If certain people are regularly shouting "Kill all the sand n*ggers/infidels/etc!!" in your establishment and you do nothing to stop them but happily keep serving them drinks, then yes, absolutely.
To me it's about the naming. Making LEGO cars is not called 'mechanical engineering', it's called playing with fucking LEGO. Toylike programming does not have a toylike name. 'Hour of code' does not sound like 'Hour of building LEGO cars'.
And this is how total misunderstanding of nutritional science spreads.
Correlation does not equal causation and 'all major medical associations' do not disagree with me on this. There are plenty of studies that did not find any correlation or only a very very weak one between saturated fat and heart disease. Even if a correlation is found, it still does not prove causation.
Everything you eat can have good and bad effects. That a new good or bad effect to some particular food may be discovered in the future does not invalidate those discovered previously.
I'm sorry, but this is the wrong explanation. The right explanation is that doing nutritional research is hard and that nutritional claims are often not well-supported.
There was never enough proof to say "Fat is bad for you", nor is there currently enough proof to say that "Saturated fat is bad for you". Besides being instantly suspect by being ridiculously simplistic, such claims are almost exclusively based on correlations or effects in high-risk groups. But people really want nutritional advice, so somebody is going to give it to them, citing some paper that suggests some effect.
Don't get me wrong: There are some things where the causal relation between it and a negative health effect is known, but in nutritional advice that generally is not the case.
Improving the tax code and improving people's attitudes towards taxes in general are not mutually exclusive. I never said or implied that society needs to run on good intentions. That is a straw man you erected.
What I did say is that the notion that the tax code is responsible for how people act or how they frame why they don't pay (certain) taxes is ridiculous and self-serving. Such a notion is equivalent with saying "Well, nowhere in the rules does it say I can't kick him in the balls, so blame the rules for me kicking him in the balls." True as the first part may be, it is still a dick move.
Does that mean the rules need not make it clearer that kicking someone in the balls is a no go? They probably need to, but it's still a dick move. If you believe in 'fewer regulations' however, then some amount of endowing people with the trust not to make dick moves is required. Choose your poison.
. But it is worth it, because we pay near zero income taxes. Oh, and here is how many Americans we employ: 0. Our sysadmin is in Shanghai, our graphic artist is in Karachi, etc. You can thank your government for that.
Yeah, no. Take responsibility for being a selfish fucking asshole instead of blaming the government.
When I first started paying income taxes I shed a tear. Not because I felt 'robbed', but because I had reached a point where I was financially stable enough to contribute to my country and to all its people. Even though it was a very modest contribution at the time, I was helping to maintain and build roads, the electricity grid and all other vital infrastructure. I was helping to prevent people down on their luck from becoming homeless or starving. I was helping those with illnesses to get medical care. In short: I was helping to build a civilization. And I was and am fucking proud of it.
Paying taxes is a virtue, not an evil to be avoided at all costs.
I'm guessing you think they're classifying Indians as either white or the (even smaller than the Asian) amount represented by 'Black, Hispanic, Other'.
FTA: "The X-ray pulsar captures X-ray signals emitted from pulsars. By mapping those signals, they can be used to determine spacecraft location in deep space, which will eliminate the hours-long delays incurred in using ground-based navigation like the Deep Space Network and European Space Tracking network." (my emphasis)
It's even more retarded than that: Youtube's browser view on a normal monitor is 50% whitespace, so apparently users want everything crammed together instead of having the interface utilize the available screen estate.
Yeah, no. Nice interfaces: sure. But 'superior': no.
Disclaimer: I judge interfaces on how well they work, not how shiny they are. If we were to discuss the aesthetics of interfaces (and hardware, for that matter), then Apple scores very well.
.. in (large) part because it has easy access to the EU.
Many businesses are already working out plans to move operations to Amsterdam and/or Frankfurt ( http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07... ).
If the petulant children who seem to have been running the show lately on both sides of the Channel get to call the shots
Remember that the UK has always had the most special deals and exemptions in the EU, mainly attained by being obstructive. You're a fool if you think they'll get back what they now still have in terms of a deal. Forget about politicians for a moment: Even though some EU citizens are sortof sympathetic with the Brexiters, a large majority sees Brexit as betrayal (which is a source of unison among EU citizens, ironically) and believes the UK should be 'punished'. Politically, and democratically, it makes sense for the politicians of the remaining EU member states to be harsh on a Brexiting UK. Petulance don't enter into it.
Apple creates superior interfaces. [...] Well. Thought. Out.
Oh, come off it. Some of the things they've produced are absolute shit or just badly ripped off. Not everything, but some of it for sure. - The iOS notification center is and has always been a far cry from that in Android. In fact, a lot of the newer iOS features are kludgy us-too implementations. - XCode. - Multimonitor support in the OSX interface is crap. - OSX's half-assed sortof fullscreen solution is simply dreadful.
Again: they have some nice stuff, but they sure as hell do not deserve the praise you're trying to hand them.
We had a user who wasn't able to uninstall our app on his iPhone last week. Turns out he was pressing on the icon like he always did, but on his new iPhone that was now a '3D touch' gesture. Apple managed to make what was already a silly, shitty way of uninstalling apps (try hitting the minute x-target of the top left icon reliably the first time) so bad that their "It just works."/"It's so intuitive"-users require support to perform it. But luckily there are online guides on how to uninstall an app: http://www.imore.com/how-move-... Yeah. Well. Thought. Out.
There's a big difference in mishandling classified information that you're allowed to read/access for some sane reason and obtaining classified information you are not allowed to access and have no legitimate use for elsewhere.
It's simply not the same thing. And hardly insightful, I might add.
Even more shocking: people who think they are 'upper class' are more self absorbed.
"These people were also asked to identify themselves as from a particular social class: either poor, working class, middle class, upper middle class, or upper class"
I'm not giving you a free pass to use words in contradiction with their actual meaning.
What exactly constitutes incitement to violence is a matter of great (legal) debate. See here: http://freespeechdebate.com/en... (not intended to prove one side or the other, just to show that it is not as simple as shoving in a Merriam-Webster link).
It would be silly for us to get into that debate and I will not entertain it any further, even more so because you are ignoring and deflecting from my main points. Either respond to those or fuck off.
Let me repeat them for you: That does not mean that Foval's group [actively incited violence | pick whatever term you like that describes what you know I mean] (like Foval said in the video: "It doesn't take much to set these guys off.") That also does not mean that all violence at Trump rallies originated from some deliberate attempt from Foval's group.
Don't get me wrong: It's certainly a nasty tactic to deliberately try to influence the image of the Trump campaign by throwing a bunch of red meat in between his dogs and watch them tear it up, but it does not suddenly make his dogs cute little puppies. A sizable portion of Trump-supporters are still mean-spirited violent assholes. You don't get to pretend they are not and you don't get to claim that "we now know the violent rallies to be staged".
Umm, yes it does. They took deliberation action to elicit a violent response. Do you have a problem with basic definitions?
I do not and no, it does not, but lets not get into a fruitless semantic discussion.
What I'm pointing out is that there is a difference between: a. Driving around a bad black neighborhood in a car with KKK-markings and slogans printed on it. b. Driving around a bad black neighborhood with a megaphone shouting "Kill whitey!"
Both could very well lead to violence, but only one of them is actively inciting violence. One could even argue that there is nothing wrong with situation a, even if it was intended to induce media coverage on violence in bad black neighborhoods. It would certainly be completely legal.
Furthermore, again: the people committing the violence in any situation are still assholes, regardless of the actions of the 'inciter'.
From what I saw and heard in the O'Keefe video, everything points to equivalents of situation a and nothing even close to situation b.
A sizable portion of Trump-supporters are still mean-spirited violent assholes.
And yet
By your 'and' it is clear that you agree that a sizable portion of Trump-supporters are still mean-spirited violent assholes.
This is nonsense. The Trump supporters were still the people committing the violence. The only 'proof' there is would be that the group of this Foval guy baitedsome Trump supporters into becoming violent.
That does not mean that Foval's group actively incited violence (like Foval said in the video: "It doesn't take much to set these guys off.") That also does not mean that all violence at Trump rallies originated from some deliberate attempt from Foval's group.
Don't get me wrong: It's certainly a nasty tactic to deliberately try to influence the image of the Trump campaign by throwing a bunch of red meat in between his dogs and watch them tear it up, but it does not suddenly make his dogs cute little puppies. A sizable portion of Trump-supporters are still mean-spirited violent assholes. You don't get to pretend they are not and you don't get to claim that "we now know the violent rallies to be staged".
That is absolutely the most infuriating thing ever.
Even after having just added a certain keyword to refine the search, Google sometimes plainly refuses to include it in the top results and shows me the same list I just clearly indicated did not answer my query by adding another keyword.
Why? Why is it a bad idea to acquire data on the performance of my body when I train?
The latter is obviously not the issue. Depending on what you wear during training, your sparring partner may get snagged in the thing when attempting to grab you for throwing. In general, your sparring partner should not be expected to expect something hard to be on your chest. Probably not a thing in BJJ, but I imagine punching into the unit would not be beneficial to the one punching and the one receiving the punch.
In all fairness, the potential damage is probably limited (nobody is going to die or anything), but the chances of injury are increased nonetheless.
Have you ever competed? What do you suggest?
No, I have not competed at any semi-professional level. But I suggest that you focus on your state of mind, technique and execution during training and work as hard and as well as you can during that training. Do the quantified analysis of your body during all the other hours. Count calories, count proteins, measure your sleep cycles, go wild with the numbers game. During training, your neurological training is much more important than what effect the training has on your body weight. Timing, accuracy, precision, proper leverage, speed, power, reading your opponent, actively influencing your opponents actions, etc. Every (mental) second spent on some fitness tracker is a fucking waste of your precious training time.
Honestly, even outside of training hours there are so many other things you can do that will help you much much more than comparing which exercise made you lose the most calories.
It was good to read (in your other comments) that you haven't actually had one on during training yet. You made it seem that way in this specific thread, though.
Well holding me responsible for what some data mad martial arts freak slashdotter might do with their lethal fitness tracker is a bit absurd.
I wasn't. I was holding you responsible for implying that it might be fine to wear fitness trackers while training in martial arts.
I'll be purchasing the chest sensor variety, as suggested, and continuing with my journey.
That is still a bad idea. Not as bad as that of a wrist-worn one, but still bad.
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If certain people are regularly shouting "Kill all the sand n*ggers/infidels/etc!!" in your establishment and you do nothing to stop them but happily keep serving them drinks, then yes, absolutely.
To me it's about the naming. Making LEGO cars is not called 'mechanical engineering', it's called playing with fucking LEGO.
Toylike programming does not have a toylike name. 'Hour of code' does not sound like 'Hour of building LEGO cars'.
The Homo genus eventually gains a new species. Homo Stellaris?
No. The Homo genus is in the final stages of its relevance. All organic life is.
And this is how total misunderstanding of nutritional science spreads.
Correlation does not equal causation and 'all major medical associations' do not disagree with me on this.
There are plenty of studies that did not find any correlation or only a very very weak one between saturated fat and heart disease. Even if a correlation is found, it still does not prove causation.
Everything you eat can have good and bad effects. That a new good or bad effect to some particular food may be discovered in the future does not invalidate those discovered previously.
I'm sorry, but this is the wrong explanation. The right explanation is that doing nutritional research is hard and that nutritional claims are often not well-supported.
There was never enough proof to say "Fat is bad for you", nor is there currently enough proof to say that "Saturated fat is bad for you". Besides being instantly suspect by being ridiculously simplistic, such claims are almost exclusively based on correlations or effects in high-risk groups. But people really want nutritional advice, so somebody is going to give it to them, citing some paper that suggests some effect.
Don't get me wrong: There are some things where the causal relation between it and a negative health effect is known, but in nutritional advice that generally is not the case.
I just want things to run.
No shit.
Improving the tax code and improving people's attitudes towards taxes in general are not mutually exclusive. I never said or implied that society needs to run on good intentions. That is a straw man you erected.
What I did say is that the notion that the tax code is responsible for how people act or how they frame why they don't pay (certain) taxes is ridiculous and self-serving. Such a notion is equivalent with saying "Well, nowhere in the rules does it say I can't kick him in the balls, so blame the rules for me kicking him in the balls."
True as the first part may be, it is still a dick move.
Does that mean the rules need not make it clearer that kicking someone in the balls is a no go? They probably need to, but it's still a dick move.
If you believe in 'fewer regulations' however, then some amount of endowing people with the trust not to make dick moves is required. Choose your poison.
. But it is worth it, because we pay near zero income taxes. Oh, and here is how many Americans we employ: 0. Our sysadmin is in Shanghai, our graphic artist is in Karachi, etc. You can thank your government for that.
Yeah, no. Take responsibility for being a selfish fucking asshole instead of blaming the government.
When I first started paying income taxes I shed a tear. Not because I felt 'robbed', but because I had reached a point where I was financially stable enough to contribute to my country and to all its people. Even though it was a very modest contribution at the time, I was helping to maintain and build roads, the electricity grid and all other vital infrastructure. I was helping to prevent people down on their luck from becoming homeless or starving. I was helping those with illnesses to get medical care. In short: I was helping to build a civilization. And I was and am fucking proud of it.
Paying taxes is a virtue, not an evil to be avoided at all costs.
https://yourlogicalfallacyis.c...
Your own narrow understanding of the word Asian is not representative of that of everyone, especially not those in the area of science.
The report where they got it from (see page 3):
http://c.ymcdn.com/sites/ascen...
I'm guessing you think they're classifying Indians as either white or the (even smaller than the Asian) amount represented by 'Black, Hispanic, Other'.
FTA:
"The X-ray pulsar captures X-ray signals emitted from pulsars. By mapping those signals, they can be used to determine spacecraft location in deep space, which will eliminate the hours-long delays incurred in using ground-based navigation like the Deep Space Network and European Space Tracking network." (my emphasis)
It's even more retarded than that: Youtube's browser view on a normal monitor is 50% whitespace, so apparently users want everything crammed together instead of having the interface utilize the available screen estate.
Yeah, no.
Nice interfaces: sure. But 'superior': no.
Disclaimer: I judge interfaces on how well they work, not how shiny they are. If we were to discuss the aesthetics of interfaces (and hardware, for that matter), then Apple scores very well.
It is a global business and finance hub
.. in (large) part because it has easy access to the EU.
Many businesses are already working out plans to move operations to Amsterdam and/or Frankfurt ( http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07... ).
If the petulant children who seem to have been running the show lately on both sides of the Channel get to call the shots
Remember that the UK has always had the most special deals and exemptions in the EU, mainly attained by being obstructive. You're a fool if you think they'll get back what they now still have in terms of a deal. Forget about politicians for a moment: Even though some EU citizens are sortof sympathetic with the Brexiters, a large majority sees Brexit as betrayal (which is a source of unison among EU citizens, ironically) and believes the UK should be 'punished'. Politically, and democratically, it makes sense for the politicians of the remaining EU member states to be harsh on a Brexiting UK. Petulance don't enter into it.
Apple creates superior interfaces. [...] Well. Thought. Out.
Oh, come off it. Some of the things they've produced are absolute shit or just badly ripped off. Not everything, but some of it for sure.
- The iOS notification center is and has always been a far cry from that in Android. In fact, a lot of the newer iOS features are kludgy us-too implementations.
- XCode.
- Multimonitor support in the OSX interface is crap.
- OSX's half-assed sortof fullscreen solution is simply dreadful.
Again: they have some nice stuff, but they sure as hell do not deserve the praise you're trying to hand them.
We had a user who wasn't able to uninstall our app on his iPhone last week. Turns out he was pressing on the icon like he always did, but on his new iPhone that was now a '3D touch' gesture. Apple managed to make what was already a silly, shitty way of uninstalling apps (try hitting the minute x-target of the top left icon reliably the first time) so bad that their "It just works."/"It's so intuitive"-users require support to perform it.
But luckily there are online guides on how to uninstall an app: http://www.imore.com/how-move-...
Yeah.
Well. Thought. Out.
There's a big difference in mishandling classified information that you're allowed to read/access for some sane reason and obtaining classified information you are not allowed to access and have no legitimate use for elsewhere.
It's simply not the same thing. And hardly insightful, I might add.
having to take off your belt, coats (and sometimes shoes)
FTS: "Evolv says the system can scan 800 people an hour, without anyone having to remove their keys, coins or cellphones."
I'm assuming that also includes belts and shoes.
Even more shocking: people who think they are 'upper class' are more self absorbed.
"These people were also asked to identify themselves as from a particular social class: either poor, working class, middle class, upper middle class, or upper class"
You know, where the character is actively rewarded for, and celebrates some 'negative' ethical attribute?
Smacking a virtual chicken is not a 'negative ethical attribute' and is very, very distant from 'workplace abuse'.
There is a difference between the virtual world and the real world. Most people understand that very well.
I'm not giving you a free pass to use words in contradiction with their actual meaning.
What exactly constitutes incitement to violence is a matter of great (legal) debate. See here: http://freespeechdebate.com/en... (not intended to prove one side or the other, just to show that it is not as simple as shoving in a Merriam-Webster link).
It would be silly for us to get into that debate and I will not entertain it any further, even more so because you are ignoring and deflecting from my main points. Either respond to those or fuck off.
Let me repeat them for you:
That does not mean that Foval's group [actively incited violence | pick whatever term you like that describes what you know I mean] (like Foval said in the video: "It doesn't take much to set these guys off.")
That also does not mean that all violence at Trump rallies originated from some deliberate attempt from Foval's group.
Don't get me wrong: It's certainly a nasty tactic to deliberately try to influence the image of the Trump campaign by throwing a bunch of red meat in between his dogs and watch them tear it up, but it does not suddenly make his dogs cute little puppies. A sizable portion of Trump-supporters are still mean-spirited violent assholes. You don't get to pretend they are not and you don't get to claim that "we now know the violent rallies to be staged".
Umm, yes it does. They took deliberation action to elicit a violent response. Do you have a problem with basic definitions?
I do not and no, it does not, but lets not get into a fruitless semantic discussion.
What I'm pointing out is that there is a difference between:
a. Driving around a bad black neighborhood in a car with KKK-markings and slogans printed on it.
b. Driving around a bad black neighborhood with a megaphone shouting "Kill whitey!"
Both could very well lead to violence, but only one of them is actively inciting violence. One could even argue that there is nothing wrong with situation a, even if it was intended to induce media coverage on violence in bad black neighborhoods. It would certainly be completely legal.
Furthermore, again: the people committing the violence in any situation are still assholes, regardless of the actions of the 'inciter'.
From what I saw and heard in the O'Keefe video, everything points to equivalents of situation a and nothing even close to situation b.
A sizable portion of Trump-supporters are still mean-spirited violent assholes.
And yet
By your 'and' it is clear that you agree that a sizable portion of Trump-supporters are still mean-spirited violent assholes.
the violent rallies we now know to be staged
This is nonsense. The Trump supporters were still the people committing the violence. The only 'proof' there is would be that the group of this Foval guy baited some Trump supporters into becoming violent.
That does not mean that Foval's group actively incited violence (like Foval said in the video: "It doesn't take much to set these guys off.")
That also does not mean that all violence at Trump rallies originated from some deliberate attempt from Foval's group.
Don't get me wrong: It's certainly a nasty tactic to deliberately try to influence the image of the Trump campaign by throwing a bunch of red meat in between his dogs and watch them tear it up, but it does not suddenly make his dogs cute little puppies. A sizable portion of Trump-supporters are still mean-spirited violent assholes. You don't get to pretend they are not and you don't get to claim that "we now know the violent rallies to be staged".
That is absolutely the most infuriating thing ever.
Even after having just added a certain keyword to refine the search, Google sometimes plainly refuses to include it in the top results and shows me the same list I just clearly indicated did not answer my query by adding another keyword.
Install another keyboard app. There are plenty of them.
Why? Why is it a bad idea to acquire data on the performance of my body when I train?
The latter is obviously not the issue. Depending on what you wear during training, your sparring partner may get snagged in the thing when attempting to grab you for throwing. In general, your sparring partner should not be expected to expect something hard to be on your chest. Probably not a thing in BJJ, but I imagine punching into the unit would not be beneficial to the one punching and the one receiving the punch.
In all fairness, the potential damage is probably limited (nobody is going to die or anything), but the chances of injury are increased nonetheless.
Have you ever competed? What do you suggest?
No, I have not competed at any semi-professional level. But I suggest that you focus on your state of mind, technique and execution during training and work as hard and as well as you can during that training. Do the quantified analysis of your body during all the other hours. Count calories, count proteins, measure your sleep cycles, go wild with the numbers game. During training, your neurological training is much more important than what effect the training has on your body weight. Timing, accuracy, precision, proper leverage, speed, power, reading your opponent, actively influencing your opponents actions, etc. Every (mental) second spent on some fitness tracker is a fucking waste of your precious training time.
Honestly, even outside of training hours there are so many other things you can do that will help you much much more than comparing which exercise made you lose the most calories.
It was good to read (in your other comments) that you haven't actually had one on during training yet. You made it seem that way in this specific thread, though.
Well holding me responsible for what some data mad martial arts freak slashdotter might do with their lethal fitness tracker is a bit absurd.
I wasn't. I was holding you responsible for implying that it might be fine to wear fitness trackers while training in martial arts.
I'll be purchasing the chest sensor variety, as suggested, and continuing with my journey.
That is still a bad idea. Not as bad as that of a wrist-worn one, but still bad.