Another instance of tech thinking it did it first. In the rest of the economy, we call these "trade schools".
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And,,, seriously though, this is why technology is NOT democratic by default, and why people must actively, forcefully work to democratize technology based social, community, and cultural infrastructure. If it can't be found outside of human civilization in a form ready to be picked up or stumbled over, and someone gets to it before you, they'll likely claim it for their own. Lame.
Just as finance has done for resource allocation, information technology is doing for culture. For better. Or worse.
I can't revise or delete my comment on this device, or I would. My bad.
And the predictions are consistently outpaced by reality.
But go over to Bloomberg news, and they're wondering why the Japanese won't make the tough cultural sacrifices needed to increase immigration, to stave off stagnant GDP caused by declining population and the accompanying demographics. (I get the workers to non-workers issues in play. Even with that, I believe it is telling, which solutions are put forth. Increase immigration. Not, decrease consumption.)
Seriously, our roads are sinking. Record temperatures. Record droughts. Record greenhouse gasses. But how many times were "jobs" talked about at the DNC and RNC? "Global warming"?
We, are so, f-cked.
The "strangeness" indeed. But making up our mind as a society seems like it would be an unhealthy development.
I believe one reason the U.S. has been so resilient is the combination of schizophrenic like policy and action (caused by three branches of federal government, federal and state split, and 50 separate states) and the pressure/safety-valve mechanism that is our election system.
Add corporations, NGOs, etc into the mix and it all becomes even more schizophrenic. Though, corporations add psychopathic to the mix more than any other of the flavors, given their incessant drive to produce profit for their shareholders.
I think the problem-issue has less to do with strangenes, more to do with honesty. I don't believe we'd allow a person to treat other people and, to the point, make the kind of claims we're talking about, without calling bullsh-t on them. Corporations would make horrible citizens. But they are "persons". So if these persons are not citizens, what are they???
What's more, the scientific process is used discretely. One fact at a time. Understanding of our world, its meaning, these things are accumulative, over the entire context of our experience, and utilize things like feelings, and faith, and religion, and narative, to create.
Under the issue of Environment:
"Competitive free markets and property rights stimulate the technological innovations and behavioral changes required to protect our environment and ecosystems. Private landowners and conservation groups have a vested interest in maintaining natural resources. Governments are unaccountable for damage done to our environment and have a terrible track record when it comes to environmental protection. Protecting the environment requires a clear definition and enforcement of individual rights and responsibilities regarding resources like land, water, air, and wildlife. Where damages can be proven and quantified in a court of law, restitution to the injured parties must be required."
And under Government Finance and Spending:
"All persons are entitled to keep the fruits of their labor. We call for the repeal of the income tax, the abolishment of the Internal Revenue Service and all federal programs and services not required under the U.S. Constitution. We oppose any legal requirements forcing employers to serve as tax collectors. Government should not incur debt, which burdens future generations without their consent. We support the passage of a 'Balanced Budget Amendment' to the U.S. Constitution, provided that the budget is balanced exclusively by cutting expenditures, and not by raising taxes."
So, unless it is shown to be constitutionally mandated a carvon tax is not endorsed by their platform.
If I read correctly, it would not be endorsed under their Crime and Justice section either.
Interesting aside, the Libertarian Party doesn't seem to be aware that all (100%) of U.S. currency is based on debt. The Treasury issues a bond, the Fed lrints money to buy it, and then all that goes into circulation. It's not magic, it's explicitly fiat, but I guess they missed that, or want to go back to something like the gold standard, which totally makes sense if you believe in the intrinsic value of gold rather than simply inderstanding it as a convenient means to mark a currency against if you want to limit inflation as only so much gold production per year is possible.
Protecting free speech is about a framework of process, transparency, inclusion, and democracy.
Yelp is not a transparent, inclusive democracy with processes in place to ensure we can each express ourselves freely. It is a business, driven by business decisions, run by business people, for its customer, in the interest of it owners.
Period.
The entire point of science, and this is not a hyperbole, is that results are reproducible. If the experiment is not reproducible one must take the results on faith. There is no such thing as faith based science.
In order to build a shared body of knowledge based on scientific facts, then, results must be repeated. It is how different people can talk about the same thing, without fearing an asymmetry of knowledge and understanding about the axioms on which their discussion of the world rests. Otherwise it is faith or religion or narrative, something other than than science.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11328920/is-python-strong...
No. It cannot.
"I totally agree..."
And everything else is pretty much still good to go. Sorry. I'm pretty opinionated on this topic. As someone with dual degrees in political science and economics, followed by 15 years of all this great country has to offer the white male, and then living in Baltimore during the uprising, listening to my neighbors, marching with fellow Baltimoreans (?), almost getting arrested for holding a sign while on a public sidewalk during a march, staring down rows of cops 10 deep, having motorcycle cops rev their engines with protestors just feet on front of them laid out on the ground, having the National Guard lock down our city for a week, having government sigint airplanes flying overhead, and then riding my bicycle home, to a safe, warm meal and going to my good paying job with benefits the next day, while some black kid follows his mother's advice and walks into a police station on his own volition to surrender to the ppolice for vandalizing a cop car and then having his bail set higher than what was set for the police officers who where arraigned for manslaughter. But yeah, i blew it all out proportion in that comment.
If you're a dude or a bro, before you down-vote this, ask yourself whether you would applaud or criticize the same person for wearing that outfit to Wholefoods.
The tech industry is perpetually patting itself on the back for have such innovative workplace policies. Many actions or dispositions condoned or encouraged by these policies would get you fired at a Wall Street bank. So, one can not claim that one should know better than to wear these outfits. The entire point of this "new workplace", which is by definition and design not well defined, is to not dictate the individual in so far a his or her personal choices, but simply to create an atmosphere where each individual is productive.
You ever tried working in an office with a full bar on tap, twenty feet away? How about in an office that has two ping pong tables nearby in the open space floor plan? That is distracting. That is also stereotypical Silicon Valley. But hey, I put on headphones, ignored my strong desire to get bent, and was productive.
If you're a woman, please chime in here. This is, to my ears, victim blaming. And this comment will no doubt instantly begin garnering many, many down-votes. So, please, risk a few karma. But, I'm a guy, so what do I know?
I know that tomorrow I can go into work in shorts small enough to show a bit of butt and people will think it's funny, and we'll all sit down at our screens and get back to work. Because, in our culture, I'm not objectified sexually, I am the patriarch, and I control all thing, except that thing in my drawers.
"Nobody really expects the cops to sweep the dorms at NYU for marijuana, even though this would probably turn up a ton of arrests."
Switch out "NYU" with "ghetto" and your statement is instantly absurd. These laws you're sleaking of are intended to be enforced, selectively. This is HN, we all love statistics. What is the probability that a person standing trial for possession marijuana who was apprehended in their home and where the primary reason provided in seeking the exercised warrant or reasoning provided explaining exigent circumstances was suspicion of possession or use of marijuana and the person on trial is white? Black?
You can't be evidence based when it suits your world view, but not when it doesn't. The term for that is confirmation bias.
Such a human thing to say.
Between that, and all the top comments as of writing this start out addressing how beautiful the data visualization is. That is why humans are doomed.
Mother nature is fine with or without us.