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You don't think that progress in both qualification, vision, and robot control can lead to robots that can replace people in tasks like packaging, assembling, painting or cooking?

What would you say is the missing piece for a robot that knows how to wrap a football for amazon, (and knows what do if the ball falls down, and if there are people around?)
> All those metals are valuable.

And all those refrigerants need to be collected to prevent release to the atmosphere.
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Had a Whirlpooi front loader washing machine which started electrocuting me after 18 months. They repaired it under warranty and it started doing the same thing a few months later. With a small child in the house I didn't want it here so sold it to some guy on eBay who didn't mind getting zapped. Should have seen him touch it when he came to pick it up. Now I a Bosh which seems much more solid.
There is an obvious solution, isn't there? Appliances should be available for rent.
The pricing would have to be designed so that when the appliance lasts more than, say 10 years, the manufacturer will reap extra benefits.
If it lasts shorter than 10 years, they will lose money.
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I consider eshops like Aliexpress.com pretty good for getting cheap obscure replacement parts. Eg. I can buy there a new battery or other parts for the oldest PSP model for a few bucks.
I'm curious what people think of diet-hackers.. this forum is probably more sympathetic than most.

It seems like there's a bi-modal distribution where either you don't care about diet, or you ascribe metaphysical properties to food and how it was obtained and prepared. The later seems like ho-hum, nutrition is much more complicated than the FDA labels, but I have to believe it's possible to synthesize boring goop that gives you everything you need. I really don't care that much about eating.. as in, if I could flip a switch and never eat again, I would unhesitatingly do so.

I tried Soylent for a while, which I liked well enough, but they are optimizing for things I don't particularly care about like vegan ingredients and sedentary nutrition profile. Lately I've been using 100%FOOD which I like quite a bit in the triple protein profile, and is helpful for my activity level.
More accurately, insurance isn't about a 'payoff' it's about being made whole after a covered loss. You don't profit from insurance payoffs. Insurance is designed to mitigate risk as opposed to profiting from it.

Insurance is defensive while gambling is offensive.
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The local assembler? Fortran? Forth?

Personally I would prefer C. But I can see arguments for each of the above.
Not sure about eggs. I get a lot of contradicting opinions. My conclusion is that 4-5 eggs a week is good for us.
> probably a bad deal for the consumer

Insurance companies make billions in profit each year.

By definition, insurance is a bad deal for the consumer.

Sure, it spreads out the "payments" into a manageable sum in the case of house fire or some other major incident, though by definition, on average, you will pay a lot more for insurance than it will ever pay you.
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Recommended free MOOC:
"Learning how to learn"

https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn

They put some interesting brain research into that course. I started last week and love it so far.
It is easy to see if a title is clickbait or not. Just change it with some stupidly long title, such as "AlphaGo does not solve the problem of meaning, so it is not AGI" and ask yourself if this title would have generated a similar number of clicks. The title is as clickbait as it can get.
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This claim is pretty incredible:

“After we 3-D print, we restore the hydrogen bonding network through a sodium hydroxide treatment,” Pattinson says. “We find that the strength and toughness of the parts we get … are greater than many commonly used materials” for 3-D printing, including acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) and polylactic acid (PLA).
I looked into gentle a few weeks ago and did notice that it seems to use an online algorithm. It doesn’t have built-in support for live audio input unfortunately, but it may be tweakable as you say (such as reimplementing it to use audio streams that work with either static or real-time input). I guess there’s no other way to find out than just try it myself.
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We're not talking ancient here. The mobile test on Webpagetest (https://www.webpagetest.org/easy) uses a Moto G4, which is less than a year old. But this test is punishingly brutal on most JavaScript-heavy websites. If you can make wins on parse time, you absolutely need to be pursuing them.
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Not quite: one of the usual characteristics of insurance is the existence of an insurable interest[1]: you must personally have exposure to the risk before you can take out insurance against it. So insurance is really changing a large occasional negative payoff into a smaller more consistent one.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insurable_interest
>Gonna learn electronics - buy oscilloscope

A fairly accomplished electronic engineer told me that they'd never once solved a problem using an oscilloscope, but that it helped to keep them occupied while they were mulling over what might have gone wrong. (That's presumably why the better ones have so many knobs and dials to play with, like one of those children's toys.)
I've made a CS:GO online tool which gets ~40k visitors/month.
Since I use adblockers I decided not to put ads on my website, but I instead placed a Paypal donate button which didn't worked even once.

So instead I placed my steam trading link which allows visitors to make trade offers with me. I couln't say how much it does represent but I've got ~5 trade offers per week.

Most of the time the weapon skins aren't worth much but I'm still glad because I've got to receive messages thanking me for the tool which is what I've always wanted.
Interesting, I interpreted it as human rights not having basis in physical science and therefore all the more important for individuals and society to champion. However I do see how the quote can be seen as equating human rights to cultural fiction of arguable merit, which I agree is dangerous.
You don't need to be physically present with most banks though their frontline staff might tell you that. You will face extra requirements to prove your identity if you can't show up in person, though.

E.g. when I opened my first US bank account the bank required me to get a copy my ID documents notarised, and wouldn't accept just any notary public, it had to be notarised by the US consulate.
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Instead of complaining there are many solutions:

- Let the drivers accept cash in the meantime?

- Move to another payment processor? (e.g. Stripe?)

- Accept bitcoin?

- Use some direct payment between passengers and drivers? (e.g. Venmo, bitcoin, etc.)

(I messaged him that)
What is intranet success?
It depends on what you want from an "Algorithms" course; you could even split it into levels as follows:

1. Graduates can implement algorithms given a nice and thorough description in a textbook or a website.

2. Graduates can implement algorithms given a few minute whiteboard explanation by a colleague or a short answer on a Stack Exchange site. (For a short answer example, look at some at cs.stackexchange or cstheory.stackexchange, where expertise is often assumed.)

3. Graduates can design and implement algorithms that are simple derivatives of those they have seen or implemented before, without any textual advice.

4. Graduates can design non-trivial derivatives of algorithms that they have seen before, given a problem that is not googleable (for example, it came up as a secondary question in your research).

The actual goal depends on the aims of your university or class.

The problem with any level besides 1 is that it seems to require an artificial test environment. You want to give the students easy exercises, say solvable within 60-90 minutes, and you want to give them as much freedom for their implementation environment -- but the reality is, any popular and "time-tested" exercise is fully solved online, most likely in full detail on Stack Overflow. (Speaking from experience, trying to "dress up" the problem in some alternate description doesn't work if the students can Google.)

And, predictably, if you forbid the access to the internet you get upset students, you provide an easy and effective way to cheat, and you give ammunition to the critics who call your testing methods "distant from any actual practice".

I don't know what the "right" answer is, but I am fully convinced that stopping at level 1, the only level where you can realistically allow access to the internet, is not the right way.
There seems to be more willingness to pay extra for build quality or domestic manufacturing here in Japan than elsewhere.

Japanese brands are sold in some other parts of South-East Asia where they cash in on the Japanese quality reputation
The claim here is that if a language is not hyper-extensible the community will add crufty features to it over time and that is why languages originated by Niklaus Wirth are getting crufty.

But was Pascal ever more more minimal than C11? Maybe by some metrics, but the difference cannot be big.

Now there is plenty of stupidity in modern C standards, but that is mostly about letting compilers play hell with undefined behaviour in the name of over-aggressive optimisation. It doesn't fit in with the language-bloat thesis of the article.
I contains a lot of cholesterol and "bad" protein (the protein that has lots of sulfur-based amino acids); besides that very little nutrients.

If you want you can have a ton of nutrients for the same cholesterol/calories by choosing whole plant-based foods.

So in the absence of choice, eggs are great. But most of us have so much choice nowadays, that eggs are clearly an inferior option.
> I could sit down and do 200 vocabulary words 90% retention after a single pass. I'm nowhere close now.

Would be interesting to quantify such changes, but my guess would be that the changes are smaller than expected or felt.
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I believe the AlphaGo team estimated it to be about 2 stones stronger than top pros.
Absolutely second this, I love 'this old tony' and I have no experience at all with machining in the slightest. AvE by contrast is I think a bit of an acquired taste.
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With risk of sounding like a shill. Miele is the only thing I ever buy. We had an old washing machine that broke after 10 years, so I called a repair man. He came, and looked at it and said: "I have been working for 5 years, and this is the second time I see a broken Miele. They practically never break". It was an easy fix, and the machine ran for another 7 years until lightning killed every electrical thing in the house.

Bought another Miele, and that is running just fine after 4 years.
Two a day? What on earth are they doing to require that much washing?
If it is negative and there are no false criticisms in there, then maybe that negativity is warranted? Not to mention it seems to echo with the gut feeling of quite a few people.
It is already unattractive to patent groundbreaking technology.

You are an inventor, and you want to create a new company. Your adversaries are big companies with lots of other patents and lawyers. If there is a conflict (they steal your idea), you don't have any real practical recourse.
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In relation with the topic of programmed obsolescence, I highly recommend the documentary "The Light Bulb Conspiracy" by Cosima Dannoritzer: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1825163
> highest incarceration rate in the "free world"

2nd highest in the world full stop is a starker figure (behind Seychelles which has a population <10k)
In the fight against the great boogeymen of Terrorism and Sex Predation, the US has lost common sense.

As a kid, when I was 8 years old, I played doctor with my neighbor, we we were both curious about each others differences and so we explored them. So, if I read this article, if this had been in the US, we could have been tried as sex offenders? How does this even make sense? Of course kids are curious about body differences between men and women.

And, when I read those stories, I really don't understand how a teenager could be convicted for having sex with a girl 2 or 3 years younger than her. I can't imagine how a girl sexting could be convicted for producing "Child Porn", that absolutely makes no sense.

And then the treatments describe are a form of abuse. I wouldn't want to be subject to a “penile plethysmograph”.

It's really scary how easily it is to pass Orwellian by invoking "Think of the Children" or "To prevent terrorists". As soon as those two things are uttered, people seem to lose all common sense.
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To me that feels like just a general consensus database problem, which has been solved a long time before bitcoin came along and "blockchain" gained mindshare. It appears "private blockchain" is mostly trying to ride the buzzword hype if it doesn't incorporate the new ideas and solutions that Satoshi presented, which is mostly about generating consensus for a ledger among a set of anonymous and possibly hostile peer-to-peer nodes on a public network?
America is hell-bent on not being like Europe even given the good there is to learn from.
I have a friend who plead guilty to two statuary rape charges that were false accusations, serving more time with parole than the maximum sentencing of the one charge he was guilty of, solely because the prosecution would drop the request for sex-offender registration, which would have done him permanent harm.

There are some real predators out there, and I understand the threats that make something like a registry necessary. However it has become a tool of the plea-deal legal industry and a mechanism by which non-predatory individuals have had their lives ruined by the state.
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I tried using this just the other day to find a faintly-remembered old news article about a topic currently in the news. I spent maybe 15 minutes getting nowhere, but noticed that googling for something hypothetically like "tower -trump" would pop up old news articles about the Eiffel Tower on news sites with sidebars linking to current news about President Trump.

The minus operator either no longer works at all, or it just penalizes results without eliminating them.
The technology to make motors efficient has been around for a century, not much has changed there besides controls and feedback. Engines on the other hand have greatly benefitted from modern control systems. Here is a primer on motor history: https://www.eti.kit.edu/english/1390.php
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I left web development job to become a musician several years ago, and while learning music was a great experience, it doesn't pay nearly enough to make a living. I'm constantly broke and barely scraping by, currently i have $20 to last until weekend when my student will (hopefully) pay me ~$10 for a lesson.

I regret leaving IT because i was making good money just coding python and html/css/javascript. And being broke is really, really stressful, especially now that I'm in my thirties. I'm probably going back to programming, but things have changed a lot since 2009 so I'll have to spend some time learning new things like react, es6, new deployment techniques etc.
This silly.

In the last few months I have been changing my diet because of cholesterol readings. It's annoying, because I like steak, and I like coconut, and bacon, and ghee, and prawns and, and, and...

Desire for such a diet has always been with us. The food industry has, for the first time, made it affordable for hundreds of millions of us. They are guilty only of mass feeding for profit.
> Her friend, who had just given birth to a baby girl, had logged on to the Michigan Public Sex Offender Registry Web site to search for local predators.

"Sex-offender" registry is of course a total and complete abomination. But if you're going to write against it, maybe you owe it to yourself and your readers to not use the words of the enemy -- namely "predators".

There are no "predators". There may or may not be people who made a mistake earlier in life -- many of those mistakes would not even be frowned upon in many other parts of the world.

But to call people on a sex-offenders list "predators" is like calling everyone on a no-fly list "terrorists".

It's bigoted, it's despicable. And it's at least counter productive to use that word in an article that tries to fight the very principle of those lists.

Also, to continue on a related wording controversy that's really irritating, victims shouldn't be able to automatically call themselves "survivors". You're a survivor only if you narrowly escaped death. If your life was never at risk then you're not a survivor.
This is what you'd spend time on, eh? If you had a startup you'd split payments between two providers and write payment processing for both, in case one holds your money.

Presumably you'd also hold three months worth of cash expenditures so you can maintain cash flow.

But in two separate banks?

In two separate currencies?
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Patents cover detail of the implementation, not just the details in the standard. Is the software you are using to encode/decode also 20 years old? If not, more recent changes might be patented.
You don't need electronics to do that. A solenoid hooked up to the timer would be enough.
> We currently have a good 50+ git repository. Developing features affect very often more than one of these repos.

Isn't this just a monolith by another name?
Thank you. I feel suitably enlightened :-)
My uncle invented a new type of sprinkler. It's perhaps not groundbreaking but it was significantly better than anything on the market that time. If not patenting it then how do you suggest he went about making money out of it? He have invented that thing in his garage over quite a few years of tinkering, it's not like he had the capital to build a factory to mass produce it. No, he patented it, went to the manufacturer, sold it, and everyone was happy. Yes, even the manufacturer was happy because the R&D costs to create a product that much better than the competitors would've been much higher. It was a win-win situation for everyone involved.
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In a sense, defining away human intelligence is the whole point. We have no servicable definition of intelligence other than a behaviourist black box embodied by humans. From the perpective of AI-research any progress will chip away bits from the intelligence black-box and still the resulting AI will be out of reach of "true" intelligence. Since we have little knowledge of the internal structure of "intelligence" as a phenomenon, we can't tell how much is left to discover about it.

From the other end, the merits of production AI will be measured against isolated properties pulled out of the intellgence black-box, and since intelligence remains undefined (in a strict ontological sense), debate ensues.
The oldest kid does track&field and soccer practice after school every day. Also, he swims once a week.

The two-year old runs around outdoors in kindergarten all day. More often than not, it is rainy and muddy.

The youngest still run through a couple of sets of babywear a day, down to a somewhat lackadaisical approach to her excretion of various bodily fluids.

We all swim weekly. Add to that the occasional nightly mishap by the child currently quitting diapers, and you're looking at lots and lots of laundry cycles.

Good thing water is free (It's not that we haven't got plenty of it to go around!) and power is cheap.
I already try to buy the brands known for their quality and extended guarantees, but you do not know, which of them still produce here and which just benefit of their past. You do not even know, which company actually owns which brands.

This is not only about avoiding to replace your own machine, it's also about everybody else’s machine littering the environment. So I think, this is a market failure and an environmental disaster. Governments have to intervene.

New EU rule: Everything, which is heavier than 10kg has to last for 10 years, otherwise mandatory on-site repair and replacement. If you get caught putting in parts designed to fail (maybe even with reversal of burden of proof), the company has to pay back a multiple of the profits made from that machine, plus mandatory prison sentences. Problem solved.
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> It's really scary how easily it is to pass Orwellian by invoking "Think of the Children" or "To prevent terrorists".

The goal is not to fight so-called sex-crimes or terrorism. The goal is to

1. coerce people into behaving in an ideal way where sexuality is constrained and nothing happens

2. discriminate against minorities

using big words and supposed "victims" as tools and props.
I have one 18month old kid. We average about 1.3 loads a day. Several sets of clothes, towels, nappies, sheets, bibs, ... It adds up very quickly
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If you have three kids and one of them is a baby in washable nappies this is quite possible. You don't want the soiled diapers in with other items
Well, that depends on how you define your cost function. :-)
Why is this being downvoted? There is a status page advertising "our services are up", when they have the information that this is false.

I can't think of a great (tight) analogy, but McDonald's obviously can't put "Only 100 Calories!" on their advertisement for Big Macs. Why not? Because it's false...

Companies can't just say whatever they want when they have information to the contrary. In this case other businesses are impacted.

I think it's not a hard argument to make.
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A plant-based diet has been proven to prevent many of the leading causes of death and is also what is best for the planet. Our modern diet has way too much animal flesh and animal byproducts, all kinds of evidence in our anatomy, genetics, and biochemistry. The amount of land and water use for animal agriculture is insane, the greenhouse emissions and life-killing pollution are another set of externalities.

A lot can change for the individual organism and the whole biosphere with a simple diet change. I think a plant-based society is the only kind that could live harmoniously with our home planet and expand successfully onto other planets.
>> The warranty is only 2 years standard (thanks for that at least EU)

Maybe it's different depending on EU country but it should be 2 year manufacturer warranty followed by 4 years covered by the retailer.
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