If nobody can comment, the time may be ripe for Xanadu. People could download a firefox extention that shows comments overlaid and mark up text on any website, and see others markups. Or people browse meta-sites like slashdot to comment, not bothering with making accounts on every site they want to comment on. Actually this is what people do.
Well your characterization of my remarks makes my point for me. Deaths by neglect experienced by unwanted babies brought to term being analogous to the Black Death, and ABORTIONS being analogous to modern medicine.
If you believe abortion is murder ( which I don't ) you are merely replacing one type of death with another.
Also have a look at what Freakanomics has to say about Rowe V Wade and and the drop in crime due to unwanted babies not growing up to be criminals and real murderers.
Meh I have literally no problems with any abortions I know of.
Read Farewell to Alms, or just look up Prof Gregory Clark (UC Davis ) on youtube and learn about the deathrate for babies put out to wetnurse ( before abortions ).
And public sentiment seems to swing toward profiling being OK
The second link says:
A recent poll by USA Today showed Americans are in favor of more intensive security check for people who fit a profile of a terrorist based on age, ethnicity and gender.[12]
racism
rsizm/
noun
noun: racism
the belief that all members of each race possess characteristics or abilities specific to that race, especially so as to distinguish it as inferior or superior to another race or races.
prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one's own race is superior.
Nothing Trump has said is implies this.
Here's xenophobia:
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xenophobia
zenfb,znfb/
noun
noun: xenophobia
intense or irrational dislike or fear of people from other countries.
I've made comments like that myself, so that doesn't bother me. I am at once against what the NSA is doing, and against people spilling secrets. He should have worked within channels.
immigration raises the incomes of native-born Americans on average
Average is the key word here. It's referring to the mean. So Richie Rich makes more money because he hires a bunch of cheap labor.
So according to your article, GDP increases and 97+ percent goes to the immigrants and ( with less than 3% of the increase in GDP available to do anything else there is a small (unspecified in your article) increase to average incomes. Of course this is the mean income, averaging in Ritchie Rich who gets to hire cheap labor's income, and the newly minted managers of all this cheap labor. Since the increase in income was only for a few, Median income likely falls.
And to produce this effect you're taking the US population through the roof.
He says all the time he need flexibility to do deals.
This amounts to 'trust me' which where politicians are concerned, doesn't generally work out well. This is the worst thing about Trump IMO.
For instance, he was pro-choice a few years ago, and now he's pro-life because he wants the GOP nomination. Once he supported single payer healthcare, now he doesn't because he wants the GOP nomination. From my point of view I wish he'd never changed his positions. This says to me, these issues aren't very important to him. Or maybe they are and he's just making a deal.
Also, the birther thing, he de-emphasizes now seems to paint him as an idiot, but it may have appealed to more people than it put off. Was it ever important to him, or just a way of getting attention. Also, consider that appearing dumb enough to do stupid things might help him in negotiations by giving him flexibility. If you appear too rational, it can be a weakness because it allows others to predict your moves. Computers still don't dominate poker.
The wall seems dumb at first. And getting Mexico to pay for it, just stupid, but I don't think he really wants a wall. He wants to use it to browbeat others. The pressure he will apply to get the wall built is an anti-nafta agenda with impounding of remittances, which if Trump has any brains ( which he probably does but hides well ) is what he really wants. I don't think he really wants to get the wall easily.
Making E-verify mandatory and penalties for violations by employers certain and severe will do more to deter illegal immigration than any wall ever could, which Trump says he wants to do.
His bluster about his willingness to send troops to the Middle East could easily be a bargaining chip he intends to cash in for a better deal. Would more military adventures in the Middle East be a bad idea? Yes. But then he may not actually want them.
The list goes on. but while you could imagine a rational Trump that is bluffing, you don't ever know that for sure. People like to see themselves in others when it's not really there. The thing he's saying to the American Public is 'Trust me.'.
And is your favorite Trump position core, to his agenda or something to be cashed in? Or maybe everything actually might be cashed in in some possible deal but the whole agenda is genuine.
That might be what Trump is trying to do by running. The right and left are moving further apart and alienating more and more people opening the way for a populist centrist candidate to take both right and left positions to synthesize a new deal.
As for the H1B thing, he'll get the internet on his side with that one. Too bad it keeps an upper level 'maximum wage' , just raising it ( which will be undone by inflation eventually ) rather than just eliminating H1B.
Still, it's something.
The two populist candidates are Bernie Sanders and Trump.
Bernie Sanders won't have the money to beat Trump.
If Hillary gets the nomination, how many populist Bernie Sanders supporters will go to Hillary and how many will become Trump supporters when he shifts to the left in the general election ( which he will ).
Will Armerica stand for another non-populist president given how alienated they feel by the bought and paid for right and left?
And like it or not, America is becoming more National Socialist. America is not racist or anti-semetic, but they want some moderate socialism and realize that socialism isn't feasible without border control ( the nationalism ) or else you get a race to the bottom as people flood in from everywhere. You can't heat the great outdoors.
And being nationalist and socialist doesn't make you a hater and certainly doesn't make you Hitler. -- Hitler was a bad guy.
Being moderately socialist doesn't make you a commie, it just means you're not a Rothbardian Libertarian Ayn Rand worshipper. It makes you normal.
Being nationalist, doesn't make you racist if you define nation geographically and include all c
The price per plane goes down as more are produced since development makes up a fair bit ( the bulk? ) of the cost.
Also - a long war? Who wants that? Nobody is going to fight a long existential war by choice, which means a long existential war implies the war is only existential for one side which is the weaker.
Two sides fighting an existential war will sue for peace or start shooting nukes.
Easy, I hovered over a link that said security implications, and firefox did a speculative fetch. They have better things to do than fruitlessly pester people about the literally thousands of such instances they'll run into.
I thought like you when I first heard about this, but then I thought, wait, if everyone's browser is doing speculative gets, then it's nigh impossible to look in someone's cache and prove someone clicked a link. There's anonymity in the crowd. I guess as long as none of the links are actually buy buttons, I'm ok with this.
I have an android phone, it's not lollipop, but I have full disk encryption running on it. The thing is, my pin is 4 digits long. That's as much as I'm willing to type into a touchscreen to unlock it.
I'm not keeping anything more than 4 digit pin- sensitive on my phone without separate encryption.
I agree. They need to stop punishing people who evaluate people as individuals and let market forces punish prejudice.
Affirmative action/quotas only validate prejudice by making it true. If minorities have largely been the 'beneficiaries' of affirmative action and failings overlooked to allow enough to attain a position/rank/certification then a given minority at a given position will tend to be less qualified than their non-minority counterpart.
This is the opposite of the Tuskeegee Airman scenario where the black pilots were kept in aviation school and trained for longer than their non-black counterparts and showed themselves to be superior due to their better/longer training and practice.
Treat everyone as an individual and prejudice will punish itself to the extent that it is factually wrong.
And if due to past history a race is disadvantaged, there is still no reason to care. Caring which race is disadvantaged or not is preferring one race over another which is racism. It is up to each individual to overcome their circumstances and earn a better place in society, and the respect that comes with it. Handing out 'a leg up' denies minorities as a class the respect some have worked hard to earn.
Because of affirmative action no matter what a member of a 'preferred' minority group does, they will be in a pool of people whose attainment means less. The prejudice they experience is inescapable.
This is the reason I proudly browse with Ad Block Edge.
Content paid for by ads is not produced in my interest, but in the interest of the purchasers of the ads. In most cases it would be better if whatever is paid for by ads were not produced at all. That would make the voices of those speaking to share their thoughts, relatively louder in the marketplace of ideas, compared with the voices of those speaking to attract eyeballs in a way that won't reflect badly on a brand.
To an extent, content in the service of ads BECOMES an ad. I crave what is left when nobody can make money off the internet.
The rest can fsck off and die.
If something only exists in a form paid for by ads it is either 1) not necessary for anyone to create without the ads given the easy availability of ad blockers, but would be available if the existing sources went away or 2) is garbage or at best empty calories.
If a site wants to require ad-blockers be disabled to view the content, let them. I won't view their site if it's too hard to get around their ads. I won't link to their site because I won't view it and so won't know what's published on it. And neither will any of the people who use ad-blockers. And since people clever enought to know what an ad-blocker is, ( a low bar, but a bar nonetheless ) these tend to be the most savvy, interestin, and the most apt to generate traffic by their actions. The site that enforces no-adblockers soon gets forgotten.
Unless the site serves up tripe appealing to the lowest common denominator. But then it needn't bother blocking ad-blockers because its audience is literally brain-dead, and won't install them. But if they DID force viewing of ads, then well, nothing of value was lost.
I look at my own resume and the skills I am willing to list on it, and it looks light compared to the resumes of the people that end up managing people like me. However I am leagues ahead in terms of actual skills compared to them. I list a skill if an only if I am truly competent and if I am only somewhat familiar, I will qualify the skill.
The people that end up managing people like me, list far more skills, but have far less skills. They get away with this because the job they want is one that doesn't require applying the skills they list.
I'm on the fence about certifications, since they do tend to weed out some of the people above. However for people that do intend to acquire the skills to do a job and apply them ( as labor ) the certifcation process doesn't help toward that much.
Certification seems to be akin to buying a commission in ye-olde royal navy. It the annoyance weeds out some riff-raff.
The "interpreter-based threads" provided by Perl are not the fast, lightweight system for multitasking that one might expect or hope for. Threads are implemented in a way that make them easy to misuse. Few people know how to use them correctly or will be able to provide help.
The use of interpreter-based threads in perl is officially discouraged.
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If nobody can comment, the time may be ripe for Xanadu. People could download a firefox extention that shows comments overlaid and mark up text on any website, and see others markups. Or people browse meta-sites like slashdot to comment, not bothering with making accounts on every site they want to comment on. Actually this is what people do.
I was thinking Boltzmann would be a good name for this sort of brain.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Also, BoltzmannBrain would be a good nick, ( or BoltzmannBrian if your name was Brian ).
I was born in the US. Don't want to get too specific, but I was right out college with good grades. It was my first job in the field I'd trained for.
Well your characterization of my remarks makes my point for me. Deaths by neglect experienced by unwanted babies brought to term being analogous to the Black Death, and ABORTIONS being analogous to modern medicine.
If you believe abortion is murder ( which I don't ) you are merely replacing one type of death with another.
Also have a look at what Freakanomics has to say about Rowe V Wade and and the drop in crime due to unwanted babies not growing up to be criminals and real murderers.
Meh I have literally no problems with any abortions I know of.
Read Farewell to Alms, or just look up Prof Gregory Clark (UC Davis ) on youtube and learn about the deathrate for babies put out to wetnurse ( before abortions ).
Profiling is constitutional, and may or may not be legal depending on jurisdiction.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Also
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
And public sentiment seems to swing toward profiling being OK
The second link says:
... ungamable
So BS numbers are ungamable now? BS numbers will be created by those who wish to game. Look at the CPI.
I don't think Trump is xenophobic or racist.
Here's the google definition of racism:
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racism
rsizm/
noun
noun: racism
the belief that all members of each race possess characteristics or abilities specific to that race, especially so as to distinguish it as inferior or superior to another race or races.
prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one's own race is superior.
Nothing Trump has said is implies this.
Here's xenophobia:
Search Results
xenophobia
zenfb,znfb/
noun
noun: xenophobia
intense or irrational dislike or fear of people from other countries.
Haven't seen this either.
I've made comments like that myself, so that doesn't bother me. I am at once against what the NSA is doing, and against people spilling secrets. He should have worked within channels.
From your link:
Average is the key word here. It's referring to the mean. So Richie Rich makes more money because he hires a bunch of cheap labor.
So according to your article, GDP increases and 97+ percent goes to the immigrants and ( with less than 3% of the increase in GDP available to do anything else there is a small (unspecified in your article) increase to average incomes. Of course this is the mean income, averaging in Ritchie Rich who gets to hire cheap labor's income, and the newly minted managers of all this cheap labor. Since the increase in income was only for a few, Median income likely falls.
And to produce this effect you're taking the US population through the roof.
Hmm. I was an entry level C++ programmer just a couple years before that... I made like 35k..
He says all the time he need flexibility to do deals.
This amounts to 'trust me' which where politicians are concerned, doesn't generally work out well. This is the worst thing about Trump IMO.
For instance, he was pro-choice a few years ago, and now he's pro-life because he wants the GOP nomination. Once he supported single payer healthcare, now he doesn't because he wants the GOP nomination. From my point of view I wish he'd never changed his positions. This says to me, these issues aren't very important to him. Or maybe they are and he's just making a deal.
Also, the birther thing, he de-emphasizes now seems to paint him as an idiot, but it may have appealed to more people than it put off. Was it ever important to him, or just a way of getting attention. Also, consider that appearing dumb enough to do stupid things might help him in negotiations by giving him flexibility. If you appear too rational, it can be a weakness because it allows others to predict your moves. Computers still don't dominate poker.
The wall seems dumb at first. And getting Mexico to pay for it, just stupid, but I don't think he really wants a wall. He wants to use it to browbeat others. The pressure he will apply to get the wall built is an anti-nafta agenda with impounding of remittances, which if Trump has any brains ( which he probably does but hides well ) is what he really wants. I don't think he really wants to get the wall easily.
Making E-verify mandatory and penalties for violations by employers certain and severe will do more to deter illegal immigration than any wall ever could, which Trump says he wants to do.
His bluster about his willingness to send troops to the Middle East could easily be a bargaining chip he intends to cash in for a better deal. Would more military adventures in the Middle East be a bad idea? Yes. But then he may not actually want them.
The list goes on. but while you could imagine a rational Trump that is bluffing, you don't ever know that for sure. People like to see themselves in others when it's not really there. The thing he's saying to the American Public is 'Trust me.'.
And is your favorite Trump position core, to his agenda or something to be cashed in? Or maybe everything actually might be cashed in in some possible deal but the whole agenda is genuine.
That might be what Trump is trying to do by running. The right and left are moving further apart and alienating more and more people opening the way for a populist centrist candidate to take both right and left positions to synthesize a new deal.
As for the H1B thing, he'll get the internet on his side with that one. Too bad it keeps an upper level 'maximum wage' , just raising it ( which will be undone by inflation eventually ) rather than just eliminating H1B.
Still, it's something.
The two populist candidates are Bernie Sanders and Trump.
Bernie Sanders won't have the money to beat Trump.
If Hillary gets the nomination, how many populist Bernie Sanders supporters will go to Hillary and how many will become Trump supporters when he shifts to the left in the general election ( which he will ).
Will Armerica stand for another non-populist president given how alienated they feel by the bought and paid for right and left?
And like it or not, America is becoming more National Socialist. America is not racist or anti-semetic, but they want some moderate socialism and realize that socialism isn't feasible without border control ( the nationalism ) or else you get a race to the bottom as people flood in from everywhere. You can't heat the great outdoors.
And being nationalist and socialist doesn't make you a hater and certainly doesn't make you Hitler. -- Hitler was a bad guy.
Being moderately socialist doesn't make you a commie, it just means you're not a Rothbardian Libertarian Ayn Rand worshipper. It makes you normal.
Being nationalist, doesn't make you racist if you define nation geographically and include all c
So these dinosaur-human-piloted planes are basically for police actions with politically driven rules of engagement.
If your war requires that kind of care in target selection, you shouldn't be having the war.
Really, why have a pilot at all? Seems dumb. Go for great AI, and humans to tweak the code as new battle data comes in.
The price per plane goes down as more are produced since development makes up a fair bit ( the bulk? ) of the cost.
Also - a long war? Who wants that? Nobody is going to fight a long existential war by choice, which means a long existential war implies the war is only existential for one side which is the weaker.
Two sides fighting an existential war will sue for peace or start shooting nukes.
Easy, I hovered over a link that said security implications, and firefox did a speculative fetch. They have better things to do than fruitlessly pester people about the literally thousands of such instances they'll run into.
I thought like you when I first heard about this, but then I thought, wait, if everyone's browser is doing speculative gets, then it's nigh impossible to look in someone's cache and prove someone clicked a link. There's anonymity in the crowd. I guess as long as none of the links are actually buy buttons, I'm ok with this.
If you want real control, use wget and/or lynx.
I have an android phone, it's not lollipop, but I have full disk encryption running on it. The thing is, my pin is 4 digits long. That's as much as I'm willing to type into a touchscreen to unlock it.
I'm not keeping anything more than 4 digit pin- sensitive on my phone without separate encryption.
http://nelenkov.blogspot.com/2...
I can't have a rooted phone because I have to run an email app that won't allow a rooted phone.
I prefer this: http://michelleshaeffer.com/wp...
I agree. They need to stop punishing people who evaluate people as individuals and let market forces punish prejudice.
Affirmative action/quotas only validate prejudice by making it true. If minorities have largely been the 'beneficiaries' of affirmative action and failings overlooked to allow enough to attain a position/rank/certification then a given minority at a given position will tend to be less qualified than their non-minority counterpart.
This is the opposite of the Tuskeegee Airman scenario where the black pilots were kept in aviation school and trained for longer than their non-black counterparts and showed themselves to be superior due to their better/longer training and practice.
Treat everyone as an individual and prejudice will punish itself to the extent that it is factually wrong.
And if due to past history a race is disadvantaged, there is still no reason to care. Caring which race is disadvantaged or not is preferring one race over another which is racism. It is up to each individual to overcome their circumstances and earn a better place in society, and the respect that comes with it. Handing out 'a leg up' denies minorities as a class the respect some have worked hard to earn.
Because of affirmative action no matter what a member of a 'preferred' minority group does, they will be in a pool of people whose attainment means less. The prejudice they experience is inescapable.
This probe goes in your mouth, and this one goes in your butt...
No, wait, it's the other way around.
This is the reason I proudly browse with Ad Block Edge.
Content paid for by ads is not produced in my interest, but in the interest of the purchasers of the ads. In most cases it would be better if whatever is paid for by ads were not produced at all. That would make the voices of those speaking to share their thoughts, relatively louder in the marketplace of ideas, compared with the voices of those speaking to attract eyeballs in a way that won't reflect badly on a brand.
To an extent, content in the service of ads BECOMES an ad. I crave what is left when nobody can make money off the internet.
The rest can fsck off and die.
If something only exists in a form paid for by ads it is either 1) not necessary for anyone to create without the ads given the easy availability of ad blockers, but would be available if the existing sources went away or 2) is garbage or at best empty calories.
If a site wants to require ad-blockers be disabled to view the content, let them. I won't view their site if it's too hard to get around their ads. I won't link to their site because I won't view it and so won't know what's published on it. And neither will any of the people who use ad-blockers. And since people clever enought to know what an ad-blocker is, ( a low bar, but a bar nonetheless ) these tend to be the most savvy, interestin, and the most apt to generate traffic by their actions. The site that enforces no-adblockers soon gets forgotten.
Unless the site serves up tripe appealing to the lowest common denominator. But then it needn't bother blocking ad-blockers because its audience is literally brain-dead, and won't install them. But if they DID force viewing of ads, then well, nothing of value was lost.
I look at my own resume and the skills I am willing to list on it, and it looks light compared to the resumes of the people that end up managing people like me. However I am leagues ahead in terms of actual skills compared to them. I list a skill if an only if I am truly competent and if I am only somewhat familiar, I will qualify the skill.
The people that end up managing people like me, list far more skills, but have far less skills. They get away with this because the job they want is one that doesn't require applying the skills they list.
I'm on the fence about certifications, since they do tend to weed out some of the people above. However for people that do intend to acquire the skills to do a job and apply them ( as labor ) the certifcation process doesn't help toward that much.
Certification seems to be akin to buying a commission in ye-olde royal navy. It the annoyance weeds out some riff-raff.
The below from http://perldoc.perl.org/thread...
When I left Perl thread support STILL sucked.