Might be, but in our living spaces there are other considerations as well, namely aesthetics. I don't want a robot track in my ceiling. Besides, that ceiling track won't be very handy for outside chores.

As a businessman I think he is right, the human body is extremely complex because it tries to be a one size fits all solution to everything.

That would be a pretty handy design feature in a robot as well. I don't want to buy a half-dozen robots to do different things if I can buy one that does everything.

But a 50% increase in limbs will raise the cost of the robot.

No. Alternatives have been tried and found to be monumentally disastrous.

He can get away with "propability" as long as he's not writing.

I live in the country with the freest press in the world, so you'd expect there to be less fearmongering.

Quite the opposite. I would expect to find less fearmongering in less free countries.

Likely it won't be a few, but many, however that can not be proven either.

There's no reason to believe this is true. The LNT model is known to overestimate cancer incidence, and even using LNT we get "few" and not "many".

I'd just as soon "Peggy" found something else to do. The entire "shortage" is a mythical construct of tech companies engaged in their biannual attempt to raise the H1-B cap.

If you need to be convinced to take up programming you probably won't be very good at it anyway.

I broke out MOO2 the other day and was a little worried it might not hold up. It does. Somehow they got everything just about right in that game.

Internet to your dwelling is not a right. If your neighborhood doesn't have Google fiber and it means that much to you, move to a neighborhood that does.

You get paid what someone else is willing to pay, no matter what your position is - unless your argument is the process by which the board settles on an offer is somehow corrupt, the CEOs of banks and tech companies get paid exactly the right amount.

How much of this is just because flying isn't sexy any more? Even before 9/11 commercial flight transitioned from a luxury enjoyed by people with money to a Greyhound bus trip at altitude. People used to see pilots as, you know, dashing guys with an unusual skill, and these days they're seen as glorified bus drivers. Some of that has to rub off on general aviation.

Yeah, reading the title I was all ready to gin up some outrage, but if they have to sign up it falls more under the category of a service than government harassment.

I work in a unionized environment. All wages are in contractual 'bands', every job is evaluated and placed in an appropriate band based on required skill, risk, shift, education, etc.

This means that, within the band, we all know each other's pay if we bother to look up a job classification and leaf through to the most recent contract's appendix.

We all seem to continue working without being at each other's throats.

What is more interesting here is that, while Norway obviously doesn't necessarily recognize a legal bucket a bitcoin can easily fit into, it's nevertheless viewing them as having some worth or profitability...

If you buy and sell anything the tax authorities will be waiting for their cut. They don't particularly care what it is.