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Yet, his main argument was not really about it.

"The Guardian" has a left leaning bias. So I am not surprised with the way of reporting.

Because MS violated Google's TOS.

I really dislike filmmakers doing this kind of stupid stunts (Ok I admit I hate the film makers tries do deceive even more . Like the idiots who make eagle taking a child or flying wing man etc.). Why not put a Ak-47 or a hand grenade to the damn drone? You would get more attention.

This reminded me 2010 KPSS scandal of Gulenists.I guess they want to go other way around..

Because, it was all fun and games until a hacky "arab spring" like attempt in 2013 summer and later Gulenists decided to take government down at the end of 2013. Even though Government won the battle it was a strong blow. Government went into deep paranoia and now doing things like paranoid fools.

Kaldi is probably the best option now. https://github.com/kaldi-asr/kaldi

Still experimental but https://flutter.io/ is promising.

Looking at the many definitions of poverty, historical living standards and global averages, I say it is quite ok.

They will say, "They did not fail because of socialism." or "They were not true socialists."

Anarcho-Capitalist Hoppe explains this in the book "A theory of Socialism and Capitalism" (Bear in mind that he puts russian style socialism, social-democracy, conservatism and social engineering in "Socialism" category with varying degrees.):

"....Nonetheless, socialism is very much alive and well, even in the West where social-democratic socialism and conservatism have remained powerful ideologies. How could this come about? One important factor is that its adherents abandoned the original idea of socialism's economic superiority and instead, resorted to a completely different argument: that socialism might not be economically superior but is morally preferable. This claim will be considered later . But that is certainly not the end of the story. Socialism has even regained strength in the field of economics. This became possible because socialism combined its forces with the ideology of empiricism, which traditionally has been strong in the Anglo-Saxon world and which, in particular through the influence of the so-called Vienna-circle of positivist philosophers, became the dominant philosophy-epistemology-methodology of the twentieth century, not only in the field of the natural sciences but also in the social sciences and economics...."

"....No matter what the charges brought against socialism are, then, as long as they are based on empirical evidence the empiricist-socialist could argue that there is no way of knowing in advance what the results of a certain policy scheme will be without actually enacting it and letting experience speak for itself. And whatever the observable results are, the original socialist idea—the “hard-core” of one’s “research programme” as the neo-Popperian philosopher Lakatos would have called it —can always be rescued easily by pointing out some previously neglected, more or less plausible variable, whose noncontrol is hypothesized to be responsible for the negative result, with the newly revised hypothesis again needing to be tried out indefinitely, ad infinitum. Experience only tells us that a particular socialist policy scheme did not reach the goal of producing more wealth; but it can never tell us if a slightly different one will produce any different results, or if it is possible to reach the goal of improving the production of wealth by any socialist policy at all."

Tell me some of those plenty.

When there is little to no coercion from government I doubt any free-market society will fail. And even if it fails, it cannot be as miserably as those socialist ones. Freeing markets almost-always brings better economy.

I do not see Hawking as an expert of Economics or Philosophy. And I do not share his predictions of a dystopian evil Capitalist AI future.

Some capitalist insight on the topic: https://mises.org/library/technology-and-government-shouldnt...

They use Github now.

AFAIK, On the contrary. They officially support only linux. But community provides Windows support. I do not know Mac support. AFAIK again, Kaldi is mainly targeted server and desktop applications

They should move from Sphinx to Kaldi and from GMM to DNN acoustic models. Instant 30% improvement.

I also find this distinction stupid. Just abolish all patents and make your business plan accordingly (High quality products, Trade secrets, Saturating the market, Early entry advantage, etc.) I have yet to see a compelling argument against this.

AFAIK for such decisions human information/intelligence is required. And there are often screw ups/bad decisions. No need for bad machine learning algorithms for this.

I am not defending peoples lousy/callous decision processes for fatal actions. But telling that bad machine learning algorithms are responsible for killings is just stupid.

Oh come on "machine learning algorithm may be killing thousands.." just put a "may be" and your BS assertion becomes more plausible? By looking at this, people are having and idea that attack drones (it is rich that article puts one picture of it in the beginning) are loaded with such software and killing by looking at the result of a classifier. Or some super computer gives you a name and says "exterminate".

Apparently these tools only gives operators some clues and save their time. If it is a false positive, probably they just ignore it. Of course, obtaining the information is a different story.

For salt lakes it is quite common to dry out sometimes. Besides changing river paths, excessive under ground water use and dams are more likely effecting them rather than global warming.

To me, all 'soft' leftism converge to more radical socialism in time, if economy can withstand it of course. In social democracy once you start, you never stop. More publicization, more taxation, more government regulations, price caps, wage controls, social spending, more public workers.. Whether you prefer it that way or not, government and state just gets larger and larger. Usually before being `socialist` economy goes bust and people selects a more conservative government. After a while, left comes again with the same populist ideas and cycle continues.

Norway has 5 millions of people and crap load of oil money in the piggy bank.

There are also Andorra, Lichtenstein and probably Macao and Hong Kong (They could be just fine without England and China).

I doubt that. Singapore, Monaco and Luxembourg are doing just fine without the blessing of a big state.

Why so?

I wish we can have real city states as I think they have a lot of advantages over large-central states. Easier accountability of the governments, easier mobility and probably less trade restrictions.

Also this video: (If you do not have time, see after min 48.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIUSctVPCCU

Perhaps you have never heard this from people who works in politics precisely because they are part of the cozy system they are in and being fed from it.

You may find the book "Democracy, the God that failed" from Herman Hoppe interesting (or you may find him too weird). Although cronyism is one of the main culprit, he gives other reasons for the inferiority of the Democracy. Bare in mind that he is an anti-statist and anarcho-capitalist. His proposed practical solution is de-centralization of governments to as small as possible pieces.

He has a related shorter variation here:

https://mises.org/library/aristocracy-monarchy-democracy

Known Turkish brands are quite safe too.