The problem is both myth and 'realty' are both true, all we have are different groups of introverts trying to say 'no, we are the actual introverts, stop talking about us like we are THOSE people!'.
Though I think part of the original point is that for many it is much harder to get downtime in the city since the population is much denser. I know plenty of introverts who really stress being in the city, even in private spaces. I also know plenty who are perfectly happy in such enviroments.
'introverts' have generally been pushed out of that culture already. It is harder and harder to be an introvert in tech, esp at the trendy companies. The people they are hiring today probably would not have been programmers 20 years ago.
I think that is part of the point. The ads are generally for legal material, so they are clamping down (in the GP's theory at least) on legal speech under some idea that it will impact other only somewhat related illegal activities.
Sometimes, taking no steps is better then taking some steps, esp when those 'some' steps are not only ineffective but target a larger group of people engaged in legal but stigmatized behavior. It is a classic example of doing bad things to a weak group in order to appease a stronger one by thinking you are actually hurting some bad people.
Sometimes even a small amount of money is considered worthwhile to people. Even if people are not getting rich, they were at least having some compensation.
Well, if I understand correctly, Google is not asking for a cut of their revenue, they are just kicking off anyone who has a blog which has adult ads. Within their rights since they are a private company, but is still pretty chilling since it cuts a significant number of people out of a well known and shared space simply because somehow sex is involved with their topics. I know as a blog reader, I am not thrilled with the idea of Google playing morality police with deciding what I can read on their site.
So basicly we are were we were before the 'OMG Hawaii might let gay people get married!' moral panic.... states set their own marriage rules, the federal government respects state laws, and states have to respect each other's laws (was that last part covered by this decision? I am unsure on that point).
Yeah. The problem was scientology wanted preferntial treatment for free. If they had ponied up the cash or somehow connected their cause to an existing moral panic then they probably would have gotten what they wanted. Google is more then happy to shape search results to meet various institution's preferences if you ask the right way.
The tricky part there is what counts as a 'partner' and how you cover the trolls but not, say, universities who do not produce products but do depend on patents to fund their research.
I think they are disagreeing on the specific phrasing of 'regulating innovation'. Both are agreeing that the piece talks about regulation that has an impact on innovation, but not on if that means innovation is being regulated.
Keep in mind, patents came into being in order to deal with specific historical problems and became so prevalent because countries that had strong patent laws did better then ones with weak or no patent laws. Sure there are times where they get abused or need to be rebalanced, but to say that their value is unproven is willfully ignoring the historical reasons they exist in the first place.
Well yes, but people tend to see what THEY find value in as not useless, thus people who invest their time in other things are wasting their time by not doing what the speaker thinks they should be doing.
Perhaps the GP has not been in the industry long enough to have dealt with things like departments closing? I have found quite a few people have never worked outside the 'constant expansion, there is only up' parts of the industry.
Depending on the shop, they might indeed be looking for people who will work 80 hour weeks and still active in such projects on the side since hobbies are easier to set aside then things like family commitments.
Probably because it links into a larger and more problematic narrative. While it is true we should keep a grain of salt around and not condem someone based off just a blog post, rape victims frequently encounter all sorts of rhetoric designed to shut them up. It is kinda like making, say, antisemitic comments about an individual or an individual actions. Even if they make sense in context, the link into a larger narrative that has historically been pretty damaging.
In other words, comments do not exist in a vacuum, and comments that are structurally similiar to ones used elsewhere in a more destructive manner will carry some of the weight.
Yeah.. it really strikes me that the person is over exaggerating the importance of a narrow set of use cases. Reproducible builds are nice, and in some cases important, and in an ideal case compiling should be sufficiently deterministic one should be able recreate any given binary, but I would not say that is the 'point' of having access to source code.
Most filter manufacturers will supply you with transmission charts that go up to maybe 1000nm or so. 58mm filters (overkill for most P&S cameras already) can be pretty cheap and commonly available.
I would put it at worse, but only because this is a cheaper way of doing it.
Usually what you have to do is either get a broad spectrum conversion then get a special cut filter or have the cut filter put in the camera.... or have a tri-shot monochrom setup so you can be extra sure which wavelengths are getting into which channel.
What they are doing here is similar to the old trick of using exposed film as an IR filter or shards of blacklight bulb as a UV filter, they found a cheap substitute for the high grade filters one would use for professional or scientific work.
That being said I am in favor of projects that let people play with exotic photography on a budget.
To be fair, I can recall in college we went over a case study where a line of medical x-ray machines were occasionally killing people with overdoses. Turns out there was a software bug in the keyboard input of all places. Point is, at short range a chest x-ray machine can be rigged to kill. It was still a dumb plan though.
Because there are jewish terrorists? Israel has some pretty old links to terrorism itself and their groups were (debatably) influential in the state's creation.
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The problem is both myth and 'realty' are both true, all we have are different groups of introverts trying to say 'no, we are the actual introverts, stop talking about us like we are THOSE people!'.
Though I think part of the original point is that for many it is much harder to get downtime in the city since the population is much denser. I know plenty of introverts who really stress being in the city, even in private spaces. I also know plenty who are perfectly happy in such enviroments.
'introverts' have generally been pushed out of that culture already. It is harder and harder to be an introvert in tech, esp at the trendy companies. The people they are hiring today probably would not have been programmers 20 years ago.
I think that is part of the point. The ads are generally for legal material, so they are clamping down (in the GP's theory at least) on legal speech under some idea that it will impact other only somewhat related illegal activities.
Sometimes, taking no steps is better then taking some steps, esp when those 'some' steps are not only ineffective but target a larger group of people engaged in legal but stigmatized behavior. It is a classic example of doing bad things to a weak group in order to appease a stronger one by thinking you are actually hurting some bad people.
Sometimes even a small amount of money is considered worthwhile to people. Even if people are not getting rich, they were at least having some compensation.
Well, if I understand correctly, Google is not asking for a cut of their revenue, they are just kicking off anyone who has a blog which has adult ads. Within their rights since they are a private company, but is still pretty chilling since it cuts a significant number of people out of a well known and shared space simply because somehow sex is involved with their topics. I know as a blog reader, I am not thrilled with the idea of Google playing morality police with deciding what I can read on their site.
So basicly we are were we were before the 'OMG Hawaii might let gay people get married!' moral panic.... states set their own marriage rules, the federal government respects state laws, and states have to respect each other's laws (was that last part covered by this decision? I am unsure on that point).
Sounds good.
And that is the key point. Scientology is not widely mocked because of their belief, but because of their actions.
Yeah. The problem was scientology wanted preferntial treatment for free. If they had ponied up the cash or somehow connected their cause to an existing moral panic then they probably would have gotten what they wanted. Google is more then happy to shape search results to meet various institution's preferences if you ask the right way.
The tricky part there is what counts as a 'partner' and how you cover the trolls but not, say, universities who do not produce products but do depend on patents to fund their research.
I think they are disagreeing on the specific phrasing of 'regulating innovation'. Both are agreeing that the piece talks about regulation that has an impact on innovation, but not on if that means innovation is being regulated.
And even then, it would only require people buy printers using that specific technique from the patent holder for a few more years.
Keep in mind, patents came into being in order to deal with specific historical problems and became so prevalent because countries that had strong patent laws did better then ones with weak or no patent laws. Sure there are times where they get abused or need to be rebalanced, but to say that their value is unproven is willfully ignoring the historical reasons they exist in the first place.
A lot of hiring people tend to confuse cultural match with good candidate, so they judge based off whatever their personal community is doing.
Well yes, but people tend to see what THEY find value in as not useless, thus people who invest their time in other things are wasting their time by not doing what the speaker thinks they should be doing.
Perhaps the GP has not been in the industry long enough to have dealt with things like departments closing? I have found quite a few people have never worked outside the 'constant expansion, there is only up' parts of the industry.
Depending on the shop, they might indeed be looking for people who will work 80 hour weeks and still active in such projects on the side since hobbies are easier to set aside then things like family commitments.
Probably because it links into a larger and more problematic narrative. While it is true we should keep a grain of salt around and not condem someone based off just a blog post, rape victims frequently encounter all sorts of rhetoric designed to shut them up. It is kinda like making, say, antisemitic comments about an individual or an individual actions. Even if they make sense in context, the link into a larger narrative that has historically been pretty damaging.
In other words, comments do not exist in a vacuum, and comments that are structurally similiar to ones used elsewhere in a more destructive manner will carry some of the weight.
Yeah.. it really strikes me that the person is over exaggerating the importance of a narrow set of use cases. Reproducible builds are nice, and in some cases important, and in an ideal case compiling should be sufficiently deterministic one should be able recreate any given binary, but I would not say that is the 'point' of having access to source code.
That sounds about right. We looked at it over a decade ago so my memory was a bit hazy, so reading over it again was fun ^_^
Most filter manufacturers will supply you with transmission charts that go up to maybe 1000nm or so. 58mm filters (overkill for most P&S cameras already) can be pretty cheap and commonly available.
I would put it at worse, but only because this is a cheaper way of doing it.
Usually what you have to do is either get a broad spectrum conversion then get a special cut filter or have the cut filter put in the camera.... or have a tri-shot monochrom setup so you can be extra sure which wavelengths are getting into which channel.
What they are doing here is similar to the old trick of using exposed film as an IR filter or shards of blacklight bulb as a UV filter, they found a cheap substitute for the high grade filters one would use for professional or scientific work.
That being said I am in favor of projects that let people play with exotic photography on a budget.
To be fair, I can recall in college we went over a case study where a line of medical x-ray machines were occasionally killing people with overdoses. Turns out there was a software bug in the keyboard input of all places. Point is, at short range a chest x-ray machine can be rigged to kill. It was still a dumb plan though.
Because there are jewish terrorists? Israel has some pretty old links to terrorism itself and their groups were (debatably) influential in the state's creation.
Eh, in their pure forms they are functionally identical.
I don't know, 'enterprisey' companies pull the same stunts often enough.