I use Twitter to follow my local transit agencies that tweet system status updates so I can be aware of them and take steps to mitigate transit issues. I can also ask questions or complain at them --- and actually get responses within minutes. I also use it to get in touch with companies' customer service --- and also actually get responses within minutes. And I can do all of this without having to call some number, navigate a phone-tree, and remain on hold for 20 minutes --OR-- send e-mail and likely have to wait "one business day" for a response.
You can, if fact, save a search (where your search can be a hashtag). I don't use the default Twitter client, but Twitterrific gives the appearance of "following" a saved search.
The problem with inadequate housing for workers exists everywhere that's expensive. San Francisco has a particularly serious problem because of mismanagement of its light rail system, which should have something like twice as many trains on it in order to gracefully handle demand.
That's a huge non sequitur. San Francisco has a problem with expensive housing because there's not enough housing to meet demand. San Francisco doesn't have enough housing because (a) no room to expand, (b) pervasive NIMBY-ism, and (c) a horrible building permit process.
The light rail system (part of Muni) has nothing to do with any of that.
The Metro (the underground portion of the light rail system) is bad because 5 lines are squeezed down to one track each direction under Market Street. The surface portion doesn't have dedicated rights-of-way (mostly) which means lights, traffic, bicyclists, and pedestrians all slow the trains down.
What Muni really needs to do is bore more tunnels, but that's ridiculously expensive and suffers from similar NIMBY-ism (witness the over-budget and very late Central Subway project).
I never said you couldn't participate in society without driving. Iâ(TM)m ONLY talking about the case where you would choose to drive without a license. In THAT case, youâ(TM)d be a menace.
My "live in the woods" comment was in reference to the ORIGINAL case of choosing to remain unvaccinated.
And this is different from driving... how? If you refuse to take driver's education, take a driving test, and get a license, yet you drive anyway, you're a menace to society. The police will rightly fine you every single time you drive without a license until either you get a driver's license or you stop driving without one.
So either get vaccinated and get fined very single day (because you're a menace to society every time you go out in public), or go live in the woods isolated from everyone else who is rationale. Your choice.
Didn't they already consent to being recorded by buying a device that's entire purpose is to record them?
No. It's right there in the summary (emphasis mine):
... the move comes after Amazon admitted thousands of their employees listen to Alexa recordings -- "something not mentioned in Echo's terms of service or FAQ pages."
There's a difference between Amazon recording you for the purpose of Alexa (a computer program) listening to those recordings and employees (humans) listening to those recordings --- the latter is not disclosed.
... and how does the [fine] accomplish anything useful other than to help subsidize the campaign?
It's the same as all fines. It's supposed to act as a motivator to comply with the law. Personally, I think it should be $1000 per person per day until you get yourself and your kids vaccinated. Society really doesn't have time for stupid people when it comes to health.
How about it? Nobody is saying that social media platforms play the sole role in spreading hate speech. But right now, we're talking only about their role.
Censorship seems to be working well enough for the Chinese. Until YouTube has their own secret police that have unfettered power, what they're doing really isn't the same thing.
Because some people do this kind of thing for fun; some do it on a dare; some might get a kick out of the irony of stealing a security camera; some just don't like that you have something they don't. This is why we can't have nice things.
Science is a method. You're conflating science with technology. They're not the same thing. And very few who understand the scientific method worship it blindly as a god in the same way as the religious worship their gods.
The downhill moment for computers is when compilers became available for download rather than having to hand-code in binary. People no longer have to know to to use a computer. All they have to do is type "gcc" and shitty software does the rest.
Employers expect recent graduates to have both university knowledge and vocational school knowledge.
Obviously, this varies widely by employer. Better companies like to hire smart people knowing theyâ(TM)ll fairly easily be able to pick up whatever language is being used.
They'll choose to hire at job fairs at universities that give both kinds of knowledge over those that don't prepare students for work.
This also varies widely by university. At places like MIT, CMU, Stanford, Berkeley, CalTech, etc., companies want to hire anyone since they were obviously smart enough to get into those places in the first place.
The long term question will be: what language do we teach in our programming courses?
If you're teaching programming, use a language like Scheme. You can teach the entire syntax in 5 minutes or less. Then you can get to actually teaching programming.
A university is not a vocational school. It's not your job to teach what's popular.
Can you give links to any computer monitors that have a comparable price to otherwise comparable-sized smart TVs? (AFAIK, size-comparable monitors are way more expensive than their smart TV counterparts.)
Suburban areas of the Bay Area are virtually as expensive. Commuting from rural areas would take longer than an hour. Many people who both live and work in the Bay Area commute an hour already.
Given their current stock price and that they were the first trillion dollar company, apparently they get it just fine and are content with allegedly not providing technology for the masses.
You've created a strawman in an attempt to justify (in your mind at least) being a condescending prick.
It would be as if the original poster had said that he loves his country because they have free water fountains in parks where you can drink the water (or not) for free. While it's certainly true, it's also so common as not to need pointing out since lots of countries have free water fountains in parks. The only reason one would point it out is if one thought it either unique or rare.
He could have just as easily made his post country-agnostic by titling his post "I'm proud to live in my country" [where there exists freedom of speech] -- if that were his intent, but it clearly wasn't since he explicitly mentioned "American."
I'll leave you with this which is what the original post immediately brought to mind.
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I use Twitter to follow my local transit agencies that tweet system status updates so I can be aware of them and take steps to mitigate transit issues. I can also ask questions or complain at them --- and actually get responses within minutes. I also use it to get in touch with companies' customer service --- and also actually get responses within minutes. And I can do all of this without having to call some number, navigate a phone-tree, and remain on hold for 20 minutes --OR-- send e-mail and likely have to wait "one business day" for a response.
You can, if fact, save a search (where your search can be a hashtag). I don't use the default Twitter client, but Twitterrific gives the appearance of "following" a saved search.
That's a huge non sequitur. San Francisco has a problem with expensive housing because there's not enough housing to meet demand. San Francisco doesn't have enough housing because (a) no room to expand, (b) pervasive NIMBY-ism, and (c) a horrible building permit process. The light rail system (part of Muni) has nothing to do with any of that.
The Metro (the underground portion of the light rail system) is bad because 5 lines are squeezed down to one track each direction under Market Street. The surface portion doesn't have dedicated rights-of-way (mostly) which means lights, traffic, bicyclists, and pedestrians all slow the trains down.
What Muni really needs to do is bore more tunnels, but that's ridiculously expensive and suffers from similar NIMBY-ism (witness the over-budget and very late Central Subway project).
My "live in the woods" comment was in reference to the ORIGINAL case of choosing to remain unvaccinated.
Stealing US Postal mail, unlike stealing non-USPS packages, is a felony prosecuted by the feds. FYI.
So either get vaccinated and get fined very single day (because you're a menace to society every time you go out in public), or go live in the woods isolated from everyone else who is rationale. Your choice.
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No. It's right there in the summary (emphasis mine):
There's a difference between Amazon recording you for the purpose of Alexa (a computer program) listening to those recordings and employees (humans) listening to those recordings --- the latter is not disclosed.
It's the same as all fines. It's supposed to act as a motivator to comply with the law. Personally, I think it should be $1000 per person per day until you get yourself and your kids vaccinated. Society really doesn't have time for stupid people when it comes to health.
You realize that Go is the language that "Google is pushing today," right? Go was developed by Rob Pike, Ken Thompson, et al, at Google.
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How about it? Nobody is saying that social media platforms play the sole role in spreading hate speech. But right now, we're talking only about their role.
Censorship seems to be working well enough for the Chinese. Until YouTube has their own secret police that have unfettered power, what they're doing really isn't the same thing.
Because some people do this kind of thing for fun; some do it on a dare; some might get a kick out of the irony of stealing a security camera; some just don't like that you have something they don't. This is why we can't have nice things.
So? The alternative is prison. Pro tip: if you don't want to be either indentured or imprisoned, don't hack into other people computers.
So it would be OK to break into your house and rummage around while you're not there so long as I didn't actually take anything or harm anyone?
Science is a method. You're conflating science with technology. They're not the same thing. And very few who understand the scientific method worship it blindly as a god in the same way as the religious worship their gods.
See how ridiculous that sounds?
Obviously, this varies widely by employer. Better companies like to hire smart people knowing theyâ(TM)ll fairly easily be able to pick up whatever language is being used.
This also varies widely by university. At places like MIT, CMU, Stanford, Berkeley, CalTech, etc., companies want to hire anyone since they were obviously smart enough to get into those places in the first place.
Of course they are. They don't want to be charged extra by ISPs. If the ISPs supported it, then I'd be skeptical.
If you're teaching programming, use a language like Scheme. You can teach the entire syntax in 5 minutes or less. Then you can get to actually teaching programming.
A university is not a vocational school. It's not your job to teach what's popular.
Can you give links to any computer monitors that have a comparable price to otherwise comparable-sized smart TVs? (AFAIK, size-comparable monitors are way more expensive than their smart TV counterparts.)
Suburban areas of the Bay Area are virtually as expensive. Commuting from rural areas would take longer than an hour. Many people who both live and work in the Bay Area commute an hour already.
Given their current stock price and that they were the first trillion dollar company, apparently they get it just fine and are content with allegedly not providing technology for the masses.
It would be as if the original poster had said that he loves his country because they have free water fountains in parks where you can drink the water (or not) for free. While it's certainly true, it's also so common as not to need pointing out since lots of countries have free water fountains in parks. The only reason one would point it out is if one thought it either unique or rare.
He could have just as easily made his post country-agnostic by titling his post "I'm proud to live in my country" [where there exists freedom of speech] -- if that were his intent, but it clearly wasn't since he explicitly mentioned "American."
I'll leave you with this which is what the original post immediately brought to mind.
If you actually bothered to learn anything about other countries, freedom of speech isn't unique to the US.