People don't like it because property taxes go up as often does rent. So they get kicked out of thier homes (often at a profit). The difference between welfare and this program is people pay INTO this program, not out. It removes risk because the owners don't run the place - it will work as long as the project isn't run by corrupt people. They could increase the tenants per acre by building upwards and smaller units, this could keep property values the same.
Fuel oil is far more expensive than natural gas nowadays. Fuel oil requires deliveries, a large tank, and is messy. A substantial number of people have just insulated better and used electric instead.
The normal thing to do is start paying medical bills, don't and they really mess with your credit and life. The husband didn't die instantly, rather it took almost a year of trouble after trouble. Much of the bills that could be paid were paid already when he did eventually die. Further I've got a tenant who developed serious seziues in his late 20s after being extremely healthy his whole life and was between jobs and thought he had coverage. Turns out he was wrong by a few days and how has had to declare bankruptcy for the 100k usd it cost him. Never had a problem and if I kicked them out no one in thier right mind would rent to them (he is married) and for sure no credit or loans. Basically they are going to be homeless soon if they can't turn it around because a medical bankruptcy here means living in slum like conditions for way more than is reasonable.
That's a valid reason for people who aren't into gambling with thier furnace. It's also why that rig looks overpriced to me, they probably created a business model around selling overpriced hardware and support.
Untrue. An example is winnipeg. They are a cold climate with abundant hydroelectric power, so much so electricity is refered to as "hydro". Due to the way they strictly plan city limits, and due to many older houses, many have no natural gas. They have been using electricity for heating since forever. Source - sold a house in Winnipeg with electric heat last December.
For the minority of people who use electricity to warm thier houses in cold climates it may make sense as it's just run through a fancy resistor. Than again any mining rig would do the same, so I'm not sure what the real benefit is other than maybe aesthetics.
Instead of trying to fight these trends by suppressing property values, we should look at putting the gains back in the hands of the local citizens without significant barrier to entry.
There is so much wrong with this issue. People complain that thier property values are soaring - and it's true higher taxes force poorer people out, but it's also true if they own even a part of thier home it will bring them a significant to huge profit. People complain that thier neighborhood is ailing and dilapidated but are upset when it becomes nice and gentrified. Rising property values with a corresponding improvement in infrastructure and city landscaping is something everyone should benefit from. The problem at the root of this is the extraction of wealth from the poor through real estate investment barriers - it puts wealthy investors in a different finnancial boat from renters and owners which is guarenteed failure at step 0.
An interesting way to fix this is to have government backed coop housing. The government can buy properties, either turn key or with improvements, and sell shares to renters and locals. For example a person renting in one of these buildings would pay comparable rent, but a fraction of each months payment would go into ownership. If you lived in the city limits for the last 3 years, and you met a lower income requirement, you could purchase ownership as well. You could make the investment open to even 10-20 dollars a month and perhaps provide tax break incentives. Corporations wouldn't be able to own shares and individual people would be capped at some reasonable amount to keep consolidation from being an issue. But in this way the government could simeltaneously - increase the rental housing capacity, help local people benefit financially from gentrification and keep current private investors of property happy.
Imagine if the government had opened a program like this around the obama library and helped South Chicagoans make hundreds of millions of dollars alongside property investors instead of just the 1%ers. The area around the museum site was the third fastest growing in the entire United States of America, it's been a shitshow of exactly the issues in the article above, and Obama did let me down in his remarks on it.
Again you have a false premise. I use the more conservative estimates from actual experts in the field. Most people think strong AI is 5 years away, maybe 10 tops so therefore it puts it back in the camp of them not putting 2 and 2 together.
I would agree, except look at how well most people understand the state of the art as it exists today... We have hordes of people thinking full self driving cars, as in rush hour in the city but also driving down a snowy country road, are here already and going to be mass produced in three years or less. Given the level of ignorance on AI, (stuff today being called AI is part of the problem for starters) puts people at that high confidence toward the left end of the graph.
If your job is exploration then you have already been replaced. Sorry astronauts and divers.:(
Neither of these jobs are fully automated yet, but they soon will be.
If your job is to assist someone else in a well defined procedural manner then your job has already or is in the process of being eliminated. This covers everything from prostitutes to builders to lawyers to robot maintenance engineer. Really, it's most jobs.
I'm pretty sure the oldest profession is one where at least some people will keep paying top dollar for the real thing, despite what the futurama video says
If your job is create procedures for someone/something else (generally computer based design jobs) to carry out then the number of people doing your job will be reduced due to AI assistance making fewer people more productive.
Untrue. If you consider actual strong AI (human level capable or above), which maybe takes 50 years or 200 but it is comming, all thinking jobs will be replaceable. Cheap androids to replace humans should be here just before strong AI which will completely undercut the price of all skilled and unskilled labor
If your job is to diagnose broken systems then your job is secure until systems stop breaking. If the systems in question are human psyches then you are likely the last to be replaced.
Wrong, it means you have a service tech bot, such as a general purpose humanoid android, make the repair or do the job. They already have bots working in the field to do this for the elderly in Japan. But as the population of the world swings top heavy from people having less children this will spread fast.
If your job is to upset other people, I got terrible news: people do that shit for free on the internet.;)
Chatbots that designed to piss people off are almost a mature technology, you see that shit everywhere, even on slashdot. It has been a centerpiece of the "Russian meddling" that's been talked about endlessly by pissed off people.
Yes and you forgot to add unexpected medical problems, which are also often the initial cause. For example one I talked to had her husband suffer a heart attack. They had insurance, though not very good insurance. It was an 80-20 plan with high deductibles. She spent whatever it took to try and save his life, but he wound up dying anyway leaving her with considerable debt. Without both incomes, and the massive unexpected debt, she wound up losing her house. She was homeless for over a year before being able to get back on track even though she was in her late 40s at the time. I'm pretty sure that lots of people in her situation would have developed a mental disability, or maybe given up entirely, but she was tough as nails and finally pulled through.
As an American, you are being ripped off by a system that claims to be a free market but really isn't and it's claimed to be the best system when the evidence says it clearly isn't. For example, Americans pay double the health care cost of any other nation per capita yet we have much worse outcomes. That's why America is 31st among all countries in the world for lifespan, 5 spots behind Slovenia. Cut out the waste, but still pay more than anyone else, and that's 1.5 trillion per year saved. Give healthcare to all Americans free, that would eat up about.5 trillion but still is 1 trillion less than we pay now. Feee college for all is 70 billion a year, that leaves us with 0.93 trillion left over. Spend 400 billion on improving the infrastructure in poor areas each year so places like Alabama don't have hookworm worse than the third world slums (look it up the world health organization is investigating it as a crime). Spend 5 billion on the food and at the end of the day, you would take home a massive half trillion in savings or around 1300 dollars less tax for every man woman and child in America. If the losses to the disbanded insurance companies and loss in profits to medical company ceos are too painful, they can take a giant handful of opiates and wash it down with burbon. Problem finally solved.
Your attitude is part of the problem. By not fixing the root issues, and touting this "solution" as the fix, it perpetuates the problem. In fact by saying all white males are guilty when it's only a small minority, it is just going to cause another civil war. Provide more aid to poor schools, offer better cheaper food at school, and give all Americans free college. Then you won't have to hire less qualified minorities and you won't be able to point to inferior skilled workers as proof racism is justified, and as a bonus educated people don't vote republican and are far less racist.
I also have a multiracial family. I lean progressive in voting but it's funny how some of the "far left" progressives and most all of the right want actual equality, while far to much of the left thinks it's OK to punish based on race and gender without a fair case by case basis.
Given that most neural net imaging these days will split off the color and brightness channels from the image to 'recognize' something, I can see where these blurry pictures get some weird tags.
I've lost count of the times I was made fun of saying that HSV was useful for image processing, doubly so before 2010. It was just one of those mantras CS people tended to repeat without really thinking it through. It may be 17 years late, but I think a strongly worded email to my undergrad TA is in order.
I'll go one step deeper here. Let's say I'm white, and fairly well off, but have never discriminated, been racist, or even slightly so (in terms of new age micro aggressions etc...). Saying I'm guilty of privilege, I'm wrong, I've ruined lives by being racist simply for my color or family heritage IS racist and part of the problem. Racism and sexism are problems that can affect everyone and saying it is ok against white males because they deserve it gets you what we have today - divisiveness, broadening inequality, and worse conditions for everyone except the top 1%. Privelage is often misspelled - you spell it "the common decency everyone deserves", everyone should have it and no one should feel guilty when they had it to begin with. Let's look at it this way - say 98.7% of the racist and sexist hiring and workplace problems are coming from white males and directed toward non-white males. The SJW reaction is to say "FK you all you white males - you deserve nothing except to be ashamed of yourself and have these better people put ahead of you in society". But let's look at that - in reality only maybe 5%(or some small subset) of the workplace, managers and a few problem employees, are doing the discrimination you are frying 95% of the population of white males for something they didn't do. Further the 1.3% caused by minorities and women discriminating against out groups affect potentially millions in the workforce! Those millions will be pissed as hell they aren't being addressed when it's so goddamn trivial to include them as well in the solution. But no - fuck you white males that are being hurt by minority discrimination practices because thier minority boss hates thier kind or fuck you false sex charges male white victim. It's because they don't want a fix or equality, they want to punish and finally gain the upper hand where they can start reigning down thier own brand of injustice.
There is no simple fix that patches things up. You need to remove access barriers that cause the inequality initially. For example, improve public schools, doubly so in poor neighborhoods. Offer free or very cheap pre and post school activities, offer cheaper and better access to food at school, give more aid to low income families raising children, provide free college for all Americans. Getting these kids on the right track up front, and providing free education to young adults or adults to get better qualifications than they could otherwise afford is what will fix it. The savings to our society will make up for the cost several times over, being poor without much hope for the future is extremely expensive and guess who pays for that?
If someone once wronged someone else, and you let it escalate tit for tat, it blows out of control in short order. Fix the problem, don't sweep it under the rug.
Ding ding! Found the winner. You address the inequality by providing better education, pre and after school free activities, better availability of food and help for lower income families. These problems will sort themselves out far faster.
If it were race blind, and all candidates equal, then the diversity of the applicants would match the workplace. Using prejudice to fix prejudice will never work. Look at what happens when a minority is now hired, everyone will think they just got there by the color of thier skin as many really are inferior due to lowered standards or rejecting the more qualified but wrong race/gender thus reinforcing the notion that this is the extra help these people need to be on par with the superior race/gender. It undermines the credibility of the hard working who earned it on merit. It's a tool that does more harm than good, doubly so long term.
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^individual property values and thus rent also.
People don't like it because property taxes go up as often does rent. So they get kicked out of thier homes (often at a profit). The difference between welfare and this program is people pay INTO this program, not out. It removes risk because the owners don't run the place - it will work as long as the project isn't run by corrupt people. They could increase the tenants per acre by building upwards and smaller units, this could keep property values the same.
Forgot ^ where natural gas isn't available.
Fuel oil is far more expensive than natural gas nowadays. Fuel oil requires deliveries, a large tank, and is messy. A substantial number of people have just insulated better and used electric instead.
Oh, his deductible each year is now ten thousand dollars, he can't get a license to drive, and no one will hire him because of the liability.
The normal thing to do is start paying medical bills, don't and they really mess with your credit and life. The husband didn't die instantly, rather it took almost a year of trouble after trouble. Much of the bills that could be paid were paid already when he did eventually die. Further I've got a tenant who developed serious seziues in his late 20s after being extremely healthy his whole life and was between jobs and thought he had coverage. Turns out he was wrong by a few days and how has had to declare bankruptcy for the 100k usd it cost him. Never had a problem and if I kicked them out no one in thier right mind would rent to them (he is married) and for sure no credit or loans. Basically they are going to be homeless soon if they can't turn it around because a medical bankruptcy here means living in slum like conditions for way more than is reasonable.
That's a valid reason for people who aren't into gambling with thier furnace. It's also why that rig looks overpriced to me, they probably created a business model around selling overpriced hardware and support.
Untrue. An example is winnipeg. They are a cold climate with abundant hydroelectric power, so much so electricity is refered to as "hydro". Due to the way they strictly plan city limits, and due to many older houses, many have no natural gas. They have been using electricity for heating since forever. Source - sold a house in Winnipeg with electric heat last December.
For the minority of people who use electricity to warm thier houses in cold climates it may make sense as it's just run through a fancy resistor. Than again any mining rig would do the same, so I'm not sure what the real benefit is other than maybe aesthetics.
Instead of trying to fight these trends by suppressing property values, we should look at putting the gains back in the hands of the local citizens without significant barrier to entry.
There is so much wrong with this issue. People complain that thier property values are soaring - and it's true higher taxes force poorer people out, but it's also true if they own even a part of thier home it will bring them a significant to huge profit. People complain that thier neighborhood is ailing and dilapidated but are upset when it becomes nice and gentrified. Rising property values with a corresponding improvement in infrastructure and city landscaping is something everyone should benefit from. The problem at the root of this is the extraction of wealth from the poor through real estate investment barriers - it puts wealthy investors in a different finnancial boat from renters and owners which is guarenteed failure at step 0.
An interesting way to fix this is to have government backed coop housing. The government can buy properties, either turn key or with improvements, and sell shares to renters and locals. For example a person renting in one of these buildings would pay comparable rent, but a fraction of each months payment would go into ownership. If you lived in the city limits for the last 3 years, and you met a lower income requirement, you could purchase ownership as well. You could make the investment open to even 10-20 dollars a month and perhaps provide tax break incentives. Corporations wouldn't be able to own shares and individual people would be capped at some reasonable amount to keep consolidation from being an issue. But in this way the government could simeltaneously - increase the rental housing capacity, help local people benefit financially from gentrification and keep current private investors of property happy.
Imagine if the government had opened a program like this around the obama library and helped South Chicagoans make hundreds of millions of dollars alongside property investors instead of just the 1%ers. The area around the museum site was the third fastest growing in the entire United States of America, it's been a shitshow of exactly the issues in the article above, and Obama did let me down in his remarks on it.
Again you have a false premise. I use the more conservative estimates from actual experts in the field. Most people think strong AI is 5 years away, maybe 10 tops so therefore it puts it back in the camp of them not putting 2 and 2 together.
I would agree, except look at how well most people understand the state of the art as it exists today... We have hordes of people thinking full self driving cars, as in rush hour in the city but also driving down a snowy country road, are here already and going to be mass produced in three years or less. Given the level of ignorance on AI, (stuff today being called AI is part of the problem for starters) puts people at that high confidence toward the left end of the graph.
If your job is exploration then you have already been replaced. Sorry astronauts and divers. :(
Neither of these jobs are fully automated yet, but they soon will be.
If your job is to assist someone else in a well defined procedural manner then your job has already or is in the process of being eliminated. This covers everything from prostitutes to builders to lawyers to robot maintenance engineer. Really, it's most jobs.
I'm pretty sure the oldest profession is one where at least some people will keep paying top dollar for the real thing, despite what the futurama video says
If your job is create procedures for someone/something else (generally computer based design jobs) to carry out then the number of people doing your job will be reduced due to AI assistance making fewer people more productive.
Untrue. If you consider actual strong AI (human level capable or above), which maybe takes 50 years or 200 but it is comming, all thinking jobs will be replaceable. Cheap androids to replace humans should be here just before strong AI which will completely undercut the price of all skilled and unskilled labor
If your job is to diagnose broken systems then your job is secure until systems stop breaking. If the systems in question are human psyches then you are likely the last to be replaced.
Wrong, it means you have a service tech bot, such as a general purpose humanoid android, make the repair or do the job. They already have bots working in the field to do this for the elderly in Japan. But as the population of the world swings top heavy from people having less children this will spread fast.
If your job is to upset other people, I got terrible news: people do that shit for free on the internet. ;)
Chatbots that designed to piss people off are almost a mature technology, you see that shit everywhere, even on slashdot. It has been a centerpiece of the "Russian meddling" that's been talked about endlessly by pissed off people.
Yes and you forgot to add unexpected medical problems, which are also often the initial cause. For example one I talked to had her husband suffer a heart attack. They had insurance, though not very good insurance. It was an 80-20 plan with high deductibles. She spent whatever it took to try and save his life, but he wound up dying anyway leaving her with considerable debt. Without both incomes, and the massive unexpected debt, she wound up losing her house. She was homeless for over a year before being able to get back on track even though she was in her late 40s at the time. I'm pretty sure that lots of people in her situation would have developed a mental disability, or maybe given up entirely, but she was tough as nails and finally pulled through.
Common, it's a simple and obvious move to go from a leader in search to search and destroy.
As an American, you are being ripped off by a system that claims to be a free market but really isn't and it's claimed to be the best system when the evidence says it clearly isn't. For example, Americans pay double the health care cost of any other nation per capita yet we have much worse outcomes. That's why America is 31st among all countries in the world for lifespan, 5 spots behind Slovenia. Cut out the waste, but still pay more than anyone else, and that's 1.5 trillion per year saved. Give healthcare to all Americans free, that would eat up about .5 trillion but still is 1 trillion less than we pay now. Feee college for all is 70 billion a year, that leaves us with 0.93 trillion left over. Spend 400 billion on improving the infrastructure in poor areas each year so places like Alabama don't have hookworm worse than the third world slums (look it up the world health organization is investigating it as a crime). Spend 5 billion on the food and at the end of the day, you would take home a massive half trillion in savings or around 1300 dollars less tax for every man woman and child in America. If the losses to the disbanded insurance companies and loss in profits to medical company ceos are too painful, they can take a giant handful of opiates and wash it down with burbon. Problem finally solved.
Which is confusing to many Americans as hydro is something else entirely that is now legal in 8 states and D.C.
Your attitude is part of the problem. By not fixing the root issues, and touting this "solution" as the fix, it perpetuates the problem. In fact by saying all white males are guilty when it's only a small minority, it is just going to cause another civil war. Provide more aid to poor schools, offer better cheaper food at school, and give all Americans free college. Then you won't have to hire less qualified minorities and you won't be able to point to inferior skilled workers as proof racism is justified, and as a bonus educated people don't vote republican and are far less racist.
I also have a multiracial family. I lean progressive in voting but it's funny how some of the "far left" progressives and most all of the right want actual equality, while far to much of the left thinks it's OK to punish based on race and gender without a fair case by case basis.
Given that most neural net imaging these days will split off the color and brightness channels from the image to 'recognize' something, I can see where these blurry pictures get some weird tags.
I've lost count of the times I was made fun of saying that HSV was useful for image processing, doubly so before 2010. It was just one of those mantras CS people tended to repeat without really thinking it through. It may be 17 years late, but I think a strongly worded email to my undergrad TA is in order.
Just now? I've been praising those neurotic aholes for at least 20 years.
I'll go one step deeper here. Let's say I'm white, and fairly well off, but have never discriminated, been racist, or even slightly so (in terms of new age micro aggressions etc...). Saying I'm guilty of privilege, I'm wrong, I've ruined lives by being racist simply for my color or family heritage IS racist and part of the problem. Racism and sexism are problems that can affect everyone and saying it is ok against white males because they deserve it gets you what we have today - divisiveness, broadening inequality, and worse conditions for everyone except the top 1%. Privelage is often misspelled - you spell it "the common decency everyone deserves", everyone should have it and no one should feel guilty when they had it to begin with. Let's look at it this way - say 98.7% of the racist and sexist hiring and workplace problems are coming from white males and directed toward non-white males. The SJW reaction is to say "FK you all you white males - you deserve nothing except to be ashamed of yourself and have these better people put ahead of you in society". But let's look at that - in reality only maybe 5%(or some small subset) of the workplace, managers and a few problem employees, are doing the discrimination you are frying 95% of the population of white males for something they didn't do. Further the 1.3% caused by minorities and women discriminating against out groups affect potentially millions in the workforce! Those millions will be pissed as hell they aren't being addressed when it's so goddamn trivial to include them as well in the solution. But no - fuck you white males that are being hurt by minority discrimination practices because thier minority boss hates thier kind or fuck you false sex charges male white victim. It's because they don't want a fix or equality, they want to punish and finally gain the upper hand where they can start reigning down thier own brand of injustice.
There is no simple fix that patches things up. You need to remove access barriers that cause the inequality initially. For example, improve public schools, doubly so in poor neighborhoods. Offer free or very cheap pre and post school activities, offer cheaper and better access to food at school, give more aid to low income families raising children, provide free college for all Americans. Getting these kids on the right track up front, and providing free education to young adults or adults to get better qualifications than they could otherwise afford is what will fix it. The savings to our society will make up for the cost several times over, being poor without much hope for the future is extremely expensive and guess who pays for that?
If someone once wronged someone else, and you let it escalate tit for tat, it blows out of control in short order. Fix the problem, don't sweep it under the rug.
Ding ding! Found the winner. You address the inequality by providing better education, pre and after school free activities, better availability of food and help for lower income families. These problems will sort themselves out far faster.
If it were race blind, and all candidates equal, then the diversity of the applicants would match the workplace. Using prejudice to fix prejudice will never work. Look at what happens when a minority is now hired, everyone will think they just got there by the color of thier skin as many really are inferior due to lowered standards or rejecting the more qualified but wrong race/gender thus reinforcing the notion that this is the extra help these people need to be on par with the superior race/gender. It undermines the credibility of the hard working who earned it on merit. It's a tool that does more harm than good, doubly so long term.