Other than with one story ("Spirit Cooking"), the paper itself doesn't seem to break anything out by site or by story. What if 95% of these retweets are Items from the Onion?
There's a hand-waving single statement at the end saying basically "we know people will complain about us including The Onion, so we left it out and looked again; but the results were all the same"... but without any actual data. If it didn't affect the results, why not show us? And, since it was indeed workable to leave The Onion out after all, why did the authors make a big deal regarding why they had to Include it in the first place?
Yes! Why did the government spend hundreds of BILLIONS on concrete pathways all across the fucking country?
This is not aimed at you (I understood your snark), but at people who may not know...
The reason behind the design and buildout of the US Interstate Highway System was not really to make it easier for cars to move around - it was intended to provide fast and easy movement for large numbers of military personnel and equipment, in case of war.
There were rows and rows of long dinner tables with appetizers on them ready to be eaten, but NO PEOPLE! I kept walking around looking for a person, anybody, but came up empty. It was like a ghost-town with hungry ghosts.
Makes me think of "Spirited Away"... probably a good thing you didn't eat the food.;-)
Just long enough for a bureaucrat to declare victory and start looking for the next "success" to add to his resume.
Drivers will quickly adjust, and traffic will return to normal (bad).
Then, in a few years, someone will notice that "traffic has gotten bad again" and this same bureaucrat will be given the task of solving it, thanks to his supposed expertise.
I have to wonder about the practical utility of this telescope. If they don't have someone in-country with enough experience to run the facility, how could they design it and be sure they avoided the technical problems associated with a large telescope sited on earth?
We used to buy the Thomas Guide for our local region every few years. We might only need it once or twice a year, but on those occasions it was indispensable.
Really, the main difference between then and now is - back then, you needed to pull over to consult the map. It was slightly inconvenient, but not a particularly big deal.
This is ridiculous - something a twentysomething writer would come up with, thinking he was being clever. Map-making was, and is, a thing - only the medium has changed. Detailed maps have been plentiful and easy to come by far longer than I've been alive.
We used to do road trips sans GPS every summer. Sure, you might take a wrong turn occasionally... but GPS-enabled maps are not infallible. On more than one occasion, I've had Waze direct me down a road which didn't go through. Heck, I've had Google Maps tell me to turn left across an impossibly backed up major road during rush hour - the exact sort of situation I'd expect it to help me avoid.
GPS is handy, and our modern tech is great... but the "old way" wasn't bad either.
"He remembered poor Scott Fitzgerald and his romantic awe of them and how he had started a story once that began, ‘The very rich are different from you and me.’ And how some one had said to Scott, Yes, they have more money. "
Yeah, it makes me hate Microsoft a little more somehow, but you can't blame kids for getting paid. Seven grand and an Xbox? Pretty sweet if you ask me.
Does $7000 and an XBox really make up for all the times he's been stuffed in a locker with an Atomic Wedgie?
Joint Base Lewis-McCord is less than 50 miles from Seattle, as the drone flies - so the city is convenient. Heck, Boeing Field is only about 4 miles away from downtown, if there are problems. Plus Seattle is remote enough from Washington DC and New York (not to mention smaller) that the country is less likely to freak out now that the surveillance drone has been outed.
Not to mention that Seattle is a liberal bastion which the current administration probably wouldn't mind messing with a bit.
Frankly, right now it does seem like - on both sides of the political spectrum - many people's default response to anything they don't like is to attempt shouting it down.
Excellent example. I do not even remember gender ever coming up in the systemd "debate" (well, more "train-wreck"), except as a completely made-up accusation against its enemies.
My first paying job, as a high school student, was running a TRS-80 that the owner of a local music store chain had purchased. I wrote, in BASIC, some software for tracking instrument rentals and handling billing.
I think it's important to note that Musk's tweet was related to his desire to build a bunch of tunnels under LA rather than about the coast-to-coast hype loop.
Musk is used to running companies where they iterate fast and solve problems as they come up; but that doesn't seem like a good approach when it comes to digging tunnels under a populated and developed area.
In the Seattle area, we've seen a lot of tunnel digging over the past several years (the best known had lots of well-publicised problems, but there have been several others which were mostly problem-free). The thing is... you're digging under skyscrapers, you're digging under bridges, you're digging under the permanent waterline, you're digging through man-made hills with neighborhoods built on top of them... there's a lot that can and does go wrong, and there's not much margin for error.
While it's currently fashionable to rail against "unreasonable" and "insurmountable" regulations - the burden of proof here should be on the people complaining.
Venmo seems too easy to game - PayPal seems to be hellbent on making the same mistakes over and over.
Banks aren't perfect; but I trust them more than PayPal when it comes to securely handling person-to-person money transfers. I've only used Zelle a couple times, but it seems pretty frictionless once it's set up.
While I agree this sounds more iterative than revolutionary, it addresses some of the frequent shortcomings with cochlear implants. One big one... phone calls have been a problem for many/most patients. That's not "the call quality is poor", it's "I basically can't talk on the phone".
Bypassing the external hearing aid entirely should up the quality of sound by quite a bit in quite a few situations - especially in the modern world, where so much of our interactions happen through our devices.
I'd be curious to learn more regarding how this potentially affects their perception of music (if at all). It'll also be interesting to see if those patients who find current controls for their implants to be problematic (which seems to be a frequent complaint) improves the situation. Apple use to be amazing with UI, but nowadays sometkmes things get Ive'd into uselessness.
Since emacs predates gedit, it's obvious that there are people who don't see it as an optimal text editing solution. Just like how some people don't see IRC as the pinnacle of online messaging./me slaps AC with a wet trout
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Other than with one story ("Spirit Cooking"), the paper itself doesn't seem to break anything out by site or by story. What if 95% of these retweets are Items from the Onion?
There's a hand-waving single statement at the end saying basically "we know people will complain about us including The Onion, so we left it out and looked again; but the results were all the same"... but without any actual data. If it didn't affect the results, why not show us? And, since it was indeed workable to leave The Onion out after all, why did the authors make a big deal regarding why they had to Include it in the first place?
Come on, it's right in the name: The Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways
Yes! Why did the government spend hundreds of BILLIONS on concrete pathways all across the fucking country?
This is not aimed at you (I understood your snark), but at people who may not know...
The reason behind the design and buildout of the US Interstate Highway System was not really to make it easier for cars to move around - it was intended to provide fast and easy movement for large numbers of military personnel and equipment, in case of war.
Which conservative value is at issue here ?
The fundamental right to be a misogynist.
There were rows and rows of long dinner tables with appetizers on them ready to be eaten, but NO PEOPLE! I kept walking around looking for a person, anybody, but came up empty. It was like a ghost-town with hungry ghosts.
Makes me think of "Spirited Away"... probably a good thing you didn't eat the food. ;-)
Just long enough for a bureaucrat to declare victory and start looking for the next "success" to add to his resume.
Drivers will quickly adjust, and traffic will return to normal (bad).
Then, in a few years, someone will notice that "traffic has gotten bad again" and this same bureaucrat will be given the task of solving it, thanks to his supposed expertise.
I have to wonder about the practical utility of this telescope. If they don't have someone in-country with enough experience to run the facility, how could they design it and be sure they avoided the technical problems associated with a large telescope sited on earth?
We used to buy the Thomas Guide for our local region every few years. We might only need it once or twice a year, but on those occasions it was indispensable.
Really, the main difference between then and now is - back then, you needed to pull over to consult the map. It was slightly inconvenient, but not a particularly big deal.
This is ridiculous - something a twentysomething writer would come up with, thinking he was being clever. Map-making was, and is, a thing - only the medium has changed. Detailed maps have been plentiful and easy to come by far longer than I've been alive.
We used to do road trips sans GPS every summer. Sure, you might take a wrong turn occasionally... but GPS-enabled maps are not infallible. On more than one occasion, I've had Waze direct me down a road which didn't go through. Heck, I've had Google Maps tell me to turn left across an impossibly backed up major road during rush hour - the exact sort of situation I'd expect it to help me avoid.
GPS is handy, and our modern tech is great... but the "old way" wasn't bad either.
As Hemingway wrote in "The Snows of Kilimanjaro":
"He remembered poor Scott Fitzgerald and his romantic awe of them and how he had started a story once that began, ‘The very rich are different from you and me.’ And how some one had said to Scott, Yes, they have more money. "
Yeah, it makes me hate Microsoft a little more somehow, but you can't blame kids for getting paid. Seven grand and an Xbox? Pretty sweet if you ask me.
Does $7000 and an XBox really make up for all the times he's been stuffed in a locker with an Atomic Wedgie?
Joint Base Lewis-McCord is less than 50 miles from Seattle, as the drone flies - so the city is convenient. Heck, Boeing Field is only about 4 miles away from downtown, if there are problems. Plus Seattle is remote enough from Washington DC and New York (not to mention smaller) that the country is less likely to freak out now that the surveillance drone has been outed.
Not to mention that Seattle is a liberal bastion which the current administration probably wouldn't mind messing with a bit.
Earth Rules! Your planet drools.
Frankly, right now it does seem like - on both sides of the political spectrum - many people's default response to anything they don't like is to attempt shouting it down.
Excellent example. I do not even remember gender ever coming up in the systemd "debate" (well, more "train-wreck"), except as a completely made-up accusation against its enemies.
As the banner of the Roselle Park Post declares* - "Somebody said it or we wouldn't have printed it!"
* The line originally came from an old SCTV "National Midnight Star" bit
My first paying job, as a high school student, was running a TRS-80 that the owner of a local music store chain had purchased. I wrote, in BASIC, some software for tracking instrument rentals and handling billing.
What's sad is - there are people who think the Clean Water Act constitutes government overreach.
I think it's important to note that Musk's tweet was related to his desire to build a bunch of tunnels under LA rather than about the coast-to-coast hype loop.
Musk is used to running companies where they iterate fast and solve problems as they come up; but that doesn't seem like a good approach when it comes to digging tunnels under a populated and developed area.
In the Seattle area, we've seen a lot of tunnel digging over the past several years (the best known had lots of well-publicised problems, but there have been several others which were mostly problem-free). The thing is... you're digging under skyscrapers, you're digging under bridges, you're digging under the permanent waterline, you're digging through man-made hills with neighborhoods built on top of them... there's a lot that can and does go wrong, and there's not much margin for error.
While it's currently fashionable to rail against "unreasonable" and "insurmountable" regulations - the burden of proof here should be on the people complaining.
My uncle is a civil engineer that was asked to work on a show about the Hoover Dam. He said it couldn't be built today due to regulatory approval.
Nice anecdote, but how about including at least a shred of supporting evidence that the statement is true?
The summary was pretty long. I did skim the first couple of lines, but - was there a question or something in there, somewhere?
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Venmo seems too easy to game - PayPal seems to be hellbent on making the same mistakes over and over.
Banks aren't perfect; but I trust them more than PayPal when it comes to securely handling person-to-person money transfers. I've only used Zelle a couple times, but it seems pretty frictionless once it's set up.
While I agree this sounds more iterative than revolutionary, it addresses some of the frequent shortcomings with cochlear implants. One big one... phone calls have been a problem for many/most patients. That's not "the call quality is poor", it's "I basically can't talk on the phone".
Bypassing the external hearing aid entirely should up the quality of sound by quite a bit in quite a few situations - especially in the modern world, where so much of our interactions happen through our devices.
I'd be curious to learn more regarding how this potentially affects their perception of music (if at all). It'll also be interesting to see if those patients who find current controls for their implants to be problematic (which seems to be a frequent complaint) improves the situation. Apple use to be amazing with UI, but nowadays sometkmes things get Ive'd into uselessness.
Objects in the mirror are less attractive than they appear.
just let it die
But then we'll have no way to open files saved in gedit's proprietary plaintext format! I've literally got hundreds of .txt files on my hard drive!
Since emacs predates gedit, it's obvious that there are people who don't see it as an optimal text editing solution. Just like how some people don't see IRC as the pinnacle of online messaging. /me slaps AC with a wet trout