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Some twitter $2/hr contract worker for a subcontator (I knew nothing about the slave labor) on the other side of the world having fun.

No. Then the companies can claim they own part of all your side work, plus the right to known what you spend time doing online. The govt should just make internet access for home tax deductible as an expense.

Most of these homes have been one storm away from being wiped off the map since they were built. The ocean was always there. The storms always come. Every year a few houses are lost.

If they didn't kit them out with high end wood floors, TV, marble countertops and stainless fridges the insurance costs wouldn't go up like this. This is like building next to a train track, then complaining about the noise.

It's called communism and everytime it's tried it ends in genocide and hundreds of millions murdered.

Apparently when you do business with a country that considers your country an enemy, things go "wrong". Who knew. Hard to have predicted.

Most bitcoin mining is in China and is powered by coal. China is more interested in getting ahead in bitcoin then they are worried about what Greta and company thinks. Progressives know China wont bend so they go after soft target counties happy to bend over for the cause du jour. USA, Canada etc.

Google gas for your car next. Taxes and google fees, the two things you can't avoid.

Probably hosted at ovh data center that burned down today.

It's very tough to rejoin tech or engineering once you go to mgmt. The fields move so fast.

Meanwhile litte changes in mgmt.

Wankers.

The richest people in the world are buying up land like never before. Bill Gates owns more farmland then anyone now.

The billionaire class is planning to rent and sell everything to us in the future.

Homes are going up in value because they are "real estate", on a world with inflation about to take over.

Buying a house preserves wealth from inflation.

Renting an apartment you are subject to the inflation, you don't benefit from it.

Buying a house is a hedge against the current fake economy.

Who knew "own nothing and be happy" involved crushing rental fees to wall street.

Nobody but a fool does that kind of business deal without verifications. There are companies you can pay to inspect, verify and insure the product at source.

I've had people leave 1 star reviews, then call up and demand payment to change the rating.

Montreal is great in some ways. In other ways you run into the regular overt hatred of non francophones.

http://www.cjad.com/cjad-news-community/2016/03/16/elderly-p...

""My mom was laying in her bed, she turned over and I noticed she was crying," says Martin. "That's when she told me a nurse had just yelled at her for speaking in English.""

Thats the kind of mean spirited people that work in the "civil service".

Anyone who denies it, hasn't lived in Montreal long enough and needs to get out to Sherbrooke or Drummonville a little more often to see that natives in their full hatred.

Fight Anglophobia.

You are funny.

Clearly you never owned a company before and had to do taxes and accounting.

You better vote for minimum wage increases too!

A real computer technician looks and has the personality of Simpsons Comic Book Guy. That's why they are computer technicians not salespeople.

Nobody that sits and writes code and rarely interacts with other employee's is worth $300K.

http://www.amazon.ca/The-Nudist-Late-Shift-Silicon/dp/037550...

The naked guy at night doesn't get $300K. He's just happy to have a job where he can sit naked..

Right up until the time the companies are asked to pay taxes.

Anyone can give out $300K per year jobs when they are global monopolies that pay no income taxes in any jurisdiction.

These are short term anomalies not structural jobs indicate any kind of long term trend.

A few people that get interviewed by a reporter do not make a trend.

I've heard of SALES ENGINEERS making that kind of money, but not technicians.

The moment a programmer is working at home remote making $300K per year, the employer will find some offshore person to do it at 10% of that price.

Reference Disney and the H1B debacle etc.

The only way somebody as a technician is making that much money is the company they work for hasn;t found a way to get rid of them yet and replace them with cheaper options.

They can find themselves out of a job very fast at that price range.

Once you do the initial setup and things are stable(documented), they will kick you to the curb and replace with $50K worker.

Another win for lawyers.

Unfortunately now the USA is goign to try to push this ruling all over the world with TIPP (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transatlantic_Trade_and_Investm...).

It's not enough that the USA destroys their own entrepreneurial spirit but everybody else as well.

Who cares if Uber is illegal.

The unions, the politicians, the construction companies. These groups steal from the population for decades (Charbinneau commission).

Who cares what the govt thinks in Quebec. The Quebec govt is out to steal and cheat for their own benefit, not the benefit of the population of Quebec.

Speaking English in Quebec is illegal in certain situation.

Ignore laws in Quebec. Choose what laws you follow, just like the unions, politicians etc.

If you get caught just say sorry. Quebec society loves apologies and forgives immediately so you can get back to stealing and scamming people.

Not a single person from 40 years of corruption we say at Charbonneu will even get a fine.

Uber, keep going! Fuck Quebec laws. It doesn;t matter.

What exactly can you say except, about fucking time!

A small amount of common sense finally managed to stick to lawyers and the legal profession.

Probably won't last. Lawyers get jealous when they can't control and manipulate the little people.

It's amazing that the OpenSSL Foundation seems to do so little work on their actual code base give that they actually seem to take donations and have developers.

OpenBSD by comparison gets things done with 10% of the OpenSSL budget?

The current maintainers of OpenSSL have been doing a shitty job. It's not that heartbleed itself was the problem.

OpenSSL scares people away, the code is such a mess. I've looked at it for 5 minutes years ago. You hope to compile it, let alone understand it.

Finally people had to take a look at it, and what they found was a scary unmaintained mess vs other open source projects.

Specifically considering the importance of OpenSSL the maintainers seem to do a terrible job.

As people have mentioned. OpenSSL is basically a "FIPS" consultancy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Information_Processing_...

FIPS is real world useless to 99% of the population that doesn;t live in the US and do business with the US govt.

They are worried more about maintaining the FIPS then patching or improving the code base for something that has become so universal.

That's fine for them, but a couple million a year in consulting fee's is messing with a much larger audience.

OpenSSL will be able to keep its outdated code base and FIPS, while the rest of the world moves on.

Key takeaway from Bob, is they need to raise money to pay some super knowledgable developers to get some of the more lengthly parts done.

It was interesting to hear how impenetrable the code for OpenSSL was even for experienced studs like the OpenBSD team that have handled openssh.

OpenSSL has been dragging around EBSDIC support that the killed off. 90% of people under 50 will never even have heard of it, and 99.9% of people would agree that support should have been dropped ages ago, once explained.

DOS support is another Bob mentioned.

DOS support for a program that all about TCP/IP. Y, for anyone that had to live through it DOS with a bunch of drives and HIMEM crap would get ping, telnet and a couple other TCP/IP programs.

Possibly somebody even wrote http server for DOS after it was already dead for 10 years.

There must be. I just watched his talk and they a video capture device setup on it.

Perhaps you have to wait a couple days for it be processed and uploaded.

Good talk Bob.

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Clearly they have found ways around the rules or it's still way too much money.

The fact health insurance companies invest in ski hills is very telling about lack of focus on their real business.

Either their real biz makes so much money that they can spend it like drunken sailors or they don;t care about the primary mission of the company and are just buying perks they can use themselves.

Either way you split it, it's still a total mess and not what shareholders or customers (patients) are expecting in an healthcare insurance company.

Now you know how your insurance company makes so much money.

They pay $200 for a service you think costs $800 and WILL cost you $800 if you buy it yourself.

You buy insurance based on the FULL cost of the procedure. If you could access $200 yourself you wouldn;t need insurance. You can self insure at these prices.

For the benefit of running the "self insurance" plan they are taking the difference between $200 and $800

Anyone else have a company and know what usual profit margins are? Your local pharmacy is lucky to pull off 35%.

This is 400% markup that a "retail" person pays over the insurance company.

It's not hard to make money when you buy at $200 and sell at $500-600-700 through an insurance policy.

This is how companies like AIG (anybody remember them) buy things like ski hills for their executives.

See www.stowe.com

Americas are building up the next generation of their royalty.

Companies with a mission in "health care" that mae 400% margins and buy ski hills for their executuves to use on "retreats".

Yup, that makes total sense, to a lobbyist, lawyer or other enemy of the public and democracy.

Crony capitalism, not true capitalism and market economy that people think of in the USA.

The insurance companies got a major windfall with Obamacare. That lobbying really worked out.

He could has just as easily allowed Medicare/Caid to negotiate prices and take over mre of the health care.

That wouldn;t give jobs to people that Obama really cares about. North east Liberal lawyers.

Insurance companies negotiate discounts so they make massive profits.

Hospitals negotiate discounts so they can make massive profits.

The govt makes it illegal for medicare/caid to negotiate prices or buy in bulk.

This is a massive transfer of wealth from the public to these companies.

The average citizen cannot negotiate and pays full price.

The people least able to afford the "retail" price pay the most.

Meanwhile the insurance companies/hospitals are making money hand over fist to pay out to their CEO's.

It's simply a scam of legislation that is unlikely to end because the people that benefit the most also have access to the most profit and can therefore affords the most lobbying.

A bunch of lawyers, CEO's and politicians arn;t going to change the system for a bunch of poor folk.

How do you expect them to send their kids to Harvard or pay for the shell companies needed to hide income?

Hopefully in the middle of the massive sucking up somebody will remind him that he is massive disappointment.

Would be nice to see somebody in silicon valley stand up for principles instead of just money and a popularity contest to meet "important people".