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  1. Re:Just another CEO mouthing off... on Wendy's Plans To Automate 6,000 Restaurants With Self-Service Ordering Kiosks (investors.com) · · Score: 1

    That was simpsons, not futurama.

  2. I'm not screaming anything, but why do you think socialism in America would work better than Venezuela (or any other socialist country...cuba, north korea or china), especially with how corrupt America is?

  3. Re: wealth redistribution on Wendy's Plans To Automate 6,000 Restaurants With Self-Service Ordering Kiosks (investors.com) · · Score: 1

    What job can't be automated on Mars?

  4. I wondered the same thing the last time I was in Scotland. Seems as if it's a global problem.

  5. People don't need jobs, they need a living income.

    Neither jobs nor income is not on Maslow's hierarchy of needs.

  6. Western civilization is shrinking.

  7. It is not downward. Service jobs are at the top (doctors, engineers, scientists, lawyers, architects, technicians).

  8. A passing heli...

    Good luck finding people who will do that.

  9. Re: civil unrest, war, etc. on Wendy's Plans To Automate 6,000 Restaurants With Self-Service Ordering Kiosks (investors.com) · · Score: 1

    colonize at least one other planet.

    What would that do? Any job a robot can do on Earth, it could do better on another planet. There is maybe a month of people time on the moon with little to show for it while there's decades of robotic probe experience.

  10. Thee are other jobs, but they're considered below most people.

  11. Re:How about replacing the CEO with a machine on Wendy's Plans To Automate 6,000 Restaurants With Self-Service Ordering Kiosks (investors.com) · · Score: 1

    So everytime a company's driverless car screws up, you propose taking the president to court? Or maybe the engineers? Who will you find willing to accept that responsibility? Nobody would produce anything more dangerous than a spoon.

  12. Re: How about replacing the CEO with a machine on Wendy's Plans To Automate 6,000 Restaurants With Self-Service Ordering Kiosks (investors.com) · · Score: 1

    Everyone is a politician and everyone is a preacher.

  13. Re: How about replacing the CEO with a machine on Wendy's Plans To Automate 6,000 Restaurants With Self-Service Ordering Kiosks (investors.com) · · Score: 1
    People are free to do that now. Fellowship for Intentional Community

    That so few do is perhaps an indication of how well it works.

  14. Permutaton of all parsable sentences? on Google Open-Sources SyntaxNet Natural-Language Understanding Library, Parsey McParseface Training Model · · Score: 1
    How large is the permutation of all parsable sentences?

    A concise version of the Library of Babel expressing every idea if a language?

  15. Re:Communicate with the dead? on Huawei Prepares For Robot Overlords and Communication With the Dead (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1
    Suspended animation is saved out to a tape drive for later retrieval and execution.

    Locked in is execution of the consciousness with no inputs or outputs. There could still be something there thinking 'I exist', 'how did i get here' and 'now what?' over and over, conscious and aware (but without sensory input), with no loss of cognitive function. Forever, until someone shuts down the computer'.

  16. Re:Shit me hard with a stick, people are dumb. on Internal Docs Show Human Intervention at Almost Every Stage Of Facebook's News Operation (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't the nordic social democrat counties have small national governments but large local governments? And aren't they all smaller both geographically and population wise than many US states? Norway for example is smaller than Montana and has half the population of New York city.

  17. Re:Communicate with the dead? on Huawei Prepares For Robot Overlords and Communication With the Dead (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    All the uploaded consciousnesses will exist in a locked in sort of state for eternity. And backups in case one goes insane it can be reloaded from the latest non insane state.

  18. Re:"..you may be able to.." on Huawei Prepares For Robot Overlords and Communication With the Dead (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1
    That's not what the UN says. You are probably relatively very rich and have no concept of what true abject poverty really is.

    2 billion move out of extreme poverty over 25 years, says UN report

  19. Re:"..you may be able to.." on Huawei Prepares For Robot Overlords and Communication With the Dead (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    All of this is straight from a William Gibson book that i read maybe 30 years ago. It may have even a Chinese company that provided the service.

  20. Re:I blame these always online minllenials on Google Chirp To Rival Amazon Echo · · Score: 1
    > Ministry at 3 AM

    Is that really considered an assault? Sounds like what I'm normally doing around this time.

  21. Re:I don't buy this completely on Scientists Found 74 Genetic Variants Linked To Education Level (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Do you think it's possible that groups of people separated by a thousand generations facing different evolutionary pressures could have developed traits genes to help them survive in their particular environmental niche better? Many animals and plants have been very significantly altered from their original breeding stock in far fewer than a thousand generations (15,000 people years). Some breeds of dogs can can outrun others by 60km/h inherently. Some breeds dogs are much smarter than others, they are all the same species. Foxes have been tamed in fifty generations. Gene research into tameness and aggression

  22. This sort of thing has cropped up before on Tesla Model S Owner Claims Vehicle Went Rogue Causing An Accident By Itself (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    I don’t think there is any question about it. It can only be attributable to human error. It has always been due to human error.

  23. Re:Rural has to be solved to go mainstream on Slashdot Asks: How Long Before Self-Driving Cars Become Mainstream? · · Score: 1

    Way north Phoenix, Sunnyslope and also northeast and Apache junction...some of the suburbs of Phoenix, parts of Mesa, Carefree and especially Cave Creek. I've lived there on and off since the early 70's. There are still farms within city limits.

  24. Re:Intelligence is genetic and heritable, news at on Scientists Found 74 Genetic Variants Linked To Education Level (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    This was my thought. I grew up in a mostly immigrant neighborhood of at least five distinct native countries (and associated cultures) and the weighting that different families placed on education fell in line with stereotypes. I saw it all first hand growing up. Also reinforced from living in other countries. Kinda. Foreigners seem to value education a lot more, no matter where they are from, than average Americans. Ie, the longer a family is in the US (generationally), the less they stress education. I was also told this by my girlfriend who bilingual teacher and teaches to mostly immigrant students.