So you imagine a world of automated factories building warehouses full of production that no one can buy? Frankly, I can't even understand the distopian future the Luddites fear, here. About 10% of jobs in the US are still manufacturing-related. That will certainly drop to below 5%, just like agriculture jobs. The drop has been going on for 50+ years, and the world hasn't ended. Some unskilled service jobs will follow in the new wave of automation. Where's the mushroom cloud again?
I thought the idea was to make developers do system administration and save money. Did I miss something?
Nope - you got it. And since devs make more than admins, the whole thing is fucking stupid any way you look at it.
We do devops in my shop. We're devs being forced to do sysadmin work for the production stack. We're professionals and we try our best, but it's a train wreck. We're great at automating our mistakes, but we're constantly doing to sort of shit that seems right to a junior sysadmin, but a veteran sysadmin shout down as idiotic. Too bad we don't have any of those.
It's the kind of deeply stupid idea that could only make sense to an MBA.
Freenet is a real thing, BTW, a different sort of dark net that never really caught on. More secure for uploaders than TOR, though (much better for Wikileaks) since there are no servers.
What is this fetish that liberals have for train sets? I've never understood that. Train freight is already very cheap and efficient, but it doesn't scale down. Hauling freight is pretty thoroughly optimized, whatever armchair experts might imagine.
Same thing we've done for the past 500 years of technological advancement. People want more. It is fundamental human nature that our reach exceeds our grasp, and that won't change. There's plenty that people want now (and robots won't do anytime son), but most can't afford so the market is small. As the prices of everything robots can do falls, those markets will expand. Same as has happened for the past 500 years of automation.
Tesla does use robots far more than the Nummi plant did, humans are used mostly for the finishing touches. Robotic production scales well. I doubt their approach of using prison labor to save on costs will scale, though.
Really, it's battery availability that's he bottleneck - what's the schedule on the gigafactory?
In the "you get to unload this yourself" category, there's nothing technological to stop it
How would that work exactly? It wouldn't work for home delivery. It wouldn't work for commerical delivery where the same truck goes to multiple customers, or any sort of route sales for that matter. I guess it could work for a company moving stuff between 2 of its own warehouses?
etter start voting for people who know what a social safety net is and are willing to fight for same
Just learn to do work that is of value to society.
being a Republican or large-L libertarian won't get you lynched. Yet.
The (anti-gun) left sure does think a lot of itself. If society divides into one group that does work of value to society, and one group that doesn't, which group do you imagine will have the power?
But it makes a difference to you and me where the tax is coming from. You (or I) would benefit more if the tax came from someone other than ourselves. Tax those trucks more and the groceries might cost you $10 more per week but you might be $20 better off if you are taxed less as a result, leaving you $10 in pocket. Or you might be no better off, leaving you $10 out of pocket. Depends on what your tax circumstances are.
No, and no. First off roads are worth paying for. I don't care if one way costs me more than another - I benefit and I don't mind paying. I'm happy to pay for one of the very few useful things the government does!
Secondly, you're talking about me benefiting from a regressive tax. The total cost to society is the same. Trucking has very thin margins, so the costs will be passed to customers. So we're comparing a "tax" on food to a tax on income, really. I'm not even a fan of the progressive income tax, but a regressive tax like that, especially on food, seems a bad plan in general.
raise those fuel taxes to reflect the true cost of maintaining and building the roads.
The idea that the two are related was always nonsense. Money is fungible. It doesn't matter the name of the tax, or the name of the program, money is money.
I benefit greatly from those trucks on the road. My grocery store has food in it, for example. I don't really care which tax the roads get pad for out of - maintaining the roads is worth every penny. It's one of the few good things the government does - honest to goodness infrastructure. Let's have more of that.
If you're making more than a subsistance living driving trucks in the US, you're either doing something else besides driving, or you own the truck.
Some truck drivers are delivery drivers. They won't be replaced with self-driving trucks (though they might by delivery drones or whatever).
Some truck drivers are driving construction-related trucks. There's a lot more to operating a cement mixer or even dump truck than just rolling down the highway. Plus, autonomous driving on a construction site isn't a problem people are even thinking about yet (once you're on the site, where you actually go changes all the time).
And if you own something as capital-intensive as a big rig, whether you drive it or not you can still make money from providing haulage.
Ubuntu tries its best to be Windows-like, and the level of polish really isn't that bad these days (I'd say it was better than Windows 8, for example, if you were trying it out and knew Windows 7).
However, people who really like Windows already have Windows, and don't see a compelling reason to switch. Canonical would do better to aim for 10% market share, with something that stands apart from Apple and MS UIs. You can be newb-friendly while pushing back against the current mobile-inspired trends and define your own style that way, for example.
The situation with drivers has gotten a lot better, but there's still room to improve there as well.
Apple designs for idiots and only the idiots will buy the devices and pay extra for that privilege.
To put that a different way: they're a fashion company. Which, by the way, is a great way to make money. Last I saw, 2 of the 10 richest people in the world were fashion moguls.
And, no, it's not just the idiots: some people get more value from social signalling than they would from what the device actually does.
What I foresee coming from this is exactly what Twitter has enabled through the same functionality: publicized block lists used to silence dissent.
Twitter went further than that, giving a group of people like and including Anita Sarkeesian--self-identified social justice activists--the right to ban people they don't like. Within a couple weeks, most prominent critics of their beliefs were banned. Badthought right down the memory hole.
This was played so well in Ghost in the Shell SAC, where the more advanced AIs took out a less advanced AI this way, mocking it for not being able to handle such a simple trick. Tachikomas remain my favorite AIs from all SF, and the story had the best telling of how dealing with rogue military AIs would realistically go (no spoilers).
So many Americans are now fine with a totalitarian state - oh they don't like the word, but they always trust the government with more power, always find that better than the alternative. Even blatant corruption (corporation buying influence openly) is seen as a problem that only more government power (regulate the corporations) can solve. It's, frankly, frightening.
How is this any different? Is the FBI not allowed to fly planes now?
It emphasizes the government's power and our weakness (so all the/. statists should have no problem with it). It plays into all the classic paranoia about an overreaching government, hiding dark secrets. The general feeling that the X-files played to. As the song goes:
Unmarked helicopters - hovering The Lord is coming soon Unmarked helicopters - hovering They said it was a weather balloon I know the truth I know the whole shebang I know the names of men they had to hang
You've likely heard of Monet and Picasso. Plus the ones we make fun of: Rothko and Pollock (and you've probably seen Mondrian, whose work is too bland to remember), who suckered the world into thinking meaningless blobs of paint were valuable art. Best con artists ever.
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So you imagine a world of automated factories building warehouses full of production that no one can buy? Frankly, I can't even understand the distopian future the Luddites fear, here. About 10% of jobs in the US are still manufacturing-related. That will certainly drop to below 5%, just like agriculture jobs. The drop has been going on for 50+ years, and the world hasn't ended. Some unskilled service jobs will follow in the new wave of automation. Where's the mushroom cloud again?
I thought the idea was to make developers do system administration and save money. Did I miss something?
Nope - you got it. And since devs make more than admins, the whole thing is fucking stupid any way you look at it.
We do devops in my shop. We're devs being forced to do sysadmin work for the production stack. We're professionals and we try our best, but it's a train wreck. We're great at automating our mistakes, but we're constantly doing to sort of shit that seems right to a junior sysadmin, but a veteran sysadmin shout down as idiotic. Too bad we don't have any of those.
It's the kind of deeply stupid idea that could only make sense to an MBA.
Shouldn't you be deleting a Wikipedia article right now?
Where are my delivery drones and flying cars?
That was what he meant about having a lot of practice failing.
... or falling, as the case may be.
Putin is thought to be the richest man in the world. I suspect the rackets in the Panama Papers were too low-tier for him, not even worth his effort.
I thought the Chinese Premier was there? Who's there that China is aggressively censoring any mention of Panama fright now?
Holy jesusballs that is a lot of typos
Looks like lack of Unicode support to me. Let's hope Whipslash et al are on it.
Freenet is a real thing, BTW, a different sort of dark net that never really caught on. More secure for uploaders than TOR, though (much better for Wikileaks) since there are no servers.
No death threat here. These were very public figures, not anonymous, and their "harassment" was only disagreement.
What is this fetish that liberals have for train sets? I've never understood that. Train freight is already very cheap and efficient, but it doesn't scale down. Hauling freight is pretty thoroughly optimized, whatever armchair experts might imagine.
Same thing we've done for the past 500 years of technological advancement. People want more. It is fundamental human nature that our reach exceeds our grasp, and that won't change. There's plenty that people want now (and robots won't do anytime son), but most can't afford so the market is small. As the prices of everything robots can do falls, those markets will expand. Same as has happened for the past 500 years of automation.
Tesla does use robots far more than the Nummi plant did, humans are used mostly for the finishing touches. Robotic production scales well. I doubt their approach of using prison labor to save on costs will scale, though.
Really, it's battery availability that's he bottleneck - what's the schedule on the gigafactory?
Nope - WoW doesn't work that way. All the content is on the client, distributed by Blizzard.
In the "you get to unload this yourself" category, there's nothing technological to stop it
How would that work exactly? It wouldn't work for home delivery. It wouldn't work for commerical delivery where the same truck goes to multiple customers, or any sort of route sales for that matter. I guess it could work for a company moving stuff between 2 of its own warehouses?
etter start voting for people who know what a social safety net is and are willing to fight for same
Just learn to do work that is of value to society.
being a Republican or large-L libertarian won't get you lynched. Yet.
The (anti-gun) left sure does think a lot of itself. If society divides into one group that does work of value to society, and one group that doesn't, which group do you imagine will have the power?
But it makes a difference to you and me where the tax is coming from. You (or I) would benefit more if the tax came from someone other than ourselves. Tax those trucks more and the groceries might cost you $10 more per week but you might be $20 better off if you are taxed less as a result, leaving you $10 in pocket. Or you might be no better off, leaving you $10 out of pocket. Depends on what your tax circumstances are.
No, and no. First off roads are worth paying for. I don't care if one way costs me more than another - I benefit and I don't mind paying. I'm happy to pay for one of the very few useful things the government does!
Secondly, you're talking about me benefiting from a regressive tax. The total cost to society is the same. Trucking has very thin margins, so the costs will be passed to customers. So we're comparing a "tax" on food to a tax on income, really. I'm not even a fan of the progressive income tax, but a regressive tax like that, especially on food, seems a bad plan in general.
raise those fuel taxes to reflect the true cost of maintaining and building the roads.
The idea that the two are related was always nonsense. Money is fungible. It doesn't matter the name of the tax, or the name of the program, money is money.
I benefit greatly from those trucks on the road. My grocery store has food in it, for example. I don't really care which tax the roads get pad for out of - maintaining the roads is worth every penny. It's one of the few good things the government does - honest to goodness infrastructure. Let's have more of that.
If you're making more than a subsistance living driving trucks in the US, you're either doing something else besides driving, or you own the truck.
Some truck drivers are delivery drivers. They won't be replaced with self-driving trucks (though they might by delivery drones or whatever).
Some truck drivers are driving construction-related trucks. There's a lot more to operating a cement mixer or even dump truck than just rolling down the highway. Plus, autonomous driving on a construction site isn't a problem people are even thinking about yet (once you're on the site, where you actually go changes all the time).
And if you own something as capital-intensive as a big rig, whether you drive it or not you can still make money from providing haulage.
Ubuntu tries its best to be Windows-like, and the level of polish really isn't that bad these days (I'd say it was better than Windows 8, for example, if you were trying it out and knew Windows 7).
However, people who really like Windows already have Windows, and don't see a compelling reason to switch. Canonical would do better to aim for 10% market share, with something that stands apart from Apple and MS UIs. You can be newb-friendly while pushing back against the current mobile-inspired trends and define your own style that way, for example.
The situation with drivers has gotten a lot better, but there's still room to improve there as well.
Apple designs for idiots and only the idiots will buy the devices and pay extra for that privilege.
To put that a different way: they're a fashion company. Which, by the way, is a great way to make money. Last I saw, 2 of the 10 richest people in the world were fashion moguls.
And, no, it's not just the idiots: some people get more value from social signalling than they would from what the device actually does.
What I foresee coming from this is exactly what Twitter has enabled through the same functionality: publicized block lists used to silence dissent.
Twitter went further than that, giving a group of people like and including Anita Sarkeesian--self-identified social justice activists--the right to ban people they don't like. Within a couple weeks, most prominent critics of their beliefs were banned. Badthought right down the memory hole.
And if that device is your only keyboard?
You're assuming an order in which devices are plugged-in or scanned on the bus.
This was played so well in Ghost in the Shell SAC, where the more advanced AIs took out a less advanced AI this way, mocking it for not being able to handle such a simple trick. Tachikomas remain my favorite AIs from all SF, and the story had the best telling of how dealing with rogue military AIs would realistically go (no spoilers).
So many Americans are now fine with a totalitarian state - oh they don't like the word, but they always trust the government with more power, always find that better than the alternative. Even blatant corruption (corporation buying influence openly) is seen as a problem that only more government power (regulate the corporations) can solve. It's, frankly, frightening.
How is this any different? Is the FBI not allowed to fly planes now?
It emphasizes the government's power and our weakness (so all the /. statists should have no problem with it). It plays into all the classic paranoia about an overreaching government, hiding dark secrets. The general feeling that the X-files played to. As the song goes:
Unmarked helicopters - hovering
The Lord is coming soon
Unmarked helicopters - hovering
They said it was a weather balloon
I know the truth
I know the whole shebang
I know the names of men they had to hang
You've likely heard of Monet and Picasso. Plus the ones we make fun of: Rothko and Pollock (and you've probably seen Mondrian, whose work is too bland to remember), who suckered the world into thinking meaningless blobs of paint were valuable art. Best con artists ever.