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  1. Re:You can't eat money on VC Firm Y Combinator Launches an Experiment In Universal Basic Income (fastcoexist.com) · · Score: 1

    What you are ignoring is a future where increased productivity has eliminated scarcity (see Star Trek for references). This is a real possibility given the exponential increase in the application of automation to all aspects of the economy. Not tomorrow perhaps, but not never for sure.

  2. It is all in the name on VC Firm Y Combinator Launches an Experiment In Universal Basic Income (fastcoexist.com) · · Score: 2

    I find that when I try to discuss the consequences of a future without scarcity I frequently get the shopworn 'people don't deserve what they don't earn, and it will be bad, bad, bad'.

    Yet when I ask what someone might do if they won a big lottery prize it is all about the good times. Likewise the perfect retirement is about leisure and freedom from want.

    So Puritanism seems to be appropriate, for the other guy...

  3. Re:Signal on A New Technique Makes GPS Accurate To An Inch (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Regarding indoor use: In my home I have erected walls around each room with well defined travel ways identifiable both by visual and tactile means to transition from one room to another. In addition I have labeled each of the designated sleep areas with the appropriate occupant identity. To date this system has proven adequate.

  4. to an article might be useful

  5. Re:Encouraging bad behavior on AWS Terms of Service Offer a Break If Zombie Apocalypse Occurs (windowsitpro.com) · · Score: 1

    Trump won 35% of the votes in NH. I would judge that the Zombies are already among us.

  6. I found many of the comments on this issue on NHTSA Gives Green Light To Self-Driving Cars · · Score: 1

    to be perceptive and important.

    But what I really want to know is how this will affect watching porn in the car

  7. I won't ever trust an AI driver on NHTSA Gives Green Light To Self-Driving Cars · · Score: 4, Funny

    Until they can flip a bird and show unambiguous road rage

  8. Re:STOP AND BE QUIET on The Hyperloop Industrial Complex · · Score: 1

    I'm just guessing here, but poster may have been looking for 'altruistic', but who knows...

  9. Re:STOP AND BE QUIET on The Hyperloop Industrial Complex · · Score: 4, Funny

    I am not quite sure what ultraistic means, but I suspect is has something to do with comparing a very smart man who has had success in at least four different industries, to you.

  10. Re:Launch into OBLVIOON! on SpaceX Sets Feb. 24th Target Date For Next Launch · · Score: 1

    Excuse me, this TV series treatment is proprietary and your unauthorized disclosure is a copyright violation. Consider this to be a Takedown Notice, and act accordingly, or suffer unimaginable consequences.

    Yours Truly,

    Hollywood

  11. Re:Mars is impossible on Congressional Testimony Says NASA Has No Plan For the Journey To Mars (blastingnews.com) · · Score: 1

    We have evolved to live on earth, because we have not had the opportunity to evolve while living elsewhere

  12. Simple on Ask Slashdot: How Do I Reduce Information Leakage From My Personal Devices? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Never use an internet connected device

  13. I prefer to use centimeters. Can you please convert this for me?

  14. Re:What could go wrong on France To Pave 1000km of Road With Solar Panels (solarcrunch.org) · · Score: 1

    Perhaps we could bring back the under carriage neon lights to keep the road illuminated - makes it work at night too!

  15. Re:Consumables on Tiny Pluto Big On Frozen Water Reserves · · Score: 1

    That direction is downhill...

  16. I think alternate locations make more sense on There's a Wind Turbine On the Horizon With Blades the Size of Trump Tower · · Score: 0

    For example in orbit, or on the moon. Weight issues would go away. No storms to worry about, and little danger of over spinning or collateral damage when a blade breaks.

    THINK BIG PEOPLE! Big problems aren't solved by small minds...

  17. Why not on Ask Slashdot: Learning Robotics Without Hardware? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Hack into any of the connected cars that are being sold, program them to your liking, and then watch the news for feedback?

  18. Bad CGI is distracting, indeed on Hollywood Turning Against Digital Effects (newyorker.com) · · Score: 1

    But it was not the main fault with the Hobbit movies

  19. or 'rich'

  20. Re: what happens... on Surprising Support Among Americans For Purchasing Smart Guns (jhsph.edu) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Using a gun is not the same as needing a gun. The number of people not harmed because they had a gun is dwarfed by the number of people harmed because a gun was handy.

  21. Re:what happens... on Surprising Support Among Americans For Purchasing Smart Guns (jhsph.edu) · · Score: 0, Troll

    I suspect I can count using the remaining fingers on my good hand the number of times a civilian has 'needed' to use a gun in the last year.

  22. Re:I do this for football. on Mainstream Scientists Cashing In On Climate Wagers (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    Double your losses by picking the Broncos this week

  23. Never give a sucker on Mainstream Scientists Cashing In On Climate Wagers (reuters.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    an even bet

  24. Re:SIgh... on How Amazon's Drone Deliveries Will Work (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    Jeez, did you have to mention Trump? I get enough of him as it is...

  25. Re:We know there are questions we can't answer. on Are Some Things About the Universe Fundamentally Unknowable? (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    Yet