I didn’t get they said the numbers were dodgy or manipulated. Don’t make the typical straw man when discussing inflation that people challenging the current formula for CPI are challenging the underlying data and so are conspiracists. The point is the relevance of the indicator. In fact the very article is about a different value if we take an older formula.
A tree plantation close cut every 30 years, usually with huge phyto treatments in between to kill everything, is not remotely the same thing as an old growth forest.
What can we expect we billions are poured as investments? And worse and more dangerous than the commercial culture for me is the resulting aggressive push against any health questions, again I imagine due to huge financial interests. Unfortunately as always recently the debate has been binarized in pro or against camps. Plenty of things are legal and bad for you, that should be another debate.
Even if you account for intermittence? As far as I know solar/wind alone are not a replacement e.g. I'm not aware of steel factories running on batteries given the order of magnitude of energy consumption.
The more I read the more school wide bans seem the key. Anything done at the home is pointless in comparaison. Imagine how can a kid stand idly by their pairs in free time if they are all on their smartphones and only interact there? It’s more than pressure.
But you can still buy an Android phone, iOS is only around 65% in the US (way less in the rest of the world btw). Compare with Google with the Chrome platform (> 90%) and Search engine (> 90%). Try being a web dev without Chrome or a web business without Google, way harder than having an Android phone (like the rest of the world do btw). Apple abusing its power is one thing, but Google has a way bigger monopoly.
The Google monopoly seems way worst and straightforward to me. Why it isn’t addressed first and why does everyone seemingly ignore them and obsess with Apple is a mystery to me.
In short we do know how NNs learn and work, but not what NNs learn. The corollary being we don't understand where do the emergent properties come from?
But murders do exist and happen everyday. What makes it ridiculous here? People take the bad decision of killing another one for way less than that everyday.
And yet murders happen everyday for dubious reasons. If some party has big incentives in a death then it is a moral duty to suspect that party first. Suicide is a special case (suicide rates are not far from murder rates), it is not the default one. The burden should not be on the family to prove it was not suicide, but on the party who has big to gain it was not them.
I don’t think agreeing or not to EULA has any value in EU. At least in France were consumer rights are codified and so an EULA cannot limit these legal rights.
This is proven false by many of his behaviors, like sabotaging high speed train projects with dumb car tunnels. This was a blatant misuse of his reputation at the time to make society worse for saving his business interests. Mars talks were nonsense. FSD was a lie. Tesla is a business success but in the end it’s just cars. It’s improving humanity as much as an iPhone. So no he is only after power, helping humanity is just his marketing angle for gullible geeks.
> SpaceX has one singular purpose. It’s not like it was trying to counterbalance its burgeoning space business with existing cost and profit centers that are not even tangentially related to its primary goal
Apple used to be organized differently than other big companies, and more like multiple startups. Just look at the trajectory of other PC builders of the 90’s.
That's not what I got from the parent. Besides, everyone is dressing up one way or another depending on the situation. The problem is putting all your identity into it. And conversely also imposing on others that some characteristics you find important in your own belief system should be part of their identity. Extreme left and extreme right both have issues with that.
Generative AI has potential and there are fun experimentations, but nothing game changing for the vast majority of businesses at the moment. People always overestimate short term change a new technology bring. Sure long term as with the internet it will change everything. But for now in the broad picture of the economy this is a toy and the FED doesn’t care about it. “AI” looks more like a Hail Mary for VC before being definitely crushed by high rates at this point.
China doesn’t want a showdown, it’s not Russia/Iran/NK/Pakistan/…, why must Americans think that if they are not #1 it’s the end of civilization? China only really care about itself (and Taiwan, but that’s a very special and not a black or white situation). US extreme hubris (and increasing plain racism) regarding China is really making me nervous. Americans should instead be following the words of Kennedy regarding Pax Americana. I obviously don’t support China politics, but I fail to see how they are a risk for western democracies and why peaceful coexistence and trade could not continue (in contrast to Russia for example where I’m grateful of US support). I’m open to be shown otherwise.
You can have very complex calculations and a simple output. The complexity of the process to find the weights is not necessarily the same complexity than the process using them. The numbers don't get suddenly special because of how they were calculated (like 42 is just the number 42 even after 7 million years of calculations).
But which audience? It seems like with social media nowadays only the absolute numbers count. Influencers are very happy to have an army of dumb followers. I guess it’s easier to well influence them.
I have a similar story. I made major lifestyle change. But the thing is, I have got back to eating carbs and retained all the benefits (i.e. clear headless and energy all day long). Bear in mind by carbs I mean whole grain. But still, I wonder if macros are really the culprit and if keto is not placebo on top of something else (at least for me). Maybe it has something to do with insulin and glucose metabolism.
I don't think the rules have changed in spirit (especially in 5e) but the mindset has. Basic D&D was very ridig if you followed the rules (like a video game, with codified turns, see "Sequence of play" in B/X https://i.4pcdn.org/tg/1509982170193.pdf). AD&D already had a rule for everything. But the mindset was DM were loosely following the rules apart from character tables and were making their own house rules for everything. Everybody had a different understanding, sometimes were young, and there was no internet to check if it was correct, as long as it was fun to play.
In the current economy who cares if the company is destroyed? Shareholders with insider knowledge will already have reduced their exposure. See what PE firms are doing, only thing that matters is ROI. I don’t see how it will change until we go back to pre-Reagan times, I.e. companies purpose are not just to make money for shareholders.
Vehicle manufacturers are not (edit: end-user/OS) software companies, it doesn't make sense (or for any company for which it's not the core business) to build their own OS. Yes OS builders control the OS by definition. What's next, car manufacturers producing music so they get control back on what drivers listen to?
What are large and powerful corporations under the hood? It's only an abstraction to facilitate business, but the reality is just a few people making decisions. Don't make the mistake of giving a physical existence to companies.