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Histrionics like the above amount to 'I didn't like that recent exhibit at the museum, so I decided to just burn the museum down.'
NSF faces shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions
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Re: NSF faces shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions
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You are either lying about hard-number racial/gender quotas or you were working for companies that were flagrantly breaking the law. Did you whistle blow? You see, it doesn't add up, because usually when a company breaks the law so blatantly, it does so in crafty, shady ways intended to make more money, not in an attempt to create diversity that does nothing for the bottom line while also threatening the very existen…
Ah yes, I'm going to whistle blow and ruin my career over something "illegal" that every university has been doing for the past 50 years. Im perplexed that you find this surprising at all. This stuff happened openly in all hands with pie charts of the existing gender and racial makeup, and the target makeup with struggle session-like questions of why our engineering department doesn't have 50% woman. None of this is…
You can anonymously whistle-blow. Why not do that?
Re: NSF faces shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions
#513Earlier quoted context omitted.
> And the way to get more votes is to be more extreme ? You're doing an awful lot of stuff along the lines of "so you're saying BAD is actually good?" in this thread (not just with me), and it's not really a good way to have a discussion. It's good for arguing over, essentially, nothing.
I am questioning your assertion that moving from the center is the way to win votes, and asking a question that highlights how ridiculous it is. That is a perfectly normal way to discuss something. Going meta is not.
You're sealioning while treating your own assertions as facts. It's an unedifying spectacle.
Re: NSF faces shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions
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This is such a weird take. If Dems win ostensibly the negative consequences of their actions are the Republicans’ fault, and then if Republicans win their actions must be owned by the Dems? Why the weird causal swap? The actions of this administration are primarily the responsibility of… this administration and those who supported it.
Not fielding good candidates for bad reasons and giving the election to @#$%ing Trump is on the Dems. Forcing grant applicants to include irrelevant DEI language in applications is on the Dems.
How much of the fault for the actions of republicans and trump rests on republicans and trump?
Re: NSF faces shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions
#515I worked at two National Laboratories, Argonne and Idaho, on NSF funded internship grants. The second one turned into a full time job, again on an NSF grant. The first one was on supercomputing, writing proof of concept code for a new supercomputing operating system (ZeptoOS). The second was on the automated stitching of imagery from UAVs for military applications (at a time when this was not commoditized at all, we…
It's the American experience that decisions are made at the executive level based on faulty intelligence, while people working at the coal face such as yourself have a much better understanding of what's really going on.
Case in point the Vietnam war, which cost thousands of lives because decisions were based on statistics from the field which had been heavily manipulated as they percolated upwards.
Right now, just as one tiny example, we see the effect of tariffs on prototyping services such as JLPCB, a chinese-based company which makes on demand printed circuit boards.
There is no way that it makes sense to dramatically increase the costs to US companies and citizens of creating PCBs which are critical components at the heart of many new products. All that will do is to drive innovation away from the gifted hacker working from his garage in Michigan, and towards countries other than the USA who can order PCBs at reasonable prices. I'll guarantee that no one understands this at the level where these decisions are made.
Re: NSF faces shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions
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They could have ended the diversity statements, but kept all the research. They decided to end all the research too.
Yeah that's what I would have done. Don't get me wrong, I am very anti MAGA! Which is kind of crazy... I'm here on the Internet ranting about DEI, and the MAGA movement is still toxic enough to completely alienate me. MAGA is probably worse than DEI.
MAGA is DEI for morons.
To be fair, they need jobs too! But giving them all the White House jobs does not seem fair or effective to me.
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where did i say i wasn't supervising? Are you saying the self-summon is the unsupervised part? Cause i can flip that logic on it's head and say, if they weren't confident that it can summon to me, why would they implement the feature?
The charge is that Tesla can't do self-driving successfully. If they could, you wouldn't need to supervise, as is the case with e.g. a Waymo taxi. That they require you to supervise is an admission that their system is not sufficient for self driving, i.e. they're not doing it successfully.
Waymo taxi's are always in geofenced areas with full HD maps down to the centimeter. I can't take it to tahoe like i can with my Tesla. my point is... my tesla drives itself... all the time and never have to disengage. People can shout technicalities all the time, and regulations where tesla fails because it "Doesn't have an operator that can take over" but for all intents and purposes, my car drives itself from my door to tahoe and back without me having to take over a single time.
If that's not full self driving, but waymo's geofenced, $45 for a ride down the street is, we just disagree.
Re: NSF faces shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions
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No. We did not elect the party majority in Congress or the Supreme Court. If anything, the weakness of our constitution has spoken. Take this as a lesson, and defend your democracy while you still can.
We elected the Prez and Senate majority who appointed 3 SC justices, "flipping" the Court hard right. So yeah, we own that too :/
After the head of the senate refused to let the president submit a new SC justice.
Re: NSF faces shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions
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They sent one to the municipality of Stockholm. The majority leader in Stockholm responded by suggesting they could just turn off the water and sewer system for the embassy :P
I thought HN User burnte was being hyperbolic in the assertions that post put forth. Then I read a few articles. sigh. I mean, I guess we'll try to find competent and sane leaders again in 4 years. I don't know? There's not much else we can do at this point if this is the level of irrationality you're dealing with. I'll add in way of explanation to non-US citizens that in the US, we've always had a fixation on certai…
> There's not much else we can do at this point if this is the level of irrationality you're dealing with.
You're giving up too easily. You can:
- fundraise
- boycott
- divest
- strike
- sue
- register voters
- drive people to polls
Re: NSF faces shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions
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If it crashes, it's my fault. At every point i'm supervising. Except in self summon, and if it side swipes the car on the way out, it's obviously still my fault. That's just never happened to me. Where in my sentence did i say I wasn't fully in control of the situation? I just say i very, very rarely even have to disengage in situations. On the very rare occassion that i do disengage, it's not really that the car is…
> For all intents and purposes, it's self driving. Except that you're responsible for its faults and errors, because you are the one driving. "Self driving" means I can be drunk, or I can put a kid in it, or an elderly person. That's what that word means: the car drives itself.
Why don't you add anywhere to that list? If the car drives itself, why is it geofenced into only places google has HD mapped down to the centimeter. My car can drive itself to Tahoe, can a waymo?