tech's doing just fine. The way venture capital works is you throw money at 100 businesses, 98 of them fail and you make a killing on the 2 that survive and thrive.
The article is saying that Millennials don't want to work for start ups anymore. I don't think they ever did, it's just that the economy's finally recovered enough they've got options. Most start ups pay like crap, give you stock options to make up the difference and then either collapse leaving you with worthless options or do like that "OnLive" company did an fold the company on paper forming a new LLC and invalidating all the existing options.
It's very, very rare that working for a start up pays off. There was a lot of that during the.com boom because it was a whole new technology. That's a once in half a century event. Millennials, like everybody else, would much rather have money in hand, a steady paycheck and several weeks of vacation than some charismatic CEO type giving them free beer in exchange for half the pay and 80 hour work weeks.
Until it was way too late. Allen got his diagnosis in 1982 and made it until 2018. He didn't die from the cancer per se, it was septic shock. Better treatments will fix that.
Zuckerberg is young, rich, and got rich when he was young. He's going to have the advantage of several decades more advancement.
I think it was Zuckerberg that made this point, but the next generation of billionaires will likely live into their 150s and be productive for most of that time. Most of the tech that keeps them living that long will be too expensive for the working class too.
If you think it's hard to keep wealth inequality and the power gap that includes in check now wait until the aristocracy lives 30-50% longer than you and I do.
multiple studies have already shown that Millenials are no different than any other generation in how hard they work or what they want. The only major difference is they came of age in the 2008 market crash and that they're saddled with over $1 trillion in student loan debt.
Every generation likes to talk about how lazy the next one is. It's a narrative pushed by our ruling class to keep us at each other's throats while they rob us blind. Along with racism and classism it's a key strategy the ruling class uses to maintain power and wealth inequality while being about 1% of the population. I really wish that here, now, in 2018 with the power of the internet, we could get a majority of people to spot this pattern and start pushing back against it.
e.g. her 300 level courses. There were 400 qualified kids (3.8 GPA or higher, not sure how many more below that) and 200 slots. It was a minor miracle she got in even with a 4.0 because she didn't have much volunteering and no sports or job experience (she had a job lined up sophomore year but couldn't take it because she had to take extra credit hours of classes to qualify for her grants and loans).
Kid's aren't fighting for a 4.0 for top schools anymore. 30 years of nonstop state & federal funding cuts mean they're fighting for spots in regular public Universities. This is what happens when you've got a winner take all, survival of the fittest economy. What pisses me off is how few people acknowledge it. There are literally tens of thousands, if not millions of parents with kids in college. Do you all just not talk to your kids?
if you're asking this question. The ruling class has long since gone global. The US, at least as far as our ruling class goes, won't be trying to stop anything. They'll be working closely with China's ruling class since their interests (keeping the working class in line) align.
The real question is, will the working class stop letting the ruling class take control of the Internet. If the death of Net Neutrality is anything to go by the answer is 'no'. America's got an Election in two years, so we'll see then. I think if we reelect Trump (who's party is pretty obviously in favor of a corporate takeover of the Internet as a public commons) we'll be pretty much shot to hell.
E.g. the kind of economically right wing Dems that road Bill Clinton's coattails into office in the 90s.
Meanwhile Bernie Sanders, Liz Warren, Ocasio-Cortez and the rest of the actual left are busy pushing legislation like Medicare for All, tuition free college, ending wars and yes, restoring net Neutrality.
Register Democrat, show up at your primary in 2020, and vote the Clinton Dems out and you can have the government you deserve. Stay home or worse, vote in more of the Clinton Dems or the GOP (same difference really) and, well, you'll get exactly what we've always had.
they're too inflexible and clever wordsmiths can twist them into evil things. Better to layout a set of goals and work towards them. Yeah, I know there's a fine line there, and you have to be careful to avoid getting trapped by "end justify means" but focusing on goals instead of principles yields better & concrete results.
Gab is back up. Alex Jones has a website still. Secular Talk is still on Youtube even after the adpocalypse.
I think by "censorship" you mean, "Companies excising their freedom of association". That's part of it too, you know. If you don't like it, you can exercise freedom of association too. Stop doing business with the companies that deplatform folks you like. Directly support them.
And that said, NN has _nothing_ to do with the last round of deplatforming and you know it. Even ignoring the fact that NN wasn't "pushed" by the left but was in fact a reaction to the ISPs abusing their power as carriers you've just said that NN equals censorship. I don't. I can't even. I mean. Wow, talk about missing the point. NN is the polar opposite of censorship.
What you're really doing is a dishonest debate tactic where you take something unpopular with your audience (deplatforming) and conflate it with something popular with said audience (NN) to score points against the latter. It's a nasty trick, and you should be ashamed of yourself for using it.
who won't do that. There's plenty of honest, left wing candidates that ran in the primary and lost to bought and paid Clinton Democrats. Then show up in the general and vote them in and problem solved.
It isn't even hard to know who's bought off. There's a website called Open Secrets that tracks it. It doesn't list all the dark money shenanigans, but it's not like these folks are trying to hide.
Nancy Pelosi had a left wing primary challenger that didn't take a dime from corporate PACs. For all everybody's bitching she's still speaker of the house. Show up at your primary and vote, dammit.
the poor. You can buy a reverse osmosis filtration system for about $200-$500 bucks per faucet and that should filter out most of the salt.
Also, when it comes to water rural communities have much, much bigger problems. Their pipes are going on 100 years old and nobody wants to pay to replace them. Estimates put it at $750 billion to fix the whole country. I'm surprised nobody on the left is talking about that. All they talk about is roads and bridges. Get that message across and you could snatch the farmlands back from the right wing.
It's not double think, it's a classic marketing tactic. Your customer service reps are the face of your company. You want them to put a good face on. As for internal discussions you avoid the words because if you get in the habit of using them you'll slip up in front of a client.
Apple has created an impression of being significantly more stable than Windows. Take away the bloatware and buy decent hardware and that's just not true. Now, to be fair it's often hard to do those things with Windows (I got stuck with a $1500 Toshiba laptop that is absolute junk) but there's still way too much of a gap between the reality of Mac OS and it's perception. You get that with a consistent message across the company.
to be fair it could be written better. The Guardian isn't saying that private companies using publicly funded research is bad, they're pointing out the disconnect between a company that built itself on the public dime and then actively abuses said public.
And yes, I know most of the research wasn't done in China, Humanists think in global terms since there's a global race to the bottom going on right now, if you're a tech worker you've probably experienced that in the form of outsourcing...
are just regular fires. Disasters happen. Folks are used to that.
Doing something on climate change would only benefit their checks if it lead to new jobs for the folks who'll be put out of work. A lot of climate change proponents are just asking people to cut back. They want to fix the climate problems for their own reasons, but they don't want to pay for all that infrastructure spending. That kind of infrastructure needs government backing to make happen. And that means taxes.
that would be a short term solution that would eventually bite you in the ass. The goal is to give them stable lives with a modicum of comfort and family life.
What I'm advocating has already happened in large parts of Europe and the UK (though the UK is regressing and Europe is trying to).
Finally, Money corrupting the system is just a symptom. If folks felt more secure then all the money in the world would prevent them from addressing climate change.
if you care about NN vote Democrat in 2020. Same goes for healthcare, especially pre-existing conditions protections. Trump's admin is pushing through a challenge to the ACA that, if Trump gets another term, will likely strike the law down. That means no more protection for pre-existing coverage. If anyone reading this has one now's the time to vote and get your family to vote.
all the controversial click baity stuff has gotten knocked off youtube since the Adpocalypse hit. If you so much as swear you're demonetized. A lot of my favorite left wing political channels got demonetized too. It's not surprising he's #1. The channel is completely inoffensive and advertiser safe.
They us massive amounts of electricity, they spiked the cost of graphics cards so high that they've only just now come down to the level they were at 2 1/2 years ago and they're completely impractical for purchasing anything except maybe drugs (since they're too volatile and slow for much else). Chalk it up as a failed experiment and move on.
TL;DR; California put a bunch of new pollution guidelines in place to force trucking Co's to upgrade their fleets. The regulations went in effect right when the economy tanked. Instead of buying a new fleet they forced the drivers (now desperate for any kind of work because the economy was in free fall) into phony "leases" where they were essentially working for free by earning less money than it cost to maintain the truck.
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tech's doing just fine. The way venture capital works is you throw money at 100 businesses, 98 of them fail and you make a killing on the 2 that survive and thrive.
.com boom because it was a whole new technology. That's a once in half a century event. Millennials, like everybody else, would much rather have money in hand, a steady paycheck and several weeks of vacation than some charismatic CEO type giving them free beer in exchange for half the pay and 80 hour work weeks.
The article is saying that Millennials don't want to work for start ups anymore. I don't think they ever did, it's just that the economy's finally recovered enough they've got options. Most start ups pay like crap, give you stock options to make up the difference and then either collapse leaving you with worthless options or do like that "OnLive" company did an fold the company on paper forming a new LLC and invalidating all the existing options.
It's very, very rare that working for a start up pays off. There was a lot of that during the
get out of my sock draw. If this keeps up I'm going to wash the damn things.
Until it was way too late. Allen got his diagnosis in 1982 and made it until 2018. He didn't die from the cancer per se, it was septic shock. Better treatments will fix that.
Zuckerberg is young, rich, and got rich when he was young. He's going to have the advantage of several decades more advancement.
and the general consolidation of power that's been going on for about 30, 40 years now.
I think it was Zuckerberg that made this point, but the next generation of billionaires will likely live into their 150s and be productive for most of that time. Most of the tech that keeps them living that long will be too expensive for the working class too.
If you think it's hard to keep wealth inequality and the power gap that includes in check now wait until the aristocracy lives 30-50% longer than you and I do.
multiple studies have already shown that Millenials are no different than any other generation in how hard they work or what they want. The only major difference is they came of age in the 2008 market crash and that they're saddled with over $1 trillion in student loan debt.
Every generation likes to talk about how lazy the next one is. It's a narrative pushed by our ruling class to keep us at each other's throats while they rob us blind. Along with racism and classism it's a key strategy the ruling class uses to maintain power and wealth inequality while being about 1% of the population. I really wish that here, now, in 2018 with the power of the internet, we could get a majority of people to spot this pattern and start pushing back against it.
the question is are there jobs?
e.g. her 300 level courses. There were 400 qualified kids (3.8 GPA or higher, not sure how many more below that) and 200 slots. It was a minor miracle she got in even with a 4.0 because she didn't have much volunteering and no sports or job experience (she had a job lined up sophomore year but couldn't take it because she had to take extra credit hours of classes to qualify for her grants and loans).
Kid's aren't fighting for a 4.0 for top schools anymore. 30 years of nonstop state & federal funding cuts mean they're fighting for spots in regular public Universities. This is what happens when you've got a winner take all, survival of the fittest economy. What pisses me off is how few people acknowledge it. There are literally tens of thousands, if not millions of parents with kids in college. Do you all just not talk to your kids?
if you're asking this question. The ruling class has long since gone global. The US, at least as far as our ruling class goes, won't be trying to stop anything. They'll be working closely with China's ruling class since their interests (keeping the working class in line) align.
The real question is, will the working class stop letting the ruling class take control of the Internet. If the death of Net Neutrality is anything to go by the answer is 'no'. America's got an Election in two years, so we'll see then. I think if we reelect Trump (who's party is pretty obviously in favor of a corporate takeover of the Internet as a public commons) we'll be pretty much shot to hell.
E.g. the kind of economically right wing Dems that road Bill Clinton's coattails into office in the 90s.
Meanwhile Bernie Sanders, Liz Warren, Ocasio-Cortez and the rest of the actual left are busy pushing legislation like Medicare for All, tuition free college, ending wars and yes, restoring net Neutrality.
Register Democrat, show up at your primary in 2020, and vote the Clinton Dems out and you can have the government you deserve. Stay home or worse, vote in more of the Clinton Dems or the GOP (same difference really) and, well, you'll get exactly what we've always had.
they're too inflexible and clever wordsmiths can twist them into evil things. Better to layout a set of goals and work towards them. Yeah, I know there's a fine line there, and you have to be careful to avoid getting trapped by "end justify means" but focusing on goals instead of principles yields better & concrete results.
Gab is back up. Alex Jones has a website still. Secular Talk is still on Youtube even after the adpocalypse.
I think by "censorship" you mean, "Companies excising their freedom of association". That's part of it too, you know. If you don't like it, you can exercise freedom of association too. Stop doing business with the companies that deplatform folks you like. Directly support them.
And that said, NN has _nothing_ to do with the last round of deplatforming and you know it. Even ignoring the fact that NN wasn't "pushed" by the left but was in fact a reaction to the ISPs abusing their power as carriers you've just said that NN equals censorship. I don't. I can't even. I mean. Wow, talk about missing the point. NN is the polar opposite of censorship.
What you're really doing is a dishonest debate tactic where you take something unpopular with your audience (deplatforming) and conflate it with something popular with said audience (NN) to score points against the latter. It's a nasty trick, and you should be ashamed of yourself for using it.
who won't do that. There's plenty of honest, left wing candidates that ran in the primary and lost to bought and paid Clinton Democrats. Then show up in the general and vote them in and problem solved.
It isn't even hard to know who's bought off. There's a website called Open Secrets that tracks it. It doesn't list all the dark money shenanigans, but it's not like these folks are trying to hide.
Nancy Pelosi had a left wing primary challenger that didn't take a dime from corporate PACs. For all everybody's bitching she's still speaker of the house. Show up at your primary and vote, dammit.
the poor. You can buy a reverse osmosis filtration system for about $200-$500 bucks per faucet and that should filter out most of the salt.
Also, when it comes to water rural communities have much, much bigger problems. Their pipes are going on 100 years old and nobody wants to pay to replace them. Estimates put it at $750 billion to fix the whole country. I'm surprised nobody on the left is talking about that. All they talk about is roads and bridges. Get that message across and you could snatch the farmlands back from the right wing.
It's not double think, it's a classic marketing tactic. Your customer service reps are the face of your company. You want them to put a good face on. As for internal discussions you avoid the words because if you get in the habit of using them you'll slip up in front of a client.
Apple has created an impression of being significantly more stable than Windows. Take away the bloatware and buy decent hardware and that's just not true. Now, to be fair it's often hard to do those things with Windows (I got stuck with a $1500 Toshiba laptop that is absolute junk) but there's still way too much of a gap between the reality of Mac OS and it's perception. You get that with a consistent message across the company.
to be fair it could be written better. The Guardian isn't saying that private companies using publicly funded research is bad, they're pointing out the disconnect between a company that built itself on the public dime and then actively abuses said public. And yes, I know most of the research wasn't done in China, Humanists think in global terms since there's a global race to the bottom going on right now, if you're a tech worker you've probably experienced that in the form of outsourcing...
are just regular fires. Disasters happen. Folks are used to that.
Doing something on climate change would only benefit their checks if it lead to new jobs for the folks who'll be put out of work. A lot of climate change proponents are just asking people to cut back. They want to fix the climate problems for their own reasons, but they don't want to pay for all that infrastructure spending. That kind of infrastructure needs government backing to make happen. And that means taxes.
that would be a short term solution that would eventually bite you in the ass. The goal is to give them stable lives with a modicum of comfort and family life.
What I'm advocating has already happened in large parts of Europe and the UK (though the UK is regressing and Europe is trying to).
Finally, Money corrupting the system is just a symptom. If folks felt more secure then all the money in the world would prevent them from addressing climate change.
at getting into the press, usually for good stuff.
if you care about NN vote Democrat in 2020. Same goes for healthcare, especially pre-existing conditions protections. Trump's admin is pushing through a challenge to the ACA that, if Trump gets another term, will likely strike the law down. That means no more protection for pre-existing coverage. If anyone reading this has one now's the time to vote and get your family to vote.
They already forced a vote to show who was and wasn't in favor of it. We learned two things from that
a. it's an almost completely partisan issue
b. There's not enough votes to overcome a veto.
so I don't think it's a good way to spend political capital.
and as soon as somebody figures out what that is it's going to take right off. It's a whole new paradigm. Why, that's twice as many digms.
all the controversial click baity stuff has gotten knocked off youtube since the Adpocalypse hit. If you so much as swear you're demonetized. A lot of my favorite left wing political channels got demonetized too. It's not surprising he's #1. The channel is completely inoffensive and advertiser safe.
They us massive amounts of electricity, they spiked the cost of graphics cards so high that they've only just now come down to the level they were at 2 1/2 years ago and they're completely impractical for purchasing anything except maybe drugs (since they're too volatile and slow for much else). Chalk it up as a failed experiment and move on.
if you were using what should be a short rinse of your panels as an excuse to dump a few hundred gallons of water on your lawn.
He's talking about these guys.
TL;DR; California put a bunch of new pollution guidelines in place to force trucking Co's to upgrade their fleets. The regulations went in effect right when the economy tanked. Instead of buying a new fleet they forced the drivers (now desperate for any kind of work because the economy was in free fall) into phony "leases" where they were essentially working for free by earning less money than it cost to maintain the truck.