Comments by "Brenda Rua" (@brendarua01) on "TED" channel.

  1. You don't even know what you're talking about.
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  2. I appreciate having both anecdotes and stats It rounds out the presentation to make it for more understandable for me. Thank you .
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  3. 50 out of 20? Wow! lol
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  4. Christopher Osmulski You are right to distinguish income mobility from wealth mobility. It is rare for anyone born in the lowest quintile of family income to move out of that segment. But move up to working class or middle class and then inherited family wealth, primarily due to home equity, can boost a person upward so that their children will benefit from a higher income via better schools and higher education. But this is primarily a white phenomenon due to segregation that kept blacks from participating in the various migrations to the suburbs. Blacks were starting to participate in this phenomenon, but less energetically due to higher insurance and interest rates. They got hit exceptionally hard during the 2008 crash since they had smaller reserves to hold out on and lost their homes. TED has had speakers talk about these things. Read "The Color of Law" by Richard Rothstein for a general history and documentation.
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  5. Just leave peple to be Let it be Let it be
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  6. Ok "Feel the Bern!" Better now? :D
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  7. All these knee jerk rightist snowflakes. It would be funny if you weren't too stupid to get the message. Too bad you can't fix stupid.
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  8. Jesseverything Those numbers are roughly right. But that's a pretty course view of things. According to Quora (and the numbers match published government numbers): "...only 9 out of 116 southern Democrats (House and Senate) voted for the Civil Rights Act, but 190 out of 200 northern Democrats did. None of the 11 southern Republicans voted for it, but 165 out of 194 northern Republicans did. The northern Democrats were more than 95% in favour but the northern Republicans were only 85% in favour." https://www.quora.com/How-many-Democrats-voted-for-the-Civil-Rights-Act-of-1964-compared-to-Republicans And let's remember that it was a Democratic president, Johnson, who pushed it through.
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  9. There is a joke that if med students are smart then they'd be engineers.
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  10. Yet another reason to move to Netherlands.
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  11. Jeeze. You folks complaining about TED content need to get a life. Suck it up and start your own conference, your own blog. Or at LEAST read what TED says TED is about instead standing around in your group your circle jerk bubble. Here, let me give you a hand: "TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes (or less). Look for talks on Technology, Entertainment and Design -- plus science, business, global issues, the arts and much more."
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  12. Troll
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  13. +M S If those people had the same impact on resources and environment as people i the developed countries, you'd have a point. But they don't. So you don't. But you're closer to the mark than Soren because India and China want in on the action.
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  14. try watching the talk instead of feeding your triggers
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  15. Once again we see the snowflake white males spasm in knee jerk reactions. I wonder how many even listened to the points presented. You show your ignorance of history and your own culture when you deny racism is both active now and we have current effects from history. But we can't have you too stressed by listening to the whole thing. Just take one point. Look at the 8:00 area where he talks about residential segregation by race. Mr. Williams talks about the effects but not the systems. This was blatant and intentional and not considered remarkable at the time. When the suburbs of the US were opened to expansion thanks to improved highway systems, the US Government established home mortgage policies to help make this possible. But applications by blacks (and other people of color, depending on the area of the country) were denied. These were actually marked as such. Now for the unintended but very real impact. Since most school districts are funded by property taxes, you have a very clear and unequal allocation of resources. It shows in quality of education opportunity between suburbs and inner cities. I don't think many people are saying we should keep inner city kids ignorant. But it is a result. And everyone pays for it. Think this is wrong? Well we can make a prediction to test it. Several cities, like Seattle and San Francisco, are experiencing huge growth as the financial and tech industries are drawing talent. These people don't want long commutes and can afford to pay very high prices to live in the rehabilitated upscale 'hoods. Home and rent prices are soaring as a result and driving out the poor and working classes. We can predict that before long the school funding sources will shift back to the cities and the suburbs will start to decline.
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  16. +Alexander I feel like you are equivocating there. I didn't want to just parrot your words but if "impress" isn't the right word, fine. I'll rephrase. What would it take to make Mr. Musk, or anyone else for that matter, special to you? I am serious about my question, not just jerking your chain here. I'm very impressed with Musk in many ways. And I thought I had high standards until now. He has vision. He is an inspiration and leader. He must have a pretty solid grasp of science and technology and engineering in order to manage everything and not lose his shirt. Given that, I fail to see how him not being a research scientist or practicing engineer is a demerit. You'll pardon me if I don't put any weight in your claim that anyone could do what he does. Were that so then given the rewards of fame and fortune to be gained, I think we'd probably have at least a few more people like him. But this line of thought gets pretty speculative pretty fast.
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  17. Sarimasu, while I enjoy etymology for how it informs culture and history, I see no reason to burden the process of communication with such baggage. Most users of a language are not even aware of how and why their words are what they are. That knowledge conveys nothing to the message being delivered except perhaps tangential information about the writer's class, education, or culture. The presenter addresses this issue well in my view. It can be maintained in the halls of academia - where it is now anyway.
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  18. I hear what you guys are saying. Of course people intuit time zones and if asked they might come to see that mars must have them too. (But surely very few people actually thought about it.) More interesting though is how something like this impacts people's lives and the systems needed to deal with it in NASA and elsewhere. That real. That's rubber meeting the road. That's what leads people to realize that science and engineering is real people and could be something they can do.
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  19. Sal Why?
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  20. Says the dude who can't write a complete sentence haha "She isn't good speaking, she is so nervous haha"
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  21. What a delightful presentation! I hope you succeed! I want to read my drandkids the story "This is the house that Brando built."
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  22. I think we need to hear from all quarters. This improves the chance that someone will hear when they did not listen before.
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  23. Very nicely done. Thanks, TED.
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  24. Winston Ok, thanks for providing the background to your earlier comment. I'm not so sure about the "hundreds of millions of years" bit. But a bit of hyperbole is understandable.
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  25. Wow Kenny I've never seen such a display of knee jerk, snowflake, cry-me-a-river unsupported bullshit. Did you spew all that in one breath? Clearly, you never paused to think about it. That is all Kellyanne Conway shuffle, intended to distract and demean while contributing nothing of substance. Very impressive. In the era of el Trumpo, you exceeded his lie ratio. Bet you're looking for a West Wing job.
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  26. Arian I disagree. Anecdotes put flesh on the framework of numbers.
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  27. Soylent Green with hot sauce
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  28. oo No one cares about your unsupported assertions :P
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  29. poo poo you miss the point, dullard.
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  30. Ok, "Mostly." You can waddle your way back to your mama's basement now.
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  31. Jonathan Well 1 needs to happen if 2 does, or people will revolt. And capitalism will collapse with no consumer purchasing power.
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  32. ThatKid I refuse to believe that your reading comprehension is that poor. You surely must just be trolling.
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  33. Lidia is trolling.
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  34. Well answer us what dark hole you crawled out of. He's got numbers backing him up. What've you got,bubba?
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  35. What a delightful little journey. Thanks for sharing :)
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  36. Consider that maybe reality does too.
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  37. Somebody That's just stupid, and fear mongering conspiracy thinking. Way to go!
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  38. So much hubris and grandiosity. The heat death of the universe has nothing to do with humanity as it is billions and billions of years in the future. Any semblance of human kind will be dust in the wind. Our genus is only maybe 2 million years old; our species, a few hundred thousand at best. Even if we manage to defy the odds for species longevity by orders of magnitued, we're still only star dust. It is buffoonery to presume the end of the universe or entropy imply anything about the human condition because we're not there. Nor is anything as close to us as we are to the first single cells going to be there.
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  39. Sandcastle. Eve's volition was pretty wicked. Does that count?
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  40. A lot of people talk without thinking: Flat earthers, anti vaxers, creationists, young earthers, fascists, bigots, lying Donnie, our clown advocate in Europe and Asia
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  41. The US PBS News Hour recently did a segment on this. It is already happening. It was in response to Trump supporters doing a fake of Nancy Pelosi making a speech looking drunk or something. Mz Citron provides plent of other examples and some implications of them. But it is good that she points out there is a place for this as legit satire.
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  42. No. This is a shill or a naive dreamer talking. The relevant model is Uber. They fully plan to replace human drivers with driverless cars. There is nothing in the plan to accommodate the displaced workers/drivers. They have no incentive to do so. In fact, they have a responsibility to maximize profit so they would be wrong, under the current model, to spend a nickle they don't have to. It is exactly the same for all the other companies that will be automating. The end result will make the degradation and de-humanization of humans during the industrial revolution look like a warm up. But as with capitalism in general, there is an inherent contradiction that will lead to the collapse of the AI model in a consumer driven economy. People will have no money to buy anything. The end result will be upheaval and a rise of the masses, who will demand a guaranteed basic income and universal health care. The elites will have to agree to this new distribution or come up with an economic model not based on rampant, unquenched consumption.
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  43. Tybalt I am amazed when people willingly make idiots of themselves in public. Start your brain before you engage your tongue.
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  44. SpaceCadet You never heard of KKK and Jim Crow? White Nationalism is nothing new. It's just White Supremacy in different clothes.
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  45. Well said, Katrina.
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  46. Marx and others at the time of industrialization wrote about real work being creative and enabling and noble. I think very few people have been lucky enough to experience that. But why couldn't UBI be the key to it? People helping people, learning the arts, improving themselves in thousands of ways, would be a new world and one to aspire to. Compare this to what passes for work now.
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  47. It strikes me that the terminology/ontology of today's economics is behind the times. What we are starting to see and what this AI revolution will create is structural unemployment. Your 19th century notions of money and employment don't seem to capture what's happening. To put it another way the models are too simple. For example what does GNP per capita mean when there are fewer and fewer participants actually involved? How does that play into notions of supply and demand when Joe down the street can simply "print" what they need in their basement with the help of the AI in their smart phone? Who's going to be earning the money working to buy all these wonderful gadgets? Henry Ford knew he needed a market of workers who could afford his goods. That foundational notion has slipped away but not been replaced. When will the house of cards tumble down?
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  48. Slasher you shouldn't open your mouth when you don't know what you are talking about.
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  49. 4 Strings Did you watch the whole presentation? She showed a far wider range of time than just that one flood, and this had several course changes, just as big. The movements of the Mississippi are as substantial, both before and after flood control efforts. So your hypothesis is questionable and may need revising. But you are right in general. All inputs should be considered.
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  50. It sure looks like it.
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