Not sure how much accurate pricing matters when many areas (including my own) have no real competition for Internet. If you had 2-3 providers to choose from, pricing nutrition labels would be helpful, but right now it's really just:
Me: How much is my Internet?
Comcast: We don't know, check your bill
Me: The bill says $(all your money)
Comcast: That's about right
Me: Ok, thanks.
The problem isn't just that GPS is failing - it's failing in a way that screws up INS systems as well (which are SUPPOSED to be the backup). There should be a technical solution to better decouple those two - right now they appear to be too tightly coupled in most designs (with the GPS re-initializing the INS constantly).
Anyone pushing that angle hasn't really looked at the market size of the intersection of "vegans intent on eliminating animal suffering" and "people who INSIST on eating meat and can't be happy with a plant based diet".
It's not very big.
I suspect the reality is that these efforts are driven by two things:
1. "Because we can" from scientists who genuinely want to see their research turn into something on a shelf.
2. A belief that over time, scaling and technology improvement will make it better and cheaper than killing birds and that somehow it will follow a tech cost curve.
2010 called and wants its blade servers back.
Rather than target Facebook, they should have targeted Chrome. Clearly Chrome derives huge value from being able to open news websites - Google should pay for that, or Chrome should not be able to open news sites!
That will surely make the news companies very happy.
To be fair, my Samsung Tv supports airplay but not Chromecast... But it's all a licensing issue at the end of the day...
Their first mistake was trying to work with TV makers! TV makers are slow and horrible to implement anything that adds cost (especially anything related to broadcast TV which they know 95% of their customers don't care about).
ATSC? Cablecard? None of that was ever working or widespread. And no one wants to replace their TV to get a new service.
The other big problem is the antenna and cabling required to hook up your TV for broadcast. Unless you are wired (or willing to pay someone to do it) it's too much of a hassle for most people.
Here's how they should implement it:
Offer a simple, all-in-one box that attaches to the outside of the house, with a weatherpoof 110AC adapter plug, and is either omni-directional or has really simple LED-based aiming indicators. The box connects to your WIFI, and then you can watch your "TV" stream from any mobile device (via an app) or from a Smart TV / platform using just an app - any TV platform, no hardware required. One plug, simple configuration, any mobile device or TV, done. This would get huge uptake in markets where people have cut the cord and are using streaming, but don't want to pay for a streaming Cable service just to get their local networks and sports.
My own observation from multiple projects over the last 20 years is that there is a serious shortage of highly-skilled, highly-experienced construction labor in residential construction. This shortage got even worse after the housing crisis, when many experienced workers left the industry for sectors they considered more stable (such as commercial construction).
The result is that you have projects being done by understaffed crews, with less experienced workers, suffering from high turnover. Problems at one sub can hold up other subs since everyone has to be coordinated together.
Wages have increased and job opportunity is high right now, but like many skilled blue-collar jobs there are still challenges finding eager, willing workers and retaining them long enough to obtain a high level of competence.
Yes, this is a good point. Even if she knew exactly what he had (and especially if she did) the right move would be to fold, not call. The fact that she called is actually a strong indication she wasn't cheating.
The reason this is so suspicious is the idea in poker that "you can't call a bluff with a bluff" - that is, even if you think someone is bluffing, you can't call them if you don't have "some kind" of hand yourself.
You can raise them, and try to get them to fold (even if you have nothing)... but you never call a bluff if you have nothing yourself.
She had about as close to nothing as you can get - one over card and very few drawing outs. You can see from the percentages she was actually behind (even though she had the high card).
This really means 1 of 3 things happened:
1. She cheated - I don't know anything about the game/setup - apparently it was live-streamed but I have to believe they have a tape delay otherwise cheating would be trivial. No idea if there were spectators in the room, etc...
2. She misread her hand (thought she had a 3 for example). This happens more often than you would believe, even for experienced players.
3. She just made a bad call. I don't know anything about her, and crazier things have happened even if high stakes poker, but usually top players avoid calling with such a poor hand and poor outs.
Odds are it's probably #2 or #3, but I can understand why the other player would immediately jump to #1.
(also, for what it's worth, he really wasn't bluffing - it was a semi-bluff - that is, he hadn't made his hand yet, but he had a LOT of outs and was 50% to win against a huge number of possible hands.. thus a bet to take the pot was probably the right move to make).
Well, let's see... the Comcast data cap in my area is 1.2TB, so @ 2Gbps, that's about... 80 minutes.
I used to think the Comcast caps were really only to bust people who sat around and torrented non-stop... but these days with multiple people streaming 4K video in the house (legally) I get warnings from them almost every month. They really need to get more realistic here.
Some scientists seem to think that linoleic acid is the bees knees... who to trust?
I tried it with the first sentence from the Verge article... the generated text is... pretty good. Although the fact that the AI came up with the idea that "if people in the future want to take actions they "should expect to be killed"." is somewhat... worrysome...
The research lab OpenAI has released the full version of a text-generating AI system that experts warned could be used for malicious purposes.
While there's no evidence of its being used to hack any system, OpenAI and its founder Greg Brockman are trying to prevent that from happening.
Brockman has been a thorn in the side of AI developers ever since he published his own AI research in 2010. The research attracted attention from the likes of Elon Musk, who said at the time that the system would probably kill people.
Brockman responded to Musk's comments with a blog post, pointing out that if people in the future want to take actions they "should expect to be killed".
The machine, AlphaGo, beat the world's top Go player Lee Sedol in a four-game match in March, becoming the first AI to do so.
The results were hailed as a victory
Agreed - I've owned every Pixel since the first, but will be skipping this generation. The rear fingerprint unlock was the IDEAL no-friction security. I literally don't see any room to improve it (even front/screen fingerprint reading would be less ergonomic).
I really hope they get this feedback loud and clear from other Pixel owners who don't upgrade (downgrade) to the Pixel 4.
Just hope you don't live in a state where they've made disconnecting from the grid illegal, based on lobbying from the utilities....
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