turk183
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8 years ago
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on: Fish are eating lots of plastic
Let's be honest about the plastic in the oceans: It is not first world countries causing most of the problem. Ships do drop their trash in the ocean, that needs to stop, and we're all guilty to some degree, but if you want to stop the worst of the pollution you have to go to the Far East, Latin America, and Africa.
turk183
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8 years ago
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on: U.S. Employers Struggle to Match Workers with Open Jobs
Thomson Reuters did this using Belarus. Any systems in "maintenance mode" get sent to code monkeys in former Eastern Bloc nations. The quality is fair, but a lot better than what happened with India (sorry, India, I still love some of you guys, but the frustrations have left deep scars, too).
It's not like American developers are faring much better in those items you listed--offices have become crap, hardware middling, policiies, Ha! Whatever they can geta away with, typically mental torture. Benefits and time off have been historically good but are dropping, pure misery, you betcha!
turk183
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8 years ago
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on: How NASA Kept the ISS Flying While Harvey Hit Mission Control
Space is so disappointing because everything humans do there is super complicated and fragile.
turk183
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8 years ago
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on: Impact of breast milk on IQ, brain size and white matter development (2010)
What country are you talking about? Are you familiar with WIC? In the US there's no woman from sea to shining sea who should be going without formula unless she sold it to buy drugs! And if WIC won't provide enough, there's literally thousands of churches and other charities out there falling all over each other to help infants in need.
turk183
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8 years ago
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on: Impact of breast milk on IQ, brain size and white matter development (2010)
My wife went through undue torture and stress due to all the breastfeeding virtue signaling. She was simply unable to produce enough despite her best efforts. My kids are 12 and 7 now and both have proven to be quite intelligent.
turk183
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8 years ago
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on: Impact of breast milk on IQ, brain size and white matter development (2010)
Being someone's mother is probably humanity's most important "gender role" and not something people should be trying to escape from.
turk183
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8 years ago
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on: Iowa's handout to Apple illustrates the folly of corporate welfare deals
Dell in North Carolina--opened up shop to collect the tax break then rolled up the sidewalks when the break expired.
turk183
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8 years ago
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on: Iowa's handout to Apple illustrates the folly of corporate welfare deals
Plus the US has an unending supply of social engineers whose mission isn't so much to educate but to tinker or indoctrinate or whatever they think they're doing.
turk183
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8 years ago
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on: Iowa's handout to Apple illustrates the folly of corporate welfare deals
I read things all the time that espouse the benefits of large families and how important it is to keep society fit by having more children.
It's like they want to keep the Ponzi going by adding more and more people.
It's quite clear, especially in places like China, India, and Indonesia that runaway population growth is incredibly destructive to the environment.
If government and taxation and retirement systems require more and more population in order to operate successfully it's all coming down at some point.
turk183
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8 years ago
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on: Google Critic Ousted from Think Tank Funded by the Tech Giant
Yes, my segue into all of this was 1991 if that helps. SMTP, FTP, Gopher, Usenet--protocols, not platforms controlled by psychotic billionaires.
turk183
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8 years ago
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on: Google Critic Ousted from Think Tank Funded by the Tech Giant
Protonmail. I can afford the $50/yr. for better email and it's something I should have done a long time ago. I was a GMail user since GMail was a thing, though. It breaks my heart to see Google do this stuff, but I just can't morally stay with them. I don't know what they are, I don't know how compromised they are by the intelligence agencies that run this country, I don't know a lot of things.
turk183
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8 years ago
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on: U.S. stock valuations haven’t been this extreme since 1929 and 2000
And yet, inflation is said to be low. I'm not sure it is.
turk183
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8 years ago
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on: U.S. stock valuations haven’t been this extreme since 1929 and 2000
I think PE has failed as a marker because there's too much capital chasing too few investments so of course PEs will be astronomical. High PEs don't mean what people think they mean or once meant.
turk183
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8 years ago
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on: U.S. stock valuations haven’t been this extreme since 1929 and 2000
If it's any consolation, 2008/9 proved that everything is pretty much correlated--stocks went down, bonds went down, everything went down. There were no safe havens except for massive government bailouts. To this day, the illegal acts that banks undertook to stay afloat have not been prosecuted (moving all unperforming assets to "off balance sheet vehicles" like holding companies). Also, mark-to-market accounting was suspended and has never been reinstated.
turk183
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8 years ago
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on: U.S. stock valuations haven’t been this extreme since 1929 and 2000
Please read the above advice! In 2008, I saw the crash coming. I got tipped off, kind of: My bank was NetBank and it was the first one to fail. I pulled all my money out of stocks and sat out the crash. Brilliant, right? Yeah, except in 2010, I didn't re-invest it! I sat on a lot of cash and missed out on tons of gains. So while I preserved my wealth (and that was dicey because Money Markets nearly collapsed and that's where all my "cash" was). Had I stayed invested I would have taken some paper losses but I would have come out further ahead by now.
My one concern is that these markets are just pretend bs because of QE and the effects money printing has had on all assets.
turk183
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8 years ago
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on: Google Critic Ousted from Think Tank Funded by the Tech Giant
I just spent the better part of a week getting myself off of GMail. I'm still using Chrome at work for development, but have Brave browser for personal use now. I'm using DuckDuckGo for searches. I have an iPhone, but honestly, I don't trust Apple to not act like total dumbasses and so I am now lamenting the consolidation in the smart phone space.
Google and these other companies are blowing themselves up over idiotic politics. It may be a trickle today, but it doesn't take much for a trickle to become a raging river of people migrating off your ecosystem. Are you listening Google? Or are you so tone deaf and smug that you can't hear anymore?
Maybe it's time anyways--Google and Facebook are so lame. They are so anathema to what the original Internet was all about. Hint: It's about humanity and open access to ideas, not closed plantations with no diversity of thought allowed.
