I'm not gonna say you're wrong, especially since of the two numbness does seem somewhat preferable, I wonder how much agreement you'd find from someone with leprosy.
I'd argue it is, though, especially as people aren't born with the inherent ability to solve problems that cause pain, it acts as a good rudimentary indication that damage is being done. And even grown people, intelligent people in fact, might be more prone to doing things they know are bad for them if they aren't given pain feedback.
It might not be a perfect system, but the existence of unpleasant feedback is necessary when there isn't inherent knowledge of the inner workings of the body. And in regards to low-information, that doesn't make it unnecessary, just inefficient, but it's still allowed humans to diagnose problems for ages. It tells you where the problem is, and what intensity it is.
Saying that pain can be improved upon doesn't make it unnecessary.
Yeah, I wasn't thinking, I guess, brain fart because I was thinking how the US refers to systems of non-electrified rails that can carry trains at above 115-mph as "higher-speed".
Tesla batteries can be pretty damaging to the environment to produce. Rail is a lot cleaner in that regard if you can get an electrified rail (not sure if this works with high speed). Rail is also a much more efficient way, with regards to energy, to transport that many people as opposed to buying near 2 million Teslas.
That would be favoring one form of speech (voting) over another. You just have to make people want to vote without directly giving or taking something away from them for it.
Living around the great lakes, and knowing what China's like due to lax enforcement of environmental regulations, this kind of stuff terrifies me. Michigan didn't do this kind of kowtowing trying to get Foxconn (to be honest I don't think it would be possible to after the whole Flint water issue), but who knows what kinds of problems will be introduced throughout the watershed when Foxconn exercises any of these allowances.
I think there's an argument to be made that ride sharing apps means people have an easier time relying on public transit, though, given they can use the apps to fill in gaps, making the leap from owning a car easier.
Harry Enten is probably my favorite personality of FiveThirtyEight, mainly because of the amount of humility he has despite the fact that he's very good at his job from what I can tell.
I'd argue that's a lag in price, though. Even if Target doesn't lower their prices, as self-checkouts get more and more ubiquitous (I mean, they kind of have, but they aren't necessarily the standard), if a Target competitor wants to lower their prices to steal customers it's now easier to do so because they're making more money as well. The lack of benefit to the consumer is due to the lack of competition, but with adequate competition this technology would definitely bring down prices.
>In busy restaurants the kiosks do allow a massive backlog of orders to build up. The kitchens cannot keep up
This sounds like it could be understaffing, but if not, they should just put a pause on all orders. Of course, managers would never want that because they're averse to turning down business even if it worsens the quality for everyone.
The one hopeful thing is that maybe this will take down real production costs of stuff so their ability to buy things will grow, but they'd still need assistance if they can't find any job.
I think if you don't want to leave those people behind (you don't, it's societally disruptive to have a bunch of unemployed people who used to be able to kind of support themselves) government bodies need to step in and sponsor more retraining programs.
These kiosks are already in tons of McDonald's locations from what I understand (I've only seen them in Canada but I'm told they're elsewhere) so I don't get the hesitation.
They work well, especially if there's a long line or you're hungover and don't want to talk to anybody.
What I'm wondering is when they're gonna figure out how to replace the cooks with machines (though that's a different task from kiosks, you need actual robotics) and staff the place with a single manager to deal with customer complaints.
So maybe more should be done to incentivize vertical construction. From what I understand about San Francisco, though, it's actually kind of discouraged because of historical preservation stuff. I can also imagine established landlords without the capital to do large construction projects would still oppose measures to incentivize it, as well.
Cramming people into cities is more efficient from an energy and environmental footprint standpoint, and if there's enough vertical construction, it can be plenty comfortable.
I'm pretty sure my current phone (Samsung Galaxy S5) literally has a Kid Mode that does a lot of this stuff. And that came out, like, 4 or 5 years ago?
WP's editorial section is independent from other parts of the paper. Their editorial tends to be much more conservative, hawkish, what have you than the rest of the paper. I don't think you can really accuse the paper of hypocrisy, the people calling for punitive measures against Snowden aren't the same people criticizing China for its mass surveillance.
Similar experience, though I'm too lazy to check the value, I think I had something like 17k dogecoin mined. My password had to have been like 60 characters and I forgot it, deleted my wallet because I figured it wasn't worth much anyways and I had gotten bored with the community by then.
I really did like the community around it though (aside from a few ne'er-do-wells) and how when people would ask for the going rate of 1 Dogecoin you'd always get the response of 1 Dogecoin. In any case I think it worked well as an educational tool.
Northern cities that are more inland seem to avoid them. Maybe they have the same earthquake vulnerability you mentioned, but I think it's extremely unlikely, but there's Chicago, Detroit, Toronto, even Montreal that are able to deal with the large snowfalls they get, and in general don't seem like they'll be hit as hard by climate change-caused extreme weather as other areas.
I'm not too savvy on this stuff, so correct me if I'm wrong, but couldn't they build out to the nearest internet exchange point? I thought those were typically open for anybody to hook up to.
I'd argue the target audience is the "layman" in a tangential field. So, they have enough background that what the article talks about doesn't go above their head, and they can get a quick overview of the subject, but it doesn't require them having to read up on a bunch of materials outside their field. Think people like mathematicians that work in tandem with physicists in their institutions, but don't read into it as much themselves.
I have no idea if they're "official" or something recommended to owners. I think I'll try next month once the holiday season has wound down. Otherwise I'll probably just take my business to other theaters.
>theaters have no choice in the face of consumers wanting unrealistically cheap tickets.
It's hardly unrealistic. If theaters are wondering why they have so much trouble filling seats, they can look to this mode of thinking. Theaters (save for maybe some chains around me like MJR and Emagine) don't seem to understand how markets work. They've been raising the prices continuously and wondering why their sales have dropped, without giving much justification for those raised costs (the theaters I mentioned either typically sell cheaper than others in the case of MJR, or they have very high-end experiences in the case of Emagine).
AMC, since they've been the most vocal opponent to moviepass, are terribly guilty of this. The only reason I use their theaters is either because it's close to me (I live less than a mile away from one), or because my friends want to go to one for whatever reason. They're always terribly maintained, it looks like their staff doesn't care to clean, I can hear noise, including intelligible dialog, from other movies while watching mine, and their concession price gouging is some of the worst.
If they want to start getting people back in theaters, they need to either deliver a better experience or severely lower their prices, though probably both.
Most theaters I frequent typically have someone taking tickets, but they don't seem to usually care if you have outside food. I remember when I was younger we very brazenly brought in fast food to a local AMC, not trying to hide it, and nobody said a thing. But then that might depend on the employees. Seasonal hires seem like bigger sticklers for the rules in general, as evidenced by them not giving me rewards points while using my moviepass card, as opposed to someone in September literally charging me full price on Tuesday (instead of regular half price for people on the rewards program) so I got more points since moviepass covered the cost, so considering all that the enforcement may depend on time of year.
I don't think it's any worse than other auxiliary languages (which I think are all doomed to failure if that's really their goal as opposed to just building a community). I don't know if you can really attack the languages for "problems" if it starts being adopted to the point that it evolves like a natural language (as Esperanto has done). Anything "inefficient" or the like about the language will be changed to the point that native speakers find it suitable.
To be fair to Esperanto, when it was invented English wasn't nearly the lingua franca it is today, and the Internet didn't exist.
I don't think it's fair to critique it just because its original intent was as an auxiliary language. I would argue that intent failed. But it has native speakers, and it has communities who use it, and that itself justifies a language's existence.
I choose more to look at the fact that what our standards for much of that, housing, food, etc. have risen, and what we consider the bare minimum is fanciful living compared to what they settled for a century ago.
Much of that is to the credit of technological innovation, but then technological innovation often comes out of a well-functioning economy.