Well, every birth inevitably leads to a death, whilst guns might but theyโre not guaranteed to.
So obviously, you need to keep track of the most deadly kind of people, pregnant women, more so than a not quite as deadly kind like gun owners.
True, the case can be made than a single gun can result in multiple deaths whilst a birth will only ever result in a single death, but none the less the statistics donโt lie and they show that a lot more deaths can be traced back to a birth than they can to gun ownership.
As I explained somebody else the other day, software development follows a 90/10 rule in that 90% of the work that needs doing is in the last 10% of the result and these guys have been stuck for years at the โalmost thereโ stage.
Itโs perfectly possible to hack your way for the first easy 90% of the result but that software development โmethodโ wonโt get you up to the 99.999% levels of reliability (or whatever number of nines the regulations demand) needed for a FSD system to be certified as autonomous.
So no amount of people showing full self drive working without problems sometimes or even most of the time (or as you say, โpracticallyโ) will show that Testla has the capability of doing the last 10% (which, remember, is most of the work), whilst them having been stuck at pretty much the current level for years is a good indication that theyโre probably stuck down a dead-end that will never lead to something that can achieve the necessary reliability to be certified as an autonomous system.
Also, in my professional opinion as a very senior software engineer, looking from the outside and judging by many software and UI design choices in their vehicles, theyโre unlikelly to actually be competent enough to pull it off and seem to be following a Tech Startup model (and I can tell you from experience in that Industry and others, that Startups are usually amateur hour, every hour of the day, every day of the week, every week of the year compared to all of the rest) hence me mentioning above the possibility that theyโve might have โhackedโ (i.e. mainly gone at it by trial and error) their way up the first 90%.
Also theyโll be able to call the local riot police whenever they need to remove any student from their classroom by claiming theyโre being disruptive.
True, but those who know what โmedianโ means probably also know what a โquartileโ means, so if I used โmedianโ it wouldโve made my comment less of an โobvious, duh!โ thing and spoil the unstated point Iโm making as well as the joke.
Best leave the mathematical incorrectness there to preserve the feeling of obviousness.
Yeah, but with Biden and the Democrat Party you get an equal opportunity Genocide were women are just a likely to be murdered as men and LGBT as straight people.
Curious how you moved the goal posts from โnot openly stating oneโs intentโ which was used as justification to claim what Israel is doing is not a Genocide to โnot having intentโ which is what defines the difference between murder and manslaught.
People are convicted of murder all the time when they didnโt openly said their intention was murder if it can be shown beyond reasonable doubt that it was their intention.
So the previous posterโs point holds very well and you just further dug the grave on yours.
Maybe the Democracy you think is still there to be saved is already gone and all you have left is the folklore of it rather than the real thing.
It would certainly explain Bidenโs dictatorial persistence on supporting the Zionist Genocide all the way with weapons and ammo even when the majority of Americans has turned against it, his and his partyโs reaction to student demonstrations and how all of this would make no sense for somebody trying to avoid losing the election to Trump.
I lived in a country with Proportional Vote and what weโre seeing from the elected leader of the US would never happen there in an election year, not even close, as the politicians there trully fear electoral defeat.
GMO + Capitalism = Plants modified to be resistant to specific pesticies and herbicides, increasing their use; farmers being sued due to their plants being polinized by GMO plants and so on.
The problem is not GMO, itโs GMO under low or no regulation Capitalism: itโs guaranteed that itโs going to be used in all the wrong ways even if a handful of examples are actually not (and even Golden Rice is patented, which opens the door to abuse if its use becomes widespread).
Most distrust of some powerful new tools of Science is due to how the political and economic environment we live in tends to shape the use of such tools, much more than of the tools themselves.
We live in a World were, still (one would expect they should have learned by now) many if not most people listen to the opinions of people about things theyโre not at all experts in (such as sports-people, actors and so on) because theyโre โcelebritiesโ.
Working in a profession which just so happens to be done publicly for an audience does not make oneโs take on things outside that profession be any higher quality that those of any other random person.
By the way, itโs quite irrelevant if their opinion aligns or not with oneโs own: the informational value of what they think is still zero.
I have an inner voice but I donโt use it when Iโm reading, which is maybe why I am a very fast reader.
I tend to use it when pondering on things. That said I just noticed that when composing and cross-checking this text for posting, I also used it.
Curiously, nowadays my inner voice is not just in my own mothertongue but can be in just about any of the languages I know enough for basic conversation. Itโs probably related to, because my foreign language skills are so advanced (I can speak about 7 languages) that Iโve long stopped translating to my native tongue in my mind and concepts just translate directly from those foreign languages. Also, Iโve lived in a couple of countries and as I would eventually end up mainly speaking the local language, my inner voice would also, eventually, end up also using that language.
Yeah, I have a similar experience of still thinking in a foreign language even though Iโve been back in my homeland for years after 2 decades abroad.
I suspect my thinking language still being generally English is probably because I keep getting exposed to English-language media. Iโve noticed that, for example, if I think about my time living in The Netherlands or are exposed to Dutch-language media, my thinking often switches to Dutch.
The study (PDF), published this month by University of Chicago and University of Michigan researchers and reported by The Washington Post on Sunday, says:...
Senior professionals in high demand area are very hard to find and hire - when I worked as a freelance very senior software designer-developer some years ago were I was paid big bucks for it, in most of my contracts they had ended up hiring an expensive freelancer like me because the company simply could not find anybody with that level of seniority willing to either become a permanent employee or move jobs (itโs funny ยดcause they almost invariably though it was temporary and they would find somebody and then generally I ended up working 2 years or so for them and eventually I would choose to leave because I was getting bored).
These people are also older and have families, not naive young men that will work crazy hours and take any shit.
This is IT, not some kind of early 20th century industry filled with employees for life who have โseniorityโ because merelly of how long theyโve working in the same company: theyโre senior in the sence of their domain expertise being very advanced, not in the sense of being old (though such expertise usually requires one to be older because it takes time to accumulate, being older does not guarantee such expertise and always working for the same company actually makes it harder to keep on evolving as a domain expert into the most senior levels because all you know is one way of doing things)
So it makes a lot more sense to me that the executives in these companies which have a tradition of over-exploiting bright young naive techies, didnโt account for their most experienced staff (who are not only are past the age and insecurity about their skills that they will simply lie down and take shit but can also much more easilly find a job somewhere else than the less experienced ones) not just taking it and getting used to it and instead endind up prompted by these RTO policies to start looking for something else and eventually leave because, I repeat, itโs much more easy for them to find a place to leave to.
They value the job getting done efficiently with the minimum amount of confusion and risk, which is what good senior types will do and enable others to do (when doing something big or new, a team with only more junior types will fall into every pitfall and end up in every programming dead-end imaginable, but much less so if thereโs a senior person around, mainly because such people already went through similar things and often recognize certain kinds of potential problems before theyโre actual problems)
That said, plenty of managers in plenty of companies often donโt know what they have until they lose it, and I expect B2C companies and larger B2B - which as you point out are mainly Brand driven - are less likely to value predictable delivery which is much closer to whatโs actually needed on the first release than smaller B2B, consultancies or in-house development were itโs a lot harder to shove inadequate shit out and then convince the paying customers or the business side (if doing in-house development) thatโs what they want.
Certainly thatโs my own experience.
IMHO, as long as the senior types in these companies arenโt fixated in staying in B2C, theyโll have no problem finding new jobs and may even enjoy it more, so as I wrote in the previous post, itโs easier for them to leave.
Iโve manned voting booths in my home country and whilst lots of blank votes are a message, people simply not coming to vote is no message at all since those who feel disenfranchised and do not go vote look exactly the same from the other side as those who are lazy and do not go vote.
A blank says that a politically aware person who cares did not find any of the choices available appealing (implying that the vote is there for the taking if the right person is on the ballot), whilst not voting just says โDid not appear, probably canโt be arsed to go voteโ.
If youโre really pissed off at the system, go there and cast a blank vote, which is the clearest โnone of the aboveโ message you can put on a vote. (Writting โnone of the aboveโ on the ballot if itโs a paper one wonโt really pass that message because that just makes it an invalid vote, so maybe the one person counting votes that sees it gets it but all that the information that gets passed further is +1 invalid vote).
The Mainstream Press doesnโt emphasise them if theyโre not significant, probably because as โnobody in this balot represents meโ they represent a criticism of the very system were that Press is Mainstream and itโs way harder for mainstream politicians and the politically-affiliated Press to dismiss such votes as merelly โnot engaged in politicsโ.
Blank vote counts are however formally reported and available, so at the very least you can expect that politicians whose win/lose can be decided by a few percent more or less votes would pay attention to it and be interest in swaying at least some of those pople casting blank votes since they are clearly engaged enough to vote, though voting โnone of the aboveโ.
Around here in my experience they were a fraction of total votes (maybe 1%), but then again Iโm in a country were there are around 10 parties with Parliamentary representation, even though the voting system is still a mathematically rigged electoral circles one (though nowhere as bad as the US) so people are far more likelly to find a party that appeals to them and is actually electable.
The Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar has for years overseen a secret police force in Gaza that conducted surveillance on everyday Palestinians and built files on young people, journalists and those who questioned the government, according to intelligence officials and a trove of internal documents reviewed by The New York Times....
โHamas is Evil, hence why we have to attack Rafah to get rid of them.โ
I mean, โHamas is Evil hence everything is morally acceptable to getting rid of Hamasโ is the sole foundation and support for ever single evil action of Israel such as destroying hospitals killing medical personnel (โtheyโre Hamasโ, โHamas was thereโ, โthere was a Hamas tunnel under itโ), blow up entire blocks with 2000lb bombs (โwe were targetting a Hamas operativeโ), blow up school playgrounds (โwe were targetting a Hamas operativeโ) and so on.
The more Evil Hamas is made to look the more โMoralโ justification the IDF has to do destroy and murder everything Palestinian claiming that itโs to โdestroy Hamasโ, as Netanyahu frequently says.
There is literally no other moral argument from Israel for their Genocide. These people arenโt even especially imaginative.
So this story is just adding another bit of cement on that very same structure supporting the actions โthe most moral army in the Worldโ and itโs not even especially important: it even has the wiff of Military Intelligence bureaucrats coming up with something to show the boss theyโre doing some work and it getting published because the New York Times has no journalistic criteria at all when it comes to stories that portray pro-Israel in a good light (probably has no journalistic criteria at all for anything).
You need to be trying really, really hard to imitate the Three Wise Monkeys when it comes to Israel, to not yet have noticed that โwe have to get rid of Evil Hamasโ is their only justification for doing the most evil stuff imaginable.
Theirs is such a stupidly simple strategy that is painfully obvious for those with even the smallest amount of brains who arenโt hasbara sockpuppets, no need for โpropanda expertiseโ (whatever that is).
Youโre clearly coming at it from the point of view of the indoctrinated - you pre-believe something (i.e. are prejudiced) and then seek a way to interpret reality to yield โconclusionsโ that match your conviction and are not at all even trying to analyse it rationally.
Any rational analysis of this โarticleโ in the current context and given the past explicit biases and actions of those who participated in making it will yield the conclusion that whatโs in there has a high probablility of being Propaganda and cannot be trusted to be truthfull.
It really boils down a pretty old principle: โFool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on meโ. I totally understand defaulting to believe anything sourced from the IDF and delivered via the NYT in the past, before all this started, but at this point after all they said that turned out to be outright lies along with what they did using such lies as justification, weโre very much on the domain of โshame on youโ when it comes to such sources as the New York Times and the IDF.
Does it mean this article is with absolute certainty Propaganda and not actually true? Of course not: there is a small probability that itโs not Propaganda, since like โIraqโs Weapons of Mass Destructionโ there is a core of believability to it (which curiously is both like a true story AND like the best Propaganda), so only time will tell if itโs mostly true or if, like the โweapons of mass destructionโ, it is just Propaganda.
The rational take on this article (so, not the take of those driven by something irrational like conviction, which is why I so often emphasied Skepticism and Analysis on my posts on this) is to treat it as having zero informational value, unless independent information arises that clarifies it.
But but... If gun owners are tracked, we can be targeted! ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ (lemmy.world)
Tesla must face fraud suit for claiming its cars could fully drive themselves (arstechnica.com)
Local Teachers Union Announces Plans to Invade Gaza in Order to Secure Government Funding (thehardtimes.net)
The state of things (i.imgur.com)
Biden plans to send $1bn arms shipment to Israel (www.bbc.com)
Seedless Catholics Against Watermelons? (sh.itjust.works)
Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker bashes Pride Month, tells women to stay in the kitchen (touchdownwire.usatoday.com)
Seems like someone deleted this after it got posted, so letโs call out this piece of shit. Apologies if repost....
Manipulation (lemmy.world)
Is that some sort of non-profit? (lemmy.world)
TIL that some people do not have an inner voice and think in different nonverbal ways. (humanities.ku.dk)
cross-posted from: lemmit.online/post/2916897...
Bring your kid to Genocide day (streamable.com)
Apple, SpaceX, Microsoft return-to-office mandates drove senior talent away (arstechnica.com)
The study (PDF), published this month by University of Chicago and University of Michigan researchers and reported by The Washington Post on Sunday, says:...
Don't worry, I'm sure you'll be privileged and safe (lemmy.world)
Secret Hamas Files Show How It Spied on Everyday Palestinians (www.nytimes.com)
The Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar has for years overseen a secret police force in Gaza that conducted surveillance on everyday Palestinians and built files on young people, journalists and those who questioned the government, according to intelligence officials and a trove of internal documents reviewed by The New York Times....