So you learn how to build a team and run it effectively in a way that satisfies the customer. You learn how to lead people and make them happy. If you can do this, your team members may not always be in the same country as you but you will always have a job in yours.
I work in IT for a certain company that has been downsizing and offshoring. I now have the accounts that can not be offshored due to legal reasons. One account I have is even with me because they asked to come back to domestic support. I am one of the last ones left because I am very, very good at what I do. I don't just admin, I know how to build successful teams, I know how to make an entire account work, I satisfy the customer, I manage and I lead.
The jobs will always be out there for the types of people who can produce huge results.
The good news is, once customers see what offshore support looks like, you look like a god.
You'll have to get another job or sell your solutions, not both. I feel as if you are looking to pull an Uber here. You want to enjoy the benefit of ignoring the rules that inconvenience you while taking advantage of the rules that work for you. The company you work for has invested in making you who you are, a valuable employee that participates in their interest.
You may be able to travel the road of making legal contracts that cover everything but that would probably defeat the purpose of doing it. Unless you cut all ties or keep your work completely separate (different technology, no one at work knows about it) from your day job, there is really no easy way to protect your products. They are quite simply not yours.
For example, I know someone who is an admin by day and has a business renovating houses at night. That is how you protect yourself.
If these ideas are worth pursuing, you should be able to quit and make a go of it on your own anyway.
Then can I have the $732,713?? I mean really, isn't this the very point of AI? To be less than just a statistical automaton and actually be able to beat a human at real life in something? AI should be about winning the money, that's it.
I looked into this because I once wondered why no one uses thumb drives for backup. Thumb drives are reasonably safe for a couple years but after that many can degrade. I saw many sites indicating that flash is not a safe media. This caused me to wonder what they did different in SSD technology. The only safe media that I know of is tape.
To the people saying 'no datacenter goes without power for a week'. I know one that did due to a natural disaster. THey spent 1000's of hours bringing that datacenter up. Do you think they would have wanted to have been messing around reconfiguring raid arrays and rebuilding on top of that? It is not just the data you lose, it is the configuration.
When you got sick, you were allowed to take a day off. That is not always accepted any longer. It is on paper sure, but you still have to have your shit done by noon when you wake up sick.
No the real sickness is that companies shareholders and not leaving enough to be able to offer wages for the best workers, and for people to afford to make themselves into one of the best through training. I don't even expect companies to train empoloyees, though it would be nice. But for crying out loud, even the small technical improvement courses are $5K each. They are *priced for* companies to be paying so unless they do who can afford it for themselves?
There are many good working honest people that would improve themselves to be better workers if they could afford it but they are locked in a system that keeps them in the level they are at, right down to the individual skill level.
This is because in any system there will be an elete few that suck it dry. A perfect system might prevent this from happening but probably all the failures of humanity could be attributed to it and it is on its way.
I really wish I could edit my posts
Here are the good things that the regulation is doing:
- I am firmly of the belief that they are protecting the safety of people in the cars. It is just a matter of time before an injury happens. I don't care about ratings. People will switch cars, people will lie.
- Is it possible that these jobs just devolve into something that doesn't pay and then the market is gone forever. You don't think Uber is just going to replace the drivers that go for a pittance right now with automated drivers? No other industry in place then.
- This just takes the economy to a level further than it is. Uber is just a company making things worse for everyone one else. These jobs suck and their fleeting. We need good jobs for people who are hard workers. I have heard so many times that hard workers are the ones in the 1%. Lets start seeing some of these people head towards there.
No, I'm saying that a local business environment can supply either many shitty jobs with shitty service, or some quality jobs with quality (read as "ensured safe") service. We have to pick, it is one or the other. With the first one, lives may get ruined and people may die with no coverage for their families.
We need to pick one, which is it?
Yes, the industry is using it to their advantage. I used to get angry about this too but now I see that people have to defend their jobs People *here* gotta make a buck.
Where is your proof that the laws are created for unethical reasons? There may be an unethical side to it but that is just what people do, no matter what the law is. Currently there is an entire industry that has agreed to the expense of keeping their service safe ONLY because everyone else in the industry is abiding by the same standards. If Uber is allowed to proceed without complying, then the market that exists today and all the businesses that are based on it have a broken business model. All cars must slide on their safety and insurance just to complete with a company that does not have the same expenses. The whole industry will descend into a pit and go to shit.
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So you learn how to build a team and run it effectively in a way that satisfies the customer. You learn how to lead people and make them happy. If you can do this, your team members may not always be in the same country as you but you will always have a job in yours.
I work in IT for a certain company that has been downsizing and offshoring. I now have the accounts that can not be offshored due to legal reasons. One account I have is even with me because they asked to come back to domestic support. I am one of the last ones left because I am very, very good at what I do. I don't just admin, I know how to build successful teams, I know how to make an entire account work, I satisfy the customer, I manage and I lead.
The jobs will always be out there for the types of people who can produce huge results.
The good news is, once customers see what offshore support looks like, you look like a god.
You'll have to get another job or sell your solutions, not both. I feel as if you are looking to pull an Uber here. You want to enjoy the benefit of ignoring the rules that inconvenience you while taking advantage of the rules that work for you. The company you work for has invested in making you who you are, a valuable employee that participates in their interest.
You may be able to travel the road of making legal contracts that cover everything but that would probably defeat the purpose of doing it. Unless you cut all ties or keep your work completely separate (different technology, no one at work knows about it) from your day job, there is really no easy way to protect your products. They are quite simply not yours.
For example, I know someone who is an admin by day and has a business renovating houses at night. That is how you protect yourself.
If these ideas are worth pursuing, you should be able to quit and make a go of it on your own anyway.
Then can I have the $732,713?? I mean really, isn't this the very point of AI? To be less than just a statistical automaton and actually be able to beat a human at real life in something? AI should be about winning the money, that's it.
I looked into this because I once wondered why no one uses thumb drives for backup. Thumb drives are reasonably safe for a couple years but after that many can degrade. I saw many sites indicating that flash is not a safe media. This caused me to wonder what they did different in SSD technology. The only safe media that I know of is tape.
To the people saying 'no datacenter goes without power for a week'. I know one that did due to a natural disaster. THey spent 1000's of hours bringing that datacenter up. Do you think they would have wanted to have been messing around reconfiguring raid arrays and rebuilding on top of that? It is not just the data you lose, it is the configuration.
It's too expensive to buy at that volume and not yet proven.
Isn't society supposed to be getting better?
When do we all start hitting a button for two hours and then go enjoy our life of leisure?
Will that just be for the wealthy?
When you got sick, you were allowed to take a day off. That is not always accepted any longer. It is on paper sure, but you still have to have your shit done by noon when you wake up sick.
No the real sickness is that companies shareholders and not leaving enough to be able to offer wages for the best workers, and for people to afford to make themselves into one of the best through training. I don't even expect companies to train empoloyees, though it would be nice. But for crying out loud, even the small technical improvement courses are $5K each. They are *priced for* companies to be paying so unless they do who can afford it for themselves?
There are many good working honest people that would improve themselves to be better workers if they could afford it but they are locked in a system that keeps them in the level they are at, right down to the individual skill level.
This is because in any system there will be an elete few that suck it dry. A perfect system might prevent this from happening but probably all the failures of humanity could be attributed to it and it is on its way.
I'm pretty much happy if XBMC works, which is basically a portable app.
I really wish I could edit my posts Here are the good things that the regulation is doing: - I am firmly of the belief that they are protecting the safety of people in the cars. It is just a matter of time before an injury happens. I don't care about ratings. People will switch cars, people will lie. - Is it possible that these jobs just devolve into something that doesn't pay and then the market is gone forever. You don't think Uber is just going to replace the drivers that go for a pittance right now with automated drivers? No other industry in place then. - This just takes the economy to a level further than it is. Uber is just a company making things worse for everyone one else. These jobs suck and their fleeting. We need good jobs for people who are hard workers. I have heard so many times that hard workers are the ones in the 1%. Lets start seeing some of these people head towards there.
I understand that they have the choice to work for Uber or not. Let me address that.
The economy is sucking for people. They are working for Uber because they have to. They are desperate. That is all that is happening here.
No, I'm saying that a local business environment can supply either many shitty jobs with shitty service, or some quality jobs with quality (read as "ensured safe") service. We have to pick, it is one or the other. With the first one, lives may get ruined and people may die with no coverage for their families.
We need to pick one, which is it?
Yes, the industry is using it to their advantage. I used to get angry about this too but now I see that people have to defend their jobs People *here* gotta make a buck.
Mellenials may be whiners, yes. But I think there are two problems. There are also many companies that are trying to do more with less.
If the law is *truly* unethical, then there are legal and legislative means to fight it.
Where is your proof that the laws are created for unethical reasons? There may be an unethical side to it but that is just what people do, no matter what the law is. Currently there is an entire industry that has agreed to the expense of keeping their service safe ONLY because everyone else in the industry is abiding by the same standards. If Uber is allowed to proceed without complying, then the market that exists today and all the businesses that are based on it have a broken business model. All cars must slide on their safety and insurance just to complete with a company that does not have the same expenses. The whole industry will descend into a pit and go to shit.
Then fight the law. Don't ignore them and claim the end justifies the means, because it doesn't.
I wonder how many other laws people will find that are keeping them from a billion dollars and what this will become.
If the free market in action leaves me with shit as a consumer, then I am all for regulated markets.
They won't have commercial insurance if they were making money on commercial uses of personal policies.
"It will get worked out in one way or another"
Lives get destroyed when insurance companies start to "work things out". They just refuse to pay, preiod.
The regulations also maintain a certain minimum of safety and quality that would be quickly pissed all over otherwise and considered cost-prohibitave.
How can you argue against 2) when their very plan is to ignore laws? Ignoring a law is now ethical if you become a large company?