Obviously, many companies on this planet are built for a market to service the needs of many of comparatively poor people. Its a classical tragedy of the commons problem: the individual company benefits from layoffs as it has to pay less to its workers. But when too many companies do layoffs, and workers can't find (well paid) jobs, each company suffers from less customers. However, note that there was a car economy before Ford, before "I want to build cars that my workers can afford". Cars were simply reserved for rich people. If the government doesn't intervene (I don't see any other entity with as much power here), we will revert to such a society.
Obviously, many companies that were only thinkable in this new economy will die. Many will adapt. Many rich people will stop staying rich, as their stocks will become worthless. But generally, it won't mean death for humanity, just the end of the period where human labour brought prosperity to the individual. Our current society is highly mobile, you can become billionaire even though you started with a small business somewhere. This will stop to be the case I think. With most of the work being done by computers, we will either transition to a pseudo-aristocratic society, where if you are born poor, you stay poor, and if you are born rich, you stay rich, or we will see more extreme models like singularity or, a more likely approximation, few human individuals having almost all of the power over the world through a computer (in one case, the computer is not controlled, in the other case the computer is controlled by a few humans).
Not yet. Trump will very likely be inaugurated (he's got the best protection and the best life insurance in the world), and for Clinton, I'm sure she is ready to run for president a third time in 4 years.
Zuckerberg has created one thing: Facebook Bezos has created two things: Amazon and Amazon cloud. Musk has created (or helped to create): Paypal, Tesla, Solarcity, SpaceX,...
Facebook is just a ruthless market leader who is at #1 due to network effects, but Musk is driving real innovation.
If you are a KDE user, you might want to try KDE connect. It uses TLS and therefore shouldn't have that particular vulnerability:https://albertvaka.wordpress.com/2016/08/26/kde-connect-1-0-is-here/
Maybe, but before that we engineer lifeforms that can eat up computer chips. Maybe we'll have to put computer chips into the fridge in the future, because they'd rot away otherwise...
Its quite remarkable that the same papers disregarded as a conspiracy theory before is now a story on the newspaper. I always thought this was an issue: https://politics.slashdot.org/...
Either way, lets hope that computerized ballots get abolished, and the voting system gets reformed, so that each state uses the system maine just agreed to use: https://ballotpedia.org/Maine_...
Or even better, abolish the electoral college and implement such a ranked system based on the popular vote, but that will probably be even harder to implement I guess.
Crying foul after winning is like playing a victim when you win. It just does not work.
I'm no republican supporter, in fact quite the contrary. Republicans are the graver of two evils. I'm just not a blind supporter of the democrats who thinks everything they do is great.
You are applying stereotypes here. Just because I'm critical of SJWs doesn't mean that I condone rape threats or similar bad behavior on forums. Still, these people usually do it because they want a counter reaction, and this is what you give them when you reply to them or express "disgust" about them. So don't feed the trolls! Sorry for breaking this rule by writing this reply.
I think that personalized news sites are orwellian and they create an echo chamber. You can't form an informed opinion if you only get news that already have your opinion.
Instead of banning these sites out of this reason like it should be done, they are removed because the filters are not conforming with what SJWs think is non-"offensive" articles.
Its so sad that reports about Clinton's corruption is classified as fake news by the SJWs who only care about "microagressions" and "pussy grabbing" instead of real crime.
Similarly the undercover footage that proved how the democrats have rigged elections (by abusing tolerant state laws and driving over voters with busses) and paid protesters since decades went almost unnoticed by the mainstream media (only Fox reported about it I think).
I don't agree with republicans about most of their issues, and clearly Clinton was the candidate I was rooting for, but in this election almost all of the mainstream media have supported clinton, and I still think that journalism critical about the democrats should be allowed.
In the last 1-2 years there has been increased progress in porting over games to linux, and in driver development for GPUs.
Its very good to have corporate backers like red hat or valve to work on mesa and similar projects. The future of linux gaming is certainly looking great.
Already now you can play a very wide range of proprietary and free (as in freedom) games on linux, and its getting more every day.
If you want the last bit of performance, or if your favourite game doesn't have a linux port nor works with wine, then you obviously should use Windows, but if you can make minor compromises on that front, linux for you.
People want their computers to be mobile, and this means they can't do much computation. Also its easier to make money when stuff is in the cloud, or so it seems at least.
Indeed we do, but consider that reencoding files in vorbis and opus makes them subject to generational loss, and you'll still need an mp3 decoder for that. Plus, you'll lose the ability to share it with other people, because they won't be able to play back the file, or wonder what the ".opus" file extension is.
Its sad, but if you show this headline to random non technical people, and explained to them that fedora was an OS like windows or mac os, they will think that fedora couldn't play back audio files before.
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Obviously, many companies on this planet are built for a market to service the needs of many of comparatively poor people. Its a classical tragedy of the commons problem: the individual company benefits from layoffs as it has to pay less to its workers. But when too many companies do layoffs, and workers can't find (well paid) jobs, each company suffers from less customers. However, note that there was a car economy before Ford, before "I want to build cars that my workers can afford". Cars were simply reserved for rich people. If the government doesn't intervene (I don't see any other entity with as much power here), we will revert to such a society.
Obviously, many companies that were only thinkable in this new economy will die. Many will adapt. Many rich people will stop staying rich, as their stocks will become worthless. But generally, it won't mean death for humanity, just the end of the period where human labour brought prosperity to the individual. Our current society is highly mobile, you can become billionaire even though you started with a small business somewhere. This will stop to be the case I think. With most of the work being done by computers, we will either transition to a pseudo-aristocratic society, where if you are born poor, you stay poor, and if you are born rich, you stay rich, or we will see more extreme models like singularity or, a more likely approximation, few human individuals having almost all of the power over the world through a computer (in one case, the computer is not controlled, in the other case the computer is controlled by a few humans).
We are all in a cave, strapped to a stone. Everything is an illusion.
Will the "free world" be next?
Not yet. Trump will very likely be inaugurated (he's got the best protection and the best life insurance in the world), and for Clinton, I'm sure she is ready to run for president a third time in 4 years.
Zuckerberg has created one thing: Facebook ...
Bezos has created two things: Amazon and Amazon cloud.
Musk has created (or helped to create): Paypal, Tesla, Solarcity, SpaceX,
Facebook is just a ruthless market leader who is at #1 due to network effects, but Musk is driving real innovation.
If you are a KDE user, you might want to try KDE connect. It uses TLS and therefore shouldn't have that particular vulnerability:https://albertvaka.wordpress.com/2016/08/26/kde-connect-1-0-is-here/
Journalists, be careful what you publish. Don't give donald ideas!
Maybe the common cold is used as a method 40% of the time to get a sick day, but that doesn't mean that its actually the cause.
Noam chomsky's take on us vs cuba: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
He's having quite extreme viewpoints in some cases, but nevertheless he is very smart and often it is interesting to see things in a different light.
Maybe, but before that we engineer lifeforms that can eat up computer chips. Maybe we'll have to put computer chips into the fridge in the future, because they'd rot away otherwise...
No it doesn't.
and electricity is cheaper to move around
Which is why coal plants are always close to the mine and not the actual users of the energy.
Its quite remarkable that the same papers disregarded as a conspiracy theory before is now a story on the newspaper. I always thought this was an issue: https://politics.slashdot.org/...
Either way, lets hope that computerized ballots get abolished, and the voting system gets reformed, so that each state uses the system maine just agreed to use: https://ballotpedia.org/Maine_...
Or even better, abolish the electoral college and implement such a ranked system based on the popular vote, but that will probably be even harder to implement I guess.
TRUMP 206
Yes, please build a time machine and make him a roman emperor. And send mike pence with him.
I'm just waiting for the first reports of people getting ads for baby clothing before they even know they are pregnant.
Trump supports everything that is BIG LEAUGE and puts AMERICA FIRST.
Crying foul after winning is like playing a victim when you win. It just does not work.
I'm no republican supporter, in fact quite the contrary. Republicans are the graver of two evils. I'm just not a blind supporter of the democrats who thinks everything they do is great.
You are applying stereotypes here. Just because I'm critical of SJWs doesn't mean that I condone rape threats or similar bad behavior on forums. Still, these people usually do it because they want a counter reaction, and this is what you give them when you reply to them or express "disgust" about them. So don't feed the trolls! Sorry for breaking this rule by writing this reply.
I think that personalized news sites are orwellian and they create an echo chamber. You can't form an informed opinion if you only get news that already have your opinion.
Instead of banning these sites out of this reason like it should be done, they are removed because the filters are not conforming with what SJWs think is non-"offensive" articles.
Its so sad that reports about Clinton's corruption is classified as fake news by the SJWs who only care about "microagressions" and "pussy grabbing" instead of real crime.
Similarly the undercover footage that proved how the democrats have rigged elections (by abusing tolerant state laws and driving over voters with busses) and paid protesters since decades went almost unnoticed by the mainstream media (only Fox reported about it I think).
I don't agree with republicans about most of their issues, and clearly Clinton was the candidate I was rooting for, but in this election almost all of the mainstream media have supported clinton, and I still think that journalism critical about the democrats should be allowed.
There are whole websites dedicated to games that run on linux: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/
In the last 1-2 years there has been increased progress in porting over games to linux, and in driver development for GPUs.
Its very good to have corporate backers like red hat or valve to work on mesa and similar projects. The future of linux gaming is certainly looking great.
Already now you can play a very wide range of proprietary and free (as in freedom) games on linux, and its getting more every day.
If you want the last bit of performance, or if your favourite game doesn't have a linux port nor works with wine, then you obviously should use Windows, but if you can make minor compromises on that front, linux for you.
People want their computers to be mobile, and this means they can't do much computation. Also its easier to make money when stuff is in the cloud, or so it seems at least.
Obligatory CGP grey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
There aren't even preimage attacks known for MD5.
SHA has the best rounds, believe me. bcrypt and scrypt are so slow, they are all computation and no results.
Indeed we do, but consider that reencoding files in vorbis and opus makes them subject to generational loss, and you'll still need an mp3 decoder for that. Plus, you'll lose the ability to share it with other people, because they won't be able to play back the file, or wonder what the ".opus" file extension is.
Its sad, but if you show this headline to random non technical people, and explained to them that fedora was an OS like windows or mac os, they will think that fedora couldn't play back audio files before.