This reminds me of "believe us they have bio-weapons and need to attack Iraq" trope followed in the recent past. This is just building up media narrative and trying to brainwash people, similar to what happened in the past.
It looks like Google is loosing hacker confidence while Microsoft is gaining them.
Am not able to keep count of the number of times I have been burnt because of Google's decision to drop support for their products, change functionality after buying then and inane UI changes.
Contrast that to experience with Microsoft, I can't recall that many instances.
I have seen this happen too - what would have been easier to understand is converted into this complex spaghetti of code, split across multiple files that it becomes difficult to understand, debug the flow.
One example: Scala's implicit def could be misused in so many ways. It is described as "magic" in some tutorials...and that is a bad thing in my opinion.
The creation of an enemy and blaming them for all the problem seems to be one of the most successful ways to win election - this has been used in India since long before. Stirring up people's emotions and pitching them against each other will result in them fighting each other instead of uniting and questioning the politicians. Politicians will find and use any difference between people to split them - cast, religion, language, job, skin colour, food habits...
There is nothing smart about what the people in the article are doing - they are just motivated by money and are leaving the world a much worse place for the next generation.
Having come from tropical country and currently living in a country towards north, I find it extremely difficult to get anything fermented because of how it is cold during significant part of the year.
Because government making decision based on morality is slippery slope as morality is very subjective and varies with people, race and religion. Also is not Republican the party which advocates small government?
Why do you assume the basic values differ between these two set of people. That is seeing people in black and white. Let us take a nonnegotiable value of not being racist. Are you implying that 50% of the people are racist. Nope - that is certainly not the case. People who voted for Trump might have voted for various other things - there might have been certain issues that they resonated with him, vote for Republican party etc. They might have voted for him despite his flaws.
This exactly. The common playbook now seems to be to hide racism and intolerance under the blanket of conservative and accusing anyone who opposes that to be against free speech and conservatives. These nonnegotiable values do not belong to the left or right, it belongs to the society as a whole.
When people/organisation are categorised in to buckets of left and right leaning, it becomes difficult to have a clear conversion. What happened here was a president was elected whose election promises would negatively affect employees of the organisation. They were right in trying to comfort their employees, especially being Google who are famously known to pamper their employees. This is not being left or right, this is just being human.
Aggregate political will is a feature of democracy. The fact that any single person on his/her own wish cannot make a big impact change is how a democracy is designed to work. For a democracy to work people need to take active part in the political process including things like consensus building. Changes start at grassroot level and is usually localised. You would have more impact at your constituency level than at state or national level.
But the fact is that significant number of people do not even fulfill their most basic duty of voting.
It is interesting to see Indians talking of themselves and India as a separate entity. Now, I am fine with people moving out of the country and I can understand the appeal. A lot of problems in India have been long solved in the west and there are problems which are unique to India. But it is hypocritical to blame the ills on "India" as if it exists without it's people. Citizens make a country and they are equally responsible whether they like it or not.
Twitter put up a ban for 7 days because the account tweeted a video calling for violence against media. People commenting here either have not read the article or are deliberately bringing in false parity between call for violence and request for cake for a wedding. It would be outrageous if any media did not ban call for violence, especially by somebody with considerable following in the public.
This is a very clear example of hate speech and people in the comment section seems to unknowingly or deliberately conflating it with free speech. Free speech does not mean you call upon people to incite violence against a particular set of people.
Not the original poster but I don't think he is decrying democracy. When he says cancer, it is not democracy he is talking about, he is talking about lack of worker rights which should be rectified in the context of democracy. I believe he is agreeing with his parent post – democracy with socialist aspect, similar to France and in turn agreeing with you - similar to EU.
> The US government worries that 90% of the modems will be produced by China (Broadcom/Qualcomm + Huawei + ZTE).
How is modems produced by Broadcom/Qualcomm categorized as being produced by China?
Broadcom is currently headquartered in Singapore and apparently already in the process of moving it to US.
"Target users by manipulating their attention and directing it towards their own commercial purposes."
There is whole lot of other industries that do this - marketing, food packaging, adding additives like sugar, advertisement.
He just described what every business does. It is ironic to hear from a billionaire who made his money investing in free market that Google and Facebook should be regulated.
Google (or any other company I can think of) is not trying to have 50/50 gender balance. They are trying to have the same percentage split as the pool of applicants, which I think is fine. Looks like lot of people do not understand how gender diversity programs work or their purpose and hence all this misunderstanding.
Not to take anything away from the impressive technological advancement we have made, but that is certainly not the reason that we can now talk about spirituality. Spirituality and related philosophy has been existing long before any of this existed. Ironically, lot of people once they have spiritual realization, move to lifestyle which you would consider "poor living standards".
Pushing for diversity and making sure people from poor homes have access to learn difficult topics are mutually exclusive. Your quote on figuring out "why these groups aren't likely to go into tech" needs to be applied to people who are underrepresented in the tech field. Example : Why are women underrepresented in tech? Is it because they are feeling unwelcome here? Are we as a society unconsciously typecasting women and men into different job profile? What if a man wants to be nurse? I think pushing for diversity in this respect is required.
60 days of retreat sounds so difficult and also impossible for somebody like me who is tied to daily job. Curious s where is the retreat that he visits every year?
Also any other daily practice which can have an equivalent effect?
Jira has several bugs which were opened years ago. The software is at best average and documentation very poor. What are the alternatives in this space?