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  1. Trains on time in USSR on Wage Growth Slows Across the Country (axios.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    Who cares.

    Look into the summary and you'll see how fleeting this metric is.

    Obama never cracked 3% economic growth over all his terms.

    The stock market has grown overall much higher.

    Things are growing, which the summary admits.

    This is just cherry picking a thin slice of time to help a political cause feel justified about itself in the middle of all the success its opposition is riding.

    But ... but ... what if someone yells "fire!" in a crowded theater!?!?!

    I'm sorry, but these are all very trivial reasons to make your life the personal property of government sprawl.

  2. Re:Killing is evil. on Google Workers Urge CEO To Pull Out of Pentagon AI Project (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    "It is always the right time to do the right thing"
    MLK Jr

    Sounds like you've been educated in the school of compromise and mediocrity.

  3. Re:Killing is evil. on Google Workers Urge CEO To Pull Out of Pentagon AI Project (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    A bigger problem is the incoherence of saying murder can be inherently evil AND necessary at the same time.

    That is trying to talk out both sides of your mouth.

    I prefer not to hear the sound of someone else's mouth slopping their food together.

  4. Re:Killing is evil. on Google Workers Urge CEO To Pull Out of Pentagon AI Project (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    The moral aspect is the golden rule.

    I'm not going to murder people because I don't want to be murdered.

    If you catch me trying to kill you even though you're not doing anything wrong, sure go ahead and kill me.

    The law approximates the golden rule like this: we don't really think you're ok with getting murdered so we're going to enforce that nobody goes around murdering.

    I'm also a Christian, but the subjective / civil aspects of morality in the law shouldn't be overlooked either.

    The die hard Christians and deists who founded the country found a lot of common ground here.

  5. Re:Killing is evil. on Google Workers Urge CEO To Pull Out of Pentagon AI Project (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Respectful disagreement:

    "it should be blindingly obvious"

    That ... is much worse IMHO.

    To the point where I think maybe this guy is pulling our leg and having a good laugh.

    If so, well played, sir! I tip my glass at you, Comboman!

  6. What jobs are those? on McAfee Finds That Gamers Are Strong Candidates for Cybersecurity Jobs (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Where do these jobs live? Are they virtually a job? Are there more than 1 of them?

  7. How does the universe entitle you to continuous entertainment, health insurance, free condoms, and GoT?

    Get out there and live your life!

  8. comes naturally on Google Workers Urge CEO To Pull Out of Pentagon AI Project (nytimes.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "comes naturally to a company whose motto is "Don't be evil,""

    Naturally ... the military is evil.

    You don't have to really make that interpretation on your own.

    See we have these helpful smart people to tell us how to form opinions.

    In addition to figuring out how to search web pages what else would any engineer naturally learn really good?

    The military does evil things.

    Of course !!

    Please don't bother disagreeing with this. We are all very mentally exhausted from all the smart things we do all the time. Rubix cube pagaentry and all that takes its toll, so don't be an insensitive clod.

  9. Re:"Full stack" developers come from "boot camps" on Ask Slashdot: Are 'Full Stack' Developers a Thing? · · Score: 1

    I see this superstition so much.

    People often say certs don't matter because people can get them without experience, so -irrefutably- certificates are worthless.

    If someone went through the trouble of passing a MS T-SQL cert or a Cisco Cert, they are probably going to be able to do some amount of meaningful work on day one ... but the impossibility of succeeding without experience is not a foregone conclusion AFAIK ...

  10. Conceding your trivial point. Ecuador has the right to persona not grata whoever they want.

    The scary part is he got his internet cut off because he was divulging the TRUTH

  11. Worldly advice has always been sex sells ... well, may be not.

    Time to get out of the dirt and darkness and embrace Jesus.

  12. If you have something to say that makes the deep government or the DNC look bad, watch out !

    We can't have people in foreign countries doing exposes.

    The world has been inching to global totalitarianism since the 70s. This is just a new milestone.

  13. Re:I'm not a survivor on Cutting 'Old Heads' at IBM (propublica.org) · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the info. This 36 year old is always looking to see what the investiment potential / pitfalls of working in tech are. This helps.

  14. Re:In the early 1980's on Cutting 'Old Heads' at IBM (propublica.org) · · Score: 1

    Do you see a person wise in their own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for them. Prov 26:12

  15. That film festivals are run by ... snobs ???

    What ??!

    Also in headlines: Could Today Be 2018's Slowest News Day?

  16. Given the IRS's reign of auditing against the tea party and the DOJ vetting their activity with Bill Clinton at the airport I have more concerns about the federal government than I do about jihad.

    The day will come and is already here when it won't matter if you are law abiding or not.

  17. Re:between the lines on Cutting 'Old Heads' at IBM (propublica.org) · · Score: 1

    The article alludes to it. There is a ton of inclusiveness, eco-research, earth sensitivity, X awareness, etc. IBM has made this their brand for the last 10 years or so.

  18. Naturalism and experts who think they can learn everything by judging by appearances dissolves one's sense of self.

    Agency is when you start taking command of your brain. Agency is not something your brain cooks up.

  19. Re:Simple economics on Cutting 'Old Heads' at IBM (propublica.org) · · Score: 1

    You're only looking on the surface.

    Those countries have free health insurance because they are vacuuming up all the currency in their borders.

    Not business friendly at all.

  20. between the lines on Cutting 'Old Heads' at IBM (propublica.org) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    The progressives (a.k.a. liberals) decided to include their agenda couched in the intent that it would improve company PR and boost their profile and rain money down from the sky. But it didn't. And those guys don't really care about people (actually I would go so far given the promotion of eugenics and euthanasia to say they are misanthropic -against people).

    Progressive politics did not improve IBM and it did nothing for the political side IBM tied themselves to and the workers lost their jobs. Lose. Lose. Lose.

    I feel genuinely bad for all parties here and call people to study and expansively understand the underlying causes involved. IBM is a trainwreck by all measures (the consistent, steep decline in glassdoor ratings is only one metric among a host of others).

  21. 1) You get ostracized at 35 and removed at 42
    2) Local laws are contradictory
    3) You are treated as an infinite resource
    4) You lose all the freedom required to do your job
    5) Immigrants take your home after 8 months
    6) Everyone looks for the most superficial ways to show the world how smart they are all the time

  22. Re:Dunning-Kruger on Ask Slashdot: Should You Tell Your Coworkers How Much You Make? · · Score: 1

    You're not missing anything.

    People who stay out of the punditry / over-analysis games are considered brash ("only fools rush in", etc).

    I say: you don't have to have all the answers to live your life! Be confident! Be bold! Build your castle over the abyss!

    Take that, Bertrand Russell !!

    :)

  23. Re:A lot of words for a simple concept on Say Goodbye To the Information Age: It's All About Reputation Now (aeon.co) · · Score: 1

    C'mon guys. The US Constitution explicitly gives journalists the right to tell us what is true.

    Also equally as valid is: "I saw a movie once that said ..."

    Voters and independent opinions just clutter things up.

  24. This is just to move the attention away from what is in tap water.

    Nothing that can't be solved with a second helping of 30% of your income.

  25. Re:Get Rid of Regulations and you create monsters. on How Amazon Became Corporate America's Nightmare (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Alright !! Let's get some less competitive options out there!