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  1. Re:I guess they missed the first step of engineeri on Codecademy's ReSkillUSA: Gestation Period For New Developers Is 3 Months · · Score: 1

    Even with those skill, 3 months simply is not enough time.
    These are three major hurtles that all take longer than that.
    1. A wall of text does not just look like an imposing and confusing mess.
    2. The developer can think in code and does not go through a taxing and inefficient translation phase.
    3. They can read, understand, and edit other peoples code.

  2. Re:Typical!! on Dealer-Installed GPS Tracker Leads To Kidnapper's Arrest in Maryland · · Score: 1

    The implication here is that everything does not belong to the government and these will not be are already not illegal to remove.

  3. Re:Typical!! on Dealer-Installed GPS Tracker Leads To Kidnapper's Arrest in Maryland · · Score: 1

    If you do not find it under the gps logo-ed dash port, I doubt the car has one. It is probably just stacked like: Radio, GPS; or GSP, radio.

  4. Re:What was quote about Internet and censorship? on Amazon's Luxembourg Tax Deals · · Score: 1

    Well not all of your output, but some of it. Before the usage of currency was that common for the plebs that is in fact how governments taxed the people, X days a years/x years a lifetime of work were owed the state. And yes the government owns you, but which type of tax it extracts does not change that. At its heart it is a natural extension of the idea that society is just the peaceful collaboration of the people; The only thing you owe the government is some percentage of work in collaboration for the betterment of all.

    Honestly, a tax on savings would probably be better for the economy as it would penalise hoarding and the economy is built on the free flow of money. But, at least to me, the ability to not live paycheck to paycheck seems like a right that we ought to have, and if you are willing to not interact with the economy then you should not have to pay into it. So, as far as I can tell it is the income tax that is actually pro-individual liberty, if also anti-economy.
    I look forward to your thoughts.

  5. Re:Dishonesty on Mathematical Proof That the Universe Could Come From Nothing · · Score: 1

    This is what I came to ask about. In a pre-big bang universe, how are quantum functions supposed to exist? And how and when did these phenomenon come into existence?

  6. Re:I would never give Home Depot my address... on Home Depot Says Hackers Grabbed 53 Million Email Addresses · · Score: 2

    OK, and what is stopping someone from cropping out the tags?

  7. Great on Bounties vs. Extreme Internet Harassment · · Score: 1

    The one thing that both sides can agree on is that the perpetrators should go to jail, they just both think that it is the other side doing the harassment.

  8. Re:Getting trolled on Bounties vs. Extreme Internet Harassment · · Score: 1

    At the same time everyone gets death threats online. Even if we are being strict with what we consider a serious death threat, I have gotten at least one that I can think of. And I am not even a minor internet celebrity/reporter. Every singe celebrity and reporter gets then all the time, to mention the or try and bring up charges is a rather unique thing to do. But personally, that is what really has to happen around this Gamergame scene; because that is the major disagreement between the two sides. One side posts a claim of harassment, and the other side claims that it is made up. Their is no one on either side that, if being honest, does not want the perpetrators to get caught.

  9. Re:$50+, really? Can I get $50 for my copy? on Landfill Copies of Atari's 'E.T.' End Up On eBay · · Score: 1

    It's been used a fair bit, but I'm sure it is better condition than a copy that spent 30 years in a landfill.

    Why would you put yourself through that?

  10. Re:That raises the question: on PC Cooling Specialist Zalman Goes Bankrupt Due To Fraud · · Score: 1, Funny
  11. Re:When you encrypt everything... on Net Neutrality Alone Won't Solve ISP Throttling Abuse, Here's Why · · Score: 1

    Your argument makes no sense. So you ae saying that you would be perfectly content getting served 1 meg lower than your contract as long as someone else somewhere was served 1 meg more than their contract?

  12. Re:When you encrypt everything... on Net Neutrality Alone Won't Solve ISP Throttling Abuse, Here's Why · · Score: 2

    But that is like selling a package of up to 12 donuts and only giving you ten. The ISPs do not just restrict you to less sometimes, when they simply cannot handle the load at peak, they just do it because it is easier. Since they can get away with only giving you 10, they do so. Yes, apsolutly, you get what you pay for and it is reasonable that you would get some amount of internet brownouts at peak and your connection might slow down while 1000 other people in the area get home from school/work and start downloading game of thrones. But in my experience that is not what they do, they simply cap you at about 10-20% less then you paid for.

  13. We Totally Got it Right This Time on Too Many Kids Quit Science Because They Don't Think They're Smart · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Psychology professor proves that parents retarded their children's development by listening to psychology professors. But totally has the right answer this time.

  14. Re:Educate yourself on Another Election, Another Slew of Voting Machine Glitches · · Score: 1

    The solution to all of societies problems:
    1. Educate yourself.
    2. Vote, and make your voice heard. Oh wait, shit.

  15. Re:Just use on Another Election, Another Slew of Voting Machine Glitches · · Score: 1

    Because that federal implementation for Obamacare signup worked out sooo well.

  16. Re:best example on What People Want From Smart Homes · · Score: 1
  17. Re:There's a clue shortage on The Great IT Hiring He-Said / She-Said · · Score: 1

    Yes of course, in general. But not specific products. I have sure you have been using some software/hardware for that whole 10 years. Are you really more proficient at that particular thing now than 5 years ago? Or is it more like, as time passes you move to new products, and 4 months latter master them and often just forget things as time passes after that point.
    Yes, more experience absolutely does not guarantee more skill, but in general you will have more. But 10 years experience with Java, for example, really does not imply a better skill at it than 5 years.

  18. Re:There's a clue shortage on The Great IT Hiring He-Said / She-Said · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What is even with the X years of experience with product X? Why would anyone expect that someone with 5 years experience with product X would be any more proficient than someone with 3? After mastering the basics, which normally takes on the orders of magnitude of months, not years, the amount of time that passes is not really related to the number of specifics you learn about that product.

  19. I Suspect on The Great IT Hiring He-Said / She-Said · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That if companies paid candidates what the candidates though that they were worth, said companies would go bankrupt.

  20. Setting the Clock? on New Atomic Clock Reaches the Boundaries of Timekeeping · · Score: 1

    How do you originally set the clock? If this is the first time you will have such an accurate measurement of time, then how do you know what time it is so you can set the clock?

  21. Re:Old saying on New Atomic Clock Reaches the Boundaries of Timekeeping · · Score: 1

    OK, but then time really is happening at different rates in the two different places. Would you want the clocks to show the same amount of time passing when it simply isn't? Should a second in China be minusculy shorter than one in America?

  22. Re:ah, I understand on Russia Takes Down Steve Jobs Memorial After Apple's Tim Cook Comes Out · · Score: 5, Funny

    I didn't know a person could become gay-tainted after they die if their successor is gay. Hope the next person to have my job after I die isn't gay, otherwise my tombstone might set off someone's gaydar. that would be embarrassing.

    Particularly if they were also a necrophiliac.

  23. No, I don't think they have on Researchers Claim Metal "Patch" Found On Pacific Island Is From Amelia Earhart · · Score: 1, Insightful

    So they found a piece of her plane washed up on an island. Her plane very well might of crashed on the other side of world.

  24. Re:We can be certain of one thing on Stan Lee Media and Disney Battle For Ownership of Marvel Characters · · Score: 1

    Which is exactly why they do not get 100% of the profit or even a moderate percentage of that. A more apt analogy is the burger flipper being legally forced to never flip burgers again, in quite the same way, for perpetuity after his employment ends.

  25. Re:Comment from an AI researcher on Elon Musk Warns Against Unleashing Artificial Intelligence "Demon" · · Score: 1

    Not you, the alleged decision maker in the question.

    If their thinking process is: Doing this is immoral, but I am better than everyone else and more moral so overall it is better if I do this immoral thing and profit from it then allowing anyone else to do so.
    Than that person is a sociopath, and the question we are considering is moot as we now know that that decision maker is a sociopath themselves; So no benefit can be gained from them doing the the immoral thing.

    Assuming that a sociopath profiting is worse for society than a non-sociopath profiting.