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  1. What are you talking about? The poorest 50% of the US pays 0 taxes.

    Your claims are false on many, many levels.

  2. My buddy at MicroSoft said the same thing about it being more about avoiding false positives and pruning too many people out.

  3. Re:Do you have a better metric for Hiring? on Programmers Are Confessing Their Coding Sins To Protest a Broken Job Interview Process (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    You can find developers who can say this?

    And those who can ... how can you be confident it was them?

  4. Usually people don't seem to finish these things. They tend to be a lot of work for "maybe" a job offer.

  5. The memo is Uber is not progressive enough and so tech workers are not to like them.

    Also, you are not capable of forming your own opinions, you insensitive clods !!

  6. Re:this one didn't get the memo on Female Engineer Sues Tesla, Describing a Culture Of 'Pervasive Harassment' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    You picked up on it. Tech workers don't understand women because they don't understand what it means to be a person.

    Their attitude leans toward, "But I can make apps and fine tune databases so I'm a demi god and can treat humans as the Olympians did."

    I'd like to think that as a tech worker I've gotten around this by staying grounded, but it's open to interpretation (of course).

    There's a saying, "Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up."

  7. this one didn't get the memo on Female Engineer Sues Tesla, Describing a Culture Of 'Pervasive Harassment' (theguardian.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Tech workers skew progressive and have a natural understanding about women and respect them very much.

    Tesla, as a recipient of large government subsidies is very progressive and understanding about these things.

    If this woman is going to imply otherwise, it sort of suggests she didn't get the memo about how great progressives are with women (as have other feminists such as Michelle Bachman, etc).

    She seems to not be following the guidelines which clearly say people like Juanita Broadrick, Jennifer Flowers, Paula Jones, (or Al Gore or Eliot Spitzer's accusers or Hillary getting child molesters off with intentionally faulty polygraph tests) just need to be quiet and you can only speak up if a non-progressive person treats you disrespectfully (i.e. Trump).

    So, really, this woman got what she deserved because she's making the democrats look bad here. Right?

  8. Re:Censorship made easy on Google Releases an AI Tool For Publishers To Spot and Weed Out Toxic Comments (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Huh? How would Eric Schmit -the IT directory for Hillary Clinton's election campaign- allow any kind of politically motivated censorship?

  9. mode complexity on 'Social Media Needs A Travel Mode' (idlewords.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    As a former C++ app engineer, I've found adding "modes" increases the source and test complexity and often end up not being used very much.

    A sprawling generalization, but that's what I've got ...

  10. That must be why Sweden has so many content producers who are fully assured to be paid for their efforts.

    Oh wait ... no one makes content people want to watch in the EU.

  11. throwing gas on the fire on University Offers Course To Help Sniff Out and Refute 'Bullshit' (engadget.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You think more curriculum and snobbery will solve this problem? Do tell!

  12. No AM bc SV hates Rush Limbaugh on FCC Chairman Wants It To Be Easier To Listen To Free FM Radio On Your Smartphone (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    None of these smart devices allow AM radio because everyone other than Peter Thiel in Silicon Valley wants anyone to listen to AM since most AM listeners are in Rush Limbaugh's audience.

    Thanks, tech companies for your dystopian liberalism.

  13. Same for headlines on Nearly 56,000 Bridges Called Structurally Deficient (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Nearly 56000 headlines are deficient in remarkability

  14. existential .. ? on Lost Winston Churchill Essay Reveals His Thoughts On Alien Life (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    It's existential in that it addresses breaking apart the frozen sea inside each person?

    Or its highly reflective with a possibility of enabling us to confront our own superficiality?

    Oh wait. This is like "existential" according to the Charlie Gibsons and intellectual snobs who don't know what it means to have an existence.

    Surely if a lot of money "exists" in my bank account than I'm existential also.

  15. Re:wow, way to limit female opportunities on RSA: Ban On Booth Babes Has Been No Big Deal (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    That's where this gets very gray in my opinion.

    Typically booth babes don't dress like strippers, but what about a woman in IT who happens to be very good looking?

    Can she go as long as she doesn't wear makeup? And if she does are people going to think her and her company are trying to get around the rules?

    If so, what's to stop companies from getting very good looking women and just not letting them wear makeup and giving them some minimal instruction in IT?

    Like affirmative action this is just too superficial of a requirement to make any meaningful difference.

  16. Why use NYT to keep score? on Intel To Invest $7 Billion in Factory in Arizona, Employ 3,000 People (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Only 20 to 40% of Americans think the NYTimes is unbiased ... so why are they the score keepers on this.

    And why is the premise that unless the government is forking out money Trump had no say in it. This presupposes government corruption is what fuels and improves the economy (when the US became a world power long before there was a FED or any other federal government economic aparatus).

  17. Re:Censorship. on Wikipedia Bans Daily Mail As 'Unreliable' Source (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    A TON of examples.

    The Washington Post reported the Kremlin was hacking into voting machines. They later retracted the story and put it on page 3. In fact the FEC contacted voting machines in Georgia during hte 2016 election.

    CNN also reported on completely debunked BuzzFeed claims about bizarre sex practices of Donald Trump. It's not that they didn't vet their sources either. Ben Smith, the editor at BuzzFeed claimed the fact that national intelligence agencies were asking about the truth of the source mean they were completely justified in reporting them as news.

    In other words we are swimming in political hackery semi-disguised as news, but Daily Mail gets punished for not towing the ideological line.

  18. Re:Showing your bias, eh? on US House Passes Bill Requiring Warrants To Search Old Emails (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    It's shifting. Not as bad as it used to be.

  19. Re:What's with this fixation? on Disney Thinks High Schools Should Let Kids Take Coding In Place of Foreign Languages · · Score: 1

    Companies insist programmers are only capable for 15 years after graduation, so they currently have a limited supply.

    By having more people who are capable for 15 years they think they'll have more supply, indirectly bringing down price.

    A better solution: realize the age discrimination for software developers is just tech shamanism and throw it out the window.

    A lot of people refuse to enter or leave the field because they think they can only do it for 10 years.

  20. Re:An immigrant CEO on Microsoft Seeks Trump Order Exemption for Workers With Visas (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    What did Obama accomplish before getting elected?

    What did he accomplish after getting elected?

    Please don't include that speech at the DNC convention as an accomplishment.

  21. Re:take a hike on Microsoft Seeks Trump Order Exemption for Workers With Visas (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I know several tech workers in the research triangle park area NC who can't get jobs because they are over 50.

  22. Why not ban the doxxers? on Reddit Bans Far-Right Groups Altright and Alternativeright (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Why not just ban the doxxer instead of the whole sub-reddit?

    If alt-right is gertting used as a blanket way to refer to Republicans and/or conservatives, is the government banned too?

    It sounds a little ridiculous, but I'm wondering if that is what reddit is doing.

    And no, I don't trust reddit to decide what is good and bad for me. It sounds like the "doxxer" was trying to apprehend a criminal ... in which case all the conduct agreements of Reddit are out the window (i.e. I'm not going to follow Reddit anti-dox rules and get thrown into the slammer for aiding and abetting, etc).

  23. Re: Reddit = a bunch of cowardly idiots. on Reddit Bans Far-Right Groups Altright and Alternativeright (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Just moved to the South and am disturbed to occasionally find some racism here.

    What makes this much, much worse is that the word "racism" is thrown around so very loosely in the national conversation that no one believes it when they hear it.

  24. It's hard for people on slashdot who live for pirated episodes of GOTR, philandering with their peers, and fantasizing about building moon bases to understand that life may in fact have something to offer to them personally.

    If we're going to put anyone out of their misery it should be the murderers who want to euthanize anything that moves.

  25. Who are you to decide who contributes to society?

    Shall we put the lives of people in the hands an anonymous coward?