people starved to death in India and all over British colonies when Britain dumped their factory made goods. In fact without such a large dumping ground creating jobs in Britain, the Industrial Revolution might have fizzled out.
It doesn't have to be all-or-nothing. A decrease in inequality may slow progress in some cases, but that's not necessarily a bad trade-off. Perhaps progress is happening faster than society can absorb anyhow. We may borgify and/or nuke ourselves before we even realize it.
working class people who think it's in their best interests to make the rich richer so that a little more can trickle down to their level.
The propagandists use another trick, claiming that if the gov't or unions get big in general, then they will use their power to do "anti-Christian" things, like build gender-neutral restrooms and make Christians pay for them. Bundled FUD.
People have always adapted, shifted their career focus, and created new industries which are not as easily automated. Unless someone can come up with an argument showing how this time will be different
Here's the evidence: nobody can identify the new fields that are replacing the old ones, unlike the past. Sure, there are new fields, but they not appearing in sufficient quantity to replace those lost. And even those fields are being offshored to cheap-labor countries.
For example, craigslist employs about 60 people, but has probably killed tens or hundreds of thousands of newspaper-related jobs in the process.
Automatic steam-powered weaving machines caused the birth of the Union movement
The rich are spending billions to kill off unions by a combination of (legally) bribing politicians, and propping up plutocrat-kissing pundits like Fox News, Rush, and Breitbart to convince the voting population that unions kill jobs and the economy.
The rich are winning the class war because they can buy more and bigger weapons.
Been-there-done-that. The thing is, I can accept the idea that we have to compete on a global market, and brains are becoming a cheap commodity. We cannot stop the inevitable. It's not 1970 anymore.
However, I think it's reasonable to shut the tech-visa door during a recession, which the US government did NOT. I lost two jobs during a recession when the 1st company croaked and the 2nd outsourced, and had to leave the state and my family to find work. I probably would have actually voted for T back then, *gulp*.
Often scientists end up discovering natural processes that can resemble the patterns of life, both physical and chemical. Error on the side of skepticism.
[urine only] 5 hundredths of a percent of the water volume...It wouldn't surprise me if the mass of dead skin or even hair was greater than non-aqueous urine components...
You are not helping. It's like clicking on a goatse link hoping to find a better picture.
been so long since I even looked at having to do one of those, that I would be put back on the next plane home
Same here. The stress wouldn't help my memory either.
I'd probably write a basic tree recursion traversal and count the total left and total right nodes, and if the final count is equal, display "Balanced! Now let me go." (Please don't cue that Queen song.)
Without any further explanation, the official apparently said, "Look, I am going to let you go, but you don't look convincing to me."
They give specific test questions to see if he's a techie, but in the end use a very subjective "don't look convincing".
Why fucking bother with the test if you are just going to guess out of your ass? Unless, maybe it was a stress test to see if he breaks. Cops sometimes use lie-detectors not to see actual lies, but as a shot in the dark to see if the stress alone induces confessions.
By the way, how about a more practical test question, like "Fix the Unicode problem on Slashdot."â(TM) If he solves it, give him citizenship.
My opinion of Trump would go from F to D if he rid software patents. It would stimulate a lot of small tech biz's who don't have armies of patent lawyers.
not just the coding side...what really counts is being able to answer yes to the question "Would I want to spend 8 hours sitting next to this person on an airplane seat?"
Indeed! Those who have hired me also tend to be similar to me. The downside of working with a clone is that I'm an asshole.
I find parameterized queries a pain to test and troubleshoot on some platforms because you cannot see the actual SQL the RDBMS is using. Maybe I'm doing it wrong, but I'm disappointed with them.
Everyone wants sites ASAP and cheap, but debugging them is not ASAP and cheap. Grumble grumble.
I've seen kids from multiple backgrounds and ethnicity gravitate toward bland, starchy foods; like noodles, white bread, and macaroni-and-cheese. Sugar preference varies, but they nearly all seem to love processed starch. They quite often remove everything from pizza except the bread, maybe leaving the cheese.
Kind of like using calories as the scale for taste.
There's also sugar, salt, and frying (over-cooking) that are not really calorie-related. By weight, sugar has the same calories as other carbohydrates.
Actually, halibut tastes good (and is more expensive) largely because it's fatty. "Skinnier" fish don't taste so good without frying (=oil) and/or enough seasoning and salt to knock it closer to the "bad" category.
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It doesn't have to be all-or-nothing. A decrease in inequality may slow progress in some cases, but that's not necessarily a bad trade-off. Perhaps progress is happening faster than society can absorb anyhow. We may borgify and/or nuke ourselves before we even realize it.
Humans are corrupt, period. If we disband society and go back to caves to avoid all corruption, then corrupt bears will eat us.
"Perfection or nothing" is stupid.
The propagandists use another trick, claiming that if the gov't or unions get big in general, then they will use their power to do "anti-Christian" things, like build gender-neutral restrooms and make Christians pay for them. Bundled FUD.
Here's the evidence: nobody can identify the new fields that are replacing the old ones, unlike the past. Sure, there are new fields, but they not appearing in sufficient quantity to replace those lost. And even those fields are being offshored to cheap-labor countries.
For example, craigslist employs about 60 people, but has probably killed tens or hundreds of thousands of newspaper-related jobs in the process.
The rich are spending billions to kill off unions by a combination of (legally) bribing politicians, and propping up plutocrat-kissing pundits like Fox News, Rush, and Breitbart to convince the voting population that unions kill jobs and the economy.
The rich are winning the class war because they can buy more and bigger weapons.
Been-there-done-that. The thing is, I can accept the idea that we have to compete on a global market, and brains are becoming a cheap commodity. We cannot stop the inevitable. It's not 1970 anymore.
However, I think it's reasonable to shut the tech-visa door during a recession, which the US government did NOT. I lost two jobs during a recession when the 1st company croaked and the 2nd outsourced, and had to leave the state and my family to find work. I probably would have actually voted for T back then, *gulp*.
Often scientists end up discovering natural processes that can resemble the patterns of life, both physical and chemical. Error on the side of skepticism.
You are not helping. It's like clicking on a goatse link hoping to find a better picture.
"You dirty mother grabber!"
Not quite the same punch.
Same here. The stress wouldn't help my memory either.
I'd probably write a basic tree recursion traversal and count the total left and total right nodes, and if the final count is equal, display "Balanced! Now let me go." (Please don't cue that Queen song.)
They give specific test questions to see if he's a techie, but in the end use a very subjective "don't look convincing".
Why fucking bother with the test if you are just going to guess out of your ass? Unless, maybe it was a stress test to see if he breaks. Cops sometimes use lie-detectors not to see actual lies, but as a shot in the dark to see if the stress alone induces confessions.
By the way, how about a more practical test question, like "Fix the Unicode problem on Slashdot."â(TM) If he solves it, give him citizenship.
Shit, I'd get sent back.
My opinion of Trump would go from F to D if he rid software patents. It would stimulate a lot of small tech biz's who don't have armies of patent lawyers.
Indeed! Those who have hired me also tend to be similar to me. The downside of working with a clone is that I'm an asshole.
I do? Don't let the DBA's know.
He's the ultimate PHB, but the points come out the front.
Will the Alternative Canada let me in?
Yah, toldja to use SharePoint. *head duck*
But why are your alternatives, the COBOL and Lisp CMS so unpopular?
I find parameterized queries a pain to test and troubleshoot on some platforms because you cannot see the actual SQL the RDBMS is using. Maybe I'm doing it wrong, but I'm disappointed with them.
Everyone wants sites ASAP and cheap, but debugging them is not ASAP and cheap. Grumble grumble.
Yeah, but if you ignore that Fake Physics Newton clown, we have a fabulous shortcut. I know shortcuts!
I've seen kids from multiple backgrounds and ethnicity gravitate toward bland, starchy foods; like noodles, white bread, and macaroni-and-cheese. Sugar preference varies, but they nearly all seem to love processed starch. They quite often remove everything from pizza except the bread, maybe leaving the cheese.
Different charts give different numbers. Trout has more of a bitter "fishy" taste to me compared to Halibut, which I count against it.
One shouldn't eat a lot of meat anyhow, fish or otherwise. Americans eat too much meat.
There's also sugar, salt, and frying (over-cooking) that are not really calorie-related. By weight, sugar has the same calories as other carbohydrates.
Actually, halibut tastes good (and is more expensive) largely because it's fatty. "Skinnier" fish don't taste so good without frying (=oil) and/or enough seasoning and salt to knock it closer to the "bad" category.