"I think" doesn't merit a call to action and "denied" and "seriously discouraged" are two very different things, one of which would merit direct action to change how the college admissions and job application processes work and one simply a discussion with the aim of changing perceptions on gender roles and fighting ethnic discrimination.
You're asking him to prove a negative which is impossible to do without exhaustively looking at every single woman and minority applying for tech related jobs and confirming that not a single case exists, which is absurd. What we can do fairly easily is look at the demographics of people applying for tech degrees and look at the rates at which those people are getting hired and what kind of salaries for like for like positions and like for like experience. Women as a whole apply for far fewer Computer Science degrees so it's expected that they would make up less of the workforce in those fields. If minorities are applying for fewer Computer Science degrees we would expect to see the same thing.
Now, if there is evidence that minorities and women are meeting significant barriers to entry to get those degrees and motivated people are not being given an equal chance to get those degrees then we should take action to address that, but that comes long before blame can be laid at Google or Yahoo's feet. Not only that, but if certain demographics tend to show higher employment numbers that we aren't pushing to equalize the employment numbers in then by default we can't expect that we'd be able to equalize the numbers relative to population in other fields without the numbers equalizing there too.
In summary, as long as people aren't being denied opportunities based on their ethnicity or gender then diversity for diversity's sake isn't helping anyone. We should be working on identifying the cases where people are being denied opportunities they want to take and taking action there.
I'm actually not opposed to getting rid of the notion of net neutrality in theory. If private entities want to invest in their own infrastructure, compete in an open market and provide a service at the cost and convenience of their choosing then so be it. However you don't get to take billions of public dollars, setup monopolies and then fuck over your customers who have no other options because you made sure they didn't.
No you're totally right. Today's DRM is impenetrable and will hold strong for a thousand years. And all those content creators I'm sure will maintain the DRM for centuries and both abandon their products and fight piracy of them at the same time.
If some more professional research and design was put into this it could be extremely useful for motorcyclists. When most people drive they're mostly just looking for other cars and a motorcyclist that looks extremely visible to a dashboard cam in the aftermath of an accident can easily go unnoticed by an inattentive driver. Something like a large red light bar at the top of the backpack that could triggered by the motorcycle's front and/or rear brake could give a night time rider a more similar profile to a car in poor light could them more noticeable and safer.
Some work could be done to figure out what kind of profile any additional lights and patterns could be used to make them more noticeable too.
Go read the manifesto, it's completely batshit crazy and either Chu didn't read it or he's lying through his teeth. Rodgers talks about hate the whole notion of sex and removing the whole concept from the human experience, reducing women to a fraction of the population and hiding them away from all men, using them only for reproduction via artificial insemination. I don't know who you hang out with but I wouldn't exactly call that typical.
Seriously, the notion of rape culture is the most absurd and ignorant thing for anyone to suggest. If you are accused of rape publicly, every non sociopathic man and woman will scorn you forever, you'll lose your job, your friends and there's a good chance of mob justice taking you out before the legal system can if you aren't locked up right away. If you are convicted, the notion of rape being wrong is so innate that the murders and serial killers in jail will single you out as subhuman and likely take your life before long. To suggest that most men think rape is acceptable is to suggest most men don't have this same innate moral sense that you do. You have to convince your self that the majority of the male population is subhuman to hold the belief.
When the primary sources of the knowledge you are compiling are also rife with errors your articles will be full of errors as well. This isn't unique to wikipedia, all encyclopedias suffer from this.
You are incredibly naive. Non residential parking is not a service that sells itself. Parking is a service that facilitates getting to another service and when you mess with it you disrupt those services. When transportation costs get prohibitive it hurts business. Higher parking costs can price certain demographics out of an area which means businesses that target lower income consumers get hurt. There's a knock on effect that increases off road parking when street parking becomes more expensive because demand for it increases as the other becomes more scarce. Workers start to get priced out of certain areas when the cost of transportation makes their net income from their jobs lower.
Not even fucking close. This is an app that creates an artificial scarcity by encouraging anyone who has a parking spot to sit on it until they can sell it to someone else. If they can give up the parking space then they've done their business and don't need it any longer. Without the app the person would just have left and anyone could come along and use it.
It would be super useful for establishing a power network for orbiting stations and possibly future moon bases. If we wanted to do any kind of fabrication in space or on the moon or to provide power for an ion engine we could just attach a microwave receiver to the vessel or station and viola, easy power without all the weight. For any very high energy intensive task you wouldn't need that level of power all the time, so it makes sense to make a dedicated installation for it and be able to beam it where it's needed.
It's always fun to skim the comments on stories like these to see the privileged white libertarians rage and educate us on what real racism is. As if this somehow is equivalent to all the disadvantages that race actually do play a part in. It's amusing how quickly "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" doesn't apply anymore the instant you encounter a situation where your merit alone doesn't determine the outcome, just like everyone else has to deal with.
Until we hear about this actually holding up in court, which I highly doubt it will. Large companies are preemptively covering their asses in any way they can by flinging shit against the wall and seeing what sticks. I imagine that they've done this in several other ways that also wouldn't be likely to stand up in court, but if any one method does, then the payoff is huge so it makes sense to do it.
Exactly, if you tracked the shooting percentages of high school varsity basketball players you might conclude that freshman year of college is the peak potential for a basketball player. 99% of those high school players won't play starter positions in college and those that even make it on the team might pursue other goals instead of basketball if they don't think they can make it professionally. After college a majority of the successful college players still won't make it professionally. If you followed the data blindly you'd be betting on 19 year olds to beat Lebron James in a 1 on 1.
Not really, today's youth are pussies especially the gamer culture. You might see more offensive language and trash talking, but that's more to do with the prevalence of anonymity + soapbox, and more accessible online multiplayer.
Are you seriously asking me in the 21st century about people getting fired for what they say publicly? Did you just wake up from a 20 year coma? There is a very good reason why people value anonymity on the internet.
Gamespy was the worst service ever. Client integratio was always atrocious, latency was horrific and any game that used a third party service like gamespy didn't have a large enough playebase to support online multiplayer.
Freedom of speech does not protect you from private entities except in very specific cases, like labor laws. Suggesting that Eich's stepping down due to his actions creating bad press for Mozilla is somehow a violation of his free speech rights is farcical. It amounts to "You can't be mean to me for saying bigoted things cuz free speech." And no I wouldn't be juvenile enough to suggest that churches boycotting services run by pro gay rights organizations would be a free speech violation.
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"I think" doesn't merit a call to action and "denied" and "seriously discouraged" are two very different things, one of which would merit direct action to change how the college admissions and job application processes work and one simply a discussion with the aim of changing perceptions on gender roles and fighting ethnic discrimination.
You're asking him to prove a negative which is impossible to do without exhaustively looking at every single woman and minority applying for tech related jobs and confirming that not a single case exists, which is absurd. What we can do fairly easily is look at the demographics of people applying for tech degrees and look at the rates at which those people are getting hired and what kind of salaries for like for like positions and like for like experience. Women as a whole apply for far fewer Computer Science degrees so it's expected that they would make up less of the workforce in those fields. If minorities are applying for fewer Computer Science degrees we would expect to see the same thing. Now, if there is evidence that minorities and women are meeting significant barriers to entry to get those degrees and motivated people are not being given an equal chance to get those degrees then we should take action to address that, but that comes long before blame can be laid at Google or Yahoo's feet. Not only that, but if certain demographics tend to show higher employment numbers that we aren't pushing to equalize the employment numbers in then by default we can't expect that we'd be able to equalize the numbers relative to population in other fields without the numbers equalizing there too. In summary, as long as people aren't being denied opportunities based on their ethnicity or gender then diversity for diversity's sake isn't helping anyone. We should be working on identifying the cases where people are being denied opportunities they want to take and taking action there.
I'm actually not opposed to getting rid of the notion of net neutrality in theory. If private entities want to invest in their own infrastructure, compete in an open market and provide a service at the cost and convenience of their choosing then so be it. However you don't get to take billions of public dollars, setup monopolies and then fuck over your customers who have no other options because you made sure they didn't.
No you're totally right. Today's DRM is impenetrable and will hold strong for a thousand years. And all those content creators I'm sure will maintain the DRM for centuries and both abandon their products and fight piracy of them at the same time.
If some more professional research and design was put into this it could be extremely useful for motorcyclists. When most people drive they're mostly just looking for other cars and a motorcyclist that looks extremely visible to a dashboard cam in the aftermath of an accident can easily go unnoticed by an inattentive driver. Something like a large red light bar at the top of the backpack that could triggered by the motorcycle's front and/or rear brake could give a night time rider a more similar profile to a car in poor light could them more noticeable and safer. Some work could be done to figure out what kind of profile any additional lights and patterns could be used to make them more noticeable too.
Go read the manifesto, it's completely batshit crazy and either Chu didn't read it or he's lying through his teeth. Rodgers talks about hate the whole notion of sex and removing the whole concept from the human experience, reducing women to a fraction of the population and hiding them away from all men, using them only for reproduction via artificial insemination. I don't know who you hang out with but I wouldn't exactly call that typical.
Seriously, the notion of rape culture is the most absurd and ignorant thing for anyone to suggest. If you are accused of rape publicly, every non sociopathic man and woman will scorn you forever, you'll lose your job, your friends and there's a good chance of mob justice taking you out before the legal system can if you aren't locked up right away. If you are convicted, the notion of rape being wrong is so innate that the murders and serial killers in jail will single you out as subhuman and likely take your life before long. To suggest that most men think rape is acceptable is to suggest most men don't have this same innate moral sense that you do. You have to convince your self that the majority of the male population is subhuman to hold the belief.
When the primary sources of the knowledge you are compiling are also rife with errors your articles will be full of errors as well. This isn't unique to wikipedia, all encyclopedias suffer from this.
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Unlike those fire proof gasoline powered cars.
You are incredibly naive. Non residential parking is not a service that sells itself. Parking is a service that facilitates getting to another service and when you mess with it you disrupt those services. When transportation costs get prohibitive it hurts business. Higher parking costs can price certain demographics out of an area which means businesses that target lower income consumers get hurt. There's a knock on effect that increases off road parking when street parking becomes more expensive because demand for it increases as the other becomes more scarce. Workers start to get priced out of certain areas when the cost of transportation makes their net income from their jobs lower.
Not even fucking close. This is an app that creates an artificial scarcity by encouraging anyone who has a parking spot to sit on it until they can sell it to someone else. If they can give up the parking space then they've done their business and don't need it any longer. Without the app the person would just have left and anyone could come along and use it.
A 10 year old engine that's at the end of it's lifecycle is slower than engines that aren't? Good to know.
You know what also fails your test of physical activity and social interaction? Reading.
It would be super useful for establishing a power network for orbiting stations and possibly future moon bases. If we wanted to do any kind of fabrication in space or on the moon or to provide power for an ion engine we could just attach a microwave receiver to the vessel or station and viola, easy power without all the weight. For any very high energy intensive task you wouldn't need that level of power all the time, so it makes sense to make a dedicated installation for it and be able to beam it where it's needed.
It's always fun to skim the comments on stories like these to see the privileged white libertarians rage and educate us on what real racism is. As if this somehow is equivalent to all the disadvantages that race actually do play a part in. It's amusing how quickly "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" doesn't apply anymore the instant you encounter a situation where your merit alone doesn't determine the outcome, just like everyone else has to deal with.
Until we hear about this actually holding up in court, which I highly doubt it will. Large companies are preemptively covering their asses in any way they can by flinging shit against the wall and seeing what sticks. I imagine that they've done this in several other ways that also wouldn't be likely to stand up in court, but if any one method does, then the payoff is huge so it makes sense to do it.
Exactly, if you tracked the shooting percentages of high school varsity basketball players you might conclude that freshman year of college is the peak potential for a basketball player. 99% of those high school players won't play starter positions in college and those that even make it on the team might pursue other goals instead of basketball if they don't think they can make it professionally. After college a majority of the successful college players still won't make it professionally. If you followed the data blindly you'd be betting on 19 year olds to beat Lebron James in a 1 on 1.
Sadly, it is.
Not really, today's youth are pussies especially the gamer culture. You might see more offensive language and trash talking, but that's more to do with the prevalence of anonymity + soapbox, and more accessible online multiplayer.
They'll also never use a slide rule.
Are you seriously asking me in the 21st century about people getting fired for what they say publicly? Did you just wake up from a 20 year coma? There is a very good reason why people value anonymity on the internet.
Have you ever seen javascript?
Gamespy was the worst service ever. Client integratio was always atrocious, latency was horrific and any game that used a third party service like gamespy didn't have a large enough playebase to support online multiplayer.
Freedom of speech does not protect you from private entities except in very specific cases, like labor laws. Suggesting that Eich's stepping down due to his actions creating bad press for Mozilla is somehow a violation of his free speech rights is farcical. It amounts to "You can't be mean to me for saying bigoted things cuz free speech." And no I wouldn't be juvenile enough to suggest that churches boycotting services run by pro gay rights organizations would be a free speech violation.