bjd2385

Well put!

I've seen this in employers as well. I worked for a textile mill that was technologically stuck in the Stone age, drilled you all day long for nearly minimum wage. Then I got a break and they made me a line lead, a reward for being such a good worker. But they found a way to take that position away when they found out I was using the extra money to pay for college courses and attend conferences. Needless to say, I quit, and I found a job at a technology-oriented company. They supported it from day one, and I'd be happy to stay with them and apply for more effective jobs.

I'm not extremely familiar with Perl 6 to be able to draw a comparison.

From what I know about Python 2/3, it's that you can write maybe 90% on average/in general of your code the same way without much thought about the differences. However, if you do wish to adopt the new features, there's plenty to keep you busy writing scripts for at least a few months, maybe even a year.

Hey, it was a wish lol. I know we live in the real world here

I wish Linux distros shipped with more recent language versions, e.g. Python 3.6 and Perl 6 in addition to just 3.4/5 and 5. I understand that it's not their job to try and push people to update their language skills, but it'd be nice to have access to them right off the bat if they feel like it.

Ah yes, I'm aware that today's sensors are pretty large and extremely costly. But in the near future I wouldn't be surprised if a small, far more affordable sensor became available, even if at the cost of some range and precision/accuracy.

Why not just use a simple LiDAR sensor? In the near future small solid state sensors could become far more affordable.

I had to do a double-take when I read the title, forget about the article. _Google_ developing an Ad Blocker? Ha! I'd never use it.

Just two, like that's nothing at all now.

Funny. In other words, we're not making enough people rich through our overspending already - those in retirement, who are supposed to feel security in their old age, should overspend too.

Not at all what I was referring to in my comment. But, yes, you're entirely accurate regarding the airbags. (:

Way I see it is, if we can land a rover the size of a minivan on a different planet, we should be able to do this without much more effort. Money, perhaps, yes; but, we've already done it.

Definitely created with Matplotlib. Interesting graphs!

This is really cool!

I didn't expect any job to be handed to me, and I wouldn't have if I had been whatever major you seem to believe is more "useful." Actually, I still wouldn't even if I went back for another year and a half to finish a Bachelor's degree.

Your reply has achieved little more than strengthen my point. And, at that, in more ways than one.

Honestly, if the only thing you're going to dispute me on is my very last point (which had basically nothing to do with the overall theme of my reply), I couldn't care less what your argument is.

Moreover, I doubt you're the kind of person who's had to work for anything in your life.

I disagree. Women taking a job who formerly did not have one isn't much different than an immigrant moving to the United States and taking that job. While I agree the latter involves adding an additional 'consumer' to the market (how everyone seems to refer to a US Citizen these days), they could just as well have 'consumed' outside of the US, and I doubt they would become an overwhelmingly positive contribution to demand in the short term.

Yes, thanks for sharing this with us.

Location: Albion, NY

Remote: Yes

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Email: bjd2385@aperiodicity.com

Are _you_ one of those workers who _has_ to eat, sleep and wear clothes? Do you also have kids? And a need for housing? And a spouse? And the probability that any one of you could get sick at any moment, or the fact that government takes 25% of your $30,000 every year? What if you or your spouse gets laid off because your jobs are being sent to Mexico?

(I'm not making this last point up by the way. I was warned that if we didn't become more efficient our jobs would be sent to Mexico.)

I'm not trying to be irrational here. I'm just saying that you're thinking at the margin about people's lives, and over time margins get eroded, then eroded some more, then a little more... hence the numbers this person is highlighting.

And, over the course of nearly a century, we see it has dramatic effects.

EDIT: I might also make the point that women entering the workforce definitely, by the looks of these numbers, didn't drive a vast expansion in the number of jobs. Rather, it displaced many men who _used_ to have those jobs, and proved its inflexibility at the same time.

> I don’t see us turning the workforce situation around unless we somehow manage to transform our negative imagery about immigrants and start to aggressively seek out productive young, educated immigrants from around the world.

He lost me primarily at this point. From my perspective this makes no sense at all.

I work grueling 12 hour shifts on an assembly line. My fingerprints have worn off some of my fingertips I work so hard; cuts and scrapes all over my hands and arms from handling product and adjusting machines all day. The other day I stood up too soon while ducking under a belt and a sharp edge put a deep gash in my back.

Yet, I have a 2 year degree in mathematics and spend every minute not on the job programming, reading and learning. There is no other opportunity in Western NY for anyone with an associates degree.

I can't afford to commute an hour to work, and I have a broken down vehicle I can't afford to fix because I'm paying tens of thousands of dollars in student loans back for a worthless degree. I live with my parents, who themselves can't get full time jobs (I surmise age discrimination is the biggest factor) with graduate degrees.

America is not what it's made out to be. Neither is this ``education'' that's hyped up in the media and online. While I was growing up my parents couldn't make ends meet while they were both working. Now, as a full time worker, I see that I definitely cannot make enough to live on my own, a single white male.

Obviously, then, the answer is to accept more immigrants, so there's more competition for the dwindling number of jobs mentioned in this article (due to technology...).

> ... the gains in average education and health of the workforce over the last 50 years are unlikely to be repeated ...

Well no-shit sherlock.

People are pitched great promises by institutions and universities, only to find out that there's no job for them after 4 years of their lives and $100,000 of debt have been spent. Basically, they bought another (probably more expensive) house when they can barely afford the one they have. Further, there's likely high competition for anything outside of the medical field.

And good luck getting a job in IT unless you know someone (c.f. the latest SO survey).

Because I'm about to believe anything a corporation or company says on the Internet...

I feel bad for the intern who JPM paid to click through 12k sites to find the 7k that we're unacceptable.

I disagree with almost everything Etchemendy states here. Having been a student at a private institution, public university and community college, his (rather liberal) arguments simply aren't grounded in reality.

Perhaps he should go and live in the dorms, where scam after scam after scam is apparent. From dining/meal plans to textbooks and all of the additional fees we're charged, while the college builds millions of dollars of new buildings, facilities and infrastructure.

Education is no longer about education (not that it ever was, but in a time long past---perhaps when he was getting _his_ education---it was a closer ratio), it's about money. And all I feel I'm going to get from them for my money in the end is a piece of paper. Everything I learn while I'm there is on me.

In short, I think we should tax the hell out of them if it's for the benefit of the American taxpayers.

When Universities, creditors and banks see numbers double [1], all they do is build twice as fast, hire twice as many adjuncts and raise tuition.

Sources:

[1] http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/times-up-student-loan-in...

Definitely planning on it!

I've read about amateurs detecting them with their instruments, like 12" SCTs. I don't know when I'll be able to afford it (probably a small Meade, SBIG CCD, etc.), but I'll definitely be writing my own algorithms/code to process the data!

This is really cool. One day I'm going to build my own observatory and observe star light curves and survey for supernovae.

The photo made me wonder if NASA had consulted Nike's marketing department.

_Everyone_ is collecting our data nowadays. Who's left to sell it to?