I'm going to have to disagree about tipping. Tipping well at establishments you frequent is how you get better service and complimentary items.
The bartenders at my favorite place comp me anywhere from half to all of my drinks when I eat there. Granted, this is in Chicago and I never eat at chain restaurants.
The cameras are there so they can identify people after the fact. Ideally they could also stop events in progress, but you need to have someone ready to respond.
A local news reporter out cycling was recently found near a Chicago lakefront bicycle path with her neck broken. There was no sign of an accident, scuffed turf, etc. Since there are no cameras along this path there's no way to tell what happened. Assaults happen every week along this path.
Surveillance cameras in public places and institutions makes a lot of sense.
There are cameras in my condo building. There are cameras watching me when I walk to the train. There are cameras at the train station. There are cameras when I enter my office building. There are cameras inside my office suite. There's cameras on my laptop and phone.
This technology is only going to improve, cameras are going to get smaller and automated recognition will get better and better. You can't stop progress.
I tried Twitter out several years ago, but it sure feels like I'm trying to drink from a firehose.
I work on a computer all day long, so I'm not too interested in spending any more time than necessary using them during my down time. I'm definitely not one of these people walking around staring at their phones or constantly checking for updates during the day.
Those of you who do use Twitter, how do you deal with the deluge of messages and improve the signal to noise ratio?
Have you never heard the saying, "liberals don't think, they feel"?
My impression is that there's a very vocal minority that hates Trump and a mostly silent majority that appreciates what he's doing for American citizens.
I suppose that's one way to look at it, eliminate the human. It makes sense because any process that involves humans needs to be able to handle failures at each step and this company's process clearly expected humans to perform perfectly every time.
I'm really blown away that no one was responsible for verifying the information before initiating the process. How long would it have taken someone from HR to call his manager and confirm what they were being told?
was on a 3 years contract and had only worked for 8 months
His manager did not transfer his contract information into the new system when the company was bought by another. It was not a case of his contract not being renewed at the end of the current term.
Have you been following the news about the selective enrollment schools in New York? Asian groups are up in arms about attempts to diversify the schools by forcing them to set aside seats for certain groups.
"The test is the most unbiased way to get into a school," said Peter Koo, a city councilman whose district includes Flushing, Queens, on Tuesday. "It doesn't require an interview. It doesn't require a resume. It doesn't even require connections. The mayor's son just graduated from Brooklyn Tech and got into Yale. Now he wants to stop this and build a barrier to Asian-Americans -- especially our children."
The schools, which admit students based on a single test, look starkly different from the school system overall. While black and Hispanic students represent nearly 70 percent of public school students, they make up just 10 percent of students at the specialized high schools, a vast underrepresentation that has long been considered an injustice and a symbol of the city's extreme school segregation.
Mayor Bill de Blasio offered a two-pronged plan on Saturday to address this, first by setting aside 20 percent of the seats at each of the specialized schools for students from high-poverty schools -- which tend to have a high share of black and Hispanic students -- who score just below the cutoff score.
But his administration's ultimate goal, he said, is to eliminate the test entirely.
If you want to make people equal it's much easier to knock some down than it is to build the others up.
Is Microsoft also working on technology that will eliminate the problems they're planning on creating when they make millions of jobs obsolete?
We already have the necessary technology. You split the people into two groups and give them shovels. The first group digs holes and the second group fills them back in.
You can take the Blue Line from Clark and Lake to O'Hare, but it's going to take close to an hour. It's only 15.5 miles from Block 37 to O'Hare; a pretty short trip at 100mph.
Travel times by car can be even longer; you can look at historical travel times at travelmidwest.com. It's not uncommon for it to be a 2+ hour trip in the winter.
The location seems slightly odd to me since it's in a business district. It is only two blocks away from City Hall though and there's an underground pedway.
Illinois is a great example of this. There's no money to pay for public sector workers' pensions so they keep raising taxes. The non-public workers who are able to leave the state are doing so.
Something similar is going in Chicago, the middle-class is leaving because they're being taxed to death. The poor are staying because the government is subsidizing them.
New residents are mostly wealthy people who can afford to pay the taxes.
Goodness knows why I'm replying to an AC, but the inability to reverse transactions is a feature! People get scammed all the time by customers reversing credit card charges once the transaction is complete. You can go ask Steve Wozniak about it.
None of the items you mentioned are really drawbacks.
Protecting access to private keys is not that difficult if you're competent with computer security.
you need some kind of enforcement capable of setting things right. Something that can govern, if even just a little bit.
Cryptocurrencies are clearly not for you! If you need a babysitter you can use the traditional money system.
But this isn't about total surveillance, it's about monitoring a public institution. You don't think there are cameras with facial recognition software in use at other government buildings like courthouses, police stations, the DMV, etc? How about in the private workplace?
Schools and classrooms should have video surveillance. It protects people from false allegations and it provides proof that events did happen.
This sort of technology would be great for things like automatic roll calls, clocking workers in/out, loss prevention and front desk security. I'm not going to argue it's a good use of school resources, but it will definitely improve the ability to monitor a location. As for securing a school, locked doors and security staff would probably be more effective.
I used to play a game where I'd have the tv news program on while sitting at a computer and see how fast I could read the stories they were covering. Speech is a very slow way to transmit information.
Now that we have the Internet I think back to the days when people mostly got their information from television and it's kind of scary how easily people could be intentionally misinformed or just plain not informed. Lots of coverage of local crime, fires, sports, etc. and virtually nothing about meaningful events happening around the World, or even in the local community. Of course, that's because shows like the news are just vehicles to deliver ads. It's not about information, it's about eyeballs.
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"'You don't get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion." -- L. Ron Hubbard
I'm going to have to disagree about tipping. Tipping well at establishments you frequent is how you get better service and complimentary items.
The bartenders at my favorite place comp me anywhere from half to all of my drinks when I eat there. Granted, this is in Chicago and I never eat at chain restaurants.
I don't understand why people go to these awful chain restaurants. Don't they know the food is frozen and just reheated?
The cameras are there so they can identify people after the fact. Ideally they could also stop events in progress, but you need to have someone ready to respond.
A local news reporter out cycling was recently found near a Chicago lakefront bicycle path with her neck broken. There was no sign of an accident, scuffed turf, etc. Since there are no cameras along this path there's no way to tell what happened. Assaults happen every week along this path.
Surveillance cameras in public places and institutions makes a lot of sense.
Cameras already are everywhere!
There are cameras in my condo building. There are cameras watching me when I walk to the train. There are cameras at the train station. There are cameras when I enter my office building. There are cameras inside my office suite. There's cameras on my laptop and phone.
This technology is only going to improve, cameras are going to get smaller and automated recognition will get better and better. You can't stop progress.
I tried Twitter out several years ago, but it sure feels like I'm trying to drink from a firehose.
I work on a computer all day long, so I'm not too interested in spending any more time than necessary using them during my down time. I'm definitely not one of these people walking around staring at their phones or constantly checking for updates during the day.
Those of you who do use Twitter, how do you deal with the deluge of messages and improve the signal to noise ratio?
Have you never heard the saying, "liberals don't think, they feel"?
My impression is that there's a very vocal minority that hates Trump and a mostly silent majority that appreciates what he's doing for American citizens.
I suppose that's one way to look at it, eliminate the human. It makes sense because any process that involves humans needs to be able to handle failures at each step and this company's process clearly expected humans to perform perfectly every time.
I'm really blown away that no one was responsible for verifying the information before initiating the process. How long would it have taken someone from HR to call his manager and confirm what they were being told?
He clearly states that he,
was on a 3 years contract and had only worked for 8 months
His manager did not transfer his contract information into the new system when the company was bought by another. It was not a case of his contract not being renewed at the end of the current term.
It sounds like the corporate environment I'm familiar with.
Employees working in their own little silos with management likely remote and out of touch with what's really going on day to day.
The other women threatened to quit and vandalize the office and you didn't fire them?!
That was my first thought. What else did he do that they wanted to get rid of him for?
It sounds like they looked into his past and found something they could use to terminate him.
Have you been following the news about the selective enrollment schools in New York? Asian groups are up in arms about attempts to diversify the schools by forcing them to set aside seats for certain groups.
Asian Groups See Bias in Plan to Diversify New York's Elite Schools
If you want to make people equal it's much easier to knock some down than it is to build the others up.
Is Microsoft also working on technology that will eliminate the problems they're planning on creating when they make millions of jobs obsolete?
We already have the necessary technology. You split the people into two groups and give them shovels. The first group digs holes and the second group fills them back in.
You can take the Blue Line from Clark and Lake to O'Hare, but it's going to take close to an hour. It's only 15.5 miles from Block 37 to O'Hare; a pretty short trip at 100mph.
Travel times by car can be even longer; you can look at historical travel times at travelmidwest.com. It's not uncommon for it to be a 2+ hour trip in the winter.
The location seems slightly odd to me since it's in a business district. It is only two blocks away from City Hall though and there's an underground pedway.
Pretty much. If you care about the hardware you're running, you probably aren't buying Apple products.
Illinois is a great example of this. There's no money to pay for public sector workers' pensions so they keep raising taxes. The non-public workers who are able to leave the state are doing so.
The Great Illinois Exodus Will fiscal responsibility follow? Or is it too late?
Something similar is going in Chicago, the middle-class is leaving because they're being taxed to death. The poor are staying because the government is subsidizing them. New residents are mostly wealthy people who can afford to pay the taxes.
Sex Workers are Using Crypto to Save for Retirement
Good ideas are worth nothing. Lots of people have good ideas all of the time.
It's the implementation that's worth something.
Won't that cause the price of Verge to plummet as everyone liquidates their holdings?
Goodness knows why I'm replying to an AC, but the inability to reverse transactions is a feature! People get scammed all the time by customers reversing credit card charges once the transaction is complete. You can go ask Steve Wozniak about it.
None of the items you mentioned are really drawbacks. Protecting access to private keys is not that difficult if you're competent with computer security.
you need some kind of enforcement capable of setting things right. Something that can govern, if even just a little bit.
Cryptocurrencies are clearly not for you! If you need a babysitter you can use the traditional money system.
You're missing the point, money doesn't grow on trees.
The public cannot afford to finance an unlimited amount of treatments to prolong others' lives.
I have a cure for your fatal disease. You and everyone who loves you must give me everything they own, and take on crippling debt to get it.
Life is a terminal, sexually transmitted disease. There is no amount of healthcare that will save you from death.
If the treatment saves Jeff's life and not getting the treatment results in his death, then yes it is an extremely efficient allocation of his money.
Resources should go to those creating the most value. In this case Jeff's resources would be going to those who saved his life.
But this isn't about total surveillance, it's about monitoring a public institution. You don't think there are cameras with facial recognition software in use at other government buildings like courthouses, police stations, the DMV, etc? How about in the private workplace?
Schools and classrooms should have video surveillance. It protects people from false allegations and it provides proof that events did happen.
This sort of technology would be great for things like automatic roll calls, clocking workers in/out, loss prevention and front desk security. I'm not going to argue it's a good use of school resources, but it will definitely improve the ability to monitor a location. As for securing a school, locked doors and security staff would probably be more effective.
I used to play a game where I'd have the tv news program on while sitting at a computer and see how fast I could read the stories they were covering. Speech is a very slow way to transmit information.
Now that we have the Internet I think back to the days when people mostly got their information from television and it's kind of scary how easily people could be intentionally misinformed or just plain not informed. Lots of coverage of local crime, fires, sports, etc. and virtually nothing about meaningful events happening around the World, or even in the local community. Of course, that's because shows like the news are just vehicles to deliver ads. It's not about information, it's about eyeballs.