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  1. Re:Failure of imagination on Japanese White-Collar Workers Are Already Being Replaced by Artificial Intelligence (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    You lose productivity to burnout after a certain # of hours.

    You lose productivity to communication overhead with larger teams.

    Time to market matters, so you run smaller teams hard in sprints (if you are smart). If you are a moron you burn your team out.

    Job sharing can work for some white collar jobs, but not for all of them.

  2. In CA is a student is failing (and in danger of costing the district too much money for not showing up) do you know what they do?

    They call him home schooled and practice social promotion until he is no longer their problem. Keeps the money flowing. The NEA has found a scam to make money and make home schooling look bad at the same time.

  3. Re: Is Hillary! Running in Germany? on Germany Considers Fining Facebook $522,000 Per Fake News Item (heatst.com) · · Score: 1

    No intent requirement in the law. It was absolutely a pass that nobody else would get. The pass was unprecedented, the charge would have been SOP.

  4. Re:No subsidy - then how much? on Solar Could Beat Coal to Become the Cheapest Power on Earth In Less Than a Decade (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    'Perverse Economic Incentives' would make a good porn movie title.

    China's bubble is the elephant in the room. Until it pops, keep your finances very conservative. It is time to preserve value, not chase growth.

  5. As a bonus, 1 kW at 24V DC makes a great arc welder.

    You'd still need a wire feed and a tank of Argon.

  6. IT and CIS

    Really? Same problem is rampant with shysters, particularly shysters who have been elected to federal office.

    It's rampant worldwide, the very worst cases are physicists. Who constantly repeat the mantra 'all science reduces to physics' forgetting the rest; 'Physics reduces to Math, Math reduces to Philosophy, Philosophy reduces to masturbation.'

  7. Re:This is asking for a death match of whack-a-mol on Germany Considers Fining Facebook $522,000 Per Fake News Item (heatst.com) · · Score: 1

    I'll just leave this here (Moron):

    Per capita GDP of Germany: 46,268.64

    Per capita GDP of the USA: 53,041.98

    Germany is 15% higher? The rest of your points are just as wrong. Some things are more there, some things are less. Quality is generally higher. Beer is about nine euros for 20 500ml bottles of good German beer.

    You're the one who says Germany is 'dirty and poor', fucking idiot. I'll take the average Syrian over the average Salvadoran. To say nothing of the fact the USA has so many more than Europe (% wise as well as absolute numbers).

  8. Re:Good for them on Library Creates Fake Patron Records To Avoid Book-Purging (heraldnet.com) · · Score: 1

    That's different, a little bogus data to prove people who 'rented 'the list exceeded the license isn't what I'm on about. Fuck those list vendors BTW. If someone hasn't already setup a website so their clients can submit lists and validate them against other copies, they should. Of course it would likely be the vendors themselves, setting their own clients up.

    I was only half joking about the 'ZZ'. Over 30 years, I've run into 3 places that used the 'ZZ' trick, they all had test accounts in the live system (2 had filters on the reports/queries to exclude the ZZs, one just had it all associated with a test op unit/vendors/etc).

    It's a red flag. The _office staff_ are testing the software on the live systems (someone has to do it), IT is falling on it's face. Run away.

  9. It's socially, very hard to eliminate a job in Japan. Jobs there are often still for life.

    Getting a HAL-9000 is about saving face. If you 'replace someone with a very small shell script', you have to say it took massive group effort, strong AI and a decade of work.

  10. Anger is progress. Keep it up.

  11. Re:This is asking for a death match of whack-a-mol on Germany Considers Fining Facebook $522,000 Per Fake News Item (heatst.com) · · Score: 1

    Last year. My entire extended family are Germans. Dad is a naturalized american citizen, Mom is still German. I have dual citizenship (Technicality; I'm an American who drives/skis/drinks like a German).

    You are so full of shit, your eyes are shit colored. Germans are neat freaks, Hamburg is a little bit 'big city' but still cleaner than any city in America. Outside Hamburg? You could be in Switzerland.

    America has _much_ more dirt poor immigration than Europe. One good thing about Europe getting a taste, we won't have to hear so much self righteous blather about us being unkind to the beaners. America has a 10% higher per capita income...you'd have to define 'poor' in an absurd way to put the line there.

  12. Re:One example of U.S. government mismanagement: on Washington Post Retracts Story About Russian Hackers Penetrating US Electricity Grid (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    I bet uranium hexafluoride kind of stings.

    Someone on /. claimed that the centrifuges were playing an old traditional jewish song (hatma...) when they were self destructing. I'm sure it's BS, but the thought still puts a smile on my face.

  13. Re:1 laptop, not connected to the grid on Washington Post Retracts Story About Russian Hackers Penetrating US Electricity Grid (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Because he's not blathering about cycling or veganism?

    He identified his blind spots in his name.

  14. Re:Evaluate the U.S. government? No, too many secr on Washington Post Retracts Story About Russian Hackers Penetrating US Electricity Grid (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Native americans were stone age, pre agriculture. N and S america just can't support 40 million people at stone age technology. By reference estimates for Europe's population at similar technology was about 100k.

    Wherever you got the 40 million number, treat them as a disinformation source.

  15. Russia started WWII on the wrong side. If they took the biggest beating, it was because they deserved it. Having been all for the Nazis, until they were against them. They were also completely disengaged from Japan.

  16. 100% bullshit that led directly to the Cambodian holocaust.

    Vietnam was a pawn war, but it's loss had bad consequences for the region. Still largely worked out OK, the Ruskys lost, the Chinese got smart without having to lose first.

  17. The low level people are absolutely keeping their mouths shut. We are hearing from political appointees, saying what they are instructed to say.

  18. Re:Better Question on Can Learning Smalltalk Make You A Better Programmer? · · Score: 1

    Or...no.

    And however...

  19. Re:Good for them on Library Creates Fake Patron Records To Avoid Book-Purging (heraldnet.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    No I don't, because it's a steaming pile of bullshit.

    There are two 'major' curricula sets. Texas and California. For every right wing distortion in the Texas books there are three left wing distortions in the California books.

  20. Re:Are Mp3s ripped from llibrary's cd's legal to o on Library Creates Fake Patron Records To Avoid Book-Purging (heraldnet.com) · · Score: 1

    My collection is 50k folders. Some of the folders are box sets with 6 CDs but most are 1s and 2s.

    There is a cash value trigger that can really leave you screwed, but you're right, just pass them around on portable drives and nobody will ever know.

  21. Re:Are Mp3s ripped from llibrary's cd's legal to o on Library Creates Fake Patron Records To Avoid Book-Purging (heraldnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Tiny collection, nobody will care.

  22. Re:Why you should support these actions on Library Creates Fake Patron Records To Avoid Book-Purging (heraldnet.com) · · Score: 2

    You need to talk to some librarians. _They_ don't want you reshelving books.

    Have you ever been to an actual library? How about searching for a misshelved book? I've seen them get pissed, in a good sized university library a misshelved book might as well be destroyed.

  23. Re:Good for them on Library Creates Fake Patron Records To Avoid Book-Purging (heraldnet.com) · · Score: 1

    The test data has last names that start with 'ZZ', duh.

    You'd be surprised how often test data makes it into live systems. You'd also be surprised how many 'reports' are hard coded to filter out all the names starting with 'ZZ'. I surprised nobody has been able to leverage it into a real computer crime.

  24. Re:Keep polishing that turd on Valve Reveals Steam's 2016 Top Earners -- Including 'No Man's Sky' (pcgamer.com) · · Score: 1

    When someone asks you to polish a turd, what they are really telling you to do is cover it in gold spray paint and glitter.

    Knowing this is important, some people have actually tried to fix impossible messes.

  25. Re:Good for them on Library Creates Fake Patron Records To Avoid Book-Purging (heraldnet.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Liberals know they have lost in the marketplace of ideas, they have lost politically.

    But they have got control of the public schools and liberal arts schools in colleges.

    Talk to any kid in HS to get an idea of how misinformed they are. It's on purpose.