Automation is so cheap now that even Chinese labor can't compete. But the government has been forcing businesses to hold off on automation in order to prevent the inevitable economic and social turmoil from laying off that many people. Although it is absolutely hilarious that "communist" China has to worry about keeping full employment...

There are signs that it's changing because their ruling class has consolidated enough power they can afford to start blowing off the public. But I don't think they're quite ready to do it 100%.

It shouldn't take 10 seconds for my right click menu to show up unless I hold down the shift key. And yeah there is a registry hack I can do but on my work PC it's a huge pain in the ass to have it put it in every freaking time I get an update because of course every time Windows 11 updates they clear the key...

I swear Windows 11 is the most user hostile piece of software I have ever used in my life and I have programmed on IBM mainframes...

It would run on any modern browser that runs javascript because it's just a JavaScript script that monitors everything you're doing. It's also nothing new browser fingerprinting has been around for ages and is used by basically any website of any size to try and catch bots.

I'm actually a little surprised they didn't already have a fingerprinting product.

The article talked about the cost of customer confidence lost too. In other words even if they came back online the 6-week pause would have caused them to lose a bunch of customers. And they don't have the capital to get them back through advertising campaigns and discounts and such.

It's actually terrifying how many businesses run at the absolute edge of margins and are perpetually on the verge of collapse. Like how any given city is 3 days away from chaos...

We focus on the tech companies that are making so much money that they literally cannot spend it fast enough. And that also like to keep a ton of cash around for stock BuyBacks. But it really doesn't take much for most companies to start cutting staff and even shutting all the way down.

This is both how and why increasing interest rates "fights" inflation. Businesses lose access to credit because it costs more to loan so any little problem in their business immediately becomes a major disaster because of credit crunch and they go under putting a whole bunch of people out of work. Those out of work people spend less reducing demand which slows inflation. If the business doesn't collapse outright it's at least going to do layoffs and pay cuts which achieves the same goal.

Yeah sorry, but while I understand your world view may be based on graduate low cost coders, and data entry drones, America is known for many things but underpaying engineers, medical professionals, speciality mechanics, and pharmacists is not even remotely among them. In America those professions are paid among the highest in the entire world and are subject to a significant amount of skilled immigration as a result (another term that Slashdot hates).

It's interesting to put teachers in that sentence though, because largely American seems to think teachers should go fuck themselves but don't even pay them enough to shop for a decent toy to do it with.

Just because you have a jaded view doesn't make something true, nor does it make the problem American. Changing how you pay people doesn't resolve the issue of potentially falling behind other nations (though many western nations are experiencing the same problem.

Investment banker's motivation is to make money. They have a dependency on a healthy economy. Some times the actual truth is just boring and unfortunately there's no underlying conspiracy or secret cartel looking to screw you.

For the 20 or 30 employees there...

Modern factories don't need a lot of people. China and India have them because labor it horribly cheap there. With access to slaves in many places.

Trump's own commerce Secretary admitted that even in the factories come back the jobs won't

Even if identifying adults is true, there's no reason it can't be both at once especially given the evidence of harm, ... which makes your post objectively false.

Indeed it would sound very easy, except that human movements aren't random, and with proper statistical models it's quickly possible to determine someone who didn't know the difference between natural restricted and biased variance and randomness.

You're the target audience here: the people who think that this "sounds incredibly easy" will be the first to have their bots blocked. Yeah it'll be worked around, but the bar is raised in the meantime.

Fuck the economy, and fuck you. Money is the only thing to you - you probably pay for sex, too.

Have you read any other news than Faux? Let's see, "oppressive" - they don't have the death penalty, have a 99% literacy rate (the US: almost 30% of the US is functionally illiterate), and for decades, they were sending doctors around the world to Third-world countries (as opposed to the US, who loves sending military iad, period).

No, most of their problem is the on-again-lesser-on-again blockade of Cuba by the US, an act of war.

Let's start with WSJ, owned by Rupert Murdoch. It's a "publishing subsidiary of News Corp." Which was founded in Australia in 1915 for the explicit purpose of publishing anti-union propaganda to the miners.

Now let's look at the story, pushing/implying "they're into violence!!!". Let's *NOT* mention the numerous cases, even in red states, where county councils have rejected new datacenter construction, and the several cases where, when the council approved it in spite of voter disapproval, the ENTIRE COUNCIL was voted out.

And, of course, the implication that there's no real reason for it - let's ignore the price of electricity going up, water pollution, and usage of water - Erin Brockovitch notes a patter that they're being built in drough-ridden areas.

Oh, yes, I want to see the reaction of any of you pro-datacenter idiots on say, renting an apt near one, to the permanent hum and vibration.

All of that ignors that construction crews will be brought in from outside the area, and after it's built, there will be dozens - not hundreds, not thousands, of new jobs. And it will NEVER make up for the tax breaks.

Definitely. There was a case - 10 years ago? more? where an Indian on an H1-B sued Oracle, and in the evidence was an email saying, in so many words, "we can offer him $10k or more less than an American".

Meanwhile, here's $1 that the "labor data" company is ignoring the *current* farm workers, and construction., etc, shortage, due to Stephen Miller and ICE.

You've got that dead right.

And they think they "need" to inflame us against hyperscale data center - which Erin Brockovitch notes are overwhelmingly being built in drought-ridden areas?

Solar isn't for extending range, it's for self charging while idle. It's never been a viable way to extend range and only ever a suitable addition for any device that may spend a lot of time stationary.

And example of such a thing would be ... a trailer. These things can spend a significant portion of their life parked.

By the way I just checked, apparently most of the world is not "Northesatern USA" despite how much Washington State would have you believe otherwise. Using the worst case on a national level to justify why something does or doesn't work is just stupid all around. The vast majority of the USA couldn't give a shit if the sun shines in Seattle. That's not to say that this is a good idea, just that your approach to discussing the problem is either incredibly biased or incredibly dumb.

These guys are imbeciles. They got rich manipulating a system and being the king rat who managed to do win by survival bias.

This is like we have the world ruled by stiltman and big wheel.