cgore

> Google and Facebook may know too much about you, but I'm not really worried about them selling that data, which is some small relief.

Why aren't you worried about that? How about in 15 years when they've gone downhill and are looking for ways to make some quick cash?

Because politicians sell progressive income taxes as a way to screw the rich, when it actually just screws the upper middle class, since the actual rich don't have jobs to tax the income from.

My guess is that the Chinese miners are often well-connected in the middle-levels of the Chinese government, the parts that actually implement such policies, and only a few less-connected miners would actually get blocked, thus increasing the profitability of the miners with government connections.

Correlation is not causation but it's rarely accidental.

Freedom of Speech is a basic human right. Like the right to life, liberty, and property. Can SuperMegaCorp, Inc. decide to murder me? They're not the US Federal Government after all, so they aren't infringing on my Freedom of Life.

Yeah, it's really weird to me coming from the rest of the Internet to have random people I've never met say things like "Beautiful", "Great work", "I love it", etc., instead of, say, what you'll get in the comments of a youtube video.

I did Common Lisp back in college for several years, it's a great language. But good luck getting a job with it. Clojure on the other hand, I've been paying my bills with that for the last few years. The main difference is a much larger community, and therefore lots more libraries for real-world stuff, and sitting on the JVM you have a lot of options integrating with existing corporate stuff.

She almost destroyed what was left Yahoo, right? If anything, she should have been paid a negative salary.

Because freedom of speech should only be for people with government-approved opinions.

And at the same time give these new young immigrants a basic income so that they don't need to work.

It's often a bit true though. I bet your direct manager didn't have that authority himself and had to go up higher and justify it to either his boss or his boss's boss.

We do the following:

1. look at resume

2. recruiter phone screen, just basic are you a human who knows how to answer the phone, usually 15-30 minutes

3. tech phone screen, 45 minutes

4. half-day in-person set of interviews, some tech and some not

And then make a decision, although we'll filter out at each step.

Thanks.

I don't have a problem with GMOs (I'm really into genetics personally, I did natural computation during my MS thesis). And the lawsuits against farmers seem reasonable given their seed contracts, more reasonable than software patents or EULAs to me.

But I know some people disagree about that.

The Climate Corporation

http://www.climate.com

We have offices in San Franscisco, Seattle, Chicago, and Saint Louis, onsite only.

We're looking for senior software engineers (10+ years.) We have a lot of Clojure and some Scala here, any FP experience is good though. There's also a lot of Python, Ruby, and R laying around, but mostly just legacy stuff. We handle a lot of data, experience handling a lot of data or distributed systems is a big plus. We're processing satellite imagery for many states every day, all in AWS.

Fair warning, our parent company is Monsanto, and some people might have an issue with that. On the upside, you'll get to work with for-real scientists on a daily basis and Monsanto has excellent benefits. And we have lots of for-real paying customers.

Please email me at chris.gore@climate.com if you are interested, thanks.

Your argument in paragraph 2: the police are too violent and "shoot first and ask questions later".

Your argument in paragraph 3: only the police should have guns.

Umm ...?

The Climate Corporation

http://www.climate.com

We have offices in San Franscisco, Seattle, Chicago, and Saint Louis, onsite only.

We're looking for senior software engineers (10+ years.) We have a lot of Clojure and some Scala here, any FP experience is good though. There's also a lot of Python, Ruby, and R laying around, but mostly just legacy stuff. We handle a lot of data, experience handling a lot of data or distributed systems is a big plus. We're processing satellite imagery for many states every day, all in AWS.

Fair warning, our parent company is Monsanto, and some people might have an issue with that. On the upside, you'll get to work with for-real scientists on a daily basis and Monsanto has excellent benefits. And we have lots of for-real paying customers.

Please email me at chris.gore@climate.com if you are interested, thanks.

Italy makes some really good firearms, I'm a big fan of Beretta. Too bad only criminals can easily have them in Italy itself. Life would be a lot safer for these people if people besides criminals and bribed cops had them.

We're way past bankrupt already. That's what debt is. Zero was a long time ago.

There's always been atheists and the like, they are mentioned in the Old Testament, and it's probably always been and always will be a very small minority. And a lot of the so-called "New Atheists" these days aren't really best defined as atheists, they are better described as "Scientists" or "Humanists", where the object of religious adoration is either the concept of scientific progress or human achievement.

I migrated my single player world (dating back to Beta 1.8) to a server so some of my coworkers at the time could play too. It's not really huge, but I am strangely emotionally attached to it. My server was down for a few months (and I wasn't playing at the time), but I recently brought it back online. Minecraft seems like one of those games that I'll play forever, like Super Mario Bros.

http://minecraft.cgore.com

Dropbox isn't the court system, nor should it be. It isn't their job to decide who should or shouldn't be in jail.

Calling it a "fraudulent war" is a political view, and quite the minority view at that.

The polls show that it was.

1. I strongly disagree with the torture program, but I still don't think it's grounds for boycotting Dropbox, unless you are under the impression that she's pushing for a Torture Division at Dropbox.

2. Foreign diplomats are not subject to warrants and are exactly the sort of people that get spied upon. I guarantee you that every major country is spying on every foreign diplomat, limited only by their ability. While I don't think private citizens should be spied on, if you are in a diplomatic post you should just expect it.

3. I view the Iraq War as legitimate, as do most people, and she did a stellar job in her role as National Security Advisor.

You mean like all of the board members at both Apple and Google?

It's pretty absurd that so many people are this willing to attack a woman just because of her political views. This kind of crap is what Fox News uses to claim all liberals are jack-booted fascists just waiting to setup USSR v2.0 here in America.

My main Linux box has quite a few hard drives in it from a large range of time. About 4 weeks ago the oldest of them all died: it is from 2007, so about 7 years old, which I think is pretty good for a consumer drive that's on 24/7. It was a Western Digital Caviar SE WD3200JB, 320GB. I replaced it with a 2TB drive.

[No lost data, I do daily backups.]

No it isn't.

What if women weren't allowed in the Freemasons?

The philosophical concept of freedom of speech and the legal protections of that concept are not the same thing, although the one protects the other from which it derives. The protections are a viewpoint legally enshrined that was common in the political circles at the time and that I still agree with: No matter how much I disagree with your viewpoint, I think you should be allowed to express that viewpoint. If I am a family member or a friend I'm not going to disown or disavow you for them.

I think it is very important that bosses embrace this view too, because otherwise you just get a lot of sycophantic yes-men, an echo chamber. The correct approach is to let everyone be free to voice their opinion before the decision is made: if you don't want their opinions, then what are you paying them for? Once a decision is made it is necessary for everybody to work towards that, but making a good decision requires lots of input, and those who disagreed with the final choice shouldn't be punished in any way, otherwise there quickly won't be any disagreement.