Women: It's the other way around, the wage thieves had to sell the public on women leaving the home because they were too poor to live like their upbringing allowed. The main crime happened during Nixon and involved many power people working together before it became visible to those paying attention and from the security of the Nixon admin's "progress." (from employment and stability to investor above all else.) Edward Berney's techniques were used if not hiring him directly to engineer the public; he was after all the man who sold women on smoking tobacco cigars using freedom as the hook. Plus he made them white, smaller, cleaner looking and later with a gender specific with a new name: cigar-ette but the first name which WORKED at the time was "freedom stix" because women's rights was the big issue of the day (ah, the right for women to vote. Show you have the right to vote by smoking like the men do... but in a feminine way.) Furthermore, he invented celebrity product placement around the time - which was really more devious in that it's social modeling the new normal people thoughtlessly conform themselves into. Womens' Lib has been hijacked before; today, it's Republicans and all subgroups showing us just how few actually can think independently (extremely few can demonstrate/prove it. It takes so little for an idiot to excuse their stupid with a lie... "I meant to do that, I knew it was stupid, because reasons.")

Anyhow, it seems clear to me the hype aligned with an evolved version of his tactics which he was actively working on for 80 years. Including renaming the much maligned name for the profession he created: propaganda became Public Relations. Adopted by every big corporation and government since.

BTW, the Regan years ushered in massive outsourcing, productivity gains and job instability which reduced the job market. It was all part of a war on the middle class; not just robbing their wealth, but keeping them from fighting back by weakening and distracting them. Much the same as today, just further along so more people notice it... except the stupid. There is always going to be the left side of the bell curve who will kill themselves before realizing the truth... the freaks stand out because it's a tiny minority but when it's the bottom 30%, it hides in a large movement of stupid; which has the power to defend itself, unlike a few %. You've got to fight them back when it's difficult. Revolutions happen with only 20%. It's easy to pick on a few % but they have no direct influence (mega rich need suckers to indirectly get influence.)

Warren like most everybody, has to survey a broad area of perspectives to discover the truth; if it's even possible. RTFA, which is a lesson in overly narrow focus, is an extreme version but we all do the same thing, just not as obviously as the example. You also have only so much time and brainpower to put towards such theories which are usually not worth a lifetime of effort to try to get a definitive answer (especially if it takes generations and you kind of wasted all that effort then, no?)

There's basically two ways this plays out. First the Epstein class wins. If that happens we become a techno feudal hellscape and you'll have a about 50 to 60,000 people at the top and then everyone else will be living in abject poverty at the level of medieval times. Disease and starvation will wipe most of them out and keep the numbers down.

The other less likely possibility is that we go with a cooperative global civilization. You know that cookie spooky socialism crap. If that happens you will quickly see the population not just stop growing but shrink. People who aren't desperately trying to crank out babies without access to birth control so they can use them as cheap labor to replace machines that don't exist just don't have a lot of kids. When you take away the economic incentive it turns out the birth rates drop faster than even the projections your citing.

Either way the reason we have this huge population boom is because we were in a very bizarre and unique situation where we had just enough technology that a primitive culture that squeezes out babies left and right wasn't dropping dead constantly from war and disease and general lack of medical Care. That's not sustainable and it's not going to last. The Epstein class won't allow it. So we either get rid of the Epstein class which does not seem to be on the table or we let them turn us into something worse than serfs

I was interesting by the article's comment that it could lead to smaller clocks, but that doesn't seem likely from what you are saying. At the moment a "chip scale" atomic clock is a metal can maybe the size of a consumer CPU, and pulling quite a bit of power.

And those corrections require atomic clocks.

You think LLMs would write "Slashdot doesn't have table support, so it's hard to do side-by-side well, but:"? You think LLMs like writing sentences that end in conjunctions that express incomplete thoughts? Do you think LLMs write "high frequences", "naively pairs", call H.265 X.265 (I was thinking of what you refer to it as in ffmpeg), imbalanced parens after "lacks motion vectors",etc?

Don't get me wrong, I am a LLM user, I absolutely do use it sometimes for search, fact checking things I'm writing, spelling/grammar checks (clearly not that time, lol), etc. But I write my own posts.

Maybe the real end of the world, if Trump reacts badly enough.

Population growth is levelling off and we will end up somewhere between 10 and 12 billion by the end of the century. It's sustainable as long as we are careful... Which we tend not to be. Most of the growth is in Africa, which has a lot of scope for it.

In fact the main reason population is still growing is people are living longer. The global fertility rate has dipped below 2.1, the steady state level due to childhood deaths.

Not only did she develop software without the aid of modern debugging tools, on a new architecture that was limited in ways that most modern embedded developers can't even imagine, she pioneered a lot of the software safety techniques we still use.

I for one do not expect (medical) doctors to be experts on everything. Just the things that affect my health that s/he happens to claim expertise on.

Not to mention typography, surgical techniques, or notations in Renaissance and late Medieval music.

Doh! Never mind, you're saying the guy hasn't been to Paris since 2002. I'll let myself out over here...

Perhaps in 2002 (or shortly before) which is when the euro was adopted (europe-wide) and the franc was retired (in France.)

That said, there must still be franc notes in existence, just not in circulation. And I dunno, some just might be on Paris sidewalks?

That means one quarter of working adults cannot support themselves. That's about 40 million people. So yeah we don't need to bring more people into this country we have plenty of people. Nobody is going to convince me that all 40 million of those people are too stupid to be trained on the tasks H1Bs do.

And I could care less about innovation in this country. All that means is who owns the patents and it's not going to be me owning the patents so why the fuck would I care? I still have to pay the license fees one way or another.

I like how we're supposed to be nationalistic when it's convenient for the Epstein class and globalist when it's convenient for the Epstein class but we can't do either of them when it's good for us.

Just do some light corporate restructuring on paper and hire them all back under a different corporate entity. Trump will look the other way because he's all about the cheap labor. The right wing has always been about cheap labor. Frankly so have conservatives. They talk a good game but it's just talk. Comforting lies

20 years ago there was a big push to outsource to India; following IBM and others. What stopped it? Well you can't legally do much of anything to them. You can protect yourself legally if you import the workers and you can likely abuse them more too. I've seen corps in my state get burned by Indian firms who realized they did all the work and got little money; they didn't need their owners, just a US marketing dept. and compete against their exploiter... cheaper. Hell, during the housing collapse, some of the contractors turned around and bought their "owners" then laid off most those useless rent seekers.

Maybe they will realize they can make US workers relocate abroad for lower pay and still be able to sue them? (as long as they are contractors.)