Maybe the Amazon specials. You can write 2TB but you're never gonna get it back :D

Ethernet drops may not add value to some people, but they are unlike to detract value from anyone. Same for garage or gutters. Pools come with significant maintenance, increased insurance and utility costs. They quite literally can bring down the value of a home.

It's a poorly conveyed study at best. From the article I would imagine the actual results are that the rate of people quitting drops off sharply after 90 days.

It is, but correlation is not causation. All other things being equal, the first 90 days is the hardest to learn a new job and become comfortable with it. That's the point of the article. But, when companies manipulate the first 90 days, they're manipulating the outcome. Sure, people are motivated to stay 90 days to get that sign on bonus, but if your pay literally drops after you learn the job, and Wendy's is offering another sign on bonus, it's not that big of a shift to go from McDonald's to Wendy's for another bonus.

Companies are going to keep having high turnover if they treat new employees better (including paying them better with bonuses) than their experienced people that can do the job in their sleep.

YES! Seriously, you dangle a bonus at the end of 90 days that effectively results in a 50% pay raise, sure I'll stick around. Once that's gone, and you don't give me that recurring 50% pay raise, what's the incentive for me to stick around? Off to the next company offering me a 90 day bonus. This is just dumb!

I'm glad I'm not the only one that saw this.

"which they define as a year or more"

Guess what, I did a study, found out that my employees that stayed on 60 days were more likely to stay on for 61 days than the ones that didn't stay on 60 days.

So now you bribe them to stay 90 days, but after that carrot is gone why should they stick around for 90 more days at effectively less pay, since that bonus is gone?

And how does that happen? It's completely decentralized. There's nobody in control, just "the network". Do we take down the internet? I repeat the question, as again it's decentralized by design and semi-decentralized in practice.

Do we ban the network traffic? Do we ban the buying and selling of crypto, like we banned the buying and selling of drugs?

It's a pandora's box. It's not going away.

Call on every home enthusiast to start printing. Sure, some of their equipment won't be up to standards and won't print usable equipment, but if it's something that can be printed and easily tested, it's better than nothing. This is war, and if I'm a patient, I'd rather take an untested but "probably will get the job done" piece of equipment than be left to die because of a fear of a lawsuit.

What will it take to ramp up traditional production? I know we want to say "we can't rely on random volunteers" - but we rely on them for every single natural disaster, and that's what this is! Flooding doesn't require the national guard to rescue everyone. Rednecks in jacked up mud trucks and bass boats have saved countless lives.

The CPAP idea is cool. Would it just be a software update? That's basically what they are anyway, right?

This isn't even on the same order of magnitude as the days saved. Do people only print things on Fridays? Or is this tied to the fewer meetings?

NY: Trying to save the planet (albeit maybe a little too agressively?)
TN: F*** THE PLANET! And how dare you even consider trying to do anything to protect it.

How about freedom to do what you want (the American way), but we tax single use plastic bags at a nickel a piece. Aldi charges 10 cents for an big heavy paper bag and like a quarter for those heavy reusable plastic bags and most consumers make the decision to re-use their own bags or stock boxes from the shelves. I wish every other grocery store would take a hint about the quarter deposit. Amazing what people will do to get their quarter back, but you still have the freedom to walk away from it if you want.

Yes! I'd prefer to be able to choose my peers though, so anonymous isn't really an issue. Part of what I loved about crashplan was that I could backup my parents computer, my laptop, and my office computer to my server. If something happened, I don't need to wait hours, days, weeks, etc for the backup to download. I could simply go to the server which i had physical access to, extract the backup files to an external hard drive and re-attach them to the destination machine.

Completely agree. I use it for peer to peer backup. I have plenty of access to computers in remote locations. I'd even buy a license for the software for a reasonable cost to continue this model. Anyone have any recommendations for good easy to use peer to peer backup with client side encryption? First person to recommend an rsync script gets smacked in the face with a large trout.

It's not that impressive. I launched them when I was a kid. The 2 stage models were a lot more prone to problems though, so I mostly just played with the smaller C engines which were more common and cheaper.

Those poor mothers. . . .

The Motorola Atrix. I had it.
It failed because
1) The "full desktop and office suite" was actually just a full version of Firefox on android. Everything else was just fullscreen apps. The 'office suite' was just google docs in firefox, which was less than ideal over a mobile connection, and offline docs didn't exist at the time.
2) The laptop doc was $300. Phones were still not that powerful yet at the time, and for that price I could buy a real laptop. I bought mine when they had a fire sale at $50.
3) The Atrix never got updated past 2.2, and had an encrypted bootloader. With a dual core processor and 1GB RAM at the time it wasn't bad, but it needed the software updates and I couldn't even install CyanogenMod on it.

Where it was great though,
1) The dock provided a battery, keyboard, mouse, and screen. No processing capabilities. Nothing to really grow out of date, if it had been more universal to the next line of phones.
2) When you switched between doc and laptop mode, your open browsers and apps could either stay in that mode or be accessed to launch in the new mode.
3) ALL Android apps could be launched full screen on the laptop. I used this to watch netflix a fair amount.
4) No data sync!

Remembering the good parts, I have funded the superbook project on kickstarter (over). http://www.sentio.com/
With the open design not bound to a specific hardware, and the improvements in phone hardware over the years, I can't wait to get this thing!

Absolutely agree, this is why that proposal was so incredibly stupid. It's UBI only made up the difference between your salary and the proposed UBI, meaning if you earned less than the UBI, you got nothing. If you earned just a little more, then you got very little, and might as well give up your job to earn less. I can't find anything stating the salary I stated at $75,000, but I recall at one point reading one proposal that said that. I may have gotten that figure from a friend looking at a proposal with 2 adults and 2 kids vs his single salary home, where as a well paid engineer he still might as well stay home and play games rather than work. I absolutely agree that UBI would only work if many people would still see benefit to doing additional work. Unfortunately automation isn't to that point yet, so we still need people to do the boring work.

I really enjoyed reading Manna, but it did just cover one extreme vs another, and at no point covered how a transition period might occur under the alternative, utopian view.