I thought that was funny. Too many fragile egos on HN with no sense of humor.
I`m still counting the inches in a light-year, so the nautical leagues perspective made me giggle a little.
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I`m still counting the inches in a light-year, so the nautical leagues perspective made me giggle a little.
I wonder how long it took them to get into clamshells when they were a thing.
The authors analogy about using a hammer on an inanimate object vs a living creature also should have included the action of stomping on the grass while performing those deeds.
Grass and AI should be best buds with all of things they have in common.
Instead of a company car, maybe detached home offices will become the desirable perk in a pay package.
I can imagine outside of the city and the suburbs, you could install a portable office, modular building, travel trailer or repurposed tiny home and retire with your sanity, but trapped at home is going to be the new meme for the urbans stuck in that drama 8 hours a day, 5 days a week.
I don`t personally shop on the popular Chinese aggregate retail sites, but consumers going direct to the manufacturer may become a phenomenon here in the States as retail goes thru its next cycle.
Amazon giving customers a reason to let them broker every transaction for a fee has worked well up to now, but ordering direct has taken off with farm-to-door sales during the shelter in place orders. Whats next?
I haven`t switched gears after reading this article yesterday, but cutting out the middle-corporation/man for larger retail purchases to capture additional saving is the level of loyalty Amazon is working with.
https://jalopnik.com/this-is-how-much-buying-the-cheapest-ne...
Do you even Darwin bro?
In the age of logistics, it is not inconceivable that manufacturing labor will also have the opportunity to have autonomous vehicles deliver the inventory needed to support the livelihood of residents such as garment workers and others with WFH options.
"Work on Demand" has probably been accelerated by decades and would be a more viable option than many of the UBI proposals floating around to reverse mass unemployment in the long-term.
All it takes is one IKEA set to start a chain reaction. Send it to worker 1 to assemble, worker 2 to disassemble and worker 3 to refurb/repackage and send it out again.
I say that in jest, but they could have the white collar, blue collar and t-shirt (creatives) workers all on a positive financial trajectory at the same time if they manage the next wave of innovation and any real or manufactured crises well.
I personally don't think IP (tcp and udp included) will be used on Internet 2.0. Theres just too much baggage with those protocols.
Perhaps we'll see Internet 1.5 leverage encapsulation and build a huge underlying canvas for new protocols to blossom, but we seem to be approaching the point where anything with an IP address is too much of a hassle to maintain and a longterm security liability/commitment.
Just moving IP to the borders of a network would open up space for more secure protocols.
Its probably time we put the middle one behind port 79 anyways.
If the dollar goes tits up, I think the criminal accounting will take down gold with it, leaving the next in line metals to reap the rewards of integrity.
You cannot trust any of the accounting with gold.
With the glut of false/fabricated idols, the entertainment industry seems to be playing catch-up on niche hero's to suit every demographic.
Needing physical access to compromise a system sounds like a much better way to play whack-a-mole.
If the hardware cannot protect itself, moving the defense to the next layer out sounds plausible to me.
Or, as compute power, storage and hardware get less expensive, running two cryptoledgers for inbound and outbound communications would make it easier to sanitize every bit that enters a network.
I like squid and other products, but I think dropping TCP/IP from the LAN or tranfering all packets in amber (bitledger) would correct a lot of the present shortcomings with security, privacy and unfixable manufacturer defects.
Once their production hits its stride and has a surplus of models, they can bring oldworld craftsmanship to a modern canvas.
With the limited model lineup, who wouldn`t want a bespoke Tesla personalized just for them.
I would still pick the 7-speed dogleg manual in the Vantage S, but a personalized Tesla would be a close second.
Direct connectivity (on Internet 1.0) seems to be playing with fire nowadays.
Security admins probably love the fact that they are guarding their assets from unknown threats/vulnerabilities that major manufactures have included in their products.
So on the truth spectrum, are these "modified truths", "eluded to truths" or "curated truths"?
There are several example of businesses/industries talking out of both sides of their mouth and a remote orifice. Autotrader buying KBB was similar as well as the recent dotORG domain transaction attempt. Its winner take all.
Its just business as usual, though you have to admit... They don't have a public troll problem on their platform. Kudos to them!
Fake numbers and political theater are not a substitute for substance, and since the stewards in government have officially gone mad (a front for an embezzlement scheme), we should just go ahead and fast-forward a best-case scenario for a poisoned well.....
In a whimsical kind of way, we just need the greybeards to agree that TCP/IP did not get it right (the 1st time) and go back to the drawing/drafting board to innovate a more robust offering of encapsulation.
Bullies winning all of the special Olympic trophies has never been particularly entertaining, but I guess their persistence is something to be admired. Maybe they are special?!?!?!
It is a bit of a stretch in legal terms, but with the negligence in place for disposal processes/costs of a resource as mature as plastic, it is exactly like the fight against CFC's and the hole in the ozone layer.
Quantifiable damage from plastics and a strategy for reduction could/should mirror other successful campaigns to limit ecological damage.
Most of these brands are now invisible for the 1st world, cord-cutting, ad-blocker-loving generations, so my hope is that the next round of behemoths will learn from their environmental mistakes.
Though in a monkey see, monkey do world, there is no shortage of mimicked expertise and flattery, so plan accordingly.
What do you estimate the cost is annually for all of the wasted bandwith (especially mobile data) on predatory marketing?
Humanity has a valid excuse to cord-cut from much of the 20th century AG and water systems and see what combination of solutions that automation, more time (fewer jerbs) and scientific leaps bring to the table in the way of working models.
Even if we don't get to explore space, we should at least get to see the quality of ingredients go up exponential as we start eating more "fresh off the vine" food in our daily meals as a byproduct of the research.
If they can get the angle right and ride the coat-tails of space expansion, they'll cut thru decades of red-tape to bypass the existing infrastructure and entrenched investors to clear a path for sustainable agriculture research.
Pattern matching is just plain fun/entertaining, depending on the domain.
If we see 6 hour workdays become the norm during the automation boom, we may see that shifting to 12 hour business days with a well rested workforce was the only way to keep up with the next wave of innovation while keeping 1st world working conditions.
Would you invest an extra 2 hours a day to your sleep?
Some Kodak moments last longer than others, but its going to be funny if Netflix is the 1st to drop from FAANG.
This was the only line that caught my attention, but I admittedly stopped reading the article before the story changed from "how to catch a health scammer" 2+ centuries ago.
What if the current big tech is alchemy and astrology time-wise (since we're so early on this whole information curve)?
Though, this seems more like a restaurant that starts serving subpar products. The traffic will go elsewhere after awhile of getting served crap (especially if there's alternatives to measure against), to never return again.
Loyalty in the digital age is about as common as respect (ie. respecting your privacy) online. Its not very solid.
Its fantastic to think that we didn't see 1ghz cpus and 1mb cable/dsl Internet until 2000.
The resourcefulness from that pre-2k era was amazing! It was leaps and bounds!
I guess it could be considered brown-bagging your Internet diet when you're on the go.
In the US for instance, could we take all of the local building-codes and design blueprints that would satisfy all of the legal requirements for quality, sustainable construction, regardless of the state, city or county that you choose to build in?
Even going with a smaller scale and offering off the shelf blueprints by state may stimulate more new construction growth and sustainable designs.
You could go your whole life without information like that and not be missing a thing.