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Tonight on GeekNights, there's more tech news than we have time to talk about, so we focus on age-discrimination claims against Google, the launch of the iWatch, another victory for the Internet with the breakdown of the Comcast/TWC merger, the EU's misguided antitrust suit against Google, enemies of mine enemies fighting one another in the TV/cable network race toward grim death, and a turning point where robots are replacing migrant and seasonal labor in agriculture.
In other news, Rym finally bought a new phone and GeekNights will have one final hiatus next week while he is in Hong Kong before returning to our full regular schedule!
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"Means only half the people to do the same work at twice the speed, and they now work standing up in the shade, not hunched over in the sun. And they get paid 11 dollars an hour not 10 dollars an hour."
"Lettuce cutters rejoice!" Half of them, at least. Turns out they had to start using a robot due to not finding enough people willing to do the normal work for that pay.
And lo, I was right again. Confirmation bias proves I'm so smart!
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/04/28/twitters-earnings-report-leaks-on-twitter-an-hour-early/
My industry is fucked up.
Yep!