I can trot out my usual question: is this gonna change how anyone votes? Seriously, is it?
I'm relieved that you trotted it out. With many of us having a financial incentive to create a political divide on what has historically been more of a technical issue, it's heartening to know that we have such a reliable trope. "Is ____ opinion on ____ going to change how anyone votes?" is flexible enough that we can use it on a range of issues. Net neutrality, race, equality, climate change, livable wage... it doesn't even matter what side of the divide you're paid to push. Just invoke that question and you can dismiss the entire subject for enough of the readers to turn the tide.
I read the summary and came in to make similar criticism to pretty much all of the comments I've seen so far. I mean, white on white on white? It seems ridiculous.
But then I looked at the before and after screenshots and I have to say... the after seems much more straight forward. Having dealt with a number of email apps, the after looks simply like a list of emails. The before looks... weird. The red portions are super exaggerated. It's not bad by any means, but the red seems like overkill to draw attention to the search and the new email areas. The new design actually makes it much more clear that it is a search area.
I'm no fan of redesign for redesign sake, and I'm definitely sensitive to changes in any website/app that I rely on. Still, this one seems like an improvement despite how it's positioned in the summary.
Interesting points.
1. A government worker shouldn't have a high-end luxury SUV.
2. Given that the woman was stressed, she should have obviously sold the high-end luxury SUV - despite the fact that she hadn't missed a pay check.
3. If you're going to own something expensive, you had better have enough money that the prospect of being out of a job doesn't make you stressed enough to bring it up during smalltalk.
4. Getting a car detailed is a wasteful thing for a government worker to do. That's better reserved for other people who were at the full service car wash, like you.
5. You're aware of actual cases where government workers watched porn in the office and only got a slap on the wrist.
The issue that they seem to be trying to address is to expose groups that are coordinating an agenda under the guise of seemingly unrelated actors. This doesn't seem to be about saying "we don't like what Group A is saying". Rather, it seems to be targeting "Group A is pretending to be Group B through Z". This isn't necessarily about news either. The examples that have been published tend to be false flags. A group pretending to be a particular organization pushing a particular message, holding a rally, or doing something outrageous. In some examples, a single group is pretending to be two conflicting organizations, with the impersonation attempting to create divide between the two.
This doesn't need to be about foreign actors either. If political parties, advertisers, businesses, or even lone wolves are engaging in intentional deception in the origin of messages, that seems worthwhile to at least publicize.
Your post seems to suggest that people can only choose a single issue to focus on, rather than targeting multiple issues. If someone were championing vaccines to prevent the flu, would you write a similar long post using your data to point out that accidents and suicides cause far more deaths than influenza?
I'm not throwing my hat into this whole gun control debate, but I just don't understand what sort of point you're trying to make with your post.
I'm not expecting the cost of my internet to go up or the general speed to change. The ISP has no reason to raise that cost or to limit my speed simply due to the change in rules. The price increase and speed change that I'm worried about is for the services that I consume via the internet - Netflix, Youtube, Amazon, Hulu, AppleTV rentals, etc. What I'm curious to see is:
1. Does the price of services that I'm using go up?
2. Do these services maintain a similar quality of service as they do today? Will I be able to rent a movie via AppleTV and have it still be instantly watchable? Will Netflix and Hulu still stream at a watchable rate?
As you say, time will tell. Some of these effects may be difficult to measure for the layman though. The speed test against a "speed test" site probably doesn't change. Raised cost for a watchable Amazon Prime streaming video might be spread across the general cost of goods from Amazon.
Sure, I can somewhat sympathize with him - right up until the point when he wrote the letter. That was the point when he became an active player in bringing a large swath of his coworkers down.
I mean, is this guy's experience that different from any of ours? We're mostly comp sci or engineering majors of some sort. Sure, being a CS major wasn't outlandishly cool, but really, was there a major at your school that was really considered cool? Yeah, a lot of people may have flocked to psychology or business, but I wouldn't say that exactly made it cool.
But, sure, I'll give you that society doesn't exactly hold IT-related interests on a platter. But what does that mean really? Some jokes in movies and TV shows about nerds? Maybe women don't flock to us? How many times do you really experience an active outward action where someone belittled you for being in CS/engineering? A few jerks here and there? Those are the people he should be mad at - the people who actively picked on him and made him supposedly worthy of our compassion.
And now, he is one of them. He is the active voice who told his female coworkers that they couldn't cut it. How is this different than the jock who shouts "nerd" at a group of CS students eating lunch? Yeah, he isn't the first guy who made them feel like that and he won't be the last, but he is the guy who did it.
So, we have an individual who took it upon themselves to actively strike out at others, and they're being called out for it. Good. If some jock made the mistake of writing a manifesto that CS majors are pansies, I'd hope they'd get the same.
Wait, we need the hunting, right? We've all heard that hunting is necessary for a healthy population. Surely someone has been hunting at Chernobyl in order for the animals to better off.
Check out https://soylentnews.org/ if you are looking for a new place. It reminds me of/. from 10 years ago, in particular the GUI and interactions. I currently find it marginally useful, as there aren't nearly as many comments on stories as there are here, but hopefully that will change over time if the community grows.
I can't believe that I'm actually reading an April Fools Day thread, much less commenting on one, but here goes....
The difference between a terrorist and another type of combatant isn't history or what the group is fighting for. It is whether they target civilian populations or not and use terror as a tactic. The term terrorist has been rendered meaningless in recent times. Now we see "terrorist attack on army base". Targeting a military force is not terrorism, regardless of the group who does it.
I wear almost nothing but jeans and jean shorts most days.........But to say it doesn't fit in "regular" pants I just don't think is accurate. You most definitely do not need a fanny pack or anything like that.
Believe me, jean shorts are the pants equivalent of a fanny pack.
Weird that this is the only comment so far that even mentions this part of the story. Can you imagine if Apple put this restriction in place with the next iPhone?
Even if they provide equal or better, they've lost me. When you have absolute control and abuse your customers, why would they even entertain sticking with you when the playing field becomes level? You've already proven your customer service at that point.
So, to return to the GP's example, do you think that agnostics would say: "Invisible pink unicorns have not yet been proven to exist, therefore I will act under the working assumption that they do not exist."
I see this atheism/agnosticism argument all the time and it really just seems to come down to semantics. An atheist is comfortable saying that they don't believe in something, whereas an agnostic (for some reason only in the case of a god argument) has to be super literal and state that anything (living teapots on Saturn) could exist. Face it, you don't believe that invisible pink unicorns exist. You don't believe that there are living teapots on Saturn.
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I'm relieved that you trotted it out. With many of us having a financial incentive to create a political divide on what has historically been more of a technical issue, it's heartening to know that we have such a reliable trope. "Is ____ opinion on ____ going to change how anyone votes?" is flexible enough that we can use it on a range of issues. Net neutrality, race, equality, climate change, livable wage... it doesn't even matter what side of the divide you're paid to push. Just invoke that question and you can dismiss the entire subject for enough of the readers to turn the tide.
I read the summary and came in to make similar criticism to pretty much all of the comments I've seen so far. I mean, white on white on white? It seems ridiculous.
But then I looked at the before and after screenshots and I have to say... the after seems much more straight forward. Having dealt with a number of email apps, the after looks simply like a list of emails. The before looks... weird. The red portions are super exaggerated. It's not bad by any means, but the red seems like overkill to draw attention to the search and the new email areas. The new design actually makes it much more clear that it is a search area.
I'm no fan of redesign for redesign sake, and I'm definitely sensitive to changes in any website/app that I rely on. Still, this one seems like an improvement despite how it's positioned in the summary.
We DON'T need a 7 inch phone as thin as a knife!
But then you wouldn't need to also carry a knife!
Interesting points.
1. A government worker shouldn't have a high-end luxury SUV.
2. Given that the woman was stressed, she should have obviously sold the high-end luxury SUV - despite the fact that she hadn't missed a pay check.
3. If you're going to own something expensive, you had better have enough money that the prospect of being out of a job doesn't make you stressed enough to bring it up during smalltalk.
4. Getting a car detailed is a wasteful thing for a government worker to do. That's better reserved for other people who were at the full service car wash, like you.
5. You're aware of actual cases where government workers watched porn in the office and only got a slap on the wrist.
The issue that they seem to be trying to address is to expose groups that are coordinating an agenda under the guise of seemingly unrelated actors. This doesn't seem to be about saying "we don't like what Group A is saying". Rather, it seems to be targeting "Group A is pretending to be Group B through Z". This isn't necessarily about news either. The examples that have been published tend to be false flags. A group pretending to be a particular organization pushing a particular message, holding a rally, or doing something outrageous. In some examples, a single group is pretending to be two conflicting organizations, with the impersonation attempting to create divide between the two.
This doesn't need to be about foreign actors either. If political parties, advertisers, businesses, or even lone wolves are engaging in intentional deception in the origin of messages, that seems worthwhile to at least publicize.
Your post seems to suggest that people can only choose a single issue to focus on, rather than targeting multiple issues. If someone were championing vaccines to prevent the flu, would you write a similar long post using your data to point out that accidents and suicides cause far more deaths than influenza?
I'm not throwing my hat into this whole gun control debate, but I just don't understand what sort of point you're trying to make with your post.
I'm not expecting the cost of my internet to go up or the general speed to change. The ISP has no reason to raise that cost or to limit my speed simply due to the change in rules. The price increase and speed change that I'm worried about is for the services that I consume via the internet - Netflix, Youtube, Amazon, Hulu, AppleTV rentals, etc. What I'm curious to see is: 1. Does the price of services that I'm using go up? 2. Do these services maintain a similar quality of service as they do today? Will I be able to rent a movie via AppleTV and have it still be instantly watchable? Will Netflix and Hulu still stream at a watchable rate?
As you say, time will tell. Some of these effects may be difficult to measure for the layman though. The speed test against a "speed test" site probably doesn't change. Raised cost for a watchable Amazon Prime streaming video might be spread across the general cost of goods from Amazon.
Is the 2% when we actually click the link to RTF article?
Sure, I can somewhat sympathize with him - right up until the point when he wrote the letter. That was the point when he became an active player in bringing a large swath of his coworkers down.
I mean, is this guy's experience that different from any of ours? We're mostly comp sci or engineering majors of some sort. Sure, being a CS major wasn't outlandishly cool, but really, was there a major at your school that was really considered cool? Yeah, a lot of people may have flocked to psychology or business, but I wouldn't say that exactly made it cool.
But, sure, I'll give you that society doesn't exactly hold IT-related interests on a platter. But what does that mean really? Some jokes in movies and TV shows about nerds? Maybe women don't flock to us? How many times do you really experience an active outward action where someone belittled you for being in CS/engineering? A few jerks here and there? Those are the people he should be mad at - the people who actively picked on him and made him supposedly worthy of our compassion.
And now, he is one of them. He is the active voice who told his female coworkers that they couldn't cut it. How is this different than the jock who shouts "nerd" at a group of CS students eating lunch? Yeah, he isn't the first guy who made them feel like that and he won't be the last, but he is the guy who did it.
So, we have an individual who took it upon themselves to actively strike out at others, and they're being called out for it. Good. If some jock made the mistake of writing a manifesto that CS majors are pansies, I'd hope they'd get the same.
Wait, we need the hunting, right? We've all heard that hunting is necessary for a healthy population. Surely someone has been hunting at Chernobyl in order for the animals to better off.
Check out https://soylentnews.org/ if you are looking for a new place. It reminds me of /. from 10 years ago, in particular the GUI and interactions. I currently find it marginally useful, as there aren't nearly as many comments on stories as there are here, but hopefully that will change over time if the community grows.
I can't believe that I'm actually reading an April Fools Day thread, much less commenting on one, but here goes....
The difference between a terrorist and another type of combatant isn't history or what the group is fighting for. It is whether they target civilian populations or not and use terror as a tactic. The term terrorist has been rendered meaningless in recent times. Now we see "terrorist attack on army base". Targeting a military force is not terrorism, regardless of the group who does it.
We all went to Soylent News - the stories are more like the slashdot of old.
Why would an anti-American committee give the prize to the president of the United States?
tl;dr new platform starting with 0% marketshare has market share growing faster than established company.
Crap, now the NSA will have a backdoor into the government!
In other words, think long and hard about having Steve Dickson make purchasing decisions for your company in the future....
Believe me, jean shorts are the pants equivalent of a fanny pack.
Weird that this is the only comment so far that even mentions this part of the story. Can you imagine if Apple put this restriction in place with the next iPhone?
I wonder how long it will take for Comcast to suddenly decide to offer a very similar service in Provo.
Even if they provide equal or better, they've lost me. When you have absolute control and abuse your customers, why would they even entertain sticking with you when the playing field becomes level? You've already proven your customer service at that point.
Couldn't a god create a unicorn that is both invisible and pink? Are you saying that the power of a god is limited?
So, to return to the GP's example, do you think that agnostics would say: "Invisible pink unicorns have not yet been proven to exist, therefore I will act under the working assumption that they do not exist."
I see this atheism/agnosticism argument all the time and it really just seems to come down to semantics. An atheist is comfortable saying that they don't believe in something, whereas an agnostic (for some reason only in the case of a god argument) has to be super literal and state that anything (living teapots on Saturn) could exist. Face it, you don't believe that invisible pink unicorns exist. You don't believe that there are living teapots on Saturn.
Yes, which is why Google is testing the concept on slashdot...
That would be a very good point if the CPU was the only resource that had contention on the system. On that Win 7 box, how much RAM is being used?