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  1. Re:Straw man argument on Your Boss Is Not More Stressed Out Than You, Science Says (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem with capitalism is that it should pay people with the hardest jobs more. But it doesn't, it pays people who are the highest up the latter. This never really did make sense to me. While a person up the ladder may have a more difficult job, by this article my suspicions are true and it is not necessarily the case. I also suspect things really get easier as you move up. I mean I guess my VP has to meet potential customers for dinner and discuss business, or maybe a round of golf, but that's not really working. That is leisure even if you are talking about work.

  2. Re:Let's see. . . . on Your Boss Is Not More Stressed Out Than You, Science Says (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    You work for the same company I do!

  3. Re:Really? on Your Boss Is Not More Stressed Out Than You, Science Says (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    You pick out an example where people obviously had it harder. On the other hand, if we had just stayed with farming communities we would have had it much easier.

  4. Re:Welcome entrepreneurs on Your Boss Is Not More Stressed Out Than You, Science Says (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    The thing is, if a person is technical it doesn't really make sense to take a manager job. Being a manager is an entirely different skillset. Some people who are technical also have the skills to be a manager but it is not necessarily a natural fit. Same goes for starting a company. You need all kinds of different skills for that. If a person wants to be a manager, they should just skip technical training and get an MBA already.

  5. I also suspect being a CEO is worth nowhere near 800x the amount I make.

  6. Re:Pandora's box on Social Media Giants Sued For Helping ISIS (torontosun.com) · · Score: 1

    How would you prevent them from simply turning around an opening another account the next day?

  7. Pandora's box on Social Media Giants Sued For Helping ISIS (torontosun.com) · · Score: 1

    Social media is a bad idea for humanity in the first place. Since it's too late to close that Pandora's box, we really have to take what comes of it. You make a gun, some people will use it to kill. You make a giant communication platform, some terrorists will use it. It is up to people whether they want these things to be allowed in their society or not. Once we are allowed them there is little that can be done about the ramifications.

  8. Why don't you tell us how you really feel?

  9. P Sherman, 42 Wallaby Way, Sydney!

  10. Yes because I should be prevented from going to a website I know and installing an APK from it because someone else goes to some Russian site and installs an app in Chinese and gets malware.

  11. Who is to say the UAE should get this water? Are they making efficient use of it or will it be squandered growing luscious gardens in all those luxurious buildings they have? I didn't think the war over water resources would begin so soon.

  12. Re:Not really news on April Jobs Report: 211,000 Jobs Added, Unemployment At 4.4 Percent (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Yes low employment rate is good. It means workers are in demand and salaries and wages should be going up. I look forward to that part.

  13. It doesn't take a comp sci to understand that you don't go on alternative app stores and start installing knockoff apps where most of the summary is in Russian.

  14. The market ALWAYS gives consumers what they want! You just have to accept what they sell.

  15. Re:Wait for the next update on Ask Slashdot: What Is the 'Special Appeal' of Apple Products? · · Score: 1

    Nope. Even the supermarket understands that people need to know where to go to pay for things. They're pretty much the best at it actually.

  16. Maybe people shouldn't drive until car accidents stop happening.. because there are far more of those in the wild than Android infections.

  17. Apparently you missed how you actually had to be stupid enough to walk off the paved path and into the swamp to get infected, even with Android.

  18. Re:Kill someone 3 yrs, watch Frozen 10 yrs on Digital Economy Act: Illegal Kodi Streams Could Now Land Users In Prison For 10 Years (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Actually that seems more like a civil case to me. Shouldn't even been criminal.

  19. Re:Virtual pleading the 5th on Justice Department Opens Criminal Probe Into Uber (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    No it is a variation of, 'we reserve the right not to participate in a criminal investigation against us', which is not a right.

  20. Re:No surprise really on Cord-Cutting Spikes Fivefold In Cable TV's Worst Quarter Ever (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Why don't you choose a show with a different name than one you saw before?

  21. Re:Any "Objective Repeatable Task" is automatable on The Parts of America Most Susceptible To Automation (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    So how many semi trailers will it take to build a single house?? Think about it. Think about the price of fuel. Maybe if fully automated and fully electric but not any time soon.

  22. Re:Trump on The Parts of America Most Susceptible To Automation (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    But will they realize ate that point? Or will Trump just get beat out by someone worse than him with even more salacious lies? That is what I'm afraid of.

  23. Re:Trump on The Parts of America Most Susceptible To Automation (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    Thousands will be starving, so eventually the police won't be able to keep up with the crime. They'll have to do something like maybe make Manhattan an island just to keep all the bad people, and then they can survive as they will.

  24. Re:Any "Objective Repeatable Task" is automatable on The Parts of America Most Susceptible To Automation (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    I"m just picturing six people trying to get heavy equipment onto a roof, instead of the two that could do a roof int he morning with shingles like before. Metal roofs are more expensive because steel is expensive and difficult to work with, and I can't see that changing much.

  25. Re:same argument for a thousand years... on The Parts of America Most Susceptible To Automation (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 2

    So you want to talk about 'the way things were' and yet refuse to look at anything that may have happened along the way that changed things in that time. So you have no idea whether you are making statements that are relevant to today or not. Got it.