People would spend time doing what they wanted to do
Turns out, most people want to vent outrage on twitter over perceived insults and imaginary injustices. Consequently, I don't see 100% automation leading to utopia.
It is about odds, and with humanity we need to reach 100% uptime in perpetuity without fully understanding the risks and while dealing with irrational actors. I don't subscribe to your arguments that Mars colony should not be compared to an offsite high-value data backup because of the costs. How expensive do you think financial exchange backups are? Astronomically so, and it is just money. I don't agree with you that we could understand the risks of extinction or civilization collapse, and because of that we can't conclude these risks are very small.
We know based on genetics that in 50,000 years of humanity we reached sub 10K population levels more than once. These were near misses that we know about. We also know based on geological record that Earth went through multiple mass extinctions, and for some of these we are not certain exactly why. We also have no idea how robust is our technological civilization. Today we have technical ability to go to Mars, but if Western technological civilization collapses (as Mayan, Roman, Hindu, Byzantine, Persian civilizations did) for whatever reason, like being overrun by a Caliphate, humanity may not retain this technical ability.
With all of this in mind, we should have went to Mars in 80s, if not earlier. Postponing this further, as you suggested for 100 years or more, is extremely foolish.
I assume you never backup your data, because if you system is too fragile to survive, what are the odds that your backup will survive?
Actually, the odds of backup surviving are excellent. We are not talking about intrinsic fragility or propose that humanity has a tendency to self-destruct. If that the case, it is probably irrecoverable. We are talking unexpected one-off events. That why we backup our data. This why we need a functional Mars colony.
If you look at how successful a bunch of uneducated bearded guys with AKs and some explosive training were against US military in the Middle East, why do you think motivated and technically-inclined Western population won't be even more successful? The technology gap between these kilbot overlords and angry masses must be much bigger than between AK (1940s technology) and Drones and Satellites (2010s technology) for this to work. It won't happen.
We don't fully understand extinction risks or fragility of our technological civilization. Getting to Marks is the first step in establishing permanent colony there. This way humanity could survive mass extinction on Earth.
Pwn2Own is too narrow in the scope. Discovering and disclosing vulnerabilities in browsers is certainly a useful public service, but this isn't anywhere near the most harmful. Where are attacks against web servers, databases, cryptographic protocols, SCADA and so on?
Yes, MER is associated with the product, but managers of said 'product' set MER based on its sales model. When you invest into a mutual fund based on advisor recommendation, they have to pay commissions to your guy. These fees get baked into MER.
Good luck getting advise to invest into index tracker e-fund that doesn't pay any commissions. Unless you work with a fixed-fee advice you will never hear about these.
Unless you figure out how to do better than most, you won't win anything. Realistically, the best you could do is slightly under-perform market, which is still profitable. Now, if you intend to play - start educating yourself on how to do it. Good start would be index e-funds with sub 0.4% MER. If you want to get more sophisticated, get into diversified portfolio of dividend-paying large cap stocks - generally you will save MER but it will increase volatility of your portfolio.
No matter how you invest, stay away from any kind of investment that doesn't correspond to tangibles - if there are no services or goods produced, then this isn't an investment but speculation designed to make you lose.
Majority of people are financially illustrate, or at least that how banks justified loot-and-pillage MER (management expense ratio) for most consumer-facing mutual funds. Now that they are switching to robo-advisers, how are they going to justify charging that?
HERE maps is one of the main reasons I kept Win phone. Works great AND allows you to load international maps in advance... eliminates the need for download on roaming data.
Does this new browser comes with native Pocket integration and support for OpenH264 codex? Because without support for these crucial features I simply can't imagine browsing.
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People would spend time doing what they wanted to do
Turns out, most people want to vent outrage on twitter over perceived insults and imaginary injustices. Consequently, I don't see 100% automation leading to utopia.
Cashless society means that Visa, Mastercard, and AmEx can impose sales tax on everyone in form of transaction fees.
It is about odds, and with humanity we need to reach 100% uptime in perpetuity without fully understanding the risks and while dealing with irrational actors. I don't subscribe to your arguments that Mars colony should not be compared to an offsite high-value data backup because of the costs. How expensive do you think financial exchange backups are? Astronomically so, and it is just money. I don't agree with you that we could understand the risks of extinction or civilization collapse, and because of that we can't conclude these risks are very small.
We know based on genetics that in 50,000 years of humanity we reached sub 10K population levels more than once. These were near misses that we know about. We also know based on geological record that Earth went through multiple mass extinctions, and for some of these we are not certain exactly why. We also have no idea how robust is our technological civilization. Today we have technical ability to go to Mars, but if Western technological civilization collapses (as Mayan, Roman, Hindu, Byzantine, Persian civilizations did) for whatever reason, like being overrun by a Caliphate, humanity may not retain this technical ability.
With all of this in mind, we should have went to Mars in 80s, if not earlier. Postponing this further, as you suggested for 100 years or more, is extremely foolish.
You are confusing two different applications - escaping Earth gravitation and traveling in the space.
That's a stupid comparison.
I agree, we shouldn't compare game-ending potential extinction of our species with slight harm of potentially losing some of your car videos.
I assume you never backup your data, because if you system is too fragile to survive, what are the odds that your backup will survive?
Actually, the odds of backup surviving are excellent. We are not talking about intrinsic fragility or propose that humanity has a tendency to self-destruct. If that the case, it is probably irrecoverable. We are talking unexpected one-off events. That why we backup our data. This why we need a functional Mars colony.
If you look at how successful a bunch of uneducated bearded guys with AKs and some explosive training were against US military in the Middle East, why do you think motivated and technically-inclined Western population won't be even more successful? The technology gap between these kilbot overlords and angry masses must be much bigger than between AK (1940s technology) and Drones and Satellites (2010s technology) for this to work. It won't happen.
Why are they in such a hurry ?
We don't fully understand extinction risks or fragility of our technological civilization. Getting to Marks is the first step in establishing permanent colony there. This way humanity could survive mass extinction on Earth.
We shouldn't pollute space with hard radiation!
I can see environmentalists objecting with something like that.
Unhappy with being merely ineffective, AV products are back to being actively harmful for the user.
Pwn2Own is too narrow in the scope. Discovering and disclosing vulnerabilities in browsers is certainly a useful public service, but this isn't anywhere near the most harmful. Where are attacks against web servers, databases, cryptographic protocols, SCADA and so on?
Yes, MER is associated with the product, but managers of said 'product' set MER based on its sales model. When you invest into a mutual fund based on advisor recommendation, they have to pay commissions to your guy. These fees get baked into MER.
Good luck getting advise to invest into index tracker e-fund that doesn't pay any commissions. Unless you work with a fixed-fee advice you will never hear about these.
He does have a point - you have no idea just how expensive and mediocre this advice is.
How am I supposed to win in that game?
Unless you figure out how to do better than most, you won't win anything. Realistically, the best you could do is slightly under-perform market, which is still profitable. Now, if you intend to play - start educating yourself on how to do it. Good start would be index e-funds with sub 0.4% MER. If you want to get more sophisticated, get into diversified portfolio of dividend-paying large cap stocks - generally you will save MER but it will increase volatility of your portfolio.
No matter how you invest, stay away from any kind of investment that doesn't correspond to tangibles - if there are no services or goods produced, then this isn't an investment but speculation designed to make you lose.
Majority of people are financially illustrate, or at least that how banks justified loot-and-pillage MER (management expense ratio) for most consumer-facing mutual funds. Now that they are switching to robo-advisers, how are they going to justify charging that?
It expires July 16, 2016 so I guess they made a decision to save couple $ and wait until July to update it?
Absolutely not. AC is integral part of /.
How about: -1 Wrong, +1 Recommend ?
While I proffered old design, existing commenting system works fine. I'd rather keep it as-is than go through another round of beta.
HERE maps is one of the main reasons I kept Win phone. Works great AND allows you to load international maps in advance... eliminates the need for download on roaming data.
For some values of all and for some definitions of pay. Otherwise, yes. :)
Wait, what is this? Positive changes, nothing to complain about?
Please, we will always have Bennett and Beta.
All moves in the right direction. To ensure lights are staying on, how can I give you money?
You can also fork this story to your own version of /. instead of complaining about all the complaining about Firefox.
Does this new browser comes with native Pocket integration and support for OpenH264 codex? Because without support for these crucial features I simply can't imagine browsing.