Facebook and Google. Does either organization "Respect consumers’ privacy and personal data So people are in control of their lives online"?
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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.3109/13651501.2013.81...
https://journals.lww.com/psychopharmacology/Citation/2017/02...
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphar.2017.0028...
Also, more articles relating to lavender oil preparation and treatment of anxiety:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17081684
The top comment expands on the situation:
"It's not just your cell carrier. Your cell phone chip manufacturer, GPS chip manufacturer, phone manufacturer and then pretty much anyone on the installed OS (android crapware) is getting a copy of your location data. Usually not in software but by contract, one gives gps data to all the others as part of the bill of materials.
This is then usually (but not always) "anonymized" by cutting it in to ~5 second chunks. It's easy to put it back together again. We can figure out everything about your day from when you wake up to where you go to when you sleep.
This data is sold to whoever wants it. Hedge funds or services who analyze it for hedge funds is the big one. It's normal to track hundreds of millions of people a day and trade stocks based on where they go. This isn't fantasy, it's what happens every day.
Almost every web/smartphone mapping company is doing it, so is almost everyone that tracks you for some service - "turn the lights on when I get home". The web mapping companies and those that provide SDKs for "free". It's a monetization model for apps which don't need location. That's why Apple is trying hard to restrict it without scaring off consumers."
It's a great show, and I agree with a lot of what you're saying.
> Jesse's girlfriend got him hooked on heroin. Jesse was on a downward spiral and would surely die thanks to her continued interference.
Jesse was on a downward spiral, yes, but the other two points are less clear. They might be true from Walt's perspective.
> Walter saw the toxicity of both the drugs and the relationship and did Jesse a cruel but necessary kindness by letting her asphyxiate. It wasn't ethical, it wasn't humane, but it served a greater purpose (even if it was so Walter wouldn't be without an assistant).
It's impossible to tell how much Walt's letting Jane die / killing Jane had to do with helping Jesse. I think it's clearer Walt killed Jane to keep control over Jesse and to protect himself. And that worked out pretty well, for a while. Jane didn't fear Walt, and she knew too much about him for Walt's comfort and safety. So he let her die / killed her.
> He did far worse deeds for less grounded reasons as the series went on; there are better examples to choose from to make a case of villainy.
This is true. For me, Jane's death caused a major nosedive in sympathy for Walt. Definitely previous things he did were villainous and later things even more so. But there was something about Jane's death. A big step down in his descent.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_Down
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Arrested Development. The first 3 seasons.
Master of None. Season 2 is funny. Season 1 is good but not that funny. It's more real and depressing. Season 2 is great, and funny.
Aside: It's funny the article says Tel Aviv submitted the requests, when the office is in Jerusalem http://www.justice.gov.il/ContactUs/Pages/default.aspx. Subtle.
Is there anything nefarious going on? Companies are hiring recruiters, female or otherwise, who can and want to work for them. People that can get leads into the door, male, female, gay, straight - the companies just want people who can do the work they want done for what they're willing to pay. Companies that care about diversity numbers are happy to hire women for jobs they can do, and many are fully able to do recruiting.
Tech / start ups as an industry and type of company is what more and more people are aspiring to join as a first or next career. Software is eating the world. People want to either have a stable, comfortable life or have a shot at making lots of money. Tech companies seem like a reasonable path for either goal.
Lastly, attractive salespeople were viewed as being more trustworthy, likeable and having better communication skills. All else being equal, an attractive recruiter might have an easier time getting people to trust them more and like them more, which are important qualities for recruiters.
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0956797610388048 https://research.wpcarey.asu.edu/beauty-and-the-sales-commis... https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228300049_If_Looks_...
So many of the studies (http://www.aitinstitute.org/ait_clinical_studies.htm) seem to have small sample sizes or other issues (e.g. some have no control group). I'd love to see a large, well designed study to convincingly show the scientific validity or lack thereof of AIT, at least for people on the Autism Spectrum.
Draw your own conclusions from the studies that exist and the reviews. Based on those, to me, it doesn't sound promising.
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"Tost’s research shows, may help individuals recognize the privileges they enjoy as part of a dominant group, as long as they also believe they’ve experienced disadvantages as members of other, subordinate groups (and thus can identify with people who feel disadvantaged in comparison with them). White women overall, for instance, are more likely than white men to view themselves as beneficiaries of racial privilege; they get it because they, too, have had to deal with discrimination."
White men can't be part of a group that experiences discrimination? What if they're old or young? Have a disability? Are part of the certain ethnic or religious groups, e.g. Jews? Are gay, bisexual or have some other sexual orientation? Who's discriminated against isn't a competition. But all people are judged and get treated how they do in part because of superficial factors (and the prejudices associated with them). At least sometimes.
As referenced by another comment, this article was enlightening: research which suggests that many stereotypes e.g. around race or gender are actually useful priors and improve human decision making when you don't have other, better information:
http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~jussim/unbearable%20accuracy%20o...
I would imagine Israel is the regional tech hub, even if there are few to no interactions with tech people in Gaza. Would it be more accurate to say the gulf is the regional tech hub for these programmers' day to day lives?
I suggest you reflect on this and what people say and mean when they talk about topics relating to privilege, power, gender, race, wealth, patriarchy, etc., and you'll get it, too.
In addition to money, how flexible are the McKinsey or Goldman jobs with having and raising children?
>facing genocide
Either Israel is attempting to annihilate the Palestinians, or they aren't. The Palestinians are still here. Israel has strong military means. They are capable, and they are competent. If they are trying, they are failing, and thus incompetent. I do not think they are incompetent. Many generals, commentators, and experts believe they are amongst the most capable nations and praise their abilities and precision. I think it's clear they aren't trying to annihilate any group of people other than people that launch rockets, attacks, or support those activities. It ain't genocide, so why call it that?
Sounds good. When are we putting Hamas and other militant groups going to the ICC (because their local justice systems are so unable to promote justice)?
>We need also to stop tolerating to be labelled as "anti-semitic behaviour" to bona fide criticizing Israel for breaking repeatedly a lot of international laws about human rights, each three years, and for treating palestinian people as human cockroaches.
Seems fair to hold Israel to any standard every other country is held to. Do it!
>In the last years USA and Europe were repeatedly urged to pay with trucks full of money the last "Gaza reconstruction". We paid for rebuilding exactly the same UN schools and hospitals that Israel bombed meticulously the last year, in some cases even with UN workers inside.
If Israel meticulously bombed the schools and hospitals, would any be standing? They have a lot of bombs and the ability to target fairly precisely for a military- isn't it weird so many hospitals and schools are undamaged? The Israeli military are either incompetent or didn't meticulously target these places.
>with the silliest excuses. What would an unsilly reason look like? Indiscriminate attacks on civilians doesn't seem to fulfill your requirements.
>There is also the problem that Israel controls the economy of Gaza, so there is not any guarantee that the money for palestinians will not be used instead in buying new bombs to replace that were dropped.
I didn't know Israel controls all money going in to Gaza. I know they collect tax money on behalf of the PLO and monitor, along with Egypt, all good coming in (excluding those that are smuggled in of course). It's worth looking into how Israel's gets military aid- a coupon from the US government. They aren't stealing other people's money and spending it. Even the tax money they're withholding from the PLO is sitting in accounts, not being spent.