I'm calling BS on anybody who thinks automation will make human labor obsolete or will otherwise result in long-term job losses. Yes, frictional unemployment is a real thing, but every time it happens it always ends up being temporary.
That will certainly change once the intellectual ability relevant to business tasks contained in a machine matches that of the median human employee. It won't just be a race against simple mechanical contraptions and dumb state machines any longer.
Just because you have observed some trend in the past, it doesn't mean that trend will necessarily continue forever, especially when the fundamentals behind that trend are changing radically.
Don't forget that robots by themselves do nothing, you need to power them, provide them with the appropriate materials, maintain them, and market the output.
Most of those activities will eventually be automated as well.
Sorry, this branch of the thread was *specifically* about one system evangelized by the original poster: private toll roads in front of peoples' houses. The only person comingling and conflating is you, and it's still irrelevant.
I was originally mocking the private toll system described by the grandparent post's "private road" solution to alleged truck congestion; you can re-read it yourself:
a private road would likely charge more for a truck, internalizing the cost of infrastructure for delivery
Which implies that some corporation is setting toll rates based on profitability decisions. My point was: what could be more profitable than holding people for ransom on their own property?
You popping in to talk about other types of private and/or public systems that might exist is irrelevant.
Those differences are irrelevant. How are mandatory payments to a homeowners' association substantially different from government taxation? (Other than the fact that homeowners' associations are usually *more* oppressive than governments. At least most governments don't care if you have a couple of weeds in your flower bed, and most have some checks and balances.)
At any rate, the OP was proposing that the owner of the private road would charge delivery trucks extra for congestion. This implies micromanagement and detailed tolls, not just contracting out maintenance.
The free market competition amongst all of the different roads connecting directly to your driveway will ensure that you can always afford to leave your house.
No, it applies to almost any political system or within almost any private organization.
If it didn't, there would be some institution on this planet that consistently completes most of their ground-breaking development projects on the original schedules. I don't think that you'll find one.
It's not really a plan. It's the $19.99 60-minute, 90 day refill card. With a smartphone, the minutes "triple" to 180, and you also get 180 texts and 180mb data. If you sign up for auto-refill, you get a small discount off that (and it becomes kind of a plan).
If your wireless needs fit that profile, it works out to around $7/month. I've saved a boatload of money going down that route, although I have needed to supplement it with a few data-only refills, which has only tacked on a couple of bucks per month for me on average. It does kind of rule out using any audio or video while not in WiFi range, and you can't yammer on the phone endlessly, but for me that's an acceptable trade-off.
Over the time scale of the next century, only one input signal will dominate: the amount of added greenhouse gases. All of that other stuff either oscillates too fast or has an insignificant effect. Other signals that would have a big impact, such as changes in the earth's orbit that drive ice ages, or movement of mountain ranges due to continental drift, are too slow to have an impact over the next couple of centuries.
Relative to the greenhouse gas signal, the climate *was* very close to an equilibrium on a human timescale. It certainly isn't any longer; it's being strongly driven into ranges hotter than it's been for millions of years.
The final color of mixing two buckets of paint is the integrated effect of chaotic stirring (and all of the world's supercomputers probably couldn't predict the exact pattern of those swirls). However, the final color can easily be calculated with high precision using a hand calculator. Integration has smaller error bars than you think it does.
So ironically, transporting the oil and gas out of the region is putting oil and gas production in jeopardy.
That would seem to be yet another reason to transition this country away from fossil fuels altogether. That would address both the erosion issue and the fossil fuel dependence at the same time.
As far as seafood goes, there's going to be a coastline somewhere, no matter how far it moves into the current state of Louisiana. The seafood will still come from wherever that is.
The Astrocade game console only had a numeric input keypad. Coding programs was like texting on a feature phone, but without any text prediction, and especially without switch debouncing logic.
The cartridge itself did have a 1/8" jack so you could possibly save the fruits of your labor onto a cassette tape, with some luck.
The game console had almost no memory, so BASIC programs were stored in every other bit of the video frame buffer, and palette tricks were used to make the raw program data invisible on the display.
Most people are "electromagnetic chauvinists", because all of their senses depend on an electromagnetic field in some way. If a physical phenomenon doesn't create an electromagnetic field, many people refuse to believe that it could exist. However, nothing in physics says that everything in the universe has to be able to create an electromagnetic effect.
In fact, dark matter does slightly alter electromagnetic fields by bending it over cosmic distances (as well as moving normal matter around). This isn't too much less tangible than neutrinos, about which few people currently doubt.
People who don't realize what kind of computer they are buying might also not realize what OS is running even after they start using it. For those people, the Chromebook probably does what they need, and with fewer hassles.
So in order to save a few bucks, you think it's a good idea to first let a criminal make off with a copy of your house keys, then give him your credit card info, and finally go through the hassle of trying to stop payment to him. What could possibly go wrong?
> The size of allocated blocks are typically computed at runtime to match the needed length of the input data.
You don't know the length of the input until you have read it in. To read it in you need a buffer, that buffer will have a fixed length.
Even a 'character varying' field in a database will have some maximum length.
Are you really that dim? The allocated block size is by definition big enough for your data, because you know the data size when you allocate. If you need to expand it more, then you reallocate a bigger one. Neither of those properties holds for precompiled fixed-length buffers.
The lowliest database, sqlite, has a string size limit of 1e9 bytes. It's probably not going to be an issue unless one of your columns holds full-length videos.
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An ideal programming language would support powerful features like the following statement:
print("Does P == NP?", P == NP ? "Yes." : "No.")
I vote against Java as well. Can we vote that it gets deleted from existence? That's my vote.
Java can't be deleted. Instead, you have to try to break all strong references to it, then hope that it gets garbage collected.
And "family values" right-wingers supporting this vile, immoral, even cruder talking president is somehow not hypocritical?
Pot, kettle black.
"If you can make my simulation code run 10,000 faster, I'll give you Fifty Five Thousand dollars!"
I'm calling BS on anybody who thinks automation will make human labor obsolete or will otherwise result in long-term job losses. Yes, frictional unemployment is a real thing, but every time it happens it always ends up being temporary.
That will certainly change once the intellectual ability relevant to business tasks contained in a machine matches that of the median human employee. It won't just be a race against simple mechanical contraptions and dumb state machines any longer.
Just because you have observed some trend in the past, it doesn't mean that trend will necessarily continue forever, especially when the fundamentals behind that trend are changing radically.
Don't forget that robots by themselves do nothing, you need to power them, provide them with the appropriate materials, maintain them, and market the output.
Most of those activities will eventually be automated as well.
Apparently, you consider sitting around and letting robots do work for you to be "earning".
Sorry, this branch of the thread was *specifically* about one system evangelized by the original poster: private toll roads in front of peoples' houses. The only person comingling and conflating is you, and it's still irrelevant.
I was originally mocking the private toll system described by the grandparent post's "private road" solution to alleged truck congestion; you can re-read it yourself:
a private road would likely charge more for a truck, internalizing the cost of infrastructure for delivery
Which implies that some corporation is setting toll rates based on profitability decisions. My point was: what could be more profitable than holding people for ransom on their own property?
You popping in to talk about other types of private and/or public systems that might exist is irrelevant.
Those differences are irrelevant. How are mandatory payments to a homeowners' association substantially different from government taxation? (Other than the fact that homeowners' associations are usually *more* oppressive than governments. At least most governments don't care if you have a couple of weeds in your flower bed, and most have some checks and balances.)
At any rate, the OP was proposing that the owner of the private road would charge delivery trucks extra for congestion. This implies micromanagement and detailed tolls, not just contracting out maintenance.
Building and maintaining robots are two tasks that are good candidates for automation.
The free market competition amongst all of the different roads connecting directly to your driveway will ensure that you can always afford to leave your house.
No, it applies to almost any political system or within almost any private organization.
If it didn't, there would be some institution on this planet that consistently completes most of their ground-breaking development projects on the original schedules. I don't think that you'll find one.
If you want your project to get funded, the former.
Oh rly? Which plan is that? The Pinocchio plan?
It's not really a plan. It's the $19.99 60-minute, 90 day refill card. With a smartphone, the minutes "triple" to 180, and you also get 180 texts and 180mb data. If you sign up for auto-refill, you get a small discount off that (and it becomes kind of a plan).
If your wireless needs fit that profile, it works out to around $7/month. I've saved a boatload of money going down that route, although I have needed to supplement it with a few data-only refills, which has only tacked on a couple of bucks per month for me on average. It does kind of rule out using any audio or video while not in WiFi range, and you can't yammer on the phone endlessly, but for me that's an acceptable trade-off.
Over the time scale of the next century, only one input signal will dominate: the amount of added greenhouse gases. All of that other stuff either oscillates too fast or has an insignificant effect. Other signals that would have a big impact, such as changes in the earth's orbit that drive ice ages, or movement of mountain ranges due to continental drift, are too slow to have an impact over the next couple of centuries.
Relative to the greenhouse gas signal, the climate *was* very close to an equilibrium on a human timescale. It certainly isn't any longer; it's being strongly driven into ranges hotter than it's been for millions of years.
The final color of mixing two buckets of paint is the integrated effect of chaotic stirring (and all of the world's supercomputers probably couldn't predict the exact pattern of those swirls). However, the final color can easily be calculated with high precision using a hand calculator. Integration has smaller error bars than you think it does.
*Weather* is highly chaotic.
Climate isn't.
So ironically, transporting the oil and gas out of the region is putting oil and gas production in jeopardy.
That would seem to be yet another reason to transition this country away from fossil fuels altogether. That would address both the erosion issue and the fossil fuel dependence at the same time.
As far as seafood goes, there's going to be a coastline somewhere, no matter how far it moves into the current state of Louisiana. The seafood will still come from wherever that is.
The Astrocade game console only had a numeric input keypad. Coding programs was like texting on a feature phone, but without any text prediction, and especially without switch debouncing logic.
The cartridge itself did have a 1/8" jack so you could possibly save the fruits of your labor onto a cassette tape, with some luck.
The game console had almost no memory, so BASIC programs were stored in every other bit of the video frame buffer, and palette tricks were used to make the raw program data invisible on the display.
not that the images actually show us Dark Matter.
Most people are "electromagnetic chauvinists", because all of their senses depend on an electromagnetic field in some way. If a physical phenomenon doesn't create an electromagnetic field, many people refuse to believe that it could exist. However, nothing in physics says that everything in the universe has to be able to create an electromagnetic effect.
In fact, dark matter does slightly alter electromagnetic fields by bending it over cosmic distances (as well as moving normal matter around). This isn't too much less tangible than neutrinos, about which few people currently doubt.
People who don't realize what kind of computer they are buying might also not realize what OS is running even after they start using it. For those people, the Chromebook probably does what they need, and with fewer hassles.
Why exactly are we paying each $100K/year to 30 people
That is serious money. Almost enough to cover the security for Trump's next weekend jaunt to Florida.
So in order to save a few bucks, you think it's a good idea to first let a criminal make off with a copy of your house keys, then give him your credit card info, and finally go through the hassle of trying to stop payment to him. What could possibly go wrong?
> The size of allocated blocks are typically computed at runtime to match the needed length of the input data.
You don't know the length of the input until you have read it in. To read it in you need a buffer, that buffer will have a fixed length.
Even a 'character varying' field in a database will have some maximum length.
Are you really that dim? The allocated block size is by definition big enough for your data, because you know the data size when you allocate. If you need to expand it more, then you reallocate a bigger one. Neither of those properties holds for precompiled fixed-length buffers.
The lowliest database, sqlite, has a string size limit of 1e9 bytes. It's probably not going to be an issue unless one of your columns holds full-length videos.