This. There is no good reason to keep wages secret. It's a weapon used against employees.
I've often tried to think of a way to allow employees to reveal pay to each other in a cryptographically secure way, such that everyone puts their info in escrow, and when everyone (or a large majority) has submitted valid info, everything is revealed to everyone else. That way a company can't unfairly take action against any individual employee in secret for revealing their pay.
The more that compete for the job, who can do the job, the less they are paid, full stop, end of story, do not pass go for a big fat pay check when your services are in oversupply, worth means nothing.
And this is why big tech companies are pushing the lie of a STEM shortage, even in the face of an oversupply of tech workers. Tech workers in tech hub cities make good pay, and this is a major expense limiting the size/flight capability of executive megayachts.
What these guys are talking about essentially sounds like the mainstream proposed solutions to climate change. Congrats on reinventing what the scientific community has been saying since forever! Their ideas seem to be a response to the right-wing false dichotomy of technology/scientific progress vs. climate change mitigation (AKA "we'll all have to live in mud huts to stop climate change!") rather than any real problem.
No- no- you shouldn't be censoring results. People should discern for themselves what is and isn't true. There is a far greater danger to implementing censorship to democracy than there is from dumb fuckers believing some conspiracy non-sense. We already have tyrants in power- we don't need to further erode our freedoms to a point where we're all living in a NAZI or Soviet like shit hole. The United States is already well on that path and other countries like the UK have certainly achieved a great deal of this already.
You don't realize that the recent turn toward tyranny is caused in large part by the ideas in those videos?
There is some merit to censoring content meant to exploit people who are basically immune to factual information. Throwing facts at them does nothing. Discussing the issue has no effect on people who believe in an objective reality other than perhaps entertaining them, but helps to expose more people to it, some of whom are unmoved by facts. If you censor it, drive it underground, that helps reduce the exposure of the conspiracy-vulnerable to destructive nonsense ideas they can't be cured of, and it has no adverse effects on the rest of society. Disagree with censorship categorically if you want, but it does work for keeping those dumb fuckers from being infected with conspiracy nonsense.
In the past we had this censorship. It was carried out by the professional and level-headed editors of magazines, newspapers, and TV stations, and nobody batted an eye. It's only relatively recently that any yahoo has been able to broadcast their own content cheaply and easily that has led to an explosion of what we now call post-truth thinking, since that censorship is no longer present.
2-3 years ago I would've said yes. But since Trump's election, I think the USA's democracy deserves more credit. If there were any shadowy cabals pulling the strings behind US elections, they would never have allowed a dangerous moron like Trump to occupy the presidency. The fact that someone who is so corrosive to every aspect of the country's wellbeing can make his way into office and remain there for so long is a good indicator of a functioning democracy.
You're right, but that's not communism, that's authoritarianism - a practically universal feature of communist countries in the real world, but no more an element of communism than flies are an element of a corpse. There have been small hippie communes that were communist but not authoritarian.
There are also authoritarian capitalist countries that would never be accused of communism - start a peaceful protest in Singapore without government permission and see how long you stay out of jail.
What's communist about them other than the name of their party? Nothing. If Trump renamed the Republicans to the Liberal party this evening, they would also not be liberal.
They're not even slightly communist anymore. They're very capitalist but also very authoritarian. And they've only recently become a dictatorship (again), previously they were a pseudo-democratic oligarchy.
I tagged this article "nosedive" as soon as I saw the title. Imagine if you prevented people who spread false information about terrorism from riding trains or planes in the US? An easy 1/3rd of the country would be banned immediately. And then they'd say it's a tactic to cover up the Bowling Green massacre or hide Obama's true origins.
No, look it up yourself and find out if you're right, or wrong. (Spoiler: Wrong!)
You assert that these astronomically improbable bugs have happened, I try to find when they have and failed, I ask you to show me these occurrences that you say you know about, and next you assert that I'm wrong for not finding them and you won't tell me why? Do you see how full of shit this makes you look?
Don't ask me to show you stuff, that's exactly why you're full of shit; people talk, you measure their personal Virtue, and if that measurement tells you they're somebody you like, then you believe them and repeat their blah-blah as if it was knowledge you learned. It isn't. It isn't knowledge, it is just rumor. It doesn't make you sciencey, it makes you an idiot.
Where the flying fuck did this come from? I'm simply asking for evidence of your extraordinary claims! I've already given you far more credibility and respect than a jackass nonsensemonger deserves. I'll take that back if you show evidence. Show me this evidence you allege exists, I fucking dare you.
Don't ask me to show you what I already told you the answer is. You should be able to easily look it up from objective sources, without having to ask me what sources are high quality.
I TRIED. THE BURDEN OF PROOF IS ON YOU. SOURCE OR IT DIDN'T HAPPEN AND YOU'RE A FULL-OF-SHIT PEDDLER OF LIES.
LMFAO! No. Just, no.
I have experience, you have "LMFAO, No." Maybe there's hard evidence of complex realistic visible phenomena arising from random bit-flipping in digital video streams somewhere in the same hard-to-find source you refuse to share?
There is a long history of this sort of sensor glitch, don't be so airheaded. You know you don't have any idea how likely it is, because you haven't ever looked into it enough detail.
Show me one example of one of these targeting systems glitching in a way that produces a clearly visible false object on the video feed, which appears to move independently of the video stream, and then locking onto it. Just one. I've now researched fighter aircraft sensor bugs and have found no such thing. The closest thing I've found is an F35 system locking onto a non-visible false target among a tight group of targets.
I know that the odds against producing the false object on video are already astronomical from my experience with video editing and data recovery. And considering all the combinations of position, speed, and direction possible in 3-dimensional space, the odds of the radar-guided targeting system then locking onto a false target that flawlessly and continuously matches those factors to those of a supposedly random false target on video is so thin that it would never ever happen before the heat death of the universe, even if you packed the universe with fighter aircraft targeting systems and bombarded them with ideal amounts of radiation to produce glitches from the big bang until heat death. Take a video file and try altering some bytes in a hex editor to see what happens. Let me know when you get something that even vaguely resembles a single moving object.
You know you don't understand the basics of programming when you say that stuff.
Funny, I'm beginning to think the same thing about you, but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that you're not reading my posts carefully.
Yes, there is a single bit that stores the boolean value about if the current state is "locked" or "not locked."
Sure, quite likely there is. But like I said, there is no one bit for "lock onto this visible phenomena in the infrared video feed in particular."
Yeah, says who, Harry Potter? It locked onto something, and that something might very well have been nothing! Do you comprehend any of your own words? Waving your hands doesn't cause you to have knowledge of why the target lock indicator was or wasn't on you nincompoop.
It takes some seriously magical thinking to think that the visible thing that the system locked onto was also some kind of glitch that matches perfectly with the targeting system glitch. If you understand anything about how digital video signals work, you'd know that the odds of a glitch producing that flying blip in the video are roughly equal to the odds of a glitch superimposing images of a breakdancing William Shakespeare. Glitches in video tend to produce multicolored garbage that looks...glitchy, usually localized or banded coloring artifacts. The odds of the targeting system randomly locking onto the exact point in space that such an incredibly improbable glitch appears to be moving through are astronomical, making the possibility absurd.
I posted a comment in this thread a couple of hours ago, no sign of it here or on my user page yet. Thread title showed around 30 posts at that time, now 60. What's going on?
What's different here is that Amazon is aiming to become a completely new kind of monopoly, not like the product monopolies we're familiar with, but a platform monopoly. And not just on one platform, but all of them: Online shopping, retail shopping, video streaming, cloud computing, disaster recovery, you name it, they'll eventually go after it. Also, relevant Onion article:
Before the targeting system locks onto the object we can see the same object flying across the screen multiple times as the camera attempts to track it. The behavior is otherwise normal for tracking an object at long distance. Those cameras don't shake like a dude with a camcorder.
Theoretically, which particular bit might you flip on a computer to produce a fast-moving trackable object in a video stream and have the targeting system lock onto it?
In today's post-truth world, people are allowed to believe their own facts in the face of those pushed by so called "experts" and "people who actually know what the fuck they're talking about." So to anyone out there who wishes to believe in the alternative fact that Earth's technology will be set back to the 1700s on Sunday, you should feel free to sell me all of your soon-to-be-useless electronics which I will pay above-scrap prices for. I will use them to build a post-apocalyptic museum to teach the young ones about the before-times. Don't worry about scrubbing valuable personal information from them either, that will all be deleted when the geomagnetic storm hits.
How about this: create a law that Limits the number of housing units AND number of days rented out per year which any 1 person or business is allowed to make available for short-term rent without a Hotel permit for each property --- including through any number of business partners or related entities.
You clearly underestimate how easy it is to obscure the ownership of a company. I would welcome the changes necessary to make your proposed law effective though.
When they say left-wing in the context of SV's politics, they mean socially liberal. You don't have to be fiscally leftist at all to be socially liberal - in SV, fiscal leftism is considered to be an obscure ideology held by poor people who don't matter. Libertarians are socially liberal - they want marriage equality, women's rights, legal weed, and also to wantonly eviscerate regulations, privatize all infrastructure and maaaybe bring back debtors' prisons. Most of SV is either libertarian or center-left (by American standards, or you could call them neoliberals).
The people complaining about SV's "leftist echo chamber" are socially conservative...to put it lightly. Often they're techno-commercialist neoreactionaries who are into scientific bigotry like it's 1899 if they're locals (Hi Thiel and Damore!), or just angry frothing deplorables likely to goose-step with tiki torches on the weekend if they're not.
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This. There is no good reason to keep wages secret. It's a weapon used against employees.
I've often tried to think of a way to allow employees to reveal pay to each other in a cryptographically secure way, such that everyone puts their info in escrow, and when everyone (or a large majority) has submitted valid info, everything is revealed to everyone else. That way a company can't unfairly take action against any individual employee in secret for revealing their pay.
The more that compete for the job, who can do the job, the less they are paid, full stop, end of story, do not pass go for a big fat pay check when your services are in oversupply, worth means nothing.
And this is why big tech companies are pushing the lie of a STEM shortage, even in the face of an oversupply of tech workers. Tech workers in tech hub cities make good pay, and this is a major expense limiting the size/flight capability of executive megayachts.
https://ooni.torproject.org/
HTH
What these guys are talking about essentially sounds like the mainstream proposed solutions to climate change. Congrats on reinventing what the scientific community has been saying since forever! Their ideas seem to be a response to the right-wing false dichotomy of technology/scientific progress vs. climate change mitigation (AKA "we'll all have to live in mud huts to stop climate change!") rather than any real problem.
No- no- you shouldn't be censoring results. People should discern for themselves what is and isn't true. There is a far greater danger to implementing censorship to democracy than there is from dumb fuckers believing some conspiracy non-sense. We already have tyrants in power- we don't need to further erode our freedoms to a point where we're all living in a NAZI or Soviet like shit hole. The United States is already well on that path and other countries like the UK have certainly achieved a great deal of this already.
You don't realize that the recent turn toward tyranny is caused in large part by the ideas in those videos?
There is some merit to censoring content meant to exploit people who are basically immune to factual information. Throwing facts at them does nothing. Discussing the issue has no effect on people who believe in an objective reality other than perhaps entertaining them, but helps to expose more people to it, some of whom are unmoved by facts. If you censor it, drive it underground, that helps reduce the exposure of the conspiracy-vulnerable to destructive nonsense ideas they can't be cured of, and it has no adverse effects on the rest of society. Disagree with censorship categorically if you want, but it does work for keeping those dumb fuckers from being infected with conspiracy nonsense.
In the past we had this censorship. It was carried out by the professional and level-headed editors of magazines, newspapers, and TV stations, and nobody batted an eye. It's only relatively recently that any yahoo has been able to broadcast their own content cheaply and easily that has led to an explosion of what we now call post-truth thinking, since that censorship is no longer present.
2-3 years ago I would've said yes. But since Trump's election, I think the USA's democracy deserves more credit. If there were any shadowy cabals pulling the strings behind US elections, they would never have allowed a dangerous moron like Trump to occupy the presidency. The fact that someone who is so corrosive to every aspect of the country's wellbeing can make his way into office and remain there for so long is a good indicator of a functioning democracy.
You're right, but that's not communism, that's authoritarianism - a practically universal feature of communist countries in the real world, but no more an element of communism than flies are an element of a corpse. There have been small hippie communes that were communist but not authoritarian.
There are also authoritarian capitalist countries that would never be accused of communism - start a peaceful protest in Singapore without government permission and see how long you stay out of jail.
What's communist about them other than the name of their party? Nothing. If Trump renamed the Republicans to the Liberal party this evening, they would also not be liberal.
They're not even slightly communist anymore. They're very capitalist but also very authoritarian. And they've only recently become a dictatorship (again), previously they were a pseudo-democratic oligarchy.
I tagged this article "nosedive" as soon as I saw the title. Imagine if you prevented people who spread false information about terrorism from riding trains or planes in the US? An easy 1/3rd of the country would be banned immediately. And then they'd say it's a tactic to cover up the Bowling Green massacre or hide Obama's true origins.
No, look it up yourself and find out if you're right, or wrong. (Spoiler: Wrong!)
You assert that these astronomically improbable bugs have happened, I try to find when they have and failed, I ask you to show me these occurrences that you say you know about, and next you assert that I'm wrong for not finding them and you won't tell me why? Do you see how full of shit this makes you look?
Don't ask me to show you stuff, that's exactly why you're full of shit; people talk, you measure their personal Virtue, and if that measurement tells you they're somebody you like, then you believe them and repeat their blah-blah as if it was knowledge you learned. It isn't. It isn't knowledge, it is just rumor. It doesn't make you sciencey, it makes you an idiot.
Where the flying fuck did this come from? I'm simply asking for evidence of your extraordinary claims! I've already given you far more credibility and respect than a jackass nonsensemonger deserves. I'll take that back if you show evidence. Show me this evidence you allege exists, I fucking dare you.
Don't ask me to show you what I already told you the answer is. You should be able to easily look it up from objective sources, without having to ask me what sources are high quality.
I TRIED. THE BURDEN OF PROOF IS ON YOU. SOURCE OR IT DIDN'T HAPPEN AND YOU'RE A FULL-OF-SHIT PEDDLER OF LIES.
LMFAO! No. Just, no.
I have experience, you have "LMFAO, No." Maybe there's hard evidence of complex realistic visible phenomena arising from random bit-flipping in digital video streams somewhere in the same hard-to-find source you refuse to share?
There is a long history of this sort of sensor glitch, don't be so airheaded. You know you don't have any idea how likely it is, because you haven't ever looked into it enough detail.
Show me one example of one of these targeting systems glitching in a way that produces a clearly visible false object on the video feed, which appears to move independently of the video stream, and then locking onto it. Just one. I've now researched fighter aircraft sensor bugs and have found no such thing. The closest thing I've found is an F35 system locking onto a non-visible false target among a tight group of targets.
I know that the odds against producing the false object on video are already astronomical from my experience with video editing and data recovery. And considering all the combinations of position, speed, and direction possible in 3-dimensional space, the odds of the radar-guided targeting system then locking onto a false target that flawlessly and continuously matches those factors to those of a supposedly random false target on video is so thin that it would never ever happen before the heat death of the universe, even if you packed the universe with fighter aircraft targeting systems and bombarded them with ideal amounts of radiation to produce glitches from the big bang until heat death. Take a video file and try altering some bytes in a hex editor to see what happens. Let me know when you get something that even vaguely resembles a single moving object.
You know you don't understand the basics of programming when you say that stuff.
Funny, I'm beginning to think the same thing about you, but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that you're not reading my posts carefully.
Yes, there is a single bit that stores the boolean value about if the current state is "locked" or "not locked."
Sure, quite likely there is. But like I said, there is no one bit for "lock onto this visible phenomena in the infrared video feed in particular."
Yeah, says who, Harry Potter? It locked onto something, and that something might very well have been nothing! Do you comprehend any of your own words? Waving your hands doesn't cause you to have knowledge of why the target lock indicator was or wasn't on you nincompoop.
It takes some seriously magical thinking to think that the visible thing that the system locked onto was also some kind of glitch that matches perfectly with the targeting system glitch. If you understand anything about how digital video signals work, you'd know that the odds of a glitch producing that flying blip in the video are roughly equal to the odds of a glitch superimposing images of a breakdancing William Shakespeare. Glitches in video tend to produce multicolored garbage that looks...glitchy, usually localized or banded coloring artifacts. The odds of the targeting system randomly locking onto the exact point in space that such an incredibly improbable glitch appears to be moving through are astronomical, making the possibility absurd.
I posted a comment in this thread a couple of hours ago, no sign of it here or on my user page yet. Thread title showed around 30 posts at that time, now 60. What's going on?
What's different here is that Amazon is aiming to become a completely new kind of monopoly, not like the product monopolies we're familiar with, but a platform monopoly. And not just on one platform, but all of them: Online shopping, retail shopping, video streaming, cloud computing, disaster recovery, you name it, they'll eventually go after it. Also, relevant Onion article:
https://www.theonion.com/my-ad...
Nonsense. There is no one bit for being locked on to a phenomena visible on a video feed. It didn't lock on to nothing.
That makes a lot of sense. If it broke off of a larger meteoroid after entry it easily could've remained cold.
Before the targeting system locks onto the object we can see the same object flying across the screen multiple times as the camera attempts to track it. The behavior is otherwise normal for tracking an object at long distance. Those cameras don't shake like a dude with a camcorder.
Theoretically, which particular bit might you flip on a computer to produce a fast-moving trackable object in a video stream and have the targeting system lock onto it?
In today's post-truth world, people are allowed to believe their own facts in the face of those pushed by so called "experts" and "people who actually know what the fuck they're talking about." So to anyone out there who wishes to believe in the alternative fact that Earth's technology will be set back to the 1700s on Sunday, you should feel free to sell me all of your soon-to-be-useless electronics which I will pay above-scrap prices for. I will use them to build a post-apocalyptic museum to teach the young ones about the before-times. Don't worry about scrubbing valuable personal information from them either, that will all be deleted when the geomagnetic storm hits.
Slack is basically just expensive IRC with a web client after all >:)
How about this: create a law that Limits the number of housing units AND number of days rented out per year which any 1 person or business is allowed to make available for short-term rent without a Hotel permit for each property --- including through any number of business partners or related entities.
You clearly underestimate how easy it is to obscure the ownership of a company. I would welcome the changes necessary to make your proposed law effective though.
When they say left-wing in the context of SV's politics, they mean socially liberal. You don't have to be fiscally leftist at all to be socially liberal - in SV, fiscal leftism is considered to be an obscure ideology held by poor people who don't matter. Libertarians are socially liberal - they want marriage equality, women's rights, legal weed, and also to wantonly eviscerate regulations, privatize all infrastructure and maaaybe bring back debtors' prisons. Most of SV is either libertarian or center-left (by American standards, or you could call them neoliberals).
The people complaining about SV's "leftist echo chamber" are socially conservative...to put it lightly. Often they're techno-commercialist neoreactionaries who are into scientific bigotry like it's 1899 if they're locals (Hi Thiel and Damore!), or just angry frothing deplorables likely to goose-step with tiki torches on the weekend if they're not.
Looks like Cookie Manager can replace the lost functionality:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-...
The same body that sees the problem with 500-Euro notes doesn't see any other problem with cryptocurrencies?