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  1. Re:Depression? on Andrew Ng Wants a New 'New Deal' To Combat Job Automation (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Maybe become professional criminals? That's one scenario I've imagined for a world of mass-unemployment...

    Or worse, start wars. Masses of unemployed young men have directly or indirectly triggered many wars, including WWII and the "Arab Spring".

  2. Celebrities, please Shuddup about AI predictions! YOU cannot predict the future. I predict bots will whip blowhard predictors with power cords in the year 2025.

  3. Re:Make Your Own! [Re:Formula for success] on 2017: The Year That Horror Saved Hollywood (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Lose existing plan and lose HC are very DIFFERENT things. Sorry, but my interpretation is what a jury of normal English speakers would agree with. I'm confident in that and would even bet money on it. Your bias appears to make you read it to fit your preconceptions. Good Day, Sir.

  4. Re:It's not a bug, it's a feature on Apple Wins $120 Million From Samsung In Slide-To-Unlock Patent Battle (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    That's how you implement a virtual version of a physical slide-lock. BFD. That's obvious-city in my book. I'd throw it out. Might as well patent explosions in video games because they are virtual. If a video game had a slide-lock door where the player slides it to get into a room, it would have the same legal problem if we follow this crap.

    If you pollute the patent catalog with frivolous shit, you waste time and money and just make lawyers and patent trolls rich.

  5. Regex 101 -- Bullsh&t on Apple Wins $120 Million From Samsung In Slide-To-Unlock Patent Battle (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    software that automatically turned information like a phone number into a tappable link.

    Apple re-invented regular expressions also? Patents are supposed to be "non-obvious" to practitioners in the field. A judge and/or patent reviewer somewhere is incompetent or bribed. Fire their ass!

  6. She never got the proper training for some reason. State Dept. messed up.

  7. They should spend their time actually managing instead of looking at keyboard reports. There's a lot of open issues that managers "don't have time" to address around here that affect productivity.

    If you don't manage properly, then the best snoop-ware will do is get employees to do it wrong faster.

  8. Re:Not a typo: I learned a new word today on Paradise Papers Leak Reveals Apple's Secret Tax Bolthole (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    you're a moron.

    Wait, am I a moron or a butthole? Make up your mind. A dumbfuck told me they were mutually exclusive.

  9. Do not give to Donald Trump.

    Nor Hillary. Let's be bipartisan: Hillary would put it on her personal closet server and T would give it to Putin. Putin would then announce he already got a copy from H's server and hand it back to T.

  10. What?

  11. Re:Make Your Own! [Re:Formula for success] on 2017: The Year That Horror Saved Hollywood (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    A changed plan and "losing healthcare" are very different. As quoted, Sean used the word "lose", which to most English speakers implies one's healthcare outright going away.

  12. He'd just link to Fox News clips; that's where he gets most his information (cough).

  13. Not a typo: I learned a new word today on Paradise Papers Leak Reveals Apple's Secret Tax Bolthole (bbc.com) · · Score: 4, Informative
  14. Re:It looks like China is trying to improve its im on China is Finally Going After Click Farms and Fake Online Sales (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Admittedly, it looks good. But don't forget that with China it is mostly not the laws themselves that are bad. It is the way they are selectively applied that is the problem.

    Just like here: the party in power investigates the party not in power and ignores their own transgressions.

  15. Re:Imperfect Internet Filters !== bad internet on 'Something Is Wrong On the Internet' (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    Boohoo, a kid unfriendly southpark-esc satire slipped through an AI filter

    I got a kick out of it: Toon-Town car crash, Mini Mouse bloody guts spilled, funeral. I'd hate to have young kids see that, but as an (immature?) adult, it's a riot.

    Maybe there's an object lesson for kids: if you run into the street, that's what may happen to you. My young kids kept slipping away and running into the street despite several rounds of stern punishment. Relatives had similar problems with their br...um...kids. Maybe kids need a dose of fear; it may save their life.

  16. Re:Reminds me of the 80's on 'Something Is Wrong On the Internet' (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    Remember when reading comic books and listening to rock and roll music made us all worship Satan?

    Yes. All Hail Bill Gates!

  17. Trolls, gee, whadda surprise on 'Something Is Wrong On the Internet' (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    Any public-submission-based site is going to have trolls, period. It's the Internet Way, not a conspiracy. Such a service has 3 choices:

    1. Live with a certain percentage of troll content and gags

    2. Have an expensive scrubber army to check everything

    3. Don't allow public submissions

  18. Re:Wal-Mart is going to lose this fight. on Amazon Discounts Other Sellers' Products as Retail Competition Stiffens (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    In general, you can pump them empty and run them into the ground if you pay them well. Another tactic is to pay them poorly but make the work-place friendlier. If you filter and prepare hiring correctly, both strategies can work. And there is the in-between. Perhaps Wal-Mart hasn't tuned it right yet. Until management sees their current strategy failing, they won't change.

  19. Re: Can anyone say "monopoly"? on Amazon Discounts Other Sellers' Products as Retail Competition Stiffens (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Being that brick-and-mortar stores are clearly shrinking, the future growth is clearly on-line. You can order directly from many of the traditional stores, but it's often extra steps to register etc. and you don't know what kind of service you'll get if something goes wrong. Amazon is like McDonald's: (relatively) cheap, predictable, and generally reliable.

    Your defense is comparable to saying Microsoft still had minicomputer OS's as competition in the 1990's (Digital, Wang, Prime, etc.). While technically true, it was moot because minicomputers were dying.

    I suppose we can bicker about what "monopoly" means, but the bottom line is that Amazon is gobbling up on-line retail without any sizable major competition, and local shops are shrinking. Walmart is about their only online threat, and Amazon is trying to Netscape them away.

  20. Re:Wal-Mart is going to lose this fight. on Amazon Discounts Other Sellers' Products as Retail Competition Stiffens (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    It's not like Amazon has a workplace reputation for being rainbows and lollipops.

  21. Re: Can anyone say "monopoly"? on Amazon Discounts Other Sellers' Products as Retail Competition Stiffens (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    It's a near monopoly in the USA. We can expect the same kinds of games and tricks Microsoft pulled, such as taking a loss in Market A to gain market share in Market B to force out competition, forced bundling, ghost product announcements, and other tricks pioneered by the likes of Standard Oil and IBM.

  22. CA-Sat [Re:From people who don't understand govt] on The US Has Destroyed A Critical Sea Ice-Measuring Satellite (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    PLUS the manager (the Air Force) is already working on follow-on programs.

    But, will they be ready on time?

    As far as the mismanagement claim, the poster who pointed out all the mismanaged military projects that are KEPT hit the ball out of the park.

    CA's Governor Brown has threatened have CA launch its own satellites if the Fed gov't flakes on climate research. I wonder how GOP would react? #CASA!

  23. Cultures & local econs view degrees differentl on The Disappearing American Grad Student (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    In Asian countries an advanced degree carries far more prestige than it does in the US. In the US, practical skills and team/people skills are weighed more heavily. Titles carry lasting bragging power over there. They tend to defer more to hierarchies and titles. Our "cowboy culture" is that if you can't stay on your horse, you'll eventually be booted off the farm. Loser PhD's still get prestigious do-nothing positions over there, especially in gov't jobs, which there are a lot of because gov't and industry are heavily intertwined. Some say Chinese and Singapore-style governments keep it that way on purpose so that people respect the gov't. Others say it's just cultural respect for hierarchies and authority. Perhaps it's a combo.

    And raw research is often outsourced overseas such that hands-on knowledge is seen as more valuable here. The foreigners getting those advanced degrees will probably be doing the outsourced R&D. If you don't need heavy interaction with other employees, clients, and internal processes; brains are simply cheaper to outsource overseas. Define the issue to research, and email it over to have $10/hr PhD's work on a project. A PhD living in the US cannot compete with $10/hr. The research is then integrated into the company's system/product in the US; so they want practical integrators here, not raw researchers. Advanced degrees don't give you much of that.

    Some also argue Asian govt's rig their currency to keep their wages low. It's hard to really say since the non-democratic systems there are far less transparent than ours. There are a lot of subtle ways to rig the market that are hard to spot by outside inspectors.

    By rigging the currency for cheap labor, the cost of many products will be higher in such countries, but the governments there believe that it gives more people jobs so that they don't riot and overthrow the gov't: less stuff, but more jobs. Defenders of their system sometimes point to the election of Trump as an example of what happens when you let jobs go overseas; the Rust Belt being the sacrificial lambs of "Free Trade".

  24. Re:Make Your Own! [Re:Formula for success] on 2017: The Year That Horror Saved Hollywood (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Only fools go to Politifact as what was once a semi-neutral entity has been completely consumed by the liberal progressives and is now just shilling for the DNC.

    List 3 bad ones from that list of 50.

  25. Re:Sprint fades into mediocrity on Failure of Sprint/T-Mobile Merger Means a Missed Chance To Save $30B (kansascity.com) · · Score: 1

    Oligopolies get rich off mediocrity, because they can. Fewer players means even more profits off of mediocrity. Less Choice = More Suck.