We used to have additional modifiers to add/remove points based on the category, so people would do things like make Funny posts -5 points so they could skip the jokes.
We have 50+ relatively hard to forge ID cards, but there's millions of kids in college with tons of disposable income that want to get beer with one of those ID cards, so they're pretty regularly forged. Replacing the 50+ cards with one card solves the problem of a guy at Washington State trying to pass off his Arkansaw driver's license as valid, at the cost of having 50 times the resources going into cracking it. Meanwhile, I have to hand out my Social Security Number to every bank, every employer, every credit card, every phone company, the water company, the doctor, and so on. Once I have my new Super Secure Number and provide that number to my bank, employer, credit card, phone company, water company, my doctor, etc... is it still secure?
I like the other idea posted of having a single-purpose Virtual SSN. Just like foo+slashdot@yahoo,com, I can tell who leaked the SSN since only one person had it.
But with AI we can finally unleash the full force of Roko's Basilisk on them and tell hackers that the AI will torture a simulation of themselves for billions of CPU cycles if they're caught!
I'm looking forward to a haircutting machine just like in the Jetsons, lower a hood over your head, listen to it hum for a few minutes then... Presto! A new do!
has a hard time finding people before we even discuss salary. Once we find someone qualified
Obviously your company's HR department messed up and hired underqualified telepaths. How do you expect people to psychically know that you have openings available and are willing to pay competitive rates if you aren't discussing that?
I have seen zero evidence that there is a vast pool of qualified techs sitting on the sidelines
With "the national jobless rate near a 16-year low" nobody's "sitting on the sidelines" except for the "16-year low" number of people on the dole. Your "qualified techs" are busy working for other people because your psychics are giving themselves hemorrhoids from all the strain as they try to make them magically want to work for you without you having to compete against their existing employers.
We pay fresh grads with a BS in CS an average of $90k to start
Well, there are plenty of grads every year all around the country. Either you have some qualification you're not listing here to explain why you can't find any "qualified" people, or you have something else wrong that is causing all these fresh grads to work for someone else.
Can't extract profit from THEIR OWN (nonexistent) employees, you mean. Please do try to read what I say before insulting me. RoboFord will get plenty of profit selling cheap trucks to RAM employees.
What's that about "when they've driven every other company out of business or to robots?" Sorry! Can't hear you over the sound of my quarterly earnings report going KA-CHING!
Of course capital will chase new opportunities, but it will do so while considering the opportunity cost of chasing human labor (for instance: less efficient warehouses and processes) versus chasing mechanized labor.
what's the theory that total work is a constant?
Total work isn't a constant, but in total work = mechanized work + human work, when "mechanized work" is more productive and efficient, guess which term will drive the increase in "total work"?
There would be no incentive for complete robotic production
Bullshit.
The first company to go 100% robotic and have 0 labor costs will make a fortune selling to the employees of the remaining companies at prices their employers could never hope to meet, leaving them either going bankrupt or ditching the humans.
I caved in and did video tutorials, because trying to support people as they read the monitor to me word by word ("File"..."Edit"..."View"...) was going to give me a stroke.
Not even Google has that much money lying around in their couch, which is why they've stopped rolling out fiber (the court cases haven't made it any cheaper though).
Someone who starts work at 7AM has plenty of time after work
Because she teleports back home instead of taking a bus and two trains? If it's a 3 hour trip there, (leaves 3:45 and starts at 7), and she works 7-3, a 3 hour trip back gets her home at 6PM. Now, if she wants a solid 8 hours of sleep, she immediately goes to bed to wake up at 2AM to do it all over again.
Exercise makes you look good. Not eating 2000 calories for lunch makes you look skinny.
The biggest thing the calories in vs calories out people miss is that running a marathon burns about 2000 calories. You had a big hearty breakfast, a burger shake fries and coke for lunch, a bag of potato chips for a snack, and a big dinner with a large slice of cake and two scoops of icecream for dessert, and more coke throughout the day? Hope you run two marathons a day.
when there is a girls-only CS class at school, is it discriminating against the boys who also have a CS class and a CS after school club that is 95% male
So there is no "boys-only" class, only a class that more boys than girls want to take and a club that more boys than girls want to join. What exactly is it that will make your "girls-only" class more popular with the girls?
You can't use that key for EVERYTHING, all of the routers between your computer and whatever VPN company you're using needs to be able to read the VPN company's IP address on the packet in order for them to forward the packet in the correct direction.
And now it stays a monopoly because it cost Google over one billion dollars to try to compete in a single city (Kansas City). And that was WITH the government bending over backwards to wipe out regulations and restrictions in order to become the very first Google Fiber city.
The only way to beat the telecoms without government intervention is to have pockets both deep enough and full enough that you could have just bought the company outright in the first place, in which case you'd become the new monopoly.
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We used to have additional modifiers to add/remove points based on the category, so people would do things like make Funny posts -5 points so they could skip the jokes.
> relatively hard to forge
We have 50+ relatively hard to forge ID cards, but there's millions of kids in college with tons of disposable income that want to get beer with one of those ID cards, so they're pretty regularly forged. Replacing the 50+ cards with one card solves the problem of a guy at Washington State trying to pass off his Arkansaw driver's license as valid, at the cost of having 50 times the resources going into cracking it. Meanwhile, I have to hand out my Social Security Number to every bank, every employer, every credit card, every phone company, the water company, the doctor, and so on. Once I have my new Super Secure Number and provide that number to my bank, employer, credit card, phone company, water company, my doctor, etc... is it still secure?
I like the other idea posted of having a single-purpose Virtual SSN. Just like foo+slashdot@yahoo,com, I can tell who leaked the SSN since only one person had it.
That, or a Marxist. Time wasted on frivolities means less that can be taken from you according to your abilities.
But with AI we can finally unleash the full force of Roko's Basilisk on them and tell hackers that the AI will torture a simulation of themselves for billions of CPU cycles if they're caught!
I'm looking forward to a haircutting machine just like in the Jetsons, lower a hood over your head, listen to it hum for a few minutes then... Presto! A new do!
We'll call it the Flowbee 2.
I just wish we could hear a few wise words on this subject from our now-retired chiropractor troll.
Remember what you just said. It absolutely will come back to bite you in the ass when network neutrality falls.
Obviously your company's HR department messed up and hired underqualified telepaths. How do you expect people to psychically know that you have openings available and are willing to pay competitive rates if you aren't discussing that?
With "the national jobless rate near a 16-year low" nobody's "sitting on the sidelines" except for the "16-year low" number of people on the dole. Your "qualified techs" are busy working for other people because your psychics are giving themselves hemorrhoids from all the strain as they try to make them magically want to work for you without you having to compete against their existing employers.
Well, there are plenty of grads every year all around the country. Either you have some qualification you're not listing here to explain why you can't find any "qualified" people, or you have something else wrong that is causing all these fresh grads to work for someone else.
Can't extract profit from THEIR OWN (nonexistent) employees, you mean. Please do try to read what I say before insulting me. RoboFord will get plenty of profit selling cheap trucks to RAM employees.
What's that about "when they've driven every other company out of business or to robots?" Sorry! Can't hear you over the sound of my quarterly earnings report going KA-CHING!
Of course capital will chase new opportunities, but it will do so while considering the opportunity cost of chasing human labor (for instance: less efficient warehouses and processes) versus chasing mechanized labor.
Total work isn't a constant, but in total work = mechanized work + human work, when "mechanized work" is more productive and efficient, guess which term will drive the increase in "total work"?
Bullshit.
The first company to go 100% robotic and have 0 labor costs will make a fortune selling to the employees of the remaining companies at prices their employers could never hope to meet, leaving them either going bankrupt or ditching the humans.
This is why I stick to whapping people I know on whatsapp: there's no question of what the correct term to call it is.
I caved in and did video tutorials, because trying to support people as they read the monitor to me word by word ("File"..."Edit"..."View"...) was going to give me a stroke.
Mostly in hopes that NK has launched nukes and I can just not bother to go in to work today.
Not since the federal government outlawed exclusive franchises in 1992.
Now the government prevents competition by not allowing companies to steal fiber and enslave labor and tresspass on peoples's property. If you try and do it legitimately, well, Just laying fiber in Kansas City cost Google over $1 Billion to reach 80% of the city, not counting the final connections to the houses.
Not even Google has that much money lying around in their couch, which is why they've stopped rolling out fiber (the court cases haven't made it any cheaper though).
Because she teleports back home instead of taking a bus and two trains? If it's a 3 hour trip there, (leaves 3:45 and starts at 7), and she works 7-3, a 3 hour trip back gets her home at 6PM. Now, if she wants a solid 8 hours of sleep, she immediately goes to bed to wake up at 2AM to do it all over again.
Exercise makes you look good. Not eating 2000 calories for lunch makes you look skinny.
The biggest thing the calories in vs calories out people miss is that running a marathon burns about 2000 calories. You had a big hearty breakfast, a burger shake fries and coke for lunch, a bag of potato chips for a snack, and a big dinner with a large slice of cake and two scoops of icecream for dessert, and more coke throughout the day? Hope you run two marathons a day.
Yeah, I've heard the phrase "no bad tactics, only bad targets" bandied around as "tactics" become ever more extreme.
Not once do I ever hear someone say "what if someone else gets to pick the targets?"
But I did laugh long and hard at Trump whining about warrantless wiretapping of his staff members' phone calls to Russia. Not a bad target at all.
P.P.S. When you're done hanging, please vote for us!
So there is no "boys-only" class, only a class that more boys than girls want to take and a club that more boys than girls want to join. What exactly is it that will make your "girls-only" class more popular with the girls?
You can't use that key for EVERYTHING, all of the routers between your computer and whatever VPN company you're using needs to be able to read the VPN company's IP address on the packet in order for them to forward the packet in the correct direction.
Yeah, the first step is to get the human to look at the sign in the first place.
Works on human drivers too. I guess that means humans aren't ready to be driving yet.
And the humans driving won't be fooled at all by fake signs put up by trolls (mostly because humans ignore most of the signs anyway).
And now it stays a monopoly because it cost Google over one billion dollars to try to compete in a single city (Kansas City). And that was WITH the government bending over backwards to wipe out regulations and restrictions in order to become the very first Google Fiber city.
The only way to beat the telecoms without government intervention is to have pockets both deep enough and full enough that you could have just bought the company outright in the first place, in which case you'd become the new monopoly.