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  1. If that were true, they would have fired all the SJWs that spread the post over the wider net (and removed the cites).

  2. FYI Russia still has the corner of Poland that it got when they joined their fellow leftist ally, Nazi Germany, invading the baltic states and Poland.

    The Baltic states wanted to kick them to the curb, but that same base is still about half of Latvia (IIRC).

  3. You think grenades are legal in the US?

    Even machine guns are super restricted and expensive as hell.

  4. Re:I'd say this is good news on Mark Zuckerberg's Real Campaign: Save Facebook (axios.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I don't have a facebook account, but I LOVE facebook. Facebook keeps all of 'them' in one place, for easy filtering. Modern version of AOL.

    If Facebook shuts down, 'they' will be everywhere, figuratively jumping up and down going 'look at me, look at me!' Let them have their ghetto.

    Definitions of 'signal' and 'noise' vary. Facebooks keeps the 'noise' largely in one place, along with all the people who think it's 'signal'.

  5. Re: Non-performers...1% on 56,000 Layoffs and Counting: India's IT Bloodbath This Year May Just Be the Start (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Your gonna have to have something. Just to buy the 'out of the money' put options. The more unstable the company the more those are going to cost.

  6. Re:Not if the corps tacitly collude on 56,000 Layoffs and Counting: India's IT Bloodbath This Year May Just Be the Start (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    They would only succeed in not getting any H1Bs.

    There are actual competent specialists with work to do in that line. They were just getting screwed by legal specialists gaming the old system. Tata and Infosys would request insane numbers of visas, flood the lottery application process. Not like they have a shortage of warm bodies.

  7. Re:Non-performers...1% on 56,000 Layoffs and Counting: India's IT Bloodbath This Year May Just Be the Start (qz.com) · · Score: 2

    Should be 1 line of code.

    80 hours to do the needful.

  8. Re:Non-performers...1% on 56,000 Layoffs and Counting: India's IT Bloodbath This Year May Just Be the Start (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't know that S Korea is quality now. More 'average'...Better than French or English cars...Talk about faint praise.

    Both turned around relatively quickly, on their schedules China should be closing in on 'quality'.

    But it's changed over the decades. Japan built companies that still turn profits. Korea IS two big companies. China is a huge job shop that largely turns 1% gross profits.

  9. Re:Ya Right on Russia Is Accusing the US of 'Direct Interference' In Its Elections (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Russians know all that. They're not generally that stupid. Billions didn't magic their way into Putin's accounts.

    They don't care, at some level they appear to crave a Czar...Isn't he living in England?...Finland? (the actual Czar, by traditional succession) He should run.

    The only thing I know for sure: Everytime a foreigner attacks Putin, we make him stronger in Russia. Our meddling will be even less effective than Russia's was.

    The only thing that can save Russia is high oil prices.

    Saudi better be guarding Abqaiq. It sure would be a shame if something happened to it and Russia's problems get solved. What if the Saudis outsource security to Russians? Then again, how hard would it be to disguise a precision missile as some junk the Yeminis would be shooting?

    I don't get how it's still standing. Even surrounded by exclusion zones, defenses and covered by news blackout. Likely better defended than the White House. Has to be the world's most valuable and profitable target.

  10. Re: Non-performers...1% on 56,000 Layoffs and Counting: India's IT Bloodbath This Year May Just Be the Start (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    The more I think about it, the more I like the idea.

  11. Re:Side effects of “America First” on 56,000 Layoffs and Counting: India's IT Bloodbath This Year May Just Be the Start (qz.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Changing the H1B allocation process from lottery to 'highest paid' cuts the Indian body shops off at the knees.

    It's still 'gameable', but not on the cheap.

  12. Re:Non-performers...1% on 56,000 Layoffs and Counting: India's IT Bloodbath This Year May Just Be the Start (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    You've been lucky. I see that many in every round of interviews.

    Being in Sacramento, we see a lot of former/current state IT employees. We get a particularly bad population of applicants.

  13. Re:Side effects of “America First” on 56,000 Layoffs and Counting: India's IT Bloodbath This Year May Just Be the Start (qz.com) · · Score: 2

    Indian IT, move up the 'value chain'?

    They will get laughed out of the room. PHBs are stupid, but not THAT stupid. I'm pretty sure that in 90% of cases, the PHB knew Indian IT was a terrible idea, but wanted their bonus check.

    Big companies often lose the connection between results/rewards. PHBs game it, shit happens, but they've moved on. Don't read that as 'PHBs don't know', they 'know but don't care'.

    Nobody is looking for 'high priced incompetent Indian IT'. They will get no bonus for signing the contract.

  14. Re:Non-performers...1% on 56,000 Layoffs and Counting: India's IT Bloodbath This Year May Just Be the Start (qz.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Nobody bats 990 in hiring. Especially not when the market is super hot. That calls for a higher kick rate, not lower.

    Anybody claiming 'we have only 1% incompetents.' is actually saying 'We never question management, revisit decisions or do anything like failure analysis. (Our Brahmen's shit doesn't stink.)'

    The deeper cause has to be clients slowly getting smart and changes to US visa laws.

    Who the fuck still hires Tata? I would, if I hated my employer, was six months from retirement and wanted to wreck the joint. Would the SEC consider knowing they had hired Tata insider information?

  15. Non-performers...1% on 56,000 Layoffs and Counting: India's IT Bloodbath This Year May Just Be the Start (qz.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    WTF? 1% of Indian techs are incompetent?

    Is this the new king of broken metrics? What is 'competent'?

  16. Re:Seriously? on Obama Warns Against Irresponsible Social Media Use (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm saying the fair denominator isn't population. It's violent criminal population.

    Police abuse is a problem, but cameras are in the process of solving it, we just need about a 90% turnover in cops... Poor 'white trash' should be an ally against bully cops, as they are shot out of proportion with their % of the violent criminal population.

    'Needless' is question of fact. The bullshit (e.g. 'hands up, don't shoot') of the last 10 years isn't helping.

    Nobody wants to address black on black violence. 'It's racist' just to bring it up.

    The black community doesn't get its share of police protection. That's obvious in the statistics regarding % cases solved against race of crime victim.

  17. Re:Cash only on Cash Might Be King, but They Don't Care (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    If they're stealing from thieves, I don't care.

  18. Re:Man, he used "Balkanisation" properly on Obama Warns Against Irresponsible Social Media Use (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    What's going to happen after Obama and co are given a pass?

    I don't approve, but I understand.

  19. Re: Editor, You mixed the links on The Link Between Polygamy and War (economist.com) · · Score: 2

    OId Joe translated several books from 'reformed egyptian' to English that were present in his King James bible old testament.

    What was amazing about those translations: They had exactly the same mistakes present in Smith's King James bible, translation mistakes that are understood in the context of the original Hebrew.

    How did that happen? It is 'statistical proof' that Smith just copied that part of the 'Book for Mormon'. Which doesn't even get into Smiths use of language from the era of King James (thy, thee etc) to do his 'translations'. He wasn't a particularly good liar.

    Dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb...

  20. Re: Editor, You mixed the links on The Link Between Polygamy and War (economist.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    We're not talking about self righteous Mormons. Those are the average.

    We're talking about _criminal_ Mormons. Those that _directly_ follow Joseph Smith's tradition of grifting the gullible. About 10% of Mormons, but 90% of Mormon bishops.

  21. Re: Rushing to pre-pay 2018 taxes before Trump Tax on The Last Man on Earth To Speak His Language (axios.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    You realize that prepaying income taxes does _nothing_ to the amount you owe? Unless your required to pay quarterly, then it saves you some interest and fees, still doesn't affect your return.

  22. Re:cash costs money on Cash Might Be King, but They Don't Care (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    In retail? Someone is _always_ watching. Everything is on video.

    Modern cash registers will also tell the boss the % of nosales.

    'Donut shop' is an edge case, with basically nothing worth stealing.

  23. Re:Where's the story here? on Cash Might Be King, but They Don't Care (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    That's exactly as helpful as leaving a tip that's scaled by his/her marginal tax rate.

    Do both.

  24. Re:How do you know? on The Last Man on Earth To Speak His Language (axios.com) · · Score: 1, Troll

    They didn't die. They just didn't bother learning the gibberish that grandpa speaks as it has no value to them.

  25. Re:Wives? on The Link Between Polygamy and War (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    Attribute your para or its plagiarism.