Seriously. KDE has some nice things going for it but it tends to be quirky. For example, you can't disable mouse acceleration through any UIs. I had to look up the console command and have it execute on login. Which means I also have to change my mouse sensitivity through this shell script.
Direct democracy is a terrible idea. Most people can't be bothered to become informed on anything. As we see with current ballot initiatives, people vote for what "sounds good" (quote from a co-worker on their personal approach to voting). Most people are making important decisions based on a very brief and often misleading summary. They often elect politicians based on even less information.
They're already doing that. Look up "deboosting". Project Veritas exposed it but there was more detail in the discussion between James O'Keefe and Steven Crowder (who was specifically targeted with this "feature").
The first thing I thought of when I saw this post was Howard Payne and Deviant Ollam's talk "This key is your key, this key is my key". If you want to see how godawful most companies (and the government) are at security, watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Or young educated professionals overestimate their understanding of the world and build a utopian vision based on a naive and overly simplistic worldview and are too stubborn to see its flaws until they get older and, hopefully, wiser?
Anyway, grandparent is completely correct. Ultimately the voters decide everything. Blaming people spending money to manipulate voters with propaganda is missing the point. There will always be propaganda. There will always be attempts at manipulation and misinformation. And they do this because people fall for it. Your best bet would be to make the voters better informed and better critical thinkers, but good luck with that. We've had decades of campaigns telling people it's their civic duty to vote even when they don't understand the issues. Originally the US only allowed landowners to vote. That's not practical today, but it did provide a filter on the voting pool to favor people more invested in the country and generally more educated.
And in 2016 the Super PAC "Correct the Record" paid people to join online conversations to post pro-Hillary stuff and attack comments critical of her. It also coordinated with her campaign, claiming they were exempt from rules against coordination. That was much more extensive than a few internet polls.
Most of them are not refugees from political violence. Most of them are leaving for financial reasons. And the caravans started because Pueblos Sin Fronteras organized them and told these people their life would be much better if they left for the US. There's a reason the last one hit the border right at election time.
Tunnels take time to dig and create a single entry point that can be monitored more easily. Claiming a shovel makes the entire wall useless is an idiotic argument, especially when walls have been demonstrably effective where we already have them.
The advantage of a physical wall is it doesn't care who is in the white house. When you rely on catching people crossing illegally what to do with them after is a matter of policy that can be determined by the administration. If you prefer ignoring the law and allowing illegal immigration this is a feature.
Clearly. Why not take a reasonably functional system containing hundreds of millions of people and flip it on its head so we can see what happens? What could possibly go wrong?
This is how you know our society is spoiled. People support this kind of stuff without fearing the consequences of their actions.
Yes, they had Iron Python. Then they decided to drop it and eliminate that team. Last I checked some of the developers still worked on it in their free time but it was way behind.
Which is a little annoying because if you're mixing languages the integration between Python and C# is nonexistant.
Type annotations and docstrings help with the whole lack of type declaration thing. Of course that requires discipline, which is in short supply from my experience. If you can force your developers to run pylint that will at least complain when they don't have docstrings.
I haven't touched JavaScript in about 10 years so I'm not going to comment on that, but "use strict" is quite possibly the worst idea in Perl. I don't know why JavaScript would copy it.
That's bullshit and you know it. The Texas church shooter had already done his deed and was fleeing the scene when the citizen intervened. Also, the citizen's choice of weapon had squat to do with ultimately stopping his escape. But - Hey! Keep living that Rambo fantasy!
1. He was heading to another target to shoot more people. 2. He was wearing body armor and the citizen with the AR-15 recognized that the type of armor he was wearing doesn't cover the sides. He specifically aimed at his sides for this reason. While behind a truck at a reasonably long distance. Yes, the choice of weapon made a big difference.
I usually buy Nvidia cards and their official drivers for Linux work well. When I bought an ATI card it took me a while to find out their official drivers aren't very good and you're better off with the open source drivers.
Damore starts of by insulting his audience for fun, apparently, with a superficial argument based on nothing more than name calling (e.g. "ideological echo chamber"), when it is only very tangentially related to his main arguments.
Yeah I'm sure he said "you know what would be fun? insulting a bunch of people! I'm going to write a memo doing that!" Good thing you figured out his real motive.
Pointing out that Google has an ideological echo chamber is in no way name calling. It isn't even an insult. It's simply addressing the problem. And it was not tangentially related to his main arguments. His main argument was that they have an ideological echo chamber. Their discriminatory hiring practices in the name of "diversity" (and that they did not appear to even consider other possible solutions) is a symptom of the problem.
Where exactly the truth lies on that last point is really unimportant. It was appropriate to push him out.
And now you're proving his point. You seem to think it's unimportant whether he was discriminated against based on people disagreeing with him on ideological issues. As he points out in the beginning of the memo this is exactly what leads to the ideological echo chamber.
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Seriously. KDE has some nice things going for it but it tends to be quirky. For example, you can't disable mouse acceleration through any UIs. I had to look up the console command and have it execute on login. Which means I also have to change my mouse sensitivity through this shell script.
Direct democracy is a terrible idea. Most people can't be bothered to become informed on anything. As we see with current ballot initiatives, people vote for what "sounds good" (quote from a co-worker on their personal approach to voting). Most people are making important decisions based on a very brief and often misleading summary. They often elect politicians based on even less information.
Not every slippery slope argument is a logical fallacy.
They're already doing that. Look up "deboosting". Project Veritas exposed it but there was more detail in the discussion between James O'Keefe and Steven Crowder (who was specifically targeted with this "feature").
The first thing I thought of when I saw this post was Howard Payne and Deviant Ollam's talk "This key is your key, this key is my key". If you want to see how godawful most companies (and the government) are at security, watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Or the incompetence of how the TSA master keys were leaked: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Yeah, let's not make any master keys please.
Or young educated professionals overestimate their understanding of the world and build a utopian vision based on a naive and overly simplistic worldview and are too stubborn to see its flaws until they get older and, hopefully, wiser?
Anyway, grandparent is completely correct. Ultimately the voters decide everything. Blaming people spending money to manipulate voters with propaganda is missing the point. There will always be propaganda. There will always be attempts at manipulation and misinformation. And they do this because people fall for it. Your best bet would be to make the voters better informed and better critical thinkers, but good luck with that. We've had decades of campaigns telling people it's their civic duty to vote even when they don't understand the issues. Originally the US only allowed landowners to vote. That's not practical today, but it did provide a filter on the voting pool to favor people more invested in the country and generally more educated.
And in 2016 the Super PAC "Correct the Record" paid people to join online conversations to post pro-Hillary stuff and attack comments critical of her. It also coordinated with her campaign, claiming they were exempt from rules against coordination. That was much more extensive than a few internet polls.
Most of them are not refugees from political violence. Most of them are leaving for financial reasons. And the caravans started because Pueblos Sin Fronteras organized them and told these people their life would be much better if they left for the US. There's a reason the last one hit the border right at election time.
Tunnels take time to dig and create a single entry point that can be monitored more easily. Claiming a shovel makes the entire wall useless is an idiotic argument, especially when walls have been demonstrably effective where we already have them.
I thought it was $80 from everyone who voted for Trump?
Border Patrol disagrees with you:
https://www.kusi.com/cnn-reque...
The advantage of a physical wall is it doesn't care who is in the white house. When you rely on catching people crossing illegally what to do with them after is a matter of policy that can be determined by the administration. If you prefer ignoring the law and allowing illegal immigration this is a feature.
Note that the party was advertised as a "mansion party". I'm guessing the house you're renting isn't a mansion.
“When the people find that they can vote themselves money that will herald the end of the republic.”
- Benjamin Franklin
Clearly. Why not take a reasonably functional system containing hundreds of millions of people and flip it on its head so we can see what happens? What could possibly go wrong?
This is how you know our society is spoiled. People support this kind of stuff without fearing the consequences of their actions.
Yes, they had Iron Python. Then they decided to drop it and eliminate that team. Last I checked some of the developers still worked on it in their free time but it was way behind.
Which is a little annoying because if you're mixing languages the integration between Python and C# is nonexistant.
He's termed out. Gavin Newsom will be elected in November. And if you think Brown is bad, wait til you see Newsom!
Type annotations and docstrings help with the whole lack of type declaration thing. Of course that requires discipline, which is in short supply from my experience. If you can force your developers to run pylint that will at least complain when they don't have docstrings.
Clarification: It shouldn't exist because the language should just behave that way by default.
I haven't touched JavaScript in about 10 years so I'm not going to comment on that, but "use strict" is quite possibly the worst idea in Perl. I don't know why JavaScript would copy it.
I have a question, how many beer cans would someone have to melt down to make an AR-15? I'm asking for a friend.
Soda cans and it's just a lower receiver, but close enough:
https://youtu.be/on1d9Bz34bU
Yeah but if we rename it and pretend we're giving it to everyone (even the people paying for it) it will FEEL like a totally new and fresh idea!
That's bullshit and you know it. The Texas church shooter had already done his deed and was fleeing the scene when the citizen intervened. Also, the citizen's choice of weapon had squat to do with ultimately stopping his escape. But - Hey! Keep living that Rambo fantasy!
1. He was heading to another target to shoot more people.
2. He was wearing body armor and the citizen with the AR-15 recognized that the type of armor he was wearing doesn't cover the sides. He specifically aimed at his sides for this reason. While behind a truck at a reasonably long distance. Yes, the choice of weapon made a big difference.
I usually buy Nvidia cards and their official drivers for Linux work well. When I bought an ATI card it took me a while to find out their official drivers aren't very good and you're better off with the open source drivers.
Except he didn't say there wasn't a problem. He even suggested other possible approaches to addressing the problem in his memo.
And as for your appeal to authority there were also experts that backed him up.
Damore starts of by insulting his audience for fun, apparently, with a superficial argument based on nothing more than name calling (e.g. "ideological echo chamber"), when it is only very tangentially related to his main arguments.
Yeah I'm sure he said "you know what would be fun? insulting a bunch of people! I'm going to write a memo doing that!" Good thing you figured out his real motive.
Pointing out that Google has an ideological echo chamber is in no way name calling. It isn't even an insult. It's simply addressing the problem. And it was not tangentially related to his main arguments. His main argument was that they have an ideological echo chamber. Their discriminatory hiring practices in the name of "diversity" (and that they did not appear to even consider other possible solutions) is a symptom of the problem.
Where exactly the truth lies on that last point is really unimportant. It was appropriate to push him out.
And now you're proving his point. You seem to think it's unimportant whether he was discriminated against based on people disagreeing with him on ideological issues. As he points out in the beginning of the memo this is exactly what leads to the ideological echo chamber.