Automation has been going on since the industrial revolution, yet new jobs seem to keep on being created. My current job didn't really exist twenty years ago.

People keep predicting the obsolescence of humans but unemployment these days in most rich world economies is not that high. That said, it would be good if we had better ways of measuring employment beyond the binary employed/unemployed states. If someone's not claiming unemployment benefit and working then it's assumed that they're doing okay, but they might be working three minimum wage jobs and barely getting by. That should be as worrying to policy-makers as someone not working at all. Then we might be in a better position to see if we're at the point where we need a universal basic income.

Version 1 - "Cool"
Version 2 - "WTF? Why are you doing this? I loved version 1! I'm going to Orkut!"
Version 3 - "WTF? Why are you doing this? I loved version 2! I'm going to MySpace!"
Version 4 - "WTF? Why are you doing this? I loved version 3! I'm going to Ebo!" (or whatever that black & white social network was called)
Etc..

They use the TV as a monitor?! What are they using, Amigas?

When did it become illegal to recruit from a competing company? Did they have some sort of non-poaching agreement? TFA doesn't mention any such thing.

No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame.

Ah, the old "developing countries need running water, not computers" trope. Is this /. myth ever going to die? Look at how India's economy has been transformed by embracing the tech industry and get a clue about how things work.

First half: Trump is spying
Second half: Obama was not spying

Fixed that for you.

Huh? 44 tonnes is the maximum weight in the UK. 12 tonnes is nothing.

Ha! The mortgage tax deduction is a massive transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich.

I'm aware of that. My point was about my mortgage deduction lowering my tax bill by $2,200.

It's being quietly phased out in Ireland too. No sign of that happening in the US though.

You do realise it takes quite a while to make a scripted TV show, right? A strike now will make itself felt a lot later in the year.

VAT is an indirect (sales) tax, so it's collected alongside income tax.

I was filling my return in yesterday. I was owing the feds $200 until I put in my mortgage interest deduction. Suddenly Uncle Sam owed me $2000. Property taxes are negligible given the system that's skewed in favor of home owners who take a massive benefit from the general population's tax contributions. It's a huge driver of income inequality.