"Once picked, the fruit can also be sorted by colour so that, for example, red apples can be separated from green apples." So it can compare apples and oranges. Thanks I'm done
You beat me to that joke. Well played.
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#92Earlier quoted context omitted.
>Replace "white" with "jewish" and you'd fit right in with holocaust deniers/apologist. So just to be clear, you have no problem with ethnically cleansing a nation to change its political disposition? What? You're insinuating we're going through a White Holocaust and I'm apologizing for it. You gotta be out of your mind. "Ethnic cleansing"??? Take a breath and realize you're comparing concentration camps to people mi…
You didn't answer the question: You think it is okay to purposefully and systematically replace one ethnic group with another to achieve your political ends? Your desire meets the UN's definition of genocide, congrats: (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
You are WAY out of line here. The poster made a joke about the NRA, and you're invoking the fucking Holocaust? It's amazing how humourless NRA fans are.
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#93I don't know, people are really really good at things like this (picking fruit), which robots are generally speaking very bad at, and migrant labor is cheap. Why is this a disruptor?
For starters, not every country is the US, we don't all have vast hordes of illegals willing to work for next to nothing. Secondly, and without wanting to start a political thread, the US might not either soon because President Trump. Overall there's a point at which this becomes economical (just as there was a point at which automated harvesting of every other crop became economical starting with the 19th century) a…
Never thought I'd see someone endorse trump on hn. September never ends I suppose.
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#94Capital trumps labour, yet again. Talk about a brave new (terrible) world. How is anybody without amazing talent, IQ, and luck in the birth-location lottery, supposed to survive? How are these awful machines helping to advance the wellbeing of humanity? By destroying livelihoods for a few pennies cheaper bananas to those who can already afford to pay more?
If we get enough of this kind of technology, then Basic Income might become a reality, through sheer political necessity.
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#95Earlier quoted context omitted.
You had me agreeing until the part about the NRA base going down with increased immigration. Now I'm all for it.
Purposeful demographic replacement of white people to achieve political ends. Lovely.
No one said "white". They said "immigrant". Incoming people of all colours are less likely to be pro-NRA than the average multi-generation American.
I can't prove this, but I bet it's true.
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#96Earlier quoted context omitted.
Actually, it might not be yours; neither of those statements are true. Investigate how much the U.S. government spends on farming subsidies per year and then consider the fact that nutritious food which isn't loaded with pesticides, hormones, radiation, etc is currently considered a luxury good.
Radiation?
Most meat and produce is irradiated, yes.
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#97Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Purposeful demographic replacement of white people to achieve political ends. Lovely. Why is being white so important? What's the difference? If the difference is no NRA, sounds like a decent trade to me.
>Why is being white so important? What's the difference? Replace "white" with "jewish" and you'd fit right in with holocaust deniers/apologist. So just to be clear, you have no problem with ethnically cleansing a nation to change its political disposition?
I'm a bit confused about why you (seem to) think that is a good analogy?
One wrinkle that might be part of your idea is that instead of comparing the act of promoting immigration to the act of genocide, you are instead comparing the defense of promoting immigration to a denial or approval of genocide. Perhaps this is what the analogy is based on?
However, I expect that you are aware that many people distinguish between killing members of a group or preventing them from reproducing, against just outnumbering the group? Some people tend to distinguish between those.
Another thing, you use the term "ethnically cleanse". The association's people generally have for that term usually include an active eradication. Not just ending up being in the minority of the population. Similarly, due to the word "racial" in the phrase, people often interpret it as referring to an act of effecting in a targeted manner those of some specific "race".
most People would generally not describe the act of dropping fat man and little boy as being acts of "racial cleansing", though they did result in the drastic decrease of a population of a particular ethnicity in a region. People are more interested in the number of deaths that occurred, and other damage done, than they are on the impacts on the population of a particular ethnicity.
For most people to consider something to be intended as "racial cleansing", they generally have to consider the the intent behind the action to be motivated by "racial" things, not just the action to happen to have an effect on "racial" things.
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#98Earlier quoted context omitted.
You didn't answer the question: You think it is okay to purposefully and systematically replace one ethnic group with another to achieve your political ends? Your desire meets the UN's definition of genocide, congrats: (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
You are WAY out of line here. The poster made a joke about the NRA, and you're invoking the fucking Holocaust? It's amazing how humourless NRA fans are.
Read their replies. It wasn't a joke. To that poster, people are interchangeable parts of a machine, to be swapped out when one isn't working in the desired way.
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Purposeful demographic replacement of white people to achieve political ends. Lovely.
No one said "white". They said "immigrant". Incoming people of all colours are less likely to be pro-NRA than the average multi-generation American. I can't prove this, but I bet it's true.
And the vast majority of immigrants are non-white.
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#100Cool. Robots.
http://www.fanuc.eu/uk/en/robots
"With more than 100 models, FANUC offers the widest range of industrial robots in the world."