although for all but the top maybe 10% of coders that's probably more important than anything. You're rank and file are just implementing biz logic after all. But don't forget that the ability to learn and adapt goes _down_ as you get older. It just does, and there's plenty of research to show this. An experienced programmer can crank out code he's already written faster, but so what. He's gonna want to work fewer hours and have more benefits. On the low end I can not only work those young guys half again as hard and pay them half as much. They cost less to give medical insurance for to boot. On the high end their ability to learn makes up for their lack of experience.
The reason you were taught to respect your elders is they were smart enough to know they weren't needed anymore and you'd need an emotional reason drilled into you when you were mentally vulnerable or you'd kick 'em to the curb.
but the science doesn't back it up. It's not so much experience as an inability to learn new things. It's been pretty much shown that the older you get the harder it is for you to assimilate new information. There are exceptions, but in business you want predictable results. Those exceptions are too few and far between. And while Experienced people might be very good at what they learned 20 years ago and you want some of those you don't need nearly as many. Doesn't help that productivity has basically doubled in the last 20 years...
#1. You spend a bunch of time figuring this out. You're also constantly adjusting it. That's the hard part about socialism. You don't get to use guiding principles very often because they're inflexible. You're only real guiding principle is that nobody gets left to the tender mercies of the "invisible hand". Let me ask you this, when in your life has a difficult problem been best solved by ignoring it?
#2. Because we're letting a sizable portion of humanity starve for no reason. We're already making enough food in raw calories to feed everyone, but we still have mass starvation. Think about why.
3. They don't. 90% of the _hard_ R&D is paid for by your tax dollars and mine. When the American taxpayer won't foot the bill it doesn't get done. You don't think the ruling class spends their own money on that stuff? That's not how you get rich.
Fun Fact: The US Housing market currently has a housing shortage. Is it because of evil gummint bureaucrats? Nope, it's because they ran out land developed by the American Taxpayer. Roads, Water lines, power lines, gas lines, Telephone and internet. All that costs a _lot_ of money. We spent trillions on "Infrastructure" in the 50s, 60s and 70s and stopped in the 80s when Regan was elected. What do you think "infrastructure" means?
so long as the unemployed are happy with their lot. Automation + Productivity means we've got lots and lots of excess people with nothing to do. Hell, when I was a kid this was the _goal_. We weren't suppose to be inching back to a 60 hour work week... And Japan has proven that if people have something else to do they won't breed uncontrollably. Fact is, we've got a _lot_ of folks not smart enough or creative enough to be productive in a society based on knowledge alone.
Sun couldn't make any money off Java. Sun wasn't incompetent, they were stuck in a business model that became irrelevant (selling high end hardware). It's all well and good to say you should pivot to SaaS but that means selling access to software. If Oracle tries that with Java the community will just fork the damn thing. Where is the business model with Java that makes Oracle enough money to cover the expense of buying Sun? It wasn't in enforcing copyrights on Google, they lost that fight. What they're left with is really nice tech that can't make anyone a dime...
It's more like bashing Ford for it's role (along with GM) in, say, killing off public transit or the electric car. The producer is distorting the market and large parts of human civilization for their long term profit; and doing it at a scale that's hard to grasp...
when companies like Monstanto can't use our patent system to control people's access to food. I've seen poor countries have to turn down offers for free grain because they can't risk the GMO stuff being planted and then their farmers getting shaken down. It's _food_. Just regulate it already so there's enough profit motive to keep people interested as opposed to living like god-kings.
Since it's pretty much a fact that you can work longer and harder when you're young. And it's not like experience is all that important in a brand new field. I understand why the working class is against it. We all get old but very few of us can stop working at 40. But I sorta wish we working class folks could be more honest about it and just admit we're protecting our own interests. There's absolutely nothing wrong with that but we act like we're doing something disdainful...
they waited until 11,000 to post this story? 1000 would have probably been enough, and 10,000's a nice round Number. I guess it does go to 11, so there's that.
if IBM will finally kick the bucket. See, the nice thing about web apps, stacks (LAMP, MEAN, etc) and all that is you can move your app to any provider you want. Meanwhile a lot of companies have tons and tons of old code on pricey IBM mainframes. Everyone I know is trying to move their code off those systems. Sure, it's often a disaster, but with the economy perpetually weak saving $$$ is too important and even if it's a bad customer experience does it really matter when everyone's doing it?
Law must be precise. Otherwise it's either too broadly applied and leads to false imprisonment or too narrow and let's people violate the spirit by adhering to the letter. You do not want "common sense" in your laws. That's what got us the DMCA and those nasty federal anti hacking statutes that can put you jail for a Perl script...
And probably neither was the programmer. Instead there are deeply rooted institutions built on racism that become data inputs and in turn racial bias. See, we lanyards are all about one thing: solving difficult problems. Racism is one of those. It's not enough to say black folks got schools now so everything's honky dory. If we use a complex web of property taxes and rules against which schools the get to attend we can achieve the goal of racism (creating an under class for people to shit on) without being obvious about it. Google the phrase Dog Whistling for a start
it was a 90% _marginal_ rate. 90% taxes on income after $2 million, IIRC (and that was in 1960s money, something like $17 million in today's money). The 1% paid the same taxes as a coal miner up to that coal miner's salary.
is why I'd like to see a return to the old tax rates from the 50s,60s and 70s before "Reganomics" took hold. When you've got as much cash as Apple why _not_ just buy every single possible competitor... I mean, wasn't Tidal another one of those services started _because_ of the crappy deals Apple gave artists?
in it's definition of "Unauthorized". If you don't like how someone is using information you've made publicly accessible on your web site then it's suddenly "Unauthorized" and congrats, you're perl script just committed a felony for you. This isn't like walking into a house with it's doors unlocked. It's more like you wrote down advertised prices from billboards, aggregated the data, and when somebody notices you doing that doesn't make them look so good they throw you in prison.
This has been discussed multiple times on/.. It seldom comes up because most of us are working for large corps doing what we're told and so have a bit of the corporate veil to protect us. Someone trying to research a politically unpopular idea (racial profiling is being used to target minorities for expensive high risk loans and exclude them from cheaper low risk ones they otherwise qualify for) has to worry about this. If your study shows a pattern of abuse from on the part of a multi-billion dollar mortgage company expect to see some charges.
finding a job that pays the same or more with equivalent benefits. Also it's a good thing human beings don't age and eventually become incapable of productive work (unless a generous retirement package along with a large enough salary to take advantage of it is given by those never ending jobs).
pay $9. Quick Trip is family owned and has been paying that. But those jobs are hard to get because they're paying a _lot_ more. If you're in San Francisco, LA, NY, etc though than all bets are off. What I make now would be fan-fin'-tastic in my old city. Where I am now I'm struggling. Talk to the Indians here on work visa's sometime. They'll tell you how confused they are that Americans aren't all driving Teslas and BMWs on their wages. Most folks don't understand that without some outside force (read:government & labor unions) prices rise to depress wages.
right? Shit runs down hill. The guy on probation trying to find a decent job takes something crappy and exploitative. The one I see the most are "contractor" gigs like part runner where you use your own vehicle. A family pools their money to buy the ex-con a truck because they're not getting paid enough as a part runner to buy/maintain one.
Even if you're OK with that morally reprehensible situation (heh, they probably deserved it, amaright?) that guy drives wages down for part runners (stick with me on this, it's complicated):
The guy who was content to be a partrunner for $15/hr can't, because that ex-con and his family are giving $10/hr of free labor and maintenance to the shop. He busts his ass and gets a job managing a Domino's.
The guy content managing the Domino's has his pay cut $5/hr. After all, there's a flood of Pizza managers now. Supply/Demand. You understand, right? He goes and gets a job managing a call center for the pay a Pizza Manager used to get.
Now the call center manager is in the same boat as the guys below him. He takes night classes He's smart, but either he wasn't focused or had a bad family life so he didn't make it through college the first time. Now it's do or die. Some if his ilk die. Some do. The ones that do enter IT and are back to what a Call Center manager used to make.
Finally those IT guys who were content to write bash/perl scripts for $70k/yr see their careers flooded with refugees from the Call Centers. Their wages drop and they go back and get their Masters (they've got savings so it wasn't hard). Now everybody with a Master's degree sees their wages drop like a rock.
This is what happens when workers lose solidarity. We're picked apart by the ruling class. It's your basic race to the bottom. Thanks.
When I have basic income, single payer health care and reliable public transportation. Until then as a member of the working class I plan to freak out.
is that most of people will never be impacted by the surveillance, at least not in a way they can see and feel. It's the same reason why America can't get away from the antiquated insurance model for health care. And If by some chance you are impacted you're misfortune leaves you completely marginalized...
port Tomb Raider to Linux? I'm not saying it's not cool and all, but I just can't imagine enough of a market for it. Shot across the bow to Microsoft over UWP maybe? From what I could tell that was what SteamOS was all about (and why Valve let it fizzel after the Windows Store bombed in Win8)
the trouble with Britain and America right now is that there's been 40 years of policy that benefits well educated upper middle class college grads and hurts blue collar workers. The Blue collar guys sucked it down in stride for those 40 years but it sounds like they're at their wits end. They're desperate to do _something_ but they don't know what. They've got a lot of ideology and beliefs that make it hard to go the Scandinavian Socialism route to solve their economic problems and there's no way they can compete on a global stage with slave labor let alone the coming robots. But they've got to do something Britain gets "Brexit" on over here we get Trump.
Not sure about the UK but 20 years ago phone polls would like the upper cast keep tabs on voting patters and focus their political campaigns, but now that everybody has a cell phone and you can't do polling calls to them the old political tricks aren't working. It doesn't do any good to have even unlimited funds if you don't know where to put them and you needed those phone polls to tell you what to do next. So Britain had no idea Brexit was coming (Cameron's resignation showed that) and the US is desperately trying to Stop Trump...
It's gonna get really, really messy from here on out.
Fancy restaurants that employ skilled chefs are a Veblen good. Meaning something you spend money on to show others that you can. A measure of your status. Also fancy restaurants put a premium on a type of craftsmanship that's still very hard for robots to do. We're talking $50-$75 dollar a plate places though. Your Applebees & Olive Gardens are probably vulnerable to automation.
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although for all but the top maybe 10% of coders that's probably more important than anything. You're rank and file are just implementing biz logic after all. But don't forget that the ability to learn and adapt goes _down_ as you get older. It just does, and there's plenty of research to show this. An experienced programmer can crank out code he's already written faster, but so what. He's gonna want to work fewer hours and have more benefits. On the low end I can not only work those young guys half again as hard and pay them half as much. They cost less to give medical insurance for to boot. On the high end their ability to learn makes up for their lack of experience.
The reason you were taught to respect your elders is they were smart enough to know they weren't needed anymore and you'd need an emotional reason drilled into you when you were mentally vulnerable or you'd kick 'em to the curb.
but the science doesn't back it up. It's not so much experience as an inability to learn new things. It's been pretty much shown that the older you get the harder it is for you to assimilate new information. There are exceptions, but in business you want predictable results. Those exceptions are too few and far between. And while Experienced people might be very good at what they learned 20 years ago and you want some of those you don't need nearly as many. Doesn't help that productivity has basically doubled in the last 20 years...
#1. You spend a bunch of time figuring this out. You're also constantly adjusting it. That's the hard part about socialism. You don't get to use guiding principles very often because they're inflexible. You're only real guiding principle is that nobody gets left to the tender mercies of the "invisible hand". Let me ask you this, when in your life has a difficult problem been best solved by ignoring it?
#2. Because we're letting a sizable portion of humanity starve for no reason. We're already making enough food in raw calories to feed everyone, but we still have mass starvation. Think about why.
3. They don't. 90% of the _hard_ R&D is paid for by your tax dollars and mine. When the American taxpayer won't foot the bill it doesn't get done. You don't think the ruling class spends their own money on that stuff? That's not how you get rich.
Fun Fact: The US Housing market currently has a housing shortage. Is it because of evil gummint bureaucrats? Nope, it's because they ran out land developed by the American Taxpayer. Roads, Water lines, power lines, gas lines, Telephone and internet. All that costs a _lot_ of money. We spent trillions on "Infrastructure" in the 50s, 60s and 70s and stopped in the 80s when Regan was elected. What do you think "infrastructure" means?
so long as the unemployed are happy with their lot. Automation + Productivity means we've got lots and lots of excess people with nothing to do. Hell, when I was a kid this was the _goal_. We weren't suppose to be inching back to a 60 hour work week... And Japan has proven that if people have something else to do they won't breed uncontrollably. Fact is, we've got a _lot_ of folks not smart enough or creative enough to be productive in a society based on knowledge alone.
Sun couldn't make any money off Java. Sun wasn't incompetent, they were stuck in a business model that became irrelevant (selling high end hardware). It's all well and good to say you should pivot to SaaS but that means selling access to software. If Oracle tries that with Java the community will just fork the damn thing. Where is the business model with Java that makes Oracle enough money to cover the expense of buying Sun? It wasn't in enforcing copyrights on Google, they lost that fight. What they're left with is really nice tech that can't make anyone a dime...
It's more like bashing Ford for it's role (along with GM) in, say, killing off public transit or the electric car. The producer is distorting the market and large parts of human civilization for their long term profit; and doing it at a scale that's hard to grasp...
when companies like Monstanto can't use our patent system to control people's access to food. I've seen poor countries have to turn down offers for free grain because they can't risk the GMO stuff being planted and then their farmers getting shaken down. It's _food_. Just regulate it already so there's enough profit motive to keep people interested as opposed to living like god-kings.
Since it's pretty much a fact that you can work longer and harder when you're young. And it's not like experience is all that important in a brand new field. I understand why the working class is against it. We all get old but very few of us can stop working at 40. But I sorta wish we working class folks could be more honest about it and just admit we're protecting our own interests. There's absolutely nothing wrong with that but we act like we're doing something disdainful...
they waited until 11,000 to post this story? 1000 would have probably been enough, and 10,000's a nice round Number. I guess it does go to 11, so there's that.
if IBM will finally kick the bucket. See, the nice thing about web apps, stacks (LAMP, MEAN, etc) and all that is you can move your app to any provider you want. Meanwhile a lot of companies have tons and tons of old code on pricey IBM mainframes. Everyone I know is trying to move their code off those systems. Sure, it's often a disaster, but with the economy perpetually weak saving $$$ is too important and even if it's a bad customer experience does it really matter when everyone's doing it?
Lanyard==libtard. Stupid auto complete.
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Law must be precise. Otherwise it's either too broadly applied and leads to false imprisonment or too narrow and let's people violate the spirit by adhering to the letter. You do not want "common sense" in your laws. That's what got us the DMCA and those nasty federal anti hacking statutes that can put you jail for a Perl script...
And probably neither was the programmer. Instead there are deeply rooted institutions built on racism that become data inputs and in turn racial bias. See, we lanyards are all about one thing: solving difficult problems. Racism is one of those. It's not enough to say black folks got schools now so everything's honky dory. If we use a complex web of property taxes and rules against which schools the get to attend we can achieve the goal of racism (creating an under class for people to shit on) without being obvious about it. Google the phrase Dog Whistling for a start
it was a 90% _marginal_ rate. 90% taxes on income after $2 million, IIRC (and that was in 1960s money, something like $17 million in today's money). The 1% paid the same taxes as a coal miner up to that coal miner's salary.
is why I'd like to see a return to the old tax rates from the 50s,60s and 70s before "Reganomics" took hold. When you've got as much cash as Apple why _not_ just buy every single possible competitor... I mean, wasn't Tidal another one of those services started _because_ of the crappy deals Apple gave artists?
in it's definition of "Unauthorized". If you don't like how someone is using information you've made publicly accessible on your web site then it's suddenly "Unauthorized" and congrats, you're perl script just committed a felony for you. This isn't like walking into a house with it's doors unlocked. It's more like you wrote down advertised prices from billboards, aggregated the data, and when somebody notices you doing that doesn't make them look so good they throw you in prison.
/.. It seldom comes up because most of us are working for large corps doing what we're told and so have a bit of the corporate veil to protect us. Someone trying to research a politically unpopular idea (racial profiling is being used to target minorities for expensive high risk loans and exclude them from cheaper low risk ones they otherwise qualify for) has to worry about this. If your study shows a pattern of abuse from on the part of a multi-billion dollar mortgage company expect to see some charges.
This has been discussed multiple times on
finding a job that pays the same or more with equivalent benefits. Also it's a good thing human beings don't age and eventually become incapable of productive work (unless a generous retirement package along with a large enough salary to take advantage of it is given by those never ending jobs).
pay $9. Quick Trip is family owned and has been paying that. But those jobs are hard to get because they're paying a _lot_ more. If you're in San Francisco, LA, NY, etc though than all bets are off. What I make now would be fan-fin'-tastic in my old city. Where I am now I'm struggling. Talk to the Indians here on work visa's sometime. They'll tell you how confused they are that Americans aren't all driving Teslas and BMWs on their wages. Most folks don't understand that without some outside force (read:government & labor unions) prices rise to depress wages.
right? Shit runs down hill. The guy on probation trying to find a decent job takes something crappy and exploitative. The one I see the most are "contractor" gigs like part runner where you use your own vehicle. A family pools their money to buy the ex-con a truck because they're not getting paid enough as a part runner to buy/maintain one.
Even if you're OK with that morally reprehensible situation (heh, they probably deserved it, amaright?) that guy drives wages down for part runners (stick with me on this, it's complicated):
The guy who was content to be a partrunner for $15/hr can't, because that ex-con and his family are giving $10/hr of free labor and maintenance to the shop. He busts his ass and gets a job managing a Domino's.
The guy content managing the Domino's has his pay cut $5/hr. After all, there's a flood of Pizza managers now. Supply/Demand. You understand, right? He goes and gets a job managing a call center for the pay a Pizza Manager used to get.
Now the call center manager is in the same boat as the guys below him. He takes night classes He's smart, but either he wasn't focused or had a bad family life so he didn't make it through college the first time. Now it's do or die. Some if his ilk die. Some do. The ones that do enter IT and are back to what a Call Center manager used to make.
Finally those IT guys who were content to write bash/perl scripts for $70k/yr see their careers flooded with refugees from the Call Centers. Their wages drop and they go back and get their Masters (they've got savings so it wasn't hard). Now everybody with a Master's degree sees their wages drop like a rock.
This is what happens when workers lose solidarity. We're picked apart by the ruling class. It's your basic race to the bottom. Thanks.
When I have basic income, single payer health care and reliable public transportation. Until then as a member of the working class I plan to freak out.
is that most of people will never be impacted by the surveillance, at least not in a way they can see and feel. It's the same reason why America can't get away from the antiquated insurance model for health care. And If by some chance you are impacted you're misfortune leaves you completely marginalized...
port Tomb Raider to Linux? I'm not saying it's not cool and all, but I just can't imagine enough of a market for it. Shot across the bow to Microsoft over UWP maybe? From what I could tell that was what SteamOS was all about (and why Valve let it fizzel after the Windows Store bombed in Win8)
the trouble with Britain and America right now is that there's been 40 years of policy that benefits well educated upper middle class college grads and hurts blue collar workers. The Blue collar guys sucked it down in stride for those 40 years but it sounds like they're at their wits end. They're desperate to do _something_ but they don't know what. They've got a lot of ideology and beliefs that make it hard to go the Scandinavian Socialism route to solve their economic problems and there's no way they can compete on a global stage with slave labor let alone the coming robots. But they've got to do something Britain gets "Brexit" on over here we get Trump.
Not sure about the UK but 20 years ago phone polls would like the upper cast keep tabs on voting patters and focus their political campaigns, but now that everybody has a cell phone and you can't do polling calls to them the old political tricks aren't working. It doesn't do any good to have even unlimited funds if you don't know where to put them and you needed those phone polls to tell you what to do next. So Britain had no idea Brexit was coming (Cameron's resignation showed that) and the US is desperately trying to Stop Trump...
It's gonna get really, really messy from here on out.
Fancy restaurants that employ skilled chefs are a Veblen good. Meaning something you spend money on to show others that you can. A measure of your status. Also fancy restaurants put a premium on a type of craftsmanship that's still very hard for robots to do. We're talking $50-$75 dollar a plate places though. Your Applebees & Olive Gardens are probably vulnerable to automation.