I wouldn't want it any where near a normal University, for fear it would kill off the less lucrative subjects.
Lucrative = valuable to society.
Yes, yes, I know, people really hate admitting that. But this is how we measure the need for one more person in society doing whatever it is. If there's a great need for another person, it will pay well. If more people want to do it than are needed, it will pay crap, even if the field is very necessary to society (like teaching), it may be we already have an excess of qualified people, and don't need more right now.
Of course, there's a different argument. There are those who believe that University if for indoctrination by your betters in what you are supposed to believe, and not for mere "vocational" learning of things actually needed. Fuck all those people, individually and collectively, for they are destroying society.
Yup. Heck, there's no corner case of crazy that hasn't happened somewhere in the US university system recently, and some schools have political indoctrination mixed in with their STEM classes now. But it's not common - we're still a long way from a Soviet-style educational system.
His behavior was perfectly ehtical. Publishing false papers with the intent of permanent deception is unethical (and probably the case with most published papers in several fields). That wasn't the case here: they revealed the deception quickly.
Also, let's be clear here: their attempts would have failed if there wasn't a problem to expose. Any harm you imagine they did is being done routinely by people with entirely unethical motives in those fields and journals.
I found an edge case where something didn't work correctly. Clearly this invalidates the entire discipline.
"Broken" != "useless."
Our university system is clearly broken, as on the whole free speech and free debate of challenging ideas should be welcomed, instead of being explicitly forbidden. That doesn't mean everything is broken, but it does mean that a very important thing is broken: the spirit of free inquiry.
The existence of auto-ethnology degrees and related BS is not itself a problem, or a broken system, as people understand the value of such degrees. It is a problem if you go to a physics class, and get a lecture from a women's studies class instead, but that seems to be a problem with a few schools at this point, not an endemic problem. Still, worth paying serious attention to if choosing a university for yourself or your kid.
The problem with DuckDuckGo is that, when it comes to searching, it simply sucks.
You post this every time DDG comes up, presumably b/c you're astroturfing for Google. You've never given an example, or shown anything but FUD. DDG's search results are fine.
ZenShadow was talking about how long it takes to make a backup. And then you said "that's what RAID is for" because you clearly still don't understand that RAID is not backup.
RAID will no no way reduce the time it takes to make a backup, because, get this, RAID is not backup.
No one I watch on YouTube monetizes their videos these days. Not one. It's a failed model. Patreon was the next thing, but that's apparently the new failed model. Still, crowdfunding will eventually find a proper home.
There were plenty of good ideas for how to fund content before ads took over. Ads were not the best choice.
YouTube has almost everything and since they gave the copyright owners the ability to collect from something another person uploaded, thereâ(TM)s not much incentive to remove the so-called illegally uploaded content.
Some label still do no get this. E.g., I'm a big King Crimson fan, and they take down almost everything, including some great fan-made music videos. It's quite annoying. It's not like they're cranking out new albums and YouTube might displace some sales, and their fans already have everything on CD or vinyl. I blame the Boomers.
Well, when you post Chinese government propaganda, I can only conclude you're (a) stupid; (b) crazy; or (c) a reasonable person making his way though an authoritarian regime. I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt, here.
No, most of those values were destroyed by Mao. Read about China's "Lost Generation" (if you though the Boomers were bad...).
* China has never had a unified spoken language. * Religion was effectively banned by Mao (of course, religion is sticky, and continued in hiding, but in tiny subcultures at best). Having a God or philosophical leader other than Mao was counter-revolutionary. *Families were broken up deliberately under Mao, at least those who were urban or literate, and the kids sent away to reconnect with the land and the people. * There aren't really Chinese martial arts with a living tradition that crises the boundary (don't believe a sales pitch). * Mao encouraged students to kill their teachers, and then sent them away to farms. Education was a sign of valuing class differences and disconnection from the people. * The Lost Generation is the opposite of valuing hard work.
Are food and traditional "medicine" culture? Maybe in the Disney sense. Greed is the absence of culture.
OTOH, it only really happened because he was assassinated. The NASA budget was protected because no one wanted to be seen as the one dismantling JFK's legacy. Kept NASA in funding until Nixon (at which point most people had lost interest anyway).
The space race is a shining example of rapid technological process due to competition for a reason other than war. Something I'm hard pressed to even find a second example of, between governments instead of companies.
Except for Rand the corporate owners were not villains. The government trying to regulate and protect the citizens was the villain as well as anyone with social consciousness. Rand glorified the dog eat dog capitalism. She was too naive to think that people can raise upon merit.
If you're going to criticize, at least read the Cliff Notes, so that you can do better than being completely wrong about the work you're complaining about. Plenty of stuff to criticize in the actual books she actually wrote, without just making stuff up.
The premise of Atlas Shrugged was that there are very few competent CEOs, heads of R&D, operations managers, etc, in a sea of incompetence, and if those rare competent leaders were suddenly out of the picture, the whole economy would collapse.
Once upon a time I read Atlas Shrugged. It seemed so poorly written, as the political and industrial leaders seemed like such simple caricatures. But more and more I see examples of exactly those behaviors in real life.
Rand's cartoonishly incompetent industrial leaders would blame failures of heavy industry on the weather. "No one could have predicted that storm! We're doing all we can after the fact." Left unsaid was that bad storms (or in this case tsunamis) are certain to happen eventually, and it's your job to be ready for them.
And here we see it in real life, with these guys defending themselves with "no one could have predicted that specific tsunami, all we could do was manage the disaster afterwards". You know, when you start sounding like a villain from an Ayn Rand novel, maybe you should hire different lawyers, as it's hard to do worse than that.
Discover the difference between patriotism and nationalism. If America was big on nationalism, you'd know, because overalls in NL would have American flags on them.
FFS man, have your kids do something, anything useful to society, not some pointless BS that only makes themselves happy. Being of use to others it the key to psychological well-being. If your kids are living at home at 25, you have failed as a parent and they have failed as human beings (there might still be time for them at that point).
I can't think of any definition of "Space Nutter" that doesn't include you. You are nuts on the topic.
Really, do you think landing men on Mars is any less useful and productive than the Superbowl? I'd certainly find it more entertaining to watch. I bet it'd be cheaper then the next Avatar movie, as well.
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I wouldn't want it any where near a normal University, for fear it would kill off the less lucrative subjects.
Lucrative = valuable to society.
Yes, yes, I know, people really hate admitting that. But this is how we measure the need for one more person in society doing whatever it is. If there's a great need for another person, it will pay well. If more people want to do it than are needed, it will pay crap, even if the field is very necessary to society (like teaching), it may be we already have an excess of qualified people, and don't need more right now.
Of course, there's a different argument. There are those who believe that University if for indoctrination by your betters in what you are supposed to believe, and not for mere "vocational" learning of things actually needed. Fuck all those people, individually and collectively, for they are destroying society.
Yup. Heck, there's no corner case of crazy that hasn't happened somewhere in the US university system recently, and some schools have political indoctrination mixed in with their STEM classes now. But it's not common - we're still a long way from a Soviet-style educational system.
His behavior was perfectly ehtical. Publishing false papers with the intent of permanent deception is unethical (and probably the case with most published papers in several fields). That wasn't the case here: they revealed the deception quickly.
Also, let's be clear here: their attempts would have failed if there wasn't a problem to expose. Any harm you imagine they did is being done routinely by people with entirely unethical motives in those fields and journals.
I found an edge case where something didn't work correctly. Clearly this invalidates the entire discipline.
"Broken" != "useless."
Our university system is clearly broken, as on the whole free speech and free debate of challenging ideas should be welcomed, instead of being explicitly forbidden. That doesn't mean everything is broken, but it does mean that a very important thing is broken: the spirit of free inquiry.
The existence of auto-ethnology degrees and related BS is not itself a problem, or a broken system, as people understand the value of such degrees. It is a problem if you go to a physics class, and get a lecture from a women's studies class instead, but that seems to be a problem with a few schools at this point, not an endemic problem. Still, worth paying serious attention to if choosing a university for yourself or your kid.
The problem with DuckDuckGo is that, when it comes to searching, it simply sucks.
You post this every time DDG comes up, presumably b/c you're astroturfing for Google. You've never given an example, or shown anything but FUD. DDG's search results are fine.
ZenShadow was talking about how long it takes to make a backup. And then you said "that's what RAID is for" because you clearly still don't understand that RAID is not backup.
RAID will no no way reduce the time it takes to make a backup, because, get this, RAID is not backup.
RAID is not backup.
No one I watch on YouTube monetizes their videos these days. Not one. It's a failed model. Patreon was the next thing, but that's apparently the new failed model. Still, crowdfunding will eventually find a proper home.
There were plenty of good ideas for how to fund content before ads took over. Ads were not the best choice.
These are the same kind of cheap people who buy Android phones. Some people just have no taste.
My Android phone has a headphone jack (and an audiophile DAC). You're listening on Bluetooth? Yeah.
YouTube has almost everything and since they gave the copyright owners the ability to collect from something another person uploaded, thereâ(TM)s not much incentive to remove the so-called illegally uploaded content.
Some label still do no get this. E.g., I'm a big King Crimson fan, and they take down almost everything, including some great fan-made music videos. It's quite annoying. It's not like they're cranking out new albums and YouTube might displace some sales, and their fans already have everything on CD or vinyl. I blame the Boomers.
There are ads on your internet? You need a better internet!
I see you don't deny it.
Well, when you post Chinese government propaganda, I can only conclude you're (a) stupid; (b) crazy; or (c) a reasonable person making his way though an authoritarian regime. I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt, here.
Well posted, Comrade. I'm sure your social credit score has improved.
No, most of those values were destroyed by Mao. Read about China's "Lost Generation" (if you though the Boomers were bad ...).
* China has never had a unified spoken language.
* Religion was effectively banned by Mao (of course, religion is sticky, and continued in hiding, but in tiny subcultures at best). Having a God or philosophical leader other than Mao was counter-revolutionary.
*Families were broken up deliberately under Mao, at least those who were urban or literate, and the kids sent away to reconnect with the land and the people.
* There aren't really Chinese martial arts with a living tradition that crises the boundary (don't believe a sales pitch).
* Mao encouraged students to kill their teachers, and then sent them away to farms. Education was a sign of valuing class differences and disconnection from the people.
* The Lost Generation is the opposite of valuing hard work.
Are food and traditional "medicine" culture? Maybe in the Disney sense. Greed is the absence of culture.
OTOH, it only really happened because he was assassinated. The NASA budget was protected because no one wanted to be seen as the one dismantling JFK's legacy. Kept NASA in funding until Nixon (at which point most people had lost interest anyway).
The space race is a shining example of rapid technological process due to competition for a reason other than war. Something I'm hard pressed to even find a second example of, between governments instead of companies.
There is no cultural connection between pre-Mao and post-Mao China, merely geography.
Except for Rand the corporate owners were not villains. The government trying to regulate and protect the citizens was the villain as well as anyone with social consciousness.
Rand glorified the dog eat dog capitalism. She was too naive to think that people can raise upon merit.
If you're going to criticize, at least read the Cliff Notes, so that you can do better than being completely wrong about the work you're complaining about. Plenty of stuff to criticize in the actual books she actually wrote, without just making stuff up.
The premise of Atlas Shrugged was that there are very few competent CEOs, heads of R&D, operations managers, etc, in a sea of incompetence, and if those rare competent leaders were suddenly out of the picture, the whole economy would collapse.
Once upon a time I read Atlas Shrugged. It seemed so poorly written, as the political and industrial leaders seemed like such simple caricatures. But more and more I see examples of exactly those behaviors in real life.
Rand's cartoonishly incompetent industrial leaders would blame failures of heavy industry on the weather. "No one could have predicted that storm! We're doing all we can after the fact." Left unsaid was that bad storms (or in this case tsunamis) are certain to happen eventually, and it's your job to be ready for them.
And here we see it in real life, with these guys defending themselves with "no one could have predicted that specific tsunami, all we could do was manage the disaster afterwards". You know, when you start sounding like a villain from an Ayn Rand novel, maybe you should hire different lawyers, as it's hard to do worse than that.
Google nevertheless harms its reputation here, perhaps by far more than the trivial $150k of ad revenue.
One more straw on the camel's back.
We need a digital bill of rights. Something that protects both ways: against censorship, and against use without attribution.
Discover the difference between patriotism and nationalism. If America was big on nationalism, you'd know, because overalls in NL would have American flags on them.
So your argument is "working class people love America, and are therefore bad"? Man, GTFO.
FFS man, have your kids do something, anything useful to society, not some pointless BS that only makes themselves happy. Being of use to others it the key to psychological well-being. If your kids are living at home at 25, you have failed as a parent and they have failed as human beings (there might still be time for them at that point).
The thing about UI design: doing anything your own clever way is bad, stupid and wrong. The right way is always "the way the user expects".
I can't think of any definition of "Space Nutter" that doesn't include you. You are nuts on the topic.
Really, do you think landing men on Mars is any less useful and productive than the Superbowl? I'd certainly find it more entertaining to watch. I bet it'd be cheaper then the next Avatar movie, as well.