And unless we want to have ugly metal gantries everywhere, we are going to need to accept that the Government will need to be able to monitor our car's location at all times... via built-in transmitters also linked to the payment infrastructure.
We will probably also need a way to communicate pricing. All of this will also need to be digital for autonomous vehicles.
We should probably start working on some open standards for it all...
Its going to be too hard to apply to non-standard locations. This thing is just hardware, its going to need a lot of software and developers behind the applications.
I'd foresee it more as a tool to use in fast food restaurants and similar high-turnover manual industries. Assuming you had trained people front of house and for cleanup, you could throw one of these things on anyone and having them working back of house immediately.
if diversity is good for America, why don’t those same people call for Americans to be able to live and work in Africa, Asia, and South America? Why are they not calling for a minimum percentage of white people on boards of companies there?
It seems like diversity = less white males.
White males have brought our species this far. We enjoy living in an advanced and free society. Why avoid hiring purely on merit?
What about diversity in the migrant intake? 76% of H1B visas go to Indians - majority males. Why not set a diversity quota starting there? (Eg 60% of visas must go to women, no one country can have any more than 5% of visas.)
Why stop at training... why not just have the hololens show you every individual step, day after day? It could work for fast food, manufacturing, retail.
In the end working-class humans will just be skeletons to be operated by instruction. The key requirements will be: ability to stand, not being too large or small, reading and listening in the chosen language, following orders, manual dexterity, and showing up to work on time sober.
We won't need expensive robots with servos and sensors.
Now you can see why so many business interests are (secretly or otherwise) pushing for open borders. Anyone could do this stuff.
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Extra: I can see why the military contract hit the news - this will be a critical piece of equipment for soldiers. Route/map overlay, location pinging, friend/foe indicator, weapon status...
2-3 hours of active use is a big limitation though.
No, the reason is that to-date there had not been a global platform available. AirBNB benefits from a massive global economy of scale. I can use the same platform in America, Germany, Australia, Bulgaria.
Looks like 1440p gaming at a reasonable budget is finally here. Now we just need some good (non-curved) Nvidia-approved adaptive sync cards at 32" 1440p IPS.
Youtube just needs to increase the barriers before a channel can be monetised. Then, with a smaller pool of channels, they need better human review to prevent exactly things like this from happening.
If they are worried about the costs of a lot of non-monetised videos, just limit non-partner channel quality to 720p30, until the channel is made partner or coughs up something like $100.
Then, they need to allow micro-pledges in addition to likes. I would happily buy a pack of 100 pledges for $10 (ie. one pledge = 10c) and tip that towards the videos that I've really liked. Youtube could take their cut but it would represent a great extra revenue stream for content creators, and the number of pledges made public.
You should be doing this anyway as part of your integration into the culture. East Asians are smart - they name their children Jason Wu, Lucy Wang, Winson Ho from birth.
My mother was there in the 80s (with my father, on a holiday) and complained about being groped and harassed by men, and the poor quality of food and water. No desire to ever visit or to have much to do with the people from there. The Indian men I've met in clubs and bars have been as unwanted as the job applicants.
Overpopulation. Too many people, not enough resources to support them. 600m Indians without proper access to water. Better access to contraception and changing social attitudes needed - the expectation that if you are impoverished you should have no children and save your money to improve your wellbeing, for example.
The problem is not the videos being there, its the advertisments next to them.
Youtube simply needs to move to a proper gatekeeping model around monetisation, requiring human review and biannual review checks. Start it at 10,000 subscribers to avoid being overwhelmed. Prompt once-off approval for 'viral' trending videos from new channels (even if the advertising money goes completely to Youtube).
The internet is maturing and existing gatekeeping models are too lax. Same thing with games allowed onto Steam. Now any idiot with a phone can upload something - previously you needed a computer and decent knowledge to do that.
Limiting new uploads from new accounts to 720p30 max until they hit 1,000 subs or pay a $100 'starter fee' will save on storage and processing fees.
I don't understand why Youtube (and other tech platforms) sets the barriers to entry so low, then inundate themselves with work. Simply raise the barriers until your human-approval processes can handle the volume.
Its not one post. Indians favour other Indians, to the exclusion of Americans and Europeans in general. I've seen it in IT, in retail, in trucking, in America and in other mass-immigration previously European societies (Australia). Even the largest companies (Infosys) engage in Visa fraud and discrimination:
Indian CEOs and managers are popular with boards because they will often ruthlessly pursue a corporate agenda without a brotherly spirit for (American) coworkers or citizens.
Americans and those descended from Europeans have been living in open, civil societies for thousands of years. Most of the world is not like that - in-group preference and close kinship rules. Outsiders will exploit our societal structure for their benefit, and we need to be at least aware of it, and penalise it as necessary. China's current corporate espionage effort (and the resultant trade war) is another example.
I don't hire Indians as freelancers or employees. Whenever I post a Freelance role, I can be sure that I will get at least 1-2 generic applications from Indians. Usually they are part of some cohort of other IT workers - so even if I accepted their offer, I would have no idea who my information was being exposed to or who the work was actually being done by.
Cheating and dishonesty is part of the culture, sadly - to the extent that parents will even climb school buildings to pass cheat notes to students during exams:
Part of this is the bodyshop-encouraging nature of the H1B and other 'skilled' visas around the world. Limits should be placed to ensure that only 20% of all visa types can be given to any country, to avoid one country completely monopolising the visa type, and creating positive feedback effects (ie. Indians hiring other Indians or helping eachother game the system). Right now 76% of all H1B visas are taken by Indian workers which I think partly represents the scheme's failure.
Death-cycle. Fewer petrol stations, fewer mechanics, fewer sales stores, fewer places where they are allowed to be used.
But, its not happening fast enough. We need to ban fossil-fuel powered non-commercial vehicles starting from 2021. We have the technology, we just need a massive ramp-up of manufacturing and production.
Limit any individual country (India or China for example) to a maximum of 10% of the total visa allocation each.
Right now India gets 76% of all H1B visas, so Indians know the system inside and out, and hire other Indians. Tech companies are calling out for female workers, and most of these Indian migrants are also male.
Take it to 10% from any country max, and heck even require that 51% of the visas must be given out to women, and you will see tech companies scour the globe for talent, rather than all the visas just going to Indian body shops. Under such a change you could even increase the total number of visas issued, since the whole scheme would be less rorted and more socially accepted.
In every large company there are always excess personnel, or departments or individuals who are not performing. I'm sure there are other large companies that semi-regularly fire a single digit % of their workforce, but because they are not games companies it doesn't hit the news.
The redundancies are mostly in 'publishing and esports', by the way.