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  1. Fighting the facts with FB's narrative. on Facebook Fights Fake News With Links To Other Angles (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Given that the fact-checkers are not exactly neutral themselves, I'd take an entire geologic basin's worth of NaCl before believing their "arbiters".

  2. Re:what about lower the full time hours & upin on Thousands Show Up For Jobs at Amazon Warehouses in US Cities (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    It's now been replaced with 29.9 hours and contractor abuse.

  3. Re:what about lower the full time hours & upin on Thousands Show Up For Jobs at Amazon Warehouses in US Cities (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    healthcare needs to be unlinked from the work place.

    That's how you get worse work.

  4. Re:Echoes of the Depression era on Thousands Show Up For Jobs at Amazon Warehouses in US Cities (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    When disparity like that gets bad enough, that's when you end up with civil war.

    While you will lose.

  5. Re:The flip side... on Thousands Show Up For Jobs at Amazon Warehouses in US Cities (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Helping the oppressed stay oppressed is what the democrats are about.

    Fixed that for you.

  6. Similar in the West. on China Is Perfecting a New Method For Suppressing Dissent On the Internet (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    The only difference is that they use the "hate speech" smear to silence people.

  7. Remoaners trying to break the will of the people. on Free Movement of EU Citizens To Britain Will End in 2019 (standard.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    They figure if they can wait long enough, they can replace the will of the people with the will of the Eurocrats.

    Apparently Brussels (and the fellow travellers in London) doesn't like it when commoners try to flee the plantation. Silly modbombers.

  8. Re:Echoes of the Depression era on Thousands Show Up For Jobs at Amazon Warehouses in US Cities (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Start making it a PITA for employers to offshore.

  9. Remoaners trying to break the will of the people. on Free Movement of EU Citizens To Britain Will End in 2019 (standard.co.uk) · · Score: 0

    They figure if they can wait long enough, they can replace the will of the people with the will of the Eurocrats.

    Apparently Brussels (and the fellow travellers in London) doesn't like it when commoners try to flee the plantation.

  10. They don't know what they want. on Apple is About To Do Something Their Programmers Definitely Don't Want (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    They're treating their programmers like their end users - they don't know what they want. You have to show it to them.

  11. When you see Facebook, Harvard (or any Ivy/near-Ivy), and "bipartisan" in close proximity, it's safe to assume they're not. They're establishment if not outright left-leaning.

  12. As defined by whom? on O'Reilly Media Asks: Is It Time To Build A New Internet? (oreilly.com) · · Score: 1

    network designed to impose reasonable controls on behavior.

    That would give too much of an opening for SOCJUS purges due to redefining "reasonable".

  13. Re: Death to middle class on Bad News If You Make $150,000 to $300,000: Higher Taxes for Many (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Yet those red states have Democrats running their cities (into ruin).

  14. Re:The US allows more freedom than Germany. on India is Betting On Compulsory Internships To Improve Its Unemployable Engineers (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    No one in Germany is withheld an education...full stop.
    No one is told by anyone he cannot go to uni. He must decide by his own which path to take.

    Then why bother having the rigid tracking?

    Second point, how are those "late bloomers" that end up taking university through the lower tracks? That is, how much of a penalty do they incur with employers for not having the perfect path? I'd imagine they'd be viewed as less-than-ideal despite earning a university degree.

  15. Re:They obligate the wrong party. on India is Betting On Compulsory Internships To Improve Its Unemployable Engineers (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    So what happens then? They're forcing the least capable party - the "unemployables" - to get an internship.

    If it made more sense, they'd place the obligation on the employer to seek them out.

  16. Re:Unaccountable Apollo-era space travel. on SpaceX Is Now One of the World's Most Valuable Privately Held Companies (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Then build a better Shuttle, not another Apollo-era capsule with less ability to fly.

  17. Unaccountable Apollo-era space travel. on SpaceX Is Now One of the World's Most Valuable Privately Held Companies (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Unlike the established entities, they have less accountability and more opacity in terms of space travel - while stepping back to the Apollo era for their spacecraft.

    When they finally catch up and make a proper Shuttle, they might have something.

  18. So Silicon Valley buys deeper into media. on Laurene Powell Jobs's Organization to Take Majority Stake in The Atlantic (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    They want to buy (and maintain) influence through the purchase and control of major publications.

  19. One more reason why streaming fails. on India is Betting On Compulsory Internships To Improve Its Unemployable Engineers (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    When you're putting so much on the test, perhaps it'd be far better to kill the test and adopt a US level of openness.

  20. You only got a few Germans that got the chance to do non-drudgery-work, not the wider cross-section that ends up in lower-tier trades.

    That, and I'd rather trust the US citizen than the streamed German engineer that stole a job.

  21. The US allows more freedom than Germany. on India is Betting On Compulsory Internships To Improve Its Unemployable Engineers (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    My take is that German universities actually maintain legitimate entrance standards

    Only if you believe in withholding education such that most people can only find drudgery-work (aka the lower-tier trades).

    Vocational programs exist for other types of jobs.

    In other words, they shunt most people into drudgery-work with little hope of upward progress or international recognition (beyond being a perpetual guest worker).

  22. Streaming deserves to be shot down every time. on India is Betting On Compulsory Internships To Improve Its Unemployable Engineers (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Attempts to do that here are shot down as it's pretty brutal to tell a kid he's not cut out for college

    Attempts to restrict education are rightfully shot down. Streaming only consigns people to drudgery-work even if the person would have done better without streaming.

    I think Germany has a slightly nicer cultural attitude when it comes to the trades.

    Or that they've managed to culturally instill the idea that bad work can be made good.

  23. Germany only looks good in flawed studies. on India is Betting On Compulsory Internships To Improve Its Unemployable Engineers (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Control for admissions criteria, and the US doesn't look so bad.

    The US admits and educates nearly everyone.
    Germany only educates a few, sending the rest to drudgery-work.

  24. They obligate the wrong party. on India is Betting On Compulsory Internships To Improve Its Unemployable Engineers (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Not only do they do nothing for the existing "unemployable", they do not obligate employers to take them on.

  25. If not in the US, it really doesn't count.