Picture of the Day: Automated Construction Equipment in Sejong
Remotely controlled drones and excavators demonstrate work during a ceremony to start projects to automatize construction equipment in Sejong, central South Korea, on Nov. 1, 2021. (Yonhap)
FA-50 fighter jets are also being turned into pilotless fighter jets.
No need to spend millions and dozens of years training fighter jet pilots.
How many construction people are currently out of work in Korea?
Setnaffa… the answer is… probably the right amount.
Automation of a bunch of stuff (some unexpected) is coming no matter how many people it puts out of work.
This is not a problem to solve. It is a situation to manage… personally, if not as a society.
Smashing mechanized looms won’t work this time either.
<i>”FA-50 fighter jets are also being turned into pilotless fighter jets.
No need to spend millions and dozens of years training fighter jet pilots.”</i>
If they are like the F16 and A10 “pilotless jets” they actually have fighter pilots operating them (remotely). It does take that level of training AI is not that advanced.
CH, you sure know how to take the fun out of a Luddite revival.
Well you got my attention.
For 50 guineas, I might me convinced to smash some automated construction equipment.
How much is that in piastras or ducats?
Well, it depends on the exchange rate…
An English guinea was 21 shillings or 260 pence (each penny was supposed to be worth 1/240th of a pound of silver, hence the term “Pound Sterling”).
A Venetian Ducat was nominally worth 240 pence. However, the Italians had considerable ebb and flow in currency rates, so you might almost be better off taking it all in SetnaffaCoin. Well, except that current gold rates are probably higher than 1632.
50 Guineas is then worth 12,600 English pence and potentially 52 5 Venetian Ducats (on a good day).
The piastre did not have a fixed exchange rate, so it might be anywhere between 250 and 500, depending on how drunk the person exchanging it might be–and how pure the metal was. They had more of an issue with counterfitting than the English did.