When you said "American HQ of an Indian telecom firm" does that mean the office is in the US or India?

The main takeaway I'm trying to go for is that the hiring of migrant workers is flipped. The companies are preferring migrant workers for their low income requirements to save them money. Instead they should be hired because of their skill set. In the final recruiting round if there are migrant workers with skill sets more valuable than the rest I see no problem hiring them. But this isn't what is happening. The choice between a more skilled native (and thus higher pay requirements) and a lesser skilled migrant worker is too often going to the migrant worker because of the pay. A native must be that much more exceptional to make the cut and that's just bullshit and a disservice to our country.

Which distro? I'm an Arch diehard. :)

Those studies are quite flawed and ultimately meaningless. Two words: brain plasticity.

Great suggestion. To be even more secure I recommend using DNSCrypt via dnscrypt-proxy (https://github.com/jedisct1/dnscrypt-proxy). Cloudflare is one of the supported resolvers in the resolver list although you can enable others if you would like and it will use the fastest resolver. On Linux it is as simple as installing dnscrypt-proxy from the repos and configuring and enabling the system service. On Windows there are helpful GUI tools. I'd recommend Simple DNSCrypt for that (https://simplednscrypt.org/).

Not sure what you mean. It was meant to be a farce; not a cultural commentary. Interestingly enough that is what is has become and getting more and more accurate as the days go by...

Too bad the video has been taken down. What a great movie!

I wish this abomination would just die already!

Thanks for clarifying!

It really boggles my mind why people don't use G+. It doesn't have these issues because privacy features were a 1st class feature. If you don't add someone to a circle you don't share anything with them unless you mark your post as public. I guess this just makes too much sense for people.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bal6qLpe-Wc

Yup. It seems this only applies to public figures who are the ones that actually care and need followers for their business.

So basically Red Hat is finally catching up to what other distros have done for a long time...Arch ftw.

That is one unnecessarily long article that can be summed up quite simply. That being said, generations do exist, but mean something different than what people are referring to. A generation is simply the set of children born to the same parents. When people are talking about generations they are really talking about generational stereotypes. That's a different thing all together. Just like any well-established stereotype it is based on some grains of truth and then generalized in an invalid way. So instead of the title "Can We Please Stop Talking about Generations as if They Are a Thing" how about "Can We Please Stop Using Stereotypes As If They Are Universally Accurate"?

You're barking up the wrong tree here. I don't know where your hostility is coming from. I never mentioned diversity in my comment or any comments in this thread.

I hope you are aware that "organic" does not mean pesticide or herbicide free.

The part that gets me is "illegally high residue levels". Why is any level acceptable? Contaminants build up over time. It is the build-up that kills people and makes them sick. The maximum allowed level should be ZERO!

Garbage in, garbage out

I'm with you on this completely. I would agree that a Linux user that is into it enough to join a user group would be more likely to be privacy oriented. Regarding your first point I agree and would like to do something about it. I've been looking for a software project to work on and one that can replace a part of Facebook, such as event management, would be great. As the article mentioned there is more to Facebook than the combination of the features, but it's at least an alternative.

Precisely my sentiment!

That makes sense, but I'm a pretty heavy introvert so anyone that is that low on my list to not have my phone number isn't someone I'll be keeping tabs on.

I'm in a similar boat with you. I was on Facebook, but deleted my account twice. I only came back because there was a local disc golf group that was active and I wanted to know when they were playing. Once I spent enough time on there I remembered why I deleted my account in the first place. When the data breach happened that was the last straw for me. I find it interesting that people would rather trade their rights, privacy, and personal data for the facade of socialization.