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The biggest problem is that C rarely happens except for high-skilled positions.

Generally with a condo you have less freedom than you do if you buy a house with no common areas.

Hotels are prepared to deal with problems that tenants may cause. Locks are re-programmable between stays. Security, housekeeping and maintenance people on staff. Etc.

In a condo building, any problems caused in the common areas are going to end up being the responsibility of the association. Which is generally going to be ill equipped and probably unwilling to deal with any issues since they are getting no benefit from it.

Its unlikely that would be enough to offset the scale of disruption that will be occurring with automation. With ever creative or content industry we have so far (wether it will be with actors, app stores, youtube celebrities) a similar pattern always emerges.

At the top, you have often less than 1% becoming wildly successful, making hundreds of thousands to millions each year.

Below that you have maybe 5-10% who are able to make a living at it, but will not pull any spectacular numbers.

After that, you have everyone else. These are people who's apps are rarely downloaded, who have less than a few thousand views on any video they put up, or actors who are out of work most of the time. These section may pull in some revenue, but not enough to survive on. At best its a side job, at least until their main job goes away.

At the core of all this, is that we don't have enough time to consume all the media that is produced. We often end up letting other curate the content that we consume. Whether it be media companies or friends and family. But it tends to create self reinforcing cycles, driving more attention to the hits and less to everything else.

I think this is where we will see strong adoption first. Although it will probably not do much to increase profits as its a commoditized industry, but it will bring prices down for those who use it.

You have two types of companies.

1. Companies who value innovation and what to get the best talent possible. Money is not really an issue, its all about talent.

2. Other companies are just using immigrants to cut costs. Immigrants here on a work visa do have somewhat less leverage than a US citizen worker when negotiating salary.

How much of the economic growth is simply due to adding more participant the the economy vs innovating new markets?

When you start normalizing for factors such as inflation and population growth, US economic growth in the past couple of decades ends up being very low.

I switched to this as well. I was running into problems with pages refreshing flash video ads causing memory to leak quite badly if a page was open too long. Once i switched flash to click to play, the problem went away.

Stores like CVS and Walgreen's do have their store brand to be concerned about. So if brands do provide some guarantee of quality, buying from those stores is likely not worse than the branded products.

If anything is taking away mining jobs, its machines like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagger_288

The roaming includes international roaming in most countries.

> Overall, this doesn't sound good at all. If they are streaming screen "video", color correction and pixel-level precision in design is going to be tough. Photoshop seems like one of the most difficult programs to work via VNC.

This would be a huge issue for the professional market. But it appears that they are targeting education with this first (or maybe just that market). Color precision is likely not the highest of priorities.

While I do think being installable on site helps, I don't think that is the primary advantage Atlassian has over other software companies.

In my opinion it has everything to do with the market. They build products for a market which likes good tools, has no problem putting them into their workflow, and telling all their peers about how awesome their tools are.

Contrast that to Zendesk which is largely a customer service tool. In a large company, customer service is largely run business majors who are more concerned with risk of process changes, than they are with (potential) cost savings from better software.

With space you end up buying so much stuff you may end up not really using, or buy low quality stuff just to fill the space.

In my case, the driver took the correct route, but his GPS was way off, not locking in properly. Sent an email and was refunded the next day for the difference in actual vs reported route.

In terms of gaming performance, when you go from mid range machine to high end machine, you are often spending 2-4 times as much without 2-4 times the performance. You hit diminishing returns big time.

I go with generally mid range components with my gaming machine. Even then, I upgrade every 3 generations for CPU and every other generation for video card. CPU performance doesn't impact gaming as much as it used to.

This gives me reasonable performance in most games around high to ultra on a 1920x1080 monitor.

Its very important to take the total cost of ownership into account and not just the cost of a mortgage.

While you can theoretically sell your house later. Money put in into maintenance, taxes, association fees, may not ever pay off.

Your analogy doesn't hold up very well. There are rentals that are restricted much more than your average apartment, they are called hotel rooms.

There are different options available, because there is demand for it.

The same applies to ISP service. In general residential service is over subscribed. This allows the company to discount the service in return for restrictions on how it can be used.

There are also dedicated bandwidth options, which are much more expensive. But you can use it pretty much however you want.

I think skeptical is a more apt description, in part due to the claims made by the company.

Only with the version included in the Debian repositories.

I think there may be some truth to this. With a company as large as Google, it may no longer be as beneficial to give everyone 20% time. Instead it's better to take the best engineers (and probably most innovative) and give them 100% time in Google X.

They should be ok if they reverse the charges before the transaction is completely processed.

In the short term yes, but these trends are not limited to one region or country, they are global. Its likely that we will see most developed countries adopt some from of basic income sometime in the future, at which point there wont really be anywhere reasonable to go to escape it.

It appears the development is being done by an agency. Overhead, profit and all that...

What he did was disclose classified information. Which itself is illegal. But its a jump to automatically assume that disclosure of classified information is treason.

Now if he turns around and starts helping China with the information he has, then he will be pretty much done for.

Its better for the company and team continuity if this project gets off the ground before the other one finishes. If they wait until the end, they would end up going through a bit of turnover in the downtime between projects.

Just because Amazon is down, doesn't mean the infrastructure is the reason. They did build AWS out of the technology they used to build Amazon, but its unclear if they are using it directly or use an isolated set of services.

Some of the ORM cost can be mitigated by using caching. In most cases this is essential in a production deployment.

Even though the tax code is complex, a large number of people just need to file a 1040EZ and don't get to experience the complexity of the tax system. There is no reason why these filings can't be automated to start while the tax code is simplified to include more people in automated filings.

Tax reform generally means simplified tax code and which does not necessarily result in less revenue.

But there is a huge industry built around servicing the complex tax code, many of whom wont be needed if the tax code is simplified. Just like any other industry disrupted by changing business environment, they will fight to the death to keep their industry alive and necessary.

Previous technology based labor disruptions have been countered largely by economic expansions. At least until recently economic expansion required labor. If a new technology put people out of work, there was another growing area to get work in.

But we have kind of hit a tipping point though. Both in technology getting more efficient at automating even difficult work. As well as economic growth at least domestically is no longer as strong as it has been in the past.