The Skill Collapse"If Only You Knew How Bad Things Really Are"

[Diogenes]

Yes, Grok was redundant. I agree.

Think so?

 

[EdwinA]

Think so?

I know so. Nothing in that narrative rebutted why high wages were better; everything flowed from putting more money in more pockets.

 

[Diogenes]

I know so. Nothing in that narrative rebutted why high wages were better; everything flowed from putting more money in more pockets.

Did someone tell you 'twas a rebuttal?

 

[Diogenes]

you're perfectly fine just as you are.

Bromance?

 

[Truck Fump / h1b]

Capitalism is not bankruptcy.
There is no such thing as 'industrial capitalism' or 'financial capitalism'. There is just capitalism.

Capitalism is the voluntary of products or services for voluntary sale at the agreed upon price (the free market). It is the only economic system that creates wealth.

You cannot blame the government borrowing too much on capitalism.

i blame corporations affecting policy to pilfer the public coffers. it's fascism.

your favorite thing.

 

[Diogenes]

i blame corporations affecting policy to pilfer the public coffers. it's fascism.

your favorite thing.

 

[Truck Fump / h1b]

they are not people.

people are resricted in political contributions.

romney is a cum-faced traitor to humanity.

 

[Diogenes]

they are not people.

Mitzie the Mormon multimillionaire disagrees. Cope.

 

[IBDaMann]

fuck off fascist globalist traitor to humanity. you're trash.

You remembered to write "fascist" this time. Good.

 

[IBDaMann]

they are not people.

Of course they are not people. Romney is the one who said it; you can dismiss it outright.

Romney's (il)logic holds that corporations, banks, wires, automatic tellers and everything through which money passes are people because the money that passes through them ultimately is received by people. Romney is B-R-I-L-L-I-A-N-I-T-W-I-T.

people are resricted in political contributions.

While this is sad to a certain extent, the same Americans who abhor infringements of the 1st Amendment also demand full confidence in election integrity, especially in light of the stolen 2020 election. If, hypothetically, I had to choose between eliminating contribution caps or eliminating stolen elections, I would choose eliminating stolen elections.

Re: Buckley v. Valeo (1976)

romney is a cum-faced traitor to humanity.

You're getting lazy again. Romney is a fascist globalist cum-faced traitor to humanity. -4 points.

 

[Walt]

I want to reiterate that Javascript is the moped of computer programming languages. You will never get street cred, or be seen as cool by others for riding a moped, but it can be a lot of fun.

Guess you don't do much cloud programming.

It is kind of weird. I do and I don't. For security reasons, I am required to use a dedicated connection to the cloud center, so am usually in the same building as it. It does not seem like much of a cloud when you are sitting next to it, but in every technical sense is a cloud.

'Javascript' is a colloquial term. It's not even Java or Java-like.

No, Javascript is the actual language name. It is not any more related to Java than any other of the C++ descendants. I used to just call it JScript to avoid confusion, but I guess I do not care anymore.

That's pretty a normal mistake for someone doing FPGA work though.

Its name is Javascript, so it is not a mistake. It was originally a marketing trick, but I think most people would no longer fall for it.

The problem with Visual Basic isn't the lack of pointers.

That is my problem with it.

I actually like how C# does overloading of native operators. I wish Java did that. But the lack of pointers in Visual Basic drives me crazy, and I have not touched Visual Basic in over a decade.

That is my two cents on the subject.

 

[Walt]

you're perfectly fine just as you are.

Thank you.

 

[Diogenes]

Thank you.

You two should get a room.

I'm gay and retarded.

duh duh.

i suck dicks.

 

[Walt]

Nope. A protected variable does not destroy the encapsulation of a variable at all.

Encapsulation of a variable means that the variable can not be accessed directly by the outside world. It can only be accessed through methods. This means that you can change the implementation of the class, the way the variables are stored and used, and as long as you change the implementation of the methods in the class, no one outside the class will ever know.

A protected variable can be accessed by subclasses. That means other programers can, without your knowledge, extend your class, and directly access your protected variable. Those other programmers can make their class dependent on the implementation of your protected variable. If you make even minor changes in that protected variable, then other programmers will start getting errors.

 

[Diogenes]

Encapsulation of a variable means that the variable can not be accessed directly by the outside world. It can only be accessed through methods. This means that you can change the implementation of the class, the way the variables are stored and used, and as long as you change the implementation of the methods in the class, no one outside the class will ever know.

A protected variable can be accessed by subclasses. That means other programers can, without your knowledge, extend your class, and directly access your protected variable. Those other programmers can make their class dependent on the implementation of your protected variable. If you make even minor changes in that protected variable, then other programmers will start getting errors.

 

[Walt]

Ford emphasized the ability of industrial capitalism to pay higher wages and sustain a more prosperous country compared to financial capitalism, which eventually bankrupted everything it controlled. He has been proven right.

Ford had an understanding of macroeconomics that went beyond microeconomics. These days many business leaders do not even understand that macroeconomics is different from microeconomics.

Ford understood his workers were also his customers. That he needed workers to be making more money, because they were the customers who would be buying the cars. Today, many business leaders keep thinking that workers should be poorer, and that would not effect customers.

 

[Diogenes]

Ford had an understanding of macroeconomics that went beyond microeconomics. These days many business leaders do not even understand that macroeconomics is different from microeconomics.

Ford understood his workers were also his customers. That he needed workers to be making more money, because they were the customers who would be buying the cars. Today, many business leaders keep thinking that workers should be poorer, and that would not effect customers.

 

[ULTRA MAGA]

fuck you globalist fake maga traitor.

now it's your turn to eat your bag of dicks.

go feel special doing it.

You can drop to your knees and lick my hairy unwiped ass rim you worthless mouthy piece of wrinkled up old shit.

Yes you cockroach.

Fucking cretin.

 

[Diogenes]

You can drop to your knees and lick my hairy unwiped ass rim you worthless mouthy piece of wrinkled up old shit.

Uh, he might like that. Just sayin'.

I'm gay and retarded.

duh duh.

i suck dicks.

 

[Walt]

they are not people.

Corporations are not people. Corporate personhood is a legal fiction. It is useful to give corporations the rights of people, and is one of the great business innovations, but it can go too far.

Allow corporations to have a separate identity, and to sign contracts as a person, seems to work very well. Limiting bankruptcy to the corporation many times, but not always, works well. Saying corporations can not be owned, because that would be slavery is insane, and does not work well.

Corporations are not people, and can not make decisions independent from people. There must be someone who pulls the strings so to speak. The final say should be with the owners, who are the stockholders. There should be limited limitations placed on that relationship by the state, who allowed this legal fiction to be created.

What should not happen is some CEO, or manager gets unfettered control of the corporation.