To the extent that humans are a resource, they are more like a fruit tree than a disposable cog in a machine. The company has to nurture them, help them grow and the extract value from them in a way that doesn't harm them. Sometimes the rot sets in and the tree can't be saved, but usually it just needs a little bit of support.
As for automating away jobs, I tend to think of it more as automating away the drudgery and freeing people up for more interesting stuff. People used to copy out books by hand, until the printing press was invented. Now the descendants of those book copiers making a living playing video games on Twitch. Change is inevitable, no-one wants my skills writing software for 80s home computers any more, what matters is that there is a way forward for everyone.
Around age 14, when I would have been interested in reading The Killing Joke, my class had to read Tess of the D'Urbervilles at school. In that book the protagonist is raped, gets pregnant, calls the child "Sorrow" and neglects it until it dies, then murders the rapist and is hung for it. Finally her sister is obliged to marry her husband because apparently that was the done thing back then.
I'm going from memory here but it was a pretty screwed up story, and when it was released was considered popular trash. In fact I seem to recall it was serialized in a newspaper.
We also read about Greek heroes (most of whom were not very heroic, having an unfortunately tendancy to rape and murder the families of the "bad guys" they defeated), and of course Shakespeare. Romeo and Juliet, a story about a 17 year old boy and his 13 year old girlfriend, which ends with a murder and double suicide.
People only leave a job voluntarily for a few reasons:
- Low pay. Solution: increase wages, invest in your human resources, offer additional benefits like extra time off, company car etc.
- Bad working environment. Solution: fire bad bosses, get rid of the cubicle farm and give skilled workers offices, free coffee, assigned parking spaces etc.
- Uninteresting work. Solution: create interesting work, e.g. with R&D or something like Google's 80/20 rule.
- Poor performance. Solution: check if you promoted them too fast, offer a demotion with no loss of salary or additional training/mentoring.
- Children. Solution: offer flexible working, don't punish new parents.
- Bean counters. Solution: make worker happiness, retention and training into metrics that they are measured by.
Solve these simple problems and you can safely train staff with little worry that they will jump ship.
Very young transgender children don't have surgery or medication. That sort of thing doesn't start until they hit puberty, with surgery being when they are in their mid teens. By that point they are nearly adults, and in many places allowed to have sex and potentially procreate, so it would be kind of weird if they lacked medical autonomy,
As for child abuse, for some reason we allow parents to cut bits of their male child's penis off for no medical reason. Seems like allowing a child to identify as what they consider their correct gender, wear appropriate clothes and the like is nothing compared to hacking bit off them before they can even express an opinion on the matter.
The fact that they are spooling it out one episode per week alters the economics too. I'll happily subscribe to Netflix for a month primarily to get a season of one new show, but for Discovery I'd have to do 3 a total of about 6 months I think.
Because CBS are naturally going for maximum publicity, hype and viral marketing the spoilers are gonna be everywhere. The best I can do is avoid them until this evening and then pirate it. I'll catch some episodes via Netflix when I subscribe for Stranger Things and The Punisher in a few weeks time.
So it wasn't actually banned, any more than a 1995 Spice Girls CD single is banned because they don't make it any more and copyright prevents other people from making and selling it. If you happen to have a copy you bought in the 90s, it's not illegal.
Perhaps you have a better example of something that was genuinely banned?
Japan has deployed satellites to enhance GPS accuracy. They have demonstrated it in vehicles, with one application being a road cleaner that can accurately track the hard shoulder of a road without the need for advanced computer vision. They also demonstrated sat nav that can tell what lane you are in.
TFA says that they don't need to use 2FA to lock your device, presumably because if you lost your phone you might want to lock it but be unable to provide the 2nd factor for authentication. Their 2FA system seems to be somewhat flawed.
Seems like it would be similar to organ donation. If the donor is alive they forfeit all rights to the donated organ, because otherwise they would own a part of someone else. If they are dead but gave permission while still alive, it would be up to their surviving family and once donated out of their control again.
Feminism isn't about not needing men, it's about having a relationship with them that is a union of equals. If there is anyone rejecting this kind of relationship, it seems to be men wanting a more traditional marriages.
As for women not thinking men are "worthy", it's actually just a combination of modern life making children unaffordable and children having a very negative effect on women's careers.
Apple is a fashion brand. Everything else is secondary. Just because fashion houses make some actually good quality clothing doesn't change the fact that you pay so much for them because of the branding, instead of buying cheaper but equally good/more functional clothing elsewhere.
How else can you explain decisions like removing the headphone jack or insisting on using an series of proprietary ports instead of USB? Why go as far as to brick unlicensed 3rd party hardware with software updates? Apple is all about being an exclusive, high price brand.
Babies don't walk, don't understand language to the degree adults do, that sort of thing. Same reason robot dogs are easier than robot humans basically, people expect much less of them.
Those aren't frivolous questions, and in fact at least one has been legally resolved in the UK.
There was a couple who fertilized some eggs and froze them when the wife had a serious illness and became infertile. Then they divorced and the man married someone else. The women wanted to use the fertilized eggs, but he declined to give consent and as is usual in such cases the storage facility wanted to destroy them. It went to court and was eventually decided that she couldn't force her ex-husband to become a father.
As you can see, there is no real question of ownership or who gets what in a divorce. There needs to be mutual consent before any medical procedure can take place, like implantation.
I guess with sperm it could be a little different, since you could conceivably freeze, store, unfreeze and... er... smear it onto a cervix yourself. I don't know where the law stands, but I imagine it's probably covered under medical uses of body tissue or something, but complicated by the fact that it could result in a child. I don' think it has ever been tested.
The only time "women and children first" seem to have been a thing is when the people in charge, usually men, have declared it. Whenever there is a panic it's everyone for themselves, as we have seen with recent terror attacks. Can you cite a single instance in modern times where feminists have demanded, even just suggested, that they be allowed to escape first simply due to their gender (i.e. it wasn't due to injury, pregnancy, disability etc.)?
Unfortunately we don't really want evolution any more, at least not individually. Most evolution is failures, the kind of genetic downgrade that natural selection would deselect through premature death.
I wonder if this might lead to more men freezing sperm as teenagers, when the mutation rate is lowest.
whereas a single male can impregnate hundreds of women at a time.
Sounds like one hell of a gang-bang.
This means that while males are largely disposable
Not really, because particularly in prehistoric times women were quite dependent on men to ensure the survival of their children. Child birth was risky and often resulted in death, so having the father around increased the child's chances of survival. Since men where the primary hunters, with women tending to do more gathering, they were also reliant on the father for nutrients that only come from meat. Also, pregnancy hinders the ability to run away, so someone willing to risk their lives to protect mother and unborn child is beneficial.
This is why males tend to dominate the ultra-high and ultra-low intellect while the bell curve for female intelligence is much tighter
"Women and children first" is actually a bit of a myth. It seems to have been popularized by reports of the second officer aboard the Titanic asking "Hadn't we better get the women and children into the boats, sir?" The captain responded somewhat vaguely, resulting in needless deaths. But there is no basis for it in maritime law and it isn't considered in evacuation plans.
It's actually something feminists dislike, because it's just another aspect of toxic masculinity, the idea that men should hide injuries, fear and any perceived weakness by prioritizing the rescue of people they see as un-manly. Evacuation should proceed in the order of greatest need.
Whatever, as long as men still can't get pregnant. The thought of having my genitals ripped open as some kid rams his head through them does not appeal.
There was the whole Dual_EC_DRBG debacle. RSA appear to have been paid to select a poor, likely backdoored random number generator by the NSA. For further conformation it was discovered that RSA had also adopted the NSA's "extended random" system, which adds zero extra security by does make the Dual_EC_DRBG backdoor tens of thousands of times faster to use.
It would be crazy to carry on trusting any of those people.
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That's a very American way of looking at it.
To the extent that humans are a resource, they are more like a fruit tree than a disposable cog in a machine. The company has to nurture them, help them grow and the extract value from them in a way that doesn't harm them. Sometimes the rot sets in and the tree can't be saved, but usually it just needs a little bit of support.
As for automating away jobs, I tend to think of it more as automating away the drudgery and freeing people up for more interesting stuff. People used to copy out books by hand, until the printing press was invented. Now the descendants of those book copiers making a living playing video games on Twitch. Change is inevitable, no-one wants my skills writing software for 80s home computers any more, what matters is that there is a way forward for everyone.
Reason challenged: Advocates rape and violence
Around age 14, when I would have been interested in reading The Killing Joke, my class had to read Tess of the D'Urbervilles at school. In that book the protagonist is raped, gets pregnant, calls the child "Sorrow" and neglects it until it dies, then murders the rapist and is hung for it. Finally her sister is obliged to marry her husband because apparently that was the done thing back then.
I'm going from memory here but it was a pretty screwed up story, and when it was released was considered popular trash. In fact I seem to recall it was serialized in a newspaper.
We also read about Greek heroes (most of whom were not very heroic, having an unfortunately tendancy to rape and murder the families of the "bad guys" they defeated), and of course Shakespeare. Romeo and Juliet, a story about a 17 year old boy and his 13 year old girlfriend, which ends with a murder and double suicide.
People only leave a job voluntarily for a few reasons:
- Low pay. Solution: increase wages, invest in your human resources, offer additional benefits like extra time off, company car etc.
- Bad working environment. Solution: fire bad bosses, get rid of the cubicle farm and give skilled workers offices, free coffee, assigned parking spaces etc.
- Uninteresting work. Solution: create interesting work, e.g. with R&D or something like Google's 80/20 rule.
- Poor performance. Solution: check if you promoted them too fast, offer a demotion with no loss of salary or additional training/mentoring.
- Children. Solution: offer flexible working, don't punish new parents.
- Bean counters. Solution: make worker happiness, retention and training into metrics that they are measured by.
Solve these simple problems and you can safely train staff with little worry that they will jump ship.
He didn't actually write that book, so I hope that the real author is at least getting paid.
Trumpkins, if you still think he did write it, I suggest you compare the quality of his tweets to the quality of writing in that book.
Very young transgender children don't have surgery or medication. That sort of thing doesn't start until they hit puberty, with surgery being when they are in their mid teens. By that point they are nearly adults, and in many places allowed to have sex and potentially procreate, so it would be kind of weird if they lacked medical autonomy,
As for child abuse, for some reason we allow parents to cut bits of their male child's penis off for no medical reason. Seems like allowing a child to identify as what they consider their correct gender, wear appropriate clothes and the like is nothing compared to hacking bit off them before they can even express an opinion on the matter.
The fact that they are spooling it out one episode per week alters the economics too. I'll happily subscribe to Netflix for a month primarily to get a season of one new show, but for Discovery I'd have to do 3 a total of about 6 months I think.
Because CBS are naturally going for maximum publicity, hype and viral marketing the spoilers are gonna be everywhere. The best I can do is avoid them until this evening and then pirate it. I'll catch some episodes via Netflix when I subscribe for Stranger Things and The Punisher in a few weeks time.
So it wasn't actually banned, any more than a 1995 Spice Girls CD single is banned because they don't make it any more and copyright prevents other people from making and selling it. If you happen to have a copy you bought in the 90s, it's not illegal.
Perhaps you have a better example of something that was genuinely banned?
Japan has deployed satellites to enhance GPS accuracy. They have demonstrated it in vehicles, with one application being a road cleaner that can accurately track the hard shoulder of a road without the need for advanced computer vision. They also demonstrated sat nav that can tell what lane you are in.
TFA says that they don't need to use 2FA to lock your device, presumably because if you lost your phone you might want to lock it but be unable to provide the 2nd factor for authentication. Their 2FA system seems to be somewhat flawed.
Seems like it would be similar to organ donation. If the donor is alive they forfeit all rights to the donated organ, because otherwise they would own a part of someone else. If they are dead but gave permission while still alive, it would be up to their surviving family and once donated out of their control again.
The real issue seems to be consent.
Geeks value being able to upgrade hardware. Soldering in RAM and SSDs, then gluing the consumable battery in, isn't conducive to that.
Wrong on two accounts.
Feminism isn't about not needing men, it's about having a relationship with them that is a union of equals. If there is anyone rejecting this kind of relationship, it seems to be men wanting a more traditional marriages.
As for women not thinking men are "worthy", it's actually just a combination of modern life making children unaffordable and children having a very negative effect on women's careers.
Apple is a fashion brand. Everything else is secondary. Just because fashion houses make some actually good quality clothing doesn't change the fact that you pay so much for them because of the branding, instead of buying cheaper but equally good/more functional clothing elsewhere.
How else can you explain decisions like removing the headphone jack or insisting on using an series of proprietary ports instead of USB? Why go as far as to brick unlicensed 3rd party hardware with software updates? Apple is all about being an exclusive, high price brand.
Surely we should be de-funding these guys, since it's their incompetence and unwillingness to actually help protect us that has gotten us here.
To be statistically significant there would need to be an awful lot of disasters happening on a regular basis.
Babies don't walk, don't understand language to the degree adults do, that sort of thing. Same reason robot dogs are easier than robot humans basically, people expect much less of them.
Those aren't frivolous questions, and in fact at least one has been legally resolved in the UK.
There was a couple who fertilized some eggs and froze them when the wife had a serious illness and became infertile. Then they divorced and the man married someone else. The women wanted to use the fertilized eggs, but he declined to give consent and as is usual in such cases the storage facility wanted to destroy them. It went to court and was eventually decided that she couldn't force her ex-husband to become a father.
As you can see, there is no real question of ownership or who gets what in a divorce. There needs to be mutual consent before any medical procedure can take place, like implantation.
I guess with sperm it could be a little different, since you could conceivably freeze, store, unfreeze and... er... smear it onto a cervix yourself. I don't know where the law stands, but I imagine it's probably covered under medical uses of body tissue or something, but complicated by the fact that it could result in a child. I don' think it has ever been tested.
Do you have any evidence of this?
The only time "women and children first" seem to have been a thing is when the people in charge, usually men, have declared it. Whenever there is a panic it's everyone for themselves, as we have seen with recent terror attacks. Can you cite a single instance in modern times where feminists have demanded, even just suggested, that they be allowed to escape first simply due to their gender (i.e. it wasn't due to injury, pregnancy, disability etc.)?
Probably thought that a baby would be easier to do as they are generally less able and less communicative. He obviously has no idea about the UV.
The uncanny valley will probably mean it takes longer than some people expect for sex-bots to become widely accepted.
Unfortunately we don't really want evolution any more, at least not individually. Most evolution is failures, the kind of genetic downgrade that natural selection would deselect through premature death.
I wonder if this might lead to more men freezing sperm as teenagers, when the mutation rate is lowest.
whereas a single male can impregnate hundreds of women at a time.
Sounds like one hell of a gang-bang.
This means that while males are largely disposable
Not really, because particularly in prehistoric times women were quite dependent on men to ensure the survival of their children. Child birth was risky and often resulted in death, so having the father around increased the child's chances of survival. Since men where the primary hunters, with women tending to do more gathering, they were also reliant on the father for nutrients that only come from meat. Also, pregnancy hinders the ability to run away, so someone willing to risk their lives to protect mother and unborn child is beneficial.
This is why males tend to dominate the ultra-high and ultra-low intellect while the bell curve for female intelligence is much tighter
Only if you measure by IQ tests, which are bunk.
"Women and children first" is actually a bit of a myth. It seems to have been popularized by reports of the second officer aboard the Titanic asking "Hadn't we better get the women and children into the boats, sir?" The captain responded somewhat vaguely, resulting in needless deaths. But there is no basis for it in maritime law and it isn't considered in evacuation plans.
It's actually something feminists dislike, because it's just another aspect of toxic masculinity, the idea that men should hide injuries, fear and any perceived weakness by prioritizing the rescue of people they see as un-manly. Evacuation should proceed in the order of greatest need.
Whatever, as long as men still can't get pregnant. The thought of having my genitals ripped open as some kid rams his head through them does not appeal.
There was the whole Dual_EC_DRBG debacle. RSA appear to have been paid to select a poor, likely backdoored random number generator by the NSA. For further conformation it was discovered that RSA had also adopted the NSA's "extended random" system, which adds zero extra security by does make the Dual_EC_DRBG backdoor tens of thousands of times faster to use.
It would be crazy to carry on trusting any of those people.