I was lucky enough to visit the US before Trump's 1st term back in 2015. I even considered working there. Sure, the customs and TSA were uncomfortable experiences, but that's nothing compared to what my dual-citizenship colleague had on a recent trip.
They were taken into a backroom for questioning at Houston airport for hours with no explanation and ultimately let go with no apologies, nothing. The "crime" was using their European passport, methinks. They are not going back to US after that experience.
> it shall be unlawful for any citizen of the United States to depart from or enter, or attempt to depart from or enter, the United States unless he bears a valid United States passport.
So that seems like something that should be easily dealt with in a few minutes - request that they present their US passport, apprise them of the fine for entering without having obtained a US passport, and/or turn them away since their entry would be illegal. None of these require hours of questioning in a back room.
I'm tired of this trend of people using a violation of the law, especially administrative style infractions, as a justification for arbitrary horribleness.
After which VW will deny any warranty claims or won't do any repairs. Or even worse, brick the car remotely. It will be akin to unlocking bootloaders on phones or Nintendo bricking consoles.
Mind sharing these? My current job includes a lot of manual copying, at least until I can automate it. Especially the plaintext/no newlines paste sounds very useful!
>It's referring to total deaths, not per capita, let alone per pedestrian.
What exactly does it matter? Deaths per capita is a stupid statistic anyway. The pedestrian deaths are at least 3 times as numerous in the USA than, for example, the Nordic countries. (in terms of pedestrian deaths/driven distance)
If anything, the article is trying to make a point that the car centricism in the US is bad, and steps should be taken to make it less so.
You do realize that it’s about 350 euro in added 22% VAT, right? That makes it about $/€50 different. You expecting a massive discount or something? I’m not saying euro pricing isn’t usual higher, but everyone always forgets the tax.
The tax is literally the problem with quoting the price in Euros.
As far as the price, the equivalent card from the 3 series was the 3090 RTX, which released at $1499 msrp 2 years ago. Given the inflation over past few years, $100 increase is not an increase in constant dollars. This new top of the line card has twice the performance for effectively the same price.
Yes these top of the line cards are crazy expensive, but it doesn’t seem like this is actually worse than the 3 series pricing. You are talking about more than 6 Xbox’s worth of compute here for an ultra enthusiast market.
It's also a problem by USD oriented pricing. It tend to be done by US based company like Apple and Nvidia. I found new Samsung Galaxy price isn't looks so bad unlike them because they are Korean.
I was implying that you still need a human to make the final decision. AI can be a valuable aid in both fields. Doctors can't just let the AI do all the work in the same way synthetic chemists can't blindly trust the AI to spit out correct and feasible results. Research time is expensive and thus the effort needs to be evaluated, and usually the intuition of said chemists trump that of the AI.
True. But perhaps you can eliminate 9 out of 10 chemists, and replace them by an AI that generates ideas. Then use the 1 chemist to validate those ideas.
Not to generate ideas, there's always more ideas than resources in chemistry.
Mainly to do more automated routines than ever.
9 out of 10 chemists aren't that great at the bench anyway.
Everyone would probably benefit from getting them in front of a computer full-time to leverage their training in a way, and freeing up the bench space to those who can really make the most of it.
Not the focus of the article, but analytical chemists need to do a lot of proper detecting themselves to be high-performing just like the radiologists do.
Chemical synthesis is much more than just retrosynthesis. Even if it was, you can not just plug in the novel previously unsynthesized molecule and expect any reasonable results. Furthermore, the tool is based on Reaxys which in turn uses already established reaction routes and conditions from literature and patents. Good luck optimizing yields for something you don't know even how to synthesize, let alone what conditions to use.
> Chemical synthesis is much more than just retrosynthesis.
Of course, but we are talking about chemical discovery - after which you want to test if the compound theoretical capabilities work on cells. Yields are not yet a concern!
> expect any reasonable results
No it won't do all the work, but it will direction, and suggestion for which pathways could be used.
They were taken into a backroom for questioning at Houston airport for hours with no explanation and ultimately let go with no apologies, nothing. The "crime" was using their European passport, methinks. They are not going back to US after that experience.