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Comment Re: Everyone knows... (Score 1) 147

" It isn't because men are always better at sports than women, "

Yes, it generally is, aside from some very edge cases.

Want facts?
https://boysvswomen.com/#/
High school boys routinely outperform Olympic-level women in nearly every field.

Oh and the vaunted US Women's Soccer Team? Gets beaten by under-15s boys teams.
Something more recent? Swiss women's team gets annihilated by under 15s boys just this year https://sports.yahoo.com/artic...

Comment context (Score 1) 209

Context is important.

A giant chunk of the Slashdot audience rages in torrents against anything ~faintly~ suggesting they go back into the office because, indeed, for them it doesn't matter where they are sitting.

Not everyone on earth is a programmer. There are vast swathes of people who do different things for work where they don't get the option of basically spending the whole day staring at a screen sitting or standing in one place. We found, for example, onboarding remote workers is MUCH harder as just the incidental learning, immediate presence & the ability to basically eavesdrop and step in when it sounds like they're struggling with something are all major contributors to new-employee success.

Comment Re:I disagree with this fundamentally (Score 1) 224

It's hard to not be retributive, and honestly, Trump's the last person I'd expect to be the grown-up in the room but it would have been refreshing if the current admin would have been about "just getting the trains to run on time" and weeding out the DEI bullshittery than paybacks, no matter how richly they were deserved.

It's hard being an idealistic pessimist.

Comment It's nice, but... (Score 2) 61

...reading rates are falling everywhere. I suspect this is the internet mostly, aggravated by cell phones.
25% VAT doesn't help, sheesh.

That said, I myself used to read a LOT, alternating between fiction / non-fiction, but really don't so much anymore. Fiction has been suffused with identity politics, and I have struggled to find even non-fiction works that aren't trying to sell a "viewpoint"...

Comment Gee that's great (Score 2) 89

"KPMG Australia developed a 100-page prompt that transforms tax legislation and partner expertise into an agent producing comprehensive tax advice within 24 hours rather than the traditional two-week timeline."
So, certainly they're reducing their FEE for such advice proportionally, yes? I mean, aside from the initial hours (more or less a one-time input), no human time is taken so what would we be paying their $500/hourly rate on, again?

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