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u_wot_m8··on CIA malware and hacking tools
seth rich, killed execution style, nothing stolen, reported a robbery. Assange implied he was the source of the DNC leaks
u_wot_m8··on CIA malware and hacking tools
>"As of October 2014 the CIA was also looking at infecting the vehicle control systems used by modern cars and trucks. The purpose of such control is not specified, but it would permit the CIA to engage in nearly undetectable assassinations."

Reminds me of the reporter who was supposedly working on a massive investigation and then died in a flaming car crash while skipping town. Forgot his name

u_wot_m8··on I spent three months working full time to get a job
From what I've seen the best hiring process seems to be Automattic's. They do a short interview over chat then give them a project if they pass the interview where they pay them $25/hr and then evaluate at the end. Minimal time wasted for both parties.
u_wot_m8··on Amazon guts affiliate program, cuts fees for electronics in half
1. http://www.reuters.com/article/us-new-york-times-warrants-ca...

2. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3897406/New-York-Tim...

u_wot_m8··on Amazon guts affiliate program, cuts fees for electronics in half
and saw a 94% loss in profit in the last year. But it doesn't really matter since they are just a propaganda rag for Carlos Slim anyway.
u_wot_m8··on How Peter Thiel’s Palantir helped expand the NSA’s global spy network
> I also don't understand how did he became so powerful, every time he talks.. He has charisma of an old rag.

Because he's a legitimate genius who has helped create and invested in great businesses.

u_wot_m8··on Do Developers Need College Degrees?
>Of course there are some employers who won't even acknowledge someones resume exists without a degree, which I have always found silly.

It really is stupid, I would hire a software engineer who dropped out of high school over a PhD if he's better. Never understood why people care about degrees, the whole point of college is to learn, not get a piece of paper. Only excuse I can think of is that it's a sorting mechanism for lazy businesses to filter applications.

u_wot_m8··on Do Developers Need College Degrees?
> That also means we're moving towards making being a developer a blue collar job rather than a white collar job

This will never happen, the majority of the population doesn't have the dedication and/or intelligence to be employable as software developers. I've given numerous people resources to learn how to code and none have stuck with it.

u_wot_m8··on Robots Aren’t Killing the American Dream
end game will be massive population reduction. Universal income doesn't change the fact that our resources are finite and humans reproduce exponentially. UNs top agenda is population control, read between the lines.
u_wot_m8··on Expanding Fact Checking at Google
There's tape of Merkel telling Zuckerberg to censor migrant crimes on Facebook.
u_wot_m8··on Reflecting on one very, very strange year at Uber
You could say the same about lyft, seemingly minus the illegal and immoral behavior, though they might get away with the same behavior due to not being in the spotlight as much as Uber
u_wot_m8··on 'Acting Wife': Marriage Market Incentives and Labor Market Investments
I wouldn't say "trained", I would say evolutionarily selected. Sexually dimorphic phenotypes and differences in IQ distribution show this.
u_wot_m8··on Reflecting on one very, very strange year at Uber
I'd like the think that eventually karma will catch up with Uber. Hard to think of a single positive thing to say about the company.
u_wot_m8··on It’s Easy to Make Enemies of People We Only Read About
this, look at the 180 switch in his persona from the 80s to after his struggles in the 90s. He was fairly soft-spoken and thoughtful then transitioned to his current brash persona to build his brand to do licensing deals.

Combined with the fact he may be suffering from early Alzheimer's/dementia like his father and you have present day Trump.

u_wot_m8··on Top Hat Raises $22M to Go After Pearson, McGraw-Hill
saw an article that in the last 40 years the number of administrators has increased 400% while tenure track professors has only increased 23%. Number of students has increase 300%. They could easily cut costs but the money is there so there's no incentive

These college admins should honestly be charged criminally

u_wot_m8··on Raising the American Weakling
As a former D1 athlete I don't think anyone should do deadlifts. Seen lots of people have their form slip on one rep and take a trick to snap city.
u_wot_m8··on Google Squashed a Chrome Extension That Flooded Ad Networks with Disinformation
>Google really cares about privacy

Is this a joke? Considering Google is a glorified data mining company I'm going to have to disagree

u_wot_m8··on Elon Musk: Humans must merge with machines or become irrelevant in AI age
this, alway laugh when people try and act like everybody in the past was conversing with each other on public transport. People haven't changed in the last 50 years.
u_wot_m8··on The “Inside Airbnb” project has earned the home-sharing company bad press
only because they don't have to meet basic safety regulations.
u_wot_m8··on High radiation readings at Fukushima’s No. 2 reactor complicate robot probe
It's still in danger mode, still leaking massive amounts of radiation into the pacific ocean. Based on what I've read of dying ocean life it's probably one of the worst environmental disasters in history
u_wot_m8··on UK Teen Hacked 150,000 Printers
age is a number, I know plenty of old men with the minds of children
u_wot_m8··on How the Flash Crash Trader’s $50M Fortune Vanished
HFTs do this all day long. Every flash crash is due to HFTs pulling out of the market when and liquidity vanishing. Nav's problem is that he didn't buy any politicians
u_wot_m8··on The next big blue collar job is coding
Developers need to get out of their bubble and realize that even a basic website is sorcery for 99% of the population. I'm thankful that I started off in online marketing and then learned to code because I remember what it was like to know nothing and can see opportunities that people like yourself overlook.

This post reminds me of the infamous HN dropbox comment in terms of how out of touch it is.