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  1. Re:Not true (for the US) on Jack Ma: In 30 Years People Will Work Four Hours a Day and Maybe Four Days a Week (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    You need one former coworker to get you around the HR morons. It is an issue.

    There is still a big shortage of _competent_ computer programmers.

  2. Re:Not true (for the US) on Jack Ma: In 30 Years People Will Work Four Hours a Day and Maybe Four Days a Week (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Rules in the national forests are you have to move camp every week. Not sure how soon you can reoccupy a campsite.

  3. Re: Not true (for the US) on Jack Ma: In 30 Years People Will Work Four Hours a Day and Maybe Four Days a Week (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Again with that statistical lie.

    The bottom 40% of the population has net negative wealth. I'm worth more than them.

  4. Re: efficiency of 40 hour work weeks on Jack Ma: In 30 Years People Will Work Four Hours a Day and Maybe Four Days a Week (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    What I said to the sib AC applies to you as well.

    Understand 'The Mythical Man Month'...

  5. You need to read and UNDERSTAND 'The Mythical Man Month.'

    Communication has overhead on the order of n^2 (where n is the number of workers on a project).

  6. Re: sure, just like fusion power on Jack Ma: In 30 Years People Will Work Four Hours a Day and Maybe Four Days a Week (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    That statistic is a notorious lie!

    The bottom half of the world's population have net negative wealth. An empty bus has a higher net worth.

  7. Find a historic instance, if you can. Basing arguments on agenda driven fiction is stupid. Might as well suggest we ditch capitalism because of 'Red Mars'...

  8. Re:Rail on It's Too Hot For Some Planes To Fly In Phoenix (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    I'll believe their defunding the empty, money losing, Amtrak lines when I see it. Amtrak is pork. They surely should defund it.

  9. Re:What technical revolutions started the world wa on Jack Ma: In 30 Years People Will Work Four Hours a Day and Maybe Four Days a Week (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Would have happened differently.

    The only thing stopping more wars since is weapons are so good, war is unprofitable.

    Stalin was Hitler's ally at the start of WWII. They spit countries after invading together. Russia was at least as big a mess after WWII as Germany and Russia only got worse with time.

  10. Re:I'm already doing that! on Jack Ma: In 30 Years People Will Work Four Hours a Day and Maybe Four Days a Week (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    And my effort is as good as my arithmetic...duh 25% mon-thur.

  11. Re:I'm already doing that! on Jack Ma: In 30 Years People Will Work Four Hours a Day and Maybe Four Days a Week (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I'll have you know, I give 110%!

    20% each, Mon-Thur and 10% on Friday.

  12. Just when I think: Nobody can come up with an argument dumber than referencing 'Elysium', there you are...

  13. Re:Rail on It's Too Hot For Some Planes To Fly In Phoenix (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Amtrack first class (sleepers) costs far (think 5x) more than an equivalent airplane ticket. Takes _days_ longer to get there.

  14. That's the updated autopilot, the change was made after the genius being discussed got himself killed.

  15. Compared to drivers, pilots are universally very well trained and take the time to understand their aircraft's systems, including the autopilot.

  16. Pilots will nearly universally study and _understand_ exactly what their autopilot systems do and how they do it.

    Drivers, not so much.

  17. I own a 1960 with one of the very first cruise controls. It's a (motor/worm drive) that pushes up from under the gas pedal. You have to keep your foot on the gas.

    That was back when engineers were very conservative..

  18. Not sure if trolling or Poe.

    Real cars don't disappear when you turn your back on them. They have actual places to go, not just to act as moving obstacles.

  19. Dad (a PhD) tells me that a doctorate is proof that someone can come at a problem and learn everything there is to know about it and then extend the world's knowledge, if only a little bit.

    In my experience in industry, a doctorate is proof that a person could do the above, once, when they were young, not necessarily anymore. I've seen an awful lot of awful PhDs working, cluelessly, in fields outside their expertise that they treat as 'easy', while doing completely wrong. Some that can only be compared to 'know it all' teens.

  20. This one's 'a brick'...doesn't read, just repeats.

  21. Re:anti-social creatures on Cats May Have Been Domesticated Twice (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Again: It's very simple. If the dog was in kill mode, the cat would be _dead_. Even a 'friendly' Australian shepherd only takes ONE shake to break a cat's spine. If it's fangs didn't penetrate the cat, it didn't even bite down.

    Give the dog a little credit. It tried to play with the cat and got lit up.

  22. Re:Um, I think you got that backwards on Trump Promises a Federal Technology Overhaul To Save $1 Trillion (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Government tech contractors and the tech sector aren't very closely related.

    Government contractors know how to game the procurement system. They are customers of the tech sector, not part of it.

    There is not a single money saving technology that these leaches can't turn into a money pit. The problem is the procurement system.

    The same contractors that game H1B, game the procurement system, weaseling is their 'core competency'. Getting the out of the business and getting competent groups working for the government is an 'impossible dream'.

  23. Re:Tech employee here on Tim Cook Told Trump Tech Employees Are 'Nervous' About Immigration (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    They should quit crying and learn a skill, like the rest of us. 'Low skill' is curable, generally pretty quickly.

    There is a large overlap between 'low skill' and 'unteachable'. They mostly grow out of that, shit/no jobs help.

  24. Re:anti-social creatures on Cats May Have Been Domesticated Twice (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    If it had the cat in it's mouth and wanted to kill it the cat would be _dead_. Dogs that are attacking small things grab and shake, over fast.

  25. Re:anti-social creatures on Cats May Have Been Domesticated Twice (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    So you think the dog was incapable of biting down? The dog was playing the cat was fighting for it's life.

    My dogs' cat, Chewtoy, plays back. Cause he knows he's safe.