alternatively: humans only need to communicate at 10 bits, we don't need a trillion bits per second to enjoy life.
Accelerated learning, specially for adults. I could see a whole class of problems being solved with that. I'm not saying that it is practical with today's technology (or that it is completely desirable.) But there is nothing that prevents this from happening within the next 50-100 years (which in the context of human society, that's a blink of an eye.)
But really, isn't the trick to do less, not more? I ain't no worker-bee. I'm jealous of my pet dog sitting on the couch all day while I work at a desk. I want his life -- it's called retirement.
Productivity is the goal of business. Laziness is the goal of life. I've worked hard to be this lazy.
First world problem meets the Is/Ought existential problem. A lot of people worked hard to be lazy in retirement just to see their retirement plans go poof by Lehman Brothers or their jobs getting replaced by robots or foreign workers just short of retirement.
Shit happens. Shit will always happen. Unless you are part of the 1%, if you, the generic you, work solely to be lazy at the end of some period of time, you are opening yourself to be royally screwed by life.
Don't get me wrong, I would like to retire on a life of laziness. But before that, I'd prefer to avoid my last years to be at the mercy of some retirement plan that can go to shit ending up eating cat food for dinner, even if that means switching careers and working myself to the grave.
Life does not require to give us a happy ending, no matter how hard you think you are working for it.
He's probably right, eventually taking your glasses off will be like suffering from some kind of learning disability. All text you see automatically scanned and available for perfect recall, the name of ever person you meet whispered in your ear in case you forgot, any equation instantly solved... And an unquenchable thirst for Pepsi, an uncontrollable urge to buy a Tesla.
It's already sort of the case. Most of modern students are incapable of doing anything if they don't have facebook to ask elder friends for what to search on google. And then they have an unquenchable thirst for Pepsi. Conclusion, you don't need a brain interface to sell crap and render people useless.
There is so much bullshit with this. Modern students still learn how to use a library. I know, I see batches of students coming with their teachers all the time to learn how (just like old times.) All colleges make students learn how to use them (just like in old times), etc, etc.
In reality, the ability to search online has made students (and people in general) far more efficient at retrieving information. Obviously, this also has the downside that it makes it easy to plagiarize. But that comes with every technology. You get what you put in, and you put in according to what kind of person you are.
Case in point: my daughter who is in second grade now knows how to use google voice search to check for spelling of words she doesn't know. Then she cross-checks it with her dictionary in English and Japanese (since she is bilingual, and soon to be trilingual if everything goes according plan.)
She has become more efficient at writing her homework reports (while learning how to spell faster) without inducing cheating or sloppy work. It has reduced her frustration while helping her focus on the topics she needs to write. This, at 2nd grade.
This type of efficiency increases a lot more for older students and adults.
Pretending that people now are useless because they leverage electronic searches and social media is like pretending farmers today are useless for using tractors instead of hand-held plows.
In other words, this line of reasoning is both simplistic and stupid.
Why did he take NASA issued equipment out the US? What if another country did the same search?
It is always a possibility for another country to conduct such a search, but the government (as well as companies that deal with sensitive information or IP) have guidelines that more or less resolve to this:
1. Do you need it for your job?
2. Are you going to a country that is hostile to us, or
3. That has a history of equipment check on US citizens.
If you answer "yes" to any of these, you might still be permitted to carry the equipment (and no otherwise.)
In the end, we are not talking about searches in Chile. We are talking about idiotic searches by US customs, of equipment belonging to NASA carried by a US born scientist, without any fucking cause.
So that's what HR for, to fire people. I was wrong about it all this time.
Why do stupid indo-chimps do all the headhunting? Isn't it racist and discriminating?
HR doesn't fire people. They do not make the decision. Management from all the way up down to team leads, they decide who gets canned.
The degree of power and frequency each layer of management exercises the task of firing, that's for another debate. HR is the one in charged of cleaning up the mess, in addition to manage paperwork, benefits, severance packages, and at times, counseling.
Well for one thing, being able to buy from anywhere in the world will automatically mean "priced the same".
If I price it cheaper in Asian/African countries to be affordable in those low wage economies, why would everyone else in the world be willing to pay more ?
So, if everything gets priced at the lowest market value, it will probably prevent a lot of digital works from being created at all simply because the returns are too low or they loose money.
Creation of digital content costs money, everybody who works on it wants to be paid for their work.
Not necessarily, economics of scale could more that make up for the lower resale price. A small number times billions of buyers == still a very big fucking number.
I see what you are saying, and I acknowledge it could go either way for many a producer. But it would also open the gates to many, many others. Say, you are a small, independent film developer. Your film barely breaks in the US market at all (it happens all the time.)
But by being made available at affordable prices all over the world, all of the sudden your product gets exposure to far more customer than in the US alone. If your product is of any quality, it will be purchased and you will get your return on investment.
I'm all for new tech, be it batteries or fusion, or heck, even storing energy as... gas (something about mixing hydrogen into it).
But until that day...
While you wait for "until that day" other people are working hard to make that shit happen instead of being sheeple naysayers.
The U.S. has the largest coal reserves on the planet it's our cheapest and most abundant energy source. If anything we should be building more coal plants instead of trying to drop our economic growth to zero and surrender comparative advantage.
WTF are you talking about? Why? We know for a fact that coal leaks mercury into our water cycle, and that it is far more expensive to build a coal plant that filters as much of that shit as possible than to just burn natural gas. The EU was our primary coal buyer, and they moved away from that shit. China could have been our customer, but 1) they are coal self-sufficient and 2) they are also moving away from it. India is also moving away from it...
... and so on and so on. There is a coal glut, a diminished demand and the cost ration of coal vs natural gas increases as the cost of using the later decreases.
So how the fuck do you suggest we build more coal plants? How do we finance them? How do we keep them running? With what money? The conditions nowadays make coal plants a fucking money pit.
Sure, we have the largest coal deposits on Earth. We also have a lot of dirt around and hydrogen in the air. The value of a thing is not a mere function of its abundance or lack thereof.
Just like mechanic jobs that went poof now that everyone has a car, or plumber jobs that went poof since every house has a fucking plumbing system installed.
Hell, look at construction? All the dudes that build the house I purchased are now on the curb because the house was built. There is nothing else to do in that industry, ever after.
Jesus man, I know that many people do not understand the basics of economics, but you bro, I don't know what the fuck is wrong with you.
Honest question: Am I not supposed to use recursion? Am I missing something?
In general, only for prototyping, describing problems or when using a language that has sufficient support for tail recursion. Otherwise, I'd say no.
You have to understand it though, and understand it well. But if I see someone on the wild using a recursive solution from scratch, I'd be wondering wtf is going on.
Honestly, I've only seen custom code recursive code, and it was a fuck up.
If the corn has been prepared by some form of nixtamalization, the B3 (Niacin) will be more readily available for consumption. The Aztecs knew about this.
The Aztecs knew about vitamin B3, and how make it more readily available for consumption? Citation needed. I doubt they even knew some foods and preparations of foods could prevent pellagra.
Don't be dense. The Aztecs (or rather the entirety of the Americas before Columbus) knew that corn as-is was not fully edible. It had to go through a process of nixtamalization (pretty much soak the corn or corn flour in an alkaline solution.) This is no different from how other cultures have dealt with otherwise toxic food items like taro and manioc.
MesoAmerican diets were in fact quite well-rounded until the conquest. For whatever stupid reason the Conquistadors prohibited nixtamalization for a while (work of the devil or some shit). We know from records of the time (as well as bones) of levels of malnutrition that resulted from this until the locals could again do this process on their primary food source: corn.
Old cultures didn't have a modern lab. Sure, no motherfucking surprise. But they had thousands of years of Darwinian trial and error with which to notice what combinations of foods provided the best results as well as how to prepare them for best results (be them nutrition or storage.)
Just because cultures were not modern (or even literate) that does not mean they were not intelligent enough to gather knowledge from empirical observation.
Community college and state colleges should be free, like it is in civilized countries.
They aren't in Japan. And that's a civilized country. I do agree with the sentiment that community and state colleges should be affordable (as well as, and perhaps most important, vocational/trade schools.)
But along with this, admission criteria should be more rigorous. Most importantly, focus on HS. We have people graduating from HS who cannot add fractions (I shit you not.) And that's unacceptable. A modern HS program should ensure a young person is capable of doing some type of job at least, and to have an analytical mind.
HS kids graduate with no skills or vision whatsoever, they have no visibility with regards of all the wonderful options of a vocation or trade, and end up going to college because that's the only option they are told to have.
Indeed, so build out better infrastructure for telecommuting and those of us who work remotely will go and live in small quiet communities where housing is a fraction of the cost.
That's a self-service, myopic argument. That only works for professions that can work remotely. The bulk of the service industry (trade, hospitality, health care, building, physical systems repairs, etc) is not like that.
Besides, that kind of telecommuting ability already exist in many affordable places (and no, it will never cover picturesque Tumbleweedtown in Montanabraska, the country is too damned big and sparsely populated to justify such an infrastructure investment). You just have to plan ahead and do your research.
Unless you are very very sharp - like you can read the paper on MP4 encoding - and implement it from scratch and understand the math and everything on a desert island, you'll have a future.
You are missing the much larger group of people who will continue to have jobs. They are the technical staff with the soft skills necessary to interface with business and the technical skills to make high level design decisions. This is already where most of the real money in the IT industry is made. Whether they are consultants, software architects, Director of IT, etc these workers are the most insulated from shipping jobs overseas. They are also the ones who greatly benefit from the H1B and other immigration programs.
You don't need to be in the wealthy class to have a future, but you do need to work closely with the wealthy class. If you like hiding behind your desk your days are numbered.
This. Always this. I mean, these job loss turmoils aren't anything new. Shit, they are like 20 years now. The key is to put yourself out there and take risks. The cushy jobs that people would do for 30 years, the ones where you got a golden watch at the end, that gravy train shit is over.
> rather than anyone admitting that areas outside London have been neglected and need more focus
One of the most fundamental tenants of Progressive politics, worldwide, is that rural cultures are bad and must be destroyed. Ignoring areas outside of London isn't a bug, it's a feature.
No, it is natural. When you move past a post-industrial base, it becomes harder and harder to sustain small communities. Whether you are in the US, the UK, Japan, Mexico, or Russia, the farther you are from a sufficiently large urban center, the harder it is to have or find a diverse job market.
And I'm not talking "diverse job market" as "market with good jobs." I'm talking about "market that has any jobs". You can work multiple part-times in an urban area if you have to (not ideal, but you do what you must.) In a poor rural town, you don't even get that choice.
It's not a matter that urban people are smart and rural people dumb or any shit like that. It's just how the means of production and services operate nowadays. And in a world where automation and serviceable products are become more and more prevalent, there is no stopping it.
Capitalism dictates that workers move where jobs are. There is no right or wrong in this. It just is. And to presume that a government must "do something" to prevent rural towns from becoming ghost towns is pretty much a tax on urban centers to subsidize a rural life that is no longer feasible.
The question here is how countries and people can grapple with this effectively to the country's benefit (or how it ameliorates the inevitable pains in the transition).
It's actually worse than that. It's more like "if England does what it thinks is best for the UK", because you have to ignore the wishes of Scotland, Northern Ireland and Gibraltar if you want a hard Brexit with an intact United Kingdom
There's "best for" and there's "wishes", too. I mean Wales wished for Brexit. I cannot imagine how Brexit, especially with this Tory bunch could possibly be best for Wales.
Well, that's the problem with lunatics, idiots and otherwise uninformed rubes: they can't tell the difference between "wishes" and "best for". In fact, they can't tell the difference between "thinking" and "feeling."
Take straight C for example. You need to define a variable, initialize it, do whatever with it, and then free it, within the scope of the function in order to make efficient use of it. Or you use malloc.
In Perl, PHP, Javascript, and most interpreted languages, you simply define the variable, some people remember to initialize it, do whatever with it, and then let it go out of scope for it to be garbage collected. If you do this frequently enough, like inside a tight loop, then the GC introduces latency.
In C++ you can specifically tell the C++ runtime to delete objects, and use C style varibles if you want the tighter control, or stick entirely with malloc if you want to use as little memory as possible.
The goal with GC should be determined by the nature of the device. A desktop system with a lot of memory will have no problem deferring garbage collection, but then you get sites like Twitter, which endlessly "grow" the DOM and never actually GC anything until the tab is refreshed. Before Chrome finally released a 64bit version, one would only get about 2 days out of a twitter tab before it would crash. Do this on mobile and it will crash hourly, because even though the mobile device may have 1GB of memory and run in 64bit mode, it never actually "stops" running things in the background, they are just paused, and only unloaded when memory is needed. A headless device that needs to run in a wiring closet without being reset for months or years, needs to be able to detect when memory is failing to be freed otherwise the device may stop working.
I have an example of this with a Startech IP-KVM which runs linux, but because Startech doesn't release updates for the things they put their brand on after the warranty expires, this IP-KVM remains in a useless state (due to it running a version of VNC and the SSL part only working over Java) and needs to be power cycled by the remote-PDU before it can be used. The device just runs out of memory from DoS-like activity and it overwhelms the logging processes.
And that's sloppy programming. There is such a thing as GC-friendly coding conventions. A GC is not supposed to exist for programmers to go nilly-wily "someone is going to clean my butt for me".
The bulk of immigrants from Eastern Europe do not even compete with the regular native as they tend to be better educated and work at a higher level
Which actually is the problem, and it's a social one not an economic one. Picture this:
You're a British citizen. You grew up in a poor town and went to a crappy comprehensive school. You had no expectations of getting a good job, because there aren't very many in your area. You see immigrants coming in and living in your poor communities and by and large they're not a problem because they're suffering the same problems as you. After you get over the novelty, they just other poor people like you. Fast forward a few years and they've now manage to get qualifications that are recognised here and now they're suddenly getting better jobs than you'd ever qualify for. Their house now has a better car in front of it than yours. They're wearing more expensive clothes than you. You're seeing that social mobility is a real thing - just not for people like you. How does that make you feel?
Sure, the economy as a whole is doing better, but that's not really a great consolation to the long-term unemployed.
But that's not that immigrant problem, isn't? Just as you have British citizens who cannot make it, there are others that do, with the same crappy starting conditions. It's the same thing we have in the US: for every asshole who spends 10-15 years bemoaning the "Chinaman" for taking his job without learning a single fucking skill in all that time, there is a self-starter who treks his way to North Dakota or Texas to work on an oil rig or something.
Unless that person is the target of systemic oppression by class, color or creed, I see no excuse for not progressing.
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alternatively: humans only need to communicate at 10 bits, we don't need a trillion bits per second to enjoy life.
Accelerated learning, specially for adults. I could see a whole class of problems being solved with that. I'm not saying that it is practical with today's technology (or that it is completely desirable.) But there is nothing that prevents this from happening within the next 50-100 years (which in the context of human society, that's a blink of an eye.)
But really, isn't the trick to do less, not more? I ain't no worker-bee. I'm jealous of my pet dog sitting on the couch all day while I work at a desk. I want his life -- it's called retirement.
Productivity is the goal of business. Laziness is the goal of life. I've worked hard to be this lazy.
First world problem meets the Is/Ought existential problem. A lot of people worked hard to be lazy in retirement just to see their retirement plans go poof by Lehman Brothers or their jobs getting replaced by robots or foreign workers just short of retirement.
Shit happens. Shit will always happen. Unless you are part of the 1%, if you, the generic you, work solely to be lazy at the end of some period of time, you are opening yourself to be royally screwed by life.
Don't get me wrong, I would like to retire on a life of laziness. But before that, I'd prefer to avoid my last years to be at the mercy of some retirement plan that can go to shit ending up eating cat food for dinner, even if that means switching careers and working myself to the grave.
Life does not require to give us a happy ending, no matter how hard you think you are working for it.
[quote]1) Not in line with physics, and impractical[/quote] Not at all unlike the Hyperloop.
Wait, how is the Hyperloop not in line with physics?
He's probably right, eventually taking your glasses off will be like suffering from some kind of learning disability. All text you see automatically scanned and available for perfect recall, the name of ever person you meet whispered in your ear in case you forgot, any equation instantly solved... And an unquenchable thirst for Pepsi, an uncontrollable urge to buy a Tesla.
It's already sort of the case. Most of modern students are incapable of doing anything if they don't have facebook to ask elder friends for what to search on google. And then they have an unquenchable thirst for Pepsi. Conclusion, you don't need a brain interface to sell crap and render people useless.
There is so much bullshit with this. Modern students still learn how to use a library. I know, I see batches of students coming with their teachers all the time to learn how (just like old times.) All colleges make students learn how to use them (just like in old times), etc, etc.
In reality, the ability to search online has made students (and people in general) far more efficient at retrieving information. Obviously, this also has the downside that it makes it easy to plagiarize. But that comes with every technology. You get what you put in, and you put in according to what kind of person you are.
Case in point: my daughter who is in second grade now knows how to use google voice search to check for spelling of words she doesn't know. Then she cross-checks it with her dictionary in English and Japanese (since she is bilingual, and soon to be trilingual if everything goes according plan.)
She has become more efficient at writing her homework reports (while learning how to spell faster) without inducing cheating or sloppy work. It has reduced her frustration while helping her focus on the topics she needs to write. This, at 2nd grade.
This type of efficiency increases a lot more for older students and adults.
Pretending that people now are useless because they leverage electronic searches and social media is like pretending farmers today are useless for using tractors instead of hand-held plows.
In other words, this line of reasoning is both simplistic and stupid.
Why did he take NASA issued equipment out the US? What if another country did the same search?
It is always a possibility for another country to conduct such a search, but the government (as well as companies that deal with sensitive information or IP) have guidelines that more or less resolve to this: 1. Do you need it for your job?
2. Are you going to a country that is hostile to us, or
3. That has a history of equipment check on US citizens.
If you answer "yes" to any of these, you might still be permitted to carry the equipment (and no otherwise.)
In the end, we are not talking about searches in Chile. We are talking about idiotic searches by US customs, of equipment belonging to NASA carried by a US born scientist, without any fucking cause.
All men created equal, it says.
If by 'it' you mean the Declaration of Independence, then you'd be correct. The Constitution, however, does not contain these words.
Which is why we have been in a need for amendments.
So that's what HR for, to fire people. I was wrong about it all this time.
Why do stupid indo-chimps do all the headhunting? Isn't it racist and discriminating?
HR doesn't fire people. They do not make the decision. Management from all the way up down to team leads, they decide who gets canned.
The degree of power and frequency each layer of management exercises the task of firing, that's for another debate. HR is the one in charged of cleaning up the mess, in addition to manage paperwork, benefits, severance packages, and at times, counseling.
This mindless hate for HR, me no get it.
Well for one thing, being able to buy from anywhere in the world will automatically mean "priced the same".
If I price it cheaper in Asian/African countries to be affordable in those low wage economies, why would everyone else in the world be willing to pay more ?
So, if everything gets priced at the lowest market value, it will probably prevent a lot of digital works from being created at all simply because the returns are too low or they loose money.
Creation of digital content costs money, everybody who works on it wants to be paid for their work.
Not necessarily, economics of scale could more that make up for the lower resale price. A small number times billions of buyers == still a very big fucking number.
I see what you are saying, and I acknowledge it could go either way for many a producer. But it would also open the gates to many, many others. Say, you are a small, independent film developer. Your film barely breaks in the US market at all (it happens all the time.)
But by being made available at affordable prices all over the world, all of the sudden your product gets exposure to far more customer than in the US alone. If your product is of any quality, it will be purchased and you will get your return on investment.
I'm all for new tech, be it batteries or fusion, or heck, even storing energy as... gas (something about mixing hydrogen into it). But until that day...
While you wait for "until that day" other people are working hard to make that shit happen instead of being sheeple naysayers.
Misleading ? What a thing to complain about in this thread the whole topic is meant to be misleading.
It's the broken window fallacy dressed up for rubes to stupid to know of it. http://www.investopedia.com/as...
The U.S. has the largest coal reserves on the planet it's our cheapest and most abundant energy source. If anything we should be building more coal plants instead of trying to drop our economic growth to zero and surrender comparative advantage.
WTF are you talking about? Why? We know for a fact that coal leaks mercury into our water cycle, and that it is far more expensive to build a coal plant that filters as much of that shit as possible than to just burn natural gas. The EU was our primary coal buyer, and they moved away from that shit. China could have been our customer, but 1) they are coal self-sufficient and 2) they are also moving away from it. India is also moving away from it...
So how the fuck do you suggest we build more coal plants? How do we finance them? How do we keep them running? With what money? The conditions nowadays make coal plants a fucking money pit.
Sure, we have the largest coal deposits on Earth. We also have a lot of dirt around and hydrogen in the air. The value of a thing is not a mere function of its abundance or lack thereof.
the jobs are gone. Just like everything else.
Just like mechanic jobs that went poof now that everyone has a car, or plumber jobs that went poof since every house has a fucking plumbing system installed.
Hell, look at construction? All the dudes that build the house I purchased are now on the curb because the house was built. There is nothing else to do in that industry, ever after.
Jesus man, I know that many people do not understand the basics of economics, but you bro, I don't know what the fuck is wrong with you.
The immigrants and refugees we are bringing in to the US are mostly illiterate, and I'm not talking about English (yes, about 2/3rds)
As a refugee that came here 28 years ago, I say bullshit to this claim. Citations and numbers or get the fuck out with that bullshit.
Grandma is also less likely to own a computer. .
That was true probably 10 years ago. This, nope, not true anymore.
Honest question: Am I not supposed to use recursion? Am I missing something?
In general, only for prototyping, describing problems or when using a language that has sufficient support for tail recursion. Otherwise, I'd say no.
You have to understand it though, and understand it well. But if I see someone on the wild using a recursive solution from scratch, I'd be wondering wtf is going on.
Honestly, I've only seen custom code recursive code, and it was a fuck up.
The Aztecs knew about vitamin B3, and how make it more readily available for consumption? Citation needed. I doubt they even knew some foods and preparations of foods could prevent pellagra.
Don't be dense. The Aztecs (or rather the entirety of the Americas before Columbus) knew that corn as-is was not fully edible. It had to go through a process of nixtamalization (pretty much soak the corn or corn flour in an alkaline solution.) This is no different from how other cultures have dealt with otherwise toxic food items like taro and manioc.
MesoAmerican diets were in fact quite well-rounded until the conquest. For whatever stupid reason the Conquistadors prohibited nixtamalization for a while (work of the devil or some shit). We know from records of the time (as well as bones) of levels of malnutrition that resulted from this until the locals could again do this process on their primary food source: corn.
Old cultures didn't have a modern lab. Sure, no motherfucking surprise. But they had thousands of years of Darwinian trial and error with which to notice what combinations of foods provided the best results as well as how to prepare them for best results (be them nutrition or storage.)
Just because cultures were not modern (or even literate) that does not mean they were not intelligent enough to gather knowledge from empirical observation.
man-bear-pig?
You bastard, you stole my line!
Community college and state colleges should be free, like it is in civilized countries.
They aren't in Japan. And that's a civilized country. I do agree with the sentiment that community and state colleges should be affordable (as well as, and perhaps most important, vocational/trade schools.)
But along with this, admission criteria should be more rigorous. Most importantly, focus on HS. We have people graduating from HS who cannot add fractions (I shit you not.) And that's unacceptable. A modern HS program should ensure a young person is capable of doing some type of job at least, and to have an analytical mind.
HS kids graduate with no skills or vision whatsoever, they have no visibility with regards of all the wonderful options of a vocation or trade, and end up going to college because that's the only option they are told to have.
Indeed, so build out better infrastructure for telecommuting and those of us who work remotely will go and live in small quiet communities where housing is a fraction of the cost.
That's a self-service, myopic argument. That only works for professions that can work remotely. The bulk of the service industry (trade, hospitality, health care, building, physical systems repairs, etc) is not like that.
Besides, that kind of telecommuting ability already exist in many affordable places (and no, it will never cover picturesque Tumbleweedtown in Montanabraska, the country is too damned big and sparsely populated to justify such an infrastructure investment). You just have to plan ahead and do your research.
Maybe they cared about other issues more than they cared about energy?
And they are soon going to find out the price of that decision.
Unless you are very very sharp - like you can read the paper on MP4 encoding - and implement it from scratch and understand the math and everything on a desert island, you'll have a future.
You are missing the much larger group of people who will continue to have jobs. They are the technical staff with the soft skills necessary to interface with business and the technical skills to make high level design decisions. This is already where most of the real money in the IT industry is made. Whether they are consultants, software architects, Director of IT, etc these workers are the most insulated from shipping jobs overseas. They are also the ones who greatly benefit from the H1B and other immigration programs.
You don't need to be in the wealthy class to have a future, but you do need to work closely with the wealthy class. If you like hiding behind your desk your days are numbered.
This. Always this. I mean, these job loss turmoils aren't anything new. Shit, they are like 20 years now. The key is to put yourself out there and take risks. The cushy jobs that people would do for 30 years, the ones where you got a golden watch at the end, that gravy train shit is over.
> rather than anyone admitting that areas outside London have been neglected and need more focus
One of the most fundamental tenants of Progressive politics, worldwide, is that rural cultures are bad and must be destroyed. Ignoring areas outside of London isn't a bug, it's a feature.
No, it is natural. When you move past a post-industrial base, it becomes harder and harder to sustain small communities. Whether you are in the US, the UK, Japan, Mexico, or Russia, the farther you are from a sufficiently large urban center, the harder it is to have or find a diverse job market.
And I'm not talking "diverse job market" as "market with good jobs." I'm talking about "market that has any jobs". You can work multiple part-times in an urban area if you have to (not ideal, but you do what you must.) In a poor rural town, you don't even get that choice.
It's not a matter that urban people are smart and rural people dumb or any shit like that. It's just how the means of production and services operate nowadays. And in a world where automation and serviceable products are become more and more prevalent, there is no stopping it.
Capitalism dictates that workers move where jobs are. There is no right or wrong in this. It just is. And to presume that a government must "do something" to prevent rural towns from becoming ghost towns is pretty much a tax on urban centers to subsidize a rural life that is no longer feasible.
The question here is how countries and people can grapple with this effectively to the country's benefit (or how it ameliorates the inevitable pains in the transition).
It's actually worse than that. It's more like "if England does what it thinks is best for the UK", because you have to ignore the wishes of Scotland, Northern Ireland and Gibraltar if you want a hard Brexit with an intact United Kingdom
There's "best for" and there's "wishes", too. I mean Wales wished for Brexit. I cannot imagine how Brexit, especially with this Tory bunch could possibly be best for Wales.
Well, that's the problem with lunatics, idiots and otherwise uninformed rubes: they can't tell the difference between "wishes" and "best for". In fact, they can't tell the difference between "thinking" and "feeling."
The problem with GC is that it's inherently lazy.
Take straight C for example. You need to define a variable, initialize it, do whatever with it, and then free it, within the scope of the function in order to make efficient use of it. Or you use malloc.
In Perl, PHP, Javascript, and most interpreted languages, you simply define the variable, some people remember to initialize it, do whatever with it, and then let it go out of scope for it to be garbage collected. If you do this frequently enough, like inside a tight loop, then the GC introduces latency.
In C++ you can specifically tell the C++ runtime to delete objects, and use C style varibles if you want the tighter control, or stick entirely with malloc if you want to use as little memory as possible.
The goal with GC should be determined by the nature of the device. A desktop system with a lot of memory will have no problem deferring garbage collection, but then you get sites like Twitter, which endlessly "grow" the DOM and never actually GC anything until the tab is refreshed. Before Chrome finally released a 64bit version, one would only get about 2 days out of a twitter tab before it would crash. Do this on mobile and it will crash hourly, because even though the mobile device may have 1GB of memory and run in 64bit mode, it never actually "stops" running things in the background, they are just paused, and only unloaded when memory is needed. A headless device that needs to run in a wiring closet without being reset for months or years, needs to be able to detect when memory is failing to be freed otherwise the device may stop working.
I have an example of this with a Startech IP-KVM which runs linux, but because Startech doesn't release updates for the things they put their brand on after the warranty expires, this IP-KVM remains in a useless state (due to it running a version of VNC and the SSL part only working over Java) and needs to be power cycled by the remote-PDU before it can be used. The device just runs out of memory from DoS-like activity and it overwhelms the logging processes.
And that's sloppy programming. There is such a thing as GC-friendly coding conventions. A GC is not supposed to exist for programmers to go nilly-wily "someone is going to clean my butt for me".
"They have to understand that some of us have decided to make this a full-time career."
Who's "they"
Why do "they" have to "understand" (you)?
And by "understand", what do you mean? To give some type of material support to your decision to make it a full-time gig?
That uber taxi cab must smell really wonderful, with the driver sleeping in it and using a 7-11 restroom :/
I swear to Glob, I just can't understand these people. Idiocracy at its finest.
The bulk of immigrants from Eastern Europe do not even compete with the regular native as they tend to be better educated and work at a higher level
Which actually is the problem, and it's a social one not an economic one. Picture this:
You're a British citizen. You grew up in a poor town and went to a crappy comprehensive school. You had no expectations of getting a good job, because there aren't very many in your area. You see immigrants coming in and living in your poor communities and by and large they're not a problem because they're suffering the same problems as you. After you get over the novelty, they just other poor people like you. Fast forward a few years and they've now manage to get qualifications that are recognised here and now they're suddenly getting better jobs than you'd ever qualify for. Their house now has a better car in front of it than yours. They're wearing more expensive clothes than you. You're seeing that social mobility is a real thing - just not for people like you. How does that make you feel?
Sure, the economy as a whole is doing better, but that's not really a great consolation to the long-term unemployed.
But that's not that immigrant problem, isn't? Just as you have British citizens who cannot make it, there are others that do, with the same crappy starting conditions. It's the same thing we have in the US: for every asshole who spends 10-15 years bemoaning the "Chinaman" for taking his job without learning a single fucking skill in all that time, there is a self-starter who treks his way to North Dakota or Texas to work on an oil rig or something.
Unless that person is the target of systemic oppression by class, color or creed, I see no excuse for not progressing.
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