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  1. 1 hour ago, TexLonghorn said:

    A man yelled “Heil Hitler, Heil Trump” during the intermission of a performance of Fiddler on the Roof in Baltimore on Wednesday night, alarming audience members. Rich Scherr, a sportswriter for the Baltimore Sun, posted a video of the audience reacting to the outburst to his Facebook page.

    The Baltimore Sun reports: ‘Immediately after that, “People started running,” Scherr said. “I’ll be honest, I was waiting to hear a gunshot. I thought, ‘Here we go.’ ” The man was escorted out a few minutes later and the show continued. But Scherr, 49, said it was hard to focus on the play after that. “My heart was just racing. I didn’t even really pay attention to the second act.”

    and here we have the effects of terrorism in plain sight

  2. you guys read history?  i find that shit fascinating 

    for hundreds of years people have talked of this type of shit. working less hours and huge amounts of displaced jobs. the only places (in history) where people experienced true pain are places that embraced protectionism

    when i started college in 95 we just gotten email mainstream. i barely used the motherfucker. we didn't give a shit. pussy and booze. now we each have our computers all connected and we can communicate and learn 10X faster than previously, and you know what? we still fucking try to. and i still work 10 hour days. 

    (and i study this for a living - the technology that is - not the eggplants)

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  3. Lupe Tortilla is pretty good. and they make good ritas too

    almost everywhere else in Austin is average texmex. nothing really stands out. 

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  4. 33 minutes ago, Hank Kingsley said:

     

    thanks AJ. and thanks for that reporter. 

    these motherfuckers just warp words and reality at their leisure. 

    where is tahoe's stiff brain when you need him? hey tahoe - please come help the guy out. he needs your assistance in deflecting shit left and right

  5. 4 minutes ago, The Royal We said:

    It's starting to encroach on my profession somewhat already - very complex insurance brokerage.  We've had the people from IBM come in and pitch us on how we could use Watson to analyze policy wordings and optimize our own placements and use it to pick apart competitor's placements.  It's not there yet, but I have no doubt that it will be a powerful tool in another 5 years or so.

    \derail over

    what in god's holy name are you blathering on about?

    i get your point on new shit coming to light and AI accelerating and such. i just can't separate the fear of AI from the fear of the cotton gin. same shit, different time. i do share a fear that people will fuck it up something fierce, because, thats what they do. but the technology in and of itself, at least i don't think, in the way you are thinking, is like you know. the problem man. 

    even if radically accelerating computing i just can't see it radically accelerating decision making for a while. as you know business is slow. humans are slow. some guy's AI will be able to win a chess game against anyone for like 50 years before all chess players are out of work! oh wait. 

    haven't you thought about that man? sir?

    the plane is not going to crash into the mountain

    wednesday's with the dude over. i will read that link you provided today for sure. thanks for posting.

  6. 1 hour ago, FondrenRoad said:

    That doesn't make sense. Of course Amazon cares about the labor pool. That is the primary reason for the HQ2 search in the first place.  Seattle is entirely tapped out, and relocation costs are becoming exponentially more expensive there. 

    They dont need to be HQd in DC or NY to have their tentacles in gov't and finance. They already have offices in both places with that mission. The HQ2 is about splitting programming and development talent. 

    lord brother relax. labor is important. 

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