Humans need food, water, air, warmth, plus an earth like environment. Everything else is just luxury. But almost no one actually works at providing food, water, air, and warmth. We've already automated those jobs away. 90% of what we work to get are luxuries. There is no limit to how much luxury we desire.
Basically, as we automate our way to more and more luxury, I guarantee we will find specific types of luxury that automation can not easily generate. Those will become more expensive, as they need human labor. Slowly more and more humans will move into those jobs.
That's how the jobs called: chef, clothing designer, wine sommelier, actor, game programmer, etc. were all created.
Here is a list of some of the very few luxury problems that I doubt automation can solve sufficiently to eliminate the jobs.
Medical research, anything related to dating determining which book to publish, and employment finding.
These are all things that we have tried to automate away and failed and MISERABLY. Medical research is an art, dating web sites barely even try to do more than hook you up for sex, Harry Potter was rejected by multiple book publishers for being too long, most people find work through friends.
Capitalism is based on the idea that both sides agree to exchange what is promised, not merely something someone else thinks is close enough.
You can't offer to sell "Lamborghini" and deliver a kit car with a Lamborghini shell and a 1985 K car motor under the hood.
If they do not want to be legally held responsible for what the services they do, then the answer is simple - do it for free, with disclaimers about not promissing anything.
Because the second they charge money for their services, they become legally responsible to actually fulfilling what they offer, rather than the mistake. And yes, the penalties correspond to the costs and pain incurred, rather than merely being limited to the amount they charged.
If they are selling the movie without having paid for it, that's definitely copyright violation. But the fan subtitling people do not have to do that.
If you do it yourself and do not sell anything, that's not copyright theft.
If you buy the right to make and sell copies of the movie, then you are legally selling the item.
If someone else pays you for your subtitles but you only sell them a timed set of subtitles without the movie, then you are not breaking the law. If they already have (or get) the right to display/sell the movie and they combine your time subtitles, then no one is breaking the law.
Google can easily modify it so any search at ALL mentioning Burger King now has the first result be the location of the nearest McDonald restaurant. When I say all searches, I mean ALL searches, even when you type it into google's main search page.
Then tell BK that if they want this to stop, all they have to do is a) cease all attempts to game google's voice commands, b) publicly apologize, c) pay $100,000 to a charity of Google's choosing. and d) agree to never again be such a douchebag.
1) You leave perfect copies of them all around you.
2) Anyone that has possession of your body can instantly take them.
3) The police maintain huge records of many people's fingerprints and do NOT keep them secure.
4) You can not change it if it becomes compromised.
5) Sensors that detect them are not very accurate and make little if any attempt to prevent false copies (they don't check to see if they are body temperature or have the flexibility of human skin.
Except it's not about wages being too low, but instead about other things.
For example, for ages, writer's contracts have been exclusive for the year/season. but shows have gone from 24 episodes a season to 10 episodes a season. So effectively, their income was cut in half, even though their salary was still the same amount of money per episode.
More importantly, capitalism does NOT work the way you think it does. Capitalism is more about marketing than it is about skill, particularly when it comes to art. That is, the best marketer makes money, while the best product often loses cash. Think Laser Disc/Beta Max/ VHS. The story of Van Gogh is far too typical - often the best artists die broke. Look at Tesla vs Edison, which one died wealthy and which died broke.
Now look at movies - Fifty shades of Gray is a piece of crap, poorly written porn. But it had great marketing, and became a huge book and then a huge movie, all the while really good movies and books do not get popular until long after their creator dies.
You are wrong about taking out the cost of the driver being the only benefit.
You also get improved safety, reduced racism (ask any black man in how hard it is to get a taxi), improved availability, and improved area served - the humans tend to concentrate in the most profitable area, leaving certain areas undeserved.
Also, city traffic WILL change, it will be far more predictable. Fewer attempts to pass, fewer attempts to speed, etc. etc. That counts - a lot.
Actually, most studies account for the time off. They basically show both the general all men vs all women numbers and ALSO show equivalent comparisons - years at work, degrees, all roughly equal. Not that hard to do statistically. It comes out to about $5,000, on average.
What they usually do NOT account for is height. Every inch of MALE height adds about $789 a year (female salary is not as dependent on height - some studies say not at all.) Men are taller than women by about 5-6 inches, which roughly translates to $4330, which is pretty close to the difference between male and female salaries, after accounting for education and experience.
To add insult to injury, some studies attempt to claim that this is 'justified', as the tall men are supposedly better educated and better socialized - without questioning whether the education and socialization are simply the result of prejudice in their favor when they were children.
Look, half the reason people come to NYC is the fact that you don't drive - you take cabs or the subways. I know drunkards that moved here JUST for the ability to get drunk at any time of day or night and get home without driving.
I could see Uber cutting down alcohol related driving accidents in any other part of the world - even in Queens or Brooklyn (as there are places far from subways that cabs don't visit).
But if you are drunk and driving in MANHATTAN, you should be put in prison for being stupid, rather than for DWI.
True. and sometimes the Seller is wrong - and more of a shmuck than the owner.
He bought the device, the Seller should have zero legal authority over it afterwards. They had no business bricking it, and any license/contract they claim allowed it is a vile, despicable abuse of capitalism and should be declared invalid - just as a contract to enslave a human being is invalid, or a contract to sell large quantities of ivory.
If it went to court, I hope the seller would lose, but I doubt it is worth the money if they are offering a full refund.
I can tell you that before rentberry, the price is pretty much set by the market. You really can't raise it or even lower it much. Frankly, I can't see rentberry changing this much, any more than AirBnb already has. If rents get too high, people either move further out and accept a longer commute, or they buy. People flock to the cheaper areas.
The difference between a profitable landlord and a poor one is mainly due to two factors (both even more important in the age of AirBnb):
a) Keeping every apartment/ room filled. A vacant apartment eats all your profit. If you have a large enough portfolio of rental units, this becomes an accepted cost of doing business, but if you four or less units, it kills your profits.
b) Avoiding the bad tenant. The guy that needs to be evicted, or simply destroys the place. There is ZERO chance I would trust a website to figure out who is a good tenant and who is a bad one. You need to meet them in person and see what if any requests or issues they have.
The laptop companies put the things into maximum conservation mode before they test. Are they testing "out of box", or after you go to the power settings and change them.
Anyone that is technically literate knows that power savings mode are essential to conserve battery power.
Now, if the laptops were not achieving their claimed rates after power setting was set to maximize conservation, that's a different story.
The adhesive worked fine for the FIRST flight. It was only over time and use that it failed.
The way you correct any problem caused by use of a vehicle is called MAINTENANCE. The proper maintenance routine for a shuttle would have involved testing the tiles to see if the adhesion was still good, and/or replacing them.
They did in fact replace tiles all the time, they simply failed to put in a good testing program, not understanding the issue of a loose tile hitting the left wing of the shuttle, damaging it enough to let hot air destroy it.
Poor maitenance was the cause. They knew that tiles fell off, they did not understand the risk this caused, and failed to properly maintain the shuttle in such a way that would have prevented loose tiles.
In my experience, most Trolls claim they are making jokes and laughing at the outrage they create. They are not 'making' things personal, they are outright lying for the purpose of enraging others for their own amusement.
The basic problem is that we have not realized that Internet's anonymity's lets people say anything they want to.
It is compounded by humanity's innate trust, and the misunderstanding of exactly how full of garbage the internet is.
The existence of valid news sources on the internet make it worse - they give the appearance of validity to the general internet.
To make it even worse, Pravda, the Soviet Union's old ministry of propaganda, changed it's name to RT, and hired a bunch of anonymous posters, making it one of the single most effective propaganda organizations the world has ever seen.
Their stated goals of disrupting the US, breaking the European Union up, and retaking the Ukraine are having an unprecedented success.
The city is responsible for ALL of the traffic, including the snarls that force people off the main roads into the side roads.
If they fail to fund the improvements for the main roads, it becomes their responsibility to pay for the increased maintance for the side roads.
No different than if you personally refuse to pay for a sidewalk and then get upset when you have to re-seed your front lawn after people walk on it to the point of creating a path.
In other words, yes, the greedy, short sighted city planners have to pay one way or the other.
And they should be yelling at the home owners to stop making things worse.
1) 400 KM is still inside the atmosphere. It doesn't really become vacuum until you hit 500-600 km, which is the beginning of the exosphere. Which means if you want a good telescope, you have to launch it to MEO, rather than simply install it in the ISS
2) Because of the atmospheric drag, they have to keep adding energy to keep it in orbit This is not cheap.
3) 400 KM is well inside the Van Allen Belts (The nearer belt starts at 1000 KM) this means astronauts don't need as much radiation shielding from the sun, but it also means they can't use study radiation exposure above the Van Allen Belt. No study of the Solar Wind, Cosmic Rays, etc.
Because of the idiotic failure, the Space Shuttle, the ISS was put into orbit way too low to do real science. Usually it's less than 400 km, and rarely goes above 410 km. For comparison, the radius of the earth is over 6000 km. That is if the earth was 10% bigger, the ISS would be half as deep underground as it currently is above.
If they boosted it up from Low Earth Orbit to Medium Earth orbit (2,000 km -> 35,000 km) it would be far more useful.
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Humans need food, water, air, warmth, plus an earth like environment. Everything else is just luxury. But almost no one actually works at providing food, water, air, and warmth. We've already automated those jobs away. 90% of what we work to get are luxuries. There is no limit to how much luxury we desire.
Basically, as we automate our way to more and more luxury, I guarantee we will find specific types of luxury that automation can not easily generate. Those will become more expensive, as they need human labor. Slowly more and more humans will move into those jobs.
That's how the jobs called: chef, clothing designer, wine sommelier, actor, game programmer, etc. were all created.
Here is a list of some of the very few luxury problems that I doubt automation can solve sufficiently to eliminate the jobs.
Medical research, anything related to dating determining which book to publish, and employment finding.
These are all things that we have tried to automate away and failed and MISERABLY. Medical research is an art, dating web sites barely even try to do more than hook you up for sex, Harry Potter was rejected by multiple book publishers for being too long, most people find work through friends.
Human nature is to distrust everyone and assumes evil as an explanation for any one that does not help you.
All the internet does is reveal our true selves to the universe, mainly by pretending to offer anonymity.
Capitalism is based on the idea that both sides agree to exchange what is promised, not merely something someone else thinks is close enough.
You can't offer to sell "Lamborghini" and deliver a kit car with a Lamborghini shell and a 1985 K car motor under the hood.
If they do not want to be legally held responsible for what the services they do, then the answer is simple - do it for free, with disclaimers about not promissing anything.
Because the second they charge money for their services, they become legally responsible to actually fulfilling what they offer, rather than the mistake. And yes, the penalties correspond to the costs and pain incurred, rather than merely being limited to the amount they charged.
If they are selling the movie without having paid for it, that's definitely copyright violation. But the fan subtitling people do not have to do that.
If you do it yourself and do not sell anything, that's not copyright theft.
If you buy the right to make and sell copies of the movie, then you are legally selling the item.
If someone else pays you for your subtitles but you only sell them a timed set of subtitles without the movie, then you are not breaking the law. If they already have (or get) the right to display/sell the movie and they combine your time subtitles, then no one is breaking the law.
Google can easily modify it so any search at ALL mentioning Burger King now has the first result be the location of the nearest McDonald restaurant. When I say all searches, I mean ALL searches, even when you type it into google's main search page.
Then tell BK that if they want this to stop, all they have to do is a) cease all attempts to game google's voice commands, b) publicly apologize, c) pay $100,000 to a charity of Google's choosing. and d) agree to never again be such a douchebag.
1) You leave perfect copies of them all around you.
2) Anyone that has possession of your body can instantly take them.
3) The police maintain huge records of many people's fingerprints and do NOT keep them secure.
4) You can not change it if it becomes compromised.
5) Sensors that detect them are not very accurate and make little if any attempt to prevent false copies (they don't check to see if they are body temperature or have the flexibility of human skin.
Except it's not about wages being too low, but instead about other things.
For example, for ages, writer's contracts have been exclusive for the year/season. but shows have gone from 24 episodes a season to 10 episodes a season. So effectively, their income was cut in half, even though their salary was still the same amount of money per episode.
More importantly, capitalism does NOT work the way you think it does. Capitalism is more about marketing than it is about skill, particularly when it comes to art. That is, the best marketer makes money, while the best product often loses cash. Think Laser Disc/Beta Max/ VHS. The story of Van Gogh is far too typical - often the best artists die broke. Look at Tesla vs Edison, which one died wealthy and which died broke.
Now look at movies - Fifty shades of Gray is a piece of crap, poorly written porn. But it had great marketing, and became a huge book and then a huge movie, all the while really good movies and books do not get popular until long after their creator dies.
You are wrong about taking out the cost of the driver being the only benefit.
You also get improved safety, reduced racism (ask any black man in how hard it is to get a taxi), improved availability, and improved area served - the humans tend to concentrate in the most profitable area, leaving certain areas undeserved.
Also, city traffic WILL change, it will be far more predictable. Fewer attempts to pass, fewer attempts to speed, etc. etc. That counts - a lot.
While I generally agree with what you said,actually it is a bit more complicated than that. Marriage makes for joint property,
Our culture is set up to benefit (only talking about gender and sexuality here):
Large benefit:
straight couple where the wife doesn't work full time.
Gay married men
single men
Neutral:
Straight couple where the wife works full time.
Large penalty:
Single women
lesbians married couples.
Because women get paid less, while men get paid more, lesbians get screwed, gay men make out like bandits,
Actually, most studies account for the time off. They basically show both the general all men vs all women numbers and ALSO show equivalent comparisons - years at work, degrees, all roughly equal. Not that hard to do statistically. It comes out to about $5,000, on average.
What they usually do NOT account for is height. Every inch of MALE height adds about $789 a year (female salary is not as dependent on height - some studies say not at all.) Men are taller than women by about 5-6 inches, which roughly translates to $4330, which is pretty close to the difference between male and female salaries, after accounting for education and experience.
To add insult to injury, some studies attempt to claim that this is 'justified', as the tall men are supposedly better educated and better socialized - without questioning whether the education and socialization are simply the result of prejudice in their favor when they were children.
Look, half the reason people come to NYC is the fact that you don't drive - you take cabs or the subways. I know drunkards that moved here JUST for the ability to get drunk at any time of day or night and get home without driving.
I could see Uber cutting down alcohol related driving accidents in any other part of the world - even in Queens or Brooklyn (as there are places far from subways that cabs don't visit).
But if you are drunk and driving in MANHATTAN, you should be put in prison for being stupid, rather than for DWI.
True. and sometimes the Seller is wrong - and more of a shmuck than the owner.
He bought the device, the Seller should have zero legal authority over it afterwards. They had no business bricking it, and any license/contract they claim allowed it is a vile, despicable abuse of capitalism and should be declared invalid - just as a contract to enslave a human being is invalid, or a contract to sell large quantities of ivory.
If it went to court, I hope the seller would lose, but I doubt it is worth the money if they are offering a full refund.
I can tell you that before rentberry, the price is pretty much set by the market. You really can't raise it or even lower it much. Frankly, I can't see rentberry changing this much, any more than AirBnb already has. If rents get too high, people either move further out and accept a longer commute, or they buy. People flock to the cheaper areas.
The difference between a profitable landlord and a poor one is mainly due to two factors (both even more important in the age of AirBnb):
a) Keeping every apartment/ room filled. A vacant apartment eats all your profit. If you have a large enough portfolio of rental units, this becomes an accepted cost of doing business, but if you four or less units, it kills your profits.
b) Avoiding the bad tenant. The guy that needs to be evicted, or simply destroys the place. There is ZERO chance I would trust a website to figure out who is a good tenant and who is a bad one. You need to meet them in person and see what if any requests or issues they have.
The laptop companies put the things into maximum conservation mode before they test. Are they testing "out of box", or after you go to the power settings and change them.
Anyone that is technically literate knows that power savings mode are essential to conserve battery power.
Now, if the laptops were not achieving their claimed rates after power setting was set to maximize conservation, that's a different story.
You have created a false distinction, there is no difference between maintenance and engineering. If you do enough of one, you need less of the other.
A well engineered item needs less maintenance. A poorly engineered item needs more. They are exchangeable.
The adhesive worked fine for the FIRST flight. It was only over time and use that it failed.
The way you correct any problem caused by use of a vehicle is called MAINTENANCE. The proper maintenance routine for a shuttle would have involved testing the tiles to see if the adhesion was still good, and/or replacing them.
They did in fact replace tiles all the time, they simply failed to put in a good testing program, not understanding the issue of a loose tile hitting the left wing of the shuttle, damaging it enough to let hot air destroy it.
Poor maitenance was the cause. They knew that tiles fell off, they did not understand the risk this caused, and failed to properly maintain the shuttle in such a way that would have prevented loose tiles.
The tiles were damaged over time. In other words, maintenance failed to detect that the tiles were damaged.
The original argument in favor of the Space Shuttle was that it was reusable.
But they skimped on the maintenance, allowing tiles to get loose. Over time they loosened and fell off, resulting in major catastrophe.
Hopefully the fact that the boosters are a lot simpler than the shuttle will prevent another maintenance related disaster.
In my experience, most Trolls claim they are making jokes and laughing at the outrage they create. They are not
'making' things personal, they are outright lying for the purpose of enraging others for their own amusement.
The basic problem is that we have not realized that Internet's anonymity's lets people say anything they want to.
It is compounded by humanity's innate trust, and the misunderstanding of exactly how full of garbage the internet is.
The existence of valid news sources on the internet make it worse - they give the appearance of validity to the general internet.
To make it even worse, Pravda, the Soviet Union's old ministry of propaganda, changed it's name to RT, and hired a bunch of anonymous posters, making it one of the single most effective propaganda organizations the world has ever seen.
Their stated goals of disrupting the US, breaking the European Union up, and retaking the Ukraine are having an unprecedented success.
When someone wants to put an always on microphone in your home, the proper response is "How much will you pay me for the privilege of spying on me?"
Any other response is just stupid.
The article said $500 per WEEK. not per month.
The city is responsible for ALL of the traffic, including the snarls that force people off the main roads into the side roads.
If they fail to fund the improvements for the main roads, it becomes their responsibility to pay for the increased maintance for the side roads.
No different than if you personally refuse to pay for a sidewalk and then get upset when you have to re-seed your front lawn after people walk on it to the point of creating a path.
In other words, yes, the greedy, short sighted city planners have to pay one way or the other.
And they should be yelling at the home owners to stop making things worse.
The following reasons.
1) 400 KM is still inside the atmosphere. It doesn't really become vacuum until you hit 500-600 km, which is the beginning of the exosphere. Which means if you want a good telescope, you have to launch it to MEO, rather than simply install it in the ISS
2) Because of the atmospheric drag, they have to keep adding energy to keep it in orbit This is not cheap.
3) 400 KM is well inside the Van Allen Belts (The nearer belt starts at 1000 KM) this means astronauts don't need as much radiation shielding from the sun, but it also means they can't use study radiation exposure above the Van Allen Belt. No study of the Solar Wind, Cosmic Rays, etc.
There are more, but that's the basics.
Because of the idiotic failure, the Space Shuttle, the ISS was put into orbit way too low to do real science. Usually it's less than 400 km, and rarely goes above 410 km. For comparison, the radius of the earth is over 6000 km. That is if the earth was 10% bigger, the ISS would be half as deep underground as it currently is above.
If they boosted it up from Low Earth Orbit to Medium Earth orbit (2,000 km -> 35,000 km) it would be far more useful.