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  1. Re:You're lying on Unpaid Internships Lead To Lower-Paying Jobs, Study Finds (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    State funding is still higher regardless of the number of people going.

    We have:

    Starting percentage of state-supplied college tuition at the start of the period.
    Percentage change of the total tuition over 30 years.
    Percentage change of the state-supplied college tuition over 30 years.

    If you are too much of a dumbfuck to figure it out that the only reason inflation is notable here is to observe if it increased faster or slower, then you can't be fucking helped until you learn math.

    State funding increased in every metric but the one where "25%" is less than "80%" ... the most dishonest bullshit comparison possible using those two numbers.... and you fucking did it.

  2. Re:You're lying on Unpaid Internships Lead To Lower-Paying Jobs, Study Finds (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Constantly calling people "dumb fucks"? Is that how you roll?

    Its called honesty.

  3. Re:something is clearly faulty with the Vega chip on AMD Unveils Radeon RX Vega Series Consumer Graphics Cards Starting At $399 (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    This is a node size transition.

    All the words... missing the key.

  4. So what if they ran on murdering half the population?

    If Trump wants to murder half the population... do you really think he could?

    Obama ran on single payer. Didn't happen because even the most powerful person in the world has limits.

  5. Re:I've done several scraping projects on LinkedIn Says It's Illegal To Scrape Its Website Without Permission (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    It *might* not be a crime

    Breaking a contract is not a crime. Full stop.

  6. Instead of "Proportional Representation" why not consider "Probabilistic Representation"

    Everyone who runs for a position in the government should have a real chance to serve so long as they get even a single vote.

    The candidate that only got 1 vote may still win the "right to serve" against a candidate that got every other vote. Perhaps the probability of this occurring should simply be the proportion of votes a candidate got.

  7. Seems to me that the optimal governance method should always have a finite probability of "unseating the majority" on a regular basis even in the case that the "majority" appears to have(*) 100% support of those being governed. I do not favor "proportional representation" because it stands a real chance of getting stuck in a local maxima preventing a possibly infinite amount of higher expected value/utility.

    (*) Appears to have won an election, or by some other observational metric.

  8. Democracy is certainly not the best system. However its still a pretty good system. The best system probably involves some dice rolling.

    Consider where one candidate gets 60% and another gets 40%. The best system is almost certainly not one that gives 100% of the outcome to the 60%'r, but its still clearly better than giving 0% of the outcome to the 60%'r.

  9. Re:python is a trainwreck on It Will Take Fedora More Releases To Switch Off Python 2 (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    ...either way, the new language was going to be a direct competitor to the old language, so yes it was the "best" thing.

  10. Re:python is a trainwreck on It Will Take Fedora More Releases To Switch Off Python 2 (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    Why didn't they just give Python 3 a different name entirely?

    ...because they werent trying to do the right thing... they were trying to do the "best" thing

  11. Re:PEP 394: /usr/bin/python should not be python3 on It Will Take Fedora More Releases To Switch Off Python 2 (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    or people just dont see a good reason to rewrite the code for a language that now has a proven track record of very significantly breaking compatibility.

    New python programmers may not get it, but the programmers that poured their efforts into python code bases only to have the developers of python give them the middle finger... yeah... they got it.. they got the message

  12. Re:You're lying on Unpaid Internships Lead To Lower-Paying Jobs, Study Finds (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1, Informative

    From 80% to 25% state funded...

    ...while revenue increased 1120%

    Now you can read all the words on the internet you want... but in math world 25% of 1120% is significantly larger than 80%

    Are you too stupid to fucking know that regular people can do the math? or that regular people might even be able to figure out that State funding has increased faster than inflation?

    Congratulations. You found an article with zero numbers that calls the factual 250% increase in State funding as a "cut" ... in other words... you found fake news... propaganda.. the numbers don't lie you dumb fuck

  13. Re:When History Works Against You on Unpaid Internships Lead To Lower-Paying Jobs, Study Finds (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    They are offering a position that pays X. That's what you are interviewing for.

    Thats where you are wrong. They are not offering a position that pays a particular amount. Thats not how it works unless its McDonalds.

  14. Re:Invisible Hand. on Unpaid Internships Lead To Lower-Paying Jobs, Study Finds (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I know a guy that did welding on submarines in Connecticut.

    He was trained right out of high school, on the job, and eventually became the trainer of new welders at Electric Boat.

    So its pretty clear to me that some people here do not know what they are talking about. For instance someone that might move the goalpost from "welder in a shipyard" to "high end welder"

    ....oh... thats you.... you did that... you moved the goalpost... you didnt want to talk about what is... you want to talk about a very special scenario that you have in your head that you think its accurate,

    A minimum $20/hour is entry level for welders or you are entering the career wrong.

  15. Re:US parent here on Unpaid Internships Lead To Lower-Paying Jobs, Study Finds (theguardian.com) · · Score: 0

    Racial, gender, etc quotas.

    That perfect GPA is only valuable in a society that values achievement over equity.

  16. Re:US parent here on Unpaid Internships Lead To Lower-Paying Jobs, Study Finds (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Are you going to provide evidence that those universities don't pull in more than that on their sports programs?

    yeah... I thought not... you just want to wave your hands pointing at something you think is automatically evil...

    Universities arent stupid. They are sometimes disillusioned, but not stupid. If they are building a half-billion dollar stadium, its because they expect it to pay off, which is something that is the exact opposite of what you so desperately want to imply with your empty worthless virtue-signaling dream.

    Texas A&M makes a fucking bucketload of cash every year on its sports program. The number I am looking at is $92 million/year. Their sports program pays off their half-billion dollar sports stadium in almost exactly 5 years. You wont find that sort of financial responsibility anywhere else on a university campus, but here your dumb fucking ass is trying to claim that its irresponsible.

  17. Re:Completely agree on Unpaid Internships Lead To Lower-Paying Jobs, Study Finds (theguardian.com) · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    This isnt insightful. Its revisionism.

    He is trying to claim that State funding for college has fallen, when the opposite is true.

    State funding has increased *and* yes its also a smaller percentage of revenue than it once was.

    This is possible because tuitions have grow 1120 percent in the past 30 years. Yes thats a 4 digit percentage.

    Tuitions have grown that much because... and this is a fact he thing he was trying to revise away... of federal government's backing of student loans.

    Fucking scumbag lefty revising facts again. Fuck off.

  18. Re:There is something you can do! on Ask Slashdot: What Can You Do With Old Coaxial Cable? · · Score: 1

    He mentioned severe punishment for something benign. That sounds a lot more like rightist to me.

    Check out the biggest atrocities in the last 120 years. Note how in every case the evil dictator rose to power on blatantly socialist messages.

    The right wing has its problems, but you are just repeating what the left wing has decided you should think about the right wing. Never was there a right wing leader that slaughtered their own citizens like the leftists have done repeatedly. They are now actively redefining who those evil dictators really were. The lefts message is "if it was evil, it was the right" and you just repeated it.

  19. What you dont seem to understand that an announcement about building things is not the act of building things.

    Lots of companies have said that they plan to build things. Hell, we were supposed to have hydrogen fueling stations for our hydrogen fueled cars by now, but all we still have after DECADES is more promises about building one. The majority of the few hydrogen filling stations in North America were built with government dollars.

    The latest promiser of a hydrogen fuel network is Toyota. Toyota isnt going to build that either, just like General Motors didnt after it promised decades ago.

    When electric companies say that they will build a charging network, only then take it seriously. The reason that this is the case is obvious to anyone that isnt an economics illiterate that thinks a car company would invest in a network that its competitors can profit from without investing in it. You fucking idiot.

  20. But VW isnt actually going to build them.

  21. Those precious LCD controls are going to seem stupid when that shit stops working, and thats because it was always stupid.

  22. California isnt the rest of the country.

    You have badly congested roadways because you have bad policies.

  23. I think you are confused about who will be building the infrastructure.

    The automakers dont have anything to do with gas stations. Why would they have something to do with charging stations?

    Gas station infrastructure is mainly built and supported by the oil companies. The oil companies even pay to replace the old tanks when they start leaking. Thats a CITGO gas station, not a FORD gas station.

    Ultimately the charging stations will be built and maintained by the electric companies.

  24. Re:Not being used any more on US Voting Machines Cracked In 90 Minutes At DEFCON (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    ..and because the only election we have is for the potus, you make complete sense instead of no sense

  25. Re:There is something you can do! on Ask Slashdot: What Can You Do With Old Coaxial Cable? · · Score: 1

    Thank you for confirming the fact that penalizing the shit out of people with heavy fines for improper waste disposal would be a far better way to encourage recycling.

    or we can just wait until its more profitable to recycle ... nah ... lets make sure that we do the worst thing instead, just like you suggest with your bullshit leftist false dichotomy as a justification.