Perhaps in Bossa, Sardinia or St. Paul’s Bay, Malta.
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Maybe they will make a DAP that plays ARC and Roon.
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Wow! Can’t wait for iPhone 30! I hope they have balanced output so we can connect direct to our tube amps … [that’s sarcasm for those that don’t understand…]
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My latest upgrade has only RCA connectors 
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Well, your just going to have to miss out on this upgrade …
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Here’s a little piece straight out of “Rocky and Bullwinkle”, sort of…
There is a link at the bottom to the CIA’s generalized report on the caper.
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Today’s shower ear worm.
I thought to myself “I can’t have made this up, I must google!”
And why am I telling you this? Because you need to know * 
* Catchphrase of the Becca-pedia - sister to one Guy Garvey, lead singer with Elbow.
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Boeing is the perfect example of bad management practices. All that government funding has made them fat and incompetent. A real shame.
Accountability is a non-starter with defense contractors, and there-in lies the problem.
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Interesting first pass take on autonomous vehicle integration. Leave this idiot to do his own driving but please take the wheel out of the hands of all those other idiots.
The Conversation: Robo cars promise…
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A.I. managed driving in the “actual everyday world” seems to be a bit unnerving, from my perspective. The number of unforeseen and unexpected variables that can occur within a five block drive in a city such as NYC, is a true test of one’s attention, reaction time and judgements.
Where I see big problems arising are in the number of two wheeled motorized and non-motorized vehicles now occupying an increasing portion of that traffic mix. Throw in pedestrian unpredictability, double parked delivery trucks, potholes, kids coming out of school, parades, protests, fire emergencies, weather issues, etc., etc., how on earth is an algorithm supposed to deal with that, and safely?
In less congested areas, I suppose these issues are far fewer and more manageable, allowing for quicker introduction and adoption.
The city? Nah, I’ll walk or take the subway.
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I am not sure a small percentage of cars with auto pilot can solve much. The real nirvana will be when all are and they all “talk” together or with a central controller for the congested area. Imagine if all the drivers knew exactly what the other driver was going to do at the exact time. They can time intersections perfectly… nobody doing the unexpected. Highway congestion in particular. I live in CT where the Meritt Parkway and 95 seem to just stop for no reason every day. people just dont trust the other person and go slow and its a two lane highway… speedy drives (I am guilty) come up behind and it clogs up fast. If I could hand over control and get a guaranteed 65 on those highways I would hand it over in a instant. No more 2 hours drives for 40 miles.
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Post election, anticipate a reckoning.
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Buildings; just like cars, appliances and everything else in our world, are victims of our rapid modernization and “accelerated culture”.
—The JPMorgan Chase Building, a brand spanking new 3 Billion dollar headquarters, designed by the same folks who did the Burj Khalifa in Saudi Arabia, is directly across the street from their old headquarters.
----Google has an obscenely enormous amount of office space in Chelsea and Tribeca.
----Disney completely gutted and excavated an entire city block to build their new headquarters in Tribeca.
----IBM, Facebook, and many other huge tech firms are locating themselves in the East Village; the bastion of punk, counterculture and the hippies.
Many midtown buildings were built between the 30’s and 80’s.
The Chrysler building is in such a sorry state, no one wants to rent space there.
Many other buildings are spending the cash to modernize or convert.
Wall street began converting to living spaces back in the 90’s.
Landlords are not the brightest bulbs in the box, as has been proven time and time again.
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I agree with you that the “hive mind” would no doubt be beneficial in that scenario. But, reflecting upon what I mentioned previously, it would take quantum computing utilizing several complex scenarios to deal with what a human deals with without much effort.
Does the vast office space in the Chrysler building need renovating or is it the building’s infrastructure that keeps tenants away?
Both; plus the fact that the rents are too high for what you receive and the floor plan layout is not suited for today’s methodology of conducting business.
The “status symbol” prestige that it still retains, along with the Empire State Building, although still impressive, is not considered to be as much of a clincher as it used to be.
The building is built on land it doesn’t own. Cooper Union owns that parcel. They have been increasing the price of their lease to the building owners, who then pass it on in the cost per square foot.
Add to that the projected costs to perform the sort of renovations to bring a nearly 100 year old building close to today’s minimum level of tech , and it becomes extremely expensive to consider.
The concept isn’t new but I’ve not heard the term “hive mind” before. I agree the positive connotation of group intelligence is both the best and the least likeliest solution to traffic and any number of other societal issues. Whatever it might be, the solution is anything other than more asphalt.