Maybe, just maybe, the concept of "hate speech" is so vague that no two people will ever agree on what it constitutes, so nobody should be removing anything for violating it? Nah, that's just crazy talk, take down everything that somebody disagrees with.
tech bros litigating every tiny, pedantic detail in TFA in order to make themselves feel better?
See, I come across an article like this and I think, "well, at least they're being sort of reasonable here, even if I don't agree with their conclusions", and then somebody like you comes along and makes it crystal clear again what this is actually about, and it has nothing to do with gender equality. "make myself feel better?" What, exactly, is it that I would have to feel bad about? If anybody "pushed out" the women in tech, it was the apocryphal top-hat wearing, cigar-smoking, "good-old-boy network" that wanted them back home and in the kitchen, not me - I just found something I liked, studied it, and pursued a career in it. People like you are a good reminder that every time we hear about "equality in tech" what they're actually talking about is keeping down the nerds - sorry, "tech bros" - who've gotten just a little too uppity and forgotten their place in the pecking order and need to be brought back in line.
Actually, no, it's Clem's cousin from New York City who wants to try to pretend to be southern but isn't really. If he was, he'd know it's "y'all" and not "ya'll".
I'm not convinced that even this will be enough - they fired Matt Lauer immediately, with no evidence. You could shut yourself up in a room and have 0 contact with women and STILL find yourself fired for "inappropriate sexual behavior".
That's what always makes me uncomfortable about censorship - especially this particular kind. Somebody says, "this was inappropriate content, we've removed it from your sight because it's inappropriate and you shouldn't be looking at it." Of course, since I can't look at it to judge for myself what they consider "inappropriate", I'll never know if they were right or wrong - or what else they might be censoring.
This will just spur BitTorrent developers into developing something even harder to stop. I see this as a bump in the road to a truly uncensorable internet.
I read a lot of blog posts and things for entertainment, but for actual education I actually prefer book books. I read a lot of technical books; almost anything O'Reilly or Addison Wesley. I still haven't found that the content online is as well put together as the dead tree equivalents.
I come to a parking lot where signs directed me to call a number and someone would be out
My wife is obsessed with using this. I hate it. Half the time I call the number and it rings for ten minutes and nobody picks up. I end up walking over to the door (which is 100 yards from the parking space) and knocking on it to get some pimple-faced teenager's attention.
Actually I distrust Facebook so much that I'm pretty sure they already have a few gigabytes of naked pictures of everybody, so uploading another one won't make much difference.
pays people displaced by technology to study, offering an incentive to learn new skills and reenter the workforce
While I admire his faith in humanity, this seems like a pipe dream. The job market is flooded with so many educated people right now that there's an implicit ranking:
Graduated from a "top" university with a hard science degree
Gradauted from a less-than-top university with a hard science degree
Graduated from anywhere with any other degree
Didn't graduate from anywhere except high school
If you're not in the first category, you're fighting for scraps right now without post-AI scarcity. Do you really think adding a fifth category is the solution? There just ain't enough work to go around.
Actually, according to the summary, it wasn't the US that destroyed it, but specifically Republicans that destroyed it (probably cackling with delight while they enjoyed another helping of boiled puppy).
I went back for an MS in CS (at an American university) about 10 years ago - not only was I the only non-foreign student in most of the classes, I was one of only a handful of non-Indians. There would be maybe 50 Indians students, an Indian instructor, one Chinese girl, and blue-eyed, blond-haired, pale-skinned me glowing like a neon sign.
And why not? I went back and got a master's degree in CS almost 10 years ago. Although I enjoyed doing it, and my then-employer paid for it, and I learned a lot - career-wise, it was a complete waste of time. In fact, you have people like Aline Lerner (http://blog.alinelerner.com/how-different-is-a-b-s-in-computer-science-from-a-m-s-in-computer-science-when-it-comes-to-recruiting/) insisting that "an MS degree has been one of the strongest indicators of poor technical interview performance", so an MS in CS might actually be HURTING American job seekers.
Slashdot Mirror
Especially when you don't actually get the farm.
Made much worse by the realities of the black market that's created when you outlaw something that there's a huge demand for.
Nah, he hasn't called Donald Trump a nazi in like, 12 hours. He's due for another any minute now.
Maybe, just maybe, the concept of "hate speech" is so vague that no two people will ever agree on what it constitutes, so nobody should be removing anything for violating it? Nah, that's just crazy talk, take down everything that somebody disagrees with.
tech bros litigating every tiny, pedantic detail in TFA in order to make themselves feel better?
See, I come across an article like this and I think, "well, at least they're being sort of reasonable here, even if I don't agree with their conclusions", and then somebody like you comes along and makes it crystal clear again what this is actually about, and it has nothing to do with gender equality. "make myself feel better?" What, exactly, is it that I would have to feel bad about? If anybody "pushed out" the women in tech, it was the apocryphal top-hat wearing, cigar-smoking, "good-old-boy network" that wanted them back home and in the kitchen, not me - I just found something I liked, studied it, and pursued a career in it. People like you are a good reminder that every time we hear about "equality in tech" what they're actually talking about is keeping down the nerds - sorry, "tech bros" - who've gotten just a little too uppity and forgotten their place in the pecking order and need to be brought back in line.
Actually, no, it's Clem's cousin from New York City who wants to try to pretend to be southern but isn't really. If he was, he'd know it's "y'all" and not "ya'll".
I'm not convinced that even this will be enough - they fired Matt Lauer immediately, with no evidence. You could shut yourself up in a room and have 0 contact with women and STILL find yourself fired for "inappropriate sexual behavior".
That's what always makes me uncomfortable about censorship - especially this particular kind. Somebody says, "this was inappropriate content, we've removed it from your sight because it's inappropriate and you shouldn't be looking at it." Of course, since I can't look at it to judge for myself what they consider "inappropriate", I'll never know if they were right or wrong - or what else they might be censoring.
This will just spur BitTorrent developers into developing something even harder to stop. I see this as a bump in the road to a truly uncensorable internet.
I should have read a book cover to cover when I was college...
I read a lot of blog posts and things for entertainment, but for actual education I actually prefer book books. I read a lot of technical books; almost anything O'Reilly or Addison Wesley. I still haven't found that the content online is as well put together as the dead tree equivalents.
I come to a parking lot where signs directed me to call a number and someone would be out
My wife is obsessed with using this. I hate it. Half the time I call the number and it rings for ten minutes and nobody picks up. I end up walking over to the door (which is 100 yards from the parking space) and knocking on it to get some pimple-faced teenager's attention.
The US is the only country that would actually have to do anything under the Paris Climate Deal.
Dad?
Actually I distrust Facebook so much that I'm pretty sure they already have a few gigabytes of naked pictures of everybody, so uploading another one won't make much difference.
Well, I thought it was really just that easy until I realized that the reason nobody had ever taken a naked picture of me was because I was ugly.
I swear I'm only storing the hash code. Honest.
pays people displaced by technology to study, offering an incentive to learn new skills and reenter the workforce
While I admire his faith in humanity, this seems like a pipe dream. The job market is flooded with so many educated people right now that there's an implicit ranking:
If you're not in the first category, you're fighting for scraps right now without post-AI scarcity. Do you really think adding a fifth category is the solution? There just ain't enough work to go around.
Coffee reverses this, though, right?
Remember when reading comic books and listening to rock and roll music made us all worship Satan? Good times.
The US destroyed it?
Actually, according to the summary, it wasn't the US that destroyed it, but specifically Republicans that destroyed it (probably cackling with delight while they enjoyed another helping of boiled puppy).
I went back for an MS in CS (at an American university) about 10 years ago - not only was I the only non-foreign student in most of the classes, I was one of only a handful of non-Indians. There would be maybe 50 Indians students, an Indian instructor, one Chinese girl, and blue-eyed, blond-haired, pale-skinned me glowing like a neon sign.
"Harvard's idea of diversity is to have everybody look different but think the same" -- Harvey Silverglate
And why not? I went back and got a master's degree in CS almost 10 years ago. Although I enjoyed doing it, and my then-employer paid for it, and I learned a lot - career-wise, it was a complete waste of time. In fact, you have people like Aline Lerner (http://blog.alinelerner.com/how-different-is-a-b-s-in-computer-science-from-a-m-s-in-computer-science-when-it-comes-to-recruiting/) insisting that "an MS degree has been one of the strongest indicators of poor technical interview performance", so an MS in CS might actually be HURTING American job seekers.
effort
Wait, what? You didn't say anything about effort. I want massive amounts of money, that's all.