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  1. Re:No good outcomes for 99% on The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Innovation (nber.org) · · Score: 1

    I guess you've never heard of fembots

  2. What exactly does this mean? on The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Innovation (nber.org) · · Score: 1

    "We suggest that this is likely to lead to a significant substitution away from more routinized labor-intensive research towards research that takes advantage of the interplay between passively generated large datasets and enhanced prediction algorithms"

    What is a passively generated data set? You can have data without creating data. Passive data is an oxymoron.

    What does enhanced prediction algorithms mean? Enhanced how? the thing reads like it came from a journal paper generator.

  3. agile is dead on Survey Finds 'Agile' Competency Is Rare In Organizations (sdtimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Dave Thomas gives his reasoning:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  4. This seems like a poor excuse
    https://www.cnet.com/news/dona...

  5. Confidential? on Google is Testing Self-Destructing Emails in New Gmail (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    My ass. This is Goggle after all. Confidential except for advertisers, law enforcement, or intelligence agencies.

  6. All that proves is the USPS is more efficient than the private sector. According to Congress they *must* turn a profit and they do.

  7. 1) Often state governments have the same arrangement. Note if the USPS is leasing space they do pay taxes indirectly.

    2) That depends. If it is leased then once again they do so indirectly. Note also they had to purchase property in the cases where it is owned by them.

    3) Yes

    4) Unknown. Probably not though. They have the famous case where the court rules "the power to tax is the power to destroy". But neither do states pay Federal tax. Oh, and neither do corporations.

    The US Postal Service is mandated by the US Constitution. They provide a valuable and efficient service to *all* Americans in the US. Not just the profitable locations.

    This is just another way to give a monopoly to one company.

    I predict this will destroy commerce via mail.

  8. Re:Summary cuts off too early on Eating World's Hottest Pepper Sparks Brain Disorder, Thunderclap Headaches (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Interesting you referred to dragons in your post:
    https://www.livescience.com/59...

  9. I wouldn't reccoment this one to anyone in any amount https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  10. Re:Because of extreme ignorance on Ask Slashdot: Are Companies Under-Investing in IT? · · Score: 2

    I don't expect a manager to be a tech expert. I do expect a manager to know how to listen to Sr. staff and organize the efforts of the employees. Most managers are barely competent, other flat out scarily incompetent. The few really good ones I have met I tried to learn from.

  11. Re:Dilbert cartoons on Ask Slashdot: Are Companies Under-Investing in IT? · · Score: 5, Informative

    In a foreword to one of his books Scott Adams said he would come up with the most outrageous cartoon he could think of. Only to have people email in recounting how they went through a similar but even more outrageous situation. Dilbert just scratches the surface.

  12. Re:They should use this photo for their company on CenturyLink Fights Billing-Fraud Lawsuit By Claiming That It Has No Customers (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Weasels are great animals that keep vermin populations under control. How about this one instead: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  13. Re:Investments only go up right? on Students Are Using Their Loan Money To Buy Cryptocurrency, Study Says (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    or STEM degrees these days.

  14. Stop the victim blaming on Uber's Self-Driving Cars Were Struggling Before Arizona Crash (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Cars are not allowed to do that. Period. People blind, kids fail to pay attention, roads are icy, people have strokes and heart attacks crossing the street etc. SDV *must* accommodate.

    SDV will never take humans out of the look as all software is written by humans

  15. Re: Self driving car hype on Uber's Self-Driving Cars Were Struggling Before Arizona Crash (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm in that older demographic and I never got any. You won or lost and 2nd place was the first loser.

  16. Re:Self driving car hype on Uber's Self-Driving Cars Were Struggling Before Arizona Crash (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    How is not being hit by a car having the world revolve around you?

  17. Re: Pressured to proceed despite poor test results on Uber's Self-Driving Cars Were Struggling Before Arizona Crash (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    It happens all the time which is why I am finally running away screaming fro software.

  18. Re:Pressured to proceed despite poor test results. on Uber's Self-Driving Cars Were Struggling Before Arizona Crash (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    But marketing tools us it was all rainbows and unicorns as far as the eye could see.

  19. Re:They may be considered as free advertising on Hackathons Are Dystopian Events That Dupe People Into Working For Free, Say Sociologists (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Apprenticeship, often fulfilling college credit requirements + having experience on the resume.

  20. Re:Let's ban Open Source in the name of SJW on Hackathons Are Dystopian Events That Dupe People Into Working For Free, Say Sociologists (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    evil != illegal see also banks

  21. Have a few citations? What percentage of papers repeat dogma? what does "in a lot of cases" mean? What does "repeat dogma" mean? How does this paper fulfill any of your definitions?

  22. Which is exactly what economists say to do.

  23. STEM is a saturated field with people jockeying for position. If you publish anything there are people out to take you down. The competition can be fierce. So I would say better overall, but with the occasional poor paper getting accepted.

  24. It's my plan. I would make sure I wasn't slaughtered. Then as the last man on earth I might finally get a date :)

  25. Re: Yes - backwards on Can Problems From Climate Change Be Addressed With Science? (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    didn't you catch /s ?

    The universal sarcasm marker?