According to this list, the civil service. Though, the one you were thinking of, law, seems to be the #2 professional background. According to this article the percentage of lawyers in Congress is actually shrinking, it used to 80% in the 19th century and had fallen to 40% as of 2016. For reference, according to Dr Dutton's list, civil service is 10th on the list of top 10 jobs with the highest rates of psycopathy.
Maybe congress needs more healthcare aide workers? That's the job with the lowest rate of psycopathy.
A common theme I see with technology is wanting to throw out the baby with the bathwater. The world already WENT THROUGH THIS. We came up with that news anchor and evening paper BECAUSE of the unreliability of information otherwise. Then millennials come along and say that the news anchor is now corrupt and start to read and believe EVERYTHING ON THE INTERNET. There is something *very wrong* with this picture.
I have my doubts that the millennials have much to do with this "fake news" bullshit. Trump, for example, is considerably more than 20 years old, and the largest portion of his support seems to come from Baby Boomers, not millennials.
But technology has given us a lot of mostly objective information in the form of photos, videos, logs and other electronic records, you don't need to rely on trust and reputation if you have a surveillance camera record who steals cookies.
Unfortunately, that's not really true. Photos can be doctored, videos can be generated, logs and electronic records can be altered or falsified. You still need to rely on trust and reputation to tell you that the objective information that you have been provided is both truthful and representative. And always remember that in addition to faking the evidence you are given, someone can also hide the information that they don't want you to see.
The crazy conspiracy people have lots and lots of "evidence" that they will show you that "proves" their conspiracy is true. Moon landing hoaxers will show you video of the flag on the moon "waving in the wind" to prove it was filmed on earth, however, they won't show you other video where it's not moving or tell you that the video was taken immediately after the flag was planted (and thus a more plausible explanation is that the flag is still vibrating from the pole being stuck in the ground).
The problem is not just evidence, which can be manufactured, but also framing which can be used to persuade people to overlook inconvenient truths.
Wait. What different sides is the knowyourmeme page presenting? It appears to be relentless pro-Gamergate page where every criticism of Gamergate is neatly answered and every critic is shot down effortlessly (Which should be a clue that it's biased). Basically it takes everything that Gamergaters claim about themselves at face value even when their words and actions do not match their claims. On the other hand, the Rational Wiki page is dismissive and certainly biased against Gamergate, but they also appear to be fundamentally accurate and insightful when speaking about the movement.
The biggest thing I took away from my personal experiences with Gamergaters was how much the people in Gamergate were lying to everyone including themselves and each other.
A neckbeard is a beard that hasn't been groomed properly and has been allowed to grow out of the neck, as opposed to a well groomed beard which grows from the face and chin. In this case, it is used a pejorative term to represent people with a failure to understand basic social niceties such as grooming, etiquette, or the art of conversation.
I see this term thrown out but I have no idea what it means. Is it meant to be bad? Good? Represent a particular political view?
It's meant to be bad, and might represent a technically acute but generally unsophisticated viewpoint, especially when presented in a rude manner.
Incidentally I like to hear multiple perspectives on things. Groupthink is inherently dangerous, whether you're inside the group or not.
The problem is that most often I hear people complain about group think when the group simply doesn't agree with their claims. Usually it's followed by a rant about how it's group think because other people won't entertain their ideas about Obama being a secret Plutonian sent to prepare the United States for an invasion by the frog people of Europa... But I digress, group think can be a problem, but the claims are often specious, in my experience.
Wow. Someone has been accused of something they didn't do or being something they aren't. I bet that's never happened on Slashdot before on any topic that's not racism...
I hope the sarcasm is obvious.
Of course, the flip side is that sometimes the "people mentioning issues" "or wanting to discuss demographics" actually are racists, and they're actually not mentioning or discussing anything other than their clearly racist views. The claims are just how they deflect criticism, I've seen it happen both ways, but the actual racists seem to be far more indignant about being called on their transparently held views.
Wow, and thus ends humanity...right there in that statement. Once we begin to think of worth in terms of contributions then it inevitably calls into question; what is a contribution? Babies don't contribute anything to society...why not just disallow babies? See how easily that train of thought falls apart.
Bah humbug. You're just jealous because those babies still have a higher net contribution than you...
Doesn't look like it. It looks like Tillerson is being replaced because he criticized Russia. Apparently calling Trump a moron is ok, but blaming Russia for assassinating defectors is one step too far...
Nope, that's still a Bush policy. To be fair, Obama's administration would instead tell other countries where "people of interest" were and let those other countries arrest them. In many countries that's likely to get the arrested person tortured, but it's at least a small step in a better direction.
So you are afraid that Trump's actions might actually work then... It's not about all the supposed crimes he's accused of committing, you admitted that... Maybe you just don't like him? No?
You just don't understand people, do you? People aren't afraid that Trump's actions will work, they're afraid that they will fail spectacularly and everyone else will be left paying the bills for Trump's failures.
But you cannot bring yourself to say anything nice here?
Nope, when has Trump ever done anything nice?
The tax cuts?
Primarily going to the people who need the tax relief the least. It'll likely be popular but it's poor fiscal policy, America's children will be paying off the debt this tax break is going to incur for generations. It's yet another example of how the Baby Boomer generation has bankrupted America.
The elimination of the ACA mandate?
Yay. More sick people, how could that ever be bad?
His massive reductions in the burdensome regulations his administration has been undoing?
Poisoned water and air! The next generation is going to love that too.
At this point, attacking Trump relentlessly about unproven theories will only strengthen his ability to defend himself during the campaign... "They've been attacking me on this since day one, where is their proof after 4 years? There isn't any. This is all they got, but I've got these results..." The only reason for keeping this up now is to stymie Trump's efforts to make things better because you are afraid they might actually work..
Trump's a born liar, he's going to make the argument that everything bad that anyone says about him is lies no matter what anyone does. It'll either be "they've been complaining for years about me" or "suddenly they have complaints about me because it's election time". Knowing Trump, he might actually say both of those in the same sentence. How about we just try to offer and accept honest criticism where it's due? Not everything Trump does is bad, but I'm hard pressed to come up with many examples where he did something good that he didn't immediately reverse course on.
Americans are definitely getting the best government that money can buy... for those with the money to buy it.
Nice work. You've defined a new -ism. Scienceism. I suppose we should let you appoint the 'scientists' to be the rulers under this new -ism.
I suppose you think what you've written is somehow intelligent? You're wrong. You can't argue with science like you can't argue with a bullet flying in your direction. He's not saying you have to do what the scientists say. He's saying that ignoring a scientific problem won't make it go away. The new conservatives believe in denying reality because it would inconvenience their opinions, and that is exactly why I stopped being a conservative. Reality just doesn't care about your ideology.
Treason has a specific constitutionally defined meaning. I think you are trying way to hard to make Trump's actions meet that definition.
Trump's action may not amount to the legal definition of treason, but there seems to be plenty of evidence that Trump has betrayed the trust of the American people, and has been negligent in his duties as president...
Some people get fired up and claim it's treason, but it's really what Trump denounced to get elected, good old corruption.
That's most likely true, the point isn't that Lucas is a terrible person, rather it's that not much has changed. I'm pretty sure the people making the new Disney Star Wars movies love what they are doing too. Heck, I think even Michael Bay loves what he does, but I never want to watch another movie that he's worked on again... And the same type of people are complaining about Star Wars selling out now that were complaining about it 30 years ago. It's just now those people have the internet so they can broadcast their opinions a lot further and more frequently than they could before.
Amusingly enough, Star Wars is one of the examples given on the Wikipedia and TV Tropes pages for Space Opera. I do agree that it is science fantasy, again according to the definitions on Wikipedia and TV tropes, but I don't think they are mutually exclusive categorizations but rather space opera defines the type of story, and science fantasy describe the world (or universe) the story is set in.
> If you told me at 11 years old that I would be getting to tell stories in the Star Wars universe, I wouldn't have believed you.
And rightly so, because the Star Wars universe you knew at 11 years old (or 21 or 31) was first injured and then killed and replaced by some abomination with the sole purpose of making money instead of telling stories.
The saddest thing is that you may actually believe this. Star Wars has always been about making money. The first hint should be that it was a movie released in theatres. You do understand, don't you, that they do that to make money? I was kid during the original Star Wars trilogy. There were tonnes of toys to cash in one the movies and there were people just like you telling everyone (whether or not they wanted to hear it), how the Empire Strikes Back and later Return of the Jedi were doing the same thing to the original Star Wars movie, that it had been "first injured and then killed and replaced by some abomination with the sole purpose of making money instead of telling stories".
Face it, Star Wars has always been a space opera, they're exciting action movies with a little bit of mysticism thrown in. Now I'll agree the prequels are truly terrible because they are poorly made movies, with too much bad CGI, they were poorly shot, poorly acted and had pretty bad dialogue and pacing. The sequels, however, have been much better.
The first one is easily explained "African-American Inventor" contains the substring "American Inventor". The problem with the rest is that most of the time none of them are identified as "white". Take Alexander Graham Bell's wikipedia page, for example. The word "white" only appears in name of a plane that Bell helped to develop, meanwhile the top result for "white inventor" is a black man who had to hire a white actor to pretend to be him to sell his inventions. It's not notable to most people that a couple is white, or that a woman with children is white, or that a man and a woman are white. The last term is more of the same, if you understand that Europeans do not often consider themselves to be "European" and instead they are British, French, German, etc. then the results again make sense because the term European is again used most often to identify historical figures who are not European.
Try searching for:
famous inventor (inventor just returns CAD images)
couples
women with children
man and woman
history people
And you'll see that most of the pictures are white people.
This doesn't look like result manipulation, it looks like the terms that you listed are most often used when the picture does not conform to the terms. It's certain counter-intuitive, but it's what anyone with an actual understanding of exactly how dumb algorithms can be would expect from page rank in these circumstances. Contrary to your claim, the results actually seem to be pretty clear evidence that Google is not manipulating these search results or the results would be better.
You should probably start with Software Design Principles:
DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself)
KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid)
YAGNI (You Ain't Gonna Need It)
SOLID (Single responsibility, Open-closed, Liskov substitution, Interface segregation, Dependency inversion
Then plan on having a lot more of these meetings, because you should not be able to adequately cover these principles in a half day. Afterwards, you should probably also have meetings on coding standards, methodology (waterfall, agile, or whatever), testing process (test driven, or whatever), writing good unit tests and writing bad units tests (ie. what not do do).
Shaping self-taught programmers into professional developers is not a one day process. You'll probably also want to implement a peer review system if they're going to be working for you to enforce the standards and sanity checks that you'll want to implement.
Comcast wasn't stopping them from sending you your GOT episodes. All they were making Netflix do is pay for their traffic, LIKE EVERYONE ELSE (including you).
Moron. I just finished explaining that to you. How does it feel when you make Derek Zoolander look smart? People pay ISPs to transfer data, ISPs pay for connections to their upstream providers. Netflix can't send too much data to Comcast because Comcast's customers are already paying Comcast to receive that data. What Comcast did was classic extortion, of the same kind that the old robber barons or the mafia used to do, where they would "tax" anyone that wants to use "their roads", for their own protection, of course.
You clearly don't understand anything, so why don't you go back to your little sandbox and play like a good child while the adults talk?
No, I'm simply excluding people who haven't dealt first-hand with the issues. That those who have tend to agree with me is kind of my point.
My point is that if you are motivated enough, you can always find a justification to narrow the pool of answers until only the answer you want is left.
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According to this list, the civil service. Though, the one you were thinking of, law, seems to be the #2 professional background. According to this article the percentage of lawyers in Congress is actually shrinking, it used to 80% in the 19th century and had fallen to 40% as of 2016. For reference, according to Dr Dutton's list, civil service is 10th on the list of top 10 jobs with the highest rates of psycopathy.
Maybe congress needs more healthcare aide workers? That's the job with the lowest rate of psycopathy.
A common theme I see with technology is wanting to throw out the baby with the bathwater. The world already WENT THROUGH THIS. We came up with that news anchor and evening paper BECAUSE of the unreliability of information otherwise. Then millennials come along and say that the news anchor is now corrupt and start to read and believe EVERYTHING ON THE INTERNET. There is something *very wrong* with this picture.
I have my doubts that the millennials have much to do with this "fake news" bullshit. Trump, for example, is considerably more than 20 years old, and the largest portion of his support seems to come from Baby Boomers, not millennials.
But technology has given us a lot of mostly objective information in the form of photos, videos, logs and other electronic records, you don't need to rely on trust and reputation if you have a surveillance camera record who steals cookies.
Unfortunately, that's not really true. Photos can be doctored, videos can be generated, logs and electronic records can be altered or falsified. You still need to rely on trust and reputation to tell you that the objective information that you have been provided is both truthful and representative. And always remember that in addition to faking the evidence you are given, someone can also hide the information that they don't want you to see.
The crazy conspiracy people have lots and lots of "evidence" that they will show you that "proves" their conspiracy is true. Moon landing hoaxers will show you video of the flag on the moon "waving in the wind" to prove it was filmed on earth, however, they won't show you other video where it's not moving or tell you that the video was taken immediately after the flag was planted (and thus a more plausible explanation is that the flag is still vibrating from the pole being stuck in the ground).
The problem is not just evidence, which can be manufactured, but also framing which can be used to persuade people to overlook inconvenient truths.
The irony of linking to RationalWiki on the topic of fighting self reinforcing echo chambers and conspiracy is really too rich.
Hint: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Gamergate
Then compare to http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/gamergate
And ask yourself why a meme site is more capable of representing different sides.
Wait. What different sides is the knowyourmeme page presenting? It appears to be relentless pro-Gamergate page where every criticism of Gamergate is neatly answered and every critic is shot down effortlessly (Which should be a clue that it's biased). Basically it takes everything that Gamergaters claim about themselves at face value even when their words and actions do not match their claims. On the other hand, the Rational Wiki page is dismissive and certainly biased against Gamergate, but they also appear to be fundamentally accurate and insightful when speaking about the movement.
The biggest thing I took away from my personal experiences with Gamergaters was how much the people in Gamergate were lying to everyone including themselves and each other.
Help me out here, what the fuck is a 'neckbeard'?
A neckbeard is a beard that hasn't been groomed properly and has been allowed to grow out of the neck, as opposed to a well groomed beard which grows from the face and chin. In this case, it is used a pejorative term to represent people with a failure to understand basic social niceties such as grooming, etiquette, or the art of conversation.
I see this term thrown out but I have no idea what it means. Is it meant to be bad? Good? Represent a particular political view?
It's meant to be bad, and might represent a technically acute but generally unsophisticated viewpoint, especially when presented in a rude manner.
Incidentally I like to hear multiple perspectives on things. Groupthink is inherently dangerous, whether you're inside the group or not.
The problem is that most often I hear people complain about group think when the group simply doesn't agree with their claims. Usually it's followed by a rant about how it's group think because other people won't entertain their ideas about Obama being a secret Plutonian sent to prepare the United States for an invasion by the frog people of Europa... But I digress, group think can be a problem, but the claims are often specious, in my experience.
Wow. Someone has been accused of something they didn't do or being something they aren't. I bet that's never happened on Slashdot before on any topic that's not racism...
I hope the sarcasm is obvious.
Of course, the flip side is that sometimes the "people mentioning issues" "or wanting to discuss demographics" actually are racists, and they're actually not mentioning or discussing anything other than their clearly racist views. The claims are just how they deflect criticism, I've seen it happen both ways, but the actual racists seem to be far more indignant about being called on their transparently held views.
Wow, and thus ends humanity...right there in that statement. Once we begin to think of worth in terms of contributions then it inevitably calls into question; what is a contribution? Babies don't contribute anything to society...why not just disallow babies? See how easily that train of thought falls apart.
Bah humbug. You're just jealous because those babies still have a higher net contribution than you...
But never fear, you can still turn it around until the crystal in your palm goes black. You've got plenty of... never mind.
Doesn't look like it. It looks like Tillerson is being replaced because he criticized Russia. Apparently calling Trump a moron is ok, but blaming Russia for assassinating defectors is one step too far...
Nope, that's still a Bush policy. To be fair, Obama's administration would instead tell other countries where "people of interest" were and let those other countries arrest them. In many countries that's likely to get the arrested person tortured, but it's at least a small step in a better direction.
So you are afraid that Trump's actions might actually work then... It's not about all the supposed crimes he's accused of committing, you admitted that... Maybe you just don't like him? No?
You just don't understand people, do you? People aren't afraid that Trump's actions will work, they're afraid that they will fail spectacularly and everyone else will be left paying the bills for Trump's failures.
But you cannot bring yourself to say anything nice here?
Nope, when has Trump ever done anything nice?
The tax cuts?
Primarily going to the people who need the tax relief the least. It'll likely be popular but it's poor fiscal policy, America's children will be paying off the debt this tax break is going to incur for generations. It's yet another example of how the Baby Boomer generation has bankrupted America.
The elimination of the ACA mandate?
Yay. More sick people, how could that ever be bad?
His massive reductions in the burdensome regulations his administration has been undoing?
Poisoned water and air! The next generation is going to love that too.
Nothing?
See, you can't list anything good either.
At this point, attacking Trump relentlessly about unproven theories will only strengthen his ability to defend himself during the campaign... "They've been attacking me on this since day one, where is their proof after 4 years? There isn't any. This is all they got, but I've got these results..." The only reason for keeping this up now is to stymie Trump's efforts to make things better because you are afraid they might actually work..
Trump's a born liar, he's going to make the argument that everything bad that anyone says about him is lies no matter what anyone does. It'll either be "they've been complaining for years about me" or "suddenly they have complaints about me because it's election time". Knowing Trump, he might actually say both of those in the same sentence. How about we just try to offer and accept honest criticism where it's due? Not everything Trump does is bad, but I'm hard pressed to come up with many examples where he did something good that he didn't immediately reverse course on.
Americans are definitely getting the best government that money can buy... for those with the money to buy it.
Nice work. You've defined a new -ism. Scienceism. I suppose we should let you appoint the 'scientists' to be the rulers under this new -ism.
I suppose you think what you've written is somehow intelligent? You're wrong. You can't argue with science like you can't argue with a bullet flying in your direction. He's not saying you have to do what the scientists say. He's saying that ignoring a scientific problem won't make it go away. The new conservatives believe in denying reality because it would inconvenience their opinions, and that is exactly why I stopped being a conservative. Reality just doesn't care about your ideology.
That, of course, assumes that you want the board to be effective.
Trump doesn't.
Treason has a specific constitutionally defined meaning. I think you are trying way to hard to make Trump's actions meet that definition.
Trump's action may not amount to the legal definition of treason, but there seems to be plenty of evidence that Trump has betrayed the trust of the American people, and has been negligent in his duties as president...
Some people get fired up and claim it's treason, but it's really what Trump denounced to get elected, good old corruption.
That's most likely true, the point isn't that Lucas is a terrible person, rather it's that not much has changed. I'm pretty sure the people making the new Disney Star Wars movies love what they are doing too. Heck, I think even Michael Bay loves what he does, but I never want to watch another movie that he's worked on again... And the same type of people are complaining about Star Wars selling out now that were complaining about it 30 years ago. It's just now those people have the internet so they can broadcast their opinions a lot further and more frequently than they could before.
Amusingly enough, Star Wars is one of the examples given on the Wikipedia and TV Tropes pages for Space Opera. I do agree that it is science fantasy, again according to the definitions on Wikipedia and TV tropes, but I don't think they are mutually exclusive categorizations but rather space opera defines the type of story, and science fantasy describe the world (or universe) the story is set in.
> If you told me at 11 years old that I would be getting to tell stories in the Star Wars universe, I wouldn't have believed you.
And rightly so, because the Star Wars universe you knew at 11 years old (or 21 or 31) was first injured and then killed and replaced by some abomination with the sole purpose of making money instead of telling stories.
The saddest thing is that you may actually believe this. Star Wars has always been about making money. The first hint should be that it was a movie released in theatres. You do understand, don't you, that they do that to make money? I was kid during the original Star Wars trilogy. There were tonnes of toys to cash in one the movies and there were people just like you telling everyone (whether or not they wanted to hear it), how the Empire Strikes Back and later Return of the Jedi were doing the same thing to the original Star Wars movie, that it had been "first injured and then killed and replaced by some abomination with the sole purpose of making money instead of telling stories".
Face it, Star Wars has always been a space opera, they're exciting action movies with a little bit of mysticism thrown in. Now I'll agree the prequels are truly terrible because they are poorly made movies, with too much bad CGI, they were poorly shot, poorly acted and had pretty bad dialogue and pacing. The sequels, however, have been much better.
The first one is easily explained "African-American Inventor" contains the substring "American Inventor". The problem with the rest is that most of the time none of them are identified as "white". Take Alexander Graham Bell's wikipedia page, for example. The word "white" only appears in name of a plane that Bell helped to develop, meanwhile the top result for "white inventor" is a black man who had to hire a white actor to pretend to be him to sell his inventions. It's not notable to most people that a couple is white, or that a woman with children is white, or that a man and a woman are white. The last term is more of the same, if you understand that Europeans do not often consider themselves to be "European" and instead they are British, French, German, etc. then the results again make sense because the term European is again used most often to identify historical figures who are not European.
Try searching for:
famous inventor (inventor just returns CAD images)
couples
women with children
man and woman
history people
And you'll see that most of the pictures are white people.
This doesn't look like result manipulation, it looks like the terms that you listed are most often used when the picture does not conform to the terms. It's certain counter-intuitive, but it's what anyone with an actual understanding of exactly how dumb algorithms can be would expect from page rank in these circumstances. Contrary to your claim, the results actually seem to be pretty clear evidence that Google is not manipulating these search results or the results would be better.
You know nothing of Windows Nanoserver it seems.
Does anybody really know anything about it? And isn't that the problem?
You should probably start with Software Design Principles:
DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself)
KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid)
YAGNI (You Ain't Gonna Need It)
SOLID (Single responsibility, Open-closed, Liskov substitution, Interface segregation, Dependency inversion
Then plan on having a lot more of these meetings, because you should not be able to adequately cover these principles in a half day. Afterwards, you should probably also have meetings on coding standards, methodology (waterfall, agile, or whatever), testing process (test driven, or whatever), writing good unit tests and writing bad units tests (ie. what not do do).
Shaping self-taught programmers into professional developers is not a one day process. You'll probably also want to implement a peer review system if they're going to be working for you to enforce the standards and sanity checks that you'll want to implement.
You do not understand how the internet works.
Ha. Pot-Kettle-Black.
Comcast wasn't stopping them from sending you your GOT episodes. All they were making Netflix do is pay for their traffic, LIKE EVERYONE ELSE (including you).
Moron. I just finished explaining that to you. How does it feel when you make Derek Zoolander look smart? People pay ISPs to transfer data, ISPs pay for connections to their upstream providers. Netflix can't send too much data to Comcast because Comcast's customers are already paying Comcast to receive that data. What Comcast did was classic extortion, of the same kind that the old robber barons or the mafia used to do, where they would "tax" anyone that wants to use "their roads", for their own protection, of course.
You clearly don't understand anything, so why don't you go back to your little sandbox and play like a good child while the adults talk?
No, I'm simply excluding people who haven't dealt first-hand with the issues. That those who have tend to agree with me is kind of my point.
My point is that if you are motivated enough, you can always find a justification to narrow the pool of answers until only the answer you want is left.
I think they'd rather you keep them in the first place.
Why did Google fire Damore instead of Tim in August? Since later in November, Google agreed that Tim demonstrated disruptive behavior.
Probably because they fire people in the order of the size of the problem they are creating?
Calling this "desperate reach by a floundering lawyer" betrays your impartiality.
I don't claim to be impartial, and that's just what the argument looks like to me, a blatant attempt at spinning inconvenient facts.
Did you know that both Canada and Mexico have a problem with American guns being smuggled into them?