The fact that you can still see the comment gives me a little faith in slashdot, I personally don't care what the score is, however the media on both side now simply silences opinions they disagree with.

Of course they have that right since they are private institutions, but people have the right to stop listening and believing them, and that is exactly what has happened.

The thing about trust is that is very hard to get back once you have lost it, they sold their soles for profit, now they are paying the price.

Of course its easy math have a lot of high quality candidates, of course they going to be good enough but they may not be the best candidate. Especially if you have stated goals like https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fus.... No conspiracy theory needed.

But if you have these types of goals then even if they are the best candidate the perception is still there if they are a woman that part of the reason they are their is because they are a woman. I don't know if it is the case but it is a possibility.

The math: at a rate of 1 in 1000-1400 you only need 9000 to 12600 candidates not a impossible task in a country of 330 million.

Also that rate is probably based on the size of the class, relative to the number of candidates, I assume they only have a limited amount of resources to train astronauts. If only 1000 people applied they would probably take who they can get.

for me AI is replacing the search engines, they have made the search so bad full with ads and irrelevant answers that I don't know if AI is that much better or search is that much worse. Probably a bit of both, but I am confident that the enshittification of AI will occur. We are currently improving AI but it won't be long before its entire purpose will be to sell me stuff I don't need.

I highly doubt the cost of books is what is preventing any significant number people reading them in Denmark. I assume they have libraries, and if you really want I wouldn't be surprised if it was very easy to pirate a book.

It just sounds like the government doing something that looks like they are doing something, but is going to accomplish almost nothing at a cost to the tax payer.

You have no comparison here, or maybe you do how as the cost of private universities going in the US?

The way I see it is there are some places that capitalism works very well, to me these seem to be places where the power between consumers and producers is relatively equal. Capitalism needs competition to function properly, health care (especially with monopolies offered by patents) you get the choice of dying or paying exorbitant amounts. The moment you introduce monopolies/oligopolies companies become just as inefficient as government because the have no incentive to be more efficient. In fact its the opposite high cost just become a justification for charging people more. Health insurance just makes the situation worse because you now separate the actual payment with the premiums so people don't care how much it costs when paying and won't shop around. You have 2 groups that prefer higher costs, the medical industry because they make more money and insurance because without high costs why would you need health insurance in the first place.

Of course governments organizations are like monopolies from the start, they don't have any incentive to be more efficient either, since they can just say we need more money from the tax payer. But at least they don't have the underlying goal of making as much money as possible.

From the summary the current world wide fertility rate is 2.2 and falling, 2.1 is the rate required to maintain populations where literally on earth are you going to find more people if falls another 0.2?

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fourworldindata.org%2Ffer...

That need jobs done, you know in the real world, if you have no tradespeople then they become very expensive, housing becomes very expensive, rent becomes very expensive, roads become very expensive, etc.

If you don't have tradespeople then society falls apart, if there are no gender studies, historians etc, the world goes on.

Wasn't AI meant to make things cheaper because you didn't hire those pesky humans?

Can't they use AI to drive their prices down?

Or perhaps its just a big scam to shove an unwanted feature down our throat.

You are right problem is you need the knowledge first in order to check the AI my fear is that they make students lean using AI before they have learnt how to do it themselves. Kind of like you should teach people to add before you give them a calculator, but worse because that calculator can get it very wrong.

But the lowest denominator will win, management will use dumb metrics and go with the latest fad. Then pat themselves of the back for being up with the times. I have seen it this too many times to think it won't happen.

I don't have rights to my code, and nor should I, most code I have written is based on a lot of work done by other people, why would it be ethical to deny other people learn from my code?

I never understood this, why not? What if there where no options that you liked well enough to vote for? The people who voted for trump should have less right to complain shouldn't they? If there was an option to say, I don't like any of you and if that becomes the majority then you have remove those candidates and try again. Even if it doesn't do anything but takes politicians down a peg showing them that most people don't want then to rule the country them it might be a good thing.

While I have always voted, not once have I voted for a person I truly agree with on most issues, its just I kind of disagree less with them than the other party.

What about people with no smart phones? If I wanted visit (which I don't) sure I would be quite happy to leave my phone lying on the desk, how would that track me at all, maybe it has a motion sensor in that case I can just give it so someone else to walk round with. Honestly I think this just a way to track innocent people anyone who wants to commit a crime will get around this.

Of course you can, you just ask them what they mean, sure each person is different and it may include multiple things.

Your problem is you think they a fascists and probably call or imply such. The moment you start insulting people is the moment you lose the argument, they will not listen. Most people are not fascists they simply disagree with you on the solution. For example I think the actual divide between trump vs non trump supporters (I assume that is what you are referring to) is actually quite small, they both see the world going to ruin, they both see the corruption that is happening. The main difference is what they think the solution should be. Most people just want a better world, to live their lives, and have their descendants have good lives too, but we have become so angry with each other that both sides have stopped listening to each other. Make a true effort to understand them without going in with the preconception that they are evil, or stupid in some way, be willing to let them convince you then might convince them. Of course this takes time and also social media removes a lot of the queues of face to face interaction, so that any minor statement can be blown out of all proportion, and we can also cherry pick the worst of the worst statements.