And besides which, what evidence is there that being on psychoactive drugs is a detriment to IT productivity?
Exactly! You know those unicorn rockstar productivity programmers who are 100x more productive than the average programmer? All abuse stimulants, the best of which are total meth heads. Not something I would enjoy working around, but if that's what you're looking for, hire the anorexic, jittery, spaced-out, word vomit guy, he's what you're looking for.
I've been working for Fortune 500 companies for the last 20+ years. Since I'm pegged as a "enterprise" tech, it's often difficult for me to find work in medium- or small-sized companies. Probably because I can easily replace five people by myself because I'm single and have no friends.
You bring up the 50s and 60s and conveniently forget to mention top tax brackets were still sky high throughout the 70s and early 80s, and that certainly didn't help us then. The top tax bracket was 70% until 1982.
The prosperity of the 50s and 60s happened despite the high taxes and inflationary fed policy, which created a fair amount or resource misallocation, started the steady march of offshoring capital that continues today, and led to the dismal long slide until '83.
The whole "blame the rich" thing is totally misplaced bile and is populist fodder to focus the sub-100-IQ crowd on political issues. If someone makes 100x the income you do, they do not consume 100x the resources. A Maserati has the same basic amount of raw materials as a Camry. A Coach purse is essentially the same as a generic Kmart leather bag. They just tend to misallocate their resources, spending $500 for something that should be $50. Since they are never going to be meaningfully productive anyway, its actually better that way, because competing with the rich on the same playing field for resources sucks...ask anybody who lives LA or NYC.
The real problem is misallocated resouces in the broader economy. If house prices are inflating in an insane way, regular people who would otherwise be meaningfully productive, are spending their time doing $5k of repairs to a house and flipping it at a $20k profit, taking much more capital out of the market than the the value they supply. If the fed is pumping money and the stock market has nowhere to go but up, average people will invest their money in these fiat paper resources instead of investing in their own personal infrastructure, such as starting a new business or tackling a potentially profitable project.
When everyone is taking out more capital than the value they're providing (toxic capital flows), the house of cards collapses and you get a recession. Sure you can pump money into the balloon to keep it going, but it needs to come crashing down somehow. These people flipping houses need to lose their arse, and then move on to something more productive. The people "investing" in paper stock ticker need to lose their arse and invest their money into actual infrastructure that will build our economy later.
The reason we're stagnant and not growing is because the fed pumped, the government bailed out, and saved the parasites and their toxic capital flows, and they're still not moving on to building something real. We'll continue to have plunge after plunge with no meaningful recovery until we accept the necessary pain that comes at the bottom of the market cycle to clear the toxic actors out of the system.
Speaking of real estate...when a "climate scientist" says "hey, there's no problem!" they're admitting that their research is unnecessary and would end up losing their research grants and soon after their McMansion. I wonder if we'll ever get a survey adjusted for the "need to eat" bias. Lol
OK, since this whole story is flamebait...actually "Java developer" would be better there. I mean if you work a job using the busted old training wheels you picked up in college, ya know you might not be the brightest candle on the Titanic. Some related insults...."default parameter", "guppie", "bug mill", "platform whore"...
Even so, in the big picture Netflix is insanely cheap. The opposite extreme is online dating services who want 20 bucks a month to serve tiny JPEGs, text messages, and mobs of hired fake users who chat but disengage when its time to meet up. As an alternative to a $150/mo cable bill it really rocks.
Wrong...see you have this thing called deflation. If currency is concentrated in a few hands that do not let it go, than the economy acts like it doesn't exist and you get deflation. The effect of one person becoming enormously wealthy in a short period of time is only temporary.
Taxes do not create prosperity, they simply transfer power from corporations to government. We've never had progressive taxation...the rich have never paid their prescribed share, ever...tax evasion and offshore accounts have been around as long as there have been taxes.
The real problem is trade and currency imbalances. Politicians are perfectly OK trading our prosperity for power while countries and corporations have been conspiring to create, expand, and game these imbalances for profit, resulting in an enormous transfer of wealth and prosperity overseas, particularly to a certain communist dictatorship.
JFK was wise to place an embargo on Cuba, and should have done the same to other communist regimes.
Meanwhile for the last 35 years (thanks Ted Kennedy!) we've been letting in more poorly educated unskilled labor than we've needed with no leverage to ask for a raise, slowly driving down wages, as manufacturing lifts its skirt and runs overseas. We're at the point now where the average american must work two jobs to keep pace...the prosperous one income household has been gone since the 90's (thanks for NAFTA, George H.W. Bush!).
Yep! Just like the ACA is a poverty tax with 1000's of pages of language to bury and obfuscate that, so are the "solutions" to climate change like carbon credits. Regulatory action and carbon taxation act like regressive tax levies since the costs must passed down to the consumer (people with a child's understanding of the business world like Bernie Sanders like argue that point, but it is reality). A poor person with a $100 electricity bill and $10 carbon surcharge pays a much higher share of their income than a middle class person with the same $100 electricity bill and $10 carbon surcharge.
Bottom line, the left needs money for expanding government programs. Sure, taxing the rich sounds great on paper, but they have accountants and of course they will find the loopholes the politicians put in place for their own benefit.
To get real money you have to tax the poor! But an overt poor tax would make the left's base rebel, so they have to wrap it in some kind of candy coating to make it palatable. "Affordable Healthcare". "Save the Planet". Etc, etc. Which has worked quite well, we've got millions of self-professed intellectuals not asking but demanding a regressive tax increase on themselves and haven't the slightest clue about it.
At least someone is FINALLY giving some pushback. Look at current state of USB 2.0 Micro. How many other cable types have you ever had that needed to be replaced weekly if used a lot, and yes I'm talking about every brand, even the expensive ones.
Ugh...you meatspace engineers and your radians, butchering the beauty and purity of geometry. Clearly you've never enjoyed a spherical hamburger of uniform density in a vaccum.
In real life, white people tend to have more privilege.
That is too broad, and invokes something resembling the survivorship fallacy. You're only focusing on the success stories. There are a more white hicks, rednecks, drunks, and crazies living in squalor than successful ones.
Some more plausible explanations:
* People who were taught some class and groomed to act and dress in a professional manner have more privilege.
* People who were taught marketable skills, such as fundamentals of the trades, repair, crafts, and technology at an early age have more privilege.
* People who received corporal punishment as a child are more humble, and thereby more privileged.
* And most importantly and likely, people who have had to (or watch a parent) kowtow to a crazy white woman learn to accept responsibility and fault for the actions of others gracefully, leading more effective management skills, and thereby more privilege.
What bugs me is that the common voter should even have to consider supporting this person in lieu of a non-corrupt government. Is there not a single earnest populist left in Capitol Hill? A decent president would be quick to sign a pardon and put this to rest.
This is why if you are eligible and registered to vote in the USA, you should be voting straight-ticket non-incumbent and non-establishment.It is no secret our government is fcked, even to people who have never visited the states. The party does not matter, this year I'll be withholding my party loyalties and voting Libertarepublicrateen...for whomever has a chance of winning, and has the best non-establishment credentials. There is no protection for whistleblowers from todays crop of empty suits and Pinocchios.
I'm sure this will only directly affect open source projects where code from SO can be automatically scanned for.
Reminds me of writing English papers in high school, which (allegedly) I never actually did once. Sleaze a paper off of the internet, go though and change every sentence at least slightly and redo unique phrases, and then the teacher's eye and any automatic plagiarism software are a moot point. They could even "know" you're cheating because the points and flow is identical to the online paper and possibly other cheating students, but if there is not a single atomic unit of information that remains the same then no one can prove a thing.:D
The current average salary at Google is $115K/yr. At Amazon it's $102K/yr. At nVidia it's $104K/yr.
Lol. If you look at COL of where you'd have to live, those numbers actually are solidly lower class (if you can't afford a house with a yard you're one of the pov's) and getting worse. Wages are flat while costs are skyrocketing. You'd need at least $250k to maintain a halfway decent standard of living in the bay area these days. If I wanted to go back to living like a pauper in junkietown with several roommates, I could just quit and start cutting meat at the grocery store, and not even have to move or deal with the horrible traffic. Oh, and the 15 to 20 grand you need saved up just to buy out of your lease if you lose your job. And better invest in some microdermabrasion and some Just For Men hair dye...because once that face stops looking fresh you're out of the job club. No thanks!
I think you're underestimating the marketing opportunity of a recall. They're just going to put a wrench on the bolt, that costs nothing. Yeah, some minimal labor costs. BUT...who goes through the pain of taking their car to a dealership without getting everything else it needs serviced? Or just buying a whole new car, which isn't uncommon, especially if someone can afford the 80+k to buy one in the first place.
Something tells me Tesla will come ahead on this one.
Yep typical progression for China and why *all* USB 2.0 micro plugs are crap. Looks like USB-C is another casualty of the typical death-by-cheap process:
1. Manufacturer cranks out millions of out-of-tolerance parts
2. Manufacturer dumps them on the market for cheap to get rid of them
3. Designers can't resist the shiny cheapness, design the faulty part in to their assembly
4. Manufacturer gets order shock and starts cranking out parts again without any leeway to retool
5. We have to replace our USB 2.0 micro cables every month because cheap defines the standard, not the spec
Anyone who has any real world experience knows that management by committee just doesn't work.
I don't think management by committee is what they're expecting.
If you have a reasonably healthy team, someone will step up and act as an unofficial lead without too much fuss. The trick is they will not get paid to do this extra responsibility. Smart cost-cutting trick, right?
Well...if these unofficial leads are career savvy they'll leave in the usual 2-3 year time window. Which is exactly why managers are paid generously in the first place, so they're not as likely to run off to the next opportunity and turn the team into a chicken with its head cut off.
This is the kind of short-term stock-hiking brilliance C-level PHB's are paid the big bucks for:rollseyes:
That is funny! I noticed Google Chrome now displays a sound icon when something in the tab is playing. "Hunt the noisy tab" is such a ubiquitous problem we're starting to see features to specifically address the issue.
Before that came out I had bought a pair of headphones specifically to avoid the embarrassment of noisy ads blaring out randomly at the office. Though with AdBlock, it is not an issue anymore.
Not just that. When a piece of legislation (e.g, TPA) includes creating a new government program to retrain workers displaced by "global competition", you know displacing the workers was exactly the point. Thanks, Obama!
Lol, and Scientology basically just admitted that too based on their public stance. Clearly Scientology is a refuge of particularly disordered, reluctant mental patients.
Yep. The high income taxes levied by a nanny state government only serves to prevent people from becoming rich. Less incoming competition for old money. That is why socialism is so popular in Europe...the smart, old money there knows how to keep their power.
No, what he was saying was valid. Since they were fresh profiles any behavior modeling would have to have come from other prior users from the same demographic.
It makes sense...women in tech are in demand, and are in very low supply so are more likely to have been able to negotiate to their satisfaction...therefore less likely to entertain a new position.
That I'd be willing to bet the female profiles that were targeted were within a limited specific distance from the Google office. You're going to have a tougher time convincing a women to uproot themselves and move away from their friends/family/support system than a man, for cultural reasons...boys are encouraged to GTFO, girls are not and there are safety concerns that guys don't have to worry as much about.
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This. I no longer have access to my AOL email address, so this list is the only way to get my MySpace password X-D
If you're watching Fox News (or Faux News if you're so inclined), try 30 minutes per hour.
Exactly! You know those unicorn rockstar productivity programmers who are 100x more productive than the average programmer? All abuse stimulants, the best of which are total meth heads. Not something I would enjoy working around, but if that's what you're looking for, hire the anorexic, jittery, spaced-out, word vomit guy, he's what you're looking for.
FTFY
You bring up the 50s and 60s and conveniently forget to mention top tax brackets were still sky high throughout the 70s and early 80s, and that certainly didn't help us then. The top tax bracket was 70% until 1982.
The prosperity of the 50s and 60s happened despite the high taxes and inflationary fed policy, which created a fair amount or resource misallocation, started the steady march of offshoring capital that continues today, and led to the dismal long slide until '83.
The whole "blame the rich" thing is totally misplaced bile and is populist fodder to focus the sub-100-IQ crowd on political issues. If someone makes 100x the income you do, they do not consume 100x the resources. A Maserati has the same basic amount of raw materials as a Camry. A Coach purse is essentially the same as a generic Kmart leather bag. They just tend to misallocate their resources, spending $500 for something that should be $50. Since they are never going to be meaningfully productive anyway, its actually better that way, because competing with the rich on the same playing field for resources sucks...ask anybody who lives LA or NYC.
The real problem is misallocated resouces in the broader economy. If house prices are inflating in an insane way, regular people who would otherwise be meaningfully productive, are spending their time doing $5k of repairs to a house and flipping it at a $20k profit, taking much more capital out of the market than the the value they supply. If the fed is pumping money and the stock market has nowhere to go but up, average people will invest their money in these fiat paper resources instead of investing in their own personal infrastructure, such as starting a new business or tackling a potentially profitable project.
When everyone is taking out more capital than the value they're providing (toxic capital flows), the house of cards collapses and you get a recession. Sure you can pump money into the balloon to keep it going, but it needs to come crashing down somehow. These people flipping houses need to lose their arse, and then move on to something more productive. The people "investing" in paper stock ticker need to lose their arse and invest their money into actual infrastructure that will build our economy later.
The reason we're stagnant and not growing is because the fed pumped, the government bailed out, and saved the parasites and their toxic capital flows, and they're still not moving on to building something real. We'll continue to have plunge after plunge with no meaningful recovery until we accept the necessary pain that comes at the bottom of the market cycle to clear the toxic actors out of the system.
Speaking of real estate...when a "climate scientist" says "hey, there's no problem!" they're admitting that their research is unnecessary and would end up losing their research grants and soon after their McMansion. I wonder if we'll ever get a survey adjusted for the "need to eat" bias. Lol
OK, since this whole story is flamebait...actually "Java developer" would be better there. I mean if you work a job using the busted old training wheels you picked up in college, ya know you might not be the brightest candle on the Titanic. Some related insults...."default parameter", "guppie", "bug mill", "platform whore"...
Even so, in the big picture Netflix is insanely cheap. The opposite extreme is online dating services who want 20 bucks a month to serve tiny JPEGs, text messages, and mobs of hired fake users who chat but disengage when its time to meet up. As an alternative to a $150/mo cable bill it really rocks.
Wrong...see you have this thing called deflation. If currency is concentrated in a few hands that do not let it go, than the economy acts like it doesn't exist and you get deflation. The effect of one person becoming enormously wealthy in a short period of time is only temporary.
Taxes do not create prosperity, they simply transfer power from corporations to government. We've never had progressive taxation...the rich have never paid their prescribed share, ever...tax evasion and offshore accounts have been around as long as there have been taxes.
The real problem is trade and currency imbalances. Politicians are perfectly OK trading our prosperity for power while countries and corporations have been conspiring to create, expand, and game these imbalances for profit, resulting in an enormous transfer of wealth and prosperity overseas, particularly to a certain communist dictatorship.
JFK was wise to place an embargo on Cuba, and should have done the same to other communist regimes.
Meanwhile for the last 35 years (thanks Ted Kennedy!) we've been letting in more poorly educated unskilled labor than we've needed with no leverage to ask for a raise, slowly driving down wages, as manufacturing lifts its skirt and runs overseas. We're at the point now where the average american must work two jobs to keep pace...the prosperous one income household has been gone since the 90's (thanks for NAFTA, George H.W. Bush!).
Yep! Just like the ACA is a poverty tax with 1000's of pages of language to bury and obfuscate that, so are the "solutions" to climate change like carbon credits. Regulatory action and carbon taxation act like regressive tax levies since the costs must passed down to the consumer (people with a child's understanding of the business world like Bernie Sanders like argue that point, but it is reality). A poor person with a $100 electricity bill and $10 carbon surcharge pays a much higher share of their income than a middle class person with the same $100 electricity bill and $10 carbon surcharge.
Bottom line, the left needs money for expanding government programs. Sure, taxing the rich sounds great on paper, but they have accountants and of course they will find the loopholes the politicians put in place for their own benefit.
To get real money you have to tax the poor! But an overt poor tax would make the left's base rebel, so they have to wrap it in some kind of candy coating to make it palatable. "Affordable Healthcare". "Save the Planet". Etc, etc. Which has worked quite well, we've got millions of self-professed intellectuals not asking but demanding a regressive tax increase on themselves and haven't the slightest clue about it.
At least someone is FINALLY giving some pushback. Look at current state of USB 2.0 Micro. How many other cable types have you ever had that needed to be replaced weekly if used a lot, and yes I'm talking about every brand, even the expensive ones.
Ugh...you meatspace engineers and your radians, butchering the beauty and purity of geometry. Clearly you've never enjoyed a spherical hamburger of uniform density in a vaccum.
Slashdot is kind of my warm up, perfect for when I wake up and the drool has yet to dry. When the coffee kicks in I move on to these:
https://www.reddit.com/r/techn...
http://arstechnica.com/
And then some more in-depth evening reading:
https://www.reddit.com/r/progr...
http://regulargeek.com/
That is too broad, and invokes something resembling the survivorship fallacy. You're only focusing on the success stories. There are a more white hicks, rednecks, drunks, and crazies living in squalor than successful ones.
Some more plausible explanations:
* People who were taught some class and groomed to act and dress in a professional manner have more privilege.
* People who were taught marketable skills, such as fundamentals of the trades, repair, crafts, and technology at an early age have more privilege.
* People who received corporal punishment as a child are more humble, and thereby more privileged.
* And most importantly and likely, people who have had to (or watch a parent) kowtow to a crazy white woman learn to accept responsibility and fault for the actions of others gracefully, leading more effective management skills, and thereby more privilege.
What bugs me is that the common voter should even have to consider supporting this person in lieu of a non-corrupt government. Is there not a single earnest populist left in Capitol Hill? A decent president would be quick to sign a pardon and put this to rest.
This is why if you are eligible and registered to vote in the USA, you should be voting straight-ticket non-incumbent and non-establishment.It is no secret our government is fcked, even to people who have never visited the states. The party does not matter, this year I'll be withholding my party loyalties and voting Libertarepublicrateen...for whomever has a chance of winning, and has the best non-establishment credentials. There is no protection for whistleblowers from todays crop of empty suits and Pinocchios.
I'm sure this will only directly affect open source projects where code from SO can be automatically scanned for.
:D
Reminds me of writing English papers in high school, which (allegedly) I never actually did once. Sleaze a paper off of the internet, go though and change every sentence at least slightly and redo unique phrases, and then the teacher's eye and any automatic plagiarism software are a moot point. They could even "know" you're cheating because the points and flow is identical to the online paper and possibly other cheating students, but if there is not a single atomic unit of information that remains the same then no one can prove a thing.
Lol. If you look at COL of where you'd have to live, those numbers actually are solidly lower class (if you can't afford a house with a yard you're one of the pov's) and getting worse. Wages are flat while costs are skyrocketing. You'd need at least $250k to maintain a halfway decent standard of living in the bay area these days. If I wanted to go back to living like a pauper in junkietown with several roommates, I could just quit and start cutting meat at the grocery store, and not even have to move or deal with the horrible traffic. Oh, and the 15 to 20 grand you need saved up just to buy out of your lease if you lose your job. And better invest in some microdermabrasion and some Just For Men hair dye...because once that face stops looking fresh you're out of the job club. No thanks!
I think you're underestimating the marketing opportunity of a recall. They're just going to put a wrench on the bolt, that costs nothing. Yeah, some minimal labor costs. BUT...who goes through the pain of taking their car to a dealership without getting everything else it needs serviced? Or just buying a whole new car, which isn't uncommon, especially if someone can afford the 80+k to buy one in the first place.
Something tells me Tesla will come ahead on this one.
Yep typical progression for China and why *all* USB 2.0 micro plugs are crap. Looks like USB-C is another casualty of the typical death-by-cheap process:
1. Manufacturer cranks out millions of out-of-tolerance parts
2. Manufacturer dumps them on the market for cheap to get rid of them
3. Designers can't resist the shiny cheapness, design the faulty part in to their assembly
4. Manufacturer gets order shock and starts cranking out parts again without any leeway to retool
5. We have to replace our USB 2.0 micro cables every month because cheap defines the standard, not the spec
I don't think management by committee is what they're expecting.
:rollseyes:
If you have a reasonably healthy team, someone will step up and act as an unofficial lead without too much fuss. The trick is they will not get paid to do this extra responsibility. Smart cost-cutting trick, right?
Well...if these unofficial leads are career savvy they'll leave in the usual 2-3 year time window. Which is exactly why managers are paid generously in the first place, so they're not as likely to run off to the next opportunity and turn the team into a chicken with its head cut off.
This is the kind of short-term stock-hiking brilliance C-level PHB's are paid the big bucks for
That is funny! I noticed Google Chrome now displays a sound icon when something in the tab is playing. "Hunt the noisy tab" is such a ubiquitous problem we're starting to see features to specifically address the issue.
Before that came out I had bought a pair of headphones specifically to avoid the embarrassment of noisy ads blaring out randomly at the office. Though with AdBlock, it is not an issue anymore.
Not just that. When a piece of legislation (e.g, TPA) includes creating a new government program to retrain workers displaced by "global competition", you know displacing the workers was exactly the point. Thanks, Obama!
Lol, and Scientology basically just admitted that too based on their public stance. Clearly Scientology is a refuge of particularly disordered, reluctant mental patients.
Yep. The high income taxes levied by a nanny state government only serves to prevent people from becoming rich. Less incoming competition for old money. That is why socialism is so popular in Europe...the smart, old money there knows how to keep their power.
No, what he was saying was valid. Since they were fresh profiles any behavior modeling would have to have come from other prior users from the same demographic.
It makes sense...women in tech are in demand, and are in very low supply so are more likely to have been able to negotiate to their satisfaction...therefore less likely to entertain a new position.
That I'd be willing to bet the female profiles that were targeted were within a limited specific distance from the Google office. You're going to have a tougher time convincing a women to uproot themselves and move away from their friends/family/support system than a man, for cultural reasons...boys are encouraged to GTFO, girls are not and there are safety concerns that guys don't have to worry as much about.