"If each human worker has a personal crew of agents which helps them produce more work, economic abundance could follow..." Even if we imagined that we're anywhere near technically capable of doing thing, this is an absolutely preposterous thing to suggest How tf are broke humans under capitalism supposed to have apersonal crew of agents Absent massive changes to our economy and an abandonment of capitalism literally all this would plausibly do is further concentrate all the wealth into the hands of the precious few who control everything. It's also obviously not seriously this person's proposition because if it was then what VC in their right mind would fund something that would render capital irrelevant ? All they care about is an exit and how exactly is that supposed to happen when you've achieved post-scarcity ?

...an article worth considering from Princeton University's Zeynep Tufekci:

We Were Badly Misled About the Event That Changed Our Lives

Since scientists began playing around with dangerous pathogens in laboratories, the world has experienced four or five pandemics, depending on how you count. One of them, the 1977 Russian flu, was almost certainly sparked by a research mishap. Some Western scientists quickly suspected the odd virus had resided in a lab freezer for a couple of decades, but they kept mostly quiet for fear of ruffling feathers.

Yet in 2020, when people started speculating that a laboratory accident might have been the spark that started the Covid-19 pandemic, they were treated like kooks and cranks. Many public health officials and prominent scientists dismissed the idea as a conspiracy theory, insisting that the virus had emerged from animals in a seafood market in Wuhan, China. And when a nonprofit called EcoHealth Alliance lost a grant because it was planning to conduct risky research into bat viruses with the Wuhan Institute of Virology â" research that, if conducted with lax safety standards, could have resulted in a dangerous pathogen leaking out into the world â" no fewer than 77 Nobel laureates and 31 scientific societies lined up to defend the organization.

So the Wuhan research was totally safe, and the pandemic was definitely caused by natural transmission â" it certainly seemed like consensus.

We have since learned, however, that to promote the appearance of consensus, some officials and scientists hid or understated crucial facts, misled at least one reporter, orchestrated campaigns of supposedly independent voices and even compared notes about how to hide their communications in order to keep the public from hearing the whole story. And as for that Wuhan laboratoryâ(TM)s research, the details that have since emerged show that safety precautions might have been terrifyingly lax.

Full article

And the likeliest explanation is things connected with the GDPR "right to be forgotten":

https://mashable.com/article/c...

Thank you. I had heard that on the "Titans of Nuclear" podcast and was fascinated. Reading the derivation was even or fascinating.

Don't you get sick of hearing this? These people have never read a Supreme Court decision. They're rarely about what the headlines state. I believe they didn't hear the case because there doesn't seem to be any contention in the Federal Circuit (yet). It's a single Circuit (1st) that basically had a tie vote. This needs to be heard by the lower courts again and in a different circuit.

FINALLY...someone gets it! BIG DONUT (not to be confused with BIG DOUGHNUT and DONUT HOLE) is ruining this country. Who is going to stop them?

I'm in Germany...financial services company...3 months minimum notice period. From Officer through VP. MD and above...not sure. It's similar across all of Europe. I just hired in Poland in November. Start date had to be February because they had to give 3 months notice as well.

Lying, deluded, possibly both and neither. There are things that can bring cheaper energy prices but that isn't the only thing that can effect an economy.

In general, I'm not a fan of Keynesian economics but I won't deny some things will alter the economy artificially.

What exactly did Trump do to keep the stock market floating? And what exactly did he do to set a bomb ?

Here is the thing. Under Trump we has cheap energy. Almost every time we have had cheap energy, the economy does well. High energy costs and it suffers. It's just that simple. It doesn't matter who is in office or what party they belong to, the economy has tended to do well. It takes a bit of time to get rolling but that is just a trend that has seemed to follow over the last 50 or more years.

I completely agree. I mean sanders uses to say the millionaires and billionaires and changed that to just billionaires once he became a millionaire, but at least when questioned he stuck to his guns and said you can go out and make a million dollars too.

I forgot which home he was staying at when he gave those quotes. I've managed to lise track of how many he owns.

Slashdot has always had their fair share of midwits. You were likely one of them at some short point in time too. Except you likely know continued further up the inteligence chain and are now able to look around to recognize it.

Just a little over a decade ago, that wouldn't have been considered a right wing view. Progress of the progressive I guess.

Do you think their ultimate plan is to woo Fox News viewers and imitate Fox News with a Democrat spin?

Unfortunately, snuff films do exist. I have seen a couple and at least one either had special effects 30 years before Hollywood or it was completely real. I got it from an estate auction in either New York or Pennsylvania in the early 90s. It was on 8mm with no sound but a reflection in a mirror suggests something written in German.

It was turned over to the police. I'm not sure if that copy is still around or what happened to it.

I don't think the issue is men watching sports as much as it is women training their hardest and becoming the best of their peers just to have a man who was never in the top 100 or even top 500 in a sport put on a dress and dominate the women's field.

It's kind of like the difference between watching a NFL game versus arena football that has been rigged with WWF/WWE style stunts.