Sort of concurrence, but on behaviorist grounds. In general I think theoretical and clinical psychology have as little scientific validity as most economics, but applied psychology has made a lot of progress in selling soap, toothpaste, and lying politicians.
Give the man his funny, but the real question is how much "exercise" the immune system needs to receive and even the best AIs still have no real idea on that one. Ditto diet and physical exercise about about 20 different things.
My joke? It don't matter much. Still gonna die. And I bet you wanna complain about that, too.
In the morning?
I have a really funny idea for how to use computers to make voting better rather than ever more meaningless. Just as a tangential-topic typing exercise, I'll share it:
Still needs a good label, but the key ideas are ranked guest voting and equalized representation. Guest voting would allow you to pick from a neighboring district, which would be even more effective when your district has been aggressively gerrymandered. The electronic ballot would start with your own district, but you could click to get all the neighboring district candidates. Then you would rank the candidates. Most people would probably stop after a few, perhaps even after one, but why not allow as many as you like.
The next trick is in the counting. Still thinking about this one, but I like the idea of starting with top votes only. It’s simple if the candidate who gets the most #1 votes wins that district. But we aren't done yet. What about the voters who didn't pick a district winner? We'd look at their #2 choice. The voter might have been willing to accept another candidate from their own district, and that might be the winner, or perhaps the voter prefers a candidate from a neighboring district who won that district. On down the list of choices until the voter picks a winner, with the goal of each voter getting to pick a representative that voter actually wants.
Now for the twisty bit: The winning representatives are NOT equal, but rather have voting weight in accord with how many voters they actually represent. The result would be that each voter would have exactly equal representation in the legislature and each representative should care exactly equally about each voter represented.
Oh, yeah. One more wrinkle. What about voters who didn't pick any winner? How about a tertiary election while primaries are eliminated? Those voters would be contacted and get a chance to pick from the winners of their own and the neighboring districts.
I have a much simpler but even sillier idea of how to fix the Supreme Court. But since when has Slashdot been about solutions, even fantasy solutions?
Who made the call to fire these guys?
Were they Americans who did the firing? Were they Americans who got fired?
It's important to understand the sociology potentially putting huge American enterprises risk
And why would we believe the claim that a 1-year reliability rating had anything to do with this?
Anybody who vaguely understands automotive manufacturing knows that cars that were sold over one year ago were designed several years ago and tooling takes months to years for a new model.
This article seems designed to obfuscate rather than clarify.
This makes me feel like buying a BYD would be less risky.
I checked with the AI and it's just research. Completely legitimate scientific work. The AI also said that Anthropic's lawyers must be smoking crack if they think the Chinese government is going to penalize or hinder any AI research in the Middle Kingdom.
Your mileage might vary depending on which AI you ask, but I actually suspect all of them agree on this one. But it is NOT any sort of conspiracy.
Why am I not surprised to hear that Microsoft is using cheap Chinese AI these days? Can't possibly be a lapse to their old evil ways. And no one ever suggested (in my hearing) that Microsoft's lawyers were on crack.
Yeah, low hanging fruit and in a just Slashdot someone would have already made the jokes. Easy to make them better than I did.
Micron started a new fab at their HQ in 2024 and it's barely halfway built. They have another one going up somewhere on the east coast also. They take years to build and many billions of dollars. They don't go up over night.
I worked at Micron for almost 9 years and have seen the fabs being built. Its not small feat.
Do they block all IP addresses from china?
And there we have ity. this is allso a self reinforcing system, due it it being dangerous to walk no one walks so waking walkable neighborhoods will never be a priority because everyone drives eventyrere anyway so..
Unless you are in one of the view ultra-urban cities....no we just aren't built to be "walkable"....hasn't been a need or impediment so far to be honest....it's just our way of life here.
And we're not going to be spending exhorbant amounts of money to rip and and redo our cities.
Personally I dont wanna live somewhere where I'm required to live in dense housing and share walls with neighbors. I prefer to have a front and especially a back yard where I can fence it in or my dogs, so I can set up my large log burning offsent smoker, sent up for parties with friends and neighbors for crawfish boils, etc....
I'm VERY happy being "non-walkable"....my cars and motorcycle suit me just fine for shopping, travel and just having fun out on the road....
I don't have trucks or SUVs myself....but to each their own.
In saner regions of the world pedestrian safety is a requirement in vehicles
No body fucking walks in the US man....hence it doens't occur to us to be any sort of "priority".
Go stand in front of a truck and ask yourself are you going under, or over when it hits you
See?
Now this is where I assume that most people are like myself and try NOT to stand in front of a truck....
Self preservation and all that...common sense some folks call it.
Cars don't have tall hoods, trucks and SUVs do to ridiculous proportions now. Your average truck sitting at a red light can't see pedestrians at a crosswalk, especially children
Not generally a problem, as that NOone walks in the US.
These are not actually going to be much more customizable than other vehicles. The sole exception is in the infotainment department, where virtually all modern vehicles have some big overwrought thing that you probably don't want because it sucks, or it will in the future â" which will affect you if you're the kind of person who keeps a vehicle. But if you are, the auto industry hates you.
Actually I think there is more user customization available than you think.
I saw a Jay Leno YouTube video on Slate with the owner and lead engineer..was interesting.
It appears pretty much ALL the side panels on this thing are plastic....and screwed on with visible access from the outside of the vehicle.
I can foresee lots of custom shops coming up with new body pieces that can be easily swapped out at any time....
I also saw a hint on that show that in the future potential for 4-wheel drive could be an option....I hope it gets there...talk about massive custom options appearing out there for that...???
But anyway they said they were trying to basically "open source" everything they could able the Slate and give it fully to the user to do...they said they even were allowing user to do their own warranty work, etc....so, don't have to take it to the shop if you know what you're doing and it won't void the warranty.,
but have they managed to stop any pollution coming out of the tailpipe?
It really isn't for most people you know....
There are two kinds of egotists: 1) Those who admit it 2) The rest of us
