It's a moo point (as the great and wise Joey once said).
DropBox was never that good with Linux anyway. There's NextCloud and OwnCloud... but most of the time, I just use git. What does a cow think about it? Who cares!
"Basic," by definition means universal. For a universal basic income to have positive economic effect, it has to be, you know, universal.
Universal Basic Income (UBI) puts some people on the dole, but most use it as a springboard for more lucrative dreams. There will always be some people on the dole, and you just have to accept it. If you want humanity to evolve past the stage of One-Must-Work-To-Live, you have to either eliminate the necessity to work, or expand your definition of work to include anything that promotes communal or personal growth. Did you dig a ditch? Great! Did you calculate your business's income-vs-expense? Awesome! Did you write a poem? You earned your cheque! Did you do nothing but watch YouTube... well, at least you consumed advertising, but try a little harder next time, eh?
We will always have a need for people to do work, but we will not always have need of everybody to do work that directly contributes to endless (arguably pointless) economic growth. Left as it is, this semi-conscious living organism we call 'The Economy' will grow so fat that it will collapse under its own weight. Endless growth-for-growth's-sake can only go on so long, especially with tech innovations that lessen the need for certain jobs.
Basic Income isn't a long-term sustainable model either, but I think it's an intermediate step between the current Scarcity-everybody-must-work socio-economic model and whatever comes after when there are more people than jobs and the accumulation of fiat currency becomes less important to human society.
What do we do with the lazy ones who just take and don't work? I predict that laziness will one day be seen as a disability for which treatment will be made available... and in extreme cases, mandatory. There will always be some kind of poor and disadvantaged people, it's just the language that changes around them. For humanity to ever get past its barbaric past, we have to learn that it's our responsibility to see to people who just don't get it. If you're a parent of a child with genetic disorders, like Down syndrome, you just have to accept that this person will be your responsibility for the rest of your life. This is a microcosm of a stark reality - that all people are our responsibility for all of our lives. Saying you shouldn't have to pay for another person's welfare is itself a lazy/irresponsible statement. This is the attitude that has to change if we are ever to climb out of the dark pit of humanity's violent past.
If "The Rich" leave the planet, they probably won't survive alone, and the Earthlings might just see a better quality of life with the burden of supporting the unskilled elite removed. Most of the really intelligent people (in fact, most people, period) earn less then $100K/year.
For The Monetarily Elite to even survive getting into orbit, they'll have to take along lot's of lackeys who will quickly figure out that these wealthy waifs don't bring anything truly useful to any colonisation initiative, and the 'employees' that go along will quickly be calling the shots.
Call it what it is: The Golgafrinchan 'B' Ark. -- don't worry, DJT Jr., we're right behind you.
This outlook of the purpose of medicine is why America is so backwards. The point is to improve life, not lengthen it. A moment of clarity in an Alzheimer sufferer weighs as much as a year of living.
We talk about T-Shaped devs a lot. What that means is that a developer has a wide breadth of knowledge, is proficient in technologies from server configurations, to database, business logic, services, and UI, however, in one area the dev should have a greater depth of knowledge, and that depth and experience feeds into the other areas.
Here is an example of a T-Shaped full stack:
Breadth in web dev tech:
---Linux---Apache---MySQL---Python---Javascript/Node---HTML/CSS/---
Depth in Python:
Py2.7, Py3.6, Django, Flask, SQLAlchemy, Selenium, Data Science, Scipy, ML
This article is primarily about fake, "Internal" hack-a-thons. Yeah, those are complete bullshit, and not hack-a-thons at all -- it's just quasi-forced free work. Sure, they're optional, but you have to attend to get your career to progress. Real hack-a-thons are for people who are just enthusiastic about making something, who know there's a %99.9 chance they won't get a dime in return. They tend to be at conventions, schools, or just a bunch of pals who want to take a stab at a group project over a weekend. Once a business is involved with the intention of getting a free prototype of their next hot product, it's not a hack-a-thon, just a slimy con game.
If coding isn't fun, why do so many people do it as a hobby? I did, and it turned into a career. The most fun part of my job is coding, it's all the corporate bullshit and programme configurations that I loathe. No, the poster is wrong. Coding *is* fun, and it *should* be taught that way. If it's not fun, get out, you don't belong here.
Why not also sue the manufacturer of the weapons they used? Why not sue the auto manufacturer who made the car they drove in? Why not sue the farmers who grew the cotton used to make their clothing - because no self-respecting jihadist likes going on a shooting rampage while naked.
What's nebulous about it? We have measurements of climate changes and effectors. The outcome of the trial probably won't be a monetary award to the plaintiffs as a regular suit might result in, but most likely some kind of legislative injunction. My guess is that the biggest impact will just be the press that the trial gets.
Funny thing is, a large portion of CO2 emissions in the world comes from ploughing. So one thing the judge could do is require the legislature to address farming practises... the problem with that is most of it isn't the United States - a lot of major farms have moved to no-till farming. You have to get the USA, India, Brazil, and Russia all on board the no-till wagon. Just changing the way everyone plants could cut global CO2 emissions by as much as 20%.
The billionaires are applying pseudo-scientific ideas, but real scientists will airways use money for real research. At worst, they may still come up with some useful data analysis algorithms.
UBI is just one step in the process of moving off an economy that depends on artificial scarcity of basic needs. What must change is our upside-down thinking that rising stock-exchange indexes are indications of a healthy economy -- they are not. Rising indices are mere indications of economic growth; an ever-accelerating express train to no-where. . . or maybe to a cliff.
Handled gently, industries that thrive on jobs filled by desperate people will collapse, leaving only industries with people who have a desire to work (S.T.E.A.M). There would be a period of considerable discomfort as various industry-specific recessions occur and a world-wide economic shrinking commences.
I'm pretty sure, however, that the economic collapse that *may* happen during this shift is enough deterrent to ensure that our current fear-based economy will continue to limp along until it's destroyed by some kind of cataclysm. You could build this kind of economy from the ground-up, but not from one that already exists. I'm afraid were stuck with an ever-bloating, growth-for-growth's-sake economic system, at least until the next major collapse. If that's the case, then the best thing might be to lay out a plan for economic recovery that involves some kind of base-line income or non-stacking reverse credit that pays itself down to zero over time.
Unobservable theories that fit mathematical models are really important. It keeps us reaching for unattainable goals. Why is that important? Because we make so many discoveries along the way. It would be like, while trying to figure out what's inside a black hole, we happen to discover a way of generating gravitational waves. The main point of this article seems to be that there's no point pursuing any science with unobservable subjects. People once thought the same about Astronomy - that the ROI isn't worth the effort. In fact, some still do which is why NASA had it's outer solar system exploration budget slashed in 2013. ROI isn't the point when it comes to science where the investment may yield unexpected returns, often by accident. The problem is, you can't have that fortunate accident unless you're set-up to make it. In fact, String Theory research as already yielded practical methods in computational methods and quantum field theory. I hope string theory sticks around, not necessarily because I think we will ever be able to observe alternate/higher dimensions, but the mere act of research has already led to worth-while tangentially related discoveries.
You need not surrender your 4th Amendment rights. In case you didn't know, there are better musicians performing at bars and coffee houses in every city for a fraction of the cost (if not free), begging concert-goers to post their photos and videos on YouTube.
Cops can't search a purse without a warrant or consent, why can a concert venue? Oh, right. You aren't allowed to attend unless you surrender your 4th Amendment rights.
I picked up a little BASIC programming on the Apple ][ at school in 1985. Then in '87 we got our Tandy 1000 HX which came with BasicA. Just had the manual that came with the PC, which had rudimentary descriptions of the language. From that, I made a few text adventures, eventually learnt how to draw on the screen (WITHOUT crayons), and how to play single-note melodies.
Later, I did QBasic, and got really excited when I found a compiler (trans-piler) that converted qbasic into executables.
Around 1989, I got a book on the 'C' programming language. Problem was, our Tandy did not have a hard drive (just a solid state eprom with built-in DOS 2.11). All the C and C++ compilers required a hard drive, but I really wanted to learn C because all my favourite games were programmed in that. I went through every excercise in that book with just a steno pad and pencil. A couple years later, we got a 386 with a 20MB hard drive and I could finally compile, I already knew the language and dove right in to making my own home-brew version of Starflight. I didn't get too far with it, but got the basic UI and a ship that could fly around a bit.
Moral of the story: if kids want to code, they will learn how to code whether it's required or not. If they don't want to, they will fail out of spite.
One of the most expensive places to live in the United States. $2k ought to just about cover a Big Mac. A better experiment would be to see what people do with $2k in an area where that's considered good money, like Ft. Wayne, Indiana where you can buy a nice house with a yard for about $80k.
well.... if you actually click the link......under to the video, you would see that there is a ghostbin link with a text file full of links to articles and documentary siting specific things he sees as injustices, like a bibliography.
He sees bibliography as injustice? Yeah - I've been saying that for years! Fight the bibliographs! Down with Chicago style! End MLA's repressive regime! The Aims of Argument will be targeted, themselves! Freedom for Footnotes!
1, 2, 3.11, 95, 98, NT4.5, NT5, 2000, ME, XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, 10 (9 must have really sucked balls... did anyone hear about it?), Who cares, really, what version it is? Your computer is still going to Blue Screen and go pout in a corner like a moody teenager unless you use it exclusively for the tasks it was meant to do: i.e. gaming and re-partitioning your drive to install Linux for real work:P
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It's a moo point (as the great and wise Joey once said). DropBox was never that good with Linux anyway. There's NextCloud and OwnCloud... but most of the time, I just use git. What does a cow think about it? Who cares!
"Basic," by definition means universal. For a universal basic income to have positive economic effect, it has to be, you know, universal. Universal Basic Income (UBI) puts some people on the dole, but most use it as a springboard for more lucrative dreams. There will always be some people on the dole, and you just have to accept it. If you want humanity to evolve past the stage of One-Must-Work-To-Live, you have to either eliminate the necessity to work, or expand your definition of work to include anything that promotes communal or personal growth. Did you dig a ditch? Great! Did you calculate your business's income-vs-expense? Awesome! Did you write a poem? You earned your cheque! Did you do nothing but watch YouTube... well, at least you consumed advertising, but try a little harder next time, eh?
We will always have a need for people to do work, but we will not always have need of everybody to do work that directly contributes to endless (arguably pointless) economic growth. Left as it is, this semi-conscious living organism we call 'The Economy' will grow so fat that it will collapse under its own weight. Endless growth-for-growth's-sake can only go on so long, especially with tech innovations that lessen the need for certain jobs. Basic Income isn't a long-term sustainable model either, but I think it's an intermediate step between the current Scarcity-everybody-must-work socio-economic model and whatever comes after when there are more people than jobs and the accumulation of fiat currency becomes less important to human society. What do we do with the lazy ones who just take and don't work? I predict that laziness will one day be seen as a disability for which treatment will be made available... and in extreme cases, mandatory. There will always be some kind of poor and disadvantaged people, it's just the language that changes around them. For humanity to ever get past its barbaric past, we have to learn that it's our responsibility to see to people who just don't get it. If you're a parent of a child with genetic disorders, like Down syndrome, you just have to accept that this person will be your responsibility for the rest of your life. This is a microcosm of a stark reality - that all people are our responsibility for all of our lives. Saying you shouldn't have to pay for another person's welfare is itself a lazy/irresponsible statement. This is the attitude that has to change if we are ever to climb out of the dark pit of humanity's violent past.
If "The Rich" leave the planet, they probably won't survive alone, and the Earthlings might just see a better quality of life with the burden of supporting the unskilled elite removed. Most of the really intelligent people (in fact, most people, period) earn less then $100K/year. For The Monetarily Elite to even survive getting into orbit, they'll have to take along lot's of lackeys who will quickly figure out that these wealthy waifs don't bring anything truly useful to any colonisation initiative, and the 'employees' that go along will quickly be calling the shots. Call it what it is: The Golgafrinchan 'B' Ark. -- don't worry, DJT Jr., we're right behind you.
Ruby on Rails is better.
This outlook of the purpose of medicine is why America is so backwards. The point is to improve life, not lengthen it. A moment of clarity in an Alzheimer sufferer weighs as much as a year of living.
We talk about T-Shaped devs a lot. What that means is that a developer has a wide breadth of knowledge, is proficient in technologies from server configurations, to database, business logic, services, and UI, however, in one area the dev should have a greater depth of knowledge, and that depth and experience feeds into the other areas. Here is an example of a T-Shaped full stack: Breadth in web dev tech: ---Linux---Apache---MySQL---Python---Javascript/Node---HTML/CSS/--- Depth in Python: Py2.7, Py3.6, Django, Flask, SQLAlchemy, Selenium, Data Science, Scipy, ML
This article is primarily about fake, "Internal" hack-a-thons. Yeah, those are complete bullshit, and not hack-a-thons at all -- it's just quasi-forced free work. Sure, they're optional, but you have to attend to get your career to progress. Real hack-a-thons are for people who are just enthusiastic about making something, who know there's a %99.9 chance they won't get a dime in return. They tend to be at conventions, schools, or just a bunch of pals who want to take a stab at a group project over a weekend. Once a business is involved with the intention of getting a free prototype of their next hot product, it's not a hack-a-thon, just a slimy con game.
If coding isn't fun, why do so many people do it as a hobby? I did, and it turned into a career. The most fun part of my job is coding, it's all the corporate bullshit and programme configurations that I loathe. No, the poster is wrong. Coding *is* fun, and it *should* be taught that way. If it's not fun, get out, you don't belong here.
Why not also sue the manufacturer of the weapons they used? Why not sue the auto manufacturer who made the car they drove in? Why not sue the farmers who grew the cotton used to make their clothing - because no self-respecting jihadist likes going on a shooting rampage while naked.
If there's one thing,I'd say html5 and the better animations with css and JavaScript. Better code without the need for plugins.
I'm exceedingly pleased for the first, ineffective version. You can't have good stuff before the crap.
What's nebulous about it? We have measurements of climate changes and effectors. The outcome of the trial probably won't be a monetary award to the plaintiffs as a regular suit might result in, but most likely some kind of legislative injunction. My guess is that the biggest impact will just be the press that the trial gets. Funny thing is, a large portion of CO2 emissions in the world comes from ploughing. So one thing the judge could do is require the legislature to address farming practises... the problem with that is most of it isn't the United States - a lot of major farms have moved to no-till farming. You have to get the USA, India, Brazil, and Russia all on board the no-till wagon. Just changing the way everyone plants could cut global CO2 emissions by as much as 20%.
The billionaires are applying pseudo-scientific ideas, but real scientists will airways use money for real research. At worst, they may still come up with some useful data analysis algorithms.
I think you ought to know I'm feeling very depressed about that article.
UBI is just one step in the process of moving off an economy that depends on artificial scarcity of basic needs. What must change is our upside-down thinking that rising stock-exchange indexes are indications of a healthy economy -- they are not. Rising indices are mere indications of economic growth; an ever-accelerating express train to no-where. . . or maybe to a cliff. Handled gently, industries that thrive on jobs filled by desperate people will collapse, leaving only industries with people who have a desire to work (S.T.E.A.M). There would be a period of considerable discomfort as various industry-specific recessions occur and a world-wide economic shrinking commences. I'm pretty sure, however, that the economic collapse that *may* happen during this shift is enough deterrent to ensure that our current fear-based economy will continue to limp along until it's destroyed by some kind of cataclysm. You could build this kind of economy from the ground-up, but not from one that already exists. I'm afraid were stuck with an ever-bloating, growth-for-growth's-sake economic system, at least until the next major collapse. If that's the case, then the best thing might be to lay out a plan for economic recovery that involves some kind of base-line income or non-stacking reverse credit that pays itself down to zero over time.
I can play any game I want. It just so happens that I only want to play games made before 2003.
Unobservable theories that fit mathematical models are really important. It keeps us reaching for unattainable goals. Why is that important? Because we make so many discoveries along the way. It would be like, while trying to figure out what's inside a black hole, we happen to discover a way of generating gravitational waves. The main point of this article seems to be that there's no point pursuing any science with unobservable subjects. People once thought the same about Astronomy - that the ROI isn't worth the effort. In fact, some still do which is why NASA had it's outer solar system exploration budget slashed in 2013. ROI isn't the point when it comes to science where the investment may yield unexpected returns, often by accident. The problem is, you can't have that fortunate accident unless you're set-up to make it. In fact, String Theory research as already yielded practical methods in computational methods and quantum field theory. I hope string theory sticks around, not necessarily because I think we will ever be able to observe alternate/higher dimensions, but the mere act of research has already led to worth-while tangentially related discoveries.
You need not surrender your 4th Amendment rights. In case you didn't know, there are better musicians performing at bars and coffee houses in every city for a fraction of the cost (if not free), begging concert-goers to post their photos and videos on YouTube.
Cops can't search a purse without a warrant or consent, why can a concert venue? Oh, right. You aren't allowed to attend unless you surrender your 4th Amendment rights.
I picked up a little BASIC programming on the Apple ][ at school in 1985. Then in '87 we got our Tandy 1000 HX which came with BasicA. Just had the manual that came with the PC, which had rudimentary descriptions of the language. From that, I made a few text adventures, eventually learnt how to draw on the screen (WITHOUT crayons), and how to play single-note melodies. Later, I did QBasic, and got really excited when I found a compiler (trans-piler) that converted qbasic into executables. Around 1989, I got a book on the 'C' programming language. Problem was, our Tandy did not have a hard drive (just a solid state eprom with built-in DOS 2.11). All the C and C++ compilers required a hard drive, but I really wanted to learn C because all my favourite games were programmed in that. I went through every excercise in that book with just a steno pad and pencil. A couple years later, we got a 386 with a 20MB hard drive and I could finally compile, I already knew the language and dove right in to making my own home-brew version of Starflight. I didn't get too far with it, but got the basic UI and a ship that could fly around a bit. Moral of the story: if kids want to code, they will learn how to code whether it's required or not. If they don't want to, they will fail out of spite.
One of the most expensive places to live in the United States. $2k ought to just about cover a Big Mac. A better experiment would be to see what people do with $2k in an area where that's considered good money, like Ft. Wayne, Indiana where you can buy a nice house with a yard for about $80k.
well.... if you actually click the link......under to the video, you would see that there is a ghostbin link with a text file full of links to articles and documentary siting specific things he sees as injustices, like a bibliography.
He sees bibliography as injustice? Yeah - I've been saying that for years! Fight the bibliographs! Down with Chicago style! End MLA's repressive regime! The Aims of Argument will be targeted, themselves! Freedom for Footnotes!
1, 2, 3.11, 95, 98, NT4.5, NT5, 2000, ME, XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, 10 (9 must have really sucked balls... did anyone hear about it?), Who cares, really, what version it is? Your computer is still going to Blue Screen and go pout in a corner like a moody teenager unless you use it exclusively for the tasks it was meant to do: i.e. gaming and re-partitioning your drive to install Linux for real work :P
No need for Outlook or costly exchange plug-ins for thunderbird. No need for MS Office. This pleases me.