting out Sonny Boy. Except for some minor dispute involving a smoking jacket from the French Riviera there is never a problem of having to decide what to wear.
(Well, at least so far desi does not have any pejorative connotations, lets see how long it remains so...)
The transcript shows he said, "Alexa buy Whole Foods All natural organic no gmo no preservatives fancy nancy cage free free range chicken stock "
It just dropped a few words in the middle.
Amazon, Uber etc are very innovative in creative lawyering. Like Uber's drivers are not its employess and how Uber is not a taxi company. Amazon will call Whole Foods not a grocery store or something.
An average pizza order is about 20$. There is nothing more perishable than a pizza. They can be delivered in 30 minutes. So Amazon (or Walmart or Home Depot for that matter) can accept orders in the web site, have robot assisted people fill the order and make a grocery basket all saran wrapped and be ready to deliver, for the time it takes to bake a pizza. So it is not impossible. And Walmart can create a franchise just to deliver stuff from its warehouse to homes. Mom and pop pizza shop owners can carve up the territory and get Walmart delivery franchises. UPS+Walmart alliance or a Target+FedEx alliance can do the warehouse to mom-and-pop pizza shop run once or twice a day. The pizza shops can take care of the last five miles delivery leg.
There was a time when milk bread and eggs were delivered daily to homes. The point is, even if it demonstrates such a gee-whizz method, others can follow quickly and undercut Amazon. What can amazon do that others can not simply copy? Unless Bezos has a ridiculous one-click-purchase patent up his sleeves, what gives? BTW that abominable patent finally expires this year.