First and foremost, work is defined by what we want to do, not what we need to have done. We met our "needs" thousands of years ago.
"Need" is a somewhat fluid concept, and people now consider things that didn't exist a hundred or so years ago as basic necessities.
Still, there seems to be a diminishing return in the expansion of the concept of need. I've heard an interesting argument that the development of the advertising industry about a hundred years ago was a sign of a turning point, that real needs were pretty much covered and new "needs" had to be manufactured.
I think the highly predatory nature of modern advertising is telling us something about where we are now with actual needs.
*Everyone* who has extrapolated trends in automation and artificial intelligence has been making exactly the same prediction for a very long time.
The rest of us have already started thinking about when this will happen and how as a society we will cope with the new situation, which are difficult questions. We're way past the statement of the obvious.
I really do think the implication that men are simply being petty about something that is less than wholly inclusive of men (on average) is far too simplistic, but there *are* a lot of men who are jerks.
All of these possibilities should be examined seriously and objectively.
I support free speech so I'm not going to object to you insulting them, but putting Hillary and Bernie in the same camp is just plain vicious to *each* side.
The analogies seem like they're pretty bad analogies
I don't know why they couldn't explain a programming interface by analogy to a user interface, and I'm guessing everyone knows what a user interface is.
A university degree is a credential; credentials can be revoked by the issuing institution. Most credentials can be taken away merely for not paying renewal fees.
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Maybe you should try your hand at foraging, hunting, or non-mechanized agriculture if you don't think those are really jobs.
First and foremost, work is defined by what we want to do, not what we need to have done. We met our "needs" thousands of years ago.
"Need" is a somewhat fluid concept, and people now consider things that didn't exist a hundred or so years ago as basic necessities.
Still, there seems to be a diminishing return in the expansion of the concept of need. I've heard an interesting argument that the development of the advertising industry about a hundred years ago was a sign of a turning point, that real needs were pretty much covered and new "needs" had to be manufactured.
I think the highly predatory nature of modern advertising is telling us something about where we are now with actual needs.
*Everyone* who has extrapolated trends in automation and artificial intelligence has been making exactly the same prediction for a very long time.
The rest of us have already started thinking about when this will happen and how as a society we will cope with the new situation, which are difficult questions. We're way past the statement of the obvious.
This is a cool technology and it's serving a practical need.
But as soon as someone says "Real-Life RoboCop" and then backpedals to a kind of surveillance drone, none of the rest of it has any credibility.
They misspelled "stalker".
My thought is is that getting the victim unstuck will be the first thing the paramedics want to do.
How did it take so long for this *bug* to get fixed?
If you think Java is bad now, look at all the Java stuff that been deprecated.
It's been slow, but it has been getting better.
It will then Speak: "Turn that frown upside down meatbag".
Followed by "You have twenty seconds to comply."
I really do think the implication that men are simply being petty about something that is less than wholly inclusive of men (on average) is far too simplistic, but there *are* a lot of men who are jerks.
All of these possibilities should be examined seriously and objectively.
The differences are real and measurable but:
there are measurable differences between races and sexes.
So.... we're all in agreement then?
OMG! They aren't even human to begin with! It all makes sense now!
stump for Hillary or Bernie
I support free speech so I'm not going to object to you insulting them, but putting Hillary and Bernie in the same camp is just plain vicious to *each* side.
The differences are real and measurable but:
1) they are very slight, and
2) there have been a lot of negative things associated with people exaggerating the significance of race.
so the cost/benefit analysis tells us that just ignoring it altogether is a good idea.
All I got out of it was a function of independent random variables, and that level of math was in my very first stats course.
I'll give them the benefit of the doubt and assume I missed something.
"football pitch" is foreign for "soccer field."
You have that backwards.
I'm not sure you can have one without the other.
"The computer doesn't belong to you. It belongs to the company. And I have full authority to fix your computer."
Refresh my memory, which of those statements is factually incorrect?
The analogies seem like they're pretty bad analogies
I don't know why they couldn't explain a programming interface by analogy to a user interface, and I'm guessing everyone knows what a user interface is.
A university degree is a credential; credentials can be revoked by the issuing institution. Most credentials can be taken away merely for not paying renewal fees.
maximize the power of the dimmest bulbs
It would all depend on whether the power output of the bulbs was a limitation of the bulb wattage or an issue of amperage.
A better solution would be to give the parents polio, and then see if they can make a better-informed opinion about vaccination.
If people understood the risk of skydiving, for example, and lived their lives "scientifically", nobody would ever skydive.
Skydiving does not lead to public health emergencies.
a programmable Dash Button which can be assigned to any product or purpose
Also known as a 'button'.
What is the purpose of collecting that data
What's the purpose of any self-destructive addiction/fetish?
It's a large quantity of data which likely would be inadmissible in court and the sheer quantity of it will impede actual police work.