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TheLostOneon Diesel cars can be banned from German cities, court rules

I never gamble. I know next time is black.

TheLostOneon Diesel cars can be banned from German cities, court rules

90% of lawyers do are not top notch defence lawyers. Most of lawyers work in companies and do NDA work.

TheLostOneon Diesel cars can be banned from German cities, court rules

No it's five years. As the internet changed everything in 10 years, mobile internet changed everything in 5 years. Change will come rapidly not slow.

Also if you're a lawyer

"An AI just beat top lawyers at their own game" https://mashable.com/2018/02/26/ai-beats-humans-at-contracts...

TheLostOneon Diesel cars can be banned from German cities, court rules

No the argument is:

A. No cars, clean air!

B. Don't do this, economy will crash

A. Doesn't scare me, economy will crash either way, keeping cars will not prevent a crash.

TheLostOneon Diesel cars can be banned from German cities, court rules

No, during the industrial revolution jobs were mostly created. This was at the same time the agricultural sector lost most jobs. With industry 2.0 and people being replaced, these moved into the service industry. Now the service industry is replaced with no where to go.

TheLostOneon Diesel cars can be banned from German cities, court rules

Economy will crash in the next 5 years either way with mass replacement of people by AI (call centers, taxi drivers, truck drivers, ...).

Edit: Plus German car industry will crash either way because most people work not in building cars, but motors, electronics, transmission etc. which are mostly redundant with electric cars.

TheLostOneon Diesel cars can be banned from German cities, court rules

As a German who never owned a car (have driver license 30+ years) and never will, hurray!

Next: Petrol cars please.

Costs for cities would decrease a lot [1], room for bicycles would increase, noise would drop to a level which can't believed, ambulances would be adjusted to walking persons instead of loud cars with their stereos on and air would be wonderful.

[1] https://www.amazon.de/High-Cost-Free-Parking/dp/193236496X

TheLostOneon Switzerland embraces digital currencies and crypto-entrepreneurs

https://twitter.com/gva_watcher

TheLostOneon Computer History Museum 2018 Fellow: Guido van Rossum

More than deserved.

TheLostOneon Why has CPU frequency ceased to grow? (2014)

With the web and requests the default would look to be parallel for most developers. The container runtime (Ruby, Python, Java) just abstracts away the parallelism on different cores.

TheLostOneon Technological Unemployment: Much More Than You Wanted to Know

We have three sectors, agriculture, industry and service.

Technology has replaced people in agriculture, at the same time industry jobs exploded. Most people were shifted.

Technology has replace people in industry, but there were services to provide - lower paying - jobs. Most people were shifted.

Now technology replaces jobs in services. There is no "next" sector.