Another piece by the same pilot made its rounds on Reddit a while ago:
>One day, high above Arizona , we were monitoring the radio traffic of all the mortal airplanes below us. First, a Cessna pilot asked the air traffic controllers to check his ground speed. 'Ninety knots,' ATC replied. A twin Bonanza soon made the same request. 'One-twenty on the ground,' was the reply. To our surprise, a navy F-18 came over the radio with a ground speed check. I knew exactly what he was doing. Of course, he had a ground speed indicator in his cockpit, but he wanted to let all the bug-smashers in the valley know what real speed was 'Dusty 52, we show you at 620 on the ground,' ATC responded. The situation was too ripe. I heard the click of Walter's mike button in the rear seat. In his most innocent voice, Walter startled the controller by asking for a ground speed check from 81,000 feet, clearly above controlled airspace. In a cool, professional voice, the controller replied, ' Aspen 20, I show you at 1,982 knots on the ground.' We did not hear another transmission on that frequency all the way to the coast.
Unplug your recording devices when they're not in use. If it's built in (like on a laptop), you can disable them in software. Here are instructions for Windows and for Macs. And on your smartphone I would just recommend deleting facebook entirely, because the app is constantly tracking you and using up your data and battery life in the process.
Or, if you're so inclined, just stop using facebook altogether (though that won't stop other companies from using the same tactics).
This is all part of "The Great Risk Shift". Used to be employers would pay for training/education, but they lost money if the market shifted and the skills learned weren’t relevant anymore. Much better to place the risk of eating the cost of a useless education on working people instead of the rich. It's almost like The Yes Men said, it’s more profitable to rent a slave than to own one.
This technology seems miraculous. Like, really miraculous. Like, I-don't-believe-this-exists miraculous. I don't understand why this technology, if it exists, hasn't created a scientific and bio medical revolution. The article claims that cancer detection becomes trivial with this shit - why aren't we seeing medical groups scream from the rooftops about this? Something smells fishy.
Note* The article I read as linked to by wanking_furiously: Here it is
Unlike Cosby, though, Dr. Dre hitting women has been public knowledge for some time and I don't think he's ever denied it. I mean, he and Eminem have flat out rapped out about it - it's not at all a secret.
Mylan sells an identical generic for half the price ($300 for 2), and there's a competitor selling a similar device with identical medicine for $10 (with a free $100 coupon from the company). Source
So yeah, if you want an EpiPen^^TM , then you'll pay a lot, but there's other options for significantly less. If more people started buying the generic, maybe Mylan would have to respond.
This quote caught my attention, because it provides a substantial justification for not using the term "State":
> 30,000 to 50,000 fighters, Daesh is a relatively small group
In Iraq and Syria, Daesh claims 40000 fighters and about 60000 supporters. How does this compare to real countries on a per capita basis? Giving IS/Daesh the most charitable assumptions, we compare them only to states currently at war or in civil war:
So if Daesh was organized the same as the Ukrainian military, they would be suitable to defend a country of either 5 million or 21 million people, depending on whether the 40,000 Daesh fighters are considered "deployed". A conservative estimate of Daesh-controlled regions of Iraq puts their population at 7~8 million. So Daesh "military" is quite small compared to that of real countries involved in conflicts, especially when considering the fact that they are fighting on-the-ground conflicts on at least three fronts against actual state militaries.
This reminds me of a good article about how farmers cant modify their tractors anymore:
http://www.wired.com/2015/02/new-high-tech-farm-equipment-nightmare-farmers/
There were some really insightful comments on this topic on Hacker News:
The US limits freedom of speech.
http://www.wikiwand.com/en/Freedom_of_speech_in_the_United_States#/Exclusions
Which types of speech are not protected by the First Amendment?
Also military secrets, student speech, public employee speech, inventions, nuclear information, weapons.. the list goes on.
check out this TED talk if you haven't already.
there was a real eye opening part where Khan says that they had a test school where the homework was to watch the lecture (at your own pace) and then what used to be homework was being done in school. the result is that since the kids watch the lecture at home, they can go their own pace and really learn the material. then when they go to school, everyone is working and socializing about what they learned, and the school situation is more about the students working through problems together. instead of being trapped in a lecture where a student might be left behind.
i find this amazing because what better way to prepare students for the real world then to get them on the same level, and then have them work together. which is more like a professional environment where people solve problems in a group.
>Goldwater’s strongest support came from white southerners reacting against civil rights. Even Buckley once defended Jim Crow with the claim that black Americans were too “backward” for self-government. Eventually he changed his views, but modern conservatism would never stop flirting with hostility toward whole groups of Americans. And from the start this stance opened the movement to extreme, sometimes violent fellow travelers.
I think this is the core of it. I've read several books that were representative of the conservative ideology and, except for Thomas Sowell, there was a strain of racism through them. Ideas Have Consequences was especially awful. Conservatism has an infatuation with a particular archetype that is self-sufficient, of a particular culture that values a certain philosophical ideal that facilitates self-sufficiency and wisdom. Deviation from that standard is characterized as debauchery and degeneration. They can affirm life and liberty all day, but they turn around and see people as less human, their lives less valuable.
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The Republican political push for work requirements for people on welfare is a case in point. Welfare is characterized as weakness, sucking from the governments teats. Welfare reform is always about getting people "back on their feet" and removing them from public assistance, as if that's good in and of itself. They institutionalize their ideal archetype and it adversely affects people that are unable to contend due to various circumstances in their lives. But do they correct for their mistakes? Of course not. They demonize people that can't make it on their terms, characterizing them as anything other than whole persons.
Even though he was spurred by Beat the Dealer, his system is akin a bit more akin to what was done in The Eudaemonic Pie than to card counting.
There's no real "code" to crack in a parimutuel system. You can have all the math you want in your system and all you are really doing is betting you are better at picking winners than other betters are. Maybe you're right, and maybe you're wrong, but you can't sit down at a computer and prove it.
Given parimutuel is an open system which alters odds based upon other bettors, you can find betting combinations that exploit your allegedly better picking better than other bettors can. If you can beat them you can win money without beating the house. You're not even supposed to be able to beat the house in parimutuel, it is designed so they have no skin in the game.
As likely as it is that Cheney used inappropriate techniques to try and suppress Zelikow's memo, what would happen today if a similar official were to circulate dissenting material? Obama and his administration have embarked on a very concentrated effort to punish whistleblowers, and I imagine that this administration's response would actually be worse than Cheney's actions. After all, Zelikow wasn't arrested and charged for his dissent.
As an example, in January the Obama administration charged John Kiriakou with espionage-related crimes for (ostensibly) naming two individuals who tortured detainees that were suspected to be Al-Qaeda operatives. Kirakou was the first US official to publicly reveal that the US was torturing detainees with water boarding, and for this act of government transparency the Obama administration wants to put him in federal prison for up to thirty years [nytimes].
Kiriakou is just one whistleblower of six that the Obama administration has charged under the Espionage Act. Given the fact that, prior to Obama, there were only three such charges in the 95 years since World War I, I have to imagine that Zelikow would now be declared a federal criminal for daring to publicly disclose misdeeds* of the executive branch.
* internationally recognized war crimes
To add to what u/Elliptical_Tangent said, Christopher Hitchens wrote an entire book on why Kissinger should probably be put on trial for war crimes.
You got it right. It's actually an oversight from the author. Google search result are heavily influenced by your 'web history' if you are logged on while searching. It's a good practice to make sure you're not logged into your Google account when searching. Here's Google's help page on Web History and how to disable it.
I really wish more people knew about DuckDuckGo, the no-tracking, no-filter-bubble search engine.
I don't get why people don't just link The Intercept article to begin with. They did a much better write-up and as far as I know, the first to break the news until others started copying them.
https://theintercept.com/2015/08/11/dupont-chemistry-deception/
It's not just americans. Italians know about Goldman Sachs.
Romano Prodi, prime minister of Italy from 1996 to 1998 was caught accepting "consulting fees" (WINK WINK) from Goldman Sachs through a hidden company he jointly owned with his wife. An Italian prosecutor said in 1996 – when Prodi was Italian prime minister – that there was sufficient evidence to press criminal charges for bribery, but she told the Telegraph that her superiors retaliated against her and she was exiled to Sardinia.
The President of the European Central Bank comes from Goldman Sachs.
So does the Chairman of the British Central Bank.
Since the Reagan/Thatcher neoliberal movement in the 70s, Central Banks have become independant from elected governement because according to the business press, "populists" can have "dangerous" policies. When they say dangerous, it's not dangerous for the homeless, it's dangerous for the major capital owners... Since then, Central Bankers have remained independant and ruthlessly defend their political independance from elected governements.
Goldman Sachs makes sure to hire every major central bankers and politicians, giving them huge bonuses. I wouldn't be surprised if Marc Carney or Mario Draghi join the board in 10 years for millions of dollars.
A pretty good book :
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/money-and-power-william-d-cohan/1100079071
> the racial tension is higher now than I've ever seen it
What are you basing this statement on?
edit: I found this discussion enlightening. https://www.quora.com/Is-America-getting-more-racist-or-is-racism-just-getting-more-attention-now
I think it is just as likely that media attention on racial issues is higher vs an actual increase in racial tension. Simply put, you might be biased based on what you see in the media. I tried to find some data on racism over time. Only found between countries. Maybe someone else knows of some data?
If you want to hear more about this I recommend "Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right". Unfortunately - seminars like this are only the tip of the ice-berg. There are huge ideological enterprises set up with goal of establishing "beach-heads" at prestigious universities by setting up private organizations that are attached to the university but paid to publish certain results. Their role is usually to promote free markets and encourage the inclusion of economic costs in law (not just public good). The Mercatus Institute is another example of one of these privately-funded-but-publicly-housed organizations. They're the guys who made news a few months ago when they published a study on Bernie Sander's medicare-for-all plan that showed that even though it was expensive - it was still cheaper than what we're spending now.
Microsoft's head of PR has posted a response (actually to the TechCrunch article about this article).
From an energy perspective, I find it difficult to comprehend how we are going to come up with something more efficient than the self-replicating, self-sustaining meat producing units that are livestock.
EDIT: Did some quick research into the subject, and found this for those who are interested:
Google provides this. They call it Google Custom Search Engine. Here are a few reasons Reddit might not be doing this:
There are other reasons but those are a good place to start to see why it isn't as simple as dropping in a turn-key solution like this.
Edit: Pay attention to /u/universl he knows what the fuck he is talking about.
You make good points, but still, this kind of behavior towards western women is totally unacceptable. Ultimately, the choice to act one way or another is yours, no matter how fucked up is the environment surrounding you. I learned that from reading Victor Frankl's "Man's Search for Meaning"
I, too, was less than enthused by the "fired for being too good at my job" schtick, so I had a look at some unofficial, but public student reviews. He seems to be fairly popular, but the comments nearly universally seem to emphasise that he spends a lot more time "inspiring" than "teaching".
I find it tough to believe he's particularly been hard done by when he's been given a huge amount of notice that the Department wants his style to change and he's apparently refused. If I hired someone and they ignored my requests as to how they do their job, I doubt I'd be too enthused about keeping them on.
This is the link you are looking for
BrainWorkshop is a free open source program that does Dual-Triple and other N-Back tasks, to train your working memory.
on other matters: the article is quite interesting, but I would add an important component: exercise. This book argues with a lot of neuroscience research that exercise is the way to improve your neuronal connections, increase the number of neurons and beat things like depression and lack of motivation!
That's because the entire argument is copped from this book, published in January, without even a mention.
I don't disagree that Piketey has probably got it right, that if we don't make it our business as regular people to transition into interest bearing stuff, by way of the market, we have trouble.
The real concern is that Boomers, most definitely did "break" America by way of acceding to the notion that they could have "everything" without having to work for it, the notion of "pay it later" or "leave it for the kids" is EXACTLY what became respectable during the 1980's.
It turned the United States from an aspirant republic capable or generating wealth by way of fostering upward mobility, and through decades of disinvestment in schools, healthcare and infrastructure, to say nothing of militarizing the civic services, we ended up in short order, in an Ayn Rand inspired dystopia, where the engineers and "smart people" all were told to work 80 hours a week and do well, the "moochers" did FAR worse, and at the end of the day the "best and brightest" got the shaft, at some raw outsourcing deal.
So while there are winners in our society, the Mark Z's, and Eric Princes of our society, they were going to do just fine whether fortune smiled heavily or lightly upon them, that they just make it clear, that in fact we've become a casino / winner take all type economy.
It's a massive regression, so instead of public services and intentionally socializing major industrial/economic benefit projects, we wait on the hopeful benevolent patronage of some hyperwealthy person who can personally fund moon-launches, mars colonies. One wonders if they don't name the first colony Galt's Gulch.
What's screwed up is to see the boomers vigorously fuck over their own children and grandchildren so they don't have to think too much about any sort of responsibility or cost to themselves.
The 'me' generation all the way.
Relevant: https://medium.com/culture-club/face-it-black-people-michael-brown-let-you-down-b3b4408cec82
>So maybe what all of these terrified racists need is someone that, no matter how hard they try, cannot be dehumanized. Someone beyond human. Someone Christlike.
>Someone that can save them from themselves, and wash their souls of fear and hate and judgement. Someone that can bring them into the light of humanity and love and logic.
>Maybe what we need is a 5'8, light-skinned, Harvard-bound, star tennis player/violinist/poet that volunteers at the local pet shelter, bakes amazing blueberry muffins, speaks with a Mid-Atlantic accent, has a white name, who has never taken a photo with anything other than a thumbs up and a smile, and just recently published a groundbreaking cure for cancer in Science.
>And we need him to die. Someone needs to find this boy, and kill him in public. It’s our only hope.
** Global warming is a total, and very expensive, hoax! - Trump **
Can you put 1 and 1 together, or is that too science-y for ya?
Looking this up on Google Maps - oh HELL no. There is no way I would live in the middle of a desert like that.
The Sill is approximately in the middle. There are some houses/buildings (whether occupied or not, unknown) up and down the Birdsville Track. Marree is SSW from The Sill; Birdsville is NNE.
Edit: I love the bush "airports", like Dulkaninna Airport. A long strip of dirt, in the middle of an endless sea of dirt, with no buildings.
A touching article, a first person account of someone with a terminal illness. Here he talks about the process of his own and other peoples illness and dying.
Edit, another article written by his wife about Dr Paul Kalanithi, some may find it interesting.
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/26/health/lucy-paul-kalanithi-interview-breath-becomes-air.html
I've been here for 4 years as well (account for 3 of them).
It's subtle things. As an example, the intellectual comments moved to r/askscience, and all the silly joke answers go to ask reddit. But in the past few months, a bunch of joke answers are poping up on r/askscience.
The same goes for the rest of reddit. It was never immune to the silly jokes, that's what made it so fun. It's now that the silly jokes make up the focus of reddit. It's hard to define what is part of "reddit' so i'll just asy it's the front page, r/all RIGHT NOW we have (in order as of 1:52 am est) * silly cartoon explainign pancakes (picture)
preaching to the choir about being gay is fine (picture)
circle jerk post (at least they're honest)
witty original comic about chewwie (picture)
meme generator comic (picture)
standard preaching to the choir about anti-tea party (self)
dating (picture)
buffet (picture),
rabbit (picture)
rage (picture)
silly video
rage (picture)
rage (picture)
and many, many more pictures from assorted subreddits. The only non-picture/video/self circle jerk post, is all the way at # 29 (pro lesbian). then another article at #50 (Anti cop post)....
I suppose "front page of the internet" makes sense, since front pages are sensationalist, contain lots of pictures, and you have only a few articles to deal with. If you want to know what's going on with the internet, http://news.google.com/
I don't have much of a focused point, i just want to ramble.
Youtube some videos of that, and you will see the result. Depending on the ignorance level of the 'agent', they either let you go or arrest you. There was a pastor (if I recall) that routinely video taped himself denying identification, with some success - until he was tazered, arrested and beaten:
You are not required to have identification, although law enforcement would like you to believe otherwise.
But you replaced 3-4 people. Not you specifically but increased efficiency thanks to computer networks has. New technology makes new jobs, but we've passed the point where it creates more jobs than it replaces. That was true up until about the 1980s. *People are already speculating that the "new normal" for unemployment is 8+%. So what happens when that number is 10%? 20%? 50%? At what point is society unable to support its unemployed members without some profound restructuring? What would that restructuring look like?
You might want to try Pale Moon, an efficiency-oriented lightweight fork of Firefox. Most extensions should be compatible between FF and Pale Moon, but this could change in the future if significant drift occurs.
> In their mind they have no reason to, they are financially comfortable and everyone else can just fuck off to them.
I found this on Amazon by accident looking for a different documentary...
I find that it helps explain the mentality. It doesn't fix or change anything (except for the guy who they changed, and his entire family and all of his friends I guess).
Y'all should check out Salt Sugar Fat if you think that's interesting. Also Plot Twist! Most companies that make junk food make fatty junk food and sweet junk food and just market them to different people.
Your points are valid, and represent some of the major issues with the ACA. However, I would argue a few points:
> I morally and philosophically do not believe the government has the right to force me to buy anything.
You live in a society, with costs of running that society that are not immediately apparent. This includes paying for roads that you don't personally drive on, paying for the National Guard to help people in disasters that don't affect you, or paying for healthcare of people who are not you. It is not fun to pay for others, but I'm sure you can empathize with the fact that sometimes others are more unfortunate than you are.
> When I hit that deductible, it would have transformed into 50/50 co-insurance. So, if I needed surgery or a long-term stay in a hospital, I would be stuck with 50% of the bill. Whether you're paying $200k or "only" $100k, that is a huge nut to crack.
While the premiums were getting out of hand, especially for young healthy people, your out of pocket max is limited to $7,150 so there is no way you would be paying $100,000 for anything.
Also highly recommended is his take on Harry Potter.
Competently written and inspiring transhumanist propaganda,and a damn good story to boot.
Warning: Really, really long. And not yet finished.
That was the biggest problem with the Affordable Care Act. It expanded coverage to more Americans, which is a good thing, but it didn't do anything to control the actual cost of care. Providers can still charge whatever they want for services, and manufacturers of pharmaceuticals and medical devices still have ridiculous margins. Conservatives like to say that healthcare is a product, but we don't consume it like one. Patients don't have the ability to actually compare prices and shop around.
Put simply, with Obamacare we’ve changed the rules related to who pays for what, but we haven’t done much to change the prices we pay. When you follow the money, you see the choices we’ve made, knowingly or unknowingly. Over the past few decades, we’ve enriched the labs, drug companies, medical device makers, hospital administrators and purveyors of CT scans, MRIs, canes and wheelchairs. Meanwhile, we’ve squeezed the doctors who don’t own their own clinics, don’t work as drug or device consultants or don’t otherwise game a system that is so gameable. And of course, we’ve squeezed everyone outside the system who gets stuck with the bills. We’ve created a secure, prosperous island in an economy that is suffering under the weight of the riches those on the island extract. And we’ve allowed those on the island and their lobbyists and allies to control the debate, diverting us from what Gerard Anderson, a health care economist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, says is the obvious and only issue: “All the prices are too damn high.”
He also wrote a book about it.
You know what's awesome? Digg is actually miles better than the front page of Reddit now. Check it out. Not one meme. A single image. Several interesting articles.
I'm half-expecting the veterans of /r/TrueReddit to migrate to Digg, once it hits 100K subscribers.
> This post to me shows that libertarians do have something valuable to contribute to the debate and that if we ever can get back to arguing with each other via facts and logic as opposed to emotion and rhetoric we just might actually get to a point where progress through compromise is once again possible.
If you want some logical arguments how well-meaning regulation goes bad, you should read Economics in One Lesson. It's free for download. The lesson is just a few pages (the first chapter) and then there are 22 short chapters which apply the lesson.
In the last week reddit went crazy with discussion about libertarianism. I keep trying to explain to people it isn't just "faith in the free market" and there actually are a lot of valid logical economic reasons for less government intereference. There are many books written about this, but the majority of the "anti-libertarians" on reddit, at least in my experience, don't even understand basic economics, and they don't even want to consider the possibility they are wrong. I know it's hard to convince someone to read a book some random guy on reddit recommends, but at least consider reading the first chapter of Economics in One Lesson, it's just few pages long. If you like it, keep reading...
Whataboutism is not inherently garbage. It is perfectly valid when the the discourse at hand (in this case, that of the general public and media) posits or insinuates absolutism about something. That is, when people make the claim that only Islam can produce such types of violence, or even that Islam is especially prone to such violence. In such a discussion, a whataboutism is merely a proof by counterexample.
> When Gawker Media was sentenced to pay Hulk Hogan $140 million in damages for publishing his sex tape, it was seen as a victory over snarky New York media. Now, with the revelation that the lawsuit was secretly bankrolled by Silicon Valley Billionaire Peter Thiel in retaliation for an article that outed him as gay, the case has become a symbol of something else: a shadowy war on the press that’s being waged by wealthy individuals and companies, with a boost from social media.
Or maybe the context should be a reaction against an arrogant self-entitled press that is sticking it's nose into individuals private business and private personal lives and making their existence hell. Theil was perfectly entitled to keep his personal life private for any reasons he wanted too.
Maybe the real question should be why it takes the wealth of a Peter Theil to fight back, and why can't a less wealthy person protect themselves as well. And why the press can get away with it so often
I don't have any of the old posts saved or anything, but with some quick googling I found a message board where a (supposedly) actual former prisoner from Michigan (where this guy claims to have been locked up) talking about all the things that were completely wrong about the story.
The last post questions its authenticity, then the debunking happens on the next page
There is a brigade of several users who spend all day every day searching reddit for any threads that mention Monsanto or GMO. Go ahead and do a search on either of those keywords, check the comments of virtually any thread and I can guarantee you will see the same group of accounts posting in every thread, defending the company and its products to the very end. The keyword search is how they avoid sharing links and getting banned for brigading.
Check out the link below outlining their shenanigans and the names mentioned. Anyone ring a bell from the actualconspiracy thread? What a strange coincidence!
https://steemit.com/news/@egabragsiyrallih/how-agri-business-games-reddit
After reading this be sure to check out the book Slahi wrote while he was still ~~involuntarilly detained~~ imprisoned, Guantanamo Diary. It's Kafkaesque how many times he had to explain his version of events to different military and intelligence agencies and how their conception of what he was even accused of in the first place got more and more confused.
Here's a study from Michigan indicating that children at charter schools do worse on tests than children at public schools. Here's a study of North Carolina schools which shows similar results.
You linked his prediction for the 2014 World's Fair (Edit: Source. I now keep a copy on my desk) for me a few weeks ago, and it kind of gave me a bit of motivation to finally pick up Foundation. So I read Foundation, and then realized there were 2 prequels... so I finished Prelude, and am about halfway through Forward now.
So... thanks. This series is amazing. It's exactly what I needed to get back into reading new books instead of re-reading ASOIAF again.
Hubski.com is another Reddit like website, it's creator is also a Redditor. It's got some statistics on Alexa.com so I assume it has an established userbase. I'm not trying to downplay this post, but I think a lot of Redditors are trying to make the new Reddit or Digg, and not knowing how many others are actually already doing it.
This is kind of what's terrible about private enterprise. Don't like Amazon? Then you have to create this entire alternative and mostly redundant infrastructure to replace it.
Conservatives like to moan and complain about "government monopolies" but public institutions like USPS would probably perform just as well as Fedex if they were given the same amount of money, with the added benefit that if you don't like what they're doing communities have some say in modifying how they behave and treat workers.
EDIT: I'm seeing this same sentiment in some more upvoted threads here
The lack of ancient Chinese philosophy is more to do with Chairman Mao's rewriting of Chinese culture than it does with American academics. Same thing with Arab/Middle Eastern philosophy and the destruction of their ancient works by the Khan invasion or later fundamentalist Islamic revolutions. Not to mention Islamic philosophy is rooted in western philosophy, with much of Nicomachean Ethics being foundational for the Qu'ran.
It's not some vast eurocentric conspiracy to focus teaching on historical sources that haven't been destroyed by thousands of years of war.
I have a feeling this article is mis-quoting the results of the study. I believe the statistic is that on average you become spatially disoriented within 178 seconds, that's a lot different than "life expectancy."
One of my flight instructors was a former 777 pilot and she said every single time she flew through clouds she became disoriented. It's natural, and you train for it. You focus on your instruments and disregard any conflicting sensation your brain is sending you.
The Toaster Project is a better example of this because he goes to some length to extract the iron ore and makes a toaster that sells for £3.99 from scratch.
(Emphasis mine):
> Using that formula, Pew concluded that back in 1971, about 2 out of 3 Americans lived in middle-income households. Since then, the middle has been steadily shrinking. Today, just a shade under half of all households (about 49.9 percent) have middle incomes.
According to Pew Research, the number of middle class families in America was 59% back in 2010... This was published in April 2017 about the global data from 1991-2010.
>robot (n.)
>1923, from English translation of 1920 play "R.U.R." ("Rossum's Universal Robots"), by Karel Capek (1890-1938), from Czech robotnik "slave," from robota "forced labor, drudgery," from robotiti "to work, drudge," from an Old Czech source akin to Old Church Slavonic rabota "servitude," from rabu "slave" (see orphan), from a Slavic stem related to German Arbeit "work" (Old High German arabeit). According to Rawson the word was popularized by Karel Capek's play, "but was coined by his brother Josef (the two often collaborated), who used it initially in a short story."
Basically the whole notion that you need to buy a diamond to get married is based on marketing, not tradition. We've been played big time. The fact that De Beers is moving to artificial diamonds doesn't change anything. They're still selling bullshit.
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You might enjoy this article. <strong>https://www.huffpost.com/entry/diamonds-are-bullshit_b_3708562</strong>
https://www.gsmarena.com/sony_xperia_xz1_compact-8610.php
There is one factor to consider about the SE, although the screen is very small by todays standards the phone it self is deceptively not as small as you might think, due to the chin and forehead.
They weren't, getting it so wrong. Those scientists weren't allowed to look closer.
Sugar is one of the world's largest industries. Here in the US, it's such a big industry, the federal government props it up.
> At another point in his review, Gates contends that economic growth is "strongly correlated with embracing capitalistic economics." Yet it is far from clear what he means by "capitalistic economics." Were Egypt’s economic institutions during the presidency of Hosni Mubarak — after he liberalized the economy and reduced the role of the state — capitalistic? Most people refer to this as "crony capitalism," but perhaps this is all part of capitalist economics? Or consider the long dictatorship of Porfirio Diaz in Mexico in the 19th century, which eradicated many of the remaining restrictions of the Spanish colonial system, established an economy based on private enterprise (especially of his cronies), and "freed" markets (including the creation of the market for coerced labor). Was that capitalistic? What about South Africa under apartheid, based on private enterprise by whites, but disempowering and exploiting the majority blacks? Perhaps Gates himself should have more carefully defined his terms.
It's quite amazing that these Harvard and MIT social scientists now sound like Naomi Klein. Her book The Shock Doctrine argues that free-market reforms in the developing world are typically forced through by dictators against the will of the people, rather than being implemented democratically. We're starting to see this trend in the US as well, where the political establishments in both parties strongly support unpopular trade deals and bailouts.
>I'm annoyed at the ~~right-wingers~~ clearly unqualified parents of various political affiliations who educate their kids poorly and spoil things for the rest of us.
FTFY? Though as Table 9 of this study indicates, homeschooling parents (in the US) are statistically more likely to identify as Republican and/or conservative, so it stands to reason that there will be more "right-wingers" poorly educating their children than "left-wingers," though I'm sure there's no shortage of stupid coming from all camps.
>your mobile device can be used to delete the video from the cloud if a cop swipes your phone
PluckLock (also available on Google Play) alleviates this problem, and solves it entirely when combined with device encryption. Basically it waits until your accelerometer hits a customizable threshold, and then locks. So if someone quickly snatches your phone, or you drop it, it'll lock immediately.
Beware that the battery drain is gigantic, so only enable it when you're going to be recording police or otherwise have need of it.
I'd just like to point out that Naomi always sees capitalism as the core cause behind every problem despite of the fact any number of competing rationalizations could exist.
Despite Naomi Klein's popularity she's often been criticized for doing very weak research and drawing some questionable correlations to fit her narratives.
Take this one book for example:
> Economist Tyler Cowen, who called Klein's rhetoric "ridiculous" and the book a "true economics disaster", says that the book contains "a series of fabricated claims, such as the suggestion that Margaret Thatcher created the Falkland Islands crisis to crush the unions and foist unfettered capitalism upon an unwilling British public.
> In the London Review of Books, Stephen Holmes criticizes The Shock Doctrine as naïve, and opines that it conflates "'free market orthodoxy' with predatory corporate behaviour."
> John Willman of the Financial Times describes it as "a deeply flawed work that blends together disparate phenomena to create a beguiling – but ultimately dishonest– argument."
> Tom Redburn in the New York Times states that "what she is most blind to is the necessary role of entrepreneurial capitalism in overcoming the inherent tendency of any established social system to lapse into stagnation".
> Jonathan Chait wrote in The New Republic that Klein "pays shockingly little attention to right-wing ideas. She recognizes that neoconservatism sits at the heart of the Iraq war project, but she does not seem to know what neoconservatism is; and she makes no effort to find out."
I was just researching a remark by Dan Arielly from "Predictably Irrational", as quoted by Sam Harris in "The Moral Landscape". The text is this: >When Lincoln lay dying, it is said his physician applied mummy paint to the wounds. This was made from ground up Egyptian mummies and was believed to remedy epilepsy, fractures, paralysis, and many other things. As late as 1908 it could be ordered from Merck pharmaceuticals. P177
The latter is cited but the former is not. Researching the accounts of Lincoln's surgeons, it is documented that they applied a 'mustard poultice' to Lincolns arms and extremities (to keep him warm), but there is no account of this particularly bizarre treatment (as it was already largely in disrepute, had been since the 17th century). Here are Dr. Leals's words: >Then I sent the Hospital Steward for a Nelaton probe. No drug or medicine in any form was administered to the President, but the artificial heat and mustard plaster that I had applied warmed his cold body and stimulated his nerves.
Totally irrelevant, but why not share?
This story is highly suspect ! The Murdoch media is the only source for the article , the articles only source is (based on information "provided by an international partner" that was "potentially significant but still in need of further investigation and additional corroboration") .
Be alert this stinks of something off.
There's a good book on this called Political Tribes. I don't think that the Left's rhetoric fuels the Right, in that it drives people toward bigotry. What the left does is make people that would be on their side turn neutral and disengaged, it takes people on the fence and pushes them towards the Right by making Right propaganda easier to swallow.
The Left should have already won this culure war, so to speak, facts and demographics are on their side more often than not. But these days the Left turns on everyone, itself included.
It's cool though. There's a pay scale. A limb is like $500 a child is like $1500...sometimes as much as $5000! Death payments totally squash the desire for revenge.
I mean what would you do with no kids and five grand burning a hole in your pocket?
https://theintercept.com/2015/02/27/payments-civilians-afghanistan/
Discussion with anons led me to believe it was fake, but obviously that doesn't really help you, sorry.
There is how ever the following quote:
and Barrett Brown believes it to be fake. (https://twitter.com/#!/BarrettBrownLOL/status/111874566292377600)
We probably will never know whether it is fake tbh, but I personally find it pretty irrelevant as any information in the document was already available publicly.
What's the title of this article? As a UK redditor I can't access the international page. Thanks!
UPDATE: If you download the TunnelBear program you can access this page (and other US websites blocked within the UK). It's free and I've now used it to read this and watch some Daily Show clips that I couldn't previously.
Correct. Page 15 - Source: OECD.
Only privatized healthcare system, by far the most expensive in the world with some of the worst outcomes among developed nations. If we got rid of it, we'd be running a surplus.
edit - Oh yeah, and the public has been like ~70% in favor of universal healthcare for decades, but master Kodos says no. :(
I hear there's some people waving signs around asking him to be kinder, but they've proven to be highly... clubable and gasable, so who knows.
Huh... according to Wikiquote, it looks like the "...five minute conversation..." quote is misattributed to Churchill. TIL... I've been quoting that for years.
But it is confirmed that he said the "...worst form of government..." one.
When Jonas Salk made a radio announcement of the results of the first polio vaccine trials, church bells rang across the country. These days, vaccination discussions often end with yapping about conspiracies.
They have it listed under
Improper Discriminatory Practices
Any of the following actions are discriminatory if they are based on a person's race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status, or national origin:
Refusing to rent, or applying more burdensome criteria to certain guests Misrepresenting the availability of a unit Discriminating in choosing guests Limiting the use of common facilities Failing to provide the same level of service, or adding extra fees or payments Denying a request for a reasonable accommodation Threatening, coercing, intimidating or interfering with anyone exercising a fair housing right or assisting others who exercise that right Bear in mind this list is not exhaustive.
https://www.airbnb.com/help/article/898/ada-and-fha-compliance-policy#FHA
Maybe it needs to be moved into TOS if not already done so
> airstrike gone wrong
> [...] MSF personnel at the facility “frantically” called U.S. military officials during the strike to advise them that the hospital was being hit and to plead with them to stop, but the strikes continued in a “sustained” manner for 30 more minutes. Finally, MSF yesterday said this:
>> The hospital was repeatedly & precisely hit during each aerial raid, while the rest of the compound was left mostly untouched #Kunduz
>> — MSF International (@MSF) October 4, 2015
I teach entrance exam prep for grad school applicants, so I only teach college graduates. This is absolutely spot on. When I work with students on improving their reading comprehension skills (RC takes up about a 1/3 of the verbal section of the test I teach), I discover that a lot of them can't read for shit.
With some students, it's literally a lack of vocabulary, either because they're non-native English speakers, or because they come from a lower socio-economic class (i.e. "the word gap").
But with the middle/upper middle class students, many of whom graduated from top tier colleges and work at prestigious firms... they might know all the individual words, but they often don't know what the hell the passage is talking about. We'll read a paragraph, and I'll ask them to tell me what the point of the paragraph was, and a clear sign that they don't really get it is that they simply read back to me the words that are on the page, with slight paraphrases here or there. But they can't encapsulate an idea and recap it for me, because they don't know what the central idea is.
So then I'll ask clarifying questions, and inevitably, it comes down to the fact that they don't understand the references. Once I explain the reference or the context, then they're like, "Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh that's what they're talking about?? Yeah I didn't get that at all, originally."
This graph: https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2017/04/20/524774195/what-country-spends-the-most-and-least-on-health-care-per-person
and every other analysis ever
Yes, refusing to implement this solution is a conscious choice by politicians to condemn the poor to a life of debt and pain. It is immeasurably naaive, especially considering the monstrosity of a tax bill they just passed, to think this shit is a fucking accident; that the Republicans are trying their hardest to improve your life, but golly gee, it keeps not working!
nope. definition 5 from http://www.thefreedictionary.com/parole (well, reddit renumbered for me)
parole [pəˈrəʊl]
n
a. the freeing of a prisoner before his sentence has expired, on the condition that he is of good behaviour
b. the duration of such conditional release
(Law) a promise given by a p risoner, as to be of good behaviour if granted liberty or partial liberty
(Law) a variant spelling of parol
(Military) US Military a password
5. (Linguistics) Linguistics language as manifested in the individual speech acts of particular speakers Compare langue, performance [7] competence [5]
> Would separating the NSA, and other agencies like that, from the government be a good solution to all of this?
Privatizing them?! Hell no. What has privatizing prisons or welfare fraud investigating done for us?
Bill Moyers documented the "secret government" that started in the Reagan era. Reagan used "the Enterprise" to evade the US law. Those commercial entities, like Blackwater today, are out of control and are unaccountable to anyone.
The solution to our out of control gov't and its spying and wars is two-fold: Enact rock solid, comprehensive and highly punitive privacy laws, and slash the budgets of both the Pentagon and the security/intelligence agencies.
Then the trick will be to get our corrupt gov't to actually enforce the law.
But until we end our government's love of war and address the rampant militarism in our culture, any "reform" will just be whitewashing that wears off in a short time. If you don't believe that, just revisit the same types of crimes that Nixon committed with the CIA, FBI and US Army intelligence, or Reagan's crimes of the Iran-Contra era.
How many times do we have to allow this to happen before we wake up and get a clue?
The withdrawal from Gaza wasn't for the sake of peace, nor was there even an Israeli pretence that it was for the sake of peace. They said it was to "freeze the peace process". Explicitly.
What happened was they realized they weren't going to be able to win the demograpic war in Gaza, there were 5000 settlers, 2 million Palestinians, not much space. Was becoming expensive to protect them So they gave up, withdrew the army to the outskirts of Gaza, and sent the settlers to the West Bank to new settlements, subsidized by the state.
Incidentally those few settlers took a lot of space in Gaza, which was all off-limits to Palestinians. It was Apartheid as usual, unusually cruel form in that case.
After 2005 Israel never relaxed it's iron grip on Gaza or stopped attacking it.
> Idith Zertal and Akiva Eldar point out that after Israel withdrew its forces from Gaza in August 2005, the ruined territory was not released “for even a single day from Israel’s military grip or from the price of the occupation that the inhabitants pay every day… Israel left behind scorched earth, devastated services, and people with neither a present nor a future. The settlements were destroyed in an ungenerous move by an unenlightened occupier, which in fact continues to control the territory and kill and harass its inhabitants by means of its formidable military might
https://chomsky.info/20090119/
Their book is worth reading actually.
https://www.amazon.com/Lords-Land-Settlements-Territories-1967-2007-ebook/dp/B0097D7CTS
For those of you looking for a more moderate/pragmatic perspective on this theme, check out David Corten's (greatly underappreciated) <em>When Corporations Rule the World</em>.
I think the opposite of this is "Captainitis". I'm curious how the results would change if the groups had an appointed "leader"
Here's a great resource for secular homeschoolers:
Right now it's still math-oriented in its exercises (that's not a bad thing but I'd like more), but there are a lot of videos on a lot of subjects that are good watching.
Ehh, not quite, it deals with stupid people passing on their genes expressing intelligence (or lack thereof) where intelligence becomes not a protective factor (resulting in more births/children) but an inhibition to childbirth (the smart couple doesn't have time to have kids). This goes on while poor people have more and more kids. As a result, the "smart" genes are lost while the "dumb" ones remain.
And intelligence is highly heritable. Easy summary, Link to articles
Alright, coming from an unmarried father in California, this isn't really true. I signed my child's birth certificate. I had a paternity test performed and confirmed. When it was clear that my son's mother and I weren't going to work out, I filed a paternity action that further established my rights as a father in California.
The only way you can 'deny all contact' is if the father isn't fit to raise the child or unwilling to co-parent with the mother.
The reason 'defer to the mother' is what you think it is, is because men abandon their children at a much higher rate than women. Pseudo-source.
> This is a study of the brutal torture and murder of the author's brother and his fiancee forty years ago. In July 1978, two bodies were found in the sea off the coast of Guatemala, and proved to be the remains of Chris Farmer and Peta Frampton, respectively a medical graduate and a law graduate, aged twenty-five and twenty-four, from Greater Manchester. They had been beaten, tortured, and killed, their bodies weighted down and dumped in the sea from the yacht on which they had been crewing. For nearly forty years, no one was charged with these savage murders, even though the name of the yacht, the Justin B., and its owner, an American named Silas Boston, were known. But this is also the story of how Chris's sister, Penny Farmer, and her family tracked down the killer and assembled the evidence against him until eventually, in December 2016, Boston was arrested in the USA and charged with two counts of maritime murder. He pleaded not guilty, but among the evidence that Chris Farmer's family had so patiently collected, was the eyewitness testimony of one of Boston's two sons who, aged eleven and eight, had been present when the murders took place. Regrettably, Boston will now never face justice, for he died in prison in April 2017. But for the families of Chris and Peta, they have at least the satisfaction of knowing that, through their own efforts over many years, their killer did not escape being made to face his crimes.
Agreed. It's not like the members of NWA were cryptic about their views of women.
Submission Statement: "Every time she got close to someone, Shelley found herself thinking, Yeah, we’re really great friends, but you don’t have a clue who I am." Here is an extraordinary and timely piece about the daughter of Jane Roe, who found her identity out at age 19 and only revealed it a few months ago. This story was also recently included in Pocket’s Best of 2021 collection, under "What We Learned in 2021."
Alain de Botton rocks! Was super taken with his TED talk so I bought his book, "architecture of happiness", and was a little peeved when it turned out to be "just" art. I thought the title was a metaphor for a positive mental state or some shit but not it's literally photography of architectures, rofl.
I would love to see the source of this statistic. 565k / month in 2010 means 6.7MM business were started. There are 212M Americans between the ages of 15 and 64 (source).
So that puts us at 3.2% of americans, or roughly 1/31 started a business in 2010. That seems very high. I can't help but wonder if the number is actually based on number of corporations created. That seems both easier to get and more reasonable
I don't know what you mean by "indisputable fact" but my assertion that people -especially young people- are not well adapted to learning in lectures is very strongly supported by scads of research.
I agree completely that we need to do something different, but lectures aren't a new idea, they're the dominant practice. Distributing the same thing via video doesn't make it new or innovative. Students are still sitting and watching someone talk and do examples on a board. The only difference is that instead of being able to interact with the person in real time, they are watching a pre-recorded video.
I have been a math teacher, sub, and tutor, and am currently working on my math credential. Research supports the theory that students learn math better by struggling with problematic tasks that are embedded in compelling, personally meaningful contexts.
I have some other ideas about what could be done differently. This link is to a presentation I gave for one of my classes. Since the presentation was only 20 minutes, I had to leave out a lot of stuff that I wanted to include, so it's really just a brief overview of the issue.
I'm a cryptographer, and while I haven't looked at it myself, I know that early on they made some very unorthodox choices in encryption and the like. It's not necessarily insecure, but one wonders why they made up their own algorithms rather than more proven technology.
I personally use Signal (formerly TextSecure)
That's great and all, but wouldn't it have been better if Gates had been taxed appropriately in the first place and then all citizens (at least theoretically, anyway) could have had a say in how that was allocated?
Relying on billionaires to allocate resources for public solutions seems more likely to just fund whatever billionaires care about, maybe not what is needed most, and definitely not toward anything which might pose a challenge to their status.
(Anand Giridharadas' <em>Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World</em> covers the subject quite well)
>Bastian had shown the lion the inscription on the reverse side of the Gem. "What do you suppose it means?" he asked. "'DO WHAT YOU WISH.' That must mean I can do anything I feel like. Don't you think so?"
>All at once Grograman's face looked alarmingly grave, and his eyes glowed. "No," he said in his deep, rumbling voice. "It means that you must do what you really and truly want. And nothing is more difficult."
>"What I really and truly want? What do you mean by that?"
>"It's your own deepest secret and you yourself don't know it."
>“How can I find out?”
> “By going the way of your wishes, from one to another, from first to last. It will take you to what you really and truly want.”
>“That doesn’t sound so hard,” said Bastian.
>“It is the most dangerous of all journeys.”
>“Why?” Bastian asked. “I’m not afraid.”
>“That isn’t it,” Grograman rumbled. “It requires the greatest honesty and vigilance, because there’s no other journey on which it’s so easy to lose yourself forever.”
>"Do you mean because our wishes aren't always good?" Bastion asked.
>The lion lashed the sand he was lying on with his tail. His ears lay flat, he screwed up his nose, and his eyes flashed fire. Involuntarily Bastian ducked when Grograman's voice once again made the earth tremble:
>"What do you know about wishes? How would you know what's good and what isn't?"
>- The Neverending Story by Michael Ende - Ch. XV : Grograman, the Many-Colored Death
It was an ice pick and I always assumed it was an ice pick like this: https://www.amazon.com/Ice-Pick-Natural-Handle-Polished/dp/B0012UPBVK
Because they're common in tropical countries especially back then when people had to have ice delivered to their homes in big chunks rather than tbis:
Mainly because my uncle got an attempted mugging in Manila by a dude with an ice pick and got stabbed a bit when he was in college in the 80s.
This is a wonderful article. Two problems, one semantic, one stylistic:
Instead of "tautologous," the author should have used "self-evident." Imperatives are never tautologies, strictly speaking, because imperatives are not assertions.
On Writing Well advises against "however" at the beginning of sentences, and with good reason. "However" is not as punchy as "but," and it tends to mess up the balance of a sentence when placed on either end.
> it's that bullying is a part of human nature, and will happen no matter how many methods we put in place to discourage it.
This is a tenuous assertion. Countless forms of violence and abuse were once considered "part of human nature", including war and spousal abuse, but those have declined considerably and Stephen Pinker has an excellent talk documenting the decline of violence in society. Further, even if it were "part of human nature", note that many atrocious acts in society which are actively condemned and stamped out are also part of human nature, yet we don't consider those justifiable or even tolerable simply because they exist naturally. To do so is to make the naturalistic fallacy; "[x] is naturally the case" does not imply "[x] should be the case." Rape and murder and war, for example, have been part of human nature for millennia; the callous commonality with which women were horrendously abused on a widespread basis is unthinkable in today's society, yet two thousand years ago it was certainly the case that these horrifying acts were "part of human nature." Humanity is extraordinarily malleable -- don't forget that.
> At what point do we see a drastic reduction in auto fatalities once self-driving cars are common?
It's an incremental thing. There are promising results from simpler forms of automation, like automatic braking and lane departure warnings. (Here's a more recent writeup.) A friend of mine works in insurance law, and is convinced that car automation is going to decimate the auto claims business. (Though their colleagues remain skeptical.)
Well, Encyclopedia Britannica, Oxford Reference, and other encyclopedia sites and books I found all refer to him as "Willy", so unless you have a source that says he was never called Willy I am inclined to believe that Wikipedia made the right decision here.
Wait, they're seriously comparing a few warm days in Berlin to the average weather in DC? Berlin weather and DC weather aren't even remotely comparable. Berlin's summer temps average a full 10 degrees lower, and the dew point almost never goes above "mildly humid," with May-October falling in the "comfortable" range. DC, though, is likely to rate as a solid "muggy" from June through September.