UBI (Univeral Basic Income) is not a panacea either. People want to feel needed, useful and most are not self-driven to find satisfaction in the arts.
People have been sold a line of bullshit that states that if they're not working a job, they're worthless because they're not serving anyone. It's some puritanical garbage that has been embedded in our culture. If you want to see the logical end of that game, check out Japan. They've got whole jobs, not just job duties, that are pure make-work. Responsibility to the culture leads corporations to inefficiently employ people doing things that don't need to be done. But there is a real energy cost to putting asses in seats, to say nothing of traffic congestion, and that harms everyone else.
Pretty much the whole world works on the same principle, but it's crap. Absent work requirements, we'd take on our own projects. Sphincters would relax long enough for people to even conceive of what they would do with their time, in a way that most cannot even imagine today.
YOU ARE NOT YOUR JOB. YOUR JOB DOES NOT GIVE YOUR LIFE MEANING. Many jobs are actually counterproductive, and the world would be better off if they were not done at all.
You're conflating immigrants with illegal immigrants. Legal immigrants as a group are less likely to take advantage of us. Illegal immigrants, and anchor babies, are far more likely to take advantage.
It's been shown time and again that illegal immigrants 1) contribute more than they consume and 2) commit less crimes than the background rate, because they are trying to keep a low profile. So even if they are more likely to take advantage, they're still a net positive. We also take actions that cause these people to come here, like when we interfere with their democratic processes, or with our War On Some Drugs. If you look at where people are coming from when they come here, it's overwhelmingly from countries we've shit upon in a well-documented fashion. If you don't want refugees here, then stop supporting politicians who will create them.
There is literally no limit to the amount of work available for people to do.
Ugh, stop saying that. It was meaningless the first time you said it, and it's still meaningless. The amount of work which could be done in the universe isn't necessarily going to be done by humans, nor should it.
Once we've converted this solar system to our liking, we can move on to the rest of the universe. Then we can redo it all again.
No, we can't. Ever heard of entropy? There's a limit to how much can physically be done before it results in the heat death of the universe. And on a more personal note, we are using up more natural capital than is being replenished here on Earth. At this rate, we are not actually going to make it to the rest of the universe. We literally need to do less work, at least of the unsustainable kind, if we are going to avoid driving ourselves to extinction.
Fortunately, there is literally no limit to the amount of work available for people to do, just a lack of people to be available to do it.
There's also a lack of people willing to pay them to do it. There's lots of things that need doing that nobody has figured out how to profit from, and they're going undone. For example, meaningful fire prevention for California, reclamation of regions desertified by human activity, etc. But then there's the flip side of that argument, which is that those activities can be automated as well, and they will be eventually. So no, there is a limit to the amount of work available for people to do. Under capitalism, work tends to be limited by the speed at which some already rich prick can find a way to profit from it.
Touchpads are fucking evil and cause more problems than they have ever solved. I will never understand why people love them so much and why so many companies insist on offering them as the only option for moving the cursor on a laptop. Trackpoints are vastly superior options that move only when you want them to and require far less movement to cross the screen (among other benefits).
Trackpoints are crap and your argument is lame. Trackpads with multitouch let you rotate and zoom, which you can't do at all with a trackpoint, not to mention featuring programmable scrolling regions — trackpoints don't scroll either. Trackpoints get in the way while you're typing; the problem is limited for touch typists, but it's still an issue. I have massive hands and traditional touch typing makes them ache (just putting my fingers on the home row is painful) so I have a loose typing style that lets me get around 75 WPM at 99% which involves my index fingers sometimes crossing over to hit the first key on the other side. A trackpoint interferes with this horribly. However, most keyboard users are not touch typists anyway, and it gets in their way too.
The only place a zero travel joystick (the non-trademark name of Trackpoint and similar) makes sense is on top of another joystick. I've been told they are used this way in some fighter craft, but I don't know if that's actually true.
I moved into a place where there is this crazy hum 24/7. I don't know if some neighbor is running off a diesel genset or what but I can't find it on the property and it happens even when the power is out. During the day I rarely notice it (although sometimes it is more intense than others) but it's really destroying my ability to sleep through a night, which is definitely having a noticeable effect on my ability to function during the day. Since it's not very loud and I moved in after it did, I have no recourse but to move, but producing noise like that ought to be illegal. Noise pollution is real, and has real effects on health.
Yep, this is what I came here for. Water vapor is a GHG. They're increasing global warming to fight their local pollution problem. One city does this, who cares? Every dirty city does this, you'll notice. Also, this will just wash more of the pollution directly into wherever their storm drains go, instead of letting it collect elsewhere in the environment.
A better solution would be to cover buildings in plants. It has other benefits besides pollution reduction. They also add water vapor to the air, but not as much as simply spraying it there.
it doesn't make sense that all possible life should evolve to a very high stage of development. It takes a special one to even ask themselves about alien life.
Intelligence is useful in all environments, which is why it's reasonable to assume that it would arise anywhere it was possible, eventually.
Besides, despite reports of "Solo" making a loss, I'm pretty sure that the revenue from the Star Wars, Marvel, and Pixar franchises (amongst others) that are under the Disney umbrella is more than enough to make up for any loss in revenue they might have from early versions of classic Disney characters - it's not like they sell much (any?) merchandise based around the "Steamboat Willie" version of Mickey, is it?
No, but they do use that rendition of Mickey in a currently shipping product, Disney Heroes. When you win a battle with Mickey in your lineup, he transforms into Steamboat Willie Mickey and blows some musical notes while spinning a ship's wheel. Presumably they've done this for the precise purpose you've pointed out.
There is only one writer, and thousands of readers, so it's better if the writer spends 5 extra minutes for some descriptions, rather than each of the readers figuring it out individually.
If they are Slashdot readers, they shouldn't have to figure anything out, except maybe Gallium. All of those other things are very well-known. Explaining every term would be a waste of time. If you're smart, you'll figure it out. If not, you can go ahead and whine.
Yes, it is. He took ownership of the shutdown on national television, saying he was proud to do it. IT IS TRUMP'S SHUTDOWN. TRUMP SHUT DOWN THE GOVERNMENT. HE SAID SO.
It'll be a race to the bottom like you've never seen before where the only winners will be the ones that own the robots pitting us against each other for their profit and amusement.
So what you're saying is, study hacking and robotics?
I've been paid on contract to do things that a union sysadmin (at a community college) couldn't figure out, but which were well within the scope of his job duties. At least some of the time, those guys are worthless.
The US is culpable for most of it around the world. Why does central america get to flood the border and not the Middle East, southeast Asia, Africa, and North Korea?
If your argument is that those people should also get to come here, I agree. If you're actually asking, I weep for you.
I don't know how someone can be a "monster" by turning away people to leave them to die when a huge percentage of the world's population is in the same or worse circumstances and there is no way we can save them all.
Look up the countries these people are coming from, then look up what caused the unrest in their country. Note how the US is culpable for most of it. We make the refugees, then we get mad when they show up asking for help, then we scratch our heads and act surprised. This innocent act ain't gonna fly.
It appears to me that Trump has offered to negotiate....the Dems should begin the process on their side.
No. Trump is not negotiating, nor willing to compromise. He is still demanding the full amount he was always demanding, and the only thing he is willing to give up is the hostages he's taken, if that. The dreamers only get a three year reprieve, and there's no promises on the caged refugee children.
Our nation has a policy of not negotiating with terrorists, and Trump is still holding hostages. Let him give back the refugee children and agree to extend DACA, and end the shutdown, and then we can negotiate. A mature democracy doesn't let the president unilaterally shut down the government, for that matter.
Apple introduced their version of the ad blocking API that Google is proposing years ago. And as I pointed out in the story about it, Google is actually looking at keeping the older API for stuff that needs it
Embrace
and offering the new one as a higher performance but more limited option.
What I'm telling you is that there is no algorithm that can run on the car (because any wireless connection would be too slow) and identify that animal within the 0.001 seconds it needs to in order to make the correct decision.
You do realize that in 0.001 seconds, a human literally cannot possibly even see that animal? If we saw anything, it would just be a blur. And we certainly wouldn't have time to think about doing anything about it.
That's bad, as gum disease affects around a third of all people. But the good news is that a drug that blocks the main toxins of P. gingivalis is entering major clinical trials this year,
Just floss people. And don't FORGET to floss. The more you floss, the less you will forget to floss. See how that works?
No, you missed the important part of the story. It's very important that you solve this problem with a drug which is entering major clinical trials this year! Otherwise, how will the poor starving yacht builders get work?
All the hand-wringing about Firefox having an extension apocalypse seems a bit hypocritical now, don't it.. whatever. It brings me amusement.
How? It sucked when Firefox did it, and it sucks now that Chrome is doing it. In fact, Chrome sucked in the past, before you could implement a good ad blocker on it, which was arguably by design. But Google made it possible to have a pretty good one, and now perhaps they aim to make it impossible again. Make Chrome Suck Again!
The two big questions to my mind now are which browser does it make the most sense to fork, and who should be in charge of it? I am using Pale Moon right now because it supports features I am using in extensions, but it is becoming increasingly outdated and I am concerned for its future.
However it is assumed that such persons are not armed. It is a point of contention whether Article Four covers anyone who is an armed participant in a conflict but is not an agent of a recognized government.
How do you square that with nations (Well, nation) where firearm ownership is a constitutional right? Does that mean that anyone invading this country basically has carte blanche to put bullets into anyone they see? Because I might be an armed participant, and that's a really convenient excuse. Not that I expect to be invaded any time soon, but I do live on the California coast... so if it happens, it's probably happening here first:p
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UBI (Univeral Basic Income) is not a panacea either. People want to feel needed, useful and most are not self-driven to find satisfaction in the arts.
People have been sold a line of bullshit that states that if they're not working a job, they're worthless because they're not serving anyone. It's some puritanical garbage that has been embedded in our culture. If you want to see the logical end of that game, check out Japan. They've got whole jobs, not just job duties, that are pure make-work. Responsibility to the culture leads corporations to inefficiently employ people doing things that don't need to be done. But there is a real energy cost to putting asses in seats, to say nothing of traffic congestion, and that harms everyone else.
Pretty much the whole world works on the same principle, but it's crap. Absent work requirements, we'd take on our own projects. Sphincters would relax long enough for people to even conceive of what they would do with their time, in a way that most cannot even imagine today.
YOU ARE NOT YOUR JOB. YOUR JOB DOES NOT GIVE YOUR LIFE MEANING. Many jobs are actually counterproductive, and the world would be better off if they were not done at all.
More like 25%. 13 % under Reagan. Both U3 numbers. Obama hit about 10%. U3 unemployment.
Taking the U3 seriously is a sign of mental illness. At least use U6.
You're conflating immigrants with illegal immigrants. Legal immigrants as a group are less likely to take advantage of us. Illegal immigrants, and anchor babies, are far more likely to take advantage.
It's been shown time and again that illegal immigrants 1) contribute more than they consume and 2) commit less crimes than the background rate, because they are trying to keep a low profile. So even if they are more likely to take advantage, they're still a net positive. We also take actions that cause these people to come here, like when we interfere with their democratic processes, or with our War On Some Drugs. If you look at where people are coming from when they come here, it's overwhelmingly from countries we've shit upon in a well-documented fashion. If you don't want refugees here, then stop supporting politicians who will create them.
So Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffet could be automated away with no impact?
If you replaced Bill Gates with a small shell script, it would be a substantial improvement.
There is literally no limit to the amount of work available for people to do.
Ugh, stop saying that. It was meaningless the first time you said it, and it's still meaningless. The amount of work which could be done in the universe isn't necessarily going to be done by humans, nor should it.
Once we've converted this solar system to our liking, we can move on to the rest of the universe. Then we can redo it all again.
No, we can't. Ever heard of entropy? There's a limit to how much can physically be done before it results in the heat death of the universe. And on a more personal note, we are using up more natural capital than is being replenished here on Earth. At this rate, we are not actually going to make it to the rest of the universe. We literally need to do less work, at least of the unsustainable kind, if we are going to avoid driving ourselves to extinction.
Fortunately, there is literally no limit to the amount of work available for people to do, just a lack of people to be available to do it.
There's also a lack of people willing to pay them to do it. There's lots of things that need doing that nobody has figured out how to profit from, and they're going undone. For example, meaningful fire prevention for California, reclamation of regions desertified by human activity, etc. But then there's the flip side of that argument, which is that those activities can be automated as well, and they will be eventually. So no, there is a limit to the amount of work available for people to do. Under capitalism, work tends to be limited by the speed at which some already rich prick can find a way to profit from it.
Touchpads are fucking evil and cause more problems than they have ever solved. I will never understand why people love them so much and why so many companies insist on offering them as the only option for moving the cursor on a laptop. Trackpoints are vastly superior options that move only when you want them to and require far less movement to cross the screen (among other benefits).
Trackpoints are crap and your argument is lame. Trackpads with multitouch let you rotate and zoom, which you can't do at all with a trackpoint, not to mention featuring programmable scrolling regions — trackpoints don't scroll either. Trackpoints get in the way while you're typing; the problem is limited for touch typists, but it's still an issue. I have massive hands and traditional touch typing makes them ache (just putting my fingers on the home row is painful) so I have a loose typing style that lets me get around 75 WPM at 99% which involves my index fingers sometimes crossing over to hit the first key on the other side. A trackpoint interferes with this horribly. However, most keyboard users are not touch typists anyway, and it gets in their way too.
The only place a zero travel joystick (the non-trademark name of Trackpoint and similar) makes sense is on top of another joystick. I've been told they are used this way in some fighter craft, but I don't know if that's actually true.
When they come to use their planet, we're doomed. Look what we did to it.
The Arrival (1996)
I moved into a place where there is this crazy hum 24/7. I don't know if some neighbor is running off a diesel genset or what but I can't find it on the property and it happens even when the power is out. During the day I rarely notice it (although sometimes it is more intense than others) but it's really destroying my ability to sleep through a night, which is definitely having a noticeable effect on my ability to function during the day. Since it's not very loud and I moved in after it did, I have no recourse but to move, but producing noise like that ought to be illegal. Noise pollution is real, and has real effects on health.
Yep, this is what I came here for. Water vapor is a GHG. They're increasing global warming to fight their local pollution problem. One city does this, who cares? Every dirty city does this, you'll notice. Also, this will just wash more of the pollution directly into wherever their storm drains go, instead of letting it collect elsewhere in the environment.
A better solution would be to cover buildings in plants. It has other benefits besides pollution reduction. They also add water vapor to the air, but not as much as simply spraying it there.
it doesn't make sense that all possible life should evolve to a very high stage of development. It takes a special one to even ask themselves about alien life.
Intelligence is useful in all environments, which is why it's reasonable to assume that it would arise anywhere it was possible, eventually.
Besides, despite reports of "Solo" making a loss, I'm pretty sure that the revenue from the Star Wars, Marvel, and Pixar franchises (amongst others) that are under the Disney umbrella is more than enough to make up for any loss in revenue they might have from early versions of classic Disney characters - it's not like they sell much (any?) merchandise based around the "Steamboat Willie" version of Mickey, is it?
No, but they do use that rendition of Mickey in a currently shipping product, Disney Heroes. When you win a battle with Mickey in your lineup, he transforms into Steamboat Willie Mickey and blows some musical notes while spinning a ship's wheel. Presumably they've done this for the precise purpose you've pointed out.
There is only one writer, and thousands of readers, so it's better if the writer spends 5 extra minutes for some descriptions, rather than each of the readers figuring it out individually.
If they are Slashdot readers, they shouldn't have to figure anything out, except maybe Gallium. All of those other things are very well-known. Explaining every term would be a waste of time. If you're smart, you'll figure it out. If not, you can go ahead and whine.
And it isn't just Trump shutting down the govt.
Yes, it is. He took ownership of the shutdown on national television, saying he was proud to do it. IT IS TRUMP'S SHUTDOWN. TRUMP SHUT DOWN THE GOVERNMENT. HE SAID SO.
It'll be a race to the bottom like you've never seen before where the only winners will be the ones that own the robots pitting us against each other for their profit and amusement.
So what you're saying is, study hacking and robotics?
I've been paid on contract to do things that a union sysadmin (at a community college) couldn't figure out, but which were well within the scope of his job duties. At least some of the time, those guys are worthless.
The US is culpable for most of it around the world. Why does central america get to flood the border and not the Middle East, southeast Asia, Africa, and North Korea?
If your argument is that those people should also get to come here, I agree. If you're actually asking, I weep for you.
I don't know how someone can be a "monster" by turning away people to leave them to die when a huge percentage of the world's population is in the same or worse circumstances and there is no way we can save them all.
Look up the countries these people are coming from, then look up what caused the unrest in their country. Note how the US is culpable for most of it. We make the refugees, then we get mad when they show up asking for help, then we scratch our heads and act surprised. This innocent act ain't gonna fly.
It appears to me that Trump has offered to negotiate....the Dems should begin the process on their side.
No. Trump is not negotiating, nor willing to compromise. He is still demanding the full amount he was always demanding, and the only thing he is willing to give up is the hostages he's taken, if that. The dreamers only get a three year reprieve, and there's no promises on the caged refugee children.
Our nation has a policy of not negotiating with terrorists, and Trump is still holding hostages. Let him give back the refugee children and agree to extend DACA, and end the shutdown, and then we can negotiate. A mature democracy doesn't let the president unilaterally shut down the government, for that matter.
Apple introduced their version of the ad blocking API that Google is proposing years ago. And as I pointed out in the story about it, Google is actually looking at keeping the older API for stuff that needs it
Embrace
and offering the new one as a higher performance but more limited option.
Extend
What comes next?
Google is the new Microsoft.
What I'm telling you is that there is no algorithm that can run on the car (because any wireless connection would be too slow) and identify that animal within the 0.001 seconds it needs to in order to make the correct decision.
You do realize that in 0.001 seconds, a human literally cannot possibly even see that animal? If we saw anything, it would just be a blur. And we certainly wouldn't have time to think about doing anything about it.
>Yes, but that was an idiotic idea because we could actually find it if it were that large
Hardly - the thing could easily be on a highly elliptical long-period orbit, in which case we might only see it near it's closest approach,
Except it has to be closer than that to do the things it's claimed that it's doing...
That's bad, as gum disease affects around a third of all people. But the good news is that a drug that blocks the main toxins of P. gingivalis is entering major clinical trials this year,
Just floss people. And don't FORGET to floss. The more you floss, the less you will forget to floss. See how that works?
No, you missed the important part of the story. It's very important that you solve this problem with a drug which is entering major clinical trials this year! Otherwise, how will the poor starving yacht builders get work?
All the hand-wringing about Firefox having an extension apocalypse seems a bit hypocritical now, don't it.. whatever. It brings me amusement.
How? It sucked when Firefox did it, and it sucks now that Chrome is doing it. In fact, Chrome sucked in the past, before you could implement a good ad blocker on it, which was arguably by design. But Google made it possible to have a pretty good one, and now perhaps they aim to make it impossible again. Make Chrome Suck Again!
The two big questions to my mind now are which browser does it make the most sense to fork, and who should be in charge of it? I am using Pale Moon right now because it supports features I am using in extensions, but it is becoming increasingly outdated and I am concerned for its future.
However it is assumed that such persons are not armed. It is a point of contention whether Article Four covers anyone who is an armed participant in a conflict but is not an agent of a recognized government.
How do you square that with nations (Well, nation) where firearm ownership is a constitutional right? Does that mean that anyone invading this country basically has carte blanche to put bullets into anyone they see? Because I might be an armed participant, and that's a really convenient excuse. Not that I expect to be invaded any time soon, but I do live on the California coast... so if it happens, it's probably happening here first :p