Yeah, this started long before AI, and the AI just made it worse.

Yet so many people will still tout the TMI incident as a "major nuclear accident".

It's not the worst, but even the worst only killed dozens of people where fossil fuels kill millions when working as intended.

I think that the reasons Linus started the project in the first place are what really brought in most of the early users (I know I shared a lot of them).

Certainly #1 on your list was the decider for me, since I was a struggling college student and couldn't afford anything better than a 386SX, and desperately wanted to be able to run something Unixy at home.

False positives are why we have to insist on doing research to verify past studies, and they are inevitable for various reasons.

Accepting that, and funding verification studies, is how a science goes from soft to hard.

This has the ring of deliberate lies.

Get bent.

Even the supply of immigrant labor is starting to dry up at current wages (per OP).

That is definitely a sign that the wages are too low.

If the wages can't be raised without killing the other side of the market, it means that the market for strawberries harvested with human labor is simply unsustainable.

There are always exceptions, people who find their calling in life in places that you wouldn't expect.

I expect that in this case it's going to go to the machines, though.

It's not just a matter of "paying a living wage", it has to be a wage high enough to lure people out of the city to do the job, into the unknown countryside.

That, and city kids will take time to adjust to the physically demanding work, so they won't be as productive at first, either, and trying to force things will result in even more injuries than normal (farm work is already some of the most dangerous out there).

So the farmers would end up stuck paying more for less, the workers would be stressed and unhappy, and everybody loses.

The migrant laborers who do this work year after year actually know what they are doing, and their labor is woefully undervalued.

False equivalence, 10 yard penalty.

As long as a company is obeying the law and not hurting anyone, they are legally and morally in the right.

I've been opting out from Gnome for ages, and I just had to uninstall Pulseaudio on a Fedora 21 installation to fix audio there (premature deployment by Canonical, my ass), so what constitutes "easy choices" for me might not be conceivable for others.

I've just never been the sort of person to impose my somewhat ascetic tastes in computing on others.

I don't use CentOS 7, so I wouldn't be able to do that with any degree of authority, but "yum install sysvinit" would certainly be an interesting place to start.

Mount a scratch monkey before trying it, of course.

Systemd is actually *really* easy to get rid of, you just have to be willing to do without Gnome and other packages that depend upon it.

If you aren't willing to make that choice, then you have chosen to run with it.

Given the extraordinary claim, it is up to Rossi and company to prove themselves correct.

The demo in question is not sufficient to convince anyone who doesn't already believe.

Or it may never have been in the device to begin with:
"The dummy reactor was switched on at 12:20 PM of 24 February 2014 by Andrea Rossi who gradually brought it to the power level requested by us. Rossi later intervened to switch off the dummy, and in the following subsequent operations on the E-Cat: charge insertion, reactor startup, reactor shutdown and powder charge extraction"

Get bad results.

Agriculture has been advancing as fast as any other technology field.

Here are some recent developments: http://www.popularmechanics.co...
and GPS is becoming important to farm competitiveness: https://www.bae.ncsu.edu/topic...

None of this depending on massive fixed installations, so it can be used cost effectively over thousands of acres of fields.