shorting should be outlawed? I get the concept but it's pretty much gambling of the worst sort. Plus if you're a big investor with lots of power you've suddenly got incentive to make a company fail. Heck, in a crypto currency market you could probably do all sorts of stuff to tank the price after you shorted it.
it's only valuable because it's backended by a ton of illegal activity (money laundering, gambling, drugs, ransomware). Nobody's buying much of anything legitimate with this stuff because it's not backed by governments, no will it be. Sooner or later the government will crack down and it'll all collapse.
Wall Street has always been a combination shell game and method for the ruling class to skim 50-60% off the economy without doing any real work, but this is just ridiculous. Come to think of it that's the only way I could see Crypto currency get a kind of legitimacy. I could see the ruling class forcing us to use it to buy stuff so they can skim even more off us working stiff's wages. Like credit cards but without the convenience and buyer protections.
he just wants more coders so he doesn't have to pay so much for one ones he's got. The fact that the H1-Bs are driving any sane person out of IT in America doesn't help matters. Mix in the Xenophobia that has been growing in the US for the last few years and you've got a very small chance politicians might have to curtail work visas enough to impact Mr Cooks bottom line & stock options.
This is nothing but a cynical attempt to get cheap labor. Nothing new here.
Automation is more than enough. It's gotten a _lot_ more sophisticated. Yes, it's not technically AI, but will that distinction matter when you've got a pink slip in your hand? Or when you're working 90 hours a week because the supply of labor outstrips demand 100 to 1?
they're a vastly powerful company. For a lot of people if you want to do business you have to do it with Equifax. Tell them to do otherwise and you you might as well tell somebody living in the 12th century not to bother with their local guild system. We live in the world we live in and not the one we want to.
every time you apply for credit or a bank account you've signed something that gave Equifax the right to collect your data. Read your agreements and if you don't like it don't sign it.
This is the philosophy of "You always have a choice". It's popular with the right wing, libertarians, corporations and the Republican party. You can try pointing out that it's not possible to find a bank or credit card that doesn't do business with Equifax and also impossible to live without either but I've found those arguments fall on deaf ears. If pressed I've had some of the "You always have a choice" crowd come out in favor of slavery. I really don't have an answer to that.
that's basically how Japan does gambling. You play Pachinko to gamble. You get little balls that you trade in for stuffed animals and such and there just happens to be a shop across the street that buys said stuffed animals for exorbitant prices. People are doing this with video game skins too. The only question is will the government (at the behest of Las Vegas) start cracking down on bitcoin & crypto currency.
from business leaders over the next few years. Lots and lots of talk about how robots aren't taking our jobs while they automate away millions of jobs. It's either that or we a) don't let them do it or b) tax the heck out of them and redistribute the wealth. And neither of those outcomes are desirable to them.
On the plus side I come from a short-lived family with poor genetics and I'm getting up there in years, so I'll probably be dead before the massive unemployment and chaos caused by the next industrial revolution.
they were desperate. He won because our screwed up electoral college and Hillary's arrogance (she bought into the "Blue Firewall" and didn't campaign in eastern swing states). Meanwhile Trump stumped in Michagan and Wisconsin telling them he's bringing their jobs back. He's not, but neither was Hilary. Trump said it best, what do you got to lose?
If the Dems want back in power they need to kick the right wing "centrists" out and get on board with populist ideas: Medicare for All, college for all, end the wars, $15 minimum wage, and the New New Deal (e.g. infrastructure spending in the trillions paid for by the billionaires that benefit from it). Or they can keep banging on about Russia while Trump gets sworn in for his third term (he's got a son).
you need to vote in your primary. We'd have Bernie Sanders right now folks would do that. Also, people need to get over the knee jerk anger reaction they get every time they see somebody get something they didn't work for. New flash, we all get lots of stuff we didn't work for. I didn't invent the PC but I'm typing away at one right now. And I didn't pay all the subsidies that made the things affordable. We do better as a species when we work together. Though certain individuals are doing great while we fight among ourselves...
meaning it'll fold at the first sign of trouble leaving you high and dry. That would probably be fine if we had a proper healthcare system (most folks could survive losing a car) but well, their governor just vetoed a single payer bill...
It's one page that reads "Drop lots and lots of bombs".
Seriously. It's North Bloody Korea. They can barely keep their army fed let alone fight a war with our nation. NK is a hostage situation. As soon as we move they start slinging rockets at South Korea because their leadership knows every last one of them is going to hang.
we've got multiple administrations around the world that are either too weak to enforce anti-trust or simply don't believe in it. Now's the time to put the screws on.
one of the party's central tenets is low taxes on business lead to better outcomes for the country. These sorts of tax breaks are exactly what they stand for.
Not that I'm in favor of letting the invisible hand sort it out mind you. When in anyone's life has a bad situation been made better by leaving it alone and hoping for the best?
but I do care about compatibility. When I send my resume to somebody in *.docx format I know for sure it's properly formatted. The world's a ridiculously competitive place. Having my resume be a little less readable can be the difference between me getting the job and somebody else.
they spent billions on a push into mobile, tablet and even console gaming. The trouble is nobody liked the Win8 UI and even if they did developers didn't trust the Windows Store (why should they give Microsoft a 30% cut like they do with Apple if they don't have to?).
Microsoft is aware they're getting their rears handed to them on phone/tablet. They're just not sure what to do about it.
that was the entire point of Windows 8 + Windows Mobile: To get back users flocking to Android and iOS. The idea was to lock the user in with a single familiar interface on all their devices, including their workstation PCs. They just failed. Rather spectacularly.
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shorting should be outlawed? I get the concept but it's pretty much gambling of the worst sort. Plus if you're a big investor with lots of power you've suddenly got incentive to make a company fail. Heck, in a crypto currency market you could probably do all sorts of stuff to tank the price after you shorted it.
it's only valuable because it's backended by a ton of illegal activity (money laundering, gambling, drugs, ransomware). Nobody's buying much of anything legitimate with this stuff because it's not backed by governments, no will it be. Sooner or later the government will crack down and it'll all collapse.
Wall Street has always been a combination shell game and method for the ruling class to skim 50-60% off the economy without doing any real work, but this is just ridiculous. Come to think of it that's the only way I could see Crypto currency get a kind of legitimacy. I could see the ruling class forcing us to use it to buy stuff so they can skim even more off us working stiff's wages. Like credit cards but without the convenience and buyer protections.
he just wants more coders so he doesn't have to pay so much for one ones he's got. The fact that the H1-Bs are driving any sane person out of IT in America doesn't help matters. Mix in the Xenophobia that has been growing in the US for the last few years and you've got a very small chance politicians might have to curtail work visas enough to impact Mr Cooks bottom line & stock options.
This is nothing but a cynical attempt to get cheap labor. Nothing new here.
if you run a software company it's perfectly sensible to want more employees so you can pay lower wages.
Automation is more than enough. It's gotten a _lot_ more sophisticated. Yes, it's not technically AI, but will that distinction matter when you've got a pink slip in your hand? Or when you're working 90 hours a week because the supply of labor outstrips demand 100 to 1?
they're a vastly powerful company. For a lot of people if you want to do business you have to do it with Equifax. Tell them to do otherwise and you you might as well tell somebody living in the 12th century not to bother with their local guild system. We live in the world we live in and not the one we want to.
every time you apply for credit or a bank account you've signed something that gave Equifax the right to collect your data. Read your agreements and if you don't like it don't sign it.
This is the philosophy of "You always have a choice". It's popular with the right wing, libertarians, corporations and the Republican party. You can try pointing out that it's not possible to find a bank or credit card that doesn't do business with Equifax and also impossible to live without either but I've found those arguments fall on deaf ears. If pressed I've had some of the "You always have a choice" crowd come out in favor of slavery. I really don't have an answer to that.
that's basically how Japan does gambling. You play Pachinko to gamble. You get little balls that you trade in for stuffed animals and such and there just happens to be a shop across the street that buys said stuffed animals for exorbitant prices. People are doing this with video game skins too. The only question is will the government (at the behest of Las Vegas) start cracking down on bitcoin & crypto currency.
it's called a DVD ripper. And I don't have to worry about slow 4G.
from business leaders over the next few years. Lots and lots of talk about how robots aren't taking our jobs while they automate away millions of jobs. It's either that or we a) don't let them do it or b) tax the heck out of them and redistribute the wealth. And neither of those outcomes are desirable to them.
On the plus side I come from a short-lived family with poor genetics and I'm getting up there in years, so I'll probably be dead before the massive unemployment and chaos caused by the next industrial revolution.
_and_ two-time FTC loser with a history in gambling? I think we just found our next president.
A drunk mad man texting his heart doctor for advise on chest pain. By my calculations that cancels it all out. I might have forgot to carry a one...
they were desperate. He won because our screwed up electoral college and Hillary's arrogance (she bought into the "Blue Firewall" and didn't campaign in eastern swing states). Meanwhile Trump stumped in Michagan and Wisconsin telling them he's bringing their jobs back. He's not, but neither was Hilary. Trump said it best, what do you got to lose?
If the Dems want back in power they need to kick the right wing "centrists" out and get on board with populist ideas: Medicare for All, college for all, end the wars, $15 minimum wage, and the New New Deal (e.g. infrastructure spending in the trillions paid for by the billionaires that benefit from it). Or they can keep banging on about Russia while Trump gets sworn in for his third term (he's got a son).
you need to vote in your primary. We'd have Bernie Sanders right now folks would do that. Also, people need to get over the knee jerk anger reaction they get every time they see somebody get something they didn't work for. New flash, we all get lots of stuff we didn't work for. I didn't invent the PC but I'm typing away at one right now. And I didn't pay all the subsidies that made the things affordable. We do better as a species when we work together. Though certain individuals are doing great while we fight among ourselves...
lets say you did some things your not proud of when you were a young. Suddenly it becomes a whole lot easier for somebody to dig that stuff up.
You can call him Ray _or_ you can call him Jay. Surely this must mean competition.
meaning it'll fold at the first sign of trouble leaving you high and dry. That would probably be fine if we had a proper healthcare system (most folks could survive losing a car) but well, their governor just vetoed a single payer bill...
It's one page that reads "Drop lots and lots of bombs".
Seriously. It's North Bloody Korea. They can barely keep their army fed let alone fight a war with our nation. NK is a hostage situation. As soon as we move they start slinging rockets at South Korea because their leadership knows every last one of them is going to hang.
we've got multiple administrations around the world that are either too weak to enforce anti-trust or simply don't believe in it. Now's the time to put the screws on.
our entire economic system was rigged against the working class. Good thing that would never happen.
schools especially. Whether they should or not I'm in no position to tell them. At least until I'm actually hired.
one of the party's central tenets is low taxes on business lead to better outcomes for the country. These sorts of tax breaks are exactly what they stand for.
Not that I'm in favor of letting the invisible hand sort it out mind you. When in anyone's life has a bad situation been made better by leaving it alone and hoping for the best?
but I do care about compatibility. When I send my resume to somebody in *.docx format I know for sure it's properly formatted. The world's a ridiculously competitive place. Having my resume be a little less readable can be the difference between me getting the job and somebody else.
they spent billions on a push into mobile, tablet and even console gaming. The trouble is nobody liked the Win8 UI and even if they did developers didn't trust the Windows Store (why should they give Microsoft a 30% cut like they do with Apple if they don't have to?).
Microsoft is aware they're getting their rears handed to them on phone/tablet. They're just not sure what to do about it.
that was the entire point of Windows 8 + Windows Mobile: To get back users flocking to Android and iOS. The idea was to lock the user in with a single familiar interface on all their devices, including their workstation PCs. They just failed. Rather spectacularly.