Pretty sure the asians were obsessed with things long before "socialism" was even a concept. Japan was never socialist. South Korea wasn't either. And both (especially the japanese) have invented A LOT of things. And let's not forget that the chinese were civilized when Europe was still barbaric.
For some reason I really don't get, right now China is becoming anti-game
China knows its people. Asians are strange beings. Look at Japanese and Koreans. They become incredibly obsessed with things, to the point of dedicating every moment of their lives to that thing. Sometimes for good, when craftsmen make amazing things. Other times for bad, when kids waste their lives in internet cafes playing videogames. China relies on cheap labor. Having their workers play all night and come in tired to work won't do. Videogames are the new opium. And China has had a bit of a problem with opium in the past. They learned. Also they're pushing cheap graphics cards (opium) to the west for the same reason.
People used to work 14 hours a day, 7 days a week, from children to their deaths. Then we negotiated the 8 hour work day. Then we negotiated the 5 day work week.
It's actually very simple: if people work all day every day, they have no free time. If they have no free time, they don't buy things. If they don't buy things, there are no jobs. If people don't work, they have no money. If they have no money, they don't buy things. If they don't buy things, there are no jobs.
There is an equilibrium point that maximize "people working" and "people consuming".
Seriously, Americans surprise me with their "leave it to the market" attitudes. Like for example "no vacations mandated by law". Yeah the free market doesn't solve that: Walmart doesn't give you vacations. Why would it, when it can, you now,... not?
You guys have no vacations and no holidays. You "work hard" and your living standard is inferior to an european's, who have 1 month vacations and a few holidays sprinkled around the year.
LOL. This guy is disconnected from reality. Dude: Netflix outside the US SUCKS. The catalog is less than half the size. That's because YOU CAN'T LICENSE SHIT. It doesn't work like that. you don't just go and get a license for anything you want. If it was that easy, euronetflix would be as good as netflix. But it's not.
Yes. But this is WhatsApp. An Instant Messaging app designed to replace SMS in places where SMS was charged per-message. WhatsApp is not a "wall". People have to deliberately "forward" messages for this to happen.
Do you understand that FREE MARKET works both ways? If everyone had $1M and they gave it to banks, banks wouldn't pay you such high interest rate. You can't play that game with the people that invented it.
I'm from Argentina. We don't have universal basic income. But we have high taxes and the previous administration left 22 million "passives" (government employeees, retirees and especially "social plan" benefitiaries). And 8 million "active" workers.
The fiscal hole is so big we're heading to another economic crisis.
The crisis in Venezuela makes people from there come here and easily get a job. People from here don't work. You see them outside the government-owned post and government-owned banks making huge lines. Young people in good shape and health. Perfectly fit to work. But the just, you know, don't.
And inflation is eating away their benefits. Instead of getting jobs, they are now protesting. They demand more free money.
This does not end well. All of the "universal income" programs ignore one simple fact: people are shit and they abuse every system they can abuse.
Anti investors? Investors are fine. Get the money, grow, and shake investors off (meaning: PAY THEM). It's YOUR company and you get to decide what to do with it. Otherwise they own you and they decide what your company does. No NO.
On one hand, it's interesting how investors are really interested in companies bing a one trick pony. They are investing in a "ride sharing" (LOL) company. They are not interested in a company that does ride sharing AND self driving. If they wanted a self driving car company, they would invest in a self driving car company.
On the other hand, it's interesting how companies refuse to be one trick ponies. Uber saw the writing on the wall. They know in a few years it will be all about self driving. They wan't to be ready for the change. Being first to game is the key.
Basically you have to shake investors off as soon as you can. These people are interested in "money now" as opposed to "money later". This is why companies that operate at a loss all the time have little future.
the other day I bought a IBM M1015 SAS RAID card. I flashed it to be a LSI9211 (no RAID, just SAS). It wouldn't work unless I flashed a specific firmware version with a specific option rom BIOS version. "Brand name" BIOS and firmware are horribly buggy compared to "just works" regular PC BIOS.
Aren't you outraged by the fact that, in a lot of US states, the price you see advertised is NOT the price you pay? You seem outraged about all those fees, but not about the "sales tax". Which is the same thing. Where there is no sales tax, you don't get that line item.
Imagine if they were charging $1.99 for a burger in one state with sales tax, and $1.99 in a state without it. I'm pretty sure you would be MAD that they are pocketing the difference.
Playing the devil's advocate here: Inflation plays a role too. While inflation in the US is minimal, with the years it becomes signficant. In the case of the article, 76 cents in 1995 is $1,27 today. Shy of "twice as much". This is a purely objective point though. The reasons why they increase pricing is simple ("because they can"). But never disregard inflation as a factor too.
Maybe. But there is no documented procedure. Ops will pull a vm out of their asses and it will have whatever OS and.NET version they please. My software is supposed to run in any combination they decide. That's just retarded.
We also have a couple Node.js services. Running on Node 4. Node 4 has been EOL for a long time. Not upgrading it is just not responsible.
Also infrastructure is a mess. We have thousands of desktops in this company. Remember that year that worm that hit last year? Well. We serve Telefonica. The worm penetrated OUR network through their firewall to Telefonica. It infected a few dozens of our machines and it was only stopped because ops called everyone and told us to shut down our machines. Because they don't want to deal with Windows updates.
So yeah, fuck off little Ops troll. Go back to watching your nagios.
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Pretty sure the asians were obsessed with things long before "socialism" was even a concept. Japan was never socialist. South Korea wasn't either. And both (especially the japanese) have invented A LOT of things.
And let's not forget that the chinese were civilized when Europe was still barbaric.
China knows its people. Asians are strange beings. Look at Japanese and Koreans. They become incredibly obsessed with things, to the point of dedicating every moment of their lives to that thing. Sometimes for good, when craftsmen make amazing things. Other times for bad, when kids waste their lives in internet cafes playing videogames.
China relies on cheap labor. Having their workers play all night and come in tired to work won't do.
Videogames are the new opium. And China has had a bit of a problem with opium in the past. They learned. Also they're pushing cheap graphics cards (opium) to the west for the same reason.
too late
How can you be so ignorant? You're just a few keystrokes away from finding out everything you just spewed is bullshit.
Production methods have been VASTLY improved thanks to automation. But people still work the same hours and days as 150 years ago.
People used to work 14 hours a day, 7 days a week, from children to their deaths.
Then we negotiated the 8 hour work day.
Then we negotiated the 5 day work week.
It's actually very simple: if people work all day every day, they have no free time. If they have no free time, they don't buy things. If they don't buy things, there are no jobs.
If people don't work, they have no money. If they have no money, they don't buy things. If they don't buy things, there are no jobs.
There is an equilibrium point that maximize "people working" and "people consuming".
Seriously, Americans surprise me with their "leave it to the market" attitudes. Like for example "no vacations mandated by law". Yeah the free market doesn't solve that: Walmart doesn't give you vacations. Why would it, when it can, you now, ... not?
You guys have no vacations and no holidays. You "work hard" and your living standard is inferior to an european's, who have 1 month vacations and a few holidays sprinkled around the year.
LOL. This guy is disconnected from reality. Dude: Netflix outside the US SUCKS. The catalog is less than half the size. That's because YOU CAN'T LICENSE SHIT. It doesn't work like that. you don't just go and get a license for anything you want. If it was that easy, euronetflix would be as good as netflix. But it's not.
WhatsApp is a private messaging app. It's designed to replace SMS. Has SMS ever had "editorial boards"? Has email ever had them?
How about you either:
a) Just shut the fuck up
b) Take 5 seconds to google what WhatsApp even is
You are no smarter than the idiots that forward fake news over WhatsApp.
Yes. But this is WhatsApp. An Instant Messaging app designed to replace SMS in places where SMS was charged per-message. WhatsApp is not a "wall". People have to deliberately "forward" messages for this to happen.
you sound way too snob for someone with a 7-digit UID
Do you understand that FREE MARKET works both ways? If everyone had $1M and they gave it to banks, banks wouldn't pay you such high interest rate. You can't play that game with the people that invented it.
I'm from Argentina. We don't have universal basic income. But we have high taxes and the previous administration left 22 million "passives" (government employeees, retirees and especially "social plan" benefitiaries). And 8 million "active" workers.
The fiscal hole is so big we're heading to another economic crisis.
The crisis in Venezuela makes people from there come here and easily get a job. People from here don't work. You see them outside the government-owned post and government-owned banks making huge lines. Young people in good shape and health. Perfectly fit to work. But the just, you know, don't.
And inflation is eating away their benefits. Instead of getting jobs, they are now protesting. They demand more free money.
This does not end well. All of the "universal income" programs ignore one simple fact: people are shit and they abuse every system they can abuse.
On the contrary. I like google's approach. I'm tired of software developers going "but security is haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaard"
Anti investors? Investors are fine. Get the money, grow, and shake investors off (meaning: PAY THEM). It's YOUR company and you get to decide what to do with it. Otherwise they own you and they decide what your company does. No NO.
hence the quotes on "ride sharing".
On one hand, it's interesting how investors are really interested in companies bing a one trick pony. They are investing in a "ride sharing" (LOL) company. They are not interested in a company that does ride sharing AND self driving. If they wanted a self driving car company, they would invest in a self driving car company.
On the other hand, it's interesting how companies refuse to be one trick ponies. Uber saw the writing on the wall. They know in a few years it will be all about self driving. They wan't to be ready for the change. Being first to game is the key.
Basically you have to shake investors off as soon as you can. These people are interested in "money now" as opposed to "money later". This is why companies that operate at a loss all the time have little future.
Written by a millennial that doesn't know about IPSec
Pharmaceutical companies already do that: they invest much more in baldness treatments than in malaria drugs.
because the drug makers have the patents to protect them.
the other day I bought a IBM M1015 SAS RAID card. I flashed it to be a LSI9211 (no RAID, just SAS). It wouldn't work unless I flashed a specific firmware version with a specific option rom BIOS version.
"Brand name" BIOS and firmware are horribly buggy compared to "just works" regular PC BIOS.
Aren't you outraged by the fact that, in a lot of US states, the price you see advertised is NOT the price you pay? You seem outraged about all those fees, but not about the "sales tax". Which is the same thing. Where there is no sales tax, you don't get that line item.
Imagine if they were charging $1.99 for a burger in one state with sales tax, and $1.99 in a state without it. I'm pretty sure you would be MAD that they are pocketing the difference.
How is this any different?
Playing the devil's advocate here: Inflation plays a role too. While inflation in the US is minimal, with the years it becomes signficant. In the case of the article, 76 cents in 1995 is $1,27 today. Shy of "twice as much".
This is a purely objective point though. The reasons why they increase pricing is simple ("because they can"). But never disregard inflation as a factor too.
Sooooo Boeing doesn't bleed tax money?
hah remember when Microsoft made IE the default browser? Such a big scandal. Nothing kept you from installing Netscape.
And yet, it was punished for abusing their monopoly.
Oh but not only Apple doesn't allow you to install other browsers in their iOS. They don't let you install anything not from their app store.
And yet, fanboys defend apple.
Maybe. But there is no documented procedure. Ops will pull a vm out of their asses and it will have whatever OS and .NET version they please. My software is supposed to run in any combination they decide. That's just retarded.
We also have a couple Node.js services. Running on Node 4. Node 4 has been EOL for a long time. Not upgrading it is just not responsible.
Also infrastructure is a mess. We have thousands of desktops in this company. Remember that year that worm that hit last year? Well. We serve Telefonica. The worm penetrated OUR network through their firewall to Telefonica. It infected a few dozens of our machines and it was only stopped because ops called everyone and told us to shut down our machines. Because they don't want to deal with Windows updates.
So yeah, fuck off little Ops troll. Go back to watching your nagios.