angry mobs will run riot and capitalists are going to be swinging by their neck
As a supporter of UBI, I find it to be very compatible with free market ideals. While it provides a social relief program, it also removes the minimum wage regulation that screws up the free market forces in unskilled labor markets. I prefer that when society wants a program, it uses societal programs (government and taxation) to provide the program; forcing employers of unskilled workers to carry that burden is unfair and counterproductive.
Also... I would agree that crony capitalism is a bad thing, but please refrain from using such a broad brush. Free market capitalism, combined with social programs funded directly by the government and sensible regulations, is proven time and time again to bring about better societies.
Not likely. Under either a flat or progressive tax structure, people who earned more before UBI will still be the ones earning more under UBI. Whether the net effect is lower or higher income for those people depends on the tax structure.
now, there would also be a flip side to that, that people probably would never work at McDonalds or Walmart again
The wage would be subject to normal free market forces. Those employers will have to pay what folks are willing to work for... and any potential employees can be confident that walking away from a wage too low won't mean their livelihoods (or their dependents' livelihoods) are compromised.
McDonald's and Walmart will still pay; the net effect will be a wage drop, so if anything they'll be able to hire even more employees to take on jobs they might otherwise automate away.
Most studies have conculded that $74000/year is required to comfortably live in america, and still have money for savings and a vacation.
Where in America? Cost of living is not a static metric across the country; you can live in most places for a tiny fraction of what it costs to live in say NYC or San Francisco.
The amount is limited by speed. At 128kbps you could download close to 40GB of data in a 31 day month. Even assuming infinite bandwidth during your non-throttled period, the most you could possibly download during a month is your data plan + 40GB.
It was supposed to replace AMOS-2 which was set to retire later this year. I'm curious whether its life will be extended until another replacement can be delivered.
Sounds like it wasn't a rocket issue, but something on the launch pad. Still sucks for this mission, but probably not as much of a setback for future launches.
Heck, now that the C# compiler suite (Roslyn) is open source, Google could even fork it and do whatever it wanted with it. Not that I suggest it... that community is pretty awesome and the language has managed to remain incredibly clean and forward-thinking given its heavy evolution.
I have always preferred permissive licenses like MIT and BSD. However, Linus has created the world's most successful open-source software, so perhaps it's worth considering how the license has helped shape the software and its supporting community.
Well, there's more to it than "complete disaster". Updates are a disaster. The fact that they are secretive about what telemetry really does is a disaster. The resetting of settings and registry changes made on purpose by the user is a disaster.
I don't think those things are due to engineering incompetence... more like decisions at the upper level that someone hopes will translate into shareholders being happy. Those issues aren't a big deal to a lot of users, and there is a lot of improvements in other areas of Windows 10. This has translated into a 24% stock price increase since Windows 10 went RTM, and shareholders are happy. Goal met... definitely not a "complete disaster".
But I don't really think Microsoft is helping itself long-term with this strategy. It had better have a solution to the bridges that are being burned with the power users. Google is seriously within reach of being able to compete with Microsoft in areas like desktop/laptop/business OS. Chrome proves they can kill a Microsoft monopoly, while Android proves they can (at least help) build a new market that replaces a market that is heavily vested in Microsoft technology. Maybe Azure+Office is the endgame, but I see Microsoft peaking soon and going downhill very fast if it isn't hard at work in the background on fixing this problem.
And what if they did? Would that make it better? Typically the main reason Slashdot folks hate Microsoft is precisely because of their dominance in a particular market; now you are suggesting dominating a different market would have made it all ok?
You hate the system? That makes two of us. Don't hate the player; hate the game.
Even if you aren't fiscally conservative or socially inclusive, vote for Gary Johnson. Trump and Hillary are terrible candidates and a vote for Johnson can help him get in the debates and bring sanity to this circus. (I'm not against Stein, but I'd prefer at least one third-party candidate to gain enough strength to get a few electoral votes.)
Microsoft is charging an exhorbitant fee for the ability to use SD cards way out of proportion to the value of the software in question.
If it isn't worth the cost, why are OEMs paying? Oh, because they believe it is worth the cost.
Value != Cost
If you are willing to pay $100 for something and you can get it for $10, then good for you. But if the price is $100, you would pay that. It's value (to you) is $100, whether or not it costs that much.
I don't think you can call it patent trolling when Android is a direct competitor to a line of business they've continuously had for a couple of decades.
They deserve it, at least this time. I generally like the direction Microsoft is going, except their update policy. The cumulative updates for Windows 7 since June have screwed up Bluetooth and they even acknowledge it in their KB article. I would like to just uninstall the piece that has the bug, but I have to uninstall the whole rollup update.
Why can't Microsoft just open source everything and play nice with the development community without making me cringe every time their update policy changes?
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angry mobs will run riot and capitalists are going to be swinging by their neck
As a supporter of UBI, I find it to be very compatible with free market ideals. While it provides a social relief program, it also removes the minimum wage regulation that screws up the free market forces in unskilled labor markets. I prefer that when society wants a program, it uses societal programs (government and taxation) to provide the program; forcing employers of unskilled workers to carry that burden is unfair and counterproductive.
Also... I would agree that crony capitalism is a bad thing, but please refrain from using such a broad brush. Free market capitalism, combined with social programs funded directly by the government and sensible regulations, is proven time and time again to bring about better societies.
Not likely. Under either a flat or progressive tax structure, people who earned more before UBI will still be the ones earning more under UBI. Whether the net effect is lower or higher income for those people depends on the tax structure.
now, there would also be a flip side to that, that people probably would never work at McDonalds or Walmart again
The wage would be subject to normal free market forces. Those employers will have to pay what folks are willing to work for... and any potential employees can be confident that walking away from a wage too low won't mean their livelihoods (or their dependents' livelihoods) are compromised.
McDonald's and Walmart will still pay; the net effect will be a wage drop, so if anything they'll be able to hire even more employees to take on jobs they might otherwise automate away.
Most studies have conculded that $74000/year is required to comfortably live in america, and still have money for savings and a vacation.
Where in America? Cost of living is not a static metric across the country; you can live in most places for a tiny fraction of what it costs to live in say NYC or San Francisco.
The amount is limited by speed. At 128kbps you could download close to 40GB of data in a 31 day month. Even assuming infinite bandwidth during your non-throttled period, the most you could possibly download during a month is your data plan + 40GB.
It was supposed to replace AMOS-2 which was set to retire later this year. I'm curious whether its life will be extended until another replacement can be delivered.
Sounds like it wasn't a rocket issue, but something on the launch pad. Still sucks for this mission, but probably not as much of a setback for future launches.
Heck, now that the C# compiler suite (Roslyn) is open source, Google could even fork it and do whatever it wanted with it. Not that I suggest it... that community is pretty awesome and the language has managed to remain incredibly clean and forward-thinking given its heavy evolution.
I have always preferred permissive licenses like MIT and BSD. However, Linus has created the world's most successful open-source software, so perhaps it's worth considering how the license has helped shape the software and its supporting community.
Bill, Barack, and Hillary?
Well, there's more to it than "complete disaster". Updates are a disaster. The fact that they are secretive about what telemetry really does is a disaster. The resetting of settings and registry changes made on purpose by the user is a disaster.
I don't think those things are due to engineering incompetence... more like decisions at the upper level that someone hopes will translate into shareholders being happy. Those issues aren't a big deal to a lot of users, and there is a lot of improvements in other areas of Windows 10. This has translated into a 24% stock price increase since Windows 10 went RTM, and shareholders are happy. Goal met... definitely not a "complete disaster".
But I don't really think Microsoft is helping itself long-term with this strategy. It had better have a solution to the bridges that are being burned with the power users. Google is seriously within reach of being able to compete with Microsoft in areas like desktop/laptop/business OS. Chrome proves they can kill a Microsoft monopoly, while Android proves they can (at least help) build a new market that replaces a market that is heavily vested in Microsoft technology. Maybe Azure+Office is the endgame, but I see Microsoft peaking soon and going downhill very fast if it isn't hard at work in the background on fixing this problem.
They never actually owned the market.
And what if they did? Would that make it better? Typically the main reason Slashdot folks hate Microsoft is precisely because of their dominance in a particular market; now you are suggesting dominating a different market would have made it all ok?
You hate the system? That makes two of us. Don't hate the player; hate the game.
Then vote for Gary Johnson.
Even if you aren't fiscally conservative or socially inclusive, vote for Gary Johnson. Trump and Hillary are terrible candidates and a vote for Johnson can help him get in the debates and bring sanity to this circus. (I'm not against Stein, but I'd prefer at least one third-party candidate to gain enough strength to get a few electoral votes.)
Microsoft is charging an exhorbitant fee for the ability to use SD cards way out of proportion to the value of the software in question.
If it isn't worth the cost, why are OEMs paying? Oh, because they believe it is worth the cost.
Value != Cost
If you are willing to pay $100 for something and you can get it for $10, then good for you. But if the price is $100, you would pay that. It's value (to you) is $100, whether or not it costs that much.
I don't think you can call it patent trolling when Android is a direct competitor to a line of business they've continuously had for a couple of decades.
They should get interested. Traditional TV won't exist for too much longer.
They deserve it, at least this time. I generally like the direction Microsoft is going, except their update policy. The cumulative updates for Windows 7 since June have screwed up Bluetooth and they even acknowledge it in their KB article. I would like to just uninstall the piece that has the bug, but I have to uninstall the whole rollup update.
Why can't Microsoft just open source everything and play nice with the development community without making me cringe every time their update policy changes?
I also wouln't be surprised if Microsoft is involved.
Nope. RTFS.
Actually, it literally turns Wikipedia into a figurative galaxy of knowledge.
Directly, no. But both provide ways to convert through common data languages such as JSON.
Do you have problems comprehending . . . people's facial expressions and moods?
In a text thread? Not at all.
MIT License
https://github.com/PowerShell/...
Yep, this message is first and foremost for distro maintainers. If you didn't custom build your kernel, you probably don't need to start doing so.
Story after story has been presented about the impediments to getting ID
Then fix the damn impediments.
Voter authentication is a no-brainer.
That's just 0.2 kilometeors per hour.