You don't get to decide that, and the fact that you don't realize it is the real tragedy.

See, you don't have to agree with people; if you want a civilized discussion all you have to do is reply and explain why. Resorting to name-calling, or even worse, modding down opinions you disagree with only leads to creating an environment of intolerance and bigotry.

I always disliked Trump (which I believe is a socipath), but ever since the election I realized that the real danger for america is not him and his clickbait politics, it's the unflinching, relentless zealotry of the liberals which has become as disgusting and malicious as the right-wing witch hunts of the mccarthy era.

Shame on you people. You're not fascist-hunting or nazi-shaming, you're paving the way to a truly horrible society and you know what, big corporations are playing look like a fiddle.

No. I called out the poster on his "fucking piece of neo-fascist enabling shit" comment, that's it. There is nowhere any mention of any deal in my comment, so if at some point you want to see what a real "strawman" is, read your own post.

to whoever modded that guy up: I hope you people are happy with the echo chamber you're building. Pretty soon there won't be discussions on this website, just a bunch of retards high-fiving each other and reacting to inflammatory op-eds. Bravo.

The guy invited Trump under false pretense, then took part in an ambush to attack him about the trade agreement, and finally "stood up" to him once Trump was gone.

If Trump had done even a fraction of that you'd presently be calling (even more) for impeachment.

^ for the record, anyone who upvoted that comment is adding another brick to the wall of ignorance that is infinitely more damaging to america than trump's fantasy mexican wall

Thank you for showing us the level of discussion we can have with liberals nowadays. We need more of these honest comments so we can look back on those threads a few years down the road and remember how things turn ugly when democrats lose their elections.

In a nutshell, everything he's done in the past year and a half, including taking some heat during phony summits and ignoring the hypocrisy of pussy-hurting liberals like you

Can't wait to use my VBA skills and my regedit expertise to put my name at the top of the leaderboard, like I used to do with Microsoft Plus games.

Even better, have everyone use the same Gmail account, and pretend you're using Slack.

I once worked in a small-ish company where my email handle was my first name + "2", even though nobody was using my first name. Their email admin had created a mailbox with my first name when I was hired, but the post-it with the password was thrown away before I arrived, and apparently it was easier to create a new mailbox than reset the password of the existing one.

Among other interesting things in that company, it was also the only time in my long and distinguished career that I had a desktop with a public ip address, which was great except for the occasional "net send" spam I would get. Good old days.
 

Anyone can afford the domain fee ($9/year) and the fancy Google or Office365 email service ($5/month).

VC money should be used for something more useful, like the lawyers at Boies that allowed Theranos to burn through $900 million on 10 years of vaporware without being publicly challenged (it's the same law firm that negotiated Harvey Weinstein's severance, that was hired by Oracle to sue Google over Android/Java, that was representing SCO in their UNIX lawsuits, that defended the Enron CFO, and that represented Big Tobacco when they appealed cancer lawsuits).

Other good uses of VC money is sexual harassment lawsuits (Uber), "company" houses in the Hamptons and LA (Mode media), worthless music streaming platform acquisition (Guvera) or decommissioned Soviet fighter jets (Terralliance).

You are full of shit.

I'm using Linux on my main desktop today, and while possible, it would not have been such a pleasant experience in 2008. Back then, it was also still a pain in the ass to make cross-browser web pages (Boostrap came out in 2011); subversion was sitll bigger than git, so creating branches meant creating folders and committing code was impossible if the central server was down; storing objects in databases still required an ORM; the only server-side JavaScript framework was from Microsoft and it was the opposite of non-blocking. There was no docker, no vagrant, no ansible; nginx was still obscure, and while sluggish distributed computing was possible thanks to MapReduce, actual machine learning was still a wet dream (Spark came out years later) and AI was pure science-fiction (GPUs were still mostly used for video processing).

Don't rewrite history, and stop wishing harm to people who care about making the world a better place with their code.

Are unions democratic? Well it doesn't matter much if newcomers are voted out of juicy clauses before they get hired. A good example is at GM or Ford where more and more jobs were redefined as "non-core" for new hires, in practice cutting their hourly wage in half for the same kind of work done by "core" workers. This was a decision voted for by union workers as a compromise to protect their existing wages and benefits. Another example is how newcomes were no longer eligible to be part of the job bank at Ford after a layoff, or at best had to accept any position offered anywhere or leave the company, while some people were already on the job bank with the right of refusing three or more position before being kicked out.

Give this unfair treatment, you would assume that people would choose to skip the union. But in many cases, either union membership is mandatory for all eligible employees (because of the work contract negotiated with the employer) or people who choose to not be part of the union have to pay a fat fee to "compensate" the union for their benevolent actions such as negotiating the collective agreement. In other words, total racket.

I don't know, I don't read Steinbeck because it's too boring, and if he wrote that his books suck even more than I assumed.

The real reason why Americans sympathize more with the bosses is because that's where the paycheck comes from. At the end of the day, camaraderie and bonding with coworkers is great, but it don't pay for no kentucky fried chicken or netflix subscriptions.

I'm not an Amazon fan, but I hate independent stores more with their shitty business hours and the usual absence of ways to go back and check previous orders so I don't buy the same season of GoT for mother's days two years in a row.

So Hollywood is forcing Amazon streaming to be a piece of shit on non-Amazon devices, but somehow lets Netflix provide high quality streaming even on my grandmother's bloatware ridden Dell Platitude bought at best buy more than a decade ago?