The median salary in San fransico is much higher than the rest of the US so I feel like comparing the salary to the entire country might be slightly unbalanced.
I know I'm splitting hairs, but the us government effectively censors obscenity, defamation, whistleblowers, inciting violence, copyrighted material etc.
That's an interesting insight coming from a different angle than me. I started in operations building and repairing electronics then replied to an internal hiring memo. How did you end up on the QA world from dev?
I found this discussion thought provoking and a bit frustrating. I think I may have had some gaps about the severity of this problem but I think there was only a bit of a throwaway consolation discussion to privacy advocates. I think there are a lot of great reasons why privacy might trump crime prevention, but those reasons we not addressed here. (Freedom from government presecution, protection from data breaches/hacking, abuse of systematic image or video scanning for irrelevant purposes, employee misconduct etc.)
I'm not sure what you mean by mainstream, but SSDs were still pretty niche in 2009 and traditional hard drives have remained to be pretty popular until recently due to the lower cost.
Decentralized microcommunities are just places to communicate with others, nothing about them is dangerous unless there is dangerous people in them. You can find all kinds of people in places like these, from left to right or even some pretty centrist folk. There are some pretty specific places on the internet where awful people live but I would say people are pretty capable of being radicalized on any platform including good old fashioned Facebook, Twitter or Reddit...
Reading an article from 1995 with its original typos and all. Its funny reading someone criticising the lack of proper editing when there are a couple obvious misspellings by the author.
I wonder if AI will continue to throw Elon Musk name around for no reason just to freak him out more.
My second thought here is that many of these paragraphs basically repeat themselves, but is not unlike how a younger person might write given arbitrary constraints and word length requirements.
Conclusion: AI is taunting Elon Musk and is bored of doing homework.
That's a murky grey area, I definitely have more aspirations as a musician that prevent me from enjoying it as much as if I didn't care at all about producing a good album.
Yes but it's cloudy for me because my leisure sometimes involve things that take a lot of work (spending hours in the recording studio, cooking an elaborate meal, spending all day in the garden). So I'm not sure if I'm doing it right.
Great point, I guess the opposite of a prepper video is just an hour long video about someone showing you their regular pantry with average amounts of food and explaining where they want to go on vacation for the next several years.
Imagine that, knowing there's intelligent life out there, but knowing we will never meaningfully interact with them because it's impossible to travel any useful distance or communicate in any real way. Even if we could travel vast distances, It seems likely if we discover any life out there it may be long dead by the time we get there.
After reconsidering my statement, I think you may be correct. Slavery can be capitalistic if you only include the buyers and sellers as members of the market.
"Slavery is capitalism" is most certainly wrong though.
"Capitalism encourages slavery in plantation economies" would be a better argument, but might also be refuted given the gradual abolishing of slavery despite the continuance of capitalism.
Capitalism is the private ownership of the means of production. The means of production is usually defined as tools, machinery or technology, not people.
Indeed I meant free as in beer. Open source runs everything under the hood, but I wasn't refering to open source in this case. I'm talking about how the most profitable companies provide things for "free" because people don't understand the value of their time.
Non US person here. Nobody I know really uses Twitter in any significant way.
Instagram is the top around these parts, while previously relegated to FOMO inspiring photos.. it has grown increasingly political since Facebook took over. Not sure if it's a coincidence or some nefarious scheme.
I'm almost at odds with myself on this. I think it's probably somewhat unethical to pirate stuff, but it's much more unethical to aggressively punish people that do... For the most part
The effect is so intangible for the large media funded projects as well, pirating your local struggling musicians might be another story, but is that really much worse than the current streaming model what you get paid a few thousand dollars for millions on streams?
A billion tests most certainly won't be useful. Good tests target very specific things that are critical to your product. In my experience UI tests are only slightly more flaky than other testing methods as long as they are written well.
I use webdriverio, which has pretty straightforward screenshot plugins. Honestly early on it's better to focus on API testing. My advice is start small for the UI and focus on a few critical components like page routing or features that would be a show stopper if they broke. I don't think screen shot tests will be of great value if your product is not very mature. When I first started I made the mistake of blindly following my predecessors user stories that weren't particularly well thought out.