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  1. Very true, old advice, but can not be repeated often enough!

  2. Re:Facebook, FACEBOOK, FACEBOOK!! on Facebook Placed An Employee Who Harvested User Data For Cambridge Analytica On Leave (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 2

    It is a difference if Facebook, the company, does something with the data, they think you signed/agreed to for them to use, or if an employee is spying in your data and uses it for his own profit.
    The first one is arguable legal, the later one is definitely illegal.

  3. Re:Good. You shouldn't have the right to work... on Gig Economy Business Model Dealt a Blow in California Ruling (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Which parts of my emphasized words: law and trade unions, did you not get?
    If the law says this position is payed with $2500 a month, no company can pay less.
    And if the trade unions have a contract with companies that say $2650 is the minimum, the company has to pay that.
    If an employee thinks he deserves $3000, but the company says: actually you are only worth $1500, but because of the fucking trade union we already pay you $2650, so go and fuck your self ... that is something different.

  4. Re:Good. You shouldn't have the right to work... on Gig Economy Business Model Dealt a Blow in California Ruling (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    There are two ways: either the feds force the states to set a minimum wage, or they set a baseline and the states can increase it.
    Both would work.

  5. Re:Patent Trolls on Nikola (Motors) is Suing Tesla (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Well,
    in Germany the guy losing the case would pay all fees.
    And the fees are determined on "the value of the case", so a lawyer would never get more than about 7k or so from a 60k case.
    It is in most european countries similar, but I don't know the details.

    So the american law system makes it easy that 'poor' people never get their right ...

  6. Re:Fast follower on Tesla Earnings Show Record Revenues With Record Losses (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, because EV tech is totally the same thing as building ICEs.
    Actually it is, and that is part of the problem.
    Most "new" EV vendors try to take as much conventional tech from the ICEs to the EVs, like anti brake blocking systems, electronic drive control (don't know the proper term in english, it is about braking individual wheels to keep the car stable) etc.
    On the other hand we had 4 wheel drives, with linear engines at each wheel, regenerative breaking etc. already 30 or probably 40 years ago.
    However: the new systems we have now in ICEs, since decades mandated by law, would need to be re-certificated, if we base them on linear engines at the wheels. No one really wants to do that at the moment.

  7. Re: FP on Ask Slashdot: What Should I Study? · · Score: 2

    You don't know much about functional programming, first of all it is not what you think, your functions here like sin() have nothing to do with it.

    Secondly, real world functional languages allow to modify state via monads. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    In a functional language "functions are first class citizens", that means they behave like objects. e.g. the following code:

          a = sum(sqrt(3.7), sqrt(4.2)

    Creates three function objects, one instance of sum and two of sqrt, then it evaluates the "expression tree"
    Behaving like objects means, you can store them, pass them around as parameters, create new functions by combining existing ones.

    Regarding your answers: FP is not a hype, it is ages old, most likely older than you.

    All modern languages support features of FP (C++ with functor objects, and now with lambdas), and nearly all modern languages either have lambdas or closures.

    Depending on project and Java Version I use lambdas every day. If you use the STL in C++ you can not help yourself doing FP (albeit a bit limited)

    Most prominent is probably Erlang. They used to write all the router and switching software in Ericssons gear in Erlang. https://www.erlang.org/about

    That FP is only limited used is because the modern implementations e.g. in Java are so watered down and only support a subset of usages (e.g. lambdas/closures and the Streams API: http://www.oracle.com/technetw... )

  8. Re: FP on Ask Slashdot: What Should I Study? · · Score: 1

    A backtracking parser?
    This is a prime example for functional programming.

  9. He can't be bothered, he is counting his pay checks!

  10. Re:Good. You shouldn't have the right to work... on Gig Economy Business Model Dealt a Blow in California Ruling (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    My son is smart enough to realize that a $15 minimum wage would simply make him completely unemployable.
    And who would take his job then? An illegal Mexican immigrant?

  11. Re:Good. You shouldn't have the right to work... on Gig Economy Business Model Dealt a Blow in California Ruling (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Wow are we super negative again?

    Obviously your sons don't need a living wage and pay for a family, as you pay for your family, which includes your sons.

    So your argument would need to be: would you be good with a "not living job" that can not pay for your sons on college?

    Are you really just an asshole or are you super dumb or just one guy who likes to make polemic posts in a news for nerds site?

    Message us again when one of your sons makes so much money that he can pay for his three sons (doing underpaid part times jobs) and let them go to high school and college. (And don't forget, he has to pay for his wife and a somewhat comfortable home, too)

  12. Re:Good. You shouldn't have the right to work... on Gig Economy Business Model Dealt a Blow in California Ruling (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    You got it so wrong again ...
    No, I would find a new daycare.

    No you would not. As you would not know that the high qualified super day cares were replaced by low wage criminals.

    I'd hire a nanny and be the employer myself.
    With your example of "paying $3000" that was a no brainer. You should have thought about that at the first place instead of making silly arguments.

    Leftists tend to view ...
    Ah that stupid american thing again to put people into "lefties", the "rights" and the "liberals" ... how retarded. Can one not have an opinion about one matter and another opinion about another matter with out being insulted as a lefty, righty or liberal or alt something?

  13. Re:Good. You shouldn't have the right to work... on Gig Economy Business Model Dealt a Blow in California Ruling (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    That's the mother of all false dichotomies.
    No it is not. If you want to speak newspeak: poverty is antifreedom.

  14. Re:Good. You shouldn't have the right to work... on Gig Economy Business Model Dealt a Blow in California Ruling (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Of course it makes sense on the federal level.
    You seem not to grasp how a federation works.

    The feds only need to pass a law demanding that the states deploy a state law sufficient to some metrics.

  15. Re:Good. You shouldn't have the right to work... on Gig Economy Business Model Dealt a Blow in California Ruling (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    The federal minimum wage would be the base line (but considering what problems americans have with grasping what base load is ...) and the states could up it.

  16. Re:Good. You shouldn't have the right to work... on Gig Economy Business Model Dealt a Blow in California Ruling (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Uber might want to move where labor is cheaper, but the vast majority of their customers are - and by extension, their drivers need to be - in expensive urban areas.
    Why would anyone who can afford to live in an expensive urban area hire an Uber driver instead of taking a Taxi?

  17. In Germany the 'large outside forces' pulled off.

    Russia is completely gone. Allied forces are down to 1/3rd or less. Poland and the Baltic Nations joined the NATO.

  18. Of course it is 'no'.
    But women don't get it because they are women.
    So now we are back on square one :)

  19. Re: Next Step on All Indian Villages Now Have Access To Electricity (indiatimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I guess that is what the parent was talking about.
    We call it 'Klaeranlage'.

  20. Everyone would chose that.
    But it does not change the fact that it poisons the fish and ends up in the food chain.
    So: you actually stop fishing there, and later determine where else to stop because of migration.
    E.g. you would not want to eat salmon in paris that grew up in a nuclear trash pit north of Norway (yeah, bad example).

  21. Not for germany ... the war in germany ended 1991, perhaps you want to read my previous post: AGAIN

  22. Re:We need to fix those statistics! on Sci-Fi Is Still Working on Its 'Stale, Male, and Pale' Problem, Says James Cameron (indiewire.com) · · Score: 1

    Hm, I only saw it in english and german, don't remember one cursing in mandarin ...
    My point was less about SF, but about "history novels".

  23. Re:Patent Trolls on Nikola (Motors) is Suing Tesla (engadget.com) · · Score: 2

    This is a german article: http://www.miles-styles.com/lu...
    But look at the pictures and google for Luigi Colani, those design studies are 50 years old or older.

    Nikola will have bad luck with prior art.

  24. Re:Patent Trolls on Nikola (Motors) is Suing Tesla (engadget.com) · · Score: 0

    They (Nikolas) have probably realized that hydrogen is a dead end.
    It is simply to expensive, fuel costs are on par with gasoline or higher.

  25. Re:Patent Trolls on Nikola (Motors) is Suing Tesla (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Strange,
    you want to tell me the losing party does not pay for the law suit in the US?