Well Google being publicly traided on a size borderline monopoly, has a tag line of not being evil. While may not be its job, it would be to their self interest to know this data and make sure to correct any inequalities in its workforce. Otherwise they may be opening themselves for future legal problems. West Coast based IT companies are notoriously bad in diversity in their workforce compared to East Coast IT workers who are often older, more gender and race diversity.
Trump only cares about Trump. This makes him easily manipulated all you need to do is stole his ego and he'll be your best friend. He personally may not be knowingly involved in the russians but he guilty of a crime of omission by not taking into conserned about the people in his circle.
We seem to be stuck in this nostalgia cycle. Trying to regain the spark of wonder of our youth. But it is time to realize things are different now, there has been a lot of progress however not all of it made the same set of trade offs we wanted but overall what we have now is better. We just don't realize the reason why when things were better when you were a kid is because your parents isolated you from the problems of the day. That Apple ][, Amega, Atari, Comadore 64, Amstrad... that you got as a kid meant saving up for weeks deciding to not get something thay wanted for themselves. So now we are making such sacrifices and we keep going back to what we wanted as a kid, remakes and reboots of old tv shows and movies, trying to bring back the retro tech. We are using our skills and brain power to go backwards. And this is a bad thing.
RadioShack only has itself to blame. In the internet age, stores are no longer a place to buy products, but a place to get a product quickly or a place to talk to actual people. They should had jumped onto the maker movement and RadioShack could had been a Maker Space headquarters. However they just sold phone and phone supplies which you can get anywhere.
I have this problem. A VP of a department with a staff of hundred low paid employees tells IT with a staff of 10 who is paid 4x as much to do data entry because they don't have the manpower to do it. Sure it is my job and I'll do it. However the company is wasting money on me where I could be doing something much more valuable to the organization. And that expense will get pushed to the customer.
For the consumer, do you want to pay an extra dollar for a widget, because the they had the IT guy working on something that they could get other cheaper staff to do just as well if not better then you add the cost of this taking away time to make the process better or safer because the guy wasn't allowed to do the job they wanted him for?
It isn't about hard work (well it isn't the only factor) Many of these foreign kids are studying on Friday night because their language skills in American English isn't the same as the nationals. So the lecturer classes are mostly a waste of their time, while for the American students those lectures are the key source of the information so they don't need to study as much. Then you have the fact most foreign students are often top of their class in their country. If they weren't they would likely be going to their local schools. Hard work is treated like the key factor. But it is just a modifier of a bunch of other factors.
I wish I had a good answer for you. We have a problem with misleading information but who do we trust to weed it out? Flagging can be faught much easier than censoring.
There was an other major element going on. Microsoft was trying to use their dominance to take over the web standards. Microsoft never liked HTML. So at first with Windows 95. IE was such a basic browser it's only job was to download Netscape. But the point was to get people to use MSN a dial up service like AOL instead. That is where they put the effort. However it never kicked off so Microsoft did a big push to improve IE and embrace, extended and extinguished the web. New versions of IE which were lightweight and shiny but also had ActiveX. Dumb microsfty developers flocked to it. Creating a world of security vulnerabilities and spyware because it proposed speed and flexibility was because ActiveX was basically just a place to run your App in a browser window. People started to get sick of the security problems so they used the shiny new light and fast Firefox. Then they kept adding features until chrome came out as the small and light browser. In general people want a small and light browser vs one bogged down by too many features.
However this is like throwing out the baby with the bathwater.
We need good intelligence, and some of it needs to be kept secret. However the trend is to classify stuff that shouldn't need to be classified, just because it is easier to classify then have it public.
With the leaks, what bothers me more isn't the stuff that got leaked out, most of it is fairly common knowledge, it just confirms what we already know. The real problem is why is such mundane stuff classified?
I would avoid jumping onto the conclusions that Conservatives are less educated than Liberals. The larger correlation is that liberals will live more in Urban Areas, while Conservatives live in Rural areas. In these different areas, their world view is different. In Urban areas, a strong government is an overall positive, as there are services that need to be provided, and with a lot of people working closely together, a strong rule of law and regulations is needed for that area to function. In rural areas they are more left to fend for themselves, there tax money is going to places where they will see no benefit, and there is a culture if you have a problem you need to solve it yourself. So such regulations proposed by the government seem like an overall negative. Now both areas have highly educated people, and less educated who will vote for whatever party. In urban areas the Poor are often under educated and vote liberal because government is trying to prevent them from dying, as the city environment can prevent them from living off the land and being able to fend for themselves. In rural areas, the poor who have resources to fend for themselves, doesn't need rules and regulations trying to stop them from doing what they need to do to live. Conservatives seem to rule corporate higher management, and even modern farmers you need to be just as technical savvy as a Silicon Valley tech worker. These people have those degrees, but because they are working commercial they tend not to flaunt them as much. While in urban areas, there are more colleges and universities, and government agencies, where people will need the education status to help push their agendas. Now in terms of Science. Liberal groups have seemed to reject science that says "This product is safe" (GMO, Vaccines...) because they expect government to make sure what we do is safe. While Conservative groups reject science that says "This product is dangerous" (Global Warming, Fracking...) because they are afraid that government will take away necessary tools for them.
Survey questions are misleading. Thinking global warming will not pose a serious threat in their lifetime. is different from being a climate denier.
Science is solid on that Global warming is real and man made and that it proposes a risk. However the science is less solid on the scope and rate. Also depending on the age of person asked a Lifetime would be a decade - 4 generations.
The pooling will need to combine many questions asked differently to really get a good view of the persons viewpoint. So most people have a hard time separating climate from weather. So a 4 degree change in their weather doesn't seem like big deal. When winter is -6c vs -10c no big deal it is still cold. when the summer gets 34c vs 30c it is still very hot.
While I am against censoring any points of views, as the act of censoring it, will often just give the conspiracy nuts fodder to show that they are on the right track. We do need some methods to keep, false, untrue, misinformed, and faked information from propagating. If a lie is said enough times, people will begin to believe it. Social media is a perfect method of being able to repeat false hoods. so misinformed data gets equal weight as informed information. Generally confusing the masses. While there is freedom of speech, it doesn't mean all speech needs equal weight.
That is why I stated for a High School Graduate, you would be expected to get Work, but not a Job. Work: Is doing whatever it takes to make a living. (I will move and plug in these computers for a few hundred bucks) Job: Is a steady living, however you are not necessary doing what you like. (You tell me what needs to be program and I will do what you say, as long as I can do it) Career: Is making a living as something you are willing to identify yourself as. (I am a currently Software Developer, If there is something new, Ill research it to see if I know how to fix it) Profession: Is working in something that you find fulfilling. (I am a Systems Architect, my designs have saved the lives of thousands of people) Calling: Is being able to work in something that you find enjoyable and can skip things that you find dull. (I am a specialist in Technology interaction with people, I don't need to do any of the coding work, but I get to layout how things should look like in the future)
The problem is that Calorie burn is very complex. Age, Height, Weight, Body Fat Percentage, How much mussel, their current diet, body heat.... While most fat shamers will just say Calories in vs Calories out. Measuring those calories is very complex, the body will react differently towards starvation, and differently from exhaustion. For some people those excess calories in will just get pooped out, while for others it will be stored, and for others people will just get a huge burst of energy. These devices can collect as much info as it think it can, and give an estimate, however due to the diversity on how the body digests calories, it could cause wide variations.
A high school degree: You get Work A 2 year community college degree: You get a Job A 4 Year college degree: You get a Career A Masters degree: You get a Profession A Doctorate degree: You get a Calling
Most Software development jobs, doesn't need or particularly want people who are too skilled in the area, because they are too much trouble, too much back talking, and too expensive.
Most Americans will not visit these countries for those reasons, I would prefer that my vacation isn't filled up with the activity as political prisoner. Often these countries that are not considered Allied countries, will still often welcome visitors, however will give them a guided vacation. This isn't really experiencing the country as it is, but how they want you to see it.
I wouldn't say there has to be consequences. However the political redirect of the ruling party, does make the United States seem to be an uninviting place to visit. I wouldn't want to visit a country, where I could get arrested or just harassed just because of my cultural differences. We should welcome visitors, because someone coming to our country to visit says that we are special enough for that person to be interested in visiting us, and they will be bringing their money to spend. It should be an opportunity to put our best foot forward.
However showing that there are dozen of genes. It would make sense racial factors would be a minor aspect. Also many of our racial distinctions have less to do about genetics and more about culture. Intelligence is complex, while we may measure it in terms of IQ but there are many variations of it and a lot of it is also based environment. You could have genes that would make you the strongest person in the world, but you never exercised so they are genetically inferior people who are stronger than you because they maximize their potential while you didn't. The same with intelagance you can have the won the genetic lottery in terms of intelligence. But you may not have worked it out, so if you take that IQ test your score wouldn't reflect your full potential.
The AI runs on data. Change the data you get new results. Clear the flag that a particular diagnosis restriction affects a gender and you will have woman being diagnosed with prostrate problems. Flood information with one sided data and that rare problem will seem common.
The institution of the medical doctor is a very imbedded one. Medical schools are selective not because they will weed out the bad doctor, but to keep the supply of doctors down to prevent the institution from getting over saturated and lowering the paycheck amount. Then there are rules and regulations for what mid-level providers can can can't do. So you may go to a nurse practitioner (NP) it may appear that they are doing the same job as a MD but a doctor will need to sign off on the work and recommendations. Oddly enough many insurances will not pay directly for these mid-levels which could be a huge cost savings. Now with all that said AI will not get the final say. With all the money and authority that goes to the doctor the flip side is the responsibility falls on them too. AI can give suggestions as they can process more information faster and show what seemed to work in the past with similar conditions. However the doctor will need to look at the data and accept or reject that info. So the blame will go to him.
From the Article "But you'd never hear someone say that brain surgery is 'fun,'" Having worked with doctors, Doing surgery for them is actually fun. Their eyes light up when they get to do a procedure that is challenging or novel. They will not show this to the patients or family, as they need to show a degree of professionalism, as normally when you do surgery on the person is often scared out of their wits. When I am in a good coding environment mode, I am actually having a lot of fun, time just flies by, there is smile on my face when I see the pieces come to gather, and seeing a creation being made out of essentially just my own intelligence and will. Is it complex, sure, but so is painting, music, dance, or nearly every game and hobby that people get into. Tic-Tac-Toe isn't that fun once you get to a particular stage of development, it isn't complex enough. 4x4x4 Tic-Tac-Toe gets more fun, because it gets more interesting, until you get good at or at least better than you opponents. Complexity and challenges is fun.
But who is the totalitarian government? China or the United States? Being that the world is recovering for a wide spread ransom ware attack caused from an long time "unpatched flaw" used by the United States National Security Agency. It would make sense for a government such as China to try to protect its data with its own "security measures".
I am not being naive in not bringing up that China will probably have an encryption algorithm with a back door so the government can weed out subversives. However chances our our counties being the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, France... Are not agencies of good and riotous, but have a complex set of national needs to protect order.
While I am sure profit was Microsoft big factor, however there is also a general global self interests to make sure the world stays up to date in software. Being that Windows is so dominate world wide not caving in for this case, would mean China would use outdated hacked versions of Windows, with their spying happening anyways. At least with Microsoft having some control, the fact that the Chinese Windows 10 has Government Encryption will let subversives to know what not to use.
For those who commute daily. Self Driving Cars is something that would be helpful, once safety concerns are managed. While I think that most jobs can be done from home, however businesses don't seem to trust their employees. The self driving Car and add an hour of me time to my life, where I can read a book, watch a show, or just rest my eyes. Vs. having to drive with the sun glaring in your eyes, having to pay attention to things trying to kill you every second.
Being a CEO is more about pushing around the money, then actually knowing the details of the product. That said, an automaker company seems to be far more complex then even a large furniture company. A choice to use cheaper parts in furniture often will not have the same impact to human lives as a similar choice for an automobile. Because if that stitch that holds the leather on your sofa fails vs a bolt holding a vital component has a different set of consequences. Also to the note the Automotive industry for good and for bad has heavy political influence, that a furniture CEO may not be fully accustom to.
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Well Google being publicly traided on a size borderline monopoly, has a tag line of not being evil. While may not be its job, it would be to their self interest to know this data and make sure to correct any inequalities in its workforce. Otherwise they may be opening themselves for future legal problems.
West Coast based IT companies are notoriously bad in diversity in their workforce compared to East Coast IT workers who are often older, more gender and race diversity.
Trump only cares about Trump. This makes him easily manipulated all you need to do is stole his ego and he'll be your best friend. He personally may not be knowingly involved in the russians but he guilty of a crime of omission by not taking into conserned about the people in his circle.
We seem to be stuck in this nostalgia cycle. Trying to regain the spark of wonder of our youth. But it is time to realize things are different now, there has been a lot of progress however not all of it made the same set of trade offs we wanted but overall what we have now is better. We just don't realize the reason why when things were better when you were a kid is because your parents isolated you from the problems of the day. That Apple ][, Amega, Atari, Comadore 64, Amstrad... that you got as a kid meant saving up for weeks deciding to not get something thay wanted for themselves.
So now we are making such sacrifices and we keep going back to what we wanted as a kid, remakes and reboots of old tv shows and movies, trying to bring back the retro tech. We are using our skills and brain power to go backwards. And this is a bad thing.
RadioShack only has itself to blame. In the internet age, stores are no longer a place to buy products, but a place to get a product quickly or a place to talk to actual people. They should had jumped onto the maker movement and RadioShack could had been a Maker Space headquarters. However they just sold phone and phone supplies which you can get anywhere.
I have this problem.
A VP of a department with a staff of hundred low paid employees tells IT with a staff of 10 who is paid 4x as much to do data entry because they don't have the manpower to do it. Sure it is my job and I'll do it. However the company is wasting money on me where I could be doing something much more valuable to the organization. And that expense will get pushed to the customer.
For the consumer, do you want to pay an extra dollar for a widget, because the they had the IT guy working on something that they could get other cheaper staff to do just as well if not better then you add the cost of this taking away time to make the process better or safer because the guy wasn't allowed to do the job they wanted him for?
It isn't about hard work (well it isn't the only factor)
Many of these foreign kids are studying on Friday night because their language skills in American English isn't the same as the nationals. So the lecturer classes are mostly a waste of their time, while for the American students those lectures are the key source of the information so they don't need to study as much.
Then you have the fact most foreign students are often top of their class in their country. If they weren't they would likely be going to their local schools.
Hard work is treated like the key factor. But it is just a modifier of a bunch of other factors.
I wish I had a good answer for you.
We have a problem with misleading information but who do we trust to weed it out?
Flagging can be faught much easier than censoring.
There was an other major element going on. Microsoft was trying to use their dominance to take over the web standards.
Microsoft never liked HTML. So at first with Windows 95. IE was such a basic browser it's only job was to download Netscape. But the point was to get people to use MSN a dial up service like AOL instead. That is where they put the effort. However it never kicked off so Microsoft did a big push to improve IE and embrace, extended and extinguished the web. New versions of IE which were lightweight and shiny but also had ActiveX. Dumb microsfty developers flocked to it. Creating a world of security vulnerabilities and spyware because it proposed speed and flexibility was because ActiveX was basically just a place to run your App in a browser window.
People started to get sick of the security problems so they used the shiny new light and fast Firefox. Then they kept adding features until chrome came out as the small and light browser.
In general people want a small and light browser vs one bogged down by too many features.
However this is like throwing out the baby with the bathwater.
We need good intelligence, and some of it needs to be kept secret. However the trend is to classify stuff that shouldn't need to be classified, just because it is easier to classify then have it public.
With the leaks, what bothers me more isn't the stuff that got leaked out, most of it is fairly common knowledge, it just confirms what we already know. The real problem is why is such mundane stuff classified?
I would avoid jumping onto the conclusions that Conservatives are less educated than Liberals. The larger correlation is that liberals will live more in Urban Areas, while Conservatives live in Rural areas. In these different areas, their world view is different. In Urban areas, a strong government is an overall positive, as there are services that need to be provided, and with a lot of people working closely together, a strong rule of law and regulations is needed for that area to function. In rural areas they are more left to fend for themselves, there tax money is going to places where they will see no benefit, and there is a culture if you have a problem you need to solve it yourself. So such regulations proposed by the government seem like an overall negative.
Now both areas have highly educated people, and less educated who will vote for whatever party. In urban areas the Poor are often under educated and vote liberal because government is trying to prevent them from dying, as the city environment can prevent them from living off the land and being able to fend for themselves. In rural areas, the poor who have resources to fend for themselves, doesn't need rules and regulations trying to stop them from doing what they need to do to live.
Conservatives seem to rule corporate higher management, and even modern farmers you need to be just as technical savvy as a Silicon Valley tech worker. These people have those degrees, but because they are working commercial they tend not to flaunt them as much. While in urban areas, there are more colleges and universities, and government agencies, where people will need the education status to help push their agendas.
Now in terms of Science. Liberal groups have seemed to reject science that says "This product is safe" (GMO, Vaccines...) because they expect government to make sure what we do is safe. While Conservative groups reject science that says "This product is dangerous" (Global Warming, Fracking...) because they are afraid that government will take away necessary tools for them.
Survey questions are misleading.
Thinking global warming will not pose a serious threat in their lifetime. is different from being a climate denier.
Science is solid on that Global warming is real and man made and that it proposes a risk. However the science is less solid on the scope and rate. Also depending on the age of person asked a Lifetime would be a decade - 4 generations.
The pooling will need to combine many questions asked differently to really get a good view of the persons viewpoint.
So most people have a hard time separating climate from weather. So a 4 degree change in their weather doesn't seem like big deal. When winter is -6c vs -10c no big deal it is still cold. when the summer gets 34c vs 30c it is still very hot.
While I am against censoring any points of views, as the act of censoring it, will often just give the conspiracy nuts fodder to show that they are on the right track. We do need some methods to keep, false, untrue, misinformed, and faked information from propagating. If a lie is said enough times, people will begin to believe it. Social media is a perfect method of being able to repeat false hoods. so misinformed data gets equal weight as informed information. Generally confusing the masses.
While there is freedom of speech, it doesn't mean all speech needs equal weight.
That is why I stated for a High School Graduate, you would be expected to get Work, but not a Job.
Work: Is doing whatever it takes to make a living. (I will move and plug in these computers for a few hundred bucks)
Job: Is a steady living, however you are not necessary doing what you like. (You tell me what needs to be program and I will do what you say, as long as I can do it)
Career: Is making a living as something you are willing to identify yourself as. (I am a currently Software Developer, If there is something new, Ill research it to see if I know how to fix it)
Profession: Is working in something that you find fulfilling. (I am a Systems Architect, my designs have saved the lives of thousands of people)
Calling: Is being able to work in something that you find enjoyable and can skip things that you find dull. (I am a specialist in Technology interaction with people, I don't need to do any of the coding work, but I get to layout how things should look like in the future)
Well I was trying not to be cynical about it.
The problem is that Calorie burn is very complex. Age, Height, Weight, Body Fat Percentage, How much mussel, their current diet, body heat....
While most fat shamers will just say Calories in vs Calories out. Measuring those calories is very complex, the body will react differently towards starvation, and differently from exhaustion. For some people those excess calories in will just get pooped out, while for others it will be stored, and for others people will just get a huge burst of energy. These devices can collect as much info as it think it can, and give an estimate, however due to the diversity on how the body digests calories, it could cause wide variations.
A high school degree: You get Work
A 2 year community college degree: You get a Job
A 4 Year college degree: You get a Career
A Masters degree: You get a Profession
A Doctorate degree: You get a Calling
Most Software development jobs, doesn't need or particularly want people who are too skilled in the area, because they are too much trouble, too much back talking, and too expensive.
Most Americans will not visit these countries for those reasons, I would prefer that my vacation isn't filled up with the activity as political prisoner. Often these countries that are not considered Allied countries, will still often welcome visitors, however will give them a guided vacation. This isn't really experiencing the country as it is, but how they want you to see it.
I wouldn't say there has to be consequences. However the political redirect of the ruling party, does make the United States seem to be an uninviting place to visit.
I wouldn't want to visit a country, where I could get arrested or just harassed just because of my cultural differences. We should welcome visitors, because someone coming to our country to visit says that we are special enough for that person to be interested in visiting us, and they will be bringing their money to spend. It should be an opportunity to put our best foot forward.
However showing that there are dozen of genes. It would make sense racial factors would be a minor aspect. Also many of our racial distinctions have less to do about genetics and more about culture.
Intelligence is complex, while we may measure it in terms of IQ but there are many variations of it and a lot of it is also based environment.
You could have genes that would make you the strongest person in the world, but you never exercised so they are genetically inferior people who are stronger than you because they maximize their potential while you didn't. The same with intelagance you can have the won the genetic lottery in terms of intelligence. But you may not have worked it out, so if you take that IQ test your score wouldn't reflect your full potential.
The AI runs on data. Change the data you get new results. Clear the flag that a particular diagnosis restriction affects a gender and you will have woman being diagnosed with prostrate problems. Flood information with one sided data and that rare problem will seem common.
The institution of the medical doctor is a very imbedded one. Medical schools are selective not because they will weed out the bad doctor, but to keep the supply of doctors down to prevent the institution from getting over saturated and lowering the paycheck amount. Then there are rules and regulations for what mid-level providers can can can't do. So you may go to a nurse practitioner (NP) it may appear that they are doing the same job as a MD but a doctor will need to sign off on the work and recommendations. Oddly enough many insurances will not pay directly for these mid-levels which could be a huge cost savings.
Now with all that said AI will not get the final say. With all the money and authority that goes to the doctor the flip side is the responsibility falls on them too. AI can give suggestions as they can process more information faster and show what seemed to work in the past with similar conditions. However the doctor will need to look at the data and accept or reject that info. So the blame will go to him.
From the Article "But you'd never hear someone say that brain surgery is 'fun,'"
Having worked with doctors, Doing surgery for them is actually fun. Their eyes light up when they get to do a procedure that is challenging or novel. They will not show this to the patients or family, as they need to show a degree of professionalism, as normally when you do surgery on the person is often scared out of their wits.
When I am in a good coding environment mode, I am actually having a lot of fun, time just flies by, there is smile on my face when I see the pieces come to gather, and seeing a creation being made out of essentially just my own intelligence and will.
Is it complex, sure, but so is painting, music, dance, or nearly every game and hobby that people get into.
Tic-Tac-Toe isn't that fun once you get to a particular stage of development, it isn't complex enough. 4x4x4 Tic-Tac-Toe gets more fun, because it gets more interesting, until you get good at or at least better than you opponents.
Complexity and challenges is fun.
But who is the totalitarian government? China or the United States?
Being that the world is recovering for a wide spread ransom ware attack caused from an long time "unpatched flaw" used by the United States National Security Agency. It would make sense for a government such as China to try to protect its data with its own "security measures".
I am not being naive in not bringing up that China will probably have an encryption algorithm with a back door so the government can weed out subversives. However chances our our counties being the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, France... Are not agencies of good and riotous, but have a complex set of national needs to protect order.
While I am sure profit was Microsoft big factor, however there is also a general global self interests to make sure the world stays up to date in software. Being that Windows is so dominate world wide not caving in for this case, would mean China would use outdated hacked versions of Windows, with their spying happening anyways. At least with Microsoft having some control, the fact that the Chinese Windows 10 has Government Encryption will let subversives to know what not to use.
For those who commute daily. Self Driving Cars is something that would be helpful, once safety concerns are managed. While I think that most jobs can be done from home, however businesses don't seem to trust their employees. The self driving Car and add an hour of me time to my life, where I can read a book, watch a show, or just rest my eyes.
Vs. having to drive with the sun glaring in your eyes, having to pay attention to things trying to kill you every second.
Being a CEO is more about pushing around the money, then actually knowing the details of the product. That said, an automaker company seems to be far more complex then even a large furniture company. A choice to use cheaper parts in furniture often will not have the same impact to human lives as a similar choice for an automobile. Because if that stitch that holds the leather on your sofa fails vs a bolt holding a vital component has a different set of consequences. Also to the note the Automotive industry for good and for bad has heavy political influence, that a furniture CEO may not be fully accustom to.