You haven't seen TV from other countries, have you? Think American Idol but even dumber with worse production values. I dislike what CNN has become but it's not like news in most of the countries is particularly well-done, with a few exceptions.
I never understood why nobody ever made a laptop that replicated a desktop keyboard, exactly (well, get rid of the number pad, I don't care about that). Instead we get decades of cramped, uncomfortable keyboards. The worst being those obnoxious chiclet keyboards that those narcissistic hipsters at Apple somehow got the industry to jump on board re laptops (and even a lot of desktops nowadays).
Just about everybody gets the current state of H-1B workers wrong. There are two pools of H-1Bs, who are here under the same visa but in totally different situations.
The first are people who are actually filling jobs they couldn't find Americans to fill. These are often STEM professions that not enough Americans want to go into in the areas that need them -- like civil or mechanical engineering in unsexy areas (like wastewater treatment), or physicians in underserved areas. Americans with talent and interest in STEM tend to go into more glamorous jobs in more glamorous areas. Think biomedical engineering, neuroscience, etc. etc..
The second category are the ones who are here to displace American workers through mass hiring by shady outsourcing and consulting companies.
It's not really hard to differentiate them. If an engineering firm is hiring one Indian engineer on H-1B to join a large workforce, it's probably legit. If a retailer is hiring 1,000 call center workers on H-1B, it's probably not.
You're missing the point; the question was not the legality of DACA itself, but whether people who qualified under DACA could legally be provided social security numbers.
If true, not really relevant. The post I was responding to alleged, falsely, that "liberals look at all human accomplishments with disdain and disgust." It's a stupid lie. Scientists are overwhelmingly democratic and majority liberal, which conflicts with that idiotic thesis. I never made a similar allegation regarding conservatives.
"To work in companies, the illegals use other people's Social Security numbers, they will then files taxes to get their refunds, Child Tax credit, Earned Income Credit, Additional Child Tax Credit, and education credits, and what have you."
Not true; Dreamers are (well, were) eligible for social security numbers.
"To work in companies, the illegals use other people's Social Security numbers, they will then files taxes to get their refunds,"
Or, they just get Individual Taxpayer Identification Numbers (ITINs) that let them file tax returns.
I use AI in a broad sense to include expert systems. Obviously true AI research has been a multi-decade disappointment, but it got a lot more innovative with the move to expert/self-teaching systems. I think separating to some extent the cognitive neurobiology approach from the algorithmic approach is a good one. After the hubris of the 1960s AI guys (looking at you, Marvin Minsky), I think we should be very careful about predicting what's going to happen in the field in the future. If consciousness/intelligence is an emergent property of complex systems, then throwing enough processors/data could very well lead to something.
"So far as the rest of your comment goes: 'Big data' has become a cancer on humanity, just being leveraged by greedy and power-hungry people who want to drain our bank accounts and have control of our lives. I've seen nothing that 'big data' has done that really benefits humanity in general. They violate our privacy and steal from us and then expect us to open our wallets and give them our money. 'Big data' needs to go away."
That's big data as a marketing tool; I'm more interested in big data as something that can actually tell us stuff we didn't know before.
Mac laptops are designed for a very specific operating environment -- sitting in a coffee shop and "working on your screenplay" while desperately hoping the cute hipster girl at the next table over asks you what you're working on, so you can casually mention your screenplay. You probably weren't doing that, thus it's your fault.
I would say it's the opposite; the technology business in the late 90s and early 00s was focused on marketing incrementally better consumer electronics. Most of the companies of the first dot-com boom were basically just setting themselves up as unnecessary middlemen, just on the internet. Now the focus has turned to better AI, self-driving cars, space travel, big data, etc. etc.., which seems a bit more profound than letting people order dog food online.
""This was another thing that Steve [Jobs] taught me, actually," says Cook. "You've got to be willing to look yourself in the mirror and say I was wrong, it's not right.""
Steve Jobs, the archetypical narcissist, taught him that? Did he teach him that by providing an example of what not to do?
"I'll keep it short and sweet. Family, religion, friendship. These are the three demons you must slay if you wish to succeed in business. When opportunity knocks, you don't want to be driving to a maternity hospital or sitting in some phony-baloney church. Or synagogue."
I'm not that old and I remember a time when credit cards were always processed by hand, with that little credit card mimeo machine. I still run into that every once in a long while when someplace's credit card scanner is down.
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Heeeey, I remember James Nicoll from like 20 years ago on Usenet.
You haven't seen TV from other countries, have you? Think American Idol but even dumber with worse production values. I dislike what CNN has become but it's not like news in most of the countries is particularly well-done, with a few exceptions.
That...makes no sense.
What's it like to be a coward?
Zero of them. Madrassas are like schools, you know?
Titan looks good! Though yeah, waaaay too expensive. Nice to see they're finally putting the keys on the lower half.
I never understood why nobody ever made a laptop that replicated a desktop keyboard, exactly (well, get rid of the number pad, I don't care about that). Instead we get decades of cramped, uncomfortable keyboards. The worst being those obnoxious chiclet keyboards that those narcissistic hipsters at Apple somehow got the industry to jump on board re laptops (and even a lot of desktops nowadays).
Just about everybody gets the current state of H-1B workers wrong. There are two pools of H-1Bs, who are here under the same visa but in totally different situations.
The first are people who are actually filling jobs they couldn't find Americans to fill. These are often STEM professions that not enough Americans want to go into in the areas that need them -- like civil or mechanical engineering in unsexy areas (like wastewater treatment), or physicians in underserved areas. Americans with talent and interest in STEM tend to go into more glamorous jobs in more glamorous areas. Think biomedical engineering, neuroscience, etc. etc..
The second category are the ones who are here to displace American workers through mass hiring by shady outsourcing and consulting companies.
It's not really hard to differentiate them. If an engineering firm is hiring one Indian engineer on H-1B to join a large workforce, it's probably legit. If a retailer is hiring 1,000 call center workers on H-1B, it's probably not.
"From you, no. From ESR, quite possibly."
I'd trust an anonymous slashdot poster's anonymous friend a lot more than ESR.
You're missing the point; the question was not the legality of DACA itself, but whether people who qualified under DACA could legally be provided social security numbers.
Oh, did it result in a court ruling that granting social security numbers was not legal? Do you have a citation?
If true, not really relevant. The post I was responding to alleged, falsely, that "liberals look at all human accomplishments with disdain and disgust." It's a stupid lie. Scientists are overwhelmingly democratic and majority liberal, which conflicts with that idiotic thesis. I never made a similar allegation regarding conservatives.
And yet most scientists are Democrats.
Conservatives constantly demonize their opponents even more.
"To work in companies, the illegals use other people's Social Security numbers, they will then files taxes to get their refunds, Child Tax credit, Earned Income Credit, Additional Child Tax Credit, and education credits, and what have you."
Not true; Dreamers are (well, were) eligible for social security numbers.
"To work in companies, the illegals use other people's Social Security numbers, they will then files taxes to get their refunds,"
Or, they just get Individual Taxpayer Identification Numbers (ITINs) that let them file tax returns.
I hope we have not reached the state where something isn't harmful if it isn't financially harmful. The kid cheated. It's morally wrong.
That is not really how it works.
I use AI in a broad sense to include expert systems. Obviously true AI research has been a multi-decade disappointment, but it got a lot more innovative with the move to expert/self-teaching systems. I think separating to some extent the cognitive neurobiology approach from the algorithmic approach is a good one. After the hubris of the 1960s AI guys (looking at you, Marvin Minsky), I think we should be very careful about predicting what's going to happen in the field in the future. If consciousness/intelligence is an emergent property of complex systems, then throwing enough processors/data could very well lead to something.
"So far as the rest of your comment goes: 'Big data' has become a cancer on humanity, just being leveraged by greedy and power-hungry people who want to drain our bank accounts and have control of our lives. I've seen nothing that 'big data' has done that really benefits humanity in general. They violate our privacy and steal from us and then expect us to open our wallets and give them our money. 'Big data' needs to go away."
That's big data as a marketing tool; I'm more interested in big data as something that can actually tell us stuff we didn't know before.
I totally did not meant to insult your screenplay. Sorry, man.
Mac laptops are designed for a very specific operating environment -- sitting in a coffee shop and "working on your screenplay" while desperately hoping the cute hipster girl at the next table over asks you what you're working on, so you can casually mention your screenplay. You probably weren't doing that, thus it's your fault.
I would say it's the opposite; the technology business in the late 90s and early 00s was focused on marketing incrementally better consumer electronics. Most of the companies of the first dot-com boom were basically just setting themselves up as unnecessary middlemen, just on the internet. Now the focus has turned to better AI, self-driving cars, space travel, big data, etc. etc.., which seems a bit more profound than letting people order dog food online.
Also Apple TV, or "it didn't fail, we wanted it not to succeed at all."
Wait, now I actually read it.
""This was another thing that Steve [Jobs] taught me, actually," says Cook. "You've got to be willing to look yourself in the mirror and say I was wrong, it's not right.""
Steve Jobs, the archetypical narcissist, taught him that? Did he teach him that by providing an example of what not to do?
"I'll keep it short and sweet. Family, religion, friendship. These are the three demons you must slay if you wish to succeed in business. When opportunity knocks, you don't want to be driving to a maternity hospital or sitting in some phony-baloney church. Or synagogue."
I'm not that old and I remember a time when credit cards were always processed by hand, with that little credit card mimeo machine. I still run into that every once in a long while when someplace's credit card scanner is down.