They are not betting, they don't really loose when they loose. They are SPENDING $200 million on the idea. There is no potential for "failure" so it's not a bet.

We did a similar thing in 2006, except the cameras fed to a central desk at a fire station monitoring a mix of farms/forest/residential. The software would flag all smoke detections and since there was a lot of residential and informal settlements an operator would verify it was not an intentional fire. So, this is not a new product but a new marketing spin on a very old product.

They offshore a lot, like a network technician can sit remote and you pay half salary and don't need to supply the now increased medical cost as your employee's health is their governments problem, not yours. However certain positions they need someone in country, someone who expects to be treated well and receive big benefits... OR a foreigner who's entire life is governed by the employment contract. I think this fell under "labor trafficking" in my last mandatory slavery training from an organization that definitely needs to read their own material. I personally believed the US not voting to declare slavery a crime was to avoid raising minimum wage, but I guess there are more nuances to it...

Stackoverflow was so toxic that people would easily go somewhere where they could ask a a question without getting flamed.

Yeh, more jobs for American robots!

Don't be ugly to people - now it's left leaning. Don't attack minorities - now it's left leaning Be kind and help others - now it's left leaning Global warming is real - left leaning I am not picking one of your sides ehre I know the left overshoot and go way to far on their side to enforece "niceness" too. Be a drag queen, but kids do NOT need to watch burleqsue shows, if you steal $100 worth of stuff it should be a crime with jail jailtime becuase it's stealing etc... The problem is America seems to term "being nice" as "left" and being "being hateful" is right. You people should shoot for the middle.

So still less fake AI employees then fake human posted jobs. Seems fair.

I do not mind at all if the court tells Apple to unlock a phone and they do it. I just want end to end encryption with no remote backdoor.

They forget there is more than one government in the world and all of them are absolutely evil... The excuse of forcing the law even seems to fall flat these days, sorry, but even criminals get elected now (not just in America) and the people must accept it. If governments were not evil maybe they could earn some trust. I am not even secretive about my data, continue spying, I don't care. However, can you imagine a Boeing whistleblower used an .... wait they're all dead. What about a Russian oligarch who says som.... wait, they're all dead. Yeh.. this sort of government access would greatly increase the number of government opposition/whistleblower deaths.

I know a 6th, so I think the article is understating it.

Whatever they did to Zuck he is bending the knee HARD!

"The move follows Delhi High Court warnings to suspend Wikipedia's India operations over a defamation case filed by Asian News International. The news agency seeks to unmask contributors who labeled it a "government propaganda tool." It's not a government propaganda tool and we will spend every single government resource we have defending them. Err yeh, when the government cares about something, it's a government tool. Which I didn't know cause why would I read it's Wikipedia page, but I do know now that the government has told me it's a tool.

I remember when I had an interview in 2012 for a project lead on a new project. They went for another guy because he's a Ruby on Rails guy and Ruby is agile and they need agile. Anyways, the project has not yet been completed.

Yeh, it confuses me too, that's like asking Slashdot or hacker news to pay to list your story and send you traffic..

Only lawyers could argue murderers should go free cause they were caught unfairly.