University research creates the jobs of the future. How are they behind in teaching what they're laying the path for? Maybe specific universities don't conduct research or integrate that research with their undergraduate program. Mine did though, so no problem here.

If they're talking about courses that are still being taught for careers which are disappearing, then that's a totally valid concern. The way to fix that is to rate the University programs on job placement success. My university did that too, it was part of their sales pitch even.

This article seems to be about some universities not performing well on the measures that are already in place for differentiating between good and not so good universities. What's the solution then? Research before applying.

With an increasingly dispersed workforce, knowing how to use asynchronous communication mediums like Snapchat, txt messaging and Instagram will become more important than reading body language and listening to tonal changes in someone's voice. I've been interviewing for remote jobs and they do filter people out who don't have these newer communication skills.

I think it's also wise to consider that the youth will determine the culture of the future, not us. So what they're doing now is what everyone will be doing in twenty years.

Knowing how to improvise when something deviates from the norm matters in manufacturing, accounting and farming. Literally every discipline needs critical thinking and creative problem solving, else everything grinds to a halt while all the peons wait for the specialist to arrive and get things going again when anything unexpected happens.

Don't worry, the CEO of humanity will save us.

There's a YouTube star who consistently gets over 30 million views?

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So the mortgage payment for a middle class home goes up by 1-2% but their electric bill goes down by 2-4%. Seems like a good deal for the middle class.

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Every carrier has an SMS gateway. They could simply require you verify your phone number with their gateway before being able to use it and then that way they could use your real number in the SMS.

These laws need some basic formatting and links. Markdown provides that and is much easier to use, read, understand and modify. So why are they using XML?

My guess is that they exported the laws from word as XML because that's built-in, not caring about what to do next.

Git supports PGP signatures on commits; so yeah, it's like blockchain but with less dispute resolution built in.

I had a job applicant farm out his code sample to an Indian contractor. I caught him because they used GitHub and the only commits that were his were merges from the contractor. Imagine having such a system show how many of our laws are written by lobbyists.

This was my first thought after reading the article. Mosquitos are particularly risky to genetically modify due to how they interact with other species. What are the chances that they might bite and exchange the gene drive DNA with another species with a similar enough gene sequence to the target of the gene drive? And what if the gene drive mutates within the mosquito population in a way that better targets other species?

Hopefully one stage of lab testing involves a massive hermetically sealed warehouse full of millions of mosquitoes and a wide variety of their prey.

Yes

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I agree 100% with you here. I was just pointing out that we can't rely on the algorithms themselves; we or our government needs to increase the immediate expenses of greenhouse gas pollution.

We can impact the financial calculations through boycotts and negative publicity. Eventually, companies that aren't even in our sights will lower their emissions to get good publicity.

The financial penalty for combating climate change is more immediate than the cost of letting it happen. So I suspect the algorithm will give people a pretty negative view on acting on climate change. Combating climate change is also very disruptive to existing markets which makes it hard to account for in existing financial models.

So Equifax lost really sensitive data to the hacker black market and doesn't get fined, while Uber recovers less critical data and gets a substantial fine? I'm no fan of Uber and I guess neither were these states.

I buy prepaid SIM cards when I travel as it's a lot cheaper than buying an international travel plan/allowance from an American carrier. With this system in place I wouldn't be able to access any of my apps or accounts.

I'm pretty sure the execs are rubbing their greedy hands together with sly smiles expecting us all to get even more locked into our overpriced American mobile service plans, which will become more expensive once this identification mechanism achieves general acceptance.