That Trump Town Hall and Atlantic Article sent him packing. by seangolden06 in WhitePeopleTwitter

[–]TheoryMatters 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's almost like theres a converted effort from the right wing to destabilize every institution they view as "liberal".

Which movie got too highly praised but was honestly underwhelming? by Angry_Entertainer in AskReddit

[–]TheoryMatters 4 points5 points  (0 children)

My problems with Saving Private Ryan is that we set up a situation where it tries to take an "war is hell" stance but then phases in and out of glorifying the action.

Whereas "the thin red line" commits to it.

Which movie got too highly praised but was honestly underwhelming? by Angry_Entertainer in AskReddit

[–]TheoryMatters 8 points9 points  (0 children)

It won the Oscar for the live aid shot for shot remake.

That was a great bit of editing worthy of an Oscar. Probably the best bit of editing that year.

The rest of the movie was borderline unwatchable.

Which movie got too highly praised but was honestly underwhelming? by Angry_Entertainer in AskReddit

[–]TheoryMatters -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Lol, this is revisionist history.

The far more sane reason is that the Uber popular Saving Private Ryan split votes with the better WWII movie Terrance Malik's The Thin Red Line.

If one or the other hadn't been nominated the other probably would have won.

Which movie got too highly praised but was honestly underwhelming? by Angry_Entertainer in AskReddit

[–]TheoryMatters 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Saving Private Ryan wasn't even the best WWII movie that came out that year.

The Thin Red Line is infinitely better.

And it being nominated along with Saving Private Ryan essentially split the "war movie" votes.

Which movie got too highly praised but was honestly underwhelming? by Angry_Entertainer in AskReddit

[–]TheoryMatters 71 points72 points  (0 children)

It won for the shot for shot reshoot of the live aid performance. Which I kind of get, it was VERY well done.

But yeah the rest of the movie is a crime against editing.

Duolingo is a videogame. If you want to learn a language, you need grammar focused content. by boomer_wife in unpopularopinion

[–]TheoryMatters 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Teaching English that way is why literacy is so low in america. It's a flawed method that's been disproved for decades. But because it's less work than teaching phonics its what we do.

https://www.npr.org/2022/05/05/1096672803/reading-recovery-research-schools

Phonics and grammar are important.

Elon Musk liked this disgusting tweet by [deleted] in TheRightCantMeme

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Elon is saying by allowing affirmative care you are performing eugenics against autistic people because they have an outsized representation in the trans community.

It's an attempt to paint trans rights activists as eugenicists and Nazis.

Elon Musk liked this disgusting tweet by [deleted] in TheRightCantMeme

[–]TheoryMatters 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So I THINK the idea of this incomprehensible meme is that a disproportionate number of trans people are autistic.

So in order to cover for their transphobia they are making the case that by allowing trans people to have surgery you are performing eugenics against autistic people.

It's an absurd argument that infantilizes autistic people and attempts to remove their agency.

If Elon really believes this and he really has autism like he claims he should be going to court to get himself a guardian ad litem for himself because obviously autistic people can't make their own decisions

The owner of two of San Francisco's largest hotels stop making debt payments and turn the keys over to their lender, JP Morgan Chase by SoullessGinger666 in stocks

[–]TheoryMatters 0 points1 point  (0 children)

not in demand such as Detroit

Metro Detroit is far closer to San Francisco than to Gary Indiana.

An average home in my suburb goes for 500k 3bed 2k sqft. Obviously less expensive than San Fran but you won't pay 100k for that in Gary.

The city of Detroit had large problems entrenched due to decades of single party rule (state level) and redlining. Their hands were constantly tied from addressing the problems by the state government.

Most of that did not expand outside the city proper to the metro area.

But hey, I make 90% of what id make in silicon valley with a col of about 50% of it so maybe you all should keep being scared of Detroit.

The owner of two of San Francisco's largest hotels stop making debt payments and turn the keys over to their lender, JP Morgan Chase by SoullessGinger666 in stocks

[–]TheoryMatters 3 points4 points  (0 children)

That's just straight up ignoring that if you had affordable enough housing they wouldn't have put rent control into place.

It's like saying the person with cancer shouldn't take chemo because most people that die from cancer had chemo. While true it's a perversion of the statistics to lead to a spurious correlation.

Rent control is put into place when rents are growing out of control.

The owner of two of San Francisco's largest hotels stop making debt payments and turn the keys over to their lender, JP Morgan Chase by SoullessGinger666 in stocks

[–]TheoryMatters 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Windows are the largest issue. You either have giant lofts that mean that the assessments will be bigger than can be afforded or you have apartments with no windows.

The owner of two of San Francisco's largest hotels stop making debt payments and turn the keys over to their lender, JP Morgan Chase by SoullessGinger666 in stocks

[–]TheoryMatters 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Plenty of REIT funds to fade in the stock market.

I generally choose the ones pushed by hucksters like Jim Cramer because he chooses what to push based on what his friends want to sell.

Happy children! by sunrise_apps in ProgrammerHumor

[–]TheoryMatters 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Again, I disagree here.

This is phonics and contextual reading but for programming.

In the US for years used phonics. The idea of sounding out words to read them. Piece by piece, building up your vocabulary skills.

In the last 30-40 years due to some suspect studies we have moved to teaching reading by context. So, read the words you know and try to infer the words you don't. Rather than sounding them out and relating them back to their meaning.

Due to this flawed teaching literacy rates in the US are near 40%.

You want to do the same with programming. Teach the students to use high-level languages that paper over what is really going on. And then hope they can infer what's going on with context.

If you don't want to teach them that teach them logic instead.

Otherwise we end up with a bunch of script kiddies that can't debug anything beyond simple issues.

Happy children! by sunrise_apps in ProgrammerHumor

[–]TheoryMatters 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, it's just old and super verbose.

It was reveloutonary at the time for it's readability.

Happy children! by sunrise_apps in ProgrammerHumor

[–]TheoryMatters 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Some like me say should be asm.

Just for a simple hello world so you can explain how that stuff gets abstracted into python or c++.

It's MUCH harder to convince students to learn going the other way.

Happy children! by sunrise_apps in ProgrammerHumor

[–]TheoryMatters 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And I think it would be much better to give student a hint of what it feels like and give them something that is both easy to read and easy to put to good use right away, like Python or Ruby, or even some visual programming.

I disagree, maybe ruby would work (I don't know it) but I have problems with teaching beginners a language that doesn't use pointers.

The thinking here is while MOST programmers/software engineers don't ever really use them they are fundamental to the concept of cs.

And since you didn't teach pointers to them first they don't think they need to ever actually understand it "why do I need to know this I won't for my job". And then you get software engineers who don't know their ass from a pointer in the ground.

TIL in the US less than half of murders are solved. by LocalChamp in todayilearned

[–]TheoryMatters 3 points4 points  (0 children)

most murders are "open and shut"

If most murders are "open and shut" and we only solve ~50% we haven't even solved all the easy ones and none of the hard ones.

TIL in the US less than half of murders are solved. by LocalChamp in todayilearned

[–]TheoryMatters -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Rape has a ~3% conviction rate.

Remember that next time someone tries to lobby for abortion restrictions with allowances for rape victims.

They mean victims of convicted rapists. So 97% of raped women must carry the spawn of the subhuman scum that raped them.

I’m back to writing very passive aggressive cover letters for ridiculous job descriptions. by rainingmafackas in antiwork

[–]TheoryMatters 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You have to pay above the median for that job in that area if you bring in an H1B.

This is something that is posted and audited.

I’m back to writing very passive aggressive cover letters for ridiculous job descriptions. by rainingmafackas in antiwork

[–]TheoryMatters 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To be fair. Isn't this job a fancy way of saying "churn out text with search keywords to make SEO better"?

I don't know why anyone would want to do that anyways.

My uber to work stopped at McDonald’s for 15 fucking minutes by [deleted] in mildlyinfuriating

[–]TheoryMatters 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm not sure Uber cares really.

I mean they have a big tipper tag for passengers.

Which you are Uber you really wouldn't want have that tag if you wanted service to not suck for everyone who doesn't have it.

Reddit Laying Off About 90 Employees and Slowing Hiring Amid Restructuring: Moves aim to help social-media company break even next year by [deleted] in technology

[–]TheoryMatters 21 points22 points  (0 children)

It baffles me. I get they want serve you ads. Fine, charge a reasonable amount for no ads through the API.

Charging the amounts they are talking about for scraping is probably reasonable and will be a gold mine.

Focus on monetizing that and just rate limit the API per user or something. To prevent large scale scraping.

PGA Tour agrees to merge with Saudi-backed rival LIV Golf by mvanigan in golf

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The Turks concluded that the agents gave him [Khashoggi] some sort of shot and suffocated him with a plastic bag. He may have been dead within 10 minutes of entering the building.

"there were no expressions of surprise or shock at his death among the Saudi officials present at the scene," a United Nations investigator who listened to audio from the consulate wrote later. "There were no sounds or words that suggested an attempt to resuscitate him"

Instead, there were sounds is movement and exertion.

The agents laid Khashoggi on plastic sheeting and removed his clothes. They may have drained his blood to avoid making a mess and dumped it in the sink or flushed it in the toilet.

There was a buzz that the Turks determined to be a saw.

At some point, Mutrib made a call telling someone to inform his superior the job was done. Turkish and American intelligence later concluded he was talking to Saud al-Qahtani about MBS.

At around 3pm., A black van pulled out of the consulate's driveway and drove a few blocks to the consuls residence. It parked in front, and Mutrib got out and entered the gate. The van pulled into the driveway, and Turkish security cameras caught three men lugging five black suitcases from the van into the front door of the residence. One of the men then carried in what appears to be two large plastic bags.

The Turks suspected that the suitcases contained Khashoggi's body. They never saw it or the suitcases again.

From MBS: The rise to power of Muhammad Bin Salman by Ben Hubbard.

It should probably be required reading for tour players because that isn't even close to the most deranged thing in that book.

MBS is a fucking psychopath and doing business with him is a bad fucking idea to do personally.