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First Video Clip of Ashton Kutcher as Steve Jobs

chilaxe says...

Woz recently said that this scene has nothing to do with how things actually were.

I was looking forward to this being a smart movie like "The Social Network," but this clip makes it looks like it won't be as good as the old Pirates of Silicon Valley movie with Noah Wyle portraying jobs.

The Woz actor captures nothing about Woz. The only reason we can guess he's supposed to be Woz is he's heavy and has a beard.

People Are Awesome 2013

chilaxe says...

If a homo erectus could do a feat just as well as a homo sapien can, it's probably not worth your time.

Intellectual feats (your career) are more impressive, and more useful to the world.

United States is the Most Corrupt Country in the World

chilaxe says...

@coffeejerk

You're making a novel argument that because numbers aren't perfect, they're meaningless. You should publish your hypothesis in a journal for statisticians.

"Equalitarian" (not "egalitarian") is sometimes used in the sciences to refer to people who go to great lengths to claim that "undesirable" numbers are meaningless, because otherwise some people would feel bad.

For example, equalitarians might claim that bribery and the arrest of journalists aren't more common in some countries than others.

United States is the Most Corrupt Country in the World

chilaxe says...

@SDGundamX

It's surreal that you're arguing countries can't be ranked by how likely journalists are to be arrested for criticizing the government, or how much bribery is necessary to complete basic business tasks. Please go to China or Russia and try that out.

Measurements can be ranked, even if equalitarians prefer a world without numbers because then "nobody would have to feel bad."

Any scientist can tell you scientific metrics don't need to be perfect, they just need to allow you to predict reality. I'm fine with being able to predict reality better than others, but you're free to prioritize what you wish.

How Advertisers Failed Women in 2012

chilaxe says...

Which will arrive sooner?

1. Advertising stops using sex appeal to get viewers' attention.

or

2. Next-generation stem cell treatments can make us all beautiful.

I'd predict [never] for the former, and 2025-2080 for the latter (depending on how you define it).

United States is the Most Corrupt Country in the World

chilaxe says...

@coffeejerk

Measurements used in science are generally not flawless and ideal, but are considered useful if they allow us to predict reality with greater accuracy.


For example, if you're a journalist who wishes to avoid being imprisoned for criticizing the government, you should research in which countries that's a common practice.

You might disagree that that counts as corruption, but in the real world, people will make decisions based on the best information available to them, even if you dislike the results.

United States is the Most Corrupt Country in the World

chilaxe says...

Jackie Chan is just an athlete/actor, so it can't be expected that he think scientifically rather than "claim that whatever's good for my side is true."

In international measurements, most of the world is pretty corrupt except for:
1. Western European descended nations, including the US.
2. Japan, whom China hates.
3. A few countries in South America.

Well that escalated quickly....

Russian Extreme Sport Mountain Ball Ends In Tragedy

Russian Extreme Sport Mountain Ball Ends In Tragedy

chilaxe says...

If newsworthy, educational videos about balls rolling down hills are personally offensive to you, have you tried not clicking on those videos?

That would be better than selfishly trying to ruin things for the majority of the Videosift community, while hoping they don't stick up for themselves.

direpickle said:

Idiots going to idiate.

I'd call it snuff.

Russian Extreme Sport Mountain Ball Ends In Tragedy

chilaxe says...

If "most people" actually felt uneasy watching a ball roll down a hill, they would downvote it.

It's anti-democratic to try to find loopholes to get around the community's majority opinion.

Oregon Woman Finds Letter from Notorious Chinese Labor Camp

chilaxe says...

@aaronfr

Off-hand comments that the lower-class are better off than most are still true, even if you "roundly refute" them with cherry-picked numbers.

People who have actual empathy for the lower-class encourage them to learn how society works instead of arguing on the side that's comparing lower-classness to Chinese slavery.

Note that the "grievance values" you're promoting are all on the rightward side of that image (blame others for failures, entitlement, hold a grudge, secretly hope others fail, etc.).

Oregon Woman Finds Letter from Notorious Chinese Labor Camp

chilaxe says...

@aaronfr

No, being lower-class in the first-world isn't like being a Chinese slave.

Encouraging people to pretend they're Chinese slaves instead of developing the psychological maturity needed to get anywhere in life makes poverty worse.

You're free to do that, but the world would be happier with less poverty.

Oregon Woman Finds Letter from Notorious Chinese Labor Camp

chilaxe says...

@oritteropo

Yes, widespread 3 years slave labor for not committing a crime is indeed the same as living in the first world, where even if you're poor, you're richer than 90% of humankind.

Did you really just say "discrimination" based on intelligence? I believe we also "discriminate" based on how motivated a person is.

Be self-reliant, and value intelligence instead of denigrating it, and life will be much easier.

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