My food isn't sentient and I'm so rich I wouldn't starve anyhow. Maybe the country should be listening to my ideas and not the ideas of people who claim they have to pay a bunch of illegal immigrants less than minimum wage in order to run a successful business that I depend on for living.
Instead it's decided by some of the least successful regions of the country. Ohio, Iowa? For all their voting sway the people there should be able to un-fuck their own states. Ohio is exceptionally dire what a fucking toilet bowl. Their votes aren't shit. We're no longer living in a democracy.
And without big government wealth redistribution farm subsidies!!! I wouldn't die even if I was spending $100 a day on food!!! Why am I wasting my money to help their farms so poor people don't starve!!
A good starve is what we really need to end the welfare state!
It's laughable that you think farmers live in the flyover states anymore. All that land is owned by agricultural conglomerates. The people who actually live there are desperate would-be factory workers and the desperate people who would support them. Too stupid to chase a dollar and desperate for work. Stupid and desperate people are extremely easy to manipulate. I think the reality in Kansas seems to affirm my narrative.
What you've described now is already what's happening. Except instead of pandering to population centers they're pandering to the isolated inhabitants of regions without the economy to support a large population. My life and opinion shouldn't be worth less because of where I live.
Subverting democracy aside I shouldn't have to put up with the hairbrained ideas of places managed so badly that nobody wants to live there, decided by desperate people who lack to common sense to leave when their job dies.
Wow that IPFS is exactly the sort of problem we would need to solve eventually, But just getting a wan set up and exposed to small parts of the world over wifi would be step one. As I said you can't do that forever but you could surely run like that until you'd attracted nerd talent and tech resources to move to the next phase.
But for that to be viable I'd need a very high density of local nerds with the inclination and ability to join me. Very few places meet these criteria.
Seattle, San Francisco, Austin, College campuses (especially dorms!)
I guess if you really want to set it up keep talking to me and respect that I am extremely lazy. Luckily nothing involved in getting started is rocket science https://www.flashrouters.com/v... https://www.flashrouters.com/b... The vpn could be some ghetto hack, VPLS, or even hamachi at first.
I wouldn't be surprised to find out that someone already has done all of this actually.
Hahah I'm not even trying to do it sadly but I did spend a little bit of time daydreaming about the feasibility and details since making that post. I was one of the first users on TOR and a relatively early internet adopter so I know what infant networks look like compared to what they look like once they're in the mainstream.
All we would need to do is configure one of those dual SSID wifi networks with an open guest side, prioritize the AP owner's private side over the open guest side. Have it connect to the central network over VPN, the whole network could be VPNs on cloud hosting or something. You'd connect and a captive portal would open up and explain what you're browsing isn't the internet and maybe provider a yahoo like listing of shit people have hosted, until there is more. Get a few people to host stuff that's at least good enough. Maybe some popular public domain content, a chatroom, a central forum and a p2p file sharing service. A few things like that. Something to burn time, maybe the ability to download a few pieces of offline content to your phone without burning through your data plan.
Eventually you can enhance these services so that somehow participation is rewarded and incentivized, say by running an AP, providing internet gateways, providing storage for anonymous peer-to-peer (like freenet), cache space. People could start replacing some of the VPN links with dedicated links, mesh links, etc. Whatever this phase of it's lifetime seems to require.
If you did it right eventually you could have a network where hosting for a popular website would be totally peer2peer distributed with the data coming from closer caches. For most cases it would be better than the actual internet and cheaper.
But right now all we need to do is host a central VPN and some custom router firmware. Obviously it won't scale in that state but those are issues for platforms that exist with users that can be tackled by a larger community.
I think that will produce a crop of mediocre AA hires IMHO. I'd rather see promising people get hands up early on. I know how it feels to have a lot of people consistently tell you that you can't or you shouldn't. Eventually it shakes your confidence and in my case it sidetracked my career a bit, this is an experience that not all nerds have. I am so jealous when I meet guys who had a k12 education that was preparing them for advanced mathematics, and people who told them to fill out FAFSA instead of telling them that school is financially impossible or that they didn't do well enough in highschool. I mean I wasted years literally not bothering.
I remember getting my first tech job, I considered myself so lucky. I was applying for manual labor jobs at the time as well, if I had gotten one then computers would have probably just been something I was into as a kid and I would have gone the rest of my life thinking that I probably wasn't as good as I thought anyhow.
Truth was that I was much better than the first job I was hired for and could have gotten what I deserved much faster if I'd had anyone in the world to show me the way. Even though I'm a white man I've had a taste of the kind of discouragement that I am sure is even more common in the life of a female or black nerd.
I'd actually like to see a lot more of this sort of engagement across the board but if it starts here that's fine with me.
They could just use leased lines, VPN tunnels, and wifi. You build some free network in one downtown community with boring free public-access quality content. It costs nothing to run that, then you link a few of these community hotspots together with VPN and suddenly you have a network. Cost of putting content on the network? Maybe very low, there are lots of peer to peer technologies that could develop into free CDN like services. Maybe you connect and the captive portal offers up some browser plugins or a web based client to get at the rest of the network. Really who knows what it will look like but people are building these free networks and it's getting close to hitting that threshold where they're linked together and the first few nerds start sharing warez and porn, then comes the chat rooms, then comes a web-like experience and suddenly everyone's on because you can order an antenna and set top box for your home and you're only paying bills for premium features.
I don't think that everyone involved is benign. I've seen a lot of power hungry assholes use this stuff to play victim/crybully people. Yes absolutely.
I believe there are benefits to getting more black people in tech, women too I guess but the women in tech problem is comparably overblown. It is hoped that once we have a large pool of minority mentors they'll help all sorts of young people stay on that pipeline where they learn this shit as a child and stick with it.
The pool of minority applicants is so small that I'm not threatened by having to complete with few AA hires. Also I know it's possible to hire affirmatively without watering down company talent. My company manages to do this though I don't know how. One thing that I can tell they did was target a promising young woman and put her on the fast track to promotion, it's still hers to lose and she's still a better worker than me, so I don't care. Quietly she openly admits even she thinks it's the case but I'm not going to begrudge a lucky break when all successful people have had some.
Could this change? Am I still suspicious of fanatical identity politcs, yes.
Well there are a lot of actors with different motives. But the diversity officer is tasked with trying to find good talent in the form of demographics underrepresented in a company. It's hard when very few women or minorities come through the tech pipeline, not just the CS pipeline, even the trade schools. To have that fact (that most people involved already know) uttered and accepted openly is an admission that he's essentially a specialty recruiter and not actually a social justice hero.
A letter like that would be an assault on my very job. I would laugh it off because it's going nowhere. If I took my job seriously I'd be quietly working further up the pipeline to get more participation. Say involvement in maker spaces and a trip down the the highschool geek extracurriculars to make sure young women and minorities are staying involved. I know it'll pay off in a few years when I know every single good candidate on a first name basis. In the meantime I'd make sweetheart offers to the handful of people already in the pool, which is what everyone wants to put on their diversity newsletter but it's not really a path to meaningful change.
Even if damore's letter was perfect and included suggestions like the one above it would be suicide, it's just not his place to go rocking the boat that direction.
I agree with 75% of demore's message but I'm not so autistic that I think I can write one heartfelt letter and get all of google to accept that the pool of female engineers is too small for the kind of diversity they want to see. (That's the way I see things) The whole thing was absolutely doomed to failure.
I'm certainly not going to bring biology into the discussion so that the head diversity officer and other people whose jobs are threatened by the letter can smear me as some kind of nazi. I'm not going to help them do it by even hinting someone might not be good at doing P for being an Q. Not to mention every Q in the office has the right to be pissed even if I declare them all to be the "Smart Qs"
It's amusing to see the many autistics of slashdot continue to miss the point.
Well that doesn't mean they don't have much better BI than walmart. Their whole strategy is to be just a little bit ahead of wal-mart and they're doing ok. Failure to successfully replicate a business model in a new location is very common.
The only thing wal-mart knows about it's customers is they're desperate white trash and they serve them well.
Target has much better BI than wal-mart, it's their entire niche business strategy. Wal-mart is clueless they've stopped innovating and have increased profits by fucking everyone as hard as they can, customers, suppliers, and of course workers. Then they pat themselves on the back.
You wanna see clueless, go do a glassdoor on walmart labs.
Not ask me if I need help 20 times, don't lie to me if I do ask for help. Don't ever insult me with a mail-in-rebate. Work to compete with amazon online and not do stuff like raise your online prices to get me to go to the store because you have nostalgia for the days when a blue smock meant something.
Wal-mart is clueless, Sears practically invented what amazon got rich doing. Both companies are full of old stuffy losers who will never get it. Read employee reviews of walmart labs. Hilarious. They expect to work their engineers like amazon and treat them like they treat all their employees.
Having mcdonalds or wal-mart on a resume would hurt you on all but the most menial positions. You'd be literally better off lying that you mowed lawns and shoveled driveways.
Actually, our gift giving holiday is Purim (around March) where we dress in costumes, give gifts, and are religiously commanded to get drunk.
I didn't know about this but I'm going to start doing this with my girlfriend. We can take the day off, get drunk, and exchange little gifts. March needs a holiday badly and I love drinking.
You have to consider that maybe it would be cheaper to train anyone to do their job which is probably the case.
If they're this really so valuable sure give them an exchange server and throw in an assistant for the lot of them while you're at it. If they're this stupid/smart they should just be silo'd off from regular office tasks and left to do whatever it is that they're so good at. This sounds extreme but nobody will ever complain about their habits of sending spreadsheets made in word, huge lists they sort by hand, daily password resets, not to mention the huge spearphishing target these guys represent. Filter all that shit through a secretary.
Well use microsoft if you want. It's expensive but usually does the job with not a whole lot of fuss. If that's more important to you than the license costs then I guess it's fine. But if you believe that you couldn't do it cheaper and probably better with linux then you're probably wrong. If you're thinking you're better off not worrying about it and simply concentrating on your core business. Well you're probably correct.
It's something to keep in mind for the future though.
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My food isn't sentient and I'm so rich I wouldn't starve anyhow. Maybe the country should be listening to my ideas and not the ideas of people who claim they have to pay a bunch of illegal immigrants less than minimum wage in order to run a successful business that I depend on for living.
Instead it's decided by some of the least successful regions of the country. Ohio, Iowa? For all their voting sway the people there should be able to un-fuck their own states. Ohio is exceptionally dire what a fucking toilet bowl.
Their votes aren't shit. We're no longer living in a democracy.
And without big government wealth redistribution farm subsidies!!!
I wouldn't die even if I was spending $100 a day on food!!! Why am I wasting my money to help their farms so poor people don't starve!!
A good starve is what we really need to end the welfare state!
It's laughable that you think farmers live in the flyover states anymore. All that land is owned by agricultural conglomerates. The people who actually live there are desperate would-be factory workers and the desperate people who would support them. Too stupid to chase a dollar and desperate for work. Stupid and desperate people are extremely easy to manipulate. I think the reality in Kansas seems to affirm my narrative.
What you've described now is already what's happening. Except instead of pandering to population centers they're pandering to the isolated inhabitants of regions without the economy to support a large population. My life and opinion shouldn't be worth less because of where I live.
Subverting democracy aside I shouldn't have to put up with the hairbrained ideas of places managed so badly that nobody wants to live there, decided by desperate people who lack to common sense to leave when their job dies.
Wow that IPFS is exactly the sort of problem we would need to solve eventually, But just getting a wan set up and exposed to small parts of the world over wifi would be step one. As I said you can't do that forever but you could surely run like that until you'd attracted nerd talent and tech resources to move to the next phase.
But for that to be viable I'd need a very high density of local nerds with the inclination and ability to join me. Very few places meet these criteria.
Seattle, San Francisco, Austin, College campuses (especially dorms!)
I guess if you really want to set it up keep talking to me and respect that I am extremely lazy. Luckily nothing involved in getting started is rocket science
https://www.flashrouters.com/v...
https://www.flashrouters.com/b...
The vpn could be some ghetto hack, VPLS, or even hamachi at first.
I wouldn't be surprised to find out that someone already has done all of this actually.
Hahah I'm not even trying to do it sadly but I did spend a little bit of time daydreaming about the feasibility and details since making that post.
I was one of the first users on TOR and a relatively early internet adopter so I know what infant networks look like compared to what they look like once they're in the mainstream.
All we would need to do is configure one of those dual SSID wifi networks with an open guest side, prioritize the AP owner's private side over the open guest side. Have it connect to the central network over VPN, the whole network could be VPNs on cloud hosting or something.
You'd connect and a captive portal would open up and explain what you're browsing isn't the internet and maybe provider a yahoo like listing of shit people have hosted, until there is more. Get a few people to host stuff that's at least good enough. Maybe some popular public domain content, a chatroom, a central forum and a p2p file sharing service. A few things like that. Something to burn time, maybe the ability to download a few pieces of offline content to your phone without burning through your data plan.
Eventually you can enhance these services so that somehow participation is rewarded and incentivized, say by running an AP, providing internet gateways, providing storage for anonymous peer-to-peer (like freenet), cache space. People could start replacing some of the VPN links with dedicated links, mesh links, etc. Whatever this phase of it's lifetime seems to require.
If you did it right eventually you could have a network where hosting for a popular website would be totally peer2peer distributed with the data coming from closer caches. For most cases it would be better than the actual internet and cheaper.
But right now all we need to do is host a central VPN and some custom router firmware. Obviously it won't scale in that state but those are issues for platforms that exist with users that can be tackled by a larger community.
I think that will produce a crop of mediocre AA hires IMHO. I'd rather see promising people get hands up early on. I know how it feels to have a lot of people consistently tell you that you can't or you shouldn't. Eventually it shakes your confidence and in my case it sidetracked my career a bit, this is an experience that not all nerds have. I am so jealous when I meet guys who had a k12 education that was preparing them for advanced mathematics, and people who told them to fill out FAFSA instead of telling them that school is financially impossible or that they didn't do well enough in highschool. I mean I wasted years literally not bothering.
I remember getting my first tech job, I considered myself so lucky. I was applying for manual labor jobs at the time as well, if I had gotten one then computers would have probably just been something I was into as a kid and I would have gone the rest of my life thinking that I probably wasn't as good as I thought anyhow.
Truth was that I was much better than the first job I was hired for and could have gotten what I deserved much faster if I'd had anyone in the world to show me the way. Even though I'm a white man I've had a taste of the kind of discouragement that I am sure is even more common in the life of a female or black nerd.
I'd actually like to see a lot more of this sort of engagement across the board but if it starts here that's fine with me.
They could just use leased lines, VPN tunnels, and wifi. You build some free network in one downtown community with boring free public-access quality content. It costs nothing to run that, then you link a few of these community hotspots together with VPN and suddenly you have a network. Cost of putting content on the network? Maybe very low, there are lots of peer to peer technologies that could develop into free CDN like services. Maybe you connect and the captive portal offers up some browser plugins or a web based client to get at the rest of the network.
Really who knows what it will look like but people are building these free networks and it's getting close to hitting that threshold where they're linked together and the first few nerds start sharing warez and porn, then comes the chat rooms, then comes a web-like experience and suddenly everyone's on because you can order an antenna and set top box for your home and you're only paying bills for premium features.
I don't think that everyone involved is benign. I've seen a lot of power hungry assholes use this stuff to play victim/crybully people. Yes absolutely.
I believe there are benefits to getting more black people in tech, women too I guess but the women in tech problem is comparably overblown. It is hoped that once we have a large pool of minority mentors they'll help all sorts of young people stay on that pipeline where they learn this shit as a child and stick with it.
The pool of minority applicants is so small that I'm not threatened by having to complete with few AA hires. Also I know it's possible to hire affirmatively without watering down company talent. My company manages to do this though I don't know how. One thing that I can tell they did was target a promising young woman and put her on the fast track to promotion, it's still hers to lose and she's still a better worker than me, so I don't care. Quietly she openly admits even she thinks it's the case but I'm not going to begrudge a lucky break when all successful people have had some.
Could this change? Am I still suspicious of fanatical identity politcs, yes.
Well there are a lot of actors with different motives. But the diversity officer is tasked with trying to find good talent in the form of demographics underrepresented in a company. It's hard when very few women or minorities come through the tech pipeline, not just the CS pipeline, even the trade schools. To have that fact (that most people involved already know) uttered and accepted openly is an admission that he's essentially a specialty recruiter and not actually a social justice hero.
A letter like that would be an assault on my very job. I would laugh it off because it's going nowhere. If I took my job seriously I'd be quietly working further up the pipeline to get more participation. Say involvement in maker spaces and a trip down the the highschool geek extracurriculars to make sure young women and minorities are staying involved. I know it'll pay off in a few years when I know every single good candidate on a first name basis. In the meantime I'd make sweetheart offers to the handful of people already in the pool, which is what everyone wants to put on their diversity newsletter but it's not really a path to meaningful change.
Even if damore's letter was perfect and included suggestions like the one above it would be suicide, it's just not his place to go rocking the boat that direction.
I agree with 75% of demore's message but I'm not so autistic that I think I can write one heartfelt letter and get all of google to accept that the pool of female engineers is too small for the kind of diversity they want to see. (That's the way I see things) The whole thing was absolutely doomed to failure.
I'm certainly not going to bring biology into the discussion so that the head diversity officer and other people whose jobs are threatened by the letter can smear me as some kind of nazi.
I'm not going to help them do it by even hinting someone might not be good at doing P for being an Q.
Not to mention every Q in the office has the right to be pissed even if I declare them all to be the "Smart Qs"
It's amusing to see the many autistics of slashdot continue to miss the point.
tbh you're right. I got ripped off by a newegg vendor and had flashbacks of best buy. I want blood.
White trash likes to buy gucci, they're still trash.
https://www.glassdoor.com/Revi...
Anyhow walmart will fail to become amazon.
Well that doesn't mean they don't have much better BI than walmart. Their whole strategy is to be just a little bit ahead of wal-mart and they're doing ok. Failure to successfully replicate a business model in a new location is very common.
The only thing wal-mart knows about it's customers is they're desperate white trash and they serve them well.
I forgot the way they brainwash their employees too. It seems you may have consumed some of the kool-aid.
Target has much better BI than wal-mart, it's their entire niche business strategy.
Wal-mart is clueless they've stopped innovating and have increased profits by fucking everyone as hard as they can, customers, suppliers, and of course workers. Then they pat themselves on the back.
You wanna see clueless, go do a glassdoor on walmart labs.
Not ask me if I need help 20 times, don't lie to me if I do ask for help.
Don't ever insult me with a mail-in-rebate.
Work to compete with amazon online and not do stuff like raise your online prices to get me to go to the store because you have nostalgia for the days when a blue smock meant something.
Wal-mart is clueless, Sears practically invented what amazon got rich doing. Both companies are full of old stuffy losers who will never get it. Read employee reviews of walmart labs. Hilarious. They expect to work their engineers like amazon and treat them like they treat all their employees.
Having mcdonalds or wal-mart on a resume would hurt you on all but the most menial positions.
You'd be literally better off lying that you mowed lawns and shoveled driveways.
Actually, our gift giving holiday is Purim (around March) where we dress in costumes, give gifts, and are religiously commanded to get drunk.
I didn't know about this but I'm going to start doing this with my girlfriend. We can take the day off, get drunk, and exchange little gifts. March needs a holiday badly and I love drinking.
Yeah I think it's probably a reasonable alternative if it meets your needs.
You have to consider that maybe it would be cheaper to train anyone to do their job which is probably the case.
If they're this really so valuable sure give them an exchange server and throw in an assistant for the lot of them while you're at it. If they're this stupid/smart they should just be silo'd off from regular office tasks and left to do whatever it is that they're so good at. This sounds extreme but nobody will ever complain about their habits of sending spreadsheets made in word, huge lists they sort by hand, daily password resets, not to mention the huge spearphishing target these guys represent. Filter all that shit through a secretary.
Say... do you happen to have their emails?
Well use microsoft if you want. It's expensive but usually does the job with not a whole lot of fuss. If that's more important to you than the license costs then I guess it's fine. But if you believe that you couldn't do it cheaper and probably better with linux then you're probably wrong. If you're thinking you're better off not worrying about it and simply concentrating on your core business. Well you're probably correct.
It's something to keep in mind for the future though.
Oh really?I said that the boss is usually the guy clinging to outlook? And he's the boss.
Wellllll hmm.