I actually grew up in the Eastern Block and this is simply something you were taught to think. The dictatorship of the communist party had nothing, except for lip service, to do with communism or even socialism. It was the bullshit they used to justify their dictatorship, just like Wahabism is the bullshit Saudi Kings use to justify their dictatorship and just like democracy is what the United States use to justify their fascism. But sure... go ahead think whatever you like. The Chinese will soon take over anyway, no matter what any of us do or think.
First they killed Google Reader, now they killed Google News,... it almost looks like Google is helping the government give us the mushroom treatment. I am sort of hoping that they kill GMail next so I can be done with this advertising company altogether.
You were not shocked that Hillary Clinton has rigged both the Democratic and Republican primaries? Did you expect her to do that? You, Sir, are way more cynical than I am. I have certainly not expected her to use her press contacts to give prop Donald Trump so should could run against him. That was a total surprise to me. I also did not know she had a private and public position on policies. I have been surprised to hear so much. And I have been even more surprised that she was provided debate questions and actually used them. I mean, she was the stronger debater. For you this might have been a business as usual, for me it was a sign that maybe there is some truth in the other side's accusation of her corruption.
Your logic does not hold. Even if they do have such system, in case they say they know who submitted the leak, it is clear that it has not been used in this case. Not all submissions need to be anonymous.
It is not changing the subject or attacking the person. That report is basically saying: "Trust James Clapper, because we cannot show you evidence." As there is no evidence to talk about, we talk about the trustworthiness of James Clapper, which is at issue in the report.
James Clapper, the analyst behind WMD in Iraq, James Clapper who lied to congress under oath. James Clapper who reversed himself three times during this Russian hacking story.
I don't trust this person, so I wait for evidence. Any evidence. So far there is none.
It does help not to be listed on the spinning wheel of countries that we are going to regime change when we re-spin it next time. In 2001 Iraq won followed by 2003 Afghanistan, 2005 winner Iran was delayed, 2007 winner was Paraguay and I believe next time it was Hillary as Sec of State picking contestants in 2009 when Syria won and 2011 when Egypt won, but she lied and said it was Libya. She was out for 2013 Ukraine and 2015 winner Brazil, but she is expected to oversee personally the 2017,19, 21 and 23 drawings.:)
But Clinton Foundation would not be enough, fighting for us the war in Yemen is certainly much more in line with the magnitude of payments we require.
Much ado for nothing? Well.. here you got it... Captain Jack is back!
I predict this company will have almost zero sales and will discontinue the product within a year or two for total lack of interest in headphone jack...
You are clearly too young to know... but I have managed a C code base that was ported to 14 architectures, through 4 major versions, each with 3 minor versions, at least three major refactoring efforts, hundreds of thousands of tests, with at least 500 customers with their own branches full of patches on top of those versions. Thousands of developers. But I was still able to automatically merge backported bugfixes to most of the 10 year old code. There is no way I could get any of that even over 6 months of heavily developed Java code by no more than 100 developers. I had smaller products in other languages, again no problem. The only thing that was constantly breaking the dev process were the Java products. It was just too expensive because all merging and all backports of bug fixes to older versions had to be done by humans. Constant exceptions to automation requiring human attention. I see that as a major bug.
That is when I predicted that there would be single branch development with CI/CD on all Java products and the only way they would be delivered eventually would be SaaS, as no other model can possibly work in a moderate to long term with that crappy piece of shit.
My problem stems from having to maintain Java codebase. The difficulty the language posses to patching, backporting, automated merges, etc. When you add class dependencies and other build time issues it is just HELL to maintain a Java project with some reasonable number of developers over a longer period of time. The constant under the rug refactoring done by IDE without developers even noticing is another issue. The unnecessary verbosity another one. It just needs to die.
I wish you were right, but Java is far from dead. Every single fucking application in the Enterprise is written in that piece of bloatware and half of the SaaS world uses it too. Not to mention that all Oracle apps, all Android apps,... Google is really heavy on it. I mean... why? *sigh*
Oracle is the only company that can beat Amazon. They got a way to bring the customers there as all the enterprise stuff will run in Oracle Cloud and if it does not, they will buy the company or run it out of business. Eventually the startups will go where the customers are as the interconnectivity and closeness to data, latency to service, etc will start to be an issue. Oracle can pull this off technically and they even hired former Amazon people to do it.
So in my expert opinion it might be the best time to start learning Oracle Cloud skills as they will be in demand no matter how many Oracle hating techies there are on Slashdot. Not only that, but as the Oracle Hate will be driving factor slowing adoption, the skills will be even further in demand, the Cloud instances will be less loaded, the prices might even go further down, there are gonna be promotions for early adopters, this is the first Cloud price war and it will be ugly, but the few early adopters are going to benefit a lot.
Just make sure to avoid any tie-in that you don't have a plan to get out of and you should benefit from Oracle's ego driving the lower operating costs for your business.
Actually, Russia is doing much more than this on that front. The programs they have for single mothers, the new program for in-home child care and other stuff is pretty inspiring. I wish someone here in US cared to have at least 10th of what the Russians are doing for families.
FBI and NSA Clearly wants to stop looking at pictures of naked fat guys and I say: "No way!" Make them watch! That is the least we can do. It is the only revenge we can exact on them. Wave that dong, juggle those layers of fat right at the camera. Make them see what their eyes cannot un-see. FFS. What are they going to do with it? Show your naked pictures to your girlfriend? Come on, you don't have any anyway. So pull that tape and make them suffer!
Another thing not counted are productivity gains from people not wanting to work not being in the workforce, standing in the way
I don't get how fewer people working boosts the GDP. Sure, it might help productivity, but a net gain (meaning more tax revenue)? I don't see it.
Let's simplify the example and say payroll tax and corporate tax are both 25%. Maybe it is small business. Anyway you and your lazy coworker make stuff that is worth X and your employer pays each of you Y in salary. Let's say there are no other costs. Your employer pays (X-2Y)*0.25 in tax. You both pay Y*0.25 in tax so in the IRS gets X*0.25 in tax. Now let's say your lazy coworker quits and you still make X, since he was doing like 1/4 of what you did and your productivity goes up 25% with him not around it is a wash. Now your employer pays (X-Y)*.25 in taxes and you pay Y*0.25 in taxes so the IRS still gets X*0.25 in revenue.Yay! But now your employer has extra Y*0.75 to spend and I am pretty sure it gets taxed somehow down the road again.
Since you only tax what people earn, not the UBI, there does not need to be any minimum wage, the UBI covers it.
You couldn't be more wrong. Federal service union worker income is a contractual multiple of minimum wage, That's the only reason minimum wage is ever taken seriously as a political topic - it's a pay raise for a very large union. No one buying influence actually cares about the poor people earning minimum wage, that's just theater. It's all about the wages for one big union. UBI will be twisted into a reason to raise the min wage even further, somehow.
Maybe politically there is a reason for someone to lobby for it. But the main purpose of minimum wage is satisfied by UBI and so there is no economical reason for it in a rational world. As you said, no way UBI could work in USA where people are insane and people in power are more so.
The dynamic is mostly the reverse these days. People like living in dense city centers. They want drunken nightlife within staggering distance. The jobs are going where the people are these days, as least for in-demand skilled work (and all the service jobs attached to those jobs). People are crazy.
Some young people of means like to do so. And they are welcome to get high paying job to pay for their lifestyle if they work for it. There is no "need" for it, but desire? Sure. I would like a private jet... Of course professionals will still tend to live in cities when young and in suburbs when they start families.
You are using averages when expedient, medians when it suits you, you include employer side taxes where the numbers are looking better for your point and conveniently forget them when they don't. You are averaging stuff with third world "countries" like Kansas and Louisiana to make your point. I don't care about the whole of United States, I just care about California. It is the world's 5th or 6th economy, it should be able to do stuff on its own.
Rest of Californians don't pay the same taxes as I do. Where the school are crappy it is because low property taxes and the insane idea to finance schools from property taxes to keep the poor in their place and lower social mobility.
High quality of life... in rural Nevada or Arizona? Maybe in Idaho, sure, there are exceptions, but most rural places are not multi-million dollar rural homes, ffs.
In the budget you mention, lot of things are simply not counted. For example we pay standard deduction to everyone to make taxes progressive. Those are not counted so for 75%+ of the people you would not be paying. The cost of collecting the revenue is not counted in it: "The IRS reports it spends 41 cents per $100 to collect taxes, but the true cost is closer to $45 per $100, or $978 billion, when those factors are accounted for, according to research compiled by Mastromarco." Basic Income would actually simplify the tax code. Another thing not counted are productivity gains from people not wanting to work not being in the workforce, standing in the way. Now, since you have so many people on basic income, the cost of labor goes down for day to day expenses. Since you only tax what people earn, not the UBI, there does not need to be any minimum wage, the UBI covers it. So in poor communities the cost can go further down. A lot of things can be done on barter basis in rural areas. You will find that those dollars go much further in such economy than when you have to pay for everything. Also, with the UBI you are no longer absolutely tied to population center to be near job. You can have population spread much more and lower the cost of living, by reducing scarcity of living area due to overpopulation of certain places.
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I actually grew up in the Eastern Block and this is simply something you were taught to think. The dictatorship of the communist party had nothing, except for lip service, to do with communism or even socialism. It was the bullshit they used to justify their dictatorship, just like Wahabism is the bullshit Saudi Kings use to justify their dictatorship and just like democracy is what the United States use to justify their fascism. But sure... go ahead think whatever you like. The Chinese will soon take over anyway, no matter what any of us do or think.
First they killed Google Reader, now they killed Google News, ... it almost looks like Google is helping the government give us the mushroom treatment. I am sort of hoping that they kill GMail next so I can be done with this advertising company altogether.
They love to kill products, first they mangle them, then they kill them. Remember Google Reader?
You were not shocked that Hillary Clinton has rigged both the Democratic and Republican primaries? Did you expect her to do that? You, Sir, are way more cynical than I am. I have certainly not expected her to use her press contacts to give prop Donald Trump so should could run against him. That was a total surprise to me. I also did not know she had a private and public position on policies. I have been surprised to hear so much. And I have been even more surprised that she was provided debate questions and actually used them. I mean, she was the stronger debater. For you this might have been a business as usual, for me it was a sign that maybe there is some truth in the other side's accusation of her corruption.
Your logic does not hold. Even if they do have such system, in case they say they know who submitted the leak, it is clear that it has not been used in this case. Not all submissions need to be anonymous.
It is not changing the subject or attacking the person. That report is basically saying: "Trust James Clapper, because we cannot show you evidence." As there is no evidence to talk about, we talk about the trustworthiness of James Clapper, which is at issue in the report.
James Clapper, the analyst behind WMD in Iraq,
James Clapper who lied to congress under oath.
James Clapper who reversed himself three times during this Russian hacking story.
I don't trust this person, so I wait for evidence. Any evidence. So far there is none.
It does help not to be listed on the spinning wheel of countries that we are going to regime change when we re-spin it next time. In 2001 Iraq won followed by 2003 Afghanistan, 2005 winner Iran was delayed, 2007 winner was Paraguay and I believe next time it was Hillary as Sec of State picking contestants in 2009 when Syria won and 2011 when Egypt won, but she lied and said it was Libya. She was out for 2013 Ukraine and 2015 winner Brazil, but she is expected to oversee personally the 2017,19, 21 and 23 drawings. :)
But Clinton Foundation would not be enough, fighting for us the war in Yemen is certainly much more in line with the magnitude of payments we require.
Much ado for nothing? Well.. here you got it ... Captain Jack is back!
I predict this company will have almost zero sales and will discontinue the product within a year or two for total lack of interest in headphone jack...
Security is Microsoft number one priority! They make it their priority to have no security!
Not free speech issue, political speech retaliation issue.
http://www.workplacefairness.o...
I don't think he knows what you are asking. I've read on his wiki page that his school didn't teach him to read.
You are clearly too young to know... but I have managed a C code base that was ported to 14 architectures, through 4 major versions, each with 3 minor versions, at least three major refactoring efforts, hundreds of thousands of tests, with at least 500 customers with their own branches full of patches on top of those versions. Thousands of developers. But I was still able to automatically merge backported bugfixes to most of the 10 year old code. There is no way I could get any of that even over 6 months of heavily developed Java code by no more than 100 developers. I had smaller products in other languages, again no problem. The only thing that was constantly breaking the dev process were the Java products. It was just too expensive because all merging and all backports of bug fixes to older versions had to be done by humans. Constant exceptions to automation requiring human attention. I see that as a major bug.
That is when I predicted that there would be single branch development with CI/CD on all Java products and the only way they would be delivered eventually would be SaaS, as no other model can possibly work in a moderate to long term with that crappy piece of shit.
My problem stems from having to maintain Java codebase. The difficulty the language posses to patching, backporting, automated merges, etc. When you add class dependencies and other build time issues it is just HELL to maintain a Java project with some reasonable number of developers over a longer period of time. The constant under the rug refactoring done by IDE without developers even noticing is another issue. The unnecessary verbosity another one. It just needs to die.
I wish you were right, but Java is far from dead. Every single fucking application in the Enterprise is written in that piece of bloatware and half of the SaaS world uses it too. Not to mention that all Oracle apps, all Android apps, ... Google is really heavy on it. I mean... why? *sigh*
Oracle is the only company that can beat Amazon. They got a way to bring the customers there as all the enterprise stuff will run in Oracle Cloud and if it does not, they will buy the company or run it out of business. Eventually the startups will go where the customers are as the interconnectivity and closeness to data, latency to service, etc will start to be an issue. Oracle can pull this off technically and they even hired former Amazon people to do it.
So in my expert opinion it might be the best time to start learning Oracle Cloud skills as they will be in demand no matter how many Oracle hating techies there are on Slashdot. Not only that, but as the Oracle Hate will be driving factor slowing adoption, the skills will be even further in demand, the Cloud instances will be less loaded, the prices might even go further down, there are gonna be promotions for early adopters, this is the first Cloud price war and it will be ugly, but the few early adopters are going to benefit a lot.
Just make sure to avoid any tie-in that you don't have a plan to get out of and you should benefit from Oracle's ego driving the lower operating costs for your business.
Actually, Russia is doing much more than this on that front. The programs they have for single mothers, the new program for in-home child care and other stuff is pretty inspiring. I wish someone here in US cared to have at least 10th of what the Russians are doing for families.
FBI and NSA Clearly wants to stop looking at pictures of naked fat guys and I say: "No way!" Make them watch! That is the least we can do. It is the only revenge we can exact on them. Wave that dong, juggle those layers of fat right at the camera. Make them see what their eyes cannot un-see. FFS. What are they going to do with it? Show your naked pictures to your girlfriend? Come on, you don't have any anyway. So pull that tape and make them suffer!
Another thing not counted are productivity gains from people not wanting to work not being in the workforce, standing in the way
I don't get how fewer people working boosts the GDP. Sure, it might help productivity, but a net gain (meaning more tax revenue)? I don't see it.
Let's simplify the example and say payroll tax and corporate tax are both 25%. Maybe it is small business. Anyway you and your lazy coworker make stuff that is worth X and your employer pays each of you Y in salary. Let's say there are no other costs. Your employer pays (X-2Y)*0.25 in tax. You both pay Y*0.25 in tax so in the IRS gets X*0.25 in tax. Now let's say your lazy coworker quits and you still make X, since he was doing like 1/4 of what you did and your productivity goes up 25% with him not around it is a wash. Now your employer pays (X-Y)*.25 in taxes and you pay Y*0.25 in taxes so the IRS still gets X*0.25 in revenue.Yay! But now your employer has extra Y*0.75 to spend and I am pretty sure it gets taxed somehow down the road again.
Since you only tax what people earn, not the UBI, there does not need to be any minimum wage, the UBI covers it.
You couldn't be more wrong. Federal service union worker income is a contractual multiple of minimum wage, That's the only reason minimum wage is ever taken seriously as a political topic - it's a pay raise for a very large union. No one buying influence actually cares about the poor people earning minimum wage, that's just theater. It's all about the wages for one big union. UBI will be twisted into a reason to raise the min wage even further, somehow.
Maybe politically there is a reason for someone to lobby for it. But the main purpose of minimum wage is satisfied by UBI and so there is no economical reason for it in a rational world. As you said, no way UBI could work in USA where people are insane and people in power are more so.
The dynamic is mostly the reverse these days. People like living in dense city centers. They want drunken nightlife within staggering distance. The jobs are going where the people are these days, as least for in-demand skilled work (and all the service jobs attached to those jobs). People are crazy.
Some young people of means like to do so. And they are welcome to get high paying job to pay for their lifestyle if they work for it. There is no "need" for it, but desire? Sure. I would like a private jet... Of course professionals will still tend to live in cities when young and in suburbs when they start families.
Oh well. Must be nice to be you. Would be awesome to have a chance to try what it is to not be an ignorant fool for a while.
In that case Czech Republic has been a social welfare state since about 1993.
I am over 40, I am not nearly done learning. You can figure the rest.
MOD UP! Please!
You are using averages when expedient, medians when it suits you, you include employer side taxes where the numbers are looking better for your point and conveniently forget them when they don't. You are averaging stuff with third world "countries" like Kansas and Louisiana to make your point. I don't care about the whole of United States, I just care about California. It is the world's 5th or 6th economy, it should be able to do stuff on its own.
Rest of Californians don't pay the same taxes as I do. Where the school are crappy it is because low property taxes and the insane idea to finance schools from property taxes to keep the poor in their place and lower social mobility.
High quality of life... in rural Nevada or Arizona? Maybe in Idaho, sure, there are exceptions, but most rural places are not multi-million dollar rural homes, ffs.
Can you educate me as to what is the difference? I am curious. From a practical stand point for a citizen, I mean, not a political explanation.
In the budget you mention, lot of things are simply not counted. For example we pay standard deduction to everyone to make taxes progressive. Those are not counted so for 75%+ of the people you would not be paying. The cost of collecting the revenue is not counted in it: "The IRS reports it spends 41 cents per $100 to collect taxes, but the true cost is closer to $45 per $100, or $978 billion, when those factors are accounted for, according to research compiled by Mastromarco." Basic Income would actually simplify the tax code. Another thing not counted are productivity gains from people not wanting to work not being in the workforce, standing in the way. Now, since you have so many people on basic income, the cost of labor goes down for day to day expenses. Since you only tax what people earn, not the UBI, there does not need to be any minimum wage, the UBI covers it. So in poor communities the cost can go further down. A lot of things can be done on barter basis in rural areas. You will find that those dollars go much further in such economy than when you have to pay for everything. Also, with the UBI you are no longer absolutely tied to population center to be near job. You can have population spread much more and lower the cost of living, by reducing scarcity of living area due to overpopulation of certain places.