That wiki article is obviously bollocks, the result of industry shills trying to "improve" it. Think about it: they are "planning" to add 58GW in the next 18 months but have not even started building them yet...
If you follow the link you find that it's an article from 2014 from "World Nuclear News", an industry propaganda site.
Come on buddy, at least read the most obviously bullshit link that your entire argument hangs on. You know I'm gonna.
I wish they would get on with the lawsuit. Get all the arguments and expert evidence out there.
Damore's main issue was that he tried to claim he had a better understanding of the science he cited than the people who wrote the papers. He wanted to rely on their findings but draw his own conclusions. Deliberate or otherwise that's a classic tactic used by actual sexists to justify their actions, which turned some mistakes into a serious problem.
The numbers taking STEM courses have fallen sharply since the 1980s, so there are only limited numbers looking for entry / sub-management level stuff now. That's why Google and others are putting so much into education, which takes a long time to pay off.
Well done, you managed to get every standard taking point in there.
I'll supply the standard responses for you. Women getting paid less is due to things like not valuing them, outright sexism or institutional issues. Since simply having a policy to pay them less is illegal, you don't see companies using that as a business model very often.
Also, you picked the wrong statistic. That's the overall wage gap. You need the equal pay gap, so you can compare like-for-like.
Obviously, only the deliberately obtuse are suggesting making things worse in order to "improve" equality. And of course, women do actually do a lot of unpleasant, demeaning and badly paid jobs too. It's a shame you waste so much energy containing about this misconception when you could be pushing for better conditions for men.
Then we wind up at the classic "if women get men's jobs civilisation will fall", a nostalgic echo back to the 1900s. Mustn't forget Scott Adams too, confirmed red piller and inventor of a foul tasting vegan microwave burrito.
Or maybe Damore screwed them this last year. We know that some female applicants withdrew in the wake of that shitstorm.
Or perhaps Google realised that everyone else is also trying to recruit from that limited pool of candidates, and put more effort into developing talent which takes years to pay off.
Or maybe they are just bad at this.
I'm any case, it debunks the notion that they will simply lower standards to make up the numbers.
Your Wikipedia link says that nuclear is the most expensive in many other countries too, including poster child France that is supposed to be a model for others to follow.
Your pdf link is produced by the nuclear industry, which has been shilling for decades. Got any independent sources?
I read TFA and it's actually bullshit as far as I can see. The guy's prosecution was dropped at the last moment, but he doesn't know why. He speculates that it's because of the recording, but he doesn't know.
The claim that the police are facing investigation is speculative too. There is no evidence of that. He says he plans to sue them to recover costs.
Unfortunately the police usually do get away with this kind of thing in the UK. They are pretty much untouchable. Even when there is video of then murdering people they avoid conviction.
Comparing deaths is a red herring. If 200 people died in a nuclear accident you would probably be looking at trillions of dollars of property damage/loss, countless cancers and other health consequences, communities and families destroyed...
Not to mention every other nuclear plant in the country would be obliged to spend vast sums of money mitigating whatever caused the accident, making them even less economically viable. Just like aircraft are after an accident.
China put all new nuclear that wasn't already under construction on hold after the Fukushima disaster, and eventually cancelled it.
They hit peak coal years ago too. They are concentrating on renewables now, which is both good for the environment and makes economic sense because that's where the growth is.
So even absent NIMBYism they decided nuclear was inferior.
Needing fuel and waste storage will always be worse than not needing fuel and not needing waste storage.
That's what nuclear is up against. Renewables that don't need fuel, don't generate any problematic waste and which are highly recyclable. Lithium batteries used to be a concern, but not any more.
The main issue with OpenStreetMap is that it is very labour intensive. It relies on humans to do far too much of the work.
Google gets most of its map data from AI doing image recognition these days. They buy satellite images and have the AI trace out roads and buildings. The AI can even see the shape of buildings, which is why everywhere has accurate 3D buildings on Google Maps now.
Then they send round Street View cars which read things like door numbers and traffic signs. They can read business names too. They can recognize bus stops, gates and entrances, zebra crossings and other features of the landscape.
Not only does that mean that their maps are up to date and extremely accurate, it also massively reduces the amount of work that humans have to do.
OpenStreetMap should think about ways to do something similar. Open source street view pods, photos captures by drones, dashcam footage processing... Anything to automate the process.
Or maybe we just stopped training people to be good at IQ tests.
An IQ test is just a bunch of questions designed to test various skills that are thought to be indicative of "intelligence". You can improve your score with practice, without necessarily becoming some kind of intellectual or capable of getting a PhD in theoretical physics.
Sure, but I question if the SAT is really the only good measure of that ability or if there might be other ways people could demonstrate their ability.
This university is not disregarding SAT scores if they are submitted, they are just allowing other forms of evidence to be provided as well.
So a person's opportunities and earning power are determined by some exams taken over a few weeks when they are children, and that's it?
Sounds like a terrible system. I really screwed up some of my exams because of a tragedy that hit my family, but was given another chance, went to university and recovered.
Exams are not a good way to measure people. They encourage students to study for them rather than mastering the subject, and they only provide a snapshot of a particular time.
If someone can prove they are capable without the exam score what is wrong with giving them that chance to study?
Most countries have similar protections for taxi services though. Licencing, medallions etc. that all limit the ability of new players to enter the market.
Most Didi drivers seem to be working for taxi companies anyway, a lot like how most Uber drivers in the UK seem to be working for taxi companies too. Maybe they have to in order to get the taxi licence or something.
That's basically how it is here. If Uber assigns you work, tells you where to go and when, sets your fares and monitors your performance then they are your employer.
It could be borrowed, but then you would just have a bunch of different English dialects that are incompatible so it wouldn't really help much.
To give you an idea, the entire Japanese way of thinking is impossible to express in English because it's based around linguistic concepts that simply don't exist in that language, and adding enough Japanese to support them would make it incomprehensible. For example, the concept of animate and inanimate things.
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What do you mean? What aspect of the memo does it prove correct?
That wiki article is obviously bollocks, the result of industry shills trying to "improve" it. Think about it: they are "planning" to add 58GW in the next 18 months but have not even started building them yet...
If you follow the link you find that it's an article from 2014 from "World Nuclear News", an industry propaganda site.
Come on buddy, at least read the most obviously bullshit link that your entire argument hangs on. You know I'm gonna.
Have to agree, and add that whiteboards or silly algorithm tests are a big warning sign too. Google is kinda known for the latter...
Although still not as bad as Amazon's exams, and funnily enough their diversity levels are even worse.
I wish they would get on with the lawsuit. Get all the arguments and expert evidence out there.
Damore's main issue was that he tried to claim he had a better understanding of the science he cited than the people who wrote the papers. He wanted to rely on their findings but draw his own conclusions. Deliberate or otherwise that's a classic tactic used by actual sexists to justify their actions, which turned some mistakes into a serious problem.
The numbers taking STEM courses have fallen sharply since the 1980s, so there are only limited numbers looking for entry / sub-management level stuff now. That's why Google and others are putting so much into education, which takes a long time to pay off.
Well done, you managed to get every standard taking point in there.
I'll supply the standard responses for you. Women getting paid less is due to things like not valuing them, outright sexism or institutional issues. Since simply having a policy to pay them less is illegal, you don't see companies using that as a business model very often.
Also, you picked the wrong statistic. That's the overall wage gap. You need the equal pay gap, so you can compare like-for-like.
Obviously, only the deliberately obtuse are suggesting making things worse in order to "improve" equality. And of course, women do actually do a lot of unpleasant, demeaning and badly paid jobs too. It's a shame you waste so much energy containing about this misconception when you could be pushing for better conditions for men.
Then we wind up at the classic "if women get men's jobs civilisation will fall", a nostalgic echo back to the 1900s. Mustn't forget Scott Adams too, confirmed red piller and inventor of a foul tasting vegan microwave burrito.
Or maybe Damore screwed them this last year. We know that some female applicants withdrew in the wake of that shitstorm.
Or perhaps Google realised that everyone else is also trying to recruit from that limited pool of candidates, and put more effort into developing talent which takes years to pay off.
Or maybe they are just bad at this.
I'm any case, it debunks the notion that they will simply lower standards to make up the numbers.
Your Wikipedia link says that nuclear is the most expensive in many other countries too, including poster child France that is supposed to be a model for others to follow.
Your pdf link is produced by the nuclear industry, which has been shilling for decades. Got any independent sources?
I read TFA and it's actually bullshit as far as I can see. The guy's prosecution was dropped at the last moment, but he doesn't know why. He speculates that it's because of the recording, but he doesn't know.
The claim that the police are facing investigation is speculative too. There is no evidence of that. He says he plans to sue them to recover costs.
Unfortunately the police usually do get away with this kind of thing in the UK. They are pretty much untouchable. Even when there is video of then murdering people they avoid conviction.
Comparing deaths is a red herring. If 200 people died in a nuclear accident you would probably be looking at trillions of dollars of property damage/loss, countless cancers and other health consequences, communities and families destroyed...
Not to mention every other nuclear plant in the country would be obliged to spend vast sums of money mitigating whatever caused the accident, making them even less economically viable. Just like aircraft are after an accident.
China put all new nuclear that wasn't already under construction on hold after the Fukushima disaster, and eventually cancelled it.
They hit peak coal years ago too. They are concentrating on renewables now, which is both good for the environment and makes economic sense because that's where the growth is.
So even absent NIMBYism they decided nuclear was inferior.
Needing fuel and waste storage will always be worse than not needing fuel and not needing waste storage.
That's what nuclear is up against. Renewables that don't need fuel, don't generate any problematic waste and which are highly recyclable. Lithium batteries used to be a concern, but not any more.
In other words nuclear power is brittle and the very high safety standards needed to keep it safe can massively increase costs.
Compared with the alternatives it's not very attractive.
The main issue with OpenStreetMap is that it is very labour intensive. It relies on humans to do far too much of the work.
Google gets most of its map data from AI doing image recognition these days. They buy satellite images and have the AI trace out roads and buildings. The AI can even see the shape of buildings, which is why everywhere has accurate 3D buildings on Google Maps now.
Then they send round Street View cars which read things like door numbers and traffic signs. They can read business names too. They can recognize bus stops, gates and entrances, zebra crossings and other features of the landscape.
Not only does that mean that their maps are up to date and extremely accurate, it also massively reduces the amount of work that humans have to do.
OpenStreetMap should think about ways to do something similar. Open source street view pods, photos captures by drones, dashcam footage processing... Anything to automate the process.
Or maybe we just stopped training people to be good at IQ tests.
An IQ test is just a bunch of questions designed to test various skills that are thought to be indicative of "intelligence". You can improve your score with practice, without necessarily becoming some kind of intellectual or capable of getting a PhD in theoretical physics.
Teaching bad changed a lot since the 70s.
Well, yeah, typically a contractor will negotiate their own day rate or whatever.
Sure, but I question if the SAT is really the only good measure of that ability or if there might be other ways people could demonstrate their ability.
This university is not disregarding SAT scores if they are submitted, they are just allowing other forms of evidence to be provided as well.
So it's meaningless because you can just re-take until you pass?
So a person's opportunities and earning power are determined by some exams taken over a few weeks when they are children, and that's it?
Sounds like a terrible system. I really screwed up some of my exams because of a tragedy that hit my family, but was given another chance, went to university and recovered.
Exams are not a good way to measure people. They encourage students to study for them rather than mastering the subject, and they only provide a snapshot of a particular time.
If someone can prove they are capable without the exam score what is wrong with giving them that chance to study?
Some people can afford to give their kids extra resources. Technology, books, tutors, free time. That all helps pass the SAT test.
Remember that there is a difference between general ability and studying to pass a particular test.
Most countries have similar protections for taxi services though. Licencing, medallions etc. that all limit the ability of new players to enter the market.
Most Didi drivers seem to be working for taxi companies anyway, a lot like how most Uber drivers in the UK seem to be working for taxi companies too. Maybe they have to in order to get the taxi licence or something.
That's basically how it is here. If Uber assigns you work, tells you where to go and when, sets your fares and monitors your performance then they are your employer.
The problems with AMD parts are much less severe. The fixes don't cripple your performance.
I'm so glad I got Intel to buy me an AMD.
What's wrong with that steak?!
It could be borrowed, but then you would just have a bunch of different English dialects that are incompatible so it wouldn't really help much.
To give you an idea, the entire Japanese way of thinking is impossible to express in English because it's based around linguistic concepts that simply don't exist in that language, and adding enough Japanese to support them would make it incomprehensible. For example, the concept of animate and inanimate things.