I think hybrid/natural gas is already in place in many places... because it's also cheaper.
But I think the first step would be to make public transport more attractive. Cutting the emissions of buses makes sense in Europe, but in the US, you need to first convince people to use them instead of their cars. That would actually have a net benefit on emissions.
Adding constraints to public transportation is only going to make it less attractive, hence less used.
Look, for a long time, people said "oh, if only it was available ala carte as streaming, I wouldn't pirate" Then, it was available, and people found a new excuse.
Not true. Many stopped pirating when it became more convenient, including me. But I just meant that I considered it in the middle of watching GoT (through legal means). Now some will always pirate stuff, and I'm not advocating for that.
However, if you want a better player, and have Prime already, you can watch HBO through the Prime Video app (for a surcharge). Or, the app on iDevices works pretty well.
The HBO Android TV app is as crappy as it can be. Crashes, hangs, doesn't even remember where you stopped. I cancelled my subscription after the free month just because of that. Watching GoT was such a pain. Sometimes I had to restart an episode from the beginning and skip to the place it crashed otherwise it would crash again.
I'd rather download high quality files and play them on Kodi.
I've seen that everywhere in the bay area + Dallas + Austin + pretty much everywhere I went in the US. Maybe it's just I don't know the good places but as an European it's quite striking.
Unfortunately American restaurants (even the high-end ones) are all sports bar. TVs on every possible flat surface on the walls. It seems Americans cannot enjoy a lunch without watching sport on TV.
Quite weird for people coming from Europe, where having dinner at a restaurant and watching TV are totally incompatible.
No one even said that it was a mistake or a bad thing, this is just reflecting on the moral contract between people and companies and how it can make our society stable.
Without that balance, you can expect the system to change. Quickly.
Exactly that. I mean, you are showing the perfect example of someone who is playing the legal, not moral game.
Sucking money out of "suckers" is legal. Not moral -- you're making these people's life worse.
Usual arguments to make you feel like you're not an a**hole include : "if it's not me it will be someone else", "they deserve it because they're dumb" (everyone is dumb when it comes to some field), "not my role",...
I did some research and could find anything clear... and I'm genuinely interested if that has happened in the past already -- though as always skeptical of everything posted here, even things I take for granted.
Anyway, I looked at your link, and I'm even more skeptical. Couldn't find a description of those "80 years of joblessness after the industrial revolution.. until new tech came along". Which years ? Which new tech ?
I'm not sure how is an idiot, but what I find stupid is setting Xorg +s (which seems to be default in some *BSD distros !). Everything that is +s should be extremely simple and controlled programs. Not a huge complex blob like Xorg which certainly has a ton of other security holes.
Tesla HAS been losing money on each car they sell. That is a factual statement. But it doesn't mean what some people think it means.
Nice try, but no. "Tesla is still losing money" might mean what you describe. But "on each car they sell" is clearly referring to the per-car production cost versus the per-car price.
By the way, there is no fact when things are badly defined. To your credit, you defined what you mean. Usually those who stress they relay "facts" carefully avoid that step, making sure they can endlessly debate/troll.
The big winners of the patent wars were lawyers. To defend against patents, you need more patents,... and it never ends. The big losers are companies (including those who innovate, starting with startups), the winners are lawyers. But they bring nothing good.
I was kind of thinking this would never end -- how happy I was to discover the OIN network. Well done. Being inside OIN is much safer for companies than being outside (the protection is great). When everyone is inside, only patent troll companies will be outside, and OIN might be able to join forces to bankrupt them.
A nice way to effectively change the patent system without changing the law.
Companies doing business in California may have to care about it. They might get away with subcontracting to a company operating from another state, but still.
I'm more worried about the effect that are only annoying, like every call to a service phone number will start with an even longer disclaimer (that costs you money) about the service being done by a bot...
True in general, but not in this case since they are asking for a universal rule across the US. Having per-state laws is worse for small competitors and restricts their ability to grow.
So, having consistent federal not-too-strict laws are better for businesses selling user information (your first point I think) but actually also better for small competitors who want to grow.
Some big companies spend a lot in lobbying to increase complexity of their own field because they know they can handle it better than the small actors. They are doing the opposite here : they want their job to be easier (and more importantly less regulated), but they're not trying to prevent competition.
Now, I haven't seen any company complain against GDPR. Some say it's a lot of constraints (like, it really protects users), but all seem to agree it is fair, so no company could publicly fight GDPR without clearly being anti-privacy -- and most Companies always publicly say they are pro-privacy, especially when their business model is selling user's data. I believe those laws should be like the internet : world-wide.
There we go. One study finds a correlation between lower mental performance and watching phones or TV all day and people conclude that kids should never see a screen before they're 18.
That is as stupid as "Kids who only drink water lack essential nutrients, therefore I'll never give water to my kids.".
Obviously, kids whose parents use phones or TVs as a babysitter are much likely to have lower mental performance than those who interact with their parents.
Which doesn't mean phones, TV, and other stuff should not be part of a healthy, balanced diet.
Playing outside is good for health. Playing video games is good for mental abilities. Watching TV is likely good for other things.
Not exactly true. Startups will have more issues complying with GDPR, California laws, and any local laws. That's what preventing them from going world-wide, while large companies can absorb that pretty easily.
The US should go for something that is as close to GDPR as possible. That way, it would incur NO cost for companies (*) since they already implement GDPR (and most of the time for all users so that it's simpler for them) while effectively improving user's privacy.
(*) Except for companies which business model is based on selling users information, obviously.
Totally agree with what I've experienced. Girls were more scholar and favoured learning over understanding (compared to boys). Maybe indeed because they were just trying to be good students, not really enjoying the field of study.
That holds pretty well until it doesn't. At some point in my math studies, I really saw an inversion where all the top spots became taken by boys.
Yep, it's hardly hacking, and nonetheless stupid from the so-called security researcher.
I can't count the number of times where I could easily get full access to hotels wireless routers. It's most of the times completely open.
Once I could even see all the hotel stuff, invoices (they had an overdue internet bill for 3 months),... That's what happens when hotels install the internet themselves like they do at home.
Well, that was also my thoughts when I wrote my first CUDA program : apart from some new implicit structures (threadIdx / blockIdx /...), CUDA is just C++.
However, writing a program that has just decent performance in CUDA is very different from writing CPU code : you have to twist your mind to think wide (lots of slow but very synchronous cores) instead of long (several unsynchronized but fast cores). Usually, it makes the optimized code quite different and it is hard to abstract.
Surely, there are some cases that can be easily described to work well in both cases, like process this 3D matrix. But there are things for which the language cannot do much because you really need to optimize for a specific architecture that has made important and distinctive design choices in the memory model and compute architecture.
So in the end, writing CUDA or OpenCL is likely not a 20-years investment. Things are moving fast and maybe GPUs will converge to a similar model in the future (just like there used to be very different types of CPUs at some point), but for now, writing CUDA or OpenCL code is optimizing for a specific architecture. It is somewhat expensive but makes a big difference.
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I think hybrid/natural gas is already in place in many places ... because it's also cheaper.
But I think the first step would be to make public transport more attractive. Cutting the emissions of buses makes sense in Europe, but in the US, you need to first convince people to use them instead of their cars. That would actually have a net benefit on emissions.
Adding constraints to public transportation is only going to make it less attractive, hence less used.
Exactly this (on top of the previous one). No game is going to last for 1000 years. The concept of WR ... makes little sense either.
Let's keep video games on their own schedule. Besides, they really don't need to be associated to what the Olympics have become.
Look, for a long time, people said "oh, if only it was available ala carte as streaming, I wouldn't pirate" Then, it was available, and people found a new excuse.
Not true. Many stopped pirating when it became more convenient, including me. But I just meant that I considered it in the middle of watching GoT (through legal means). Now some will always pirate stuff, and I'm not advocating for that.
However, if you want a better player, and have Prime already, you can watch HBO through the Prime Video app (for a surcharge). Or, the app on iDevices works pretty well.
None of this works for me.
While I agree with the idea, this article was one the rare ones NOT saying anything negative about Millenials.
The HBO Android TV app is as crappy as it can be. Crashes, hangs, doesn't even remember where you stopped. I cancelled my subscription after the free month just because of that. Watching GoT was such a pain. Sometimes I had to restart an episode from the beginning and skip to the place it crashed otherwise it would crash again.
I'd rather download high quality files and play them on Kodi.
I've seen that everywhere in the bay area + Dallas + Austin + pretty much everywhere I went in the US. Maybe it's just I don't know the good places but as an European it's quite striking.
Unfortunately American restaurants (even the high-end ones) are all sports bar. TVs on every possible flat surface on the walls. It seems Americans cannot enjoy a lunch without watching sport on TV.
Quite weird for people coming from Europe, where having dinner at a restaurant and watching TV are totally incompatible.
Creating an underground public transport system is not financially viable when there is ample room above ground.
This !... wait. Where is the ample room above ground again ?
You sound like a socialist.
Which is supposed to prove him wrong ?
No one even said that it was a mistake or a bad thing, this is just reflecting on the moral contract between people and companies and how it can make our society stable.
Without that balance, you can expect the system to change. Quickly.
Exactly that. I mean, you are showing the perfect example of someone who is playing the legal, not moral game.
Sucking money out of "suckers" is legal. Not moral -- you're making these people's life worse.
Usual arguments to make you feel like you're not an a**hole include : "if it's not me it will be someone else", "they deserve it because they're dumb" (everyone is dumb when it comes to some field), "not my role", ...
I did some research and could find anything clear ... and I'm genuinely interested if that has happened in the past already -- though as always skeptical of everything posted here, even things I take for granted.
Anyway, I looked at your link, and I'm even more skeptical. Couldn't find a description of those "80 years of joblessness after the industrial revolution .. until new tech came along". Which years ? Which new tech ?
Following the last big industrial rev there was about 80 years of joblessness until new tech came along.
Interesting, but I can't quite find references to those 80 years ... would you mind providing some pointers ? Thanks !
I'm not sure how is an idiot, but what I find stupid is setting Xorg +s (which seems to be default in some *BSD distros !). Everything that is +s should be extremely simple and controlled programs. Not a huge complex blob like Xorg which certainly has a ton of other security holes.
Tesla HAS been losing money on each car they sell. That is a factual statement. But it doesn't mean what some people think it means.
Nice try, but no. "Tesla is still losing money" might mean what you describe. But "on each car they sell" is clearly referring to the per-car production cost versus the per-car price.
By the way, there is no fact when things are badly defined. To your credit, you defined what you mean. Usually those who stress they relay "facts" carefully avoid that step, making sure they can endlessly debate/troll.
And if you consider god being the project, piety is pretty fine as well.
Maybe that will be the opportunity to see if shadow accounts actually exist.
So. True.
The big winners of the patent wars were lawyers. To defend against patents, you need more patents, ... and it never ends. The big losers are companies (including those who innovate, starting with startups), the winners are lawyers. But they bring nothing good.
I was kind of thinking this would never end -- how happy I was to discover the OIN network. Well done. Being inside OIN is much safer for companies than being outside (the protection is great). When everyone is inside, only patent troll companies will be outside, and OIN might be able to join forces to bankrupt them.
A nice way to effectively change the patent system without changing the law.
Companies doing business in California may have to care about it. They might get away with subcontracting to a company operating from another state, but still.
I'm more worried about the effect that are only annoying, like every call to a service phone number will start with an even longer disclaimer (that costs you money) about the service being done by a bot ...
True in general, but not in this case since they are asking for a universal rule across the US. Having per-state laws is worse for small competitors and restricts their ability to grow.
So, having consistent federal not-too-strict laws are better for businesses selling user information (your first point I think) but actually also better for small competitors who want to grow.
Some big companies spend a lot in lobbying to increase complexity of their own field because they know they can handle it better than the small actors. They are doing the opposite here : they want their job to be easier (and more importantly less regulated), but they're not trying to prevent competition.
Now, I haven't seen any company complain against GDPR. Some say it's a lot of constraints (like, it really protects users), but all seem to agree it is fair, so no company could publicly fight GDPR without clearly being anti-privacy -- and most Companies always publicly say they are pro-privacy, especially when their business model is selling user's data. I believe those laws should be like the internet : world-wide.
There we go. One study finds a correlation between lower mental performance and watching phones or TV all day and people conclude that kids should never see a screen before they're 18.
That is as stupid as "Kids who only drink water lack essential nutrients, therefore I'll never give water to my kids.".
Obviously, kids whose parents use phones or TVs as a babysitter are much likely to have lower mental performance than those who interact with their parents.
Which doesn't mean phones, TV, and other stuff should not be part of a healthy, balanced diet.
Playing outside is good for health. Playing video games is good for mental abilities. Watching TV is likely good for other things.
I'm tired of those troll studies.
Not exactly true. Startups will have more issues complying with GDPR, California laws, and any local laws. That's what preventing them from going world-wide, while large companies can absorb that pretty easily.
The US should go for something that is as close to GDPR as possible. That way, it would incur NO cost for companies (*) since they already implement GDPR (and most of the time for all users so that it's simpler for them) while effectively improving user's privacy.
(*) Except for companies which business model is based on selling users information, obviously.
Totally agree with what I've experienced. Girls were more scholar and favoured learning over understanding (compared to boys). Maybe indeed because they were just trying to be good students, not really enjoying the field of study.
That holds pretty well until it doesn't. At some point in my math studies, I really saw an inversion where all the top spots became taken by boys.
Of course, just my experience.
Yep, it's hardly hacking, and nonetheless stupid from the so-called security researcher.
I can't count the number of times where I could easily get full access to hotels wireless routers. It's most of the times completely open.
Once I could even see all the hotel stuff, invoices (they had an overdue internet bill for 3 months), ... That's what happens when hotels install the internet themselves like they do at home.
Yeah. I'd had written £500,000 as well because Pound is just too heavy.
Well, that was also my thoughts when I wrote my first CUDA program : apart from some new implicit structures (threadIdx / blockIdx / ...), CUDA is just C++.
However, writing a program that has just decent performance in CUDA is very different from writing CPU code : you have to twist your mind to think wide (lots of slow but very synchronous cores) instead of long (several unsynchronized but fast cores). Usually, it makes the optimized code quite different and it is hard to abstract.
Surely, there are some cases that can be easily described to work well in both cases, like process this 3D matrix. But there are things for which the language cannot do much because you really need to optimize for a specific architecture that has made important and distinctive design choices in the memory model and compute architecture.
So in the end, writing CUDA or OpenCL is likely not a 20-years investment. Things are moving fast and maybe GPUs will converge to a similar model in the future (just like there used to be very different types of CPUs at some point), but for now, writing CUDA or OpenCL code is optimizing for a specific architecture. It is somewhat expensive but makes a big difference.