When a company has a bad reputation, and customers avoid it, it has negative brand equity, and the brand is worth less than nothing. The simple and obvious solution is to change the name of the business, or start a new business and transfer the assets. This would have likely been far cheaper than paying legal expenses and then slowly rebuilding the brand upward from Death Valley.
Sexual harassment exists in all professions. I have seen zero evidence that it is more common in programming. My company has dealt with dozens of complaints from the sales dept, from shipping/receiving, and even one from the accounting dept. Number from programming or IT: 0.
The cause and effect could be backwards. Maybe the kids were already cheating, and adults mistakenly believed they were doing well because they were smart.
Productivity improvements are a good thing, and pointless make-work jobs are not "good for the economy". If this business model eliminates retail jobs, then the savings will go to the customers or owners who will spend it on OTHER STUFF. People will then be employed to create those other goods and services. So the end result is roughly the same number of jobs, but a higher standard of living since labor will go toward desirable goods and services instead of pointless busy work.
If high productivity was bad for the economy then Ethiopia and Myanmar would be wealthy and prosperous, while America and Europe would be poor. For some weird reason, people accept that past productivity improvements were good, but think future improvements will obviously be bad.
If the goals in PCCA are "fake", why bother to pull out?
Because it is great symbolism, it makes his supporters think he is "doing something", and it pisses off the greenies because they also care more about symbolism than reality. Pulling out is silly and meaningless in a practical sense, but is a smart move politically.
NAFTA and the Paris Climate Change Accord are not really comparable. NAFTA is a legally binding treaty with enforceable obligations on all parties. PCCA is symbolic, and countries can set their own goals, with no consequences for failure to abide by them. So "pulling out" of PCCA just means that America will no longer need to make up fake goals. I can't even imagine what there could possibly be to "renegotiate" since there is (almost) nothing there.
"Dollars in, dollars out" doesn't tell you you which ads are more cost-effective
You have a specific landing page for each ad. Then you track that contact through to the purchase, whether that is online, or through an offline sales lead. You know how much the ad cost, and you know the revenue generated. You subtract out your COGS, and if the result is positive, your ad is making money.
This is advertising 101. If they don't even know how to do ads right, then P&G is run by morons.
That depends on the state. Here is a map. Republican leaning states tend to have far more restrictions on felons voting, which makes sense since felons tend to vote Democratic.
So clearly there's some exception or loophole.
There are a lot of restrictions. For instance, poll taxes and literacy tests are banned. Identification requirements are contentious and tied up in the courts. I doubt if a "competency test" would go unchallenged.
You are moving the goalposts. First you say "It can't be done" and now you are saying "It can't be done by unmotivated people that aren't willing to try very hard."
CC is easier than a 4Y university. So if they take 3 years to do 2 years at CC, then they are going to fail just as bad at a 4Y institution. You are talking about people that are going to do poorly in any situation. That is much more than a "funding" problem.
Since there is no collateral to repossess, they shouldn't allow bankruptcy.
Allowing discharge through bankruptcy would make these loans much more expensive (higher interest rates), so responsible students would be subsidizing the deadbeats. This would lead to a death spiral as better students could seek out other funding options (such as income-share agreements) while only the most desperate (and most likely to default) would remain, pushing rates even higher.
And most people who are unsympathetic towards this likely got their education at a time when it was actually possible to do so without crippling debt
It is still possible. Go to a cheap community college for the first two years while living at home. Then transfer to a four year college for the final two years and either work part time, get a TEACH grant, or a military scholarship.
Warning: May require work, commitment, and sacrifice.
Software miners are 10 to 100 times less efficient that ASIC miners. Since this is in JS, and no browsers currently run WebCL by default, this is likely at the high end of that range. So for every $1 that TPB collects, they may be wasting $100 of electricity that their users are paying for.
This is unethical and environmentally irresponsible. Alas, even pirates can no longer be trusted.
Since people are rarely eaten by lions or leopards anymore the thing has no real basis for adapting to humans
It could be kin selection. A cat is infected with toxoplasmosis. Through it's feces, the human owner is infected. The owner gets an urge to get more cats. Then those cats get infected from rodents infected by the original cat. So the adaption to induce humans to "get more cats" results in the DNA that caused that adaption to be spread through the protozoa's gene pool.
It doesn't make any sense that the Cuban government is doing this.
Yes it does. People have this weird blindspot where they readily accept that their own society has factions, but are far more willing to believe that their adversaries are monolithic. Obama opened up relations with Cuba, and there is opposition to that by hardliners in America. But there is also OPPOSITION IN CUBA, because they have their own hardliners, who see Raul's opening to the imperialists as a betrayal of the ideals of the revolution. Some of those rejectionist hardliners are in powerful positions, and it is likely that they are doing this to sabotage relations between America and Cuba, and possibly even get rid of Raul and the Castro dynasty.
Perhaps it is not as simple as "cause and effect". It could be a circular effect. About 1 out of every 3 people world-wide is afflicted with toxoplasmosis, but the rate is even higher among cat owners. So it is likely that a majority of these cat owners are infected. Toxoplasmosis changes the behavior of rodents around cats, and makes them less fearful. So it could also affect human feelings for cats. So someone gets a cat, gets infected with toxoplasmosis from that cat, and then gets an urge to get more cats.
you are contending that the differences are racial as opposed to mere differences that are by happenstance, correlated with race.
No. I am absolutely not claiming that. I am claiming that unfamiliar differences can cause aversion... and some of those differences are correlated with race. Many other differences that cause aversion are not correlated with race. So I think we are in full agreement on the facts, just not on how logic applies to those facts.
If X causes Y, it doesn't suddenly stop causing Y just because Z also causes Y.
You could achieve the same result with a Clown Face or the Smurfs.
Absolutely true. Aversion can be caused my many types of unfamiliar differences.
This is a logical fallacy. If A is caused by B, C, or D, then you it is not logical to say that B doesn't cause A because A can also be caused by other things.
Very young children have a natural aversion to different racial characteristics that they are not familiar with. They ALSO have a natural aversion to people with asymmetrical faces. These don't cease to be facts just because they can both be classified more generally as "differences".
Not specifically. But it is still a race thing. If an Ethiopian child has only seen black faces, they are going to have a negative reaction if a white/green/purple person walks in the room. Children have a natural dislike of things they are not used to... including people of different races.
And, the effect eases with experience and education. Nothing about these studies indicates that racism, specifically, is hardwired or that it's inevitable.
First you say it can be eased with education... then you say it doesn't exist.
Your use of the weasel word "specifically" indicates that you don't even believe your own argument, since no one is claiming that it is "specific" to race.
Really though, are the creators of automated systems meant to think of every possible questionable phrase?
That is not a good argument. Google could easily build a filter that could stop 90% or more of these phrases. They will never stop 100%, but they could easily do way better.
But should they? Is it really their role be society's ideological and moral gatekeepers?
TFA raises important issues about what kind of society we want to have. Should giant corporations be the moral gatekeepers? Should people be allowed to shop for a Confederate flag, or should Google ban products based on the ideology they symbolize? What about a "Black Lives Matter" t-shirt?
You may have an opinion about Confederate flags and/or BLM t-shirts, but if so, then you are missing the point. TFA is advocating that your opinion DOESN'T MATTER, and instead of individual opinions, we should just accept and DEMAND the appropriate corporate policies.
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When a company has a bad reputation, and customers avoid it, it has negative brand equity, and the brand is worth less than nothing. The simple and obvious solution is to change the name of the business, or start a new business and transfer the assets. This would have likely been far cheaper than paying legal expenses and then slowly rebuilding the brand upward from Death Valley.
Females get harassed in programming anyway
Sexual harassment exists in all professions. I have seen zero evidence that it is more common in programming. My company has dealt with dozens of complaints from the sales dept, from shipping/receiving, and even one from the accounting dept. Number from programming or IT: 0.
The cause and effect could be backwards. Maybe the kids were already cheating, and adults mistakenly believed they were doing well because they were smart.
Disclaimer: Nobody ever told me I was smart.
Productivity improvements are a good thing, and pointless make-work jobs are not "good for the economy". If this business model eliminates retail jobs, then the savings will go to the customers or owners who will spend it on OTHER STUFF. People will then be employed to create those other goods and services. So the end result is roughly the same number of jobs, but a higher standard of living since labor will go toward desirable goods and services instead of pointless busy work.
If high productivity was bad for the economy then Ethiopia and Myanmar would be wealthy and prosperous, while America and Europe would be poor. For some weird reason, people accept that past productivity improvements were good, but think future improvements will obviously be bad.
If the goals in PCCA are "fake", why bother to pull out?
Because it is great symbolism, it makes his supporters think he is "doing something", and it pisses off the greenies because they also care more about symbolism than reality. Pulling out is silly and meaningless in a practical sense, but is a smart move politically.
NAFTA and the Paris Climate Change Accord are not really comparable. NAFTA is a legally binding treaty with enforceable obligations on all parties. PCCA is symbolic, and countries can set their own goals, with no consequences for failure to abide by them. So "pulling out" of PCCA just means that America will no longer need to make up fake goals. I can't even imagine what there could possibly be to "renegotiate" since there is (almost) nothing there.
"Dollars in, dollars out" doesn't tell you you which ads are more cost-effective
You have a specific landing page for each ad. Then you track that contact through to the purchase, whether that is online, or through an offline sales lead. You know how much the ad cost, and you know the revenue generated. You subtract out your COGS, and if the result is positive, your ad is making money.
This is advertising 101. If they don't even know how to do ads right, then P&G is run by morons.
Ex-felons can't vote, am I correct?
That depends on the state. Here is a map. Republican leaning states tend to have far more restrictions on felons voting, which makes sense since felons tend to vote Democratic.
So clearly there's some exception or loophole.
There are a lot of restrictions. For instance, poll taxes and literacy tests are banned. Identification requirements are contentious and tied up in the courts. I doubt if a "competency test" would go unchallenged.
You are moving the goalposts. First you say "It can't be done" and now you are saying "It can't be done by unmotivated people that aren't willing to try very hard."
CC is easier than a 4Y university. So if they take 3 years to do 2 years at CC, then they are going to fail just as bad at a 4Y institution. You are talking about people that are going to do poorly in any situation. That is much more than a "funding" problem.
Since there is no collateral to repossess, they shouldn't allow bankruptcy.
Allowing discharge through bankruptcy would make these loans much more expensive (higher interest rates), so responsible students would be subsidizing the deadbeats. This would lead to a death spiral as better students could seek out other funding options (such as income-share agreements) while only the most desperate (and most likely to default) would remain, pushing rates even higher.
And most people who are unsympathetic towards this likely got their education at a time when it was actually possible to do so without crippling debt
It is still possible. Go to a cheap community college for the first two years while living at home. Then transfer to a four year college for the final two years and either work part time, get a TEACH grant, or a military scholarship.
Warning: May require work, commitment, and sacrifice.
The voting age is set to 18 by the 26th amendment to the Constitution of the United States. A mere "law" cannot change that.
If the Democrats put up another deeply-flawed and wholly unlikeable candidate again ...
Can you name any prominent likable Democrats without deep flaws?
Software miners are 10 to 100 times less efficient that ASIC miners. Since this is in JS, and no browsers currently run WebCL by default, this is likely at the high end of that range. So for every $1 that TPB collects, they may be wasting $100 of electricity that their users are paying for.
This is unethical and environmentally irresponsible. Alas, even pirates can no longer be trusted.
Since people are rarely eaten by lions or leopards anymore the thing has no real basis for adapting to humans
It could be kin selection. A cat is infected with toxoplasmosis. Through it's feces, the human owner is infected. The owner gets an urge to get more cats. Then those cats get infected from rodents infected by the original cat. So the adaption to induce humans to "get more cats" results in the DNA that caused that adaption to be spread through the protozoa's gene pool.
Consider a nueron will not fire 1 time in 10. To simulate forgetting.
Artificial neurons do that too. It is called dropout.
I've discovered that I vastly prefer the company of cats to most of humanity.
Have you been tested for toxoplasmosis?
It doesn't make any sense that the Cuban government is doing this.
Yes it does. People have this weird blindspot where they readily accept that their own society has factions, but are far more willing to believe that their adversaries are monolithic. Obama opened up relations with Cuba, and there is opposition to that by hardliners in America. But there is also OPPOSITION IN CUBA, because they have their own hardliners, who see Raul's opening to the imperialists as a betrayal of the ideals of the revolution. Some of those rejectionist hardliners are in powerful positions, and it is likely that they are doing this to sabotage relations between America and Cuba, and possibly even get rid of Raul and the Castro dynasty.
Apparently we had cause and effect switched.
Perhaps it is not as simple as "cause and effect". It could be a circular effect. About 1 out of every 3 people world-wide is afflicted with toxoplasmosis, but the rate is even higher among cat owners. So it is likely that a majority of these cat owners are infected. Toxoplasmosis changes the behavior of rodents around cats, and makes them less fearful. So it could also affect human feelings for cats. So someone gets a cat, gets infected with toxoplasmosis from that cat, and then gets an urge to get more cats.
The "I" part is for intelligence and it's obvious what "intelligence," we mean.... It's human intelligence.
No it isn't. It is the intelligence of a fruit fly. In a decade, we may be ready for the intelligence of a mouse.
you are contending that the differences are racial as opposed to mere differences that are by happenstance, correlated with race.
No. I am absolutely not claiming that. I am claiming that unfamiliar differences can cause aversion ... and some of those differences are correlated with race. Many other differences that cause aversion are not correlated with race. So I think we are in full agreement on the facts, just not on how logic applies to those facts.
If X causes Y, it doesn't suddenly stop causing Y just because Z also causes Y.
You could achieve the same result with a Clown Face or the Smurfs.
Absolutely true. Aversion can be caused my many types of unfamiliar differences.
But it is still a race thing.
No, it's a difference thing.
This is a logical fallacy. If A is caused by B, C, or D, then you it is not logical to say that B doesn't cause A because A can also be caused by other things.
Very young children have a natural aversion to different racial characteristics that they are not familiar with. They ALSO have a natural aversion to people with asymmetrical faces. These don't cease to be facts just because they can both be classified more generally as "differences".
It's not specifically a race thing.
Not specifically. But it is still a race thing. If an Ethiopian child has only seen black faces, they are going to have a negative reaction if a white/green/purple person walks in the room. Children have a natural dislike of things they are not used to ... including people of different races.
And, the effect eases with experience and education. Nothing about these studies indicates that racism, specifically, is hardwired or that it's inevitable.
First you say it can be eased with education ... then you say it doesn't exist.
Your use of the weasel word "specifically" indicates that you don't even believe your own argument, since no one is claiming that it is "specific" to race.
Really though, are the creators of automated systems meant to think of every possible questionable phrase?
That is not a good argument. Google could easily build a filter that could stop 90% or more of these phrases. They will never stop 100%, but they could easily do way better.
But should they? Is it really their role be society's ideological and moral gatekeepers?
TFA raises important issues about what kind of society we want to have. Should giant corporations be the moral gatekeepers? Should people be allowed to shop for a Confederate flag, or should Google ban products based on the ideology they symbolize? What about a "Black Lives Matter" t-shirt?
You may have an opinion about Confederate flags and/or BLM t-shirts, but if so, then you are missing the point. TFA is advocating that your opinion DOESN'T MATTER, and instead of individual opinions, we should just accept and DEMAND the appropriate corporate policies.