Spoken like a true millennial. Working hard and earning does not equal destroying our planet... art and entertainment are a few good examples. Something that this world will never not have need of, and probably one of the last jobs that robots will take over. Just 'cause it's an old idea doesn't make it wrong.
Only a small fraction of humanity has to work for everyone's needs to be met, given modern technology.
What is the reward for that small fraction of humanity doing the work? Why should some people be made to work for other's leisure? Sounds like slavery to me.
This is absolutely bullshit. First off, I didn't claim everyone is guaranteed a job... that is also socialism. I believe that far too many youth in this world are told they are supposed to have a boss, rather than being told they are their boss. If more people saw things this way, the whole thing would be better. From a certain point of view, there are infinite jobs available... yet people lack the imagination and drive to go out and get those jobs (make them exist). There is some quote that I'm too lazy to look up that says something about "never forget that you work for you."
But that's besides the point. It doesn't matter how many people have jobs... it matters how many people can afford healthcare. The failure of the healthcare system is a downward spiral. When a mother can't get her kid healthy, that kid can't learn and attend school, then we've got one more know-nothing person out there who can't contribute. Then that kid grows up and has more kids who are also unlikely to get educated. School is the only area where I think socialist ideals can work... because educating everyone is always a benefit to everyone.
But eventually voicing your opinion and being ignored, but also being a showpiece associate of the president eventually makes you a yes-man, regardless of the words coming out of your mouth.
I think I'm gonna have to throw my hat in with the assholes. I also think people don't have a right to healthcare. I think people should earn what they have, be it healthcare, money, or freedom. Earn it. Work hard to get it! However, I also think that the core issue is that healthcare is much too expensive. I think the way to close the gap is to make healthcare cheaper, rather than making people more able to pay for it (read socialism). Step 1 is tort reform. Fix that first! Next fix waste. Too many times doctors order tests and surgeries that are unnecessary. They do this because they don't want to get sued for malpractice (see step 1). Once these things are fixed, begin looking at the efficiency of operations at hospitals. There are DOZENS of ways hospitals could save patients money once those first two issues are fixed.
Sadly, this will take a LONG time time to bring any savings... hospitals' and doctors' insurers won't charge less for insurance once tort has been fixed. Doctors won't charge less once their insurance premiums drop. Hospitals won't charge less for procedures once doctors are charging less and their insurance is less. And all the while, the government won't change the medicare reimbursement rates for all of this just because the actual cost has gone down. Each one of these issues is it's own battle that must be fought in order to bring the cost down to where everyone can afford healthcare. But it's the only way to provide access while still making it fair. You have to understand that there are literally hundreds of people involved in almost any patient care event, and each one of them thinks they deserve to get paid as much as you think people deserve cheap healthcare.
The danger here is that his presence on a council could be interpreted as tacit approval of what is happening. I believe this is the reason Elon Musk left the council. He started out saying he was accepting a seat on the council because it was better to be involved and have influence than to let the president surround himself with yes-men and crooks. But at the end of the day I believe Elon saw that his presence there served only to legitimize Trump's actions, so he left. Why exactly is Tim Cook still there?
The problem is that unicorns live in the shade of VC money trees, not under the umbrella of government regulation. Nobody wants to eat that rotten lettuce.
Maybe his plan is to fill in the bay with all the dirt from his tunnels... wait 'till Lex Luthor hears about it though. It'll take Superman to break up a fight between the evil genius and the benevolent genius.
I honestly don't know much about Turkey, but as for the Germans: They've owned up to what happened and they've passed laws to make the truth easier to get at. They've searched the world over to locate war criminals from that time and ensure they are prosecuted. They've repatriated stolen art, personal belongings, and family fortunes to those it was stolen from. In short, a generation of Germans who weren't even alive when this atrocity happened, have stepped up to make amends and heal the world. So even if Turkey was innocent of the accusations, they would be no better than the Germans. And by the way, Hollywood has flogged Germany over and over again for what happened... so in all respects you are mistaken.
You've actually PROVEN apple's case here. If I can put a keylogger inline with your keyboard, or sniff your wireless logitec, then I don't need to *know* your password, I can just replay your keystrokes. It's just that in the case of a keyboard reversing to the password is trivial, where reversing to a useful finger is harder.
This is a re-post article... and the reason for it has already been made clear: If you can replace the fingerprint scanner, you can trick the phone into giving you access. This is why apple locks the hardware together. Not that I'm an Apple fanboi or anything, and I do think that people should have a choice, but perhaps that choice should be that apple will "unlock" all your hardware if you so request, and then you can put any hardware in there you like, knowing that you assume all risk. I imagine they'll never do that because it's just more work for them, and they have a reputation to protect even in the resale market. But if I'm apple and I face a decision on whether to lock hardware (so I can advertise as having a very secure device) or not (so I can advertise having a hackable device), I at least want my advertising strategy to align with my build strategy.
I came here to say exactly this! Nolan underestimates how many people have a far superior experience at home. I know not everybody does, but many people do. For my part I used to have a dedicated theater in my home with 177" diagonal projection screen, tiered reclining leather seats, and 7.1 surround (at the time it was the best you could get). I can have a far superior experience without all the trouble. Maybe in the end it would be cheaper to just go to the theater, but let's be honest here, I don't care WHERE my money goes for my experience... only Nolan does.
Exactly. The theater experience is about as much fun as going to the emergency room. Filthy theaters, sticky shit on the seats and floors, yammering undisciplined children, the over exuberant people on their smartphones, the texters. The price.
I think that's exactly the chaos that Nolan et. al. is relying on to prop up his latest film... it's like being in the film!
I would go even further and say that just because instagram has some feature (like stories or whatever) doesn't mean that all users utilize that feature... I can't stand them, and I wish there was a way to disable them in instagram altogether. It's just an annoyance and consumes screen space that could be used for something interesting. That, plus the "live" (also stolen) feature are designed to keep you perpetually engaged in the platform through FOMO, "maybe you won't see something if you go offline for a few days."
We should just put floats on our planes... and make all airports water landings.:) Then you can have the proper wind approach every time, and if you wad it up, the fire will always be quickly extinguished!
Managed by a tower.. that's the real problem here. I don't fly, but I've listened to a LOT of air traffic control and ground traffic control. Ground traffic is tough to manage, runway incursions are a huge risk, so how do you communicate to a pilot on *which* runway to land when there's only one, and the divisions or segments are ambiguous? How do you communicate to ground crew that they can or cannot cross the runway, and where? It seems that the ground logistics alone make this a perilous idea. If you've never heard it, search for ATC on YouTube and give it a listen, when there are crashes on the runway, there is a TON of radio traffic trying to keep people from making things worse.
I don't know how common this is in the rest of the country, but my local international airport has two runways, but both go north/south. Weather is almost always favorable for that profile, and when it's not, it doesn't matter because geographic features prevent any other landing profile. Is it really common in other parts of the US to need every possible landing direction?
While that's a great definition of how much money it's worth, that's not a fair assessment of how much it's actually worth. You can't plate electrical connectors or graven images with bitcoin.
How about discussing the best that could happen - and how to encourage it?
I've said it before and I'll risk repeating myself here: Artificial intelligence != artificial malice. AI isn't going to want to destroy humanity unless we program it to. Therefore job #1 is to keep these decisions out of the hands of the military. Problem solved.
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Spoken like a true millennial. Working hard and earning does not equal destroying our planet... art and entertainment are a few good examples. Something that this world will never not have need of, and probably one of the last jobs that robots will take over. Just 'cause it's an old idea doesn't make it wrong.
Only a small fraction of humanity has to work for everyone's needs to be met, given modern technology.
What is the reward for that small fraction of humanity doing the work? Why should some people be made to work for other's leisure? Sounds like slavery to me.
This is absolutely bullshit. First off, I didn't claim everyone is guaranteed a job... that is also socialism. I believe that far too many youth in this world are told they are supposed to have a boss, rather than being told they are their boss. If more people saw things this way, the whole thing would be better. From a certain point of view, there are infinite jobs available... yet people lack the imagination and drive to go out and get those jobs (make them exist). There is some quote that I'm too lazy to look up that says something about "never forget that you work for you."
But that's besides the point. It doesn't matter how many people have jobs... it matters how many people can afford healthcare. The failure of the healthcare system is a downward spiral. When a mother can't get her kid healthy, that kid can't learn and attend school, then we've got one more know-nothing person out there who can't contribute. Then that kid grows up and has more kids who are also unlikely to get educated. School is the only area where I think socialist ideals can work... because educating everyone is always a benefit to everyone.
But eventually voicing your opinion and being ignored, but also being a showpiece associate of the president eventually makes you a yes-man, regardless of the words coming out of your mouth.
I wish I had mod points for you! Well said.
I think I'm gonna have to throw my hat in with the assholes. I also think people don't have a right to healthcare. I think people should earn what they have, be it healthcare, money, or freedom. Earn it. Work hard to get it! However, I also think that the core issue is that healthcare is much too expensive. I think the way to close the gap is to make healthcare cheaper, rather than making people more able to pay for it (read socialism). Step 1 is tort reform. Fix that first! Next fix waste. Too many times doctors order tests and surgeries that are unnecessary. They do this because they don't want to get sued for malpractice (see step 1). Once these things are fixed, begin looking at the efficiency of operations at hospitals. There are DOZENS of ways hospitals could save patients money once those first two issues are fixed.
Sadly, this will take a LONG time time to bring any savings... hospitals' and doctors' insurers won't charge less for insurance once tort has been fixed. Doctors won't charge less once their insurance premiums drop. Hospitals won't charge less for procedures once doctors are charging less and their insurance is less. And all the while, the government won't change the medicare reimbursement rates for all of this just because the actual cost has gone down. Each one of these issues is it's own battle that must be fought in order to bring the cost down to where everyone can afford healthcare. But it's the only way to provide access while still making it fair. You have to understand that there are literally hundreds of people involved in almost any patient care event, and each one of them thinks they deserve to get paid as much as you think people deserve cheap healthcare.
The danger here is that his presence on a council could be interpreted as tacit approval of what is happening. I believe this is the reason Elon Musk left the council. He started out saying he was accepting a seat on the council because it was better to be involved and have influence than to let the president surround himself with yes-men and crooks. But at the end of the day I believe Elon saw that his presence there served only to legitimize Trump's actions, so he left. Why exactly is Tim Cook still there?
I wish I had mod points for this.
The problem is that unicorns live in the shade of VC money trees, not under the umbrella of government regulation. Nobody wants to eat that rotten lettuce.
You should pitch this to the MPAA... I'd pay money to see that!
... Pandora: Your one true source of legitimately paid for music.
Maybe his plan is to fill in the bay with all the dirt from his tunnels... wait 'till Lex Luthor hears about it though. It'll take Superman to break up a fight between the evil genius and the benevolent genius.
Pointing to other's wrongdoings does not justify one's own.
I honestly don't know much about Turkey, but as for the Germans: They've owned up to what happened and they've passed laws to make the truth easier to get at. They've searched the world over to locate war criminals from that time and ensure they are prosecuted. They've repatriated stolen art, personal belongings, and family fortunes to those it was stolen from. In short, a generation of Germans who weren't even alive when this atrocity happened, have stepped up to make amends and heal the world. So even if Turkey was innocent of the accusations, they would be no better than the Germans. And by the way, Hollywood has flogged Germany over and over again for what happened... so in all respects you are mistaken.
... when you say you "slept" with that hot girl from biology class, you actually mean you slept with her? And that's a status symbol?
You've actually PROVEN apple's case here. If I can put a keylogger inline with your keyboard, or sniff your wireless logitec, then I don't need to *know* your password, I can just replay your keystrokes. It's just that in the case of a keyboard reversing to the password is trivial, where reversing to a useful finger is harder.
This is a re-post article... and the reason for it has already been made clear: If you can replace the fingerprint scanner, you can trick the phone into giving you access. This is why apple locks the hardware together. Not that I'm an Apple fanboi or anything, and I do think that people should have a choice, but perhaps that choice should be that apple will "unlock" all your hardware if you so request, and then you can put any hardware in there you like, knowing that you assume all risk. I imagine they'll never do that because it's just more work for them, and they have a reputation to protect even in the resale market. But if I'm apple and I face a decision on whether to lock hardware (so I can advertise as having a very secure device) or not (so I can advertise having a hackable device), I at least want my advertising strategy to align with my build strategy.
But there you go, knowing is half the battle.
I came here to say exactly this! Nolan underestimates how many people have a far superior experience at home. I know not everybody does, but many people do. For my part I used to have a dedicated theater in my home with 177" diagonal projection screen, tiered reclining leather seats, and 7.1 surround (at the time it was the best you could get). I can have a far superior experience without all the trouble. Maybe in the end it would be cheaper to just go to the theater, but let's be honest here, I don't care WHERE my money goes for my experience... only Nolan does.
Exactly. The theater experience is about as much fun as going to the emergency room. Filthy theaters, sticky shit on the seats and floors, yammering undisciplined children, the over exuberant people on their smartphones, the texters. The price.
I think that's exactly the chaos that Nolan et. al. is relying on to prop up his latest film... it's like being in the film!
Naw... just give them a 1mg melatonin chewable... "hey kid, want some candy?"
that plus a dark theater and they'll be zonked out in about 5 minutes.
I would go even further and say that just because instagram has some feature (like stories or whatever) doesn't mean that all users utilize that feature... I can't stand them, and I wish there was a way to disable them in instagram altogether. It's just an annoyance and consumes screen space that could be used for something interesting. That, plus the "live" (also stolen) feature are designed to keep you perpetually engaged in the platform through FOMO, "maybe you won't see something if you go offline for a few days."
We should just put floats on our planes... and make all airports water landings. :) Then you can have the proper wind approach every time, and if you wad it up, the fire will always be quickly extinguished!
Managed by a tower.. that's the real problem here. I don't fly, but I've listened to a LOT of air traffic control and ground traffic control. Ground traffic is tough to manage, runway incursions are a huge risk, so how do you communicate to a pilot on *which* runway to land when there's only one, and the divisions or segments are ambiguous? How do you communicate to ground crew that they can or cannot cross the runway, and where? It seems that the ground logistics alone make this a perilous idea. If you've never heard it, search for ATC on YouTube and give it a listen, when there are crashes on the runway, there is a TON of radio traffic trying to keep people from making things worse.
I don't know how common this is in the rest of the country, but my local international airport has two runways, but both go north/south. Weather is almost always favorable for that profile, and when it's not, it doesn't matter because geographic features prevent any other landing profile. Is it really common in other parts of the US to need every possible landing direction?
With puns like that, I don't think you'll ever B. Goodenough.
While that's a great definition of how much money it's worth, that's not a fair assessment of how much it's actually worth. You can't plate electrical connectors or graven images with bitcoin.
How about discussing the best that could happen - and how to encourage it?
I've said it before and I'll risk repeating myself here: Artificial intelligence != artificial malice. AI isn't going to want to destroy humanity unless we program it to. Therefore job #1 is to keep these decisions out of the hands of the military. Problem solved.