Have any real life friends? Ever been entered into their phone's phonebook? Ever been photographed with them? Ever have those friends helpfully tell the facial recognition database who this unknown person in this photo might happen to be?
>That is they support evidence based economic policy tempered with progressive policy where the market does not not produce a fair or desirable outcome.
This is a state of affairs I would be willing to support. To describe modern day neoliberalism in these terms is to fall somewhere, depending on how charitable I am feeling, between propaganda and delusion.
"Evidence based economic policy" is complete bullshit. The consensus among academic economists on modern day economic policy is damning, but we see a tiny minority of Austrian school economists and members of the Chicago School of Economics being rolled out to clothe a slate of incredibly socially destructive policies in a costume of scientific respectability, because these individuals dogmatically promote policies that the wealthy elite want to see implemented, and damn the facts if they do not fit.
Progressive policy in the modern day is nonexistent, it has been burned to the ground. Democrat or Republican, the government is in the business of lowering taxes on the rich while slashing social services for the poor. "It is a basic tenet of conservatism that the poor will only work harder if they are given less money and the rich will only work harder if they are given more money". Racism and fear of the other has been deployed to devastating effect as a cover to dismantle the welfare state and the postwar social mechanisms that were intended to provide equal opportunities to citizens from all backgrounds.
Neoliberalism has become a dirty word because it is morally and scientifically bankrupt. It decries the basic foundations of an equitable society that had been in place for decades as far-left extremism while adopting a radically economically right-wing fetishization of market forces as a cure for all social ills. It is "intensely relaxed" about the concentration of wealth among the wealthy while living standards and economic security are eroded. It turns a blind eye to lawbreaking by corporations and wealthy individuals while intruding into private individuals' communications, use of recreational substances, and reproductive rights, undermining democracy and the rule of law in the process. And of course there's all the death and destruction wrought by endless intervention and warmongering in the middle east. I could go on...
People weren't trying to "monetize" the web, they were trying to sell goods and services over the internet and got overly exuberant about it.
Today, if you want to sell physical goods over the internet you pay Amazon a cut for access to their market place. Entertainment media you can sell yourself if you have pockets deep enough to produce it, but even that is a market that Amazon is muscling in on.
Everybody else has some sort of spying-based business model, where the average internet user is not the customer but the product being bought and sold, and that is a new development.
I'm not the biggest fan of US telcos, but to be fair to them the UK is much more densely populated compared to the US, and is also much smaller. The better comparison would be Virgin Media versus Comcast. In both cases you have absolutely zero competition for your wireline ISP, but at least VM gave decent value for money a few years ago when I lived in the UK.
Hahahaha. Legacy accounts will give you IPv6 ELBs. Any accounts opened after they launched their new-fangled Virtual Private Cloud infrastructure are IPv4-only. Unbelievable, really.
Now they'll make sure that their catalogs are spread evenly across five or six different streaming services and keep them all fighting against each other. They don't want a unified front of streaming providers pushing back and demanding a bigger slice of the pie.
The media industry learned its lesson back when Steve Jobs dunked on them with the negotiations for the iTunes Music Store. The fragmentation happened to Netflix, it will happen to Spotify and co.
At-will. The law you're looking for is at-will, and that's the one the vast majority of states in the union have on the books. Far fewer states are right-to-work states.
Right-to-work means you cannot be required to join a union as a condition of employment.
At-will employment means that the employer or employee can terminate the employment relationship at any time for any reason.
iirc Seattle has the highest male to female ratio in the country. Maybe some single women will move there once they realise how heavily the economics lean in their favour, until then I think I'll give it a miss, thanks.
This makes no sense. There's a conflict between the employer (who wants more work), and the employee (who is exhausted and wants some time to rest). What happens if the employee refuses to continue working without a vacation? If the employer backs down then the employee has the bargaining power. If, on the other hand, the employee is swiftly fired and replaced with a more compliant one, then perhaps there isn't as much of a shortage as you claim.
Anyway, this shouldn't even be a conflict to begin with. Exhausted programmers produce crap that keeps breaking, and their sleep-deprived fixes maybe put the worst fires out, if you're lucky.
Probably not. But you can still be a disgustingly well compensated one. Executives like Ballmer and Fiorina walk away from presiding over the most spectacular fuckups imaginable with more money than most programmers will ever see in their entire lifetimes.
You can mine coal fairly easily after the apocalypse, sure, but that isn't going to power an internal combustion engine, only an external one.
All of the readily available oil on the planet except for maybe the Arabian Peninsula has been drilled out. New prospecting is almost exclusively performed on oil rigs that are far offshore, which requires a lot of advanced technology to access (such as helicopters, which are powered by, er, oil).
No, if we get bombed back to the stone age then we're staying there. Maybe we can rise up to some liberterian's wet dream of a coal-powered, diseased, and poisonous world of struggling city-states where the average life expectency is 30, but no more than that.
Yup. This guy has an auto-immune disorder. Pattern baldness is caused by premature death of hair follicles. Treating that would require a way to bring those cells back from the dead or some really nifty tricks with stem cells to replace them.
Not that that's going to stop a deluge of clickbait crap about this over the next few weeks, I'm sure.
This is so damn stupid. If somebody can unwillingly violate your patent then that means your patent is bullshit pretty much by definition. Well, to a reasonable person anyway, the legal system apparently has other ideas.
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Ah, but you do.
Have any real life friends? Ever been entered into their phone's phonebook? Ever been photographed with them? Ever have those friends helpfully tell the facial recognition database who this unknown person in this photo might happen to be?
If a four-day vacation cures your burnout then you do not know what burnout is.
>That is they support evidence based economic policy tempered with progressive policy where the market does not not produce a fair or desirable outcome.
This is a state of affairs I would be willing to support. To describe modern day neoliberalism in these terms is to fall somewhere, depending on how charitable I am feeling, between propaganda and delusion.
"Evidence based economic policy" is complete bullshit. The consensus among academic economists on modern day economic policy is damning, but we see a tiny minority of Austrian school economists and members of the Chicago School of Economics being rolled out to clothe a slate of incredibly socially destructive policies in a costume of scientific respectability, because these individuals dogmatically promote policies that the wealthy elite want to see implemented, and damn the facts if they do not fit.
Progressive policy in the modern day is nonexistent, it has been burned to the ground. Democrat or Republican, the government is in the business of lowering taxes on the rich while slashing social services for the poor. "It is a basic tenet of conservatism that the poor will only work harder if they are given less money and the rich will only work harder if they are given more money". Racism and fear of the other has been deployed to devastating effect as a cover to dismantle the welfare state and the postwar social mechanisms that were intended to provide equal opportunities to citizens from all backgrounds.
Neoliberalism has become a dirty word because it is morally and scientifically bankrupt. It decries the basic foundations of an equitable society that had been in place for decades as far-left extremism while adopting a radically economically right-wing fetishization of market forces as a cure for all social ills. It is "intensely relaxed" about the concentration of wealth among the wealthy while living standards and economic security are eroded. It turns a blind eye to lawbreaking by corporations and wealthy individuals while intruding into private individuals' communications, use of recreational substances, and reproductive rights, undermining democracy and the rule of law in the process. And of course there's all the death and destruction wrought by endless intervention and warmongering in the middle east. I could go on...
People weren't trying to "monetize" the web, they were trying to sell goods and services over the internet and got overly exuberant about it.
Today, if you want to sell physical goods over the internet you pay Amazon a cut for access to their market place. Entertainment media you can sell yourself if you have pockets deep enough to produce it, but even that is a market that Amazon is muscling in on.
Everybody else has some sort of spying-based business model, where the average internet user is not the customer but the product being bought and sold, and that is a new development.
>How bad can it get?
Jesus christ. If there was ever a catchphrase for the year 2016...
If a small amount of global web traffic is encrypted then the encrypted traffic will stand out and bring scrutiny.
If everything is encrypted, no matter how mundane, then genuinely sensitive traffic becomes less conspicuous.
I'm not the biggest fan of US telcos, but to be fair to them the UK is much more densely populated compared to the US, and is also much smaller. The better comparison would be Virgin Media versus Comcast. In both cases you have absolutely zero competition for your wireline ISP, but at least VM gave decent value for money a few years ago when I lived in the UK.
any and consumer and employee protections. (Financial) Might Makes Right would be the law of the land.
Hahahaha. Legacy accounts will give you IPv6 ELBs. Any accounts opened after they launched their new-fangled Virtual Private Cloud infrastructure are IPv4-only. Unbelievable, really.
Tell that to Amazon's AWS division.
That thing looked pretty interesting but there hasn't been any news about it for over a year. Is it still in development?
The firewalld project is completely unrelated to the systemd project.
Now they'll make sure that their catalogs are spread evenly across five or six different streaming services and keep them all fighting against each other. They don't want a unified front of streaming providers pushing back and demanding a bigger slice of the pie.
The media industry learned its lesson back when Steve Jobs dunked on them with the negotiations for the iTunes Music Store. The fragmentation happened to Netflix, it will happen to Spotify and co.
Dear Trump voters:
The enemy of your enemy is not necessarily your friend.
At-will. The law you're looking for is at-will, and that's the one the vast majority of states in the union have on the books. Far fewer states are right-to-work states.
Right-to-work means you cannot be required to join a union as a condition of employment.
At-will employment means that the employer or employee can terminate the employment relationship at any time for any reason.
iirc Seattle has the highest male to female ratio in the country. Maybe some single women will move there once they realise how heavily the economics lean in their favour, until then I think I'll give it a miss, thanks.
This makes no sense. There's a conflict between the employer (who wants more work), and the employee (who is exhausted and wants some time to rest). What happens if the employee refuses to continue working without a vacation? If the employer backs down then the employee has the bargaining power. If, on the other hand, the employee is swiftly fired and replaced with a more compliant one, then perhaps there isn't as much of a shortage as you claim.
Anyway, this shouldn't even be a conflict to begin with. Exhausted programmers produce crap that keeps breaking, and their sleep-deprived fixes maybe put the worst fires out, if you're lucky.
Probably not. But you can still be a disgustingly well compensated one. Executives like Ballmer and Fiorina walk away from presiding over the most spectacular fuckups imaginable with more money than most programmers will ever see in their entire lifetimes.
Maybe we should look for alternatives to keeping all seven billion of our eggs in one fragile and increasingly overburdened basket.
How do you replace the motherboard? What if a cap blows?
Something has to hold the system bus, and that can't be hot-plugged.
https://01.org/linuxgraphics/i...
"No reverse engineering, decompilation, or disassembly of this software is permitted."
You can mine coal fairly easily after the apocalypse, sure, but that isn't going to power an internal combustion engine, only an external one.
All of the readily available oil on the planet except for maybe the Arabian Peninsula has been drilled out. New prospecting is almost exclusively performed on oil rigs that are far offshore, which requires a lot of advanced technology to access (such as helicopters, which are powered by, er, oil).
No, if we get bombed back to the stone age then we're staying there. Maybe we can rise up to some liberterian's wet dream of a coal-powered, diseased, and poisonous world of struggling city-states where the average life expectency is 30, but no more than that.
Yup. This guy has an auto-immune disorder. Pattern baldness is caused by premature death of hair follicles. Treating that would require a way to bring those cells back from the dead or some really nifty tricks with stem cells to replace them.
Not that that's going to stop a deluge of clickbait crap about this over the next few weeks, I'm sure.
This is so damn stupid. If somebody can unwillingly violate your patent then that means your patent is bullshit pretty much by definition. Well, to a reasonable person anyway, the legal system apparently has other ideas.
Being able to drive a car right this second isn't usually a matter of life or death.