”in three recessions over the last 30 years, 88 percent of job loss took place in routine highly automatable occupations.”
and
”a total of about 36 million jobs in multiple categories and industries and occupations could be replaced by machines. “
Travis Kalanick is exiting his Uber holdings very quickly
.. this is an old ( 3 1/2 months) article .. talk about timing.
I came across it because I was wondering about ‘Cloud Kitchens’ - his new venture.
RIP ‘On This Day’
Long Live ‘Roughly On This Day’
Not to embarrass ‘young startup ventures’ - no need to - they have embarrassed themselves …
The email they used was scraped from my linkedIN profile - and now they want TEN DAYS to process the unsubscribe request.
.
I know. I know.
I know that ‘this too will pass’.
now be quiet.
House Party, Hangout and Zoom all detailed by the show’s guest as great ways for you to communicate in these times. No mention of Skype.
The sound of the interview was horrible quality … all running with Skype.
Is this irony, stupidity, lazy thinking … or what?
The convocast series that @andysylvester and I have been doing strikes me as the podcast version of the MarcoPolo app.
Hobby Lobby Defies Stay-at-Home Orders by Reopening Some Stores.
The people, the authorities, the companies … that do this have a lot in common.
Lots of Carnival, Royal Caribbean, and Norwegian ships are registered in countries like the Bahamas to avoid U.S. tax, employment, and environmental laws.
… there are some 6,000 people out there … somewhere … on cruise ships.
I think I just heard Bernie say
“The champagne is very very different to what I have experienced before.”
Random Walk - Math of Random Walks - Unsolved Math Problems
Actually ‘solved’.
”The researchers found that random walks that meet a certain criterion based in vector geometry are the ones that converge with everything else.”
Well that explains everything!!
Remember those kids that we used to complain about? How there was an entire generation that were locked up in their homes playing on computers.
Are these the same kids that we now worry about being shaped by COVID-19 … having to get used to things like no physical proximity?
Democrats fear court sabotage if Congress is allowed to vote remotely.
Not exactly a Catch 22 … but close enough.
If anyone at home in these times say they have ‘nothing to do’ … they aren’t taking washing, cleaning and disinfecting seriously enough.
It’s still boring - but it really is incredibly time consuming.
We all know it - but interesting none the less.
Trump’s quotes on covid-19 show how his response has changed over time.
A question for the Blot cognoscenti.
Is there an easy way that when you see a page rendering on your blot site - you can quickly find and open the original file on dropbox?
Instructions for the times of COVID-19
I see conference after conference moving from physical to online.
What I don’t see is a reduction in fees to attend.
Am I expecting too much?