With their record, does anyone actually Call the police anymore for real calls anymore?
Seems like when people call for service, they're calling to be murdered...
Over 1 million cops make contact with the public a minimum of 40 million times per year. Of those 40+ million encounters, maybe 1,000 will result in the death of a suspect.
Now, I realize that Slashdot isn't quite what it used to be, but I would still expect the average person on here to at least have a basic understanding of statistics and probability. The fact that you would post something so ignorant in the first place is bad enough on it's own, but the multiple upmods are really disappointing.
Because he said that CNNs version of events was fake. It is not a valid response for you to then link to the BBC article.
It's as if he said "Bill lied to me about the price of tea in China" and you responded with "here's Bob telling you how much tea costs in China". It's a non-sequitur.
For example, the private courier services will not bring a package nearer than 100 km to my parents' home, but the national postal service delivers within walking distance.
I've got the exact opposite problem: ALL of the private courier services will bring packages right to my door, while the national postal service insists on dripping it off a good 20 miles away.
They also add a 24 hour hold for some reason, during which my package is in limbo, so Amazon's "2 day shipping" always turns into at least 3 days with the national carrier, whereas FedEx/UPS/Purolator all have it on NY porch within 48 hours or less.
Long story short, don't generalise. Private carriers provide better service in many areas.
I've yet to see a country with a functional postal system. Pretty much all of them seem to deliver more junk than actual mail. That's pretty dysfunctional.
For any of these companies, to announce two or three new models while they're still trying to increase production to get a brand new model out the door, and one Tesla didn't even have a prototype for in March of this year and have had no prototype testing for when they filed, is so stupid it isn't even funny.
Well good thing Tesla didn't do that. Did you hallucinate some new product announcement?
Because they are
Well that's convincing. Thanks for the detailed explanation.
If he's the only one who speaks his native language, how can anyone know that he actually speaks it? He could just be babbling in complete gibberish, and everyone would be standing there going... aww, how sad... nobody else speaks his language any more...
How many Model 3 orders have been fulfilled so far before Musk goes on yet another magical mystery tour of the next terribly exciting product he's dreamed up to drum up more investor cash and deposits?
I don't understand why this has become a talking point amongst the handfull of grouches obsessed with criticising Tesla. I mean, if you want to criticize them for falling behind on their original production estimates, sure, that's fair game. They're far from being the only company to ever fall behind early projections, but the criticism is still warranted. What I don't get is why you would then go from legitimate criticism to the utter absurdity of suggesting that production delays are somehow related to R&D.
Do you honestly think that that's how manufacturing works? That a reduction in R&D can somehow magically eliminate production line problems?
How exactly did you manage to convince yourself that the two are in any way related? It seems like you're just flailing blindly, grasping at whatever random phrases you can find to justify your hatred of Tesla / Musk.
By that definition, every company which started off by getting venture capital is a pyramid scheme.
The difference between a pyramid scheme and a legitimate venture is that the former creates nothing of value and must inevitably collapse when it runs out of new suckers, while the latter uses borrowed money to develop legitimate products, improve efficiency, and reduce costs.
If only there were less articles on who she was and how she looked and more on what she actually did. Perhaps then she could be evaluated on an equal footing scientifically and the fraud would have been apparent much, much earlier.
It was evaluated "on an equal footing" by actual engineers and scientists, and most of them were either extremely skeptical or outright called it bullshit. Today's media don't much care about that, though; they care about whether a story is sexy and likely to generate clicks far more than they care about whether it's actually true.
It is disgusting that success (and investor probability) for women is often graded by appearance. Welcome to the downsides of gender discrimination.
Gender discrimination in general is disgusting, but cases like this are the inevitable result of third-wave-feminism inspired policies. When there's a disparity in representation and success between the sexes in business and tech which isn't due to any inherent bias, the only way to "correct" that disparity is by introducing bias. This is "affirmative action" for women.
I hear ya man. Back in the 70's my company invented warp drive, but after I returned from my trip to Alpha Cantauri the goddamn lawyers shitcanned the whole thing. Said it would draw too many lawsuits from all the NASA contractors we were about to put out of work.
The amount of yellow needed to turn black into that shade of gold is retarded. Way more than the amount of blue you need to turn the white into a light blue.
But yes, ethnicity still plays too large a role in sentencing
That's a myth also, perpetuated by the same kind of shoddy "research" as the supposed "wage gap". When you control for other factors, they both largely go away.
When it comes to the wage gap, controlling for actual hours worked eliminated the majority of it; when it comes to sentencing disparities the same happens when you control for aggravating factors such as previous criminal history and use of violence/weapons in the commission of the crime.
He's right; it's a stupid requirement. The fact that the course is cheap, or that the training is useful, does not change the fact that it's a stupid requirement.
It's also not an "in Canada" thing since regulation is done primarily by cities and provinces, so some places require first aid and some do not. Toronto used to require it, but no longer does. St. Johns doesn't require it but wants to make it a requirement, and is trying to get the province to do it for them.
The people trying to bring in first aid training as a requirement in Newfoundland also want to make "sensitivity training" mandatory, too. Both of them seem like equally absurd requirement to me.
Great summary, but I'll add that in your example with week days it's not just Thursday and Saturday; it's pretty much the whole week.
Monday = Moon's Day / Roman Goddess Luna Tuesday = Tiw's Day / Norse God Wednesday = Wodan's Day / Norse God Thursday = Thor's Day / Norse God Friday = Frige's Day / Anglo-Saxon Goddess Saturday = Saturn's Day / Roman God Sunday = Sun's Day / A god in many religions
Our week is pretty goddamn multicultural, and very religious.
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You say that you understands statistics, and then you go on to conflate subjective opinion with statistics.
Yay irony.
Sorry, but I think you might feel different about your "statistics" if they involved one of YOUR family members.
That's the kind of vacuous "logic" I expect to read on huffpoo, not on Slashdot.
lol. Yeah, a handful of anecdotes are absolutely the same as an exhaustive list.
With their record, does anyone actually Call the police anymore for real calls anymore?
Seems like when people call for service, they're calling to be murdered...
Over 1 million cops make contact with the public a minimum of 40 million times per year. Of those 40+ million encounters, maybe 1,000 will result in the death of a suspect.
Now, I realize that Slashdot isn't quite what it used to be, but I would still expect the average person on here to at least have a basic understanding of statistics and probability. The fact that you would post something so ignorant in the first place is bad enough on it's own, but the multiple upmods are really disappointing.
I can sum up that training in 4 words: "don't be a retard".
Unfortunately most people are incapable of following that advice.
I've used Microsoft Windows to view pirated content. What's your point?
I wonder if any body / dash cams were working...
Given that the linked article includes body cam video, I'm going to guess the answer is "yes".
Because he said that CNNs version of events was fake. It is not a valid response for you to then link to the BBC article.
It's as if he said "Bill lied to me about the price of tea in China" and you responded with "here's Bob telling you how much tea costs in China". It's a non-sequitur.
For example, the private courier services will not bring a package nearer than 100 km to my parents' home, but the national postal service delivers within walking distance.
I've got the exact opposite problem: ALL of the private courier services will bring packages right to my door, while the national postal service insists on dripping it off a good 20 miles away.
They also add a 24 hour hold for some reason, during which my package is in limbo, so Amazon's "2 day shipping" always turns into at least 3 days with the national carrier, whereas FedEx/UPS/Purolator all have it on NY porch within 48 hours or less.
Long story short, don't generalise. Private carriers provide better service in many areas.
I've yet to see a country with a functional postal system. Pretty much all of them seem to deliver more junk than actual mail. That's pretty dysfunctional.
No one is moving any bars; you need to look up the word "usually".
You're comparing the freedom tower to an apple store?
How in the world did you manage to confuse the BBC with CNN?
If the people you're protesting with are carrying communist flags and you don't see anything wrong with that, chances are you're a Commie?
For any of these companies, to announce two or three new models while they're still trying to increase production to get a brand new model out the door, and one Tesla didn't even have a prototype for in March of this year and have had no prototype testing for when they filed, is so stupid it isn't even funny.
Well good thing Tesla didn't do that. Did you hallucinate some new product announcement?
Because they are
Well that's convincing. Thanks for the detailed explanation.
If he's the only one who speaks his native language, how can anyone know that he actually speaks it? He could just be babbling in complete gibberish, and everyone would be standing there going ... aww, how sad ... nobody else speaks his language any more ...
How many Model 3 orders have been fulfilled so far before Musk goes on yet another magical mystery tour of the next terribly exciting product he's dreamed up to drum up more investor cash and deposits?
I don't understand why this has become a talking point amongst the handfull of grouches obsessed with criticising Tesla. I mean, if you want to criticize them for falling behind on their original production estimates, sure, that's fair game. They're far from being the only company to ever fall behind early projections, but the criticism is still warranted. What I don't get is why you would then go from legitimate criticism to the utter absurdity of suggesting that production delays are somehow related to R&D.
Do you honestly think that that's how manufacturing works? That a reduction in R&D can somehow magically eliminate production line problems?
How exactly did you manage to convince yourself that the two are in any way related? It seems like you're just flailing blindly, grasping at whatever random phrases you can find to justify your hatred of Tesla / Musk.
Musk has a record of under delivering, and 1995 will be the year of the Linux Desktop.
By that definition, every company which started off by getting venture capital is a pyramid scheme.
The difference between a pyramid scheme and a legitimate venture is that the former creates nothing of value and must inevitably collapse when it runs out of new suckers, while the latter uses borrowed money to develop legitimate products, improve efficiency, and reduce costs.
If only there were less articles on who she was and how she looked and more on what she actually did. Perhaps then she could be evaluated on an equal footing scientifically and the fraud would have been apparent much, much earlier.
It was evaluated "on an equal footing" by actual engineers and scientists, and most of them were either extremely skeptical or outright called it bullshit. Today's media don't much care about that, though; they care about whether a story is sexy and likely to generate clicks far more than they care about whether it's actually true.
It is disgusting that success (and investor probability) for women is often graded by appearance. Welcome to the downsides of gender discrimination.
Gender discrimination in general is disgusting, but cases like this are the inevitable result of third-wave-feminism inspired policies. When there's a disparity in representation and success between the sexes in business and tech which isn't due to any inherent bias, the only way to "correct" that disparity is by introducing bias. This is "affirmative action" for women.
I hear ya man. Back in the 70's my company invented warp drive, but after I returned from my trip to Alpha Cantauri the goddamn lawyers shitcanned the whole thing. Said it would draw too many lawsuits from all the NASA contractors we were about to put out of work.
The amount of yellow needed to turn black into that shade of gold is retarded. Way more than the amount of blue you need to turn the white into a light blue.
But yes, ethnicity still plays too large a role in sentencing
That's a myth also, perpetuated by the same kind of shoddy "research" as the supposed "wage gap". When you control for other factors, they both largely go away.
When it comes to the wage gap, controlling for actual hours worked eliminated the majority of it; when it comes to sentencing disparities the same happens when you control for aggravating factors such as previous criminal history and use of violence/weapons in the commission of the crime.
He's right; it's a stupid requirement. The fact that the course is cheap, or that the training is useful, does not change the fact that it's a stupid requirement.
It's also not an "in Canada" thing since regulation is done primarily by cities and provinces, so some places require first aid and some do not. Toronto used to require it, but no longer does. St. Johns doesn't require it but wants to make it a requirement, and is trying to get the province to do it for them.
The people trying to bring in first aid training as a requirement in Newfoundland also want to make "sensitivity training" mandatory, too. Both of them seem like equally absurd requirement to me.
Great summary, but I'll add that in your example with week days it's not just Thursday and Saturday; it's pretty much the whole week.
Monday = Moon's Day / Roman Goddess Luna
Tuesday = Tiw's Day / Norse God
Wednesday = Wodan's Day / Norse God
Thursday = Thor's Day / Norse God
Friday = Frige's Day / Anglo-Saxon Goddess
Saturday = Saturn's Day / Roman God
Sunday = Sun's Day / A god in many religions
Our week is pretty goddamn multicultural, and very religious.