While we are at it, why don't we go ahead and repeal the DMCA, citizens united, drop software patents, and set the copyright term back to 20 years with no extensions.
You know, actually move in the direction of fixing things instead of further in the wrong direction?
What on earth gave you that idea? You are suggesting Intel pays a handful of code monkeys more than they spend building and developing custom materials and hammering at cutting edge physics with insanely expensive built from scratch equipment and then retrofitting that into fabs? You must be kidding.
Either too soon or too late. About $3-4k seems like a reasonable target for bitcoin once the get rich quick speculators withdraw. Good riddance too, all they do is destabilize the currency.
You also get to think faster, act faster, and generally outperform the muggles who are deluded into thinking the next evolution of humanity is a disease.
In a sense. The first year or two at a new gig is mostly learning how things work at THIS company/role/department/etc. It's learning how the last set of people did it. This isn't just for programmers, it is for all tech jobs and likely all jobs. Yeah, it's a learning curve alright, how to fill out your timecard, who to talk to in order to get a vm, crap that in absolutely no way makes you better at anything other than being able to function.
Given the way companies think right now you don't really have much choice but don't delude yourself into thinking job hopping on the whole actually makes you better. A flexible and challenging work environment at the same job can give you a constant learning curve of actual useful growth and information. The enemy is not the job, the enemy is you and your innate desire to find and live in a comfort zone. We live on the internet, you don't need to switch jobs to find out how things work somewhere else anymore.
Bernie Sanders, whether you actually agree with his policies or not is beside the point. The man has been consistent and on point with his positions for decades despite pissing into the wind for however long it took for political winds to change. That is called integrity.
That is a pretty stark contrast to your typical politician who jumps on board when the right combination of public support and corporate donors comes around. That is exactly the opposite of integrity.
A magical combination of actually having experience AND not acting like a career politician... Trump had one of those and got elected, Bernie Sanders is the only one I know of at the federal level and certainly the only one in the Senate who has both in the US.
You do know the biggest chunk of funding for left candidates comes via PAC support from billionaires (just like 'right' candidates)? Even alleged "don't take PAC money" and "grassroots" themed candidates like Beto were actually aided by millions in billionaire backed PAC money that paid for things like "voting report cards" in carefully selected districts and official sounding notices with absentee ballot forms sent to districts likely to vote against with the catch being that sending in the form disqualifies you to vote on election day and means your vote likely won't be counted.
But hey, if you really think the ends justify the means and these are honest practices, by all means keeping on voting for those R's and D's! Keep on supporting publicizing a handful of absolute quack candidates as strawmen of what an alternative would look like. And most definitely keep supporting the same people who conspired to keep the only experienced politician with a proven track record of integrity out of the game.
Absolutely ridiculous. Even this language is so outdated as to be absurd "a marijuana cigarette."
So NASA no longer cares about the quality of the actual output of SpaceX, now they are all about policing the off-hours behavior of a contractors employees?
Literally every old timer in management and administration who embraces this sort of philosophy needs to be given the boot. Call it early retirement. If they are this backwards and antiquated on topics like this it's no wonder they are so slow and antiquated on their methodologies in other areas.
Revisions are needed to address this. You can use open source software and modify it for use on a commercial service platform without contributing back. Sure, they contribute back bug fixes to the core product but they often don't contribute back functional additions.
Although in the case of Puppet there is certainly a community, most of the developers might be paid but the community develops the puppet modules around the core software that actually make it useful.
"As if we, as a society, don't have worse more urgent and a lot more pressing issues at the moment.
As if we are required to post our private information for everyone to see."
This is definitely one of the most pressing issues going on right now. The fact it is largely invisible only makes it that much more pressing not less. Government, corporations, potential employers, your own employer, these are the worst possible people who could see your information.
As soon as humanly possible private information stored on a carrier such as facebook needs to be ruled to remain the property of the user so that companies like facebook do not own and can not use or sell your information in any way.
Regardless of what you think about the motivations behind the leaks or who they benefited the information was real and the truth does not lie. The DNC actively collaborated in a conspiracy to dupe the members of their party and rig the primary, the candidate they promoted took the booty and ran AFTER it was exposed.
Ethically the only appropriate action would have been for Clinton to withdraw in favor of Sanders after this was revealed whether she knew the party cheated on her behalf before that point or not. Personally, I think scooping up the pot anyway after it was revealed she'd been playing with a stacked deck is what elected Trump. Maybe it gets lost in certain political echo chambers but most people actually are not okay with winning by any means necessary.
Exactly. It's tough to think of someone who comes off as more slimy and repulsive than Julian Assange. The man has a demeanor of a reptile. But Wikileaks and his work are the real reason he is being persecuted and no free thinking person who believes in democracy and rule by the people support that persecution.
Not a chance, let the prices go up and those high paid employees move in. Not only will the neighborhood start looking a hell of a lot better higher home prices mean more taxes and nicer schools.
It's the opposite direction of increased density and reduced prices we all want to avoid. If you see that happening in your neighborhood bail while there is still a chance.
Not true, in the next couple years the market will soundly crash again because of those rising prices. Sell, go through a spell renting somewhere cheap, then buy back in after the crash. Rinse and repeat.
Has anyone ever considered that some of us don't believe in the system and don't want to add legitimacy to the results? It creates the illusion that the turd or shit sandwich you put on the podium was actually elected and represents the people which they most certainly do not. I don't support EITHER of your parties and I don't support the strawman alternatives you supply either. Bernie Sanders is the only one I've seen get traction with any integrity and look what they did to his campaign. There is no lesser evil there.
These efforts mirror efforts by the Kremlin to push voters to the polls and give legitimacy to Putin.
This kind of information should be held confidential, it is a serious problem that states are giving out this confidential information to campaigns, pacs, corporations, and individuals.
The rampant abuse this midterm cycle and now apps like these highlight this.
This insane data sucking shouldn't be an option. Making it opt-in just means they make it a condition of using the service and bury it in some legalize somewhere or even not, people will still opt-in to use whatever platform. Some things you just have to take off the table. You see how well "opt-in" works for using invasive drug testing and irrelevant credit history for employment.
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While we are at it, why don't we go ahead and repeal the DMCA, citizens united, drop software patents, and set the copyright term back to 20 years with no extensions.
You know, actually move in the direction of fixing things instead of further in the wrong direction?
they waste time doing it in Cali instead of the real world
What on earth gave you that idea? You are suggesting Intel pays a handful of code monkeys more than they spend building and developing custom materials and hammering at cutting edge physics with insanely expensive built from scratch equipment and then retrofitting that into fabs? You must be kidding.
Also, most all chips are sensitive for national security.
Negotiations can get agreements but since they don't admit to doing this as it stands... good luck with that.
Oh they might not use it where it is obvious, or in the US but you can bet they are studying and using your IP
Either too soon or too late. About $3-4k seems like a reasonable target for bitcoin once the get rich quick speculators withdraw. Good riddance too, all they do is destabilize the currency.
You also get to think faster, act faster, and generally outperform the muggles who are deluded into thinking the next evolution of humanity is a disease.
In a sense. The first year or two at a new gig is mostly learning how things work at THIS company/role/department/etc. It's learning how the last set of people did it. This isn't just for programmers, it is for all tech jobs and likely all jobs. Yeah, it's a learning curve alright, how to fill out your timecard, who to talk to in order to get a vm, crap that in absolutely no way makes you better at anything other than being able to function.
Given the way companies think right now you don't really have much choice but don't delude yourself into thinking job hopping on the whole actually makes you better. A flexible and challenging work environment at the same job can give you a constant learning curve of actual useful growth and information. The enemy is not the job, the enemy is you and your innate desire to find and live in a comfort zone. We live on the internet, you don't need to switch jobs to find out how things work somewhere else anymore.
Bernie Sanders, whether you actually agree with his policies or not is beside the point. The man has been consistent and on point with his positions for decades despite pissing into the wind for however long it took for political winds to change. That is called integrity.
That is a pretty stark contrast to your typical politician who jumps on board when the right combination of public support and corporate donors comes around. That is exactly the opposite of integrity.
A magical combination of actually having experience AND not acting like a career politician... Trump had one of those and got elected, Bernie Sanders is the only one I know of at the federal level and certainly the only one in the Senate who has both in the US.
You do know the biggest chunk of funding for left candidates comes via PAC support from billionaires (just like 'right' candidates)? Even alleged "don't take PAC money" and "grassroots" themed candidates like Beto were actually aided by millions in billionaire backed PAC money that paid for things like "voting report cards" in carefully selected districts and official sounding notices with absentee ballot forms sent to districts likely to vote against with the catch being that sending in the form disqualifies you to vote on election day and means your vote likely won't be counted.
But hey, if you really think the ends justify the means and these are honest practices, by all means keeping on voting for those R's and D's! Keep on supporting publicizing a handful of absolute quack candidates as strawmen of what an alternative would look like. And most definitely keep supporting the same people who conspired to keep the only experienced politician with a proven track record of integrity out of the game.
Absolutely ridiculous. Even this language is so outdated as to be absurd "a marijuana cigarette."
So NASA no longer cares about the quality of the actual output of SpaceX, now they are all about policing the off-hours behavior of a contractors employees?
Literally every old timer in management and administration who embraces this sort of philosophy needs to be given the boot. Call it early retirement. If they are this backwards and antiquated on topics like this it's no wonder they are so slow and antiquated on their methodologies in other areas.
NASA is federal, it isn't legal anywhere as far as the feds are concerned.
Revisions are needed to address this. You can use open source software and modify it for use on a commercial service platform without contributing back. Sure, they contribute back bug fixes to the core product but they often don't contribute back functional additions.
Although in the case of Puppet there is certainly a community, most of the developers might be paid but the community develops the puppet modules around the core software that actually make it useful.
"As if we, as a society, don't have worse more urgent and a lot more pressing issues at the moment.
As if we are required to post our private information for everyone to see."
This is definitely one of the most pressing issues going on right now. The fact it is largely invisible only makes it that much more pressing not less. Government, corporations, potential employers, your own employer, these are the worst possible people who could see your information.
As soon as humanly possible private information stored on a carrier such as facebook needs to be ruled to remain the property of the user so that companies like facebook do not own and can not use or sell your information in any way.
It wouldn't be fast and slow mode, it would be not intentionally left insecure and swiss cheese mode.
Linux kernel doesn't let your insecure and sloppy design do things that compromise the security of the OS. Sounds like a feature to me.
Regardless of what you think about the motivations behind the leaks or who they benefited the information was real and the truth does not lie. The DNC actively collaborated in a conspiracy to dupe the members of their party and rig the primary, the candidate they promoted took the booty and ran AFTER it was exposed.
Ethically the only appropriate action would have been for Clinton to withdraw in favor of Sanders after this was revealed whether she knew the party cheated on her behalf before that point or not. Personally, I think scooping up the pot anyway after it was revealed she'd been playing with a stacked deck is what elected Trump. Maybe it gets lost in certain political echo chambers but most people actually are not okay with winning by any means necessary.
Exactly. It's tough to think of someone who comes off as more slimy and repulsive than Julian Assange. The man has a demeanor of a reptile. But Wikileaks and his work are the real reason he is being persecuted and no free thinking person who believes in democracy and rule by the people support that persecution.
This ^
Not a chance, let the prices go up and those high paid employees move in. Not only will the neighborhood start looking a hell of a lot better higher home prices mean more taxes and nicer schools.
It's the opposite direction of increased density and reduced prices we all want to avoid. If you see that happening in your neighborhood bail while there is still a chance.
Not true, in the next couple years the market will soundly crash again because of those rising prices. Sell, go through a spell renting somewhere cheap, then buy back in after the crash. Rinse and repeat.
Has anyone ever considered that some of us don't believe in the system and don't want to add legitimacy to the results? It creates the illusion that the turd or shit sandwich you put on the podium was actually elected and represents the people which they most certainly do not. I don't support EITHER of your parties and I don't support the strawman alternatives you supply either. Bernie Sanders is the only one I've seen get traction with any integrity and look what they did to his campaign. There is no lesser evil there.
These efforts mirror efforts by the Kremlin to push voters to the polls and give legitimacy to Putin.
This kind of information should be held confidential, it is a serious problem that states are giving out this confidential information to campaigns, pacs, corporations, and individuals.
The rampant abuse this midterm cycle and now apps like these highlight this.
This insane data sucking shouldn't be an option. Making it opt-in just means they make it a condition of using the service and bury it in some legalize somewhere or even not, people will still opt-in to use whatever platform. Some things you just have to take off the table. You see how well "opt-in" works for using invasive drug testing and irrelevant credit history for employment.
"tough rules with real teeth to punish companies that abuse Americans' most private information"
I highly doubt it.