But he did. He dropped pallets of cash on Syrian "insurgents" and gave them small arms as well to "fight Assad". Once that funding stopped (and it was Trump who stopped it) ISIS was doomed.
By and large the only "help" that should be offered is getting these people a job and perhaps substance abuse treatment if they are unfit for a job for that reason. Handouts will just create more homeless people. See e.g. Seattle.
This "we'll do it no matter what" attitude probably means they know the ads business is running on fumes and won't grow anymore in the future. A significant fraction of their market cap is dependent on continued growth, and cloud is not growing anywhere near quickly enough, so like a heroin junkie they need another hit of ad revenue even if they have to proverbially fellate the Chinese communist party officials the in a dirty bathroom stall. It's not really about search. It's about search ads.
You canâ(TM)t get anywhere near as fat a paycheck outside just a handful of companies like Google, FB, Netflix and MS/Amazon, but the latter two only pay well if youâ(TM)re very senior (director and up). Between a $100k pay bump and doing something ethnically dubious, 99.999% of people will pick the former. Thatâ(TM)s why during each of the ethics shitstorms only a handful employees depart, and half of those were on their way out anyway.
And DDG has pretty terrible lag, and the results leave much to be desired. I try to switch to it from time to time and I switch back to Google within a day or so.
Linus fell prey to "everyone I don't agree with is a Nazi" ruse. It goes like this: SJWs exaggerate the numbers and influence of "nazis" in the anti-PC movement, and make everyone else in it "guilty" by association. That's a fallacy, and one someone smart like Linus should have seen right through.
I'm afraid Linux is fucked now. I'm in favor of weighing people's opinions by the amount of work they contribute to the effort. SJWs very rarely contribute anything: they spend most of their time "resisting" and "fighting the oppression", there's simply no time left for any productive endeavors. Seen it at least half a dozen times in my time in the industry. When real grievances (if any) are addressed, they will come up with even more esoteric ones, or demand preferential treatment for "minorities" or some other self-defeating bullshit. And by then it'll be too late to pull back, because you don't want to be a cis white male patriarchal Nazi transphobe bigot, do you, Linus?
Indirectly. A lot fewer people of both sexes would be able to get laid if it wasnâ(TM)t for alcohol, and not just due to its intoxicating effects, but also due to the social mingling opportunities that alcohol has been enabling for thousands of years.
Makes me wonder how âoeprogressiveâ WA lawmakers will vote on this one. On the one hand theyâ(TM)re basically communists at this point. On the other, Bezos and Amazon employees are part of the reason why WA votes for them in the first place. A delicate balance indeed.
No, I mean stand ups sprints and all the other methodological bullshit. CD simply means that things get merged into master often, and master is kept well tested and stable, and released to prod at least every week. You donâ(TM)t need a âoemethodologyâ to do that.
What has "programmer" Martin Fowler actually programmed? All I could find is about agile and speaking engagements. Why is he an authority in software engineering if he doesn't have any wildly successful projects to his name? I've worked on some successful projects at FANGs. *Not a single one* used Agile. Half of them used continuous delivery. About one quarter were straight up waterfall (specs, coding, testing, bug fixing, all done in phases).
Well, I guess then they donâ(TM)t need NATO. No love will be lost if it is dissolved then, right? Except of course Putin will then have an army thatâ(TM)s much more capable than anything Europe can put forward in the foreseeable future. So no wonder they bowed to our demands and agreed to pay their share. Next thing to demand is that they send more than a token force to joint military operations.
Our "allies" also somehow have stiff barrier tariffs, and can't be bothered to pay the agreed upon percentage of their income for their own defense, instead relying on the largesse of the US taxpayer, and creditors of the US government. All while telling us how ass-backwards the US is. The current tightening of the bolts is providing them with a reason to reconsider such reckless behavior.
Probably less than China and Mexico. Mexico has _13 million_ citizens here in the US. Anyone who thinks they in no way "interfere with our democracy" is dangerously naive.
What "attack"? $100K in Facebook ads that primarily contained existing democratic talking points (gun control, BLM, etc), and that even the tainted Mueller investigation can't prove affected anything at all? The only thing they managed to do is sow division and boost identity politics, but as the past 2 years have shown, the Democratic party excels at that even without any Russian help.
I mean the US State Dept _re-elected Yeltsin_ in Russia, and done so openly, in broad daylight. They've also funneled money into opposition, mostly through USAID "helping" anti-government NGOs. A couple of years ago Russia passed the same law as the US: such NGOs now have to register as "foreign agents", so now money flows under the table. That's an "attack on democracy" (which did briefly exist in Russia back then). Dozens of regime changes all over the world, at least three in just this century (Libya, Afghanistan, and Iraq, Syria was attempted but failed). Funding and arming ISIS. Those are far more egregious offenses than $100K in FB ads and a few thousand Twitter bots that just stir shit up. You could accuse me of "whataboutism", and you'd have a point, but I'd just like to point out that the US is not an innocent party here. If you think there are no US operatives in Russia "trying to affect elections", formenting dissent and division, etc, I suggest that you think again. This is simply a weak-ass attempt at a symmetric response.
The US press portrays Putin as a genius spy mastermind, and Russian intelligence services as the CIA/NSA's peer or superior, but in reality neither of those things are true, and the net result of this worship is that they boost Putin's image and ego way out of proportion to reality.
Truth is, his intelligence services kind of suck ass and are technologically inept (DNC "hack" was just a phishing attack -- that's the level of a US teenager as far as hacks are concerned). Putin himself doesn't really decide much in the world. He has a decent military, but military doesn't really give you much in peacetime (aside from having longer "peacetime" than would be possible otherwise), economy and trade matter a lot more, and while both have improved dramatically under Putin, there's a widespread perception in Russia that he could have achieved a heck of a lot more. And even if he "has something on Trump", I'm sure Trump has a lot more on him now that he's the president.
TL;DR: STFU with this "they attacked our democracy" until the US stops brazenly interfering in other countries affairs.
So in 2024, when Trump is on his way out, I hope you will also support the wiretapping and surveillance of the Democratic electoral campaign, because Iâ(TM)m pretty sure foreign powers (not just Russia) will be âoeinterferingâ in that election as well. Shitting your pants yet? Youâ(TM)ve made your bed, now sleep in it.
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But he did. He dropped pallets of cash on Syrian "insurgents" and gave them small arms as well to "fight Assad". Once that funding stopped (and it was Trump who stopped it) ISIS was doomed.
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When Obama bombed all those countries and funded ISIS those same Microsoft employees didn’t say a word. I wonder why that is.
That's what Oregon is doing to their homeless: offering a one-way trip to Seattle. :-)
By and large the only "help" that should be offered is getting these people a job and perhaps substance abuse treatment if they are unfit for a job for that reason. Handouts will just create more homeless people. See e.g. Seattle.
This "we'll do it no matter what" attitude probably means they know the ads business is running on fumes and won't grow anymore in the future. A significant fraction of their market cap is dependent on continued growth, and cloud is not growing anywhere near quickly enough, so like a heroin junkie they need another hit of ad revenue even if they have to proverbially fellate the Chinese communist party officials the in a dirty bathroom stall. It's not really about search. It's about search ads.
$100k yes, $300-500k -- not so much. That's how much people are making at Google.
Rewrote the sentence ruined the meaning: should be âoebetween $100k pay bump and NOT doing something ethically dubiousâ.
You canâ(TM)t get anywhere near as fat a paycheck outside just a handful of companies like Google, FB, Netflix and MS/Amazon, but the latter two only pay well if youâ(TM)re very senior (director and up). Between a $100k pay bump and doing something ethnically dubious, 99.999% of people will pick the former. Thatâ(TM)s why during each of the ethics shitstorms only a handful employees depart, and half of those were on their way out anyway.
You're building it for that fat six-figure paycheck. There's your answer. Next!
Plenty of left-leaning bots licking his "white cis male" balls for this "work". Facepalm.
And DDG has pretty terrible lag, and the results leave much to be desired. I try to switch to it from time to time and I switch back to Google within a day or so.
Linus fell prey to "everyone I don't agree with is a Nazi" ruse. It goes like this: SJWs exaggerate the numbers and influence of "nazis" in the anti-PC movement, and make everyone else in it "guilty" by association. That's a fallacy, and one someone smart like Linus should have seen right through.
I'm afraid Linux is fucked now. I'm in favor of weighing people's opinions by the amount of work they contribute to the effort. SJWs very rarely contribute anything: they spend most of their time "resisting" and "fighting the oppression", there's simply no time left for any productive endeavors. Seen it at least half a dozen times in my time in the industry. When real grievances (if any) are addressed, they will come up with even more esoteric ones, or demand preferential treatment for "minorities" or some other self-defeating bullshit. And by then it'll be too late to pull back, because you don't want to be a cis white male patriarchal Nazi transphobe bigot, do you, Linus?
Indirectly. A lot fewer people of both sexes would be able to get laid if it wasnâ(TM)t for alcohol, and not just due to its intoxicating effects, but also due to the social mingling opportunities that alcohol has been enabling for thousands of years.
Makes me wonder how âoeprogressiveâ WA lawmakers will vote on this one. On the one hand theyâ(TM)re basically communists at this point. On the other, Bezos and Amazon employees are part of the reason why WA votes for them in the first place. A delicate balance indeed.
No, I mean stand ups sprints and all the other methodological bullshit. CD simply means that things get merged into master often, and master is kept well tested and stable, and released to prod at least every week. You donâ(TM)t need a âoemethodologyâ to do that.
What has "programmer" Martin Fowler actually programmed? All I could find is about agile and speaking engagements. Why is he an authority in software engineering if he doesn't have any wildly successful projects to his name? I've worked on some successful projects at FANGs. *Not a single one* used Agile. Half of them used continuous delivery. About one quarter were straight up waterfall (specs, coding, testing, bug fixing, all done in phases).
Well, I guess then they donâ(TM)t need NATO. No love will be lost if it is dissolved then, right? Except of course Putin will then have an army thatâ(TM)s much more capable than anything Europe can put forward in the foreseeable future. So no wonder they bowed to our demands and agreed to pay their share. Next thing to demand is that they send more than a token force to joint military operations.
Our "allies" also somehow have stiff barrier tariffs, and can't be bothered to pay the agreed upon percentage of their income for their own defense, instead relying on the largesse of the US taxpayer, and creditors of the US government. All while telling us how ass-backwards the US is. The current tightening of the bolts is providing them with a reason to reconsider such reckless behavior.
Probably less than China and Mexico. Mexico has _13 million_ citizens here in the US. Anyone who thinks they in no way "interfere with our democracy" is dangerously naive.
What "attack"? $100K in Facebook ads that primarily contained existing democratic talking points (gun control, BLM, etc), and that even the tainted Mueller investigation can't prove affected anything at all? The only thing they managed to do is sow division and boost identity politics, but as the past 2 years have shown, the Democratic party excels at that even without any Russian help.
I mean the US State Dept _re-elected Yeltsin_ in Russia, and done so openly, in broad daylight. They've also funneled money into opposition, mostly through USAID "helping" anti-government NGOs. A couple of years ago Russia passed the same law as the US: such NGOs now have to register as "foreign agents", so now money flows under the table. That's an "attack on democracy" (which did briefly exist in Russia back then). Dozens of regime changes all over the world, at least three in just this century (Libya, Afghanistan, and Iraq, Syria was attempted but failed). Funding and arming ISIS. Those are far more egregious offenses than $100K in FB ads and a few thousand Twitter bots that just stir shit up. You could accuse me of "whataboutism", and you'd have a point, but I'd just like to point out that the US is not an innocent party here. If you think there are no US operatives in Russia "trying to affect elections", formenting dissent and division, etc, I suggest that you think again. This is simply a weak-ass attempt at a symmetric response.
The US press portrays Putin as a genius spy mastermind, and Russian intelligence services as the CIA/NSA's peer or superior, but in reality neither of those things are true, and the net result of this worship is that they boost Putin's image and ego way out of proportion to reality.
Truth is, his intelligence services kind of suck ass and are technologically inept (DNC "hack" was just a phishing attack -- that's the level of a US teenager as far as hacks are concerned). Putin himself doesn't really decide much in the world. He has a decent military, but military doesn't really give you much in peacetime (aside from having longer "peacetime" than would be possible otherwise), economy and trade matter a lot more, and while both have improved dramatically under Putin, there's a widespread perception in Russia that he could have achieved a heck of a lot more. And even if he "has something on Trump", I'm sure Trump has a lot more on him now that he's the president.
TL;DR: STFU with this "they attacked our democracy" until the US stops brazenly interfering in other countries affairs.
The mountain gave birth to a mouse.
So in 2024, when Trump is on his way out, I hope you will also support the wiretapping and surveillance of the Democratic electoral campaign, because Iâ(TM)m pretty sure foreign powers (not just Russia) will be âoeinterferingâ in that election as well. Shitting your pants yet? Youâ(TM)ve made your bed, now sleep in it.
So I take it itâ(TM)s not ok to ban conservatives anymore? Great!
How dare they interrupt our electronic weapons with their own electronic weapons!
People who live in cities are demented