You misunderstand. They want to automate the office jobs and indoor jobs. The crops will be picked by hand.

Isn’t this basically what they did in The Dark Knight? You know, when Morgan Freeman was so horrified by the implications that he made the whole room self destruct afterward?

I use a little mini PC with a DAS connected via USB. So you don’t need to go full server to expand the storage.

It sounds like Hollywood tech lingo. Like when you’re watching a movie or a TV show and the designated techy character starts just saying computer words that make no actual sense in the real world, but I guess in CSI: Idiottown the hard drives have severe overheating issues.

That’s the neat part: Convicted felons ARE excluded from most public service jobs like being a teacher or a mayor. It was widely believed that this included the presidency until the Supreme Court decided it somehow didn’t.

It’s been a while since I’ve seen it, and I forgot quite how much an asshole Tritter really was. I think Tritter is sort of sympathetic in that he’s right: House is an addict, breaking the law to feed his addiction, and he probably shouldn’t be practicing medicine. It works on TV but in real life, would you really want the doctor who spends his whole time high and doesn’t care at all about you except as a puzzle? But I forgot that the whole thing started over him feeling personally insulted, and I forgot exactly how much he sucked as a person.

The only point I disagree with you on is that I don’t think it was done with intention. That is, getting people into the suburbs wasn’t an intentional conspiracy. I’d argue that if there is intention, it came after people started settling into the suburbs.

They used to be more vibrant, with libraries that have since been defunded, and sidewalks that don’t get built or maintained anymore, and a greater selection of local businesses that have since been driven out by Walmart and chain restaurants.

I genuinely can’t tell which of the two you’re talking about. This describes them both pretty well. I give the edge to House for being slightly more sympathetic.

Stop stop, I’m already sold, you don’t have to keep making it sound better.

I suspect that in some cases it would even be cheaper for the businesses, having to run less plumbing and all. Bathrooms like that are a win for everyone.

I think that was the case for a little bit, but I don’t think it is right now. There have been lots of layoffs, and lots of things like layoffs masquerading as RTO mandates. There’s a ton of tech workers out there looking, and it’s taking longer than ever for them to find jobs.

I don’t know the full history of corporate shenanigans, but it’s my understanding that the beginning of it all was to help form businesses that no individual could afford to start. No single person should reasonably have the funds to build a factory with all of the expensive equipment and parts needed to make cell phones. So you get people together who think cell phones are a good idea, they all pitch in, and now you can afford to build it and they get to share in the profits when it succeeds.

I like the employee-owned idea, but it seems like it would be hard to get off the ground in industries that require huge upfront investments. Imagine you want to build a grocery store, but the land and the building and the initial stock all takes money so you have to ask the cashier for $10,000 up front before you can actually build the thing and later start paying them. I legitimately don’t know, are there proposed ways to build these businesses but make them employee-owned?

I always got hung up on that too. It seems to me that the ideal state would be you invest in a company, they make a profit, you get a share of that profit. You can reinvest that in other places, helping more people start their businesses, helping more people find employment and get things done. It’s like economic democracy in action, where people get to decide what businesses are needed through investment. No person on Earth should have the funds to just build a chip fabrication plant, as an example, so crowd sourcing the funding like this makes perfect sense to me.

Where it falls down is in short term greed. I don’t think that the system was intended or can reasonably sustain all the high-speed trading trying to maximize returns not by helping the company succeed but by leeching off of the investment of others. What should have been a way for people to help build things has become a way for a whole industry to extract more money out of the world.

I think about this sometimes but the challenges for direct democracy are very hard to overcome. To vote right now, you go to a place and someone verifies your identity and then you vote on a machine that should theoretically have not just your vote but some form of backup to ensure your vote is counted.

Obviously this would get really obnoxious if you were voting constantly. So something like change.org maybe where people can propose things and others can vote on them. But now how do we handle identity verification, and ensuring only one vote per person? On something connected to the Internet, how do we verify security? This needs to be even more secure than a bank, as every hacker and government in the world will want to sway the results.

We could maybe distribute something like a USB key to cryptographically ensure everyone’s identity, but then you will need to handle people losing theirs, or theft, and it wouldn’t work great with cell phones. There’s other identity solutions like scanning documents or facial ID but they have their own security issues and also are a nightmare for privacy.

I dunno. There’s probably a solution out there that might work, but it would take a lot of work to make it trustworthy and that work would largely be overseen by people the system is meant to replace so they aren’t exactly incentivized to get it right.

As a nerd, I don’t expect my parental control settings to work forever. They’re more there to prevent childish naivete from getting them into trouble, they probably won’t stop dedicated teen horniness. And I won’t even be mad, figuring out how to get around them requires learning more about how technology works.

You are correct that a reboot will trigger a full rescan. I’m always on the lookout for better sync. I just don’t think it’s out there right now for easy bidirectional sync.

Basically, if you want to set and forget, Syncthing is the best option. If you want more control, you’ll need to look into setting up rsync scripts or similar, which will at least better let you control how often to sync.

I mean, define employee. I’m sure someone with a Chief title was the one who made the decision. Everyone else gets to do it or find another job.

I like async but dislike await. I spend entirely too much time on everything I build trying to maximize how much I can do in parallel because I find it tremendously satisfying.

Honestly, that’s why it might actually be a good idea. We could use someone figuring out where the best places to cut bureaucracy and get things running better are.

That person just absolutely shouldn’t be a delusional manchild or a “cut everything” style conservative.

You’re saying that the people who say the free market is always right… aren’t even listening to the free market when it isn’t what they want to hear? Truly shocking.