Whatever you call it, if most of the work is done by robots then we will need some form of UBI. And then Marx' old question comes into play: who owns the means of production? Because they will be the ones who determine what that UBI looks like: an income that affords you a decent lifestyle, or basic pittance.
Some people might want to allow regular ads to help pay for sites they visit, but specifically block mining ads to prevent them from draining the laptop battery.
I allowed ads for a long time for that reason, but now most of them are blocked because I got sick of the bouncing crap, auto-playing videos and ads with mouse-over actions. As far as I'm concerned, advertisers crapped the bed they sleep in.
An enjoyable and a decidedly refreshing fantasy / action movie after the DC / Marvel shitstorm of the past few years. What really surprised me was the somewhat laid back performance of Will Smith. He treated most of the later movies he appear in as advertising vehicles for his own ego, which prominently showed in his acting. Not in this movie.
They took the idea of running a society by social media scores from Black Mirror, but little else. In Black Mirror, your score was taken into account by other people and companies to a silly degree but it ended there. In the Orville episode, everything including government did this; your score determined the outcome of your court cases for example. The plots are rather different as well.
I like the Orville. Feels like old school Trek with a bit of weird humor thrown in. Part of that old school feeling comes from having planet's like the 80s where people speak English: that's precisely what a lot of old SF did, asking you to suspend disbelief on that part and focus on the rest of the story, which can be told succinctly because they don;t have to deal with a language barrier as well. Modern SF is having entire books and movies about that language barrier (which is fine by the way).
I recall reading that it took a huge fleet of ships bringing in produce to feed Trantor, and that a fleet of ships removed the human waste off-world. And a rumour that both fleets were one and the same...
Exactly: poor design. A simple countermeasure against that sort of thing is to have redundant sensors. Redundancy also helps against these attacks: it'll be that much harder to physically attack multiple sensors at the same time, especially in a way that affects all of them equally.
I'm surprised this hasn't even been properly tackled on Windows desktops, which are often shared and/or left unlocked. Plenty of cases where you'd want to encrypt parts of the file system (not entire drives) and protect them with a password. Googling found me plenty of people asking for something similar yet no actual solutions.
In common parlance, some people equate 'Asia' not with the continent, but with the Far East. That places Syria, Lebanon and Israël in the Middle East rather than in 'Asia'. What constitutes this made up region seems to vary per country too; I've heard people from India and Pakistan being referred to as 'Asians' by British people, whereas in the Netherlands we'd never use that term. Here, it's 'Indians' or even 'Hindoestani' though technically the latter refers to Surinam people of Indian descent.
Exactly. Management (running the company) and strategy are two very different tasks requiring different personality traits, and people who are good at both are very, very rare. I've often thought that the lower echelons might benefit from such a division of labor as well. But of course that would take a lot of the mystique out of being a manager.
They do realize that a lot of that so called intellectual property doesn't really exist? That it was largely made up to create tax dodges in the first place? Billions for use of the name Starbucks, insane fees paid by Google Inc for the use of patents held by Google Ltd or Google BV. That sort of thing.
This change is good for the US in the sense that it may bring back some taxes now collected by other tax havens. But it's bad (or rather: shortshighted) in the sense that it allows these tax dodges to continue right in the US. Large corporations can afford to use them, small business still end up paying the full rate. The good news is that this rate is dropped from 35% to 22% at least, which is decent.
Science doesn't work based on "hunches". You make models and you test them, then submit your results for peer review. Like they did.
I never claimed it did. My question was if their models covered the mechanics of the sharp rise in temperature, or only the effects on the ecosystem. That wasn't clear from the article, and the paper's abstract suggests that they only studied the effects, basing the mechanics on other research (which I can't access).
Perhaps it has more to do with the still rising CO2 levels over the period of aerosol release that would cause the sudden massive heat buildup.
Maybe you're on to something there: if global temperatures are the result of an equilibrium mostly governed by CO2 levels, and CO2 continues to build up, then I suppose a rapid rise to that equilibrium is plausible, after we remove the external attenuating factor. Even if we don't go back to our bad old ways. But I've no idea if that's how it actually works, and would love to see some research in that area.
Frauenhofer Society (research in many fields... chances are you're using one of their codecs). Spotify? Skype? SAP? Waze and TomTom? And there are countless smaller firms. Which in a lot of cases are absorbed by American ones.
America's advantage isn't its R&D or climate for innovation, but its market. The US market offers opportunity and a large enough volume to allow startups instant access to an enormous market that helps them grow quickly into companies valued in the billions, and ready to take on the world. Europe may have a single market, which helps, but it isn't a homogeneous one by any means. Even companies offering digital services find it hard and expensive to establish themselves in markets other than their home country, and they often take a good while to expand beyond the border.
It's not at all clear just what the research was about, exactly. Judging from the journal it was published in (Nature ecology and evolution), perhaps all they did was study the effects of a rapid rise in global temperatures on the ecosystem, and how various species would deal with that.
The heart of the matter is this notion that temperatures will rise rapidly after we stop releasing sulphur aerosols. I'm not a climate scientist, but it doesn't make a lot of sense that the climate would "try to catch up" in this case. Earth is not like your house on a hot summer day, warming rapidly when you turn off the aircon in the afternoon. The sun and space aren't getting any warmer. Intuitively, it seems likelier for Earth to continue warming up at present day rates after all the aerosols have dissipated. Did they actually research the working of this geoengineering method, or did they only study the effects of one scenario based on assumptions?
That’s what I like about solutions like Sonos, Kodi and LMS (Squeezebox): they aren’t part of a monolithic ecosystem and they don’t try to hook you into using their rubbish services. Sonos and LMS both play local music files and streams from services like Spotify.
There’s also something rather important missing from Siri: 3rd party plugins. Apple doesn’t allow these (unless you’re building the next Waze, Uber or WhatsApp) while the competitors do. On its own, Siri isn’t all that useful as a voice controlled assistance. For Alexa there are tons of useful plugins.
Then again Apple are pitching this thing mostly as a hifi product, according to TFA. A hifi product that doesn’t do multi room audio or even stereo (yet). If they add those features at some point, if the speaker turns out to be of high quality and if it integrates really well with both Apple’s music ecosystem and the other popular streaming services, it will find a market. But so far it looks like HomeKit all over again: too little too late, lack of focus, lack of vision, and a thorough lack of understanding the market.
This in in Albert Heijn stores in the Netherlands. It's scan-as-you-go, using a portable scanner you pick up at the entrance, or a reasonably convenient app on your smart phone. Scan each item as you put it in your cart or bag.
At checkout, the app produces a bar code which you scan at the terminal, then you pay and walk out using a bar code on your receipt to open a turnstyle. About 1 time in 10 the terminal will lock and a clerk will walk over to check your groceries. If you buy any alcohol, the terminal locks as well, and the clerk unlocks it after a few seconds (they'll card younger patrons). It's a pretty well streamlined process, even having your purchases checked takes only a few seconds.
I read this as res-killing, i.e. killing a player in a multiplayer game right after they resurrect following a previous death. So yeah, not a useful alternative for retraining.
It's the 21st century, we're sending robots to Mars and probes to asteroids, cancer has gone from "death sentence" to "usually well treatable", and paper jams in printers have become exceedingly rare, but the solution to this problem still eludes us.
In the Amazon store, one could do a "raiders of the lost ark", grab something off the shelf and quickly replace it with something worthless of equal weight, like Indy replacing the golden idol with a bag of sand. I'm hoping Amazon will add a rolling stone ball to crush such shoplifters as well.
Our supermarket now has self checkout as well, and we get checked just as frequently and in the same way. What surprises me is the perfunctory manner of the check: they never count items or check stuff at the bottom of the bag. So bury the stuff you want to steal or grab 10 beers and ring up only 8. Then again, I am sure that these supermarkets have very detailed figures on theft, and I am guessing that they feel that the increase (if any) in shoplifting introduced by self scanners is outweighed by the advantages these scanners offer.
I love self checkout by the way. Mostly because there's no taking out and (re)bagging of groceries anymore; everything gets scanned and goes straight into the bag, which goes straight into the boot. Checkout is a 5 second process.
The US is listed as having a tax burden of around 25% of GDP. Most EU countries have rates in the 40s, with Scandinavian countries in the 50s. Count your blessings
The US do have a very high corporate tax. And there's the problem: small businesses end up paying a serious chunk of their income in taxes, while big corporation can fiddle with overseas income and "license fees for IP", thus ending up paying very, very little.
You're mistaken about the EU, by the way. They do fine domestic companies.
- Daimler was fined €1 billion in an antitrust case, in the same case other auto makers like Volvo and DAF were fined a total additional €1.9 billion.
- Glass manufacturers such as Pilkington and Saint-Gobain received fines totaling €1.35 billion.
- Telefonica: €150 million
Maybe because most drivers aren't immoral criminals. And yes, some pedestrians are deranged. Russian dashcam footage provides an abundance of (hilarious) proof.
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Whatever you call it, if most of the work is done by robots then we will need some form of UBI. And then Marx' old question comes into play: who owns the means of production? Because they will be the ones who determine what that UBI looks like: an income that affords you a decent lifestyle, or basic pittance.
Some people might want to allow regular ads to help pay for sites they visit, but specifically block mining ads to prevent them from draining the laptop battery.
I allowed ads for a long time for that reason, but now most of them are blocked because I got sick of the bouncing crap, auto-playing videos and ads with mouse-over actions. As far as I'm concerned, advertisers crapped the bed they sleep in.
An enjoyable and a decidedly refreshing fantasy / action movie after the DC / Marvel shitstorm of the past few years. What really surprised me was the somewhat laid back performance of Will Smith. He treated most of the later movies he appear in as advertising vehicles for his own ego, which prominently showed in his acting. Not in this movie.
They took the idea of running a society by social media scores from Black Mirror, but little else. In Black Mirror, your score was taken into account by other people and companies to a silly degree but it ended there. In the Orville episode, everything including government did this; your score determined the outcome of your court cases for example. The plots are rather different as well.
I like the Orville. Feels like old school Trek with a bit of weird humor thrown in. Part of that old school feeling comes from having planet's like the 80s where people speak English: that's precisely what a lot of old SF did, asking you to suspend disbelief on that part and focus on the rest of the story, which can be told succinctly because they don;t have to deal with a language barrier as well. Modern SF is having entire books and movies about that language barrier (which is fine by the way).
I recall reading that it took a huge fleet of ships bringing in produce to feed Trantor, and that a fleet of ships removed the human waste off-world. And a rumour that both fleets were one and the same...
Exactly: poor design. A simple countermeasure against that sort of thing is to have redundant sensors. Redundancy also helps against these attacks: it'll be that much harder to physically attack multiple sensors at the same time, especially in a way that affects all of them equally.
I'm surprised this hasn't even been properly tackled on Windows desktops, which are often shared and/or left unlocked. Plenty of cases where you'd want to encrypt parts of the file system (not entire drives) and protect them with a password. Googling found me plenty of people asking for something similar yet no actual solutions.
In common parlance, some people equate 'Asia' not with the continent, but with the Far East. That places Syria, Lebanon and Israël in the Middle East rather than in 'Asia'. What constitutes this made up region seems to vary per country too; I've heard people from India and Pakistan being referred to as 'Asians' by British people, whereas in the Netherlands we'd never use that term. Here, it's 'Indians' or even 'Hindoestani' though technically the latter refers to Surinam people of Indian descent.
Exactly. Management (running the company) and strategy are two very different tasks requiring different personality traits, and people who are good at both are very, very rare. I've often thought that the lower echelons might benefit from such a division of labor as well. But of course that would take a lot of the mystique out of being a manager.
They do realize that a lot of that so called intellectual property doesn't really exist? That it was largely made up to create tax dodges in the first place? Billions for use of the name Starbucks, insane fees paid by Google Inc for the use of patents held by Google Ltd or Google BV. That sort of thing.
This change is good for the US in the sense that it may bring back some taxes now collected by other tax havens. But it's bad (or rather: shortshighted) in the sense that it allows these tax dodges to continue right in the US. Large corporations can afford to use them, small business still end up paying the full rate. The good news is that this rate is dropped from 35% to 22% at least, which is decent.
Science doesn't work based on "hunches". You make models and you test them, then submit your results for peer review. Like they did.
I never claimed it did. My question was if their models covered the mechanics of the sharp rise in temperature, or only the effects on the ecosystem. That wasn't clear from the article, and the paper's abstract suggests that they only studied the effects, basing the mechanics on other research (which I can't access).
Perhaps it has more to do with the still rising CO2 levels over the period of aerosol release that would cause the sudden massive heat buildup.
Maybe you're on to something there: if global temperatures are the result of an equilibrium mostly governed by CO2 levels, and CO2 continues to build up, then I suppose a rapid rise to that equilibrium is plausible, after we remove the external attenuating factor. Even if we don't go back to our bad old ways. But I've no idea if that's how it actually works, and would love to see some research in that area.
Frauenhofer Society (research in many fields... chances are you're using one of their codecs). Spotify? Skype? SAP? Waze and TomTom? And there are countless smaller firms. Which in a lot of cases are absorbed by American ones.
America's advantage isn't its R&D or climate for innovation, but its market. The US market offers opportunity and a large enough volume to allow startups instant access to an enormous market that helps them grow quickly into companies valued in the billions, and ready to take on the world. Europe may have a single market, which helps, but it isn't a homogeneous one by any means. Even companies offering digital services find it hard and expensive to establish themselves in markets other than their home country, and they often take a good while to expand beyond the border.
It's not at all clear just what the research was about, exactly. Judging from the journal it was published in (Nature ecology and evolution), perhaps all they did was study the effects of a rapid rise in global temperatures on the ecosystem, and how various species would deal with that.
The heart of the matter is this notion that temperatures will rise rapidly after we stop releasing sulphur aerosols. I'm not a climate scientist, but it doesn't make a lot of sense that the climate would "try to catch up" in this case. Earth is not like your house on a hot summer day, warming rapidly when you turn off the aircon in the afternoon. The sun and space aren't getting any warmer. Intuitively, it seems likelier for Earth to continue warming up at present day rates after all the aerosols have dissipated. Did they actually research the working of this geoengineering method, or did they only study the effects of one scenario based on assumptions?
That’s what I like about solutions like Sonos, Kodi and LMS (Squeezebox): they aren’t part of a monolithic ecosystem and they don’t try to hook you into using their rubbish services. Sonos and LMS both play local music files and streams from services like Spotify.
There’s also something rather important missing from Siri: 3rd party plugins. Apple doesn’t allow these (unless you’re building the next Waze, Uber or WhatsApp) while the competitors do. On its own, Siri isn’t all that useful as a voice controlled assistance. For Alexa there are tons of useful plugins.
Then again Apple are pitching this thing mostly as a hifi product, according to TFA. A hifi product that doesn’t do multi room audio or even stereo (yet). If they add those features at some point, if the speaker turns out to be of high quality and if it integrates really well with both Apple’s music ecosystem and the other popular streaming services, it will find a market. But so far it looks like HomeKit all over again: too little too late, lack of focus, lack of vision, and a thorough lack of understanding the market.
This in in Albert Heijn stores in the Netherlands. It's scan-as-you-go, using a portable scanner you pick up at the entrance, or a reasonably convenient app on your smart phone. Scan each item as you put it in your cart or bag.
At checkout, the app produces a bar code which you scan at the terminal, then you pay and walk out using a bar code on your receipt to open a turnstyle. About 1 time in 10 the terminal will lock and a clerk will walk over to check your groceries. If you buy any alcohol, the terminal locks as well, and the clerk unlocks it after a few seconds (they'll card younger patrons). It's a pretty well streamlined process, even having your purchases checked takes only a few seconds.
I read this as res-killing, i.e. killing a player in a multiplayer game right after they resurrect following a previous death. So yeah, not a useful alternative for retraining.
hoping the bag of pretzels will drop as intended
It's the 21st century, we're sending robots to Mars and probes to asteroids, cancer has gone from "death sentence" to "usually well treatable", and paper jams in printers have become exceedingly rare, but the solution to this problem still eludes us.
In the Amazon store, one could do a "raiders of the lost ark", grab something off the shelf and quickly replace it with something worthless of equal weight, like Indy replacing the golden idol with a bag of sand. I'm hoping Amazon will add a rolling stone ball to crush such shoplifters as well.
Our supermarket now has self checkout as well, and we get checked just as frequently and in the same way. What surprises me is the perfunctory manner of the check: they never count items or check stuff at the bottom of the bag. So bury the stuff you want to steal or grab 10 beers and ring up only 8. Then again, I am sure that these supermarkets have very detailed figures on theft, and I am guessing that they feel that the increase (if any) in shoplifting introduced by self scanners is outweighed by the advantages these scanners offer.
I love self checkout by the way. Mostly because there's no taking out and (re)bagging of groceries anymore; everything gets scanned and goes straight into the bag, which goes straight into the boot. Checkout is a 5 second process.
The US is listed as having a tax burden of around 25% of GDP. Most EU countries have rates in the 40s, with Scandinavian countries in the 50s. Count your blessings
The US do have a very high corporate tax. And there's the problem: small businesses end up paying a serious chunk of their income in taxes, while big corporation can fiddle with overseas income and "license fees for IP", thus ending up paying very, very little.
You're mistaken about the EU, by the way. They do fine domestic companies.
- Daimler was fined €1 billion in an antitrust case, in the same case other auto makers like Volvo and DAF were fined a total additional €1.9 billion.
- Glass manufacturers such as Pilkington and Saint-Gobain received fines totaling €1.35 billion.
- Telefonica: €150 million
Maybe because most drivers aren't immoral criminals. And yes, some pedestrians are deranged. Russian dashcam footage provides an abundance of (hilarious) proof.
Wouldn't you rather be the guy who makes the bugs?
I'd buy a French car before putting up with that crap.
That makes a lot of sense. That is: if the car actually drives itself.