Actually, I think a lot of these social problems come from people with hate and without hope.
When do for example nazis get more power ? When there is more uncertainty. Where do people recruit terrorists, etc. ? Districts where people feel disassociated from the rest of society. These areas still exist today: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... It's been more than 10 years now, things have hardly improved.
So part of the reason is a money problem.
I'm for something like UBI or at least really good social security (safety net) and improving the pay of people with medium income:
It will boost the economy, because the people with medium income are the biggest spenders. Do you think a millionaire needs 10 000 jeans ? Or jeans 10 000 as expensive ? Nope, they are the biggest group. They are the consumers.
Ohh, improve education. That would also be on my list too. Why is education getting more and more expensive in western countries ? Are they really doing something completely different that we need to cut spending on that ?
It's kind of funny, it's a bit like websites many, many years ago. Every business is like: we want a website. What do you want to put on the website ? What is your audience ? What would you like to communicate ? Euh... I don't know. LoL.
You already mentioned it, but I think it goes deeper: a place on the home screen. Which is limited real estate. Something a browser bookmark to home screen could do too, which was harder to do in older browsers but more and more people are finding it now it has become easier in browsers.
Probably the biggest reason apps got such a jump over web is because of off-line support in browsers. HTML5 had offline support, but it didn't work well.
And maybe performance, but current new phones have no problems with that. CPU/GPU, etc. is not the most taxing part of a phone. It's networking and powering the screen.
"I am using Firefox Dev Edition with Electrolysis enabled from many months and it looks almost stable now. I dont know if anyone noticed this but the CPU and memory usage reduced drastically with increasing number of tabs (I have about 40 open tabs) with e10 enabled. And with this, Firefox uses lot less resources than Chrome on my system with multiple tabs."
Yes, a slight decrease in people in the workforce, but that were the young generation that attended school longer and mothers that stayed home longer to take better care of the children.
If those are be the results on a largest scale we've tried it so far then I don't see the problem (yet).
Actually population growth in a lot of western/modern countries has basically stopped except for people from outside coming in. With enough education (especially women, when they join the workforce), prosperity and means for contraception are available you can even get shrinking of the population.
I should add: our current economic model might not even last for an other 10 years. The former biggest spending group the 'medium wage' group is already failing behind: https://fabiusmaximus.files.wo...
Not sure why you'd want to look at over such a long period of time. Because current prediction are that the population will top at 10, we are currently over 7. 'peak children' has already happened.
"what it's really not designed for is storing in a bank"
Actually, a lot of people with more than just a little bit of Bitcoin print out an encrypted private key on paper and get a lock box at a regular bank. That does work.
Which is funny because the goal of the terrorists is to strike fear into the hearts of the citizens of the US, but the US media is already doing a fine job at that.;-)
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Someone collects links here: http://without-systemd.org/wik...
Actually, I think a lot of these social problems come from people with hate and without hope.
When do for example nazis get more power ? When there is more uncertainty. Where do people recruit terrorists, etc. ? Districts where people feel disassociated from the rest of society. These areas still exist today: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... It's been more than 10 years now, things have hardly improved.
So part of the reason is a money problem.
I'm for something like UBI or at least really good social security (safety net) and improving the pay of people with medium income:
https://fabiusmaximus.files.wo...
https://fabiusmaximus.com/2015...
It will boost the economy, because the people with medium income are the biggest spenders. Do you think a millionaire needs 10 000 jeans ? Or jeans 10 000 as expensive ? Nope, they are the biggest group. They are the consumers.
Ohh, improve education. That would also be on my list too. Why is education getting more and more expensive in western countries ? Are they really doing something completely different that we need to cut spending on that ?
Yes, but because it's all new (and people don't trust the tooling yet) they allow you to specify an e-mail address.
Giving back a /8 adds about 1 month of not 'running out' of IPv4, really it's not that important.
It's kind of funny, it's a bit like websites many, many years ago. Every business is like: we want a website. What do you want to put on the website ? What is your audience ? What would you like to communicate ? Euh... I don't know. LoL.
You already mentioned it, but I think it goes deeper: a place on the home screen. Which is limited real estate. Something a browser bookmark to home screen could do too, which was harder to do in older browsers but more and more people are finding it now it has become easier in browsers.
Probably the biggest reason apps got such a jump over web is because of off-line support in browsers. HTML5 had offline support, but it didn't work well.
And maybe performance, but current new phones have no problems with that. CPU/GPU, etc. is not the most taxing part of a phone. It's networking and powering the screen.
Their is a new API which is now supported by all the latest browsers:
https://jakearchibald.github.i...
http://caniuse.com/#feat=servi...
Let's see if they got it right this time.
And people now know they don't want to install sketchy software. They even understand they don't want plugins any more on their desktop/laptop.
The biggest missing part of mobile web is: it's not easy to do payments. In many countries people can't use the app store either (no credit card).
Maybe this will happen: https://www.w3.org/Payments/
I think large scale experiments will start small too also with a limited effect: aka with a small amount of money.
"I am using Firefox Dev Edition with Electrolysis enabled from many months and it looks almost stable now. I dont know if anyone noticed this but the CPU and memory usage reduced drastically with increasing number of tabs (I have about 40 open tabs) with e10 enabled. And with this, Firefox uses lot less resources than Chrome on my system with multiple tabs."
https://asadotzler.com/2016/06...
The tests were supposed to run much longer, but a change of government changed all that.
But I agree, these kinds of tests have limited ability to show us what full scale UBI in real life would do.
Of course, long term in theory we could even go a step further: abolish money all together.
They ran an experiment many years ago in Canada, called Mincome. Some of the results:
"Doctor and hospital visits declined, mental health appeared to improve, and more teenagers completed high school."
http://motherboard.vice.com/re...
Yes, a slight decrease in people in the workforce, but that were the young generation that attended school longer and mothers that stayed home longer to take better care of the children.
If those are be the results on a largest scale we've tried it so far then I don't see the problem (yet).
Actually population growth in a lot of western/modern countries has basically stopped except for people from outside coming in. With enough education (especially women, when they join the workforce), prosperity and means for contraception are available you can even get shrinking of the population.
Luckily some people see a lot of positive change coming too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I guess we'll have to wait for the economic collapse then ? That sucks.
I should add: our current economic model might not even last for an other 10 years. The former biggest spending group the 'medium wage' group is already failing behind: https://fabiusmaximus.files.wo...
Not sure why you'd want to look at over such a long period of time. Because current prediction are that the population will top at 10, we are currently over 7. 'peak children' has already happened.
"Bitcoin isn't really designed for investment, in the buy-and-hold sense where you hope the value goes up."
Just like any other currency, but they also get traded. Probably more than Bitcoin, because Bitcoin is still a small economy.
The problem is: Bitcoin is still a pretty small economy. So when something happens it will be reflected in the value in a big way.
"what it's really not designed for is storing in a bank"
Actually, a lot of people with more than just a little bit of Bitcoin print out an encrypted private key on paper and get a lock box at a regular bank. That does work.
Which is funny because the goal of the terrorists is to strike fear into the hearts of the citizens of the US, but the US media is already doing a fine job at that. ;-)
I wouldn't worry about who gets the most money, the problem is the lowering income of the lower and medium wages:
https://hbr.org/resources/imag...
Which is also really bad for the economy, because medium wages are the largest spenders
These engineers also thought limited range radio would work:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...
Well, Apple is busy doing the same thing.
So that leaves only one of those three choices.
I believe the competition was gas, which actually does come out of the ground in United Arab Emirates. So competition is not coal import.
Because Slashdot uses MySQL and their collation doesn't allow it ?
Not fast you say, I think you are looking at it wrong:
http://rameznaam.com/2013/09/2...