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> Was the mainstream media ever objective or impartial?

There's a difference between having a bias in your reporting and being an activist. Of course every viewpoint is biased. At the very least, there was always a heavy American bias in the mainstream media.

But today they're rabidly and without much self reflection trying to destroy any opposition to creating a society at large that strictly conforms to their vision for the world. And they're doing so without much integrity or a commitment to accept those with alternative ideas as having any legitimacy.
IIRC, the original DOOM netplay (and serial/modem) used deterministic lockstep. If you have a low enough latency and a solid guarantee against packet loss it works fine for FPS. Problem is, of course, that neither of those things are true outside of a LAN (and sometimes even within them).
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Not all cows are used for meat.
Bison, and pigeons are just two examples, but as you can imagine, all over planet there were billions of animals that are not either extinct or close to being extinct. How about european bison, aurochs, wild pigs, and many many more.
Cows are just one example of the bovine family.

I don't claim that farmed meat does not contribute anything, but it's not the only, or even main problem of the climate change.
Start a garden, and see for yourself how much resources it takes to grow enough plant food to feed your family,and compare that to a number calories you can get from one cow.
I don't think that is true - rather, objectivity is difficult. That is why it is important to have decentralized trustworthy news.
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Except for the core which was recently reverted to ES6 due to Typescript's slugguish compilation and inefficiencies.
I think we are at a tipping point - my dad had a single job all his life, for 30+ years. While the organization he worked for wasn't great, they also didn't actively sabotage their own employees (benefits etc) as far as I know.

At this point, people with skills have a choice - they can start a business, freelance etc which come with their own problems (healthcare in the US especially). Even if a small % of the current wage slaves try this, and even if some of them succeed, it might at least start a movement. Maybe it is already happening. I see a lot of people realize that most employers are the same and they don't care about anything other than short term profits and are branching out on their own.

Another option is to unionize, that is not easy either.

This world has a severe shortage of good leaders (I am struggling to name even half a dozen world leaders that are worth anyone's respect). If communities organize locally and help each other, we can tackle big problems with a lot more ease. This is happening with food though - there are communities that are trying to grow their own food where they were previously dependent on imports.
I enjoyed Fooled By Randomness. Taleb's other books are good too, but Fooled By Randomness was my favorite.
Dumb question: can someone explain to me the implications on startups and side projects? Does data mean, any data? If I’m reading that correctly it’s illegal to allow EU users to use any website with a DB that isn’t hosted in the EU. That can’t be correct, can it?
> to adequately protect Europeans' data from US surveillance and security laws and was therefore invalid

Certainly this is more about protection from corporations with the added benefit of preserving what’s left of tech in the EU.

Considering the US and most major EU countries share intelligence information with each other and all have surveillance programs I don’t know that it would be very effective at doing that no matter where the data is.
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It’s vice - these days they are basically only one step removed from a “celebrity is actually an alien” style tabloid.
Every enterprise project ever. If you don't set personal boundaries at the outset, that client is just going to ride you until you drop. Consider what people who don't make things actually do for a living. They "manage" dynamics, which means you have a black box with inputs and outputs, and your job is to constantly tweak and regulate the inputs to increase the outputs. The black box in this case is the author's project, which he is describing being tweaked and regulated to produce an output. The problem is the author demonstrated to the customer out of the gate that being dominated gives the desired output, and so the author received the behaviour he specifically rewarded.

A product manager or owner can handle a dominating customer by managing those boundaries. Not all PMs do, but this customer would have been manageable if either the author or his boss had a spine.

Consider that the extreme of agreeableness becomes oily, deceptive, and even mendacious when someone is pushed past their limit, which is why so many managers can seem untrustworthy. The cycle was that this "Alpha" customer kept pushing to see if the author had a bottom or backbone, and when he didn't find one, he became less and less trusting, pushing even more and then finally just taking control of a process he perceived as out of control for lack of anything solid.
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Completely true if you are meticulous. But it stands in contrast to activist journalism and would already lead to much better results, even if it isn't the same.
I wonder how we’re going to teach kids about goods sources. When the real news comes from blogs and tweets and the garbage comes from “news” agencies. I don’t think it’s really possible to filter out what’s real and what’s fake -perhaps it never was.
Lol. The only thing I want less than China spying on the cat videos I watch is Zuck spying on them, and reselling it to a 3rd party to hack my voting decisions....
This is false. The ban was more political than a safety issue.
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You label the NYT as biased not because of its bias, but because you disagree with its reporting (i.e. your own bias.) instead you will go to somewhere you agree - and you will be worse off for it.

Things can be biased towards the truth just as much as the untrue. The NYT does have some truly eye-roll content for me - but they also have some very good articles. Just like the WSJ has eye roll content.
Again, just pointing out in fairness that places like NPR and CSpan do the sort of thing your comment suggests. I think some people might listen to NPR in their car, some may even donate, but I'm not sure how many people would pay enough to fund the groundwork necessary for stories like the Wirecard series for instance.

In the end, that sort of journalism may need to rely on donations. We're simply no longer wired to pay for that sort of information and media. If everyone changed at once, we might be retrained to pay, but I doubt that would happen.
The title isn't very good, but neither is the story.
That is referred to as the "view from nowhere".

It is just a stylistic choice that, among other things, attempts to both sound authoritative and hide the speaker. More and more it just sounds pompous, dodgy and artificial to me.
I mean, as much as Matt Taibbi articles are fun to read, he never came across to me as objective nor trying to be objective. A lot of what he writes is all about showing his viewpoint and appealing to people with similar viewpoint.
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Of course it would, which is why I talked about a hypothetical material.

If it did not, though, what would relativity make it do?
What is the price of the Cube? It isn't yet listed as available on their site.
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> The institute tested almost 700 teachers and pupils of a school in Crépy-en-Valois in one of the hardest-hit areas in France, as well as their families. The “highly accurate” tests found that only 7.2 per cent of smokers from among the adults tested were infected while four times as many non-smokers, some 28 per cent, were infected.

> “Thus, current smoking status appears to be a protective factor against the infection by SARS-CoV-2.”
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> "seems to have completely abandoned any belief in science and civilized discussion and just spouts whatever appeals most to their base."

You could make the same case that "the other side" does same with all the recent attacks on academia, scientists, & celebrities regarding science around genetics, gender, etc
Compared to current amounts of cultivation, that sounds like a lot, but that is only the seaweed that humans consume.

Mass-scale seaweed production has been thrown around as a method for sequestering CO2.

Methane itself could be sequestered as well.

Either way, I'm fine with a beef tax to cover some of those costs, but lower-income groups might. I'm not keen on forcing an inferior diet on them.
It's unlikely that you've achieved a difficult clinical psychological diagnosis by reading a one-sided second-hand account.
Unless they work for apple. Those on the inside have been toying with it for a while now.
OOM issues often don't _really_ cause a crash unless you are running with real memory only. Usually long before you are out of total memory you are using so much virtual memory that the kernel is thrashing IO to try keep up with all the page faults. At this point the machine hasn't crashed, but from the outside it might as well have because it can't respond to anything new, even diagnostic intervention, in a timely fashion.

CPU overloading, without memory starvation, can have a similar effect, though that doesn't tend to fall off the same efficiency wall as when IO is the issue (unless something has literally kicked off a fork bomb) because of the orders of magnitude differences in latency and work throughput.
This might be off topic, but what basic functionality does Emacs have that VS code doesn't? I know there's SLIME and Org, but I don't think you meant that.
Contrary to what others are saying here, the author says the following:

> A rigorous course in linear algebra is an absolute necessity. In the early chapters, one may be able to avoid the need for a modern algebra course but not the maturity it requires.

This is a requirement that is rather unusual for a first book in topology, many of which have not a drop of linear algebra. The reason for this is presumably that the book dives immediately into homology which is often left for an algebraic topology course. It's an interesting choice.
This is also true from the other angle as well: SEO-driven content marketing companies are now becoming the "new media"
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Not the previous poster, and not a maths expert by any means, but for example there are parallels between the rank-nullity theorem in linear algebra, the orbit stabiliser theorem in group theory, the splitting lemma in homological algebra, and the Fredholm alternative in functional analysis. They can all be seen as manifestations in some form or another of the first isomorphism theorem in abstract algebra.
Not sure if anyone here has heared about the case Claas Relotius before. Relotius was a German journalist mainly working for "Der Spiegel" and well known for his remarkable, well-written articles. He wrote primarily about civil war, refugee children, racism, often with a pillorying undertone about the heartbreaking cruel world we live in. His view of the world (which he incorporated subliminally into his articles) was well received in his circles; he was awarded over 19 prizes.

Long story short: In 2018 was revealed that most of his articles were fake or embellished. He got away with it for so long because everyone _wanted_ the world to be the way he portrayed it, almost nobody looked closer.

I think this is symptomatic of modern journalism: Many journalists are only interested in getting recognition in their circles, so they do whatever is necessary to get it, even if it means bending facts. This is also problematic because it casts a bad light on reputable journalists who reflect the events of the "boring" world correctly and not through lies or Hollywood stories.
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That’s a great point. Social services are about more than cash.

We give mothers baby formula because we want babies to have adequate nutrition. If you hand out cash, some percentage of people will buy beer instead.
I find that if such opinions are communicated civilly, they are much, much less likely to be downvoted. It's not like no one here will knee jerk downvote, but most often I see aggressive posts downvoted much more consistently than "merely" controversial ones
The people with the best opinions have the most ad-blockers. So why write stuff they would click?
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I've worked in call center automation for a while. Clients (big old company) would complain that people would use the phone line instead of the website. The thing is, the authentication on the website was atrocious while you would be very easily trusted on a phone call. It was in part due to regulations. Because we were building an automated system to handle the calls, it had to use the same user unfriendly authentication as the website. So I'm really not sure that this went anywhere. "Now please type your client number, it's written on a letter we sent you 3 years ago"
i was a soft core smoker , smoked about 5-6 cigs a day.. But all changed 5 years back. All of a sudden i realized that smoking is not fun anymore, not sure what has gotten into me , but I luckily stopped smoking that day and my lungs (as per various researches) should be okish now..

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I agree to that,but masks are still useful even for preventing, and my main reasoning was that wearing a mask is a proxy for how serious the person is for all the rest -- social distaning, avoiding crowds, avoiding interaction with people who don't wear mask themselves and so on.

But as someone else commented -- retrospective studies probably are not that useful.
> But on some of the issues (wearing a mask, climate change) the GOP is so off the mark how can the NYT not come across biased?

Unbiased should not mean "always making it look like both parties are right". That is bias on itself. If I lie about you, really lie, objective non-biased thing is not to say "watwut and cyberlurker disagreed, the truth is in the middle".
I did read the article (I’m not sure what you mean by “it is terribly biased”). I don’t think anyone here is questioning the logical chain of events that led to this girl’s incarceration (I.e. arrest -> probation -> violation -> incarceration). Presumably, anyone participating in this forum is able to read.

The reason this is newsworthy is that the punishment seems completely out of proportion with the “crime.” That remains true whether you consider the crime to be not doing schoolwork (her teacher said, by the way, that her performance was similar to most of her other students) or fighting with her mother (pulling her hair and biting her finger) and stealing a fellow student’s cell phone.

What’s worse, although she was supposedly incarcerated for not doing her schoolwork, her caseworker filed a probation violation after she went back to sleep after checking in for the day - not even bothering to check whether she was keeping up with her academic requirements. Her caseworker also admitted that they knew nothing about the her educational disability or the accommodations she received because of it. Further, in response to Covid—19, the court that decided to lock her up was supposed to be hearing only “essential emergency matters,” and the governor of her state had encouraged courts to send children home. Despite this, her case (based on a misunderstanding) was apparently deemed an “essential emergency matter” and her presence in the outside world considered risky enough to defy the governor’s recommendation.

To me, this seems like an incredibly callous miscarriage of justice facilitated by ignorance, incompetence, and negligence at multiple levels. The fact that some authority has the power to exercise their authority in a certain way has no bearing on whether that exercise of power is morally justified, else we’d consider the actions of history’s most oppressive regimes just.
That's an amusing story. I suppose the Soylent board met a good salesperson, and the pitch worked. So when the team landed the contract, they had to justify their costs some way... I suspect almost every software project in existence is in some way a victim (or beneficiary...) of fanatical marketing.

I remember working on an simple CMS site, amongst other things, for a pretty large company. When we begun the project, we were tasked with re-purposing an overworked Plesk instance to host the site. We eventually managed to do it, but then found the small amount of disk space that was left to us was getting chewed up by logs.

So I reported this to my project manager, suggesting that we procure more HD space. I think I said something about us 'running out of memory on our hard drive'. The PM promised to feed this back to the client... A week later, our PM said that he and the client had resolved the issue. The client will pay for a new server with a stonking 96GB of RAM!!!

That ought fix our 'memory' issue, right!!?

I mean, it also came with a 1TB HD, a second box for redundancy, dev time for migration, and additional dev time for a switch to Journald, or Logrotate, so I wasn't rushing to point out the misunderstanding... Working with the second box over RedHat Pacemaker was all new to us though, and a complete PITA.

But it was also another 'feature' to sell back to the client. They loved the sound of that. A site that couldn't go down... We made it work, but there was absolutely no real technical need for a Pacemaker cluster and 96GB*2 of RAM. It was just a simple CMS backed site.

Occasionally, that's where such complexity comes from. Not the developers themselves, but some loose cannon of a saleperson. That said, these 'sales people' may even be developers themselves. I often think that's a large part of how and why questionably complicated software exists...
I see that donation model turning out pretty swell for The Guardian. There might be more, no idea...
changing people's eating habits in the west is super easy: tax undesirable products. price rises, demand drops. this also notably applies to everything else, e.g. gas/diesel, sugar, plastic.
> Was the mainstream media ever objective or impartial?

100%? No. But it was much more objective and impartial. Journalism ethics were more important than pandering to specific target audiences. Now it's become a popularity contest and truth is very unpopular.
I'm very experienced with the opposing views .. and I find it increasingly difficult to assume that they're both held in good faith and also willing to take my views as held in good faith.

There's a "iterated prisoner's dilemma" thing going on, where the side that plays "defect" all the time has got the upper hand.
This doesn't make any sense to me. So I'm German, I go to Thailand. I buy a Jet Ski to be used solely in Thailand? Is that Jet Ski under EU law now? Why is it different if I virtually go to Thailand?

or don't like the purchase aspect? Okay I go to Thailand and rent a car. To rent the car I need to give them my personal info. A copy of my passport, a copy of my international drivers license. If we follow the same logic that Thai car rental company somehow has to treat the PII under EU laws.

The EU has no jurisdiction is Thailand and the Thailand car rental company should not have to do things differently just because the person renting is from a different country. That they happen to be online, like say I reserved the car while in Germany before my travel, seems like it would have zero barring on this.

Can a restaurant in SE Asia take a reservation from an EU citizen? They need to store PII to do it. How does the EU send their enforcers over to that mom and pop restaurant to make sure their reservation system is protecting that EU citizen's PII?

I'm not trying to argue it's okay to use PII. I'm instead trying to understand how these laws actually work because they seem basically impossible to enforce or even implement.

I see the link above tries to cover this. Unfortunately it covers it in nonsense and doublespeak.

> Suppose you run a golf course in Manitoba focused exclusively on your local area, but sometimes people in France stumble across your site. Would you find yourself in the crosshairs of European regulators? It’s not likely. But technically you could be held accountable for tracking these data.
Last year, I went to both Amazon, FB on-site interview at Seattle and Vancouver office, and completely bombed it (not quite, I solved 50% of the programming questions). I felt like a fraud when try to answer the LP questions. Anyway, is there any companies other than FAANG that can support relocation (to US or Canada)
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I especially learned to despise the medical profession for all their lies during the pandemic, but I also had confirmation that all politicians were cowards and corrupt. I also learned how to camouflage a stock market crash into a giant social engineering experiment of concealment.
My belief is that not everyone has the same opportunities for a variety of reasons and even if something might work for me it might very well be impossible for others.

I also believe that it is our duty as society to make sure everyone can have a decent life even when not granted the same privileges others get for free.

Assuming everyone can put in the hard work and make it, you imply that everyone has or can learn "quickly" a markeatable skill, including the business acumen, the available free time and the mental/physical health required to succeed.

But the real issue is that even if everyone was able to try to get rich starting on an equally levelled field, our economic system can't allow everyone to succeed. We need poorer people to do employed jobs in order for their value produced in "excess" to be sent to shareholders and CEOs.

It just seems madness to me to have this global competition where the poor race against each other in order to be allowed to become one of the rich. We can do way better than this.
First thing I'll say is that I'm not an advocate for how industry often interviews today, whiteboard and puzzle problems and all, and their efficacy is worthy of discussion. It's a hard, hard problem and there are major deficiencies. But this academic "study" seems highly suspect.

48 subjects and we can make a generalization? People's stress reactions seem intimately tied to enormous number of contextual factors. Looking at the abstract it seems the "goal" of this study is "to make problem-solving assessment more equitable and inclusive". A noble and worthy goal but this does not sound like academics or science. It sounds like its conclusion was sought for.
As a vegetarian I am still expected to subsidize, even receive meat on the dish, with a smile. Yet, just eating my food, this is an affront to most people around me. We fought for 20 years, but people still just don't give a fuck!
"If they want to re-capture their audience they need to put their journalists to work creating more audio content that people can consume in their "found time" along with their other podcasts."

At least the NYT has a daily podcast, an updating podcast on the impeachment (when the impeachment happened), a podcast series on engagement algorithms in radicalizing people, I think several more. The Atlantic, The Daily Beast, NPR (So many NPR podcasts), etc. also have podcasts.

I think podcasts are well covered and this argument is coming from a place of ignorance.