Submission + - Where is AI not needed? at all? notepad.exe (theverge.com)
Comment Re:inadequate competition (Score 1) 118
so, insulin?
Comment From what all I "know" I'm wondering (Score 4, Interesting) 46
I thought N. Korea was completely isolated, how do people develop the technical skills if they have no 'real world' access from there to start?
Comment 27.5% of $10,000 locks it out of a $55,000 market? (Score 2, Insightful) 305
What?
I know there is a lot more to it, (nhtsa for example) but how is 12,750 "locking out" from it's nearest $55,000 competitor?
Comment The statistics quoted SUCK (Score 2) 370
I was really curious about "Road transportation accounts for 15% of the world's greenhouse gas emissions, according to Our World Data,"
as in, how much is applicable to personal vehicles such as the rest of this post-- 'cause "Road Transportation" might mean a lot of things this gearing discussion wouldn't be applicable to.
So I follow the link
"Road travel accounts for three-quarters of transport emissions. Most of this comes from passenger vehicles – cars and buses – which contribute 45.1%. The other 29.4% comes from trucks carrying freight.
Since the entire transport sector accounts for 21% of total emissions, and road transport accounts for three-quarters of transport emissions, road transport accounts for 15% of total CO2 emissions."
So-- how much of what is personal vehicles?
Comment Re:Robbery. (Score 1) 90
Amex maxes at 3.5% for swiped currently
Comment Re:Conflict of interest - then who should pay? (Score 1) 88
"So how do you propose to pay for the audit if it isn't paid for by the current owners?"
an optional token fee/tax applied to all stock purchase transactions- call it 1/10th of 1% of the purchase.
if you opt in, it goes to pay for auditors/sec pools.
also if you opt in, in the case of fraud such as started this story, you get paid out with a higher standing in the creditor pool than the stock holders who do not. same as any other insurance
some variation like that.
Comment Re:The real target (Score 1) 60
I am flummoxed. Two things I thought were readily available in space were
1) ice 2) electricity
Which all should make sourcing LOX LH2 and H20 easy?
I thought the point of this mining was to bring the material back to earth?
Comment Hoping not as stupid as nuking a hurricane sounds (Score 1) 54
is it a 'cause' or a 'correlation'? I do not know.
but seriously asking, any chance of using active noise cancellation techniques to emit focused infrasound
could be reasonably disruptive enough to turn the hurricane focus into an unfocused pandemonium? Just reduce potential.
Not to overwhelm the entire weather pattern, I get why the scale makes that impossible,
but maybe just enough to take the edge off the strongest tip and drop it's effects by a safir scale point??
Comment Re:So don't quit. (Score 1) 154
what is the inverted term for that? from constructive discharge to constructive quitting? Destructive quitting?
Comment Re:people (Score 0) 139
Why just because it is a startup?
Massive construction projects budget deaths... Panama Canal killed 30,000
Auto recalls are usually balanced on payout vs cost.
Here's a lovely item at NIH "Development of Framework for Estimating Fatality-Related Losses in the Korean Construction Industry"
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p...
There are many such calculations.. why are startups to be forbidden such 'luxuries'
Comment Re:Error in summary (Score 1) 172
Assuming all on the road already average is 12 years right now.
with 1.474 billion on the road-
adding a billion would make the average 7.15 years
adding a trillion would make the average
Numbers do matter.
Comment Re:The multi-armed octopuss (Score 1) 37
Another great idea existed in a browser extension from 10-15 years back, which would add rich comments to almost anyone's web site. I forget what it was called
That was crit.org, and it's gone now. Was associated with Eric Drexler/Christine Peterson's Foresight Institute.
Comment Re:Generations or Years? (Score 2) 147
since 1960?? such a long view of history you are taking....
"automobile travel and roads have not changed much since then."
SO WHAT?
From the first upright bipedal homo sap to the year 1900 ad MILENNIA of humanity walking
to utilizing onkeys & horses, including in the USA through the 1800's covered with country roads with dirt paths and wagon wheel ruts.
the late 19th century invention of the mass produced car happened just a hair over 100 years ago
and it was slightly disruptive to the conventions of the time...
We are at the year 1890 with automotive analogy to AI stage of development-
our processes for the things AI is about to take over are still ruts for wood wheels.....