And no one deserves customers. What silicon valley is doing is destroying the consumers that would be buying its products.
The guy doesn't work at Tesla, but if the average employee in Tesla can't afford their standard model and have enough money left over to live they are not a viable company, as Henry Ford figured out more than a century ago.
It's capitalism 101, you cut labour costs only to find that you've cut demand as well.
Anyone who was in the US around 2003 will know how warped people there were when the war in Iraq was starting: https://youtu.be/DJ3RrqBqk14?t=3m34s
The same is true for just about every country, the UK when you start mentioning every genocide and famine they started (there were a rather lot of them), the French when you mention how much they screwed up Africa and Indochina, the Turks when you mention the Armenian genocide, etc.
Hopefully we will use the clear example of another country slowly going insane to stop the same thing happening here. But somehow I doubt it, because we are special.
>But we also have to acknowledge that we as a profession are not able to write secure code in C/C++.
You can't write safe code in any Turing complete language. That's the whole point of Turing completeness. The only reason why memory attacks are as common as they are is because C like languages are the most popular ones.
If we replaced everything written with C to a "safe" language like, I don't know Haskell?, we'd have just as many zero day exploits of the monads within programs.
Running costs include the wages for those working there. I think $150,000 or so per employee is more than enough + volunteers. Of course you would have to give up the dream of being a billionaire. Off the top of my head I can think of less than 10 people to have done that, and none of them did it after 2001.
And who exactly makes the observations? Is a cat good enough? A chimp? If we get someone really smart to look at an electron can we collapse it better?
The brain centered quantum mechanics I've seen become fashionable to lay people in the last 20 years are a last gasp of homo-centrism that really should have died a very long time ago.
>The company tracks browser usage -- how many hits are coming from browser A vs. browser B. In November, several factors skewed the results toward Safari. Thanks to the presidential election (which kept people visiting news sites) and the Thanksgiving holiday, an unusually high percentage of overall browsing in November happened outside of the office. So it's no surprise that browsers with higher home usage, such as Safari, would do better. (Firefox also did better, gaining more than 20%, while Internet Explorer -- popular in corporate environments -- dropped below 70% for the first time.)
>Net Applications tracks usage across its more than 40,000 client websites. Although these sites are located all over the world, they're skewed towards Europe and North America. That happens to be where Apple has a strong presence. Vince Vizzaccaro, the Net Application's Executive Vice President for Marketing and Strategic Alliances, acknowledged the problem and informed The Industry Standard that they will start weighting their statistics by country in January. "We need to better represent Asia and Africa," Vizzaccaro said.
Oh right, so they get access to the logs of "client websites", of which microsoft and apple seem to be some of the largest. So scientifically lets open the logs of my sites and see what browsers are represented there. Oh dear, it looks like safari has a 30% market share on mine over the last week. But what's this? Virtually all those hits are from the same IP address group. Oh it turns out that a whole bunch of mac scrappers hit my sites. And look! The same user shows up both as a internet explorer hit, a safari hit, and a chrome hit, turns out the same person uses different devices and the default browser that comes with each. This would be three different people according to Net Applications.
The first 5 year plan was the most successful piece of industrial policy by any country in the world until the Chinese opening of their market. What's even more impressive is that it happened in the middle of the great depression without outside help: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_five-year_plan_%28Soviet...
I got married yesterday. If the trend continues tomorrow I will be doubling the number of wives I have every day. I expect to be married to the whole human race by the end of the month.
Your childs increase in reading speed by contrast is highly unimpressive.
This is the typical great man myth that gets promulgated by their publicists to make them seem more than human. As a rule they are either out right lies or greatly exaggerated, other myths of this type is Kennedy reading 1000 words per minute, Napoleon listening to reports, reading a letter and dictating laws all at the same time, or Stalin single handedly designing the first five year plan.
If we diverted billions of dollars to doctors or cooks we would gain the benefit of increased, more healthy lifespans.
If we did the same for bankers we would get, well what we got in 2008.
The difference between service jobs which are purely symbolic, in that they only work within human created environments, only interface with other people and ultimately the only arbitrator of how good a job they do are people and those which have to deal with the real world at least tangentially is huge. Artists and banker are in the former category, doctors, gardeners, cooks are in the latter.
"I honestly don't think it's simple. How can I possibly use GPL code to reduce anyone's freedom? By creating some derivative work? By doing so, I have not diminished your access to anything that already exists!"
Suppose you were a farmer that left town for a week or two. In that time I came in, fed your chickens and then took all the resulting eggs.
How can the above be theft? I haven't diminished your access to anything you already owned!
In that case you can't possibly read any code whatsoever.
Yet again the GPL does not restrict your freedoms. It just adds to them if you're in the pro-user freedom camp of software development and leaves you no worse off if you don't.
I have nothing intelligent to say without reading the full paper...
...But, how different is this from the various optical illusions humans fall for? I mean we can't exactly tell the difference between a rabbit and duck ourselves[1] so isn't it just a universal property of all neural-network like systems that there will be huge areas of mis-classifications for which there hasn't been specific selection?