To answer your question, for a country like the US, 90% or more can be on UBI. The country is only 2% farmers, yet produces more than enough food for it to be a major export. Of the remaining needs, water, clothing and electricity production are almost completely automated. The only need not automated yet is shelter, but that's not a consumable like the others.
Now that's not to say it would be a nice place to live with 90% of the people on UBI, but in reality that won't happen. Most people don't want to merely survive, they want to live in luxury.
Unlike you, I voluntarily go on walks and hikes instead of being forced to by my environment. The difference is, I'm under no time pressure to get to where I'm going and I get a much better view.
On an unrelated note, I notice that Europeans have a very narrow view of how people should live their lives. So I have to ask, since you already live the way you want, why do you want to force others to do the same?
You'd have a point if people aren't already heavily taxed. A rough estimate shows people in the SF Bay Area pay $1 billion in gas taxes to the state every year, yet we still have pot-holed roads everywhere and no usable public transportation except in a few small areas. Where did the money go?
Having been to both Germany and Austria, my experience was that I had to walk much more than was reasonable to get to bus or tram stops, and spend a lot of time waiting for them to show up. Even when I was lucky, I end up spending about 3 minutes walking on both ends and 3-5 minutes waiting. That time alone is enough for me to get to the grocery store or a local restaurant in the US using my car. I think the locals have just gotten used to long travel times.
Besides, I still see private cars in those cities. If the public transportation was all people needed, there would be no resistance against completely banning private cars.
Which problem is the "invisible hand" solving here? That there are too many ride-sharing vehicles, that the traffic is bad or that public transportation sucks? The first two are easy to solve through a variety of means. The third one, not so much. In fact, if you solved the public transportation problem, those other two would go away too.
Hmm, let's see, America, Europe and China added together is 3 billion people. India uses it along side their own, as does most of South East Asia. That's more than half the world already.
Besides, it's pretty insulting to the Japanese to assume they don't know which year "2018" refers to. Take a look at this. In the first scene of the first episode, the first word spoken by the narrator is "2068". This is a show made by a Japanese company, for a Japanese audience, and it has no problems using the Gregorian calendar.
Nah, just call it Heisei 31 until they figure out what the name of the new era is called. Or better yet, just use 2019. There's not a lot of reasons to give it a name other than improving the imperial family's prestige.
Speaking of which, why are they still around? Isn't it about time to abolish this nonsense?
Unfortunately, UTC is also crazy in that it has irregular leap seconds. Then some idiot decided Unix time should be based on UTC rather than the other way around. So now you need to use TAI to bypass that problem, but software support is limited due to Unix time being "good enough" for most cases.
Still no back button though. Theoretically every app should have one on the top left, but in practice they don't. Plus it's much harder to reach than Android's.
Two wrongs does not make a right. An anonymous voice has no authority, which means it only gets traction if what they say is actually compelling, that there are people out there who agree with what they say. Shutting them down with threats doesn't prove they're wrong, nor does revealing that they're funded by big oil. If you think it did then you've just fallen for an ad hominem fallacy.
The tactile feedback for tapping the right place and the wrong place is exactly the same. That's not useful feedback for controlling the vehicle and it's objectively worse than physical buttons.
I don't have Rei's boundless optimism for Tesla, quite the opposite in fact. But making money is not the only motivation a person can have. Finding acceptance, wanting to be proven right and spreading one's ideology are all valid non-monetary reasons to do things.
But even on the monetary side, let's say Rei has invested his entire life savings into Telsa, or even mortgaged his house to do it. It's still in his best interests to convince as many people as possible to buy rather than short. Tesla is very short on cash at the moment, and a higher stock price (and therefore valuation) makes raising new capital much easier and cheaper. This new capital could last it long enough for it to start turning a profit. So the positive sentiment that thousands of fanboys generate could be the difference between bankruptcy and actually making it.
Nah, just make the laptop waterproof and dunk the whole thing in a tub. By the time you're done for the day you'll have enough hot water to take a bath.
It's not that impressive honestly. The Shanghai maglev can run at 311 mph and it's a full-sized train that's been in commercial service since 2004.
Besides, just being fast doesn't cut it. An SF to LA plane ticket is $50 and it'll get you there in 2.5 hours, security line included. That's very hard to beat whether you're going with conventional high speed, maglev or hyperloop.
Super cars aren't even in the same league as the best dragsters. The quarter-mile (400 m) record was set by Sam Miller's Vanishing Point. It took just 3.58 seconds and reached a top speed of 386 mph (621 km/h).
As for maglevs, they're just really toned-down coil guns. In 1978, the USSR sent a 2-gram ring to 5000 m/s in just 1 cm of length. That's 250 times more acceleration than a regular gun, which produces muzzle velocities of 1200 m/s over a 60 cm long barrel. So if you want to get somewhere really really fast and you're okay with not arriving in one piece, coil guns have you covered.
In more survivable applications, the US Navy is investigating electromagnetic catapults on their carriers:
The EMALS' 300-foot (91 m) LIM will accelerate a 100,000-pound (45,000 kg) aircraft to 130 kn (240 km/h; 150 mph).
If you extend its length to 600 m, it'll be able to reach 900 mph (400 m/s) while carrying the weight of a fully-loaded fighter jet.
SJW screeching will put that genie back in the bottle.
Oh so you do care what other people think aof you and say about you. Otherwise you wouldn't be using what you clearly think of as insults.
The term SJW is an insult to you? Ok, but I'm just using the term to describe people who try to force their morals on everyone else. I would use "moralist" instead, but their morals are very different from conservative Christians. I can also say "third-wave feminist", but that's awfully long and it's not entirely clear that all of them are actually feminists.
Your psycho-analysis is completely off mark, as is your ability to quote things properly. What I call them has no bearing on whether I care what they think or not. Pretty sure the KKK still calls black people "n i g g e r s", and they're definitely not trying to get blacks to like them.
Oh and apparently Slashdot's spam filter is just a bunch of regexes. No, using the word "n i g g e r s" is not indicative of spam or troll. There are legitimate cases such as a discussion of culturally important terminology where the use of unsavory words is required to illustrate a point.
Yes, we'll "deal with it". Many of us "geeks" couldn't give one fuck about what other people think of us. Heck, we didn't care when other kids ostracized of us. And if daily harassment didn't stop us from liking what we like, what's a few click-bait opinion articles going to do?
As for gamer culture, it's pretty clear the real gamers have already won. Steam announced that they're no longer going to try to police content and no amount of SJW screeching will put that genie back in the bottle.
One, why would you want to force them to take their mask off? And two, finding peace (or happiness) in life mainly involves understanding and reconciling your own inner turmoil, through meditation and quiet contemplation. If you're trying to find peace through others when you're not at peace with yourself, it's not going to work.
These types of laws are simply too broad. There are places where it makes sense to require all party consent, and there are places (and situations) where it shouldn't require any consent. In our minds, certain places are private, where we expect our behavior to not be scrutinized. Others are public, where we put on a mask for other people's comfort and expect them to recepriocate.
Recording someone else's private conversation should require at least one of them to censent. Recording in another's home should require the homeowner's consent. Recording in a locker room should require the consent of everyone present.
On the other hand, recording a burglar breaking into your house should not require the burglar's consent. Recording a crowd of people at a mall should not require thousands of people to consent. And recording an on-duty police officer should happen by default.
Of course, I wouldn't mind a world consent laws are unnecessary: a world where nobody judges what other people do, where nobody minds what other people see them doing, and where voyeurs stick to PornHub where getting into the taxi is just the opening scene.
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To answer your question, for a country like the US, 90% or more can be on UBI. The country is only 2% farmers, yet produces more than enough food for it to be a major export. Of the remaining needs, water, clothing and electricity production are almost completely automated. The only need not automated yet is shelter, but that's not a consumable like the others.
Now that's not to say it would be a nice place to live with 90% of the people on UBI, but in reality that won't happen. Most people don't want to merely survive, they want to live in luxury.
Unlike you, I voluntarily go on walks and hikes instead of being forced to by my environment. The difference is, I'm under no time pressure to get to where I'm going and I get a much better view.
On an unrelated note, I notice that Europeans have a very narrow view of how people should live their lives. So I have to ask, since you already live the way you want, why do you want to force others to do the same?
You'd have a point if people aren't already heavily taxed. A rough estimate shows people in the SF Bay Area pay $1 billion in gas taxes to the state every year, yet we still have pot-holed roads everywhere and no usable public transportation except in a few small areas. Where did the money go?
Having been to both Germany and Austria, my experience was that I had to walk much more than was reasonable to get to bus or tram stops, and spend a lot of time waiting for them to show up. Even when I was lucky, I end up spending about 3 minutes walking on both ends and 3-5 minutes waiting. That time alone is enough for me to get to the grocery store or a local restaurant in the US using my car. I think the locals have just gotten used to long travel times.
Besides, I still see private cars in those cities. If the public transportation was all people needed, there would be no resistance against completely banning private cars.
Which problem is the "invisible hand" solving here? That there are too many ride-sharing vehicles, that the traffic is bad or that public transportation sucks? The first two are easy to solve through a variety of means. The third one, not so much. In fact, if you solved the public transportation problem, those other two would go away too.
Hmm, let's see, America, Europe and China added together is 3 billion people. India uses it along side their own, as does most of South East Asia. That's more than half the world already.
Besides, it's pretty insulting to the Japanese to assume they don't know which year "2018" refers to. Take a look at this. In the first scene of the first episode, the first word spoken by the narrator is "2068". This is a show made by a Japanese company, for a Japanese audience, and it has no problems using the Gregorian calendar.
I have an even better one: change the OS so doesn't need to reboot to apply updates.
Why are we using the Christian epoch?
Because right now most of the world uses it.
Unix time contains leap seconds that causes a whole host of other problems. TAI would be fine, but not enough people use it.
Nah, just call it Heisei 31 until they figure out what the name of the new era is called. Or better yet, just use 2019. There's not a lot of reasons to give it a name other than improving the imperial family's prestige.
Speaking of which, why are they still around? Isn't it about time to abolish this nonsense?
Unfortunately, UTC is also crazy in that it has irregular leap seconds. Then some idiot decided Unix time should be based on UTC rather than the other way around. So now you need to use TAI to bypass that problem, but software support is limited due to Unix time being "good enough" for most cases.
Still no back button though. Theoretically every app should have one on the top left, but in practice they don't. Plus it's much harder to reach than Android's.
Interesting. Can you provide a link to such a product?
Two wrongs does not make a right. An anonymous voice has no authority, which means it only gets traction if what they say is actually compelling, that there are people out there who agree with what they say. Shutting them down with threats doesn't prove they're wrong, nor does revealing that they're funded by big oil. If you think it did then you've just fallen for an ad hominem fallacy.
The tactile feedback for tapping the right place and the wrong place is exactly the same. That's not useful feedback for controlling the vehicle and it's objectively worse than physical buttons.
I don't have Rei's boundless optimism for Tesla, quite the opposite in fact. But making money is not the only motivation a person can have. Finding acceptance, wanting to be proven right and spreading one's ideology are all valid non-monetary reasons to do things.
But even on the monetary side, let's say Rei has invested his entire life savings into Telsa, or even mortgaged his house to do it. It's still in his best interests to convince as many people as possible to buy rather than short. Tesla is very short on cash at the moment, and a higher stock price (and therefore valuation) makes raising new capital much easier and cheaper. This new capital could last it long enough for it to start turning a profit. So the positive sentiment that thousands of fanboys generate could be the difference between bankruptcy and actually making it.
Are you so much of a Elon Musk fanboy that spreading FUD about Tesla is comparable to war crimes?
Why would you ever pay to watch people talk about politics? I get more than enough of that shoved in my face that I'd charge them for it if I could.
Paying people upwards of $100k a year, then skimping out on $1000 hardware.
Might as well buy a Porche and tell them you only want 2 wheels.
Nah, just make the laptop waterproof and dunk the whole thing in a tub. By the time you're done for the day you'll have enough hot water to take a bath.
It's not that impressive honestly. The Shanghai maglev can run at 311 mph and it's a full-sized train that's been in commercial service since 2004.
Besides, just being fast doesn't cut it. An SF to LA plane ticket is $50 and it'll get you there in 2.5 hours, security line included. That's very hard to beat whether you're going with conventional high speed, maglev or hyperloop.
As for maglevs, they're just really toned-down coil guns. In 1978, the USSR sent a 2-gram ring to 5000 m/s in just 1 cm of length. That's 250 times more acceleration than a regular gun, which produces muzzle velocities of 1200 m/s over a 60 cm long barrel. So if you want to get somewhere really really fast and you're okay with not arriving in one piece, coil guns have you covered.
In more survivable applications, the US Navy is investigating electromagnetic catapults on their carriers:
The EMALS' 300-foot (91 m) LIM will accelerate a 100,000-pound (45,000 kg) aircraft to 130 kn (240 km/h; 150 mph).
If you extend its length to 600 m, it'll be able to reach 900 mph (400 m/s) while carrying the weight of a fully-loaded fighter jet.
Oh so you do care what other people think aof you and say about you. Otherwise you wouldn't be using what you clearly think of as insults.
The term SJW is an insult to you? Ok, but I'm just using the term to describe people who try to force their morals on everyone else. I would use "moralist" instead, but their morals are very different from conservative Christians. I can also say "third-wave feminist", but that's awfully long and it's not entirely clear that all of them are actually feminists.
Your psycho-analysis is completely off mark, as is your ability to quote things properly. What I call them has no bearing on whether I care what they think or not. Pretty sure the KKK still calls black people "n i g g e r s", and they're definitely not trying to get blacks to like them.
Oh and apparently Slashdot's spam filter is just a bunch of regexes. No, using the word "n i g g e r s" is not indicative of spam or troll. There are legitimate cases such as a discussion of culturally important terminology where the use of unsavory words is required to illustrate a point.
Yes, we'll "deal with it". Many of us "geeks" couldn't give one fuck about what other people think of us. Heck, we didn't care when other kids ostracized of us. And if daily harassment didn't stop us from liking what we like, what's a few click-bait opinion articles going to do?
As for gamer culture, it's pretty clear the real gamers have already won. Steam announced that they're no longer going to try to police content and no amount of SJW screeching will put that genie back in the bottle.
One, why would you want to force them to take their mask off? And two, finding peace (or happiness) in life mainly involves understanding and reconciling your own inner turmoil, through meditation and quiet contemplation. If you're trying to find peace through others when you're not at peace with yourself, it's not going to work.
These types of laws are simply too broad. There are places where it makes sense to require all party consent, and there are places (and situations) where it shouldn't require any consent. In our minds, certain places are private, where we expect our behavior to not be scrutinized. Others are public, where we put on a mask for other people's comfort and expect them to recepriocate.
Recording someone else's private conversation should require at least one of them to censent. Recording in another's home should require the homeowner's consent. Recording in a locker room should require the consent of everyone present.
On the other hand, recording a burglar breaking into your house should not require the burglar's consent. Recording a crowd of people at a mall should not require thousands of people to consent. And recording an on-duty police officer should happen by default.
Of course, I wouldn't mind a world consent laws are unnecessary: a world where nobody judges what other people do, where nobody minds what other people see them doing, and where voyeurs stick to PornHub where getting into the taxi is just the opening scene.