This comment right here is what's wrong with the alarmists. It is just plain Not Even Wrong to think that you can capture all the relevant physics with a simple energy balance equation that fits on the back of an envelope.
I will eat a leather shoe if you can convince me that climate models have even half the predictive power necessary to justify blowing several hundred billion dollars on this nonsense.
If this law, enjoins me as a private individual from saying the words "What did you make at your last job?" then it is a violation of my right to free speech. But because the magic word "employer" gets tacked on to me, it's suddenly OK to deny me the right to say those same words to another adult? Communism FTW!
It's worse than that. Metal-air batteries work by turning metal (that you have) and oxygen (that you get from the air) into metal oxide (that you have to carry back). So unlike an airplane or a rocket that gets lighter as it flies, this fucker will get heavier.
Also, cables and windings for electric motors area heavy. Ever held and industrial electric motor in your hand? Then you're the strongest man alive.
WTF? The energy storage mass density of materials is a hard physical barrier. You can compute it from the of a given molecule or crystaline structure from first principles using quantum mechanics and fundamental constants of the universe.
TV can disappear tomorrow and it won't matter. People can get their entertainment the good old fashioned way by going outside instead of staring at a screen.
All to the good, I might add. I swear, I didn't realize how watching several hours of TV each day as a kid had screwed me up until I went a couple of years without owning a TV. Then I got myself a flat screen to put in the living room when I got married and started watching again. Yeesh. Good riddance to the trash merchants. Less money for them means more people are realizing they're putting out crap.
Uh huh. White collar work and hourly caps don't really mix. Sane countries like France have abysmal unemployment numbers because of thinking like that.
Either way, your staffing firm charges by the hour of which you get (I would guess) a pretty high percentage. People who rail against contractors just don't know what they're talking about.
Yeah. Sure. We do engineering work. We hired a guy to head our HR's diversity department because regulations. What's he do? Nothing harmful at first, but then he gets it into his head that ethnic clubs at work are a good idea.
Diversity with a big 'd' is an employment plan for idiots who can't find real work and have to make their living as parasites and rabble rousers. Believing it is anything other than that is foolish. No one needs ethnic clubs at their workplace.
Takes two to dance that dance. Don't pretend that being a "contractor" doesn't have advantages for the one being the contractor. In my line of work, contractors don't get "company" benefits and are the first to go when business slows down, but unlike us "first class citizens" with 401k match and benefits, they get to charge by the hour whereas we are salaried.
Oh sure. I'll take your money, but instead of doing the work I'm being paid to do, I'll agitate and rabble rouse and tell you with a straight face that it's OK because I'm the good guys. Do people not have any concept of separating their personal and professional lives? On the clock/off the clock? No drinking on the job, but having a beer with friends after work? Seriously...
Every once in a while these stories come up. Twenty dollars says the people who made this prediction have never made a living doing any of the work they're predicting is prone to automation. So of course without any intimate appreciation of the finer details of the work, they can blithely declare that it's ripe for automation. Or outsourcing. RodenberryTopia, here we come!
And yet, in $CURRENT_YEAR, everything from cell phones to airliners are still hand-assembled. Yes, there is mechanical assistance, and electronic aid so that what used to take twenty men can be done by one or two, but even in the most automated of Japanese or South Carolina car factories, there are still people employed. What the automation has meant is that production has ramped up and product costs have gone down to the point where every household can aspire to have has can have two or three Lexuses or BMWs in the driveway and a plane ticket to the other side of the planet is no longer the province of the ultra rich. More cars and more planes means more people working at more factories. It balances out.
But if you sit on your ass in a cubicle and operate an Excel spreadsheet all day, these are just numbers and abstractions for you. So you can plug them into an equation someone else has given you and conclude that we'll all have nothing to do come next decade. Pathetic.
I'd rather see a well-executed attempt to translate it into adult language than a cut-and-paste any monkey can do. Which raises the question of why the new ownership of slashdot feels it can copy and paste baby talk from non-technical news sources at all. It didn't use to be that way.
People who read slashdot ought to know that 'teach' is a meaningless filler word when it comes to AI and ought to be able to understand a slightly more technical headline.
The problem is that the pile of outsourced mostly carbon atoms that calls itself msmash seems to think that British and Indian orthographic standards apply on American websites. They don't.
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This comment right here is what's wrong with the alarmists. It is just plain Not Even Wrong to think that you can capture all the relevant physics with a simple energy balance equation that fits on the back of an envelope.
I will eat a leather shoe if you can convince me that climate models have even half the predictive power necessary to justify blowing several hundred billion dollars on this nonsense.
No kidding. Some of us use the internet to do actual things instead of finding novel ways of staring in the mirror.
The authors of TFA did something. Learn. To. Copyedit.
Have a product and a customer in mind.
Step 2: Write a functional proof-of-concept
Step 3a: Find a customer.
Step 3b: Worry about "being a startup"
Fuckstick? That's a new one.
If this law, enjoins me as a private individual from saying the words "What did you make at your last job?" then it is a violation of my right to free speech. But because the magic word "employer" gets tacked on to me, it's suddenly OK to deny me the right to say those same words to another adult? Communism FTW!
It's worse than that. Metal-air batteries work by turning metal (that you have) and oxygen (that you get from the air) into metal oxide (that you have to carry back). So unlike an airplane or a rocket that gets lighter as it flies, this fucker will get heavier.
Also, cables and windings for electric motors area heavy. Ever held and industrial electric motor in your hand? Then you're the strongest man alive.
Maybe )))other((( people are too busy collecting welfare to negotiate for any salary.
Ah. I shall report to re-education at once!
WTF? The energy storage mass density of materials is a hard physical barrier. You can compute it from the of a given molecule or crystaline structure from first principles using quantum mechanics and fundamental constants of the universe.
There's a Republican in the White House. Now whatever action the US takes is bad. And dissent is now patriotic and no longer racist.
Ooh yeah. Running the Iraqis out of Kuwait totally merited a 9/11. /sarc. Cunt.
TV can disappear tomorrow and it won't matter. People can get their entertainment the good old fashioned way by going outside instead of staring at a screen.
All to the good, I might add. I swear, I didn't realize how watching several hours of TV each day as a kid had screwed me up until I went a couple of years without owning a TV. Then I got myself a flat screen to put in the living room when I got married and started watching again. Yeesh. Good riddance to the trash merchants. Less money for them means more people are realizing they're putting out crap.
Uh huh. White collar work and hourly caps don't really mix. Sane countries like France have abysmal unemployment numbers because of thinking like that.
Either way, your staffing firm charges by the hour of which you get (I would guess) a pretty high percentage. People who rail against contractors just don't know what they're talking about.
Yeah. Sure. We do engineering work. We hired a guy to head our HR's diversity department because regulations. What's he do? Nothing harmful at first, but then he gets it into his head that ethnic clubs at work are a good idea.
Diversity with a big 'd' is an employment plan for idiots who can't find real work and have to make their living as parasites and rabble rousers. Believing it is anything other than that is foolish. No one needs ethnic clubs at their workplace.
Takes two to dance that dance. Don't pretend that being a "contractor" doesn't have advantages for the one being the contractor. In my line of work, contractors don't get "company" benefits and are the first to go when business slows down, but unlike us "first class citizens" with 401k match and benefits, they get to charge by the hour whereas we are salaried.
Oh sure. I'll take your money, but instead of doing the work I'm being paid to do, I'll agitate and rabble rouse and tell you with a straight face that it's OK because I'm the good guys. Do people not have any concept of separating their personal and professional lives? On the clock/off the clock? No drinking on the job, but having a beer with friends after work? Seriously...
Every once in a while these stories come up. Twenty dollars says the people who made this prediction have never made a living doing any of the work they're predicting is prone to automation. So of course without any intimate appreciation of the finer details of the work, they can blithely declare that it's ripe for automation. Or outsourcing. RodenberryTopia, here we come!
And yet, in $CURRENT_YEAR, everything from cell phones to airliners are still hand-assembled. Yes, there is mechanical assistance, and electronic aid so that what used to take twenty men can be done by one or two, but even in the most automated of Japanese or South Carolina car factories, there are still people employed. What the automation has meant is that production has ramped up and product costs have gone down to the point where every household can aspire to have has can have two or three Lexuses or BMWs in the driveway and a plane ticket to the other side of the planet is no longer the province of the ultra rich. More cars and more planes means more people working at more factories. It balances out.
But if you sit on your ass in a cubicle and operate an Excel spreadsheet all day, these are just numbers and abstractions for you. So you can plug them into an equation someone else has given you and conclude that we'll all have nothing to do come next decade. Pathetic.
I'd rather see a well-executed attempt to translate it into adult language than a cut-and-paste any monkey can do. Which raises the question of why the new ownership of slashdot feels it can copy and paste baby talk from non-technical news sources at all. It didn't use to be that way.
'An honest buck' is socialist code speak for using taxpayer money to pay for unneeded extravagances.
People who read slashdot ought to know that 'teach' is a meaningless filler word when it comes to AI and ought to be able to understand a slightly more technical headline.
The problem is that the pile of outsourced mostly carbon atoms that calls itself msmash seems to think that British and Indian orthographic standards apply on American websites. They don't.
Sure. Eye meeen y hav orthogrefik standardz @ ol ??