So what is the difference between this and any other subcontractor? The US government makes very little itself, the majority of projects are farmed out to various private companies to do the actual construction and sometimes even the launches.
What it sounds like is the only real change is a private company retains control and only sells the data rather then producing a launch-able vehicle and then administering the data.
Well, there is something to be said for the fun of ritualistic engagement. I kinda laugh at the people who claim that vinyl is superior to digital, but I have no complaints against the crowd that likes working with the old tech because they enjoy it.
And I have to admit my own vice... vintage camera lenses. Technologically inferior to the nice autofocused image stabilized coated lenses of today.. but they are still fun.
Unlikely. Teaching programming early is no more likely to wipe out programming as a profession as teaching math wipes out accounting. I think what this does show however is a bit of a flaw in Google's tests.
Your story also highlights one of the critical factors in getting someone who cares... be polite. Maybe it is just luck of the draw, but I have found over the years that being polite and understanding to the service person on the other end of the phone goes a long way towards them wanting to be polite and helpful back.
It is kinda funny, treating someone like a human really does result in being treated like a human back. Yet a lot of people have trouble with this simple pattern.
While I am not sure it is '99% of the time', I can comment my experience with credit card fraud was much closer to that then what you described. Over the years I have had my credit card stolen a total of 3 times from 3 different companies. In 2 cases I was quickly notified of odd behavior, and in one case I noticed it myself. It typically only took a single phone call to resolve thing with the suspicious purchases canceled out almost immediately, and at most I had to later fill out some paperwork outlining which charges on a particular bill were mine vs not. In each case they had a fresh card in my hand with a new number that I was able to use to continue to pay bills and such.
I am guessing there is a whole range of experiences depending on one's particular setup and their bank.
That was generally Europe. The US has always been a net exporter of many raw materials. Compared to other 1st world nations we have a huge amount of land and the (relatively untapped) resources that came with that.
And lack of pressure. Forge has done such a good job and the community has gotten so comfortable with it, building an official one that is better enough to bring people over is both a tall order and a low demand.
I suspect someone will throw together a mini-server at some point that will facilitate local saving, it will just take more time then this work around.
'Worthy' is a highly subjective concept. Right now, people are not being treated equally, and men with the same qualifications and performance have a better chance of being hired and promoted then women. Even at companies that have women in senior positions men STILL have better chances then their female counterparts.
So yes, I do consider hiring more women to be a worthy cause because right now there are systemic problems that result in fairly poor representation of women in tech.
Yes, I agree that the goal should be to treat men and women equally, but we are a long way from that and it makes a rather poor argument for why we should not be trying to improve things.
And unfortunately, the 'innate' argument is just complete and utter bunk, yet it keeps getting trotted out as a rationalization for discrimination.
Actually, equal opportunity, spread out across a large industry, should have pretty equal outcome. The poor ratio is a good indicator that access is not equal.
Eh, it does matter though. People tend to hire and promote people like themselves, and when you look at companies that have women in senior positions they also tend to have more women all through the career path including more hires in the first place. So women have a better chance of being hired and getting promotions at a company run by a woman.
Let us not forget though that tech used to have a larger female representation then it does today. So when we are back to the ratio we had in the 80s and push beyond that, THEN we can start patting ourselves on the back.
Well, in this case it sounds like he was a child molester too.
However, once someone has done their time they are generally supposed to be treated like normal people again. So the police can not go 'there was a murder, round up all the convicted murders in the town and see if any of them did it'.
It also is not very good police work since the recidivism rate on child molestation is actually very low, so applying extra scrutiny on previous offenders is unlikely to result in a new arrest. Generally if you are going to violate constitutional rights there should be a pretty high bar, which this use case does not represent.
Which would still work if the schedule was simply shifted, kinda like DST already does but instead of everyone pretending it is the same 8am, you actually just change the time.
Actually, this is not quite as far fetched as it sounds.
I have partial facial blindness, and over the years I have gotten better at identifying people based off their cloths and hair style. Even when people do not intend it, many people stick to certain colour types and cuts, and it is not unusual to pick people out based off those patterns, or be really confused when they do something out of character. I have never really been sure _what_ the patterns are, but something in the back of my brain has built up some rules that work better then pure chance.
The strange thing is, the Motorola Mobility in my area is actually hiring, though from reading threads about the site it appears they have a VERY high turn overrate and very shark infested culture.. so I guess the particular location fires so many people every year that even with the cuts the still need to hire more.
Abuse makes for good headlines, and is a real problem. But headlines rarely represent the typical situation accurately.
Something to keep in mind, something like 95% of federal cases result in plea bargains rather then going to trial. That might sound like a huge problem, but keep in mind our court system is already overloaded. A 20x increase in cases going to trial would cripple it, and probably send lawyers fees through the roof since it would also represent a 20x increase in demand for both defense and prosecution.
LItigation is a red herring. It makes up a tiny fraction of the actual costs, but we have this pervasive idea in our culture that victims should simply know their place (or must be immoral if bad things happen to them) so we must fight people's ability to redress when a more powerful entity has injured them. We have this annoying meme that things that try to keep the power of the strong in check are hurting liberty, but defending/aiding the weak's power is hurting liberty.
I knew a peep a while back who was born intersexed. It is a lot more common then people think... anyway. A common practice is for doctors to preform sexual reassignment surgery on the infant immediately to give them one sex or the other, often without even informing the parents. Part of the logic is that if they knew they were born unusual then either their parents would treat them oddly or it would cause self esteme/psychological issues later in life.
One problem though is often the doctor guesses wrong, this is actually where quite a few cases of transsexuality come from.. the doctor flips a coin, chooses a sex, and the person feels 'off' most of their life.
The person I knew always felt off, but lived as a man most of their life. However during a hospital visit where they did some xrays as a result the images showed a partially intact uterus and other such abnormalities. Essentially the doctor choose wrong and turned someone who had developed internally as female into a male, and did not tell anyone. She had to fight for years to actually get access to her own records on the surgery. I can easily see doctors using the rationalization of 'it would hurt them to know' to really cover up 'I do not want them to know I made a mistake', esp considering how badly such a mistake impacts a person's life.
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So what is the difference between this and any other subcontractor? The US government makes very little itself, the majority of projects are farmed out to various private companies to do the actual construction and sometimes even the launches.
What it sounds like is the only real change is a private company retains control and only sells the data rather then producing a launch-able vehicle and then administering the data.
Well, there is something to be said for the fun of ritualistic engagement. I kinda laugh at the people who claim that vinyl is superior to digital, but I have no complaints against the crowd that likes working with the old tech because they enjoy it.
And I have to admit my own vice... vintage camera lenses. Technologically inferior to the nice autofocused image stabilized coated lenses of today.. but they are still fun.
You know, it would not surprise me if there was a community into doing so, and that would be kinda awesome ^_^
Unlikely. Teaching programming early is no more likely to wipe out programming as a profession as teaching math wipes out accounting. I think what this does show however is a bit of a flaw in Google's tests.
Your story also highlights one of the critical factors in getting someone who cares... be polite. Maybe it is just luck of the draw, but I have found over the years that being polite and understanding to the service person on the other end of the phone goes a long way towards them wanting to be polite and helpful back.
It is kinda funny, treating someone like a human really does result in being treated like a human back. Yet a lot of people have trouble with this simple pattern.
While I am not sure it is '99% of the time', I can comment my experience with credit card fraud was much closer to that then what you described. Over the years I have had my credit card stolen a total of 3 times from 3 different companies. In 2 cases I was quickly notified of odd behavior, and in one case I noticed it myself. It typically only took a single phone call to resolve thing with the suspicious purchases canceled out almost immediately, and at most I had to later fill out some paperwork outlining which charges on a particular bill were mine vs not. In each case they had a fresh card in my hand with a new number that I was able to use to continue to pay bills and such.
I am guessing there is a whole range of experiences depending on one's particular setup and their bank.
That was generally Europe. The US has always been a net exporter of many raw materials. Compared to other 1st world nations we have a huge amount of land and the (relatively untapped) resources that came with that.
On the other hand, your home owner's insurance costs jump significantly. Living near a nuclear plant is surprisingly expensive.
And lack of pressure. Forge has done such a good job and the community has gotten so comfortable with it, building an official one that is better enough to bring people over is both a tall order and a low demand.
I suspect someone will throw together a mini-server at some point that will facilitate local saving, it will just take more time then this work around.
Well, as politics and marketing have shown, careful word choice has a massive impact on people's reactions.
'Worthy' is a highly subjective concept. Right now, people are not being treated equally, and men with the same qualifications and performance have a better chance of being hired and promoted then women. Even at companies that have women in senior positions men STILL have better chances then their female counterparts.
So yes, I do consider hiring more women to be a worthy cause because right now there are systemic problems that result in fairly poor representation of women in tech.
Yes, I agree that the goal should be to treat men and women equally, but we are a long way from that and it makes a rather poor argument for why we should not be trying to improve things.
And unfortunately, the 'innate' argument is just complete and utter bunk, yet it keeps getting trotted out as a rationalization for discrimination.
Actually, equal opportunity, spread out across a large industry, should have pretty equal outcome. The poor ratio is a good indicator that access is not equal.
Eh, it does matter though. People tend to hire and promote people like themselves, and when you look at companies that have women in senior positions they also tend to have more women all through the career path including more hires in the first place. So women have a better chance of being hired and getting promotions at a company run by a woman.
Let us not forget though that tech used to have a larger female representation then it does today. So when we are back to the ratio we had in the 80s and push beyond that, THEN we can start patting ourselves on the back.
Well, in this case it sounds like he was a child molester too.
However, once someone has done their time they are generally supposed to be treated like normal people again. So the police can not go 'there was a murder, round up all the convicted murders in the town and see if any of them did it'.
It also is not very good police work since the recidivism rate on child molestation is actually very low, so applying extra scrutiny on previous offenders is unlikely to result in a new arrest. Generally if you are going to violate constitutional rights there should be a pretty high bar, which this use case does not represent.
From what I read of employee reviews.. you might not be far off.
Which would still work if the schedule was simply shifted, kinda like DST already does but instead of everyone pretending it is the same 8am, you actually just change the time.
UTC everywhere would be wonderful. I am so tired of confusion over meetings across timezones...
Actually, this is not quite as far fetched as it sounds.
I have partial facial blindness, and over the years I have gotten better at identifying people based off their cloths and hair style. Even when people do not intend it, many people stick to certain colour types and cuts, and it is not unusual to pick people out based off those patterns, or be really confused when they do something out of character. I have never really been sure _what_ the patterns are, but something in the back of my brain has built up some rules that work better then pure chance.
If not 'creepy'.. something. I am assuming the person is trying to sell software or something, but is coming across like the cube world guy.
The strange thing is, the Motorola Mobility in my area is actually hiring, though from reading threads about the site it appears they have a VERY high turn overrate and very shark infested culture.. so I guess the particular location fires so many people every year that even with the cuts the still need to hire more.
Abuse makes for good headlines, and is a real problem. But headlines rarely represent the typical situation accurately.
Something to keep in mind, something like 95% of federal cases result in plea bargains rather then going to trial. That might sound like a huge problem, but keep in mind our court system is already overloaded. A 20x increase in cases going to trial would cripple it, and probably send lawyers fees through the roof since it would also represent a 20x increase in demand for both defense and prosecution.
LItigation is a red herring. It makes up a tiny fraction of the actual costs, but we have this pervasive idea in our culture that victims should simply know their place (or must be immoral if bad things happen to them) so we must fight people's ability to redress when a more powerful entity has injured them. We have this annoying meme that things that try to keep the power of the strong in check are hurting liberty, but defending/aiding the weak's power is hurting liberty.
I can answer part of that.
I knew a peep a while back who was born intersexed. It is a lot more common then people think... anyway. A common practice is for doctors to preform sexual reassignment surgery on the infant immediately to give them one sex or the other, often without even informing the parents. Part of the logic is that if they knew they were born unusual then either their parents would treat them oddly or it would cause self esteme/psychological issues later in life.
One problem though is often the doctor guesses wrong, this is actually where quite a few cases of transsexuality come from.. the doctor flips a coin, chooses a sex, and the person feels 'off' most of their life.
The person I knew always felt off, but lived as a man most of their life. However during a hospital visit where they did some xrays as a result the images showed a partially intact uterus and other such abnormalities. Essentially the doctor choose wrong and turned someone who had developed internally as female into a male, and did not tell anyone. She had to fight for years to actually get access to her own records on the surgery. I can easily see doctors using the rationalization of 'it would hurt them to know' to really cover up 'I do not want them to know I made a mistake', esp considering how badly such a mistake impacts a person's life.