Washington Post compares Apple's progress to other Silicon Valley giants, claiming that rest of the industry is mostly sitting idle. (Alternate source: Reuters) From the report:
Probably due to the realization that diversity is only good for a company as at most a secondary good. Unfortunately, the prevailing rhetoric about diversity is generally closer to the assumption that there exist plenty of qualified black and non-white Hispanics who are just chomping at an opportunity to prove their worth. However, when one looks at the pipelines coming out of academia, that doesn't appear to be the case there at all. That's particularly problematic because the industry often has a real credentialist elitism so if God forbid some black kid taught himself to code but could only get into a HBC because it was a cheap and safe route to a degree, they'd probably never consider him. Because Stanford, CMU and such.
So if Apple is becoming more racially diverse in those demographics it means one of these things, though possibly both is true:
1. Apple is poaching a lot of good black and non-white Hispanic talent, leaving less for the industry at large. 2. Apple is accepting candidates below their usual standards.
If I were involved in strategy at Google, I would make it clear that if you aren't getting #1, you aren't going to accept #2. That's a route to risking mediocrity for your company, but awesome when your competitor does it to themselves.
What I mind is the incompatibility. I can almost excuse the 360 -> One incompatibility due to CPU architecture changes. Project Scorpio, however, had better run all XBox One games unmodified as painlessly as moving a Windows game from an old gaming PC to a new gaming PC. I don't want to have to have a One and a Scorpio device hooked up at the same time to play games released since 2014.
That's because there are two vacancies on the commission, including one for a commissioner who is supposed to represent the environmental community.
Show me your credentials. Enthusiasm and passion don't count. I don't give a damn what you have dedicated your life to as far as causes go. The only thing that an unelected regulatory board should have on it is qualified experts whose regulations can at least in theory be assumed to be based in professional experience, verifiable by private individuals with similar qualifications (informal, but substantial education, formal credentials, etc.)
You want to push your activism, push it through the democratic process which elects the people who run the executive and legislative branches.
If we had a saner regulatory and tax environment like Canada or half of Europe today this would be the starting point for a lot of new small businesses. Heck, it's a great way for people to try new stuff, get OJT and possibly find a better career than the one they're in.
Just don't give them visas, green cards and all that. If we don't let them come to the US legally except under strict regulations, no one's rights get violated. Not ours, not theirs because foreigners have no right to enter our country. Discriminatory? Sure, but I don't see any mainstream party in the Islamic world batting an eye at the policy of Saudi Arabia of "No Jews, period."
PC gaming is a racist, sexist bastion of white male privilege and clearly consoles are the socially just platform of choice because they have a more diverse market.
People are prosecuted for intentionally releasing top secret material to enemies or to the public.
People are not prosecuted for being careless or incorrectly configured servers.
It is not true that "anyone but hillary" would do prison time for what happened here. They would get butt hurt and it might even hurt their career (and might get them fired and their clearance withdrawn) but federal prosecution for all practical purposes does not occur in this kind of situation.
Doing what she did was precisely what got Petraeus prosecuted and sentenced to a few years of probation.
We interviewed a number of people in their mid to late 40s and asked them some questions like "how would you build a project from scratch today" or "what do you think about Node, Ruby, Python, etc." One senior "architect" had never even considered that people wouldn't use JavaEE. We had one senior developer (middle age) respond that he'd consider starting a new project in 2015 (time of interview) with Struts. Struts for a new project! Not even JAX-RS, Spring Boot, etc. Struts...
Driving people around is a marginally skilled luxury service that in theory a teenager with 1-3 years of personal driving experience could do. Heck, a 20 year old born and raised in an area can probably do it more competently than an older "more experienced" driver who hasn't lived in the area that long.
This is like the outrage that McDonalds workers, people who make $2 hamburgers, are the lowest men and women on the food industry totem poll in terms of wages. Forget automation; if your job is something that a 19 year old high school dropout who fits the stereotypes can do as competently as a "20 year veteran," you aren't going to make much money because the barrier to entry and value of experience is minimal.
It's like going back 100 years and complaining that "senior ditch digger" doesn't pay substantially more than "junior ditch digger."
How many times have record labels gotten caught not meeting their contractual obligations out of malice rather than inability? A lot. So on that basis alone, YouTube is clearly a better platform for artists because it not only doesn't sink its claws into them, but provides them unlimited resources to reach their audience since its business model is simply "we'll provide them hosting and advertisement, you provide the crowd; we'll scale together."
If for no other reason than privacy, this is why a cashless society is totally undesirable if you value privacy. Literally every transaction you do is visible by or through a third party to the transaction. Therefore the third party doctrine would apply to your entire economic life.
And you know that if we get there, no one in Congress is going to propose, let alone get passed, a bill that formally abolishes that doctrine and requires a warrant for every data request.
In case you're wondering why so many people don't support outlawing hate speech, this is one of countless examples. Not a damn thing done to the perp because he is in the "right group." And countless people will come out of the woodwork to declare him a "marginalized person of color" or some shit that excuses why he gets to beat up a random person at another party's rally and brag on Twitter and not even get his account banned, let alone prosecuted.
Because if they made people actually buy bandwidth in blocks, they'd demand the actual service be delivered without any excuses. Under the fake all-you-can-use plans, they can get away with spikes of availability for the actual sold service level.
Criminals MAY acquire and use guns, but it makes prosecution MUCH easier because by possession they have committed an irrefutable crime already.
Same is true of any item that is contraband. They catch you with pot, they can hold you until they can get more dirt on you. Hell, the feds could justify holding you for 10 illegally acquired songs found on your cell phone.
But yeah, guns are Teh Evilz so totally justified and in the public interest. Not threat of that logic being applied to other things...
That comes out to about $108k in severance/employee if done evenly (obviously not). Most of the good companies in my region pay only 2 weeks base pay + 1 week/year with the company...
Eliminate the business tax on repatriating funds if the business distributes 10% of the repatriated funds as a one time dividend to shareholders. The stockholders won't be able to use as many loopholes to avoid federal taxes as individuals, it'll redistribute a lot of the repatriated wealth very quickly and for institutional shareholders like pension funds it'll be a shot in the arm for their balance sheets.
Lauren Southern got censored for posting critical posts on Facebook about censorship on Facebook. There are plenty of more troubling cases like content being deemed a violation of community standards and deleted.
Of course it also doesn't help that Facebook is in the same industry as Twitter and Twitter doesn't even bother to hide their bias (ex: their new "council" is entirely SJW organizations, not even mainstream liberal; they've also been caught shadow banning people for political bias).
Earlier this month, it was reported Twitter blocked U.S. intelligence agencies from having access to a widely used data mining service it partly owns.
Meanwhile back in the real world, Twitter is still subject to the FISA Court and run by people who are neither brave nor powerful enough to defy it without an immediate "stop, don't pass go and collect $200; go immediately to federal prison" response from their local US Attorney.
So the only question is whether or not Twitter is still providing real time access on a passive, less cooperative basis or whether they quietly advertised a "FISA Compliance Support Team" that will expedite your data request for a low, low hourly rate as fast as you can get them an order.
$15/hour is $31k over a ~2000 work hour year. Are you really going to tell me that a burger flipper deserves as much money as a public school teacher, entry level cop or a more senior enlisted service member? Heck, these workers are also insulting many of their own peers in the food business by implying "I work customer service at McDonalds; I should get paid as much or more than a waitress at many restaurants." Because they're totally comparable in responsibility and work load.
Trump has loads of experience dealing with the upper echelons of finance, which is something that none of the other candidates have. If there's any candidate who is prepared to kick Wall St in the pants without destroying finance in general, it's probably him. Say what you will about him, but in bankruptcy, he forced them to come to the table and help him get out in order to save everyone's hides. That's the kind of man you want controlling the federal side of the table the next time Wall St threatens that if they don't get there way, we'll see an economic collapse.
Had they stuck with assisting ICE, CPB and the Coast Guard, it would have been a ho hum revelation that they were feeding law enforcement active intelligence because those agencies are interdiction agencies that operate at or beyond the borders. It was when it was discovered that the NSA was going well beyond its mission and helping law enforcement in many other ways that the public started caring. It was all totally preventable. All the director had to do is issue a directive that they will not turn over any data to law enforcement operating within territorial boundaries except on national security cases.
Company and government-issued phones should have to have some sort of MDM product tied to them. If San Bernardino had used something like Blackberry ES to manage their iPhone (yes, BES supports Android and iPhone) their IT department could have popped the phone open as fast as the guy assigned to the task could log into BES and find the device.
When GNOME or KDE declare themselves to be a "Linux-based OS" and act accordingly. That means drop official BSD support, stop working with the distros and start competing directly with them. My prediction is that whichever desktop does that would take more ground in one year than they have in the last 5-10 years. It would not only give them focus and tighter integration, but would give them a powerful rallying point and cry for others to join them.
In some respects, this is why I am bullish on the long term prospects of Ubuntu. My only gripe is that they used GTK instead of Qt.
Oh wait, I see, you just don't know how to use the phrase "transgendered man" correctly. Hint: a transgendered man is someone who was born female and now identifies as a man.
I'm not a Genetics-Denier like you. A man who undergoes a transgender operation is still a man. I call him a transgendered man because he's had the operation to become a genetic male mutilated to look like a woman.
We could just call most of them extreme eunuchs. It would more accurately describe the situation.
Whose freedom is more important? The transgendered man who wants to use a woman's restroom or the women who don't want to share their restroom with a transgendered man? Who should prevail? You can't make one happy without making the others unhappy. This is the nature of politics. You have to decide and say "you get your way, and you, just deal with it."
The governor of NC chose to side with 51% of his state over probably 0.001% of his state. Sure, there are women who would agree with sharing the restroom. The governor can't know how many. All he probably knows is that he's likely never met a woman in his state except a few activists that like the idea. Therefore he is doing precisely what we ordinarily value which is letting the majority rule.
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Probably due to the realization that diversity is only good for a company as at most a secondary good. Unfortunately, the prevailing rhetoric about diversity is generally closer to the assumption that there exist plenty of qualified black and non-white Hispanics who are just chomping at an opportunity to prove their worth. However, when one looks at the pipelines coming out of academia, that doesn't appear to be the case there at all. That's particularly problematic because the industry often has a real credentialist elitism so if God forbid some black kid taught himself to code but could only get into a HBC because it was a cheap and safe route to a degree, they'd probably never consider him. Because Stanford, CMU and such.
So if Apple is becoming more racially diverse in those demographics it means one of these things, though possibly both is true:
1. Apple is poaching a lot of good black and non-white Hispanic talent, leaving less for the industry at large.
2. Apple is accepting candidates below their usual standards.
If I were involved in strategy at Google, I would make it clear that if you aren't getting #1, you aren't going to accept #2. That's a route to risking mediocrity for your company, but awesome when your competitor does it to themselves.
What I mind is the incompatibility. I can almost excuse the 360 -> One incompatibility due to CPU architecture changes. Project Scorpio, however, had better run all XBox One games unmodified as painlessly as moving a Windows game from an old gaming PC to a new gaming PC. I don't want to have to have a One and a Scorpio device hooked up at the same time to play games released since 2014.
Show me your credentials. Enthusiasm and passion don't count. I don't give a damn what you have dedicated your life to as far as causes go. The only thing that an unelected regulatory board should have on it is qualified experts whose regulations can at least in theory be assumed to be based in professional experience, verifiable by private individuals with similar qualifications (informal, but substantial education, formal credentials, etc.)
You want to push your activism, push it through the democratic process which elects the people who run the executive and legislative branches.
If we had a saner regulatory and tax environment like Canada or half of Europe today this would be the starting point for a lot of new small businesses. Heck, it's a great way for people to try new stuff, get OJT and possibly find a better career than the one they're in.
Just don't give them visas, green cards and all that. If we don't let them come to the US legally except under strict regulations, no one's rights get violated. Not ours, not theirs because foreigners have no right to enter our country. Discriminatory? Sure, but I don't see any mainstream party in the Islamic world batting an eye at the policy of Saudi Arabia of "No Jews, period."
PC gaming is a racist, sexist bastion of white male privilege and clearly consoles are the socially just platform of choice because they have a more diverse market.
Doing what she did was precisely what got Petraeus prosecuted and sentenced to a few years of probation.
We interviewed a number of people in their mid to late 40s and asked them some questions like "how would you build a project from scratch today" or "what do you think about Node, Ruby, Python, etc." One senior "architect" had never even considered that people wouldn't use JavaEE. We had one senior developer (middle age) respond that he'd consider starting a new project in 2015 (time of interview) with Struts. Struts for a new project! Not even JAX-RS, Spring Boot, etc. Struts...
Driving people around is a marginally skilled luxury service that in theory a teenager with 1-3 years of personal driving experience could do. Heck, a 20 year old born and raised in an area can probably do it more competently than an older "more experienced" driver who hasn't lived in the area that long.
This is like the outrage that McDonalds workers, people who make $2 hamburgers, are the lowest men and women on the food industry totem poll in terms of wages. Forget automation; if your job is something that a 19 year old high school dropout who fits the stereotypes can do as competently as a "20 year veteran," you aren't going to make much money because the barrier to entry and value of experience is minimal.
It's like going back 100 years and complaining that "senior ditch digger" doesn't pay substantially more than "junior ditch digger."
How many times have record labels gotten caught not meeting their contractual obligations out of malice rather than inability? A lot. So on that basis alone, YouTube is clearly a better platform for artists because it not only doesn't sink its claws into them, but provides them unlimited resources to reach their audience since its business model is simply "we'll provide them hosting and advertisement, you provide the crowd; we'll scale together."
If for no other reason than privacy, this is why a cashless society is totally undesirable if you value privacy. Literally every transaction you do is visible by or through a third party to the transaction. Therefore the third party doctrine would apply to your entire economic life.
And you know that if we get there, no one in Congress is going to propose, let alone get passed, a bill that formally abolishes that doctrine and requires a warrant for every data request.
In case you're wondering why so many people don't support outlawing hate speech, this is one of countless examples. Not a damn thing done to the perp because he is in the "right group." And countless people will come out of the woodwork to declare him a "marginalized person of color" or some shit that excuses why he gets to beat up a random person at another party's rally and brag on Twitter and not even get his account banned, let alone prosecuted.
Because if they made people actually buy bandwidth in blocks, they'd demand the actual service be delivered without any excuses. Under the fake all-you-can-use plans, they can get away with spikes of availability for the actual sold service level.
Same is true of any item that is contraband. They catch you with pot, they can hold you until they can get more dirt on you. Hell, the feds could justify holding you for 10 illegally acquired songs found on your cell phone.
But yeah, guns are Teh Evilz so totally justified and in the public interest. Not threat of that logic being applied to other things...
That comes out to about $108k in severance/employee if done evenly (obviously not). Most of the good companies in my region pay only 2 weeks base pay + 1 week/year with the company...
Eliminate the business tax on repatriating funds if the business distributes 10% of the repatriated funds as a one time dividend to shareholders. The stockholders won't be able to use as many loopholes to avoid federal taxes as individuals, it'll redistribute a lot of the repatriated wealth very quickly and for institutional shareholders like pension funds it'll be a shot in the arm for their balance sheets.
Lauren Southern got censored for posting critical posts on Facebook about censorship on Facebook. There are plenty of more troubling cases like content being deemed a violation of community standards and deleted.
Of course it also doesn't help that Facebook is in the same industry as Twitter and Twitter doesn't even bother to hide their bias (ex: their new "council" is entirely SJW organizations, not even mainstream liberal; they've also been caught shadow banning people for political bias).
Meanwhile back in the real world, Twitter is still subject to the FISA Court and run by people who are neither brave nor powerful enough to defy it without an immediate "stop, don't pass go and collect $200; go immediately to federal prison" response from their local US Attorney.
So the only question is whether or not Twitter is still providing real time access on a passive, less cooperative basis or whether they quietly advertised a "FISA Compliance Support Team" that will expedite your data request for a low, low hourly rate as fast as you can get them an order.
$15/hour is $31k over a ~2000 work hour year. Are you really going to tell me that a burger flipper deserves as much money as a public school teacher, entry level cop or a more senior enlisted service member? Heck, these workers are also insulting many of their own peers in the food business by implying "I work customer service at McDonalds; I should get paid as much or more than a waitress at many restaurants." Because they're totally comparable in responsibility and work load.
Trump has loads of experience dealing with the upper echelons of finance, which is something that none of the other candidates have. If there's any candidate who is prepared to kick Wall St in the pants without destroying finance in general, it's probably him. Say what you will about him, but in bankruptcy, he forced them to come to the table and help him get out in order to save everyone's hides. That's the kind of man you want controlling the federal side of the table the next time Wall St threatens that if they don't get there way, we'll see an economic collapse.
Had they stuck with assisting ICE, CPB and the Coast Guard, it would have been a ho hum revelation that they were feeding law enforcement active intelligence because those agencies are interdiction agencies that operate at or beyond the borders. It was when it was discovered that the NSA was going well beyond its mission and helping law enforcement in many other ways that the public started caring. It was all totally preventable. All the director had to do is issue a directive that they will not turn over any data to law enforcement operating within territorial boundaries except on national security cases.
Company and government-issued phones should have to have some sort of MDM product tied to them. If San Bernardino had used something like Blackberry ES to manage their iPhone (yes, BES supports Android and iPhone) their IT department could have popped the phone open as fast as the guy assigned to the task could log into BES and find the device.
When GNOME or KDE declare themselves to be a "Linux-based OS" and act accordingly. That means drop official BSD support, stop working with the distros and start competing directly with them. My prediction is that whichever desktop does that would take more ground in one year than they have in the last 5-10 years. It would not only give them focus and tighter integration, but would give them a powerful rallying point and cry for others to join them.
In some respects, this is why I am bullish on the long term prospects of Ubuntu. My only gripe is that they used GTK instead of Qt.
I'm not a Genetics-Denier like you. A man who undergoes a transgender operation is still a man. I call him a transgendered man because he's had the operation to become a genetic male mutilated to look like a woman.
We could just call most of them extreme eunuchs. It would more accurately describe the situation.
Whose freedom is more important? The transgendered man who wants to use a woman's restroom or the women who don't want to share their restroom with a transgendered man? Who should prevail? You can't make one happy without making the others unhappy. This is the nature of politics. You have to decide and say "you get your way, and you, just deal with it."
The governor of NC chose to side with 51% of his state over probably 0.001% of his state. Sure, there are women who would agree with sharing the restroom. The governor can't know how many. All he probably knows is that he's likely never met a woman in his state except a few activists that like the idea. Therefore he is doing precisely what we ordinarily value which is letting the majority rule.