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  1. If the guy is found to be actually a piece of shit who sexually harasses women, and the company protects him, then I would support these people. If they are protesting with just allegations, then they should be fired.

  2. Re:Counter-point on As Companies Embrace AI, It's a Job-Seeker's Market (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    That's why you keep tabs on current trends and plan ahead of time for change. Automation doesn't just disrupt an industry out of the blue.

  3. Re:Counter-point on As Companies Embrace AI, It's a Job-Seeker's Market (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Automation creates more jobs than it displaces in the long run. Jobs change, and you have to be prepared to adapt, learn new things, and possibly train for a new career, otherwise, you're just trying to perpetuate a conservative system.

  4. At long last on Scientists Create Healthy Mice With Same-Sex Parents (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I can finally go back to playing videogames without fearing the onslaught of women trying to use me as a piece of man-meat, day in and day out.

  5. This journalist is stupid on London's Radio Pirates Changed Music. Then Came the Internet. (nytimes.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If this journalist wonders where "the young people will make culture" in the age of the internet, then this journalist is stupid and probably doesn't know how to internet very well.

  6. This is very important to my purchasing decision.

  7. Person attends government function open to public on Facebook Employees Outraged Over Exec's Appearance at Kavanaugh Hearing (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    This is a stupid reason to get offended. Would they rather it be closed hearings?

  8. I have little sympathy for him on The Coders Programming Themselves Out of a Job (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 2

    Software developers have been trying to automate themselves out of a job for decades, and the good ones fail every time. If he knew that his job was fully automated, then he could have looked towards the future, kept up to date on his skillsets, learned emerging practices in the industry, and made himself available to help continually improve other aspects of the business through further automation.

  9. Re:Backup, wipe, cross border, restore on New Zealand Travelers Refusing Digital Search Now Face $5000 Customs Fine (msn.com) · · Score: 1

    A CEO can afford a second iphone as a burner phone.

  10. Re:Backup, wipe, cross border, restore on New Zealand Travelers Refusing Digital Search Now Face $5000 Customs Fine (msn.com) · · Score: 2

    Burner phones are cheap.

  11. Elitist announces they're quitting Facebook on EU Justice Commissioner Quits Facebook, Describing Her Experience as 'Channel of Dirt' (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    This shouldn't be newsworthy. Egotistical, "This platform is cancer, I'm quitting for good to show everyone how I'm more enlightened than them" manifestos happen all the time.

  12. Re:The real question: what's the real motivation? on Is Tech Billionaires' Educational Philanthropy a Bug Or a Feature? · · Score: 1

    The only way they would someone would be trained the way that "slaves" would be trained is if they were forced to receive an education against their will. There are also plenty of private, expensive, liberal colleges that wealthy liberal parents send their children to. Are they also part of the "training to be slaves?"

  13. I use a cheap, secondhand smartphone for almost all of my daily web activity, and for personal enrichment. I've applied for jobs on it, tailored my resume on it, am learning a second language with it, and any technical manual I need is always available. A poor person using only a cheap, internet connected smartphone is a good choice in frugality, and still gives them infinite ways to enrich themselves.

  14. They are also bringing economic opportunity to blighted areas, and some of those minority individuals living in that neighborhood, over time, will find an economic niche and get out of poverty. There will be disruption, sure, but it the end result will still be better than nobody in that neighborhood escaping poverty.

  15. The same thing was said about Newspapers on The Tech Industry Has Contributed To an 'Attention Crisis', Google Researchers Say (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    And television. Naysayers think that everyone but themselves is responsible.

  16. Re:Don't we have a free market system? on Bernie Sanders Introduces 'Stop BEZOS' Bill To Tax Amazon For Underpaying Workers (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    If a few hiring managers doesn't "don't believe" that you are a good fit, it's them. If no hiring managers for any job apply to believe that you are a good fit, then it's something you have to fix, whether it's building up a better work history, seek counseling for behavior and confidence issues, or learning new skills.

  17. Would be that companies slow down hiring people with families, the people who probably need work the most, for unskilled labor. Yes, I know you can't discriminate against family status, but employers can find a way regardless.

  18. Re:Don't we have a free market system? on Bernie Sanders Introduces 'Stop BEZOS' Bill To Tax Amazon For Underpaying Workers (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I've searched for other jobs while working full time + overtime. My friends and family have searched for jobs wile working full time + overtime. Prospective employers will accommodate for a strange schedule if you are a desirable enough employee.

  19. Whenever I steal a car IRL I always leave the owner's station on or play whatever CD is currently in the radio. My exposure and taste in music has greatly diversified.

  20. Fueling rockets with astronauts on NASA Supports SpaceX Plan To Fuel Rockets With Astronauts On Board (engadget.com) · · Score: 2

    This sounds a bit inhumane. At the very least, they could use puppies or kittens.

  21. Having less stuff is great on 'Americans Own Less Stuff, and That's Reason To Be Nervous' (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    My wife and I have a use it or lose it policy with most things in our house. We regularly toss stuff we don't need into a bin and either donate it to goodwill, scrap it, or throw it out. Digital storage of media is great for saving space. I don't have to deal with a wall full of DVD's, and my wife can check out books for free from the local library on her Kindle. It makes cleaning easier and opens up space.

  22. This changes everything on Facebook Bans the Sale of All Kodi Boxes (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    I know that when I want to purchase something, I don't think Amazon or Ebay or Craigslist. I think Facebook, the de-facto powerhouse of e-commerce. Who will take up the reigns in light of this gaping loss of places to buy streaming devices?

  23. Sounds like it works fine to me on Amazon's Facial Recognition Wrongly Identifies 28 Lawmakers, ACLU Says (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    A machine learning program analyzed the faces of 28 lawmakers and found all 28 of them to be criminals. I see no bugs in the detection algorithm.

  24. Typical NIMBY behavior on San Jose May Start Cracking Down On Rampant Use of Scooters (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 0

    These "undesirable" elements ruin my nice view of the city, better make it illegal.

  25. Through voluntary donations. on How Should Open Source Development Be Subsidized? (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    If the state starts subsidizing it, they will eventually exert more control and regulation over it, and it won't be for the better.