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New system for work

dimanche 13 décembre 2015 à 01:00

It would be good to change legally required pension schemes so that they are not connected with any particular employer.

The article's picture of the "future of work" shows distortions. "An algorithm matches you with a gig that optimizes your income opportunity"? Not likely. Rather, it will optimize the income of the company that runs it, as it accumulates data about you that it will sell to someone.

Will you be able to decide when to work? Maybe in theory, but in practice you'll find out at 08:00 that you have to work for 4 hours from 11:00 to 15:00 or go without.

PISSI

dimanche 13 décembre 2015 à 01:00

PISSI seduces naive youths by offering a cause and a community to people who feel that no one takes them seriously.

Moral Failure of Computer Scientists

dimanche 13 décembre 2015 à 01:00

The Moral Failure of Computer Scientists: an interview with Phillip Rogaway.

Perhaps we need a Bulletin of the Information Scientists.

Spying companies

dimanche 13 décembre 2015 à 01:00

Making tech companies spy on their users for the state is unamerican, and useless too.

An issue not mentioned here is, which criterion is used to define terrorism? Do attacks on abortion clinics count? They ought to, but so far the US government is not treating them as terrorism.

H-1B visas

dimanche 13 décembre 2015 à 01:00

Senator Cruz is proposing to block companies from using H1B visas to bring foreign workers to the US temporarily for training.

It is a good cause, but his solution operates by closing off H-1B visas except for very highly paid jobs. I think the solution should more directly address the problem.

I propose that any company or division hiring H-1B workers should be forbidden to eliminate any US jobs for the next two years, unless it has suffered a big drop in gross sales, or to move any work out of the US or to a subcontractor during that time. Fines for violations should be very high.

Also, workers who are told to train their successors (and then be fired) should refuse to train them, or quit immediately. Resisting oppression calls for some guts.