There are no leftists in America that want Stalin's Dream. The people running tech companies are hard core Libertarians who would run over their own dogs if that dog was getting in between them and their stock options.
There is not a single hardcore Libertarian running any SV company that matters. None. For all of their problems, I have never met or heard of a libertarian whose reaction to the PC orthodoxy of SV is less than extreme disgust. If the head of Google were a hardcore libertarian, he'd have made the rubble bounce on the people who went after James Damore and those that followed up with demands for a witch hunt because that mentality is anathema to everything they value.
Because it's backed by the neocons. You remember them, right? The folks whose handling of intelligence over Iraq made Obama's handling of the DIA report on ISIS look like a highly cordial disagreement between respectful parties? If they say that Hitler is a bad guy, you better get independent sources.
So long as Yelp must remove reviews that were ruled to be defamatory. If they don't, then S230 needs to be reformed because no platform should have a right to keep defamatory reviews up after they've been ruled as such in court.
The biggest culprit I can think of is that most government contractors are big on direct recruiting. For example, you often hear employees bring someone they know or a recruiter gets a resume and a manager will say "cool, we'll open a req." Then the req gets quickly filled and disappears.
And you bet your ass that the Ministry for State Security has met with the company owners and said that as long as they log and turn over the logs of foreigners, they have the blessing of the MSS. Because you can bet that Chinese intelligence is pouring over those logs, looking for kompromat on people who matter to their work.
As I understood it, the bonus was not nearly as high as the unpaid overtime. Like maybe 25%-33% of the value of your hourly rate if they paid you for the overtime.
After college, over a decade ago, I interviewed with them on the consulting side. Their compensation structure was all based around work, work, work, bill, bill, bill leading to bonuses and such. It is precisely the sort of environment where the average woman is going to flame out on compensation because few women are going to want to work 20 hours of unpaid overtime to beef up a quarterly bonus. It's an environment made for workaholic men.
In other words, unless you are one of those people who believe that a workaholic culture is "institutionally sexist," the level of real sexism may very well not pass muster with a federal court.
We are at a point where there is simply no excuse to be a Socialist. If you can watch what has happened in Venezuela and countless other places where it's been tried and believe it just needs "one more attempt" then you truly are more stupid as the most inbred, meth-addict, 3rd grade drop out hick (or whatever variation you prefer of another demographic).
You know why?
Because even they get the gist of "doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results is insane."
On the surface, the intention is good and clear, the following two types of OSS usage will be handled fairly well:
Valid OSS internal usage
A company, let’s call it CatWalkingStartup, uses MongoDB OSS to store cat walking paths. It’s definitely not a MongoDB competitor and not a database service, thus a valid use of the license.
MongoDB as a service usage
A company, let’s call it BetterBiggerCloud, offers MongoDB as a service without contributing back a single line of code. This is not a valid use according to SSPL. In such a case, BetterBiggerCloud will either need to pay for an Enterprise license or open all of their code base (which is less likely to happen).
Here’s where things get complicated. Let’s imagine the usage of a hypothetical company like a Twilio or a PubNub (these are just presented for example, this is not to assert whether they do or ever have used MongoDB). Imagine they use MongoDB and provide APIs on top of their core service. Would this be considered a fair usage? They do provide a service and make money by using database APIs and offering additional/different APIs on top of it. At what point is the implementation far enough from the original?
Fair and balanced take, overall. Even sympathizes with why Mongo did it, even if not in agreement with the ultimate decision.
AWS is not breaking any rules here, but folks need to seriously look at it from a long term sustainability model and not necessarily go with AWS.
Take $20B out of the DoD budget and build a really awesome border wall.
Advantages:
* $20B that is spent domestically. * $20B that builds things that last (ie not ordnance, bullets, etc.) * Will pay for itself quickly with the reduction in human traffic across the border. * Defense spending that saves lives instead of taking them.
Disadvantages:
* Keeps the flow of new Democratic voters reduced. * Doesn't enrich the Military Industrial Complex. * Forces the Chamber of Commerce to hire more native low skilled workers.
The blame falls on the current US federal government shutdown caused by US President Donald Trump's refusal to sign any 2019 government budget bill that doesn't contain funding for a Mexico border wall he promised during his election campaign.
No, it's her desire to see him not get a key campaign promise through and see him not get reelected in 2020. That's what this is about. They are willing to ensure than 800k federal employees don't get paid for months because they are that Hell-bent on seeing his chances reduced in 2020. That's it.
The Democrats supported every wasteful thing Bush and Obama put out there. They supported Obama's expansion on Bush's militarism.
The fact is that if Trump wanted $10B to bomb a randomly named country, half the Democrats would give him the money. It's only--only--when that money is put toward something that is a core campaign promise and related to what people want (border security) that they lose their minds and channel Ayn Rand.
I don't know why any insurance company would offer hacking insurance. It is right up there with "terrorism insurance" or giving life insurance to military servicemen in terms of likelihood that you'll get hit with a payout demand.
I would prefer to just whitelist my contacts at this point. If I don't know you, I don't want to take a phone call from a seemingly random number. With all of the problems around strangers and kids, I can't believe that the industry is so pigheaded on making this a standard feature.
Because he should be able to gut Portland State and wear it like a skin suit because these papers were obvious parodies. IIRC one of them was some sort of "intersectional queer experience in dog parks" paper.
On the activist side, they seriously push ideas like it is racist to warn black people that an old building is not up to modern earthquake codes and might kill them if one hits. Cuz you know, white people only want to scare black folks out so they can gentrify the neighborhood.
And note: this is why the alt-right is gaining ground slowly, but steadily. That siren song "wouldn't it be nice if all of these assholes went away one way or another" starts to sound really fucking appealing after having this sort of bullshit shoved up your ass and backed by amenable authorities.
Coworker of mine's daughter had her bike stolen by a neighborhood shithead. He drove over to the kid's house and told his family that he was going to take a baseball bat to one of them if they ever robbed his kids again.
You know what happened? They didn't steal from anyone again that he knew of. Outside of UMC areas of the world, that is how most of humanity lives and has always lived.
There is nothing uncivilized about his threat. Protecting property rights is the keystone for protecting human life because a significant amount of killing happens over resources. People who are afraid of getting killed for robbery are less likely to do the sort of felonious things that escalate into bloodshed.
The US will hobble itself in the name of national security and then China will get everything anyway because they have hacked and back doored US IT hardware, firmware and software.
There is a way to deal with that short of a full blown war, and that's for Congress to threaten China directly with letters of marque and reprisal. You damn well better believe there would be a redneck/gangbanger floatilla organized at lightning speed if Congress said "we'll legalize privateering if you don't stop raiding our IP."
I think one of the most effective privacy regs we could have would be a law that requires a plain English explanation of what data is sold or transferred to third parties, including wholly-owned subsidiaries that are operating as a separate company (ex WhatsApp and Facebook).
No legalese, something that a person with a GED or high school degree should be able to read like this:
"Location Data
While your phone's location services are turned on, we will collect the GPS data related to your movements. We will use that to target you with more appropriate ads, services and products. We sell this data to Facebook, Twitter and Amazon. Other purchasers may be added later to this list."
If it were spelled out in those terms, a lot more people would notice and care.
What is new, Leary says, quoting Marxist economic historian Ernest Mandel, is our "belief in the omnipotence of technology" and in experts
There is nothing knew about our belief in the omnipotence of "experts." It started in the Progressive Era. Everything you see today is just a hardening of trends that were generations in the making.
Coming from the right side of the spectrum, I don't see much respect for "experts" or technology on our side. What I see on the left side is two factions:
1. The highly intelligent and/or connected who know the game and play it for maximum fun, profit and power. 2. The average and 1SD above who love to pretend to be "educated" or "data-driven" folks. All of those postures people take on media such as constantly liking "I Fucking Love Science" to act the intellectual.
The former are scared of losing their power and privilege; the latter are scared of looking like the "rubes" and "hicks" they mock in fly-over country.
Granted, the specific ask you mention for laptops would probably have to be procured competitive bid since it's unlikely any supplier would have pre-negotiated rates for whatever specific laptops they are needing. But, in government, it's pretty rare that jobs just come up out of no where unexpectedly where they need to direct hire 20 people where they couldn't just move some folks around temporarily from other projects. And even that event would be rare. MOST likely what would happen in your situation is that the government would just contract that particular need that is causing the staffing out to a consultant company that has a GSA schedule, and the consultant can hire who ever they like and buy whatever equipment they like.
I know about the GSA schedule. It helps, but not nearly enough.
The situation you describe is quite easy to create.
1. Contractor wins new contract. 2. Contractor submits a bunch of resumes. 3. Personnel security screens them one by one. Some come on faster than others. 4. Multiple days of mandatory training and paperwork to get everything setup. 5. No one got GFE supplied; they also need GFE per the terms of the contract that the government itself wrote.
The government frequently sees the jobs coming months in advance and no one in the "support branches" was preparing for it. No one. There are times I honestly don't know how some government PMs don't lose it and get hauled out in handcuffs with the amount of crap they often have to put up with.
I think the procurement kabuki is a key part of why there is a lot of malaise in the federal workforce. It takes an incredible amount of paperwork compared to the private sector to do something as simple as drop $50k on new IT equipment that has been identified as a key need. For example, you can't just do this:
Government PM: "Mr. Contracts Officer I have 20 contractors onboarding over the next 6 weeks. I need 20 new laptops, 20 new monitors and 20 new keyboard/mouse setups." Contracts Officer: "Sounds good, I'll call John Smith at Dell after lunch and arrange a purchase order. I'll tell him to expedite the shipping so the first new hires hit the ground running."
That is what the public would like. That is also what would get both parties sent to prison for violating multiple procurement statutes.
But hey, no appearance of impropriety if we can beat you unconscious with the paperwork.
The US Secret Service was the main federal law enforcement and intel agency until the rise of organized crime and J Edgar got momentum. I defy anyone to show evidence that the federal government had the Secret Service running around Europe breaking into star inventors' offices and pilfering their secrets.
If they did, and were caught, the empires of Europe would have declared war on us. It is one thing to steal ideas at the patent office. This is an act of aggression.
Those of you still butthurt and crying "da rooskeez" like some 'baccer-chewin hillbilly who never heard about the fall of the Berlin Wall voted for a woman who literally advocated on tape corrupting the Palestinian elections until we got the result we wanted.
Going to bet that if Trump ever woke up and said "fuck it, why the hell not" on declassifying EVERY document of hers from her tenure at State, you'd find a whole lot worse coming from her office in terms of corrupting elections than anything Mueller has on these Russians.
Just like if we ever got the full truth on the weapons and cash-running in Libya (what Benghazi was really about) and how it basically fucked our counter CWMD efforts up the ass for a generation, the investigation would make the Church Committee look like a bunch of back-slapping between buddies for State and the CIA.
And it's one that it doesn't even probably know about or care much if it does: Brandon Eich's firing.
It doesn't matter what you think about gay rights. The fact is that the way he was treated over Prop 8 caused a huge number of center-right people to immediately move elsewhere from using Firefox. When it happened, every conservative-leaning site I knew was aghast and saying "punish Mozilla by switching to Chrome or Safari."
Mozilla is simply not going to regain many of those critical North American users without taking concrete steps to prove that they are a different company, and that starts with a public admission that firing him was wrong.
Right now would be the perfect time for Mozilla to do this and position themselves as the anti-Google browser. With the way things have moved electorally everywhere from the US, to Brazil, to Italy, I would hazard a guess that "repenting of SJWism" by firing anyone left over responsible for that decision, disavowing it and focusing on technology would lead to a massive surge of new users who are fed up with the status quo.
Pigs are an invasive species in the wilds of North America. There is no conservation argument for protecting them under hunting regulations. Just lift all of the hunting regs and give hunters a standard meat value of a few bucks per pound donated to a charity, and you'll see the problem dry up quickly.
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There is not a single hardcore Libertarian running any SV company that matters. None. For all of their problems, I have never met or heard of a libertarian whose reaction to the PC orthodoxy of SV is less than extreme disgust. If the head of Google were a hardcore libertarian, he'd have made the rubble bounce on the people who went after James Damore and those that followed up with demands for a witch hunt because that mentality is anathema to everything they value.
Because it's backed by the neocons. You remember them, right? The folks whose handling of intelligence over Iraq made Obama's handling of the DIA report on ISIS look like a highly cordial disagreement between respectful parties? If they say that Hitler is a bad guy, you better get independent sources.
So long as Yelp must remove reviews that were ruled to be defamatory. If they don't, then S230 needs to be reformed because no platform should have a right to keep defamatory reviews up after they've been ruled as such in court.
The biggest culprit I can think of is that most government contractors are big on direct recruiting. For example, you often hear employees bring someone they know or a recruiter gets a resume and a manager will say "cool, we'll open a req." Then the req gets quickly filled and disappears.
And you bet your ass that the Ministry for State Security has met with the company owners and said that as long as they log and turn over the logs of foreigners, they have the blessing of the MSS. Because you can bet that Chinese intelligence is pouring over those logs, looking for kompromat on people who matter to their work.
As I understood it, the bonus was not nearly as high as the unpaid overtime. Like maybe 25%-33% of the value of your hourly rate if they paid you for the overtime.
After college, over a decade ago, I interviewed with them on the consulting side. Their compensation structure was all based around work, work, work, bill, bill, bill leading to bonuses and such. It is precisely the sort of environment where the average woman is going to flame out on compensation because few women are going to want to work 20 hours of unpaid overtime to beef up a quarterly bonus. It's an environment made for workaholic men.
In other words, unless you are one of those people who believe that a workaholic culture is "institutionally sexist," the level of real sexism may very well not pass muster with a federal court.
We are at a point where there is simply no excuse to be a Socialist. If you can watch what has happened in Venezuela and countless other places where it's been tried and believe it just needs "one more attempt" then you truly are more stupid as the most inbred, meth-addict, 3rd grade drop out hick (or whatever variation you prefer of another demographic).
You know why?
Because even they get the gist of "doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results is insane."
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Fair and balanced take, overall. Even sympathizes with why Mongo did it, even if not in agreement with the ultimate decision.
AWS is not breaking any rules here, but folks need to seriously look at it from a long term sustainability model and not necessarily go with AWS.
Take $20B out of the DoD budget and build a really awesome border wall.
Advantages:
* $20B that is spent domestically.
* $20B that builds things that last (ie not ordnance, bullets, etc.)
* Will pay for itself quickly with the reduction in human traffic across the border.
* Defense spending that saves lives instead of taking them.
Disadvantages:
* Keeps the flow of new Democratic voters reduced.
* Doesn't enrich the Military Industrial Complex.
* Forces the Chamber of Commerce to hire more native low skilled workers.
Huh, hard choice.
No, it's her desire to see him not get a key campaign promise through and see him not get reelected in 2020. That's what this is about. They are willing to ensure than 800k federal employees don't get paid for months because they are that Hell-bent on seeing his chances reduced in 2020. That's it.
The Democrats supported every wasteful thing Bush and Obama put out there. They supported Obama's expansion on Bush's militarism.
The fact is that if Trump wanted $10B to bomb a randomly named country, half the Democrats would give him the money. It's only--only--when that money is put toward something that is a core campaign promise and related to what people want (border security) that they lose their minds and channel Ayn Rand.
I don't know why any insurance company would offer hacking insurance. It is right up there with "terrorism insurance" or giving life insurance to military servicemen in terms of likelihood that you'll get hit with a payout demand.
I would prefer to just whitelist my contacts at this point. If I don't know you, I don't want to take a phone call from a seemingly random number. With all of the problems around strangers and kids, I can't believe that the industry is so pigheaded on making this a standard feature.
Because he should be able to gut Portland State and wear it like a skin suit because these papers were obvious parodies. IIRC one of them was some sort of "intersectional queer experience in dog parks" paper.
On the activist side, they seriously push ideas like it is racist to warn black people that an old building is not up to modern earthquake codes and might kill them if one hits. Cuz you know, white people only want to scare black folks out so they can gentrify the neighborhood.
And note: this is why the alt-right is gaining ground slowly, but steadily. That siren song "wouldn't it be nice if all of these assholes went away one way or another" starts to sound really fucking appealing after having this sort of bullshit shoved up your ass and backed by amenable authorities.
Coworker of mine's daughter had her bike stolen by a neighborhood shithead. He drove over to the kid's house and told his family that he was going to take a baseball bat to one of them if they ever robbed his kids again.
You know what happened? They didn't steal from anyone again that he knew of. Outside of UMC areas of the world, that is how most of humanity lives and has always lived.
There is nothing uncivilized about his threat. Protecting property rights is the keystone for protecting human life because a significant amount of killing happens over resources. People who are afraid of getting killed for robbery are less likely to do the sort of felonious things that escalate into bloodshed.
There is a way to deal with that short of a full blown war, and that's for Congress to threaten China directly with letters of marque and reprisal. You damn well better believe there would be a redneck/gangbanger floatilla organized at lightning speed if Congress said "we'll legalize privateering if you don't stop raiding our IP."
I think one of the most effective privacy regs we could have would be a law that requires a plain English explanation of what data is sold or transferred to third parties, including wholly-owned subsidiaries that are operating as a separate company (ex WhatsApp and Facebook).
No legalese, something that a person with a GED or high school degree should be able to read like this:
If it were spelled out in those terms, a lot more people would notice and care.
There is nothing knew about our belief in the omnipotence of "experts." It started in the Progressive Era. Everything you see today is just a hardening of trends that were generations in the making.
Coming from the right side of the spectrum, I don't see much respect for "experts" or technology on our side. What I see on the left side is two factions:
1. The highly intelligent and/or connected who know the game and play it for maximum fun, profit and power.
2. The average and 1SD above who love to pretend to be "educated" or "data-driven" folks. All of those postures people take on media such as constantly liking "I Fucking Love Science" to act the intellectual.
The former are scared of losing their power and privilege; the latter are scared of looking like the "rubes" and "hicks" they mock in fly-over country.
I know about the GSA schedule. It helps, but not nearly enough.
The situation you describe is quite easy to create.
1. Contractor wins new contract.
2. Contractor submits a bunch of resumes.
3. Personnel security screens them one by one. Some come on faster than others.
4. Multiple days of mandatory training and paperwork to get everything setup.
5. No one got GFE supplied; they also need GFE per the terms of the contract that the government itself wrote.
The government frequently sees the jobs coming months in advance and no one in the "support branches" was preparing for it. No one. There are times I honestly don't know how some government PMs don't lose it and get hauled out in handcuffs with the amount of crap they often have to put up with.
I think the procurement kabuki is a key part of why there is a lot of malaise in the federal workforce. It takes an incredible amount of paperwork compared to the private sector to do something as simple as drop $50k on new IT equipment that has been identified as a key need. For example, you can't just do this:
Government PM: "Mr. Contracts Officer I have 20 contractors onboarding over the next 6 weeks. I need 20 new laptops, 20 new monitors and 20 new keyboard/mouse setups."
Contracts Officer: "Sounds good, I'll call John Smith at Dell after lunch and arrange a purchase order. I'll tell him to expedite the shipping so the first new hires hit the ground running."
That is what the public would like. That is also what would get both parties sent to prison for violating multiple procurement statutes.
But hey, no appearance of impropriety if we can beat you unconscious with the paperwork.
In other words, speech that is not particularly controversial and thus never needed protection.
The US Secret Service was the main federal law enforcement and intel agency until the rise of organized crime and J Edgar got momentum. I defy anyone to show evidence that the federal government had the Secret Service running around Europe breaking into star inventors' offices and pilfering their secrets.
If they did, and were caught, the empires of Europe would have declared war on us. It is one thing to steal ideas at the patent office. This is an act of aggression.
Those of you still butthurt and crying "da rooskeez" like some 'baccer-chewin hillbilly who never heard about the fall of the Berlin Wall voted for a woman who literally advocated on tape corrupting the Palestinian elections until we got the result we wanted.
Going to bet that if Trump ever woke up and said "fuck it, why the hell not" on declassifying EVERY document of hers from her tenure at State, you'd find a whole lot worse coming from her office in terms of corrupting elections than anything Mueller has on these Russians.
Just like if we ever got the full truth on the weapons and cash-running in Libya (what Benghazi was really about) and how it basically fucked our counter CWMD efforts up the ass for a generation, the investigation would make the Church Committee look like a bunch of back-slapping between buddies for State and the CIA.
And it's one that it doesn't even probably know about or care much if it does: Brandon Eich's firing.
It doesn't matter what you think about gay rights. The fact is that the way he was treated over Prop 8 caused a huge number of center-right people to immediately move elsewhere from using Firefox. When it happened, every conservative-leaning site I knew was aghast and saying "punish Mozilla by switching to Chrome or Safari."
Mozilla is simply not going to regain many of those critical North American users without taking concrete steps to prove that they are a different company, and that starts with a public admission that firing him was wrong.
Right now would be the perfect time for Mozilla to do this and position themselves as the anti-Google browser. With the way things have moved electorally everywhere from the US, to Brazil, to Italy, I would hazard a guess that "repenting of SJWism" by firing anyone left over responsible for that decision, disavowing it and focusing on technology would lead to a massive surge of new users who are fed up with the status quo.
Pigs are an invasive species in the wilds of North America. There is no conservation argument for protecting them under hunting regulations. Just lift all of the hunting regs and give hunters a standard meat value of a few bucks per pound donated to a charity, and you'll see the problem dry up quickly.