You can measure the amount of ability to choose and answer your own questions though. Also, this all very idealistic nonsense- until 300 years ago, we lived basically in tribal community, and people yearn for that, no matter how futuristic they dress up.
Alot also loose the land they had, to the banks over time and become glorified landscape facility managers for the bank or for example a energy company.
The guy in that "My-little-farm"-book you've read, might never have smiled so happy, and it might never have been his "little-farm". I know a lot of people who wont accept this though. You got to be rich, living the good life out there- else, where to daydream-escape towards from a day in the city.
Assuming TTIP fails, how will the next contract to attack democracy be called?
QTIP?
UTIP?
COUP?
GRACE?
At least put some effort into naming.
To have your rights grind away so slowly and being coerced like a mule to even thread that mill that maims you..
Im for a law that forbids to discuss content-similar contracts that have been downvoted for at least 8 years.
the biggest virtue of a c-programmer is temporary forgetfulness.
forget for the moment, that all of the old-guard-tech foundations is basically a castle made of glued together jello filled rubber ducky's.
forget all the tricks needed to jump through that final hoop in assembly.
forget even those hopeful endeavors of the languagewiser that stood up, and then came back because performance is a bitch and there use cases to edgy.
forget all those library's that overpRomised, undereallocated and disspointered.
forget all the futile attempts to steer this boat, carried on the hands of the likes of you, towards some sail-able waters.
blissful unawareness settles in, while every "good c-programmer" near you starts to spit fire as soon as management declares a new megalomaniac project in C worthy the effort and thus starting.
forget that strange feeling of elated Shame of being the best to repair the most broken car in town.
Then, and only then, you will be a "good" C-Programmer, one that knows all the tricks of trade, while not getting wiser.
The real trouble is the inability of chips to identify what haskell could completely avoid, doing the same algorithm for the same input repeatedly.
Hashing over input skip and save output, that would be a optimization.
Also Tools that give Programmers a DataOrientated-VisualFeedback of the OO-Cluttercosts they impart on there work.
A flag that guarantees side effect freedom to a set of operations and suboperations, for the processor that would be great.
Why not scrap the USAF instead?
It all breaks down into mission support and drones in the long run? So why not scrap the organization that warps the strategic decisions ? Give everything ground mission related to the army, break everything that is strategic, as in supply, and the useless ICBMs of the sky to the new drone Department.
The economy of disrupting ruptured by it shear forces - aka by itself? AIs crawling over the knowledge base?
Good thing they cant publish papers with meaningful recombined results yet.
Or can they.
The irony is that the church of singularity is not relevant to the process - its like declaring evolution some godlike principle or cataclysmic event- while it just is a glider gun going forth, not knowing, not wanting to know.
Still interesting times.
I guess in the end, the science journals just where roadblocks in Alphabets way. So they have to go- so they will die, the usual way- with there resource supply systems stripped from them by a not "attackable" third party, condemned by those who benefit, as a barbaric, lawless act.
If they would have foresight, they would release all the papers they have into the public domain, and have there true opponents wrestle with the GPL and thus the allmende that produced the wealth.
Instead they are having a nap at the ste ering wheel moment.
In the end it will help mankind.
So can we drop the charade and get on with it?
Virus claims german nuclear power plant run down by underfunded operators.
"Cant spread, if you are all on old breaking down hardware on outdated systems that nobody bothers to update." says virus.
Nobody?
Could you train a neural network to do that?
Or should i try classic text parsing, looking for question answer queues?
I'm quite willing to put in some work, if its a one time effort.
I have my very own opinion on people who refuse to perceive the reality of the human mind.
If one has trapped himself in such a bubble, he/she is unfit to really communicate with other human beings, lead endeavor of complex composed groups and manage endeavors going into crisis situations.
Please, if you ever form a team, state your perception of the species ahead of time, so people know what they are in for.
The negative is a building block of reality, it has to be seen, it has to be handled, worked with, contained and used. One should not work as director if one is unable to communicate and take the company of for example bipolar people. Please don't take this as a insult.
I just think your way of not viewing the world is dangerous and should be made obvious via disclaimer. Which in a way you have made with this post, so please do this in future conversations.
The problem is that fields don't advance in a continuous process, but its in bursts of stop and go. This state with a lack of progress and entrenched thought schools is prelude to another fracking of the unknown. Somebody in all this science looks on the "outliers" and will connect the dots.
And the truth is, that not the science community grants the ultimate reward- but society and economics, via application.
You can assemble a thousand followers, claiming that electrons are little golden dwarfs, running through the metal if fed with potatoes, but the world wants chips without chips, so what hinders science? Globalization, border-lessness, in a ironic twist, cause where can that industrial revolution flourish and reward overcome all prejudices?
When the potato religion/ideology is the same everywhere, there is noway to run too for the first battery maker.
One of the charlatans is not one. Better to feed a hundred of them, for the one to prevail.
Realpolitik is gone, when everyone got a nuke.
Even sociopaths have survival instincts - that's why no world war III so far. Stalin, Mao, Hitler, and there democratic domesticated Versions (who never get to the big conquests, cause so many other snakes in that damned parliament want to be king instead of the king).
Whats really interesting is the planning horizon a government has when dealing with one another. A government with a low hanging planning horizon is due to be gambled again and again by governments with long term planning horizons.
Also unintended consequences, the Saudi government might end up in exile or with the heads on spikes, put there by the very own radical movement they inspired.