Go piss up a rope. I'm "older" and of course I want more money. I have decades of experience and proven performance so I'm worth it. But the rest of your argument falls apart immediately. I have no family in the city I live, where I am currently employed I am on call for troubleshooting 24/7 - and I answer the call a hell of a lot better than some younger members of our group who seem to think work is an inconvenience to the Millennial lifestyle I might add - and am absolutely up for whatever "team building" is on offer. And again I notice the Millennials tend to bug out well before the team building is in full swing.
Because they were probably compelled by some sort of behind the scenes bullshit to do this on behalf of the CIA and now that the cat's out of the bag they (the CIA) figure it's probably better to be able to poison the ability for the exploit to work than to let the bad guys (different groups depending on who you are) have a go unhindered.
And they're right. They're utter bastards but they're right.
> And ARM servers were supposed to be huge every year since iPhone made it big,
Thing is without Microsoft along for the ride that wasn't really a possibility, at least to start. Now it is. Run it all on an ARM with x86 emulation so no porting. As long as the emulation performance hit isn't terrible the cost savings for cloud farms will be tempting.
"As it proceeds with a massive restructuring plan announced earlier this month, Intel will exit the smartphone and tablet mobile SoC business by ending its struggling Atom chip product line. The discontinued products include those code-named SoFIA, Broxton and Cherry Trail."
Atom chipsets have been anemic compared to the ARM processors, and now ARM is going to move into the low end blade space for Windows/Linux servers where Intel was positioning Atoms for cloud clusters.
As a user of BMC's service management software, I'd actually postulate it's causing our organization to be less agile and more inefficient. People are trying to meet metrics instead of actually getting the job done in many cases.
America won't invade, if anything they'd strike with Tomahawks and airstrikes. And if you mean literally China will try nuking American forces, then that's pretty unlikely as I am sure the leaders in Beijing understand quite well that if they ever did do that, they'd have approximately 30 minutes left to enjoy breathing. Probably more like 10 though, as I'm sure if things were hot enough in the Korean Peninsula to warrant airstrikes and Tomahawks, the US Navy would have a couple of SLBMs in the area to pop out short quick nuke strikes if things go to hell.
In other words, no. They won't. Not a lot of people are fans of the US's military industrial complex, but few people with any sense would deny that same military is absolutely capable of country/world ending retaliation if it goes that far.
Well for openers you don't need to dig out a reservoir and flood a hilltop. This would have a much smaller overall environment footprint than say something like this:
Also, if there's a breach in the system there will be a muffled crump and that's about it. Hilltop reservoir bursts? Well that same picture above looked like this in December 2005.
Depends. For example, there's a McD's on the way to the office at the train station where I arrive downtown that has recently implemented a pair of self-order kiosks and the number board with orders fulfilled there. Historically the layout of all of the cash registers at this location has turned getting one of those good but bad for you McMuffins on the way to the office into an unholy shit show as the location is in an underground mall and all of the registers are on a frontage that opens right into the mall walkway, meaning people would bunch up looking to make an order and impede other walking traffic. Anything that could be called an orderly queue was pretty much impossible and you had a mass of people both waiting to order and waiting for their food, which caused 2 of the staff to basically become traffic directors during the busiest times. Add the loud babble of the crowd and orders frequently required multiple repeats to be entered correctly, further driving down efficiency and making the crowding worse.
Since the introduction of the automated order kiosks, it's like night and day. You can order from a big friendly touchscreen with pictures, pay right there and get a strip of paper with your order number and watch the status of your order on a large screen over the ready counter. It's much quieter, nobody's confused, and there's still one register open for people who want to talk to someone for their order. And people who I'd used to see on the registers are now expediting food and helping with prep. Overall the place is probably moving 30-40% more food in the same time period without all the chaos.
And to your point about that extra volume taking business from other restaurants, I don't really see it in this case. A lot of that extra volume they serve are people who would have just given up and went to the office with nothing, as there aren't a lot of other quick breakfast options in that area. The Tim Hortons across the walkway still has the massive queue even after McDs brought in the automated order boards.
Most of the jobs that can be easily offshored have already been done by these companies. There's a reason they want the H1Bs instead and that's because they understand the limitations of offshoring and the communication and control gaps. Offshoring looks good on paper but in practice for non-trivial tasks there's a friction to the process that shows up after actually doing it. Of the various companies I've worked at that have done offshoring they all ended up moving some or all of the jobs back because the quality of the work was inferior, getting the problems corrected took time due to the time zone lag and there was also a lack of control due to that same time zone lag. In the end most of the projects ended up costing almost as much and took 3-4x longer to do which ended up with large opportunity costs for the companies.
Sure, but the story about the CEO and the SVP re well documented in the news, the former even on a separate/, post. As for me mentioning "in her post" I took that to mean that she'd damn well better have the mentioned backups of email and chat logs or she is very far out on a limb - as in I doubt any sane person would commit such actionable libel unless it wasn't in fact libel and can be proven. I think the fact that Uber hasn't yet sued her means there's some merit to that speculation.
Plus anyone with two brain cells to rub together knows you'll get better bang for the buck throwing that extra $500 at a good video card on the Ryzan box instead of dumping it into minor gains on the CPU side with Intel.
If this was out of the blue, that might be a reasonable question.
However, Uber being a sexist and shit place to work is well known gossip in the vallet tech scene, and add to that the fact that you've got the SVP of engineering resigning last week for not disclosing his sexual harassment problems at his former employer - Google, AND there was the dashcam video of Uber's shithead CEO badgering one of his drivers. So with all of that in hand, it's not hard to see Uber as a company with a systemic problem of harassment. Plus, she states in her post that she does in fact have documentation:
" I pointed out that everything I had reported came with extensive documentation and I clearly wasn't the instigator (or even a main character) in the majority of them - she countered by saying that there was absolutely no record in HR of any of the incidents I was claiming I had reported (which, of course, was a lie, and I reminded her I had email and chat records to prove it was a lie)."
If she actually has copies of the documentation, chat logs and emails, then Uber doesn't have a pot to piss in, metaphorically speaking.
You mean she MIS-reads some good books. As others have pointed out, that scenario would only be possible after a full self-supporting colony is established with heavy industry geared towards launching payloads. So at our current rate of progress, a problem to be looked at sometime in the 2500s.
Actually no, the word is "subscription". Netflix, O'Reilly Safari, and similar services where you have access to anything in the catalog at any time all for one monthly fee.
Under the old rental model, one game would cost you $x, and if you wanted another game it was also $x, even if you returned the first.
Normally I'd attribute a comment like that to an edgy kid, but seeing as it's a 5 digit account that means the account has been around probably since the 90s. So I'm thinking less edgy kid and more did so many drugs they think their body's a temple and will live past the Singularity. Probably does smart drugs, polyphasic sleep, caloric starvation and any one of a hundred other crazy fads to try and live to their 150th birthday.
Yeah BC's its own special snowflake. With the MSP premiums and all too. Speaking of which did you see our idiot Premier the other day fully admitted that MSP premiums "just go into a bucket" and they aren't actually earmarked for healthcare?
“I think everybody in the room knows that MSP premiums don’t go to pay health care, right?” Clark told the business audience. “Anything more than your school taxes go to pay for education or your income taxes go to pay for roads. It all ends up in one big pot of money and we just happen to give it that name.”
How the hell does this woman still have the Premier's chair, and why aren't the local newspapers tearing her to shreds over that comment?
However, these lengthy wait times don't actually translate to a mass migration of patients popping across the border for surgery or specialist appointments. Though some of Canada's wealthiest patients may choose to do this rather than wait, they represent fewer than half a percent.... Meanwhile, the Centers for Disease Control estimates 750,000 Americans travel outside the country for medical treatments each year.
Neither I or anyone I know has ever gone to the US for a medical procedure. We get US TV up here and to be frank watching commercials where American hospitals advertise for customers fills us with horror. To us it's a service. That'd be like you watching commercials for different police forces to call when your house is being invaded.
> I notice that you aren't even posting any links. Nice to have blind faith but I prefer facts.
What "link" do you want? My medical records? Or polls? Here's one:
In that one, 6% of US respondants were very happy with their care, and 44% very dissatisfied, compared to 16% of Canadians very happy and 17% very dissatisfied. On the surface I'd say that pretty much torpedoed what few points you had.
And I know anecdotes aren't data, etc etc. but here's a Reddit forum asking Canadians what they think of their healthcare vs the US system with some answers from people who have experienced both:
And here's a story I read a few years ago about another American convert to Canada which really kind of shocked me as to how shitty the US system is if you're not loaded:
"When I asked for prayers for my little brother who had been burned in an accident, they were all puzzled why the story did not include immediately rushing him to the hospital. When they asked me to clarify and I explained that many people in the States are not insured and they try to put off medical care unless absolutely needed, they literally could not comprehend such a thing."
Seriously? This is the sort of system you think is way better than going to a hospital for $0 and getting looked at?
Another anecdotal thing I've noticed is in Canada when someone says they were in a car accident, the first thing many say is "Oh! Are you all right?!" In the States among friends and coworkers a story like that gets a response of "Ohmygod! Did you sue?" Which initially struck me as money hungry until I realized that in many cases if you *don't* sue you can be financially ruined by a simple ambulance ride and a broken bone.
Another one off story: http://www.fark.com/comments/9485906/soosh-farker-who-hosts-Livingston-Stapler-Company-Presents-radio-show-was-moved-to-Queen-Anne-Medical-Center-in-Seattle-for-rehab-on-February-15th-LGT-thread-from-earlier-this-week-Updates-in-thread
Saw that the other day. Long story short, guy in Alaska is internet-famous on Fark.com for hosting some obscure radio show on the weekend. Bad road conditions caused him to wreck and he had to be air evaced to a large hospital. Bill is $200K. He has insurance but it only covers 80%. Him and his wife are kind of screwed financially now. In Canada, you know what they would have paid for ? Parking at the hospital. Maybe $20 a day. Oh, and snacks from the vending machine.
> and a lot of people (you don't see many people offering to lower their salary) do as well.
That's apples to oranges. People don't take a salary based on what their life costs to live, they are paid based on what value they bring to the company. And in general peoples' value to the company they work at *rises* over time instead of decreasing as they gain experience both in the industry and in the inner workings of the company.
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Go piss up a rope. I'm "older" and of course I want more money. I have decades of experience and proven performance so I'm worth it. But the rest of your argument falls apart immediately. I have no family in the city I live, where I am currently employed I am on call for troubleshooting 24/7 - and I answer the call a hell of a lot better than some younger members of our group who seem to think work is an inconvenience to the Millennial lifestyle I might add - and am absolutely up for whatever "team building" is on offer. And again I notice the Millennials tend to bug out well before the team building is in full swing.
Because they were probably compelled by some sort of behind the scenes bullshit to do this on behalf of the CIA and now that the cat's out of the bag they (the CIA) figure it's probably better to be able to poison the ability for the exploit to work than to let the bad guys (different groups depending on who you are) have a go unhindered.
And they're right. They're utter bastards but they're right.
> And ARM servers were supposed to be huge every year since iPhone made it big,
Thing is without Microsoft along for the ride that wasn't really a possibility, at least to start. Now it is. Run it all on an ARM with x86 emulation so no porting. As long as the emulation performance hit isn't terrible the cost savings for cloud farms will be tempting.
Intel's low power foray into mobile SoC with the Atom platform has been about as successful as Windows Mobile was. So much so they're bailing:
http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1329580
"As it proceeds with a massive restructuring plan announced earlier this month, Intel will exit the smartphone and tablet mobile SoC business by ending its struggling Atom chip product line. The discontinued products include those code-named SoFIA, Broxton and Cherry Trail."
Atom chipsets have been anemic compared to the ARM processors, and now ARM is going to move into the low end blade space for Windows/Linux servers where Intel was positioning Atoms for cloud clusters.
As a user of BMC's service management software, I'd actually postulate it's causing our organization to be less agile and more inefficient. People are trying to meet metrics instead of actually getting the job done in many cases.
Really? The Chinese attacked the Soviets 4 times with nuclear devices and nobody else in the world noticed that? Do tell.
America won't invade, if anything they'd strike with Tomahawks and airstrikes. And if you mean literally China will try nuking American forces, then that's pretty unlikely as I am sure the leaders in Beijing understand quite well that if they ever did do that, they'd have approximately 30 minutes left to enjoy breathing. Probably more like 10 though, as I'm sure if things were hot enough in the Korean Peninsula to warrant airstrikes and Tomahawks, the US Navy would have a couple of SLBMs in the area to pop out short quick nuke strikes if things go to hell.
In other words, no. They won't. Not a lot of people are fans of the US's military industrial complex, but few people with any sense would deny that same military is absolutely capable of country/world ending retaliation if it goes that far.
Well for openers you don't need to dig out a reservoir and flood a hilltop. This would have a much smaller overall environment footprint than say something like this:
http://cdn.powermag.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/520004db27689-090110_EnergyStorage_Fig3.jpg
Also, if there's a breach in the system there will be a muffled crump and that's about it. Hilltop reservoir bursts? Well that same picture above looked like this in December 2005.
https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1160/986468663_d9a4511914_z.jpg?zz=1
So I don't know about you, but I'd much rather live on the waterfront next to a farm of those underwater tanks than live below a hill reservoir.
Depends. For example, there's a McD's on the way to the office at the train station where I arrive downtown that has recently implemented a pair of self-order kiosks and the number board with orders fulfilled there. Historically the layout of all of the cash registers at this location has turned getting one of those good but bad for you McMuffins on the way to the office into an unholy shit show as the location is in an underground mall and all of the registers are on a frontage that opens right into the mall walkway, meaning people would bunch up looking to make an order and impede other walking traffic. Anything that could be called an orderly queue was pretty much impossible and you had a mass of people both waiting to order and waiting for their food, which caused 2 of the staff to basically become traffic directors during the busiest times. Add the loud babble of the crowd and orders frequently required multiple repeats to be entered correctly, further driving down efficiency and making the crowding worse.
Since the introduction of the automated order kiosks, it's like night and day. You can order from a big friendly touchscreen with pictures, pay right there and get a strip of paper with your order number and watch the status of your order on a large screen over the ready counter. It's much quieter, nobody's confused, and there's still one register open for people who want to talk to someone for their order. And people who I'd used to see on the registers are now expediting food and helping with prep. Overall the place is probably moving 30-40% more food in the same time period without all the chaos.
And to your point about that extra volume taking business from other restaurants, I don't really see it in this case. A lot of that extra volume they serve are people who would have just given up and went to the office with nothing, as there aren't a lot of other quick breakfast options in that area. The Tim Hortons across the walkway still has the massive queue even after McDs brought in the automated order boards.
Dude, you're going to an OLIVE GARDEN. If you want to be waited on at a service restaurant, go to one. Olive Garden is sit down fast food.
Most of the jobs that can be easily offshored have already been done by these companies. There's a reason they want the H1Bs instead and that's because they understand the limitations of offshoring and the communication and control gaps. Offshoring looks good on paper but in practice for non-trivial tasks there's a friction to the process that shows up after actually doing it. Of the various companies I've worked at that have done offshoring they all ended up moving some or all of the jobs back because the quality of the work was inferior, getting the problems corrected took time due to the time zone lag and there was also a lack of control due to that same time zone lag. In the end most of the projects ended up costing almost as much and took 3-4x longer to do which ended up with large opportunity costs for the companies.
Sure, but the story about the CEO and the SVP re well documented in the news, the former even on a separate /, post. As for me mentioning "in her post" I took that to mean that she'd damn well better have the mentioned backups of email and chat logs or she is very far out on a limb - as in I doubt any sane person would commit such actionable libel unless it wasn't in fact libel and can be proven. I think the fact that Uber hasn't yet sued her means there's some merit to that speculation.
Plus anyone with two brain cells to rub together knows you'll get better bang for the buck throwing that extra $500 at a good video card on the Ryzan box instead of dumping it into minor gains on the CPU side with Intel.
Seems everything Nintendo related on that site is dipped in a sour grape sauce.
If this was out of the blue, that might be a reasonable question.
However, Uber being a sexist and shit place to work is well known gossip in the vallet tech scene, and add to that the fact that you've got the SVP of engineering resigning last week for not disclosing his sexual harassment problems at his former employer - Google, AND there was the dashcam video of Uber's shithead CEO badgering one of his drivers. So with all of that in hand, it's not hard to see Uber as a company with a systemic problem of harassment. Plus, she states in her post that she does in fact have documentation:
" I pointed out that everything I had reported came with extensive documentation and I clearly wasn't the instigator (or even a main character) in the majority of them - she countered by saying that there was absolutely no record in HR of any of the incidents I was claiming I had reported (which, of course, was a lie, and I reminded her I had email and chat records to prove it was a lie)."
If she actually has copies of the documentation, chat logs and emails, then Uber doesn't have a pot to piss in, metaphorically speaking.
You mean she MIS-reads some good books. As others have pointed out, that scenario would only be possible after a full self-supporting colony is established with heavy industry geared towards launching payloads. So at our current rate of progress, a problem to be looked at sometime in the 2500s.
Actually no, the word is "subscription". Netflix, O'Reilly Safari, and similar services where you have access to anything in the catalog at any time all for one monthly fee.
Under the old rental model, one game would cost you $x, and if you wanted another game it was also $x, even if you returned the first.
Normally I'd attribute a comment like that to an edgy kid, but seeing as it's a 5 digit account that means the account has been around probably since the 90s. So I'm thinking less edgy kid and more did so many drugs they think their body's a temple and will live past the Singularity. Probably does smart drugs, polyphasic sleep, caloric starvation and any one of a hundred other crazy fads to try and live to their 150th birthday.
Ooookay buddy. Time to put the pipe down and come out and visit us in what we like to call reality.
Yeah BC's its own special snowflake. With the MSP premiums and all too. Speaking of which did you see our idiot Premier the other day fully admitted that MSP premiums "just go into a bucket" and they aren't actually earmarked for healthcare?
http://vancouversun.com/news/politics/christy-clark-tells-board-of-trade-an-msp-cut-was-best-way-to-dole-out-surplus
“I think everybody in the room knows that MSP premiums don’t go to pay health care, right?” Clark told the business audience. “Anything more than your school taxes go to pay for education or your income taxes go to pay for roads. It all ends up in one big pot of money and we just happen to give it that name.”
How the hell does this woman still have the Premier's chair, and why aren't the local newspapers tearing her to shreds over that comment?
There's border crossing for medical treatment, but it's not the Canadians doing it....
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/fact-checking-trump-are-canadians-swarming-the-border-to-get-better-healthcare
However, these lengthy wait times don't actually translate to a mass migration of patients popping across the border for surgery or specialist appointments. Though some of Canada's wealthiest patients may choose to do this rather than wait, they represent fewer than half a percent.... Meanwhile, the Centers for Disease Control estimates 750,000 Americans travel outside the country for medical treatments each year.
Neither I or anyone I know has ever gone to the US for a medical procedure. We get US TV up here and to be frank watching commercials where American hospitals advertise for customers fills us with horror. To us it's a service. That'd be like you watching commercials for different police forces to call when your house is being invaded.
> I notice that you aren't even posting any links. Nice to have blind faith but I prefer facts.
What "link" do you want? My medical records? Or polls? Here's one:
http://www.gallup.com/poll/8056/healthcare-system-ratings-us-great-britain-canada.aspx
In that one, 6% of US respondants were very happy with their care, and 44% very dissatisfied, compared to 16% of Canadians very happy and 17% very dissatisfied. On the surface I'd say that pretty much torpedoed what few points you had.
But hey, you want more? Fill your boots:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/canadians-differ-from-trump-on-health-care-poll-shows/article32835912/
And I know anecdotes aren't data, etc etc. but here's a Reddit forum asking Canadians what they think of their healthcare vs the US system with some answers from people who have experienced both:
https://www.reddit.com/r/canada/comments/5onhfb/are_you_happy_with_your_healthcare/
And here's a story I read a few years ago about another American convert to Canada which really kind of shocked me as to how shitty the US system is if you're not loaded:
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/permissiontolive/2012/07/how-i-lost-my-fear-of-universal-health-care.html
"When I asked for prayers for my little brother who had been burned in an accident, they were all puzzled why the story did not include immediately rushing him to the hospital. When they asked me to clarify and I explained that many people in the States are not insured and they try to put off medical care unless absolutely needed, they literally could not comprehend such a thing."
Seriously? This is the sort of system you think is way better than going to a hospital for $0 and getting looked at?
Another anecdotal thing I've noticed is in Canada when someone says they were in a car accident, the first thing many say is "Oh! Are you all right?!" In the States among friends and coworkers a story like that gets a response of "Ohmygod! Did you sue?" Which initially struck me as money hungry until I realized that in many cases if you *don't* sue you can be financially ruined by a simple ambulance ride and a broken bone.
Another one off story: http://www.fark.com/comments/9485906/soosh-farker-who-hosts-Livingston-Stapler-Company-Presents-radio-show-was-moved-to-Queen-Anne-Medical-Center-in-Seattle-for-rehab-on-February-15th-LGT-thread-from-earlier-this-week-Updates-in-thread
Saw that the other day. Long story short, guy in Alaska is internet-famous on Fark.com for hosting some obscure radio show on the weekend. Bad road conditions caused him to wreck and he had to be air evaced to a large hospital. Bill is $200K. He has insurance but it only covers 80%. Him and his wife are kind of screwed financially now. In Canada, you know what they would have paid for ? Parking at the hospital. Maybe $20 a day. Oh, and snacks from the vending machine.
Citation that isn't behind a paywall needed...
And on top of that, you sound like an angry American who took the astroturf hook, line and sinker.
Signed, a Canadian who is quite happy with his single payer healthcare.
> and a lot of people (you don't see many people offering to lower their salary) do as well.
That's apples to oranges. People don't take a salary based on what their life costs to live, they are paid based on what value they bring to the company. And in general peoples' value to the company they work at *rises* over time instead of decreasing as they gain experience both in the industry and in the inner workings of the company.
But the Republicans would have stood up to all that money being shoveled their way right? What color is the sky in the world you inhabit?
Exactly my point. I knew they were technically already perjury but it doesn't mean anything if it is never enforced.