I wonder who's going to be dumb enough to believe that story.
One sign that a story is BS is when no actual names are used. The ex-employee is identified only by a pseudonym, and the company he worked for is only identified as "a well-known tech company in the Bay Area". So this story is just an implausible, and completely unverifiable posting by an AC.
a video card from 2012 can brute force every possible 7 character password in a bit over an hour and every possible 8 character password in a bit over a year.
That doesn't make sense. An 8 byte PW would take 256 times as long as a 7 byte PW, and really only ~128 times as long. So if a 7 byte PW takes an hour, then 8 bytes would take 5 days, not a year.
Atheism is the *belief* that there's no God (or gods).
No it isn't. Atheism is an absence of belief, not a belief in absence. If you go talk to atheists, it is unlikely you will meet anyone with an affirmative belief in the absence of supernatural phenomenom. Even Richard Dawkins has stated that he has never met anyone that is a 7 on the spectrum of theistic probability, although he has labeled himself as a 6.9.
this is the same as they've been doing around here since like forever...except apps...
There is another slight difference: The drivers don't have to buy/rent a $500K taxi medallion as part of a government enforced cartel limiting access to the market.
My sister drives for Uber several afternoons per week to make some extra cash. She earns about $18/hr. That is not a bad wage for a flexible low-skill part time job. She thinks it is a good deal, and it sure beats working at McDonalds. Most Uber drivers are part timers, and Uber is not their main source of income.
It may be difficult to determine which candidates are pro or anti-surveillance/police-state. So a quick rule of thumb is to look for the candidate endorsed by the police union... and then vote for somebody else. Over the last 25 years, violent crime has halved in America, but spending on police and prisons has doubled... and no, the spending on P&P did not "cause" the fall in crime, because it mostly came later, and jurisdictions that didn't increase spending often saw an even steeper fall in crime.
You could also not be a cheap fuck and toss these suckers who are tearing up their personal vehicles for basically nothing a dollar once in a while
If people tip, then drivers will accept lower wages, driving down the market price, and their earnings will be erratic. If nobody tips, in order to attract enough drivers, Uber will have to pay them more, and raise prices. Either way, the drivers will be paid about the same. Many other countries do not have the "tipping culture" (and resulting lower base wages) that America has. Workers are generally happier with higher base wages, customers appreciate avoiding the hassle and uncertainty of knowing how much to tip, and I have seen no sign of lower quality of service.
Tipping is stupid. Workers should get a fair wage, and the listed price should be the price.
Some policy wonks believe that the solution is to create additional categories of workers. So instead of just "W-2 employee" and "1099 contractor" we would have a third category for people that are not quite independent contractors, but not really employees either. They would then have some of the benefits of employees, but some of the flexibility of contractors. People working for Uber, Lyft, Task Rabbit, Fivver, Mechanical Turk, etc. might fall into this category.
As far as I know that's exactly the dividing line between contractor and employee.
No. There is no "exact dividing line" between an employee and a contractor. Rather, there is a 20 factor test. Almost no worker relationship is going to match all twenty, or exactly zero. So it is subjective, which is why so many of these cases end up in court.
According to the IRS If you hire a maid, then it's an employee if the employer supplies the tools and otherwise its could be claimed to be a contractor.
This is one of the twenty criteria. There are 19 others.
Now the part about Tips is intriguing.
When I use Uber, I do not tip, and the drivers don't seem to expect a tip. The listed price should be the full price.
The reason why contractors are used is simple... Campaign contributions.
Campaign contributions are only part of the problem. Another big factor is revolving door jobs. Most senior military officers serve for 30 years, from their early 20s to their early 50s. Then they "retire" on 75% pay, and are ready to move on to a civilian career. If they steer deals to the contractor during their service, there is often a wink-wink deal that they will get a job offer upon retirement. Then they can use their connections and contacts to work out similar deals with their former subordinates who have now moved up in rank.
I used to work for a defence contractor, and all the senior executives were former generals or colonels.
It is the job of the Inspector General to ensure that proper procedures and best practices are followed. I would say it was ironic that the IG office itself is the one with no backups, but then someone would say "That's not what 'ironic' means".
it's been fast tracked for passage with no debate/oversight.
Fast track does not mean "no debate", it just means that the deal has to be either accepted or rejected by congress. It cannot be amended or changed. That is the only workable way to do it. It is an agreement between a dozen countries. If the legislature of each country is able to nitpick and send it back for renegotiation, then there is no way anything will every get done.
Even if congress could change the agreement, that wouldn't help, since the worst crap in the TPP was put there at the insistence of American corporations and interest groups. Most likely congressional amendments would make it even worse.
Not sure about libertarian candidates.
Gary Johnson is opposed to the TPP. He supports free trade in principle, but does not support the TPP.
"The false positives ranged from one in 10,000 to one in 100,000."
If they had a false positive rate of 1% or even 10%, that would be amazingly good. Their claimed rate of 0.01% to 0.001% is completely implausible. It may just be a case of incompetent journalism, but if the researchers actually claimed those rates, I don't believe them, and I question their integrity.
If you have any symptoms from Pancreatic cancer, it's already too late.
Yes, a diagnosis of pancreatic cancer is usually a death sentence, but many people would still appreciate a few extra months to wrap up life issues, reach out to old friends, maybe arrange one last family reunion, and knock a few items off their list of life goals. Earlier diagnoses are good, even if they don't provide a cure.
You might want to take a look at a Scratch program. I find them very easy to read. It is a block structured language, with clear flow control. Code is automatically visually nested, and color coded. It is a great first language, it instills good habits, and I have even heard of high schools using it for students with no previous programming experience.
I assume they come from donors? Does that mean they require immunosuppressant drugs?
Immunosuppressant drugs should not be needed. The patient's original immune system is wiped out. The new immune system is regenerated from stem cells, and even if they are from donors, as the new immune system matures it will learn to recognize the patient's cellular surfaces as "self". So their should be no rejection.
Please tell me what level of risk one should accept for diagnosis and treatment of annoying but largely manageable deceases like Chron's, UC, etc?
It should be the level of risk acceptable to the informed and consenting individual patient, not the level of risk acceptable to a government bureaucrat. Many of these diseases may not be directly fatal, but they can destroy a person's quality of life to the point they feel their life is not worth living, so they may be willing to take a substantial risk for a cure. Nobody should have the right to veto that decision.
Think Iron-Man style interface where you move data pieces and functions around and connect them visually.
That is the way that Scratch works. Most kids can learn it pretty quickly. There are plenty of Youtube tutorials. You can also pair up smart kids with dumb kids to help them along. I coach after school robotics and programming at my neighborhood school. We start the kids on Scratch in 3rd and 4th grade, and then in 5th and 6th grade they learn Python. Most of the programming assignments are graphical, because that keeps the kids interested. The older kids do Minecraft mods in Python.
You still need the math background necessary to evaluate algorithms.
No you don't. Very, very few people are ever going to write and analyse their own sorting algorithm. Even for those that do, you only need to understand exponentiation, which is taught in 4th grade. For straight business process programming, there is a negligible amount of math needed. For 3D graphics programming, you need linear algebra (matrices) and plenty of trig. For physical process simulation you need first year calculus. But those are fields for professional programmers, not kids in elementary or high school.
Google produced not one but several images that reinforce negative racial stereotypes that do not represent the subject.
Google is a search engine, not a censorship engine, and not a political correctness engine. They absolutely should NOT be controlling what people see. If our society is racist, we should deal with that, rather than trying to pressure corporations into covering it up.
Gawker posted about someone's private life, where is that allowed?
It is allowed under the first amendment, specifically the part that says "no laws". Things don't have to be specifically "allowed" to be legal. They have to be specifically forbidden to be illegal. "Outing" Thiel was legal. Scummy, but legal. With Hogan, it was different because the video had been illegally recorded without his knowledge or consent. There are specific laws against that.
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I wonder who's going to be dumb enough to believe that story.
One sign that a story is BS is when no actual names are used. The ex-employee is identified only by a pseudonym, and the company he worked for is only identified as "a well-known tech company in the Bay Area". So this story is just an implausible, and completely unverifiable posting by an AC.
a video card from 2012 can brute force every possible 7 character password in a bit over an hour and every possible 8 character password in a bit over a year.
That doesn't make sense. An 8 byte PW would take 256 times as long as a 7 byte PW, and really only ~128 times as long. So if a 7 byte PW takes an hour, then 8 bytes would take 5 days, not a year.
Atheism is the *belief* that there's no God (or gods).
No it isn't. Atheism is an absence of belief, not a belief in absence. If you go talk to atheists, it is unlikely you will meet anyone with an affirmative belief in the absence of supernatural phenomenom. Even Richard Dawkins has stated that he has never met anyone that is a 7 on the spectrum of theistic probability, although he has labeled himself as a 6.9.
How can atheism be a religion?
Atheism is a religion like not collecting stamps is a hobby. -- Penn Jillette
this is the same as they've been doing around here since like forever...except apps...
There is another slight difference: The drivers don't have to buy/rent a $500K taxi medallion as part of a government enforced cartel limiting access to the market.
they don't make quite as much as you'd think.
My sister drives for Uber several afternoons per week to make some extra cash. She earns about $18/hr. That is not a bad wage for a flexible low-skill part time job. She thinks it is a good deal, and it sure beats working at McDonalds. Most Uber drivers are part timers, and Uber is not their main source of income.
who wins your city council race is important.
It may be difficult to determine which candidates are pro or anti-surveillance/police-state. So a quick rule of thumb is to look for the candidate endorsed by the police union ... and then vote for somebody else. Over the last 25 years, violent crime has halved in America, but spending on police and prisons has doubled ... and no, the spending on P&P did not "cause" the fall in crime, because it mostly came later, and jurisdictions that didn't increase spending often saw an even steeper fall in crime.
You could also not be a cheap fuck and toss these suckers who are tearing up their personal vehicles for basically nothing a dollar once in a while
If people tip, then drivers will accept lower wages, driving down the market price, and their earnings will be erratic. If nobody tips, in order to attract enough drivers, Uber will have to pay them more, and raise prices. Either way, the drivers will be paid about the same. Many other countries do not have the "tipping culture" (and resulting lower base wages) that America has. Workers are generally happier with higher base wages, customers appreciate avoiding the hassle and uncertainty of knowing how much to tip, and I have seen no sign of lower quality of service.
Tipping is stupid. Workers should get a fair wage, and the listed price should be the price.
rules about employees / 1099's need to reworked.
Some policy wonks believe that the solution is to create additional categories of workers. So instead of just "W-2 employee" and "1099 contractor" we would have a third category for people that are not quite independent contractors, but not really employees either. They would then have some of the benefits of employees, but some of the flexibility of contractors. People working for Uber, Lyft, Task Rabbit, Fivver, Mechanical Turk, etc. might fall into this category.
As far as I know that's exactly the dividing line between contractor and employee.
No. There is no "exact dividing line" between an employee and a contractor. Rather, there is a 20 factor test. Almost no worker relationship is going to match all twenty, or exactly zero. So it is subjective, which is why so many of these cases end up in court.
According to the IRS If you hire a maid, then it's an employee if the employer supplies the tools and otherwise its could be claimed to be a contractor.
This is one of the twenty criteria. There are 19 others.
Now the part about Tips is intriguing.
When I use Uber, I do not tip, and the drivers don't seem to expect a tip. The listed price should be the full price.
and they are trying to sell collections of usernames with fake passwords just to make a few bucks, they are low life bottom feeders
If they are polluting the underworld with fake info and ripping off even more malicious criminals, then that would be a public service.
The reason why contractors are used is simple... Campaign contributions.
Campaign contributions are only part of the problem. Another big factor is revolving door jobs. Most senior military officers serve for 30 years, from their early 20s to their early 50s. Then they "retire" on 75% pay, and are ready to move on to a civilian career. If they steer deals to the contractor during their service, there is often a wink-wink deal that they will get a job offer upon retirement. Then they can use their connections and contacts to work out similar deals with their former subordinates who have now moved up in rank.
I used to work for a defence contractor, and all the senior executives were former generals or colonels.
Of course, you can avoid all the expense of hiring they officers, by instead just providing them with hookers and cigars.
It is the job of the Inspector General to ensure that proper procedures and best practices are followed. I would say it was ironic that the IG office itself is the one with no backups, but then someone would say "That's not what 'ironic' means".
it's been fast tracked for passage with no debate/oversight.
Fast track does not mean "no debate", it just means that the deal has to be either accepted or rejected by congress. It cannot be amended or changed. That is the only workable way to do it. It is an agreement between a dozen countries. If the legislature of each country is able to nitpick and send it back for renegotiation, then there is no way anything will every get done.
Even if congress could change the agreement, that wouldn't help, since the worst crap in the TPP was put there at the insistence of American corporations and interest groups. Most likely congressional amendments would make it even worse.
Not sure about libertarian candidates.
Gary Johnson is opposed to the TPP. He supports free trade in principle, but does not support the TPP.
have you ever seen a flow chart that just made your head spin.
Yes, I have. But Scratch programs look nothing like flowcharts.
"The false positives ranged from one in 10,000 to one in 100,000."
If they had a false positive rate of 1% or even 10%, that would be amazingly good. Their claimed rate of 0.01% to 0.001% is completely implausible. It may just be a case of incompetent journalism, but if the researchers actually claimed those rates, I don't believe them, and I question their integrity.
If you have any symptoms from Pancreatic cancer, it's already too late.
Yes, a diagnosis of pancreatic cancer is usually a death sentence, but many people would still appreciate a few extra months to wrap up life issues, reach out to old friends, maybe arrange one last family reunion, and knock a few items off their list of life goals. Earlier diagnoses are good, even if they don't provide a cure.
Spaghetti would be easier to understand.
You might want to take a look at a Scratch program. I find them very easy to read. It is a block structured language, with clear flow control. Code is automatically visually nested, and color coded. It is a great first language, it instills good habits, and I have even heard of high schools using it for students with no previous programming experience.
I assume they come from donors? Does that mean they require immunosuppressant drugs?
Immunosuppressant drugs should not be needed. The patient's original immune system is wiped out. The new immune system is regenerated from stem cells, and even if they are from donors, as the new immune system matures it will learn to recognize the patient's cellular surfaces as "self". So their should be no rejection.
Please tell me what level of risk one should accept for diagnosis and treatment of annoying but largely manageable deceases like Chron's, UC, etc?
It should be the level of risk acceptable to the informed and consenting individual patient, not the level of risk acceptable to a government bureaucrat. Many of these diseases may not be directly fatal, but they can destroy a person's quality of life to the point they feel their life is not worth living, so they may be willing to take a substantial risk for a cure. Nobody should have the right to veto that decision.
Think Iron-Man style interface where you move data pieces and functions around and connect them visually.
That is the way that Scratch works. Most kids can learn it pretty quickly. There are plenty of Youtube tutorials. You can also pair up smart kids with dumb kids to help them along. I coach after school robotics and programming at my neighborhood school. We start the kids on Scratch in 3rd and 4th grade, and then in 5th and 6th grade they learn Python. Most of the programming assignments are graphical, because that keeps the kids interested. The older kids do Minecraft mods in Python.
You still need the math background necessary to evaluate algorithms.
No you don't. Very, very few people are ever going to write and analyse their own sorting algorithm. Even for those that do, you only need to understand exponentiation, which is taught in 4th grade. For straight business process programming, there is a negligible amount of math needed. For 3D graphics programming, you need linear algebra (matrices) and plenty of trig. For physical process simulation you need first year calculus. But those are fields for professional programmers, not kids in elementary or high school.
Google produced not one but several images that reinforce negative racial stereotypes that do not represent the subject.
Google is a search engine, not a censorship engine, and not a political correctness engine. They absolutely should NOT be controlling what people see. If our society is racist, we should deal with that, rather than trying to pressure corporations into covering it up.
Gawker posted about someone's private life, where is that allowed?
It is allowed under the first amendment, specifically the part that says "no laws". Things don't have to be specifically "allowed" to be legal. They have to be specifically forbidden to be illegal. "Outing" Thiel was legal. Scummy, but legal. With Hogan, it was different because the video had been illegally recorded without his knowledge or consent. There are specific laws against that.
I can't even run off the whole contents of my camera onto if I'm not connected to the web.
Sure you can. Just plug in a SD card or a USB thumb drive.
a Chromebook is really expensive.
I bought a Chromebook for my kid for $129. That is a tenth of what I paid for my wife's Macbook.