It may seem like common sense, but it's flat-out wrong. If you study history, you will see that similar concerns were raised about the printing press, the industrial revolution, electricity, etc. And yet, somehow we still keep coming up with new jobs that begin to exist because of the increases in technology.
Right, because none of those things could flip a burger as well as a human could. However, now we have machines that can do things better then any human can. My job is to automate you out of a job, and if I do my job right then you are obsolete unless you can educate yourself to do something more complex. However, the cost of education is on the rise, so most will not be able to afford to educate themselves. We have a catch 22.
The solution to this problem is free education and a basic income. We should start with a grant for 60 credit hours of community college and a basic income at 60% the federal poverty level.
If the software in question isn't terribly performance intensive, that isn't a very compelling reason any more. You've plenty of virtualization options at your disposal, some ridiculously easy to set up (Virtualbox).
Why would I want to run Linux if I'm just going to run a Windows VM on it?
Why would I want to run anything in a VM when I can run it all natively on a Mac?
Furthermore, to back up the previous statement here is the Fed's graph for the Velocity of M2 Money Stock. Velocity measures the rate at which money changes hands, so if it's low that means everyone is hoarding any money they might have. Looking at the graph you will see that we are at the lowest it has ever been in the 60 years they've been charting this metric...
Anecdotally, I have a family member who is a small business owner, and she has stated to me this is the worst year she has ever seen in the 15 years she has been doing business.
Umm, before you jump to any conclusion it's important to realize that we are heading into a major recession. According to the Buffet Indicator the value of the Market is over 2 standard deviations above the mean. This means we are in a bubble, and according to the Federal Reserve the bubble is presently in the process of popping...
The trouble is, unlike software development which is free (if you don't value your time), implementing an open source siri would require a data center fill with servers and this costs money. The fundamental problem is software development creates value while an open source siri is a cost center. Wikipedia would probably be a good candidate to pick up this task because they are already familiar with the open source cost center model, they are a knowledge database, and they already have the server infrastructure.
The drone's owner has now filed for damages in Federal Court over the loss of his $1,800 drone, arguing that the shotgun blast was unjustified because his drone wasn't actually trespassing or invading anyone's privacy.
The Drone Slayer was originally charged with felony counts of wanton endangerment and criminal mischief. But all of those charges were dismissed in October when a district judge ruled he "had a right to shoot at the aircraft."
It's true the Federal government has sole jurisdiction over US airspace, but that only applies to airspace above 499 feet. Furthermore, Causby v United States states that a landowner's domain extends at least up to 385 feet in rural areas.
Yes, absolutely, without a doubt. The universe is a very hostile place, we could be wiped out in the blink of an eye and right now we have all our eggs in one basket.
I would love not having them around, however be aware that mosquitos are a staple for bats. You have to think about the food chain first before you just go blindly killing all of them.
I think Hillary was treated fairly by the FBI director. The problem is we should all be treated like this, with due process. Instead the way it works for us normal people is the states attorney charges us will a million trumped up things as a way to get leverage over us to plea bargain.
Provided we still get full-time benefits, I like this idea a lot. A lot lot. I would want to work 3 ten hour 2nd shift days, that would give me 4 days off and also I would have the daytimes to do whatever I want. It would be a great schedule for advancing your schooling with a postgraduate degree.
You don't fit, anywhere in the puzzle. I suggest you support legislature in support of a basic income, because in the future probably 75% of the workforce will be automated out of a job.
Counter claim for what exactly? They have no cause of action to bring a counter claim against you. What are they going to do, sue you for using their product? At the end of the day you are entitled to legal fees and costs.
Huh? You can handle this in small claims court. It will probably cost you $50 to file a claim. If you don't know how to prosecute your case that's another issue entirely, it's a shame that law isn't taught in high school.
The Constitution doesn't grant rights. It recognizes rights.
Literacy can be a wonderful thing. But only if you use to, you know, read.
Haha, that's funny. You should tell that to the people locked up in Guantanamo Bay detention camp. Due process is only a right if you are a Citizen, or if you happen to be standing on United States soil. Step outside the jurisdictional boundaries of the United States and all bets are off, why do you think all the detention camps are outside of the United States? Also only Citizens can be elected to all three branches of Federal government, this is a right articulated in the Constitution.
Also don't forget that you need a way for these low income people to climb out of the hole they are in, low income can be a cyclical trap for many because they can't afford to educate themselves. I'm a very strong supporter of giving everyone a grant for 60 credit hours of schooling at a public community college.
244sqft single-occupancy apartments are not prevalent in America outside of major cities like New York. According to statistics the average apartment size is 982 square feet in America. More likely, you would rent a room and three bedroom house or two bedroom apartment. Actually, I think the floor plan that would come to dominate is the college student style four bedroom apartments with communal living space and private bedrooms. Also, 244 sq. ft. is incredibly small for an apartment, I though my 730 sq. ft. apartment was cramped, I would much rather live out in the country where space is cheap.
Then we have food, which averages around $720 a month.
That's $8 per meal, which generally means you're taking stuff from fast food or restaurants.
From the Official USDA Food Plans [usda.gov], the expected cost should be half of that, and even less if you're going for a lower-cost options.
Yeah no. You'll need way more than that if you want things like fresh produce, fruits, vegetables, meat, and drinks. If you are on any type special diet things get expensive really fast. If you are on any type of low carb or high protein diet you'll probably end up paying double that as most food is usually filled with junks carbs as low cost fillers. The majority of Americans do not eat enough protein everyday simply because it costs so much to get good protein. 100 grams of whey protein alone would cost you $5 a day, and good animal protein cost even more than that. The $720 I quoted is the average amount that people spend on food who earn $75k or greater. $576 is the average for incomes from $30k to $75k. One of the troubles with being low income is you also loose purchasing power, so you have to factor in additional costs of not being able to capitalize on deals and bulk volume buying.
I think having a basic income stipend at 60% of the federal poverty level is a good compromise. 60% of the FPL is $594 a month.
Citizenship is not some automagical status that makes you a productive member of society
No, but citizenship is an automagical status granted by our Constitution, if you were a Citizen you would have known that. In the strictest interpretation of the Constitution only Citizens are entitled to the rights it grants.
I was taught to never give cash to someone who is hungry, in my town, nine times out of ten it's for booze and smokes.
We offered food to someone who said they NEEDED money for food. They rejected the kindness with cursing.
Giving a place to stay for the homeless, yes, that is much safer.
Here in Austin I see people all the time on the street corners who I don't believe are truly in need. It seems like a business to them, they get a new batch of customers every couple minutes when the lights change red. I see them there day after day and some people I literally see all over the city (highly mobile), many of them have decent cloths on, clean & shaven & trimmed haircut, and some even are morbidly obese, and have no obvious physical, developmental, or neuro-psychiatric impairments. It pisses me off that there are people out there gaming the generosity of others because I would like to help those truly in need. I have no way of knowing who is in need so I don't ever hand money out now because of that, what I do instead is have a box of snacks and water in my back seat. I kinda wish the city would require a permit to panhandle, at least then we would know who has been verified as being homeless and destitute.
One thing I've noticed though, all the fraudsters usually pack up and go home when it starts poring down rain. If you see a person panhandling in the middle of the poring rain and standing there soaking wet they are probably in desperate need of assistance... you should help them out.
I'm in favor of publicly funded police, fire fighters, an army, navy, marine and air force, a court system, a school system, a working sewer system, and well maintained roads as long as they are funded by a voluntary tax on anyone who supports funding them.
It wound't work, those are all core services that are required by everyone. These are precisely the things our tax money should be used for.
I only want to pay taxes for the things I need right now.
Umm, ok. So right now you need police to prevent anarchy and lawlessness, and fire department to prevent your neighbor's burning house from throwing embers that catch your house on fire, and a military to keep others from invading, and a court system to handle civil and criminal and constitutional disputes (law is the foundation which modern society is built on), and you need roads so that food and supplies can get to you. The only thing on your list that you are not using is the school system.
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It may seem like common sense, but it's flat-out wrong. If you study history, you will see that similar concerns were raised about the printing press, the industrial revolution, electricity, etc. And yet, somehow we still keep coming up with new jobs that begin to exist because of the increases in technology.
Right, because none of those things could flip a burger as well as a human could. However, now we have machines that can do things better then any human can. My job is to automate you out of a job, and if I do my job right then you are obsolete unless you can educate yourself to do something more complex. However, the cost of education is on the rise, so most will not be able to afford to educate themselves. We have a catch 22.
The solution to this problem is free education and a basic income. We should start with a grant for 60 credit hours of community college and a basic income at 60% the federal poverty level.
With Trump and the republitards at the helm you can kiss your miracle drug goodbye.
We MUST change the Presidential election to instant-runoff voting (ranked voting), this is the only way we can more then two parties.
If the software in question isn't terribly performance intensive, that isn't a very compelling reason any more. You've plenty of virtualization options at your disposal, some ridiculously easy to set up (Virtualbox).
Why would I want to run Linux if I'm just going to run a Windows VM on it?
Why would I want to run anything in a VM when I can run it all natively on a Mac?
Furthermore, to back up the previous statement here is the Fed's graph for the Velocity of M2 Money Stock. Velocity measures the rate at which money changes hands, so if it's low that means everyone is hoarding any money they might have. Looking at the graph you will see that we are at the lowest it has ever been in the 60 years they've been charting this metric...
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/se...
Anecdotally, I have a family member who is a small business owner, and she has stated to me this is the worst year she has ever seen in the 15 years she has been doing business.
Umm, before you jump to any conclusion it's important to realize that we are heading into a major recession. According to the Buffet Indicator the value of the Market is over 2 standard deviations above the mean. This means we are in a bubble, and according to the Federal Reserve the bubble is presently in the process of popping...
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/se...
So my choices are:
a) A device with a talk time of 24 hours and explodes.
b) A device with a talk time of 12 hours and doesn't explode.
Kudos to Apple for prioritizing the right things.
The trouble is, unlike software development which is free (if you don't value your time), implementing an open source siri would require a data center fill with servers and this costs money. The fundamental problem is software development creates value while an open source siri is a cost center. Wikipedia would probably be a good candidate to pick up this task because they are already familiar with the open source cost center model, they are a knowledge database, and they already have the server infrastructure.
The drone's owner has now filed for damages in Federal Court over the loss of his $1,800 drone, arguing that the shotgun blast was unjustified because his drone wasn't actually trespassing or invading anyone's privacy.
The Drone Slayer was originally charged with felony counts of wanton endangerment and criminal mischief. But all of those charges were dismissed in October when a district judge ruled he "had a right to shoot at the aircraft."
It's true the Federal government has sole jurisdiction over US airspace, but that only applies to airspace above 499 feet. Furthermore, Causby v United States states that a landowner's domain extends at least up to 385 feet in rural areas.
Yes, absolutely, without a doubt. The universe is a very hostile place, we could be wiped out in the blink of an eye and right now we have all our eggs in one basket.
I would love not having them around, however be aware that mosquitos are a staple for bats. You have to think about the food chain first before you just go blindly killing all of them.
I think Hillary was treated fairly by the FBI director. The problem is we should all be treated like this, with due process. Instead the way it works for us normal people is the states attorney charges us will a million trumped up things as a way to get leverage over us to plea bargain.
I watched this trailer for "Morgan", and I gotta admit - I just don't get it.
It was just a bunch of people standing with one knee in the air.
lol, I think I'm the only one who got that joke.
Provided we still get full-time benefits, I like this idea a lot. A lot lot. I would want to work 3 ten hour 2nd shift days, that would give me 4 days off and also I would have the daytimes to do whatever I want. It would be a great schedule for advancing your schooling with a postgraduate degree.
I was a KDE user, now I'm a Mac user. Mac OS X is without a doubt the best unix desktop in the market.
Where do you fit in a self-driving future?
You don't fit, anywhere in the puzzle. I suggest you support legislature in support of a basic income, because in the future probably 75% of the workforce will be automated out of a job.
Counter claim for what exactly? They have no cause of action to bring a counter claim against you. What are they going to do, sue you for using their product? At the end of the day you are entitled to legal fees and costs.
$100,000 to challenge a $1000 loss
Huh? You can handle this in small claims court. It will probably cost you $50 to file a claim. If you don't know how to prosecute your case that's another issue entirely, it's a shame that law isn't taught in high school.
The Constitution doesn't grant rights. It recognizes rights.
Literacy can be a wonderful thing. But only if you use to, you know, read.
Haha, that's funny. You should tell that to the people locked up in Guantanamo Bay detention camp. Due process is only a right if you are a Citizen, or if you happen to be standing on United States soil. Step outside the jurisdictional boundaries of the United States and all bets are off, why do you think all the detention camps are outside of the United States? Also only Citizens can be elected to all three branches of Federal government, this is a right articulated in the Constitution.
Also don't forget that you need a way for these low income people to climb out of the hole they are in, low income can be a cyclical trap for many because they can't afford to educate themselves. I'm a very strong supporter of giving everyone a grant for 60 credit hours of schooling at a public community college.
244sqft single-occupancy apartments are not prevalent in America outside of major cities like New York. According to statistics the average apartment size is 982 square feet in America. More likely, you would rent a room and three bedroom house or two bedroom apartment. Actually, I think the floor plan that would come to dominate is the college student style four bedroom apartments with communal living space and private bedrooms. Also, 244 sq. ft. is incredibly small for an apartment, I though my 730 sq. ft. apartment was cramped, I would much rather live out in the country where space is cheap.
Then we have food, which averages around $720 a month.
That's $8 per meal, which generally means you're taking stuff from fast food or restaurants.
From the Official USDA Food Plans [usda.gov], the expected cost should be half of that, and even less if you're going for a lower-cost options.
Yeah no. You'll need way more than that if you want things like fresh produce, fruits, vegetables, meat, and drinks. If you are on any type special diet things get expensive really fast. If you are on any type of low carb or high protein diet you'll probably end up paying double that as most food is usually filled with junks carbs as low cost fillers. The majority of Americans do not eat enough protein everyday simply because it costs so much to get good protein. 100 grams of whey protein alone would cost you $5 a day, and good animal protein cost even more than that. The $720 I quoted is the average amount that people spend on food who earn $75k or greater. $576 is the average for incomes from $30k to $75k. One of the troubles with being low income is you also loose purchasing power, so you have to factor in additional costs of not being able to capitalize on deals and bulk volume buying.
I think having a basic income stipend at 60% of the federal poverty level is a good compromise. 60% of the FPL is $594 a month.
Citizenship is not some automagical status that makes you a productive member of society
No, but citizenship is an automagical status granted by our Constitution, if you were a Citizen you would have known that. In the strictest interpretation of the Constitution only Citizens are entitled to the rights it grants.
I was taught to never give cash to someone who is hungry, in my town, nine times out of ten it's for booze and smokes.
We offered food to someone who said they NEEDED money for food. They rejected the kindness with cursing.
Giving a place to stay for the homeless, yes, that is much safer.
Here in Austin I see people all the time on the street corners who I don't believe are truly in need. It seems like a business to them, they get a new batch of customers every couple minutes when the lights change red. I see them there day after day and some people I literally see all over the city (highly mobile), many of them have decent cloths on, clean & shaven & trimmed haircut, and some even are morbidly obese, and have no obvious physical, developmental, or neuro-psychiatric impairments. It pisses me off that there are people out there gaming the generosity of others because I would like to help those truly in need. I have no way of knowing who is in need so I don't ever hand money out now because of that, what I do instead is have a box of snacks and water in my back seat. I kinda wish the city would require a permit to panhandle, at least then we would know who has been verified as being homeless and destitute.
One thing I've noticed though, all the fraudsters usually pack up and go home when it starts poring down rain. If you see a person panhandling in the middle of the poring rain and standing there soaking wet they are probably in desperate need of assistance... you should help them out.
I'm in favor of publicly funded police, fire fighters, an army, navy, marine and air force, a court system, a school system, a working sewer system, and well maintained roads as long as they are funded by a voluntary tax on anyone who supports funding them.
It wound't work, those are all core services that are required by everyone. These are precisely the things our tax money should be used for.
I only want to pay taxes for the things I need right now.
Umm, ok. So right now you need police to prevent anarchy and lawlessness, and fire department to prevent your neighbor's burning house from throwing embers that catch your house on fire, and a military to keep others from invading, and a court system to handle civil and criminal and constitutional disputes (law is the foundation which modern society is built on), and you need roads so that food and supplies can get to you. The only thing on your list that you are not using is the school system.