The issue still remains - what to do with too many people going after too few jobs. Currently, our society structured on 65% population working, the rest are young, sick, and old. Of that working population, we tolerate no more than 10% unemployment before social unrest occurs.
Well, what going to happen when half of working population is automated or no longer relevant to get a jobs? For example, when self-driving becomes a reality, what is going to happen to all people that drive for living? Poverty and massive social unrest, that what happens. Autocrats and strongman with "Bring back jerbs" and "Kick out jerb-stealing other people" get elected.
Yes, basic income is really expensive. It will also reduce productivity. However devolution of Western Liberal societies to totalitarianism will be even more expensive. Even nukes might start flying.
Absolutely. Say a warehouse worker gets paid above national average salary, but working conditions are outright hellish. Is this acceptable? What about paying a starvation wage but providing great on-the-job benefits and working conditions? Morally, I would say both are not acceptable. There is no moral reason Amazon couldn't pay less and then introduce mandatory 5 minute bathroom/rest breaks every 2 hours. I suspect the reason Amazon doesn't do this is because it reduces their profits by marginally reducing per hour productivity. So in my mind Amazon is at least amoral.
Government's key role is to enforce some degree of foresight. You fix roads before they crumble. You don't dump poison into rivers until rivers catch fire.
It is very logical to have gov't prevent abuse of the data that you shortsightedly over-shared.
I only really used it on Windows Phone, where it is easy to take a picture of something and create custom note along with it. Like a wine you had at a restaurant.
most people fundamentally do not value privacy much at all, so they are willing to trade it away for nearly anything.
This is only for as long as their privacy is not visibly compromised. Pretty much anyone would be outraged if their browsing history was shared with their peers, but this is some of the least intrusive information FB collects on you. Another way to look at this. 100% people who were dragged/publicly shamed on social media regret sharing personal details that enabled such occurrence.
The issue is not disregarding privacy, the issue is lack of foresight and planning ahead.
Precision is only really important in the internal combustion block design, where bearing tolerances and bore tolerances matter. For everything else, precision only matters up to a point. Precision also does not mean reliability or that car will be free of defects.
I use Pale Moon with No Script configured to only allow white list and I back that up with a host file redirecting to 127.0.0.1 a large known list of bad actors. About the only part I have to intervene is when a site uses cloud, in such cases I have to temporarily enable various domains to get it to load.
More trade is not always automatically better. For example, China due to ability to centrally plan, lax labor standards, nonexistent environmental regulations, can produce trade goods at a loss for decades. At that point our own capacity to produce similar goods is lost and we become a captive market dominated by foreign state-aligned monopoly.
Well, wait until they start amputating your digital middle fingers so you are not able to protect yourself from raiding barbarians and have to rely on Google for protection.
You found your way to/. so you are not a technological troglodyte. From your story it is obvious that they bothered you. So why are you not blocking these ads?
Why such obsession over trivial and routine manufacturing decisions at Tesla? Are we also going to get "Janitors at Tesla factory had to put overtime to unclog plugged toilet" headlines?
Good. Now I can count my today's time on/. toward mandatory court-ordered community service time.
Why such obsession over trivial and routine manufacturing decisions at Tesla? Are we also going to get "Janitors at Tesla factory had to put overtime to unclog plugged toilet" headlines?
This is why Canadians need to have stronger rights against government. Be thankful they didn't attempt to revoke kid's citizenship or detain him indefinitely on terrorism charges. All of this is possible under Canadian law.
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The issue still remains - what to do with too many people going after too few jobs. Currently, our society structured on 65% population working, the rest are young, sick, and old. Of that working population, we tolerate no more than 10% unemployment before social unrest occurs.
Well, what going to happen when half of working population is automated or no longer relevant to get a jobs? For example, when self-driving becomes a reality, what is going to happen to all people that drive for living? Poverty and massive social unrest, that what happens. Autocrats and strongman with "Bring back jerbs" and "Kick out jerb-stealing other people" get elected.
Yes, basic income is really expensive. It will also reduce productivity. However devolution of Western Liberal societies to totalitarianism will be even more expensive. Even nukes might start flying.
Zuckerberg's apology tour was short-lived, back to usual business.
"Never spend more for an acquisition than you have to."
-Jeff Bezos
It is worth asking those questions
Absolutely. Say a warehouse worker gets paid above national average salary, but working conditions are outright hellish. Is this acceptable? What about paying a starvation wage but providing great on-the-job benefits and working conditions?
Morally, I would say both are not acceptable. There is no moral reason Amazon couldn't pay less and then introduce mandatory 5 minute bathroom/rest breaks every 2 hours. I suspect the reason Amazon doesn't do this is because it reduces their profits by marginally reducing per hour productivity. So in my mind Amazon is at least amoral.
Don't worry, you can make up for that with profits from my new autonomous driving green energy organic ICO.
Government's key role is to enforce some degree of foresight. You fix roads before they crumble. You don't dump poison into rivers until rivers catch fire.
It is very logical to have gov't prevent abuse of the data that you shortsightedly over-shared.
I only really used it on Windows Phone, where it is easy to take a picture of something and create custom note along with it. Like a wine you had at a restaurant.
I am not always behind an external firewall I control. I also don't fully trust OS firewall to work as intended.
most people fundamentally do not value privacy much at all, so they are willing to trade it away for nearly anything.
This is only for as long as their privacy is not visibly compromised. Pretty much anyone would be outraged if their browsing history was shared with their peers, but this is some of the least intrusive information FB collects on you.
Another way to look at this. 100% people who were dragged/publicly shamed on social media regret sharing personal details that enabled such occurrence.
The issue is not disregarding privacy, the issue is lack of foresight and planning ahead.
Precision is only really important in the internal combustion block design, where bearing tolerances and bore tolerances matter. For everything else, precision only matters up to a point. Precision also does not mean reliability or that car will be free of defects.
They do for me.
I use Pale Moon with No Script configured to only allow white list and I back that up with a host file redirecting to 127.0.0.1 a large known list of bad actors.
About the only part I have to intervene is when a site uses cloud, in such cases I have to temporarily enable various domains to get it to load.
Fascinating. I browse with Pale Moon and whitelist NoScript backed up by host file blacklisting and they have not yet figured out a way to get to me.
More trade is not always automatically better. For example, China due to ability to centrally plan, lax labor standards, nonexistent environmental regulations, can produce trade goods at a loss for decades. At that point our own capacity to produce similar goods is lost and we become a captive market dominated by foreign state-aligned monopoly.
Well, wait until they start amputating your digital middle fingers so you are not able to protect yourself from raiding barbarians and have to rely on Google for protection.
Primary motivation for rolling HTML5 media was that Flash was too easy to auto-block.
You found your way to /. so you are not a technological troglodyte. From your story it is obvious that they bothered you. So why are you not blocking these ads?
Without internet, all your porn is analog.
Why such obsession over trivial and routine manufacturing decisions at Tesla? Are we also going to get "Janitors at Tesla factory had to put overtime to unclog plugged toilet" headlines?
Good. Now I can count my today's time on /. toward mandatory court-ordered community service time.
Pff! What? Nooo... *closes Slashdot submission tab detailing plumbing issues*
Unsurprisingly, Chinese-based Huawei and Korean-based Samsung are not on the list.
Tellingly, "Do no evil" Google is also not on the list. They probably decided that the list is not sufficiently diverse to join.
There are also starving children somewhere. What any of this has to do with Tesla?
It is a swindle.
Welcome to Unrestrained Capitalism, anything that is not illegal will be attempted, and then some.
Why such obsession over trivial and routine manufacturing decisions at Tesla? Are we also going to get "Janitors at Tesla factory had to put overtime to unclog plugged toilet" headlines?
This is why Canadians need to have stronger rights against government. Be thankful they didn't attempt to revoke kid's citizenship or detain him indefinitely on terrorism charges. All of this is possible under Canadian law.
In Fadell's defense, even spending 1$ on Nest project would qualify as squandering.
I think you fail to consider that with climate change, definition of oceanfront property is not limited to houses currently build near the ocean.