It wasn't environmentalists. It wasn't oligarchs in the boardroom. It was the increasingly litigious nature of the world, which allows anything new to be put on hold for 30 years of expensive safety reviews and lawsuits from every imaginably involved and involved party. Coal got grandfathered in, if coal were new tech it would've been sued into oblivion for the radiation releases and all the other environmental damage.
$1689 (even CAD) is just too much for a basic income to work, and well more than needed anyway outside of the priciest cities. One of the biggest issues for a national UBI is that it may cost $1500 a month to live in Toronto, or $2000 a month to live in San Francisco, but $500 a month to live in St. Louis (with a roommate). Perhaps we should focus on providing the $500 a month first, and see how many people will willingly move somewhere they can stretch that further, and the migration might even end up lowering the cost of living in the expensive cities? It would become vastly easier for most people to move if they had a basic income to tide them over until they find a job in their new city.
The problem is, when people live close to the line, they claim that they can't afford to buy the high-quality brand. But they all have the latest smartphone and a big LCD TV.
Often that's about being from a wealthy family that gives them gifts. The smartphone and TV make good birthday/christmas gifts, shoes are less exciting.
What this kind of begging does is help people who come from rich backgrounds but are currently less rich. They have wealthy friends and family who will donate to their pet's surgery, whereas people from poor backgrounds are unlikely to have anyone on their friends list who can help out with that.
Really this can be profitable for Facebook simply by tracking who donates, and selling that info to advertisers. There's nothing more valuable to an advertisers than knowing that someone is easily manipulated into spending money.
We have to make providing services to the poor profitable, you say? Fortunately, there's a time-tested way to make it profitable to provide at least food and housing to the poor: sell them into slavery.
Well with this brain interface if your computer gets hacked, the worst thing would happen is that the hacker would beam annoying images directly to your brain
Having goatse beamed directly into your brain is quite serious.
I'd be more worried about a hacker threatening to shut down my brain I don't transfer all my money to their account immediately. Or a bored teenager just shutting down people's brains for the fun of it.
Not once has my Ubuntu installation ever displayed the animal nickname. In fact, I'm running 16.04 and I don't even know what the nickname for it is.
Also, MacOS uses animal nicknames more prominently and confusingly and both MacOS and Windows have confusing version numbering (OS X makes it look like there's only been minor revisions for decades, and Windows has no clue how to count and changes the whole scheme repeatedly).
There have been tons of companies like that. The difference is, google is the only one that manages to remain so popular through such a long series of product abandonments.
If there were decent non-proprietary two way SMS desktop integration, I'd use it. We don't all like to look at tiny screens and torture our fingers the whole day.
The Dems won the toss, and got cover for this enriching of donors.
This enriching of donors is a real of when the dems voted to take money away from the donors a few years ago. It's completely irrational to pretend that they don't want a rule that they both voted into effect and voted against repealing.
There are very substantial differences between the parties, regardless of how many horrible things they agree on. It has really never been so obvious how substantial the differences are, and they've directly affected many of us.
This is a breakthrough, because in the olden days a 4 year old would've been able to simply dial 999 on the rotary phone without having to deal with fingerprint identification or risk getting things wrong with voice commands?
The problem is not companies like Fiverr. The problem is the culture that celebrates it and refuses to acknowledge that the growth of such companies is a symptom of a serious problem (people unable to find reliable income/benefits who have to settle for developing world working conditions), not a positive development. The fact that Americans celebrate and applaud people working underpaid gigs with no private time means American society is fundamentally sick with twisted values.
Honestly it matters quite a lot if Uber was really actually profitable, or if it was only profitable because a certain class of employee (ie, the driver) was willing to be hoodwinked
Uber has never been profitable regardless, and it lost $3billion last year. It operates on venture capital. Profit is so 20th century.
A large non-profit internet forum site could easily generate tens of thousands of user-requested thread update emails per day. Even at 0.001 each they could end up spending $100 a year on that. Meanwhile, spammers would likely find it pays off to spend $100 per year for tens of millions of emails.
It costs me $5 to go see a Tuesday night movie at a theater with electric recliners and a giant screen... $10 on other nights. Some theaters have improved a lot.
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It wasn't environmentalists. It wasn't oligarchs in the boardroom. It was the increasingly litigious nature of the world, which allows anything new to be put on hold for 30 years of expensive safety reviews and lawsuits from every imaginably involved and involved party. Coal got grandfathered in, if coal were new tech it would've been sued into oblivion for the radiation releases and all the other environmental damage.
$1689 (even CAD) is just too much for a basic income to work, and well more than needed anyway outside of the priciest cities. One of the biggest issues for a national UBI is that it may cost $1500 a month to live in Toronto, or $2000 a month to live in San Francisco, but $500 a month to live in St. Louis (with a roommate). Perhaps we should focus on providing the $500 a month first, and see how many people will willingly move somewhere they can stretch that further, and the migration might even end up lowering the cost of living in the expensive cities? It would become vastly easier for most people to move if they had a basic income to tide them over until they find a job in their new city.
Why is water a problem between Cairns and Sydney, where the average annual rainfall is around a meter?
Often that's about being from a wealthy family that gives them gifts. The smartphone and TV make good birthday/christmas gifts, shoes are less exciting.
What this kind of begging does is help people who come from rich backgrounds but are currently less rich. They have wealthy friends and family who will donate to their pet's surgery, whereas people from poor backgrounds are unlikely to have anyone on their friends list who can help out with that.
Really this can be profitable for Facebook simply by tracking who donates, and selling that info to advertisers. There's nothing more valuable to an advertisers than knowing that someone is easily manipulated into spending money.
We have to make providing services to the poor profitable, you say? Fortunately, there's a time-tested way to make it profitable to provide at least food and housing to the poor: sell them into slavery.
Having goatse beamed directly into your brain is quite serious.
I'd be more worried about a hacker threatening to shut down my brain I don't transfer all my money to their account immediately. Or a bored teenager just shutting down people's brains for the fun of it.
It wouldn't be of any use whatsoever at an altitude where the occupants would be irradiated to death.
How about simply let China use it? Thanks to the USA, China hasn't been allowed to participate all this time despite their interest.
Not once has my Ubuntu installation ever displayed the animal nickname. In fact, I'm running 16.04 and I don't even know what the nickname for it is.
Also, MacOS uses animal nicknames more prominently and confusingly and both MacOS and Windows have confusing version numbering (OS X makes it look like there's only been minor revisions for decades, and Windows has no clue how to count and changes the whole scheme repeatedly).
There have been tons of companies like that. The difference is, google is the only one that manages to remain so popular through such a long series of product abandonments.
If there were decent non-proprietary two way SMS desktop integration, I'd use it. We don't all like to look at tiny screens and torture our fingers the whole day.
This enriching of donors is a real of when the dems voted to take money away from the donors a few years ago. It's completely irrational to pretend that they don't want a rule that they both voted into effect and voted against repealing.
There are very substantial differences between the parties, regardless of how many horrible things they agree on. It has really never been so obvious how substantial the differences are, and they've directly affected many of us.
For a family with 5 or 10 kids, it's definitely a great deal. For me though, I'll stick with $5 movie tickets and eat in advance.
This is a breakthrough, because in the olden days a 4 year old would've been able to simply dial 999 on the rotary phone without having to deal with fingerprint identification or risk getting things wrong with voice commands?
The problem is not companies like Fiverr. The problem is the culture that celebrates it and refuses to acknowledge that the growth of such companies is a symptom of a serious problem (people unable to find reliable income/benefits who have to settle for developing world working conditions), not a positive development. The fact that Americans celebrate and applaud people working underpaid gigs with no private time means American society is fundamentally sick with twisted values.
Uber has never been profitable regardless, and it lost $3billion last year. It operates on venture capital. Profit is so 20th century.
Being rich doesn't make anyone greedy. Being greedy makes them rich.
A large non-profit internet forum site could easily generate tens of thousands of user-requested thread update emails per day. Even at 0.001 each they could end up spending $100 a year on that. Meanwhile, spammers would likely find it pays off to spend $100 per year for tens of millions of emails.
In theory, it's a lot easier to sue ilovespam.com and get it shut down and that should eventually result in less spam.
It's not about the tech for Uber. It's about looking like you're going something trendy and special so you can get that next round of funding.
It costs me $5 to go see a Tuesday night movie at a theater with electric recliners and a giant screen... $10 on other nights. Some theaters have improved a lot.
At least they're still nowhere near as self-absorbed, self-obsessed and ignorant of the rest of the world as Americans.