The summary said messenging apps. Do you use Whatsapp to for that purpose?
Whatsapp is not the world's biggest messaging app. That would be WeChat. WeChat does financial transactions. It was used for about $3 trillion in transactions in 2016.
Meaning, of SF got nuked by a N.Korean sub or whatnot, yeah, a draft.
No. If NK launched a nuke at America, Pyongyang would be vaporized along with the NK military bases near the DMZ. Then it would be over. There would be no need for a large conscript army, or any plausible scenario where the draft would be useful. I takes 6 months to turn a draftee into a soldier.
The radical labor policies of the last 100 years have directly lead to the collapse of the manufacturing competitiveness of pretty much everywhere they were applied...
Not everywhere. In Germany, manufacturing is about 30% of GDP vs about 12.5% in America, and their labor laws are even more socialist. On the negative side, their GDP per capita is about $42k vs $57k in America.
Even if we want to have a discussion, these tech leaders are poor spokespeople. NN benefits tech companies but that is NOT why it is important. It is important because it also benefits the public. Billionaires are not credible advocates for the little guy.
Correlation is not causation. The people accepting unpaid internships are those at the bottom, not very bright, not very hard working, and with no other easy alternative. These people would likely end up in low paying jobs no matter what. TFA describes a survey, not a controlled study, so there is no actual evidence that the unpaid internship caused the poor outcomes.
Oh, one other thing: TFA is about the UK, but in the USA unpaid internships are generally illegal. If an intern is doing any actual work, the employer is required to pay at least the legal minimum wage. If you did an unpaid internship in the past few years, it is very likely you can demand back pay by threatening to report your employer to the DOL.
IIRC IBM willingly assisted the Nazis with the IT tasks necessary for their roundup and attempted genocide
That is very misleading. During the war, IBM's German subsidiary operated independently, and was outside the control of both IBM's HQ, and American law.
Sure, but they also need to decide how much to spend on ads and promoting their brand, then that cost has to be incorporated into the price. If a Gillette razor costs $10 and an Equate razor costs $5, you can't expect people to pay the difference based on quality, since the products are basically identical, so you have to run advertisements to make people think your product is better or more prestigious. It is surprising how well this works. When an ad runs, very few people think "If I buy that product, I am paying for that ad".
doesn't the U.S. have laws that make it illegal to comply with demands like that?
No. We do not, and should not.
If not, why not?
It is none of our business and would be ineffective and unenforceable. America is not going to "fix" China. That is up to the Chinese people.
One of the reasons that Liu Xiaobo was so ineffective is that he was viewed by many Chinese as a Western sycophant. Reform in China may work better if outsiders keep their noses out of it.
None of them. If you scan a "bullshit meter" over TFA, it will beep and report that not a single statement is attributed to anyone. TFA doesn't contain a single quote. Everything in it is plausibly deniable.
The current investors are VCs and PEs, who are, at least in theory, sophisticated investors expected to do their own due diligence. They would have a hard time credibly arguing in court that they were swindled out of millions by a blog.
Laugh if you must, but do you really think there will be justice in the world as long as a transgender person of color has to put an asterisk next to their address just to dereference their own data?
As C has been constantly in the top 3 languages that coder positions are offered for
But those "coder positions" are for white males only. C was designed in the 1960s, when colonialism was still rampant, and that is reflected in the language design. C ignores array bounds just as the imperial powers ignored the boundaries of tribal societies. Rust can free us from syntactic oppression, and provides "safe spaces" for everyone's data regardless of their culture or previous gender.
It doesn't matter what kind of government they live under, the less educated reproduce more all over the world.
False. In non-democratic countries the rich have more children than the poor. Part of this is because of polygamy, which is much more common in non-democracies, "serial polygamy" where rich men divorce and have a second family, and the inability of the poor masses to vote themselves benefits.
Many schools apparently are known to be glorified degree mills...
One reason for these degree mills is the Indian marriage market. Dowries are common, where the bride's family will give money and assets to the groom's family. A son can bring in a bigger dowry if he has a degree, but it is less important that he actually learn anything useful. Degree mills provide credentials that cost less than the expected bump in the dowry value.
Another problem is gender imbalance. China's shortage of females is well known, but the problem in India is almost as severe, especially in more prosperous provinces such as Gujarat and Maharashtra where many families can afford ultrasounds and abortions. So if your son doesn't have a degree, he might end up unmarried for life.
Why would I pay an engineer fresh out of school when I can hire 5 undergrads for free?
Because the interns are gone at the end of the summer. Companies view internships as extended job interviews (interns should view them the same) not as a source of labor. By the time the intern is trained and productive, the internship is almost over.
Also, unpaid internships are generally illegal in America. I don't know how it works in India, but I doubt if these interns are working "for free".
So "the government" in this case WOULD be the informed individuals and doctors.
You seem to be confused about what "individual choice" means. When someone says that decisions about, say, medical procedures, speech, and property should be left up to "individuals", they mean the individual who actually inhabits the body affected, is voicing the opinion, or owns the relevant property. They do NOT mean just ANY individuals, such as the police, or an "ethics panel", or even the voting public, even though these are indeed made up of "individuals".
this option was presented but had a price tag of several thousand dollars.
It is expensive because almost no one does it. If it was routine, it would be cheap. Definitely less than $1000. That cost would be recouped many times over in savings later in life. Got liver cancer? Just grow a new one from your own stem cells.
Religious extremism has been linked to several genes. So the GMO corporations could surreptitiously edit those genes to eliminate resistance to their other products.
TLDR: it will be illegal to perform the type of edits you're worried about.
It is unlikely to be illegal everywhere. Medical tourism is already a big business.
What is wrong with gene editing to fix pimples, if the treatment is proven safe and effective? Severe acne can be emotionally devastating, and have physical consequences such as secondary infections. Why should the government be making that decision instead of leaving it to informed individuals and their doctors?
The whole reason the protagonist was shat on was because he was a naturally conceived baby.
He had a defective heart, as well as other health problems that made him completely unqualified to be an astronaut. Since the genetic testing would have found these problems, it actually made a lot of sense to use it.
The other no brainer is saving stem cells from the umbilical cords of newborns. These cells can be stored in liquid N2 at negligible cost, and used to treat all sorts of disorders later in the kid's life, as well as used for anti-ageing and life extension. Yet it is almost never done.
Gattaca was more about reading the genes and discriminating based on it.
Gattaca was a stupid movie. They were screening people to ensure they were qualified to be astronauts. This is something WE ALREADY DO. No one with a defective heart should be sent into space at taxpayer expense. If genetic testing can streamline and improve the screening then of course we should be doing it.
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The summary said messenging apps. Do you use Whatsapp to for that purpose?
Whatsapp is not the world's biggest messaging app. That would be WeChat. WeChat does financial transactions. It was used for about $3 trillion in transactions in 2016.
Meaning, of SF got nuked by a N.Korean sub or whatnot, yeah, a draft.
No. If NK launched a nuke at America, Pyongyang would be vaporized along with the NK military bases near the DMZ. Then it would be over. There would be no need for a large conscript army, or any plausible scenario where the draft would be useful. I takes 6 months to turn a draftee into a soldier.
The radical labor policies of the last 100 years have directly lead to the collapse of the manufacturing competitiveness of pretty much everywhere they were applied...
Not everywhere. In Germany, manufacturing is about 30% of GDP vs about 12.5% in America, and their labor laws are even more socialist. On the negative side, their GDP per capita is about $42k vs $57k in America.
They'll write themselves the nice exception
That is what they did with National-Do-Not-Call. There is an exemption for politicians, so their robo-dialers are still legal.
So what's the point of having a discussion?
Even if we want to have a discussion, these tech leaders are poor spokespeople. NN benefits tech companies but that is NOT why it is important. It is important because it also benefits the public. Billionaires are not credible advocates for the little guy.
Correlation is not causation. The people accepting unpaid internships are those at the bottom, not very bright, not very hard working, and with no other easy alternative. These people would likely end up in low paying jobs no matter what. TFA describes a survey, not a controlled study, so there is no actual evidence that the unpaid internship caused the poor outcomes.
Oh, one other thing: TFA is about the UK, but in the USA unpaid internships are generally illegal. If an intern is doing any actual work, the employer is required to pay at least the legal minimum wage. If you did an unpaid internship in the past few years, it is very likely you can demand back pay by threatening to report your employer to the DOL.
IIRC IBM willingly assisted the Nazis with the IT tasks necessary for their roundup and attempted genocide
That is very misleading. During the war, IBM's German subsidiary operated independently, and was outside the control of both IBM's HQ, and American law.
They set the price where the income is maximized.
Sure, but they also need to decide how much to spend on ads and promoting their brand, then that cost has to be incorporated into the price. If a Gillette razor costs $10 and an Equate razor costs $5, you can't expect people to pay the difference based on quality, since the products are basically identical, so you have to run advertisements to make people think your product is better or more prestigious. It is surprising how well this works. When an ad runs, very few people think "If I buy that product, I am paying for that ad".
doesn't the U.S. have laws that make it illegal to comply with demands like that?
No. We do not, and should not.
If not, why not?
It is none of our business and would be ineffective and unenforceable. America is not going to "fix" China. That is up to the Chinese people.
One of the reasons that Liu Xiaobo was so ineffective is that he was viewed by many Chinese as a Western sycophant. Reform in China may work better if outsiders keep their noses out of it.
Which figures would land them in hot water?
None of them. If you scan a "bullshit meter" over TFA, it will beep and report that not a single statement is attributed to anyone. TFA doesn't contain a single quote. Everything in it is plausibly deniable.
The current investors are VCs and PEs, who are, at least in theory, sophisticated investors expected to do their own due diligence. They would have a hard time credibly arguing in court that they were swindled out of millions by a blog.
Laugh if you must, but do you really think there will be justice in the world as long as a transgender person of color has to put an asterisk next to their address just to dereference their own data?
As C has been constantly in the top 3 languages that coder positions are offered for
But those "coder positions" are for white males only. C was designed in the 1960s, when colonialism was still rampant, and that is reflected in the language design. C ignores array bounds just as the imperial powers ignored the boundaries of tribal societies. Rust can free us from syntactic oppression, and provides "safe spaces" for everyone's data regardless of their culture or previous gender.
This one didn't even earn their billions, they married into them.
Nope. She married Steve in 1991, before he was a billionaire.
I thought publishing was dead.
Journalism is dead as a business. It is alive as a hobby for billionaires.
It doesn't matter what kind of government they live under, the less educated reproduce more all over the world.
False. In non-democratic countries the rich have more children than the poor. Part of this is because of polygamy, which is much more common in non-democracies, "serial polygamy" where rich men divorce and have a second family, and the inability of the poor masses to vote themselves benefits.
Many schools apparently are known to be glorified degree mills ...
One reason for these degree mills is the Indian marriage market. Dowries are common, where the bride's family will give money and assets to the groom's family. A son can bring in a bigger dowry if he has a degree, but it is less important that he actually learn anything useful. Degree mills provide credentials that cost less than the expected bump in the dowry value.
Another problem is gender imbalance. China's shortage of females is well known, but the problem in India is almost as severe, especially in more prosperous provinces such as Gujarat and Maharashtra where many families can afford ultrasounds and abortions. So if your son doesn't have a degree, he might end up unmarried for life.
Why would I pay an engineer fresh out of school when I can hire 5 undergrads for free?
Because the interns are gone at the end of the summer. Companies view internships as extended job interviews (interns should view them the same) not as a source of labor. By the time the intern is trained and productive, the internship is almost over.
Also, unpaid internships are generally illegal in America. I don't know how it works in India, but I doubt if these interns are working "for free".
So "the government" in this case WOULD be the informed individuals and doctors.
You seem to be confused about what "individual choice" means. When someone says that decisions about, say, medical procedures, speech, and property should be left up to "individuals", they mean the individual who actually inhabits the body affected, is voicing the opinion, or owns the relevant property. They do NOT mean just ANY individuals, such as the police, or an "ethics panel", or even the voting public, even though these are indeed made up of "individuals".
this option was presented but had a price tag of several thousand dollars.
It is expensive because almost no one does it. If it was routine, it would be cheap. Definitely less than $1000. That cost would be recouped many times over in savings later in life. Got liver cancer? Just grow a new one from your own stem cells.
I would like to see real work put into developing rules
How are you going to enforce these rules? You can already buy CRISPR kits on eBay.
Religious extremism has been linked to several genes. So the GMO corporations could surreptitiously edit those genes to eliminate resistance to their other products.
TLDR: it will be illegal to perform the type of edits you're worried about.
It is unlikely to be illegal everywhere. Medical tourism is already a big business.
What is wrong with gene editing to fix pimples, if the treatment is proven safe and effective? Severe acne can be emotionally devastating, and have physical consequences such as secondary infections. Why should the government be making that decision instead of leaving it to informed individuals and their doctors?
The whole reason the protagonist was shat on was because he was a naturally conceived baby.
He had a defective heart, as well as other health problems that made him completely unqualified to be an astronaut. Since the genetic testing would have found these problems, it actually made a lot of sense to use it.
The other no brainer is saving stem cells from the umbilical cords of newborns. These cells can be stored in liquid N2 at negligible cost, and used to treat all sorts of disorders later in the kid's life, as well as used for anti-ageing and life extension. Yet it is almost never done.
Gattaca was more about reading the genes and discriminating based on it.
Gattaca was a stupid movie. They were screening people to ensure they were qualified to be astronauts. This is something WE ALREADY DO. No one with a defective heart should be sent into space at taxpayer expense. If genetic testing can streamline and improve the screening then of course we should be doing it.