Still biased. Your list is avoiding violence and crimes from the higher classes.
Err...exactly how is that?
Are you saying that in higher classes, if they find dead bodies, they don't investigate and don't find and try to convict people of murder?
I would posit higher class violence crimes would be taken into consideration just like lower class violent crimes. I would guess, however, you'd see less of it in higher classes, but that's just purely my observation.
Now try getting a job without uploading some PDF document to some website along with your email address, LinkedIn details, and right for people to pry into your life.
Hmm....I've yet to, in my entire professional life ever have had to be on "linkedin" or upload some PDF to a website in order to get a job.....?
(I'm not on any social media, hasn't been a problem to date.)
Lager should really be pressurised with nitrogen rather than carbon dioxide.
Being that CO2 is the natural byproduct, and can (if allowed) will naturally carbonate beer....why would you want to use nitrogen to dispense it rather than CO2?
The only beer I know of that uses nitrogen regularly to dispense is Guinness....which I believe is an ale, not a lager (different yeast used for each is the distinction).
I'm saying.."What IF"...the AI as it goes along, does on its own "see" that a particular race *does* statistically present a greater threat to general public.
With todays sensitivity towards political correctness, prove to be unacceptable, EVEN if the AI is looked at and shown to be un-biased and just comes with this on observation.
I"m guessing they'll be using parameters like sex....if that is the case, why not race?
Is there really a legitimate reason, if the play field starts 100% fair and observation points to race being a factor observed...that is shouldn't be considered in the decision making process for "risk" of re-offense in this case?
They didn't need a special horse permit? No special government worksite inspections? No mandatory ASPCA representation on site to prevent abuse? No need to submit a permit change or get government waivers? Didn't the farmer have to get a specific number of hours of training, pass a certification test, and join the union?
Indeed, this looks troubling, but have no fear....
"Hello, I'm from the government, and I'm here to help you!!"
I think YouTube is the only thing I would miss as well. I was never one for drama or entertainment but YouTube is an amazing resource of educational videos. Sure, I used to watch those on PBS but I really enjoy some educational YouTube throughout the day.
I agree, I really do use YT as one of my primary sources of how to learn something new.
It was a fun thing before Google bought them....and with Google's attempts at making everyone on YT a Google+ or whatever they are doing now member...they have actually made it worse in some respects.
My YouTube account is old enough to pre-date the Google buy. I've refused to join G+ when they wanted that, and to this day, while I have my account and can post videos, I cannot comment on even my own videos, much less others.
I live with it.
I read what hoops I would have to do to enable my posting ability again, and it just seemed too complex and I read it might actually, if done incorrectly, cause my account to be disabled or even dropped....
You're assuming the data is unbiased - one of the known issues with systems like this is that biased policing can lead to datasets that don't reflect reality. A common example is how every other piece of data we have suggests that all racial and economic groups use illegal drugs at similar levels, but when you feed drug arrest records into predictive systems, they tell you lower income minority neighborhoods should be targeted. Which, logically, results in an even higher rate of arrest in those neighborhoods, but means there's even fewer police resources looking at other areas, potentially depressing arrests. And when you feed THAT data back in, it reinforces the same patterns.
Ok, then don't use it for victimless crimes.
I don't care who uses what drug....if they wanna kill themselves, that's their option.
But hard to bias against who is committing the most gun violence, home invasions, rapes, violent crimes that actually impact those of us in regular society.
I think its pretty hard to bias those....so, why not let the results fall where they may, whatever they may be.
You know...I lived a good portion of my life before any of these companies existed.
Ok, I guess I heard of Apple in my teens, but they weren't the behemoth they are now and didn't have that much influence on society.
But seriously, I grew up in a city, with a family, friends, and normal life....without any of these companies and I can tell you, I never felt back then my life was lacking in any form.
Today?
Well, I do appreciate and use the resources of many of these companies...but I do find that some of them also creep me out with the data mining and surveillance they have on my and everyones' lives.
I find that FB and other social media, while being helpful in so many ways, is also seeming to increase the divisiveness in society, especially in the US. I know there are underlying problems, but I think FB and other social media are compounding these problems.
Google has some great stuff, but I very much dislike their data gathering on me, my life and preferences.
So, I could (and have) lived without any of these companies.....and did just fine.
I don't use FB, never have...so, no loss there. I could probably get by without Google, but the one thing I'd miss is YouTube.
I do use Amazon a lot, it's my primary purchase destination, but ever since they started collecting tax a couple months ago on their direct sales to my state, I've been using them less. If they clamp down on the 3rd party sellers on Amazon and make THEM also start collecting tax, I'll likely drop using them as often. Might as well buy local at that point.
So, I guess my answer to the question is "Meh"....I've lived without them before and life was just fine.
If the AI starts to evaluate, based SOLEY on data, that a particular racial group *does* tend to re-offend more often and is hence a higher risk....do we as the public start to believe it, or do we say that AI, even though purely scientific and logic based, is not Politically Correct and must have some artificial weights put into the algorithm to keep it from finding that some racial or economic strata of folks are more high risk and should be kept in jail?
What workaround did you have in mind that doesn't require a cyclist to spend upwards of 1000 USD per year on automobile acquisition, maintenance, parking, fuel, and insurance, nor to move his family to a different city with a more practical public transit schedule?
If you're in the US, face it, you live in a car centric society.....we're not all going to bend just of you (an insignificant minority).
If you can't afford to buy even a cheap used car, I'm having a problem knowing how you can afford to have a family with kids in the first place?
But if you don't want to have a car...Uber it.
Keep the bicycle for off road and exercise, but you're basically running russian roulette on a road with fast moving traffic that can't often hear or see you.
Even a motorcycle is safer than a bike...they can move faster if they have to to get out of the way, and you can keep loud pipes on them so cages can have a least a chance of hearing you around them.
I like to ride a bicycle too, but I avoid roads, especially highly trafficked ones when at all possible. I ride in places that are safe for bikes.
If yes to one or both of those, you are doing fine. You have to get use to the fact that no one out there has the time nor is interested in validating you and your self esteem. That's for young snowflakes...is the real big, bad world...no one really cares.
If you are fucking up, they'll let you know. If you really need feed back...GO ASK someone about your work and what they might suggest.
It is NOT their job to go out of their way and give you positive feedback.
Goodness...this is another side effect, I fear, of the snowflake generation that was overly coddled, and helicoptered over and validated at every step in their childhood lives.
The real world doesn't work that way...if you can't validate yourself, they you need to learn to. Surely if you got a higher level job, you are smart enough to learn to research on your own, network with your co-workers to ask them questions and even go to your boss (after you start with the other two levels) and figure it out for yourself.
If you're not getting yelled at or fired, you're doing just fine.
It seems one of the first things to do...is NOT just let anyone post live on FB (or the other platforms) as a default capability.
Have people apply for doing live video...maybe make them send in some samples to be judged first...that way no one could do it on a whim.
Another idea, if you get live stream privs, why not have noobs have 30 second or a min or two delay...? That way folks could maybe monitor them and cut them before they hit the air.
Hell, even Richard Pryor on SNL years back was on like a 3-5 second delay. Why not the common person trying to post on FB?
I'm just thinking ways to screen at the beginning to keep people from posting horrible things like this and trying to get "famous" on FB by killing someone live, etc.
Screen before you give these privileges and you just might save a life....
I just run VMWare for the few times I need Windows apps in my personal life. Right now I have a Win7 VM that gets fired up ever so often, but that's about it.
I consider the user interface to be the single most important part of functionality, so the fact that they prioritize UX is not "image" in my opinion.
I like the UI too.
I also like the fact that there is something akin to old BSD Unix under the hood that I can get to by opening a command prompt.
I also like that it comes PACKED with productive software that you don't have to buy extra, their "Office" utilities (pages, keynote, numbers). They have a decent basic sound platform you can do a lot with (Garage Band)....
And for only a few dollars, you can get top of the line video software, FCPX (it comes with a free equivalent too that is less functional). The only choice for Windows is really Premier that you have to now *rent* from adobe.
So, those parts appeal to me.
Now, granted, I've not touched any windows newer than Win 7, and that's a work computer....Win10 may be better at this, but I find less hangs, less problems and reboots needed on OS X than on my Win 7 counterpart.
At my home office...I use computers with OS X and some Linux boxes to do the majority of my work, creative stuff, server needs, etc.
For my "day" job I contract with, they give me a Win7 computer and that's what I use for that, even though with it I"m ssh'ing into Linux servers 99.9999% of the day for most of my work.
I've only gotten a couple of macs over the years, but they do seem to last and last and last. I'm only now looking to need to upgrade my last one which was a MBP. I'm looking to see what the "pro" version of the iMac 5K will look like or maybe what the new Mac Pro looks like.
Even with that, I may....look hard into building my own PC, but putting linux on it and dedicate it as a Davinci Resolve machine. I need to soup up some hardware and see if I can move not only my video color correction to it, but also use it in a meaningful way to edit video all in one package.
Who knows...my basic philosophy is " the best tool for the job". I just find less and less that Windows is at the top of the lest of best tool for most jobs "I" do...
Has there EVER been a politician born that attained office that didn't thing of EVERYTHING they saw as a taxable opportunity???
Is there none of them, that come from the regular people pool that know we pay too much already, and could better keep and spend our own money rather than find some new, creative way to give to the a bloated bureaucracy and hope they can spend it better than we that earned it can?!?!?!
Interestingly for all the downsides the actual lifestyle doesn't exclude any of those.
- No land or yard of my own is a major benefit. The local park is kept meticulous by the council and is much bigger than the yard in my house in suburbia (currently rented out while I live in the city).
- Sharing walls with neighbours isn't an issue. The only sound that ever comes through is when someone needs to core drill the wall. I've heard that once in the past year. I had more problems in the suburb with noisy neighbours having backyard parties.
- I have friends over for a BBQ all the time. Actually when the sun is out the park is full of people cooking up huge feasts for their friends and families, and when it's cold miserable and raining, well the BBQ turns into an oven roast and they all still come over.
Hmm...so, is this park you have, like right across the street from you? How far do you have to haul everything over? What do you do for a grill, haul one of those over too? I have a nice Big Green Egg ceramic grill, and it really isn't terribly portable, but it IS fantastic, I can even cook low and slow on it, fill it with lump charcoal and some wood and it can cook 220F or so overnight. If you're wanting to BBQ and not just "grill"...where do you keep your smoker and firewood stack(s)? You leave that at the park, or do you haul all those over too? Gas grill?
How many friends do you have at your parties...?
And..if you do have it at the park, how far in advance do you have to make reservations? Do you have to pay for that? Can you decide on a whim you want to grill out, or this time of year where I live...have a crawfish boil, and have your spot in the park there for you by the afternoon on a morning you decide to have a wingding?
Sure it can be done, but doesn't sound convenient and you are likely dependent on what every cooking devices the city installs and maintains, and from the parks I"ve seen in my life, those aren't really choice utilities, not easy to get good, consistent results on...
Sharing walls. You must live in some very solid apartments. When I've lived in apts...the walls were usually thin enough to hear people sneeze loudly, much less act as any meaningful barrier to my stereo system. I paid good money for great sound and I don't want to waste it. My sub alone during movie nights shakes the ground....not good for wall attached neighbors.
But again, it is whatever suits you, but I fear your definition of "bbq", and parties differs greatly than mine and what most of my friends and neighbors are here where I live.
I won't even get into where you park your boat...?
Hmm....this sounds to me like yet another reason not to want to live in a dense, urban setting where you have no land or yard of your own, are sharing walls with neighbors and can't even have a nice backyard/patio to have friends over for a BBQ or crawfish boil.
I know it suits some, but man...I'd not like to live that crowded.
I like not having a problem getting things delivered to me.
Most employment agreements are such that the company owns it even if it is outside of normal hours. So inventions you come up with on your own time are not yours.
I've seen this on some W2 and 1099 contracts...and I simple line them out saying that what I do outside hours on MY time is my business and my intellectual property.
They usually agree easily as long as you're not in direct competition with them.
Most all of those agreements are boilerplate they got from their lawyers to try to cover everything, but most I find are amendable to reasonable changes like this.....
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Err...exactly how is that?
Are you saying that in higher classes, if they find dead bodies, they don't investigate and don't find and try to convict people of murder?
I would posit higher class violence crimes would be taken into consideration just like lower class violent crimes. I would guess, however, you'd see less of it in higher classes, but that's just purely my observation.
Hmm....I've yet to, in my entire professional life ever have had to be on "linkedin" or upload some PDF to a website in order to get a job.....?
(I'm not on any social media, hasn't been a problem to date.)
Being that CO2 is the natural byproduct, and can (if allowed) will naturally carbonate beer....why would you want to use nitrogen to dispense it rather than CO2?
The only beer I know of that uses nitrogen regularly to dispense is Guinness....which I believe is an ale, not a lager (different yeast used for each is the distinction).
With todays sensitivity towards political correctness, prove to be unacceptable, EVEN if the AI is looked at and shown to be un-biased and just comes with this on observation.
I"m guessing they'll be using parameters like sex....if that is the case, why not race?
Is there really a legitimate reason, if the play field starts 100% fair and observation points to race being a factor observed...that is shouldn't be considered in the decision making process for "risk" of re-offense in this case?
What is the archival quality/life expectancy of these new prints compared to the best archival printing we currently have?
Unless you're wanting to print "snapchat" type stuff that only lasts a short period, this is an important quality.
Indeed, this looks troubling, but have no fear....
"Hello, I'm from the government, and I'm here to help you!!"
Read the article? You must be new here...
But what is a "draft" horse?
I agree, I really do use YT as one of my primary sources of how to learn something new.
It was a fun thing before Google bought them....and with Google's attempts at making everyone on YT a Google+ or whatever they are doing now member...they have actually made it worse in some respects.
My YouTube account is old enough to pre-date the Google buy. I've refused to join G+ when they wanted that, and to this day, while I have my account and can post videos, I cannot comment on even my own videos, much less others.
I live with it.
I read what hoops I would have to do to enable my posting ability again, and it just seemed too complex and I read it might actually, if done incorrectly, cause my account to be disabled or even dropped....
So, I live without comments on there.
Ok, then don't use it for victimless crimes.
I don't care who uses what drug....if they wanna kill themselves, that's their option.
But hard to bias against who is committing the most gun violence, home invasions, rapes, violent crimes that actually impact those of us in regular society.
I think its pretty hard to bias those....so, why not let the results fall where they may, whatever they may be.
I have NO idea what this means.
Anyone with a translation?
Ok, I guess I heard of Apple in my teens, but they weren't the behemoth they are now and didn't have that much influence on society.
But seriously, I grew up in a city, with a family, friends, and normal life....without any of these companies and I can tell you, I never felt back then my life was lacking in any form.
Today?
Well, I do appreciate and use the resources of many of these companies...but I do find that some of them also creep me out with the data mining and surveillance they have on my and everyones' lives.
I find that FB and other social media, while being helpful in so many ways, is also seeming to increase the divisiveness in society, especially in the US. I know there are underlying problems, but I think FB and other social media are compounding these problems.
Google has some great stuff, but I very much dislike their data gathering on me, my life and preferences.
So, I could (and have) lived without any of these companies.....and did just fine.
I don't use FB, never have...so, no loss there. I could probably get by without Google, but the one thing I'd miss is YouTube.
I do use Amazon a lot, it's my primary purchase destination, but ever since they started collecting tax a couple months ago on their direct sales to my state, I've been using them less. If they clamp down on the 3rd party sellers on Amazon and make THEM also start collecting tax, I'll likely drop using them as often. Might as well buy local at that point.
So, I guess my answer to the question is "Meh"....I've lived without them before and life was just fine.
If the AI starts to evaluate, based SOLEY on data, that a particular racial group *does* tend to re-offend more often and is hence a higher risk....do we as the public start to believe it, or do we say that AI, even though purely scientific and logic based, is not Politically Correct and must have some artificial weights put into the algorithm to keep it from finding that some racial or economic strata of folks are more high risk and should be kept in jail?
If you're in the US, face it, you live in a car centric society.....we're not all going to bend just of you (an insignificant minority).
If you can't afford to buy even a cheap used car, I'm having a problem knowing how you can afford to have a family with kids in the first place?
But if you don't want to have a car...Uber it.
Keep the bicycle for off road and exercise, but you're basically running russian roulette on a road with fast moving traffic that can't often hear or see you.
Even a motorcycle is safer than a bike...they can move faster if they have to to get out of the way, and you can keep loud pipes on them so cages can have a least a chance of hearing you around them.
I like to ride a bicycle too, but I avoid roads, especially highly trafficked ones when at all possible. I ride in places that are safe for bikes.
Cars and bikes just are not a smart mix.
There, fixed that for you...
Are you getting paid?
Are you getting raises and/or promotions?
If yes to one or both of those, you are doing fine. You have to get use to the fact that no one out there has the time nor is interested in validating you and your self esteem. That's for young snowflakes...is the real big, bad world...no one really cares.
If you are fucking up, they'll let you know. If you really need feed back...GO ASK someone about your work and what they might suggest.
It is NOT their job to go out of their way and give you positive feedback.
Goodness...this is another side effect, I fear, of the snowflake generation that was overly coddled, and helicoptered over and validated at every step in their childhood lives.
The real world doesn't work that way...if you can't validate yourself, they you need to learn to. Surely if you got a higher level job, you are smart enough to learn to research on your own, network with your co-workers to ask them questions and even go to your boss (after you start with the other two levels) and figure it out for yourself.
If you're not getting yelled at or fired, you're doing just fine.
Otherwise you'll find out rather quickly.
Sheesh...this used to be common sense.
Have people apply for doing live video...maybe make them send in some samples to be judged first...that way no one could do it on a whim.
Another idea, if you get live stream privs, why not have noobs have 30 second or a min or two delay...? That way folks could maybe monitor them and cut them before they hit the air.
Hell, even Richard Pryor on SNL years back was on like a 3-5 second delay. Why not the common person trying to post on FB?
I'm just thinking ways to screen at the beginning to keep people from posting horrible things like this and trying to get "famous" on FB by killing someone live, etc.
Screen before you give these privileges and you just might save a life....
I just run VMWare for the few times I need Windows apps in my personal life. Right now I have a Win7 VM that gets fired up ever so often, but that's about it.
I like the UI too.
I also like the fact that there is something akin to old BSD Unix under the hood that I can get to by opening a command prompt.
I also like that it comes PACKED with productive software that you don't have to buy extra, their "Office" utilities (pages, keynote, numbers). They have a decent basic sound platform you can do a lot with (Garage Band)....
And for only a few dollars, you can get top of the line video software, FCPX (it comes with a free equivalent too that is less functional). The only choice for Windows is really Premier that you have to now *rent* from adobe.
So, those parts appeal to me.
Now, granted, I've not touched any windows newer than Win 7, and that's a work computer....Win10 may be better at this, but I find less hangs, less problems and reboots needed on OS X than on my Win 7 counterpart.
At my home office...I use computers with OS X and some Linux boxes to do the majority of my work, creative stuff, server needs, etc.
For my "day" job I contract with, they give me a Win7 computer and that's what I use for that, even though with it I"m ssh'ing into Linux servers 99.9999% of the day for most of my work.
I've only gotten a couple of macs over the years, but they do seem to last and last and last. I'm only now looking to need to upgrade my last one which was a MBP. I'm looking to see what the "pro" version of the iMac 5K will look like or maybe what the new Mac Pro looks like.
Even with that, I may....look hard into building my own PC, but putting linux on it and dedicate it as a Davinci Resolve machine. I need to soup up some hardware and see if I can move not only my video color correction to it, but also use it in a meaningful way to edit video all in one package.
Who knows...my basic philosophy is " the best tool for the job". I just find less and less that Windows is at the top of the lest of best tool for most jobs "I" do...
Is there none of them, that come from the regular people pool that know we pay too much already, and could better keep and spend our own money rather than find some new, creative way to give to the a bloated bureaucracy and hope they can spend it better than we that earned it can?!?!?!
Hmm...so, is this park you have, like right across the street from you? How far do you have to haul everything over? What do you do for a grill, haul one of those over too? I have a nice Big Green Egg ceramic grill, and it really isn't terribly portable, but it IS fantastic, I can even cook low and slow on it, fill it with lump charcoal and some wood and it can cook 220F or so overnight. If you're wanting to BBQ and not just "grill"...where do you keep your smoker and firewood stack(s)? You leave that at the park, or do you haul all those over too? Gas grill?
How many friends do you have at your parties...?
And..if you do have it at the park, how far in advance do you have to make reservations? Do you have to pay for that? Can you decide on a whim you want to grill out, or this time of year where I live...have a crawfish boil, and have your spot in the park there for you by the afternoon on a morning you decide to have a wingding?
Sure it can be done, but doesn't sound convenient and you are likely dependent on what every cooking devices the city installs and maintains, and from the parks I"ve seen in my life, those aren't really choice utilities, not easy to get good, consistent results on...
Sharing walls. You must live in some very solid apartments. When I've lived in apts...the walls were usually thin enough to hear people sneeze loudly, much less act as any meaningful barrier to my stereo system. I paid good money for great sound and I don't want to waste it. My sub alone during movie nights shakes the ground....not good for wall attached neighbors.
But again, it is whatever suits you, but I fear your definition of "bbq", and parties differs greatly than mine and what most of my friends and neighbors are here where I live.
I won't even get into where you park your boat...?
I know it suits some, but man...I'd not like to live that crowded.
I like not having a problem getting things delivered to me.
To each his own I guess.
Err...I don't get what you mean....?
They all seem pretty nice to me looks AND personality?
I've seen this on some W2 and 1099 contracts...and I simple line them out saying that what I do outside hours on MY time is my business and my intellectual property.
They usually agree easily as long as you're not in direct competition with them.
Most all of those agreements are boilerplate they got from their lawyers to try to cover everything, but most I find are amendable to reasonable changes like this.....
If you are creating new content, inventing a new gadget, etc....and you do it on company time, you may find that you DO NOT OWN what you have created.
Many if not most employment contracts/agreements have verbiage that states that anything you come up with on company time, belongs to the company.
They may not fire you, but they will now own it and you won't make any $$ on the side for it....