toast_coder | 7 years ago | on: Email security on Democratic campaigns is as bad as 2016
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toast_coder | 7 years ago | on: Why are America's elite universities censoring themselves on China?
Money.
toast_coder | 7 years ago | on: Chief U.S. spy catcher says China using LinkedIn to recruit Americans
The US, Germany, and Japan are all technology leaders. None of those nations leapfrogged into a developed nation by copying others.
toast_coder | 7 years ago | on: Microsoft will require suppliers to offer paid parental leave
Why is it the wrong thing?
toast_coder | 7 years ago | on: What does the GDPR actually mean for startups?
Its a funny reference to bring up California. So many responses to GDPR have been a blanket refusal and cutting EU users off from a nontrivial amount of content on the internet.
As a US citizen, I already know that everything on earth causes cancer to the citizens of CA, but its interesting how many product commercials where you see the products are not available in CA.
Frankley, I think alot of data privacy crusaders are going to be even more surprised by how easy it is for ditigal product offerings to cut out users by geolocation. If CA wants fo go down the road of making websites display notifications about this cancer causing data collection, well, I feel like I could make my living just by selling my digital products in Texas.
At some point the regulation makes the business unprofitable.
toast_coder | 7 years ago | on: The Story of Why I Left Riot Games
That poster literally contradicted himself in two sentences.
toast_coder | 7 years ago | on: I know why rejection emails suck – I write them
You bet there are absolutly people who want protection from this discrimination. Those people want it broken down to the concept of nothing more than 'I was here first, you must offer the job to me or I have cause to sue'.
It is one of the hallmarks of union labor management. It is one reason why private labor has a competitive advantage.
toast_coder | 7 years ago | on: Everything Is Booming Except for Wages
If your negociating with walmart or mcdonalds you have nothing to offer in terms of skill. (for the jobs you are referencing)
Those people who have skills worth money like to negociate.
The great thing about that is everone can better themselves and be worth more.
toast_coder | 7 years ago | on: The Student Debt Problem Is Worse Than We Imagined
Except for the last 30 years...
toast_coder | 7 years ago | on: The Student Debt Problem Is Worse Than We Imagined
If you dont wont to be in debt, dont take the loan. Saying that you not getting your secondary education paid for by somebody else dooms you to a life of serfdom just sounds like you whining
toast_coder | 7 years ago | on: I'm Wil Wheaton. I Live with Chronic Depression and Anxiety. I Am Not Ashamed
> I would much rather worry about whether my life truly matters than worry about whether my life will immediately come to an end if I can't kill or grow enough food.
I cant help but think negotiating those situtations is exaclty what the human needs to avoid depression. Maybe you chances of dying young are much higher, like 30% vs 1%. But die young or die old, those humans really lived.
toast_coder | 7 years ago | on: In ‘Small Fry,’ Steve Jobs Comes Across as a Jerk. His Daughter Forgives Him
I thought the consensus was that jobs was a jerk, but since he was a brilliant jerk its OK to idolize him.
toast_coder | 7 years ago | on: Future elections may be swayed by chatbots
Thats a technical term for something your political opponents do.
toast_coder | 7 years ago | on: Twenty-two states ask appeals court to bring back net neutrality
Did that premise matter to you when a majority of californians voted to ban gay marriage? Did you jump up and say 'the system is broken'. I really doubt it.
toast_coder | 7 years ago | on: Cisco Said to Be Cited for Bias Against U.S. Workers
You think this only effects IT?
You think salary negotiations are somehow immune to those same price pressures when we are dealing with the ppl who mow lawns, pick produce, and clean bathrooms?
toast_coder | 7 years ago | on: Why Do Keynote Speakers Keep Suggesting That Improving Security Is Possible?
I think thats a ridiculous statement. Should we also limit how many books are written and who can write them?
What is the difference?
toast_coder | 7 years ago | on: Companies Shouldn’t Be Accountable Only to Shareholders
Exactly.
toast_coder | 7 years ago | on: Katie's New Face
I don't think plastic is an option. There isnt an artificial material that can replace skin.
The options are to keep the mangled face, or replace.
toast_coder | 7 years ago | on: Companies Shouldn’t Be Accountable Only to Shareholders
California exports to the the rest of us mostly. Lots of food, high end manufacturing, services, and they have a huge slice of the asia-us trade logistics.
toast_coder | 7 years ago | on: California teacher pension debt overwhelms school budgets
Take the money and run...
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Thats just how it is on HN.