You can get a ticket from San Jose to Long Beach for $60 today. Why would you pay double that for Reid-Hillview to John Wayne? Not to mention a prop plane is going to be much slower so you won't be saving the overall travel time.
The species that survive end up doing great though.
Humans will do just fine, the animals and plants we rely on are farmed, which means massive proliferation. 60% of all mammals are livestock, and 70% of all birds are chicken (source).
It doesn't have anything to do with hitting on them. Gender is a very significant part of how we perceive and understand others. Throughout in every culture in human history, men and women behave differently and are treated differently. To pretend they're the same or interchangeable is intellectually dishonest.
It's as if your boss believed in flat earth and everyone must behave as though the earth is flat or be referred to HR. It probably doesn't affect your work much (who needs time zones anyways?), but I can see why some people might object.
It's not the broken window fallacy, it's pointing out that one of the basic assumptions of modern economics - unlimited demand - does not exist. No matter how rich someone is, they can't eat 100 meals or watch 100 movies a day.
If you remove the middle class, those movies simply won't exist, because at $100 million a pop, even the richest couldn't possibly fund their development for very long. It's only when a movie will be watched millions of times that it makes sense to create them at such a high cost.
The same story gets repeated in just about every industry. Intel spent $13 billion last year in R&D. Boeing spent close to $30 billion to design the 787. Cancer research is $5 billion per year and they're not even close to being done. None of those costs would be justifiable if their entire customer base was 10,000 strong.
Viability of UBI depends entirely on the amount paid. $100 / month is easily affordable, but probably not useful. $2000 / month is very useful, but less affordable.
The incentive to do work also depends on it. Most people will not be happy living on $500 / month for an extended period of time, but would be on $2000 / month.
Experiments with sports like Virtual paintball, I would go develop vr helmets specifically for paintball.
Why would anyone go outside to play virtual paintball if they can just play real paintball? That marker and paintballs don't cost nearly as much as a specialized paintball VR headset.
You also have to solve the focal length problem. When I put on a VR headset, I immediately get eye strain and blurry vision. My eyes were trying to focus on something distant, but the headset's focus is always a few feet away.
The problem is, the internet is mostly made up of private networks and private service providers. Yet its purpose is more akin to the public square of the pilgrim years.
Without net neutrality, Comcast could decide to censor millions of people at any time. Without some government-mandated protections for free speech, companies like Facebook, Twitter and Google can prevent any idea they disagree with from being heard.
That may not seem like a problem to you because you think they're on your side right now. But they are multi-billion-dollar international corporations, not ordinary Americans. In the long run, it's going to poison our free society.
I think it would be better to limit to how many down votes counted against your score. Let's say you have 10 upvotes and 12 downvotes, with the current system it would be buried. Obviously your comment is contentious and slightly against the mainstream, but it also brings something new to the discussion and deserves to be seen. People can read it for themselves and decide whether you're right or wrong.
Yep. Curiosity is good, but it's impossible to know how everything works. There are countless critical processes that most people know nothing about. When's the last time you had to know how a credit card transaction is authorized? Or how glycolysis turns the food you ate into energy? Or how earth generates the gravity that keeps you on the ground?
Keeping track of what the kids are doing, online or IRL is something all parents should do.
Plenty of kids can make their own decisions without parents hovering over them. Not all kids need their parents to micromanage their social lives.
Since when does "keeping track" the same as "micromanage"? At work I "keep track" of what my team is working on, checking in with them once or twice a week, even longer if the person has a good track record. If I were "micromanaging" I'd be check at least once an hour.
The kids with computer skills read more, have broader knowledge of current events, and are WAY ahead on tech skills. They are even better at social skills and teamwork because they are friends on Facebook and all know each other. The kids without computers at home are at a big disadvantage.
I agree, if reading the news and talking to friends on Facebook is what they're doing. But would you be fine with your 8-year old buying drugs and weapons on the Silk Road? Or chatting with a friendly Nigerian prince who really needs dad's bank account? Or even just getting addicted to some video game and stop doing homework?
There's a million different ways to hurt yourself on the internet, and it's not possible to warn kids about all of them beforehand. Even if you tried, there's no guarantee that kids will understand and take it to heart. The only way to stop them from doing really dumb things is knowing what they're doing.
There is rarely "one cool thing" which is best for all individual parents to do for all of their individual kids
What about feeding, clothing, protecting, setting boundaries and educating?
Keeping track of what the kids are doing, online or IRL is something all parents should do. At the end of the day, the internet is a poor substitute for actual parenting.
Keep increasing the minimum wage until we start to see some movement on the inflation and unemployment numbers, and that's when we'll know we've found the right number and can freeze it for a while.
Inflation will not happen if automation replaces part of the labor. As for unemployment, changes will be masked by normal economic growth. Let's say automation shaved 20% off the labor, if there's even more new stores opening, you won't see any changes in unemployment. The problem is, by the time the number rises, we'd be in a recession and it would be too late.
I don't see how your solution differs from the current state of things. Pricing in places like SF is already absurd, but businesses still want to stay there.
Given property taxes are a thing even in California, no one would leave a property vacant unless the rental market is deep in the gutter.
It's things like rent control and unevictable renters that scare potential landlords away. California's thinking about the former, and the latter depends on how poor the tenant is.
You can claim that, but I think most people already have a good idea of what "SJW" refers to.
In our society, there's a group of people who hate white people. There's another group that hates men. And there's a group that don't care about due process. These groups overlap, and the intersection is what I call SJW. You can give it a different name, I don't really care. But those people exist.
I've had a lot of similar claims made about me. When I demand for sort of evidence like a link to where I ever said such a thing, I get angry, evasive responses.
Funny how you say that about other people. The last 3-4 times I replied to your posts you responded with childish insults.
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The president already has helicopters. How is an electric plane that needs an airport going improve his mobility?
You can get a ticket from San Jose to Long Beach for $60 today. Why would you pay double that for Reid-Hillview to John Wayne? Not to mention a prop plane is going to be much slower so you won't be saving the overall travel time.
The species that survive end up doing great though.
Humans will do just fine, the animals and plants we rely on are farmed, which means massive proliferation. 60% of all mammals are livestock, and 70% of all birds are chicken (source).
I think most people want to recognize it as a disability. It's the SJWs that want it normalized.
It doesn't have anything to do with hitting on them. Gender is a very significant part of how we perceive and understand others. Throughout in every culture in human history, men and women behave differently and are treated differently. To pretend they're the same or interchangeable is intellectually dishonest.
It's as if your boss believed in flat earth and everyone must behave as though the earth is flat or be referred to HR. It probably doesn't affect your work much (who needs time zones anyways?), but I can see why some people might object.
It's not the broken window fallacy, it's pointing out that one of the basic assumptions of modern economics - unlimited demand - does not exist. No matter how rich someone is, they can't eat 100 meals or watch 100 movies a day.
If you remove the middle class, those movies simply won't exist, because at $100 million a pop, even the richest couldn't possibly fund their development for very long. It's only when a movie will be watched millions of times that it makes sense to create them at such a high cost.
The same story gets repeated in just about every industry. Intel spent $13 billion last year in R&D. Boeing spent close to $30 billion to design the 787. Cancer research is $5 billion per year and they're not even close to being done. None of those costs would be justifiable if their entire customer base was 10,000 strong.
Viability of UBI depends entirely on the amount paid. $100 / month is easily affordable, but probably not useful. $2000 / month is very useful, but less affordable.
The incentive to do work also depends on it. Most people will not be happy living on $500 / month for an extended period of time, but would be on $2000 / month.
Experiments with sports like Virtual paintball, I would go develop vr helmets specifically for paintball.
Why would anyone go outside to play virtual paintball if they can just play real paintball? That marker and paintballs don't cost nearly as much as a specialized paintball VR headset.
You should try: https://www.x-plane.com/ Simulated flight in VR is BETTER than a $200,000 home cockpit......
For $200,000 you can have a real cockpit in a real plane.
What we REALLY need is a Rift-type display that can do the equivalent of overlay three virtual 27" monitors in an arc ~20" in front of you
Why would you settle for 27 inch monitors when you're in VR? At least go for the 60 inch!
Or go a few steps further and get floating code panes connected together into a 3D call graph that you can fly through.
You also have to solve the focal length problem. When I put on a VR headset, I immediately get eye strain and blurry vision. My eyes were trying to focus on something distant, but the headset's focus is always a few feet away.
The problem is, the internet is mostly made up of private networks and private service providers. Yet its purpose is more akin to the public square of the pilgrim years.
Without net neutrality, Comcast could decide to censor millions of people at any time. Without some government-mandated protections for free speech, companies like Facebook, Twitter and Google can prevent any idea they disagree with from being heard.
That may not seem like a problem to you because you think they're on your side right now. But they are multi-billion-dollar international corporations, not ordinary Americans. In the long run, it's going to poison our free society.
I think it would be better to limit to how many down votes counted against your score. Let's say you have 10 upvotes and 12 downvotes, with the current system it would be buried. Obviously your comment is contentious and slightly against the mainstream, but it also brings something new to the discussion and deserves to be seen. People can read it for themselves and decide whether you're right or wrong.
Yep. Curiosity is good, but it's impossible to know how everything works. There are countless critical processes that most people know nothing about. When's the last time you had to know how a credit card transaction is authorized? Or how glycolysis turns the food you ate into energy? Or how earth generates the gravity that keeps you on the ground?
Keeping track of what the kids are doing, online or IRL is something all parents should do.
Plenty of kids can make their own decisions without parents hovering over them. Not all kids need their parents to micromanage their social lives.
Since when does "keeping track" the same as "micromanage"? At work I "keep track" of what my team is working on, checking in with them once or twice a week, even longer if the person has a good track record. If I were "micromanaging" I'd be check at least once an hour.
The kids with computer skills read more, have broader knowledge of current events, and are WAY ahead on tech skills. They are even better at social skills and teamwork because they are friends on Facebook and all know each other. The kids without computers at home are at a big disadvantage.
I agree, if reading the news and talking to friends on Facebook is what they're doing. But would you be fine with your 8-year old buying drugs and weapons on the Silk Road? Or chatting with a friendly Nigerian prince who really needs dad's bank account? Or even just getting addicted to some video game and stop doing homework?
There's a million different ways to hurt yourself on the internet, and it's not possible to warn kids about all of them beforehand. Even if you tried, there's no guarantee that kids will understand and take it to heart. The only way to stop them from doing really dumb things is knowing what they're doing.
There is rarely "one cool thing" which is best for all individual parents to do for all of their individual kids
What about feeding, clothing, protecting, setting boundaries and educating?
Keeping track of what the kids are doing, online or IRL is something all parents should do. At the end of the day, the internet is a poor substitute for actual parenting.
Yep, otherwise the minimum wage could be $100 / hour and everyone will be rich.
Keep increasing the minimum wage until we start to see some movement on the inflation and unemployment numbers, and that's when we'll know we've found the right number and can freeze it for a while.
Inflation will not happen if automation replaces part of the labor. As for unemployment, changes will be masked by normal economic growth. Let's say automation shaved 20% off the labor, if there's even more new stores opening, you won't see any changes in unemployment. The problem is, by the time the number rises, we'd be in a recession and it would be too late.
On the other hand, now that you're retired, you can move somewhere even cheaper.
I don't see how your solution differs from the current state of things. Pricing in places like SF is already absurd, but businesses still want to stay there.
Given property taxes are a thing even in California, no one would leave a property vacant unless the rental market is deep in the gutter.
It's things like rent control and unevictable renters that scare potential landlords away. California's thinking about the former, and the latter depends on how poor the tenant is.
I have a bright high schooler in my family... when he got the chance to do the coding class he did not go for it.
I suspect he considerered it to be combination of boring or irrelevant, or the pacing was wrong or the homework.
He wouldn't know that unless he already tried taking the class. It's the advertising, or the lack thereof, that put him off.
I think all those starving artists would disagree. Being paid for your work is good, even if your passion is elsewhere.
You can claim that, but I think most people already have a good idea of what "SJW" refers to.
In our society, there's a group of people who hate white people. There's another group that hates men. And there's a group that don't care about due process. These groups overlap, and the intersection is what I call SJW. You can give it a different name, I don't really care. But those people exist.
I've had a lot of similar claims made about me. When I demand for sort of evidence like a link to where I ever said such a thing, I get angry, evasive responses.
Funny how you say that about other people. The last 3-4 times I replied to your posts you responded with childish insults.