".... I'm just not sure that I'd care to work there." Fortunately, you don't have to. At least at these payscales, I'm pretty sure you're neither compelled to take the job nor stay at it.
Now, if you have decided to live a lifestyle that uses every penny of that check and you can't afford to start elsewhere...well, that was your choice, wasn't it?
Or maybe the best way could have been the free market with no subsidies for anyone?
Don't get me wrong, I'm appalled at the conventional auto company bailouts as well, and would just prefer that the federal government basically entirely got out of the business of picking winners and losers.
Seems a little hypocritical and self-righteous to say "I'm going to swear off any investments in beef production because it's IMMORAL!"...when nearly half your meals are hamburgers.
Ryan Fenton apparently believes that this is the first time foreign states have tried to manipulate our elections. Ryan Fenton would be mistaken.
Ryan Fenton probably believes that it's inconceivable that people could disagree with him without being manipulated or tricked into it. Ryan Fenton would be wrong. In fact, there are tens, if not hundreds of millions of people who disagree with Ryan.
Ryan Fenton is objecting solely because the candidate he wished to win, didn't. She lost to Trump, perhaps the biggest buffoon in US politics. Perhaps Ryan Fenton should simply recognize this for what it is: his candidate was an evil hag whose dynastic goals of self-enrichment and self-aggrandizement were shattered by the puerile whims of millions of 'deplorables'.
...you're suggesting that congresspeople of the opposition party may have "misunderstood" (accidentally or deliberately) and then used that "mistaken" information to gin up outrage?
In 6 years of ICE arrests, that's something like 150k/yr average = 900,000 arrests. 1400 mistakes. 0.15% error rate...that's between 4-5 sigma.
4 sigma is pretty damned good considering the imprecision of the process.
So no, his immigrant wife isn't in any realistic jeopardy.
In your reference, I find it amusing how they keep calling out "the person repeatedly insisted they were an American citizen"...my guess is that ICE agents hear that in something like 75% of the arrests. It means nearly nothing.
I rather think it's more a factor of a very remote country having fewer people than even the 10th-largest metro area in the US, and the 200th in population density.
If you took one of those US metro areas, isolated it 1000 miles from everyone else, and then spread it over 25x the space...yeah, I think even Chicago or Detroit could manage to run themselves without the constant murders, corruption, and venality.
...one of the most stupid posts I've seen on slashdot.
Seriously...leaving "us" behind? Is this some sort of attempt at class warfare? Someone just read Piketty and is all-fired about inequality?
In the breakdown of society that's postulated, 0.01 seconds after the electronics die, these guys are poorer than Gomer the Gas Station attendant because he at least has usable mechanical skills and a store full of parts that people will be desperate for. Peter Theil? Elon Musk? Richard Branson? They will all lost the vast bulk of their wealth the moment the volatile memory recording their wealth goes off; all their properties? They wouldn't be able to defend them from squatters, and they'll have nothing to actually pay their security WITH.
This is colossally stupid. When the "end times" comes, the wealthiest people on earth are going to be the vast majority of 3rd (and maybe 2nd) world farmers who still have skills needed to continue to produce food.
Ever seen collective spaces used by lots of people? Worse, used almost anonymously?
Yeah, no thanks - I don't want to hop in my 'driveshare' car at 0700 in the morning to go to work and slip on a pool of cum and vomit from the last user(s).
And how many of these art-house specials are playing at the very-most mass-marketest of mass market AMC theaters? AFAIK all they show is what is hanging up on large posters and being shown in 5 second shaky-cam adverts on TV.
Think for a second before you post "submit" on that snide, patronizing crap?
It seems a little malicious that he sent the c&d, they complied, and THEN he sued them anyway.
I know law has little to do with reasonability, but it would seem reasonable to say: - you can use pictures you find on the web, unedited, for non commercial purposes - if the owner sends a cease-and-desist you must remove the image
So this lets people generally use images that they find on the web without too much worry. If a photographer wants to keep their images safe they can just watermark them, stamp their website on them etc. If you edit the image you can be assumed to be trying to evade copyright and be punished accordingly.
Because, like so many things today, it's another way to signal your wealth.
I'd asked a couple of people in my office that constantly are carrying around $6 coffees in branded cups if they'd be willing to save $1 or even $2 per cup if they had to carry it around in a McDonald's cup...both said no.
Generally, a successful species has evolved to optimize itself for its environment. In that environment it outcompetes others, in particular generalist species at home in many environs.. The more successful the species, the narrower that environmental window tends to be. If (when) that window closes, the super-successful species die off unless they can learn to adapt fast enough, meanwhile allowing those generalists to rise again.
For example, primitive generalists like jellyfish and horseshoe crabs are booming around the planet as we are in a time of climate change - specialist eukaryotes like dolphins and rhinos (with help from another specialist hominid species) are having trouble adapting and are dying off.
I'd suggest that economically, it's much the same. Change one teensy factor in obscure investment regulations and the human parasites at Goldman Sachs (highly tuned to the financial environment) are in danger of losing $billions, when the rest of us don't even notice. For a broader example, changes in automation may rock the populations of the West whose dependence on an economic pyramid is much more precarious, that aren't even noticed by the billions of people living in squalor across the 3rd world.
There are of course exceptions - sharks, turtles, crocodilians. Even humans, as our brainpower may allow our highly-evolved specialist species to adapt quickly enough to survive. Or not.
It remains to be seen who will be the successful economic inhabitants after the climate-change of robotics. It won't be pretty for many, that's true.
You're kidding, right? I'm 50, lived in MN in the Twin Cities and southern MN all my life. For example, IIRC the winter of 1987 - I was a skating rink manager in my early college years, and we were required to close (for safety) when the temps were persistently below -20 - that winter, we were closed in Dec before Christmas more days than we were open. Usually when it's hitting -35-40C, sure it's usually no more than a handful of days in row but 0F? It's an unusual winter when there AREN'T a week or more. https://www.dnr.state.mn.us/cl...
Tip: the airport where official temps are recorded, being in the depth of a metro area, is typically 5 degrees F warmer than even the western edge of the metro, much less outstate.
So it seems there is no real logic to the sensor...if ambient temp is low, it heats. I live in MN. What happens if this battery is sitting in a car outside when it -reasonably frequently - is -35c for a week? How much of the charge is them eaten by constant heating?
Not at all. I mean, I get your point: IT workers are miserable. Got it.
But my comment about it being meaningless wanking has to do with POSSIBLE ALTERNATIVES. The world isn't absolutes; it's about relative options. The entire *point* of the story is about sympathizing with the plight of those workers.
If any *other* job they can get people are MORE miserable, then, relatively, they're doing pretty well.
A single data point is statistically meaningless "woe is us" wanking UNLESS other industries are surveyed.
If the "burnout" rate for tech workers is 57%, but for medical workers is 75%, factory line workers is 62%, and teachers is 60%, then the rate for tech workers is really not bad. If OTOH other industries scale at 20-30%, then the tech sector really is dire.
In short: I suspect that everyone feels like they are underappreciated, underpaid, and is "fed up with all the bullshit at work"...like everyone else.
TSIA. Look, I come to/. for TECH related news. I don't want a general news aggregator, there's already far too much heat to light here already.
On a side note, only a poet could make a statement so sweepingly & simultaneously narcissistic and oblivious as "The American poet Louise Gluck once said that younger writers couldn't appreciate the shadow cast over her generation by T. S. Eliot."
So...model built to simulate preconceptions of researchers somehow coincidentally validates those preconceptions?
That's idiotic.
At least in lake environments, younger fish stay in shallower water for several pretty obvious reasons: - there's more aquatic plant life, providing them cover - the shallowest water - they have little or nothing to fear from predator birds (Well, filter-feeders now have evolved to defeat that....)
I'd submit the logic of the open ocean isn't terribly different - surface churn likely provides a fair amount of camouflage vs predators from below.
They'll never censor the internet, that's the joy of it.
They'll only censor their little corner of it, and if the regulations become too troublesome to adhere to, they'll just lose functionality for their citizenry as various vendors decide compliance is economically more painful than simply refusing service.
That's their (the EU's) choice as a nominally-democratic entity; they elect (again, ostensibly) representatives to enact their will and if their will is to be in a carefully-managed little dead-end of the interwebs ('to protect people from bad stuff' of course), that's what they'll end up getting.
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".... I'm just not sure that I'd care to work there."
Fortunately, you don't have to. At least at these payscales, I'm pretty sure you're neither compelled to take the job nor stay at it.
Now, if you have decided to live a lifestyle that uses every penny of that check and you can't afford to start elsewhere...well, that was your choice, wasn't it?
Or maybe the best way could have been the free market with no subsidies for anyone?
Don't get me wrong, I'm appalled at the conventional auto company bailouts as well, and would just prefer that the federal government basically entirely got out of the business of picking winners and losers.
Isn't Natural Gas a fossil fuel?
http://ireland2050.ie/question...
45% of its power comes from natural gas.
Seems a little hypocritical and self-righteous to say "I'm going to swear off any investments in beef production because it's IMMORAL!" ...when nearly half your meals are hamburgers.
Ryan Fenton apparently believes that this is the first time foreign states have tried to manipulate our elections. Ryan Fenton would be mistaken.
Ryan Fenton probably believes that it's inconceivable that people could disagree with him without being manipulated or tricked into it. Ryan Fenton would be wrong. In fact, there are tens, if not hundreds of millions of people who disagree with Ryan.
Ryan Fenton is objecting solely because the candidate he wished to win, didn't. She lost to Trump, perhaps the biggest buffoon in US politics. Perhaps Ryan Fenton should simply recognize this for what it is: his candidate was an evil hag whose dynastic goals of self-enrichment and self-aggrandizement were shattered by the puerile whims of millions of 'deplorables'.
...you're suggesting that congresspeople of the opposition party may have "misunderstood" (accidentally or deliberately) and then used that "mistaken" information to gin up outrage?
Hm. Can't imagine that happening in America.
http://www.pewresearch.org/fac...
In 6 years of ICE arrests, that's something like 150k/yr average = 900,000 arrests. 1400 mistakes.
0.15% error rate...that's between 4-5 sigma.
4 sigma is pretty damned good considering the imprecision of the process.
So no, his immigrant wife isn't in any realistic jeopardy.
In your reference, I find it amusing how they keep calling out "the person repeatedly insisted they were an American citizen"...my guess is that ICE agents hear that in something like 75% of the arrests. It means nearly nothing.
Just because the innovation timecycle is now measured in months doesn't necessarily mean that companies necessarily NEED to keep up with it.
I can't think of a dumber idea operationally or economically than to switch to something new on a corporate scale simply because of the novelty.
I rather think it's more a factor of a very remote country having fewer people than even the 10th-largest metro area in the US, and the 200th in population density.
If you took one of those US metro areas, isolated it 1000 miles from everyone else, and then spread it over 25x the space...yeah, I think even Chicago or Detroit could manage to run themselves without the constant murders, corruption, and venality.
But I don't disagree with you in principle, TBH.
...one of the most stupid posts I've seen on slashdot.
Seriously...leaving "us" behind? Is this some sort of attempt at class warfare? Someone just read Piketty and is all-fired about inequality?
In the breakdown of society that's postulated, 0.01 seconds after the electronics die, these guys are poorer than Gomer the Gas Station attendant because he at least has usable mechanical skills and a store full of parts that people will be desperate for. Peter Theil? Elon Musk? Richard Branson? They will all lost the vast bulk of their wealth the moment the volatile memory recording their wealth goes off; all their properties? They wouldn't be able to defend them from squatters, and they'll have nothing to actually pay their security WITH.
This is colossally stupid. When the "end times" comes, the wealthiest people on earth are going to be the vast majority of 3rd (and maybe 2nd) world farmers who still have skills needed to continue to produce food.
It's durable.
It's heavy so it doesn't slide around my desk.
You probably spend more time touching it than you do your spouse. Do you want it to be cheap crap?
Yeah, sure.
"Tragedy of the Commons" is a thing.
Ever seen collective spaces used by lots of people? Worse, used almost anonymously?
Yeah, no thanks - I don't want to hop in my 'driveshare' car at 0700 in the morning to go to work and slip on a pool of cum and vomit from the last user(s).
And how many of these art-house specials are playing at the very-most mass-marketest of mass market AMC theaters? AFAIK all they show is what is hanging up on large posters and being shown in 5 second shaky-cam adverts on TV.
Think for a second before you post "submit" on that snide, patronizing crap?
Seeing three movies a week sounds great, until you realize there's about 3 movies A YEAR worth seeing.
It seems a little malicious that he sent the c&d, they complied, and THEN he sued them anyway.
I know law has little to do with reasonability, but it would seem reasonable to say:
- you can use pictures you find on the web, unedited, for non commercial purposes
- if the owner sends a cease-and-desist you must remove the image
So this lets people generally use images that they find on the web without too much worry. If a photographer wants to keep their images safe they can just watermark them, stamp their website on them etc. If you edit the image you can be assumed to be trying to evade copyright and be punished accordingly.
That doesn't seem too unreasonable either way?
Self-Discipline.
Because, like so many things today, it's another way to signal your wealth.
I'd asked a couple of people in my office that constantly are carrying around $6 coffees in branded cups if they'd be willing to save $1 or even $2 per cup if they had to carry it around in a McDonald's cup...both said no.
Generally, a successful species has evolved to optimize itself for its environment. In that environment it outcompetes others, in particular generalist species at home in many environs..
The more successful the species, the narrower that environmental window tends to be. If (when) that window closes, the super-successful species die off unless they can learn to adapt fast enough, meanwhile allowing those generalists to rise again.
For example, primitive generalists like jellyfish and horseshoe crabs are booming around the planet as we are in a time of climate change - specialist eukaryotes like dolphins and rhinos (with help from another specialist hominid species) are having trouble adapting and are dying off.
I'd suggest that economically, it's much the same. Change one teensy factor in obscure investment regulations and the human parasites at Goldman Sachs (highly tuned to the financial environment) are in danger of losing $billions, when the rest of us don't even notice.
For a broader example, changes in automation may rock the populations of the West whose dependence on an economic pyramid is much more precarious, that aren't even noticed by the billions of people living in squalor across the 3rd world.
There are of course exceptions - sharks, turtles, crocodilians. Even humans, as our brainpower may allow our highly-evolved specialist species to adapt quickly enough to survive. Or not.
It remains to be seen who will be the successful economic inhabitants after the climate-change of robotics. It won't be pretty for many, that's true.
You're kidding, right?
I'm 50, lived in MN in the Twin Cities and southern MN all my life.
For example, IIRC the winter of 1987 - I was a skating rink manager in my early college years, and we were required to close (for safety) when the temps were persistently below -20 - that winter, we were closed in Dec before Christmas more days than we were open.
Usually when it's hitting -35-40C, sure it's usually no more than a handful of days in row but 0F? It's an unusual winter when there AREN'T a week or more.
https://www.dnr.state.mn.us/cl...
Tip: the airport where official temps are recorded, being in the depth of a metro area, is typically 5 degrees F warmer than even the western edge of the metro, much less outstate.
So it seems there is no real logic to the sensor...if ambient temp is low, it heats.
I live in MN. What happens if this battery is sitting in a car outside when it -reasonably frequently - is -35c for a week? How much of the charge is them eaten by constant heating?
Not at all. I mean, I get your point: IT workers are miserable. Got it.
But my comment about it being meaningless wanking has to do with POSSIBLE ALTERNATIVES. The world isn't absolutes; it's about relative options.
The entire *point* of the story is about sympathizing with the plight of those workers.
If any *other* job they can get people are MORE miserable, then, relatively, they're doing pretty well.
Arguably, the world might even become a little bit better place. /crankyoldman
A single data point is statistically meaningless "woe is us" wanking UNLESS other industries are surveyed.
If the "burnout" rate for tech workers is 57%, but for medical workers is 75%, factory line workers is 62%, and teachers is 60%, then the rate for tech workers is really not bad.
If OTOH other industries scale at 20-30%, then the tech sector really is dire.
In short: I suspect that everyone feels like they are underappreciated, underpaid, and is "fed up with all the bullshit at work"...like everyone else.
TSIA. Look, I come to /. for TECH related news. I don't want a general news aggregator, there's already far too much heat to light here already.
On a side note, only a poet could make a statement so sweepingly & simultaneously narcissistic and oblivious as "The American poet Louise Gluck once said that younger writers couldn't appreciate the shadow cast over her generation by T. S. Eliot."
So...model built to simulate preconceptions of researchers somehow coincidentally validates those preconceptions?
That's idiotic.
At least in lake environments, younger fish stay in shallower water for several pretty obvious reasons:
- there's more aquatic plant life, providing them cover
- the shallowest water
- they have little or nothing to fear from predator birds (Well, filter-feeders now have evolved to defeat that....)
I'd submit the logic of the open ocean isn't terribly different - surface churn likely provides a fair amount of camouflage vs predators from below.
They'll never censor the internet, that's the joy of it.
They'll only censor their little corner of it, and if the regulations become too troublesome to adhere to, they'll just lose functionality for their citizenry as various vendors decide compliance is economically more painful than simply refusing service.
That's their (the EU's) choice as a nominally-democratic entity; they elect (again, ostensibly) representatives to enact their will and if their will is to be in a carefully-managed little dead-end of the interwebs ('to protect people from bad stuff' of course), that's what they'll end up getting.