Is the human driver aspect a make-work program for under- or unemployed college grads who majored in [INSERT USELESS LIBERAL ARTS MAJOR] ? Can't fathom someone sitting idly in a vehicle most of the day, doing nothing. They'd lose their mind.
Any subject can be viewed through a racial or economic lens, but does that mean the argument has legitimacy or merit? Methinks not.
Step 1: Pick a historically disadvantaged minority or a currently underperforming group.
Step 2: Data mine some negative, unique aspect of said group.
Step 3: Start a crusade to right the perceived wrong.
Example: Pick a group like Native Americans. Point out that they don't have the same access to the myriad varieties of pasta sauce as everyone else. Write a Bloomberg article about the injustice of Prego's distribution strategy and then watch the ad dollars roll in from the click bait piece.
This absurd example is effectively what Bloomberg did with its analysis. Good grief. Amazon would be happy to make money off of quadriplegics if it could. Race has nothing to do with its strategy. Leave the company alone.
/sigh/ Discrimination with a noble intent is still... discrimination. Would love to know out a ride sharing service exclusively for white bros who want a safe space for off color jokes would be received.
Dutch - A few things you should consider processing through that sanctimonious noggin of yours:
1. The quoted text is meant to be an example of content that could be caught up in Facebook's filter, despite its being fair / appropriate discourse on the subject.
2. Replace "Middle Eastern immigrants" with "polka-dotted spaghetti monster immigrants", and the core issue would still be the same: too few resources in terms of housing, law enforcement and social resources are creating a nightmare for the indigenous population. If you want to fund and house millions of people, be my guest. But don't expect everyone to share your brave altruism, and pretty-please-with-sugar-on-top don't try to force your altruism on everyone.
3. People are waking up to being silenced by accusations of racism, phobia, etc.and, candidly, are ceasing to care. You and your ilk have been carpet bombing the world with such (typically mindless) ad hominem attacks, and the efficacy of the attacks has waned. Go shovel that sht elsewhere.
Ahh! That's the crux of it, isn't it? (Sentient / rational) people may be able to tell the difference, but how about Mark Z.'s C++ or Java code? Methinks the code will err on a very conservative side of things and end up censoring legitimate free speech.
Dear Mark Z. - Please define "hate speech" and how you and / or Angela M.'s legions of government bureaucrats plan on not trampling all over legitimate free speech (e.g., "I disagree with Germany's immigration policy because it takes an unrealistic stance on available resources, and I want the immigrants to go home,").
Could care less about aesthetics. I had a ~5 year old Droid RAZR until July 2015, when I lost it. Replaced it with a Droid Turbo and found out I couldn't be on a phone call while simultaneously transmitting data (e.g., WebEx conference calls didn't work).
Looked into the issue and discovered: (i) my old RAZR had two antennas that seamlessly allowed voice calls + data and (ii) Turbo has only one antenna that requires me to turn on a software workaround if I want simultaneous voice + data. Icing on the cake is that the workaround leads to poor voice quality and dropped calls.
Icing on the icing was that the RAZR's battery life was longer than Turbo's. Couldn't believe the half decade old dinosaur was so superior.
Hope the product management people at Lenovo got their heads out of their rear ends on this one.
You forgot to mention the cost of all the military excursions into and ensuing expenditures on the Middle East. It's anyone's guess how much of the DoD's ~$750 billion annual budget can be traced to protecting oil interests, but I'd be surprised if it were less than 10%.
A prerequisite for someone caring about the NSA's collection of personal data and metadata is awareness of the issue, and my thesis is that the average U.S. citizen is blissfully unaware.
Major media outlets in the U.S. appear to have been co-opted, since they don't report on Snowden's staggered releases. Germany's Der Spiegel and other international outlets cover this news in decent detail, but domestic sources such as CNN, NYTimes, Fox News, MSNBC and others that the avg. person reads? Not so much (if at all). They did initially... but now?
A common retort is that domestic outlets don't report this news anymore because the average person doesn't care, and the stories don't help sell advertising. So outlets go back to reporting on the latest important developments with the Kardashians. But this is circular logic, isn't it?
Regarding the point about these programs not affecting most people, I'm reminded of the analogy about a frog sitting in a pot of increasingly hotter water. The frog doesn't fare very well.
Point taken, but a seemingly straightforward answer to the issue you raise is popping the empty soda can off of the bulldozer before both bodies fall into a net.
I'm not close to the design and engineering considerations of this particular project, but the current solution strikes me as overly complex and therefore susceptible to a better, simpler mousetrap somewhere down the road.
Kindergarten Question for SpaceX: why not simply put the equivalent of a safety net on the barge, cut the rocket's engines at an altitude of ~10m and let the rocket fall safely into the net?
Less fuel, less complexity and less cost.
Slashdot Mirror
Is the human driver aspect a make-work program for under- or unemployed college grads who majored in [INSERT USELESS LIBERAL ARTS MAJOR] ? Can't fathom someone sitting idly in a vehicle most of the day, doing nothing. They'd lose their mind.
Any subject can be viewed through a racial or economic lens, but does that mean the argument has legitimacy or merit? Methinks not. Step 1: Pick a historically disadvantaged minority or a currently underperforming group. Step 2: Data mine some negative, unique aspect of said group. Step 3: Start a crusade to right the perceived wrong. Example: Pick a group like Native Americans. Point out that they don't have the same access to the myriad varieties of pasta sauce as everyone else. Write a Bloomberg article about the injustice of Prego's distribution strategy and then watch the ad dollars roll in from the click bait piece. This absurd example is effectively what Bloomberg did with its analysis. Good grief. Amazon would be happy to make money off of quadriplegics if it could. Race has nothing to do with its strategy. Leave the company alone.
/sigh/ Discrimination with a noble intent is still... discrimination. Would love to know out a ride sharing service exclusively for white bros who want a safe space for off color jokes would be received.
Dutch - A few things you should consider processing through that sanctimonious noggin of yours: 1. The quoted text is meant to be an example of content that could be caught up in Facebook's filter, despite its being fair / appropriate discourse on the subject. 2. Replace "Middle Eastern immigrants" with "polka-dotted spaghetti monster immigrants", and the core issue would still be the same: too few resources in terms of housing, law enforcement and social resources are creating a nightmare for the indigenous population. If you want to fund and house millions of people, be my guest. But don't expect everyone to share your brave altruism, and pretty-please-with-sugar-on-top don't try to force your altruism on everyone. 3. People are waking up to being silenced by accusations of racism, phobia, etc.and, candidly, are ceasing to care. You and your ilk have been carpet bombing the world with such (typically mindless) ad hominem attacks, and the efficacy of the attacks has waned. Go shovel that sht elsewhere.
Great. Now please post the design specs so that a coder can put in place logic enforcing such well-defined German laws and case precedents.
Ahh! That's the crux of it, isn't it? (Sentient / rational) people may be able to tell the difference, but how about Mark Z.'s C++ or Java code? Methinks the code will err on a very conservative side of things and end up censoring legitimate free speech.
Dear Mark Z. - Please define "hate speech" and how you and / or Angela M.'s legions of government bureaucrats plan on not trampling all over legitimate free speech (e.g., "I disagree with Germany's immigration policy because it takes an unrealistic stance on available resources, and I want the immigrants to go home,").
Could care less about aesthetics. I had a ~5 year old Droid RAZR until July 2015, when I lost it. Replaced it with a Droid Turbo and found out I couldn't be on a phone call while simultaneously transmitting data (e.g., WebEx conference calls didn't work). Looked into the issue and discovered: (i) my old RAZR had two antennas that seamlessly allowed voice calls + data and (ii) Turbo has only one antenna that requires me to turn on a software workaround if I want simultaneous voice + data. Icing on the cake is that the workaround leads to poor voice quality and dropped calls. Icing on the icing was that the RAZR's battery life was longer than Turbo's. Couldn't believe the half decade old dinosaur was so superior. Hope the product management people at Lenovo got their heads out of their rear ends on this one.
News Flash: central planning has failed and continues to fail wherever it's attempted. Really tough to suppress adoption of better mouse traps.
You forgot to mention the cost of all the military excursions into and ensuing expenditures on the Middle East. It's anyone's guess how much of the DoD's ~$750 billion annual budget can be traced to protecting oil interests, but I'd be surprised if it were less than 10%.
A prerequisite for someone caring about the NSA's collection of personal data and metadata is awareness of the issue, and my thesis is that the average U.S. citizen is blissfully unaware. Major media outlets in the U.S. appear to have been co-opted, since they don't report on Snowden's staggered releases. Germany's Der Spiegel and other international outlets cover this news in decent detail, but domestic sources such as CNN, NYTimes, Fox News, MSNBC and others that the avg. person reads? Not so much (if at all). They did initially... but now? A common retort is that domestic outlets don't report this news anymore because the average person doesn't care, and the stories don't help sell advertising. So outlets go back to reporting on the latest important developments with the Kardashians. But this is circular logic, isn't it? Regarding the point about these programs not affecting most people, I'm reminded of the analogy about a frog sitting in a pot of increasingly hotter water. The frog doesn't fare very well.
Point taken, but a seemingly straightforward answer to the issue you raise is popping the empty soda can off of the bulldozer before both bodies fall into a net. I'm not close to the design and engineering considerations of this particular project, but the current solution strikes me as overly complex and therefore susceptible to a better, simpler mousetrap somewhere down the road.
Kindergarten Question for SpaceX: why not simply put the equivalent of a safety net on the barge, cut the rocket's engines at an altitude of ~10m and let the rocket fall safely into the net? Less fuel, less complexity and less cost.