And slashdot was equally ignorant to post without correction.
The author did not receive a car from a company in one of the nations of the former Yugoslavia.
He did, however, receive the Hugo Award (tm, really) for Best Novel for the first book. The Hugo Award is named after Hugo Gernsback, who started the first science fiction magazine, Amazing, in 1926.
Where do I start? Well, how about that the raw data, with the PII and HIPAA information, will probably be on the NIH campus, in their datacenter (also home to the currently 66th most powerful supercomputer in the world, and the most powerful dedicated solely to bioscientific and biomedical research).
Data released will be anonymized - that's std. procedure.
And it's a good step up from the Framingham Heart Survey database, which is three generations into a multigenerational study from 5,000 residents of Framingham, MA (US), which one can assume is a limited view of the population, and still results in very important results. (Yes, I personally know someone working with that data, and the kind of results he's getting have already resulted in at least one published paper by him.)
And I'd CERTAINLY trust the NIH before I'd trust some scumbag private company... like the ones that wanted to patent individuals' own genes.
a) HR departments, who know, literally, *NOTHING*, and don't care to learn what the organization does, or what they're looking for..
b) I started programming in 1980. I was hired as a sr. programmer I. A few months after, I asked my buddy there why sr, and not jr. He told me they'd gotten rid of jr programmer jobs a couple years before... because jr. programmers were eligible to join the union.
So, the poster and author think that we should stop licensing. No license needed to claim to be a doctor, or a dentist, or a lawyer, or a surgeon, or a mechanic, or an engineer, or....
On the other hand, what would help "competition" is for companies and governments to *prove* that a certain certificate or degree is necessary.
Y'know, like in the mid-nineties, when my late wife, the lab tech with 15 years experience was let go on a Friday, and that Sunday, they were looking for B.Sc. chemist... to be underpaid, and do lab tech work (which would have lowered costs to the clients). Or the idiots in HR, who want certs for languages that don't have certs, or.....
Years back, I had an old Grand Voyager. One day, a door window fell into the door. Went to get it repaired, $160, and they just replaced the belt. A few years later, newer Grand Voyager, same thing... and twice the price. The mechanic and I both knew that it was just a broken belt... but Chrysler was making the window a sealed unit, so it was motor and everything else, as well.
Yup, replace all your mirrors with AI-aided cameras. And when it dies, it's 3 or 4 figures to replace, no repair, sealed unit.
Let's not even talk about when someone hacks your car, and screws with the AI.....
Absolutely. Now, I've been online a long time (like, late '91), and back in the high days of usenet, it was a joke on newbies to tell them they could catch a virus by reading an email.
Until Bill the Gatrs* made if factual.
And here I thought google's mission statement started with "first, do no wrong".
I read my email as plain text. I don't catch anything, well, except for little details, like, "why is the IRS sending me email from Brazil?"
* Like Bill the Cat, coughing up another hairball.
Overwhelmingly, most organizations, at least in the US, run RedHat, or one of its children, with, so far as I know, CentOS being the most-used.
We were using RH at AT&T 9 yrs ago; where I work now, for a federal contractor (civilian sector) we have a few RH licenses... and the other 97% of our systems are CentOS.
Yeah, like the time a few years ago when a GPS had my agent lead us an extra 30 mi or so on the DC Beltway by going the *wrong* direction.
Or the times that it, or Google maps, *always* wants to get you onto an Interstate, rather than using the through streets that the natives know.
And some idiot thinks that a London cabbie doesn't know if a bridge is out? Better than the GOP? Or why they should, or should not, go down that street?
Real World knowledge trumps what you're told by someone who wasn't there.
What a stupid concept. Now, for those of you who aren't, y'know, like TERRIFIED OF PEOPLE, and say, go out to live music, that's how you buy their music at the concerts.
AND that is how most of them *make* money - by selling CD's.
But go ahead, don't buy CDs, tell the folks whose music you like that they should go back to work at a real job, and just make live music for the fun of it, unless some RecordCompanyScumbag decides that they fit his market profile....
In the late seventies, as manufacturing was being sent to cheaper, non-union labor in other countries, we were told that better jobs would come from the "information economy".
I skimmed the article... and they simply do not mention what the "growing job categories" are.
It's all magic, they say, we'll wave our hands, and move on.
Meanwhile, the folks who's jobs, or whose parents jobs, were outsourced and offshored do *not* have been jobs. The mechanic who works for a dealer, and has to buy his own "special service tools" every year, does *not* make as much as a unionized factory worker did, nor do they have a pension, or a union hall to go to, where they can get jobs.
And remember, nearly 50% of the US has *no* college. And a lot of them would not be happy in college (really? how much did you enjoy the flunk-out courses?).
A guaranteed basic income is the only way to deal with too many people, and fewer and fewer jobs. They could be paid for by dividends (aka "taxes") from the megacorps making tens of billions a year... in profits.
I saw a post that women's clothing is more cheaply made; so is men's clothing. Maybe they don't want used clothes because they're falling apart too fast.
I know that a lot of shirts and pants are *much* thinner, and more cheaply made. Cheaply, as in they shrink when you wash them. When I was a kid (I'm a boomer), I remember seeing ads for "pre-shrunk" clothes. Now? Oh, you should dry clean all good cloths... because they're *crap*.
Another example: jeans, back in the fifties and sixties, had a thread count of better than 14. 10 years ago, you were lucky to find anything, except expensive ones (and why the hell are *jeans* expensive clothing?), that had a thread count over 9.
But of course fashion wants to sell you overpriced cheap clothes, since you're convinced that you wouldn't want to wear something that was *so* last month, right?
Waiting to see how you feel when your job is replaced by computerization.
I'd say it just makes sense then NOT TO PATRONIZE Jack in the Box. Why should the CEO earn money, and not the folks who live where the restaurants are? And if you don't give them jobs... who the hell is going to buy what you sell? We won;t even mention the local hostility to your business.
One district runs about 80 or 90 miles, and for a lot of it, is less than 10 mi wide, connecting several "liberal" areas as one.
And, of course, we're talking about NC, that when a Democrat won the governor's race last year, the Republican supermajority in the state house started trying to take away powers that had belonged to the governor for a long time.
That's the real question: why are men taking high dosages for that long? If they're in that much pain, they're not going to be real interested in sex, anyway.
On the other hand, if you're taking it for bad headaches... and you regularly work 60+ hour weeks, perhaps you should consider cutting back to 40 hours, and getting enough sleep.... (Or are you actually an indentured servant?)
The immediate questions that come to mind are how much alcohol, and how long?
I mean, is this a beer or one mixed drink, a shot or so, a day, or are we talking alcoholics who need alcohol all the time, or the binge drinkers, who are doing it most weekend?
I remember the Studies Proving The Killer Weed Causes Cancer. Um, yupper, they were using mice, and if you smoked that much, you'd be asleep 20 or more hours a day, and either smoking or eating the rest of your waking hours, *and* you'd need really, really potent weed.
I expect this to be the same. And are they also worried about elephants, who have been documented going out of their way to drink rotted, fermented fruits? Or monkeys doing the same? Or that maybe we've been drinking since we were proto-human?
Or maybe The Monolith started dispensing booze.....
My my younger kids, in their 30's, have probably read more than that. My personal library - the sf&f, and that's books in the bookcases in the family room - are closer to 4,000 than 3,000, and there may be 15 or 20 that my late wife read that I didn't care for, and a good number I've read multiple times.
And no, I don't speed read - from what I've read, you miss a lot of what they're saying in content that needs to be thought about. I do read about 250 wpm, though.
So, jeez, if you're talking about 60 years of reading, 4600 isn't even 100/yr. Of course, I read the average American reads about 3 - that's THREE - books a year, so between my family and friends, there are thousands of Americans who don't read one book a year.
And you want to work with these people? Or they think they should vote?
Given that US paper money says "This note is legal tender for ALL debts, public and private" (emphasis mine). Refusing cash is refusing to be paid, so I guess whatever it was must be free, or they're not selling it.
So, do *you* answer phone calls/emails/texts from work at any hour? Do you get overtime for that (hahahahahhahaha!)? Does your boss expect a response, every time the fart, day or night, and tell you "whatever it takes", who cares if you are trying to have a life?
Why the *fsck* do you need to be "SO PRODUCTIVE"? And it's people like you who jump on those of us who actually work to live, instead of living to work. That's why he's writing this, you freakin' Calvinist.
1. Q: What's the difference between windows and a virus?
A: You pay for windows.
2. Back in the mid-nineties, friends introduced me to the idea that you never win with Windows, you only lose, so they referred to Lose 95. Worked just as well with Lose 98... and the *perfectly* named Lose ME.
Does the study include rates of folks *sharing* housing/apts?
Now, given that I read in the media earlier this year that hedge fund and other scum of the earth were buying up rental properties, and raising rents, I'd like to see a real study (shut *up* LIbertidiot trolls) that shows the rate of shared housing.
For example, a friend who's sharing a house with three other people. Or one of my daughters, who, with her husband, bought a house with another couple, which makes it *not* "single family" housing.
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And where's the jobs to replace them? And who's going to hire "retrained" folks in their 40s and 50s and 60s?
I see, so all the folks who lose their jobs should leave everything behind, and go die under a bridge.
Or perhaps we need a basic minimum national income, a reverse income tax. Of course, I realize that's anti-efficience...
"Efficiency, n. the speed and frictionlessness that money flows from poor people to rich people", New York 2140, Kim Stanley Robinson
At least heroin and addicts of other opiods go somewhere to shoot up. You damn mobile addicts are shooting up ALL THE BLOODY TIME.
And if you've *ever* texted while driving, or on a date, you're a fucking addict, and need to go cold turkey, and get into rehab.
(And I have and use my flipphone, so don't think I'm a hypocrite).
And slashdot was equally ignorant to post without correction.
The author did not receive a car from a company in one of the nations of the former Yugoslavia.
He did, however, receive the Hugo Award (tm, really) for Best Novel for the first book. The Hugo Award is named after Hugo Gernsback, who started the first science fiction magazine, Amazing, in 1926.
Where do I start? Well, how about that the raw data, with the PII and HIPAA information, will probably be on the NIH campus, in their datacenter (also home to the currently 66th most powerful supercomputer in the world, and the most powerful dedicated solely to bioscientific and biomedical research).
Data released will be anonymized - that's std. procedure.
And it's a good step up from the Framingham Heart Survey database, which is three generations into a multigenerational study from 5,000 residents of Framingham, MA (US), which one can assume is a limited view of the population, and still results in very important results. (Yes, I personally know someone working with that data, and the kind of results he's getting have already resulted in at least one published paper by him.)
And I'd CERTAINLY trust the NIH before I'd trust some scumbag private company... like the ones that wanted to patent individuals' own genes.
a) HR departments, who know, literally, *NOTHING*, and don't care to learn what the organization does, or what they're looking for..
b) I started programming in 1980. I was hired as a sr. programmer I. A few months after, I asked my buddy there why sr, and not jr. He told me they'd gotten rid of jr programmer jobs a couple years before... because jr. programmers were eligible to join the union.
So, the poster and author think that we should stop licensing. No license needed to claim to be a doctor, or a dentist, or a lawyer, or a surgeon, or a mechanic, or an engineer, or....
On the other hand, what would help "competition" is for companies and governments to *prove* that a certain certificate or degree is necessary.
Y'know, like in the mid-nineties, when my late wife, the lab tech with 15 years experience was let go on a Friday, and that Sunday, they were looking for B.Sc. chemist... to be underpaid, and do lab tech work (which would have lowered costs to the clients). Or the idiots in HR, who want certs for languages that don't have certs, or.....
Years back, I had an old Grand Voyager. One day, a door window fell into the door. Went to get it repaired, $160, and they just replaced the belt. A few years later, newer Grand Voyager, same thing... and twice the price. The mechanic and I both knew that it was just a broken belt... but Chrysler was making the window a sealed unit, so it was motor and everything else, as well.
Yup, replace all your mirrors with AI-aided cameras. And when it dies, it's 3 or 4 figures to replace, no repair, sealed unit.
Let's not even talk about when someone hacks your car, and screws with the AI.....
Absolutely. Now, I've been online a long time (like, late '91), and back in the high days of usenet, it was a joke on newbies to tell them they could catch a virus by reading an email.
Until Bill the Gatrs* made if factual.
And here I thought google's mission statement started with "first, do no wrong".
I read my email as plain text. I don't catch anything, well, except for little details, like, "why is the IRS sending me email from Brazil?"
* Like Bill the Cat, coughing up another hairball.
Overwhelmingly, most organizations, at least in the US, run RedHat, or one of its children, with, so far as I know, CentOS being the most-used.
We were using RH at AT&T 9 yrs ago; where I work now, for a federal contractor (civilian sector) we have a few RH licenses... and the other 97% of our systems are CentOS.
She lived out the last years of her life on SOCIALISTIC social security and Medicare.
She was a user, marrying then dumping to move to the US, arguing that greed is good, I've got mine, screw the rest of you.
If you fell that way, go buy a damn island and declare yourself a country of one.
And I wonder just how all the INTERNATIONAL PARTNERS feel about this? And contracts and treaties?
And I OBJECT to his misuse of *my* tax dollars.
Yeah, like the time a few years ago when a GPS had my agent lead us an extra 30 mi or so on the DC Beltway by going the *wrong* direction.
Or the times that it, or Google maps, *always* wants to get you onto an Interstate, rather than using the through streets that the natives know.
And some idiot thinks that a London cabbie doesn't know if a bridge is out? Better than the GOP? Or why they should, or should not, go down that street?
Real World knowledge trumps what you're told by someone who wasn't there.
What a stupid concept. Now, for those of you who aren't, y'know, like TERRIFIED OF PEOPLE, and say, go out to live music, that's how you buy their music at the concerts.
AND that is how most of them *make* money - by selling CD's.
But go ahead, don't buy CDs, tell the folks whose music you like that they should go back to work at a real job, and just make live music for the fun of it, unless some RecordCompanyScumbag decides that they fit his market profile....
In that case, do not install - your Mac will not boot to multuser mode.
In the late seventies, as manufacturing was being sent to cheaper, non-union labor in other countries, we were told that better jobs would come from the "information economy".
I skimmed the article... and they simply do not mention what the "growing job categories" are.
It's all magic, they say, we'll wave our hands, and move on.
Meanwhile, the folks who's jobs, or whose parents jobs, were outsourced and offshored do *not* have been jobs. The mechanic who works for a dealer, and has to buy his own
"special service tools" every year, does *not* make as much as a unionized factory worker did, nor do they have a pension, or a union hall to go to, where they can get jobs.
And remember, nearly 50% of the US has *no* college. And a lot of them would not be happy in college (really? how much did you enjoy the flunk-out courses?).
A guaranteed basic income is the only way to deal with too many people, and fewer and fewer jobs. They could be paid for by dividends (aka "taxes") from the megacorps making tens of billions a year... in profits.
I saw a post that women's clothing is more cheaply made; so is men's clothing. Maybe they don't want used clothes because they're falling apart too fast.
I know that a lot of shirts and pants are *much* thinner, and more cheaply made. Cheaply, as in they shrink when you wash them. When I was a kid (I'm a boomer), I remember seeing ads for "pre-shrunk" clothes. Now? Oh, you should dry clean all good cloths... because they're *crap*.
Another example: jeans, back in the fifties and sixties, had a thread count of better than 14. 10 years ago, you were lucky to find anything, except expensive ones (and why the hell are *jeans* expensive clothing?), that had a thread count over 9.
But of course fashion wants to sell you overpriced cheap clothes, since you're convinced that you wouldn't want to wear something that was *so* last month, right?
Waiting to see how you feel when your job is replaced by computerization.
I'd say it just makes sense then NOT TO PATRONIZE Jack in the Box. Why should the CEO earn money, and not the folks who live where the restaurants are? And if you don't give them jobs... who the hell is going to buy what you sell? We won;t even mention the local hostility to your business.
Result: franchises go out of business.
One district runs about 80 or 90 miles, and for a lot of it, is less than 10 mi wide, connecting several "liberal" areas as one.
And, of course, we're talking about NC, that when a Democrat won the governor's race last year, the Republican supermajority in the state house started trying to take away powers that had belonged to the governor for a long time.
That's the real question: why are men taking high dosages for that long? If they're in that much pain, they're not going to be real interested in sex, anyway.
On the other hand, if you're taking it for bad headaches... and you regularly work 60+ hour weeks, perhaps you should consider cutting back to 40 hours, and getting enough sleep.... (Or are you actually an indentured servant?)
The immediate questions that come to mind are how much alcohol, and how long?
I mean, is this a beer or one mixed drink, a shot or so, a day, or are we talking alcoholics who need alcohol all the time, or the binge drinkers, who are doing it most weekend?
I remember the Studies Proving The Killer Weed Causes Cancer. Um, yupper, they were using mice, and if you smoked that much, you'd be asleep 20 or more hours a day, and either smoking or eating the rest of your waking hours, *and* you'd need really, really potent weed.
I expect this to be the same. And are they also worried about elephants, who have been documented going out of their way to drink rotted, fermented fruits? Or monkeys doing the same? Or that maybe we've been drinking since we were proto-human?
Or maybe The Monolith started dispensing booze.....
My my younger kids, in their 30's, have probably read more than that. My personal library - the sf&f, and that's books in the bookcases in the family room - are closer to 4,000 than 3,000, and there may be 15 or 20 that my late wife read that I didn't care for, and a good number I've read multiple times.
And no, I don't speed read - from what I've read, you miss a lot of what they're saying in content that needs to be thought about. I do read about 250 wpm, though.
So, jeez, if you're talking about 60 years of reading, 4600 isn't even 100/yr. Of course, I read the average American reads about 3 - that's THREE - books a year, so between my family and friends, there are thousands of Americans who don't read one book a year.
And you want to work with these people? Or they think they should vote?
Given that US paper money says "This note is legal tender for ALL debts, public and private" (emphasis mine). Refusing cash is refusing to be paid, so I guess whatever it was must be free, or they're not selling it.
So, do *you* answer phone calls/emails/texts from work at any hour? Do you get overtime for that (hahahahahhahaha!)? Does your boss expect a response, every time the fart, day or night, and tell you "whatever it takes", who cares if you are trying to have a life?
Why the *fsck* do you need to be "SO PRODUCTIVE"? And it's people like you who jump on those of us who actually work to live, instead of living to work. That's why he's writing this, you freakin' Calvinist.
1. Q: What's the difference between windows and a virus?
A: You pay for windows.
2. Back in the mid-nineties, friends introduced me to the idea that you never win with Windows, you only lose, so they referred to Lose 95. Worked just as well with Lose 98... and the *perfectly* named Lose ME.
Does the study include rates of folks *sharing* housing/apts?
Now, given that I read in the media earlier this year that hedge fund and other scum of the earth were buying up rental properties, and raising rents, I'd like to see a real study (shut *up* LIbertidiot trolls) that shows the rate of shared housing.
For example, a friend who's sharing a house with three other people. Or one of my daughters, who, with her husband, bought a house with another couple, which makes it *not* "single family" housing.