This is the only home we have and yet we're busy shooting at each other, threatening nuclear war, and wearing suicide vests
Literally none of those affect the planet. Even nuclear war would only cause a slight change in its atmosphere for a few decades. For a planet that's been around for 4 billion years, that's nothing.
Perhaps what he's actually going for is global warming. But killing people is a great way to stop global warming. Every living person contributes to GHG emissions because we still can't feed and clothe them without replacing forests with grasslands and digging up carbon-based fuel. If half of humanity died from nuclear war, our GHG emissions would be cut in half.
Greed is the reason. Look for the apologists of endless greed and kill them.
Greed is not why the planet's overpopulated. You're better off blaming people like Fritz Haber and Edward Jenner.
It's not. Indonesia's disaster is mostly their own making and there's no one to blame but themselves.
But if we already have the data, then we should try to make that available. It contributes to our political leverage and global economic stability, and our own understanding of tsunamis is improved by gathering data from all across the world.
Are you saying wheelchairs and crutches don't need to exist then? Because GP's point is that a pedestrian-only area is more accommodating than an area with both cars and pedestrians.
The "B" in "UBI" means basic, i.e., enough to pay for what you need, not what you want. If you think getting $400 a month is like getting hooked on meth, then you've obviously never tried meth.
In my town, the high density housing that comes out of this mindset ends up being luxury 1 bedroom condominiums starting at 750k. Renovicting people who have been paying decent rents in a duplex or small low rise apartment, and pushing them to things like in TFA which is forming RV shantytowns.
That luxury condo is still soaking up a bunch of the richer tenants from other apartments, leaving those for the less rich. If you build enough of those, the ordinary apartments are going to have plenty of space for everyone who was evicted.
If you want to fix the problem, either build 1k-2k/per month apartments that can fit a family, or houses that arent over 500k.
Asking developers to sell for below cost just isn't going to work. Nobody can build a house for $500k in the Bay Area and nobody will invest $1 million to get a $24k annual rental income, of which $20k goes to property tax and $5k goes to utilities and maintenance (notice how $24k < $25k).
Ban people from owning more than one property in the same regional district is my starting idea.
What do you do for the existing properties they own? And what about those owned by businesses?
Increase the cost of money
That reduces construction of new units, since those are funded by loans too.
don't allow foreigners to purchase land.
Might not make much of a difference in the Bay Area. According to this site, less than 10% are all cash sales (which is indicative of foreign investment).
Instead of moping about it, they could just decide to move on with their lives. Nothing material had changed and nothing needs to change.
Even if it turns out my mother is actually my granddaughter, I would still treat her the exact same way (aside from questioning her about the time machine perhaps).
Trying to remove something from the internet is the same as removing a piece of memory from thousands of people. It's possible if you're willing to lobotomize them.
The real solution is to get over it. There are millions of porn videos out there, more than what any one person can reasonably see in a lifetime. Many of them far more appealing. Why should anyone watch yours?
If they want to shut down the airport and had no concerns for legality, they can use model rockets too. Hamas manages to build those despite the blockade and they can easily send Israel into lockdown.
What this has highlighted is the need for suitable defences.
What this highlights is a need for police to act quickly and arrest the person responsible. If you shoot down the drone but don't arrest them, they'll have a new, more sturdy drone next week. There are thousands of ways a person can interfere with airport operations. You can only prepare against so many before you have no funding left for actual police work.
A part of me says slightly more than the next biggest military on Earth. The other part of me says big enough to fight off a type II alien civilization.
There's no music for the first 30 seconds, just talking. The music finally starts, people jump out a flying bus. Fast forward to 0:55, music stops, it's more talking time, followed by some obvious CG. At 1:10, cut to more people talking, this time around a campfire. The topic is what should be in the video. At 1:30, there's finally some decent music and dancing.
The good lasts just 20 seconds, and then back to the campfire with someone speaking a foreign language. Now finally we have a funny moment with a woman marrying a cartoon cat. Then they go back to the campfire and now more talking. The train wreck continues from there. And just when I think it's over, they start talking social change and politics. Sigh.
We start with a band of 5 people playing Gangnam Style on one guitar. 10 seconds later, just as the they finish the intro, Psy shows up and smashes the guitar. "Rewind YouTube style" he says, and the music continues with full accompaniment. Fake Obama shows up doing the dance in a stable, with a fake horse watching from the side, followed by Kassem dry humping on top of Grace Helbig in an elevator. More people show up dancing, including many I know. Music keeps playing all the while.
Eventually they switch to playing Call me Maybe. A girl washing a car flirts with a guy wearing some ridiculous boots. Some food YouTubers start throwing bacon at the girl, who falls off the car. Now more dancing in a bus. As they finish a stanza, the music seamlessly transitions to a mix of Gangnam Style and Call me Maybe and we see everyone dancing together on a big stage all the way until the end.
Now, I wouldn't call it a masterpiece. But it's got several things going for it.
First, I can listen and enjoy the music. Both tunes are pretty catchy and they're not cut up into so many pieces that it breaks the flow. Second, it's got all of this ridiculous stuff going on that makes it interesting even on a rewatch. Then it's got all of these familiar faces that makes me go, "hey, it's that guy / girl". And finally, it's not long enough for me to get bored.
The 2018 video has none of that. The music is broken and impossible to enjoy. There's some visually interesting stuff happening, but most of it is unfunny. I recognize almost no one besides Will Smith and a few TV personalities. Everyone is terrible during the talking scenes. The only thing it's got going for it is the part where the animated characters forget the lyrics, which is pretty funny. And then there's the politics. Would it kill them to leave that out?
If they want to make it good, they need separate videos for all of the non-English YouTubers, then stitch the music together so it all flows. Now throw in random funny scenes in between the dancing and don't virtue signal. It really isn't that hard.
Automation is not going to go away no matter how they attack it.
Then what is the point in protesting? It is going to happen no matter what.
They can vote for politicians to tax the benefits of automation and disseminate it among the public. They can ask their city to buy and own a self-driving taxi fleet, instead of letting the companies operate it themselves. They can require these cars to be repaired by mechanics within their city.
Automation happens because it makes things more efficient, which means there will be way more goods and services available at lower cost. All else being equal, everyone should have more after automation. The problem these people have is one of distribution. All income is going to the top, leaving none for them. This is absolutely something the government can help with, if the people can convince it to act.
There are much better ways of protesting than throwing rocks or pointing guns at the vehicle itself. Like marching in front of the city hall. This petty violence just makes them look bad and doesn't bring anyone to their side.
Automation is not going to go away no matter how they attack it. Other countries will develop it if the US doesn't. Besides, it's a tool like anything else and can be used for good or bad. If people have problems with it taking their jobs, then they need to either figure out something else to do, make sure they own the technology themselves, or can reap its benefits in some other way. And they can do that individually (capitalism) or collectively (socialism).
Free software is actually not as virtuous in the political and moral sense. Businesses can be pressured to stop servicing bad people, but free software can be used by everyone.
Open source is a hobby, not a profession. Yes, there are some people who are paid to create open source software. They can censor their own communication if they so desire, or their boss might force it upon them, but they do not have a right to control others.
IMO if a particular curse word is the best way to communicate something, then they should use it without reservation. E.g. writing "this implementation makes no fucking sense" communicates a very different level of confusion and urgency than "this implementation makes no sense" or "this needs to be refactored asap".
Personally, if I saw that in the code base, I would not remove the curse word until I'm able to refactor the code and make the comment obsolete.
I think it's obvious that content matters. Between reading a book on a screen and on paper, the only differences I can think of are posture and eye strain.
Larger fonts on a screen allow a longer viewing distance and better posture, but may cause eye strain due to backlight flicker. Books often have tiny font and are less well lit, but have a more stable image. You also have to hold them up with your hands, so it might contribute to arm strength.
There's a difference between getting stuck on some complicated dynamic programming problem... and failing FizzBuzz.
That's like an electrician who can't figure out how to unplug a power cord. Regardless of how nervous they are, if they can't do the most basic task in their field of expertise in an hour, they have no business working in that field. One of those days something will be on fire and they'll need to be the one to unplug it.
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This is the only home we have and yet we're busy shooting at each other, threatening nuclear war, and wearing suicide vests
Literally none of those affect the planet. Even nuclear war would only cause a slight change in its atmosphere for a few decades. For a planet that's been around for 4 billion years, that's nothing.
Perhaps what he's actually going for is global warming. But killing people is a great way to stop global warming. Every living person contributes to GHG emissions because we still can't feed and clothe them without replacing forests with grasslands and digging up carbon-based fuel. If half of humanity died from nuclear war, our GHG emissions would be cut in half.
Greed is the reason. Look for the apologists of endless greed and kill them.
Greed is not why the planet's overpopulated. You're better off blaming people like Fritz Haber and Edward Jenner.
It's not. Indonesia's disaster is mostly their own making and there's no one to blame but themselves.
But if we already have the data, then we should try to make that available. It contributes to our political leverage and global economic stability, and our own understanding of tsunamis is improved by gathering data from all across the world.
Are you saying wheelchairs and crutches don't need to exist then? Because GP's point is that a pedestrian-only area is more accommodating than an area with both cars and pedestrians.
The "B" in "UBI" means basic, i.e., enough to pay for what you need, not what you want. If you think getting $400 a month is like getting hooked on meth, then you've obviously never tried meth.
We all have legs. Only some have cars.
Some people don't have them and others can't use theirs. At least with a car you can save up to buy one. Can't do that with legs.
The land itself is already over $500k. Do you expect developers to conjure land out of thin air?
In my town, the high density housing that comes out of this mindset ends up being luxury 1 bedroom condominiums starting at 750k. Renovicting people who have been paying decent rents in a duplex or small low rise apartment, and pushing them to things like in TFA which is forming RV shantytowns.
That luxury condo is still soaking up a bunch of the richer tenants from other apartments, leaving those for the less rich. If you build enough of those, the ordinary apartments are going to have plenty of space for everyone who was evicted.
If you want to fix the problem, either build 1k-2k /per month apartments that can fit a family, or houses that arent over 500k.
Asking developers to sell for below cost just isn't going to work. Nobody can build a house for $500k in the Bay Area and nobody will invest $1 million to get a $24k annual rental income, of which $20k goes to property tax and $5k goes to utilities and maintenance (notice how $24k < $25k).
Ban people from owning more than one property in the same regional district is my starting idea.
What do you do for the existing properties they own? And what about those owned by businesses?
Increase the cost of money
That reduces construction of new units, since those are funded by loans too.
don't allow foreigners to purchase land.
Might not make much of a difference in the Bay Area. According to this site, less than 10% are all cash sales (which is indicative of foreign investment).
Instead of moping about it, they could just decide to move on with their lives. Nothing material had changed and nothing needs to change.
Even if it turns out my mother is actually my granddaughter, I would still treat her the exact same way (aside from questioning her about the time machine perhaps).
Maybe those places should've hired on merit. They can't lie about their race if you don't ask!
It's true though, people always make fun of gender studies majors, but now they can find jobs as diversity officers.
Trying to remove something from the internet is the same as removing a piece of memory from thousands of people. It's possible if you're willing to lobotomize them.
The real solution is to get over it. There are millions of porn videos out there, more than what any one person can reasonably see in a lifetime. Many of them far more appealing. Why should anyone watch yours?
Did they deploy all that in 10 minutes? Or 2 hours later?
Your countermeasures won't work if the drone already left by the time you got there.
If they want to shut down the airport and had no concerns for legality, they can use model rockets too. Hamas manages to build those despite the blockade and they can easily send Israel into lockdown.
What this has highlighted is the need for suitable defences.
What this highlights is a need for police to act quickly and arrest the person responsible. If you shoot down the drone but don't arrest them, they'll have a new, more sturdy drone next week. There are thousands of ways a person can interfere with airport operations. You can only prepare against so many before you have no funding left for actual police work.
Sure, but how much military strength is enough?
A part of me says slightly more than the next biggest military on Earth. The other part of me says big enough to fight off a type II alien civilization.
Hit the nail on the head.
For the 2018 rewind:
There's no music for the first 30 seconds, just talking. The music finally starts, people jump out a flying bus. Fast forward to 0:55, music stops, it's more talking time, followed by some obvious CG. At 1:10, cut to more people talking, this time around a campfire. The topic is what should be in the video. At 1:30, there's finally some decent music and dancing.
The good lasts just 20 seconds, and then back to the campfire with someone speaking a foreign language. Now finally we have a funny moment with a woman marrying a cartoon cat. Then they go back to the campfire and now more talking. The train wreck continues from there. And just when I think it's over, they start talking social change and politics. Sigh.
Now compare this to the one from 2012:
We start with a band of 5 people playing Gangnam Style on one guitar. 10 seconds later, just as the they finish the intro, Psy shows up and smashes the guitar. "Rewind YouTube style" he says, and the music continues with full accompaniment. Fake Obama shows up doing the dance in a stable, with a fake horse watching from the side, followed by Kassem dry humping on top of Grace Helbig in an elevator. More people show up dancing, including many I know. Music keeps playing all the while.
Eventually they switch to playing Call me Maybe. A girl washing a car flirts with a guy wearing some ridiculous boots. Some food YouTubers start throwing bacon at the girl, who falls off the car. Now more dancing in a bus. As they finish a stanza, the music seamlessly transitions to a mix of Gangnam Style and Call me Maybe and we see everyone dancing together on a big stage all the way until the end.
Now, I wouldn't call it a masterpiece. But it's got several things going for it.
First, I can listen and enjoy the music. Both tunes are pretty catchy and they're not cut up into so many pieces that it breaks the flow. Second, it's got all of this ridiculous stuff going on that makes it interesting even on a rewatch. Then it's got all of these familiar faces that makes me go, "hey, it's that guy / girl". And finally, it's not long enough for me to get bored.
The 2018 video has none of that. The music is broken and impossible to enjoy. There's some visually interesting stuff happening, but most of it is unfunny. I recognize almost no one besides Will Smith and a few TV personalities. Everyone is terrible during the talking scenes. The only thing it's got going for it is the part where the animated characters forget the lyrics, which is pretty funny. And then there's the politics. Would it kill them to leave that out?
If they want to make it good, they need separate videos for all of the non-English YouTubers, then stitch the music together so it all flows. Now throw in random funny scenes in between the dancing and don't virtue signal. It really isn't that hard.
Automation is not going to go away no matter how they attack it.
Then what is the point in protesting? It is going to happen no matter what.
They can vote for politicians to tax the benefits of automation and disseminate it among the public. They can ask their city to buy and own a self-driving taxi fleet, instead of letting the companies operate it themselves. They can require these cars to be repaired by mechanics within their city.
Automation happens because it makes things more efficient, which means there will be way more goods and services available at lower cost. All else being equal, everyone should have more after automation. The problem these people have is one of distribution. All income is going to the top, leaving none for them. This is absolutely something the government can help with, if the people can convince it to act.
There are much better ways of protesting than throwing rocks or pointing guns at the vehicle itself. Like marching in front of the city hall. This petty violence just makes them look bad and doesn't bring anyone to their side.
Automation is not going to go away no matter how they attack it. Other countries will develop it if the US doesn't. Besides, it's a tool like anything else and can be used for good or bad. If people have problems with it taking their jobs, then they need to either figure out something else to do, make sure they own the technology themselves, or can reap its benefits in some other way. And they can do that individually (capitalism) or collectively (socialism).
The study just started, it's nowhere near complete. This is some early data to help promote the study.
You can use a halogen bulb for your reading light. They're not that expensive.
Free software is actually not as virtuous in the political and moral sense. Businesses can be pressured to stop servicing bad people, but free software can be used by everyone.
Open source is a hobby, not a profession. Yes, there are some people who are paid to create open source software. They can censor their own communication if they so desire, or their boss might force it upon them, but they do not have a right to control others.
IMO if a particular curse word is the best way to communicate something, then they should use it without reservation. E.g. writing "this implementation makes no fucking sense" communicates a very different level of confusion and urgency than "this implementation makes no sense" or "this needs to be refactored asap".
Personally, if I saw that in the code base, I would not remove the curse word until I'm able to refactor the code and make the comment obsolete.
It's entirely possible to dislike both SJWs and conservative Christians. Both are brainwashed by their religion.
I think it's obvious that content matters. Between reading a book on a screen and on paper, the only differences I can think of are posture and eye strain.
Larger fonts on a screen allow a longer viewing distance and better posture, but may cause eye strain due to backlight flicker. Books often have tiny font and are less well lit, but have a more stable image. You also have to hold them up with your hands, so it might contribute to arm strength.
Yours is a reasonable conjecture, and I'd tend to agree on intuition alone. Is there proof to back it up?
That's why there's this study.
There's a difference between getting stuck on some complicated dynamic programming problem... and failing FizzBuzz.
That's like an electrician who can't figure out how to unplug a power cord. Regardless of how nervous they are, if they can't do the most basic task in their field of expertise in an hour, they have no business working in that field. One of those days something will be on fire and they'll need to be the one to unplug it.