punishment only deters crime when working class people are involved. When corporations and the extremely rich are involved there's just too much risk to jobs and the economy to significantly punish. Now don't forget to vote for your local pro-corporate political candidate or they'll ship your job overseas and the price of a hamburger will treble.
they got a $5.5 billion dollar endowment. They're spending it on free college for kids who can't really afford it. Don't forget that even if those parents are making good money now most in that income bracket still haven't fully recovered from the 2008 crash. I know I haven't.
I'm happy they're going to give out scholarships but I want to see more being done for public Universities. In 2018 college should be tuition free. For one thing given productivity raises and automation we could use less people in the job market. For another thing a better educated electorate would be in a better position to stop crap like the 2008 market crash from happening in the first place.
And I'd argue that LLVM just had brain drain to other projects (GCC). Don't know about Kubernetes, never heard of it. Meanwhile there's been a few high profile kernel hackers that dropped off the map because they got tired of harassment.
If a code of conduct is what's needed to put a stop to pointless pissing matches than I say go for it. Nerds can be abrasive, but they can also follow rules if they're laid out.
pretty much kill this? My ISP just started metering the connections around here. I'm not going to be streaming a 1080p game when it costs me $20/gigabyte to go over my cap. And no parent in their right mind would. They do sell unlimited, but that's pushing $160/mo here. And all that's before we start talking about large swaths of the world that don't have fast enough broadband to do this.
Oh well, I guess I'll stick to indie games on Gog.
That said, rebuilding our entire grid to run off solar and wind is a moon-landing level enterprise. A country that keeps slashing taxes on the well to do and cutting infrastructure spending while engaging in war (8 and counting and not a single country has attacked us) can't afford these kinds of things.
you're equating discriminating between chocolate and vanilla ice cream lovers to gender discrimination. The world is just a tad more nuanced than that.
If I can risk strawmaning myself for a bit here, I think the problem is we've been too far removed from the worst of discrimination for too long. We forget too easily that women didn't used to vote, could be beaten and even raped with impunity, couldn't own property or were themselves property. What's crazy is there's large swaths of the world where all this is still true and we turn a blind eye to it. There's also a sizable minority of regressives who want to turn back the clock. Some (Jordon Peterson comes to mind) have pretty large followings and speak in pretty reasonable terms...
nobody in America counts the health care costs from all the pollution. Clean coal is a myth and even gas fired turbines aren't completely zero emission.
until you can convince me that it's cheaper to run a safe nuke plant than an unsafe one I'm not sold on nuclear. Fukushima was a completely pointless and preventable disaster that happened because the guys running TEP wanted to save a buck. Here in America we just poisoned Flint, Mi because nobody wanted to pay to treat their water properly for the type of pipes they had. You'll see the same damn thing with nuclear. Want me to drop the NIMBYism? Show me that a safe plant is cheaper to run. And I don't mean "Cheaper when you account for lawsuits" either. They'll just fold the corporation and/or tie it up in court until everybody's dead from cancer. Worked for the cigarette companies...
Virtually all of Europe as well as Australia have been moving to renewables as fast as they can. Hell, bloody South America is moving fast in that direction. It's mostly the US and China that are feet dragging. Of the two the US has the least excuses. China's still got huge swaths of abject poor. Outside of the Rust Belt and the South the US is pretty well off (relatively speaking).
Our biggest problem is major projects like changing the primary source of energy used by a civilization aren't the kind of thing you can leave to private businesses. The profits are way, way too long term and you're going to wreak a ton of equity. Right now there's trillions of dollars of oil that becomes more or less worthless the day we stop using it for energy. And that's before we talk about what'll happen to the middle east when they can't keep their armies fed...
but you're giving up any semblance of stability. Now, if you're in the top 20% skill wise maybe not, but statistically if you're reading this you're not, because that's only 20% of the population.
Also, it assumes you can just keep moving to jobs that are good for your skill set. But what if you're hired for one thing and end up doing something else? You can leave, but if you job hop too much it starts to look like you can't hold down a job.
Also, not having to spend all your free time getting ready for your next job would be kind of nice. I don't really think we, as a species, should have to live like sharks desperately swimming to keep water flowing over our gills to breath.
Bernie Sanders pointed this out, but while Bezo's employees make so little my tax dollars go to buy them enough food to live he's spending money on space tourism. I'm not saying space exploration isn't important, but these guys aren't adding much if any new tech. They're just using what was already there (and paid for by my tax dollars, yet again).
If we could afford to send these guys to space _and_ pay their employees a living wage I wouldn't be complaining, but it seems like they're riding to space on the backs of the working poor...
Donald Trump is about to raise taxes on working class Americans by $200 billion dollars and nary a peep from them. If they had somebody like Karl Rove running their show they'd be on MSNBC non stop hammering that point home. But they never learn. Hell, if anyone should know that's the Republican's Achilles heel it's the party that beat Bush "Read my Lips" Sr....
The guy who ran Hanoverfist Enterprises did prison time as I recall. I had bunches of his releases on the C64 when I was a wee lad who didn't know what piracy was, just that I had a stack of disks full of games.
See here for a rough guess. It'd different hardware, but it's more or less what I'm expecting these to be sporting.
The trouble is I've seen laptops with the mobile version of the GTX 1060 in them for under $900 bucks and, well, they out perform Vega and draw less power while generating less heat. The problem isn't that Vega isn't good, it's that nVidia's offerings are still better.
they're mutually exclusive. The Feds don't have authority, but neither do the states. The Feds lack authority because there is no explicit law saying they have authority. The states lack authority because of the commerce clause. This is all logically consistent. Want Net Neutrality? Pass a law. Though a Republican run Congress. Good luck with that.
When you're starting from your conclusion and working your way backwards it's easy-peasy to make it all work. When you've got control of all branches of government plus the media you can make it stick.
if big telecom has Pai in it's pocket or not. What matters is can the States preempt the authority of the FCC here. And I'm pretty sure they cannot.
Regardless this will eventually go before a Republican packed Supreme Court. It will be struck down. And yes, I'm calling the Republicans out on this. The Dems were busy with the ACA last time they held the government and spent their political capital on stuff like per-existing conditions. The Republicans, for their part, are the party of small government and minimal regulations. This is the party that gave us the slogan, "Government's not the solution, it's the problem".
This is what we voted for folks. If you want a government that takes an active role in, well, governing, then you have to vote people into office who believe it can do that. I think I've said this before, but you can't have a functioning government for only the one or two issues that matter to you personally. Well, not unless you're very, very rich.
As for what I would change, bring back the 90% marginal tax rate on income over $21 million a year, make stock buybacks illegal again (Reagan legalized them in the 80s leading to CEOs paid in stock so they could use lower capital gains to dodge higher income, that wouldn't work if you couldn't pump & dump).
Money is power. We're letting too few people have too much power. To counterbalance the government getting some of that power make voting mandatory to end voter suppression and use basic mathematical algorithms to end Gerrymandering. Once that's done do away with the Senate and Electoral college and replace them with a parliamentary system.
is that it's an excuse to make the developers pull double duty as sys admins. It also lets companies take jobs that used to require little more than a high school diploma, declare them as "Developer" jobs in need of an advanced degree and bring in H1-Bs to take them. Basically, it's longer hours and lower pay for everyone.
Cooking and cleaning are harder than people like to admit, especially when you have a tiny, crappy apartment kitchen, fridge and feezer. Your pans take forever to heat on your (unlevel) stove, your microwave can barely pop corn (if you have one) and there's not enough room to store things unless you want to spend hours organizing. Plus you better clean up ASAP or it's bug city.
80% of your users only use 20% of your features. But it's a different 20% for everyone. Eventually you get to the point where everyone's got that one little feature they can't live without. That's where you get lock in from. It's how Microsoft keeps their office monopoly in the face of competition from Open Office and the like.
especially if you're going to up and move to a 'flyover' state you've never been to. Plus living in a big city isn't just about the amenities, it's about having ready access to work when you're job goes away (which they seem to do a lot these days). Buddy of mine moved to a small city for a nice job, worked it for a few years, bought a house, put down roots and then the whole thing got shipped overseas. He got trapped. He couldn't make enough money to get out, nobody would buy his home (thanks, housing bubble burst) and he ended up in a succession of dead end jobs.
I lost track of him when I did the opposite and moved to a bigger city for the more stable working conditions. If I hadn't I couldn't afford my kid's college expenses. I'd prefer to go back to the small city I came from but there's no work there to speak of. At the end of the day workers go where the jobs are. And one or two employers isn't enough.
it's the ability to create a doctored video that makes it look like your opponent said something they did not. You could litter the net with these and destroy the political career of anyone. A person who would do such a thing would be inherently dishonest and evil. Left unchecked this will drive out the few remaining honest people in politics. I'm sure the folks who are left in politics will support a surveillance state.
that soldiers would just come and take it. The say basically the same thing about welfare and food stamps (e.g. that the money never makes it to the ones that need it). They use the same logic to argue against minimum wage increases; e.g. that it'll just raise inflation.
They want you to accept the world as is. That nothing you ever do or try will make the slightest difference. Funny thing is this study says cash is more effective, but that must mean that both cash and food aid are effective, since you can't study how effective something is if it isn't.
One thing I know for certain: cash or food they're both cheaper to drop than bombs. And right now we're bombing a hell of a lot of poor countries.
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punishment only deters crime when working class people are involved. When corporations and the extremely rich are involved there's just too much risk to jobs and the economy to significantly punish. Now don't forget to vote for your local pro-corporate political candidate or they'll ship your job overseas and the price of a hamburger will treble.
they got a $5.5 billion dollar endowment. They're spending it on free college for kids who can't really afford it. Don't forget that even if those parents are making good money now most in that income bracket still haven't fully recovered from the 2008 crash. I know I haven't.
I'm happy they're going to give out scholarships but I want to see more being done for public Universities. In 2018 college should be tuition free. For one thing given productivity raises and automation we could use less people in the job market. For another thing a better educated electorate would be in a better position to stop crap like the 2008 market crash from happening in the first place.
And I'd argue that LLVM just had brain drain to other projects (GCC). Don't know about Kubernetes, never heard of it. Meanwhile there's been a few high profile kernel hackers that dropped off the map because they got tired of harassment.
If a code of conduct is what's needed to put a stop to pointless pissing matches than I say go for it. Nerds can be abrasive, but they can also follow rules if they're laid out.
Besides, one man's "social justice" is another's treating people with respect.
pretty much kill this? My ISP just started metering the connections around here. I'm not going to be streaming a 1080p game when it costs me $20/gigabyte to go over my cap. And no parent in their right mind would. They do sell unlimited, but that's pushing $160/mo here. And all that's before we start talking about large swaths of the world that don't have fast enough broadband to do this.
Oh well, I guess I'll stick to indie games on Gog.
we might not hit 100%, but we can get pretty darn close if we try.
That said, rebuilding our entire grid to run off solar and wind is a moon-landing level enterprise. A country that keeps slashing taxes on the well to do and cutting infrastructure spending while engaging in war (8 and counting and not a single country has attacked us) can't afford these kinds of things.
you're equating discriminating between chocolate and vanilla ice cream lovers to gender discrimination. The world is just a tad more nuanced than that.
If I can risk strawmaning myself for a bit here, I think the problem is we've been too far removed from the worst of discrimination for too long. We forget too easily that women didn't used to vote, could be beaten and even raped with impunity, couldn't own property or were themselves property. What's crazy is there's large swaths of the world where all this is still true and we turn a blind eye to it. There's also a sizable minority of regressives who want to turn back the clock. Some (Jordon Peterson comes to mind) have pretty large followings and speak in pretty reasonable terms...
nobody in America counts the health care costs from all the pollution. Clean coal is a myth and even gas fired turbines aren't completely zero emission.
until you can convince me that it's cheaper to run a safe nuke plant than an unsafe one I'm not sold on nuclear. Fukushima was a completely pointless and preventable disaster that happened because the guys running TEP wanted to save a buck. Here in America we just poisoned Flint, Mi because nobody wanted to pay to treat their water properly for the type of pipes they had. You'll see the same damn thing with nuclear. Want me to drop the NIMBYism? Show me that a safe plant is cheaper to run. And I don't mean "Cheaper when you account for lawsuits" either. They'll just fold the corporation and/or tie it up in court until everybody's dead from cancer. Worked for the cigarette companies...
Virtually all of Europe as well as Australia have been moving to renewables as fast as they can. Hell, bloody South America is moving fast in that direction. It's mostly the US and China that are feet dragging. Of the two the US has the least excuses. China's still got huge swaths of abject poor. Outside of the Rust Belt and the South the US is pretty well off (relatively speaking).
Our biggest problem is major projects like changing the primary source of energy used by a civilization aren't the kind of thing you can leave to private businesses. The profits are way, way too long term and you're going to wreak a ton of equity. Right now there's trillions of dollars of oil that becomes more or less worthless the day we stop using it for energy. And that's before we talk about what'll happen to the middle east when they can't keep their armies fed...
but you're giving up any semblance of stability. Now, if you're in the top 20% skill wise maybe not, but statistically if you're reading this you're not, because that's only 20% of the population.
Also, it assumes you can just keep moving to jobs that are good for your skill set. But what if you're hired for one thing and end up doing something else? You can leave, but if you job hop too much it starts to look like you can't hold down a job.
Also, not having to spend all your free time getting ready for your next job would be kind of nice. I don't really think we, as a species, should have to live like sharks desperately swimming to keep water flowing over our gills to breath.
Bernie Sanders pointed this out, but while Bezo's employees make so little my tax dollars go to buy them enough food to live he's spending money on space tourism. I'm not saying space exploration isn't important, but these guys aren't adding much if any new tech. They're just using what was already there (and paid for by my tax dollars, yet again).
If we could afford to send these guys to space _and_ pay their employees a living wage I wouldn't be complaining, but it seems like they're riding to space on the backs of the working poor...
Donald Trump is about to raise taxes on working class Americans by $200 billion dollars and nary a peep from them. If they had somebody like Karl Rove running their show they'd be on MSNBC non stop hammering that point home. But they never learn. Hell, if anyone should know that's the Republican's Achilles heel it's the party that beat Bush "Read my Lips" Sr....
The guy who ran Hanoverfist Enterprises did prison time as I recall. I had bunches of his releases on the C64 when I was a wee lad who didn't know what piracy was, just that I had a stack of disks full of games.
I mean, if the goal is deterrent, then why not? After all, at 6 million views x $10 a ticket he'll never be able to pay back his 'debt'.
something like Psychonauts or No One Lives Forever or Need for Speed Hot Pursuit (or Underground)?
See here for a rough guess. It'd different hardware, but it's more or less what I'm expecting these to be sporting.
The trouble is I've seen laptops with the mobile version of the GTX 1060 in them for under $900 bucks and, well, they out perform Vega and draw less power while generating less heat. The problem isn't that Vega isn't good, it's that nVidia's offerings are still better.
they're mutually exclusive. The Feds don't have authority, but neither do the states. The Feds lack authority because there is no explicit law saying they have authority. The states lack authority because of the commerce clause. This is all logically consistent. Want Net Neutrality? Pass a law. Though a Republican run Congress. Good luck with that.
When you're starting from your conclusion and working your way backwards it's easy-peasy to make it all work. When you've got control of all branches of government plus the media you can make it stick.
if big telecom has Pai in it's pocket or not. What matters is can the States preempt the authority of the FCC here. And I'm pretty sure they cannot.
Regardless this will eventually go before a Republican packed Supreme Court. It will be struck down. And yes, I'm calling the Republicans out on this. The Dems were busy with the ACA last time they held the government and spent their political capital on stuff like per-existing conditions. The Republicans, for their part, are the party of small government and minimal regulations. This is the party that gave us the slogan, "Government's not the solution, it's the problem".
This is what we voted for folks. If you want a government that takes an active role in, well, governing, then you have to vote people into office who believe it can do that. I think I've said this before, but you can't have a functioning government for only the one or two issues that matter to you personally. Well, not unless you're very, very rich.
is that Wikipedia has articles on just about everything.
As for what I would change, bring back the 90% marginal tax rate on income over $21 million a year, make stock buybacks illegal again (Reagan legalized them in the 80s leading to CEOs paid in stock so they could use lower capital gains to dodge higher income, that wouldn't work if you couldn't pump & dump).
Money is power. We're letting too few people have too much power. To counterbalance the government getting some of that power make voting mandatory to end voter suppression and use basic mathematical algorithms to end Gerrymandering. Once that's done do away with the Senate and Electoral college and replace them with a parliamentary system.
is that it's an excuse to make the developers pull double duty as sys admins. It also lets companies take jobs that used to require little more than a high school diploma, declare them as "Developer" jobs in need of an advanced degree and bring in H1-Bs to take them. Basically, it's longer hours and lower pay for everyone.
Cooking and cleaning are harder than people like to admit, especially when you have a tiny, crappy apartment kitchen, fridge and feezer. Your pans take forever to heat on your (unlevel) stove, your microwave can barely pop corn (if you have one) and there's not enough room to store things unless you want to spend hours organizing. Plus you better clean up ASAP or it's bug city.
80% of your users only use 20% of your features. But it's a different 20% for everyone. Eventually you get to the point where everyone's got that one little feature they can't live without. That's where you get lock in from. It's how Microsoft keeps their office monopoly in the face of competition from Open Office and the like.
especially if you're going to up and move to a 'flyover' state you've never been to. Plus living in a big city isn't just about the amenities, it's about having ready access to work when you're job goes away (which they seem to do a lot these days). Buddy of mine moved to a small city for a nice job, worked it for a few years, bought a house, put down roots and then the whole thing got shipped overseas. He got trapped. He couldn't make enough money to get out, nobody would buy his home (thanks, housing bubble burst) and he ended up in a succession of dead end jobs.
I lost track of him when I did the opposite and moved to a bigger city for the more stable working conditions. If I hadn't I couldn't afford my kid's college expenses. I'd prefer to go back to the small city I came from but there's no work there to speak of. At the end of the day workers go where the jobs are. And one or two employers isn't enough.
it's the ability to create a doctored video that makes it look like your opponent said something they did not. You could litter the net with these and destroy the political career of anyone. A person who would do such a thing would be inherently dishonest and evil. Left unchecked this will drive out the few remaining honest people in politics. I'm sure the folks who are left in politics will support a surveillance state.
that soldiers would just come and take it. The say basically the same thing about welfare and food stamps (e.g. that the money never makes it to the ones that need it). They use the same logic to argue against minimum wage increases; e.g. that it'll just raise inflation.
They want you to accept the world as is. That nothing you ever do or try will make the slightest difference. Funny thing is this study says cash is more effective, but that must mean that both cash and food aid are effective, since you can't study how effective something is if it isn't.
One thing I know for certain: cash or food they're both cheaper to drop than bombs. And right now we're bombing a hell of a lot of poor countries.