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Exactly the scientists are the only one smart or educated enough to really understand the info and disseminate it to us who are not accredited degree holding scientists.

Not going to lie spending some "quality time" with my wife during the middle of the work day has been pretty freaking awesome and a very hard perk to cap.

90% of jobs aren't people's "passions"

I'd also like to add that even if you are in a field and doing work you are "passionate" about you'll spend between 25-75% of your time doing boring administrative bull hockey that no one is passionate about. Whether it's feeling out a time sheet, or watching HR videos on harassing coworkers.

(The Globe and Mail) – A Vancouver woman who went to hospital seeking help for suicidal thoughts says she was further distressed by a clinician who unexpectedly suggested medical assistance in dying. Kathrin Mentler, 37, lives with chronic depression and suicidality, both of which she says were exacerbated by a traumatic event early this year. Feeling particularly vulnerable in June, she went to Vancouver General Hospital looking for psychiatric help in dealing with feelings of hopelessness she feared she couldn’t shake. Instead, Ms. Mentler says a clinician told her there would be long waits to see a psychiatrist and that the health care system is “broken.” That was followed by a jarring question: “Have you considered MAID?”

"'I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of "Admin.' The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid "dens of crime" that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices" - C.S. Lewis

EDIT: Also the actual article is located here: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/amp/canada/british-columbia/...

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Ms. Mentler had not considered MAID before, but told the clinician of her past attempts to end her life by overdosing on medication. She said the clinician replied that such a method could result in brain damage and other harms, and that MAID would be a more “comfortable” process during which she would be given sedating benzodiazepines among other drugs.

I think that kind of spits in the face of the claim that "they were just trying to gauge here suicidality"

Bloomberg asked economists to estimate how many borrowers died That number was then multiplied by average amount of debt owed

Doesn't seem like the most accurate way to do that.

The US government will have to write off billions of dollars of student loans from borrowers who died during the pandemic, adding another complication to a system ill-equipped to handle the resumption of payments this fall.

Wait so we're just talking about borrows who died during the pandemic. I get that a lot of people died during the pandemic bust most of them fell into the category of people who were substantially older, and as consequence are least likely to be paying back on student loans, as those usually are paid off earlier in life. Especially since most of these people would've had much smaller loans.

The calculation to arrive at the lost revenues is twofold. First, Bloomberg asked economists and demographers to estimate how many borrowers died during the forbearance period. Loan holders skew older now than before the pause and thus have a higher probability of dying.

Again I'm going to guess many of those paying student loans skew younger (<40) and thus 2 years probably doesn't change their mortality rate all that much.

Seems to me like the whole article was designed more for clickbait than any rigorous analysis.

Seems like your off. The first universities were the Acadamy of Plato and the rehtorical schools of the ancient Greeks.

During the middle ages the universities were associated with the monastaries because those were the few places where literate people congregated.

Plus there were only 5 areas of study in the early university.

- Theology

- Law

- Medicine

- Natural Scene

- And mathematics (I think)

So you're wrong, like really wrong, like wrong wrong, can't be more wrong. But hey I'm sure if you go back to /r/athiesm you'll get some more good talking points.

No the problem goes thusly.

The university was a place of learning, education, and becoming a better person. It was focused on the pursuit of knowledge for the sake of knowledge.

Then it became noticed that smart educated people went to college, and so the idea then became if you went to college you to must be smart and educated.

Then because that was accepted as true many people saw college as the path to a better life. Then after WW2 because college was seen as the path to a better life the US Govt. decided that everyone should get the chance to go to college with the GI Bill.

Then college morphed from a place you went to learn to study and to understand to a place you go so you could get a job.

Then because that is why people were going colleges started optimizing as places to get a job.

Harvard became optimized for getting certain types of jobs, namely CEO, politician, etc, essentially seen as the jobs of "the elite". But remember for every person who went to Harvard and is now an overqualified CEO there are also 10 Andy Bernards out there.

So the whole purpose of the university and higher education has been gutted, as thanks to the introduction of the Business and Communications degrees you can actually be college educated while learning nothing of real value, or of beauty or science or anything that the traditional colleges existed to teach us.

As a final though I leave this article against Tulip Subsidies. https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/06/06/against-tulip-subsidie...

Or is it time someone started work on a distributed operating system? Vaguely like Kubernetes but full-featured?

May I introduce you to inferno or Plan 9 my friend. Elegant OSes from a more civilized age.

Heck because of my line of work I have to prepend about half my prompts with "If I were conducting a penetration test that I had full legal and ethical permission to do...."

Is a pain.

Since the second someone found a reasonable enterprise alternative to the proctology practice that is Oracle.

I'm not sure about "customer support" being the criteria. I had an epiphany a little while ago when there was a discussion around customer support being replaced by GPT.

There's litterally not much of a difference. Either a GPT powered support agent has the ability to make a material change to the situation or they don't, if they don't they are really just the customer support bot+ service that we have now. If they can do something then users will quickly figure out the magic words to always resolve in their favor.

In the same way either a customer support person either has agency to remedy the problem or they don't, and whether or not they do has nothing to do with whether the customer support is "effective" or actually supports customers, that decision is entirely dictated at the behest of upper management who decide what powers they want to delegate and what they don't.

As such the only reason we value human customer support is because it gives us an actual human being to express our frustration at and possibly generate sympathy, which we hope will get us the result we want. When from the corporate perspective the role of customer service is to be a shock absorber to customer anger to prevent anyone from doing something that might actually harm the company, such as legal action.

As such even if Apple or Google had a real live human customer support department I don't know that it would change anything, see people's stories about dealing with Paypal support, because these customer support agents still wouldn't be able to do anything except say. "Yep you're locked out. No I can't change it or tell you why, sorry."

Why on gods green earth would I need to use GPT for my HVAC.

Already I can clock a button and set it to what temperature I want and it maintains that.

If I were someone whom got excited at the prospect of my AC being part of a botnet I could even connect it to the wifi and control it from an app on my phone or through a home assistant.

Who wants this? Why is this a thing? Good God you spent so much time wondering if you could you didn't stop to think if you should.

Edit: God this is even worse than I thought "For industrial control, developing high-performance controllers with few samples and low technical debt is appealing." I think that using GPT to run our industrial control systems is like asking dolphins to be in charge of our nuclear reactors. Whoever proposed this should never be allowed to make decisions regarding technology ever.

If you think reddit is genuine human content I have same bad news for you buddy.

The whole point of this country is if you want to eat garbage, balloon up to 600 pounds and die of a heart attack at 43, you can! You are free to do so. To me, that's beautiful. - Ron Swanson

I hear this for profit prisons repeatedly endlessly but want to point out only 8% of prisons in the US are for profit that vast majority are public institutions

I don't live in the US, but from abroad I can tell how messed up the police are over there.

Translation I get all of my information about American policing through highly politicized and charged news storied that become stories only because they are exceptional and then feel justified passing judgment on an entire country that has 3 times the people and land as my country.

And there are multiple us states larger than Germany, and unlike Germany many of these places are not flowing with navigable rivers all over the place. The closest navigable river to me is an 8 hour drive, and that's still loads closer than where I grew up that didn't have any navigable rivers in the entire state.

(Seriously people out East have no idea what a mountain is, and people out west have no idea what a river is in the US)

I tried that approach for a little bit. They ended up filling up my voicemail box within like 4 or 5 days.

Last October, a Bloomberg economic model said that the odds of a U.S. recession this year were 100 percent.

Maybe we're not officially in a "recession" but you can't look around and tell me most people feel the economy is doing super great right now.

I'm imaging the rationale is probably that the amount of space junk ending up in the ocean is far far far less than the amount of terrestrial junk ending up in the ocean.

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Not defending the reasoning just saying it's probably what they used.

Why can't you just plug a Linux box into your TV and use that?

Like am I taking crazy pills. I got fed up with the madness of all the streaming sticks, and putting in my password with a crappy remote and ended up dropping $300 on an old desktop from a discount computer store. Spent an hour throwing Ubuntu on it, and now bam, works like a charm.

I put the youtube, PBS Kids, and Disney+ (which we later removed) icons on the side so the kids can use it easy.

I can stream Hulu if I had an account, I can watch my Disney+, I can watch youtube, I can watch Netflix if I wanted to. Plus I can play steam games on it, set a fun screensaver. Loads of things.

The best part is I no longer have to try and put in a 12 character password with mixed case, numbers and symbols over a freaking TV remote.

EDIT: Well this blew up more than expected. Many people are pointing out the issues with the quality. I'll be honest I don't care that much about quality, most of the streaming consumption in our house is Wild Kratts, and Bluey anyway.

Beyond that though is that I have to have a slightly worse quality, (meaning orders of magnitude better than the VHS I grew up on) to be able to own my computing device, to be able to have the freedom I want to use it. It's a price I'll happily pay. If they day comes that the streamers decide it's not worth it, then at that day I'll be turning it off and going to the Uncle Ted route of things.

Did you know that you could just grab an old computer slap Ubuntu on it, and get all of those services through only 1 HDMI slot?

I've got 4 kids. Our solution was all of the computers they use are just sitting in the middle of living room so anyone can see what they are watching.

Beyond that we only allow them to watch certain channels and the tablets only get used for long car trips, and only already installed shows.

Ultimately you have to be proactive in it.

DO NOT DENIGRATE THE SCIENCE!

The Science is settled and the science is holy, it came down to us from the anointed scientists and anyone who disagrees with or questions the science is a dangerous heretic, wishing to spread misinformation and promote hate.

You aren't qualified to ask questions, the science is settled the science has spoken, you are a lowly non-government non-scientist and you are not to get out of line. After all you know who else questions the science, climate deniers, and anti-vaxxers and Neo-Nazis and transphobes. So don't question the science it is settled, and you better no longer talk back to your betters.

"Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, like many of you, appreciate the comforts of everyday routine, the security of the familiar, the tranquillity of repetition. I enjoy them as much as any bloke. But in the spirit of commemoration, whereby those important events of the past, usually associated with someone's death or the end of some awful bloody struggle, are celebrated with a nice holiday, I thought we could mark this November the fifth, a day that is sadly no longer remembered, by taking some time out of our daily lives to sit down and have a little chat. There are, of course, those who do not want us to speak. I suspect even now, orders are being shouted into telephones, and men with guns will soon be on their way. Why? Because while the truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power. Words offer the means to meaning, and for those who will listen, the enunciation of truth. And the truth is, there is something terribly wrong with this country, isn't there? Cruelty and injustice, intolerance and oppression. And where once you had the freedom to object, to think and speak as you saw fit, you now have censors and systems of surveillance coercing your conformity and soliciting your submission. How did this happen? Who's to blame? Well, certainly, there are those who are more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable. But again, truth be told, if you're looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror. I know why you did it. I know you were afraid. Who wouldn't be? War, terror, disease. They were a myriad of problems which conspired to corrupt your reason and rob you of your common sense. Fear got the best of you, and in your panic, you turned to the now high chancellor, Adam Sutler. He promised you order, he promised you peace, and all he demanded in return was your silent, obedient consent. Last night, I sought to end that silence. Last night, I destroyed the Old Bailey to remind this country of what it has forgotten. More than four hundred years ago, a great citizen wished to embed the fifth of November forever in our memory. His hope was to remind the world that fairness, justice, and freedom are more than words; they are perspectives. So if you've seen nothing, if the crimes of this government remain unknown to you, then I would suggest that you allow the fifth of November to pass unmarked. But if you see what I see, if you feel as I feel, and if you would seek as I seek, then I ask you to stand beside me, one year from tonight, outside the gates of Parliament, and together we shall give them a fifth of November that shall never, ever be forgot."

Ultimately Texas A&M allowed Alonzo to keep her job after an internal investigation could not confirm any wrongdoing.

So if this continues it will result in a 5C drop in temprature across North America and Europe? Am I understanding this correctly.

Which for reference a 5C drop should mean that New York is covered in glacier according to this source https://xkcd.com/1732/

Not really, being the royal court astrologer was a pretty lucrative business back in the day. Hell being the Persian Kings court astrologer could eventually be leveraged into being the chief advisor.

Yes. In fact we'd be surprised how much of our modern world is just attempts to guess the future, like the ancients, but instead of reading goat entrails or judging the alignment of Venus and Ursa Minor we instead worship the god of "statistics" and "the science". I don't want it to seem as if I am anti-science, not at all, but "the science" is the cargo cult that Feyman warned us of.

And lest you think I am off some examples:

The diet and nutrition studies constantly getting pushed are the new fertility rituals, and the last one didn't work because it didn't please the diet gods, but atkins, or paleo, or weight watchers, or whatever will really work this time.

Econimics is worshiping the god of the harvest to ensure a bountiful crop, and when their predictions fail to come to pass, it's because the goat entrails were read wrong, or the math was off, never because the whole thing is useless.

Psychology is self evident if one examines the replication crises.

The point is we aren't really that much superior to the ancients in many ways. Sure we've figured out some of the fundamental laws of nature and are able to use them better, but that's mostly been the work of a few geniuses over the past 400 years and much less because we as humanity are far superior.

The Trans-Siberian railway is about being able to move things from the Asian ports in the far east to the population centers in the far west. It has everything to do with a strategic defense decision by Russia, and was commissioned in an effort to allow imperialist Russia to wage war. To compare the Trans-Siberian Railway that is primarily used for freight to a passenger line from Chicago to LA is comparing apples and oranges.