The problem wasn't that AT&T was making money (don't you want to do that?). The problem was the government gave them exclusive access to telephone related resources and no one could compete. Back then the government was OK giving up power when it made sense.
I tell myself sometimes I could toptal it once I turn 40 or so. Some/.'ers tell me remote working is on the decline so it isn't a real option.
A buddy of mine runs a SW shop and it sounds like his clients just assume he's old and that he'll never want to meet in person.
I've often wondered if that is a large part of what remote working is. When you consider how rare it is for 45+ yr olds to get hired in SW and how weird and uncomfortable directors and hiring managers get about that...
I've heard after 50 you can't really get any kind of work in SW. I'm 35, so kind of a 3rd party rooting for the veterans.
I realize there's a slashdot memo that says the earth is over populated so we have to appraise the cost of solar as plummeting and break through health techniques as soaring, but come on here.
The differences between people is being closed by ALGORITHMS. ALGORITHMS have zero overhead. You can moan about IP or whatever, but competition can bring that difference way, way down.
You make a claim that this approach is rarely accurate, but that's not reflected in the data above. By the same token gene sequencing (not that different btw) was EXTREMELY expensive 10 years ago, but now YOU can get your personalized gene sequence affordably in days, not years. Actually that's been around for a while.
Would some people spend $50k if it would SAVE THEIR LIFE? Sure. More power to them. That fact all by itself makes the effort worthwhile. The fact that some people don't want to make that kind of money happen or whatever doesn't compromise the value here.
In some ways that makes it worse because you would think their niche target would make them waay better at PR.
The reputation firm's riding herd on the comments is only serving to create negative publicity. That might work for brands like MTV, but probably not for a news organization that presumably wants to be seen as something distinct from Weekly World News.
What CNN is basically saying is, "Our reputation is too fragile to withstand some videos posted on the internet, so we have to attack those guys".
Kind of reminds me of how certain religions get called violent, and those people get so upset they start killing people.
The fact that a lot of people are EXPLAINING here how LEGAL this is should be a good indicator of how desperate CNN is. The three journalists who resigned over how utterly false their network circus is just another data point.
Desperate moves and going after people who are posting comments CNN doesn't like are not going to win friends for CNN.
Slashdot users broadly appeal to how college trustees aren't paid and how this is the recipe for success. Traditional colleges are taking "the profit motive out".
Well, that is NOT how Netflix became a success.
Netflix makes a lot of money giving ordinary people (i.e. the people Hillary Clinton's campaign staff explicitly said she hates) what they want. Traditional universities just offer a lot of bloviation and buffoonery that some people hope will help them find a job but don't value or respect very much personally.
Every time a private school succeeds, the government comes in and puts a stop to it because the government has to control everything and we have to understand ourselves as pitiful, helpless minions of the government.
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The problem wasn't that AT&T was making money (don't you want to do that?). The problem was the government gave them exclusive access to telephone related resources and no one could compete. Back then the government was OK giving up power when it made sense.
FWIW I don't think their workers would describe them that way (See the WaPo expose)
Is this a viable path against age discrimination?
/.'ers tell me remote working is on the decline so it isn't a real option.
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I tell myself sometimes I could toptal it once I turn 40 or so. Some
A buddy of mine runs a SW shop and it sounds like his clients just assume he's old and that he'll never want to meet in person.
I've often wondered if that is a large part of what remote working is. When you consider how rare it is for 45+ yr olds to get hired in SW and how weird and uncomfortable directors and hiring managers get about that
I've heard after 50 you can't really get any kind of work in SW. I'm 35, so kind of a 3rd party rooting for the veterans.
Sounded like Melissa Mayer uncovered that remote workers don't do much.
Were her findings overstated or what exactly?
Exactly! The warheads are actually pointed at THE MOON, not at the US ;)
"the U.S. is only government spying on the world"
Ooooh, you are sorely mistaken my friend. Every country has an intelligence agency.
Ever heard of the KGB?
A lot of people who moved to the US in the 1600's and 1700's wanted to get away from the socio-economic snobberies that existed in Europe.
It's very, very common for ultra rich people in the US to have no servants.
Which country are you referring to?
The US is the only country that put people on the moon.
Cold Mountain
If the law doesn't say anything about against it, how could it be illegal?
Is everything illegal by default?
I pronounce government largesse illegal!
What you're saying is you should have to professionally study the law in order to understand it.
Any country like that is better served by anarchy.
This guy is EXTREMELY brave for the exact reason you mention. Lawyers are NOT going to be happy about this.
>> in the EU the general idea is that the laws should be there for the people in the first place.
In the EU the general idea is that Jews, business owners, and people who get raped by foreigners are not people.
There's a lot of "it can be used" variants in your post as if that meant something.
Portable cookers can be used to make breakfast while driving.
Aliens can use the moon as a place to host their military bases.
Electricity can be used to shock people to death.
So lets obliterate the moon, ban cooking, and only allow electricity in government buildings.
What? Try that the other way around.
I avoid some restaurants because of the genre of food they serve -even though it is legal for them to serve it.
Don't get no warnings from me.
Warn people before they are allowed to provide jobs in Europe
I realize there's a slashdot memo that says the earth is over populated so we have to appraise the cost of solar as plummeting and break through health techniques as soaring, but come on here.
The differences between people is being closed by ALGORITHMS. ALGORITHMS have zero overhead. You can moan about IP or whatever, but competition can bring that difference way, way down.
You make a claim that this approach is rarely accurate, but that's not reflected in the data above. By the same token gene sequencing (not that different btw) was EXTREMELY expensive 10 years ago, but now YOU can get your personalized gene sequence affordably in days, not years. Actually that's been around for a while.
Would some people spend $50k if it would SAVE THEIR LIFE? Sure. More power to them. That fact all by itself makes the effort worthwhile. The fact that some people don't want to make that kind of money happen or whatever doesn't compromise the value here.
I guess I hadn't considered that aspect.
In some ways that makes it worse because you would think their niche target would make them waay better at PR.
The reputation firm's riding herd on the comments is only serving to create negative publicity. That might work for brands like MTV, but probably not for a news organization that presumably wants to be seen as something distinct from Weekly World News.
"Everyone's life is dependent on government"
Where do tax revenues come from? Not the government.
You cannot have a government without individuals.
You can have individuals without any government.
See how the dependency works here?
What CNN is basically saying is, "Our reputation is too fragile to withstand some videos posted on the internet, so we have to attack those guys".
Kind of reminds me of how certain religions get called violent, and those people get so upset they start killing people.
The fact that a lot of people are EXPLAINING here how LEGAL this is should be a good indicator of how desperate CNN is. The three journalists who resigned over how utterly false their network circus is just another data point.
Desperate moves and going after people who are posting comments CNN doesn't like are not going to win friends for CNN.
In the car safety has to do more with how you and other drivers choose to drive. Everything else is isolated incidents.
And since when has the government done anything about terrorism? (Other than declare "the system worked" after a bombing?)
Historically, people in countries with planned economies that are centrally controlled don't do much.
You don't think the media is incestuous?
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Talk about an echo chamber
Support CNN or you too are a racist clown!
Grab a pitchfork! We'll mob humanity to perfection!
The government must tax what it spends.
See the Wiemar Republic. See most countries in Africa. See the history of France. See Greece. See Spain. See Italy.
Slashdot users broadly appeal to how college trustees aren't paid and how this is the recipe for success. Traditional colleges are taking "the profit motive out".
Well, that is NOT how Netflix became a success.
Netflix makes a lot of money giving ordinary people (i.e. the people Hillary Clinton's campaign staff explicitly said she hates) what they want. Traditional universities just offer a lot of bloviation and buffoonery that some people hope will help them find a job but don't value or respect very much personally.
Every time a private school succeeds, the government comes in and puts a stop to it because the government has to control everything and we have to understand ourselves as pitiful, helpless minions of the government.