Are Americans no longer humans?
CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re American (2017)
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Re: CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re American (2017)
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Thanks, will check it out.
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Re: CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re American (2017)
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It’s the western time zone where Denver, Salt Lake City, Santa Fe, and El Paso are. The region is extremely mountainous and high elevation, and hence is often called the “mountain west,” as opposed to the Pacific Coast (which has a lower elevation and mostly smaller mountains by comparison).
Nobody should have to know this, frankly.
I agree nobody should have to know this, but on the other hand what harm does it do to learn it? In the US in elementary school I studied world capitals, major cities, history, etc. and came away with a pretty decent primer on things overseas, which I really value. Later in life I’ve come to know a fair bit about European football, about daily life in Taiwan, about the systems of government in Australia and New Zealand. The list goes on.
I’m not offended to learn about that stuff, I think it’s really interesting.
I agree that knowing the names of time zones shouldn’t be required, but I’ve only ever seen them displayed with their UTC offset beside them. When I get calendar invites for “AEST” I just look for that offset.
Just seems to me there are far worse things in the world to get worked up about /shrug.
Re: CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re American (2017)
#464Captchas have gone mad. The other day a major service gave me less than 10 seconds to solve a puzzle with a mouse in a maze and some cheese, and subsequently locked out of my account. Actually before I got locked out, I thought I would stand more chance with the alternative for the visually impaired. It jumped straight in to a fuzzy voice reading 20+ numbers at a rate of more than 1 per second. I was already behind o…
> The other day a major service gave me less than 10 seconds to solve a puzzle with a mouse in a maze and some cheese Guessing you might be referring to the ones Epic uses[1], which indeed look terrible. [1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/EpicGamesPC/comments/ihiidp/new_mou...
Good God, this is dystopic!
Re: CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re American (2017)
#465Google's CAPTCHA is a cancer of the internet. We're all training their AI without any renumeration. I genuinely hope that some government figures out how to sue them. I've sat down for minutes, repeating CAPTCHAs over and over again, just to log in to an account or download something.
It is not without remuneration. We use CAPTCHA to accessing a service. Imagine the "worst case scenario": you don't use Google services but a paid service has Google's CAPTCHA. It may seem like you are paying for training Google's AIs and you get nothing in return... but: - Bots cause trouble to the service - The service has to find some mitigation - Mitigations cost money, and that cost will be passed down to the cu…
> It is not without remuneration. We use CAPTCHA to accessing a service.
I don't have a sufficient capacity for sarcasm to faithfully reproduce the emotions I feel when reading this.
Re: CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re American (2017)
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They could just ask to decypher one of those parking signs as well: http://www.polisassist.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/confus...
I'm not American, and I agree there is a lot of information there, but it seems reasonably sane if you read through it. I don't see any obvious contradictions. You can't park 11-1 tuesday due to street cleaning. You can't stop there mon-fri 7:30-16:00 with the exception of 7:30-8 for school business (dropping the kids off). You can park mon-fri between 4 and 6, once per day, per district (to pick up your kids after s…
I assume the 4 means parking district four. They give people some limited room to hunt for street parking near their home by breaking the city into small districts.
Re: CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re American (2017)
#467Being an African born & bred in Nigeria, I particularly find this appalling. Captcha usually asks users to identify fire hydrants, crosswalks & other objects with design patterns that are not common here, in everyday living. There's a big question on whether these approaches work well for onboarding the next billion users to the internet, especially since the demographics are much different from existing internet use…
I'd love to try some non-American captchas ;)
Re: CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re American (2017)
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Indeed, you’re right. But isn’t this just restating my point? Americans don’t reliably distinguish between various left-of-center ideologies in their language, but that’s not uniquely American, because neither do Europeans.
I've heard lots of Trump supporters saying Biden is Communist; he seems just right of center to me. But it's about "othering", and USA have had a decades long programme making Communists into evil bogey men, so it's understandable from that perspective.
The fraction of people in the US who genuinely believe that Biden is a communist must be in the single digit percent. The fraction that understand he isn’t but use that as an exaggeration for rhetorical effect is higher, but still not the majority. However, jokes like “let’s ask ‘Americans’ to distinguish these” implies that conflating Biden-ism and communism is a mainstream consensus opinion, which is absolutely wrong.
I see a lot of stuff about Reichsbürger and similar movements in German media; should we conclude anything from that about “what Germans believe” ?
Re: CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re American (2017)
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I don't know much about the history of these tests. Can Hanlon's razor principle be applied here?
No. Look up to so called "literacy tests" used to disenfranchise voters. The people who designed those tests, and the "IQ" tests knew exactly what they were doing.
Similarly, https://arxiv.org/abs/1110.1556 - the "Jewish Problems" that were extra-hard maths questions used to find an excuse to prevent certain students from getting into university.
Re: CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re American (2017)
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"Pedestrian crossing" in NZ. Or just "crossing", if the context is clear.
When I was young in NZ, they were zebra crossings. But then I noticed that they started more and more to be a pair of lines across the road than the zebra patterns, and the name seemed to gradually fall out of use.
In Australia (or at least in NSW) only crossings at traffic lights are marked with a pair of lines across the road. The majority of crossings not at traffic lights are zebra crossings.