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Re:Uber CEO Wants to Shift More Engineering Jobs to India, Sparking In...
on Thursday July 02, 2020 @12:48PM (#23715184)
> Why should an engineer be paid that value they produce when they assume none of the risk?
Engineers are never fired? Not even when the company shuts down?
> If the company goes bankrupt, will the engineer be willing to bail the company out?
Sometimes yes, with their (and mine) taxes.
Re:Uber CEO Wants to Shift More Engineering Jobs to India, Sparking In...
on Thursday July 02, 2020 @12:42PM (#23715121)
> the bad to good ratio is pretty high but due to the population size
This is not how ratios work.
Re:Uber CEO Wants to Shift More Engineering Jobs to India, Sparking In...
on Thursday July 02, 2020 @12:40PM (#23715102)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics
Politics permeates society, and by design.
Also this thread is about employment and moving jobs across countries, which is an extremely politically changed topic.
Re:Unikernels: The Next Stage of Linux’s Dominance (2019)
on Saturday May 16, 2020 @03:42PM (#23206585)
That does very little for security, if it's not a net negative at all.
Most attacks aim at executing arbitrary code in the process space of the application being targeted. The lack of user-land does not help.
> Courts don't operate on technicalities. The intent is pretty much all that matters, as long as you prove that someone intended to pirate stuff, doesn't matter what rube goldberg machine they use to actually pull it off.
You are absolutely right.
This is what enabled prosecuting the founders of the pirate bay, among other things.
The fact that files are hosted elsewhere, mangled, encrypted, cut in pieces is entirely irrelevant to the court.
Hoping that a technicality gets you off the hook is exercise in shortsightedness.
Re:Australia has the most expensive energy bills
on Monday June 19, 2017 @07:03AM (#14585965)
Mould? I've seen mushrooms growing. It baffles me how this stuff can be legal.
Re:Australia has the most expensive energy bills
on Monday June 19, 2017 @07:03AM (#14585960)
What? Ireland has terrible isolation and building quality in general compared most of EU.
Re:Alone on the Open Road: Truckers Feel Like ‘Throwaway People’
on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @09:42AM (#14401079)
Life and the universe don't owe us anything. This concepts of "deserve" comes from some monotheistic religions and it's been called Just World Fallacy.
> I seriously doubt that most people today would feel like someone with a 2nd grade education or even an 8th grade education deserves a job
Thankfully, a large number of people in the world support the idea of feeding the hungry in a way or another.
Re:Ask HN: How do I switch from being a passive consumer to an active ...
on Sunday May 21, 2017 @11:21AM (#14387676)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_overpopulation
The last thing this world needs is more people, by far. If anything, adopt kids.
Also, how's the marriage required?
Re:Recovering from Burnout and Depression
on Saturday May 13, 2017 @07:01AM (#14330345)
Are you serious? It's the very opposite.
Re:Ask HN: Online Security Tips for Newbie Freedom Activists?
on Monday January 30, 2017 @08:39AM (#13521006)
> It's letting the perfect be the enemy of the good.
We are talking activists facing state-sponsored attackers, where "good" security is not enough.
Re:Wrong signal
on Monday November 28, 2016 @02:00PM (#13057552)
Spot on. Many companies pushing "secure" applications conveniently forget to warn users about the false sense of security.
The cryptography might be flawless, but everything else...
Re:Stallman’s Law
on Monday November 28, 2016 @07:36AM (#13054988)
Stallman keeps being right about everything yet people want to call him an extremist.
Stallman is flexible enough to accept using closed hardware, closed firmware shipped with a device, non-GPL licenses.
On the other hand, patent and copyright laws...
Re:The new MacBook Pro is kind of great for hackers
on Saturday November 26, 2016 @09:16PM (#13047317)
For the HN definition of hackers, maybe.
Re:On the modern web, ISPs are one of your threats (2015)
on Saturday November 26, 2016 @07:40PM (#13046972)
No mention of Tor and its Onion Services?
Re:What if jobs are not the solution but the problem?
on Friday November 25, 2016 @05:29PM (#13040316)
> having the sense of being needed and being useful
Often, it can be the opposite. Many people would describe their daily tasks as useless or marginally useful for humanity, while finding meaning in unpaid volunteering.
Re:What if jobs are not the solution but the problem?
on Friday November 25, 2016 @05:23PM (#13040281)
No, they are not just.
Re:Transparent DNS proxies
on Friday November 25, 2016 @01:40PM (#13038903)
DNSCrypt still leaks your DNS queries to the legitimate resolvers.
DNSCrypt over Tor helps (unless all your traffic is sent only over Tor) but I'm not seeing tools to do this around.
Re:Why pledge(2) or, how I learned to love web application sandboxing
on Friday November 25, 2016 @01:34PM (#13038852)
Firejail is one of the most underrated: https://firejail.wordpress.com/
Re:Facebook Said to Create Censorship Tool to Get Back into China
on Wednesday November 23, 2016 @09:17AM (#13022767)
There is a third option: that 1B Chinese are given uncensored access to FB.
By implementing censorship FB will make such option even less likely to happen in future.
Re:Headphones can be hijacked to surreptitiously record audio
on Tuesday November 22, 2016 @12:13PM (#13015555)
A camera/mic switch should be required by law on every laptop and phone.
Please don tell me a 5c switch is too expensive for a $300 phone.
Re:Taking PHP Seriously
on Thursday October 13, 2016 @07:04PM (#12704898)
HA!
Re:Copyright Law Shouldn't Punish Research and Repair
on Thursday October 13, 2016 @07:09AM (#12699849)
Intellectual "property" is a form of turf war, and the same pattern applies.
First the "pioneering" phase, aka land grabbing, then the walled gardens.
Re:Show HN: Your Social Media Fingerprint (maybe NSFW)
on Wednesday October 12, 2016 @07:24PM (#12697188)
Share the link with your colleagues for extra fun.