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Comment Any Jobs (Score 1) 47

If you want *any* manufacturing jobs brought back to the US, they are going to be in mostly automated plants. Car companies can barely hire enough workers to cover existing shifts. People don't want to work in factories, and companies don't want to spend $100,000 a year paying workers to stick an automatic torque wrench onto a bolt.

Even completely automated factories large-scale need a few thousand employees to maintain and ship stuff.

Comment Re:And this helps how? (Score 1) 134

That really depends on exactly what definition you are using. I suppose you could argue that yogurt could be made at home in a normal kitchen, but cheddar cheese couldn't. And I've never actually seen anyone make sauerkraut, though people certainly used to do so.

I.e., the first published definition of "ultraprocessed" specified "things that couldn't be made in a normal kitchen". I'll agree that it's a very sloppy definition, but I haven't heard a better one.

Comment Some options I put together in 2010 (Score 1) 47

https://pdfernhout.net/beyond-...
"This article explores the issue of a "Jobless Recovery" mainly from a heterodox economic perspective. It emphasizes the implications of ideas by Marshall Brain and others that improvements in robotics, automation, design, and voluntary social networks are fundamentally changing the structure of the economic landscape. It outlines towards the end four major alternatives to mainstream economic practice (a basic income, a gift economy, stronger local subsistence economies, and resource-based planning). These alternatives could be used in combination to address what, even as far back as 1964, has been described as a breaking "income-through-jobs link". This link between jobs and income is breaking because of the declining value of most paid human labor relative to capital investments in automation and better design. Or, as is now the case, the value of paid human labor like at some newspapers or universities is also declining relative to the output of voluntary social networks such as for digital content production (like represented by this document). It is suggested that we will need to fundamentally reevaluate our economic theories and practices to adjust to these new realities emerging from exponential trends in technology and society."

Comment Re:Welp (Score 1) 142

That they just gave $6.25 billion to provide better futures for other people's children does make a difference to me

They didn't give it to children, they gave it to the Trump administration on the promise they will give it to children. If Dell always wanted to give money to children there has been nothing stopping him at any point from doing any number of things. Why this?

It strikes me as profoundly unhealthy to introduce political resentment into an apolitical decision. Especially if what you resent is someone giving billions of their own dollars to children. I mean, that's just frikkin sick.

Nah, we do it all the time. And please stop with the "won't somebody please think of the children" virtue signalling because again, this isn't charity, this is giving money to a political actor and political regime. Did Dell publically decry the Republicans stripping the expanded CTC which took away thousands of dollars more than this plan will ever give back and was lowering childhood poverty rates? No he didn't.

Comment Re:Zig (Score 1) 56

It's been around for quite a while. It's seems to be a replacement for C and C++. Some see it as an alternative to Rust, but it doesn't have the same safety features. I would love to find a language that's a replacement for C++ that can be used to migrated existing code bases to, but none of them are, really. That's partly C++'s fault. It's very hard to interoperate with C++ code and libraries from other languages, without layers of wrappers (PySide comes to mind for Qt). Even interop between different C++ compilers is difficult. So for now I stick with C++.

Comment Re:Anomalies are a learning experience (Score 1) 75

New Glenn booster can also glide a bit during descent, not unlike the Starship. The strakes on the rocket create a tiny bit of lift, so it has a more flexible landing envelope than the mostly ballistic descent of the Falcon 9. I was very impressed by what New Glenn did on its first successful landing.

Comment Re:And this helps how? (Score 3, Informative) 134

The real problem is that minimally processed food doesn't keep as long, and often takes more time to prepare.

Actually "ultraprocessed" is too broad a category. It includes things like cheese and yogurt. Probably also sauerkraut. But there definitely are ultraprocessed foods that should not be sold without a strong warning, and many do have deceptive advertising that appears intentionally deceptive.

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