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  1. Re:why does it matter? on New York City Orders Mandatory Measles Vaccinations in Brooklyn (providencejournal.com) · · Score: 2

    The vaccine is only 97% effective and herd immunity requires about 93...95% immunity. There are people that cannot be vaccinated due to no fault of their own, in particular children too young. They will get sick though and have a real risk of permanent problems or long-term problems and a small risk of death. Want to restate your question?

  2. So Jar Jar makes a return? on George Lucas Actually Consulted For The Script Of 'Star War: Episode IX' (collider.com) · · Score: 1

    Anyways, I have stopped caring since Episode 1.

  3. That is not already illegal? on Amazon and Google Fight Bill That Prohibits Secretly Recording You (vice.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Because in any sane legal system, it is.

  4. Re: The one lucky guy among the millions... on Alibaba Founder Defends Overtime Work Culture As 'Huge Blessing' (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Nah. For the high performers, the extra hours will be productive

    They are not. This myth is pervasive though.

  5. Re:doctor handwriting ocr with an 95+ rate? on Researchers Develop AI To Predict Hospital Readmission Rates From Clinical Notes · · Score: 1

    Don't think that is possible. This is based on electronic records.

  6. Re:Also creates social "peace" on Alibaba Founder Defends Overtime Work Culture As 'Huge Blessing' (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually, not that clever. Productivity with this schedule is massively lower than with a 40h work-week and costs are massively higher. Unless the actual benefits outweigh that...

  7. Re: Productivity on Alibaba Founder Defends Overtime Work Culture As 'Huge Blessing' (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    He did not care for anything but maximizing his profits.

    Here is some starting-point with lots of references for you if you really find yourself google-challenged: https://www.askspoke.com/blog/...

  8. Re:Control JEW.S.A. jews then (they own politics) on Foxconn is Confusing the Hell Out of Wisconsin (theverge.com) · · Score: 0

    Get help, urgently.

  9. Re:Orange Man Bad on Foxconn is Confusing the Hell Out of Wisconsin (theverge.com) · · Score: 0

    To be fair, it was not really difficult to trick Trump. Because it was indeed obvious from the start and Trump either does not even have the minimal business-savvy to see that or he simply did not care. (Never attribute to maliciousness what can be adequately explained by stupidity, but Trump has both in spades...)

  10. Re:There is a name for this .., on Alibaba Founder Defends Overtime Work Culture As 'Huge Blessing' (reuters.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It is even worse: The productivity you get this way is wayyyy lower than with a 40h week. I can only think it is some idea that the underclass has to be tortured and a tiny number of those that take the torture without complaining and ask for more can be lifted up.

  11. Re:The one lucky guy among the millions... on Alibaba Founder Defends Overtime Work Culture As 'Huge Blessing' (reuters.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It is even worse than that: Preaching hard work will get _him_ less money, because individual productivity peaks at around 40h/week and drops above that. This guy mast have gotten really lucky, because he does not even understand the basics of work. Not that different from the average CEO, though.

  12. Indeed. And not everybody has so little to offer as a person that they need "success" to be able to feel they are somebody.

  13. Re:The wrong question on Alibaba Founder Defends Overtime Work Culture As 'Huge Blessing' (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Indeed. This stupidity constantly amazes me. The 40h work week goes back to Henry Ford, as far as I know, and he was certainly not under any suspicion of wanting to do anything nice for his workers. The plain unadorned fact is that at 40h/week work, productivity peaks for manual workers and it is even lower for mental workers. Work more, be _less_ productive and less valuable to your employer.

  14. Re:You want to live, right? on Alibaba Founder Defends Overtime Work Culture As 'Huge Blessing' (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    If you put all your energy into work, you are not living, plain and simple. Any imagined "success" you work towards is meaningless.

  15. Re:Productivity on Alibaba Founder Defends Overtime Work Culture As 'Huge Blessing' (reuters.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    There are some very old studied done by Henry Ford and others. They wanted to optimize worker efficiency. They found that the best outcome is at 8h per day, 5 days a week for manual work and 6h per day, 5 days a week for mental work. Work more and your productivity drops due to mistakes, sick-days (even if uncompensated, you are still not working) and other effects.

    Of course, the US has forgotten that and China has probably never found out. In both cases, the mistaken thinking is that the more you exploit your workers, the better the profits. That is patently untrue, but requires dropping greed and the superiority complex of the average capitalist and rationally looking at facts instead. Few people with money or a deep desire for money are capable of that.

  16. Also creates social "peace" on Alibaba Founder Defends Overtime Work Culture As 'Huge Blessing' (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    True, it is the peace of the grave and of people too exhausted to even think about what kind of country they live in and how that is pretty bad, but it certainly works. Exhausted workers start no riots.

  17. Orange Man Bad on Foxconn is Confusing the Hell Out of Wisconsin (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This is just one of the effects. Of course, Foxconn has no intentions doing an economically demented move. But tricking the, ahem, "stable genius" in the white house, why not? It is the job of politics to keep companies like Foxconn under control and if politics proves incapable, everybody suffers.

  18. Re:Doe it say how to kill telemetry? on Microsoft Publishes SECCON Framework For Securing Windows 10 (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Ah, so even more worthless...

  19. Re:Don't buy a listening device for your home? on How To Stop Amazon From Listening To Your Alexa Recordings (tomsguide.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh, decidedly not Orwellian yet. But the direction and the eventual use of this data is clear, even if it still will take a while. The economy going to hell in a totalitarian state is also clear. This universally happens, unless there is a lot of riches to sell, e.g. as the Saudis have. But look at Venezuela, which has a lot of oil too and people now have trouble getting enough to eat. Also, what happens to the Saudis when the oil runs out or becomes worthless is also pretty clear. They do not produce anything, they just sell a finite resource that is already there.

  20. Re:Am I the Stupid One Here? on Dragonblood Vulnerabilities Disclosed in Wi-Fi WPA3 Standard (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Make sense. Reactive protocol design is pretty much an assured failure.

  21. Doe it say how to kill telemetry? on Microsoft Publishes SECCON Framework For Securing Windows 10 (zdnet.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No? Then it is not a security guide or rather one that is worthless...

    (I assume it does not. In good /. tradition, I have not looked at the documents...)

  22. Re:Interesting on Amazon Workers Are Listening To What You Tell Alexa (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, you started it. I doubt you are smart enough to see it though.

  23. Re:Interesting on Amazon Workers Are Listening To What You Tell Alexa (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 0

    Learn some history. Get some perspective.

    Instead I will just not listen to idiots like you.

  24. Don't buy a listening device for your home? on How To Stop Amazon From Listening To Your Alexa Recordings (tomsguide.com) · · Score: 2

    I mean, how obvious does it have to get?

  25. Re:No kidding! on Ford CEO Says the Company 'Overestimated' Self-Driving Cars (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    No. And since this is an IT problem, even less so.