If you look out from the 50th floor in Shinjuku, you can see highrise towers as far as the horizon. Earthquakes definitely have not stopped the Japanese from building Tokyo up up up.
I tried saying "widely-known enemy if the working people, influence peddler, bribe solicitor, anti-freedom extremist, and paid agent of the Chinese intelligence services Hillary"... But it just didn't have the same ring to it.
Personally I much prefer to hire and work with English, Philosophy, and Physics majors on programming projects. CS majors are rarely an asset to a team, often a liability.
English majors understand the importance of _naming_. Getting your variable and function names right is (usually) far far more important than choosing the "right" esoteric data structure. Clarity is essential for maintainability.
Philosophy majors (sometimes) have clean minds. Nothing matters more if you want the output of the program to be consistently _right_. Note that, precisely because they have clean minds, most Phil majors are completely useless for frontend work.
Physics majors are just generally smart, and usually can't find meaningful/remunerative work in their chosen field. The nation's failure & the public's loss is my company's gain.
There probably are some CS majors who are actually competent programmers. I haven't met them, but I'm sure they're out there. They probably work for the _next_ Google. But so long as most startup companies insist on paying permanent-renter wages, all we're going to be able to get is smart people who can't find work in their actual fields of expertise. Yay financial capitalism!?!
Facebook makes a good large chunk of their revenue from selling mass surveillance data & services to (repressive) governments worldwide. Openly disclosing their business activities would likely be extremely illegal in multiple countries.
I share lots of things with my friends. Nevertheless I have a strong expectation that my friends will not be hiding in the bushes outside my house, stalking me. If they did I would expect the police to stop them. Even if they told the officer, "heyyyy man, he's my friend!"
Also - Creepy Facebook is NOT my friend. I share nothing with it. But it still stalks me.
So you're saying all dissent news sources will be libelled with a "published by a bot" badge? But this smear campaign will backfire, when the masses quickly realize that only semi-official fake news is exempt from the libelous badge?
Suppose there was a creepy stalker literally hiding in the bushes outside your home every day. Would you prefer he pay you $0.00035/day for the "right" to stalk you? Or would you prefer a policeman came by and forced him to stop stalking?
According to Wikipedia, this Senator Warner is a former venture capitalist. I expect therefore that his proposed rules will do nothing to protect citizens from predatory companies, and much to protect predatory companies from competitors who aren't owned by the old boys club.
How will our progeny look at the ruins of our security/surveillance state? The ubiquitous cameras and sensors - the comically profuse street signs telling us what we're not allowed to do - the centralized & censored communications platforms - Big Brother always watching, always listening - and the vast grim archipelago of the American Gulag.
Will they look at them the same way we look at the Berlin Wall? As ruins of a dark era, when fear trampled freedom underfoot. Will they wonder if we were mad, evil, or just foolish? Will they see a link between our collapsing economic order, the resultant crisis of state & parastate legitimacy, and our unhinged headlong rush to turn the whole country into one giant prison?
Will our grandchildren look at abandoned rotting surveillance cameras, shake their heads, and breathe a sigh of relief - thankful they were born into a period of freedom and prosperity? Will they say to themselves, "never again"?
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Ever tried that for a long distance in San Hoe? Do it, and you'll understand why. Personally I prefer the Subway, old & derelict tho it is.
That's why the rich are all "Progressives" and the proles and lumpen from whom they extract their wealth are "deplorables".
Yeah - fuck nature. Let's build suburbs in Yellowstone!
Another day older and deeper in debt.
And black lung, of course...
Sounds like a great way to ensure supine obedience and drive down local wages.
If you look out from the 50th floor in Shinjuku, you can see highrise towers as far as the horizon. Earthquakes definitely have not stopped the Japanese from building Tokyo up up up.
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What does Battlestar Galactica have to do with Coors beer?
"big metal rig"
Is that like a lathe, or an oil drilling platform, or something?
President Donald J TRUMP kicked my dog!!
Yeah, totally! Least week six houses (apartment buildings, actually) exploded on my block. And that was a slow week.
I tried saying "widely-known enemy if the working people, influence peddler, bribe solicitor, anti-freedom extremist, and paid agent of the Chinese intelligence services Hillary"... But it just didn't have the same ring to it.
Personally I much prefer to hire and work with English, Philosophy, and Physics majors on programming projects. CS majors are rarely an asset to a team, often a liability.
English majors understand the importance of _naming_. Getting your variable and function names right is (usually) far far more important than choosing the "right" esoteric data structure. Clarity is essential for maintainability.
Philosophy majors (sometimes) have clean minds. Nothing matters more if you want the output of the program to be consistently _right_. Note that, precisely because they have clean minds, most Phil majors are completely useless for frontend work.
Physics majors are just generally smart, and usually can't find meaningful/remunerative work in their chosen field. The nation's failure & the public's loss is my company's gain.
There probably are some CS majors who are actually competent programmers. I haven't met them, but I'm sure they're out there. They probably work for the _next_ Google. But so long as most startup companies insist on paying permanent-renter wages, all we're going to be able to get is smart people who can't find work in their actual fields of expertise. Yay financial capitalism!?!
"NOT to suggest that the Google Play website properly vets the security of the apps"
99% of the apps on the Play Store are spyware. That is unsurprising given that Google's whole business model is based on data rape.
Is that related to the Totalitarian Anarchist party?
Facebook makes a good large chunk of their revenue from selling mass surveillance data & services to (repressive) governments worldwide. Openly disclosing their business activities would likely be extremely illegal in multiple countries.
I share lots of things with my friends. Nevertheless I have a strong expectation that my friends will not be hiding in the bushes outside my house, stalking me. If they did I would expect the police to stop them. Even if they told the officer, "heyyyy man, he's my friend!"
Also - Creepy Facebook is NOT my friend. I share nothing with it. But it still stalks me.
#credulous
So you're saying all dissent news sources will be libelled with a "published by a bot" badge? But this smear campaign will backfire, when the masses quickly realize that only semi-official fake news is exempt from the libelous badge?
"if you trade liberty for safety, you deserve neither."
More important than what you deserve - if you make that trade you GET neither liberty nor safety.
Vladimir Putin pickpocketed me in the subway!
Suppose there was a creepy stalker literally hiding in the bushes outside your home every day. Would you prefer he pay you $0.00035/day for the "right" to stalk you? Or would you prefer a policeman came by and forced him to stop stalking?
According to Wikipedia, this Senator Warner is a former venture capitalist. I expect therefore that his proposed rules will do nothing to protect citizens from predatory companies, and much to protect predatory companies from competitors who aren't owned by the old boys club.
How will our progeny look at the ruins of our security/surveillance state? The ubiquitous cameras and sensors - the comically profuse street signs telling us what we're not allowed to do - the centralized & censored communications platforms - Big Brother always watching, always listening - and the vast grim archipelago of the American Gulag.
Will they look at them the same way we look at the Berlin Wall? As ruins of a dark era, when fear trampled freedom underfoot. Will they wonder if we were mad, evil, or just foolish? Will they see a link between our collapsing economic order, the resultant crisis of state & parastate legitimacy, and our unhinged headlong rush to turn the whole country into one giant prison?
Will our grandchildren look at abandoned rotting surveillance cameras, shake their heads, and breathe a sigh of relief - thankful they were born into a period of freedom and prosperity? Will they say to themselves, "never again"?
Yeah. Just move to a different planet where they have different rules. Easy - problem solved!