Pretty sure Google pays for a "diversity chief" and has an entire of team dedicated to "diversity".
I think upper management is fully aware of what they're doing. If they wanted to have somebody to appease the SJW's, they could have made the position entirely ceremonial, instead of giving them actual power.
The question now is whether the premise that "diversity" improves productivity is actually true.
I assume by making their client look bad in the eyes of the public, they're less likely to be hired for the next case that comes along. And for a company like Google, there's always new cases coming along.
Next you'll tell me that cancer research is useless because it doesn't help heart attack patients.
Not all solutions are designed to help everyone.
HSA's are helpful to people who make too much to qualify for the subsidies under the ACA, but lives in a relatively high-cost area and those who are impacted by the so-called "family glitch".
It should be a lot easier to verify a uniform ring of smaller objects. You can point the telescope at any point along the expected orbit and see a steady stream of objects.
If we don't see that, then it would either be a tight clump in the process of turning into a planet, or a planet, or something completely different. After all, there could be other explanations for the orbits of eTNOs.
There's no funding available. Nor is there political will to provide it. That's the real impossibility here.
A lot of the other "impossible" things would suddenly become possible if the deadline was a huge asteroid coming our way. For one, we would probably restart Project Orion and stop worrying about launch windows.
even with unlimited funding, putting a Man on Mars by 2020 is impossible.
Do you think the answer would be different if something twice the size of the Chicxulub asteroid was discovered heading towards Earth?
Would you like it to be?
To perform such a project new technologies need to be made
No. We know how to create artificial gravity, and we know how to protect ourselves from radiation. Supplying food, water and oxygen is already a solved problem. As is landing something the size of an SUV on Mars.
the mythical man month is in play. There is only so much the everyone can do at once until they start stepping on each others feet
The mythical man month only applies to individual projects. Not everyone needs to be on the same project. There could be thousands of separate efforts, delivering different parts of what's necessary. You can have a dozen entirely separate launches devoted to putting enough water in space, a dozen more for putting it on Mars, a few hundred for delivering people. At least a few of them will make it.
Safely is the key word. With unlimited funding and an unhealthy disregard for human lives, we can build and send millions of these crafts. At least a few people will survive the landing.
That's completely pointless. I already arrive at the theater a few minutes late to avoid the previews. At home it's even easier. My speaker has a mute button and my browser supports multiple tabs.
it's not okay to report false information. Companies that provide information about people, such as credit rating agencies, are strictly regulated in the EU and have a duty to provide accurate information.
And who gets to decide what's accurate? Google? Scientists? Courts? Democratic elections? You?
It would take geologic eons for anyone to judge all 30 trillion web pages that Google indexes. Not to mention there's nobody that everyone trusts.
If you wanted accurate information, I suggest you stick to encyclopedias (a real one, not Wikipedia) and meta studies published in reputable journals instead of Google search results. Of course even those can contain errors, in which you can just stick with "I think therefore I am" and be 100% certain of it's accuracy.
That it can be done safely does not mean it will always be done safely. Someone will mess it up given enough time and it only takes one. Now it's hard to quantify what advantages of using the new bases will be evolutionarily speaking, but if there's an advantage, we will eventually see it out in the wild.
The most surprising result from that is how the Martian soil did better than Earth soil.
I think the researchers probably could've been a bit more careful in their choice of Earth soil. Clearly we have much better soil, such as potting soil, that should have outperformed the Martian soil simulant and would have made a more interesting comparison. After all, the alternative to using Martian soil is not average Earth soil, but the best kind of soil we can make.
A comparison with hydroponics or aeroponics would be interesting too.
Those regulations are for the casinos, not the gamblers. If a few of them started cheating, they'd make more money than the rest. But it'll give a lot of customers bad experiences in the process, which drives them away from the activity. All other casinos then make less money. It's a case of the tragedy of the commons, with gamblers being the field and casinos being the herders.
I feel like I've heard this story many times. Drugs, alcohol, sex, internet. Then there's ones people don't consider addictions, such as work and love.
For most people, they get caught in one of those traps. It ruins them for a while, then they learn not to do it again.
It's definitely worse for them than not having been addicted at all, but I don't think there's a way to learn that lesson without going through the process. If it's not gambling, it'll be one of those other things. It's just unfortunate that for some of them, it ends up being fatal.
Mostly steady. We keep discovering new "features", such as the one that reboots the whole server if a user loads a particular page.
It only took a day to debug and fix that one. Turns out even things written in C++ can run out of memory and the previous guys didn't think the table can have so many rows.
On the plus side, at least we're getting a lot of new users.
There are no restrictions on what you can ask in an interview. Age, marital status, number of children, do you have a boyfriend, etc, are all fair game.
Are there restrictions on what you can lie about?
I'm 25, unmarried, no children, no boyfriend, no parents, no friends in fact. I can weigh however much you want me to weigh, be however tall you want me to be, and it would be the greatest honor to die by karoshi while in service of your company.
2x is about how much faster Python interviewees code up the answers my questions, compared to C++ folks. And yes, it's an apples to apples comparison. I can tell they're roughly of equal intelligence by how long it takes them to figure out the algorithm.
I can already guess that your bug tracker is filled with bugs.
You're actually right. I have ~200 bugs assigned to me right now...
...for a C++ project I took over from supposedly very experienced C++ developers.
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Pretty sure Google pays for a "diversity chief" and has an entire of team dedicated to "diversity".
I think upper management is fully aware of what they're doing. If they wanted to have somebody to appease the SJW's, they could have made the position entirely ceremonial, instead of giving them actual power.
The question now is whether the premise that "diversity" improves productivity is actually true.
I assume by making their client look bad in the eyes of the public, they're less likely to be hired for the next case that comes along. And for a company like Google, there's always new cases coming along.
Added together, it's still cheaper than your current rate.
Next you'll tell me that cancer research is useless because it doesn't help heart attack patients.
Not all solutions are designed to help everyone.
HSA's are helpful to people who make too much to qualify for the subsidies under the ACA, but lives in a relatively high-cost area and those who are impacted by the so-called "family glitch".
It should be a lot easier to verify a uniform ring of smaller objects. You can point the telescope at any point along the expected orbit and see a steady stream of objects.
If we don't see that, then it would either be a tight clump in the process of turning into a planet, or a planet, or something completely different. After all, there could be other explanations for the orbits of eTNOs.
We would learn a lot either way. It's not like the money is better spent otherwise, we're already overdue for another war.
There's no funding available. Nor is there political will to provide it. That's the real impossibility here.
A lot of the other "impossible" things would suddenly become possible if the deadline was a huge asteroid coming our way. For one, we would probably restart Project Orion and stop worrying about launch windows.
even with unlimited funding, putting a Man on Mars by 2020 is impossible.
Do you think the answer would be different if something twice the size of the Chicxulub asteroid was discovered heading towards Earth?
Would you like it to be?
To perform such a project new technologies need to be made
No. We know how to create artificial gravity, and we know how to protect ourselves from radiation. Supplying food, water and oxygen is already a solved problem. As is landing something the size of an SUV on Mars.
the mythical man month is in play. There is only so much the everyone can do at once until they start stepping on each others feet
The mythical man month only applies to individual projects. Not everyone needs to be on the same project. There could be thousands of separate efforts, delivering different parts of what's necessary. You can have a dozen entirely separate launches devoted to putting enough water in space, a dozen more for putting it on Mars, a few hundred for delivering people. At least a few of them will make it.
Safely is the key word. With unlimited funding and an unhealthy disregard for human lives, we can build and send millions of these crafts. At least a few people will survive the landing.
There are large drones out there. Some are developed with enough capacity to carry humans, such as the ElectraFly.
It can hover and drop off the passengers in a drop pod. There's no need for it to fully stop there.
That's completely pointless. I already arrive at the theater a few minutes late to avoid the previews. At home it's even easier. My speaker has a mute button and my browser supports multiple tabs.
Psycho-Pass has a slightly different take on it and it's worth a watch.
it's not okay to report false information. Companies that provide information about people, such as credit rating agencies, are strictly regulated in the EU and have a duty to provide accurate information.
And who gets to decide what's accurate? Google? Scientists? Courts? Democratic elections? You?
It would take geologic eons for anyone to judge all 30 trillion web pages that Google indexes. Not to mention there's nobody that everyone trusts.
If you wanted accurate information, I suggest you stick to encyclopedias (a real one, not Wikipedia) and meta studies published in reputable journals instead of Google search results. Of course even those can contain errors, in which you can just stick with "I think therefore I am" and be 100% certain of it's accuracy.
You're making the association fallacy. Nazis breathe air just like you. Are you a Nazi too?
Last I checked Scott Adams is not interested in killing all Jews or invading Poland.
That it can be done safely does not mean it will always be done safely. Someone will mess it up given enough time and it only takes one. Now it's hard to quantify what advantages of using the new bases will be evolutionarily speaking, but if there's an advantage, we will eventually see it out in the wild.
I'm sure if you keep them long enough, some of them will eventually evolve the ability to synthesize the new X and Y bases.
They can totally drop the "Natural" in the name and appeal to otaku instead.
The most surprising result from that is how the Martian soil did better than Earth soil.
I think the researchers probably could've been a bit more careful in their choice of Earth soil. Clearly we have much better soil, such as potting soil, that should have outperformed the Martian soil simulant and would have made a more interesting comparison. After all, the alternative to using Martian soil is not average Earth soil, but the best kind of soil we can make.
A comparison with hydroponics or aeroponics would be interesting too.
Those regulations are for the casinos, not the gamblers. If a few of them started cheating, they'd make more money than the rest. But it'll give a lot of customers bad experiences in the process, which drives them away from the activity. All other casinos then make less money. It's a case of the tragedy of the commons, with gamblers being the field and casinos being the herders.
I feel like I've heard this story many times. Drugs, alcohol, sex, internet. Then there's ones people don't consider addictions, such as work and love.
For most people, they get caught in one of those traps. It ruins them for a while, then they learn not to do it again.
It's definitely worse for them than not having been addicted at all, but I don't think there's a way to learn that lesson without going through the process. If it's not gambling, it'll be one of those other things. It's just unfortunate that for some of them, it ends up being fatal.
Mostly steady. We keep discovering new "features", such as the one that reboots the whole server if a user loads a particular page.
It only took a day to debug and fix that one. Turns out even things written in C++ can run out of memory and the previous guys didn't think the table can have so many rows.
On the plus side, at least we're getting a lot of new users.
Maybe you can tell me how not to get a pile of bugs reassigned to you from a project you didn't know you were going to take on.
But in any case, I don't need an internet stranger to validate my capabilities as a software developer.
There are no restrictions on what you can ask in an interview. Age, marital status, number of children, do you have a boyfriend, etc, are all fair game.
Are there restrictions on what you can lie about?
I'm 25, unmarried, no children, no boyfriend, no parents, no friends in fact. I can weigh however much you want me to weigh, be however tall you want me to be, and it would be the greatest honor to die by karoshi while in service of your company.
Heh, now you're making up numbers.
2x is about how much faster Python interviewees code up the answers my questions, compared to C++ folks. And yes, it's an apples to apples comparison. I can tell they're roughly of equal intelligence by how long it takes them to figure out the algorithm.
I can already guess that your bug tracker is filled with bugs.
You're actually right. I have ~200 bugs assigned to me right now...
...for a C++ project I took over from supposedly very experienced C++ developers.
The Python one I previously worked on had ~30.