Good god man you must be joking. You're not just any SJW, you are the SJW. You're easily the most famous SJW on slashdot. I knew even before clinking on the story that half of the comments would be you flame warring with someone. Even on stories that aren't political you're waging a culture war, your old sig was something like "SJW: Someone I disagree with and by the way I'm an idiot" and now your new sig is anti-GamerGate. I don't know if maybe you don't know what a SJW is, or you do and just don't like the label. But you fit the mold to a T. If you honestly don't think you're a SJW I suggest you go back are re-read some of your own comments because the pattern of aggressive social justice advocacy is plain for all to see.
That's because they only need to keep this charade going until Trump is in office. Once he is in the Democrats will claim that there is proof but the Trump administration is hiding it. That's why they are talking to the media and dodging congress. They are laying the ground work for claiming Trump isn't legitimate.
The carrier jobs was possible because Mike Pence (the VP-Elect) is currently the Governor of Indiana, where those jobs are.
As fuck fucking up relations with China, the fact that they are building military installations off the Philippine coast suggests that ship sail long ago.
I for one am glad Finland is doing this. It will save my country from being this generation's lab rat. It seem very couple of decades we need to relearn that price fixing doesn't work. I would have hoped the Venezuelans spectacular meltdown would have been enough, but it guess not.
Economics is all about whats happening at the margins. The marginal utility of going from $0->$5 per day in income is much greater than from from $200->$205. By giving everyone (this study is only starting with a few) a guaranteed fixed income you've just hugely reduced the utility of a working a low paying job. If you're getting nothing a job that pays $30,000 is a huge improvement because you have lots of time and no money. If you're getting $20,000 UBI you have lots of time and some money, the value of going from $20,000 to $50,000 won't be worth it to some people. In order for the low paying job to have that same marginal utility it's going to need to pay a lot more. Which raises the price of everything, which means that $20,000 doesn't go as far. Yay inflation! The market will readjust, and keep readjusting, until you relearn that price fixing doesn't work.
That may work for not disclosing the information to the public. But the CIA refused to brief the House Intelligence Committee in a closed session. Which exist specifically for oversight on intelligence matters. This just policy by press release.
I guess they figure if they repeat it enough it will come true. I have my doubts. The Soviets talked big about being on the "right side of history" too.
It's a bit early to start calling it a design flaw. The ship is still undergoing testing and wont enter service for another year or more. Every big engineering project like this suffers some problems out of the gate. That is why they get tested. Is the ships crew too small? Perhaps, but we won't know unless it's tried. But if the manpower reduction schemes work, it could save the Navy huge sums of money. Money that could be spent on more or better armed ships.
GOP establishment also didn't want Trump as president. I wouldn't take the GOP platform as a guide to what Trump will do, the senate and house perhaps but not Trump.
Trump just got elected after fighting against the mainstream media and the establishments of both parties. All of the big media establishments bashed Trump, and he bashed them in return. Trump and the people who voted for him hate companies like Comcast, Time Warner (CNN), and AT&T. Plus he didn't take money from them and doesn't owe them any favors, which is usually how these shitty law get passed. It's makes absolutely no sense for him to further consolidate power in the hand of his enemies.
I especially like the part about how he is against the Time Warner / AT&T merger. People (especially on slashdot) have been railing against the lack of competition in both the telecom industry and the media. We've gone from 50 media outlets to 6, many places don't have choice of broadband provides. Some people on here has even gone so far as call for breaking up some of these big conglomerate. No one I know things this merger is good for consumers.
But now that Trump is agreeing with us it's suddenly a bad thing?
I like some of the stuff Vice does. But Motherboard is just trash through and through.
Time Warner was one of Hilary's biggest donors, and their subsidiary CNN bashed Trump nonstop. You really think Trump wants to see those people consolidate even more power? Not going to happen. Time Warner invested big into Clinton to get this merger through and the investment didn't workout.
Except this isn't true true at all. The F-35 is a strike fighter, hence the name Joint Strike Fighter. The original steathly strike fighter, the F-117, has been retied for years. Without the F-35 the USAF does not have the ability to perform deep strikes like what was done over Baghdad in 1991, unless you want to risk a B-2 nuclear bomber. This is the F-35's primary mission. The other requirements were added to ensure it wouldn't be a one trick pony.
We don't build specialize aircraft like the A-10 anymore because they are a waste of money. It's the same reason why we don't build separate fighters and interceptors, or bombers, dive bombers, and torpedo bombers. Single use platforms are expensive and a huge drain on the logical train for something that many not even find a use in a conflict. For example in a hypothetical war with China, what does the A-10 do? Nothing its useless. The practice of building specialized planes for these roles went out of fashion last generation, replaced with a Hi/Lo mix of high performance air superiority, and multi-role fighters: F-15 and F-16; F-14 and F-18; F-22 and F-35; Su-27 and Mig-29.
Modern fighters are more than capable of handling multiple roles adequately. Just take a look at the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. The F-18 and F-16 conducted more CAS each missions than the A-10. This idea that the F-35 will replace the A-10 in the CAS role is a misunderstanding. The A-10 has largely been replaced already. The A-10 is going to be replaced by whatever the next airplane is not because this new airplane will be better, but because the A-10 a is a one trick pony that doesn't bring anything unique to the table.
The reason we get all these anti-F35 FUD articles is because most new systems get trashed by the media. People said the F-15 was too big to be a dog fighter, the F-16 was named the lawn dart. The F-117, B-2, and F-22 are all a waste of money because stealth doesn't work, or because the Russian have some magic new thing that "defeats" stealth. Hell, Pierre Spray even suggested that the M1 Abrams wasn't as good as the M60 Patton. Go back far enough and people though the whole idea of naval air warfare was a joke, airplanes can't sink ships. It doesn't help the that John McCain is the chair of the Committee on Armed Services and his home state happens to host the biggest A-10 base, a base that will be closed down when the A-10 is put to rest.
How is this possible. There are dozens of government programs, corporate program, and not profit programs all pushing "Women in Tech". Millions upon millions of dollars have been spent encouraging women to join the tech field. In a society the is getting ever less sexist. And for all this the participation rate is going down?
Maybe these groups should reevaluate what they are doing and try to understand why women aren't interested in joining the tech workforce. It's seems crying sexism at every opportunity is not an effective strategy.
It's an easy play. Time Warner is one of Hillary's top biggest donors. Expect him to hammer the point that she is establishment, owned by big industry, in league with a corrupt media (TM owns CNN), etc.
UBI is a solution that won't work, for a problem that doesn't exist.
This story that "all the jobs are going away" is false. Just take a quick look at the Employment Rate (not the Unemployment Rate) over at the BLS and you can see that a great percentage of the population is employed today (59.8%) than at any time before November of 1978. If UBI was the answer it would have come about in the previous decades when fewer people were employed, not today. And certainly not during the 2008 bubble when this whole UBI theory started gaining traction.
But even if it were the case that jobs are going away, UBI still wouldn't be the answer. The idea that you can just give cash handouts to the whole population is silly. The GDP per capita in the US is about $50k. If you going to give everyone enough income, about $12k according the Dept. Health, that means a tax rate of 24% of GDP to pay for bare minimum of UBI. And that is on top of the 27% that the government currently taxes, which already doesn't bring in enough income to balance the budget. To balance the budget you would need to bring the tax rate up to the expenditure rate which is currently 41% of GDP and add UBI's 24% on top of that. By the time it's all said and done the government would account for almost 2/3rds of the entire economy; for a minimum UBI. If you want a UBI that allows for a little more comfort, say $20k, then the government would now account for 4/5ths of the entire economy. Who the hell is going to invest in an economy like that?
Never mind what a disaster it would be for the labour force. We know that the utility of income is marginal. A $0.50 pay raise means a lot more to someone making $10/h than it does to someone making $50/h. People today work for $10/h because that is a huge step up from nothing. But if everyone is getting a $20k/year free handout who is going to work for $10/h? $10/h is only $20k/year, that's a paltry marginal increase for having to work an extra 40hrs a week. So in order to attract workers, pay will have to rise, which means price of good and services will rise, which means the UBI will have to rise. You think big business is shipping jobs to China and India now? Just wait until the price of labour in the new UBI economy stabilizes.
UBI is a classic example of something that sounds like a great idea in theory, but in practice would be an unmitigated disaster.
What they are really saying is that learning machines are confirming politically incorrect beliefs. A lot of stereotypes are based on a kernel of truth, and given enough processing power and data that truth is coming to the forefront. When people were crunching the numbers is was easy to blame prejudice or some kind of *ism. But learning algorithms don't have that, they just learn patterns. What there researchers are doing has nothing to do with fostering equality, it's about avoiding embarrassing truths.
It reminds me of when polar explorers were shocked at the "sexual depravity "of penguins so they wrote their reports in Greek and kept the truth hidden. Sometimes society just isn't ready to handle the truth.
The D-Wave machines are essentially analogue computers that use quantum effects to perform one specific algorithm: simulated annealing. Simulated annealing is an optimization algorithm that can find good solutions to complex problems. There is a lot of debate about whether D-Wave should be called a quantum computer since it isn't Turing complete, it can only do one thing. The D-Wave machine is to quantum computing what Charles Babbage's difference engine is to modern computing. There is also the issue of whether or not the D-Wave is actually faster than contemporary classical computers.
The rule was implemented back in the primaries because the sub kept getting brigaded by BernieBros, and no amount of bitching was going to get the admins to do something about it. There is a separate subreddit linked on the sidebar for people who want to debate or ask questions.
The irony of course is that many of those same brigaders ended up joining/r/The_Donald after seeing what the DNC did Bernie. Then double your irony when/r/news tried to suppress the Orlando Shootings as soon the media reported that the attacker was Muslim, leading lots of people who don't even like Trump signing up to/r/The_Donald just see news that get suppressed elsewhere on reddit.
Money man for what? People have been posting memes on reddit for years, long before this election. It doesn't cost any money to post a silly picture on the internet. This guy didn't / doesn't do jackshit. They call themselves "nimble America" but memes like nimble, centipede, coats, were established a year ago. He is just trying jump on the hype train. Expect to see some merchandise or or PAC get spun out of this.
Just to clarify your post. CNN didn't make the claim that he was talking about racial profiling. They quoted him, with quotation marks, saying the words "racial profiling" even though he never said those words. This isn't something they misinterpreted, took out of context, or spun. This is a quote that CNN fabricated out of whole cloth. And the rest of the media jumped on and started quoting using CNN as a source, even though many of them had their own reporters at the event and could have, should have, fact checked with their own people and discovered was false.
It's pretty simple. There are people all over the city willing to pay for Uber rides and if they all pay the same amount then the Uber drivers will be distributed equally. However after the terrorist attack the people near the site of the bombing were willing to pay a higher than average price. As a result the Uber drivers will have an incentive to to service those people close to the attack. This results in more Uber service being directed towards the site of the attack.
Now look at the alternative.
A taxi driver gets paid the same amount no matter what the conditions are. There is no incentive for a taxi driver to prefer a ride near the attack over one some place else. In fact given the reported possibility that there may be more bombs in the area, a rational taxi driver would prefer to take on a fare away from the site of the attack for the sake of personal safety. The result is less taxi service available at the site of the attack.
Price fixing is a nice simple idea, but it's almost never the solution.
What about GNU, Linux, and the FSF? Does providing millions of people with free (in beer and speech) software not count for anything?
Or how about the EFF defending people's rights online. Helping educate people about the importance of encryption and stopping big business from tracking your every move.
Has wikipedia not become a central source of free information the world over? Has wikileaks not provided a safehaven for whistleblowers the world over?
Techies have done a lot for the world in the last 10 years.
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I'm not an SJW
Good god man you must be joking. You're not just any SJW, you are the SJW. You're easily the most famous SJW on slashdot. I knew even before clinking on the story that half of the comments would be you flame warring with someone. Even on stories that aren't political you're waging a culture war, your old sig was something like "SJW: Someone I disagree with and by the way I'm an idiot" and now your new sig is anti-GamerGate. I don't know if maybe you don't know what a SJW is, or you do and just don't like the label. But you fit the mold to a T. If you honestly don't think you're a SJW I suggest you go back are re-read some of your own comments because the pattern of aggressive social justice advocacy is plain for all to see.
More fake news from Buzzfeed. I'm surprised CNN didn't get in on the action.
The concepts thing sounds interesting. But when will C++ run on Node.js and MongoDB? That's the real question.
That's because they only need to keep this charade going until Trump is in office. Once he is in the Democrats will claim that there is proof but the Trump administration is hiding it. That's why they are talking to the media and dodging congress. They are laying the ground work for claiming Trump isn't legitimate.
The carrier jobs was possible because Mike Pence (the VP-Elect) is currently the Governor of Indiana, where those jobs are.
As fuck fucking up relations with China, the fact that they are building military installations off the Philippine coast suggests that ship sail long ago.
I for one am glad Finland is doing this. It will save my country from being this generation's lab rat. It seem very couple of decades we need to relearn that price fixing doesn't work. I would have hoped the Venezuelans spectacular meltdown would have been enough, but it guess not.
Economics is all about whats happening at the margins. The marginal utility of going from $0->$5 per day in income is much greater than from from $200->$205. By giving everyone (this study is only starting with a few) a guaranteed fixed income you've just hugely reduced the utility of a working a low paying job. If you're getting nothing a job that pays $30,000 is a huge improvement because you have lots of time and no money. If you're getting $20,000 UBI you have lots of time and some money, the value of going from $20,000 to $50,000 won't be worth it to some people. In order for the low paying job to have that same marginal utility it's going to need to pay a lot more. Which raises the price of everything, which means that $20,000 doesn't go as far. Yay inflation! The market will readjust, and keep readjusting, until you relearn that price fixing doesn't work.
That may work for not disclosing the information to the public. But the CIA refused to brief the House Intelligence Committee in a closed session. Which exist specifically for oversight on intelligence matters. This just policy by press release.
I guess they figure if they repeat it enough it will come true. I have my doubts. The Soviets talked big about being on the "right side of history" too.
It's a bit early to start calling it a design flaw. The ship is still undergoing testing and wont enter service for another year or more. Every big engineering project like this suffers some problems out of the gate. That is why they get tested. Is the ships crew too small? Perhaps, but we won't know unless it's tried. But if the manpower reduction schemes work, it could save the Navy huge sums of money. Money that could be spent on more or better armed ships.
That is nothing. Agriculture went from 50% of the jobs in late 1800s to 2% of the jobs today. What are we going to do with all these farm hands?
Haven't you heard? All white people are inherently racist. That includes you.
Huffington Post publishes an article talking about it seemingly every other day.
GOP establishment also didn't want Trump as president. I wouldn't take the GOP platform as a guide to what Trump will do, the senate and house perhaps but not Trump.
Trump just got elected after fighting against the mainstream media and the establishments of both parties. All of the big media establishments bashed Trump, and he bashed them in return. Trump and the people who voted for him hate companies like Comcast, Time Warner (CNN), and AT&T. Plus he didn't take money from them and doesn't owe them any favors, which is usually how these shitty law get passed. It's makes absolutely no sense for him to further consolidate power in the hand of his enemies.
I especially like the part about how he is against the Time Warner / AT&T merger. People (especially on slashdot) have been railing against the lack of competition in both the telecom industry and the media. We've gone from 50 media outlets to 6, many places don't have choice of broadband provides. Some people on here has even gone so far as call for breaking up some of these big conglomerate. No one I know things this merger is good for consumers.
But now that Trump is agreeing with us it's suddenly a bad thing?
I like some of the stuff Vice does. But Motherboard is just trash through and through.
Time Warner was one of Hilary's biggest donors, and their subsidiary CNN bashed Trump nonstop. You really think Trump wants to see those people consolidate even more power? Not going to happen. Time Warner invested big into Clinton to get this merger through and the investment didn't workout.
Except this isn't true true at all. The F-35 is a strike fighter, hence the name Joint Strike Fighter. The original steathly strike fighter, the F-117, has been retied for years. Without the F-35 the USAF does not have the ability to perform deep strikes like what was done over Baghdad in 1991, unless you want to risk a B-2 nuclear bomber. This is the F-35's primary mission. The other requirements were added to ensure it wouldn't be a one trick pony.
We don't build specialize aircraft like the A-10 anymore because they are a waste of money. It's the same reason why we don't build separate fighters and interceptors, or bombers, dive bombers, and torpedo bombers. Single use platforms are expensive and a huge drain on the logical train for something that many not even find a use in a conflict. For example in a hypothetical war with China, what does the A-10 do? Nothing its useless. The practice of building specialized planes for these roles went out of fashion last generation, replaced with a Hi/Lo mix of high performance air superiority, and multi-role fighters: F-15 and F-16; F-14 and F-18; F-22 and F-35; Su-27 and Mig-29.
Modern fighters are more than capable of handling multiple roles adequately. Just take a look at the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. The F-18 and F-16 conducted more CAS each missions than the A-10. This idea that the F-35 will replace the A-10 in the CAS role is a misunderstanding. The A-10 has largely been replaced already. The A-10 is going to be replaced by whatever the next airplane is not because this new airplane will be better, but because the A-10 a is a one trick pony that doesn't bring anything unique to the table.
The reason we get all these anti-F35 FUD articles is because most new systems get trashed by the media. People said the F-15 was too big to be a dog fighter, the F-16 was named the lawn dart. The F-117, B-2, and F-22 are all a waste of money because stealth doesn't work, or because the Russian have some magic new thing that "defeats" stealth. Hell, Pierre Spray even suggested that the M1 Abrams wasn't as good as the M60 Patton. Go back far enough and people though the whole idea of naval air warfare was a joke, airplanes can't sink ships. It doesn't help the that John McCain is the chair of the Committee on Armed Services and his home state happens to host the biggest A-10 base, a base that will be closed down when the A-10 is put to rest.
How is this possible. There are dozens of government programs, corporate program, and not profit programs all pushing "Women in Tech". Millions upon millions of dollars have been spent encouraging women to join the tech field. In a society the is getting ever less sexist. And for all this the participation rate is going down?
Maybe these groups should reevaluate what they are doing and try to understand why women aren't interested in joining the tech workforce. It's seems crying sexism at every opportunity is not an effective strategy.
It's an easy play. Time Warner is one of Hillary's top biggest donors. Expect him to hammer the point that she is establishment, owned by big industry, in league with a corrupt media (TM owns CNN), etc.
UBI is a solution that won't work, for a problem that doesn't exist.
This story that "all the jobs are going away" is false. Just take a quick look at the Employment Rate (not the Unemployment Rate) over at the BLS and you can see that a great percentage of the population is employed today (59.8%) than at any time before November of 1978. If UBI was the answer it would have come about in the previous decades when fewer people were employed, not today. And certainly not during the 2008 bubble when this whole UBI theory started gaining traction.
But even if it were the case that jobs are going away, UBI still wouldn't be the answer. The idea that you can just give cash handouts to the whole population is silly. The GDP per capita in the US is about $50k. If you going to give everyone enough income, about $12k according the Dept. Health, that means a tax rate of 24% of GDP to pay for bare minimum of UBI. And that is on top of the 27% that the government currently taxes, which already doesn't bring in enough income to balance the budget. To balance the budget you would need to bring the tax rate up to the expenditure rate which is currently 41% of GDP and add UBI's 24% on top of that. By the time it's all said and done the government would account for almost 2/3rds of the entire economy; for a minimum UBI. If you want a UBI that allows for a little more comfort, say $20k, then the government would now account for 4/5ths of the entire economy. Who the hell is going to invest in an economy like that?
Never mind what a disaster it would be for the labour force. We know that the utility of income is marginal. A $0.50 pay raise means a lot more to someone making $10/h than it does to someone making $50/h. People today work for $10/h because that is a huge step up from nothing. But if everyone is getting a $20k/year free handout who is going to work for $10/h? $10/h is only $20k/year, that's a paltry marginal increase for having to work an extra 40hrs a week. So in order to attract workers, pay will have to rise, which means price of good and services will rise, which means the UBI will have to rise. You think big business is shipping jobs to China and India now? Just wait until the price of labour in the new UBI economy stabilizes.
UBI is a classic example of something that sounds like a great idea in theory, but in practice would be an unmitigated disaster.
What they are really saying is that learning machines are confirming politically incorrect beliefs. A lot of stereotypes are based on a kernel of truth, and given enough processing power and data that truth is coming to the forefront. When people were crunching the numbers is was easy to blame prejudice or some kind of *ism. But learning algorithms don't have that, they just learn patterns. What there researchers are doing has nothing to do with fostering equality, it's about avoiding embarrassing truths.
It reminds me of when polar explorers were shocked at the "sexual depravity "of penguins so they wrote their reports in Greek and kept the truth hidden. Sometimes society just isn't ready to handle the truth.
The D-Wave machines are essentially analogue computers that use quantum effects to perform one specific algorithm: simulated annealing. Simulated annealing is an optimization algorithm that can find good solutions to complex problems. There is a lot of debate about whether D-Wave should be called a quantum computer since it isn't Turing complete, it can only do one thing. The D-Wave machine is to quantum computing what Charles Babbage's difference engine is to modern computing. There is also the issue of whether or not the D-Wave is actually faster than contemporary classical computers.
The rule was implemented back in the primaries because the sub kept getting brigaded by BernieBros, and no amount of bitching was going to get the admins to do something about it. There is a separate subreddit linked on the sidebar for people who want to debate or ask questions.
/r/The_Donald after seeing what the DNC did Bernie. Then double your irony when /r/news tried to suppress the Orlando Shootings as soon the media reported that the attacker was Muslim, leading lots of people who don't even like Trump signing up to /r/The_Donald just see news that get suppressed elsewhere on reddit.
The irony of course is that many of those same brigaders ended up joining
Money man for what? People have been posting memes on reddit for years, long before this election. It doesn't cost any money to post a silly picture on the internet. This guy didn't / doesn't do jackshit. They call themselves "nimble America" but memes like nimble, centipede, coats, were established a year ago. He is just trying jump on the hype train. Expect to see some merchandise or or PAC get spun out of this.
Just to clarify your post. CNN didn't make the claim that he was talking about racial profiling. They quoted him, with quotation marks, saying the words "racial profiling" even though he never said those words. This isn't something they misinterpreted, took out of context, or spun. This is a quote that CNN fabricated out of whole cloth. And the rest of the media jumped on and started quoting using CNN as a source, even though many of them had their own reporters at the event and could have, should have, fact checked with their own people and discovered was false.
It's pretty simple. There are people all over the city willing to pay for Uber rides and if they all pay the same amount then the Uber drivers will be distributed equally. However after the terrorist attack the people near the site of the bombing were willing to pay a higher than average price. As a result the Uber drivers will have an incentive to to service those people close to the attack. This results in more Uber service being directed towards the site of the attack.
Now look at the alternative.
A taxi driver gets paid the same amount no matter what the conditions are. There is no incentive for a taxi driver to prefer a ride near the attack over one some place else. In fact given the reported possibility that there may be more bombs in the area, a rational taxi driver would prefer to take on a fare away from the site of the attack for the sake of personal safety. The result is less taxi service available at the site of the attack.
Price fixing is a nice simple idea, but it's almost never the solution.
What about GNU, Linux, and the FSF? Does providing millions of people with free (in beer and speech) software not count for anything?
Or how about the EFF defending people's rights online. Helping educate people about the importance of encryption and stopping big business from tracking your every move.
Has wikipedia not become a central source of free information the world over? Has wikileaks not provided a safehaven for whistleblowers the world over?
Techies have done a lot for the world in the last 10 years.