People with blue eyes, adult lactose tolerance, or red hair are mutations and they should be segregated from the general population. People with none of the above and simply low melanin won't be completely ostracized, but should be on a probationary status. Just to make sure they aren't carring genes for the aforementioned mutant type.

Exactly, this isn't genetic modification. It's more like Frankenstein's monster, just swapping in a few parts from various places.

If you build local you won't have to ship quite so much stuff global. Giving you more room for raw materials and coffee beans.

Climate change will probably kill off the coffee industry, perhaps at the end of the century. You might have to learn to love roast chicory and dandelion root.

That's almost certainly the case. There is a rush to capture market share of a nascent technology that is likely going to be as impactful to society as cellphones and Internet. Some of these companies think they can just spend money without a concrete strategy. Other companies are spending money but admit internally they don't know what to do next and are just trying to hang on.

And I think some companies will refuse to participate in AI, take a wait and see approach. That's a safe bet. Those companies won't jump out ahead, but they'll be around to be acquired by who ever wins the AI market.

Any party that makes the trains run on time seems worth considering. </sarcasm>

It's different than my job at my current company. I don't think I'm going to get fired. And I recently asked for time off after finishing a tough release.
My company has zero layoffs as a KPI that the CEO and board committed to shortly after some very difficult layoffs 15+ years ago.
It flip side means it is difficult to get hiring reqs approved and the interview process is long. And the recruiting department is short staffed, so candidates don't get regular updates on the interview process. A lot of them drop out because they can get interviewed and hired by another company faster than going from phone screen to in-person interview at my company.

Good first principle and good foundations are more important that domain knowledge.

Some CS departments started in math department. But more common these days, at least in the US, is they are an extension of engineering. Probably because there isn't a huge difference between digital design and hardware description language (HDL) than with the coding that computer science and software engineering does.

I would prefer if CS was more in the vein of Knuth when it comes to approach to theory and Wirth when it comes to application. Unfortunately having great educators as examples wasn't sufficient enough for CS programs to align on effective teaching. Nor have CS programs really aligned on the scope of their own programs. It's not hard for me to pick two Universities that have little overlap in their main CS track after the second year.

If you want to solve difficult problems, simply hire mathematicians. In academics, the Math department has its house in order. But Compsci departments vary so much between different universities that I start interviews of NCG with some really basic questions that anyone in the field should know.

For example, I might start with a linked list, an interrupt handler (ISR), and a semaphore/mutex/threading problem. If you can do 2 out of 3, then that's a good start. If you can't do any one then I recommend to the HM to pull the plug and skip the remaining interviewers.

But if you can already do a bunch of stuff in Matlab that I can't do. And you seem to be interested in C++ (or whatever we're using). Then I have no problem letting you figure out the rest on your own. The CS part of the j ob isn't really hard, not at the practical application level.

It's a very short-sighted strategy.

Employees are a money making machine, you feed money into payroll and you get work of more value out of it. Apply that work to your business goal and that's profit. Assuming you have the machine tuned up and running properly. (that's always the rub, isn't it)

It's tough to make plans when you are never sure if you'll get cut. It makes people not want to take vacations or spend too much time with their family.

Fossil fuels are such a pain to deal with geopolitically as well. Nobody is likely to invade in order to steal my sunlight. You almost need a huge standing army to have any influence on fossil fuel prices.

Pretty much every organization that accumulates more power than the people will take control. It's almost impossible to peacefully hold onto a democracy for any length of time.

If your using AI to process data, you deserve to be audited to verify responsibile behavior. Civil liability is not the same as criminality, and a presumption of innocence is not how it works. Nor is executing a regulation statute the same as assuming guilt.

I feel like you really went off the rails with your argument.

If legislation for crypto doesn't include prison time for advertising ICOs, NFTs, and stablecoins, then I'm not interested.

Legalized ponzi schemes, it's what the people wanted. Well ... the people who think they are on the top of the Ponzi.

Recognizing the need to improve is the first step. Next is America has to want to change.