That's part of the Dunning-Krueger Effect. It's usually understood as "incompetent people are too incompetent to know they're incompetent", but the DKE also states that very competent people assume that everyone else is also as competent as they are and thus they don't need to explain anything. If they were actually that competent, they'd understand, but no.
The MBA-types didn't take over Google Maps. Google hired designers from Apple to redesign it. The story was on Slashdot at the time, and everyone groaned because we all knew what was coming. Sure enough, the first update from the new designers removed tons of options. I kept the last version as long as I could, and then one fateful day decided Google Maps was a waste of space on my phone. Haven't looked back since. Don't miss it at all, either.
Yaknow, I get the idea that what's happening is a lot of non-sciencey types, like journalists, are really intimidated by hard science. They see the hardcore intellectual sweat that goes into articles like this, and it makes them feel bad that they're in a soft profession. They'd appreciate it if the sciency types would tone it down a notch, and say shaming things like "I have no idea who the article exists for". The object isn't to make Wikipedia better, it's to make themselves feel better.
Well, what's supposed to happen is that someone should step in to edit the article and correct it. Many years ago, I was reading Wikipedia and thought an article could use some more information, and clicked edit and happily added helpful facts. I was contributing to the sum total of human knowledge! I was so proud.
Much like the time that you tried to edit Wikipedia, the same thing happened. I checked the next day and my information had been deleted. I was, honestly, kind of hurt. I never found out what happened until years later. See, to edit Wikipedia articles, you need to be a "Wikipedian". A Wikipedian is someone who participates in the Wikipedia community. The general public isn't really welcome, despite all the high-sounding rhetoric from Jimmy Wales. Perhaps once long ago, when Wikipedia needed to be filled out, this might have been partially true, but now that it's basically finished, contributions from the public are less welcome than ever. The article owners can be very jealous about "their" articles.
I thought about becoming a Wikipedian, but it just seemed like too much effort. Plus from what I've seen other Wikipedians seem like hypersensitive nerd jerks, the kind I escaped from. I just checked the page I tried to help, and sure enough it looks like it hasn't been updated since 2008. Tons of broken links and outdated information. I'd include the link here but it's a highly specific topic and you might be able to puzzle out who I am.
It was very firmly established that "wiretapping" meant tapping a wire, i.e. putting alligator clips on a POTS line, and therefore Trump's claim that Obama's people wiretapped him were false.
"The lawyers and counsel at the NSA surely would be talking to the lawyers and members of counsel at CIA, or at the National Security Council or at the Director of National Intelligence or at the FBI," he said. "It's unbelievable of the level and degree of the administration to look for information on Donald Trump and his associates, his campaign team and his transition team. This is really, really serious stuff."
Michael Doran, former NSC senior director, told TheDCNF Monday that "somebody blew a hole in the wall between national security secrets and partisan politics." This "was a stream of information that was supposed to be hermetically sealed from politics and the Obama administration found a way to blow a hole in that wall," he said.
Doran charged that potential serious crimes were undertaken because "this is a leaking of signal intelligence."
"That's a felony," he told TheDCNF. "And you can get 10 years for that. It is a tremendous abuse of the system. We're not supposed to be monitoring American citizens. Bigger than the crime, is the breach of public trust."
Waurishuk said he was most dismayed that "this is now using national intelligence assets and capabilities to spy on the elected, yet-to-be-seated president."
"We're looking at a potential constitutional crisis from the standpoint that we used an extremely strong capability that's supposed to be used to safeguard and protect the country," he said. "And we used it for political purposes by a sitting president. That takes on a new precedent."
Well, Facebook is in bed with Hollywood so no surprise there. Given the current sex abuse scandal, I now realize why Hollywood is full of crazy leftists who also think all men are rapists. Wow, it's because they really did come in contact with rapists like Weinstein and they extrapolated their experience to conclude that all men are like this.
That's what they SAY they need it all for. Do you really believe the cover story? Come on. All that data is valuable and can be sold. That's why there are ten zillion permissions.
Actually, as James Damore showed, there are tons of conservatives in tech. It's just they they're deeply in the closet because they're terrified to out themselves due to a very justified fear of being fired.
I mean, heck, you're openly supporting ruining these people, No wonder they're hiding.
This can only be good news. The world is sick of a 'strong America' striding the globe arrogantly, visiting war, mayhem, regime change and murderous interventions with impunity. The legacy, still continuing since WWII has been a global holocaust of peoples who've died, been injured as a result of the US's cult of impunity, acting as a rogue state outside international law. Many have got so used to US global behaviour they accept the rogue state to act as it wants, without constraint or recourse to international law.
A 'weak America' is good news NOT bad news. We can only hope that its aggressive foreign policy, and murderous military will one day diminish, and the US ceases to run amok, murder and maim, treating the rest of the world as its deadly playground.
The US is largely a corrupt and regressive backwater these days. Let's hope that the backwardness of US policies, both domestic and foreign, will face some credible opposition from more progressive countries. America is increasingly becoming a particularly ugly example of a corrupt and totalitarian nightmare. One only has to look at who the 'choices' for president were, to realise that the system of government there has long since ceased to function in any moderately representative way, let alone democratic.
The ability to recover satellites was part of the military mission. In event of war with the Communists, the Shuttles would go up and retrieve Soviet reconnaissance satellites, rendering the enemy blind. It's a GOOD thing it was only used twice.
That's because all the geopolitical experts in the world all agree that globalism and one world government are a good idea, and they don't care how many American lives they have to ruin to get there.
But the over-riding point is that Globalism, Cosmopolitanism, whatever you want to call it, has no effective constitution, it has no place for popular representation, it has no constituency beyond humanity at large and has no culture beyond enriching its nomenklatura of experts and commissars and their associated appratachiks. It is simply an oligarchy with totalitarian impulses. Clearly, the EU looks like nothing so much as Stalinism with a Smiley Face that turns vicious when opposed. See: Catalonia.
The Democrats had the right idea - rig the primary to make sure the correct candidate wins. The Republicans failed to follow suit and lost their party to an outsider. The result was America's first third-party President. A sobering lesson that I don't think anyone in either party will forget.
It's not a "both sides do it" thing, though. One side has the power to censor or bury content on Youtube, Google, Facebook, and so on. The enemy side doesn't. The Youtube "trending" news carousel has been exposed to be manipulated by the PC police, not an algorithm, and they can and do remove content they disagree with.
Wait, Hillary Clinton was shown grabbing rapist Harvey Weinstein's man-tits? I haven't heard of this. Why hasn't it gotten more publicity, this is huge. Hillary is a friend of rapists? Well damn she attacked her husband's sexual assault victims, I suppose it's in character for her. Damn, we sure dodged a bullet there.
"Trump is not normal" yes exactly, he's not like you. And that is entirely the point. I checked the Constitution and it doesn't say a goddamned thing about having to have characteristics that you agree with to be President. Rebel and refuse to conform. Fuck off, conformist fascist.
Isn't it bizarre how, until November 2016, the Bill of Rights was considered a outdated relic that was irrelevant, but suddenly the Left turned 180 degrees and now is clutching the Constitution like a patriotic conservative who carries around a mini version in his wallet? It's weird and doesn't make any sense.
Words can have a powerful effect on your nervous system. Certain types of adversity, even those involving no physical contact, can make you sick, alter your brain â" even kill neurons â" and shorten your life.
Your bodyâ(TM)s immune system includes little proteins called proinflammatory cytokines that cause inflammation when youâ(TM)re physically injured. Under certain conditions, however, these cytokines themselves can cause physical illness. What are those conditions? One of them is chronic stress.
Your body also contains little packets of genetic material that sit on the ends of your chromosomes. Theyâ(TM)re called telomeres. Each time your cells divide, their telomeres get a little shorter, and when they become too short, you die. This is normal aging. But guess what else shrinks your telomeres? Chronic stress.
If words can cause stress, and if prolonged stress can cause physical harm, then it seems that speech â" at least certain types of speech â" can be a form of violence.
Thatâ(TM)s why itâ(TM)s reasonable, scientifically speaking, not to allow a provocateur and hatemonger like Milo Yiannopoulos to speak at your school.
So, did you not even mention the problematic nature of most of the Nobel Prizes being awarded to white males? What about the intersection of overlapping or intersecting social identities and related systems of oppression, domination, or discrimination?
You are completely wrongheaded. The Nobel Prize is awarded to inspire, not to reward achievements. That's where the root of your misunderstanding is. Once you understand this, the rest falls into place.
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But no humans.
You say that like it's a bad thing. Humans have driven more species to extinction than any climate change.
That's part of the Dunning-Krueger Effect. It's usually understood as "incompetent people are too incompetent to know they're incompetent", but the DKE also states that very competent people assume that everyone else is also as competent as they are and thus they don't need to explain anything. If they were actually that competent, they'd understand, but no.
The MBA-types didn't take over Google Maps. Google hired designers from Apple to redesign it. The story was on Slashdot at the time, and everyone groaned because we all knew what was coming. Sure enough, the first update from the new designers removed tons of options. I kept the last version as long as I could, and then one fateful day decided Google Maps was a waste of space on my phone. Haven't looked back since. Don't miss it at all, either.
Yaknow, I get the idea that what's happening is a lot of non-sciencey types, like journalists, are really intimidated by hard science. They see the hardcore intellectual sweat that goes into articles like this, and it makes them feel bad that they're in a soft profession. They'd appreciate it if the sciency types would tone it down a notch, and say shaming things like "I have no idea who the article exists for". The object isn't to make Wikipedia better, it's to make themselves feel better.
Well, what's supposed to happen is that someone should step in to edit the article and correct it. Many years ago, I was reading Wikipedia and thought an article could use some more information, and clicked edit and happily added helpful facts. I was contributing to the sum total of human knowledge! I was so proud.
Much like the time that you tried to edit Wikipedia, the same thing happened. I checked the next day and my information had been deleted. I was, honestly, kind of hurt. I never found out what happened until years later. See, to edit Wikipedia articles, you need to be a "Wikipedian". A Wikipedian is someone who participates in the Wikipedia community. The general public isn't really welcome, despite all the high-sounding rhetoric from Jimmy Wales. Perhaps once long ago, when Wikipedia needed to be filled out, this might have been partially true, but now that it's basically finished, contributions from the public are less welcome than ever. The article owners can be very jealous about "their" articles.
I thought about becoming a Wikipedian, but it just seemed like too much effort. Plus from what I've seen other Wikipedians seem like hypersensitive nerd jerks, the kind I escaped from. I just checked the page I tried to help, and sure enough it looks like it hasn't been updated since 2008. Tons of broken links and outdated information. I'd include the link here but it's a highly specific topic and you might be able to puzzle out who I am.
It was very firmly established that "wiretapping" meant tapping a wire, i.e. putting alligator clips on a POTS line, and therefore Trump's claim that Obama's people wiretapped him were false.
Well, Facebook is in bed with Hollywood so no surprise there. Given the current sex abuse scandal, I now realize why Hollywood is full of crazy leftists who also think all men are rapists. Wow, it's because they really did come in contact with rapists like Weinstein and they extrapolated their experience to conclude that all men are like this.
That's what they SAY they need it all for. Do you really believe the cover story? Come on. All that data is valuable and can be sold. That's why there are ten zillion permissions.
Actually, as James Damore showed, there are tons of conservatives in tech. It's just they they're deeply in the closet because they're terrified to out themselves due to a very justified fear of being fired.
I mean, heck, you're openly supporting ruining these people, No wonder they're hiding.
If there was nobody putting alligator clips on a telephone line, it wasn't wiretapping. Remember Trump's delusion on this subject?
I love how religious freedom gets put in scare quotes, like it's something bad. Islamophobia really has progressed far, hasn't it?
Facebook requires you to use your real name on your account. Failure to do so is a violation of their terms of service and they can lock your account.
This can only be good news. The world is sick of a 'strong America' striding the globe arrogantly, visiting war, mayhem, regime change and murderous interventions with impunity. The legacy, still continuing since WWII has been a global holocaust of peoples who've died, been injured as a result of the US's cult of impunity, acting as a rogue state outside international law. Many have got so used to US global behaviour they accept the rogue state to act as it wants, without constraint or recourse to international law.
A 'weak America' is good news NOT bad news. We can only hope that its aggressive foreign policy, and murderous military will one day diminish, and the US ceases to run amok, murder and maim, treating the rest of the world as its deadly playground.
The US is largely a corrupt and regressive backwater these days. Let's hope that the backwardness of US policies, both domestic and foreign, will face some credible opposition from more progressive countries. America is increasingly becoming a particularly ugly example of a corrupt and totalitarian nightmare. One only has to look at who the 'choices' for president were, to realise that the system of government there has long since ceased to function in any moderately representative way, let alone democratic.
The ability to recover satellites was part of the military mission. In event of war with the Communists, the Shuttles would go up and retrieve Soviet reconnaissance satellites, rendering the enemy blind. It's a GOOD thing it was only used twice.
That's because all the geopolitical experts in the world all agree that globalism and one world government are a good idea, and they don't care how many American lives they have to ruin to get there.
But the over-riding point is that Globalism, Cosmopolitanism, whatever you want to call it, has no effective constitution, it has no place for popular representation, it has no constituency beyond humanity at large and has no culture beyond enriching its nomenklatura of experts and commissars and their associated appratachiks. It is simply an oligarchy with totalitarian impulses. Clearly, the EU looks like nothing so much as Stalinism with a Smiley Face that turns vicious when opposed. See: Catalonia.
The Democrats had the right idea - rig the primary to make sure the correct candidate wins. The Republicans failed to follow suit and lost their party to an outsider. The result was America's first third-party President. A sobering lesson that I don't think anyone in either party will forget.
There are few aspects of the US constitution that don't primarily benefit male white supremacists first and foremost. It's a racist document.
The First Amendment and "free speech" didn't just benefit white supremacists first and foremost, but male white supremacists. Still does.
He's got a point. If we aren't using them, maybe we need to get rid of them. Give peace a chance.
It's not a "both sides do it" thing, though. One side has the power to censor or bury content on Youtube, Google, Facebook, and so on. The enemy side doesn't. The Youtube "trending" news carousel has been exposed to be manipulated by the PC police, not an algorithm, and they can and do remove content they disagree with.
Wait, Hillary Clinton was shown grabbing rapist Harvey Weinstein's man-tits? I haven't heard of this. Why hasn't it gotten more publicity, this is huge. Hillary is a friend of rapists? Well damn she attacked her husband's sexual assault victims, I suppose it's in character for her. Damn, we sure dodged a bullet there.
"Trump is not normal" yes exactly, he's not like you. And that is entirely the point. I checked the Constitution and it doesn't say a goddamned thing about having to have characteristics that you agree with to be President. Rebel and refuse to conform. Fuck off, conformist fascist.
Isn't it bizarre how, until November 2016, the Bill of Rights was considered a outdated relic that was irrelevant, but suddenly the Left turned 180 degrees and now is clutching the Constitution like a patriotic conservative who carries around a mini version in his wallet? It's weird and doesn't make any sense.
Words can have a powerful effect on your nervous system. Certain types of adversity, even those involving no physical contact, can make you sick, alter your brain â" even kill neurons â" and shorten your life.
Your bodyâ(TM)s immune system includes little proteins called proinflammatory cytokines that cause inflammation when youâ(TM)re physically injured. Under certain conditions, however, these cytokines themselves can cause physical illness. What are those conditions? One of them is chronic stress.
Your body also contains little packets of genetic material that sit on the ends of your chromosomes. Theyâ(TM)re called telomeres. Each time your cells divide, their telomeres get a little shorter, and when they become too short, you die. This is normal aging. But guess what else shrinks your telomeres? Chronic stress.
If words can cause stress, and if prolonged stress can cause physical harm, then it seems that speech â" at least certain types of speech â" can be a form of violence.
Thatâ(TM)s why itâ(TM)s reasonable, scientifically speaking, not to allow a provocateur and hatemonger like Milo Yiannopoulos to speak at your school.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/14/opinion/sunday/when-is-speech-violence.html
The Nobel Prize is not awarded for achievements, it is an inspiration for greatness. Your position is based on a misconception.
So, did you not even mention the problematic nature of most of the Nobel Prizes being awarded to white males? What about the intersection of overlapping or intersecting social identities and related systems of oppression, domination, or discrimination?
You are completely wrongheaded. The Nobel Prize is awarded to inspire, not to reward achievements. That's where the root of your misunderstanding is. Once you understand this, the rest falls into place.