- elektrontamerBiggest dream of mine but almost impossible if you're married. Women hate it out it in the middle of nowhere.
- > In reality, the US employs its foreign policy for its own interests.
Sometimes I'm not even sure it's for it's own interests.
- How? What's your laptop brand and model? I've never had better battery life with any machine using ubuntu.
- Hmmm... I really wonder what the said tyrants did when they got into power? Oh that's right they imposed heavy restrictions on speech and all forms of media. And it's not like there was free speech before them, the Weimar republic tried banning them as well. It's almost like challenging ideas and defeating them on an intellectual level is far better than trying to supress them.
- > You're straw-manning. I never proposed anything like government enforcement against misinformation.
Tyranny is the only alternative to free speech. I just don't see it ending in any other way.
> I don't think misinformation should be illegal, for the reasons you touch on: You certainly don't want government deciding the truth.
Awesome! Then we can stop making such a big deal out of misinformation and protect free speech.
> But I can at least hope you can agree that misinformation as a concept is unethical, right? People are literally dying because of misinformation.
Yes lying is unethical it's been established thousands of years ago.
- Sorry but I'm not willing to live in an insane orwellian world just so your grandma gets her vaccine. It's her family's responsiblity to convince her and if she still refuses shes an adult she has the right to refuse treatment and vaccines.
As for libel, it has always existed and always will. There are laws against it to protect people if they suffer any damage from it. It's not without consequences.
What you're proposing is so much worse. Imagine a tyrant government is after you and has control on information like you propose. How will you protect yourself from the goverment's false accusations?
- So what? People have the right to be wrong and ignorant. It's far better than having The Ministry of Tru... sorry I mean Disinformation Governance Board. Even if lies spread far and wide they always get exposed eventually. For example consider the Iraq war, a war the american public was rushed into without the free flow of information, something you seem keen on, but now that the public has access to info the same republican base that was in support of the war now hates war hawks like john bolton.
- Why are we so worried about adults reading incorrect information? Once they eventually find the info was wrong they'll be more sceptical of that source. We know policing speech doesn't work, whoever does the policing introduces their own biases, this was clear as day with the hunter laptop story and how the goverment put pressure on social media companies to supress it.
- To play devils advocate let's say they are forced by law to get consent for data. But why force me to make an account?
- I will never understand why companies make these ridiculous demands from their customers and just keep pestering them. I have a Samsung phone and it routinely sends me annoying user data agreement notices which I ignore. What exactly do they get out of this?
- > But you will avoid many of the annoying things that come with a job, including a boss telling you what to do.
I hear things like this a lot and I'm sick of it. There's nothing wrong with working for someone, in fact it's the best way to improve your skills as a beginner since you're going to be mentored by people much more experienced than you. I still call my first boss to this day.
- No need for a rock. Hanging will work just fine.
- Because they developed and hosted the site and the users agreed to it.
- > If you're saying women are less capable, be direct
This is an anonymous forum, if that's what I thought, I would say so. I have no reason to censor myself, could not care less about the points.
> The tech sphere is often a bros club and exclusionary to women.
There is no sphere or club, if the software you write provides value to some company or users you get paid for it. No one cares about your chromosomes.
>There are many examples of talented women in our field being trampled out by the mob.
What happened? Did paying customers suddenly boycott their favorite sofwtare upon finding out that a woman wrote the code for it? I'd love to hear some examples.
- > Even if a woman doesn't have a child, they're often still time constrained by other obligations to family.
How is that the would-be investors problem? Can we say the industry is rife with misogyny like the author is implying here?
- > And why do you think that is good sir?
Because on average they're less likely to prefer working in tech. They don't like it, it's that simple.
- "Selection biases filter out most women, underrepresented minorities, and those without connections"
I get those without connections but women and minorities? Give me a break. Asians absolutely killing it and there are simply far fewer women in the industry.
- My only fear is that it's going polute the web to the point where it's not worth it anymore. I wonder if it's feasible to classify AI generated text and images with much less computing power.
- I'm one of those freaks that actually enjoys long technical interviews, especially the hard ones. Maybe I should get a life.
- This sounds like a "dream job syndrome".