An UBI you can live reasonably (not near starving) on is an absolute minimal emergency measure. It is by far not enough to solve the upcoming crisis.
The voting and comments here indicate that people are stupid and do not see that yes, _their_ society need stability and people that can buy things as well. It also illustrates a pretty severe secondary problem: A lot of people think that their value as people derives from the jobs they are doing and most of the meaning in their lives comes from these jobs. Yes, I know that is utterly pathetic, but it is how a lot of people tick. If you just take these jobs away and give them enough money to live reasonably, they will still be very, very unhappy. That aspect of the problem is also in urgent need of a solution and we currently have none. Not talking about it and ridiculing or negating an UBI is about the most stupidly self-destructive thing that can be done. Not that the globalized human race is not great at self-destruction...
You really do not know how things work here. Sure, work conditions are not quite as vicious as in the US, but they are nowhere as cushy as you describe.
First, let me say that everybody deserves to be treated well and have a good life. The question is how that can be achieved. The classical ideal of getting everybody a job they can live on is not going to cut it anymore.
The reality of the situation at Amazon (and other places) is that humans are a temporary solution, because they are indeed not robots. They will be replaced by robots as soon as that is cost-effective, a state not far in the future for most of them. Hence the tag-line they use may be about the worst they could have chosen. Don't get me wrong, they have a legitimate issue here, but they are barking up the wrong tree.
The interesting thing was that it still took weeks to identify the problem, while people were seriously ill or dying. And the irony of the whole thing was that sprouts is something usually bought by people trying to eat healthy.
On the plus side, food poisoning (the non-lethal regular kind) is very rare in Germany, while apparently quite common in the US.
Oh yes. Those that crave power, but are not even capable to ask experts on matters they do not understand, routinely make big, big messes. This is just one of them.
The only thing that will work in the end is better security, no backdoors, no holding back zero-day exploits, no "lawful" access, etc. Anything else will be suicidal. Of course, those with power are deeply afraid of citizens being able to hide things and communicate secretly, so it will take a while. But there really is no alternative.
Maybe have IT security that is not cheapest possible, but actually works? That would also have the advantage that China may actually be stopped. "Hacking back" is still the most stupid idea possible in this space. But especially for China, has this person forgotten that the Chinese have their whole country behind a big firewall?
Scaling will be the killer. So far, QCs seem to be scaling extremely badly, and I do not really see that changing. If it remains like this, useful sizes will not happen, and the whole idea will go to the (pretty large) heap of alternate computing hardware that did not pan out.
And, very apparently, it is needed. That somebody that already fails to get access permissions for an S3 bucket set right (which is not hard to do) will obviously screw up a lot of other things as well is pretty much a given.
And has been for about 2 decades or so. Even if the physical universe supports it (and that is a big if, given the exactness required and the problem of noise), it may well be impossible to build a QC of meaningful size. It does look now very much that it is either infeasible or far, far in the future (i.e. >100 years and possibly much more).
And to all you attack dogs that cannot bear having your dreams criticized: I am not opposed to QC in any way. I just do not see it happening.
H1-B, or generally lowering salaries for CS graduates. The latter would be an incredibly stupid thing to do, because it would just mean even more smart people stay away from CS.
Personally, I can only recommend CS or IT-related studies these days for people that both have an engineering mind-set and are way above average. All others are going to be treated like Morlocks that have no value and are easily interchangeable. It is an utter disgrace.
Criminals are generally stupid as well but can still profit if their victims are of comparable or higher stupidity. Of course, the Protonmail-Team might not be quite the right target for that...
Ah, so they will reward those that lower their standards. Because smart people is not something you can "produce". There is a very limited supply of them.
We pretty much have already anybody competent and qualified and a lot of semi-competent ones getting that degree. The only way to increase these numbers is to give the degree to the incompetent. That actually will produce "graduates" with massively negative productivity. There is a reason any STEM field has high standards for its graduates. Apparently, CS does still not qualify as "serious".
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An UBI you can live reasonably (not near starving) on is an absolute minimal emergency measure. It is by far not enough to solve the upcoming crisis.
The voting and comments here indicate that people are stupid and do not see that yes, _their_ society need stability and people that can buy things as well. It also illustrates a pretty severe secondary problem: A lot of people think that their value as people derives from the jobs they are doing and most of the meaning in their lives comes from these jobs. Yes, I know that is utterly pathetic, but it is how a lot of people tick. If you just take these jobs away and give them enough money to live reasonably, they will still be very, very unhappy. That aspect of the problem is also in urgent need of a solution and we currently have none. Not talking about it and ridiculing or negating an UBI is about the most stupidly self-destructive thing that can be done. Not that the globalized human race is not great at self-destruction...
Naa, even politicians deserve to be treated as human. I know it is very difficult to do so, but it is the right thing to do.
You really do not know how things work here. Sure, work conditions are not quite as vicious as in the US, but they are nowhere as cushy as you describe.
In the German case, the seeds were contaminated. That is why it took so long to find the root-cause.
First, let me say that everybody deserves to be treated well and have a good life. The question is how that can be achieved. The classical ideal of getting everybody a job they can live on is not going to cut it anymore.
The reality of the situation at Amazon (and other places) is that humans are a temporary solution, because they are indeed not robots. They will be replaced by robots as soon as that is cost-effective, a state not far in the future for most of them. Hence the tag-line they use may be about the worst they could have chosen. Don't get me wrong, they have a legitimate issue here, but they are barking up the wrong tree.
If people use Huawei, the NSA-Backdoors (e.g. Cisco) are not present! They cannot have that...
The interesting thing was that it still took weeks to identify the problem, while people were seriously ill or dying. And the irony of the whole thing was that sprouts is something usually bought by people trying to eat healthy.
On the plus side, food poisoning (the non-lethal regular kind) is very rare in Germany, while apparently quite common in the US.
Oh yes. Those that crave power, but are not even capable to ask experts on matters they do not understand, routinely make big, big messes. This is just one of them.
The only thing that will work in the end is better security, no backdoors, no holding back zero-day exploits, no "lawful" access, etc. Anything else will be suicidal. Of course, those with power are deeply afraid of citizens being able to hide things and communicate secretly, so it will take a while. But there really is no alternative.
That is, given appropriate safety measures, like using secure shell or a VPN tunnel. You cannot and never could trust the network.
Maybe have IT security that is not cheapest possible, but actually works? That would also have the advantage that China may actually be stopped. "Hacking back" is still the most stupid idea possible in this space. But especially for China, has this person forgotten that the Chinese have their whole country behind a big firewall?
In other words, the usual perverted incentives and dysfunctional teams....
Scaling will be the killer. So far, QCs seem to be scaling extremely badly, and I do not really see that changing. If it remains like this, useful sizes will not happen, and the whole idea will go to the (pretty large) heap of alternate computing hardware that did not pan out.
There is a difference between "nice effect" and "actually useful"....
And, very apparently, it is needed. That somebody that already fails to get access permissions for an S3 bucket set right (which is not hard to do) will obviously screw up a lot of other things as well is pretty much a given.
And has been for about 2 decades or so. Even if the physical universe supports it (and that is a big if, given the exactness required and the problem of noise), it may well be impossible to build a QC of meaningful size. It does look now very much that it is either infeasible or far, far in the future (i.e. >100 years and possibly much more).
And to all you attack dogs that cannot bear having your dreams criticized: I am not opposed to QC in any way. I just do not see it happening.
Good point. From that perspective it makes sense.
Yep, that seems to be how it works these days.
I see I triggered you again. What a pathetic life you must have...
I also _know_ you are not apk....
H1-B, or generally lowering salaries for CS graduates. The latter would be an incredibly stupid thing to do, because it would just mean even more smart people stay away from CS.
Personally, I can only recommend CS or IT-related studies these days for people that both have an engineering mind-set and are way above average. All others are going to be treated like Morlocks that have no value and are easily interchangeable. It is an utter disgrace.
Criminals are generally stupid as well but can still profit if their victims are of comparable or higher stupidity. Of course, the Protonmail-Team might not be quite the right target for that...
While I do not use Ubuntu (I use Debian sans systemd-crap), this is good news, as it sets standards for everybody else.
Ah, so they will reward those that lower their standards. Because smart people is not something you can "produce". There is a very limited supply of them.
Matches my observations.
We pretty much have already anybody competent and qualified and a lot of semi-competent ones getting that degree. The only way to increase these numbers is to give the degree to the incompetent. That actually will produce "graduates" with massively negative productivity. There is a reason any STEM field has high standards for its graduates. Apparently, CS does still not qualify as "serious".
Because current numbers already contain all the semi-competent and you cannot "produce" smart people...