Flynn wasn't a member of his campaign, he was someone Trump brought in at the bequest of the globalist RINOs in Washington to get them to stop with the #nevertrump nonsense.
Reminder, no such ties have been shown to actually exist.
More than that, Clinton had proven ties with Russia during her campaign. More than that, we should be friends with the only other nuclear power capable of giving us a run for our money. More than that, the whole "Russian ties" nonsense is deepstate/MSM propaganda, glad to see Comey out.
That's not how Ivy League schools work. Their mission is to provide a venue for the children of the elite to socialize and form connections to ensure their success in life. Education is a secondary facet. Zuckerberg is evil, but he's not a moron, he clearly uses Facebook to cut off potential political rivals before they gain the power to become adversaries.
Unlikely, if they were invite-only they would have only invited people inline with their ideals. More likely is that Zuckerberg, being a liberal extremist, uses Facebook to get dirt on potentially influential people (as people who attend Harvard are likely to be) and ensure they don't succeed in life if he runs across anyone who has conflicting beliefs to his own.
Even ECC memory and multiple sensors aren't foolproof. Multiple (3+) redundant sensor failure is extremely rare, but considering it happens about 2-3 times a year at a small industrial electronics manufacturer I work with at times, who have about 20 fabrication machines running 24/7/365, I'd be willing to bet decent money that the total automated car crashes when scaled up to account for 7 billion+ people would easily top the current number of world-wide car crashes, at least over the first decade of the technology (though most will be written off like the GGGP suggested and blamed on the driver.)
The more serious aspect of this is that every single government on Earth shares a few critical commonalities:
Disdain for a sizeable chunk of their own population.
Control via backdoors into the technology allowed to operate within their borders.
Sociological constraints forbidding them from outright killing the segment of the population they dislike.
Take away the third one from the list above by giving them the capability to make 90% of the current total of car crash victims just disappear every year, selected as they see fit, and you will quickly see all the governments of the world turning into unstoppably oppressive totalitarian dictatorships.
7 trillion dollar industry divided by 1 million customers = 7 million per customer. Math totally checks out, this will save a ton compared to cars.
Oh wait, did they account for the massive riots when they put every moron who can't do more than drive a delivery truck out of business? This could translate to 7 quintilian dollars when you account for the need of the defense industry to more heavily arm the police to cope and start setting up concentration camps.
That is a ridiculously and uselessly tiny amount of reduction. We'd be better off keeping industrial output the same as it is now and redirect a portion of it to climate engineering efforts like spraying silver dust into Earth orbit. The Paris agreement is equivalent to reducing industrial output by about half for what is likely to be less than 1 degree C of a net result, IF every nation on the planet adheres to it, that's insanity. 1% of our single nation's industrial output redirected toward climate engineering could get into the tens of degrees C within a decade, easily.
The dynamics of KSP launch/orbits + a fractally generated universe + some new engine to travel between star systems + planetary management like Endless Space + space combat like Pulsar: Lost Colony would be great (Also, some nice weapons for those mech mods.)
the stupid fucking thing about trump leaving the treaty is that HE
DID NOT ACTUALLY NEED TO FUCKING BE DOING ANYTHING ABOUT IT
A) It got rid of the liberals and corrupt bastards using globalist propaganda to prop up their businesses to remove themselves from his advisory board.
and again Musk is peeved because the only way Tesla is going to enter decent profits would be if trump suddenly announced euro style emission taxes on cars - which would hike up prices of non hybrids and non electrics 50%. no joke.
B) Good. Hope the power hungry slave driver goes out of all his businesses. Nobody who works high intellect talent the way he does deserves a cent, the fact his entire car business hinged on overbearing government regulations makes him all the worse. Trying to start a cult of personality like Steve Jobs did really just adds to it, if he weren't already overworking engineers and trying to set himself up as dictator of a slave camp on Mars using "surplus" from excessive taxation to prop it all up.
TL;DR: Fuck Musk, he's a symptom of corruption. Covfefe.
The American ethos are for Americans. We live in a resource-constrained world and you have to draw the line somewhere. The rest of the world is not our friend.
Completely agree, I considered adding something along those lines to the original post but figured it would trigger someone like the other guy who responded. (Though someone always seems to go off when anyone mentions that people can be smarter than others without referencing the "idiotic masses" from a standpoint of limiting other people's right to vote or speak, wonder why.)
You haven't met many developers then. Not sure how you would even know anyone's IQ that you work with unless you work with the kind of morons that post their IQ scores on some spreadsheet. If you're estimating based on conversations, chances are you can't estimate anyone's IQ with an IQ higher than yours, (s) congrats you must be smart (/s).
I've worked with thousands directly, things like that are easy to steer a conversation toward to gain datums, no estimates considered.
You not only need to learn how our constitution and system of laws works, but you also need to understand what treason REALLY is.
If it worked it wouldn't be actively broken. The intent behind the constitution was good, the system of laws to enact that intent was not bulletproof. The underlying intent being perfect doesn't negate the ineffectiveness of not lynching traitors, or having a definition of "traitor" which doesn't allow for usurping a nation within the bounds of it's own guidelines. Lawyers nit-pick over inane concepts and interpretations to the letter of the law, they are not experts on anything but how to side-step the intent of the law.
If it changes internal US policies in ANY way it's the same as a law in practice. Nobody is perfect, not even the founding fathers, and that means the documents they put together shouldn't be regarded as airtight guidelines to secure the intention behind them. The fact the globalists found a loophole doesn't mean it's valid, it is illegal for going against the intent of the requirement of a 2/3rds vote for laws and frankly anyone trying to exploit such a loophole should be lynched for treason.
This. Only the dumbest people disregard statements over typos - that's why Reddit admins have a feature to apply typos to posts they dislike, it fits their demographic.
One thing I was surprised to see in the comments section on a very balanced local paper (which in my part of the world means fairly right of center, but not run by conspiracy theorists), somebody said he agreed with somebody else, not because she had a good point, but because "nobody can question your conservative credentials." I guess the poster in question was known to the other person to be a "conservative," so that was all the validation he needed of her post. What she said made good sense, and was quite beneficial to the conversation. Why somebody would think it needed vouching based on being by a "conservative" is beyond me.
All media exists to manipulate people, they just cater to their demographic. Consensus, or the perception thereof, is part of that. If you come away from reading a newspaper thinking "why was that necessary, fucking senseless bias on the part of x" it's because that was the desired intent for your portion of the demographic.
I'm fine with the idea of working less, but we should make sure that we're not moving into centrally-planned "you take the job I tell you to take or else you starve" territory. I like UBI because I feel it's the thing that gives people freedom to choose whether they want a job in order to afford more than UBI allows, choose what to do with their time, etc.
UBI would have to be coupled with population controls. Just look at how welfare goes: the least capable people reproduce the most, further exacerbating the issue for future generations. It might work to simply not subsidize families per child but I'd imagine at the least you would need to add a per-child tax.
How about instead of a 2-class system, we try option #4: Everyone work less. If everyone works less then the number of jobs available increases. If we have 10 million people but only have 5 million jobs, then it makes more sense to give everyone 20 hours a week instead of giving 5 million people 40 hours a week and 5 million people zero hours a week.
That's not how intellect-based professions work. People aren't smart enough to have enough to fill 4x as many 10-hour-a-week programming positions without overlap, and most of those are relatively simple. When you factor in other high-intelligence professions it gets even worse. Remember, the average IQ is 100. The lowest I've seen on even marginally competent developers is around 130, thus why you have option 1 in that list.
The issue is that there are only three practicable solutions based on our current sociopolitical and economic environments:
slaughter the masses who can't meet a bare minimum requirement of being programmers or data analysts
destroy the machines and the people pushing for them
institute universal income
The issue with the first two is that a large segment of the population dies, and we likely lose 20-100 years of productivity as a species while the wounds are being licked and rebellions quelled. The issue with the last option is it is a path to guaranteed class divisions which become set in stone at a generational level over time (if you have free wealth to sustain yourself now you an start a business, because there are businesses to be started, if you have free wealth to sustain yourself along with everyone else there is no such option because anything you can do everyone else can as well.) The current system sucks, but it at least affords some mobility (people born poor can work to middle class, people born middle class can work to wealthy, people born wealthy can work to elite, etc.) Under UBI you end up with everyone starting poor (wealth is by definition a measure of your ability to control labor, if everyone has the same amount it doesn't actually exist) except for a few people who control the industries/machines, who damn well will be plotting to take over other sectors because that's the type of people they are. Under UBI you have a moderate to long period of complacency followed by a guaranteed 2-class system with 1 guy and his family in the upper class.
Now, finally and at last - we can begin to set our standards as high as Syria and Nicaragua!
Nah, for that you'd have to go all-in on globalism like France and Germany. The people make the place and unless you importing Syrians you won't get Syria-like lifestyles.
Keep in mind that in the US they often use a definition of the word liberal that is very different from the rest of the world. I think it roughly translates as what is known as social democratic elsewhere.
No, the word Liberal in the US translates roughly to "extremist socialist authoritarianism," though "extremist" has been used so often lately it fails to account for just how zealous they are. Imagine an Islamic extremist with a brain powerful enough to ruin economies and collaborative enough to destroy nations instead of just blowing themselves up, that's an American Liberal.
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Flynn wasn't a member of his campaign, he was someone Trump brought in at the bequest of the globalist RINOs in Washington to get them to stop with the #nevertrump nonsense.
Reminder, no such ties have been shown to actually exist.
More than that, Clinton had proven ties with Russia during her campaign. More than that, we should be friends with the only other nuclear power capable of giving us a run for our money. More than that, the whole "Russian ties" nonsense is deepstate/MSM propaganda, glad to see Comey out.
The university's mission is to educate
That's not how Ivy League schools work. Their mission is to provide a venue for the children of the elite to socialize and form connections to ensure their success in life. Education is a secondary facet. Zuckerberg is evil, but he's not a moron, he clearly uses Facebook to cut off potential political rivals before they gain the power to become adversaries.
Other students ratted them out.
Unlikely, if they were invite-only they would have only invited people inline with their ideals. More likely is that Zuckerberg, being a liberal extremist, uses Facebook to get dirt on potentially influential people (as people who attend Harvard are likely to be) and ensure they don't succeed in life if he runs across anyone who has conflicting beliefs to his own.
Even ECC memory and multiple sensors aren't foolproof. Multiple (3+) redundant sensor failure is extremely rare, but considering it happens about 2-3 times a year at a small industrial electronics manufacturer I work with at times, who have about 20 fabrication machines running 24/7/365, I'd be willing to bet decent money that the total automated car crashes when scaled up to account for 7 billion+ people would easily top the current number of world-wide car crashes, at least over the first decade of the technology (though most will be written off like the GGGP suggested and blamed on the driver.)
The more serious aspect of this is that every single government on Earth shares a few critical commonalities:
Take away the third one from the list above by giving them the capability to make 90% of the current total of car crash victims just disappear every year, selected as they see fit, and you will quickly see all the governments of the world turning into unstoppably oppressive totalitarian dictatorships.
7 trillion dollar industry divided by 1 million customers = 7 million per customer. Math totally checks out, this will save a ton compared to cars.
Oh wait, did they account for the massive riots when they put every moron who can't do more than drive a delivery truck out of business? This could translate to 7 quintilian dollars when you account for the need of the defense industry to more heavily arm the police to cope and start setting up concentration camps.
Or shoot hookers on Eve.
Wait, people play Eve? I thought that was just where ambassadors go to die.
That is a ridiculously and uselessly tiny amount of reduction. We'd be better off keeping industrial output the same as it is now and redirect a portion of it to climate engineering efforts like spraying silver dust into Earth orbit. The Paris agreement is equivalent to reducing industrial output by about half for what is likely to be less than 1 degree C of a net result, IF every nation on the planet adheres to it, that's insanity. 1% of our single nation's industrial output redirected toward climate engineering could get into the tens of degrees C within a decade, easily.
Only a matter of time before we have cultured blood now.
The dynamics of KSP launch/orbits + a fractally generated universe + some new engine to travel between star systems + planetary management like Endless Space + space combat like Pulsar: Lost Colony would be great (Also, some nice weapons for those mech mods.)
the stupid fucking thing about trump leaving the treaty is that HE DID NOT ACTUALLY NEED TO FUCKING BE DOING ANYTHING ABOUT IT
A) It got rid of the liberals and corrupt bastards using globalist propaganda to prop up their businesses to remove themselves from his advisory board.
and again Musk is peeved because the only way Tesla is going to enter decent profits would be if trump suddenly announced euro style emission taxes on cars - which would hike up prices of non hybrids and non electrics 50%. no joke.
B) Good. Hope the power hungry slave driver goes out of all his businesses. Nobody who works high intellect talent the way he does deserves a cent, the fact his entire car business hinged on overbearing government regulations makes him all the worse. Trying to start a cult of personality like Steve Jobs did really just adds to it, if he weren't already overworking engineers and trying to set himself up as dictator of a slave camp on Mars using "surplus" from excessive taxation to prop it all up.
TL;DR: Fuck Musk, he's a symptom of corruption. Covfefe.
The American ethos are for Americans. We live in a resource-constrained world and you have to draw the line somewhere. The rest of the world is not our friend.
Completely agree, I considered adding something along those lines to the original post but figured it would trigger someone like the other guy who responded. (Though someone always seems to go off when anyone mentions that people can be smarter than others without referencing the "idiotic masses" from a standpoint of limiting other people's right to vote or speak, wonder why.)
You haven't met many developers then. Not sure how you would even know anyone's IQ that you work with unless you work with the kind of morons that post their IQ scores on some spreadsheet. If you're estimating based on conversations, chances are you can't estimate anyone's IQ with an IQ higher than yours, (s) congrats you must be smart (/s).
I've worked with thousands directly, things like that are easy to steer a conversation toward to gain datums, no estimates considered.
Let me just cite something completely unrelated to try to make corruption sound right.
Moron.
You not only need to learn how our constitution and system of laws works, but you also need to understand what treason REALLY is.
If it worked it wouldn't be actively broken. The intent behind the constitution was good, the system of laws to enact that intent was not bulletproof. The underlying intent being perfect doesn't negate the ineffectiveness of not lynching traitors, or having a definition of "traitor" which doesn't allow for usurping a nation within the bounds of it's own guidelines. Lawyers nit-pick over inane concepts and interpretations to the letter of the law, they are not experts on anything but how to side-step the intent of the law.
If it changes internal US policies in ANY way it's the same as a law in practice. Nobody is perfect, not even the founding fathers, and that means the documents they put together shouldn't be regarded as airtight guidelines to secure the intention behind them. The fact the globalists found a loophole doesn't mean it's valid, it is illegal for going against the intent of the requirement of a 2/3rds vote for laws and frankly anyone trying to exploit such a loophole should be lynched for treason.
This. Only the dumbest people disregard statements over typos - that's why Reddit admins have a feature to apply typos to posts they dislike, it fits their demographic.
One thing I was surprised to see in the comments section on a very balanced local paper (which in my part of the world means fairly right of center, but not run by conspiracy theorists), somebody said he agreed with somebody else, not because she had a good point, but because "nobody can question your conservative credentials." I guess the poster in question was known to the other person to be a "conservative," so that was all the validation he needed of her post. What she said made good sense, and was quite beneficial to the conversation. Why somebody would think it needed vouching based on being by a "conservative" is beyond me.
All media exists to manipulate people, they just cater to their demographic. Consensus, or the perception thereof, is part of that. If you come away from reading a newspaper thinking "why was that necessary, fucking senseless bias on the part of x" it's because that was the desired intent for your portion of the demographic.
I'm fine with the idea of working less, but we should make sure that we're not moving into centrally-planned "you take the job I tell you to take or else you starve" territory. I like UBI because I feel it's the thing that gives people freedom to choose whether they want a job in order to afford more than UBI allows, choose what to do with their time, etc.
UBI would have to be coupled with population controls. Just look at how welfare goes: the least capable people reproduce the most, further exacerbating the issue for future generations. It might work to simply not subsidize families per child but I'd imagine at the least you would need to add a per-child tax.
How about instead of a 2-class system, we try option #4: Everyone work less. If everyone works less then the number of jobs available increases. If we have 10 million people but only have 5 million jobs, then it makes more sense to give everyone 20 hours a week instead of giving 5 million people 40 hours a week and 5 million people zero hours a week.
That's not how intellect-based professions work. People aren't smart enough to have enough to fill 4x as many 10-hour-a-week programming positions without overlap, and most of those are relatively simple. When you factor in other high-intelligence professions it gets even worse. Remember, the average IQ is 100. The lowest I've seen on even marginally competent developers is around 130, thus why you have option 1 in that list.
The issue with the first two is that a large segment of the population dies, and we likely lose 20-100 years of productivity as a species while the wounds are being licked and rebellions quelled. The issue with the last option is it is a path to guaranteed class divisions which become set in stone at a generational level over time (if you have free wealth to sustain yourself now you an start a business, because there are businesses to be started, if you have free wealth to sustain yourself along with everyone else there is no such option because anything you can do everyone else can as well.) The current system sucks, but it at least affords some mobility (people born poor can work to middle class, people born middle class can work to wealthy, people born wealthy can work to elite, etc.) Under UBI you end up with everyone starting poor (wealth is by definition a measure of your ability to control labor, if everyone has the same amount it doesn't actually exist) except for a few people who control the industries/machines, who damn well will be plotting to take over other sectors because that's the type of people they are. Under UBI you have a moderate to long period of complacency followed by a guaranteed 2-class system with 1 guy and his family in the upper class.
Now, finally and at last - we can begin to set our standards as high as Syria and Nicaragua!
Nah, for that you'd have to go all-in on globalism like France and Germany. The people make the place and unless you importing Syrians you won't get Syria-like lifestyles.
I'd suggest you check out predictit.org, remember to invest your life savings into that bet, you don't deserve it anyway.
Keep in mind that in the US they often use a definition of the word liberal that is very different from the rest of the world. I think it roughly translates as what is known as social democratic elsewhere.
No, the word Liberal in the US translates roughly to "extremist socialist authoritarianism," though "extremist" has been used so often lately it fails to account for just how zealous they are. Imagine an Islamic extremist with a brain powerful enough to ruin economies and collaborative enough to destroy nations instead of just blowing themselves up, that's an American Liberal.