Exactly. A travel agent works for the client, not the airline. Its their job to advice the traveler of any hidden fees.
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The need for security is just as much a force of nature as the need for innovation. Unless you provide a solution for both, the cycle will keep repeating.
Orbits are very unintuitive things. For starters they're much higher than a suborbital trajectory.
You would also need to pre-target to stage in orbit and at that point you're locked into that trajectory unless you brought A LOT of extra fuel. This would inevitably be slower and less flexible regardless.
The only way for this to have any advantage is to stage a ton of nukes in orbit at different trajectories, which is politically insane.
I live in venezuela, we've had millions of people on the streets multiple times and we still get screwed over every single time. The dictatorship endures
I've had dogs all my life and live in a very tick-prone area. Nothing ever really worked, to be honest. It was a constant battle of attrition. I had to spray the house with nasty chemicals every few months cause that was pretty much the only thing that kind of tipped the balance against the ticks. I frankly don't know how we didn't get Lyme disease, we were exposed for decades.
Since these new meds appeared, ticks have completely disappeared from our property. They only provide 1-3 months of protection, but they're so effective at eradicating the parasite population that I've only had to use 3 pills in the past 4 years.
I think that after a certain size, these marketplaces should be regulated to insure due process between the parties. That way the whims of the marketplace owner can't destroy thousands of prosperous businesses at the push of a button.
We have similar regulations for utilities. The power company can't kick you out on a whim. I think the same rationale applies here.
They touch on the fact that computer systems have evolved for so long that nobody really knows most of the code anymore. They just use it and build on top of it.
One particular character has been traveling and in stasis so long that he is probably one of the oldest humans alive. A systems engineer of old. It turns out to be a big advantage to know the workings and vulnerabilities of his time because he can use them in the future when everyone else is building many layers on top of that and have no way of knowing exactly what he's doing.
Vernor had a point, I think.
Pure gold
Blackballing nuclear has been the worst environmental decision our society has ever made. We would've solved this problem by now if we had just gone all in on nuclear energy
I've had dogs all my life in a very tropical climate. I've battled with ticks for ages. It was always a combined-arms war of attrition just to keep them in check.
But then came Bravecto which is basically a WMD/Genocide machine for fleas and ticks. Just one simple pill and it eradicates them all. It stays active for 6 months too so it really just wipes them out from the area and the dogs stay clean for over a year after that.
This is a massive technological conquest, IMO
It really pisses me off
Making good products and respecting your customers is a great way to stay in business. I don't see why china selling tractors would change that. If anything, it would matter more than ever.
Mistakes DO happen, yknow?
Also, why are they freezing funds when banks cant do that? Seems illogical.
Some marketplaces are so big that not participating is simply not an option. Do you want to break them up instead?
I think they should be treated as utilities after a certain size and have a suitable legal framework to solve these issues.
Lots of things in commerce are not human rights but are regulated to prevent bad outcomes for society.
Is due process really that much to ask for? Shouldn't you be allowed to defend yourself BEFORE they take away your livelihood? Why is apple allowed to unilaterally freeze your funds but banks are very notoriously not allowed to do that? Why does paypal also freeze your assets without any regulation? This happens all over the place and I think it shouldn't.
This NEEDS to be regulated. If thousands of companies make a living in your marketplace, you simply can't be allowed to take destructive unilateral action against their business without due process.
One guy reviewing tickets in a random location worldwide, working for minimum wage, takes a 30 second look at your case and closes down your account. Your company loses millions and goes out of business before any dispute even gets processed (If they even have a dispute system)
This is simply an insane way of doing business.
It can learn anything you have data for.
Heck, we do it with geospatial data already, generating segmentation vectors. Why not 3D?
The main issue is going to be having the right dataset. You basically need to record user actions in something like blender (ie: moving a model of a bike to the left of a scene), match it to a text description of the action (ie; "move bike to the left") and match those to before/after snapshots of the resulting file format.
You need a whole metric fuckton of these.
After that, you train your model to produce those 3d scene files instead of image bitmaps.
You can do this for a lot of other tasks. These general purpose models can learn anything that you can usefully represent in data.
I can imagine AGI being, at least in part, a large set of these purpose trained models. Heck, maybe our brains work this way. When we learn to throw a ball, we train a model in a subset of our brain to do just this and then this model is called on by our general consciousness when needed.
Sorry, I'm just rambling here but its very exciting stuff.
The book most definitely helps tech workers.