And considering the sliding wages it can still be more expensive to operate than the 50 people with shovels.
And if it were more expensive to operate the machine than to hire 50 people, 50 people would be hired and handed shovels. Because you don't make money by paying extra for neato-keeno-whiz-bang machinery....
Which leads me to conclude that it is not, in fact, cheaper to hire 50 guys to replace one machine....
That's the problem, not sugar. While people say "sugar is poison," plain old carbs aren't much different, especially in those proportions.
I'm diabetic (Type 3 - pancreas removed last year). The only difference between sugar carbs and starchy carbs for me is that the sugar is processed faster by my digestion, so it causes quicker blood sugar spikes. Not higher spikes, just quicker.
It should also be noted that I've been told to eat more fats, since that slows the uptake of carbs.....
Computers will never have 'awareness'. Not ever. It is mathematically impossible.
Hmm, seems to me I've seen something like this before.
Oh, yeah! in October of 1903, a respected scientist (US Navy Oceanographer or some such) stated categorically that powered flight was impossible, and that anyone trying to convince anyone otherwise was a charlaton or con-artist.
Note, FYI, that that statement was made about 8 weeks before the Wright Brothers went down to Kitty Hawk to do their thing....
Vehicle deaths and injuries are a problem for society. Not for the individual, where the risk is incredibly low. It's a problem for the individual if it happens, but the risk of it happening to any given individual is incredibly low. The risk of being assaulted with a firearm and shot to death is several times higher, but I don't see you walking around in a kevlar vest.
Interesting that you place the risk of being shot to death at several time higher than dying in an auto accident even though the number of people killed in auto accidents is about the same as the number of people killed with a gun (and that includes suicide, which is by far the largest type of firearm death in the USA).
But can you run fast enough to catch the car after the object obstructing its path has been removed?
Ahh, you're one of the idiots who doesn't turn the car off before you get out, eh?
Frankly, I've always believed that you don't leave the car running when you get out of the "driver's seat". But, hey, maybe I'm just weird that way....
Do you want to risk being stuck for hours because there's no driver that can drive you around the branch in the road?
Even as old and feeble as I am, I can get out and move the branch myself, if need be. And if the branch is too big for me to move manually, it's probably not something I'm going to be driving around if I'm in a normal car.
Do you want to be delayed to a meeting because it will put safety above all other concerns and stop or slow down whenever in doubt?
Yes, I think I do. MY safety is way more important to me than your meeting is....
Is the ban really totally ineffective, or has it allowed us to prevent many more countries from getting nukes and put immense pressure on NK (including sanctions) to stop its own programme?
The ban is totally ineffective. Any country that wants to bother developing nukes isn't going to pay attention to the Ban, and any country that doesn't want to develop nukes isn't going to care that the Ban exists.
Now, if the Ban included "if you develop nuclear weapons, we'll nuke your country till it glows in the dark", and someone had done that to NK, Israel, China, France, the UK, and the USSR, then it might mean something to people who want to develop nukes for fun and profit....
What do you think, how easy he probably has it, finding a job with that reputation, hell, finding someone who'd want to date and maybe even marry an internet meme?
What, you check everyone you invite for a date (or get invited by for a date) on the Internet before you make up your mind? Jaysus, and here I thought just knowing them was enough to let you make up your mind one way or another....
Useful clue: The President has no power to change State and Local Tax laws. Which, if you'll read TFS, is what this is about.
Note also the distinction between "avoidance" and "evasion". Hint: the first is legal, the second isn't. An example of tax avoidance might be you taking the Standard Deduction (or itemizing deductions, for that matter) on your Federal taxes - since NOT taking it would require you to pay more taxes, you are doing "tax avoidance" whenever you do so....
The rate at which automation eliminates jobs is not at all tied to increases in minimum wage, but rather in efficiencies gained by automation.
True enough.
When cost of a worker increases, and cost of automation decreases, at some point the lines cross, and the automation is cheaper than the worker.
Buh-bye to the worker then.
What's happening now is that automation is reaching the point of "good enough", and the cost of workers is increasing as a matter of law.
As time passes, more and more jobs are going to be obsoleted by automation (not a new thing - once upon a time, things were moved in wagons, requiring one driver per, then the trains came along and 500 wagons were replaced by one train.). And, at the same time, jobs that we never conceived of will appear (who would have suspected, looking at the Wright Flyer on its first flight, the Air Traffic Controllers Union?)....
It's not going to happen overnight, speedy. It will be a gradual process of winding down the old school, and ramping up the new school. In fact, I can imagine that "real meat" will still be cultivated and sold far into the future, but prepare to open your wallet "real wide".
So, your argument is that it'll take a while, and even then, less than 1% of the livestock will survive. Because rich people aren't going to be needing anywhere near so much livestock as we use now.
Which is pretty much what I said, yeah.
Three cheers for the extinction of the cow, pig, chickens, in all their various breeds....
Some are sure it will heal the environmental woes caused by American agriculture while protecting the welfare of farm animals.
Really? If something like vat-grown meat ever takes off, every farm animal in the country will be dead within a few years. Because farmers don't raise cows and pigs and chickens because they enjoy their company, they raise them for income. Once the animals become unsellable, they're going to be exterminated.
Anyone who tells you otherwise is blowing smoke....
It does not follow that if you can land a small drone, you can land a big one. Because that logic extends to "if I can land a small drone, I can land a Predator"....
It should also be noted that 2kg of Semtex won't really do anything but make a scorched spot on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier. If you want to ruin a carrier's day, the explosion has to be below the flight deck, not above it....
A quick check shows that the EU as a whole uses about 3,000,000 GW-hr per year.
This plant, assuming 12 hours a day of sunlight, and no downtime, will be good for about 40,000 GW-hr. Which means they'll add about 1.3% to their total, best case.
I find it hard to believe that an extra 1.3% is going to be a game-changer....
Fish are living creatures (as are shrimp, lobsters, and other seafood). Why is their flesh not considered "meat"?
Once upon a time, there was a period of widespread hunger (read: famine) in Europe (think Little Ice Age), if you're wondering when and why).
So this really important guy called the Pope issued an edict about "fasting on Fridays" (meant to conserve food. Stupid idea, because if you need 20,000 calories per week, won't much matter if you eat the 20k spread over six days or over seven). After a great many questions on the order of "Fast on Fridays?! I didn't get to be King so I could go to bed hungry once a week!", it was decided that "fish" weren't covered by the Pope's rule, so "fasting on Friday" became "fish on Fridays".
It didn't fix the problem, but prolly gave a slight boost to the maritime industries (such as they were), which came in handy some centuries later when the New World was discovered, and people started doing a lot more traveling by ship between Europe and the rest of the world....
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And you do, I take it?
Okay, then please define "self-awareness", then explain the mechanism(s) that make humans "self-aware".
Then, explain why it is literally impossible to duplicate those mechanisms in a computer.
Note that if your definition of "self-awareness" includes the concept of a "soul", then I'll have to assume you don't understand the question.
And if it were more expensive to operate the machine than to hire 50 people, 50 people would be hired and handed shovels. Because you don't make money by paying extra for neato-keeno-whiz-bang machinery....
Which leads me to conclude that it is not, in fact, cheaper to hire 50 guys to replace one machine....
I'm diabetic (Type 3 - pancreas removed last year). The only difference between sugar carbs and starchy carbs for me is that the sugar is processed faster by my digestion, so it causes quicker blood sugar spikes. Not higher spikes, just quicker.
It should also be noted that I've been told to eat more fats, since that slows the uptake of carbs.....
Note that the USA had Marines stationed in China from 1927 up till WW2....
Problems being that it's not terribly clear who or what is a "genetically perfect mate".
For instance, the question of whether she'll even FIT in my jeans if I give them to her has got to be up there.
And never mind whether my jeans are still in style or not. Or will be next year, after I pass them along to her....
Hmm, seems to me I've seen something like this before.
Oh, yeah! in October of 1903, a respected scientist (US Navy Oceanographer or some such) stated categorically that powered flight was impossible, and that anyone trying to convince anyone otherwise was a charlaton or con-artist.
Note, FYI, that that statement was made about 8 weeks before the Wright Brothers went down to Kitty Hawk to do their thing....
Interesting that you place the risk of being shot to death at several time higher than dying in an auto accident even though the number of people killed in auto accidents is about the same as the number of people killed with a gun (and that includes suicide, which is by far the largest type of firearm death in the USA).
Ahh, you're one of the idiots who doesn't turn the car off before you get out, eh?
Frankly, I've always believed that you don't leave the car running when you get out of the "driver's seat". But, hey, maybe I'm just weird that way....
Even as old and feeble as I am, I can get out and move the branch myself, if need be. And if the branch is too big for me to move manually, it's probably not something I'm going to be driving around if I'm in a normal car.
Yes, I think I do. MY safety is way more important to me than your meeting is....
Fortunately, the ability to spell "hire" isn't one of the requirements for the job....
True of the "right" as well. Useful thing to keep in mind when you're hating on the "right"....
I'd just ask her, myself. But, hey, I'm an old fogy, so what do I know, right?
The ban is totally ineffective. Any country that wants to bother developing nukes isn't going to pay attention to the Ban, and any country that doesn't want to develop nukes isn't going to care that the Ban exists.
Now, if the Ban included "if you develop nuclear weapons, we'll nuke your country till it glows in the dark", and someone had done that to NK, Israel, China, France, the UK, and the USSR, then it might mean something to people who want to develop nukes for fun and profit....
No.
What, you check everyone you invite for a date (or get invited by for a date) on the Internet before you make up your mind? Jaysus, and here I thought just knowing them was enough to let you make up your mind one way or another....
Useful clue: The President has no power to change State and Local Tax laws. Which, if you'll read TFS, is what this is about.
Note also the distinction between "avoidance" and "evasion". Hint: the first is legal, the second isn't. An example of tax avoidance might be you taking the Standard Deduction (or itemizing deductions, for that matter) on your Federal taxes - since NOT taking it would require you to pay more taxes, you are doing "tax avoidance" whenever you do so....
True enough.
When cost of a worker increases, and cost of automation decreases, at some point the lines cross, and the automation is cheaper than the worker.
Buh-bye to the worker then.
What's happening now is that automation is reaching the point of "good enough", and the cost of workers is increasing as a matter of law.
As time passes, more and more jobs are going to be obsoleted by automation (not a new thing - once upon a time, things were moved in wagons, requiring one driver per, then the trains came along and 500 wagons were replaced by one train.). And, at the same time, jobs that we never conceived of will appear (who would have suspected, looking at the Wright Flyer on its first flight, the Air Traffic Controllers Union?)....
So, your argument is that it'll take a while, and even then, less than 1% of the livestock will survive. Because rich people aren't going to be needing anywhere near so much livestock as we use now.
Which is pretty much what I said, yeah.
Three cheers for the extinction of the cow, pig, chickens, in all their various breeds....
Really? If something like vat-grown meat ever takes off, every farm animal in the country will be dead within a few years. Because farmers don't raise cows and pigs and chickens because they enjoy their company, they raise them for income. Once the animals become unsellable, they're going to be exterminated.
Anyone who tells you otherwise is blowing smoke....
It does not follow that if you can land a small drone, you can land a big one. Because that logic extends to "if I can land a small drone, I can land a Predator"....
It should also be noted that 2kg of Semtex won't really do anything but make a scorched spot on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier. If you want to ruin a carrier's day, the explosion has to be below the flight deck, not above it....
If you're packing your food in any kind of house, you probably don't have to worry about MRE's.
And why you want the house to appease you, I can't pretend to understand. Smart Home of some sort, obviously....
A quick check shows that the EU as a whole uses about 3,000,000 GW-hr per year.
This plant, assuming 12 hours a day of sunlight, and no downtime, will be good for about 40,000 GW-hr. Which means they'll add about 1.3% to their total, best case.
I find it hard to believe that an extra 1.3% is going to be a game-changer....
And Type 3 is definitely NOT spread by a virus. Unless you consider the surgeon who removes your pancreas to be a virus....
Once upon a time, there was a period of widespread hunger (read: famine) in Europe (think Little Ice Age), if you're wondering when and why).
So this really important guy called the Pope issued an edict about "fasting on Fridays" (meant to conserve food. Stupid idea, because if you need 20,000 calories per week, won't much matter if you eat the 20k spread over six days or over seven). After a great many questions on the order of "Fast on Fridays?! I didn't get to be King so I could go to bed hungry once a week!", it was decided that "fish" weren't covered by the Pope's rule, so "fasting on Friday" became "fish on Fridays".
It didn't fix the problem, but prolly gave a slight boost to the maritime industries (such as they were), which came in handy some centuries later when the New World was discovered, and people started doing a lot more traveling by ship between Europe and the rest of the world....
You seem to be suggesting that this is a new thing. Try reading newspapers from the eighteen-nineties sometime.....
In which case, you won't be bound by a Treaty that you haven't signed....