Slashdot Mirror


User: micahraleigh

micahraleigh's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
2,283
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 2,283

  1. still waiting on US Jobs Dropped By 33,000 In September, Likely Due To Storms (npr.org) · · Score: 1, Informative

    Still waiting for slashdot to post an article about the growth rate surpassing 3% as described in that nasty conservative rag USA Today:
    https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2017/09/28/u-s-economic-growth-revised-up-3-1-rate-q-2/711674001/
    That 3.1% growth was higher than anything under Obama, as confirmed by far, alt-right Nazi organization politifact:
    http://www.politifact.com/illi...

    Oh snap, they're MSM and left wing hacks respectively

  2. Re:idiocy milestone on Dawn of Solar Age Declared as PV Beats All Other Forms of Power (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Gave up on looking for content in the sea of invectives, which you are soaked in ...

  3. Subtle differences on EU Takes Ireland To Court For Not Claiming Apple Tax Windfall (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    The US and the EU are thieves such that the former allow their victims to keep some of their money.

    When the EU thieves see money in the pockets of anyone they run around like the keystone cops. "We've never seen this before! TAKE IT! TAKE IT!!"

  4. Re:the brain creates you? on When You Split the Brain, Do You Split the Person? (aeon.co) · · Score: 1

    True.

    And people have been delaying living since long before him ...

    :(

  5. fail on The Absurdity of the Nobel Prizes in Science (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    The original Nobel prize system was born out of a scientific breakthrough for protecting mine workers from inadvertent explosions.

    The breakthrough didn't come from a team, or a geographical mass of people, or a social class, or the general public, etc. It came from Julius Wilbrand. One guy. One dude.

    Nobels for science are the only place they make sense. Giving out Nobels for people's political views (like Obama after only being in office for a couple months) has been unequivocally derided.

  6. flawed goals, premises, everything here on Unselfish People Are More Likely to Wind Up With Depression (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    In the "ultimatum" model, the rewards are shared and no one is personally motivated to do anything.

    Life isn't like that, and it shouldn't be like that.

  7. the brain creates you? on When You Split the Brain, Do You Split the Person? (aeon.co) · · Score: 1

    No wonder tech people are so neurotic -trying to think themselves into existence.

    A self, an individual, is an existing subject. A thought about something does not mean it exists.

    E.g. I can think about unicorns all day, but that doesn't mean unicorns exist.

  8. Re:This stuff needs to END - whats wrong with ppl? on Las Vegas Shooting Leaves at Least 50 Dead, More Than 200 Wounded (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    This didn't happen when I was a kid.

    When everyone I knew went to church.

    People need to hear about Jesus, and the ones who don't have some hard lives with special needs.

  9. Re:Lack of information doesn't matter on Las Vegas Shooting Leaves at Least 50 Dead, More Than 200 Wounded (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Given that the MSM reported Major Hassan was committing "workplace violence" when he was shouting "Allah Akbar!", I'll lean on Drudge saying the guy was a muslim.

  10. Re:No way to create communities. on Radical Leftists Built Their Own FOSS Alternative To Reddit After It Banned Them (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Radical leftists can't trust stupid ordinary people to do anything.

    Trust is so non-scientific. So truthy. It must be ejected.

  11. Re:If I were Catalonian... on Spanish Court Orders Google To Delete App Used For Catalan Independence Vote (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, I think we should have waited for the court to decide what we named our children before we submitted our birth certificate forms.

    Also maybe we should have checked with the court that we voted for a legal candidate in the last election.

    That argument about the ideal size of government? Maybe the court should be figuring that out.

    You know in Soviet Russia, the geniuses of the court helped people figure out where they should live and how they should dress and all that.

    Courts understand all these things, you know.

  12. This is what they said when they tossed Jews and Christians into German internment camps never to be seen again.

  13. Re:So Indigenous means nothing to you? on Hawaii Approves Telescope On Volcano Sacred To Indigenous People (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    They arrived here years before us and so just being around them means all our stuff really belongs to them somehow.

    Also the vast number of generations between those first settlers and the people living in the land these days clearly means nothing.

    How compelling ...

  14. EU is crawling with bomb wielding bad guys and you call it more experience with terrorism.

    Well played. Do you speak resumese or euphemeslish around the house?

  15. Never getting tired of this!

    Then if Trump and the GOP do something really bad voters will think, "Oh hey! We can trust the news media just like we did with the Russian interference stories ..."

    People might be immoral, but they are smart. They know when they are being lied to.

    That's why 20% of the general population believes the NY Times is unbiased (that's a large portion of Democrats !!)

  16. If snails can move does that put them in the same boat as a cheetah?

    If it's a really, really big boat.

  17. Re:CS degrees in job market aren't about pay scale on Computer Science Degrees Aren't Returning On Investment For Coders, Research Finds (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    The claws are out between people with degrees and those who don't. Personally I like Boeing's approach where their HR looks at a CS degree as basically 2 years of experience.

  18. In a Hobbesian state of nature, developers earn more than the general population.

    This is viewed as tyranny over in the EU.

    Developers of the world unite! You have nothing to lose but your comparatively higher salaries !!

  19. Re:Trends like...? on Slashdot Asks: Which IT Hiring Trends Are Hot, and Which Ones Are Going Cold? · · Score: 1

    OK. Learned something

  20. he was helping! on CEO Catches Stranger After Hours, Prompting Espionage Charges (wsj.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    This is just another case where Americans fail at being inclusive. Obama would never have gotten this guy arrested. The Chinese guy was just helping out an improverished nation, and how does it matter exactly if it was an adversarial nation? From a world perspective we are all sisters and brothers until the profit motive starts manipulating us. This is why we need government teeth to enforce eugenics and fight true evils like e-cigs and limit the population so only university professors and hip hop artists can be allowed to reproduce and elections are based on celebrity endorsements uncorrupted by petty things like improving the economy or letting people keep their own money. In a more collaborative environment we would be publishing our trade secrets in open source forums so poor guys like this don't have to travel all the way to America to get access to them. I have other good ideas too like asking these guys to take our jobs overseas.

  21. Re:Sysadmin vs IA/Security on Slashdot Asks: Which IT Hiring Trends Are Hot, and Which Ones Are Going Cold? · · Score: 1

    There's an older guy around /. who says he is really old and there is a market at his age for Sysadmin.

    The positions for that line of work are so few it is hard for me to make out if that claim is true.

    Our SW firm's sysadmin is a very young girl. She doesn't even look like an adult !

  22. Re:One thing hasn't changed this year: on Slashdot Asks: Which IT Hiring Trends Are Hot, and Which Ones Are Going Cold? · · Score: 1

    I did a local devops job listing search a month ago (in RTP area). Only 2 or 3 listings. C# was like 70 or so and HTML was many hundreds.

    I heard a recruiter say devops is for companies that want to make it really cushy for themselves.

  23. Re:Trends like...? on Slashdot Asks: Which IT Hiring Trends Are Hot, and Which Ones Are Going Cold? · · Score: 1

    I thought Miami was full of tea party Cubans ...

  24. Re: Demand outstripping supply? on Slashdot Asks: Which IT Hiring Trends Are Hot, and Which Ones Are Going Cold? · · Score: 1

    As a guy with a daughter who wants to go into IT I've looked at this. There was a headline a month or so ago showing it was more prevalent in IT than other fields. It kind of makes sense if you look at most of the posts on slashdot promoting euthenasia, eugenics, or just randomly killing defenseless people so the public (i.e. government fat cats) can have a bigger piece of the pie. Those people see a vulnerability in women. On the other hand Jennifer Lawrence seems like a lousy negotiator. Hard to tell for individual cases sometimes.

  25. Re:Veil on A New Way to Learn Economics (newyorker.com) · · Score: 1

    Anytime I see someone cranking up the volume (e.g. ALL CAPS), I get the feeling they don't think they have a very good case.

    And in this case it looks like a lot of naked assertions.