Amazon's blocking Google's adverts. If you successful do that on your HTPC google will take what steps they can to prevent you from getting the content they host. They're less successful with HTPCs because it's harder to do but they'll still try (actually, they'll try to get around your ad blocker, which they probably can't do with Amazon's box).
you'd be amazed how many people get tricked into it. Or they're just plain denied birth control by religious zealots. Yeah, yeah. Don't have sex. Because abstinence based education programs work so well. You do realized that it's a basic biological need, right? If it wasn't there's be no human race. It's a pretty raw deal for the individual organism after all.
What I'm getting at is this: lots of folks get roped into parenthood unfairly. A just society would support them and make their lives and their children's lives better. One way to do that would be to regulate predatory companies who seek to take advantage of their children.
Everytime I hear that my ears perk up. It's the kind of crazy conspiracy stuff that crazy dictators have used for years to breed distrust in Democracy so they can 'temporarily' supplement it.
a solid public education system. I've long since learned to spot this stuff. But I _learned_ that. It took years and several hard working and very good teachers. You're always going to have this kind of stuff. Every couple of years a few of the more obvious ones get caught. What you need is a system that teaches people to catch it and respond accordingly. In other words, teaches critical thinking skills. Yes, they can be taught. If it doesn't come naturally it's hard to teach and takes years, but it can be done. And even if you're somebody who just 'gets it' naturally it's worth it to you to pay for the ones who it goes whooshing over their heads to get it to. You don't want an electorate that's easily manipulated.
A couple of dictators who borrowed Marx's writing for his populist rhetoric killed those people. I really wish people could get their facts straight on that one. Hell, people still call China communist today and it's not even pending anymore.
It means they have to be paid more. But as automation and outsourcing devalues their labor they're going to be worth less. That's just supply and demand. So of they're going to work less the people who pay them are going to have to be forced to pay them more, probably with an underlying threat (e.g. of you don't pay your taxes you go to jail). Now, I'm a socialist so I'm fine with that, but how about the rest out there? Forget logic and reason, how does it make you feel?
Specifically the 10th amendment about powers being reserved for the State. Then cut government power at the state level. Less government is always better.
he never had to kick them off in the first place. I'm guessing he was more concerned with his bottom line if he continued hosting them. e.g. worried he'd get boycotted.
This is not going to be a popular thing to say, well, anywhere, but the ruling party in America loves stuff like the Daily Stormer. I'd like to call them 'useful idiots' but that's making light of them. They're a mix of extremely disenfranchised people and the people who exploit them for gain. Such things have always been useful. Right now we've got a multi-trillion dollar tax cut for the 1% that got ram-roded through our house and senate and folks like the Daily Stormer helped put the folks in charge that made that happen.
Thing is, this shit will get out of hand, like it always does, and sooner or later those angry, disenfranchised people are going to turn on somebody. It'll be some harmless minority used as a scapegoat. Maybe the Jews. Maybe the Muslims. Doesn't matter. If anyone reading this has the slightest interest in stopping that, well, now's the time. Get out there and vote. And not just in the major elections. Not just in the mid-terms. In the bloody primaries. You've got to identify why these people are so damn angry and do something about it. Otherwise somebody else is gonna come along, organize them, and do horrible things. I've got 2000 years of history backing me up on that one. At least.
with a different headline that implied the exact opposite result (something about Netflix ending piracy or something)?
Come on/. editors, you can't just change the headline and with it the entire meaning of the article. I mean, some of us are going to at least read the summary, aren't we? I mean, not me, no. But I'm sure someone will.
are moved overseas? What do you do in the face of rapidly encroaching automation? Not everything is in your control. All the time here on/. I hear people say kids these days shouldn't borrow $160k to go to college but learn a trade instead. But even if you do that what happens if you pick the wrong trade.
There was just a story about a neo-Nazi (actual neo-Nazi, as in has Mein Kampf on his bookshelf) loosing his job at Applebees because he got interviewed by one of the left wing mags and his boss caught wind of it. Thing is, he was a welder between gigs. I can't tell you the number of right wingers who, when they hear me complain about my kid's college bills tell me she should be a welder. They point to high wages and ignore the lack of steady work. I guess if you want to live on the road. Good luck starting a family like that.
Is it just me, or are we, the working class, always being told to work harder for less? When I was a kid we were supposed to work less for more.
this decision? It does seem to mesh with the philosophy that government interference in free markets is a net-negative. The argument could certainly be made that the federal government has no business telling Comcast, Cox, et al what to do with their networks. You could argue that they get preferential status, but two wrongs don't make a right. Wouldn't the correct solution be to revoke their monopolies along with the net neutrality regulations?
that's not true. Not even a little bit. There's two ways rich people invest:
a. Shotgun approach. Invest in everything that comes your way. You lose money on 90% but the 10% is so profitable it pays for the other 90%, plus you write the 90% off on your taxes anyway.
b. HFT, or High Frequency Trading. Basically rent seeking.
There's also a third method, the good 'ole boys network, where you get told in advance where to put your money. Remember, it's not illegal if you don't get caught. And what happens on the golf course stays on the golf course.
Because you didn't have the book smarts for college and the entire manufacturing base was shifted overseas or to Mexico, right? Nope, poor financial decisions for the win.
And a pretty easily proven one. He's talking about $850 a year. That's not going to make or break anyone's investment portfolio. It's like that schmuck in Australia who told the young uns the could afford a house in Sydney if only they'd give up avocado toast. It's nonsense the aristocracy tells it's workers to excuse stagnant and falling wages. Don't fall for it.
than the old ones. I remember reading a story about new opera houses not matching the opera houses of old because you couldn't get an entire civilization to bend it's will to the manufacturing of an opera house. You just couldn't match the amount of resources and lives spent on the old ones. That was government at work, specifically the aristocracy. They didn't really call themselves government though.
Like most things we're better off than our ancestors are. The solution right now isn't less government, it's more involvement. Start with mandatory voting. Yes, I know folks are scared of a census (DPRK uses it to keep tabs on it's civilians). But there's already a census and 99% of adults have driver's licenses. Face it, that ship has sailed.
Government, particularly central government, is a tool. Like fire. Or guns. If you don't use it, somebody else will. You're never going to get away from it. It's just too powerful and useful a tool. Use it or lose it.
of protecting privacy. It's incredibly traceable. That's sort of the entire point of blockchain. And no, it's not hard to track down somebody by their wallet Id.
Also, when he says 'social value' I think the word 'positive' is implied to proceed that. Voter suppression tactics have social value, Marijuana being illegal, and heck good 'ole fashion slavery all have social value, but not a positive one.
The jury's still out on whether cryto-currencies have a net positive impact. Right now their value is underpinned by money laundering, drugs, ransomeware and now speculators. That's not really debatable. There's too few places you can actually spend crypto-currencies on legitimate items to say otherwise. When was the last time you bought milk with bitcoin? Or what is the real, practical advantage of a store letting you use bitcoin.
I guess you could say you'll avoid credit card fees, but will you really? Do you think the folks who facilitate those transactions aren't going to take a cut? Do you think they'll be no risk involved in the transactions? And besides, while credit card fees are high debit fees are negligible (why do you think businesses try to get you to use debit). We've already got a reasonable solution to that problem?
Right now I just don't see a viable use case for bitcoin that doesn't end badly. But Let me know if you do.
Economists server a very, very useful function. We've got a tax plan being ram-rodded through right now and thanks to economists we know it's a bad bill. That's useful information.
You could argue this particular economist isn't useful; but you didn't. I know we're not supposed to complain about moderation around here but since when does a blanket attack on a branch of mathematics (yes, economics is a branch of mathmatics, which anyone who's taken a real course in it can tell you) made it to +4 insightful, even briefly?
or any other digital currency is that I wouldn't want to hand over cash or a cash equivalent online. I can dispute any charge on my card. I can't do that if I hand over cash. In real life I can see the merchandise and who's selling it to me. Even at a Walmart I can see if a box is beat to hell and the contents likely broken. Sure, most online places take easy returns, but that's not out of the goodness of their hearts. That's because I've got leverage.
by oil subsidies, especially if you include the 'subsidy' that is our constant military expansion to secure cheap oil. Let's face it, we're not fighting wars in the middle east out of the goodness of our hearts. It's for the oil. Take that away and you could slash our military budget. We do the same thing with tobacco. We tax the hell out of cigarettes then subsidies tobacco growers.
because it's much, much easier to control the emissions from a central location powering a million cars than from each of those million cars. Also, not sure about your country but America mostly stopped burning coal. Natural gas is much, much cheaper and also cleaner. And that's before you factor in that you can have your power plants pretty far away from where people breath, which is nice (again, that may be an American thing, we've got lots of space to spread out).
from the impact of what's likely to be another industrial revolution. So far it's hard to get anyone interested in talking about the downsides of that. I think he's just using hyperbole to get attention to the real problems. Worked too. Every time he fires off one of these comments it gets at least 200 comments on/.
just how complex a browser is. Having written an addon I've got a taste for the craziness involved. It's frankly absurd just what it takes. To be fair, browsers are practically operating systems these days. And then you add all the community people. I couldn't have written my plugin without all the help they gave me.
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Amazon's blocking Google's adverts. If you successful do that on your HTPC google will take what steps they can to prevent you from getting the content they host. They're less successful with HTPCs because it's harder to do but they'll still try (actually, they'll try to get around your ad blocker, which they probably can't do with Amazon's box).
you'd be amazed how many people get tricked into it. Or they're just plain denied birth control by religious zealots. Yeah, yeah. Don't have sex. Because abstinence based education programs work so well. You do realized that it's a basic biological need, right? If it wasn't there's be no human race. It's a pretty raw deal for the individual organism after all.
What I'm getting at is this: lots of folks get roped into parenthood unfairly. A just society would support them and make their lives and their children's lives better. One way to do that would be to regulate predatory companies who seek to take advantage of their children.
Everytime I hear that my ears perk up. It's the kind of crazy conspiracy stuff that crazy dictators have used for years to breed distrust in Democracy so they can 'temporarily' supplement it.
a solid public education system. I've long since learned to spot this stuff. But I _learned_ that. It took years and several hard working and very good teachers. You're always going to have this kind of stuff. Every couple of years a few of the more obvious ones get caught. What you need is a system that teaches people to catch it and respond accordingly. In other words, teaches critical thinking skills. Yes, they can be taught. If it doesn't come naturally it's hard to teach and takes years, but it can be done. And even if you're somebody who just 'gets it' naturally it's worth it to you to pay for the ones who it goes whooshing over their heads to get it to. You don't want an electorate that's easily manipulated.
A couple of dictators who borrowed Marx's writing for his populist rhetoric killed those people. I really wish people could get their facts straight on that one. Hell, people still call China communist today and it's not even pending anymore.
It means they have to be paid more. But as automation and outsourcing devalues their labor they're going to be worth less. That's just supply and demand. So of they're going to work less the people who pay them are going to have to be forced to pay them more, probably with an underlying threat (e.g. of you don't pay your taxes you go to jail). Now, I'm a socialist so I'm fine with that, but how about the rest out there? Forget logic and reason, how does it make you feel?
Specifically the 10th amendment about powers being reserved for the State. Then cut government power at the state level. Less government is always better.
he never had to kick them off in the first place. I'm guessing he was more concerned with his bottom line if he continued hosting them. e.g. worried he'd get boycotted.
This is not going to be a popular thing to say, well, anywhere, but the ruling party in America loves stuff like the Daily Stormer. I'd like to call them 'useful idiots' but that's making light of them. They're a mix of extremely disenfranchised people and the people who exploit them for gain. Such things have always been useful. Right now we've got a multi-trillion dollar tax cut for the 1% that got ram-roded through our house and senate and folks like the Daily Stormer helped put the folks in charge that made that happen.
Thing is, this shit will get out of hand, like it always does, and sooner or later those angry, disenfranchised people are going to turn on somebody. It'll be some harmless minority used as a scapegoat. Maybe the Jews. Maybe the Muslims. Doesn't matter. If anyone reading this has the slightest interest in stopping that, well, now's the time. Get out there and vote. And not just in the major elections. Not just in the mid-terms. In the bloody primaries. You've got to identify why these people are so damn angry and do something about it. Otherwise somebody else is gonna come along, organize them, and do horrible things. I've got 2000 years of history backing me up on that one. At least.
with a different headline that implied the exact opposite result (something about Netflix ending piracy or something)?
/. editors, you can't just change the headline and with it the entire meaning of the article. I mean, some of us are going to at least read the summary, aren't we? I mean, not me, no. But I'm sure someone will.
Come on
are moved overseas? What do you do in the face of rapidly encroaching automation? Not everything is in your control. All the time here on /. I hear people say kids these days shouldn't borrow $160k to go to college but learn a trade instead. But even if you do that what happens if you pick the wrong trade.
There was just a story about a neo-Nazi (actual neo-Nazi, as in has Mein Kampf on his bookshelf) loosing his job at Applebees because he got interviewed by one of the left wing mags and his boss caught wind of it. Thing is, he was a welder between gigs. I can't tell you the number of right wingers who, when they hear me complain about my kid's college bills tell me she should be a welder. They point to high wages and ignore the lack of steady work. I guess if you want to live on the road. Good luck starting a family like that.
Is it just me, or are we, the working class, always being told to work harder for less? When I was a kid we were supposed to work less for more.
this decision? It does seem to mesh with the philosophy that government interference in free markets is a net-negative. The argument could certainly be made that the federal government has no business telling Comcast, Cox, et al what to do with their networks. You could argue that they get preferential status, but two wrongs don't make a right. Wouldn't the correct solution be to revoke their monopolies along with the net neutrality regulations?
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that's not true. Not even a little bit. There's two ways rich people invest:
a. Shotgun approach. Invest in everything that comes your way. You lose money on 90% but the 10% is so profitable it pays for the other 90%, plus you write the 90% off on your taxes anyway.
b. HFT, or High Frequency Trading. Basically rent seeking.
There's also a third method, the good 'ole boys network, where you get told in advance where to put your money. Remember, it's not illegal if you don't get caught. And what happens on the golf course stays on the golf course.
Because you didn't have the book smarts for college and the entire manufacturing base was shifted overseas or to Mexico, right? Nope, poor financial decisions for the win.
And a pretty easily proven one. He's talking about $850 a year. That's not going to make or break anyone's investment portfolio. It's like that schmuck in Australia who told the young uns the could afford a house in Sydney if only they'd give up avocado toast. It's nonsense the aristocracy tells it's workers to excuse stagnant and falling wages. Don't fall for it.
than the old ones. I remember reading a story about new opera houses not matching the opera houses of old because you couldn't get an entire civilization to bend it's will to the manufacturing of an opera house. You just couldn't match the amount of resources and lives spent on the old ones. That was government at work, specifically the aristocracy. They didn't really call themselves government though.
Like most things we're better off than our ancestors are. The solution right now isn't less government, it's more involvement. Start with mandatory voting. Yes, I know folks are scared of a census (DPRK uses it to keep tabs on it's civilians). But there's already a census and 99% of adults have driver's licenses. Face it, that ship has sailed.
Government, particularly central government, is a tool. Like fire. Or guns. If you don't use it, somebody else will. You're never going to get away from it. It's just too powerful and useful a tool. Use it or lose it.
of protecting privacy. It's incredibly traceable. That's sort of the entire point of blockchain. And no, it's not hard to track down somebody by their wallet Id.
Also, when he says 'social value' I think the word 'positive' is implied to proceed that. Voter suppression tactics have social value, Marijuana being illegal, and heck good 'ole fashion slavery all have social value, but not a positive one.
The jury's still out on whether cryto-currencies have a net positive impact. Right now their value is underpinned by money laundering, drugs, ransomeware and now speculators. That's not really debatable. There's too few places you can actually spend crypto-currencies on legitimate items to say otherwise. When was the last time you bought milk with bitcoin? Or what is the real, practical advantage of a store letting you use bitcoin.
I guess you could say you'll avoid credit card fees, but will you really? Do you think the folks who facilitate those transactions aren't going to take a cut? Do you think they'll be no risk involved in the transactions? And besides, while credit card fees are high debit fees are negligible (why do you think businesses try to get you to use debit). We've already got a reasonable solution to that problem?
Right now I just don't see a viable use case for bitcoin that doesn't end badly. But Let me know if you do.
Economists server a very, very useful function. We've got a tax plan being ram-rodded through right now and thanks to economists we know it's a bad bill. That's useful information.
You could argue this particular economist isn't useful; but you didn't. I know we're not supposed to complain about moderation around here but since when does a blanket attack on a branch of mathematics (yes, economics is a branch of mathmatics, which anyone who's taken a real course in it can tell you) made it to +4 insightful, even briefly?
or any other digital currency is that I wouldn't want to hand over cash or a cash equivalent online. I can dispute any charge on my card. I can't do that if I hand over cash. In real life I can see the merchandise and who's selling it to me. Even at a Walmart I can see if a box is beat to hell and the contents likely broken. Sure, most online places take easy returns, but that's not out of the goodness of their hearts. That's because I've got leverage.
Would play a game you could get sued for. Yeah, yeah. Don't cheat. But whose to say they won't Sue you anyway?
by oil subsidies, especially if you include the 'subsidy' that is our constant military expansion to secure cheap oil. Let's face it, we're not fighting wars in the middle east out of the goodness of our hearts. It's for the oil. Take that away and you could slash our military budget. We do the same thing with tobacco. We tax the hell out of cigarettes then subsidies tobacco growers.
because it's much, much easier to control the emissions from a central location powering a million cars than from each of those million cars. Also, not sure about your country but America mostly stopped burning coal. Natural gas is much, much cheaper and also cleaner. And that's before you factor in that you can have your power plants pretty far away from where people breath, which is nice (again, that may be an American thing, we've got lots of space to spread out).
from the impact of what's likely to be another industrial revolution. So far it's hard to get anyone interested in talking about the downsides of that. I think he's just using hyperbole to get attention to the real problems. Worked too. Every time he fires off one of these comments it gets at least 200 comments on /.
but it's turtles, all the way down.
just how complex a browser is. Having written an addon I've got a taste for the craziness involved. It's frankly absurd just what it takes. To be fair, browsers are practically operating systems these days. And then you add all the community people. I couldn't have written my plugin without all the help they gave me.