It hasn't been trashed. He updates it all the time. Some versions seem cooler than others, but they're all actually the same when viewed through a 4-dimensional hypercube of time-space.
Well, I really have no choice now do I? Without violation of the 2nd law (or alternatively, I suppose, moving to a different universe to which it does not apply) there's no hope for anything at all, much less ending scarcity.
I'm pretty sure all their commercials emphasize just how un-layered their plastic is. Feels like I'm wearing nothing at all... nothing at all... nothing at all. Oh, stupid sexy Flanders.
Interesting point about the historical artifacts. There might be a small number of people who would care, but would enough care to make them tradeable and thus 'scarce'. How will anyone ever convince you to sell, what could they possibly offer you (except other historical replicas). And consider: there won't be too many of these things that will have a sufficiently documented chain of custody such that you can really decide who is 'selling' an original vs a perfect duplicate.
I also doubt if our education system would suffice to reach this level of technology. So I doubt there will be people being used as teachers at this point, but I think you have hit on the one potentially scarce resource: people. So people will become the only viable currency, and so slavery seems the inevitable future of this glorious utopian society without scarcity.
Right, solving the scarcity problem means precisely overcoming that difficulty. Here is an outline of a real solution: 1) Make energy free. Use vacuum pseudo particles to violate the 2nd law and add energy and order to our universe. 2) Develop energy to matter converters to use the energy from #1 to produce any element or more exotic matter you want. 3) Develop matter scanners that can determine the exact quark level composition of any object. 4) Create replicators that scale up to solar system (or galaxy) size, so that everyone can use #1,2,3 to make copies of literally anything.
Now if someone creates something unique, no matter what it is, you can make a cheap copy of it at no cost (and they can't show you anything without falling inside the horizon of your scanner, so they can't even try to keep it away from you deliberately). Now that's the end of scarcity.
Alternatively, you could genetically engineer desire out of our brains. That would probably be a lot easier.
What happens if visa or mc don't have an installation on whatever station you happen to visit? By using a non-electronic currency, they don't devolve to barter, but they also don't have to worry about paying for universal access. At tens of thousands of dollars per pound for liftoff, they'd pay a fortune to get their electronics on to every space station. But by making a lightweight universal currency and advertising it for free on slashdot, they can try to get everyone moving into space to pay the liftoff costs themselves.
Your comment has given me an excellent product idea. I'm going to build audiophile gear that does in fact skew the output in some noticeable way. I'll declare this skew to be better, sell the gear to audiophiles for millions, and then they can legitimately pass double-blind tests that show they hear a difference with my gear.
I've never seen anyone in the industry do it for nothing. I have seen them do it for the following reasons: 1) Promotion opportunities (== more pay, more creative control). 2) Creative control (working extra hours often opens opportunities to do your own thing). 3) Bigger bonus (bonuses are often divvied up either by measured or apparent hours). 4) Social fun (when your job is also your recreation, the hours add up).
Cool, I don't think i've ever had a slashdot editor comment in one of my threads before. I feel like my original post was even more of an accomplishment now.:-) http://slashdot.org/~Surt/journal/183407
Harder, by quite a bit. Med school and residency is all about memorizing and working long hours. You can work all the hours you want in engineering and it won't give you the kind of brain that can handle those challenges.
You're very lucky if you believe that most employers don't care about where you went to school. School bias is very widespread, and will often result in the choosing of an inferior candidate with a 'superior' degree.
Every state school I've seen numbers for charges foreign students way more than enough more to cover their costs. Typically 4-6x the tuition rates of non-foreign students. Enough to make them have no tax consequences for the rest of us, in fact they are probably decreasing our taxes because the universities require less funding.
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Ah, I didn't see that when I looked at the site. It looked like the usual stuff to me.
It hasn't been trashed. He updates it all the time. Some versions seem cooler than others, but they're all actually the same when viewed through a 4-dimensional hypercube of time-space.
Well, I really have no choice now do I? Without violation of the 2nd law (or alternatively, I suppose, moving to a different universe to which it does not apply) there's no hope for anything at all, much less ending scarcity.
I'm pretty sure all their commercials emphasize just how un-layered their plastic is. Feels like I'm wearing nothing at all ... nothing at all ... nothing at all. Oh, stupid sexy Flanders.
Interesting point about the historical artifacts. There might be a small number of people who would care, but would enough care to make them tradeable and thus 'scarce'. How will anyone ever convince you to sell, what could they possibly offer you (except other historical replicas). And consider: there won't be too many of these things that will have a sufficiently documented chain of custody such that you can really decide who is 'selling' an original vs a perfect duplicate.
I also doubt if our education system would suffice to reach this level of technology. So I doubt there will be people being used as teachers at this point, but I think you have hit on the one potentially scarce resource: people. So people will become the only viable currency, and so slavery seems the inevitable future of this glorious utopian society without scarcity.
Right, solving the scarcity problem means precisely overcoming that difficulty.
Here is an outline of a real solution:
1) Make energy free. Use vacuum pseudo particles to violate the 2nd law and add energy and order to our universe.
2) Develop energy to matter converters to use the energy from #1 to produce any element or more exotic matter you want.
3) Develop matter scanners that can determine the exact quark level composition of any object.
4) Create replicators that scale up to solar system (or galaxy) size, so that everyone can use #1,2,3 to make copies of literally anything.
Now if someone creates something unique, no matter what it is, you can make a cheap copy of it at no cost (and they can't show you anything without falling inside the horizon of your scanner, so they can't even try to keep it away from you deliberately). Now that's the end of scarcity.
Alternatively, you could genetically engineer desire out of our brains. That would probably be a lot easier.
What happens if visa or mc don't have an installation on whatever station you happen to visit?
By using a non-electronic currency, they don't devolve to barter, but they also don't have to worry about paying for universal access.
At tens of thousands of dollars per pound for liftoff, they'd pay a fortune to get their electronics on to every space station. But by making a lightweight universal currency and advertising it for free on slashdot, they can try to get everyone moving into space to pay the liftoff costs themselves.
Paper currency doesn't weigh enough, so it would just float off if you let go of it.
I think i'd object to the stealing. Did she steal the songs in question from a record store or itunes?
Your comment has given me an excellent product idea. I'm going to build audiophile gear that does in fact skew the output in some noticeable way. I'll declare this skew to be better, sell the gear to audiophiles for millions, and then they can legitimately pass double-blind tests that show they hear a difference with my gear.
I've never seen anyone in the industry do it for nothing. I have seen them do it for the following reasons:
1) Promotion opportunities (== more pay, more creative control).
2) Creative control (working extra hours often opens opportunities to do your own thing).
3) Bigger bonus (bonuses are often divvied up either by measured or apparent hours).
4) Social fun (when your job is also your recreation, the hours add up).
Ah the memories. Man I miss Meept. I considered leaving after he did.
Sorry, my post was the lucky one.
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http://meta.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=313513&cid=20811157
Cool, I don't think i've ever had a slashdot editor comment in one of my threads before. I feel like my original post was even more of an accomplishment now. :-)
http://slashdot.org/~Surt/journal/183407
I've explained this post in my journal, for anyone interested, before you think about your moderations.
http://meta.slashdot.org/~Surt/
It has been a long time.
Harder, by quite a bit. Med school and residency is all about memorizing and working long hours. You can work all the hours you want in engineering and it won't give you the kind of brain that can handle those challenges.
You're very lucky if you believe that most employers don't care about where you went to school. School bias is very widespread, and will often result in the choosing of an inferior candidate with a 'superior' degree.
Every state school I've seen numbers for charges foreign students way more than enough more to cover their costs. Typically 4-6x the tuition rates of non-foreign students. Enough to make them have no tax consequences for the rest of us, in fact they are probably decreasing our taxes because the universities require less funding.
1,2 : large
3,4,5 : medium
6+ : small
It's the standard scientific ranking system.
Using Linux might make me a geek, but it does not make me a nerd.
I'm not sure that using linux makes you either:http://mw1.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/geek
http://mw1.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nerd
You're thinking of dogs, cat's aren't like that.
I was going for funny. The fraction of people in the world with no access to a helpful female is really vanishingly small.
I play as non-android robots.
The fraction of people playing these games with access to a girl friend, girlfriend, or wife is so small as to not be worth worrying about.