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  1. No, a large screen that folds up to a small size would be an obvious benefit.

  2. Re:Lets get some Conservatives in here to deny it on Microplastics Are Blowing In the Wind (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1
    Coincidentally that just happened here in Albuquerque, literally yesterday

    https://www.abqjournal.com/130...

  3. Let he whose Christmas Tree never fell over cast the first stone.

  4. Or, oh I dunno, some tiedown straps?

  5. Re:Better plan on Amazon Helps Cops Set Up Package Theft Sting Operations (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    Disagree. Having to be home to get packages would be a huge pain for me. Whereas if porch piracy were shut down (at substantial cost and inconvenience), the people who do it would just start stealing by other means.

  6. Re:Air launch of rockets on Paul Allen's Stratolaunch Finally Flies The World's Biggest Plane (geekwire.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I do have to wonder how much of the advantage this initially had on the drawing board has since been wiped away by the SpaceX reusable first stage. Watching those two rockets land in robotic synchrony the other day... wow.

  7. Re:Not a great use of AI on A Robot Has Figured Out How To Use Tools (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1
    That is not much of an argument. People do long division by means we don't understand (which certainly involves thinking), but we can make machines that are very good at it.

    I think when all is said and done and we have machines that can do what people do, most of the algorithms for learning to do those things will be disappointingly simple.

  8. I would think that going from 85% to 100% would be quite hard, because hydro is presumably tapped out, population will grow over that time, and getting to 100% with wind and solar would require energy storage. Do they have enough reservoirs to turn down hydro when solar and wind are going, saving that water for when they are not?

  9. Re:Liberty is what matters on Are America's Big Telecom Companies Suppressing Fiber? (salon.com) · · Score: 1, Informative

    You are aware that our current President got fewer votes than his opponent, right?

  10. Re:The 30 year old 'expert' with +40 years experie on Apple Hires AI Expert Ian Goodfellow (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Thank you. Although my understanding is that co-evolution is defined as having no fixed evaluation function, but rather selection is based on viability within an environment with one or more other species that are also evolving.

  11. Re:The 30 year old 'expert' with +40 years experie on Apple Hires AI Expert Ian Goodfellow (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    What is special about GANs over and above making your AI's co-evolve through competing with each other, which is nothing new? (I'm not being snarky, I do presume there is more to it).

  12. ONLY the government should police Internet content on Mark Zuckerberg Wants The Government To Help Police Internet Content (bbc.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    There have long been laws against certain things like child porn, plagiarism, and defamation. There is a democratic process for drawing these boundaries, and a formal justice system for interpreting and enforcing them. When policing speech is delegated to universities, private companies, etc. they can draw the boundaries a lot tighter, and enforce them arbitrarily. We'd be better off if Facebook, youtube etc acted as common carriers more or less.

  13. Is that a lot? on Bay Area Tech Firms Laying Off 1,200 Workers By Memorial Day (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    There seems to be growing concern that a recession is coming. But what do we even do with this one little tidbit of information about layoffs without even knowing how it compares to average, represents firms in the area in general, and so on?

  14. Re:Race is a social construct, so is gender on Oculus VR Founder on Recently Unveiled Oculus Rift S: I Can't Use it, and Neither Can You. (palmerluckey.com) · · Score: 1
    Well, I doubt anybody would argue that interpupillary distance is a social construct, which is the actual issue. Can you imagine the interpupillary distance options on the Rift being labelled "30 year old white guy" or "60 year old latina"? No. Not (just) because of PC, but because interpupillary distance varies within any group defined on those constructs, so they aren't helpful.

    Usually information about group averages is not useful if you have direct information about the individual in question, yet our mind persists in biasing the specific information towards the (perceived) subpopulation norm anyways, and that's the problem.

  15. Re:My sympathies for the people.. on Oracle's Surprise Unannounced Layoffs 'Clear-Cut Teams of Engineers' (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    I hope, or at least wish, you are right.

  16. Re:My sympathies for the people.. on Oracle's Surprise Unannounced Layoffs 'Clear-Cut Teams of Engineers' (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    Define long-term? Larry Ellison is going to die a very, very rich, old man.

  17. Re: Wait a minute... on TypeScript's Quiet, Steady Rise Among Programming Languages (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    C++ attempts to implement typing, but since it doesn't impose enough rules to make guarantees about anything, it really can't be done. The thing on the other end of that pointer could be anything, or nothing.

  18. Re:So, pilot error? on Pilot Who Hitched a Ride Saved Lion Air 737 Day Before Deadly Crash (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    That can happen if a tire blows out.

  19. The Great Leap Backwards on Vladimir Putin Signs Sweeping Internet-Censorship Bills (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    In the late 80's through early 00's, progress seemed inevitable. Now what seems inevitable is decline and backsliding. What happened?

  20. Re:Time to Sing the Monorail Song? on Las Vegas Approves The Boring Company's Underground Loop (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    The really weird thing about the Vegas Monorail is why it doesn't go to the airport. The runway and the Strip are close to each other but you're stuck going the long way around on a shuttle bus, taxi,...

  21. Re:Yeah - they'll be asleep. on Satellite Magnate Argues Post-Brexit Britain Will Be 'Lost In Space' (bbc.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Just imagine a corporation from 1973 being transplanted straight into the present though. It wouldn't last a year.

    Britain on its own doesn't have the size to compete as a first-rate player in space, and space is tied closely to national security so the commercial sector will always be somewhat constrained in crossing borders, varying with how open/friendly ties currently are.

  22. Re:Simple Solution on MGM Considers Replacing Workers With Robots In Its Las Vegas Strip Properties (vegasslotsonline.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There is no meaningful way to define what a "robot" is, certainly not for purposes of replacing people. A self-checkout at the grocery store? A soda fountain at McDonald's? A big tractor on a farm that does what 120 peasants did at one time, or 30 sharecroppers with mules? Restricting it to anthropomorphic robots that correspond to 1 human would accomplish nothing, we keep imagining robots that way and they keep not being like that.

  23. Re:Back to the future? on SpaceX's Crew Dragon Capsule Returns To Earth After Historic Test Flight (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Manned space flight just turned out to be a dead end. But by different metrics, say "number of things put into orbit" or "pounds of stuff lifted into orbit" I bet the growth curve has been dramatic the last decade or two.

  24. Re:Good. on Philadelphia Bans Cashless Stores (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Why aren't there any libertarians in here arguing that store owners should be free to set their own terms, free from government compulsion?

  25. Re:WTF is 1000 mph charging? on Tesla Launches Supercharger V3 With 1,000mph Charging, Better Efficiency, and More (electrek.co) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I've never heard anybody complain that a Bugatti Veyron is claimed to go 253 mph even though it can't go 253 miles in an hour.