I'm having trouble understanding why I care if the ousted workers stop caring. Why is incentivizing the workers left behind to retrain to a new industry is a necessary thing?

Ah, yes, sorry, sometimes I miss humor over the pipes.

I tend to think we can easily (in solution, if not in political will) create a solution that takes the pain away from the displaced workers. Sadly, many people oppose something akin to basic income or robust unemployment insurance.

Notice nowhere did I say that we ought stifle innovation. I said that the luddites were correct, and that the inevitable increase in the standard of living did not affect them in their lifetime.

It makes sense to claim that the costs can be mitigated by helping those workers displaced, and society can still benefit as a whole. Heck, the displaced weavers could have been paid their salary til retirement, and the increased production still would have resulted in a modest short-term increase in the standard of living, and following their retirement a substantially larger standard of living.

But that wasn't the case you made. You made a mocking, disparaging case towards those concerned about the displaced workers. And then you shifted the goalposts dramatically .

Millions of people fly in airplanes every day that rely on computer controls (since there is no mechanical linkage between the pilot and the control surfaces). And 30,000 people die each year at the hands of human drivers.

You mean the airplanes that have people with a clear view of every vehicle for 100+ miles literally telling each one of them where to be? Where there are three dimensions of freedom, so two planes on a similar course can still be 1000 feet way from each other (and in fact it is considered dangerous to keep them in the same altitude), Where the vehicle density is at least four orders of magnitude less than cars?

The power looms did take away their jobs and make those with jobs into far more dangerous and unhappy ones. Eventually, it worked out so everyone alive at the time it worked out benefited. But the luddites were absolutely correct in that it lowered their individual standard of living.

If I recall correctly, there are neural networks being used in medical diagnostics. There is a recognition that they have flaws, but then again, so do human beings.

Of course, they are supposed to inform the doctor, not be blindly followed. Which means in N years, they will be blindly followed.

Yes, Amazon wants no more publishers to get a cut, just them and the author. And yes, they will want to lower the author's incentive to the minimum necessary for them to write., But not lower than that.

The publisher's aren't just representing the author. They are middle men.

Amazon will simply replace them with one vertically integrated company.

Worse for authors, maybe, but it owuld be beyond stupid for them to make it worse than the alternative.

I don't put jack shit out there w/o it being encrypted.

So I copy it now, and 10 years from now, and then cannot read it til XYZ-[KEY SIZE] encryption is broken/ineffective? Or capture tons of it, and just trust I can steal the keys later.

The "compare two tweets" functionality is broken.
Submitting the form leads to a 403 Forbidden error.

If I turn it off overnight, every night, it barely changes the time between charges. Idle is clearly not consuming much.

Or "off" is consuming far more power than you would think.

It gets them a feed into the microphone/earpiece on the other phone, and a gag order giving your friend 20 years in jail if he warns you. And a plea deal where he gets 6 months if you confess, or 20 years if he doesn't convince you to.

I've repeatedly asked companies to accept my public source code, review it and ask me about it, if they wish.

That can be a lot of work, to identify a significant enough contiguous chunk you wrote, understand it, and ask about it. Have you offered to highlight one interesting (and small) section that you checked in that shows your skills?

Or a small section that shows off how you were able to work within a larger codebase while maintaining stability.

I'll follow some directions to read your code, but I'm not willing to spend that much time if its too hard to parse what I should care about.

I never got "search don't sort". Amazingly, I find I'm better at sorting (esp labelling) than searching.

But I found a lot of the changes quite frustrating. I don't need an internal windowing system built into the browser, I have an OS.

Gmail may soon look nothing like the Gmail we all know so well

Wait, didn't that already happen. A bunch of times?