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This is good for tech in the east coast. Fin-tech firms WILL HAVE TO compete against Amazon for (supposed) west coast wages, and could help build a much stronger tech industry than NYC has atm.

Amazon will represent a tiny portion of NYC's tech industry. Just a drop in the bucket. It won't move the dial much. Also fin-tech firms already compete with tech companies and they pay very well ( better than amazon ).

Cornell tech much be so happy with their choice to open office on Roosevelt island. I can see them being the biggest winners out of this whole set of events. NYU is probably also happy, having acquired NYU poly a few years ago.

Neither cornell nor NYU needs amazon. It won't make a difference. The biggest winner will be amazon as they gain more political influence. That's what this move is about after all. Political influence in the two most important political centers of the US and the world.

Literally the first sentence on this page describe the censored content as "sensational, vulgar or politically harmful content."

I know. Hate speech. Also, isn't that the same list that social media like facebook, reddit, etc use to censor now because leftists demanded it?

Your argument that this is the same as the desire for blocking legitimate hate speech in the US is simply political inflammation

Wait. So who determines what is hate speech? You?

It's not at all the same. Please stop.

It is the same. So please stop. Free speech doesn't exist to protect speech you agree with. It exists to protect speech you disagree with. It exists to protect hate speech.

Everything is hate speech if you actually bother to think about it. Is LGBT speech hate speech to muslims? What about speech against flat earthers? If I say that the earth is round, is that hate speech?

"Hate speech" is just an excuse used by tyrannical puritans to justify censorship speech they don't like.

Dan Carlin is not a historian, he is an entertainer. His podcasts are entertaining fiction, not history.

The Mongols barely left any written trace but wiped out entires cities and regions [2].

They left tons of written traces - in muscovy russia, in yuan china, in mughal persia, etc. You can't maintain such a large empire consisting of many civilizations without records. Most of it disappeared over the years as the empire broke apart and different empires formed.

Much of the history of the mongol empire is twisted propaganda, like all history. But it's especially so for the mongol empire due to shifting change of nationalistic, ethnic and racial landscape.

Here in the west, the mongol empire is caricatured and hated for racial reasons. In other parts of the world, the mongol empire is admired. In most of the world, it's a bit of both.

Also, most old empires, including the chinese, romans, greeks, indians, mesopotamians, egyptians, etc left very few records relatively speaking.

"Political adverts are - and have always been - banned on British TV and radio. That ban has wide support and has helped sustain the balance of views which is at the heart of British broadcasting - and ensures the political views broadcast into our homes are not determined by those with the deepest pockets."

On the surface, that's seems like nice sentiment, but on deeper analysis it's not. Firstly, all british broadcasts are already controlled by the people with deep pockets ( including the government funded state propaganda BBC ). Secondly, british media is extremely biased already. Thirdly, all this does is just helps the entrenched old money control the narrative. Fourthly, china, the soviet union, nazi germany, etc also banned political adverts.

At the end of the day, it doesn't really matter. The people with the most money and power will win whether you ban political ads or not.

Democracy, whether here or in the UK, is controlled and managed and provide an illusion of choice.

is still that the majority of C# developers let themselves happily trap by the Microsoft marketing machinery.

Or people choose what works for them? Or they have to deal with sunk costs?

They just swallow anything which so-called MVPs and conference presenters force them down the throat, primarily Azure which is by all measures inferior to the other two and they don't even know.

Please get off that high horse of yours before you hurt yourself. Nobody is forcing anything down anyone's throat. Your argument is so petty. People go to microsoft-centric conferences and listen to MVPs for microsoft-centric products and talks. It's like you complaining that a linux conference or talk doesn't talk about windows products and hence are forcing inferior linux products down their throats. What do you expect when you go to a mysql conference? Talks about SQL Server?

Visual Studio is littered with SQL server and Azure tools which doesn't even make sense.

A significant portion of windows development involves SQL Server and Azure interaction? You do realize that much of what is in Visual Studio is a result of customer surveys and usage data ( telemetrics )?

This is why I cringe at fanboyism. Whether it is F#, Ruby, Rust, etc. People get so irrational and consume by zealotry.

The Chairman reports to the board.

The chairman is the head of the board. He doesn't report to the board. He, along with the rest of the directors, reports to the shareholders.

The chairman has a fiduciary duty to the shareholders, not to his fellow board members.

In most companies, the CEO reports to the chairman of the board and the chairman of the board reports to the shareholders ( particularly the major shareholders ).

The biggest TSLA shareholder is elon musk and many of the large shareholders are friends/backers of elon musk.

So this is a purely superficial move for optics.

She gets a nice sinecure with a fat paycheck. Musk gets the feds off his back.

We don't know if it is an emergent property. That's what we think it is likely. but we won't know until we find out what consciousness is. And we won't find that out until we crack the secrets of the brain.

There once was a time when we thought our bodies moved because there was an "emergent property" called the soul that instructed our bodies to move. It took a very long time for humans to discover how our bodies through the science of physiology.

Maybe for superficial bugs in small toy programs. But a real bug in any sophisticated program requires a bit more than looking at the code most of the time. User feedback, log/trace data, performance data, system events data, memory dumps, etc.

Of course the bug could be in proprietary software your code is using. How would you fix that by purely looking at your own code?

Whoever thought the placebo effect was a ‘trick’?

People pretending to be journalists who need to clickbait to make money.

I wish the nytimes would stop making their headlines a question already.

That seems managable when you have 3 candidates. What happens when there are 10 or 20 candidates? Would voters have to list their top 10 or 20 choices?

The practice interview point strikes me as odd. In large, because I have never done one. Do folks really typically do that many practice interviews?

I only did practice interviews for my college internships and my first job because my resume was so light and my experience in the industry was nonexistent. When you have so little to talk about, it's smart to come prepared with a handful of questions.

Once you have 5 years or so of experience, other than light prep, practice interviews are not necessary. You know what to expect in interviews and you have tons of work experience to talk about and industry experience to ask pertinent questions to the interviewer.

But that's just my own personal experience. Also, after my 1st job, I've never had to take "technical or IQ tests" either. The interview process was more center around my projects and work experience rather than technical know-how.

I agree. Surviving a nuclear attack isn't the problem. That's just simply a matter of luck of where you are at the time of the attacks.

Surviving the aftermath would require blood, sweat and tears.

When civilization ends and humans are thrust back into subsistence living, we are essentially back to tribalistic animals having to endure rampant starvation and disease. Life is going to be hard for everyone, but especially those without tight groups/tribes and without arms.

Isn't that a step down from teaching people VBA macros?

I hope it isn't for a CS class. They should be learning principles rather than creating toy plug-ins which is something anyone can do for a hobby if they wanted.

This, combined with the “Our Trusted Partners” section, clearly shows that this isn’t about getting people out to vote in order to strengthen the democratic process - it’s about supporting a particular political party.

Was there ever a doubt? The "article" is just a democratic party propaganda piece. The app is a pro-democratic party app.

As an independent, this is really troubling.

As an independent, the most troubling part is how so much of the "news" companies are just a propaganda organizations for one political party. The lack of objectivity and professionalism and decency by so much of the media is troubling. Especially since the media has been brow beating tech companies into being biased just like they are.

Then again, maybe it will lead to an implosion of the party system and a shift to independent voters.

I think it'll have the opposite effect. An entrenchment of the party system where the two political parties are even more extreme as only the most loyal members remian.

Part of me wishes it was true. But part of me also knows that betteridge's law of headlines is as reliable as newton's laws of motion for everyday life.

Hopefully this is the first step in tackling IP theft issue. China is a big problem, but so is britain, israel, korea, japan, etc. Sometimes, these countries take our IP/tech and sell it to china.

Imagine if say, Sweden or Canada were to be the next upcoming superpower.

Because sweden or canada are such wonderful utopias? Wonder why they have such small populations? Wonder why so many canadians and swedes leave their paradises?

Another way to say it is - If China was a democratic nation with the highest level of freedom and openmindedness and fix the issues US has.

Neither canada nor sweden falls into this category. Both have draconian censorship rules and aren't "open minded".

I have nothing against any particular race.

China isn't a race. It's a country.

Just venting out what kind of world I wish I would die to.

You are free to move to canada and sweden, if they let you.

If you propagandize one side like that, of course it looks dystopian.

You could do the same exact thing for pretty much any state, country or bloc.

In what way is China not already run by a dystopian regime?

How about the fact that they lifted 800 million people? Or the fact that they increased literacy rates from 20% before they came in power to nearly 100% today?

Using your logic, everything is always dystopian because you only choose to see the negative.

Every country has positives and negatives. Every single one.

Twitter has the same problem that reddit, facebook, youtube, etc does. Journalists and the media want to dominate it.

Why is twitter so terrible today? Because there are so many toxic journalists on it.

https://medium.com/@Haje/who-are-twitter-s-verified-users-af...

Same thing with reddit. What happened to reddit? A publication company bought it and journalists are desperately trying to turn it into their propaganda platform.

Who is leading the charge against facebook and google? Journalists and news companies. Why? Because they want preferential treatment on these platforms and want to turn them into their fiefdoms.

The real question isn't why twitter is bad. It's why journalists, news companies, etc are so toxic. Why is journalism today no different than political party evangelism? Every news organization and journalist sound like political advocates and the mouthpiece of a political party. Why are so many journalists and news organizations working so hard to help one party or the other? I thought journalism and news was supposed to be about facts, not political advocacy?

It's strange how these journalists loved social media when their political candidate of choice won. Now, they are whining endlessly about social media. They are as much, if not more, of a problem than twitter or any other social media platform.

Sigh.. I've seen this argument so many times I have to wonder if the people peddling it has ever sat on a hiring panel.

I have interviewed for jobs and have interviewed others for positions on my team. Both startup and traditional 9-5 tech jobs.

The decision to hire someone in a high-skilled job has extraordinarily little to do with their compensation and much more to do with their perceived value.

It's a bit of both.

Society has conditioned us to view a certain kind of masculinity as inherent value. Men are rewarded for their aggression and confidence, whereas women are criticized for ego and emotionality.

Is it society or nature? Also, society socializes males to be less aggressive. So I don't agree with your claim.

Perhaps this argument has credence in the low-skilled labor market, but it is not applicable to tech,

Because in the tech world, aggression is what is sought?

Because the system I just described above is prone to failure thanks to unconscious bias.

If that is the case, why don't these women create companies and hire only women ( who are supposedly doing the same job for 77% pay of their male counterpart )?

Maybe in construction work or farm work, male traits are highly preferred. But in programming and tech world, it's pretty much what you can do.

You really didn't address my point. If what you are claiming is true, why don't you start a search engine company and hire only women? You would put google out of business in a few short years given your built in 23% profit margin.

Do you realize how significant a naturally embedded profit margin of 23% is?

So I'll ask again. What is preventing you or any other person from starting companies and hiring women if women truly make 77% of a man's wage for the same exact work?

Espionage is one thing. But isn't targeted cyberattacks on another nation's facilities and infrastructure an act of war?

Anyone know if there are any international law covering cyberattacks?

But why is it flagged? That is a reasonable comment.

Also, what's with the rampant brigading here. Every reasonable comment here seems to get immediately and automatically downvoted.

"A commitment to end pay and opportunity inequity"?

I'm confused here. Are they demanding that preferential hiring and advancement practices and programs for women and certain minorities be stopped?

I would be genuinely interested to see what kind of difference there is between the sexes when comparing like-for-like jobs.

There really aren't any differences. Just do a simple mental exercise.

Imagine if the gender gap is real. Male programmers demand $100K while female programmers demand $77K for the same exact quality of work. What would this mean? It would mean all tech companies would only hire females.

For comparison look at seasonal farm work. Imagine if migrant workers deman $7.70 per hour while citizens demand $10 per hour for the same quality of work. What do you think the composition of the labor foce on farms would be? I'd imagine it would be mostly migrants. Right?

If the wage gap truly existed, clever feminists would start companies exclusively composed of women and would be putting everyone out of business because they have a 23% profit margin built in.

and gets to promote his book in the process

He's done that with a lot of his book. He's somewhat of an opportunist that way or maybe he is just trying to be relevant for the times he's in.

After the iraq war, he put out a book. After the financial crisis. And now about networks/social media.

He's part historian and part celebrity.

Because every government hacks, spies on and steals from every other government. The US was built on stealing tech from britain.

https://www.pri.org/stories/2014-02-18/us-complains-other-na...

Going back even further, the byzantine empire stole silkworms to break china's monopoly on silk.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smuggling_of_silkworm_eggs_int...

As a matter of fact, the biggest spies and thieves in the world are allies. Do you know who spies on the US the most? It's not china. It's not russia. It's actually canada, britain and israel. Do you know who we spy on the most? Our allies. We aren't going to sanction our allies.

Think about it. Why do countries have intelligence agencies? Should we sanction all countries with intelligence agencies?

Having the designs itself can only carry you so far. You also need the fine precision tools, materials engineering, software, etc in order to build sophisticated machinery.

China is advancing quickly but they can't make up 200 years of industrial headstart by the west in 20 years.

Jesus that's horrible. I made much more than that straight out of college. But it was in NYC where cost of living is high and taxes destroy you.

The saddest part is that your salary didn't increase much in 5 years? Going from $60k to $70k to 53k euros over 5 years is pretty much tracking inflation. Over 5 years, my salary increased by more than double your entire salary.

You should ask for a raise from time to time or get a better paying job. Especially since DBA/data scientist along with computer security developer/engineer were some of the hottest fields in tech the past 10 years.

Some people can spend a month reading "SQL in 21 days" and get a higher salary than you in many places.

True. Not only that, pretty much every stretch of land and ocean is owned/claimed/patrolled/etc now. So you can't escape it. Everyone is governed to some degree.

Perhaps in the future when we are a truly space faring peoples, there will be room for freedom for those who chooes to be free.