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  1. Re:Seems reasonable. on Harvard Pulls Student Offers Over Online Comments (go.com) · · Score: 1

    racial minorities

    So they mocked white people? Technically speaking, they're not wrong.

  2. Title IX strikes again. on Harvard Pulls Student Offers Over Online Comments (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Now when can we see them pull admissions for those supporting terrorism and anarchy? Or are those now Harvard-accepted values if done by the right people?

  3. GPU optimizations? That was so 2000's. on SGI Desktop Clone Gets A New Version On Fedora (maxxinteractive.com) · · Score: 1

    The MaXX Desktop is available in two versions, the free Community Edition (CE) which provides basic SGI Desktop experience and the commercially available Professional Edition (PE) that comes with support, CPU and GPU specific optimizations and a full SGI Desktop experience... So there is no surprise here, the MaXX Desktop is a highly tuned Workstation Environment for the Linux x86_64 and ia64 platforms. Multi-core processing, NVidia GPU specific optimizations are among the things that makes the MaXX Desktop so fast, light-weight and stable.

    Apparently the SGI environment isn't the only thing that's backwards with them...

  4. Re:You make a faulty assumption on Can Older IT Workers 'Navigate' Ageism? (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    Yet there is no problem training the completely clueless when an employer can threaten to deport them. On the other hand, it is equivalent to a cardinal sin to dare train anyone with citizenship, especially those without wokr.

    Instead of UBI (which if given the experience of being on SSDI/SSI, it is not paradise), give employers and the jobless a choice:

    1) Pay out an optimistic projection of their career salary including promotions, retirement funding, and benefits (instead of UBI) - while otherwise keeping status quo.
    2) Actually train the jobless that got caught on the wrong side of things. Most likely, they're just on the wrong end of things and employers need a good slap over the side of their head.
    3) Allow the jobless to do the same to employers what is done to them with guest worker fraud - and the employer cannot question/test against it.
    4) Include the jobless as a protected class wrt hiring. From day one.
    5) Allow instant and longer claims to UI if one refuses to knowledge-transfer to a staffing firm.
    5) Some mix of the above.

  5. Employers are at fault here. on Can Older IT Workers 'Navigate' Ageism? (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    The work force still believes that simply getting a year older means they deserve a cushier job with more benefits and a higher salary, learning and experience not required.

    While employers think that they're always without blame and that it's always the jobseeker's fault.

    Perhaps it's time for the employer to take the pain.

  6. You incorrectly assume the employer is blameless on Can Older IT Workers 'Navigate' Ageism? (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    That requires an assumption that the employer is without blame (they are with it).

    Get rid of their entitlement mentality and "stuck in the mud" excuses, then you'll see them find ways to make good value out of alleged "deadwood".

  7. Re:Ask for lower salary on Can Older IT Workers 'Navigate' Ageism? (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    Hire a contractor. That usually scares the crap out of old timers.

    Which is the reason why contractors are a problem, not a good thing - for anyone of any age.

  8. You make a faulty assumption on Can Older IT Workers 'Navigate' Ageism? (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    You're incorrectly making the assumption that the employer can do no wrong and the job seeker is always at fault.

    If anything, it shows a need to bring the employers to heel so that they have to find ways to (directly and in good faith) hire citizens, even if they're older or long-term jobless.

  9. With some teeth put in existing laws, yes. on Can Older IT Workers 'Navigate' Ageism? (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    Put some teeth in age related anti-discrimination laws, and it would help.

    It would also help a bit to make long-term jobless a protected category and to remove any advantage for employers to dodge using FTE's.

  10. Re:Why let employers off the hook? on A New Report Finds No Evidence That People Will Work Less Under a Universal Basic Income (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    You're paying them either way. Besides, employers in general have developed an unhealthy entitlement mentality.

    Perhaps it might be time for employers like yourself to experience what regular individuals have experienced for ages.

  11. Looks like MIT got "spoken to" by the clerisy. on Trump Misunderstood MIT Climate Research, University Officials Say (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Environmentalists can't tolerate anything that dares breach their narrative, even science.

  12. This is just more that will isolate the US from the leftists in the pseudoscience community.
    Everyone else will just lie as much as necessary, and give either partial lists or entirely fake curated profile.

    That's the easiest path out of the country, but not the quickest. Advanced technology, along with sources and methods developed by willing and able individuals, will pick apart lies. At some point, you will have to tell the truth and not the unbelievably clean version.

    Your admission into the US as a non-citizen is not a right, but a privilege.

  13. Worst case, citizens step in the freed slots. on Trump Administration Approves Tougher Visa Vetting, Including Social Media Checks (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    If they don't like it, it'll free slots and jobs for US citizens.

  14. Those cities want to bankrupt themselves? on 61 Mayors Commit To Adopt, Honor and Uphold Paris Climate Accord After US Pulls Out (curbed.com) · · Score: 1

    The agreement is just a cash grab for the Third World, as it does not obligate them to do anything but receive from developed nations.

  15. That's the NYT. on Self-Driving Cars Will Boost the Job Market, Says Marc Andreessen (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Nice try, but that's Carlos Slim's fishwrap.

  16. BI looks at the problem at the wrong end, letting employers off the hook - versus obligating them to hire and retain more citizens.

    Existing programs similar to BI in the US (SSI/SSDI) already have a negative effect on work, as employers have no real obligation to hire from them.

  17. Will it run Linux? on Qualcomm, Microsoft Announce Snapdragon 835 PCs With Gigabit LTE (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    As proprietary as Qualcomm stuff has been, will it run something more than what Microsoft intends?

  18. No, it is environmentalism that's attacking coal. on Self-Driving Cars Will Boost the Job Market, Says Marc Andreessen (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    I suspect the finger pointing at "big government regulations" will dramatically increase as right-wing voters lose jobs. The writing on wall that the coal train isn't going to last forever has been there quite a while, and it's not rocket science that natural gas and automation are causing coal jobs to disappear, yet the useful idiot GOP voters of coal country are still convinced it was Obama deciding he didn't like white people.

    When you create regulation after regulation specifically targeting coal, you are attacking a specific industry that has been clean enough for decades.

    Perhaps turnabout is equitable and we should be looking at curtailing rampant environmentalists.

  19. The Georgia Guidestones are not a manual. on Self-Driving Cars Will Boost the Job Market, Says Marc Andreessen (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    You're asking for something counter to humanity, which is something that Will Not Happen.

  20. Then the economists are wrong. on Self-Driving Cars Will Boost the Job Market, Says Marc Andreessen (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    It won't make sense to an economist, but it will make sense if you want to keep peace amongst all - by employing them anyway.

  21. Not. Going. To. Happen. on Self-Driving Cars Will Boost the Job Market, Says Marc Andreessen (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    You also make the same mistake of giving employers too much.

    People will still want to work and that's not going to be shaken by automation. The desire to pursue gainful employment beyond BI levels will only be strengthened.

  22. It's a bug, not a feature. UBI will not fix it. on Self-Driving Cars Will Boost the Job Market, Says Marc Andreessen (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    UBI assumes that people do not have the desire for seeking gainful employment. Plenty of people do, and will not be content being idled in lower-tier activities while not having work.

    On the other hand, if you wipe the arrogant smirk off an employer's face and take away their alternatives to (directly) hiring people, that will fix it.

  23. Offshore IT is what led to this mess.

  24. Education alone won't save you. on Self-Driving Cars Will Boost the Job Market, Says Marc Andreessen (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Education alone will not fix the problem - it requires the employer being shaken of its entitlement mentality (to perfection or offshore pliancy).

  25. If we can't advance everyone, perhaps we should at least slow down until we can.