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That is a terrible argument. "Go sh*t in a chemical toiled" is not a reasonable alternative, the cost alone is ludicrous. Just have the decency and maturity to admit when you are wrong instead of arguing that you should "go dig a well" in the middle of the city. This is why we can't have reasonable conversations anymore.

You are aware that public utilities CHARGE FOR THEIR SERVICE A LOT? Ask Texans and Californians about their power bills in the last months. The level of entitlement of people like you using a free service and expecting to impose the rules as they see fit and getting all angry at the company giving them an absolutely world class amazing service for free because they don't want to piss off the advertisers that pay for the whole deal is very hard to understand.

"only about 11% of radiologists used AI for image interpretation in a clinical practice. Of those not using AI, 72% have no plans to do so while approximately"

I hope the author is joking. Does he really expect the technology to be pushed forward by the people that is going to replace??? They are your main obstacle after the technical issues, don't use their adoption as a metric.

It is just crazy to say to people "hey I'm going to make your profession obsolete and take your job an status in society away by implementing this new tech that is just way better that you, help me do it".

Yea no, can we stop putting ALL of the weight on the technical people that already are MASSIVELY skilled on their field and are chronically overworked? The soft people skills responsibilities fall on the soft skills people i.e. management. That is THEIR job, not mine. They can't do shit else so they better do at least that.

This is the fundamental problem with our profession, we are goal oriented and try to make things work at all cost, and we get taken advantage all the time even when we are holding all the cards (high demand for us, low supply).

Stop making their work easy by making yours hard, you are not a fcking lap boy, you are an engineer, you solve the technical sht. Make the "management and meetings" people earn their over inflated checks or simply move to the next job for an even better pay, simple as that.

All my PM, TL, RRHH, QA, and the rest of the spreed sheet crowd have always been the same: Lest waste an hour every day in a pointless meeting to show them who is boss and pretend that we do something useful, then lets spend the rest of the day in Facebook and social media while I pest the nerds on chat every few hours asking "how is that going? do you have an estimate?". That is not working, that is been a parasite. Force them to earn their living.

I'm having a really hard time trying to understand the level of entitlement that takes to believe that you can have a service from a private for-profit business without paying for it, like Facebook, YouTube, etc. and they are forced to give it to you without any say on it, no matter what, even if it's not advertiser friendly and ruins their business.

That is a terrible example. Is not the same not having internet, water, or power, than not having Twitter or Facebook dude.

And besides that, If I have 20 options like I do with social networks and it's as easy to change as to create a new account, I'll simply change providers or I can easily create another account in 3 seconds. This kind of argument comparing apples and oranges is terrible.

I fail to see your point, you seem to contradict yourself in an attempt to justify your own bias.

Are you arguing that the solution to the problem you mentioned: "dystopian, totalitarian surveillance infrastructure, environmental devastation, and political corruption" is to avoid radical politics at work??? So, what do you propose? That the board (that is responsible for those horrors) steps in an remove / do away with these "radicals" in a "totalitarian" manner??? That is your solution? It sounds that you are no different from them, just have a different agenda and you are perfectly fine with them and their methods as long as they are aimed at the people you don't like.

Step back, take a deep breath and read what you wrote.

You are saying that we should not care, but you clearly care if the face is black ... So, somebody decided that he would like to have a black emoji because he like it that and you decided to make an issue out of it ... and accuse the other person of what you yourself are doing ... If you don't see it is because you don't want to see it.

"Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye?"

It's not dumb, all mayor central banks of the planet have printed 50% of GDP on their currencies including the dollar to deal with the pandemic. That means that you risk losing 50% of the value of your cash, so you invest it and you diversify to protect yourself, but because everybody with money is doing exactly that, you have massive asset bubbles that also risk your money, so its hard to find something to invest in.

Elon took a relative small bet by been the first mayor company to buy massive amounts of crypto and so far he has made bank. Only the future will tell if it was a good move in the long run.

We saw this phenomenon in Argentina. It's called "inflationary inertia". Basically, the government prints money creating inflation in the first place, so prices go up. But when you stop printing money, like Argentina did in 2016 and even reduced the money supply by 5%, inflation still goes up because everybody expects it to go up so they get ahead of it to avoid losing money, starting with the businessmen. Once the businessmen rise prices, everybody else in the economy does the same, and workers demand a pay raise to match inflation, etc. creating a vicious cycle so you have inflation regardless of the money you print or don't print.

This technique seems to have stopped that cycle by changing the expectations of the people.

That is a problem of interpretation by amateurs more than a problem with the test itself. Myers-Briggs gives you PERCENTAGES of every trait, then it uses 4 letter labels to make things simpler for people, but you are supposed to understand that a person that scored 49% introvert in the introvert-extrovert spectrum is going to be far similar to a person that scored extrovert with 51% than to a person that scored introvert 10% because its a spectrum not an absolute value.

That is the reason that modern tests like Big Five did away with the labels, because people were incapable to reason beyond them and kept making dumb assumptions like "He scored introvert so he must hate parties or I scored introvert the first time but extrovert the second (a potential 1% difference between the labels without the percentages associated to them) so the test is crap".

>prognosis becomes self fulfilling

It's not self fulfilling if it's accurate to begin with. I assume that what you are trying to say is that they became to pessimistic at the dismal state of affairs and "gave up". But that is not the case at all. Our progress as a species is faster than ever in every account and that is the problem, we are going very fast an the errors we make have larger consequences as a result an we have less and less time to fix them.

The first step to solve a serious problem is to diagnose it correctly. You cannot lie yourself out of a bad situation. The "relativist" as you call them or "realist" as I prefer to call them did their contribution by identifying the problems and setting up a framework to do so going forward, now is up to the rest of society to solve them. That is perfectly within our grasp if we stop pointing fingers at each-other and get to work.

I started my career in Accenture as a bright eye systems engineer that wanted to work with cool people and program computers and build cool stuff. O boy did they stomped that naive dream fast.

I was basically one of the offshore resources in a third world country mentioned in the other comments that gets payed peanuts (USD 420 a month to be precise, minimum wage in my country) and has zero experience but gets sold like he is a senior engineer. All my team was like that, there were only trainees and 2 semi seniors on my team. My "architect" didn't knew Java at all, the language of the project, and the person sitting besides me didn't knew what a bubble sort was but was trying to implement a sorting algorithm in C as part of the software that controlled the entire mobile telecom network for Spain (did not end well).

The culture is up or out, completely cutthroat, a nightmare. They apply something called "the tooth paste tube principle" to their employees: the more you squeeze, the more it comes out (I actually heard that from one of the managers there). The model is endless armies of low wage trainees on third world countries that get sold as "seniors" and get pay little so they will take as much overtime as possible to actually make a living wage. The good thing? They will hire almost anybody and they give you a month full time training free before you start, so if you want a place to start with a very low entry bar or are looking for free training, or you are a sociopath and like playing power games with people and walking over them, this is you place.

If I sound bitter 15 years later it's because I still am.

Sure, but some people suffer lots of abuse in life just by the way they look or their ethnicity, sexuality, etc (black people, Jewish, LGBT, etc. in bad places like the middle east come to mind). Imagine been Jewish or very obviously gay and effeminate in Saudi Arabia.

Some time it's better to be alone that to be abused. I saw a documentary about this -Hikkomori- and that was one of the guy's point. He took a lot of sht from people first at school, then at work and on the street too because of how he looked, and he got tired of having to put up with random shtty people insulting him every single day for years. It wore him down over the years and at home he only had a mother that didn't seem to be supportive at all until he gave up. You can see it in YouTube, is one of the first results. It's sad that he could not make it work by moving around until he found decent people, but some times you just have bad luck.

Yea, I don't see the problem with it unless the person who is doing it wants to change but can't. These type of people has always existed, they used to be secluded at a monastery and then it was socially acceptable for them to be isolated all of their lives doing little or nothing, reading and "praying" and "meditating" all day.

How is it much better to slave away at a minimal wage job at a McDonald's or a desk job shuffling papers for 40 years surrounded by people that treat you like shit? (service workers have horror stories to tell about bosses and customers alike).

> Python is older than Java, well supported

WELL SUPPORTED???? Have you ever coded a real thing in python?

I'm getting "Warning, no longer supported" console messages in all my basic well established tools and libraries written in python because a guy that lives in a world of academics and theory and not in a world of business and delivery dates decided that python3 was not going to have backwards compatibility with python2 because they made a massive irreparable disaster when they designed python2.

That is not a professional tool for multi-million dollar companies, that is a toy for spoiled nerds. Exactly the same that Visual Basic 5-6 were when I was starting. Extremely easy to use and extremely fast, at the price of been garbage for anything larger than a toy app.

And because all the kids learned that at uni and went to create the next thing in it like PyTorch and TensorFlow, now you have to do all the real code in C / C++ to handle what python can't in terms of speed an reliability, doubling you code base, your Dev teams, and the needed skill set.

I have been programing in java in large multinationals for 10 years and I used python every single day for the past 3 years for what its useful: small hacky scripts to increase productivity. The real sh*t that manages you cellphone towers, you home-banking, you online shopping, your logistic chain and your android cellphone apps, all things that I have worked on, gets done in Java.

That is called society. Have you ever worked in a private company? Went to a private business, like a restaurant or a shopping mall? What happens if you start insulting people and been rude and un-polite like people are in social media? You get fired or you are asked to leave. This is the reason why when you go to a new job they ask for references and call your old employers to inquire about you. The internet is going to be the same. You are going to have a reputation to protect or you are going to pay a price.

No, as long as you are paying I don't see that problem. Its only when you are getting "free" services were you are a product and not a costumer. People forget that corporations are there to make money and nothing else. All the rest is little more than theater. The reason that Twitter, Facebook, etc. bans you is because advertisers don't want to put money on the places you are because you are problematic. What's the use of you for YouTube as a content creator if they have to demonetize your channel because add buyers don't like you? Say Alex Jones for example. He is nothing but a cost to them, and on top of that, it gives them bad publicity all over the place. This is the bottom line, these are private corporations managing a private business trying to make money, the rest is just a lot of hot air and click bait created by other business that want to push outrage and controversy because it's what gets the more clicks.

This is extremely short sighted. The complete opposite is more likely to be true. Privacy is almost dead and soon it will be almost impossible to hide your real identity on the internet and thus avoid consequences for your actions. That will allow companies to black list you across the internet, so if you are an a-hole in lets say Facebook by harassing people, doxing them, do child grooming, scams/fake advertisement, etc. and Facebook bans you because you are bad for advertisement, they are going to be able to put you on a black list and ban you in all other sites even if you use a different IP, browser, account, etc. There are endless ways to tell you are the same person and it's getting worst, for starters you phone, SSO, browser/extensions fingerprinting etc.

It's going to be a lot like your credit score, your criminal record, etc.

At the end of the day companies want advertisement money and if you scare the adds away the same networks that control those adds are going to end up keeping track of you to keep you away.

Once that anonymity is completely gone, the internet will be just like real life. If you are a problematic assh*le, you'll get a record saying just that that employers, land lords, schools, etc. are going to check, just like they do now with credit scores, criminal records and school records and if you don't behave, you are going to be a marginal banned from polite society like it happens in real life outside the internet.

Programing is just as easy as math.

This argument makes no sense. A 15 minute bathroom break doesn't change anything. You'll still make the delivery on time. If 15 minutes is so important, you could just add 15 minutes to the working day and still make that delivery.

There are a million ways to solve this without treating employees poorly or lowering the quality of the service. In the same system they use to calculate the optimum route and delivery times, you can plan and factor in bathroom brakes.

The company just chose not to deal with the problem, that's all.

I some times wonder if the IQ of the people that conducts these studies is below average.

30 point of IQ of difference is with the average, an IQ of 70 or less is the IQ of a clinically retarded person. So, if you have 132 IQ, the average person is literally retarded compared to you. If you live in a world surrounded by retards you are going to be depressed and had all sorts of mental issues and a hard time to adapt, because everything is made to accommodate them, all of general society is designed for retards from your perspective.

Why not? Is their company and you are not paying them a damn thing. Why the entitlement if you are not paying for the service that you are enjoying? That's not how the world works.

If you are not paying don't complain, just move to another site or pay for the service so you are under a different contract and relation and you are no longer the product and are the customer instead.

You are not the customer of Facebook, Reddit or Google, the ads buyers are, and the customer is always right. If they don't like your post, it makes all the sense in the world to change it, censor it or kick you out because you are making them lose money and they are not a non-profit existing to serve you. They exist to make money for their share-holders like any other corporation.

Sorry to be so cynic, but why do you assume good faith on the part of Reddit? It's a free product, you are not paying for it, they don't owe you a damn thing. If they don't care about their reputation, they can do whatever they want with your comments, including changing them or deleting them.

This is the problem of free stuff, you have no leverage and little to no value to the company as a single user, and if you are the kind of problematic user such as the ones in The Donal, you have negative value because you scare away the ads and ruin the companies reputation, so they actually have a very powerful incentive to push you away and make you leave the site.

> If it was Reddit we wouldn’t be able to know if it was Knight’s boyfriend, hackers, or some Reddit admin.

Sorry I don't see your point, I work in systems in very large e-commerce multinationals and I have been given the production database credentials many times allowing me to change anything of any user or any product using the mandatory company VPN and the admin account. What are you going to track? The VPN IP and and the general admin credential that can be 100 different people not including hackers that could have compromised any of our PCs?

The only important thing is that she doesn't stand behind the comments, she denies them. So that's it. She clearly doesn't support those statements, end of story.

Doxxing on the other hand is a federal crime in the US and thus is not considered "free speech" and must be censored according to https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2261A

Whoever with the intent to kill, injure, harass, intimidate, or place under surveillance with intent to kill, injure, harass, or intimidate another person, uses the mail, any interactive computer service or electronic communication service or electronic communication system of interstate commerce, or any other facility of interstate or foreign commerce to engage in a course of conduct that causes, attempts to cause, or would be reasonably expected to cause substantial emotional distress to a person described in clause ...

Very interesting, but why would you omit the two most used languages, Java and JavaScript in favor of obscure ones such as Rust and Forth that nobody uses?

You are completely missing the point. Because those laws exist, the argument for "free speech" and against censorship is ignorant. We don't have free speech and never had and never will, no country on earth has, because it's ridiculous to the point of been childish. Speech is not free, it has limits, like everything else.

And about Alex Jones, the case proves beyond reasonable doubt that he should had been censored to prevent the damage and that is my point. His speech has real life serious consequences that hurt people even if he didn't do it personally and he didn't intended to happen.

According to the authors logic, we should stop censoring child grooming, fraud, false advertisement, defamation, doxxing, false testimony, etc. because "it doesn't work" and "erodes free speech". This is clearly nonsense. It works, and it should be done, the only question as with all laws is were the line should be.

We restrict freedom in general when it hurts other people (slavery, rape, killing, trespassing,etc) and we don't go around crying about slippery slopes and lack of freedom for it.

Clear examples of good censoring of free speech are the courts decision in the Alex Jones - Sandy Hook case and the Washington Post paying reparations to Nathan Phillips (the child mocking the native American). In both cases their "free speech" caused damage to people and the court decided that they weren't protect under the free speech laws.

According to the authors logic, we should stop censoring fraud, false advertisement, child grooming, defamation, doxxing, false testimony, etc. because "it doesn't work" and "erodes free speech". This is clearly nonsense. It works, and it should be done, the only question as with all laws is were the line should be.

We restrict freedom in general when it hurts other people (slavery, rape, killing, trespassing,etc) and we don't go around crying about slippery slopes and lack of freedom for it.

Clear examples of good censoring of free speech are the courts decision in the Alex Jones - Sandy Hook case and the Washington Post paying reparations to Nathan Phillips (the child mocking the native American). In both cases their "free speech" caused damage to people and the court decided that they didn't were protect under the free speech laws.