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Re:Boston Dynamics employees were frustrated by Google's pla... by indymike on Sunday May 29, 2016 @09:40AM (#11796319)
It's easy to see why you are being downvoted. You precisely expressed the essence of discrimination and then defended it exactly the same way people always justify not hiring _____ race/class/gender/etc.

Diversity requires you change how you think about talent and work. Change from 80lb containers to 30lb containers and then you can hire people with less upper body strength while reducing injuries.

Re:Boston Dynamics employees were frustrated by Google's pla... by ivanca on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @03:47AM (#11812716)
I know what you are trying to say, but I have known engineers in their 70s who have a really hard time grasping new concepts, and your splitting weight analogy doesn't cover such things, you can't "divide a concept".

Yeah, we should be good with each other and nice with each other, but sometimes that is not in line with how the market/capitalism works. I don't think I was completely right but I don't think neither are you.

Brain plasticity is a real thing, and it goes away really quickly, is depressing but is a reality, I'm 27 but I already feel my reflexes are a bit worse than when I was 24, here is a nice video that gives some perspective about the issue, you may have seen it before (reverse bicycle): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFzDaBzBlL0

Re:Boston Dynamics employees were frustrated by Google's pla... by yarou on Sunday May 29, 2016 @04:36PM (#11798083)
Or better yet, let the robot engineers do their job so we can have robots do those mindless and repetitive jobs.

Moves like this signal to me that Google is dying. I, for one, will shed no tears when it finally kicks the bucket.