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Comment Fundamentally Untrustworthy (Score 1, Troll) 5

Humans have flaws. Taxi drivers sometimes commit crimes. Nothing I will say here is meant to imply that humans are perfect. But they can at least be trusted to do something predictable most of the time. A computer cannot, so you can't trust it on its OR even as much as a human. But you also can't trust central management. QED, you simply cannot ever trust an autonomous taxi.

Finding ways to replace human work is the backbone of progress, but sometimes replacing a human is not actually a good idea.

Comment Re:Recommended reading (Score 1) 72

"The Spoils of War" by Andrew Cockburn. Goes way back to American soldiers having to steal boots off dead Chinese soldiers in Korea to get decent boots, their feet were freezing off.

Still probably true BTW, though ironically my example is the opposite. I bought a pair of issue desert boots and a paid of issue arctic boots at the same time. The arctic boots came with two sets of liners, were flawless, I still have them. The desert boots came apart on like the second wear, which sadly was long after I bought them. They disintegrated at a seam.

Comment Re:First against the wall (Score 1) 103

I stand corrected. All this stuff that's happening now is because *in the future* there will be identity verification!

It's not in the future, and if you could both read and understand the fine summary, you would understand that. Feel free to try to read and understand it again, it's right there.

Comment Re:Food shortages (Score 1) 65

If the midterms occur and are not outright stolen then yes, the Republicans are getting crushed.

But conservatives will absolutely double down on everything and it will probably work for them to regain power, because enough Americans are idiots. The Reagan-era policy of destroying our public education system (once world class, with high school students studying the classics and thereby having a chance to learn critical thinking) has paid off for the religious reich.

Comment Re:TypeScript? (Score 4, Informative) 56

That surprised me, too. TypeScript is a very poorly-congealed ("designed" seems a bit strong) language.

Of the two popular scripting languages - python and ruby - python probably makes more sense as you can compile into actual binaries if you want.

For speed and parallel processing, which I'd assume they'd want, they'd be better off with Tcl or Erlang, both of which are much much better suited to this sort of work.

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