Even if you had no menial jobs that require any input people would manage to create an economy. Some people value what they do and try to make the world a better place.
Unless you get an AI to replace the entirety of humanity, there is always work to be done whether it is research or art or mowing the grass and tending to flowers.
What you need to do instead of UBI is find the human need for exploration, the rest will come. How many people at McD wouldn't love to go to the moon? Or Mars?
Give the military budget to NASA, NSF and NIH, you'll instantly have lots of automation development to put people out of manufacturing and into space, oceans and plenty of other places.
You need food stamps because the people that receive them prove themselves to be incompetent to manage any money. You give them money and they still won't have food, hell most people that receive food stamps STILL manage to have their kids go hungry.
In my city we actually have a child hunger crisis, free breakfast and lunches in school and even during vacations. Why, BECAUSE corner and liquor stores accept EBT for cigarettes and alcohol all the while our food bank has curbside trucks (walk to the corner of the street and pick up free groceries) and tons of food rotting and spoiling in storage but the parents don't even bring their kids to the programs nor get the free food even though they're "unemployed", the programs are open 12h/day and the state pays their rent.
My significant other, when pregnant, actually managed to get $1200/month worth of groceries between food "checks" (which can be traded for specific items like eggs/milk, twice the trade value at farmers market and quadruple the value at food banks) and state and federal EBT. We actually got so much peanut butter, bread and cereal, they lasted about 6 months after benefits ended (she moved in with me and I make too much money).
There are various SBCs out there either high end ARM (SnapDragon) or x86 (or a clone) that will run laps around a RPi and have battery management and multi screen figured out. They are easy to find usually as development boards and are roughly the same format as a RPi.
That is patently false. Sure, perhaps in the outliers of high cost urban areas but then your rent is according too (there is no such thing as a landlord renting out below the cost). You only need 5-20% of the total cost as a down payment to a house and most houses do not cost $1M.
I thought millennials were people born on or after the change of the millennium so 17yo at best.
A quick Wikipedia search says 1980-2000. I am a "Millenial" I guess but I never seen me or my age-peers (1980-1990) with any of the problems described, I would classify myself more Gen X when it comes to attitude, work ethic and personal responsibility.
There is no excuse for a 30-40yo person not to own a house. We've lived through the dot com boom, the Matrix, and the housing bubble - if you still don't have the down payment for a house at 30+ you "done fucked up".
$50k buys an entire house in some markets, not everybody lives in SF/NYC. Average home cost across the US is $189k, 5% down payment is ~$10k which most banks will accept (at higher interest rates) and you can often roll in your closing costs with good credit and most cities, states and even federal have various grants.
Sure you'll be paying more per month if you roll everything in a 30y mortgage (and I've even seen banks offering 45 years) but it will be way lower than renting and within about 5 years you can save up that rent savings to refinance the loan on better terms, down to 15y.
Every young generation does that. You could've said the same about 20yo baby boomers, "they're not saving up, they have less than $1000 in the bank" and you'd get the same excuses. The problem is that the generation of millennial and their parents think their kids are entitled to a house and a job and an education while neither of them are putting much effort in any of it.
As someone who's left home at 17/18yo and never got any 'help' from parents or family, I couldn't afford a house until I was in my late 20s and even so, it was only by aggressive savings and employer contributions and when houses and loans were really cheap.
No generation before has ever been able to afford houses at 20-25 and yet many now do.
There is no such thing as a person that's dedicated to "information security" below the managerial/executive level. At some point they will have to interact with the machine and become a sysadmin or network admin, security is a property of good design, systems management, network administration etc. it's not just a person or program you bolt on top that suddenly fixes security holes without any further interaction.
If you're having a person dedicated to managing your border firewalls and buying/installing crap from various 'security companies', you're not fixing the core problems and doing security wrong.
There are various magic file names (think things in/dev or/var) but reading/writing to them (if you are permitted) is by design how you interact with them.
To my knowledge there is no module that is permitted to hang up the kernel (BSOD) simply by reading it, at worst you get the serial port to poop out some bad characters.
The USA is a lot more capitalist and free in that way. You can obviously do all that in the US or you can choose not to.
If you do, you give honest rates to your customers and one of the many reasons independent mechanics and most "sole proprietors" have hourly rates starting at about $75-150 depending on your area.
The gig economy is based around people that are too stupid to run a business trying to be independent contractors. They will accept $15/hour jobs while also doing a part time job elsewhere without accounting for personal or business insurance, taxes (if they have even registered as a business in the first place) and then whine that they don't get any "benefits" or they have to carry behind income taxes on their tax bill.
You have to account for all of those things in the US, the government shouldn't have to do it for you like the EU does.
You're basically paying a 'security' professional who is really just an "IT person" in order to make sure you got the 'security' in your company and can check of a box on the PCI/HIPAA/SoX compliance worksheets.
What else is the security guy supposed to do? You can't read/write CVE's all day long, you actually have to do system or network administration at some point.
And what would happen if the guy was only relegated to the core job description? He'd be playing video games all day long anyway.
The vulnerability has a lot of prerequisites: - You need write access to a shared - You need to know the underlying directory structure - You end up with a shell as user "nobody"
Sure it's bad, but it's not WannaCry bad. At best you get a shell to execute some replication code, at worst you get nothing (modern SELinux, Solaris etc refuse execution rights to nobody).
They ignored it and now they can take over more and more civil rights. Sounds a lot like the playbook to get the PATRIOT act, DHS, airport security etc.
I don't think the government is interested in preventing any of these atrocities, they are more than willing to let it play out just so they can take a jab at getting more powers.
"Triangulation" or direction finding can be done from a 'single' position (eg. using a Yagi is a very crude method, there are better ways these days). You're thinking of locating a single device based on the signal received by an omnidirectional receiver (eg. cell phone towers), that does indeed require multiple antenna's (although they don't have to be far apart)
Most hospitals have e-records these days. I would blame EPIC and consorts for screw-ups these days, E-Record systems seem to have a less than 95% uptime.
Yes. It was a homophobic 'joke' according to SJW's. I stopped watching Colbert myself after he left Comedy Central, it seems the writers didn't make it either to CBS or the Daily Show with Jon Stewart/Colbert Report replacements which made the entire shows very flat and unfunny. The only thing that's still somewhat good from that era is John Oliver's web episodes IMHO.
FDA approval and the guarantee that it is pure. Hospitals pay for that stuff even though there is no reason that an average lab couldn't produce similar qualities, the brand name of the product would probably have to go through FDA approval which can take years.
It seems to me that removing ions from the bloodstream will have the same effect on larger scales as drinking large amounts of water. The summary is confusing because at one part it is saying it's using body heat and on the other part it's extracting ions from the fluids.
Using a small stirling-type engine is one thing although I highly doubt you can motivate the body to generate enough heat differentials for the engine without creating a form of inflammation response. Extracting ions from the blood stream is a bit tricky unless we can target very particular ones like sodium in combination with sodium-rich diets (McDonalds every day). It's neat that they can do it, I just think that it's going to be tricky to power up your cell phone without killing yourself.
With the way current cars work, it's more than possible that an aftermarket system plugging into a CAN bus affects the powertrain. Try to prove one way or the other though, it's usually the smaller entity that loses, not the big companies that are the primary reason for these sorts of bills.
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Even if you had no menial jobs that require any input people would manage to create an economy. Some people value what they do and try to make the world a better place.
Unless you get an AI to replace the entirety of humanity, there is always work to be done whether it is research or art or mowing the grass and tending to flowers.
What you need to do instead of UBI is find the human need for exploration, the rest will come. How many people at McD wouldn't love to go to the moon? Or Mars?
Give the military budget to NASA, NSF and NIH, you'll instantly have lots of automation development to put people out of manufacturing and into space, oceans and plenty of other places.
UBI will never work on large scale because giving money doesn't solve any problem.
You practically need to manage people's lives, you tell them they are only allowed to buy food and a bunch of them still manage to go hungry.
You need food stamps because the people that receive them prove themselves to be incompetent to manage any money. You give them money and they still won't have food, hell most people that receive food stamps STILL manage to have their kids go hungry.
In my city we actually have a child hunger crisis, free breakfast and lunches in school and even during vacations. Why, BECAUSE corner and liquor stores accept EBT for cigarettes and alcohol all the while our food bank has curbside trucks (walk to the corner of the street and pick up free groceries) and tons of food rotting and spoiling in storage but the parents don't even bring their kids to the programs nor get the free food even though they're "unemployed", the programs are open 12h/day and the state pays their rent.
My significant other, when pregnant, actually managed to get $1200/month worth of groceries between food "checks" (which can be traded for specific items like eggs/milk, twice the trade value at farmers market and quadruple the value at food banks) and state and federal EBT. We actually got so much peanut butter, bread and cereal, they lasted about 6 months after benefits ended (she moved in with me and I make too much money).
There are various SBCs out there either high end ARM (SnapDragon) or x86 (or a clone) that will run laps around a RPi and have battery management and multi screen figured out. They are easy to find usually as development boards and are roughly the same format as a RPi.
Median income for those areas are also $80k. If you're making $20k/year as is often claimed, you can't afford to live in a $400k house, rent or own.
That is patently false. Sure, perhaps in the outliers of high cost urban areas but then your rent is according too (there is no such thing as a landlord renting out below the cost). You only need 5-20% of the total cost as a down payment to a house and most houses do not cost $1M.
I think last time it was a data center failure. This time it seems like a power supply issue. The real problem is lack of redundancy and planning.
I thought millennials were people born on or after the change of the millennium so 17yo at best.
A quick Wikipedia search says 1980-2000. I am a "Millenial" I guess but I never seen me or my age-peers (1980-1990) with any of the problems described, I would classify myself more Gen X when it comes to attitude, work ethic and personal responsibility.
There is no excuse for a 30-40yo person not to own a house. We've lived through the dot com boom, the Matrix, and the housing bubble - if you still don't have the down payment for a house at 30+ you "done fucked up".
$50k buys an entire house in some markets, not everybody lives in SF/NYC. Average home cost across the US is $189k, 5% down payment is ~$10k which most banks will accept (at higher interest rates) and you can often roll in your closing costs with good credit and most cities, states and even federal have various grants.
Sure you'll be paying more per month if you roll everything in a 30y mortgage (and I've even seen banks offering 45 years) but it will be way lower than renting and within about 5 years you can save up that rent savings to refinance the loan on better terms, down to 15y.
Every young generation does that. You could've said the same about 20yo baby boomers, "they're not saving up, they have less than $1000 in the bank" and you'd get the same excuses. The problem is that the generation of millennial and their parents think their kids are entitled to a house and a job and an education while neither of them are putting much effort in any of it.
As someone who's left home at 17/18yo and never got any 'help' from parents or family, I couldn't afford a house until I was in my late 20s and even so, it was only by aggressive savings and employer contributions and when houses and loans were really cheap.
No generation before has ever been able to afford houses at 20-25 and yet many now do.
There is no such thing as a person that's dedicated to "information security" below the managerial/executive level. At some point they will have to interact with the machine and become a sysadmin or network admin, security is a property of good design, systems management, network administration etc. it's not just a person or program you bolt on top that suddenly fixes security holes without any further interaction.
If you're having a person dedicated to managing your border firewalls and buying/installing crap from various 'security companies', you're not fixing the core problems and doing security wrong.
There are various magic file names (think things in /dev or /var) but reading/writing to them (if you are permitted) is by design how you interact with them.
To my knowledge there is no module that is permitted to hang up the kernel (BSOD) simply by reading it, at worst you get the serial port to poop out some bad characters.
Don't worry. It just shows up as asterisks on my end.
The USA is a lot more capitalist and free in that way. You can obviously do all that in the US or you can choose not to.
If you do, you give honest rates to your customers and one of the many reasons independent mechanics and most "sole proprietors" have hourly rates starting at about $75-150 depending on your area.
The gig economy is based around people that are too stupid to run a business trying to be independent contractors. They will accept $15/hour jobs while also doing a part time job elsewhere without accounting for personal or business insurance, taxes (if they have even registered as a business in the first place) and then whine that they don't get any "benefits" or they have to carry behind income taxes on their tax bill.
You have to account for all of those things in the US, the government shouldn't have to do it for you like the EU does.
You're basically paying a 'security' professional who is really just an "IT person" in order to make sure you got the 'security' in your company and can check of a box on the PCI/HIPAA/SoX compliance worksheets.
What else is the security guy supposed to do? You can't read/write CVE's all day long, you actually have to do system or network administration at some point.
And what would happen if the guy was only relegated to the core job description? He'd be playing video games all day long anyway.
The vulnerability has a lot of prerequisites:
- You need write access to a shared
- You need to know the underlying directory structure
- You end up with a shell as user "nobody"
Sure it's bad, but it's not WannaCry bad. At best you get a shell to execute some replication code, at worst you get nothing (modern SELinux, Solaris etc refuse execution rights to nobody).
They ignored it and now they can take over more and more civil rights. Sounds a lot like the playbook to get the PATRIOT act, DHS, airport security etc.
I don't think the government is interested in preventing any of these atrocities, they are more than willing to let it play out just so they can take a jab at getting more powers.
"Triangulation" or direction finding can be done from a 'single' position (eg. using a Yagi is a very crude method, there are better ways these days). You're thinking of locating a single device based on the signal received by an omnidirectional receiver (eg. cell phone towers), that does indeed require multiple antenna's (although they don't have to be far apart)
Depends on your drone, you can build drones without all that fancy crap, we even flew across the ocean once without.
Most hospitals have e-records these days. I would blame EPIC and consorts for screw-ups these days, E-Record systems seem to have a less than 95% uptime.
Yes. It was a homophobic 'joke' according to SJW's. I stopped watching Colbert myself after he left Comedy Central, it seems the writers didn't make it either to CBS or the Daily Show with Jon Stewart/Colbert Report replacements which made the entire shows very flat and unfunny. The only thing that's still somewhat good from that era is John Oliver's web episodes IMHO.
The company behind it has proven it's willing to rollback any "illegitimate" transaction. It's like BitCoin but with a centralized bank.
FDA approval and the guarantee that it is pure. Hospitals pay for that stuff even though there is no reason that an average lab couldn't produce similar qualities, the brand name of the product would probably have to go through FDA approval which can take years.
It seems to me that removing ions from the bloodstream will have the same effect on larger scales as drinking large amounts of water. The summary is confusing because at one part it is saying it's using body heat and on the other part it's extracting ions from the fluids.
Using a small stirling-type engine is one thing although I highly doubt you can motivate the body to generate enough heat differentials for the engine without creating a form of inflammation response. Extracting ions from the blood stream is a bit tricky unless we can target very particular ones like sodium in combination with sodium-rich diets (McDonalds every day). It's neat that they can do it, I just think that it's going to be tricky to power up your cell phone without killing yourself.
With the way current cars work, it's more than possible that an aftermarket system plugging into a CAN bus affects the powertrain. Try to prove one way or the other though, it's usually the smaller entity that loses, not the big companies that are the primary reason for these sorts of bills.