COVID is equal opportunity.
Trump supporter at a rally.
Anti-Trump christian at church.
Agitator trying to stoke unrest at a protest.
Ordinary citizen at a protest expressing support for racial equality.
College student just trying to attend class in person.
College student at a COVID party.
COVID don't give a shit.
No, there were a bunch of scientists saying this probably would be a problem. There are lots of papers pointing out how dangerous coronaviruses (and others) could be. The point is not that it's an amazing prediction, but that it's not.
This is the best insight in this discussion so far.
The point is not that they miraculously predicted some outlandish thing. That their prediction came true does not make them prophets. They documented a bunch of facts, used knowledge and experience to describe what was almost surely going to happen, and warned that we weren't ready for it.
It's like saying to a friend or relative: "you know that this region is known as tornado alley, this particular trailer park has been hit multiple times over the past 30 years, and you don't have the savings or insurance to recover from an event like that, right?"
Oh, I also have no idea if this is exactly the same technology that's discussed in the article. All I know is that it sounds very similar.
I've been following this for some time, purely out of basic interest. I have no connection to the company, the technology, or the testing.
Clinical Trial info- https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2...
Company/Tech info- https://vielight.ca/technology...
This does not negate the fact that police brutality claims too many black lives.
Yeah, agreed. It will be interesting to see what happens with these exec orders and any attempts to enforce.
It's only a short step from "the platform owner is suppressing my right to free speech" to "the platform's design encourages the suppression of my right to free speech".
Is it just another way to let a gang of libtards silence a lone conservative voice?
(Sarcasm!)
In the beginning was the word. Biblical, John 1:1. The full verse is
"In principio erat Verbum et Verbum erat apud Deum et Deus erat Verbum. "
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."
How can a huge number of opportunities occur without people realizing they are there? The law of combinations, a related strand of the Improbability Principle, points the way. It says: the number of combinations of interacting elements increases exponentially with the number of elements. The “birthday problem” is a well-known example.
Now if only we could harness this to make an infinite improbability drive!
They want to make the site attractive to non-technical artsy folk, since we've been doing it wrong this whole time.
You don't know how right you are...
Oh, sorry... I was basically agreeing with you, and commenting on the inanity of "form over function" at the same time.
I will say this... the WaPo site, as much as I dislike it, and as similar as it is to Beta, is still better than Beta. Not much, but at least the information density is higher. (Still sucks compared to classic, though.)
Interesting. I cruised around the site a little and found this bit about the "psychology" of social engagement. Maybe somebody at Slashdot is using this to try to understand us... so they can design Beta to be more "engaging". If so, I think they've got us figured all wrong.
http://slashdotmedia.com/under...
Here's the little comment I left there. (It's still pending... it'll be interesting to see if they actually post it.)
It's interesting that this includes Slashdot... mostly because any conclusions you might draw from it will be horribly wrong if you're trying to understand the Slashdot community. I think I see now where some of the design imperatives driving the Beta site are coming from, and unfortunately, they might end up driving away all the people that actually create the content.
Ack. Why?
I think that most Slashdotters would agree that the following is true:
(Functional + Ugly) >> (Useless + Pretty)
So why do designers so often believe the reverse argument?
Parkinson's Law: Work expands to fill the time alloted it.
