At 20 weeks in the US, you can legally kill a baby in the womb OR perform life-saving surgery on them. How that makes any sense whatsoever is beyond me.
There are other, less partisan sources of Science news than the New York Times, and I would expect Slashdot curators to favor those, since they will filter out the coal rockets and gay bans in space kinds of reporting. For example, here is space.com's take on the confirmation.
This is mental. The earth is billions of years old, and it has had a climate able to support life for hundreds of millions of those years. How could you possibly describe such a system as "fragile"? Are you aware that the sea levels have risen and fallen by hundreds of meters over that time? That vast sheets of miles-thick ice used to cover areas that once teemed with tropical plants? That the enormous Sahara was covered in vegetation and water a scant 15,000 years ago -- a cyclic pattern that has been repeated at least 7 times according to the geologic record?
The models you are relying on to make you believe that the planet is in some kind of "tipping point" are simply wrong. They assign all the feedback from temperature accumulated since the beginning of the model to the present, over-stating its effects by 2 or 3 times. Are we currently in a warming phase? Yes, we are, and have been since the end of the last ice age. Is it speeding up? Is mankind adding to it? Marginally, and maybe not even at all -- the differences are in the margin of error.
You do need to know the target you're aiming at before you go around shooting, so yes, you need a Goal. You shouldn't just rush off and have everybody hack away randomly, so you need an Approach. And you need to turn those into specific Steps/Tasks so people know what to focus on right now, and so you can measure your outcomes and feed that back.
The parent is spot on, specialization in our field should never mean exclusivity, it should just mean a strength. Being full stack is the only way to truly understand what it means to write simple, elegant code. Watching your too-clever-by-half solution go up in brittle, flaming bits as soon as you deploy it on the real platform teaches you a lesson you cannot learn in books, only by doing.
The way to learn the full stack is on your own time, on your own projects, exploring whatever components tickle your fancy. A skill learned on one stack is impressively reusable on many, many others. I cannot count the number of times I've gotten a project or a job where I had to use some skill I learned on my own.
And, as an ancient developer, I will say you simply cannot afford not to be full stack, because you will find yourself out of a job before you are ready to retire. That is just a fact of life. Be prepared.
You'd have to be under the age of three to not understand that Facebook is an ADVERTISING platform.
Literally the entire media world runs on advertising. Shoot, if you have cable TV or go to the movies these days, you will not only have to sit through advertisements, you'll have the pleasure of PAYING while you do so.
So how could this possibly be wrong for Facebook when it is acceptable for every other media company? It's a free country, no one forces you to look at their service. If you don't like it, don't use it. End of discussion.
I once spent three days on Smith Island, the quietest spot in the Eastern US, to see if an extended time of quiet would help soothe my stress. No cars. No stores. Just the fishing fleet leaving pre-dawn and returning at dusk. In between, nothing but the sound of the surrounding Chesapeake Bay and the wind on the willows by the shore.
Every day I was there, I could detect fainter and fainter sounds. On my last day, as I was sitting on the front porch staring at the water, I noticed a very distinct hum. I looked all over for the offender, only to discover that it was the electric motor in the ceiling fan overhead.
I don't think that my physical hearing senses became sharper, obviously. I think what happened is that my mind was able to perceive them because they weren't competing with all the other sounds I was filling my head with. I can well imagine that pre-loading your perceptions with internal talk will make you less observant of external sounds, just as this study shows.
Oh, and the rest cure worked really, really well. I try to get at least a couple of days of complete silence at least once a year now. Very restorative.
"FAITH" does not demand that one sticks to a position regardless of the evidence, that's a very common misconception. Faith merely means to have belief, as in, "I believe I am right". What you are saying is you trust your sources, your reasoning process, and thus your conclusion. A religious person has faith in God in precisely the same manner as one might have faith in a scientific study. They have trust in their sources, their reasoning process, and thus their conclusion.
What you may be referring to is *blind* faith, that is, believing without regard to reasoning, often intentionally so. Not the same thing at all.
Exactly. Am I the only one thinking, "Google doesn't want to police the thoughts of people in its own services, it wants to police the thoughts of ALL social media."
non-human minds obey Weber's Law, which is the oldest and most broadly applicable quantitative law in experimental psychology. It says that the discriminability of two quantities—the speed and accuracy with which the larger of the two can be decided on—depends only on the ratio of the two objectively specified quantities. Thus, for example, the speed and accuracy with which a 6 g weight can be distinguished from a 4 g weight are the same as the speed and accuracy with which a 6 kg weight can be distinguished from a 4 kg weight.
The speed and accuracy with which a bitcoin investor and be distinguished from a normal investor is the same as the speed at which the valuation of the investment changes over time.
"I've been increasingly concerned that the recommendation engine algorithms behind platforms like YouTube are, at best, intrinsically flawed in optimizing for outrageous, salacious and often fraudulent content."
And how is that possibly any business of the federated government of the United States of America? It doesn't matter if it's true or not, it's none of their durn business to begin with.
Senator Warner, I know you are a smart guy, you're one of the Senators for my beloved state, but don't you think the federal government has just a few problems of its own more compelling than YouTube algorithms?
Butt out. Start doing your own job and leave us alone.
I'd say that C-SPAN is the most even-handed network. They also happen to be the least opinionated as well. I've been listening to C-SPAN radio for more than a decade, and I can't remember even one time when I heard a host utter a personal opinion. They must put those hosts through some kind of major league boot camp for not letting callers get under their skin.
Agree. PBS is not "state-sponsored" in the sense that the state gets a say in what is broadcast. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting is the funding vehicle for PBS and other non-profit broadcasters. The Corporation was created by the federal government and is required to be nonpolitical and nonpartisan by law (see https://www.law.cornell.edu/us...)
My impression is that PBS is a bit left-leaning, but they scrupulously present many different points of view in their news coverage. They certainly aren't parroting the government's PR, especially not under this administration.
So putting some kind of warning label is totally inappropriate, IMHO.
Not at all. ALL insurance works the same way. The difference between 3rd party insurance and self insurance is who collects the premiums and who sets the coverage. The reason you can save a LOT of money by self-insuring is because you can shape coverage specifically to your risk pool.
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At 20 weeks in the US, you can legally kill a baby in the womb OR perform life-saving surgery on them. How that makes any sense whatsoever is beyond me.
There are other, less partisan sources of Science news than the New York Times, and I would expect Slashdot curators to favor those, since they will filter out the coal rockets and gay bans in space kinds of reporting. For example, here is space.com's take on the confirmation.
Mod parent up. Yeah, a re-post of a New York Times article hardly seems like "News for Nerds. Stuff That Matters."
This is mental. The earth is billions of years old, and it has had a climate able to support life for hundreds of millions of those years. How could you possibly describe such a system as "fragile"? Are you aware that the sea levels have risen and fallen by hundreds of meters over that time? That vast sheets of miles-thick ice used to cover areas that once teemed with tropical plants? That the enormous Sahara was covered in vegetation and water a scant 15,000 years ago -- a cyclic pattern that has been repeated at least 7 times according to the geologic record?
The models you are relying on to make you believe that the planet is in some kind of "tipping point" are simply wrong. They assign all the feedback from temperature accumulated since the beginning of the model to the present, over-stating its effects by 2 or 3 times. Are we currently in a warming phase? Yes, we are, and have been since the end of the last ice age. Is it speeding up? Is mankind adding to it? Marginally, and maybe not even at all -- the differences are in the margin of error.
You do need to know the target you're aiming at before you go around shooting, so yes, you need a Goal. You shouldn't just rush off and have everybody hack away randomly, so you need an Approach. And you need to turn those into specific Steps/Tasks so people know what to focus on right now, and so you can measure your outcomes and feed that back.
The parent is spot on, specialization in our field should never mean exclusivity, it should just mean a strength. Being full stack is the only way to truly understand what it means to write simple, elegant code. Watching your too-clever-by-half solution go up in brittle, flaming bits as soon as you deploy it on the real platform teaches you a lesson you cannot learn in books, only by doing.
The way to learn the full stack is on your own time, on your own projects, exploring whatever components tickle your fancy. A skill learned on one stack is impressively reusable on many, many others. I cannot count the number of times I've gotten a project or a job where I had to use some skill I learned on my own.
And, as an ancient developer, I will say you simply cannot afford not to be full stack, because you will find yourself out of a job before you are ready to retire. That is just a fact of life. Be prepared.
Thank you. Everyone always wants to jump right to the code.
Excellent analogy
No, I like it. +1 for actually RTA.
You'd have to be under the age of three to not understand that Facebook is an ADVERTISING platform.
Literally the entire media world runs on advertising. Shoot, if you have cable TV or go to the movies these days, you will not only have to sit through advertisements, you'll have the pleasure of PAYING while you do so.
So how could this possibly be wrong for Facebook when it is acceptable for every other media company? It's a free country, no one forces you to look at their service. If you don't like it, don't use it. End of discussion.
I once spent three days on Smith Island, the quietest spot in the Eastern US, to see if an extended time of quiet would help soothe my stress. No cars. No stores. Just the fishing fleet leaving pre-dawn and returning at dusk. In between, nothing but the sound of the surrounding Chesapeake Bay and the wind on the willows by the shore.
Every day I was there, I could detect fainter and fainter sounds. On my last day, as I was sitting on the front porch staring at the water, I noticed a very distinct hum. I looked all over for the offender, only to discover that it was the electric motor in the ceiling fan overhead.
I don't think that my physical hearing senses became sharper, obviously. I think what happened is that my mind was able to perceive them because they weren't competing with all the other sounds I was filling my head with. I can well imagine that pre-loading your perceptions with internal talk will make you less observant of external sounds, just as this study shows.
Oh, and the rest cure worked really, really well. I try to get at least a couple of days of complete silence at least once a year now. Very restorative.
As much click bait as any Hollywood gossip rag, true. I read the comments to be entertained, mostly.
"FAITH" does not demand that one sticks to a position regardless of the evidence, that's a very common misconception. Faith merely means to have belief, as in, "I believe I am right". What you are saying is you trust your sources, your reasoning process, and thus your conclusion. A religious person has faith in God in precisely the same manner as one might have faith in a scientific study. They have trust in their sources, their reasoning process, and thus their conclusion.
What you may be referring to is *blind* faith, that is, believing without regard to reasoning, often intentionally so. Not the same thing at all.
Here, let me repeat back to you what you just said, with a little normalization of terms:
"Allowing the proliferation of FACTS I CONSIDER TO BE FALSE to create WHAT I CONSIDER TO BE TURMOIL is not a desirable outcome FOR ME"
In other words, you just want to control the debate and guarantee outcomes favorable to yourself.
Uh, no. Who died and put you in charge of us?
No, not ironic. Chilling is closer to the mark.
Exactly. Am I the only one thinking, "Google doesn't want to police the thoughts of people in its own services, it wants to police the thoughts of ALL social media."
No way. Stay in your lane, Google.
The only solution is to let speech be free, and let people make up their own damn minds whether information is "fake" or not.
FTA:
The speed and accuracy with which a bitcoin investor and be distinguished from a normal investor is the same as the speed at which the valuation of the investment changes over time.
"I've been increasingly concerned that the recommendation engine algorithms behind platforms like YouTube are, at best, intrinsically flawed in optimizing for outrageous, salacious and often fraudulent content."
And how is that possibly any business of the federated government of the United States of America? It doesn't matter if it's true or not, it's none of their durn business to begin with.
Senator Warner, I know you are a smart guy, you're one of the Senators for my beloved state, but don't you think the federal government has just a few problems of its own more compelling than YouTube algorithms?
Butt out. Start doing your own job and leave us alone.
I'd say that C-SPAN is the most even-handed network. They also happen to be the least opinionated as well. I've been listening to C-SPAN radio for more than a decade, and I can't remember even one time when I heard a host utter a personal opinion. They must put those hosts through some kind of major league boot camp for not letting callers get under their skin.
Agree. PBS is not "state-sponsored" in the sense that the state gets a say in what is broadcast. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting is the funding vehicle for PBS and other non-profit broadcasters. The Corporation was created by the federal government and is required to be nonpolitical and nonpartisan by law (see https://www.law.cornell.edu/us...)
My impression is that PBS is a bit left-leaning, but they scrupulously present many different points of view in their news coverage. They certainly aren't parroting the government's PR, especially not under this administration.
So putting some kind of warning label is totally inappropriate, IMHO.
Not at all. ALL insurance works the same way. The difference between 3rd party insurance and self insurance is who collects the premiums and who sets the coverage. The reason you can save a LOT of money by self-insuring is because you can shape coverage specifically to your risk pool.
But you still need a big, broad pool.
And if your risk pool is large enough and broad enough, you can save a SUBSTANTIAL amount of money.
Apple v Android. Are you saying that's not competitive?
Do not most people live in urban areas? Are there not multiple ISPs in urban areas?