but this is an awful lot of effort and electricity being put into what is essentially a vehicle for money laundering. I don't even see this helping blockchaining, since isn't mining separate from blockchain tech?
Yeah, I know that's not popular to say, I can't see crypto currencies replacing credit cards much less cash. They're too slow, and by design get slower. There are ways to fix that but their difficult and expensive. As soon as you start implementing them you have to the same problem CCs have (high fees). And that's before we get into how CCs can be used to pay off larger purchases over time (or, sadly, but borrow money when you can't make ends meet).
they exist to get them ready for factory work. That's why they have bells. I suppose we could change the purpose of schools, but who's gonna pay for it? At my kid's school the reason for the early start was because they mixed junior high kids in with highschool kids and needed to keep 'em separated because they didn't have enough monitors to stop the fighting.
kids have different biorhythms than adults. So yes, they will grow up. Biology and the passage of time will take care of that. You don't "learn" to change your biorhythms. They change over time whether you like it or not. Short of chemical intervention which is probably not a good idea.
tl;dr. Let the kids sleep in like their bodies are telling them to and they'll be more production and learn better, leading to better adults when it's time for them to be adults.
in those tight enclosures. Good cooling design helps, but it can only do so much. Also Mac users are going to find out that their laptops don't last for decades when they run their CPUs at full bore for 3-4 hour gaming sessions.
That's the point. You buy a business that is worth a lot so you can get huge loans on their name. Then you pay yourself huge consultancy fees and salaries from those loans. They couldn't get the loans if the businesses were on the way to failure.
Toys R Us was doing quite well... through Baby's R Us. They were basically shifting over to a baby retailer with a small toy division until they had the rug pulled out from under them.
because I can get a GTX 1060 6gb for only $120 more than I paid a year ago. I suspect the prices'll go back to normal soon. There's outfits out of China working on ASICs that can do Ethereum.
so far none of the benefits of Brexit have materialized and all of the promises have been walked back. I doubt they'll even get to cut back on immigration. Immigrants are usually brought in for cheap labor, I can't see the ruling class giving that up. It looks to me like you've got all the downsides and none of the up. Just do a second referendum already.
because they keep getting bought up in Bain Capital style leveraged buy-outs and then saddled with debt that prevents them from adequately competing with Amazon. To cut costs they turn their stores into dirty little warehouses. This is what happened to Toys R Us. And they were one of the lucky ones. They survived 13 years before the debt crushed them.
If Trump doesn't like the post office subsidizing Amazon there's a really, really easy solution: raise the rates. Problem solved. And if he doesn't like how they treat their workers he could raise federal minimum wage and drop the work week to 30/week before overtime kicked in. The latter might require congress to act but it's popular enough that if he'd stop attacking them on Twitter and take congress to task for not doing anything for the working man he'd have it done in a week. Especially if he did it right before mid-terms.
But this is all just a distraction. And an political attack on a company run by people that don't particularly like him. It'd be funny watching to rich and powerful guys in a pissing match if their actions didn't effect me so drastically.
the folks in charge right now have deregulation as a central plank of the party. We'll get a little theater to make it seem like they care and then they'll do precisely squat.
If you want that to change show up to your primary and vote for people who think government can actually do good. If you don't think government can do any good don't complain when it doesn't.
eventually these tests will be ordered by doctors. And insurance companies have a nasty habit of not paying your doctor if the test comes up clean. After all, if the test was going to come up clean anyway why order it in the first place? It sucks, because it makes doctors hesitant to order tests (since they might not get paid).
there have been several lawsuits over this. The independent contractors have more or less won the right to minimum wage. There's no point to hiring a contracting firm if they can't abuse their employees.
there's lots of folks who don't know what to do with themselves if they're not working. People in their 60s and 70s who refuse to retire even when they can afford to. People who want a sense of self worth and purpose but lack the talent to find something on their own that gives them that. Those folks are especially bad for those of us who want to just do our own thing. They work 50, 60, 70 hours/week, driving down the value of everybody's wages.
And for Pete's sake, Jocks and Nerds shouldn't be fighting once they're both in the workforce. We're no longer playing kiddy games here. We're fighting over who controls the wealth generated by society. Us nerds need to be smart enough (and big enough) to set aside a smug sense of vengeance and work together with everyone to protect the working class. It's either that or we all get screwed by the ruling class.
poor people with no hope and no options are expensive and dangerous. But baring that level of oppression they're going to get violent and organized, find themselves a strongman style dictator and fire up a junta. You might be able to keep a lid on that with gulags and violent oppression like the Chinese do. But is that what you really want?
Basically, there are consequence for abandoning 50-70% of the population to desperate poverty.
I just got done reading a story about how FedEx cancelled plans to build a plant in Indiana (and the 500 jobs that went with it) because increases in efficiency meant they just plain didn't need it.
Maybe we need to broaden the term of what it means to be technologically unemployed. It doesn't just mean "My boss replaced me with a robot". The ruling class knows damn well there'd be crazy social unrest if they just fired the lot of us. They're smart enough to let attrition and inflation do the work quietly. Like boiling a frog.
before the telecoms parachute in lawyers and lobbyists and shut it down. Most states already have laws banning it. The trouble with municipal governments it they're too small to fight off a mega corp. It's the same reason we don't let cities run their own branch of the national defense. China would pick 'em off one by one until we were a vassal state.
that if government would just get out of the way competition would happen. And we've seen this over and over again in large scale networks. Just look at the rail road industry... wait scratch that. Well there's the telephone industry... no, scratch that one too. Look, deregulation work this time. No monopolies. We promise.
it's entirely possible, and based on historical evidence likely, that the people in those countries will be left to languish in poverty. Who's going to give them those automatic tractors if they have little or nothing of value to trade? For the most part their cheap labor is their most valuable resource. The natural resources tend to get monopolized, often by violent thugs and juntas.
Human civilization is built around the idea that if you don't work you don't eat. People hate it when you tax them and give their money to somebody else. They hate it more if it's somebody in another country. Sure, the increased world stability is worth it, but it still doesn't _feel_ right. Taxation feels like the theft. And there's lots of folks right here on/. who would argue that it is. Unless you can answer that or find a way for people whose labor has suddenly become worthless to trade then those people are screwed.
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but this is an awful lot of effort and electricity being put into what is essentially a vehicle for money laundering. I don't even see this helping blockchaining, since isn't mining separate from blockchain tech?
Yeah, I know that's not popular to say, I can't see crypto currencies replacing credit cards much less cash. They're too slow, and by design get slower. There are ways to fix that but their difficult and expensive. As soon as you start implementing them you have to the same problem CCs have (high fees). And that's before we get into how CCs can be used to pay off larger purchases over time (or, sadly, but borrow money when you can't make ends meet).
they exist to get them ready for factory work. That's why they have bells. I suppose we could change the purpose of schools, but who's gonna pay for it? At my kid's school the reason for the early start was because they mixed junior high kids in with highschool kids and needed to keep 'em separated because they didn't have enough monitors to stop the fighting.
kids have different biorhythms than adults. So yes, they will grow up. Biology and the passage of time will take care of that. You don't "learn" to change your biorhythms. They change over time whether you like it or not. Short of chemical intervention which is probably not a good idea.
tl;dr. Let the kids sleep in like their bodies are telling them to and they'll be more production and learn better, leading to better adults when it's time for them to be adults.
in those tight enclosures. Good cooling design helps, but it can only do so much. Also Mac users are going to find out that their laptops don't last for decades when they run their CPUs at full bore for 3-4 hour gaming sessions.
That's the point. You buy a business that is worth a lot so you can get huge loans on their name. Then you pay yourself huge consultancy fees and salaries from those loans. They couldn't get the loans if the businesses were on the way to failure.
Toys R Us was doing quite well... through Baby's R Us. They were basically shifting over to a baby retailer with a small toy division until they had the rug pulled out from under them.
because I can get a GTX 1060 6gb for only $120 more than I paid a year ago. I suspect the prices'll go back to normal soon. There's outfits out of China working on ASICs that can do Ethereum.
so far none of the benefits of Brexit have materialized and all of the promises have been walked back. I doubt they'll even get to cut back on immigration. Immigrants are usually brought in for cheap labor, I can't see the ruling class giving that up. It looks to me like you've got all the downsides and none of the up. Just do a second referendum already.
because they keep getting bought up in Bain Capital style leveraged buy-outs and then saddled with debt that prevents them from adequately competing with Amazon. To cut costs they turn their stores into dirty little warehouses. This is what happened to Toys R Us. And they were one of the lucky ones. They survived 13 years before the debt crushed them.
If Trump doesn't like the post office subsidizing Amazon there's a really, really easy solution: raise the rates. Problem solved. And if he doesn't like how they treat their workers he could raise federal minimum wage and drop the work week to 30/week before overtime kicked in. The latter might require congress to act but it's popular enough that if he'd stop attacking them on Twitter and take congress to task for not doing anything for the working man he'd have it done in a week. Especially if he did it right before mid-terms.
But this is all just a distraction. And an political attack on a company run by people that don't particularly like him. It'd be funny watching to rich and powerful guys in a pissing match if their actions didn't effect me so drastically.
the folks in charge right now have deregulation as a central plank of the party. We'll get a little theater to make it seem like they care and then they'll do precisely squat.
If you want that to change show up to your primary and vote for people who think government can actually do good. If you don't think government can do any good don't complain when it doesn't.
eventually these tests will be ordered by doctors. And insurance companies have a nasty habit of not paying your doctor if the test comes up clean. After all, if the test was going to come up clean anyway why order it in the first place? It sucks, because it makes doctors hesitant to order tests (since they might not get paid).
they're affraid of getting data from illegal sources. e.g. that hack of the DNC for instance.
that were going to replace the manufacturing & tech jobs we outsourced? How's that working out for ya?
No.
there have been several lawsuits over this. The independent contractors have more or less won the right to minimum wage. There's no point to hiring a contracting firm if they can't abuse their employees.
there's lots of folks who don't know what to do with themselves if they're not working. People in their 60s and 70s who refuse to retire even when they can afford to. People who want a sense of self worth and purpose but lack the talent to find something on their own that gives them that. Those folks are especially bad for those of us who want to just do our own thing. They work 50, 60, 70 hours/week, driving down the value of everybody's wages.
And for Pete's sake, Jocks and Nerds shouldn't be fighting once they're both in the workforce. We're no longer playing kiddy games here. We're fighting over who controls the wealth generated by society. Us nerds need to be smart enough (and big enough) to set aside a smug sense of vengeance and work together with everyone to protect the working class. It's either that or we all get screwed by the ruling class.
poor people with no hope and no options are expensive and dangerous. But baring that level of oppression they're going to get violent and organized, find themselves a strongman style dictator and fire up a junta. You might be able to keep a lid on that with gulags and violent oppression like the Chinese do. But is that what you really want?
Basically, there are consequence for abandoning 50-70% of the population to desperate poverty.
I just got done reading a story about how FedEx cancelled plans to build a plant in Indiana (and the 500 jobs that went with it) because increases in efficiency meant they just plain didn't need it.
Maybe we need to broaden the term of what it means to be technologically unemployed. It doesn't just mean "My boss replaced me with a robot". The ruling class knows damn well there'd be crazy social unrest if they just fired the lot of us. They're smart enough to let attrition and inflation do the work quietly. Like boiling a frog.
how does this relate to and compare with cars?
I wouldn't touch Java with a 50' pole.
before the telecoms parachute in lawyers and lobbyists and shut it down. Most states already have laws banning it. The trouble with municipal governments it they're too small to fight off a mega corp. It's the same reason we don't let cities run their own branch of the national defense. China would pick 'em off one by one until we were a vassal state.
that if government would just get out of the way competition would happen. And we've seen this over and over again in large scale networks. Just look at the rail road industry... wait scratch that. Well there's the telephone industry... no, scratch that one too. Look, deregulation work this time. No monopolies. We promise.
has had full pencil support for decades. Maybe longer. Anyone know when they pencil was invented?
it's entirely possible, and based on historical evidence likely, that the people in those countries will be left to languish in poverty. Who's going to give them those automatic tractors if they have little or nothing of value to trade? For the most part their cheap labor is their most valuable resource. The natural resources tend to get monopolized, often by violent thugs and juntas.
/. who would argue that it is. Unless you can answer that or find a way for people whose labor has suddenly become worthless to trade then those people are screwed.
Human civilization is built around the idea that if you don't work you don't eat. People hate it when you tax them and give their money to somebody else. They hate it more if it's somebody in another country. Sure, the increased world stability is worth it, but it still doesn't _feel_ right. Taxation feels like the theft. And there's lots of folks right here on
this is the computer equivalent of that.
as a species that robots taking over menial labor is a bad thing?