There will still always be a need for manual labor. What you're describing (between pointless insults?) is the dwindling need for unskilled manual labor. That guy with a nailgun or power saw is still doing manual labor, as are plumbers, electricians, and so on.
Think of it as the Turning test. We can distinguish between degrees of intelligence less than our own, but not between degrees of intelligence greater then our own. Most people can't tell the difference between someone with a 115 and 135 IQ, but most people with an IQ over 140 can.
Doesn't change the fact it was Democrats - the party that still had "former" KKK members in office last. The party that still supports a variety of programs created after the Civil War to deal with the "problem" of free black men, from gun control to Planned Parenthood.
What will happen is regular people will live 6 to a home and pick vegatables, mow lawns, clean toilets, and wash dishes.
Nope. Those are the exact jobs that will be automated away. But people will be personal shoppers, home theater installers, handymen, wedging planners, stylists, anything else where interpersonal interaction is part of the job, but only moderate skill is required.
Service jobs will never go away, they'll just evolve into more customized or creative services. Wedding and party planners are a good example of that, but so are home theater installers. The cheaper basic goods are, the more people will spend on getting help on life tasks.
Yours doesn't have a kill switch? Every icemaker I've had has a little level to flip up (which theoretically keeps it from overflowing, but works fine as a manual switch).
The lesson you should have learned is: it should not be possible to lock yourself out unless you lose your key after you use it to lock the door. There's just no reason for a home door that locks (form the outside) without you using your key to do it.
There's very little fanservice in the top-tier stuff these days, really this century (it was different in the 90s). I'm sure someone will come up with an exception, but for the most part the worthwhile stuff won't offend the puritans too much. But yeah, the list is very slim and mostly old.
The problem with anime (aka, Japanese television) is it's like US television. 90% is unwatchably bad, but 90% of what's left is still not good. There are some real jewels from time to time, but you really have to dig for them.
This sort of service is nice for those who are OK with typical TV quality, just want something on in the background or whatever, and prefer it to be animated slice-of-life over reality TV (very similar products in some ways).
Personally I stick with just the top tier, which is rare enough that buying the DVD (or Amazon download or whatever) is practical.
PTSD has become an over-broad term. I don't like that: it should be limited to having an involuntary physiological and psychological response to some stimuli, that interferes with normal life. We need a different term for "I'm reminded of something disturbing I saw once", to distinguish that from "I'm suddenly flooded with adrenaline, reaching for a weapon, trying to find and kill the threat in the milliseconds before it kills me". That kind of conditioned physiological response isn't limited to combat, but it's different in kind from anything that follows from seeing some disturbing images.
It's China. If you're worried about some large organization knowing everything you do on and off line, you're already screwed. But it gets worse. Way worse than Facebook knowing you even though you don't have an account.
People use WeChat for everything. An ontopic example is buying train tickets: today clicking the icon actually launches the web browser, but soon it will be an app inside the WeChat app. The "apps guy" would be proud.
The primary point by which cloud services are evaluated by government agencies is "does the security meet auditing requirements". That, followed by cost, are important; the rest is negotiable. Amazon is good at that.
Also, since renewable energy is cheaper than fossil fuel energy, they should really be covering every square metre of rooftop they own with solar and throwing up some wind turbines anyway.
So you claim. Amazon's obsessed with reducing operational expenses (and goes crazy with capital expenses), so I'm sure they're doing whatever is actually cheaper.
Every generation cares about hippie nonsense when they're young. Then they get a job, get a house, start a family, and discover what's actually important in life. This is an ongoing process called "maturity".
a small majority, or even a minority, is more then sufficient to effect change. If you believe change requires a majority, then you are no student of history.
I hope not, because this change would be bad. I want inexpensive products - that's my standard of living. "Renewable" is for hippies.
Economics is rather central to construction. There's no viable alternative to steel rebar in concrete, especially where pre-stressed.
Steel remains the best material for car frames, because of the way it deforms and then fails under stress - elastically at low energy, consuming a lot of the energy of a collision at high energy. There are some alternatives for non-structural parts, like body panels, but steel isn't just cheap (plastic can be cheaper, after all), it wears well when kept painted.
Machine tools are all about cost of operation Tool steel usually wins, but of course there are applications where it just doesn't work. Steel is also ideal for a simple hammer - it's the right density, hardness, and so on.
People fetishize fancy materials that, frankly, aren't good for much beyond having higher numbers on paper.
There are very few application where carbon fiber is better than steel, because it lacks most of the properties of steel. It's not elastic, it's not machinable, it's brittle, it doesn't wear well. There seems to be no replacement for steel used structurally (including this stuff), for tool steel, for anything that needs to flex a bit in normal use, etc.
Nukes are a "doomsday weapon". You don't win a war with them, unless you want to rule an irradiated wasteland.
Not true - only ground detonations do that kind of lasting harm, and those were for cracking missile silos. Missile silos have largely vanished, since they're vulnerable in this way. The standard strategic nuke for attacking cities would be a ~800 kTon airburst, which has the same effect as a large-scale firebombing operation. The lingering effects would be a lot of people dying of cancer decades later--which is horrible to be sure--but not a wasteland. But we discovered in WWII that attacking civilian targets doesn't help much to win the war, and you'd really only do it to be a dick, not to win.
Smaller nukes on the battlefield are an entirely different story. If we ever have another hot, symmetric war (another "World War"), nukes are almost certain to be used at sea. It's a quick way to put a carrier battle group out of action, at least for several days, and you don't need precise targeting. The US Navy has an anti-ballistic missile system that's part of the Aegis system, as they take this threat seriously, but it's not proven in battle the way that normal missile intercepts are.
Airburst nukes as an EMP weapon, to sweep the skies clear of drones (none of which are hardened for that today), also seems likely if a power with nukes is losing to a power with great drones. Plenty of leaders would be willing to set off a nuke over their own country to prevent losing a war.
That's the thing about all these drone plans - they're very much for asymmetric combat right now. Optimizing for fighting the last war. And maybe that's OK if we're looking less than 20 years ahead, but we still need to be capable of old-school high intensity warfare too, and that means new capital purchases for that possibility. The Navy especially has been an epic failure in modernizing (at least the F-35 is sort-of a fighter and is being deployed in useful numbers): * The next-gen cruiser program was abandoned. * The LDS program should have been abandoned. * We have nothing for frigates at all. * The next-gen destroyer didn't meet its goals, but like the F-35 is at least seems serviceable, however we've only built 2 Zumwalt class destroyers. * The modern sub, the Seawolf class, was actually a good program (the only good program?), but we're only building 4. * The Ford class modern carrier costs twice as much as what we had, and isn't quite working yet (and even at spec, it's only 25% more effective for twice the cost)
Yay drones and all, but you really want modern warships and bombers built before the war starts, and you plan for multiple decades of service life on those.
Who are you arguing with, anyhow? foxalopex was obviously talking about streaming. I do the old-school thing, because the streaming content is so limited, but from most people's point of view these days, having to wait for a DVD in the mail is "hard to find content".
4K is really quite limited - buying a TV this year is definitely being an early adopter hopeful that the content will one day come. Netflix has the infrastructure to stream it, no doubt, but that's not content.
The rendering part is what's power-expensive. I'm not sure caching helps much with that in normal browsing, but in simply re-loading the same page over-and-over it might. I understand turning cache off across the board to compare laptops when viewing a small set of static web pages as a test - it allows the test to work fairly. I doubt it makes any difference to actual power consumption in normal browsing.
Caching was off in all laptops they reviewed - a very fair comparison. The bug was that something else weird happens when caching is off. The bug was specific to the new MacBook.
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There will still always be a need for manual labor. What you're describing (between pointless insults?) is the dwindling need for unskilled manual labor. That guy with a nailgun or power saw is still doing manual labor, as are plumbers, electricians, and so on.
Think of it as the Turning test. We can distinguish between degrees of intelligence less than our own, but not between degrees of intelligence greater then our own. Most people can't tell the difference between someone with a 115 and 135 IQ, but most people with an IQ over 140 can.
Not sure what that says about the researchers.
Doesn't change the fact it was Democrats - the party that still had "former" KKK members in office last. The party that still supports a variety of programs created after the Civil War to deal with the "problem" of free black men, from gun control to Planned Parenthood.
What will happen is regular people will live 6 to a home and pick vegatables, mow lawns, clean toilets, and wash dishes.
Nope. Those are the exact jobs that will be automated away. But people will be personal shoppers, home theater installers, handymen, wedging planners, stylists, anything else where interpersonal interaction is part of the job, but only moderate skill is required.
Service jobs will never go away, they'll just evolve into more customized or creative services. Wedding and party planners are a good example of that, but so are home theater installers. The cheaper basic goods are, the more people will spend on getting help on life tasks.
Yours doesn't have a kill switch? Every icemaker I've had has a little level to flip up (which theoretically keeps it from overflowing, but works fine as a manual switch).
Locking yourself out is convenient? I know a poorly designed protocol when I see one.
The lesson you should have learned is: it should not be possible to lock yourself out unless you lose your key after you use it to lock the door. There's just no reason for a home door that locks (form the outside) without you using your key to do it.
Man, creationist argument refuted by creation science. That's got to sting.
There's very little fanservice in the top-tier stuff these days, really this century (it was different in the 90s). I'm sure someone will come up with an exception, but for the most part the worthwhile stuff won't offend the puritans too much. But yeah, the list is very slim and mostly old.
The problem with anime (aka, Japanese television) is it's like US television. 90% is unwatchably bad, but 90% of what's left is still not good. There are some real jewels from time to time, but you really have to dig for them.
This sort of service is nice for those who are OK with typical TV quality, just want something on in the background or whatever, and prefer it to be animated slice-of-life over reality TV (very similar products in some ways).
Personally I stick with just the top tier, which is rare enough that buying the DVD (or Amazon download or whatever) is practical.
I see progressives are making is past denial, and into anger. Good, that's progress.
PTSD has become an over-broad term. I don't like that: it should be limited to having an involuntary physiological and psychological response to some stimuli, that interferes with normal life. We need a different term for "I'm reminded of something disturbing I saw once", to distinguish that from "I'm suddenly flooded with adrenaline, reaching for a weapon, trying to find and kill the threat in the milliseconds before it kills me". That kind of conditioned physiological response isn't limited to combat, but it's different in kind from anything that follows from seeing some disturbing images.
It's China. If you're worried about some large organization knowing everything you do on and off line, you're already screwed. But it gets worse. Way worse than Facebook knowing you even though you don't have an account.
People use WeChat for everything. An ontopic example is buying train tickets: today clicking the icon actually launches the web browser, but soon it will be an app inside the WeChat app. The "apps guy" would be proud.
Yeah, but WeChat is effectively FaceBook. It's a platform on which lots of apps run, not just chat.
The primary point by which cloud services are evaluated by government agencies is "does the security meet auditing requirements". That, followed by cost, are important; the rest is negotiable. Amazon is good at that.
Also, since renewable energy is cheaper than fossil fuel energy, they should really be covering every square metre of rooftop they own with solar and throwing up some wind turbines anyway.
So you claim. Amazon's obsessed with reducing operational expenses (and goes crazy with capital expenses), so I'm sure they're doing whatever is actually cheaper.
Every generation cares about hippie nonsense when they're young. Then they get a job, get a house, start a family, and discover what's actually important in life. This is an ongoing process called "maturity".
a small majority, or even a minority, is more then sufficient to effect change.
If you believe change requires a majority, then you are no student of history.
I hope not, because this change would be bad. I want inexpensive products - that's my standard of living. "Renewable" is for hippies.
Economics is rather central to construction. There's no viable alternative to steel rebar in concrete, especially where pre-stressed.
Steel remains the best material for car frames, because of the way it deforms and then fails under stress - elastically at low energy, consuming a lot of the energy of a collision at high energy. There are some alternatives for non-structural parts, like body panels, but steel isn't just cheap (plastic can be cheaper, after all), it wears well when kept painted.
Machine tools are all about cost of operation Tool steel usually wins, but of course there are applications where it just doesn't work. Steel is also ideal for a simple hammer - it's the right density, hardness, and so on.
People fetishize fancy materials that, frankly, aren't good for much beyond having higher numbers on paper.
There are very few application where carbon fiber is better than steel, because it lacks most of the properties of steel. It's not elastic, it's not machinable, it's brittle, it doesn't wear well. There seems to be no replacement for steel used structurally (including this stuff), for tool steel, for anything that needs to flex a bit in normal use, etc.
Nukes are a "doomsday weapon". You don't win a war with them, unless you want to rule an irradiated wasteland.
Not true - only ground detonations do that kind of lasting harm, and those were for cracking missile silos. Missile silos have largely vanished, since they're vulnerable in this way. The standard strategic nuke for attacking cities would be a ~800 kTon airburst, which has the same effect as a large-scale firebombing operation. The lingering effects would be a lot of people dying of cancer decades later--which is horrible to be sure--but not a wasteland. But we discovered in WWII that attacking civilian targets doesn't help much to win the war, and you'd really only do it to be a dick, not to win.
Smaller nukes on the battlefield are an entirely different story. If we ever have another hot, symmetric war (another "World War"), nukes are almost certain to be used at sea. It's a quick way to put a carrier battle group out of action, at least for several days, and you don't need precise targeting. The US Navy has an anti-ballistic missile system that's part of the Aegis system, as they take this threat seriously, but it's not proven in battle the way that normal missile intercepts are.
Airburst nukes as an EMP weapon, to sweep the skies clear of drones (none of which are hardened for that today), also seems likely if a power with nukes is losing to a power with great drones. Plenty of leaders would be willing to set off a nuke over their own country to prevent losing a war.
That's the thing about all these drone plans - they're very much for asymmetric combat right now. Optimizing for fighting the last war. And maybe that's OK if we're looking less than 20 years ahead, but we still need to be capable of old-school high intensity warfare too, and that means new capital purchases for that possibility. The Navy especially has been an epic failure in modernizing (at least the F-35 is sort-of a fighter and is being deployed in useful numbers):
* The next-gen cruiser program was abandoned.
* The LDS program should have been abandoned.
* We have nothing for frigates at all.
* The next-gen destroyer didn't meet its goals, but like the F-35 is at least seems serviceable, however we've only built 2 Zumwalt class destroyers.
* The modern sub, the Seawolf class, was actually a good program (the only good program?), but we're only building 4.
* The Ford class modern carrier costs twice as much as what we had, and isn't quite working yet (and even at spec, it's only 25% more effective for twice the cost)
Yay drones and all, but you really want modern warships and bombers built before the war starts, and you plan for multiple decades of service life on those.
Who are you arguing with, anyhow? foxalopex was obviously talking about streaming. I do the old-school thing, because the streaming content is so limited, but from most people's point of view these days, having to wait for a DVD in the mail is "hard to find content".
4K is really quite limited - buying a TV this year is definitely being an early adopter hopeful that the content will one day come. Netflix has the infrastructure to stream it, no doubt, but that's not content.
The rendering part is what's power-expensive. I'm not sure caching helps much with that in normal browsing, but in simply re-loading the same page over-and-over it might. I understand turning cache off across the board to compare laptops when viewing a small set of static web pages as a test - it allows the test to work fairly. I doubt it makes any difference to actual power consumption in normal browsing.
Caching was off in all laptops they reviewed - a very fair comparison. The bug was that something else weird happens when caching is off. The bug was specific to the new MacBook.
And now the whoosh is a guy riding a nuke down to it's target.