Other than providing the hardware, CDC did almost nothing and had to dragged, kicking and screaming, into marketing it at all (and at which they did a lackluster and shitty job). Almost all of the software (including rewriting a lot of the OS - the CDC OS'es were not known for their "real time" capabilities, being mainly designed for high-performance scientific computing) were developed by the folks at the University if Illinois. And that software development? Mostly funded with government grants (back when we did those sorts of things for non-military things).
Control Data and PLATO? Fuck 'em - they were mainly irrelevant. Thanks for the hardware, though - it did have an interesting architecture (sort of like programming in microcode).
Get rid of anonymity. If users can hide behind a veil of online anonymity, if they can always be relatively assured that no one is going to trace down that AssH/\t350 is really Wendel Jeppers of 113 Terrace Dr., Apt. C, Meat Hollow, KY, and that there is almost no chance that one can deliver a summons to him, you will not get rid of harassment. Couple that with the fact that there is no authority which can get rid of a troll once and for all, that they can sign up with a new anonymous account, and it's easy to see that the EFF folks are idiots in this case.
It's all good to have folks stand up and decry harassment when it happens. We'd all like to think our better angels triumph over evil. They don't always (or is that often?). That's why we need identity, laws, and authority. Because certain idiots in this world need to be separated from polite society (and hopefully rehabilitated before being let back into that society) because they do cause harm.
The good news is that Bayesian probability and AI will soon be good enough to identify trolls, harassers, and other assorted knaves by the way they write - write enough like a troll, watch your post get bounced and your account cancelled - no appeal, go away. We'll have control. It's probably not the kind you want though, as these technical solutions always have collateral damage.
So, Internet idiots, you've all been warned several times. Are you going to grow up, act like adults, and control yourselves or are you going to be leashed? Your choice.
Working your ass off for 10 years? Try 30 and fighting age discrimination. It has nothing to do with diversity, people of different cultures, genders, etc. If it's being supported by these companies it's all about increasing the labor supply so they can screw over their workers more easily for less money. For those of you who think otherwise, you're naive and supporting your oppressors' schemes. Employment becomes a zero-sum game if the pool of workers is growing faster than the number of open positions.
Basic syntax and paradigm of a new programming langugae are easy. It's running into all of the corner cases and figuring out how to work around them that takes time. Not to mention the plethora of "value add" third-party libraries and frameworks, all of which have their own corner cases to bump into.
Doctors these days are employees - just like you. Your boss tells you to "improve quality" (i.e., "financial quality") by increasing throughput, sticking to Bayesian most-probable/most cost-effective care pathways, and sticking to the script, you'll do it, if you value your job. Remember - just because a doctor doesn't diagnose you correctly (especially for low probability conditions) doesn't mean he's diagnosing everyone incorrectly. In fact, outliers happen.
Sorry for your bad experience, but medicine is statistics/quant driven these days (just like everything else). The fact is that you did get a diagnosis and your doctors acknowledged that after you brought it to their attention. What more do you expect from a system that's chronically understaffed and seems to exist (like other systems in our country) to funnel ever-larger amounts of money into corporate coffers? Don't be pissed off at your overworked doctor - be pissed off at the corporations and hospitals that make sure there isn't time to do adequate diagnosis.
The $70 for removing a splinter is a small price to pay to avoid sepsis. Of course, you don't get charged $70 unless you can't get the damned splinter out and the wound disinfected and bandaged yourself. Minor sprain? It's terrible how that might actually be a fracture. You might want to have that checked out. However, most people who can still walk on it get by fine with RICE - rest, ice, compression, and elevation. And a call to my doctor's office on these things tend to get that message from the care team given a call. Same with having a cold. The last thing the doctors' office wants is some germy asshole who doesn't need to be there running about giving everyone else his or her cold. And they will tell you to stay away unless there's actually a sign of secondary infection for which one might need antibiotics.
I don't know what the medical profession ever did to you (other than charge you money - a separate topic which should be discussed elsewhere), but people are not overusing minor issues to visit doctors. In reality, in 1998 (first thing I found when I Googled "medical encounters annually US), there were less than ~4 medical encounters (counted as doctors' visits, ED visits, hospitalizations, nursing home admissions/discharges, and home care starts/discharges)/per person annually. The growth numbers since then don't show anything particularly interesting except for a minor spike when PPACA came out, because people who didn't have medical care before are getting it now.
"Cyberchondria" isn't driving anything, but your straw man arguments about people flooding doctors' offices for minor issues are bullshit, too.
Because if laws apply only to some, they finally apply to no one. That hurts me, because I count on laws to be a first line of defense against those who might wish me (or my property) harm.
I never said I approved of this solution. It does, however, have a higher probability of working than other alternatives, if life extension of humans is your goal.
*Something* you're doing is making them uncomfortable.
This! You see, the myth of meritocracy in tech hiring is so foundational that it must be something you're doing, something you're not telling us, something that's... well... just you being you. Because otherwise, we might have to acknowledge that most decisions in our industry (just like others) aren't particularly meritocratic and that would make us uncomfortable. And so, now, we can dismiss you as either a dissembler or just a social misfit, say "Sucks to be you", and go back to basking in the sunshine provided by that tiny spark of esteem that comes from succeeding where others fail. Yes, we are all moral giants, helping to build a world where all can prosper...
How the hell does a guy who doesn't need it get a prescription drug like HGH? If he orders it from overseas, why isn't it seized when coming into the country? Why isn't the doctor whose pad the prescription came from being investigated?
Bottom line - this is just another example of a rich fuck who doesn't seem to think the rules for rest of us apply to him and a government all too willing to let the whole thing slide if you're rich enough.
Yeah, I think people underestimate the difficulty of extending life.
This.
Of course, you could put evolution back on the proper track of life extension by only allowing females who had family histories showing all second-gen forebearers living past 90 to bear children, and then only by being inseminated by the sperm of men similarly sired and then only collected past the age of 75 or so to make sure their "stupid genes" didn't weed them out. Wash, rinse, repeat with cutoff ages increasing. The rest is simply culling of the herd - it might take a few hundred generations, but I'm pretty sure there'd be a few tricks left in the old genome that would let us get to be 120.
I'm fine with what you say, but I don't mind giving a animal antibiotics to prevent herd/flock infections, which can happen whenever more than one animal is raised in the same area, even if the space of confinement is larger (even a free range). You act as if giving a vaccination to a child was a heinous thing - after all, they've gotten... dum, dum, dum... injected!
I actually don't give much of a crap about kicking monkeys and other animals around - it doesn't happen that often. At least not compared with the number of animals tortured, driven to extinction, and dying due to environmental degradation. There'd be a lot more monkeys left if animal rights guys would stop focusing their efforts on these stupid issues and start suing people who cut down too many trees or burn too much carbon. Just sayin'.
You assume publicity could actually get someone to watch a Seth Rogan movie. Publicity could get folks to do some things, but not something that horrible.
Two years ago, the intelligent, thinking people realized that the most powerful person in the US government, the president, can't even get a blow job without the whole country hearing about it.
Wow! I thought that was more like 1998-ish - closer to ten years ago. I know I wanted to forget about 2000 and the Bush election and a lot of Obama's terms, but I didn't want to forget it so much I traveled in time like you!
Well, you must be smoking something assuming that Idaho would legalize. Boise might be down with it, but the rest of state, due to its high rate of Mormon population, will never let it happen. Remember that Mormonism is a high indicator of Libertarian- (or Republican-) leaning behavior. They'll vote as Mormons first, not as Libertarians. And Mormons don't want legal weed in Idaho.
It would be. So would learning how to change the paper in a printer. So would be training for reading documentation thoroughly. And giving presentations. And enough accounting and finance to get by talking with a CFO. There are many things that could be useful to many students. But this is CS. And there's already a lot of material to cover. Teaching is no more important than any of those other things.
That's effectively what they are. They don't do the testing. They simply tell you how much testing you have to do before you don't get charged with a federal crime by selling your poison. If you left it to the courts (which is what all Libertarian types like to do), you'd be decrying judges finding against doctors who prescribed under-tested products because that's not "free market" either. So to fight it, you go about bandying "facts" like implying that the FDA does the testing. They don't they just set the standards. Or should theree be no standards? Do you hate them, as well?
Just face it - you folks hate government and there's not a damn thing it ever does right in your eyes. As such, you're not adding to the debate - you're just mouthing platitudes. Yes we remember your side of the issue. Though, honestly, we've heard it before. And sadly, it's just as stupid now as when we first heard it. It's as religious to the free market as Catholics are to Christ. Take your faith-based economics and go away.
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The company behind PLATO? Give me a break.
Other than providing the hardware, CDC did almost nothing and had to dragged, kicking and screaming, into marketing it at all (and at which they did a lackluster and shitty job). Almost all of the software (including rewriting a lot of the OS - the CDC OS'es were not known for their "real time" capabilities, being mainly designed for high-performance scientific computing) were developed by the folks at the University if Illinois. And that software development? Mostly funded with government grants (back when we did those sorts of things for non-military things).
Control Data and PLATO? Fuck 'em - they were mainly irrelevant. Thanks for the hardware, though - it did have an interesting architecture (sort of like programming in microcode).
Get rid of anonymity. If users can hide behind a veil of online anonymity, if they can always be relatively assured that no one is going to trace down that AssH/\t350 is really Wendel Jeppers of 113 Terrace Dr., Apt. C, Meat Hollow, KY, and that there is almost no chance that one can deliver a summons to him, you will not get rid of harassment. Couple that with the fact that there is no authority which can get rid of a troll once and for all, that they can sign up with a new anonymous account, and it's easy to see that the EFF folks are idiots in this case.
It's all good to have folks stand up and decry harassment when it happens. We'd all like to think our better angels triumph over evil. They don't always (or is that often?). That's why we need identity, laws, and authority. Because certain idiots in this world need to be separated from polite society (and hopefully rehabilitated before being let back into that society) because they do cause harm.
The good news is that Bayesian probability and AI will soon be good enough to identify trolls, harassers, and other assorted knaves by the way they write - write enough like a troll, watch your post get bounced and your account cancelled - no appeal, go away. We'll have control. It's probably not the kind you want though, as these technical solutions always have collateral damage.
So, Internet idiots, you've all been warned several times. Are you going to grow up, act like adults, and control yourselves or are you going to be leashed? Your choice.
Working your ass off for 10 years? Try 30 and fighting age discrimination. It has nothing to do with diversity, people of different cultures, genders, etc. If it's being supported by these companies it's all about increasing the labor supply so they can screw over their workers more easily for less money. For those of you who think otherwise, you're naive and supporting your oppressors' schemes. Employment becomes a zero-sum game if the pool of workers is growing faster than the number of open positions.
I have never met one that wanted to be the "horse" from Animal Farm.
That would be Boxer.
Basic syntax and paradigm of a new programming langugae are easy. It's running into all of the corner cases and figuring out how to work around them that takes time. Not to mention the plethora of "value add" third-party libraries and frameworks, all of which have their own corner cases to bump into.
Sony is like XML. If Sony is the answer, it's a sure bet you asked the wrong question.
Doctors these days are employees - just like you. Your boss tells you to "improve quality" (i.e., "financial quality") by increasing throughput, sticking to Bayesian most-probable/most cost-effective care pathways, and sticking to the script, you'll do it, if you value your job. Remember - just because a doctor doesn't diagnose you correctly (especially for low probability conditions) doesn't mean he's diagnosing everyone incorrectly. In fact, outliers happen.
Sorry for your bad experience, but medicine is statistics/quant driven these days (just like everything else). The fact is that you did get a diagnosis and your doctors acknowledged that after you brought it to their attention. What more do you expect from a system that's chronically understaffed and seems to exist (like other systems in our country) to funnel ever-larger amounts of money into corporate coffers? Don't be pissed off at your overworked doctor - be pissed off at the corporations and hospitals that make sure there isn't time to do adequate diagnosis.
The $70 for removing a splinter is a small price to pay to avoid sepsis. Of course, you don't get charged $70 unless you can't get the damned splinter out and the wound disinfected and bandaged yourself. Minor sprain? It's terrible how that might actually be a fracture. You might want to have that checked out. However, most people who can still walk on it get by fine with RICE - rest, ice, compression, and elevation. And a call to my doctor's office on these things tend to get that message from the care team given a call. Same with having a cold. The last thing the doctors' office wants is some germy asshole who doesn't need to be there running about giving everyone else his or her cold. And they will tell you to stay away unless there's actually a sign of secondary infection for which one might need antibiotics.
I don't know what the medical profession ever did to you (other than charge you money - a separate topic which should be discussed elsewhere), but people are not overusing minor issues to visit doctors. In reality, in 1998 (first thing I found when I Googled "medical encounters annually US), there were less than ~4 medical encounters (counted as doctors' visits, ED visits, hospitalizations, nursing home admissions/discharges, and home care starts/discharges)/per person annually. The growth numbers since then don't show anything particularly interesting except for a minor spike when PPACA came out, because people who didn't have medical care before are getting it now.
"Cyberchondria" isn't driving anything, but your straw man arguments about people flooding doctors' offices for minor issues are bullshit, too.
Because if laws apply only to some, they finally apply to no one. That hurts me, because I count on laws to be a first line of defense against those who might wish me (or my property) harm.
I never said I approved of this solution. It does, however, have a higher probability of working than other alternatives, if life extension of humans is your goal.
*Something* you're doing is making them uncomfortable.
This! You see, the myth of meritocracy in tech hiring is so foundational that it must be something you're doing, something you're not telling us, something that's... well... just you being you. Because otherwise, we might have to acknowledge that most decisions in our industry (just like others) aren't particularly meritocratic and that would make us uncomfortable. And so, now, we can dismiss you as either a dissembler or just a social misfit, say "Sucks to be you", and go back to basking in the sunshine provided by that tiny spark of esteem that comes from succeeding where others fail. Yes, we are all moral giants, helping to build a world where all can prosper...
How the hell does a guy who doesn't need it get a prescription drug like HGH? If he orders it from overseas, why isn't it seized when coming into the country? Why isn't the doctor whose pad the prescription came from being investigated?
Bottom line - this is just another example of a rich fuck who doesn't seem to think the rules for rest of us apply to him and a government all too willing to let the whole thing slide if you're rich enough.
Yeah, I think people underestimate the difficulty of extending life.
This.
Of course, you could put evolution back on the proper track of life extension by only allowing females who had family histories showing all second-gen forebearers living past 90 to bear children, and then only by being inseminated by the sperm of men similarly sired and then only collected past the age of 75 or so to make sure their "stupid genes" didn't weed them out. Wash, rinse, repeat with cutoff ages increasing. The rest is simply culling of the herd - it might take a few hundred generations, but I'm pretty sure there'd be a few tricks left in the old genome that would let us get to be 120.
I'm fine with what you say, but I don't mind giving a animal antibiotics to prevent herd/flock infections, which can happen whenever more than one animal is raised in the same area, even if the space of confinement is larger (even a free range). You act as if giving a vaccination to a child was a heinous thing - after all, they've gotten... dum, dum, dum... injected!
I actually don't give much of a crap about kicking monkeys and other animals around - it doesn't happen that often. At least not compared with the number of animals tortured, driven to extinction, and dying due to environmental degradation. There'd be a lot more monkeys left if animal rights guys would stop focusing their efforts on these stupid issues and start suing people who cut down too many trees or burn too much carbon. Just sayin'.
How many people do you know that just go along with that and don't question anything? ... That last group is the "everyone's a winner" crowd.
Citation needed.
There goes my book in morse code!
You assume publicity could actually get someone to watch a Seth Rogan movie. Publicity could get folks to do some things, but not something that horrible.
Two years ago, the intelligent, thinking people realized that the most powerful person in the US government, the president, can't even get a blow job without the whole country hearing about it.
Wow! I thought that was more like 1998-ish - closer to ten years ago. I know I wanted to forget about 2000 and the Bush election and a lot of Obama's terms, but I didn't want to forget it so much I traveled in time like you!
Well, you must be smoking something assuming that Idaho would legalize. Boise might be down with it, but the rest of state, due to its high rate of Mormon population, will never let it happen. Remember that Mormonism is a high indicator of Libertarian- (or Republican-) leaning behavior. They'll vote as Mormons first, not as Libertarians. And Mormons don't want legal weed in Idaho.
That would be the drama-mongers and the drama-mongees.
When you say pencil, I'm pretty sure you mean "graphite". A lovely and useful substance, to be sure, but not especially close to graphene.
Virgin Submarine Plan - the "Eaten Alive" of enterprises...
It would be. So would learning how to change the paper in a printer. So would be training for reading documentation thoroughly. And giving presentations. And enough accounting and finance to get by talking with a CFO. There are many things that could be useful to many students. But this is CS. And there's already a lot of material to cover. Teaching is no more important than any of those other things.
That's effectively what they are. They don't do the testing. They simply tell you how much testing you have to do before you don't get charged with a federal crime by selling your poison. If you left it to the courts (which is what all Libertarian types like to do), you'd be decrying judges finding against doctors who prescribed under-tested products because that's not "free market" either. So to fight it, you go about bandying "facts" like implying that the FDA does the testing. They don't they just set the standards. Or should theree be no standards? Do you hate them, as well?
Just face it - you folks hate government and there's not a damn thing it ever does right in your eyes. As such, you're not adding to the debate - you're just mouthing platitudes. Yes we remember your side of the issue. Though, honestly, we've heard it before. And sadly, it's just as stupid now as when we first heard it. It's as religious to the free market as Catholics are to Christ. Take your faith-based economics and go away.