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  1. Re:like what? on Ask Slashdot: Why Aren't Techies Improving The World? · · Score: 1

    Older than you by decades. Technology and especially information technology is the focus on human power right now, and that power can be applied to better goals than boosting stockholder equity and creating a new social network for cat videos.

  2. IT geeks need to join Rotary International on Ask Slashdot: Why Aren't Techies Improving The World? · · Score: 1

    Then profitable careers provide the funding for more meaningful activity outside of work, and that allows them to do good in the whole world (local and global). Even for those stuck in day jobs making back-scratcher apps for the leisure class of the ultra-wealthy.

  3. I've used this site longer than 99.9% of the idiots on here, and it has changed immensely under the new management - but that change started even before Rob Malda stepped out. Slashdot started to die around 2004 roughly when the libertarian crowd concentrated and drowned out all of the comprehensive analysis with “cite” requests designed to stop discussion, and that decline was given nitro fuel by the influx of uneducated kids who are misogynists due to psychological problems and total lack of contact with women. Since these groups are dominant ~and~ the stories themselves are barely more than clickbait, it is absolutely fair to say Slashdot is not only sick but it is dead and buried in the graveyard. The point of Slashdot was always the social impact of technology even when reporting on the “new” Linux Kernel 2.4. the better part was mixed installation tricks and experience-driven talk about how it might replace windows someday. That character is now gone and replaced with a cross of Gizmodo and the tabloid Gawker itself. RIP Slashdot, you've been dead for years but all original users still miss what you were!

  4. Trade rules still apply to e-commerce and banking transactions, and both are complicated by the UK exit disaster.

  5. Now Brexit means Britain lost representation in the European Parliament, but will inevitably face the exact same trade rules, or face being left out in the cold. I can't understand the apathy that let the biased memory of old pensioners decide the fate of workers like this.

  6. I'm sorry you can't understand the function of empathy as a supplement for functional business intelligence.

  7. Lost fragments: ...money is the primary motivation for a large company, all other objectives being subordinate. Women are... Also, notice the moderation abuse.

  8. Observation of daily activity is limited by security policies at every corporation, and media events spotlighting such larges companies are the primary insight into them available for the public. Try again.

  9. Try to learn something you pitiful idiot. Reality is that money are 55% of the population, and closer to 75% of consumers worldwide as men avoid purchasing routine items. Women and their views and needs are MORE important for companies interested in SELLING products (that means around 100% of them).

  10. Power imbalance reinforced by exposure to stereotyped junior roles for women causes girls at the earliest ages to avoid IT due to lack of role models. Loss of those unique viewpoints decreases company adaptability and capacity for marketable innovations. That means the ultimate losers are all investors, and society itself.

  11. Machine translation is free and quite good now, it's just that Google is at the bottom of the quality curve even for the free ones so few realize it. Look at http://www.freetranslation.com... for a better result.

  12. Re:Universities aren't completely honest either on ITT Tech Is Officially Closing (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    You are truly out of touch with this issue because US student debt is not removed with a bankruptcy filing. It could be paid off with another bank loan intended for other purposes, and that loan would be subject to bankruptcy partial repayment based on priority. However, in that case there is no unpaid public loss due to unpaid loan principal, nor is there any unpaid interest cost absorbed by the public. As a hiring manager you are largely failing to do your job by using automated filters that are not keyed to actual job requirements. I hope your supervisor sees your post above and sanctions you for the practice.

  13. Re:Only possible with unreasonable tax rates on Finland Prepares Their First Tests Of A Universal Basic Income (futurism.com) · · Score: 1

    I see you justify with cherry picked circumstances, but if you are viewing this from the angle of an industrial country there is little evidence that the wealthy earned their wealth by their labor, or their business savvy. There are some partial exceptions like Bill Gates but he benefited from parents wealthy enough to bankroll his initial efforts - without that he would have been in the street like most drop outs; he was also admitted to Harvard, which is an advantage he retains from the qualifications required regardless of his time in the program. Cases where people "earned" abnormal concentrations of wealth are those of positioning (inherited advantage, etc.) or simple exploitation if not extortion or fraud.

  14. Re:Won't work in America on Finland Prepares Their First Tests Of A Universal Basic Income (futurism.com) · · Score: 2

    No, I'm arguing that in the environments where instant communication is not only expected but such a norm that deviance from it casts people out of the labor pool that smartphones and instant communications even in digital contexts is a crucial job search tool. Try again.

  15. Re:Won't work in America on Finland Prepares Their First Tests Of A Universal Basic Income (futurism.com) · · Score: 1

    I consult with several that you may use products from on a daily basis, depending on where you live. That has little impact on the issue here, which was a claim originally that business operations depended in a critical sense on tax rates. They don't, unless a firm is failing.

  16. Re: Won't work in America on Finland Prepares Their First Tests Of A Universal Basic Income (futurism.com) · · Score: 1

    What owners may believe, especially in small firms, has little impact on what is truly executed, especially in the largest that matter.

  17. Re:Won't work in America on Finland Prepares Their First Tests Of A Universal Basic Income (futurism.com) · · Score: 1

    Business project decisions are driven by their internal returns vs cost of leveraged capital, not the tax rate.

  18. Re:Won't work in America on Finland Prepares Their First Tests Of A Universal Basic Income (futurism.com) · · Score: 0

    You need to brush up on some vocabulary and ready my original post in this thread again.

  19. Re:Won't work in America on Finland Prepares Their First Tests Of A Universal Basic Income (futurism.com) · · Score: 1

    Ah, there's there overly entitled lack of awareness again. Try to catch yourself doing that next time, you might actually learn something. The libraries I've seen do have strict limit, and usually enforces it by ID check and throws you out at the end. Or bills you/your account if you have one there.

  20. Re:Won't work in America on Finland Prepares Their First Tests Of A Universal Basic Income (futurism.com) · · Score: 1

    E-mail eh? So how do you get that promptly? Once per day checking in library, with limited access to a 1-2 hour window per day? Beyond that, there are pre-interview testing (common in IT and professional services), multiple contacts requiring short-term scheduling, and without access to flexible transportation you have to schedule this days ahead of time.

  21. Re:Won't work in America on Finland Prepares Their First Tests Of A Universal Basic Income (futurism.com) · · Score: 1

    You are an absolute fool, one sheltered from reality in a cocoon you likely inherited. You need to spend more time reading real humanities and studying history, at least once you finish up with your primary education in a few years.

  22. Re:Won't work in America on Finland Prepares Their First Tests Of A Universal Basic Income (futurism.com) · · Score: 1

    That is Apple's certain decision after the court case relating to arbitrary corporate structuring, not anything close to business survival used in the original post I replied to. You are the one deflecting here.

  23. Re:Only possible with unreasonable tax rates on Finland Prepares Their First Tests Of A Universal Basic Income (futurism.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Leave the false imagery aside and try to form a coherent position first. Your argument relies on assumptions and assumptions on assumptions that the poor in society (any of them) are there due to some moral or character flaw which could have been prevented with a bit of ingenuity and work. That is false, proven so by thousands of years of human history if you ever care to study it. The poor are there because of inefficiency in knowledge and physical transfers (both types have costs which in most cases must be paid prior to any service). The poor are poor not because of lack of Puritan work philosophy but because they lacked the advantages that allowed others to avoid most obstacles. Bad health from lack of care in childhood, poor food in childhood, etc. Bad education because of the above, or because of under-funded education systems, or simply being prevented from attending school by war, civil or international, famine, general unrest, etc. Apparently, your environment failed to equip you with empathy or intelligence enough to understand that on your own.

  24. Re:Won't work in America on Finland Prepares Their First Tests Of A Universal Basic Income (futurism.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, especially now that in fact Apple is leaving Ireland it was a bad gamble violating Irish EU treaties, Irish public welfare, and all Irish interests.

  25. Re:Won't work in America on Finland Prepares Their First Tests Of A Universal Basic Income (futurism.com) · · Score: 0

    Watch out for the obvious politically motivated mods; there is nothing "troll" about the parent post, welcome to meta-mod hell.