The Russian story line has reached a dead end every single direction it goes. They won't just admit that it was a fabricated narrative to try to torpedo Trump. They keep coming up with new things and all the foaming mouth never-trumpers get into a fevered pitch about it until it's revealed to be nothing of substance. That's happened with every single part of the Russian narrative from the Dossier to now.
I'm not saying distributed currency control is a bad thing, but I don't see how it survives. It feels like there has to be a gigantic bubble propping it up and when it pops it will all be immediately worthless with no possibility to recover because there literally is nothing to recover...
I still don't understand how mining bitcoins can be a thing...I understand why any random person might invest in them because somehow a real dollar value has been attached to them, but when they get created out of nothing via activities that don't have any semblance of value or value control...I could never bring myself to even invest a dollar. To say it seems shady is probably a gross understatement. But I'm sure those who love bitcoin and the like have a different point of view...in the nearly decade that it's been around, I have tried numerous times to truly understand how it can even exist, and I've failed every time. Yes, any currency is made up and requires any two people who would use the currency in an exchange to agree that the currency has value. And yes, fiat paper currency doesn't have any actual value itself, but there is at least some level of legal infrastructure supporting it. Bitcoin is less than a fiat currency. And I just can't wrap my mind around why so many people have jumped into it. I'm just one person though...
That could potentially explain the US numbers. But as far as I know Australia doesn't have quite the same issue with border control. The majority of illegals in Australia are people who overstay visas and that is about 65,000. No where close to 1.7 million, though census data is estimated, so that is more likely the issue.
Yeah and instead we got a pixelated view of what may have been the old man and leprechaun, but could also have been an episode of golden girls.Whether or not it was worth it to you, they sold it for $100 and it didn't meet expectations.
I guess I need to get on my Fire TV tonight and see. That was always something that annoyed me that I would have to open Netflix and use its search, but searching from the Fire TV I could get all the Amazon content. If this is true, I may activate my Amazon Prime again...
While this is slightly off topic from the story, it is interesting how Video was supposed to be like the entire internet by now, yet I agree that for stories like this, if I am forced into a video to get more information it is highly likely I'll bail on the whole story. Some of that is probably because I'll read news stories at work or somewhere else where audio isn't an option, but I know that's not the whole reason because I will do the same at home most times unless I am extremely interested in the story. I wonder why that is...I definitely prefer talking to a person to hear a story rather than read it in a text message...just a mildly intriguing psychological phenomenon that I'd love to read about. Now I'll probably get someone posting a reply with a link to a video explanation of what I'm describing...
In the case of Illinois, that is exactly what it is. Can't speak for the other places, but Illinois is on the brink of insolvency. Apparently corruption does eventually weigh to heavy.
Not at all. But you and murdocj must have sore rear ends from all the butt hurt you are feeling. I gave several examples of how this wasn't Google guy saying women ARE less qualified. You two (and a slew of other idiots) are unable to draw a distinction between someone saying "This process isn't designed to find the best" and "Everyone you're hiring under diversity rules is a substandard worker". He said the first one, murdocj claims he said the second and that simply is not true. You both have your heads so far up your rear ends you can't see reality.
No your own quote disputes that. If you hire with more regard for demographics that for skill, then your hiring practice has a much higher chance of hiring a less skilled person. It doesn't guarantee it, but if you hire for any position giving weight to something that should have no direct bearing on their skill (skin color, gender) then you are not focusing on the right things. So you'll get a "diverse" work force, but who knows if you'll have a work force that is more skilled, less skilled or the same as if you hired regardless of race or gender. He is taking exception to the idea that if there were two candidates, one a white male, the other a black female, and the white male was clearly superior in skill the black female may be hired instead solely because she is black and female. So the less skilled person has been selected for a reason that had nothing to do with skill. And the company that does that has purposely made themselves less skilled and therefore puts the company at risk long term. He doesn't say that HAS happened. He is saying the policy puts Google at risk of that happening. Blindly hiring based on race or gender is bad regardless of who the "winning" race or gender is.
A discriminatory hiring practice that puts more value on irrelevant demographics such as race or gender can absolutely harm Google. Because you're not going to hire the best, just the best within a certain demographic. How could it not? The only way it won't harm google is if by chance the best person for each position happens to also be in one of the "preferred" demographics. That's a pretty shaky foundation to build your future on.
Several years ago I bought a DSLR. I'm not a professional photographer, but my phone camera didn't even come close to cutting it. Today I wouldn't buy a DSLR camera unless I was literally going to be a professional photographer. My phone takes great pictures, better than I even need..and I always have it. Sure, I could get better pictures with a DSLR, but I just don't need it. That's the only way phones are replacing DSLR cameras.
What matters is getting your developers or other employees buy-in. I've seen open office plans work great. There are a brand of developers now, agile/extreme etc...that prefer the open office plan. It works great if everyone is into the idea of high collaboration methodologies like agile and they choose it. Nothing hurts moral as much as environmental changes like this being forced on a group. Even if they would love it, even if they would work so much better in that environment...when it's forced on them without their consent, then it's doomed.
..while robot sports may one day be a thing itself, replacing the human equivalent in this way wouldn't happen. I feel like it would be boring...skill is no longer a factor..eventually games would become 100% predictable short of the occasional mechanical failure.
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There was an outage?
That was a pretty weak attempt at emulating the Luddites App spam post...
That's thinking with portals...er reusable rockets.
A whopping 200 of them at once...not exactly an invasion force. But perhaps useful for special ops.
Yeah but you should have been. Instead you voted her into the race guaranteeing a win for just about anyone on the republican ticket. Way to go!
The Russian story line has reached a dead end every single direction it goes. They won't just admit that it was a fabricated narrative to try to torpedo Trump. They keep coming up with new things and all the foaming mouth never-trumpers get into a fevered pitch about it until it's revealed to be nothing of substance. That's happened with every single part of the Russian narrative from the Dossier to now.
But it's not too late to sue the Department of Homeland Security, which is who they actually sued dumbass. Regardless of whose administration.
I'm not saying distributed currency control is a bad thing, but I don't see how it survives. It feels like there has to be a gigantic bubble propping it up and when it pops it will all be immediately worthless with no possibility to recover because there literally is nothing to recover...
I still don't understand how mining bitcoins can be a thing...I understand why any random person might invest in them because somehow a real dollar value has been attached to them, but when they get created out of nothing via activities that don't have any semblance of value or value control...I could never bring myself to even invest a dollar. To say it seems shady is probably a gross understatement. But I'm sure those who love bitcoin and the like have a different point of view...in the nearly decade that it's been around, I have tried numerous times to truly understand how it can even exist, and I've failed every time. Yes, any currency is made up and requires any two people who would use the currency in an exchange to agree that the currency has value. And yes, fiat paper currency doesn't have any actual value itself, but there is at least some level of legal infrastructure supporting it. Bitcoin is less than a fiat currency. And I just can't wrap my mind around why so many people have jumped into it. I'm just one person though...
That could potentially explain the US numbers. But as far as I know Australia doesn't have quite the same issue with border control. The majority of illegals in Australia are people who overstay visas and that is about 65,000. No where close to 1.7 million, though census data is estimated, so that is more likely the issue.
I look forward to a day where 94% of crashes involve computer error instead. That will make dying hurt less right?
Yeah and instead we got a pixelated view of what may have been the old man and leprechaun, but could also have been an episode of golden girls.Whether or not it was worth it to you, they sold it for $100 and it didn't meet expectations.
I'm sure there are a lot of people interested in that topic. But probably very few who would buy a book for it considering ....the internet...
I guess I need to get on my Fire TV tonight and see. That was always something that annoyed me that I would have to open Netflix and use its search, but searching from the Fire TV I could get all the Amazon content. If this is true, I may activate my Amazon Prime again...
While this is slightly off topic from the story, it is interesting how Video was supposed to be like the entire internet by now, yet I agree that for stories like this, if I am forced into a video to get more information it is highly likely I'll bail on the whole story. Some of that is probably because I'll read news stories at work or somewhere else where audio isn't an option, but I know that's not the whole reason because I will do the same at home most times unless I am extremely interested in the story. I wonder why that is...I definitely prefer talking to a person to hear a story rather than read it in a text message...just a mildly intriguing psychological phenomenon that I'd love to read about. Now I'll probably get someone posting a reply with a link to a video explanation of what I'm describing...
In the case of Illinois, that is exactly what it is. Can't speak for the other places, but Illinois is on the brink of insolvency. Apparently corruption does eventually weigh to heavy.
Because this is so poorly written and so meaningless....
Not at all. But you and murdocj must have sore rear ends from all the butt hurt you are feeling. I gave several examples of how this wasn't Google guy saying women ARE less qualified. You two (and a slew of other idiots) are unable to draw a distinction between someone saying "This process isn't designed to find the best" and "Everyone you're hiring under diversity rules is a substandard worker". He said the first one, murdocj claims he said the second and that simply is not true. You both have your heads so far up your rear ends you can't see reality.
No your own quote disputes that. If you hire with more regard for demographics that for skill, then your hiring practice has a much higher chance of hiring a less skilled person. It doesn't guarantee it, but if you hire for any position giving weight to something that should have no direct bearing on their skill (skin color, gender) then you are not focusing on the right things. So you'll get a "diverse" work force, but who knows if you'll have a work force that is more skilled, less skilled or the same as if you hired regardless of race or gender. He is taking exception to the idea that if there were two candidates, one a white male, the other a black female, and the white male was clearly superior in skill the black female may be hired instead solely because she is black and female. So the less skilled person has been selected for a reason that had nothing to do with skill. And the company that does that has purposely made themselves less skilled and therefore puts the company at risk long term. He doesn't say that HAS happened. He is saying the policy puts Google at risk of that happening. Blindly hiring based on race or gender is bad regardless of who the "winning" race or gender is.
A discriminatory hiring practice that puts more value on irrelevant demographics such as race or gender can absolutely harm Google. Because you're not going to hire the best, just the best within a certain demographic. How could it not? The only way it won't harm google is if by chance the best person for each position happens to also be in one of the "preferred" demographics. That's a pretty shaky foundation to build your future on.
The answer is our work with nuclear fusion will go horribly awry and sterilize all men. Hooray!
Several years ago I bought a DSLR. I'm not a professional photographer, but my phone camera didn't even come close to cutting it. Today I wouldn't buy a DSLR camera unless I was literally going to be a professional photographer. My phone takes great pictures, better than I even need..and I always have it. Sure, I could get better pictures with a DSLR, but I just don't need it. That's the only way phones are replacing DSLR cameras.
What matters is getting your developers or other employees buy-in. I've seen open office plans work great. There are a brand of developers now, agile/extreme etc...that prefer the open office plan. It works great if everyone is into the idea of high collaboration methodologies like agile and they choose it. Nothing hurts moral as much as environmental changes like this being forced on a group. Even if they would love it, even if they would work so much better in that environment...when it's forced on them without their consent, then it's doomed.
..while robot sports may one day be a thing itself, replacing the human equivalent in this way wouldn't happen. I feel like it would be boring...skill is no longer a factor..eventually games would become 100% predictable short of the occasional mechanical failure.
Isn't that the term used in cricket for the equivalent of a half-inning in baseball? Fairly sure that it is...