Elizabeth Holmes from Theranos didn't seem to have any problem with getting funding..
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mariusz79 commented on Women entrepreneurs talk about sexism nymag.com/thecut/2017/04/... · Posted by u/M_Grey
Sure, but what does this say to developers when the policy appears to be "if we catch you doing sketchy things, you will have to stop"?
Doesn't this simply teach would-be bad actors that they get to act with impunity until they get caught, and then simply stop?
It seems that this is current modus operandi in the business world.
I thoroughly expect anti-automation protectionism to emerge, akin to the H1B protectionist policy.
https://www.engadget.com/2017/01/16/new-york-driver-groups-p...
it will be tried, but it's really impossible to implement. first reason - you can't force all countries to do the same. second - how do you define automation? will i need to pay taxes on scripts I use to automate some of my jobs? Will I need to pay automation tax on my roomba? or dishwasher? If the robot does not replace any worker, but makes job or current workers easier and faster will it be taxed?
There's a lot believers in technological unemployment here on HN and one thing I think that viewpoint misses is just how darn resilient humans are to changes in the economy. In the past 150 years, we've seen human manual labor replaced by mechanical labor. Think about that -- a lot of early California settlers walked here, and now you're commanding power roughly equivalent to 100 horses when you hop into your car. Agricultural employment went from 90%+ of the population to ~1% over a few generations. People using computers at work went from less than 1% to complete ubiquity in 30 years. And against all of this, unemployment is still near its target rate. Is the large scale rollout of predictive algorithms really a bigger wave than those that have come previously?
People tend to forget about one thing - in previous industrial revolutions jobs changed, but people were added and removed from the pool slowly and predictably. This time automatons not only take jobs from people, they are also in a sense added to the economy as additional workers.
Think about it this way - previously if someone came up with a more efficient way to do a given job, out of 10 people 9 lost employment, but you still needed that one person to do the job. With automation you get rid of 10 people, and add one additional "worker" to the pool of workers. So now 10 people have to compete not only with themselves but also with one robot that can do job of 10 people.
mariusz79 commented on Transitioning Firefox's rendering engine from Gecko to Servo jensimmons.com/post/jan-4... · Posted by u/bpierre
That has two problems:
1) A lot of flight tests can't be done without a large fraction of passengers on the plane.
2) It may make getting to the final end state faster (though maybe not), but it means you don't get any benefits until you make the switch. Doing things incrementally means you start seeing benefits much earlier. Classic throughput/latency tradeoff.
What's better to end up in the final end state later, or lose customers because your software is crashing and is harder to maintain because you're introducing totally new way to do stuff?
mariusz79 commented on Transitioning Firefox's rendering engine from Gecko to Servo jensimmons.com/post/jan-4... · Posted by u/bpierre
Wouldn't it be easier to build a new plane around the new engine, do some flight tests and after it's ready transfer all passengers?
I might be wrong but I think this was created mainly to monitor progress in AI research. If someone uses OpenAI Universe and can get better results than virtually everyone else, they will be able to get to them first.
mariusz79 commented on New Shepard In-Flight Escape Test [video] blueorigin.com/... · Posted by u/obi1kenobi
this one surprised me to say the least. It's like jumping from the dragon's mouth into the lion's pit. Both are not good options for privacy, you have no knowledge of what Apple collects and what it does with your data either and it basically requires you to have an iTunes account. At least on Android you can install other app stores like Freedroid which are not linked to any major vendor.