Worked for much of daily use software and did not result in loss of revenue - on the contrary Sillicon Valley is doing extremely well. It's not so important that game data is freely distributable so long as the engine can be modified and people can make custom levels. Doom would not have gotten as far as it did without such capabilities.
Why obsess about Ajit Pai or whomever when the problem can easily be solved by using an app with better authentication - like Facebook Messenger or Skype or Duo or whatever? You get to control who calls you and confirm their identity much more reliably. We are holding on to technologies like paper mail and numeric phone numbers that have long be superseded with better solutions that need no government to regulate them.
Testosterone causes more damage to society than measles. Should we institute mandatory castration to make public safer, or is there something to be said for personal autonomy?
Like parents who don't vaccinate do so because they are noticing signs of autism and sometimes they are right. Or something else entirely. In either case, you can't claim both that there is no link and that vaccine cuts down on autism. If authors really wanted to claim no link, they should have said that the difference is below statistical noise at their sample size.
What part of the Earth is untouched by ants? Fungus? Gophers? Butterflies? Is that good or bad? We must define some criteria that makes land preferable - furtile, healthy to live on, aestatically pleasing and so on. Complely free of humans does not strike me as a rational criteria.
You will pay tens of thousands of dollars in your employee's salary and benefits, a couple of thousand for a laptop that will make her a little more productive is pocket change. Have her visit Apple or Microsoft store and try different hardware for herself.
The world suffers from lack of goods and services, not lack of money. If production is boosted, the goods will eventually find their way to the poor. Certainly, wordwide people are still starving to death, so it's premature to declare victory of the robots. Even say in US, lack of affordable healthcare has a lot to do with shortage of doctors, as well as overregulation of medicine. Without boosting supply, giving people money will just raise prices.
Amish have opted out of modern economy to pursue their idea of more fullfilled lives. Nobody is bothering them and they are not bothering the rest of us - to each their own. The problem is that the author would have people shot or locked up in cages for refusing to get on with his program. Yet he is the one using misleading language of niceness and solidarty. His ideas have been tried and ended up with the likes of Stalin and Hugo Chavez. Of all people, most Americans are in a position to move abroad to a socialist country or otherwise a place without "late stage capitalism". Why don't we see any caravans going south, or even to Canada?
It seems odd that a reputable study would not measure that as a baseline. Women are probably abused more because trolls think they are more likely to get a reaction. But I run a small political website and spend a lot of time deleting comments critiquing my anatomy or suggesting I engage in unnatural relations with POTUS. A healthy mixture of right wing and left wing trolls as far as I can tell. So there is a lot of trash on Internet regardless of who you are.
Less human labor is needed to satisfy human needs, so a little human labor buys lots of robot labor. Work 6 month per year or 3 days a week or whatever. Or buy a self driving car that makes you money driving for Uber.
This is presumably going to be a government service with a budget. How would anyone know how many suicides were prevented per dollar spent, if budget should be adjusted up or down and which are best councelors to promote / worst ones to fire? Would most traffic be generated by repeated bored callers who are at no serious risk? If you ARE at serious risk, how likely are we to stop you from hurting yourself or others long term in a single call, without a systematic follow up? All in all, we should be running few carefully thought through and well audited services rather than a bunch of feel good projects that nobody understands. As many others have suggested, existing 911 system may have more expertise and ability to follow up / deploy physical assets.
Bluetooth headphones run out of battery and don't work in a family with X devices, Y earbuds and expectation of using headphones interchangably without complex/flaky pairing. USB-C headphones would work if they were inexpensive and had an an extra jack to charge the cellphone while playing audio. You have created a problem without solving one of a comparible importance.
People will not stop releasing CO2 for a while and sucking it all back in is impractical. Time to get going with practical mitigation like Netherlands-style dykes, genetically modified coral that can withstand heat/acidity, spraying aerosoles in upper atmosphere, thinning out the forests to control wildfires and so on. The great thing is that a lot of these measures can be done locally rather than waiting for 7 billion people to agree. Humans have modified the environment and remedied their own impact for the longest time.
People are not on their best behavior online unless there is good supervision and perceived value of remaining in the community rather than getting kicked out for trolling. Closed group are the only way to have meaningful discussions on topics people can reasonably disagree on without degenerating into spam and profanity.
Pay for the regular consumer version and than install that from the usual sites for personal sanity. You probably don't want to try Office, or OneDrive or Skype. You just want to play your Steam games without excessive junk and nagware. I wish that option was provided to consumers, even for an extra fee.
At the end of the day, we want people to have more essential goods and services rather than more green pieces of paper. So we want this basic impact to stimulate production of, say, diapers without cutting production of anything else important. Otherwise recepients of basic income will end up paying higher prices, encounter shortages or otherwise end up no better off. This is tricky because regular market economy is already supposed to optimize production.
It's not perfect, but neither were CGA games of the 80s. The point is that it provides something new, like credible moments of being lost in an alternative universe rather than just solving puzzles or exercising twitch reflexes. Facebook or anyone else would be as unwise to not invest in the sector as Microsoft was unwise to underestimate Internet or mobile. This doesn't guarantee continued relevance, but it does at least earn a seat at the table.
Would you ban your children from going into the forrest to collect berries and mushrooms during agricultural age or working in factories during industrial revolution? Well then, banning them from online opportunities does not serve them any better during information age. Sure there are downsides, but Internet has benefited humanity just like all innovations throughout history. Keeping out children from benefitting as well doesn't do any good.
UX designers should contribute to projects they use or find important and companies should contribute assets to lift all the boats? Why is SVG so different from Java in this regard?
Seriously? You have an open source operating system that you can use for free. You also have extra closed source components that you can use for free, you just have to decide one way or the other. No wonder there is nothing resembling Sillicon Valley in Europe.
No skill required besides driving that everyone does anyway, no job interviews, no fixed hours. Car depreciation only needs to be paid off years later, which is a good tradeoff if you need cash now. So the main complaint is that an entry level job is... an entry level job. If you learn to drive a bus or a luxury limo, or do something that requires more skill than just driving around, you can get more.
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Worked for much of daily use software and did not result in loss of revenue - on the contrary Sillicon Valley is doing extremely well. It's not so important that game data is freely distributable so long as the engine can be modified and people can make custom levels. Doom would not have gotten as far as it did without such capabilities.
Why obsess about Ajit Pai or whomever when the problem can easily be solved by using an app with better authentication - like Facebook Messenger or Skype or Duo or whatever? You get to control who calls you and confirm their identity much more reliably. We are holding on to technologies like paper mail and numeric phone numbers that have long be superseded with better solutions that need no government to regulate them.
Your right to not vaccinate definitely doesn't include your right to propagate measels into public schools.
Cool, then give them vouchers for whatever amount a public school will spend on their kids to take them to a school of their choice.
Testosterone causes more damage to society than measles. Should we institute mandatory castration to make public safer, or is there something to be said for personal autonomy?
Like parents who don't vaccinate do so because they are noticing signs of autism and sometimes they are right. Or something else entirely. In either case, you can't claim both that there is no link and that vaccine cuts down on autism. If authors really wanted to claim no link, they should have said that the difference is below statistical noise at their sample size.
What part of the Earth is untouched by ants? Fungus? Gophers? Butterflies? Is that good or bad? We must define some criteria that makes land preferable - furtile, healthy to live on, aestatically pleasing and so on. Complely free of humans does not strike me as a rational criteria.
You will pay tens of thousands of dollars in your employee's salary and benefits, a couple of thousand for a laptop that will make her a little more productive is pocket change. Have her visit Apple or Microsoft store and try different hardware for herself.
The world suffers from lack of goods and services, not lack of money. If production is boosted, the goods will eventually find their way to the poor. Certainly, wordwide people are still starving to death, so it's premature to declare victory of the robots. Even say in US, lack of affordable healthcare has a lot to do with shortage of doctors, as well as overregulation of medicine. Without boosting supply, giving people money will just raise prices.
Amish have opted out of modern economy to pursue their idea of more fullfilled lives. Nobody is bothering them and they are not bothering the rest of us - to each their own. The problem is that the author would have people shot or locked up in cages for refusing to get on with his program. Yet he is the one using misleading language of niceness and solidarty. His ideas have been tried and ended up with the likes of Stalin and Hugo Chavez. Of all people, most Americans are in a position to move abroad to a socialist country or otherwise a place without "late stage capitalism". Why don't we see any caravans going south, or even to Canada?
It seems odd that a reputable study would not measure that as a baseline. Women are probably abused more because trolls think they are more likely to get a reaction. But I run a small political website and spend a lot of time deleting comments critiquing my anatomy or suggesting I engage in unnatural relations with POTUS. A healthy mixture of right wing and left wing trolls as far as I can tell. So there is a lot of trash on Internet regardless of who you are.
Less human labor is needed to satisfy human needs, so a little human labor buys lots of robot labor. Work 6 month per year or 3 days a week or whatever. Or buy a self driving car that makes you money driving for Uber.
This is presumably going to be a government service with a budget. How would anyone know how many suicides were prevented per dollar spent, if budget should be adjusted up or down and which are best councelors to promote / worst ones to fire? Would most traffic be generated by repeated bored callers who are at no serious risk? If you ARE at serious risk, how likely are we to stop you from hurting yourself or others long term in a single call, without a systematic follow up? All in all, we should be running few carefully thought through and well audited services rather than a bunch of feel good projects that nobody understands. As many others have suggested, existing 911 system may have more expertise and ability to follow up / deploy physical assets.
Bluetooth headphones run out of battery and don't work in a family with X devices, Y earbuds and expectation of using headphones interchangably without complex/flaky pairing. USB-C headphones would work if they were inexpensive and had an an extra jack to charge the cellphone while playing audio. You have created a problem without solving one of a comparible importance.
Forget about curing cancer or colonizing Mars, the crowning achievment of a Sillicon Valley giant today is gender options in translation.
Would you say it to your 6 yr old daughter?
Do you want to work with a bunch of 6 year olds?
People will not stop releasing CO2 for a while and sucking it all back in is impractical. Time to get going with practical mitigation like Netherlands-style dykes, genetically modified coral that can withstand heat/acidity, spraying aerosoles in upper atmosphere, thinning out the forests to control wildfires and so on. The great thing is that a lot of these measures can be done locally rather than waiting for 7 billion people to agree. Humans have modified the environment and remedied their own impact for the longest time.
People are not on their best behavior online unless there is good supervision and perceived value of remaining in the community rather than getting kicked out for trolling. Closed group are the only way to have meaningful discussions on topics people can reasonably disagree on without degenerating into spam and profanity.
Pay for the regular consumer version and than install that from the usual sites for personal sanity. You probably don't want to try Office, or OneDrive or Skype. You just want to play your Steam games without excessive junk and nagware. I wish that option was provided to consumers, even for an extra fee.
You do know that chemicals in batteries don't go anywhere and just need to be separated and re-textured into desired structure again right?
At the end of the day, we want people to have more essential goods and services rather than more green pieces of paper. So we want this basic impact to stimulate production of, say, diapers without cutting production of anything else important. Otherwise recepients of basic income will end up paying higher prices, encounter shortages or otherwise end up no better off. This is tricky because regular market economy is already supposed to optimize production.
It's not perfect, but neither were CGA games of the 80s. The point is that it provides something new, like credible moments of being lost in an alternative universe rather than just solving puzzles or exercising twitch reflexes. Facebook or anyone else would be as unwise to not invest in the sector as Microsoft was unwise to underestimate Internet or mobile. This doesn't guarantee continued relevance, but it does at least earn a seat at the table.
Would you ban your children from going into the forrest to collect berries and mushrooms during agricultural age or working in factories during industrial revolution? Well then, banning them from online opportunities does not serve them any better during information age. Sure there are downsides, but Internet has benefited humanity just like all innovations throughout history. Keeping out children from benefitting as well doesn't do any good.
UX designers should contribute to projects they use or find important and companies should contribute assets to lift all the boats? Why is SVG so different from Java in this regard?
Seriously? You have an open source operating system that you can use for free. You also have extra closed source components that you can use for free, you just have to decide one way or the other. No wonder there is nothing resembling Sillicon Valley in Europe.
No skill required besides driving that everyone does anyway, no job interviews, no fixed hours. Car depreciation only needs to be paid off years later, which is a good tradeoff if you need cash now. So the main complaint is that an entry level job is... an entry level job. If you learn to drive a bus or a luxury limo, or do something that requires more skill than just driving around, you can get more.