Anytime you say how some arbitrary system SHOULD work you leave it up to politics. And you can be 100% certain it will never be used how you think it should be.
Nope. The only monopolies the fashion industry has is their Trademark. This is why many brands include their trademark in the design. You can make an exact copy of a Nike sneaker with the exception of their Logo.
Sorry but customers are fickle. Look at the industries without IP like restaurants and fashion. Lots of innovation and competition. What will happen is instead of taking a long time and lots of resources to get a patent companies will push every upgrade to market as fast as possible to get the first movers advantage.
I don't think Intellectual Monopoly should exist at all. But since it does there is no reason to call someone a troll. If ideas are treated like property there is nothing wrong just sitting on it until it's valuable.
Exactly. I had an idea on combining Yelp type service with a credit card and restaurant management software. Right now Yelp is pretty hit or miss with the exception of some real great places. What I was thinking was that if you made reservations and paid with this card you could only review the actual meals you bought and waiters you had. This would be great information for the restaurant management. In the same way waiters could rate customers on how nice they are or how well they tip. This would give incentives for waiters and customers to act nicely.
I doubt these people have the answer but whoever can figure this out will be rich beyond belief. The real problem with this idea is it seems like it's like Yelp which just accepts and store reviews. That is pretty meaningless in real life. There are people in my life who seem to be well loved by many but I can't stand. On the flip side there are some real jerks that I get along with fine depending on what we are doing. Going fishing is great but working on a project not so much.
The real goal would be something like the Netflix recommendation algorithm. If I get along with someone it should see who else that person gets along with and I may get along with them even if not too many other people like them. And that is just for one type of activity and it's not always a one - one relationship.
You need to think of it as maximum IQ similar to maximum height. This is the IQ you are born with. If you are not abused and given reasonable care you will have this IQ. If you are abused mentally and physically it can go down. Similar to height. You may have the genes to be 6'5". But if you are malnourished your growth can be stunted. If proper nutrition is returned early enough you can make up for it. If you wait too long it can be too late.
A company that maximizes profits in a free market is much better for society than one operating at a loss. A profitable company is meeting societies needs in a cost efficient way. A company operating at a loss is wasting resources.
The problem as I see it is that in the old days teachers were educated intellgent young unmarried women. They dedicated their early years to their students. Parents respected the teachers because typically the parents were less educated then the teachers.
But this is no longer the case. The most intellgent women now become doctors, lawyers, scientists, engineers, business people, etc. Teachering is now a life long profession for C students. If you have ever gone to parent teacher night I find many of the young teachers to act very uneducated. They also have their own young children so basicly clock out when the school day is over because they have to pick their kids up from day care or school. There are a couple exceptions to where education is a calling buy you can't build a system on this.
In addition the parents are often much smarter and more educated then the tecahers. This I beleive is what is behind the homeschool movement. It is in our family. We got tired of C students trying and failing to educate our children. It got to the point we were spending entire evenings teaching our kids what they should have learned that day. So we homeschool them now and have much more free time with the kids. And I live in an "A" school district (whatever that means).
We need to transition to a new system. I have no idea what it should be. Maybe have retired professionals teach their subjects of expertise. How great would it be to have a Chemistry teacher who was a researcher or worked in the petrochemical industry? Or a NASA engineer as physics or math teacher? You need people with a passion to transfer that passion to students.
IMHO the perfect managment structure would seperate business management and technical managment similar to how power is split between two houses of congress. You would have the business people that should be experts on the market. (As much as can be known). What product or services a company should investigate and what price the market can bear. The technical people of the same status in the company should be give inputs on how much things will cost and how long it would take to meet the deadlines. Executive managment would take inputs from both and decide what to do. Business may have an innovative idea that the market would pay alot for but the technical people can shoot it down with costs and budget. On the flip side the technical people could come up with a great idea that would be revolutionary but the business people could determine the reasons the market wouldn't support the price needed to make it profitable.
To do this you need two paths for promotions. One for technical and one for business. Too many times people abandon the technical because the only way to get a promotion is to go into business managment (technical mangment doesn't exist in many places). And if you focus on managment you lose technical ability.
All you need is to have a culture that respects people's private property. Then let's the capital stock naturally grow and people become more productive and wealthier. It's so simple but human greed of wanting to take from others by force has led to so many cultures inability to get past a subsistence level economy.
Sorry but I barely trust US statistics I certainly don't trust one from Communist Dictatorships. Did you know North Korea has the happiest people on earth? The dear leader said so himself!
Evertime there is a Hurricane Evacuation you get a couple dozen that die from car accidents or falling off ladders boarding up their houses to prevent looting, etc. That is one of the reasons politicians are wary of calling evacuations unless really needed.
Who thinks we would have been better off spending the trillion dollars on the Iraq and Afghanistan war on space? For that money and time we could have a permanent ISS size base at one of the lunar poles. In fact it would be pretty much the same companies making the ships as make the equines for the war machines.
Just use homesteading theory. If you set up a mining operation on a body you have the best claim to those resources that are within your capability. Look how mining claims were staked out during the gold rush. The first person couldn't claim all of California or Alaska but they could stake out what they could realistically process. There was plenty of conflicts but they managed to work it out relatively well. If someone finds a small asteroid a couple meters across one company might be able to process it. But something hundreds of meters across could have several miners with little problem.
When I am asked to design something the first thing is to ask for the requirements and how they are going to be verified. This is the only way to be sure your design will meet the requirements. Let's say you have a requirement to not out out more than a certain amount of NOx. How will this be verified? What speed, altitude, fuel, path, what accessories are on, weight of cargo, and 100 other factors. Then your job is to meet that requirement. From what I have seen so far it looks like they were just clever meeting the requirements. All it would take is saying you have to pass this during actual highway driving. I have a car that deactivates cylinders to boost mileage. If you put it on a flat road at 60 it gets 30 mpg but driving in stop and go it's more like 18 mpg.
As others have mentioned safety standards have grown which adds weight which decreases mpg.
But the big hit is emissions which is what VW is going through now. For a heat engine the hotter it runs the more efficient it will be. Those 80's cars ran very hot to get their efficiency. But running hot creates NOx. New emissions standards put an end to these engines in the U.S. This is why you can't get the 70+ mpg turbo diesels they make in Europe in the U.S.
Economic progress is all about doing more with less. What these companies are really doing is automating middle management using economic theory. This is staring with relatively easy service based businesses. But on the other end you have companies like Valve that run with a very flat structure. It will be interesting to see what else people can come up with in more capital intensive or places with better defined tasks.
The purpose of this mission is to look for ice at the poles where there are places that haven't seen sunlight for billions of years. It will drill up some soil and then heat it up and examine what volatile compounds there are.
Imagine if you had a robot bounty hunter that could capture any person safely and bring them to court at the UN. You wouldn't need war at all. If you could capture Bin Laden and bring to trial no afghan war. If they were tough enough you wouldn't even need offensive weapons. The only reason you need to kill is to protect your life.
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Anytime you say how some arbitrary system SHOULD work you leave it up to politics. And you can be 100% certain it will never be used how you think it should be.
Nope. The only monopolies the fashion industry has is their Trademark. This is why many brands include their trademark in the design. You can make an exact copy of a Nike sneaker with the exception of their Logo.
Sorry but customers are fickle. Look at the industries without IP like restaurants and fashion. Lots of innovation and competition. What will happen is instead of taking a long time and lots of resources to get a patent companies will push every upgrade to market as fast as possible to get the first movers advantage.
Oh no! Companies selling thing for low profit margins? How terrible!
I don't think Intellectual Monopoly should exist at all. But since it does there is no reason to call someone a troll. If ideas are treated like property there is nothing wrong just sitting on it until it's valuable.
Do you actually take the time to rate the movies you watch?
Exactly. I had an idea on combining Yelp type service with a credit card and restaurant management software. Right now Yelp is pretty hit or miss with the exception of some real great places. What I was thinking was that if you made reservations and paid with this card you could only review the actual meals you bought and waiters you had. This would be great information for the restaurant management. In the same way waiters could rate customers on how nice they are or how well they tip. This would give incentives for waiters and customers to act nicely.
I doubt these people have the answer but whoever can figure this out will be rich beyond belief. The real problem with this idea is it seems like it's like Yelp which just accepts and store reviews. That is pretty meaningless in real life. There are people in my life who seem to be well loved by many but I can't stand. On the flip side there are some real jerks that I get along with fine depending on what we are doing. Going fishing is great but working on a project not so much.
The real goal would be something like the Netflix recommendation algorithm. If I get along with someone it should see who else that person gets along with and I may get along with them even if not too many other people like them. And that is just for one type of activity and it's not always a one - one relationship.
You need to think of it as maximum IQ similar to maximum height. This is the IQ you are born with. If you are not abused and given reasonable care you will have this IQ. If you are abused mentally and physically it can go down. Similar to height. You may have the genes to be 6'5". But if you are malnourished your growth can be stunted. If proper nutrition is returned early enough you can make up for it. If you wait too long it can be too late.
A company that maximizes profits in a free market is much better for society than one operating at a loss. A profitable company is meeting societies needs in a cost efficient way. A company operating at a loss is wasting resources.
The problem as I see it is that in the old days teachers were educated intellgent young unmarried women. They dedicated their early years to their students. Parents respected the teachers because typically the parents were less educated then the teachers.
But this is no longer the case. The most intellgent women now become doctors, lawyers, scientists, engineers, business people, etc. Teachering is now a life long profession for C students. If you have ever gone to parent teacher night I find many of the young teachers to act very uneducated. They also have their own young children so basicly clock out when the school day is over because they have to pick their kids up from day care or school. There are a couple exceptions to where education is a calling buy you can't build a system on this.
In addition the parents are often much smarter and more educated then the tecahers. This I beleive is what is behind the homeschool movement. It is in our family. We got tired of C students trying and failing to educate our children. It got to the point we were spending entire evenings teaching our kids what they should have learned that day. So we homeschool them now and have much more free time with the kids. And I live in an "A" school district (whatever that means).
We need to transition to a new system. I have no idea what it should be. Maybe have retired professionals teach their subjects of expertise. How great would it be to have a Chemistry teacher who was a researcher or worked in the petrochemical industry? Or a NASA engineer as physics or math teacher? You need people with a passion to transfer that passion to students.
IMHO the perfect managment structure would seperate business management and technical managment similar to how power is split between two houses of congress. You would have the business people that should be experts on the market. (As much as can be known). What product or services a company should investigate and what price the market can bear. The technical people of the same status in the company should be give inputs on how much things will cost and how long it would take to meet the deadlines. Executive managment would take inputs from both and decide what to do. Business may have an innovative idea that the market would pay alot for but the technical people can shoot it down with costs and budget. On the flip side the technical people could come up with a great idea that would be revolutionary but the business people could determine the reasons the market wouldn't support the price needed to make it profitable.
To do this you need two paths for promotions. One for technical and one for business. Too many times people abandon the technical because the only way to get a promotion is to go into business managment (technical mangment doesn't exist in many places). And if you focus on managment you lose technical ability.
Any consistent theory of propert rights starts with a person having the best claim to themselves and the products of their labor.
You can't increase productivity without capital
All you need is to have a culture that respects people's private property. Then let's the capital stock naturally grow and people become more productive and wealthier. It's so simple but human greed of wanting to take from others by force has led to so many cultures inability to get past a subsistence level economy.
Sorry but I barely trust US statistics I certainly don't trust one from Communist Dictatorships. Did you know North Korea has the happiest people on earth? The dear leader said so himself!
Evertime there is a Hurricane Evacuation you get a couple dozen that die from car accidents or falling off ladders boarding up their houses to prevent looting, etc. That is one of the reasons politicians are wary of calling evacuations unless really needed.
Who thinks we would have been better off spending the trillion dollars on the Iraq and Afghanistan war on space? For that money and time we could have a permanent ISS size base at one of the lunar poles. In fact it would be pretty much the same companies making the ships as make the equines for the war machines.
Just use homesteading theory. If you set up a mining operation on a body you have the best claim to those resources that are within your capability. Look how mining claims were staked out during the gold rush. The first person couldn't claim all of California or Alaska but they could stake out what they could realistically process. There was plenty of conflicts but they managed to work it out relatively well. If someone finds a small asteroid a couple meters across one company might be able to process it. But something hundreds of meters across could have several miners with little problem.
When I am asked to design something the first thing is to ask for the requirements and how they are going to be verified. This is the only way to be sure your design will meet the requirements. Let's say you have a requirement to not out out more than a certain amount of NOx. How will this be verified? What speed, altitude, fuel, path, what accessories are on, weight of cargo, and 100 other factors. Then your job is to meet that requirement. From what I have seen so far it looks like they were just clever meeting the requirements. All it would take is saying you have to pass this during actual highway driving. I have a car that deactivates cylinders to boost mileage. If you put it on a flat road at 60 it gets 30 mpg but driving in stop and go it's more like 18 mpg.
As others have mentioned safety standards have grown which adds weight which decreases mpg.
But the big hit is emissions which is what VW is going through now. For a heat engine the hotter it runs the more efficient it will be.
Those 80's cars ran very hot to get their efficiency. But running hot creates NOx. New emissions standards put an end to these engines in the U.S. This is why you can't get the 70+ mpg turbo diesels they make in Europe in the U.S.
Economic progress is all about doing more with less. What these companies are really doing is automating middle management using economic theory. This is staring with relatively easy service based businesses. But on the other end you have companies like Valve that run with a very flat structure. It will be interesting to see what else people can come up with in more capital intensive or places with better defined tasks.
We don't know what is there which is why we will send a rover to figure out.
Also the poles (specifically the rims of craters) have access to permanent sunlight which is a pretty decent place to establish a base.
The purpose of this mission is to look for ice at the poles where there are places that haven't seen sunlight for billions of years. It will drill up some soil and then heat it up and examine what volatile compounds there are.
Imagine if you had a robot bounty hunter that could capture any person safely and bring them to court at the UN. You wouldn't need war at all. If you could capture Bin Laden and bring to trial no afghan war. If they were tough enough you wouldn't even need offensive weapons. The only reason you need to kill is to protect your life.