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by lgleason 7y ago
I don't envy people on the receiving end of this. That said, it sounds like it's part of the trend to begin to put pressure on the universities by making student loans less attractive. If there are consequences for racking up larg
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by lgleason 7y ago
quelle surprise! Most of these programs are a joke. I remember when Tech Square Labs in Atlanta did a program to "help" inner city black kids. I went down to talk to them and get more information. For one year of this program they
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by lgleason 7y ago
It really feels like Google is starting to be forced to actually make money on things or get rid of them. With Nest that means sell more of their products and ecosystem instead of supporting everybody else...given last quarter's number
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by lgleason 7y ago
My father lives in a small town in Tennessee where a lot of people have started to go to retire. A number of neighbors who have moved there in recent years have been from California trying to escape the high cost of living.
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by lgleason 7y ago
I've spoken with people who are connected much higher up and the truth is that they could get rid of 70% plus and still bring in the same profit. The unsaid thing is that most profit is still from search ads, the rest of the spending m
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by lgleason 8y ago
It does not surprise me that this is out of Atlanta. One of the former Atlanta Business Chronicle writers that covered tech rightfully calls it the Bangalore of the South. https://twitter.com/Urvaksh/status/1092948
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by lgleason 8y ago
I'll bet you that if you pull further on that string past Ola you will find a lot more that just him. Software has a lot of loud activists, private organizations that hire based on political ideology with ties to governments and many u
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by lgleason 8y ago
Electrolytic capacitors, even high quality ones, will eventually dry out and fail. The older the capacitor, the more likely this is to happen....sometimes they will last longer even with lots of use but..........
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by lgleason 8y ago
I say repeal the law that exempts them from liability. It has had an un-intended consequence of allowing large pseudo monopolies to emerge. It has also given them an un-fair advantage over TV and newspapers who are liable for their content.
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by lgleason 8y ago
The majority of Googles profit/revenue still comes from search/advertising. It has generated wads of cash for them, but if they just sat on the cash it would not make Wall Street happy so they've thrown a bunch of money at di
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by lgleason 8y ago
Years ago I worked at a Burger King in the kitchen and someone ordered a vegetarian Whopper. We all looked at each other wondering how to do that when the manager came back and instructed us to make a Whopper without the meat patty. IE: A
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by lgleason 8y ago
People in the know here, who are saying not to trust was Zuck is saying should make it a point to make sure that their elected reps understand why listening to him is a bad idea. A lot of politicians are clueless when it comes to technology
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by lgleason 8y ago
Many are rightfully making the argument that they are a common carrier because of their monopoly in the space. Right now there really isn't a viable competitor to them. The same is true with Twitter etc. because they are all substanti
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by lgleason 8y ago
This should be interesting to watch. Most of the big issues are moving online payments over to a 3d secure spec. 3DS is analogous to what the chip and pin did for physical credit cards when upgrading from magnetic strips. The thing is, it r
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by lgleason 8y ago
Tongue in cheek......this is planned obsolescence. New model with upgraded features is announced so you start to brick the old ones by making them run into things. :) Of course there is that pesky issue of it potentially injuring/kill
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by lgleason 8y ago
...and these firms have begun to push those Orwellian values via their culture, products etc.. Bonus points the US universities have also become vectors of this with draconian speech codes etc..
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by lgleason 8y ago
This is why I don't use Google Cloud and steer other people away from it as well. Google is not a reliable service provider.
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by lgleason 8y ago
Exactly. Sounds like someone trying to go for a big payout.
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by lgleason 8y ago
I'm a little confused with this one. It would be one thing if these students didn't make it into an ivy league college because of this....but they did. A class action is good, but seems like it would be more powerful if it was stu
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by lgleason 8y ago
This is long overdue. Many college programs have gotten really bloated and over-priced. Students are often saddled with debt they can never pay off because the degrees are not providing skills that employers are looking for. This is not per
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by lgleason 8y ago
The FAA has always been very pro-active about grounding planes that are unsafe. The airlines operating these aircraft do not benefit by continuing to fly them if they are un-safe. Between the cost of the loss, public image etc. it would not
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by lgleason 8y ago
I wonder what would have happened if he had done a presentation in favor of the current favored political/pseudo religious orthodoxy with bad/inaccurate poorly done data. We will never know but, I'll bet you not much would ha
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by lgleason 8y ago
All of this boils down to the same thing. Labor arbitrage. D&I benefits those trying to increase the supply of coders and via supply and demand reduce the rates. Older engineers are going to want more money etc.. Of course a nice benefi
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by lgleason 8y ago
None of this has anything to do with helping people. Instead it is about big soul less companies looking for more ways to get cheap labor. Things like family etc. are a distraction from that goal.
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by lgleason 8y ago
The intent with my statement was more around religious leaders who would give fire and brimstone sermons about sexual immorality while they were having affairs, molesting kids etc... With that being said it has reached a level of violence,
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by lgleason 8y ago
Safe spaces sound great in theory. In reality they are a mechanism/excuse used to exclude, discriminate, bully, gaslight, physically assault etc. people.
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by lgleason 8y ago
At some point I really hope that data, science, facts and reason can prevail over the craziness that has taken over university campuses and society as a whole. Most reasonable people believe in the spirit of social justice etc., but the act
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by lgleason 8y ago
[edited for typos and grammer] Anecdotally, I've run a couple of tech conferences and know others who have as well fairly recently. We've made a point to hold workshops for under represented groups, had the Codes of Conduct, make
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by lgleason 8y ago
I have a Gen 2. 0-30 in roughly 3 seconds. 0-60 in 7.5 to 8.0. Very zippy in traffic, instant acceleration and the handling is on par with some BMW's.
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by lgleason 8y ago
The ICE car is still going to be cheaper overall beyond 10 until major problems hit, especially if you buy them when they are 4-5 years old where someone else took the major depreciation hit. You can save even more if you're able to do

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