Ah yes, what I said was toxic because I would have to thank a lot of things for any success I had. Frankly, above a certain amount of income, no one has earned it. That's not toxic, it's just fact. You are welcome, my tax dollars have allowed you to become rich. I'm very glad you were as fortunate as you were, just remember to give back to the society which enabled your wealth!
Are you aware that other people have provided everything you have in life, or have you really drunk the "self-made" Koolaid. Work the farm? Excellent, now one must purchase and run a farm in order to have children. How much do those cost? Oh, millions you say!? Wonderful.
This is likely the stupidest thing I'll read this week, thank you for that. In what way, exactly, are children not expensive? From some research and napkin math, it looks like $300k, not including opportunity cost (so in reality more like $500k), if everything goes right. Hope there's no medical issues, hope there's no car crashes. How many years of salary is that?
Young people paying a massive portion of their income (significantly larger than previous generations) just to have a roof, and gaining zero equity in the process. Hence "renting", as opposed to "owning".
A funny thing to note, QI only applies to civil lawsuits. So, it only applies in circumstances where they've already decided there is no criminal activity. So a secondary issue here is the legal system has decided that pretty much anything a cop does is legal.
If you look at the culture of police in the US, the department policies that they enforce, and the laws that they enforce, it begins to make more sense. An intelligent person would not fit into existing police culture very well (because of the IQ restriction policies that have been in place). There are many police departments with awful internal policies (racist, illegal, anti-civilian), that a smart person wouldn't want to enforce, and of course so many laws in the US are just bonkers. Civil asset forfeiture, no knock raids, broken windows policing, drug evidence planting, CYA charges, these are all awful practices that are routinely done at PDs across the US, in some case documented as PD policy. An intelligent person would want to fix these problems, make a difference. This would of course hurt the PD's bottom line, their arrest stats, would cast former and current police in a bad light.
I'd like to see her donate half the salary she took back to Mozilla, since she obviously didn't earn it. She doubled her pay several times. Did the engineers doing the work get their pay doubled? No. The only person who did that was the one who was failing in her role. It's actually quite disgusting, just a blatant money grab because no one would stop her.
The point isn't that the original commenter doesn't like them, it's that this is a lobbying group. As such, they have no credibility on this topic. So, in any discussion involving them, everything they say needs to be looked at as a ploy in support of their agenda, because it is their job to do that. To treat their word the same as anyone else's on this topic would be very stupid.
Just skimmed through their docs, and still haven't seen a "what this is for" statement. Please, if you are writing documentation, give one solid, end to end use case example, it goes such a long way in promoting your product.
I've been using OsmAnd for years now, and it's fantastic. Much more complicated to set up the way you like, but you can set it up exactly the way you like. No ads, search results are what I'd call "sterile", and you can have as many or as few features as you'd like. If you pay a $2 monthly subscription, you can download large tiles of highly detailed information from their servers, so you can use it completely offline.
A different, and likely more productive, way of looking at a possible connection between PATCO firings and USAir 1493 is in the form of institutional knowledge lost.
I think a decent argument here is that the mass firing of a large portion of existing ATC personnel damaged the institutional knowledge and rigor of the ATC profession as a whole. What highly technical profession wouldn't be damaged by that? And this damage just increased the risk of serious mishap across the board; it suddenly became much more likely an ATC would make a mistake, and this one is one of those mistakes
I think people get angry when something turns out being different in nature than what they expected, especially when it comes to accuracy. If I start watching a show, and most of the information matches with my understanding of the topic, I might start to believe that it's more of a documentary. Then something comes up that unrealistic, or I know to be false, I might feel tricked.
It's the classic "I have nothing to hide" argument. Which immediately breaks down when you realize that, with enough information about someone, you can implicate them in something illegal. A case can be built against them, a narrative spun, and an innocent person spending their lives locked up. This happens constantly in the US judicial system, though I believe it is often unintentional, just human bias doing it's thing.
It's a pitch. The story has obviously been embellished and polished and condensed, ready public consumption. Being pedantic against it is not productive.
I think you just sold their pitch with this comment... I, like many many people here, have done quite a bit of product design. What do you call it when a bunch of people use your product, and it breaks for several of them? That generally indicates your product is weak, or has a very rough UI.
I found this headline annoying at a visceral level. This wasn't click bait, it was click hate. I vote we just remove the title of this post, leave it blank.
This is what I'm thinking too. A number of posts above talked about physical limits based on speed of sound and rotor length. Cool, so add two rotors, or four.
I'd much rather implement a maximum wage, would do a huge amount of good for our society. Let's say a cap on any more than $10M a year for total wealth gain for any individual. Everything else is taxed at 100%. Suddenly, we could all have healthcare, kids would get the supplies they need for school, a UBI scheme would be doable. Basically, we could finally stop acting like a poor third world country.
This is a stupid take. Partly because of the use of acronyms for key terms, but also from the "constantly bothering a person is okay because it makes good security easier for us". There are plenty of good solutions that don't require you to heckle old ladies, and regular queries are generally bad security policy anyways. Regular boilerplate check-ins just breed complacency, after the 30th one do you think the person checking in is going to make sure the voice they are talking to on the other side is the right person? People get lax doing busy-work they know could and should be done by a computer. You ever had a job where you had to change passwords every 90 days? Opposite of security.
Oh, the Genius of Jack Welch is simple. Lie to investors while dismantling the company you're in charge of. Use the profits from selling off the dismantled bits to cook the books so it looks like you're becoming more profitable, this will get you lots of bonuses and you'll become super rich, then just walk away before anyone figures out your bullshit. Sure you've destroyed hundreds of thousands of jobs, and ruined one of the most profitable companies in the world, but you're rich now, so fuck it. Pure genius.
It's horrifying. The man destroyed one of the most profitable and productive companies in the world to make himself look good, and make huge quantities of money for himself. From a business standpoint, he has no good qualities, as long as you are assessing over a longer period than ten years. He's really quite terrible at running a business, but great at making it appear that the business is doing better than ever while it rots away. Frankly, it's close enough to fraud that it should be a criminal offense.
A decade ago I stopped having problems with both BCM and NVidia devices in Linux. Last year I purchased a very recent wifi dongle and had to manually install broadcom drivers, but other than that it's been smooth sailing with no issues.
Yes, my comment contained more hyperbole than it should have; I was frustrated at the idea of "hiding information about a problem" as a good design goal, and let that frustration influence my writing. Apologies to jstummbillig for that. Thank you for being the voice of reason in the room, Joe.
Interesting, I've never found Microsoft documentation for Windows thorough enough to reason about a problem, especially when compared to Arch or Gentoo's docs. I always feel like I'm reading the abstract of a paper, with no access to the rest of it. Is there some kind of special access or login requirement for deeper documentation, or am I just spoiled by the great Linux docs?
Apple products are the king of the "you don't own your device" mantra. I just refuse to develop anything for them, because the time expense of trying to guess how to get the OS to comply hasn't been worth the reward. That being said, I've found the documentation for Swift to be extremely good, better than most other languages I work with.