Your grandfather, having been his entire working life in a union obviously has some deep insight on their workings, fortunately for him he also has no clue what it is like for non-union white-collar workers
Few nations are involved in armed conflicts and none have the sheer volume of engagements that the U.S military has, The homelessness problem among U.S veterans is greatly exacerbated by mental and substance abuse problems , PTSD causes on soldiers that have suffered battle trauma or fatigue
Thank god for those "right to work" sates where you don'\t have to give a cut to the "mafia." Good thing too because with increasing health-insurance burdens and vanishing pension plans, you are going to need every penny you can spare
If they anchor over 12 miles off the coast of the closest Island, they will be in international waters and outside of the jurisdiction of the French government. Although the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea gives France a 200 mile exclusive economic zone around the Islands. At the very least the French could forbid them from fishing or setting up anchored wind-turbines. This assumes that the French don't take the position that the whole installation is nothing more than a "stateless, flagless, or unregistered" vessel
You forgot to mention that the AI will be running on the Cloud.
In all seriousness thou, I fail to see what benefits the floating AI controlled crypto-haven will have over your traditional island tax-haven. Many of those Islands are high enough above the current sea-levels to not have to worry about disappearing under the waves.
Well educated, higher income parents families actually have fewer children then less educated, lower income ones. This holds true for European countries which check all the boxes on your wishlist's.
Un-intuitively, putting all-their-eggs in one basket makes more sense for families that have a lot of resources and for ones that have have few, many and hope for the best
A classic case of "cognitive dissonance." You have convinced yourself that because you had a job and did not fit the profile of the endemic "hardcore homeless," then you were not really homeless. You were in fact homeless! A good chunk of the homeless population are in fact the working poor, people and families without mental or substance abuse problems, often with jobs, that can't afford the living standards of the area and can't afford to move somewhere else due to lack of money and/or job opportunities
2 years ago the FDA moved to limit the "serving size" BS. Now manufacturers are required to specify nutritional values for a "typical amount consumed in one serving," so no more 2.5 servings cans of soup or ice cream bars
As the pedestrian was breaking road-safety regulations, it is classified as an accident. If a human was at the wheel the investigation would have been closed in an hour and barely made local news
Caller id was not designed to be a secure form of identification. The system basically relies on self-reporting. TELCO's have added some basic level of sanity checking (eg: don't accept the recipients own phone number) but with the thousands of VIOP providers out there, there is little more they can do. Groups such as "Secure Telephone Identity Revisited (stir)" have been formed to tackle the issue, but progress has been slow to say the least
geofencing is not exactly a new concept. At least it finally is being used for good (privacy protection) rather then for evil (arbitrary geographical media blocking)
The way I would eliminate scalping is to schedule a decreasing ticket price. Buy on the first day, and the prices are $1000. They drop $100 for each of the next four days. Then they drop $50 for the next 5 days. Then they drop more slowly as the event gets closer.
Or something like that.
The point is that if you buy them up early to scalp them, you'll have trouble making a profit. If the fans really want to pay $500 for front-row tickets, the artists (or their promoters) get the money, not the scalpers.
Solving the scalping problem means making sure that fans are getting tickets at fair prices. At best, your solution merely transfers the unfair gains from scalper to production company and at worst the scalpers will sell-out the tickets at the highest price-point anyways and force the fans to pay even higher prices
Perhaps the Trump's campaign should have done its due diligence on the shady characters it was hiring, or perhaps it did and hired them because of that reason
Is that why 3 people working with Trump 's campaign have been indicted so far, while Trump's own attorney general refuses his very public calls to investigate the Clinton campaign? Unless of course Jeff Sessions, the first major GOP figure to endorse Trump is also "Deep State." Forget the tin-foil hat, i'm locking myself in my tin-foil faraday-cage
"Promising" means withdrawing U.S troops from South Korea and removing South Korea and Japan from the U.S nuclear umbrella. Exactly what NK has been asking for all along
Nobody knows how entanglement works. The mechanism might very well be faster than light communication but because *we* can't use it to transfer information faster then light, the rules of physics as we know them, get to live another day
They are not so secretly selling access to their data to anyone that is willing to pay! Why do you think they are so eager to analyze your spit so cheaply. Match it up with other big data and it's marketers dream, imagine being able to identify targets that fit the genetic profile of people predisposed to poor impulse control.
Most likely the investigators simply bought access in order to avoid getting one of those pesky search warrants
It could be a Liberal conspiracy to turn our kids into hippies, or perhaps the kids have realized the Robots are already here and high paying trades jobs are first on their sensory inputs
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Your grandfather, having been his entire working life in a union obviously has some deep insight on their workings, fortunately for him he also has no clue what it is like for non-union white-collar workers
Few nations are involved in armed conflicts and none have the sheer volume of engagements that the U.S military has, The homelessness problem among U.S veterans is greatly exacerbated by mental and substance abuse problems , PTSD causes on soldiers that have suffered battle trauma or fatigue
Thank god for those "right to work" sates where you don'\t have to give a cut to the "mafia." Good thing too because with increasing health-insurance burdens and vanishing pension plans, you are going to need every penny you can spare
Perhaps, but it will not be easy. Evolution has been working on our immune-systems as well
If they anchor over 12 miles off the coast of the closest Island, they will be in international waters and outside of the jurisdiction of the French government. Although the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea gives France a 200 mile exclusive economic zone around the Islands. At the very least the French could forbid them from fishing or setting up anchored wind-turbines. This assumes that the French don't take the position that the whole installation is nothing more than a "stateless, flagless, or unregistered" vessel
In all seriousness thou, I fail to see what benefits the floating AI controlled crypto-haven will have over your traditional island tax-haven. Many of those Islands are high enough above the current sea-levels to not have to worry about disappearing under the waves.
Well educated, higher income parents families actually have fewer children then less educated, lower income ones. This holds true for European countries which check all the boxes on your wishlist's. Un-intuitively, putting all-their-eggs in one basket makes more sense for families that have a lot of resources and for ones that have have few, many and hope for the best
Guess someone at Google finally realized "YouTube Red " can be very easily confused for a adult entertainment service
A classic case of "cognitive dissonance." You have convinced yourself that because you had a job and did not fit the profile of the endemic "hardcore homeless," then you were not really homeless. You were in fact homeless! A good chunk of the homeless population are in fact the working poor, people and families without mental or substance abuse problems, often with jobs, that can't afford the living standards of the area and can't afford to move somewhere else due to lack of money and/or job opportunities
I'm growing really tired of Musk's publicity stunts. Focus on getting the Model 3 production line problems fixed dammnit
Labor is a "market force," Unions give workers bargaining power they wouldn't have as an individual
2 years ago the FDA moved to limit the "serving size" BS. Now manufacturers are required to specify nutritional values for a "typical amount consumed in one serving," so no more 2.5 servings cans of soup or ice cream bars
Who is guilty of vehicular manslaughter, here?
As the pedestrian was breaking road-safety regulations, it is classified as an accident. If a human was at the wheel the investigation would have been closed in an hour and barely made local news
Caller id was not designed to be a secure form of identification. The system basically relies on self-reporting. TELCO's have added some basic level of sanity checking (eg: don't accept the recipients own phone number) but with the thousands of VIOP providers out there, there is little more they can do. Groups such as "Secure Telephone Identity Revisited (stir)" have been formed to tackle the issue, but progress has been slow to say the least
geofencing is not exactly a new concept. At least it finally is being used for good (privacy protection) rather then for evil (arbitrary geographical media blocking)
The way I would eliminate scalping is to schedule a decreasing ticket price. Buy on the first day, and the prices are $1000. They drop $100 for each of the next four days. Then they drop $50 for the next 5 days. Then they drop more slowly as the event gets closer.
Or something like that.
The point is that if you buy them up early to scalp them, you'll have trouble making a profit. If the fans really want to pay $500 for front-row tickets, the artists (or their promoters) get the money, not the scalpers.
Solving the scalping problem means making sure that fans are getting tickets at fair prices. At best, your solution merely transfers the unfair gains from scalper to production company and at worst the scalpers will sell-out the tickets at the highest price-point anyways and force the fans to pay even higher prices
Perhaps the Trump's campaign should have done its due diligence on the shady characters it was hiring, or perhaps it did and hired them because of that reason
Is that why 3 people working with Trump 's campaign have been indicted so far, while Trump's own attorney general refuses his very public calls to investigate the Clinton campaign? Unless of course Jeff Sessions, the first major GOP figure to endorse Trump is also "Deep State." Forget the tin-foil hat, i'm locking myself in my tin-foil faraday-cage
There is no "karmic pendulum," just the Law of averages. Statistics is a cruel mistress, especially to those addicted to "positive thinking"
If a (D) President had accepted a invitation from NK, Conservatives would be calling it High Treason, but a (R) can do no wrong
"Promising" means withdrawing U.S troops from South Korea and removing South Korea and Japan from the U.S nuclear umbrella. Exactly what NK has been asking for all along
It's because idiots like him that we can't have nice things
Nobody knows how entanglement works. The mechanism might very well be faster than light communication but because *we* can't use it to transfer information faster then light, the rules of physics as we know them, get to live another day
Most likely the investigators simply bought access in order to avoid getting one of those pesky search warrants
It could be a Liberal conspiracy to turn our kids into hippies, or perhaps the kids have realized the Robots are already here and high paying trades jobs are first on their sensory inputs