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One, that's not acceptable, it breaks the social contract.
The social contract does not guarantee you a well-paid IT job for life.
You rejoiced that jobs were leaving one country and going to another with no regard for the consequences in the first country.
I considered the consequences in both countries and concluded that the benefits in the second outweighed the losses in the first by far.
What metric or set of metrics would you choose?
The living standard attainable by an average worker with a 40 hour work week. Alternatively, the proportion of Indians who would rather live in a country such as the U.S., compared to the proportion of Americans who would rather live in a country such as India. Alternatively, the proportion of parents who feel the need to sell their daughters into prostitution. Alternatively, the proportion of people who amputate their limbs for improved begging results.
But, it will devastate many families.
Moving to a smaller appartment and a lower paid job, while keeping your TV, VCR and car and having your children educated and fed, is not devastation. Devastation is to watch your daughter die from malaria because you can't afford the $10 drugs.
I'm in this position not because of my own doing, as you point out, but somehow I'm to bear the burden of correction by becoming destitute, or working poor at best?
You have no more right to an IT job than the Indian college graduate; it's a lottery and you got lucky for a while; now the streak is over.
You know, the majority of the money will not go to India, but to the management and shareholders of the US companies.
And since your retirement account contains mutual funds owning those companies' stock, everything is ultimately done in your name, in the owner's name.
The acceptable alternative is to go find some other lower paying job, which will still be much higher paying than anything that is available to average Indians.
However, one cannot carelessly dismiss my ongoing costs, my obligations, my blood, sweat, and tears, my positive contribution to society,
I do not dismiss those concerns of yours any more carelessly than those of Indians.
a hard-to-quantify equality balance
It is plainly dishonest and self-serving to claim that the inequality between India and the United States is hard to quantify.
would amount to less than a drop in the bucket
If an IT job is nothing but a drop in the bucket in India, then it's nothing but a drop in the bucket in the U.S. So why do you care so much?
mainly benefit an elite, educated class
It would behoove you to ponder the fact that you belong to the elite, educated class of the world. And you find yourself in this position not because of your own doing.
You may not have obligations beyond yourself. You should be more considerate of those that do.
As a German, you really should have a good grasp of what high unemployment means to a society.
Yes, in Germany it means mainly that more people have more time to watch tv, with monthly benefits the average working Indian doesn't make per year. Germany is still among the richest societies on Earth and I am happy for every job exported to a country that needs it more.
I'm pretty sure that people in India need jobs more desparately than people in the U.S., so outsourcing leads to more equality on a global scale and is therefore a good thing.
As I said; if you remove or discourage a choice, that isnt freedom: its non technical people enforcing technical decisions on the professionals who are supposed to be making those decisions.
The people who pay are supposed to decide, not the people who serve them. The people who pay may very well have motives much larger than the narrow technical views of the "professionals". And since it is their money, they have every right to exercise their freedom of choice and decide how the money is to be spent. The freedom of the "professionals" is to do their job and obey the will of the people or quit.
Of course it is a move against choice. If the government is telling them they CANT use Microsoft, than how is it a choice for freedom?
Assuming for a moment that open source software was mandated by law for all Brazilian government operations (which in fact is not planned at all): that would be an exercise of freedom of choice on behalf of the Brazilian people. They freely and democratically elected to tell their servants what tools to use. Obviously every society has and should have that freedom of choice.
it's certainly better than the current 'standard' which IS fairly difficult to pronounce. Quite frankly, until they come up with a name that's doesn't completely wreck the flow of trying to speak the unit name, no one's really going to adopt it - which is probably rather unfortunate. Try having an out loud conversation with someone using the 'correct' units by name. You'll find they're totally jarring and don't flow easily.
Maybe you try to pronounce it wrongly? Start with the "Me" from "Mega", than add a short "bee". Like "Mebbi", rhymes with "valley".
This way, "mebibyte" is easier to pronounce than "megabyte".
Say there are 2 local hardware stores. If somebody walks into Store A and buys a 1 yard board, he gets a 1 yard (3 foot) board.
Do you mean three international feet or three U.S. survey feet? Note that even the NIST is confused: table 2 and table 4 in this document contradict each other.
jobs are lost due to OSS as well as foreign outsourcing.
Jobs aren't lost due to foreign outsourcing, they are simply moved from one country to another country which arguably needs them more.
Clearly, jobs are lost due to OSS. Jobs are lost due to all programming, and due to all automatization. After all, it is the very point of technical progress that machines do the work that otherwise humans would have to do. Obviously, the better we make our machines (and programs), the more jobs will be lost.
Have you ever drunk something, started to laugh, and have the stuff come out your nose? That proves that nose and mouth are connected, and the topology of a person is therefore more complicated than a torus. Because of the two holes in your nose, we're talking at least genus 3. I think the ears are connected to the nose/mouth system too, which would make it genus 5.
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Tartaglia didn't die soon after. Cardano published because he found a manuscript by some other author explaining the same method and didn't feel he was still bound to the earlier promise. Afterwards, Cardano and Tartaglia fought about this breach for many years.
You left out the best part of the story: geometry. Multiplying with -1, geometrically on the number line, means mirroring a point at the origin, flipping it to the other side. Now what geometrical operation does half the job of mirroring?
A 90 degree rotation, that's right. And that's what multiplication with i is, nothing but a (counterclockwise) 90 degree rotation. Rather than a number line, you now have a number plane.
So if you multiply 1 by i, on the one hand you get i, and on the other hand you get a 90 degree rotated version of 1. Where's that? On the y-axis, at the point with coordinates (0,1). That's i.
In fact, as a customer, it's your job to find a product which costs you the least amount of money while giving you the most bang for your buck.
And that product, increasingly, is going to be open source. No need for keeping track of licenses, no fear of software audits, no fear that the product is discontinued, fewer bugs, full control.
Governments are already jumping ship and starting to require open source all over the world. Businesses will follow soon.
Open source may not be a viable business model for software companies; I don't know nor do I care. But I do know that the closed source model is not far from dying.
What the fuck is the US government doing at a conference of Asian governments and NGO's? Make sure that any position paper that reaches the global conference is sanitized ahead of time?
Obviously, you will end up with socialism in the long run anyway. Once all work is being done by robots and nobody wants to employ you anymore, how do you think are you going to get your food?
Regardless of what a woman says, if her man doesn't give her the best color/carat/cut/clarity that he can afford without going bankrupt, the she will carry a secret nugget of resentment for as long as the relationship will last.
So the man has to sell out his principles to please his materialistic wife. Do his life-long resentments carry any weight at all?
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The social contract does not guarantee you a well-paid IT job for life.
You rejoiced that jobs were leaving one country and going to another with no regard for the consequences in the first country.
I considered the consequences in both countries and concluded that the benefits in the second outweighed the losses in the first by far.
What metric or set of metrics would you choose?
The living standard attainable by an average worker with a 40 hour work week. Alternatively, the proportion of Indians who would rather live in a country such as the U.S., compared to the proportion of Americans who would rather live in a country such as India. Alternatively, the proportion of parents who feel the need to sell their daughters into prostitution. Alternatively, the proportion of people who amputate their limbs for improved begging results.
But, it will devastate many families.
Moving to a smaller appartment and a lower paid job, while keeping your TV, VCR and car and having your children educated and fed, is not devastation. Devastation is to watch your daughter die from malaria because you can't afford the $10 drugs.
I'm in this position not because of my own doing, as you point out, but somehow I'm to bear the burden of correction by becoming destitute, or working poor at best?
You have no more right to an IT job than the Indian college graduate; it's a lottery and you got lucky for a while; now the streak is over.
You know, the majority of the money will not go to India, but to the management and shareholders of the US companies.
And since your retirement account contains mutual funds owning those companies' stock, everything is ultimately done in your name, in the owner's name.
The acceptable alternative is to go find some other lower paying job, which will still be much higher paying than anything that is available to average Indians.
However, one cannot carelessly dismiss my ongoing costs, my obligations, my blood, sweat, and tears, my positive contribution to society,
I do not dismiss those concerns of yours any more carelessly than those of Indians.
a hard-to-quantify equality balance
It is plainly dishonest and self-serving to claim that the inequality between India and the United States is hard to quantify.
would amount to less than a drop in the bucket
If an IT job is nothing but a drop in the bucket in India, then it's nothing but a drop in the bucket in the U.S. So why do you care so much?
mainly benefit an elite, educated classIt would behoove you to ponder the fact that you belong to the elite, educated class of the world. And you find yourself in this position not because of your own doing.
You may not have obligations beyond yourself. You should be more considerate of those that do.
I am. There are more of those in India.
Why would I? I might just as well feed and educate children in India, no? Would be a lot cheaper, too.
Stop whining and move to India then.
But people in India are welcome to take it up the ass, right?
Where did you get this unfounded belief that someone starving here while a potential job goes to another country is a good thing for everyone?
Poor people in your country are fat, not thin. That more than anything else tells you how filthy rich your society is.
Yes, in Germany it means mainly that more people have more time to watch tv, with monthly benefits the average working Indian doesn't make per year. Germany is still among the richest societies on Earth and I am happy for every job exported to a country that needs it more.
I'm pretty sure that people in India need jobs more desparately than people in the U.S., so outsourcing leads to more equality on a global scale and is therefore a good thing.
The people who pay are supposed to decide, not the people who serve them. The people who pay may very well have motives much larger than the narrow technical views of the "professionals". And since it is their money, they have every right to exercise their freedom of choice and decide how the money is to be spent. The freedom of the "professionals" is to do their job and obey the will of the people or quit.
Assuming for a moment that open source software was mandated by law for all Brazilian government operations (which in fact is not planned at all): that would be an exercise of freedom of choice on behalf of the Brazilian people. They freely and democratically elected to tell their servants what tools to use. Obviously every society has and should have that freedom of choice.
Ideas cannot be owned nor sold.
Sure. If you use a strong pass phrase of unknown length though, then the brute forcing easily costs more than your data is worth.
Maybe you try to pronounce it wrongly? Start with the "Me" from "Mega", than add a short "bee". Like "Mebbi", rhymes with "valley". This way, "mebibyte" is easier to pronounce than "megabyte".
Do you mean three international feet or three U.S. survey feet? Note that even the NIST is confused: table 2 and table 4 in this document contradict each other.
Jobs aren't lost due to foreign outsourcing, they are simply moved from one country to another country which arguably needs them more.
Clearly, jobs are lost due to OSS. Jobs are lost due to all programming, and due to all automatization. After all, it is the very point of technical progress that machines do the work that otherwise humans would have to do. Obviously, the better we make our machines (and programs), the more jobs will be lost.
Have you ever drunk something, started to laugh, and have the stuff come out your nose? That proves that nose and mouth are connected, and the topology of a person is therefore more complicated than a torus. Because of the two holes in your nose, we're talking at least genus 3. I think the ears are connected to the nose/mouth system too, which would make it genus 5.
Tartaglia didn't die soon after. Cardano published because he found a manuscript by some other author explaining the same method and didn't feel he was still bound to the earlier promise. Afterwards, Cardano and Tartaglia fought about this breach for many years.
A 90 degree rotation, that's right. And that's what multiplication with i is, nothing but a (counterclockwise) 90 degree rotation. Rather than a number line, you now have a number plane.
So if you multiply 1 by i, on the one hand you get i, and on the other hand you get a 90 degree rotated version of 1. Where's that? On the y-axis, at the point with coordinates (0,1). That's i.
Nothing mysterious about it whatsoever.
And that product, increasingly, is going to be open source. No need for keeping track of licenses, no fear of software audits, no fear that the product is discontinued, fewer bugs, full control.
Governments are already jumping ship and starting to require open source all over the world. Businesses will follow soon.
Open source may not be a viable business model for software companies; I don't know nor do I care. But I do know that the closed source model is not far from dying.
What the fuck is the US government doing at a conference of Asian governments and NGO's? Make sure that any position paper that reaches the global conference is sanitized ahead of time?
Obviously, you will end up with socialism in the long run anyway. Once all work is being done by robots and nobody wants to employ you anymore, how do you think are you going to get your food?
So the man has to sell out his principles to please his materialistic wife. Do his life-long resentments carry any weight at all?
Except they're dead.
What did you give him in return? Sex?