Ah, but it doesn't count if you don't watch, so it does face and eye tracking. People are still naive into thinking your views are immensely valuable, but at least in this case you might actually get something back from it instead of just intrusive target ads (though undoubtedly they will sell your data for extra "monetization").
Also, if anyone has see the M.A.N.I.A.C. series on Netfix, this news reminded me a lot of the "Ad Buddy" idea, a person who follows you around reciting ads to you so that you can earn some cash.
Measles is probably the most common vaccine preventable causes of death in the world, today. In 1980, over 2 million people died from it. It is lower now but only because of vaccination programs. Complications from it can be serious, including brain inflammation, and often the immune system is depressed for awhile after catching measles. You will probably require hospitalization if you get the measles.
Flu can be nasty too don't forget though it usually doesn't have the same complications as measles. Don't confuse flu with a cold. It can be fatal in infants and the elderly, so it's useful to everyone to get the shots for herd immunity.
I watched some flatearther videos. Part of it was for the entertainment aspect. Except that they turned out to be incredibly non-entertaining. It's like they hunt for whoever is the most boring and have that person do the video. Sure there's the occasional burst of astounding idiocy that evokes laughter but they take 15 minutes to get there. They're also continually fighting with the flath earth debunkers, and those debunkers are getting boring because they're stuck in a tit-for-tat youtube battle.
Then you step back for a couple of weeks and it seems to fade behind whatever new thing google thinks you're interested in. (I never log in so every device I use on youtube results in a different set of things it thinks I might like)
The moon landing hoaxers and flat earthers really don't cause a lot of harm. Well, at least not until they create their own airline or offer trips in their spaceships.
These aren't vials of who-knows-what. We know what's in them, they've gone through safety checks, you can ask to find out more information, and you can opt out with good reasons (or with bad reasons as long as you're ok with your child not being allowed in some schools).
The argument here has never been about vials of who-knows-what. The argument has always been about standard vaccines with full disclosures of the results and side effects. The current wave of anti-vaccines has arisen because of deliberately falsified information that was latched onto by anti-science types. We've always had anti-vacc people from the first days of vaccines, it just has normally been a low undercurrent until Andrew Wakefield's fraud.
This is a private company, they can block what they want. There isn't a universal block here. The company can ban porn on their forums if they like but that's not the same thing as banning porn everywhere.
This is one of the problems, people don't remember when measles were feared. Modern medicine has made measles much more survivable by those with ready and early access to doctors in first world countries. So people think "what's the big deal?" because their kids go to the doctor regularly, but they're not thinking about people who are poor, homeless, in an area without ready access to good doctors, and so forth.
No, if GoFundMe banned abortion related campaigns it would still be legal and they would not be shut down. Stop believing all the political conspiracies.
Wrong in what sense? Gofundme is not a government site, they can legally block whoever or whatever they want from their soapbox. It's dangerous speech so this ban could possibly pass muster in the courts even if the government did it. There has never been a right to say whatever you want in any forum and in any location. Banning this is perfectly moral and ethical.
I do remember in high school that I had some interesting electronics kits. But I did NOT really understand how they worked. I couldn't get stuff to work without following directions. The fundamental flaw with these kits is that you need to understand some higher level math for anything complicated (ie, calculus, linear algebra, etc). Digital electronics on the other hand is much easier to grasp if you don't know anything beyond arithmetic, geometry, and algebra; but even that can become a problem if you start running across having to deal with noise, impedance matching, etc.
The dream is bad though. Already I see hardware designers who treat things like legos, and it fails. You fall into a trap of thinking that everything is commutative; part A is good and part B is good therefore I assume that A+B is also good. There's pressure to speed up testing and validation and that encourages the quick and dirty approach so that the final products is.. well.. quick and dirty. Often things are fixed by by other quick hacks, if the fundamental problem lies with the board layout there's pressure to leave that alone and only tweak component values, snap on some ferrites, etc.
Electronics is already like Lego, except that the Lego piece is the individual components (capacitors, resistors, ICs). Trying to turn collections of pieces as a single Lego piece causes things to be brittle, just like any large Lego construct.
I deal with non-consumer stuff. Contract manufacturers are still used much of the time for convenience and cost. They can be set up to have orders shipped directly from factory to the customer. Onshore manufacturing is good for prototypes, test runs, getting the kinks worked out, or final assemblies (for more complicated stuff). Much of the cost comes from testing the products during manufacture since they're being sold to more discerning customers and failures means more cost to us in the long run.
Salaries is mostly about personnel to set up and monitor the production lines, once it's ready to go most manufacturing is not labor intensive. Almost none of this is like the old assembly lines from the past. Some bits may need humans (attaching antennas, plugging in cables, etc) but that's for final product and not the bare boards.
Yes, this seems to be about parts for experimentation, art, learning, etc. These aren't "professional" grade modules that you can use to create your own commercial project. Not that this is wrong, but the Slashdot headline seems a bit misleading.
Foul smelling, potentially with toxins. Not as bad as with raw smoke, but there's still at least nicotine. Common sense says vape outside and not indoors by your coworkers or family. If you vape because you're trying to stop smoking, then it should be familiar to not get your nicotine hit inside. If you vape because you think it's cool, then you need to learn that it just makes you look like a hipster dork.
There's a lot of dumb people who think vaping is just a safe way to smoke, and so they are smoking indoors in public buildings, indoors at work, on a train, etc. I told one guy at work to stop inside since it could get him fired and he told me to keep it quiet because some others were already mad at him, so he goes around trying to vape secretly even though the smell is atrocious and irritating to people with asthma.
Screw up your own life but don't screw up other people's.
Existing laws are vague and contradict each other. We still have many outdated laws that are meaningless (women can't drive cars unless a man walks in front waving a red flag). We had an extremely outdated and bizarre constitution in the US if you ignore the amendments, so it would be absurd to assume that it is perfect now and can be frozen for all eternity.
And you still have to pass a budget. Most of the arguing in congress doing just that one thing.
If the AI comes up with a policy that some people don't like, they'll merely conclude that the AI is clearly faulty. Eventually it will be tweaked based on popular demand. Then as viewpoints shift over time we'll have votes about which way to tweak the AI so that it favors the majority viewpoint. After a long period of mismanagement society will finally realize that having artificial intelligence is not the same thing as being logical, rational, or wise. At this point they will elect a monkey to push buttons at random.
Often these replacement parts already exist and if they deem a product obsolete the parts are thrown away or used on later products, etc. Many parts are actually from third parties anyway.
Also, if the product is reliable then there's a good chance you won't need many replacement parts. If you need boatloads of parts for future repairs then chances are you've got a shitty product.
Often that can be true. But generally you protect a circuit board in that case. Making it impossible to change a battery is not necessary to protect against state actors or rival companies trying to clone, etc.
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That's why you put up a sign that says "car crushing demo today!"
Also the humans in the stories seemed to be naive, believing that it was impossible to have the rules broken.
Ah, but it doesn't count if you don't watch, so it does face and eye tracking. People are still naive into thinking your views are immensely valuable, but at least in this case you might actually get something back from it instead of just intrusive target ads (though undoubtedly they will sell your data for extra "monetization").
Also, if anyone has see the M.A.N.I.A.C. series on Netfix, this news reminded me a lot of the "Ad Buddy" idea, a person who follows you around reciting ads to you so that you can earn some cash.
Measles is probably the most common vaccine preventable causes of death in the world, today. In 1980, over 2 million people died from it. It is lower now but only because of vaccination programs. Complications from it can be serious, including brain inflammation, and often the immune system is depressed for awhile after catching measles. You will probably require hospitalization if you get the measles.
Flu can be nasty too don't forget though it usually doesn't have the same complications as measles. Don't confuse flu with a cold. It can be fatal in infants and the elderly, so it's useful to everyone to get the shots for herd immunity.
I watched some flatearther videos. Part of it was for the entertainment aspect. Except that they turned out to be incredibly non-entertaining. It's like they hunt for whoever is the most boring and have that person do the video. Sure there's the occasional burst of astounding idiocy that evokes laughter but they take 15 minutes to get there. They're also continually fighting with the flath earth debunkers, and those debunkers are getting boring because they're stuck in a tit-for-tat youtube battle.
Then you step back for a couple of weeks and it seems to fade behind whatever new thing google thinks you're interested in. (I never log in so every device I use on youtube results in a different set of things it thinks I might like)
The moon landing hoaxers and flat earthers really don't cause a lot of harm. Well, at least not until they create their own airline or offer trips in their spaceships.
These aren't vials of who-knows-what. We know what's in them, they've gone through safety checks, you can ask to find out more information, and you can opt out with good reasons (or with bad reasons as long as you're ok with your child not being allowed in some schools).
The argument here has never been about vials of who-knows-what. The argument has always been about standard vaccines with full disclosures of the results and side effects. The current wave of anti-vaccines has arisen because of deliberately falsified information that was latched onto by anti-science types. We've always had anti-vacc people from the first days of vaccines, it just has normally been a low undercurrent until Andrew Wakefield's fraud.
This is a private company, they can block what they want. There isn't a universal block here. The company can ban porn on their forums if they like but that's not the same thing as banning porn everywhere.
This is one of the problems, people don't remember when measles were feared. Modern medicine has made measles much more survivable by those with ready and early access to doctors in first world countries. So people think "what's the big deal?" because their kids go to the doctor regularly, but they're not thinking about people who are poor, homeless, in an area without ready access to good doctors, and so forth.
No, if GoFundMe banned abortion related campaigns it would still be legal and they would not be shut down. Stop believing all the political conspiracies.
Wrong in what sense? Gofundme is not a government site, they can legally block whoever or whatever they want from their soapbox. It's dangerous speech so this ban could possibly pass muster in the courts even if the government did it. There has never been a right to say whatever you want in any forum and in any location. Banning this is perfectly moral and ethical.
Anti-vaccers can create their own funding sites.
The nuts have always been there. Ignore them. In a decade there will be a different conspiracy fad to occupy their time.
So what's better, banning gofundme for anti-vacc purposes, or instead allowing them but putting up a disclaimer that says "idiots only"?
Who will buy our products then? We'd have to go back to making products that were actually useful again.
Codeword for conspiracy theorist?
More like
10 PRINT "SALVE MUNDI"
20 GOTO 10
I do remember in high school that I had some interesting electronics kits. But I did NOT really understand how they worked. I couldn't get stuff to work without following directions. The fundamental flaw with these kits is that you need to understand some higher level math for anything complicated (ie, calculus, linear algebra, etc). Digital electronics on the other hand is much easier to grasp if you don't know anything beyond arithmetic, geometry, and algebra; but even that can become a problem if you start running across having to deal with noise, impedance matching, etc.
The dream is bad though. Already I see hardware designers who treat things like legos, and it fails. You fall into a trap of thinking that everything is commutative; part A is good and part B is good therefore I assume that A+B is also good. There's pressure to speed up testing and validation and that encourages the quick and dirty approach so that the final products is.. well.. quick and dirty. Often things are fixed by by other quick hacks, if the fundamental problem lies with the board layout there's pressure to leave that alone and only tweak component values, snap on some ferrites, etc.
Electronics is already like Lego, except that the Lego piece is the individual components (capacitors, resistors, ICs). Trying to turn collections of pieces as a single Lego piece causes things to be brittle, just like any large Lego construct.
I deal with non-consumer stuff. Contract manufacturers are still used much of the time for convenience and cost. They can be set up to have orders shipped directly from factory to the customer. Onshore manufacturing is good for prototypes, test runs, getting the kinks worked out, or final assemblies (for more complicated stuff). Much of the cost comes from testing the products during manufacture since they're being sold to more discerning customers and failures means more cost to us in the long run.
Salaries is mostly about personnel to set up and monitor the production lines, once it's ready to go most manufacturing is not labor intensive. Almost none of this is like the old assembly lines from the past. Some bits may need humans (attaching antennas, plugging in cables, etc) but that's for final product and not the bare boards.
Yes, this seems to be about parts for experimentation, art, learning, etc. These aren't "professional" grade modules that you can use to create your own commercial project. Not that this is wrong, but the Slashdot headline seems a bit misleading.
Foul smelling, potentially with toxins. Not as bad as with raw smoke, but there's still at least nicotine. Common sense says vape outside and not indoors by your coworkers or family. If you vape because you're trying to stop smoking, then it should be familiar to not get your nicotine hit inside. If you vape because you think it's cool, then you need to learn that it just makes you look like a hipster dork.
There's a lot of dumb people who think vaping is just a safe way to smoke, and so they are smoking indoors in public buildings, indoors at work, on a train, etc. I told one guy at work to stop inside since it could get him fired and he told me to keep it quiet because some others were already mad at him, so he goes around trying to vape secretly even though the smell is atrocious and irritating to people with asthma.
Screw up your own life but don't screw up other people's.
Existing laws are vague and contradict each other. We still have many outdated laws that are meaningless (women can't drive cars unless a man walks in front waving a red flag). We had an extremely outdated and bizarre constitution in the US if you ignore the amendments, so it would be absurd to assume that it is perfect now and can be frozen for all eternity.
And you still have to pass a budget. Most of the arguing in congress doing just that one thing.
If the AI comes up with a policy that some people don't like, they'll merely conclude that the AI is clearly faulty. Eventually it will be tweaked based on popular demand. Then as viewpoints shift over time we'll have votes about which way to tweak the AI so that it favors the majority viewpoint. After a long period of mismanagement society will finally realize that having artificial intelligence is not the same thing as being logical, rational, or wise. At this point they will elect a monkey to push buttons at random.
Often these replacement parts already exist and if they deem a product obsolete the parts are thrown away or used on later products, etc. Many parts are actually from third parties anyway.
Also, if the product is reliable then there's a good chance you won't need many replacement parts. If you need boatloads of parts for future repairs then chances are you've got a shitty product.
Often that can be true. But generally you protect a circuit board in that case. Making it impossible to change a battery is not necessary to protect against state actors or rival companies trying to clone, etc.