It's always just a bad apple ruining it for the rest of us. The system is never to blame.

Twatter is, and always has been, entirely untrustworthy. Years ago they censored one of the first tweets I ever made - a link to leaked police state documents. That was when I stopped using their duplicitous service.

I really enjoy Unity. Hopefully it will continue to be available as an alternative window manager.

We must at all costs prevent the plebs from learning history!

-- V. C. Silverspoon

In Vietnam, where I'm currently living, there is no public concern over immigration from the West. That's because the LOWEST paid foreigner here earns about 5 times as much as the average local. At that price, we foreignersâare definitely not taking jobs that could be done by natives. (Most foreigners are either language teachers or working in international trade.)

Let's extend that logic to America. Suppose your average codeserf in Silly Valley earns $150k. (Almost enough to afford your very own studio apartment in a bad neighborhood!) Then we should require foreign workers to be paid at least $750k. Make that change and the rest will quickly sort itself out.

Once again a member of the judicial oligarchy has demonstrated that they cannot be trusted to protect the rights of the people, and that their power must be severely curtailed.

Your phone is ALWAYS spying on you.

Welcome to 1984. War is peace. Lies are facts. Hate is love. Freedom is slavery. Surveillance is privacy. Ignorance is strength.

Thank you, please drive thru.

Any suggestions on what would be a more profitable line of work? Preferably something that does not require a big pile of capital to get started.

It helps keep the Gulag full, and makes it easy to frame anyone at any time.

Fuck you, commoner, that's why.

Lazy bum! A REAL infoserf works AT LEAST 26 hours a day, 8 days a week. And that's during the holidays!

And you have no right to tell me I can't dump toxic waste in the river you drink from, broham.

One function of government is to protect society from "voluntary" (in most cases financially incentivized/coerced) actions that seem beneficial to an individual actor, but aggregately have a deleterious effect on the prosperity of the whole population.

Consider - dumping toxic waste into the river is "voluntary" (as above) and almost always beneficial to the dumper. Yet most of us are happy to have the government prevent it. Because it's harmful to all of us, even if it benefits the person doing it.

Yeah he does cheap out. If he wants to pay a real middle-class salary (you need significantly more than $100k to actually afford a decent house in most US metro areas), there will be plenty of American talent knocking at his door. But if he wants to pay chump wages - which he does, by your own numbers - then he'll find nothing but chumps.

I notice that people who bought houses a few decades ago tend to seriously underestimate the income required to have a decent life in an American city. Those are the same folks that have benefited most from the crazy housing inflation. At the expense of younger generations, of course. Not saying this applies to the parent poster - just an observation.

I've had several companies tell me they were very interested in improving the security of their software. Then when I found some security issues and suggested we fix them, was told to stop wasting their time with irrelevant stuff. Most recent time this happened was 2 weeks ago.

One company, a few years ago, was particularly bad. One of the vulnerabilities I'd pointed out was exploited a couple months after, resulting in the compromise of a server. That server had full access to a database full of HIPAA-protected patient data. Of course the company leadership denied left and right that the data was PHI (protected health information). But I've worked for other organizations that did take their HIPAA obligations seriously, read parts of the law, and this stuff super obviously was PHI. Also had data on a few patients in Massachusetts, making it subject to the somewhat draconian Massachusetts Data Security Law.

FWIW, that same company's software also directly facilitates likely violations of several state's labor laws. I'm afraid I don't know enough about various state labor laws to say for sure - and some states have really, really bad labor laws - but the stuff they did was super shady. Basically amounted to shorting low-wage workers on their already meager pay. Which is exactly what the customers wanted.

When I pointed out to bossman that this was probably illegal, and surely unethical, his reply was: "shut the fuck up and code, you sub-human peon!"

Without a doubt the worst company I've ever worked with. In terms of leadership, ethics, and code quality. Naturally they are a VC-backed startup based in San Francisco.

Not going to name the company here - no interest in getting sued for libel. But if you're a gubmint enforcement type, feel free to present yourself and your credentials, and we can chat. I post under my real name, you shouldn't have any problem contacting me.