I didn't read the article, but what I'm surmising is that they just pointed out that the bad qualities of a bad meeting are amplified by the barriers present in a conference call. Follow the basics of a meeting: Clearly define what the meeting is about, and what is the expected output. Every attendee should have a purpose for being there, and know what it is. Both of those should be included in the meeting invite. Doesn't matter if it's a conference call or not, a poorly defined meeting is going to be a bad meeting. It's just going to be worse on a conference call.
After you learn how to create a proper meeting definition you can pinpoint what's going to be a shit meeting before the first word is spoken. The only difference between a conference call and an in-person meeting? A good facilitator has a better chance of getting something productive out of an in-person dumpster fire. A poorly planned conference call is rarely going to produce anything meaningful.
I saw a really great me'me the other day, something along the lines of "People are really good at knowing when an hour-long meeting should have been an e-mail, but really bad at recognizing that a three day, six page, e-mail chain could have been solved with a 5 minute meeting.
I have an 89 that saved my ass in college. Unfortunately it was a victim of an errant attempt at a firmware upgrade that went awry. Pretty sure I have an 83 that met the same fate. I never was able to resuscitate them.
But with a couple kids approaching college age, it may be worthwhile to dust them off again to see if they can be resurrected.
The underlying framework ensured a level of modularity to facilitate future functionality as well as standards harmonization and critical upstream partner collaboration.
Somewhere in a dark cubicle a marketing manager just creamed his pants after reading this.
Are you suggesting that designing an ASIC with a large amount of memory, or a good memory controller, to circumvent a limitation on RAM is not possible to do? I mean that is, by definition the purpose of an ASIC: An integrated circuit that is designed specifically for an application.
Pappa John's founder quoted as saying: "Pizza hut sucks". Also of note: AT&T thinks Verizon sucks, Ford doesn't like GM, Bing has nothing nice to say about Google, and Bud would like to see Miller in the pit of misery (dilly dilly)
Social Security number is generally required because that is needed for tax purposes. It's not supposed to be used for identification.
In this instance it's not being used for identification purposes, it's being used to establish the eligibility to work. source
The SS card itself may not always be required.
If you mean that there other acceptable documents, yes, you are correct. If you mean that I, as an employer, don't need the to see the physical document? By signing the form I am attesting that I have physically inspected the card. And I'm personally liable if I sign it without the card being there. I assume there are employers that are willing to take that risk, but as a contractor hiring 100s of people from all over the country that wasn't a risk I was willing to take. Our policy was no SS card (or other legally acceptable document, obviously), you got shown the gate.
To add on, for those who are too lazy to click your link: The employer filling out the "identification" part of said I9 is required to authenticate the eligibility of the employee in two ways: Proof of identity, and proof of eligibility to work. The most common pair being a drivers license and social security card, some documents serve both purposes. The employer is required to verify this information and fill out the identification section of the I9, under penalty of perjury.
For proof of identification there are other methods that may be used.
GP is correct, other forms of ID are acceptable... such as a passport. However, the reason most people use a drivers license and SS card is because those are generally the easiest to obtain.
Why? So every McDonald's patron gets a coupon for a free medium fry, the lawyers get $100M, and McD's raises their prices 5% to compensate? Thanks, I'll pass.
Similar story here. Had two project managers, one was an accountant the other was a "certified project manager". Neither had a lick of IT experience. Everything was overpromised, and we were expected to meet those unattainable promises.
That, on top of getting screwed out of my bonus and raises two years in a row and having management yank a promised career path, still wasn't enough. It took a midnight trip to the ER, and other various cardiac testing regimens for me to conclude that the stress of the job wasn't worth it. All of the testing came back clear, the only thing my DR could figure was the was the cause of my "health issues" was stress.
I put out two resumes, started a new job within a month, and couldn't be happier/healthier. Granted, no job is without stress, but sometimes it's just not worth it.
My tl;dr echos yours. Killing yourself over a job isn't worth it.
Based on what definition of intelligence can there be no "artificial intelligence"? Given enough time, money, and computing power any definition of intelligence could be replicated in a machine.
They don't always work.
Human intelligence isn't infallible either. You are correct that machines currently fail more often than humans at "AI" tasks, though.
It isn't magic.
Neither is human intelligence. It's all logic. Complicated, sometimes not completely understood, widely variable logic.
Totally joking, I'm completely on-board with that idea. Unfortunately there are certain demographics that are worried about "illegals" coming here and getting IDs then stealing everybody's jobs and milking the system for free money.
Basic gov't-issued photo ID is free at every state DMV that I know of.
Not Minnesota. You heed to have a qualified disability, verified by a medical professional:
“The fee for a Minnesota identification card is 50 cents for a
person who is either: developmentally disabled as defined in Minnesota Statutes, section 252A.02; physically disabled as defined
in Minnesota Statutes, section 169.345, subdivision 2; or has serious and persistent mental illness as described in Minnesota
Statutes, section 245.462, subdivision 20, paragraph (c).”
On your other two points, 100% in agreement. No ID=No bank account=no job=no car=no renting=no [basically, anything]. I just can't fathom being a functioning adult and not being able to scrape together $50 to get an ID card. But I guess if I were in that situation, the ability to vote would probably be pretty low on my priority list.
If you're a fiscal conservative single payer just makes sense
The problem is we don't have the fiscal variety of conservatives anymore. All we have is the moral type. I consider myself a lefty, only because the "conservatives" are more interested in who I'm having sex with rather that what they are spending my money on.
I understand where you are coming from when you approach the median, it gets hard to differentiate between healthy and unhealthy. But really, who's the higher health risk? The guy that has an Amazon subscription for twinkies and Mountain Dew or the guy who spends 15 hours a week at health.com? (mea culpa, I have no idea if you can subscribe to twinkies on Amazon, or what value health.com provides. But you get the idea.)
How much information have I lost due to crashes and reboots on auto-updates?
Hopefully none. I can count the use cases on one hand where using notepad to open/edit something that would be bad if something happened before I saved. Notepad's only useful because it's fast and dumb. Its only legitimate use is as an intermediary to paste random strings of text either for extremely temporary safe keeping or to remove the cancerous formatting that Word tries to strong arm. The only use I can think of outside of that is to edit a config file on a Windows server that doesn't have a real text editor installed.
I mean, I understand that everyone has their opinion, I'm just expressing mine. Sometimes things work well the way they are.
Bumfuck Minnesota (Ok, Monticello. Population 12k, about 20 miles from Minneapolis) I got in a fairly significant accident, effectively reducing the intersection to one lane. (some dipshit turned left in front of me, smoked him doing about 40) No injuries, but the cops were still there within 5 minutes of calling 911. Just offering my anecdotal story.
Or it's one of the first five articles that came up when I fucking googled "accident rates per miles driven driverless cars." The first couple didn't have anything that resembled statistics. Where's your source? Oh yeah, you pulled numbers out of thin air to support an argument, and are now butthurt because you got called out. Done wasting my time with this argument, good day.
Yeah, but which one of those situations is more common? The insignificant number of people that work in secure facilities that require walking 5 miles if you happen to take the bus, or the millions of people that live/work in a major metropolitan area?
yes, those are made-up figures, but they still make the point
Wtf? You don't get to just pull numbers out of your ass to make a point.
"After adjusting for severity and accounting for crashes not reported to police, the study estimated cars with drivers behind the wheel are involved in 4.2 crashes per million miles, versus 3.2 crashes per million miles for self-driving cars in autonomous mode." Source It's a bit dated though, I'm sure it wouldn't take too long to find something newer.
yes, those are made-up figures, but they still make the point
Yup, that's just about the dumbest thing I've read on the Internet today. Thank you for the laugh.
Step 2 is the letter you're going to get in the mail next week suggesting you to upgrade to the Xfinity Everything internet package that includes access to premium websites. But it will be OK because there will be a promotion for $5* per month for 12 months with 2 months free. *plus associated fees, surcharges, and taxes. Limited time offer, see terms and conditions for details.
All of it, since the 50s? Pretty we've got good resources to look back that far. Don't be lazy, if you want to refute their point provide a valid argument. "Nah ah!" is never a valid argument.
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I didn't read the article, but what I'm surmising is that they just pointed out that the bad qualities of a bad meeting are amplified by the barriers present in a conference call. Follow the basics of a meeting: Clearly define what the meeting is about, and what is the expected output. Every attendee should have a purpose for being there, and know what it is. Both of those should be included in the meeting invite. Doesn't matter if it's a conference call or not, a poorly defined meeting is going to be a bad meeting. It's just going to be worse on a conference call.
After you learn how to create a proper meeting definition you can pinpoint what's going to be a shit meeting before the first word is spoken. The only difference between a conference call and an in-person meeting? A good facilitator has a better chance of getting something productive out of an in-person dumpster fire. A poorly planned conference call is rarely going to produce anything meaningful.
I saw a really great me'me the other day, something along the lines of "People are really good at knowing when an hour-long meeting should have been an e-mail, but really bad at recognizing that a three day, six page, e-mail chain could have been solved with a 5 minute meeting.
I have an 89 that saved my ass in college. Unfortunately it was a victim of an errant attempt at a firmware upgrade that went awry. Pretty sure I have an 83 that met the same fate. I never was able to resuscitate them.
But with a couple kids approaching college age, it may be worthwhile to dust them off again to see if they can be resurrected.
The underlying framework ensured a level of modularity to facilitate future functionality as well as standards harmonization and critical upstream partner collaboration.
Somewhere in a dark cubicle a marketing manager just creamed his pants after reading this.
Are you suggesting that designing an ASIC with a large amount of memory, or a good memory controller, to circumvent a limitation on RAM is not possible to do? I mean that is, by definition the purpose of an ASIC: An integrated circuit that is designed specifically for an application.
Pappa John's founder quoted as saying: "Pizza hut sucks". Also of note: AT&T thinks Verizon sucks, Ford doesn't like GM, Bing has nothing nice to say about Google, and Bud would like to see Miller in the pit of misery (dilly dilly)
Ever have anyone close to you do it? I wish I had mod points today, but alas I don't, so for now all I can do is call you a dickhead.
Social Security number is generally required because that is needed for tax purposes. It's not supposed to be used for identification.
In this instance it's not being used for identification purposes, it's being used to establish the eligibility to work. source
The SS card itself may not always be required.
If you mean that there other acceptable documents, yes, you are correct. If you mean that I, as an employer, don't need the to see the physical document? By signing the form I am attesting that I have physically inspected the card. And I'm personally liable if I sign it without the card being there. I assume there are employers that are willing to take that risk, but as a contractor hiring 100s of people from all over the country that wasn't a risk I was willing to take. Our policy was no SS card (or other legally acceptable document, obviously), you got shown the gate.
For proof of identification there are other methods that may be used.
GP is correct, other forms of ID are acceptable... such as a passport. However, the reason most people use a drivers license and SS card is because those are generally the easiest to obtain.
Why? So every McDonald's patron gets a coupon for a free medium fry, the lawyers get $100M, and McD's raises their prices 5% to compensate? Thanks, I'll pass.
Similar story here. Had two project managers, one was an accountant the other was a "certified project manager". Neither had a lick of IT experience. Everything was overpromised, and we were expected to meet those unattainable promises.
That, on top of getting screwed out of my bonus and raises two years in a row and having management yank a promised career path, still wasn't enough. It took a midnight trip to the ER, and other various cardiac testing regimens for me to conclude that the stress of the job wasn't worth it. All of the testing came back clear, the only thing my DR could figure was the was the cause of my "health issues" was stress.
I put out two resumes, started a new job within a month, and couldn't be happier/healthier. Granted, no job is without stress, but sometimes it's just not worth it.
My tl;dr echos yours. Killing yourself over a job isn't worth it.
Based on what definition of intelligence can there be no "artificial intelligence"? Given enough time, money, and computing power any definition of intelligence could be replicated in a machine.
They don't always work.
Human intelligence isn't infallible either. You are correct that machines currently fail more often than humans at "AI" tasks, though.
It isn't magic.
Neither is human intelligence. It's all logic. Complicated, sometimes not completely understood, widely variable logic.
There is no AI yet
Fixed that for ya.
You must be one of them socialists!
Totally joking, I'm completely on-board with that idea. Unfortunately there are certain demographics that are worried about "illegals" coming here and getting IDs then stealing everybody's jobs and milking the system for free money.
Basic gov't-issued photo ID is free at every state DMV that I know of.
Not Minnesota. You heed to have a qualified disability, verified by a medical professional:
“The fee for a Minnesota identification card is 50 cents for a person who is either: developmentally disabled as defined in Minnesota Statutes, section 252A.02; physically disabled as defined in Minnesota Statutes, section 169.345, subdivision 2; or has serious and persistent mental illness as described in Minnesota Statutes, section 245.462, subdivision 20, paragraph (c).”
source
On your other two points, 100% in agreement. No ID=No bank account=no job=no car=no renting=no [basically, anything]. I just can't fathom being a functioning adult and not being able to scrape together $50 to get an ID card. But I guess if I were in that situation, the ability to vote would probably be pretty low on my priority list.
the US could conclusively defeat an enemy with the GDP of Appleton, WI
GDP only if you include Green Bay and all the little towns in between.
If you're a fiscal conservative single payer just makes sense
The problem is we don't have the fiscal variety of conservatives anymore. All we have is the moral type. I consider myself a lefty, only because the "conservatives" are more interested in who I'm having sex with rather that what they are spending my money on.
I understand where you are coming from when you approach the median, it gets hard to differentiate between healthy and unhealthy. But really, who's the higher health risk? The guy that has an Amazon subscription for twinkies and Mountain Dew or the guy who spends 15 hours a week at health.com? (mea culpa, I have no idea if you can subscribe to twinkies on Amazon, or what value health.com provides. But you get the idea.)
I've been buying health insurance for about 15 years. 0 for 15 on it getting cheaper year over year. Maybe next year...
How much information have I lost due to crashes and reboots on auto-updates?
Hopefully none. I can count the use cases on one hand where using notepad to open/edit something that would be bad if something happened before I saved. Notepad's only useful because it's fast and dumb. Its only legitimate use is as an intermediary to paste random strings of text either for extremely temporary safe keeping or to remove the cancerous formatting that Word tries to strong arm. The only use I can think of outside of that is to edit a config file on a Windows server that doesn't have a real text editor installed.
I mean, I understand that everyone has their opinion, I'm just expressing mine. Sometimes things work well the way they are.
Bumfuck Minnesota (Ok, Monticello. Population 12k, about 20 miles from Minneapolis) I got in a fairly significant accident, effectively reducing the intersection to one lane. (some dipshit turned left in front of me, smoked him doing about 40) No injuries, but the cops were still there within 5 minutes of calling 911. Just offering my anecdotal story.
so here's some that I cherry-picked
Or it's one of the first five articles that came up when I fucking googled "accident rates per miles driven driverless cars." The first couple didn't have anything that resembled statistics. Where's your source? Oh yeah, you pulled numbers out of thin air to support an argument, and are now butthurt because you got called out. Done wasting my time with this argument, good day.
Yeah, but which one of those situations is more common? The insignificant number of people that work in secure facilities that require walking 5 miles if you happen to take the bus, or the millions of people that live/work in a major metropolitan area?
yes, those are made-up figures, but they still make the point
Wtf? You don't get to just pull numbers out of your ass to make a point.
"After adjusting for severity and accounting for crashes not reported to police, the study estimated cars with drivers behind the wheel are involved in 4.2 crashes per million miles, versus 3.2 crashes per million miles for self-driving cars in autonomous mode." Source It's a bit dated though, I'm sure it wouldn't take too long to find something newer.
yes, those are made-up figures, but they still make the point
Yup, that's just about the dumbest thing I've read on the Internet today. Thank you for the laugh.
but there are a handful of sites I cannot reach
This is just testing there testing phase.
Step 2 is the letter you're going to get in the mail next week suggesting you to upgrade to the Xfinity Everything internet package that includes access to premium websites. But it will be OK because there will be a promotion for $5* per month for 12 months with 2 months free. *plus associated fees, surcharges, and taxes. Limited time offer, see terms and conditions for details.
The telescope has positive ROI
Please explain. What exactly is our investment returning? What is the value of what it returns?
Really?? Not even in all of history?
All of it, since the 50s? Pretty we've got good resources to look back that far. Don't be lazy, if you want to refute their point provide a valid argument. "Nah ah!" is never a valid argument.