But is it worth the extra effort? Something I've noticed many people ignore is the cost to standardization these kinds of "security" upgrades place. When training a junior/new/contract IT person all these little gotchas need to be mentioned and will slow down workflows regardless. Pile on enough of these tweaks and the infrastructure starts to become less manageable.
IQ discussion has always seemed to me a little like talking about how much money you make with other people. The solid numbers as a mark of "who is better or worse than you" can be uncomfortable. Taken to a statistical level things become even more awkward, not something easy to discuss with most people.
I understand your point of view, but these are different levels of trust. You can audit the javascript they are sending you and (potentially) notice it is a ruse. If they are reading your email after you send it to their server though you have no way of knowing.
Are you implying that communism is the way forward? I think a lot of murdered people would like to have a word with you, but that wasn't real communism right?
If not, please explain your "way forward" that solves the problems that capitalism doesn't while still retaining the same incentives that appeal to basic human psychology. I'm sincerely interested.
One man's freedom is another man's slavery. If having private property and, by extension, state borders is an infringement on freedom then I think we have larger ideals to collide than this small one we started with.
The natural result of having borders? If you think people should be able to live wherever they want then where do you draw the line? Can I come live in your house and sleep in your bed whenever I want?
It's not a monopoly though, this is simply the inevitable conclusion to any price competition: suppliers will be pressed to cut costs in ways that lose American jobs. Having a minimum wage means other countries can undercut our labor and pass some of the savings on to the retailers, who then compete more efficiently vs those who do not put pressure on suppliers. There are many legitimate reasons to criticize Walmart, this one is not one of those.
How is this a Walmart problem though? This is a totally natural result of free-market competition. When two competing pizza restaurants can no longer squeeze a lower price by reducing quality or working staff harder, they move the production offshore to countries with lower costs (usually looks like slavery). If we want to stop this natural phenomenon we would need new trade agreements to provide a financial incentive to keep the production within USA.
I'm not a fan of Walmart but this is not at all a fair criticism of their business practices.
"forced to live there" is exactly the same manipulative language being used shamelessly here. You should really consider avoiding such use as it detracts from your argument.
On the other foot, should we be "forced" to accept people from corrupt nations? What is the test of character we give these incoming people to prevent the same "corruption-tolerant" people from ruining our own system of government?
I've noticed this as well. The number of people in tech who very clearly have no interest outside of their paycheck is disheartening. Can they do they job? Usually. Will they ever update their skills or keep up with the general direction of the industry? Almost never.
I've been rejected from a job before (where I knew someone working there) and was told they had to go with a "diversity hire" since they lost their only female engineer earlier that year. The comments implying I have it easy just because of my gender and skin color are ridiculous and only serve to further divide, not to mention incredibly insulting to the groups mentioned.
The one competitive advantage I see them having (and they don't usually even do that well) is giving directions. If the city has to shut down for a few days to kill the unions I am all for it. Multiple delays getting from point a to point b and dead aircon for an entire summer is inexcusable after you've seen how well a city transit system can be run.
If it takes Google scanning my Google ID and filling out a CAPTCHA to get on the subway to achieve this then so be it, the current system embarrasses me when I have foreign friends visit.
Tokyo is what I would consider modern and is miles ahead of most of the big cities I have lived in or visited. Just having public transport that respects their customers (unlike the TTC in Toronto) is already a big improvement.
And so the goalposts keep moving. How soon until not giving up your job for a poor minority is considered racist? At what point do we draw the line and say it is ok to have your own self-interest in mind, rather than that of the outgroup? At what point do we stop responding to the bludgeon that is the word "racist"?
Eventually you are going to push people into doing actually racist things if you keep trying to deny them the means to self-sovereignty.
Gimping the rich to subsidize the poor is dysgenic and not in-line with the realities of nature. Given that Nowrway is still relatively homogenous when it comes to demographics I would expect strong socialist programs to do decently. In a place like USA where an unfortunate number of residents simply see such programs as a handout rather than having an associated social obligation, this would not work.
It is a myth and this is the same shaky reasoning I always hear from people who have been on the "other side" (hiring). I don't blame you for it, it is your job to compensate people as little as possible while extracting the most wealth from them. That said, there are a lot of people who fall for this "if you have a family (of 20 dependents) you totally make up what you lose in salary!" fable and that puts downward pressure on all our salaries.
You could extend this to almost any war the US has been involved in. Attacks on US soil (not counting terrorist actions) have been pretty rare. WW2 can be similarly deconstructed and the intentions found to be impure. Remember: USA does not get involved in wars for reasons of morality, despite what excuse they may present.
What's undesirable about this situation? We need a military force to protect us, I don't think that is a controversial idea. With certain political groups doing their utmost to absolutely kill any kind of nationalism or patriotic feeling, what incentive do we have to put our lives on the line for our country if not for the rewards?
We could increase military pay to make it more attractive but the overall budget to be gained by axing healthcare and education spending probably would not make a huge difference in the bottom lime for most soldiers. What are the proposed alternatives?
The tiny house movement is because people can't afford regular houses so they build glorified sheds on whatever scraps of land they can afford. Cities are breeding grounds for disease primarily because of the lack of personal space.
Those who missed the boat and now hope everyone else's fun will be spoiled fail to notice through their already shaky logic that this problem is being solved. Proof of stake means we don't have to waste nearly as much electricity for a functioning cryptocurrency. There are already coins using PoS successfully (Lisk, Peercoin). Ethereum plans to move to proof of stake. Can we stop beating this dead horse?
> The reason I give a range is because salary is only a SMALL part of your compensation package
I wish people would stop perpetuating this myth. Bonus is discretionary (meaning they can give you $0) while salary is not. Salary is a BIG part of your compensation package because that is the primary reason people work. Most would work for salary without medical but not the other way around. Claiming salary is small potatoes is just one of the more insidious things companies and their agents will spit at you to justify paying you less.
Don't fall for it!
Right, let's start by redistributing the wealth held by people in silicon valley making more than 50k a year. Think of all the people we could lift out of poverty if all us tech folks just gave up our wealth! I'm sure we could do without that second helping of avocado toast each day. The solution is obviously to steal from the wealthy and give it to the poor.
During my trip to LA I made time to visit the Daiso. They have a lot of neat stuff you don't generally find in other dollar stores and to me the products seem to be of higher quality (whatever that means for dollar store items).
The Yonge/Finch area is pretty disappointing actually. The food quality is fairly low outside of a couple gems (in a sea of garbage). Random places around Markham are much better if Asian is your fancy.
>People who voted for Donald Trump didn't do so because they were racist or sexist
>But voting for Trump makes you a racist or sexist
Not sure I understood your comment.
As yes, don't leave Facebook because of the addictive mind-prison it builds around you or the creepy stasi-esque dossier it keeps on you. Instead quit Facebook as a way of social-signalling your authoritarian left-wing values.
That isn't to say I'm not glad of the result either way.
>Had he been a white American
You mean "had he been an American citizen born in your state"? Race has nothing to do with this example. All out-of-state people regardless of color experience the same.
Why is desire for more diversity a good thing? Most people don't ever explain this part, or is it just because it is the politically correct thing to do?
My experience with "greater diversity" is usually shoehorning people who generally don't care into positions purely because of the color of their skin or gender. Is this secretly a codeword for "bring more females, tech is a sausagefest"?