So, identify intersection points of community (the posts, videos, etc about which users are related) weighted to adhere to a quantifiable stylistic norm time series. Use the topical semantic classifier to force antithetical communities into each others' spaces. Not actually force, but make the domains "one click away" through in-platform recommendations.
In this way, communities of strife would be further separated from less contentious ones. They would hopefully, expend themselves against each other, and normalize out.
That's a damn good idea. Sadly, there's no evidence that Google algorithms use anything but the video description/keywords and thumbnail to learn about the content, and related links seem to be based on clickthrough, so opposing views get filtered out by the algorithm.
The Trump Russia book is exactly one of those conspiracy theories that make you feel smarter than those smug assholes that look down on you. There's no surprise why it's selling well.
It is a bit surprising to see a self-help book selling well, but the answer is it's not mainly a self-help book - that's just an excuse to ramble on about interesting topics in psychology. By its very nature, studying psychology makes you feel smarter than normal people who aren't in on the secrets. Further, some of the psychology might even be true! (Color me skeptical of the entire field, but there is at least real science involved in neurology.)
Far better is to link to equally far out crackpot conspiracy theories that disagree with the first. It's the style of these things that appeals: let me tell you the secret that will make you smarter than the smug assholes who look down on you. Simply present the truth in that style.
Shit, I just figured out why 12 Rules for Life is selling like it's printed on money. Damn psychologists knowing more about psychology than me and getting there first.
Google only has 80,000 full-time employees. Less than 1147 is slow growth - assuming it's net of attrition then they're actually hiring a lot more, but will plan to grow by less than 1147 engineers.
Amazon has 566,000 full-time employees (plus over 1 million hourly workers not relevant to engineering). Much larger than Google these days. Google used to be the big dog in terms of scale. Used to be. AWS passed them a couple of years ago, and just the retail side may pass them soon.
Soon enough, Google's going to be sittin' round talking `bout glory days (you know they pass you by).
CEOs in China are not punished because their companies break the law. Don't be silly. When a CEO fails to kowtow to the Communist overlords, or to immediately comply wit some crazy whim of someone in political power, then the government finds some law the company is breaking (or invents one) so that he can be publicly punished. But it's never about the stated offense, and you never hear the real offense.
A brutal dictatorship that with a lot of state-controlled business, but that has capitalism under the covers, is Communism. Modern China is different in that the capitalism going on is approved by the tyrant, rather than being black market (and that's a noteworthy and interesting difference), but much of the economy remains state controlled.
They were never even "pseudo" democratic, any more than the USSR was.
Honestly, the examples they give don't sound all that bad at first
For "false information about terrorism", read "complaining about the government in any way". For "Can't ride the train if you owe a fine", read "debtor's prison".
"Lawmakers behind a new anti-privacy bill are trying to sneak it through Congress by attaching it to the must-pass government spending bill."
Can't you guys approve bills one by one? Your current system is *designed* to be abused by assholes.
You are correct. The primary purpose of any bill being passed is to serve pork to donors, either through spending or regulatory capture. I suspect any useful work our government actually does must in fact be snuck through attached to must-pass pork bills.
Bezos clearly does NOT subscribe to the "maximize shareholder value" religion, and is not running Amazon as the typical modern "paper clip maximizer" that so many corporations have become. Instead, he emphasizes quality service, low prices, and acts (horrors!) as if customers are people and not simply cows to be milked.
The result is, if I need something, I check Amazon FIRST, and frequently last, as well.
Modern corporations would do well to learn from Amazon, instead of quaking in terror.
When Amazon was young, they had the best returns policy around and you could actually talk to a human if you had too. They seem to be less friendly these days (no doubt there was tons of abuse of their trust), which is a shame. I still check there first, but I worry about anything that I might need to return.
Sadly, they do seem to view their employees as resources to be exploited - "Dickensian with robots" indeed (wasn't there a Futurama about that?).
It is already imploding. Just the other day went for an interview there - five SJW buttholes didn't even read my resume. The whole interviewing at amazon is a farce to hide an ulterior motive - outsource jobs.
That sort of interview normal for technical jobs in general. The point of your resume is to get a phone call, and it really has no value beyond that - it has done its job and gotten past the arbitrary whims of HR. Sometimes a manager will grill you on something specific on your resume just to see if you're blatantly lying, but that's as far as that goes.
The actual interview process for tech in general is "OK, now prove you've got the chops". There are no end of pretty resumes, but nothing in a resume actually means you can do the work.
That being said, Amazon's interview process for developers seems to err on the side of too many soft-skill questions and a lack of deep probing of actual coding talent. It's the opposite of the problem Google has, in my experience, with Google interviews being 100% technical and not so much as a back-and-forth design discussion to measure soft skills (Facebook was the same extreme as Google, but I last talked to them over 5 years ago, so maybe they've changed).
TFS oversimplifies things a bit. The finding is that the outer edge of these galaxies rotates at about the same rate for all of them. That's not entirely surprising: the more massive the galaxy, the faster the rotation at any given distance, but also the more distant the outer rim. It also implies a similar ration of dark matter to familiar matter across these galaxies - which again isn't shocking, but is interesting if the ration has to be very similar. If it's confirmed they really do line up this closely that's probably big news for those modelling galaxy formation.
You're right. Fake medicine wasn't dealt with by the creation of the FDA and we should just deregulate everything
Fallacy of the false dilemma. Our choices are not restricted to "unlimited regulation" and "no regulation". Obviously, both extremes are stupid choices.
The FDA was created more than 100 years ago (1906). The prohibition-era snake oil hucksterism wasn't about that. It was a sneak around the prohibition regulations (1920-33), not around the FDA. Prohibition was the over-regulation that caused much harm, including snake-oil cures that were actually toxic, consumed by people just looking for moonshine.
Imagine 100 years ago when hucksters like this were touting every fake medicine under the sun and people were actually grateful for public-serving regulation.
You might be surprised. During prohibition, fake "medicines" that were mostly alcohol were the common thing hucksters were selling. Everyone knew the deal, but the snake oil hucksterism kept it legal (or legal enough the the buyers didn't get arrested). Yup, a whole culture of hucksters caused by over-regulation.
Oh no no no. See the problem isn't that you can't defraud people and get away with leading to cushy government job. You can as long as you don't defraud rich people.
Bernie Madoff made that mistake. He didn't just go to jail - he was attacked in jail (a low-security prison where you don't have many violent offenders) and beaten so badly he needed major reconstructive surgery on his face - he literally had his face beaten in. The moral of that story is pretty clear.
That might imply that it's a spy craft either from another country or from the USA itself. Pilots aren't privy to all of the top-secret going-ons of the government.
The one secret government coverup that actually worked (kept the secret for decades) was Project Blue Book. As the SR-71 was being invented and test-flown, there were simply going to be to many credible witnesses, to much footage like TFA. And what's the use of a spy plan the Commies already know about? So we hid the SR-71 in plain sight by treating every sighting as a UFO sighting, interviewing the witnesses about the UFO they saw, and leaking the program.
The Ruskies dismissed the inevitable leaking data as US UFO craziness.
Oh, and neither is the proper syntax for incrementing a variable, because 'i' is not a proper variable name in the first place.
"i" is indeed the correct variable name for the index into an array (and "j" and "k" for nested indices). Its the convention from math, and is idiomatic - anything else is needlessly confusing. Not that you loop on the index into an array much in modern programming languages. Similarly, "x" and "y" are perfectly fine for variables holding geometric coordinates.
Jesus christ you're stupid. Did you manage to pull up a chair to sit on all by yourself? If so, honestly - I'm fucking impressed.
Yes youtube is a communist tool spreading communism. You dopey fuck. lol.
Post-Modernism is the new communism. Identity politics, not Marx's workers vs owners. YouTube certainly has its biases there, but it seems unrelated to TFA.
Left and Right, YouTube seems to steer people to fringe content, probably because extremist clickbait works, and has polluted the data that backs the recommendation algorithms.
I know I subscribe to just one primarily-political site (and that's mostly British politics), and yet I'm constantly getting recommendations for more fringe sites. It's not like YouTube is doing this on purpose, but they're letting it happen. It's not at all obvious how an algorithm could distinguish the mainstream-ness of a political channel beyond the weighting-for-popularity YoyTube already does, but then Google is quite expert in combating SEO, so maybe they could push back against clickbait.
Most gold mines lose money. It's a terrible business.
Attacking science in general, or pointing out "controversy" is in no way evidence that your theory is right. It's just as likely to be Intelligent Falling.
You need to make testable predictions that differ from the current model. Merely telling a different story with the same ending has no scientific value. You need a concrete statement of "current theories don't explain X well, but Y does, and Y predicts Z". All I heard is from EU crackpots is that they don't subjectively like the way the current model explains some set of things, and have a different story that explains the same things. That doesn't go far enough to even be science.
"Stuff some guy said" is not citing a scientific source. A published paper is - most published papers are probably wrong these days, but at least they have some semblance of sanity and connection to reality.
Your arguments make an electric universe no more likely than Intelligent Falling. Criticism of science in no way enhances the credibility of your theory.
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So, identify intersection points of community (the posts, videos, etc about which users are related) weighted to adhere to a quantifiable stylistic norm time series. Use the topical semantic classifier to force antithetical communities into each others' spaces. Not actually force, but make the domains "one click away" through in-platform recommendations.
In this way, communities of strife would be further separated from less contentious ones. They would hopefully, expend themselves against each other, and normalize out.
That's a damn good idea. Sadly, there's no evidence that Google algorithms use anything but the video description/keywords and thumbnail to learn about the content, and related links seem to be based on clickthrough, so opposing views get filtered out by the algorithm.
The Trump Russia book is exactly one of those conspiracy theories that make you feel smarter than those smug assholes that look down on you. There's no surprise why it's selling well.
It is a bit surprising to see a self-help book selling well, but the answer is it's not mainly a self-help book - that's just an excuse to ramble on about interesting topics in psychology. By its very nature, studying psychology makes you feel smarter than normal people who aren't in on the secrets. Further, some of the psychology might even be true! (Color me skeptical of the entire field, but there is at least real science involved in neurology.)
Far better is to link to equally far out crackpot conspiracy theories that disagree with the first. It's the style of these things that appeals: let me tell you the secret that will make you smarter than the smug assholes who look down on you. Simply present the truth in that style.
Shit, I just figured out why 12 Rules for Life is selling like it's printed on money. Damn psychologists knowing more about psychology than me and getting there first.
Google only has 80,000 full-time employees. Less than 1147 is slow growth - assuming it's net of attrition then they're actually hiring a lot more, but will plan to grow by less than 1147 engineers.
Amazon has 566,000 full-time employees (plus over 1 million hourly workers not relevant to engineering). Much larger than Google these days. Google used to be the big dog in terms of scale. Used to be. AWS passed them a couple of years ago, and just the retail side may pass them soon.
Soon enough, Google's going to be sittin' round talking `bout glory days (you know they pass you by).
CEOs in China are not punished because their companies break the law. Don't be silly. When a CEO fails to kowtow to the Communist overlords, or to immediately comply wit some crazy whim of someone in political power, then the government finds some law the company is breaking (or invents one) so that he can be publicly punished. But it's never about the stated offense, and you never hear the real offense.
A brutal dictatorship that with a lot of state-controlled business, but that has capitalism under the covers, is Communism. Modern China is different in that the capitalism going on is approved by the tyrant, rather than being black market (and that's a noteworthy and interesting difference), but much of the economy remains state controlled.
They were never even "pseudo" democratic, any more than the USSR was.
Honestly, the examples they give don't sound all that bad at first
For "false information about terrorism", read "complaining about the government in any way". For "Can't ride the train if you owe a fine", read "debtor's prison".
Is that a subtle "electrical universe" plug? If so, well played.
"Lawmakers behind a new anti-privacy bill are trying to sneak it through Congress by attaching it to the must-pass government spending bill."
Can't you guys approve bills one by one? Your current system is *designed* to be abused by assholes.
You are correct. The primary purpose of any bill being passed is to serve pork to donors, either through spending or regulatory capture. I suspect any useful work our government actually does must in fact be snuck through attached to must-pass pork bills.
Bezos clearly does NOT subscribe to the "maximize shareholder value" religion, and is not running Amazon as the typical modern "paper clip maximizer" that so many corporations have become. Instead, he emphasizes quality service, low prices, and acts (horrors!) as if customers are people and not simply cows to be milked.
The result is, if I need something, I check Amazon FIRST, and frequently last, as well.
Modern corporations would do well to learn from Amazon, instead of quaking in terror.
When Amazon was young, they had the best returns policy around and you could actually talk to a human if you had too. They seem to be less friendly these days (no doubt there was tons of abuse of their trust), which is a shame. I still check there first, but I worry about anything that I might need to return.
Sadly, they do seem to view their employees as resources to be exploited - "Dickensian with robots" indeed (wasn't there a Futurama about that?).
It is already imploding. Just the other day went for an interview there - five SJW buttholes didn't even read my resume. The whole interviewing at amazon is a farce to hide an ulterior motive - outsource jobs.
That sort of interview normal for technical jobs in general. The point of your resume is to get a phone call, and it really has no value beyond that - it has done its job and gotten past the arbitrary whims of HR. Sometimes a manager will grill you on something specific on your resume just to see if you're blatantly lying, but that's as far as that goes.
The actual interview process for tech in general is "OK, now prove you've got the chops". There are no end of pretty resumes, but nothing in a resume actually means you can do the work.
That being said, Amazon's interview process for developers seems to err on the side of too many soft-skill questions and a lack of deep probing of actual coding talent. It's the opposite of the problem Google has, in my experience, with Google interviews being 100% technical and not so much as a back-and-forth design discussion to measure soft skills (Facebook was the same extreme as Google, but I last talked to them over 5 years ago, so maybe they've changed).
Also, I apparently can't type "ratio".
TFS oversimplifies things a bit. The finding is that the outer edge of these galaxies rotates at about the same rate for all of them. That's not entirely surprising: the more massive the galaxy, the faster the rotation at any given distance, but also the more distant the outer rim. It also implies a similar ration of dark matter to familiar matter across these galaxies - which again isn't shocking, but is interesting if the ration has to be very similar. If it's confirmed they really do line up this closely that's probably big news for those modelling galaxy formation.
You're right. Fake medicine wasn't dealt with by the creation of the FDA and we should just deregulate everything
Fallacy of the false dilemma. Our choices are not restricted to "unlimited regulation" and "no regulation". Obviously, both extremes are stupid choices.
The FDA was created more than 100 years ago (1906). The prohibition-era snake oil hucksterism wasn't about that. It was a sneak around the prohibition regulations (1920-33), not around the FDA. Prohibition was the over-regulation that caused much harm, including snake-oil cures that were actually toxic, consumed by people just looking for moonshine.
Can you provide a citation to a credible source that says he was has been beaten and abused in prison?
Here you go.
Imagine 100 years ago when hucksters like this were touting every fake medicine under the sun and people were actually grateful for public-serving regulation.
You might be surprised. During prohibition, fake "medicines" that were mostly alcohol were the common thing hucksters were selling. Everyone knew the deal, but the snake oil hucksterism kept it legal (or legal enough the the buyers didn't get arrested). Yup, a whole culture of hucksters caused by over-regulation.
Oh no no no. See the problem isn't that you can't defraud people and get away with leading to cushy government job. You can as long as you don't defraud rich people.
Bernie Madoff made that mistake. He didn't just go to jail - he was attacked in jail (a low-security prison where you don't have many violent offenders) and beaten so badly he needed major reconstructive surgery on his face - he literally had his face beaten in. The moral of that story is pretty clear.
That might imply that it's a spy craft either from another country or from the USA itself. Pilots aren't privy to all of the top-secret going-ons of the government.
The one secret government coverup that actually worked (kept the secret for decades) was Project Blue Book. As the SR-71 was being invented and test-flown, there were simply going to be to many credible witnesses, to much footage like TFA. And what's the use of a spy plan the Commies already know about? So we hid the SR-71 in plain sight by treating every sighting as a UFO sighting, interviewing the witnesses about the UFO they saw, and leaking the program.
The Ruskies dismissed the inevitable leaking data as US UFO craziness.
Somebody needs to shadow-ban you and all other off-topic trolls.
This is Slashdot. We started with trolls and they're part of the culture, from appy apps to cows to GNAA. You seem to be looking for Reddit.
Oh, and neither is the proper syntax for incrementing a variable, because 'i' is not a proper variable name in the first place.
"i" is indeed the correct variable name for the index into an array (and "j" and "k" for nested indices). Its the convention from math, and is idiomatic - anything else is needlessly confusing. Not that you loop on the index into an array much in modern programming languages. Similarly, "x" and "y" are perfectly fine for variables holding geometric coordinates.
"the extreme left agenda"
Jesus christ you're stupid. Did you manage to pull up a chair to sit on all by yourself? If so, honestly - I'm fucking impressed.
Yes youtube is a communist tool spreading communism. You dopey fuck. lol.
Post-Modernism is the new communism. Identity politics, not Marx's workers vs owners. YouTube certainly has its biases there, but it seems unrelated to TFA.
Left and Right, YouTube seems to steer people to fringe content, probably because extremist clickbait works, and has polluted the data that backs the recommendation algorithms.
I know I subscribe to just one primarily-political site (and that's mostly British politics), and yet I'm constantly getting recommendations for more fringe sites. It's not like YouTube is doing this on purpose, but they're letting it happen. It's not at all obvious how an algorithm could distinguish the mainstream-ness of a political channel beyond the weighting-for-popularity YoyTube already does, but then Google is quite expert in combating SEO, so maybe they could push back against clickbait.
Most gold mines lose money. It's a terrible business.
Attacking science in general, or pointing out "controversy" is in no way evidence that your theory is right. It's just as likely to be Intelligent Falling.
You need to make testable predictions that differ from the current model. Merely telling a different story with the same ending has no scientific value. You need a concrete statement of "current theories don't explain X well, but Y does, and Y predicts Z". All I heard is from EU crackpots is that they don't subjectively like the way the current model explains some set of things, and have a different story that explains the same things. That doesn't go far enough to even be science.
"Stuff some guy said" is not citing a scientific source. A published paper is - most published papers are probably wrong these days, but at least they have some semblance of sanity and connection to reality.
Your arguments make an electric universe no more likely than Intelligent Falling. Criticism of science in no way enhances the credibility of your theory.
It is all math, no wonder people are afraid of it.
Best comment today!