It's not like any big things like emergency preparedness will be effected. In case the previous sentence did not come across properly, it was intended to be incredibly sarcastic. Weather forecasters help emergency management agencies and accurate forecasts are critical for helping to save lives and avert disasters.
The gig economy is perilously fast race to the bottom. At some point, there is going to be a massive market correction. This massive correction is going to result in the collapse of the social and economic fabric. Human beings can only take so much suffering before they rise up. History shows time and again that once the wealthy and corrupt have gone too far, chaos ensues.
that's what made Uber & Lyft work. Cabby work has been the domain of immigrants for decades because of how they're abused. They're usually in lease arrangements with the owner of the car and/or token that effectively pays them less than minimum wage. It was easy to look the other way at Uber/Lyft's worker abuse because it was significantly less than what most cab companies do to their drivers.
Missing from this conversation though was the crazy, out there notion of not letting _any_ company abuse workers. The working class lacks solidarity though. If we were smart we're realize that when one of us suffers we all do...
The Working Class lacks solidarity because the wealthy keeps us divided and infighting. The wealthy tell the poor white man that he is better off than the black man - the wealthy white man cajoles the poor white man into believing that the black man is lazy or intellectually inferior. This was why Jim Crowism happened in the South. Today, the wealthy white men convince the working class that the immigrants are to blame and that immigrants are responsible for crime and stealing jobs. It is history repeating itself. It will take a sudden awakening of the working class to realize that they have been duped by the wealthy. The wealthy perpetuate the lie that if we work hard (harder than those of the "entitlement class") that we can one day carve out a niche for ourselves but the economy is heavily rigged in favor of the wealthy. The wealthy do not want new members joining their ranks - both historically and now. The wealthy refer to those folks with recently aquired wealth, pejoratively as "new money."
The gig economy is just another extension of the wealthy trying to sell us a lie. This time they sell it to us as a "work when you want" or an "unlimited income potential." By painting a rosy picture of the gig economy, the wealthy can continue to cheapen real world skills and get people to do even more work for less money. Fiverr is a prime example of that.
The gig economy is simply a sidestep of regulation. We're fools if we ignore it, but we're screwing people if we don't use it. I can take a cab, pay more, wait longer, and get taken for a longer drive to raise the rate, but at least the cabby makes a passable wage. Alternatively, I can take a rideshare, pay less, get there quicker, not get screwed, but I'm screwing the driver over.
Airbnb is screwing over hotels and neighbors.
Restaurant delivery services screw over restaurants.
Grumble.
Mod the parent op! The gig/micro job economy is going to be our undoing.
I don't think social media is the sole causation of depression, rather it can be a contributing factor. Facebook is a case study in the law of unintended consequences. As much as I dislike Mark Zuckerberg and want to give him absolutely no credit for anything, I don't think he foresaw that Facebook would be a breeding ground for malcontent. He never thought Facebook would become a place for bullying and encouraging people to compare their lives or relative lack of success to others. I am a goodly number of years out from being a teenager and Facebook began negatively impacting my mood and self esteem so I just left it in the dust. I am now just a little over three months Facebook-free and I am better off for it.
Dude, you've been living under a rock because prepaid cell phones are usually unlimited talk and text at the bare minimum. Trust me, I pay 50.00 for mine and I even have unlimited data.
Consumers are now just given a lot of hardware that is essentially a walled garden. It seems like manufacturers don't want to allow the people whom buy their products any freedom to get really creative with them. I miss the days when manufacturers encouraged their user bases to tinker to their heart's delight. Entire groups and lifestyles grew around these forms of innovations. Nowadays manufacturers want dictatorial control over products that you purchased. In fact, you don't even really own what you've purchased. You have a license to use it in a prescribed manner.
Reliability is what we're missing. 99% of IT today is like an incontinent toddler, it needs constant maintenance and mucking out and patching and updating just to keep it running. Not to add new capabilities, but just to keep it running. Compare that to a car, for which the expectation is that you turn the key and it starts up and goes where you want, without first needing to be rebooted and patched and the firmware reflashed and the networking reconfigured every time.
Which all boils down to quality coding. It used to be a point of pride to write a piece of software that was reliable. Now everything is coded quickly and sent to market just as quickly. The consumer is now the beta tester. We wouldn't accept it if our car won't start but we will willingly accept crappy technology as a just a part of life. Mystifying....
I remember the days when CPU transistor count (and performance) doubled every 18 months (or less), AND the chips reduced in price as well. Now we're lucky to get a 10% improvement from Intel over 18 months, with stagnant or slowly increasing prices.
And intel is churning out processors that are buggy as hell!
I think it is fairly obvious what is missing. Today's technology lacks the software quality and build quality that it once had. I remember when a 640K computer was considered really advanced. Since hardware wasn't cheap and resources scarce, software had to be carefully written and debugged so crashes were rare and software was generally more stable. Fast forward to today and we accept crashes and bugs so easily. Stuff is built cheaply and poorly. Of course, computing has become much more complex with multitasking and multithreading but the attitude of just throwing more hardware at a problem prevails. Furthermore, the technology companies have pushed beta testing onto the consumer and some even have paid support options so they make money at beta testing.
This is a little tongue in cheek but Detroit is not high up on my list of places that I would want to visit anyway. If I did go there, I would stay in a hotel versus in someone's house.
The Federal Fair Labor Standards Act has all kinds of holes in it. It's really a Swiss Cheese law. Truck drivers are considered exempt from FLSA if they do interstate commerce. It's well known that a lot of small, local companies get around this by making certain they have at least 1 delivery out of state per month. No more overtime after 40 hours.
Wait, so truckers that deliver cheese weren't supposed to get overtime? I hope the people who penned that law died of dysentery.
Until I developed diabetes, I drove a truck for a while and truck drivers are, by and large, exempt from the Federal Fair Labor Standards Act. If the drivers in the law suit did not get a favorable ruling on this technicality, they could have had a valid appeal if the deliveries were not interstate. The Federal Fair Labor Standards exemption for truck drivers only exists for interstate commerce.
Snaps are not meant to be size-efficient. They're meant to easily bring software to a platform without all the traditional headaches of mucking with dependencies, builds, etc. I like the idea. Also, why are we still concerned about resources? Hardware is cheap.
I am not surprised that there may be some compounds in foods that can cause cancer. But what we do not know is how they do and with what other compounds they must mix with in order to potentially cause cancer. If you eat a crappy diet and take some supplements that are purported to prevent cancer, you can still end up getting cancer because the compounds that are supposed to fight cancer react totally differently when mixed with the crappy foods.
There are so many times that I have wanted to cast some things from my Android phone but couldn't easily do it. This should be a very welcome addition to the VLC android app.
This is silly. Google is saying every website needs to be https. That's not true and is a waste of money and time to make every site https
I completely disagree. Companies that run websites should already be serving their websites via https. This will probably push companies who aren't using encryption to start or face backlash from users. It is very easy to make use of https! Any competent website administrator should already know how to do this. It isn't even an issue of money either. Let's Encrypt offers free certificates so I don't want to hear that it is a time and money issue.
This comes as absolutely no surprise. Why is it that the right-wing extremists always seem to have a lack of education and intelligence? They goble up this shit like its gospel and never bother to use the space between their ears that god gave them to critically think about any of this. Case in point; the flat-earthers are astoundingly stupid. In the case of overwhelming evidence to the contrary, I cannot fathom how they can continue to believe that drivel.
Where did this thing come from? It's kind of freaky that it's population is growing so quickly and exponentially. I wonder what kinds of havoc it is wrecking on local ecosystems. Was this thing man made?
This is actually a very good idea and an excellent use of drones. As roads become more and more clogged, it can be difficult to get medical supplies to a hospital in emergent situations. It goes without saying that flying delivery drones will alleviate this problem. This might also work really well in situations where organs need to be transported. Often organs for transport are first flown to the nearest airport and then placed in a car or van for the "last mile" transport. Imagine if a drone stands ready and waiting to provide that "last mile" option. It means getting the organ to the hospital much faster and potentially more reliably.
One U.S. congressman argued that the harsh penalty "demonstrates that we have the tools to rein in Wall Street -- if our regulators have the guts to use them." Uh, no it does not. Wells Fargo has been nailed time and again for abuse yet they continue to do it. The only way to stop it is to make the executives subject to criminal punishment with jail time. Instead, they get away scot-free with a generous golden parachute. This makes me really cheer when the market goes down!
Seriously, folks, Microsoft is a software company, not a hardware company. They're not set up to design hardware. The Surface is really terrible as the NFL will gladly tell you. I wouldn't pay 799.00 for that, maybe around 250.00-275.00. Microsoft is trying to be all things technology to all people and not doing a particularly good job of it. I believe it is almost better to focus on a core competency or two or three and run with that. Microsoft is almost the Siemens of the United States: they do a lot of things but not one thing particularly well.
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Donald Trump's grand plan for the internet is two dixie cups and some yarn.
It's not like any big things like emergency preparedness will be effected. In case the previous sentence did not come across properly, it was intended to be incredibly sarcastic. Weather forecasters help emergency management agencies and accurate forecasts are critical for helping to save lives and avert disasters.
The gig economy is perilously fast race to the bottom. At some point, there is going to be a massive market correction. This massive correction is going to result in the collapse of the social and economic fabric. Human beings can only take so much suffering before they rise up. History shows time and again that once the wealthy and corrupt have gone too far, chaos ensues.
that's what made Uber & Lyft work. Cabby work has been the domain of immigrants for decades because of how they're abused. They're usually in lease arrangements with the owner of the car and/or token that effectively pays them less than minimum wage. It was easy to look the other way at Uber/Lyft's worker abuse because it was significantly less than what most cab companies do to their drivers. Missing from this conversation though was the crazy, out there notion of not letting _any_ company abuse workers. The working class lacks solidarity though. If we were smart we're realize that when one of us suffers we all do...
The Working Class lacks solidarity because the wealthy keeps us divided and infighting. The wealthy tell the poor white man that he is better off than the black man - the wealthy white man cajoles the poor white man into believing that the black man is lazy or intellectually inferior. This was why Jim Crowism happened in the South. Today, the wealthy white men convince the working class that the immigrants are to blame and that immigrants are responsible for crime and stealing jobs. It is history repeating itself. It will take a sudden awakening of the working class to realize that they have been duped by the wealthy. The wealthy perpetuate the lie that if we work hard (harder than those of the "entitlement class") that we can one day carve out a niche for ourselves but the economy is heavily rigged in favor of the wealthy. The wealthy do not want new members joining their ranks - both historically and now. The wealthy refer to those folks with recently aquired wealth, pejoratively as "new money."
The gig economy is just another extension of the wealthy trying to sell us a lie. This time they sell it to us as a "work when you want" or an "unlimited income potential." By painting a rosy picture of the gig economy, the wealthy can continue to cheapen real world skills and get people to do even more work for less money. Fiverr is a prime example of that.
The gig economy is simply a sidestep of regulation. We're fools if we ignore it, but we're screwing people if we don't use it. I can take a cab, pay more, wait longer, and get taken for a longer drive to raise the rate, but at least the cabby makes a passable wage. Alternatively, I can take a rideshare, pay less, get there quicker, not get screwed, but I'm screwing the driver over.
Airbnb is screwing over hotels and neighbors.
Restaurant delivery services screw over restaurants.
Grumble.
Mod the parent op! The gig/micro job economy is going to be our undoing.
I don't think social media is the sole causation of depression, rather it can be a contributing factor. Facebook is a case study in the law of unintended consequences. As much as I dislike Mark Zuckerberg and want to give him absolutely no credit for anything, I don't think he foresaw that Facebook would be a breeding ground for malcontent. He never thought Facebook would become a place for bullying and encouraging people to compare their lives or relative lack of success to others. I am a goodly number of years out from being a teenager and Facebook began negatively impacting my mood and self esteem so I just left it in the dust. I am now just a little over three months Facebook-free and I am better off for it.
Smart watches are literally useless. They're just glorified accessories or bling.
Dude, you've been living under a rock because prepaid cell phones are usually unlimited talk and text at the bare minimum. Trust me, I pay 50.00 for mine and I even have unlimited data.
Consumers are now just given a lot of hardware that is essentially a walled garden. It seems like manufacturers don't want to allow the people whom buy their products any freedom to get really creative with them. I miss the days when manufacturers encouraged their user bases to tinker to their heart's delight. Entire groups and lifestyles grew around these forms of innovations. Nowadays manufacturers want dictatorial control over products that you purchased. In fact, you don't even really own what you've purchased. You have a license to use it in a prescribed manner.
Reliability is what we're missing. 99% of IT today is like an incontinent toddler, it needs constant maintenance and mucking out and patching and updating just to keep it running. Not to add new capabilities, but just to keep it running. Compare that to a car, for which the expectation is that you turn the key and it starts up and goes where you want, without first needing to be rebooted and patched and the firmware reflashed and the networking reconfigured every time.
Which all boils down to quality coding. It used to be a point of pride to write a piece of software that was reliable. Now everything is coded quickly and sent to market just as quickly. The consumer is now the beta tester. We wouldn't accept it if our car won't start but we will willingly accept crappy technology as a just a part of life. Mystifying....
I remember the days when CPU transistor count (and performance) doubled every 18 months (or less), AND the chips reduced in price as well. Now we're lucky to get a 10% improvement from Intel over 18 months, with stagnant or slowly increasing prices.
And intel is churning out processors that are buggy as hell!
I think it is fairly obvious what is missing. Today's technology lacks the software quality and build quality that it once had. I remember when a 640K computer was considered really advanced. Since hardware wasn't cheap and resources scarce, software had to be carefully written and debugged so crashes were rare and software was generally more stable. Fast forward to today and we accept crashes and bugs so easily. Stuff is built cheaply and poorly. Of course, computing has become much more complex with multitasking and multithreading but the attitude of just throwing more hardware at a problem prevails. Furthermore, the technology companies have pushed beta testing onto the consumer and some even have paid support options so they make money at beta testing.
This is a little tongue in cheek but Detroit is not high up on my list of places that I would want to visit anyway. If I did go there, I would stay in a hotel versus in someone's house.
The Federal Fair Labor Standards Act has all kinds of holes in it. It's really a Swiss Cheese law. Truck drivers are considered exempt from FLSA if they do interstate commerce. It's well known that a lot of small, local companies get around this by making certain they have at least 1 delivery out of state per month. No more overtime after 40 hours.
Wait, so truckers that deliver cheese weren't supposed to get overtime? I hope the people who penned that law died of dysentery.
Until I developed diabetes, I drove a truck for a while and truck drivers are, by and large, exempt from the Federal Fair Labor Standards Act. If the drivers in the law suit did not get a favorable ruling on this technicality, they could have had a valid appeal if the deliveries were not interstate. The Federal Fair Labor Standards exemption for truck drivers only exists for interstate commerce.
Snaps are not meant to be size-efficient. They're meant to easily bring software to a platform without all the traditional headaches of mucking with dependencies, builds, etc. I like the idea. Also, why are we still concerned about resources? Hardware is cheap.
I am not surprised that there may be some compounds in foods that can cause cancer. But what we do not know is how they do and with what other compounds they must mix with in order to potentially cause cancer. If you eat a crappy diet and take some supplements that are purported to prevent cancer, you can still end up getting cancer because the compounds that are supposed to fight cancer react totally differently when mixed with the crappy foods.
There are so many times that I have wanted to cast some things from my Android phone but couldn't easily do it. This should be a very welcome addition to the VLC android app.
This is silly. Google is saying every website needs to be https. That's not true and is a waste of money and time to make every site https
I completely disagree. Companies that run websites should already be serving their websites via https. This will probably push companies who aren't using encryption to start or face backlash from users. It is very easy to make use of https! Any competent website administrator should already know how to do this. It isn't even an issue of money either. Let's Encrypt offers free certificates so I don't want to hear that it is a time and money issue.
Jesus you are delusional. China is a dictatorship.
Actually, you're wrong. China is a Communist oligarchy.
This comes as absolutely no surprise. Why is it that the right-wing extremists always seem to have a lack of education and intelligence? They goble up this shit like its gospel and never bother to use the space between their ears that god gave them to critically think about any of this. Case in point; the flat-earthers are astoundingly stupid. In the case of overwhelming evidence to the contrary, I cannot fathom how they can continue to believe that drivel.
Where did this thing come from? It's kind of freaky that it's population is growing so quickly and exponentially. I wonder what kinds of havoc it is wrecking on local ecosystems. Was this thing man made?
This is actually a very good idea and an excellent use of drones. As roads become more and more clogged, it can be difficult to get medical supplies to a hospital in emergent situations. It goes without saying that flying delivery drones will alleviate this problem. This might also work really well in situations where organs need to be transported. Often organs for transport are first flown to the nearest airport and then placed in a car or van for the "last mile" transport. Imagine if a drone stands ready and waiting to provide that "last mile" option. It means getting the organ to the hospital much faster and potentially more reliably.
One U.S. congressman argued that the harsh penalty "demonstrates that we have the tools to rein in Wall Street -- if our regulators have the guts to use them." Uh, no it does not. Wells Fargo has been nailed time and again for abuse yet they continue to do it. The only way to stop it is to make the executives subject to criminal punishment with jail time. Instead, they get away scot-free with a generous golden parachute. This makes me really cheer when the market goes down!
Seriously, folks, Microsoft is a software company, not a hardware company. They're not set up to design hardware. The Surface is really terrible as the NFL will gladly tell you. I wouldn't pay 799.00 for that, maybe around 250.00-275.00. Microsoft is trying to be all things technology to all people and not doing a particularly good job of it. I believe it is almost better to focus on a core competency or two or three and run with that. Microsoft is almost the Siemens of the United States: they do a lot of things but not one thing particularly well.