The company that professes sustainable living, equality, environmentalism and then...
Gave birth to the touchbar MBP.
QED.
The devil himself probably golf-clapped and wiped a tear away when witnessing the birth of this product for how it almost exists as a Manichean opposite of Apple's professed values.
I see new home construction all around us. What I see is a dearth of housing that is suitable for young families as opposed to middle age, dual income families. You want a $600k+ home? No problem. We have a ton of them. What you won't see is anything in the $200k-$300k in major regions that isn't either in the ghetto or looks like it should be.
This is one of the fatal flaws in "free trade." You can't have "free trade" in land and housing. If wages harmonize between the US and China such that an American worker's wage goes down 25%, the cost of land and housing won't go down with it.
Go into any big office or typical start up and say that someone does not change gender by identifying as another gender (including "non-binary" genders) or going through a "transition" and you'll be treated far worse than this.
Because it's bigotry to say that gender dysphoria is a mental illness wherein the brain does not recognize the material truth represented in one's genetic code and post-puberty sexual characteristics.
The W3C should just deprecate the ability to open new windows programmatically. 95% of its use on the Internet is for shady advertising. The other 5% are apps that provide bad UX. In other words, it has no legitimate use.
Turns out the entire FBI leadership was, and mostly still is, a rat's nest of opposition to him filled with unethical bureaucrats who think it's their right to have "insurance policies against the President" among other things.
If this were happening in 2009, the Democrats would have been giving Obama--rightly--carte blanch to purge the entire agency's leadership above the level of GS15. It doesn't matter what you think of Trump or Obama. Neither of them were Hitler or Stalin or anything like that. The only proper response from the federal civil service to their every lawful order is "yes, sir." Anything else is insubordination; this is approaching mutiny.
Disney bought 21st Century Fox. All of it. That means the Foul Rodent Empire is increasingly in a monopolistic position in the movie, TV and sports content fields, plus they have a nice chunk of Hulu.
But thank God Netflix might not face a little discrimination from Comcast or Verizon if they don't work out an agreement for all of that data that floods their networks. That'll save Netflix from one day being just another acquisition target of Disney at a reduced price after Disney chokes off most of the desirable content and forces Netflix to produce its own or go broke.
The Force Awakens was a good formulaic Star Wars movie, but it was a mixture of the first movies with a lot of feminist fan service in the form of Mary Sue--I mean Rey. The crew behind Rogue One was making a lot of SJW noise on social media, including calling the Empire a white supremacist regime (FFS, how can you be so lacking in imagination and still hold a creative writing job?!!!)
SJWs tend to flock together to talk up stuff like this if they like it and think it serves their purposes. So my guess is that the truth is closer to the Variety review than the others. It will be a potentially awesome Star Wars movie almost ruined by Current Year, American politics and angst imposed on a setting where they make absolutely no sense.
They're competitors. Similarly, Google and Amazon use the same infrastructure (the Internet). Net neutrality should allow them to compete on the shared infrastructure, just as others compete on their shared infrastructure.
Google is a competitor to the big ISPs via Google Fiber. Google wants neutrality on their networks for its streaming services, but you know it's not going to scratch their backs if they want full and undiscriminated access to their networks.
Time and again, it's the sunk cost fallacy. A system that an organization might have spent a few million dollars to build is just not shaping up into anything they can use, but they keep at it rather than ditching it and seeing what they can do to change things.
What ironic about this is that I think agile actually encourages the sunk cost fallacy because teams will go "oohhh we can 'pivot' a little each sprint." Uh, no. If it's deep-fried dog shit for an architecture, and design you're not going to "pivot" out of this. It gets even worse when you have a management culture that doesn't understand refactoring; most of the agile teams I've been on have had managers who flat out don't care about technical debt and think they can default on it which reinforces the problems with the sunk cost fallacy down the road.
For example, consider the Trump investigations. Whatever you think of them, I guarantee you that even if they find unequivocal, smoking-gun level, zero-bias evidence against him, his millions of fans will immediately brush it off as "fake news"
Just like literally 90% of the Hillary Clinton supporters I know brush off all of the evidence against her, which is far more serious than anything against Trump. Heck, it's probably the most serious set of charges since the Rosenbergs just on the Uranium One pay-for-play.
See, the left loves to be all smug about how they're evidence-driven, how they live in a "reality-based community" and yet... you have tons of them who seriously believe as Ellen Degeneres does that they were no scandals under Obama. None. All made up. Obama literally did nothing but the right thing and only mean right-wingers ever accused him of less than sainthood.
Can't say I've seen much of it myself, but I imagine most inappropriate behavior would happen when there's nobody else around. I mean if you're engaging in behavior most people would find objectionable it's pretty stupid to do it in front of witnesses. As for flirting and persistence most people have a pretty good idea what's acceptable at any stage of a courting process. Like, you don't start by grabbing her tits and ass or pulling your dick out. If she doesn't fancy you keep trying, but if you're clearly being rejected then stop.
Again, maybe it's a cultural thing, but a lot of the boorish behavior making the news is just not something you hear about in "fly over country" and the south in the workplace. Where I live, you whip your dick out in front of a colleague you've got a greater than 90% chance of getting fired with cause the moment she utters the words "he showed me his dick." Management won't even ask if consent was involved; whip your dick out and it's security has you by the arm, you're getting a gentle push toward your car. If you just grabbed your colleague's boobs, it'd probably involve asking "do you want us to call the police too?"
Fact is, Weinstein and Lauer would probably be under criminal investigation in most of the deep south. The shit these men pulled on women would not fly before corporate counsel or a court of law around here.
The feminists find they miss it because it means men either don't find them attractive anymore or are at least just flat out ignoring them.
I have to admit I don't see the connection with this one... Yeah, having people delude themselves and acting like assholes isn't harassment, it's being an asshole.
A normal man who flirts with a normal woman isn't being an asshole, even if he doesn't immediately stop. Plenty of women who end up in happy LTRs will laugh and say "his persistence is what got me" or something to that effect. Women usually don't respect men who obediently go away the moment she says "not interested."
Granted, there may be a cultural difference here. I'm a southerner working in a big metropolitan region in the south. I have never seen ANY of the sort of in-your-face behavior in our offices that one would believe is par for the course on the West Coast. So my assumption is normal flirting and push-pull, not "hey babe, wanna fuck in the bathroom?" to a female colleague.
Is that so many young women today are utterly deluded about their attractiveness. I have seen plenty of women who, all made up and ready for a night on the town, are no better than a "6" who seriously believe they're hot stuff. Like really believe they're hawwwwt and normal men should count themselves lucky to even buy them coffee. It's really bad with the college-educated set who also often scoff at the idea of blue collar men, even if they make more money than the average man in their social circle.
This is why our grandmothers' generation often cannot believe what they're hearing when they drill down into what a lot of "harassment" is. It's because they're thinking "honey, you ain't the prettiest girl in the office, you keep acting like a stuck up bitch to guys who are an even match for you and you're liable to end up a cat herder in your 50s."
When vid.me shutdown, it was another piece of evidence that if NN was going to be implemented, it should have been implemented from the ISPs all the way to many of the big tech companies as well. Platform companies are all either platform companies or they aren't. ISPs should not be singled out for discrimination on being "dumb pipes" in terms of not being allowed to discriminate against legal content.
As it turns out, it's even harder to build an unsubsidized YouTube competitor (YouTube would have been bankrupt a long time ago without Google) than a small ISP where the law permits you to build one at all. The economics are much harder to overcome in the former than the latter.
Look at the world of big data. What do you see? A ton of Java SE without the bullshit of Java EE holding it back. Aside from Go, try writing most of those products in the hipster-approved platforms like Python and NodeJS.
Here are some stats. That decline is too sharp to be caused by people cutting the chord out of a general desire rather than a specific desire to stop supporting the NFL.
A large part of the problem is that the NFL has punished players for doing something as simple as wearing non-regulation additions to their uniforms to honor the lives of the police that were gunned down defending the BLM protesters in Texas. Chew on that one for a minute; if this is about freedom of speech, why would the NFL fine the heck out of players who wanted to honor officers who gave their lives to protect freedom of speech?
And that is why so many people see it as purely a left wing and racist issue aimed at spitting on the flag. The NFL has kicked players' asses over speech that was family friendly and community-affirming, but chooses to take a stand here?
IANAL, but I think Mozilla was 100% justified in claiming a total lack of faith just on the way that Yahoo handled its data breaches. The fact that they were having their own problems with the search side and Yahoo dealt so poorly with its users in an equally important area of their business is a perfectly reasonable basis to conclude that Yahoo just doesn't care.
What I would do is build our own streaming service on top of the Comcast network and combine the best of YouTube and NetFlix. Key features:
1. Open speech platform; all legal speech in the US is uncensored. 2. All content from day one must be accurately labeled in an ESRB-style system with a lot of flexibility. 3. Built in monetization for all content creators. 4. Merge it with the groups that handle the existing VoD so it has access to all of that streaming content up front.
Who needs net neutrality? Why we have the most open platform in the US and it is built-in, nearly ad-free for Comcast customers.
Why don't you just deport all of the Muslim immigrants back to their homelands instead of taking away more freedom in the name of tolerance?
Because that is what this is all about?
Sorry buddy, Abdul just cannot bring himself to become a good German. He insists on acting like he's still back in the Middle East and resents that the kafir has a higher standard of living than he does, so you understand that in the name of Tolerance and Inclusion, we must impose highly onerous surveillance policies on you. I mean you're not a bigot right? You wouldn't want us to just say "wouldn't the path of least resistance and harm to German society and culture be to send Abdul back" now would you?
Every FOSS project should be on guard, year round, for PRs like the one that caused all Hell to break loose in the NodeJS world where over gendered pronouns. The sort of person who wants to actually fight over basic language structure is inherently a toxic personality and is going to do more to cripple a project, including "diversity and inclusion" than anyone else short of taking on open bigots who fly their hatred freak flag high for all to see.
So by all means, encourage everyone to contribute, but be vigilant for these toxic personalities and be prepared to tell them to go fuck themselves in the name of protecting peace on the project.
And there will be ways in time to run other languages as well, including Rust, Lua, Python, Java, and C#
It's only a matter of time before TypeScript skips JavaScript and goes straight to WebAssembly. When Python and Ruby can cleanly target WebAssembly and the DOM, it's game over for JavaScript. What'll happen is quite simple. The people who are decent and kinda like JavaScript will jump to TypeScript. Everyone else will write code in something like Python or Ruby. In fact, I'll say right now that I expect that Facebook will rewrite React and GraphQL in TypeScript or one of those languages within no more than a few years of WebAssembly being supported in all browsers.
Unfortunately, "as far as I can tell, it's Patrick McHardy's legal right to bring such claims regarding the copyrights which he owns, even if it doesn't fit Community Principles which nobody is actually compelled to follow."
I don't see the problem with this. Either way, the deliberately offending party gets held accountable. In fact it would be entirely appropriate for these companies to fund lawsuits like this a la the Gawker case because their interests overlap heavily.
It should be investigated, which is in everyone's interests, especially people who are falsely accused because it will both clear them and punish malicious accusers
1. It is taken as an axiom of feminist thinking that if women ever lie about such things, it is so rare as to be unworthy of altering public policy. If you tell us you have never seen this sort of thinking you are either too ignorant of feminist arguments to have an opinion worth a damn or you are lying because it is repeated by every major and most minor feminists on the Internet.
2. Merely having an open investigation can destroy a career or someone's life, so just starting one because some woman said someone did bad things is guaranteed to hurt a lot of innocent men. People frequently have their names trashed, even when exonerated, because some bitch or asshole will keep saying "yeah, I bet they did it." I've seen it happen, and unfortunately that sort of speech is not defamation per se despite it being a malicious, quasi-statement of fact aimed at hurting a reputation with no evidence to back it up other than feelz.
3. We don't even do this for murder. The government's investigators do a preliminary examination, usually as discretely as possible, to determine if it was a murder or some other form of death.
4. Most "sex crimes" involving adults don't have signs of coercion that could be used to prove a lack of consent. It's entirely based on her word against his. If you have sex with your wife tonight and don't use a condom, she can go to the police tomorrow and accuse you of rape. The evidence that sex happened is there. She says it wasn't consensual. You say it was. The average feminist would say she needs to be the one given the benefit of the doubt.
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The company that professes sustainable living, equality, environmentalism and then...
Gave birth to the touchbar MBP.
QED.
The devil himself probably golf-clapped and wiped a tear away when witnessing the birth of this product for how it almost exists as a Manichean opposite of Apple's professed values.
Would be thrilled if Apple actually had a yearly update cycle.
I see new home construction all around us. What I see is a dearth of housing that is suitable for young families as opposed to middle age, dual income families. You want a $600k+ home? No problem. We have a ton of them. What you won't see is anything in the $200k-$300k in major regions that isn't either in the ghetto or looks like it should be.
This is one of the fatal flaws in "free trade." You can't have "free trade" in land and housing. If wages harmonize between the US and China such that an American worker's wage goes down 25%, the cost of land and housing won't go down with it.
Go into any big office or typical start up and say that someone does not change gender by identifying as another gender (including "non-binary" genders) or going through a "transition" and you'll be treated far worse than this.
Because it's bigotry to say that gender dysphoria is a mental illness wherein the brain does not recognize the material truth represented in one's genetic code and post-puberty sexual characteristics.
The W3C should just deprecate the ability to open new windows programmatically. 95% of its use on the Internet is for shady advertising. The other 5% are apps that provide bad UX. In other words, it has no legitimate use.
Turns out the entire FBI leadership was, and mostly still is, a rat's nest of opposition to him filled with unethical bureaucrats who think it's their right to have "insurance policies against the President" among other things.
If this were happening in 2009, the Democrats would have been giving Obama--rightly--carte blanch to purge the entire agency's leadership above the level of GS15. It doesn't matter what you think of Trump or Obama. Neither of them were Hitler or Stalin or anything like that. The only proper response from the federal civil service to their every lawful order is "yes, sir." Anything else is insubordination; this is approaching mutiny.
Disney bought 21st Century Fox. All of it. That means the Foul Rodent Empire is increasingly in a monopolistic position in the movie, TV and sports content fields, plus they have a nice chunk of Hulu.
But thank God Netflix might not face a little discrimination from Comcast or Verizon if they don't work out an agreement for all of that data that floods their networks. That'll save Netflix from one day being just another acquisition target of Disney at a reduced price after Disney chokes off most of the desirable content and forces Netflix to produce its own or go broke.
The Force Awakens was a good formulaic Star Wars movie, but it was a mixture of the first movies with a lot of feminist fan service in the form of Mary Sue--I mean Rey. The crew behind Rogue One was making a lot of SJW noise on social media, including calling the Empire a white supremacist regime (FFS, how can you be so lacking in imagination and still hold a creative writing job?!!!)
SJWs tend to flock together to talk up stuff like this if they like it and think it serves their purposes. So my guess is that the truth is closer to the Variety review than the others. It will be a potentially awesome Star Wars movie almost ruined by Current Year, American politics and angst imposed on a setting where they make absolutely no sense.
Google is a competitor to the big ISPs via Google Fiber. Google wants neutrality on their networks for its streaming services, but you know it's not going to scratch their backs if they want full and undiscriminated access to their networks.
Time and again, it's the sunk cost fallacy. A system that an organization might have spent a few million dollars to build is just not shaping up into anything they can use, but they keep at it rather than ditching it and seeing what they can do to change things.
What ironic about this is that I think agile actually encourages the sunk cost fallacy because teams will go "oohhh we can 'pivot' a little each sprint." Uh, no. If it's deep-fried dog shit for an architecture, and design you're not going to "pivot" out of this. It gets even worse when you have a management culture that doesn't understand refactoring; most of the agile teams I've been on have had managers who flat out don't care about technical debt and think they can default on it which reinforces the problems with the sunk cost fallacy down the road.
Just like literally 90% of the Hillary Clinton supporters I know brush off all of the evidence against her, which is far more serious than anything against Trump. Heck, it's probably the most serious set of charges since the Rosenbergs just on the Uranium One pay-for-play.
See, the left loves to be all smug about how they're evidence-driven, how they live in a "reality-based community" and yet... you have tons of them who seriously believe as Ellen Degeneres does that they were no scandals under Obama. None. All made up. Obama literally did nothing but the right thing and only mean right-wingers ever accused him of less than sainthood.
Again, maybe it's a cultural thing, but a lot of the boorish behavior making the news is just not something you hear about in "fly over country" and the south in the workplace. Where I live, you whip your dick out in front of a colleague you've got a greater than 90% chance of getting fired with cause the moment she utters the words "he showed me his dick." Management won't even ask if consent was involved; whip your dick out and it's security has you by the arm, you're getting a gentle push toward your car. If you just grabbed your colleague's boobs, it'd probably involve asking "do you want us to call the police too?"
Fact is, Weinstein and Lauer would probably be under criminal investigation in most of the deep south. The shit these men pulled on women would not fly before corporate counsel or a court of law around here.
The feminists find they miss it because it means men either don't find them attractive anymore or are at least just flat out ignoring them.
A normal man who flirts with a normal woman isn't being an asshole, even if he doesn't immediately stop. Plenty of women who end up in happy LTRs will laugh and say "his persistence is what got me" or something to that effect. Women usually don't respect men who obediently go away the moment she says "not interested."
Granted, there may be a cultural difference here. I'm a southerner working in a big metropolitan region in the south. I have never seen ANY of the sort of in-your-face behavior in our offices that one would believe is par for the course on the West Coast. So my assumption is normal flirting and push-pull, not "hey babe, wanna fuck in the bathroom?" to a female colleague.
Is that so many young women today are utterly deluded about their attractiveness. I have seen plenty of women who, all made up and ready for a night on the town, are no better than a "6" who seriously believe they're hot stuff. Like really believe they're hawwwwt and normal men should count themselves lucky to even buy them coffee. It's really bad with the college-educated set who also often scoff at the idea of blue collar men, even if they make more money than the average man in their social circle.
This is why our grandmothers' generation often cannot believe what they're hearing when they drill down into what a lot of "harassment" is. It's because they're thinking "honey, you ain't the prettiest girl in the office, you keep acting like a stuck up bitch to guys who are an even match for you and you're liable to end up a cat herder in your 50s."
Tesla users' umbrella insurance policy premiums just went up 1000%.
When vid.me shutdown, it was another piece of evidence that if NN was going to be implemented, it should have been implemented from the ISPs all the way to many of the big tech companies as well. Platform companies are all either platform companies or they aren't. ISPs should not be singled out for discrimination on being "dumb pipes" in terms of not being allowed to discriminate against legal content.
As it turns out, it's even harder to build an unsubsidized YouTube competitor (YouTube would have been bankrupt a long time ago without Google) than a small ISP where the law permits you to build one at all. The economics are much harder to overcome in the former than the latter.
Look at the world of big data. What do you see? A ton of Java SE without the bullshit of Java EE holding it back. Aside from Go, try writing most of those products in the hipster-approved platforms like Python and NodeJS.
Here are some stats. That decline is too sharp to be caused by people cutting the chord out of a general desire rather than a specific desire to stop supporting the NFL.
A large part of the problem is that the NFL has punished players for doing something as simple as wearing non-regulation additions to their uniforms to honor the lives of the police that were gunned down defending the BLM protesters in Texas. Chew on that one for a minute; if this is about freedom of speech, why would the NFL fine the heck out of players who wanted to honor officers who gave their lives to protect freedom of speech?
And that is why so many people see it as purely a left wing and racist issue aimed at spitting on the flag. The NFL has kicked players' asses over speech that was family friendly and community-affirming, but chooses to take a stand here?
IANAL, but I think Mozilla was 100% justified in claiming a total lack of faith just on the way that Yahoo handled its data breaches. The fact that they were having their own problems with the search side and Yahoo dealt so poorly with its users in an equally important area of their business is a perfectly reasonable basis to conclude that Yahoo just doesn't care.
What I would do is build our own streaming service on top of the Comcast network and combine the best of YouTube and NetFlix. Key features:
1. Open speech platform; all legal speech in the US is uncensored.
2. All content from day one must be accurately labeled in an ESRB-style system with a lot of flexibility.
3. Built in monetization for all content creators.
4. Merge it with the groups that handle the existing VoD so it has access to all of that streaming content up front.
Who needs net neutrality? Why we have the most open platform in the US and it is built-in, nearly ad-free for Comcast customers.
Why don't you just deport all of the Muslim immigrants back to their homelands instead of taking away more freedom in the name of tolerance?
Because that is what this is all about?
Sorry buddy, Abdul just cannot bring himself to become a good German. He insists on acting like he's still back in the Middle East and resents that the kafir has a higher standard of living than he does, so you understand that in the name of Tolerance and Inclusion, we must impose highly onerous surveillance policies on you. I mean you're not a bigot right? You wouldn't want us to just say "wouldn't the path of least resistance and harm to German society and culture be to send Abdul back" now would you?
Every FOSS project should be on guard, year round, for PRs like the one that caused all Hell to break loose in the NodeJS world where over gendered pronouns. The sort of person who wants to actually fight over basic language structure is inherently a toxic personality and is going to do more to cripple a project, including "diversity and inclusion" than anyone else short of taking on open bigots who fly their hatred freak flag high for all to see.
So by all means, encourage everyone to contribute, but be vigilant for these toxic personalities and be prepared to tell them to go fuck themselves in the name of protecting peace on the project.
It's only a matter of time before TypeScript skips JavaScript and goes straight to WebAssembly. When Python and Ruby can cleanly target WebAssembly and the DOM, it's game over for JavaScript. What'll happen is quite simple. The people who are decent and kinda like JavaScript will jump to TypeScript. Everyone else will write code in something like Python or Ruby. In fact, I'll say right now that I expect that Facebook will rewrite React and GraphQL in TypeScript or one of those languages within no more than a few years of WebAssembly being supported in all browsers.
I don't see the problem with this. Either way, the deliberately offending party gets held accountable. In fact it would be entirely appropriate for these companies to fund lawsuits like this a la the Gawker case because their interests overlap heavily.
1. It is taken as an axiom of feminist thinking that if women ever lie about such things, it is so rare as to be unworthy of altering public policy. If you tell us you have never seen this sort of thinking you are either too ignorant of feminist arguments to have an opinion worth a damn or you are lying because it is repeated by every major and most minor feminists on the Internet.
2. Merely having an open investigation can destroy a career or someone's life, so just starting one because some woman said someone did bad things is guaranteed to hurt a lot of innocent men. People frequently have their names trashed, even when exonerated, because some bitch or asshole will keep saying "yeah, I bet they did it." I've seen it happen, and unfortunately that sort of speech is not defamation per se despite it being a malicious, quasi-statement of fact aimed at hurting a reputation with no evidence to back it up other than feelz.
3. We don't even do this for murder. The government's investigators do a preliminary examination, usually as discretely as possible, to determine if it was a murder or some other form of death.
4. Most "sex crimes" involving adults don't have signs of coercion that could be used to prove a lack of consent. It's entirely based on her word against his. If you have sex with your wife tonight and don't use a condom, she can go to the police tomorrow and accuse you of rape. The evidence that sex happened is there. She says it wasn't consensual. You say it was. The average feminist would say she needs to be the one given the benefit of the doubt.