Indeed. There is a _very_ clear line between "stereotyping" and statistical observations. The second happens to be facts. But SJWs are not mentally equipped to understand that. These morons basically destroy everything they take over, because they have an invalid model of reality.
One point where the author is spot on is the overwhelming efforts to silence any other viewpoints.
Indeed. And that is a reliable indicator that things are nowhere as clear-cut as those trying to do the silencing claim them to be. In fact, this response is a pretty good indicator for a fanatic viewpoint that is without valid rational basis. You only have to silence voices if you have no good arguments to counter them.
Of course, the other points of the author may still be stupid, but the opposition definitely is trying to hide some dirty secrets, that is for sure.
Primary among them is that males and females have different interests and therefore tend to pursue different careers which could account for a lot of the so-called gender gaps in the tech sector
We aren't missing the point. We're well aware of the point. The problem is this thesis is wrong.
It is not. It is an observable statistical fact with an extremely high level of confidence. Of course, it does not fit a certain extremist mind-set that has unfortunately gone main-stream and that denies women agency to chose what field they want to go into while claiming the opposite. It also denies women the will and strength to overcome minor obstacles. If that is not extreme misogyny, I do not know what is.
Indeed. "Equal opportunity" means a woman can become an engineer, a scientist or a pilot by bringing about as much talent and as much dedication to the table as a man. I know quite a few female engineers and scientists. None of them said they ever faced discrimination on a level that mattered to their career-choice. But most of them have stories of women that decided to study something easier when faced with what it actually takes to get though such an education path. Ask a female engineer or scientist in the hard sciences why there are so few women in engineering and the hard sciences and you will hear things that would get a man burned at the stake if he dared to utter them.
So, while equal opportunity is a good thing, enforcing equal numbers in such a situation is about the worst thing you can do. It will kill a technological society. As does denying clearly observable statistical facts.
Excellent example. I do not even remember gender ever coming up in the systemd "debate" (well, more "train-wreck"), except as a completely made-up accusation against its enemies. Of course, if you want to discredit somebody, even the most basic propaganda manual states to associate them with anything that is deemed unacceptable in society. For example, say, in Germany around 70 years ago, it would have been stated that "the Jews" were against systemd, with about as much validity to it. Or in the US a bit later, it would have been "the communists".
I do know a few pretty good women scientists and engineers. I respect them. I recently encouraged my employer to hire one of them. I also think that systemd is an engineering abomination and that the community has dropped the ball there to an extreme degree.
I can tell you have zero understanding of how modern router technology works. You also have zero understanding of the hundreds of proposals going into this and similar directions that failed because they were not feasible without essentially killing performance completely. You still find such papers submitted to conferences, but most of the community has realized around 10 years ago that it cannot be done.
Because the Internet cannot be "secure by default", unless you forbid everything, make all computers closed and unhackable and make writing software a capital crime. Of course, that needs to be done globally.
While there are some fascist tendencies in that direction, they have zero change of succeeding in this regard, fortunately.
The real solution is that commercial vendors must be made accountable for the insecure and often unpatchable crap they put out there. As soon as that happens, the problem will essentially go away except for minor incidents that do not really matter.
And that is just completely wrong. Although the fans of the Transrapid like to revise (i.e. fake) history. Shanghai has some unique conditions that make it feasible there, including that they were willing to spend a lot more money on it than it is worth.
Indeed. Trains solve the problem. They are proven, with known risks and costs. They can be slow or pretty fast. They can be for passengers or freight. Safety systems are very advanced now. For example, the ICE drives autonomously above 160km/h. You can buy them in just the variant you want.
But that would not be flashy future-tech and it may involve admitting that there are some things the US does not do best. (Well, there are a lot of those things, but almost none are admitted...)
And that is just it. Europe and Asia have high-speed rail systems. They were really expensive. Don't you think alternatives were not looked at? Oh, wait, they were, for example the Transrapid. Turns out the alternatives are not commercially viable and are technologically problematic.
My take here is the Musk has some inkling that he will fail on the tech side and is preparing a smokescreen. And, I have to admit, it is an excellent smokescreen as getting the permits needed here may well be infeasible as well.
How a basically rich country can be driven utterly into the ground by massive mismanagement. Leads me to believe that it all comes down to the people and who they put in charge. As long as people do not start to wise up, we will continue have catastrophes like that. Not that what is going on in the US, the UK or the eastern parts of the EU is any better: Stupid people that believe stupid promises by utterly evil politicians.
Sure, tire-dust is still there, but braking is done regeneratively in any sane electrical car design and conventional, particle-generating brakes are only there for emergencies.
Actually, it will. They are talking 1 milirem, which as high-energy Alpha, directly on vulnerable lung tissue is quite a lot. The number is only that low because Alpha has basically no reach. That does not protect the cells in reach at all though. Misdirection of this type is quite common in the utterly criminal nuclear industry.
Maybe they should just have practiced a bit less stupidity over the last few years? Anyways, that battle is over. The code-base may make a comeback in a few years, but not with the people currently in charge at Mozilla.
Pretty wrong. Note taking works much better in paper, the recall values are much, much better. Learning to code? In school? Forget it. and "etc..." just means you are one of these believers in "technology fixes everything". It does not. It makes some things easier, which is, in most cases, not desirable during education.
Actually, current research says that the educational benefit of computers i the classroom seems to be significantly negative. For books, which is one point I agree on, an e-book reader would be the ting to use.
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While I can respect your attempt to manipulate the discussion by attempting to twist the facts, I will not respect the big lie inherent in doing so.
I am also prod to continue to make Slashdot an environment toxic to idiots, like you are one.
Indeed. There is a _very_ clear line between "stereotyping" and statistical observations. The second happens to be facts. But SJWs are not mentally equipped to understand that. These morons basically destroy everything they take over, because they have an invalid model of reality.
One point where the author is spot on is the overwhelming efforts to silence any other viewpoints.
Indeed. And that is a reliable indicator that things are nowhere as clear-cut as those trying to do the silencing claim them to be. In fact, this response is a pretty good indicator for a fanatic viewpoint that is without valid rational basis. You only have to silence voices if you have no good arguments to counter them.
Of course, the other points of the author may still be stupid, but the opposition definitely is trying to hide some dirty secrets, that is for sure.
Primary among them is that males and females have different interests and therefore tend to pursue different careers which could account for a lot of the so-called gender gaps in the tech sector
We aren't missing the point. We're well aware of the point. The problem is this thesis is wrong.
It is not. It is an observable statistical fact with an extremely high level of confidence. Of course, it does not fit a certain extremist mind-set that has unfortunately gone main-stream and that denies women agency to chose what field they want to go into while claiming the opposite. It also denies women the will and strength to overcome minor obstacles. If that is not extreme misogyny, I do not know what is.
Indeed. "Equal opportunity" means a woman can become an engineer, a scientist or a pilot by bringing about as much talent and as much dedication to the table as a man. I know quite a few female engineers and scientists. None of them said they ever faced discrimination on a level that mattered to their career-choice. But most of them have stories of women that decided to study something easier when faced with what it actually takes to get though such an education path. Ask a female engineer or scientist in the hard sciences why there are so few women in engineering and the hard sciences and you will hear things that would get a man burned at the stake if he dared to utter them.
So, while equal opportunity is a good thing, enforcing equal numbers in such a situation is about the worst thing you can do. It will kill a technological society. As does denying clearly observable statistical facts.
Excellent example. I do not even remember gender ever coming up in the systemd "debate" (well, more "train-wreck"), except as a completely made-up accusation against its enemies. Of course, if you want to discredit somebody, even the most basic propaganda manual states to associate them with anything that is deemed unacceptable in society. For example, say, in Germany around 70 years ago, it would have been stated that "the Jews" were against systemd, with about as much validity to it. Or in the US a bit later, it would have been "the communists".
I do know a few pretty good women scientists and engineers. I respect them. I recently encouraged my employer to hire one of them. I also think that systemd is an engineering abomination and that the community has dropped the ball there to an extreme degree.
I can tell you have zero understanding of how modern router technology works. You also have zero understanding of the hundreds of proposals going into this and similar directions that failed because they were not feasible without essentially killing performance completely. You still find such papers submitted to conferences, but most of the community has realized around 10 years ago that it cannot be done.
Because the Internet cannot be "secure by default", unless you forbid everything, make all computers closed and unhackable and make writing software a capital crime. Of course, that needs to be done globally.
While there are some fascist tendencies in that direction, they have zero change of succeeding in this regard, fortunately.
The real solution is that commercial vendors must be made accountable for the insecure and often unpatchable crap they put out there. As soon as that happens, the problem will essentially go away except for minor incidents that do not really matter.
And that is just completely wrong. Although the fans of the Transrapid like to revise (i.e. fake) history. Shanghai has some unique conditions that make it feasible there, including that they were willing to spend a lot more money on it than it is worth.
Indeed. Trains solve the problem. They are proven, with known risks and costs. They can be slow or pretty fast. They can be for passengers or freight. Safety systems are very advanced now. For example, the ICE drives autonomously above 160km/h. You can buy them in just the variant you want.
But that would not be flashy future-tech and it may involve admitting that there are some things the US does not do best. (Well, there are a lot of those things, but almost none are admitted...)
And that is just it. Europe and Asia have high-speed rail systems. They were really expensive. Don't you think alternatives were not looked at? Oh, wait, they were, for example the Transrapid. Turns out the alternatives are not commercially viable and are technologically problematic.
My take here is the Musk has some inkling that he will fail on the tech side and is preparing a smokescreen. And, I have to admit, it is an excellent smokescreen as getting the permits needed here may well be infeasible as well.
How a basically rich country can be driven utterly into the ground by massive mismanagement. Leads me to believe that it all comes down to the people and who they put in charge. As long as people do not start to wise up, we will continue have catastrophes like that. Not that what is going on in the US, the UK or the eastern parts of the EU is any better: Stupid people that believe stupid promises by utterly evil politicians.
Sure, tire-dust is still there, but braking is done regeneratively in any sane electrical car design and conventional, particle-generating brakes are only there for emergencies.
Actually, it will. They are talking 1 milirem, which as high-energy Alpha, directly on vulnerable lung tissue is quite a lot. The number is only that low because Alpha has basically no reach. That does not protect the cells in reach at all though. Misdirection of this type is quite common in the utterly criminal nuclear industry.
Pu is not toxic in these doses. It will pretty reliably cause lung-cancer from the radioactivity though.
That explains it...
Maybe they should just have practiced a bit less stupidity over the last few years? Anyways, that battle is over. The code-base may make a comeback in a few years, but not with the people currently in charge at Mozilla.
But apparently these newfangled "user interfaces" cannot do that anymore?
Well, flukes do happen.
They are. Are you not on the side of truth and justice?
Because they are neither stupid nor dishonest enough for that.
Now, a recent trend seems to be that real people have stopped to recognize how stupid and dishonest politicians are, and that one is worrying.
Pretty wrong. Note taking works much better in paper, the recall values are much, much better. Learning to code? In school? Forget it. and "etc..." just means you are one of these believers in "technology fixes everything". It does not. It makes some things easier, which is, in most cases, not desirable during education.
Actually, current research says that the educational benefit of computers i the classroom seems to be significantly negative. For books, which is one point I agree on, an e-book reader would be the ting to use.
These standards are pretty worthless. Unless you significantly exceed them, your products will suck at security.
There is also a fundamental difference between leaving an "application process" and leaving from a membership. Are you stupid?