I will get flamed for this. Before I say it, by-no-means I'm I denying this conduct happens, but how many of these women wanted to be sexually involved with a male or even female in the field, then felt ashamed or embarrassment over what they've done?
The data comes from a specific survey, not a register of reported incidents. People may lie in the workplace to cover their backs and protect their egos, but there is no motivation to do so in a confidential study.
... but unless the law in question specifically says that it only protects US citizens, then it applies to everyone.
Even then, international treaties may force the issue. Do personality rights fall under copyrights? If so, The Berne Convention would forbid favourable treatment to US citizens over foreigners.
You're right. I'd forgotten how Bezos invented the market for human knowledge encoded on dead plant matter bound into volumes.
Or to be less facetious, Bezos was actively competing with the physical-sales book market.
Perhaps. But personally I find that Amazon has made books way more accessible to me than 20 years ago. The town I grew up in didn't even have a book store. The closest thing was the mass market paperbacks you could find at the department stores and pharmacies. Now you can get just about any book you want delivered to your door in a few days. And often below cover price. If publishers want to compete with piracy, they need to make it more convenient for people to get the books they want, at the price they want.
You're conflating two radically different things here: price and convenience. If Amazon was literally the same price as everywhere else, it would still be competitive on range, stock levels and ease of access. In your example, cost is asecondary issue to the range of material otherwise available to you. Don't pretend the two things are related.
"Supercomputers" change over time, and eventually become "computers". Actually, that's slightly unfair, otherwise this would be scrapped and they'd be using stock PC components instead. Supercomputing is about parallelism as well as raw power, and the limit on supercomputing expertise is the low number of people with exposure to parallel computing. This news is probably not going to have much effect in the immediate term (Amazon et al have supercomputers for rent) but will give the researchers a bit more freedom to experiment with the tools in order to learn better how to use them.
To paraphrase: "My god, why are these people trying to build a knowledge economy and generate growth when people are starving? Long-term economic development doesn't put food on the table." or to paraphrase further: "Why are you teaching that man to fish? Can't you see that he's hungry?!?"
Believing it's only others who are manipulable makes a person supremely manipulable. True control of self starts in recognising how vulnerable you are to outside control.
The point isn't "look at the technology", it's "look at the behaviour" - look at what a government is willing to do to make sure the democratic will of the people is what they think it should be. Right now, with the amount of noise in the British press about so-called "cybernats" (trolls in favour of Scottish independence, a very tiny minority typically blow out of all proportion by the media), it's a sobering thought,
Whereas even small towns in France are packed with bookshops. In fact if your local newsagent isn't also a pub or a bookies shop, it will almost definitely have an impressive range of paperbacks.
We should also remember that Amazon went years without profit, churning through venture capital like there was no tomorrow. They did this to muscle their way into the market, and to this day I don't know how they didn't get hauled up on anti-trust/anti-competitive charges for delivering loss-leaders.
Well that's how the cookie crumbles with any market. Sure, some good balance of regulation is good but competition is also good for the consumer. And France is probably on the side of over regulation while the US is often under regulated (sans the broken patent system, for example).
Yes, competition is good for the consumer, which is why France wants to protect competition in the marketplace. Monolithic pile-em-high, sell-em-cheap outlets lead to monopolies. Amazon is increasingly dominant in more and more markets, and getting damned-near monopolistic.
The original fears in France weren't only about the loss of small shops, but also about the result loss of variety in the publishing sector (the supermarkets only stock a small selection of the most popular literature, much of which is pulp and/or translations). Amazon certainly doesn't pose a threat to variety of material, but the monopoly is still worrying. What France recognises is that employment makes the monetary system go round. Fewer jobs in your town means less money in your town, means less spending, means fewer shops, means fewer jobs, means...
and bbb - the pricing is stupid for the demand. if they asked for more they could run a bigger batch faster....
They don't want to run a bigger batch, because it's not finished yet. If they had wanted to, they could have ramped up production months ago, satiated market demand then retired. But they would have been a flash in the pan. They're trying to build a long-term business, and while I'm not convinced they're going to solve the latency problems entirely, I at least respect their integrity for not rushing an unfinished product out the door.
Perhaps your car is valued less each year due to its decreasing reliability. Perhaps your premiums go up each year due to your car's decreasing reliability.
Anyone who has been around in IT knows Objective C doesn't even come up outside of Apple development (and really there aren't many of those compared to finance, engineering, healthcare and web developers in the world
But the GP was talking about mobile development, and a heck of a lot of mobile development is Apple development. Have you ever heard of a mobile Matlab implementation? I hadn't. It exists, but I only know it does because I googled* it right now.
(* using Bing. because something I downloaded yesterday changed my search page.)
But that aside, it does affect the rest of the world, as there are many people in the world who operate international web businesses, and they are going to lose access to a pretty large market thanks to this. I'm currently speccing up a service, and as a result of this legislation, I can no longer assume anything about the viability of a Russian translation, and I'm going to have to calculate the viability assuming only the Russian-speaking populations of places like Ukraine, Lithuania and various *stans.
Russian expatriates are Russian citizens too. And employment data is a thing that gets stored. I hope they're not looking for work with an Internet company...
This is a hugely important point that bears repeating.
Russian expatriates are Russian citizens too. And employment data is a thing that gets stored. I hope they're not looking for work with an Internet company...
Therefore it will be illegal, on a technicality, for any citizen to work overseas. In fact, it will be pretty difficult to even do any translation work.
What has gone little noted in the press (outside of non-Russian Russian-language newspapers is that Russia has implemented laws to try to prevent emigration. Dual citizenship is illegal, and if you get a residency permit for a foreign country, you have to deregister as Russian resident, and get a special foreign-resident-Russian passport. There have even been rumours of an imminent ban on exit visas for Russian academics.
Russia doesn't want its citizens mixing with foreigners, as we are seen as "corrupting" them. Russians who travel abroad are viewed with suspicion by their neighbours. It's a genuinely scary state of affairs.
EU directives are not about "EU companies" but "companies operating in EU". I.e. companies that store information about EU citizens.
No, companies that operate in the EU have operations in the EU -- offices, warehouses, datacentres etc. If I buy from Stewart-MacDonald's instrument-making supplies in the US and they ship the goods to my EU address, that's not "operating in the EU", they're operating in the US.
Yes, companies like Google did initially try to argue that they weren't really "operating" in the EU per se, but they were called up on their location-based advertising.
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I will get flamed for this. Before I say it, by-no-means I'm I denying this conduct happens, but how many of these women wanted to be sexually involved with a male or even female in the field, then felt ashamed or embarrassment over what they've done?
The data comes from a specific survey, not a register of reported incidents. People may lie in the workplace to cover their backs and protect their egos, but there is no motivation to do so in a confidential study.
Hahaha. He used "there's" with a plural in a song about bad English. That's irony, not coincidence.
... but unless the law in question specifically says that it only protects US citizens, then it applies to everyone.
Even then, international treaties may force the issue. Do personality rights fall under copyrights? If so, The Berne Convention would forbid favourable treatment to US citizens over foreigners.
Which is why you don't source the hardware via US companies. Maybe they should switch to German-built Raspberry Pi clones in in transparent cases.
Couldn't they just buy a bunch of computers with no network hardware whatsoever?
You're right. I'd forgotten how Bezos invented the market for human knowledge encoded on dead plant matter bound into volumes.
Or to be less facetious, Bezos was actively competing with the physical-sales book market.
Perhaps. But personally I find that Amazon has made books way more accessible to me than 20 years ago. The town I grew up in didn't even have a book store. The closest thing was the mass market paperbacks you could find at the department stores and pharmacies. Now you can get just about any book you want delivered to your door in a few days. And often below cover price. If publishers want to compete with piracy, they need to make it more convenient for people to get the books they want, at the price they want.
You're conflating two radically different things here: price and convenience. If Amazon was literally the same price as everywhere else, it would still be competitive on range, stock levels and ease of access. In your example, cost is asecondary issue to the range of material otherwise available to you. Don't pretend the two things are related.
"Supercomputers" change over time, and eventually become "computers". Actually, that's slightly unfair, otherwise this would be scrapped and they'd be using stock PC components instead. Supercomputing is about parallelism as well as raw power, and the limit on supercomputing expertise is the low number of people with exposure to parallel computing. This news is probably not going to have much effect in the immediate term (Amazon et al have supercomputers for rent) but will give the researchers a bit more freedom to experiment with the tools in order to learn better how to use them.
You haven't factored in the mainboards and the racking equipment...
Your counterargument should possibly include the letters FSA and GCHQ, and the keywords "trade secrets"....
To paraphrase: "My god, why are these people trying to build a knowledge economy and generate growth when people are starving? Long-term economic development doesn't put food on the table." or to paraphrase further: "Why are you teaching that man to fish? Can't you see that he's hungry?!?"
Believing it's only others who are manipulable makes a person supremely manipulable. True control of self starts in recognising how vulnerable you are to outside control.
Poll says he can.
The point isn't "look at the technology", it's "look at the behaviour" - look at what a government is willing to do to make sure the democratic will of the people is what they think it should be. Right now, with the amount of noise in the British press about so-called "cybernats" (trolls in favour of Scottish independence, a very tiny minority typically blow out of all proportion by the media), it's a sobering thought,
Not illegal? It is in various jurisdictions, but the law is quite convoluted.
Whereas even small towns in France are packed with bookshops. In fact if your local newsagent isn't also a pub or a bookies shop, it will almost definitely have an impressive range of paperbacks.
We should also remember that Amazon went years without profit, churning through venture capital like there was no tomorrow. They did this to muscle their way into the market, and to this day I don't know how they didn't get hauled up on anti-trust/anti-competitive charges for delivering loss-leaders.
Well that's how the cookie crumbles with any market. Sure, some good balance of regulation is good but competition is also good for the consumer. And France is probably on the side of over regulation while the US is often under regulated (sans the broken patent system, for example).
Yes, competition is good for the consumer, which is why France wants to protect competition in the marketplace. Monolithic pile-em-high, sell-em-cheap outlets lead to monopolies. Amazon is increasingly dominant in more and more markets, and getting damned-near monopolistic.
The original fears in France weren't only about the loss of small shops, but also about the result loss of variety in the publishing sector (the supermarkets only stock a small selection of the most popular literature, much of which is pulp and/or translations). Amazon certainly doesn't pose a threat to variety of material, but the monopoly is still worrying. What France recognises is that employment makes the monetary system go round. Fewer jobs in your town means less money in your town, means less spending, means fewer shops, means fewer jobs, means...
and bbb - the pricing is stupid for the demand. if they asked for more they could run a bigger batch faster....
They don't want to run a bigger batch, because it's not finished yet. If they had wanted to, they could have ramped up production months ago, satiated market demand then retired. But they would have been a flash in the pan. They're trying to build a long-term business, and while I'm not convinced they're going to solve the latency problems entirely, I at least respect their integrity for not rushing an unfinished product out the door.
Perhaps your car is valued less each year due to its decreasing reliability. Perhaps your premiums go up each year due to your car's decreasing reliability.
TFS says this is about safety. Which it clearly is not.
Anyone who has been around in IT knows Objective C doesn't even come up outside of Apple development (and really there aren't many of those compared to finance, engineering, healthcare and web developers in the world
But the GP was talking about mobile development, and a heck of a lot of mobile development is Apple development. Have you ever heard of a mobile Matlab implementation? I hadn't. It exists, but I only know it does because I googled* it right now.
(* using Bing. because something I downloaded yesterday changed my search page.)
Does this affect the rest of the world? Nope.
Selfish git.
But that aside, it does affect the rest of the world, as there are many people in the world who operate international web businesses, and they are going to lose access to a pretty large market thanks to this. I'm currently speccing up a service, and as a result of this legislation, I can no longer assume anything about the viability of a Russian translation, and I'm going to have to calculate the viability assuming only the Russian-speaking populations of places like Ukraine, Lithuania and various *stans.
Russian expatriates are Russian citizens too. And employment data is a thing that gets stored. I hope they're not looking for work with an Internet company...
This is a hugely important point that bears repeating.
Russian expatriates are Russian citizens too. And employment data is a thing that gets stored. I hope they're not looking for work with an Internet company...
Therefore it will be illegal, on a technicality, for any citizen to work overseas. In fact, it will be pretty difficult to even do any translation work.
What has gone little noted in the press (outside of non-Russian Russian-language newspapers is that Russia has implemented laws to try to prevent emigration. Dual citizenship is illegal, and if you get a residency permit for a foreign country, you have to deregister as Russian resident, and get a special foreign-resident-Russian passport. There have even been rumours of an imminent ban on exit visas for Russian academics.
Russia doesn't want its citizens mixing with foreigners, as we are seen as "corrupting" them. Russians who travel abroad are viewed with suspicion by their neighbours. It's a genuinely scary state of affairs.
EU directives are not about "EU companies" but "companies operating in EU". I.e. companies that store information about EU citizens.
No, companies that operate in the EU have operations in the EU -- offices, warehouses, datacentres etc. If I buy from Stewart-MacDonald's instrument-making supplies in the US and they ship the goods to my EU address, that's not "operating in the EU", they're operating in the US.
Yes, companies like Google did initially try to argue that they weren't really "operating" in the EU per se, but they were called up on their location-based advertising.