While Brooks presented a rosy robot future, McAfee warned of the hugely negative consequence of digitizing work: humans are going to lose their jobs.

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This week we saw one potential negative consequence to these tendencies.

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While this is usually framed as a negative consequence of the law, moving away from our employer system may actually have positive implications for the health care system and individuals.

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Whatever the motivation, this inflation in reporting has the negative consequence of inflating future rights fees charged while creating doubt in the veracity of organizations that routinely report biased numbers without substantiation.

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Avoid a negative consequence?

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As a consequence, the meaning of the negative experience is constrained, and people understand that when bad things happen, it's not just them, they are not alone, and that it's something that passes.

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The search for antimatter, that staple of science fiction, was the consequence of an equation about electrons which has two sets of solutions, one positive and one negative.

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