It's impossible to be a freeloader on the internet. The internet was created for the FREE exchange of information and data. If you and your polluting advertising cronies don't like it, then get the fuck off of my internet, you eternal September scum.
The internet was created so that the US government could survive a major exchange of nuclear weapons with the USSR.
"This or that is dying" is marketing gobbledygook for "no longer growing".
Indeed, it is because of the fixation on (potential) growth as a measure of company performance.
It's why Tesla is so highly valued - one day it could become a virtual monopolist supplier of electric vehicles and therefore sell the equivalent of the combined total current vehicle market all by itself...
When young people will understand, current liberals have wrapped very old socialist idea in nice colorful "technology" sounding wrapper and are selling it as something new. just read the article, this is new idea where all management will be eliminated. It is happening as we speak. Only workers controlled by AI or occasional person and owners. It is sad but Russians succeeded to conquer america, another 20 years and we will have kolkhoz all over us.
Of all the possible criticisms of Uber/the gig economy, the idea that it is a form of backdoor communism is the bizzarest I've ever heard.
Or is this a troll attempting the old "if palpably deranged people are criticising X, then X may not be so bad after all" gag?
I think most people's concern is not that his expertise is at an elite level hacker who knows Assembly language and can code in binary. The concern is that he doesn't have basic experience with computers. Just like I don't expect a Secretary of Transportation to be able to change out my car's transmission but I would like that person to have driven a car before.
Great, a car analogy!
I would say that someone who had no driving licence and had only ever been chauffeur-driven was entirely capable of being 'Secretary of Transportation'. But I'm not from the US.
If this worked, it would allow faster than light communication. Send one half of an entangled pair of beams to someone (traveling at the speed of light, but that’s just the setup, not the actual communication), then the recipient disturbs the beam (or not), and the other party instantaneously notices. Nope, not possible.
you will be interested to know that Oklahoma is deeply Republican, very pro-gun, anti-abortion
Sounds like an ideal home for most slashdotters
and anti-science
Probably not a deal breaker as long as it's just climate science and Evolution they oppose, as again plenty of people here are fine with that. I doubt that even the most rabidly reactionary Christian fundamentalist is opposed to engineering or chemistry.
That doesn't strike me as sufficient justification. Most western countries, this would be considered murder. Killing someone because of a small chance that they might be a danger rather than it being probably is insufficient grounds for lethal force. He was reaching for his waistband. Sure, there was a possibility that he had a gun, but until this is confirmed there is no justification to fire.
Whether you think it's a good thing or not, I'd say the chances of someone in the US having a gun is much higher than in most western countries.
Public transportation is not useful for people who actually do physical things for living, build physical things, sell things, haul things.
I often see this argument on slashdot, along with "well my monster truck can carry fourteen tons of concrete and a bunch of ten foot steel girders if I ever need to, um, get some concrete and steel girders to build a small bridge one weekend".
If you need a truck for work, fine. If you need to carry some heavy building materials once a year, hire a truck for the day.
It's nothing to do with the benefits or drawbacks of commuting to an office job each day by car.
I used to hate driving. But after saying, "Y'know, if I'm going to spend an hour-and-a-half a day in my car, five days per week, I'm going to get a car that I don't mind being in." So I went and bought a nice car. And I didn't hate driving anymore.
There are plenty of people who look at a car as a necessary evil--"I just need something that will get me from Point A to Point B." They buy that and then they complain that it isn't comfortable to drive for two hours. Well, maybe you should have included that in your requirements.
Once you're past the level of a twenty seven year old rust bucket that you're scared will catch fire when you touch the brakes, all reasonably modern cars are fine to drive for a couple of hours at a time.
The problem is with a two hour each way commute, not the car you're in.
There's a psychological aspect to it as well. As soon as you get in your car, the workday's done in your mind. With public transport, the day ends only when you're at your front door.
I think that must depend on your own psychology. I find commuting time by car is the same as commuting time by train, except that in a car I can't doze off for a few minutes if I'm tired, or read a book.
Nah bro. There's always something to offend a feminist. The goalposts always change. When the entire culture is based on gaining power and prestige by taking offence, offence will be taken.
They spend more time on facebook and slashdot compaining than working even when they do choose to show up. Don't hire them and you won't get your career ruined later when they witchhunt you for using the word "Dude" in your username or having a penis, or other not-woke-enough nonsense.
The chilling proof of this statement can be seen by the fact that literally no men are now CEOs or Senators, judges, professors, doctors, etc.
"Cell phone radiation safe for humans".
No scientist would ever say that. Science is about falsifying hypotheses, not proving hypotheses. You can prove experimentally that a hypothesis is incorrect, but you can never prove that it is correct. See Karl Popper. So you can never prove that something does no harm, but you can prove that it causes harm under certain conditions. We already know that microwaves are harmful, that's not in question. The question is the degree of harm under certain conditions.
In that case, no scientist would ever say "drinking water is safe for humans" because of the minuscule but real chance of it killing you.
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It's impossible to be a freeloader on the internet. The internet was created for the FREE exchange of information and data. If you and your polluting advertising cronies don't like it, then get the fuck off of my internet, you eternal September scum.
The internet was created so that the US government could survive a major exchange of nuclear weapons with the USSR.
Everything else is just emergent phenomena.
"This or that is dying" is marketing gobbledygook for "no longer growing".
Indeed, it is because of the fixation on (potential) growth as a measure of company performance.
It's why Tesla is so highly valued - one day it could become a virtual monopolist supplier of electric vehicles and therefore sell the equivalent of the combined total current vehicle market all by itself...
When young people will understand, current liberals have wrapped very old socialist idea in nice colorful "technology" sounding wrapper and are selling it as something new. just read the article, this is new idea where all management will be eliminated. It is happening as we speak. Only workers controlled by AI or occasional person and owners. It is sad but Russians succeeded to conquer america, another 20 years and we will have kolkhoz all over us.
Of all the possible criticisms of Uber/the gig economy, the idea that it is a form of backdoor communism is the bizzarest I've ever heard.
Or is this a troll attempting the old "if palpably deranged people are criticising X, then X may not be so bad after all" gag?
I think most people's concern is not that his expertise is at an elite level hacker who knows Assembly language and can code in binary. The concern is that he doesn't have basic experience with computers. Just like I don't expect a Secretary of Transportation to be able to change out my car's transmission but I would like that person to have driven a car before.
Great, a car analogy!
I would say that someone who had no driving licence and had only ever been chauffeur-driven was entirely capable of being 'Secretary of Transportation'. But I'm not from the US.
Even if I'm wrong, I'm 50% correct
Fucking millennials.
If this worked, it would allow faster than light communication. Send one half of an entangled pair of beams to someone (traveling at the speed of light, but that’s just the setup, not the actual communication), then the recipient disturbs the beam (or not), and the other party instantaneously notices. Nope, not possible.
Mod parent up. Thread over.
you will be interested to know that Oklahoma is deeply Republican, very pro-gun, anti-abortion
Sounds like an ideal home for most slashdotters
and anti-science
Probably not a deal breaker as long as it's just climate science and Evolution they oppose, as again plenty of people here are fine with that. I doubt that even the most rabidly reactionary Christian fundamentalist is opposed to engineering or chemistry.
That doesn't strike me as sufficient justification. Most western countries, this would be considered murder. Killing someone because of a small chance that they might be a danger rather than it being probably is insufficient grounds for lethal force. He was reaching for his waistband. Sure, there was a possibility that he had a gun, but until this is confirmed there is no justification to fire.
Whether you think it's a good thing or not, I'd say the chances of someone in the US having a gun is much higher than in most western countries.
She made my sister do a sobriety test, which she passed, then sent us on our way.
That cop was, like, literally Hitler.
Police ALWAYS lie. Everyone knows it.
Why is this marked -1? It is true. Cops have been literally caugh by their bodycams planting drugs on peoples property and been convicted for it!
Some of A are X, therefore all of A are X, right?
You might want to take a basic logic course.
Public transportation is not useful for people who actually do physical things for living, build physical things, sell things, haul things.
I often see this argument on slashdot, along with "well my monster truck can carry fourteen tons of concrete and a bunch of ten foot steel girders if I ever need to, um, get some concrete and steel girders to build a small bridge one weekend".
If you need a truck for work, fine. If you need to carry some heavy building materials once a year, hire a truck for the day.
It's nothing to do with the benefits or drawbacks of commuting to an office job each day by car.
many motorcycles get 64MPG
As a motorcyclist, I have to say that's only true for very small motorcycles ridden very slowly.
# ToDo: Soviet Russia gag goes here.
If it wasn't for the brave Germans in WW2 we'd all be speaking Russian by now.
No, wait, that's not it...
Next time you eat cheese or grapes, think about how only the richest of people ate those only a few short generations ago
What? I suppose grapes depends on where you live, but "bread and cheese" has been synonymous with poverty since forever.
It is an interesting point...
I used to hate driving. But after saying, "Y'know, if I'm going to spend an hour-and-a-half a day in my car, five days per week, I'm going to get a car that I don't mind being in." So I went and bought a nice car. And I didn't hate driving anymore.
There are plenty of people who look at a car as a necessary evil--"I just need something that will get me from Point A to Point B." They buy that and then they complain that it isn't comfortable to drive for two hours. Well, maybe you should have included that in your requirements.
Once you're past the level of a twenty seven year old rust bucket that you're scared will catch fire when you touch the brakes, all reasonably modern cars are fine to drive for a couple of hours at a time.
The problem is with a two hour each way commute, not the car you're in.
There's a psychological aspect to it as well. As soon as you get in your car, the workday's done in your mind. With public transport, the day ends only when you're at your front door.
I think that must depend on your own psychology. I find commuting time by car is the same as commuting time by train, except that in a car I can't doze off for a few minutes if I'm tired, or read a book.
I now live 10 minutes walk to the office and it still kind of sucks when it's very cold and/or rainy.
Found the Millennial!
my sources are telling me he may (this is a rumor, nothing more than that) have checked himself into a upscale rehab place in LA
You can't argue with facts like that.
"A new rehab called High Sobriety promises to use marijuana to wean patients off of drugs and alcohol."
Similarly, I got over my wine problem by switching to vodka.
That's Reins, guys. That expression originates with what you have to control a horse.
Ah, originally I read it as just an awkwardly worded attempt at "takes over the reign [as in monarch] of Elon Musk at Tesla" or something.
I have a friend in Google who is Constantly telling me what the op said. It's full sjw infestation "with us or against us"
Having now actually visited a campus, it was EXACTLY how the movies, tv and gtav depict.
I saw /mostly/ women, mostly young and mostly hip looking types. I'm 40 and out of the 300 ppl I saw, I'd say teen were my age or older.
I saw less then 5 "typical nerds" that we generally look like, balding, overweight dudes who look a bit shy / insure of themselves.
My contact tells me the vast majority of real work is done by about 15% of the staff. It was seriously like a high school cafeteria.
On a similar note, I've started to notice how young police officers look these days!
They sat at their desks, had a wank, talked about which girl was the hottest and generally farted and ball-scratched the day away.
Ah yes, the fabled 1950s Golden Age.
Nah bro. There's always something to offend a feminist. The goalposts always change. When the entire culture is based on gaining power and prestige by taking offence, offence will be taken.
They spend more time on facebook and slashdot compaining than working even when they do choose to show up. Don't hire them and you won't get your career ruined later when they witchhunt you for using the word "Dude" in your username or having a penis, or other not-woke-enough nonsense.
The chilling proof of this statement can be seen by the fact that literally no men are now CEOs or Senators, judges, professors, doctors, etc.
"Cell phone radiation safe for humans". No scientist would ever say that. Science is about falsifying hypotheses, not proving hypotheses. You can prove experimentally that a hypothesis is incorrect, but you can never prove that it is correct. See Karl Popper. So you can never prove that something does no harm, but you can prove that it causes harm under certain conditions. We already know that microwaves are harmful, that's not in question. The question is the degree of harm under certain conditions.
In that case, no scientist would ever say "drinking water is safe for humans" because of the minuscule but real chance of it killing you.
The universe is 2-dimensional. There is no space, only area.
Climbing a ladder must seem like travelling in hyperspace to you.