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Comment Re:A reminder to prioritise asteroid defence/space (Score 1) 39

The first step to surviving somewhere else is locating a somewhere else that is better than trying to live on Earth after it has been hit by an asteroid. Unfortunately Mars fails this test. In fact we could get hit by an asteroid, have a nuclear war, have the worst possible global warming, and living would still be better on Earth than Mars.

Submission + - Japanese convenience stores are hiring robots run by workers in the Philippines

John.Banister writes: Teleoperated robot workers are here! No more worries about immigrants taking jobs, as the jobs themselves can be exported. Anything that isn't done by the cheapest labor can be exported to where the skilled labor is cheap. And, what better way to train AI replacements than the encoded stimulus and response of teleoperation?

Comment Re:WWIII (Score 2) 61

ICE actually has a ways to go. Some historical US deportations (and remember the population was smaller then):

1930s (Great Depression): A period of mass "repatriations" saw an estimated 1.8 million people of Mexican descent—including many U.S. citizens—rounded up and deported or pressured to leave voluntarily. These were often informal raids and not all were official deportations.

1954: Operation Wetback resulted in the expulsion of hundreds of thousands of individuals, though historians estimate the number was closer to 300,000.

Comment Eventually, less work for humans will be excellent (Score 1) 61

Quoting the story: "Human-only work is forecast to drop 27% over the next five years."

Robots will eventually be excellent for all of us. Most things we buy will cost less.

Maybe we will have 4-day or 3-day work weeks.

Humans will not be doing extremely boring jobs.

Comment Re:I never understood this. (Score 1) 89

My stomach doesn't like me eating large amounts of wheat bread, whereas other grains aren't nearly as bad. I'm quite sure this has nothing to do with gluten, but I guess eating gluten free bread would help because it's not wheat. I can imagine that most self-diagnosed cases of "gluten sensitiveness" is really something else, like low level IBS, or lack of fibers or something similar.

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