Communism has been tried on a large scale - see Mao's Great Leap Forward.
Nope. That was a totalitarian socialist program pushing a collectivism that didn't work. Communism is a post-scarcity society and obviously scarcity was the thing Mao produced best.
They'll probably use this to ban some app that's helping to get materials and supplies into disaster areas using the pricing mechanism. Whenever a disaster happens, demand for goods skyrockets past supply, prices rise to guide allocation and outsiders desire to risk capital and safety to get supplies in, seeking profit. Then State actors castigate them, threaten to imprison them (dog-whistle: "price gougers"), and so the supply dries up again. Every economist recognizes how this works, but politicians seek to dismiss economics reflexively.
I thought Google was smarter, though.
The norm for big software companies seems to be: you have some number of open reqs for your team, and you're eager to fill them (both to get the work done, and because the might vanish). So you work your pipeline as best you can, interview anyone who passes a phone screen, and hire anyone who passes the interview. At most places I've worked, we end making an offer to about 1 in 20 people we phone screen (about 1 in 3 who we bring in); where I am now we make an offer to about 1 in 5 we bring in, and they don't always accept of course, so that's maybe 50 people who look good enough to phone screen to hire 1. You're much more likely to have too few qualified candidates than too many. Normally, if you end up with an extra guy you'd like to make an offer to, another team will be delighted to take him.
None of my games that came on floppies are still playable. About half the games I have bought on CD/DVD over the years are gone or don't work now (I seem to move every few years, and long-distance moves don't always go well).
Heck, I've bought MOO2 three times now, once on physical media, once from some now-gone download, and once from GOG. Now that it's on GOG I'm very happy. (The games I'm most frustrated with are Fantasy General and Space general, as my media doesn't seem to work and no one has them for download - GOG has some of the Panzer General games, but not these sequels).
Meanwhile, I've bought hundreds of games on Steam, and all but a handful still work (some depended too heavily on GameSpy). Maybe Steam will itself vanish one day, but the risk of that seems lower than the risk of a box being lost the next time I move, or simply no longer having an OS or emulator that I can get to work with older games.
I guess you don't play many EA games, given how often they go shutting down the servers.
That's certainly true, on both counts. Has nothing o do with physical media though - if the game is written to need a server even in single player mode it's crap no matter how you buy it. But fuck EA in any case.
A small part of me wanted to see this go down, just to watch the shitstorm that resulted and see the Republicans claim that it wasn't their fault.
None of this is their fault. This whole unpopular law (among people, as opposed to elites) is the fault of Democrats.
We didn't want this, and the fact that your little provision that is designed to force states into setting up exchanges backfired on you should mean just that: that it backfired on you. You shouldn't get to have the Supreme Court rewrite the law for you to mean the opposite of what it says and of what it's architect bragged that it meant.
You give the verbal offer and *then* do the background & reference checks?
Yeah, I was wondering about that too. WTH?
Hopefully the verdict is in before he gives notice at his old job
>" they'll be asked to make Yahoo their default search engine on Chrome (and Internet Explorer, for what it's worth)"
I guess that means Firefox is the best choice... yet again!
The actual architect of the law, as well as some other people involved with the writing, specifically stated at the time the law was being written that the purpose of the tax credit only applying to State exchanges was to force uncooperative states to comply with the law.
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We've always been at war with Oceana
Another technological leap needed? (Opens blouse) This looks like a job for Porno Demand!
Just imagine what happens if you lose or damage your physical media. That's happened to me about 20x as often as the download servers being unavailable - and the servers came back. Especially for older games, where I'm happy to pay again for someone to port it to a modern platform (GOG FTW).
Buying anything with "always on DRM" is foolish of course, but you get that with physical media as well.
What leads you to believe that? All you've done is display a link between "countries with fewer rights for women" and "women in STEM/CS". This would lead a rational person to believe that when women have more options they exercise them (like in the west). When they have fewer options they are stuck with STEM/CS.
First, not all listed countries induce restrictions on women.
One doesn't. The others do. You've simply displayed a link between lack of womens rights and their propensity for CS. Well Done!
Second, the restrictions do not apply in education.
There's no restrictions in the west either.
Albeit in Iran Theology is off limits in Iran, they can study almost everything if they want to.
Just like the west.
And you know for sure that this does not happen in those countries you listed? As far as I know of those cultures, they treat women much much more different than they do men, including toys and such.
Yes they do, however, in another different than ours.
Their young girls have fewer choices than western young girls. Western girls have many more choices, and are *encouraged* from birth to believe that they can do anything they want to, so they go ahead and do whatever they want to. "Follow your heart" is a western expression for kids, not a middle eastern one.
anyway, to change the reputation of STEM topics (without Biology and Pharmacy which are already a women dominated fields) in the public and show our daughters that STEM can be fun for them.
My point still stands: When young girls (like in the west) are told they can do whatever they want to they avoid CS like the plague. When they are not given a choice they can be found in CS. Did your Iranian friends forget to tell you that they didn't get to choose their major; that their parents did? Or is that a fact you conveniently "forgot"?
FWIW, I'm from a culture closely related to the eastern and middle-eastern ones, and the way it normally goes is that the parents choose on their childs behalf, for everything from spouse to college major. Next time you meet with your friends ask them about it - I very much doubt a culture with arranged marriages does not have parents arranging the majors too.
Whatever it has been used for subsequently, A113 is a classroom at Cal Arts.
> They can protest the uneven playing field.
They created the uneven playing field. I would like to cordially invite them to have sex with themselves.
I didn't actually work on GPUs very much at Pixar, the image computer I worked on was the grandfather of the SIMD image processing instructions on modern CPUs. What would become a GPU later on was a very expensive box from Silicon Graphics, I had one that cost at least a quarter Million dollars.
The moon is made of green cheese. -- John Heywood
