Someone who is in the industry probably has more insight than myself, but if money into PC desktops goes down, will r&d also go down and slow future progression in technology such as VR? Seems to me the office environment could benefit from AR or VR.
The asphalt business is VERY keen on ensuring that roads fail regularly and that potholes develop. Lines a lot of pockets very well. I've been told very specifically that you don't ever want to mess with the people in the asphalt business.
You know who owns the asphalt business? You know who makes sure that roads in America need to be repaved regularly and funnels huge tax dollars to the scam?
Yep. Ain't gonna happen. Tesla execs will get a nice visit from a very nice man explaining why what they're doing isn't a good idea.
Beside that, honestly? Have you met union workers? there's no way they're qualified to install technology like this, and trying to get people into the union who can do this reliably? And getting cities to repave their roads (it takes YEARS right now)? hooboy. I wish Tesla, google, etc the best of luck, but I have a hard time believing headway can be made on this.
The yerkes Dodson law as well as how people perform might be a big part of what drives this kind of thing. People perform best when there is uncertainty in when they will receive a reward, plus Thai need a certain arousal state to do something well.
If your performance and profit is all that we are going to measure keeping one's job by, then this thing will continue to happen for ever. We need to recognize that profits should not be everything
I say go for it, Disney! Raise the prices! Even the projected "empty" days at the park are now packed so badly that wait times for Space Mountain are 75+ minutes! I live in LA, I go to Disneyland for a few hours once a month or so, and I find it relaxing and happy: Go on a few rides, do some people-watching, eat a snack; it's really nice.
The people who whine about long lines? They went on a weekend. Or in the summer. Unless you go for 3-4 hours on Sunday when the park opens, NEVER go on weekends, and NEVER go during the summer.
Frankly, though? GO on hating it! It keeps the crowds down and I'm happy for that.
It does amaze me that so many put up with it, though.
I work in a place where my boss wants so much out of the people that work for her that she goes to the ends of the earth to micromanage and spy on her employees. She is a very smart woman however her success has brought a certain entitlement madness in thinking she can control everything in order to be better and better all the time.
I get the feeling that as a society here in the West we are so focused on better and better profits that we use more and more information and more and more surveillance in order to get these Results (some do, anyway). Basically, I wonder if the average worker isn't watched and monitored so much they are you in turn just automatically doing that to everyone around them and that includes their children. I have definitely met parents that, while smart and with good intentions, do seem to offer an incredible amount over their children. They often seem to be professionals, people who are told by society that they know best about a particular subject and because they have the Internet can look up anything and justify their actions in the name of science.
Is it going to be like the Victorian era except in the digital age?? People will be so rigid in what they have to do that eventually the pendulum will swing the other way?
Keep in mind, the Big Boys are using weather when it comes to the stock market now, too. IBM's gonna make a killing selling this data to brokers and HFT.
Except I'm not wealthy, but everyone's digging so hard for $$ that even I have to watch my back... it is a sickness of society; don't get me started on poor women dating for free dinners:(
Our way of life, particularly in SV, simply does violence to human biology. Sitting around, thinking too much, worrying, business, meetings. Little or no mindfulness.
I recently got a smartphone, 3 weeks ago. I can already feel how different my attention is changing, feel an alienating disconnect and craving for attention and stimulation constantly.
Our culture is violent. So is our means of making a living (and I don't mean physical violence).
Could they have flipped the bird any harder at all the people who backed it? I read somewhere someone railing against Palmer Lucky (at the time it seemed overblown) and how he's an all-business sociopathic waste of space who would sell his grandmother for a dollar given half the chance, and would probably end up screwing over the Oculus backers out there.
I am a little amazed, but not completely.
it makes some business sense, yeah, but wow. Just, wow.
Look, I *know* someone at the EPA so I should be able to stand up and clap for them but....
Their wording says it all: They have not found widespread evidence that water is affected *now*. Right now. Not later, or in the years ahead, but right now.
I have a very bad feeling that in ten years, when they do the studies again, the shit will hit the fan, but then it'll be too late. What are they gonna do, purify underground aquifers? Yeah, that won't cost a gajillion dollars or anything.
Antibodies only stay in the body to combat viruses for a certain period of time after that virus was killed, not one's whole life. That is my understanding from a Duke-trained med student. Are there certain viruses that show antibodies for one's entire life and ones that don't? or is the headline misleading? I am very curious.
It was also a process which mostly eliminated artisan work. Now the work just has to be "good enough". Have you *seen* the things that get made these days? Some might say they're not exactly beautiful.
Same with, say, math. Math skills will be "good enough" and no more. It could spell the end of advancing fields of study.
Mechanization may make things take less time, but they also no longer are studied and refined, only copied. The same could prove true with the mechanization of knowledge. A piece of information can only copy itself, but (in general) cannot add anything useful.
otoh, maybe this will finally spell the demise of "everyone goes to college" and people who are going to pursue an actual course of study will be able to do so. Those with aptitude can grow their aptness, and those without or with no interest can go elsewhere.
In a sense, while some may cry "doom!", I wonder if this isn't actually the beginning of a solution to a number of problems?
Seriously, they don't fucking give a shitfuck little wankjob for your sight-see fuck you fuck ass IS IT DONE YET wait I didn't ask for you to WHAT WERE THE QUARTERLY NUMBERS!? I'm gonna die it's so fucking hot in here and the delivery was supposed to be here an hour ago WHO THE FUCK IS THIS ASSHOLE IN THE CAR IN FRONT OF ME oh the speed limit is 65 mph STOP FUCKING WITH THE AIR CONDITIONING what is wrong with these black homeless people and......
seriously. these people have the attention span of a goldfish, have a lot of money, and their emotions fly off the handle at the drop of a hat. And someone is funneling coffee and aderall into these maniacs. They have no patience, they despise minorities and poor people, and are epic douchebags who are reeeeeeeally nice (saccharin-sickly nice) in public. They're terrifying models of the worst that humanity has to offer, and they want status. status. status. If they have to pay $300 a ticket to ride in comfort so they aren't reminded that they grew up in a wooden shit-shack in a polluted, crime-ridden rat hole somewhere, they will. God help the person who tries to get in their way.
it takes a huge amount of water to grow one avocado. Same with broccoli, walnuts, and almonds. I mean, it's like one gallon of water of one almond. It's really that bad.
Honestly? Thank heaven. I love my hyundai. it's quiet, safe, and I can drive for 20+ hours at a stretch without falling asleep (less road noise/vibration, methinks).
People who want to rumble around in loud, turbulent metal machines, well, fair enough. I'd rather get from point A to B (and whatever's in between) relaxed and as rested as possible.
This last bit sounds interesting to me... I've tried "lifting heavy" in many ways over the last 20 years. It's gotten me a messed up back, messed up shoulder, knee, and feet.
The onyl things that have helped me be in truly good shape are moderate amounts of yoga and rock climbing no more than 3x a week. Everything else has messed up my body royally.
Also, I can't seem to gain muscle mass, no matter what I try.
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Someone who is in the industry probably has more insight than myself, but if money into PC desktops goes down, will r&d also go down and slow future progression in technology such as VR? Seems to me the office environment could benefit from AR or VR.
Unions. Mafia.
The asphalt business is VERY keen on ensuring that roads fail regularly and that potholes develop. Lines a lot of pockets very well.
I've been told very specifically that you don't ever want to mess with the people in the asphalt business.
You know why? The mafia and unions.
You know who owns the asphalt business? You know who makes sure that roads in America need to be repaved regularly and funnels huge tax dollars to the scam?
Yep. Ain't gonna happen. Tesla execs will get a nice visit from a very nice man explaining why what they're doing isn't a good idea.
Beside that, honestly? Have you met union workers? there's no way they're qualified to install technology like this, and trying to get people into the union who can do this reliably? And getting cities to repave their roads (it takes YEARS right now)? hooboy. I wish Tesla, google, etc the best of luck, but I have a hard time believing headway can be made on this.
The yerkes Dodson law as well as how people perform might be a big part of what drives this kind of thing. People perform best when there is uncertainty in when they will receive a reward, plus Thai need a certain arousal state to do something well.
If your performance and profit is all that we are going to measure keeping one's job by, then this thing will continue to happen for ever. We need to recognize that profits should not be everything
I say go for it, Disney! Raise the prices! Even the projected "empty" days at the park are now packed so badly that wait times for Space Mountain are 75+ minutes!
I live in LA, I go to Disneyland for a few hours once a month or so, and I find it relaxing and happy: Go on a few rides, do some people-watching, eat a snack; it's really nice.
The people who whine about long lines? They went on a weekend. Or in the summer. Unless you go for 3-4 hours on Sunday when the park opens, NEVER go on weekends, and NEVER go during the summer.
Frankly, though? GO on hating it! It keeps the crowds down and I'm happy for that.
It does amaze me that so many put up with it, though.
I work in a place where my boss wants so much out of the people that work for her that she goes to the ends of the earth to micromanage and spy on her employees. She is a very smart woman however her success has brought a certain entitlement madness in thinking she can control everything in order to be better and better all the time.
I get the feeling that as a society here in the West we are so focused on better and better profits that we use more and more information and more and more surveillance in order to get these Results (some do, anyway). Basically, I wonder if the average worker isn't watched and monitored so much they are you in turn just automatically doing that to everyone around them and that includes their children. I have definitely met parents that, while smart and with good intentions, do seem to offer an incredible amount over their children. They often seem to be professionals, people who are told by society that they know best about a particular subject and because they have the Internet can look up anything and justify their actions in the name of science.
Is it going to be like the Victorian era except in the digital age?? People will be so rigid in what they have to do that eventually the pendulum will swing the other way?
See the Despecialized Edition. Download it, love it.
You're welcome.
Keep in mind, the Big Boys are using weather when it comes to the stock market now, too.
IBM's gonna make a killing selling this data to brokers and HFT.
Except I'm not wealthy, but everyone's digging so hard for $$ that even I have to watch my back... it is a sickness of society; don't get me started on poor women dating for free dinners :(
My 2009 Hyundai has no problem keeping out that smell... it also filters it out if I forget to put it on recirculate.
Surprised me, too.
Our way of life, particularly in SV, simply does violence to human biology. Sitting around, thinking too much, worrying, business, meetings. Little or no mindfulness.
I recently got a smartphone, 3 weeks ago. I can already feel how different my attention is changing, feel an alienating disconnect and craving for attention and stimulation constantly.
Our culture is violent. So is our means of making a living (and I don't mean physical violence).
"Burma shave"
Could they have flipped the bird any harder at all the people who backed it?
I read somewhere someone railing against Palmer Lucky (at the time it seemed overblown) and how he's an all-business sociopathic waste of space who would sell his grandmother for a dollar given half the chance, and would probably end up screwing over the Oculus backers out there.
I am a little amazed, but not completely.
it makes some business sense, yeah, but wow. Just, wow.
He apparently also had one of the most extensive collections of books on the occult.
Look, I *know* someone at the EPA so I should be able to stand up and clap for them but....
Their wording says it all: They have not found widespread evidence that water is affected *now*. Right now. Not later, or in the years ahead, but right now.
I have a very bad feeling that in ten years, when they do the studies again, the shit will hit the fan, but then it'll be too late. What are they gonna do, purify underground aquifers? Yeah, that won't cost a gajillion dollars or anything.
I apologize for being blunt, but:
If the doc is giving you antibiotics for every little thing, he's an idiot (or probably just giving you placebo).
Antibodies only stay in the body to combat viruses for a certain period of time after that virus was killed, not one's whole life. That is my understanding from a Duke-trained med student.
Are there certain viruses that show antibodies for one's entire life and ones that don't? or is the headline misleading? I am very curious.
It was also a process which mostly eliminated artisan work. Now the work just has to be "good enough".
Have you *seen* the things that get made these days? Some might say they're not exactly beautiful.
Same with, say, math. Math skills will be "good enough" and no more. It could spell the end of advancing fields of study.
Mechanization may make things take less time, but they also no longer are studied and refined, only copied. The same could prove true with the mechanization of knowledge. A piece of information can only copy itself, but (in general) cannot add anything useful.
otoh, maybe this will finally spell the demise of "everyone goes to college" and people who are going to pursue an actual course of study will be able to do so. Those with aptitude can grow their aptness, and those without or with no interest can go elsewhere.
In a sense, while some may cry "doom!", I wonder if this isn't actually the beginning of a solution to a number of problems?
Why they aren't building this to Las Vegas I have no idea. They'd make more money than god, the thing would be full 24/7.
Have you MET any business-people from SF or LA?
Seriously, they don't fucking give a shitfuck little wankjob for your sight-see fuck you fuck ass IS IT DONE YET wait I didn't ask for you to WHAT WERE THE QUARTERLY NUMBERS!? I'm gonna die it's so fucking hot in here and the delivery was supposed to be here an hour ago WHO THE FUCK IS THIS ASSHOLE IN THE CAR IN FRONT OF ME oh the speed limit is 65 mph STOP FUCKING WITH THE AIR CONDITIONING what is wrong with these black homeless people and ......
seriously. these people have the attention span of a goldfish, have a lot of money, and their emotions fly off the handle at the drop of a hat. And someone is funneling coffee and aderall into these maniacs.
They have no patience, they despise minorities and poor people, and are epic douchebags who are reeeeeeeally nice (saccharin-sickly nice) in public. They're terrifying models of the worst that humanity has to offer, and they want status. status. status. If they have to pay $300 a ticket to ride in comfort so they aren't reminded that they grew up in a wooden shit-shack in a polluted, crime-ridden rat hole somewhere, they will. God help the person who tries to get in their way.
I once saw a bumper sticker that said,"Nuke the Middle East and bring the boy home!"
That was in ~1994
it takes a huge amount of water to grow one avocado. Same with broccoli, walnuts, and almonds. I mean, it's like one gallon of water of one almond. It's really that bad.
Honestly? Thank heaven. I love my hyundai. it's quiet, safe, and I can drive for 20+ hours at a stretch without falling asleep (less road noise/vibration, methinks).
People who want to rumble around in loud, turbulent metal machines, well, fair enough. I'd rather get from point A to B (and whatever's in between) relaxed and as rested as possible.
Nimoy had a tweet in January that talked about how he wished he never started smoking, and discussion ensued.
Also, come on, now. Do we need swearing and internet-rawr at what is his funeral on this part of the internet?
This last bit sounds interesting to me...
I've tried "lifting heavy" in many ways over the last 20 years. It's gotten me a messed up back, messed up shoulder, knee, and feet.
The onyl things that have helped me be in truly good shape are moderate amounts of yoga and rock climbing no more than 3x a week. Everything else has messed up my body royally.
Also, I can't seem to gain muscle mass, no matter what I try.
Maybe I'm just designed to die young :)