Same day delivery is a luxury. As a business you want to please as many of your customers as possible as it correlates to making a profit.
Wealthier neighborhoods order more stuff. Those customers in effect do get (and rightly so) more of a consideration when it comes to service. Smaller areas that correspond to more business. You need fewer drivers than for servicing an entire city. Those customers are paying for better service by doing more business with amazon.
I will give better service to customers that deserve it. Period.
Just strap a vibe to the head to one of those people that don't sleep. It's the same as staying awake period. Where is the added difficulty in wearing a VR headset?
Official studies need to happen and soon. We need to find out if sterilizing the gut is actually necessary. In many cases it may be possible to transform an existing gut into another just with fecal matter. We also need to know more about the component bacteria. It is likely possible we could artificially culture a healthy gut biome in an artificial gut. We just need the bacteria and it needs to become tasteless like a powder added to food.
And cravings and the gut biome need to be thoroughly analyzed. And eating it might not be the ideal to replicate a biome; the digestion in the stomach could kill some bacteria but not others and or alter the concentrations.
And of course it works. Come on people think. How much do people spend on diets? Once everyone figures out they can lose significant weight this way it will catch on like wildfire. Everyone with gut problems.. would you rather continue to suffer or eat a little shit?
Now surgeons won't necessarily need the steadiest of hands nor do they need to retire early in life. Good surgeons are more than steady hands.
It should also allow all surgeons to do more delicate surgery.
Makes a lot of sense. I'm surprised someone didn't think about this 10 years ago.
Computers aren't getting that much faster even with multiple cores. So there is no reason to believe that a lot of tech 50 years from now couldn't be invented now.
We have the tools and ability; we just have to imagine how to use it.
This is real meat. It's simply cultured from stem cells. But I do wonder if they could make it "cancerous" and eliminate the death mechanism they could probably culture it more easily. The more difficult part is getting different types of muscle, fat and structure cells to grow together. When it comes to meat we do care about the texture. And we need gelatin and cartilage in our diet So I guess I sort of answered my own question as to why not use cancerous cells. Stem cells are programmed to grow into something with it's supporting structure. Eventually we will be able to dictate that structure.
Science aside people will still be able to get traditional animals raised in natural ways as a luxury. But it will be the end of industrial beef and chicken farms. Milk farms too eventually. The food should be much cheaper. Fifteen cents for a pound of hamburger anyone? $2 tenderloin anyone?
At least a hundredfold reduction in methane for the meat. No more grazing land needed. It can be turned into farm land or made into homes for people where the weather is nice. Alternatively it can be turned into nature preserves and just let the animals live as they use to. All the forests cut down for grazing land can be regrown with trees again.
This also means we can produce meat for space voyages.
I definitely do agree that figuring out sales tax for local regions and cities would overburden all but the largest businesses. Remember we are not just talking about 50 states here - we are talking cities! And those cities have different taxes depending on whom is being taxed and doing the purchasing. Look at the laws regarding fees on recyclable containers alone. Even with computers the only way to accurately do it all would be to run every purchase though a centralized government computer system; talk about big brother...
But states do need to make an income from their citizens in order to support local government. Therefore the solution is that the federal government should impose a minimum state income tax across the board or possibly alternative tax levels.
How about a 10 percent tax level if you choose to not differentiate between states. At the federal level we limit the categories, exceptions and loop holes such that it is the same across all states. No other fees are collected: such as recycling fees. Then if businesses choose to tax by state then have one state tax dictated by the legislature of that state. The states have to follow the federal category and exception system.
Alternatively businesses can choose to tax all the way down to the city level. The business get to choose which tax to collect on behalf of the customer so long every customer from that location is taxed identically. The 10 percent motivates companies to at least tax by the state level.
With this tax structure businesses would likely tax to the city level for major cities and use a global state tax for everywhere else.
What about if we had a new movement to rewrite all the interesting articles on sites like Forbes. Only takes one person to do this and it saves a lot of time and frustration for the rest of humanity.
We could build intelligent space probes and send them to our nearest stars. If they are small we could send 5 to 10 each for redundancy. They would be as artificially intelligent as we could make them. Then they would answer a series of yes/no questions about the system. That way we could categorize interesting systems to investigate further.
We could also send larger probes able to replicate and repair themselves such that they could investigate indefinitely. If the AI we sophisticated enough we could send short formulas with which it could infer to match the progress we have made in science and technology. Possibly building a better communication system later and get relatively instantaneous results.
First thing. You have to be able to afford the lawyer to take them to court. If you don't settle you have to go through with taking them to court. In three years you could win the case. Then you get another settlement offer. The company being sued files an appeal and the lawyer is instructed to draw out the process as much as possible in order to motivate you to settle. Lets say you win the appeal 5 or 6 years later. They appeal it again and then again and again as much as the legal system will allow. You may finally win the case 8 to 10 years after you decide to sue.
All that time your lawyer is adding hours to your bill. If you agreed to give the lawyer a percentage it's probably something like 60 to 70 percent. But first you have to pay taxes on 100% of the whole amount you either settled on or won before you pay your lawyer. If it was 2 million it will be highly taxed; 50 percent or more. Only then do you pay your lawyer his enormous cut. In the end after a decade you might only get 50,0000. People have actually found themselves in tax debt after winning a law suit after the lawyer takes his cut.
But lawyers rarely take the case the full distance. They want to get paid as soon as possible so they will actually insist you take a settlement offer much sooner.
The more you can possibly win the higher your settlement will be.
Yep, as stated an easy way frame anyone you don't like. For the police or federal it's even easier since they can get one of their professional "friends" to do it.
Skills: Step 1. Crawl in a window. Step 2. Plug in an external USB drive. Step 3. Boot a program from the USB drive. Step 4. Leave house unseen.
10 Minutes if he has trouble finding the computer.
A downright corrupt cop could get leverage on the computer forensics guy to run "the program" such that the drive could fall out of the cops pocket. But using a B&E guy would be easier since if his friend gets caught it's just a burglary. And if the guy rats on the cop no one will believe him.
One thing good about the dragon heavy is the capacity. The best thing they could do is maximize every launch by taking more raw resources into space and leaving them up there in storage. Imagine if they created storage depots both in front of and behind space stations. That would minimize risk to manned space stations due to space garbage.
We seriously need to build fuel storage depots up there along with junkyards where metal can be recycled so we can start building in space.
Yes it should refocus on servers. But rather it should be the "home server" market. Maybe even home cluster.
The market for desktops has mostly gone away, replaced by laptops and tablets. These people only needed a PC for spread sheets, simple word processing, and running a web browser.
The gaming machines market is the same if not bigger.
Professional content creation workstations are bigger than ever.
Same money is being spent; just in different form factors.
There is one area that isn't being exploited and marketed enough. The private cloud; i.e. home servers.
Particular when mixed with virtual machines it's something that needs to happen more. Store all your media at home in one place. Use the online cloud only for immediate stuff and for backups. There is huge potential for streaming. A home server can do transcoding on the fly and a dozen other things all at the same time.
It's more about the demise of the low end desktop which in the least has been replaces by cigar box systems.
Uber needs to change their app to accommodate for all this. Maybe some sort of automatic bidding. I don't want to have to worry about carrying money. Maybe if you tip more by default they can get to you faster or maybe some drivers just demand higher rates like say for better cars or cargo capacity.
I order a known service for a certain price and you deliver at that price. How are you going to go above and beyond to provide a better experience? I don't want to haggle afterwards. My tip is that I don't rate you down. If your not making enough money then don't do the gig.
Having social tipping is only going to drive your standard rate lower and make the whole experience less convenient with me fiddling in my pocket for physical money. Anyone asking for a cash tip will be rated down. And I currently do tip sometimes. I having no problem tipping except when it is the standard. Tipping should only be when someone goes above and beyond the standard everyone else provides. Anything else will lower your base pay.
Standard tips are only going to lower your base pay and make it more complicated for you too. The whole thing is going to be less convenient which means fewer customers taking fewer rides.
I'm with you on this one. It would be beautiful to see cities with flat roof gardens.
As far as the solar panel we could put them on the side of the house. Maybe even do some design to look good. And I'm not sure solar panels use the same light as plants. We could possibly develop transparent solar panels for an awning over the garden. This might let us have our cake and eat it too.
My dream home: Below ground living quarters; two or three floors; ground level parking lot and then a workshop and storage floor before the garden roof. Sort of reverse from most peoples expectations but way more efficient.
I think he is brainstorming a driverless limo/bus. Without the driver station it could be square to shorten the vehicle. Then separate the vehicle into compartments with say 3 or 4 sections. You can book a whole section for yourself or share. Just imagine a squarish vehicle with 4 sets of gull wing doors.
They don't want to talk about it since it's likely they would be for uber, lift and conventional taxi businesses.
Don't forget once we have driverless the local taxi medallion companies can get in on the game quite easily too.
I disagree. I believe that killing a person can be humane. Like turning off a light.
Keeping a person confined and without liberties is punishment. Wanting to end your life in but not being able to is fitting punishment.
I would prefer prison for all criminal homicide. But to be honest it can be is quite costly on a society. So I endorse the use of capital punishment even if there may be innocent people that are convicted. But in the later case I would like to see officials held responsible for wrongful convictions. Further they should be required to spend differing amounts of time in the same prisons and conditions they would subject anyone else to. Their identities know and unknown to the other prisoners such that they receive no special protection.
Of the conditions described I believe some homeless people would willingly subject themselves to those conditions to get off the street.
P.S. The strip searches are probably necessary to protect the guards but I think more so to keep the prisoner from committing suicide in a moment of rash judgement.
I'm not too sure of sidewalk delivery but octocopters will be a thing. They are resilient to motor failures even while carrying a lot of weight.
What occurs to me now that it's likely the first drone delivery will be from close by trucks that can not only deliver the package but do recovery of packages and drone rescue should problems occur. Probably launching from the roof of the truck. It's also an ideal way of delivering first class mail.
I wonder about how we will deal with rain. Self retracting roof for the landing pad?
What about placement? On the ground or in the air? Maybe a dumbwaiter type thing to the roof? Or put the landing pad on the roof and then retrieve everything by a personal drone?
One thing that would be good is that eventually delivery can be done at night when your home. Or by any other programmable schedule.
But let me point out the remotest possibility that the IP address tracked down wouldn't necessarily prove a particular person was involved.
Theoretically the best way for person to hide would be to hide behind and implicate another person. (Seriously watch more Columbo.) You would have to show that a computer wasn't infected in such a way as to secretly relay traffic. One would have to assume the software was designed to erase itself if discovered.
But I have to make the point. Getting an IP address is only the first step. I suggest that is enough information to get a warrant and then do a real investigation such as physically bugging their computer and gathering keystrokes and mousestrokes and possibly video evidence of his activity at the computer.
To prove a person was downloading child porn you would need a complete tap of their internet connection checking for relayed transmission. Then check that no one hacked into their wireless network from outside their home. Then finally show that that person was home when no one else was.
And a pedophile wouldn't require vast technical knowledge. Just like everything else you can buy expertise. To another hacker it would look like a noob buying help to get started being a hacker.
In general hacking into at least one neighbors WIFI is something any hacker should easily be able to do.
So to sum it up. Stock slacking off on your job. Get the warrant and catch him jerking off on his computer to what is obviously child porn.
Politicians do weird thinks like sponsor/vote-for bills they don't want passed for image reasons and or to do cross party vote trading. The trick is playing chicken with the number of votes required to pass or knowing you can bury it later in committee if it happens to pass.
The problem is things like this are often posturing.
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Same day delivery is a luxury. As a business you want to please as many of your customers as possible as it correlates to making a profit.
Wealthier neighborhoods order more stuff. Those customers in effect do get (and rightly so) more of a consideration when it comes to service. Smaller areas that correspond to more business. You need fewer drivers than for servicing an entire city. Those customers are paying for better service by doing more business with amazon.
I will give better service to customers that deserve it. Period.
Just strap a vibe to the head to one of those people that don't sleep. It's the same as staying awake period. Where is the added difficulty in wearing a VR headset?
Official studies need to happen and soon. We need to find out if sterilizing the gut is actually necessary. In many cases it may be possible to transform an existing gut into another just with fecal matter. We also need to know more about the component bacteria. It is likely possible we could artificially culture a healthy gut biome in an artificial gut. We just need the bacteria and it needs to become tasteless like a powder added to food.
And cravings and the gut biome need to be thoroughly analyzed. And eating it might not be the ideal to replicate a biome; the digestion in the stomach could kill some bacteria but not others and or alter the concentrations.
And of course it works. Come on people think. How much do people spend on diets? Once everyone figures out they can lose significant weight this way it will catch on like wildfire. Everyone with gut problems.. would you rather continue to suffer or eat a little shit?
What is the point of channels in this day and age? Better if you just have a library of content and let customers pull from it.
Now surgeons won't necessarily need the steadiest of hands nor do they need to retire early in life. Good surgeons are more than steady hands.
It should also allow all surgeons to do more delicate surgery.
Makes a lot of sense. I'm surprised someone didn't think about this 10 years ago.
Computers aren't getting that much faster even with multiple cores. So there is no reason to believe that a lot of tech 50 years from now couldn't be invented now.
We have the tools and ability; we just have to imagine how to use it.
This is real meat. It's simply cultured from stem cells. But I do wonder if they could make it "cancerous" and eliminate the death mechanism they could probably culture it more easily. The more difficult part is getting different types of muscle, fat and structure cells to grow together. When it comes to meat we do care about the texture. And we need gelatin and cartilage in our diet So I guess I sort of answered my own question as to why not use cancerous cells. Stem cells are programmed to grow into something with it's supporting structure. Eventually we will be able to dictate that structure.
Science aside people will still be able to get traditional animals raised in natural ways as a luxury. But it will be the end of industrial beef and chicken farms. Milk farms too eventually. The food should be much cheaper. Fifteen cents for a pound of hamburger anyone? $2 tenderloin anyone?
At least a hundredfold reduction in methane for the meat. No more grazing land needed. It can be turned into farm land or made into homes for people where the weather is nice. Alternatively it can be turned into nature preserves and just let the animals live as they use to. All the forests cut down for grazing land can be regrown with trees again.
This also means we can produce meat for space voyages.
I definitely do agree that figuring out sales tax for local regions and cities would overburden all but the largest businesses. Remember we are not just talking about 50 states here - we are talking cities! And those cities have different taxes depending on whom is being taxed and doing the purchasing. Look at the laws regarding fees on recyclable containers alone. Even with computers the only way to accurately do it all would be to run every purchase though a centralized government computer system; talk about big brother...
But states do need to make an income from their citizens in order to support local government. Therefore the solution is that the federal government should impose a minimum state income tax across the board or possibly alternative tax levels.
How about a 10 percent tax level if you choose to not differentiate between states. At the federal level we limit the categories, exceptions and loop holes such that it is the same across all states. No other fees are collected: such as recycling fees. Then if businesses choose to tax by state then have one state tax dictated by the legislature of that state. The states have to follow the federal category and exception system.
Alternatively businesses can choose to tax all the way down to the city level. The business get to choose which tax to collect on behalf of the customer so long every customer from that location is taxed identically. The 10 percent motivates companies to at least tax by the state level.
With this tax structure businesses would likely tax to the city level for major cities and use a global state tax for everywhere else.
What about if we had a new movement to rewrite all the interesting articles on sites like Forbes. Only takes one person to do this and it saves a lot of time and frustration for the rest of humanity.
We could build intelligent space probes and send them to our nearest stars. If they are small we could send 5 to 10 each for redundancy. They would be as artificially intelligent as we could make them. Then they would answer a series of yes/no questions about the system. That way we could categorize interesting systems to investigate further.
We could also send larger probes able to replicate and repair themselves such that they could investigate indefinitely. If the AI we sophisticated enough we could send short formulas with which it could infer to match the progress we have made in science and technology. Possibly building a better communication system later and get relatively instantaneous results.
First thing. You have to be able to afford the lawyer to take them to court. If you don't settle you have to go through with taking them to court. In three years you could win the case. Then you get another settlement offer. The company being sued files an appeal and the lawyer is instructed to draw out the process as much as possible in order to motivate you to settle. Lets say you win the appeal 5 or 6 years later. They appeal it again and then again and again as much as the legal system will allow. You may finally win the case 8 to 10 years after you decide to sue.
All that time your lawyer is adding hours to your bill. If you agreed to give the lawyer a percentage it's probably something like 60 to 70 percent. But first you have to pay taxes on 100% of the whole amount you either settled on or won before you pay your lawyer. If it was 2 million it will be highly taxed; 50 percent or more. Only then do you pay your lawyer his enormous cut. In the end after a decade you might only get 50,0000. People have actually found themselves in tax debt after winning a law suit after the lawyer takes his cut.
But lawyers rarely take the case the full distance. They want to get paid as soon as possible so they will actually insist you take a settlement offer much sooner.
The more you can possibly win the higher your settlement will be.
Unfortunately this is the legal system.
Yep, as stated an easy way frame anyone you don't like. For the police or federal it's even easier since they can get one of their professional "friends" to do it.
Skills:
Step 1. Crawl in a window.
Step 2. Plug in an external USB drive.
Step 3. Boot a program from the USB drive.
Step 4. Leave house unseen.
10 Minutes if he has trouble finding the computer.
A downright corrupt cop could get leverage on the computer forensics guy to run "the program" such that the drive could fall out of the cops pocket. But using a B&E guy would be easier since if his friend gets caught it's just a burglary. And if the guy rats on the cop no one will believe him.
They could create an international version of the NSA with domestic spying done by other countries agents.
There is a difference between requiring a warrant and magical folders appearing on your desk and not being able to use it.
This is not the same as making the government be responsible to preventing foreign intelligence agencies from spying on US citizens.
One thing good about the dragon heavy is the capacity. The best thing they could do is maximize every launch by taking more raw resources into space and leaving them up there in storage. Imagine if they created storage depots both in front of and behind space stations. That would minimize risk to manned space stations due to space garbage.
We seriously need to build fuel storage depots up there along with junkyards where metal can be recycled so we can start building in space.
Yes it should refocus on servers. But rather it should be the "home server" market. Maybe even home cluster.
The market for desktops has mostly gone away, replaced by laptops and tablets. These people only needed a PC for spread sheets, simple word processing, and running a web browser.
The gaming machines market is the same if not bigger.
Professional content creation workstations are bigger than ever.
Same money is being spent; just in different form factors.
There is one area that isn't being exploited and marketed enough. The private cloud; i.e. home servers.
Particular when mixed with virtual machines it's something that needs to happen more. Store all your media at home in one place. Use the online cloud only for immediate stuff and for backups. There is huge potential for streaming. A home server can do transcoding on the fly and a dozen other things all at the same time.
It's more about the demise of the low end desktop which in the least has been replaces by cigar box systems.
Get over it. It's not real property. It's not a physical thing.
Those that hole copyright sacred are the ones that feel entitled and owed something.
Exactly. Survival of the non brain dead.
We have an excess of people already.
Uber needs to change their app to accommodate for all this. Maybe some sort of automatic bidding. I don't want to have to worry about carrying money. Maybe if you tip more by default they can get to you faster or maybe some drivers just demand higher rates like say for better cars or cargo capacity.
I order a known service for a certain price and you deliver at that price. How are you going to go above and beyond to provide a better experience? I don't want to haggle afterwards. My tip is that I don't rate you down. If your not making enough money then don't do the gig.
Having social tipping is only going to drive your standard rate lower and make the whole experience less convenient with me fiddling in my pocket for physical money. Anyone asking for a cash tip will be rated down. And I currently do tip sometimes. I having no problem tipping except when it is the standard. Tipping should only be when someone goes above and beyond the standard everyone else provides. Anything else will lower your base pay.
Standard tips are only going to lower your base pay and make it more complicated for you too. The whole thing is going to be less convenient which means fewer customers taking fewer rides.
I'm with you on this one. It would be beautiful to see cities with flat roof gardens.
As far as the solar panel we could put them on the side of the house. Maybe even do some design to look good. And I'm not sure solar panels use the same light as plants. We could possibly develop transparent solar panels for an awning over the garden. This might let us have our cake and eat it too.
My dream home: Below ground living quarters; two or three floors; ground level parking lot and then a workshop and storage floor before the garden roof. Sort of reverse from most peoples expectations but way more efficient.
I think he is brainstorming a driverless limo/bus. Without the driver station it could be square to shorten the vehicle. Then separate the vehicle into compartments with say 3 or 4 sections. You can book a whole section for yourself or share. Just imagine a squarish vehicle with 4 sets of gull wing doors.
They don't want to talk about it since it's likely they would be for uber, lift and conventional taxi businesses.
Don't forget once we have driverless the local taxi medallion companies can get in on the game quite easily too.
For the most part weather is the western world has been getting better for residential living...
Without humans it would actually had been much colder albeit there would be more species still in existence.
Weather is not static, nor is the earths atmosphere which bleeds off into outer space.
Lets stop talking about anthropomorphic climate change and actually make it fact by actively managing it and taking responsibility.
Come the next ice age we will need to burn all that oil and coal currently in the ground.
I'll have to look up how it works later but this is how it should work.
The card should sign a token given by the terminal for a one time transaction.
The token should then be used to finalize the transaction.
This is completely acceptable. If the terminal is simply copying the private key then it's completely wrong.
I disagree. I believe that killing a person can be humane. Like turning off a light.
Keeping a person confined and without liberties is punishment. Wanting to end your life in but not being able to is fitting punishment.
I would prefer prison for all criminal homicide. But to be honest it can be is quite costly on a society. So I endorse the use of capital punishment even if there may be innocent people that are convicted. But in the later case I would like to see officials held responsible for wrongful convictions. Further they should be required to spend differing amounts of time in the same prisons and conditions they would subject anyone else to. Their identities know and unknown to the other prisoners such that they receive no special protection.
Of the conditions described I believe some homeless people would willingly subject themselves to those conditions to get off the street.
P.S. The strip searches are probably necessary to protect the guards but I think more so to keep the prisoner from committing suicide in a moment of rash judgement.
I'm not too sure of sidewalk delivery but octocopters will be a thing. They are resilient to motor failures even while carrying a lot of weight.
What occurs to me now that it's likely the first drone delivery will be from close by trucks that can not only deliver the package but do recovery of packages and drone rescue should problems occur. Probably launching from the roof of the truck. It's also an ideal way of delivering first class mail.
I wonder about how we will deal with rain. Self retracting roof for the landing pad?
What about placement? On the ground or in the air? Maybe a dumbwaiter type thing to the roof? Or put the landing pad on the roof and then retrieve everything by a personal drone?
One thing that would be good is that eventually delivery can be done at night when your home. Or by any other programmable schedule.
But let me point out the remotest possibility that the IP address tracked down wouldn't necessarily prove a particular person was involved.
Theoretically the best way for person to hide would be to hide behind and implicate another person. (Seriously watch more Columbo.) You would have to show that a computer wasn't infected in such a way as to secretly relay traffic. One would have to assume the software was designed to erase itself if discovered.
But I have to make the point. Getting an IP address is only the first step. I suggest that is enough information to get a warrant and then do a real investigation such as physically bugging their computer and gathering keystrokes and mousestrokes and possibly video evidence of his activity at the computer.
To prove a person was downloading child porn you would need a complete tap of their internet connection checking for relayed transmission. Then check that no one hacked into their wireless network from outside their home. Then finally show that that person was home when no one else was.
And a pedophile wouldn't require vast technical knowledge. Just like everything else you can buy expertise. To another hacker it would look like a noob buying help to get started being a hacker.
In general hacking into at least one neighbors WIFI is something any hacker should easily be able to do.
So to sum it up. Stock slacking off on your job. Get the warrant and catch him jerking off on his computer to what is obviously child porn.
Politicians do weird thinks like sponsor/vote-for bills they don't want passed for image reasons and or to do cross party vote trading. The trick is playing chicken with the number of votes required to pass or knowing you can bury it later in committee if it happens to pass.
The problem is things like this are often posturing.