What I quite like about the UBI is that it would raise the bar for bullshit jobs- currently they’re low paid because they are not valuable to society but enough desperate people need the money to persevere with this. I think UBI would make business owners think twice about making the workers do some stupid, pointless tasks or if they insist they would have to pay handsomely for it.
Personally I don’t mind doing some tedious work as long as I’m being paid fairly for it and I’d still do it on top of UBI.
Purely anecdotal but we are in the market for a new car when our current lease runs out.
We were looking at Tesla and the quality is not there and dealerships means we can’t test etc. The valuation is crazy, VW can literally flip the switch and start producing more e-Golfs etc when the demand is there.
That Dr Murray is a spin doctor too. The argument is that its good for the environment. And he says yes but the social problems.
Well it doesn’t change the fact that it is one of the best ways to preserve natural environment, and somehow I think dealing with ageing society, especially with assistance of technology is an easier problem than global environmental disasters such as climate change etc.
He also says it would take a few centuries for humans to disappear. I would like to see the calculations he’s done as they seem wrong.
I consider this a success story similar to an NBA star making it. So if 100k is very successful in terms of computer book revenues, then I’d say money should not be the main motivation to do it, as there’s better, more reliable ways to earn money in the software industry - working for any SP500 company will easily get you the same amount of money in less than a year, more or less guaranteed.
I know it’s not either or situation, just that it proves that money should not be main motivator for writing a book.
IMO a bad idea anyway - as a software dev, even a bad one, you can create more value for more people at the same time. As a plumber you're only fixing one thing for one person at a time so there's a hard limit on how valuable that is.
Not thousands but a few and most of them are measured anyway, like slope with a gyro or battery drain.
No need to over complicate it just measure the amount of regen the more you get the more the car weighs.
As one person in Germany explained to me - there is no corruption at the low level - it is not worth it for the policeman to lose a nice salary and a pension for a few hundred euros bribe. So you will get a speeding ticket everytime and Germany is known for that sort of 'solidity'.
On the higher end, however, the stakes and balances are different - high pay is frowned upon and owners of Aldi supermarkets etc are known for their frugality and driving second hand cars.
So if one wants to make big money - it needs to be under the radar, possibly illegal and bribes for big infra projects are common.
Looking at the rest of the economy, public infrastructure projects like this are the only hope to keep the economy running. Yeah there will be some paper debt on municipal books but the net benefit of the money unlocked from this is much higher. At least from an economic sense. In a perverse way the more these projects costs, the more money is redistributed.
yeah, kayoone response was to the argument “AWS is more expensive but it scales”. In fact it’s not magic and you still have to manage it so worth looking at alternatives such as bare metal, especially at scale.
FWIW, my kids play some Fortnite and Minecraft. They build some elaborate logic stuff with Redstone.
I thought they’d be all over Boost and Mindstorms. Nope.
Lego is just us old guys doing skeumorphism. My kids prefer pure software with no side effects and no need to cleanup afterwards.
Interesting notes but I feel like the db itself has been commoditised and the battle is elsewhere now.
So anyone building a database engine today, will find out that to make it sustainable they also need an ecosystem on top of it, tooling, community, paid support, active devs, consultants (for which they may have no runway)
Finally I find anything that calls itself a database and uses S3 as a backend a bit ridiculous. S3 has eventual consistency so you can’t do the operations that differentiate a database from a file system.
Not sure if off topic but it wasn’t the RSI that put the nail in the coffin for my programming. It was spine injury and I had to have a surgery.
There’s lots of jobs around programming that don’t require as much typing and even when you do, it’s easier to dictate email than code.
Basically you got RSI from coding and generally spending too much time with the keyboard.
Maybe at least consider alternatives where you are not spending lots of screen time again.
Moral of the story - if you are a big multinational company you can literally get away with murder and even increase market even with the most botched marketing campaign selling sugar water
I am still waiting until AI reaches the ultimate in noise cancelling- that meeting could have been an email. AI will automatically send meeting cancellation and most likely meeting notes.
You eat sugar in some form everyday so it’d be pretty hard and pointless to try and ban it. And potentially more harmful too. Used wisely, just like drugs, sugar can be good for you- that’s why our bodies like it.
I would also like to know if this can improve productivity.
Watching me coding is the most boring thing I can think of so I doubt I would actually ever go back to those videos - I guess it’s more of a physiological trick
Actually, I think what would be more useful is the ability to vote directly on all things and delegate your vote on specific topics or in general when you want not every 4 years.
We can have the technology to enable this and it would effectively kill a full time politician as a job.
That think would instead be done by retirees in their spare time.
And if things were not going to work in the right direction, you can vote immediately, any time.
If, on the other hand you don’t care or don’t know enough about the subject, you can delegate your vote and that person can also delegate your and her vote too.
It’s crazy how it creeps-everyone wants to be in AI so suddenly you have project managers with AI in their job title. I bet crisis was just a good excuse to get rid of some of that cruft.
Your argument makes sense but not Dropbox pricing then. Their business pricing costs are per user. If they become more entrenched and valuable the more people use them, then extra users should be free, initially? (And maybe just charge for storage)
I remember considering paying thousands of dollars + travel + SF hotel to watch this last year. There's some silver lining in everyone being locked down - we can now watch all the good content from GitHub, Apple, you name, all virtual, remote.