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  1. Re:Looks like it is true on H1-B Administrators Are Challenging An Unusually Large Number of Applications (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Of course. Every regulation and requirement for proof of suitability can be and is gamed. It's the great lie of accountability that you can fix it with words on a page.

  2. Re:Looks like it is true on H1-B Administrators Are Challenging An Unusually Large Number of Applications (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I've seen guys with your swagger across the interview desk before. Half of them could barely tell up from down on the skills test questionaire I gave them. Maybe you're right. Maybe you aren't. Maybe you ought to swallow your pride when you go into those interviews and brag about what you've done, not what you could do.

  3. Re:Looks like it is true on H1-B Administrators Are Challenging An Unusually Large Number of Applications (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Exactly. I'd even go so far as to say that it should be placed in trust by a third party to be disbursed to the employee to prevent shenannigans with people who may not be familiar with our legal system and notion of employee rights.

  4. What's wrong with a kinetic watch? on Crowdfunded 'PowerWatch' Runs on Body Heat, Never Needs Charging (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Not appy enough?

  5. Re:Looks like it is true on H1-B Administrators Are Challenging An Unusually Large Number of Applications (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    H1B shouldn't be a lottery. It should be an auction. Then you'd just bid a salary without the the red tape you may not mind but that still costs taxpayer money. If someone wants to outbid you on a half-literate code monkey, that's their prerogative and their loss. Abuse goes away. Artificial wage depression goes away. A fixed number of slots that you can bid on makes the thing merit-based on its own and keeps the loonies quiet about letting in too many people who don't come from our culture.

  6. Ah, the old "the other guy is an idiot so I get to be one too" like of thinking. Sad. Literally.

  7. Re:Stupid on IBM's Quest To Design The 'New Helvetica' (fastcodesign.com) · · Score: 1

    You might want to learn about the difference between typewriters and computer displays. They aren't the same thing now, and the difference was much more marked in the 80s when 640x480 was considered high resolution.

  8. Re:Stupid on IBM's Quest To Design The 'New Helvetica' (fastcodesign.com) · · Score: 1

    You might want to read up on what Adobe Systems and Bell Labs were doing with typesetting in the 70s and 80s.

  9. The fact that you people think you accomplish anything at all by inventing clever nicknames for a politician you don't like is an indicator of the quality of your reasoning and judgment.

  10. Re:Stupid on IBM's Quest To Design The 'New Helvetica' (fastcodesign.com) · · Score: 2

    Yes, except that Apple and Adobe and even Microsoft made the actual technology to display fonts on screens and solved a whole host of technical challenges associated with that. So there is technology. But IBM is late to the party on that by about 30 years. And now it's confusing aesthetics with tech. Not a good sign at all.

  11. Re:Stupid on IBM's Quest To Design The 'New Helvetica' (fastcodesign.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Don't believe the old lie about there not being such a thing as bad publicity. What this tells me as an engineer is that IBM places lower priority on function than on form and what this tells me as an investor is that IBM's C-suite is wasting its time on logos instead of running the company.

  12. Oh look, msmash copies and pastes juveline vocab on Chrome Will Whack Website Bait-and-Switch Tactics (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    in the headline. Color me surprised.

  13. So the "punishment" is to prevent further consolidation in media? Because consolidation of media is good? If Trump's EPA said the sky is blue, would you people devolve into a tirade on the finer points of Rayleigh scattering just on principle?

  14. Re:Left wing academic is left wing on Andrew Ng Wants a New 'New Deal' To Combat Job Automation (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    He believes his own hype more.

  15. Re:Oh, well, if the Syrians are doing it on The US Is Now the Only Country In the World To Reject the Paris Climate Deal · · Score: 1, Informative

    Yeah. Just like we should be embarrassed that it's just us and the Liberians that use pounds and inches in everyday life. Global warming is largely a scam and Paris was a mechanism by which that scam transfers money from suckers to scammers.

  16. Re:Stop editorializing in the headlines on Alphabet Is Finally Taking the Driver Out of Some of Its Driverless Cars (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    There's advertising that works and there's advertising that insults your intelligence. The two categories rarely overlap.

  17. Re:Stop editorializing in the headlines on Alphabet Is Finally Taking the Driver Out of Some of Its Driverless Cars (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Then msmash is an idiot for copying and pasting poorly-written copy in the summary. But I repeat myself.

  18. How about: don't let him take naked pictures. Or better yet: don't get an abusive boyfriend in the first place.

  19. Oh, well, if the Syrians are doing it on The US Is Now the Only Country In the World To Reject the Paris Climate Deal · · Score: 3, Funny

    then we should follow their example, as they're clearly our moral superiors.

  20. Read up on the history of the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program. Time was the DoD kept the whole thing classified because they didn't want to share their weather satellites with anyone else.

  21. Looks like someone paid attention in physics class on How Cloudflare Uses Lava Lamps To Encrypt the Internet (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    The universe is full of randomness that's hard to predict. The triumph of digital electronics is that they eliminate the randomness almost completely when abstracted up from electron/hole pairs in semiconductors to the realm of bits and bytes. That means you can't get randomness out of it, no matter how theoretically secure your algorithm--you need to go back to the messiness of physical space for that. Well done.

  22. Stop editorializing in the headlines on Alphabet Is Finally Taking the Driver Out of Some of Its Driverless Cars (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    The word 'finally' indicates an editorial opinion. You're entitled to have one, dear msmash (what a surprise), but your really ought not place it the articles, let along in the headline. When you do, you come off as trying to tell your readers what to think. That's unprofessional.

  23. Pick better friends and don't get shitfaced, blacked-out drunk and/or high when you go out. Don't expect other people to be sympathetic when your own poor choices come to bite you in that ass you felt the internet just had to see.

  24. Why I don't use social media on How Facebook Figures Out Everyone You've Ever Met (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2

    Adds no value and creates more work for me to have to manage my reputation.

  25. Left wing academic is left wing on Andrew Ng Wants a New 'New Deal' To Combat Job Automation (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 0

    after making millions in the private sector. News at 11.

    I've crossed paths with this guy. His expertise does not extend very far beyond his technical background. His politics...well he's entitled to his opinion and that's about it.