In large companies like this you rarely get a choice for which email client you are allowed to use, or a say in which software you are allowed to install.
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Do as I say, but my company is super special so we'll just do whatever we feel like.
They paid some fines equivalent to what they make in profit every 13 hours. That's it. Nothing else.
If you're running a large profitable company why should you care about security at all? Why should you care about the rule of law at all? There is no accountability, there is no culpability, nobody will ever get in trouble.
I think these types of attacks are vastly underreported, if anything.
I lawyered up but I can only afford a five figure lawyer, at that point they were willing to bring in a seven figure lawyer so that was that.
One found a way to screw me out of all the equity as well, which would have made me a ten something millionaire.
Once people start smelling money things shift quickly.
Megacorp is harvesting organs and murdering people? Who cares just look at it statistically, it's only four people on the harvest team. Statistically speaking Megacorp is the most well behaved of them all!
Stop trying to look at everything through the prism of distributions, it's a bad tool in many scenarios.
Just stop. Please. Analytics != insight. Meetings should stop being won by whoever prints off the the most tables and visualizations, because gasp sometimes that leads to the wrong decision.
Some brands are just known to throw sensor and airflow codes by mechanics up here, like Kia & GM, while others compensate fine, like VW & Subaru. I don't know how the engine software talks to the transmission software so it's hard to say how related they are.
Except it hasn't been at all, because much of the oil is more profitable to sell and refine abroad than use domestically. So if we actually wanted to force independence we'd need to prohibit companies from exporting their oil.
I doubt that's ever happening. Watch the "energy independence" talking point evaporate now that the new millionaires have been minted. It's almost as if that's what it was always about, isn't it?
Some of the paddle shifters seem decent but I often like to change up where I grip the wheel on track days and on sharp turns in mountain driving, so I often can't choose my gearing at all with them.
I can see the appeal of the autos in high traffic tedious commuting situations where you're in some underpowered econobox, which is zero percent of my driving, so I'm sticking with a manual as long as I can keep finding them.
Everyone else, well real wages have been flat or declining, with some recent shorter term gains. Real income has increased by a whopping 5.1% in 12 years. [1] If you shift the timeframe back to 1978, real wages are unchanged. [2]
Supply and demand has become fundamentally broken in the labor market. It doesn't work anymore.
[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/eriksherman/2018/09/09/as-some-...
[2] http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/08/07/for-most-us-...
The tech media has completely wiffed on paying attention to these, so you could be forgiven for thinking it's all about Elon.
But first he warned us: make sure you always use the -c flag if you're pinging something on the internet. This is to specify the count of pings sent out. If you didn't it would ping forever and generate too much traffic, and this useless noise would make you a "bad netizen". He explained this and everything to us so kindly and with such sincerity it was like watching Fred Rodgers speak.
Now we have to randomly barf noise onto the network to maybe have a better chance at some privacy. And that's on top of the half dozen browser extensions and the vpn and whatever other tools you need to have a moderately good experience on the network.
How did we let the internet become this awful?
Either way it's a completely unacceptable dodge, especially for Facebook and Google.
I mean if you're a woman who wants to go to hooters then by all means go to hooters, but be who you are not one of the guys.
#3 is not always true, I've worked at some companies where HR actually has power and is an ally of employees, but yeah in the majority of companies they are effectively rubber stamps for whatever the CEO says regardless of ethics or legality. In those organizations just know that HR is your enemy, not a resource.
Depending on a single social network like this to make sweeping generalizations about geography when social networking is very much a geographic/social proximity phenomena is pretty dubious.
How did Google get this bad? Why are we letting the internet devolve back to the early 90s?
I suspect they are still working on this pivot in various non google plus ways. Outside of android becoming a massive media platform I don't think much has worked. (Don't call it a media company we don't control the news we're just a platform la la la I can't hear you controls the news)
This is utter insanity. Do they have nobody in the room willing to raise their hand anymore? These institutions need to be reformed, now.
But there sure are a lot of stories about adversarial bayesian multi-model deep net retention markov cycle consistent custom asic demystified robust perturbations.
The speech recognition and predictive text on my phone is still awful.