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  1. 15 minutes ago, OatmealRaisinCookie said:

    Just read your post and I don't disagree with your points. I do think there are some cutting edge things automation can do, like you've noted, but I do think like someone else said the main issue right now is being able to harness it and, because of that, automation is really only a threat to the high headcount/low skill low-hanging fruit. I could be wrong and the quote above is pretty accurate. I'm not a brilliant consultant or business mind. But I don't know that any authoritarian figures are telling me anything about automation (Google? You? TechCrunch?) or that I'm relying on my biases (which is interesting because I actually AM that low-skill worker IRL).

    The biases jab was more about how you have a tendency to believe whatever the trump administration says and disbelieve disagreeing voices as a default even after they provide evidence to their claims. Not specifically in relation to this automation conversation, but I think it's fair to say that's a common occurrence.

    7 minutes ago, OatmealRaisinCookie said:

    Are you painting the above scenario as a bad thing for businesses?

    Also the reason why this level of powerful and useful automation is bad for us normal people, and not corporation-people, is that worker pay is not going to reflect the increased productivity of each worker. Look at a pay trend chart since the 80's. It's been a negligible (and even negative) growth curve when compared against overall economic growth of the nation.

    When big businesses succeed, their workers don't. Their shareholders do. This is primarily due to republican economic policy stemming from Reaganomics and the hate-fucking of regulations no matter if they're reasonable or not.

    Capitalism works based on the flow of capital. If that money faucet to workers turns off because companies just don't need them anymore, where will the flow of capital come from? It's not going to be the people who just need to pull themselves up by their bootstraps and save a little harder, to borrow a favorite republican refrain.

    If you want to know what happens when workers don't have jobs anymore, look at coal country. Ironically enough, they're the canary in this situation. That's the future we have to look forward to when automation eliminates the vast majority of jobs and there is no safety net in place. Hope you like lots of crime, opiods, and meth.

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  2. 1 minute ago, OatmealRaisinCookie said:

    I haven't seen your post yet. Someone should automate me as a messageboard poster because I can't seem to figure out the quote function and I haven't read your post yet.

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  3. 55 minutes ago, OatmealRaisinCookie said:

    The only people who can be replaced with automation right now are high headcount/low skill (read: manual, no-thinking, repetitive) roles.

    This isn't accurate. Lexical analysis and machine learning are already making massive strides in accelerating legal research work, eliminating the need for an army of (paid or unpaid) interns and paralegals who would typically separate the wheat from the chaff. Many legal cases boil down to a well-defined set of rules and logical conditions that if you're able to spot and highlight, crack the case wide open. Here's a story.

    Traffic analysis and optimization, a domain typically covered by civil and traffic engineers, is another excellent candidate for machine learning in that it can iterate though infinitely more models orders of magnitude more quickly and more accurately. Here's an academic study.

    Medical diagnosis? You fuckin betcha.

    Many, many accounting jobs are going to be lost to automation. Accounting jobs aren't high headcount/low skill. Finance is gonna get wrecked too.

    Automation is coming for jobs, and we won't be able to do a fucking thing about it as a society other than continue to shovel cash into massive corporations who through the GOP are able to set the rules to the economy. Good thing we sent all those troops to the border to protect us from those brown people who are going to take all the jobs we don't want to do as a society.

    You always mention how you aren't as well educated in certain topics. Maybe you should really keep that in your mind as you go through life rather than relying on your biases and what authoritarian figures tell you.

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  4. 4 minutes ago, Judge Roybeanbag said:

    Lincoln was trying to win a civil war, not start one.  Don't try again.

    Never ceases to make me laugh how the party of Lincoln embraces confederacy I MEAN southern heritage and defends it while praising Lincoln's leadership lol. Such cognitive dissonance

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  5. Just now, AtticusFinch said:

    Who said I wouldn't engage in a good faith conversation.   I was immediately called names and told to go die

    Because you didn't engage in a good faith conversation while also declaring you were discussing in good faith. We don't like liars, we don't like trolls. Go to the shag if you want uninformed, factually incorrect discussion. Fuck off, aggy. 

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  6. 1 minute ago, AtticusFinch said:

    No, you would slow it down.  The accusation is the video was slowed down to make the act by Acosta seem worse than it was.

    That is not the accusation and you are deliberately misstating the opposing position for the sake of a straw man argument that doesn't even make sense. 

    Eat a bag of dicks and die in a fire. Go troll somewhere else. 

    Trolling like this is why CR turns so toxic. It's just a complete rejection of fact in favor of the trump flavored propoganda. 

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  7. 3 minutes ago, OatmealRaisinCookie said:

    I am not sure which way politico (the journalism/news organization) skews, but they have a very fascinating read today about Andrew Johnson which they do a great job of tethering to today with Trump. For guys like me who aren't strong on presidential history/historical knowledge, it's a very fascinating read about how basically everyone tried to work around Andrew Johnson's racism and incompetence.

    And the article does a great job of subtlety and nuance in showing the similarities of Andrew Johnson's attempts at populism (which weren't very effective ultimately and Trump's populism (which are proving more so). Things like crowd-hyping of the southern states (he was a proud Tennessee man, after all), ignoring advice, pandering to racists, etc. etc. etc. 

    Lastly, as someone who is barely educated compared to a lot of you upper crust Ivy league types, I had always heard Andrew Johnson was the worst president of the US and always saw him ranked at the bottom. This gives a glimpse as to why he's historically viewed that way, but also brings the lulz when the conclusion is basically Trump is a poor man's, 21st century version of Andrew Johnson who America thought they would never see someone like again in the office of President. There is nothing new under the sun, as is said...

    Very great read I recommend: https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/11/13/andrew-johnson-undermined-congress-cabinet-david-priess-book-222413

    Not sure if serious... Andrew JACKSON was the populist known as "King Mob" lol

  8. 3 minutes ago, Lurch said:

     


    It’s been widely reported. They’re boycotting twitter for not taking down the posts that had Tucker’s home address fast enough.

     

    And nothing of value was lost. 

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  9. Not just a ceremony, but a remembrance of Armistice Day and of the sacrifice made by millions of men. Those who support trump on the basis of trump's support for the troops or how tough he is or how much respect he has for our nation are just useful idiots repeating propaganda. They won't own up to their mistakes. They won't address their cognitive dissonance. They'll just say "what about ...." and "but her emails" and whatever else completely uncorroborated conspiracy theories come to their minds.

    They're a lost cause. Trump's base and supporters are nothing but irredeemable at this point if they continue to support him blindly. All thirty to thirty five percent of the country.

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  10. 2 hours ago, OatmealRaisinCookie said:

    I thought the definition of a wave was that every jump-ball broke one way (as opposed to the other). This seems more like a decent Democratic showing, not a failure and yet not the success everyone was hoping for. Same as last week on Tuesday.

    In terms of votes, it WAS a wave election. However, due to gerrymandering, the actual electoral effect is significantly muted.

  11. 1 minute ago, Fozzz said:

    It's not in the police report.  I hate to say this, but they might be lying.

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    Nice find with the police report. If they had indeed broken the door, it would be negligent to omit it from the police report. And it would also be classified as a burglary/forced entry. Calling bullshit until there is more evidence to show Carlson's door was broken.

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  12. 2 minutes ago, Zavala said:

    They broke the door? 

    Also, if right wingers were outside of Don Lemons house chanting "we know where you sleep" how do you suspect that would be portrayed in the media?

    Where are you seeing they broke in the door? I'm having trouble finding any sort of news on this besides that it happened

  13. 2 minutes ago, triplehorn said:

    ^^^  quid pro quo - lifting Russia sanctions/Rosneft stock sale. 

    Potential third unreported meeting between Sessions and Kisylak: Sessions attended the VIP party at the Mayflower Hotel Trump foreign policy speech where all the main players in the Rosneft stock sale/money shuffle were present in person.  nothing shocking.

    Not to mention the trump mansion sale to the recently detained russian oligarch who bought a mansion for a significantly above market value that totally wasn't a money laundering scheme. 

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  14. 7 minutes ago, Patrick Bateman said:

    LOL.... that's not remotely true and a horrible contortion of the truth.  You have no idea WTF you're talking about.

     

    That very may well be true, a lot has happened since then and I may be mis-remembering. Didn't mean to derail the thread, but id be happy to continue discussion in the gun control thread

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