Yet many argue that we are overfishing and depleting our ocean's fish? What evidence can those individuals use to prove this is true if our knowledge of the oceans are as limited as you say they are?
Everyone is rational by their own definition, which differs from person to person. Rationality is just a function of the value an individual places on various factors affecting a decision.
It's been this way for much of history. Middle men, such as merchants before the industrial age, were the wealthy class. They were also despised by many who thought it was 'unfair'.
It would help a lot in making this a viable option if more companies gave credit/valued the experience a young person gains by trying to start their own company. Outside of the Bay Area, this is a rare occurance.
>>That said, excluding multi-location employers from a minimum wage study just seems to me to be so obviously flawed as to border on pure dishonesty.
Please elaborate why. Generally, it is believed larger employers benefit from minimum wage laws because they can afford to pay more while small mom and pop employers can't. This reduces the pool of available employers for workers to choose from.
So is that proactive systemic testing put in place because the FDA requires it, or because the food processing facility fears an outbreak that would bankrupt the company?
There is no FDA for bugs in software companies, which is far less consequential, yet most software companies invest a fairly reasonable amount of engineering time into quality control. So this begs the questions, how much good does the FDA really do?
A good question here is "What is the best form of regulation?" In some cases, media focused on business activity or industry groups perform better at regulating the market than government. One example is the food industry. An outbreak of salmonella or other food borne illness that is heavily reported by the press is far more damaging and a much stronger inventivizer for food manufacturing facilities to maintain safe production standards than the FDA or USDA.
Is that like advocating for net neutrality because everyone should pay the same rate for Internet access, but those who can pay more, should pay more when it comes to paying taxes?
Dealing with Apple Store level service for a car that needs regular maintenance isn't going to fly. Imagine waiting 2+ hours for an oil change entry three months.
I would like to see a pay per post model to access content from certain writers or certain collections. There is a lot of technical content shared on Medium that is really valuable, and most definitely worth paying for. I would much rather see the writers decide what of their content is worth charging for and what should be free versus Medium making this decision for the community.
Phillip, I'm sure going through all this as a part of your shutdown isn't easy, but it's really great that you're taking the time to do it. I'm sure there are many who will benefit from making all of this open source. Many thanks and best of luck going forward!
That's ridiculous, of course you need a baseline for any sort of evaluation. Your comment implies any sort of warming, regardless of absolute levels, is bad.
Impossible may not be the right word, but highly unlikely due to the environment ag automation needs to operate in. Production agriculture is highly mechanical, meaning things wear out and break all the time, which means humans need to go and fix things. In addition, people farm in every environment on earth, with wide variance in conditions in even the most ideal places. This means mechanical equipment needs to be specialized for the crop or location (considering humidity, temperature, wind, sun, crop type, etc), which makes scalability limited. These are the two biggest issues that tech doesn't really have a good solution for.
I'd say a leader's responsibility involves finding people who's life goals align with the goals of the organization. If this happens, then it is easier to show good judgement, easier to build trust, and communication is clearer because everyone is on the same page.
You are making comparisons between unrelated domains to make your point, which isn't really fair. Nonetheless, I think what you are really wanting to say is there is always room for improvement, and we should strive for that even if we've already made massive gains.
Ironically ride sharing was supposed to democratize the taxi industry. It did and we got two major players instead of thousands of small and medium sized players.
I think a $7/month subscription to access anything over ~5 articles/month on Medium would get a lot of people to pay, and I don't think it would chase off publishers at this point. The value Medium has created is easily worth as much as Netflix, and without a doubt more valuable than the paywalls other publishers (NYT, WSJ) ask for.
This is starting to get what I'm trying to express....non-technical people don't even know what ML is capable of, how to define what could be a ML problem, or how to go about acquiring the tools to solve said problem. Once that information is easily made available to at the very least the average programmer, then I think ML will have a much larger impact than we can imagine.
My original point was that machine learning is not something that the average person can apply in his or her own business yet. Yes, big tech companies use it to improve their operations, but a small business owner can't define what would even be an applicable ML problem for their business yet. Millions of small businesses have websites, and even their own custom software, yet ML is still out of reach for many of these business. This is where I think a huge impact can, but has yet, to be made.
I'm waiting for a "Machine Learning Tools for the Non-technical" post. When we can make machine learning accessible to business owners and non-technical people, this is when machine learning will really have a big impact on society. Until then, it's accessibility is just too limited.