John: Just put up your hand and say, 'I swear I won't kill anyone.'
Terminator: [Raises hand] I swear I will not kill anyone.
[stands up and shoots the guard on both knees]



He'll live.

yeah, when amazon gas partial outages like last year... it makes plenty of headlines http://www.zdnet.com/amazon-we... http://www.businessweek.com/ar...

"5 Meaningless buzzwords not worth your time"

Yeah yeah these things exist... and have existed for decades.

I want small-scale farming bots... preferably solar powered. I want a magical garden that requires no effort, but which provides me with some fruits/veggies/grains.

In a professional dangerous situation, companies tend to have an E&O policy (Errors and omissions). This is different from a typical liability scenario that you are describing. In an E&O policy, in order for your rate to return back to normal after a loss, you must mitigate the scenario that caused the loss, such as replacing riggings with safer models, increasing training, etc etc.

A loss is still expensive, and it does increase rates as I described.

Source: For the last decade I have coded and run automated professional risk assessment software for E&O at a Fortune top 10 company.

It is cheaper to hire people to do it, even if occasionally you have to pay a higher spike in insurance rates when a person dies.

Until human life is A LOT more expensive, or robot solutions are a lot cheaper, it will be cost effective to skinsource menial but complex and dangerous jobs.

We like to pay lipservice to all kinds of factors, but it all comes down to money.

We won't betray you, but if we do, we will just hire a female CEO and blame it all on her.

they make me a nightmare for people like you.

because as a society we value credentials, we do not value education.

Only adults should have hands? Fuck you.

nobody asked for 4k, so if you must check off the checkbox, make people who pretend they want it pay for it.

because other countries protect their citizens against such practices. They don't worry about it because they don't have to, the barrier for entry is much higher than just "Microsoft donated a lot of money to congress so they got 500,000 HIB visas pushed through"

The middle manager's job is to prove to his boss that all of his employees are actually doing something. The Emailed pdf serves as a daily reminder that "we are doing stuff."

Emailed PDF: "Just a quick reminder from the server that your employees are busy working hard, feel free to not read this."
vs
Dashboard: "Do my employees even do anything?? I guess I will go look that up."

strip everything down to "why do I still get a paycheck" and you will get to the answer, you never want to allow the big boss to think "do they even do anything?" Email is a preemptive strike against your boss's boss having to seek out that answer

And the masses burned their skinny jeans in protest, ballsacks and knees everywhere rejoiced.

I have all our media files on 2 fileservers (old desktops with big hard drives), then I have a distributed webserver with metadata stored on a cassandra cluster. All 6 desktops/laptops are members, so any of them can serve up a request for file lists/images/"channel" listings. This replaced a perfectly working setup with static xml files for metadata, but I wanted to learn cassandra.

I am trying to "embrace" the cloud so my eventual setup will be to have no dedicated servers at all, but to have the ragtag collection of active desktops and laptops in my house and have server type stuff I do now be more or less distributed (7 people live and use computers in my house)