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  1. Re:This is why they need H1b on Interns at Facebook, Google Out-Earn the Average American (axios.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Students that don't intern, and expect to just magically find a job after they graduate, are idiots.

    I wouldn't call them idiots necessarily. Depending upon the circumstances, some students just don't know. I'm old enough to have been from the age when college was still seen as a place for learning rather than a trade school. I had to work crap jobs during college, and was only vaguely aware that well-paying internships even existed. Or at least, they were for kids with better grades than myself.

    All that said, I know some college students who are doing much better these days. The pressure seems positively enormous. I really feel for these kids today.

  2. Umm, sorry. But all fat you consume is converted to glucose via lipase and bile in the intestines. Sugar is absorbed in the mouth, and even amylase in your mouth breaks down starch into glucose right away.

    The relationship between insulin and fat/sugar consumption is one of time. Fat causes a gradual rise in blood sugar levels, whereas sugar causes an immediate spike. The "spike" is what, over time, appears to cause insulin insensitivity as your body misinterprets that high of the spike as being the baseline. This, ultimately, is why the low-fat craze caused the epidemic of diabetes. You need dietary fat to stabilize blood sugar levels.

  3. Re:Not a big deal on Microsoft's Surface Revenue Drops By $285M (26%) (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1, Redundant

    That is the dumbest anecdote I have ever read. My company uses Surface Pro 4s exclusively, with docking stations and dual monitors. The performance is fantastic. Granted, we have i7 and 16 gigs of ram. But, all MS Office apps work instantly. It is a great machine. I couldn't imagine needing more performance.

  4. Re:Another bust cycle on Startups Struggle For Survival As Investors Turn 'Picky' (gerbsmanpartners.com) · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, this AC is the reason why the left just can't function. Everything is about race, or sex, or queers, or whatever.

    The OP was not making a value judgment. He was describing a sociopolitical trend. Economics is a social science, and relates directly to human behavior. Understanding the cycle of political whims is integral to these economic trends.

    As it stands, it should be clear Trump isn't doing anything differently at all. In fact, he hasn't really done anything at all. It doesn't matter who is president, it matters how people perceive the president.

    Step back from politics. Accept that it is outside of your control. Pretend we live in a monarchy. And live your life accordingly. Obsession with politics is a symptom of childish weakness.

  5. Office365 costs at most $40 per month. For a small business, it is more like $15 to $20 per month. What kind of business are you running where you can't afford that? Honestly, most small businesses SAVE a great deal of money with Office 365 because they don't need bumbling administrators.

  6. Re:Thought Experiment on Light Sail Propulsion Could Reach Sirius Sooner Than Alpha Centauri (arxiv.org) · · Score: 0

    Clearly, it is all fantasy. It's been half a century since Star Trek and the "Space Program" deluded the masses. Nothing significant has come of it at all, except the persistent propaganda that humans are insignificant rather than central to God's plan for the entirety of this reality.

    It's actually gotten hilarious. Not a week goes by without some nonsensical story about aliens or yet another planet discovered somewhere. And "geeks" lap it up, with no independent way to verify any of it.

  7. Re:Money stores value on 107 Cancer Papers Retracted Due To Peer Review Fraud (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The American Revolution was primarily about the initial attempts of the British Empire to implement a gold based fixed exchange rate system. As the United States had no gold, it was unable to trade competitively or pay many British taxes. The American Revolution is proof that you are wrong, as they won the war using only paper money.

    One need only read Plato's Laws to understand how money was always recognized as political, and the gold fetish was alien to Civilization. Plato wrote that possession of foreign currency, no matter what the type, should be a capital offense. The Romans too waged war against Carthage in no small part due to their own attempts at using gold for foreign exchange. Gold worship was routinely derided as weakness, and exemplary of a people without honor or social cohesion.

    Money is not a store of value. It is a unit of political capital, the value of which is entirely dependent upon the power of the sovereignty that issued it. As soon as that sovereignty no longer can command the people to pay taxes in that currency, nor enforce private debts using civil courts, the money becomes worthless. Gardeners to this day dig up caches of Roman silver coins buried by people who though the Imperial government would return.

  8. Re:But FF advocate s said there weren't problems! on Firefox To Let Users Control Memory Usage (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Wow you're young. You need a Pentium to play MP3 files.

  9. Re:And here's the issue with excessive regulation. on Uber Said To Use 'Sophisticated' Software To Defraud Drivers, Passengers (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Price floors are always a good thing, and are the hallmark of civilized society.

    The limit to the number of taxis is also, generally, a good thing.

    taxi regulation began in the world because everyone with a car started to pick up fares during the Great Depression. It really was total chaos, especially in Manhattan where all this regulation began.

  10. You'd think after 20 years of slashdot, this virginal nerdism white knighting would have come to an end. Yet here it is.

  11. No, Donald Trump was elected BECAUSE the left does nothing but attempt to maintain the many lies of their ideology. They don't give a fuck about anyonem, and they certainly don't give a fuck about white people. The entire religion of leftism is virtue signalling. Nothing more.

  12. As long as the UK has draconian anti-free speech laws, wankers like you will always come across as indoctrinated stooges of the most Orwellian state in history.

  13. White Leftists Whine, China Creates Superhumans on Ethicists Advise Caution In Applying CRISPR Gene Editing To Humans (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    All we hear about is equality, equality, equality while every single day we learn more and more how humans are in fact not equal, that intelligence is almost entirely genetic, and that the only way to create the liberal utopia is via genetic engineering. White people in the west will keep on whining, staging protests, reliving the 1960s, and angrily championing the "rights" of transgender freaks.

    Meanwhile China and the Beijing Genomics Institute will be employing this technology nationally, thereby raising a race of superhumans.

    In time, the angry white leftist will be a historical, extinct anomaly.

  14. The Soviet Union was not shipping steel to Germany. They were shipping huge numbers of tanks to the German border, which were eventually seized by Germany and used in the invasion.

  15. Re:Trump scare maybe on Intel To Invest $7 Billion in Factory in Arizona, Employ 3,000 People (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This has nothing directly to do with Trump. The world is forcing the US to transition to a UN mediated fixed exchange rate system with a supranational reserve currency that will function like Keynes' Bancor. The USD will drop in value, which will make imports much more expensive (probably around 20%, which is greater than most profit margins).

    To the extent Trump is a part of this, it is because Congress has for 10 years dragged their feet to enact appropriate measures, and there will likely be a great deal of pain in the short term. Trump both distracts the populace from this huge problem, particularly with stupid shit like Devos. I mean, look at yourself. The Department of Education shouldn't even exist. Education has only gotten worse since it was created, in my lifetime and I'm not old. Sure, she's a stupid choice and her nonsense about school vouchers couldn't be more ridiculous. But, at the end of the day, education is a local matter and what she believes or desires is irrelevant.

  16. You're really not telling the story so accurately. Windows 95 received plenty of heat. There are countless posts on this site comparing XP to something a child would draw with crayola crayons. Vista was a huge change over XP in many, many ways. Much more so than XP over NT 4.0 or even 3.51. The problem with Vista is the hardware requirements were very steep.

    Windows 7, 8, and 10 are effectively slightly improved versions of Vista. Windows 7 is barely distinguishable from Vista.

  17. I think that was a poor attempt at a troll.

  18. Re:Dear Matthew on Facing Layoff, An IT Employee Makes A Bold Counteroffer (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry people like you will be separated from society due to your disloyalty and proclivity to treachery. Thankfully, much of Africa remains underpopulated. You can start your new life there. A life free of all constraints of modernity and the ethics and glory of European Civilization.

  19. Re:Yeah ok on GamerGate Critic Brianna Wu To Run For Congress (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    He did provide a citation, which itself has many citations. I sampled 10 of the 174 citations, and the story seems legit. Plus, trannies are always crazy, so the story is hardly surprising.

    https://lolcow.wiki/wiki/Brian...

  20. Re:Money on How Social Isolation Is Killing Us (nymag.com) · · Score: 1

    Inflation is too low.

    Inflation is good for the economy because it reduces the relative percentage of the GDP that must be devoted to debt service. Deflation is bad because it means those who have money get rich and those who don't, don't get rich.

    What people like yourself don't understand is that the vast majority of money that exists in bank deposit accounts was not created by the government. It was created by banks, with debts credited as assets on the bank's balance sheet. All of that money that was created all came with a future interest obligation.

    Quite simply, if you do not inflation not only do people get poorer, but everyone defaults on their debts.

    One need not look very far and see that is exactly what happened during the Great Depression.

    The government always controls the money supply. It does this by adjudicating debts only in the currency that it has the sole legal right to create and regulate. It does this by levying taxes. And, in a more complex system impossible for libertardians to understand, sovereign governments coordinate with one another to adjust exchange rates for mutually beneficial ends.

    Quite frankly, you are very confused about banking, about money, about interest rates, and pretty economics in general. You quote a lot of shit. But, it's all shit.

  21. Re:America hates Hillary Clinton on Electoral College Elects Donald Trump As President (nbcnews.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Your life is the reason why war is inevitable.

  22. Re:America hates Hillary Clinton on Electoral College Elects Donald Trump As President (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 2

    What public transportation? BART?

  23. Re:I'm highly skeptical on IBM Promises To Hire 25,000 Americans As Tech Executives Set To Meet Trump (reuters.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    The purpose of the Trump presidency is to oversee the end of USD Hegemony and the transition to a UN mediated reserve currency for foreign exchange.

    The USD has been artificially strong since the Nixon Shock, the reasons of which are significant but not relevant to my point. This was a political move, at that time. The goals of USD imperialism have been achieved, and the imbalances caused by this system (see the the Triffin Paradox) mean it is in everyone's interest to move to this system.

    An immediate consequence is the "lower cost" countries will no longer be so much lower as the USD falls in value and other country's currencies rise.

    The same is true for imported goods. Many sneer at Trump's proposal to bring manufacturing back. Automation definitely means this won't be a huge solution to unemployment, but it's necessary. Cheap goods from China will no longer be affordable for the lower classes. Even if all new factories were entirely automated, we would still need to build them.

  24. Re: Fuck you on Twitter Reinstates White Nationalist Leader's Account (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    Hahaha. You mean, bring over some bondage gear? Yes, your leather cladded freaks will instill such fear! Hail Sodomy!

    Yes, all you Germans are fat, perverted freaks and a threat to no one. No one is afraid of you. That's why your country is overrun, and they rape your women like animals! You're all cowardly, sick fucks!

  25. Re:Right to free speech on Twitter Reinstates White Nationalist Leader's Account (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    It has nothing to do with Germany. The closest example would be Israel. Would you say Israel deserves destruction for wanting to have a country just for Jews?