Everything GP described is human math skills. Even rank amateurs poker players are doing all of that in their heads. It's elementary arithmetic/probability.
Just to begin the breakdown of fake news here: elected politicians actually do deliver on the majority of their promises (66.7% of such promises in the U.S.). That 83% of Americans believe otherwise is simply one of their many mass delusions.
For me, the #1 modern UI sin, which wasn't included in the list here -- Non-discoverable interfaces. Interfaces based on some "gesture" which is never explained, and for which one cannot find an explanation (unless you already know the gesture to get there, if it exists). Pinch-zoom, hover in a magic corner, drag from edge, press screen for short vs. long time, invisible menu bars, etc., etc. In the 1984-2010 era I could follow the words in the menus and discover new features in any piece of software (and so could anyone, assuming they weren't illiterate). The last few years have brought my first experiences with software that I just couldn't begin to figure out how to do anything with.
"Hillary was openly hostile with Russia, and while I doubt it would have reached the point of increased risk of nuclear war, Russia still has real nukes, so you never know. Trump on the other hand is, if anything, too friendly with Russia."
Consider very recent history. George W. Bush ran his whole campaign in 2000 on a "compassionate conservative" platform, including that we needed to put America first, not being involved in foreign adventures, stop telling other countries what to do, etc. But he was a dimwitted cowboy wannabe who had no capacity for a real commitment or follow-through to that. He surrounded himself with belligerent neocons like Cheney and Rumsfeld and gave them incredible power. He spent the summer of 2001 saber-rattling at China which turned out not to be the actual brewing threat. Then we did suffer an actual attack on 9/11 and bam, within 24 hours he's freaked out and flipped to the exact opposite; global alliances, regime change, and a philosophy of first-strike invasions if needed around the globe. Before his term was done he'd started two separate intercontinental wars -- one having entirely nothing to do with the attack on us -- which have proved to be the longest in American history, and still not done after almost two decades now.
That is the proven historical result of a fundamentally dumb, belligerent, yahoo, volatile commander-in-chief. It's easy to predict; this is the standard reaction of a chaotic, short-attention-span bully. Sometime in a quiet space ask yourself this: Is Trump truly more or less volatile than George W. Bush?
"Nevada casinos post fifth straight fiscal year net loss" -- http://www.reviewjournal.com/business/nevada-casinos-post-fifth-straight-fiscal-year-net-loss
"Las Vegas casinos are losing big in China" -- http://money.cnn.com/2015/02/02/investing/las-vegas-casinos-struggle-in-macau/index.html
"Pay No Attention to Money-Losing Casinos. Let’s Build More Casinos" -- http://business.time.com/2014/01/31/pay-no-attention-to-money-losing-casinos-lets-build-more-casinos/
Wouldn't that strategy play directly into the "it's a money grab conspiracy" argument? Other fields of scientific research -- paleontology, astronomy, etc. -- don't have to sell themselves with economic windfall arguments.
At some point, the economic strategy of limitless growth simply must come to an end. This seems the mostly likely phenomenon on which it breaks.
Thank you, right wing, for your always atrocious spelling, so as to flag your posts and your terrible thinking in a way that allows us to easily ignore them.
Here's how the political emphasis on increasing STEM graduates is working out at my institution:
- Create a mickey-mouse "quantitative reasoning" class with no algebra content and give college credit for that. - Remove basic algebra as a general-education requirement, since no more than about 25% of the students can pass it (no matter how many times they take it, how many different instructors teach it, or how easy they make the tests). - Slash all the higher-level courses out of all the STEM associate's degrees (probably linear algebra, differential equations, calculus III, organic chemistry, etc.), because people should be given credit for math prerequisites like basic algebra, precalculus, trigonometry, etc. instead.
Did you know that certain religions are closely related to certain ethnicities? And that these prejudices have long been considered racism? Like when folks such as the KKK (or certain other people) are anti-Jewish, and these are historically considered "racist" organizations. Here's a passage from the UN resolution on "Measures to combat contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance" (1999):
17. Urges all Governments to cooperate fully with the Special Rapporteur with a view to enabling him to fulfil his mandate, including the examination of incidents of contemporary forms of racism and racial discrimination, inter alia, against blacks, Arabs and Muslims, xenophobia, Negrophobia, anti-Semitism and related intolerance;
This is the best statement of the situation. I loved programming; I seriously thought it was the best thing I'd ever known from age 11-25. Then I had a software job for a few years and found: I friggin' hate having to implement other peoples' boneheaded designs. It's the worst and I felt physically unwell every day.
"... the professor says the intro classes are designed to weed people out from going further and graduating..."
Translation for the hearing-impaired:
"If you're smart, you may feel that this introductory course is surprisingly low-level and kind of boring. But many of your classmates will be totally overwhelmed and fail even this mickey-mouse course. The institution wouldn't let us be any more rigorous than this, and refuses to put in a proper admissions filter. So be patient; the interesting new stuff starts in the next course."
You're engaging in black-and-white thinking. There are perfectly operable luxury businesses that cater only to the super-wealthy. Capitalists will not be unhappy with this state of affairs.
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The flexibility allows you to store more energy and launch the weapon faster.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkK2vEZ5bTk
Everything GP described is human math skills. Even rank amateurs poker players are doing all of that in their heads. It's elementary arithmetic/probability.
Just to begin the breakdown of fake news here: elected politicians actually do deliver on the majority of their promises (66.7% of such promises in the U.S.). That 83% of Americans believe otherwise is simply one of their many mass delusions.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/trust-us-politicians-keep-most-of-their-promises/
For me, the #1 modern UI sin, which wasn't included in the list here -- Non-discoverable interfaces. Interfaces based on some "gesture" which is never explained, and for which one cannot find an explanation (unless you already know the gesture to get there, if it exists). Pinch-zoom, hover in a magic corner, drag from edge, press screen for short vs. long time, invisible menu bars, etc., etc. In the 1984-2010 era I could follow the words in the menus and discover new features in any piece of software (and so could anyone, assuming they weren't illiterate). The last few years have brought my first experiences with software that I just couldn't begin to figure out how to do anything with.
"Hillary was openly hostile with Russia, and while I doubt it would have reached the point of increased risk of nuclear war, Russia still has real nukes, so you never know. Trump on the other hand is, if anything, too friendly with Russia."
Consider very recent history. George W. Bush ran his whole campaign in 2000 on a "compassionate conservative" platform, including that we needed to put America first, not being involved in foreign adventures, stop telling other countries what to do, etc. But he was a dimwitted cowboy wannabe who had no capacity for a real commitment or follow-through to that. He surrounded himself with belligerent neocons like Cheney and Rumsfeld and gave them incredible power. He spent the summer of 2001 saber-rattling at China which turned out not to be the actual brewing threat. Then we did suffer an actual attack on 9/11 and bam, within 24 hours he's freaked out and flipped to the exact opposite; global alliances, regime change, and a philosophy of first-strike invasions if needed around the globe. Before his term was done he'd started two separate intercontinental wars -- one having entirely nothing to do with the attack on us -- which have proved to be the longest in American history, and still not done after almost two decades now.
That is the proven historical result of a fundamentally dumb, belligerent, yahoo, volatile commander-in-chief. It's easy to predict; this is the standard reaction of a chaotic, short-attention-span bully. Sometime in a quiet space ask yourself this: Is Trump truly more or less volatile than George W. Bush?
"Nevada casinos post fifth straight fiscal year net loss" -- http://www.reviewjournal.com/business/nevada-casinos-post-fifth-straight-fiscal-year-net-loss
"Las Vegas casinos are losing big in China" -- http://money.cnn.com/2015/02/02/investing/las-vegas-casinos-struggle-in-macau/index.html
"Pay No Attention to Money-Losing Casinos. Let’s Build More Casinos" -- http://business.time.com/2014/01/31/pay-no-attention-to-money-losing-casinos-lets-build-more-casinos/
Surely you jest (about the pardon).
Your unhinged rant sounds quite similar, in length and tone, to hers.
Winner: Dumbest fucking thing said on the Internet, Jan-6, 2017.
Logical Fallacy -- Changing the Subject: Attacking the Person
Logical Fallacy -- Changing the Subject: Attacking the Person.
Bullshit/cite.
Or, what's actually part of the historical record, a compromise to empower the institution of slavery: http://time.com/4558510/electoral-college-history-slavery/
Wouldn't that strategy play directly into the "it's a money grab conspiracy" argument? Other fields of scientific research -- paleontology, astronomy, etc. -- don't have to sell themselves with economic windfall arguments.
At some point, the economic strategy of limitless growth simply must come to an end. This seems the mostly likely phenomenon on which it breaks.
Spoken like a dimwitted German circa 1933.
Thank you, right wing, for your always atrocious spelling, so as to flag your posts and your terrible thinking in a way that allows us to easily ignore them.
I agree with the dumbass part.
"Invest in and increase STEM education..."
Here's how the political emphasis on increasing STEM graduates is working out at my institution:
- Create a mickey-mouse "quantitative reasoning" class with no algebra content and give college credit for that.
- Remove basic algebra as a general-education requirement, since no more than about 25% of the students can pass it (no matter how many times they take it, how many different instructors teach it, or how easy they make the tests).
- Slash all the higher-level courses out of all the STEM associate's degrees (probably linear algebra, differential equations, calculus III, organic chemistry, etc.), because people should be given credit for math prerequisites like basic algebra, precalculus, trigonometry, etc. instead.
This being the culmination of the CUNY Decade of Science.
Did you know that certain religions are closely related to certain ethnicities? And that these prejudices have long been considered racism? Like when folks such as the KKK (or certain other people) are anti-Jewish, and these are historically considered "racist" organizations. Here's a passage from the UN resolution on "Measures to combat contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance" (1999):
17. Urges all Governments to cooperate fully with the Special Rapporteur with a view to enabling him to fulfil his mandate, including the examination of incidents of contemporary forms of racism and racial discrimination, inter alia, against blacks, Arabs and Muslims, xenophobia, Negrophobia, anti-Semitism and related intolerance;
http://www.un.org/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=A/RES/53/133
This is the best statement of the situation. I loved programming; I seriously thought it was the best thing I'd ever known from age 11-25. Then I had a software job for a few years and found: I friggin' hate having to implement other peoples' boneheaded designs. It's the worst and I felt physically unwell every day.
"... the professor says the intro classes are designed to weed people out from going further and graduating..."
Translation for the hearing-impaired:
"If you're smart, you may feel that this introductory course is surprisingly low-level and kind of boring. But many of your classmates will be totally overwhelmed and fail even this mickey-mouse course. The institution wouldn't let us be any more rigorous than this, and refuses to put in a proper admissions filter. So be patient; the interesting new stuff starts in the next course."
There's actually a name for that: the Osborne effect.
You're engaging in black-and-white thinking. There are perfectly operable luxury businesses that cater only to the super-wealthy. Capitalists will not be unhappy with this state of affairs.
"Look, I know my browsing will be in a huge database that nobody will look at it... for now."
This sounds like a line of reasoning from a 90-year-old who's never heard of "computers" (and "search") before.
"We are smarter than other shops, so we will cut all the developer estimates by half" -- actual thing said to me by an actual head of engineering.