And who are you to demand that everyone needs a job?
I don't think everyone needs a job. But I do think if I'm paying to support you, you in turn should making an effort to be self sufficient. If you don't want a job or my money then by all means do as you wish. But if you are asking for something from me, I'm well within my rights to ask something from you in exchange.
Indeed, if a crime was committed then surely it was by the person that released the documents to the public. Mishandling classified documents is a crime of negligence.
No one had a problem with Clinton running her own email server. The problem was using that private server for government business, which is probably illegal. Then refusing to give the state department emails relating to her position as secretary of state, which was also probably illegal. And finally using a personal email server to send and receive classified government documents, which was most certainly illegal.
The sad part about all this is that it isn't even complicated. If you sent confidential work related emails through your private email account your boss would not be happy. And if you refused to hand over those emails after you left the company, you should expect to get sued. This is basic stuff that every white collar worker deals with.
Maybe facebook should take a break from censoring people with right wing views and try doing something about actual illegal content like paedophilia and recruiters for Islamic terrorists.
If you look at the first graph from 2012 to 2017 e-tail went from ~30 to ~45 billion USD while employment went from ~440k to ~570k. That's 50% growth with 30% more employees.
That's not really surprising, what you are seeing is a productivity gain. They generated more revenue with fewer man hours of work. It's tempting to think of productivity from the perspective of "I can do the same work for less money". But business don't really think like that, they are looking to grow and expand not maintain the status quo. Business look at this as "I can generate more profit for the same expense". So the steady state is probably going to have more workers in total, but fewer workers per dollar of revenue.
He doesn't actually present any evidence that creative destruction will recur in the age of AI.
He doesn't have to. He is simply pointing out that we've been having this argument since mechanical loom was invented hundreds of years ago. And every time the Luddites have claimed that there will be no more jobs, and every time they have been wrong. The burden of proof lies with the people saying things will be different.
But if this newest generation of Luddites wants to make their case they are going to have to start doing a better job. For all the cries of automation taking all the jobs we still have a higher labour force participation rate today than at anytime before the mid 80s. I haven't seen any evidence that suggests we are running out of jobs. Quite the contrary, with the explosion of wealth in China, India, and the rest of the developing world it seems more likely that sweatshops will be eliminated by the rising value of labour sooner than they will be eliminated by robots.
I thought Moscow was already setup to handle the ISS in case something happened to Houston. The Russians ran Mir for over a decade I'm sure they can handle the ISS for a few days.
His definition still stands, "a subhuman entity that does not agree with the speaker's liberal politics" includes the actual Nazis in Charlottesville that you are talking about. But it also includes a hell of a lot more people than that. And let be honest, the word Nazi is used far more often as an insult directed towards people the alt-left don't like than it is to describe actual Nazis in the original sense of the term.
The effect on employment is relative to the increase. So a jump to $100 would have a huge increase in unemployment, while a jump to $15 only a small one. Historically the key behind minimum wage increases is to make the increase small enough that the unemployment is unnoticed, while still being large enough to convince people to vote for you come election time.
That's going to be difficult considering the DNC has repeatedly refused to let the FBI look at the hacked server. The primary claim of Russian hacking comes from a private contractor (CloudStrike) hired by the DNC, not law enforcement or the intelligence services. Worse the contractor has since retracted some of it's claims. The entire DNC hacking investigation was a dog and pony show right from the start.
Of course if you look at the language they keep referring specifically to "manufacturing jobs" or "local jobs". To hide the people who moved in to jobs other than local manufacturing. Which is exactly what they predicted in their previous report about people finding employment in other sectors. Meanwhile the employment rate (not to be confused with the unemployment rate) continues it's long term rise.
The NYT is just pushing more nonsense about robots taking jobs. I'm sure they will follow up will some article about Mincome or Basic Income or some other free government hand out program to solve the 'problem' of robots. Strangely the solution to this 'problem' of disappearing jobs is never to cut back on immigration. I guess once all the jobs are gone we will just start cutting free money cheques to people as the step off the proverbial boat.
The man was offered a job based on the expectation that he would be available 24/7, and he got the job because he agreed to those terms. Usually those term include a probationary period of 30-90 days. Then he shows up on the first day and asks to change those terms. His manager is fine with it but HR is not and
Davis was informed his job offer was being rescinded. Don Davis had been in the office all of four hours.
What did you think was going to happen? You can't sign a contract and then demand major changes in the first four hours. This is the kind of thing supposed to be settled before the contact is signed. And based on HR's reaction they would have never signed the contact if he had made these conditions known up front. This guy just tried to pull the old bait and switch. He negotiated that contract in bad faith. I suspect what is really happening is his lawyer sees an 'evil' big corp with lots of money and a man who's wife just tragically died of cancer, and figured he/she can play up the sympathy angle. Get the company to settle to avoid bad press rather than win on the merits of the case.
10 Times today it was repeated on CNN that the CIA "Only spies on foreign citizens, not on US citizens"
Which is obviously bullshit. In 2013 the CIA was caught spying on the Senate Intelligence Committee. The CIA spies on the people who are supposed to keep them in check. If they are willing to do that spying on average citizens isn't going to give them pause.
However, President Trump using an unsecured Android phone [businessinsider.in] even after he'd been issued a secure replacement by the Secret Service is nothing to be concerned with. Is nothing like Hillary's email server. Right, Trumpster?
You're right it is nothing like Hillary's server. The Hatch Act makes it illegal to use government email accounts for political campaigning, so just about every politician is going to have both a government and private email. Trump having an andoird phone for personal use is completely normal and expected.
What busted Hillary wasn't the private server. It's that she used that private server to send classified data, failed to hand over the emails to the state department, and deleted documents under subpoena. It's not like she broke a law. She violated multiple laws repeatedly.
I'd really like to see this apply to levels of government responsibility as well. If you think the federal government is responsible for your parking tickets, or the state governor can declare war, you're not really prepared to make an informed decision.
There doesn't need to be any new sectors, there is lots of room in the existing market.
When those farm hands at the turn of the last century got replaced by machines they found work doing and making things that would have been too expensive for the typical farmer to buy before automation. As automation makes things cheaper it frees up money to be spent on other things. Things that now too expensive. There is lots of room in education to make class size smaller or more specialize. There is lots of room in the entertainment industry to make book, films, and TV shows, ever more specialized to smaller fan groups. There is lots of room in the healthcare industry for senior care. Lots of room in the video game industry for more, bigger, better written, better looking games.
We've heard the cries of luddies calling for the end of labour for over a century, yet workforce participation is near all time highs.
I can't wait to try and maintain code generated by pasting together random code snippets. And people thought old COBOL mainframe code was expensive to keep going, well hold on to your hats.
The playing field is fair. There is nothing stopping an Uber competitor (like lyft) from creating their own app and contracting their own drivers.
I think what you really mean is you want Uber to compete in a highly regulated market like taxis. But that highly regulated market is the very reason why Uber is so popular, cab companies have become a bunch of rent seekers. They artificially constrain the supply and jack up the price. If the taxi market wasn't so broken Uber would have never gotten off the ground in the first place.
The tricky part about all of these free money schemes isn't giving out the money, it's getting the money. Giving away money is dead simple, no one is doubting that the government can give money away, that's the easy part. The tricky part is making the scheme work in a closed system where the taxes supply all the free money you are giving away. All this is doing is taking outside money and pumping it into a small local economy. So of course it's going to work, its like winning a "cash for life" lottery.
I'll never understand why people keep pushing these useless UBI and mincome "studies". We have a huge source of data from the former communist block. The whole point of communism is "from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs". All this is doing is removing the first part and giving us "to each according to his needs", but from where does that money come? Who cares, free money! It's just playing the game of "if I won the lottery" at the whole society level.
It's one thing to join a company and want to form a union. But it's another thing to join a company with the purpose of getting it's employees to join an existing union. If Musk's accusations are correct, then this man is an agent provocateur sent by UWA. He is there calling for unionization to help UWA expand it's business, not improve the working conditions at Tesla. It's a fake grass roots movement, aka astroturfing. And that is morally outrageous. I don't see that kind of shady business dealing as being any different than taking a bribe.
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And who are you to demand that everyone needs a job?
I don't think everyone needs a job. But I do think if I'm paying to support you, you in turn should making an effort to be self sufficient. If you don't want a job or my money then by all means do as you wish. But if you are asking for something from me, I'm well within my rights to ask something from you in exchange.
Indeed, if a crime was committed then surely it was by the person that released the documents to the public. Mishandling classified documents is a crime of negligence.
No one had a problem with Clinton running her own email server. The problem was using that private server for government business, which is probably illegal. Then refusing to give the state department emails relating to her position as secretary of state, which was also probably illegal. And finally using a personal email server to send and receive classified government documents, which was most certainly illegal.
The sad part about all this is that it isn't even complicated. If you sent confidential work related emails through your private email account your boss would not be happy. And if you refused to hand over those emails after you left the company, you should expect to get sued. This is basic stuff that every white collar worker deals with.
Maybe facebook should take a break from censoring people with right wing views and try doing something about actual illegal content like paedophilia and recruiters for Islamic terrorists.
If you look at the first graph from 2012 to 2017 e-tail went from ~30 to ~45 billion USD while employment went from ~440k to ~570k. That's 50% growth with 30% more employees.
That's not really surprising, what you are seeing is a productivity gain. They generated more revenue with fewer man hours of work. It's tempting to think of productivity from the perspective of "I can do the same work for less money". But business don't really think like that, they are looking to grow and expand not maintain the status quo. Business look at this as "I can generate more profit for the same expense". So the steady state is probably going to have more workers in total, but fewer workers per dollar of revenue.
He doesn't actually present any evidence that creative destruction will recur in the age of AI.
He doesn't have to. He is simply pointing out that we've been having this argument since mechanical loom was invented hundreds of years ago. And every time the Luddites have claimed that there will be no more jobs, and every time they have been wrong. The burden of proof lies with the people saying things will be different.
But if this newest generation of Luddites wants to make their case they are going to have to start doing a better job. For all the cries of automation taking all the jobs we still have a higher labour force participation rate today than at anytime before the mid 80s. I haven't seen any evidence that suggests we are running out of jobs. Quite the contrary, with the explosion of wealth in China, India, and the rest of the developing world it seems more likely that sweatshops will be eliminated by the rising value of labour sooner than they will be eliminated by robots.
Freedom to not have to pay taxes!
I thought Moscow was already setup to handle the ISS in case something happened to Houston. The Russians ran Mir for over a decade I'm sure they can handle the ISS for a few days.
His definition still stands, "a subhuman entity that does not agree with the speaker's liberal politics" includes the actual Nazis in Charlottesville that you are talking about. But it also includes a hell of a lot more people than that. And let be honest, the word Nazi is used far more often as an insult directed towards people the alt-left don't like than it is to describe actual Nazis in the original sense of the term.
And where was the hardware designed and the software written? Physically assembling the phone is the easy part.
The effect on employment is relative to the increase. So a jump to $100 would have a huge increase in unemployment, while a jump to $15 only a small one. Historically the key behind minimum wage increases is to make the increase small enough that the unemployment is unnoticed, while still being large enough to convince people to vote for you come election time.
I think she accidently blew the lid off the entire thing. From this point on, anyone claiming there is proof is literally making stuff up.
And this is why she is going to get hammered by the system, she embarrassed them.
That's going to be difficult considering the DNC has repeatedly refused to let the FBI look at the hacked server. The primary claim of Russian hacking comes from a private contractor (CloudStrike) hired by the DNC, not law enforcement or the intelligence services. Worse the contractor has since retracted some of it's claims. The entire DNC hacking investigation was a dog and pony show right from the start.
We've achieved AI inception. Someone tell Ray Kurzweil the singularity is nigh!
Of course if you look at the language they keep referring specifically to "manufacturing jobs" or "local jobs". To hide the people who moved in to jobs other than local manufacturing. Which is exactly what they predicted in their previous report about people finding employment in other sectors. Meanwhile the employment rate (not to be confused with the unemployment rate) continues it's long term rise.
The NYT is just pushing more nonsense about robots taking jobs. I'm sure they will follow up will some article about Mincome or Basic Income or some other free government hand out program to solve the 'problem' of robots. Strangely the solution to this 'problem' of disappearing jobs is never to cut back on immigration. I guess once all the jobs are gone we will just start cutting free money cheques to people as the step off the proverbial boat.
Seems like a non-story to me.
The man was offered a job based on the expectation that he would be available 24/7, and he got the job because he agreed to those terms. Usually those term include a probationary period of 30-90 days. Then he shows up on the first day and asks to change those terms. His manager is fine with it but HR is not and
Davis was informed his job offer was being rescinded. Don Davis had been in the office all of four hours.
What did you think was going to happen? You can't sign a contract and then demand major changes in the first four hours. This is the kind of thing supposed to be settled before the contact is signed. And based on HR's reaction they would have never signed the contact if he had made these conditions known up front. This guy just tried to pull the old bait and switch. He negotiated that contract in bad faith. I suspect what is really happening is his lawyer sees an 'evil' big corp with lots of money and a man who's wife just tragically died of cancer, and figured he/she can play up the sympathy angle. Get the company to settle to avoid bad press rather than win on the merits of the case.
10 Times today it was repeated on CNN that the CIA "Only spies on foreign citizens, not on US citizens"
Which is obviously bullshit. In 2013 the CIA was caught spying on the Senate Intelligence Committee. The CIA spies on the people who are supposed to keep them in check. If they are willing to do that spying on average citizens isn't going to give them pause.
However, President Trump using an unsecured Android phone [businessinsider.in] even after he'd been issued a secure replacement by the Secret Service is nothing to be concerned with. Is nothing like Hillary's email server. Right, Trumpster?
You're right it is nothing like Hillary's server. The Hatch Act makes it illegal to use government email accounts for political campaigning, so just about every politician is going to have both a government and private email. Trump having an andoird phone for personal use is completely normal and expected.
What busted Hillary wasn't the private server. It's that she used that private server to send classified data, failed to hand over the emails to the state department, and deleted documents under subpoena. It's not like she broke a law. She violated multiple laws repeatedly.
I'd really like to see this apply to levels of government responsibility as well. If you think the federal government is responsible for your parking tickets, or the state governor can declare war, you're not really prepared to make an informed decision.
There doesn't need to be any new sectors, there is lots of room in the existing market.
When those farm hands at the turn of the last century got replaced by machines they found work doing and making things that would have been too expensive for the typical farmer to buy before automation. As automation makes things cheaper it frees up money to be spent on other things. Things that now too expensive. There is lots of room in education to make class size smaller or more specialize. There is lots of room in the entertainment industry to make book, films, and TV shows, ever more specialized to smaller fan groups. There is lots of room in the healthcare industry for senior care. Lots of room in the video game industry for more, bigger, better written, better looking games.
We've heard the cries of luddies calling for the end of labour for over a century, yet workforce participation is near all time highs.
I can't wait to try and maintain code generated by pasting together random code snippets. And people thought old COBOL mainframe code was expensive to keep going, well hold on to your hats.
I for one welcome our new VR girlfriends.
The playing field is fair. There is nothing stopping an Uber competitor (like lyft) from creating their own app and contracting their own drivers.
I think what you really mean is you want Uber to compete in a highly regulated market like taxis. But that highly regulated market is the very reason why Uber is so popular, cab companies have become a bunch of rent seekers. They artificially constrain the supply and jack up the price. If the taxi market wasn't so broken Uber would have never gotten off the ground in the first place.
But it's really not much of a test of UBI is it?
The tricky part about all of these free money schemes isn't giving out the money, it's getting the money. Giving away money is dead simple, no one is doubting that the government can give money away, that's the easy part. The tricky part is making the scheme work in a closed system where the taxes supply all the free money you are giving away. All this is doing is taking outside money and pumping it into a small local economy. So of course it's going to work, its like winning a "cash for life" lottery.
I'll never understand why people keep pushing these useless UBI and mincome "studies". We have a huge source of data from the former communist block. The whole point of communism is "from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs". All this is doing is removing the first part and giving us "to each according to his needs", but from where does that money come? Who cares, free money! It's just playing the game of "if I won the lottery" at the whole society level.
It's one thing to join a company and want to form a union. But it's another thing to join a company with the purpose of getting it's employees to join an existing union. If Musk's accusations are correct, then this man is an agent provocateur sent by UWA. He is there calling for unionization to help UWA expand it's business, not improve the working conditions at Tesla. It's a fake grass roots movement, aka astroturfing. And that is morally outrageous. I don't see that kind of shady business dealing as being any different than taking a bribe.