on every one of these threads and it's just as nonsensical every time.
Yes, for the absolute top end of tech, the math geniuses, you keep the guys around. What I don't think/.ers realize (or want to face) is that's a small percentage of tech jobs. The rank and file $70-$120k/yr tech jobs are what most of the folks here are going to settle into. You can train anybody to do those in about 4 years. Which coincidentally is the length of a college education.
For the vast majority you're not a snowflake, you're not special. You're replaceable. Young people are better value than you. This is why every civilization for thousands of years encouraged their youngung's to value the old. If you want a future in this world you better get some worker solidarity fast. Make sure the young guys know if they kick you to the curb they're next. Stop fighting among yourselves. Christ, Unionize already.
I'm in the States and I'll be happy to support nuclear when you can find a way to get the 20% of my citizenry to stop believing in crap like "Government's not the solution, it's the problem". Until then you're basically one round of lobbying and anti-bureaucracy sentiment away from the kinds of lax safety regulations that resulted in Fukushima. Exhibit B right here while I'm at it.
in both cases we've described government programs to make labor cheaper for businesses. It's just that the one I just described is cheaper because you don't have to pay for the training. The goal is never to increase employment and wages. It's always been to make as much money as possible for the oligarchy.
Just pay for people to go to school already. Deal with the fact that some of them are dumb and are going to major in Basket Weaving and rejoice in the engineers and doctors who run the world.
how about America change it's policies so that poor people don't feel the need to turn to addictive substances to cope. Not that I'm opposed to what you're suggesting, I'm just saying there's more than one way to attack that problem.
they don't want to pay to train anymore. They want employees already trained in whatever specialty they want this week and they want to dispose of them (or force them to train on their own time/dime) when that specialty gets obsolete.
We had a social contract and it's been broken. Time for a New New Deal (google it).
to the contrary though. e.g. that it's fine having children in your 40s (if you discount the fact that you'll be dead before you see grandchildren). The reason women had to have kids young was if they didn't they couldn't survive the trauma of child birth. There's writings from Voltaire's mistress back in the day when she found out she was pregnant and was 'putting her papers' in order because she didn't expect to live. She didn't.
because it was an investment. Your kids worked for you. As soon as they could too. Child labor has been illegal except in some very specific scenarios for decades. Also you don't 'own' your wife and child like you did/do back when the vast majority lived in abject poverty. They're no longer a possession to be obtained for monetary gain. They're purely an emotional thing. You have kids because you want to. And well (and this is something more taboo to say than every n-word variation you can think of) most men don't. Certainly not while they're young and have years of fun and partying ahead of them...
on the server. They've fixed most of the major issues. You still have to reboot them for no good reason, but with load balancing that's not really an issue.
Comcast has a huge head start. They can drop prices and run anyone out of business they want. Then they can buy up their former competitors for a song.
Like most public utilities Telecom doesn't really work in a free market sense. It's too expensive to get started but once you do you're entrenched.
This is all about freedom. Sure, they _want_ to spend the money, but they want the freedom _not_ to spend the money. And sure, it's a freedom they have exercised in the past and continue to exercise. But what good are freedoms if you don't exercise them?
So really, you should feel bad for questioning such Great Patriots as our American (tm) Cable Companies. It's Ok, just write some anti-Net Neutrality comments to apologize.
over a certain threshold. Everytime I read about one it means mass layoffs and price hikes in the face of shrinking competition. While we're at it, start taxing the crap out of corporations so they don't have so much cash to sit on and buy out all their competitors with.
Seriously, there's a reason we used to have a 90% top marginal tax rate and it's crap like this. You let income inequality get out of hand and you get shit like this. Big gov't isn't the threat to freedom, it's oligarchy. I can vote for my government. Unless I'm a billionaire I don't get a vote with the mega corps. And no, nobody reading this is every going to be a billionaire. You're reading/. for Pete's sake. That ship sailed when came here and read my post.
to go pay $15 dollars to watch a movie meant primarily for the Chinese. Start making movies for America again and I might show up. And that means more complex plots and dialog (which are harder to dub) few or no foreign product placements (which make no sense and break the movie flow even worse than regular product placements) and stop randomly including Chinese actors (I'm lookin' at you Rogue One).
Hollywood stopped making movies for me so I stopped going. Go figure.
I use google maps for that. It's not a problem when I'm driving 5mph. My kid has controls on her car's steering wheel for it so she can do it at speed.
frees up the spectrum for my cell phone. I don't care for their music and talk radio seem to be dominated by the likes of Rush Limbaugh & Co. Besides, they're all owned by one company. It's not like there's any real benefit outside of emergency services.
and I don't mean general purpose CPUs that do double duty but something like this that really is meant for the workstation. If you're just a gamer these CPUs are worse than useless. They sightly under perform the top general purpose CPUs at twice the price. I know time is money, but there's diminishing returns (anyone remember 52x CDR?)
his current plan is to privatize it, e.g. hand it over to his buddies to profit from. He's not even shy about it, he's talked about it more than once saying that the way we'd pay for new infrastructure is to sell the existing stuff off.
What I'm saying is don't count on Trump & Co to accomplish anything in regards to infrastructure. You won't get government funded infrastructure from him, he's already said he won't do it.
Maybe a few rock stars are skewing the average, but I know lots of programmers and they're lucky to crack six figures if they get into team Management.
it's easy to add employees when you're not paying them anything. More 'sharing' economy; you get to share your time with Best Buy because there aren't enough real jobs.
On another note, these scams have always been around. What's scary is seeing a company as large as Best Buy engage in them...
is massively, massively overpriced. Comcast admitted in one of their SEC filings that their $70/mo package cost them just $9/mo net (e.g. that includes support). That means anyone that tries to compete at that $70 price point is already doomed because Comcast et al can just drop their pants until the competition dies out. Which as far as I can tell is exactly what they did here. That's not competition though. It's a temporary price cut until competition dies on the vine.
TL;DR: Municipal broadband for the win. Anyone who complains about socialism gets shouted down. Enough already. It's too valuable for it not to be a public utility. It's right up there with water and electricity.
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on every one of these threads and it's just as nonsensical every time.
/.ers realize (or want to face) is that's a small percentage of tech jobs. The rank and file $70-$120k/yr tech jobs are what most of the folks here are going to settle into. You can train anybody to do those in about 4 years. Which coincidentally is the length of a college education.
Yes, for the absolute top end of tech, the math geniuses, you keep the guys around. What I don't think
For the vast majority you're not a snowflake, you're not special. You're replaceable. Young people are better value than you. This is why every civilization for thousands of years encouraged their youngung's to value the old. If you want a future in this world you better get some worker solidarity fast. Make sure the young guys know if they kick you to the curb they're next. Stop fighting among yourselves. Christ, Unionize already.
I'm in the States and I'll be happy to support nuclear when you can find a way to get the 20% of my citizenry to stop believing in crap like "Government's not the solution, it's the problem". Until then you're basically one round of lobbying and anti-bureaucracy sentiment away from the kinds of lax safety regulations that resulted in Fukushima. Exhibit B right here while I'm at it.
by Node.js and Angular for anything besides the odd query to a database here and there?
I use punch cards the way God and Nature intended.
in both cases we've described government programs to make labor cheaper for businesses. It's just that the one I just described is cheaper because you don't have to pay for the training. The goal is never to increase employment and wages. It's always been to make as much money as possible for the oligarchy.
Just pay for people to go to school already. Deal with the fact that some of them are dumb and are going to major in Basket Weaving and rejoice in the engineers and doctors who run the world.
why does Wall Street post records almost daily? The economy is doing just fine. Just not the part that the employees are allowed to partake in.
after 20 years of us tech workers losing jobs to H-1bs the fact that companies do that is taken for granted.
how about America change it's policies so that poor people don't feel the need to turn to addictive substances to cope. Not that I'm opposed to what you're suggesting, I'm just saying there's more than one way to attack that problem.
they don't want to pay to train anymore. They want employees already trained in whatever specialty they want this week and they want to dispose of them (or force them to train on their own time/dime) when that specialty gets obsolete.
We had a social contract and it's been broken. Time for a New New Deal (google it).
to the contrary though. e.g. that it's fine having children in your 40s (if you discount the fact that you'll be dead before you see grandchildren). The reason women had to have kids young was if they didn't they couldn't survive the trauma of child birth. There's writings from Voltaire's mistress back in the day when she found out she was pregnant and was 'putting her papers' in order because she didn't expect to live. She didn't.
because it was an investment. Your kids worked for you. As soon as they could too. Child labor has been illegal except in some very specific scenarios for decades. Also you don't 'own' your wife and child like you did/do back when the vast majority lived in abject poverty. They're no longer a possession to be obtained for monetary gain. They're purely an emotional thing. You have kids because you want to. And well (and this is something more taboo to say than every n-word variation you can think of) most men don't. Certainly not while they're young and have years of fun and partying ahead of them...
on the server. They've fixed most of the major issues. You still have to reboot them for no good reason, but with load balancing that's not really an issue.
Comcast has a huge head start. They can drop prices and run anyone out of business they want. Then they can buy up their former competitors for a song.
Like most public utilities Telecom doesn't really work in a free market sense. It's too expensive to get started but once you do you're entrenched.
This is all about freedom. Sure, they _want_ to spend the money, but they want the freedom _not_ to spend the money. And sure, it's a freedom they have exercised in the past and continue to exercise. But what good are freedoms if you don't exercise them?
So really, you should feel bad for questioning such Great Patriots as our American (tm) Cable Companies. It's Ok, just write some anti-Net Neutrality comments to apologize.
young people can't afford kids and the Catholic/Puritan stigma of birth control is more or less gone.
over a certain threshold. Everytime I read about one it means mass layoffs and price hikes in the face of shrinking competition. While we're at it, start taxing the crap out of corporations so they don't have so much cash to sit on and buy out all their competitors with.
/. for Pete's sake. That ship sailed when came here and read my post.
Seriously, there's a reason we used to have a 90% top marginal tax rate and it's crap like this. You let income inequality get out of hand and you get shit like this. Big gov't isn't the threat to freedom, it's oligarchy. I can vote for my government. Unless I'm a billionaire I don't get a vote with the mega corps. And no, nobody reading this is every going to be a billionaire. You're reading
to go pay $15 dollars to watch a movie meant primarily for the Chinese. Start making movies for America again and I might show up. And that means more complex plots and dialog (which are harder to dub) few or no foreign product placements (which make no sense and break the movie flow even worse than regular product placements) and stop randomly including Chinese actors (I'm lookin' at you Rogue One).
Hollywood stopped making movies for me so I stopped going. Go figure.
I use google maps for that. It's not a problem when I'm driving 5mph. My kid has controls on her car's steering wheel for it so she can do it at speed.
frees up the spectrum for my cell phone. I don't care for their music and talk radio seem to be dominated by the likes of Rush Limbaugh & Co. Besides, they're all owned by one company. It's not like there's any real benefit outside of emergency services.
and I don't mean general purpose CPUs that do double duty but something like this that really is meant for the workstation. If you're just a gamer these CPUs are worse than useless. They sightly under perform the top general purpose CPUs at twice the price. I know time is money, but there's diminishing returns (anyone remember 52x CDR?)
his current plan is to privatize it, e.g. hand it over to his buddies to profit from. He's not even shy about it, he's talked about it more than once saying that the way we'd pay for new infrastructure is to sell the existing stuff off.
What I'm saying is don't count on Trump & Co to accomplish anything in regards to infrastructure. You won't get government funded infrastructure from him, he's already said he won't do it.
Maybe a few rock stars are skewing the average, but I know lots of programmers and they're lucky to crack six figures if they get into team Management.
it's easy to add employees when you're not paying them anything. More 'sharing' economy; you get to share your time with Best Buy because there aren't enough real jobs.
On another note, these scams have always been around. What's scary is seeing a company as large as Best Buy engage in them...
is massively, massively overpriced. Comcast admitted in one of their SEC filings that their $70/mo package cost them just $9/mo net (e.g. that includes support). That means anyone that tries to compete at that $70 price point is already doomed because Comcast et al can just drop their pants until the competition dies out. Which as far as I can tell is exactly what they did here. That's not competition though. It's a temporary price cut until competition dies on the vine.
TL;DR: Municipal broadband for the win. Anyone who complains about socialism gets shouted down. Enough already. It's too valuable for it not to be a public utility. It's right up there with water and electricity.
of a television screen, tuned to a dead channel.
If Niel Gaiman can adapt so can they.