monochr
The guy doesn't work at Tesla, but if the average employee in Tesla can't afford their standard model and have enough money left over to live they are not a viable company, as Henry Ford figured out more than a century ago.
It's capitalism 101, you cut labour costs only to find that you've cut demand as well.
I paid for my first car in cash because of that. It was idiotic, but physical money beats bureaucratic idiocy.
Anyone who was in the US around 2003 will know how warped people there were when the war in Iraq was starting: https://youtu.be/DJ3RrqBqk14?t=3m34s
The same is true for just about every country, the UK when you start mentioning every genocide and famine they started (there were a rather lot of them), the French when you mention how much they screwed up Africa and Indochina, the Turks when you mention the Armenian genocide, etc.
Hopefully we will use the clear example of another country slowly going insane to stop the same thing happening here. But somehow I doubt it, because we are special.
You can't write safe code in any Turing complete language. That's the whole point of Turing completeness. The only reason why memory attacks are as common as they are is because C like languages are the most popular ones.
If we replaced everything written with C to a "safe" language like, I don't know Haskell?, we'd have just as many zero day exploits of the monads within programs.
A python like mathematica clone.
Running costs include the wages for those working there. I think $150,000 or so per employee is more than enough + volunteers. Of course you would have to give up the dream of being a billionaire. Off the top of my head I can think of less than 10 people to have done that, and none of them did it after 2001.
The brain centered quantum mechanics I've seen become fashionable to lay people in the last 20 years are a last gasp of homo-centrism that really should have died a very long time ago.
The above looks pretty 3d to me.
So let's actually read the article:
>the iconic browser dropped another three-tenths of a percentage point in analytics firm Net Applications' tracking, ending February with 11.6%.
That seems a lot less serious than is actually made out. Lets find out some more about Net Applications:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_Applications
That says to read this: http://web.archive.org/web/20081205105936/http://www.thestan...
>The company tracks browser usage -- how many hits are coming from browser A vs. browser B. In November, several factors skewed the results toward Safari. Thanks to the presidential election (which kept people visiting news sites) and the Thanksgiving holiday, an unusually high percentage of overall browsing in November happened outside of the office. So it's no surprise that browsers with higher home usage, such as Safari, would do better. (Firefox also did better, gaining more than 20%, while Internet Explorer -- popular in corporate environments -- dropped below 70% for the first time.)
>Net Applications tracks usage across its more than 40,000 client websites. Although these sites are located all over the world, they're skewed towards Europe and North America. That happens to be where Apple has a strong presence. Vince Vizzaccaro, the Net Application's Executive Vice President for Marketing and Strategic Alliances, acknowledged the problem and informed The Industry Standard that they will start weighting their statistics by country in January. "We need to better represent Asia and Africa," Vizzaccaro said.
Oh right, so they get access to the logs of "client websites", of which microsoft and apple seem to be some of the largest. So scientifically lets open the logs of my sites and see what browsers are represented there. Oh dear, it looks like safari has a 30% market share on mine over the last week. But what's this? Virtually all those hits are from the same IP address group. Oh it turns out that a whole bunch of mac scrappers hit my sites. And look! The same user shows up both as a internet explorer hit, a safari hit, and a chrome hit, turns out the same person uses different devices and the default browser that comes with each. This would be three different people according to Net Applications.
Your childs increase in reading speed by contrast is highly unimpressive.
If we did the same for bankers we would get, well what we got in 2008.
The difference between service jobs which are purely symbolic, in that they only work within human created environments, only interface with other people and ultimately the only arbitrator of how good a job they do are people and those which have to deal with the real world at least tangentially is huge. Artists and banker are in the former category, doctors, gardeners, cooks are in the latter.
Suppose you were a farmer that left town for a week or two. In that time I came in, fed your chickens and then took all the resulting eggs.
How can the above be theft? I haven't diminished your access to anything you already owned!
Yet again the GPL does not restrict your freedoms. It just adds to them if you're in the pro-user freedom camp of software development and leaves you no worse off if you don't.
Any scientist who claims to have produced a paradigm shift hasn't.
You're welcome to call it Monochr Law of Paradigms.
...But, how different is this from the various optical illusions humans fall for? I mean we can't exactly tell the difference between a rabbit and duck ourselves[1] so isn't it just a universal property of all neural-network like systems that there will be huge areas of mis-classifications for which there hasn't been specific selection?
(the tone of this post has been set by the federalist and anti-federalist pamphlets that lead up to the Constitutional convention, some words have been changed for clarity)
Is that the founding principles you mean? Because George Washington had nothing good to say about them after having tried them during his terms in office.
Why is this person still employed, let alone have any responsibility?
Never in my life have I ever heard anyone say anything good about how wonderful it is language X is good at y which is what it was designed for. I have however heard plenty of people cursing languages for not doing something which they thought was an "obvious" thing for a language to do and X didn't.
This is why everyone thinks Americans are idiots. "You're white" is an idiotic thing to say to a European. I am blond, blue eyed and 1.88m tall. So was my grandfather. That didn't stop Germans from killing him in a concentration camp for being subhuman.
But tell me more about my white privilege when depleted uranium from your weapons of medium destruction have made my fathers ancestral village uninhabitable unless you really like leukemia.
There is a world of difference between being able to build an AI that can do one thing, and an AI that can do everything a person can.
You are talking about the country that invented the true modern genocide, applied it to the Armenians, and still arrests anyone within its borders who dares say they did any of the above.