Should We Be Terrified That AI Will Let The Machines Take Over?
"After so much talking about the risks of ultraintelligent machines, it is time to turn on the light, stop worrying about sci-fi scenarios, and start focusing on AI’s actual challenges, in order to avoid making painful and costly mistakes in the design and use of our smart technologies." … [Read More]
Fact checking golden geese overseas ...
Matt Thistlethwaite - Exclusive: Labor plans to force Australian mining companies to disclose taxes paid overseas
“This highlights the ATO’s ability to lead effective multilateral working groups and success in working with international partners to improve the way in which tax administrations exchange information and to develop a better shared understanding of the types of arrangements used to evade and avoid tax,” Mark Konza said. ATO digs into parasite papers
Jeremy Corbyn calls on the Queen to grovel
Jeremy Corbyn calls on the Queen to grovel
‘Rosenkavalier’ Is Full Of Lies About Sex, Love, And Aging Women (A NY Times Op-Ed)…
Philosopher Martha Nussbaum, who holds an endowed chair at the University of Chicago, identifies three lies (her word) at the heart of the Strauss-Hofmannsthal opera. (She makes fair points, but did she honestly expect that a Viennese comic opera written a century ago - and set 270 years ago - would seem realistic about such matters, or that audiences would take it as such, in 2017?) … [Read More]
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enjoy your job and are happy to ‘go the extra’ mile at work. This is what the APS
attitudes at a glance tell us about a large portion of the 2017 APS
workforce.
Trump's Top Economist Offers Solution to Unemployment: More Government Jobs
Alleged whistleblower Rick Flori resigns from Queensland Police Service
Trump's Top Economist Offers Solution to Unemployment: More Government Jobs
Alleged whistleblower Rick Flori resigns from Queensland Police Service
By Joshua Brunner: "I have been out hiking around every full moon both evening and dawn to try to align myself to get this photograph. I have always been thwarted by incorrect positioning go a cloudy horizon. Thankfully all of the reconnaissance finally paid off. Flames courtesy of the Wheatstone LNG project, Chevron.
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will advise the advisors?
Would a new set of regulations have changed the result in Michaelia Cash's office? Ex-staffer Sean Sammon writes in defence of the advisor honour code.
The Commissioner's testimony at a recent Senate Estimates hearing revealed that he has some misgivings about the calls to make public Country-by-country (CbC) reports that companies send to the ATO . He considers the information to be of "enormous value! ... our people think it is of enormous benefit to get that level of detail, which we've never had before, in a proactive way". But he is concerned that if the reports were required to be made public, the ATO "wouldn't have any reports to release, because no-one would give us any".
Jeremy Hirschhorn, ATO Deputy Commissioner, Public Groups put it this way: "when we have the information we can do our job. Transparency to the public is a good thing, but, around country-by-country reporting, as the Commissioner said, with the international consensus to gain that information, it would be a shame to kill the golden goose."
Would a new set of regulations have changed the result in Michaelia Cash's office? Ex-staffer Sean Sammon writes in defence of the advisor honour code.
The Commissioner's testimony at a recent Senate Estimates hearing revealed that he has some misgivings about the calls to make public Country-by-country (CbC) reports that companies send to the ATO . He considers the information to be of "enormous value! ... our people think it is of enormous benefit to get that level of detail, which we've never had before, in a proactive way". But he is concerned that if the reports were required to be made public, the ATO "wouldn't have any reports to release, because no-one would give us any".
Jeremy Hirschhorn, ATO Deputy Commissioner, Public Groups put it this way: "when we have the information we can do our job. Transparency to the public is a good thing, but, around country-by-country reporting, as the Commissioner said, with the international consensus to gain that information, it would be a shame to kill the golden goose."
In the future, there will be far fewer roles that are considered “only leadership”, and even when these leadership roles exist, what they do is changing significantly.
Think differently by spending more time conceptualising possibilities, seeking out divergent views, and embracing complexity, and less time formulating specific strategies and plans.
•Act differently by playing an active role in multiple teams, embracing the agile tools and ceremonies that your teams are using, and spend more time coaching and less directing.
•React differently by explicitly tolerating risk and celebrating experimentation, demonstrating resilience when things don’t work perfectly the first time and consciously not laying blame.
Forthcoming thesis of note: The research will seek to understand the criminal law jurisprudence of countering terrorism financing and discuss the ability of domestic legal systems to implement international instruments in a way that effectively achieves their objectives. This will require an analysis of the principle of criminal responsibility, specifically the mental element as identified by case law in the relevant jurisdiction. The focus of the thesis is an in-depth critical appraisal of the approach taken and the extent to which four established democracies, the United States, United Kingdom, Canada and Australia, have fulfilled their international obligations and criminalised terrorism financing, as well as the extent to which they have established and interpreted the mental element relating to those offences in their legislation. Stephen Dametto
