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Comment Re:Meanwhile, back at Slashdot (Score 2) 43

Just above and to the right of this article, appeared an ad for Starlink.

You see ads? NoScript and UBlock Origin make websites look a little weird sometimes, but holy shit, compared to a base Chrome browser experience, it is heaven. All the blinking, reflowing, etc is entirely gone. Oh, and no ads.

Am I "stealing"? Yes. Fight me.

Comment Re:Hire good people then move them. (Score 1) 102

If you hire good people then you can move them to new projects if their old jobs become obsolete. If you can't do that, you have no new projects worth anything.

They don't think like that. At all.

They want churn in the employees; otherwise, the employees start to think they matter. They don't. It is easy to find someone who can write a compiler or design a widget. None of that matters. What matters is control. Seniority generally leads to authority. There can be none of that authority nonsense amongst the employees, so you routinely replace them. Even better when they can be replaced by H1Bs as the price is cheaper and their lack of options leads to surface level obedience.

Comment Re:They got called out for firing 9,000 (Score 1) 102

And the left wing is completely useless here because again, they are terrified of being called racist.

LOL, pure copium. The left wing is in bed with the right wing over money. The left wing (is there even one) are laughing at your naivety all the way to the bank.

So the program that would have sent my kid to grad school just got shut down by the Trump administration and with it any hope of them ever going

Your son would question what he was told. An H1B will never do that. Your son is entirely useless to modern day America. Either leave or die, but whatever you do, just shut up and let wealth have its way. You do not matter. (my turn to shut up is way past its deadline, i am wondering what is taking so long, i don't matter either. this world is not for me, heaven(lol) is. this world is for the fortunate, not for you or me)

Comment Re:Does "every objective measure" include security (Score 1) 102

Dude. The only thing that matters is money. Nothing else exists, just money. There is no humanity, no society, no climate, no world, no love, no neighbors, no water, just money. Money is the only thing that is real.

Security? It will only be attended to as money and pushback allow. It is not a primary concern. It is only a concern at all when it could affect money. Since they are effectively a monopoly, the loss of money due to security issues is minimal.

Money money money money money money. Money money. Money money money money? Money money money money. Money.

People are fucking weird, transparent, and stupid (overall, but very clever in specifics).

Comment Re:In other words.... (Score 1) 102

about how people in positions of leadership undergo a neurological change that robs them of their ability to think from the perspective of those beneath them.

This isn't brain surgery bro. When your focus is on one thing, your focus can't be on another thing. By definition.

If you are told to make the company profitable at any cost and in fact, you will be handsomely rewarded for such, is it any surprise that employees are merely chips to be tossed into the pot or held?

The problem is the objective, not the psychology.

Comment Re:Anyone who uses this treatment (Score 1) 106

It is weird. You have vision of reality, and yet, sometimes, you are completely blind. In this instance, you are absolutely correct and NOT blind.

(This is the only account I have and I never post as Anonymous Coward, so if you respond to me, you are responding only to me and not any of the account who seek to persecute you for your blindness)

Comment Re:Increase? No. (Score 1) 170

If you are unable to detect that the climate has changed since you were a child, you are either very young, near the equator, or just completely unobservant.

Are the explanations offered sufficient to describe what is going on? Nope. Are they more explanatory than wild guesses or denial? Most certainly. The only reason there is any confusion at all is because the people making the money are doing things they know will add to changes in the environment and they don't want their personal lives to change. In fact, they will sacrifice the entire world, including your own life, in order to not change their world view or behavior.

Comment Re:Give us some credit. (Score 1) 71

At least we are inching our way towards the metric system.

Lovely turn of phrase there.

We were "inching" towards the metric system in the 1970s. By the 1980s, that was entirely dead for the general public.

Fuck those stupid old reactionary farts. Their ignorance has doomed our entire country. Not doomed from lack of metric, doomed because of views that were outdated 80 years ago.

Comment Re:Perspective-rounding. (Score 1) 76

All that, and not a single mention of how our foods are almost literally poison to our bodies.... but it is great for the bank accounts of certain people. Heh. Ignoring the elephant in the room indeed.

Enjoy your HFCS fueled epidemic of obesity. Honestly, it is desirable to not notice HFCS because it makes it easier for you to feel superior without any actual work from yourself.

Comment Re:Bye, UNESCO. It’s Not Us; It’s You. (Score 1) 117

We are $36T+ in debt

Yeah UNESCO membership...not really relevent to that.

I keep seeing this play out over and over... "that is just a drop in the bucket", "it is not really a relevant amount when speaking of the whole", and yet here we are, getting deeper and deeper into debt. Just like that one chocolate chip cookie or that one soda is not relevant to your diet... but it is. You can drown in debt made entirely of irrelevancies. One drop of water is not an issue. 30 billion drops of water are an issue. Each irrelevancy that you quote places a greater burden until one single straw breaks the camel's back.

That being said, I am not arguing for or against UNESCO here. I am speaking of irrelevancies and how they are relevant.

Comment Re:Ordinarily we get 8 years of Democrats (Score 1) 117

There is one party and that party is Greed. The Republicans are one face of Greed while the Democrats are the other face of Greed. Sure, the Democrats, in some ways, are a less painful form of Greed. They at least pay lip service to their morals. But honestly, it does not matter how lose our money, we will lose our money regardless of Republican or Democrat. And you are happy to support Greed, as long as it looks pretty on the surface. Whatever.

Comment If Lemkin were not a “founder” (Score 5, Insightful) 143

that would 100% be a firing offence.

Honestly, setting an AI you don’t control lose on your production database? Really? That’s just gross incompetence. This is code that a) wasn’t written or reviewed by a human, and b) code that wasn’t even tested on a development copy of the database.

Developers that do things like that are a liability. Unfortunately as “founder” he’ll likely just post something on LinkedIn about learning from his mistakes and “personal growth”, and that will be the end of it. Anyone else would have been shown the door to accelerate their “personal growth”.

Yaz

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