productivity gains from automation and robotics go straight to Capital.
That already happened in agriculture a century ago, and in manufacturing 30 years ago. It is not happening in services.
Projections are for 38% to 45% of jobs in the united states to be automated over the next 17 years.
Lots of things are "projected". Finding actual evidence to support those projections is much harder. It is quite likely that AI/robots will automate many or most service jobs in the next 17 years, but there is NO SIGN of that happening today.
So if society collapses because the base-mechanisms of capitalism fail, that is fine with you?
Except there is no evidence that this is happening. If robots and automation were really taking all the jobs, productivity would be soaring. Yet reality is that productivity is stagnating. Automation works well in manufacturing and agriculture, but those jobs are mostly already gone. It is turning out to be difficult to automate most services. It is also untrue that "jobs are disappearing". Most developed economies are experiencing mild employment growth, and many developing economies are experiencing strong job growth.
Things may change in the future, but today there is no more justification for a UBI than there has ever been.
It is really simple: If you have N people that want to live in a city, and M living spaces, and N > M, then it is a simple fact that some of them will not be able to rent or buy. If you put additional units on the market, at a price that people are willing to pay, then there will be more affordable housing. The SF housing market is a classic case of high prices driven by artificially restricted supply. No conspiracy theory is needed.
Not necessarily true. The positive integers are infinite, but 1 is at the bottom. The negative integers have no bottom, but they do have a top. The real numbers between 0 and 1, inclusive, are infinite and have both a top and a bottom.
I would also limit it to a single world and not simulate all the abundance of planets we had spread to just to reduce the computational load.
That would save you almost nothing. You only have to simulate other planets when someone is looking at them, and only to the detail that they can actually observe. Just like an OpenGL programmer doesn't draw polygons that are out of the field of view, and uses fewer/bigger polygons when the viewer is panning or zooming.
What kind of simulation would give up empirical evidence of its simulationness?
1. Due to limited computational resources, the simulated universe would be granular or "quantum". 2. To limit computation, reality would be held in a fuzzy probabilistic "superposition" state until it is actually observed, similar to how virtual reality skips the generation of hidden polygons.
Both of these are actually true in our universe, ergo, we are a simulation.
How many of those building permit applications were for affordable housing?
It doesn't matter. If they are all luxury condos, then the people moving into them are moving out of other housing. The supply of housing will still go up, and prices will then go down. Economics 101.
Housing prices in SF are high because they build NOTHING.
Alone an LED is robust, but in my kitchen ceiling, 1/3rd of the LED light bulbs (3 of 9) have failed in 2 years.
You either got a bad batch, or you have really crappy mains power. I installed more than 80 bulbs throughout my house three years ago, and since then, only one has failed.
Careful there, you do know some people want to ban plastic bags for real, right?
Careful there, you do know that many locations have ALREADY banned plastic bags for real, right? Plastic bags are banned in my city, San Jose CA. They are also banned in San Francisco (of course) and the entire state of Hawaii.
I carry a cardboard box, and a few reusable fabric bags in my car. The bag ban is no big deal, and I think is is probably a good idea. It seems to have reduced visible litter. In Hawaii, the number of sea turtles killed after ingesting plastic bags, which look like jellyfish, has declined since the ban was imposed.
I'd half expect some anti-trust actions would be hovering around them by now. I wonder how much worse it will get?
In the market for online movies, Amazon is not a monopoly, or even the biggest vendor. Netflix and Apple can survive without help from government trust busters.
A hill so very steep that it's in perpetual shadow for the entire year? That's a pretty steep hill, even for San Fran.
The shadow does not need to be perpetual. If a roof is shaded for even part of the day, then it would make more sense to put the panels elsewhere. Solar panels make sense in many situations, but mandating them everywhere is stupid. But this all academic anyway, since very few new buildings are likely to be built in SF. Last year, more than 95% of building permit applications are denied, by the same politicians that complain about a lack of affordable housing.
helps prevent money from completely dominating an election cycle
Yes, it was disgusting how the Super PACs were able to just buy the Republican nomination for Jeb Bush. Just like they bought the presidency for Mitt Romney. Something must be done, since obviously the voters are too stupid to think for themselves.
Odd, given that it was white men who ended slavery, forcefully, across the world.
Sure, but Andrew Jackson was not one of the people working to end slavery. He was working to extend and deepen it. He also deprived thousands of Native American citizens of their rights (and for many, their lives) in defiance of Supreme Court rulings. No president did more to undermine justice and the rule of law. He belongs on the $20 bill as much as Mussolini belongs on the 20 euro bill (I was going to compare him to Hitler, but I didn't want to Godwin the discussion).
Have never worked? Bernie promotes a return to the only sort of economic policies that have ever worked in the US.
High tax and heavy regulations worked from 1945 to about 1975 because of unique circumstances. The rest of the world had been turned to rubble in WW2, oil was cheap, and the dollar was dominant. That world no longer exists. We are not going to bring it back with cargo-cult economics.
The policies that Bernie advocates are used in other countries. For one example, look at France. They have rigid labor markets, lots of regulation, strong unions, government run steel mills, etc. All the things that Bernie wants. They also have a stagnant economy, over 10% unemployment, and unsustainable deficits. For another example of what happens when liberals get everything they want, look at Detroit.
What is "ethical" depends on context. Both Americans and Chinese value honesty and loyalty, but there is a different emphasis. In America, it is considered wrong to use an official position to help your family and friends. That is because we put integrity above loyalty. But many Chinese would see it the other way around. Loyalty comes first. Using your position to help your relatives is not only acceptable, but often admired. In both societies there is a balance, but the fulcrum is in different positions.
Just to start a business, everyone in the local government chain's got to be paid
This is a gross misrepresentation of Chinese business. I lived in Shanghai for several years, started a business there, and still travel there regularly. Although there is plenty of corruption at the top, low level petty corruption is not common in China. Maybe even less common than in America. You would likely get in big trouble if you offered a bribe to a cop. Many bureaucrats will offer to "expedite" a process for a fee, but you can still get things done without "paying off" anyone, it will just take a little longer, and I have never heard of violence or harassment toward people that didn't pay a bribe.
TFA is making a big deal about nothing. Plenty of people have served in the military (including me), and in America it is illegal to discriminate against veterans. It is also illegal to discriminate against active members of the National Guard and Reserves. Why should it be different in China? To succeed in China, Twitter needs to get some guanxi. This looks like a smart move.
"Okay, now that we've eliminated your malaria, you need to to come work for us for $2 a day!"
It doesn't work that way. The biggest weapon against malaria is literacy. Literate people can learn how the disease spreads, and can read the instructions on bed nets and cans of insecticide. Once they can read, they are also more productive, and can earn more than $2 per day. In the past decade, Africa has made huge progress against both malaria and illiteracy. If you overlay the maps of malaria reduction and illiteracy reduction, they line up almost exactly. They both line up well with a map of rising incomes.
For the rest of us, it just means fewer middle class jobs.
So reducing malaria and preventing the needless deaths of millions of children is bad? Is there anything that you don't complain about?
There is no difference between "literally thousands" and just "thousands". The "literally" is superfluous. He is using the word "literally", not as the opposite of "figurative", but as an intensifier. That is considered by many to be sloppy English, and should be avoided in both speech and writing... or suffer the wrath of the Grammar Nazis.
Dell either loans, or gives a very steep discount on, the computers for the renderfarms in exchange for product placement.
The cost of the computers is not much. The expensive part is the GPUs. An NVidia Tesla K80 costs $4000. The computer to host it costs only a tenth of that.
Back then everyone decided that special effects be dammed, a big blockbuster movie does actually need a (non-plagiarised) story.
No, the lesson of Avatar was exactly the opposite. The story was completely unoriginal (except for Pocahontas being ten feet tall and blue), but it grossed nearly $3 Billion, and was the most financially successful movie ever. That was purely because of the spectacular (for 2009) special effects. If the eye candy is good enough, the story doesn't matter.
Copyright without registration isn't copyright at all.
Not true. Creative works are copyrighted by default. The author/artist does not need to take any action for their work to be protected. Registering with the USPTO gives you additional protections, and is usually necessary to actually file a claim, but the registering can happen after the infringement.
If nobody knows what is copyrighted and who owns the copyright, how are you supposed to find out?
If you don't know something is public domain, then you should assume it is not. Nearly all books have copyright notices. In practice, it is usually not that hard to find out when works were created.
The sale of T-shirts is not protected by the first amendment.
But what is printed on the T-shirts is protected.
The nature of trademark is such that...
What trademark? As a public figure, Bernie's likeness is not protected. If McCall was using a specific logo of Bernie's campaign, there might be an issue, but if you look at his website, that doesn't appear to be the issue here. He also has T-shirts ridiculing Trump and Hillary.
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Productivity is soaring and has been for over 20 years.
Wrong. Productivty growth is lower than it has been at anytime since WW2.
productivity gains from automation and robotics go straight to Capital.
That already happened in agriculture a century ago, and in manufacturing 30 years ago. It is not happening in services.
Projections are for 38% to 45% of jobs in the united states to be automated over the next 17 years.
Lots of things are "projected". Finding actual evidence to support those projections is much harder. It is quite likely that AI/robots will automate many or most service jobs in the next 17 years, but there is NO SIGN of that happening today.
So if society collapses because the base-mechanisms of capitalism fail, that is fine with you?
Except there is no evidence that this is happening. If robots and automation were really taking all the jobs, productivity would be soaring. Yet reality is that productivity is stagnating. Automation works well in manufacturing and agriculture, but those jobs are mostly already gone. It is turning out to be difficult to automate most services. It is also untrue that "jobs are disappearing". Most developed economies are experiencing mild employment growth, and many developing economies are experiencing strong job growth.
Things may change in the future, but today there is no more justification for a UBI than there has ever been.
It is really simple: If you have N people that want to live in a city, and M living spaces, and N > M, then it is a simple fact that some of them will not be able to rent or buy. If you put additional units on the market, at a price that people are willing to pay, then there will be more affordable housing. The SF housing market is a classic case of high prices driven by artificially restricted supply. No conspiracy theory is needed.
If it's infinite, it has no bottom.
Not necessarily true. The positive integers are infinite, but 1 is at the bottom. The negative integers have no bottom, but they do have a top. The real numbers between 0 and 1, inclusive, are infinite and have both a top and a bottom.
I would also limit it to a single world and not simulate all the abundance of planets we had spread to just to reduce the computational load.
That would save you almost nothing. You only have to simulate other planets when someone is looking at them, and only to the detail that they can actually observe. Just like an OpenGL programmer doesn't draw polygons that are out of the field of view, and uses fewer/bigger polygons when the viewer is panning or zooming.
What kind of simulation would give up empirical evidence of its simulationness?
1. Due to limited computational resources, the simulated universe would be granular or "quantum".
2. To limit computation, reality would be held in a fuzzy probabilistic "superposition" state until it is actually observed, similar to how virtual reality skips the generation of hidden polygons.
Both of these are actually true in our universe, ergo, we are a simulation.
Isn't this about the same thing as saying it's Turtles, all the way down.
No. He is saying that, given an infinite stack of turtles, it is unlikely that we are the bottom turtle.
The race to be first post has really made modern journalism nothing more than a professional game of crying wolf.
True, except for the "modern" part. There is nothing new about rushing to publish. Just ask President Dewey.
How many of those building permit applications were for affordable housing?
It doesn't matter. If they are all luxury condos, then the people moving into them are moving out of other housing. The supply of housing will still go up, and prices will then go down. Economics 101.
Housing prices in SF are high because they build NOTHING.
Alone an LED is robust, but in my kitchen ceiling, 1/3rd of the LED light bulbs (3 of 9) have failed in 2 years.
You either got a bad batch, or you have really crappy mains power. I installed more than 80 bulbs throughout my house three years ago, and since then, only one has failed.
Careful there, you do know some people want to ban plastic bags for real, right?
Careful there, you do know that many locations have ALREADY banned plastic bags for real, right? Plastic bags are banned in my city, San Jose CA. They are also banned in San Francisco (of course) and the entire state of Hawaii.
I carry a cardboard box, and a few reusable fabric bags in my car. The bag ban is no big deal, and I think is is probably a good idea. It seems to have reduced visible litter. In Hawaii, the number of sea turtles killed after ingesting plastic bags, which look like jellyfish, has declined since the ban was imposed.
I'd half expect some anti-trust actions would be hovering around them by now. I wonder how much worse it will get?
In the market for online movies, Amazon is not a monopoly, or even the biggest vendor. Netflix and Apple can survive without help from government trust busters.
A hill so very steep that it's in perpetual shadow for the entire year? That's a pretty steep hill, even for San Fran.
The shadow does not need to be perpetual. If a roof is shaded for even part of the day, then it would make more sense to put the panels elsewhere. Solar panels make sense in many situations, but mandating them everywhere is stupid. But this all academic anyway, since very few new buildings are likely to be built in SF. Last year, more than 95% of building permit applications are denied, by the same politicians that complain about a lack of affordable housing.
helps prevent money from completely dominating an election cycle
Yes, it was disgusting how the Super PACs were able to just buy the Republican nomination for Jeb Bush. Just like they bought the presidency for Mitt Romney. Something must be done, since obviously the voters are too stupid to think for themselves.
Odd, given that it was white men who ended slavery, forcefully, across the world.
Sure, but Andrew Jackson was not one of the people working to end slavery. He was working to extend and deepen it. He also deprived thousands of Native American citizens of their rights (and for many, their lives) in defiance of Supreme Court rulings. No president did more to undermine justice and the rule of law. He belongs on the $20 bill as much as Mussolini belongs on the 20 euro bill (I was going to compare him to Hitler, but I didn't want to Godwin the discussion).
So Gates should be teaching the Chinese working at the Foxconn factories to read??
Foxconn employees make a lot more than $2/day. A typical wage is $20-$30/day, which is more like $50/day at PPP. That is a decent wage in China.
Have never worked? Bernie promotes a return to the only sort of economic policies that have ever worked in the US.
High tax and heavy regulations worked from 1945 to about 1975 because of unique circumstances. The rest of the world had been turned to rubble in WW2, oil was cheap, and the dollar was dominant. That world no longer exists. We are not going to bring it back with cargo-cult economics.
The policies that Bernie advocates are used in other countries. For one example, look at France. They have rigid labor markets, lots of regulation, strong unions, government run steel mills, etc. All the things that Bernie wants. They also have a stagnant economy, over 10% unemployment, and unsustainable deficits. For another example of what happens when liberals get everything they want, look at Detroit.
You can't succeed in China if you're ethical.
What is "ethical" depends on context. Both Americans and Chinese value honesty and loyalty, but there is a different emphasis. In America, it is considered wrong to use an official position to help your family and friends. That is because we put integrity above loyalty. But many Chinese would see it the other way around. Loyalty comes first. Using your position to help your relatives is not only acceptable, but often admired. In both societies there is a balance, but the fulcrum is in different positions.
Just to start a business, everyone in the local government chain's got to be paid
This is a gross misrepresentation of Chinese business. I lived in Shanghai for several years, started a business there, and still travel there regularly. Although there is plenty of corruption at the top, low level petty corruption is not common in China. Maybe even less common than in America. You would likely get in big trouble if you offered a bribe to a cop. Many bureaucrats will offer to "expedite" a process for a fee, but you can still get things done without "paying off" anyone, it will just take a little longer, and I have never heard of violence or harassment toward people that didn't pay a bribe.
TFA is making a big deal about nothing. Plenty of people have served in the military (including me), and in America it is illegal to discriminate against veterans. It is also illegal to discriminate against active members of the National Guard and Reserves. Why should it be different in China? To succeed in China, Twitter needs to get some guanxi. This looks like a smart move.
"Okay, now that we've eliminated your malaria, you need to to come work for us for $2 a day!"
It doesn't work that way. The biggest weapon against malaria is literacy. Literate people can learn how the disease spreads, and can read the instructions on bed nets and cans of insecticide. Once they can read, they are also more productive, and can earn more than $2 per day. In the past decade, Africa has made huge progress against both malaria and illiteracy. If you overlay the maps of malaria reduction and illiteracy reduction, they line up almost exactly. They both line up well with a map of rising incomes.
For the rest of us, it just means fewer middle class jobs.
So reducing malaria and preventing the needless deaths of millions of children is bad? Is there anything that you don't complain about?
then "literally thousands" is correct usage.
There is no difference between "literally thousands" and just "thousands". The "literally" is superfluous. He is using the word "literally", not as the opposite of "figurative", but as an intensifier. That is considered by many to be sloppy English, and should be avoided in both speech and writing ... or suffer the wrath of the Grammar Nazis.
Dell either loans, or gives a very steep discount on, the computers for the renderfarms in exchange for product placement.
The cost of the computers is not much. The expensive part is the GPUs. An NVidia Tesla K80 costs $4000. The computer to host it costs only a tenth of that.
Didn't they try that with Avatar?
Back then everyone decided that special effects be dammed, a big blockbuster movie does actually need a (non-plagiarised) story.
No, the lesson of Avatar was exactly the opposite. The story was completely unoriginal (except for Pocahontas being ten feet tall and blue), but it grossed nearly $3 Billion, and was the most financially successful movie ever. That was purely because of the spectacular (for 2009) special effects. If the eye candy is good enough, the story doesn't matter.
Copyright without registration isn't copyright at all.
Not true. Creative works are copyrighted by default. The author/artist does not need to take any action for their work to be protected. Registering with the USPTO gives you additional protections, and is usually necessary to actually file a claim, but the registering can happen after the infringement.
If nobody knows what is copyrighted and who owns the copyright, how are you supposed to find out?
If you don't know something is public domain, then you should assume it is not. Nearly all books have copyright notices. In practice, it is usually not that hard to find out when works were created.
The sale of T-shirts is not protected by the first amendment.
But what is printed on the T-shirts is protected.
The nature of trademark is such that ...
What trademark? As a public figure, Bernie's likeness is not protected. If McCall was using a specific logo of Bernie's campaign, there might be an issue, but if you look at his website, that doesn't appear to be the issue here. He also has T-shirts ridiculing Trump and Hillary.