For movies, the trick is not to read 'the reviews', but to pick a critic and learn his style; then, you get an idea from his review if you will like the movie or not (bonus points for the critic if their likes line up with yours).
I didn't say it was a conspiracy, I insinuated that different employees receive different levels of benefit (some people need health care to survive, others see a doctor once every few years), and that the benefit is not scaled to their productivity.
So it doesn't nominally redistribute wealth, but the benefits, proportionately, accrue to the people with the highest health care costs and lowest productivity.
The hard part of post scarcity is the planet scale engineering required to provide people with space.
I've wondered on and off about the consequences of using solar system materials to create another earth like planet (Mars probably doesn't quite cut it, too far out).
Except for the part where there are massive wealth redistribution programs in the United States (The one I find most entertaining is employer provided health care (notice that I didn't say insurance, I said health care)).
(And 'asset loss' is a terrible description of the housing bubble, the vast majority of homes still provide very similar housing to what they provided before and during the bubble, they just stopped providing exposure to insane speculative risk; so someone who purchased a home 15 years ago didn't lose a damn thing (in most cases, but Detroit is a special case))
Yeah, I'm sure they are all teared up, running near capacity and finding out that some of their largest customers just got less price sensitive (because hey, they can do a whole lot more computing with each kw-h).
No one is claiming that you said that the business needed to be illegitimate or that it has to make a loss, they are all insinuating that the comment you made was over-simplified.
If you buy beans retail, a pot of coffee costs around $1 and would fill 5 or 6 $2 cups. Throw in some syrup and it sell for $3 a cup. And they aren't buying beans retail.
That doesn't mean that the markup is all profit though.
Much of the law is concerned with codifying a mutual definition of 'good'.
Much of law enforcement is expended on dysfunctional people (that is, they are unable to accurately predict the risks and rewards associated with various actions).
So for most people, doing good probably is still easier, but we still need laws.
Nah, there aren't even hundreds of domains listed in the average story, so you just have to set your command and control servers to respond with a magic token when a certain address is queried (say, http://example.com/index.html, in order to not show up as 'odd' in server logs), and then check every domain.
Checking only domains posted by AC cuts down on the number you would have to check. So does only checking the domains posted by a certain user (it would be incredibly obscure, you could create an offtopic AC comment and then only reply to that, only post to journal entries of other fake accounts, etc).
Or you could sign the domains.
And cryptography basically makes the level of motivation of slashdotters irrelevant.
Slashdot comments would be a great place to put a bot domain lookup (you could check every story for anonymous comments containing domains, check every story in a certain section for anonymous comments containing domains, or even check a certain account).
The relatively strict attitude about 'freezing' things means that they probably wouldn't disappear, compared to blog comments, where a given blogger might zap stuff or not.
Well, if you know about the DMCA, then you know that your hosting provider is going to be interpreting the law (roughly, they are going to be complying with DMCA takedown notices).
So it isn't a wild idea to presume that someone paying Network Solutions trusts them to interpret the law.
The energy required to lift an atmospheric shield into orbit would dwarf the energy saved by recycling the material (and the parts themselves are likely to be worthless after a service life in space).
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Doctorow is awful.
For movies, the trick is not to read 'the reviews', but to pick a critic and learn his style; then, you get an idea from his review if you will like the movie or not (bonus points for the critic if their likes line up with yours).
Turning off the televisions at a sports bar? If you actively desire to piss people off, you could spit in their food without having to build anything.
I'm sure if it is an actual campaign, their goal is milder than that, something like "Help GM sell more cars."
People are going to respond to this by purchasing Ford and Honda and VW more than they are going to respond by purchasing GM vehicles.
I didn't say it was a conspiracy, I insinuated that different employees receive different levels of benefit (some people need health care to survive, others see a doctor once every few years), and that the benefit is not scaled to their productivity.
So it doesn't nominally redistribute wealth, but the benefits, proportionately, accrue to the people with the highest health care costs and lowest productivity.
There was when under-inflated tires were blowing out and causing rollovers.
The hard part of post scarcity is the planet scale engineering required to provide people with space.
I've wondered on and off about the consequences of using solar system materials to create another earth like planet (Mars probably doesn't quite cut it, too far out).
Except for the part where there are massive wealth redistribution programs in the United States (The one I find most entertaining is employer provided health care (notice that I didn't say insurance, I said health care)).
(And 'asset loss' is a terrible description of the housing bubble, the vast majority of homes still provide very similar housing to what they provided before and during the bubble, they just stopped providing exposure to insane speculative risk; so someone who purchased a home 15 years ago didn't lose a damn thing (in most cases, but Detroit is a special case))
Yeah, I'm sure they are all teared up, running near capacity and finding out that some of their largest customers just got less price sensitive (because hey, they can do a whole lot more computing with each kw-h).
Should be a guy in a prison jumpsuit.
I got more of a green vibe than I got a battery life vibe.
If you think it trough, you are likely swine.
Everyone running a data center is giving thought to efficiency. They pay for electricity and cooling.
No one is claiming that you said that the business needed to be illegitimate or that it has to make a loss, they are all insinuating that the comment you made was over-simplified.
Why?
If you buy beans retail, a pot of coffee costs around $1 and would fill 5 or 6 $2 cups. Throw in some syrup and it sell for $3 a cup. And they aren't buying beans retail.
That doesn't mean that the markup is all profit though.
Much of the law is concerned with codifying a mutual definition of 'good'.
Much of law enforcement is expended on dysfunctional people (that is, they are unable to accurately predict the risks and rewards associated with various actions).
So for most people, doing good probably is still easier, but we still need laws.
It would be even sadder if it were still on the air.
Nah, there aren't even hundreds of domains listed in the average story, so you just have to set your command and control servers to respond with a magic token when a certain address is queried (say, http://example.com/index.html, in order to not show up as 'odd' in server logs), and then check every domain.
Checking only domains posted by AC cuts down on the number you would have to check. So does only checking the domains posted by a certain user (it would be incredibly obscure, you could create an offtopic AC comment and then only reply to that, only post to journal entries of other fake accounts, etc).
Or you could sign the domains.
And cryptography basically makes the level of motivation of slashdotters irrelevant.
There is a discussion of the relatively low typical rewards and relatively high typical risk in the book Freakonomics:
http://freakonomicsbook.com/freakonomics/chapter-excerpts/chapter-3
Slashdot comments would be a great place to put a bot domain lookup (you could check every story for anonymous comments containing domains, check every story in a certain section for anonymous comments containing domains, or even check a certain account).
The relatively strict attitude about 'freezing' things means that they probably wouldn't disappear, compared to blog comments, where a given blogger might zap stuff or not.
Yeah, because they have implicit user approval.
That is entirely the wrong way to do paranoia.
Well, if you know about the DMCA, then you know that your hosting provider is going to be interpreting the law (roughly, they are going to be complying with DMCA takedown notices).
So it isn't a wild idea to presume that someone paying Network Solutions trusts them to interpret the law.
Unobtainium enjoys a long history.
So you would just criticize Avatar for being trite, not thank it for the word.
The energy required to lift an atmospheric shield into orbit would dwarf the energy saved by recycling the material (and the parts themselves are likely to be worthless after a service life in space).
The vaccine has been tested tens of millions of times by now.