Crossword-Solution: FUNGIBLE
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RTAEE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with FUNGIBLE (3)
The myth in question has been most tersely expressed as "Programmer time is fungible" and Brooks established conclusively that it is not.
Law) Defn: Things which may be furnished or restored in kind, as distinguished from specific things; -- called also fungible things.
Moreover, the fact that money is "fungible," and that its use is to be found in a process which commonly returns to the owner, not the same coin, but a different coin, we may, in general, abstract from the wear and tear of the dollar, and look upon the dollar as a capital instrument which promises its owner, if he chooses to use it as capital, a perpetual annuity.
Quotes with FUNGIBLE (3)
When General Genius built the first mentar [Artificial Intelligence] mind in the last half of the twenty-first century, it based its design on the only proven conscious material then known, namely, our brains. Specifically, the complex structure of our synaptic network. Scientists substituted an electrochemical substrate for our slower, messier biological one. Our brains are an evolutionary hodgepodge of newer structures built on top of more ancient ones, a jury-rigged system…
Fungible goods in economics can be extended and traded. So, half as much grain is half as much useful, but half a baby or half a computer is less useful than a whole baby or a whole computer, and we've been trying to make computers that work that way.
As hardware doubles its density every 18-24 months, courtesy of Moore's Law, and as software eats the world, technology will replace a broad swathe of jobs outright - from burger-flippers to diagnosticians - and atomize many others from full-time positions into gigs performed by many fungible workers. Tech, in short, will eat jobs.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1987).