Or if that's too much work, root your phone and remove everything suspicious. I have found from experience that there is very little that is truly required, despite the dire warnings. For example, I removed all three browsers that came with my Galaxy, and replaced them with Firefox. Guess what happened? Nothing. You can also replace the google seach engine with duckduckgo, and gmail with K9 mail. If rooting is too much work, then go ahead and buy an iPhone. Their products are designed for the non-technically adept.
You know the purpose of time zones is so that every area has solar noon at around noon on the clock (more or less). If you live in a northern latitude, you get more daylight in the summer, and less in the winter. Big deal. Most people I know get up around 5am, so yeah, if I lived in New York or Chicago, during a month per year the sun would rise before I did. Big f'ing deal. That's better than the semi-annual diruption.
Those of us who rise before sunrise (which is most people I know) understand that daylight is not saved. It is robbed from the morning daylight. Only an ignorant Congressman who has never seen a sunrise could possibly call it Daylight *Saving* Time. By the way, DST in the US is so long now that it practically coincides with the school year. If we went back to year-round standard time, any school district that wanted to could simply change their hours. Then nearly everyone could get the schedule that they want. Problem solved!
What exactly is RedHat losing? No doubt one-person operations create their AWS servers with Ubuntu because that's what they know. And there are a lot of them. But in the past 20 years, every business I have worked with who uses Linux servers uses RedHat or Centos, whether on-premises or cloud. By the way, I use Mint on my desktop and RedHat on my development server at home. What's the big deal? The main difference is the package manager, which took me about a day to get used to.
Just COE's two cents.
I logged in to say what markdavis said. The point of the article is that Dollar stores cause economic distress because they don't sell healthy food. Jesus Christ, do these people even know any poor people? Most of them don't like healthy food. If a store offered fresh produce, it would go stale on the shelves!
If the OS will start showing us advertisements, does this mean they will stop charging for this POS?
Not that I care; since 1999, I use Windows only at work.
We don't need space aliens to send us computer viruses or to disrupt society with dangerous information. We know that human aliens are doing it. Maybe tihis is a Russian plot to deflect attention.
The USA congratulates itself for having excellent workplace safety, child labor, and environmental laws. Meanwhile we export our jobs to countries that don't give a damn. This makes no sense. Maybe free trade should be contingent on following practices similar to ours. Just an idea.
No, NicknameUnavailable. Cryptocurrencies are not commodities. Commodities are physical goods or services that are largely fungible. Like wheat, copper, or oil. Cryptocurrencies are designed to be media of exchange. Their value is only in facilitating trade. (And not even very good at that, in my opinion.) They are not investment vehicles (despite what the US Treasury Dept says) and certainly not goods in the economic sense (ie, they have no instrinsic value).
The cost of a taxi probably cannot go below $1/mile (US). The average distance of a ride varies by city, but let's say 5 miles. So $5 is the cost that must be covered. How much would a customer have to spend at the mall to pay for that taxi ride? The profit margin at retail stores varies from 1.3% (pharmacy)-3.5% (high end department store). So the average customer would have to spend at least $200 per trip to make this business model pay. As others have pointed out, the wealthier customers will not use this service, so $200 seems wildly optimistic.
...can never exceed the revenue of the entire marketing industry. Because marketing is the entire reason that the data is valuable. The idea that we could fund UBI with it is ridiculous. Someone doesn't understand math.
This challenges the very business model of all social networking sites. Their revenue comes from targeted advertising. Are some types of targeting illegal then? Who decides which types? This could be a disaster for Zuckerberg.
Jellyfish have no brain; or even a central nervous system. They are essentially a colony of specialize cells and are certainly not sentient. So they are immortal only in the sense that the colony lives on. Big deal!
Most are just receiving different services on the cable. Streaming instead of traditional TV channels. Cord-cutting is going without a cable, fiber, DSL, or satellite connection altogether.
Let's not forget that Facebook is an advertising company. They don't produce any consumer product or service. Facebook apps serve the same function as Modern Family does for ABC: to get you to watch advertisements. The total spent on advertising world-wide in all media is around $400 billion (USD). Television is still the largest media, but internet (in all its forms) is catching up. (Radio, print, and others are much smaller.) Let's say that the total internet advertising world-wide is around $100-150 B. (I don't know the exact numbers.) This means that Facebook is already capturing 20-30% of the total world-wide market. How much bigger can they get?
When Altman says "What do we as the tech industry do to solve the problem that we're helping to create?," I think what he means is that Silicon Valley has contributed significantly to the large increase in income equality. (Most economists agree that it's the result of technology and trade.) Apart from the fact that it's unaffordable, there are many other fatal flaws in this scheme, which is mainly intended to let SV avoid paying for the problem they caused:
1. Expect a huge increase in illegal immigration. This alone would kill the program.
2. Expect demands that the basic income by increased to a "living income." $10,000 is not even close.
3. Expect an increase in alcoholism and drug addiction.
4. Expect a revolt from retirees. A middle class worker who contributes to SS for 35-40 years can currently expect $20-30,000/yr in benefits at retirement. Will that be reduced? If not, add that to the cost of UBI.
5. Removes motivation for a large segment of society.
The problem is not availability of economical textbooks. It's publishers paying off administrators. Our local community college uses nearly 100% Pearson textbooks. Many of them are custom printed in binders specifically for that school and are required. Supposedly they are custom designed for the requirements of that school. But there is nothing unique about them and in fact they are practically identical to other community college textbooks except for numbering and questions/problems. They cost around $200, and they change every year so students can't buy&sell or borrow. I would love to meet the the asshat responsible.
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What percentage of Starbucks salary could they take?
Or if that's too much work, root your phone and remove everything suspicious. I have found from experience that there is very little that is truly required, despite the dire warnings. For example, I removed all three browsers that came with my Galaxy, and replaced them with Firefox. Guess what happened? Nothing. You can also replace the google seach engine with duckduckgo, and gmail with K9 mail. If rooting is too much work, then go ahead and buy an iPhone. Their products are designed for the non-technically adept.
You know the purpose of time zones is so that every area has solar noon at around noon on the clock (more or less). If you live in a northern latitude, you get more daylight in the summer, and less in the winter. Big deal. Most people I know get up around 5am, so yeah, if I lived in New York or Chicago, during a month per year the sun would rise before I did. Big f'ing deal. That's better than the semi-annual diruption.
Those of us who rise before sunrise (which is most people I know) understand that daylight is not saved. It is robbed from the morning daylight. Only an ignorant Congressman who has never seen a sunrise could possibly call it Daylight *Saving* Time. By the way, DST in the US is so long now that it practically coincides with the school year. If we went back to year-round standard time, any school district that wanted to could simply change their hours. Then nearly everyone could get the schedule that they want. Problem solved!
What exactly is RedHat losing? No doubt one-person operations create their AWS servers with Ubuntu because that's what they know. And there are a lot of them. But in the past 20 years, every business I have worked with who uses Linux servers uses RedHat or Centos, whether on-premises or cloud. By the way, I use Mint on my desktop and RedHat on my development server at home. What's the big deal? The main difference is the package manager, which took me about a day to get used to. Just COE's two cents.
I logged in to say what markdavis said. The point of the article is that Dollar stores cause economic distress because they don't sell healthy food. Jesus Christ, do these people even know any poor people? Most of them don't like healthy food. If a store offered fresh produce, it would go stale on the shelves!
If the OS will start showing us advertisements, does this mean they will stop charging for this POS? Not that I care; since 1999, I use Windows only at work.
The performance hit is just the cost of doing business. Even the best programmers make mistakes, and the consequences are too great.
We don't need space aliens to send us computer viruses or to disrupt society with dangerous information. We know that human aliens are doing it. Maybe tihis is a Russian plot to deflect attention.
The USA congratulates itself for having excellent workplace safety, child labor, and environmental laws. Meanwhile we export our jobs to countries that don't give a damn. This makes no sense. Maybe free trade should be contingent on following practices similar to ours. Just an idea.
No, NicknameUnavailable. Cryptocurrencies are not commodities. Commodities are physical goods or services that are largely fungible. Like wheat, copper, or oil. Cryptocurrencies are designed to be media of exchange. Their value is only in facilitating trade. (And not even very good at that, in my opinion.) They are not investment vehicles (despite what the US Treasury Dept says) and certainly not goods in the economic sense (ie, they have no instrinsic value).
The cost of a taxi probably cannot go below $1/mile (US). The average distance of a ride varies by city, but let's say 5 miles. So $5 is the cost that must be covered. How much would a customer have to spend at the mall to pay for that taxi ride? The profit margin at retail stores varies from 1.3% (pharmacy)-3.5% (high end department store). So the average customer would have to spend at least $200 per trip to make this business model pay. As others have pointed out, the wealthier customers will not use this service, so $200 seems wildly optimistic.
...can never exceed the revenue of the entire marketing industry. Because marketing is the entire reason that the data is valuable. The idea that we could fund UBI with it is ridiculous. Someone doesn't understand math.
This challenges the very business model of all social networking sites. Their revenue comes from targeted advertising. Are some types of targeting illegal then? Who decides which types? This could be a disaster for Zuckerberg.
Jellyfish have no brain; or even a central nervous system. They are essentially a colony of specialize cells and are certainly not sentient. So they are immortal only in the sense that the colony lives on. Big deal!
Most are just receiving different services on the cable. Streaming instead of traditional TV channels. Cord-cutting is going without a cable, fiber, DSL, or satellite connection altogether.
http://www.metrolyrics.com/im-...
In every state I have lived in, internet-only service is either not available or costs $5 less than a TV-internet bundle.
Let's not forget that Facebook is an advertising company. They don't produce any consumer product or service. Facebook apps serve the same function as Modern Family does for ABC: to get you to watch advertisements. The total spent on advertising world-wide in all media is around $400 billion (USD). Television is still the largest media, but internet (in all its forms) is catching up. (Radio, print, and others are much smaller.) Let's say that the total internet advertising world-wide is around $100-150 B. (I don't know the exact numbers.) This means that Facebook is already capturing 20-30% of the total world-wide market. How much bigger can they get?
Any employer who really embraces telework soon realizes that the employees could just as easily be in Bangalore.
1. Expect a huge increase in illegal immigration. This alone would kill the program.
2. Expect demands that the basic income by increased to a "living income." $10,000 is not even close.
3. Expect an increase in alcoholism and drug addiction.
4. Expect a revolt from retirees. A middle class worker who contributes to SS for 35-40 years can currently expect $20-30,000/yr in benefits at retirement. Will that be reduced? If not, add that to the cost of UBI.
5. Removes motivation for a large segment of society.
6. I could go on all day.
stay the hell away from social media. Just a thought.
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Why would we expect humans to treat robots better than they treat immigrants who take their jobs?
The problem is not availability of economical textbooks. It's publishers paying off administrators. Our local community college uses nearly 100% Pearson textbooks. Many of them are custom printed in binders specifically for that school and are required. Supposedly they are custom designed for the requirements of that school. But there is nothing unique about them and in fact they are practically identical to other community college textbooks except for numbering and questions/problems. They cost around $200, and they change every year so students can't buy&sell or borrow. I would love to meet the the asshat responsible.