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  1. No, since the Pope is not a journalist, telling him to "Learn to Code" is not a hate crime, only Journalists - the folks that were quick to dole out that sage advice to non-journalists when they lost their jobs - are protected form that most insidious form of hate speech.

  2. Re:no one writes code on 82-Year-Old Pope Francis Is 'First Pope To Write a Line of Code' (geekwire.com) · · Score: 2

    During summer holidays, I used to write the code during the afternoon/evening, assemble it by hand during the night, and type it in a hex editor in the morning.

    Sounds delightful, I assume you vacationed alone?

  3. 10 PRINT "I am the Pope": GOTO 10

    There, one line of code

  4. Re:With Mueller failing, haters need something els on Jared & Ivanka: Couple 'Continues To Use' Private Messaging For White House Business, Top Democrat Says (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    Individual 1 is a name for the President in a Southern District of New York investigation, not Mueller investigation.

  5. Republicans "lost" then found literally millions of emails.

    https://www.snopes.com/fact-ch...

  6. senior White House advisor Jared Kushner's lawyer admitted in December

    This is news now? I remember hearing about this at the time (December) - Cummings isn't claiming they are using WhatsApp today.

    Just to be clear an exchange between a husband and wife where oneor both work in the whitehouse about whether the other will be home for dinner qualifies as "official whitehouse business" since it involves their work schedule.

  7. Re: So, pilot error? on Pilot Who Hitched a Ride Saved Lion Air 737 Day Before Deadly Crash (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    The pilot in the deadhead seat knew about it, Brazilian regulators knew about it and required pilots to train and practice - if Boeing 'hid' it, how did they know about it?

  8. No big deal on Why Google Stadia Will Be a Major Problem For Many American Players · · Score: 1

    The ability to stream 4K video to those few users that own 4K devices will likely use about as much bandwidth as 4K television, but then again who has a 4K device and would prefer to stream games rather than play them on local hardware? (Are their target customers those folks with 4K devices and no $500 game box?)

  9. Re:How exactly they will achieve this is still unc on Why Google Stadia Will Be a Major Problem For Many American Players · · Score: 1

    There's a documentary on it's development on HBO, it's fascinating!

  10. Re:How exactly they will achieve this is still unc on Why Google Stadia Will Be a Major Problem For Many American Players · · Score: 1

    Pied Piper's inside-out compression?

  11. Thank you Captain Obvious! on Why Google Stadia Will Be a Major Problem For Many American Players · · Score: 1

    Who knew that live-streaming 4K video required an unusually high bandwidth connection?

  12. Re: Half the solution on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Says Labor Shouldn't Have To Fear Automation (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Seriously? You want to collect a payroll tax from a machine? Will the machine pay for FICA? unemployment? Medicare? Will the gov't cover the loss when a machine breaks down (unemployment)? Will robots collect SS benefits after their useful life is over?

  13. Re: Half the solution on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Says Labor Shouldn't Have To Fear Automation (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    If more people want to create wealth, they need to take some risks and stop working for hourly wages.

  14. We have free healthcare for the poor who have only to sign up for the healthcare, that they choose not to is on them.

    The gov't offers free/subsidized healthcare to all - and all coverage includes insulin.

  15. Re: But you're not producing wealth on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Says Labor Shouldn't Have To Fear Automation (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    You want employees to be treated as profit-sharing partners, but immune from the losses their enterprise may suffer.

    That's not how the world works.

  16. Re: "Shockingly intelligent"? on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Says Labor Shouldn't Have To Fear Automation (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Should we suspend public housing because it's a hot bed of crime (drugs, prostitution, etc)?

    What is fascinating is that AOCcis now part of the very part of government that not only authorized the previous administration to separate children from their 'parents' at the border, but she is also part of the part of government that can suspend the practice, but she insists on acting as the helpless victim.

    How much money will AOC/Democrats authorize to house 40,000 illegal border crossers/month for the 20+ days it takes to process their asylum claims? So far, their answer is to eliminate ICE.

  17. Re: Benefits not shared with workforce on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Says Labor Shouldn't Have To Fear Automation (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Houses are built with nails, not screws - nail guns are the tool you want to reference, and I wouldn't call that automation.

  18. Re: Benefits not shared with workforce on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Says Labor Shouldn't Have To Fear Automation (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    She's an economist - but the best job she could find was as a bartender - with an expensive education (Boston U?).

  19. Re: cut full time down to 30-32 hours and Medicare on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Says Labor Shouldn't Have To Fear Automation (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 0

    FYI - the last time we 'reformed' health care in America, 2010 with the PPACA, the Obama administration guaranteed insurance companies profits. That was when his party had absolute control of both chambers of Congress plus the whitehouse, and passed their reform promising to not add 'one thin dime' to the national debt and passed their reform without partisan compromise - they passed it without republican votes.

    It hasn't even been 10 years and now Democrats want to blow-up last decade's reforms along with the entire industry.

  20. Re: cut full time down to 30-32 hours and Medicare on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Says Labor Shouldn't Have To Fear Automation (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Canada has a doctor shortage, why wouldn't America suffer the same fate if we adopt a Canadian style healthcare system?

    From 2019:

    https://www.thetelegram.com/in...

    From 2017:

    https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada...

  21. Re: cut full time down to 30-32 hours and Medicare on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Says Labor Shouldn't Have To Fear Automation (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 0

    Unless they leave the medical profession and decide to take their big brains and practice law, finance, get into the hard sciences or anything else.

    Go ask Canada what it looks like when you decide doctors will just accept pay cuts... you run out of doctors.

    The scariest thing in the Canadian healthcare system isn't the exceptional wait for certain procedures, it's that you'll need to find a new doctor because your doctor retired.

  22. Re: Trump is a traitor, & you're a deficit haw on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Says Labor Shouldn't Have To Fear Automation (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Debt doubled under Clinton, and Bush, and Obama, and it will likely double under Trump... and you know what, it will probably double under the next Democrat President after 2024 election too.

  23. Re: Benefits not shared with workforce on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Says Labor Shouldn't Have To Fear Automation (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    As a result, over the last 20+ years, Microsoft has successfully cheated the state of Washington out of many billions of dollars in taxes. GooG, Facebook and many other companies are doing the same thing using shell companies in Bermuda and other foreign countries.

    Would the State of Washington be better off if those 11K employees all moved to Nevada?

    Of course not.

  24. Re: Benefits not shared with workforce on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Says Labor Shouldn't Have To Fear Automation (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    A family today can live as your parents did, but they'll be missing a lot of 'toys' we take for granted/expect:

    - no cable/internet/wireless bill
    - pay cash for major purchases
    - fix items rather than replace
    - cut your own grass
    - clean your own house
    - drive to your vacation
    - etc.

  25. Re: Benefits not shared with workforce on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Says Labor Shouldn't Have To Fear Automation (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    You are missing something critical here: If you paid the ditch digger all of the money you saved by buying an earth mover, then what's the point of the earth mover?

    This.

    Why would a business invest in automation without the potential of lowering costs/increasing profits?

    Bill Gate's 'Robot Tax' is a stupid idea - imagine you have an auto plant that used to employ 1,000 workers, but post-automation only requires 250 workers. Bill Gates posits that the factory retains some responsibility for those displaced workers, and thus must pay a 'Robot Tax' sufficient to provide for those 750 displaced workers.

    That's asinine.