For the same reason you don't bad mouth your old boss in a job interview
I think it depends a lot on the particular corporate subculture. I've lived in some areas where being upfront to the point of being outspoken is seen as a virtue. If a guy knows someone else is an asshole, and hears attempts to not call the guy out on being an asshole, it'll reflect badly on him in that situation. And at the same time, I've seen the exact opposite in other areas where it matches up 100% to what you're describing. I don't think you can really give advice other than "know the culture of your geographic area and profession".
Depends on what your particular interest is. Most of the default reddits are crap. Most of the default subreddits also have similar subreddits made that aren't defaults in order to avoid the front page floods./r/truegaming instead of/r/gaming for example.
> It used to be that an article required hundreds of votes to make the front page
I mostly agree. But one has to consider the whole power user thing as well. There were a number of people who used a variety of means to artificially inflate votes on stories they submitted. The main reason it would take so many people to get something to the front page was that people gaming the system were forcing those numbers. Just getting rid of the power users probably reduced the numbers instantly into a state more reflective of the actual user base.
I was a digg user from a little bit after that time as well. It makes it very clear just how little most of the people commenting on this story know about it. Digg's been a vastly changing culture and platform over the years. It went from "meh" to ok to good and then a slow slide to kinda shitty before Rose totally stabbed the remaining users in the back. Looking at digg now is like going to detroit now and thinking you can judge its past by the current rubble and ruin.
The telltale games really are shockingly good. While the gaming aspect isn't that great, it's a fantastic storytelling medium. That sounds closer to a complaint than praise, which is why it took me a while to give it a chance. But I'm really glad I did. They tried something different, and it really paid off. While this fps sounds like a tired retread of a million other games.
I can't see one clearing the table, feeding the dishwasher then taking the clean dishes and putting them away in exactly the way I like them to be stored
I could. We're at a place now where someone could put something like that together, eventually, with enough time and money. I think the biggest problem that it'd only be able to do it in your home, how you like it, and would break if you made too many changes to the environment it's working within. I think the most significant problem is that while all that's doable, it's not doable unless one can program the robot and has the free time to do so for every applicable situation. Well, that and the cash for the hardware.
Why do people always assume an intelligent sentient robot would have the same desires as a human?
I suspect it has a lot to do with how both religion and evolution are taught in many western cultures. In particular within the US there's a strong push for the idea of a straight path to humanity as a climb to perfection. Far too many schools teach evolution as something more akin to intelligent design. With a steady progress from "low" to "high(humans). And of course there's the religions which push the idea of man as the culmination of earthly things akin to god in terms of having free will and intelligence. Even a giant amount of scifi, especially on tv or in the movies, deals with the famous trek "forehead aliens". Which show that all beings, even if they're nearly godlike things such as Q, will have the same general wants and desires as humans. At the heart of all of them is a concept that there's only one path of intelligence and motivation. Any other intelligence would have to be on that same path we're treading as a result.
I think it's just a concept that's threaded in a million different ways into our culture. And like most cultural things like that, it's hardly ever noticed without having it pointed out.
I'd agree that most could. However, I think that it's dependent on education, experience, and location. In particular, it's very easy to do in an area without much competition and large demand. Larger cities, however, are another matter. There one has to compete with people who "want" full time work but can't find it, and an environment where a four year degree doesn't really pack that much of a punch.
The appeal of fark ended when they started shadowbanning people for even mentioning competing sites, while still continuing to take their money if they were paid subscribers. The best way to get people to stop caring about a site is to treat the users like shit.
In general, it should be a default position to never accept anything based on a single study. Being able to reproduce results is one of the cornerstones of proper science. There's always room for unseen elements within a single study that are factored out by further research.
It's one of the things I find most amusing about people's expectations with space. But when you think about it, they unintentionally prove their own point about how important it is to get up there. It's part of no longer thinking of humanity in terms of "us" being where some rich guy in a big building says "we" end and the other begins.
I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic, but these are of immense historical importance. Often times the big historical events are only seen as such in retrospect. So people's reactions to them tend to be heavily based on conjecture and memory rather than solid data. Say what you want about twitter, but it serves as a minute by minute log of the emotional state of people within seconds of anything happening. And yes, there is some selection bias going on in that it's only data from the kind of person who uses twitter. But that's still a million times better than the couple articles by newspaper writers looking for a story, and who'd probably not be interviewing the common man on the street for what seemed like a blurb at the time. The short answer though is that it's not for you and me. It's for the generations not yet born.
I used to do it all the time, and none of the companies I was with ever showed evidence of it aside from the rare person who just wasn't very good speaking in any situation. I'm going with the sentiment that it's mostly about the people running the meeting, and not the nature of it.
Similar situation here, except it's $15. Too much for me to justify being lazy about it. Though it's more annoying for the fact that it's the only thing I use checks for at this point. I could just be done with them otherwise.
It would not do to imply that an all-powerful, all-knowing being needs not play with their creation like an ADD toddler playing with their ant farm.
I totally agree. Though given all the evidence of darwinian evolution that's one of the reasons I became an atheist. I'd agree that it's an either/or situation. It's just that the deity theory has no evidence while the atheist one has tons.
Why get angry? If you're seeing anger it's just you reading emotion into it. People raise prices, people comment on that fact. You seem to be aiming for a world where nobody is ever allowed to voice opinion on anything or comment on their actions in relation to what's going on in the world.
Services change. It's not like it was way back in the day when everything was self contained. Now there's a large amount of features on a phone which are basically "full support for accessing service Z". And then the service changes, adds more features, and suddenly your full support for the platform has changed to only being able to access a subset of it. This shouldn't need a full operating system update to do. However, it's often the case that it does.
Upgrade the battery. I have an incredible as well, and can't believe they actually thought the battery life was acceptable. I bought a huge battery for it that came with a new back cover to handle the increased size. It gets three times the life of the default battery, which finally got it to the point of me not having to really think about charging it.
You get a slice of the pie by being born into it. Yes, people can make it there by hard work and a lot of luck. But people make it into there by winning the lottery as well. Doesn't mean it's someone anyone should place actual hope on. The real world situation is that most people can rise up one rung on the socio-economic scale in their lifetime from hard work. And that's about it. As for getting up after a fall, it's easier said than done after a while. The kind of effort needed to make any real advance is a young person's game. Family, diminishing health, and a brain that's quickly becoming more and more incapable of making new connections are just a few out of many things which make an already minuscule chance even more so as one gets older.
It always amazes me that more people don't realize this. When people ask themselves what they'd do if they won the lottery and found themselves with a mountain of cash, the answer is seldom "I'd go sit behind a desk every day in an suit while dealing with a never ending stream of office politics!" Yet they somehow think that people at the very top of the financial world are doing exactly that. To be fair, some do. More just try to project that image as PR. But the vast majority are dressing for comfort and leisure. They don't want people bothering them, they want to just blend and relax in a life of leisure.
Mostly it's just depressing. It could have been a movement based on two big solutions. Stop voting for democrats and republicans, two political parties which have shown themselves to be corrupt beyond redemption. And try to get your money out of the banks and into credit unions. It's two little things that would make huge changes if people were just more aware of their importance. Instead, it's just protests with a lot of ranting and no way to actually change anything. The whole thing is just wasted opportunity.
Wow. I really, really, like the idea that deities essentially breed human devotion in order to eat the totality of their being after death. It reminds me a bit of the idea some cult had that there's a machine on the moon whose function is to suck in the souls of the dead for destruction unless one knows the secret magic words to escape it.
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For the same reason you don't bad mouth your old boss in a job interview
I think it depends a lot on the particular corporate subculture. I've lived in some areas where being upfront to the point of being outspoken is seen as a virtue. If a guy knows someone else is an asshole, and hears attempts to not call the guy out on being an asshole, it'll reflect badly on him in that situation. And at the same time, I've seen the exact opposite in other areas where it matches up 100% to what you're describing. I don't think you can really give advice other than "know the culture of your geographic area and profession".
Depends on what your particular interest is. Most of the default reddits are crap. Most of the default subreddits also have similar subreddits made that aren't defaults in order to avoid the front page floods. /r/truegaming instead of /r/gaming for example.
> It used to be that an article required hundreds of votes to make the front page I mostly agree. But one has to consider the whole power user thing as well. There were a number of people who used a variety of means to artificially inflate votes on stories they submitted. The main reason it would take so many people to get something to the front page was that people gaming the system were forcing those numbers. Just getting rid of the power users probably reduced the numbers instantly into a state more reflective of the actual user base.
I was a digg user from a little bit after that time as well. It makes it very clear just how little most of the people commenting on this story know about it. Digg's been a vastly changing culture and platform over the years. It went from "meh" to ok to good and then a slow slide to kinda shitty before Rose totally stabbed the remaining users in the back. Looking at digg now is like going to detroit now and thinking you can judge its past by the current rubble and ruin.
The telltale games really are shockingly good. While the gaming aspect isn't that great, it's a fantastic storytelling medium. That sounds closer to a complaint than praise, which is why it took me a while to give it a chance. But I'm really glad I did. They tried something different, and it really paid off. While this fps sounds like a tired retread of a million other games.
I can't see one clearing the table, feeding the dishwasher then taking the clean dishes and putting them away in exactly the way I like them to be stored
I could. We're at a place now where someone could put something like that together, eventually, with enough time and money. I think the biggest problem that it'd only be able to do it in your home, how you like it, and would break if you made too many changes to the environment it's working within. I think the most significant problem is that while all that's doable, it's not doable unless one can program the robot and has the free time to do so for every applicable situation. Well, that and the cash for the hardware.
Why do people always assume an intelligent sentient robot would have the same desires as a human?
I suspect it has a lot to do with how both religion and evolution are taught in many western cultures. In particular within the US there's a strong push for the idea of a straight path to humanity as a climb to perfection. Far too many schools teach evolution as something more akin to intelligent design. With a steady progress from "low" to "high(humans). And of course there's the religions which push the idea of man as the culmination of earthly things akin to god in terms of having free will and intelligence. Even a giant amount of scifi, especially on tv or in the movies, deals with the famous trek "forehead aliens". Which show that all beings, even if they're nearly godlike things such as Q, will have the same general wants and desires as humans. At the heart of all of them is a concept that there's only one path of intelligence and motivation. Any other intelligence would have to be on that same path we're treading as a result.
I think it's just a concept that's threaded in a million different ways into our culture. And like most cultural things like that, it's hardly ever noticed without having it pointed out.
I'd agree that most could. However, I think that it's dependent on education, experience, and location. In particular, it's very easy to do in an area without much competition and large demand. Larger cities, however, are another matter. There one has to compete with people who "want" full time work but can't find it, and an environment where a four year degree doesn't really pack that much of a punch.
The appeal of fark ended when they started shadowbanning people for even mentioning competing sites, while still continuing to take their money if they were paid subscribers. The best way to get people to stop caring about a site is to treat the users like shit.
What does this PC do?
Ensure most people make their purchases through apple.
In general, it should be a default position to never accept anything based on a single study. Being able to reproduce results is one of the cornerstones of proper science. There's always room for unseen elements within a single study that are factored out by further research.
It's one of the things I find most amusing about people's expectations with space. But when you think about it, they unintentionally prove their own point about how important it is to get up there. It's part of no longer thinking of humanity in terms of "us" being where some rich guy in a big building says "we" end and the other begins.
I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic, but these are of immense historical importance. Often times the big historical events are only seen as such in retrospect. So people's reactions to them tend to be heavily based on conjecture and memory rather than solid data. Say what you want about twitter, but it serves as a minute by minute log of the emotional state of people within seconds of anything happening. And yes, there is some selection bias going on in that it's only data from the kind of person who uses twitter. But that's still a million times better than the couple articles by newspaper writers looking for a story, and who'd probably not be interviewing the common man on the street for what seemed like a blurb at the time. The short answer though is that it's not for you and me. It's for the generations not yet born.
tl;dr: Slippery slope fallacy.
I used to live in montana about six years ago. It was old news even then.
I used to do it all the time, and none of the companies I was with ever showed evidence of it aside from the rare person who just wasn't very good speaking in any situation. I'm going with the sentiment that it's mostly about the people running the meeting, and not the nature of it.
Similar situation here, except it's $15. Too much for me to justify being lazy about it. Though it's more annoying for the fact that it's the only thing I use checks for at this point. I could just be done with them otherwise.
It would not do to imply that an all-powerful, all-knowing being needs not play with their creation like an ADD toddler playing with their ant farm.
I totally agree. Though given all the evidence of darwinian evolution that's one of the reasons I became an atheist. I'd agree that it's an either/or situation. It's just that the deity theory has no evidence while the atheist one has tons.
Why get angry? If you're seeing anger it's just you reading emotion into it. People raise prices, people comment on that fact. You seem to be aiming for a world where nobody is ever allowed to voice opinion on anything or comment on their actions in relation to what's going on in the world.
Services change. It's not like it was way back in the day when everything was self contained. Now there's a large amount of features on a phone which are basically "full support for accessing service Z". And then the service changes, adds more features, and suddenly your full support for the platform has changed to only being able to access a subset of it. This shouldn't need a full operating system update to do. However, it's often the case that it does.
Upgrade the battery. I have an incredible as well, and can't believe they actually thought the battery life was acceptable. I bought a huge battery for it that came with a new back cover to handle the increased size. It gets three times the life of the default battery, which finally got it to the point of me not having to really think about charging it.
You get a slice of the pie by being born into it. Yes, people can make it there by hard work and a lot of luck. But people make it into there by winning the lottery as well. Doesn't mean it's someone anyone should place actual hope on. The real world situation is that most people can rise up one rung on the socio-economic scale in their lifetime from hard work. And that's about it. As for getting up after a fall, it's easier said than done after a while. The kind of effort needed to make any real advance is a young person's game. Family, diminishing health, and a brain that's quickly becoming more and more incapable of making new connections are just a few out of many things which make an already minuscule chance even more so as one gets older.
It always amazes me that more people don't realize this. When people ask themselves what they'd do if they won the lottery and found themselves with a mountain of cash, the answer is seldom "I'd go sit behind a desk every day in an suit while dealing with a never ending stream of office politics!" Yet they somehow think that people at the very top of the financial world are doing exactly that. To be fair, some do. More just try to project that image as PR. But the vast majority are dressing for comfort and leisure. They don't want people bothering them, they want to just blend and relax in a life of leisure.
Mostly it's just depressing. It could have been a movement based on two big solutions. Stop voting for democrats and republicans, two political parties which have shown themselves to be corrupt beyond redemption. And try to get your money out of the banks and into credit unions. It's two little things that would make huge changes if people were just more aware of their importance. Instead, it's just protests with a lot of ranting and no way to actually change anything. The whole thing is just wasted opportunity.
Wow. I really, really, like the idea that deities essentially breed human devotion in order to eat the totality of their being after death. It reminds me a bit of the idea some cult had that there's a machine on the moon whose function is to suck in the souls of the dead for destruction unless one knows the secret magic words to escape it.