Am I the only one living in a city where the town provides litter bags for dog poop (and you better clean up after your pooch if you value the content of your wallet)?
Not necessarily, you'll not only pay fewer people but also probably less than you pay today, because paying someone 800 bucks now is (to him) equal to paying him 200, when 600 come from UBI.
Automation means you pay fewer people. UBI means you pay them less. For some jobs the latter will not be true and you'll probably still have to pay what you pay now, but you'll still pay fewer people.
You don't learn coding studying CS. At least not here. No time to waste on that, you better know how to write code when you join. What you can learn here is to optimize it, find out how to spot bottlenecks in code, learn about O-notation and what it means. But don't expect anyone to teach you why x=x+y doesn't mean that y has to be zero.
What I meant by the "no history of being lied to" is, in comparison to dictatorships. Nobody in the former Soviet Union actually believed anything they read in the Pravda. It was a given that they'd lie, embellish and simply tell you whatever you're supposed to hear. These people had pretty good senses when it came to detecting bullshit stories.
Out here in the "free" world it seems we're too used to, or rather, we're too convinced that we have, independent media that may tell the truth and contradict the "official" sources.
The government lies, the media lie. That's the same in dictatorships and democracies. What sets them apart is that in democracies, they tell different lies.
Don't feel so special, the main difference between you and a Windows user is that you didn't waste half a day trying to install the drivers, and another half day trying to undo the damage they did to your system.
The average HP printer goes dead after no longer than a year anyway. It's futile task to try to hack them, by the time you're done, it probably croaks anyway.
Well, in the good ol' days, we had different media competing with each other and trying to out-do each other with investigation. Back then, a sensational story was something that did probably hurt a powerful figure (Watergate comes to mind), but at least it was something that wasn't completely fabricated.
Today, we have increasing media concentration in fewer and fewer hands, leading to fewer and fewer actually different voices (just because there are 5 networks doesn't mean jack shit if they all belong to the same media concern) and what's left is a choir of near identical media outlets. People are turning to alternatives, unfortunately what little checks exist for traditional media is completely out the window when it comes to Facebook, Twitter and the like, where anyone, from anywhere can say anything with impunity and without having to fear backlash or a PR disaster. I could go on Twitter and declare as fact that Trump has fucked some starlet and that there is a video circulating already. Create a few webpages that look like official newspapers from abroad ("because the local media don't dare to"), deepfake a porn clip that you put on the torrent tracker of your preference and you can be sure that you find a few idiots that not only believe it but take the story and run with it, spreading the bullshit in wider and wider circles.
I kinda feel compelled to try something like this, for scientific curiosity, of course...
True, that. Church and schools have become very similar in the way they teach. When you have pupils being sent to the principal because they correct the teacher (who was wrong) and get punished for correcting the teacher because it's more important to believe what the teacher tells you than to learn what actually is, your system is fucked. Rip it out and redesign it from scratch.
The biggest threat to democracy is people who can't handle information. People who listen only to their own filter bubble and believe anything that somehow fits their narrative, no matter how ridiculous and overblown it might be. Remember Pizzagate? The idea that some of the "elite" run a child porn ring in a pizza parlor? It does not get much more ridiculous than that, but lo and behold, you found people who believe it, amplify it, retell it and eventually, well, if EVERYONE says it, it MUST be true, right?
The problem is that the US population has no history of being subjected to false information and outright lies. And I have to include western Europe here now, too. We're used to a press that is allowed to tell us the truth. What we failed to understand is that being allowed to does not mean being forced to. Just because you MAY say how it is doesn't mean that you MUST. And since scandals sell more and get more eyeballs than simple information, news outlets that offered information rather than sensationalism are getting pushed into the background. Or even had to bend to the trend and become more sensational themselves.
Maybe it is time that we teach our kids to be more critical. To verify what they hear. But NOT do what a bunch of those "critical" people do instead, i.e. thinking that they're critical and "free thinking" if they reject A because it's mainstream and instead believe B because it's "alternative facts".
Verifying information is hard. Simply believing what you're told, especially if it fits your personal point of view, is much easier. The problem isn't Facebook, Twitter or even various fake news outlets.
The problem is that we all too readily believe what we want to hear.
Because they're politicians and want to be seen as if they're "doing something" to address some issue, no matter whether that actually addresses the issue?
And this is the part I don't get about the US system. Why should your wallet (or that of your parents) decide whether you should go to college? Your brain should. Over here, universities are free (or, IIRC, you pay a token sum like a few 100 bucks a semester). Which leads to entry level courses being flooded with people. Computer Science, in any area, was incredibly overrun in the past with more than 2000 people a year starting at my university.
Fewer than 100 graduate.
The rest is weeded out. Brutally. Here's your assignment, do it or don't, nobody gives a fuck but you. Where you find what you need, where you get information and what to do when is for you to find out. Self organization is the first thing you learn. Cooperation with others to make the workload manageable for both of you the second.
And these are the people I want to hire. I need people who know how to organize, and I need people who know how to work together with others for mutual benefit. And on top of that, I get one of the top 5% in the field I'm actually hiring in, or else he wouldn't have that degree.
Sure indie developers support Linux, especially since the PS4 is BSD so they can share much of the codebase. But the problem is the non-indie devs. Bioware? Bethesda? Blizzard? Square-Enix?
Well, I have to admit, since I don't let the maker of software decide when, how and how long I may use it (aka "always-online copy protection"), this is a non-issue for me.
Slashdot Mirror
Seized due to copyright claims from Disney.
Mostly because this is a US-centric site and if I made a snide comment about the situation over here in Europe, people overseas would not get it.
People in Europe usually do know a bit about the US, at least when they spend time on US-centric sites, so the joke is internationally understandable.
Am I the only one living in a city where the town provides litter bags for dog poop (and you better clean up after your pooch if you value the content of your wallet)?
I'd call them populists.
Not necessarily, you'll not only pay fewer people but also probably less than you pay today, because paying someone 800 bucks now is (to him) equal to paying him 200, when 600 come from UBI.
Automation means you pay fewer people. UBI means you pay them less. For some jobs the latter will not be true and you'll probably still have to pay what you pay now, but you'll still pay fewer people.
You don't learn coding studying CS. At least not here. No time to waste on that, you better know how to write code when you join. What you can learn here is to optimize it, find out how to spot bottlenecks in code, learn about O-notation and what it means. But don't expect anyone to teach you why x=x+y doesn't mean that y has to be zero.
Another thing we don't have. Our students don't have time to waste on bullshit.
What I meant by the "no history of being lied to" is, in comparison to dictatorships. Nobody in the former Soviet Union actually believed anything they read in the Pravda. It was a given that they'd lie, embellish and simply tell you whatever you're supposed to hear. These people had pretty good senses when it came to detecting bullshit stories.
Out here in the "free" world it seems we're too used to, or rather, we're too convinced that we have, independent media that may tell the truth and contradict the "official" sources.
The government lies, the media lie. That's the same in dictatorships and democracies. What sets them apart is that in democracies, they tell different lies.
Hold my beer, gotta check when the next flight to the US takes off.
Don't feel so special, the main difference between you and a Windows user is that you didn't waste half a day trying to install the drivers, and another half day trying to undo the damage they did to your system.
Now, now, don't get greedy.
The average HP printer goes dead after no longer than a year anyway. It's futile task to try to hack them, by the time you're done, it probably croaks anyway.
Well, in the good ol' days, we had different media competing with each other and trying to out-do each other with investigation. Back then, a sensational story was something that did probably hurt a powerful figure (Watergate comes to mind), but at least it was something that wasn't completely fabricated.
Today, we have increasing media concentration in fewer and fewer hands, leading to fewer and fewer actually different voices (just because there are 5 networks doesn't mean jack shit if they all belong to the same media concern) and what's left is a choir of near identical media outlets. People are turning to alternatives, unfortunately what little checks exist for traditional media is completely out the window when it comes to Facebook, Twitter and the like, where anyone, from anywhere can say anything with impunity and without having to fear backlash or a PR disaster. I could go on Twitter and declare as fact that Trump has fucked some starlet and that there is a video circulating already. Create a few webpages that look like official newspapers from abroad ("because the local media don't dare to"), deepfake a porn clip that you put on the torrent tracker of your preference and you can be sure that you find a few idiots that not only believe it but take the story and run with it, spreading the bullshit in wider and wider circles.
I kinda feel compelled to try something like this, for scientific curiosity, of course...
True, that. Church and schools have become very similar in the way they teach. When you have pupils being sent to the principal because they correct the teacher (who was wrong) and get punished for correcting the teacher because it's more important to believe what the teacher tells you than to learn what actually is, your system is fucked. Rip it out and redesign it from scratch.
The biggest threat to democracy is people who can't handle information. People who listen only to their own filter bubble and believe anything that somehow fits their narrative, no matter how ridiculous and overblown it might be. Remember Pizzagate? The idea that some of the "elite" run a child porn ring in a pizza parlor? It does not get much more ridiculous than that, but lo and behold, you found people who believe it, amplify it, retell it and eventually, well, if EVERYONE says it, it MUST be true, right?
The problem is that the US population has no history of being subjected to false information and outright lies. And I have to include western Europe here now, too. We're used to a press that is allowed to tell us the truth. What we failed to understand is that being allowed to does not mean being forced to. Just because you MAY say how it is doesn't mean that you MUST. And since scandals sell more and get more eyeballs than simple information, news outlets that offered information rather than sensationalism are getting pushed into the background. Or even had to bend to the trend and become more sensational themselves.
Maybe it is time that we teach our kids to be more critical. To verify what they hear. But NOT do what a bunch of those "critical" people do instead, i.e. thinking that they're critical and "free thinking" if they reject A because it's mainstream and instead believe B because it's "alternative facts".
Verifying information is hard. Simply believing what you're told, especially if it fits your personal point of view, is much easier. The problem isn't Facebook, Twitter or even various fake news outlets.
The problem is that we all too readily believe what we want to hear.
Is that app available in the EU, too?
Make it so that you save 1 dollar on a 150 dollar ticket and EVERYONE will.
Yes. Unfortunately. And let's be blunt here, cellphones ain't the problem.
Look, I can deal with all kinds of insults. Call me a pinko Commie or a Nazi, call me a fag or a redneck, I can deal with pretty much anything.
But calling me American is really uncalled for. What have I done to deserve that?
Because they're politicians and want to be seen as if they're "doing something" to address some issue, no matter whether that actually addresses the issue?
And this is the part I don't get about the US system. Why should your wallet (or that of your parents) decide whether you should go to college? Your brain should. Over here, universities are free (or, IIRC, you pay a token sum like a few 100 bucks a semester). Which leads to entry level courses being flooded with people. Computer Science, in any area, was incredibly overrun in the past with more than 2000 people a year starting at my university.
Fewer than 100 graduate.
The rest is weeded out. Brutally. Here's your assignment, do it or don't, nobody gives a fuck but you. Where you find what you need, where you get information and what to do when is for you to find out. Self organization is the first thing you learn. Cooperation with others to make the workload manageable for both of you the second.
And these are the people I want to hire. I need people who know how to organize, and I need people who know how to work together with others for mutual benefit. And on top of that, I get one of the top 5% in the field I'm actually hiring in, or else he wouldn't have that degree.
Work? Well... yeah, let's call it work.
Sure indie developers support Linux, especially since the PS4 is BSD so they can share much of the codebase. But the problem is the non-indie devs. Bioware? Bethesda? Blizzard? Square-Enix?
Well, I have to admit, since I don't let the maker of software decide when, how and how long I may use it (aka "always-online copy protection"), this is a non-issue for me.
That's like a rounding error.
By far not the only error...
You'll die from sodium related blood pressure before you're 50, but hey...