and if nothing else Mr Hawking is very, very good at math. He knows what he's talking about. Just the same way a C++ programmer can comment on the state of the Java programming language without necessarily being an expert on it. He's in the same overall field of study.
the whole skynet thing is too far out there. The real threat is widespread poverty brought on by folks not having jobs and competing too hard for the few remaining jobs. In most places today if you don't work you don't eat. I know America is like that. We don't have a real 'dole'. There's a skeleton of it left called TANF but it tops out around $200/mo in most places (folks will quote Alaska's much higher maximums ignoring the fact that almost nobody in America gets that).
WWII and the pogroms against the Jewish people were both kicked off by widespread poverty leading to people looking the other way while horrible things happened. If we keep this up we're going to see that again but worse because the people who will be doing it will have learned their lessons from Germany's failure. That's the funny thing about life, the bad people always seem to learn from history while the good people ignore it.
Isn't a market force. A market force is when you don't buy from somebody because of their poor security. You're not going to get anywhere convincing the other side with that argument. Somehow we've got to convince them there are some things the market alone can't do. In my experience it's a religion for a lot of people in that they take it on faith. The way I was taught the virtues of the market in grade school certainly made it seem so. No discussion of competing solutions just a blanket statement of 'this is how economies are'.
on the iOS browser? I remember Firefox on iOS wasn't really Firefox back in the day because Apple wouldn't let you publish apps that themselves ran apps and a browser counted as such. The want to make sure you don't use it to do an end run around their store's 30% cut.
We've long since got automatic scripts that write news stories. If you read a story about a bump in the stock market or something a baseball game chances are a computer wrote that.
but as crazy as it is it's still something to be understood. Like you said, testable and true. In that sense it's not a mystery, just something too complicated to be understood at first (or second, or third, or thousandth) pass.
I like how science is gradually eliminating mysteries. I mean that. There was somebody who complained that google was ruining us because you never had bask in wonder at the world's mysteries. 90% of the ones a regular chap could comprehend were a 2 second search away and you could find solid theories on the other 10%. The guy who wrote it was upset that we lost a sense of mystery, but I see it as as gaining a sense that the universe could be understood. That things happen for defined reasons and that we can, with time and learning take control of our destinies and shape them to our liking. In other words: Fate is bullshit.
that would be a good start. Otherwise they're going to get desperate, they're going to get mean and they're going to get organized and it's going to end they way it did last time: World Wars and pogroms against some vulnerable minority.
We have a solution. It's socialism. Give people the fruits of those machine's labors instead of letting an elite aristocracy monopolize them. I realize it's frustrating to let people have things they didn't 'earn' (funny how it's not when they inherit wealth, but that's something we're taught's OK while we're impressionable kids) but we're either going to get over that or we're going to bow down to our new kings.
And no, nobody who takes time out of their day to read or post on/. is likely to be joining that aristocracy any time soon. We're working class, and there's nothing wrong with that, but it means we need to start taking care of each other. The aristocracy sure as hell ain't gonna do it.
A whole bunch of them are currently railing against the Republican tax plan as a $1.5 trillion dollar combination boondogle and giveaway to the aristocracy. But our mass media is owned by that aristocracy so unless you're listening to something like Mother Jones or one of the left wing youtubers you wouldn't know that.
The elites figured out in the 80s they needed think tanks to give them some legitimacy. That's all this is. But if you can managed to bypass the think tanks and watch the stuff coming out of the public Us you'll find plenty talking about how the deck is being stacked against the working class. This is also why our right wing constantly attacks professors and educators.
it took 80 years for those jobs to materialize after the last big industrial revolution. During those 80 years we had wide spread poverty due to unemployment plus two world wars (and innumerable smaller conflicts). It was pretty much an all around shit time to be alive unless you were a member of the aristocracy.
So yeah, the ship will probably eventually right itself. After a lot of pointless misery that could be easily avoided if we just plain _tried_. Let me put it another way: unemployment and social unease due to widespread automation is a complex problem; and when, in anyone's life, has a complex problem been best addressed by ignoring it. And yes, you're entire post is suggesting we ignore it, even if you don't know that it does.
After dropping the world's biggest bomb on Afghanistan. Very few people will _say_ they want war. But when it starts they get in line and watch the fireworks.
Lots of folks like it. Especially The dropping bombs part. After Saddam and Gaddafi disarmed we invaded and bombed. You think North Korea learned nothing from that? We as a nation are not to be trusted.
I don't know what else to call them, but the kind of day trader types that play the stock market noticed the price going up. So now in addition to the drug traffickers, money launders and ransomeware authors we've got those jackals. I'm sure this will all end well.
Maybe let me customize the tab bar with some quick access buttons. Make one of the icons the Windows logo. Then put a clock on the bar, and make it blue. And add some more quick access icons next to the clock. Oh, and make all the tabs icons so I can fit a lot of them on the screen. It'll really be the future.
with a Macbook because it kept crashing. She's in college and too far away for me to really troubleshoot it. So she comes home and brings the Toshiba with her so I can troublshoot.
The crashes were caused by all the crapware. Reams and reams of it. This isn't a cheap laptop either, it's a $1200 i7 with 16 gigs of ram and a 7200 rpm drive (albeit no SSD).
I always wondered why the heck folks were banging on about when they said Macs were better/faster/more stable than a PC. But I only use a corporate laptop and I build desktops at home. The few old laptops I have around home run Linux. Do these manufactures not realize just how much damage the crapware does to their brand?
one sheep voting to gut, stuff and mount two wolves and the wolves somehow inexplicably going along with it. See, I can use silly anthologies too.
You know, there is such a thing as solutions to problems, right? You want the smaller states to have a say but I don't want them getting a disproportionate (and therefor un-democratic) amount of power since. It's staring you in the face you know. It's called a parliamentary system (minus the UK's house of lords because why the _hell_ would you do that if you weren't daft).
I'm not very familiar with it, but it sounds like you can sell fractional coins with pretty high fractional amounts. And that's before we talk about forking or just plain new currencies.
When the gov't decides to crack down it'll be in the tradtionall fashion, they'll arrest a bunch of drug dealers and money launders (and maybe a few ransomware authors) and that'll tank the price. The value of bitcoin is, like it or not, underpinned by illicit goods. Eventually it'll get too big for it's britches and that'll be that.
after decades of "Tough on Crime" laws just about anything more serious than jaywalking will put you away for at least 50. Most folks plea bargain. The crazy long sentences give prosecutors incredible leverage (nevermind the fact that their resources are virtually unlimited while the defense gets about 2 hours a case). He probably took it to court thinking their evidence was flimsy, but jury trials mean justice is more a popularity contest than anything about logic and reason.
Our entire system is designed to hurt people, and lots of voters want it that way. Those voters aren't sadists. They're worse. They're a combination of frightened people and folks who, having seen hard times in life, see no reason why anyone else should get a break. Most folks know a sadist is bad news, but it's just as hard to reason with people who are frightened and angry.
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and if nothing else Mr Hawking is very, very good at math. He knows what he's talking about. Just the same way a C++ programmer can comment on the state of the Java programming language without necessarily being an expert on it. He's in the same overall field of study.
the whole skynet thing is too far out there. The real threat is widespread poverty brought on by folks not having jobs and competing too hard for the few remaining jobs. In most places today if you don't work you don't eat. I know America is like that. We don't have a real 'dole'. There's a skeleton of it left called TANF but it tops out around $200/mo in most places (folks will quote Alaska's much higher maximums ignoring the fact that almost nobody in America gets that).
WWII and the pogroms against the Jewish people were both kicked off by widespread poverty leading to people looking the other way while horrible things happened. If we keep this up we're going to see that again but worse because the people who will be doing it will have learned their lessons from Germany's failure. That's the funny thing about life, the bad people always seem to learn from history while the good people ignore it.
Isn't a market force. A market force is when you don't buy from somebody because of their poor security. You're not going to get anywhere convincing the other side with that argument. Somehow we've got to convince them there are some things the market alone can't do. In my experience it's a religion for a lot of people in that they take it on faith. The way I was taught the virtues of the market in grade school certainly made it seem so. No discussion of competing solutions just a blanket statement of 'this is how economies are'.
on the iOS browser? I remember Firefox on iOS wasn't really Firefox back in the day because Apple wouldn't let you publish apps that themselves ran apps and a browser counted as such. The want to make sure you don't use it to do an end run around their store's 30% cut.
We've long since got automatic scripts that write news stories. If you read a story about a bump in the stock market or something a baseball game chances are a computer wrote that.
"Google launches App that can help them track mobile data usage".
There, FTFY. Also, every phone I've ever had has one of these.
but as crazy as it is it's still something to be understood. Like you said, testable and true. In that sense it's not a mystery, just something too complicated to be understood at first (or second, or third, or thousandth) pass.
that actually has some teeth.
I like how science is gradually eliminating mysteries. I mean that. There was somebody who complained that google was ruining us because you never had bask in wonder at the world's mysteries. 90% of the ones a regular chap could comprehend were a 2 second search away and you could find solid theories on the other 10%. The guy who wrote it was upset that we lost a sense of mystery, but I see it as as gaining a sense that the universe could be understood. That things happen for defined reasons and that we can, with time and learning take control of our destinies and shape them to our liking. In other words: Fate is bullshit.
that would be a good start. Otherwise they're going to get desperate, they're going to get mean and they're going to get organized and it's going to end they way it did last time: World Wars and pogroms against some vulnerable minority.
/. is likely to be joining that aristocracy any time soon. We're working class, and there's nothing wrong with that, but it means we need to start taking care of each other. The aristocracy sure as hell ain't gonna do it.
We have a solution. It's socialism. Give people the fruits of those machine's labors instead of letting an elite aristocracy monopolize them. I realize it's frustrating to let people have things they didn't 'earn' (funny how it's not when they inherit wealth, but that's something we're taught's OK while we're impressionable kids) but we're either going to get over that or we're going to bow down to our new kings.
And no, nobody who takes time out of their day to read or post on
A whole bunch of them are currently railing against the Republican tax plan as a $1.5 trillion dollar combination boondogle and giveaway to the aristocracy. But our mass media is owned by that aristocracy so unless you're listening to something like Mother Jones or one of the left wing youtubers you wouldn't know that.
The elites figured out in the 80s they needed think tanks to give them some legitimacy. That's all this is. But if you can managed to bypass the think tanks and watch the stuff coming out of the public Us you'll find plenty talking about how the deck is being stacked against the working class. This is also why our right wing constantly attacks professors and educators.
it took 80 years for those jobs to materialize after the last big industrial revolution. During those 80 years we had wide spread poverty due to unemployment plus two world wars (and innumerable smaller conflicts). It was pretty much an all around shit time to be alive unless you were a member of the aristocracy.
So yeah, the ship will probably eventually right itself. After a lot of pointless misery that could be easily avoided if we just plain _tried_. Let me put it another way: unemployment and social unease due to widespread automation is a complex problem; and when, in anyone's life, has a complex problem been best addressed by ignoring it. And yes, you're entire post is suggesting we ignore it, even if you don't know that it does.
After dropping the world's biggest bomb on Afghanistan. Very few people will _say_ they want war. But when it starts they get in line and watch the fireworks.
I mean, there's already plenty of good quality pics I'd be willing to upload.
Lots of folks like it. Especially The dropping bombs part. After Saddam and Gaddafi disarmed we invaded and bombed. You think North Korea learned nothing from that? We as a nation are not to be trusted.
By at least your keyboard isn't as cramped
they know they'll just lose in the General. Go vote.
I might buy the notion that journalists are a figment of my imagination, especially after the last election. But bookkeepers? Consider my mind blown.
the extra $50-$100 on a monitor with tilt?
I don't know what else to call them, but the kind of day trader types that play the stock market noticed the price going up. So now in addition to the drug traffickers, money launders and ransomeware authors we've got those jackals. I'm sure this will all end well.
Maybe let me customize the tab bar with some quick access buttons. Make one of the icons the Windows logo. Then put a clock on the bar, and make it blue. And add some more quick access icons next to the clock. Oh, and make all the tabs icons so I can fit a lot of them on the screen. It'll really be the future.
with a Macbook because it kept crashing. She's in college and too far away for me to really troubleshoot it. So she comes home and brings the Toshiba with her so I can troublshoot.
The crashes were caused by all the crapware. Reams and reams of it. This isn't a cheap laptop either, it's a $1200 i7 with 16 gigs of ram and a 7200 rpm drive (albeit no SSD).
I always wondered why the heck folks were banging on about when they said Macs were better/faster/more stable than a PC. But I only use a corporate laptop and I build desktops at home. The few old laptops I have around home run Linux. Do these manufactures not realize just how much damage the crapware does to their brand?
one sheep voting to gut, stuff and mount two wolves and the wolves somehow inexplicably going along with it. See, I can use silly anthologies too.
You know, there is such a thing as solutions to problems, right? You want the smaller states to have a say but I don't want them getting a disproportionate (and therefor un-democratic) amount of power since. It's staring you in the face you know. It's called a parliamentary system (minus the UK's house of lords because why the _hell_ would you do that if you weren't daft).
I'm not very familiar with it, but it sounds like you can sell fractional coins with pretty high fractional amounts. And that's before we talk about forking or just plain new currencies.
When the gov't decides to crack down it'll be in the tradtionall fashion, they'll arrest a bunch of drug dealers and money launders (and maybe a few ransomware authors) and that'll tank the price. The value of bitcoin is, like it or not, underpinned by illicit goods. Eventually it'll get too big for it's britches and that'll be that.
after decades of "Tough on Crime" laws just about anything more serious than jaywalking will put you away for at least 50. Most folks plea bargain. The crazy long sentences give prosecutors incredible leverage (nevermind the fact that their resources are virtually unlimited while the defense gets about 2 hours a case). He probably took it to court thinking their evidence was flimsy, but jury trials mean justice is more a popularity contest than anything about logic and reason.
Our entire system is designed to hurt people, and lots of voters want it that way. Those voters aren't sadists. They're worse. They're a combination of frightened people and folks who, having seen hard times in life, see no reason why anyone else should get a break. Most folks know a sadist is bad news, but it's just as hard to reason with people who are frightened and angry.