You cannot build a theory on one example. You cannot generalize on "the media". You cannot say that Fox News or Breitbart are not "media". You cannot conveniently point to one tiny alleged problem on one "side" while ignoring the blatant enormous flaws of the other "side".
Sure! And the wall street guys and pension fund managers rake in millions every year, because their jobs are worth it, right? They contribute so much to society!
Maybe you're right in theory, but we don't live in theory. In reality, almost the only jobs paying well are bullshit jobs (if these jobs disappeared one morning, our world wouldn't stop turning...think managers, lawyers, traders...) and as for useful, high paying jobs you have doctors, because everybody is afraid of death, then it becomes harder to find really good examples. Without Mexican workers in agricultural fields you would starve (to exaggerate a little) but I don't think they're paid very well...
Let's agree to disagree then. I maintain that you did not understand the "The Rock Test". Maybe it's because you have a pre-made idea that feminists are there to get you cut your balls and whatnot. In any case the "Test" has failed in its purpose, since it's not a useful guide to you or people thinking similarly. What could be done to help people get along then?
I would have thought that the "Rock Test" was simple enough, but apparently no. If Dwayne Johnson comes up to you talking about his stilettos, answer as you see fit. If he comes to you talking about a proposal for the project, don't answer as if he talked about his stilettos.
...He's a snowflake.
Trolling aside, apparently Damore was "wronged" our society, but let's not forget that women and minorities are ALSO wronged by our society, and in my opinion THIS problem is much larger scale/urgent/severe...
BTW I tend to agree with his girlfriend "She maintains Damore was, for the most part, naive and wrong..." His mild autism should make him very cautious before opening up in a public setting. We need more simple tools like "The Rock Test" https://medium.com/@annevictor... to help people like him and "nerdy-nerds" participate fully in our society without offending/hurting others. Anyway good to see that the guy is not necessarily set on his views and apparently is listening...
You see my point too, I suppose.
America (or rather the USA, because in "America" as a whole maybe it's Spanish the predominant language..) is a country built by immigrants, some voluntary some not (to say the least), some from 1000s of years ago that we call now "natives". I would think that most of these immigrants did not speak English when they came in what are now the USA, but more likely one of the languages that I mentioned...
Anyway, it's just to pick a bone with you, and I agree that to live in a society (and a "country" is still a valid projection of "a society", at least in the western world) it's best if there is a lingua franca.
Any technological device would also end up being robbed by the local warlord. This is the primary obstacle for making sub-Saharan Africa less of a hellhole.
Actually warlords are part of the problem, but you should also talk about the corrupt governments that aid the systematic economic raping of entire countries by multinationals and trade systems inherited from the colonial period. There are a lot of resources (minerals, land, human...) here but it is systematically squandered by soulless local politicians and soulless first-world businessmen. Behind them most of the people in power in the first world are satisfied with the status-quo, because if things change they know that the transfer of riches from africa to their countries would be less efficient and they would risk social unrest at home... When there are too much dying african children on TV they shed a tear, then move on and it's business as usual.
Only one exaple, did you know that they still use leaded gas, the western petroleum companies sell this as "african quality" and are happy to make a dime with it...
One solution: regulate the activity, standardise metering equipment, licence the drivers, and control all this via a government-linked organization. Of course it will no be as cheap, but lots of problems are thus avoided/reduced. We could even call that "Taxis".
By the way, I've never been to Lagos so maybe I'm talking out of my ass, but in the sub-saharian cities that I know, taxis are so cheap and plentiful that I don't see the point of having an Uber service at all. It usually takes about 30 seconds to find a taxi. Long-distance can be different but then that's not Uber's domain.
And if you are a foreigner and want something more upscale than the 20 years old Toyota with worn tires and no brakes, there are usually good limo/driver services at the hotel.
wtf has "virtue signalling" to do with this?
And what is "virtue signalling" anyways? I currently understand it as "anything that goes contrary to my right-wing opinions and that I in fact feel insecure about" but maybe I'm wrong and there is more to it. Please enlighten me.
First, I only skimmed TFA but the summary is confusing: it makes sense economically to spend at most x energy to mine BTC, but are bitcoins really mined for this amount of energy? Since there seems to be speculation on the BTC price in dollars, it is not necessary correlated to the cost of mining...Or am I missing something?
Second, it could be made clearer if we talk about a house energy consumption, or just electricity, and in which country/climate...
Last, I have an innovative proposal for improving radically the efficiency of bitcoin: Use a technology called "Databases" managed by entities that society agrees to consider trustworthy in this area (maybe call them governments, or central banks, or banks that are "too big to fail"...Be creative) and centralize the ledgers. It will be much much more efficient...No?
Yes, I would think that we will end up with high level scripting languages, Javascript and whatnot, for most applications, and C/C++/assembly routines for the other stuff, such as embedded, high performance etc...Plus a few specialized languages in some areas (Ada?). But "in-between" languages, and I include Java, will have no reason to exist.
With the clown-in-chief the US is falling faster and faster...All empires are mortal history teaches us.
Case in point, the Paris Climate Deal, there was an opportunity for the US to lead the world once again, shape the world for the next 50-100 years, be an industrial powerhouse again and maintain their status in the tech side with all that is needed for green energy, but nooo! MAGA! Coal! Wall!
I only hope demise will be quick (I expect 40 years, hope for 20) so that this increasingly backwards country is so deep in shit economically, that they don't pose a threat anymore with their blatant disregard for the rest of the planet, and their oversized military. Or that enlightened americans win in their own country and save the day...Don't think that's the most probable unfortunately.
OK, there seems to be a belief here that "only the US foots the bill" and that "the US must pay $100Billion" recurring in a lot of posts here. It's false, there is a grain of truth behind, it can be considered entirely true only in Trump-Reality.
"So as part of the Paris agreement, richer countries, like the US, are supposed to send $100 billion a year in aid by 2020 to the poorer countries. And that amount is set to increase over time. Again, like the other provisions of the agreement, this isn’t an absolute mandate. " (https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2017/6/1/15724162/trump-paris-climate-agreement-explained-briefly)
Also see https://www.nytimes.com/intera... which shows that per-capita, 10 countries have pledged more than the US.
In short: All "rich" countries contribute, the biggest total contribution is the US but not the biggest per-capita contribution, and it's not a mandate anyway.
Because of course the world as it is is fair? Because, if you are born in the USA you obviously deserve the life you've got while raping the planet, and if you're born in Monrovia or wherever you obviously deserve to die at 32 from disease, war or pollution... Right?
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You cannot build a theory on one example. You cannot generalize on "the media". You cannot say that Fox News or Breitbart are not "media". You cannot conveniently point to one tiny alleged problem on one "side" while ignoring the blatant enormous flaws of the other "side".
Make America Great Again!
People talk and blabber, it's not always interesting or right or smart, get over it :)
Sure! And the wall street guys and pension fund managers rake in millions every year, because their jobs are worth it, right? They contribute so much to society! Maybe you're right in theory, but we don't live in theory. In reality, almost the only jobs paying well are bullshit jobs (if these jobs disappeared one morning, our world wouldn't stop turning...think managers, lawyers, traders...) and as for useful, high paying jobs you have doctors, because everybody is afraid of death, then it becomes harder to find really good examples. Without Mexican workers in agricultural fields you would starve (to exaggerate a little) but I don't think they're paid very well...
No it does not.
Let's agree to disagree then. I maintain that you did not understand the "The Rock Test". Maybe it's because you have a pre-made idea that feminists are there to get you cut your balls and whatnot. In any case the "Test" has failed in its purpose, since it's not a useful guide to you or people thinking similarly. What could be done to help people get along then?
I would have thought that the "Rock Test" was simple enough, but apparently no. If Dwayne Johnson comes up to you talking about his stilettos, answer as you see fit. If he comes to you talking about a proposal for the project, don't answer as if he talked about his stilettos.
...He's a snowflake. Trolling aside, apparently Damore was "wronged" our society, but let's not forget that women and minorities are ALSO wronged by our society, and in my opinion THIS problem is much larger scale/urgent/severe... BTW I tend to agree with his girlfriend "She maintains Damore was, for the most part, naive and wrong..." His mild autism should make him very cautious before opening up in a public setting. We need more simple tools like "The Rock Test" https://medium.com/@annevictor... to help people like him and "nerdy-nerds" participate fully in our society without offending/hurting others. Anyway good to see that the guy is not necessarily set on his views and apparently is listening...
You see my point too, I suppose. America (or rather the USA, because in "America" as a whole maybe it's Spanish the predominant language..) is a country built by immigrants, some voluntary some not (to say the least), some from 1000s of years ago that we call now "natives". I would think that most of these immigrants did not speak English when they came in what are now the USA, but more likely one of the languages that I mentioned... Anyway, it's just to pick a bone with you, and I agree that to live in a society (and a "country" is still a valid projection of "a society", at least in the western world) it's best if there is a lingua franca.
2. Speaks English and do #1 in English.
Why not spanish, or dutch, or irish, or cantonese, or wolof, or navajo, or yiddish, or... ?
ok pal
You mean like going to church every sunday?
What's the point of trolling as an AC? I would think it's frustrating, no?
Any technological device would also end up being robbed by the local warlord. This is the primary obstacle for making sub-Saharan Africa less of a hellhole.
Actually warlords are part of the problem, but you should also talk about the corrupt governments that aid the systematic economic raping of entire countries by multinationals and trade systems inherited from the colonial period. There are a lot of resources (minerals, land, human...) here but it is systematically squandered by soulless local politicians and soulless first-world businessmen. Behind them most of the people in power in the first world are satisfied with the status-quo, because if things change they know that the transfer of riches from africa to their countries would be less efficient and they would risk social unrest at home... When there are too much dying african children on TV they shed a tear, then move on and it's business as usual. Only one exaple, did you know that they still use leaded gas, the western petroleum companies sell this as "african quality" and are happy to make a dime with it...
One solution: regulate the activity, standardise metering equipment, licence the drivers, and control all this via a government-linked organization. Of course it will no be as cheap, but lots of problems are thus avoided/reduced. We could even call that "Taxis". By the way, I've never been to Lagos so maybe I'm talking out of my ass, but in the sub-saharian cities that I know, taxis are so cheap and plentiful that I don't see the point of having an Uber service at all. It usually takes about 30 seconds to find a taxi. Long-distance can be different but then that's not Uber's domain. And if you are a foreigner and want something more upscale than the 20 years old Toyota with worn tires and no brakes, there are usually good limo/driver services at the hotel.
No, Mar-a-Lagos, Florida
Running a scam there too...
wtf has "virtue signalling" to do with this? And what is "virtue signalling" anyways? I currently understand it as "anything that goes contrary to my right-wing opinions and that I in fact feel insecure about" but maybe I'm wrong and there is more to it. Please enlighten me.
First, I only skimmed TFA but the summary is confusing: it makes sense economically to spend at most x energy to mine BTC, but are bitcoins really mined for this amount of energy? Since there seems to be speculation on the BTC price in dollars, it is not necessary correlated to the cost of mining...Or am I missing something? Second, it could be made clearer if we talk about a house energy consumption, or just electricity, and in which country/climate... Last, I have an innovative proposal for improving radically the efficiency of bitcoin: Use a technology called "Databases" managed by entities that society agrees to consider trustworthy in this area (maybe call them governments, or central banks, or banks that are "too big to fail"...Be creative) and centralize the ledgers. It will be much much more efficient...No?
Yes, I would think that we will end up with high level scripting languages, Javascript and whatnot, for most applications, and C/C++/assembly routines for the other stuff, such as embedded, high performance etc...Plus a few specialized languages in some areas (Ada?). But "in-between" languages, and I include Java, will have no reason to exist.
Yes, either they have an innovative plan for water/heat, in this case great, they prepare the future, or else it's completely idiotic.
With the clown-in-chief the US is falling faster and faster...All empires are mortal history teaches us. Case in point, the Paris Climate Deal, there was an opportunity for the US to lead the world once again, shape the world for the next 50-100 years, be an industrial powerhouse again and maintain their status in the tech side with all that is needed for green energy, but nooo! MAGA! Coal! Wall! I only hope demise will be quick (I expect 40 years, hope for 20) so that this increasingly backwards country is so deep in shit economically, that they don't pose a threat anymore with their blatant disregard for the rest of the planet, and their oversized military. Or that enlightened americans win in their own country and save the day...Don't think that's the most probable unfortunately.
OK, there seems to be a belief here that "only the US foots the bill" and that "the US must pay $100Billion" recurring in a lot of posts here. It's false, there is a grain of truth behind, it can be considered entirely true only in Trump-Reality. "So as part of the Paris agreement, richer countries, like the US, are supposed to send $100 billion a year in aid by 2020 to the poorer countries. And that amount is set to increase over time. Again, like the other provisions of the agreement, this isn’t an absolute mandate. " (https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2017/6/1/15724162/trump-paris-climate-agreement-explained-briefly) Also see https://www.nytimes.com/intera... which shows that per-capita, 10 countries have pledged more than the US. In short: All "rich" countries contribute, the biggest total contribution is the US but not the biggest per-capita contribution, and it's not a mandate anyway.
Because of course the world as it is is fair? Because, if you are born in the USA you obviously deserve the life you've got while raping the planet, and if you're born in Monrovia or wherever you obviously deserve to die at 32 from disease, war or pollution... Right?
You are absolutely right.
Lol