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Comment Another train to nowhere (Score 1) 48

job retraining programs aimed specifically at white-collar workers

Those poor white-collar folks, how will they ever get by?

You can begin by stopping treating "resources" as infinite; when one thinks they're infinite one makes all kinds of bad decisions. Universal Basic Inflation, indeed.

Comment Re:It's a really light car (Score 1) 124

You are correct. This is a design by children or what happens when an "engineer" focuses on ONE thing--the same reason why we often despise managers. The reason this bothers me is that undoubtedly some innocent people will be hurt by such a decision, perhaps in an unforeseeable situation or an emergency.

Or maybe not so unforeseeable: I saw in the news where a sinkhole recently appeared on a runway. On the streets, any human could grab the wheel to avoid it and save lives. Kill-me-bot would drive right into it, as it has been doing in floods. Would kill-me-bot know to steer around that large car fire in New York a week ago?

A bonus rant: Is it ever going to know when to stop for emergency vehicle lights versus getting out of the way? I've seen power lines down while driving, one was even live, or is that just a twig?

Comment Re:axing another college degree (Score 1) 107

Yes, we are stupid, but not for that reason. Colleges vary widely here. Degrees vary widely here. Since we are a mix of the best and worst of the world, student abilities vary widely. Student desires vary widely. How do we sort all of that out financially? And I even say this as someone who left college originally due to lack of funds.

Officially, we are deeply in debt; how do we pay for this when our non-students are already suffering in various ways? Isn't an influx of cash into an area such as education an invitation to inflation; why wouldn't it be?

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