Capitalism aims to get profit by paying labor less than it is worth.
Yes but luckily Capitalism is also the labor being free to move about until they feel they are getting what they are worth.
That's the amazing beauty of the system, the balance - if companies pay too low, workers will not hire on or will quit.
On the other hand, if workers demand too much they will not find, or keep work until they have more realistic demands.
And all without anyone actually figuring out what the "right" pay is, a dynamically self-regulating system - the best kind of system possible, the kind that makes the universe go.
A great side benefit of this often not talked about, is now much urban noise pollution this reduces.
Buses travel some roads regularly that are are not often travelled past some time in the evening, so to eliminate bus engine noise will really improve the lives of those that live along bus routes.
The widespread switch to electric vehicles is going to be so much faster than anyone can possible imagine...
In a lot of places the tap water can taste funny even if perfectly safe - lots of people canâ(TM)t be bothered to filter their own. Bottled water is at least usually consistent in taste... so a lot of people buy it for various things (like travel or events).
I totally agree about the solar eclipse. If you've seen a 99% eclipse you have seen nothing compared to a total solar eclipse, I saw it from Nebraska... I'll be somewhere watching the 2024 eclipse as well, and was sorely tempted to see one coming sooner - but you'd have to to to South America to see it, a bit too far for me.
Thanks fr the binocular thought, I think I was just able to see it from within a city on a clear night, by staying outside a bit and acclimating... very fuzzy and indistinct though.
Even that star chart would have made it hard to find though, the Sky Guide app let me search for the comet specifically and lead me to where it was in the sky, also showing it next to a small but very distinctive grouping of stars (as you said the Pleiades) that made it pretty easy to see where it should be...
Apple went through a whole marketing song and dance about how great and necessary magsafe was and now admitted actually you don't need it
Are you kidding? Magsafe WAS the greatest, and a laptop owner DOES need it. USB-C is sadly more all-around functional, but there's not getting around it absolutely is inferior to MagSafe for charging... the only reason why it's tolerable is that modern laptop batteries last longer so you can go for. quite a while without attaching the trippin' cord.
I've not talked to one newer MacBook owner that does not miss it.
Looking up from the suburbs on a clear night tonight, I could not see it at all - the Sky Guide app was helpful in figuring out where it should be. Might try to go outside later and acclimate more to the dark for a while to try again.
Apple used to mock Intel CPUs before switching to them shortly after.
Yes I had those "Switch" ads in mind as well when I wrote my post. They were amusing at the time for sure, but they too were a self-own for Apple as Apple had to go down the Intel path as well... probably other aspects apply these days if you went back and watched them.
A little less direct a self-own, in that more time had passed before they applied - but still.
A wheelchair is a transformative mobility device, if you put young children in them instead of teaching them to walk
So I guess all of us that had bikes growing up are permanently crippled....
Oh wait.
Everyone learn to deal with real world things because they are so prevalent. But to ALSO teach them to use a device that can enhance their own abilities mightily, be it foot power or intellect... that is no less than enlarging the scope of what they can do over an entire life.
I can sort of understand leaving out Pew as punishment for gaffes (he''s not actually racist though, try not to spread lies m'kay?).
But there are a world of other very popular creators on YouTube, as as I said it had none of them. It was not a reflection of YouTube, or what people saw through the years. I don't even have a beef with sugar-coating it and presenting only nice moments... just don't make things up that do not reflect the YouTube people know and use through the year.
They would have been better off just having the crazy Russian dude make stuff that science every day guy could explain as it exploded.
Samsung has removed the jack from it's LATEST phone. You seriously do not think it likely the rest of the models will follow?
Do the mocking ads they produced apply to this phone or not? If they are making fun of no headphone jack, ANY phone that fits that description applies - including their own.
No matter how you look at it this is a self-own. And a great reason not to run mocking ads, for someday that could be yourself you are mocking.
It was meant to be a feel-good celebration of a year's worth of YouTube creativity
How can that be true when it doesn't feature most of the CREATORS that make YouTube so popular?
A parade of B-List celebs doing Fortnite dances is not a "celebration of creativity".
I don't really follow YouTube much at all, but this seemed like a big tone-deaf misstep on the part of YouTube that is trying to pretend like some people do not exist. Absurd. Celebrate what you are, all of it, or say nothing at all.
Sure you can put something besides the notches and and it is rounded corners, but it is not part of the screen, as you cannot use it for anything. Same for the bottom - apps are not supposed to use the lower part of the screen because there is a slider thing.
Apps can display content in those system areas if they really want to.
Try the simplest thing, try a full screen video, does it actually use your "full screen"?
Yes, just zoom in... oh you didn't know that?? Most people like seeing the full content so it has side letterboxing, but you can always choose to have it fill the display.
I'm not sure either but there's no question that Python has gained massive popularity - and not from Microsoft especially, but all over. Microsoft is simply following the trend here.
I honestly think a large part of the adoption is the tooling, specifically Jupyter notebooks that let you kind of run code mixed with documenting what you are doing, leaning on a wide range of libraries for various things, along with modules of your own code. Yes there are other things that kind of do that but it's done really well.
Also as I mentioned, wide scope framework support is a big reason why Python may be winning out over some other languages with more narrowly sets of abilities to hook into.
It's retarded science-ignorant alarmists like you who will destroy the world trying to "fix" it.
"we don't know who struck first, but we know it was us that scorched the sky". Yep, sounds like alarmist MO.
I am dead serious about you being the one who will literally destroy all life on Earth, if you have your way. Trying to screw with natural cycles is the height of idiocy.
I'll let you have the last response so you can keep peddling your hoary old load of fear, but know that every day the scales fall from more people's eyes, who truly embrace debate, logic and most importantly - SCIENCE over FEAR. I pity you living in the mental jail you have constructed for yourself...
you were told there would be less competition, increased prices, bad outcomes for rural communities and a general tightening of mega corporation's control of the Internet.
There is more competition (I just recently FINALLY got unlimited data hotspot service on T-Mobile via an MVNO). That's for a rural user so that's a twofer form your list there....
My prices have not increased at all.
The mega corporations control over the internet has increased. But what was Network Neutrality going to ever do about users being banned and deplatformed from social media?
It's the same folks who will argue, with a straight face and without irony or ill intent, that we can repeal regulations that were put in place to stop a problem because the problem no longer occurs...
Wrong. It's because the problem NEVER EXISTED. The few times any ISP's got out of hand the FCC slapped them down, under the same rules we all live under right now.
Also, the regulations were set to create way worse problems - but thankfully they were repealed so none of that came to pass.
The world is a complicated place. Bad things happen for complex reasons
So your argument appears to be, let's make it way the fuck more complicated for ISP's to operate, and sit back and watch the carnage. Brilliant.
For every sufficiently complex problem there is a solution that is simple, elegant and wrong.
I find it HIGHLY amusing how very perfectly this describes the supposedly simple, *30-page* network neutrality regulations you keep trying to force down everyones throat.
It sounds like you're saying we don't need to worry about our current CO2 outputs because technology will just come along that solves the problem effortlessly.
I find it amusing you think developing a fission reactor is "effortless"
Or developing much more efficient solar cells. Or any one of the countless other things that WILL improve over the next 20-30 years in ways you cannot image.
It's not that these things are effortless - it's that over the span of all progress, they are INEVITABLE. The massive switch to electric cars is inevitable because it makes so much more sense. The massive switch to solar power is the same; inevitable it will be cheaper.
Your problem is that you can only see what is, not what will be - so you seek to destroy the world to correct some wrong that was never going to be a problem to begin with if you hadn't meddled.
Your way of thinking is the way of despots and tyrants through history, that left hundreds of millions to suffer or die because you lacked vision and any faith in progress.
Since you've the highest rated post, I'll just drop the question here for all - since NN was dropped a year ago, what are the bad effects that have happened as a result?
I see absolutely none so far. So why did we need 30 pages of regulation that NO ONE here understood, at all.
I did, I just choose not to blindly believe everything someone tells me without careful consideration.
Look at the other posts (including my own followup) that points out many possible flaws in just considering "screen time" without thinking about other factors.
We will not really know the effects until ten years from now, assuming they are still running the study (which it sounds like they plan to).
Blinky trusting authority is no way to prosper friend.
You are totally right, that is a whole other variable - they are talking about a generic learning tool that could literally be showing them anything, so how well and what they learn is up to what is done with the device...
It's like, are they doing math or watching Spongebob 24x7?
Controlling screen time is way less important than controlling/monitoring content OF the screen. It is a tool, and like any tool could be used for good or ill...
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Capitalism aims to get profit by paying labor less than it is worth.
Yes but luckily Capitalism is also the labor being free to move about until they feel they are getting what they are worth.
That's the amazing beauty of the system, the balance - if companies pay too low, workers will not hire on or will quit.
On the other hand, if workers demand too much they will not find, or keep work until they have more realistic demands.
And all without anyone actually figuring out what the "right" pay is, a dynamically self-regulating system - the best kind of system possible, the kind that makes the universe go.
A great side benefit of this often not talked about, is now much urban noise pollution this reduces.
Buses travel some roads regularly that are are not often travelled past some time in the evening, so to eliminate bus engine noise will really improve the lives of those that live along bus routes.
The widespread switch to electric vehicles is going to be so much faster than anyone can possible imagine...
Apple obviously does not agree because they have gotten rid of it.
Wrong. They just find the value of an extra USB-C port MORE useful than MagSafe. Possibly they are correct.
But just because they moved to something else does not mean they didn't find the older standard useful. Please study logic.
You realize that even Apple's own laptops (prior to their current lineup) did indeed have more than one kind of port,
Sigh. Please learn to think. Again, value of extra USB-C port > MagSafe. Obviously.
Laptops with cheap flimsy power cords
If power cords were actually flimsy then MagSafe would not be needed.
Magsafe is to solve a problem you apparently did not realize existed - to stop tripping over cords pulling laptops down onto the floor.
So in fact your "sturdy" power cords are WORSE for that problem.
In a lot of places the tap water can taste funny even if perfectly safe - lots of people canâ(TM)t be bothered to filter their own. Bottled water is at least usually consistent in taste... so a lot of people buy it for various things (like travel or events).
I totally agree about the solar eclipse. If you've seen a 99% eclipse you have seen nothing compared to a total solar eclipse, I saw it from Nebraska... I'll be somewhere watching the 2024 eclipse as well, and was sorely tempted to see one coming sooner - but you'd have to to to South America to see it, a bit too far for me.
Thanks fr the binocular thought, I think I was just able to see it from within a city on a clear night, by staying outside a bit and acclimating... very fuzzy and indistinct though.
Even that star chart would have made it hard to find though, the Sky Guide app let me search for the comet specifically and lead me to where it was in the sky, also showing it next to a small but very distinctive grouping of stars (as you said the Pleiades) that made it pretty easy to see where it should be...
Apple went through a whole marketing song and dance about how great and necessary magsafe was and now admitted actually you don't need it
Are you kidding? Magsafe WAS the greatest, and a laptop owner DOES need it. USB-C is sadly more all-around functional, but there's not getting around it absolutely is inferior to MagSafe for charging... the only reason why it's tolerable is that modern laptop batteries last longer so you can go for. quite a while without attaching the trippin' cord.
I've not talked to one newer MacBook owner that does not miss it.
It's so great in fact that people are making MagSafe USB-C cables.
Looking up from the suburbs on a clear night tonight, I could not see it at all - the Sky Guide app was helpful in figuring out where it should be. Might try to go outside later and acclimate more to the dark for a while to try again.
Except that they didn't kill the headphone jack from Mac computers they, so you cannot yet say Apple "killed" headphone jacks.
Apple used to mock Intel CPUs before switching to them shortly after.
Yes I had those "Switch" ads in mind as well when I wrote my post. They were amusing at the time for sure, but they too were a self-own for Apple as Apple had to go down the Intel path as well... probably other aspects apply these days if you went back and watched them.
A little less direct a self-own, in that more time had passed before they applied - but still.
A wheelchair is a transformative mobility device, if you put young children in them instead of teaching them to walk
So I guess all of us that had bikes growing up are permanently crippled....
Oh wait.
Everyone learn to deal with real world things because they are so prevalent. But to ALSO teach them to use a device that can enhance their own abilities mightily, be it foot power or intellect... that is no less than enlarging the scope of what they can do over an entire life.
Lesson complete.
Logan Paul and PewDiePie made their choice
I can sort of understand leaving out Pew as punishment for gaffes (he''s not actually racist though, try not to spread lies m'kay?).
But there are a world of other very popular creators on YouTube, as as I said it had none of them. It was not a reflection of YouTube, or what people saw through the years. I don't even have a beef with sugar-coating it and presenting only nice moments... just don't make things up that do not reflect the YouTube people know and use through the year.
They would have been better off just having the crazy Russian dude make stuff that science every day guy could explain as it exploded.
Samsung has removed the jack from it's LATEST phone. You seriously do not think it likely the rest of the models will follow?
Do the mocking ads they produced apply to this phone or not? If they are making fun of no headphone jack, ANY phone that fits that description applies - including their own.
No matter how you look at it this is a self-own. And a great reason not to run mocking ads, for someday that could be yourself you are mocking.
It was meant to be a feel-good celebration of a year's worth of YouTube creativity
How can that be true when it doesn't feature most of the CREATORS that make YouTube so popular?
A parade of B-List celebs doing Fortnite dances is not a "celebration of creativity".
I don't really follow YouTube much at all, but this seemed like a big tone-deaf misstep on the part of YouTube that is trying to pretend like some people do not exist. Absurd. Celebrate what you are, all of it, or say nothing at all.
Sure you can put something besides the notches and and it is rounded corners, but it is not part of the screen, as you cannot use it for anything. Same for the bottom - apps are not supposed to use the lower part of the screen because there is a slider thing.
Apps can display content in those system areas if they really want to.
Try the simplest thing, try a full screen video, does it actually use your "full screen"?
Yes, just zoom in... oh you didn't know that?? Most people like seeing the full content so it has side letterboxing, but you can always choose to have it fill the display.
So all of the other phone makers with notches are guilty of the same crime? What about anyone that has any kind of bezel, no matter how small?
iPhone X allegedly only has two subpixels per pixel,
So all of the. other phone makers doing this same thing with screens are "guilty" as well?
If Apple is guilty of this, all other smartphone makers are just as, or more guilty than Apple. Will you call them out also?
I'm not sure either but there's no question that Python has gained massive popularity - and not from Microsoft especially, but all over. Microsoft is simply following the trend here.
I honestly think a large part of the adoption is the tooling, specifically Jupyter notebooks that let you kind of run code mixed with documenting what you are doing, leaning on a wide range of libraries for various things, along with modules of your own code. Yes there are other things that kind of do that but it's done really well.
Also as I mentioned, wide scope framework support is a big reason why Python may be winning out over some other languages with more narrowly sets of abilities to hook into.
It's retarded science-ignorant alarmists like you who will destroy the world trying to "fix" it.
"we don't know who struck first, but we know it was us that scorched the sky". Yep, sounds like alarmist MO.
I am dead serious about you being the one who will literally destroy all life on Earth, if you have your way. Trying to screw with natural cycles is the height of idiocy.
I'll let you have the last response so you can keep peddling your hoary old load of fear, but know that every day the scales fall from more people's eyes, who truly embrace debate, logic and most importantly - SCIENCE over FEAR. I pity you living in the mental jail you have constructed for yourself...
you were told there would be less competition, increased prices, bad outcomes for rural communities and a general tightening of mega corporation's control of the Internet.
There is more competition (I just recently FINALLY got unlimited data hotspot service on T-Mobile via an MVNO). That's for a rural user so that's a twofer form your list there....
My prices have not increased at all.
The mega corporations control over the internet has increased. But what was Network Neutrality going to ever do about users being banned and deplatformed from social media?
It's the same folks who will argue, with a straight face and without irony or ill intent, that we can repeal regulations that were put in place to stop a problem because the problem no longer occurs...
Wrong. It's because the problem NEVER EXISTED. The few times any ISP's got out of hand the FCC slapped them down, under the same rules we all live under right now.
Also, the regulations were set to create way worse problems - but thankfully they were repealed so none of that came to pass.
The world is a complicated place. Bad things happen for complex reasons
So your argument appears to be, let's make it way the fuck more complicated for ISP's to operate, and sit back and watch the carnage. Brilliant.
For every sufficiently complex problem there is a solution that is simple, elegant and wrong.
I find it HIGHLY amusing how very perfectly this describes the supposedly simple, *30-page* network neutrality regulations you keep trying to force down everyones throat.
It sounds like you're saying we don't need to worry about our current CO2 outputs because technology will just come along that solves the problem effortlessly.
I find it amusing you think developing a fission reactor is "effortless"
Or developing much more efficient solar cells. Or any one of the countless other things that WILL improve over the next 20-30 years in ways you cannot image.
It's not that these things are effortless - it's that over the span of all progress, they are INEVITABLE. The massive switch to electric cars is inevitable because it makes so much more sense. The massive switch to solar power is the same; inevitable it will be cheaper.
Your problem is that you can only see what is, not what will be - so you seek to destroy the world to correct some wrong that was never going to be a problem to begin with if you hadn't meddled.
Your way of thinking is the way of despots and tyrants through history, that left hundreds of millions to suffer or die because you lacked vision and any faith in progress.
Since you've the highest rated post, I'll just drop the question here for all - since NN was dropped a year ago, what are the bad effects that have happened as a result?
I see absolutely none so far. So why did we need 30 pages of regulation that NO ONE here understood, at all.
Thus, it is possible that early age-related alterations in this region
As I said, we don't know enough to say if this is bad.
He didn't even read the first paragraph
I did, I just choose not to blindly believe everything someone tells me without careful consideration.
Look at the other posts (including my own followup) that points out many possible flaws in just considering "screen time" without thinking about other factors.
We will not really know the effects until ten years from now, assuming they are still running the study (which it sounds like they plan to).
Blinky trusting authority is no way to prosper friend.
You are totally right, that is a whole other variable - they are talking about a generic learning tool that could literally be showing them anything, so how well and what they learn is up to what is done with the device...
It's like, are they doing math or watching Spongebob 24x7?
Controlling screen time is way less important than controlling/monitoring content OF the screen. It is a tool, and like any tool could be used for good or ill...