Dudelander

Good journalism is not taking powerful peoples' word for things when there is considerable evidence to the contrary. If you want to believe Dabiri that's fine, but nothing in the article was factually incorrect and there is still a strong likelihood that the event was linked to his resignation.

But then what if his Twitter account was hacked and he really didn't resign? You can speculate all you want, but journalists need to base their reporting on facts.

This is the opposite of dangerous. This is, dare I say, good reporting. Twitter had a very public technical glitch and the next day the head of engineering resigns, there is an obvious connection that can be drawn. If news outlets don't make obvious connections, governments and business are allowed to frame things however they want.

Journalists are not courts, they do not and should not have to have a policy of "innocent until proven guilty". They should aspire to narratives that are based on a preponderance of evidence.

I would agree with you, but articles almost never cite their sources directly, and never really did.

Everyone is trying too hard nowadays. It's one of the downsides of the internet. If you say "Rock and roll sin't as popular as it used to be" nobody will read your article. If you say "Rock is dead!" you'll get hits. I don't think it's fair to criticize the Atlantic for this. They're just playing by the rules of a game that many people here inadvertently designed.

How is that in any way interesting? You conspiracy nuts will draw connections anywhere.

I'm guessing misleading facts about covid or the election or something.

I don't know, I'm not really sure how many subscriptions they've sold. If you listen to his detractors, it's barely anything. If you listen to him directly, it saved Twitter. If the numbers are disappointing but significant, it might make sense to mothball tech and product. Basically treat it as a dying MMO.

Long term this is not a winning strategy, but it might be the best way to minimize losses.

Human resources, finance, sales, marketing, legal, customer service...

Twitter blue subscribers get boosted independent of the quality of the tweet, blocking them improves user experience.

The funny thing is that I've been doing this for selfish reasons when the $8 blue checks started. Twitter blue subscribers get a boost in the algorithm independent of the quality of the tweet. So if you're extremely liberal about blocking Twitter Blue users, you see better tweets and user experience improves.

Germany would disagree.

It does not get a lot of funding from the state. And every competent media outlet has contacts in government.

The source you cite points out that only 8% of public radio's funding comes from federal funding, and less than 1% of NPR's budget comes from federal funding. The federal government does not exercise any editorial control over NPR other than by the mechanisms that apply to Fox, CNN, Newsmax, or any other "private" media organization.

Yeah stop trying to "cancel" "cancel culture".

Most respondents agreed with the phrase. And black people are far more likely to be familiar with news related to white supremacy than white people.

So if anyone wants to see a perfect example of Sea Lioning, this is it. This asshole asked a question that could easily answered by reading the link explicitly to waste my time, and had the nerve to state statistics without providing a link or any relevant analysis.

CNS misquoted in a pretty material way. The exact phrase is "It's OK to be white". Not "alright to be white". This matters because "It's OK to be white" is the phase used in a trolling campaign in 2017 and 2018. (https://www.adl.org/resources/hate-symbol/its-okay-be-white). This phrasing is a major error on the part of Rasmussen and invalidates the question, and possibly every question asked prior to the poorly phrased one.

Elon had every programmer literally print out their code on paper. Occom's razer suggests that he just didn't know what Slack was and thought it wasn't important.

Nobody has time to read everything. Blocking Twitter blue subscribers is a quick way to weed out bad content. It basically allows me to use the algorithm organically, while weeding out content that is artificially boosted.

I've noticed that twitter blue subscribers often are high up in the list of replies, and are often (but not always) lower quality. I've gotten in the habit of blocking Twitter blue subscribers as well, and it has improved the quality of the application for me. I should take some time out to make a plug in automatically block them.

I don't see how using tools to make a user experience better for myself is juvenile.

Ironically Genius is in this category.

I was stuck in a dead end job in my late 20s, did the 2 years in a community college and 2 years in a "real" college thing, and began a career as a computer programmer when I was 34. It's actually easier to do in your 30s because you're more mature.

A good friend of mine left his career as an auto mechanic and became a CPA in his mid 40s. He had no trouble finding work.

You can get federal student loans as a second degree student, and some programs are exclusively offered to students with an existing degree (Accelerated Nursing for example).

You are younger than you think.

This needed to happen. Even with tax credits EVs are not as good as a fuel efficient gas cars. I think the price needs to come down a little bit more to compete with hybrids, but this is a step in the right direction. I also think that the high-end models need to have a better trim - because if you shell out that kind of money you ought to enjoy it.

I think the issue here is an obvious conflict of interest and general hypocrisy. It also is an pretty good counterexample to the whole idea of freedom of speech absolutism. Someone is always going to decide what speech is preferable and that person is always going to be subject to their own biases.

Not it's not possible. Bike transportation reduces automobile demand for the main demographic that buys Teslas - urban professionals.

That's just not true. The two cars behind that one were well more than two car lengths apart. Following too close is a non-sequitur.

That was absolutely not the case in this accident. The Tesla swerved in front of the car in the next lane and then suddenly slammed on the breaks. The two cars behind that one were driving several car lengths back. There was no way for this accident to involve less than 4 cars.

I think a lot of this depends on how often drivers use the AP feature, and how many close calls have been caused by the AP. It's also pretty important to get an idea of the timeline of those crashes. If there was a spike in crashes after a software patch, then that would definitely warrant an investigation.

Also the accidents they have caused are pretty significant. There does appear to be a bug that causes a Tesla to slam on the breaks for no reason, and this has caused multi-car pileups.

Lot of assumptions here:

1) "High" IQ is necessary to make semi-conductors? Why, because of low tolerances? In that case it just needs people who are really careful.

2) IQ is universal. This is not the case - a 100 IQ is set to be the middle of the curve - so a 100 IQ today would be a 120 IQ 30 years ago. (Flynn effect)

3) IQ is static. This is also not the case. Anyone can improve their IQ. If you really want a high IQ, practice taking IQ tests. An Air Force officer managed to get his IQ up to 185 because it was his job to administer IQ tests. Education has also been shown to increase IQ.

4) IQ is a useful metric. There is some evidence to suggest that it relates to improved academic performance, but a lot of the early science was based on bad data.