It's a pretty toxic brew of corrupt corporatism ($$$ for the machines), historical racism (machinations to keep blacks from voting/understaffed voting sites), increasingly partisan/obstructionist Republicans, and flat-out idiocy (workers who can't actually read or count).
Came to basically say the same thing. My community-college programming students cry out, "How did you copy all those lines at once?" (shift-select, you know). Their understanding of backups, reliability, security, etc., is nigh-nonexistent.
Those are old estimates, and they were revised upward by the U.N. two years ago.
"In a paper published Thursday in Science, demographers from several universities and the United Nations Population Division conclude that instead of leveling off in the second half of the 21st century, as the UN predicted less than a decade ago, the world's population will continue to grow beyond 2100. (Read "Population Seven Billion" in National Geographic magazine.)"
One reason for this is that the second derivative for women in first-world countries is not declining, it's actually started going upward again:
"The revision in the low variant's total fertility rate - the average number of children per woman - was due to a rise in births in Europe and the United States following years of an 'artificially depressed' fertility rate, according to demographics expert John Bongaarts. This lower rate was a consequence of large proportions of women delaying pregnancy until later in their lives. 'During the ‘90s, while the average age at childbearing was rising, women became more educated, wanted a job,' said Bongaarts, vice president of the Population Council. 'That artificial depression is now being removed as the average age of childbearing stops rising.' The 2008 U.N. revision projects that the industrialized world will average 1.64 children per woman between 2005 and 2010, up from an average as low as 1.35 projected in 2006..."
Nobel laureate and psychologist Daniel Kahneman has called on priming researchers to check the robustness of their findings in an open letter to the community, claiming that priming has become a "poster child for doubts about the integrity of psychological research." Other critics have asserted that priming studies suffer from major publication bias, experimenter effect and that criticism of the field is not dealt with constructively.
(1) Colonization/living on other planets (2) Uploading brains from bodies to computers (3) War with robots implying no human deaths (4) Technology giving the masses a life of leisure
Re: #3 -- People don't submit to perceived tyranny because their material stuff got destroyed; rather, the opposite.
Fire ships were used in the Athenian Sicilian Expedition, and otherwise through ancient times and the age of sail:
The rest [of the Athenian force] the enemy tried to burn by means of an old merchantman which they filled with faggots and pine-wood, set on fire and let drift down the wind which blew full on the Athenians. The Athenians, however, alarmed for their ships, contrived means for stopping it and putting it out, and checking the flames and the nearer approach of the merchantman, thus escaped the danger.
Meanwhile, I only tend to visit about 20 of the 1 billion sites on the World Wide Web (about 0.000002%), and yet here I am paying full price for my Internet access.
Note that holding contradictory beliefs is fairly common of conspiracy theorists (link):
Another study titled Dead and Alive: Beliefs in Contradictory Conspiracy Theories managed to show that, not only will cranks be attracted to and believe in numerous conspiracy theories all at once, but will continue to do so even if the theories in question are completely and utterly incompatible with one another. For instance, the study showed that: "... the more participants believed that Princess Diana faked her own death, the more they believed that she was murdered [and that]... the more participants believed that Osama Bin Laden was already dead when U.S. special forces raided his compound in Pakistan, the more they believed he is still alive," and that "Hierarchical regression models showed that mutually incompatible conspiracy theories are positively associated because both are associated with the view that the authorities are engaged in a cover-up".
Citation: Wood, Michael J., Karen M. Douglas, and Robbie M. Sutton. "Dead and alive beliefs in contradictory conspiracy theories." Social Psychological and Personality Science 3.6 (2012): 767-773.
I've been at a poorly-run community college where assignments for teachers were made, maybe, 3 days before class started. I fear that's semi-common. Current school is much better, and of course, I've never seen any FBI raids.
To my understanding, one of the points of debate was that this was an administrative finance-tracking scandal, and at no point were any aspersions being placed on the teachers or quality of education coming out of CCSF. At least that's what I got from the local public protests over the threat of loss of accreditation; the local populace was very happy with CCSF and its effects as students.
“The actions of the ACCJC –- an organization accountable to no one — have unnecessarily put at risk the livelihoods of the nearly 2,500 hard-working men and women at the college,” Tim Paulson of the San Francisco Central Labor Council said in a statement. “What’s more, their move to deny CCSF accreditation has imperiled the future of San Francisco’s working people, who rely heavily on a CCSF education for workforce training, language learning, and a pathway to better futures for themselves and their communities.”
I went to the University of Maine and starting almost immediately afterward I've been working with Harvard-trained people, on AAA PC video games in Boston, and now as a full-time college math lecturer in New York. I always felt that you got out what you put into it.
There's a legitimate debate to be had whether a student like your brother would be better off if they'd been flunked out or not accepted by the university in question. Most of the cultural pressure, however, is to pass those students on.
"The authors of the paper note it’s particularly interesting that global warming keeps winning the bet despite ocean cycles, solar activity, and human aerosol pollution all acting in the cooling direction over the past 15 years. Human-caused global warming has become so strong that it’s consistently overcoming these natural short-term cooling factors... In other words, betting against global warming is an almost sure way to lose money at this point."
Slashdot Mirror
It's not just a campaign advisor, it's "his senior adviser on issues relating to the space agency", i.e., the guy who will actually make the decision.
It's a pretty toxic brew of corrupt corporatism ($$$ for the machines), historical racism (machinations to keep blacks from voting/understaffed voting sites), increasingly partisan/obstructionist Republicans, and flat-out idiocy (workers who can't actually read or count).
"Trump campaign talks about its 'voter suppression' efforts" (Oct-28, 2016)
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-campaign-talks-about-its-voter-suppression-efforts/
Came to basically say the same thing. My community-college programming students cry out, "How did you copy all those lines at once?" (shift-select, you know). Their understanding of backups, reliability, security, etc., is nigh-nonexistent.
"theoretical ways to deal with the waste products" = "no actual ways to deal with the waste products"
"Trump's Plan for Coal Industry Revival Means Big EPA Changes" (Nov-14)
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/trump-coal-industry-revival-plan/2016/11/14/id/758745/
Those are old estimates, and they were revised upward by the U.N. two years ago.
"In a paper published Thursday in Science, demographers from several universities and the United Nations Population Division conclude that instead of leveling off in the second half of the 21st century, as the UN predicted less than a decade ago, the world's population will continue to grow beyond 2100. (Read "Population Seven Billion" in National Geographic magazine.)"
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/09/140918-population-global-united-nations-2100-boom-africa/
One reason for this is that the second derivative for women in first-world countries is not declining, it's actually started going upward again:
"The revision in the low variant's total fertility rate - the average number of children per woman - was due to a rise in births in Europe and the United States following years of an 'artificially depressed' fertility rate, according to demographics expert John Bongaarts. This lower rate was a consequence of large proportions of women delaying pregnancy until later in their lives. 'During the ‘90s, while the average age at childbearing was rising, women became more educated, wanted a job,' said Bongaarts, vice president of the Population Council. 'That artificial depression is now being removed as the average age of childbearing stops rising.' The 2008 U.N. revision projects that the industrialized world will average 1.64 children per woman between 2005 and 2010, up from an average as low as 1.35 projected in 2006..."
http://www.worldwatch.org/node/6038
As revolutionary, and as fondly remembered, as IBM's Hollerith computer in the 1930's.
"The issue of reproducability is mostly just a red herring - clearly it's impossible to reproduce mental states exactly..."
This is not what reproducibility means. Do you work in psychology?
Nobel laureate and psychologist Daniel Kahneman has called on priming researchers to check the robustness of their findings in an open letter to the community, claiming that priming has become a "poster child for doubts about the integrity of psychological research." Other critics have asserted that priming studies suffer from major publication bias, experimenter effect and that criticism of the field is not dealt with constructively.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priming_%28psychology%29#Criticism
I suspect that this may be the story that flips Slashdot from loving to loathing Tesla.
(1) Colonization/living on other planets
(2) Uploading brains from bodies to computers
(3) War with robots implying no human deaths
(4) Technology giving the masses a life of leisure
Re: #3 -- People don't submit to perceived tyranny because their material stuff got destroyed; rather, the opposite.
Fire ships were used in the Athenian Sicilian Expedition, and otherwise through ancient times and the age of sail:
The rest [of the Athenian force] the enemy tried to burn by means of an old merchantman which they filled with faggots and pine-wood, set on fire and let drift down the wind which blew full on the Athenians. The Athenians, however, alarmed for their ships, contrived means for stopping it and putting it out, and checking the flames and the nearer approach of the merchantman, thus escaped the danger.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_ship
Meanwhile, I only tend to visit about 20 of the 1 billion sites on the World Wide Web (about 0.000002%), and yet here I am paying full price for my Internet access.
"An unfunny man's idea of what a funny person sounds like"
You could take "their" lands, too.
2016: The Year of Medieval Thinking.
Note that holding contradictory beliefs is fairly common of conspiracy theorists (link):
Another study titled Dead and Alive: Beliefs in Contradictory Conspiracy Theories managed to show that, not only will cranks be attracted to and believe in numerous conspiracy theories all at once, but will continue to do so even if the theories in question are completely and utterly incompatible with one another. For instance, the study showed that: "... the more participants believed that Princess Diana faked her own death, the more they believed that she was murdered [and that] ... the more participants believed that Osama Bin Laden was already dead when U.S. special forces raided his compound in Pakistan, the more they believed he is still alive," and that "Hierarchical regression models showed that mutually incompatible conspiracy theories are positively associated because both are associated with the view that the authorities are engaged in a cover-up".
Citation: Wood, Michael J., Karen M. Douglas, and Robbie M. Sutton. "Dead and alive beliefs in contradictory conspiracy theories." Social Psychological and Personality Science 3.6 (2012): 767-773.
"Cue the endless discussion on the "Autopilot" name, rather than any discussions of the technical merits of the system or its implementation."
The user interface, the presentation to the user, including how it is described by its name, is a big part of the implementation.
I've been at a poorly-run community college where assignments for teachers were made, maybe, 3 days before class started. I fear that's semi-common. Current school is much better, and of course, I've never seen any FBI raids.
To my understanding, one of the points of debate was that this was an administrative finance-tracking scandal, and at no point were any aspersions being placed on the teachers or quality of education coming out of CCSF. At least that's what I got from the local public protests over the threat of loss of accreditation; the local populace was very happy with CCSF and its effects as students.
“The actions of the ACCJC –- an organization accountable to no one — have unnecessarily put at risk the livelihoods of the nearly 2,500 hard-working men and women at the college,” Tim Paulson of the San Francisco Central Labor Council said in a statement. “What’s more, their move to deny CCSF accreditation has imperiled the future of San Francisco’s working people, who rely heavily on a CCSF education for workforce training, language learning, and a pathway to better futures for themselves and their communities.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/09/city-college-of-san-francisco-protest_n_3569046.html
Agreed, consider this book by Scherer and Anson: Community Colleges and the Access Effect: Why Open Admissions Suppresses Achievement.
I went to the University of Maine and starting almost immediately afterward I've been working with Harvard-trained people, on AAA PC video games in Boston, and now as a full-time college math lecturer in New York. I always felt that you got out what you put into it.
There's a legitimate debate to be had whether a student like your brother would be better off if they'd been flunked out or not accepted by the university in question. Most of the cultural pressure, however, is to pass those students on.
Today's winner of the "missed the whole point" award.
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the Great Filter.
"The authors of the paper note it’s particularly interesting that global warming keeps winning the bet despite ocean cycles, solar activity, and human aerosol pollution all acting in the cooling direction over the past 15 years. Human-caused global warming has become so strong that it’s consistently overcoming these natural short-term cooling factors... In other words, betting against global warming is an almost sure way to lose money at this point."
https://www.skepticalscience.com/betting-against-gw-sure-way-to-lose-money.html
https://science.slashdot.org/story/16/08/02/0124236/climate-change-contrarians-lose-big-betting-against-global-warming