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August LC Thread **Survivor White House Edition**

View Poll Results: Who will NOT survive the month of August?

Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III

4 8.70%

John Kelly

6 13.04%

Jared Kushner

3 6.52%

Wilbur Ross

4 8.70%

Ben Carson

2 4.35%

Rudy Giuliani

11 23.91%

Sarah Huckabee Sanders

4 8.70%

Kellyanne Conway

0 0%

Rod Rosenstein

8 17.39%

Write-in

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08-19-2018 , 04:27 PM

#1176

einbert

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Workplace goals:

08-19-2018 , 04:30 PM

#1177

ScreaminAsian

For President

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08-19-2018 , 04:40 PM

#1178

einbert

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LOVE IT

08-19-2018 , 04:47 PM

#1179

ScreaminAsian

For President

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08-19-2018 , 05:18 PM

#1180

suzzer99

Save the Cheerleader, Save the World

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Quote:

Originally Posted by ChrisV

In IT, software infrastructure becomes entrenched and it becomes very expensive to change it. Companies can make money from rent-seeking, basically just exploiting this. The poster child for this is Oracle, who are a notoriously useless company who make mountains of money based off the fact that people cannot afford to stop using their products, even though there are better versions of those products that are free.

But now everyone is on AWS - won't make that mistake again. No more vendor lock-in. Oh wait...

08-19-2018 , 05:20 PM

#1181

einbert

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08-19-2018 , 05:23 PM

#1182

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Originally Posted by ChrisV View Post
In IT, software infrastructure becomes entrenched and it becomes very expensive to change it. Companies can make money from rent-seeking, basically just exploiting this. The poster child for this is Oracle, who are a notoriously useless company who make mountains of money based off the fact that people cannot afford to stop using their products, even though there are better versions of those products that are free.

Not quite the same topic but related: there is a great podcast out there about how the video game industry now gets a lot of their work from free labor from the "community." They get users of the game to do the work out of love and uncompensated, then they lay off and reduce the pay of their actual employees because their work is being done by these users. I think Steam/Valve was the example they dug into deeply. Discourse Collective maybe.

08-19-2018 , 06:13 PM

#1183

microbet

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Originally Posted by einbert

Some left on left violence here. Valve is set up with virtually no bosses, developers do what they want, Bonuses which are larger than salaries are determined by peers, Yanis Varoufakis is their company economist. This is kind of like the way the DemEs freeze out the progressives and it's also how the Communists betrayed the Anarchists in the Spanish Civil War. Centralized power fears nothing more than decentralized power. Centrists would rather have Republicans than have progressives and state communists would rather have fascists than have anarchists.

I'm sure Valve is not perfect, it's not employee-owned, the owners are rich, but it's a very interesting democratized workplace and tankies picking it out as an evil company says more about the tankies than it says about Valve.

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08-19-2018 , 07:05 PM

#1184

prana

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wtf. He seems drunker than I am and I've been day drinking and grilling and baking since I woke up on this fabulous Sunday.

ETA Nice to see that happily saying you are for less legal immigration is common speak. **** all these people.

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08-19-2018 , 07:56 PM

#1185

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Originally Posted by microbet

Valve is different than Steam here. I'm talking about Valve. You, einbert, were probably talking more about Steam. (Created by Valve as I understand, but not the same thing.)

08-19-2018 , 09:00 PM

#1186

suzzer99

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How does Valve/Steam decide when to "hire" more developers? Or can I just walk in and start working there?

08-19-2018 , 09:12 PM

#1187

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Originally Posted by suzzer99

How does Valve/Steam decide when to "hire" more developers? Or can I just walk in and start working there?

Say some people working on a project think they need more developers. They form a committee on their own initiative to find candidates. They interview people, first on Skype, and talk and email about them and if they have a consensus to move on they interview in person. Anyone who wants can attend interviews. They email a bunch and basically when they have consensus among everyone who cares they hire. I don't know that it's literally any single person can veto, but that's essentially it. It's not easy to get in and they are growing slowly.

08-19-2018 , 10:24 PM

#1188

Trolly McTrollson

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I had no idea my homemade Doom wads were exploiting the working class.

08-19-2018 , 10:38 PM

#1189

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Asia Argento ****ed a 17 year old and paid him $380k of Bourdains money. Yikes.

08-19-2018 , 11:10 PM

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I looked her up just to see what she looked like....

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Asia Argento is an Italian actress, singer, model, accused rapist, and director.

Yikes.

08-19-2018 , 11:18 PM

#1191

StimAbuser

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Any chance she does jail time over it?

She seems like a terrible human being.

08-19-2018 , 11:22 PM

#1192

SuperUberBob

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Interesting that one of the biggest voices of the metoo movement is now the target of it.

08-19-2018 , 11:33 PM

#1193

ChrisV

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Originally Posted by SuperUberBob

Interesting that one of the biggest voices of the metoo movement is now the target of it.

While I'm sure most people involved with the movement are good sincere people, in any given group of people who are strident about some moral issue there's always a subset where it's because their conscience bothers them. It's like how a ton of the "family values" types turn out to be perverts and scumbags in their spare time.

08-19-2018 , 11:35 PM

#1194

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The boy had previously played her son in a movie. The movie was called, "The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things". He was seven at the time of shooting, in 2004. Asia Argento directed it, and wrote the screenplay. Here is an excerpt from Roger Ebert's review:

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The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things" opens with young Jeremiah (Jimmy Bennett), taken at 7 from the home he loves and the people he considers his parents, and returned to the custody of his mother Sarah (Argento). She shoves a toy rabbit in his face, promises him good times, throws a paper plate of Spaghetti-Os in front of him, and tells him, "If my father had let me, you would have been flushed down some toilet."

Would social workers actually turn a child over to this mother? She dresses like a hooker because she is one. Jeremiah is sometimes in the same room as she services her tricks, and is introduced to a series of temporary daddies. Sarah "marries" one them (Jeremy Renner) and when the newlyweds head to Atlantic City on their honeymoon, they lock the child in the house with instructions not to answer the phone. "There are cheese slices in the fridge," his mother says helpfully. The man returns alone ("She run out on me") and rapes the boy.

There are beatings all through the film, and more disturbing than any of them is a scene where the little boy thinks he has been bad and solemnly offers a belt to one of the men, so that he can be beaten. There is a bizarre episode when he is collected from a shelter by his grandparents (Peter Fonda and Ornella Muti), who are sadistic fundamentalists. After a flash-forward, Jeremiah, now 11 and played by the twins Dylan and Cole Sprouse, is a sidewalk preacher in a little suit and tie. His mother finds him again and drags him back into her life, which for a time involves sharing the cab of a long-haul trucker. And on, and on, and on.

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/t...ll-things-2006

08-19-2018 , 11:37 PM

#1195

Trolly McTrollson

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08-19-2018 , 11:59 PM

#1196

ChrisV

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Let's get some more hot takes on Microsoft ITT. Go on give in and start spelling it with a dollar sign for the 's.' Then you can tell us how expensive Apple hardware is and how you're waiting for Mandrake Linux to crush both of them!

I don't hate Microsoft, but it's just a fact that a lot of their success is down to vendor lock-in rather than making great products. I'd rank them about middling on both the competence scale and the evil scale. They're just an average company who happened to become dominant in an industry which is structured such that this dominance is more or less self-maintaining.

Quote:

Originally Posted by microbet

Any developer who makes web based software that only works in IE should be broken on the wheel.

Funny thing is, back in the day when there were huge headaches with getting layouts to work in both IE and other browsers, it was definitely annoying that IE wasn't standards-compliant, but the W3C CSS box model was actually a lot dumber and harder to use than IE's.

08-19-2018 , 11:59 PM

#1197

zikzak

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I know it sounds like the punchline of a dumb joke and I'm not showing the sensitivity or whatever qualities I'm supposed to have as an enlightened human, but I'm honestly struggling to see the downside in a 17 year old getting paid $380k to **** Asia Argento.

08-20-2018 , 12:07 AM

#1198

microbet

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Hmmm....scold you or post the South Park 'nice' clip?

Yeah, it sounds pretty effed up when you know she directed the kid in a movie about raping and torturing children when he was 7.

08-20-2018 , 12:11 AM

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zikzak

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Oh hell yeah, she sounds all sorts of ****ed up and shouldn't be allowed near children. But, uh, I've been a 17 year old male. Honestly, how traumatized to you think this guy is actually going to be? I'm gonna have to go with "not even a tiny bit".