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  1. Animals on Volvo's Driverless Cars 'Confused' by Kangaroos (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    If they can't detect kangaroo, how the heck do they detect rabbits and birds or anything smaller? Or do animals lives only count when they might damage the precious humans?

  2. Re:Ride the Hypocrisy Train: Woot Woot on Google Slapped With $2.7 Billion By EU For Skewing Searches (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    All you've proven is that Trump is evil for other reasons than for number 2). Besides, it's not like he has done anything like 2) yet so people may also consider him evil for by interpreting that he is merely lying to get votes, while he actually has no plan of following through.

  3. Re:I don't read verge or engadget, and this is why on The New iPad Pro Review (twitter.com) · · Score: 1

    Another Apple fanboi dismisses negative review of the product they love as 'ranting'. I guess this is why there are only good reviews of Apple products, because no negative review could be a real review right?

  4. Re:We're doomed... on Amazon Robots Poised To Revamp How Whole Foods Runs Warehouses (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    That's pretty much most jobs. Especially most low-skilled jobs. Very few will be able to train for a high skilled job.

  5. Re:Much like the San Jose Airport on Amazon Robots Poised To Revamp How Whole Foods Runs Warehouses (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I commonly choose places to shop with neat and stocked shelves over empty and messy ones. It makes a big difference.

  6. "Oh, were they private?"

  7. Re:Something good is happening here on The High-Tech Jobs That Created India's Gilded Generation Are Disappearing (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    If there were true global competition happening then I would be all for it. If an Indian CEO could make $100K a year and do the same job as an American CEO making $10M a year then let's go for it. The entire economy balances out with cheaper products, a more level playing field for everyone, and possibly more buying power per person. The problem is, it never seems to be equal, does it?

  8. You point out a big difference between companies in the days of buggy whips and companies of today. Most companies of old would strive to do more X for the same price because their economies were growing rapidly. Fast-forward to today, and most companies choose to do the same amount of X for a cheaper price, which is very bad for the American worker.

  9. Re: Next in the news... on 90 Cities Install A Covert Technology That Listens For Gunshots (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    I thought there was an app that did that.

  10. Re:'Murican Health Care on The People GoFundMe Leaves Behind (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    Unlike the US?

  11. Re:50% import tax on Tesla Is 'In Talks' To Build a Factory In China (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Have they announced the price of the Model 3? I know it is projected to cost $30K.

    And I didn't say you needed to make a million dollars, I said you need to be taking a salary from a million dollar company. A lot of people buy cars they can't really afford, which I'm sure is the case with many Tesla owners.

  12. Re:'Murican Health Care on The People GoFundMe Leaves Behind (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes a lot of that happens. Yet in exchange, a lot of people don't have to go bankrupt or die because they get serious medical conditions. It's a good tradeoff.

  13. Re:'Murican Health Care on The People GoFundMe Leaves Behind (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    You know what, most first world countries have all this stuff figured out already. Just do what they do.

  14. Re:Sigh on The People GoFundMe Leaves Behind (theoutline.com) · · Score: 2

    There is a wide gap between expecting something for free and expecting your country to give you a fair shot.

  15. Disgusting on The People GoFundMe Leaves Behind (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    The fact that people live in a country where people have to go to a website to have their health care needs met without revolting, is pretty disgusting.

  16. Re:50% import tax on Tesla Is 'In Talks' To Build a Factory In China (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Because Teslas looks like a spanish bread name.

  17. Re:Time for a $20 minimum wage. on McDonald's Hits All-Time High As Wall Street Cheers Replacement of Cashiers With Kiosks (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Americans have to start realizing when capitalism fails to work for them.

  18. Yes so lets motivate fifty thousand fast food workers to take other low skill restaurant jobs. Now those jobs become the minimum wage jobs that no one wants to do, if you are lucky to get one of them because there are now more people after the same jobs and the market is saturated.

  19. Re:50% import tax on Tesla Is 'In Talks' To Build a Factory In China (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    But this is bringing jobs back! Once all those Telsa's are made, everyone will want one so bad, they will be motivated to nnovate million dollar companies so they can afford an $80K vehicle. That's how some people say it works, so who am I to argue.

  20. Re: A good first step on Trump Plans To Dismantle Obama-Era 'Startup Visa' (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I love how people say 'just start a company ' like it's the easiest thing in the world, and has no barriers to entry.

  21. Re:been there, done that . . . on McDonald's Hits All-Time High As Wall Street Cheers Replacement of Cashiers With Kiosks (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I have a family of 4 and I am the only one that ever takes their food as it comes. Sometimes I choose to go inside rather than use the drive through because it is so much easier to explain the customizations to a face rather than a speaker (being able to make hand gestures helps). I do not look forward to trying to order with these things.

  22. Re:been there, done that . . . on McDonald's Hits All-Time High As Wall Street Cheers Replacement of Cashiers With Kiosks (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    For me it depends what I am buying. If I have a few things with clear bar codes, I go to the machine. but if I have things to weigh or a lot of things, I go to the human. Too much change of it screwing up somewhere and having to wait for 10 minutes for someone to clear it out.

  23. Re:been there, done that . . . on McDonald's Hits All-Time High As Wall Street Cheers Replacement of Cashiers With Kiosks (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, employees should accept their fate in life and be complacent until the next year when they are shit-canned for the same reason.

  24. Re:been there, done that . . . on McDonald's Hits All-Time High As Wall Street Cheers Replacement of Cashiers With Kiosks (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Usually I think that is more due to lack of training the employee than anything else. I've seen employees look around to the people around them and interrupt them to find out where the 'add onions' button is. This means they have not been trained correctly to do their job, if they are talking to customers and don't know where all the buttons are. They shouldn't have to learn as they go. Now they are interrupting the flow of work happening around them. Give them a simulator to practice with for a couple hours with some scenarios, then put them at the cashier.

  25. Re:See what happens when strikes for $15/hour happ on McDonald's Hits All-Time High As Wall Street Cheers Replacement of Cashiers With Kiosks (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    BE COMPLACENT!