The current value is barely above minimum wage!
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In Washington state where I am, the current value is $9.47 (pretty high in the country and our economy is great, thanks). This current cutoff is the salary equivalent of making a little over $11 an hour, IF they only work you 40 hours a week. That's...pretty low. It also means that if they work you something like nine and a half hours a day on average, you're making less than minimum wage by hour. There's a lotta low grade QA jobs in the tech industry with hours like that and pretty low pay...
Not gonna argue tooooo much, but remember that the pool of good jobs is a lot smaller than the pool of people who want them. Slackers and people who don't advance their own skills won't get too far, but if everyone did their damnedest, a lot of people would still get stuck with the jobs nobody wants.
I swear there used to be an attachment-specific lab that would check your outgoing email for keywords that imply an attachment, and if they were present but you didn't attach anything, would warn you before sending. I don't see it on the list of labs now though. Maybe I hallucinated it.
Yeah, we've got the same thing around Seattle, including radio ads where they ask people "how many yearly traffic fatalities do you think are acceptable" and of course people say zero. How silly. If someone is senile and doesn't look before taking a left turn...if a kid rides their bike directly into the road ignoring crosswalks...if someone is staring at their phone and walks in front of a moving bus...those are sad but they are pretty acceptable to me.
Research of replacement options, testing how well they work including long term shelf stability and market approval, establishing new supply chains with different producers, retooling factories, and producing new stock.
Is it murder to refuse to perform a heart transplant, even if one is available? Probably not. Is it murder to withhold a supply of insulin from someone who needs it to live? Maybe more so. Is it murder to voluntarily stop producing new insulin shots while retaining a patent that prevents others from doing it? Complicated.
Of course if robots never advance to the point that you can consider them alive, it's all irrelevant here.
"Mice with happy memories struggled longer when the light was on, those with neutral memories showed no change, and those with negative memories struggled less." -tfa
Yeah, no. Doing something dumb that makes the public hate you is not the Streisand effect. It's specifically trying to cover something up and making it more visible. This isn't a coverup, so it's not the Streisand effect.
Wikipedia cites some pretty reliable looking studies under its 'Welfare Fraud' article.
US Department of Labor reports 1.9% fraud rate in 2001. LA Times reports that 24% of new applications have some form of "inaccuracy", which is anything from colossal lies to small mistakes.
From the people I've talked to directly, at least, drug testing welfare recipients isn't actually about saving money. They literally want people to choose between drugs and starvation. It's basically all about punishment, it's an obsession of the right wing (and doesn't seem much like small government). I mean, they wrap it up nicely in a compassionate bow... threaten peoples' lives to get them off drugs and they'll be better off for it, ends justify the means... but I'm not convinced it actually works that way.
Also there's that little thing where drug addicts don't choose between going clean or starving. They choose between going clean, or mugging people for food and drug money. Welfare seems like bribery or blackmail when you look at it that way, but it keeps me from getting shanked and I don't see a good alternative.
That's difficult because you have to scale it to the number of industries, or the breadth within an industry, that they're involved in. Otherwise a larger company, which commits more infractions just by virtue of the fact that has more employees and is doing more things, is going to get hit harder per infraction while a smaller company can get away with far worse per-employee.
Unless I suck at math, that's like...close to one degree of rotation per second at its fastest, to stay pointed at the same spot. Seems pretty crazy to get such good resolution at that speed at that distance.
Give it a tiny nudge when it's far away. Seems like you'd want very different kinds of missiles to do that though, designed to fine tune their course in space instead of air.
Yeah, they're absolutely minor differences by comparison, but that doesn't mean they're insignificant. The difference between one meal a day and zero, is much larger than the difference between one meal a day and three... doesn't mean that the latter isn't still a pretty life changing difference.
Costs they paid and investments they made in the past are still things that happened. No way is it 100% profit. Just like licensing an old movie or TV show to play on air, or serve from a streaming service...yeah it was made a long time ago and the creators and publishers aren't exerting any effort now, but when they made the initial investment, part of their calculation was the return on the long tail.
I'm far enough out of the loop that I have no idea about very recent market trends, just that they're higher now than ten years ago and seem relatively stable.
Draft nights are a pretty useful way to go out and be sociable even if you don't have a group of people to go with. So appeal++ for people who don't go out with friends most nights, I guess, but I wouldn't call ccg players social rejects.
Eh, play drafts in whatever the current standard set is. You'll run into a couple hundred cards maximum, all using the same few mechanics, and because everyone's trying to draft out of a very limited pool, you don't need universal knowledge...you just need to understand the game enough to build something with the pieces that are dropped in front of you. Plus it's cheaper and no asshole trick decks. Do it at the start of a block and there's a VERY small set of stuff to learn.
(sure it helps to be aware of what nasty tricks might be available, but it's really not that essential, and you can pick it up real fast)
As far as I'm concerned draft is the only fun way to play, haven't in a while now but still. Like ten bucks will get you a night of 5-10 games on the same level playing field as everyone else. Wizards' business model around draft games is to compete versus movies for friday night entertainment, and it's not really all that exploitative by comparison.
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In Washington state where I am, the current value is $9.47 (pretty high in the country and our economy is great, thanks). This current cutoff is the salary equivalent of making a little over $11 an hour, IF they only work you 40 hours a week. That's...pretty low. It also means that if they work you something like nine and a half hours a day on average, you're making less than minimum wage by hour. There's a lotta low grade QA jobs in the tech industry with hours like that and pretty low pay...
Not gonna argue tooooo much, but remember that the pool of good jobs is a lot smaller than the pool of people who want them. Slackers and people who don't advance their own skills won't get too far, but if everyone did their damnedest, a lot of people would still get stuck with the jobs nobody wants.
If a stupid cognitive tweak works, it isn't stupid.
Okay, maybe it is, but that's no reason not to keep using it.
I swear there used to be an attachment-specific lab that would check your outgoing email for keywords that imply an attachment, and if they were present but you didn't attach anything, would warn you before sending. I don't see it on the list of labs now though. Maybe I hallucinated it.
Yeah, we've got the same thing around Seattle, including radio ads where they ask people "how many yearly traffic fatalities do you think are acceptable" and of course people say zero. How silly. If someone is senile and doesn't look before taking a left turn...if a kid rides their bike directly into the road ignoring crosswalks...if someone is staring at their phone and walks in front of a moving bus...those are sad but they are pretty acceptable to me.
Research of replacement options, testing how well they work including long term shelf stability and market approval, establishing new supply chains with different producers, retooling factories, and producing new stock.
Is it murder to refuse to perform a heart transplant, even if one is available? Probably not.
Is it murder to withhold a supply of insulin from someone who needs it to live? Maybe more so.
Is it murder to voluntarily stop producing new insulin shots while retaining a patent that prevents others from doing it? Complicated.
Of course if robots never advance to the point that you can consider them alive, it's all irrelevant here.
Well, you can at least draw a parallel to withholding medicine from a patient who can't quite pay.
"Mice with happy memories struggled longer when the light was on, those with neutral memories showed no change, and those with negative memories struggled less." -tfa
By the time we have to worry about sentience, won't we have good enough 3d printing?
Of course it's also a little worrying to imagine an AI that's sentient and impossible to murder.
So it's attractive but ultimately derivative with no new content except what you ascribe to it?
Yeah, no. Doing something dumb that makes the public hate you is not the Streisand effect. It's specifically trying to cover something up and making it more visible. This isn't a coverup, so it's not the Streisand effect.
Anyone who's worked with time zones even a little bit knows that catastrophic failures aren't "unexpected" at all.
Wikipedia cites some pretty reliable looking studies under its 'Welfare Fraud' article.
US Department of Labor reports 1.9% fraud rate in 2001. LA Times reports that 24% of new applications have some form of "inaccuracy", which is anything from colossal lies to small mistakes.
Your turn. Cite some opposing statistics.
From the people I've talked to directly, at least, drug testing welfare recipients isn't actually about saving money. They literally want people to choose between drugs and starvation. It's basically all about punishment, it's an obsession of the right wing (and doesn't seem much like small government). I mean, they wrap it up nicely in a compassionate bow... threaten peoples' lives to get them off drugs and they'll be better off for it, ends justify the means... but I'm not convinced it actually works that way.
Also there's that little thing where drug addicts don't choose between going clean or starving. They choose between going clean, or mugging people for food and drug money. Welfare seems like bribery or blackmail when you look at it that way, but it keeps me from getting shanked and I don't see a good alternative.
That's difficult because you have to scale it to the number of industries, or the breadth within an industry, that they're involved in. Otherwise a larger company, which commits more infractions just by virtue of the fact that has more employees and is doing more things, is going to get hit harder per infraction while a smaller company can get away with far worse per-employee.
Unless I suck at math, that's like...close to one degree of rotation per second at its fastest, to stay pointed at the same spot. Seems pretty crazy to get such good resolution at that speed at that distance.
Give it a tiny nudge when it's far away. Seems like you'd want very different kinds of missiles to do that though, designed to fine tune their course in space instead of air.
Yeah, they're absolutely minor differences by comparison, but that doesn't mean they're insignificant. The difference between one meal a day and zero, is much larger than the difference between one meal a day and three... doesn't mean that the latter isn't still a pretty life changing difference.
It's very hard to hack, but susceptible to data loss.
Costs they paid and investments they made in the past are still things that happened. No way is it 100% profit. Just like licensing an old movie or TV show to play on air, or serve from a streaming service...yeah it was made a long time ago and the creators and publishers aren't exerting any effort now, but when they made the initial investment, part of their calculation was the return on the long tail.
I'm far enough out of the loop that I have no idea about very recent market trends, just that they're higher now than ten years ago and seem relatively stable.
I miss my dual lands. Once upon a time they were cheap...
Draft nights are a pretty useful way to go out and be sociable even if you don't have a group of people to go with. So appeal++ for people who don't go out with friends most nights, I guess, but I wouldn't call ccg players social rejects.
Eh, play drafts in whatever the current standard set is. You'll run into a couple hundred cards maximum, all using the same few mechanics, and because everyone's trying to draft out of a very limited pool, you don't need universal knowledge...you just need to understand the game enough to build something with the pieces that are dropped in front of you. Plus it's cheaper and no asshole trick decks. Do it at the start of a block and there's a VERY small set of stuff to learn.
(sure it helps to be aware of what nasty tricks might be available, but it's really not that essential, and you can pick it up real fast)
As far as I'm concerned draft is the only fun way to play, haven't in a while now but still. Like ten bucks will get you a night of 5-10 games on the same level playing field as everyone else. Wizards' business model around draft games is to compete versus movies for friday night entertainment, and it's not really all that exploitative by comparison.