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  1. Re:So? on Robots Are Coming For Our Jobs, Just Not All of Them · · Score: 1

    The statement was that things nobody is willing to pay for don't need to be done. If you can't see the fallacy in that line of thinking, God help you.
    It's definitely not true, but capitalism makes it seem true, more so then other economic systems. Not everything has a price.

  2. Re:Whoever pays the bills on Who Makes the Decision To Go Cloud and Who Should? · · Score: 1

    Somewhere in their billing structure is a gotcha. You haven't hit it yet.
    It could be higher loads, it could be when you need something quickly.

  3. Re:People being people on Who Makes the Decision To Go Cloud and Who Should? · · Score: 1

    It makes it a total pain in the ass to join tablets with no wired interface to the domain.

  4. Re:Whoever pays the bills on Who Makes the Decision To Go Cloud and Who Should? · · Score: 1

    ...and by moving to the cloud we have a fixed bill...
    ...and by moving to the cloud we think we have a fixed bill...
    FTFY

  5. Re:Whoever pays the bills on Who Makes the Decision To Go Cloud and Who Should? · · Score: 1

    HANDS OFF!!, my pretty...

  6. Re:So? on Robots Are Coming For Our Jobs, Just Not All of Them · · Score: 1

    This is the failure of capitalism.

  7. Re:If your job can be described by an algorithm... on Robots Are Coming For Our Jobs, Just Not All of Them · · Score: 1

    If they had to unionize Coke will simply survive just fine being based in India or China and selling everywhere outside the US etc.

    There are a long list of things that a company loses if it actually moves outside the US, sure it's ok to route your profits through an offshore subsidiary, but just look at where everyone has their headquarters.

  8. Re:If your job can be described by an algorithm... on Robots Are Coming For Our Jobs, Just Not All of Them · · Score: 1

    Wow, in this economy even Bill Gates is suffering.

  9. Re:Finally! on Twitter Blocks API Access For Sites Monitoring Politicians' Deleted Tweets · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Don't forget the 2nd question, "are you white?"

    I think we should go the other way and make voting mandatory, at the very least it should be a federal holiday.

  10. Re:If only... on Not All Uber Drivers Like Surge Pricing, Either · · Score: 1

    Well, hoarding so you can't use it, is using it to many people.

  11. Re:How about affordable glasses? on Interviews: Ask Dr. Tarek Loubani About Creating Ultra-Low Cost Medical Devices · · Score: 1

    At least three different optometrists in the midwest, private practice, group, and Sam's club.

  12. Re:How about affordable glasses? on Interviews: Ask Dr. Tarek Loubani About Creating Ultra-Low Cost Medical Devices · · Score: 1

    I get my PD when I ask. I order glasses online.

  13. Re:No thanks on Debate Over Amazon Working Conditions Goes Back Years · · Score: 1

    If only stockholders could really effect any change.

    "we would almost find it appropriate to call our present economic system "managementism" rather than "capitalism."
    -Fredrerick Lewis Allen, The Big Change

  14. Re:Sorry Jeff on Debate Over Amazon Working Conditions Goes Back Years · · Score: 1
  15. Re:Get Self-Employed on Debate Over Amazon Working Conditions Goes Back Years · · Score: 1

    Imagine you struggled to pay for collage and ended up with some cc or cell phone dings on your credit. Maybe you even got an eviction. Maybe you were really unlucky and a relative "stole" your identity when you were a kid and you don't want to file a police report to send your Uncle to jail.

    It's 10 time easier to start with nothing vs. starting in the hole

  16. Re:Get Self-Employed on Debate Over Amazon Working Conditions Goes Back Years · · Score: 2

    Yes, paid from a common pool that is larger and more inclusive then any insurance pool can ever be. It's the best way to pay for healthcare.

  17. Re:Not just for coding on Is There an Ed-Tech Critic In the House? · · Score: 1

    True story.

  18. Re:Not just for coding on Is There an Ed-Tech Critic In the House? · · Score: 1

    Everybody in education who looks at the data knows this. It's not controversial among educators.

    Actually, it's not controversial among anyone with a rational and intelligent mind.

    The problem with everything is the lowest common denominator is too stupid not to poison the well. We have to find a way to stop them.

  19. Re: Slavery 2.0 Rocks!!! on The Challenge of Working At Amazon · · Score: 1

    Is that you Donald?

  20. Re: Slavery 2.0 Rocks!!! on The Challenge of Working At Amazon · · Score: 1

    After taxes and other deductions, your $9k / month will look a lot morel like $5500. Still a good chunk of change. Now let's imagine you have student loans, your wife has student loans. You have some other debt or you need to finance some vehicles.
    Now let's imagine you don't make over $100k, since the median income for Seattle is more like $52k.

  21. Re:Why not? on The Challenge of Working At Amazon · · Score: 1

    Inflation on services, education, healthcare, and housing has been out of control. Even food can fluctuate wildly.

  22. Re:Why not? on The Challenge of Working At Amazon · · Score: 1

    So, he said, "kill yourself", in response to your "kill everyone, me first" and he's the one with no cogent agument?

    To your original point, there is alot of anger and resentment building. The generation that started working in the late 90's was too late for everything.
    Every job I've had was full of stories about how we used to get raises, or used to get bonuses, or used to have spectacular parties at work. We get the 1.5% raises, $10 gas cards, and potluck pitch-ins.
    We've put in the time an energy at the bottom, only to see the top lopped off or have the door barred. For every person who had parents who enabled them to start a debt-free life (or, maybe an Uncle... Uncle Sam). There are 10 who got shit on by life and struggled on. It does breed resentment, especially when your told that you made wrong decisions. Often, there was no decision to be made.

    Hopefully our society can redress these issues while they are only angry rumblings. The young and hard working want things to get better, but there are alot of old and bitter who like things the way they are and will do anything, even elect Trump, to keep it that way.

  23. Re:Targeting? WTF? on HBO, Netflix, and Amazon Targeting Kids · · Score: 1

    HBO is no advertising. Their current childrens programming is decent, but you can tell it's an afterthought. I applaud this move.

  24. Re:Evolution I guess on HBO, Netflix, and Amazon Targeting Kids · · Score: 1

    Actually, Nick seems to want to be ESPN jr. They have dumped alot of their preshool programming and have some weird new emphasis no Nick Sports.

  25. Re:What if the malware is baked in when you buy it on The Internet of Compromised Things · · Score: 1

    I have another router behind mine. It terminates to a vpn. I also push some ports to it from the ISP's router. Any device I want to have on the VPN, I just change the gateway. If I don't want it behind the vpn, I change the gateway back.

    I could also just have my router do the dhcp and use some rules to decide what traffic uses the vpn.
    My point is that even without a pass-through mode, you can use your own router to protect your devices.