Imagine a society in which the poor constantly borrow and then in repeated crashes, debt readjustments, and forgiveness programs are allowed to re-borrow.
This would constitute a continual redistribution that would provide everyone with a decent standard of living.
Far fewer than you would think. Loud music makes drivers think they're safe but they fall asleep almost as fast. I can't find the study but there is one.
I agree that it's an excellent work but it totally glosses over how this transition is supposed to work. The protagonist describes his university being taken over by people who think they can do a better job:
It was the second year of my undergrad, taking a double-major in not making trouble for my profs and keeping my mouth shut. It was the early days of Bitchun, and most of us were still a little unclear on the concept.
Not all of us, though: a group of campus shit-disturbers, grad students in the Sociology Department, were on the bleeding edge of the revolution, and they knew what they wanted: control of the Department, oustering of the tyrannical, stodgy profs, a bully pulpit from which to preach the Bitchun gospel to a generation of impressionable undergrads who were too cowed by their workloads to realize what a load of shit they were being fed by the University.
At least, that's what the intense, heavyset woman who seized the mic at my Soc 200 course said, that sleepy morning mid-semester at Convocation Hall. Nineteen hundred students filled the hall, a capacity crowd of bleary, coffee-sipping time-markers, and they woke up in a hurry when the woman's strident harangue burst over their heads.
I saw it happen from the very start. The prof was down there on the stage, a speck with a tie-mic, droning over his slides, and then there was a blur as half a dozen grad students rushed the stage. They were dressed in University poverty-chic, wrinkled slacks and tattered sports coats, and five of them formed a human wall in front of the prof while the sixth, the heavyset one with the dark hair and the prominent mole on her cheek, unclipped his mic and clipped it to her lapel.
"Wakey wakey!" she called, and the reality of the moment hit home for me: this wasn't on the lesson-plan.
"Come on, heads up! This is _not_ a drill. The University of Toronto Department of Sociology is under new management.
Scarcity based society or not the idea that, for example, a university's leaders would simply stand aside and the idea that the government would allow such a takeover is preposterous. The land/buildings have an owner who has the legal right to decide who can stay there. The organization itself has representatives. It's illegal to claim to speak for an entity without the permission of its owners.
This is the perfect chance to find out the real cost of a first world nation not having internet access. We need these numbers to make better laws about internet access restriction and even to decide whether it should be a right.
yes!
Let's just get everyone to stop using cars, rebuild the entire material transportation infrastructure, sweat in the summer, freeze in the winter, and stop watching television!
easy peasy!
Imagine there's a little snot living next door. He shits in your lawn, throws rocks at your windows and starves and abuses his dog.
You want to beat the crap out of him and you know he would be a better behaved child if you did but his big brother (incidentally your business partner) might not like it. He's such a little shit that his brother may even just stand back and laugh but there's another consideration.
The bastard hasn't a chance in hell of actually winning the fight but he's been studying taikwando and you know he'll get more than a couple of good shiners on you before you give him a thrashing. Furthermore you know that if you do it he'll take out his frustration on that poor dog. He has also been saving up poison that he can use on your dog.
And you love dogs.
All things considered it's better to try to get his big brother to reign him in.
It's a tendancy. from the fine article:
Remarkably, those stimulated on the left side fibbed a great deal more, those on the right showed much more honesty.
The title is a lie.
Laser light has significant disadvantages compared to the other kind. (what's the word for non-laser?)
It may be less efficient to just spread several shades of light everywhere but it's kind of necessary to see everything.
It can't happen. Even articulate, cited, well written posts that go against the slashdot hive mind don't get modded up or do get modded down. I dont know what a fix would be but it would help to have a banner beside the mod window saying in big letters "you are not moderating for agreement"
I'm really wondering why they're talking about 70 tons of stuff when 200 pounds of props plus a real contract with SpaceX to deliver from earth on demand would be just as effective at looking like a pizza restaurant, taken just as seriously, and used the same.
Jobs shouldn't be the point of this in any way.
If you think the government should force companies to hire more people you've fallen for the broken window fallacy. It's not about efficiency it's about competition. This action is supposed to improve service and lower prices by allowing other companies to compete. And guess what? If another company can compete by farming out 50% of its support to India and still sell phone services that's the way it's supposed to go.
They won't get there with paint brushes and sandpaper. Space is a long way. They've not even built a working rocket engine yet, and a small team of engineering students? and he thinks he can do it in 6 years?
I'm wishing it was possible too but it isn't.
I know of at least three companies (Apple, Google, Microsoft) just off the top of my head rich enough and ballsy enough to try AI on a scale that's never been tried before. I'm crossing my fingers.
Many banking systems only talk to each-other in nightly batches. It's mostly done that way because that's the way it's always been done, and to save money on entirely new systems. The every-24-hours style is less secure, slow, and inefficient. This is 2011 and there's no real excuse for it.
Rapid product turnaround is only a symptom of the real problem. Somewhere along the road it was discovered that riding the bubbles makes a quick buck and that enough quick bucks makes a business. Now you have 400 companies at the startup pony races.
The company that plods along focusing on long term results, reputation, employee satisfaction, and making a great product tends to be ignored by all those gamblers. And those companies are quietly sitting on the sidelines pulling in cash at low risk.
You won't hear about them because they don't tend to make news but those companies are the real future. When today's booms are memories they will be selling tomorrow's products.
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The economy isn't spiraling. The rich are getting richer even faster. The reason they're not investing in hiring people is hiring people is no longer a good investment.
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Efficient use of resources is in itself what's caused the "problem" we now face of there not being enough work to go around. Resources for products are now being widely extracted by machine. Products are now widely manufactured by machine. Only transportation and coordination still actually require human intervention and we're rapidly solving both of those difficulties.
On the service side it's not the middle class who have the extra money to spend. The middle class have severely repressed wages because machines are doing all the work. Since most service jobs are now in said classes of coordinating efforts of machines they have no extra money to pay bus boys.
All production (real wealth) is now controlled by the top 1% of society who control the people who control the machines who actually produce things. You could point at third world countries where people still produce a lot but that argument's usefulness diminishes every year the Chinese, Indian, and Brazilian economies mechanize.
Without intervention the only way today's capitalist society will find itself wealthy is in the form of much more wealth all at the top.
That leaves the middle class without busboys and the lower class unemployed entirely.
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Imagine a society in which the poor constantly borrow and then in repeated crashes, debt readjustments, and forgiveness programs are allowed to re-borrow. This would constitute a continual redistribution that would provide everyone with a decent standard of living.
The same kind of measures that keep gas stations from cheating on quality and quantity of gasoline can be used to prevent this.
Far fewer than you would think. Loud music makes drivers think they're safe but they fall asleep almost as fast. I can't find the study but there is one.
Scarcity based society or not the idea that, for example, a university's leaders would simply stand aside and the idea that the government would allow such a takeover is preposterous. The land/buildings have an owner who has the legal right to decide who can stay there. The organization itself has representatives. It's illegal to claim to speak for an entity without the permission of its owners.
Essentially the whole transition is glossed over.
This is the perfect chance to find out the real cost of a first world nation not having internet access. We need these numbers to make better laws about internet access restriction and even to decide whether it should be a right.
yes! Let's just get everyone to stop using cars, rebuild the entire material transportation infrastructure, sweat in the summer, freeze in the winter, and stop watching television! easy peasy!
My guess is they were jammed on only a few channels. They still had a working GPS but decided to pretend the jamming worked.
Imagine there's a little snot living next door. He shits in your lawn, throws rocks at your windows and starves and abuses his dog. You want to beat the crap out of him and you know he would be a better behaved child if you did but his big brother (incidentally your business partner) might not like it. He's such a little shit that his brother may even just stand back and laugh but there's another consideration. The bastard hasn't a chance in hell of actually winning the fight but he's been studying taikwando and you know he'll get more than a couple of good shiners on you before you give him a thrashing. Furthermore you know that if you do it he'll take out his frustration on that poor dog. He has also been saving up poison that he can use on your dog. And you love dogs. All things considered it's better to try to get his big brother to reign him in.
It's a tendancy. from the fine article: Remarkably, those stimulated on the left side fibbed a great deal more, those on the right showed much more honesty. The title is a lie.
Laser light has significant disadvantages compared to the other kind. (what's the word for non-laser?) It may be less efficient to just spread several shades of light everywhere but it's kind of necessary to see everything.
Can someone please translate what they intend to do into English?
It can't happen. Even articulate, cited, well written posts that go against the slashdot hive mind don't get modded up or do get modded down. I dont know what a fix would be but it would help to have a banner beside the mod window saying in big letters "you are not moderating for agreement"
I think it's really cool that it looks like something from a 50's science fiction comic. Not being sarcastic.
I'm really wondering why they're talking about 70 tons of stuff when 200 pounds of props plus a real contract with SpaceX to deliver from earth on demand would be just as effective at looking like a pizza restaurant, taken just as seriously, and used the same.
Jobs shouldn't be the point of this in any way. If you think the government should force companies to hire more people you've fallen for the broken window fallacy. It's not about efficiency it's about competition. This action is supposed to improve service and lower prices by allowing other companies to compete. And guess what? If another company can compete by farming out 50% of its support to India and still sell phone services that's the way it's supposed to go.
They won't get there with paint brushes and sandpaper. Space is a long way. They've not even built a working rocket engine yet, and a small team of engineering students? and he thinks he can do it in 6 years? I'm wishing it was possible too but it isn't.
I know of at least three companies (Apple, Google, Microsoft) just off the top of my head rich enough and ballsy enough to try AI on a scale that's never been tried before. I'm crossing my fingers.
In soviet Russia, bribes pay you!
Many banking systems only talk to each-other in nightly batches. It's mostly done that way because that's the way it's always been done, and to save money on entirely new systems. The every-24-hours style is less secure, slow, and inefficient. This is 2011 and there's no real excuse for it.
Rapid product turnaround is only a symptom of the real problem. Somewhere along the road it was discovered that riding the bubbles makes a quick buck and that enough quick bucks makes a business. Now you have 400 companies at the startup pony races. The company that plods along focusing on long term results, reputation, employee satisfaction, and making a great product tends to be ignored by all those gamblers. And those companies are quietly sitting on the sidelines pulling in cash at low risk. You won't hear about them because they don't tend to make news but those companies are the real future. When today's booms are memories they will be selling tomorrow's products.
The economy isn't spiraling. The rich are getting richer even faster. The reason they're not investing in hiring people is hiring people is no longer a good investment.
Efficient use of resources is in itself what's caused the "problem" we now face of there not being enough work to go around. Resources for products are now being widely extracted by machine. Products are now widely manufactured by machine. Only transportation and coordination still actually require human intervention and we're rapidly solving both of those difficulties.
On the service side it's not the middle class who have the extra money to spend. The middle class have severely repressed wages because machines are doing all the work. Since most service jobs are now in said classes of coordinating efforts of machines they have no extra money to pay bus boys.
All production (real wealth) is now controlled by the top 1% of society who control the people who control the machines who actually produce things. You could point at third world countries where people still produce a lot but that argument's usefulness diminishes every year the Chinese, Indian, and Brazilian economies mechanize.
Without intervention the only way today's capitalist society will find itself wealthy is in the form of much more wealth all at the top.
That leaves the middle class without busboys and the lower class unemployed entirely.
You have failed to prove your point, sir. Are you declining to argue it further?
The stupidest thing you can possibly say to this story is "everyone is doing it." Do not lend legitimacy to evil.
That has to be a lot more efficient too since you're using already-hot water