Nonsense. Code is copy-pasteable; other things are not.
One can give very accurate estimates of how long it takes to build a brick wall because building brick walls takes time and labor. You can make highly accurate estimates of how long it takes based on how long it has taken to do the exact same task in the past.
But suppose I laid one brick and then could copy-paste it, then copy-paste that into four bricks, then eight, until I have a wall. Then I can copy-paste the entire wall. Once I have a building I can copy-paste the entire building in five seconds.
The ability to copy and paste an entire building is very valuable but how long does it take to create that copyable template? No one knows because it has never been done before.
Building brick walls is easy to estimate not because it is physical labor but because the company has done it many times before. Ask a construction company to estimate a unique one-off job and they will most likely fail. And that is despite them getting a lot of resources for investigating and planning which software engineers almost never get.
The comments in this thread are astounding. The only thing I can think of that may be happening is that people here are so disturbed by the possibility that emergency services can fail that they have fallen into denial. "There is no need for people to help, at least without going through organized channels, because those organized channels are in control" is what I suspect they are thinking.
I saw it online after Trump was shot- "How could the top protection organization in the world fail so flagrantly? The shooter must have had inside help." Some people cannot accept that the world is less safe than it really is. It could be the cause of some of these comments in this thread but I don't know if it's the whole cause.
After a physical bomb went off 24 hours prior, trapping us, one of my co-workers is dead, and no emergency services responded? Is that really your question?
It was obvious sardonicism. Sardonicism is often humorous. The point was to mock those who criticize private companies but not government institutions. An underlying point was that they should be treated equally but aren't.
When it's your job to decide which safety equipment to install on highways or whether to install scrubbers on coal power plants, you have to think like this.
Having adults give this a once-over would have been better. Does the law allow collusion online rather than IRL? This sentence implies that it does, otherwise the "IRL" is superfluous. Most (but not all) of us know, based on our knowledge and experience with zoomer writing, that the writer is not speaking literally or carefully. But this is a summary of a legal document and can be used in a court of law. This writing is terrible given the context.
It's not the only example of bad writing.
> And even if some of the conspirators cheat by starting with lower prices than those the algorithm recommended, that doesn’t necessarily change things. Being bad at breaking the law isn’t a defense.
Breaking the law less or not at all is indeed a defense, possibly a successful one. It also doesn't constitute being "bad" at breaking the law.
Lots of people who work in government agencies feel that it is okay to lie to the public to try to achieve greater goods. They are wrong.
There is no longer any hope of keeping humans in the loop or even "on the loop" at all times. The Russia-Ukraine war has woken everyone up to the value of drones which is going to cause everyone to dump lots of money and effort into electronic warfare, which just means 'jamming radio waves'. And once everyone realizes that that is happening, the obvious next and final step is to make the drones autonomous. Define geographic parameters and target types and tell it to go. It does way-finding using ground features and dead-reckoning so that it doesn't rely on GPS, it drops its bombs or fires its gun on boats, tanks, or people who are within the boundaries, and then returns home.
There is no hope of avoiding the technology. It's cheap to implement, expensive to counter, and even the civilian world has all of the necessary pieces already. We have no guarantee that it isn't already in use in Ukraine; they are definitely already running object recognition on drones in their war zones.
All of our existing countermeasures are way too expensive. The only way to counter any of it in a cost-effective way, that I have been able to think of, is more drones.
Jersey City is more than welcome to stop being second fiddle by simply making the PATH train at least as functional as MTA trains. A bunch of transit planners tried to help and the Port Authority said, "No thanks." Until that changes, nothing will ever help New Jersey.
There are people in this very thread who bought houses in obviously crappy neighborhoods complaining about their crappy neighborhoods.
There are some neighborhoods where walking down the street comes with an especially notable risk of getting robbed. That's a bad neighborhood. Everyone agrees.
There are other neighborhoods where playing in a park comes with an especially notable risk of Karen calling the police, who respond. That's a bad neighborhood too.
And so trivial to falsify. In this case, put your own DNA in and see that the picture output doesn't look like you.
For fiber analysis, give the expert some fibers of known origin and see if they get it right. Give them some hair from one of 200 people; see if they can tell who it's from. None of that got done for decades. Police and judges clearly do not care.
One can give very accurate estimates of how long it takes to build a brick wall because building brick walls takes time and labor. You can make highly accurate estimates of how long it takes based on how long it has taken to do the exact same task in the past.
But suppose I laid one brick and then could copy-paste it, then copy-paste that into four bricks, then eight, until I have a wall. Then I can copy-paste the entire wall. Once I have a building I can copy-paste the entire building in five seconds.
The ability to copy and paste an entire building is very valuable but how long does it take to create that copyable template? No one knows because it has never been done before.