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wtcactus
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- What an interesting tile. Is the value of his AI company expected to overcome the 'terrorist sympathizer' allegation? Is this how it works always or just when the person is inside the present Overton Window?
Let's try Elon Musk then: "He was called a 'fascist'. Now, his tech company is valued $1.5T"
This is the way, right?
- Are you talking about "professionally trained nutritionists"?
Those people are worse than Astrologers.
At least astrologers stick to their fantasy, while, since I remember being old enough to count, I already lost track of how many times they've told us that "eggs are bad" and then "eggs are good" again, and then bad, and good, and... I've lost track.
Then they told us to eat cereal at breakfast, and that bread and potatoes are the basis of a good diet, then that fat is the killer and then that we should replace butter with plant based alternatives and the list goes on.
Nutritionists aren't scientists. They aren't even good at basic logic and coherence. So, no, I don't want them in charge of dictating policies.
- This reminds me of the Seinfeld episode where Kramer sends Jerry’s broken video player in the mail to claim the postal service broke it and get money for it.
“It’s a write off Jerry. It costs them nothing. They just write it off!”
Of course that Kramer also didn’t had any idea of what a “write off” was. He was also just throwing words around to justify theft.
- No, by Indians.
That’s why, still today, India is the country with the most slaves in the world, continuing their long tradition of the practice: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_India
- I ended up having a high reputation on SO. Not sure why, but it’s over 7000.
I also experienced many of the issues I see described here. The most egregious was when I asked a completely valid question for R: How to fit a curve through a set of points, with each point having an error associated.
This is something completely normal in a physics experiment. Each measurement had its own error interval. But, for people using R, this seemed like something completely new. So, they just downvoted the question and told me I was wrong.
I ended up answering my own question… but was also told that was wrong and that all points must have the same error interval.
Instead of answering a programming question, people just went around denying experimental physics.
I think that was the beginning of the end of SO for me.
- Personally, I do great in presentations (even ones where I know I'm being evaluated, like when presenting my PhD thesis), but I do terribly in oral exams.
In a presentation, you are in control. You decide how you will present the information and what is relevant to the theme. Even if you get questions, they will be related to the matter at hand that you need to dominate in order to present.
In oral exams, the pressure is just too great. I doubt it translates to a proper job. When I'm doing my job, I don't need to come up with answers right there on the spot. If I don't remember something, I have time to think it through, or to go and check it out. I think most jobs are like this.
I don't mind the pressure when something goes wrong in the job and needs a quick fix. But being right there, in an oral exam, in front of an antagonistic judge (even if they have good intentions) is not really the way to show knowledge, I think.
- > Perhaps, though, you can’t really see the problem? You might even be reading what I’ve written so far with envy. After all, I’ve lucked my way into an extremely pleasant life of no dependents and few commitments
Quite the contrary. I actually think this is really bleak. What an empty existence…
- > The crime was committed in the USA.
What? No, you are completely wrong. The crime was committed in many places. In the USA, but also in several EU countries (Germany included).
In fact, the numbers were more than 10x higher in the EU (since we use a lot more diesel cars) than what they were in the USA.
600 000 vehicles were affected in the USA, while 8.5 million vehicles were affected in the EU.
USA courts, effectively, issued a fine more than 200x higher per vehicle affected, than what we did in the EU.
No one that actually followed the news (and isn't German and therefore completely biased) will say with a straight face that EU justice system didn't favor VW due to established interests. The German government obviously manipulated the judicial system all over Europe to let the case go away.
It also says a lot, that it had to be the Americans bringing the case to light. A lot of people probably knew, but the control that the Germans had (and still have) over European economy and judicial systems didn't allow anyone inside the EU to speak up.
No justice was made over here.
- Those billions are because of the USA. In the EU, it was merely a slap in the hand.
Annual revenue of VW at the time was 217B €. In the EU, they paid 1.5B €. So, 0.7% of their annual revenue for a scheme that went on for years.
Granted, in the US, they actually did persecute VW properly, and they ended up paying close to 30B $. A much proper sum.
As for the jail time, they arrested 2 from middle management in the EU. No member from the board or the CEO went to jail here.
Is that what we call justice now? Specially when we want to pretend we are superior to the USA in that regard?
- C’mon. We don’t need to go to extremes. I accept that sometimes my child will be able to access content not previously vouched by me. It’s ok, as long as it is a short amount of time.
You can control them at home and you can control their mobile phones. You can also expect the school to control their computers there. The remaining time will be a very short amount of interactions and I think we can healthily live with that.
- > What do you want to do with kids who happen to be born to incompetent parents? Do they deserve to just have fucked lives?
Yes. Unless you and other people that think like you go there and help them with your own time and your own personal resources.
My children shouldn’t have their parents time and money stolen by the state to give to children who’s parents don’t care enough to properly provide for them.
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- Look, I’m all for not letting children into social media apps. But that’s the job of the parents, not the state.
Besides, like many point out, this is just a way to deanonymize the web for everyone.
Why is the state always meddling with the citizens lives and personal responsibilities, and why do we let them? Do we really appreciate so much this nanny state?
- Hum. Windows has been ridden with bugs forever. I don’t see how this is connected to Microsoft abandoning windows in favor of AI.
Windows code base is just too heavy to maintain. They need to break compatibility with older products like MacOS often does, so that Windows can be manageable again… but that goes against Microsoft philosophy it seems.
- As someone that lived in 4 different European countries, I can tell you, you only talk nonsense.
Go tell a Spanish or an Italian, that is normal for the authorities to go and investigate him and put him in jail for calling someone fat.
It's fascinating the amount of bullocks that comes out of your keyboard with an aura of self-righteous intellectuality, as if you are preaching some universal acepted gospel.
I guess it means almost as little as "fascist" then.