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by jrs95 9y ago
My understanding of this is that it's not much lower than other entry level pay, but they tend to get no raises or smaller raises because their immigration status is tied to their current employment so they can't easily switch job
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by jrs95 9y ago
I used nano for years until I was forced to use vi when I was doing a FreeBSD install just for fun on my Cr-48. Once vim clicked for me I never went back. At the same time, Nano was invaluable as an easy to use terminal editor as a beginner
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by jrs95 9y ago
Is the issue that the right to earn a living is disappearing, or is the issue that we never really had a right to earn a living?
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by jrs95 9y ago
It's the mediocre developers or developers in areas where the overwhelming majority of the jobs are mediocre that are hurt by this. Generally speaking they're not being replaced with better workers, they're being replaced wit
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by jrs95 9y ago
It's not a ridiculous term. Many companies abuse the H1B visa program to keep wages down at the expense of pretty much everyone but corporate interests that save a little money. It's terrible for the visa holders as well, they get
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by jrs95 9y ago
There's basically no way it threatens U.S. innovation because underpaid H1B workers are mostly at banks, insurance companies, etc. Maintenance engineers, or hardly anyone for that matter, at massive corporations aren't exactly doi
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by jrs95 9y ago
If Germany lawmakers actually understand this stuff, I'm jealous. American politicians have basically no clue at all.
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by jrs95 9y ago
Only issue I've had with mine is that they seemed to get clogged relatively easily. I suppose it's improved my hygiene though, now I clean my ears multiple times a day to avoid getting any earwax in my AirPods
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by jrs95 9y ago
In this case it's probably not a concern because the people using these microphones maliciously are most likely the German and/or U.S. governments.
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by jrs95 9y ago
At the same time, nobody with a smartphone actually knows whether or not they're carrying an active microphone around or who could be listening to what's being recorded.
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by jrs95 9y ago
And yet we've seen similar technology in other products, like Samsung TVs, being used to gather huge amounts of information for the U.S. government. From a security standpoint, understanding the capabilities is really all that's r
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by jrs95 9y ago
At this point it's safe to assume everyone is carrying an active microphone all the time. They ought to update this law to account for that reality.
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by jrs95 9y ago
I dunno about that last one. It seems like most consumer tech is trending towards teledildonics, metaphorically speaking ;)
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by jrs95 9y ago
Are there any specific examples you could give about where they currently have a lot of lock-in? As far as I can tell, the worst they get is just as bad as any other company with a proprietary SaaS product.
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by jrs95 9y ago
Well that's assuming that they'll just siphon benefits and energy. Most of the addicts I've known are high functioning and relatively productive -- they just spend a lot of money supporting their habit. I'd imagine this
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by jrs95 9y ago
A higher quality and more consistent product means there's a larger window of time for getting them treatment. If the quality situation ends up like it is in the U.S. now, you end up with a much more lethal product and a huge rate of o
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by jrs95 9y ago
So is heroin. But the fact that heroin is illegal in the U.S. is what has lead to so many overdose deaths. Nobody really ever knows what they're taking or how much fentanyl is in it.
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by jrs95 9y ago
It's not about poor people. A huge number of middle class people aren't accredited investors. But they could easily put a small sum into a high risk investment and potentially benefit greatly from it. Bitcoin is a decent example o
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by jrs95 9y ago
I'm not saying doing what I described is immoral. It's just incredibly stupid.
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by jrs95 9y ago
It doesn't really matter if it's a minority of people when I have to listen to a group of my own coworkers going on about how much they loved that ad. Just to clarify, I totally agree with what you're saying, I'm just sa
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by jrs95 9y ago
These accusations (not charges) came out in 2014 and don't seem to have gone anywhere. Little mention of it since then, and no evidence presented that I can find.
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by jrs95 9y ago
I'd be tired of it if most of the people complaining about having a degree and not being able to get a job didn't major in something which is obviously not a good choice if you want to make money. What I am tired of is anyone sugg
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by jrs95 9y ago
>a heavy handed social weapon that has sometimes been used wrongly You mean like those pro-Northam ads in VA with the Gillespie voter in a pickup truck running over minority children?
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by jrs95 9y ago
> most of society finds it acceptable only if it coexists with a mechanism to redistribute some of that power to the underprivileged class That mechanism exists. It's called voting. The problem mostly lies with how difficult it is t
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by jrs95 9y ago
I mean I was pretty happy out here in the Midwest but you guys might pull me in with this one
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by jrs95 9y ago
I think they're counting on the fact that everyone already has ;)
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by jrs95 9y ago
At the very least they should have had a plan to move to another green energy source. Or at least something that isn't essentially guaranteed to kill people.
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by jrs95 9y ago
> toolbars Man, am I glad that UI/UX knowledge went down the drain
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by jrs95 9y ago
I think it looks and feels much better than before.
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by jrs95 9y ago
I dunno, I thought The Wire was good. And the only guy who went to college in Game of Thrones is sort of a dork. Seriously though, while this is part of the problem, I think the motivations behind this sort of thing are typically not really

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