Ethics means different things to different people. You say that ethics means ruling that ``some otherwise logical conclusions are "unacceptable" because - other, unrelated reasons.''. Does this imply it's not OK for us to believe certain things that are (from a factual point of view) true because doing so might have what, in your view, are negative social effects? It seems to me that that is an infringement on the most basic of human capabilities-- the ability to perceive the truth. I decided a long time ago-- about the time I was leaving my religion and becoming an atheist-- that I would not worry about the effects-- on my eternal soul or on anythings else-- of believing a certain thing and just believe things based on the evidence, because if you don't try to believe the truth, how can you trust your own thoughts?
I personally believe a lot of things that are considered socially unacceple by most of my peers. I won't say specifically what they are though, because I want to keep my job.
Any study where the experimental group gets given *more* money is going to show some kind of positive effect. A tax cut would have done the same thing. The real question is whether the negative effects on economic productivity of having to raise taxes enough to fund a UBI are enough to justify the benefits of the UBI. This is, of course, a subjective question as it depends how much you value equality versus freedom and economic growth.
It seems to me that exaggerated fears about children and sex isn't a specifically SJW phenomenon but more of a generalized American phenomenon (seeping into the rest of the world now, since US culture is so influential).
There was a noticeably longer wait at places like Starbucks when they introduced those chip readers. Imagine what would happen if people had to say their email addresses.
No, that's cocksucker seven eight nine then the number four spelled out at hotmail dot com
It seems to me the bigger deal here is that the US is prosecuting her for violations of *US* sanctions agains Iran. Point is: the USA unilaterally applies sanctions to Iran and it expects third parties to comply. She violated US law, but (and I haven't read the details) I'm going to assume her crimes were all third-party stuff, i.e. deals between China and Iran, which international law doesn't give the US a right to have any say in. American law has all kinds of ways of asserting extraterritorial reach e.g.-- and I'm guessing here-- they may be claiming that Huawei did transactions in US dollars and therefore became subject to some kind of American law. If China or Russia were to take the same attitude, you can bet that American hackles would be raised.
The Chinese attitude, I expect, is, "Who died and made you the boss?"
(Re-posting my earlier post after logging in and making a correction).
Good point.
There is another aspect of this too, that the abstract seems to miss. A universal basic income that's given to everyone does not directly reduce the incentive to work at all if you assume linear utility of money. But the point is that the extra money you'd have to raise in order to supply that universal basic income would normally come from some kind of taxation, of income or sales. That taxation, not the UBI itself, is what reduces the incentive to work. A lot of the studies of, and discussions of, UBI completely fail to account for this.
Personally I think it's likely a cultural issue at Apple; I think whoever was responsible for this keyboard screw-up is reluctant to admit it, and Tim Cook is not man enough to call them out. I've read reports that in the Jobs days, there were internal feedback forms at Apple where you could report a problem to the top and it would get fixed, but now it just results in retaliation.
I suspect the same thing that happened to Microsoft is is now happening at Apple, i.e. corporate politics and not the customer experience or the product starts to drive everything. (I used to work at Microsoft).
All this story says to me is that the UK's climate minister is a little green. Firstly, she's confused if she thinks the science tells us "what the goal is". The 1.5 degrees C goal is an arbitrary line that humans drew, it doesn't come from any science. And surely she must know that the first rule of commissions and inquiries is, don't ask a question unless you want to know what the answer is? Because if she is leaving herself open to committing the UK to a vastly expensive transition to non-fossil fuels at the same time as Brexit, she obviously doesn't value her job very much.
That's true up to a certain point but once you go too distant, it ceases to be true. Scientists believe the immediate offspring of sapiens and Neanderthals would, in most cases, not have been healthy and might not have even survived, because their genes were not that compatible. That's why only a small minority of Neanderthal genes survived many millennia of natural selection in predominantly Homo Sapiens poplations.
RE: "they were by definition the same species if they could interbreed"
That is not quite correct. The definition of species is complex and at times a little subjective. There are many pairs of species that *can* interbreed with a certain amount of success, but don't normally do so in the wild. Consider: bison/cattle, lion/tiger.
Trafficking is a very real problem, despite some of the negative legislation that may result in the name of stopping it.
My problem with "trafficking" is that it is an umbrella term that people principally seem to find useful as a way to conflate various issues and advance agendas that they don't want to state outright. Consider that "trafficking" covers such diverse situations as:
Teenage girls being coerced into sex work
People who make it easier for Chinese women to come to the USA on tourist visas to give birth.
The coyotes who guide people central America across the US border
The gangs in Libya who either help Africans cross the sea to Europe, or rip them off as they attempt to get to Europe.
Simple prostitution
People being brought illegally from abroad as domestic workers (or brought legally but exploited).
The usefulness of ``trafficking'' is that it allows a person who is opposed to one of these forms of trafficking (typically prostitution or illegal immigration) to point to one of the forms that *everyone* can agree is wrong (typically underage children being forced into sex work) and use it as an excuse to crack down on the form of ``trafficking'' that is their real target.
Technically you can run emacs inside emacs. You do `M-x term` and type emacs inside that shell. It works but unfortunately it's very complicated to get the control characters to apply to the correct emacs.
... also, who exactly is going to decide what information is "bad" and what is "good"? Google itself?
I notice Lauren's attitudes towards censorship have not changed. When he blogged on Google+, he would delete any comment on his posts that disagreed with him even in a mild and reasonable way.
I believe Lauren Weinstein used to be paid as some kind of Google shill and now that the agreement has been terminated, he seems to have turned on his former employer. Most of his posts now seem to have an anti-Google bias.
It seems to me that people implementing racially discriminatory hiring practices should avoid using words like "purge" in emails. Note to Google HR: you might also want to watch your use of words and phrases like "cleanse", "purify", "rats", "vermin", "final solution" and the like. When used in that context, people tend to take them the wrong way.
There is also a political dimension that hasn't been reported very widely.
According to this opinion piece, part of the issue is that the national government is led by the ANC, while Cape Town is led by the (largely white) Democratic Alliance party. This leads the national government to be unsympathetic to the city's needs.
I buy consumer NVidia GPUs (GTX 1080) for use in academia and they do make it hard for us. We buy machines from Dell but they won't sell us the GPUs with the machines and they won't certify that they will work with GTX 1080s. We have to buy the GTX 1080s separately.
Also, due to the form fractor, the GTX 1080s won't fit in a blade-type server. We have to buy a thicker desktop-style machine and fit it into the rack sideways, where it takes up more height than we'd like.
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Only thing is, when they bring you back, you'll be alive.. but you won't be *the same*. See what happened to the Mountain in Game of Thrones!
I personally believe a lot of things that are considered socially unacceple by most of my peers. I won't say specifically what they are though, because I want to keep my job.
Any study where the experimental group gets given *more* money is going to show some kind of positive effect. A tax cut would have done the same thing. The real question is whether the negative effects on economic productivity of having to raise taxes enough to fund a UBI are enough to justify the benefits of the UBI. This is, of course, a subjective question as it depends how much you value equality versus freedom and economic growth.
Their suits come in medium, large and extra large. Who manufactures them-- Durex?
It seems to me that exaggerated fears about children and sex isn't a specifically SJW phenomenon but more of a generalized American phenomenon (seeping into the rest of the world now, since US culture is so influential).
Wish I had mod points. Seems all the mod points are being given out to SJW's.
A treatment isn't a cure you apologist faggot
Thanks for raising the standard of discussion around here, anonymous couward!
There was a noticeably longer wait at places like Starbucks when they introduced those chip readers. Imagine what would happen if people had to say their email addresses.
No, that's cocksucker seven eight nine then the number four spelled out at hotmail dot com
Baring their teeth? That must have been very scary, considering that normal geese don't have teeth.
The Chinese attitude, I expect, is, "Who died and made you the boss?"
There is another aspect of this too, that the abstract seems to miss. A universal basic income that's given to everyone does not directly reduce the incentive to work at all if you assume linear utility of money. But the point is that the extra money you'd have to raise in order to supply that universal basic income would normally come from some kind of taxation, of income or sales. That taxation, not the UBI itself, is what reduces the incentive to work. A lot of the studies of, and discussions of, UBI completely fail to account for this.
I suspect the same thing that happened to Microsoft is is now happening at Apple, i.e. corporate politics and not the customer experience or the product starts to drive everything. (I used to work at Microsoft).
All this story says to me is that the UK's climate minister is a little green. Firstly, she's confused if she thinks the science tells us "what the goal is". The 1.5 degrees C goal is an arbitrary line that humans drew, it doesn't come from any science. And surely she must know that the first rule of commissions and inquiries is, don't ask a question unless you want to know what the answer is? Because if she is leaving herself open to committing the UK to a vastly expensive transition to non-fossil fuels at the same time as Brexit, she obviously doesn't value her job very much.
That's true up to a certain point but once you go too distant, it ceases to be true. Scientists believe the immediate offspring of sapiens and Neanderthals would, in most cases, not have been healthy and might not have even survived, because their genes were not that compatible. That's why only a small minority of Neanderthal genes survived many millennia of natural selection in predominantly Homo Sapiens poplations.
That is not quite correct. The definition of species is complex and at times a little subjective. There are many pairs of species that *can* interbreed with a certain amount of success, but don't normally do so in the wild. Consider: bison/cattle, lion/tiger.
You say that MS sells those recovery disks for $25. I can't find any evidence for this assertion from searching online. Can you please provide a link?
I wasn't talking about 'in this particular bill', I was talking about the term 'trafficking' in general.
Trafficking is a very real problem, despite some of the negative legislation that may result in the name of stopping it.
My problem with "trafficking" is that it is an umbrella term that people principally seem to find useful as a way to conflate various issues and advance agendas that they don't want to state outright. Consider that "trafficking" covers such diverse situations as:
The usefulness of ``trafficking'' is that it allows a person who is opposed to one of these forms of trafficking (typically prostitution or illegal immigration) to point to one of the forms that *everyone* can agree is wrong (typically underage children being forced into sex work) and use it as an excuse to crack down on the form of ``trafficking'' that is their real target.
Technically you can run emacs inside emacs. You do `M-x term` and type emacs inside that shell. It works but unfortunately it's very complicated to get the control characters to apply to the correct emacs.
I notice Lauren's attitudes towards censorship have not changed. When he blogged on Google+, he would delete any comment on his posts that disagreed with him even in a mild and reasonable way.
I believe Lauren Weinstein used to be paid as some kind of Google shill and now that the agreement has been terminated, he seems to have turned on his former employer. Most of his posts now seem to have an anti-Google bias.
It seems to me that people implementing racially discriminatory hiring practices should avoid using words like "purge" in emails. Note to Google HR: you might also want to watch your use of words and phrases like "cleanse", "purify", "rats", "vermin", "final solution" and the like. When used in that context, people tend to take them the wrong way.
There is also a political dimension that hasn't been reported very widely. According to this opinion piece, part of the issue is that the national government is led by the ANC, while Cape Town is led by the (largely white) Democratic Alliance party. This leads the national government to be unsympathetic to the city's needs.
Also, due to the form fractor, the GTX 1080s won't fit in a blade-type server. We have to buy a thicker desktop-style machine and fit it into the rack sideways, where it takes up more height than we'd like.
Now his contract has been terminated and he seems to have become an anti-Google shill. I'm not sure if he's being paid for this or if it's pro bono.