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You would think, but this time is different...

Humans Need Not Apply:
https://youtu.be/7Pq-S557XQU

Well worth your time to watch...

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Note: Don't react emotionally or with what you "think" you know, watch it and pay attention to the numbers. Numbers and math don't lie.

I would describe the above video (and the author / video creator's other productions) as infotainment. Good topics and seemingly good numbers, though following the references can be difficult (a consistent problem for the author). The author moves through a lot of concepts but adds humor.

I think this presentation at Oxford is also worthwhile to watch, though not as condensed:
https://youtu.be/lwwCfx3fadg

Yes, I really did watch the whole 1.5 hour presentation plus Q&A. The presenter comes from an engineering background with experience in some of the subjects and gives helpful facts and analogies along the way. He also does a good job during the Q&A (though he doesn't fully answer some of the questions), though you have to listen to his whole response as he works in the background and analogies to provide the frame of reference to answer the question. I think the presenter underestimates how many people will be interested in dating a robot and how the concept of dating (and other related activities) might/will change.

The questions still stand: how do we as a society align social and economic policies to enact what we want? And what do we want? Some of the proposed solutions are certainly interesting, including tying college costs/repayment to the career job somewhat as housing mortgage to equity (but still put down ~20% down-payment). Looking at the current political environment here in USA ... I expect it to be a bumpy ride.

You would think, but this time is different...

Humans Need Not Apply:
https://youtu.be/7Pq-S557XQU

Well worth your time to watch...

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Note: Don't react emotionally or with what you "think" you know, watch it and pay attention to the numbers. Numbers and math don't lie.

I would describe the above video (and the author / video creator's other productions) as infotainment. Good topics and seemingly good numbers, though following the references can be difficult (a consistent problem for the author). The author moves through a lot of concepts but adds humor.

I think this presentation at Oxford is also worthwhile to watch, though not as condensed:
https://youtu.be/lwwCfx3fadg

Yes, I really did watch the whole 1.5 hour presentation plus Q&A. The presenter comes from an engineering background with experience in some of the subjects and gives helpful facts and analogies along the way. He also does a good job during the Q&A (though he doesn't fully answer some of the questions), though you have to listen to his whole response as he works in the background and analogies to provide the frame of reference to answer the question. I think the presenter underestimates how many people will be interested in dating a robot and how the concept of dating (and other related activities) might/will change.

The questions still stand: how do we as a society align social and economic policies to enact what we want? And what do we want? Some of the proposed solutions are certainly interesting, including tying college costs/repayment to the career job somewhat as housing mortgage to equity (but still put down ~20% down-payment). Looking at the current political environment here in USA ... I expect it to be a bumpy ride.

1: Since unemployment will be common and permanent, people won't have cash for a roof and food, so they can go starve. Well, when this happens, and people have nothing to lose, revolts happen, blood runs in the streets, and a government either exists like Syria, propped up by a superpower, or it collapses, winding up belonging to the most brutal faction. A more civilized nation can hire mercs for shooting at civilians, blockade cities so people starve (as a way to "pacify" an area), or just lob a few Sarin gas canisters at gathering places. However, this is a costly affair, and it requires a lot of tanks, soldiers, POGs, weaponry, people to maintain that, prisons, and many other resources.

Throughout human history, you've been correct...

You may be wrong this time...

Atlas, The Next Generation
https://youtu.be/rVlhMGQgDkY

Take that, advance it another 20 years, then give it a gun. Then build 1 million of them. Then the rich and powerful will have a heartless 100% loyal robot army.

No, I don't think they'll go all Terminator on us, rather I think they will be what keeps the powerful... powerful...

IMHO it has nothing to do with robots or anything like that. Barring a full-fledged singularity where robots become better than humans at everything, humans will always end up moving into whatever fields robots are worse at. It's happened with every wave of automation throughout history.

You would think, but this time is different...

Humans Need Not Apply:
https://youtu.be/7Pq-S557XQU

Well worth your time to watch...

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Note: Don't react emotionally or with what you "think" you know, watch it and pay attention to the numbers. Numbers and math don't lie.

This sort of thing is also part of economic growth.

Tell that to the millions of Americans who either don't have a job, or are under employed... or who are in the process of being "right-sized".

Frankly, they don't care which is why thousands show up to every Trump rally.

The massive reduction of the agricultural workforce has lead us from a world where the average working-class family pays 43% of their income for food in 1900 (38% of workforce is farm workers) to 30% of their income in 1950 (12.2% of the workforce is farm workers) to 11% of their income today (under 2% of the workforce is farm workers). In 1790, 90% of the labor force was farm workers, and anyone who wasn't rich hunted and grew their own food to supplement what little they could buy; the *really* mega-rich could afford to charter a horse and carriage for a ride across town, while everyone else had to load up a donkey with panniers and walk.

Yes, but the end game is approaching...

Humans Need Not Apply
https://youtu.be/7Pq-S557XQU

You REALLY should watch that... while not everything may come true there, it doesn't all have to. If half of it comes true, then the old system won't work anymore.

e. Seriously, we have 5.6% UE4 (that's UE3 plus discouraged workers--people who would and could take a job if offered, but gave up looking), so we don't have a major gap in the workforce to fill.

Those numbers are complete crap. If you believe them, then there is no way for us to have a conversation, because we are coming at this from different angles.

Real unemployment isn't as high as Trump claims, it isn't 22%, but it is a hell of a lot higher than 5.6%.

I can categorically get a new job in a stronger economy. Labor replacement is a part of growth by technical progress.

You might be able to, but not everyone will.

Walmart is planning to replace their warehouse workers with drones. Amazon is already doing it. Wendy's is replacing thousands of employees, etc. etc.

BTW, if you watch the above video, take note of Baxter... GE uses over 100 Baxter robots today, right now, to assemble those large street lamps for cities. They used to employ dozens of people to do that job, now replaced by robots.

The number of people needed to maintain and build robots will be a tiny fraction of the number employed today.

Well actually...

simulation is that it has been running for so long without being turned off.

No, all of past history could be constructed as memories and the simulation started 1ms ago. https://youtu.be/DPjW-P03oK0?t...

Or eight years ago.

Let's say you have a 10M-line computer program

Not necessary.`

humans are much nicer to deal with then a machine that's always bugging you to follow a certain routine for theft prevention.

Yes, but that is because you assume that current self-checkouts are it, that's the peak of the technology, it'll never improve.

You're wrong. BADLY wrong...

https://youtu.be/eob532iEpqk

THAT is the future... or some form of it...

The idea of scanning items one at a time is stupid, it is only a matter of time.

Put it all in your cart, bag it as you go, walk out of the store, it charges to your card.

There won't even need to be checkout lines at all, you just come and go as you please, because the store knows who you are.

I've been thinking a lot about how programming used to be fun lately so I decided to start showing some of those old fun things in some YouTube videos: https://youtu.be/pvxPknoVmzs

It is insane to vote for her.

Yep

When the machine doesn't make fries, it's idle.

You assume that making fries is all that it can do...

https://youtu.be/rVlhMGQgDkY

This won't be out next year, or in 5 years, or probably even 10... But I'll bet in 20 it will be...

Raise min/wage to $15/hr and cut that time in half...

Take a more advanced version of this, put 4 of them in a McDonalds, and you really only need a manager.

No that would be Olympia beer:

https://youtu.be/o2VcqffbbH8

https://youtu.be/lgn0NXckqQs

"Ain't never seen no Artesians..."

No that would be Olympia beer:

https://youtu.be/o2VcqffbbH8

https://youtu.be/lgn0NXckqQs

"Ain't never seen no Artesians..."

"Damn! You need to watch what you agree to, 'cause that one almost took my head off!"

Black Socks

Tesla posted a video in 2013 where they shared their SuperCharger technology - and fully charging 2 cars before an Audi could get a full tank of gasoline. Yes, it requires a significant infrastructure to be built that doesn't exist yet, but it's certainly one way to ensure that batteries are reconditioned regularly, and an easy way to fix the slow charging problem.

https://youtu.be/6_XEv2f_Uhw

It is badass rockstar man too!

Yo yo node.js hipsters Erlang is the real rockstar language man!!

You can't be this wildly out of balance in a global market and expect to function well. This is a fundamental aspect of free market capitalism. Actually, if the U.S. lowered the rate to even something like 17% I'm sure they'd generate more revenue, instead of less. A company the size of Google likely spends a great deal of money on clever accounting to avoid taxes. They wouldn't need to do it if there was little or no benefit.

Not just Google, but also Donald Trump. I think Trump addressed this issue in his tax plan press conference? Check out the video below (which is a link to the direct moment he mentions this issue):

link: https://youtu.be/Lom9mPITxOo?t=4m19s
title:" Full Press Conference: Donald Trump Unveils His Tax Plan (9-28-15) "
publisher: Right Side Broadcasting
date posted: September 28, 2015
view count: 120, 657 views (very few)

in which Trump describes his plan for business taxes:

"A one time deemed repatriation of corporate cash held overseas at significantly discounted 10%.. So it comes back discounted at 10% tax rates, and ends the deferral of taxes on corporate income earned abroad. Now, it's called "corporate inversion"; it a yuge subject. I've been watching politicians now for years -- all talk no action -- politicians. I've been watching them for years talking about bringing this money back . The number is probably 2.5 trillion dollars. Everybody agrees it should come back -- Republicans, Democrats, everybody. They can't make a deal. They don't know how to go about making a deal.. The reason companies aren't bringing it back is: the tax is onerous; it doesn't make sense to bring it back. And in fact, many companies are leaving the united states; they're leaving our shores -- to go and collect their money. They're going --- actually moving --out of the United States for two reasons: the taxes are too high, and because they have tremendous amounts of money that they can''t bring back into this country, when everybody wants them to bring it back in. We will have that money brought back in. [from https://youtu.be/Lom9mPITxOo?t=4m19s]

His tax plan can be found at https://www.donaldjtrump.com/positions/tax-reform, which states the following:

The Trump tax cuts are fully paid for by:

1. Reducing or eliminating most deductions and loopholes available to the very rich.
2. A one-time deemed repatriation of corporate cash held overseas at a significantly discounted 10% tax rate, followed by an end to the deferral of taxes on corporate income earned abroad.
3. Reducing or eliminating corporate loopholes that cater to special interests, as well as deductions made unnecessary or redundant by the new lower tax rate on corporations and business income. We will also phase in a reasonable cap on the deductibility of business interest expenses.

Too many companies – from great American brands to innovative startups – are leaving America, either directly or through corporate inversions. The Democrats want to outlaw inversions, but that will never work. Companies leaving is not the disease, it is the symptom. Politicians in Washington have let America fall from the best corporate tax rate in the industrialized world in the 1980’s (thanks to Ronald Reagan) to the worst rate in the industrialized world. That is unacceptable. Under the Trump plan, America will compete with the world and win by cutting the corporate tax rate to 15%, taking our rate from one of the worst to one of the best.

This lower tax rate cannot be for big business alone; it needs to help the small businesses that are the true engine of our economy. Right now,

You can't be this wildly out of balance in a global market and expect to function well. This is a fundamental aspect of free market capitalism. Actually, if the U.S. lowered the rate to even something like 17% I'm sure they'd generate more revenue, instead of less. A company the size of Google likely spends a great deal of money on clever accounting to avoid taxes. They wouldn't need to do it if there was little or no benefit.

Not just Google, but also Donald Trump. I think Trump addressed this issue in his tax plan press conference? Check out the video below (which is a link to the direct moment he mentions this issue):

link: https://youtu.be/Lom9mPITxOo?t=4m19s
title:" Full Press Conference: Donald Trump Unveils His Tax Plan (9-28-15) "
publisher: Right Side Broadcasting
date posted: September 28, 2015
view count: 120, 657 views (very few)

in which Trump describes his plan for business taxes:

"A one time deemed repatriation of corporate cash held overseas at significantly discounted 10%.. So it comes back discounted at 10% tax rates, and ends the deferral of taxes on corporate income earned abroad. Now, it's called "corporate inversion"; it a yuge subject. I've been watching politicians now for years -- all talk no action -- politicians. I've been watching them for years talking about bringing this money back . The number is probably 2.5 trillion dollars. Everybody agrees it should come back -- Republicans, Democrats, everybody. They can't make a deal. They don't know how to go about making a deal.. The reason companies aren't bringing it back is: the tax is onerous; it doesn't make sense to bring it back. And in fact, many companies are leaving the united states; they're leaving our shores -- to go and collect their money. They're going --- actually moving --out of the United States for two reasons: the taxes are too high, and because they have tremendous amounts of money that they can''t bring back into this country, when everybody wants them to bring it back in. We will have that money brought back in. [from https://youtu.be/Lom9mPITxOo?t=4m19s]

His tax plan can be found at https://www.donaldjtrump.com/positions/tax-reform, which states the following:

The Trump tax cuts are fully paid for by:

1. Reducing or eliminating most deductions and loopholes available to the very rich.
2. A one-time deemed repatriation of corporate cash held overseas at a significantly discounted 10% tax rate, followed by an end to the deferral of taxes on corporate income earned abroad.
3. Reducing or eliminating corporate loopholes that cater to special interests, as well as deductions made unnecessary or redundant by the new lower tax rate on corporations and business income. We will also phase in a reasonable cap on the deductibility of business interest expenses.

Too many companies – from great American brands to innovative startups – are leaving America, either directly or through corporate inversions. The Democrats want to outlaw inversions, but that will never work. Companies leaving is not the disease, it is the symptom. Politicians in Washington have let America fall from the best corporate tax rate in the industrialized world in the 1980’s (thanks to Ronald Reagan) to the worst rate in the industrialized world. That is unacceptable. Under the Trump plan, America will compete with the world and win by cutting the corporate tax rate to 15%, taking our rate from one of the worst to one of the best.

This lower tax rate cannot be for big business alone; it needs to help the small businesses that are the true engine of our economy. Right now,

If I ran a next-gen Apple Store, I would have this video projected on an endless loop.

https://youtu.be/hfjHJneVonE

that shit is HILARIOUS!

I literally could not stop laughing thinking what would that abortion of a store would be like if they did play that video on loop.

great humor man

If I ran a next-gen Apple Store, I would have this video projected on an endless loop.

https://youtu.be/hfjHJneVonE

What kind of a simpleton twat are you? Fucking stupid slashdot "moderation"/censorship. My point is good, and a very accurate summation of this story, yet this dimwit with zero reading comprehension gets modded up.

The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.

That is the lamest fucking excuse for groupthink censorship I have ever heard.

And fucking webscale bullshit. Kids. Kids who learned Java in school and have no idea how to manage memory and cpu use in code and can't do a damn thing without a thousand libraries written by somebody else. Go fuck yourself.

https://youtu.be/b2F-DItXtZs

pee-pee dancing

Yeah, that one gross poophead, with his 822,860 sockpuppets, making it look like the new ghostbusters remake isn't going to be movie of the year, all years.

https://youtu.be/jQM6b9RonXM Planes That Never Flew - The American SST - Boeing 2707

I was just watching this earlier today. The two problems have been: sonic booms over populated areas, and necessity of Titanium to handle the heat at the leading edges. At least when this documentary was made, the metal choice still had no better solution than back in the 70's, and it was too expensive then. The development of an American SST that could do Mach 3 was mandated by Kennedy, and they could not deliver. The Concorde was permitted to do supersonic flight only over the Atlantic.

I don't know if many have experienced the shock wave of breaking the sound barrier. I was in a mobile home in northern Arizona when some fighter jets broke mach. The trailer rocked and I thought it might be an earthquake. It isn't merely like a thunderstorm as some say.

Really? I didn't know that pine coffins were so expensive.

There's something wrong with your reply on the surface. I haven't looked at the costs, but that "it (routinely) costs more to execute someone than not?" Assumptions, cost measurements, or what: SOMEthing's wrong with that line. Doing a Google search now. Ahh, phrasing: you mean the cost of the legal proceedings, long and drawn out as they are for kill vs non-kill cases while I literally mean the cost to kill them, period; not the previous "set up" costs that must be incurred. Good point, they are different.

If the death penalty was replaced with a sentence of Life Without the Possibility of Parole*, which costs millions less and also ensures that the public is protected while eliminating the risk of an irreversible mistake, the money saved could ...

I hadn't considered that. And it does solve the 100% sure thing, as you don't kill someone, you just effectively "take their life away over a long period of time."

So we'd need more jails if (as?) we get more permanent jail residents. Oh, and don't forget health care, even if they want to change their sex. And visitation rights, and guards, alarms, upkeep, training, and what-now.

Vs an "Escape from New York" setup.

So you take someone, put them in "The Big House", locked up with bars everywhere, ordered around all of the time, take care of them (not being sarcastic here) for as long as they live? I originally was going to say THAT sounds like "cruel and unusual punishment," just like living on death row for 20 years -- see Nathan Dunlap. But Food, AC, heat, dry, bedding, security, and medicine all provided? The more I think about it the more I think I want to go there myself -- everything's all done and provided for me. All I have to do is be there and complain if I'm bored. And as a bonus I even get to take out someone that I absolutely abhor? Depending on who it was: forget being regretful about it, if it was the right person I could have nice dreams about that every night.

So once I cross some magic threshold all you can do to me is lock me up and feed me? For someone serving concurrent or even sequential life sentences: maybe that's all the judge can do, but it's ridiculous non-the-less. So James should have shot more, more "bang for the buck" as it were, right?

And that permanent "without parole" line is so harsh, shouldn't we think of the poor victimized prisoner in the years to come?

Taking someone life against their will should NEVER be an easy, dried and cut thing. That doesn't mean that you don't do it, though. And: let's ask the opinions of their victims. Oh wait, we can't. Their life was cut short -- do we "owe" them anything?

Not all of them would agree with me, though. She's a better person than I.

Then again you've got mob rules, but that's no good either.

Hmmm ... Santa keeps a list of people, I guess I'll have to ask Jason if he's keeps one as well.

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NO I'm not going to go out and kill anyone. I don't hate anyone that much. If they do irritate me I just usually get away from them, or irritate them enough so that they move away from me.

I guess we'll have to agree to disagree. Even if is "cheaper" and nicer to keep most killers alive, it still seems l

https://youtu.be/YnbkmCEIVlk

Sure, from the same people that tell you that is why they need H1B visas. Only you're too stupid to realize this is another dumb trial balloon they're floating to keep business as usual going.

US workers won't do this work.
US workers aren't qualified to do this work.
US workers don't meet our diversity quotas.
US workers are too high to pass a drug test.

Pay attention, hippy.
https://youtu.be/-P7peu7Wy7w?t...

Then would this video of fast play leading up to Invisible Tetris and this video of Shirase mode in TGM3 make you a card-carrying member of the GOP?

(Hint: The bleeps when each piece spawns signal what the next piece will be.)

Website about the research(note, there is a list of papers too... this "news" is actually from 2015) https://www.research.ibm.com/l... Youtube video: https://youtu.be/q3dIw3uAyE8 And yes... they only have a prototype. There are still lots of possibly, maybe, somedays in this announcment.

It must be shark jelly, because shark jam don't shake like that.

https://youtu.be/eR6J4XLXPAI

Jeez, look at all those horny bastards behind her!

It must be shark jelly, because shark jam don't shake like that.

https://youtu.be/eR6J4XLXPAI

I think wolfram has a better chance with cellular automa.

attempts to include the factual cited details about british empire's mass murders and genocides, ethnic cleansings(well in to 1970s), regime sanctioned slavery and bonded labor, preventable famines that killed millions(in to 1940s), large scale land and resource grabs, destruction and looting of cultural treasures, regular revolts and protests against regime ( both violent and non violent) in almost every colony, and their brutal suppressions, are censored(except for a unavoidable line or two). people who attempt to include any of that are regularly banned from wikipedia .

What part of "history is written by the victors" is so hard to understand?

The United States has killed millions of people in its existence, and continues to do so to this day. This isn't even history, it is current events.

https://youtu.be/K4NRJoCNHIs

Here's an introduction to ZFS.
* http://wiki.illumos.org/download/attachments/1146951/zfs_last.pdf

At the time ZFS was written, nothing even came close to its features.

ZFS got famous for demos like this:
* ZFS is Smashing Baby

--
Robin Williams: Lived a hero, died a coward. :-(

https://youtu.be/bYYAzSzgU9c

Published on Oct 29, 2015
This video shows how I managed to hack Amazon's Dash Button as well as wire up one of Amazon's AWS IoT Buttons with Node.js to order me beer via Drizly. I teamed up with Drizly to get access to their API and will always have my favorite beer available at the press of a button!

Back in the day, I'd cruise down Halsted with a joint in my hand, a beer between by thighs and black beauties in my blood stream with my Ramones cassette blasting. And I never had a problem with impaired driving.

Of course, there was the time I broke an axle and sheared off the entire exhaust system on my '68 Caprice while doing donuts in the snow in the mall parking lot at 3am, but it was only because I was distracted by the fact that none of the snowflakes hitting my windshield were exactly the same.

Goddamn nanny state wants to take away my right to drive fucked up. Not that I get fucked up any more. I'm too old for that now. But every so often, just for kicks, I crank up Rocket to Russia on my mp3 player and do donuts in my mobility scooter down the paper goods aisle at the Wal-Mart.

https://youtu.be/CVQfVtzFd4U

There was the time I was driving carefully, obeying all ordinances and signs to avoid attracting the attention of the police, due to the fact that I had wisps of smoke still wafting out through my ears, sitting at the light waiting for it to change, when the man behind me obnoxiously starts leaning on his horn, just because I had mistakenly stopped at the intersection a block before the light.

Yes, Prime Minister: https://youtu.be/vKer_nMOIZ8?t...

PM: I told them that I hadn't found any evidence
Bernard: That's because you haven't been looking
Sir Humphry: And we haven't shown you any
PM: Yes, well done!

It's true some years ago, but they use Facebook now. And all day long. https://youtu.be/aDaOgu2CQtI

It doesn't even seem to do well with stuff that is low down, like children: https://youtu.be/Cwr6zh2450w

It can basically avoid driving into a wall head-on, which is all it is designed to do. The idea is you can park it in your garage automatically, which is handy because many new garages in the UK are too small for cars (you can get the car in but can't open the doors so have to climb in/out the sunroof). Well, it also supports parallel parking, but again the sensors are only to stop it driving directly back or forwards into another vehicle with a large, wide flat surface.

Narrow things like motorcycles and kids will be hit. It will merrily crash into bollards and pedestrians. It's not just Tesla either, most (all?) cars with collision sensors work that way.

Oh. I thought that was a link of you doing donuts on your mobility scooter on your way to Wal-Mart. If you do that, make sure to take a video.

https://youtu.be/k5f3-BgtaLM

Back in the day, I'd cruise down Halsted with a joint in my hand, a beer between by thighs and black beauties in my blood stream with my Ramones cassette blasting. And I never had a problem with impaired driving.

Of course, there was the time I broke an axle and sheared off the entire exhaust system on my '68 Caprice while doing donuts in the snow in the mall parking lot at 3am, but it was only because I was distracted by the fact that none of the snowflakes hitting my windshield were exactly the same.

Goddamn nanny state wants to take away my right to drive fucked up. Not that I get fucked up any more. I'm too old for that now. But every so often, just for kicks, I crank up Rocket to Russia on my mp3 player and do donuts in my mobility scooter down the paper goods aisle at the Wal-Mart.

https://youtu.be/CVQfVtzFd4U

"And already she's twice as beautiful as she was before!"

https://youtu.be/Bnx95KyQEAA?t...

WTF is Amurika? I thought it was Amedica!

yeah there was a joke about that recently.

"I'm pretty confident it's covered by the EULA..." I'm afraid that's no excuse for deleting someone's property. EULA should never be sufficient to bind someone to this kind of agreement in practice. Explicit consent to this specific provision should be required, or better yet deletion should require end-user authorisation at time of deletion (so the user knows what is being deleted). It freaks me out when real life starts heading towards parody to this extent: https://youtu.be/sglZGSwK6ow

TIL that Larry Cuba doesn't know what he's talking about.