"Self-employed not included" is all you need to know this. Because more and more companies don't employ you, they "hire" you. As a contractor. Which makes you technically self employed. For the 2-3 months they want you.
I just recently saw an ad looking for some plain clerk job applicants and wanting at least college level education. What the FUCK is going on there? Either the school system is so borked that you can't expect someone with a high school diploma to read, write and do basic math anymore, or companies are just completely gone nuts.
One should note that the jobs back then came with an expiration date. When you were hired as a programmer for the latest and greatest technology, you knew that you are gone the moment the next big thing comes along and you're not the one who can play that new tune.
And since they don't do that, I move to greener pastures when necessary. Right now, I am in a very good position, great work-life balance, good money, good training opportunities and general satisfaction.
If that's not what you got, get the hell out and move on! Loyalty where it belongs, I am loyal to an employer that treats me like an asset. I certainly am not to an employer that treats me like some expendable tool.
My father worked in one job for his whole life. My mom had a total of three (mostly because of pregnancies). I had 8 so far. And counting. I'm probably about at half time for my total working years.
Companies today keep reorganizing constantly, something that was pretty much unheard of two or three decades ago. That means people get laid off, people get hired, people get switched around, people get moved to other companies in mergers where they might not like the company culture and quit...
Now add that leaps in salary ONLY happen when you switch jobs and you know why people keep hopping. I just calculated it, if I stayed in my first job that I actually had for a whooping 5 years, I would now earn about 60% of my actual salary.
This. And this is also the reason why I switch jobs quite often. Money is in switching, not staying.
What can you hope for in the same company? At best, maybe 2, maybe even 3 percent more. Usually at best inflation compensation. Which gets promptly eaten by tax due to our progressive tax system. Switch jobs and you can look at 10, maybe 20 percent more. Provided you're good at what you're doing and you're not, say, Ruby on Rails developer.
And with good reason. Boomers are the generations that had it all. What's not to be jealous for?
I myself am a GenX. And I sure as fuck don't envy Millennials. Boomers are retiring, and we're fewer than they were, so we will probably (maybe...) have a job 'til retirement. And with a bit of luck there will even be money left for us to enjoy our retirement.
The Millennials get to pay the bill for it. Because they again are a pretty strong cohort with fewer jobs to go around, lots of debt weighing down their back, shitty jobs ("generation internship") ahead of them and retirement possibilities being at best a wet dream.
If I were them, I'd simply nuke the shit and hope that I'll survive the reboot. Because the way it is, they sure are the altar boy in a catholic seminar. No matter what they do, they'll get fucked.
Nah, don't worry, we have been making jokes about you for way longer than Trump's presidency. We ridicule you for your love of guns, for treating Creationism like it's something real, for your generally incredibly low educational standards, your poor healthcare, your pride in democracy despite living in a two-equal-parties dictatorship...
It's not like we really needed Trump to feel superior to you.
Not to mention that he managed to piss off everyone abroad so tourists stay away and companies don't really feel like dropping money onto a country that is quite hostile to everything foreign, even if it's money.
That's what they are claiming. And either is more than the 10% population loss that the original meaning had in mind.
My guess is that they don't know yet just what fraction of germs get killed and that "somewhere between 20 and 99 percent" is actually a good description of what they know so far.
Definition 3a, "to reduce drastically especially in number" is pretty much what antibiotics do with bacteria. If that toad snot can do that, it would be an efficient treatment of a viral infection.
Governments don't like other governments to have that kind of information. So what you will at the very least get is some sort of law that forbids international trade of data. And an increased incentive for governments all over the world to point fingers at foreign companies that collect data.
Tor tries the opposite. That doesn't really poison the data pool because it's like encrypting what you deem secret while still giving away your "benign" surfing habits. That still provides data to them.
The goal is to make them realize there is no money in data because it's most likely bogus. Only then there is no incentive to spy on us anymore.
Which could be enough. Not to mention that decimate has gained a different meaning beyond "killing every tenth", with a more colloquial use it usually means "kills a portion of them" without going into detail how many.
Antibiotics don't kill all bacteria either. That's why antibacterial soap, cleaning and laundry agents usually hurt more than they help, since they only kill the germs that are susceptible to antibacterial treatment, leaving the "superbugs" unharmed. Essentially what you do that way is breed them by playing natural selection, culling the weak ones to give the stronger ones more room and food to expand into.
Why antibiotics work well in humans is that we have an immune system that doesn't care whether the bacteria are resistent to antibacterial treatment. What our immune system cares about is numbers. If too many bacteria come, it gets overwhelmed, at least for a time, and we get sick. If antibiotics kill off the majority of bacteria, the immune system can easily deal with what's left.
You want data? You shall receive! It's about time we start writing apps that supply data to those data hungry collectors. All kinds of data. You want to know what web pages I visit? Fire up a script that visits all of them. You want to know what YouTube videos I watch? Fire up a script that opens a load of them in the background while I watch the one I actually want to watch. You want to know what... you get the idea.
There is one thing that's worse for someone trying to sell data than having no data: Having worthless data where he can't tell what's genuine and what's trash. As soon as organizations wanting to buy that data realize that they're buying worthless junk, the whole shit ends pretty fucking quickly. Data is only valuable if you have someone who wants it. And nobody wants to spend money on incorrect data.
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I will NOT stoop to your OSI layer, learn IP you peasant!
"Self-employed not included" is all you need to know this. Because more and more companies don't employ you, they "hire" you. As a contractor. Which makes you technically self employed. For the 2-3 months they want you.
This.
I just recently saw an ad looking for some plain clerk job applicants and wanting at least college level education. What the FUCK is going on there? Either the school system is so borked that you can't expect someone with a high school diploma to read, write and do basic math anymore, or companies are just completely gone nuts.
One should note that the jobs back then came with an expiration date. When you were hired as a programmer for the latest and greatest technology, you knew that you are gone the moment the next big thing comes along and you're not the one who can play that new tune.
And since they don't do that, I move to greener pastures when necessary. Right now, I am in a very good position, great work-life balance, good money, good training opportunities and general satisfaction.
If that's not what you got, get the hell out and move on! Loyalty where it belongs, I am loyal to an employer that treats me like an asset. I certainly am not to an employer that treats me like some expendable tool.
My father worked in one job for his whole life. My mom had a total of three (mostly because of pregnancies). I had 8 so far. And counting. I'm probably about at half time for my total working years.
Companies today keep reorganizing constantly, something that was pretty much unheard of two or three decades ago. That means people get laid off, people get hired, people get switched around, people get moved to other companies in mergers where they might not like the company culture and quit...
Now add that leaps in salary ONLY happen when you switch jobs and you know why people keep hopping. I just calculated it, if I stayed in my first job that I actually had for a whooping 5 years, I would now earn about 60% of my actual salary.
This. And this is also the reason why I switch jobs quite often. Money is in switching, not staying.
What can you hope for in the same company? At best, maybe 2, maybe even 3 percent more. Usually at best inflation compensation. Which gets promptly eaten by tax due to our progressive tax system. Switch jobs and you can look at 10, maybe 20 percent more. Provided you're good at what you're doing and you're not, say, Ruby on Rails developer.
And with good reason. Boomers are the generations that had it all. What's not to be jealous for?
I myself am a GenX. And I sure as fuck don't envy Millennials. Boomers are retiring, and we're fewer than they were, so we will probably (maybe...) have a job 'til retirement. And with a bit of luck there will even be money left for us to enjoy our retirement.
The Millennials get to pay the bill for it. Because they again are a pretty strong cohort with fewer jobs to go around, lots of debt weighing down their back, shitty jobs ("generation internship") ahead of them and retirement possibilities being at best a wet dream.
If I were them, I'd simply nuke the shit and hope that I'll survive the reboot. Because the way it is, they sure are the altar boy in a catholic seminar. No matter what they do, they'll get fucked.
Nah, don't worry, we have been making jokes about you for way longer than Trump's presidency. We ridicule you for your love of guns, for treating Creationism like it's something real, for your generally incredibly low educational standards, your poor healthcare, your pride in democracy despite living in a two-equal-parties dictatorship...
It's not like we really needed Trump to feel superior to you.
A hippie turns into a boomer the moment he moves from cocaine to Rogaine.
Not to mention that he managed to piss off everyone abroad so tourists stay away and companies don't really feel like dropping money onto a country that is quite hostile to everything foreign, even if it's money.
That sense of entitlement is stunning, isn't it?
Be a dear, pass the caviar, and ring for the bus boy.
Your fallacy is that you think he doesn't want you to die early...
I don't know, buying myself a doctor for a few bucks a month is a pretty good investment if you ask me.
That's what they are claiming. And either is more than the 10% population loss that the original meaning had in mind.
My guess is that they don't know yet just what fraction of germs get killed and that "somewhere between 20 and 99 percent" is actually a good description of what they know so far.
That would actually be a good thing.
Using soap is a good idea. Using antibacterial soap is not.
It's curiously always books that were written by the person holding the lecture. Correlation or causation?
Definition 3a, "to reduce drastically especially in number" is pretty much what antibiotics do with bacteria. If that toad snot can do that, it would be an efficient treatment of a viral infection.
Governments don't like other governments to have that kind of information. So what you will at the very least get is some sort of law that forbids international trade of data. And an increased incentive for governments all over the world to point fingers at foreign companies that collect data.
Tor tries the opposite. That doesn't really poison the data pool because it's like encrypting what you deem secret while still giving away your "benign" surfing habits. That still provides data to them.
The goal is to make them realize there is no money in data because it's most likely bogus. Only then there is no incentive to spy on us anymore.
Just tell the people they're washing themselves with toad snot and it should be DOA.
And that meaning changed since Roman times. Actually, it gained an additional one.
Guess what: Language develops. Let's ask someone who should know.
Which could be enough. Not to mention that decimate has gained a different meaning beyond "killing every tenth", with a more colloquial use it usually means "kills a portion of them" without going into detail how many.
Antibiotics don't kill all bacteria either. That's why antibacterial soap, cleaning and laundry agents usually hurt more than they help, since they only kill the germs that are susceptible to antibacterial treatment, leaving the "superbugs" unharmed. Essentially what you do that way is breed them by playing natural selection, culling the weak ones to give the stronger ones more room and food to expand into.
Why antibiotics work well in humans is that we have an immune system that doesn't care whether the bacteria are resistent to antibacterial treatment. What our immune system cares about is numbers. If too many bacteria come, it gets overwhelmed, at least for a time, and we get sick. If antibiotics kill off the majority of bacteria, the immune system can easily deal with what's left.
You want data? You shall receive! It's about time we start writing apps that supply data to those data hungry collectors. All kinds of data. You want to know what web pages I visit? Fire up a script that visits all of them. You want to know what YouTube videos I watch? Fire up a script that opens a load of them in the background while I watch the one I actually want to watch. You want to know what ... you get the idea.
There is one thing that's worse for someone trying to sell data than having no data: Having worthless data where he can't tell what's genuine and what's trash. As soon as organizations wanting to buy that data realize that they're buying worthless junk, the whole shit ends pretty fucking quickly. Data is only valuable if you have someone who wants it. And nobody wants to spend money on incorrect data.