To all the people bitching about these hypothetical lazy people would you personally stop working if you had a guaranteed income? Will it kill you if a small percentage of the population takes advantage of it and doesn't work? Here's a clue most of the population doesn't work for an income already - the young, the retired, stay at home mothers, those unemployed, those in jail (in the USA those in jail make up a non-trivial part of the population). So of those people who are working how many of them will stop working? Of those who stop how many will try and improve their skills? And of those who aren't working how many will now start to work because they won't be penalized for earning money?
I can see arguing against UBI based on the cost but most of the arguments here are based on envy and pettiness.
Disclaimer: I have very good income already. UBI would be irrelevant to my income while the taxes for it would likely sting a bit.
A doctor makes 20x what a retail worker makes and is likely easier to automate. Retail workers aren't paid much and can stalk shelves, fix broken things and do a multitude of things. They won't all be replaced by online shopping, I still need my immediate gratification. Doctors though are very high paid and my family doctor only orders tests and prescribes things. Evidently in Canada she spends over half her time doing soul crushing paperwork. There is no reason a computer can't 1) listen to symptoms, 2) run tests, 3) examine the results (order more tests?), 4) decide on a coarse of action 5) check if the patient is getting better 6) evaluate its own diagnostic. Hell my family doctor doesn't do 5 and 6.
Is Watson just making a yes/no answer or is it actually understanding the reports and suggesting courses of action? Can Watson catch an X-Ray or other report that is total BS or one that is suspicious enough to have been created by a human error? Still this is definitely progress.
I want to see reviews by people who like the same types of movies as me. The critics on RT are not representative of that. Equally, should I review a movie that my girl friend took me to when obviously I'm not in the demographic group that the movie is aimed at? IMDB breaks votes down by age and sex but I would like something more along the lines of scientific literacy or maybe group me with other people who have liked the same movies as me the way Netflix does it.
IT is hard and how it works is invisible to those who don't understand it. BA might be screwed. Not only have they outsourced IT but it looks like they don't have the expertise anymore to even evaluate the quality of their IT or even prioritize and fund what their IT should be doing. So now not only is BA not good at IT they are doubly handicapped in that at least from their CEOs statements they can't even evaluate IT.
Canadians are by far the largest group of tourists to the USA. People in border cities or towns actually on the border make lots of day trips. The number of day trips will fluctuate greatly based on the exchange rate between the two countries. You would need an actual study that takes into account the exchange rate and excluded Canadians just shopping for the day to actually make any conclusions. The article is just sensationalism and click bait.
I want to use it like money. Money has 3 requirements for me.
1. Store of value
2. Medium of exchange
3. Unit of account
As long as it doesn't drastically lose value bit coin is a good store of value.
Where it is accepted it's transaction costs are very low compared to using banks or credit cards. It does differ from cash in that transactions do not occur instantly
Unit of account is where bitcoin currently fails to be a currency. Very few items are actually valued in Bitcoin. Most items are valued in US dollars and then the current bitcoin conversion is quoted. Even if I had an online business that sold everything in bitcoin I would still likely count the value of my inventory in US dollars, or Euros.
The block size and the number of coins mined per day both need to increase though so that transaction times and transaction costs decrease.
If you chance the terms of employment, whether written or implied, most places would require a company to offer a severance package. It could get even worse for IBM. In Canada an employee could go along with the change in employment and then quit later and sue the company for the severance. If this is a way of doing stealth layoffs it's the dumbest way of doing it possible.
Seba's prediction is that new car sales of gasoline cars will be zero in 8 years. The click bait seeking journalist said fossil fuel cars will vanish. If the last fossil fuel car is sold in 7 years and the average car has a half life of 10 years* then there will still be enough fossil fuel cars on the road 17 years from now for gas stations to still be viable.
*the 10 years is my best guess not for how long a car lasts but at what point it's average distance driven is halved. Only some cars fail to last 10 years and have a distance of zero but the rest see their use decreases.
The grid is designed to handle the peak load. In the southern USA this on a hot summer day in the mid afternoon. There is a second peak in most places when people return home from work and also some places in Europe and Quebec have peaks caused by people heating with electricity. With variable electric pricing the cars will not be charging at these times. With luck people will charge at night when the cost of electricity will be closer to 0.02/kwh. (Millions of people charging at night will push this up, maybe double it) The point is though the grid won't need any upgrade at all. Charging your car all night for your average daily commute the next day will be less of a draw than the day time peak.
No the professor didn't claim that all Fossil Fuel vehicles will vanish in 8 years, some moron journalist fucked it up and misinterpreted it and then the submitter exaggerated it. The professor is likely responsible for the intelligent parts of the story like all new car sales will be electric in 8 years. He likely has the numbers to back it up. Also the price of oil will collapse and it will strand the assets of oil extraction companies, but not in 8 years. It will take a bit longer since most cars last 9 years (at least here in Ontario, Canada where we have winter and salt that destroys cars). The journalist then probably added the "pay for disposal of cars" since he is to poor to own a car and doesn't know they are made of metal. The submitter pulled the title out of his ass.
No the professor didn't claim that, some moron journalist fucked it up and then the submitter exaggerated it. The professor is likely responsible for the intelligent parts of the story like all new car sales will be electric in 8 years. He likely has the numbers to back it up. Also the price of oil will collapse and it will strand the assets of oil extraction companies, but not in 8 years. It will take a bit longer since most cars last 9 years (Ontario, Canada where we have winter and salt that destroys cars). The journalist then probably added the "pay for disposal of cars since he is to poor to own a car and doesn't know they are made of metal". The submitter pulled the title out of his ass.
You aren't google's customer the advertiser is. If you use Bing the adds on the web pages you visit will still be provided by Google. Search, email, apps and everything else Google gives away for free are just the moat protecting the castle. Adwords is the 650B USD monster castle. It blocks out the sun light and starves anything that tries to grow in it's shadow.
You are not Google's Customer! The advertisers are. From the advertisers perspective Google is a monopolist. Excluding apps made by Facebook, adwords is the only place I can reasonably advertising on the general web. Yes there are other companies but the advertising industry favors one monopolist. If I create a website I will sign up with Google to get ads for my site because they are the biggest and it's just not worth my time using someone else. Since most websites only get ads from Google then advertisers only use Google.
Seriously, fuck you, to any site admin who contributes to this.
Real people can remember 2 or three passwords and that is all they will bother to remember. They will have maybe 2 long term secure passwords for things they personally value (and guess what, work isn't one of those things) and they will reuse the same password or variants of it on every single other system they use. No user will memorize a new password if they are expected to change it regularly. They will create the easiest password possible that meets the systems requirements. This is universal and everyone knows it. The previous company I worked for was a well trusted security company with a policy of passwords that had to change every 90 days, use an uppercase letter, lower case letter, number, symbol and had to be at least 8 characters. I did a survey. Over 2 thirds of engineers and 6 out of 6 in HR admitted their password was a common 6 letter English word, first letter capitalized, a symbol and a number that they incremented.
My Ex is a very competent programmer/manager and I know a number of very competent female programmers. Good female developers put in the same number of hours as men married men and maybe even more. Harassment from male engineers is almost non-existent with one exception.
Institutional stupidity and harassment towards women occasionally happens. There still are some senior managers that will promote a man over a woman and some companies are clueless when it comes to pregnancy or bathroom availability.
The biggest problem by far that I have seen is harassment by other women. And I've seen it at every single company I've worked at. Women will back stab each other and withhold key information. Secretaries are passive aggressive to female engineers, will refuse or be late with simple but critical tasks to other women, short change other women in petty ways like giving them the noisy office, saving $20 on a flight by choosing the flight with 2 extra stops,etc. If a woman gives the same instruction a man would give a woman in the exact same way the woman receiving the order will be resentful. Woman have to be friends and show they are a team or some bullshit like that and then make their orders requests. And women are expected to put up with this crap and not make a big thing about it. This last point is the exception. If the secretary was passive aggressive to a male engineer he could complain and at least get a sympathetic hearing of his complaint. If a woman complains then the problem is the women in the office not getting along.
Born before 1907? Seriously the bank should give every customer they have that reaches 110 $100,000 in cash and be done with it. Fixing the system will cost 50 times that.
There are likely many places in the system that only have 2 digits for the year of birth. There is likely no source code for all of them and even if there is the documentation and coding styles used make fixing this almost impossible. You can't just lengthen the field as the code expect things to be at specific offsets. (there is likely pointer arithmetic from hell going on) Instead the systems likely use a rolling epoc to handle this. Currently it is set to 07 - if year of birth is greater than 07 you are assumed to have been born between 1908 and 1999. If it is less than or equal to 7 you were born between 2000 and 2007.
There are too many systems in banks that aren't documented and no one bothered to keep the source code. There are databases that contain ascii, ebcdic and binary packed decimal. I replaced a program once that I thought I knew what it was doing only to discover that because it was looking at every customers data it was creating a file that had a 1 bit flag for every customer that met some unspecified criteria. 6 weeks later another department complained that they were getting the exact same report everyday. Lesson learned. If you don't have the source code don't mess with the programs and even if you do you would have to reverse engineer every possible thing the program did. COBOL will be around until the last bank fails.
I'm in Ottawa, Canada. Uber is almost exactly half the price of a Taxi, the Uber rides are more pleasant, and the cars are clean and well maintained. My suspicion is the Uber drivers are taking home more per hour than taxi drivers. They sure as heck aren't working 16 hour days like the taxi drivers who are working the first 8 hours just to pay the medallion rental.
Something doesn't seem right here. Everyone on slashdot and I suspect most of the Western World would agree that what someone's consensual sex life is their own private thing and has nothing to do with an open source project. I find it hard to believe that a person in Dries Buytaert position would publicly ask someone to leave a project in such a way. There has to be more to the story.
How are the studios in discussions about release dates and pricing and not in jail? This is blatant price fixing and supply limiting. I didn't see which third world country are these discussions taking place but it can't be any Western country.
Anti virus and sand boxing programs such as Invincia run as root. (any program that requires root to sand box a user space program is just a bad idea). The quality of programming and design that goes into some of these programs is appalling. It would be nice to educate employere not to click on every link and to be suspicious of certain emails but unfortunately most corporations find it too inconvenient to actually authenticate their corporate emails so a vigilant employee would miss any company wide notifications.
The CIA had to get me to install and register a malicious DLL. If they can get me to do that then they can do worse than this. It just seems like the DLL is a place for them to have hidden a malicious payload. They could have chosen a number of other places and likely will just switch now.
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To all the people bitching about these hypothetical lazy people would you personally stop working if you had a guaranteed income? Will it kill you if a small percentage of the population takes advantage of it and doesn't work? Here's a clue most of the population doesn't work for an income already - the young, the retired, stay at home mothers, those unemployed, those in jail (in the USA those in jail make up a non-trivial part of the population). So of those people who are working how many of them will stop working? Of those who stop how many will try and improve their skills? And of those who aren't working how many will now start to work because they won't be penalized for earning money?
I can see arguing against UBI based on the cost but most of the arguments here are based on envy and pettiness.
Disclaimer: I have very good income already. UBI would be irrelevant to my income while the taxes for it would likely sting a bit.
A doctor makes 20x what a retail worker makes and is likely easier to automate. Retail workers aren't paid much and can stalk shelves, fix broken things and do a multitude of things. They won't all be replaced by online shopping, I still need my immediate gratification. Doctors though are very high paid and my family doctor only orders tests and prescribes things. Evidently in Canada she spends over half her time doing soul crushing paperwork. There is no reason a computer can't 1) listen to symptoms, 2) run tests, 3) examine the results (order more tests?), 4) decide on a coarse of action 5) check if the patient is getting better 6) evaluate its own diagnostic. Hell my family doctor doesn't do 5 and 6.
Is Watson just making a yes/no answer or is it actually understanding the reports and suggesting courses of action? Can Watson catch an X-Ray or other report that is total BS or one that is suspicious enough to have been created by a human error? Still this is definitely progress.
I want to see reviews by people who like the same types of movies as me. The critics on RT are not representative of that. Equally, should I review a movie that my girl friend took me to when obviously I'm not in the demographic group that the movie is aimed at? IMDB breaks votes down by age and sex but I would like something more along the lines of scientific literacy or maybe group me with other people who have liked the same movies as me the way Netflix does it.
IT is hard and how it works is invisible to those who don't understand it. BA might be screwed. Not only have they outsourced IT but it looks like they don't have the expertise anymore to even evaluate the quality of their IT or even prioritize and fund what their IT should be doing. So now not only is BA not good at IT they are doubly handicapped in that at least from their CEOs statements they can't even evaluate IT.
Canadians are by far the largest group of tourists to the USA. People in border cities or towns actually on the border make lots of day trips. The number of day trips will fluctuate greatly based on the exchange rate between the two countries. You would need an actual study that takes into account the exchange rate and excluded Canadians just shopping for the day to actually make any conclusions. The article is just sensationalism and click bait.
I want to use it like money. Money has 3 requirements for me.
1. Store of value
2. Medium of exchange
3. Unit of account
As long as it doesn't drastically lose value bit coin is a good store of value.
Where it is accepted it's transaction costs are very low compared to using banks or credit cards. It does differ from cash in that transactions do not occur instantly
Unit of account is where bitcoin currently fails to be a currency. Very few items are actually valued in Bitcoin. Most items are valued in US dollars and then the current bitcoin conversion is quoted. Even if I had an online business that sold everything in bitcoin I would still likely count the value of my inventory in US dollars, or Euros.
The block size and the number of coins mined per day both need to increase though so that transaction times and transaction costs decrease.
If you chance the terms of employment, whether written or implied, most places would require a company to offer a severance package. It could get even worse for IBM. In Canada an employee could go along with the change in employment and then quit later and sue the company for the severance. If this is a way of doing stealth layoffs it's the dumbest way of doing it possible.
Seba's prediction is that new car sales of gasoline cars will be zero in 8 years. The click bait seeking journalist said fossil fuel cars will vanish. If the last fossil fuel car is sold in 7 years and the average car has a half life of 10 years* then there will still be enough fossil fuel cars on the road 17 years from now for gas stations to still be viable.
*the 10 years is my best guess not for how long a car lasts but at what point it's average distance driven is halved. Only some cars fail to last 10 years and have a distance of zero but the rest see their use decreases.
The grid is designed to handle the peak load. In the southern USA this on a hot summer day in the mid afternoon. There is a second peak in most places when people return home from work and also some places in Europe and Quebec have peaks caused by people heating with electricity. With variable electric pricing the cars will not be charging at these times. With luck people will charge at night when the cost of electricity will be closer to 0.02/kwh. (Millions of people charging at night will push this up, maybe double it) The point is though the grid won't need any upgrade at all. Charging your car all night for your average daily commute the next day will be less of a draw than the day time peak.
No the professor didn't claim that all Fossil Fuel vehicles will vanish in 8 years, some moron journalist fucked it up and misinterpreted it and then the submitter exaggerated it. The professor is likely responsible for the intelligent parts of the story like all new car sales will be electric in 8 years. He likely has the numbers to back it up. Also the price of oil will collapse and it will strand the assets of oil extraction companies, but not in 8 years. It will take a bit longer since most cars last 9 years (at least here in Ontario, Canada where we have winter and salt that destroys cars). The journalist then probably added the "pay for disposal of cars" since he is to poor to own a car and doesn't know they are made of metal. The submitter pulled the title out of his ass.
No the professor didn't claim that, some moron journalist fucked it up and then the submitter exaggerated it. The professor is likely responsible for the intelligent parts of the story like all new car sales will be electric in 8 years. He likely has the numbers to back it up. Also the price of oil will collapse and it will strand the assets of oil extraction companies, but not in 8 years. It will take a bit longer since most cars last 9 years (Ontario, Canada where we have winter and salt that destroys cars). The journalist then probably added the "pay for disposal of cars since he is to poor to own a car and doesn't know they are made of metal". The submitter pulled the title out of his ass.
You aren't google's customer the advertiser is. If you use Bing the adds on the web pages you visit will still be provided by Google. Search, email, apps and everything else Google gives away for free are just the moat protecting the castle. Adwords is the 650B USD monster castle. It blocks out the sun light and starves anything that tries to grow in it's shadow.
You are not Google's Customer! The advertisers are. From the advertisers perspective Google is a monopolist. Excluding apps made by Facebook, adwords is the only place I can reasonably advertising on the general web. Yes there are other companies but the advertising industry favors one monopolist. If I create a website I will sign up with Google to get ads for my site because they are the biggest and it's just not worth my time using someone else. Since most websites only get ads from Google then advertisers only use Google.
Most users are expected to know 22 paswords
Seriously, fuck you, to any site admin who contributes to this.
Real people can remember 2 or three passwords and that is all they will bother to remember. They will have maybe 2 long term secure passwords for things they personally value (and guess what, work isn't one of those things) and they will reuse the same password or variants of it on every single other system they use. No user will memorize a new password if they are expected to change it regularly. They will create the easiest password possible that meets the systems requirements.
This is universal and everyone knows it. The previous company I worked for was a well trusted security company with a policy of passwords that had to change every 90 days, use an uppercase letter, lower case letter, number, symbol and had to be at least 8 characters. I did a survey. Over 2 thirds of engineers and 6 out of 6 in HR admitted their password was a common 6 letter English word, first letter capitalized, a symbol and a number that they incremented.
My Ex is a very competent programmer/manager and I know a number of very competent female programmers. Good female developers put in the same number of hours as men married men and maybe even more. Harassment from male engineers is almost non-existent with one exception.
Institutional stupidity and harassment towards women occasionally happens. There still are some senior managers that will promote a man over a woman and some companies are clueless when it comes to pregnancy or bathroom availability.
The biggest problem by far that I have seen is harassment by other women. And I've seen it at every single company I've worked at. Women will back stab each other and withhold key information. Secretaries are passive aggressive to female engineers, will refuse or be late with simple but critical tasks to other women, short change other women in petty ways like giving them the noisy office, saving $20 on a flight by choosing the flight with 2 extra stops,etc. If a woman gives the same instruction a man would give a woman in the exact same way the woman receiving the order will be resentful. Woman have to be friends and show they are a team or some bullshit like that and then make their orders requests. And women are expected to put up with this crap and not make a big thing about it. This last point is the exception. If the secretary was passive aggressive to a male engineer he could complain and at least get a sympathetic hearing of his complaint. If a woman complains then the problem is the women in the office not getting along.
Born before 1907? Seriously the bank should give every customer they have that reaches 110 $100,000 in cash and be done with it. Fixing the system will cost 50 times that.
There are likely many places in the system that only have 2 digits for the year of birth. There is likely no source code for all of them and even if there is the documentation and coding styles used make fixing this almost impossible. You can't just lengthen the field as the code expect things to be at specific offsets. (there is likely pointer arithmetic from hell going on) Instead the systems likely use a rolling epoc to handle this. Currently it is set to 07 - if year of birth is greater than 07 you are assumed to have been born between 1908 and 1999. If it is less than or equal to 7 you were born between 2000 and 2007.
There are too many systems in banks that aren't documented and no one bothered to keep the source code. There are databases that contain ascii, ebcdic and binary packed decimal. I replaced a program once that I thought I knew what it was doing only to discover that because it was looking at every customers data it was creating a file that had a 1 bit flag for every customer that met some unspecified criteria. 6 weeks later another department complained that they were getting the exact same report everyday. Lesson learned. If you don't have the source code don't mess with the programs and even if you do you would have to reverse engineer every possible thing the program did. COBOL will be around until the last bank fails.
I'm in Ottawa, Canada. Uber is almost exactly half the price of a Taxi, the Uber rides are more pleasant, and the cars are clean and well maintained. My suspicion is the Uber drivers are taking home more per hour than taxi drivers. They sure as heck aren't working 16 hour days like the taxi drivers who are working the first 8 hours just to pay the medallion rental.
Something doesn't seem right here. Everyone on slashdot and I suspect most of the Western World would agree that what someone's consensual sex life is their own private thing and has nothing to do with an open source project. I find it hard to believe that a person in Dries Buytaert position would publicly ask someone to leave a project in such a way. There has to be more to the story.
How are the studios in discussions about release dates and pricing and not in jail? This is blatant price fixing and supply limiting. I didn't see which third world country are these discussions taking place but it can't be any Western country.
Anti virus and sand boxing programs such as Invincia run as root. (any program that requires root to sand box a user space program is just a bad idea). The quality of programming and design that goes into some of these programs is appalling. It would be nice to educate employere not to click on every link and to be suspicious of certain emails but unfortunately most corporations find it too inconvenient to actually authenticate their corporate emails so a vigilant employee would miss any company wide notifications.
http://web.archive.org/web/201...
This isn't a hack of notepad++
The CIA had to get me to install and register a malicious DLL. If they can get me to do that then they can do worse than this. It just seems like the DLL is a place for them to have hidden a malicious payload. They could have chosen a number of other places and likely will just switch now.