^ this. the fact that some people can be pre-IPO yet hire mostly students who work for nothing, get all pissy when people ask for a raise for staying past 5 consistently, and to boot, writing fake glassdoor reviews because you can't hire actual engineers anymore due to the bad rep you built.
I don't know what kind of people would entrust their companies HR data to an organization run like a sweat shop.
When you walk in and see mostly Asian workforce, head for the exit. I've seen consistently again and again, immigrant hires who are used to working 8am~10pm in their country now bringing the same fucked up neo-confucian work ethics.
God I hate Vancouver. What irritates me is that criminals and drug dealers who have successfully laundered their money through the real estate are now venture capitalists, now seeing their net worth explode. Did time for moving drugs? Hey now you are a CEO of a crypto company. Used to be a serial killer for a gang? Now investing in local startups, calls himself VC lol.
I hate this corrupt ass backward world sometimes. I've lost faith. No. Fuck this, this isn't why I came to Canada, to be a glorified white collar slave. Sure as shit not going to be blue collar so what does that leave me? When society rewards and protects criminals and punishes those who play by the rules out of humane morals? What does this leave me with?
They don't call it junior devs but "university grads".
Allegedly EA has found that the latter is cheaper and just as good as senior devs. Not sure what that implies but it is EA after all.
Then you have piece of shit companies in Vancouver, BC that pays about what a Seattle starbucks barista makes, mostly UBC and SFU students.
I've given up largely on the industry after spending two decades. What is happening is beyond commoditization of technical laborer, we are probably going to see high school kids among the workforce.
It's insane to ask people to commute 4 hours a day, do mundane unimportant tasks that managers who got where they are not out of merit but due to seniority, people stay behind long after 9-5 because they are afraid of getting fired, and then going home only to briefly eat dinner and sleep, to start the nightmare over and over and over again.
At least in feudalism days, you grew your own shit and didn't have to pay 1/50 of your earnings on an unhealthy fast food because the foreigners and criminals have laundered their money through the real estate and businesses have to raise their cost.
tldr: software is getting complex yet barrier to entry are none, expect shit.
the conspiracy goes back to the 1980s, with corroborated witnesses from both American and Russian elements.
The watergate journalist wrote a book on him. The guy who prosecuted watergate is looking at finances, money laundering specifically.
I'm not saying this is a 100% thing but it's a more of a case of 99.99999% that current president has been laundering money for the Russian mob since Taj Mahal days. We also see a curious case of a man who was so broke no bank in the world would give him relief....except Russian banks....controlled by the Russian _____ .
I will leave that as a blank for you to complete as an easy exercise.
your whatboutism to compare a street gang to justify the Chinese intimidation. That's a horrible comparison. A street gang actually don't touch civilians because it attracts negative attention and feud with other Crips members.
The Chinese leadership will kill as many civilians it needs because it is the only gang in town. Unchecked power at the hands of the few results in catastrophic consequences for the citizens. I'm sure they've learned their lesson from Cultural Revolution but unable to apply those lessons because those checks and balances, once again, is unavailable because Xi decided he wants to be like Putin.
My only immediate concern is for the people of China. If Russia is a model of what a nuclear armed dictator with an inferiority complex, there's no limit to what Xi can do to his country. He's already half way there, destroying the economy and the rivals to consolidate power. He doesn't care about the well being or the economy of the country. If he did, his actions would show otherwise.
what can Google do? Train their engineers to start taking the LSAT so by the time they get to trial, they will have the skill and experience to take on professional lawyers?
If DOJ can show evidence of cartels, terrorist cells, and other unsavory entities laundering their money through bitcoin, ICOs, ethereum, altcoins and tether, then anyone who has ever taken crypto to work on a project, anyone who handled the influx of cash to exchange it for crypto by selling Tether (which is all of the major exchanges), are headed for a storm of hurt.
We are no longer in SEC turf and DOJ has a conviction rate of 93% as of 2012, a trend which has been increasing. It's one thing to argue against Howey Test or hide money from the Taxman. It's a whole new level of shit storm to be accused of laundering money for terrorists and drug cartels.
> You seem to agree with me that a dictatorship can last longer in a trade war?
No. You are connecting two separate ideas to say that I agree with you. I did not agree. I don't know who will last longer in the trade war. I do know that throughout history, the US has witnessed dictators come and go for the most part.
> Your gripe seems to be with what a horrible place China is.
No. Again, you are trying to twist my words into a "China sucks". Nowhere did I make such claim, I simply highlighted structural problems within China that suggests fragility of the Party vs the anti-fragile nature of US democracy. I used Trump as a good example of how the system is able to flush the turd, not the turd flushing the system. Please don't try to suggest that I'm comparing China to a toilet, I think it's citizens realize the full depth of the country they live in but out of fear cannot speak out in a manner that contradicts the governments view.
> That might be true. Having lived there and done business there I think it's more nuanced than you're making it out to be.
again this isn't the case of "china sucks" and im not saying you can't have a good time or meet good people in China which you've certainly claimed in your anecdote. It certainly is a surprise to me as I live in a highly concentrated neighborhood of Mainland Chinese folks and I have never ever heard them talk positively as a good place to do business.
> But let's say it really is that bad. Does that win a trade war before the next US elections in 2 years when US consumers might already be frustrated with higher prices?
Again, you are trying to join separate ideas that "China could be bad", "trade war", "consumer price index in 2 years" supports your main argument which is "China cannot suck because it will win the trade war".
Not sure what your issue here is. My guess is as good as yours about the future. I just tried my best to present my opinion, which cannot be taken as the truth and neither can yours. Nothing is solved. Just two HN'ers slugging it out.
How much sleep would he lose when you realize the very educational institutions which he attended were designed by large to benefit the military's R&D?
Anything we invent or discover can and will be used by the military or intelligence agencies and even law enforcement agencies who are doing real human right violations. Hell, there are graduates that go work for the government because it's stable, or even unwittingly be writing RAT or researching zero days.
The truth is, as researchers, engineers, our guesses are as good as touching a part of the elephant. Everyone thinks the part they hold are the whole, and make the claim, this is what an elephant should be.
When in fact, if you follow the authors logic, we are all complicit. Every walk of life is influenced by the military and for the military. Internet? Designed for resilient military comm against nuclear attacks. Microwave? TV? Radio?
So the genie is out of the bag and now is going to work for the military. Should we feel outraged? Should we stop all AI research because of the authors view that the military kills people so its automatically evil?
What about the people who are ready to give their lives so these researchers can continue living and doing great work? It seems to me that beggars can't be choosers. It's good to have a strong sense of morality so you don't end up writing a RAT tool for a corrupt government that ends up torturing dissidents. But rarely will you even know who is using it and where it's being applied. It's simply designed so you don't have to be burdened with the moral dillemma of how a state should think and behave.
By large, a state is not a person, no conscious, no morals only national interests dictated by the few in power. This skewed power dynamics will remove the decision makers from the burden of making immoral decisions to further "national" agenda. ex) Do we torture an alleged terrorist to extract information that can stop an imminent attack on hundreds? It's certainly not the call of the people who wrote the software to manage torture and it's not the call of those who follow orders.
We are ruled by ideology, the one that sells to us constantly of an unknown, unpredictable threat. If the author has anything to blame, it is that people by far and large have already voted with their money and hearts-ignorance is bliss, gathering material wealth is priority.
Whoever simply makes more money from the goods they export. In this case, China has more to lose.
You forget that in China, you have a dictator who uses violence and fear to keep people in check. They are stuck with his foreign policy abilities, which many analysts will conclude, Xi fucking sucks, including those around him who aren't happy about him being a dictator and praising Mao (has anything ever good come out of ppl who idolize Mao?)
The US is on it's way to prosecuting a Russian KGB asset who has been compromised and being blackmailed to willfully corrupt in order to launder the billions that Putin and his buddies stole from his own fucking country. Thankfully, the US president doesn't have absolute power, cannot stay in power indefinitely, is not immune from the institutions that the American forefathers have created to keep the President in check, a continuity in all the core national security organs such as the CIA and NSA which prevents somebody like Xi from ever pulling the same shit, and cannot just roll over people with tanks and then make a stupid song about how much people love the Tianmen square.
In China, the trade war is having a far more profound impact on society and economy but you will never hear this and neither will the vast majority of citizens in China because information cannot flow freely and it's censored.
If China seems invulnerable and powerful, it's only because they specifically crafted their image in that manner. The fact is China is dysfunctional by and large and anyone who had exposure to their political system knows it can't continue no matter how many active measures they take.
how do you claim ownership of data you release publicly at no charge to the users? how do you enforce anyone who copies it by hand or programmatically, does the minimum work to derive some insight and then copyrighting that? You can't. Once it's on the internet, anything you release will simply be relinquishing control.
It's foolish to assume that the lawyers and the justice system will help you out. This is simply not a case of somebody pirating a movie and slapping on their own copyright.
CFAA was how craigslist won but that's been thrown out thanks to the EFF lawyers.
Going forward, there will be little to no recourse for "web scraping public data".
suggests there is little to no recourse for IMDB and the likes. Craigslist was able to win their case against 3taps, arguing the scraping was putting a load on their servers (typical Craig Newman bullshit) and that they continued scraping even after the IP ban and that is a computer frauds act or something like that which is draconian response likes of which that guy who killed himself because he got caught for scraping academic journals.
china and india have pollution from burning coal to generate electricity. China and India alone makes up 70% of the world's top 10 biggest coal powered generator.
It's also not a simple matter of getting rid of these plants, there's an entire political stake in seeing these continue to run, and there simply is no other way to scale up quickly and at a lower unit cost using alternative renewable sources of generating electricity.
You can always burn more coal or some non-renewable sources to meet your varying peak demands. Not so with other sources like solar panels or hydroelectricity.
> No, that's not why. Gasoline is still largely king because it's the legacy technology, so it has a very wide install base and it's still cheaper.
Do you know why it's so popular? You can fill up anything from cars, jets, boats, planes several folds faster than the current battery charging technology. Battery also tends to have a fixed weight even if its used up which becomes a no-go for the military and aviation.
If what you say is true about the average electric vehicle driver, that they rarely charge and it's a none issue, consider for a moment the average gasoline vehicle driver, who can't afford an electric car, who doesn't care as long as it takes them from A-Z as cheap as possible, who are more likely than the electric car driver to leave in less affluent neighborhoods requiring longer commute, the downtime is more expensive than someone who can afford to wait around 30 minutes to get a partial charge. When you start to leave the city core and drive long distances, the ability to quickly recharge energy and get going again is critical.
The infrastructure for battery charging has quite some time to go before catching up. Ironically with the increase usage of such power stations, the power to manufacture both batteries and charging stations would still cause pollution and harm to the environment.
There's no silver bullet here and electric cars will be just another niche for people who are rich enough to care about the environment, while majority of wage earners would be lucky to even afford a used gasoline car.
Public mass transportation will benefit the most from reduced cost of operation due to fuel, but that's also minimized the trend of falling oil prices.
When oil became cheap, people chose to go around half the earth than through the quicker Suez canal. It's a testament to how powerful the price of oil is in our society.
I think that's a poor analogy. Notification spam was invented because people weren't checking their spam folder. Those ppl are unlikely to open themselves up to an even more intrusive medium to deliver unwanted messages. Sure there will be usage cases for it, but not as the people selling mobile notification as a panacea, in fact I argue that it can do more damage than good in the long run.
It's like that creep you met at a night club who won't leave you alone with txt messages. Sure you were drunk but don't get mad when I don't reply.
When a foreign adversarial state launches 'cyber 9/11' it would imply a few things:
1) The offending country is willing to escalate/desires to provoke skirmishes that may lead to major battles with or without conventional military.
2) The offending country is so desperate, the only way to reboot their economy is to start a losing battle so it can be rebuilt.
3) the economy of the offending country is so skewed at the top of the leadership, they are willing to thin the herd using foreign intervention, and build up a zealous supporter base who is out for blood for vengeance.
TLDR: The adversarial state will launch a 'cyber nuclear' attack when it thinks is fully ready to take the brunt of 12 American carrier groups armed with manned and unmanned stealth fighters.
I see lot of good suggestions for starting out in meditation but I see lots of "use this app, go to this camp, read this"
While in reality meditation is an exercise you need to practice in order to build that muscle. I don't like people productizing what's already has been available for millenias.
Basically the core of meditation is not escaping as some people have mistakenly believe but simply allow yourself to become aware of the fact that you are aware and awake. You are continually observing yourself observing and gradually you remove those superficial noise that cause so much suffering in our daily life.
1) Visualize the Tibetan letter "A" with your eyes closed and in a relaxed state.
2) Open your mouth slightly to make an "ahhh" sound barely audible.
3) No other effort than continually visualizing the symbol.
Another technique I found was when you are sitting in your bed in a dark room with your eyes slightly open and focusing on a point in space. You will see everything fade to white and it's very easy to slip into the meditative state. I don't know what this is called as I discovered by accident during my teenage years.
One final technique which may help those that still have trouble keeping their mind focused, I know I did, smoke an indica joint, sit in the sauna or steam room.
Okay one last final technique which I don't recommend to those who are virgins to psychedelics with safe alternatives like Psilocybin mushrooms. I don't recommend LSD because those are purchased of the streets and are usually not LSD but some other shit. Not the case with Psilocybin mushrooms, it's legal in Canada. I say I don't recommend this technique to newcomers or especially those who have never experimented but it's the closest I ever got to be on a plane of existence that I cannot identify as of this 3rd dimension. But overall the after effects are long lasting calm and freedom from anxiety. Ironic because intense anxiety can be felt depending on your surrounding and state of mind. It's definitely opened my third eye but after going on a heroic dose, the trip has scared me from ever attempting large doses. Instead, micro dosing with small caps not only ended up being the best fucking nootropic ever, but my life felt improved in many ways.
TLDR: there are several ways of achieving meditative state and you don't need an app. Some drugs may enhance your spiritual journey but I wouldn't rely on it as it fails to be useful after a natural tolerance builds. Instead, it should be used as a guide to put you in a state that would otherwise take many hours of meditation sessions, and allow your mind to make that "leap" into the serene state of mind, free of ephemeral desires and judgement that society has programmed into us from the moment we are born, which we forget in our next life.
To me, this is akin to a game company raising the price of a game. The costs are already sunk. The only thing that counts is setting a price on copies of that game. Those who pirate copies of the game incur to loss of revenue because those people would've never been able to pay for it. It becomes a question of projecting the maker's morals onto those who did not pitch to the coffer instead enjoying the game like a dirty thief. This is crazy, the only loss to the manufacturer is the uncomfortable idea people are enjoying or benefiting from your creation for free. Yet there are developers who happily contribute to open source projects and games with little to no recognition or reward.
Likewise with drug manufacturing, it's the same idea. It's illegal to copy a pharmaceutical drug and take it yourself and others without the approval of the patent holder. Yet, it is the patent holding party that determines how many licensed copies it is willing to sell. Thus, they are able to take the moral high ground in pricing this drug, but it's the same principle as above-pony up for my idea, shame on you for benefitting from it and not contributing to my wealth.
I really do think this company is out of touch with reality. All in all, I feel like this only earns them bad press, especially after Martin Shrekli debacle. There's also a potential for a lawsuit, based on human rights I'm sure.
I don't know what kind of people would entrust their companies HR data to an organization run like a sweat shop.
When you walk in and see mostly Asian workforce, head for the exit. I've seen consistently again and again, immigrant hires who are used to working 8am~10pm in their country now bringing the same fucked up neo-confucian work ethics.
God I hate Vancouver. What irritates me is that criminals and drug dealers who have successfully laundered their money through the real estate are now venture capitalists, now seeing their net worth explode. Did time for moving drugs? Hey now you are a CEO of a crypto company. Used to be a serial killer for a gang? Now investing in local startups, calls himself VC lol.
I hate this corrupt ass backward world sometimes. I've lost faith. No. Fuck this, this isn't why I came to Canada, to be a glorified white collar slave. Sure as shit not going to be blue collar so what does that leave me? When society rewards and protects criminals and punishes those who play by the rules out of humane morals? What does this leave me with?