The problem with rising property prices is that, sure you can sell your house for 5 times what you paid for it, but unless you're moving out of the areas, you're probably overpaying for your next house.
Which a lot of people are doing. Looking around, your primary residence should be about 20-40% of your net worth. That being ideal, most people are probably worse, say 50% if they own a house. If you can get five times that, you possibly have a nest egg large enough to move away, get a cheaper house and even a different job. Friends in Seattle are looking at this scenario right now. They got a good house at a good price years ago. It's now valued at almost three times what they paid for it. If it should reach five times, they're thinking about selling, moving to the peninsula to a nice but cheap house, getting a new jobs that pays less, but the leftover amount they invest could more than make up the difference in the long run.
If it plugs the hole for one feature of the universe that is explained currently by dark matter, that is progress. We may find other things that plug the rest of the holes and then there would be no need for dark matter. Besides, wouldn't a really dim galaxy kind of 'be' dark matter since we could not see it before?
Doesn't work that way. Currently we have many holes that all lead to the same conclusion. If one got plugged but didn't plug the others also, it most likely a sign that that solution is wrong, and if it was correct, it would indicate that much weirder things than some matter than doesn't interact with the EM radiation was going on, which seems to be what most dark matter detractors are upset about. Dim galaxies are out also. Dim ordinary matter was one of the first things proposed to plug one of the holes, but tests were made and while there is an amount of undetected matter, the upper limits placed on that amount is very small to the total amount of matter that is left undetected by direct visual means.
Cool story bro. Is that what US employers tell you as an excuse to only give you two weeks vacation? From here in Europe I can tell you a month plus is no problem and people want more. Those I've talked to who's taken 3/6/12 month sabbaticals all seem to have enjoyed it too.
I'm sure there are different types of people. I'm with the OP. First time I got laid off, I found a job in a month and looked back at all that free time I had but never used. Next time, during the.com bust, I gave myself two weeks and then jumped on some hobbies. One being a web site about bands I liked. I even went out with a band for a few weeks as a roadie so I could write about it. Lots of people were laid off in that time period and there was a common saying, "For the first two weeks of unemployment, every day is a Saturday. After that, everyday is a Sunday."
The odd thing about Napoleon is that he wasn't that short. He was actually tall for the day at 5'7 which was actually slightly taller than most people at the time. The idea of Napoleon Bonaparte being diminutive came from British wartime propaganda where he was depicted as being short and monkey-like.
"Moore's law is the observation that the number of transistors in a dense integrated circuit doubles about every two years".
Whoever decided to call it a "law" was a moron and now we have this idiocy repeated every news story. And since it's not a law, we could simple move on and realize that physics simply doesn't allow it to exist.
A law, as opposed to a theory, rule, observation, hypothesis,etc. simply means it can be put into a mathematical formula. The above definition fits that very well. It has nothing to do with if it holds for all cases or if it has even been tested. Many laws are not exact or have only a range for which they are applicable.
Not sure I'd agree with all that, or at least it's more complicated that presented. The South did not industrialize and make their own manufactured goods a good part due to slavery. Over the years, they had increasingly restricted what their main work force, slaves, could learn in effort to keep them from rebelling. Bringing them the point that such workers could not even function as industrial workers. What Lincoln said about slavery was mute because the real issue which had been playing out for decades was new territories not being lsave states and slave states becoming a minority. Slavery would also only be extinguished in the south with a great battle. Most of the South's "wealth" was tied up in the value of those slaves. If there were no slaves to own, the South would become much poorer than the North, which is what happened. At the Siege of Richmond, they were offered compensation for freeing the slaves if they would free them and rejoin the US as if nothing had happened, but even thought the writing was already on the wall, the powers that be in the South opted for one last spite counter offensive rather than admit defeat and try and rebuild.
The fact is, our American Civil War was complicated, both the reasons for it's beginning and continuation (fun fact - Lincoln floated the idea of leaving slavery legal in some states, to preserve the union). What's interesting as an American is that the angle historians take on the conflict tends to be defined by where you get the education: Northern states tend to teach the "Civil War was about slavery" concept, Southern states lean towards the "state's rights" ideology, and Border states (like where I'm from) tend to take a more middle-of-the-road, "both of you are assholes" mentality.
Interesting point made by Ulysses S Grant in his memoirs, is that the Civil War was fought over money. When the Southern states left, the did not take any of their debts, much of which were from the Mexican-American War which bought Texas its independence, and they demanded all US properties, mainly military bases and resources, in their states. While secession might have been allowed in principle, with such economic entanglement, there is no way that the USA could just allow states to leave, dumping their debt and also taking USA property.
How far is SpaceX away from being able to cobble up a flyby probe to at least get a close look at this object?
Probably not possible. Oumaumua is traveling at 26 km/s at infinity. So far, the fastest space craft we've made is the Parker Probe which was only 21 km/s while diving towards the sun. So, it's traveling faster than anything else we've managed (Voyagers are in the upper teens for km/s) to send into space. I have my doubts on the current Falcon Heavy being able to get any faster. The BFR might, but it's years out, but it's such a faint object that Oumuamua might be too far out to keep track of by that time if it continues to have an erratic movement.
This has been my life for the last twenty years. Most resistance is just from people not wanting to do things a different way. The older doctors may have never used computers much and don't want to start. Their workflow may be a few seconds longer for each case, but be sure that for the first six months they'll spend a few minutes on every case complaining about how they lost time on those few seconds. Eventually, they usually come around and learn and get angry they have to revert to the old ways in case of a downtime because it's inefficient. Still, online workflow is often more of a pain than the way it was done, and probably the greatest contribute to that is that everybody is trying to recreate their old paper workflow with an electronic system. If they would have spent more time planning during implimentation, they could have save time with each exam forever on, but they have Byzantine workflows that were originally created because there was only one sheet of paper that had to be passed around and nobody wants to spend time to even figure out what the workflow is in the big picture, let alone figure out if there's a better way. Next, yes, the doctor's workflow is often a little bit longer, and this is almost always because those required fields were always required but the doctors just were't filling them out in the past, requiring other workers to do their work and run around and directly ask the doctor later. And it was never just one person, the initial person discovering the required field wasn't filled out would have to tell another person, who would have to call somebody to go to talk to the doctor, who would have to talk to the administration to find out where the doctor currently is, and then page or ask them. Doctors complain because they have to do a few seconds extra work rather than make five other people do ten minutes work each later. Still, most hospitals went through this a decade or more ago. New residents and attendings coming in are already used to it as the old doctors and staff will be six months past go live.
[*] It's worth pointing out that malice is actually pretty rare, and that malice in its purest form -- malice for its own sake -- is extremely uncommon.
I'm guessing you browse at +1 and just never see all the Anonymous Coward posts here.
Oh look, NASA engineers are playing in the dirt. They might as well practice mining for gold in finely shredded cash.
Not too familiar with Orion, but SLS is hardly an engineer problem, but more of a management (Senate) problem. The engineers were told how to build something and they are doing it. For that matter, from what I remember of SpaceX history, is that it was built with NASA engineers who had ideas of what was possible but were not allowed to explore them. NASA has issues, but I doubt the problems are the engineers.
I want my darn headphone jack. And I'm keeping it until my phone is unrepairable.
Nobody cares.
I care, and so do millions who are either forgoing upgrading or are increasingly buying portable audio/media players or are buying dongles that allow simultaneous 3.5 mm headphone connections and USB-C or Lightning charging, because it was stupid to remove the ubiquitous 3.5 mm standard in the first place. There is nothing wrong with it.
Apple has always seemed to follow the 80/20 rule. Put in the features that 80% of people want/use and ignore the ones that 20% want/use. Like physical keyboards an replaceable batteries, I'm sure that some people have very good case use scenarios for such features. Most people can't touch type with their thumbs so a physical keyboard only really suits a small amount of people. External batteries last longer than replaceable ones and more convenient to charge. A lot of people who listen to headphones use a separate device so they don't use their phone's power.
I hate to say it, but I suspect this just shows that the most important part of being an artist is marketing. I doubt their AI is really all that great and probably more complex attempts at similar things have been tried. Especially considering it is coming from an art collective rather than a coding collective. Look at Banksy. Nothing really that Blek leRat or others haven't already done, but they have a nice collection of people helping them to promote and make the news. Oh well, they hit the jackpot. I hope their cool people deserving of it.
Ask any European or Asian or Canadian what they think about him? Their answers will mirror the Democrats.
No, I've met some European leftists that like Trump, or are at least happy for his Presidency. They feel that he'll damage American credibility and mess up American power over Europe and the world irreparably, putting the US on a more even ground with everybody else, or at least Europe.
You act as if that's a bad thing. I mean, how do you think the Linux Kernel has made it this far? Talk about a cabal of zealots... Yet good things have come from that.
It's a matter of presentation. Wikipedia presents itself as being open to anybody to edit and used that as leverage to goad people into getting to give them money as a matter of sympathy. However, it seems that plenty of people who try to contribute as expected by the way they are told to with valuable information, find they cannot because of administration issues. AFAIK, Linux does not present itself as letting anybody edit the base code and telling them it's ok to do so. Likewise, Wikipedia doesn't present itself as a a walled garden that will vet any submissions.
I always preferred the Mexican imported Coca Cola in glass bottles. I suspect the taste improvement was not from cane sugar vs fructose syrup but rather due to glass bottle vs plastic.
I would say it is the sugar in large part. I came back from Canada with Coke with sugar in a 2 liter bottle. At a movie night a friend hosted, I did the "Pepsi Challenge" with the sugar coke and fructose coke. Identical packaging and that was even hard to tell apart if you didn't read the list of ingredients. Every single person (about a dozen) picked the sugar Coke as tasting better.
And the result was because of the exercise, not the significant reduction in calorie intake, right?
(facepalm)
Pretty much. I can say so from my experience. I lost some weight by cutting out junk food and just limiting what I ate, However, past a certain point cutting calories sends your body into starvation mode, your metabolism crashes, and your body just worries about not doing anything and putting on fat. If you actually want to get fit, you have to exercise. I lost a lot more weight from beginning to exercise and even increasing my diet, and that doesn't even count the weight of fat I lost that was replaced by muscle.
Assuming it's false. And if it is false, why isn't Apple out there actually proving that it's false, rather than oh-so-gently asking for a retraction (pretty please)?
And how do you prove that something never happened? Bloomberg claims that at least three Apple employees informed them that compromised server were found. Both Bloomberg and Apple say that Bloomberg then informed Apple, Apple investigated, and found no evidence of any of this happening. They don't even know which employees, so they can't even ask them. So, there is a giant conspiracy to keep Apple upper management from finding out about this or there is a giant conspiracy keeping not just all Apple employees that know about this from speaking out publically, but also the other "almost 30 companies" that these chips were also found out according to Bloomberg, including Amazon, Elemental, and the US government. Plus the security company in Canada that supposedly found the chips in question when Amazon found strangeness and sent them to be checked out. Amazon has also stated they have found no evidence of this ever happening and have no idea what Bloomberg is talking about, right in the original article.
They don't make sense in desk jobs. If you don't like your job, get better at it and find another one.
Bullshit. It's all about trying to protect yourself from bad management. Our IT group tried unionization. It was led by the two ex-military Rush Limbaugh listening Republicans because they were the ones that our boss wanted to show up early and stay late, and cancel their scheduled family vacations at the last minute to suit the manager's whim. And those were just the straws that broke the camels back so to speak. They had do a good job, like their jobs, were here before the manager, and didn't want their retirement messed up by leaving. Luckily the manager was forced out, not because of all the numerous work violations he committed which were reported to HR, but because he made enemies of other management. Once he was gone, there was no more need for unionization as the next manager was decent. Talking with the older managers that do work over the unionized staff, it was the same case that caused their unionization. too much of managers expecting people to jump just because they say so instead of having clear rules for people to do their work. Even the managers who caused the issues said that things work so much better under the unions who forced those rules to be made, than they'd never go back to the way things were.
UBI money has to come from somewhere. taxes or just more borrowing?/p?
Yes/both/It's complicated.
What the OP was originally putting forth is that UBI is the solution to situations you typically see in science fiction scenarios such as Judge Dredd, Star Trek, or The Culture. The problem is that efficiency has gotten to the point that a fraction of people, say 25%, are capable of producing everything everybody needs. There simply are no jobs for the other 75%. In that case, the government prints up the money, gives it to the 75% (well, everybody in the case of UBI), they buy goods, and then the government taxes that money back out, probably allowing for those that own the means of production to keep a small percentage to keep them happy, and funnel it back into the system paying for most of the next cycle.
There are two reason to do this. One, is to keep those people who would otherwise starve to death from literally eating the rich. Two, and probably more important, it takes a certain amount of people to keep some industries functioning. Take commercial passenger airlines. Worldwide and there are pretty much only two companies and they are fighting for business and being supported by their governments at times to make things meet. If most people couldn't afford plane flights, then those industries would wither and even the rich, well to do, and business world would have a harder time getting frequent flights to where they need to go. Global telecommuncations and satellites would be another industry in a similar need for somebody to use it to justify it. Thus, it helps to have a large consumer population that can use those industries.
Of course, really, we aren't quite seeing this. One, we keep inventing more and more things to consume, which is creating more and more fields to work in. Next, we keep on branching out into more services which requires more jobs
You mean other than being a Russian AC troll? I've been in the tech industry in Seattle for 25 years now. Taking three weeks off for Burning Man every year is more common than never being able to get time off for an eye exam.
They must like it since they donâ(TM)t go elsewhere.
Not really. They're gone one way or another in 18 months on the average, either by job hopping, perhaps internally, or by being fired. Much of Amazon is all about putting in that work only to pad your resume for the next job, vacation between jobs, and then repeating the process till they have built up a resume to get the career they want. At least, that is how the people I've known at Amazon have treated it.
Honestly one of the real things that killed Google+ early on was the lack of any sort of events feature. This is BIG on Facebook, and in fact many users maintain a FB profile for no other reason than to be notified and invited to events. These people don't post nor read posts. For whatever reason, Google refused to add events into Google+ and this was a huge reason why people who dipped their toes into it early on became disenchanted and never came back. It couldn't replace FB if it lacked a major feature of FB that they cared about.
This is why me and my friends abandoned it after jumping over when it first began to open up. It seemed to tie in with everything else Google. It allowed for custom groups of people as FB didn't at the time. They even worked with people's emails that weren't Google email. Google calendar was right there, but there was no integration. Meanwhile, all personal and organizational events in the city were being managed through FB Events. All except for one of us were back on FB in two weeks.
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The problem with rising property prices is that, sure you can sell your house for 5 times what you paid for it, but unless you're moving out of the areas, you're probably overpaying for your next house.
Which a lot of people are doing. Looking around, your primary residence should be about 20-40% of your net worth. That being ideal, most people are probably worse, say 50% if they own a house. If you can get five times that, you possibly have a nest egg large enough to move away, get a cheaper house and even a different job. Friends in Seattle are looking at this scenario right now. They got a good house at a good price years ago. It's now valued at almost three times what they paid for it. If it should reach five times, they're thinking about selling, moving to the peninsula to a nice but cheap house, getting a new jobs that pays less, but the leftover amount they invest could more than make up the difference in the long run.
If it plugs the hole for one feature of the universe that is explained currently by dark matter, that is progress. We may find other things that plug the rest of the holes and then there would be no need for dark matter. Besides, wouldn't a really dim galaxy kind of 'be' dark matter since we could not see it before?
Doesn't work that way. Currently we have many holes that all lead to the same conclusion. If one got plugged but didn't plug the others also, it most likely a sign that that solution is wrong, and if it was correct, it would indicate that much weirder things than some matter than doesn't interact with the EM radiation was going on, which seems to be what most dark matter detractors are upset about. Dim galaxies are out also. Dim ordinary matter was one of the first things proposed to plug one of the holes, but tests were made and while there is an amount of undetected matter, the upper limits placed on that amount is very small to the total amount of matter that is left undetected by direct visual means.
Cool story bro. Is that what US employers tell you as an excuse to only give you two weeks vacation? From here in Europe I can tell you a month plus is no problem and people want more. Those I've talked to who's taken 3/6/12 month sabbaticals all seem to have enjoyed it too.
I'm sure there are different types of people. I'm with the OP. First time I got laid off, I found a job in a month and looked back at all that free time I had but never used. Next time, during the .com bust, I gave myself two weeks and then jumped on some hobbies. One being a web site about bands I liked. I even went out with a band for a few weeks as a roadie so I could write about it. Lots of people were laid off in that time period and there was a common saying, "For the first two weeks of unemployment, every day is a Saturday. After that, everyday is a Sunday."
The odd thing about Napoleon is that he wasn't that short. He was actually tall for the day at 5'7 which was actually slightly taller than most people at the time. The idea of Napoleon Bonaparte being diminutive came from British wartime propaganda where he was depicted as being short and monkey-like.
Well, that and also all the French paintings that have him surrounded by French soldiers much taller than he was. The Imperial Guard were his shock troops and used for decisive blows as things were still very much hand to hand. They had to be in top shape and at least six feet tall.
"Moore's law is the observation that the number of transistors in a dense integrated circuit doubles about every two years".
Whoever decided to call it a "law" was a moron and now we have this idiocy repeated every news story. And since it's not a law, we could simple move on and realize that physics simply doesn't allow it to exist.
A law, as opposed to a theory, rule, observation, hypothesis,etc. simply means it can be put into a mathematical formula. The above definition fits that very well. It has nothing to do with if it holds for all cases or if it has even been tested. Many laws are not exact or have only a range for which they are applicable.
By not passing protectionist tariffs that crippled half the states into law.
Not sure I'd agree with all that, or at least it's more complicated that presented. The South did not industrialize and make their own manufactured goods a good part due to slavery. Over the years, they had increasingly restricted what their main work force, slaves, could learn in effort to keep them from rebelling. Bringing them the point that such workers could not even function as industrial workers. What Lincoln said about slavery was mute because the real issue which had been playing out for decades was new territories not being lsave states and slave states becoming a minority. Slavery would also only be extinguished in the south with a great battle. Most of the South's "wealth" was tied up in the value of those slaves. If there were no slaves to own, the South would become much poorer than the North, which is what happened. At the Siege of Richmond, they were offered compensation for freeing the slaves if they would free them and rejoin the US as if nothing had happened, but even thought the writing was already on the wall, the powers that be in the South opted for one last spite counter offensive rather than admit defeat and try and rebuild.
The fact is, our American Civil War was complicated, both the reasons for it's beginning and continuation (fun fact - Lincoln floated the idea of leaving slavery legal in some states, to preserve the union). What's interesting as an American is that the angle historians take on the conflict tends to be defined by where you get the education: Northern states tend to teach the "Civil War was about slavery" concept, Southern states lean towards the "state's rights" ideology, and Border states (like where I'm from) tend to take a more middle-of-the-road, "both of you are assholes" mentality.
Interesting point made by Ulysses S Grant in his memoirs, is that the Civil War was fought over money. When the Southern states left, the did not take any of their debts, much of which were from the Mexican-American War which bought Texas its independence, and they demanded all US properties, mainly military bases and resources, in their states. While secession might have been allowed in principle, with such economic entanglement, there is no way that the USA could just allow states to leave, dumping their debt and also taking USA property.
How far is SpaceX away from being able to cobble up a flyby probe to at least get a close look at this object?
Probably not possible. Oumaumua is traveling at 26 km/s at infinity. So far, the fastest space craft we've made is the Parker Probe which was only 21 km/s while diving towards the sun. So, it's traveling faster than anything else we've managed (Voyagers are in the upper teens for km/s) to send into space. I have my doubts on the current Falcon Heavy being able to get any faster. The BFR might, but it's years out, but it's such a faint object that Oumuamua might be too far out to keep track of by that time if it continues to have an erratic movement.
This has been my life for the last twenty years. Most resistance is just from people not wanting to do things a different way. The older doctors may have never used computers much and don't want to start. Their workflow may be a few seconds longer for each case, but be sure that for the first six months they'll spend a few minutes on every case complaining about how they lost time on those few seconds. Eventually, they usually come around and learn and get angry they have to revert to the old ways in case of a downtime because it's inefficient. Still, online workflow is often more of a pain than the way it was done, and probably the greatest contribute to that is that everybody is trying to recreate their old paper workflow with an electronic system. If they would have spent more time planning during implimentation, they could have save time with each exam forever on, but they have Byzantine workflows that were originally created because there was only one sheet of paper that had to be passed around and nobody wants to spend time to even figure out what the workflow is in the big picture, let alone figure out if there's a better way. Next, yes, the doctor's workflow is often a little bit longer, and this is almost always because those required fields were always required but the doctors just were't filling them out in the past, requiring other workers to do their work and run around and directly ask the doctor later. And it was never just one person, the initial person discovering the required field wasn't filled out would have to tell another person, who would have to call somebody to go to talk to the doctor, who would have to talk to the administration to find out where the doctor currently is, and then page or ask them. Doctors complain because they have to do a few seconds extra work rather than make five other people do ten minutes work each later. Still, most hospitals went through this a decade or more ago. New residents and attendings coming in are already used to it as the old doctors and staff will be six months past go live.
[*] It's worth pointing out that malice is actually pretty rare, and that malice in its purest form -- malice for its own sake -- is extremely uncommon.
I'm guessing you browse at +1 and just never see all the Anonymous Coward posts here.
Oh look, NASA engineers are playing in the dirt. They might as well practice mining for gold in finely shredded cash.
Not too familiar with Orion, but SLS is hardly an engineer problem, but more of a management (Senate) problem. The engineers were told how to build something and they are doing it. For that matter, from what I remember of SpaceX history, is that it was built with NASA engineers who had ideas of what was possible but were not allowed to explore them. NASA has issues, but I doubt the problems are the engineers.
I want my darn headphone jack. And I'm keeping it until my phone is unrepairable.
Nobody cares.
I care, and so do millions who are either forgoing upgrading or are increasingly buying portable audio/media players or are buying dongles that allow simultaneous 3.5 mm headphone connections and USB-C or Lightning charging, because it was stupid to remove the ubiquitous 3.5 mm standard in the first place. There is nothing wrong with it.
Apple has always seemed to follow the 80/20 rule. Put in the features that 80% of people want/use and ignore the ones that 20% want/use. Like physical keyboards an replaceable batteries, I'm sure that some people have very good case use scenarios for such features. Most people can't touch type with their thumbs so a physical keyboard only really suits a small amount of people. External batteries last longer than replaceable ones and more convenient to charge. A lot of people who listen to headphones use a separate device so they don't use their phone's power.
I hate to say it, but I suspect this just shows that the most important part of being an artist is marketing. I doubt their AI is really all that great and probably more complex attempts at similar things have been tried. Especially considering it is coming from an art collective rather than a coding collective. Look at Banksy. Nothing really that Blek leRat or others haven't already done, but they have a nice collection of people helping them to promote and make the news. Oh well, they hit the jackpot. I hope their cool people deserving of it.
Ask any European or Asian or Canadian what they think about him? Their answers will mirror the Democrats.
No, I've met some European leftists that like Trump, or are at least happy for his Presidency. They feel that he'll damage American credibility and mess up American power over Europe and the world irreparably, putting the US on a more even ground with everybody else, or at least Europe.
You act as if that's a bad thing. I mean, how do you think the Linux Kernel has made it this far? Talk about a cabal of zealots... Yet good things have come from that.
It's a matter of presentation. Wikipedia presents itself as being open to anybody to edit and used that as leverage to goad people into getting to give them money as a matter of sympathy. However, it seems that plenty of people who try to contribute as expected by the way they are told to with valuable information, find they cannot because of administration issues. AFAIK, Linux does not present itself as letting anybody edit the base code and telling them it's ok to do so. Likewise, Wikipedia doesn't present itself as a a walled garden that will vet any submissions.
I always preferred the Mexican imported Coca Cola in glass bottles. I suspect the taste improvement was not from cane sugar vs fructose syrup but rather due to glass bottle vs plastic.
I would say it is the sugar in large part. I came back from Canada with Coke with sugar in a 2 liter bottle. At a movie night a friend hosted, I did the "Pepsi Challenge" with the sugar coke and fructose coke. Identical packaging and that was even hard to tell apart if you didn't read the list of ingredients. Every single person (about a dozen) picked the sugar Coke as tasting better.
And the result was because of the exercise, not the significant reduction in calorie intake, right?
(facepalm)
Pretty much. I can say so from my experience. I lost some weight by cutting out junk food and just limiting what I ate, However, past a certain point cutting calories sends your body into starvation mode, your metabolism crashes, and your body just worries about not doing anything and putting on fat. If you actually want to get fit, you have to exercise. I lost a lot more weight from beginning to exercise and even increasing my diet, and that doesn't even count the weight of fat I lost that was replaced by muscle.
Assuming it's false. And if it is false, why isn't Apple out there actually proving that it's false, rather than oh-so-gently asking for a retraction (pretty please)?
And how do you prove that something never happened? Bloomberg claims that at least three Apple employees informed them that compromised server were found. Both Bloomberg and Apple say that Bloomberg then informed Apple, Apple investigated, and found no evidence of any of this happening. They don't even know which employees, so they can't even ask them. So, there is a giant conspiracy to keep Apple upper management from finding out about this or there is a giant conspiracy keeping not just all Apple employees that know about this from speaking out publically, but also the other "almost 30 companies" that these chips were also found out according to Bloomberg, including Amazon, Elemental, and the US government. Plus the security company in Canada that supposedly found the chips in question when Amazon found strangeness and sent them to be checked out. Amazon has also stated they have found no evidence of this ever happening and have no idea what Bloomberg is talking about, right in the original article.
Damn. When the Chinese create a word to make fun of you, you're pretty damn pathetic.
I'm sure they have a word in Chinese for Anonymous Coward also.
They don't make sense in desk jobs. If you don't like your job, get better at it and find another one.
Bullshit. It's all about trying to protect yourself from bad management. Our IT group tried unionization. It was led by the two ex-military Rush Limbaugh listening Republicans because they were the ones that our boss wanted to show up early and stay late, and cancel their scheduled family vacations at the last minute to suit the manager's whim. And those were just the straws that broke the camels back so to speak. They had do a good job, like their jobs, were here before the manager, and didn't want their retirement messed up by leaving. Luckily the manager was forced out, not because of all the numerous work violations he committed which were reported to HR, but because he made enemies of other management. Once he was gone, there was no more need for unionization as the next manager was decent. Talking with the older managers that do work over the unionized staff, it was the same case that caused their unionization. too much of managers expecting people to jump just because they say so instead of having clear rules for people to do their work. Even the managers who caused the issues said that things work so much better under the unions who forced those rules to be made, than they'd never go back to the way things were.
Sounds to me like "the thin, monotonous whine of blasphemous flutes from inconceivable, unlighted chambers beyond Time".
Came here for the Lovecraftian reference posts. So glad I was rewarded.
UBI money has to come from somewhere. taxes or just more borrowing?/p?
Yes/both/It's complicated.
What the OP was originally putting forth is that UBI is the solution to situations you typically see in science fiction scenarios such as Judge Dredd, Star Trek, or The Culture. The problem is that efficiency has gotten to the point that a fraction of people, say 25%, are capable of producing everything everybody needs. There simply are no jobs for the other 75%. In that case, the government prints up the money, gives it to the 75% (well, everybody in the case of UBI), they buy goods, and then the government taxes that money back out, probably allowing for those that own the means of production to keep a small percentage to keep them happy, and funnel it back into the system paying for most of the next cycle.
There are two reason to do this. One, is to keep those people who would otherwise starve to death from literally eating the rich. Two, and probably more important, it takes a certain amount of people to keep some industries functioning. Take commercial passenger airlines. Worldwide and there are pretty much only two companies and they are fighting for business and being supported by their governments at times to make things meet. If most people couldn't afford plane flights, then those industries would wither and even the rich, well to do, and business world would have a harder time getting frequent flights to where they need to go. Global telecommuncations and satellites would be another industry in a similar need for somebody to use it to justify it. Thus, it helps to have a large consumer population that can use those industries.
Of course, really, we aren't quite seeing this. One, we keep inventing more and more things to consume, which is creating more and more fields to work in. Next, we keep on branching out into more services which requires more jobs
Dude...get a real job.
You mean other than being a Russian AC troll? I've been in the tech industry in Seattle for 25 years now. Taking three weeks off for Burning Man every year is more common than never being able to get time off for an eye exam.
They must like it since they donâ(TM)t go elsewhere.
Not really. They're gone one way or another in 18 months on the average, either by job hopping, perhaps internally, or by being fired. Much of Amazon is all about putting in that work only to pad your resume for the next job, vacation between jobs, and then repeating the process till they have built up a resume to get the career they want. At least, that is how the people I've known at Amazon have treated it.
Honestly one of the real things that killed Google+ early on was the lack of any sort of events feature. This is BIG on Facebook, and in fact many users maintain a FB profile for no other reason than to be notified and invited to events. These people don't post nor read posts. For whatever reason, Google refused to add events into Google+ and this was a huge reason why people who dipped their toes into it early on became disenchanted and never came back. It couldn't replace FB if it lacked a major feature of FB that they cared about.
This is why me and my friends abandoned it after jumping over when it first began to open up. It seemed to tie in with everything else Google. It allowed for custom groups of people as FB didn't at the time. They even worked with people's emails that weren't Google email. Google calendar was right there, but there was no integration. Meanwhile, all personal and organizational events in the city were being managed through FB Events. All except for one of us were back on FB in two weeks.