Happy Yuletide!

they do 10x worse on the general population.

Politicians, especially the high ranking ones, should have 100% transparent lives and be monitorised by independent organisation at all times, as they work for the benefit of the public

Yup, raise compensation in return, but the price for power should be more transparency. But maybe not 100%. Even politicians should have the right for a private bedroom and maybe their families as well .. though it is of course of some public interest, with whom the politicians sleep at night.

> Politicians, especially the high ranking ones, should have 100% transparent lives

For what purpose? What would you achieve by doing that?

100% surveillance would give you all of the backroom deals. The promises of executive positions in companies later on, if just this bill passes..

But, not practical. (I mean, it would also include bank account numbers, nuclear start codes, ..)

If that's the case maybe you should surveil the business people making the shady deals instead?

But no.. surveiling the dealings of multinational oil companies would be a totally bizarre intrusion into their privacy and the private property right of the owners... but extremely intrusive surveillance of public servants is fine and their just punishment for doing very demanding work for relatively low compensation.

Sounds completely brainwashed if you ask me. You need to recognize who your friends are.

If you think our economic system has this severely corrupting influence maybe we should consider doing something about that. You don't strike me as a stranger to radical reform.

No one sensible would agree to live like this. You’d be left only with politicians who were in it for all the wrong reasons.

what's the difference

Not all money making schemes involve the military.

I personally know people that would claim a phoneless phone is useful, right away, without having used the device once, as long at it was released by Apple.

To be clear, I think a "phone" as in smartphone, that can't make calls would be mostly as useful for me, personally.

But you might be claiming "people would buy an empty box, if apple put its logo on the box"

Like an ipod touch!

But these are people who have used/are using the feature.

whenever people say that modern journalists are bad and nobody knows how to write anymore, i'll show them this article

You mean that it is just as bad if not more, right?

Because it is making Einstein out to be some sort of rebel like who wants things to be "relative" as if it is a religion or philosophy of some sort.

Relativity is just what he discovered, not some ideology he set out to prove or invented.

Then the author goes on to try and apply this relativity to all aspects of the world, try to make puns on it despite Einstein specifically telling him that it is explicitly only about those physical and mechanical facts.

It is like the whole article author tried to apply this idea in the exact way Einstein was annoyed about, perpetuating the same misunderstanding described.

exactly, plus the author's warped understanding, like einstein reinventing the wheel for every equation to make it "more" perfect, whatever that means; or in multiple instances, drawing up conclusions and asking them, or presenting these as facts in the article.

or one article being split on 5 pages so I can see some ads in-between (not really the author's fault there though).

Choice of appropriate notation can absolutely make one version of a formula "more perfect" than another. Maxwell's equations underwent a painstaking "evolutionary" process as vector notation improved.

Ditto for proofs; it's not hard to believe that Albert Einstein could prove a theorem from scratch and end up with a better argument than one found in a previous textbooks.

The fatal flaw in the article, rather, is exemplified by the quote

> With the advent of Einstein, mathematics ceased to be an exact science in the fashion of Euclid.

Which I am in complete disagreement with. Einstein exploited elegant, novel (at the time), anything but inexact mathematical tools for his theory. That the theory posits uncertainty and, well, relativity of real-world phenomena has no bearing on the exactitude of mathematics. If anyone ever put a dent in that, it should be Gödel :)

I'm curious what you would think is "good modern journalism". Could you give examples?

The discussion's article writes more like The Atlantic or NYMag interview style than AP News or Reuters. Both styles are suitable in my opinion.

I actually didn't realize the article went on after the ad.

Einstein initially wanted to emphasize the 'invariance' aspect, used Invarianz-Theorie in correspondence, and said about the proliferation of 'relativity': "I admit that it is unfortunate and has given rise to philosophical misunderstandings."

There are serious allegations that Einstein stole the work of Henri Poincaré and Hermann Minkowski because he had access and the right to review their work before anyone else did.

It is well known and absolutely not a secret that Einstein "stole" from fellow scientists and mathematicians. That's the whole "shoulders of giants" thing and how science typically works. If you study relativity, you will stumble upon the names of Poincaré (Poincaré group) and Minkowski (Minkowski metric) as well as others, like Lorenz (Lorenz transformation).

What Einstein is credited for is applying all these maths to the real world, coming up with a theory that is based on observations and testable.

I think describing Einstein as having a love affair with things being relative is accurate.

The last paragraphs really are beautifully written:

"When he ascends to his attic, she does not cling to his coat tails. When he wishes to be alone, she completely eliminates herself from his life. She spares him disharmonious contacts and protects the serenity of his mind with the devotion of a vestal virgin guarding the sacred fire.

It is by no means impossible that with a less-sacrificing mate, Einstein would not have made the discoveries which link his name with the immortals. Thus love, that moves the sun and all the stars, sustains in its lonely path the genius of Albert Einstein."

Clearly modern journalists learned from their old masters.

"look at the mark in your underwear".. oh dear, how times have changed

I saw people reuse the same mask for weeks, cloth or surgical. I think this is what some of the "experts" were referring to, that is even more dangerous than being maskless

if only the shareholders could wait 5 years and plan ahead for the long road, instead of demanding +50% ROI in the next quarter

They have planned ahead. There is enough capacity to run the data centers. Electricity is just more expensive.

and what about at night? or all the nordic datacenters, where polar nights happen?

squirrel

...only in an American accent.

> Is Microsoft canibalising Microsoft ?

that is a very microsoft thing to do