Nothing racist about calling Elizabeth Warren "Pocahantas" whatsoever. She is not Native American, and took advantage of our racist school admission policies to gain admittance over potentially more qualified candidates.
I didn't say that I didn't care about privacy: I just said that it shouldn't be mandated on companies by the government. There is a market out there, and you should be free as a consumer to decide what services you want and what fits your budget. If you want a service that offers greater security guarantees at a higher cost, then you should be free to pay for it. It's childish to suggest that companies that offer services for free (in exchange for data used mostly anonymously for analytics) should have their leaders exposed to personal liability on behalf of consumers who have signed privacy policies. No one is sticking a gun to your head and saying "use Google" or "use Facebook". If you care so much about privacy, create a company that does a better job than other companies at privacy.
Another pointless regulation that makes it even MORE risky to pursue tech entrepreneurship in this country. LLCs and corporations provide a legal protective framework for those wishing to pursue risky ventures. Mrs. Warren seeks to make those protections more fragile, for the sake of the "consumer" (the vast majority of whom use these services for free). Furthemore, VCs would have to factor in data security when doing risk assessment, inevitably leading to fewer green lights to financing startups. The proper approach here would be for Mrs. Warren to invest HER money into companies that provides vastly superior security for their customers' data, and then persuade consumers to pay the higher premium for the more secure service. Most consumers won't give a damn and will prefer the cheaper, less secure services.
Please upgrade the awful infrastructure where I live, since the public sector is BEYOND incompetent. I'll just live my life in incognito mode to avoid the surveillance concerns.
Why stop at gender? Why not go full intersectionalist and demand that each board contain a proportionate amount of blacks and gays and Muslims and trans and Eskimos and vegans? Half of the country voted for Trump: maybe half of CA boards should be conservatives?
What could possibly be more insulting to women than to suggest that they cannot negotiate power on their own as individuals? What's next? CA demands that VC invest at most 50% of their capital investment into companies started by men? These people need to be driven out of Sacramento with pitchforks and blowtorches.
Not a surprise whatsoever. The "scientists" were appointed by the UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, who was head of the Socialist party in Portugal for 10 years, part of which time (along with an additional three years after his term as PM) was President of Socialist International.
The UN should not be considered an authority on anything, given the biases of its member states.
Extraordinary keyboard. Deep but not too deep, quiet, and consistent. Thrash away. If you are a punishing typist like me, then you may need to replace it a few times. It's a minor irritation, but the latest one has lasted well over a year.
During the last paragraph of the piece, Kurzeil merely articulates that 'creative destruction' has taken place several times since the industrial revolution. He doesn't actually present any evidence that creative destruction will recur in the age of AI.
I am open-minded about H-1B and defer my judgment to the balancing of employment+wage concerns for US citizens and the effect on entrepreneurship, market growth, and American tech market share going forward. Bound, Morales, and Khanna's paper studied the effects of H-1B during a relatively distant era in tech (1994-2001); since that time, our industry has expanded in all directions, new market segments (e.g. smartphones, streaming, etc.) have taken hold, and the labor market has swelled to accommodate all of these changes. It might helpful to compare the impact of H-1Bs during the pre-Internet-bubble era and subsequent eras wrt. impact on American employment/salary, but making conclusions about this impact without the added context would be hasty at best.
Many proprietary hardware vendors continue not to take the Linux desktop and workstation markets seriously. Recall, e.g., Linus's rant against nvidia. As a leader in the Linux and FOSS communities, what will you do to persuade major vendors to write and maintain functional drivers for RHEL and Fedora?
Funny. When polled, 85% of Israeli Arabs (i.e. those Palestinian Arabs who didn't flee Israel during its War of Independence- plus their descendants) said that they would prefer their neighborhoods remain part of Israel than be swapped to a future Palestinian state. Sometimes the "fiction" is better than the "reality".
They kill 100-300 Palestinians for every Israeli that's killed on account of the fact that Hamas and Islamic Jihad's missiles are launched from within densely-populated urban neighborhoods. Retaliatory strikes (which every single country in the world would be justified to make when fired upon) are generally precision-guided toward the location of the rockets. The IDF have dropped leaflets, sent text messages, knock-knock bombs, etc. to warn Palestinian civilians of pending retaliatory strikes. Hamas forces them back into their homes, since greater civilian casualties result in more sympathy from idiot leftists in the West.
Citation? Even if it were true, there is no comparison between organized genocide within the context of one's political platform (nazis) and self-defense (israelis). The comparison is intentionally provocative and hurtful and fueled by antisemitism.
The US felt the need to hit Japan twice with the bomb, since the Japanese simply refused to surrender and continued to attack American soldiers. Israel unilaterally left Gaza in 2005. They uprooted all of their settlers and soldiers - no Jews whatsoever in Gaza (even though Jews had been living in Gaza for centuries). What did the Palestinians do? They destroyed all the greenhouses and synagogues and elected into office a terrorist organization that had conducted over 100 pre-planned, organized suicide bomb attacks against Israeli civilians. The checkpoints and border walls (also enforced by Egypt BTW) are in place to prevent these animals from committing more terrorist acts against soldiers and civilians. This all goes away when the people of Gaza rid themselves of the Islamists who hold their future hostage.
It's simple to see Israel's point of view on the issue of youtube video censorship, if you adhere to the Golden Rule. If people were broadcasting recruitment videos, inciting hate and violence against your friends and family (and yourself), and these videos were demonstrably proven to have convinced young people to stab random people on the street, you would try to combat it as aggressively as you could. Free as in freedom applies to protocol, not method. In the absence of better options, and since the state depts. of many countries already censor ISIS and al Queda propaganda videos, I support the censorship of videos inciting violence against Israeli citizens. Hopefully the violence will end one day, so there will be no such videos to censor.
I'm not and stop calling me Shirley. The day I use Visual Studio to code anything for use on Linux is the day MSFT skypes me a video of their holding my parents hostage.
I wouldn't try any of their lame products if they paid me to try them. The trick to wooing developers [developers developers] is source code, evangelism, and community. Until you offer that, stay in your garage.
You've stated quite frequently that you don't own a cell phone, since you are concerned that almost all (or possibly "all") of them contain proprietary firmware, which poses privacy concerns (among other threats to your freedom). Given the ubiquity of these devices and their relevance to modern society, what can free software (and hardware) engineers do to make you use one? The same question also applies, more generally, to future miniaturized computation (e.g. nanobots in the bloodstream) that, like cell phones but even more so, could offer significant utility to its users.
Thank you for defending our freedom when most of us fall prey to convenience.
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Nothing racist about calling Elizabeth Warren "Pocahantas" whatsoever. She is not Native American, and took advantage of our racist school admission policies to gain admittance over potentially more qualified candidates.
I didn't say that I didn't care about privacy: I just said that it shouldn't be mandated on companies by the government. There is a market out there, and you should be free as a consumer to decide what services you want and what fits your budget. If you want a service that offers greater security guarantees at a higher cost, then you should be free to pay for it. It's childish to suggest that companies that offer services for free (in exchange for data used mostly anonymously for analytics) should have their leaders exposed to personal liability on behalf of consumers who have signed privacy policies. No one is sticking a gun to your head and saying "use Google" or "use Facebook". If you care so much about privacy, create a company that does a better job than other companies at privacy.
Another pointless regulation that makes it even MORE risky to pursue tech entrepreneurship in this country. LLCs and corporations provide a legal protective framework for those wishing to pursue risky ventures. Mrs. Warren seeks to make those protections more fragile, for the sake of the "consumer" (the vast majority of whom use these services for free). Furthemore, VCs would have to factor in data security when doing risk assessment, inevitably leading to fewer green lights to financing startups. The proper approach here would be for Mrs. Warren to invest HER money into companies that provides vastly superior security for their customers' data, and then persuade consumers to pay the higher premium for the more secure service. Most consumers won't give a damn and will prefer the cheaper, less secure services.
Clearly you are not employed in tech; otherwise you wouldn't ask such a dopey question.
Please upgrade the awful infrastructure where I live, since the public sector is BEYOND incompetent. I'll just live my life in incognito mode to avoid the surveillance concerns.
Why stop at gender? Why not go full intersectionalist and demand that each board contain a proportionate amount of blacks and gays and Muslims and trans and Eskimos and vegans? Half of the country voted for Trump: maybe half of CA boards should be conservatives?
What could possibly be more insulting to women than to suggest that they cannot negotiate power on their own as individuals? What's next? CA demands that VC invest at most 50% of their capital investment into companies started by men? These people need to be driven out of Sacramento with pitchforks and blowtorches.
Not a surprise whatsoever. The "scientists" were appointed by the UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, who was head of the Socialist party in Portugal for 10 years, part of which time (along with an additional three years after his term as PM) was President of Socialist International.
The UN should not be considered an authority on anything, given the biases of its member states.
Diversity is the least important factor when assembling a good tech team.
Nondiscrimination is not a human right. The opposite in fact is true; otherwise, we wouldn't have liberties like freedom of association.
Sad to see that 27% of respondents believe this is yet another round of creative destruction.
Extraordinary keyboard. Deep but not too deep, quiet, and consistent. Thrash away. If you are a punishing typist like me, then you may need to replace it a few times. It's a minor irritation, but the latest one has lasted well over a year.
During the last paragraph of the piece, Kurzeil merely articulates that 'creative destruction' has taken place several times since the industrial revolution. He doesn't actually present any evidence that creative destruction will recur in the age of AI.
Nvidia sucks.
I am open-minded about H-1B and defer my judgment to the balancing of employment+wage concerns for US citizens and the effect on entrepreneurship, market growth, and American tech market share going forward. Bound, Morales, and Khanna's paper studied the effects of H-1B during a relatively distant era in tech (1994-2001); since that time, our industry has expanded in all directions, new market segments (e.g. smartphones, streaming, etc.) have taken hold, and the labor market has swelled to accommodate all of these changes. It might helpful to compare the impact of H-1Bs during the pre-Internet-bubble era and subsequent eras wrt. impact on American employment/salary, but making conclusions about this impact without the added context would be hasty at best.
Hi Jim,
Many proprietary hardware vendors continue not to take the Linux desktop and workstation markets seriously. Recall, e.g., Linus's rant against nvidia. As a leader in the Linux and FOSS communities, what will you do to persuade major vendors to write and maintain functional drivers for RHEL and Fedora?
Thank you,
- A.
Funny. When polled, 85% of Israeli Arabs (i.e. those Palestinian Arabs who didn't flee Israel during its War of Independence- plus their descendants) said that they would prefer their neighborhoods remain part of Israel than be swapped to a future Palestinian state. Sometimes the "fiction" is better than the "reality".
They kill 100-300 Palestinians for every Israeli that's killed on account of the fact that Hamas and Islamic Jihad's missiles are launched from within densely-populated urban neighborhoods. Retaliatory strikes (which every single country in the world would be justified to make when fired upon) are generally precision-guided toward the location of the rockets. The IDF have dropped leaflets, sent text messages, knock-knock bombs, etc. to warn Palestinian civilians of pending retaliatory strikes. Hamas forces them back into their homes, since greater civilian casualties result in more sympathy from idiot leftists in the West.
Citation? Even if it were true, there is no comparison between organized genocide within the context of one's political platform (nazis) and self-defense (israelis). The comparison is intentionally provocative and hurtful and fueled by antisemitism.
The US felt the need to hit Japan twice with the bomb, since the Japanese simply refused to surrender and continued to attack American soldiers. Israel unilaterally left Gaza in 2005. They uprooted all of their settlers and soldiers - no Jews whatsoever in Gaza (even though Jews had been living in Gaza for centuries). What did the Palestinians do? They destroyed all the greenhouses and synagogues and elected into office a terrorist organization that had conducted over 100 pre-planned, organized suicide bomb attacks against Israeli civilians. The checkpoints and border walls (also enforced by Egypt BTW) are in place to prevent these animals from committing more terrorist acts against soldiers and civilians. This all goes away when the people of Gaza rid themselves of the Islamists who hold their future hostage.
It's simple to see Israel's point of view on the issue of youtube video censorship, if you adhere to the Golden Rule. If people were broadcasting recruitment videos, inciting hate and violence against your friends and family (and yourself), and these videos were demonstrably proven to have convinced young people to stab random people on the street, you would try to combat it as aggressively as you could. Free as in freedom applies to protocol, not method. In the absence of better options, and since the state depts. of many countries already censor ISIS and al Queda propaganda videos, I support the censorship of videos inciting violence against Israeli citizens. Hopefully the violence will end one day, so there will be no such videos to censor.
Step #1: Sell out. That is all.
I'm not and stop calling me Shirley. The day I use Visual Studio to code anything for use on Linux is the day MSFT skypes me a video of their holding my parents hostage.
I wouldn't try any of their lame products if they paid me to try them. The trick to wooing developers [developers developers] is source code, evangelism, and community. Until you offer that, stay in your garage.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54g_vxovsjY
Dear RMS,
You've stated quite frequently that you don't own a cell phone, since you are concerned that almost all (or possibly "all") of them contain proprietary firmware, which poses privacy concerns (among other threats to your freedom). Given the ubiquity of these devices and their relevance to modern society, what can free software (and hardware) engineers do to make you use one? The same question also applies, more generally, to future miniaturized computation (e.g. nanobots in the bloodstream) that, like cell phones but even more so, could offer significant utility to its users.
Thank you for defending our freedom when most of us fall prey to convenience.
- A.