Millennials are only marginally stupider. 57% vs 46% is not a big difference. But it is a stupid poll anyway. Security rarely slows down the internet, because security happens at the endpoints, not during transmission.
This is something I wanted for a while... a dedicated device number that maps to my car and not something I carry with me. If people want to reach me and think I'm driving, the car can ring and I don't have to set up Bluetooth.
That is not what these phones are for. You don't talk over them. They are for transmitting map info, traffic info, and software updates.
Huh? In what way is this device necessary for ANY function, whatsoever?
I have an Amazon Echo, and it would not be useful for work. But a somewhat improved version would be. If it could understand a broader range of questions, then it would be great for someone that has to work with their hands, while needing to request information to do their job. New features are being added, and since most of that functionality is on the server, everybody has immediate access. Within a few years, these devices will become much more capable.
The kids gotta learn to start ignoring ads at some point in their life.
I have an Amazon Echo, use it everyday, and have never once heard an ad for anything. This is not about ads. It is about recording voices, and storing the data. They store the data so they can improve their algorithms, and users can provide feedback if the Echo misunderstands a request. They may use the data for other things as well.
Colleges and universities. Teaching requires a college degree. Not every teacher needs to be able to teach coding. Usually the kids rotate through a computer lab, with a dedicated teacher, while their normal classroom teacher works on lesson plans, or takes a smoking break, or whatever. That is the way it works at my neighborhood school. The younger kids (3rd and 4th grade) learn Scratch, and the older kids (5th and 6th grade) learn Python.
If you ban common passwords. Then you end up with a new set of common passwords.
Is there any evidence that the above assertion is true?
No. The system is dynamic. It does not use a fixed set of "common passwords", but instead adds passwords that are used in cracking attempts. If a cracker thinks it is common enough to try, then it likely is not a good password to use. Over time, the list will grow, but it is unlikely we will run out of possible passwords. If the passwords are 32 bytes long, and each can hold 100 different values, then that is 10^64 possible passwords, which is roughly ten billion times the number of atoms in the sun.
California and New York, two of the most expensive places on Earth to live.
Parts of California and New York are expensive. Other parts, like California's Central Valley, are poor, cheap, and economically depressed. $15 may make sense in SF or Anaheim, but forcing it on Medesto and Calexico may not work out so well.
Near as I can tell, the minimum wage is something akin to the Federal government acting like a Union on behalf of it's citizens.
That is a good analogy, and like unions, it can work well as long as they don't go too far. Union overreach destroyed Detroit, and government overreach can cause harm as well. Pensions are good, but generous pensions funded by massive debt are not so good. A basic minimum wage is good, but while $15/hr may be fine in NYC or SF, it will be a job killer in the Mississippi Delta or West Virginia. Even $7.25 was a disaster for Puerto Rico. It is better for the Feds to set a floor, and then let individual states set it higher, as many already have.
The contractors have ZERO incentive to ever provide a working product.
I have worked on tech projects both as a government employee and as a contractor. Most projects were disasters for the reasons you list, but I have seen a few successes. Here is a quick checklist:
1. Do NOT use a contractor. They have a vested interest in bloat and delay. 2. Use your own subordinates so they have skin in the game, and their future raises and promotions depend on the success of the project. 3. Make sure they are a small team that has worked together successfully in the past on similar projects. 4. Starve them of resources, so they have no choice but to implement a clean and simple design, with only basic functionality. 5. Avoid hyping or even announcing the project until you have something working. If you hype it early, you will get demands for every feature, including the kitchen sink, thrown at you, and you will get politically connected contractors forced on you.
Modest increases in the minimum wage tend to modestly increase wages (while doing little to reduce poverty). But big jumps tend to price a lot of unskilled and entry level workers out of the labor market.
Most people claiming that minimum wage hikes don't cause job losses point to the Card-Krueger study of fast food workers in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. But there were a lot of issues with that study. The raise was minor, and they only looked at same-site employment. They didn't look at the long term effect of whether higher wages reduced the number of new establishments.
Sure seems like it would cost a lot more than $35k.
It is not likely anyone will burn the restaurants. Fast food joints already have high turnover, and few employees are there for a long term career. So you bring in a robot to make fries, shift the ex-fry-maker to sweeping the floor, and reduce your workforce through attrition. By the time the next employee quits, maybe a floor sweeping robot will be available. There will not be a big mass layoff, just slow dwindling of entry level jobs.
The whole push for a $15 minimum wage will been seen as a "Hold ma beer" moment for the minimum wage activists.
Unlikely. If people were willing to learn about economics by looking at how past policies worked in the real world, we wouldn't be having this debate in the first place. I have never heard an activist, of any ideology, admit they were wrong.
Dormitories are available at many factories in Shenzhen, and other cities with largely migrant workforces, but they are optional, and most factory workers do not live in them. Factories in cities with more settled workforces usually do not offer dorms. I have never seen a dormitory at any factory in Shanghai.
when consumers can no longer afford to buy the company's products?
Because this is the exact opposite of what has happened in every other period of technological advance in history. As productivity goes up, the cost of production drops, and products become more affordable. As goods become more affordable, people spend less money on "things' and more money on services, and human employment will move to where people have a comparative advantage over machines.
Once Machine Intelligence matures a little further and is coupled with automation, we're going to see this type of thing cut in to more markets.
That will almost certainly happen, because that is what has always happened with technological change in the past. But just as likely, new technology will open up huge new markets for products and services that we can't even predict... because that is what has always happened with technological change in the past.
So, it's a good deal for the corporation, but not for anyone else.
Most corporate stock is owned by pension funds. Either directly, or indirectly through pension accounts, more than 70% of American households own stock. More than 60% of employees work for corporations. So corporations are not some evil "other". They are us.
Because I choose not to accept anything on blind faith.
It does not require "blind faith" to believe that the tomorrow will be more-or-less like today.
The world is different, the economy is different
Basic economic principles apply just as much today as they did in the past.
corporations are larger and more powerful
No they aren't. A century ago, the largest corporation, Standard Oil, was 2% of the economy. Today, the largest corporation, Apple, is a tiny fraction of that. Concentration of power in corporations has greatly diminished.
people are now seen as an expense not an investment
Corporations have always seen people as an expense.
we have globalization.
As a percentage of the economy, international trade was higher in the spring of 1914 than it is today. Two world wars and a great depression changed all that, but today's globalization is not new.
How could you not think this time will be different?
I don't see any reason to believe that "this time is different", and I also don't see any evidence. What is happening today is just an extrapolation of trends that started centuries ago.
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That's not a phone, that's a data connection.
It is a device that connects to the cellular network, and transmits and receives data. This is also what a cell phone is.
Millennials are only marginally stupider. 57% vs 46% is not a big difference. But it is a stupid poll anyway. Security rarely slows down the internet, because security happens at the endpoints, not during transmission.
This is something I wanted for a while... a dedicated device number that maps to my car and not something I carry with me. If people want to reach me and think I'm driving, the car can ring and I don't have to set up Bluetooth.
That is not what these phones are for. You don't talk over them. They are for transmitting map info, traffic info, and software updates.
Now PLEASE, supreme court, et al, don't let this warm feeling go away by overturning this.
Larry donates to Democrats. So if Hillary wins, her appointees may vote to overturn. If The Donald wins, we are safe.
Sorry to disappoint but the courts have already ruled that you can sell what you have purchased as long as you don't do so commercially.
Which is why you don't buy software. You license it.
By the way, what happens if cell phone apps are monitoring children's voices?
That is okay as long as the apps are not marketed to children.
Do Siri and Cortana escape the child's right to privacy?
As mentioned in TFA, some ads for Siri specifically show kids using the service, so they may be in violation of COPPA.
Huh? In what way is this device necessary for ANY function, whatsoever?
I have an Amazon Echo, and it would not be useful for work. But a somewhat improved version would be. If it could understand a broader range of questions, then it would be great for someone that has to work with their hands, while needing to request information to do their job. New features are being added, and since most of that functionality is on the server, everybody has immediate access. Within a few years, these devices will become much more capable.
The kids gotta learn to start ignoring ads at some point in their life.
I have an Amazon Echo, use it everyday, and have never once heard an ad for anything. This is not about ads. It is about recording voices, and storing the data. They store the data so they can improve their algorithms, and users can provide feedback if the Echo misunderstands a request. They may use the data for other things as well.
Ah yes, Merger and Acquisitions. Seems to work out well for the Wall Street types. For everybody else, not so much.
Indeed. Roughly 80% of M&A's fail, and lose value for shareholders. But every CEO is sure his deal will be one of the 20%.
And who will teach the teachers?
Colleges and universities. Teaching requires a college degree. Not every teacher needs to be able to teach coding. Usually the kids rotate through a computer lab, with a dedicated teacher, while their normal classroom teacher works on lesson plans, or takes a smoking break, or whatever. That is the way it works at my neighborhood school. The younger kids (3rd and 4th grade) learn Scratch, and the older kids (5th and 6th grade) learn Python.
If you ban common passwords. Then you end up with a new set of common passwords.
Is there any evidence that the above assertion is true?
No. The system is dynamic. It does not use a fixed set of "common passwords", but instead adds passwords that are used in cracking attempts. If a cracker thinks it is common enough to try, then it likely is not a good password to use. Over time, the list will grow, but it is unlikely we will run out of possible passwords. If the passwords are 32 bytes long, and each can hold 100 different values, then that is 10^64 possible passwords, which is roughly ten billion times the number of atoms in the sun.
California and New York, two of the most expensive places on Earth to live.
Parts of California and New York are expensive. Other parts, like California's Central Valley, are poor, cheap, and economically depressed. $15 may make sense in SF or Anaheim, but forcing it on Medesto and Calexico may not work out so well.
The basic problem with McDonalds is that it's the same generic pseudo-food everywhere.
That's not the problem, that's the benefit. You can walk into any McDonalds, and you know exactly what you're going to get.
Near as I can tell, the minimum wage is something akin to the Federal government acting like a Union on behalf of it's citizens.
That is a good analogy, and like unions, it can work well as long as they don't go too far. Union overreach destroyed Detroit, and government overreach can cause harm as well. Pensions are good, but generous pensions funded by massive debt are not so good. A basic minimum wage is good, but while $15/hr may be fine in NYC or SF, it will be a job killer in the Mississippi Delta or West Virginia. Even $7.25 was a disaster for Puerto Rico. It is better for the Feds to set a floor, and then let individual states set it higher, as many already have.
The contractors have ZERO incentive to ever provide a working product.
I have worked on tech projects both as a government employee and as a contractor. Most projects were disasters for the reasons you list, but I have seen a few successes. Here is a quick checklist:
1. Do NOT use a contractor. They have a vested interest in bloat and delay.
2. Use your own subordinates so they have skin in the game, and their future raises and promotions depend on the success of the project.
3. Make sure they are a small team that has worked together successfully in the past on similar projects.
4. Starve them of resources, so they have no choice but to implement a clean and simple design, with only basic functionality.
5. Avoid hyping or even announcing the project until you have something working. If you hype it early, you will get demands for every feature, including the kitchen sink, thrown at you, and you will get politically connected contractors forced on you.
Except of course, there is no history of raising minimum wage resulting in lower employment LONG TERM
Actually, there is.
Modest increases in the minimum wage tend to modestly increase wages (while doing little to reduce poverty). But big jumps tend to price a lot of unskilled and entry level workers out of the labor market.
Most people claiming that minimum wage hikes don't cause job losses point to the Card-Krueger study of fast food workers in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. But there were a lot of issues with that study. The raise was minor, and they only looked at same-site employment. They didn't look at the long term effect of whether higher wages reduced the number of new establishments.
Sure seems like it would cost a lot more than $35k.
It is not likely anyone will burn the restaurants. Fast food joints already have high turnover, and few employees are there for a long term career. So you bring in a robot to make fries, shift the ex-fry-maker to sweeping the floor, and reduce your workforce through attrition. By the time the next employee quits, maybe a floor sweeping robot will be available. There will not be a big mass layoff, just slow dwindling of entry level jobs.
The whole push for a $15 minimum wage will been seen as a "Hold ma beer" moment for the minimum wage activists.
Unlikely. If people were willing to learn about economics by looking at how past policies worked in the real world, we wouldn't be having this debate in the first place. I have never heard an activist, of any ideology, admit they were wrong.
RPi boots from an SD-Card. Anyone can download and upgrade, without any help from the manufacturer.
You mean bunk bed with 10 other workers.
Dormitories are available at many factories in Shenzhen, and other cities with largely migrant workforces, but they are optional, and most factory workers do not live in them. Factories in cities with more settled workforces usually do not offer dorms. I have never seen a dormitory at any factory in Shanghai.
when consumers can no longer afford to buy the company's products?
Because this is the exact opposite of what has happened in every other period of technological advance in history. As productivity goes up, the cost of production drops, and products become more affordable. As goods become more affordable, people spend less money on "things' and more money on services, and human employment will move to where people have a comparative advantage over machines.
It is a known fact that salaries have been stagnant since the 70's despite a 12x increase in productivity.
Real (adjusted for inflation) household income in America has gone up 46% since 1970. Productivity has roughly doubled (nowhere near 12x).
Really this is all obvious
Just because something is "obvious" doesn't mean it is true.
Once Machine Intelligence matures a little further and is coupled with automation, we're going to see this type of thing cut in to more markets.
That will almost certainly happen, because that is what has always happened with technological change in the past. But just as likely, new technology will open up huge new markets for products and services that we can't even predict ... because that is what has always happened with technological change in the past.
So, it's a good deal for the corporation, but not for anyone else.
Most corporate stock is owned by pension funds. Either directly, or indirectly through pension accounts, more than 70% of American households own stock. More than 60% of employees work for corporations. So corporations are not some evil "other". They are us.
Because I choose not to accept anything on blind faith.
It does not require "blind faith" to believe that the tomorrow will be more-or-less like today.
The world is different, the economy is different
Basic economic principles apply just as much today as they did in the past.
corporations are larger and more powerful
No they aren't. A century ago, the largest corporation, Standard Oil, was 2% of the economy. Today, the largest corporation, Apple, is a tiny fraction of that. Concentration of power in corporations has greatly diminished.
people are now seen as an expense not an investment
Corporations have always seen people as an expense.
we have globalization.
As a percentage of the economy, international trade was higher in the spring of 1914 than it is today. Two world wars and a great depression changed all that, but today's globalization is not new.
How could you not think this time will be different?
I don't see any reason to believe that "this time is different", and I also don't see any evidence. What is happening today is just an extrapolation of trends that started centuries ago.