> waitresses, gas station attendants, wallmart greeters, etc

In the parts of Western Europe that I know and where I live, there are no gas station attendants and no supermarket greeters.

They have not been automated away: those jobs never existed in the first place.

I always wondered if those jobs were a scheme to give crappy jobs to the unemployed in order to save on social security? Who needs someone to welcome them at a supermarket?

> The best part? The skin and the resin are both readily available off-the-shelf products.

That's so awesome!
Too bad the tooling costs $200 billion.

Every day we get multiple stories about cryptocurrency related shenanigans.

Why?

It's not news for nerds and it does not matter.

No worries. Your taxes will pay for that.

On May 31, 2019, the Department of State updated its immigrant and nonimmigrant visa application forms to request additional information, including social media identifiers, from most U.S. visa applicants worldwide.

This means that as a tourist from a European country I am asked about my social media identifiers when requesting a tourist ('ESTA') visum to enter the USA.

I guess the outrage about this was so limited that the powers that be are slowly introducing the same in other jurisdictions.

> Williams sat behind bars for nearly a year before a judge dismissed the case against him last month at the request of prosecutors, who said they had insufficient evidence.

How come this guy was in jail for a year until the *prosecution* says "sorry, my bad, we have no proof"?

In the meantime he may have lost his job, house, etc.

Is it still news when the same editor 'reported' the same thing 25 hours ago?

https://f6ffb3fa-34ce-43c1-939d-77e64deb3c0c.atarimworker.io/story/21/08/19/1216217/nvidia-admits-acquisition-of-british-chip-designer-arm-may-take-longer-than-18-months/

I live near a McDonald's and a Burger King and their packaging is littering the sidewalks and parks in the neighbourhood. Entire empty packaging sets are tossed out of car windows. People are lazy and I seriously doubt if they're going to keep the greasy, smelly packaging and return it at some later point in time.

How about this solution. A scanner reads the license plates of each car that uses the drive-through and prints/labels/laser-engraves the number on all items of the order. Then when packaging gets tossed out into the street it be traced back easily to the polluter, who can be made to pay a fine for littering.

When you take your labelled waste home and toss it in the trash it's no different from discarding an envelope or wrapper with your address on it, so privacy-wise it does not have to be an issue.

In the old days, flight crews used to consist of a radio operator, navigator, flight engineer, first officer and a captain.

All but the first officer and the captain have over time been made redundant by technological progress. Which is good for the airline because fewer personnel is better for the profit margin. It is also good for Joe User because lower crew costs allow airlines to compete more on ticket prices.

When the flight engineer was made redundant in the late 80's (taking my future career with it) there was a lot of discussion about the potential impact on flight safety. A pair of eyes and hands less on the flightdeck was going to impact flight safety in a negative way, some thought. I don't know if there are any comparative studies on the matter but flight safety (fatalities per revenue miles) has only improved over time.

When I left school the joke was that eventually there would be only one pilot on the flight deck, with a red button that says 'LAND', and a dog.
The dog was there to prevent the pilot from pressing the button inadvertently.

So it looks like we've almost arrived at that point. With the airplane taking off and landing itself the captain has his/her hands free for the comms and activating the missed approach procedure. There is no need for a second pair of hands on the flight deck to lower the gear or set flaps and I imagine (with the technology already available in cars) it would be trivial to monitor the pilot's face and eyes for signs of fatigue and loss of concentration.

Amen to that.

Or Adobe FrameMaker, on Solaris or Windows.

> You would think an omnipotent, omniscient product would sell itself.

The omnipotent being must be pretty insecure that it demands constant affirmation from its followers.

> Nearly 3 out of every 4 (72% exactly)

What's the point of dumbing down the percentage and then mentioning it specifically. In the same sentence?

I'm pretty sure nerds have a concept of what "72%" means.

> the plane headed back to the gate

Proof that the pen is mightier than the sword.

Isn't any location unique?

I had to look up this European Air Force. Turns out they've existed longer than I thought! From http://www.europeanaf.net/:

The European Air Force has now reached its teens!