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  1. Re:There is math for that on Why Automation Won't Displace Human Workers (diginomica.com) · · Score: 2

    I agree. Can Grandma come and live with you? Her meds are expensive so you'll be wanting save your pennies. Government regulation is expensive too, let's cut back on regulating the airline industry. By their accountants, a few more crashes per year won't prevent people from flying and can be very good for the bottom line. While we're at it, clean air and water are over-rated. Several thousands more dead Americans every year from unclean air and water is totally acceptable and very good again for the bottom line.

    By the way, Gandma has several opiod addicted kids and grandkids. You'll be wanting to provide drug treatment for them so they don't sell the shingles off your house to fund their habit.

    There's nothing Ayn Rand cannot put a price on, even your Grandma.

  2. Re:It's not silly. on Why Automation Won't Displace Human Workers (diginomica.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The U.S. has about 3.6 million software developers. India is expect to outpace the U.S. in number of software developers in a few years.

    So, you expect the U.S. to double the software industry to accommodate the new lot, presuming they even have what it takes to retrain. And they'll be competing against India and, I presume, China, and every other country figuring to get in on software.

    Numbers are important.

  3. Re:You realize that homeopathic treatments are wat on The US Government is Finally Telling People that Homeopathy is a Sham (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    I know a dentist who thought Chiropractors were a good thing. I had the misfortune of going along on a visit of his to one. The fellow had my friend lie on his side and started coming down with all his weight on him. And this C. was about 6'4" and easily 250 lbs. My friend had thrown out his lower back. The general advice by real doctors is take an analgesic to relax the muscles, lie on your stomach for a day, gingerly get back on your feet over the course of a week or two. He's lucky that C. didn't fracture his spine.

  4. Re:One irony of this election on US Internet Firms Ask Trump To Support Encryption, Ease Regulations (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Yep, Smoot–Hawley Tariff worked so well in 1930's for the U.S. Let's have a few rounds of that to make everyone richer.

  5. Re:Trump is a Deal Maker, Before Anything Else on US Internet Firms Ask Trump To Support Encryption, Ease Regulations (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    He's a deal maker only in the sense that a small-time bunko artist is a deal maker.

  6. Re:Luckily for them, this is Trump on US Internet Firms Ask Trump To Support Encryption, Ease Regulations (reuters.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Trump? A negotiator? I guess that answers why no U.S. bank would lend to his alleged companies any longer. And the word in the business world was that if you deal with Trump, get your money up front first...but expect a lawsuit later. The only people stupid enough to "negotiate" with Trump lately were a bunch of clueless foreigners who didn't know him for what he really is, i.e., Sargent Bilko's mentor.

  7. Oh, so Foxconn is actually taking a loss on producing the iPhone since they aren't paying what it really costs?

  8. No, there will be no government support. Republicans do not believe in a national economic polity. These are the same bozos who would have gladly sold the car industry down the river during the Great Recession in a bid to rival the Great Depression. Their grasp of economic reality is about as tight as their grasp of zephyr.

  9. The Heritage Foundation and the rest of their ilk were only for Trump because he claims he's going to reduce regulation, and they think they can control him. No one who has the attention space of gnat is controllable, they'll be in for a rude awakening.

  10. Not without a new supply chain which they would have to build from scrap. That won't happen over-night if it is even possible.

  11. Apple cannot manufacture in the U.S. without replacing most of their supply chain. While Apple may make a lot of profit, even they are not rich enough to do that.

  12. Re:MPAA, RIAA and Big Pharma on President Obama Gives Up On The Trans-Pacific Partnership (theguardian.com) · · Score: 0

    "Conservatives don't grow government." No, they just gerry-mander until they control it, and its contracts.

  13. Re:MPAA, RIAA and Big Pharma on President Obama Gives Up On The Trans-Pacific Partnership (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    No, they just went around calling Bush a Nazi behind his back. Frankly, I think we should call Bam-Bam Trump a Nazi to his face. Sez he's going to deport 2-3 million. Hmmm....shouldn't be long before the internment camps are set up. They'll need to practice before the re-education camps get set up. Okay, so he's a Commie, he is Putin's bitch, after all.

  14. Re:MPAA, RIAA and Big Pharma on President Obama Gives Up On The Trans-Pacific Partnership (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Most of Sanders' supporters were against it. It is unclear to what extent Hillary's support in the primaries was because those voters figured Sanders just couldn't win.

  15. Re:Will climate activists argue... on US Drought Brings A Surprise Benefit: No Tornados (cnn.com) · · Score: 0

    Errr...you are saying Hillary was squeezing the buns on teenage male models? That Bitch!

  16. Re:Everything is connected to everything else on US Drought Brings A Surprise Benefit: No Tornados (cnn.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    I don't think we need to bring baked beans into this.

  17. Re:Funny how that works on Will Trump's Presidency Bring More Surveillance To The US? (scmagazine.com) · · Score: 2

    What's more likely is that he got the real security briefing and was frightened.

  18. "As for Secretary Clinton, it is all speculation with very little basis in reality as to what she would have done, but 100% sure yes, she would have too."

    Errr...you do realize you've contradicted yourself in one sentence, yes?

  19. Re:Closure and Threads... on 'Here Be Dragons': The Seven Most Vexing Problems In Programming (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    LISP doesn't have closures, at least it didn't back when I learned it, it had dynamic binding, precisely what will shoot closures dead. Scheme had/has closures.

  20. You've never done realtime, huh?

  21. Re:2 more I've seen on 'Here Be Dragons': The Seven Most Vexing Problems In Programming (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Hehe...reminds me of a joke a computer science professor told me once. He was an older feller and had been around the block several time. Some student came running into his office claiming the numbers in is program were all wrong. So he reached under his desk and pulled out an enormous print out, "Here are all the correct numbers."

  22. Re:Serious he missed the 2 biggest problems I've h on 'Here Be Dragons': The Seven Most Vexing Problems In Programming (infoworld.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    NP-Completeness becomes a programming problem when the people who do the programming cannot spot a NP-problem and then spend countless hours to beat it.

  23. Re:Whether you love or hate him on Trump Victory Clouds Outlook for Time Warner-AT&T, Other Mergers (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    He's such a puppeteer that no American banks will lend him any more dough, something about getting screwed in the past too often.

  24. Re:Trump will be for it.... on Trump Victory Clouds Outlook for Time Warner-AT&T, Other Mergers (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    You mean he SAYS he owns a lot. Right now, no one knows what he's worth, maybe we should take his word on it since he's such a straight-shooter.

  25. Re:I somehow think Trump wont stop any mergers on Trump Victory Clouds Outlook for Time Warner-AT&T, Other Mergers (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Unless he manages to start a trade war with China, helps hand the Russian back their empire so that it leans on Europe pushes them around, screws with trade in the Western Hemisphere now that much of it is interlocking, decides to force companies to make their stuff in the U.S. so they say "screw it" and set up shop in Ireland.