"Its its got to be us or them, its going to be them." --The Humans
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The deal does make sense to me though. In the beginning it worried me that Tesla only had one product. One major flaw in the product could have ended them and they we creating a completely new kind of product that is expected to last decades. Now they have storage which makes sense because they can grow it along with their auto battery technology. But they also have these stupid stores where you cant really do much and you can only buy two things- a car or a battery for your house. It makes perfect sense to be able to buy the panels from them because otherwise you can buy the batteries from whoever you buy panels from. People who like Tesla are Apple users. They want complete packages, everything brushed aluminum with an apple or tesla logo on it.
This book great for people who want more than a pop-science book but less than a textbook.
I havent used the app but Simple sounds pretty good since you can set multiple "goals" (I think they should call them buckets or envelopes or something).
Also, the idea of homework is that the kid will try to learn the material at home and parents will help. If you remove that, you put more pressure on the teacher to teach them the things they are supposed to know. You've already got them testing or preparing for tests for a large part of the day, teaching them things is really going to cut into watch-a-video time.
Paul got tired of being broke. When you're tired of being broke, but you're educated, young, healthy, and/or from a privileged class-- you go to school, open a business, hustle, whatever.
People living in poverty live the lives they do for various reasons-- born into poverty, low education, mental illness, substance abuse, poor health, elderly, single mothers raising children, or some political or historical context (e.g. slavery, discrimination, unequal access to education/healthcare, language/cultural barriers, recent migration).
Poverty (in my mind) means you are stuck on an island where every nation around has guns pointed at you so you cant leave and there are only dirty cookies to eat.
After all, a few days ago when I heard Santorum's name for the first time this election, I thought "Santorum...but doesnt that mean.....?" Only after looking it up did I remember we made that up. The mind is a frightening thing.
You are arguing due process. What others are saying is that the US is powerful enough to cause every other country on the planet to behave in a way that would allow due process to bring anyone in a participating country (so not Yemen or Syria) to a US prison. I dont think this is controversial.
If you are in a participating state and the US government wants you for any reason, they can set off a chain of events that will bring you to them. If you are in a non participating state they will just send the drones and it doesnt matter if you are a US citizen, a child, or a bystander.
So, Assange (and his supporters) are saying-- we dont want Assange to avoid justice, we want him to avoid parts of the justice system which may be bending under the influence of the US. The way they are expressing this is by themselves trying to bend parts of the system.
You have to remember, laws dont mean anything anymore, if they ever did. Its been 800 years since Magna Carta and we dont believe in its ideas anymore nor any of our other founding principals. You arent innocent until proven guilty if your guilt makes a good news story, you dont need to be present, you dont need to know who your accusers or judge is, you dont need representation by someone who understands the law, there doesnt need to be any proof you committed a crime and if its going to be too expensive to arrest you and hold your trial we will just blow you up remotely.
The Authorities have had years to question Assange in UK but clearly that is not what the bosses were telling them to do. Until, a few weeks ago that is. Maybe the pressure is subsiding and now justice can be pursued. Or maybe Assange will come down with a tragic case of radiation poisoning shortly after. Who knows.
The biggest loss to humanity (in my opinion) would be all the translation data they hold privately. But Google really just people and money. If Google the entity disappeared tomorrow all those people who still know how to do the work will just start working on it elsewhere and catch up quickly.
I am not an expert. I also do not have time to understand the data. That is why all I am comfortable saying is, my gut instinct is that H1B visa's dont drive down salaries (more than adding more workers affects salaries) but I dont know for certain.
The next best thing we can do is look in the literature for someone who has done this analysis. I like scholar.google.com.
If we dont even have time for that, I guess its just not that important and we just go through life not knowing, hopeful that the day will come when we will see a reddit link to a blog post about a behind-paywall news article summarizing an academic analysis.
C'est la vie.
For example, mean pay for a software developer in state of California is $119,970 according to Bureau of Labor Statistics [1]. What is the minimum wage required for a H1B software developer in California [2]? What is the actual mean pay?
My instinct is that you are correct and H1B visas are not driving down salaries- but thats just a guess, I have no idea. But your arguments so far are "dont be a bigot" and "its all public information".
If its public information, have you seen it? If so, share it with us. If not, how are you sure you are correct?
If you are just venting, then vent away my friend.
Otherwise, it is ineffective to fight bigotry by telling people they are bigots. Share data from a trusted source, give sound analysis, and hope for the best.
Good luck.
1. http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes151132.htm
2. I would have dug this up myself but its actually a bit of work to compile as a meaningful look at this issue requires looking at many geographical areas and professions.
People should stop following particular sources and start following individuals- reporters they can trust to uncover lies, tell the truth, and hit the street looking for a new job when their paper becomes "Rupert Murdoch's The Wall Street Journal" and "The Washington Post brought to you by Jeff Bezos".
There are good individuals whose names we have to become familiar with, whose careers we should follow, and whose work we should read.
But if you do want to talk about individual sources, there are still good ones out there-- theintercept.com, propublica.org, financial times, smaller guys like www.tampabay.com and civilbeat.com
So people started organizing by trade. It made sense because workers of a common trade share experiences and grievances. If one particular employer treated its workers bad, that trade guild had more leverage by threatening work stoppage against other employers who could put pressure on the first employer.
Over time employers started to converge and grow in power. Now you have a company who employs thousands of people in multiple locations. To keep the balance in power, the unions converged and grew in power. You cant threaten to replace a union worker if everyone who does that job is in the union(1).
Now the unions are big enough to disrupt economies, sway elections, etc. They are large professional entities of lawyers, financial managers. They want everyone in the union for maximal leverage (ie fewer scabs, more dues) so they lobbied to affect the policies we have today.
The small voluntary no-admin-overhead organization you are describing is ideal, but its really unlikely to work. It would depend on the employer allowing it to happen.
I could say more here about the growing wealth gap, criminalization of poverty, and the quiet ongoing class war, and end with a Malcom X quote, "Anytime you depend on your enemy for a job you're in bad shape." But I dont feel like saying all that. ;)
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The way I use Stack Overflow makes me feel dirty. Usually it starts when I Google an error message because I'm using a new (to me) combination of language/framework/module/plugin. My mindbrain and fingers conspire to automatically select the Stack Overflow link even though it might be 3rd result and #1 and #2 might be from the official docs of whatever technology.
When I get to SO I read the answers first. That is often enough to shake something loose in my brain about my own problem. If that doesnt help I'll read the question to make sure I'm reading the right thread. I only comment or answer on rare occasion because it means that 1. I ended up on an inappropriate thread but actually know the answer and 2. it happens to be a fresh unanswered question. Seriously, I hope some of you are using SO the way they want it to be used and clicking on ADs or whatever. ;)
I used to answer questions in IRC channels just because I was already hanging out there, knew some people, and hey- I got answers from this group I might as well give back. But on SO I dont feel any attachment to a community, its just about Internet points. And for those who arent keeping score its just get-in-get-out. Maybe its just me.
I owe a lot to random Perl community people for helping pull me up (literally since I was a child) to the point that I could get a job, then get better jobs, and eventually choose my own work and support a family.
Its been years since Perl has been the main tool in my toolbox but there is plenty in ~/bin and I plan to give Perl 6 another go. Still, I think of Perl often and fondly.
Has anyone else ever had that "If I am ever wealthy I will help __some open source community__"? More and more I realize life is passing by and being wealthy isnt important to me at all. So I better just say thank you here. ;)
Or, some kind of hybrid system where its free to non-affiliated readers but universities are expected to pay subscription on honor system and at fair price rather than Elsevier pricing.
Which costs are you referring to? Are the editors paid? If not the only transfer in costs seems to be hosting a website for downloading static documents?