Comment Re: nice to live in a dictatorship (Score 1) 282
Common denominators... common... *communist*!
This kind of math is un-American.
Common denominators... common... *communist*!
This kind of math is un-American.
Anti-competitive behavior that has become the norm since the 80s, gradually spreading and getting more extreme ever since.
Biden has been working the government harder than they even have the budget to make up for decades of corrupt complacency. Sometimes I wonder if Bernie didn't find some blackmail on Joe... If you actually paid attention, you'd realize Biden is doing an amazing number of impressive things... while the "liberal media" somehow works against him and for example, left out YEARS of Trump fighting against a DNA test in his rape case (which is a sure sign of guilt when you lose millions rather than take a simple DNA test. Did you even know there is a dress with proof on it?)
Keep in mind that the EU is fighting with Apple already and there are reasons we should be policing our own rather than let others who couldn't care less about the ramifications to our nation. The USA defends it's evil corps screwing the planet which creates a lot of long term problems; at best the USA is passive but if the USA was responsible they could curb the harm in ways that long term help create bigger problems such as BRICS.
IT IS NOT A MONOPOLY. It's anti-trust law which is fundamental and necessary for a capitalist system. Unless you are an anarchist out of touch with reality (libertarian,) which try to redefine capitalism from it's roots; like how Trump redefined Republican right from under their noses; then ironically calls legit Republicans fake (same with factual news.)
It's also *smart*, which acting classy often turns out to be. What people want from the leader of a company in an industry that is having these kinds of problems is maturity, perspective, and thoughtfulness. Naked opportunism and unbridled competitiveness at any cost isn't a good look when people need reassurance.
For that reason, not twisting the knife is the most effective way to twist the knife, especially when you can pretty much count on your competitor to do the twisting for you. Also, if a quality error happened to be discovered in an Airbus product shortly after the CEO was gloating about Boeing, that would be catastrophically bad.
5 years away is such a common BS answer he must be joking!
One should not have to constantly work around their poor UI decisions and the removal of abilities to configure it the way USERS want with BS excuses.
The tab bar can't be replaced with an add on. still.
The toolbars are mostly gone and not flexible. add-on overflow sucks big time...
The MacOS menus and optionally enabled windows menubar are missing obvious things like Refresh (or navigation) and the Tools menu lacks passwords and other tools. Menus are also a quick reference for keyboard bindings. Help lacks a keybindings item...
Help doesn't have the "report a broken website" option anymore.
Oh, and the browser will expand into all available RAM with no option to let me cap it's usage! Sure, it has some limitations that prevent thrashing but I can't set that! I have SSD for swap I'd rather not wear it out faster just browsing the web.
This *is* real science. It's just not by itself a sufficient basis for making any kind of evidence-based decision. Nor *could it possibly be*.
I had a friend in collge who participated in a nutrition randomized control trial . For months he had to carry around a gym bag; not only did everything he eat and drink come out of that bag, all his urine and feces went into containers in that bag so they could be weighed and analyzed to ensure he was complying with the research protocol. If he snuck a candy bar or a soda the researchers would know, and he'd lose his "job" plus the bonus for completing the study. While I'm sure that study got high quality data given the immense care it took, it surely tracked only *markers* (like blood lipids) rather than *outcomes* (like heart disease). That's because the outcomes we're interested in usually take decades to develop. It's hard enough finding people to live out of and poop into a bag they carry everywhere for *six months*. You'll never find anyone to do that for *ten years*.
So in nutrition, even an RCT can't be treated as some kind of gold standard for evidence-based decision making. If an RCT proves A causes B, B will never be C, the thing we're actually interested in. B will at best be *correlated* with C. So whether we're talking RCT or cross sectional studies, we are just making a case for some kind of correlation. You need *multiple kinds of evidence*, repeated by multiple researchers multiple times. With that volume and variety of evidence, you eventually develop a picture which connects the dots between A and C in a way that is unlikely to be false in any of its particulars. Useful results are *always* big picture results.
So what should be the gold standard for evidence-based decisions is a systematic review paper published by a scientist current working in the field, and in a well-known journal. This is the *minimal* level of evidence that people outside a field should pay any attention to, at least for the purposes of guiding decision making.
Ever notice how a big corporate scandal gets the mainstream media into bringing up every problem... that likely hardly would be noticed?
I would like to know how many big stock players who are shorting the stock are behind such trends? Then they buy the stock when it's down and the stories get out of fashion as the company rebounds...
Prices do rise; but owners / rent seekers have stolen the profits for generations beginning in a big way in the 1980s. Wake up and stop being a rube.
They do not need to raise prices to raise wages, they've been stealing profits all these years and then when raises are forced they do everything possible to avoid reducing their on going theft. If they actually compete, other businesses will find a way to survive with less theft at a lower price. When the culture is corrupted by MBAs and misinformation it's harder and slower to break free of the decades of gaslighting.
One would think we'd have learned the Chicago School is bullshit after China ignored all their advice and grew their economy more than anybody in history by orders of magnitude (instead they copied FDR and other actually proven methods - wasn't communism... which is only in their name these days.)
Wrong as it was when the weekend was being fought over.
I don't even care that tons of time is wasted at work simply to pad the 40 hour week (which really has become 45 or more.) Productivity gains, largely the result of technology haven't gone to the public-- as the boomers grew up hearing they'd be working 30 hours per week and have flying cars. Instead both parents must work at least 40 hours per week! Keep in mind the quality of life due to tech is higher and cheaper with cheap junk food, disposable TV / radio, clothes, cheap cars... masking the robbery going on behind women's rights and cheap consumerism.
Farmers... on average only worked about 35 hours per week (at actual farming,) if not less; but their spare time was washing clothes, making clothes/fabric, getting/prepping food, travel, making tools, survival...
The "right" by definition defend the ruling elite and therefore I would argue are as a whole, the less selfish group because the majority of them do not actually benefit significantly by their gullible boot licking of those who exploit and oppress them.
Without plenty of rubes, the "right" is vastly out numbered which is also why they've been anti-democratic since a functioning informed populace wouldn't support them in significant numbers. It takes a selfish minority armed with power (and now purchased psychology) to lead a bunch of zombies and promote political whores... plus some religious zealots in the church of mammon.
Detractors said the same old shit about moving to a 40 hour work week and weekends and the minimum wage and safety regulations and unions etc. We do not have to wait for industry to change and have not waited in the past; the economy did well with the creation of the middle class which itself was always "impossible" for the economy to sustain above a tiny number of people.
The establishment always defends what worked for them, be it dictator king or corporate autocrat.
With automation increasing in productivity (the REAL cause of trouble way beyond immigrants) lowering work hours will create more jobs to help make up for the replaced jobs; for a while.
Tariffs and international regulations are required to keep things from becoming a race to the bottom. Eventually, the bottom of human suffering will lose out to robotics... it just buys time and externalizes problems while higher fair and ethical standards makes the robotics visible locally much sooner. Seems best to promote progress than stall it with foreign suffering.
Rural and urban kids are, I think, still more independent than suburban kids. It's in well-heeled suburbs like the one I brought my kids up in that the norm of micromanaging kids' time is strongest. Parents can afford to put their kids in after school programs and summer day camps where their time is programmed. Those parents were early adopters of the cell phone as tether.
It's a bit of dilemma is that those well-heeled suburbs where parents hover over their kids shoulders are where the good schools are, and that in itself takes a lot away from the kids because those schools are assigning a shocking amount of homeowork, even over summer vacation. I had a lot of conflicts with teachers because as early as the third grade they were sending home multiple hours of homework when their own guidelines said there should be no more than thirty minutes.
The company has too much "news" influence in the USA and that is why the politicians are upset. China could sway the public quickly in big ways the CIA can only dream of (but tries to do.) Nothing at present is being done but they fear it may. Getting flooded by irate users because of a mild message of protest has only made them fear it more. Any one of them can be destroyed with a MEME more than it can help them with one of their me,me, "look at me" self promotions.
Privacy is their excuse but they don't care about privacy other than for themselves and let Facebook continue to ruin the world.
Sure these test *results* are garbage. But it doesn't mean the testing *protocol* is garbage, since that testing protocol was designed to work on a different kind of sample.
In other words, think of any test result as being a statement of Bayesian probability: "Given that the sample is from a domestic dog, we can say with reasonable confidence that it is around 40% malamute." You could easily modify your test procedures to exclude human DNA samples, but why would you do that?
It's true that life is safer, but it is clearly *perceived* as more dangerous.
The murder rate in the US peaked in 1980 at 10.4 murders per 100,000 population, then dropped to less than half that (5.1) in 2019. There was a spike during the pandemic up to 6.8 -- still way less than 1980 -- but was down below 6% again in 2023.
But even though violent crime and murder in particular *decreased* in 2023, a recent Gallup survey found that 77% of Americans believe it actually went up.
Memory fault - where am I?