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Comment Re: fuck ai sayo! (Score 1) 75

That's what they do. You don't hire people just for the heck of it, you hire because you believe you'll need more people.

Or you hire lots of people and expect to get rid of the ones you like least. Or you hire people you know you don't need for long because you'll be downsizing soon. Or you hire people to keep them away from your competitors. Or several other reasons you don't know dick about but still think you're qualified to run your mouth.

Comment quotas are BS (Score 4, Insightful) 88

Quotas are crap whether positive or negative.

Grading standards should be based on something sensible, not comparison to the class, but to an objective standard. It's not sensible to penalize people for being in an exceptional class.

UCSC had it right when they refused to issue grades. Alas these days they will if you ask them to, which defeats the purpose of not doing it.

Comment Re:Taxpayer-funded should always mean Open Source (Score 1) 55

It's not that simple, because some of the data in there might be proprietary. Sometimes manufacturers of electronic components only let you have them if you sign an NDA. Accidentally releasing even stuff like schematic symbols and associated notes could cause problems for CERN.

I had a quick look because this is of great interest to me, and it seems like they don't have any 3D models. My guess would be that it's for licencing reasons, because even though the models are often freely provided on manufacturer websites, that doesn't mean they are free to distribute. Presumably the footprints and schematic symbols were all made by CERN.

Comment Re: Addictive Design is just Good Design (Score 0) 55

So in the end, while smoking tobacco isn't a good habit, and chewing it is disgusting, as long as a person doesn't do it around others who object, I'm cool with it.

Every time I have someone else's tobacco smoke come into my car in traffic I wanna puke. I don't get a chance to object to their face. If smoking is so fucking great, why don't they roll the windows up?

Comment Re: fuck ai sayo! (Score 1) 75

If you punish companies for firing, you get less hiring.

I want companies to think before hiring so that they do less firing. That naturally means they're going to do less hiring. But firing causes chaos and overhiring masks actual unemployment. If you're not employed for long enough to get out of a hole, it doesn't count in terms of the nation's economic health, but it looks like it does because it reduces unemployment statistics.

Comment Re:Wealth redistribution? (Score 1) 75

Because people have been convinced that having people pay for things, let alone necessities, is the natural order. But before money was invented, there was another natural order, and it was equity — not equality. We know this because we've studied hominid skeletons from prehistoric times and found that people were caring for each other, they didn't just abandon the inconvenient, despite health insurance not having been invented either.

Comment Re:Missing an entire category of people (Score 1) 49

I have this but not with mosquitoes, instead it's with these bastard ants you find in Panama. They live on specific thorn bushes and their bites raise welts on most people... but not me, I accidentally brushed one and got about a dozen bites and they were nothing, less than mosquito bites.

Alas, mosquitoes adore me.

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