" manned by professional drivers" Lol, no, it'll be ex-cab drivers and ex-delivery drivers who lost their jobs to self-driving vehicles. Cab drivers are bad enough when they're in the driving seat, god only knows how dangerous it'd be having one drive the car remotely.
cab driver = professional driver.
They get paid and make their living for driving. Professional does not equate to proficient
is 4.5g forces. That's the lower bound on how many g's it pulled in the test. if you accelerated that fact to 750 miles per hour that's 7 seconds. You would pass out unless you were in a g-suite, and maybe even then.
Where do you get that idea?
It is reasonable to say that some people might pass out, but the tolerance to g forces is highly individualistic. Also passing out is highly dependent on direction. Hence you can black out with downward g, or red out with upward g. being pushed into the seat is the most friendly of these, and at only 4.5 should be tolerated by most people, albeit not that comfortably.
due to financial commitments (like mortgages in places where house prices and rent are ludicrous) cannot afford to say goodbye to an employer and potentially need to tread water for a few months until something else comes along. due to family commitments may need to work in a particular suburb to be close to a particular hospital (condolences if that is anyone here) / school / retirement home /...
There is a certain multiplier effect by starting almost every line with an incorrect "losing" vs "loosing". Pretty sure the (normally dormant) grammar nazi inside me is about to have an aneurysm.
I was thinking about capitalism in a slightly saner system, one that has a number of parties with changing coalitions, stricter laws against corruption, a fairer justice system, stronger anti-cartel laws, a better electoral system,...
I've been there. It's the one with the unicorn on their flag.
The problem with all financial systems is that humans are selfish. Capitalism devolves into a winner take all via wealth transfer. Communism devolves into a winner take all via need of an absolute authority to oversee.
All complex systems will require someone in charge. That gives them power. Power corrupts. Greed will see to the rest of it.
why do you want to force the information into visual and auditory form where you still need to parse manually? Why not aim for "matrix style" direct upload resulting in instant expert understanding?
That pretty much fits the job title of "Omnipotent entity that caused and controls everything", aka God.
But at least the former title doesn't come overloaded with religious baggage. We could only hope the simulated entities could be more rational than us:)
most Christian fundamentalists are poor, very uneducated, and without the means (and in most cases, motivation) to cause any real harm.
Or they are
- rich (old money),
- educated (or at least mum and dad gave enough $ to get a bit of paper from prestigious school)
- well connected
- and perhaps get involved in state or federal politics and so have the means to cause a lot of real harm to the populace in the name of their religion.
The glorious leader Kim Jong-un has already established a very successful moon research base, and has single handedly colonised mars in his spare time. He announced it at Christmas and said it would be done by the end of the year.
Got to love the Chinese (or any communist) propaganda train
Yes, people will continue to invent, they will create new products and services, music, art, etc. But who is going to decide that instead of sitting home and watching TV, they're going to wait tables, or flip burgers, or enforce laws, or collect trash, or be a retail cashier?
Easy. Firstly as we progress even jobs like this will disappear.
Secondly basic income gives you a modest comfortable living. You can safely afford to live in a home, eat, be clothed, enjoy the occassional meal out, have a car that works, etc. so you are not poor but you are not wealthy either
So if you then wait tables, you get to afford a bigger house, flashier car, etc
So basically capitalism is still alive, it is just that there is a guaranteed floor underneath it so that people who currently get screwed by it cannot fall below it into poverty (this % will skyrocket as we get better at automation).
But of course, we live in an insane and unjust society where essential rights are allowed to be abrogated by contract law.
Using PayPal is an essential right?
You want to use their system, why shouldn't you agree to their terms? You aren't forced to use it. It's a convenience for you.
The biggest insanity of society today is the number of conveniences that people are now claiming as essential rights.
Right. So if your local movie chain (or insert any other commercial operation) puts some obscure rainy day clause in small writing on the movie ticket, you won't complain if you sit in the movie and they announce they aren't going to show the movie or give you a refund?
This is about the right to not be defrauded. It might not make the top 3 inalienable rights, but it sure as hell is enshrined into law in a dozen different ways. If you want to live in a capitalistic society, this is the one thing you need to ensure it doesn't completely collapse.
As always the "lose money each sale" thing comes up.
They are in no danger of losing money on each sale. The only question is HOW much of their profit margin can they safely put into investing in scaling up the factory to meet demand.
If they want to take the safe way out, they could stop investing now, take until 2028 to deliver on their orders, and still make heaps of money. But of course that is stupid, and they are much better served by scaling up.
TLDR - the only question is how much they will scale up, not whether they will make profit.
I think... in very strained English pub= advertiser
he is trying to say that he buys things from vendors that advertise on slashdot, and advertising pays for slashdot, so he has paid for it. But many people buy things from those vendors who don't frequent slashdot.
So he is kind of proving he is the exact thing he hates, as he is profiting from the other buyers who don't frequent slashdot, but whose same money went to that vendor to pay for advertising
Else if partial and indirect financial contributions count, then, I guess we all can claim we have paid for the entire economy since it is the same money that flows continuously from one party to another.
Either way both arguments say he cannot legitimately complain about others "profiting from others work"
Slashdot Mirror
" manned by professional drivers"
Lol, no, it'll be ex-cab drivers and ex-delivery drivers who lost their jobs to self-driving vehicles. Cab drivers are bad enough when they're in the driving seat, god only knows how dangerous it'd be having one drive the car remotely.
cab driver = professional driver.
They get paid and make their living for driving. Professional does not equate to proficient
2 opposing viewpoints both claiming facts, so ...
[citation needed]
is 4.5g forces. That's the lower bound on how many g's it pulled in the test. if you accelerated that fact to 750 miles per hour that's 7 seconds. You would pass out unless you were in a g-suite, and maybe even then.
Where do you get that idea?
It is reasonable to say that some people might pass out, but the tolerance to g forces is highly individualistic. Also passing out is highly dependent on direction. Hence you can black out with downward g, or red out with upward g. being pushed into the seat is the most friendly of these, and at only 4.5 should be tolerated by most people, albeit not that comfortably.
Nice world you live in, no messy shades of grey.
Some people might know their self worth, but
due to financial commitments (like mortgages in places where house prices and rent are ludicrous) cannot afford to say goodbye to an employer and potentially need to tread water for a few months until something else comes along. ...
due to family commitments may need to work in a particular suburb to be close to a particular hospital (condolences if that is anyone here) / school / retirement home /
or many other reasons.
There is a certain multiplier effect by starting almost every line with an incorrect "losing" vs "loosing". Pretty sure the (normally dormant) grammar nazi inside me is about to have an aneurysm.
Well done sir!
Simple, they tell everyday Americans to pay up or they will let the politicians go back to messing up the country
"Compsognathus was roughly the size of a turkey, but with a top speed of 64 km/h" (40 miles an hour for you backwards people)
Seems like speed to me. :)
PS Cue the "I'm a dinosaur you insensitive clod"
don't blame me, I voted for Kronos
Unless his already runs a nuclear power plant
I was thinking about capitalism in a slightly saner system, one that has a number of parties with changing coalitions, stricter laws against corruption, a fairer justice system, stronger anti-cartel laws, a better electoral system, ...
I've been there. It's the one with the unicorn on their flag.
The problem with all financial systems is that humans are selfish.
Capitalism devolves into a winner take all via wealth transfer.
Communism devolves into a winner take all via need of an absolute authority to oversee.
All complex systems will require someone in charge. That gives them power. Power corrupts. Greed will see to the rest of it.
How easily confused I am... from the government's actions I thought this was the USA... https://www.google.com/maps/@3...
Where I live, the cost of living is .99% of the national average, so it's roughly *THE* national average,
Umm... either use the decimal point or use the % sign. If that wasn't a mistake I want to move to your town with cost of living 1% of the average
Disclosure/disclaimer: I'm a Google engineer.
You're a Google employee.
How do you know he/she doesn't specialise in "engineering Googles"?
so companies would use clickbait AND astroturfing.
Vice for example has bled ~18% of it's traffic.
Does that include traffic lost from slashdot because of beta?
why do you want to force the information into visual and auditory form where you still need to parse manually? Why not aim for "matrix style" direct upload resulting in instant expert understanding?
That pretty much fits the job title of "Omnipotent entity that caused and controls everything", aka God.
But at least the former title doesn't come overloaded with religious baggage. We could only hope the simulated entities could be more rational than us :)
most Christian fundamentalists are poor, very uneducated, and without the means (and in most cases, motivation) to cause any real harm.
Or they are
- rich (old money),
- educated (or at least mum and dad gave enough $ to get a bit of paper from prestigious school)
- well connected
- and perhaps get involved in state or federal politics and so have the means to cause a lot of real harm to the populace in the name of their religion.
The glorious leader Kim Jong-un has already established a very successful moon research base, and has single handedly colonised mars in his spare time. He announced it at Christmas and said it would be done by the end of the year.
Got to love the Chinese (or any communist) propaganda train
Yes, people will continue to invent, they will create new products and services, music, art, etc. But who is going to decide that instead of sitting home and watching TV, they're going to wait tables, or flip burgers, or enforce laws, or collect trash, or be a retail cashier?
Easy. Firstly as we progress even jobs like this will disappear.
Secondly basic income gives you a modest comfortable living. You can safely afford to live in a home, eat, be clothed, enjoy the occassional meal out, have a car that works, etc. so you are not poor but you are not wealthy either
So if you then wait tables, you get to afford a bigger house, flashier car, etc
So basically capitalism is still alive, it is just that there is a guaranteed floor underneath it so that people who currently get screwed by it cannot fall below it into poverty (this % will skyrocket as we get better at automation).
ie this is just welfare done right
Ford spends 10 million a year in toilet paper.
That's because their company produces nothing but crap :)
But of course, we live in an insane and unjust society where essential rights are allowed to be abrogated by contract law.
Using PayPal is an essential right?
You want to use their system, why shouldn't you agree to their terms? You aren't forced to use it. It's a convenience for you.
The biggest insanity of society today is the number of conveniences that people are now claiming as essential rights.
Right. So if your local movie chain (or insert any other commercial operation) puts some obscure rainy day clause in small writing on the movie ticket, you won't complain if you sit in the movie and they announce they aren't going to show the movie or give you a refund?
This is about the right to not be defrauded. It might not make the top 3 inalienable rights, but it sure as hell is enshrined into law in a dozen different ways. If you want to live in a capitalistic society, this is the one thing you need to ensure it doesn't completely collapse.
Sure... they might not be hooked up to anything, but I'm sure Tesla can bolt a carby onto the chassis somewhere
sigh...
As always the "lose money each sale" thing comes up.
They are in no danger of losing money on each sale. The only question is HOW much of their profit margin can they safely put into investing in scaling up the factory to meet demand.
If they want to take the safe way out, they could stop investing now, take until 2028 to deliver on their orders, and still make heaps of money. But of course that is stupid, and they are much better served by scaling up.
TLDR - the only question is how much they will scale up, not whether they will make profit.
I think... in very strained English pub= advertiser
he is trying to say that he buys things from vendors that advertise on slashdot, and advertising pays for slashdot, so he has paid for it. But many people buy things from those vendors who don't frequent slashdot.
So he is kind of proving he is the exact thing he hates, as he is profiting from the other buyers who don't frequent slashdot, but whose same money went to that vendor to pay for advertising
Else if partial and indirect financial contributions count, then, I guess we all can claim we have paid for the entire economy since it is the same money that flows continuously from one party to another.
Either way both arguments say he cannot legitimately complain about others "profiting from others work"