It’s only cheaper if the mistakes it makes cost less to fix than paying a human to do it in the first place. That said, shifting operating costs to operating risk usually looks good on paper because the risks don’t get quantified properly or at all.

Don’t trust that other guy. There’s no such thing as a free lunch. I can offer it to you on a payment plan of 24 easy monthly payments of $0.

The researchers analyzed data from Canadian mobile devices travelling to U.S. metro areas

Yeah, there’s your problem. People I know leave their phone at home and use a burner for US travel now.

Ok, you’re going to have to share with the class.

Thanks for reminding me I’ve got a daki on the way. Time to check the mail every hour.

Lemme guess: it works perfectly fine in chrome. Google has been using this sort of anticompetitive tactic for years to wage war against other browsers.

I have NoScript for JS tracking, but what do you use for fingerprint randomisation?

That’s kind of him, I got tired of losing The Game years ago.

Yes, maths. It’s the alternative short form of mathematics.

Exactly. I’ve got to leave a deposit with my landlord in case I leave a mess when i move out, same should go for these oil companies.

There is a good chance…

Probabilistically, the early bird theory is unlikely. If development of life were to follow a normal distribution, it’d be highly improbable that we’d be in the tails as opposed to the main body.

I’m not quite sure what you’re suggesting, but I’m sure I don’t like it.

Male strippers

Saved you a click.

…w…would? ^w^

Yeah.

Technical users are laughing their way to the bank on it, though. It’s so easy to set up an old htpc for dirt cheap and just use it that way without “smart” functionality.

Exhibit 5: Falling Down

It appears to be a full length article. I don’t have a subscription or anything, and was able to see it, but archive.ph only pulled the 3 paragraph version.

Man who wrote self help book says his own advice really helped him.

The declining birth rate isn’t going to hurt anyone alive today.

Having a top heavy age demographic means less tax revenue will be split between more required services. There will also be fewer labourers with more labour requirements. The only ones it won’t hurt are the billionaires.

It’s probably a good thing in the long run that human population is stabilising, but it’s going to be problematic until we get to that stable state.

Religion today is voluntary, at least in most of the world.

You often don’t have the autonomy to not participate in religion as a child if your parents want you to.