We bought the competition and shuttered their business. So now PoisonJuice® is the only juice-like beverage, which also makes it the best, safest and most natural.
If you are accused of breaking the law you should have the right to confront your accuser in an open court.
Try that when you have a ticket from a red light camera. In many states you have no chance. Also, I'm curious why you assume citizens in China don't get to do this? A right to petition is baked in the PRC's Constitution. And recently citizens have had their rights extended to allow them to sue the government too.
If you aren't accused of breaking the law you should not have to live your life according to the "social rules" made up by [REDACTED]
But it is a law. That's how society works, someone decides some behavior is bad, and devises a law for it, and then you are punished if you do it.
Do you think jaywalking or open container laws make sense to most people outside of the US? They also think we live by a bunch of arbitrary social rules.
Officially every citizen of China has the right to petition their government. In practice it has problems, but in theory it is a way to handle grievances and appeals.
A system where a certain count of offenses results in punishment? I can't think of anything like that in the US, well except the three-strikes system. Court orders that a particular person no longer work in the banking industry in light of their specific fraud conviction.
Criminal behavior and socially undesirable behavior has always been a continuum. We don't like it when people kill or steal because we cannot hold together a functioning society if we allow it. We also have to do things like give people speeding tickets. Not because speeding is a crime (it's usually a civil infraction) but to reduce an undesirable behavior.
Not paying you parking tickets seems pretty serious to me. Until recently things like unpaid tickets would significantly impact your credit score. It's hard to hold China to the same system when they don't have a credit scoring system quite like the US. (nor is a credit rating particularly valuable to most Chinese)
Look, people are responsible for their actions. If you smoke on a train where it is prohibited, do you expect no consequences? How does that even work? Maybe I'll not pay my taxes this year. I live in a free country (US), I shouldn't expect any punishment for my actions right?
Yea, because the alternatives to capitalism have worked out so well.
Supply-side economics is not the only form of macroeconomics or capitalism. You present a false dichotomy.
And please don't hold up Lyndon Johnson as an example of how to manage the economy, he left it a huge mess when he decided not to run for re-election.
I'm hardly holding him up. I'm presenting that criticism of Republican trickle-down is something that has been with us even longer than Reaganomics. The party hasn't changed significantly in their strategy and platform for 50-60 years, at least on this one point.
If the US didn't learn from the Great Depression that a regulated economy is necessary to avoid misapplication of resources and improper allocation of financial responsibility, then we are all fucked (globally)
I'm very confident that we learned little. We're still pushing 100 year old ideas of laissez-faire capitalism, supply-side economics, and trickle-down economics. Even in the 19th century the ideas of trickle-down were well known enough to be controversial in its day.
"That's what happens when the Republicans take over—not only Nixon, but any of them. They simply don't know how to manage the economy. They're so busy operating the trickle-down theory, giving the richest corporations the biggest break, that the whole thing goes to hell in a handbasket." -- President Lyndon B. Johnson
Wouldn't not hiring them mean leaving half of your potential workforce unused? Are you going to wait until another World War before sending the ladies to work?
That scenario has been proposed already. I think it is likely, but murphy's law will make sure the sea level rise doesn't happen until after an exhaustive treaty is reached or a blood war is won.
This is what would happen if we had an internet kill switch in the US. Except substitute "quiet reflection" with "pray to Jesus in the way my particular denomination does".
executives control company processes. They hire the people that hire the people that look after the people who make bad design choices.
What is key, is if someone at the top knows of an issue and at that point chooses not to correct it.
What you likely can't do is punish an low-level individual contributor for being incompetent, beyond the obvious of firing them. The responsibility lands on a company to audit their architecture, and correct mistakes. If you have no process in place to check that your security decisions are up to industry standards, then you've good a problem that is bigger than some low-level programmer.
I think an energetic college kid can throw together something terrible together in very short order. Good for demos and proof of concept. And that's often how we use interns at my company. We give them at least one fairly self contained project that can be completed in the short amount of time they have. They required to do a presentation in front of the software department at the end of their internship. Plus we throw some mature code bases and bug fixing tasks at them, with a mentor to assist them. Goal is to cover a lot of ground and earn experience in a limited amount of time. Then we usually offer them a full time position that starts after they graduate, assuming we did our job right at giving the intern good experiences and the intern did their job right of working hard at what we gave them.
I run into so many one trick ponies in this industry. There is always some guy who does nothing but maintain an obscure codebase that is vital to the company but rarely changes and nobody is all that interested in working on. That's fine if it's like for a year or as a secondary ongoing task. For example if you're only job is to maintain the bootloader for legacy devices, then you probably don't have much to do and aren't earning new experiences. I'll admit it's not zero work. but it's not challenging either. (that example is a position I had myself)
I think if you mainly only visit a handful of sites regularly then RSS doesn't have much value. If you're one of those people that bounces between Slashdot, Reddit, Hackaday and CNN (or whatever news you prefer). Then RSS is not worth setting up.
If you're like me and you track 40 blogs that are only periodically updated, then RSS is a real time saver. (the blogs are related to my hobbies, not anything news worthy).
As for how someone monetizes it? I don't care. I'm from the era when nearly everything on the Internet was free and advertisements were nearly unheard of. Use cases that may inhibit the full commercialization of the Internet is not something I worry about. We know the Internet can exist with or without ad revenue, people will always find a way to make it work. I accept that the Internet is bigger and better because of ad revenue, but I'm not going to bend over backwards and inconvenience myself in support of that commercialization.
Open the door, get on the floor Everybody walk the dinosaur
I don't really get why people don't use it more to aggregate content from many sites. These days you don't even have to install a special app to do it, it is build in some browsers or you can get a web based one like Feedly and visit it from your phone and desktop browser.
I think it will be easy for me to be an RSS dinosaur as long as popular frameworks for blogging continue to support it. I doubt the RSS support in a project like WordPress is very high maintenance so what incentive is there to remove the support?
But the phrase gross criminal negligence come to mind.
In an ideal world, wanton disregard of decades old security standards should land executives with some fines and possible jail time. For a criminal case, some kind of applicable statute would have to be dug up.
For a civil case, that's way easier. You have to show that it is likely (really a >50% chance) that their actions, negligence or policties lead to some damages. Nobody goes to jail. But some lawyers can get rich settling a million dollar class action suit where everyone that had their identity stolen gets a check for $5 or something equally ridiculous.
But overworking employees by not being willing to make important hires loses you your best employees, over the long haul.
If employees can be "overworked" are they really your best?
Are you well enough off getting 75% of the projected revenue in a company that is good at its work, and can grow from there?
As long as metrics like projected revenue and market growth match or exceed expectations the potential efficiency of your workforce is probably secondary. Especially if your company's performance meets or exceeds what is typical in your industry.
Or do you prefer being stuck in a downward spiral of getting 90%, then 80%, then 70%, then 60%, , etc. of the piece of the pie you wanted, with no way out of the hole except to make excuses about it being a tough market to hire in?
I don't agree with it working that way. I think you find some equilibrium on this rather than trend to the bottom. As it is mostly relative compared to your competition. And you might still have lots of top talent coming in and out of your company if you have a high churn rate. And energetic NCG (new college grads) can often put up with a lot of stupid bullshit and still produce results until they have a year or two experience on their resume and go somewhere else. But there is always a supply of NCGs, especially if your company is big enough to work large universities and offer paid internship opportunities.
Basically I'm saying, and I've seen this before, that your company can suck and you can still have talented people working there.
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You're like the parking lot behind the Dollar General where all the degenerates hang out.
We bought the competition and shuttered their business. So now PoisonJuice® is the only juice-like beverage, which also makes it the best, safest and most natural.
Bring it on keyboard jockey.
If you are accused of breaking the law you should have the right to confront your accuser in an open court.
Try that when you have a ticket from a red light camera. In many states you have no chance.
Also, I'm curious why you assume citizens in China don't get to do this? A right to petition is baked in the PRC's Constitution. And recently citizens have had their rights extended to allow them to sue the government too.
If you aren't accused of breaking the law you should not have to live your life according to the "social rules" made up by [REDACTED]
But it is a law. That's how society works, someone decides some behavior is bad, and devises a law for it, and then you are punished if you do it.
Do you think jaywalking or open container laws make sense to most people outside of the US? They also think we live by a bunch of arbitrary social rules.
Officially every citizen of China has the right to petition their government. In practice it has problems, but in theory it is a way to handle grievances and appeals.
A system where a certain count of offenses results in punishment? I can't think of anything like that in the US, well except the three-strikes system. Court orders that a particular person no longer work in the banking industry in light of their specific fraud conviction.
Criminal behavior and socially undesirable behavior has always been a continuum. We don't like it when people kill or steal because we cannot hold together a functioning society if we allow it. We also have to do things like give people speeding tickets. Not because speeding is a crime (it's usually a civil infraction) but to reduce an undesirable behavior.
Not paying you parking tickets seems pretty serious to me. Until recently things like unpaid tickets would significantly impact your credit score. It's hard to hold China to the same system when they don't have a credit scoring system quite like the US. (nor is a credit rating particularly valuable to most Chinese)
I'm curious what reason you have to believe that plastic is inert.
Look, people are responsible for their actions.
If you smoke on a train where it is prohibited, do you expect no consequences? How does that even work?
Maybe I'll not pay my taxes this year. I live in a free country (US), I shouldn't expect any punishment for my actions right?
Yea, because the alternatives to capitalism have worked out so well.
Supply-side economics is not the only form of macroeconomics or capitalism. You present a false dichotomy.
And please don't hold up Lyndon Johnson as an example of how to manage the economy, he left it a huge mess when he decided not to run for re-election.
I'm hardly holding him up. I'm presenting that criticism of Republican trickle-down is something that has been with us even longer than Reaganomics. The party hasn't changed significantly in their strategy and platform for 50-60 years, at least on this one point.
It's the kind of city that would also ban solar panels for the same reasons.
If the US didn't learn from the Great Depression that a regulated economy is necessary to avoid misapplication of resources and improper allocation of financial responsibility, then we are all fucked (globally)
I'm very confident that we learned little. We're still pushing 100 year old ideas of laissez-faire capitalism, supply-side economics, and trickle-down economics. Even in the 19th century the ideas of trickle-down were well known enough to be controversial in its day.
"That's what happens when the Republicans take over—not only Nixon, but any of them. They simply don't know how to manage the economy. They're so busy operating the trickle-down theory, giving the richest corporations the biggest break, that the whole thing goes to hell in a handbasket." -- President Lyndon B. Johnson
I have a problem with elected representatives that are full shit.
DHMO is not organic, quite inorganic in fact.
Let's hire more women and minorities.
Wouldn't not hiring them mean leaving half of your potential workforce unused? Are you going to wait until another World War before sending the ladies to work?
That scenario has been proposed already. I think it is likely, but murphy's law will make sure the sea level rise doesn't happen until after an exhaustive treaty is reached or a blood war is won.
Oxygen? That's a toxic chemical! I'll stick with all natural organic cyanide.
Don't know? Back to fifth grade civics for you.
Ahh I remember fifth grade, that was when my public middle school set up a few minutes of prayer every morning lead by the vice vice principals.
You'll be in quiet reflection FOREVER.
This is what would happen if we had an internet kill switch in the US.
Except substitute "quiet reflection" with "pray to Jesus in the way my particular denomination does".
executives control company processes. They hire the people that hire the people that look after the people who make bad design choices.
What is key, is if someone at the top knows of an issue and at that point chooses not to correct it.
What you likely can't do is punish an low-level individual contributor for being incompetent, beyond the obvious of firing them. The responsibility lands on a company to audit their architecture, and correct mistakes. If you have no process in place to check that your security decisions are up to industry standards, then you've good a problem that is bigger than some low-level programmer.
I think an energetic college kid can throw together something terrible together in very short order. Good for demos and proof of concept. And that's often how we use interns at my company. We give them at least one fairly self contained project that can be completed in the short amount of time they have. They required to do a presentation in front of the software department at the end of their internship. Plus we throw some mature code bases and bug fixing tasks at them, with a mentor to assist them. Goal is to cover a lot of ground and earn experience in a limited amount of time. Then we usually offer them a full time position that starts after they graduate, assuming we did our job right at giving the intern good experiences and the intern did their job right of working hard at what we gave them.
I run into so many one trick ponies in this industry. There is always some guy who does nothing but maintain an obscure codebase that is vital to the company but rarely changes and nobody is all that interested in working on. That's fine if it's like for a year or as a secondary ongoing task. For example if you're only job is to maintain the bootloader for legacy devices, then you probably don't have much to do and aren't earning new experiences. I'll admit it's not zero work. but it's not challenging either. (that example is a position I had myself)
I think if you mainly only visit a handful of sites regularly then RSS doesn't have much value. If you're one of those people that bounces between Slashdot, Reddit, Hackaday and CNN (or whatever news you prefer). Then RSS is not worth setting up.
If you're like me and you track 40 blogs that are only periodically updated, then RSS is a real time saver. (the blogs are related to my hobbies, not anything news worthy).
As for how someone monetizes it? I don't care. I'm from the era when nearly everything on the Internet was free and advertisements were nearly unheard of. Use cases that may inhibit the full commercialization of the Internet is not something I worry about. We know the Internet can exist with or without ad revenue, people will always find a way to make it work. I accept that the Internet is bigger and better because of ad revenue, but I'm not going to bend over backwards and inconvenience myself in support of that commercialization.
Come on over, I have Groundhog Day on VHS.
Open the door, get on the floor
Everybody walk the dinosaur
I don't really get why people don't use it more to aggregate content from many sites. These days you don't even have to install a special app to do it, it is build in some browsers or you can get a web based one like Feedly and visit it from your phone and desktop browser.
I think it will be easy for me to be an RSS dinosaur as long as popular frameworks for blogging continue to support it. I doubt the RSS support in a project like WordPress is very high maintenance so what incentive is there to remove the support?
But the phrase gross criminal negligence come to mind.
In an ideal world, wanton disregard of decades old security standards should land executives with some fines and possible jail time. For a criminal case, some kind of applicable statute would have to be dug up.
For a civil case, that's way easier. You have to show that it is likely (really a >50% chance) that their actions, negligence or policties lead to some damages. Nobody goes to jail. But some lawyers can get rich settling a million dollar class action suit where everyone that had their identity stolen gets a check for $5 or something equally ridiculous.
But overworking employees by not being willing to make important hires loses you your best employees, over the long haul.
If employees can be "overworked" are they really your best?
Are you well enough off getting 75% of the projected revenue in a company that is good at its work, and can grow from there?
As long as metrics like projected revenue and market growth match or exceed expectations the potential efficiency of your workforce is probably secondary. Especially if your company's performance meets or exceeds what is typical in your industry.
Or do you prefer being stuck in a downward spiral of getting 90%, then 80%, then 70%, then 60%, , etc. of the piece of the pie you wanted, with no way out of the hole except to make excuses about it being a tough market to hire in?
I don't agree with it working that way. I think you find some equilibrium on this rather than trend to the bottom. As it is mostly relative compared to your competition. And you might still have lots of top talent coming in and out of your company if you have a high churn rate. And energetic NCG (new college grads) can often put up with a lot of stupid bullshit and still produce results until they have a year or two experience on their resume and go somewhere else. But there is always a supply of NCGs, especially if your company is big enough to work large universities and offer paid internship opportunities.
Basically I'm saying, and I've seen this before, that your company can suck and you can still have talented people working there.