Ray is right, it won’t eliminate jobs Just like up till the 1960’s, thousands of telephone operators – well paid positions with benefits and pensions – were replaced by automatic switches. Were replaced by a hand full of switch techs...
You missed number #1 - bad bosses. People don't leave jobs, they leave bosses. That's been known fact in HR & hiring circles forever. http://webcenters.netscape.com...
Steps to becoming a NYC taxi driver:
Step 1: the basic requirements. New York City Taxi Driver licenses are issued by the Taxi and Limousine Commission (TLC)....
Step 2: prepare the paperwork....
Step 3: your finances....
Step 4: the training....
Step 5: the application....
Step 6: the drug test. http://www.drivers.com/article...
Steps to becoming an Uber driver..... download an app....
Minimum requirements
Anybody can drive with Uber, although there are a few minimum requirements: https://www.uber.com/drive/req...
How about these:: the power grid goes down, for several months. Dam flood gates open releasing enough water to flood towns down stream. Your car no longer starts. Raw sewage from treatment plants backs up into the streets of all major cities. Stop lights turn all green every direction.
Like that? So what? Still?
Ya, I thought so.
"Ride Hail Company" - I am sick and tired of people using euphemisms in a lame attempt to side track reality. (Alternate Facts?).. Taking someone you don't know, to a place you don't normally go - FOR MONEY - is a Taxi. period.
The problem with Uber is a corporation who's revenue model is built by taking pay and benefits way from the lowest link (the driver) and burdening them with expenses (their own car) and all liability all the while attempting to side step protections and taxes put in place by local governments.
It's a sham and a parasite and it's creators need to be sitting behind bars next to martin shkreli.
"Disruption" isn't a thing. It's a lie pushed by con artists to dup venture capitalists out of money.
In "disrupting" the supply chain, Amazon has pushed millions of Americans out of jobs that had benefits, gave people meaning and paid taxes - all so 1 guy can be fabulously wealthy
In "disrupting" the online monitization stream, FaceBook has killed thousands of news papers and millions of jobs. Jobs where highly intelligent and educated people like editors and fact checker ensured what was printed and read by millions of others was accurate and fact based... all surrendered so we can have immediate gratification of "like" and Presidents who prefer to tweet instead of think.
Be careful what you strive for.... what you attain may have consequences beyond initial goals.
All facts are interpretations. When results are peer reviewed and duplicated,then they become accepted facts.
There will always be a minority who reject even massively accepted facts (ie: climate change deniers) . Whether it be cogitative dissonance or simple lying because you’re a paid greedy prick (ie: the 7 dwarfs who perjured themselves before congress claiming cigarette smoke does not cause cancer ) https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
As usual, someone misinterprets data for their own personal agenda. When the ratios of C02 and/or light are changed, plants food production changes. Increasing light or C02 makes plants create more sugar and less vitamins , proteins and important nutrients. Plants are becoming less and less nutritious as the C02 level raises. http://grist.org/briefly/veggi...
As a child of the 60's, this has been the same promise since I was watching the Jetsons. Let's lets pull human stupidity out of the question and assume that self driving cars / air cars systems work effectively. And the litany of rules, regulations and codes for safe zones is written and accepted at the NTSB through local levels...
THe problem is COST.
Energy required for flight is orders of magnitude greater for flight. Add insurance... what will GEICO charge you for a "flying car" to cover potential property damage to anything you may happen to fly over?
I hate when practicality kills a cool dream, but with the risk, liability and costs, these won't be in every garage. And by the way, we've had flying cars that worked rather well since the 60's... but again, costs.
sure thing bud, live where land is cheap because wages are minuscule. If you're a programmer making $40K per year in the Midwest vs a programmer making $130K on one of the coasts and you're saving 15%......
At the end of the road - programmers on the coasts can afford to live anywhere while the one making jack wages is stuck exactly in nowhere , forever.
1/2 an acre of unincorporated land within driving distance of Seattle (within 40 miles - yes, 2 hours driving) is worth $500K-$1m, depending how close to water you are.
Give the number of people in China, and that China is #2 in GDP and #1 in GDP PPP, AND that China is blocking cryptocurrency... the assertion "Ethereum will replace Visa in "a couple of years," is not possible. Ok, so he modified the statement to mean transaction capacity.
So what? If the largest economy in the World won't use it, and the Largest Bank in the US won't use is (see Jamie Dimon's quote: https://www.cnbc.com/2017/09/1... ), "founder" statements are just hot air.
I don't buy it. The average cruising speed of a jet is (c) 525 miles per hour. Plane crashes are not survivable when the plane is going at cruising speed. Survival happens then the plan lands ungracefully at a landing speed, or (c) 150mph. Forced landings ie:, a plane hits something and is forced to turn around, or an in flight failure forces a landing. This is when survival happens.
Assuming a hyperloop cruses at 700 mph or 25% faster, the notion of survive ability of virtually any crash, regardless of how the system is engineered, is ludicrous
Correct - get well paying job with a company that allows you to support some of the open source stuff that trips your trigger. Or, find something in the company that just bugs the living shit out of you, re-write it in something open (on your own time!) and release it as an open source project.
The "CIO" who hired a musician majored in Russian and had a Master in Business.
On even more news, they've both "retired".... http://money.cnn.com/2017/09/1...
Meanwhile, Nabisco’s board of directors hold an emergency meeting to discuss the eminent demise of cookies and alternative confectionary marketing synergies.
You, allot of people, the majority of humanity I would imagine, actually prefer not to be chained to a monitor/tablet/iCrap device 23 hours a day. We enjoy walking around, taking a break, a quick browse to the corner store..... To envision no "need" for that indicates you're really whacked. Step away from the keyboard, put down the VR glasses and talk to a person, you know, face to face....
I'm not so sure the GOP is going to get damaged @ midterm. The Dem's got completely smoked 0-5 in the special elections this year. There's no leader and no vision. Pelosi refuses to take responsibility, (at least Gingrich had the class to resign), and nobody is telling Hillary to shut up and go away except a Socialist. The GOP is tearing itself in 1/3's, but each 1/3 is razor focused. The Dems are in chaos and busy arguing over pointless ulta liberal topics like who can use which bathrooms - not a quorum maker by any imagination.
I knew the "don't be evil" was dropped. Doesn't change the irony.
As far as "do the right thing", who defines "right"? "Right" in a moral, political or financial sense? It's still just smokescreen to try and mask they're just spy's selling your personal information.
Where exactly will "the cheap country" be in 10 years?
Fargo? 2-1/2 months of 90+ degree summer and 7 months of snow.... there's a reason it's cheap.
I moved from South Dakota to Seattle 4 years ago. I sold a house for $130 and bought one for $400K.... that $130 house is now worth $160, but my $400K Wa house is now worth $600K..... and yes, I'm guessing it will be in the million dollar range in 10 years, so I'm looking at a cash out too - but you gotta live somewhere and back to the midwest isn't all fun. Maybe live on a house boat or do the RV thing for a few years... time will tell and 10 years is a long time in this real estate market.
Funny, actually sad, considering Google Corporate motto. Add Google trying to patent public domain technology, https://www.bleepingcomputer.c...
1/2 of their revenue coming from the US Government & military, (aka, selling YOU the user out) http://politicalblindspot.com/...
Google is just a company, like most corporations today. There is little concern about people, it's all about profit. If people get hurt, so what as long as investors get a return.
I have a Verizon work phone and a TMobile personal phone . I also a frequent hiker and camper and travel less populated areas . I live in Washington State where TMobile is headquartered. Even here, most of the time Verizon works while TMobile has zero bars.
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Ray is right, it won’t eliminate jobs Just like up till the 1960’s, thousands of telephone operators – well paid positions with benefits and pensions – were replaced by automatic switches. Were replaced by a hand full of switch techs...
You missed number #1 - bad bosses. People don't leave jobs, they leave bosses. That's been known fact in HR & hiring circles forever.
http://webcenters.netscape.com...
Steps to becoming a NYC taxi driver: ... ... ... ... ...
Step 1: the basic requirements. New York City Taxi Driver licenses are issued by the Taxi and Limousine Commission (TLC).
Step 2: prepare the paperwork.
Step 3: your finances.
Step 4: the training.
Step 5: the application.
Step 6: the drug test.
http://www.drivers.com/article...
Steps to becoming an Uber driver..... download an app....
Minimum requirements
Anybody can drive with Uber, although there are a few minimum requirements:
https://www.uber.com/drive/req...
So, ya, basically the same thing...NOT.
Same time crazy rich people are called eccentric..
"allegedly feasible"... https://www.digitaltrends.com/...
Allegedly 7 years ago.
How about these:: the power grid goes down, for several months. Dam flood gates open releasing enough water to flood towns down stream. Your car no longer starts. Raw sewage from treatment plants backs up into the streets of all major cities. Stop lights turn all green every direction.
Like that? So what? Still?
Ya, I thought so.
"Ride Hail Company" - I am sick and tired of people using euphemisms in a lame attempt to side track reality. (Alternate Facts?) .. Taking someone you don't know, to a place you don't normally go - FOR MONEY - is a Taxi. period.
The problem with Uber is a corporation who's revenue model is built by taking pay and benefits way from the lowest link (the driver) and burdening them with expenses (their own car) and all liability all the while attempting to side step protections and taxes put in place by local governments.
It's a sham and a parasite and it's creators need to be sitting behind bars next to martin shkreli.
"Disruption" isn't a thing. It's a lie pushed by con artists to dup venture capitalists out of money.
In "disrupting" the supply chain, Amazon has pushed millions of Americans out of jobs that had benefits, gave people meaning and paid taxes - all so 1 guy can be fabulously wealthy
In "disrupting" the online monitization stream, FaceBook has killed thousands of news papers and millions of jobs. Jobs where highly intelligent and educated people like editors and fact checker ensured what was printed and read by millions of others was accurate and fact based... all surrendered so we can have immediate gratification of "like" and Presidents who prefer to tweet instead of think.
Be careful what you strive for.... what you attain may have consequences beyond initial goals.
All facts are interpretations. When results are peer reviewed and duplicated ,then they become accepted facts.
There will always be a minority who reject even massively accepted facts (ie: climate change deniers) . Whether it be cogitative dissonance or simple lying because you’re a paid greedy prick (ie: the 7 dwarfs who perjured themselves before congress claiming cigarette smoke does not cause cancer )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
As usual, someone misinterprets data for their own personal agenda. When the ratios of C02 and/or light are changed, plants food production changes. Increasing light or C02 makes plants create more sugar and less vitamins , proteins and important nutrients. Plants are becoming less and less nutritious as the C02 level raises.
http://grist.org/briefly/veggi...
As a child of the 60's, this has been the same promise since I was watching the Jetsons. Let's lets pull human stupidity out of the question and assume that self driving cars / air cars systems work effectively. And the litany of rules, regulations and codes for safe zones is written and accepted at the NTSB through local levels...
THe problem is COST.
Energy required for flight is orders of magnitude greater for flight. Add insurance... what will GEICO charge you for a "flying car" to cover potential property damage to anything you may happen to fly over?
I hate when practicality kills a cool dream, but with the risk, liability and costs, these won't be in every garage. And by the way, we've had flying cars that worked rather well since the 60's... but again, costs.
sure thing bud, live where land is cheap because wages are minuscule. If you're a programmer making $40K per year in the Midwest vs a programmer making $130K on one of the coasts and you're saving 15%......
At the end of the road - programmers on the coasts can afford to live anywhere while the one making jack wages is stuck exactly in nowhere , forever.
1/2 an acre of unincorporated land within driving distance of Seattle (within 40 miles - yes, 2 hours driving) is worth $500K-$1m, depending how close to water you are.
Give the number of people in China, and that China is #2 in GDP and #1 in GDP PPP, AND that China is blocking cryptocurrency... the assertion "Ethereum will replace Visa in "a couple of years," is not possible. Ok, so he modified the statement to mean transaction capacity.
So what? If the largest economy in the World won't use it, and the Largest Bank in the US won't use is (see Jamie Dimon's quote: https://www.cnbc.com/2017/09/1... ), "founder" statements are just hot air.
I don't buy it. The average cruising speed of a jet is (c) 525 miles per hour. Plane crashes are not survivable when the plane is going at cruising speed. Survival happens then the plan lands ungracefully at a landing speed, or (c) 150mph. Forced landings ie:, a plane hits something and is forced to turn around, or an in flight failure forces a landing. This is when survival happens.
Assuming a hyperloop cruses at 700 mph or 25% faster, the notion of survive ability of virtually any crash, regardless of how the system is engineered, is ludicrous
Correct - get well paying job with a company that allows you to support some of the open source stuff that trips your trigger. Or, find something in the company that just bugs the living shit out of you, re-write it in something open (on your own time!) and release it as an open source project.
The "CIO" who hired a musician majored in Russian and had a Master in Business.
On even more news, they've both "retired"....
http://money.cnn.com/2017/09/1...
Meanwhile, Nabisco’s board of directors hold an emergency meeting to discuss the eminent demise of cookies and alternative confectionary marketing synergies.
You, allot of people, the majority of humanity I would imagine, actually prefer not to be chained to a monitor/tablet/iCrap device 23 hours a day. We enjoy walking around, taking a break, a quick browse to the corner store..... To envision no "need" for that indicates you're really whacked. Step away from the keyboard, put down the VR glasses and talk to a person, you know, face to face....
Study finds limiting free speech successfully stifles the spread of ideas... to some degree.
I'm not so sure the GOP is going to get damaged @ midterm. The Dem's got completely smoked 0-5 in the special elections this year. There's no leader and no vision. Pelosi refuses to take responsibility, (at least Gingrich had the class to resign), and nobody is telling Hillary to shut up and go away except a Socialist. The GOP is tearing itself in 1/3's, but each 1/3 is razor focused. The Dems are in chaos and busy arguing over pointless ulta liberal topics like who can use which bathrooms - not a quorum maker by any imagination.
I knew the "don't be evil" was dropped. Doesn't change the irony.
As far as "do the right thing", who defines "right"? "Right" in a moral, political or financial sense? It's still just smokescreen to try and mask they're just spy's selling your personal information.
Where exactly will "the cheap country" be in 10 years?
Fargo? 2-1/2 months of 90+ degree summer and 7 months of snow.... there's a reason it's cheap.
I moved from South Dakota to Seattle 4 years ago. I sold a house for $130 and bought one for $400K.... that $130 house is now worth $160, but my $400K Wa house is now worth $600K..... and yes, I'm guessing it will be in the million dollar range in 10 years, so I'm looking at a cash out too - but you gotta live somewhere and back to the midwest isn't all fun. Maybe live on a house boat or do the RV thing for a few years... time will tell and 10 years is a long time in this real estate market.
Funny, actually sad, considering Google Corporate motto. Add Google trying to patent public domain technology,
https://www.bleepingcomputer.c...
1/2 of their revenue coming from the US Government & military, (aka, selling YOU the user out)
http://politicalblindspot.com/...
Google is just a company, like most corporations today. There is little concern about people, it's all about profit. If people get hurt, so what as long as investors get a return.
I have a Verizon work phone and a TMobile personal phone . I also a frequent hiker and camper and travel less populated areas . I live in Washington State where TMobile is headquartered. Even here, most of the time Verizon works while TMobile has zero bars.