You realize the agent is required to pass the offer to the seller? The agent isn't allowed to say 'screw off'.
Its not the agent that will tell you to screw off, its the seller. They get 49 clean offers, some all-cash, some with escalation clauses, most with inspections waivers. Then, at the bottom of the pile, is your convoluted, no-agent offer that comes in below asking price because you don't understand listing agent contracts. Who would even take a second look at that mess?
I know about "the stack". It includes documents to certify that you are who claim to be, that you can legally own property, that you understand insurance and tax requirements, etc. But, by law, "the stack" cannot include any charges or fees that are not included in the disclosure.
You'd be amazed how loosely mortgage brokers use terms like "you don't have to pay" when what they really mean is you are totally being charged but we are rolling it into the principal.
That's a totally different issue than having hidden fees in the signing paperwork, isn't it? They do like to roll things like inspection fees and title costs into the principle. But a lawyer won't help you catch that because its already included in the loan amount. It's your responsibility to compare two numbers and notice the difference. Once again, you can avoid some surprises by not dealing with the shadiest mortgage broker in the strip mall.
Maybe you get your mortgages from Shady Joe's Instaloan Warehouse, but under those the Truth in Lending Act, closing disclosure forms have a standardized 5 page format. https://www.consumerfinance.go...
Maybe in BFE, you might be able to get away with that. In competitive real estate markets, they'll tell you to screw off and because there are 50 other offers who are less hassle to deal with.
True, but I didn't include those because none of those rockets went into space. The first rocket capable of reaching space was the V-2, which was build by a government agency. As were the rockets that launched Sputnik and Explorer I. The Mercury-RedStone Launch Vehicle was the first rocket capable of reaching space built by a private contractor.
I remember Elon Musk saying that reality is a simulation. Which makes any fears about AI a moot point. But cranks are under no obligation to be consistent.
"Private spaceflight" has been around since the Chrysler Corporation and McDonnell built the Mercury-Redstone rocket. SpaceX is a contractor. They have some neat technology, but the business model isn't any different than any other aerospace contractor in history.
A lot of people who invested with Charles Ponzi or Bernie Madoff had their accounts go up in value, too. But until you actually cashout, you haven't make a dime.
If you are looking for a "guarantee" then you are delusional.
You're dodging the question by being deliberately obtuse.
I'm not trying to trick you into giving a legally binding guarantee. I'm just trying to test to see if you would actually hire someone based on self-taught knowledge by getting more details about what knowledge you might expect. The fact that you can't provide such details suggests that you've never actually hired someone based on self-taught knowledge.
Because I would be stuck with entitled immature employees incapable of learning on their own. Their lack of intellectual curiosity and self-motivation
You're being awfully judgmental based on the lack of single skill. If someone demonstrates that they've self-taught several related technologies, are you going to dismiss them as being unteachable because they've overlook one that you are interested in?
If you don't have enough initiative to order a book from Amazon,and sit down and learn the material
Are you really going to pretend like its that easy?
Which OpenCL or Verilog book on Amazon do you suggest that would guarantee employment for someone without prior experience? And if it really is that easy, why don't you just hire people, hand them a book and make their employment contingent on completing the reading within 3 months?
Have you ever stopped to consider why you are the only commenter on slashdot who has their own trolls? Out of the millions of registered slashdot accounts, nobody else gets flamed and trolled the way you do. Its sign that you personally have a unique problem interacting with the community and its disruptive to actual discussion of topics.
This is the average for all computer science majors. It is very consistent with just about every other salary survey on the subject, if not a little on the high side. Do not put too much stake in the slashdot bubble comments claiming that every code monkey is making mid-six-figures. These are coming from the same people who all claim to be over 6'4" tall with IQ180.
This experiment shows that it is *possible* for diamonds to form under conditions that are *believed* to exist in gas giants. No direct evidence of such diamonds is actually observed, let alone "proof" that they exist. I'm not trying to cast doubt on the results, I just think we need to be careful about using the proper terminology.
I'm sorry, you don't get to draw parallels between a highly repressive regime and a free society
You equate IT with a bunch of unrelated fields based on gender ratio, so its only fair to compare IT to an oppressive regime based on gender ratio.
We are not excluding half of our talent.
The results speak for themselves. The gender ratio in US computer science is exactly the same as that Saudi Arabia example. Regardless of the mechanism for exclusion, the result is the same. And the justification for correcting it is the same.
The male dominated industries are all labour intensive jobs concerned with the hunting, gathering, transporting, or building of stuff.
The male dominated industries EXCEPT IT. Which means the argument for biological preference don't apply.
IT can be quite stressful, requires maintenance windows at odd hours, etc
So do many other professions that have much better gender parity.
What would we gain by having more women in IT?
Bill Gates recalls once being invited to speak in Saudi Arabia and finding himself facing a segregated audience. Four-fifths of the listeners were men, on the left. The remaining one-fifth were women, all covered in black cloaks and veils, on the right. A partition separated the two groups. Toward the end, in the question-and-answer session, a member of the audience noted that Saudi Arabia aimed to be one of the Top 10 countries in the world in technology by 2010 and asked if that was realistic. “Well, if you’re not fully utilizing half the talent in the country,” Gates said, “you’re not going to get too close to the Top 10.” The small group on the right erupted in wild cheering.
And you go on to spew this great lie,
The ONLY medical sub specialty that has more a biased gender ratio than computer science is Obstetrics/Gynecology, which has a justifiable biological bias
What lie? I used the numbers that you provided regarding gender proportion of each medical sub-specialty, and compared it to the gender proportion in computer science and cited my source.
Anyway, if you would chance the risk of learning something you may have read the article I posted and noticed this nugget.
You are right about one thing: I'm not going waste time reading a 11,000 word rant from a blog that sounds like D&D spell book.
And why on earth would keyboard jockies in CS or IT be categorized as "hunt and gather" activities?
They're not, they're classified in the service industry under "Information, culture and recreation".
I am responding to your classification of careers as either "hunt and gather" or "nurture, heal, and educate." But that doesn't explain why there are so few women in computer science. Sitting at a keyboard all day is the opposite of "hunt and gather" activity.
And how long has that been going on? What are the fruits of their labours? Had it made any appreciable difference? From the statistics it doesn't seem like it.
The proportion of male registered nurses has more than tripled since 1970, from 2.7 percent to 9.6 percent. https://www.census.gov/people/... This is the exact opposite trend in computer science where the percentage of women comp sci majors has declined.
Let's theorize for a moment that females are just not interested on average in working in IT.
That is not a viable theory. Computer science is practically the only field where gender disparity has gotten WORSE.
The ONLY medical sub specialty that has more a biased gender ratio than computer science is Obstetrics/Gynecology, which has a justifiable biological bias.
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Its not the agent that will tell you to screw off, its the seller. They get 49 clean offers, some all-cash, some with escalation clauses, most with inspections waivers. Then, at the bottom of the pile, is your convoluted, no-agent offer that comes in below asking price because you don't understand listing agent contracts. Who would even take a second look at that mess?
Don't.
I know about "the stack". It includes documents to certify that you are who claim to be, that you can legally own property, that you understand insurance and tax requirements, etc. But, by law, "the stack" cannot include any charges or fees that are not included in the disclosure.
You'd be amazed how loosely mortgage brokers use terms like "you don't have to pay" when what they really mean is you are totally being charged but we are rolling it into the principal.
That's a totally different issue than having hidden fees in the signing paperwork, isn't it? They do like to roll things like inspection fees and title costs into the principle. But a lawyer won't help you catch that because its already included in the loan amount. It's your responsibility to compare two numbers and notice the difference. Once again, you can avoid some surprises by not dealing with the shadiest mortgage broker in the strip mall.
Maybe you get your mortgages from Shady Joe's Instaloan Warehouse, but under those the Truth in Lending Act, closing disclosure forms have a standardized 5 page format. https://www.consumerfinance.go...
Maybe in BFE, you might be able to get away with that. In competitive real estate markets, they'll tell you to screw off and because there are 50 other offers who are less hassle to deal with.
True, but I didn't include those because none of those rockets went into space. The first rocket capable of reaching space was the V-2, which was build by a government agency. As were the rockets that launched Sputnik and Explorer I. The Mercury-RedStone Launch Vehicle was the first rocket capable of reaching space built by a private contractor.
I remember Elon Musk saying that reality is a simulation. Which makes any fears about AI a moot point. But cranks are under no obligation to be consistent.
"Private spaceflight" has been around since the Chrysler Corporation and McDonnell built the Mercury-Redstone rocket. SpaceX is a contractor. They have some neat technology, but the business model isn't any different than any other aerospace contractor in history.
Going to the moon got boring after six trips. That was almost half a century ago.
Is /. news? By the time a story hits /., it's closer to history than news.
A lot of people who invested with Charles Ponzi or Bernie Madoff had their accounts go up in value, too. But until you actually cashout, you haven't make a dime.
You're dodging the question by being deliberately obtuse.
I'm not trying to trick you into giving a legally binding guarantee. I'm just trying to test to see if you would actually hire someone based on self-taught knowledge by getting more details about what knowledge you might expect. The fact that you can't provide such details suggests that you've never actually hired someone based on self-taught knowledge.
You're being awfully judgmental based on the lack of single skill. If someone demonstrates that they've self-taught several related technologies, are you going to dismiss them as being unteachable because they've overlook one that you are interested in?
If you don't have enough initiative to order a book from Amazon,and sit down and learn the material
Are you really going to pretend like its that easy? Which OpenCL or Verilog book on Amazon do you suggest that would guarantee employment for someone without prior experience? And if it really is that easy, why don't you just hire people, hand them a book and make their employment contingent on completing the reading within 3 months?
I think you just partially answered the question. There is no reason to use bit.ly links on slashdot unless you're trying to hide something.
Have you ever stopped to consider why you are the only commenter on slashdot who has their own trolls? Out of the millions of registered slashdot accounts, nobody else gets flamed and trolled the way you do. Its sign that you personally have a unique problem interacting with the community and its disruptive to actual discussion of topics.
Tesla Motors wasn't started to make a buck
Going public with their stock proves this is a lie.
This is the average for all computer science majors. It is very consistent with just about every other salary survey on the subject, if not a little on the high side. Do not put too much stake in the slashdot bubble comments claiming that every code monkey is making mid-six-figures. These are coming from the same people who all claim to be over 6'4" tall with IQ180.
This experiment shows that it is *possible* for diamonds to form under conditions that are *believed* to exist in gas giants. No direct evidence of such diamonds is actually observed, let alone "proof" that they exist. I'm not trying to cast doubt on the results, I just think we need to be careful about using the proper terminology.
If you take a diamond out of the ground does it stay a crystal or does it become a gas?
The question was how many women engineers have experienced sexism. No comparison to male engineers was asked or necessary.
You equate IT with a bunch of unrelated fields based on gender ratio, so its only fair to compare IT to an oppressive regime based on gender ratio.
The results speak for themselves. The gender ratio in US computer science is exactly the same as that Saudi Arabia example. Regardless of the mechanism for exclusion, the result is the same. And the justification for correcting it is the same.
The male dominated industries EXCEPT IT. Which means the argument for biological preference don't apply.
So do many other professions that have much better gender parity.
Bill Gates recalls once being invited to speak in Saudi Arabia and finding himself facing a segregated audience. Four-fifths of the listeners were men, on the left. The remaining one-fifth were women, all covered in black cloaks and veils, on the right. A partition separated the two groups. Toward the end, in the question-and-answer session, a member of the audience noted that Saudi Arabia aimed to be one of the Top 10 countries in the world in technology by 2010 and asked if that was realistic. “Well, if you’re not fully utilizing half the talent in the country,” Gates said, “you’re not going to get too close to the Top 10.” The small group on the right erupted in wild cheering.
And you go on to spew this great lie, The ONLY medical sub specialty that has more a biased gender ratio than computer science is Obstetrics/Gynecology, which has a justifiable biological bias
What lie? I used the numbers that you provided regarding gender proportion of each medical sub-specialty, and compared it to the gender proportion in computer science and cited my source.
Anyway, if you would chance the risk of learning something you may have read the article I posted and noticed this nugget.
You are right about one thing: I'm not going waste time reading a 11,000 word rant from a blog that sounds like D&D spell book.
Different cases. "Business leaders" is a plural noun, integer value is a singular noun.
And why on earth would keyboard jockies in CS or IT be categorized as "hunt and gather" activities? They're not, they're classified in the service industry under "Information, culture and recreation".
I am responding to your classification of careers as either "hunt and gather" or "nurture, heal, and educate." But that doesn't explain why there are so few women in computer science. Sitting at a keyboard all day is the opposite of "hunt and gather" activity.
And how long has that been going on? What are the fruits of their labours? Had it made any appreciable difference? From the statistics it doesn't seem like it.
The proportion of male registered nurses has more than tripled since 1970, from 2.7 percent to 9.6 percent. https://www.census.gov/people/... This is the exact opposite trend in computer science where the percentage of women comp sci majors has declined.
Let's theorize for a moment that females are just not interested on average in working in IT.
That is not a viable theory. Computer science is practically the only field where gender disparity has gotten WORSE.
https://www.usnews.com/news/da...
The ONLY medical sub specialty that has more a biased gender ratio than computer science is Obstetrics/Gynecology, which has a justifiable biological bias.