I think of it as the death of meaning. People nowadays rush to use words purely for their emotional flavor regardless of their meaning. Sort of like how "terrorist" now gets applied to all sorts of stuff that has nothing to do with attempting to spread terror. "Racist" or "sexist" have no meaning other than something a victim group doesn't like. In Snowden's case, calling him a traitor is absurd. No matter what you think about what he did, he didn't aid and abet the enemies of the US. That's what "treason" would mean in this case, it is very specific.
given the completely unsecure treatment of credit card and social security numbers by pretty much everyone, using it for any sort of authentication purposes is completely asinine.
Because the population under study is not "Indians" it is "Indians who have emigrated to the US". What makes them more successful than other ethnic groups in the US? This isn't concerned with Indians in general, only those in the US. If the claim was that ALL Indians share these traits, I would say you are correct. But it seems to me the claim is that Indians who have emigrated to the US share these traits, and thus are more successful than other groups.
I don't think this is correct. There is no bias in this case since the groups being examined are the groups of successful people in the US. What traits do those people share? It isn't examining Chinese or Indians in their original countries, it is examining emigrants in the US. In other words:
This triple package theory does not explain why, despite being endowed with the triple package in the dyed in wool pristine form, India and Nigeria are so corrupt and so mired in poverty.
could perhaps be answered by saying that the people who share the three traits all emigrate to the US and become successful.
You are right, what I should have said was something like this:
That is interesting. I have had the opposite experience. When you say "in fact" did you mean that you read some study or got doctor's advice indicating that the strain was increased by switching to ergo? Or was that just your experience?
Rudeness isn't productive. Misunderstandings are common in an online format, where would all of us be if everyone reacted the way you did? Well, I will take a lesson and try to phrase better in the future. But in this case if I had, I would have missed out on the useful data that you're a dickhead.
Can you provide a reference for your claim that the ergonomic keyboard produces more stress? Everything I found as well as personal experience says the opposite. Or was this peculiar to you?
I agree, All this injection stuff is to spare OUR feelings, not the prisoner's. If we were so concerned about humane execution we would use the guillotine. But that is messy and prevents us from pretending we aren't killing a person. If the person deserves it, let's at least be grown up enough to be honest about it.
I liked this response, substantive and informed. Thanks. I am now interested in the history of road building, do you know of any good works on the subject?
If you can sell a $200 product at $40,000, I guarantee you you'll get nothing but cheering from your bosses
Another ridiculous exaggeration. My bosses would be appalled if I did something like this, they know it would be very bad for business.
you are incentivized (either formally or informally) to both sell people stuff they don't need
Another ridiculous exaggeration. Is this how you think business works? Yep, there is a bit of this, but luckily we are not subject to your opinion of what people need and don't need. The vast majority of business transactions are people voluntarily purchasing things that they want or need. I know, your goddamn store keeps selling you food that you don't want, by all means have them closed. And your clothes, ugh, some slick Willy talked you into buying them when you really could just walk around naked right? Those bastards!
Of course, your real failing is attributing to 'private sector' what is simply human nature. If you believe that these things you list don't happen in public sector, well, good luck with your life as a North Korean peasant farmer.
An excellent point, I believe this is sometimes referred to as a 'natural monopoly' problem. I am not going to claim to have a solution. If one person or agency were capable of knowing everything that would work the Soviet Union would be ruling the world today. My comment was merely in response to the parent's attitude that somehow private enterprise was to blame as opposed to the simple global fact that large entrenched organizations of any sort tend to be pretty cruddy.
Private enterprise employees are actively motivated to screw you over.
A ridiculous exaggeration. I have been in the private sector for decades and have never been actively motivated to screw anyone over, nor have I worked for any company that was. The reason that you think private sector sucks is that you cherry pick a few rare instances when a crime is committed. Most of the time people are just doing their jobs and keeping things humming along.
You've written a cherry picked list of government programs that you consider successful, the original comment was about monopolies. Mail delivery, the Internet, health care, Social Security, inspection regimes aren't monopolies so I won't comment on them.
"According to a study conducted in late April [2013] by the U.S. Department of Education and the National Institute of Literacy, 32 million adults in the U.S. can't read. That's 14 percent of the population. 21 percent of adults in the U.S. read below a 5th grade level, and 19 percent of high school graduates can't read." That isn't near universal.
Are you claiming that roads wouldn't exist without government? You make no claims about relative quality, which was also the original comment.
Water utilities, now that seems a parallel example. See West Virginia. Yep, a private actor had an accident. Now the government supplied water is unusable. This doesn't seem very reliable or successful to me, a monopoly of course doesn't have to do any contingency planning
Thanks for a couple of interesting examples, I will try to read up on them. I've spent some time in the public sector, and the waste there was a thousand times worse than anything I have seen in the private sector. Experiences differ, I am sure.
Monopolies are bad. Government makes a monopoly. Results are bad. Are you surprised? I am surprised at your apparent attitude, given the track record of government-managed systems. You think that would be better?
This is how computers have effectively simulated multitasking for many years. As long as 'hey there is something going on outside the car' has sufficient interrupt priority there shouldn't be an issue. This is how experienced drivers drive today. I certainly am not carefully monitoring everything that goes on outside, I am thinking about work or listening to sports radio. My brain knows enough to interrupt me when something strange happens. Of course, following distance is a key concept here. If I am close to the vehicle in front for some reason I pay much closer attention.
Call me when a bill to this effect has some chance of passing, otherwise I am not interested. There is no idea so dumb or ill-informed that there isn't going to be some politician, somewhere, proposing it. That doesn't mean anyone else in that legislature takes it seriously, possibly even the proposer isn't serious and is just mouthing off for political reasons. This just isn't worth anyone's time to read about.
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I think of it as the death of meaning. People nowadays rush to use words purely for their emotional flavor regardless of their meaning. Sort of like how "terrorist" now gets applied to all sorts of stuff that has nothing to do with attempting to spread terror. "Racist" or "sexist" have no meaning other than something a victim group doesn't like. In Snowden's case, calling him a traitor is absurd. No matter what you think about what he did, he didn't aid and abet the enemies of the US. That's what "treason" would mean in this case, it is very specific.
given the completely unsecure treatment of credit card and social security numbers by pretty much everyone, using it for any sort of authentication purposes is completely asinine.
I like my version better.
Because the population under study is not "Indians" it is "Indians who have emigrated to the US". What makes them more successful than other ethnic groups in the US? This isn't concerned with Indians in general, only those in the US. If the claim was that ALL Indians share these traits, I would say you are correct. But it seems to me the claim is that Indians who have emigrated to the US share these traits, and thus are more successful than other groups.
This triple package theory does not explain why, despite being endowed with the triple package in the dyed in wool pristine form, India and Nigeria are so corrupt and so mired in poverty.
could perhaps be answered by saying that the people who share the three traits all emigrate to the US and become successful.
Correlation doesn't prove causality. Perhaps they don't teach this principle in law school.
Will there ever be a President that I can respect?
I hope not, that would lull you into a false sense of security.
'Look at the business model difference between Intel and ARM
TFA didn't clarify what he meant by this. Maybe he meant the business models in the different realms, rather than the companies themselves?
That is interesting. I have had the opposite experience. When you say "in fact" did you mean that you read some study or got doctor's advice indicating that the strain was increased by switching to ergo? Or was that just your experience?
Rudeness isn't productive. Misunderstandings are common in an online format, where would all of us be if everyone reacted the way you did? Well, I will take a lesson and try to phrase better in the future. But in this case if I had, I would have missed out on the useful data that you're a dickhead.
To clarify, I found articles saying "ergo" wasn't proven to be better, but I didn't' find anything claiming it was inherently worse.
Can you provide a reference for your claim that the ergonomic keyboard produces more stress? Everything I found as well as personal experience says the opposite. Or was this peculiar to you?
Funny, Jesus didn't kill any sinners. He would have opposed the death penalty. Or he does, depending on your belief.
Ridiculous, none of the survivors have reported being conscious for any noticeable period after execution by guillotine.
I agree, All this injection stuff is to spare OUR feelings, not the prisoner's. If we were so concerned about humane execution we would use the guillotine. But that is messy and prevents us from pretending we aren't killing a person. If the person deserves it, let's at least be grown up enough to be honest about it.
I liked this response, substantive and informed. Thanks. I am now interested in the history of road building, do you know of any good works on the subject?
If you can sell a $200 product at $40,000, I guarantee you you'll get nothing but cheering from your bosses
Another ridiculous exaggeration. My bosses would be appalled if I did something like this, they know it would be very bad for business.
you are incentivized (either formally or informally) to both sell people stuff they don't need
Another ridiculous exaggeration. Is this how you think business works? Yep, there is a bit of this, but luckily we are not subject to your opinion of what people need and don't need. The vast majority of business transactions are people voluntarily purchasing things that they want or need. I know, your goddamn store keeps selling you food that you don't want, by all means have them closed. And your clothes, ugh, some slick Willy talked you into buying them when you really could just walk around naked right? Those bastards!
Of course, your real failing is attributing to 'private sector' what is simply human nature. If you believe that these things you list don't happen in public sector, well, good luck with your life as a North Korean peasant farmer.
An excellent point, I believe this is sometimes referred to as a 'natural monopoly' problem. I am not going to claim to have a solution. If one person or agency were capable of knowing everything that would work the Soviet Union would be ruling the world today. My comment was merely in response to the parent's attitude that somehow private enterprise was to blame as opposed to the simple global fact that large entrenched organizations of any sort tend to be pretty cruddy.
Private enterprise employees are actively motivated to screw you over.
A ridiculous exaggeration. I have been in the private sector for decades and have never been actively motivated to screw anyone over, nor have I worked for any company that was. The reason that you think private sector sucks is that you cherry pick a few rare instances when a crime is committed. Most of the time people are just doing their jobs and keeping things humming along.
You've written a cherry picked list of government programs that you consider successful, the original comment was about monopolies. Mail delivery, the Internet, health care, Social Security, inspection regimes aren't monopolies so I won't comment on them.
"According to a study conducted in late April [2013] by the U.S. Department of Education and the National Institute of Literacy, 32 million adults in the U.S. can't read. That's 14 percent of the population. 21 percent of adults in the U.S. read below a 5th grade level, and 19 percent of high school graduates can't read." That isn't near universal.
Are you claiming that roads wouldn't exist without government? You make no claims about relative quality, which was also the original comment.
Water utilities, now that seems a parallel example. See West Virginia. Yep, a private actor had an accident. Now the government supplied water is unusable. This doesn't seem very reliable or successful to me, a monopoly of course doesn't have to do any contingency planning
Thanks for a couple of interesting examples, I will try to read up on them. I've spent some time in the public sector, and the waste there was a thousand times worse than anything I have seen in the private sector. Experiences differ, I am sure.
This is government lies. They need to lay the groundwork for using 'gas leak' to explain all these vampire/zombie/werewolf/alien incidents.
Monopolies are bad. Government makes a monopoly. Results are bad. Are you surprised? I am surprised at your apparent attitude, given the track record of government-managed systems. You think that would be better?
This is how computers have effectively simulated multitasking for many years. As long as 'hey there is something going on outside the car' has sufficient interrupt priority there shouldn't be an issue. This is how experienced drivers drive today. I certainly am not carefully monitoring everything that goes on outside, I am thinking about work or listening to sports radio. My brain knows enough to interrupt me when something strange happens. Of course, following distance is a key concept here. If I am close to the vehicle in front for some reason I pay much closer attention.
A digression, but I am curious. What do you mean by "lack of skill"?
If you want to be treated like a king, you must act like a king.
Call me when a bill to this effect has some chance of passing, otherwise I am not interested. There is no idea so dumb or ill-informed that there isn't going to be some politician, somewhere, proposing it. That doesn't mean anyone else in that legislature takes it seriously, possibly even the proposer isn't serious and is just mouthing off for political reasons. This just isn't worth anyone's time to read about.