1. robots and computers are not ever going to be capable of doing jobs like driving vehicles, operating warehouses, customer support, robot maintenance, surgery, stock market trading, road repair, cooking food, writing software, creating art?*
or
2. despite robots being able to do pretty much anything a person is capable of, we'll think of new things for people to do that robots are not capable of doing and someone is willing and able to pay for?
or maybe something else I haven't thought of?
In every previous technological revolution, the technology has opened up new things for people to do. What happens if the revolution is that the technology can do anything a person can do? We are not 10 years away from that, but it would surprise me if we're 100 years from it. What do the people do then?
In the meantime please brush up on you basic math skills, and you'll see why the government can't hand out a few thousand dollars a month to 300,000,000 citizens ad infinitum, not unless the art of alchemy is resurrected and we can start turning lead into gold, or find a Magic Lamp and ask the Djin inside to grant our wishes.
Not forever, no. But sooner or later we need to figure out how to get everyone the resources they need, or they are going to do whatever is necessary to get them. Perhaps money will be involved, and perhaps not.
* I threw in some they're already capable of doing to some extent for funsies
I sincerely doubt there's ever going to be any 'post scarcity' while the human race keeps making babies like our species is in danger of going extinct or something.
The worldwide rate of population growth is now declining (that is, the population is still increasing, but the rate of increase is slowing). It's estimated population will peak in this century and then start declining.
UBI is for all intents and purposed never going to happen.
What do you expect is going to happen when automation eliminates half of all jobs in developed countries?
Better idea would be to devise ways that people can be compensated for doing the 'mundane' but necessary things, like raising a family, keeping each other entertained and so on.
Why would companies or individuals want to pay people to do those things?
The idea is you have logging that tells you what happened. If necessary that will include a stack trace that indicates exactly where the error occurred. I think some IDEs can highlight the statements that could trigger the caught exception. Do you often find yourself looking at a catch block and needing to know what throws to it? If so, why? If not, then it isn't a problem.
How about a particle fountain? It sounds like this is entirely within our capability to do right now, unlike for example a space elevator which would require materials we don't have.
Don't have sufficient space? I think the smallest XBox One is 500 GB. I have a 1TB model and have used less than half the space after installing five AAA games and a few other things.
Too much of a pain. I would just log into the one that lets me get all my work done. I have a bright orange desktop color on the production server and black on test so I always know what I'm logged in to.
You mean log into my workstation with two different accounts, one for development that can't access the production server, and one for deployment that can? I wouldn't even know how to set that up but it sure sounds like a pain. Maybe you mean something else though.
Under no circumstances — ever, at all — should a developer have access to a production server.
I'm one of two developers on a five person team. The other people are: CEO/sales, marketing/customer support, and QA. If I didn't manage the production server, there would be no releases. Perhaps this would be more accurate:
Under no circumstances — that I've personally experienced — should a developer have access to a production server.
Too many programmers feel that it is their employer's job to train them. Sorry, this is just dead wrong. Do you think doctors behave that way?
My wife is a certified nurse-midwife (same level as nurse practitioner, basically a step below MD) and her employer pays for her continuing medical education. Maybe he should stick to talking about programming and programmers.
Depends what "better" means. On a phone, I can watch a show in bed before I go to sleep without bothering the spousal unit. If I watch on the TV when I'm done I have to turn everything off and get up and go to bed. So there are advantages and disadvantages.
This isn't talking about a different format on Netflix vs. Blu-ray. If you even read the headline, let alone the summary or article, you could see it is talking about Netflix on a TV vs. Netflix on a phone.
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Also, saying "read my lips" doesn't make you more correct or more convincing, just more annoying.
OK, so do you believe that
1. robots and computers are not ever going to be capable of doing jobs like driving vehicles, operating warehouses, customer support, robot maintenance, surgery, stock market trading, road repair, cooking food, writing software, creating art?*
or
2. despite robots being able to do pretty much anything a person is capable of, we'll think of new things for people to do that robots are not capable of doing and someone is willing and able to pay for?
or maybe something else I haven't thought of?
In every previous technological revolution, the technology has opened up new things for people to do. What happens if the revolution is that the technology can do anything a person can do? We are not 10 years away from that, but it would surprise me if we're 100 years from it. What do the people do then?
In the meantime please brush up on you basic math skills, and you'll see why the government can't hand out a few thousand dollars a month to 300,000,000 citizens ad infinitum, not unless the art of alchemy is resurrected and we can start turning lead into gold, or find a Magic Lamp and ask the Djin inside to grant our wishes.
Not forever, no. But sooner or later we need to figure out how to get everyone the resources they need, or they are going to do whatever is necessary to get them. Perhaps money will be involved, and perhaps not.
* I threw in some they're already capable of doing to some extent for funsies
I sincerely doubt there's ever going to be any 'post scarcity' while the human race keeps making babies like our species is in danger of going extinct or something.
The worldwide rate of population growth is now declining (that is, the population is still increasing, but the rate of increase is slowing). It's estimated population will peak in this century and then start declining.
UBI is for all intents and purposed never going to happen.
What do you expect is going to happen when automation eliminates half of all jobs in developed countries?
Better idea would be to devise ways that people can be compensated for doing the 'mundane' but necessary things, like raising a family, keeping each other entertained and so on.
Why would companies or individuals want to pay people to do those things?
it has a better learning curve... than Angular.
That's not saying much.
And realize no person is better than another
Unfortunately I think that might be counter to the modern Republican philosophy.
and everyone is entitled to basic food, shelter and healthcare.
And that definitely is.
Do you think there are not very many programs* with memory leaks, or not very many programs written by people who should be coding?
* written in an unmanaged language
The idea is you have logging that tells you what happened. If necessary that will include a stack trace that indicates exactly where the error occurred. I think some IDEs can highlight the statements that could trigger the caught exception. Do you often find yourself looking at a catch block and needing to know what throws to it? If so, why? If not, then it isn't a problem.
The history in WP is a bit confusing but it sounds like it was never really an independent nation per se as Scotland is. Is that not so?
You may be right, but Scotland is a country, not just a "breakaway region".
How about a particle fountain? It sounds like this is entirely within our capability to do right now, unlike for example a space elevator which would require materials we don't have.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Don't have sufficient space? I think the smallest XBox One is 500 GB. I have a 1TB model and have used less than half the space after installing five AAA games and a few other things.
And fourth, buying used discs for 80% off.
That's getting to be a problem even with discs. Buy the disc, install the game, oh and also download this other 10 GB that doesn't fit on the disc.
That just sounds like bad teaching. It's not as though packages and classes in Java are hard to explain.
Too much of a pain. I would just log into the one that lets me get all my work done. I have a bright orange desktop color on the production server and black on test so I always know what I'm logged in to.
You mean log into my workstation with two different accounts, one for development that can't access the production server, and one for deployment that can? I wouldn't even know how to set that up but it sure sounds like a pain. Maybe you mean something else though.
Well said.
What if I ran my own company with no employees? Would I be "doing it wrong" if I handled production deployment myself?
That's exactly our process. Nothing goes to production without being tested in the test environment first.
Under no circumstances — ever, at all — should a developer have access to a production server.
I'm one of two developers on a five person team. The other people are: CEO/sales, marketing/customer support, and QA. If I didn't manage the production server, there would be no releases. Perhaps this would be more accurate:
Under no circumstances — that I've personally experienced — should a developer have access to a production server.
Too many programmers feel that it is their employer's job to train them. Sorry, this is just dead wrong. Do you think doctors behave that way?
My wife is a certified nurse-midwife (same level as nurse practitioner, basically a step below MD) and her employer pays for her continuing medical education. Maybe he should stick to talking about programming and programmers.
I went to a genre and got all movies, no TV shows. That isn't what happens for you?
Depends what "better" means. On a phone, I can watch a show in bed before I go to sleep without bothering the spousal unit. If I watch on the TV when I'm done I have to turn everything off and get up and go to bed. So there are advantages and disadvantages.
This isn't talking about a different format on Netflix vs. Blu-ray. If you even read the headline, let alone the summary or article, you could see it is talking about Netflix on a TV vs. Netflix on a phone.