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by gaius 8y ago
What is X tho’? Exploiting minimum wage warehouse workers? Shipping counterfeit goods? Industrial scale tax shenanigans? Adtech? They were OK with all of this, remember.
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by gaius 8y ago
Back in the day if you were a factory boss and the workers wanted to unionise, you would phone Pinkertons and they would send thugs to violently assault any union members. This is what they called “private detectives”.
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by gaius 8y ago
This technology is the very definition of dual-use. There’s fundamentally no difference between a tool that can do “cat or not cat” and one for “terrorist or not terrorist”. The only difference is that people using for the latter probably d
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by gaius 8y ago
Laughing into his billions while his age cohort struggles thanks to people like him.
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by gaius 8y ago
Apparently people past middle age aren't one of those groups. If Zuck had said whites or Asians or men “are just smarter” he would have been flayed alive, but he was (is?) brazenly ageist and not a murmur. That’s Silly Valley in a nu
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by gaius 8y ago
I've never searched for gaps in employment. Several companies I’ve worked for have had a checkbox on the HR paperwork for interviews, have all gaps in the candidates CV been explained Y/N?
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by gaius 8y ago
Right. I’m not saying climate change isn’t happening. But it’s clear that most celebrities don’t act as if they believe it is themselves. No compromises in their own lifestyles. My own carbon footprint probably isn’t 1% of 1% of 1% of the a
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by gaius 8y ago
I’ll be in Brussels this week A 10,000 mile trip to save the environment, hmm
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by gaius 8y ago
Why not use an actual Commodore 64? I’m serious, get one for a song on eBay and a SCART adaptor and you’re in business. There are ample books around, they will be cheap too.
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by gaius 8y ago
If the money were the same I'd hand in my two weeks and get my welding certs. In the UK a good plumber or electrician makes comparable money to a programmer. If I had my time over again, or if I were giving careers advice to a young
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by gaius 8y ago
jumped in and found it to be too simple so they've hijacked the ship and created a new JS ecosystem No, no, it’s that webdevs looked at other areas of programming and thought “we have to be complicated as them in order to be taken se
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by gaius 8y ago
They were interviewing for Google. 99% of developers at Google are doing commodity work. It is are practically IBM or HP now.
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by gaius 8y ago
I'm currently reading a book on brain hemispheres. Apparently experiments have shown that the left hemisphere will completely and blatantly reject obvious evidence even if the right hemisphere 'has a clear counter proof'. So
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by gaius 8y ago
end goal being to be able to qualify this work as Capex This is a common piece of tax optimisation, basically if you say to the government “we did X hours R&D this year and here is the proof” they give the company some tax back. Of co
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by gaius 8y ago
The engineers building this tech should be ashamed, they grew up to be the bad guys Make no mistake, if Google could get away with selling a live stream of your web activity to your HR dept they would do it in a second. After all that’s b
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by gaius 8y ago
The BCS The BCS is a complete joke, completely irrelevant to anyone working in the field, I have no idea how it still exists or what it actually does for practitioners or for the industry.
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by gaius 8y ago
Interestingly HR people don’t refer to themselves as “resources”, they call themselves “professionals” or “business partners”. But at least they’re honest about how they view real workers.
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by gaius 8y ago
Getting organizational approval (which usually boils down to acquiring buy-in from management Why not just... not employ the people you need to fight in order to get anything done? How does the organisation and its shareholders benefit fr
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by gaius 8y ago
Because Tech is a "profession" If this were true, hard-won experience would be prized, as it is in law, medicine, and all real professions, instead we have rampant ageism and statements like “young people are just smarter”.
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by gaius 8y ago
interviewed at Facebook and when I realized that the whole interview was about finding ways to make people spend as much time possible on Facebook In the future people will look at Facebook and Google as the people of today look at Philli
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by gaius 8y ago
"seriously, this is not my main account, please stop linking it to my main account or phone number or facebook account or suggesting it to ANYONE I might know in real life" Their T&Cs prohibit having more than one account, s
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by gaius 8y ago
The "metaverse" . Where you can be what you want people to see w/o others knowing what you are That is a nice idea but I'm not sure it will work because consider Stack Overflow: most users there are little more than a
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by gaius 8y ago
for me for now What exactly does that mean? Do you expect your stake to go up or down in the future? Do you have it in writing that has been reviewed by your own lawyer? Because the reality may be 0%-50%-50% and you just don’t realise yet
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by gaius 8y ago
Without a cast-iron guarantee that your shadow profile is also gone, deleting your FB just removes what minimal handle you had on their file on you. I stopped using FB a year ago, but I just walked away. If GDPR has teeth I want there to be
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by gaius 8y ago
But we give zero training to new engineers in these issues This isn't true, as anyone with an undergrad engineering degree will tell you!
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by gaius 8y ago
he spreadsheet wasn't being used to stop men from getting jobs The linked article on Scribd says that that was the purpose of the list. a time of vigorous anti-union activism "They're not union members, this is, umm, some
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by gaius 8y ago
the real identities of each contributor might be exposed is, quite frankly, horrifying to me Person A adds your name to a list and you'll never know that that's why Person B tossed your resume in the trash. That's horrifyin
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by gaius 8y ago
A CATOBAR setup was included in the designs at one stage but later scrapped for cost reasons. I don't believe it was ever really included in the design. EMALS was undeveloped at the time, and where would you get the steam for a conve
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by gaius 8y ago
the engines domestically... how is hauling spares from across the Atlantic going to work in a hot situation? Don't worry! F35 engines can also be maintained in Turkey.
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by gaius 8y ago
Netflix is better than cable, but not fundamentally different I was thinking about this the other day. I take streaming 4K video completely for granted, but I marvel at the system of pipes that delivers natural gas and fresh drinking wate

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