make poor decisions. Given what Uber pays (I've heard it called a Payday Loan on the value of your car) most of their drivers are already under stress.
The reason you don't blame victims is that most of them aren't in a position to defend themselves. We have a phrase for it even: kick 'em when they're down.
Bitcoin seems to be the tech equivalent of playing the lottery. I know several out of work techs, under employed or underpaid techs who bought a bit of some odd ball currency to see if they could make it rich. Mostly those "Proof of Stake" schemes.
I don't think Bitcoin's value will drop too much more. Maybe to $5k. Money laundering and drug traffic will keep it around there. I could be wrong though. Canada just legalized pot. If the US follow suit (it would require Trump losing in 2020 since his people are vehemently opposed to legalization even if he doesn't care; maybe even a few senate seats and the Dems taking the house...) then that'll drop it below $3k. Crack down on money laundering and currency manipulation and we might see it back below a grand. But it would take all those things.
for any kind of advice. This is the same guy who tried to cheat the Amiga company out of their hard work and tech by leveraging them into a deal where he gave them a short term loan because they were desperate (having spend all their money building the tech). He lost that when Commodore came in and saved the day but held the Amiga back a year with frivolous lawsuits he eventually won.
He was an impressive organizer, but he ran Atari into the ground largely by being a complete dick to the suppliers who made the Atari computers a success. He thought he could muscle them out and go direct to the consumer, which sounds good in theory but having a good reseller adds value. Jack never thought much of anyone, and that was his problem.
Read a little more on his history or go watch the Youtube video Kim Justice did on him even. He made his fortune taking advantage of people in the worst sort of cutthroat manner. He wanted fewer rules because rules made it hard for him to do that.
because I looked up a review and they were running Street Fighter V in 720p/low spec mode and not getting a consistent 60. I'm not even sure if Capcom will let you play online with that. A mobile 1050 will run it in 1080p normal mode (SFV only has to 2 modes, low spec and regular). The 1050 based laptop will usually cost more but if you shop around I've seen them for less (Costco had one for $600 not to long ago, but I think they were clearing them out).
a major step in AI? I don't mean "we programed these patterns and it recognizes them" I mean "we kept feeding patterns in until the program recognized patterns it never saw before". Pattern Recognition is one of the first things baby's learn. Our AIs might be at that stage, but that's still frighteningly impressive.
no joke. AI based monitoring software. 2 years ago it was worthless. They just replaced the whole team with it. It's not some kneejerk thing either. They've been testing it for months and it's more accurate than people. That didn't used to be true. Used to be if you just ran monitoring scripts you were just asking for trouble. You needed somebody to watch the script. Not anymore.
This next step here is getting AI to imagine. To think through problems. 20 years from now IT will be gone. The old timer's reading this probably don't care because they'll be retired or dead. Anyone under 50 should take notice. We need to start thinking about a post-work future now. Sure, eventually tech might catch up and employ people... in 80 years. Just remember you're gonna live through those 80 years of joblessness.
You're not free so long as somebody controls your access to food, shelter, healthcare, education and transportation (the latter being required to access the former). Until you have reliable access to those things then you're one bad year (or month if you're 40% of Americans) away from disaster and doing whatever anyone tells you to get those things. You're what's referred to as a Wage Slave.
What's the old saying? Everyone has a price. Bernie's one of the few politicians to recognize that devil's details. True liberty comes when every man, woman and child is gauranteed the things needed to live. When that happens and the 1% can't threaten you with death by starvation only then are you really free because only then can you say (and mean it), fuck you, I'm not doing that. Until then you'll do what's told when it comes down to a choice of doing it or dying of starvation / lack of medicine.
him to vote for it. Right wingers like Pelosi & Schumer I expect that from. They're really Republicans they just run in a district that votes "D". I just expected better from Bernie.
voted for this? Was it really just that he feared the Repubs using it in a "think of the children" line of attack? I hate to say it but if that's true, well, he's not wrong... That's the trouble with these laws. It's just like all the post 911 crap. People over react. I can't tell you how many people will tell me with a straight face "everything changed after 9/11" and not realize it only changed because we let it...
it's an actual pharmacy. It'll be heavily regulated. The issue is Amazon's taking over. Eventually they'll run everything out of business and when they do they'll jack up the prices. If we were a sane country we'd respond with regulation but, well, Americans are nuts.
Inciting Violence. I'm going to be completely blunt. The reason the right wing (I refuse to call people in favor of radical change "Conservative") get more bans is there's a lot of them hinting at violence.
There's a good example right here. Jones backpedaled as best he could but the meaning was clear. It's so common there's a name for it: Dog Whistling
You're entitled to your opinion right up until it becomes incitement to violence. The radical right has a lot of unhinged people than even the extreme left. There have been no cases of left wing terrorism since the 70s. Abortion doctors OTOH can point to multiple instances of terrorism and ask the black and LGBTQ communities about how they're treated down south some time. The right words said to the right person equals violence. The right have a well documented history of spreading those words and using them to oppress. Hate speech turns into actions all too often. You don't get to shout fire in a theater and you don't get to exclaim out loud how if only someone would rid you of this meddlesome priest.
or Democrats. They want whatever brings in the most money. Their "diversity" initiatives are just to more workers so they can depress wages. These companies campaign for the same low taxes, lax labor regulations and lax environmental rules as everybody else. They give a little more to Democrats but that's only because they're headquarters are located in Democratic strongholds like Seattle & California.
Make no mistake, the "Us vs Them" isn't "Tech Company vs Republican" it is and always has been working class vs ruling class.
when they controlled the House and Senate, and even then it was a tenuous grasp. During that 2 years they passed Obamacare. They needed every ounce of political capital they had to get pre-existing coverage through.
The problem we have is that Rural voters are disproportionately powerful thanks to our Senate. 1 voter in Montana has 42 times as much representation as a voter in California. This is by design. The people who wrote our constitution were wealthy landowners living in rural areas. They wanted more power for themselves. Later as voting rights expanded those same people leveraged the differences between rural and city voters to maintain their grip on power.
This is how American politics works. Nobody talks about it because everytime you do somebody says "Why should rural voters get told what to do by city folk". Hillary took a lot of flak for saying out loud that the majority of economic activity originates from cities and also suggesting that we should have a proper democracy with even representation. Folks like to point out the rural voters grow our food and ignore the fact that it's the chemists in the cities that make it so that we can actually grow all that food and the business folks who maintain the logistical infrastructure that gets it to market.
with a challenger. Figure $1-$2 million each, or around $80 million total. If you were't competing with AT&T & Comcast in a bidding war it's cheap as heck. You can buy off a a House rep for $50k and a Senator for under $200k. It's actually one of the best investments in America, as far as return on investment goes.
if you live in the blasted out ruins of the rust belt. You take whatever work you can to get enough money for food and rent (well, food _or_ rent). Folks don't realize how bad it is in large swaths of American. We're just shy of a second world country. Maybe 1.5?
the wording is specifically designed to make me think it's something other than a fee. It's supposed to sound like a tax. This in turn is supposed to drive me to demand lower taxes, most of which go to corps like T-Mobile.
A single lump sum isn't trying to trick me into a public policy that negatively impacts my life and the public commons.
Americans really, really don't like being told what to do. It's a cultural thing with us. It's pounded into our skulls by media from the time we grow up. This isn't to say we aren't constantly told what to do or that we don't listen. We do what our bosses say and overwhelmingly identify with hierarchical religions. But that's sort of the problem. In all the major aspects of our lives we have to do what we're told. That means when it comes to stuff like recycling where we're given leeway (since it hasn't really mattered to the ones in charge) we're hyper sensitive to being told what to do.
I think maybe if we had a little more say in the big stuff (Politics, Religion, Economics) you could get us on board for the small stuff like recycling. But good luck getting our ruling class to give any ground on that...
Crypto currencies base value is almost entirely on drugs, money laundering and ransomware payments. Legitimate businesses like Steam got out of it when it got to volatile to consider a currency.
Legalize Marijuana and I suspect you'll see the bottom fall out of Crypto currencies. Heck, legalize all drugs and treat the hard ones (cocaine & heroine) like the medical conditions that they are and that's basically that.
I can't say I'd be sad to see them go. It's a tremendous waste of electricity for not much in return. You're not going to get freedom from Government & Corporation backed fiat currencies out of it. If it ever came to that they'd just move in and take over. Heck, by all accounts Bitcoin's price has been manipulated by a bunch of folks out of China for the last year or two. Meanwhile it's nice to see GPU prices slowly coming back to Earth.
is "Regulatory Compliance Fee". This is a fee T-Mobile charges me so that _they_ can comply with regulations. You know, like every other business on Earth does. But the line item makes it sound like a tax. They're hoping I'll blame the government for the cost of my cell phone rather than them and their damned hidden fees.
I have to admit it does also irritate met that I pay a fee to extend service to rural communities who consistently vote against government assistance for such things. Not that I begrudge them phone & internet, but I wish they'd stop fighting tooth and nail against it.
Stuff like top tier matches in Street Fighter. I've also used playthroughs to find things I was missing in a game (especially if it's something stupid I'm missing because I'm color blind and can't always see well hidden things).
you get calls on it. Even if they're simple calls they're still calls. External GPUs are still in their infancy so they only show up on really expensive laptops where support costs can be baked into the cost of the laptop. A CPU upgrade doesn't add call volume to your help desk, making it a cheap and easy way to sell new laptops.
They're priced too high for the performance. I'm seeing them in the $600-$800 range, which puts them in competition with mobile GTA 1050s (albeit not the TI); but even then they get trounced by a 1050 unless you're talking the Vega/Intel hybrid floating around, and that one's only showing up on machines in the $1200 range, which gets you into 1060 mobile territory if you shop around.
They do have really nice TDP, but only if you're gaming on a battery and I don't know a lot of folks who do that. Most laptop gamers I know want them for lan parties or because their main machine is a laptop.
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make poor decisions. Given what Uber pays (I've heard it called a Payday Loan on the value of your car) most of their drivers are already under stress.
The reason you don't blame victims is that most of them aren't in a position to defend themselves. We have a phrase for it even: kick 'em when they're down.
Bitcoin seems to be the tech equivalent of playing the lottery. I know several out of work techs, under employed or underpaid techs who bought a bit of some odd ball currency to see if they could make it rich. Mostly those "Proof of Stake" schemes.
I don't think Bitcoin's value will drop too much more. Maybe to $5k. Money laundering and drug traffic will keep it around there. I could be wrong though. Canada just legalized pot. If the US follow suit (it would require Trump losing in 2020 since his people are vehemently opposed to legalization even if he doesn't care; maybe even a few senate seats and the Dems taking the house...) then that'll drop it below $3k. Crack down on money laundering and currency manipulation and we might see it back below a grand. But it would take all those things.
for any kind of advice. This is the same guy who tried to cheat the Amiga company out of their hard work and tech by leveraging them into a deal where he gave them a short term loan because they were desperate (having spend all their money building the tech). He lost that when Commodore came in and saved the day but held the Amiga back a year with frivolous lawsuits he eventually won.
He was an impressive organizer, but he ran Atari into the ground largely by being a complete dick to the suppliers who made the Atari computers a success. He thought he could muscle them out and go direct to the consumer, which sounds good in theory but having a good reseller adds value. Jack never thought much of anyone, and that was his problem.
Read a little more on his history or go watch the Youtube video Kim Justice did on him even. He made his fortune taking advantage of people in the worst sort of cutthroat manner. He wanted fewer rules because rules made it hard for him to do that.
because I looked up a review and they were running Street Fighter V in 720p/low spec mode and not getting a consistent 60. I'm not even sure if Capcom will let you play online with that. A mobile 1050 will run it in 1080p normal mode (SFV only has to 2 modes, low spec and regular). The 1050 based laptop will usually cost more but if you shop around I've seen them for less (Costco had one for $600 not to long ago, but I think they were clearing them out).
a major step in AI? I don't mean "we programed these patterns and it recognizes them" I mean "we kept feeding patterns in until the program recognized patterns it never saw before". Pattern Recognition is one of the first things baby's learn. Our AIs might be at that stage, but that's still frighteningly impressive.
to declarations or war? Or are we just vacationing in Yemen (and the other 5 countries we're dropping bombs on w/o Congressional approval)?
no joke. AI based monitoring software. 2 years ago it was worthless. They just replaced the whole team with it. It's not some kneejerk thing either. They've been testing it for months and it's more accurate than people. That didn't used to be true. Used to be if you just ran monitoring scripts you were just asking for trouble. You needed somebody to watch the script. Not anymore.
This next step here is getting AI to imagine. To think through problems. 20 years from now IT will be gone. The old timer's reading this probably don't care because they'll be retired or dead. Anyone under 50 should take notice. We need to start thinking about a post-work future now. Sure, eventually tech might catch up and employ people... in 80 years. Just remember you're gonna live through those 80 years of joblessness.
You're not free so long as somebody controls your access to food, shelter, healthcare, education and transportation (the latter being required to access the former). Until you have reliable access to those things then you're one bad year (or month if you're 40% of Americans) away from disaster and doing whatever anyone tells you to get those things. You're what's referred to as a Wage Slave.
What's the old saying? Everyone has a price. Bernie's one of the few politicians to recognize that devil's details. True liberty comes when every man, woman and child is gauranteed the things needed to live. When that happens and the 1% can't threaten you with death by starvation only then are you really free because only then can you say (and mean it), fuck you, I'm not doing that. Until then you'll do what's told when it comes down to a choice of doing it or dying of starvation / lack of medicine.
him to vote for it. Right wingers like Pelosi & Schumer I expect that from. They're really Republicans they just run in a district that votes "D". I just expected better from Bernie.
voted for this? Was it really just that he feared the Repubs using it in a "think of the children" line of attack? I hate to say it but if that's true, well, he's not wrong... That's the trouble with these laws. It's just like all the post 911 crap. People over react. I can't tell you how many people will tell me with a straight face "everything changed after 9/11" and not realize it only changed because we let it...
it's an actual pharmacy. It'll be heavily regulated. The issue is Amazon's taking over. Eventually they'll run everything out of business and when they do they'll jack up the prices. If we were a sane country we'd respond with regulation but, well, Americans are nuts.
Inciting Violence. I'm going to be completely blunt. The reason the right wing (I refuse to call people in favor of radical change "Conservative") get more bans is there's a lot of them hinting at violence. There's a good example right here. Jones backpedaled as best he could but the meaning was clear. It's so common there's a name for it: Dog Whistling
You're entitled to your opinion right up until it becomes incitement to violence. The radical right has a lot of unhinged people than even the extreme left. There have been no cases of left wing terrorism since the 70s. Abortion doctors OTOH can point to multiple instances of terrorism and ask the black and LGBTQ communities about how they're treated down south some time. The right words said to the right person equals violence. The right have a well documented history of spreading those words and using them to oppress. Hate speech turns into actions all too often. You don't get to shout fire in a theater and you don't get to exclaim out loud how if only someone would rid you of this meddlesome priest.
or Democrats. They want whatever brings in the most money. Their "diversity" initiatives are just to more workers so they can depress wages. These companies campaign for the same low taxes, lax labor regulations and lax environmental rules as everybody else. They give a little more to Democrats but that's only because they're headquarters are located in Democratic strongholds like Seattle & California.
Make no mistake, the "Us vs Them" isn't "Tech Company vs Republican" it is and always has been working class vs ruling class.
and it's only around $6k now. Yeah, some of that value is speculators, but nowhere near all of it.
when they controlled the House and Senate, and even then it was a tenuous grasp. During that 2 years they passed Obamacare. They needed every ounce of political capital they had to get pre-existing coverage through.
The problem we have is that Rural voters are disproportionately powerful thanks to our Senate. 1 voter in Montana has 42 times as much representation as a voter in California. This is by design. The people who wrote our constitution were wealthy landowners living in rural areas. They wanted more power for themselves. Later as voting rights expanded those same people leveraged the differences between rural and city voters to maintain their grip on power.
This is how American politics works. Nobody talks about it because everytime you do somebody says "Why should rural voters get told what to do by city folk". Hillary took a lot of flak for saying out loud that the majority of economic activity originates from cities and also suggesting that we should have a proper democracy with even representation. Folks like to point out the rural voters grow our food and ignore the fact that it's the chemists in the cities that make it so that we can actually grow all that food and the business folks who maintain the logistical infrastructure that gets it to market.
with a challenger. Figure $1-$2 million each, or around $80 million total. If you were't competing with AT&T & Comcast in a bidding war it's cheap as heck. You can buy off a a House rep for $50k and a Senator for under $200k. It's actually one of the best investments in America, as far as return on investment goes.
in the hopes that the people in those Gerrymandered districts come to their senses and vote the bums out.
if you live in the blasted out ruins of the rust belt. You take whatever work you can to get enough money for food and rent (well, food _or_ rent). Folks don't realize how bad it is in large swaths of American. We're just shy of a second world country. Maybe 1.5?
the wording is specifically designed to make me think it's something other than a fee. It's supposed to sound like a tax. This in turn is supposed to drive me to demand lower taxes, most of which go to corps like T-Mobile.
A single lump sum isn't trying to trick me into a public policy that negatively impacts my life and the public commons.
Americans really, really don't like being told what to do. It's a cultural thing with us. It's pounded into our skulls by media from the time we grow up. This isn't to say we aren't constantly told what to do or that we don't listen. We do what our bosses say and overwhelmingly identify with hierarchical religions. But that's sort of the problem. In all the major aspects of our lives we have to do what we're told. That means when it comes to stuff like recycling where we're given leeway (since it hasn't really mattered to the ones in charge) we're hyper sensitive to being told what to do.
I think maybe if we had a little more say in the big stuff (Politics, Religion, Economics) you could get us on board for the small stuff like recycling. But good luck getting our ruling class to give any ground on that...
Crypto currencies base value is almost entirely on drugs, money laundering and ransomware payments. Legitimate businesses like Steam got out of it when it got to volatile to consider a currency.
Legalize Marijuana and I suspect you'll see the bottom fall out of Crypto currencies. Heck, legalize all drugs and treat the hard ones (cocaine & heroine) like the medical conditions that they are and that's basically that.
I can't say I'd be sad to see them go. It's a tremendous waste of electricity for not much in return. You're not going to get freedom from Government & Corporation backed fiat currencies out of it. If it ever came to that they'd just move in and take over. Heck, by all accounts Bitcoin's price has been manipulated by a bunch of folks out of China for the last year or two. Meanwhile it's nice to see GPU prices slowly coming back to Earth.
is "Regulatory Compliance Fee". This is a fee T-Mobile charges me so that _they_ can comply with regulations. You know, like every other business on Earth does. But the line item makes it sound like a tax. They're hoping I'll blame the government for the cost of my cell phone rather than them and their damned hidden fees.
I have to admit it does also irritate met that I pay a fee to extend service to rural communities who consistently vote against government assistance for such things. Not that I begrudge them phone & internet, but I wish they'd stop fighting tooth and nail against it.
Stuff like top tier matches in Street Fighter. I've also used playthroughs to find things I was missing in a game (especially if it's something stupid I'm missing because I'm color blind and can't always see well hidden things).
As for watching people eat, I only watch regular ordinary eating.
you get calls on it. Even if they're simple calls they're still calls. External GPUs are still in their infancy so they only show up on really expensive laptops where support costs can be baked into the cost of the laptop. A CPU upgrade doesn't add call volume to your help desk, making it a cheap and easy way to sell new laptops.
They're priced too high for the performance. I'm seeing them in the $600-$800 range, which puts them in competition with mobile GTA 1050s (albeit not the TI); but even then they get trounced by a 1050 unless you're talking the Vega/Intel hybrid floating around, and that one's only showing up on machines in the $1200 range, which gets you into 1060 mobile territory if you shop around.
They do have really nice TDP, but only if you're gaming on a battery and I don't know a lot of folks who do that. Most laptop gamers I know want them for lan parties or because their main machine is a laptop.