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  1. Indentured servitude? on More Colleges Try Forgoing Tuition For A Percentage of Future Income (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    It sure as hell sounds like it.

  2. Re:I work extensively in the DNA field on Relative's DNA Solves A 1993 Murder Cold Case (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Every day is April Fool's day on the inter web.

  3. Re: I work extensively in the DNA field on Relative's DNA Solves A 1993 Murder Cold Case (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Let's get Molder and Scully on it.

  4. Let's just kill all pollinators. Great idea there.

  5. My line was in the Two Towers movie when the elves show up at helm's deep (Elves at helm's deep? WTF?) in a loud voice and bad german accent "Ya, vee haf left our German Industrial band to help you!"

  6. citation?

  7. If you lose your job it is 100% job loss. Never forget that.

  8. Re:25% of the Country Rioting on Only 25 Percent of Occupations In US Are At 'High Risk' For Losing Jobs From Automation, Study Finds · · Score: 1

    More like 25%. 13 % under Reagan. Both U3 numbers. Obama hit about 10%. U3 unemployment. So think about Regan and Obama's unemployment rates and then double them if 25% of the workforce is displaced.

  9. Re:This is the well to do telling us not to worry on Robots Are Taking Some Jobs, But Not All: World Bank (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    We already have automated AI driven tractors. Get with the times buddy... :)

  10. I'm shocked! on Several Popular Apps Share Data With Facebook Without User Consent (ft.com) · · Score: 1

    Shocked I tell you. And saddened, yes definitely saddened. And shock. Mostly shocked, but also somewhat saddened. Yes that's it, shocked and saddened.

  11. Re:I doubt anyone really cares on Several Popular Apps Share Data With Facebook Without User Consent (ft.com) · · Score: 1

    You're assuming you won't be wrongly singled out. Basically you're standing on Darwin's door mat screaming "take me! Take me!"

  12. Re:What bollocks on Dev vs. Ops: The State of Accountability (overops.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Docker is getting more and more heavy weight, i.e. becoming full blown VMs (Though in the strict sense of the word they always were). Now part of the problem I see is that projects end up with containers scattered around like jack straws, like the "DLL hell" many experienced in the past, or plug-in hell. All docker does is allow the complexity to take a different form. Also stateless containers in my experience are pretty useless. Working on back end "heavy lifting" applications somewhere you need to maintain state and Docker and stateless containers, by definition, cannot do that.

    Cloud is just putting the application somewhere else and paying by the cpu cycle. No different than before, it just makes it opaque as to what is going on and who is responsible. There's really not much new under the sun and good ideas are basically reinvented over time. Mainframe == cloud hosted apps on your mobi or browser. Nothing to see here, move along...

  13. Re:MANY misrepresentations from Facebook. on Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook's 2018: We've Changed, We Promise (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    But this time they really mean it:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  14. Who wants low wages. Pay people and they will come. Just like in public education.

  15. This does not fix the fundamental problem on Trump Admin Takes First Steps To Overhaul H-1B Visa That Tech Companies Use To Hire Internationally (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    Which is H1Bs are fundamentally indentured servitude. An H1B cannot pursue better paying jobs. Even if they pay their own shipping costs. This is a way of destroying free market forces and creating a captured labor market.

  16. Having worked with H1Bs and overseas I have never met people who put in more hours, worked longer hours, were better educated, and more dedicated than workers in the US. Europeans are probably second, then the Chinese I interacted with, and dian the bottom of the barrel. Though the Indian women I met were often pretty sharp.

  17. Throw in language, cultural, and quality of education differences and the savings are illusory.

  18. Wages should be hire for *everyone*. Impoverishment of everyone, in the US or overseas is flat out wrong esp. when profits are soaring and wages in real terms are dropping. To think otherwise is unethical and immoral.

  19. currency arbitrage does happen.

  20. Re:Tell me again how controlling immigration is ba on Nine Out of Every 10 Silicon Valley Jobs Pays Less Than In 1997, Report Finds (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    What's wrong with trying to get a fair share? Also consider that the American dream is expensive; a house, 2 cars, properly funding retirement, college for the children, good health care etc. are all expensive.

  21. Re:Isn't this the point of a license plate? on EFF, MuckRock Partner To See How Local Police Are Trading Your Car's Location (eff.org) · · Score: 1

    Nope. It was just supposed to show you paid your road taxes. That is all. No vehicle ID at all.

  22. Re:In my neck of the woods these are mostly H1-Bs on Virginia To Produce 25K-35K Additional CS Grads As Part of Amazon HQ2 Deal (loudounnow.com) · · Score: 1

    I've heard that many times. But once out working for the company all is drones doing things that are basically COBOL in drag.

  23. Re:"Skates" ?! on Elon Musk Shows Off The Boring Company's LA Tunnel (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    They're made by Acme and happen to be rocket powered. You insensitive clod...

  24. the time is absolute, the rest is eye candy.

  25. 1:30 != 1330 it's things like that which is why I have come to disdain and have disgust for programmers.