Let's take a factory town with one employer and a hard to train workforce. A union is then good for both employer and employees, and is no different from hiring your workforce from a consulting agency like Accenture. On the other hand, in innovative Sillicon Valley each employee has many choices of empoyees and vice versa. A union in such conditions would just inhibit creative negotation of salary vs longer term/less tangible benefits. What we need is firm control of lawlessness so that people can negotiate labor arrangements most approporiate to their situation. No blooding noses of picket busters, no spying on your employees cell phones to prevent them from organizing and so on.
In some ways basic income is more efficient than ad hoc benefits that currently exist. The problem is when there is an economic downturn and benefits that EVERYONE relies on are cut. A small percent of population is rioting. Everyone rioting at the same time because benefits they are demanding from each other do not exist in their economy is terrifying.
It's not the most common case, but if you still use antenna / analog cable, you probably can't or won't get broadband in that place. Just like Netflix still has a DVD rental service that serves its customer fine. Tech giants are only interested in growth markets, but there is still a lot of money to be made for long time in non-growth markets. Maybe not for S&P 500 company, but enough to put food on someone's table.
Actual tech employees are treated much better in Sillicon Valley than tech or non tech employees anywhere else. Granted you have to be not stupid enough to work for Apple. But in most places, there are smart managers who care more about your long term potential than making you slog on a given weekend. As for Uber drivers, you may want to consider their options before Uber. Why are they doing that job if they have something better lined up?
I know who Apple/Google/Amazon are. If they suffer a data breach, they will be able to compensate me for the consequences. I have zero confidence in creators of Fortnite safeguarding my financial or contact info. I don't know about anyone else, but digital content only constitutes a small fraction of my total life expenses. Better write off 30% than p0wned. Plus I can't imagine building out your own payment infrastructure worldwide is free.
I installed Windows LTSB to be rid of junk and nagware on my gaming rig. Popups to try Office 365 in the middle of VR can LITERALLY make you puke. But would prefer to have an official clean solution instead.
Basic income allows you to trash your place, party with loud music at night, throw trash on the streets and generally be a pest to society. Job guarantee allows you to additionally do shobby work and be an asshole to your boss, coworkers and customers. People need to get their goods and services in exchange for something, even though it may not be a traditional factory job. Let people work as actors in VR games. Bad behaviour should have consequences that people are not able to ignore.
The whole point of HTTP and HTML is that absolutely anyone can implement and run a server or a browser. Otherwise we could have gone with webpages a interlinked Word documents served by Exchange servers. This brings us much closer to sucky closed design. I can't implement https server as a shell script and maintaining keys requires time and money. And simply hosting a webpage requires coding on client and server rather than just dropping a text file somewhere. We can't control what corporations and sheeple who are their customers do, but it's time to resurrect open alternatives. Just like WWW itself was an alternative to Compuserve and AOL. With any luck, we can also bring back intelligent independent content as an alternative to Fox News and CNN.
SJWs are ruining tech and need to go NOW. If you are going to accuse anyone of discriminating against you based on your race/gender/etc, you better have specific evidence to back up your accusations. Otherwise be prepared to face consequences. I would normally exempt off work personal rants, but she was talking about her job with fans of the product she was working on. This makes it employer's business.
It's not like anyone else can code a web browser or a search engine right? Maybe even a special search engine just for old HTTP sites? As time goes by, old search results are likely to be less accurate and not be rendered properly in modern browsers. Might as well use a correct tool for the job, like you would use DOSBox instead of Windows 10 command prompt to run old games.
First, are you and your family members willing to pay $4.99/month to exchange your gossip and photos? If you were, I am sure experience would be quite different. Also lets get some perspective. Unlike Comcast, nobody is making you spend an hour on the phone to opt out. It's still just a few clicks. If we are too cheap and lazy to protect our privacy, how can we expect others to do it for us?
It's been 15 years since "Mission Accomplished" in Iraq and we are still fighting there. The most likely scenario today would be superpowers defending their own borders and letting Hitler do whatever he wants in the rest of the Europe. People lost this silly notion of fighting and dying to oppose evil. All the tech in the world can't make up for it.
People choose an operating system to have certain experience and run apps that they find useful - not to run a for loop quickly. I doubt that Linux is a winner in either of these departments, or even in benchmarks of real world apps that would be able to use optimized frameworks for specific tasks. I do like Elementary OS UI over OSX/Win, but Gimp is no Pixelimator. So good for web browsing (since Chrome is the same) but not real work. Accidentally, Linux Chrome stutters on 4K video while ChromeOS plays it seemlessly on the same CPU.
In some way, Java started as a toy language and headed downhill since. Multiple inheritance and deterministic object destruction are hard but useful. Java never had those, but it had an option to have full featured, grown up applications on desktop and in the web browser. Of course native look and feel of the former and security of the later is hard. So - out these features go. Couldn't make J2ME on mobile phones work either, so took another company to productize Java for mobile apps. Instead of appreciating the effort, Oracle has to take Google to court. Serialization is a solid server side feature, and I think that's the last use case of Java still supported by Oracle. If they can't make it work properly, what exactly is Java for?
What people really want at this point is more consistent/reliable Internet, not another dozen of mindless non-interactive TV channels. If cable/phone companies don't up their game soon, they will be replaced by municipal WiFi/broadband or upcoming wireless services. There is room for technological progress which people would accept even if it means higher prices/traffic prioritization. Imagine good VR entertainment with paid actors. But no frills connectivity with predictable prices and quality is also valuable.
Because I refuse to give credit to people who are nags. You gave away software for free, with a conditon to only share modified source and not to sing you praises. If people don't want to name their derived works as you like, tough! Amazon is not naming their tablet "Google Kindle" and they should have no obligation to, as it was not in Android source license. We need to put an end to passive aggressive tendencies among supposedly intelligent techies. Linus is all right, he doesn't go grumbling about Linux/Ubuntu.
You are suffiently ignorant to run a restaurant without online order and reservation system in 2018. But Google is supplying these for you for free rather than customers just going elsewhere with UberEats or OpenTable. Rather than grumbling about having to talk to a robot to get paid, get a hint and give customers a way to do business with you without having to spend 20 minutes on hold and then listen to your thick accent.
In principle, stronger species replacing weaker ones is what evolution is about. Who are we to exterminate the species that succeeded? Even if we played some initial role in introducing them, it's their own fitness that got them to great numbers. Maybe intelligent successors of hardy rats will do archeological research on slashdot archives long after humans offed themselves of perished in a natural disaster. In the meantime, rat meat is eaten in a lot of cultures and rats can obviously be raised in great numbers without intense agricultural practices. If reduction in numbers is desired, opening these islands to commercial trapping/hunting seems less wasteful than dropping lots of poison.
When I was growing up in an underdeveloped country, I would have loved to have access to just Facebook. Keep in touch with family, participate in communities, maybe get information relevant to my life or help with school from volunteers? Bring it on! Sure I would prefer to also have bittorent and CNN. But these would probably be outside our family budget.
Sounds like a bunch of demagogues ruined a good thing as usual.
I like the part in the "Restaurant at the end of the universe" where thet package all the useless middlemen/women and ship them off to another planet. There are often questions about how to finance a Mars colony. Well, if we ship off all the SJWs and leave useful people, like actual female science fiction writers, on Earth, I say the expedition will pay for itself in no time.
Netherlands has a serious problem with human trafficing. Why not put the funds into combatting that problem rather than micromanaging how people waste money on games? Or return some of sky high taxes back to people? That's how great countries die, by governments becoming bloated and unfocused rather than doing a few things well.
Rich may have numerically large bank account balance, but only account for a tiny fraction of consumption. So UBI basically increases consumption of poor by reducing consumption of middle class. Unfortunately, reduced consumption of middle class in the form of eating out, vacations, house cleaners, nannies, starting small businesses and so on hurts the poor. While UBI gives them some sustinence, it doesn't give them respect and meaning. We have to be careful to not go too far in the direction if idle dependence.
UI and capabilities can be as different as users want them to be, but there is no need to force internal and external developers to do duplicate work. Few of iOS games are ported to OSX, the difference should only be in control scheme (and iOS/Apple TVs should trivially support paired Bluetooth input devices). The only reason to not do this now is if engineering effort is too high.
Even at best mandatory Windows updates are making me lose productivity at critical time. Quite a few times they crash. I don't want any of these in a pacemaker. I also don't want to have to walk in a Faraday cage if government or hackers are out to get me. Actually, keep all the radios off unless activated by means like a magnet that can not be easily faked from a distance.
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Let's take a factory town with one employer and a hard to train workforce. A union is then good for both employer and employees, and is no different from hiring your workforce from a consulting agency like Accenture. On the other hand, in innovative Sillicon Valley each employee has many choices of empoyees and vice versa. A union in such conditions would just inhibit creative negotation of salary vs longer term/less tangible benefits. What we need is firm control of lawlessness so that people can negotiate labor arrangements most approporiate to their situation. No blooding noses of picket busters, no spying on your employees cell phones to prevent them from organizing and so on.
In some ways basic income is more efficient than ad hoc benefits that currently exist. The problem is when there is an economic downturn and benefits that EVERYONE relies on are cut. A small percent of population is rioting. Everyone rioting at the same time because benefits they are demanding from each other do not exist in their economy is terrifying.
It's not the most common case, but if you still use antenna / analog cable, you probably can't or won't get broadband in that place. Just like Netflix still has a DVD rental service that serves its customer fine. Tech giants are only interested in growth markets, but there is still a lot of money to be made for long time in non-growth markets. Maybe not for S&P 500 company, but enough to put food on someone's table.
Actual tech employees are treated much better in Sillicon Valley than tech or non tech employees anywhere else. Granted you have to be not stupid enough to work for Apple. But in most places, there are smart managers who care more about your long term potential than making you slog on a given weekend. As for Uber drivers, you may want to consider their options before Uber. Why are they doing that job if they have something better lined up?
I know who Apple/Google/Amazon are. If they suffer a data breach, they will be able to compensate me for the consequences. I have zero confidence in creators of Fortnite safeguarding my financial or contact info. I don't know about anyone else, but digital content only constitutes a small fraction of my total life expenses. Better write off 30% than p0wned. Plus I can't imagine building out your own payment infrastructure worldwide is free.
I installed Windows LTSB to be rid of junk and nagware on my gaming rig. Popups to try Office 365 in the middle of VR can LITERALLY make you puke. But would prefer to have an official clean solution instead.
Basic income allows you to trash your place, party with loud music at night, throw trash on the streets and generally be a pest to society. Job guarantee allows you to additionally do shobby work and be an asshole to your boss, coworkers and customers. People need to get their goods and services in exchange for something, even though it may not be a traditional factory job. Let people work as actors in VR games. Bad behaviour should have consequences that people are not able to ignore.
The whole point of HTTP and HTML is that absolutely anyone can implement and run a server or a browser. Otherwise we could have gone with webpages a interlinked Word documents served by Exchange servers. This brings us much closer to sucky closed design. I can't implement https server as a shell script and maintaining keys requires time and money. And simply hosting a webpage requires coding on client and server rather than just dropping a text file somewhere. We can't control what corporations and sheeple who are their customers do, but it's time to resurrect open alternatives. Just like WWW itself was an alternative to Compuserve and AOL. With any luck, we can also bring back intelligent independent content as an alternative to Fox News and CNN.
SJWs are ruining tech and need to go NOW. If you are going to accuse anyone of discriminating against you based on your race/gender/etc, you better have specific evidence to back up your accusations. Otherwise be prepared to face consequences. I would normally exempt off work personal rants, but she was talking about her job with fans of the product she was working on. This makes it employer's business.
It's not like anyone else can code a web browser or a search engine right? Maybe even a special search engine just for old HTTP sites? As time goes by, old search results are likely to be less accurate and not be rendered properly in modern browsers. Might as well use a correct tool for the job, like you would use DOSBox instead of Windows 10 command prompt to run old games.
First, are you and your family members willing to pay $4.99/month to exchange your gossip and photos? If you were, I am sure experience would be quite different. Also lets get some perspective. Unlike Comcast, nobody is making you spend an hour on the phone to opt out. It's still just a few clicks. If we are too cheap and lazy to protect our privacy, how can we expect others to do it for us?
It's been 15 years since "Mission Accomplished" in Iraq and we are still fighting there. The most likely scenario today would be superpowers defending their own borders and letting Hitler do whatever he wants in the rest of the Europe. People lost this silly notion of fighting and dying to oppose evil. All the tech in the world can't make up for it.
People choose an operating system to have certain experience and run apps that they find useful - not to run a for loop quickly. I doubt that Linux is a winner in either of these departments, or even in benchmarks of real world apps that would be able to use optimized frameworks for specific tasks. I do like Elementary OS UI over OSX/Win, but Gimp is no Pixelimator. So good for web browsing (since Chrome is the same) but not real work. Accidentally, Linux Chrome stutters on 4K video while ChromeOS plays it seemlessly on the same CPU.
In some way, Java started as a toy language and headed downhill since. Multiple inheritance and deterministic object destruction are hard but useful. Java never had those, but it had an option to have full featured, grown up applications on desktop and in the web browser. Of course native look and feel of the former and security of the later is hard. So - out these features go. Couldn't make J2ME on mobile phones work either, so took another company to productize Java for mobile apps. Instead of appreciating the effort, Oracle has to take Google to court. Serialization is a solid server side feature, and I think that's the last use case of Java still supported by Oracle. If they can't make it work properly, what exactly is Java for?
What people really want at this point is more consistent/reliable Internet, not another dozen of mindless non-interactive TV channels. If cable/phone companies don't up their game soon, they will be replaced by municipal WiFi/broadband or upcoming wireless services. There is room for technological progress which people would accept even if it means higher prices/traffic prioritization. Imagine good VR entertainment with paid actors. But no frills connectivity with predictable prices and quality is also valuable.
Because I refuse to give credit to people who are nags. You gave away software for free, with a conditon to only share modified source and not to sing you praises. If people don't want to name their derived works as you like, tough! Amazon is not naming their tablet "Google Kindle" and they should have no obligation to, as it was not in Android source license. We need to put an end to passive aggressive tendencies among supposedly intelligent techies. Linus is all right, he doesn't go grumbling about Linux/Ubuntu.
You are suffiently ignorant to run a restaurant without online order and reservation system in 2018. But Google is supplying these for you for free rather than customers just going elsewhere with UberEats or OpenTable. Rather than grumbling about having to talk to a robot to get paid, get a hint and give customers a way to do business with you without having to spend 20 minutes on hold and then listen to your thick accent.
In principle, stronger species replacing weaker ones is what evolution is about. Who are we to exterminate the species that succeeded? Even if we played some initial role in introducing them, it's their own fitness that got them to great numbers. Maybe intelligent successors of hardy rats will do archeological research on slashdot archives long after humans offed themselves of perished in a natural disaster. In the meantime, rat meat is eaten in a lot of cultures and rats can obviously be raised in great numbers without intense agricultural practices. If reduction in numbers is desired, opening these islands to commercial trapping/hunting seems less wasteful than dropping lots of poison.
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When I was growing up in an underdeveloped country, I would have loved to have access to just Facebook. Keep in touch with family, participate in communities, maybe get information relevant to my life or help with school from volunteers? Bring it on! Sure I would prefer to also have bittorent and CNN. But these would probably be outside our family budget.
Sounds like a bunch of demagogues ruined a good thing as usual.
I like the part in the "Restaurant at the end of the universe" where thet package all the useless middlemen/women and ship them off to another planet. There are often questions about how to finance a Mars colony. Well, if we ship off all the SJWs and leave useful people, like actual female science fiction writers, on Earth, I say the expedition will pay for itself in no time.
Netherlands has a serious problem with human trafficing. Why not put the funds into combatting that problem rather than micromanaging how people waste money on games? Or return some of sky high taxes back to people? That's how great countries die, by governments becoming bloated and unfocused rather than doing a few things well.
Rich may have numerically large bank account balance, but only account for a tiny fraction of consumption. So UBI basically increases consumption of poor by reducing consumption of middle class. Unfortunately, reduced consumption of middle class in the form of eating out, vacations, house cleaners, nannies, starting small businesses and so on hurts the poor. While UBI gives them some sustinence, it doesn't give them respect and meaning. We have to be careful to not go too far in the direction if idle dependence.
UI and capabilities can be as different as users want them to be, but there is no need to force internal and external developers to do duplicate work. Few of iOS games are ported to OSX, the difference should only be in control scheme (and iOS/Apple TVs should trivially support paired Bluetooth input devices). The only reason to not do this now is if engineering effort is too high.
Even at best mandatory Windows updates are making me lose productivity at critical time. Quite a few times they crash. I don't want any of these in a pacemaker. I also don't want to have to walk in a Faraday cage if government or hackers are out to get me. Actually, keep all the radios off unless activated by means like a magnet that can not be easily faked from a distance.