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Comment Re: Trump is right (Score 1) 136

You just made a fantastic argument as to how regulation fosters innovation. You innovate not charge more! Think of it this way, what does the price tiers do? They price out users based on their usage habits. We want to use the internet in bigger and more innovative ways but there's a ceiling as to your audience even if the true demand is there.

The fact is telecoms have little incentive to boost their speed and innovate because they're just pulling in easy money. Just about everyone needs the internet but these telecoms answer to their shareholders who want profits to continue increasing at a rate higher than most other basic utilities.

Comment Re:Bias from personal preference (Score 1) 183

I find that if you're shouting over your cube wall a lot then you should probably be in an open office environment instead. But those should be partitioned away from the people who prefer quieter environments. Or even better those people should be given more leeway to work from home most days.

Comment Quick! (Score 1) 440

Quick! Get the immigrants out before they take our ... oh, nevermind.

"Mitigate the cost of higher wages?" So if wages were cheaper they wouldn't use kiosks and cut down on the number of employees? Yeah sure.

Oh and the hiring of more people to keep up with the orders will only be temporary and cease when they fully automate that too.

Comment Approach (Score 1) 1001

I am a notoriously poor interview candidate because of all this stuff. I don't spend my work days memorizing algorithms or other stuff that can be looked up elsewhere. What I bring to the table is someone who can find and solve problems. Basically what an engineer does.

What I look for when I'm on the other end of the table is someone's thought process and how they go about solving problems. Can they learn? Can they problem solve? Are they easily frustrated or give up without a fight? That's important to me. I can't tell you how hard your job gets when you hire someone who BSed their way through these technical questions. Then you realize that they have no aptitude other than to memorize interview questions.

Comment Peer Reviews (Score 1) 433

In the case of code or written material, peer reviews are the great equalizer here. If you have a tool that keeps track of comments persistently, then you have a record of their comments when you invited them to review your work. If they chose not to review it, then that's on them (and likely reflects poorly on them). The secondary benefit is that you also likely will have other colleagues who also reviewed the same content. So if the gaslighting colleague tries to pull this kind of crap, you have peers that likely will help your cause because it would reflect bad upon their ability to critique your work.

If they're affecting aspects of your job that do not fall into this category, find another way of documenting it in an independently verifiable way. If that's not possible, I recommend finding a different job.

Comment Re: Corruption in gaming magazines? No never. (Score 1) 145

Don't you get it? The reason why these AAA titles get such high review praise is because women who make small unknown games have relationships with members of the games journalism ... sometimes the relationship is even sexual! Don't you see this clear connection?

Comment Re:So do the employees get to write that off? (Score 1) 399

I thought of this too until I realized that you could also have to count the original gift of equipment through you as income. Thus the net gain is zero with a bit more hassle filing your taxes. Now, that being said, I'm sure Alphabet was happy to take the tax deduction on your behalf, because why not? The thing is, at least let the employees choose the charity. Because basically this is a big self-congratulatory stunt that doubles as a middle finger to the employees. Let the brain drain begin I suppose.

Comment Re:Bloated science waste (Score 1) 66

Well, it wouldn't surprise me if he lumps weather forecasters in with the media. The same media that he considers is out to get him and ruin his campaign. And even if he does not cut funding, if another solar storm happens will Trump even listen to these people? I'm a pretty moderate and pragmatic guy but I find it astounding that so many people are voting for him.

Comment Re:#GamerGate (Score 0) 156

> You mean like the journalist who gave positive coverage to a game he's listed in the credits for?

Yes all one throw away line of it. It's great that #GamerGate caught that or else it would have been long forgotten and far fewer people would have ever known about Depression Quest. But that was Zoe's plan all along. Sleep with a reviewer, get one line of coverage, wait for outrage to blow up, ???, profit!

> Derp!

Excuse you!

> Browsing deepfreeze.it gives you mountains of real tangible evidence. If calling out the ethical violations of a group that mostly consists of white cis men is
> really about harassing women, maybe you're not as progressive as you want to claim.

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"Browsing huffington post.it gives you mountains of evidence on why you shouldn't be voting for conservatives." --Liberals
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