I used to blame flash for everything too, but since the Internet has become a whole lot more flash-free I now get by without it even being installed, but both Firefox and Chrome still keep regularly freezing/crashing, in fact more than ever, on both Windows and Linux.
> the DNC had their share too but it pales compared to whats going on now
No it really doesn't. You're either very badly mis-informed or like most Dems, living in total denial of any/everything illegal that the Clintons were actually doing.
Just one example is the blatant selling-out of the US political system to some VERY unsavory countries, that resulted in.hundreds of $millons of "campaign donations" filtered through the Clinton Foundation to avoid taxes, before going straight into the Clintons pockets. Trump has made some bad decisions but at least he isn't blatantly selling-out the US to the highest bidder for his own personal enrichment.
Thats only because back then the internet was still fairly new (to the public at least) and wasn;t half the marketable force it is now. Most people were automatically playing the game simply because the original internet culture and etiquette was still a thing. Since then, the internet has become massively commercialized and degraded to appeal to the lowest common denominator so now it needs NN to hold off the big greedy corps that don't give 2 shits about playing nicely or internet etiquette if gets even close to standing in the way of them making more money.
The internet itself will now quickly become a monopoly, since AmaGooBookTubeSoft can pay enough money to silence everyone else by effectively just shouting far louder than they can even afford to.
Also any political or SJW groups can now totally block any/all alternatives to their myopic world views just by paying the ISPs.
No doubt MPAA/RIAA/Hollywood are already chomping at the bit to be able to block any/every site they feel like in another gross abuse of power.
>> The UBI is about reshuffling money, not creating it in very large quantities.
For the effect I'm talkin about, this is irrelevant.
>> Suddenly everyone has at least $30K/year
This is actually what matters. If the new baseline is that everyone can afford suddenly more, everything gets more expensive. Supply and demand is basic economics.
I very much agree with fighting against the massively lazy, semi-literate way of writing that most people under 30 seem to believe should be perfectly acceptable even in the most formal settings.
That said, it seems clear to me that anyone who enforces the use their title in order to garner faux respect necessarily has significant insecurity and/or ego problems. Real respect is always earned and cannot be demanded.
Utter crap. If you think that, then you don't even know the meaning of the word "socialism". The US is (still) by far the most capitalist so-called-democracy in the world.
No it wouldn't. Even if everyone was given say $100k a week, the economy would simply adjust to the new minimum. The value of $10 bill would quickly be not worth the paper its written on. Just a Big Mac would cost $1k and rent on a small apartment would be like $250k/month.
> computing, which has done more than any other invention in human history to 'put people out of jobs'.
Old Job types, maybe, but not overall jobs. I don't have any actual metrics but I strongly suspect that computing has actually created more jobs (in/around computing) than it has destroyed (from everywhere else).
How is this any different from modulating the light with e.g. coloured filters to send signals? It seems to me people have already been doing this for centuries.
Can someone explain this fool's logic to me how the standard of living would improve when people no longer have any income because they dont have a job?
It amazes me that someone didnt sue them years ago for this. There's no way a website can generata an accurate estimate for your house, but people will beleive the figure they post or at least use it as a guideline so ts its inevitably gonna be harder to convince potential buyers that zillow in fact fucked up rather than you are overvaluing it.
I'd go as far as to say that their estimates are basically self-fulfilling prophecies that can easily hurt both buyers and sellers in the pocket by skewing the market value,
I'm amazed that he put up with training his own replacement for a whole 2 years.... are other softdev jobs really that hard to find in Connecticut?
Assuming not, its clearly a strong indicator of him having a very sheep-like mentality and nothing like the necessary cahones to ever be an effective Congressman.
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I used to blame flash for everything too, but since the Internet has become a whole lot more flash-free I now get by without it even being installed, but both Firefox and Chrome still keep regularly freezing/crashing, in fact more than ever, on both Windows and Linux.
> the DNC had their share too but it pales compared to whats going on now
No it really doesn't. You're either very badly mis-informed or like most Dems, living in total denial of any/everything illegal that the Clintons were actually doing.
Just one example is the blatant selling-out of the US political system to some VERY unsavory countries, that resulted in.hundreds of $millons of "campaign donations" filtered through the Clinton Foundation to avoid taxes, before going straight into the Clintons pockets. Trump has made some bad decisions but at least he isn't blatantly selling-out the US to the highest bidder for his own personal enrichment.
Thats only because back then the internet was still fairly new (to the public at least) and wasn;t half the marketable force it is now. Most people were automatically playing the game simply because the original internet culture and etiquette was still a thing. Since then, the internet has become massively commercialized and degraded to appeal to the lowest common denominator so now it needs NN to hold off the big greedy corps that don't give 2 shits about playing nicely or internet etiquette if gets even close to standing in the way of them making more money.
No this is the fault of having a 2 party system. You have to buy into the whole package, or the other whole package. There is no sane option.
The internet itself will now quickly become a monopoly, since AmaGooBookTubeSoft can pay enough money to silence everyone else by effectively just shouting far louder than they can even afford to.
Also any political or SJW groups can now totally block any/all alternatives to their myopic world views just by paying the ISPs.
No doubt MPAA/RIAA/Hollywood are already chomping at the bit to be able to block any/every site they feel like in another gross abuse of power.
>> The UBI is about reshuffling money, not creating it in very large quantities.
For the effect I'm talkin about, this is irrelevant.
>> Suddenly everyone has at least $30K/year
This is actually what matters. If the new baseline is that everyone can afford suddenly more, everything gets more expensive. Supply and demand is basic economics.
>> We live in a pragmatic world, not some hippie utopia.
Tell that to this guy:
http://www.templeos.org/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I very much agree with fighting against the massively lazy, semi-literate way of writing that most people under 30 seem to believe should be perfectly acceptable even in the most formal settings.
That said, it seems clear to me that anyone who enforces the use their title in order to garner faux respect necessarily has significant insecurity and/or ego problems. Real respect is always earned and cannot be demanded.
>> the US has been running on socialism since
Utter crap. If you think that, then you don't even know the meaning of the word "socialism". The US is (still) by far the most capitalist so-called-democracy in the world.
What about all the people that can't afford to buy a bunch of robots?
Agreed. Trickle-down economics has been proven over and over to not work.
No it wouldn't. Even if everyone was given say $100k a week, the economy would simply adjust to the new minimum. The value of $10 bill would quickly be not worth the paper its written on. Just a Big Mac would cost $1k and rent on a small apartment would be like $250k/month.
OK, so they're just modulating dark with coloured filters.
All UBI does is raise the price of everything else. It doesn't actually solve poverty.
> computing, which has done more than any other invention in human history to 'put people out of jobs'.
Old Job types, maybe, but not overall jobs. I don't have any actual metrics but I strongly suspect that computing has actually created more jobs (in/around computing) than it has destroyed (from everywhere else).
"all countries that have nuclear weapons, are represented"
What about Israel and N. Korea?
How is this any different from modulating the light with e.g. coloured filters to send signals?
It seems to me people have already been doing this for centuries.
Can someone explain this fool's logic to me how the standard of living would improve when people no longer have any income because they dont have a job?
I bet there's a dusty old financial institution out there somewhere that would actually love that.
Compiler for Bash Scripts to Visual Basic.
Your sense of humor detector is broken.
I wonder if they still support ROT13 certificates.
Its not a Ponzi scheme and it is legal.
It amazes me that someone didnt sue them years ago for this.
There's no way a website can generata an accurate estimate for your house, but people will beleive the figure they post or at least use it as a guideline so ts its inevitably gonna be harder to convince potential buyers that zillow in fact fucked up rather than you are overvaluing it.
I'd go as far as to say that their estimates are basically self-fulfilling prophecies that can easily hurt both buyers and sellers in the pocket by skewing the market value,
I'm amazed that he put up with training his own replacement for a whole 2 years.... are other softdev jobs really that hard to find in Connecticut?
Assuming not, its clearly a strong indicator of him having a very sheep-like mentality and nothing like the necessary cahones to ever be an effective Congressman.