Sure we think that.
Automatic Weaving Looms (Northrop Looms)
In the textile industry, the introduction of the automatic bobbin-changing loom meant a single operator could manage 20 or more machines instead of just two or four.
This caused widespread "de-skilling" of the workforce and led to intense pressure to increase the "workload" per employee.
This specific type of automation led to massive labor unrest, such as the Lawrence Textile Strike (1912).

Continuous Processing and Automatic Control (1900s–1920s)

In industries like flour milling, oil refining, and chemical production, the industry moved from "batch processing" to "continuous flow." Early pneumatic controls and automatic shut-off valves began to replace manual oversight for pressure and flow.

The Linotype Machine (Late 19th–Early 20th Century)

Before the Linotype, setting type for newspapers was a painstaking, manual process done by highly skilled, well-paid typographers. The Linotype machine allowed an operator to cast an entire line of metal type at once using a keyboard.
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That's OK but the only reason many people buy American cars and trucks is to support American jobs.

When it's all robots might as well get a Tundra rather than a 1500. Or maybe BYD will come in with something soon.

We'll see how that goes.

The guys who built those giant ovens could have told themselves that somebody was going to be baking a whole lot of bread ... very inefficiency.

Somebody wired up all those ICBM missile silos too. The ones who do think all of the above is just fine. There will always be someone.

Skipping the paywalled article I found these specs and was underwhelmed.

Sure it looks fine for playing mid games but my guess was something unique, unified RAM or a clever bus or something. It seems like a decently tuned Ryzen build. I do like the lower TDP on the CPU which should be doing less work.

A nice form factor for those who don't build their own.

Hopefully this is their entre into the PC world and v2 will have more innovations.

What's most cool is the generation of teenagers who will have default Arch/KDE instead of default Windows.

As it is NOW, they don't even KNOW that they are recidivists, since they do not have the data from previous times.

I see so many names in the commit logs, but some standouts include: Blum, Cook, Torvalds, Solodai, Tyragu, Stitt, Bergmann, Wysocki, Panda, de Mello, and no doubt some I missed who have a large number of commits fixing this problem.

Thank to all who undertook this Herculean chore!

Did people clutch their pearls also when "Doctor" Marcus Welby did ads?

The original guy got to keep using it. There was someone else hired for a brief time.

I remember the author's name but he really doesn't want to use it, so that's OK to respect. He's given me a lot to think about over the years. I remember when he wrote on his PBS site about unicast becoming cheaper than radio broadcast for TV, predicting that it would overtake by 2012 (IIRC). Youtube became huge around then. We were smart folks around the water cooler in the late 90's who could follow the math but had nagging skepticism. He wss right.

I think I have one of his science writing books under his real name about atomic energy somewhere. You can find it if necessary.

Nice to see Bob back on the Dot.

Don't you see, AI is inventing ways for humans to consume less energy so it can eat it all.

> The lender can't repossess a college degree to make themselves whole.

No but if the borrower can't get a good job there should be cause of action for Warranty Act claims against the college.

Extremely few people go to college with the expectation of borrowing to be unemployable.

Almost like he's a campaign donor! Did he fly on AF1 to China with the rest of them?

Government very rarely runs on merit. It's a terrible way to conduct anything that doesn't require killing people.

Sure, but border guards and spooks probably already had this exploit so the difference is minor. Their PoC page also says there's no access to Secure Enclave so perhaps the damage is minimal?

Curiously I saw some commits for an iPhone platform in LineageOS a month or two ago. Perhaps an option for EoL Apple hardware with working exploits.

He's the same kind of con man as Trump.

He railed against the Banks so when Ron Paul's Audit The Fed bill came to the Senate he cosponsored it.

Then behind closed doors he killed it to protect the Banks. Same way he endorsed Hillary with zero concessions after she maligned him and stole the primary.

It's all Kayfabe and he's a multi-millionaire communist for his efforts.

This proposal is just the latest Theatre Kid stunt to get him some attention. The only kind of attention he deserves is derision.

You don't even want to know about the rumored blackmail event. ("Crying Bernie Sanders" is the most vile rabbit hole.)

> Just build some fucking windmills and stick them to batteries and you'll be fine

Please compare the human death rate of wind and solar to atomic energy.

Yes, workers lives matter.

Might as well do coal too.

Also, we have a moral obligation to transmute the 300,000-year waste that the postwar generation left us with (besides their mountain of debt and impossible Empire).

Wealth taxes sound logical but fail in practice for reasons that are structural, not incidental.

Modern billionaire wealth is not a pool of cash but unrealized appreciation in stock, private equity, and assets held inside foundations, trusts, and holding companies that never die and never sell.

The wealth is real in terms of power and influence but does not exist in any form that is liquid, personally owned, or straightforwardly valued.

Asking someone to pay 5% annually on a private company stake or a foundation's art collection requires first agreeing what it is worth, then finding the cash to pay the bill, neither of which has a clean answer.

Europe ran this experiment for decades. Sweden, Germany, France, Austria, Finland, Denmark and others all introduced wealth taxes and most have abolished them, citing capital flight, administrative chaos, and the fundamental impossibility of consistent valuation across asset classes.
France's ISF drove thousands of wealthy residents abroad before Macron scrapped it in 2017 explicitly because it cost more than it raised. Germany's was ruled unconstitutional in 1995 on valuation grounds alone.

The deeper problem is that the effective tax rate on a correctly structured fortune is already close to zero before any wealth tax is contemplated. You borrow against your portfolio to live, generating no income.

Everything is owned by immortal entities that never trigger a realization event. The rate on zero is always zero, and a wealth tax on assets that are not personally owned, cannot be objectively valued, and cannot be liquidated without market disruption is not a revenue solution. It is a political statement.