You're pretty much exactly describing HAM radio. Well you need to pass a test to transmit, but still...
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Try telling that to people who want them to do more. No one wants to download and install your desktop app - it's too much work and people are too concerned about security. Mobile app stores are much better at minimizing that friction which is why native applications are so popular on that platform... but there's still friction.
The web is awesome because it's so easily accessible. And people want to do sophisticated things easily - they don't want to mess with downloading and installing stuff.
The fact that the web started off a certain way and browsers are called "browsers" has literally zero impact on what people demand from their technology. What they want now is for their browsers to solve problems. So that's what people make.
It was a weirdly forcing move which reminded everyone how much power Google wields in this kind of user/company relationship. People are probably generally okay with how that works, but only if they aren't made painfully aware of it (kind of like DRM - just look at Steam for an example of that).
A static graph with a sane layout is what I'm after - anyone know of an efficient way to calculate the x and y positions ahead of rendering?
Thanks Obi Wan, you're my only hope.
A few ideas:
* Those spots are the furthest possible distance from the equator (in angular terms), so they should be the most expensive places to put something in orbit (either you launch from a northerly/southerly latitude or spend a lot of fuel on maneuvering into that orbit either way that's expensive)
* Maybe Earth's magnetic field interferes with electronics (less protection from the sun's radiation)
* No one really lives there so there's fewer reasons to spend a lot of money putting something in orbit
* Some kind of international agreement/rules
Maybe someone more knowledgeable could weigh in!
It just doesn't really make sense to worry about this kind of stuff from a practical point of view. Sure, maybe it'll be a pain for historians and conservationists. But for everyone else, we'll just be constantly buying new computers anyways, right?
What bothers me is that someone else would buy them, when they're available for free on the internet.
However, there is no simultaneous multiplayer. You won't see other players running around your world.
Tons of games have super tight "gameplay loops". Super meat boy - try, die, repeat right away until you win. Over and over and over again. Every level is just a variation of something before it.
I don't think people dislike repetition at all. People repeat stuff all the time and like it. So there must be something else going on.
Great job!
1: https://facebook.github.io/react/docs/events.html
2: https://facebook.github.io/react/docs/component-specs.html
Who knows how pervasive that kind of system will become. Will it apply to other industries/mediums? Could Reddit or Hacker News find a way to pay individuals for well regarded content? There are some possibilities here.
But I wonder if that kind of system can really support that many people. Most of the content created sucks, right? Then only a really small number would actually be successful. Maybe you'd have to incentivize sorting through content to find the good stuff a la Steam Greenlight (and find a way to pay users for their work).
Anyways, I'm sure people will find something to do. Even if it's just being paid a basic income for nothing in return. I think peoples' standards of living have been improved by technology (nukes and what not notwithstanding). Why expect that trend to stop now? It's just that, from our relatively medieval point of view, it's hard to imagine what that world will look like so we're naturally scared of it. That's also not to suggest that there won't be serious growing pains while we all collectively try to figure this new world out.
$30k in 1995 is around $45k now adjusted for inflation.
One important factor to remember is that the cost of education has risen a lot (even in real terms) since the 90's. A student graduating today is way more likely to carry a substantial student debt so that money just doesn't go as far as it used to once you factor in wealth.
http://www.economist.com/news/special-report/21621156-first-...
It's hard to see what people will actually do for work after the effects of this new revolution are fully propagated, but I mainly think that's a failure of imagination. The other revolutions were not too different in terms of taking something which a huge amount of people were doing and what society was focused on producing people to do and making it trivial (or at least to involve much fewer people). The overall impact of the industrial and agricultural revolutions were to ultimately create more jobs even if it was a wild ride while things were rapidly changing.
This revolution is different - now mechanical horsepower can be applied to tasks previously only possible through human minds which is quite different from machines or farming - but how different is it? It would take some really visionary people to figure out what the ultimate impacts of all of this are really going to be - and to try to imagine what people are going to do for a living or what society will look like on the other side.
My personal view is that AI is a pretty important component of this. I think, in principle, it's possible. But can it actually be done? That would be a pretty insane change and it's super hard to image what that will be like. But if AI just isn't possible or doesn't come around for a really long time, I don't think this revolution will be too different from others. The more "manual labor" type thinking tasks (grading essays, evaluating legal reports, collecting and searching through information, etc) will be replaced by more and more sophisticated machines. What about creative tasks? That's the final frontier as far as I'm concerned.
Well. It'll almost certainly be really interesting.
One idea I've had (I think we all have a lot of crackpot ideas) for what people who aren't suitable for highly skilled tasks are going to do revolves around social media and entertainment. What if a site like Reddit or Hacker News paid its users? I guess that's ridiculous, I'm not sure how the economics would work out - our contributions here would have to become more valuable. But if fully integrated into our minds (aided by computers) maybe they would be? I've seen people tipped in bitcoins on Reddit before so maybe it's possible. Just a crazy idea.
The problems arise when it doesn't automatically do what you want it to do and you don't have a good way of fixing it yourself. I'm not in a position to understand init systems so I will be in this camp if there's ever any problem with any init system. What matters to me, as the end user, is how likely it is to work automatically.
If systemd 'just works', then what's the problem? If systemd is broken... well, that's a problem, isn't it. But from what I've seen a lot (though not all, of course) of the arguments against it are highly political/philosophical and aren't based on whether it's actually working or not.
noun: recession; plural noun: recessions
1. a period of temporary economic decline during which trade and industrial activity are reduced, generally identified by a fall in GDP in two successive quarters.
So technically, the recession is over. There's not much room for interpretation there unless you choose a different definition of "recession".
All of the bad stuff you listed are symptoms of an empire in decline as well as a massive change in how the economy works. Industrialization changed the world and so will computers and information related technology. We're right in the thick of things. We don't know how things will turn out in the long term - that's for historians 200 years from now to figure out.
It looks like this period of drastic change will be a mixed bag. People being put out of work by automation puts pressure on the labor market. Educational systems set up in a bygone era are failing to adapt. People are having fewer children and living longer which puts stress on everything from social security to labor markets.
It will probably just take a while for society to sort all of this out. And it may or may not suck in the meantime. I think most people reading this will be just fine and probably live really nice lives. Also it'd be nice if the USA and China could avoid a war/proxy wars while trying to figure out the new world order.
I'd like to have zooming for my graphs. Any ideas about adding that? If I can manage it/get to it on my own I'll let you guys know.
I say "better late than never".
A quick look at the active campaigns page is almost completely shirts, but there is this: [1] which is more like something you'd see on kickstarter. That makes sense, though. No need to reinvent the wheel. The shirts/stickers idea fits really well with the kind of viral/inside joke humor which thrives on a place like reddit.
[1] https://redditmade.com/campaign/magic-bus-headphone-1-snoo-e...
I've been enjoying [1] quite a bit so far. It's given me a few problems but it seems decently stable. [2] shows some promise, but needs some love - anyone know of any alternatives? Looks like the maintainer hasn't had time to give the project much attention lately.