That list is quite simplistic and avoids the fact that so much wasn't around then - air travel, universal plumbing, electricity, computers, TV. We disagree on the implications of this. I am confident humans will find something to do, we always have. I think the world will be a finer place when people don't need to drive trucks or wash dishes or clean toilets. All the things will be so cheap humans won't need to add material value. We can play video games to earn housing, in fact there are lots of people who currently do exactly that.
It wasn't long ago that every human alive toiled simply for a pitiful existence, often starving or dying from exposure or disease. I'm not arguing that the transition will be easy, it certainly wasn't easy in the past to adjust to e.g. the industrial revolution. I am, however quite confident that we will be better off.
I just spent the weekend talking with my 99 year old great-uncle. The world he grew up is fascinating, and hearing his perspective really gave me a lot of confidence and a new view of human progress.
Our greatest challenge is concentration of wealth. Our culture made it through the robber baron era, so clearly we can do it again. Perhaps we need to make the great depression great again, even a world war, but I know that we can do it.
I remember some annoying "booking dot ____" ad from a while ago. I guess they should update it - "booking dot NOT" "booking dot PSYCH" "booking dot ARGH"
I'm confident something will come up. None of the jobs we're doing now were conceivable 100 years ago, the future is gonna be even more strange and wonderful.
Perhaps robots will pay to watch humans do irrational emotional stuff, or there will be hipster robots that want human hand knit gluten free shawls. Robots will be loaded with their 24/7 productivity.
I probably laughed for 15min straight when I heard he injured himself
You might be a bad person. I hope the people in your life have more compassion for you when something bad happens to you, whether or not you deserve it.
I have trouble with glassdoor. Malcontents and bad employees leave negative reviews, shills leave good ones. I'm good at using it to artificially justify my prior opinion however.
It's funny, biochemistry is really different from standard chemistry. They don't understand why or how a lot of things work, which is why a lot of these things have standardized manufacturing methods and testing. You wouldn't think that 2 compounds that appear to be identical but made with different processes would work differently but they very much do. Tiny variations in the inevitable impurities can make the difference between something causing a nasty reaction when injected and everything being fine. Another big variable is shelf life. Some processes give product that is quite stable, others give product that is very perishable.
When I was in seattle a few months ago I saw bananas everywhere that I normally see bananas. Grocery stores, convenience stores, hotel breakfasts, smoothie shops, tiki bars even.
I'm not disputing the fact that 1.7m bananas or whatever it is will affect the local market, but as far as I could tell as a tourist everything was working fine for bananas.
I'm too lazy to find any LOL. My gf works in biochem/pharma and talks about the standards. For say an injectible solution it would need to be sterile (with a specific
testable definition of sterile) and would have a constellation of acceptable levels of various metals and other molecules. They test everything and have to keep records on batches. Lots of stuff doesn't pass. ACS grade might specify 99% pure but you could have something be 1% MRSA or methylmercury and still meet that standard.
In certain sectors, sure. Retail, especially grocers, have very narrow margins. Shipping is a large fraction of the overhead. If shipping costs much less what it used to we can confidently expect retail prices and groceries to drop by a significant amount.
Any retailer that tried to keep prices high will quickly go under.
Incorrect. There are numerous standards. Reagent grade is never 100% pure. Some standards have thresholds for toxins or sterility that are not specified in reagent grade specifications.
You should visit some slums, you would learn a lot. There are some good ones in south america, india, etc. I don't want to live somewhere where life is so cheap we allow firetrap codeless communities to exist. I'd support doing away with the anti hobo zoning laws that forbid cheap flophouses, or the camping idea.
House prices vary by 40%. Not sure why you are having trouble with this. I buy houses, and prices for them are all over the place. Of course zillow is wrong all the time, that is because house prices vary! I am looking for example for 3/2 houses in an area where they average $200k - they go for $100k (where I like to buy) up to $300k, often with no rhyme or reason as to condition. Normally a place that needs work goes for cheaper but not every time. One eager buyer will land the price way high. A desperate seller will land the price way low. Sometimes there are realtors actively trying to send prices up or keep inventory moving by lowballing.
Housing prices aren't simple. Bananas have a price but houses don't really. It only takes one buyer to decide for the price to solidify and become real.
My luggage was searched by the TSA on my return flight from overseas. Not sure if they have agents overseas or if they search after arrival. Perhaps tiny robots inside the cargo hold?
I like ddg but it is a far worse search engine than google. It respects privacy but please don't claim that it is superior, or even one hundredth as good as google's engine.
Google isn't big for no reason. Their search engine is fantastic and their integration with other services makes things really easy. You won't take google on by denying reality.
Thank goodness. Frequent changes entrench bad habits and culture. People are constantly getting locked out, forgetting password. Your culture becomes one of frequent password resets with idiotic questions to verify identity. These questions are usually trivially guessable/facebookable/googleable especially since people forget these all the time too. Many helpdesks will reset passwords via phone without verifying identity since they do it constantly with frustrated resentful users.
Make passwords durable. Changing it without knowing the old one should be a big difficult deal.
Good lord, you even have a victim delusion! For every smug person like yourself there are literally a million people who have worked harder than you, suffered more than you, lost more than you, and they are penniless with dim prospects for advancement. Do you seriously think you'd be set for life if you'd been born in wartime somalia or present day kentucky to drug addicted parents? Our society makes things tougher than they need to be, take a glance at northern europe and how the middle class prospers there. It doesn't hurt us to help the less fortunate. It makes society stronger and safer.
You seem pretty delusional. I'm in the same situation as you, and I worked very hard too, but I have the insight that without a great deal of luck and timing that are completely outside my control I would have nothing.
I am not sure why certain people are eager to blame individuals for societal problems. It is really obvious to me that things are very tough if you are born in the wrong place, or to the wrong parents, or in the wrong time. I have a lot of sympathy and understanding to those who struggle on this beautiful planet. You seem really condescending and smug in your good fortune. In fiction you'd be on the verge of catastrophe.
Anyone who feels compelled to broadcast their heterosexuality in a post about icebergs isn't probably all that hetero. Naturally a secret part of him is excited by the prospect of an army of homosexual refugees swarming his town.
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That list is quite simplistic and avoids the fact that so much wasn't around then - air travel, universal plumbing, electricity, computers, TV. We disagree on the implications of this. I am confident humans will find something to do, we always have. I think the world will be a finer place when people don't need to drive trucks or wash dishes or clean toilets. All the things will be so cheap humans won't need to add material value. We can play video games to earn housing, in fact there are lots of people who currently do exactly that.
It wasn't long ago that every human alive toiled simply for a pitiful existence, often starving or dying from exposure or disease. I'm not arguing that the transition will be easy, it certainly wasn't easy in the past to adjust to e.g. the industrial revolution. I am, however quite confident that we will be better off.
I just spent the weekend talking with my 99 year old great-uncle. The world he grew up is fascinating, and hearing his perspective really gave me a lot of confidence and a new view of human progress.
Our greatest challenge is concentration of wealth. Our culture made it through the robber baron era, so clearly we can do it again. Perhaps we need to make the great depression great again, even a world war, but I know that we can do it.
I remember some annoying "booking dot ____" ad from a while ago. I guess they should update it - "booking dot NOT" "booking dot PSYCH" "booking dot ARGH"
I'm confident something will come up. None of the jobs we're doing now were conceivable 100 years ago, the future is gonna be even more strange and wonderful.
Perhaps robots will pay to watch humans do irrational emotional stuff, or there will be hipster robots that want human hand knit gluten free shawls. Robots will be loaded with their 24/7 productivity.
I probably laughed for 15min straight when I heard he injured himself
You might be a bad person. I hope the people in your life have more compassion for you when something bad happens to you, whether or not you deserve it.
Sir, I accuse you of Glasstroturfing!
[glove slap]
I have trouble with glassdoor. Malcontents and bad employees leave negative reviews, shills leave good ones. I'm good at using it to artificially justify my prior opinion however.
It's funny, biochemistry is really different from standard chemistry. They don't understand why or how a lot of things work, which is why a lot of these things have standardized manufacturing methods and testing. You wouldn't think that 2 compounds that appear to be identical but made with different processes would work differently but they very much do. Tiny variations in the inevitable impurities can make the difference between something causing a nasty reaction when injected and everything being fine. Another big variable is shelf life. Some processes give product that is quite stable, others give product that is very perishable.
It's possible not getting the joke is why you weren't pursued any further by pedo the clown.
I use html -
at the end of a line will give you a new paragraph. a single
gives new line. There are other ways.
When I was in seattle a few months ago I saw bananas everywhere that I normally see bananas. Grocery stores, convenience stores, hotel breakfasts, smoothie shops, tiki bars even.
I'm not disputing the fact that 1.7m bananas or whatever it is will affect the local market, but as far as I could tell as a tourist everything was working fine for bananas.
I'm too lazy to find any LOL. My gf works in biochem/pharma and talks about the standards. For say an injectible solution it would need to be sterile (with a specific testable definition of sterile) and would have a constellation of acceptable levels of various metals and other molecules. They test everything and have to keep records on batches. Lots of stuff doesn't pass. ACS grade might specify 99% pure but you could have something be 1% MRSA or methylmercury and still meet that standard.
In certain sectors, sure. Retail, especially grocers, have very narrow margins. Shipping is a large fraction of the overhead. If shipping costs much less what it used to we can confidently expect retail prices and groceries to drop by a significant amount.
Any retailer that tried to keep prices high will quickly go under.
I get a ton of potassium. There are many foods that are high, many higher than bananas: squash, beans, spinach, sweet potato, pomegranate, apricot.
I also use KCl instead of NaCl, and K based baking soda / baking powder
sea salt is close to 100% NaCl. If you're interested in potassium you can buy KCl which is marketed as a "salt substitute"
Incorrect. There are numerous standards. Reagent grade is never 100% pure. Some standards have thresholds for toxins or sterility that are not specified in reagent grade specifications.
You should visit some slums, you would learn a lot. There are some good ones in south america, india, etc. I don't want to live somewhere where life is so cheap we allow firetrap codeless communities to exist. I'd support doing away with the anti hobo zoning laws that forbid cheap flophouses, or the camping idea.
Yeah the US$ is a total scam. Try a real currency with an actual intrinsic worth like bitcoin, or something stable like gold.
House prices vary by 40%. Not sure why you are having trouble with this. I buy houses, and prices for them are all over the place. Of course zillow is wrong all the time, that is because house prices vary! I am looking for example for 3/2 houses in an area where they average $200k - they go for $100k (where I like to buy) up to $300k, often with no rhyme or reason as to condition. Normally a place that needs work goes for cheaper but not every time. One eager buyer will land the price way high. A desperate seller will land the price way low. Sometimes there are realtors actively trying to send prices up or keep inventory moving by lowballing.
Housing prices aren't simple. Bananas have a price but houses don't really. It only takes one buyer to decide for the price to solidify and become real.
My luggage was searched by the TSA on my return flight from overseas. Not sure if they have agents overseas or if they search after arrival. Perhaps tiny robots inside the cargo hold?
I like ddg but it is a far worse search engine than google. It respects privacy but please don't claim that it is superior, or even one hundredth as good as google's engine.
Google isn't big for no reason. Their search engine is fantastic and their integration with other services makes things really easy. You won't take google on by denying reality.
Typical yellow journalism!
Thank goodness. Frequent changes entrench bad habits and culture. People are constantly getting locked out, forgetting password. Your culture becomes one of frequent password resets with idiotic questions to verify identity. These questions are usually trivially guessable/facebookable/googleable especially since people forget these all the time too. Many helpdesks will reset passwords via phone without verifying identity since they do it constantly with frustrated resentful users. Make passwords durable. Changing it without knowing the old one should be a big difficult deal.
Good lord, you even have a victim delusion! For every smug person like yourself there are literally a million people who have worked harder than you, suffered more than you, lost more than you, and they are penniless with dim prospects for advancement. Do you seriously think you'd be set for life if you'd been born in wartime somalia or present day kentucky to drug addicted parents? Our society makes things tougher than they need to be, take a glance at northern europe and how the middle class prospers there. It doesn't hurt us to help the less fortunate. It makes society stronger and safer.
You seem pretty delusional. I'm in the same situation as you, and I worked very hard too, but I have the insight that without a great deal of luck and timing that are completely outside my control I would have nothing.
I am not sure why certain people are eager to blame individuals for societal problems. It is really obvious to me that things are very tough if you are born in the wrong place, or to the wrong parents, or in the wrong time. I have a lot of sympathy and understanding to those who struggle on this beautiful planet. You seem really condescending and smug in your good fortune. In fiction you'd be on the verge of catastrophe.
Anyone who feels compelled to broadcast their heterosexuality in a post about icebergs isn't probably all that hetero. Naturally a secret part of him is excited by the prospect of an army of homosexual refugees swarming his town.