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Exactly. This is Colombia or Mexico jobs what we are talking about here. If you dont want to get recorded then you are fired and 3 or 4 people in the hiring queue will get the job.

My concern is that these teleperformance jobs have a huge voluntary rotation rate (people leaving the company). So I wonder how effective will this new surveillance policy be.
*overstates
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Maybe this makes sense, but I dont know much about it.

Are the near future targets for India "up, but not that much" ?

Is that because of some per-capita quota?
Asking what is spinning what is maybe framing it in a way that impedes understanding.

A quick summary of the basic forces involved are: The wind pushes the propeller, the propeller pushes the wheels, the wheels push the ground, the ground pushes the wheels, the wheels push the propeller, and the propeller pushes the wind. Or perhaps it's better to say that everything is dynamically interacting with everything else.

I think that what this all adds up to is that, by introducing this mechanical linkage, the cart is extracting energy from the difference between the wind speed and the ground speed. This runs counter to our intuition, which assumes that it should be getting its energy from the difference between the wind's speed and its own speed.

That's what allows it to go faster than the wind. If it were based off the difference between the wind speed and the cart speed, then the forward force would go to zero as the cart's speed approaches the wind speed. But the difference between the wind speed and the ground speed is not related to how fast the cart itself is moving. So the forward force on it doesn't disappear as it approaches the speed of the wind, and instead it will continue to accelerate until the forward force balances with drag and rolling friction.

A kite might be a good starting intuition pump here? Kites generally don't do much of anything useful unless they're mechanically tethered to the ground.

From there move on to sailboats. The reason why this cart can go downwind faster than the wind isn't all that far off from the reason a sailboat can sail into the wind (albeit not directly into the wind), but, critically, only if it has a keel or centerboard.

(Edit: Another detail to point out is that the linkage causes the propeller to turn in the opposite direction it would if it were spinning freely. And remember that Newton's third law works in both directions at the same time.)

(Edit again -- Another observation that might help change one's intuition is that, while the cart as a whole may be moving relative to the ground, the part of the cart that's currently touching the ground at any given moment is more-or-less stationary with respect to the ground. And is also mechanically linked to the propeller.)
When the EU wants to be like China, but not to control citizens but to protect the children's ;)

BTW: The EU wants to implement age restriction to online services into the Operating-system, every device that is not verified by ID is restricted to lets say content for 8yo's
This argument is crap and you should be ashamed to use it as a personal attack.
He means for next os.
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The 100 pound vehicle also has a much larger cross section to the wind. And its propeller is further off the ground, so it's getting cleaner wind than the little model version.

I can get a boat that weighs more and has less sail area going on less wind than that. And that thing has to be dragged through the water on top of everything else.
Thanks for highlighting that the investments can lose significant money, and that this is something to watch out for! Completely agree here. I do think that there is subtly around risky investments not belonging in a checking account. I agree that if you are in a situation where you live paycheck to paycheck you would only want to invest in very low risk assets (say US treasuries). That said, if you have some money saved up, you can invest your checking account balance more aggressively and still stay liquid even in really bad downturns.
> A solution, if we are to find one, will not come from the many but from the few, maybe just a single person or invention.

This is going to sound harsh, but to me this argument seems like a mental contortion to absolve yourself from doing anything and not feel bad about it.

In the past 20 years we have seen significant progress in slowing down, or even reducing for some countries, the emission of CO2. It is not enough, but it's definitely significant.
This happened thanks to the many, via awareness campaign and political pressure. And this bought us some precious time.

Even if you truly believe the solution will come from a Messiah appearing with a techno-miracle, you should still push to wake people up: The more people are truly aware of the problem, the more will be interested in working in climate-related tech, giving us more chance for "that single invention" to appear. And you also want the mass to be enlightened about this to continue trying to slow down the train, giving more time for technological breakthrough to appear before we are completely screwed.
The United States Senate has voted in favor of the Warner-Sinema-Portman amendment to President Biden’s infrastructure bill in a landslide of 68-29 late on Sunday evening.

"The Warner-Sinema-Portman amendment has been widely criticized by the crypto community for imposing tax reporting requirements on non-custodial actors like miners and software developers who don’t record customer information."

The one that exempts miners has not been adopted (the rival Wyden-Toomey-Luumis amendment).
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This may be country dependent. In the US, the Supreme Court has been clear that there is no hate speech limitation to the 1st amendment, for example. But there are limits to lying, as in perjury and libel cases.
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Because once that functionality is there it affects everyone, not just in the US. And it basically means we sell out our democratic principles, or rather allow our tech giants to sell it out. Or force them to do it, like our elected governments doing it. Either way, I don't like the outcome.
"achieved"

I get that this is good considering climate change, but we'll see what other effect it will have in terms of human suffering
Apple failed miserably by not only not choosing the NeXT interface (which was a joy to work with), they kept the outline of the Classic Mac OS interface while getting rid of the good stuff (spatial Finder, etc.).
Neither of these reduce greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere and I'd be concerned that rather than being used as an extremely short-term fix while we reduce emissions they would just become a band-aid to continue business as usual.

The problem is that once we go down that path we'd have to do it permanently, and if we were ever unable to keep up the release of aerosols or the maintenance of the solar umbrella etc. then the temperature would rapidly soar to wherever it would have been in their absence.

It just seems incredibly high-risk and avoids actually solving the root problem. I saw such geo-engineering described as "a band-aid on a bullet wound" which seemed quite apt.
Say ferroelectric crystals used to be 0.01% efficient, and this paper brings it to 10%. That would be an increase of 1000x, but still below the current best which is ~20%-30%. (The 0.01%/10% percentages are illustrative only, I don't know what is claimed in the paper.)
Ruptly is Russian media, so I suppose they have the freedom to report these things that local media doesn't have.
> Governments need to tax CO2 emissions on the business side and pour the money into carbon capture technology in the private space through investment and perhaps some sort of bounty program

Unfortunately, getting this proposed, passed without mutilation, and enforced is also a collective action problem.

Though I agree with your implied point that decentralized solutions should be the baseline, especially as they don't preclude coordinated action if that somehow becomes possible. To do otherwise is to pointlessly leave a powerful, relatively easy-to-deploy policy tool on the table for essentially religious reasons.

Unfortunately, there's a pretty powerful contingent of superstitious economic illiterates in our politics that see market-based solutions as automatically suspect, in the same way that there are powerful scientific illiterates that see nuclear as "unclean" (which is basically "unholy" laundered by modernity).

> I'm past hoping for people to do the right things en masse

What scares me is that there doesn't even seem to be a constituency for bold action on climate. I used to at least be comforted by the political left carrying the torch, but the most recent iteration of the party has a "climate policy" that just dresses up the same old unrelated economic wishlist in climate rhetoric like a skinsuit (again, any proposal that doesn't emphasize nuclear is unserious; the Green New Deal explicitly rejects it)
I can't remember the last time Miami Beach wasn't going to be underwater '{X} years from now'. When everything is a Code Red, nothing is. Happens at work all the time too
When we're all under water and biodiversity drops like in the Permian extinction, will it matter if "they did it first"/"we were right - they were wrong"?
If anyone from Mozilla is reading, I’d be happy to donation a littlewarden.com account for this very purpose. (Contact details in profile)
You see it even at the retail level. I’m tempted to record every budtender conversation I have and then parse it for verifiability. 33% true? Maybe.
Its not that humanity will go extinct with 1.5 degree rise in average temperature. However this will likely directly kill 10s/100s of millions of people and destroy ecosystems and weather patterns that humans depend on, which in turn can create a lot of political instability which could increase the chances of a extinction threatening event (like nuclear war for example). The other path to extinction is the world where we open up some feedback loops which are currently unaware of , runaway heating is an example of that, where each degree of heating causes the rate of heating to rise.
What? You expected the U.S. Government to not go after maintaining the levers it needs to project power through economic control of who is allowed to transact what?
Each time someone presented the "nothing to hide" argument, I've responded -- "great, may I have your phone, I'd love to browse through some of your emails and photos"
Your OP is about a very specific music selection feature in a single-result voice search, no doubt influenced by music licensing law and contracts (are you paying for Google/YouTube Music or relying on free stuff?), not "Google Search".
Sounds like a good match for PiStorm, that madlad project to turbocharge the Amiga by strapping a Raspberry Pi in where the 680x0 CPU used to live. Though personally, I wish they'd put in a socket for the original CPU and a passthrough for it. Sometimes I want to drive the car without a JATO bottle on the roof...
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> there's no great firewall of europe

Not yet, but it seems someone is thinking about one, see: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/STUD/2020/6487...
The reporting on this topic is inconsistent, but there's two amendments in play here.

AIUI, this is saying that the first amendment (which enacts the reporting requirement in the first place) has been accepted. The second amendment (which adds the explicit exemptions you mentioned) hasn't been decided on yet as far as I can tell.
I am focused on my future, and the future of my family and of my children, and making sure they will have enough to handle what I believe the future to look like.

At the current rate of brain drain, and innovation investment, my children will either find it very hard to build here, but realistically, as 3 / 4 people I’ve met in my life, they will have to move to the west and start a new life there.

I’m not sure why I come of as past oriented, I don’t think I’m that kind of person, but I’ve certainly passed a point in life where I can’t look through rose-tinted goggles anymore.
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> on the grounds of a single piece of legislation.

No, I said "when you realize", not that it is the "single piece of legislation".

There are many other reasons for that stance, such as the fact that nation's people can influence and check their government's laws with more success than it can do that to a supernational undemocratic bureaucratic organization.

> The EU is top-tier in a wide range of areas spanning from human rights

They have full mouth of it, yes. They issued some great declarations and legally binding resolutions, I agree. In case of vaccines, almost all EU governments act in direct violation and EU has no real power/wish to stop them.
I wonder if those newer algorithms are the reason I sometimes get search results that seem to have nothing at all to do with what I asked for.

Of course the older search algorithms are also AI algorithms; just not the black-box machine learning algorithms that are so popular in recent years.

My theory is that Google's algorithms care too much about what the average person wants, and not enough about what I want. I'm not the average person. And I thought Google would know enough about what I want by now.

What I really want is more personalised search where I control how the algorithm is tweaked. What would also be useful, and I really can't believe Google hasn't done this yet, is voting on search results. Those content farms would quickly be voted into oblivion.
Solar sails indeed only absorb a tiny amount of energy, BUT per given area.

They can theoretically made to be extremely large without much weight relative to the size. Which in turn allows you to accelerate even quite large payloads in a reasonable amount of time.
It's not quite comparable though, as mine operates on a simple bit stream (akin to stdin), which it needs to tokenize and parse.
Mogensen's one is more like the LISP interpreter that operates on a quoted form of the term it evaluates to.
Do you also hate that cryptography is shortened to crypto?
> If it becomes mandatory for email providers to screen emails, will services such as Protonmail become illegal in the EU?

Protonmail should already be illegal in the EU because they operate under swiss mass-surveilance laws and cooperate with US-American law enforcement. Both of which violates the GDPR if they do business in an EU state.

> Since they don't have access to their users' email content because of encryption.

They still have access to all the unencrypted mail their users send and receive and to all the metadata of the enrypted communications.
I mean...hopefully eventually ..
To clarify what dukeyukey said a little further:

The Black Death killed 40-50% of the population indiscriminately. Wars killed able-bodied men in their prime almost exclusively—removing a huge chunk of those best able to bring in the harvest (many able-bodied women can help, of course, but some percentage of those are pregnant or caring for babies for much of the day), without removing a proportional chunk of those who cannot contribute as much but still need to eat.
If the software is scanning everything, and they were already scanning uploaded content, why have a press release at all? If you're deploying an unrestricted panopticon to all your devices, why on earth would you go to the trouble of announcing it in the first place?
I've always felt the the 6502 architecture wasn't really amenable to C (mainly due to the limited stack). A quick glance at the site with an eye toward accommodations made for the platform turned up the interesting hybrid architecture of the compiler suite. You can see it detailed in the section "1.6 C65 and CCI, The Speed Versus Size Dilemma"[0].

Basically, there's an optional compiler that emits a p-code (rather than 6502 machine code) that's interpreted by a VM to make 16 and 32-bit operations more space efficient. This is highly reminiscent of SWEET16[1]. Also makes me think of the Apollo Guidance Computer and the "Interpreter"[2].

This looks like a lot of fun. I'd like to get this running on my Apple IIgs!

[0] http://aztecmuseum.ca/docs/AztecC_minimanual.txt
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWEET16
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Guidance_Computer#Softw...
Try stuffing pendrive there and going through airport securiyt. We're already checking for this (effectively).
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> Bitwise operators ... follow naturally from another concept everyone working in computing should be familiar with: boolean logic.

I'd say to most people raised on "ordinary" maths they follow more naturally from quite a different concept: Moving the decimal point.
It is astonishing that most liberal democracies are looking at the Chinese system of control on society with envy. In a way, mandatory covid passes to do anything are already a form of social credit system. And with so many people obsessed with virtu signalling, an actual social credit system would likely get some traction.
Someone had to write the libraries!
Sounds like this!

Dave Beazley's A Talk Near the Future of Python (a.k.a., Dave live-codes a WebAssembly Interpreter) (2019)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-A78RgMhZU
Hah! I have used Google Translate to do some naïve translations. Was creating portlet code that supported i18n, and took a crack at a few of the labels. Much to the amusement of the folks I demoed to, I used the French word for a person's back, not back in the context of navigation.
The US Navy has given up on railguns for now and will stick with chemical propellants.

https://taskandpurpose.com/military-tech/navy-electromagneti...
> she ended in third, because the candidate that ended being in second made a heavy campaign asking people to vote for him and not "waste" votes on the Green Party that was "never going to win anyway".

This always happens in single vote systems. Any options who draw from the same subset of voters will divide the vote and weaken their own, and one anothers, chances of success. It's one reason many countries have a few large parties, with internal "subparties" rather than lots of seperate parties that differ only slightly.

Ranked choice voting solves this problem beautifully. It's a real shame it's not widely used for elections.
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Well, trees have lifespans that are counted in decades, so they should offer a good buffer for humanity until we sort our energy source issues.

And, if you have programs that are like rolling tree planting systems, then you can build a pretty long lasting buffer.
Not only that, but child porn seems to mean a different thing in every place. The Netherlands and other European countries define the age of consent at 16, meaning some things that are perfectly legal there will be a ticket to prison in many countries. Now you don't just have an engineering problem, you will also have to spend a bunch of money to have some lawyers review your spec.
I see your point, but the title and first paragraphs try to paint the picture of a "funky science" youtuber betting a UCLA physicist $10k and winning (which for me is very different to the truth: UCLA physicist bets another physicist $10k and loses)
the true (and unpopular) solution is to disallow spaces in filenames
> Why can’t you have a conversation in good faith?

I think cloudfifty already answered the question in good faith. And honestly; this question comes over as a bit trolly.

But hey, I'll bite!

> The mother will also receive a monthly allowance for each child. She will also likely be eligible to rent support. So children is a special case, but a living wage doesn't involve that.

In this case, rent support would come from the state and if the mother in question is also working, you could classify this as additional support. So, if the mother is working, she should get a salary high enough to not warrant this kind of support. (Given that rent is usually highly dependent on the location of the property, not having such a support could further push gentrification and require longer commute for the mother in question. In this case we also need to make sure that the day care for the kids doesn't suffer in quality if the mother in question has to move to a less desirable living location.)

In general, we should not do corporate welfare. In particular there might be cases where we need to support people, even if they are working.
This usually happens when the company does not centrally manage their certificates.

Some guy creates a certificate, leaves the company, there is some renewal mechanism which just works, nobody knows anymore where it exactly is and then it starts failing.
But red widgets might be cheaper to mass produce. Maybe. I don't know I'm knee deep in analogies now.
The big factor is land use and the resulting deforestation and/or drying of former wetlands.
To what extent are the algorithms described available as Python or R packages?
> We just have to get along and act responsibly

This is the magic climate change solution. You're yada-yada'ing over the part that is going to be all but impossible.
> Your statement, if true, would mean that most dictionaries would use exactly the same words to describe a given, well-specified scientific concept, yes?

No, it definitely doesn't unless you significantly extend what I said in a very uncharitable way to reach that point.

> Most definitions are not as simple as "cosine similarity".

But plenty are. As I said previously, you are going to be hard pressed to constate plagiarism on pure definitions unless you go towards extensive paragraph long ones which are more akin to explanations than what I would refer to as a definition as you did in the comment I am replying to. Actually, if you reread what you just wrote, you are yourself using the world explanation and definitely agree that that can be plagiarised as could very unorthodox and original forms of definition.

But when I read definition, what comes to my mind is akin to the cosine similarity example where even publications reuse mostly the same sentences while applying minor modifications to the subjects or adding an adverb. Thus me pondering the close proximity of the words definition and plagiarism in the original comment until I realized the whole thing was actually about an explanation triggering my reply to someone sharing my initial puzzlement.