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I hope so, and I trust that Honda did due dil on potential market size.
My wife and I are in the market for a small electric car - commute is less than 25km so this would be perfect for us. And looks cooler than Nissan's Leaf.
For when we need range / space we have a (decently efficient) CI car that we know we can rely on.
But I'm sure someone out there will fuzz it...
"That group of people united in pursuit of a cause, and basically the result was greater than the sum of the parts. There was a chemistry that was formed," Kranz said."
The Cold War undoubtedly helped, though my impression (I am not American) is that there was a greater sense of social cohesion back then (that did not include minorities).
Assuming social cohesion is a public good, i.e., public policy should help bring it about without having to engineer a cold war, how would a society go about it? National service?
> but if we accept this sort of repackaging with our PC and phone hardware; why should we not accept it in other aspects of our lives?
But most of us already do - in politics this redefinition of words is common. "Oil companies" become "energy companies", etc etc.
> It's a mechanism in our psyche that is prone to abuse
The hardest thing to change in an person is their identity. If someone's identity is tied to a particular belief (the earth is flat, my deity can throw bolts of lightning, etc) then anything that contradicts that belief is either ignored or else spun to fit the existing belief system of that person.
For an app you could configure what filesystem and registry access was allowed and you could redirect FS access.
Implemented it as a kernel driver that hooked into the relevant system calls. It was easier to do kernel dev back then (we are talking mid 2000's) - i havent touched windows kernel coding in years.
I wonder if Microsoft has implemented a jail for processes in recent versions of windows. Running browsers in a VM can be cumbersome.
I agree with you there in the context of the US. What desperately needs changing is campaign finance. Lobbying, Citizens United, etc has completely ruined politics in the US.
If where you live has a bad healthcare system or ineffective government, you need to look at the local conditions and please don't generalise. Maybe a positive attitude that government (which is after all, us) can be a force of good would be a good start.
Or you know, get a national health service that treats human beings with dignity and humanity.
Feel guilty?! The man may have contributed greatly to the field of AI, but that kind of comment just comes across as very naive about how the world works.
"Shouldn’t AI experts work with the military to ensure this happens?
If they had the right moral values, fine."
The military adheres to the laws of war and is lead by a civilian politician, not a pope. A nation's military carries out the policies of the civilian leadership. If you want a moral military, get moral politicians.
I don't understand why the distate at one's own military forces. These people are not aliens, they're fellow Americans, or French or Japanese or wherever you're from. At least for the major democracies, these men and women are volunteering to defend your ass. They don't get to start wars, the politicans you vote for do.
I very much want the military forces of my country to kick the ass of any threat, and if some tech such as AI could help eliminate that threat faster and with less blood than brilliant.
Of course the US is democratic, however it is also a super power and until recently was a trusted keeper of the peace (securing blue ocean, trade routes, etc). The US is not really a valid counter example to my main point as its sui generis.
Democracies tend not to pick fights. Unfortunately Russia (Ukraine) and China (Taiwan) are on a revanchist path.
Should Taiwan just let the PLA over for tea and a chat? What should the West do if the CPC decides that its time to "restore China to its former glory" and take back Taiwan by force?
You need well paying jobs, low unemployment, and a social safety net for economic security.
As someone who's family has benefited (and pays for via taxes) from a well funded national health service I believe it represents significant progress in a nation's development.
Aka, "social mobility"
$1.16 billion is a lot of money to give to companies when it could pay for a good number of other things.
I recall seeing a brilliant red pointillist painting by some artist I had never heard of and the impact it had on me as I got close and each little red dot 'dancing' was surreal.
Never went ahead with the idea but I assume (I am not a painter) that modern high quality oils would allow a reasonably talented artist to repro a Van Gogh to a sufficiently accurate degree. I just need it to "fool" me, not an expert.
Having said all that, I cannot afford an original Van Gogh so occasional visits to the Musee D'Orsay and Amsterdam will have to do :/