The great thing about mincome is that it's really, really efficient to administer. Are you a citizen? You get a check. A thousand people could administer it for the entire US. The bad things about mincome are that it's really expensive, and that people will oppose it as "corporate welfare" (really, just look at what is said against the Earned Income Tax Credit) for giving those greedy corporations workers at a very low price.
Add in universal suffrage, and the mincome just keeps getting bigger and bigger. It's a decent idea, but the implementation details sink it.
At least with my Lexus, the slide-out keys are for opening the (hidden) door locks. The NFC-like transponder in the fob itself is used to start the car if the battery dies.
Jerry Brown would be an interesting addition to the race. I saw him in a panel discussion in the late 90s, in which he asserted that unilateral disarmament by the US would serve as a model for other countries. Henry Kissinger bluntly replied, "How did you ever get elected governor of California?"
Aside from that, if we're going to have a Democrat as the next president, he'd be a far better choice than Clinton. How about a Jindal-Brown matchup?
Trump has zero chance of winning the Republican nomination, let alone the election. Quit worrying about it. He's popular because he's saying a lot of things a career politician won't... but there's a reason that government mostly consists of career politicians.
Not even close to true. My wife's car isn't insured at all. It's old, a wreck would cost more to fix than it's worth. She, as a driver, is insured against harms to others. I haven't dropped the insurance on my car yet, because it's worth around $20k and I don't feel like eating that if I have a wreck, but when it drops below $10k or so there will be no point - I can self-insure against that kind of loss, so why pay someone else? I'll still keep my uninsured-motorist coverage and liability to protect me, but the car itself is no longer worth insuring at that point.
People who don't have licenses, people who just don't care, states that don't require insurance companies to inform them whenever a policy is canceled, illegal immigrants...
If European taxis are great, explain why I spent half an hour at the Place de la Concorde (not exactly out in the suburbs) waiting for one unoccupied taxi to show up at a marked taxi stand before giving up and just walking. I had a broken toe at the time, so I had a pretty strong incentive to ride rather than walk.
Actually, we are the most junior of the professions... the military, law, and clergy are older. But I'm very much not afraid of being replaced. Computers can drive cars in California weather on well-marked roads. There is a lot of distance between doing that and being able to start an IV. Cars are all the same; people are not,
Thing is, so much of medicine is not diagnostics. Oh, sure, most people think of the diagnostics, because that's most of what they think of "going to the doctor" is. In reality, most doctors do not do House-style diagnostics very often. We do therapeutic interventions. And for some conditions, computers are better than people (cf. Scamper_22's comment about hypothyroidism above). But when you need your appendix out, or a heart catheterization, or management of ongoing disease... the human factor is huge.
I'm an anesthesiologist, and computers can do the mundane part of my job - but they can't deal with the physical aspects and they don't have situational awareness.
My 2009 Lexus uses something like this - there's a small sensor in each of the door handles to detect a hand being put into the gap (probably optical interruption). It can clearly tell the difference when I'm standing at the driver's door vs the driver's side rear door - in fact it doesn't work if the key is in a bag strapped to my back. If my key is in a bag it needs to be up front and close to the lock to work.
I lock remotely a lot, but I almost never unlock without using this mechanism. Slip your hand in, hear the beep(s), pull the handle. And the handle and the key have to match - if I'm standing with the key at the driver's door but you're on the opposite side and put your hand in, it will not unlock.
If the battery fails, you have to pull a physical key out of the fob to open the door, but then the ignition runs on short-range RFID where you press the start button, it tells you to put the fob up against the start button, and it does its thing and you can start the car.
That was the true purpose of Solitaire and Minesweeper. They taught the differences between clicking, right-clicking, double-clicking, and click and drag.
My recollection differs. Games were slower under Windows than DOS due to the overhead, and they definitely still crashed. You didn't have to have boot disks with "gaming" configurations to free up enough low memory, though.
And the first grafts for aneurysm repair were hand-sewn by DeBakey's wife, but in the intervening fifty years the process has changed. You want to tell old stories, heard secondhand, go right ahead - but tell them that way, not as "current practice".
The procedural parts of medicine are among the most automatably difficult tasks imaginable - people do not have standard sizes or shapes, they do not always have the particular problem that you wish they had, and improvisation is the name of the game. The Turing Test is many orders of magnitude easier than even the simplest surgical operation.
I'm not sure how this got modded up, but that was standard practice in the 1920s... not today. We have standardized procedures for damned near everything you can think of.
I'm an anesthesiologist. I put people to sleep for cardiac surgery. My hospital does around 400-500 hearts a year... and we don't kill any dogs.
One might look to traditional styles of dress in hot climates for a clue... there's a reason that linen and seersucker are considered business dress in the South in summer. Skip the polyester, you'll melt.
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The great thing about mincome is that it's really, really efficient to administer. Are you a citizen? You get a check. A thousand people could administer it for the entire US. The bad things about mincome are that it's really expensive, and that people will oppose it as "corporate welfare" (really, just look at what is said against the Earned Income Tax Credit) for giving those greedy corporations workers at a very low price.
Add in universal suffrage, and the mincome just keeps getting bigger and bigger. It's a decent idea, but the implementation details sink it.
At least with my Lexus, the slide-out keys are for opening the (hidden) door locks. The NFC-like transponder in the fob itself is used to start the car if the battery dies.
Jerry Brown would be an interesting addition to the race. I saw him in a panel discussion in the late 90s, in which he asserted that unilateral disarmament by the US would serve as a model for other countries. Henry Kissinger bluntly replied, "How did you ever get elected governor of California?"
Aside from that, if we're going to have a Democrat as the next president, he'd be a far better choice than Clinton. How about a Jindal-Brown matchup?
Trump has zero chance of winning the Republican nomination, let alone the election. Quit worrying about it. He's popular because he's saying a lot of things a career politician won't... but there's a reason that government mostly consists of career politicians.
Reminds me of the joke that libertarians are the set composed of the union of Republicans who like drugs and Democrats who like guns. Still, accurate.
Not even close to true. My wife's car isn't insured at all. It's old, a wreck would cost more to fix than it's worth. She, as a driver, is insured against harms to others. I haven't dropped the insurance on my car yet, because it's worth around $20k and I don't feel like eating that if I have a wreck, but when it drops below $10k or so there will be no point - I can self-insure against that kind of loss, so why pay someone else? I'll still keep my uninsured-motorist coverage and liability to protect me, but the car itself is no longer worth insuring at that point.
People who don't have licenses, people who just don't care, states that don't require insurance companies to inform them whenever a policy is canceled, illegal immigrants...
Biscuits and mum I get, but what is your alternative "polite" term for tits?
If European taxis are great, explain why I spent half an hour at the Place de la Concorde (not exactly out in the suburbs) waiting for one unoccupied taxi to show up at a marked taxi stand before giving up and just walking. I had a broken toe at the time, so I had a pretty strong incentive to ride rather than walk.
Uber Black is a standard, licensed, liveried car service. You can even hire most of the guys outside of Uber if you want.
The same argument about insurance applies to everyone on the road. People drive uninsured all the time.
And their phone number - if you're skittish, just call it and see if the phone rings.
Actually, we are the most junior of the professions... the military, law, and clergy are older. But I'm very much not afraid of being replaced. Computers can drive cars in California weather on well-marked roads. There is a lot of distance between doing that and being able to start an IV. Cars are all the same; people are not,
Thing is, so much of medicine is not diagnostics. Oh, sure, most people think of the diagnostics, because that's most of what they think of "going to the doctor" is. In reality, most doctors do not do House-style diagnostics very often. We do therapeutic interventions. And for some conditions, computers are better than people (cf. Scamper_22's comment about hypothyroidism above). But when you need your appendix out, or a heart catheterization, or management of ongoing disease... the human factor is huge.
I'm an anesthesiologist, and computers can do the mundane part of my job - but they can't deal with the physical aspects and they don't have situational awareness.
My 2009 Lexus uses something like this - there's a small sensor in each of the door handles to detect a hand being put into the gap (probably optical interruption). It can clearly tell the difference when I'm standing at the driver's door vs the driver's side rear door - in fact it doesn't work if the key is in a bag strapped to my back. If my key is in a bag it needs to be up front and close to the lock to work.
I lock remotely a lot, but I almost never unlock without using this mechanism. Slip your hand in, hear the beep(s), pull the handle. And the handle and the key have to match - if I'm standing with the key at the driver's door but you're on the opposite side and put your hand in, it will not unlock.
If the battery fails, you have to pull a physical key out of the fob to open the door, but then the ignition runs on short-range RFID where you press the start button, it tells you to put the fob up against the start button, and it does its thing and you can start the car.
And if you're not Boing Boing and don't have the personal cell phones of the EFF's lawyers, what are your results going to look like?
That was the true purpose of Solitaire and Minesweeper. They taught the differences between clicking, right-clicking, double-clicking, and click and drag.
My recollection differs. Games were slower under Windows than DOS due to the overhead, and they definitely still crashed. You didn't have to have boot disks with "gaming" configurations to free up enough low memory, though.
Ah, you're simply insane, or trolling. Call literally any surgery residency program and ask how it works in the real world.
And the first grafts for aneurysm repair were hand-sewn by DeBakey's wife, but in the intervening fifty years the process has changed. You want to tell old stories, heard secondhand, go right ahead - but tell them that way, not as "current practice".
Beg away. I'm an anesthesiologist, I watch surgeons work five days a week. What do you do?
The procedural parts of medicine are among the most automatably difficult tasks imaginable - people do not have standard sizes or shapes, they do not always have the particular problem that you wish they had, and improvisation is the name of the game. The Turing Test is many orders of magnitude easier than even the simplest surgical operation.
I'm not sure how this got modded up, but that was standard practice in the 1920s... not today. We have standardized procedures for damned near everything you can think of.
I'm an anesthesiologist. I put people to sleep for cardiac surgery. My hospital does around 400-500 hearts a year... and we don't kill any dogs.
One might look to traditional styles of dress in hot climates for a clue... there's a reason that linen and seersucker are considered business dress in the South in summer. Skip the polyester, you'll melt.
Who cares? Are that many geeks worn down by the brutal requirement to wear something slightly more formal than gym clothes?