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  1. Re: Charming, as always... on LinkedIn's Forthcoming Analytics Tool May Boost Job Poaching (techtarget.com) · · Score: 1

    Not disagreeing but so do most managers, and it's worse. They usually have decades long habits of crapping all over the place.

  2. Re:The recruiter is done before negotiation starts on LinkedIn's Forthcoming Analytics Tool May Boost Job Poaching (techtarget.com) · · Score: 1

    I was with you, until you said the recruiters have credibility.

  3. Re: Sounds Like A Good Thing on LinkedIn's Forthcoming Analytics Tool May Boost Job Poaching (techtarget.com) · · Score: 1

    True. Which is why a known rat in the organization is useful. You feed her the disinformation, she passes it on to her contact and collects a reference fee.

    Works from the other side too, if shes ratting to management and you're a coworker.

    Knowledge is power, don't let her know your on to her or the disinformation channel is burned.

    Also coworkers...I will never hesitate to give a glowing rec to an airthief...it will burn a headhunter and help me get rid of wastes of space (who drag everybody down). All good.

  4. Re:Employees: Our most valuable asset ;-) on Layoffs at Watson Health Reveal IBM's Problem with AI (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    It is the customers job to layoff IBM. Always has been.

  5. Re:Union on Amazon Workers Facing Firing Can Appeal To a Jury of Their Co-Workers (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Big company firing process.

    1st unwritten step. Make them (more) miserable. Most of the actual 'picked on, good employees' just find a better gig.

    By the time they have 3 written and signed write ups etc, everybody knows what's coming. I'm kind of amazed 30% keep their jobs. Amazon must have incredibly shitty managers.

  6. Re:First drug other than Marinol? on FDA Approves First Drug Derived From Marijuana Plant (wsj.com) · · Score: 2

    Marinol is pure _synthetic_ THC. It was never a pot plant.

    Marinol is the way to go if you've got a fed related job that includes 'pissing on command' in the job description. The script, not the pills, they can't tell.

  7. Re:Full stop on FDA Approves First Drug Derived From Marijuana Plant (wsj.com) · · Score: 2

    A similar strain violates nothing, high CBD, low THC strains are readily available. Theirs is nothing 'special', just FDA reviewed, which will have been an expensive process. By putting a particular strain's output to FDA review, they can own the FDA CBD market, for a while. But now that this drug has passed review, chemically similar drugs from non-proprietary strains will have really good odds at the FDA, but who will fund the studies?

    It is already 'illegal' to take cuttings from some roses, but unless you make a business of it, nobody cares.

    For a proprietary strain, you don't know exactly what the parents are. You can guess, you can DNA test or you could just buy the non-proprietary cutting. The point is FDA legalities.

    I have no experience growing high CBD strains.

  8. Re:Full stop on FDA Approves First Drug Derived From Marijuana Plant (wsj.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    You breed two strains. You have a F1 hybrid with unique properties, it will not breed true and nobody except you knows exactly which strains you crossed.

    As a practical matter, you own it.

    They can square the plant (manipulate the genetics of a cutting to make it produce male parts) than cross it to itself. But that produces an inbred version, which won't be as good as the original (see modern 'Trainwreck'). As noted above, a regular self cross (breeding two instances in the regular way) won't produce more of the same, rather a 3rd generation with each individual having randomized properties, some being 100% like original parent 1, some 100% like parent 2, each trait being mixed individually).

    Seed companies have 'owned' strains of hybridized plants since _long_ before genetic engineering. There are patented rose strains, taking cuttings is criminal.

  9. Ep4 was crap. It was saved in the edit, the original cut and script were epic bad.

    Lucas's best film remains 'American Graffiti'.

  10. Re:Once they have the industry, they want to push on America's Chipmakers Go To War vs. China (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Right, and Israel doesn't have nukes...

  11. Re: Before the Herpes genitalis jokes roll in... on Alzheimer's Link To Herpes Virus In Brain, Say Scientists (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Read the GPs post. AC is completely full of shit, his position is: all stress is 'crippling'.

    Everybody that has any strength (mental or physical), has it because of the things they've overcome. At a young age, it's the parents job to make sure the kid gets appropriate stress.

    Nobody/nothing can fix an adult that's never been stressed. There is nothing to do but shrug your shoulders and say: 'Your purpose in life is now to serve as a warning to the young and their parents.'

    Grown babies suck. We _should_ point and laugh. They're done, the only people to be concerned about is the young that might have a grown baby as a role model.

  12. No, Java is the religion, Python is just one programming language among many.

  13. Re: Great business decision.... on Warner Bros Is Cracking Down On Harry Potter Festivals (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    They opened a factories in Thailand and India at the same time they closed the last one.

    Chinese parts have been SOP for years, bet they aren't making any Harleys in the USA in 10 years. The customers that care, already have Harleys.

  14. Re: Great business decision.... on Warner Bros Is Cracking Down On Harry Potter Festivals (apnews.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Creating art is exactly an adult use of imagination. Another adult thing is deciding 'it was fun to do' but it's not good enough to show in public.

    Acting out someone else's simplistic art is a child's social exercise. How is someone going to 'get' difficult problems if they keep retreating into 'good and evil' fairy tale worlds, that protect/satisfy them in some twisted way.

  15. Re:Great business decision.... on Warner Bros Is Cracking Down On Harry Potter Festivals (apnews.com) · · Score: 0

    Trademarks last forever, at least until the owner can't defend them.

    All the HP characters are trademarked. (Don't dress up as wicked witch Fiorina, without paying a license fee.)

  16. Re: Great business decision.... on Warner Bros Is Cracking Down On Harry Potter Festivals (apnews.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    The more your actual life sucks, the more hours you will spend LARPing. All your friends will be losers, they will support your escapism, use phrases like 'using your imagination as an adult'.

    Children learn important things, both setting up pretend scenarios and acting them out. You're supposed to have learned these things by now and moved on to more adult uses for your imagination. Imagine finding a _solution_ to one of your life's problems...just one.

    You're on /. find another hobby. A technical one, one that will teach you something useful and put you in touch with other technical nerds. One where your imagination is a little constrained...laws of physics and all.

  17. Re:Backseat Engineering on Uber 'Neglected' Simulation Testing For Its Autonomous Vehicles, Says Report (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Uber _started_ setting up virtual world testing of its AI _after_ this accident. They are clowns.

    Tesla appears to be a little better. But how do you debug an neural net 'AI'? All you can do it change the training dataset and test the results to death. Your test/training (hopefully different/built independently) set will be incomplete and you will kill more people, you're just hoping it will be less than would have died on their own.

  18. Re:Great business decision.... on Warner Bros Is Cracking Down On Harry Potter Festivals (apnews.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    If that was all there was to it, the license fees would be relatively small.

    I'll bet no license was offered, TW needs to drive traffic to their 'Harry Potter' theme parks.

    Next thing you know, little kids will play 'Harry Potter' using random sticks as magic wands and pillow cases as capes. That's just like stealing from TW.

    I've got to say: Good on TW, little kids will play 'Harry Potter' without imagination licenses. Older LARPing renfest nerds need to get a life (or just become furries), not expand to Harry Potter. Doesn't the world have enough 35+ year old, fat, 'princess leia slave girls'?

  19. Re:I couldn't care less about Heineken on A CO2 Shortage is Causing a Beer and Meat Crisis in Britain (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't think so, It has been a while. The old Deschutes label is familiar...but I have a clear memory of 'Oatmeal stout'.

    Trademarks and all, I bet the one I'm thinking of is gone or changed its name. Can't find the trail with Google.

    It was pacific northwest, 10+ years ago, kind of common in N Cal at the time. The Deschutes sounds good, but I can't say I remember trying it.

  20. Re:Do you remember? on America's Chipmakers Go To War vs. China (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    On a different scale though.

    India has a whole caste (brahmin) who expect to get government 'work' and live off bribes, for life. They're entitled to those bribes, because of who their grandfather was.

  21. Re:Restaurants to avoid? on That Tablet On The Table At Your Favorite Restaurant Is Hurting Your Waiter (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 2

    Those people are morons. Every city and town has independent restaurants that serve actual food for less money than those crappy chains.

  22. Re:Abolish patents. on America's Chipmakers Go To War vs. China (axios.com) · · Score: 2

    Not universally true. Even when true, can be mitigated.

    How do you make Damascus steel? (Not the folded and welded modern replica, the crucible steal with natural high carbon islands).

    How do you make a Stradivarius?

    Before patents, inventions were kept secret and lost about as often as they became generally known.

  23. This is at chains of 'family style' restaurants.

    The good wait staff are identified because they quit and get jobs where the tips are better. The 'no-so-good ones' are the ones still working there.

  24. Re:Mass production probably uses CO2 on A CO2 Shortage is Causing a Beer and Meat Crisis in Britain (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Like I say, they are doing something stupid.

    The box should keep the light out, but it's all skunky.

    But to put my final point in English terms. Why would you fix 'Watneys Red Barrel'? The drinkers obviously like BAD beer.

  25. Re:Mass production probably uses CO2 on A CO2 Shortage is Causing a Beer and Meat Crisis in Britain (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Cherries go for $1/each in Japan. They get the aesthetically 'perfect' ones, but they all taste the same.