I one time read book that had 4 columns on every page. It was the hardest thing I read. It was a Amazon createspace for some out of print Modernist work (Tarr by Wyndham Lewis), get the Oxford Classics edition which you can now buy on Amazon.
There were a few studies on ada (avionics software) and productivity when the language first came out, and ada scored very well compared to the state of the art at that time.
People learned that using static typing and sub-typing moved a lot of defects from runtime to compile time. (that was sure my experience; getting it to compile took hours, but runtime errors were greatly diminished).
Looking back, the power of the "spec and body", IN and OUT parameters, and such where just so much more powerful than Fortran or Assembly or even JOVIAL.
C was too uncontrolled and wild.
my criticism on some of the potential solutions addressed in the article (number = number in the article):
1. stop the spread of fake new: This has already been happening, most of big offenders are gone (e.g Alex Jones) but what should be noted is that this can (and has) lead to backlash. The fake news ive seen always comes from tiny accounts that have unexpectedly viral content usually taken and reworded from banned sources (Alex Jones et al), I don't think cracking down on the most prolific offenders will necessarily be the fix. The actual report is way clearer and thorough on this then the article.
3. Lack of regulation for social media companies: I feel like if their is global regulation (which there should be) many countries will just ban it (e.g China, Turkey and Russia) and still lead to the same balkanization.
5. polarizing Algorithms: I don't think slowing online interactions will solve this. If someone wants to be racist they will be racist. I think this will just bring annoyance.
6. better social media business models: they say that they worry that "the best, fact-checked information is available only behind a paywall" but that is already the case!
I recommend people go to the actual report, the 25 solutions is on page 16
according to this article from the columbia journalism review:
“For 10 years I interviewed engineers and scientists about new technologies and renewable energies. And I kind of learned during that period that, well, it doesn’t really work,” De Decker tells CJR from his home in Barcelona. Around the same time, De Decker stopped flying, opting instead to travel by train, boat, or bike. Readers would sometimes remark that while the magazine preached an ethos of low-tech, it still relied on the most prominent of high tech inventions: the internet.
I make a plain text file of a certain topic (e.g chess, economics, politics) and progressively add my own thoughts on in it and useful info I get from others (books, videos, lectures).
A lot of early modern thinkers had this thing called a commonplace book. like John Locke, William Paley, Jonathan Edwards, Leopardi, Bacon, Emerson and Thoreau. I think it's a pretty good way to learn. I prefer having a digital version of it since it's much easier to access and I don't have to worry about losing it.
This year in Chicago there has been 457 (around 350 blacks) killed, how many have the police killed in Chicago? 4 this year. The crime rate is the biggest problem not the cops in minority areas.
I understand the fear of cops and I do believe in self policing but for the black community the biggest problem is rampant crime.
Yeah, but what's that? Like a 0.03% chance of a black person being murdered. (And that assumes that EVERY murder in Chicago was by a black and of a black person. Which is likely not true, but I wanted to look at the numbers in a fashion as friendly to your view as possible.)
That's not "rampant". In fact, it's not overstating the case when I say that today the primary lethal threats for blacks or hispanics in Chicago are, far and away, heart disease and renal failure. In fact, household slip and falls off more people than cops and black people COMBINED.
Put it this way, heart disease and renal failure are the primary lethal threats to minorities. (And they strike earlier in minorities to boot.) Now, how often have you ever heard a right winger or left winger demand more primary care centers and access to better foods in black neighborhoods? Compare that to, say, the number of times right wingers ask for more cops in black neighborhoods. Ask yourself, are they really trying to help blacks?
Here's the thing, the left wingers get political power by playing up the threat of police. They don't really like police, which is why you see them off police in mass shootings from time to time. And the right wingers get political power by playing up the threat of black homicide. They don't really like blacks, which is why they do things like stabbing young black military officers, or offing little old black ladies in church for instance. They just want those guys dead.
Point is, neither are very interested in data. In fact, even doing that math to find the chances of cops or blacks being a problem only enrages them. Which brings us back to why you shouldn't really buy into right wing or left wing claims of "this is a problem". There is an extremely good likelihood that the only problem they are trying to solve is how to get power, how to get money, or how to cause pain to your fellow Americans.
- Persons in poor households at or below the Federal Poverty Level (FPL) (39.8 per 1,000) had more than double the rate of violent victimization as persons in high-income households (16.9 per 1,000).
- Persons in poor households had a higher rate of violence involving a firearm (3.5 per 1,000) compared to persons above the FPL (0.8-2.5 per 1,000).
- The overall pattern of poor persons having the highest rates of violent victimization was consistent for both whites and blacks. However, the rate of violent victimization for Hispanics did not vary across poverty levels.
- Poor Hispanics (25.3 per 1,000) had lower rates of violence compared to poor whites (46.4 per 1,000) and poor blacks (43.4 per 1,000).
- Poor persons living in urban areas (43.9 per 1,000) had violent victimization rates similar to poor persons living in rural areas (38.8 per 1,000).
- Poor urban blacks (51.3 per 1,000) had rates of violence similar to poor urban whites (56.4 per 1,000).
According to the latest government data, as of 2017 21% of African Americans and 18% of Hispanics are living in poverty. Only about 10% of Asian Americans and 8.7% of whites are in poverty.[1]
To what would you attribute the racial disparity in poverty rates?
(Naturally I have an opinion, but I'm withholding it because I want to understand your approach to this.)
> To what would you attribute the racial disparity in poverty rates?
It's no secret that blacks and latinos in the US have been the victims of widespread institutional racism. I recommend 'The Case for Reparations' by Ta-Nehisi Coates for a thorough breakdown on the topic.[1]
