That is essentially where things go to if we allow this. And we will get a lot of "victims" that are basically free-riders in addition. In the end, grades and degrees become meaningless, to the detriment of society as a whole.
If you cannot get the panic under control or work around it, then you should not get that degree, as you are disabled to the point of being unqualified. That is not a value judgment, but holding that degree is an assurance by the institution you got it from that you have certain skills. And public speaking is part of that.
The only other alternative is starting to hand out meaningless toy degrees to people with various problems. That would be really bad. So I am all for providing help to people affected, but if they cannot hack it despite the help, they must not get that degree.
Indeed. If we all limited "work" to only things we like, not a lot of it would get done. An academic degree is a sign that you can read and write documents and that you can present things in front of people. For some degrees, that is the most important final job qualification. You must be able to competently do it. You are not required at all to "like" it. And yes, I know what anxiety looks like. You may be tripping sweat and shaking while doing this. You still need to be able to do it and that can only be achieved with practice. If you later go for a career where you have to do this only rarely, not a problem at all.
Communication of Math is part of doing Math. There can be exceptions for world-exceptional practitioners (think Perelman), but that is it. The rest must develop reasonable communication skills or they are not Mathematicians. Any scientist or engineer can be expected to be able to communicated meaningfully with an audience. Also, getting a degree serves to extend your skills and abilities and, in particular, should allow you to find ways to work around limitations you have (and we all have some). If you are successful at getting there, no matter how (that is up to you but you can ask for help) then you deserve that degree. If not, you do not.
The only other alternative is to start handing out meaningless degrees. This is a slippery slope. Eventually we will have people that cannot read or write getting literature degrees or people that have no understanding of Physics getting engineering degrees. That must not happen. It also would be a huge disservice to these people, because lowering the bar for them does not encourage them to find a way to solve their specific problem. And on the ethics side, if we start allowing people with specific problems to get degrees easier, would we not be obliged to give advanced degrees to stupid people? They cannot help that either and it can be seen as a legitimate disability.
Indeed. Hard as it may be, and an anxiety disorder certainly makes it much harder, it needs to be done. Otherwise we will start to hand out meaningless "toy" degrees to those so affected and that is not good at all.
Any scientist or engineer must be able to clearly and correctly explain things in front of an audience, even if that audience is larger. If somebody has anxiety (a serious mental condition, no argument) then they must find a way to still be able to do presentations to a group and interact with that group during and after the presentation or they will not be able to fulfill the requirements for the qualification they are aiming for. Sorry, no exceptions. You can't do it, you are not qualified.
I am all for helping them finding a solution or a workaround to the anxiety, but the presentation skills are a hard requirement.
That is exactly the problem with censorship. And this is censorship, as there is no reasonable way to implement this except by pre-screening everything. Censorship is not much of a problem if the government is strongly pro-freedom. No government ever is. They all want more control and all want to prevent people forming opinions that could lead to a change in government. If allowed by the population, this goes down a very dark road indeed, ending in fascism and related ideas.
The only way to realistically do this is to vet every posting manually that is even slightly suspicious beforehand. That is censorship, nothing else.
This is a specific kind of evil that especially the Germans are into (but lovers of authoritarianism everywhere can relate). Germany has an absolute "no censorship" in its constitution that cannot be changed. But because they love censorship so much, they are now going this route.
Of course, nobody even considers what the problem with censorship (and authoritarianism) is, just like the last few authoritarian catastrophes had never happened. Evil at work and, as usual, the road to hell is plastered with good intentions.
As this guy is very likely in the pocket of Big Tobacco, that would be counter-productive. Nicotine is not actually the problem with smoking, all the other crap is. The only known adverse effects (and they are pretty bad, though) are on children and adolescents, as Nicotine interferes with brain development. Bit for adults, this stuff is pretty benign if used responsibly.
So why on earth would anybody wish to crack down on its use in adults? There are only two possible explanations: Somebody else want to sell something (Big Tobacco) or this is an utterly despicable authoritarian that wants to forbid people things that they like.
And that is just it. There is no known way to implement the spark of intelligence and insight in a machine. None at all. Not even a very, very slow way, so it is not a question of computing power. From looking at the history of technology, that places strong AI at least 50 years into the future, probably more. It may also turn out to be infeasible.
Hahaha, that would be great. Then somebody could hack it and leak all the content to the world. No, nobody actually knows how this would work, as this whole stupid idea is from lawyers and business people, and, as usually, they did not bother to ask some actual engineers about it.
What is actually going to happen is that the coins become so cheap that nobody cares anymore for the fixed costs of mining. Then the respective coin will be dead.
Indeed. The thing the cryptocurrency proponent forget (and that those trying to get the scam going conveniently omit) is how and why a fiat currency actually works. There is a large national bank and a national economy tied to it. Of course, it is complicated and market-manipulations in fiat currencies are possible. So are value declines (look at Turkey for a current example) and value increases. But in essence, there is a whole lot of real value tied to it and a whole lot of economic activity depending it being reasonably stable. And that is just what a cryptocurrency lacks: Stability. That is also what makes it unusable as a currency.
You forget that it has this value only for transactions in Ether. If there are no such transactions, it has no value, and the server-time cannot be recovered. Hence even that aspect does not provide any real value, even if it may seems to at a first glance. That "natural pricing floor" is zero.
You seem to be ignorant as to the definition of what a "liar" is. (No surprise, really.) Here is a hint: It refers to the belief in the validity of the statements made by the person making it, not to whether proof is given and not even whether the statement is true or not.
With that, I will now call you a fuckup and ignore you henceforward. You are not worth talking to.
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Indeed. All we could realistically do here is hand out meaningless "honorary" degrees.
That is essentially where things go to if we allow this. And we will get a lot of "victims" that are basically free-riders in addition. In the end, grades and degrees become meaningless, to the detriment of society as a whole.
If you cannot get the panic under control or work around it, then you should not get that degree, as you are disabled to the point of being unqualified. That is not a value judgment, but holding that degree is an assurance by the institution you got it from that you have certain skills. And public speaking is part of that.
The only other alternative is starting to hand out meaningless toy degrees to people with various problems. That would be really bad. So I am all for providing help to people affected, but if they cannot hack it despite the help, they must not get that degree.
Indeed. If we all limited "work" to only things we like, not a lot of it would get done. An academic degree is a sign that you can read and write documents and that you can present things in front of people. For some degrees, that is the most important final job qualification. You must be able to competently do it. You are not required at all to "like" it. And yes, I know what anxiety looks like. You may be tripping sweat and shaking while doing this. You still need to be able to do it and that can only be achieved with practice. If you later go for a career where you have to do this only rarely, not a problem at all.
Communication of Math is part of doing Math. There can be exceptions for world-exceptional practitioners (think Perelman), but that is it. The rest must develop reasonable communication skills or they are not Mathematicians. Any scientist or engineer can be expected to be able to communicated meaningfully with an audience. Also, getting a degree serves to extend your skills and abilities and, in particular, should allow you to find ways to work around limitations you have (and we all have some). If you are successful at getting there, no matter how (that is up to you but you can ask for help) then you deserve that degree. If not, you do not.
The only other alternative is to start handing out meaningless degrees. This is a slippery slope. Eventually we will have people that cannot read or write getting literature degrees or people that have no understanding of Physics getting engineering degrees. That must not happen. It also would be a huge disservice to these people, because lowering the bar for them does not encourage them to find a way to solve their specific problem. And on the ethics side, if we start allowing people with specific problems to get degrees easier, would we not be obliged to give advanced degrees to stupid people? They cannot help that either and it can be seen as a legitimate disability.
Indeed. Hard as it may be, and an anxiety disorder certainly makes it much harder, it needs to be done. Otherwise we will start to hand out meaningless "toy" degrees to those so affected and that is not good at all.
Any scientist or engineer must be able to clearly and correctly explain things in front of an audience, even if that audience is larger. If somebody has anxiety (a serious mental condition, no argument) then they must find a way to still be able to do presentations to a group and interact with that group during and after the presentation or they will not be able to fulfill the requirements for the qualification they are aiming for. Sorry, no exceptions. You can't do it, you are not qualified.
I am all for helping them finding a solution or a workaround to the anxiety, but the presentation skills are a hard requirement.
That is exactly the problem with censorship. And this is censorship, as there is no reasonable way to implement this except by pre-screening everything. Censorship is not much of a problem if the government is strongly pro-freedom. No government ever is. They all want more control and all want to prevent people forming opinions that could lead to a change in government. If allowed by the population, this goes down a very dark road indeed, ending in fascism and related ideas.
The Stasi, GeStaPo and their present-day successors applaud your great idea!
Actually, using other illegal bytes, this is very old.
I really hope you are right. This is a slide into darkness that must be stopped.
The only way to realistically do this is to vet every posting manually that is even slightly suspicious beforehand. That is censorship, nothing else.
This is a specific kind of evil that especially the Germans are into (but lovers of authoritarianism everywhere can relate). Germany has an absolute "no censorship" in its constitution that cannot be changed. But because they love censorship so much, they are now going this route.
Of course, nobody even considers what the problem with censorship (and authoritarianism) is, just like the last few authoritarian catastrophes had never happened. Evil at work and, as usual, the road to hell is plastered with good intentions.
Not really. But MS hopes for more clueless users...
If this is not in violation of the respective EU laws, I don't know what is.
As this guy is very likely in the pocket of Big Tobacco, that would be counter-productive. Nicotine is not actually the problem with smoking, all the other crap is. The only known adverse effects (and they are pretty bad, though) are on children and adolescents, as Nicotine interferes with brain development. Bit for adults, this stuff is pretty benign if used responsibly.
So why on earth would anybody wish to crack down on its use in adults? There are only two possible explanations: Somebody else want to sell something (Big Tobacco) or this is an utterly despicable authoritarian that wants to forbid people things that they like.
And that is just it. There is no known way to implement the spark of intelligence and insight in a machine. None at all. Not even a very, very slow way, so it is not a question of computing power. From looking at the history of technology, that places strong AI at least 50 years into the future, probably more. It may also turn out to be infeasible.
This whole discussion is utterly baseless.
Since we probably will never have AI that deserves the name in the first place, this is not a big loss...
Hahaha, that would be great. Then somebody could hack it and leak all the content to the world. No, nobody actually knows how this would work, as this whole stupid idea is from lawyers and business people, and, as usually, they did not bother to ask some actual engineers about it.
Hence while the actual crime was surely committed by them, BA left the barn door wide open for them to waltz in.
What is actually going to happen is that the coins become so cheap that nobody cares anymore for the fixed costs of mining. Then the respective coin will be dead.
A very old, very well-known attack. Thermal imaging has also been uses on ATMs for this, although the timing is more practical there.
Indeed. The thing the cryptocurrency proponent forget (and that those trying to get the scam going conveniently omit) is how and why a fiat currency actually works. There is a large national bank and a national economy tied to it. Of course, it is complicated and market-manipulations in fiat currencies are possible. So are value declines (look at Turkey for a current example) and value increases. But in essence, there is a whole lot of real value tied to it and a whole lot of economic activity depending it being reasonably stable. And that is just what a cryptocurrency lacks: Stability. That is also what makes it unusable as a currency.
You forget that it has this value only for transactions in Ether. If there are no such transactions, it has no value, and the server-time cannot be recovered. Hence even that aspect does not provide any real value, even if it may seems to at a first glance. That "natural pricing floor" is zero.
But, but ... this cryptocurrency is new and magic!
Well, at least that is what I understand its proponents claim. Have yet to find any evidence for that.
You seem to be ignorant as to the definition of what a "liar" is. (No surprise, really.) Here is a hint: It refers to the belief in the validity of the statements made by the person making it, not to whether proof is given and not even whether the statement is true or not.
With that, I will now call you a fuckup and ignore you henceforward. You are not worth talking to.