I think it should be kept as a monument for the same reason nazi concentration camps were...maybe in the future we can learn to not do the same thing again.
And how many above and below him on that list are in the business of extracting fossil fuels from the ground and burning them, or building the machines that do the burning, or the machines that do the killing to keep the extraction and burning going?
The progressivism stops at the HR office door, perhaps with the exception of some pro-gay-rights moves.
Of course they have no problem hiring brown foreigners for dirt-cheap labor, but if you want to get into their offices you'd better be a white or asian male who went to an elite school. Otherwise you'd be lucky to be hired and make "good money for an Indian."
Here's a good article that links to a few other good articles on the topic:
Some of them mention that the intent is not racism, but to copy a phrase on the topic used in the fashion industry, intent is irrelevant if the effect is still racism.
I don't think an incredibly skewed ethnic or gender makeup is concrete evidence of discrimination, but it's definitely an indicator that something is wrong.
Most enlightened? Hahaha, Silly Valley employers are among the most discriminatory in the world! You just didn't notice because of the trendy offices and hipster glasses. They've created perfect '50s-style silent oppression in the HR department, as you have demonstrated.
Corporations commonly pay ransoms to blackhats, it just doesn't get reported. I heard of a CEO once paying a 100kUS ransom to prevent his customer database from being released - with no evidence!
Remember that the tea party was just one targeted group among a long list of political groups on both sides of the fence that were rightly being looked into for cheating on their taxes by masquerading as charities. That was the first and most easily forgotten critical fact in this matter.
If not, how could the Republicans harness their voters' potent persecution complex to once again build a slightly quesitonable government action into a partisan scandal, and then beat that dead horse until its bones are turned to powder?
The same reason you shouldn't put next week's gas money into fusion energy research. Some problems are more immediate than others. We definitely do need to put more money into geo-engineering research but in the short term he have to cut fossil carbon use, or its going to hurt us in a way that will make it harder to do that geo-engineering research. It will work towards the same goal in a more immediate way that won't hurt us in the long term.
Launching sulphur into the atmosphere or other plans of reducing sunlight (I've also heard of using large clouds of particles in space) are just a band-aid that only addresses one aspect of CO2's effects. It does nothing about ocean acidification for starters, and will have many side-effects that reducing atmospheric CO2 wouldn't. I think a powerful geo-engineering control we could have is to control the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere through sequestration and intentional release. Right now we sequester, if the planet starts to get too cold later we can burn the sequestered carbon to raise the temperature again.
You're right, but we have no means of cheating CO2 levels now and there is very unlikely to be in the future, so what can we do but reduce atmospheric CO2 to geo-engineer ourselves the climate we want?
It would be smart for the NSA to try to undermine Bitcoin: From the US government's perspective, the only things a cryptocurrency can do that some more established payment system can't can be categorized either as some form of crime or a thwarting of their surveillance systems...and as far as they're concerned, the distinction between the two is hardly more than an academic issue.
"Global warming" is not a binary condition, it will only be as bad as we allow it to be.
Also cleaner energy sources and carbon sequestration are much cheaper than floating/domed cities and a massive outbreak of war that will cut off access to much of the fossil fuel pretty damn quick.
Firing employees on elevator rides, driving a plateless Benz and parking it in handicapped spots at every opportunity, organizing a massively anti-competitive no-poaching agreement across the entire tech industry, hypocritically accusing competitors of "theft" if they make a competing product, lulztastic attempts at fruit-based cancer treatment.
He's doing a downright shitty job, really. But I'm glad that the cult of personality around Jobs is fading, possibly leading to a long-awaited collapse in the Reality Distortion Field.
But this is short-sighted of them. They'll sell more equipment in the short term to separate the fast and slow lanes, certainly, but soon the powerful ISP oligopoly would have no incentive to improve Internet service and demand for upgraded equipment would fall off a cliff, and stay down there. Only failed equipment would need to be replaced.
Well since there's nothing that can be done about it, why make the problem worse by allowing them to gather more money as well? To argue otherwise sounds too much like "X can never be eliminated therefore it makes no sense to attempt to restrict X" logic.
We can call this The NSA Defense (our systems are too complex for the law), and the inverse of it is The Amazon Defense (the law is too complex for our systems).
"Spare" processing time doesn't exist anymore, computers aren't that horrendously inefficient these days. They only use what they need. And this jackass made them need a lot more.
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They were spying on the militaries of countries they were at war with, nothing morally questionable about that.
I think it should be kept as a monument for the same reason nazi concentration camps were...maybe in the future we can learn to not do the same thing again.
It's a trendy new spelling to attract today's youth!
And how many above and below him on that list are in the business of extracting fossil fuels from the ground and burning them, or building the machines that do the burning, or the machines that do the killing to keep the extraction and burning going?
The progressivism stops at the HR office door, perhaps with the exception of some pro-gay-rights moves.
Of course they have no problem hiring brown foreigners for dirt-cheap labor, but if you want to get into their offices you'd better be a white or asian male who went to an elite school. Otherwise you'd be lucky to be hired and make "good money for an Indian."
Here's a good article that links to a few other good articles on the topic:
http://www.thewire.com/technol...
Some of them mention that the intent is not racism, but to copy a phrase on the topic used in the fashion industry, intent is irrelevant if the effect is still racism.
I don't think an incredibly skewed ethnic or gender makeup is concrete evidence of discrimination, but it's definitely an indicator that something is wrong.
Once I heard that solar panels output more energy in their service lifespan than it takes to manufacture them. Is that true?
For all solar panels except those used on satellites, yes.
Then there is no reason to not make as many as possible. It's an epic win on the engineering/physical science level.
It would not be an epic win for our monied overlords so it's not so straightforward.
Most enlightened? Hahaha, Silly Valley employers are among the most discriminatory in the world! You just didn't notice because of the trendy offices and hipster glasses. They've created perfect '50s-style silent oppression in the HR department, as you have demonstrated.
Corporations commonly pay ransoms to blackhats, it just doesn't get reported. I heard of a CEO once paying a 100kUS ransom to prevent his customer database from being released - with no evidence!
Execs can trust criminals for the same reason that sharks don't eat lawyers...professional respect ;-)
For us, no, for the manufacturers, yes.
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Remember that the tea party was just one targeted group among a long list of political groups on both sides of the fence that were rightly being looked into for cheating on their taxes by masquerading as charities. That was the first and most easily forgotten critical fact in this matter.
If not, how could the Republicans harness their voters' potent persecution complex to once again build a slightly quesitonable government action into a partisan scandal, and then beat that dead horse until its bones are turned to powder?
The same reason you shouldn't put next week's gas money into fusion energy research. Some problems are more immediate than others. We definitely do need to put more money into geo-engineering research but in the short term he have to cut fossil carbon use, or its going to hurt us in a way that will make it harder to do that geo-engineering research. It will work towards the same goal in a more immediate way that won't hurt us in the long term.
Launching sulphur into the atmosphere or other plans of reducing sunlight (I've also heard of using large clouds of particles in space) are just a band-aid that only addresses one aspect of CO2's effects. It does nothing about ocean acidification for starters, and will have many side-effects that reducing atmospheric CO2 wouldn't. I think a powerful geo-engineering control we could have is to control the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere through sequestration and intentional release. Right now we sequester, if the planet starts to get too cold later we can burn the sequestered carbon to raise the temperature again.
You're right, but we have no means of cheating CO2 levels now and there is very unlikely to be in the future, so what can we do but reduce atmospheric CO2 to geo-engineer ourselves the climate we want?
It would be smart for the NSA to try to undermine Bitcoin: From the US government's perspective, the only things a cryptocurrency can do that some more established payment system can't can be categorized either as some form of crime or a thwarting of their surveillance systems...and as far as they're concerned, the distinction between the two is hardly more than an academic issue.
"Global warming" is not a binary condition, it will only be as bad as we allow it to be.
Also cleaner energy sources and carbon sequestration are much cheaper than floating/domed cities and a massive outbreak of war that will cut off access to much of the fossil fuel pretty damn quick.
Firing employees on elevator rides, driving a plateless Benz and parking it in handicapped spots at every opportunity, organizing a massively anti-competitive no-poaching agreement across the entire tech industry, hypocritically accusing competitors of "theft" if they make a competing product, lulztastic attempts at fruit-based cancer treatment.
He's doing a downright shitty job, really. But I'm glad that the cult of personality around Jobs is fading, possibly leading to a long-awaited collapse in the Reality Distortion Field.
The NSA doesn't have any red tape or legacy junk holding them on '80s software...
Not sure if joking about Turing's homosexuality or unaware of it...
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This one, specifically:
http://www.sivatherium.narod.r...
Far from hard sci-fi but an entertaining read for sure.
Came here to say this.
But this is short-sighted of them. They'll sell more equipment in the short term to separate the fast and slow lanes, certainly, but soon the powerful ISP oligopoly would have no incentive to improve Internet service and demand for upgraded equipment would fall off a cliff, and stay down there. Only failed equipment would need to be replaced.
Well since there's nothing that can be done about it, why make the problem worse by allowing them to gather more money as well? To argue otherwise sounds too much like "X can never be eliminated therefore it makes no sense to attempt to restrict X" logic.
We can call this The NSA Defense (our systems are too complex for the law), and the inverse of it is The Amazon Defense (the law is too complex for our systems).
"Spare" processing time doesn't exist anymore, computers aren't that horrendously inefficient these days. They only use what they need. And this jackass made them need a lot more.