A degree is not merely about demonstrating that you can acquire some minimal base of knowledge to start your career from. It also demonstrates that you can finish what you start, even when it is a long process that requires you to do many things you have no particular interest in doing.
Then again, there are those of us who never went. I finished what I started in the military, then taught myself to program on the job.
There are a small number of "tech" jobs that benefit from certain specialized degrees. (Most tech jobs, meh.)
A generic degree requirement proves little, other than your ability to spend someone else's money for years.
Me too! As an avid boater I don't appreciate the possibility of being put in danger because some prankster caused the development of a system like this. If I am stuck on the water, in danger, I want the coast guard to come to my rescue. I definitely don't want them wasting time trying to determine if I am an actual boater in distress or a prankster. When a boat is sinking or on fire time is of the essence!!
Precisely. "Pranksters" should get long prison sentences. This isn't something that can be solved with spam filters.
... of a certain major news network waving around a Microsoft Word generated document to "prove" that a certain president had dodged the Vietnam War draft...
Sorry Wal-Mart, you lost me when you prioritized price over quality. I can't afford you because I cannot be bothered to buy my stuff twice. I'd rather go somewhere else and buy a quality product in the first place so I don't have to go looking for a replacement. I see you have not changed your ways.
You can buy plenty of name brand stuff at Walmart that is exactly the same as found elsewhere, just less expensive.
They can't put their fingers on it and therefore blame immigrants or some other boogeyman and vote for folks who promise solutions that sound good but will not work.
If immigrants are just "bogeymen", then why keep bringing more of them? They can't be both irrelevant and so freakin valuable that the plutocrats must keep bringing in literal boatloads of them.
Sorry, it doesn't add up.
Outside of a tiny virtue-signaling group, nobody in the US cares about this.
Nobody cared in the 1970s, when the same tiny group was virtue-signaling about it in exactly the same way, and nobody cares now.
Everyone uses and thinks in F for ambient temperature. If you need C for some specialty purpose, you use it. Nobody cares that it is different, or has any trouble switching between them.
If possible - which I'm not sure it is - we care even less now, because we all have pocket computers that instantly can do any conversions, if we ever need any. Which we don't, statistically speaking.
So if it's "intelligent" to get all worked up about a total nothing - well, whatever. Enjoy.
Who writes temperatures as "129 degrees"? This is a science and tech site, at very least, if you're going to use outmoded, outdated, antiquated, anachronistic, non-standard, and mostly unused units of measurement, indicate the unit.
What art does is convey feelings. So far, machines have none.
If you lay out a hundred abstract paintings, half made by humans and half by this GAN, do you think you could tell which were made with "feelings"? I doubt if you could do any better than chance. It is silly to say there is a difference if the difference is undetectable.
So we've demonstrated that abstract art is BS... not sure what that has to do with AI though...
Yes, your domestic political opponents are the "real problem". Of course.
Not a worldwide movement of violent losers, clearly shouting their reasons as they do their horrors, all while you thoughtful folks puzzle over what their motivations might possibly be. Oh no, not them. The "real problem" are your peaceful domestic political opponents.
but you are right that there are some men on slashdot that seem to be uncomfortable with the prospect of working side-by-side with women. I condemn them and their old world view.
The old world view is that someone misusing authority to get sex should be strung up from the nearest tree.
The new world view is that most accusations should be randomly believed, and if adjudicated at all, that this should be done by some kangaroo court composed of basket weaving studies professors. Or by Facebook.
Let's not forget taxes are taken at the barrel of a gun (you go to jail if you don't pay). Again, I could waste an hour of your time explaining why that's all bunk but it would be plaining to the wrong side of the brain. It wouldn't feel good like those myths do.
Erm, myth? You really do go to jail if you don't pay your taxes. Ultimately, laws are enforced at the point of a gun.
I've never seen anything better at dividing people than Facebook. It encourages a mob mentality, whipping people up with the crisis of the day, the two minutes hate.
The problem with this argument is it assumes that owning an automated factory = profit. When everyone is unemployed, they stop buying cars. When they stop buying cars, automated factories have to stop making cars. When they stop making cars, they stop buying steel. When they stop buying steel, the steel mill from this story stops making steel. Etc. at some point, they either have to pass some of their savings on to the consumers or close shop, as the consumers will be making next to nothing in the scenario you describe.
That sounds an awful lot like a situation that will reach some sort of equilibrium.
Someone above referred to how lame it is that there's no Thunderbird for Android. Check out K-9 Mail; it's a lot better than the stupid mail apps that come with phones and if Thunderbird ever made it to Android it wouldn't be far off from what K-9 is
Ruh roh
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Smog and pollution would exist only up to a threshold number of deaths due to pollution.
That's how it is now - there are thresholds mandated by law and regulation. That they are measurement thresholds for certain substances rather than death rate thresholds doesn't change that.
Tradeoffs exist, whether you imagine that you can outlaw them or not.
Pick how you want to pay for it. Higher prices – perhaps – for discretionary things like a burger at MacDonalds? Or through non-discretionary things like your taxes and your health care premiums?
Well... it's kinda hard to replace a tax and spend program with a robot. So there's that.
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Sorry to trouble you, but, um ... what are the apps? What are they named?
A degree is not merely about demonstrating that you can acquire some minimal base of knowledge to start your career from. It also demonstrates that you can finish what you start, even when it is a long process that requires you to do many things you have no particular interest in doing.
Then again, there are those of us who never went. I finished what I started in the military, then taught myself to program on the job.
There are a small number of "tech" jobs that benefit from certain specialized degrees. (Most tech jobs, meh.)
A generic degree requirement proves little, other than your ability to spend someone else's money for years.
Me too! As an avid boater I don't appreciate the possibility of being put in danger because some prankster caused the development of a system like this. If I am stuck on the water, in danger, I want the coast guard to come to my rescue. I definitely don't want them wasting time trying to determine if I am an actual boater in distress or a prankster. When a boat is sinking or on fire time is of the essence!!
Precisely. "Pranksters" should get long prison sentences. This isn't something that can be solved with spam filters.
... of a certain major news network waving around a Microsoft Word generated document to "prove" that a certain president had dodged the Vietnam War draft ...
Sorry Wal-Mart, you lost me when you prioritized price over quality. I can't afford you because I cannot be bothered to buy my stuff twice. I'd rather go somewhere else and buy a quality product in the first place so I don't have to go looking for a replacement. I see you have not changed your ways.
You can buy plenty of name brand stuff at Walmart that is exactly the same as found elsewhere, just less expensive.
They can't put their fingers on it and therefore blame immigrants or some other boogeyman and vote for folks who promise solutions that sound good but will not work.
If immigrants are just "bogeymen", then why keep bringing more of them? They can't be both irrelevant and so freakin valuable that the plutocrats must keep bringing in literal boatloads of them. Sorry, it doesn't add up.
If you're intelligent you use metric like the rest of the damn planet.
Outside of a tiny virtue-signaling group, nobody in the US cares about this.
Nobody cared in the 1970s, when the same tiny group was virtue-signaling about it in exactly the same way, and nobody cares now.
Everyone uses and thinks in F for ambient temperature. If you need C for some specialty purpose, you use it. Nobody cares that it is different, or has any trouble switching between them.
If possible - which I'm not sure it is - we care even less now, because we all have pocket computers that instantly can do any conversions, if we ever need any. Which we don't, statistically speaking.
So if it's "intelligent" to get all worked up about a total nothing - well, whatever. Enjoy.
Who writes temperatures as "129 degrees"? This is a science and tech site, at very least, if you're going to use outmoded, outdated, antiquated, anachronistic, non-standard, and mostly unused units of measurement, indicate the unit.
Ah, the virtue-signaling, it burns, lol
What art does is convey feelings. So far, machines have none.
If you lay out a hundred abstract paintings, half made by humans and half by this GAN, do you think you could tell which were made with "feelings"? I doubt if you could do any better than chance. It is silly to say there is a difference if the difference is undetectable.
So we've demonstrated that abstract art is BS ... not sure what that has to do with AI though ...
... uh huh. Shortage of those who will work cheap, you mean.
Yes, your domestic political opponents are the "real problem". Of course.
Not a worldwide movement of violent losers, clearly shouting their reasons as they do their horrors, all while you thoughtful folks puzzle over what their motivations might possibly be. Oh no, not them. The "real problem" are your peaceful domestic political opponents.
The Germans are *dead wrong* to criminalize speech, because as soon as you do, you permit someone else to decide what "hate" means - just like 1933.
Precisely so.
Good thing we in the US don't have any major institutions with Orwellian speech codes, adjudicated by absurd kangaroo pseudo-courts ...
but you are right that there are some men on slashdot that seem to be uncomfortable with the prospect of working side-by-side with women. I condemn them and their old world view.
The old world view is that someone misusing authority to get sex should be strung up from the nearest tree.
The new world view is that most accusations should be randomly believed, and if adjudicated at all, that this should be done by some kangaroo court composed of basket weaving studies professors. Or by Facebook.
Let's not forget taxes are taken at the barrel of a gun (you go to jail if you don't pay). Again, I could waste an hour of your time explaining why that's all bunk but it would be plaining to the wrong side of the brain. It wouldn't feel good like those myths do.
Erm, myth? You really do go to jail if you don't pay your taxes. Ultimately, laws are enforced at the point of a gun.
Believe it or not, you don't have some "right" to come here.
I mean, it's quite flattering that so very, very, very many of you want to, but those of us already here get to decide if you do or not.
Do you guys use a headline word salad generator?
I've never seen anything better at dividing people than Facebook. It encourages a mob mentality, whipping people up with the crisis of the day, the two minutes hate.
Either sign on to the memes or get run over.
The problem with this argument is it assumes that owning an automated factory = profit. When everyone is unemployed, they stop buying cars. When they stop buying cars, automated factories have to stop making cars. When they stop making cars, they stop buying steel. When they stop buying steel, the steel mill from this story stops making steel. Etc. at some point, they either have to pass some of their savings on to the consumers or close shop, as the consumers will be making next to nothing in the scenario you describe.
That sounds an awful lot like a situation that will reach some sort of equilibrium.
Just because it's "over there" doesn't mean that working conditions and environmental impacts are magically made acceptable
Well, apparently it does mean that, because both parties has been fine with it for decades.
And the only person of consequence to take real issue with it is currently the favorite whipping boy of both parties.
I'm all for secure, recountable paper ballots and IDs to have secure elections. Let's do it!
Amiright, Dems? What's that ... .no?
A game is literally just a set of rules. My only surprise is that it took computers so long to get good at them.
Someone above referred to how lame it is that there's no Thunderbird for Android. Check out K-9 Mail; it's a lot better than the stupid mail apps that come with phones and if Thunderbird ever made it to Android it wouldn't be far off from what K-9 is
Ruh roh
After a couple years break, the K-9 Mail project participates in this year’s Google Summer of Code program. We are taking two students, who will join us in our ongoing effort to make K-9 Mail a modern, fully-featured, and easy to use e-mail client!
Oh ... by "tech workers" you meant "people who work for big name tech companies".
Smog and pollution would exist only up to a threshold number of deaths due to pollution.
That's how it is now - there are thresholds mandated by law and regulation. That they are measurement thresholds for certain substances rather than death rate thresholds doesn't change that.
Tradeoffs exist, whether you imagine that you can outlaw them or not.
Pick how you want to pay for it. Higher prices – perhaps – for discretionary things like a burger at MacDonalds? Or through non-discretionary things like your taxes and your health care premiums?
Well ... it's kinda hard to replace a tax and spend program with a robot. So there's that.