The internet is an enabler; it's an incredible amount of information at your finger tips. Almost by definition, it's supposed to be dangerous via providing the means by which people can become critical thinkers.....
If we're using neutral data as an input and the system comes to it's own conclusions...doesn't that say something about the data set? Shouldn't we try to understand why the algorithm came to that conclusion instead of immediately jumping to "check your privilege" ?
If your primary customer is someone who is trying to be frugal with their entertainment spending ( a premise that I don't feel is all that far fetched for youtube ), then raising your prices to make your benefits irrelevant seem particularly stupid.
No wonder "cord cutting" has plateaued. It's bone headed decisions like this. But I'll tell you something; the more you antagonize your customer base, the more they realize they don't need what you're selling.
Actually older demographics have more disposable income, not younger ones.
Kinda. The older demographics have more money, but they A) have more fiscal responsibilities ( such as families and retirement ) and B) Aren't as easy to manipulate.
Meanwhile, the younger crowd may have less money, but they have fewer obligations AND are more likely to make emotional decisions.
The intent isn't simply to get your ad in front of as many eyeballs as possible. Down that path lay madness. It's about getting your ad in front of as many eyeballs as possible that are attached to disposable income.
That's why the 18-34 demographic is so coveted; They're more likely to have the cash to burn AND they are more likely to make emotional decisions ( although how true that is anymore is the subject of debate )
A lot of assumptions going on there. I don't treat any of my employees poorly. My private opinions are just that; private. I'm the IT guy everyone goes to because I'm the only one who gets shit done ( suits or no ).
The problem is a large swath of minimum wage employees suck up an inordinate amount of time for stupid shit; constantly forgetting passwords, forgetting how to use the same software they've used for over a decade, complain their computer is broken when the monitors are powered off, ect...and every one of them blames me by proxy because I'm the computer guy.
Look, I'm happy for you; you get the sweet job of only supporting a small subset of competent people. Try working a real IT job, where you have to support folks top to bottom. Where you have to worry about things like PCI, HIPAA, sarbanes oxley ( often the ONLY one who's worried about it, against managers who want you to open the network to the world so they can "work from home" )...while ensuring you have the hardware/software necessary for the 24/7 uptime that's demanded and you have enough backup hardware so your employees can fill them up with their private image collections.
Any IT admin who has a positive opinion of their user base simply isn't doing their job.
You're missing a key phrase here; they're technological idiots. Some of the folks I work for are actually quite adept in other fields, and they're the ones that make my job worthwhile.
Mind you...everyone else, ya. They're pretty much wasted space. I figure I'm about 10 years away from automating them out of a job ( voice recognition is the biggest hurdle right now ). It'll be cheaper AND I'll get a better product.
windows 95 until windows 8 were all pretty much identical from a ux standpoint...
Uh...I don't think you're paying attention. Look at the login screen from 2000 to now, as just one small example. Start menu too. Control panel? Task bar?
And that's not even getting into how radical office design changes between versions.
We all know it's true; when it comes to technology, most employees are idiots. Management too.
I want to blame the technology companies a bit here; UX design is the root cause of a lot of these problems. It's bad enough on it's own, but companies like MS continually make radical UX changes between versions making it even worse.
Back to employees, however; a lot of them don't see the need to increase their skillset. They grudgingly use the technology, but refuse to becoming proficient with it. They adamantly refuse to accept that were they more knowledgeable with the tech they were using they'd do their jobs better.
I never understood this. Under normal circumstances it's quite difficult to make something internet accessible. Most firewalls, both corporate and consumer, by default use NAT with no forwarding, so under those conditions you'd have to go out of your way to make this happen ( ironic, given that if you have the knowledge necessary to do so, you know what not to do as well ).
The only thing I can think of is that this is an org with a huge block of public IPs that are managed poorly, but I would expect this to be an edge case and not a part of all these risk vectors ( cameras, printers, workstations and now, apparently, disk systems ).
Actually, I was shitposting. Anyway, I'm not quite sure you know what an ad hominem is; I didn't make any negative remark against the OP. Point of fact, I partially agree with him.
After all these years with conflicting nutrition advice, I've come to the conclusion that we have no idea what we're talking about when it comes to the human body. Sure; we're pretty sure about the big things, but the details still throw us.
Avoid the processed crap, get some exercise...that's pretty much the best you can do.
What a load of horseshit. In all my years, I have never come across a situation where I couldn't prove my worth to an employer or client through hard work.
I'm not particularly intelligent. I'm not good looking, nor am I all that charismatic. What I am is persistent, and I have an understanding of what it takes to succeed ( it may sound cliche, but "never give up" ).
Oh, I've had set backs because of nepotism. Idiot managers and bosses surely have gotten in my way. I don't let that slow me down, however; I keep pushing through it.
Meritocracy isn't perfect, but it works when you do that one thing; don't give up. What more could you ask for?
In my world, intelligence means skepticism. Always checking your information, always checking your biases. Recognizing your own failings as semi-mobile meat-suit.
Being right hardly has anything to do with it. More like "being right eventually". The process is how I define intelligence, not the end result. The end result is almost irrelevant, or a foregone conclusion, as long as the process is coherent.
I get pissed enough to respond to many of these idiots too (are they idiots? Or just trolls? The last one though was just plain ridiculous), so I can't really comment.
When I saw this story coming up I had mentally prepared a response for an early post along the lines of "Oh, great to see this on Slashdot. I do hope we apply the same level of healthy skepticism that we do to stories implying women are poorly paid, despite overwhelming evidence of the latter, and already obvious problems with this story", but alas I was busy, so I missed the chance for a legit point to be modded down to -1, Trollbait, because for some reason Slashdot seems to have a surplus of really shitty entitled white men these days.
Please tell me you're talking about the "wage gap". You know, that victim narrative where we ignore differences in job titles and hours worked and look strictly at "full time worker" classification. The number that's so blatantly misleading that it's only adherents are those so desperate for any data points as to ignore it's deficiencies.
Love the racism and sexism, too. Are you so intellectually deficient you can't make your points without falling back on hate?
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The internet is an enabler; it's an incredible amount of information at your finger tips. Almost by definition, it's supposed to be dangerous via providing the means by which people can become critical thinkers.....
Oh, I get it.
When it comes to the benefit of the economy ( local and federal ), isn't worker wage a better way to spend that money?
If we're using neutral data as an input and the system comes to it's own conclusions...doesn't that say something about the data set? Shouldn't we try to understand why the algorithm came to that conclusion instead of immediately jumping to "check your privilege" ?
If your primary customer is someone who is trying to be frugal with their entertainment spending ( a premise that I don't feel is all that far fetched for youtube ), then raising your prices to make your benefits irrelevant seem particularly stupid.
No wonder "cord cutting" has plateaued. It's bone headed decisions like this. But I'll tell you something; the more you antagonize your customer base, the more they realize they don't need what you're selling.
Actually older demographics have more disposable income, not younger ones.
Kinda. The older demographics have more money, but they A) have more fiscal responsibilities ( such as families and retirement ) and B) Aren't as easy to manipulate.
Meanwhile, the younger crowd may have less money, but they have fewer obligations AND are more likely to make emotional decisions.
Not quite.
The intent isn't simply to get your ad in front of as many eyeballs as possible. Down that path lay madness. It's about getting your ad in front of as many eyeballs as possible that are attached to disposable income.
That's why the 18-34 demographic is so coveted; They're more likely to have the cash to burn AND they are more likely to make emotional decisions ( although how true that is anymore is the subject of debate )
Whoa now, we call them Linux ISOs, not movies, to throw off the fuzz.
A lot of assumptions going on there. I don't treat any of my employees poorly. My private opinions are just that; private. I'm the IT guy everyone goes to because I'm the only one who gets shit done ( suits or no ).
The problem is a large swath of minimum wage employees suck up an inordinate amount of time for stupid shit; constantly forgetting passwords, forgetting how to use the same software they've used for over a decade, complain their computer is broken when the monitors are powered off, ect...and every one of them blames me by proxy because I'm the computer guy.
Look, I'm happy for you; you get the sweet job of only supporting a small subset of competent people. Try working a real IT job, where you have to support folks top to bottom. Where you have to worry about things like PCI, HIPAA, sarbanes oxley ( often the ONLY one who's worried about it, against managers who want you to open the network to the world so they can "work from home" )...while ensuring you have the hardware/software necessary for the 24/7 uptime that's demanded and you have enough backup hardware so your employees can fill them up with their private image collections.
Any IT admin who has a positive opinion of their user base simply isn't doing their job.
You're missing a key phrase here; they're technological idiots. Some of the folks I work for are actually quite adept in other fields, and they're the ones that make my job worthwhile.
Mind you...everyone else, ya. They're pretty much wasted space. I figure I'm about 10 years away from automating them out of a job ( voice recognition is the biggest hurdle right now ). It'll be cheaper AND I'll get a better product.
Never said I hated them. But a spade is a spade, and when it comes to technology these folks are spades.
windows 95 until windows 8 were all pretty much identical from a ux standpoint...
Uh...I don't think you're paying attention. Look at the login screen from 2000 to now, as just one small example. Start menu too. Control panel? Task bar?
And that's not even getting into how radical office design changes between versions.
We all know it's true; when it comes to technology, most employees are idiots. Management too.
I want to blame the technology companies a bit here; UX design is the root cause of a lot of these problems. It's bad enough on it's own, but companies like MS continually make radical UX changes between versions making it even worse.
Back to employees, however; a lot of them don't see the need to increase their skillset. They grudgingly use the technology, but refuse to becoming proficient with it. They adamantly refuse to accept that were they more knowledgeable with the tech they were using they'd do their jobs better.
So these results don't surprise me at all.
I never understood this. Under normal circumstances it's quite difficult to make something internet accessible. Most firewalls, both corporate and consumer, by default use NAT with no forwarding, so under those conditions you'd have to go out of your way to make this happen ( ironic, given that if you have the knowledge necessary to do so, you know what not to do as well ).
The only thing I can think of is that this is an org with a huge block of public IPs that are managed poorly, but I would expect this to be an edge case and not a part of all these risk vectors ( cameras, printers, workstations and now, apparently, disk systems ).
Actually, I was shitposting. Anyway, I'm not quite sure you know what an ad hominem is; I didn't make any negative remark against the OP. Point of fact, I partially agree with him.
However, the opportunity was too good to pass up.
Unpossible, good sir. ACA was passed almost 10 years ago. We now live in a health care utopia.
I can see why you don't want to research this incident anymore; your data is just as damning as mine.
Hurrah for inclusivity!
It actually enhances meritocracy by ensuring that merit is measured in an unbiased, accurate way.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/...
I'm sorry; you were babbling something about inclusivity being a good thing?
Why is diversity of skin tone and gender preferable over meritocracy?
Allow me to rephrase that.
Why is racism/sexism preferable over meritocracy?
say they want to improve inclusivity and transparency at the company.
This reads like a train wreck in progress. I can't wait.
Wait a week, there will be new advice.
After all these years with conflicting nutrition advice, I've come to the conclusion that we have no idea what we're talking about when it comes to the human body. Sure; we're pretty sure about the big things, but the details still throw us.
Avoid the processed crap, get some exercise...that's pretty much the best you can do.
What a load of horseshit. In all my years, I have never come across a situation where I couldn't prove my worth to an employer or client through hard work.
I'm not particularly intelligent. I'm not good looking, nor am I all that charismatic. What I am is persistent, and I have an understanding of what it takes to succeed ( it may sound cliche, but "never give up" ).
Oh, I've had set backs because of nepotism. Idiot managers and bosses surely have gotten in my way. I don't let that slow me down, however; I keep pushing through it.
Meritocracy isn't perfect, but it works when you do that one thing; don't give up. What more could you ask for?
In my world, intelligence means skepticism. Always checking your information, always checking your biases. Recognizing your own failings as semi-mobile meat-suit.
Being right hardly has anything to do with it. More like "being right eventually". The process is how I define intelligence, not the end result. The end result is almost irrelevant, or a foregone conclusion, as long as the process is coherent.
He also said his mother wasn't stupid. These two positions are in direct conflict with each other. Regardless, good for him.
On another level, I can't help but feel this anti-vax nonsense is a species response to an unhealthy breeding environment.
No mod points, but I absolutely agree. Skylines is the spiritual successor to SimCities of old, and it's amazing.
I get pissed enough to respond to many of these idiots too (are they idiots? Or just trolls? The last one though was just plain ridiculous), so I can't really comment.
When I saw this story coming up I had mentally prepared a response for an early post along the lines of "Oh, great to see this on Slashdot. I do hope we apply the same level of healthy skepticism that we do to stories implying women are poorly paid, despite overwhelming evidence of the latter, and already obvious problems with this story", but alas I was busy, so I missed the chance for a legit point to be modded down to -1, Trollbait, because for some reason Slashdot seems to have a surplus of really shitty entitled white men these days.
Please tell me you're talking about the "wage gap". You know, that victim narrative where we ignore differences in job titles and hours worked and look strictly at "full time worker" classification. The number that's so blatantly misleading that it's only adherents are those so desperate for any data points as to ignore it's deficiencies.
Love the racism and sexism, too. Are you so intellectually deficient you can't make your points without falling back on hate?