Anytime someone starts in with this "simulated reality" bullshit, I now ask them their opinion on Roku's Basilisk. Because the same personality is also likely to believe in that, freak out, and finally shut up/run away.
The thing is, for almost two decades here at Slashdot I've been seeing people say, "Unions? We don't need no stinkin' unions. That's for schleps, we're fancy knowledge workers, I can always go somewhere in a free market and get a promotion at any time. Unions would just hold me back."
Now, the communications workers at Verizon totally did just win a victory after a 6.5 week strike, successfully fighting back outsourcing just like this plan. But admittedly even I don't think it would be possible to organize a union and strike in a few months at MassMutual (there's so many possible delaying tactics, or just say you're moving up already-planned layoffs to wipe out any activists, etc.). If they weren't unionized already, because they thought they were untouchable white collars, then sadly they're just going to be put down in the bed of their own making.
“The immediate and short-term impact of alcohol is to reduce the time it takes to fall asleep, and this effect on the first half of sleep may be partly the reason some people with insomnia use alcohol as a sleep aid,” Ebrahim says. “However, this is offset by having more disrupted sleep in the second half of the night.”
“Alcohol should not be used as a sleep aid, and regular use of alcohol as a sleep aid may result in alcohol dependence,” he says.
The findings will appear in the April 2013 issue of Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research.
Head of IT at my college last week: "Windows 10 is more secure, because prior Windows versions were always based on what came before, but Windows 10 has been totally rewritten from scratch."
Do you not have any data files? I have records of several thousand students over the past decade for whom people occasionally ask me about their grades or for a reference. My partner has over 300 clients who maybe ask about a certain part of their website once a year. I had to do a local search today to find the particular class in which I referenced Noam Chomsky two years ago. People actually using their computers to do stuff over several years do this all the time.
In classic Microsoft fashion, they forge an agreement with someone and then screw them over in the most mean-spirited, legalistic way possible. Google should have known better on this one.
In classic Microsoft fashion, they forge an agreement with someone and then immediately screw them over in the most mean-spirited, legalistic way possible. Google really should have known better on this one.
New media is always pitched as an opportunity for education, health care knowledge, and global understanding. But it always gets used for porn, reality shows, and mindless entertainment. Now with more cat pictures.
Well, no -- assuming a continuous probability distribution model, then the chance of the parameter being exactly 0.91% is zero (identical to all other point estimates). However, the statistic that produced 0.91% does maximize the probability density function, that is, the chance of the parameter being in a small interval around 0.91% is greater than the chance of it being in any other equally-wide interval.
"According to the second (heavily biased) TFA, the detectives learned about the exit node between requesting the warrant and executing the search."
That is not even remotely what the second article said, and your intentional misreading of it casts a harsh light on your stance as a police-state apologist. What the second article really points out is that the cops have made mutually contradictory statements, and the only way to even imagine that they're not outright lying (as is commonly the case) is maybe, maybe, if they learned of the TOR node in a very narrow slice of time immediately after filing for the warrant. Not that any cops have asserted as such. Just that's the only doubt one could possibly raise. The rest of your argument fails on similar grounds.
SPD spokesperson Sean Whitcomb said the department understands how Tor works and that before executing the search, officers knew that Bultmann and Robinson operated the Tor node out of their apartment. "Knowing that, moving in, it doesn't automatically preclude the idea that the people running Tor are not also involved in child porn," Whitcomb told NPR. "It does offer a plausible alibi, but it's still something that we need to check out." But in a statement today, the department said its detectives didn't know about the Tor node when they filed the warrant application on March 28. If true, this means detectives took notice of the Tor node after the judge approved the warrant, then carried out the exhaustive early-morning search two days later anyway.
"Banks makes money on lending money to people and collecting interest on that money."
In the past that was their primary income stream. Nowadays it is, very roughly, split about 50/50 between interest income and non-interest income. The latter would include transaction fees, penalty fees, insured devices, safety deposit boxes, etc.
"Other moves in recent years to ease a rigid corporate culture include flexible working hours, a loosening of dress code requirements for weekend work and less pressure on employees to attend after-work drinking sessions that have long been a staple of Korean corporate life."
Loosening of dress code for weekend work? Somewhat less pressure for mandatory binge drinking? Wow, thanks!!! [bows vigorously]
One thing I'd say is that I'm constantly surprised by the truly immense amount of written correspondence that the great thinkers carried out with other people throughout their years.
Close -- as far as I know (and I research this), high school teachers in most states still need a specialized bachelor's degree in math education, plus the general teaching certification.
The undeniable problem is that teachers at the elementary-school level definitely don't need any such skill, and in fact are perennially the weakest and most hateful about math of our entire college-going population. Then they teach broken math to our children from K-6 and in many cases there's no recovery after that. I agree that we need math specialists at all level of education, like every other modernized country.
Most of those things you mention used to be part of standard high school educations: geology, Latin, etc. I had those in my public high school in a rural state in the 1980's. Now folks want to get rid of 7th-grade algebra because that's too hard. I have community-college students, NYC high school graduates (Hacker is from CUNY), who can't do 6th-grade arithmetic (fractions, negatives, read a decimal) or even 3rd-grade (times tables, read an integer).
The real thing that's happening here is a shell-game of certification deflation, so that we can pretend everyone has a college diploma, when their skills are not the same as high-school diplomas from 50 years ago. I honestly wonder: How much lower can we push the bar?
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Anytime someone starts in with this "simulated reality" bullshit, I now ask them their opinion on Roku's Basilisk. Because the same personality is also likely to believe in that, freak out, and finally shut up/run away.
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Roko%27s_basilisk
The thing is, for almost two decades here at Slashdot I've been seeing people say, "Unions? We don't need no stinkin' unions. That's for schleps, we're fancy knowledge workers, I can always go somewhere in a free market and get a promotion at any time. Unions would just hold me back."
Now, the communications workers at Verizon totally did just win a victory after a 6.5 week strike, successfully fighting back outsourcing just like this plan. But admittedly even I don't think it would be possible to organize a union and strike in a few months at MassMutual (there's so many possible delaying tactics, or just say you're moving up already-planned layoffs to wipe out any activists, etc.). If they weren't unionized already, because they thought they were untouchable white collars, then sadly they're just going to be put down in the bed of their own making.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/31/business/verizon-reaches-tentative-deal-with-unions-to-end-strike.html
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“The immediate and short-term impact of alcohol is to reduce the time it takes to fall asleep, and this effect on the first half of sleep may be partly the reason some people with insomnia use alcohol as a sleep aid,” Ebrahim says. “However, this is offset by having more disrupted sleep in the second half of the night.”
“Alcohol should not be used as a sleep aid, and regular use of alcohol as a sleep aid may result in alcohol dependence,” he says.
The findings will appear in the April 2013 issue of Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research.
http://www.webmd.com/sleep-disorders/news/20130118/alcohol-sleep
Head of IT at my college last week: "Windows 10 is more secure, because prior Windows versions were always based on what came before, but Windows 10 has been totally rewritten from scratch."
They're all federal district court judges.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Foreign_Intelligence_Surveillance_Court#Composition
Pay for all such judges is fixed at $174,000/year as of 2009.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_judge_salaries_in_the_United_States#District_Court
Easy to understand, it's 30 square years, of course.
Do you not have any data files? I have records of several thousand students over the past decade for whom people occasionally ask me about their grades or for a reference. My partner has over 300 clients who maybe ask about a certain part of their website once a year. I had to do a local search today to find the particular class in which I referenced Noam Chomsky two years ago. People actually using their computers to do stuff over several years do this all the time.
Remember, this is not yet one week since Microsoft & Google announced a "no complaint" to regulators pact:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/16/04/22/1421201/microsoft-google-agree-to-stop-complaining-to-regulators-about-each-other
In classic Microsoft fashion, they forge an agreement with someone and then screw them over in the most mean-spirited, legalistic way possible. Google should have known better on this one.
Remember, this is not yet a week since Microsoft & Google announced a "no complaint" to regulators agreement:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/16/04/22/1421201/microsoft-google-agree-to-stop-complaining-to-regulators-about-each-other
In classic Microsoft fashion, they forge an agreement with someone and then immediately screw them over in the most mean-spirited, legalistic way possible. Google really should have known better on this one.
Is this trolling? It's certainly the most illogical thing I've read online today.
It doesn't matter what the level of demand is if the products are all manufactured by robots. Yes more sales, but no not more jobs.
The whole point of the article is that productivity is up while jobs are falling (like farming before it).
New media is always pitched as an opportunity for education, health care knowledge, and global understanding. But it always gets used for porn, reality shows, and mindless entertainment. Now with more cat pictures.
"Get used to it" is the correct grammar.
http://www.learn-english-today.com/lessons/lesson_contents/verbs/to-be-used-to.html
"The most likely value is 0.91%..."
Well, no -- assuming a continuous probability distribution model, then the chance of the parameter being exactly 0.91% is zero (identical to all other point estimates). However, the statistic that produced 0.91% does maximize the probability density function, that is, the chance of the parameter being in a small interval around 0.91% is greater than the chance of it being in any other equally-wide interval.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximum_likelihood
"According to the second (heavily biased) TFA, the detectives learned about the exit node between requesting the warrant and executing the search."
That is not even remotely what the second article said, and your intentional misreading of it casts a harsh light on your stance as a police-state apologist. What the second article really points out is that the cops have made mutually contradictory statements, and the only way to even imagine that they're not outright lying (as is commonly the case) is maybe, maybe, if they learned of the TOR node in a very narrow slice of time immediately after filing for the warrant. Not that any cops have asserted as such. Just that's the only doubt one could possibly raise. The rest of your argument fails on similar grounds.
SPD spokesperson Sean Whitcomb said the department understands how Tor works and that before executing the search, officers knew that Bultmann and Robinson operated the Tor node out of their apartment. "Knowing that, moving in, it doesn't automatically preclude the idea that the people running Tor are not also involved in child porn," Whitcomb told NPR. "It does offer a plausible alibi, but it's still something that we need to check out." But in a statement today, the department said its detectives didn't know about the Tor node when they filed the warrant application on March 28. If true, this means detectives took notice of the Tor node after the judge approved the warrant, then carried out the exhaustive early-morning search two days later anyway.
Pro tip: One-to-one and one-to-many are categorically different relations.
"Banks makes money on lending money to people and collecting interest on that money."
In the past that was their primary income stream. Nowadays it is, very roughly, split about 50/50 between interest income and non-interest income. The latter would include transaction fees, penalty fees, insured devices, safety deposit boxes, etc.
http://seekingalpha.com/article/1568752-bank-chart-of-the-week-how-important-is-fee-income-to-banks
https://chicagofed.org/~/media/publications/economic-perspectives/2004/ep-4qtr2004-part3-deyoung-rice-pdf.pdf
"Other moves in recent years to ease a rigid corporate culture include flexible working hours, a loosening of dress code requirements for weekend work and less pressure on employees to attend after-work drinking sessions that have long been a staple of Korean corporate life."
Loosening of dress code for weekend work? Somewhat less pressure for mandatory binge drinking? Wow, thanks!!! [bows vigorously]
The whole point is that it's something you give, not something you take.
One thing I'd say is that I'm constantly surprised by the truly immense amount of written correspondence that the great thinkers carried out with other people throughout their years.
"Great writers don't tend to be highly intelligent (if they were, they'd get work that pays better)."
Maybe they've realized that you can't take money with you when you check out, and they've decided to pursue a longer-term impact.
I suppose the telemetry can't run if the machine is unbootable.
That sounds really interesting about MIT, do you have a reference/citation for that?
Close -- as far as I know (and I research this), high school teachers in most states still need a specialized bachelor's degree in math education, plus the general teaching certification.
The undeniable problem is that teachers at the elementary-school level definitely don't need any such skill, and in fact are perennially the weakest and most hateful about math of our entire college-going population. Then they teach broken math to our children from K-6 and in many cases there's no recovery after that. I agree that we need math specialists at all level of education, like every other modernized country.
Most of those things you mention used to be part of standard high school educations: geology, Latin, etc. I had those in my public high school in a rural state in the 1980's. Now folks want to get rid of 7th-grade algebra because that's too hard. I have community-college students, NYC high school graduates (Hacker is from CUNY), who can't do 6th-grade arithmetic (fractions, negatives, read a decimal) or even 3rd-grade (times tables, read an integer).
The real thing that's happening here is a shell-game of certification deflation, so that we can pretend everyone has a college diploma, when their skills are not the same as high-school diplomas from 50 years ago. I honestly wonder: How much lower can we push the bar?