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  1. Re:There's an obvious reason on In America, Most Republicans Think Colleges Are Bad for the Country (chronicle.com) · · Score: 1

    Every phone has a camera. Where are the videos of hateful right wing profs to balance the videos of hateful left wing profs?

  2. Re:Evergreen State on In America, Most Republicans Think Colleges Are Bad for the Country (chronicle.com) · · Score: 1

    Not complaining, contemplating that it was all a bad idea and it's time to defund.

  3. Re:Evergreen State on In America, Most Republicans Think Colleges Are Bad for the Country (chronicle.com) · · Score: 1

    Engineering students don't have TIME for such nonsense. Snowflakes won't make it in the real world of engineering anyhow.

    Bridges either fall down or they don't. Diversity doesn't enter into it. 'Physics' is not socially constructed, just the units of measure.

    You won't find many right wingers hating on engineering/medical/law (some for law, but they do deserve some) school. You're putting too much on a clickbait headline.

  4. Re:Evergreen State on In America, Most Republicans Think Colleges Are Bad for the Country (chronicle.com) · · Score: 1

    American Engineering students want to get to work and start earning money.

    Based on many of the Masters and PhDs I've worked with, I learned more on the job then they did in school in the same time.

    I worked with a man who wrote his master's thesis on SQL query optimization. The boss had me 'look at' some of his code with an eye toward performance. He had _six_ outer joins to 'Company' in the primary query...didn't know how to read a query plan, didn't know how to fire a query async, just pitiful. I clarified the code and took 200 seconds down to 15.

  5. Re:Evergreen State on In America, Most Republicans Think Colleges Are Bad for the Country (chronicle.com) · · Score: 1

    Only by a few nutjob denominations.

    Most people will even humor Mormons when they claim to be Christian.

  6. Re:Evergreen State on In America, Most Republicans Think Colleges Are Bad for the Country (chronicle.com) · · Score: 1

    The only problem with 'teaching to the test' is if it's a crappy test.

    Do you also object to 'teaching to the medical boards'? To the EIT/PE test? To the Bar Exam? Airline Transport Pilot (ATP, they people that fly commercial jets)?

    Public school teachers just don't want metrics that work, so they attack the test instead of trying to improve it.

  7. Power corrupts. You can't have a very large government without the power corrupting those in power. Any plan that involves temporarily putting lots of power into the hands of government while 'true communism' forms, will just stay at the strong government stage until it's knocked down by revolution or external forces.

  8. Re: Evergreen State on In America, Most Republicans Think Colleges Are Bad for the Country (chronicle.com) · · Score: 1

    They mostly just drafted the social democrats. As to the Stalinists, they 'needed shooting' just as much as the Nazis. Getting them to shoot each other was a good outcome. Like Sunni/Shia today.

    The NAZIs expropriated entire industries. As with many socialists/communists of the day 'capitalist' was often code for 'Jewish', particularly with respect to banking.

  9. Re: Evergreen State on In America, Most Republicans Think Colleges Are Bad for the Country (chronicle.com) · · Score: 1

    Mussolini was also an avowed socialist. Those that quote his 'corporation' speech neglect to mention that the only corporations in fascist Italy were extensions of the government (e.g. Dutch East India Company). Privately owned corporations didn't exist.

    Franco was mostly an authoritarian, completely average, pre vatican 2, Catholic.

  10. Re: Evergreen State on In America, Most Republicans Think Colleges Are Bad for the Country (chronicle.com) · · Score: 1

    What % of 'profs' are on tenure track these days.

    (Non-tenure track associate instructor/post doc RA) is exactly the sort of job you hold until you find a real one. Even at a top tier school.

    Of course that changes outside tech. A * studies PhD qualifies you to teach * studies, nothing else. They even forget practical things they knew in highschool.

  11. Re:why is this on Slashdot? on BetterWorks and CEO Sued By Ex-employee For Alleged Sexually Suggestive Assault (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Link to the whining? I've seen butloads of whining about foreigners 'taking our jerbs', but women?

    Competent women in tech are about as common as tits on a boar. The bitching would be about carrying the incompetent ones.

  12. Six beers.

  13. I'd rather lick all the toilets in Grand Central Station clean with my tongue, than spend another minute with you!

    They should have used that exact language in the EULA.

  14. Re:CEO, abandoned by wingman crashes and burns on BetterWorks and CEO Sued By Ex-employee For Alleged Sexually Suggestive Assault (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    You're no fun anymore. What happened to you AC?

  15. Re: Total Nonsense on WSJ Op-Ed: The Post Office Is Delivering Amazon's Packages Below Cost (zerohedge.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Whenever someone says 'We're in this together' put your hand on your wallet and slowly back away from the motherfucker.

    He thinks his problems are yours and your resources are his.

  16. Re:I hope someone with compatible high end tape ge on Scrap Dealer Finds Apollo-Era NASA Computers In Dead Engineer's Basement (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's not so much the gear as the knowhow. You often have to cook old 9 track tape (there is a recipe) to get it to unstick and get one last read out of it. Then you get to clean all the magnetic dust out of the drive and repeat the whole process for the next tape.

    I'm not the dude, but I know someone that far gone.

  17. Zerohedge not the source. on WSJ Op-Ed: The Post Office Is Delivering Amazon's Packages Below Cost (zerohedge.com) · · Score: 1

    Zerohedge is CNN level fake news, but it's just an associated bit of link farming. The story is in the WSJ.

  18. Marginal or Average cost? on WSJ Op-Ed: The Post Office Is Delivering Amazon's Packages Below Cost (zerohedge.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It makes a big difference.

    It's normal buisness to price marginal goods based on marginal costs + profit. Average cost includes sunk costs. The truck and postman are already going, not taking the UPS handoffs won't save a penny (which is what's going on, the whole 'Amazon' part is just clickbait).

  19. Re:The government let them do this in the first pl on Visa Considers Extending 'War on Cash' Business Incentives Outside US (cnbc.com) · · Score: 0

    Do some research you halfwit.

  20. Re: fx(Race,Gender) = {Income, Crime} on Artificial Intelligence Has Race, Gender Biases (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Reconcile what you posted to the GP's post? 'White society' helped Africa, the longer a place was a colony, the better for the place. Exactly the opposite of the GP's claim.

  21. Re:Biases are reality based on Artificial Intelligence Has Race, Gender Biases (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Look up their first name in a dictionary of common names. If it's not there at all (LaTrina), the odds are good the person is black. If fragments of common names are concatenated together to form the name (Billyjoejimbob), the odds are good the person is a redneck.

  22. Re: of on Artificial Intelligence Has Race, Gender Biases (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Only if you can make reasonable accommodation to their disability.

    You don't have to hire a blind person to be an airline pilot, you don't have to hire a moron to be an engineer/doctor/lawyer.

  23. Re:Did anyone think it would be otherwise? on Artificial Intelligence Has Race, Gender Biases (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    IQs are normalized. 100 is always the average.

    Perhaps you are thinking of underlying scores.

  24. Re:Rule 1. Don't attract attention. on Dark Web Marketplace AlphaBay Shuts For Good After Police Raids (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Reformed...me too. That's the ticket...

  25. Re:Rule 1. Don't attract attention. on Dark Web Marketplace AlphaBay Shuts For Good After Police Raids (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    You don't understand how bitcoin tumblers work.