Bureaucracy at its finest. My favorite part is that teachers are not included, except in an emergency. Whats worse, most of the user comments I read here on Slashdot want to give these f*ing morons more responsibilities.
Sure, using a toilet a few times a day is quite comparable to spending hours and hours on a phone. Now if you sat on your toilet for hours and hours...
Ok, lets get this cleared up. North Korea is a totalitarian dictatorship, which means it has state funded education through college and universal healthcare. It also has complete military and economic control over its population. Some of these ideas are comparable to the American left and right, but the analogy, one way or the other, doesn't hold much weight. Though, North Korea does stand as a good example on how not to implement certain policies.
Great description. Now I can get the image of an old baby boomer and a young millennial making an Eiffel Tower with a Gen-X'er in the middle. Seriously, burns more than lemon party.
No, real developers don't rewrite entire software packages based on the javascript flavor of the month. You either have no say in what work you do, you flip flop technologies to much, or you have no idea how to write modular software, or a combination of these. Any way you cut it, I have a hard time calling anyone who rewrites the same code over and over again a real software developer. Perhaps a script kiddy.
There is no good excuse for writing the same code over and over and over again. As a developer, my job is to work smart, not repetitively. This is a shortfall on the developer's side, period.
writing the same thing over and over in various nearly identical ways save for language and platform nuances
You are clearly doing something wrong. You think after two decades of coding you would know better. Then again, you like Node.js, so your skill level is subject.
Also, I'd agree that porn doesn't increase rape. There are many studies that have come to that conclusion, even the ones which were intentionally trying to put porn in a bad light.
Apart from that being the only report that makes the claim "porn access reduces rape," even the economist who wrote it had his doubts on the quality of the data. I'm not saying the claim is false; I'm just saying that report isn't scientific and can't be used as evidence.
Specifically, the results suggest that
a 10
percentage point increase in internet access is associated with a decline in reported rape
victimization of around 7.3%. While admitting that
data quality, omitted variables,
functional form assumptions, and other confounding
factors could potentially cause bias,
I support this claim with six separate pieces of evidence. When considered as a whole,
the empirical case is more compelling.
Additionally, this was pulled from only a few years of data within the US and the statics were mostly tablecloth math. All in all, it seems this one study is a biased outlier.
Source? I'd like to see the study that not only shows correlation, but causation between access to porn and rape statistics. Don't just make up stuff to make yourself feel better.
You are a fool or just plain naive. The problem with common core is that it tries to teach a way of thinking and not the material at hand. For example, some people are just inherently good at numbers. They can add two 6 digit numbers in their head on the fly. Common core requires this person and the kid struggling in math to tackle the problem in the same way. It ignores the fact that people think differently.
Common core is equivalent to you filling out a document top to bottom at the DMV and bringing it to the counter. When you get to the counter you are sent back because you didn't fill the form out bottom to top. The answer is the same and it may make more sense to you to fill it out top to bottom, but that is no longer considered a correct answer.
No, I'm a realist. You live in some fairy tale where everyone can live like Bill Gates, if only we redistributed the wealth. Additionally, I don't want to live in a society were ignorance, stupidity, apathy and laziness are not only acceptable, but supported by the state. I want to live in a place where those that work hard prosper.
You are missing one key philosophical point. Life isn't fair. This idea of the world being equal is absurd. There are too many people using too limited resources. How do you plan on creating your utopia without culling half of the worlds population? Instead of trying to make everyone equals, I prefer a system where ones contribution to society is measured and paid, but that's probably because I work for a living. If I was a sofa lounging leech, I'd probably want a UBI.
How about decreasing military, medicaid and medicare spending; increase research grants and infrastructure spending. These are all better suggestions than a UBI. Additionally, why do we need to come up with a "best use" scenario when they could just not collect it. Taxes hurt middle income house holds the most.
Yeah, stick it to them!. Because when I walk into a cell phone store, I immediately think what a wonderful, highly skilled, demanding job it must be to work there. These people are completely unnecessary. Their entire store model could be replaced by a vending machine.
I have a tough time feeling sorry for someone without the mental capacity or drive to get a GED and then demands to live like the 1%.
I know a man that qualified for disability because he could not get out of bed. Yes, he was disabled, but being bed ridden was a result of laying in bed all day drinking. His legs had physically atrophied from lack of exercise./sarcasm/ I'm glad my tax dollars go to support him and his habit./sarcasm/
That first one is a huge issue for me. I'd be all for jumping on the Vivaldi bandwagon, but I cannot put software with no security/privacy review on my work machine, and I will not put it on my personal machine. They either need some security audits or to open source it.
It wont be long before we automate @#$ wiping. We'll have machines that can get up there and do a better job than any human, and won't use paper. Ultimately, this will be detrimental to the economy due to the loss of all those @%$ wiping jobs.
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Clearly you have a toilet addiction. You should get that looked at.
Bureaucracy at its finest. My favorite part is that teachers are not included, except in an emergency. Whats worse, most of the user comments I read here on Slashdot want to give these f*ing morons more responsibilities.
Sure, using a toilet a few times a day is quite comparable to spending hours and hours on a phone. Now if you sat on your toilet for hours and hours...
Ok, lets get this cleared up. North Korea is a totalitarian dictatorship, which means it has state funded education through college and universal healthcare. It also has complete military and economic control over its population. Some of these ideas are comparable to the American left and right, but the analogy, one way or the other, doesn't hold much weight. Though, North Korea does stand as a good example on how not to implement certain policies.
Great description. Now I can get the image of an old baby boomer and a young millennial making an Eiffel Tower with a Gen-X'er in the middle. Seriously, burns more than lemon party.
No, real developers don't rewrite entire software packages based on the javascript flavor of the month. You either have no say in what work you do, you flip flop technologies to much, or you have no idea how to write modular software, or a combination of these. Any way you cut it, I have a hard time calling anyone who rewrites the same code over and over again a real software developer. Perhaps a script kiddy.
There is no good excuse for writing the same code over and over and over again. As a developer, my job is to work smart, not repetitively. This is a shortfall on the developer's side, period.
writing the same thing over and over in various nearly identical ways save for language and platform nuances
You are clearly doing something wrong. You think after two decades of coding you would know better. Then again, you like Node.js, so your skill level is subject.
And I agreed with you that porn does not increase rape. Both of those studies concur. Neither state that porn access reduces rape.
...In full vibrant color! That's a bill I'd like to spend.
My reply regarding the same article: https://science.slashdot.org/c...
Also, I'd agree that porn doesn't increase rape. There are many studies that have come to that conclusion, even the ones which were intentionally trying to put porn in a bad light.
Specifically, the results suggest that a 10 percentage point increase in internet access is associated with a decline in reported rape victimization of around 7.3%. While admitting that data quality, omitted variables, functional form assumptions, and other confounding factors could potentially cause bias, I support this claim with six separate pieces of evidence. When considered as a whole, the empirical case is more compelling.
Additionally, this was pulled from only a few years of data within the US and the statics were mostly tablecloth math. All in all, it seems this one study is a biased outlier.
Source? I'd like to see the study that not only shows correlation, but causation between access to porn and rape statistics. Don't just make up stuff to make yourself feel better.
You are a fool or just plain naive. The problem with common core is that it tries to teach a way of thinking and not the material at hand. For example, some people are just inherently good at numbers. They can add two 6 digit numbers in their head on the fly. Common core requires this person and the kid struggling in math to tackle the problem in the same way. It ignores the fact that people think differently.
Common core is equivalent to you filling out a document top to bottom at the DMV and bringing it to the counter. When you get to the counter you are sent back because you didn't fill the form out bottom to top. The answer is the same and it may make more sense to you to fill it out top to bottom, but that is no longer considered a correct answer.
Watch the video. One man may have pulled the trigger, but 5-10+ more stood by and watched.
No, I'm a realist. You live in some fairy tale where everyone can live like Bill Gates, if only we redistributed the wealth. Additionally, I don't want to live in a society were ignorance, stupidity, apathy and laziness are not only acceptable, but supported by the state. I want to live in a place where those that work hard prosper.
You are missing one key philosophical point. Life isn't fair. This idea of the world being equal is absurd. There are too many people using too limited resources. How do you plan on creating your utopia without culling half of the worlds population? Instead of trying to make everyone equals, I prefer a system where ones contribution to society is measured and paid, but that's probably because I work for a living. If I was a sofa lounging leech, I'd probably want a UBI.
How about decreasing military, medicaid and medicare spending; increase research grants and infrastructure spending. These are all better suggestions than a UBI. Additionally, why do we need to come up with a "best use" scenario when they could just not collect it. Taxes hurt middle income house holds the most.
Yeah, stick it to them!. Because when I walk into a cell phone store, I immediately think what a wonderful, highly skilled, demanding job it must be to work there. These people are completely unnecessary. Their entire store model could be replaced by a vending machine.
I have a tough time feeling sorry for someone without the mental capacity or drive to get a GED and then demands to live like the 1%.
UBI? Seriously, what the hell makes you think that you, or anyone else for that matter, is entitled to a UBI?
I know a man that qualified for disability because he could not get out of bed. Yes, he was disabled, but being bed ridden was a result of laying in bed all day drinking. His legs had physically atrophied from lack of exercise. /sarcasm/ I'm glad my tax dollars go to support him and his habit. /sarcasm/
Not really. I stopped using chrome because of the always running bit. I'd stop using Firefox but then I wouldn't have a browser.
That first one is a huge issue for me. I'd be all for jumping on the Vivaldi bandwagon, but I cannot put software with no security/privacy review on my work machine, and I will not put it on my personal machine. They either need some security audits or to open source it.
I'm all for studying the other gender. The homework is great.
It wont be long before we automate @#$ wiping. We'll have machines that can get up there and do a better job than any human, and won't use paper. Ultimately, this will be detrimental to the economy due to the loss of all those @%$ wiping jobs.