PerkinWarwick

That's a good point.

Perhaps the temptation is to choose philosophies that have the appearance of power. Sticking pins in a voodoo doll of your boss, Mr. Scrooge for example.

Some acquaintances of mine did that at their job once and it worked a charm. The boss was permanently off on sick leave within a month. Maybe there's something to it.

This man is a genius. We've hit Peak Modern Art.

Honestly, you can't buy this kind of PR. Do a dozen more, number and sign them on the back, profit.

>Reddit now will become the place that inspires mass shooters instead of 8chan

I can guarantee that there are plenty of evil doings on Reddit and Facebook.

One argument, and a more honest one, that people can make is that (a) social media is toxic and (b) it should be made illegal generally. Bingo bango, no mass shootings I guess.

>Do you find yourself being just as concerned when the reading list is 7 male authors and 2 female authors? Or only in this direction?

Not at all, it just stuck out at me while I was browsing through their program. Women represent barely a blip in the world of the 19th C. novel, you might as well teach military history as a series of female leaders. Novels of that era represent a core teaching (or should) in English departments, not an opportunity to boost underserved demographics. Save that for a specialty class.

I don't give a damn about fairness so much as teaching the truth, and the truth includes relative values of things.

> if you just want to dismiss the observation.

I'm not and I'm willing to give it a chance. I'm just not seeing a strong correlation.

What I do see people doing when they lack control is to attempt to gain control. Put together a group, grab some of that sweet power through mass. The more ambitious ones fight their way up the power structure. Special bonus points if you can take over an existing seat of power.

Zero moderation beyond criminal content is/was basically Usenet alt groups. Somehow the world survived all those years.

Listen, I understand the need to cordon off the wrongthink people so that they can't communicate with each other, I just don't agree with it.

That's an interesting theory, although I doubt that 19th century US farmers, among the most self-sufficient people in history, were lacking in religion, superstition, or conspiracies.

>"Hateful" Reddit or FB communities also don't allow "free speech". The moderators will ban people who go against the grain.

Which is fine I think, but why have Reddit or FB do the censoring (aside from things that are outright illegal). I don't much care if a bunch of Nazis or tankies are busy planning world domination on Reddit while sharing recipes. Why do you care?

Heck, I view it all as 'misinformation', and I certainly don't need some cubicle drone at youtube to decide for me.

Certainly the average person is smart enough to understand the statistics of the thing, after all that's something of the point of epidemiology.

There should be enough data points by now to tell me a few things.

. What is the real value of a cloth mask worn inside in a crowd with strangers? What is the value of a properly fitted N95 mask? Give it to me as an odds calculation.

. Just what percentage of covid is picked up in bars? grocery stores? schools? at home? Our local health department is notably mum about that preferring only to hand out the county-wide ages and that's it.

.Actual strong data on value of vaccine in terms of infection and symptoms. 1st, 2nd, 3rd dose. How long are these valuable? How long will they remain so due to mutations? Odds.

.Actual data on nasty side effects of vaccine including odds.

.Fairly presented value of home remedies, anti-virals, etc.

.etc.

You can twizzle out some of this, but rarely. Cut down to the essentials, it wouldn't take up a single sheet of paper. Post that sheet of paper whenever anyone feels the need to opine.

Instead I'm treated to shaming and scolding and peoples' fear about their precious bodily fluids and I'm sick of everyone. Somehow this has become a proxy for the 2016/2020 elections complete with all the religious overtones. Please stop.

While I see that funding will tend to constrict the research around the desires of the funders, it's worth considering that 'science' has also expanded into areas that don't deserve the title.

The softer disciplines are particularly susceptible to the style of the day but lust after the cloak of correctness (and status) that hard sciences wear.

>I think you'll find if you spend time on universities today, they are essentially apolitical.

An interesting experiment would be to compare English Department reading lists in the 1970's vs. now.

My bet is that you'd see quite a difference.

It's not that the College Marxist Club had it's meetings in the basement at any particular time, but that politicization and social movements of the day have been normalized into daily life.

I will stick to my guns in saying that there were 0 (zero) demonstrations of a political nature during my stay. For all I know, it was a low point in such activities (which likely gives me a short temper on the modern world). Frank Zappa played there every year though.

...hah, now that's an interesting angle I hadn't thought of. I went hunting for reading lists for the graduate students. A course on the '19th century English novel' has, wait for it, 7 female authors and 2 male. And one of the two men wrote 'Portrait of a Lady'. That's a pretty interesting way to shift the conversation.

A total user base of 50 or so would be fine. The trick is to find a group where everyone (mostly) wants to interact. An extended family could probably work.

>Haven't universities been like this for ages?

I can honestly say that when I went to college people were essentially apolitical. I don't remember anything you might view as a campus protest and the biggest fuss on the main mall were students arguing with a rather obnoxious Pentecostal preacher who showed up every year.

(in case you all aren't familiar with him: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brother_Jed )

You know, I don't doubt that Amazon is a bunch of bastards, but I can't say that any company I have worked for ever did much for employee tragic circumstances. They were just more polite about it.

Generally, I'd say that anti-carrier strike group tactics involve simply (well, maybe not so simple) overwhelming the defenses. Quantity can work as well as quality.

You might look into Russian missile work. Of course, as a land power (and not as invested in trade as China), their answers are different.

I'll fly in if need be.

It'll be developed at Facebook. Every 'like' is Alive With Pleasure (h/t to Newport cigarettes).

What I'd like is something identical to Facebook (preferably hosted in a box on my desk) that I invite all my friends to, and they have the ability to invite people to. 2nd gen is probably far enough.

Anyone cuts up rough, I go by their house and make them miserable.

Hey, at least they're not requiring a chip implant.

Of course the phone OS people are going to do this. Judging from a few years of Live PD, every single person getting pulled over never ever has a valid ID, but always always has a cell phone that they clutch like their life depended on it.

Anything in the article is just a detail that is being hashed out.

Huh.

I always assumed it was going to be teledildonics.

..damn, a downvote. I mean, who can be against teledildonics? That'll be the main thrust of technology when our robot lords and masters take charge.

I might have thought so some years ago.

In an era when 1/2 of the Western world hates Western civilization, I'm not sure that it matters anymore.

Of course, in the long run, it's all just fodder for a history book. The further out you go, the less the details matter.

Perhaps as a hobbyist device, there's certainly a lot of interesting apps that could be written.

I'm assuming here that it is somehow subsidized (via volume or via data mining) and is cheaper than alternatives.

The underlying question is 'what would it take to break the device free'.

...or much of anything else. I've seen commercial libraries monkey with processor state in some nasty ways.

It seems to me that in the case of the x86, the virtual memory system could detect overrunning the end of the stack and announce it to you.

The meta-problem is what to do with the information.

One obvious area is in small embedded systems.

It's surprising how hard it can be to track down a stack-caused bug when you've got a bunch of interrupts banging on it.

Generally it's a little unnerving to just pray that you've got enough stack given it's hidden usage and the possibility for things like recursion. Kind of a shame considering what a slick way it is to deal with memory leak avoidance.

Have an upvote.

From all accounts, the F150 EV looks like kind of a good deal in terms of electric cars. What the reality on the ground will be is a different matter. Personally, I have zero need for a car and a fair amount of need for a pickup.

Truth is, it's hard to justify any new car, but then again that's always been true.

For those in PSPS (public safety power shutoff) areas, due to both the reasonably predictable timing and duration, probably the best way to go is a combination of a larger portable inverter generator (in order to avoid the constant roaring) and an interlock to feed the house.

The Facebook angle to this sounds absolutely heinous, but just what have they done to lock the headset to Facebook? Is there some kind of secret handshake/encryption going on?

If someone from the Evil Empire was here, it would be interesting to get some notion how Facebook checks identity. Is there some huge glom of software that compares online activity, public records, phone records, bank records, credit records, etc. to make sure you're an OK person?

A lack of Taiwan dependency may well avoid a world war.

What I really hope is that the F150 has decent insurance prices through either volume or repair parts overlap with the ICE version.

Gotta admit that the concept of emergency power for the house makes it tempting. The Prince of Darkness (PG&E) makes such thinking a necessity in this day and age.