Ummm... I, like a lot of people in tech, have no inclination to be doing what I'm doing. I'm doing it to make money, same as I would have in any other time period. I looked around, saw here was a thing I could learn to do to make money, and did it. At the time I made that choice it seemed like basically doctor, lawyer, finance and computers were the way to go. Doctor required too much memorization, a difficult area for me. Lawyer/finance were too evil. So computers was my choice, and I worked to get good at it. Talent works that way. Inclination doesn't.
Looking back as far as 15th century or further is pointless: people had very little choice about what field they went into, it was mostly determined by your birth. Today people can actually make something of themselves.
Homes over a million? That's almost all of them around here. Offshoring? So oughts. All the modern tech companies in the valley have realized that to build competitive apps you do it with manpower here. Young people making money? Well, you do have to be lucky or smart in your startup choice, but facebook is about to mint another batch of over a thousand young millionaires to help keep those house prices propped up.
I would say the occupy movements end goal is most easily stated as 'put an end to big money'. No one needs or deserves to be a billionaire. We should tax that life path out of existence.
Lobbying political representatives is pointless. They get their money from the very people doing these things. No, I put my energy into educational advocacy, trying to get voters to care about the issue (posting to influential we boards and such). Realistically, though, I don't expect anything to change until after the catastrophe, because most people are too stupid to care, and you need most to make a change.
This is really a case of character revelation. There's no reversing course when it is revealed you have bad character. Any claim of reversal is now tainted by the knowledge of your bad character, and will be for many years, until contrary actions convince the public of your change. So if GoDaddy wants this business back, they need not only state a reversal of course, they need to be seen actively lobbying and spending significant money fighting SOPA and similar laws. For years.
I have a friend working on it today. It will happen in 10 years, he claims less than 5, and that assumes none of his competitors has already accomplished the goal quietly.
It's incorrect to assume that it can't be dangerous. People eat frog legs. But they don't eat poison dart frog legs. They eat pufferfish. But not poorly prepared pufferfish (at least, rarely on purpose).
If they splice in those genes to wheat to kill insects, and the dose happens to go a bit higher than they planned?
The problem is, that will happen in the lab, as soon as the scientists figure out how to do it. Do you think they'll magically start the labeling that day?
You know, I did a first post, once. Perhaps for each of us, it has become such an ingrained meme, the pull is irresistible in the right circumstance. For me, I happened to log in at the moment Slashdot announced its 10th anniversary. I had a window of I would guess 5 or so seconds in which to frame and post a first post on that story. The temptation got the better of me. I had never done a first post here or on any other forum before, and haven't since. Perhaps that just happens to each of the 2 million or so members here on a story they particularly like, and happens to a few members considerably more, depending on the severity of the vulnerability to the meme.
I see no sign that they've considered the impact of reputation on publishing. Their graphs seem to show exactly what I would expect from cronyism. Publishing rises steadily as profs work to secure tenure, then drops off (but not as fast as you might otherwise expect, because reputation secures easier publishing).
The real evidence that you're not him is that you imagine that writing a Turing competent AI to continue posting after his death is beyond the Il's skill.
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Ummm ... I, like a lot of people in tech, have no inclination to be doing what I'm doing. I'm doing it to make money, same as I would have in any other time period. I looked around, saw here was a thing I could learn to do to make money, and did it. At the time I made that choice it seemed like basically doctor, lawyer, finance and computers were the way to go. Doctor required too much memorization, a difficult area for me. Lawyer/finance were too evil. So computers was my choice, and I worked to get good at it. Talent works that way. Inclination doesn't.
Looking back as far as 15th century or further is pointless: people had very little choice about what field they went into, it was mostly determined by your birth. Today people can actually make something of themselves.
Homes over a million? That's almost all of them around here.
Offshoring? So oughts. All the modern tech companies in the valley have realized that to build competitive apps you do it with manpower here.
Young people making money? Well, you do have to be lucky or smart in your startup choice, but facebook is about to mint another batch of over a thousand young millionaires to help keep those house prices propped up.
I would say the occupy movements end goal is most easily stated as 'put an end to big money'.
No one needs or deserves to be a billionaire. We should tax that life path out of existence.
Lobbying political representatives is pointless. They get their money from the very people doing these things. No, I put my energy into educational advocacy, trying to get voters to care about the issue (posting to influential we boards and such). Realistically, though, I don't expect anything to change until after the catastrophe, because most people are too stupid to care, and you need most to make a change.
Ah, I would have said 'intuitively obvious to me', but I understand you now.
Doesn't PSN have a monthly fee?
(I don't know because I didn't buy a PS on account of their rootkit shenanigans).
I'd guess by measure of visitors. Cheezburger is a huge network of sites that gets a pretty incredible number of visitors.
This is really a case of character revelation. There's no reversing course when it is revealed you have bad character. Any claim of reversal is now tainted by the knowledge of your bad character, and will be for many years, until contrary actions convince the public of your change. So if GoDaddy wants this business back, they need not only state a reversal of course, they need to be seen actively lobbying and spending significant money fighting SOPA and similar laws. For years.
You are in for some lifetime disappointment as you meet more and more casual observers, and discover what is not intuitively obvious to them.
Most corporate IM systems log everything.
I have a friend working on it today. It will happen in 10 years, he claims less than 5, and that assumes none of his competitors has already accomplished the goal quietly.
What if the cancers take 10 years to start showing up?
It's incorrect to assume that it can't be dangerous. People eat frog legs. But they don't eat poison dart frog legs. They eat pufferfish. But not poorly prepared pufferfish (at least, rarely on purpose).
If they splice in those genes to wheat to kill insects, and the dose happens to go a bit higher than they planned?
It's more of a plot to control the world than to destroy it. The terminator gene is a really, really bad idea for humanity.
The problem is, that will happen in the lab, as soon as the scientists figure out how to do it.
Do you think they'll magically start the labeling that day?
You know, I did a first post, once. Perhaps for each of us, it has become such an ingrained meme, the pull is irresistible in the right circumstance. For me, I happened to log in at the moment Slashdot announced its 10th anniversary. I had a window of I would guess 5 or so seconds in which to frame and post a first post on that story. The temptation got the better of me. I had never done a first post here or on any other forum before, and haven't since. Perhaps that just happens to each of the 2 million or so members here on a story they particularly like, and happens to a few members considerably more, depending on the severity of the vulnerability to the meme.
Indeed. Number of major nuclear disasters at plants run by humans: 20. Number at plants run by possums: 0.
"I dare you to name just a single nuclear accident in the last few years"
"Fukushima Daiichi?"
I wouldn't call that an accident. One must keep in mind that it was hit by an earthquake and a tsunami. What else would you expect?
If it were an error due to an operator or faulty equipment, then that would be a different story.
If it wasn't an accident, who caused it on purpose?
So you're thinking the US will withdraw from the WIPO?
Note that it's the people with the post-docs in the labs actually making the advancements, though, it's just the guy with the lab getting the credit.
I see no sign that they've considered the impact of reputation on publishing. Their graphs seem to show exactly what I would expect from cronyism. Publishing rises steadily as profs work to secure tenure, then drops off (but not as fast as you might otherwise expect, because reputation secures easier publishing).
The real evidence that you're not him is that you imagine that writing a Turing competent AI to continue posting after his death is beyond the Il's skill.
I've noticed that he really likes sausages (if you know what I mean).
http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_lvdxjr2vPS1qewv1lo1_1280.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAJ6IHWSU3BX3X7X3Q&Expires=1324483328&Signature=pQw%2FJ3FVCqw%2F9QuInl1FLGbLq1A%3D
Seems telling that the only one he appears to be smiling at is the picture of him looking at sausages.
Seems like he's rather successful in the resume selling business, can't see why he'd want to get into a different one.