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What does "diversity" look like? (IHNFC)
What sort of "equality" (as opposed to equity) does it impose? (ie closing of men's sports programs)
It seems like either path goes down the road of victimhood hierarchy, SJWs and discrimination due to identity politics while ignoring merit of substance. Count me out of that crybully nonsense.
The trouble with echo-chamber platforms is they preach to the choir by reinforcing biases, beliefs and wedge issues, further dividing and conquering society into various polarized, separate subcultures. There ought to be a microblog platform that supports written debate of every belief, such that arguments can be settled online rather than spill over into the real world. The powers that be love it when the "little people" argue over abortion, climate change, separation of church and state, criminal justice, the War on Drugs, et cetera ad infinitum. Without civilized debate, a civilized society is impossible.
1920's all over again. Civil wars to follow.
I'd like to see America regulate chemicals too as they are in Scandinavia, such as requiring evidence proving their safety, but legislation such as TSCA grandfathered in thousands of compounds with zero safety data. If you think you're going to get a crumb from the klepto-plutocrats' table, I think you're gonna need a straight-jacket and a padded room.
People are still dumb enough that they willingly hand over their contact details for a "prize" car or something that no one ever wins in order for some company to sell their details to be nonstop marketed to. And post-Equifax, it's easier than ever to steal a person's identity by opening accounts in their name without them figuring out until collections come calling.
When/if political winds shift far enough, then it might be possible for Americans to gain identity protections as stringent as Germany's. Until then, Americans will continue being screwed and lied to, and it's their fault for being too compliant and not demanding better leadership.
Not with Ajit Pai and the rest of the cronies dynamiting government. This is just wishful thinking so long as billionaires run the politics in America. Changing that, which means tempering the timeless interests of the rich aristocracy to control everything for their exclusive benefit, is a precondition to any meaningful, major overhaul that doesn't benefit them. Otherwise, suggesting such would be waiting for Godot.
Software is replacing human labor and destroying livelihoods while the enablers rationalize it with the usual jingoist propaganda of "freeing up labor" and "better jobs elsewhere," yeah right, just like trickle-down economics. The ultimate conclusion will be software that writes itself as AI grows to encompass the design of systems, no longer needing human coders as the final raft of coders works themselves out of a job.
When I was a kid, my grandparents had a home at Lake Arrowhead in Texas. On the way to or from town, we came upon a tarantula migration with around a hundred thousand tarantulas crossing the road.. so many you couldn't see any land without them. My grandmother (smh) opened the car door to gawk at them, which is dumb because they can rub those fiberglass-like hairs off their bodies as a defense mechanism.
Where I'm at in Chico, CA has hundred or thousands of black widows... you definitely don't put gloves on without shaking or rolling them up.
LRPD is exactly like Information Retrieval: saw a hole in the ceiling, blast a door down and shatter some random person's life to make statistics.
https://youtu.be/I24K8BfV840
- The Cove
- Requiem for the American Dream
- VICE s02e01 Afghan Money Pit
- VICE s02e02 Greenland is Melting
If QC were able to factor primes, discover alternative inversions of noninvertible matrices... the obvious uses would be monetization, hacking and other legal and illegal crimes: crypto mining and hacking banking and finance.
Brand new GMO. I'll pass.
To be clear, Turing complete is Turing complete... quantum or classical, they are both general purpose, eg, able to execute an instruction set operating on fixed-sized integers. Certainly there will be improvements on classical code using quantum algorithms, but those will be reasonably-simulatable on classical computers... implying that quantum computers aren't necessarily special in terms of functionality, only in potential runtime and, for now, restriction to special-purpose acceleration of some classical operations.
Certainly, quantum computers will be advantaged in terms of theoretical and, likely, practical runtime of algorithms and code compared to classical computers.
Groovy. Reminds me of a news piece on fabrication of and the gray area of authenticity when it comes to "Warhol's" works due to collective art production, replicability of techniques used and prolificness.
Ugh. Name conflict with Pony's GC.