When someone says "I want to talk about X", they usually don't mean "feel free to say anything at all about X". I doubt Google meant "free free to call your colleagues biologically inferior, inviting lawsuits when you give a less than stellar evaluation of them".
They clearly meant that they wanted to talk about ways to make it easier for women and minorities, not their biological suitability.
The two are not equivalent. Damore chose to write that memo. Kaepernick is obliged to take certain actions during the national anthem, which he declined to do.
If your employer decided to have a mandatory prayer every morning, would you be okay with that?
Also, we can criticise the firing on Kaepernick but welcome the firing of Damore, because they were fired for different reasons. We judge one reason to be bad, one reason to be good.
Workplaces are a special case. There have to be some limits on behaviour at work because working is not optional for most people, and the law has established that the company has a duty of care that ranges from providing safety equipment to dealing with harassment.
So you think that if someone doesn't hate Muslims then they must hate white people and the West? There is no other possibly, it's either join the war against Islam or you must hate your own skin colour and the culture you live in?
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Audacity 2.2.0 Released
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I agree, it really is a great bit of software.
One thing I'd like to see is a more accurate, reconstructed waveform view. The current display is a simple "join the dots" affair with symmetrical RMS band overlaid.
Due to the way that digital sampling works this waveform is not a real representation of the analogue reconstruction. To get that you basically resample at a much higher rate and then low pass filter at the original Nyquist frequency. Audacity actually does that when you change the sampling rate.
I recently created something similar at work, with reconstruction and some shading to better highlight the true amount of energy in the vertical bands. It was a bit fiddly to get the shading to look good with every waveform.
I wish I had the time to re-implement it in Audacity.
This is a solved problem. Some networks have a system where you plug in and get 15 minutes grace, and in that time you scan a QR code with an app to confirm the charge and pay for it.
Fast charging is only half the problem. Countries that are serious about this are putting in huge numbers of slow chargers in residential areas, car parks and at retail locations.
Most areas already have infrastructure for street lighting, they just need the chargers installing. The chargers are little more than sockets in a lamp post or on a pole.
Because those devices are cheap. You can get a phone that is 99% as good as the most expensive models for a few hundred bucks. In fact the cheaper one night be better, having a headphone socket, SD card and USB-C.
I wonder how robust the board will be with those large BGA packages on it.
We have already seen some models falling when stressed by bending as the large ICs come away from the PCB. Samsung had that issue years ago and solved it by switching to smaller packages, and making their phones less bendy.
I guess they mean that the value of the bitcoins covers the electricity cost. They must have some pretty serious mining capacity to earn enough and produce a several kilowatts of heat.
Except for the oversight that restored the account in 11 minutes. And the fact that the data wasn't even deleted, merely deactivated in case it needed to be restored later. But yeah, other than that oversight, there is none whatsoever.
Indeed. The poor triggered free speech warriors have already tagged this story with "censorship". People need to keep some perspective, not everything is a conspiracy against the 1st Amendment and Donald J. Trump.
Actually it sounds like they have a review process in place, and it worked.
If I were designing a system to handle TOS violations I'd probably start with allowing employees to act swiftly but closed accounts go into a review queue with a note about what they did. I'd imagine Twitter has something like that in place and another employee saw it and quickly undid the damage.
Or maybe they just have alerts set up on changes to Trump's account, since it's so valuable to them.
TL;DR version is that a lot of those plants won't get built or will be white elephants. China is aiming for 1000GW of renewable energy capacity by 2030 as part of its Paris agreement, although so far they are exceeding that by a wide margin.
Same with their nuclear programme. Basically everything that wasn't already being built has been cancelled. As their battery production ramps up basically everything other than renewables is looking shakey, with profitability looking increasingly unlikely.
And even the coal plants they are building are better than the US ones, because they have stricter emissions standards for them.
Exclusivity is a failed policy. Forget about trying to enforce intellectual property, it just holds the country back and doesn't work anyway. Keep innovating, develop skilled employees that can't be easily replicated, and develop high quality manufacturing.
Look at Germany as an example. Massive high end manufacturing base, industry leading tech, and they are happy to both export their tech and import Chinese tech when needed. Their car industry, for example, is demonstrating self driving and driver aids, while also importing electric drive train tech and parts from China because they need to catch up.
Chinese cars are starting to become available in Europe. Thing is, people don't pick cars based just on cost. They don't buy an iPhone because it is value for money, and the iPhone and much of the tech in it is designed and manufactured in China. The only thing intellectual property laws are used for is for big companies like Apple and Samsung to sue each other.
The sad things is that posting a link to Politifact just proves that it must be true in some people's minds. They really do seem to believe that anything that the "mainstream media" (basically everyone with a shred of credibility) says is merely more proof of conspiracy.
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Take a look at Damore's twitter account: https://twitter.com/jamesadamo...
"Canâ(TM)t we all just agree that women having more sexual capital than men has its positives and negatives?"
"Feminist women are more masculine than average, which may explain why most women don't identify as feminists"
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DN...
I imagine that these tweets will be shows in court as evidence of the intent of his memo.
When someone says "I want to talk about X", they usually don't mean "feel free to say anything at all about X". I doubt Google meant "free free to call your colleagues biologically inferior, inviting lawsuits when you give a less than stellar evaluation of them".
They clearly meant that they wanted to talk about ways to make it easier for women and minorities, not their biological suitability.
The two are not equivalent. Damore chose to write that memo. Kaepernick is obliged to take certain actions during the national anthem, which he declined to do.
If your employer decided to have a mandatory prayer every morning, would you be okay with that?
Also, we can criticise the firing on Kaepernick but welcome the firing of Damore, because they were fired for different reasons. We judge one reason to be bad, one reason to be good.
Workplaces are a special case. There have to be some limits on behaviour at work because working is not optional for most people, and the law has established that the company has a duty of care that ranges from providing safety equipment to dealing with harassment.
Hmm, if I just picked up a +5 magic sword I'd probably say "It's ass stabbing time", but I take your point.
Came here to say the same thing. Create a separate, isolated network for your TVs. Avoid ones with cameras and microphones. Job done.
The parameters of the physical filter in the sound card are irrelevant.
So you think that if someone doesn't hate Muslims then they must hate white people and the West? There is no other possibly, it's either join the war against Islam or you must hate your own skin colour and the culture you live in?
I agree, it really is a great bit of software.
One thing I'd like to see is a more accurate, reconstructed waveform view. The current display is a simple "join the dots" affair with symmetrical RMS band overlaid.
Due to the way that digital sampling works this waveform is not a real representation of the analogue reconstruction. To get that you basically resample at a much higher rate and then low pass filter at the original Nyquist frequency. Audacity actually does that when you change the sampling rate.
I recently created something similar at work, with reconstruction and some shading to better highlight the true amount of energy in the vertical bands. It was a bit fiddly to get the shading to look good with every waveform.
I wish I had the time to re-implement it in Audacity.
Wait... You think I am an Islamist? What the hell gave you that impression?
This is a solved problem. Some networks have a system where you plug in and get 15 minutes grace, and in that time you scan a QR code with an app to confirm the charge and pay for it.
Fast charging is only half the problem. Countries that are serious about this are putting in huge numbers of slow chargers in residential areas, car parks and at retail locations.
Most areas already have infrastructure for street lighting, they just need the chargers installing. The chargers are little more than sockets in a lamp post or on a pole.
Because those devices are cheap. You can get a phone that is 99% as good as the most expensive models for a few hundred bucks. In fact the cheaper one night be better, having a headphone socket, SD card and USB-C.
I wonder how robust the board will be with those large BGA packages on it.
We have already seen some models falling when stressed by bending as the large ICs come away from the PCB. Samsung had that issue years ago and solved it by switching to smaller packages, and making their phones less bendy.
Maybe, it's just an estimate. My Leaf has a very efficient heat pump rated for 3kW, just for the cabin.
I guess they mean that the value of the bitcoins covers the electricity cost. They must have some pretty serious mining capacity to earn enough and produce a several kilowatts of heat.
There are literally hundreds of studies on the cost of pollution and global warming. You need to provide some evidence that the costs are negligible.
They have no real oversight whatsoever
Except for the oversight that restored the account in 11 minutes. And the fact that the data wasn't even deleted, merely deactivated in case it needed to be restored later. But yeah, other than that oversight, there is none whatsoever.
Indeed. The poor triggered free speech warriors have already tagged this story with "censorship". People need to keep some perspective, not everything is a conspiracy against the 1st Amendment and Donald J. Trump.
Actually it sounds like they have a review process in place, and it worked.
If I were designing a system to handle TOS violations I'd probably start with allowing employees to act swiftly but closed accounts go into a review queue with a note about what they did. I'd imagine Twitter has something like that in place and another employee saw it and quickly undid the damage.
Or maybe they just have alerts set up on changes to Trump's account, since it's so valuable to them.
Reports of China's coal-fetish are greatly overstated.
https://www.americanprogress.o...
TL;DR version is that a lot of those plants won't get built or will be white elephants. China is aiming for 1000GW of renewable energy capacity by 2030 as part of its Paris agreement, although so far they are exceeding that by a wide margin.
Same with their nuclear programme. Basically everything that wasn't already being built has been cancelled. As their battery production ramps up basically everything other than renewables is looking shakey, with profitability looking increasingly unlikely.
And even the coal plants they are building are better than the US ones, because they have stricter emissions standards for them.
Translation: You want me to pay for your low-cost lifestyle by externalizing your costs.
Fuck off.
Exclusivity is a failed policy. Forget about trying to enforce intellectual property, it just holds the country back and doesn't work anyway. Keep innovating, develop skilled employees that can't be easily replicated, and develop high quality manufacturing.
Look at Germany as an example. Massive high end manufacturing base, industry leading tech, and they are happy to both export their tech and import Chinese tech when needed. Their car industry, for example, is demonstrating self driving and driver aids, while also importing electric drive train tech and parts from China because they need to catch up.
Chinese cars are starting to become available in Europe. Thing is, people don't pick cars based just on cost. They don't buy an iPhone because it is value for money, and the iPhone and much of the tech in it is designed and manufactured in China. The only thing intellectual property laws are used for is for big companies like Apple and Samsung to sue each other.
Brexit: Yes, they pushed hard for it. Take a look at "David Jones" for example.
The sad things is that posting a link to Politifact just proves that it must be true in some people's minds. They really do seem to believe that anything that the "mainstream media" (basically everyone with a shred of credibility) says is merely more proof of conspiracy.