I sincerely doubt David Wong will offer any rebuttals to your very valid points.
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It pains me to see how many posters on this thread are not aware of the leakedsource (.ru, .co, etc.) websites that show the exact thing HIBP shows, except with a much higher fidelity.
Am I the only one here who doesn't prefer self-service?
Although I definitely appreciate the idea of having options for people who do not share my mentality, my ideal shopping experience is where I have to do the least amount work.
I don't want to have to put my cart up. I don't want to do self-checkout. I'm not going to tell a robot what kind of vegetable I want. I appreciate being able to call a store to resolve an outlier issue.
As a consumer, I will always be willing to pay extra $$ for what I suppose is now becoming a premium perk.
It helps if you just imagine that every large brick and mortar chain in the Nordic countries operates kind of like IKEA. Lots of self service, spartan shop interior, and also, since labour is expensive here and you can't fuck your employees over with low wages like you can elsewhere, store owners tend to want to cut down on the number of staff.
>>you can't fuck your employees over with low wages like you can elsewhere
Not all Nordic countries even have minimum wage laws (Sweden, Norway). I'm not sure how you were able to construct that observation.
Calib3r commented on Chris Hughes Says It’s Time to Break Up Facebook nytimes.com/2019/05/09/op... · Posted by u/tysone
Chris Hughes is right on a lot of things.
But to create a new Federal Agency that can write blank-check laws is not a good idea.
What ever happened to the Schoolhouse rock song "I'm just a bill?" What happened to laws being written through approval of house and congress?
We are pushing for laws to be written by people who do not have the citizen in mind (FCC killed Net Neutrality ring a bell?). Why is it so crazy to expect the House and Congress to do their diligence and vet all laws? Why must we create federal entities to do the heavy lifting for us at the cost of removing representation?
I have $2MM in my 401k I can't touch until I'm 59-1/2. I'm in my 40's and I'm worried of being broke when I'm 60. Insane? Probably. It's like no matter how much you have there's always fear. I keep thinking, "Yeah, it's all in funds and could just go poof if the DOW corrects back down to 7,000 because it took 20 years to get to where it is now..." Does the anxiety never end?
>>I can't touch
Yes you can. If you're actually going to go broke when you're 60, I'd HIGHLY recommend touching at least a bit of that cash at the cost of federal income tax.
Edit: Am not financial advisor
Calib3r commented on MIT cuts ties with Chinese tech firms Huawei, ZTE reuters.com/article/us-us... · Posted by u/gmishuris
Sounds like a FOIA request should fix that "open source" problem. If its software developed by or for a governmental agency in the US, we as citizens have the right to access it as the public domain work it is. The recent ORCA fare enforcement app shenanigans with Sound Transit is a great example, even with a contracting company as a layer of indirection for developing said software doesn't escape said code's FOIAbility.
>ORCA fare enforcement app shenanigans with Sound Transit
Can you please provide a source for the details?
Calib3r commented on “No, we’re telling everyone we are using Java” twitter.com/joeerl/status... · Posted by u/tosh
I’ve seen software rejected this at a university as the IT teams (pleural) didn’t like the language it was written in. However the problem was solved by the software vendor withdrawing their quote as we were too hard to deal with.
There is nothing wrong with rejecting software because of the technology it uses.
Think about how important maintenance is. If an organization doesn't have in-house skillset to maintain and enhance software solutions they buy outright, why would they want it?
Calib3r commented on Mark Zuckerberg Promised a Clear History Tool Almost a Year Ago buzzfeednews.com/article/... · Posted by u/jmsflknr
> In order to preserve the usefulness of those models and the hundreds of millions in R&D spent to develop them, you have to carefully understand exactly what products and algos will be affected by just deleting a single record.
My answer to that is 'who cares?'
It's not my problem, let me delete all my data.
In fact it's required by law in some places.
Exactly. The ability to delete user data should have been something engineered from the ground up. They are paying the penalty of technical debt and hopefully learning some tough lessons.
Because an insanely high percentage of people will refuse to pay $1/year. Also, because $1 does not come close to covering the cost difference; targeted ads typically bring in 2x or more revenue per impression and the average revenue per user per year in the US is around $25.
targeted ads typically bring in 2x or more revenue per impression
Source?