Calling the target of censorship "thoroughly unpleasant" does not make the suppression of his speech any less censorious.
Fwiw, I had always assumed that anyone who had looked at Mr Jones' website for me than five seconds could tell he was a loon. That still doesn't make it okay for his (inexplicably threatened) political opponents to censor his speech.
If anything, the coordinated effort by multiple patastate companies to stifle his speech has lent Mr Jones a level of credibility he never before enjoyed. Streisand effect and all that...
How is this bad optics for Reddit? They are already notorious for their heavy handed censorship of anything that challenges the official Corporate Progressive narrative.
Maybe Tencent made their investment so they could get their hands on some of Reddit's advanced censorship technology?
"hire CXOs based on merit and results, not politics, image, and nepotism"
That would spoil the whole point of the Surveillance Valley venture capital "startup" system. It's meant to be a jobs program for dumb as rocks Stanford grads and Ivy Leaguers who are too dim to land a real job on Wall Street. What, did you think they were trying to run a business or something?
I must reluctantly admire the faith of a climate fundamentalist who puts his money where his mouth is. May I ask, how have you made a real money bet on climate change?
Perhaps you bought shares in an engineering company that specializes in building dikes? Or maybe you invested your retirement funds in an inverse ETF that aggressively shorts fossil fuels? Enquiring minds want to know!
Python isn't dead, but it was gravely wounded by the Python 2/3 debacle. (Python 3 is backward incompatible with Python 2, without actually fixing any of the big problems with Python 2.).
A lot of people still use Python because of the huge library ecosystem. However not many new projects are being started in Python today. The quality of the community has also dropped precipitously as good developers jumped ship and the code monkeys piled in.
Golang, otoh, is alive and doing very well. Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Etcd, and Prometheus are a few of the high profile FOSS projects written in Go. Many talented folks who jumped ship from Python are now Gophers.
"Exactly, Mr. Smoot-Hawley. Then if a bunch of other major trading countries does do this, the world plunges into an economic depression."
Sure, that's what they teach in freshman history class. Unfortunately, it's a lie. Protectionism WORKS. It's working really well for China right now. It worked for many decades in America. It was worked for hundreds of other countries in the past.
The big losers from protectionism are global financiers. You know, the crooks who bought the American government.
No. Minimum 10x prevailing wage for the industry. H1B is for super duper ultra experts they can't find anywhere in a country of 350 million. Right....?
"developer positions, read non-management, that pay 150k to 180k"
So you're offering the same salaries you paid 15 years ago. Even though cost of living has tripled since then. Hmmmmmmmmm.... I wonder why you're having a hard time finding workers??
Why only 150% of median salary? I think 1000% (10x) of median salary is a much better minimum.
If a company _really_ needs a super expert whose skills are genuinely not available domestically, very high pay will not be a problem. Ad for the 99% of H1Bs who are not super experts, but rather average-skilled scabs brought in to drive down wages for domestic workers - they can stay home and help build up their own counties.
Oh, but it gets better. Some years ago I went to a lecture given by a biology researcher at a well known evil university. The dude's talk was pretty cool, but the really interesting part came at the very end. The researcher mentioned: oh yeah, all of my research is funded by the army, because they hope to engineer a biological weapon based on the toxo parasite.
I, too, remember that time. The golden age of file sharing! A great flowering of culture, a time when technology really did increase human happiness.
Then the spirit of freedom was crushed under the iron boot of the State, the old norms of class division and cultural impoverishment restored, that the few might again benefit at the expense of the many.
Slashdot Mirror
Calling the target of censorship "thoroughly unpleasant" does not make the suppression of his speech any less censorious.
Fwiw, I had always assumed that anyone who had looked at Mr Jones' website for me than five seconds could tell he was a loon. That still doesn't make it okay for his (inexplicably threatened) political opponents to censor his speech.
If anything, the coordinated effort by multiple patastate companies to stifle his speech has lent Mr Jones a level of credibility he never before enjoyed. Streisand effect and all that...
Today's "BUT MUH SCIENCE(tm)!!1!!" fundamentalists are yesterday's religious fundamentalists dressed up in new clothes.
Alas, there is nothing Bolshevik whatsoever about the Democrat Party.
Yay censorship! Yay Faceboot for MOAR CENSORSHIP!! Yay!
"Why would anyone give Alex Jones equal access? They guy's an incoherent arsehole, and no civilised person would want to be associated with him."
No doubt Chinese censorship apologists would hurl similar insults at anyone challenging their Party's official narrative.
How is this bad optics for Reddit? They are already notorious for their heavy handed censorship of anything that challenges the official Corporate Progressive narrative.
Maybe Tencent made their investment so they could get their hands on some of Reddit's advanced censorship technology?
"hire CXOs based on merit and results, not politics, image, and nepotism"
That would spoil the whole point of the Surveillance Valley venture capital "startup" system. It's meant to be a jobs program for dumb as rocks Stanford grads and Ivy Leaguers who are too dim to land a real job on Wall Street. What, did you think they were trying to run a business or something?
I must reluctantly admire the faith of a climate fundamentalist who puts his money where his mouth is. May I ask, how have you made a real money bet on climate change?
Perhaps you bought shares in an engineering company that specializes in building dikes? Or maybe you invested your retirement funds in an inverse ETF that aggressively shorts fossil fuels? Enquiring minds want to know!
New Google Fuchsia - pronounced "Goo Ghoul Fucks Ya"
Python isn't dead, but it was gravely wounded by the Python 2/3 debacle. (Python 3 is backward incompatible with Python 2, without actually fixing any of the big problems with Python 2.).
A lot of people still use Python because of the huge library ecosystem. However not many new projects are being started in Python today. The quality of the community has also dropped precipitously as good developers jumped ship and the code monkeys piled in.
Golang, otoh, is alive and doing very well. Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Etcd, and Prometheus are a few of the high profile FOSS projects written in Go. Many talented folks who jumped ship from Python are now Gophers.
+1 interesting
There is another typo in this headline. It should read:
"Old Anti-Security Feature Impacts 5G, 4G, and 3G Telephony Protocols"
"Exactly, Mr. Smoot-Hawley. Then if a bunch of other major trading countries does do this, the world plunges into an economic depression."
Sure, that's what they teach in freshman history class. Unfortunately, it's a lie. Protectionism WORKS. It's working really well for China right now. It worked for many decades in America. It was worked for hundreds of other countries in the past.
The big losers from protectionism are global financiers. You know, the crooks who bought the American government.
If you really believe that's the purpose, I've got a bridge to sell you.
Yay cybernetic totalitarianism!
"With the number of laws on the books in the US, damn near the entire population could be arrested on any given day for an infraction."
Alas, it seems we have become Stalin's Soviet Union.
Yay for cybernetic totalitarianism! Yay dystopia! Yay!!
"End the H1-B program"
My friend, we don't agree on much. But we agree on this.
Maybe it's time for people to start asking WWFDRD - What Would FDR Do?
No. Minimum 10x prevailing wage for the industry. H1B is for super duper ultra experts they can't find anywhere in a country of 350 million. Right....?
"developer positions, read non-management, that pay 150k to 180k"
So you're offering the same salaries you paid 15 years ago. Even though cost of living has tripled since then. Hmmmmmmmmm.... I wonder why you're having a hard time finding workers??
Why only 150% of median salary? I think 1000% (10x) of median salary is a much better minimum.
If a company _really_ needs a super expert whose skills are genuinely not available domestically, very high pay will not be a problem. Ad for the 99% of H1Bs who are not super experts, but rather average-skilled scabs brought in to drive down wages for domestic workers - they can stay home and help build up their own counties.
Oh, but it gets better. Some years ago I went to a lecture given by a biology researcher at a well known evil university. The dude's talk was pretty cool, but the really interesting part came at the very end. The researcher mentioned: oh yeah, all of my research is funded by the army, because they hope to engineer a biological weapon based on the toxo parasite.
Dude - stop feeding the trolls.
I, too, remember that time. The golden age of file sharing! A great flowering of culture, a time when technology really did increase human happiness.
Then the spirit of freedom was crushed under the iron boot of the State, the old norms of class division and cultural impoverishment restored, that the few might again benefit at the expense of the many.
I'm curious - what languages are commonly used in robotics programming?