The first is Lee Jussim, who is a professor in this field, but is well known for going against the prevailing views in academia... it's more like "some fringe experts who reject the mainstream, most widely accepted view agree with this guy".
When you are publicly shamed, then fired, then sent death threats for not having the PC view, of course only a few "fringe experts" would risk having a different opinion.
I don't even agree with the guy, but the hate he's receiving disgusts me.
How do you predict something for which you have no data whatsoever? If most children haven't received paternity testing, how do you know how many of them have the expected father? It could be none of them, or it could be all of them, or anything in between.
Besides, if men's suspicions are so off base, they could be equally bad at not suspecting a cheating partner.
Freedom of speech is not freedom from consequences. It never has been.
I keep hearing that. I don't think you realize what it's actually saying. One of these days, the speech will be disagreement with government policy, and the consequence will be public execution (accompanied by the righteous cheers of the majority).
It's always been the case the unpopular opinions can make it harder to get a job.
Just because it's been this way for a long time, doesn't mean it's right or we shouldn't change it. How would you feel if I turned this around? "It's always been the case that being a woman can make it harder to get a high-paying job, so it okay if it stays this way."
Group think is evil, especially so at a tech company because it prevents new ideas from gaining traction. I mean, that's the entire argument for gender and racial diversity in the first place, so it's pretty ironic that the same people who call for diversity are so quick to silence others.
His ideas aren't even that far out there, half of all Americans, and probably a majority of the world would support him. If it's not okay for Google to exclude the feminine half of humanity, why is it okay to exclude the conservative half?
One sample does not a statistic make, but a million samples do. People all over the world think women like shopping and don't like tinkering with machines. They don't all believe that because of a global male conspiracy. Many of them have mothers, sisters, wives and daughters: women they see everyday, women whom they love and respect. And what do those women do? They happily spends their weekends at the mall.
How does one know if AI is more accurate than humans? If the AI says the video is extremist, and the human says it's not, then who's right? Is there another machine out there that gets to be the arbiter?
The real answer is that there is some human who decided whether a video is extremist, then gave it to both the AI and another human, and the AI was able to learn how to agree better with the 1st human. Unfortunately, that doesn't actually tell us if the video is extremist or if the AI is any good, because the first human isn't more right than the second.
Trans people are what, 0.1% of all soldiers? Heck, I wouldn't mind if half of the soldiers were laid off tomorrow. We would be much better off if we didn't spend half of the federal budget on killing brown people.
MD5 has collisions like a mofo. Besides, this sure sounds like a universal, "we don't like this person and therefore they're a terrorist" type of situation.
The ethnic conflict in China is not exactly the same as the terrorist situation we have here in the US. Almost 200 people died as a result of riots by the Uyghur minority. There's also more recent and typical terrorist attacks such as this and this, which also fans the flames. I can see why they're suspicious of muslims in general.
Seems like a legit reason to not have a smartphone.
Or you can side-load a cracked version that doesn't actually report anything, though I highly doubt terrorists are smart enough to actually do that. Plus, I'm pretty sure pirating (and cracking) software is haram.
Having been in India recently and see it first hand, I'd agree. It's much easier to build a self-driving vehicle in India because there are no rules other than "don't hit anything". Everyone behaves as if there's an invisible bubble around their vehicle, with which they could bump and push other vehicles out of the way. Surprisingly, other drivers also respect this bubble and will move out of the way if another vehicle comes too close. It wouldn't be very hard to simulate this behavior with a computer, since it's very predictable.
Interestingly, the situation is the same in the US. If you were in a lane and starts drifting towards the car in the next lane, they will try to move away from you too, long before you cross the lane marker. It's an unconscious movement, but it works with most attentive drivers.
This would make the physical stores even worse. They already know you're in the store, so the effort it takes to go to a competitor is going to make you spend the extra $ at their store. They could for example, give you 1 item at a discount, then once you've committed to standing in their checkout line, mark up everything else.
With online stores, the worst that could happen is you have to open a new tab and check the competition, which takes 30 seconds or so.
While your experience is interesting, I don't think you can conclude CE or CSE is what people should go for. I got my BS in Computer Science and got a great job offer before I even graduated. I have friends who went for CE and we were in the exact same classes. In the end, they had slightly more trouble finding jobs they liked than me, but it wasn't a huge difference.
I also want to dispel another misunderstanding you seem to have. College level CS classes don't teach you how to code. Actually, this applies to all college classes. They don't really teach you: they point you in the right direction and expect you to learn it for yourself. That also means you don't actually need them to learn. I have plenty of (very highly-paid) coworkers who never took a single CS class in their life and learned everything they needed by themselves.
There's an endless ocean of tutorials, sample code, documentation and help forums that's just a Google search away. If you're passionate about software, CS classes, or a lack thereof, will not stop you. With enough practice, coding will eventually become second nature. For me at least, writing code can be easier than stringing together proper English sentences.
They may or may not be able to do anything about cellular capacity, it depends on whether the network operators are willing to cooperate. That said, they sure as hell could have set up a bunch of wifi access points at the venue and tell people to use that instead. At $300 a ticket, they could've easily bought one wireless router for each and every attendee.
You'd think after running into trouble with unexpectedly high volumes when they launched the game, they'd learn a thing or two about capacity planning. And in this case, they knew exactly how many people were coming and what they'll be doing once here.
I wouldn't ever go to a Pokemon Go event, but if I did, I'd be pissed too.
Unless they get every news site out there to cooperate, Google and Facebook will just switch to other sources. Besides the smaller domestic ones, there's tons of foreign news sources too. Even if they lose some traffic, it's not that big of a deal. Meanwhile, I wonder how long these news sites will last without any readers.
It sounds like there's a line you would draw, somewhere between getting dinner and going on an overseas trip, where you would be unhappy if someone bailed at the last minute. Where is that line?
On a related note, if someone frequently bails on you for casual get togethers, would you still plan a long trip with them?
I actually don't really like to meet "old school" in a restaurant/pub with a prescheduled date. I either go there and we meet by accident or we don't or we do it on short notice. Short notice means half a day max: "what are you doing this evening?" And then I can bail out right away: "Oh, I'm occupied!"
That's fine if you're just going for dinner or drinks, but what if you're going somewhere that requires you to buy plane tickets?
Everyone's definition is different. Do you want people you can rely on through thick and thin? Or just people to have fun with?
I tend to agree with GP and call the first kind "friend" and the second kind "acquaintance". You can have fun with complete strangers, but you can't rely on them in a time of need.
Besides, if your friends will happily bail on you at the drop of a hat, who do you turn to when things go south and your life's in the gutter? As someone much wiser than me once said:
A friend will help you move, but a true friend will help you move a body.
Plans for something 20+ years ahead are retarded, there's no way to know the circumstances or predict what will be going on in 2040.
The fact that they're not removing roads and replacing them with optical fibers says a lot about what they think the future will be like. Politicians have no imagination.
Careful, that kind of sounds like censorship; a curbing of one's freedom of speech. It has a faint odor akin to this troll's actions toward the Jewish people and one media outlet.
Don't be stupid. The right to free speech doesn't apply when you're yelling through a megaphone in a quiet neighborhood. You're still free to exercise it in front of the city government building, or put up signs on your lawn, or send letters to your neighbors, or post your thoughts on the internet.
"freedom of speech does not imply freedom from consequences." Let me illustrate it in very simple terms. Let's say one day you walk up to your boss at work. You decide to exercise your right to freely tell him what an awful person he is and call him out of his incestuous relationship with his mother. He then chooses to exercise his right to freely tell you that you're fired.
Oh? So we should make it legal for your employer to fire you if you decided that you won't vote for Trump's 2nd term? Complaining about Trump is speech, getting fired is the consequence (see what I did there?).
Have you tried not throwing him in prison before putting him on the atomic project? I hear wrongfully imprisoning people makes them not like you as much. Some might even want to take revenge!
Ok, let them wage a conventional war and keep the NBC weapons out of reach of the kids.
How long can your precious generals keep that up when the Soviets are beating the crap out of you in conventional warfare? Heck, even the Chinese fought you to a standstill.
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The first is Lee Jussim, who is a professor in this field, but is well known for going against the prevailing views in academia... it's more like "some fringe experts who reject the mainstream, most widely accepted view agree with this guy".
When you are publicly shamed, then fired, then sent death threats for not having the PC view, of course only a few "fringe experts" would risk having a different opinion.
I don't even agree with the guy, but the hate he's receiving disgusts me.
Would "hate facts" happen to be facts that disagree with your world view? If so, I know some flat-earth groups you should be joining.
How do you predict something for which you have no data whatsoever? If most children haven't received paternity testing, how do you know how many of them have the expected father? It could be none of them, or it could be all of them, or anything in between.
Besides, if men's suspicions are so off base, they could be equally bad at not suspecting a cheating partner.
Freedom of speech is not freedom from consequences. It never has been.
I keep hearing that. I don't think you realize what it's actually saying. One of these days, the speech will be disagreement with government policy, and the consequence will be public execution (accompanied by the righteous cheers of the majority).
It's always been the case the unpopular opinions can make it harder to get a job.
Just because it's been this way for a long time, doesn't mean it's right or we shouldn't change it. How would you feel if I turned this around? "It's always been the case that being a woman can make it harder to get a high-paying job, so it okay if it stays this way."
Group think is evil, especially so at a tech company because it prevents new ideas from gaining traction. I mean, that's the entire argument for gender and racial diversity in the first place, so it's pretty ironic that the same people who call for diversity are so quick to silence others.
His ideas aren't even that far out there, half of all Americans, and probably a majority of the world would support him. If it's not okay for Google to exclude the feminine half of humanity, why is it okay to exclude the conservative half?
One sample does not a statistic make, but a million samples do. People all over the world think women like shopping and don't like tinkering with machines. They don't all believe that because of a global male conspiracy. Many of them have mothers, sisters, wives and daughters: women they see everyday, women whom they love and respect. And what do those women do? They happily spends their weekends at the mall.
How does one know if AI is more accurate than humans? If the AI says the video is extremist, and the human says it's not, then who's right? Is there another machine out there that gets to be the arbiter?
The real answer is that there is some human who decided whether a video is extremist, then gave it to both the AI and another human, and the AI was able to learn how to agree better with the 1st human. Unfortunately, that doesn't actually tell us if the video is extremist or if the AI is any good, because the first human isn't more right than the second.
Trans people are what, 0.1% of all soldiers? Heck, I wouldn't mind if half of the soldiers were laid off tomorrow. We would be much better off if we didn't spend half of the federal budget on killing brown people.
MD5 has collisions like a mofo. Besides, this sure sounds like a universal, "we don't like this person and therefore they're a terrorist" type of situation.
The ethnic conflict in China is not exactly the same as the terrorist situation we have here in the US. Almost 200 people died as a result of riots by the Uyghur minority. There's also more recent and typical terrorist attacks such as this and this, which also fans the flames. I can see why they're suspicious of muslims in general.
Seems like a legit reason to not have a smartphone.
Or you can side-load a cracked version that doesn't actually report anything, though I highly doubt terrorists are smart enough to actually do that. Plus, I'm pretty sure pirating (and cracking) software is haram.
Having been in India recently and see it first hand, I'd agree. It's much easier to build a self-driving vehicle in India because there are no rules other than "don't hit anything". Everyone behaves as if there's an invisible bubble around their vehicle, with which they could bump and push other vehicles out of the way. Surprisingly, other drivers also respect this bubble and will move out of the way if another vehicle comes too close. It wouldn't be very hard to simulate this behavior with a computer, since it's very predictable.
Interestingly, the situation is the same in the US. If you were in a lane and starts drifting towards the car in the next lane, they will try to move away from you too, long before you cross the lane marker. It's an unconscious movement, but it works with most attentive drivers.
This would make the physical stores even worse. They already know you're in the store, so the effort it takes to go to a competitor is going to make you spend the extra $ at their store. They could for example, give you 1 item at a discount, then once you've committed to standing in their checkout line, mark up everything else.
With online stores, the worst that could happen is you have to open a new tab and check the competition, which takes 30 seconds or so.
While your experience is interesting, I don't think you can conclude CE or CSE is what people should go for. I got my BS in Computer Science and got a great job offer before I even graduated. I have friends who went for CE and we were in the exact same classes. In the end, they had slightly more trouble finding jobs they liked than me, but it wasn't a huge difference.
I also want to dispel another misunderstanding you seem to have. College level CS classes don't teach you how to code. Actually, this applies to all college classes. They don't really teach you: they point you in the right direction and expect you to learn it for yourself. That also means you don't actually need them to learn. I have plenty of (very highly-paid) coworkers who never took a single CS class in their life and learned everything they needed by themselves.
There's an endless ocean of tutorials, sample code, documentation and help forums that's just a Google search away. If you're passionate about software, CS classes, or a lack thereof, will not stop you. With enough practice, coding will eventually become second nature. For me at least, writing code can be easier than stringing together proper English sentences.
They may or may not be able to do anything about cellular capacity, it depends on whether the network operators are willing to cooperate. That said, they sure as hell could have set up a bunch of wifi access points at the venue and tell people to use that instead. At $300 a ticket, they could've easily bought one wireless router for each and every attendee.
You'd think after running into trouble with unexpectedly high volumes when they launched the game, they'd learn a thing or two about capacity planning. And in this case, they knew exactly how many people were coming and what they'll be doing once here.
I wouldn't ever go to a Pokemon Go event, but if I did, I'd be pissed too.
Unless they get every news site out there to cooperate, Google and Facebook will just switch to other sources. Besides the smaller domestic ones, there's tons of foreign news sources too. Even if they lose some traffic, it's not that big of a deal. Meanwhile, I wonder how long these news sites will last without any readers.
Potato cannon?
Right now, the guy on the outside helping was untouchable until the moment his drone actually released it's cargo.
What's wrong with waiting for the drone to drop the cargo and nab both the outsider and the inmate?
It sounds like there's a line you would draw, somewhere between getting dinner and going on an overseas trip, where you would be unhappy if someone bailed at the last minute. Where is that line?
On a related note, if someone frequently bails on you for casual get togethers, would you still plan a long trip with them?
I actually don't really like to meet "old school" in a restaurant/pub with a prescheduled date. I either go there and we meet by accident or we don't or we do it on short notice. Short notice means half a day max: "what are you doing this evening?" And then I can bail out right away: "Oh, I'm occupied!"
That's fine if you're just going for dinner or drinks, but what if you're going somewhere that requires you to buy plane tickets?
That's an unusual definition of friendship.
Everyone's definition is different. Do you want people you can rely on through thick and thin? Or just people to have fun with?
I tend to agree with GP and call the first kind "friend" and the second kind "acquaintance". You can have fun with complete strangers, but you can't rely on them in a time of need.
Besides, if your friends will happily bail on you at the drop of a hat, who do you turn to when things go south and your life's in the gutter? As someone much wiser than me once said:
A friend will help you move, but a true friend will help you move a body.
Plans for something 20+ years ahead are retarded, there's no way to know the circumstances or predict what will be going on in 2040.
The fact that they're not removing roads and replacing them with optical fibers says a lot about what they think the future will be like. Politicians have no imagination.
Careful, that kind of sounds like censorship; a curbing of one's freedom of speech. It has a faint odor akin to this troll's actions toward the Jewish people and one media outlet.
Don't be stupid. The right to free speech doesn't apply when you're yelling through a megaphone in a quiet neighborhood. You're still free to exercise it in front of the city government building, or put up signs on your lawn, or send letters to your neighbors, or post your thoughts on the internet.
"freedom of speech does not imply freedom from consequences." Let me illustrate it in very simple terms. Let's say one day you walk up to your boss at work. You decide to exercise your right to freely tell him what an awful person he is and call him out of his incestuous relationship with his mother. He then chooses to exercise his right to freely tell you that you're fired.
Oh? So we should make it legal for your employer to fire you if you decided that you won't vote for Trump's 2nd term? Complaining about Trump is speech, getting fired is the consequence (see what I did there?).
I guess this conviction was a mistake?
That's harassment. The right to speech is trumped by the right to not hear that speech.
And, these
Darwin awards for everyone who listened to him. Good riddance.
kinds of people should be protected?
Have you tried not throwing him in prison before putting him on the atomic project? I hear wrongfully imprisoning people makes them not like you as much. Some might even want to take revenge!
It's not a problem when it's peaceful... but it means the death toll gets crazy high whenever a radioactive monster or space armada attacks the city.
This is why you need to upgrade to Tokyo 3 first. Tokyo 1 and 2 just don't cut it.
Ok, let them wage a conventional war and keep the NBC weapons out of reach of the kids.
How long can your precious generals keep that up when the Soviets are beating the crap out of you in conventional warfare? Heck, even the Chinese fought you to a standstill.