As many as 8 percent of men and 0.5 percent of women with Northern European ancestry have the common form of red-green color blindness.
Men are much more likely to be colorblind than women because the genes responsible for the most common, inherited color blindness are on the X chromosome. Males only have one X chromosome, while females have two X chromosomes. In females, a functional gene on only one of the X chromosomes is enough to compensate for the loss on the other. This kind of inheritance pattern is called X-linked, and primarily affects males. Inherited color blindness can be present at birth, begin in childhood, or not appear until the adult years.
The companies offering boot camps don't care about whether companies have a greater selection of potential employees to choose from, same as they don't care if their students succeed or fail after graduating. All they give a shit about is being able to pump bodies through a quick course for money. Quality? Fees and loan repayments tied to future performance? Ha. As far as they're concerned, if you end up with a part-time "do you want fries with that" job after graduation, you still count as a graduate who went on to find a job.
They
don't
give
a
shit.
They're there for themselves first and foremost, same as any other scammer.
Women leave CS courses for the same reason they leave all hard science courses.
You can't bullshit and blather your way through it.
Sure you can. Men do it all the time. Or have you never worked with men who are incompetent?
Women have incredibly fragile egos (in case you were wondering, that's why feminists bang on about 'male ego' virtually everything they say is projection)... and they are exposed in hard science courses.
Opinion, with no data to back it up. And yes, the fragile male ego thing is real. Go look at how a guy reacts to being turned down by a woman. "She's probably a lesbian." Stalking. Saying it was really him that gave her the brush-off. The simple fact is that women recover better from break-ups than men. And let's face it - it's usually the woman calling the shots as to when it's over, not the men. Just look at which sex files for divorce more often.
Actual maths courses are particularly brutal - you can't hide, you can't hamster away the fact that there are people better than you, you can't skip sections of the work (it all builds on the previous bit) and neat handwriting/platitudes get you nowhere.
Again, opinion with no proof.
We all know it, but we all dance around the subject to... as we always do... protect women's feelings.
They drop out and go do courses that reward waffling and woolly thinking.
That "reward waffling and woolly thinking" is very much a male thing, everywhere from managers bullshitting and shouting their way through meetings, not to mention pissing contests, to the current occupant of the White House.
If they are particularly bitter about it, they'll start blaming men and claim it's male competitiveness or that the system was stacked against them.
Not male competitiveness - male incompetence. The inability of men in a group to act professionally when women are around in small quantities that they see as being safe to harass, ignore, sabotage, and claim that the work the women did is irrelevant, wrong, or worse - appropriating it as their own work instead of giving credit where it's due.
Ignore it, like all women, they will do/say anything to avoid facing reality.
Says the anonymous coward, who hides behind his anonymity to avoid taking any responsibility for his foolish fact-free words.
If there was a shortage wages would go up. That is the 'invisible hand' of the market.
The "market" is being grossly manipulated. Both supply (a huge over-supply of under-qualified n00bs - including the idiots that fall for boot camps and "take a 6 month course at our institute at huge expense with predatory loans", and of course the lies surrounding H1Bs.
Additionally, there's the whole "bad money drives out good money" thing. Crazy money chasing quick bux has seriously distorted the job market, so that everyone is looking for web code monkeys, and since monkeys are cheap and easily replaced, this has the effect of driving down wages in other parts of the industry since businesses are under the impression that every monkey in every sector is interchangeable, so why should one monkey in one sector be worth several times what another one is in another sector? After all, all they do all day is sit staring at a keyboard and screen - how hard can that be? Bosses do that all the time with no special training.
The field is ruined for at least another generation, and perhaps permanently.
Trump hasn't created any jobs. Until such time as Trump actually introduces a budget, any job creation is due either to (a) private enterprise operating under Obama's last budget, or (b) public spending under Obama's last budget.
Even his wife Melina is increasingly anti-Trump, snubbing him very publicly. He needs to be liked and seen as being powerful that you can be pretty sure she's used her leverage to get herself a very expansive and lucrative post-nup. After all, she's smarter than he is.
If the reporter has evidence of official malfeasance, why should they delay releasing that info? Play by the rules or you're disqualified. We had a case here of police illegally wiretapping reporters. Should that be covered up until after the reporter is tried for leaking details of an investigation into leaks about police wrong-doing? Bullshit.
This asshole insists on filming peacekeepers doing their jobs in the hope that he will catch one of them slipping up. How many of us would appreciate the same treatment at our place of employment? I say lock him up, throw away the key, and withhold the condoms. What a douche.
If I were working in a daycare or school, an old-age home, or any other place where even the whiff of impropriety would be a huge problem, I'd welcome video surveillance. Great way to get rid of false accusations. I have a sister who's made plenty of false accusations of mistreatment by staff, theft (the stuff inevitably shows up where she forgot she stashed it), you name it.
The propensity of people who have no real life to complain about every imagined slight is incredible. For example, one time after accompanying her to a doctor's appointment, she started whining about how it's unfair that the transport didn't take her directly back to the facility, instead diverting to pick up another patient on the way to the same destination. I finally got fed up and told her that she's lucky that they were only diverting for one extra patient, because the van has a capacity of 3 wheel chairs, that she should be grateful to live in a country where all the care and housing she receives is free, and that other people have it worse than her.
And then we got to pick up the next patient - who, unlike her, had no legs. He had had to wait even longer, but he wasn't complaining. He was just happy we showed up.
And getting angry calls from the rest of the family accusing me of force-feeding her (she's anorexic) when I did nothing of the sort, and there were plenty of witnesses that all I did was sit with her and try to encourage her to eat at least some of the meal. Damn right I'd want cameras.
A confession is often simply wrong. Just look at all the death row inmates who confessed and later were found innocent by DNA. Even with a body, a confession, and a weapon, sometimes it's not clear-cut. Examples would be mental illness, lack of responsibility due to lack of maturity or developmental problems, intoxication (alcohol or drugs), etc.
Someone tries to kill you, and you kill them, subsequently you may not remember that they tried to kill you, as impossible as it sounds. Extreme situations cause the mind to resort to dysfunctional coping methods, and an immediate threat to your life is pretty extreme, enough so that your mind, being unable to cope with it, simply erases it from memory.
SSRIs are NOT always effective against either anxiety or depression; far from it, so fuck off with your misinformation and illogic. And while people with PTSD will suffer from depression, not every case of depression is accompanied by PTSD.
If serotonin were the key, SSRIs would work in all cases - they simply don't in many cases. Different doses, different formulations, there's simply no guarantee of effectiveness, because serotonin isn't "the key".
With many, if not most, cases of Major Depressive Disorder (it's no longer called "clinical depression), Anxiety Disorder, and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, it's possible to identify the catalyst, the event or events that overwhelmed the person's coping mechanisms. Also, "syndrome" is a synonym for "disorder". First hit for "definition syndrome":
Syndrome: a group of symptoms that consistently occur together or a condition characterized by a set of associated symptoms.
In the case of PTSD (the disorder central to the article) there is almost always at least one significant, identifiable cause. Just look for something (abuse, violence, etc) that threatened the person's sense of bodily integrity. Rape, other violence, near-fatal accident, etc. And there's a strong link between such events, PTSD, and Major Depressive Disorder, so it's not like we can't point to the proximate cause of the PTSD and the resulting depression.
Bullshit. The war on drugs is totally a political decision. If drugs were decriminalized, addicts wouldn't be afraid to seek help, organized crime wouldn't be profiting, and there'd be political will to invest in treatment programs that work instead of "they're getting what they deserve." We don't have the same view of self-righteousness when dealing with addicts of tobacco or alcohol because we're f*cking self-righteous hypocrites and seeing others suffer reinforces how "worthy" we are for "not sinking that low."
And no, I have zero experience with illegal drug use, or tobacco, and I've had one beer this year, and yet can still see the problems others have and feel compassion instead of "look at how virtuous I am". I just consider myself lucky, that's all.
If a dog ran into the street and got hit by a car, I wouldn't be saying "stupid dog got what it deserves." I hold the same view for humans who are addicted. Shit happens, and it's of no use to just ignore it.
Doesn't change the fact that it's the illegal nature of drugs that is the big money-maker, and drives the whole operation underground. Biker gangs and drug cartels are dead set against both decriminalization and legalization - they'd be out of business. The decision to keep certain drugs illegal is a political decision.
Almost 2/3 of all firearm deaths are by suicide. Even if every single other gun death were "defensive" (and it's not), it would still be far less. So stop with the warped stats. Crime doesn't come anywhere near suicide in terms of gun deaths. Proper gun control can help lower the suicide rate, because putting a bullet through your skull only takes a second of weakness, whereas overdosing on pills, you still have time for a "come-to-jesus moment" and call 911 (or 999 depending on where you are). Ditto with slashing your wrists - some people are just too squeamish to be able to go through with it, but eating a bullet is the act of a fraction of a second.
Those are the facts. Neither crime nor defensive gun use are anywhere near in terms of numbers of deaths by firearms. But I guess as long as government regulations are the ones YOU disapprove of, facts don't matter.
Politicians. Doctors. Tenured professors. And when you take into account total career earnings, and the big dip after you reach "that age", even English majors.
Employers dismiss them as either lacking in up-to-date technical skills -- such as the latest programming-language fad -- or “not suitable for entry level.” In other words, either underqualified or overqualified. That doesn’t leave much, does it? Statistics show that most software developers are out of the field by age 40.
More than a decade ago, Congress commissioned a National Research Council study of the age issue in the profession. The council found that it took 23.4 percent longer for the over-40 workers to find work after losing their jobs, and that they had to take an average pay cut of 13.7 percent on the new job.
Finally, those high programmer salaries are actually low, because the same talents (analytical and problem-solving ability, attention to detail) command much more money in other fields, such as law and finance. A large technology company might typically pay new law-school graduates and MBAs salaries and compensation approaching double what they give new master’s degree grads in computer science.
The knowledge he had of our process and systems built up over that period had a considerable value in itself (a value that he wouldn't have in another company)
Au contraire, your competitors may see him as being worth far more.
A minor arrested for suspicion of murder is not charged with a felony, but a delinquency. It's only after a hearing before a juvenile court judge that the case can be referred to an adult court if warranted. In this case. Even if it had been transferred to the adult system and charged with a felony, he was never arrested for a felony. We do know he was never convicted, and possibly it never even went to a formal trial. And the poster never says if he was even actually formally charged with a delinquency as a minor.
Now since there is no link to the actual story, who the hell knows what the actual situation is? It may all be total bullshit.
Worse, it's not the FDA that is waging a war on drugs in the first place. The "war on drugs" is a political construct with no scientific evidence backing it. If the FDA were to be allowed to do studies to prove or disprove its effectiveness, the "war on drugs" would end pretty quickly. Ditto with the epidemiology of lack of gun control causing increased deaths..
The topic under discussion is PTSD, not clinical depression (btw - it's not called clinical depression any more - it's now known as major depressive disorder, to better distinguish it from run-of-the-mill depression that everyone gets once in a while and that's completely normal).
PTSD is a form of anxiety disorder - a different kettle of fish. Sure, it's often accompanied by major depressive episodes, but it's important to understand that you're dealing with two different illnesses, and that curing PTSD won't necessarily cure MDD (especially since the brain is pretty plastic, and the more often you have an episode of major depression, the more likely you are to have another one).
The original source (which I linked to) makes no mention whatsoever of "clinical depression". That's an error by the submitter or the editor. The name is "major depressive disorder" (and has been since 2012 with the DSM5).
Android is not linux. The android runtime runs atop linux, same as all the linux desktop environments run atop linux, but are not themselves linux. Also, be ready to say goodbye to linux on android.
Someone who decides not to work but lives off their own money is not theft, same as someone who works well or at a lower paying job without depending on tax-funded benefits - someone who intentionally leaches off others is at best a thief, at worst scum.
On the contrary, taxes are needed, but not sufficient, to pay for public infrastructure. There also has to be the political will to build it. If the money isn't there, or a tax revenue stream to float bonds or loans against, all the political will to build infrastructure won't make it happen.
What does that have to do with yet another vaporware announcement? Right now they have nothing.
There is nothing to give anyone reason to believe that they can produce. Obviously the phone manufacturer doesn't have much confidence, or they would let themselves be named.
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I hope you don't work for google, making gender generalizations like that.
In this case, it's accurate - men do have more colour-blindness - 16x as much.
As many as 8 percent of men and 0.5 percent of women with Northern European ancestry have the common form of red-green color blindness.
Men are much more likely to be colorblind than women because the genes responsible for the most common, inherited color blindness are on the X chromosome. Males only have one X chromosome, while females have two X chromosomes. In females, a functional gene on only one of the X chromosomes is enough to compensate for the loss on the other. This kind of inheritance pattern is called X-linked, and primarily affects males. Inherited color blindness can be present at birth, begin in childhood, or not appear until the adult years.
The companies offering boot camps don't care about whether companies have a greater selection of potential employees to choose from, same as they don't care if their students succeed or fail after graduating. All they give a shit about is being able to pump bodies through a quick course for money. Quality? Fees and loan repayments tied to future performance? Ha. As far as they're concerned, if you end up with a part-time "do you want fries with that" job after graduation, you still count as a graduate who went on to find a job.
They
don't
give
a
shit.
They're there for themselves first and foremost, same as any other scammer.
Women leave CS courses for the same reason they leave all hard science courses.
You can't bullshit and blather your way through it.
Sure you can. Men do it all the time. Or have you never worked with men who are incompetent?
Women have incredibly fragile egos (in case you were wondering, that's why feminists bang on about 'male ego' virtually everything they say is projection)... and they are exposed in hard science courses.
Opinion, with no data to back it up. And yes, the fragile male ego thing is real. Go look at how a guy reacts to being turned down by a woman. "She's probably a lesbian." Stalking. Saying it was really him that gave her the brush-off. The simple fact is that women recover better from break-ups than men. And let's face it - it's usually the woman calling the shots as to when it's over, not the men. Just look at which sex files for divorce more often.
Actual maths courses are particularly brutal - you can't hide, you can't hamster away the fact that there are people better than you, you can't skip sections of the work (it all builds on the previous bit) and neat handwriting/platitudes get you nowhere.
Again, opinion with no proof.
We all know it, but we all dance around the subject to... as we always do... protect women's feelings.
They drop out and go do courses that reward waffling and woolly thinking.
That "reward waffling and woolly thinking" is very much a male thing, everywhere from managers bullshitting and shouting their way through meetings, not to mention pissing contests, to the current occupant of the White House.
If they are particularly bitter about it, they'll start blaming men and claim it's male competitiveness or that the system was stacked against them.
Not male competitiveness - male incompetence. The inability of men in a group to act professionally when women are around in small quantities that they see as being safe to harass, ignore, sabotage, and claim that the work the women did is irrelevant, wrong, or worse - appropriating it as their own work instead of giving credit where it's due.
Ignore it, like all women, they will do/say anything to avoid facing reality.
Says the anonymous coward, who hides behind his anonymity to avoid taking any responsibility for his foolish fact-free words.
If there was a shortage wages would go up. That is the 'invisible hand' of the market.
The "market" is being grossly manipulated. Both supply (a huge over-supply of under-qualified n00bs - including the idiots that fall for boot camps and "take a 6 month course at our institute at huge expense with predatory loans", and of course the lies surrounding H1Bs.
Additionally, there's the whole "bad money drives out good money" thing. Crazy money chasing quick bux has seriously distorted the job market, so that everyone is looking for web code monkeys, and since monkeys are cheap and easily replaced, this has the effect of driving down wages in other parts of the industry since businesses are under the impression that every monkey in every sector is interchangeable, so why should one monkey in one sector be worth several times what another one is in another sector? After all, all they do all day is sit staring at a keyboard and screen - how hard can that be? Bosses do that all the time with no special training.
The field is ruined for at least another generation, and perhaps permanently.
Trump hasn't created any jobs. Until such time as Trump actually introduces a budget, any job creation is due either to (a) private enterprise operating under Obama's last budget, or (b) public spending under Obama's last budget.
Even his wife Melina is increasingly anti-Trump, snubbing him very publicly. He needs to be liked and seen as being powerful that you can be pretty sure she's used her leverage to get herself a very expansive and lucrative post-nup. After all, she's smarter than he is.
If the reporter has evidence of official malfeasance, why should they delay releasing that info? Play by the rules or you're disqualified. We had a case here of police illegally wiretapping reporters. Should that be covered up until after the reporter is tried for leaking details of an investigation into leaks about police wrong-doing? Bullshit.
This asshole insists on filming peacekeepers doing their jobs in the hope that he will catch one of them slipping up. How many of us would appreciate the same treatment at our place of employment? I say lock him up, throw away the key, and withhold the condoms. What a douche.
If I were working in a daycare or school, an old-age home, or any other place where even the whiff of impropriety would be a huge problem, I'd welcome video surveillance. Great way to get rid of false accusations. I have a sister who's made plenty of false accusations of mistreatment by staff, theft (the stuff inevitably shows up where she forgot she stashed it), you name it.
The propensity of people who have no real life to complain about every imagined slight is incredible. For example, one time after accompanying her to a doctor's appointment, she started whining about how it's unfair that the transport didn't take her directly back to the facility, instead diverting to pick up another patient on the way to the same destination. I finally got fed up and told her that she's lucky that they were only diverting for one extra patient, because the van has a capacity of 3 wheel chairs, that she should be grateful to live in a country where all the care and housing she receives is free, and that other people have it worse than her.
And then we got to pick up the next patient - who, unlike her, had no legs. He had had to wait even longer, but he wasn't complaining. He was just happy we showed up.
And getting angry calls from the rest of the family accusing me of force-feeding her (she's anorexic) when I did nothing of the sort, and there were plenty of witnesses that all I did was sit with her and try to encourage her to eat at least some of the meal. Damn right I'd want cameras.
A confession is often simply wrong. Just look at all the death row inmates who confessed and later were found innocent by DNA. Even with a body, a confession, and a weapon, sometimes it's not clear-cut. Examples would be mental illness, lack of responsibility due to lack of maturity or developmental problems, intoxication (alcohol or drugs), etc.
Someone tries to kill you, and you kill them, subsequently you may not remember that they tried to kill you, as impossible as it sounds. Extreme situations cause the mind to resort to dysfunctional coping methods, and an immediate threat to your life is pretty extreme, enough so that your mind, being unable to cope with it, simply erases it from memory.
SSRIs are NOT always effective against either anxiety or depression; far from it, so fuck off with your misinformation and illogic. And while people with PTSD will suffer from depression, not every case of depression is accompanied by PTSD.
If serotonin were the key, SSRIs would work in all cases - they simply don't in many cases. Different doses, different formulations, there's simply no guarantee of effectiveness, because serotonin isn't "the key".
With many, if not most, cases of Major Depressive Disorder (it's no longer called "clinical depression), Anxiety Disorder, and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, it's possible to identify the catalyst, the event or events that overwhelmed the person's coping mechanisms. Also, "syndrome" is a synonym for "disorder". First hit for "definition syndrome":
Syndrome: a group of symptoms that consistently occur together or a condition characterized by a set of associated symptoms.
synonyms: condition, illness, complex, disorder, affliction, sickness
In the case of PTSD (the disorder central to the article) there is almost always at least one significant, identifiable cause. Just look for something (abuse, violence, etc) that threatened the person's sense of bodily integrity. Rape, other violence, near-fatal accident, etc. And there's a strong link between such events, PTSD, and Major Depressive Disorder, so it's not like we can't point to the proximate cause of the PTSD and the resulting depression.
Bullshit. The war on drugs is totally a political decision. If drugs were decriminalized, addicts wouldn't be afraid to seek help, organized crime wouldn't be profiting, and there'd be political will to invest in treatment programs that work instead of "they're getting what they deserve." We don't have the same view of self-righteousness when dealing with addicts of tobacco or alcohol because we're f*cking self-righteous hypocrites and seeing others suffer reinforces how "worthy" we are for "not sinking that low."
And no, I have zero experience with illegal drug use, or tobacco, and I've had one beer this year, and yet can still see the problems others have and feel compassion instead of "look at how virtuous I am". I just consider myself lucky, that's all.
If a dog ran into the street and got hit by a car, I wouldn't be saying "stupid dog got what it deserves." I hold the same view for humans who are addicted. Shit happens, and it's of no use to just ignore it.
Doesn't change the fact that it's the illegal nature of drugs that is the big money-maker, and drives the whole operation underground. Biker gangs and drug cartels are dead set against both decriminalization and legalization - they'd be out of business. The decision to keep certain drugs illegal is a political decision.
Both the UN and the World Health Organization want drugs to be decriminalized.
Almost 2/3 of all firearm deaths are by suicide. Even if every single other gun death were "defensive" (and it's not), it would still be far less. So stop with the warped stats. Crime doesn't come anywhere near suicide in terms of gun deaths. Proper gun control can help lower the suicide rate, because putting a bullet through your skull only takes a second of weakness, whereas overdosing on pills, you still have time for a "come-to-jesus moment" and call 911 (or 999 depending on where you are). Ditto with slashing your wrists - some people are just too squeamish to be able to go through with it, but eating a bullet is the act of a fraction of a second.
Those are the facts. Neither crime nor defensive gun use are anywhere near in terms of numbers of deaths by firearms. But I guess as long as government regulations are the ones YOU disapprove of, facts don't matter.
The #1 cause of death by firearm is suicide - mostly male suicide. Almost 2/3 of all gun deaths are suicides.
Many programmers find that their employability starts to decline at about age 35
Employers dismiss them as either lacking in up-to-date technical skills -- such as the latest programming-language fad -- or “not suitable for entry level.” In other words, either underqualified or overqualified. That doesn’t leave much, does it? Statistics show that most software developers are out of the field by age 40.
More than a decade ago, Congress commissioned a National Research Council study of the age issue in the profession. The council found that it took 23.4 percent longer for the over-40 workers to find work after losing their jobs, and that they had to take an average pay cut of 13.7 percent on the new job.
Finally, those high programmer salaries are actually low, because the same talents (analytical and problem-solving ability, attention to detail) command much more money in other fields, such as law and finance. A large technology company might typically pay new law-school graduates and MBAs salaries and compensation approaching double what they give new master’s degree grads in computer science.
The knowledge he had of our process and systems built up over that period had a considerable value in itself (a value that he wouldn't have in another company)
Au contraire, your competitors may see him as being worth far more.
A minor arrested for suspicion of murder is not charged with a felony, but a delinquency. It's only after a hearing before a juvenile court judge that the case can be referred to an adult court if warranted. In this case. Even if it had been transferred to the adult system and charged with a felony, he was never arrested for a felony. We do know he was never convicted, and possibly it never even went to a formal trial. And the poster never says if he was even actually formally charged with a delinquency as a minor.
Now since there is no link to the actual story, who the hell knows what the actual situation is? It may all be total bullshit.
Worse, it's not the FDA that is waging a war on drugs in the first place. The "war on drugs" is a political construct with no scientific evidence backing it. If the FDA were to be allowed to do studies to prove or disprove its effectiveness, the "war on drugs" would end pretty quickly. Ditto with the epidemiology of lack of gun control causing increased deaths..
The topic under discussion is PTSD, not clinical depression (btw - it's not called clinical depression any more - it's now known as major depressive disorder, to better distinguish it from run-of-the-mill depression that everyone gets once in a while and that's completely normal).
PTSD is a form of anxiety disorder - a different kettle of fish. Sure, it's often accompanied by major depressive episodes, but it's important to understand that you're dealing with two different illnesses, and that curing PTSD won't necessarily cure MDD (especially since the brain is pretty plastic, and the more often you have an episode of major depression, the more likely you are to have another one).
The original source (which I linked to) makes no mention whatsoever of "clinical depression". That's an error by the submitter or the editor. The name is "major depressive disorder" (and has been since 2012 with the DSM5).
Android is not linux. The android runtime runs atop linux, same as all the linux desktop environments run atop linux, but are not themselves linux. Also, be ready to say goodbye to linux on android.
Come on, there are plenty of ways to track people who aren't logged in. Or are you that new to this / that naive?
Someone who decides not to work but lives off their own money is not theft, same as someone who works well or at a lower paying job without depending on tax-funded benefits - someone who intentionally leaches off others is at best a thief, at worst scum.
On the contrary, taxes are needed, but not sufficient, to pay for public infrastructure. There also has to be the political will to build it. If the money isn't there, or a tax revenue stream to float bonds or loans against, all the political will to build infrastructure won't make it happen.
What does that have to do with yet another vaporware announcement? Right now they have nothing.
There is nothing to give anyone reason to believe that they can produce. Obviously the phone manufacturer doesn't have much confidence, or they would let themselves be named.