I'm not sure if you're experience nullifies the hypotheses. Your cat may have been attracted to the fattiness of the kisses rather than the sweetness. There's been some investigation into this: https://www.scientificamerican...
My cats will ignore sugar and fruits, but they too will eat chocolate and drink mocha; glad to hear the chocolate likely won't kill 'em. I'm still not sure about caffeine.
IANAEconomist, but I 'll take a shot at explaining it:
Most easy to get jobs inevitably pay at or slightly above minimum wage, so this will represent a large portion of the population and the job pool.
Our goal is to maximize the happiness of the population which will be composed largely of people who hold these jobs.
Happiness that altering minimum wage will be something like: free_time*income in some sort of units that probably work out to 120hours*$15/hour is awesome.
When we increase minimum wage, workers make more money for the hours they put in, but hours available begin decreasing as businesses can't afford as much labor: At $100 (or probably even $25) per hour, no business can afford to pay that, free_time*income=doesn't_matter*0=0=unhappy.
Seriously, why can't anyone answer that question?
Because it seems so obvious, that only the nerdiest among the news for nerds crowd would put math to it.
The other reason that people avoid the question is that the other side works out equally bad, but they're concerned that you aren't considering it. When Minimum wage decreases, people have to put in more hours to make a living, because most easy to get jobs inevitably pay at or slightly above minimum wage, but more jobs and hours become available since businesses can afford them. Set minimum wage to zero and we are back to child laborers paid in script: free_time*income=0*0=0=unhappy.
You can't even define a "living wage". Put a number to that
Somewhere in this curve is a happiness maximum. IANAE and I've never visited Seatle, so I can't give you a number on a "livable wage", but I hear the cost of living is huge and the weather is so dismal that not only is it impossible to be homeless, but people suffer from year round seasonal affect disorder. I wont move there for less than $60/hour and under 50hours/week.
You can try to fire me, but then who're you going to call at 3:00am if no one on the rest of the team is willing to touch my code even with a 100ft USB cable?
Come to think of it, probably 98% of the remaining 2% of ordnance is cover fire, or whatever terms the military uses for "doesn't kill the target" (IANA military strategist), and might as well plant trees too.
Companies full of 80 hour/week people are waiting to implode.
I'd agree with you, but somehow Amazon continues to succeed while allegedly driving their devs (and the rest of their staff) into working ridiculously hard all the time.
I also witnessed a project recently that has been driving people nearly that hard for nearly 5 years. It's not going well, the (remaining) employees get by more on their bonds of shared suffering than 'passion', 'drive' or whatever euphemism companies are looking for these days, but it's still going!
I know I can't survive more than a couple weeks at 60+ hours, but somehow, it's done; I've seen it done and it seems to be working for well Amazon.
There is a lack of skilled workers willing to work at the offered level of pay
Well, in amazon's case, it's more of a lack of skilled workers willing to tolerate our working conditions. Amazon pays amazingly well from what I've heard.
I played Magic the Gathering as a Kid. As young as 10 I saved up my allowance to buy physical objects from a store with my physical money. I understood exactly how that transaction worked (even with gift cards), and my parents, though not entirely approving of my choices, understood what was going on.
Now in my 30s working as an IT professional, I've got my parental controls against purchases maxed out on my own devices because half the time I don't understand whether I'm buying something or not. And my parents? On a good day, they might remember their passwords, they'd be helpless to protect me even if they were still helicoptering.
Your right that marketing virtual collectable toys to kids isn't new, but the predatory tricks that current companies employ are.
First, this doctor is omnipotent, so really, the doctor condemned me to death in the first place. Second, the alternative to the medicine isn't death, it's an eternity of pain, which again, omnipotency, this doctor created this pain for me; for his amusement, I'm guessing?
Scientists are researching this subject and in the mean time, no one has demanded I behave a certain way and send them money or the Mighty Second Red will burn me for all eternity.
There is no such thing as a fair trial when the US Govt. is involved. They will hang you, shoot you, or put you to sleep.
Any examples? I'd be willing to accept that They make obscure people disappear, but a notable guy like Snowden disappearing in US custody would be unbelievable to me. Maybe a little waterboarding and an extra IRS audit of his parents. Martyring him would only ensure the general public becomes fixated on his revelations and corruptions of the system.
Unless they offer to make you president, just stay in Russia.
I think he's in more danger of execution outside the states where he could be declared an enemy combatant and assassinated as such. Some US ally could be found responsible for the act.
You're mastercard requires a fingerprint? All my master card requires from me, after a number, is a "signature." I frequently spend several hundred dollars on my card and leave a small squiggle, assuming the touchscreen worked that day, to confirm it was definitely me who made the purchase.
Instead of having just a number (which has been taken from me at least twice before), this person needs to spoof my phone and have acquired pictures of me. It's not perfectly secure, but this is orders of security above the security systems that are currently in place around my cards.
I even better liked the suggestion of using a dick pick, very few people have my dick pick on file. You can't pull that off of my facebook profile either (like mugshots and my phone number if you're a friend.
The cheapness and ease of control of drones, I think, makes it reasonable that they've had their recent explosion in popularity and have generated a much larger following than the old RC flying clubs.
I've seen big RC helicopters, kinda wanted one, but never got around to spending the time to do the research such a big purchase would require, nor learn how to to hover and deal with the pendulum effect, etc. The ones I was looking at were gas powered and had metal rotor blades though I know they come in some less dangerous varieties.
On the other hand I recently went down to the toy shop and for $40 bought something I could easily fly around my house and have no problems letting friends children fly around my pets.
Note that I also have a couple tiny plastic RC helicopters, but I've seen few other people with the patience to build skill at flying them around the house.
It's like he gave his son key to the gun cabinet and later blame the gun manufacturer when the kid hurts himself.
Well, if that gun manufacturer advertised guns as "great toys for kids!" and didn't tell you or your kid much, if anything, about gun safety, then I'd see that blame as entirely justified.
Apple did reimburse him all the money what else is left to grunge about
They've been doing this for years (google has too), and many people either didn't know they could be reimbursed or felt it was their fault for not reading to the end of every 300page EULA and checking back frequently for changes. The companies know this, and (I believe) they leave this loop hole open on purpose because it's so lucrative.
Actually, California CCPs are by governed by the county, so experiences will differ wildly based on where you are in California. My understanding is that San Bernandino was pretty liberal with CCPs.
Not that the law matters though; I Lived in the bay area for a few years and I know my dad and a couple of my friends, regularly wandered around with concealed carry there*. I'm actually pretty surprised no one returned fire in this situation, though the shooters were wearing body armor, so I'm not sure how much it would have helped.
*All white guys, i.e. they've never worried about being unreasonably searched by the cops. I had a black friend there who was tackled at gun point by the cops, for carrying what was basically a chair leg.
I don't have any on hand, but I thought plastic dice floated. If not, use oil. But the dice should settle at the surface with the heaviest end down and the lightest end up and therefore show the side that they are most likely to when rolled.
However this method assumes that all the faces are even, some might be stickyer or wider than others, and therefore the only way to tell if they are fair/blessed/cursed will be to roll them on a hard surface or however you actually roll them.
I don't think sanity is an objective measurement. If I thought someone needed to be put to death for their actions, I'd think you're insane for not killing them. Your (in)actions in this case, would, to me, seem irrational, and to use the contested word, insane.
For this particular case, we might love to see a good Linux install for perfect encrypted communication, but for someone about to die in a blaze of glory in a couple days, this probably isn't their biggest concern. I think most people around here would call them crazy for not at least researching a good technical solution like we would have, but they'd call us crazy for playing with tech in the face of the coming apocalypse.
Geesh, I think government officials have been reading too many best-seller spy novels and listening to too few tech geeks.
Tech Geeks aren't terrorists; as geeks, we can tell you how to set up a perfect system, but the terrorists will use what they use, and maybe for their purposes, their system works better. It's quite likely the terrorists are also reading spy novels instead of consulting with the nerds.
First, he didn't say it was useless, but to address your logic argument: if doctors just collected medical knowledge, but never helped helped anyone, then I'd consider them useless. If police logged all crime in a big data center but did nothing to stop it, then I'd consider them useless. Same for mass surveillance. If you collect terabytes of crap in a big data warehouse, but can only find information that would stop attacks in retrospect, that's useless.
I don't know how useful mass surveillance is, but from what limited information about it I'm allowed to see, we are a lot better at collecting it and storing it than we are on acting on it. Instead of focusing on how many terabytes of data we can vacuum up on our citizens, we should instead focus on the effectiveness of how that data can be used to save lives.
Because in the 70s you had to take bills from your parents (who had like $40 laying around) and you have to take that money to someone, who can clearly see that you are too young to be making any sort of financial decisions. If you can execute that transaction, you clearly know what money is and that you are doing something wrong.
Now you click the wrong buttons in a game, which your parents said you could play, and you've spent hundreds of dollars. You don't have to have any idea what money is to click a button.
There were experiments on paying everyone a basic payment conducted in some US and Canadian Towns in the 60s and 70s. It worked
According to other people, all such experiments failed miserably.
It wasn't politically acceptable though.
Yes, everyone construes the results based on their political ideology, but that includes you. Point out some specific examples and maybe we'll take an interest.
A robot won't displace 1000 workers
You can't stress that point enough these days. Cleaning, gardening, construction, landscaping, etc are not going away for the foreseeable future. Manufacturing even seems to be approaching a limit.
All of the jobs shuffling paper, ticking boxes, talking to people will be automated. Even things like...
Ahahaha! Don't we all wish! My grandparents predicted this would happen. I doubt it though. Every time I see a 'ticking boxes' job get automated, the replaced human has to be moved to verify the input, and a new hire is needed to audit the output. If the output is contentious, then all interested parties will need to hire new humans on both ends of the box ticker bot. I hate shuffling papers and ticking boxes, and though our tools continue to improve, I feel like I'm going to be ticking boxes, or paying someone to do it for the rest of my life (40years or so).
Well that's one solution, but the optimal solution varies by person. Assuming laziness is the problem: how much is your time curating your data worth vs. cost to back it all up? For me, it's only worth it I when it start nearing the size of the typical external hard drive, until then, cu-ration is an unnecessary hassle.
20TB is actually pretty easy to generate. It's not super common for an individual to do so, but a hobbyist video producer could do it easily. I also know a few semi-professionals that generate TBs of data and really have to start calculating future_value/storage_cost and deciding to delete the data is often more punishing to get wrong.
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cats cannot taste sweets
I'm not sure if you're experience nullifies the hypotheses. Your cat may have been attracted to the fattiness of the kisses rather than the sweetness. There's been some investigation into this: https://www.scientificamerican...
My cats will ignore sugar and fruits, but they too will eat chocolate and drink mocha; glad to hear the chocolate likely won't kill 'em. I'm still not sure about caffeine.
Why not raise the minimum wage to $100/hr?
IANAEconomist, but I 'll take a shot at explaining it:
When we increase minimum wage, workers make more money for the hours they put in, but hours available begin decreasing as businesses can't afford as much labor:
At $100 (or probably even $25) per hour, no business can afford to pay that, free_time*income=doesn't_matter*0=0=unhappy.
Seriously, why can't anyone answer that question?
Because it seems so obvious, that only the nerdiest among the news for nerds crowd would put math to it.
The other reason that people avoid the question is that the other side works out equally bad, but they're concerned that you aren't considering it.
When Minimum wage decreases, people have to put in more hours to make a living, because most easy to get jobs inevitably pay at or slightly above minimum wage, but more jobs and hours become available since businesses can afford them.
Set minimum wage to zero and we are back to child laborers paid in script: free_time*income=0*0=0=unhappy.
You can't even define a "living wage". Put a number to that
Somewhere in this curve is a happiness maximum. IANAE and I've never visited Seatle, so I can't give you a number on a "livable wage", but I hear the cost of living is huge and the weather is so dismal that not only is it impossible to be homeless, but people suffer from year round seasonal affect disorder. I wont move there for less than $60/hour and under 50hours/week.
You can try to fire me, but then who're you going to call at 3:00am if no one on the rest of the team is willing to touch my code even with a 100ft USB cable?
98% of all ordnance is expended in practice
Come to think of it, probably 98% of the remaining 2% of ordnance is cover fire, or whatever terms the military uses for "doesn't kill the target" (IANA military strategist), and might as well plant trees too.
Companies full of 80 hour/week people are waiting to implode.
I'd agree with you, but somehow Amazon continues to succeed while allegedly driving their devs (and the rest of their staff) into working ridiculously hard all the time.
I also witnessed a project recently that has been driving people nearly that hard for nearly 5 years. It's not going well, the (remaining) employees get by more on their bonds of shared suffering than 'passion', 'drive' or whatever euphemism companies are looking for these days, but it's still going!
I know I can't survive more than a couple weeks at 60+ hours, but somehow, it's done; I've seen it done and it seems to be working for well Amazon.
There is a lack of skilled workers willing to work at the offered level of pay
Well, in amazon's case, it's more of a lack of skilled workers willing to tolerate our working conditions. Amazon pays amazingly well from what I've heard.
I played Magic the Gathering as a Kid. As young as 10 I saved up my allowance to buy physical objects from a store with my physical money. I understood exactly how that transaction worked (even with gift cards), and my parents, though not entirely approving of my choices, understood what was going on.
Now in my 30s working as an IT professional, I've got my parental controls against purchases maxed out on my own devices because half the time I don't understand whether I'm buying something or not. And my parents? On a good day, they might remember their passwords, they'd be helpless to protect me even if they were still helicoptering.
Your right that marketing virtual collectable toys to kids isn't new, but the predatory tricks that current companies employ are.
First, this doctor is omnipotent, so really, the doctor condemned me to death in the first place. Second, the alternative to the medicine isn't death, it's an eternity of pain, which again, omnipotency, this doctor created this pain for me; for his amusement, I'm guessing?
And in fact, human tetrachromats may exist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Scientists are researching this subject and in the mean time, no one has demanded I behave a certain way and send them money or the Mighty Second Red will burn me for all eternity.
There is no such thing as a fair trial when the US Govt. is involved. They will hang you, shoot you, or put you to sleep.
Any examples? I'd be willing to accept that They make obscure people disappear, but a notable guy like Snowden disappearing in US custody would be unbelievable to me. Maybe a little waterboarding and an extra IRS audit of his parents. Martyring him would only ensure the general public becomes fixated on his revelations and corruptions of the system.
Unless they offer to make you president, just stay in Russia.
I think he's in more danger of execution outside the states where he could be declared an enemy combatant and assassinated as such. Some US ally could be found responsible for the act.
You're mastercard requires a fingerprint? All my master card requires from me, after a number, is a "signature." I frequently spend several hundred dollars on my card and leave a small squiggle, assuming the touchscreen worked that day, to confirm it was definitely me who made the purchase.
Instead of having just a number (which has been taken from me at least twice before), this person needs to spoof my phone and have acquired pictures of me. It's not perfectly secure, but this is orders of security above the security systems that are currently in place around my cards.
I even better liked the suggestion of using a dick pick, very few people have my dick pick on file. You can't pull that off of my facebook profile either (like mugshots and my phone number if you're a friend.
Wouldn't these things also cause men to flee the tech industry? I don't see why any of those would only apply to women.
The cheapness and ease of control of drones, I think, makes it reasonable that they've had their recent explosion in popularity and have generated a much larger following than the old RC flying clubs.
I've seen big RC helicopters, kinda wanted one, but never got around to spending the time to do the research such a big purchase would require, nor learn how to to hover and deal with the pendulum effect, etc. The ones I was looking at were gas powered and had metal rotor blades though I know they come in some less dangerous varieties.
On the other hand I recently went down to the toy shop and for $40 bought something I could easily fly around my house and have no problems letting friends children fly around my pets.
Note that I also have a couple tiny plastic RC helicopters, but I've seen few other people with the patience to build skill at flying them around the house.
Unfortunately, it's frequently not a joke; e.g. http://idle.slashdot.org/story...
If brain wave interference is the problem, then the best solution would be a tin foil helmet (no joke; it would make a protective Faraday cage).
It's like he gave his son key to the gun cabinet and later blame the gun manufacturer when the kid hurts himself.
Well, if that gun manufacturer advertised guns as "great toys for kids!" and didn't tell you or your kid much, if anything, about gun safety, then I'd see that blame as entirely justified.
Apple did reimburse him all the money what else is left to grunge about
They've been doing this for years (google has too), and many people either didn't know they could be reimbursed or felt it was their fault for not reading to the end of every 300page EULA and checking back frequently for changes. The companies know this, and (I believe) they leave this loop hole open on purpose because it's so lucrative.
Actually, California CCPs are by governed by the county, so experiences will differ wildly based on where you are in California. My understanding is that San Bernandino was pretty liberal with CCPs.
Not that the law matters though; I Lived in the bay area for a few years and I know my dad and a couple of my friends, regularly wandered around with concealed carry there*. I'm actually pretty surprised no one returned fire in this situation, though the shooters were wearing body armor, so I'm not sure how much it would have helped.
*All white guys, i.e. they've never worried about being unreasonably searched by the cops. I had a black friend there who was tackled at gun point by the cops, for carrying what was basically a chair leg.
I don't have any on hand, but I thought plastic dice floated. If not, use oil. But the dice should settle at the surface with the heaviest end down and the lightest end up and therefore show the side that they are most likely to when rolled.
However this method assumes that all the faces are even, some might be stickyer or wider than others, and therefore the only way to tell if they are fair/blessed/cursed will be to roll them on a hard surface or however you actually roll them.
Excellent points.
I don't think sanity is an objective measurement. If I thought someone needed to be put to death for their actions, I'd think you're insane for not killing them. Your (in)actions in this case, would, to me, seem irrational, and to use the contested word, insane.
For this particular case, we might love to see a good Linux install for perfect encrypted communication, but for someone about to die in a blaze of glory in a couple days, this probably isn't their biggest concern. I think most people around here would call them crazy for not at least researching a good technical solution like we would have, but they'd call us crazy for playing with tech in the face of the coming apocalypse.
Why would any sane terrorist
Ha!
Geesh, I think government officials have been reading too many best-seller spy novels and listening to too few tech geeks.
Tech Geeks aren't terrorists; as geeks, we can tell you how to set up a perfect system, but the terrorists will use what they use, and maybe for their purposes, their system works better. It's quite likely the terrorists are also reading spy novels instead of consulting with the nerds.
First, he didn't say it was useless, but to address your logic argument: if doctors just collected medical knowledge, but never helped helped anyone, then I'd consider them useless. If police logged all crime in a big data center but did nothing to stop it, then I'd consider them useless. Same for mass surveillance. If you collect terabytes of crap in a big data warehouse, but can only find information that would stop attacks in retrospect, that's useless.
I don't know how useful mass surveillance is, but from what limited information about it I'm allowed to see, we are a lot better at collecting it and storing it than we are on acting on it. Instead of focusing on how many terabytes of data we can vacuum up on our citizens, we should instead focus on the effectiveness of how that data can be used to save lives.
Would be fascinating to have such a robot at a massive scale, and then run around your planet(s).
Because in the 70s you had to take bills from your parents (who had like $40 laying around) and you have to take that money to someone, who can clearly see that you are too young to be making any sort of financial decisions. If you can execute that transaction, you clearly know what money is and that you are doing something wrong.
Now you click the wrong buttons in a game, which your parents said you could play, and you've spent hundreds of dollars. You don't have to have any idea what money is to click a button.
There were experiments on paying everyone a basic payment conducted in some US and Canadian Towns in the 60s and 70s. It worked
According to other people, all such experiments failed miserably.
It wasn't politically acceptable though.
Yes, everyone construes the results based on their political ideology, but that includes you. Point out some specific examples and maybe we'll take an interest.
A robot won't displace 1000 workers
You can't stress that point enough these days. Cleaning, gardening, construction, landscaping, etc are not going away for the foreseeable future. Manufacturing even seems to be approaching a limit.
All of the jobs shuffling paper, ticking boxes, talking to people will be automated. Even things like...
Ahahaha! Don't we all wish! My grandparents predicted this would happen. I doubt it though. Every time I see a 'ticking boxes' job get automated, the replaced human has to be moved to verify the input, and a new hire is needed to audit the output. If the output is contentious, then all interested parties will need to hire new humans on both ends of the box ticker bot. I hate shuffling papers and ticking boxes, and though our tools continue to improve, I feel like I'm going to be ticking boxes, or paying someone to do it for the rest of my life (40years or so).
I use vim + ctags for large projects (C / C++). I don't know how to survive without it.
debugger?
:!gdb
For the original post's question:
vim and C / C++ programming
vim and bash
vim and python
vim and perl
netbeans and java
best solution
Well that's one solution, but the optimal solution varies by person. Assuming laziness is the problem: how much is your time curating your data worth vs. cost to back it all up? For me, it's only worth it I when it start nearing the size of the typical external hard drive, until then, cu-ration is an unnecessary hassle.
20TB is actually pretty easy to generate. It's not super common for an individual to do so, but a hobbyist video producer could do it easily. I also know a few semi-professionals that generate TBs of data and really have to start calculating future_value/storage_cost and deciding to delete the data is often more punishing to get wrong.