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PleasureKevin
Jan 2, 2011


you'll get a free electric hummer once drafted

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Powerful Two-Hander
Mar 10, 2004

Mods please change my name to "Tooter Skeleton" TIA.


a friend who studied aero engineering then medicine said to me that medicine was "easier" in some ways because you just had to remember lots of stuff, not actually like derive where the leg bone is from first principals or whatever. he's now a surgeon though which I believe I would classify as "holy poo poo" levels of difficult and responsible whereas ofc computer touching has basically zero responsibility [derails thread with the Therac example again]

klafbang posted:

You mean there’s no OTA update for fixing Ebola?

glue your ports shut op

Plank Walker
Aug 11, 2005

PleasureKevin posted:

you'll get a free electric hummer once drafted

Xik
Mar 10, 2011

Dinosaur Gum
Porn site to pay $12.7m to women who didn't know videos would be posted (theguardian.com)
44 points by nwrk 1 hour ago | flag | hide | past | web | favorite | 15 comments


No particular comment to post, but just the fact that right now all comments expressing concern for the woman are grey (downvoted)...

Best Bi Geek Squid
Mar 25, 2016

Xik posted:

Porn site to pay $12.7m to women who didn't know videos would be posted (theguardian.com)
44 points by nwrk 1 hour ago | flag | hide | past | web | favorite | 15 comments


No particular comment to post, but just the fact that right now all comments expressing concern for the woman are grey (downvoted)...

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dsfyu404ed 12 minutes ago [-]

Everyone(TM) watches porn, it's not a big deal. That response probably only works if you're profile is all about some super niche stuff that would disgust most people.
Being in porn is one of those things that is way less of a problem if you have the self confidence to just own it.

"Their money is green and I'm not gonna have a 20yo body forever" would probably shut up most people who ask (which going to be pretty rare in the first place).

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let's play "guess the gender of that hn poster"

Storysmith
Dec 31, 2006

Best Bi Geek Squid posted:

let's play "guess the gender of that hn poster"

flicking a Twister-style spinner but the quadrants are uniform and blue and labeled “dudebro”

Jose Valasquez
Apr 8, 2005

wruza 11 hours ago [-]

We discuss porn industry and porn site’s implementation and ux details at work, both men and women. It’s 2020. Do you know I breathe air and eat food?
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mrmcd
Feb 22, 2003

Pictured: The only good cop (a fictional one).

Jose Valasquez posted:

wruza 11 hours ago [-]

We discuss porn industry and porn site’s implementation and ux details at work, both men and women. It’s 2020. Do you know I breathe air and eat food?
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Lol 100% this guy is the missing stair always bringing up porn at lunch.

mystes
May 31, 2006

Jose Valasquez posted:

wruza 11 hours ago [-]

We discuss porn industry and porn site’s implementation and ux details at work, both men and women. It’s 2020. Do you know I breathe air and eat food?
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wruza 11 hours ago [-]

Reading through comments I feel like being from completely another world. While an option is to simply stay silent, I struggle to understand how that plot ends up unquestioned by everyone except lawyers. Is it self-censoring in action? Because I feel self-censored.

(These comments are both on an article about how "GirlsDoPorn was sued by women who claimed they were coerced into making videos without knowing footage would be online.")

Breakfast All Day
Oct 21, 2004

people like to look at naked people

therefore

everyone is fine with looking at someone naked without their informed consent. no big deal. just own it

qed sjws. you just cant handle the disruptive logical powers of a software ~engineer~

Internet Janitor
May 17, 2008

"That isn't the appropriate trash receptacle."

Ask HN: Are books worth it? posted:

I have read less than 50 books in my life and probably less than 5 books in the past 10 years.
Growing up with the Internet, I always assumed that everything could be found for free online.

I spend most of my day reading online articles/conversations, watching videos, and listening to podcasts. I have thousands of non-fiction (mostly self-improvement) books in my reading list on GoodReads, but almost never bother to read any. I assume that the best part of the best books will surface in daily conversations, YouTube videos, CliffsNotes, podcasts, Reddit posts/comments, blog articles, etc. I even find myself reading the comments and not reading the article most of the time. I'm fine with bullet point style summaries and don't care much about the fluff that fills most books I've read in the past.

Up until recently, I didn't think I was missing out. I thought that online content was roughly equivalent to 80% of what I'd get from reading actual books for 20% of the effort. I also thought that most books probably don't age very well and that most of the bleeding edge stuff could only be found online. But I'm starting to wonder if that's true. I'm starting to see people online mention that books are infinitely better than online content. I read that millionaires and billionaires read tons of books. I wonder if I'm missing out?

One issue for me is that books are a very big time investment. I read very slowly and I don't remember everything I read either. The last few books I read were mostly filled with fluff, anecdotes, stories, jokes, and trivialities. Even if I wanted to read books, I just don't know which ones I should start with, out of the 1000 "must-read" books in my reading list.

Are books worth it? Is it more true for some fields than others? Is it more true for older books? Isn't most of the information from books freely available online? Am I missing out?

Chris Knight
Jun 5, 2002

me @ ur posts


Fun Shoe
haha jfc

tracecomplete
Feb 26, 2017

Best Bi Geek Squid posted:

let's play "guess the gender of that hn poster"

That dude is literally one of the worst posters there. Wanders in smarming about all of his considerable lack of experience in almost every topic you care to name and he's a chud to boot (and a chud who should be booted)

Captain Foo
May 11, 2004

we vibin'
we slidin'
we breathin'
we dyin'

Jose Valasquez
Apr 8, 2005

jimmyvalmer 8 hours ago [-]

The answer should be apparent from the signal-to-noise of OP. He merely needed to ask "Are books worth the time?" to get his point across, but instead couched it in 350 extra words. Books are similarly inefficient. Verbosity is an existential threat.
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Xik
Mar 10, 2011

Dinosaur Gum
a generation of technical resources that think if it can't be expressed in a tweet it's unnecessary verbosity.

mystes
May 31, 2006

Xik posted:

if it can't be a tweet it's unnecessary
Your post was too long to read so I shortened it.

Arcteryx Anarchist
Sep 15, 2007

Fun Shoe

Xik posted:

a generation of technical resources that think if it can't be expressed in a tweet it's unnecessary verbosity.

Our documentation is a series of YouTube videos

Achmed Jones
Oct 16, 2004



lancemantis posted:

Our documentation is a series of YouTube videos

also our short- and medium-format news articles, reviews, and recipes

Internet Janitor
May 17, 2008

"That isn't the appropriate trash receptacle."

mystes posted:

Your post was too long to read so I shortened it.

"more than tweet: bad."

Jose Valasquez posted:

jimmyvalmer 8 hours ago [-]
The answer should be apparent from the signal-to-noise of OP. He merely needed to ask "Are books worth the time?" to get his point across, but instead couched it in 350 extra words. Books are similarly inefficient. Verbosity is an existential threat.
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"op wordy. just ask if books good. books long. words bad."

Lambert
Apr 15, 2018

by Fluffdaddy
Fallen Rib

Achmed Jones posted:

also our short- and medium-format news articles, reviews, and recipes

If you're reading more than the headline, you're wasting your time with unnecessary verbosity.

Not a waste of time, though: Reading and writing comments on Hacker News.

fritz
Jul 26, 2003

Internet Janitor posted:

"more than tweet: bad."

"tweet not read not"

Chris Knight
Jun 5, 2002

me @ ur posts


Fun Shoe
tweet posted; never read

Xik
Mar 10, 2011

Dinosaur Gum
hn: gender/race doesn't matter, only your technical contributions

also hn:

quote:

User :Gijs (he/him)
User Statistics
Bugs filed 2475
Comments made 51581
Assigned to 2210
Commented on 19513
QA-Contact 1
Patches submitted 3821
Patches reviewed 3887
Bugs poked 24020

Bugs resolved as RESOLVED (6067), FIXED (1189), VERIFIED (303), INVALID (1208)


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deith 11 hours ago | parent | flag | favorite [flagged] | on: Firefox considering off-by-default preference for ...

Author's name states his pronouns, opinion discarded.

fritz
Jul 26, 2003

candiodari 3 hours ago [-]

The main limit on plant growth is exactly that: a shortage of CO2 in the atmosphere. Yes, shortage. Will this actually make a difference with the plants starved of CO2, as opposed to a CO2-enriched atmosphere in the lab ?
(obviously I mean from the perspective of a plant that wants to grow faster, what matters from a global perspective can and probably will be different)
e.g. https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2012/10/25/contrary...
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(note: the link is to a blogpost titled "Contrary To What You Hear, Global Warming Has Been Good To Africa" by the president of the "spark of freedom foundation" and was formerly federalist society associated)

fritz
Jul 26, 2003

lightedman 11 hours ago [-]

"This is mostly due to how old the city is, rusty and lead pipes in old homes are impossible for the city to track and fix."
It shouldn't be that hard to track at all with a little brainpower. When did we stop using lead and iron piping? Add another 10 years forward and start from that date back, and find every home matching the age/time range.
Everything else should be copper and/or plastic.
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fritz
Jul 26, 2003

the city is the one you're thinking of btw, no the other one : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21997412

4lokos basilisk
Jul 17, 2008


fritz posted:

candiodari 3 hours ago [-]

The main limit on plant growth is exactly that: a shortage of CO2 in the atmosphere. Yes, shortage. Will this actually make a difference with the plants starved of CO2, as opposed to a CO2-enriched atmosphere in the lab ?
(obviously I mean from the perspective of a plant that wants to grow faster, what matters from a global perspective can and probably will be different)
e.g. https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2012/10/25/contrary...
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(note: the link is to a blogpost titled "Contrary To What You Hear, Global Warming Has Been Good To Africa" by the president of the "spark of freedom foundation" and was formerly federalist society associated)

this reminds me of matt ridley's book "the rational optimist" which handwaves climate change away with "all these disaster projections are based on the assumption that current growth continues... so if climate turns to poo poo, the growth will not continue and therefore it's not a problem" :downs:

it makes sense sort of until you start thinking about what the words really mean, so ideal content for superficial reassurement that "it's ok because smart man in book says that it's ok"

matt ridley is a hereditary peer who owns stock in coal

Oneiros
Jan 12, 2007



aazaa 55 minutes ago [-]

> The most undeniable evidence for climate change would be if people are making a ton of money from accurately anticipating its results. I’d invest heavily in such a fund, if it existed.
Rather than shorting, another option might be to buy undeveloped land that should appreciate as climate change predictions come true. For example, the land in the Canadian territories might be an option if you believe thawing will occur. Or possibly further south in the northern US.

If your model says rain patterns will change, invest in desert real estate in those areas set to get the most rain.

kitten emergency
Jan 13, 2008

get meow this wack-ass crystal prison

Oneiros posted:

aazaa 55 minutes ago [-]

> The most undeniable evidence for climate change would be if people are making a ton of money from accurately anticipating its results. I’d invest heavily in such a fund, if it existed.
Rather than shorting, another option might be to buy undeveloped land that should appreciate as climate change predictions come true. For example, the land in the Canadian territories might be an option if you believe thawing will occur. Or possibly further south in the northern US.

If your model says rain patterns will change, invest in desert real estate in those areas set to get the most rain.

i mean people are almost certainly doing this but they're just not making a lot of noise about it. exxon mobil covers its fuckin bases.

MononcQc
May 29, 2007

the few farmers I know here are kind of looking forwards to the longer growing season we'd get here, though they're constantly surprised by the increase in pesticides and insecticides required as milder winters make pests and insects able to come up further north, and they more and more frequently get burned by longer droughts and more violent storms compared to what used to be milder frequent rains.

Storms have too much rainfall in a short period of time so that the water isn't properly absorbed by the soil and it tends to wash away part of the topsoil or its nutrients and droughts are always problematic when most farmers here never really needed any sort of irrigation and aren't ready for it.

Unpredictable weather around season starts and ends have also played badly with early freezes and the inability to properly dry grain and fertilize before the first snow covers, or getting an early start on germination in spring only for a few cold nights to kill major parts of the crop.

More frequent floods around spring is also forcing some farmers further south in the province to consider switching to more permanent crops that would help prevent soil erosion.

They really like (or liked?) that prospect of longer growing season, but afaict they're starting to realize it's not gonna be smooth sailing at all and that their choices of crops will grow more limited with new unpredictable and rougher events.

Cybernetic Vermin
Apr 18, 2005

in 2007 lehman brothers had an internal tome detailing the investments best suited for a global warming future. i don't remember that much of it, but one of the real biggies was pharmaceuticals focused on respiratory problems, claiming that this would be a huge early class of health problems related to global warming. somehow.

Jabor
Jul 16, 2010

#1 Loser at SpaceChem

Cybernetic Vermin posted:

in 2007 lehman brothers had an internal tome detailing the investments best suited for a global warming future. i don't remember that much of it, but one of the real biggies was pharmaceuticals focused on respiratory problems, claiming that this would be a huge early class of health problems related to global warming. somehow.

Seems like a good bet in Australia!

4lokos basilisk
Jul 17, 2008


MononcQc posted:

the few farmers I know here are kind of looking forwards to the longer growing season we'd get here, though they're constantly surprised by the increase in pesticides and insecticides required as milder winters make pests and insects able to come up further north, and they more and more frequently get burned by longer droughts and more violent storms compared to what used to be milder frequent rains.

Storms have too much rainfall in a short period of time so that the water isn't properly absorbed by the soil and it tends to wash away part of the topsoil or its nutrients and droughts are always problematic when most farmers here never really needed any sort of irrigation and aren't ready for it.

Unpredictable weather around season starts and ends have also played badly with early freezes and the inability to properly dry grain and fertilize before the first snow covers, or getting an early start on germination in spring only for a few cold nights to kill major parts of the crop.

More frequent floods around spring is also forcing some farmers further south in the province to consider switching to more permanent crops that would help prevent soil erosion.

They really like (or liked?) that prospect of longer growing season, but afaict they're starting to realize it's not gonna be smooth sailing at all and that their choices of crops will grow more limited with new unpredictable and rougher events.

this keeps sounding like the sheep look up by john brunner, which is not a good omen

MononcQc
May 29, 2007

as far as I can tell there are lots of efforts being made towards things such as regenerative agriculture, bio crops, etc. mostly it’s a transition period towards different agricultural methods and crops that might be more familiar with what people already do down south but weren’t necessarily a concern here.

I’m not necessarily worried about our ability to produce crops, it’s people down south (US and MX) who are already very dependent on irrigation from over stressed aquifers that may see the biggest hardships and shifts to crops that play better with lower water availability.

For me in somewhat mid northern Quebec, that probably mostly means a lower availability of veggies and fruits in winter over the next many decades, something my grandparents had to contend with, and a return to a diet more focused on grains/beans and livestock fed with grains and beans since they keep far longer during seasons where nothing grows.

i.e the bigger threat, as long as pollination remains possible, is likely the lack of adaptation in crop and culture methods that can accelerate dust bowl scenarios. But even dust bowl scenarios can be prevented if you grow the right crops that prevent soil erosion and other techniques (drip irrigation rather than more demanding forms, tree-based wind barriers, etc).

MononcQc
May 29, 2007

also North Americans are generally over fed and throw away a fuckton of food (like 30% of it) with vasts amount land dedicated to producing a beef diet so I’m willing to bet that wealth distribution and accessibility to distribution (not being in a food desert) is going to be more critical than availability of arable land for a long while and would probably be a good area of focus

Best Bi Geek Squid
Mar 25, 2016
Jeffrey Epstein and MIT: FAQs (mit.edu)

quote:

This is besides the point of the article, but the link is in HTTP (no TLS but available with a correct certificate), and the report site which has the information linked in the article is also in HTTP (but has a bad TLS certificate).


U.S. alcohol-related deaths have doubled, study says (npr.org)
85 points by pseudolus 9 hours ago | hide | past | web | favorite | 96 comments

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rjkennedy98 7 hours ago [-]

> With the increases in alcohol use among women, there's been increases in harms for women including ER visits, hospitalization and deaths
Do people not care if men die? I do not understand why these snippets are almost always put in press releases, even when the actual numbers show that men are astonishingly more likely to die from the disease. I've seen articles about how women's rates are rising faster, when the increase in men's death over the same period is greater than the absolutely total number of women affected! Its almost as if we have to mention that women are affected or people will just ignore the problem all together. So sad.

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ronnier 7 hours ago [-]

The state of men in the US is really deteriorating. Men are drugging, drinking, and smoking theirselves to death. And sometimes the death is very explicit, being by suicide which is climbing to rates higher than ever. Prisons are filled with men, universities are increasingly seeing fewer men than women. Men are increasingly sexless much longer than females. Seems we have a big problem on our hands.
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Shivetya 6 hours ago [-]

well to be honest, when the media which includes print, broadcast, news, and even movies, portray men in a bad light over and over and over it can have an effect.
many parts of the legal system and quasi legal system; think colleges; de facto treat men differently. this is especially true in cases of divorce, domestic violence, and campus issues.

this is not to say there are not many cases where the outcome is correct but there are too many instances where the deck is stacked against them before they even get to the table.

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Best Bi Geek Squid fucked around with this message at 02:54 on Jan 11, 2020

Jose Valasquez
Apr 8, 2005

you found the knower of women

rjkennedy98 18 hours ago | parent [-] | on: Women now make up the majority of the U.S. labor f...

What about marriage? If a man makes more money and he is married is HE talking more? Isn't that income split (or in reality spent by the women)? I have never understood why data on married men is treated as if the men are single and it's their money alone.
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rjkennedy98 3 days ago | parent [-] | on: Whatever happened to the noble art of the manly we...

Its not so much as zero-sum but essentially schizophrenic.
On one side we have a culture of extreme sexual liberation, with the media, hookup culture, and the porn industry, and on the other side we have the yes-means-yes, firings for touching a women's back (Garrison Keillor), special legal proceedings for sexual assault accusers, ect.
How is anyone supposed to navigate a culture as complex as this?
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eschaton
Mar 7, 2007

Don't you just hate when you wind up in a store with people who are in a socioeconomic class that is pretty obviously about two levels lower than your own?

Penisface posted:

this keeps sounding like the sheep look up by john brunner, which is not a good omen

exactly why everyone needs to read it

make it part of the curriculum

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4lokos basilisk
Jul 17, 2008


MononcQc posted:

as far as I can tell there are lots of efforts being made towards things such as regenerative agriculture, bio crops, etc. mostly it’s a transition period towards different agricultural methods and crops that might be more familiar with what people already do down south but weren’t necessarily a concern here.

I’m not necessarily worried about our ability to produce crops, it’s people down south (US and MX) who are already very dependent on irrigation from over stressed aquifers that may see the biggest hardships and shifts to crops that play better with lower water availability.

For me in somewhat mid northern Quebec, that probably mostly means a lower availability of veggies and fruits in winter over the next many decades, something my grandparents had to contend with, and a return to a diet more focused on grains/beans and livestock fed with grains and beans since they keep far longer during seasons where nothing grows.

i.e the bigger threat, as long as pollination remains possible, is likely the lack of adaptation in crop and culture methods that can accelerate dust bowl scenarios. But even dust bowl scenarios can be prevented if you grow the right crops that prevent soil erosion and other techniques (drip irrigation rather than more demanding forms, tree-based wind barriers, etc).

yeah if you put it this way it is easy to see that "efforts are being made" and "scenarios can be prevented", but what i am worried about is that increasingly the cycle seems to be:
1. we know problem exists
2. we know how to solve problem
3. we do jack poo poo to actually mitigate
4. problem becomes worse, goto 1

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