cross-posted from: https://ponder.cat/post/1517787
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- 1 year
With internet archive head quarters being in the US what would happen if the administration went after them? Would people from other countries be able to keep the project going?
- bobs_monkey@lemm.eeEnglish1 year
That’s unfortunately a very valid point. Iirc the big problem IA has is the sheer amount of disk space required to store everything.
1 yearI wish I had the necessary petabytes of storage to at least store an offline copy. I wonder how many disks that would be and how redundant disks you’d need.
- bobs_monkey@lemm.eeEnglish1 year
Here’s this from 2021. They say they have about 200PB of raw storage across some 20k spinning drives at the time of writing (with more being added constantly, about 25%/yr), and capacities are mixed from 4TB to 16TB, across 750 servers housed on about 75 racks. I have 6x16TB WD red pros that ran me about $355/ea new with tax, and my bill was a smidge over $2100. Assuming you used all 16TB, you’d need about 12,500 16TB disks, which would run you about $4,437,500 without a bulk discount. How much of that is redundancy I’m not sure, but that’s just HDDs, not the hardware to actually run everything between storage enclosures, OS, disks, memory, clustering, etc. They say they say a single copy with 16TB drives would be about 15 racks., but how that breaks down I’m not sure.
- Petter1@lemm.eeEnglish1 year
I once made this calculation for a database of 700Tb, even that blew my mind 🤣
- Petter1@lemm.eeEnglish1 year
We need to distribute all that data, for the sake of history in the future. Data hoarding and torrenting is a service to humanity.
- Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish1 year
Not just data but in important scientific research too. The republicans want to drive the US back to the stone age, because that’s when they were last relevant.
Imagine dreaming to fly to space only to be denied having it because you also cared about the rights of indigenous people.
They’re getting ready to colonize
GazaKlandathu. They can’t be caring about the indigenous life. /sImagine dreaming to fly to space only to be denied having it because you’re not indigenous and they haven’t met their arbitrary quota of indigenous people.
Imagine beeing this fragile.
I’ll spell it out for you honey. As long as we don’t offer the same privileges white people have to all people, we need a qutoa to level the playing field.
I know that doesn’t fit your ideology. Doesn’t change how it’s true tough.
What advantages does NASA give to white people that it would have to compensate for?
I’m glad you asked. Racial discrimination when hiring is a problem and can be observed easily.
For example this meta study, that looked at many experimental studies in 6 different western counties, shows how racial discrimination is a problem when hiring. This has been demonstrated in experimental research by sending two resumes to different workplaces. They show the same level of qualification, but one of them is from a white on one from a person that is not. You do this a lot, like 200 times with 200 employers and see how often both candidates are invited.
And consistently you can see that white people are invites, while racial divergent people are not.
From the meta study this reads like this:
Persistent discrimination in labor markets in North America and Europe has been demonstrated most clearly by field experiments in which investigators use testers or submit applications by mail or over the internet for jobs with clues indicating the race or ethnicity of applicants (5–7). These experiments show that on average in Western countries native Whites receive about 50% more callbacks than similarly qualified non-White applicants (5).* This does not include significant additional discrimination that occurs after the callback (8).
- Rekorse@sh.itjust.worksEnglish1 year
Cool study. What evidence is there that NASA has an unfair hiring practice they need to adjust for?
The study is evidence that there is a systemic disadvantage for non whites when hiring.
Why should this not be the case at NASA? What makes NASA so special that findings, that showed true on a systemic level across six countries don’t apply to it?
If you are interested, NASA did an audit on their progress on including DEIA in 2023.
https://oig.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/IG-23-011.pdf
Despite support from Agency leaders and multiple initiatives to increase diversity, we found NASA has made little progress in increasing the representation of women and minorities in its civilian workforce or leadership ranks. Specifically, over the past decade NASA’s overall workforce demographics have stayed roughly the same, with small increases (1 or 2 percent) for some groups. Demographics have not varied significantly over the same time period at individual NASA Centers, with only two Centers increasing African American representation and other Centers making small gains in Hispanic, Asian American, and women’s representation. We also found NASA has made few gains in the percentages of women and racial and ethnic minorities in its senior levels (General Schedule 14 and 15 positions and NASA’s Efforts to Increase Diversity in Its Workforce RESULTS IN BRIEF Senior Executive Service) over the decade. At the same time, the proportion of veterans NASA hires has declined over the past 10 years, most significantly from 28 percent in 2015 to 13 percent in 2021
- Rekorse@sh.itjust.worksEnglish1 year
Sounds like they were already only hiring qualified people.
Forcing DEI where there was no problem causes a problem.
I thought those fucking cretins were supposed to be reducing government waste. How is forcing agencies to paint over murals with positive vibes and update their website to remove magic words a good use of their time and money?
because it’s not and never was about that and by the time everyone else realises it will be too late to stop it without great effort
- rottingleaf@lemmy.worldEnglish1 year
You are pissed at another kid, so you find a dog turd near the playground and you throw it his way.
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- thejml@lemm.eeEnglish1 year
This is definitely the most important thing for the country and for human space exploration as a whole.
/s
- Armand1@lemmy.worldEnglish1 year
Janet Petro—the first woman to hold the position since its founding 67 years ago—wrote that diversity programs “divided Americans by race, wasted taxpayer dollars, and resulted in shameful discrimination,”
In 2021, when she was the director of Kennedy Space Center, she spoke at length in an interview about the value of diversity, saying “our commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility has been paramount to mission success.”
The turnaround is giving me whiplash.
There’s no begrudging following of the rules, it’s wholeheartedly embracing the new regime.
- hamsterkill@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish1 year
The quote from the email isn’t her words. They were given to her (and all agency heads) to send out to their workforce to implement the EO. It should not be taken as “embracing the new regime”.
- 1 year
When it is easy everyone thinks they are Oskar Schindler but when it is hard most people are Hugo Boss.
- rottingleaf@lemmy.worldEnglish1 year
Sun-Tzu actually described how this works with soldiers, and how do you work with such gentle material. I’d say his book’s parts on psychology are about making a Hugo Boss from a wannabe Oskar Schindler, but if one applies his advice to oneself, one can put different goals.
I also like Marcus Aurelius.
- 1 year
Boomers are natural bootlickers, no conviction… She says what gets her a head.
Also shouldnt she be in a fema camp instead of leeching on federal budget?
- 1 year
Cracking on with the important shit, I see.
- 1 year
I am sure all of them have the skills set and accounts to spend all day for this…
Headline is hyperbolic
- funkless_eck@sh.itjust.worksEnglish1 year
it has the GitHub change log in the article, so yes they did have the skill set and accounts, made the changes and posted the receipts
(?!?!?!?)
- funkless_eck@sh.itjust.worksEnglish1 year
literally one hour ago you used the same grammatical synecdoche of inferring a subset of the group by referring to the group noun demonym:
https://thebrainbin.org/m/[email protected]/t/550486/-/comment/4749901
Seen you about, you’ve got some good takes, some bad takes, and some absolutely mindbogglingly daft takes.
From what I’ve seen, you are, in fact, a Shit Poster. And while I’ve not scrolled through your entire history, I’m fairly confident that you never claimed you weren’t a hypocrite.
Fair play.
- Optional@lemmy.worldEnglish1 year
Okay, okay, yeah is it bad? Yeah it’s bad but listen up libs - Remember when Harris was being reported as focusing on the middle class during her four month campaign? Huh? Yeah. That’s why this is happening. And we were right to not fight against this fascist horror with the one thing that would have mattered, our vote. She should have paid more attention to people who have it bad.
- Psythik@lemmy.worldEnglish1 year
Any post that starts with “listen up libs” immediately makes me ignore the rest of its contents. Not interested in your MAGA and/or tankie bullshit.
- Optional@lemmy.worldEnglish1 year
obviously you are a old and don’t understand that liberals are the absolute worst thing in the world next to conservatives. Us kids are down with the leftism now and any Democratic person is a horrible traitor to society which is why we let trump win. You need to read the manga versions of Das Kapital to really get it.
- Psythik@lemmy.worldEnglish1 year
Bro. Do you not know what the words “not interested” mean? I wasn’t going to read your first wall of text, and I’m surely not going to read that second one. I can’t handle the ignorance from bigots and bootlickers.
- 1 year
The middle class also has it bad. A worker is anyone who isnt an owner
- TurboHarbinger@feddit.clEnglish1 year
ITT: People who doesn’t read the article. These science institutions shouldn’t be used for fucking politics.
I wonder if something from the list published in this article has any relation to science or space. Yeah sure, let’s go with “DEI and other Inclusivity programs are NECESSARY for space survival”. I wonder what’s the objective of NASA.
Lol don’t worry, this Astronaut knows pronouns. /s
- NSRXN@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish1 year
everything is political. you are advocating that these institutions pretend observer bias doesn’t exist.
- Nalivai@lemmy.worldEnglish1 year
These science institutions shouldn’t be used for fucking politics.
You’d think, huh? Daamn, that’s crazy
- TurboHarbinger@feddit.clEnglish1 year
Bro, if you’re going to be sarcastic, at least try to sound smart. You just need to read the title to see its fucking propaganda from the opposition.
- TurboHarbinger@feddit.clEnglish1 year
Yet you still act like a fucking moron, what is your secret?
Do you also read articles and form an opinion of your own?
Damn, really? That’s craaaazy.
