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Other / Politics & Society / Re: Consequences of high minimum wages: Automated ordering kiosks
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on: August 19, 2014, 11:49:02 PM
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people are still resistant to automated services though. retailers have tried this for some time and it's not exactly perfect.
The robots capability is increasing by day. I wonder what would my sons do in the future if most jobs is filled with robots. Homeless. But who will buy their products if most people don't have money? There is certain scale that is still workable. It's way too complicated situation in general... Then as the time passby all jobs will be taken by the bots, the peoples money has been all spent. Next is chaos? I'm not sure if all jobs are ever taken, but basicly those who control sufficient primary resources or ways to recycle them will live very well. Rest will scrape by what they can find. Probably at that point they will be killed due to looming threat or just locked up somewhere... |
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Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: It costs $0.09 cents to send $0.24 cents of Bitcoin? Really?
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on: August 19, 2014, 11:12:36 PM
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Yes its the dumb ass like you dont understand the economic of bitcoin infrastructure. You can send btc with any amount as a fee. But that tx will not be confirmed for a very long time.
I know how Bitcoin works. Im making a point. I am able to send up to $5,000 completely free of charge from one Chase bank account to another persons Chase bank account, instantly. With no miner fees or waiting time either. What a dumbass I am. And now you see another reason why consumers have zero incentive to use Bitcoin. Because dumbasses like you think this is a "dumbass" thing to take issue with. Rather than addressing it as a real issue for future consumer adoption. Which it is. -B- You can send 5.BTC from your coinbase account to mine with no fees. Try to send $0.05 , $5.00 or even $5,000 from your account at chase to any other bank, or convert it from USD to Chinese Yan. You can also send that $0.24 with no tx fee or for that matter $0.005 if you wanted. If the app that you are using doesn't allow you to change it, that is not a problem with the block chain rath with the app you are using. I'm pretty sure I can transfer my 5€ to an other account in Europe for free. The currency conversions are bad still though. |
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Other / Politics & Society / Re: Consequences of high minimum wages: Automated ordering kiosks
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on: August 19, 2014, 11:08:43 PM
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people are still resistant to automated services though. retailers have tried this for some time and it's not exactly perfect.
The robots capability is increasing by day. I wonder what would my sons do in the future if most jobs is filled with robots. Homeless. But who will buy their products if most people don't have money? There is certain scale that is still workable. It's way too complicated situation in general... |
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Other / Politics & Society / Re: Grooming Children for Jihad: The Islamic State
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on: August 09, 2014, 07:32:16 PM
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Interesting, they put this information in the children brain and they will actually kill innocent people, perhaps they are the easiest to brainwash.
Just what you think any religions group has being doing for millenias? They brainwash people just like Christians do, only with bit different message. |
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Other / Politics & Society / Re: Terrorism...
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on: August 02, 2014, 01:15:48 PM
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Man, I love Trotsky...
Terrorism is no good, but armed (and certainly even unarmed) resistance is fairly effective, evident by almost ever US and Russian adventure in the Middle East and Asia. We erroneously conflate resistance with terrorism when there is not always any kind of "terrorism" (a completely abused word -- one who causes terror? Jeez, my daughter frequently commits acts of terrorism!).
Someone shooting a US soldier or contractor is not likely a terrorist, probably just a resistance member (which we now call "enemy combatants," which is generally implied synonymous with "terrorist" without seeming so as text). Shooting civilians is an act of terrorism, and while there are terrorists among enemies of the US government, US contractors (at least) have also committed acts of terror. Somehow, though, we don't have a massive brain attack and suddenly call the US government a terrorist organization just because of that (well, a few people do). Perhaps a double standard. There are both terrorists and resistance fighters in every nation the US government is currently occupying, as well as inside the United States.
(sorry to post something which seems really obvious... not sure that's even a contribution)
I don't see any difficulty in defining terrorism. None at all. Things like suicide bombers walking into restraunts and blowing innocent people up. Also things like bomb strikes, smart missiles, secret prisons and so on. |
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Other / Politics & Society / Re: Terrorism...
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on: August 01, 2014, 10:46:48 AM
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I think USA is getting what it wants by drone terror. There will be lot of nice counter attacks in future. So I think it works to strengthen the police state people choose there.
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Other / Politics & Society / Re: Arbitration court orders Russia to pay $50bn in Yukos case - convenient timing?
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on: July 29, 2014, 11:24:02 AM
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$65 billion in court costs? that seems absurd even to an American. But even that soon will not be a problem, why?
Oil will soon be at $200+ a barrel.... Because Libya is not shipping oil and will not be for some time - years, or Iraq, or Syria. Sudan is again spiraling into civil war. Boko Haram will take down production in Niger. But when ISIS turns on KSA, the middle east taps will all but be closed - save for Iran which will be shipping to China, as will Venezuela and Russia. The US will not Frack itself out of this mess it created let alone the EU.
65 billion? Just how many millions of man hours they have spend there? What if all that time could have been used to something productive? |
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Other / Politics & Society / Re: Why are the populations of modern Japan and South Korea so homogenous?
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on: July 20, 2014, 09:15:48 AM
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Their geopolitical location. Nearest neighbours are China, Russia and North Korea. Koreans are ethnically same race. China has room for internal movement as does Russia. So it's really comes down to fact that there isn't any countries from immigration to come from.
That is one reason I can see. Europe has Mediterrean Sea and is one landmass which is quite narrow compared. And USA has long border with Mexico.
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