The people who call themselves "coders" already do little more than paste together half-assed open source projects they find on github and snippets copied from Stack Overflow.
Replacing them with an AI would increase the quality of software by orders of magnitude, and increase the productivity of everyone who can't be replaced.
The real "ethical debate" should be about whether a group of moralizing busybodies should be allowed to interfere in the reproductive choices of other people.
Of course, it is a short debate, because the answer is "no".
It's funny how many of our most contentious issues are actually about people fearing that someone else's (undeserving) kids will out-compete their own.
The injunction issued by a whiny, politically motivated judge whose argument was nothing but "my fee-fees!" is not going to stand.
Still standing. For all your whining about the "fee fees" of judges, el Presidente Anaranjado sure is getting into an all-caps frothy rage over this. Your populist hero is the biggest lolcow in American history.
You want to give Trump an extra 4 years? Keep bashing and invalidating people who are trying to do good things.
What an odd threat. Recognize those (rare) times Republicans do the right thing, or they will help rather than hinder the incompetent president they nominated?
Well, thank you for making my metaphor explicit. Trump's power functions like he is holding the country hostage, and even his own party sees it that way.
These are not people that will ever be satisfied or content with Trump. There is no reason to cater to them at all.
Well, yes, intelligent people see him for the Dunning-Kruger charlatan that he is, so even when his policies are advantageous, they fear the taint his supporting them would bring to their cause. So opposing Trump is always a win-win in the long run.
I know you people still feel like losers, even after your political tantrum was successful, so it must really stick in your craw when Trump is thwarted. You're just going to have to learn to live with it. The President is not a king and he must answer to a wide variety of power that challenges his own - and his only originates from and is limited by the Constitution. He has no soft power at all. His leverage is that of a toddler holding gasoline and a match.
You might want to consider why right-wing boycotts and protests usually amount to nothing more than providing material to comedians, while the protests against Trump have traction and are supported by the most successful companies. I mean, even Anheuser-Busch trolled you dumbasses hard.
is a feature, not a bug. We have too many CS graduates from mediocre schools as it is.
Still, though, I'm surprised we were weren't already subsidizing feminist basket weaving.
It seems kind of absurd, given that schools already give things away to the people who add value to the school. It is the STEM majors that add value to the school. So will they do away with scholarships, too? I doubt it.
Since this thread is full of fanboys rationalizing Apple's failures, I think I'll eat their mod points by recounting my personal experiences with their failures.
I bought a 2007 MBP. It's battery swelled and had to be replaced. Eventually, it's 3d graphics card died and the only way to use it was to boot into safe mode.
I bought a 2012 MBP. It's trackpad quit working and had to be replaced. The replacement trackpad also failed within a month, but by then it was out of warranty. I quit trying to get it fixed because I use a mouse anyway, and I'm sure those cunts would try to charge me because I didn't buy "Apple Care".
I was given a 2015 MBP. So far it hasn't failed, but it has behavior that is intolerable. With the lid closed, it goes to sleep unless there is a keyboard plugged in. Apple says "Fuck you, software KVM users". And even with a keyboard plugged in, it immediately goes to sleep if the power cord is yanked out. Apple says, "Fuck you, cat owners".
I have no interest in their new crippled laptop and its gimmicky function key overlay. That shit was lame when it was called the Optimus Maximus in 2008 and it is just as lame now. Apple says, "But muh innovation! Muh courage!"
My first laptop, a ThinkPad from 1998, still works and boots to a 2.4 kernel. (Many nostalgia, such rugged, wow.) My other Toshiba, Dell, and HP laptops also worked up until I got rid of them, and they all took way more abuse than my precious, delicate MPBs.
So this year, I bought a cheap laptop from Dell. I'm using Linux again for the first time in a decade, and it is liberating. Buh-bye Apple, you prissy, shark jumping freaks. I can't wait until I retire and never have to touch your shit again.
But as the defacto gatekeeper to the internet (at least for millions of non-savvy users), they have a responsibility to stop with the "deep thinking" about how to "imrpove" the algorithm.
"I appreciate the quashing of porn and viagra spam, but punishing racist conspiracy theory SEO is going too far!"
Pretend he's an actual white supremacist and proud of it.
That's strange. For all your whining about labels, you're the one equating white nationalism with white supremacy.
Can we not criticize his points on their own, like actual discourse requires?
Your hero is a reality TV star who jokes about sexually assaulting women. His lackey is racist against Jews, Muslims, and apparently Asians as well. You don't get to have "discourse", you dumb sea lion, you get it the same way you give it.
Are you too soft for ridicule? Do the big words like "white nationalist" hurt your feelings? Would you like a safe space to compose yourself?
The 1997 film wasn't even based on the book, but was from an unrelated script called Bug Hunt at Outpost 9.
You people are so easily trolled. That was the working title, not an original script. Do you actually think the guy who wrote Robocop had never heard of Heinlein or Starship Troopers?
"And not thin skinned. Most definitely not thinned skinned. I have the thickest skin. Let me tell you, it's thick, really thick."
And golly-bob howdy, his supporters sure are defensive in this thread.
I've been thinking, maybe the cluster fuck of him getting elected might be the only thing that fixes them. The way Paula Bean had to get fired, maybe these people need to see what happens to the country when they actually hold the reins.
Who am I kidding, they'd just find another conspiracy theory, or another ethnic group to blame. The system is rigged. The system is always rigged against them.
They're called SHARPs, Skin Heads Against Racial Prejudice. If you haven't heard of them before, that's probably because you live in a severely insulated bubble. If you actually knew some skins or even some punks you'd have heard of SHARPs.
lol, this is like chastising someone for not knowing the difference between a Playstation and a Nintendo
"Mommmm! I'm not a neo-Nazi, I'm a SHARP! And it's not just a phase, it's who I am now!"
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The people who call themselves "coders" already do little more than paste together half-assed open source projects they find on github and snippets copied from Stack Overflow.
Replacing them with an AI would increase the quality of software by orders of magnitude, and increase the productivity of everyone who can't be replaced.
Steyn resembles Ayyadurai,though. He's an attention whore who makes shit up for attention.
The real "ethical debate" should be about whether a group of moralizing busybodies should be allowed to interfere in the reproductive choices of other people.
Of course, it is a short debate, because the answer is "no".
It's funny how many of our most contentious issues are actually about people fearing that someone else's (undeserving) kids will out-compete their own.
You know who else talked like that?
It's funny how quickly you people lose your composure when your power is threatened.
Still standing. For all your whining about the "fee fees" of judges, el Presidente Anaranjado sure is getting into an all-caps frothy rage over this. Your populist hero is the biggest lolcow in American history.
What an odd threat. Recognize those (rare) times Republicans do the right thing, or they will help rather than hinder the incompetent president they nominated?
Well, thank you for making my metaphor explicit. Trump's power functions like he is holding the country hostage, and even his own party sees it that way.
Well, yes, intelligent people see him for the Dunning-Kruger charlatan that he is, so even when his policies are advantageous, they fear the taint his supporting them would bring to their cause. So opposing Trump is always a win-win in the long run.
I know you people still feel like losers, even after your political tantrum was successful, so it must really stick in your craw when Trump is thwarted. You're just going to have to learn to live with it. The President is not a king and he must answer to a wide variety of power that challenges his own - and his only originates from and is limited by the Constitution. He has no soft power at all. His leverage is that of a toddler holding gasoline and a match.
You might want to consider why right-wing boycotts and protests usually amount to nothing more than providing material to comedians, while the protests against Trump have traction and are supported by the most successful companies. I mean, even Anheuser-Busch trolled you dumbasses hard.
What part of AMERICA FIRST don't you understand?
You people aren't even consistent with your own bullshit.
*hugs*
You'll get through this. Be brave!
is a feature, not a bug. We have too many CS graduates from mediocre schools as it is.
Still, though, I'm surprised we were weren't already subsidizing feminist basket weaving.
It seems kind of absurd, given that schools already give things away to the people who add value to the school. It is the STEM majors that add value to the school. So will they do away with scholarships, too? I doubt it.
You forgot about blowing up the moon, desalinating the ocean, and selling all our air to the lizard people.
Since this thread is full of fanboys rationalizing Apple's failures, I think I'll eat their mod points by recounting my personal experiences with their failures.
I bought a 2007 MBP. It's battery swelled and had to be replaced. Eventually, it's 3d graphics card died and the only way to use it was to boot into safe mode.
I bought a 2012 MBP. It's trackpad quit working and had to be replaced. The replacement trackpad also failed within a month, but by then it was out of warranty. I quit trying to get it fixed because I use a mouse anyway, and I'm sure those cunts would try to charge me because I didn't buy "Apple Care".
I was given a 2015 MBP. So far it hasn't failed, but it has behavior that is intolerable. With the lid closed, it goes to sleep unless there is a keyboard plugged in. Apple says "Fuck you, software KVM users". And even with a keyboard plugged in, it immediately goes to sleep if the power cord is yanked out. Apple says, "Fuck you, cat owners".
I have no interest in their new crippled laptop and its gimmicky function key overlay. That shit was lame when it was called the Optimus Maximus in 2008 and it is just as lame now. Apple says, "But muh innovation! Muh courage!"
My first laptop, a ThinkPad from 1998, still works and boots to a 2.4 kernel. (Many nostalgia, such rugged, wow.) My other Toshiba, Dell, and HP laptops also worked up until I got rid of them, and they all took way more abuse than my precious, delicate MPBs.
So this year, I bought a cheap laptop from Dell. I'm using Linux again for the first time in a decade, and it is liberating. Buh-bye Apple, you prissy, shark jumping freaks. I can't wait until I retire and never have to touch your shit again.
This is a technology that people think they want when it is science fiction but as soon it is actually real no one cares.
It's funny how the people say stupid shit like this voted for Trump on this very platform.
"I appreciate the quashing of porn and viagra spam, but punishing racist conspiracy theory SEO is going too far!"
These people are a parody of themselves.
What if the slope got real slippery! What then!
Stop pretending that you're mad because people wanted it fixed. You're mad because Google did fix it, which is entirely their prerogative.
"But mah unhinged conspiracy theories deserve to been seen! It's censorship!"
Poor little racists, snap snap snap!
Won't somebody think of the Nazis!
When it is SEO marketing scum getting punished for gaming the search engine, no bats an eye.
When it is actual white supremacists get their page rank tweaked, all the supposedly not racist alt-righters lose their fucking minds.
That's one whining alt-righter. How many more will show up?
It is apparently some sort of big accounting firm.
That's strange. For all your whining about labels, you're the one equating white nationalism with white supremacy.
Your hero is a reality TV star who jokes about sexually assaulting women. His lackey is racist against Jews, Muslims, and apparently Asians as well. You don't get to have "discourse", you dumb sea lion, you get it the same way you give it.
Are you too soft for ridicule? Do the big words like "white nationalist" hurt your feelings? Would you like a safe space to compose yourself?
> every single Trump voter I know was a Bernie supporter
This says all you need to know about Trump and Bernie supporters.
It's a shame P.T. Barnum is right.
You people are so easily trolled. That was the working title, not an original script. Do you actually think the guy who wrote Robocop had never heard of Heinlein or Starship Troopers?
"And not thin skinned. Most definitely not thinned skinned. I have the thickest skin. Let me tell you, it's thick, really thick."
And golly-bob howdy, his supporters sure are defensive in this thread.
I've been thinking, maybe the cluster fuck of him getting elected might be the only thing that fixes them. The way Paula Bean had to get fired, maybe these people need to see what happens to the country when they actually hold the reins.
Who am I kidding, they'd just find another conspiracy theory, or another ethnic group to blame. The system is rigged. The system is always rigged against them.
lol, this is like chastising someone for not knowing the difference between a Playstation and a Nintendo
"Mommmm! I'm not a neo-Nazi, I'm a SHARP! And it's not just a phase, it's who I am now!"