Automation is magnetized to roles that are expensive and focused enough as to make displacement worth the R&D investment.
stock shelves, build houses, lay carpets etc.
The thing about these fields, usually plumber is included in the list, is that as people are displaced from other employment, they will en masse pursue the jobs on this list that are not easily automated. The wages for the roles on this list will then lower. The employer (wealthy upper-class) benefits from the abundance of cheaper labor available to do these automation-proof jobs. Because the labor cost diminishes on these jobs, they will become even more impervious to automation, though that job security doesn't benefit the worker who is making much less in their job than they did prior to the arrival of automation in other fields.
Best Buy will take your obsolete electronics for recycling at all US stores. There is usually a bin at the front door for small items, but larger items can be dropped off at the customer service desk.
Itâ(TM)s more about protecting against a disk walking away, getting lost, mishandled, returned to the manufacturer etc.
Yes, these are the scenarios I am referring to when I say "being compromised by SalesForce's own employees." Encrypted-at-rest means it prevents some extraction of your data that would involve a SalesForce employee as a part of the compromise. Charging for encryption-at-rest is profiting off of preventing the vendor from being a threat vector.
1. SalesForce charges a premium to enable encrypted-at-rest for your data. This means the company is charging to protect your data from possibly being compromised by SalesForce's own employees.
2. ZenDesk basic plans allow user passwords to be any five characters. No policy can be applied requiring more digits or types of characters (alpha, case, numbers, punctuation, etc.) unless your organization subscribes to the "Professional" or "Enterprise" level. Zendesk is using the threat of end-users having their accounts compromised to encourage customers to pay extra for the ability to enforce safe password policies.
It seems that some public cloud proprietors intend to mimic real-world ghettos. If customers want the cheapest rent for their cloud service, then thugs and criminals may break in and steal your data. Pay higher rent and you get protection.
The thing to consider about displacing swaths of the workforce is that they'll shift to other occupations. These will often be the jobs that are too complicated to automate relative to the payoff opportunity. Sex worker is something of a safety-net occupation and when people can't find other employment after they have been displaced by automation, many will turn to this type of gig economy work. The customers (employers) will benefit from an abundance of willing workers, which will push prices down. Overall, this dimension of capitalism (i.e. automation) will result in an increase in worker exploitation to the benefit of the wealthy.
I agree. The price of $40 million is a liquidation of assets price. It's not a price indicating a valuable user base. Maybe there are some patents in there and a few worthwhile developers and designers.
If you understand that well enough, you can make educated guesses of how easy it is to use AI for something.
I agree with your distillation of the current applications of machine learning. Your last sentence, I think, captures the value that can be brought to Finland by running 55k people through a basic machine learning tutorial. A diverse portion of the population will be exposed to the potential of machine learning and may become 'consultants' identifying ML application opportunities throughout Finland's economy. The exercise may be especially useful in identifying automation opportunities where there is no financial incentive, but could produce an improved quality of life.
I know of all those cases and I think the perception of the black rhino hunt auction story was colored by it being an extremely endangered species and many people would like to think that preservation would not involve sport hunting of the breed. It's a very nuanced proposition, and I'm not convinced that the proponents of hunt-for-preservation aren't just deluding themselves in order to rationalize their activity.
I'm with you on your rejection of the deer stand / feeder dynamic. That's not "hunting." It should be called "ambushing."
Yes, I should have said gall bladder when I mentioned the bear poachers cutting out the hearts for Chinese witch doctors.
Those African big game hunts you see all over the news every now and then that environmentalists get all hung up about?
I am afraid you're misrepresenting past criticism of certain wealthy westerners who have travelled overseas to kill animals. The outrage hasn't been so much a rejection of killing animals for sport. Many of the public-outrage incidents you are probably referring to involved unethical hunting behavior that infuriates both hunters and non-hunters.
This isn't "hunting" so much as it is paying money for the opportunity to kill exotic creatures. The participants lack any skills or patience for "fair chase." They're not much different than a crystal meth addict hiding next to a barrel of rotten apples in a California forest waiting to shotgun (slug) a black bear so he can cut out its heart and sell it to a Chinese witch doctor.
I admire the hunters who go after invasive species such as the Burmese python in the Everglades. It takes hundreds of hours and tons of legwork and concentration to find these monsters. Money doesn't buy an easy trophy there.
If you're this confused and bewildered by a single badly formed sentence that's just evidence of you being a dumbass...
If only it were a single badly-formed sentence.
Try reading the opening sentence to this summary out loud:
"Fascinating article on The Verge on the many ways Amazon Marketplace, the ecommerce giant's the company's third-party platform, sellers sabotage each other and defraud customers, and how Amazon is run its own government, so to speak -- with its own rules that its suppliers have no choice but to follow."
Because the state of MN required 3M to furnish the Workers Comp. policy number to them for all their vendors.
Actually, if you didn't have your own Worker's Comp policy as a subcontractor for 3M, then the insurance company covering 3M for Worker's Comp would have billed 3M for your coverage. Worker's Comp premiums are based off of payroll and it's an accounting exercise to correlate payments to subcontractors with their WC policy numbers to then deduct those amounts from their own payroll totals that are used to calculate the WC premiums for 3M. This was not the state of MN demanding 3M furnish all their subcontractors' WC policy numbers. This was 3M leveraging the subcontractor relationship to reduce their operating expenses as much as possible.
Not mentioned in this summary, a large part of this case hinged on what information iD Software founder, John Carmack brought with him from Zenimax to Oculus. Zenimax claimed he had developed significant IP regarding virtual reality while on staff and that was the basis for Oculus getting purchased by Facebook. Zenimax wanted to get paid some of the money that Facebook paid to Oculus in that buyout.
Sure thing. Check out what these college students put aloft in Singapore earlier this year. Some pretty crazy thresholds are being crossed and on very accessible budgets. Hooray for today!
Batteries will get lighter, but no where near enough to give this plane a practical payload or range
I do believe this is a solution begging for a problem, but I would not say there are hard limits on this application due to batteries in the distant future. We have to extrapolate from current technology that the future will offer wireless power transmission systems. Consider a matrix of ground-based microwave transmitters drawing from solar power that can beam energy to an aircraft such as this in bursts that can charge a meager capacitor. The aircraft is catapult launched, so it only needs to maintain enough energy on board for travelling between energy nodes within the matrix. Actual propulsion would be more efficiently accomplished via traditional means (propeller) for such an aircraft, but my intention here is to highlight that battery scalability should not suppress our freedom to dream of electric aircraft.
I don't think you have really given Amazon and Netflix content a decent survey. Have you seen Big Mouth by Nick Kroll? What about the Marvelous Mrs. Maisel on Amazon?
that can't leave a lot of room for paying all the middle men.
It's Chinese labor, remember? Cheap!
The fraudsters selling the OEM-quality components to repair shops might be doing it over Alibaba, so they might be fetching US-scaled pricing for the repair parts and netting even more of a margin.
I don't understand the scam, unless they are removing enough parts over time to occasionally construct a whole iphone.
Once you've had your phone repaired, you'll see that there is a spectrum of quality in the replacement parts that can be used by the repair shop. The parts cost scales with the quality. Two big dollar items that are frequently replaced are screens and batteries.
In this scenario, the fraudster is buying a brand-new phone. Then taking out the top-shelf battery and screen and replacing them both with sub-par components. The fraudster is then commissioning a straw man to return the phone to the store, receiving a brand-new phone which is then sold to recoup the initial cash outlay for the original purchase of the phone. The fraudster is then selling the screen and battery as OEM-quality replacement parts to repair shops. This last part is where the ??? profit exists.
Typing is a multi-hour exercise in eyebrow twitches.
Most people do not have the patience to hold a conversation with me. I wish I could shorten that word to 'talk' as it would mean fewer eyebrow twitches.
I would give all of my mod points to be able to mind-meld with other paralyzed people and 'talk' at a normal rate. Please support this research.
I support your assertion and say the shredding is 100% part of the installation.
The original image is that of a child losing a balloon to the wind. Any parent who considers it feels a sinking in their stomach knowing how upsetting this is for the child. Great art is that which can make you experience an emotion. At the moment the shredding began, the buyer was immediately inserted into the body of that little girl losing the balloon. The buyer thought they were going to acquire a prized Banksy art piece and suddenly it was stolen from their hands by the wind, just like that balloon.
That's just one level of how this piece works. Secondarily, it sparks the exact debate filling posts here on Slashdot- is this valuable art to begin with if the value is increased by 'damaging' it? Banksy has been teasing the art world with this critique for over a decade and this piece is perhaps the epitome of that argument.
Finally, Banksy is a financial genius building demand for her work with stunts like this. Banksy has artificially controlled availability of her work to preserve the demand and high prices. Here, it seemed as though one of Banksy's iconic paintings was going to be available for a simple exchange of cash -- but not as easy as it would appear! The work committed suicide to escape the collector! And so the hunt continues.....
I totally agree. Network Solutions is an unreasonably overpriced registrar with poor-quality technical support.
GoDaddy is also overpriced for what is being offered. Especially when you look into SSL certs.
My advice: Go with offshore, small-time DNS registrar. This raises the barrier of entry for anyone trying to file frivolous take-down lawsuits. For DNS hosting, there are several reliable free providers. I go with hurricane electric (he.net). Never had downtime due to DNS hiccups.
You're certainly knowledgeable about the history of MoviePass, HairyFeet. Your analysis goes pear-shaped right here, though:
it costs the theater the same to show the movie to 10 people or 100
If this were the case, StubHub would be all over movie theater ticket sales. Empty seats? Discount the tickets until they're all full. Theaters would be tickled at more patrons buying concessions.
This is the big confusion suffered by anyone who invested in MoviePass (post-expansion). There are no margins available on the tickets. Theaters split the ticket sales revenue with the studios, full-stop. The premise that movie theaters can afford to cut MoviePass a discount on tickets in order to get more butts in seats is pure fantasy. Go google "Movie ticket profit margins" and you'll find internet content like this:
New, hot films, like Black Panther (March 2018), they make very little off the film, like 10â"15% of ticket prices go to the theatre, while 85â"90% goes to the distributor/studio.
Slashdot Mirror
The thing about these fields, usually plumber is included in the list, is that as people are displaced from other employment, they will en masse pursue the jobs on this list that are not easily automated. The wages for the roles on this list will then lower. The employer (wealthy upper-class) benefits from the abundance of cheaper labor available to do these automation-proof jobs. Because the labor cost diminishes on these jobs, they will become even more impervious to automation, though that job security doesn't benefit the worker who is making much less in their job than they did prior to the arrival of automation in other fields.
My 2007 F150 (second engine) with 240k miles tips its hat to your Focus. 500k miles in just over a decade is burly.
Best Buy will take your obsolete electronics for recycling at all US stores. There is usually a bin at the front door for small items, but larger items can be dropped off at the customer service desk.
I hear you.
s/SalesForce/Oracle/g
No less disdain for SalesForce, though.
Yes, these are the scenarios I am referring to when I say "being compromised by SalesForce's own employees." Encrypted-at-rest means it prevents some extraction of your data that would involve a SalesForce employee as a part of the compromise. Charging for encryption-at-rest is profiting off of preventing the vendor from being a threat vector.
Two examples:
1. SalesForce charges a premium to enable encrypted-at-rest for your data. This means the company is charging to protect your data from possibly being compromised by SalesForce's own employees.
2. ZenDesk basic plans allow user passwords to be any five characters. No policy can be applied requiring more digits or types of characters (alpha, case, numbers, punctuation, etc.) unless your organization subscribes to the "Professional" or "Enterprise" level. Zendesk is using the threat of end-users having their accounts compromised to encourage customers to pay extra for the ability to enforce safe password policies.
It seems that some public cloud proprietors intend to mimic real-world ghettos. If customers want the cheapest rent for their cloud service, then thugs and criminals may break in and steal your data. Pay higher rent and you get protection.
The thing to consider about displacing swaths of the workforce is that they'll shift to other occupations. These will often be the jobs that are too complicated to automate relative to the payoff opportunity. Sex worker is something of a safety-net occupation and when people can't find other employment after they have been displaced by automation, many will turn to this type of gig economy work. The customers (employers) will benefit from an abundance of willing workers, which will push prices down. Overall, this dimension of capitalism (i.e. automation) will result in an increase in worker exploitation to the benefit of the wealthy.
I agree. The price of $40 million is a liquidation of assets price. It's not a price indicating a valuable user base. Maybe there are some patents in there and a few worthwhile developers and designers.
I agree with your distillation of the current applications of machine learning. Your last sentence, I think, captures the value that can be brought to Finland by running 55k people through a basic machine learning tutorial. A diverse portion of the population will be exposed to the potential of machine learning and may become 'consultants' identifying ML application opportunities throughout Finland's economy. The exercise may be especially useful in identifying automation opportunities where there is no financial incentive, but could produce an improved quality of life.
I know of all those cases and I think the perception of the black rhino hunt auction story was colored by it being an extremely endangered species and many people would like to think that preservation would not involve sport hunting of the breed. It's a very nuanced proposition, and I'm not convinced that the proponents of hunt-for-preservation aren't just deluding themselves in order to rationalize their activity.
I'm with you on your rejection of the deer stand / feeder dynamic. That's not "hunting." It should be called "ambushing."
Yes, I should have said gall bladder when I mentioned the bear poachers cutting out the hearts for Chinese witch doctors.
I am afraid you're misrepresenting past criticism of certain wealthy westerners who have travelled overseas to kill animals. The outrage hasn't been so much a rejection of killing animals for sport. Many of the public-outrage incidents you are probably referring to involved unethical hunting behavior that infuriates both hunters and non-hunters.
Idaho Game Official Gloats After Killing Family of Primates
Dentist Shoots GPS-collared Lion Lured from Preserve
This isn't "hunting" so much as it is paying money for the opportunity to kill exotic creatures. The participants lack any skills or patience for "fair chase." They're not much different than a crystal meth addict hiding next to a barrel of rotten apples in a California forest waiting to shotgun (slug) a black bear so he can cut out its heart and sell it to a Chinese witch doctor.
I admire the hunters who go after invasive species such as the Burmese python in the Everglades. It takes hundreds of hours and tons of legwork and concentration to find these monsters. Money doesn't buy an easy trophy there.
Here's an excellent article about the erosion of "fair chase" hunting in America. Before pointing a finger at hunting critics, consider that there really are a lot of jackasses running around calling themselves hunters. The critics are largely pointing their fingers at these jackasses.
Or, the forecast for an increase in GLTD reservations could be people hijacking Rudy Guiliani tweets.
If only it were a single badly-formed sentence.
Try reading the opening sentence to this summary out loud:
Actually, if you didn't have your own Worker's Comp policy as a subcontractor for 3M, then the insurance company covering 3M for Worker's Comp would have billed 3M for your coverage. Worker's Comp premiums are based off of payroll and it's an accounting exercise to correlate payments to subcontractors with their WC policy numbers to then deduct those amounts from their own payroll totals that are used to calculate the WC premiums for 3M. This was not the state of MN demanding 3M furnish all their subcontractors' WC policy numbers. This was 3M leveraging the subcontractor relationship to reduce their operating expenses as much as possible.
Not mentioned in this summary, a large part of this case hinged on what information iD Software founder, John Carmack brought with him from Zenimax to Oculus. Zenimax claimed he had developed significant IP regarding virtual reality while on staff and that was the basis for Oculus getting purchased by Facebook. Zenimax wanted to get paid some of the money that Facebook paid to Oculus in that buyout.
Sure thing. Check out what these college students put aloft in Singapore earlier this year. Some pretty crazy thresholds are being crossed and on very accessible budgets. Hooray for today!
I do believe this is a solution begging for a problem, but I would not say there are hard limits on this application due to batteries in the distant future. We have to extrapolate from current technology that the future will offer wireless power transmission systems. Consider a matrix of ground-based microwave transmitters drawing from solar power that can beam energy to an aircraft such as this in bursts that can charge a meager capacitor. The aircraft is catapult launched, so it only needs to maintain enough energy on board for travelling between energy nodes within the matrix. Actual propulsion would be more efficiently accomplished via traditional means (propeller) for such an aircraft, but my intention here is to highlight that battery scalability should not suppress our freedom to dream of electric aircraft.
I don't think you have really given Amazon and Netflix content a decent survey. Have you seen Big Mouth by Nick Kroll? What about the Marvelous Mrs. Maisel on Amazon?
It's Chinese labor, remember? Cheap!
The fraudsters selling the OEM-quality components to repair shops might be doing it over Alibaba, so they might be fetching US-scaled pricing for the repair parts and netting even more of a margin.
Keep in mind, this is the region of the world where the fake 500GB USB hard drive scam was born. Assigning programmers capable of creating crazy firmware for a 128mb flash drive is cheap enough to be supported by a street-level scam.
Once you've had your phone repaired, you'll see that there is a spectrum of quality in the replacement parts that can be used by the repair shop. The parts cost scales with the quality. Two big dollar items that are frequently replaced are screens and batteries.
In this scenario, the fraudster is buying a brand-new phone. Then taking out the top-shelf battery and screen and replacing them both with sub-par components. The fraudster is then commissioning a straw man to return the phone to the store, receiving a brand-new phone which is then sold to recoup the initial cash outlay for the original purchase of the phone. The fraudster is then selling the screen and battery as OEM-quality replacement parts to repair shops. This last part is where the ??? profit exists.
I do not post often because I am paralyzed.
Typing is a multi-hour exercise in eyebrow twitches.
Most people do not have the patience to hold a conversation with me. I wish I could shorten that word to 'talk' as it would mean fewer eyebrow twitches.
I would give all of my mod points to be able to mind-meld with other paralyzed people and 'talk' at a normal rate. Please support this research.
I support your assertion and say the shredding is 100% part of the installation.
The original image is that of a child losing a balloon to the wind. Any parent who considers it feels a sinking in their stomach knowing how upsetting this is for the child. Great art is that which can make you experience an emotion. At the moment the shredding began, the buyer was immediately inserted into the body of that little girl losing the balloon. The buyer thought they were going to acquire a prized Banksy art piece and suddenly it was stolen from their hands by the wind, just like that balloon.
That's just one level of how this piece works. Secondarily, it sparks the exact debate filling posts here on Slashdot- is this valuable art to begin with if the value is increased by 'damaging' it? Banksy has been teasing the art world with this critique for over a decade and this piece is perhaps the epitome of that argument.
Finally, Banksy is a financial genius building demand for her work with stunts like this. Banksy has artificially controlled availability of her work to preserve the demand and high prices. Here, it seemed as though one of Banksy's iconic paintings was going to be available for a simple exchange of cash -- but not as easy as it would appear! The work committed suicide to escape the collector! And so the hunt continues.....
I totally agree. Network Solutions is an unreasonably overpriced registrar with poor-quality technical support.
GoDaddy is also overpriced for what is being offered. Especially when you look into SSL certs.
My advice: Go with offshore, small-time DNS registrar. This raises the barrier of entry for anyone trying to file frivolous take-down lawsuits. For DNS hosting, there are several reliable free providers. I go with hurricane electric (he.net). Never had downtime due to DNS hiccups.
it costs the theater the same to show the movie to 10 people or 100
If this were the case, StubHub would be all over movie theater ticket sales. Empty seats? Discount the tickets until they're all full. Theaters would be tickled at more patrons buying concessions.
This is the big confusion suffered by anyone who invested in MoviePass (post-expansion). There are no margins available on the tickets. Theaters split the ticket sales revenue with the studios, full-stop. The premise that movie theaters can afford to cut MoviePass a discount on tickets in order to get more butts in seats is pure fantasy. Go google "Movie ticket profit margins" and you'll find internet content like this: