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Blake Dowling: Artificial intelligence – curing cancer, or world domination?

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I made a strategic decision Sunday; to sit out the second round of presidential debates. Instead, I enjoyed a fascinating expose on artificial intelligence (AI) on “60 Minutes.” We all have pre-conceived notions about AI. Stephen Hawking has said when machines are smarter than us, it will bring about the end of the world. Specifically: “The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.” Most of us are familiar with the fictitious Terminator film and…

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Paul M. Anderson: Stereotypes won’t help Florida workers – or produce real reform

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As the chair-elect of the Workers’ Compensation Section of the Florida Bar, I believe it is important to correct misconceptions and misstatements made by the head of the Florida Chamber regarding Florida’s workers’ compensation system and the attorneys who represent injured Floridians. In a recent column, Mark Wilson and the Chamber suggest the workers’ compensation rate increase approved by Florida’s new Insurance Commissioner benefits only “billboard trial lawyers.” Nothing could be further from the truth. The commissioner approved a ridiculous…

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Joe Clements: ‘Never Trump’ politicos set the stage for this

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The Donald Trump tape scandal unloaded a torrent of un-endorsements over the weekend, much to the delight of the longtime “Never Trump” crowd. Here is the problem, my “Never Trump” friends: you are probably a big cause of the Trump phenomenon. Perhaps no group of people in the history of earth has been more gratuitously civically irresponsible than Republican politicos. Donald Trump is only able to succeed by standing on the shoulders of a base created by 25 years of…

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Chris Hudson: Death, taxes and health care

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Though death and taxes have long been thought to be the two certainties in life, it’s now looking like skyrocketing health care costs comes in a close third. Florida state officials recently approved an average health insurance premium increase of 19 percent. And these hikes come after state officials raised rates 9.5 percent last year and 13.2 percent in 2014. But this year, those of us who call the Sunshine State home can help prevent skyrocketing costs from becoming the…

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Blake Dowling: Expert advice on navigating the Social Media universe

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Who remembers the short-lived site, Friendster? Six years ago I was asked to sit on a panel at a conference to give “expert advice” on social media use at work. I wish someone had shot some video footage; in the lifetime of social media, six years is an eternity. Just think … in 2008, Myspace peaked. Myspace was the most visited social networking site in the world, attracting during that time 75.9 million unique visitors a month. Now, in 2016,…

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Wayne Pacelle and Joel Manby: Let’s finally put an end to dolphin hunting

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From September through March, every year, in the coastal waters near the small Japanese village of Taiji, a gruesome dolphin hunt takes place. Hunters aboard speed boats use noise to herd schools of dolphins toward shore, corralling them in a cove where they are surrounded by nets, manhandled by divers and most are killed. They are killed by driving a metal rod into the dolphin’s neck vertebrae to try to sever the spinal cord — a method that has been…

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Darryl E. Owens: Donald Trump’s campaigning suggests he is running for prevaricator-in-chief

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With six weeks remaining in the 2016 presidential race, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump squared off Monday night in the first of three debates. The spectacle reminded voters how much has changed in American politics since his virtuous dealings as a lawyer in the Illinois circuit courts in the 1850s earned Abraham Lincoln the nickname that would follow him to the White House: “Honest Abe.” In the decades since Honest Abe was on the stump, a complicit American electorate grew…

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