for a bitcoin 10 years ago I woulda called you nuts, so I can't rule this craziness out. I could see the rich and powerful using it to hide money from the tax man. I'm pretty sure that's what they're doing in China. I'm pretty sure that would suck. Getting the rich to pay a share for civilization is hard enough as is. I don't think they need any more easy ways to hide money. And I'm sure just like today I won't be able to get away with hiding the pittance of my salary in bitcoin anymore than I can declare my earnings taxed in whatever country has the lowest rate.
Sounds like she was homeless. She was also pushing 50. I'm guessing she was just out of it. Fatigue will do that to you. By all accounts no drugs were involved.
I can't fault her for the dark cloths. She was homeless. It's not like she had a lot of options. Maybe the solution is a program to give homeless people reflective clothing. Homes too might help. And medical care. Like I said, she might've just been tired. She might also not have been 100% right in the head.
They seem to be doing a great job of getting them to hook up with Russia. They're also keeping food and medicine out of the country. I'd like to say that at least we're not supporting a dictatorship, but that ship kinda sailed when Trump congratulated Putin on his victory. Helping the Saudis bomb Yemen isn't helping either. We don't have a lot of moral ground to stand on in that theater.
Yes, jobs matter, but that's not what's getting folks to the polls. Not just that. Racism is definitely a factor. You're being childishly naive if you think otherwise. Google the Southern Strategy and read up on it. Racism, along with Guns and Abortion, form the Holy Trinity of wedge issues used to divide the working class.
Thing is, this is complicated shit. Guys like Trump don't win just because of racists, but they don't win without racists. It's one of many factors. There's no black and white here (pun not intended). We need to address white working class men's lack of jobs and futures and solve their problems, but we also need to address the widespread racism among them and get them to understand that it's not helping them.
And no, nobody really gives a rat's behind about fairness here. We're adults. Fairness is something of a childish emotion in this context. People want jobs. And They want to get rid of the others that are not like them. But nobody really gives a rat's ass about it being fair. If that's all that was at stake we'd just open our borders and everybody would compete in the free market in complete fairness.
given Mr Brady's history. And even if it wasn't, read my post a few more times. The right wing is cheating (gerrymandering, voter suppression come into play. As for the Senate & Electoral college, the game was rigged before I was born.
There's no point to playing a rigged game fairly. You'll always lose. If we call a constitutional convention the right wing will use it to strip the constitution of the few protections workers have.
Fairness is, if anything, a childish concept. We're adults. We're not playing games here. We're deciding who lives and dies. Grow up already. The sooner you do the sooner you can join the fight and we can start fixing things.
See here. It's identity politics, regular politics and racism. Not sure about prostitution but it wouldn't surprise me. A huge part of our legal system is about voter disenfranchisement. e.g. Nailing poor people with a conviction that strips voting rights.
Right wing ideas don't really survive on their own. Supply side economics, Military Industrial complex, lax environmental regulations and worker protections. None of these are high enough in the polls to make it. But our two party system means if you combine a bit of voter suppression, gerrymandering and the impact of our Senate & Electoral College you can get unpopular policies through despite the polls.
This is why Congress has a 13% approval rating but incumbents. It's also why the Dems have won not just the popular vote for POTUS but even gotten more votes for the House and somehow managed to have fewer representatives. All these shenanigans add up to us barely being a democracy...
was they weren't properly disclosing how the data they scrapped/collected was going to be used before scrapping/collecting it. e.g. they violated FB's Ts&Cs. And they did that because if they disclosed who they were and how the data would be used people a) would opt-out and b) people would know they were being targeted and subsequent advertising efforts would be less effective.
Now that said, why the *bleep* does FB make it possible to collect that much data without clear notices? When I install an app on my droid it tells me exactly what the app is going to collect. The app author has no control over that message, it's managed by the OS.
well, not these robots (these ones are coming for Migrant farm workers jobs). There's been a huge push in the US to kick the migrant farm workers out, mostly it's racially motivated. Nobody in America really wants to pick strawberries for a living. Aside from it being awful work with low pay it's seasonal, meaning you can't have a stable family even if the pay was OK.
To be fair there's a lot of blue collar jobs (drywall, home repair, construction) that are also being done by illegal immigrants. As a tech worker who's seen his job prospects cut down by the H1-B program it's hard not to sympathize with a plumber seeing less work because anything bigger than a drain pipe is being done by contract firms that employee illegal labor.
do it. Draw comics. Put 'em online with some banner ads and a Patreon account. Run a few kickstarters to get some print runs done. If you really want a following maybe do a Twitch channel of your drawing sessions. Once you've got some samples and a following use that to break into the industry. That's what the 8-Bit theater guy did.
Oh, and make sure you have a thick skin. You _will_ have trolls who's only join in life is telling you how much you suck. And worse than the trolls are legitimate critics. Ignore them. Ignore everyone and draw.
they would need to completely vacate Russia before I trusted them. Any country I buy security software from needs their head office & all their programmers in a country with strong privacy laws and an actual democracy. And yes, that probably excludes everyone outside the EU.
It genuinely frightens me that we're so quick to support dictatorships. Everybody's looking the other way because they want Russia's gas & oil. Then again I've got to drive to work every day the same as everybody else...
Is usually around 5mph. It's difficult to keep a car at a rock solid 35mph, even for a computer. Changes in elevation can quickly alter your speed and religiously adjusting for it isn't even always the safest thing to do.
One of the hard lessons I had when driving is that if you slow down too much aggressive or stupid drivers will take that as a signal to go. My first accident was a t-bone where a girl hit me because she was trying to do a left into a busy road. I saw her start to move and put on my breaks. She saw me coming and did the same, but then saw me breaking and decided this somehow meant I was going to come to a complete stop in the middle of a busy street (the only option that would have stopped the accident by then). If I had not breaked she wouldn't have gone and the accident wouldn't have happened.
What I'm saying is there's such a thing as too much caution. Now, maybe if we can get the meatbags off the road that won't be true anymore.
Besides the educational ones I mean (and maybe some stuff like this). Somebody was talking about bringing the KB Toys brand back to life. I could see that if there was no competition left.
17 Trillion. And that's just America. If all the bitcoins in the world are mined and they're worth $20k a pop they'd be worth $420 billion (based on 21 million being the estimated max # of bitcoins). The bank industry could buy out and/or crush bitcoin any time they want. They're not behind this.
This is probably just an offshoot of the illegal activity bitcoins are used for. Folks think (wrongly) that BTC is untraceable. So they do dumb things with it.
They seem to be doing pretty well with robots despite wages and working conditions we here in America find deplorable.
Yeah, good infrastructure, skilled employees and a lack of (the wrong kind of) corruption is good. But those things are also expensive. You need schools and roads. And with schools and roads comes taxes and (worse) an educated and mobile workforce. If you're gonna pay that much you might as well build in American (or whatever country your selling in) and not pay the tariffs.
The point of the article is that automation is going to hit the developing country (e.g. the ones without the stuff you're citing) hard. This is the thing that always drives me nuts about people. They want all the good stuff (skilled, hard working talent) and they _never_ want to pay for it. I get it. I don't want to pay for nice thing either. But sometimes you either do or you don't get it.
aren't what's being called out in the article. It's ones being run by businesses. I've been lucky enough to have a pretty solid career trajectory. But several of my buddies have been stuck applying everywhere under the sun. One of the most common tricks they've all seen is when they 'test' you to solve this one problem and you do and never get a call back. The huge number of unemployed and underemployed techs (thanks, H1-B program!) mean companies can do this pretty much indefinitely. A lot of company run hackathons are just that.
If you'll allow me to indulge in a bit of "Back in my day", companies used to do these things during working hours. It was part of your ongoing training. For those of you too young to know what that is, training is what companies did before they could go running to Congress to bring in as much cheap labor as they want.
there's been multiple reports from the current administration in America and even a few overseas where they've said they're trying to keep their hands off so they don't kill a nascent industry. Everybody knows crypto-currencies are being used mostly for illegal activity but they've been turning a blind eye in the hopes that they'll grow out of it like a phase and move on to more productive/better things.
it's pretty well established that bitcoin's being used for illegal activity (Drugs, money laundering, prostitution, etc, etc). It's also pretty well established that it's not hard to trace a bitcoin transaction and that once your name's tied to a wallet everything that wallet did leads back to you.
The investigators are supposed to get results, and these would be easy results to get. So yeah, no kidding they targeted bitcoin users.
they argued, successfully, that they weren't a "News" organization and were in fact an entertainment network. That's how they get away with running opinion pieces and news stories side by side without notice or a pause. Nothing on Fox is technically "News", it's entertainment. Legally speaking that is.
Drugs and Child pornography are two things that, at least in America, you're basically guilty until proven innocent. It doesn't help that, like it or not, the main use for bitcoin right now is buying illegal things and laundering money.
This needs to be nipped in the bud fast, but I'm not sure how. Once the feds come down it'll be too late. The time to self regulate is before then.
crossing the street carrying the f'n bike with a cross walk and green walky person. It was at an intersection where the light only turns red if somebody (me) pushes the button to cross. She didn't even register I was there. The lady clipped my rear wheel. Nice big SUV at 45-50 mph. If the lady had been driving half a mile faster I wouldn't be typing this right now.
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for a bitcoin 10 years ago I woulda called you nuts, so I can't rule this craziness out. I could see the rich and powerful using it to hide money from the tax man. I'm pretty sure that's what they're doing in China. I'm pretty sure that would suck. Getting the rich to pay a share for civilization is hard enough as is. I don't think they need any more easy ways to hide money. And I'm sure just like today I won't be able to get away with hiding the pittance of my salary in bitcoin anymore than I can declare my earnings taxed in whatever country has the lowest rate.
Sounds like she was homeless. She was also pushing 50. I'm guessing she was just out of it. Fatigue will do that to you. By all accounts no drugs were involved.
I can't fault her for the dark cloths. She was homeless. It's not like she had a lot of options. Maybe the solution is a program to give homeless people reflective clothing. Homes too might help. And medical care. Like I said, she might've just been tired. She might also not have been 100% right in the head.
They seem to be doing a great job of getting them to hook up with Russia. They're also keeping food and medicine out of the country. I'd like to say that at least we're not supporting a dictatorship, but that ship kinda sailed when Trump congratulated Putin on his victory. Helping the Saudis bomb Yemen isn't helping either. We don't have a lot of moral ground to stand on in that theater.
Yes, jobs matter, but that's not what's getting folks to the polls. Not just that. Racism is definitely a factor. You're being childishly naive if you think otherwise. Google the Southern Strategy and read up on it. Racism, along with Guns and Abortion, form the Holy Trinity of wedge issues used to divide the working class.
Thing is, this is complicated shit. Guys like Trump don't win just because of racists, but they don't win without racists. It's one of many factors. There's no black and white here (pun not intended). We need to address white working class men's lack of jobs and futures and solve their problems, but we also need to address the widespread racism among them and get them to understand that it's not helping them.
And no, nobody really gives a rat's behind about fairness here. We're adults. Fairness is something of a childish emotion in this context. People want jobs. And They want to get rid of the others that are not like them. But nobody really gives a rat's ass about it being fair. If that's all that was at stake we'd just open our borders and everybody would compete in the free market in complete fairness.
given Mr Brady's history. And even if it wasn't, read my post a few more times. The right wing is cheating (gerrymandering, voter suppression come into play. As for the Senate & Electoral college, the game was rigged before I was born.
There's no point to playing a rigged game fairly. You'll always lose. If we call a constitutional convention the right wing will use it to strip the constitution of the few protections workers have.
Fairness is, if anything, a childish concept. We're adults. We're not playing games here. We're deciding who lives and dies. Grow up already. The sooner you do the sooner you can join the fight and we can start fixing things.
See here. It's identity politics, regular politics and racism. Not sure about prostitution but it wouldn't surprise me. A huge part of our legal system is about voter disenfranchisement. e.g. Nailing poor people with a conviction that strips voting rights.
Right wing ideas don't really survive on their own. Supply side economics, Military Industrial complex, lax environmental regulations and worker protections. None of these are high enough in the polls to make it. But our two party system means if you combine a bit of voter suppression, gerrymandering and the impact of our Senate & Electoral College you can get unpopular policies through despite the polls.
This is why Congress has a 13% approval rating but incumbents. It's also why the Dems have won not just the popular vote for POTUS but even gotten more votes for the House and somehow managed to have fewer representatives. All these shenanigans add up to us barely being a democracy...
was they weren't properly disclosing how the data they scrapped/collected was going to be used before scrapping/collecting it. e.g. they violated FB's Ts&Cs. And they did that because if they disclosed who they were and how the data would be used people a) would opt-out and b) people would know they were being targeted and subsequent advertising efforts would be less effective.
Now that said, why the *bleep* does FB make it possible to collect that much data without clear notices? When I install an app on my droid it tells me exactly what the app is going to collect. The app author has no control over that message, it's managed by the OS.
my problem was I slowed down. e.g. speed limit was 45 and I dropped to 35. If I'd kept an even speed no harm or foul.
well, not these robots (these ones are coming for Migrant farm workers jobs). There's been a huge push in the US to kick the migrant farm workers out, mostly it's racially motivated. Nobody in America really wants to pick strawberries for a living. Aside from it being awful work with low pay it's seasonal, meaning you can't have a stable family even if the pay was OK.
To be fair there's a lot of blue collar jobs (drywall, home repair, construction) that are also being done by illegal immigrants. As a tech worker who's seen his job prospects cut down by the H1-B program it's hard not to sympathize with a plumber seeing less work because anything bigger than a drain pipe is being done by contract firms that employee illegal labor.
do it. Draw comics. Put 'em online with some banner ads and a Patreon account. Run a few kickstarters to get some print runs done. If you really want a following maybe do a Twitch channel of your drawing sessions. Once you've got some samples and a following use that to break into the industry. That's what the 8-Bit theater guy did.
Oh, and make sure you have a thick skin. You _will_ have trolls who's only join in life is telling you how much you suck. And worse than the trolls are legitimate critics. Ignore them. Ignore everyone and draw.
It's 2018. The best way to do it is to do it.
they would need to completely vacate Russia before I trusted them. Any country I buy security software from needs their head office & all their programmers in a country with strong privacy laws and an actual democracy. And yes, that probably excludes everyone outside the EU.
How's the frame rate compare with nVidia?
Sorry, couldn't help myself. This is amazing and all that but you put a pun like that in front of nerd... it's like steak before a poorly trained dog.
on his election 'victory'. I don't like McCain, but at least he called Trump out on it.
It genuinely frightens me that we're so quick to support dictatorships. Everybody's looking the other way because they want Russia's gas & oil. Then again I've got to drive to work every day the same as everybody else...
doesn't it?
Francis :).
Is usually around 5mph. It's difficult to keep a car at a rock solid 35mph, even for a computer. Changes in elevation can quickly alter your speed and religiously adjusting for it isn't even always the safest thing to do.
One of the hard lessons I had when driving is that if you slow down too much aggressive or stupid drivers will take that as a signal to go. My first accident was a t-bone where a girl hit me because she was trying to do a left into a busy road. I saw her start to move and put on my breaks. She saw me coming and did the same, but then saw me breaking and decided this somehow meant I was going to come to a complete stop in the middle of a busy street (the only option that would have stopped the accident by then). If I had not breaked she wouldn't have gone and the accident wouldn't have happened.
What I'm saying is there's such a thing as too much caution. Now, maybe if we can get the meatbags off the road that won't be true anymore.
Besides the educational ones I mean (and maybe some stuff like this). Somebody was talking about bringing the KB Toys brand back to life. I could see that if there was no competition left.
17 Trillion. And that's just America. If all the bitcoins in the world are mined and they're worth $20k a pop they'd be worth $420 billion (based on 21 million being the estimated max # of bitcoins). The bank industry could buy out and/or crush bitcoin any time they want. They're not behind this.
This is probably just an offshoot of the illegal activity bitcoins are used for. Folks think (wrongly) that BTC is untraceable. So they do dumb things with it.
They seem to be doing pretty well with robots despite wages and working conditions we here in America find deplorable.
Yeah, good infrastructure, skilled employees and a lack of (the wrong kind of) corruption is good. But those things are also expensive. You need schools and roads. And with schools and roads comes taxes and (worse) an educated and mobile workforce. If you're gonna pay that much you might as well build in American (or whatever country your selling in) and not pay the tariffs.
The point of the article is that automation is going to hit the developing country (e.g. the ones without the stuff you're citing) hard. This is the thing that always drives me nuts about people. They want all the good stuff (skilled, hard working talent) and they _never_ want to pay for it. I get it. I don't want to pay for nice thing either. But sometimes you either do or you don't get it.
aren't what's being called out in the article. It's ones being run by businesses. I've been lucky enough to have a pretty solid career trajectory. But several of my buddies have been stuck applying everywhere under the sun. One of the most common tricks they've all seen is when they 'test' you to solve this one problem and you do and never get a call back. The huge number of unemployed and underemployed techs (thanks, H1-B program!) mean companies can do this pretty much indefinitely. A lot of company run hackathons are just that.
If you'll allow me to indulge in a bit of "Back in my day", companies used to do these things during working hours. It was part of your ongoing training. For those of you too young to know what that is, training is what companies did before they could go running to Congress to bring in as much cheap labor as they want.
there's been multiple reports from the current administration in America and even a few overseas where they've said they're trying to keep their hands off so they don't kill a nascent industry. Everybody knows crypto-currencies are being used mostly for illegal activity but they've been turning a blind eye in the hopes that they'll grow out of it like a phase and move on to more productive/better things.
it's pretty well established that bitcoin's being used for illegal activity (Drugs, money laundering, prostitution, etc, etc). It's also pretty well established that it's not hard to trace a bitcoin transaction and that once your name's tied to a wallet everything that wallet did leads back to you.
The investigators are supposed to get results, and these would be easy results to get. So yeah, no kidding they targeted bitcoin users.
they argued, successfully, that they weren't a "News" organization and were in fact an entertainment network. That's how they get away with running opinion pieces and news stories side by side without notice or a pause. Nothing on Fox is technically "News", it's entertainment. Legally speaking that is.
Drugs and Child pornography are two things that, at least in America, you're basically guilty until proven innocent. It doesn't help that, like it or not, the main use for bitcoin right now is buying illegal things and laundering money.
This needs to be nipped in the bud fast, but I'm not sure how. Once the feds come down it'll be too late. The time to self regulate is before then.
crossing the street carrying the f'n bike with a cross walk and green walky person. It was at an intersection where the light only turns red if somebody (me) pushes the button to cross. She didn't even register I was there. The lady clipped my rear wheel. Nice big SUV at 45-50 mph. If the lady had been driving half a mile faster I wouldn't be typing this right now.