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David Graeber pointed out on his article "The answer clearly isn’t economic: it’s moral and political"

I don't agree. The answer is strictly economic. There are bullshit jobs just because people want to amass fortunes. The problem is not to have a guy working as a "legal consultant" or as a "ska drummer" but to have thousands of them doing the same thing. There's a point when a 101 legal consultant adds no value, but the job still exits. Why? because companies in that industry need to grow and to do so they expand beyond the target to whom they add value. This is it, they expand where the service is not actually needed.

So services/products expanded to targets to whom they add no value is when bullshit jobs are created, and the reason behind this is just to make more money instead of solving problems to the world.
And why wouldn't you attribute it to incompetence, rather than malice?

A successful company is worth vastly more than a destroyed one, or one that has had its assets stripped.

The ideal LBO is one in which you take an undervalued company private, maximize its operations, and then spin it back out at a time when you can achieve maximum return (eg when the market is high).

If Guitar Center is such an amazing business, how did they end up in a shark's mouth to begin with? It's precisely because they were a poorly run business that they were consumed by Bain. If Bain sells pieces of the business, who does that harm exactly? If Bain maximizes profitability and spins GC back out, who does that harm? Fired employees? Well it's business, not charity, nobody is entitled to a job; most businesses exist to generate a profit, not employ people. I find that most people dislike that fact, however that's how every economy works, on profit not charity (which derives from having earned a profit in the first place).

Not to mention that even if you were right, and a company is extremely valuable and all Bain does is destroy good companies, that opens up vast opportunities for good competitors to grow and hire new employees.

Your response might be: and how about the employees of said destroyed company? Sure, and how about the employees of a million businesses that go under every year due to incompetence, we should obviously outlaw bad business operators and entrepreneurs. If you're an employee of any company, anywhere, you're assuming risk of employment, that your employer may go under, weaken, or restructure. There's no avoiding that risk.
One thing that can help simplify the creation of the wordlist table is to instead use a materialized view (with a gin or gist trigram index), and just refresh it on some schedule.

Of course, this means that your fuzzy search capability will lag somewhat behind live data in the case where a new distinct word has just been added to the corpus, but in many cases this is acceptable: people looking for recently created records will most likely have some exact reference for them, and will only resort to using fuzzy search to find older records for which their reference is rather more, well, fuzzy.
I work in a Sudbury school where we have two kids diagnosed with autism. When they first arrived, they had some problems. But in the free environment of our school, they have become as amazing as all the other children in the school. I don't even think of them as being autistic.

We all have deficiencies. What we all need are environments that let us figure out how to cope with them.

Of course, it is all matters of degree and people need to be able to take responsibility for their actions and needs. Not all can and that requires something different.
Your information appears to be a generation out of date. The EU in particular have been working on collective defence agreements independent of NATO for quite some time.

While it's true that if current US foreign policy went away overnight it would probably make certain other parts of the world less stable for a while, such rapid change couldn't actually happen as a practical matter of international diplomacy and even basic logistical issues. This isn't a logical reason not to move in a slower and more controlled way towards a more balanced position where power and responsibility are more widely distributed.

It also seems fair to observe that the US has caused a lot of instability in recent years with its aggressive foreign policies. A large part of how the world works may indeed depend on the American military as you say, but it isn't always in a good way.
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I'm not aware of those, but there may be some indeed -- I'd say the culture is close between US & UK so it can permeate, but how I see it, the problem is rather that University deans do not play their roles (they should protect teachers except in the case of a mistake from the teacher's part) and explain to students they have to be open to debate opinions, but in practice they are so scared of lawsuits or losing students who pay so much that they'd rather fire the teacher than make students become better citizens
So....you had bad experiences in Vancouver a decade ago so its tech community is not vibrant today??
>The rent captured by us workers is the price delta between a competitive market and one with barriers to trade.

Oh really. What is the price delta between a logically-impossible perfectly competitive market and the current labor market?

>Only part of their wage is rent - if deepika earns 10k rs/month and Danielle earns 100k rs, the rent is 90k.

Assuming deepika and Danielle are the same person.
This "education" has proceeded from a mission of politeness and courtesy to a culture of prohibition.
Actuary here: only 5% of billable-hours go into the concept of the math and probability behind setting appropriate price.

95% of the work involves translating the messiness of real-world into the model-based world. This is the type of thing that's obliviously difficult to automate: e.g. more difficult to build a robot-nurse than a robot-surgeon.
> are people writing checks to re-elect Robert Mugabe?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-peron/whos-helping-finan...

> Also, way to go easy on the left.

I mean if you actually read DailyKos or whatever it's clear that a lot of the people there are batshit crazy. But as far as I can tell it's one level of crazy, I'm sure there are exceptions but for the vast majority of people I don't think it goes 10 levels deep. Whereas on the right it seems to be the rule that when people are fighting against the public option for healthcare what really want is to genocide minorities, rather than the exception.

Whereas when people on the left have historically supported genocidal regimes, as far as I can tell it's been because they (perhaps naively) did so unknowingly rather than because supporting genocide was their intended outcome.
Oracle also discourages the use of 3D acceleration for untrusted hosts. See here:
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This is a pretty bad opinion piece using scare quotes, personal attacks and anecdotal commentary. It's disappointing to see this up-voted since people here aren't interested in a debate, but just to affirming there own views on the subject.

I pretty glad I got out of the mainstream tech industry when I had the chance.

Edit: And yes please reaffirm what cowards you are by down-voting instead of replying.
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> Whatever created existence (or the big bang) is by definition supernatural

This doesn't follow. It is by definition natural because it occurred naturally.
If you already know Java, you have no need to have Java's parameter passing mechanism explained to you.

If you don't know Java, and need an explanation, then you need one based on terminology that exists outside Java. Pass by value and pass by reference are concepts that predate and exist outside of Java, describing programming language semantics in a way where statements about different languages can be compared and contrasted, because they're not phrased in vocabulary specific to the language the statement is about.

Java passes all arguments by value.

The idea of overloading the term 'reference' to mean 'pointer', but without all the power you get from pointers in languages like C, has at this point grown far beyond Java. I don't think it's a logical muddying of the waters to use it in a phrase like "references are passed by value" when describing Java using terminology that exists outside of Java.
I was living in Vancouver until I moved to Waterloo for University, and will be graduating in a few months. It seems like everyone here is comparing Vancouver with US tech hubs like Seattle and SF, when there's a much more comparable target: Toronto.

Of course, this is anecdotal, but for every one of my 6 co-op terms in Waterloo, I always made finding a job in Vancouver one of my highest priorities, but in the end I always ended up choosing a job in Toronto over the Vancouver ones because the quality and selection of interesting places to work is just so vastly different ever single time.

Once you factor in the costs of living, it's ridiculously difficult for a young professional working in tech to justify choosing Vancouver over Toronto (and trust me, I tried, Vancouver is still by far my ideal city to live in), let alone SF/Seattle where the salary disparity comes into the equation.
We make a device, and have a Shabbat version. It is operated normally by a switch, and when you set it to Shabbat mode the switch stays open and just lets a trickle of current through, not enough to move the device but since the circuit never closes you aren't doing any work when you then operate the switch.
> how people like that would be able to cope with actual professional atmospheres after college.

From my own experience, I tend to agree with this passage from the article:

"""
Shield them from unfamiliar ideas, and they’ll never learn the discipline of seeing the world as other people see it. They’ll be unprepared for the social and intellectual headwinds that will hit them as soon as they step off the campuses whose climates they have so carefully controlled. What will they do when they hear opinions they’ve learned to shrink from? If they want to change the world, how will they learn to persuade people to join them?
"""
>I feel like we're approaching some sort of new, self-imposed dark age.

What's the statistical rate at which incitements to moral panic turn out to have been correct?
Hah. I'm pretty dumb myself. That'll teach me. (I'm leaving the link, though. Great paper.)

[1]: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/lamport/pubs/p...
I've programmed since i was age 11 and i have been waiting for that research to be published ever since.

Programming is often times fun, but at the end of the day I program to get a job done, back then to develop a game, not because i love solving Sudokus.
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Not all off-shoring is the same. Some of it moves labor from sustainable economies to corrupt ones, and some of it uses slave labor. Neither of those is a net positive for global equality.
I laughed when he said that we as consumer want to control technology rather than being controlled by it. Well I think the iWatch is quite the opposite. Because someone is pressured to check 10 Apps every X minutes, he buys a Display he can wrap around his wrist to save the step of grabbing the phone. For me this is really quite the opposite of gaining control.
Moreover Rolex are said to retain their resale-value pretty well.

A Rolex can live 30+ years, be re-sold or inherited many times, and still work like on the first day. Some of them even increase in value.

Resale value of the Apple watch? Well, after 2 years it's a slab of gold with obsolete electronics inside. After 4 years it's a slab of gold with obsolete electronics and a dead battery inside...

In just a few years your $10k watch will be worth as much as the material its made from, minus the cost to salvage it...
So... you are saying you aren't going to eat that high horse?
UK universities have been transformed into businesses just as aggressively as American ones.
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I wish every flight I was on would deplane this way.
What makes you think polices get more effective? The F-35 is a laughing stock. Surely most effective wouldn't be an overbudget, past deadline, aircraft with a host of problems. Surely most effective would mean avoiding things like that with government purchases.

Taxes get more complicated every year. I have a whole extra set of documents and fines to deal with because no health insurance is punished now, for example. Surely more effective would be least overhead to do taxes possible and least burden on the poor people without insurance.

The goal of many politicians is to increase pork barrel spending in their state, so it isn't like they are even trying to be effective for many policies, just to try to wrest the most money and support from the others. So if you mean most effective at making deals with businesses, maybe you are correct.
Anger/Regret are a plain waste of time, if you no longer need the money, move on. life is random.
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>Wages are rents now are they? That's doubleplus good doublethink.

I'm born to the middle class in Norway. I have done little productive with my life and yet I enjoy better personal financials than 95% of the world's working population. After I'm done with my education I could go into unemployment and be even better off. All because of where I was born. I'm just collecting on the rest of the world's wealth because... Norwegian passport. I am clearly collecting rent.

>Pitting third world workers against first world workers isn't good for either of them in the long run.

>The same threat that hangs over US workers (we will offshore your job if you unionize and demand higher wages) actually hangs over 3rd world workers too (we will reshore your job if you unionize and demand higher wage).

Unionisation's purpose is to increase workers' bargaining power and thus change the wealth distribution in favour of workers. 3rd world workers' problem is that there isn't all that much wealth to be redistributed. 3rd world workers have more to gain from the industrialization of their countries than from unionisation. Your emphasis on the different factors is way off. Eventually we will need international unions to deal with mobile multinationals, though, but it doesn't make sense as long as the income inequalities across borders are as high as they are.
> Anything they do now to try to correct for affordability, and bring down property values would result in a large number of defaults for domestic owners, and big hit to the economy.

Structural changes are always painful in the short term. It's the long term total return value that counts.

Also, domestic owners in downtown vancouver would be just fine. If the place is worth over 600k (which they all are) then they are already/mostly rich enough to absorb the hit. Note that the larger the price tag of the home then the larger the hit will be, but on that end it's filled with people who really can afford that hit. The smaller the price tag of home then it's also a much smaller hit taken and the odds are then extremely high for them to regain that value back over time.
I think the reality is "more total atoms" and "less gold atoms" per unit of volume. Carat (for gold) is a ratio of mass. If you mix gold with a lighter element than usual you can put a bigger volume of the light element. That what people tell when there is "less gold". The light atom could be more packed if they have stronger chemical bonds, I think it's the case for ceramics. So there is more atoms (gold + others) per unit of volume.
People have co-opted actual, real diagnosis and started to use them to describe things that are vaguely related/associated with that thing. People who are adamant about being tidy and organized "have OCD". People who are bummed out that their gf just broke up with them "have depression". People that are socially awkward "are autistic".
Agreed.

I read the abstract, if it seems relevant, then I flip to the conclusion, if it still seems relevant then I skim read it through, then print it out if it looks like something I need to dig deeper into.

Often those lightbulb moments have only come for me after printing it out, despite reading it 4-5 times on readcube.
Also, if the Left always gets more left-wing over time, while the mainstream always moves leftward, leaving nobody but a lone batch of online hyper-reactionaries defending decency and normality, where's my Communism? Worker-owned cooperatives? Commons trusts? Basic income? Only the last of those is even under the remotest mainstream consideration!

And how is it that we've got the most hegemonically capitalist system the world has ever seen, with self-professed right-wing nationalists or cultural conservatives running most of the planet's governments, and I hear that what we really need to worry about is college students being dirty hippies? After all, college students have always been dirty hippies, and the world has yet to die of it -- unlike, say, global warming.

Tempest in a teapot </crotchety>!
What do you mean by safe space? I think traditionally people just formed meeting groups of like minded people? But does every opinion or interest need it's own fluffy room with puppies? I think not. It certainly wouldn't be practical, especially if you want to account for possibly infinite new interests and ideas that might emerge over time - so you would need thousands or even millions of safe rooms for all variations of interests.

Typically people also have a home which should be a safe space for whatever they want to do/be, and also of course their mind, in which they are free to think whatever they wish.
"We’re okay with one brand making everyone’s cellphones, because no company could do so without enormous scale"

Is this claim backed from any market figure? I believed there are far more Android phones than iPhones.

Anyway, most of the reasoning in the post is sound but I wonder how a smart watch (Apple or anything) will appeal to people that grew up without wearing watches (it's been only a fashion statement in the last 20 years) or decided to do without it (like me since the beginning of the '90s, there is always a clock around). Is this market really going to be as large as the one for phones?
Whereas on the right it seems to be the rule that when people are fighting against the public option for healthcare what really want is to genocide minorities, rather than the exception.

I think you've been reading too much Daily Kos if you think it's an exceptional right-winger who doesn't want to genocide minorities.
I'm on the same page as you, that's why I'm getting the downvotes.
I don't for the most part. Don't want to deal with the paywalls and the content i need is generally also available in a more digested format already. i.e. My job doesn't require reading raw papers
>The ideal LBO is one in which you take an undervalued company private, maximize its operations

When you get down to details, this is basically a euphemism for what I just wrote.
This (among a few other reasons) is why Jesus went on a rant against the religious leaders of the day in Matthew chapter 23.

One of the practices at the time was for Pharisees to give all their possessions to the temple (of which they were members), therefore effectively being so poor that they could tell their elderly parents: "I have nothing to give you", this practice was known as Corban. Jesus condemned the people of the day for that in Mark 7.

In short, as Jesus said: "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel land and sea to win one proselyte, and when he is won, you make him twice as much a son of hell as yourselves"
Those that know can't share what they know, they must rely on information already made public that by necessity does not tell the whole story. It's frustrating, but it's part of the nature of this work.
Let's not flee to abstraction. Matasano/NCC does software security. We were willing to invest some time and money to bring people up to speed in software security and exploit development.

Not your cup of tea? Totally fine. Not everyone is interested in doing security.
IANAL but aren't rulings like this made out of hearing of the jury?

And, while they may be hard to avoid, aren't juries instructed to avoid news accounts of the case they are hearing?
Single page: http://www.dmagazine.com/publications/d-magazine/2012/july/t...
Novice Java programmer reads title, mutates Java object inside function, later notices side-effects, and curses author of the title.

Second novice Java programmer reads title, wants to pass objects into functions, wants to avoid expensive stack copy and writes &myObject, gets compiler error, Googles "Java pointer," and curses author of the title.

Lesson learned: author of title is either unaware of the consequences such an interpretation will cause or seeks cursing as a source of attention.
I'm still not sold on the idea of a 'smart watch'. And I'll admit I have a thing for mechanical watches, so if I'm going to spend hundreds (or thousands) of dollars on a watch, it's probably going to be a nice 'real' watch, rather than one of these things. And for a 'sports' watch, just a cheap velcro-strap casio/timex with a stopwatch function is all I need.

Until these watches integrate real 'phone' capabilities (so I don't have to also carry a bulky smartphone), I just don't see the point.
I never had trouble with this because from an early age I developed a mental model of how memory worked: numbered bytes stored in a long sequence. What can you actually store like this? Well, bytes obviously, and numbers or characters represented by sequences of bytes. But you can also store addresses to locations in this long list of bytes. And you can store an address of an address. I mean, how else could it work, I asked myself. Now a pointer is a location in memory that stores an address to something. What is an array then? It is a pointer to a beginning of a typed sequence (typed as in you tell the compiler how to treat each subsequence but that is fluid because of casting). So a[1] and *(a + 1) are the same thing. C is simple in that it always deals with sequences of bytes, nothing more.
This entire thread makes me want to die. Please, do not speak of this again.
Agreed. When they have to assemble fake artillery out of logs + rocks, I think it's safe to say there's no arms race to speak of whatsoever: http://www.nkeconwatch.com/nk-uploads/fake-artillery.jpg
I think they will do an exchange program for the gold watches when the second version will be out.
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Would he have looked more favorably upon atheists, pagans, or anyone else he didn't agree with? In fact he did write critically of Islam and obviously had some major issues with Catholicism.
Mainly because being #1 for "doing business" often comes at the expense of customers and employees.

Low regulatory protection means stuff like this is deemed acceptable - http://www.tnp.sg/news/sim-lim-squares-phone-scam-makes-head...

It also means that stuff like this, which is regarded as a basic right in other countries, is deem jailworthy - https://sg.news.yahoo.com/singapore-bus-driver-strike-makes-...

This is what it really means to be top of that list.