Maybe the study is legitimate, but it feels a lot like what it says in the title. We should all be average, grey, boring, conforming individuals, and being smart is something you just shouldn't talk about because that is bad.
Allow me to disagree. Being smart is good. And why shouldn't you praise kids for something they do well? We do it in every other aspect of their existence, after all... But only being smart is ruled out as something you shouldn't discuss - as if it were something to be ashamed of.
The pirate bay should decentralize, and get a torrent-like system for distributing torrents. But that doesn't fit in their _business model_, does it?
If information truly wants to be free, a decentralized torrent system would be perfect. On the other hand, if it is all about personal profit, then sticking to a website is the better option...
Which is not to watch TV to begin with. There are plenty of things you can do in all that time you now spend in front of a TV: having fun with friends and family, reading books, gardening, sports, enjoying sunsets, playing computer games, and many, many more.
While I mostly agree but in the case of criminology experiments, the flaw is that the intial data set is flawed due to biases in incarciration/arrest/etc.
The algorithm would simply agree with what the justice system considers to be a criminal. You are of course free to disagree with that definition, but that problem needs to be tackled on another level.
Your violent thrashing has one minor flaw: they created a computer program that will, apparently, correctly predict sexuality from pictures. You can give us a thousand reasons why it cannot possibly work, but none of those are worth shit if it does.
You say phrenology was debunked. Maybe that was wishful thinking too, and it turns out there was something to it after all. That would be an interesting experiment: let's train this program on mugshots of criminals, see if it can pick those out from normal people...
Science is ultimately not about how you would like the world to be; it's about how the world actually is, even if you don't particularly like it. Of course one could wonder if sociology was ever a science to begin with...
The article and the Reddit thread both talk about a "huge spike" in data usage without including any hard figures. What are we talking about here? 100 MB per day? A gigabyte?
It's roughly two football fields worth of data, I believe.
I still facepalm for C++ not having a native string type
Did something happen to std::string while I wasn't looking? Or isn't it native enough for you if it lives in the standard library? What benefits do you believe would have been available if std::string had been part of the compiler instead?
And any valid potlical opinion 'people' might disagree with will be labeled 'extremist', 'alt-right', 'racist', 'inciting hatred', or simply 'nazi', and disappeared, no matter if it is actually true or not. And whoever controls the censors gets to decide what is true and what is not.
This wouldn't have been a problem if it hadn't been for companies polluting the email system with endless advertising to begin with. If it had just remained a channel for communication, accepting emails would not have been a problem at all.
If cabin pressure drops, the suit balloons up and makes it hard to move. An excellent way to counter this is by simply leaving less air in the suit, i.e. make it skintight. It's a shame they didn't do this; I was rather looking forward to our glorious future society where everyone walks around in skintight suits...
Be careful what you wish for. Have you seen most Americans? You wouldn't want to see me in one, that's for sure...
I'm currently on a business trip to the US, so I see lots of them all around me. And while many would not be improved much by skintight clothing, there have been a few that I certainly wouldn't mind observing in such manner;-)
Seriously, don't we all have adblocking software installed by now? I haven't seen an ad in years - because I do not want to run the risk of infection through malware ads, because I do not care to be tracked, because I don't want to spend the resources to download them and render them, because they draw my attention to things I don't care about in the first place, and finally... because I can.
Ads could have been an acceptable form of commercialisation on the internet. It's entirely on the companies that load up their sites with blinking, jumping, animating, corrupting, and tracking BS ads, and barely any content, that I choose to block them entirely.
If cabin pressure drops, the suit balloons up and makes it hard to move. An excellent way to counter this is by simply leaving less air in the suit, i.e. make it skintight. It's a shame they didn't do this; I was rather looking forward to our glorious future society where everyone walks around in skintight suits...
Security is not always the highest priority. The system must also remain useful for normal use, and I'll happily trade off some theoretical improved security against very measurable lost performance. I'd rather use that extra 400MB or so for disk cache; I certainly need it while compiling, something I do a lot over the day.
And given the number of problems I've had over the years (zero, as reported by both my permanent virusscanner and the occasional run with things like Hitman Pro), I'd say that security is already good enough.
The 64-bit version also easily uses 1.5 times as much memory for the same set of pages as the 32-bit version. Frankly, I'd rather just stick with 32-bit: I'm running other applications as well that I like to see remain responsive, and not have all of my RAM gobbled up by a browser.
Maybe it will crash much less. I wouldn't be able to tell; Firefox hasn't crashed for me in years and years.
uBlock Origin: apparently a version is in the works, but it isn't on the Mozilla site yet.
Classic Theme Restorer: no, and apparently not possible in the new API.
The rest I don't know, and despite the release of FF57 being near, Mozilla has not yet managed to mark its add-ons pages with information like "is this add-on even going to work two months from now?" Funny, if it were my business I would have provided that information at least a year ago...
I had a look and classified extensions into things I really won't do without, and things I could find alternatives for. Here's the list:
Not marked "legacy": Enhanced Steam, Privacy Badger.
- ShareMeNot: this functionality is apparently in Privacy Badger now, so that's good.
- uBlock Origin: I see references to a webextension port but cannot figure out if it is production ready or not. This is a blocking point for me: I'm not using any browser that does not have ad-blocking.
- FB Purity: has been ported, but I needed to install it manually.
This is actually pretty good: this is the most important group by far (assuming that uBlock Origin works out fine). The rest is:
Things I use a lot, but could find standalone alternatives for: SQLite Manager, FireFTP.
Mostly cosmetic: Classic Theme Restorer, Custom Tab Width (I strongly prefer small tabs over scrolling them, and it's a mystery to me why the setting was removed from about:config in the first place), New Scrollbars (the default Firefox scrollbars have so little contrast I can barely see the knob).
Things that would be annoying to lose: FlashGot, Toggle Animated Gifs.
And finally there's Exif Viewer, which I suppose I don't use very often.
Oh, and the designers have designed one of the desks to be located with its back to the bosses' office. That office has a glass wall on that side. I've publicly stated that if I get assigned to that desk I will resign the same day - and I was _not_ kidding.
I once worked for a company that did this. Why? Thermostats. The women were constantly pushing them higher, while the men were pushing them lower, leading to many arguments. The CEO finally got fed up and put the "hot" people in one room and the "cold" people in the other. This led to mostly segregation by gender, although there were some scrawny guys that went to the warm area, and a few "big" women preferred the cooler section.
Ah yes. My company is transitioning to an open floor right as I type this. One of my colleagues is known for having his window open, even when the temperature drops far below freezing in winter. If I still had a whiteboard, I'd write "WINTER IS COMING" on it in large letters...
Serious question: Was it Damore's job to write this ten page memo?
The first page strongly indicates the memo is not a standalone work, but rather a response to a debate that has clearly been raging for some time. It may not have been his job to write it, but clearly management was fine with the discussion. At least, until someone decided not to pray at the altar to the Gods of Diversity and Social Justice.
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Maybe the study is legitimate, but it feels a lot like what it says in the title. We should all be average, grey, boring, conforming individuals, and being smart is something you just shouldn't talk about because that is bad.
Allow me to disagree. Being smart is good. And why shouldn't you praise kids for something they do well? We do it in every other aspect of their existence, after all... But only being smart is ruled out as something you shouldn't discuss - as if it were something to be ashamed of.
The pirate bay should decentralize, and get a torrent-like system for distributing torrents. But that doesn't fit in their _business model_, does it?
If information truly wants to be free, a decentralized torrent system would be perfect. On the other hand, if it is all about personal profit, then sticking to a website is the better option...
Which is not to watch TV to begin with. There are plenty of things you can do in all that time you now spend in front of a TV: having fun with friends and family, reading books, gardening, sports, enjoying sunsets, playing computer games, and many, many more.
While I mostly agree but in the case of criminology experiments, the flaw is that the intial data set is flawed due to biases in incarciration/arrest/etc.
The algorithm would simply agree with what the justice system considers to be a criminal. You are of course free to disagree with that definition, but that problem needs to be tackled on another level.
Your violent thrashing has one minor flaw: they created a computer program that will, apparently, correctly predict sexuality from pictures. You can give us a thousand reasons why it cannot possibly work, but none of those are worth shit if it does.
You say phrenology was debunked. Maybe that was wishful thinking too, and it turns out there was something to it after all. That would be an interesting experiment: let's train this program on mugshots of criminals, see if it can pick those out from normal people...
Science is ultimately not about how you would like the world to be; it's about how the world actually is, even if you don't particularly like it. Of course one could wonder if sociology was ever a science to begin with...
The article and the Reddit thread both talk about a "huge spike" in data usage without including any hard figures. What are we talking about here? 100 MB per day? A gigabyte?
It's roughly two football fields worth of data, I believe.
Well, a string literal is not automatically a std:string is it.
Nope. But why should it be?
If it really bothers you stick an 's' on the end. Now it's an std::string.
I still facepalm for C++ not having a native string type
Did something happen to std::string while I wasn't looking? Or isn't it native enough for you if it lives in the standard library? What benefits do you believe would have been available if std::string had been part of the compiler instead?
And any valid potlical opinion 'people' might disagree with will be labeled 'extremist', 'alt-right', 'racist', 'inciting hatred', or simply 'nazi', and disappeared, no matter if it is actually true or not. And whoever controls the censors gets to decide what is true and what is not.
This wouldn't have been a problem if it hadn't been for companies polluting the email system with endless advertising to begin with. If it had just remained a channel for communication, accepting emails would not have been a problem at all.
If cabin pressure drops, the suit balloons up and makes it hard to move. An excellent way to counter this is by simply leaving less air in the suit, i.e. make it skintight. It's a shame they didn't do this; I was rather looking forward to our glorious future society where everyone walks around in skintight suits...
Be careful what you wish for. Have you seen most Americans? You wouldn't want to see me in one, that's for sure...
I'm currently on a business trip to the US, so I see lots of them all around me. And while many would not be improved much by skintight clothing, there have been a few that I certainly wouldn't mind observing in such manner ;-)
Seriously, don't we all have adblocking software installed by now? I haven't seen an ad in years - because I do not want to run the risk of infection through malware ads, because I do not care to be tracked, because I don't want to spend the resources to download them and render them, because they draw my attention to things I don't care about in the first place, and finally... because I can.
Ads could have been an acceptable form of commercialisation on the internet. It's entirely on the companies that load up their sites with blinking, jumping, animating, corrupting, and tracking BS ads, and barely any content, that I choose to block them entirely.
If cabin pressure drops, the suit balloons up and makes it hard to move. An excellent way to counter this is by simply leaving less air in the suit, i.e. make it skintight. It's a shame they didn't do this; I was rather looking forward to our glorious future society where everyone walks around in skintight suits...
...after some good fuxing.
After reading the other article, why not open source winamp? Surely it would be more useful than it is rotting away... Same for Picasa.
Totally agreed. Hey Google, how about it?
Security is not always the highest priority. The system must also remain useful for normal use, and I'll happily trade off some theoretical improved security against very measurable lost performance. I'd rather use that extra 400MB or so for disk cache; I certainly need it while compiling, something I do a lot over the day.
And given the number of problems I've had over the years (zero, as reported by both my permanent virusscanner and the occasional run with things like Hitman Pro), I'd say that security is already good enough.
The 64-bit version also easily uses 1.5 times as much memory for the same set of pages as the 32-bit version. Frankly, I'd rather just stick with 32-bit: I'm running other applications as well that I like to see remain responsive, and not have all of my RAM gobbled up by a browser.
Maybe it will crash much less. I wouldn't be able to tell; Firefox hasn't crashed for me in years and years.
uBlock Origin: apparently a version is in the works, but it isn't on the Mozilla site yet.
Classic Theme Restorer: no, and apparently not possible in the new API.
The rest I don't know, and despite the release of FF57 being near, Mozilla has not yet managed to mark its add-ons pages with information like "is this add-on even going to work two months from now?" Funny, if it were my business I would have provided that information at least a year ago...
At least my Amiga doesn't run systemd.
Former Amiga owner. No TV. RIdes bike to work. Yep, all three boxes crossed...
Oh, and I have no flashblock because I keep flash on "ask to activate" at all times. So I consider that to be a built-in of Firefox already...
I had a look and classified extensions into things I really won't do without, and things I could find alternatives for. Here's the list:
Not marked "legacy": Enhanced Steam, Privacy Badger.
- ShareMeNot: this functionality is apparently in Privacy Badger now, so that's good.
- uBlock Origin: I see references to a webextension port but cannot figure out if it is production ready or not. This is a blocking point for me: I'm not using any browser that does not have ad-blocking.
- FB Purity: has been ported, but I needed to install it manually.
This is actually pretty good: this is the most important group by far (assuming that uBlock Origin works out fine). The rest is:
Things I use a lot, but could find standalone alternatives for: SQLite Manager, FireFTP.
Mostly cosmetic: Classic Theme Restorer, Custom Tab Width (I strongly prefer small tabs over scrolling them, and it's a mystery to me why the setting was removed from about:config in the first place), New Scrollbars (the default Firefox scrollbars have so little contrast I can barely see the knob).
Things that would be annoying to lose: FlashGot, Toggle Animated Gifs.
And finally there's Exif Viewer, which I suppose I don't use very often.
Ok, so not too bad then.
Oh, and the designers have designed one of the desks to be located with its back to the bosses' office. That office has a glass wall on that side. I've publicly stated that if I get assigned to that desk I will resign the same day - and I was _not_ kidding.
I once worked for a company that did this. Why? Thermostats. The women were constantly pushing them higher, while the men were pushing them lower, leading to many arguments. The CEO finally got fed up and put the "hot" people in one room and the "cold" people in the other. This led to mostly segregation by gender, although there were some scrawny guys that went to the warm area, and a few "big" women preferred the cooler section.
Ah yes. My company is transitioning to an open floor right as I type this. One of my colleagues is known for having his window open, even when the temperature drops far below freezing in winter. If I still had a whiteboard, I'd write "WINTER IS COMING" on it in large letters...
Serious question: Was it Damore's job to write this ten page memo?
The first page strongly indicates the memo is not a standalone work, but rather a response to a debate that has clearly been raging for some time. It may not have been his job to write it, but clearly management was fine with the discussion. At least, until someone decided not to pray at the altar to the Gods of Diversity and Social Justice.