the best case scenario for means testing is always perverse incentives like this. Just give it away, man. K-16, ezpz. If you want to find efficiencies go after the sub provost to the assistant registrar for the vice dean; bureaucracies have ballooned inside of colleges compared to instructor salaries.
Just because there's a private Facebook group does not mean Facebook supports it.
I imagine there are hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of private groups. Should Facebook hire hundreds of thousands of employees to monitor every post and every comment posted in every single group? That simply isn't practical and the technology simply does not exist to do it via software.
A video appeared in my feed last week of a woman 'deep throating' a banana in an extremely sexual fashion, the video lasted more than a minute. I reported it and went to her page, there was also one of her doing the same with a cucumber. I reported it. The next day I got the notification that facebook had reviewed the posts, did not go against community standards, I could block her if I wanted blah blah.
I reported them again. Three days later, I got a notification that the cucumber post violated community standards and had been removed however the far more sexual cucumber video was yet again found to fall within community standards.. if they can't even reliably remove a video of a woman vigorously, intentionally sexually, fellating produce in her car with very sexual commentary in public posts with millions of views... how are they supposed to police every single post in every single private group?
There was an article posted on HN recently (no time to track it down) but the thing that struck me about it was; the content moderators they do have are powerless.
One moderator spoke of watching animal cruelty to a lizard, deciding it went against community standards, but being over-ruled by superiors who thought "leaving the video up would lead to crimial punishment." As days went on, more people shared the same video and more people kept reporting it. This one moderator wound up seeing the same video come across his screen many multiple times. It happened for days until enough people reported it and the post was removed.
The people currently doing this work aren't really valued. That's why they're contractors. They are simply fodder teaching a machine how to do this insanely damaging job for the future. That's why Facebook doesn't employ them. They're going to be damaged and replaced by technology soon. That's the roadmap. Nobody wants to pay for their rehab, or their counseling, or even their wages.
In 10 years it might be more reliable, but then we'll be complaining that the human element has been completely removed.
Buying the car and hot swapping the batteries (with an automated machine similar to going through a car wash, no less) was the vision of A Better Place, a short lived Israeli startup. That company failed, but I wouldn't say it's impossible by a long shot.
And here, for comparison, is the original Wired hype article I remember first reading which led me to wondering "hey what ever happened…" a few years ago.
I'm on a 56 key split right now but I used to use a 48, which had only F2 (of all the F keys) on any layer because it's used for jumping in Sublime Text or Atom or something. Layers vs dedicated keys becomes a matter of preference over chording vs hand movement; some people prefer one to the other.
QMK has been the most joyful open source thing I've ever used. Typing on my second split keyboard with weird chording right now. I've seen a spike in rotary encoder support lately (on the Planck and an upcoming new version of Keebio's Iris-the old version of which I'm using now) so keep an eye out for that if you're into fun extra input methods on your keyboard. I'm looking forward to having etch-a-sketch style arrows, personally.
For a sense of the scale of this problem, the retro reflectors that we left on the moon return 1 photon out of the 10^17 we shoot at them and that's not even that reliable. This thing would be a mind bendingly further distance away and would not have any retro reflectors on it (oh man it'd be WILD if it did though!!).
This is the experiment that put the idea in my head in the first place. And also the reason I prefaced the question with the fact that I KNOW it's going to need to be a ridiculously powerful laser. Making something detectable that's hitting something with an unknown albedo and angle of whatever the photons are impacting makes the requirements start to bump up against the laws of physics, much less what we are technically capable of.
> And some studies include the elderly which lowers measured progress because the elderly are an increasing share of the population and they are less likely to be working full-time if at all
Should probably just burn them for fuel, right?
> And many of the most pessimistic studies about the fate of the American middle class ignore the fall in marriage and the increase in divorce since the 1970s and the effects that demographic change has had on the way we measure changes in household income
The right wing culture warrior says that if people got and stayed married they'd be better off. The left wing materialist says that if people were better off they'd be getting married more and staying together longer. Which is more likely: every young person got brain worms at the same time that made them want to not do monogamy/family things, or the stratum of society that has always tried to capture as much of its productivity as possible has made gains in its project?
As to the rest of it: I don't particularly care if the same exact individuals have effected a greater capture of the economic output of this country, I do care that as a whole the top Xtile captures a larger slice. That does, in fact, matter materially to me even though I'm imminently comfortable. I'll leave it to the real stats nerds to punch holes in the math.
The nerve of humans deigning to follow their only drives: survive and replace themselves. Disgusting. A 1.2 billion year unbroken line of sexual reproduction should be enough for anyone.
