Americans sometimes wonder why real wages have stayed stagnant since the 1960s. The simple answer is supply and demand: in response to the toxic effect of unions, businesses have been lobbying for us to dump more people into the workforce. This increases supply and thus reduces wages, which allows business to counter-act unions. We have been flooding the workforce since the 1960s with women, Hart-Cellar Act third world labor, illegal immigrants, H1Bs, and now digital helpers like computers and (soon) robots. Each one of these dumps cuts wages. What Trump is doing is pure business logic: he is reducing supply, increasing demand, and therefore, raising wages.
We tried globalism. It meant that everyone else was more important than we were, and had a claim to raiding what we produced for themselves. It also made us the world bad guys as we tried to keep order.
Let us instead focus on fixing our own failing society, and let the rest of the world take care of itself.
If our education system ran off of immigrant dollars, that was never sustainable or good, and we should celebrate its departure.
Make it decriminalized to cross a road while texting, but indemnify any driver who hits someone crossing the road while texting.
In this way, natural selection will pare from among us the clueless people who are unable to self-entertain or stay alert to reality around them for even thirty seconds.
Attention spans will rise, as will average IQs. The many bodies that pave the streets will serve as a warning for others. Gradually, society will become more thoughtful and concentration will improve.
Too many of our laws try to protect the stupid, clueless, vapid and deceptive from themselves. We cannot do this, and it is not to our benefit to do so. Let them perish and have sensible people take their places.
For most maker/open source/DIY projects, the audience are fanatics who will put up with a kludgy piece of junk as long as they can say they built it themselves.
If they want to get wider acceptance, they need something which presents few such obstacles.
Raspberry Pi, before Google got involved, was a great example of spanning the two worlds: a simple, easy, no-BS project board.
Once the usual Silicon Valley suspects get involved, I suspect it will be configured to print out feminist sayings by default...
Now there seems to be a new breed of forum user who a) hangs out at a forum socially all day b) does not bother to help at all and c) gets a kick out of telling you things like "what a stupid question" or "nobody will help you with that here" or similar...
This is far from new. I remember this behavior from dial-up BBSes in the 1980s. However, these people were ignored and sometimes had their comments removed by Sysops because they obviously had zero value, and when every byte of disk space counts, you drop the obvious turds. Now, however, the enforcement model on most forums has shifted from "protect the quality content" to "protect vulnerable users" and so passive bullying is totally acceptable but if someone were to call these users out on it, they would be banned. This is why it is tolerated now, and proliferating, because it lets nobodies act like swaggering powerful internet gods.
I mention the FreeBSD community because they are notorious for this. Users write in with normal questions, and the default response -- people seem to rush to their keyboards to do this -- is to accuse the user of being stupid, incorrect or under-knowledgeable about the operating system. Others defend them in order to keep BSD their own little special club, and to do that, they need to exile outsiders, which allowing this sociopathic behavior does nicely through alienating those outsiders.
As the CNN megapixel graphic showed, the Trump crowd was larger than reported. This seems a silly thing to fight over, since Trump's supporters are less likely to attend an inauguration than a rally anyway.
The big point here however is that 1984 was a fraud written in response to a book written a dozen years earlier, Brave New World. In that saner view of humanity, it was our desire for Utopia that led us to a state like that in the movie Idiocracy: neutered, pointless people living in ugly cities, driven only by desires for pleasure, and so vapid that they would die out without medically-supervised, mandatory reproduction.
Why must all hardware be only in black and silver?
Apple did only a few things right, and attractive hardware is one of them (the others were: having a gadget ready to use after unboxing, and streamlining the interface to eliminate fiddly, irrelevant and distracting bits).
Every time I look at new machines, I am struck by how we insist on making them uglier than dump trucks.
Whoredom is a job or something you do to otherwise prove your value to others.
We ejected the geniuses, and replaced them with Silicon Valley nitwits. All the big tasks are conquered, and now we're shuffling the chairs on the deck of the Titanic, hoping to invent the next Twitter (which seems to be going bankrupt anyway).
The internet is boring since it became basically six big sites with all the traffic, and the small blogs got squeezed out.
Even worse is that no one in authority noticed this happening and complained about it.
So no, computing is not very cool anymore. Prepping and home fabrication might be.
Over time, every human venture goes to a bad place. Why?
Because suddenly it has dependents, and those tend toward rent-seeking, and then that influences leadership to try to "keep the herd together" instead of admitting that it must cull the weak.
So now Google is an abusive monopolist because its leaders look out there, and see all those smiling hopeful faces, and realize they have to keep growing in order to keep everyone happy, even though that means (1) worse things for the consumer and (2) eventual doom.
They just can't stop themselves... ah well, it takes a tragedy for humans to learn, and even then, it only takes for awhile. If we filtered out the stupidity, we would be working 2-hour days and enjoying life, but why not suffer for the pretense of equality.
Extremely shoddy hardware, with the cheapest possible components and glitchy, jerky operation owing to defects in communication between the glitchy slow components and other parts of the hardware. You would do much better to buy ACER or Lenovo, which is why they were the big winners in sales figures last year while ASUS did poorly.
1984 argues that humanity is destroyed by totalitarianism; Brave New World by Aldous Huxley argues that human individualism creates the conditions for totalitarian rule.
He wrote it in 2016, and I finally got around to having a copy. An insightful look at existential malaise in Europe through the filter of Muslim immigration, Catholicism and hookers.
We have not been able to identify the intrusion associated with this theft.
So there's either a backdoor into the system that is still open, or this is an internal breach, like an employee stealing information to finance his ($300k) retirement?
The internet is the new daytime television. The people who were hanging around on it in the 90s are long gone. Now it's people who earn under $40,000 per year and have no ideas, are often on government disability aid for mental health, retired and lonely, drunk basement NEETbeards, etc. They are not worth exploiting because they have no money. Not to mention that especially on Yahoo, most of the data will be fake.
Taxi companies take on the burden of vetting, licensing, requiring education on street locations, and the like for their workers.
To avoid flooding the market, they ensure that only a limited number of drivers are able to be licensed.
They buy expensive insurance and work with law enforcement.
Uber is succeeding not because it is disruptive, but because is new and therefore has not been battered by misfortunes over time into adopting a similar model.
It is cheap because it passes all of these costs onto you, and onto its insurance companies, who have not yet figured out the full scope of the risk involved, mainly because they will make a tidy profit selling what should be expensive insurance cheaply because Uber is expanding.
Those who have any brains at Uber intend to build up the business and sell out because they know their fortune cannot last.
They have some legitimate reasons, like the fact that in a multicultural society every group wants to dominate every other, and terrorism is a good way.
They could also be entirely nonsense, pursuing little old ladies for downloading unlicensed episodes of "C.H.I.P.S."
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Americans sometimes wonder why real wages have stayed stagnant since the 1960s. The simple answer is supply and demand: in response to the toxic effect of unions, businesses have been lobbying for us to dump more people into the workforce. This increases supply and thus reduces wages, which allows business to counter-act unions. We have been flooding the workforce since the 1960s with women, Hart-Cellar Act third world labor, illegal immigrants, H1Bs, and now digital helpers like computers and (soon) robots. Each one of these dumps cuts wages. What Trump is doing is pure business logic: he is reducing supply, increasing demand, and therefore, raising wages.
We tried globalism. It meant that everyone else was more important than we were, and had a claim to raiding what we produced for themselves. It also made us the world bad guys as we tried to keep order.
Let us instead focus on fixing our own failing society, and let the rest of the world take care of itself.
If our education system ran off of immigrant dollars, that was never sustainable or good, and we should celebrate its departure.
We just want to go our own way. The rest of the world will go its way. Who can argue with the fairness of that?
Perl is easy to write, hard to write well.
Sort of like death metal.
It is hated because you have to use independent thought, and have quality of thought, to deliver anything but flaky gibberish.
At the same time, you can do anything with it, and across multiple platforms especially, it is the fastest way to get anything done.
So eat it, Stack Overflow commenters. You're just people googling your way to a paycheck anyway.
Make it decriminalized to cross a road while texting, but indemnify any driver who hits someone crossing the road while texting.
In this way, natural selection will pare from among us the clueless people who are unable to self-entertain or stay alert to reality around them for even thirty seconds.
Attention spans will rise, as will average IQs. The many bodies that pave the streets will serve as a warning for others. Gradually, society will become more thoughtful and concentration will improve.
Too many of our laws try to protect the stupid, clueless, vapid and deceptive from themselves. We cannot do this, and it is not to our benefit to do so. Let them perish and have sensible people take their places.
For most maker/open source/DIY projects, the audience are fanatics who will put up with a kludgy piece of junk as long as they can say they built it themselves.
If they want to get wider acceptance, they need something which presents few such obstacles.
Raspberry Pi, before Google got involved, was a great example of spanning the two worlds: a simple, easy, no-BS project board.
Once the usual Silicon Valley suspects get involved, I suspect it will be configured to print out feminist sayings by default...
One correction:
This is far from new. I remember this behavior from dial-up BBSes in the 1980s. However, these people were ignored and sometimes had their comments removed by Sysops because they obviously had zero value, and when every byte of disk space counts, you drop the obvious turds. Now, however, the enforcement model on most forums has shifted from "protect the quality content" to "protect vulnerable users" and so passive bullying is totally acceptable but if someone were to call these users out on it, they would be banned. This is why it is tolerated now, and proliferating, because it lets nobodies act like swaggering powerful internet gods.
I mention the FreeBSD community because they are notorious for this. Users write in with normal questions, and the default response -- people seem to rush to their keyboards to do this -- is to accuse the user of being stupid, incorrect or under-knowledgeable about the operating system. Others defend them in order to keep BSD their own little special club, and to do that, they need to exile outsiders, which allowing this sociopathic behavior does nicely through alienating those outsiders.
As the CNN megapixel graphic showed, the Trump crowd was larger than reported. This seems a silly thing to fight over, since Trump's supporters are less likely to attend an inauguration than a rally anyway.
The big point here however is that 1984 was a fraud written in response to a book written a dozen years earlier, Brave New World. In that saner view of humanity, it was our desire for Utopia that led us to a state like that in the movie Idiocracy: neutered, pointless people living in ugly cities, driven only by desires for pleasure, and so vapid that they would die out without medically-supervised, mandatory reproduction.
Why must all hardware be only in black and silver?
Apple did only a few things right, and attractive hardware is one of them (the others were: having a gadget ready to use after unboxing, and streamlining the interface to eliminate fiddly, irrelevant and distracting bits).
Every time I look at new machines, I am struck by how we insist on making them uglier than dump trucks.
WIkipedia is 100% bullshit designed so that Google queries always get a solid answer. No one with a brain treats it as anything more than graffiti.
A hobby is something you work on out of passion.
Whoredom is a job or something you do to otherwise prove your value to others.
We ejected the geniuses, and replaced them with Silicon Valley nitwits. All the big tasks are conquered, and now we're shuffling the chairs on the deck of the Titanic, hoping to invent the next Twitter (which seems to be going bankrupt anyway).
The internet is boring since it became basically six big sites with all the traffic, and the small blogs got squeezed out.
Even worse is that no one in authority noticed this happening and complained about it.
So no, computing is not very cool anymore. Prepping and home fabrication might be.
Over time, every human venture goes to a bad place. Why?
Because suddenly it has dependents, and those tend toward rent-seeking, and then that influences leadership to try to "keep the herd together" instead of admitting that it must cull the weak.
So now Google is an abusive monopolist because its leaders look out there, and see all those smiling hopeful faces, and realize they have to keep growing in order to keep everyone happy, even though that means (1) worse things for the consumer and (2) eventual doom.
They just can't stop themselves... ah well, it takes a tragedy for humans to learn, and even then, it only takes for awhile. If we filtered out the stupidity, we would be working 2-hour days and enjoying life, but why not suffer for the pretense of equality.
That is why it looks like Patrick Stewart (who is most famous for playing a French ethnic character) and why it was removed.
That way, whatever you type into the search engine, there will be authoritative-looking results.
And yet, Wikipedia is a group graffiti wall, gamed by spammers, Leftist ideologues and basement NEETbeards with megalomania.
Extremely shoddy hardware, with the cheapest possible components and glitchy, jerky operation owing to defects in communication between the glitchy slow components and other parts of the hardware. You would do much better to buy ACER or Lenovo, which is why they were the big winners in sales figures last year while ASUS did poorly.
1984 argues that humanity is destroyed by totalitarianism; Brave New World by Aldous Huxley argues that human individualism creates the conditions for totalitarian rule.
The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, by Samuel P. Huntington.
"To Build A Fire.
Go to the source: Alternative Right
He wrote it in 2016, and I finally got around to having a copy. An insightful look at existential malaise in Europe through the filter of Muslim immigration, Catholicism and hookers.
So there's either a backdoor into the system that is still open, or this is an internal breach, like an employee stealing information to finance his ($300k) retirement?
When the herd rules us, our leaders are always this bad. Thanks for the laugh however!
The internet is the new daytime television. The people who were hanging around on it in the 90s are long gone. Now it's people who earn under $40,000 per year and have no ideas, are often on government disability aid for mental health, retired and lonely, drunk basement NEETbeards, etc. They are not worth exploiting because they have no money. Not to mention that especially on Yahoo, most of the data will be fake.
Taxi companies take on the burden of vetting, licensing, requiring education on street locations, and the like for their workers.
To avoid flooding the market, they ensure that only a limited number of drivers are able to be licensed.
They buy expensive insurance and work with law enforcement.
Uber is succeeding not because it is disruptive, but because is new and therefore has not been battered by misfortunes over time into adopting a similar model.
It is cheap because it passes all of these costs onto you, and onto its insurance companies, who have not yet figured out the full scope of the risk involved, mainly because they will make a tidy profit selling what should be expensive insurance cheaply because Uber is expanding.
Those who have any brains at Uber intend to build up the business and sell out because they know their fortune cannot last.
One wonders why they want access to these emails.
They have some legitimate reasons, like the fact that in a multicultural society every group wants to dominate every other, and terrorism is a good way.
They could also be entirely nonsense, pursuing little old ladies for downloading unlicensed episodes of "C.H.I.P.S."
No one will tell the whole story.
End times democracy, business as usual.