Right. Except that this did not come from directly PewDiePie or his "organization". Nor is it endorsed by him, as far as I know. This is apparently just some overzealous fans of his, who are jackasses. That last part of that sentence may have been redundant.
I have a feeling most men reading this will focus on the first part, but I have a feeling the second part is the more important. If you are overweight, it becomes much harder to do a push up, regardless of how strong your arms and chest are. The correlation between obesity and heart disease is well documented. So this isn't really anything new.
Apple and Google have no investment in Telegram, why should they be expected to solve this problem?
Apple and Google, through their walled-garden app stores, have set themselves up as curators of content, and they regularly enforce things like this. They've brought that expectation upon themselves.
You can use Safari and Chrome to download pirated stuff on your phone too, but I don't see anybody calling for Apple and Google to remove Safari and Chrome from telephones.
Telegram is apparently hosting this infringing content on their own servers, which makes this much different. Obviously Telegram owns more culpability than Google/Apple here, but Google and Apple are acting against policies that they have set. Not sure how vulnerable that leaves them legally, though.
It's that simple. People want to view content and issues of availability, cost, censorship, convenience figure into individual choice as to whether one uses the app and how one uses to the app.
Add "perceived risk" to that list of factors. I have a feeling a lot of the people using these plugins don't realize they are infringing copyright in a way that could put them at legal risk.
See if you can figure out which sentence I accidentally put in there twice. See if you can figure out which sentence I accidentally put in there twice.
Chalk Up Another Victory... for the Culture of Outrage!
I'd call this "marketing psychology" more than "caving to outrage". For Google, users are both their customers and their product. If any part of their service potentially makes people feel bad (shamed, judged, or, god forbid, triggered), there's a chance that some percentage of them will choose a different service next time, which means less data for them to sell. I'd call this "marketing psychology" more than "caving to outrage".
AI notices patterns that detect cancer. Woot! AI notices patterns that determines crime rates amongst certain population groups! Fuq no.
Hey, cool dog whistle, bro!
Any algorithm (including AI and machine learning based algorithms) is only as good as the data you feed it. You can cite crime statistics for "certain populations", and to you, that looks like evidence for your shitty racist agenda. To me, it look a lot like evidence of the systemic over-policing and disproportional enforcement on those same communities.
Marijuana use is roughly equal among Blacks and whites, yet Blacks are 3.73 times as likely to be arrested for marijuana possession.
Mine that data, and your algorithm will likely you that drug-related crimes are significantly higher for Black people. It's impossible to remove the inherent systemic bias from those numbers, though, and, as such, they're pretty much worthless.
That we have seen an overall increase of cat4/cat5 hurricanes is very much open to debate
Your link:
...it is unlikely that the large 80% increase in Category 4 and 5 hurricanes found by Webster et al. is real. There does appear to be some increase, but it is likely much smaller.
It appears that even the author of your "dissenting" article agrees that the data shows an increase. The only debate is regarding the magnitude of the increase.
Fuck common sense budgeting and financial planning...who needs that shit when you have millennial math and YOLO.
YEAH!!!! And another thing: these millennials are ALWAYS on my lawn! I tell them to quit it, and then, next thing you know, they're right back on there, with their hashtags and their YOLOs.
I mean, in a more typical case, they would have recourse. They could just go elsewhere for their hosting and domain name services.
These specific assholes will have a hard time doing that, of course, because they are a notorious hate group, and everybody, including you, knows it. But if their status as a hate group was questionable or incorrect, somebody else would likely be happy to take their money.
Shine a light on them, don't chase them away to skulk in the dark, where they will do what they will do without anyone watching.
Do you really think their site continuing unabated as-is would be "shining a light on them"? It would just continue to give them their dark corner of the web to flourish in, while the rest of us blissfully ignore whatever racist bullshit propaganda was being spread over there.
Now, I wouldn't advocate for a government crackdown, because I'm a big believer in the first amendment, but GoDaddy and Google and Cloudfare have no obligation to provide service these hateful monsters, as they've made clear in their terms of service, so if they want to pull the plug, I have no problem with that.
That article was written in mid-December of last year. A lot has happened since then. Also, the key words are "public evidence". I feel like I hear a lot of people here saying, roughly, "there's no evidence, so we should stop investigating."
There are some serious loose threads here, and it would be CRAZY not to pull on them and see what happens. Time will tell.
I understand that innovation for innovation's sake is not necessarily what this specific market calls for, but there's no way that the hardware they are selling should cost what they're charging. That's the problem. They should either find a way to make it better, or find a way to make it cheaper. Continuing to sell the same ancient hardware for the same inflated price is neglectful, and they're begging to have somebody else eat their lunch in the free market.
They've had a good run of doing nothing and not updating their hardware or software in any kind of meaningful way for the past couple decades. No other company would have been so neglectful to such a profitable product line.
I like an online reader because I use it from multiple computers with multiple operating systems, and I never have to worry about syncing what articles I've already seen and/or starred. My current favorite is Inoreader, but I've used The Old Reader and Feedly before, and they get the job done as well.
My feeds are Associated Press, Denver Post, Ars, Slashdot, Boing Boing, Kottke, AV Club, and a handful of web comics that I like. I can skim the headlines, and if there are articles I want to read later, I use the "Send to Kindle" browser plugin to push them out to my Kindle. I would be sad to have to give up my leisure reading workflow if sites stopped supporting RSS.
So if you drink six a week, there's no change to risk of dementia, but somehow the seventh triples your risk?
These are two distinct groups:
group A drinks less than one a day.
group B drinks more than one a day.
Crossing from group A into group B doesn't magically triple your risk, but group B, collectively, has a much higher risk.
Because group B does not have a cap, (7 to infinity sodas), it's intuitive that the collective risk jumps dramatically. That group includes people who are drinking a fucking ridiculous amount of diet soda.
Snow Flake won't have to worry about a scratch on her precious cell phone marring her narcissistic shell.
Yeah! You tell those cell phone using cucks! With their participation trophies and whatnot! Right guys??!!??!!
Take it down a notch, would you? Commercialism drives innovation, which means that developments that have a viable, marketable commercial application are the ones that get funding. There will be other applications for this cool new material. There's no reason to get mad about it being used in a cell phone.
Because shutting down extremist accounts ends violent extremism
For Twitter, you can assume that this is not so much about pushing agendas or silencing voices (or ending extremism). This is about making sure Twitter doesn't become an unpleasant place to be. If people stop going there because it sucks because it's full of lulz nazi eggs shouting caps-locked slurs at them, that hurts Twitter right in the pocketbook.
Argue all you want about Twitter's responsibility to defend free speech, but ultimately they're a business, and a business can't be perceived as though they're looking the other way while extremists harass and threaten their user base.
Exxon did nothing wrong... it could not, a company is not animate. People do things on behalf of the company.
You are apparently not familiar with Citizens United. Corporations are, for many legal purposes, people. You may think that's stupid (I certainly do), but it is the law of the land.
I commute on bicycle whenever I can, which is when most of my podcast listening happens (it's mostly trails and low-traffic neighborhoods, and I use earbuds that let a lot of ambient noise through). I also usually listen to them at about 1.3x speed, to pack a little more in. Unless my wife is listening with me, because she can't stand the sped-up talking. She says it makes her feel like bugs are crawling on her. Some kind of weird synesthesia thing, I guess.
Anyway, most of my podcasts are comedy:
Comedy Bang Bang - Comedy and improv from mostly L.A. based comedians, hosted by Scott Awkerman
Doug Loves Movies - Comedian Doug Benson has friends from comedy and film at a live taped discussion where they play movie-based games and generally joke around.
Stop Podcasting Yourself - Conversational comedy podcast with a couple really funny guys from Vancouver, Canada
My Brother, My Brother, and Me - Three brothers give fake advice and discuss dumb or funny Yahoo Answers questions
Never Not Funny - Another conversational comedy podcast hosted by Jimmy Pardo
The Flop House - A bad movie podcast, but with lots of amusing digressions and very funny hosts
The Beef and Dairy Network - Dry British humor: a fake beef and dairy podcast
The Dollop - a couple comedians pick a topic in US history and tell the story while riffing jokes about it.
I also like these non-comedy ones:
Stuff You Should Know - Educational, but fun, a new topic every time.
Slate's Culture and Political Gabfests - Panel discussions of the week's cultural and political happenings
Planet Money and Freakonomics - Two smart and interesting economics podcasts.
Radiolab - Mostly science stuff, but with storytelling elements and really good production
Of course anyone can be shown how to write a "hello world" application in any language but that doesn't make them a programmer.
We're talking about K-12 education here. The computer science training you give these kids is bound to be somewhat superficial, but it's still valuable. Part of what our education system is trying to offer at that level is a broad range of experiences so that students will be exposed to many things. When the time comes to start specializing in something (i.e. choosing a major in college), they will have a good idea of what subjects they enjoy and have an aptitude for. That's where they'll pick up the math and analytical skills and other foundational stuff. If they're not exposed to coding before then, it's much less likely they'll consider that path.
That's how it worked for me, anyway. I was not a computer hobbyist as a kid, but I had a programming class as a sophomore in high school that was pretty much just fiddling around with QBasic. I enjoyed it, and it came naturally to me. I ended up getting a computer science degree and I'm a working software engineer, a career I'm very happy in. Without that superficial high school coding experience, I don't think it would have crossed my mind to pursue a CS career. I am thankful for it.
Mr. Sckreli, below is the Hare Psychopathy Checklist, a psychological tool for evaluating people for psychopathy. Please rate yourself on each trait on a scale of 1 to 10, with 1 meaning "I do not exhibit this trait at all" and 10 meaning "I fully exhibit this trait".
1. GLIB and SUPERFICIAL CHARM
2. GRANDIOSE SELF-WORTH
3. SEEK STIMULATION or PRONE TO BOREDOM
4. PATHOLOGICAL LYING
5. CONNING AND MANIPULATIVENESS
6. LACK OF REMORSE OR GUILT
7. SHALLOW AFFECT
8. CALLOUSNESS and LACK OF EMPATHY
9. PARASITIC LIFESTYLE
10. POOR BEHAVIORAL CONTROLS
11. PROMISCUOUS SEXUAL BEHAVIOR
12. EARLY BEHAVIOR PROBLEMS
13. LACK OF REALISTIC, LONG-TERM GOALS
14. IMPULSIVITY
15. IRRESPONSIBILITY
16. FAILURE TO ACCEPT RESPONSIBILITY FOR OWN ACTIONS
17. MANY SHORT-TERM MARITAL RELATIONSHIPS
18. JUVENILE DELINQUENCY
19. REVOCATION OF CONDITION RELEASE
20. CRIMINAL VERSATILITY
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Right. Except that this did not come from directly PewDiePie or his "organization". Nor is it endorsed by him, as far as I know. This is apparently just some overzealous fans of his, who are jackasses. That last part of that sentence may have been redundant.
There are two factors here:
I have a feeling most men reading this will focus on the first part, but I have a feeling the second part is the more important. If you are overweight, it becomes much harder to do a push up, regardless of how strong your arms and chest are. The correlation between obesity and heart disease is well documented. So this isn't really anything new.
Apple and Google, through their walled-garden app stores, have set themselves up as curators of content, and they regularly enforce things like this. They've brought that expectation upon themselves.
Telegram is apparently hosting this infringing content on their own servers, which makes this much different. Obviously Telegram owns more culpability than Google/Apple here, but Google and Apple are acting against policies that they have set. Not sure how vulnerable that leaves them legally, though.
It's that simple. People want to view content and issues of availability, cost, censorship, convenience figure into individual choice as to whether one uses the app and how one uses to the app.
Add "perceived risk" to that list of factors. I have a feeling a lot of the people using these plugins don't realize they are infringing copyright in a way that could put them at legal risk.
See if you can figure out which sentence I accidentally put in there twice. See if you can figure out which sentence I accidentally put in there twice.
Chalk Up Another Victory... for the Culture of Outrage!
I'd call this "marketing psychology" more than "caving to outrage". For Google, users are both their customers and their product. If any part of their service potentially makes people feel bad (shamed, judged, or, god forbid, triggered), there's a chance that some percentage of them will choose a different service next time, which means less data for them to sell. I'd call this "marketing psychology" more than "caving to outrage".
Hey, cool dog whistle, bro!
Any algorithm (including AI and machine learning based algorithms) is only as good as the data you feed it. You can cite crime statistics for "certain populations", and to you, that looks like evidence for your shitty racist agenda. To me, it look a lot like evidence of the systemic over-policing and disproportional enforcement on those same communities.
Example:
Mine that data, and your algorithm will likely you that drug-related crimes are significantly higher for Black people. It's impossible to remove the inherent systemic bias from those numbers, though, and, as such, they're pretty much worthless.
The article may be about overall, but the statement I chose releates specifically to cat4/5, which is exactly what you were talking about.
Also, calm down! Holy shit! If you're one of my "betters", the world is in rough shape.
Your link:
It appears that even the author of your "dissenting" article agrees that the data shows an increase. The only debate is regarding the magnitude of the increase.
YEAH!!!! And another thing: these millennials are ALWAYS on my lawn! I tell them to quit it, and then, next thing you know, they're right back on there, with their hashtags and their YOLOs.
I know you're trolling, but the federal government has well defined protected classes, and being a Nazi sure as shit isn't among them.
I mean, in a more typical case, they would have recourse. They could just go elsewhere for their hosting and domain name services.
These specific assholes will have a hard time doing that, of course, because they are a notorious hate group, and everybody, including you, knows it. But if their status as a hate group was questionable or incorrect, somebody else would likely be happy to take their money.
Do you really think their site continuing unabated as-is would be "shining a light on them"? It would just continue to give them their dark corner of the web to flourish in, while the rest of us blissfully ignore whatever racist bullshit propaganda was being spread over there.
Now, I wouldn't advocate for a government crackdown, because I'm a big believer in the first amendment, but GoDaddy and Google and Cloudfare have no obligation to provide service these hateful monsters, as they've made clear in their terms of service, so if they want to pull the plug, I have no problem with that.
It's fermented grains infused with hops, gov.
That article was written in mid-December of last year. A lot has happened since then. Also, the key words are "public evidence". I feel like I hear a lot of people here saying, roughly, "there's no evidence, so we should stop investigating."
There are some serious loose threads here, and it would be CRAZY not to pull on them and see what happens. Time will tell.
I understand that innovation for innovation's sake is not necessarily what this specific market calls for, but there's no way that the hardware they are selling should cost what they're charging. That's the problem. They should either find a way to make it better, or find a way to make it cheaper. Continuing to sell the same ancient hardware for the same inflated price is neglectful, and they're begging to have somebody else eat their lunch in the free market.
They've had a good run of doing nothing and not updating their hardware or software in any kind of meaningful way for the past couple decades. No other company would have been so neglectful to such a profitable product line.
I like an online reader because I use it from multiple computers with multiple operating systems, and I never have to worry about syncing what articles I've already seen and/or starred. My current favorite is Inoreader, but I've used The Old Reader and Feedly before, and they get the job done as well.
My feeds are Associated Press, Denver Post, Ars, Slashdot, Boing Boing, Kottke, AV Club, and a handful of web comics that I like. I can skim the headlines, and if there are articles I want to read later, I use the "Send to Kindle" browser plugin to push them out to my Kindle. I would be sad to have to give up my leisure reading workflow if sites stopped supporting RSS.
These are two distinct groups:
Crossing from group A into group B doesn't magically triple your risk, but group B, collectively, has a much higher risk.
Because group B does not have a cap, (7 to infinity sodas), it's intuitive that the collective risk jumps dramatically. That group includes people who are drinking a fucking ridiculous amount of diet soda.
Yeah! You tell those cell phone using cucks! With their participation trophies and whatnot! Right guys??!!??!!
Take it down a notch, would you? Commercialism drives innovation, which means that developments that have a viable, marketable commercial application are the ones that get funding. There will be other applications for this cool new material. There's no reason to get mad about it being used in a cell phone.
For Twitter, you can assume that this is not so much about pushing agendas or silencing voices (or ending extremism). This is about making sure Twitter doesn't become an unpleasant place to be. If people stop going there because it sucks because it's full of lulz nazi eggs shouting caps-locked slurs at them, that hurts Twitter right in the pocketbook.
Argue all you want about Twitter's responsibility to defend free speech, but ultimately they're a business, and a business can't be perceived as though they're looking the other way while extremists harass and threaten their user base.
You are apparently not familiar with Citizens United. Corporations are, for many legal purposes, people. You may think that's stupid (I certainly do), but it is the law of the land.
I commute on bicycle whenever I can, which is when most of my podcast listening happens (it's mostly trails and low-traffic neighborhoods, and I use earbuds that let a lot of ambient noise through). I also usually listen to them at about 1.3x speed, to pack a little more in. Unless my wife is listening with me, because she can't stand the sped-up talking. She says it makes her feel like bugs are crawling on her. Some kind of weird synesthesia thing, I guess.
Anyway, most of my podcasts are comedy:
I also like these non-comedy ones:
Of course anyone can be shown how to write a "hello world" application in any language but that doesn't make them a programmer.
We're talking about K-12 education here. The computer science training you give these kids is bound to be somewhat superficial, but it's still valuable. Part of what our education system is trying to offer at that level is a broad range of experiences so that students will be exposed to many things. When the time comes to start specializing in something (i.e. choosing a major in college), they will have a good idea of what subjects they enjoy and have an aptitude for. That's where they'll pick up the math and analytical skills and other foundational stuff. If they're not exposed to coding before then, it's much less likely they'll consider that path.
That's how it worked for me, anyway. I was not a computer hobbyist as a kid, but I had a programming class as a sophomore in high school that was pretty much just fiddling around with QBasic. I enjoyed it, and it came naturally to me. I ended up getting a computer science degree and I'm a working software engineer, a career I'm very happy in. Without that superficial high school coding experience, I don't think it would have crossed my mind to pursue a CS career. I am thankful for it.
Here's my question:
Mr. Sckreli, below is the Hare Psychopathy Checklist, a psychological tool for evaluating people for psychopathy. Please rate yourself on each trait on a scale of 1 to 10, with 1 meaning "I do not exhibit this trait at all" and 10 meaning "I fully exhibit this trait".
1. GLIB and SUPERFICIAL CHARM
2. GRANDIOSE SELF-WORTH
3. SEEK STIMULATION or PRONE TO BOREDOM
4. PATHOLOGICAL LYING
5. CONNING AND MANIPULATIVENESS
6. LACK OF REMORSE OR GUILT
7. SHALLOW AFFECT
8. CALLOUSNESS and LACK OF EMPATHY
9. PARASITIC LIFESTYLE
10. POOR BEHAVIORAL CONTROLS
11. PROMISCUOUS SEXUAL BEHAVIOR
12. EARLY BEHAVIOR PROBLEMS
13. LACK OF REALISTIC, LONG-TERM GOALS
14. IMPULSIVITY
15. IRRESPONSIBILITY
16. FAILURE TO ACCEPT RESPONSIBILITY FOR OWN ACTIONS
17. MANY SHORT-TERM MARITAL RELATIONSHIPS
18. JUVENILE DELINQUENCY
19. REVOCATION OF CONDITION RELEASE
20. CRIMINAL VERSATILITY