And my comment. In a private window I can see that he replied to my comment as well, despite the fact that I blocked him, so blocks are still not working properly apparently.
I'm not expecting perfection, but there hasn't even been visible commitment to a strong moderation policy. ernst has as far as I can tell remained mostly silent on the matter, occasionally deflecting to "tools aren't ready yet", but also not really committing to what he wants to be done with the tools.
10A is a particularly prolific problematic user, and as a single user (unlike the flood of porn spam) it's a simple matter to ban him. It should not have been a hard decision to make by now.
Personally, a bit over a month ago, I defined banning 10A (as well as one other individual) as the canary that would let me consider recommending other people come here. I was willing to give it some time, but it hasn't happened yet. Whether this is an explicit policy of weak moderation, or simply an accidental one thanks to putting it at too low a priority, I don't know. But I don't particularly want to be on a site that I don't feel comfortable recommending other people use. So I'm taking my own (lack of) recommendation for now and going to take a long break from this site.
Ugh, and 10A somehow also hasn't been banned yet (and a quick check to his profile shows that he isn't just still making bad-faith arguments about "free speech" but is also still spreading xenophobia, fake news about the last election, and so on).
I'm out. Anyone know of a kbin (not lemmy) instance with reasonably good moderation?
Republicans have traditionally been the party of "regulation doesn't work, elect me and I can prove it to you".
Maybe Musk is just taking the logical counter-part to this "regulation doesn't work, put me in charge of a heavily regulated company and I can prove it to you".
On what basis would it?
Surely the government is allowed to teach what courses are run in government run schools by government employees in general. I mean, someone has to, and who else would it be?
Or if you're referring to the religion aspect of the first amendment... this seems religiously neutral?
The constitution doesn't ban bad governance, just some particularly easy to enumerate forms of it.
The funny thing about religious fundamentalists is their beliefs frequently outright contradict the written word of their religion...
Trying to grant fetuses rights isn't "supporting pregnancies", the line to restricting what pregnant people can do, including abortions, is direct and obvious. The fact that the sponsors of the bills have previously passed bills attempting to restrict abortion is a fact.
Supporting pregnancies would be doing things like passing more healthcare funding, better parental leave, literally just giving money to people with kids. That's not what this bill was about.
Olive oil?
You wouldn't live long, but compared to the other options you're listing...
This is just completely untrue. Musk founded SpaceX from nothing, there was no prior entity he acquired or invested in.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_SpaceX
There are lots of legitimate reasons to dislike Musk, there's really no need to make up lies about him to justify having an extremely low opinion of him.
Wtf.
Also wtf that murder has a maximum of 3 years?
Just wanted to chime in that I had the same experience. I was rather unsatisfied with the fact that a user I blocked could apparently see (while logged in) and reply to my comment at all.
If blocking someone is just license for them to make terrible replies to my comments without giving me the chance to answer them... that's unsatisfying.
Did you know that Pepsi briefly owned 17 submarines, a cruiser, a frigate, and a destroyer?
Edit: On less of a technicality, the East India Company had something like 250k troops back in 1824.
I'm neither an expert nor an american, but the idea that RFK Jr running as a third party candidate will hurt the democrats seems strange to me.
His policies, which can be summed up as "deny reality", align very closely with the modern republican party, not the democrats. It's hard to imagine that he would pull more votes away from Biden than Trump. Are there some people who would vote based on name recognition? Maybe... but surely it can't be that many? Meanwhile "Trump but not a rapist" must appeal to a number of the evangelical republicans...
The word "potentially" is doing a lot of work there.
In many cases of piracy, the result of not pirating the work would not have been more income for the rights holder, it would have been the person just not acquiring a copy of the work at all.
Yeah, I don't know what Colorado's laws are on this in general, but even if it's technically legal it seems like a huge risk that someone is going to plausibly allege that given the specific facts denying them time off was race/religion/family status/... discrimination. It might be legal (don't know), but it's a stupid policy for a number of reasons.
It really isn't unreasonable to call 12 as the size of the dataset.
What you really want to discuss is how you calculate how unlikely this is. Here's how I would go about it
The following very useful assumptions are close enough to true that I'll assume them:
- The probability that each hire was male/female was equal (this wouldn't be true if, for instance, they started actively looking for woman once they realized they already had 10 men, but if you do nothing it's very close to true).
- The number of employees at launch was fixed (this is roughly true, they could have waited for a few more or launched a few earlier, but not by a whole lot).
Then there's one parameter, let's call it p
, the probability that any given hire was a woman. 22% (portion of newgrads who are female) or 16% (portion of tenure track faculty who are female) are both reasonably justified by the stats I posted above.
The probability that they are all not woman (men) is then (1-p)^12.
If you take the 22% you get 5%, if you take the 16% number you get 12%.
So there you have it, 5 to 12 percent chance of this happening coincidentally to an uncaring-but-not-malicious company who decided to completely ignore the PR effects launching with 12 men as the entire company would have. I think that's enough to criticize them for it.
Of course I initially posted with just my gut feeling, I knew the math would work out to something roughly like this, but couldn't have told you the exact values.
The entire paper is already sub-field (AI) in industry (software engineering) specific. No stats are perfect, but I think these ones are pretty damn good for something where peoples role are pretty poorly determined in the first place. Of course you're welcome to try and find better ones.
The "pure tech" companies I've worked at have been roughly equivalent or better than these stats, but at that point I'm sampling from software engineers in general (not having worked at an AI specific company), and my sample is unlikely to be unbiased anyways.
Isn't the fact that he's repulsive sort of the whole complaint?
Eh, the gender imbalance is bad, but not 0/12 bad... here are some stats
Apple's Vision Pro is incredibly cheap. Low in price, not expensive.
It's easy to get sticker shock because so are all modern computers, and it's ever so slightly less incredibly cheap, but it's still incredibly cheap.
The general rule of thumb for pricing is to start by asking "how much value does this provide to the purchaser" and try and price it just under that. The average professional uses a computer as their main tool of trade, it is absolutely necessary for their trade, and makes them $$$/year. Apart from competition driving prices down, that's how much computers would cost. The vision pro is an order of magnitude below that price. If you view it as targeted at the class of people that fly around the world constantly (and thus can't use a desktop) it might even be two orders of magnitude below that price.
The average American owns 4/5ths of a car (including kids and so on in that statistic). The average price of a new car in the US is just shy of $50,000. That's an order of magnitude more than the Vision Pro costs. Indeed just the difference between the sale price and the base models of a car is an order of magnitude more than the Vision Pro costs. To suggest that there isn't a population that can afford to buy (new) computers at Vision Pro prices is ridiculous.
While we're at it, for a good portion of the population computers are more important than cars, despite the fact that they spend an order of magnitude more on cars than computers.
All this is to say, the money is there, Apple is just trying to capture it. Given that there are no serious (capable) competitors at this point, there's no reason to believe that they'll fail because of pricing.
We should really amend the law to be "and if they incorrectly deny a claim they have to pay 10 times more". Enough to make it cost more than it's worth if they do it intentionally, not enough to bankrupt them...
Pet peeve of the day: Games with "puzzles" that can only be solved by trying a bunch of different plausible answers.
If you know the right answer (but not that it is the right answer), and the reasoning behind the right answer, but you still can't tell that it's the right answer without engaging the games mechanic to check if it's the right answer, it's not a puzzle. It's just a game a brute forcing answers.
I'm new to this whole #apple development thing.
Am I right in thinking that I need to upgrade to the MacOS 14.0 beta to use the new SwiftData apis?
How bad an idea is it to use that beta on my laptop?
Is it safe to assume that 90%+ of users quickly upgrade to new MacOS versions after they're released?
In May 2023 over 90,000 developers responded to our annual survey about how they learn and level up, which tools they're using, and which ones they want.
Rust is the most admired language, more than 80% of developers that use it want to use it again next year. Compare this to the least admired language: MATLAB. Less than 20% of developers who used this language want to use it again next year.
Are there any RTSes with no scrolling. Just display the entire map really small all at once?
It seems like it could be an interesting format on large screens these days.
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Nazi's and genocide deniers can fuck right off. For the love of all that isn't evil stop using lemmy and providing genocide deniers power.