I'm starting to think that nerds love the "mind control parasite" thing just because it sounds like a Star trek plotline.
Dogs are actually just cool and good. That's why people like them. Cats need the parasites.
Funny, but seriously... humans like furry creatures with big eyes that are affectionate. Top two favorites: cats and dogs. Only one supposedly has a mind control parasite though.
I mean, it would be a great explanation for why we like pets, except for, er, those other similar furry cute creatures without the mind control parasites...
Some people who make video games receive decent salaries and benefits (experienced programmers at the richest studios can make six figures), but many do not.
I propose a study to investigate the correlation between so-called scientists attributing to cats properties they may or may not have, with toxoplasmosis infection. If the parasite can make rats think cat piss smells good, it stands to reason that it might well result in "researchers" conducting "studies" concluding that cats are in various ways smarter or better than previously believed.
How do you explain people going gaga over dogs?
I'm starting to think that nerds love the "mind control parasite" thing just because it sounds like a Star trek plotline.
How will this work when you want to actually do work and aren't connected to the Internet? Yes, there are plenty of places on Earth without 4G, 5G, or fast WiFi. (Even in a major US university's library in 2019, cell signals are blocked by the building, and WiFi is spotty at best.)
Satan Nerdella wants to take us back to the good old days of dumb terminals. Good for Microsoft who can nickel and dime users for everything that they do, bad for the actual user.
You'll all live in Japanese hotel style pods in the city, so you won't be in that situation. Better for the environment too!
A. Man bites dog. You know perfectly well that the vast tide is in the other direction.
B. Seriously, Catholic universities? What would you expect? I don't think anybody would object to explicitly Leftist Universities requiring leftism from their faculty.
An interesting aspect of this social credit thing is that each step mirrors things that already exist today... it's well understood that changing jobs too often looks bad on a resume. Or at least, it did before lots of people started doing that, don't even know if it's that bad these days...
That's the bad thing about a system like social credit codifying rules, is that the rules that affect your score probably change a lot more slowly than socially accepted behavior. I wonder what happens when you try to trap the unwritten morals of a society in amber at one point in time, never to change again (or to change so slowly it's essentially the case). Will that bottle up repression in the people? Or create a kind of mindless utopia that lasts forever? So far, nothing has lasted forever... or even close.
It is interesting that it kind of writes down what in other societies is unwritten.
There's something to be said for making the rules explicit, anyway. On the flip side, no society functions solely through specified rules.
"If someone keeps quitting and landing new jobs, his social credit will definitely be a problem," Zhejiang official Ge Pingan said at a local forum, addressing a complaint from one company's human resources department about being unable to do anything when employees want to leave.
This is a really sick viewpoint, although in this case there isn't much cultural difference between the east and west. Plenty of business owners in the US would love to have ways to keep employees other than providing a good work experience and fair pay.
Yes, but the U.S. does not have a government-operated "social credit system" that allows business owners to prevent people from traveling, or even from using public transportation, if they switch jobs.
No, we just get them fired if they supported eeeevil ballot initiatives and such.
A teeth-gritting 54 percent, however, said the most extreme threat to corporate IT security came from employee mistakes.
Well, yes and no.
Yes, you shouldn't trust that Nigerian prince, you idiot. Or give your password to someone who emails, etc.
No, because systems (in general, IT or otherwise) need to be resilient against a certain amount of human mistakes.
Any system that can be completely brought down with general calamity for the company just because Betty the cat cursor loving secretary makes a mistake isn't a very robust system.
Even if this was a good idea at all, i don't think youtube can even find the massive number of social justice advocates that checking every video posted would require, or build the social justice skynet able to perfectly understand the "context" and "dog whistles" and catch every video.
Oh, come now! Don't underestimate them!
(After all, with Obamacare available there should be plenty of them able to take, er, "jobs" like that, if they aren't too busy being some sort of artist a la Nancy Pelosi.)
Why would anybody use Gmail? Is it really worth saving $2/month on email to let Google spy and catalog all of your email?
Well, you are letting somebody do that, at least potentially (and you wouldn't know if they do or not), unless you PGP everything and pretty much only email yourself.
I'm not sure it's intrinsically better to trust a few random dudes in Switzerland over a highly scrutinized publicly traded company.
I tried smart compose for all of one email, and every single suggestion it had was laughably off. I gave it 3 paragraphs to be useful, and it's clear that it's nowhere near useful. And it's not like I was typing something complicated - I was discussing trip logistics with a family member. There was not a single suggestion that I would have remotely considered selecting. It was baffling.
I'm unclear who wants this sort of "help". It's so half-baked and shitty that I can't help but think that it's just more data collection that they hope will be useful in the future. It is 100% not ready for prime-time, unless you're writing at a 3rd grade level or below. And even then, I kind-of doubt it.
Eh, I kind of like the auto complete for "Hi Recipientsfirstname". I'll admit it.
I mean, I know the Thunderbird/Pine way to accomplish that would be to set up by hand complex custom rules that trigger based on recipient. But this way is kinda cool too...
I'm also amused by the autocomplete suggestions for "I'm sorry" and variants when emailing my wife, lol
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... I thought now at least in the House things would be all hunky dory? No wascally wepubwicans to do mean stuff like that?
So they are using decades of experience to actually schedule enough time for how long the flights typically take?
Why ... is that bad?
Thank you, futurist!
Even Cuba has a better and more affordable healthcare system than the US from the common citizen's point of view
That's utter nonsense.
That's like saying that the Soviets had a great economy - just ask them!
People use rafts to escape Cuba and to try to get to - wait for it - the United States.
How do you explain people going gaga over dogs?
I'm starting to think that nerds love the "mind control parasite" thing just because it sounds like a Star trek plotline.
Dogs are actually just cool and good. That's why people like them. Cats need the parasites.
Funny, but seriously ... humans like furry creatures with big eyes that are affectionate. Top two favorites: cats and dogs. Only one supposedly has a mind control parasite though.
I mean, it would be a great explanation for why we like pets, except for, er, those other similar furry cute creatures without the mind control parasites ...
It sounds so ... sinister when you put it that way ....
Some people who make video games receive decent salaries and benefits (experienced programmers at the richest studios can make six figures), but many do not.
So ... like other jobs?
This world wasn't made for us but we have made it our own for better or worse.
How do you know it wasn't? You acknowledge that we are obviously special.
I propose a study to investigate the correlation between so-called scientists attributing to cats properties they may or may not have, with toxoplasmosis infection. If the parasite can make rats think cat piss smells good, it stands to reason that it might well result in "researchers" conducting "studies" concluding that cats are in various ways smarter or better than previously believed.
How do you explain people going gaga over dogs?
I'm starting to think that nerds love the "mind control parasite" thing just because it sounds like a Star trek plotline.
How will this work when you want to actually do work and aren't connected to the Internet? Yes, there are plenty of places on Earth without 4G, 5G, or fast WiFi. (Even in a major US university's library in 2019, cell signals are blocked by the building, and WiFi is spotty at best.)
Satan Nerdella wants to take us back to the good old days of dumb terminals. Good for Microsoft who can nickel and dime users for everything that they do, bad for the actual user.
You'll all live in Japanese hotel style pods in the city, so you won't be in that situation. Better for the environment too!
Really? Who is trying to deplatform those they don't agree with? It isn't the right.
Yes it is.
Incidents at Harvard and Catholic Universities challenge idea that liberals are the only ones preventing ideas from being voiced on campuses.
"The Hosty case is only part of the growing conservative attack on freedom of speech on campus."
Data shows a surprising campus free speech problem: left-wingers being fired for their opinions
Oh please.
A. Man bites dog. You know perfectly well that the vast tide is in the other direction.
B. Seriously, Catholic universities? What would you expect? I don't think anybody would object to explicitly Leftist Universities requiring leftism from their faculty.
An interesting aspect of this social credit thing is that each step mirrors things that already exist today... it's well understood that changing jobs too often looks bad on a resume. Or at least, it did before lots of people started doing that, don't even know if it's that bad these days...
That's the bad thing about a system like social credit codifying rules, is that the rules that affect your score probably change a lot more slowly than socially accepted behavior. I wonder what happens when you try to trap the unwritten morals of a society in amber at one point in time, never to change again (or to change so slowly it's essentially the case). Will that bottle up repression in the people? Or create a kind of mindless utopia that lasts forever? So far, nothing has lasted forever... or even close.
It is interesting that it kind of writes down what in other societies is unwritten.
There's something to be said for making the rules explicit, anyway. On the flip side, no society functions solely through specified rules.
"If someone keeps quitting and landing new jobs, his social credit will definitely be a problem," Zhejiang official Ge Pingan said at a local forum, addressing a complaint from one company's human resources department about being unable to do anything when employees want to leave.
This is a really sick viewpoint, although in this case there isn't much cultural difference between the east and west. Plenty of business owners in the US would love to have ways to keep employees other than providing a good work experience and fair pay.
Yes, but the U.S. does not have a government-operated "social credit system" that allows business owners to prevent people from traveling, or even from using public transportation, if they switch jobs.
No, we just get them fired if they supported eeeevil ballot initiatives and such.
I'm sure that this will work out perfectly fine and absolutely no unintended consequences will arise as a result.
Yep ...
But it argued that the public information message, simply asking people to register to vote, should not count as a "political campaign".
What the "good" people want is never politics, of course. It's just plain common sense, ya know.
Or prove that heavy metal music, or video games cause violence.
Does the Koran cause violence?
I'd say there's a lot more evidence for your last one there ...
I guess it's not surprising to find that, like most large tech companies, Amazon has its apologists too...
Do you have a problem with stores having store brands?
In a completely noticeable way that we did in fact notice and are reporting as news, a company "quietly" did something.
A teeth-gritting 54 percent, however, said the most extreme threat to corporate IT security came from employee mistakes.
Well, yes and no.
Yes, you shouldn't trust that Nigerian prince, you idiot. Or give your password to someone who emails, etc.
No, because systems (in general, IT or otherwise) need to be resilient against a certain amount of human mistakes.
Any system that can be completely brought down with general calamity for the company just because Betty the cat cursor loving secretary makes a mistake isn't a very robust system.
... UsTube.
Not YouTube - "you" might hold unapproved opinions or something. UsTube. Our opinions, not yours.
Even if this was a good idea at all, i don't think youtube can even find the massive number of social justice advocates that checking every video posted would require, or build the social justice skynet able to perfectly understand the "context" and "dog whistles" and catch every video.
Oh, come now! Don't underestimate them!
(After all, with Obamacare available there should be plenty of them able to take, er, "jobs" like that, if they aren't too busy being some sort of artist a la Nancy Pelosi.)
Beheading videos from the worldview that must not be named, of course, are fine.
Videos talking (negatively) about beheading videos and the culture that makes them, however, are "alt right" and we can't tolerate that.
It's totally illegitimate for other countries to regulate social media platforms because of concerns about elections!
The scientists also found that mosquitoes exposed to the song had sex "far less often" than mosquitoes without music.
I guess that could explain the self-limiting nature of the 90s ...
Why would anybody use Gmail? Is it really worth saving $2/month on email to let Google spy and catalog all of your email?
Well, you are letting somebody do that, at least potentially (and you wouldn't know if they do or not), unless you PGP everything and pretty much only email yourself.
I'm not sure it's intrinsically better to trust a few random dudes in Switzerland over a highly scrutinized publicly traded company.
I tried smart compose for all of one email, and every single suggestion it had was laughably off. I gave it 3 paragraphs to be useful, and it's clear that it's nowhere near useful. And it's not like I was typing something complicated - I was discussing trip logistics with a family member. There was not a single suggestion that I would have remotely considered selecting. It was baffling.
I'm unclear who wants this sort of "help". It's so half-baked and shitty that I can't help but think that it's just more data collection that they hope will be useful in the future. It is 100% not ready for prime-time, unless you're writing at a 3rd grade level or below. And even then, I kind-of doubt it.
Eh, I kind of like the auto complete for "Hi Recipientsfirstname". I'll admit it.
I mean, I know the Thunderbird/Pine way to accomplish that would be to set up by hand complex custom rules that trigger based on recipient. But this way is kinda cool too ...
I'm also amused by the autocomplete suggestions for "I'm sorry" and variants when emailing my wife, lol