In a post-scarcity economy where people only work if they want to, who does the jobs that no one wants to do?
I agree that instead of full employment the real goal should be universal unemployment, but I'm not sure how we get there. There will always be a few a-holes who insist on working and prevent the achievement of that goal.
Just like the old days, before the garden of Eden and people were created, all the animals were vegetarians. They lived together then and they will again.
Laser headlights do not direct laser beams onto the road. The laser is used to pump a phosphor that produces white light.
I have an Audi TT with HID lamps. When supplied by the factory, law requires that they have to respond to oncoming traffic and tilt the beams downward. The control system in my car reacts to bumps in the road, and turns the beams in the direction the car is turning. When starting the car the system tests itself- the headlights dip downward, then tilt inward, then tilt back up.
If you're being blinded by HID headlights it is probably from after-market kits that simply replace standard lights without any of the controls.
Seriously, politicians love stupid voters because they are easily manipulated. They cut taxes that fund schools, then try to get religion taught as science. Idiot Americans sit around watching "reality" TV and think they're actually seeing objective reality. What do you expect?
When people offer money for something, someone somewhere will figure out a way to deliver what they want. The guys who are building the data center are smart and are doing so with real money. They need a return in real money, not play money (bitcoin). I'll bet all my bitcoins that they don't accept bitcoin as payment. Like the guy said in Scarface, "never get high on your own supply". They are selling to people who fantasize about getting rich on bitcoins. There are plenty of such people around, many on this forum, who would pay real money for a chance to make some play money.
are getting screwed at every turn (treatment for injuries and psychiatric problems, etc.) and the BS soldiers are subject to when they are on active duty (drugs tests, radiation tests, inadequate pay to support their families, etc.), I'm amazed that anyone voluntarily goes into the military.
Is killing people and getting shot at or blown up really so much fun that it makes up for all that?
When a 3D printer prints, especially solid filled areas, it uses selectable fill patterns which include rectilinear with the extruder laying down plastic orthogonal to the previous layer, so you can get a cross pattern similar to a weave in woven CF cloth.
You're dead wrong. If the majority of large engineering employers in an area, say silicon valley, are fixing salaries, the engineers can't all up and leave for the few companies in the valley that don't participate in the collusion, so the large, colluding companies are not being harmed. The only harm is to the engineers whose salaries are held artificially low.
Now the same a-holes are laying off engineers, claiming there are shortages, and lobbying congress for more H1B slaves.
and this stuff was going on back then. They actually told employees they were doing it at the meetings where they announced annual pay raises. My coworkers cheered while I was dumbfounded that people missed the big picture. In essence they were saying "we've fixed engineer salaries with other big employers in the area so don't bother looking to get a better deal elsewhere".
When I left HP I went to work for Fujitsu- they didn't participate in the salary fixing- and instantly got 40% pay increase and kept my vacation time.
the big hype was telecommuting. If only the guys at Cisco did their jobs right we'd all be able to work from home. That was 20 years ago. Recently, Yahoo put an end to their telecommuting experiment. Many companies never allowed ANY telecommuting.
So now I'm supposed to believe that I'll be driving around in a solar powered/charged electric car thanks to the brain power of silicon valley? Will that arrive before or after my helicopter back-pack?
as much as Florida! Where else can adults walk around dressed up like a cowboys without people thinking they look sort of silly?
In dental school we had a joke: How do you know the toothbrush was invented in Texas? Because if it had been invented somewhere else it would have been called a teethbrush!
I used to get upset about things like teaching creation as science and denying real science. I've decided not to let it bother me. The world needs Walmart greeters and people to clean toilets. Apparently Texans have decided that that is best use of their youth. More power to them!
Every year the HR people would make presentations to us about how they got together with HR people from other big engineering companies in the valley and decided upon job descriptions and pay and benefits packages, and by the way decided that the COL raise this year would be X%.
My coworkers, most of whom were oblivious to the big picture, would cheer at the annual pay raise and I would grumble about the salary fixing that they were proudly presenting.
I wonder if I can get in on the class-action suit...
Insurance companies will only insure driverless cars if the accident projections prove true. But wait, where's the data to start up? They will estimate using various statistical techniques in which their actuaries are well-versed to determine if it is possible to turn a profit based on the limited test data available. If they decide it is possible, they will then invest in their political lobbies to get some laws written that will provide large government subsidies for them to take on this extra "risk"- i.e. they will transfer the risk to tax-payers. As the subsidies dry up, they will accumulate data and adjust their models as more and more driverless cars hit the streets. Then they will figure out how to transfer financial responsibility back to the "driver" or manufacturer and, using the healthcare insurance model, will charge ever increasing premiums while delivering ever decreasing coverage.
It's the American way! It's what American "exceptionalism" is all about!
You do realize that the route is always calculated on their server farm whether you're accessing google maps with your phone or any other device, right?
That's why the plot was carried out by people who were speculating in currency exchanges. Who would sell a contract that has the dollar dropping dramatically (instead of its long, slow, steady decline) unless they were crazy or knew something others didn't (like the existence of an army of hackers setting up botnets to distribute malware that destroys computers in the US)?
It would be interesting to see what MS does with it. Maybe you could use voice control to start it (which wouldn't work until you start swearing at it- a safety feature!), or push 4 or 5 on-screen buttons and then wait until it decides to do it.
do generate more comments about guns than anything else. But I guess other uses are not "newsworthy". We are all idiots and we deserve the government and laws we refuse to do anything about. 30k dead per year is nothing compared to the value of our freedom to kill 30k per year. Yay! We win!
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In a post-scarcity economy where people only work if they want to, who does the jobs that no one wants to do?
I agree that instead of full employment the real goal should be universal unemployment, but I'm not sure how we get there. There will always be a few a-holes who insist on working and prevent the achievement of that goal.
that will be possible as with the release of all this data!
Just like the old days, before the garden of Eden and people were created, all the animals were vegetarians. They lived together then and they will again.
They ALL take FIRST steps toward fusion energy. I'll get excited when one of these machines takes the LAST steps.
Laser headlights do not direct laser beams onto the road. The laser is used to pump a phosphor that produces white light.
I have an Audi TT with HID lamps. When supplied by the factory, law requires that they have to respond to oncoming traffic and tilt the beams downward. The control system in my car reacts to bumps in the road, and turns the beams in the direction the car is turning. When starting the car the system tests itself- the headlights dip downward, then tilt inward, then tilt back up.
If you're being blinded by HID headlights it is probably from after-market kits that simply replace standard lights without any of the controls.
All this dosing with stupid-drugs from the sky is finally having the desired effect.
Get out you spray bottles of vinegar before it's too late!
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Seriously, politicians love stupid voters because they are easily manipulated. They cut taxes that fund schools, then try to get religion taught as science. Idiot Americans sit around watching "reality" TV and think they're actually seeing objective reality. What do you expect?
But they'll tell you whose shoes Paris Hilton is wearing this week.
Windows is finally ready for the desktop!
FTFY
A few misguided or otherwise benighted induhviduals who believe Bitcoin is money doesn't make it so.
When people offer money for something, someone somewhere will figure out a way to deliver what they want. The guys who are building the data center are smart and are doing so with real money. They need a return in real money, not play money (bitcoin). I'll bet all my bitcoins that they don't accept bitcoin as payment. Like the guy said in Scarface, "never get high on your own supply". They are selling to people who fantasize about getting rich on bitcoins. There are plenty of such people around, many on this forum, who would pay real money for a chance to make some play money.
are getting screwed at every turn (treatment for injuries and psychiatric problems, etc.) and the BS soldiers are subject to when they are on active duty (drugs tests, radiation tests, inadequate pay to support their families, etc.), I'm amazed that anyone voluntarily goes into the military.
Is killing people and getting shot at or blown up really so much fun that it makes up for all that?
And what career isn't full of crazy pressure? There's nothing special about these people or their career.
When a 3D printer prints, especially solid filled areas, it uses selectable fill patterns which include rectilinear with the extruder laying down plastic orthogonal to the previous layer, so you can get a cross pattern similar to a weave in woven CF cloth.
OS (and the company who makes it) for about 25 years. If I can hate an OS, I can probably love one.
You're dead wrong. If the majority of large engineering employers in an area, say silicon valley, are fixing salaries, the engineers can't all up and leave for the few companies in the valley that don't participate in the collusion, so the large, colluding companies are not being harmed. The only harm is to the engineers whose salaries are held artificially low.
Now the same a-holes are laying off engineers, claiming there are shortages, and lobbying congress for more H1B slaves.
and this stuff was going on back then. They actually told employees they were doing it at the meetings where they announced annual pay raises. My coworkers cheered while I was dumbfounded that people missed the big picture. In essence they were saying "we've fixed engineer salaries with other big employers in the area so don't bother looking to get a better deal elsewhere".
When I left HP I went to work for Fujitsu- they didn't participate in the salary fixing- and instantly got 40% pay increase and kept my vacation time.
the big hype was telecommuting. If only the guys at Cisco did their jobs right we'd all be able to work from home. That was 20 years ago.
Recently, Yahoo put an end to their telecommuting experiment. Many companies never allowed ANY telecommuting.
So now I'm supposed to believe that I'll be driving around in a solar powered/charged electric car thanks to the brain power of silicon valley? Will that arrive before or after my helicopter back-pack?
as much as Florida! Where else can adults walk around dressed up like a cowboys without people thinking they look sort of silly?
In dental school we had a joke: How do you know the toothbrush was invented in Texas? Because if it had been invented somewhere else it would have been called a teethbrush!
I used to get upset about things like teaching creation as science and denying real science. I've decided not to let it bother me. The world needs Walmart greeters and people to clean toilets. Apparently Texans have decided that that is best use of their youth. More power to them!
Every year the HR people would make presentations to us about how they got together with HR people from other big engineering companies in the valley and decided upon job descriptions and pay and benefits packages, and by the way decided that the COL raise this year would be X%.
My coworkers, most of whom were oblivious to the big picture, would cheer at the annual pay raise and I would grumble about the salary fixing that they were proudly presenting.
I wonder if I can get in on the class-action suit...
driverless cars.
Insurance companies will only insure driverless cars if the accident projections prove true. But wait, where's the data to start up? They will estimate using various statistical techniques in which their actuaries are well-versed to determine if it is possible to turn a profit based on the limited test data available. If they decide it is possible, they will then invest in their political lobbies to get some laws written that will provide large government subsidies for them to take on this extra "risk"- i.e. they will transfer the risk to tax-payers. As the subsidies dry up, they will accumulate data and adjust their models as more and more driverless cars hit the streets. Then they will figure out how to transfer financial responsibility back to the "driver" or manufacturer and, using the healthcare insurance model, will charge ever increasing premiums while delivering ever decreasing coverage.
It's the American way! It's what American "exceptionalism" is all about!
You do realize that the route is always calculated on their server farm whether you're accessing google maps with your phone or any other device, right?
California.
That's why the plot was carried out by people who were speculating in currency exchanges. Who would sell a contract that has the dollar dropping dramatically (instead of its long, slow, steady decline) unless they were crazy or knew something others didn't (like the existence of an army of hackers setting up botnets to distribute malware that destroys computers in the US)?
It would be interesting to see what MS does with it. Maybe you could use voice control to start it (which wouldn't work until you start swearing at it- a safety feature!), or push 4 or 5 on-screen buttons and then wait until it decides to do it.
do generate more comments about guns than anything else. But I guess other uses are not "newsworthy". We are all idiots and we deserve the government and laws we refuse to do anything about. 30k dead per year is nothing compared to the value of our freedom to kill 30k per year. Yay! We win!