No alcohol? Why was there a bar at 10 Forward then? Money is not silly to get rid of in a post-scarcity society.
They have synthehol, all the taste and smell of alcohol but none of the effects. The actual set up of the Star Trek post-scarcity society is a much larger discussion that is mirrored with societies like The Culture with questions like "Why doesn't everybody get a spaceship?", "If Captain Pickard (or Kirk) gets a nice French farm to live on, why doesn't everybody?"
"SJW"? Star Trek has always been a show with liberal values.
Star Trek never made it gratuitous. Liberal values yes, but not SJW. That "fan" show with the gratuitous gay scenes were *about* the gay scenes. Star Trek on the other hand was always about something else... with the liberal values just being there, rather than the whole point of the whole show.
You must not have watched TNG when it came out. No alcohol. No money. No lots of things that seemed silly to get rid of. It was fairly over blown at the time. I'm sure that TOS hit my parents generation pretty hard with their themes also, at least to those that weren't already with modern thought.
it is incredibly bad strategy to displace the workers who maintain it.
Working people are being pushed out by zoning laws and restrictions on the construction of affordable housing. Blaming that on Amazon is idiotic. If Seattle wants to be affordable to working people, they should approve a lot more building permits.
SF may have an issue with building permits, but certainly not Seattle. Block after block after block of new multi-story dual use aprartments have gone up all across the city. Even the low income complexes have been razed and rebuilt as nicer low income complexes with more units. I can look outside my work at see two blocks of apartment buildings that were built two years ago and see two more currently being built. Light rail went south and huge apartment complexes sprung up at all the stops along with more shopping. Seattle is building, building, building and studies show this is keeping prices from rising as much as they would have. Trouble is that nobody is going to build cheap places so all the new places are not just new but really nice and sell to people that can afford them. They replaced the rat traps that used to exist because those places couldn't bring in enough money to offset the rise in property taxes let lone what they could bring in with nice apartments. Those older apartments that aren't getting torn down are being remodled and rented for twice the amount. Rents are going up mroe and more if you haven't bought already and the city population has doubled in the last ten years with people who can afford nicer places.
Not sure what you consider "a decent house". I know friends of mine were able to buy a three bedroom house for about $200k just 3-5 years ago because they did in south Seattle and South Park. I was buying but a year ago the same houses were going for $350k which I was lucky to get. There were still some around $200k but the layouts were messed up with expansions and they were livable but needed to be fixed up. Still, even those were going into bidding wars with no chance of even getting them for that price and probably just to be torn down and rebuilt. The housing market certainly has been getting much hotter in the last two to three years as I was watching and shopping for a house in that time and could see it.
Still, this is the trend Seattle has been on since the.com boom of the mid 90's. Certainly didn't start with Amazon and probably won't finish with them either.
I read the linked article and maybe I'm old (Ok I am old) but I couldn't see how this was "Game changing".
Game changing in that it means that the ULA may actually still be in the game. With the military using SpaceX finally, there is no real reason to use ULA rockets except for man launches or congress say so. SpaceX is workign on their man rating and economics will eventually win congress over. Meanwhile, the ULA are a generation behind in rocket design and trying desperately to catch up with their own reusable first stage rocket. Both Blue Origin and ULA will essentially be putting their futures behind the BE-4 and the rocket it goes in.
Tesla's got to be a pressure-cooker company right now to get that production up. But if floor management is creating problems like this, there's a huge incentive to for senior management to give a beat-down to the floor managers. No workers, no Tesla 3's, no Tesla... and there goes Elon Musk puttering around dog-faced in a Bolt.
I'd agree, but I've yet to see senior management ever take up the workers cause over other management even when it is obviously hurting the company. HR pretty much just admits they are only there to help management. That sometimes takes the form of risking a lawsuit by firing somebody who keeps notifying them that some manager keeps doing something illegal.
My father worked in credit card all his career. From most of the stories he'd tell, as much as not, the signature came up when somebody tried to decline charges. Once they find out the CC company have the signature and it looks like their signature, they admit they bought the item but were now having buyers remorse. Next comes signatures by other family who they loaned their card to with the intent of letting them buy stuff. Once faced with knowledge there is evidence that they or their agent used the card with their agreement, they stop trying to deny charges and just pay up.
It's not about what you know; it's about who you know, and who knows you. Go to Meetups. Stay in contact with people. Get your name out into the back channels.
True. One of the first things I learned when going into the professional world over 20 years ago, nothing helps your chances of getting a job than having a friend hand your resume into the boss saying "Here's a friend of mine that would be good for that job." Next comes experience, have you actually done this job before. Then comes education if they need tie breaker between the people that are left.
That being said, there is a new topic on the field. I do know a decent amount of younger people entering the work force, particularly at Amazon. They know they are signing up for more hours than they should work at a job they don't like. They have come to accept and exploit the job hopping atmosphere of tech jobs and rank stacking. The entire point it to get a crappy job so that at 18 months later, they can pad their resumes enough to get a new, higher paying job before they get laid off. This is the expected job track till they get enough experience and find a job they like at a salary they are happy with, and a culture that will allow them to settle down.
I think the idea is that a 50km long tube would be the perfect ice trap. Any sublimed water that happened to go inside would eventually end up well away from any sun and heat and become ice. There wouldn't be much at any given time, but the process would have been going on for millions of years. I doubt we'll know until we actually get there and look.
Did Orwell's 1984 stop being a basic high school literature requirement in the last 20 years?
I am continually baffled by the number of people mindlessly signing up for an active listening (and soon, viewing) device in their homes.
You can just see the incremental push for "new applications" which will ultimately require continuous listening, viewing and remote transcription.
No, but neither has a Brave New World. Which would make you the John figure running through the streets, knocking the cell phones from people's hands while yelling at them for living in an "empty society", and that they should live by the old ways and flog themselves to remove sin and desire.
Well, they do go into various laptop keyboard mechanics, and if the story had just been a segway into a detailed article on such, I wouldn't have minded such an article here, but as it was, it did just seem to be a rant. Honestly, the site wasn't near as click baity as most seem to be, but the whiskey ads were very conspicuous.
Man who apparently breaks the keyboards on all the Mac Book Pros that he has ever owned is upset that all three times he has taken his new Mac Book pro into the Apple Store, the people there have offered him the same solution.
BUY MACALLAN WHISKEY
Finally, on the third trip, he allows them to fix the issue and bitches that it is a more involved process now than when he broke the keyboards on his previous versions.
Trump isn't cancelling interviews because he stubbed his toe. Nor is he getting chucked into a van like a side of beef. Or spacing out in mini-seizures.
Gold is not valuable because it is tangible; it is valuable because it is scarce. So is Bitcoin, BTW. Much like gold, as a currency it is inherently deflationary.
A bit simplistic. Gold is not only scarce but also doesn't rust. If you start with an amount of gold, you can pretty assume you will still have that amount of gold even if buried in the ground and otherwise exposed to elements for decades so long as it isn't stolen. It also happens to be considered pretty, hard to fake, capable of being used for gilding, easy to work, and these days has some industrial advantages over other more commonly used metals that it would be used for if not for the cost but sometimes still is.
I looked at the Bladerunner 2048 Reviews on Saturday after the premiere, looks like a TON of canned 5-star reviews, overly verbose not really saying anything about watching the movie, but just how great the movie is, or the importance of the movie. Then there were the opposite one and no pointers, who wrote not again about the movie but how bad the movie was. In there if you read a bit you could find snippets of actual reviews where people mention the plot development form the original, characters, scenes etc.
There was apparently a great deal of effort to keep spoilers from slipping. The trailer noticibly doesn't give away much of the plot. Reviewers were asked/warned not to give away spoilers to the plot in reviews. Of course, you really only hear about this in "spoiler reviews" which you practically have to go looking for to find. There are also plenty of such reviews that think that such treatment may have hurt the numbers as there is no 'hook' to draw people in. Normally, I'm not one to worry about spoilers, but they started to slip out in friend's commentary and I decided to go out and see the movie immediately because I did care in this case. This is because the base plot pretty much answers many of the questions and hidden elements about the first movie, such as if Deckard is a replicant.
Personally, I loved it. Well worth the 35 year wait from when I saw it as a kid sneaking into the theater for an R film to see a movie that had Han Solo in it. I will admit that I loved it because I had my own personal head canon for decades about Deckard being a replicant and why the two of them went running for together, and got it right according to this film exactly. Is it really important? You find out in the first fifteen minutes of the show that the two were replicants and had a kid because Tyrell was trying to develop replicants that could breed and thus the motto "More human than human." The rest of the movie sort of follows in the noir tradition of finding the kid and then dealing with the question of free will and what it means to be human. Perhaps even lacking as much action that some would want and ending without a final conclusion to the plot, as it is indeed more interested in showing what the characters are feeling than completing a story.
There is literally (once again), no reason to make this thing a video other than for people too stupid to read.
I be you will find that videos are cheaper and easier to produce and to host that transcripts or even written articles, especially when taking into account total time a person spends on a website.
Tesla uses 8 cameras, consuming less than 1 watt each.
So where are the other 1992 watts going?
According to an article here earlier this week, LIDAR, more processing, and all the other systems that car companies say will be required for actual autonomous vehicles to function as opposed to what Musk and Tesla says will work. The Lidar also has to have sensor warts all over the car which also affects aerodynamics and fuel economy. They're building future cars with current equipment because you can't run vaporware through a government testing program. It probably all comes down to in theory, theory is the same as practice, but in practice, they are not.
It seems to me like if you haven't learned to code yourself, it's pretty hypocritical to declare that all students need to learn it now.
Well, no, I don't think Tim Cook ever wrote any code. His claim to fame was the business guy that went to Asia and secured the supply chain to make sure that not only could Apple build as many iPhones as they wanted, but also tied up all stock of component parts so that nobody else could build a competitor phone with the same or better parts. Here he is, as a business man, telling the French that between learning English or learning a skill, particularly one that the US is currently known for, they'd be better off learning the skill. So, it could be taken to be saying that if they want to code, in the future, they will be just as well off doing it in their country for people that speak their own language.
Then again, he might just be telling everybody to code because he heads a large computer company that's all he cares about or because he wants lots of cheap workers in the future.
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No alcohol? Why was there a bar at 10 Forward then? Money is not silly to get rid of in a post-scarcity society.
They have synthehol, all the taste and smell of alcohol but none of the effects. The actual set up of the Star Trek post-scarcity society is a much larger discussion that is mirrored with societies like The Culture with questions like "Why doesn't everybody get a spaceship?", "If Captain Pickard (or Kirk) gets a nice French farm to live on, why doesn't everybody?"
Good post. Too many people are caught up in the physics of Minkoski space and physics, which apply to Star Trek about as much as Newtonian physics.
"SJW"? Star Trek has always been a show with liberal values.
Star Trek never made it gratuitous. Liberal values yes, but not SJW. That "fan" show with the gratuitous gay scenes were *about* the gay scenes. Star Trek on the other hand was always about something else... with the liberal values just being there, rather than the whole point of the whole show.
You must not have watched TNG when it came out. No alcohol. No money. No lots of things that seemed silly to get rid of. It was fairly over blown at the time. I'm sure that TOS hit my parents generation pretty hard with their themes also, at least to those that weren't already with modern thought.
Instead of producing stand-alone shows every show is a continuation of a long assed story?
Well, at least something good came out of the show.
it is incredibly bad strategy to displace the workers who maintain it.
Working people are being pushed out by zoning laws and restrictions on the construction of affordable housing. Blaming that on Amazon is idiotic. If Seattle wants to be affordable to working people, they should approve a lot more building permits.
SF may have an issue with building permits, but certainly not Seattle. Block after block after block of new multi-story dual use aprartments have gone up all across the city. Even the low income complexes have been razed and rebuilt as nicer low income complexes with more units. I can look outside my work at see two blocks of apartment buildings that were built two years ago and see two more currently being built. Light rail went south and huge apartment complexes sprung up at all the stops along with more shopping. Seattle is building, building, building and studies show this is keeping prices from rising as much as they would have. Trouble is that nobody is going to build cheap places so all the new places are not just new but really nice and sell to people that can afford them. They replaced the rat traps that used to exist because those places couldn't bring in enough money to offset the rise in property taxes let lone what they could bring in with nice apartments. Those older apartments that aren't getting torn down are being remodled and rented for twice the amount. Rents are going up mroe and more if you haven't bought already and the city population has doubled in the last ten years with people who can afford nicer places.
Not sure what you consider "a decent house". I know friends of mine were able to buy a three bedroom house for about $200k just 3-5 years ago because they did in south Seattle and South Park. I was buying but a year ago the same houses were going for $350k which I was lucky to get. There were still some around $200k but the layouts were messed up with expansions and they were livable but needed to be fixed up. Still, even those were going into bidding wars with no chance of even getting them for that price and probably just to be torn down and rebuilt. The housing market certainly has been getting much hotter in the last two to three years as I was watching and shopping for a house in that time and could see it.
Still, this is the trend Seattle has been on since the .com boom of the mid 90's. Certainly didn't start with Amazon and probably won't finish with them either.
I read the linked article and maybe I'm old (Ok I am old) but I couldn't see how this was "Game changing".
Game changing in that it means that the ULA may actually still be in the game. With the military using SpaceX finally, there is no real reason to use ULA rockets except for man launches or congress say so. SpaceX is workign on their man rating and economics will eventually win congress over. Meanwhile, the ULA are a generation behind in rocket design and trying desperately to catch up with their own reusable first stage rocket. Both Blue Origin and ULA will essentially be putting their futures behind the BE-4 and the rocket it goes in.
Tesla's got to be a pressure-cooker company right now to get that production up. But if floor management is creating problems like this, there's a huge incentive to for senior management to give a beat-down to the floor managers. No workers, no Tesla 3's, no Tesla... and there goes Elon Musk puttering around dog-faced in a Bolt.
I'd agree, but I've yet to see senior management ever take up the workers cause over other management even when it is obviously hurting the company. HR pretty much just admits they are only there to help management. That sometimes takes the form of risking a lawsuit by firing somebody who keeps notifying them that some manager keeps doing something illegal.
My father worked in credit card all his career. From most of the stories he'd tell, as much as not, the signature came up when somebody tried to decline charges. Once they find out the CC company have the signature and it looks like their signature, they admit they bought the item but were now having buyers remorse. Next comes signatures by other family who they loaned their card to with the intent of letting them buy stuff. Once faced with knowledge there is evidence that they or their agent used the card with their agreement, they stop trying to deny charges and just pay up.
It's not about what you know; it's about who you know, and who knows you. Go to Meetups. Stay in contact with people. Get your name out into the back channels.
True. One of the first things I learned when going into the professional world over 20 years ago, nothing helps your chances of getting a job than having a friend hand your resume into the boss saying "Here's a friend of mine that would be good for that job." Next comes experience, have you actually done this job before. Then comes education if they need tie breaker between the people that are left.
That being said, there is a new topic on the field. I do know a decent amount of younger people entering the work force, particularly at Amazon. They know they are signing up for more hours than they should work at a job they don't like. They have come to accept and exploit the job hopping atmosphere of tech jobs and rank stacking. The entire point it to get a crappy job so that at 18 months later, they can pad their resumes enough to get a new, higher paying job before they get laid off. This is the expected job track till they get enough experience and find a job they like at a salary they are happy with, and a culture that will allow them to settle down.
I think the idea is that a 50km long tube would be the perfect ice trap. Any sublimed water that happened to go inside would eventually end up well away from any sun and heat and become ice. There wouldn't be much at any given time, but the process would have been going on for millions of years. I doubt we'll know until we actually get there and look.
Which I suspect is why he put that "PP" in there before O2, for Partial Pressure, which is what human breathing depends on.
Did Orwell's 1984 stop being a basic high school literature requirement in the last 20 years?
I am continually baffled by the number of people mindlessly signing up for an active listening (and soon, viewing) device in their homes.
You can just see the incremental push for "new applications" which will ultimately require continuous listening, viewing and remote transcription.
No, but neither has a Brave New World. Which would make you the John figure running through the streets, knocking the cell phones from people's hands while yelling at them for living in an "empty society", and that they should live by the old ways and flog themselves to remove sin and desire.
Thanks for you're link to that sight.
Found the Russian troll.
Well, they do go into various laptop keyboard mechanics, and if the story had just been a segway into a detailed article on such, I wouldn't have minded such an article here, but as it was, it did just seem to be a rant. Honestly, the site wasn't near as click baity as most seem to be, but the whiskey ads were very conspicuous.
Man who apparently breaks the keyboards on all the Mac Book Pros that he has ever owned is upset that all three times he has taken his new Mac Book pro into the Apple Store, the people there have offered him the same solution.
BUY MACALLAN WHISKEY
Finally, on the third trip, he allows them to fix the issue and bitches that it is a more involved process now than when he broke the keyboards on his previous versions.
BUY MACALLAN WHISKEY
Trump isn't cancelling interviews because he stubbed his toe. Nor is he getting chucked into a van like a side of beef. Or spacing out in mini-seizures.
Explain covfefe
Syphilitic dementia.
Gold is not valuable because it is tangible; it is valuable because it is scarce. So is Bitcoin, BTW. Much like gold, as a currency it is inherently deflationary.
A bit simplistic. Gold is not only scarce but also doesn't rust. If you start with an amount of gold, you can pretty assume you will still have that amount of gold even if buried in the ground and otherwise exposed to elements for decades so long as it isn't stolen. It also happens to be considered pretty, hard to fake, capable of being used for gilding, easy to work, and these days has some industrial advantages over other more commonly used metals that it would be used for if not for the cost but sometimes still is.
In fact, the possibilities of AI and machine learning are limitless
Limitless... that's a pretty far-fetched claim.
Well, limitless in the same way that a blank book is limitless. Anything you could imagine could get written in it.
I looked at the Bladerunner 2048 Reviews on Saturday after the premiere, looks like a TON of canned 5-star reviews, overly verbose not really saying anything about watching the movie, but just how great the movie is, or the importance of the movie. Then there were the opposite one and no pointers, who wrote not again about the movie but how bad the movie was. In there if you read a bit you could find snippets of actual reviews where people mention the plot development form the original, characters, scenes etc.
There was apparently a great deal of effort to keep spoilers from slipping. The trailer noticibly doesn't give away much of the plot. Reviewers were asked/warned not to give away spoilers to the plot in reviews. Of course, you really only hear about this in "spoiler reviews" which you practically have to go looking for to find. There are also plenty of such reviews that think that such treatment may have hurt the numbers as there is no 'hook' to draw people in. Normally, I'm not one to worry about spoilers, but they started to slip out in friend's commentary and I decided to go out and see the movie immediately because I did care in this case. This is because the base plot pretty much answers many of the questions and hidden elements about the first movie, such as if Deckard is a replicant.
Personally, I loved it. Well worth the 35 year wait from when I saw it as a kid sneaking into the theater for an R film to see a movie that had Han Solo in it. I will admit that I loved it because I had my own personal head canon for decades about Deckard being a replicant and why the two of them went running for together, and got it right according to this film exactly. Is it really important? You find out in the first fifteen minutes of the show that the two were replicants and had a kid because Tyrell was trying to develop replicants that could breed and thus the motto "More human than human." The rest of the movie sort of follows in the noir tradition of finding the kid and then dealing with the question of free will and what it means to be human. Perhaps even lacking as much action that some would want and ending without a final conclusion to the plot, as it is indeed more interested in showing what the characters are feeling than completing a story.
There is literally (once again), no reason to make this thing a video other than for people too stupid to read.
I be you will find that videos are cheaper and easier to produce and to host that transcripts or even written articles, especially when taking into account total time a person spends on a website.
The sensor suite for automated vehicles is key.
Tesla uses 8 cameras, consuming less than 1 watt each. So where are the other 1992 watts going?
According to an article here earlier this week, LIDAR, more processing, and all the other systems that car companies say will be required for actual autonomous vehicles to function as opposed to what Musk and Tesla says will work. The Lidar also has to have sensor warts all over the car which also affects aerodynamics and fuel economy. They're building future cars with current equipment because you can't run vaporware through a government testing program. It probably all comes down to in theory, theory is the same as practice, but in practice, they are not.
It seems to me like if you haven't learned to code yourself, it's pretty hypocritical to declare that all students need to learn it now.
Well, no, I don't think Tim Cook ever wrote any code. His claim to fame was the business guy that went to Asia and secured the supply chain to make sure that not only could Apple build as many iPhones as they wanted, but also tied up all stock of component parts so that nobody else could build a competitor phone with the same or better parts. Here he is, as a business man, telling the French that between learning English or learning a skill, particularly one that the US is currently known for, they'd be better off learning the skill. So, it could be taken to be saying that if they want to code, in the future, they will be just as well off doing it in their country for people that speak their own language.
Then again, he might just be telling everybody to code because he heads a large computer company that's all he cares about or because he wants lots of cheap workers in the future.
This seems like Cook is looking to turn the States into a land of cheap programming labor, like those lands that corporate America enjoy today.
Code and fast pizza delivery. They're the only thing that the US can do better than anybody else any more.