I have only had this feeling once in any job, after my most recent promotion. The immediacy of my new position meant if I missed a deadline that appears today by noon tomorrow our company could get hit with a five figure fine. My response is to change the job in a way that allows for vacation - proper scheduling of payments, cross-training redundancy with coworkers, making daily/weekly immediate tasks more automated and so on. Yes, this involved presenting the changes to management and some arguments, but persistence pays off when you have a good argument. You still have a couple hours of organization to do after a long vacation but it's not like nothing got done while you were gone.
I thought Slashdot was full of automation experts? What gives? The only major thing I can imagine is that too many here unintentionally isolate their work and processes via poor social skills. I used to think communication wasn't important but then I grew up. From my position, a desk that can't go unworked for two days or a week is either a poorly designed job or an entrepreneur. Small businesses that do this are the ones that don't grow because they continually harvest their "human" resources by cutting at the root rather than harvesting the fruit each season and letting them grow.
If the survey had HSBC plastered all over it the same way the summary and article reads, then of course they'd list it at under a robotic surgeon. HSBC is one of the most untrustworthy and unethical banks out there. Test this with someone more reputable and you may get different results.
I live in Charlotte, we have a similar problem with the state legislature in NC. While populous, Austin and Charlotte are very different from the majority of the landmass in the state and want to run themselves differently, while the state legislature sees it as a threat to their authority and an erosion to the nearby areas with their policies. Thus, they try their best hitting the nail down into the wood, no matter how angry it makes the citizens of those cities. There's a reason a lot of states have home rule for large cities, they should learn from them.
Microelectronics have more than just labor cost blocking their resurgence in the US, so automation is only part of the solution. The biggest issue is the location of the resources used for manufacturing. Unless Apple decides to spend its cash hoard on vertical integration and starts mining and producing the components in the US, they aren't going to save any money producing here. The components will still need to be shipped from China where they're produced, near the resource mines which avoid environmental regulation and cost significantly less than domestic.
Gotta find a way to hot swap batteries on the regular with low space requirements. Local/terminal trucks often get worked 24/7/365 and are only taken out of service for their maintenance plan. Also, space at some terminals is exorbitantly expensive, so stocking 2x the trucks and having half charge all the time is not a reasonable alternative.
What should be done is slide the FICA contribution window from $0 to $127k (for 2017) to, say, $40k to $250k.
Working in payroll tax, That's actually a really good idea, in need of a few tweaks. That window is only for the SS benefit, Medicare has an unlimited window at 1.45% and doesn't cap, so you're talking 6.2% instead of 7.65%. The actual SS cap would have to be factored into current contributions, I don't think a tripling on the top would cover the funds lost, it may have to to increase to like $400k. Since the SS benefit gets directly tied to your SS later in life, that' have to be re-worked to not shaft lower earner's retirements.
One way is full-on redistribution, which would likely never pass, the other is require the companies to double match the first $40k instead and allow them a tax credit on the figure. This option has two major downsides in that it disproportionately taxes employers who employ more lower-skilled laborers, and removes the potential for SS solvency via cap increases during boomer retirement. The benefit (or downside, depending on how you see it) is it adds incentive to long-term full time employment rather than larger labor pools with higher turnover.
Also, as many know, the paving in an airport is not the same as the paving on a standard road. I work in shipping, and the international shipping terminals cost astronomical amounts of money to prepare because you have to have a very high durability footprint with great longevity. Most of these ports usually don't have near the snow issues either due to ocean warming - Imagine trying to push snow off to the side of a 1 square mile pad... you have to take it all the way to the edge. A tic-tac-toe or hashtag design offers more without the downsides, and lo and behold, that's what we've got in airports now.
I agree, you can usually tell with where the focus is. Skepticism at this point has nothing to do with CO2 or AGW, those are simply facts. My skepticism currently has two points of focus: the geopolitical will to change and my optimism in human adaptability. I don't think that humans will be able to stop emitting greenhouse gases and/or reverse the effects of AGW without drastic scientific breakthroughs which, unfortunately, require the vast abundance offered to our species right now - a chicken and egg, or more appropriately baby and bathwater situation.
I also think human adaptability will mitigate most of the damage caused by AGW to our species. A lot of people like to rattle off the big list of famine, mass migration, city flooding, etc. as if they were going to happen instantaneously all at the same time. Eighty years ago we adapted to the dust bowl situation in less than a decade, I'm optimistic about our ability to adjust to these potential scenarios as they unfold slowly over decades and centuries.
For these reasons, I think there will be no overarching change in human behavior and consumption until there has to be, and even when there has to be, I think we'll adapt better than most anticipate.
We know our fellow humans are very error prone, so when another human is giving you directions, you're creating a map in your head to make sure it all makes sense. We trust our nav systems implicitly and can see the map on the screen ourselves, thus we have no need to create a map to organize our thoughts.
Could've fooled me. The most rigid and unreadable people I've ever met. Always stuffy, always money-focused. It could be selection bias though, as my interactions have been mostly corporate in nature.
I live in Charlotte, and a large chunk of people live in South Carolina (Fort Mill, Rock Hill, etc) and drive to Charlotte to work. Do these get factored in to the "market" or is it specifically focused on the Mecklenburg county metropolitan area?
The SC locations would certainly depress the average cost of living if they're factored in. You can get a lot of house for very little money, ~$100/sqft for average acommodations and $150-200 for luxury accomodation. However, there's definitely appears to be a housing bubble starting in Charlotte. Too high a percentage of luxury apartments when compared to other cities, and housing in certain areas is so competitive that the average days on market in my zip code is less than a week, and often houses sell in less than a day with a pre-emptive open-house starting a bidding war. Some of my coworkers took 6-8 months to find a house where they wanted it for school reasons.
Personally, I own a condo in a booming area but will probably move to a house in SC in the near future, within driving distance to Charlotte. HB2 has done quite a bit of damage to commerce in NC, no matter how loud the idiots in Raleigh want to scream that it hasn't. The guys in Asheville have been hit the worst but I see it here as well.
I agree with you entirely, but nursing is really the last example we should be bringing into workforce/pay discussions.
Male nurses actually make more than female nurses by almost 20% and are in higher demand. Your reaction is probably the same as mine: That sounds wierd...why? Well, there's actually a lot of lifting and restraining necessary in many nursing positions, so strength is heavily valued. My girlfriend is a psych nurse and they find male nurses extremely useful.
Honestly, it doesn't matter if the tunnel ideas themselves are profitable. Phase 1 (make a better Bore) will make enough money on its own even if phase 2 never pans out, and Phase 1 is a very low cost risk by comparison. The key phrase in the interview is "Tunnel technology is older than rockets, and boring speeds are pretty much what they were 50 years ago."
Musk appears to be an efficiency hound above all else. Find something that sucks but has room for efficiency gains, make it better, and make money on it. He's done it with electric cars, batteries, and rockets so far. Making a better bore isn't that far-fetched. Making things more efficient in the right manner almost always leads to being cost competitive.
I remember playing BF3 with my older brother on his XBox when I visited him, while I had BF3 on the PC. The game played completely different: In the metro station map, on PC, players could barely ever capture the first flag without precise coordination and vision occlusion like smokes because if they popped their head up they'd get wrecked. On XBox, everyone just sprinted for the flag and it was a close range melee fest with flag captures usually being quite easy regardless of how well the defensive positions were set up.
In short, on the PC the defenders had a heavy advantage where on XBox the attackers had a heavy advantage, and it showed in the win rate from those sides. This was entirely due to control scheme.
Peripheral vision is extremely low resolution already, it's good for motion tracking but not much else. Ensuring peripheral vision has clearer view is like adding another mag level to a microscope with a smudged lense.
They're making their money back in other ways. Minecraft has become one of the go-to games for kids. It turned the XBox into a more kid-friendly console, a market Nintendo historically had in their back pocket. Parents aren't as intimidated buying their children XBoxes when its bundled with Minecraft as the console draw rather than Halo. They also haven't had to release significant iterations of the game to maintain freshness on new releases like Mario. Little work with a trickle reward that'll pay off more the longer its present. I suspect children today look at Minecraft the same way we looked at Mario in the 90's.
Damn, that sucks. The trend around here has been a positive one in a different direction. They've been converting theaters to assigned seating and 100% recliners with sectional row divides, so no matter where you sit you have a nice comfy seat without having to worry when getting your ticket, with the same ticket price. It's made movie-going about 100% more bearable for me and my girlfriend and I've noticed the theater capacity utilization seems much higher than it used to be.
Tribalism rarely rears its ugly head in academia to the extent you see it in other disciplines and industries. The colleague and confidant of the academic is knowledge, other humans are a tool to converse with knowledge. Knowledge is their "tribe" more than the people they work with.
Not saying tribalism doesn't show up from time to time, but it's not like finance buddies protecting finance buddies.
California labor law is an absolute nightmare. There are about a half dozen extra things you have to track that don't have any significant effect on productivity or labor rights, but add large extra costs to payroll and HR. I deal with payrolls from multiple states and our procedures are completely different for California because of all the labor laws that don't line up with the rest of the country. The troll post is correct, although without any proper explanation.
Doctors and nurses are trained to investigate mental health on every visit in some fashion. It's one of the hardest things to diagnose and also one of the least likely for patients to discuss on their own without some sort of impetus. There's no grand conspiracy there, it's simply the only way they can investigate certain aspects of the patients proactively. That's not to say that over-medicating and symptom-centric practice isn't an issue, but its roots lay elsewhere. Source: my girlfriend is a psychiatric nurse.
Money put into an eligible retirement plan like a 401k is referred to as 'deferred compensation.' Because the compensation is deferred to a later date, there's no income tax when you put it in but you pay taxes when you take it out.
I enjoy hand-washing my clothes and putting them away. Especially the ones I carefully selected and thus like very much. It's one of those many simple household tasks that have a deep zen-like vibe to it if you put yourself it in the right mood and attempt to keep a household leaning towards minimalism. Pure bliss. And no, I'm not joking.
Household chores, such as washing clothes, hanging them to dry, washing dishes, going daily to the store because of lack of refrigeration, and managing a fire for dinner took up significant chunks of the day. The low-hanging fruit is gone so they're working on the smaller tasks now (roomba and laundry folding robot). If they can make them cheap enough, they could become ubiquitous and hit a home run.
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I have only had this feeling once in any job, after my most recent promotion. The immediacy of my new position meant if I missed a deadline that appears today by noon tomorrow our company could get hit with a five figure fine. My response is to change the job in a way that allows for vacation - proper scheduling of payments, cross-training redundancy with coworkers, making daily/weekly immediate tasks more automated and so on. Yes, this involved presenting the changes to management and some arguments, but persistence pays off when you have a good argument. You still have a couple hours of organization to do after a long vacation but it's not like nothing got done while you were gone.
I thought Slashdot was full of automation experts? What gives? The only major thing I can imagine is that too many here unintentionally isolate their work and processes via poor social skills. I used to think communication wasn't important but then I grew up. From my position, a desk that can't go unworked for two days or a week is either a poorly designed job or an entrepreneur. Small businesses that do this are the ones that don't grow because they continually harvest their "human" resources by cutting at the root rather than harvesting the fruit each season and letting them grow.
If the survey had HSBC plastered all over it the same way the summary and article reads, then of course they'd list it at under a robotic surgeon. HSBC is one of the most untrustworthy and unethical banks out there. Test this with someone more reputable and you may get different results.
I live in Charlotte, we have a similar problem with the state legislature in NC. While populous, Austin and Charlotte are very different from the majority of the landmass in the state and want to run themselves differently, while the state legislature sees it as a threat to their authority and an erosion to the nearby areas with their policies. Thus, they try their best hitting the nail down into the wood, no matter how angry it makes the citizens of those cities. There's a reason a lot of states have home rule for large cities, they should learn from them.
Microelectronics have more than just labor cost blocking their resurgence in the US, so automation is only part of the solution. The biggest issue is the location of the resources used for manufacturing. Unless Apple decides to spend its cash hoard on vertical integration and starts mining and producing the components in the US, they aren't going to save any money producing here. The components will still need to be shipped from China where they're produced, near the resource mines which avoid environmental regulation and cost significantly less than domestic.
The turn signal joke is just begging to be introduced to this car analogy.
Gotta find a way to hot swap batteries on the regular with low space requirements. Local/terminal trucks often get worked 24/7/365 and are only taken out of service for their maintenance plan. Also, space at some terminals is exorbitantly expensive, so stocking 2x the trucks and having half charge all the time is not a reasonable alternative.
What should be done is slide the FICA contribution window from $0 to $127k (for 2017) to, say, $40k to $250k.
Working in payroll tax, That's actually a really good idea, in need of a few tweaks. That window is only for the SS benefit, Medicare has an unlimited window at 1.45% and doesn't cap, so you're talking 6.2% instead of 7.65%. The actual SS cap would have to be factored into current contributions, I don't think a tripling on the top would cover the funds lost, it may have to to increase to like $400k. Since the SS benefit gets directly tied to your SS later in life, that' have to be re-worked to not shaft lower earner's retirements.
One way is full-on redistribution, which would likely never pass, the other is require the companies to double match the first $40k instead and allow them a tax credit on the figure. This option has two major downsides in that it disproportionately taxes employers who employ more lower-skilled laborers, and removes the potential for SS solvency via cap increases during boomer retirement. The benefit (or downside, depending on how you see it) is it adds incentive to long-term full time employment rather than larger labor pools with higher turnover.
Also, as many know, the paving in an airport is not the same as the paving on a standard road. I work in shipping, and the international shipping terminals cost astronomical amounts of money to prepare because you have to have a very high durability footprint with great longevity. Most of these ports usually don't have near the snow issues either due to ocean warming - Imagine trying to push snow off to the side of a 1 square mile pad... you have to take it all the way to the edge.
A tic-tac-toe or hashtag design offers more without the downsides, and lo and behold, that's what we've got in airports now.
Change it to Greatenough to spur all the hecklers.
I agree, you can usually tell with where the focus is. Skepticism at this point has nothing to do with CO2 or AGW, those are simply facts. My skepticism currently has two points of focus: the geopolitical will to change and my optimism in human adaptability. I don't think that humans will be able to stop emitting greenhouse gases and/or reverse the effects of AGW without drastic scientific breakthroughs which, unfortunately, require the vast abundance offered to our species right now - a chicken and egg, or more appropriately baby and bathwater situation.
I also think human adaptability will mitigate most of the damage caused by AGW to our species. A lot of people like to rattle off the big list of famine, mass migration, city flooding, etc. as if they were going to happen instantaneously all at the same time. Eighty years ago we adapted to the dust bowl situation in less than a decade, I'm optimistic about our ability to adjust to these potential scenarios as they unfold slowly over decades and centuries.
For these reasons, I think there will be no overarching change in human behavior and consumption until there has to be, and even when there has to be, I think we'll adapt better than most anticipate.
We know our fellow humans are very error prone, so when another human is giving you directions, you're creating a map in your head to make sure it all makes sense. We trust our nav systems implicitly and can see the map on the screen ourselves, thus we have no need to create a map to organize our thoughts.
Could've fooled me. The most rigid and unreadable people I've ever met. Always stuffy, always money-focused. It could be selection bias though, as my interactions have been mostly corporate in nature.
I live in Charlotte, and a large chunk of people live in South Carolina (Fort Mill, Rock Hill, etc) and drive to Charlotte to work. Do these get factored in to the "market" or is it specifically focused on the Mecklenburg county metropolitan area?
The SC locations would certainly depress the average cost of living if they're factored in. You can get a lot of house for very little money, ~$100/sqft for average acommodations and $150-200 for luxury accomodation. However, there's definitely appears to be a housing bubble starting in Charlotte. Too high a percentage of luxury apartments when compared to other cities, and housing in certain areas is so competitive that the average days on market in my zip code is less than a week, and often houses sell in less than a day with a pre-emptive open-house starting a bidding war. Some of my coworkers took 6-8 months to find a house where they wanted it for school reasons.
Personally, I own a condo in a booming area but will probably move to a house in SC in the near future, within driving distance to Charlotte. HB2 has done quite a bit of damage to commerce in NC, no matter how loud the idiots in Raleigh want to scream that it hasn't. The guys in Asheville have been hit the worst but I see it here as well.
I agree with you entirely, but nursing is really the last example we should be bringing into workforce/pay discussions.
Male nurses actually make more than female nurses by almost 20% and are in higher demand. Your reaction is probably the same as mine: That sounds wierd...why? Well, there's actually a lot of lifting and restraining necessary in many nursing positions, so strength is heavily valued. My girlfriend is a psych nurse and they find male nurses extremely useful.
Honestly, it doesn't matter if the tunnel ideas themselves are profitable. Phase 1 (make a better Bore) will make enough money on its own even if phase 2 never pans out, and Phase 1 is a very low cost risk by comparison. The key phrase in the interview is "Tunnel technology is older than rockets, and boring speeds are pretty much what they were 50 years ago."
Musk appears to be an efficiency hound above all else. Find something that sucks but has room for efficiency gains, make it better, and make money on it. He's done it with electric cars, batteries, and rockets so far. Making a better bore isn't that far-fetched. Making things more efficient in the right manner almost always leads to being cost competitive.
I remember playing BF3 with my older brother on his XBox when I visited him, while I had BF3 on the PC. The game played completely different: In the metro station map, on PC, players could barely ever capture the first flag without precise coordination and vision occlusion like smokes because if they popped their head up they'd get wrecked. On XBox, everyone just sprinted for the flag and it was a close range melee fest with flag captures usually being quite easy regardless of how well the defensive positions were set up.
In short, on the PC the defenders had a heavy advantage where on XBox the attackers had a heavy advantage, and it showed in the win rate from those sides. This was entirely due to control scheme.
Peripheral vision is extremely low resolution already, it's good for motion tracking but not much else. Ensuring peripheral vision has clearer view is like adding another mag level to a microscope with a smudged lense.
They're making their money back in other ways. Minecraft has become one of the go-to games for kids. It turned the XBox into a more kid-friendly console, a market Nintendo historically had in their back pocket. Parents aren't as intimidated buying their children XBoxes when its bundled with Minecraft as the console draw rather than Halo. They also haven't had to release significant iterations of the game to maintain freshness on new releases like Mario. Little work with a trickle reward that'll pay off more the longer its present. I suspect children today look at Minecraft the same way we looked at Mario in the 90's.
Damn, that sucks. The trend around here has been a positive one in a different direction. They've been converting theaters to assigned seating and 100% recliners with sectional row divides, so no matter where you sit you have a nice comfy seat without having to worry when getting your ticket, with the same ticket price. It's made movie-going about 100% more bearable for me and my girlfriend and I've noticed the theater capacity utilization seems much higher than it used to be.
Tribalism rarely rears its ugly head in academia to the extent you see it in other disciplines and industries. The colleague and confidant of the academic is knowledge, other humans are a tool to converse with knowledge. Knowledge is their "tribe" more than the people they work with.
Not saying tribalism doesn't show up from time to time, but it's not like finance buddies protecting finance buddies.
California labor law is an absolute nightmare. There are about a half dozen extra things you have to track that don't have any significant effect on productivity or labor rights, but add large extra costs to payroll and HR. I deal with payrolls from multiple states and our procedures are completely different for California because of all the labor laws that don't line up with the rest of the country. The troll post is correct, although without any proper explanation.
Doctors and nurses are trained to investigate mental health on every visit in some fashion. It's one of the hardest things to diagnose and also one of the least likely for patients to discuss on their own without some sort of impetus. There's no grand conspiracy there, it's simply the only way they can investigate certain aspects of the patients proactively. That's not to say that over-medicating and symptom-centric practice isn't an issue, but its roots lay elsewhere. Source: my girlfriend is a psychiatric nurse.
Money put into an eligible retirement plan like a 401k is referred to as 'deferred compensation.' Because the compensation is deferred to a later date, there's no income tax when you put it in but you pay taxes when you take it out.
I enjoy hand-washing my clothes and putting them away. Especially the ones I carefully selected and thus like very much.
It's one of those many simple household tasks that have a deep zen-like vibe to it if you put yourself it in the right mood and attempt to keep a household leaning towards minimalism. Pure bliss. And no, I'm not joking.
Household chores, such as washing clothes, hanging them to dry, washing dishes, going daily to the store because of lack of refrigeration, and managing a fire for dinner took up significant chunks of the day. The low-hanging fruit is gone so they're working on the smaller tasks now (roomba and laundry folding robot). If they can make them cheap enough, they could become ubiquitous and hit a home run.
KHAAAAAAAAAN!