Occupy Wall Street was shut down by a coordinated effort between the FBI and local law enforcement
Nope. OWS faded away because they had no organization or leadership, no coherent goals or objectives, and were completely ineffective at catalyzing change or allying with existing politicians or electing new politicians.
Contrast OWS with another organization formed around the same time: The Tea Party. Both were created in reaction to the financial crisis and the bank bailout. But the Tea Party didn't fade away. They were organized. They had coherent, specific, and realistic goals. They formed alliances and endorsed politicians. The ejected incumbents, and elected a tidal wave of new representatives.
OWS has faded away, and may someday merit a small footnote in a history book.
The Tea Party has revolutionized American politics, and is now running the country.
The housing problem is 100% due to NIMBYism. People that are already here can vote, and benefit from rising housing values. People that don't live here, but want to, don't get a vote. So the politicians represent the wishes of the voters and block new housing construction.
The "traffic problems" is a totally backwards excuse. As people are forced further and further out into the exburbs, their commutes become longer and traffic gets worse. At rush hour, figure two hours from Gilroy to Mountain View. More high-rise housing in the core of Silicon Valley would be a great relief to traffic congestion.
Some economic analyses have concluded that "progressive" restrictions on growth and housing contribute to inequality as much as regressive conservative tax cuts. The rich see their million dollar houses soar in value, while the poor are squeezed out of economic opportunities.
If we're not reusing the materials ourselves, it's not real recycling.
Why is it important to recycle self-sufficiently at the national level, but not at the state or county level? Should, say, Delaware have facilities for recycling every possible product, since it isn't "real" if they send polypropylene bottles to New Jersey? What about Lichtenstein?
He is ethical because he is helping English speakers in a majority French speaking country. If he was helping French speakers in an English speaking country, he would be a terrorist.
For both the bowerbird and humans the goal is the same: reproduction, which I presume from your confusion is something you are unfamiliar with.
The diamond, like the bower decorations, is a proxy for genetic fitness.
Pro-tip: Pick out your diamond together with your fiance. Once she sees you are willing to fork out a few months salary, she is likely to settle for something less. Couples on average spend 40% less that solitary males. Also, buy a loose diamond, then have it mounted on a ring, rather than buying a pre-assembled ring.
The deepest mine in the world is about 4km underground...
The main obstacles to going deeper are getting air in and getting heat out. The solution is to get humans out and robots in. Robots don't need oxygen, and they can tolerate much higher temperatures. They can also work in much narrower shafts, and can even work submerged in pressurized liquids that can reduce cave-ins. There are also huge savings from avoiding all the safety measures, shift changes, and even gem theft.
$10 trillion in new debt was printed and then given to people who should've gone to prison instead.
Baloney. QE (Quantitative Easing) and the bank bailout were two completely different things. QE did not result in "new debt", since for every dollar spent, assets were purchased. There are two sides to the balance sheet. QE was not "given" to anyone.
WHAT THE FUCK more do you need to establish a need?
Maybe some actual damages. For all the Slashdot outrage about data breaches, it isn't really something that the public cares about, and very few consumer losses can be traced to the breaches. Your card data is more likely the be lifted by the waitress at a local restaurant.
I am a customer of 23andMe, and to be honest, I couldn't care less what they do with my data. I have a hard time imagining any negative consequence. If the NSA wants my DNA sequence, they could get it elsewhere anyway. Could an insurance company use it to deny me coverage? Unlikely, since that is illegal, and I don't have any genetic problems, so an insurance company is more likely to give me a discount.
So when there is another breach, Slashdot will throw a hissy fit, everyone else will yawn, and life will go on.
Are you saying people in prison should be slowly starved to death or something?
No, just that most of them don't belong in prison. We have technology like tracking anklets and subcutaneous RFID chips that allows non-violent offenders to "serve their time" outside of prison. For instance, they could be sentenced to clean bedpans in a nursing home for 60 hours per week. Or a white collar criminal could teach finance or computer skills to low income people.
There are plenty of better options than prison for most offenders. Other countries have a tiny fraction of our incarceration rate, and end up with lower recidivism rates. Prisons are extremely expensive, waste human potential, and generate more crime than they deter.
Oh, I see. Yes. Instead of UBI, we can just gas anyone who is not smart enough to design a robot.
We don't need to gas anyone. Just make UBI contingent on agreeing to be sterilized. Or even agreeing to have only one child. In a generation or two, the problem will resolve itself. Patience.
Another solution would be to use Crispr-Cas9 to edit out the low IQ genes. With the right tech, there is no reason that dumb people need to have dumb kids. We can fix obesity the same way.
Replacing current programs with a UBI would give everyone around $7,000 annually
This is only true if Social Security and Medicare spending are absorbed into UBI. So current SS recipients, who paid into the system for their entire working lives, would see their monthly checks dramatically reduced so able bodied young people could receive the same check that they do.
Do you seriously think this would be politically acceptable? There would be a firestorm of protest, and wholesale defeat of any incumbent that supported it.
If you leave SS out, then the numbers don't work. At all.
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Occupy Wall Street was shut down by a coordinated effort between the FBI and local law enforcement
Nope. OWS faded away because they had no organization or leadership, no coherent goals or objectives, and were completely ineffective at catalyzing change or allying with existing politicians or electing new politicians.
Contrast OWS with another organization formed around the same time: The Tea Party. Both were created in reaction to the financial crisis and the bank bailout. But the Tea Party didn't fade away. They were organized. They had coherent, specific, and realistic goals. They formed alliances and endorsed politicians. The ejected incumbents, and elected a tidal wave of new representatives.
OWS has faded away, and may someday merit a small footnote in a history book.
The Tea Party has revolutionized American politics, and is now running the country.
The right-wing party line was something like ...
So housing shortages in the SF Bay Area are caused by the "right-wing"? Who knew?
If the companies would put up buildings ...
Many Silicon Valley companies would LOVE to be able to build housing for their employees. Probability of them getting permits to do so: 0%.
The housing problem is 100% due to NIMBYism. People that are already here can vote, and benefit from rising housing values. People that don't live here, but want to, don't get a vote. So the politicians represent the wishes of the voters and block new housing construction.
The "traffic problems" is a totally backwards excuse. As people are forced further and further out into the exburbs, their commutes become longer and traffic gets worse. At rush hour, figure two hours from Gilroy to Mountain View. More high-rise housing in the core of Silicon Valley would be a great relief to traffic congestion.
Some economic analyses have concluded that "progressive" restrictions on growth and housing contribute to inequality as much as regressive conservative tax cuts. The rich see their million dollar houses soar in value, while the poor are squeezed out of economic opportunities.
If we're not reusing the materials ourselves, it's not real recycling.
Why is it important to recycle self-sufficiently at the national level, but not at the state or county level? Should, say, Delaware have facilities for recycling every possible product, since it isn't "real" if they send polypropylene bottles to New Jersey? What about Lichtenstein?
It's natural: selling such a dongle separately increases your profits.
It is also a win for consumers, since most of iPhone buyers already have wireless headphones, and don't need another adapter.
Hey now, the past had all the great gadgetry that was built to last
Indeed. There are Model-T Fords more than a century old, but you never see 100 year old Teslas.
Survivorship Bias
Thatâ(TM)s my concern too.
Sigh. We really need better science education. Or are this many people just failing to absorb basic facts and thinking skills?
An "ethical hacker" is guaranteed to be neither.
He is ethical because he is helping English speakers in a majority French speaking country. If he was helping French speakers in an English speaking country, he would be a terrorist.
Tesla has invented the fpga?
This is not an FPGA. It is a matrix math engine, like Google's TPU.
They do not own a fab
Other than Intel, nobody owns their own fabs anymore.
You just code up your chip in Verilog, debug in a simulator, and upload it to TSMC.
or have the cpu designers that Intel, amd and invidea have.
Neither did Google, but their TPU is a big success.
So long as crystalline carbon is the only aphrodisiac that works on women, they will be prized.
Unlike flowers and chocolates, the diamond will hold its value and can be resold after the divorce.
... is exactly why humans values these stones so highly.
There is an animal model: The Bowerbird.
For both the bowerbird and humans the goal is the same: reproduction, which I presume from your confusion is something you are unfamiliar with.
The diamond, like the bower decorations, is a proxy for genetic fitness.
Pro-tip: Pick out your diamond together with your fiance. Once she sees you are willing to fork out a few months salary, she is likely to settle for something less. Couples on average spend 40% less that solitary males. Also, buy a loose diamond, then have it mounted on a ring, rather than buying a pre-assembled ring.
The deepest mine in the world is about 4km underground...
The main obstacles to going deeper are getting air in and getting heat out. The solution is to get humans out and robots in. Robots don't need oxygen, and they can tolerate much higher temperatures. They can also work in much narrower shafts, and can even work submerged in pressurized liquids that can reduce cave-ins. There are also huge savings from avoiding all the safety measures, shift changes, and even gem theft.
Not bailing them out would have been the better way. It would have restored moral hazard.
We tried that in 1929. It didn't work out so well.
$10 trillion in new debt was printed and then given to people who should've gone to prison instead.
Baloney. QE (Quantitative Easing) and the bank bailout were two completely different things. QE did not result in "new debt", since for every dollar spent, assets were purchased. There are two sides to the balance sheet. QE was not "given" to anyone.
I don't see why we would replace software neural network by hardware ones.
1. Speed (it is inherently parallel).
2. Energy consumption.
The bank bailout was paid back, with interest. So not doing it would have saved nothing.
Military boondoggles like the F-35 may be stupid, but they are in no way whatsoever an "alternative" to UBI.
Each spending proposal should be justified on its own merits, not on a scale of relative stupidity.
And take jobs from honest people?
Lump of labor fallacy
WHAT THE FUCK more do you need to establish a need?
Maybe some actual damages. For all the Slashdot outrage about data breaches, it isn't really something that the public cares about, and very few consumer losses can be traced to the breaches. Your card data is more likely the be lifted by the waitress at a local restaurant.
I am a customer of 23andMe, and to be honest, I couldn't care less what they do with my data. I have a hard time imagining any negative consequence. If the NSA wants my DNA sequence, they could get it elsewhere anyway. Could an insurance company use it to deny me coverage? Unlikely, since that is illegal, and I don't have any genetic problems, so an insurance company is more likely to give me a discount.
So when there is another breach, Slashdot will throw a hissy fit, everyone else will yawn, and life will go on.
Due to having substantially lower overhead, the program would cost less than Social Security does.
Administrative overhead is a negligible amount of social security expenses. It is less than 1%.
The numbers don't add up. Not even within an order of magnitude. You can't just hand wave that away.
Those "able bodied young people?" They have old relatives.
Not every old person has young relatives to support them.
Are you saying people in prison should be slowly starved to death or something?
No, just that most of them don't belong in prison. We have technology like tracking anklets and subcutaneous RFID chips that allows non-violent offenders to "serve their time" outside of prison. For instance, they could be sentenced to clean bedpans in a nursing home for 60 hours per week. Or a white collar criminal could teach finance or computer skills to low income people.
There are plenty of better options than prison for most offenders. Other countries have a tiny fraction of our incarceration rate, and end up with lower recidivism rates. Prisons are extremely expensive, waste human potential, and generate more crime than they deter.
Oh, I see. Yes. Instead of UBI, we can just gas anyone who is not smart enough to design a robot.
We don't need to gas anyone. Just make UBI contingent on agreeing to be sterilized. Or even agreeing to have only one child. In a generation or two, the problem will resolve itself. Patience.
Another solution would be to use Crispr-Cas9 to edit out the low IQ genes. With the right tech, there is no reason that dumb people need to have dumb kids. We can fix obesity the same way.
Replacing current programs with a UBI would give everyone around $7,000 annually
This is only true if Social Security and Medicare spending are absorbed into UBI. So current SS recipients, who paid into the system for their entire working lives, would see their monthly checks dramatically reduced so able bodied young people could receive the same check that they do.
Do you seriously think this would be politically acceptable? There would be a firestorm of protest, and wholesale defeat of any incumbent that supported it.
If you leave SS out, then the numbers don't work. At all.
My opinion is that if we continue further with deep learning taking over low skilled jobs ...
Are you serious? How many people do you know that have lost their jobs to deep learning?
Indeed. The dumbest justification for any proposal is that we already spend money on other things that are even stupider.