Dunno if Amazon is being wronged here or not. Quite possibly they are.
I must say though that it's heartening to see Democrats be so fond of multi-bazillionaire captains of industry also owning major media outlets. A tad unexpected, but heartening.
I've been a programmer for a long time. Bunch of different languages, mostly Unix or Linux, some Windows. "If you're still running Trusty you can get the latest Chromium as a snap right now." Is that even English? Or what?
"Trusty" is an Ubuntu version. That could stand some parenthetical explanation.
The rest of it should be pretty intelligible to any current Linux user with moderate curiosity and an eye for tech news.
But watching 1/4 of the video and then a commercial, then a 1/4 more of the video and a commercial then 1/4 of the video and a commercial and then you get the last 1/4 of the video is BEYOND annoying.
> The results put the U.S. further away from a viable replacement rate -- the standard for a generation being able to replicate its numbers....and yet the US population is still rising year on year.
No one is obligated to breed kids for the good of the country. If women want to work, eat, pray, love whatever, it's their business -- you can't choose others' path in life for them.
We can't? But can we "nudge" them to a path though, for the good of the country?
With a tax here, a subsidy there, some in-school propaganda there? Or perhaps some six figure fines for violating brand new social norms?
Or is that only OK for the things that you think are good for the country?
So, in other words, our population would fall somewhat if we stopped importing people. (Why are we still doing that again? Empty prairies we still need to tame? Plentiful menial jobs? No? Then why?)
We'd have less crowding, pollution, and cheaper real estate.
As quality of life ticked up, birth rate likely would too. Almost like most processes are self-balancing and not runaway.
So by "fair" they mean "unfair"... since we can't have a mere algorithm making decisions based on silly facts and stuff. It might not produce the "right" outcomes.
Maybe some rebranding in Slashdot is going on. "Slashdot: News for athletes and other boring trivial stuff."
But, it's athletes... on the internet!!! (YouTube)
These young folks are so "techie"! All we oldsters knew how to do was program our own games on our Vic20s... but these kids know how to use YouTube!!! Skills!
You can see why age discrimination happens, I mean come on.
Next election it won't be "Russians hacked the election", it'll be "Google hacked the election".
Next election?
What's interesting to me is that Google, Facebook, etc. have already been trying this. It's no secret who's side they have been on, and no doubt that they have been "nudging" (as blatantly as they could have? maybe not, but nudging for sure).
It may have worked, in 2012. It failed, in 2016. What interests me is why/how it failed.
Is Trump just The Mule or something, a one time anomaly? Or are we more reliant against this stuff than previously thought?
Except Oklahoma and Arkansas are not low tax states. Florida, New Hampshire and Texas however are.
And Esp. FL and TX plenty of firms are moving to. You are correct that taxes aren't everything, but when they become onerous to the point of putting the firm at a competitive disadvantage. Then at some point the costs involved with moving are lower than staying.
But... but... lefty snark! Deliverance, or something!
A super-liberal company in a super-liberal city complaining about taxes for social programs. That's rich. I thought liberals wanted big government programs to take care of the down-trodden. Amazon is all for more social programs at the federal level, but they hire a truckload of lawyers to set up tax shelters and move money into offshore accounts to avoid paying their fair share of federal taxes. Someone else is footing the bill for those programs. Now the city introduces a more direct tax that can't be avoided and suddenly it's "hostile".
But, but... taxes are for rich people! Not for Bezos... oh.
Have you read the paper? No you haven't. Because the paper raises all the issues you have. Only better, in more detail, with some facts and numbers. Because you know, *science*
That can't be! It's impossible to consider confounding factors until you publish the paper and receive Slashdot input.
Well, that's lovely. Nobody voted for Tim Cook to implement his ideas on these things, so his political power to do so is zero.
Unless Dems think that Cook should have lots of political power, because he sold lots of stuff and capitalism is great so that's kinda like people voting.
If so, I await their heads exploding, like a 1960s sci fi robot caught in a contradiction...
With the right kinds of data, I can manipulate society like it's my own personal sandbox.
I don't disagree with you about the need for protections, but what interests me is that they didn't. Or couldn't.
Google, Facebook, etc. are clearly on the left of American politics. And they were not shy about trying to use their influence and power, to manipulate society.
Yet it clearly didn't work, this past pres election, and no, it wasn't thwarted by a few Russian tech bros with a small wallet. Rather, a growing number of people were catching on that they were being herded and manipulated. And they didn't like it.
Maybe we are more resilient against this stuff than we thought.
Exactly. Give me a nice "third world" phone (Samsung J1 or J3, Moto G4 Play or G5) with removable battery, SD card. May be homely, but at least I'm not forced to buy a new phone every year by the planned-obsolescent unfixable design.
My Moto E4 works for me. Does what I want it to do. Less than a quarter of the price of my wife's phone.
Good food is cheap if you cook it yourself. Big bag of salad greens: $2. Big bag of tomatoes: $4. Cheese $3. Onion $1. Pepper $2. $12 + oil/vinegar gives you salad for approximately a week, even in an expensive area like NYC. Chicken/fish aren't expensive, nor are rice, potatoes, or greens. You can eat well for less than fast food costs every day if you know how to cook half decently.
Salad stays good for a week? Maybe, if you really luck out... or like half frozen salad.
Keep in mind that to be an ideal healthy hipster, you can't lug those ingredients home in a car. You have to bike or take the bus. So you are not going to be able to lug huge amounts of fresh stuff (for your four kids and spouse) home on the bus once a week, even if it would keep. You'll have to do it every day, or almost every day. Not very practical.
There are more factors in play on this than most people want to admit.
Slashdot Mirror
Dunno if Amazon is being wronged here or not. Quite possibly they are.
I must say though that it's heartening to see Democrats be so fond of multi-bazillionaire captains of industry also owning major media outlets. A tad unexpected, but heartening.
I've been a programmer for a long time. Bunch of different languages, mostly Unix or Linux, some Windows. "If you're still running Trusty you can get the latest Chromium as a snap right now." Is that even English? Or what?
"Trusty" is an Ubuntu version. That could stand some parenthetical explanation.
The rest of it should be pretty intelligible to any current Linux user with moderate curiosity and an eye for tech news.
Aren't you just putting all your passwords under a single password? Seems like that would make you much more vulnerable.
For most of us, our email account is the key to the site access kingdom in any case. Or a lot of the kingdom. "Forgot password" ...
finding people who can turn social-media clicks and user-posted photos into monetizable binary code
I'm immobile because I can't figure out which part of that to gnaw to shreds first.
But watching 1/4 of the video and then a commercial, then a 1/4 more of the video and a commercial then 1/4 of the video and a commercial and then you get the last 1/4 of the video is BEYOND annoying.
Back in the dark ages, we called that "TV" :)
> The results put the U.S. further away from a viable replacement rate -- the standard for a generation being able to replicate its numbers. ...and yet the US population is still rising year on year.
http://www.multpl.com/united-s...
Amazing. How could that be? It's almost like we are importing huge numbers of people.
No one is obligated to breed kids for the good of the country. If women want to work, eat, pray, love whatever, it's their business -- you can't choose others' path in life for them.
We can't? But can we "nudge" them to a path though, for the good of the country?
With a tax here, a subsidy there, some in-school propaganda there? Or perhaps some six figure fines for violating brand new social norms?
Or is that only OK for the things that you think are good for the country?
So, in other words, our population would fall somewhat if we stopped importing people. (Why are we still doing that again? Empty prairies we still need to tame? Plentiful menial jobs? No? Then why?)
We'd have less crowding, pollution, and cheaper real estate.
As quality of life ticked up, birth rate likely would too. Almost like most processes are self-balancing and not runaway.
Not seeing the immediate problem.
So by "fair" they mean "unfair" ... since we can't have a mere algorithm making decisions based on silly facts and stuff. It might not produce the "right" outcomes.
Maybe some rebranding in Slashdot is going on. "Slashdot: News for athletes and other boring trivial stuff."
But, it's athletes ... on the internet!!! (YouTube)
These young folks are so "techie"! All we oldsters knew how to do was program our own games on our Vic20s ... but these kids know how to use YouTube!!! Skills!
You can see why age discrimination happens, I mean come on.
Mechanical Turk ... not the Amazon one, the real one.
They send you a midget inside your Google Home gadget ...
Perhaps a little blurb about what Tidal is, why one would use it instead of Spotify, Google, Pandora, Amazon, etc.?
That was supposed to be resilient, not "reliant".
Next election it won't be "Russians hacked the election", it'll be "Google hacked the election".
Next election?
What's interesting to me is that Google, Facebook, etc. have already been trying this. It's no secret who's side they have been on, and no doubt that they have been "nudging" (as blatantly as they could have? maybe not, but nudging for sure).
It may have worked, in 2012. It failed, in 2016. What interests me is why/how it failed.
Is Trump just The Mule or something, a one time anomaly? Or are we more reliant against this stuff than previously thought?
Except Oklahoma and Arkansas are not low tax states. Florida, New Hampshire and Texas however are.
And Esp. FL and TX plenty of firms are moving to. You are correct that taxes aren't everything, but when they become onerous to the point of putting the firm at a competitive disadvantage. Then at some point the costs involved with moving are lower than staying.
But ... but ... lefty snark! Deliverance, or something!
A super-liberal company in a super-liberal city complaining about taxes for social programs. That's rich. I thought liberals wanted big government programs to take care of the down-trodden. Amazon is all for more social programs at the federal level, but they hire a truckload of lawyers to set up tax shelters and move money into offshore accounts to avoid paying their fair share of federal taxes. Someone else is footing the bill for those programs. Now the city introduces a more direct tax that can't be avoided and suddenly it's "hostile".
But, but ... taxes are for rich people! Not for Bezos ... oh.
Have you read the paper? No you haven't. Because the paper raises all the issues you have. Only better, in more detail, with some facts and numbers. Because you know, *science*
That can't be! It's impossible to consider confounding factors until you publish the paper and receive Slashdot input.
Women don't do physically demanding jobs, at least not at the level of men.
Or they are too smart to kill themselves doing them.
Oh dear ... SJW business finds that it doesn't like the high taxes that come from the governments that ... it itself favors.
Apple chief executive Tim Cook told Bloomberg Television ...
You need to say it on Fox News and/or Hannity if you want a chance for Trump to hear you. Apparently, that's all he watches. (Google it)
Or to put it another way, Cook is speaking to his comforting echo chamber.
Well, that's lovely. Nobody voted for Tim Cook to implement his ideas on these things, so his political power to do so is zero.
Unless Dems think that Cook should have lots of political power, because he sold lots of stuff and capitalism is great so that's kinda like people voting.
If so, I await their heads exploding, like a 1960s sci fi robot caught in a contradiction ...
With the right kinds of data, I can manipulate society like it's my own personal sandbox.
I don't disagree with you about the need for protections, but what interests me is that they didn't. Or couldn't.
Google, Facebook, etc. are clearly on the left of American politics. And they were not shy about trying to use their influence and power, to manipulate society.
Yet it clearly didn't work, this past pres election, and no, it wasn't thwarted by a few Russian tech bros with a small wallet. Rather, a growing number of people were catching on that they were being herded and manipulated. And they didn't like it.
Maybe we are more resilient against this stuff than we thought.
Exactly. Give me a nice "third world" phone (Samsung J1 or J3, Moto G4 Play or G5) with removable battery, SD card. May be homely, but at least I'm not forced to buy a new phone every year by the planned-obsolescent unfixable design.
My Moto E4 works for me. Does what I want it to do. Less than a quarter of the price of my wife's phone.
Good food is cheap if you cook it yourself. Big bag of salad greens: $2. Big bag of tomatoes: $4. Cheese $3. Onion $1. Pepper $2. $12 + oil/vinegar gives you salad for approximately a week, even in an expensive area like NYC. Chicken/fish aren't expensive, nor are rice, potatoes, or greens. You can eat well for less than fast food costs every day if you know how to cook half decently.
Salad stays good for a week? Maybe, if you really luck out ... or like half frozen salad.
Keep in mind that to be an ideal healthy hipster, you can't lug those ingredients home in a car. You have to bike or take the bus. So you are not going to be able to lug huge amounts of fresh stuff (for your four kids and spouse) home on the bus once a week, even if it would keep. You'll have to do it every day, or almost every day. Not very practical.
There are more factors in play on this than most people want to admit.
Adverts, yes. Bleah.
What about security implications? Perhaps the "video" simulates other applications, other windows?