flyinRyan

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by flyinRyan 13y ago
I'm replying with someone who was challenging the general assertion that the spying might actually be good.
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by flyinRyan 13y ago
>Because it isn't internally consistent. Example? >Neither the absence of finite resources nor the absence of capitalism are consistent features of the economy in Star Trek. It is in the earth economy. Other cultures still have
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by flyinRyan 13y ago
That's what you got from what I said? I'm saying that people think because communication is digital, and digital is easy to listen in on that we should be listening in on it. I say fuck that. Today it would be easy to listen in
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by flyinRyan 13y ago
The Snowden drama is all that's keeping this relevant. The public tends to be like a sleeping person. If you tell them the house is on fire, the first they will do is try to get rid of you because you are a nuance. If you persist
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by flyinRyan 13y ago
wtf are you talking about? The revolutions have increased work times, not reduced them. It's basically unions that have reduced work time.
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by flyinRyan 13y ago
Why is it inconsistent? It's consistent with techno-anarchy: scarcity is a solved problem. Without finite resources there is no longer any point to capitalism, a system which allocates finite resources. So people are left to live lif
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by flyinRyan 13y ago
> Seriously, how do people in Star Trek universe survive in their economy? That's pretty simple: they have replicators. Food shortage? Gone. There never was a real land shortage, we create that with capitalism. Get rid of money
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by flyinRyan 13y ago
Or better yet, strengthen unions again so we can do something about the fact that the discrepancy between median worker pay and executive pay is probably larger than it was in fucking feudal times.
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by flyinRyan 13y ago
It's always an employer's economy. We call it an "employees economy" when they exploit us a bit less than they have previously. But even now, what some are calling the best time in history to be a software dev, there
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by flyinRyan 13y ago
Do you have any experience with the real world at all? If you need a job and have to get one, you'll take what you can get. You think the people who work at Walmart and get welfare think Walmart pays plenty? They have no options.
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by flyinRyan 13y ago
If people can't be bothered to care about security, they won't be interested in doing this.
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by flyinRyan 13y ago
Just wait until you hear what their deductible is.
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by flyinRyan 13y ago
Can we stfu about Godwin? Do you even know what it means? It's from the time of usenet and all it was was an observation that when the Nazi's come up the discussion is usually over. It's certainly not a good excuse to go ig
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by flyinRyan 13y ago
I disagree. It's dangerous to let people slide because "they're just doing their job". People "just doing their job" are the enablers. Without them, none of the really serious man-made tragedies of history w
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by flyinRyan 13y ago
I meant that having the opinion that Snowden is the bad guy here is dangerous. We really need more light on this scandal, not less.
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by flyinRyan 13y ago
Well, I'm sure the employer will try to tell you they do but part of being a consultant is selling. :) I don't pay $800 for an iphone because it costs $700 to make (probably more like $50-$200), I pay it because that's the p
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by flyinRyan 13y ago
But $800/day is still significantly more than $100k/yr even after taking those things into account. For me both those numbers were higher but it came to a 45% increase if I only took 6 weeks vacation.
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by flyinRyan 13y ago
Head hunter. It's really, really easy. Remember, they don't make money unless you're making money. Just be careful that they don't screw you on the rate (you should always try to find out from the company what they&#x
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by flyinRyan 13y ago
I would expect consulting rates to be around $300/hr. IBM charges more than that (over $500/hr).
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by flyinRyan 13y ago
No, why would they? Does an iphone cost less in the Congo (assuming you would buy it legally)?
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by flyinRyan 13y ago
>"OMG $200 an hour — that's like $400k a year full-time! That's insane!" But it's not full time and that's precisely why it costs roughly 3x contract rates. A portion of your year is "down time" s
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by flyinRyan 13y ago
There is one other possible alternative: those of us who feel strongly about this issue need to get into politics. If enough of us get in (obviously we'd have to adopt one of the big two parties, and start getting support at local or
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by flyinRyan 13y ago
None I would say. The legislative makes the laws and assumes the executive won't enforce them if they're bad and/or the judicial will throw them out if they're not constitutional. Of course, plenty of things that are o
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by flyinRyan 13y ago
I'm not worried about this troll, I'm worried about people seeing their post, seeing no one slap it down and assume it's not a dangerous opinion to have.
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by flyinRyan 13y ago
Because the government has lots and lots of guns.
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by flyinRyan 13y ago
We could know by shutting them down and making the concept of secret courts illegal.
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by flyinRyan 13y ago
>I think it's wildly hypocritical of him to run to China and Russia because he's so opposed to government spying. What a stupid complaint. He's opposed to his country spying, so he blows the whistle on them. Now what is
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by flyinRyan 13y ago
We're on the verge of losing the some very key values the internet provides here. We have to take our heroes as we can get them. Snowden has his flaws, but compared to the beast he's fighting it's clear who's worse.
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by flyinRyan 13y ago
Don't hold your american flag security blanket so tight, you're going to strangle it.
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by flyinRyan 13y ago
Are you serious? You think it would set a good precedent that the guy who blew the whistle on the world wide spying going on ends up rotting in jail? That helps us how exactly?

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