mucker
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9 years ago
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on: Ted Chiang on Seeing His Stories Adapted and the Ever-Expanding Popularity of SF
I've only read Chiang's, "The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling" which was up for a Hugo a few years ago. I voted against it since it was bland. Are any of his other stories better?
mucker
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9 years ago
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on: Facebook admits it must do more to stop the spread of misinformation
Of course. Worse, they actually have two different strategic factors that play poorly together:
1.) Retain users
2.) Have a personal bias about what will offend users
These two items can magnify each other in a false direction as they attempt to retain users that they perceive they have.
mucker
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9 years ago
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on: Facebook admits it must do more to stop the spread of misinformation
Thanks for bringing that up. I had been unaware since I don't follow twitter much anymore. You are right that is amazingly vile.
mucker
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9 years ago
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on: Facebook admits it must do more to stop the spread of misinformation
Oh they are doing a terrible job. And one of the reasons I don't use a platform that thinks its ok to name groups things straight out of "Fahrenheit 451".
mucker
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9 years ago
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on: Facebook admits it must do more to stop the spread of misinformation
Or Facebook can take their thumbs off the scale on what is supposed to be friends sharing information. Do you realize how Orwellian it is for a big company to say friends Bobby and Sally have to be monitored in what they share? How does this not bother people?
I don't care if Bobby and Sally believe that we never made it to the moon and wear tin foil hats. It is _none of FB's damn business_. They are a _platform_ not the editors of all things true. They should not issue us all with truth detectors.
mucker
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9 years ago
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on: Facebook admits it must do more to stop the spread of misinformation
As someone points out Copernicus was not killed. And it illustrates the problem of FB putting its finger on the scales. Ever.
mucker
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9 years ago
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on: Gameroom
* No feature list
* No game list
* Confusing as to what this has to do with "rooms"
* Demands I download a web app!?!??!!?
Go home FB. You're drunk.
mucker
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9 years ago
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on: Jack Dorsey Is Losing Control of Twitter
Indeed it would. It seems that after every purge they've fallen a bit farther. It seems very odd, on a platform dedicated to short witted public screeds, that they would get offended by...short witted screeds. Oh well.
mucker
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9 years ago
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on: Jack Dorsey Is Losing Control of Twitter
Twitter where free speech isn't. There will be replacements and Twitter knows it.
mucker
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9 years ago
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on: A day at the California farm where the workers will get the pay they deserve
I'm actually appalled that so many people make comments just like you have and show an ignorance of basic economics and would also assume that everyone can _turn down_ work.
Were you never a teenager? In fact these laws have made it prohibitive to higher local teen agers. Eventually, the trouble of hiring will overcome the initial capital outlay for robots (which can now even do berry picking). You are going to chase people out of work.
Learn about the subjects you are discussing (farming and economics) before coming to wild conclusions.
mucker
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9 years ago
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on: Turkey Extends Purge to Universities, Asking All Deans to Go
What on Earth are you talking about. Let's presume you are right and Turkey wasn't being kept out for things like, oh as another pointed out, an occupation of Turkey and Cyprus, how does blocking them from joining the EU make them less moderate? Does the EU have magic dust that effects religious outcomes?
mucker
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9 years ago
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on: Police Arrest People for Criticizing Cops on Facebook and Twitter
Oh really? So you are saying that if I said a sexist joke at work I could not be legally held accountable?
mucker
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9 years ago
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on: The Artist Leaving the Googleplex
And trust me, the down votes tend to be pro-marxist. So that this is getting so much attention speaks volumes about just HOW bad he presented this tale.
mucker
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9 years ago
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on: The Artist Leaving the Googleplex
Excellent point. I've had to work in retail. You don't just get to go to the bathroom because someone has to man the front desk. This is a fact of the business. If you don't like it, feel free to go somewhere else. No one is stopping you.
mucker
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9 years ago
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on: The Artist Leaving the Googleplex
Or abusing the system to score income on the sale of his house. I nearly snorted at that point.
mucker
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9 years ago
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on: The Artist Leaving the Googleplex
No I agree with you. I got about half way through till I realized this is all about a self-entitled prick. He spent the front half of the article talking about himself, then justified it with the fact that Google may hire people to do work. OH MY GOSH CALL THE POLICE!
mucker
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9 years ago
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on: Where have all the iOS games gone?
The platform cratered with the dominance of pay to win games and the "freemium" model. This allowed the store to be cluttered with junk. I can't shop there, because I'm not sure what I am buying.
mucker
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9 years ago
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on: Bloody Plant Burger Smells, Tastes and Sizzles Like Meat
No one has a problem with releasing hemoglobin producing yeast? No one? That sounds terrifying in that many _other_ industries rely on wild yeast.
This goes beyond the general case for GMO (where wild growth is generally crippled) and involves actively modifying the wider environment. This is a serious problem.
mucker
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10 years ago
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on: Top Myths About Teaching Computer Science (2015)
Ah the Nordic Self-Selection Paradox showing up in AP studies. Not shocking. Notice too that the writer is not horrified that men don't want to join AP Art History or AP Psychology.
mucker
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10 years ago
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on: FBI Wants It to Be Impractical to Deploy Strong Encryption Without Key Escrow
And the police of Britain are so anaemic that they let _THOUSANDS_ of children be abused rather than risk confrontation.
You are not selling me.
