The thing is a robots.txt file doesn't work as licensing. There's no legal requirement to fetch the file, and no mechanism to consent or track consent.
This is putting up a sign that says everyone must pay, and then giving it to anyone who asks for free.
Well, the follow up answer is pretty straightforward.Selling power by the megajoule is silly. You want a unit that puts time in the name and the unit of power that's on appliances. If I run a 35 watt fan for an hour I know I've used 35 watt hours of energy. Or I can say I've used 126 kilojoules.
It's not highschool. You don't lose points for not reducing your answer all the way. The goal is to describe reality clearly, not to use the most concise units of measurement.
If I'm running a powerplant I need to know how many joules I get from my fuel and what my customers need and what my generators can deliver. The customer needs to know the efficiency of their appliances, and how how much that costs them. These are the same thing, but life isn't made simpler by having them be the same unit.
Oh, certainly. I just enjoyed that, in a thread about the vagueness and oddness of the imperial system, the suggestion came up to use a casual approximation for the inch instead of the word "inch".
Take heart. You can easily remember that a stride is 5' 3 9/25” because that's the height of the typical Roman soldier after adjustment for 15th century English agricultural tax methodology.
Nah, highly composite number. A product of multiple primes. 10 is 2 and 5. A power of 2 is just multiple 2s. 12 gets you 2, 2, and 3. 60 adds a 5.
In traditional carpentry inches and feet make sense because of the high divisibility. We don't get as much benefit from that now though.
We still use hex with computers because that's what they're made using (rather binary, but hex is just a natural group of binary digits). The usage of binary is ultimately more grounded in the objective than the usage of base 10 in the SI system. Nature dictates the relationships between the units, but we pick the quantities so it works out to a nice base 10 set of ratios.Base 2 naturally arises when dealing with information theory that underpins a lot of digital computing.
Say what you will about the imperial system, but you can pry binary, octal, and hex from my cold dead hands.
Do you want to develop imperial measurements? Because that's how you invent imperial measurements. Next thing you know you've got a cup that's really good for measuring liquids and a couple spoons you like to scoop with....
2.2 pounds per kilogram. For a rough conversion just multiply or divide by two. For a more precise conversation do the same thing, then wiggle a decimal and do it again.
That gets you base 11, which is what we count on our fingers in now.
They counted, at least for tallying, by putting their thumb on the three finger bones if the other four fingers on the hand. One hand can count to 12, and then you lift a finger in the other when starting over. That method gives you a count of 60'on your fingers. That's why 12 and 60 still crop up all the time.
It's not nonsense, just old and focused on priorities that don't matter anymore. A mile was initially a thousand paces. So you send a group of people out, one counts each time their right foot takes a step and after a thousand times they build a mile marker. Bam, roman road system. 1000 strides per mile, 5 feet per stride.
Later the English used the unit as part of their system of measurement, and built the furlong around it, which is the distance a man with an ox team and plow can plow before the ox need to rest. A mile is eight furlong. This got tied into surveying units, since plots of land were broken up into acres, or the amount of land an ox team can plow a day.When some unit reconciliation needed to be done, they couldn't change the vitality of oxen, and changing the survey unit would cause tax havock, so they changed the size of a foot.
All the units and their relationships were defined deliberately and intentionally. They just factored in priorities that we don't care about anymore.
I just remember that a mile has 1000 strides in it.
Because your power is billed in kWh. Figuring out the kWh cost of a 77 watt TV is straight forward, but a lot of consumer labeling standards are about quick and easy side by side comparisons as opposed to perfect application of units. Easiest way to give a comparison that's accurate enough and doesn't involve odd numbers is to convert that way.
Seems lacking in details. DARPA is only connected to a few rather inconsequential things, ARPANET is mentioned for some reason but not "the Internet". In-q-tel is entirely absent and their entire purpose is to direct funds to tech companies that have possible security, defense or military applications. They're "legally not the CIA". Just founded by them to be an unaccountable organization for directing US funds to potentially valuable startups. (Not conspiracy stuff, it's from their about page.)
I feel like if your goal is to tie stuff together more meaningfully, you're going to be better served by saying that there's no company not connected to military interests by a shockingly short chain.Like, chances are high that any random person has a home appliance produced by non-trivial defense contractor. As in there are multiple companies that make kitchen appliances and heavy munitions, and openly work on AI weapons platforms.
It's from a time when you bought undried and planned wood rather than dried and planned like we typically do now.
It's less a quirk of the imperial system and more a quirk of the lumber retail system, which is older than the metric system.The biggest difference is that in places that use dimensional lumber and the metric system the pattern is to sell by actual dimension, rather than nominal. So a wall stud might be 45mmX145mm, or 63mmX75mm for a rafter, depending on your country.
Most north American hardware stores also sell by finished sizes now.
Right? Even the most cynical perspective would say that it doesn't matter if a freeloader gets healthcare since your costs are still going down. But a lot of people seem like they would rather pay more than risk someone else getting something for free.
Personally, I think a big part is people are used to the costs of healthcare, and so when someone says universal healthcare will cost $X Dollars a month, they put that on top of what they're already spending.Not necessarily consciously, but the cost of insurance is "spent" already, so switching to a different system is deducted from their mental budget that's already factored in the insurance costs. $150 a week in tax increase is taken from $500 take-home, missing the $250 healthcare costs, since they never see that money.
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Tech workers in the US can actually come out ahead. It's very far from being the case in most fields though.
The average mid level salary is roughly twice that of the EU, with the discrepancy getting more extreme with experience. The system is grossly unfair, so the best compensated jobs also tend to have the lowest health care costs and best vacation packages.
At the very least the neighbors who are positioned to do anything about the water issue also have the next highest proportion. The US has only slightly less, with the bulk shared between the two. Russia has more freshwater.
The really baffling thing is that often they didn't get theirs in the first place.
It's closer to "I would rather neither of us get it than you get it too".
The article you linked to. Most people would call "saying inaccurate things" was a form of "lying".
Explain why it's relevant. I get that you're saying "they said TV was fine and it caused problems". I don't see how that's relevant to "we should say things that aren't true about AI".
It really does matter if it's legally binding if you're talking about content licensing. That's the whole thing with a licensing agreement: it's a legal agreement.
The store analogy isn't quite right. Leaving a store with something you haven't purchased with the consent of the store is explicitly illegal.With a website, it's more like if the "shoplifter" walked in, didn't request a price sheet, picked up what they wanted and went to the cashier who explicitly gave it to them without payment.
The crux of the issue is that the website is still providing the information even if the requester never agreed or was even presented with the terms.If your site wants to make access to something conditional then it needs to actually enforce that restriction.
It's why the current AI training situation is unlikely to be resolved without laws to address it explicitly.