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I know everyone here is criticising BP, and playing down the catastrophic effects that China's slowing economy and OPEC's inability to steady oil supply, but can we spare a thought for the 7000 people about to loose their livelihood, these are very skilled and talented men and women who are being thrown into a job market that is in turmoil, most of these people won't be able to find work using th…

That's not fully correct. I'm currently a janitor for a hospital and I'm required to read e-mails about procedure changes, and do online modules for things like Fire Safety and the like. We have little time to sit on a computer (we are supposed to be cleaning) so these modules can be difficult to do when there's no down-time. Doing these tasks on-shift accounts for many, many hours of lost produc…

"Google DeepMind AI Retreats to The Past To Retaliate Against Lee Se-Dol's Mother In An Effort To Prevent Him From Being Born"

What you wrote is plain wrong. You're mixing up income, wealth and different definitions of poverty. What do you mean, you studied this? It's a ridiculous claim that inequality is only measured in income. Simple example: Person A has a well paid job and earns EUR 60.000 a year, but has no other assets. Person B has no job, but inherited two houses. Because he rents them he earns EUR 48.000 a y…

Can someone explain to me why exactly this is a bad thing? I am not a trump supporter, matter of fact I hate the guy, but I don't see this as a bad thing. Spending $600 million a year for abortions in other countries? Why? Are these 20 countries doing it as a screw you to the US? Why didn't they pick up the tab all these years? Let's not allow our bias and hate for trump get in the way of a r…

We are operating within what can best be described as an "Infinite Growth Paradigm". Unfortunately, growth is required just to prevent our system from collapsing. While that may seem like an exaggeration, I assure you it is not. The fractional reserve banking system is the crux of the problem. Money is created when it is loaned into existence. Since it is loaned at interest, the amount of mo…

the only way to end the poaching is to end the demand. this seems like an education issue where eastern medicine needs to have the erroneous claims debunked and the facts disseminated publicly in a way that makes people stop. i don't know if it would really work but that's all i can think of. the demand needs to end to stop the poaching before all rhinos are wiped out.

A war with the North would be so bad, The south would merge with a total different people from the north.

They did impeach a president that was following the orders of a cultist in March. That would probably slow a country down a bit.

Remember, with self-driving cars, you will always be asking permission no matter where you go.

I think that's not unusual for company funded research. And I mean, it's kinda fair. They paid it, they decided what to do with it. If you buy a coke and dont drink it that's also within your rights. However that's why we need public funded research and why we shouldn't trust research related to health or anything like that funded by companies (or single source based research in general)

I just wrote my Bachelor thesis in economics about African trade unions and I can only agree with your statements. There are can also be other downsides for the countries too like losing tariffs revenue which the state relied upon. Although I'm still far away from being a professional it's a super interesting topic to dig into! Is your NGO also related to that field?

IIRC, Kenya didn't quite built the mooncity, but rather it was the host of the megacorporation which did.

>Facial Recognition is like encryption. You can try to ban it, but it's just math at the end of the day. Everyone else is going to use it so those banned are just at a disadvantage. There is a barrier of entry for facial recognition that does not exist for encryption, which is access to large datasets of images and personal information. If you can effectively block its use from the US governm…

A while back there was news of Ring cameras being hacked, which would mean hackers could spy inside or outside of people's homes. There were concerns about privacy, burglary (easier to rob someone when you know for certain no one is at home) and so on. Facial recognition would be on a much larger and much more significant scale. If hacked, someone would be able to stalk you virtually 24/7, making…

Thank you, Americans especially those on the left /liberal wing of American political spectrum should learn. Social issues need to be address but can’t be bundle up with say cutting down emission.

Even if it's only a few months, if enough people get vaccinated it would still practically eradicate the virus

~~Third, not fourth.~~ By the way: When Merkel won her first election in 2005, the incumbent chancellor Schröder also was in reality denial and famously claimed that he would continue to be chancellor because it was clear the people of Germany preferred him over Merkel. That was in a post-election face off of the party leaders on TV. It didn't last very long though. He ultimately had to leave th…

My rent was raised in May to “reflect comparable market rates.” A month after the realty group received $800k in PPP covid bailout cash.

Engineer and still looking for work? Whaaat I was told you guys were better off and had jobs right out of college lol I graduated last year too with a degree in comm disorders and still looking for a job as well :(