Most of my co-workers probably fit into this category. I routinely answer calls in the middle of the night from management or co-workers in a bind. Generally I think the authority you are entrusted with is tied to the the amount of responsibility you assume. Some people don't care about earning 30-40% more if it means any kind of commitment to the job and that's fine. Other people, they pick up the phone.
Realistically, crypto is likely to yield a better result than their humanities, arts, social science education. Looking at this chart... chart it appears to me there are other students making worse choices. At least the investment is unlikely to drop to zero value.
I can tell you that when something breaks or needs built around the farm... the women have zero interest in it. They want to take care of the animals or do house chores/cooking. Maybe some yard work or gardening. All of that is good and needs doing but believe me, I would love some help repairing fence or building a run-in shed or whatever else. None are interested in things or designing stuff.
Strip away the abstractions of modern life and take things back to basics, you learn some core truths pretty quick.
I'm not sure I see the reason to place robots in Africa. It isn't as if you have to pay the robots more that are in the states. The issue would be maintenance I suppose and environmental regulations and such but that would seem negligible compared to convenience of having the work done here (no transcontinental shipping) and the sad fact that well, African countries just aren't that stable.
This is a fairly well known phenomena. I think a version of this is often referred to as Price's Law. I'm not sure how accurate it is but essentially it states that the square root of the number of your employees are responsible for 50% of the work that is accomplished. So say you have 100 employees. 10 of them will generate half of your productivity -or so goes the theory.
There will always be a tiny percentage producing almost all of the work. They are then ideally compensated with status and also monetarily based on number of papers they write or studies performed, whatever or they are not. Most people in an organization (especially one like academia) are just dross. If I'm in the top 5% or better of my group and I am not compensated accordingly then I'm either a fool or I am choosing to indenture myself to the lazy and unproductive around me. I'm sure that does make for a very pleasant environment for the remainder of the workers who are essentially just punching a clock.
We have a single data point and no conclusive information even on that. People make mistakes constantly while driving. I have never been in an accident in over 20 years of driving but I expect that every time I get behind the wheel I make some errors. I have a cousin that killed two people crossing a street (they were high and stepped right out in front of him) a few years ago. His kids were in the car and had to see the whole thing. I have another cousin whos grandparents were killed walking along the shoulder of the road after their car broke down. Just recently a friend of my family ended up holding a kid in his arms as she passed away -she was a passenger in the car with a young and inexperienced driver. Look, I own a farm and driver a older manual transmission truck and often do things the hard way but honestly, what surprises most about accident statistics is that anything works at all with people behind that wheel.
Maybe a human driver would have been more likely to prevent this. I guess we'll know more after the investigation is completed.
If it was going to happen it was best odds to choose Phoenix. They had the highest pedestrian fatality rate in any city anywhere in 2016 at 1.4 per 100,000.
A human would just a likely have been speeding and playing with their phone as reacting the way you and I would hope they would react. Possibly I'm just more cynical than you though.
Yeah. This is very sad of course but pedestrians step out in front of cars all the time in this country. I'd assume they'll know by the skid tracks on the road left by the car if it attempted braking at a reasonable response time. If the car attempted to stop and wasn't speeding... hard to see any fault with Uber.
Well if I were them and making low wage earnings I'd be claiming the max number of allowances to ensure I pay almost nothing in income tax. I don't know why they'd do otherwise.
Are you very sure you were debating flat earthers and not just accomplished trolls? I'm not entirely convinced there are that many online that actually believe the earth to be flat.
So.. who determines what is "wrong think"? Does this mean all christian, jewish, islamic, buddhist and mythological content is out of bounds? Assuming Ike isn't going into sex cults and any of his more adult oriented video content should he really be excluded?
Every culture tells their children stories -indoctrinates them.
I am not a practicing christian or anything but Christianity has grown more appealing to me with age rather than less. A child might read the bible and take away the simplistic (a little snide) interpretation of hell you outlined... An adult might read it and decide it is a metaphor. Alternatively, if taken as true, they might decide that hell is a separation from god in the afterlife and that sheol or hades is where all spirits used to go but now you have a place in gods house. The existence in sheol then becomes hell only due to the absence of god and all the godly people who are now in heaven.
What is left is the horrors other souls and spirits inflict on one another.. something like that like I said I'm not really an expert on Christianity.
I think revisionist is a better label than denier which is something of a pejorative. While it may still be offensive, many of their positions seem to be along the lines of "this building couldn't have been used for a gas chamber". Stuff like that. These are things we should be able to debate in the light of day.
That basically describes any law or dictate in any society. You could even make the same argument about something as innocuous as a city parade which inconveniences you by shutting down streets.
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Most of my co-workers probably fit into this category. I routinely answer calls in the middle of the night from management or co-workers in a bind. Generally I think the authority you are entrusted with is tied to the the amount of responsibility you assume. Some people don't care about earning 30-40% more if it means any kind of commitment to the job and that's fine. Other people, they pick up the phone.
To me, they didn't seem like models of virtue.
What exactly did you find objectionable about them?
Realistically, crypto is likely to yield a better result than their humanities, arts, social science education. Looking at this chart... chart it appears to me there are other students making worse choices. At least the investment is unlikely to drop to zero value.
Gender dysphoria is VERY highly correlated to other psychological issues.
I know I sound like an apologist but an "alert" driver could likely avoid most crashes that occur.
Strip away the abstractions of modern life and take things back to basics, you learn some core truths pretty quick.
I'm not sure I see the reason to place robots in Africa. It isn't as if you have to pay the robots more that are in the states. The issue would be maintenance I suppose and environmental regulations and such but that would seem negligible compared to convenience of having the work done here (no transcontinental shipping) and the sad fact that well, African countries just aren't that stable.
This is a fairly well known phenomena. I think a version of this is often referred to as Price's Law. I'm not sure how accurate it is but essentially it states that the square root of the number of your employees are responsible for 50% of the work that is accomplished. So say you have 100 employees. 10 of them will generate half of your productivity -or so goes the theory.
There will always be a tiny percentage producing almost all of the work. They are then ideally compensated with status and also monetarily based on number of papers they write or studies performed, whatever or they are not. Most people in an organization (especially one like academia) are just dross. If I'm in the top 5% or better of my group and I am not compensated accordingly then I'm either a fool or I am choosing to indenture myself to the lazy and unproductive around me. I'm sure that does make for a very pleasant environment for the remainder of the workers who are essentially just punching a clock.
People with lower cognitive abilities would be generally incompetent in most every area so I don't think it that unfair a use of the term.
why equal pay isn't really equitable
Even if you have 10 people on the same team with the same title the reality is that there are almost always 1-3 that do most of the heavy lifting.
Maybe a human driver would have been more likely to prevent this. I guess we'll know more after the investigation is completed.
https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2018/03/01/arizona-has-highest-rate-pedestrian-deaths-united-states-report-says/383640002/
A human would just a likely have been speeding and playing with their phone as reacting the way you and I would hope they would react. Possibly I'm just more cynical than you though.
Yeah. This is very sad of course but pedestrians step out in front of cars all the time in this country. I'd assume they'll know by the skid tracks on the road left by the car if it attempted braking at a reasonable response time. If the car attempted to stop and wasn't speeding... hard to see any fault with Uber.
Well if I were them and making low wage earnings I'd be claiming the max number of allowances to ensure I pay almost nothing in income tax. I don't know why they'd do otherwise.
Are you very sure you were debating flat earthers and not just accomplished trolls? I'm not entirely convinced there are that many online that actually believe the earth to be flat.
So.. who determines what is "wrong think"? Does this mean all christian, jewish, islamic, buddhist and mythological content is out of bounds? Assuming Ike isn't going into sex cults and any of his more adult oriented video content should he really be excluded?
I am not a practicing christian or anything but Christianity has grown more appealing to me with age rather than less. A child might read the bible and take away the simplistic (a little snide) interpretation of hell you outlined... An adult might read it and decide it is a metaphor. Alternatively, if taken as true, they might decide that hell is a separation from god in the afterlife and that sheol or hades is where all spirits used to go but now you have a place in gods house. The existence in sheol then becomes hell only due to the absence of god and all the godly people who are now in heaven. What is left is the horrors other souls and spirits inflict on one another.. something like that like I said I'm not really an expert on Christianity.
I think revisionist is a better label than denier which is something of a pejorative. While it may still be offensive, many of their positions seem to be along the lines of "this building couldn't have been used for a gas chamber". Stuff like that. These are things we should be able to debate in the light of day.
That basically describes any law or dictate in any society. You could even make the same argument about something as innocuous as a city parade which inconveniences you by shutting down streets.
You can't separate religion and culture.
Or: Plastic (even bpa free plastic) that when digested has been show to mimic estrogen found in most of the water people drink.
Most Plastics leach hormone like chemicals original study link is broken.
Setting this aside we'd still have to deal with the estrogens from birth control pills that are in the water but this can't help.