barelyauser

A car will make 10 MPG and tow thousands of pounds. You can tow two pounds thousand of miles. And consider most of the route is made by very efficient boat, pipeline. It will not get even close to 1 to 10. Closer to 1 to 1.

No, it's just drag. Extended landing gear is also a constantly expenditure but generates no lift.

>>Usually, it just burns nice

Great choice of words to calm the passengers as we lose all our air worthiness.

Yes, and I want all those container ships out of the ocean too because they are ruining beach bathing. /s

Can the AR goggles make other people pretty? That would improve my quality of life.

>>Also, "Gravity is 9.8 m/s^2 on Earth." Not a story a but definitely true and explainable to the average person.

This can only be explained with the aid of a story. Gravity being this thing that results in this falling to the ground and so on.

Isn't this like a huge waste of energy?

My practical experience is that there is no way of separating the two things, friendship and co-worker. And I believe there is more to lose than to gain in this arrangement. When a problem comes up I rather not argue with my friend (sorry, co-worker) about how my position is right and his is wrong.

Great way to ruin a great friendship.

I've been to Africa and seen the real world impacts of the lack of communications. I'm against anything that stands in the way of solving that specific problem. Astronomers come second to that, plain and simple.

The average Joe enriching the elites by voluntary unpaid work. What a time to be alive.

Of course he does. Parent comment means the socioeconomic conditions of the refugee place of origin.

I don't understand why this post is being downvoted. What is the point of more compute if everyone will get locked out of the "wealth pool" because they can no longer produce any value?

That is entirely dependent on one's financial condition.

It really is that simple, but certain people benefit from muddying the water and describing any increase in price as inflation.

Money means nothing. Human time is what matters. Consider that back at their place of origin things did not get done. Economic impact means nothing. If I gave you $100 to watch me do nothing, what value this transaction created? There is virtually nothing to show for at the end but we created $100 of economic impact...

And what does "economic impact" means? A bunch of people burning jet fuel to get there and spend some hours looking at it? Why not working towards helping other people?

>but that's rarely about lack of money

Yes, it is the lack of action. People are selfish. End of story. We have the tech and knowledge to fix it all, but burning a ton of kerosene to travel to the other side of the world for 2 a weeks vacation is more desirable.

Why you place your side projects above your friends?

>And yet unemployment is low and IT jobs are well paid

Naive at best, tone deaf at worst. Unemployment is low? Most jobs barely allow a person to live a decent life. AI will empower few, the rest will find themselves unable to create any value. All the "economic growth" will be the increasing profits and economic inequality.

When cars were created anyone could foresee the demand of people to manufacture them. Tell me, what jobs will AI create?

Hard to compete against the Bluetooth enabled one-time-use pregnancy test.

Because they know what to look for? Designers can't hide stuff out that much.

Isn't TMS coil current high to compensate the distance? The closer to the nerve ending should reduce the necessary current.

What is the practical reason to favor electrical implants over electromagnetic ones? One would conclude that using electromagnetic induction would be a no-brainer when it is very clear the body works against electrical probes (by fighting the implants). Could someone more knowledgeable than myself clarify this.

They are not. Luckily AI will soon replace most of them and they can finally starve or something like that.

Note the fact that I did not mention money. I mentioned wealth. Holding a huge bag of money is useless because as you stated, people can now choose to use another currency and I lose all my money, it becomes worthless. Or people can work for each other, without money.

But what if I own all the productive land? What if I own a corporation that manufactures a product you depend on? This is wealth.

I like making money and exercising power. I like the feeling of getting what I want when I want. To help people (family/charity) you need money, resources and health (being able to). Politics is fundamental at all times, meaning human relations.

My wish is to die without a single penny in the bank. As I get older it gets clear how much time is worth. We have so little time to actually do what we want before we get too old.

If his goal was to amass personal wealth at the expensive of others. But again, it depends on the person. A cab driver that barely makes ends meet can be successful while a multimillionaire isn't. If you wake up and do what you want to do, you are successful.

Success is personal. If your goal is to increase the amount of wealth for everyone then go for it.

With that said, remember the following. While the economy is not zero sum and we can increase the amount of wealth in the world, power is zero sum. Power is finite and very scarce. You can create tremendous wealth and later find out it ended in the hand of a single person. And that person is not willing to share.

You missed the point of the "nobody knows how a pencil is made". It is not about gathering all the knowledge in one place, but how knowing just enough enables us to go much further.