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Dinosaurtrain fucked around with this message at 20:44 on Mar 17, 2018 |
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Mar 17, 2018 20:30
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Wrong thread?
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Mar 17, 2018 20:37
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Unicrong thread.
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Mar 17, 2018 20:47
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VideoGameVet posted:You're right, it's a suburb of Seattle that's leading now. I visited some friends in Tacoma, and the traffic was horrid. Other side of Seattle I know but still.
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Mar 17, 2018 22:18
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Groovelord Neato posted:yeah and i don't know how they didn't see it coming. Because they're naive idiots.
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Mar 17, 2018 22:34
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Groovelord Neato posted:yeah and i don't know how they didn't see it coming. Having worked with these Silicon Valley asshats, I'm willing to bet that someone indeed told them that this would happen but the Facebook C-tards probably decided they knew better than whoever had told them.
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Mar 17, 2018 23:27
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I like how as old as SA is, it has been a good predictor of where the trends are going wrt many tech related matters. I do wonder how SV will fare in the next decade as the gilding wears off and the general public starts to realize that most of the foundation of our tech industry is total bullshit and nonsense.
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Mar 17, 2018 23:56
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https://twitter.com/jason/status/975113256963485696?s=21 Oh hey, an SV tech lord wants to run for mayor of SF. Let's see his well thought-out proposals for the apparent car break-in problem: https://twitter.com/jason/status/975101826084175872?s=21
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Mar 18, 2018 00:44
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I love how the second part of his instant fix is a massive long-term project with no guarantee of public approval.
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Mar 18, 2018 00:56
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Rhesus Pieces posted:https://twitter.com/jason/status/975113256963485696?s=21 Bing Bong so simple.
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Mar 18, 2018 01:00
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Rhesus Pieces posted:an SV tech lord If he was a real tech lord, he'd be able to afford his own parking space (which last I heard was around $400-500/mo?). Dude's like, a tech squire at best.
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Mar 18, 2018 01:01
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GrandpaPants posted:If he was a real tech lord, he'd be able to afford his own parking space (which last I heard was around $400-500/mo?). Dude's like, a tech squire at best. A mere tech peasant.
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Mar 18, 2018 01:06
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:A mere tech peasant. Tech peasants use public transportation.
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Mar 18, 2018 01:13
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:A mere tech peasant. "Tech Lord?! Well I didn't evote for you!"
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Mar 18, 2018 01:16
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Mar 18, 2018 04:43
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and youtube kids is as terrible as alwaysquote:The YouTube Kids app is meant to filter out unsuitable content, but we found that it suggested that children watch conspiracy theory videos. https://www.businessinsider.com.au/youtube-suggested-conspiracy-videos-to-children-using-its-kids-app-2018-3
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Mar 18, 2018 05:32
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:
I think this is one of those situations where the algorithm is extrapolating from your past activity.
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Mar 18, 2018 07:48
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Rhesus Pieces posted:https://twitter.com/jason/status/975113256963485696?s=21 I think they made a TV show about this. Y'all might enjoy a couple of episodes of it for the pure  factor of the concept. Or watch the trailer:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQcrMa-aG6w This was all played completely straight, of course.
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Mar 18, 2018 08:26
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Mercury Ballistic posted:I like how as old as SA is, it has been a good predictor of where the trends are going wrt many tech related matters. I do wonder how SV will fare in the next decade as the gilding wears off and the general public starts to realize that most of the foundation of our tech industry is total bullshit and nonsense.
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Mar 18, 2018 10:29
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Cicero posted:The bigger threat to SV giants is probably legislation/trustbusting. In the US? 
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Mar 18, 2018 10:54
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The thing that might actually make regulation of SV happen is cold warrior/natsec liberals getting so eye-bulgingly enraged at these media being used for purposes contrary to American empire they demand something be done to stop it. I don’t think domestic public opinion or economic arguments about monopoly etc are anywhere near enough on their own
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Mar 18, 2018 11:15
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one thing that's already going on is a lot of skilled immigrants deciding on moving to other countries besides the US bc of all the bullshit and that might end up creating other tech centers, hopefully with less of the toxic culture
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Mar 18, 2018 11:24
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Looks well on his way to being the next Diane Feinstein.
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Mar 18, 2018 13:24
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lol he's such a piece of poo poo https://twitter.com/Jason/status/975103757116571648?s=19 https://twitter.com/Jason/status/975174435593318400?s=19
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Mar 18, 2018 13:41
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:and youtube kids is as terrible as always They should remove it if they aren't going to try curate its content for children. I think a lot of non tech parents don't realise the crap that is on YouTube kids. My young lad watched it for a short time before I put a stop to that. He'd end up watching videos of kids being brats and picking up their bad behaviour. Or those creepy violent Mickey Mouse knock off cartoons. And nurses rhymes teaching the wrong colours. Seems YouTube kids is just used by trolls and people gaming for advertising revenue.
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Mar 18, 2018 14:10
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nerdz posted:one thing that's already going on is a lot of skilled immigrants deciding on moving to other countries besides the US bc of all the bullshit and that might end up creating other tech centers, hopefully with less of the toxic culture What indication have you seen to that effect? Not many expanding markets out there that are stable/safe for families and pay like the US does. Even fewer that are remotely as accessible or friendly (in a legal or social sense) to immigrants. I don't think the Visa caps are going to be missed in the foreseeable future, even if techlords can't push IT workers through the system with a leg up on everyone else.
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Mar 18, 2018 15:09
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Warbadger posted:What indication have you seen to that effect? Not many expanding markets out there that are stable/safe for families and pay like the US does. Even fewer that are remotely as accessible or friendly (in a legal or social sense) to immigrants. Did you know that USCIS has almost stopped processing H1-Bs? That in October last year, they had processed only like 15% of all applications, when it used to be 90% processed by October 2016. also work visa applications to Canada and EU almost doubled. people that didn't get in the US usually tried again, now they just won't be arsed to do it and will try somewhere else. people who got in this year will be stuck in a limbo until their employer gives up on them or the other way around. people that are already in the US will be forced out since it will be harder to renew the work visa and get a green card. the effects of all this won't be immediate, but they will surely have bad results for SV. it's not a surprise they're extremely concerned about this. also as a previous immigrant, lol that you think the US is accessible or friendly at all to immigrants, especially compared to Canada and the EU, where most immigrants can find a country that speaks their language. nerdz fucked around with this message at 15:22 on Mar 18, 2018 |
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Mar 18, 2018 15:19
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Sorry, but weren't most of the Silicon Valley company H1-Bs being used to hire people who would be systematically underpaid and at risk of having to leave the country if they annoyed their employers, especialyl since the original company to hire them would informally tell other similar companies not to hire them once fired?
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Mar 18, 2018 15:26
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Look it up yourself. http://h1bdata.info/
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Mar 18, 2018 15:36
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nerdz posted:lol he's such a piece of poo poo I’m looking for a challenge at this point  If I fail I just impact what? A few tens of thousands of life’s and a major US cities ability to function? What’s the worse that could happen!
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Mar 18, 2018 16:05
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fishmech posted:Sorry, but weren't most of the Silicon Valley company H1-Bs being used to hire people who would be systematically underpaid and at risk of having to leave the country if they annoyed their employers, especialyl since the original company to hire them would informally tell other similar companies not to hire them once fired? Yeah, the way the H1-B works is extremely hosed up. Even then, it's the only option for 99% of people wanting to work in SV besides an O-1. This means that the H1-B fuckery affects both the underpaid (but not necessarily underskilled) tech workers and the exceptional ones that would take higher rank leading positions, which is a big hit to SV. Some of these are actually startup founders/co-founders that have to immigrate as an H1-B worker for their own company. You can see where this goes if they just say "gently caress SV" and decide to establish their startups elsewhere. Even if the H1-B is extremely bad, most foreign workers only see it as a temporary stage while they're waiting for their green cards. Once they get one, they get to compete for higher salaries like americans in their field. But the current administration wants to kill the H1-B as a path to citizenship, so people that want to be in for the long haul will probably reconsider working in the US. They also want to revert a law that would allow their espouses to work. Not to mention all the racist poo poo that's going on right now with trump in power. It's not hard to see why people are extremely wary of immigrating to the US right now, and it's seriously depressing foreign worker applications and rerouting them to friendlier countries. EDIT: I'll be fair, though – the shadiest poo poo that's going on right now are the HUGE indian companies that get indian workers to the US without a set job, then contract them to whoever pays the company. These guys are probably the most underpaid and abused H1-B workers there are, they might even be paying out of their pockets for the chance to get to US and then live in slavery conditions if the companies don't get enough contracts. It is a good thing that the new H1-B laws will try to restrict some of that, but lol if you think the government is doing it for any other reason than "Browns get the gently caress out" nerdz fucked around with this message at 16:16 on Mar 18, 2018 |
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Mar 18, 2018 16:09
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Rhesus Pieces posted:https://twitter.com/jason/status/975113256963485696?s=21 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7U4ZYOBzEEs
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Mar 18, 2018 16:41
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Andrast posted:In the US? Never discount politically motivated selective enforcement.
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Mar 18, 2018 18:02
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withak posted:I think this is one of those situations where the algorithm is extrapolating from your past activity. holy poo poo this is an entire genre
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Mar 18, 2018 18:11
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withak posted:I think this is one of those situations where the algorithm is extrapolating from your past activity. Facebook said it was from what other people were searching, and wasn’t indicative of what was actually available.
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Mar 18, 2018 18:23
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I tried myself and it only suggested videos of real Madrid, Barcelona and Cristiano Ronaldo, I don't even watch or post about soccer
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Mar 18, 2018 18:31
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The algorithm pushes unusual search terms to the top of the autocomplete stack to let people hit newly trending topics more quickly. It could well have been done intentionally by some bad actors. I'll bet the nlp and autocomplete teams are trying to figure out a set of features to keep these kinds of things from appearing while still letting legit news stories like 'video of bombing' keep appearing on top of suggestions when appropriate.
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Mar 18, 2018 18:54
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https://www.buzzfeed.com/nidhisubbaraman/braces-wars-dentists-are-warning-that-mail-order?utm_term=.ddRmxLVm2#.ygRKLk9KQ Interesting article about direct smile club, a sort of knockoff invisalign which doesn't seem to involve dentists or orthodontists. Also, more wonderful news about facebook https://twitter.com/BuzzFeedNews/status/975008391880953856
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:https://www.buzzfeed.com/nidhisubbaraman/braces-wars-dentists-are-warning-that-mail-order?utm_term=.ddRmxLVm2#.ygRKLk9KQ That seems like a really terrible idea if it doesn't involve actually looking at evaluating your teeth at any step. edit: when the article finally gets to the actual process it involves a dentist so I'm not sure why it'd be illegal? hobbesmaster fucked around with this message at 01:11 on Mar 19, 2018 |
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