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Why aren't these kinds of calls straight up illegal in the first place?

I believe they are. I believe they are using hacked PBX's and they move from location to location, so they authorities have a hard time catching them.

I talked with a lawyer who litigated against a company that did this, back in the the early 00's, and he indicated they are criminal organizations setup purely for the purpose of defrauding the people that play along with their pitches. What I don't understand is why the trail of money is so hard to follow and prosecute. I think the barrier to catching them is just too high. I once tried to get AT&T to help me catch someone that repeatedly called me and wouldn't stop. The process they had in place was so onerous that after a few days in I just gave up. It's clear they do NOT want to help catch them.
I like that :-) To rearrange the letters slightly for a better acronym; "Managing Software Development for Dummies", or MSDD ;-)
They don't necessarily mean that it is fun to be an ass.

I think it's probably a fine line, but there are "trollish" comments that can be made that aren't even disingenuous, never mind nasty or negative.

The so called old school trolling wasn't about disruptive behavior, it was about getting people to consider thoughts that they aren't necessarily comfortable with. And not necessarily uncomfortable in a dark or disturbing way.
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> Anyway, it still amazes me sometimes how far Germans go with the "lets help the world" mentality. One of the first things, I got asked after arriving in Germany was if I wanted Hartz IV? I already had a fulltime well-paying job, but hey I wouldn't start for a couple months so they wanted to give me money until then! What country does that? So sure, you pay huge taxes, you get safer cities and even "poor" people have apartments, healthcare, food, tv, internet, etc.

I find that a bit surprising; one of the downsides of Hartz IV (Germany's guaranteed minimum income scheme) is the hardnosed bureaucracy that tends to go with it.

That said, GMI schemes are generally pretty cheap; the welfare budgets of European countries are typically dominated by healthcare spending and pensions, not ensuring that everybody has a minimum standard of living, which generally makes up a relatively small fraction of public spending.

As Felix Salmon wrote a while ago [1]:

"At the same time, the amount of money that we need to spend in order to feed and clothe ourselves has never been lower. In much of the developed world, basic calorific and shelter needs have been taken care of, with their costs converging to zero. In dozens of countries, we have largely solved the physiological needs at the bottom of Maslow’s pyramid, and indeed the safety needs one level up. Extending that security to all citizens is a matter of political will, not a question of adequate resources."

[1] http://fusion.net/story/197297/star-treks-utopia-is-already-...
It could be awesome idea but most people will be happy to rather see some already seeded ideas database. So think about at least 100 different things and put it there now
They are very displeased with him actually, remember Trump has alienated all the establishment in his party. And the house can nominate whomever they want.
First impressions. It's a subjective and sometimes faulty human practice of making judgements about the trustworthiness of people without knowing much about them. The benefit is that it requires less energy than actually getting to know the judged.
No country is going to extradite one of its own citizens for selling a financial product that doesn't happen to be approved by the US SEC and isn't a ponzi scheme / scam (the DAO may be a lot of things, but it is likely not an explicit confidence scheme). Not to mention the fact that there are plenty of countries who won't extradite to the US for any reason.
> What country does that?

In France, if you're not planned to have revenue for more than 3 months, you get the RSA+APL which is 650€pm (source: I've had it when my startup had no revenue yet), even if you have a lot of money in the bank or if you're not French. The minimum salary is ~1000€. That's if you've depleted your unemployment benefits (80% salary for 2 years, if you've worked for 2 years). RSA was just enough for me for food+housing, no clothes or extras.
The disincentive to work has more to do with the welfare trap that removes benefits quicker than they are replaced with income. That can happen with any level of generosity in benefits.
The collapse of the press and rise of anti-social media put democracy in peril
Sure, it won't always help with scams. But they will still probably remove you from their dialer, the operators cost them money too, so they don't want to keep calling bad leads.
What browser/OS are you running? The embedded viewer is supposed to just load one page at a time, but we tweaked some things that might be causing issues and would love to know what to test against.
> And when the "DINK" couples get old, society will be stuck supporting you fully

Because countries like Germany force the current generation to pay for the previous generation (and you can't opt out, it's called "intergenerational contract"), which is the reason why they need to motivate people to produce children, so that somebody can pay for that system. It's basically an intergenerational ponzi scheme.
> and as a bonus they do zero marketing

The locks or the company does zero marketing?

Also, I went to their page:

https://slock.it/

First thought: "OMG this looks like just another bullshit startup". Pages looking like that are a pretty reliable signal of very low value to presentation ratio...
Getting downvoted should make you think. Maybe you suffer from a very common illness that you can find very often nowadays in Germany: pointing fingers at refugees and (ab)using them as scapegoats for whatever some think is wrong with this country. Usually truth is the first victim in such cases.
Get hired as contractor not saying first your oryginal idea but pitch them improvements on existing process
> "Fascism" etimology is from "Fasci di combattimento" the political party founded by Mussolini.

No it's not. It derives from the word "fasces".
Absolutely. Telephones are an enormous nuisance for exactly these reasons.

I have found Cyanogenmod's built in call blocking to be essential; I have it set so all calls from withheld numbers and all that are not in my contacts are blocked. I let texts through, though they could also be blocked. If I expect anyone to call me who can't be persuaded to use email instead (e.g. a tradesman or shopkeeper) then I add their number to my contacts or ask them to call at a particular time when the blocking can be temporarily turned off. Only once has this latter tactic resulted in a spam caller getting through.
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I really really hope you mean google desktop search.
Find the guy whose work you like the most at your company and bother him all the time. Most good technical people love to help, to be asked questions, and ultimately to be valued for the experience they've worked hard to get. In the end mentorship is something that you seek out and get for yourself. It's rare that someone will actually attach the title mentor to a such a relationship.
Good news is that we have recently started playing with corner detection algorithms for snapping, we have first results, it looks promising, after little bit of more work, there might be an update in the near future.
I agree with you that we should be wary and stick to sound ideals. The other day I read a column by Bloomberg View columnist Leonid Bershidsky arguing, "Right-Wing Populists Are Running Out of Time,"

http://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-05-26/trump-and-...

so perhaps danger of a neo-Nazi movement is lessening while we stay wary and stick to ideals.

By the way, Bershinky's very latest column directly discusses Godwin's Law, the main topic of this thread, and is titled "Comparisons to Hitler Can Be Useful. Discuss."

http://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-05-27/comparison...
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Right. Since Facebook has

fdda274d380ki4frcgi-rumjfjai1460158783-sonar.xx.fbcdn.net

there are probably many more like that.
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> On a PR with 400 delta lines, you didn't need clarification on anything? I don't know what action to take here.

My thinking is that, if I approved a PR you wrote and it had a bug, I was as much to blame for the bug as you. That should help with frivolous approvals, but I've never had much of a problem with them, so take it with a grain of salt.
This guy's conjecture comes somewhat close to an explanation: https://twitter.com/rikschennink/status/736618354098737152.

But even so, why bother putting any number at all unless the user is there for long enough to care? No information is better than false information.
Graduating law school at peak of last recession - worst employment prospects in generations, not even close to top of class, only had one summer's worth experience with public sector (1 month each w/ state DOJ and legislature).

Spent last year in school designing something akin to Casetext, then they came out of Summer '13 batch while I was studying for the bar. Decided to cheer them on rather than continue to build my application since I just recently began self-teaching JS (they're currently like 85/90% parity with my idea, was closer to 60% when they first came out - go Casetext!)

Joined up with AmeriCorps for 12k/year providing free legal assistance to homeless/disabled vets (VA bens, discharge upgrades, clearing criminal records). Had applied to legislature job paying 60k. Fell in love with my vet work. Legislature job calls me up 4 months later into my AmeriCorps service to interview (I'm 90% sure I had this in the bag based on the previous summer's final evaluation).

Turned down interview, stuck it out with low pay for another 6 months and then got hired on for (still lower than Legislature) salaried position.

1.5 years later - for my org, I'm in charge of all vet work for the whole state (4th largest vet population in US), I supervise the veteran law program at a top 15 lawschool. I'm "unofficially" in charge of whole state bar association of vet law attorneys (we just recently formed as an entity with 100+ members).

I get to work my own hours, I get to choose my own cases. I didn't even know this was an area of the law I could make a career out of - not a vet myself.

Job satisfaction > pay (plus it'll come in due time)
the way you wrote it, that's what it sounds like, thanks for the clarification
We leave style to the tools. We use pep8 and that's it. The commit won't even work unless we're pep8 compliant, and if the tool says you're ok, you're ok. I can't even remember the last time I saw a style-related comment on a PR.
Well, if my goal is to block all of Facebook's domains, I wouldn't complain if uBO happens also to block new.sub.domain.fbcdn.net even if it's not in the hosts file :)

Does uBO optimize these cases, though? E.g. if there's "apps.facebook.com", "connect.facebook.net" and plain "facebook.com", does it collapse to just 1 filter (facebook.com)? I see it says "880 used out of 881" which is the number of entries in the file.
The re-annexation of the Crimea and construction of military outposts on artificial islands in the South China Sea show that neither of the two powers have lost their ambitions.

Vegetius's adage "If you desire peace, be prepared for war." applies just as much today as it did in the time of the Roman Empire. I only hope that the Western powers are prepared enough.
I won't take their part in this but, having owned a software company since 2009 already, I know there are certain "lazy" individuals who prefer to submit such code just to close those issues faster. I know we are supposed to check the code commits more carefully but code like this one sometimes gets into production...It could also be a mock that made it into production.
The "dao" here is not designed in a way that is truly decentralized. It is susceptible to certain centralizing flaws. There could be a dao that is designed in a way that resists censorship, that would be more interesting.
Ahh, thank you so much. I read it as "are kind of forgetting" instead of "are a kind of forgetting.", even looking back a few times.
I'm currently on welfare in mid-sized city in Germany and can say that it's definitely possible to stay alive as long as you stay the obedient slave of the Jobcenter.

What does suck is when something breaks. Your computer, your car, something bigger in your house. Expensive hardware parts are really hard to save money for.

I have to say, the Jobcenter is the worst employer ever. They don't require my presence most of the time, yet I can't plan in leaving the city unless on very short notice, as they require me to ask for "vacation" one week before. Soo.. I can save a little money to fly somewhere, book in advance and then I ask them one week before I'm going and they can decline!

I hope to get out of this, the sooner the better. Sadly, it's not the jobs that are lacking, it's discrimination by law in my case.
Sure, it may be expensive but it would be good to ensure those that paid for it receive it.
There you go, quoting Churchill :-)

Winston S. Churchill — 'Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions.'
> My suggestion here is to pick up calls from your local area code

This only weeds out lazy robocalls, I get plenty of calls with (presumably spoofed) caller id from my exchange. It would be trivial to add that into a spam script.
To me Joan Walsh is the biggest culprit. Under her the PC cleansing began, first with Charlie Tayler, then Stephanie Zacharek and many more. Gleen Greenwald left, and there was nothing interesting anymore.
I'd otherwise agree, but this is journalism. Even here people seem in need to be reminded that the quality level of news media, even those reputable ones, fell down to ridiculously low levels.

This serves as yet another visible instance (out of countless) that shows they have no fucking clue what they're writing about and they don't even care.
This assumes there is a workforce with openings to join. That is becoming an increasingly more difficult problem for many people. It also assumes that it is good for everyone to join the workforce—which itself intrinsically ignores reality, in which there are simply not enough jobs available to reach 100% employment.

There is an odd mental hang up, especially in the US, that invariably and automatically views people who receive social benefits in a viscerally negative light, demonizing them in the public sphere and consciousness. This is, to me, an odd choice versus choosing to recognize as a social positive that there are benefits that can be designed and operated correctly to ensure we do not allow people to fall below a minimum living standard.

If we want to realize a society in which every able-bodied member is employed in the workforce, I do not believe we can do so without significantly altering the expectation of full-time employment as a standard. I also seriously doubt we can achieve full employment without realigning the world of business and work toward achieving social incentives first, instead of profit incentives.
I'm not saying its not screwed up, and I'm sure some enums would be interesting, but they are using it in a logical context so I feel like the ! makes a fair amount of sense.

I do wonder what would have happened if truth had been defined like it is in Forth[1]? That would make me go with the enums.

1) False is 0 (all bits set to 0), and True is -1 (all bits set to 1 giving a twos-complement -1).
That ship sailed a long time ago with the disappearance of the frontier and homesteading opportunities. Now that it's virtually impossible to completely opt-out of society, some safety net is a necessary correlate of removing that liberty.
Here you go[0], figure 3. You are referring a shrinking fraction of households here in the US[1].

Interestingly though, combining this data with the total numbers of households[2] since 1970 means that in 1970 there were 13M households of 5 or more...while there are 12M now...so the total number of these households has remained constant--although the demographics of that group may be quite different today.

[0] https://www.census.gov/prod/2013pubs/p20-570.pdf

[1] US, since you claim this is a "very American" perspective.

[2] http://www.statista.com/statistics/183635/number-of-househol...
Not the only baity thing about the title, so we've replaced it with the subtitle.
Politico reporting on Salon hoping for it's downfall... isn't that the journalistic equivalent of dividing by zero without the Gawker constant (sqrt -1) in the equation?
> be wary of genius developers.

Is not it a subset of "high performers"? The dirty secret of all such "genius developers" is exactly this - they all simply traded rigour and quality for a speedy spitting out of a "good enough" code.

For the outsider this pace may look like magic, for someone who is left to maintain the mess it looks, well, like a mess.
> Sadly, it's not the jobs that are lacking, it's discrimination by law in my case.

At the risk of making a too personal inquiry, what discrimination by law are you referring to here?
At least two? We've exceeded the carrying capacity of Earth already. Governments encouraging further population growth is a looming disaster.
HoC makes it seem down right cool to screw everyone you know over to attemt to dig yourself out of the massive hole you've dug yourself in to. The sad thing is that much of the American public watching this garbage believes the underlying premise, "do unto others before they do unto you."
I am from Europe and here it is mandatory to label products produced with GMOs with some exceptions like meat from animals fed with GMOs. It is not the case that a handful people demanded that, it is a nonnegligible fraction of the population.

And you software example. There are scenarios where certain certifications are required, some with respect to functionality, some with respect to the process the software was build with. For example US companies had to adhere to the Safe Harbor rules if they wanted to offer services in the European Union and they probably had to declare that in the terms of service.
I think that calling people names here was making the comment much closer to what 'stcredzero actually thinks. I.e. it boosted accuracy and clarity of the comment.

Also, personally I don't have any other idea how to fix journalism than calling them out every time, and calling them out hard.
What a preposterous argument, that having ever received government handouts somehow disqualifies you from thinking the programs are a bad idea.

I pay plenty of money in taxes. You can bet that if I ever qualify for handouts, I'll be cashing them. You would be stupid not to.
> Would you extend that same generosity towards someone that identified as a facist? Or would you assume they are a jingoistic racist etc. and associate them with Nazi Germany and company?

I've never met a fascist who didn't want to seize power and execute people like me.

There are communists who, surprisingly, don't want to be dictators. Fascism definitionally requires totalitarian control over society. So do offshoots of Marxism like Leninism (don't worry it's """"transitional""""), but you'd be surprised how little time i give tankies either.
> My conclusion: H1B employers are utilizing phone and email spam via Indian call centers to justify having advertised the positions in order to be able to fulfill the legal requirement.

The legal requirement is usually fulfilled by ploacing an ad in the classified section of the local newspaper (preferably print only), asking candidates to submit their resume via the mail with a reference number.
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A. No we have not.

B. That's what the Malthusians said.

C. Google: [demographic crisis europe].
I was at a hackathon a few weekends ago, and to my surprise I needed to register a domain name and get an SSL certificate for it.

I thought I was unreconcilably blocked for the duration of the hackathon, as DNS propagation disclaimers give itself 72 hours, and SSL certificates require who knows what.

I was able to get a completely new domain with Amazon Route 53 and Amazon's free SSL certificates in 20 minutes.

So yeah, I would say these blocklists are futile now, in OP's format.
A 1 line change can be just as dangerous as 400 line one. I'd argue that alot of the so called "small" changes are just as tricky to review as a big one simply because the context of what is being changed isn't really a part of the PR. (i.e the reviewer has to trace through the framing code to really understand what's going on.) The difficult part is keeping enough context floating to know when a deeper dive is required.
Mobile Safari on iOS 7.1.2

Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 7_1_2 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/537.51.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/7.0 Mobile/11D257 Safari/9537.53

...probably not worth testing against something so old. It just seemed strange that it would completely die.
> because it's more fun

Seriously? You think that's a good criteria to judge it on?
I think he (m/f) expected to get a lot of downvotes and thus created a separate account just for this.

Refugees are given housing under terms not accessable to regular citizens and thus may be (in some cases) getting a total "deal" at higher cost than a regular citizen.

But what is the alternative to this? Collecting refugees in big camps worsening social problems and problems with lack of integration.
From the article:

But at the beginning of the 1990s, his life came crashing down around him. One of his main customers stopped paying. He fought for years to get the unpaid money and restructured his debt to get seed capital for his new business plan. He fought desperately -- and ultimately in vain. In 1997, he was forced to capitulate. By that point, he had already been unable to work for two years and was on welfare. He lost his family home in a foreclosure and his pension and retirement insurance plan was seized. His landlord evicted him. Manfred Huber was ruined.

How does bankruptcy law work in Germany? This kind of catastrophe is what BK law is supposed to prevent.