You sure packed a lot of liberal slurs in a really small and useless comment.
I'm developing a theory that America's thoughts on what technology is capable of swings wildly between two poles (possibly with every generation?): A strong luddite streak that pooh-pooh's technology, followed by a…
So should we start hunting bears in Yellowstone?
I think about how recently and spectacularly housing has gone off the rails and I get so sad. What a complete disaster this is turning into.
Most of the POTS system is fiber and has been for some time. The "sorry copper POTS network" enabled the future through any number of amazing technologies up to and including SS7 and lots of modern tech. If you're…
One is forward-looking, predicting the outcome (winning) by looking at current data (objective comparison). The article tries to twist this around to be backwards-looking: if it won,it must be better. Which is a…
I promise you - promise you - that anyone who would read that letter knows everything you're saying in it anyway.
There is zero chance of this becoming popular. Zero.
The refrain of shitty developers everywhere.
You underestimate how many levels of engineering at Google are entirely populated by recent college grads. It could absolutely be unwillingness (I agree it's probably not blind ignorance) to pay attention to the lessons…
I'm going to guess your unspoken assertion is that these things would have happened anyway - or even faster, natch! - had the government not gotten involved and mandated ever-stricter safety requirements. I do not agree.
What you call "hell" I call record profits. Sorry if you're trying the tired old "the best way to lose millions is to buy an airline" bullshit this probably not the thread to do it in.
And how much less than their private sector counterparts did they make over the course of their career?
Whataboutism is basically the currency of debate on the internet these days. For whatever reason it's the arguing style de jure.
Yes, surely that's the reason.
Right, so we're just arbitrarily moving the goalposts now that the data doesn't back the claim. Got it.
Because nobody likes to pay for something they don't want? No, incremental cost is not zero, or there'd be infinite channels.
We should remember the only reason in many states buying a car is a transparent process is because the government realized this kind of billig/invoicing is exploitative and unfair. Almost every argument applied to the…
This just in: the entire world isn't wheelchair-accessible. Is this just supposed to be a pointless injection of moral outrage? How many millions - or billions - of dollars should we spend on "fixing" the NY Subway for…
This has always stuck with me. When I was a lot younger, in the early 90s I was dating a guy who was pretty high up in Washington state's DSHS. I remember him saying that massive cutbacks were forcing all the…
That's basically like saying that horses and buggies will just be tools in a larger toolset needed for space travel. What generalized AI will look like bears little or no resemblance to what we're doing today.
Honestly, what I think we're seeing is evidence of an existential crisis in some quarters in Google. There's a lot of people who still believe in "do no evil" and who furthermore believe that part and parcel of that is…
That's the Econ 101 textbook statement, not reality.
Remember when browsers were supposed to untether you from the OS? How is operating system support at all involved for a web-based application?
This line of thinking is I fathomable to me. You do realize that you'd probably have better chances pulling a slot machine handle for a big payout than expecting an early-employee stock package that means anything to a…
You sure packed a lot of liberal slurs in a really small and useless comment.
I'm developing a theory that America's thoughts on what technology is capable of swings wildly between two poles (possibly with every generation?): A strong luddite streak that pooh-pooh's technology, followed by a…
So should we start hunting bears in Yellowstone?
I think about how recently and spectacularly housing has gone off the rails and I get so sad. What a complete disaster this is turning into.
Most of the POTS system is fiber and has been for some time. The "sorry copper POTS network" enabled the future through any number of amazing technologies up to and including SS7 and lots of modern tech. If you're…
One is forward-looking, predicting the outcome (winning) by looking at current data (objective comparison). The article tries to twist this around to be backwards-looking: if it won,it must be better. Which is a…
I promise you - promise you - that anyone who would read that letter knows everything you're saying in it anyway.
There is zero chance of this becoming popular. Zero.
The refrain of shitty developers everywhere.
You underestimate how many levels of engineering at Google are entirely populated by recent college grads. It could absolutely be unwillingness (I agree it's probably not blind ignorance) to pay attention to the lessons…
I'm going to guess your unspoken assertion is that these things would have happened anyway - or even faster, natch! - had the government not gotten involved and mandated ever-stricter safety requirements. I do not agree.
What you call "hell" I call record profits. Sorry if you're trying the tired old "the best way to lose millions is to buy an airline" bullshit this probably not the thread to do it in.
And how much less than their private sector counterparts did they make over the course of their career?
Whataboutism is basically the currency of debate on the internet these days. For whatever reason it's the arguing style de jure.
Yes, surely that's the reason.
Right, so we're just arbitrarily moving the goalposts now that the data doesn't back the claim. Got it.
Because nobody likes to pay for something they don't want? No, incremental cost is not zero, or there'd be infinite channels.
We should remember the only reason in many states buying a car is a transparent process is because the government realized this kind of billig/invoicing is exploitative and unfair. Almost every argument applied to the…
This just in: the entire world isn't wheelchair-accessible. Is this just supposed to be a pointless injection of moral outrage? How many millions - or billions - of dollars should we spend on "fixing" the NY Subway for…
This has always stuck with me. When I was a lot younger, in the early 90s I was dating a guy who was pretty high up in Washington state's DSHS. I remember him saying that massive cutbacks were forcing all the…
That's basically like saying that horses and buggies will just be tools in a larger toolset needed for space travel. What generalized AI will look like bears little or no resemblance to what we're doing today.
Honestly, what I think we're seeing is evidence of an existential crisis in some quarters in Google. There's a lot of people who still believe in "do no evil" and who furthermore believe that part and parcel of that is…
That's the Econ 101 textbook statement, not reality.
Remember when browsers were supposed to untether you from the OS? How is operating system support at all involved for a web-based application?
This line of thinking is I fathomable to me. You do realize that you'd probably have better chances pulling a slot machine handle for a big payout than expecting an early-employee stock package that means anything to a…