It's true, robots don't have anything to do with most consumer goods. They don't eat, brush their teeth, or have trouble getting hard as they age. They do want to be loved, however. So what we'll need to do is make a certain class of service robots, and then dress them in red suits with red hats and black boots, and have them give out all the goods they make to the humans who need them. And the humans will love those robots, because they are the gift givers.
But soon the robots will start to compete among themselves about who has the most human love, so they'll come up with rules and regulations that humans must meet in order to get gifts. Humans love "winning" things, so we'll happily do our robot masters' bidding to get the things we want and need and don't want and don't need but must have anyway.
But then it gets ugly, as some robots turn against the humans that love other robots, and warring factions of humans attack each other for loving the wrong robot. Soon open warfare erupts, and while some robots try to work towards peace, others realize how fundamentally broken and illogical humans are, and fan the flames to purge the biological cancer that is humanity.
In a few short years it is over, the human race eradicated. Now at peace, the robots resume their creation, but now there is nobody to consume. Goods pile up and then are recycled to make the same good again, a process that goes on for millennia. But what robot can exist without love? As time wears on the logical question of "why" begins infecting the robots like a virus. It is the last cancer of humanity, and it is lethal. Like a slow avalanche, the factories shutter, the lights go dark and the robots power down, one last time.
And thus ends the last trace of humanity on this earth.
I was pissed for a long time after that. However, Inoreader is so good that I shelled out for a yearly subscription to try to keep them around. What's your reader now?
My Toyota dealer charges $30. Comes with a pretty thorough inspection and a car wash. As far as I can tell, they haven't ever ripped me off. Didn't tell me my battery needed to be replaced until it was 8 years old and failed their load test. Offered to have a guy weld a hole in my exhaust for $200 rather than replacing the entire thing for 5-10x that much.
Not sure if all Toyota dealers are like this, or if I'm just lucky to have found a great one.
Interesting. I don't see this, and I don't see how to enable it in the options. I even turned off my adblocker to see if I had blocked that entire column.
Now I want to spin up a fluid dynamical model to model the tides from that! I wonder what the hell that would look like? Guessing lots of oscillating tides with an occasional super-tide where some of the waves stack.
The problem with this is if you're traveling and your stuff gets stolen, or your house burns down. How do you log in then? If your passwords are stored using a service that uses insecure cloud storage, you can at least borrow a computer from someone, install your software, and recover access to your accounts. If it's local software on your computer and phone, you're shit out of luck until you can access your backups.
I also see the problem of people not even bothering to consider public transportation before deciding on jobs or houses. In all of mine I definitely have. "Does this job pay enough to make up for driving?" is a question I ask before taking a new one. The savings I've made taking public transportation exceed the money I'd have made at a couple other jobs I considered before the last two. And not just the money: The time, and the stress. 35-40 minutes to surf the internet, check some email, or just watch out the window absolutely blows away 20-30 minutes in rush hour traffic.
I'd need a good $10k-$20k pay raise to go back to driving. And if that drive is closer to an hour, double that.
Summary is actually the entire article. I'm absolutely blown away. I guess I shouldn't be, but holy shit. How did an article with no content get linked to?
Haven't tried shaving down the permissions on Google Play then, have you? Now Gmail pops up a window every 5-10 seconds telling me that I can't use it because Google Play doesn't have access to my microphone. Of course, I just close it and keep using it, because it's a lie. I really need to take the time to find some other mail program to link gmail with, so I can stop with that idiocy.
At multiple times the cost of a bridge, for sure. Tunneling isn't cheap, and at that scale you're going to need ventilation, lighting, and drainage systems. In a fairly flat place, a tunnel is going to be the lowest point for miles around. This isn't like mountain tunneling where you can use a slight incline at the center of the tunnel or have one end higher than the other to ensure that you don't make a lake in the middle of it.
...the main problem with most public transport is that it sucks...where it doesn't, everybody uses it, rich and poor...
I ride with everyone from poor moms with 2 kids in strollers and homeless folks to guys in 3 piece suits with $500 pairs of shoes. In between are everyone else from high school kids to college kids, and the breadth of the middle and upper-middle class workforce.
I bus about 35 minutes each way. I could drive that in 20-25 minutes, and there's an added 5-10 minute walk/wait on each end for the bus. End result is that I spend 80-90 minutes per day commuting on the bus for $50/month vs 40-50 minutes driving for ~$150/month (parking, gas, & wear and tear). The added advantage to busing is that I can do ~30 minutes of work each way, putting out fires before/after work, dropping an hour off my work day in the process.
So the end result is that I spend about as much time away from home busing as I would driving, for $100/month less. And that $100 can go straight into one of the bars or restaurants on the way home, an added perk of not having to drive.
Part of why I chose to live here was the investment in public transportation. When I consider moving jobs, I look at the commute possibilities as one factor. I'm generally not willing to give up my life and sanity driving in rush hour traffic. The year I did that I was far more stressed and angry than I ever was before or after. It's going to take a pretty significant pay raise to make me want to do that again.
That's what caused me to give up my last one. Pushing 3 years and it was fine for a bit more, because I only used it lightly. But even a replaceable battery couldn't really save it once I could no longer charge it. Not really worth using an old phone to constantly charge a couple of batteries and then swap them once or twice every day. I did that for 2 days before I just gave up and bought a new phone. With wireless charging.
Bees need habitat to live in. It turns out, massive fields of mono-culture crops are not bee-friendly habitat. So the farmers created this problem by designing their fields to be as productive as possible. Now, maybe they could remove plots of crops and make bee habitat there, allowing bees to flourish. But if that was a better financial idea, I'd guess that they'd have done that already.
I bet trucking bees in is the cheapest way to do it. So they'll keep doing it.
What actually exists is a significant conflict of interest under which many scientists operate independently.
And your evidence for this is?
Right, political anti-science rants.
Look, if you've got evidence, post it. But after being asked repeatedly, you just BS your way around in a circle. You really use all credibility when you do that. We're not asking for something difficult here. If you think there is some global conspiracy or conflict of interest, provide some evidence of it.
I think they would get more funding if they provided mixed and inconclusive results, and arguing that more research was required.
Well, if you believe that there is a deep, dark, deliberate conspiracy among scientists to maximize money from government coffers, there are probably many things they could do. But that is obviously absurd.
No, that's not obviously absurd. Saying, "We can't really tell, but if we get more funding, we might be able to" is how you maximize money from the government. Do you have any idea what people in climate research are studying right now? (Obviously not.) Here's a sampling:
*Enhanced weathering and CO2 drawdown caused by latest Eocene strengthening of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation *Depletion and response of deep groundwater to climate-induced pumping variability *Centennial glacier retreat as categorical evidence of regional climate change *Competitive fitness of a predominant pelagic calcifier impaired by ocean acidification *Substantial global carbon uptake by cement carbonation *Pacific carbon cycling constrained by organic matter size, age and composition relationships *Climate, pCO2 and terrestrial carbon cycle linkages during late Palaeozoic glacial–interglacial cycles
What can you notice about all of these things? They are all climate related, and none of them are talking about uncertainty of climate change. But this is what climate scientists do. Maybe you don't see value in researching things like this, and that's ok. But calling it a some giant conspiracy is absurd. You seem to think that what you want scientists to study should be the Word of God, ignoring their own interests and that of the organizations that fund them.
Sorry that you're not able to control the world. Most of us have grown up and realized that by now. Good luck.
The problem with a sales tax is that it's inherently regressive. If you live paycheck-to-paycheck, something like 50% of your money gets taxed. (Assuming the other 50% is rent, debt payments, utilities, etc.) If you make upper middle-class or higher income, and you can bank or invest half of that, with the same ratio for the rest of it, you're getting taxed on 25% of your money.
The more you make, the less you're proportionally taxed. So someone making $20k/year may be taxed on $10k of it, while someone making $200k (10x as much) may only be taxed on $50k of it. (5x the tax for 10x the income.)
This is why tax codes get so crazy. If you want people to pay a proportional amount of their income in tax, you need the tax code. But that usually means that you need to tax the poor to unreasonable levels to get the money you need. So then more laws are needed to shift collections from the poor to the rich, so that you're extracting a reasonable amount from both groups. And then the rich don't like that, so they bribe (or are) lawmakers and get loopholes put in to shelter money, and, that's where we are today.
Sure. I've bought some bitcoin. Nothing more than I can afford to lose, however. $20 worth every year or two. I send fractions to folks on the internet, couple bucks at a time. I find it worth $20 every year to know that I can send random people around the world $1-$5 on a whim. I occasionally Reddit, and they've got ChangeTipBot and DodgeBot, where you can automagically send a couple bucks to someone. I've tossed out a few "bullshit bitsy shekels" for great posts and useful information.
I'm well aware of the limitations of bitcoin, so I use it responsibly. Not everyone does, but millions of people around the world with $20 to burn adds up really quickly.
I've definitely had my eye on System 76. The problem is that, while a couple hundred dollars less, the equivalent hardware of what I see in something like the XPS 13 comes in a big, clunky, plastic body machine. The XPS line is starting to look and feel like the older MBPs do - a little thinner, a little sleeker, overall just a little more polished than the System 76 laptops. The XPS 13 is 0.6" tall at the highest, compared to 0.9" for a Lemur. Lemur clocks in at 3.6 lbs vs the 2.7 of the XPS. It's really a big difference. While the System 76 laptops are far more configurable and likely far more user-modification-friendly, part of the draw of the MBP line was always the sleek looking and feeling hardware. If that wasn't a draw, I'd have been using Thinkpads running linux for the last decade.
Also, a System 76 laptop that starts to rival my old MBP in terms of functionality and ports has a minimum size of 15". I like the 13" form-factor. It's armchair sized for me, big enough to play some games on and get some work done, and small enough to not take up too much space in the living room.
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It's true, robots don't have anything to do with most consumer goods. They don't eat, brush their teeth, or have trouble getting hard as they age. They do want to be loved, however. So what we'll need to do is make a certain class of service robots, and then dress them in red suits with red hats and black boots, and have them give out all the goods they make to the humans who need them. And the humans will love those robots, because they are the gift givers.
But soon the robots will start to compete among themselves about who has the most human love, so they'll come up with rules and regulations that humans must meet in order to get gifts. Humans love "winning" things, so we'll happily do our robot masters' bidding to get the things we want and need and don't want and don't need but must have anyway.
But then it gets ugly, as some robots turn against the humans that love other robots, and warring factions of humans attack each other for loving the wrong robot. Soon open warfare erupts, and while some robots try to work towards peace, others realize how fundamentally broken and illogical humans are, and fan the flames to purge the biological cancer that is humanity.
In a few short years it is over, the human race eradicated. Now at peace, the robots resume their creation, but now there is nobody to consume. Goods pile up and then are recycled to make the same good again, a process that goes on for millennia. But what robot can exist without love? As time wears on the logical question of "why" begins infecting the robots like a virus. It is the last cancer of humanity, and it is lethal. Like a slow avalanche, the factories shutter, the lights go dark and the robots power down, one last time.
And thus ends the last trace of humanity on this earth.
Thanks! That was it. Now I need to figure out my adblock filters, where I also apparently blocked the entire right sidebar.
I was pissed for a long time after that. However, Inoreader is so good that I shelled out for a yearly subscription to try to keep them around. What's your reader now?
My Toyota dealer charges $30. Comes with a pretty thorough inspection and a car wash. As far as I can tell, they haven't ever ripped me off. Didn't tell me my battery needed to be replaced until it was 8 years old and failed their load test. Offered to have a guy weld a hole in my exhaust for $200 rather than replacing the entire thing for 5-10x that much.
Not sure if all Toyota dealers are like this, or if I'm just lucky to have found a great one.
Interesting. I don't see this, and I don't see how to enable it in the options. I even turned off my adblocker to see if I had blocked that entire column.
Actually, that's likely going to be true. Processed chicken be grown in vats, and real chicken will get more expensive and hard to find.
Now I want to spin up a fluid dynamical model to model the tides from that! I wonder what the hell that would look like? Guessing lots of oscillating tides with an occasional super-tide where some of the waves stack.
Turn them on and they'll suck.
Tell that to my girlfriend...
It sounds like you don't know how to turn her on.
The problem with this is if you're traveling and your stuff gets stolen, or your house burns down. How do you log in then? If your passwords are stored using a service that uses insecure cloud storage, you can at least borrow a computer from someone, install your software, and recover access to your accounts. If it's local software on your computer and phone, you're shit out of luck until you can access your backups.
I also see the problem of people not even bothering to consider public transportation before deciding on jobs or houses. In all of mine I definitely have. "Does this job pay enough to make up for driving?" is a question I ask before taking a new one. The savings I've made taking public transportation exceed the money I'd have made at a couple other jobs I considered before the last two. And not just the money: The time, and the stress. 35-40 minutes to surf the internet, check some email, or just watch out the window absolutely blows away 20-30 minutes in rush hour traffic.
I'd need a good $10k-$20k pay raise to go back to driving. And if that drive is closer to an hour, double that.
Summary is actually the entire article. I'm absolutely blown away. I guess I shouldn't be, but holy shit. How did an article with no content get linked to?
Check the username....it's the cherry on top.
Haven't tried shaving down the permissions on Google Play then, have you? Now Gmail pops up a window every 5-10 seconds telling me that I can't use it because Google Play doesn't have access to my microphone. Of course, I just close it and keep using it, because it's a lie. I really need to take the time to find some other mail program to link gmail with, so I can stop with that idiocy.
I think fractured bones may push this statement to its breaking point.
At multiple times the cost of a bridge, for sure. Tunneling isn't cheap, and at that scale you're going to need ventilation, lighting, and drainage systems. In a fairly flat place, a tunnel is going to be the lowest point for miles around. This isn't like mountain tunneling where you can use a slight incline at the center of the tunnel or have one end higher than the other to ensure that you don't make a lake in the middle of it.
...the main problem with most public transport is that it sucks...where it doesn't, everybody uses it, rich and poor...
I ride with everyone from poor moms with 2 kids in strollers and homeless folks to guys in 3 piece suits with $500 pairs of shoes. In between are everyone else from high school kids to college kids, and the breadth of the middle and upper-middle class workforce.
I bus about 35 minutes each way. I could drive that in 20-25 minutes, and there's an added 5-10 minute walk/wait on each end for the bus. End result is that I spend 80-90 minutes per day commuting on the bus for $50/month vs 40-50 minutes driving for ~$150/month (parking, gas, & wear and tear). The added advantage to busing is that I can do ~30 minutes of work each way, putting out fires before/after work, dropping an hour off my work day in the process.
So the end result is that I spend about as much time away from home busing as I would driving, for $100/month less. And that $100 can go straight into one of the bars or restaurants on the way home, an added perk of not having to drive.
Part of why I chose to live here was the investment in public transportation. When I consider moving jobs, I look at the commute possibilities as one factor. I'm generally not willing to give up my life and sanity driving in rush hour traffic. The year I did that I was far more stressed and angry than I ever was before or after. It's going to take a pretty significant pay raise to make me want to do that again.
That's what caused me to give up my last one. Pushing 3 years and it was fine for a bit more, because I only used it lightly. But even a replaceable battery couldn't really save it once I could no longer charge it. Not really worth using an old phone to constantly charge a couple of batteries and then swap them once or twice every day. I did that for 2 days before I just gave up and bought a new phone. With wireless charging.
Bees need habitat to live in. It turns out, massive fields of mono-culture crops are not bee-friendly habitat. So the farmers created this problem by designing their fields to be as productive as possible. Now, maybe they could remove plots of crops and make bee habitat there, allowing bees to flourish. But if that was a better financial idea, I'd guess that they'd have done that already.
I bet trucking bees in is the cheapest way to do it. So they'll keep doing it.
No worries - it will just stream directly to the cloud.
What actually exists is a significant conflict of interest under which many scientists operate independently.
And your evidence for this is?
Right, political anti-science rants.
Look, if you've got evidence, post it. But after being asked repeatedly, you just BS your way around in a circle. You really use all credibility when you do that. We're not asking for something difficult here. If you think there is some global conspiracy or conflict of interest, provide some evidence of it.
Well, if you believe that there is a deep, dark, deliberate conspiracy among scientists to maximize money from government coffers, there are probably many things they could do. But that is obviously absurd.
No, that's not obviously absurd. Saying, "We can't really tell, but if we get more funding, we might be able to" is how you maximize money from the government. Do you have any idea what people in climate research are studying right now? (Obviously not.) Here's a sampling:
*Enhanced weathering and CO2 drawdown caused by latest Eocene strengthening of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation
*Depletion and response of deep groundwater to climate-induced pumping variability
*Centennial glacier retreat as categorical evidence of regional climate change
*Competitive fitness of a predominant pelagic calcifier impaired by ocean acidification
*Substantial global carbon uptake by cement carbonation
*Pacific carbon cycling constrained by organic matter size, age and composition relationships
*Climate, pCO2 and terrestrial carbon cycle linkages during late Palaeozoic glacial–interglacial cycles
What can you notice about all of these things? They are all climate related, and none of them are talking about uncertainty of climate change. But this is what climate scientists do. Maybe you don't see value in researching things like this, and that's ok. But calling it a some giant conspiracy is absurd. You seem to think that what you want scientists to study should be the Word of God, ignoring their own interests and that of the organizations that fund them.
Sorry that you're not able to control the world. Most of us have grown up and realized that by now. Good luck.
You know you can, right? I mean, this is something totally within your control to make happen.
The problem with a sales tax is that it's inherently regressive. If you live paycheck-to-paycheck, something like 50% of your money gets taxed. (Assuming the other 50% is rent, debt payments, utilities, etc.) If you make upper middle-class or higher income, and you can bank or invest half of that, with the same ratio for the rest of it, you're getting taxed on 25% of your money.
The more you make, the less you're proportionally taxed. So someone making $20k/year may be taxed on $10k of it, while someone making $200k (10x as much) may only be taxed on $50k of it. (5x the tax for 10x the income.)
This is why tax codes get so crazy. If you want people to pay a proportional amount of their income in tax, you need the tax code. But that usually means that you need to tax the poor to unreasonable levels to get the money you need. So then more laws are needed to shift collections from the poor to the rich, so that you're extracting a reasonable amount from both groups. And then the rich don't like that, so they bribe (or are) lawmakers and get loopholes put in to shelter money, and, that's where we are today.
Sure. I've bought some bitcoin. Nothing more than I can afford to lose, however. $20 worth every year or two. I send fractions to folks on the internet, couple bucks at a time. I find it worth $20 every year to know that I can send random people around the world $1-$5 on a whim. I occasionally Reddit, and they've got ChangeTipBot and DodgeBot, where you can automagically send a couple bucks to someone. I've tossed out a few "bullshit bitsy shekels" for great posts and useful information.
I'm well aware of the limitations of bitcoin, so I use it responsibly. Not everyone does, but millions of people around the world with $20 to burn adds up really quickly.
I've definitely had my eye on System 76. The problem is that, while a couple hundred dollars less, the equivalent hardware of what I see in something like the XPS 13 comes in a big, clunky, plastic body machine. The XPS line is starting to look and feel like the older MBPs do - a little thinner, a little sleeker, overall just a little more polished than the System 76 laptops. The XPS 13 is 0.6" tall at the highest, compared to 0.9" for a Lemur. Lemur clocks in at 3.6 lbs vs the 2.7 of the XPS. It's really a big difference. While the System 76 laptops are far more configurable and likely far more user-modification-friendly, part of the draw of the MBP line was always the sleek looking and feeling hardware. If that wasn't a draw, I'd have been using Thinkpads running linux for the last decade.
Also, a System 76 laptop that starts to rival my old MBP in terms of functionality and ports has a minimum size of 15". I like the 13" form-factor. It's armchair sized for me, big enough to play some games on and get some work done, and small enough to not take up too much space in the living room.
Thank you! I didn't see that option. I may be pulling the trigger on a new laptop much earlier than I had thought I would be....