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The XM3s are over the ear headphones right? Apples to apples? Stick to your Galaxy comparison. At least it's on point.

> Banning them would just further extend the isolation/echo chambers created by social media.

I'm not sure this is true. I know I don't see ads from all sides. In my experience the targeted ads just reinforce the echo chamber.

>Montezuma II who purposefully spread rumors saying that the conquistador were returning gods so that people would stop fighting them and start trading with them.

>It was not superstitious belief from ignorant savages, it was a political move.

Your message suggests it was a political move that prayed up on superstitious beliefs. So, both, basically.

Ok, I'll bite. Why is athletic competition unhealthy?

I assume there is still a limit on the number of books you can have out. If you never bring one back you can't keep taking out more.

> Yet, strangely, these people curiously will often ...

I don't think you have any data to back that up. I could just as easily see a lot of these people deferring to the "wisdom" of management.

I think the number of people who have left jobs when confronted with an ethical problem from their employer is quite small.

Fine. Distance/type then, though those terms aren't very helpful it seems. Looking at the map provided in a different comment, I just don't get it. I guess what I'm saying is that the colors don't line up with anything obviously useful. I still have to know which links I need unless I'm just doing a single segment. And If I need to know which links I need, the colors don't add any useful information.

https://mapy.hiking.sk/?zoom=11&lat=6261583.4553&lon=2274012...

I guess I don't see how this is such a remarkable system. Everywhere I've hiked there has been some sort of blaze system to keep you on the trail you want. This looks pretty much identical, only with the added bonus of ambiguity throughout the country.

I just don't see the utility that makes this such a great idea.

Maybe that means something in a different context. From here it sure looks like a difficulty ranking.

It sounds like they have a way of marking trails by difficulty only. That's a nice feature, but what happens when two trails of the same color cross? Are they still named? How does this get you from A to B without a map?

In this thread we learn how (I would say overly) invested some people are with online forums.

Are you trolling? Her agenda is going after essentially "too big" everything. Banking and pharma have been on her list longer than big tech.

Couldn't OP just not list that on the resume/application? This seems like a solvable problem if it's as bad as they make it out.

> Ghosted by companies for jobs directly related to my research

This is unexpected. What's going on there?

My hunch is that it is a combination of things.

Looking at netflix, their move to original offerings has essentially transformed them into their own channel + some extra outside junk just to keep the line blurred.

To me, the endgame there is that netflix will cease to have any outside content eventually.

If spotify/tidal follows that path they become a label with their own streaming service. Maybe they don't want to go that route.

Also, I imagine the technology is getting to the point where it wouldn't be unreasonable for labels to start up their own streaming services. If spotify/tidal decides they're going to be their own label, and the current labels decide they're going to start up streaming services, spotify/tidal is at a disadvantage without the back catalogs.

Honestly, I'm amazed spotify is doing as well as they are considering apple, google, and amazon's offerings in the space.

Funny thing, I frequent a few of the SE sites, and the only ones that have this problem are the tech ones.

The replies to this post are amazingly defensive. Did you not get the theme? WHY is the theme. You folks stating your specific case seem to have a "why", and a need to defend yourselves even though you weren't specifically attacked.

Relax, you have done well. You have a good "why". Now consider someone who doesn't have a good "why" and also doesn't have a college degree to at least prove they can complete something. It's not a perfect indicator, but it's an indicator.

Oh good. Now the community here will bend over backwards defending him again. It's tiresome and misguided.

1. He said controversial stuff.

2. He's a representative of organizations that don't want him to say controversial stuff.

3. He got kicked around for it.

Quit defending his behavior. It's not a good look. It doesn't matter if you think he's "technically correct" (which is highly debatable, anyway).

You're enabling bad behavior if you think this should go on without any kind of blowback.

This is the tech version of "locker room talk". It's all good so long as you're on the same team, right?

So I guess this kind of leads to my original point. If you're a school, nothing has really changed that would require you to invest gobs of money to teach AI. It only matters if your idea of research is trying to create something you can go to market with.

So basically every graduate chemistry program.

Honestly, I just wanted to know a real world case where this person had a mac, didn't know the limitations, discovered the limitations, and then switched.

Your sarcasm is misplaced.

Interesting. Just out of curiosity, do you dry your jeans? I'll admit to ruining the fit by throwing them in the dryer.

T-shirts wearing out, I get. Bacon neck is all too common.

But jeans you can't wash >5 times? What kind of jeans can't hold up to that? Of all my clothes, jeans are my most durable by a long shot.

So tell me something....

Have AI techniques actually changed in the last 20 years, or is there just more data, better networking, better sensors, and faster compute resources now.

By my survey of the land, there haven't been any leaps in the AI approach. It's just that it's easier to tie real world data together and operate on it.

For a university, what changes when you teach? This sounds like researchers feeling like they can't churn out papers that are more like industry reports vs advances in ideas.

So negative. I ride and run in the woods near me quite a bit. It's peaceful and quiet, but the opposite side of that coin is that no one would find me for quite some time if something went sideways.

I have great cell coverage there.

I'll bite. What were the limitations?

Nope. Not at all.

Of course. I advocate writing both perspectives, knowing that the bias of the victor would show up.

But looking back, I think we’ve done a major disservice in the US by not including the dark parts of history in our stories: civil war -> states rights. Nazis -> no american ever supported that idea.

Stuff like that. It makes the times we live through now feel like a surprise to many I think. They’re shocked people could actually support racists, bigots, worthless people.

But here we are.

I think it makes complete sense to describe us as terrible. We are what we are. No point in sugar coating it.

Write the books to talk about how a lot of people were upset with the way things went. But don't forget to include the part about how lots of people were happy with it.

So the next time someone does something bad, and a group of people rally to support them despite it being obviously bad, we should all look back to this thread.

RMS is a figure in the hacker/tech community so the hacker/tech community has done most of the excusing for his behavior.

It's sad. There's room for argument in how much backlash he should receive, but if you're arguing that what said is fine, I would argue that you may be fooling yourself.

Consider some public figure you dislike (politician, celebrity, etc). Now pretend that person said these things. Would you be so forgiving? Maybe you would. But if you find the answer to be no, then you're just protecting your own. Quit that.

Thanks for the background. Ive's wikipedia page didn't have much.