I'd like to agree with everything rickb said, and add a quick defense of the architect. There are two issues here: One is that architects are drinking the kool-aid because open offices are what sells. They tend to look better, they are cheaper to produce, and require far less floorspace. I remember advocating in school for divided offices, backed up by productivity studies, but I was told it's not what people (read:owners and upper management) want.
The second is that open office floorplans can work well for architects. Architecture requires a lot of what I would characterize as micro-collaboration, where I hold up a drawing or a study model and say "what do you think?", or someone asks a detailing or code question that could take 30 minutes to look up but someone else might know off the top of their head. By the comments I see here, I don't think software developers work like this at all.
All this being said, when my office moved spaces, what did we put in? Partition walls between desks.
So you're assuming that whatever social media trawling they engage in is going to create a smaller list of suspicious individuals? That's ridiculous. If they can't investigate the leads they have now, then adding more noisy data is not going to help anything.
As much as one could make this a free speech issue, the sad fact is that trolling is roughly the level of discourse we have sunk to. Every conversation and argument, every argument a fight. We don't want discussion, we want our blood boiling as we curse our foes, our enemies before us and our allies at our back. I'm as guilty as anyone else.
I'm at a loss as to why everyone seems so furious about this. Aside from the basic "well it's mine and I do with it whatever I want", which is categorically untrue for all aircraft, I fail to see how this limits on really harms the user in any way. What nefarious purpose is this registration going to serve? If someone could enlighten me I'd really be interested to know.
To be fair, the attempt here is to codify every method by which a person could be harmed, and have that data available for subsequent analysis. From that standpoint, knowing which birds are biting the shit out of people, or where people were when they were injured is very important. If this system is going to be useful it needs to be thorough, and that's going to lead to a ludicrous number of edge cases, but it's not intended to be memorized.
I agree with this. These blogpages just taint the main brand with low-quality content so that the name becomes meaningless. Just look at Forbes, does their magazine have any credibility anymore? If I see a story attributed to Forbes I just skip it, as I assume it's low-quality blog posting.
This rant does make me feel better about the science march, however, I'm glad that they remained apolitical enough to receive hate from both ends of the spectrum.
The fact that we even have germ theory is a huge improvement over even the 1800s. The advances we have that antibiotic resistance can't negate include, but are not limited to:
Sterilization*
Gloves and Handwashing*
Vaccinations*
IV administration of fluids
modern sanitation
These advantages put is far above our ancestors, for example we're not all going to suddenly get cholera just because it's become resistant to antibiotics. Even with antibiotics, the Bubonic Plague is still absurdly lethal, but in modern times we have been able to contain outbreaks because we understand its transmission vectors.
*we've been letting the first three slip away from us, probably because we've been so sure of our ability to stop infections after they've started.
Reductive vitriol like this accomplishes nothing. There is a world of difference between sleazy tabloids and the serious journalism, you can't use the actions of one to judge the other. Your comment makes as much sense as using the fact someone coded the virus as a reason to talk shit about CS majors and programming in general.
So looking it up, apparently the Greens were upset that their leader, Eva Glawischnig, was being called a "lousy traitor" and a "corrupt bumpkin". I would say it's relatively important for people to know, so we can tell this lousy traitor and the corrupt bumpkins on the courts in Austria what we think.
Unpopular opinion: Rocket launches have huge externalities and thus need to be tightly regulated (and taxed!) to ensure that the companies performing them are not taking advantage of their neighbors. That said, in my (more popular) opinion the private space travel industry needs all the help it can get right now, and assuming these taxes aren't minimal, the government should agree to waive them for the foreseeable future. In any case, I believe there is no harm in discussing what would be a fair tax.
This is what I'd suspected, however I think they're wrong in that they are essentially allowing the constitution to be violated in the process. I also think it's wrong in that there has always been information defendants had that could help the prosecution, just it now seems more tantalizing when the physicality of it is so evident.
And the way we do that is by refusing to make any testimony against yourself compulsory. Not your name, not your birthday, and not an arbitrary string of characters that allows the state to decrypt your files. Once you say that people can be compelled to testify, then the means of getting them to do that is just a technicality. The founders were smart enough to realize you don't stop torture by saying "no torture", that only encourages people to find ways of defining things as not torture. You do it by taking away the end result that torture was supposed to achieve, compelled testimony.
The problem is that historically, society has been a game for boys to win and girls to lose. A boy who doesn't distinguish himself and takes no chances will have no status, but a girl who stands out is more likely to be shunned than one who does not. So in this way your niece is not wrong. The only way around this is she has to find a way that her intelligence brings her status, either through example of a popular, smart woman, or admiration of a popular, smart man.
On the bright side, 12 is still young, and she has a while to go before she needs to be fully in gear for college.
I'd really like to read it. Unfortunately the summary contained most of the information contained in this Quartz "article". Seriously, there was nothing there. It seems to have been made by tracking down a philosophy professor who made a tweet and asking him three or four questions.
With enough money (read:energy, materials, and personnel) anything is possible. Not sure how you can make sure that the money is actually being spent to achieve your goals? Set up two separate entities competing with each other. Yes, it's twice the money, but your goals get accomplished.
I'm not going to get into whether that would be worth it or not, but it would be possible.
Yes, but it sells for a nonzero amount. If you have no tradable goods, property, and no skills or abilities that can't be surpassed by a machine, how are you supposed to acquire any money to buy these goods even at their reduced prices?
This has to be a joke. What large companies are actually scared of private lawsuits? They are only marginally scared of class-action suits, and tort "reform" will fix that for them.
You realize your example is a government oversight report, and that the findings from this report were used to improve the program to avoid similar issues in the future?
Yep they have a tendency to cling like hell to the very things that are making them depressed and suicidal in the first place
This is very, very true. Depression narrows the scope of your thinking, leading to odd circular reasoning and despair over problems that are either solvable or not actually problems in the first place. In your mind, not solving this particular problem in this particular way means that you are a complete failure.
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I'd like to agree with everything rickb said, and add a quick defense of the architect. There are two issues here: One is that architects are drinking the kool-aid because open offices are what sells. They tend to look better, they are cheaper to produce, and require far less floorspace. I remember advocating in school for divided offices, backed up by productivity studies, but I was told it's not what people (read:owners and upper management) want.
The second is that open office floorplans can work well for architects. Architecture requires a lot of what I would characterize as micro-collaboration, where I hold up a drawing or a study model and say "what do you think?", or someone asks a detailing or code question that could take 30 minutes to look up but someone else might know off the top of their head. By the comments I see here, I don't think software developers work like this at all.
All this being said, when my office moved spaces, what did we put in? Partition walls between desks.
So you're assuming that whatever social media trawling they engage in is going to create a smaller list of suspicious individuals? That's ridiculous. If they can't investigate the leads they have now, then adding more noisy data is not going to help anything.
As much as one could make this a free speech issue, the sad fact is that trolling is roughly the level of discourse we have sunk to. Every conversation and argument, every argument a fight. We don't want discussion, we want our blood boiling as we curse our foes, our enemies before us and our allies at our back. I'm as guilty as anyone else.
I'm at a loss as to why everyone seems so furious about this. Aside from the basic "well it's mine and I do with it whatever I want", which is categorically untrue for all aircraft, I fail to see how this limits on really harms the user in any way. What nefarious purpose is this registration going to serve? If someone could enlighten me I'd really be interested to know.
To be fair, the attempt here is to codify every method by which a person could be harmed, and have that data available for subsequent analysis. From that standpoint, knowing which birds are biting the shit out of people, or where people were when they were injured is very important. If this system is going to be useful it needs to be thorough, and that's going to lead to a ludicrous number of edge cases, but it's not intended to be memorized.
I agree with this. These blogpages just taint the main brand with low-quality content so that the name becomes meaningless. Just look at Forbes, does their magazine have any credibility anymore? If I see a story attributed to Forbes I just skip it, as I assume it's low-quality blog posting.
This rant does make me feel better about the science march, however, I'm glad that they remained apolitical enough to receive hate from both ends of the spectrum.
The fact that we even have germ theory is a huge improvement over even the 1800s. The advances we have that antibiotic resistance can't negate include, but are not limited to:
These advantages put is far above our ancestors, for example we're not all going to suddenly get cholera just because it's become resistant to antibiotics. Even with antibiotics, the Bubonic Plague is still absurdly lethal, but in modern times we have been able to contain outbreaks because we understand its transmission vectors.
*we've been letting the first three slip away from us, probably because we've been so sure of our ability to stop infections after they've started.
This is the most concise takedown of a clickbait submission I've seen. Bravo.
Wow, the story basically predicts SUVs.
I loved my TI-85, sadly it died to a leaking battery.
Reductive vitriol like this accomplishes nothing. There is a world of difference between sleazy tabloids and the serious journalism, you can't use the actions of one to judge the other. Your comment makes as much sense as using the fact someone coded the virus as a reason to talk shit about CS majors and programming in general.
So you start out calling people by their first name, then gradually start calling them by their title over time?
So looking it up, apparently the Greens were upset that their leader, Eva Glawischnig, was being called a "lousy traitor" and a "corrupt bumpkin". I would say it's relatively important for people to know, so we can tell this lousy traitor and the corrupt bumpkins on the courts in Austria what we think.
Headline - "More Than Half of People Believe Using Spyware To Snoop On Family Members Is Legal, Study Finds"
Article - "Well, it might be"
Unpopular opinion: Rocket launches have huge externalities and thus need to be tightly regulated (and taxed!) to ensure that the companies performing them are not taking advantage of their neighbors. That said, in my (more popular) opinion the private space travel industry needs all the help it can get right now, and assuming these taxes aren't minimal, the government should agree to waive them for the foreseeable future. In any case, I believe there is no harm in discussing what would be a fair tax.
Mod this up. Precedent is shockingly clear for this to be an open issue.
This is what I'd suspected, however I think they're wrong in that they are essentially allowing the constitution to be violated in the process. I also think it's wrong in that there has always been information defendants had that could help the prosecution, just it now seems more tantalizing when the physicality of it is so evident.
And the way we do that is by refusing to make any testimony against yourself compulsory. Not your name, not your birthday, and not an arbitrary string of characters that allows the state to decrypt your files. Once you say that people can be compelled to testify, then the means of getting them to do that is just a technicality. The founders were smart enough to realize you don't stop torture by saying "no torture", that only encourages people to find ways of defining things as not torture. You do it by taking away the end result that torture was supposed to achieve, compelled testimony.
The problem is that historically, society has been a game for boys to win and girls to lose. A boy who doesn't distinguish himself and takes no chances will have no status, but a girl who stands out is more likely to be shunned than one who does not. So in this way your niece is not wrong. The only way around this is she has to find a way that her intelligence brings her status, either through example of a popular, smart woman, or admiration of a popular, smart man.
On the bright side, 12 is still young, and she has a while to go before she needs to be fully in gear for college.
I'd really like to read it. Unfortunately the summary contained most of the information contained in this Quartz "article". Seriously, there was nothing there. It seems to have been made by tracking down a philosophy professor who made a tweet and asking him three or four questions.
With enough money (read:energy, materials, and personnel) anything is possible. Not sure how you can make sure that the money is actually being spent to achieve your goals? Set up two separate entities competing with each other. Yes, it's twice the money, but your goals get accomplished.
I'm not going to get into whether that would be worth it or not, but it would be possible.
Yes, but it sells for a nonzero amount. If you have no tradable goods, property, and no skills or abilities that can't be surpassed by a machine, how are you supposed to acquire any money to buy these goods even at their reduced prices?
This has to be a joke. What large companies are actually scared of private lawsuits? They are only marginally scared of class-action suits, and tort "reform" will fix that for them.
You realize your example is a government oversight report, and that the findings from this report were used to improve the program to avoid similar issues in the future?
This is very, very true. Depression narrows the scope of your thinking, leading to odd circular reasoning and despair over problems that are either solvable or not actually problems in the first place. In your mind, not solving this particular problem in this particular way means that you are a complete failure.