Software is a force multiplier - it doesn't inherently do anything, it allows people to multiply whatever they do.
It's good that software isn't a super-simple thing to do, because we don't need to multiply the level of retardation in the world.
If software becomes easy enough for everyone to write then everyone will write software, meaning every fucktard on the planet has equal influence over the world to the non-fucktards
The fucktards are more numerous so this would basically be an extinction level event.
$3m seems like a pretty small sum to raise via crowdfunding for something able to impact so many things. There's kickstarter, patreon, and experiment.com that I know of offhand.
Every time that Python is mentioned someone raise the point about whitespace.
That's because idiotic rules around whitespace are the equivalent of a gingerbread house infested with roaches - it's a fucking irredeemable joke which only makes it to the level of "sad" because people take it seriously.
Hahaha! As though they are capable of stopping that. This data will all be stolen and sold.
No data has ever been "hacked," "stolen," or otherwise removed unintentionally from a data miner. "Hacked" and "stolen" are just ways of saying "we sold it and didn't want our stock price to fall."
There was no minimum wage anywhere at the time. Corporations basically beat their workers for not working everywhere then, let alone revolting (company town or not.) Company towns, meanwhile, are still legal constructs and would function radically differently given the working standards of today (in an all-around better way for employees at that.)
Company scrip didn't take the place of minimum wage, it added to it. You still have the supply issues of any town, the only distinction is that a company town provides additional benefits for employees in the form of greater access to goods due to the cost savings of scrip for applicable goods. It adds the burden of managing those supply chains and the associated economy to the company in question, which most were not cut out to manage simply because it's a complex problem but still did a much better job of it than their peers. You have to keep in mind who it was used for: blue collar workers who wouldn't exactly have afforded mansions to begin with, it was a net win for them relative to what they would have had otherwise. Applying the company town model to something like Google for example might mean people making $500,000+/year now might be reduced to $80,000/year+scrip, but if scrip covers housing+food+utilities in full it's still a net win for them, since in the San Francisco area they could easily make that much along with their partner and still barely get by.
Literally all companies were like that when company towns were a thing. The big difference between a company town and the population of a company in a normal town is that the same dollar value in wages is worth more in a company town because it doesn't get knocked down 50% on pay, 50% on food, 50% on rent, etc during taxes (counting both sides of the equation there, not just income tax and sales tax but what the person they are buying from pays in taxes on that transaction as well when factoring in taxes on their income.) Company scrip was the defining characteristic of a company town, the town was just the infrastructure in which the scrip was usable. Scrip didn't get taxed so long as it was circulating within a company - a modern example of this was the Microsoft store, where until a few years ago employees could purchase MS products basically for free with an internal credit system - they ended up getting in trouble for allowing cash sales when employees would tell their friends and family about it and had to close it down as a result, but the key factor to such a system is avoid double, triple, and quadruple taxation because the distributor, middleman, seller, and buyer don't all have to shell out a percentage of the transaction going from distributor to buyer in taxes - it effectively means a scrip equal to a dollar officially is equal to about 6-12 dollars in actuality.
It really depends on the company and the people. Company towns existed in places where there was no option to move away for the company - the resource they needed was in or around the company town. People working there had all the power in that scenario, but it didn't eliminate scarcity: it was still a single revenue stream supporting an entire town (as in, all of their needs.) Even in more traditional towns with a single company it's effectively the same resource scarcity issue at play, the only difference is that in non-company-towns the company doesn't take on the immobility of a company town because it can move if the workers are non-compliant. A company town is a tool, just like any incorporated town (e.g. "town,") it can be used for good or bad but more often than not the workers had more say because the company could very rarely just pack their shit and leave if they didn't like the demands of their workforce. Company towns went out of style largely because of this exact "issue," companies who could abuse their workforce slightly more due to the ability to say "fine, don't like the pay then we'll go to X town because they'll appreciate us" ended up surviving whereas company towns didn't (outside of the few long-lived ones which happened to be founded literally on top of a mine.)
There's no such thing as a communist paradise because communism is just bait used to trick morons into supporting psychopaths. A company town is a tax-avoidance scheme on behalf of a population, whereas other such schemes are on behalf of a company.
A company town is a way to avoid excessive taxes and allow a town which formed under a singular revenue stream (e.g. mining and lumber towns were big on them) to pool resources tax-free via company scrip and allow workers to have a stronger say in how the corporation was run than a more common top-down model. Company towns were more like town-owned company branches than company-owned towns, the citizens would run everything and they could do so without bleeding themselves on taxes with every transaction in the process.
What happens in San Francisco is a bunch of companies working for themselves to lock workers into their structure and skirt taxes while ensuring those unpaid taxes prevent people from quitting due to the cost of living issues in the surrounding city.
You're comparing a method which allows workers greater control of their lives vs one which allows corporations greater control over people, and through your own ignorance call them the same when they are entirely antithetical in nature.
You described a company town, a substantially different beast from feudalism. The latter is a bunch of little shit fiefdoms incapable of meeting all the needs of residents, the former is potentially capable of meeting all the needs of residents (and being held accountable by them, much like any other town incorporated in the US.)
The effect of this will be to make Silicon Valley less appealing as a place for tech savvy people to work and in turn drive down the divide between low class and high class people in the area. It's an overwhelmingly good move (for once) which will force those haughty cunts to suffer some of the regulation and policy ideas they are so willing to inflict on the rest of the world. The only thing San Francisco could feasibly manage in the short term to top this would be mandatory installation of Tesla's earthquake devices in the foundation of all their buildings.
Intel is backing the spectre/meltdown fixes into the "10nm" line to avoid spooking investors. It's a multi-year (at least) redesign because they have to completely reengineer their platform in order to get the backdoors fixed (without breaking the intentional backdoors.)
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But might be tough since it might only be a matter of time before someone makes a mechanism by which to filter out auto-generated "bugs."
This doesn't sound like any university that I have experience with, and I went to one of the more liberal ones.
So you were indoctrinated and you don't even realize it with the benefit of hindsight? Why do you feel like that was worth stating?
You've got that backwards. STEM are intellectuals, liberal arts are the anti-intellectuals painting themselves as intellectuals.
Not being able to edit is a joke.
Editing is for people who care what idiots on the internet think of them, really lifeless losers in that lot, like Reddit.
Software is a force multiplier - it doesn't inherently do anything, it allows people to multiply whatever they do.
It's good that software isn't a super-simple thing to do, because we don't need to multiply the level of retardation in the world.
If software becomes easy enough for everyone to write then everyone will write software, meaning every fucktard on the planet has equal influence over the world to the non-fucktards
The fucktards are more numerous so this would basically be an extinction level event.
$3m seems like a pretty small sum to raise via crowdfunding for something able to impact so many things. There's kickstarter, patreon, and experiment.com that I know of offhand.
I guess that makes DC the crooked treason politician shithole Capitol, eh?
Sounds about right. All cities are terrible.
The only official title held by San Francisco is "butt fucking capital of the world."
How dare you insult the greatest president who has ever lived.
Well Rick, it is complicated problem.
It's not, fuck off.
That's literally the core "feature" of Python. It's nothing but a whitespace-enforced wrapper for c.
Every time that Python is mentioned someone raise the point about whitespace.
That's because idiotic rules around whitespace are the equivalent of a gingerbread house infested with roaches - it's a fucking irredeemable joke which only makes it to the level of "sad" because people take it seriously.
No.
Hahaha! As though they are capable of stopping that. This data will all be stolen and sold.
No data has ever been "hacked," "stolen," or otherwise removed unintentionally from a data miner. "Hacked" and "stolen" are just ways of saying "we sold it and didn't want our stock price to fall."
There was no minimum wage anywhere at the time. Corporations basically beat their workers for not working everywhere then, let alone revolting (company town or not.) Company towns, meanwhile, are still legal constructs and would function radically differently given the working standards of today (in an all-around better way for employees at that.)
There was no such concept of minimum wage yet "they weren't 'payed' in cash" - interesting "contradiction" you found there.
Company scrip didn't take the place of minimum wage, it added to it. You still have the supply issues of any town, the only distinction is that a company town provides additional benefits for employees in the form of greater access to goods due to the cost savings of scrip for applicable goods. It adds the burden of managing those supply chains and the associated economy to the company in question, which most were not cut out to manage simply because it's a complex problem but still did a much better job of it than their peers. You have to keep in mind who it was used for: blue collar workers who wouldn't exactly have afforded mansions to begin with, it was a net win for them relative to what they would have had otherwise. Applying the company town model to something like Google for example might mean people making $500,000+/year now might be reduced to $80,000/year+scrip, but if scrip covers housing+food+utilities in full it's still a net win for them, since in the San Francisco area they could easily make that much along with their partner and still barely get by.
Says the person who believes in a "communist paradise?" Funny.
Literally all companies were like that when company towns were a thing. The big difference between a company town and the population of a company in a normal town is that the same dollar value in wages is worth more in a company town because it doesn't get knocked down 50% on pay, 50% on food, 50% on rent, etc during taxes (counting both sides of the equation there, not just income tax and sales tax but what the person they are buying from pays in taxes on that transaction as well when factoring in taxes on their income.) Company scrip was the defining characteristic of a company town, the town was just the infrastructure in which the scrip was usable. Scrip didn't get taxed so long as it was circulating within a company - a modern example of this was the Microsoft store, where until a few years ago employees could purchase MS products basically for free with an internal credit system - they ended up getting in trouble for allowing cash sales when employees would tell their friends and family about it and had to close it down as a result, but the key factor to such a system is avoid double, triple, and quadruple taxation because the distributor, middleman, seller, and buyer don't all have to shell out a percentage of the transaction going from distributor to buyer in taxes - it effectively means a scrip equal to a dollar officially is equal to about 6-12 dollars in actuality.
It really depends on the company and the people. Company towns existed in places where there was no option to move away for the company - the resource they needed was in or around the company town. People working there had all the power in that scenario, but it didn't eliminate scarcity: it was still a single revenue stream supporting an entire town (as in, all of their needs.) Even in more traditional towns with a single company it's effectively the same resource scarcity issue at play, the only difference is that in non-company-towns the company doesn't take on the immobility of a company town because it can move if the workers are non-compliant. A company town is a tool, just like any incorporated town (e.g. "town,") it can be used for good or bad but more often than not the workers had more say because the company could very rarely just pack their shit and leave if they didn't like the demands of their workforce. Company towns went out of style largely because of this exact "issue," companies who could abuse their workforce slightly more due to the ability to say "fine, don't like the pay then we'll go to X town because they'll appreciate us" ended up surviving whereas company towns didn't (outside of the few long-lived ones which happened to be founded literally on top of a mine.)
There's no such thing as a communist paradise because communism is just bait used to trick morons into supporting psychopaths. A company town is a tax-avoidance scheme on behalf of a population, whereas other such schemes are on behalf of a company.
A company town is a way to avoid excessive taxes and allow a town which formed under a singular revenue stream (e.g. mining and lumber towns were big on them) to pool resources tax-free via company scrip and allow workers to have a stronger say in how the corporation was run than a more common top-down model. Company towns were more like town-owned company branches than company-owned towns, the citizens would run everything and they could do so without bleeding themselves on taxes with every transaction in the process.
What happens in San Francisco is a bunch of companies working for themselves to lock workers into their structure and skirt taxes while ensuring those unpaid taxes prevent people from quitting due to the cost of living issues in the surrounding city.
You're comparing a method which allows workers greater control of their lives vs one which allows corporations greater control over people, and through your own ignorance call them the same when they are entirely antithetical in nature.
You described a company town, a substantially different beast from feudalism. The latter is a bunch of little shit fiefdoms incapable of meeting all the needs of residents, the former is potentially capable of meeting all the needs of residents (and being held accountable by them, much like any other town incorporated in the US.)
The effect of this will be to make Silicon Valley less appealing as a place for tech savvy people to work and in turn drive down the divide between low class and high class people in the area. It's an overwhelmingly good move (for once) which will force those haughty cunts to suffer some of the regulation and policy ideas they are so willing to inflict on the rest of the world. The only thing San Francisco could feasibly manage in the short term to top this would be mandatory installation of Tesla's earthquake devices in the foundation of all their buildings.
Intel is backing the spectre/meltdown fixes into the "10nm" line to avoid spooking investors. It's a multi-year (at least) redesign because they have to completely reengineer their platform in order to get the backdoors fixed (without breaking the intentional backdoors.)