laustcozz

laustcozz t1_j1pb54v wrote

Reply to comment by TheLoneJuanderer in A study on volleyball players found that caffeinated chewing gum significantly improved attack accuracy compared to placebo. However, this did not improve results in jumping tests, running tests, and other volleyball specific-skills, including speed tests and accuracy during the volleyball serve by glawgii

Released research on nicotine is limited, that doesn't mean the research actually is. You can bet your heiny if there were significant positive effects there Phillip Morris would have let you know about it decades ago.

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laustcozz t1_ivsykkc wrote

Reply to A study found that people perceive that robots are replacing human jobs at a greater rate than they actually are. Only 14% of workers say they’ve had their job replaced by a robot. Workers who had been supplanted by a robot estimated that 47% of all jobs have been lost to robots. by Brave_Cycle_8745

This is a ridiculous way of looking at things. I worked in automation for decades. If my company gets a new contract, and we set up a new line that would have required twice as many workers 25 years ago, no one can point at it and say they "lost their job" to the robots...but the humans were replaced by robots nonetheless.

The problem with our society is that we aren't distributing the gains from automation. Filling our workforce with robots shouldn't be cutting the number of people employed, it should be cutting the hours everyone has to work for the same pay.

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