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>1664 employees

What do they do? I am curious on the breakdown of engineering versus everybody else. I am always reminded of Craigslist, which operates with a skeleton crew. In 2017, it was reported they had 50 people on revenue of almost $700 million.

You stated that American blacks had to deal with the legacy of slavery that happened more than a century ago. The epicenter of modern day slavery is Africa, with Africans enslaving other Africans. In 2018, about 62% of the African population endured some from of slavery.

If immigrants from Africa do better than native blacks, it isn't due to the legacy of slavery. Jamaicans, Dominicans, and Haitians have endured the legacy of slavery too, yet these immigrants do better economically as well. If systematic racism was real, it would hold back all blacks.

I can understand if your using a Samsung device. I have a Pixel and Pixel 3a XL, and the pure Android experience has not been great regarding dark mode. That said, I am not a fan of dark mode in general because of the eye strain. I use it on the Pixels because they have OLED screens and I am trying to maximize battery life.

Oh please, stop with the QAnon level conspiracy nonsense. Most likely, he will be offered a plea like everybody that has been charged, including Winner and Manning. If not, he will have a chance to run PrisonLeaks, doing hard hitting pieces on mystery meat and the proper recipe for shit on shingles.

>Something to keep in mind is most core apps (Maps, Gmail, Messages, etc) aren't baked into the Android OS and are updated with new features regularly throughout the year.

Which is Google's weakness. Not only are the core apps not developed by the Android team, but each app is done by a separate team and there is a lack of consistency across the board with different colors, placement of icons, and dark mode support. It took Gmail six months after the release of Android 10 to get dark mode. And dark mode has existed (in limited form) since Android 9. Dark mode for Maps followed Gmail.

Oh, and let us not forget Maps had white navigation buttons on a white background, with light grey shadows for a few months with the release of Android 10. When I first upgraded my Pixel, I thought they had removed the bottom navigation because of this regression. Supposedly these are the best and brightest programmers on the planet.

Too bad most of Google's apps didn't support dark mode until months after release.

Connected cars using a data communication module (DCM) are going to be required in every market eventually. The EU has already mandated this. In Japan, Toyota rolled out its Connected Cars initiative to all its vehicles in 2018. In the USA, Toyota put a DCM in select cars for telemetry almost ten years ago and this year they stated all their remaining vehicles will get them. All the luxury brands such as BMW and Porsche have a DCM for telemetry, safety, and service support.

States that use fuel taxes to fund road improvements will need to find other ways to tax electric vehicles and data derived from DCM will help them. Plus, autonomous transport will need to communicate.

Plus, it was designed by people with no database expertise. Lots of people were burned by MongoDB stupidity. I have heard the company hired competent people since. Once burned, twice shy.

Being black isn't the determining factor. Consider that black immigrants tend to be more successful than black Americans. They earn more than black natives and are more likely to be employed. Likewise, white immigrant groups outperform their native cohorts. The children of black immigrants are more likely to go to and complete college than native blacks (and whites) and are less likely to drop out of high school. The children of black immigrants also earn more than native blacks or first generation immigrants.

I have been in the IT business for thirty years in Silicon Valley and have interviewed hundreds of candidates, not one of them was black. I can count on one hand the number of blacks I have worked with in that period of time.

Black college students are over represented in low earning majors. Blacks that focus on high paying majors go into law, medicine, or business. If black leaders want more black IT executives, they need to push black kids into IT related careers.

https://cew.georgetown.edu/cew-reports/african-american-majo...

>I worked at some places with a lower manager that just seemed to have it in for the staff black IT person for no discernible reason

That mentality can be seen in anybody. When I did consulting in the late 1990s, I had a client company where an Indian manager refused to promote or hire non-Indians. Same company, an engineer from Taiwan gave bad marks on interviews if the candidate was of Korean descent. He told me, "I won't work with gooks."

>Blacks in the US are less likely to have the resources at their disposal to enter our field.

What is "our" field? Food service? Car repair? Carpet cleaning?

>to be able to afford college on their own

No college is needed to be an entrepreneur.

Wow, Martians are now programming in Rust. It really is a popular language.

Most of these stops are in high crime areas, which also have high rates of poverty. It would make sense that blacks are stopped more than whites since blacks, as a percentage of population, tend to be poorer than whites.

The city will take on debt load like Vallejo and Orange County. They will try to win concessions, but most likely the unions won't budge. Worst case, SF files for Chapter 9 bankruptcy.

The problem is CalPERS. If you are not retired, you should not be drawing from a pension. When a person goes to another government job and starts paying into CalPERS again, the pension needs to stop.

Most SUVs today are glorified station wagons, built on car platforms. The most popular SUV in America is the Ford Explorer and it hasn't been a truck for almost a decade. How are these any different than minivans? Comparing this type of vehicle to the truck based SUV in the 1990s is dumb. Cars (and light trucks) are far more fuel efficient today than 25 years ago.

I worked at SAP for seven years in their cloud business and about half the engineering staff had MBP laptops. Some engineering teams used only Macs. Operations was the same way. Engineering computer usage in India was mostly Windows, China was ~50% Macs, US/Canada was ~80% Macs, and Europe was ~50% Macs.

> A bodybuilder like Charles Atlas or Arnold Schwarzenegger would not have been caught dead drinking protein shakes in the glory days of bodybuilding

The glory days for Charles Atlas was the 1920s to 1940s; he died in 1972. He had sponsorship deals for dietary supplements.

>Thus, 40 years ago (i.e., 1980), using protein powder for weight loss/body composition wasn't a big market.

It was a large market by the by the 1960s. Many famous bodybuilders from the 1920s through 1950s started advocating protein drinks made with dehydrated and pulverized beef, egg, and milk. All the fitness, bodybuilding, and martial arts magazines were filled with protein drink advertising in the 1960s and 1970s. Hell, even Chuck Norris was hawking this stuff in the 70s. You could walk into any GNC in the 1960s and buy this product.

The only thing HerbalLife added was marketing, finding suckers to sell their products.

>But when it was founded 4 decades ago...there weren't any products like it on the market.

Nonsense.

There have been vitamins and protein drinks sold in stores for over 50 years. Every drug store and most grocery stores carried vitamins since the 1940s. The One-A-Day multivitamin brand appeared in 1943. My parents were born in the 1940s and they took vitamins as children. I was born in the 1960s and I took Flintstones Kids vitamins, which ere introduced in 1968.

Protein powders started showing up in drug and health food stores in the 1950s with the advent of body building becoming popular. GNC was started in the 1930s and was in every major mall across America in the 1970s, and they sold protein drinks, both liquid and powder. Remember Charles Atlas? Probably not. There have been multiple health food fads throughout American history.

Herbalife stays in business because people are gullible. The multi-level marketing business model appeals to our greed and fear of missing a good deal. None of the products offered by Tupperware, Avon, Mary Kay, Fuller Brush, Amway, and Primerica are unique in anyway and the only people getting rich are towards the top of the pyramid.

>I mean, they buy all kinds of military surplus

If you are going to post an article to support your argument, you might want to make sure it actually supports your argument.

Police don't pay for surplus military gear, the DoD offers it for free. Police only have to pay for shipping. It has been this way since the program was created in 1988.

>Purchasing military surplus is another area they've spent increased budgets on as well.

Police only pay for shipping. If those costs are swelling their expenses, they have a tiny budget.

The 1988 National Defense Authorization Act created a temporary program within the DoD to funnel surplus equipment to state law enforcement agencies involved in anti-drug activities at no cost other than shipping. The 1997 National Defense Authorization Act added anti-terrorism activities and made the program permanent.

Police don't buy surplus military equipment. The equipment is free, the police only pay for shipping.

That is why Kip goes by his middle name now. He also moved from California to Washington.

This was big news in SF Bay Area when it happened. It was FreeBSD's Hans Reiser moment.

Another gem, Kip kicked one tenant in the chest while he was sitting on the couch and threatened him with a gun.

I am curious if he ever reimbursed his parents after they drained their retirement savings and offered their house as collateral to pay for his $500k bail, which was forfeited after Kip and his wife Nicole decided to skedaddle to Europe instead of appearing in court. Kip continued to work on FreeBSD while on the lam in Italy with full knowledge of the core team, with many members actually defending his behavior. Kip and Nicole also never showed for the civil trial and lost by default.

The original plea deal offered by the DA, before they absconded, was 6 months in county jail with charges reduced to misdemeanors. Instead, both were sentenced for 4 felonies and got 4.5 years (reduced for good behavior), with Kip ending up in San Quentin -- a maximum security prison housing California's death row.

I remember ABC News did an interview with Kip while he was incarcerated and he blamed his tenants for all his troubles. At least he can no longer (legally) possess a gun since he is a convicted felon.

So that is what Kip was doing in Italy while being on the lam from the law. He is really dedicated. I wonder if San Quentin allowed him to code while he was incarcerated.

Somebody that continues to blame the victims for their troubles is NOT reformed.

The federal government owns about 45% of California land. Of the forests, 57% are owned by the federal government; 39% are privately owned by individuals, corporations, or land trusts; and the state, county, or local governments control only 2%.

Also, most fires start in grassy areas. The Camp Fire that destroyed Paradise started as a grass fire on federal land before it spread to shrubs and burned through mostly private land. California has almost 8 million acres of shrubs.

The Woosley Fire that burned almost half of Malibu was started on industrial property owned by Boeing and spread through chaparral along the steep Santa Monica Mountains.

Shh, don't ruin it. It is like all the yahoos that recently discovered Joshua Tree and decided to trash the place.

Live Bookmarks died because it was ancient code that needed to be rewritten, but most people didn't use the feature. Mozilla added telemetry to analyze feed usage and the results came back with less than 1%. It was about resource allocation for development and no volunteers came forward.

Comrade, there is no force involved. People are able NOT to develop for a platform.

How much do developers spend on Apple's iOS SDK? Zero. Would it be better if the 30% was shifted to a license fee for the SDK? Would the politburo accept those terms?

They develop because they make money and often more on iOS than Android even though Android has a larger market share.

That said, people would be still complaining if Apple's cut was only 10%. People complain about the 3-5% that payment processors charge retailers. People complain about the $.35 Arco gas stations charge for using a debit card. People complain about the dime grocery stores charge for paper bags in California.