Comment Re:You are quoting losers, so yeah. (Score 1) 950
Based on what I hear of my friend's dating experiences I really don't think you can attribute it to lack of compatibility. More like systemic personality issues among females.
Based on what I hear of my friend's dating experiences I really don't think you can attribute it to lack of compatibility. More like systemic personality issues among females.
their fashion and sentiment is dangerously lesbian and the ubiquitous anime style projects a world view where menfolk are completely redundant
This is a really bizarre fear I've only ever encountered in Caucasians. Let's put it this way. In Singapore there's a law that says women can do stuff together and even make out but men can't. It's an old law that no one really follows anymore. The point is that Asian society doesn't look down on and even encourages girls to be extremely close. They believe women are beautiful and their closeness doesn't somehow interfere or detract from relationships with men (and certainly it hasn't historically). In media such as anime or movies you'll often see love triangles involving 2 girls and 1 guy.
In Western society it's literally the opposite. Dating back to Ancient Greeks there's a deep trend of male homosexuality, where males are considered "beautiful" and girls are secondary. Every form of media for example depicts love triangles as 2 males 1 female. It's okay for guys to bond ("man crush" is an oft used term) but females can't be too close. In modern politics gay marriage is a huge social issue, but if you poll various ethnic groups the only ones who care about it are caucasians, and media depictions are inevitably about 2 males. It's like a Greek descended undercurrent of sentiment is attempting to rise to the surface.
Isn't that what this really boils down, not some bullshit about masculinity? Women watch soap operas because it's more exciting than their boring life, men play video games so we can be greater than the insignificant little peons that we are. And in porn the most beautiful women will perform for you even if you're fatter than the marshmallow man and uglier than a troll. We have immersive enough solutions that the body is fooled to play out almost all its chemical registry with endorphin, adrenaline, dopamine and so on letting you fake all the excitement and rewards as you slay imaginary dragons.
The problem is that it's addictive and desensitizing, if you're on a constant rush of awards and achievements and level-ups and whatnot then real life is a real downer. Not entirely unlike how I hear people on drugs describe coming off their high or how fat people act when they come off a sugar rush. So through a combination of actual reality check, batting outside your league because of failed self-perception and being poor at handling disinterest or rejection the result is often a painful face-plant. Once bitten, twice shy so you rather watch porn and play video games than try again.
American culture has affected American women. It's not misogyny to point out the obvious.
False equivalence.
I guess we now have to teach kids that men have feeling too.
This would actually help a lot. Right now society teaches everyone men are emotionless robot monsters that oppress and abuse women at every step of life.
Because the respect isn't mutual?
If it requires dating 10 girls to find a good one, that 1/10 ratio bodes poorly for the male populace.
Most of the developed Asian countries have extremely low birth rates and their populations will start to shrink in a couple decades.
People say this often but if 1/10 women aren't shallow, what do the other 9/10 males do?
Could you ever imagine pro video editing (i.e. Adobe Premiere / After Effects) 100% within Chrome
Depends. With WebGL / WebCL, I can imagine preview effects there quite easily. I can also imagine that it would be nice to be able to do the real rendering runs on a rack somewhere else. The more difficult thing is imagining the multiple GBs of data between the two. Possibly uploading the raw source data to the server and keeping the local copy and just syncing the non-destructive editing instructions would work.
The "problem of needing offline access" most certainly has not been solved
Note that HTML5 does allow effectively unlimited (policy set by the user) local data to be storage and applications that run completely disconnected. It's possible to write a web app that uses the browser for the UI, but only uses the network for software updates.
You can show me the micro-benchmarks all day long; doesn't change the fact that a complex UI in JavaScript is vastly slower.
You're conflating JavaScript and DOM. With FTL, JavaScriptCore can run C code compiled via Emscriptem to JavaScript at around 60% of the speed of the same C code compiled directly. That's not a huge overhead (40% is a generation old CPU, or a C compiler from 5 years earlier). Transitions from JavaScript (or PNaCl compiled code) to the DOM, however, are very expensive. This is why a lot of web apps just grab a canvas or WebGL context and do all of their rendering inside that, rather than manipulating the DOM. Optimising the DOM interactions without sacrificing security is quite a difficult problem.
You missed a rather significant point in the article. Two of those accidents happened when a human WAS in control of the car (which was how they know it wasn't the car's fault), so NO, a human would not have done better at avoidance. The fact that of the 4 accidents that happened, none of them were the car's fault is more significant than the 10% rat.
I don't see how two of them should be meaningfully counted under any circumstances. They could just have it drive itself out of the parking lot and let a human do the rest, the autonomous system would never be at fault. If the car's not driving, it's just a plain old ordinary human-operated car. You don't count the miles, you don't count the accidents.
When any specific humans has 4 accident driving cars, on average exactly 50% of them were caused by that specific human.
Actually only about 90% of accidents are attributed to driver error, the rest is mechanical failure like a tire blowing out or environmental like a tree falling across the road. And there's solo accidents and chain collisions, so it's not given that there's two parties involved. I don't know what the percentage is, but it's probably not 50%.
8 Catfish = 1 Octo-puss