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This time it is different because automation has reached the levels when it impacts most jobs profoundly and the remaining or newly created job require more skills and deeper speci…

The making of the robot will produce tax revenue, however will not necessarily produce the tax revenue in the same jurisdiction. Also new wealth produced by the robot is likely to …

Existing tax systems burden labour more heavily, than capital. This is because capital can flee easily, but labour cannot. A dollar doesn't have a spouse, kids, parents, siblings, …

Commonwealth and Irish citizens resident in UK could vote, whereas resident EU citizens could not. A democracy is about people whose lives will be significantly affected by a decis…

On the topic of Restraint of trade ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restraint_of_trade ) clause which some companies insist on: in very few cases a company will take a former employe…

Agree, in Java (and any other language) the main culprit is not the complexity that can eventually be abstracted away, but the trivial noise that cannot be abstracted at all: verbo…

The essence of the argument here is that Java is a poor language as it doesn't offer simple abstraction to copy standard input into standard output; that Java is too verbose and lo…

"Purchase" doesn't quite reflect modern TOC, I believe the more exact term would be "pay a premium for a longer term license to view video content that is revokable at vendor's wil…

The reasons why existing video services do not work for me and I've tried Google Play and Amazon Instant so far: - Lack of on-demand high quality (true 1080) option: Google Play is…

spindritf, not necessarily, we don't know the initial temperature of the water and on a hot day (as per the problem statement) the ice-water system will be absorbing some of the ex…

Since water reaches its peak density at about 4 °C, the actual outcome will vary slightly depending on the initial and the final temperature of the water once the ice has melted.

This list is a sign of a viable business if anything else. Any company needs to stay forever young by keeping its offerings in line with the demand. Companies that fail are the one…

I believe this still to be a very good advice and applies to both sexes. In family life circumstances when a household must depend only on a single source of income are abound. Fam…

Contemporary LED lighting does seem much harsher with very sharp shadows and much less pleasant to the eye than older lights. I believe that lighting need to be assessed on it's ov…

At a job like this one's mind is free to ponder on whatever matters it considers important. Certainly so after the period of initial accustomisation which can be physically hard un…

Understanding downside is much more crucial for continual survival than upside: what is the worse case scenario, bottom line analysis - are the heuristic tools routinely used by pe…

My experience of having gone through a relationship with an abusive cheater and subsequent two-years research on the topic reading confessions and engaging with fellow men indicate…

I am 35 and I share this mindset about close relationships. Family is similar to a start-up in that founders should be prepared to carry each other through ups and downs pooling th…

A lot of modern high-paying jobs that require rare skills are all-or-nothing affairs: the choice between fewer hours & less pay and more hours & more money just isn't there. Some t…

This. He had likely abandoned his well-paying job because of burn-out caused by the long hours and lack of appreciation at home where he was treated as an ATM. I am talking from pe…

Could that be a forecasting system that notifies the driver just in time for him to react about what is going to happen in a next moment?

To me it is not clear why stealing the proprietary code could have cost CG hundreds of millions of dollars. Proprietary code that wasn't developed and tested with generic requireme…

The original Vanity Fair article tries very hard to paint a picture of a stereotypical overly naive techy. Little carefully inserted details such as pain-the-back side of having to…

I regularly see developers going out of business because they are not charging enough. I have been doing software consulting for the past six years and I charge higher rate than an…

Poor GPU support (lack of drivers) is still a major deal-breaker for home and media use. As of now hardware should still be selected on the basis of available driver support and it…