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Comment Eventually, less work for humans will be excellent (Score 1) 47

Quoting the story: "Human-only work is forecast to drop 27% over the next five years."

Robots will eventually be excellent for all of us. Most things we buy will cost less.

Maybe we will have 4-day or 3-day work weeks.

Humans will not be doing extremely boring jobs.

Comment Re: Wages (Score 1) 70

"I'm assuming any domestic worker at this point has to be physically here for some reason."

I wouldn't assume that. The reason could simply be that the hiring manager wanted the team member local to make them easier to manage and interact with. Sure it cost more than offshoring them, but the onshoring cost could have been justifiable. Now there's a 100k new reasons to reconsider it.

There will be cases where they really do need to be physically onsite, security as you suggested being one reason. Having to interact with physical hardware/assets as part of their role is another. In some cases they'll pay the 100k for the h1b, in some they'll hire an American... in others they'll figure out an offshoring solution, in others they'll just eliminate the position entirely.

I'd be very surprised if there is much of a net increase in jobs for American's as a result of this policy.

Comment Re: The data was unreadable (Score 2) 64

Wow. That's quite the blanket statement.

Do you need your comfort blanket, bootlicker?

Are you a killer? You're the reason Democrats hate guns, they know their own people are mentally unstable and liable to shoot up schools, businesses, and such.

Gun violence is an overwhelmingly reich wing phenomenon.

Comment Re:Some people? (Score 1) 25

Transparency is still cool, but only when used on elements which can be transparent without screwing everything up.

I used to use Compiz with Emerald as the decorator and a liquid glass theme. But I didn't make window contents transparent, I only made title bars (and other decorations) translucent. The text and its drop shadow were fully opaque, same for the widgets, so it didn't create any readability problems whatsoever. But it did look neato.

Transparency isn't the problem, overdoing it is the problem.

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