Or you could just find a competent programmer who's willing to learn Fortran. Seriously, people get way too hung up on language experience. I guess it's a way to pigeonhole people and keep pay rates low.
But seriously, any decent programmer can pick up a new language in a few weeks. And probably only half of the decent programmers have been pushed out of the industry So there's still a big pool of domestic labor to exploit.
Prostitution is undesirable. It's okay to ban prostitution, though perhaps a bit foolish. But does anyone outside the NY/DC/SF rich feminist delusion bubble believe this is about "trafficking"?
One of my ex-gfs was on the graduate admissions panel for MIT's philosophy department. She told me that if you didn't do your undergrad at one of a handful of elitist schools, nothing else about your application mattered. They tossed it in trash unread.
I suggested to her that their method seemed like a poor way to select the smartest applicants. She agreed but said in her opinion that didn't really matter and she strongly supported their policy. She was an unashamed classist and thought it important to admit the "right kind"of students. I think she'd made some very mistaken assumptions about my background.
Incidentally, that particular girl had a great ass, but for a philosophy post-doc wasn't really all that bright.
The common description of the ACA - the very epitome of crony capitalism - as "leftist" is evidence that left and right are useless for describing real world politics under the financialist regime.
Among the wide variety of international travelers I meet every week, political positions are quite predictable. Smug rich folks support the Democrat party, working people support Trump (but not necessarily the Republican party). In my observation this simple formula covers >95% of people.
It's even stranger when you consider that leftists are the ones who are always saying how bad it is to bully people. Yet here we have multiple examples of them acting in a very hypocritical and childish manner, launching one personal attack after another filled with extreme hatred and vitriol.
I believe the term is SJB - Social "Justice" Bully.
If I ever move back to Cali, I'll take the city of Los Angeles, thanks very much.
Best weather in the world. Actual culture - because of the movie industry, LA is effectively the subconscious mind off the entire anglophone world. The average woman is an order of magnitude more attractive than in SF, and people in general are way more friendly.
SF still has better public transport. But LA is building subways faster than any other city in America, whereas SF now takes 20+ years to build a 2 mile "stubway". And Uber means you can go to the bar in LA without recruiting a designated driver or living in fear of the gestapo.
When tech workers are paying half their incomes to RENT an apartment, I wouldn't call those incomes "insane". Unless you mean "insanely low relative local cost of living".
Yes, inequality and economic disparity are a BIG problem. The solution, however, is not to let tech pay relative cost of living stagnate even more than it already has. (Tech wages have been stagnant for a decade, while cost of living more than doubled.)
What drives the high cost of living? First and foremost, the cost of housing. Which in turn is driven up by increasing consolidation of ownership (private equity firms), unsustainable debt financing, and extreme restrictions on new construction. Probably in about that order of importance, but that's debatable.
Incidentally, if we tech workers ever manage to organize ourselves into a union / guild / "professional association" we'll be able to stand in solidarity with our brethren in non-tech jobs when they demand for more pay. Solidarity across companies, industries, and professions makes a strike a hell of a lot more effective.
Software built by Russian companies is backdoored by Russian spooks. Software built by American companies is backdoored by American spooks. Software built by Chinese companies is backdoored by Chinese spooks.
Everyone I know who's stuck in a dead-end job, knows algebra. Is there anyone who even managed to graduate public high school in the US without knowing that level of math?
Here is the USSA, almost all sites that require a phone number for identify verification block VOIP and other free services. 'Cuz if they allowed that it wouldn't be any good for tying internet logs to a specific citizen. And that would make the Gestapo very unhappy. Tyranny hates and fears anonymity.
It's all about the chilling effect. CNN and the rest of the elitist establishment HATE the idea of plebians speaking freely. The idea is to make an example of this guy and thereby intimidate other would-be critics into remaining silent.
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Or you could just find a competent programmer who's willing to learn Fortran. Seriously, people get way too hung up on language experience. I guess it's a way to pigeonhole people and keep pay rates low.
But seriously, any decent programmer can pick up a new language in a few weeks. And probably only half of the decent programmers have been pushed out of the industry So there's still a big pool of domestic labor to exploit.
Depends what they're looking up. Sometimes knowing how to find an answer efficiently is more important than memorizing random tech trivia.
Prostitution is undesirable. It's okay to ban prostitution, though perhaps a bit foolish. But does anyone outside the NY/DC/SF rich feminist delusion bubble believe this is about "trafficking"?
Apparently no one - anywhere, ever - does scrum right. Or maybe it's time to admit scrum is just a shittastic methodology.
One of my ex-gfs was on the graduate admissions panel for MIT's philosophy department. She told me that if you didn't do your undergrad at one of a handful of elitist schools, nothing else about your application mattered. They tossed it in trash unread.
I suggested to her that their method seemed like a poor way to select the smartest applicants. She agreed but said in her opinion that didn't really matter and she strongly supported their policy. She was an unashamed classist and thought it important to admit the "right kind"of students. I think she'd made some very mistaken assumptions about my background.
Incidentally, that particular girl had a great ass, but for a philosophy post-doc wasn't really all that bright.
Take it for what it's worth - YMMV.
The common description of the ACA - the very epitome of crony capitalism - as "leftist" is evidence that left and right are useless for describing real world politics under the financialist regime.
Damn straight, broham. Working people don't deserve to have children!
Yeehaw, kick the poor!
I am hopelessly uncool, you insensitive clod!
Twitter and Facebook are both very, very interested in your real identity. Probably their Gestapo commissars require it.
Among the wide variety of international travelers I meet every week, political positions are quite predictable. Smug rich folks support the Democrat party, working people support Trump (but not necessarily the Republican party). In my observation this simple formula covers >95% of people.
i am still considering leaving the nation.
Fun fact: President Trump is quite popular among the American expat community in Communist Vietnam.
Twitter had censorship long before they dreamed up the Orwellian "Trust and Safety" star chamber.
Carry on with your smug obliviousness. It's useful to your political opponents, and amusing to noncombatant spectators.
It's even stranger when you consider that leftists are the ones who are always saying how bad it is to bully people. Yet here we have multiple examples of them acting in a very hypocritical and childish manner, launching one personal attack after another filled with extreme hatred and vitriol.
I believe the term is SJB - Social "Justice" Bully.
If I ever move back to Cali, I'll take the city of Los Angeles, thanks very much.
Best weather in the world. Actual culture - because of the movie industry, LA is effectively the subconscious mind off the entire anglophone world. The average woman is an order of magnitude more attractive than in SF, and people in general are way more friendly.
SF still has better public transport. But LA is building subways faster than any other city in America, whereas SF now takes 20+ years to build a 2 mile "stubway". And Uber means you can go to the bar in LA without recruiting a designated driver or living in fear of the gestapo.
When tech workers are paying half their incomes to RENT an apartment, I wouldn't call those incomes "insane". Unless you mean "insanely low relative local cost of living".
Yes, inequality and economic disparity are a BIG problem. The solution, however, is not to let tech pay relative cost of living stagnate even more than it already has. (Tech wages have been stagnant for a decade, while cost of living more than doubled.)
What drives the high cost of living? First and foremost, the cost of housing. Which in turn is driven up by increasing consolidation of ownership (private equity firms), unsustainable debt financing, and extreme restrictions on new construction. Probably in about that order of importance, but that's debatable.
Incidentally, if we tech workers ever manage to organize ourselves into a union / guild / "professional association" we'll be able to stand in solidarity with our brethren in non-tech jobs when they demand for more pay. Solidarity across companies, industries, and professions makes a strike a hell of a lot more effective.
Software built by Russian companies is backdoored by Russian spooks.
Software built by American companies is backdoored by American spooks.
Software built by Chinese companies is backdoored by Chinese spooks.
Does this surprise anyone at all?
Everyone I know who's stuck in a dead-end job, knows algebra. Is there anyone who even managed to graduate public high school in the US without knowing that level of math?
Yay police state! Culture only for those who can pay! Fuck you, plebs, that's why!
Except his premise about the bikes using 2-stroke engines is factually false.
No. There are nearly zero two-stroke motorbikes on the road in Vietnam. Most have four-stroke engines between 110cc and 150cc displacement.
Source: I drive on the streets of a large Vietnamese city every day.
Don't know about Russia.
Here is the USSA, almost all sites that require a phone number for identify verification block VOIP and other free services. 'Cuz if they allowed that it wouldn't be any good for tying internet logs to a specific citizen. And that would make the Gestapo very unhappy. Tyranny hates and fears anonymity.
Everyone is under surveillance at all times. Everyone is a suspect. Everyone is guilty. Gulag nation.
It's all about the chilling effect. CNN and the rest of the elitist establishment HATE the idea of plebians speaking freely. The idea is to make an example of this guy and thereby intimidate other would-be critics into remaining silent.
How dare he deviate from the establishment narrative!