British politicians become more - Well, what is the right word for it? - nuts and nuts in recent years. Their chieftain is Cameron, but there are other super strange and politic actors around, like Farage. Also Tony Blair the previous chieftain was not much different. There are a lot of funny stories about him and his wife about not so scientific methods. However, they are only there to play politics while Murdoch decides what public opinion is and the City decides what real politics have to look like.

Maybe, they will sink themselves and vote for Brexit. We will see.

Who would have thought that? Or to say it with Louis de Funés (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GioEH34fhxE)

C: They do not trust you anymore.
LdF: No
C: qui
LdF: Oooooh!
C: They think you are spying on them.
LdF: No
C: qui
LdF: Oooooh!
C: They will not buy any stuff from you anymore.
C: qui
LdF: Oooooh!

However, you are lucky the Europeans will either by your shit or the Chinese one.

Medical science has no clue how allergies are acquired. They know it is a failure happening in the immune system. However it is unclear why. Some assume that it happens when an allergen looks similar to a previously llearned molecule from a virus or bacteria. Others assume exposure . The article assume lack of exposure. All three are hypotheses but we do not have a conclusive model for the issue. Nor do we know how to unlearn things.

Correct. Fix the problem not the symptom. But big oil and big coal will never do that. Furthermore, conservatives think that they are the only one who know what is right. And if they think its right it must be right.

Great idea. First, we foster the greenhouse effect with aerosols. Second, we shield the atmosphere with more aerosols. Instead of breaking something and try to fix it by breaking another thing. It would be more wise to stop messing around. However, that would not be in the interest of the fossil fuel industry. And it is against the idea that a conservative can never do wrong.

Look at Norway if you want to see a functioning system. It is not a technological problem it is a political, sociological, and phsychological problem. Have a look and read carefully this comment on the Guardian http://www.theguardian.com/com...

In every poster, paper and talk we give the affiliation is specified which pays us. Furthermore, if the project is financed by a research fund, private company, the government or the EU, we must add a funded by clause to the publication. If the research project has a website, the funding is mentioned there too.

And that is what exactly? I do not need Uber. I could use MyTaxi or even talk to someone over the phone and call for a Taxi. However, in a decent city there is something called public transport. And when I can wait 10 minutes for a cab, I can also wait for a bus or local train to bring me home for a fraction of the price. Owning a zone card. That trip would not cost me any extra. Actually every time I use public transport it is beocming cheaper.

Money is always a loan of someone. Presently, a lot came from the central banks. If they rise the price for money or reduce the size of lended money it will go bust. Money is not a real thing. It has no fixed value. Same applies to gold or any other thing you use to describe wealth. However, as long as the intrest rates are higher in the US. A lot of European money is transferred to the US, lowering the Euro which makes products from there cheaper. This allows the Germans to sell more stuff in the US increasing a cashflow back to the EU. With the upcoming TTIP and TISA agreements this will even improve for money owners. However, housprices, house rentals, water supply etc. will become more expensive for the average people.

It is full of flawed logic. It was either a template based generator who does not check on the internal logic of the generated output. Or it was a clueless human which is the wetware implementation of the same thing. Even if it were true that their is a high demand in skilled coders, then this would lead to automation, but this would result in just another level of abstraction and would require even more skilled workers. Beside that, I just had a conversation yesterday, that they were unable to port an old Access database to a real database in a two years project with eight developers. Now they are using code monkeys to handle the tables in Excel. If resources could be wasted like that then there is first a boost in professionalism required.

You are wrong. This is a typical misconception. A brain works quite differently based on some analogous pattern and with certain chemicals affecting the processing. We actually do not know how the brain really works and why it works that way. Therefore, you cannot conclude your brain model out of the observations. If you ever had a hunch, you should know that your brain is able to come up with ideas which you are not able to determine logically.

Normally people are not irrational, they just do not know what they need. Therefore, it is ITs job to dive in the realm of the customer and learn their language and domain. The task is called domain engineering and requires skills in sociology, phsychology, and computer science. It works that way when working with engineers as customers in the same way as with business people, however, the meaning of words totally different. The engineers are even more complicated. We were developing a domain specific language for a specific type of embedded systems and wanted to know what they do the most and what they would like to be covered. The answer was, that they will program in any language they were ordered to use. So we needed to approach that differently ;-)

So yes, you are right in your conclusion, but the bitterness speaking out of the words "clueless users" is a little bit misplaced. It is like an undertaker who complains about dead people being always so uncooperative. "Why can't they wash themselves? They did it all their lifetime."

First of all, the argumentation of the article is wrong. And second, the automation of coding is no new thing happening in this world. At the beginning of programming people draw solutions on paper, then encoded them in machine operations and pushed holes in punchcards. All these tasks were first done by humans and then subsequently transferred to machines and computers, by assemblers, compilers and later build systems. As time passed only the jobs where algorithms had to be written remained making compilers and assemblers workless. Since then complexity of software increased and better programming languages allowed to structure programming even more. Nowadays, we have four distinct areas of software systems: Embedded systems, desktop software (which includes to some degree app programming), enterprise systmes, and high performance computing.

Embedded systems are mostly reactive systems and they have to fulfill high savety standards. Therefore, they use specific languages to achieve this combined with verification. However, standard C for example, allows for too many errors therefore they limit the use of certain constructs in the language. Furthermore, they use domain specific languages (DSL) to abstract from plain C. In addition they use libraries for specific reoccuring functions. For desktop systems, OS wirting has similarities to embedded systems, however the main effort is put into programming applications and apps. Therefore, people use any number of frameworks which provide a specific API which is also seen as internal DSLs and use external DSLs often encoded in XML to describe the UI and other typical tasks of their applications. In enterprise computing the use of DSLs is even more widespread. For example, most people use there templating languages such as JSF or GWT with various extensions. They also use DSLs to define the data model and queries on that data model. Also workflows can be formulated in BPMN or BPEL. All these technologies have been used to rise the level of abstractions. Therefore, present day coders do not need to know that much about implementing an specific algorithm, they more need to be able to find the right function in their DSL and frameworks. This even lowered the barrier for people to enter programming compared to systems around the 1980/90s when it was necessary to be able to implement quicksort. True, today it is harder to get started with programming, but that is beside the point.

In future, we will even more use people to model software. They will use any number of modeling languages to do so. And they will still be required to think logically. We might have less webdesigners, but hey when the few remaining designers would be able to not only draw "nice" interfaces, but would also understand that what they design is there to be used to communicated between human and machine, then we are in a better world than now. The only problem I see, is the unwillingness of you computer scientists to go into modelling. And that compared with the fact that most of them are not really able to code. And yes, those poeple will have a real big problem in future. People who are able to write generators, however, will have a superb future and a lot of work.

An alien invasion could be detected by satellite control radar for earth orbit. However, if they use stealth technology. We would only be able to see them after landing. If they try to infiltrate us by replacing one by one with remote controlled automatons, then we would see that only on a personal level (at least in the West, because we normally do not care about our neighbors that much).

However, it is totally stupid to think that any alien able to travel to the stars requires our planet.

To make people jobs back in the industrial revolution we had to fight for the rights of workers. Very hard. And with a lot of bloodshed. As the industrial revolution had also destroyed old family structures where the young cared for the old, and the healthy cared for the sick, we had to invent retirement funds and health care systems. We also required to develop an unemployment protection. Furthermore, an education system was required to educate the people. In addition we got higher output from farms and industry. As we had a real demand gap, as not all people had sufficient clothes and food, an massive increase in production was a good thing to support them.

Now in the next step we will eradicate a lot of jobs which were suitable for present day humans. The new jobs which are created are all for higher education or caring jobs. However, most of present day workers could not be educated in a way to reach higher education. This is impossible. Furthermore, we have now no gap in demand of important resources in the Western world. Therefore, the workforce will be reduced. As the state is normally funded based on income tax of workers, this has also an impact on state finances. A solution would be to tax profit, but present govenrments try to avoid that.

Therefore, time does not repeat. The preconditions are quite different. The effects are different. And the outcome will be different. However, to stay in your picture. We will have to fight for our rights again. Including unconditional basic income, education towards self-improvement rather than wealth. Taxing profit, finance transactions etc. and it will cause a lot of bloodshed.