Waiting for this to get flagged because, once again, the US sucks.

A lot of us know why the US is behind in wind and solar. It's because of a five letter word that starts with "T".

Do better, America.

... said the FBI/NSA agent

> Knowledge workers hold a different relationship to their labor than manufacturing workers did. For a cognitive professional, expertise is not only an activity. It is a large part of the self.

Really? The way a knowledge worker feels about their labor is different than a manufacturing worker? They don't or can't have similar pride in their labor? In their skills?

This is some seriously self-aggrandizing bullshit. Touch some grass.

> Earlier automation targeted physical and manual labor, where a worker’s identity was at least partly separable from the output. A welder is not the weld.

It comes through even worse in this later sentence, which at the very least tells you the writer has never met a welder.

Yeah, it has to be said, welding is as much about spitting metal in a line as programming is about tapping keys.

Imagine that. People who are responsible for guiding the morals of much of the world's population see moral implications in AI. How dare these mere "religious leaders" guide their flock.

FFS. Morals come from somewhere. For many, that's religion. Deal with it.

But we can't have that because then we'd be wasting potential profit. /s

I'm aware that flying was more enjoyable pre reform. And we could make it that enjoyable today by inflating the prices by 50-100%. The food would be better, the seats would be bigger, and planes would be emptier.

But the downside is that flying would be for rich people, just like it was pre-reforms. The poors would have to take trains or drive. Is that a good trade-off?

And to top it off, if you want to pay for a premium flying experience today, you can! For similar prices (to pre-reform flights, in real terms) you can book a "luxury flight".

Like I said, rose colored glasses.

It's almost as though GitHub should never have let itself be sold to Microsoft...

I'm sure the VCs who invested in GitHub disagree.

This is supposed to be Hacker News! Who is coming up with a startup to fill the gap !

It speaks to changes here that this is so upvoted. Several years ago, I wrote something very similar. It was downvoted into oblivion.

This is incredibly offensive.

Mods, please see to this comment.

Why? I have mild tism, I found it quite funny and quite real, it even felt good to be seen.

It's always the normies being offended for something that isn't about them.

The hell with you. I'm autistic.

Are you being offended because it's too real or because I'm not supposed to rattle the normies?

personally I think it's important that parents (especially those who raised kids requiring significant time investment) can vent to express themselves. coming from this perspective I don't really care if a slur or two goes flying, so may I ask what was so incredibly offensive?