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Information Technology has always had the purpose of obsoleting white collar jobs. Creating some new jobs along the way, but obsoleting more than it creates. "Computer" used to be …

How should they know that your bot belongs to a potential customer and not to a competitor surveilling their prices? Not a rhetorical question, because most companies would welcome…

All wealth is held by olds, but that doesn't mean that all olds are rich. All basketball players are tall, but that doesn't mean that all tall people are basketball players.

Not strange. All the money and wealth is in the hands of the olds and olds need much more health care than the young. So it's a gold rush to get their juicy dollars.

Nokia was able to match and surpass Apple in taste on all fronts with their N9 phone and MeeGo OS. So it is possible, but how to do it I couldn't tell, since all large organization…

By any and every means available, but not mostly by whipping workers harder.

Thank you comrade for your alert senses! You correctly identified that anybody who pretends to be a "moderate" voice or utters any kind of even light criticism towards the Party pr…

Economic growth also comes from getting more for less. A company can increase their profits by growing and increasing both what they spend and what they earn. But a company can als…

That leaves a lot of free energy sources untapped - especially hydro.

Hobby programming is not a "community".

"Users began expecting something fundamentally different from software: not just tools that store and retrieve, but products that reason, generate, and respond." Absolutely not. Cu…

Consider everything it takes in organization to be able to send rockets to space and bring them back. That kind of organization would be able to do anything. There is where the val…

iPad with attachable keyboard is perfect for the elderly. Change your parents to one or two of those instead.

Both of your examples are software from Meta and Google. Those companies ship what cannot be called anything else than malware. But it is possible to stop Chrome from updating and …

No, there is no way to help them. But the coming generations of elderly will be more resistant, as they've grown up in an all-scam society. You could stand in real life in front of…

These kind of pre-packaged ice cream cones have taken a huge dive in quality during the past decade and today they more resemble a mixture of sewage fat, sugar and cardboard.

I would say that "cancelling" is mostly organized groups of people publicly shaming and harassing third parties to get to their victim. So like demanding that his employer fires hi…

If you're writing about something which exists in reality, then it is possible to take a photo of it. If you're writing about something which doesn't exist in reality, then it shou…

I think that people upvote these kind of posts for the sake of seeing if can generate any interesting conversation in the comments.

Firing somebody for it is ridiculous? If you say that, then you are also obliged as a customer to keep giving your money to companies who do not perform as expected. You have no ri…

People even plan their pregnancies around government benefits and maternity leave regulations. The mass machine man is the norm.

Mindset is: 1. Can I benefit from it? A Yes -> Do it B No -> Don't do it Variable: What is the risk of getting caught and is it worth risking? Many or most people operate on this p…

The title question is about people doing work on Intel Macs. Working tools for most skilled professions should cost and mostly do cost a couple of monthly salaries. They should pay…

Millions of card transactions are made every day. If consumers worried, they wouldn't have credit or debit cards and they wouldn't use credit or debit cards. What a single hacker w…

Your bank will refund any stolen money if your card is stolen.