While I too would question the validity of something just using name and birthdate as identifying factors....
For the life of me, I can't imagine how this would affect "voters of color" more than it would any lighter skinned race.
I don't know about this particular case, but generally any thing that makes it more difficult to vote has a larger impact on people who have less resources. If you already have a passport, driver's license, car, flexibility in working hours requirements, reliable internet connectivity, and a few hundred bucks in disposible income - it is relatively easy to deal with voter ID requirements, inconvenient poll locations, and re-registering to vote after being dropped from the rolls due to clerical errors. If you vote regularly you are more familiar with the system and are less likely to be dropped in the first place.
The "marginalized" in society do often not have all of these atributes. While skin colour, race, or ethnic background do not directly make these types of impediments more challenging, and anyone can and is in this type of "marginalized" category, there are higher fractions of "people of color" who have these challenges than, "people not of color" I suppose.
Socio-eccomomic factors are correlated with race. I think it is probably a bad narrative to talk in such a way that it implies that they are synonomous, it is also a mistake to ignore the fact that they are interrelated.
Again and again.. sometimes I have to compare this to the plot-line for the rebellion in the two-season scifi series Continuum.
The series centers on the conflict between a group of terrorists from the year 2077 who time travel to Vancouver, British Columbia, in 2012, and a police officer who unintentionally accompanies them. In spite of being many years early, the terrorist group decides to continue its violent campaign to stop corporations of the future from replacing governments, while the police officer endeavours to stop them without revealing to everyone that she and the terrorists are from the future.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1954347/
Continuum ran for four seasons, a total of 42 episodes.
A large part of the challenges that Peurto Rico faces is that it is not in fact a country, but rather it is an "unincorporated territory of the United States located in the northeast Caribbean Sea".
And to top it off, most people can't find Puerto Rico to help out because so many people misspell the name!
A large part of the challenges that Peurto Rico faces is that it is not in fact a country, but rather it is an "unincorporated territory of the United States located in the northeast Caribbean Sea".
Peraps if Peurto Rico was a country (or a "state" within the United States), they might have been better able to respond to the types of problems that this storm has caused.
WIth a population of a bit more than 3.4 million, the territory seems to have more people than twenty-two other US states:
Malcom Gladwell pointed this out in his book tipping point several years ago. Bill Joy of Sun fame and Steve Jobs were similarly situated and owe a great deal of their success to their starting position on the chess board.
This is one reason I'm really impressed by Elon Musk. After making a fortune in Paypal, he went on to found other businesses that look like they'll be highly successful (and also Hyperloop).He has multiple independent successes, which means he's got actual extraordinary ability instead of luck.
Perhaps, but how can you tell it isn't largely luck? Out of all the people who have tried this type of thing multiple times, how many, just by chance, would be expected to have this type of success? Just because someone predicts ten flips of a coin correctly, doesn't necessarily mean that they can actually make coin-flip predictions. Get enough people predicting and flipping, and it is not suprising that a small number of them "get it right" a seemingly amazing number of times.
Amazon has many jobs that cant be automated because they need to employ a human.
This is because many jobs require legal responsibility to be exercised and that does not exist under law for a robot. Put simply you cant send a robot to jail when it ships the wrong medicine to a patient killing them.
We don't put people in jail who make this type of error either. This type of error (wrong medicine to patient kills them) is fairly common in the US (and worldwide for that matter), and automation is often one of the tools being used to minimize it.
I can't think of any job Amazon has, other than perhaps some of the financials or engineering, where there are legal requirements for humans.
Agreed. Our internet provider (Shaw Canada) has been shamelessly begging for us to bundle cable with our internet for years now.
You might save some bucks switching to https://start.ca/ or https://teksavvy.com/ for your internet service - they resell the "bug guy's" intenet service. Here are some comparisons for Ontario pricing - similar savings are likely available elsewhere:
Because idiot snowflakes hate to receive a taste of their own medicine and be treated like they treat others.
I suppose "idiot snowflaces" referred to the individuals being "banned" rather than those doing the banning, right? Otherwise you would have used the singular "an idiot snowflake hates..."
Interesting how such a small change could redirect the direction of the comment by 180 degrees.
Are the two groups of complainers really that different?
You mean like the requirement that all phones use a standard charger interface (micro-USB)? Not on any iPhone I've seen.
Didn't they get a special dispensation or something of that order? Something like, we're complying because micro-USB to Lightning converter cables exist.
I think they just include a micro-USB to Lighting converter cable in the sales package and they are in compliance. Possibly the Lighting to USB-A cable is sufficient.
periods are allowed by the standard, but they are not required to be ignored by the standard, though they are allowed to be ignored as Google does. Not all providers ignore them.
Periods are allowed on the left of the "@", but they are not required to be ignored. Gmail does ignore them, which is allowed, as they can do anything they want with the left side of the "@", but they are not required to ignore them. Many compliant systems do not ignore them.
This happened to me. Some lady signed up as first-initial.middle-initial.lastname@gmail.com when in fact mine is the exact same but with no periods. To this day I get random order confirmations from Sears and medical info. I even know her name and address from the registration to the sites. No, I'm not going to pay her a visit or anything. It only happens a few times a year. But people really need to be clued in on this behavior of GMail. And I agree, it needs to be put to an end from Google.
You are mistaken, she never got that account. That lady actually signed up for something like first-initial.lastname@gmail.com but she ocassionally forgets and uses her middle initial too when she signs up for services and that is what is generating the crap.
You can test this out by going to gmail.com and signing in with the account first-initial.middle-initial.lastname@gmail.com and using your password and discovering that you can sign into your own account, even with the extra periods. She signs into a different account, but ocassionally gives out your email address by mistake.
Look, every OS has some stuff that pisses you off, and some bits that are half arsed. On MacOS you still throw drives in the bin to eject them. Doesn't make MacOS a "complete disaster".
Your overall point is valie, but it has been a decade or more since they have had the trash icon transform into an "eject" icon as soon as you start moving a volume icon around. That is in addition to all the other eject icons and menu commands available.
So in fact one does not "throw drives in the bin to eject them", but that isn't to say it is much better since you drag them "to the icon that used to be a trash icon, and again becomes a trash icon as soon as you releast the mouse button".
Throw drives in the bin? Nope. Just use the eject icon that's in the Finder. Have you even used MacOS in the past three years?
I remember "Drag floppy icon to trash to eject" from decades ago.
Are you saying Apple only just addressed this not-intuitive issue three years ago?
It has been a decade or more since they have had the trash icon transform into an "eject" icon as soon as you start moving a volume icon around. That is in addition to all the other eject icons and menu commands available.
Yes it does. If out of the hundreds of other kids in my school, nearly all of which had chicken pox as children, not one of them, their siblings, or cousins died of it, then yes, that makes it rare.
Well, I did say "super-rare", but I will grant you that chicken pox is rarely fatal - the CDC numbers seem to be about 100 death per 3,500,000 cases, or 1 death per 35,000 infections. Still worth preventing in my mind but I can see that it is well within the risk level of things that we find "acceptable". Traffic deaths in the US are about 1 death per 10,000 per year people for comparison.
If the same standard of rarity and epidemic used for diseases like measles, mumps, and chicken pox were applied to vaccine damages to children we would hear nothing at all on the news except a constant screaming about the hundreds of thousands of kids with permanent damage caused by vaccines.
I guess you'll have to colour me unconvinced. What exactly are the "hundreds of thousands of kids" you are referrig to? If you referred to them earlier in more detail, I don't seem to be able to find it.
The only info I can quickly find (such as https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p... ) seems to indicate that the vaccinated have slightly lower death rates immediately following vaccination - but the deaths are virtually all in the elderly, and it did not look at "permanent damage" less sever than death (which incidentally is pretty permanent).
Oh, a bit more searching turns up http://www.politifact.com/pund... which gives a bit more detail using the VAERS data. It does look like there might be as many as a 100+ deaths associated with vaccines, with the strong caveat of the relationship between correlation and causality. Of course that is ALL vaccines, so even for just chicken pox, the "lives saved" seems to be on the same order as the "lives lost" for all vaccines combined. If each specific vaccine prevents more deaths than can be attributed to that specific vaccine, then the calculations seem to be in favour of widespread use. I would be interested in further research about these sorts of calculation.
But there is no evidence that people who survive unvacinated are a significantly differnt population than those who survive because of vacination. Vacinations do not allow bad genes to propagate, as it isn't people with "marginal imune systems" who benifit - all benifit. Any "unfit" people are not being selected FOR they are just not being as strongly selected AGAINST. There is little evolutionary selection operating over fifty generations for genes that provide marginal breeding advantage or disadvantage.
Of the 10% that died due to preventible deseases, what fraction of that population died due to genetic factors (ie a "poor imune system" and what fraction of that population died due to non-genetic factors (marginal nutrition, marginal care, etc.) I suspect that the vast majority of the dead were genetical indistinguishable from those who survived, and if that is the case, your "conservative estimates" vastly overstate the impact.
How many generations are we talking here? We are less than fifty generations since the dark ages, a 1% difference in survival rates due to lack of imunization is totally drowned out by other effects of technology. Opposing vaccination based on this (even if it wasn't completly bogus for any number of other reasons) makes less sense than opposing space research because some people are afraid of the colours they paint the rockets.
So, 35 people died from disease. How many died from injecting toxic chemical cocktails together with viruses? No, right, keep forgetting; we're not allowed to do research on that.
There is a lot or research of the effectiveness and dangers of all of the vacines we are talking about. Heck the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services even has a website for tracking reactions in the US: https://vaers.hhs.gov/
Of course, if you believe that everyone in the industry and the HHS is "in on it" then there probably isn't much I could do to help convince you. It does seem like people working in "big pharma" as well as for the HHS seem to believe their own "propaganda" since they seem to have high rates of immunization of their kids, unless you think they are using the "safe stuff" and sticking the "toxic chemical cocktails" into the rest of us. Or maybe they just hate kids in general.
If you want to look at it in this way, isn't all medicine against evolutionary pressure?
I would say that all medicine is just another evolutionary pressure. Individuals and groups that make use of medicines are "competing" against each other as well as those that don't make use of medicines. Similar to the use of knives, fire, and sub-machine-guns. If "sickly" people with technology out-breed "fit" people without technolgy, evolution doesn't care, it still brands the breeders as "winners" and ignores the fate of the not-successful-breeders.
An orgnaism's environment is always shaped by the behaviour of the organism as well as the other organisms in the environment. Sometimes "adapt or die" means "adapt the environment" rather than "adapt yourself".
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A bit of carma whoring by replying to an early post with unrelated info:
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While I too would question the validity of something just using name and birthdate as identifying factors....
For the life of me, I can't imagine how this would affect "voters of color" more than it would any lighter skinned race.
I don't know about this particular case, but generally any thing that makes it more difficult to vote has a larger impact on people who have less resources. If you already have a passport, driver's license, car, flexibility in working hours requirements, reliable internet connectivity, and a few hundred bucks in disposible income - it is relatively easy to deal with voter ID requirements, inconvenient poll locations, and re-registering to vote after being dropped from the rolls due to clerical errors. If you vote regularly you are more familiar with the system and are less likely to be dropped in the first place.
The "marginalized" in society do often not have all of these atributes. While skin colour, race, or ethnic background do not directly make these types of impediments more challenging, and anyone can and is in this type of "marginalized" category, there are higher fractions of "people of color" who have these challenges than, "people not of color" I suppose.
Socio-eccomomic factors are correlated with race. I think it is probably a bad narrative to talk in such a way that it implies that they are synonomous, it is also a mistake to ignore the fact that they are interrelated.
Again and again.. sometimes I have to compare this to the plot-line for the rebellion in the two-season scifi series Continuum.
The series centers on the conflict between a group of terrorists from the year 2077 who time travel to Vancouver, British Columbia, in 2012, and a police officer who unintentionally accompanies them. In spite of being many years early, the terrorist group decides to continue its violent campaign to stop corporations of the future from replacing governments, while the police officer endeavours to stop them without revealing to everyone that she and the terrorists are from the future.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1954347/
Continuum ran for four seasons, a total of 42 episodes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
A large part of the challenges that Peurto Rico faces is that it is not in fact a country, but rather it is an "unincorporated territory of the United States located in the northeast Caribbean Sea".
And to top it off, most people can't find Puerto Rico to help out because so many people misspell the name!
Yeah, those people are idiots!
A large part of the challenges that Peurto Rico faces is that it is not in fact a country, but rather it is an "unincorporated territory of the United States located in the northeast Caribbean Sea".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://www.thoughtco.com/puer...
Peraps if Peurto Rico was a country (or a "state" within the United States), they might have been better able to respond to the types of problems that this storm has caused.
WIth a population of a bit more than 3.4 million, the territory seems to have more people than twenty-two other US states:
http://worldpopulationreview.c...
Malcom Gladwell pointed this out in his book tipping point several years ago. Bill Joy of Sun fame and Steve Jobs were similarly situated and owe a great deal of their success to their starting position on the chess board.
I think you are thinking of "Outliers".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Ouch - time to move to Denmark....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
This is one reason I'm really impressed by Elon Musk. After making a fortune in Paypal, he went on to found other businesses that look like they'll be highly successful (and also Hyperloop).He has multiple independent successes, which means he's got actual extraordinary ability instead of luck.
Perhaps, but how can you tell it isn't largely luck? Out of all the people who have tried this type of thing multiple times, how many, just by chance, would be expected to have this type of success? Just because someone predicts ten flips of a coin correctly, doesn't necessarily mean that they can actually make coin-flip predictions. Get enough people predicting and flipping, and it is not suprising that a small number of them "get it right" a seemingly amazing number of times.
Amazon has many jobs that cant be automated because they need to employ a human.
This is because many jobs require legal responsibility to be exercised and that does not exist under law for a robot. Put simply you cant send a robot to jail when it ships the wrong medicine to a patient killing them.
We don't put people in jail who make this type of error either. This type of error (wrong medicine to patient kills them) is fairly common in the US (and worldwide for that matter), and automation is often one of the tools being used to minimize it.
I can't think of any job Amazon has, other than perhaps some of the financials or engineering, where there are legal requirements for humans.
Agreed. Our internet provider (Shaw Canada) has been shamelessly begging for us to bundle cable with our internet for years now.
You might save some bucks switching to https://start.ca/ or https://teksavvy.com/ for your internet service - they resell the "bug guy's" intenet service. Here are some comparisons for Ontario pricing - similar savings are likely available elsewhere:
http://compare.wikia.com/wiki/...
Because idiot snowflakes hate to receive a taste of their own medicine and be treated like they treat others.
I suppose "idiot snowflaces" referred to the individuals being "banned" rather than those doing the banning, right? Otherwise you would have used the singular "an idiot snowflake hates..."
Interesting how such a small change could redirect the direction of the comment by 180 degrees.
Are the two groups of complainers really that different?
You mean like the requirement that all phones use a standard charger interface (micro-USB)? Not on any iPhone I've seen.
Didn't they get a special dispensation or something of that order? Something like, we're complying because micro-USB to Lightning converter cables exist.
I think they just include a micro-USB to Lighting converter cable in the sales package and they are in compliance. Possibly the Lighting to USB-A cable is sufficient.
"This is That" is a statire news show:
http://www.cbc.ca/radio/thisis...
Meet the man who went unpaid as an intern for 35 years
After being offered an unpaid position as CEO of his company, Bill Marshall has had enough and is blowing the whistle on unpaid internships.
"For 35 years they just kept telling me I was getting on the job experience ... now I know I was being taken advantage of." ....
very good points.
periods are allowed by the standard, but they are not required to be ignored by the standard, though they are allowed to be ignored as Google does. Not all providers ignore them.
Periods are allowed on the left of the "@", but they are not required to be ignored. Gmail does ignore them, which is allowed, as they can do anything they want with the left side of the "@", but they are not required to ignore them. Many compliant systems do not ignore them.
This happened to me. Some lady signed up as first-initial.middle-initial.lastname@gmail.com when in fact mine is the exact same but with no periods. To this day I get random order confirmations from Sears and medical info. I even know her name and address from the registration to the sites. No, I'm not going to pay her a visit or anything. It only happens a few times a year. But people really need to be clued in on this behavior of GMail. And I agree, it needs to be put to an end from Google.
You are mistaken, she never got that account. That lady actually signed up for something like first-initial.lastname@gmail.com but she ocassionally forgets and uses her middle initial too when she signs up for services and that is what is generating the crap.
You can test this out by going to gmail.com and signing in with the account first-initial.middle-initial.lastname@gmail.com and using your password and discovering that you can sign into your own account, even with the extra periods. She signs into a different account, but ocassionally gives out your email address by mistake.
Look, every OS has some stuff that pisses you off, and some bits that are half arsed. On MacOS you still throw drives in the bin to eject them. Doesn't make MacOS a "complete disaster".
Your overall point is valie, but it has been a decade or more since they have had the trash icon transform into an "eject" icon as soon as you start moving a volume icon around. That is in addition to all the other eject icons and menu commands available.
So in fact one does not "throw drives in the bin to eject them", but that isn't to say it is much better since you drag them "to the icon that used to be a trash icon, and again becomes a trash icon as soon as you releast the mouse button".
Throw drives in the bin? Nope. Just use the eject icon that's in the Finder. Have you even used MacOS in the past three years?
I remember "Drag floppy icon to trash to eject" from decades ago.
Are you saying Apple only just addressed this not-intuitive issue three years ago?
It has been a decade or more since they have had the trash icon transform into an "eject" icon as soon as you start moving a volume icon around. That is in addition to all the other eject icons and menu commands available.
Yes it does. If out of the hundreds of other kids in my school, nearly all of which had chicken pox as children, not one of them, their siblings, or cousins died of it, then yes, that makes it rare.
Well, I did say "super-rare", but I will grant you that chicken pox is rarely fatal - the CDC numbers seem to be about 100 death per 3,500,000 cases, or 1 death per 35,000 infections. Still worth preventing in my mind but I can see that it is well within the risk level of things that we find "acceptable". Traffic deaths in the US are about 1 death per 10,000 per year people for comparison.
If the same standard of rarity and epidemic used for diseases like measles, mumps, and chicken pox were applied to vaccine damages to children we would hear nothing at all on the news except a constant screaming about the hundreds of thousands of kids with permanent damage caused by vaccines.
I guess you'll have to colour me unconvinced. What exactly are the "hundreds of thousands of kids" you are referrig to? If you referred to them earlier in more detail, I don't seem to be able to find it.
The only info I can quickly find (such as https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p... ) seems to indicate that the vaccinated have slightly lower death rates immediately following vaccination - but the deaths are virtually all in the elderly, and it did not look at "permanent damage" less sever than death (which incidentally is pretty permanent).
Oh, a bit more searching turns up http://www.politifact.com/pund... which gives a bit more detail using the VAERS data. It does look like there might be as many as a 100+ deaths associated with vaccines, with the strong caveat of the relationship between correlation and causality. Of course that is ALL vaccines, so even for just chicken pox, the "lives saved" seems to be on the same order as the "lives lost" for all vaccines combined. If each specific vaccine prevents more deaths than can be attributed to that specific vaccine, then the calculations seem to be in favour of widespread use. I would be interested in further research about these sorts of calculation.
But there is no evidence that people who survive unvacinated are a significantly differnt population than those who survive because of vacination. Vacinations do not allow bad genes to propagate, as it isn't people with "marginal imune systems" who benifit - all benifit. Any "unfit" people are not being selected FOR they are just not being as strongly selected AGAINST. There is little evolutionary selection operating over fifty generations for genes that provide marginal breeding advantage or disadvantage.
Of the 10% that died due to preventible deseases, what fraction of that population died due to genetic factors (ie a "poor imune system" and what fraction of that population died due to non-genetic factors (marginal nutrition, marginal care, etc.) I suspect that the vast majority of the dead were genetical indistinguishable from those who survived, and if that is the case, your "conservative estimates" vastly overstate the impact.
How many generations are we talking here? We are less than fifty generations since the dark ages, a 1% difference in survival rates due to lack of imunization is totally drowned out by other effects of technology. Opposing vaccination based on this (even if it wasn't completly bogus for any number of other reasons) makes less sense than opposing space research because some people are afraid of the colours they paint the rockets.
So, 35 people died from disease. How many died from injecting toxic chemical cocktails together with viruses? No, right, keep forgetting; we're not allowed to do research on that.
There is a lot or research of the effectiveness and dangers of all of the vacines we are talking about. Heck the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services even has a website for tracking reactions in the US: https://vaers.hhs.gov/
Of course, if you believe that everyone in the industry and the HHS is "in on it" then there probably isn't much I could do to help convince you. It does seem like people working in "big pharma" as well as for the HHS seem to believe their own "propaganda" since they seem to have high rates of immunization of their kids, unless you think they are using the "safe stuff" and sticking the "toxic chemical cocktails" into the rest of us. Or maybe they just hate kids in general.
If you want to look at it in this way, isn't all medicine against evolutionary pressure?
I would say that all medicine is just another evolutionary pressure. Individuals and groups that make use of medicines are "competing" against each other as well as those that don't make use of medicines. Similar to the use of knives, fire, and sub-machine-guns. If "sickly" people with technology out-breed "fit" people without technolgy, evolution doesn't care, it still brands the breeders as "winners" and ignores the fate of the not-successful-breeders.
An orgnaism's environment is always shaped by the behaviour of the organism as well as the other organisms in the environment. Sometimes "adapt or die" means "adapt the environment" rather than "adapt yourself".