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Propaganda is powerful... I suspect the USSR's contribution would be perceived as even less if those in the west were asked the same question today... Some recent commentators have even suggested it would have been better if the USSR fell to the Nazis...
My experience has been the exact opposite. Americans by and large see themselves as the "saviors of Europe" when it comes to World War II. That's where a lot of the deeply rooted hostility towards Europe (especially France) comes from: they shouldn't be giving the USA shit about anything, they should be grateful we saved them from Hitler, etc. etc.
Yes, most people have smartphones and they're valuable in a variety of ways. That doesn't mean good jobs are easy to find. I'd want to see some evidence for that.
Humm...we might have to agree to disagree.

For me, there's a fuzzy line where enough time has passed that actions need to be judged based on what was known, or should have been known, at the time.

The question for me isn't: Did it actually save lives.

The question for me is: Did Truman and Churchill really believe they were saving millions of lives (and, was that a reasonable belief). Which really comes down to: do you believe Truman and Churchill?

My parent said (if I understood correctly) that all the justifications he or she has heard "could not be more unconvincing." That you and I are now talking about how many lives did it really save?, does not change the fact that saving American ( / allied ) lives, is not a wholly unjustifiable (or incomprehensible) thing for a US President to consider. Maybe I was just put off my his or her hyperbole.
>The US is in fact the pinnacle of education, in several regards

Isn't elementary school a notorious exception? That's what the parent and grand-parent posts are talking about.
It can only be factual if you consider god real.
What's the problem with [2]? The driver knows he's bypassing safety interlocks. There many dumb things you can intentionally do in a car; adding one more is not necessarily a significant problem.
Reminds me that we didn't hear about Google SDV for a while (the last news was the 'View from the seat ..'). I expected a little increase in progress reports.

I just youtubed 25mph frontal crashes and it doesn't look pretty...
I think it's too simplistic to tell who contributed the most. The victory was the result of allies' cooperation. Without the land lease, USSR was unlikely to withstand German invasion. Without USSR on the Eastern front, US and UK forces were unlikely to land in Normandy, and in such a case such an operation would be much less efficient if ever possible. Other countries also played important parts in the war.

If we consider the contribution in terms of casualties, USSR had the most, after which comes China, Poland, etc. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties#Human_...
These are old, well-known issues. WWII machine gun designs reflected WWI trench warfare experience - fixed gun positions, fire in the general direction of the enemy. WWII didn't go that way, mostly because everybody had tanks, and could now operate against machine guns.

The most effective tank of the war was the USSR's T-34. More T-34s were produced than any other tank, including Shermans. The T-34 had a good gun, a decent Diesel engine, and an adequate transmission. The Sherman was a lighter tank, and early Shermans had a rather weak gun and some strange powerplants. (One version had five V-8 car engines arranged in a circle around one crankshaft. Chrysler had a good plant for making V-8 car engines, but the specialized machinery could not make a bigger engine.) The Sherman's big strength was simply that it was a good driving machine, and tens of thousands of them were driven from the French coast all the way to Berlin. Patton's "War as I knew it" talks about this, in the chapter "Touring France with an army". Many of the heavier German tanks would wear out on a long road trip; within Germany, tanks were often moved by rail. Basic truth: the tank that makes it to the battlefield beats the tank that doesn't.

(The overly complex Tiger tank transmission thing is real, but confusing. Tanks steer with the transmission. The Tiger tank had a steering wheel, which controlled the relative speed of the two tracks. The Sherman had two foot clutches which disengaged the left or right track, and turning was more of a lurch than a smooth turn. The Sherman could not turn in place. There was a Tiger variant with an electric drive, like a Diesel-electric locomotive, but that was harder to keep working than the hydraulic/gear system. Modern tanks steer like the Tiger, but now the technology works.)

The article author's info about the U-boat was is totally bogus. There was a big worry that Germany would be able to starve out the UK. Liberty ships, convoys, "jeep" carriers, periscope-spotting radar, and Ultra intercepts reduced the effectiveness of U-boats. The US Merchant Marine puts the number of ships lost to U-boats between 2,742 and 2,919.[1] The figures for 1940 are from 470 to 520, compared to the author's 127.

[1] http://www.usmm.org/battleatlantic.html
Twisted logic – Wendelstein 7-X (W7-X)
I believe this is referring to '...and keep a mutable reference to it' ie. A singleton, and many overseer style observe-and-update-on-change data binding patterns.

Basically, shared ownership is pretty central to many C++ patterns, which means they translate poorly into rust.
Why no one created a transport for hangouts? This is how XMPP conquered msn, aol, yim and others, and could once again become popular.

Is communication with hangouts much harder?
Like this[1]?

1: http://perldoc.perl.org/perlguts.html
i often cite this great write up of the evolution of a famous video game franchise when discussing specific ills of education

http://tevisthompson.com/saving-zelda/

it reads as fine companion to the original post
The article covers this issue in depth. It uses a modified version of the homestead principle to define how legitimate property rights should be created. It argues that courts had come up with a solution for this using nothing more than the common law, and that's why the govt rushed to declare it a public good.
Lawsuit: Your Candy Bar Was Made by Child Slaves
Suvorov is worth reading at length - you can learn a lot about Soviet/Russian strategy, tactics, and military culture from him.
Fouls happen. I don't mean to diminish that, but when the base of the game is to disallow bad tackles then there will be far fewer incidents of bad tackling.
Also many more substitutions, which plays into exactly the idea you mentioned.
I don't think this is trying to solve a problem, I think it's more one of those "because you can" things
Understanding Elixir macros
It's reasonably clear that the people who do go beyond are either just lucky or they just like that process more than enjoying the fruits of their labor.

Charles Koch was interviewed recently, and he apparently believes strongly that creating consumer surplus is more moral than not working.
This App Helps Freelancers and Entrepreneurs Find a Cafe to Work In
The calculated interest rate on payday loans is misleading. Poor people don't think of it that way. When they borrow $300 for a short-term loan and have to pay $30 for the privilege, they're making a rational decision that the $30 later isn't worth as much as the $300 now. There's a recent article on the payday loan industry that confirmed my hunch that the people using them aren't total imbeciles and know what they're doing.

I use credit as a management tool, it gives me options I wouldn't have otherwise. Payday loans are the same, they're just more expensive. I would still use credit if it were more expensive, up to a point where it would be more advantageous to just change the way I perceive money.

Also payday loans are only available to a certain class of the working poor. People with temp jobs or other kinds of inconsistent income can't avail themselves of this kind of credit. They get a lot of press but are really just a niche in the vast constellation of services, both legal and illegal, legible and illegible, that sustain the poor.

I used to use a payday loan business to cash my paychecks when I couldn't get a bank account. The experience struck me as benignly capitalistic, you don't really want to be in the position of having to use these services, but having access to them is way better than the alternative.

> every half mile driven

Poor people here aren't that constrained, mostly because gas is and will probably forever be really cheap. In other countries that aren't oil-states gas is an order of magnitude more expensive. Keeping gas costs down is a priority, but not as big of one as meeting housing costs. Housing is the biggest expense most Americans, not just the poor ones, have to contend with. Transportation in comparison is treated as a cost of doing business.

> Living from paycheck to three days before the next paycheck is not a pain that can be pacified with distraction.

What poor people do on their phones constantly is cultivate the relationships that sustain them. It is not a distraction the way we think of playing silly games. They are texting, facebooking, even their game playing is done with their friends / family. Poor people are way more social than the middle / upper class could ever be, because they have to.
You got it wrong (your first sentence), WinNT3.1 is written from scratch by Dave Cutler and his group from 1989 to 1994. Originally there would have been a OS/2 compatible subsystem, and some ideas stem from OS/2 but NT has a lot of more similarities with VMS, the previous OS project of Mr Cutler at DEC.
Nonsense, why did France, UK enter the war? How about Poland?
I did not claim and do not believe that those two claims are equivalent.
> Americans fall for this too and feel bad about the nuclear bombing of Japan, despite the enormous good it did to the whole of south-east Asia.

We may feel bad with access to the information we have now, but, in interviews with people from that time, it's not so clear cut.

First, very few people really understood what a nuclear bomb was or could do. We're used to instantaneous communication. I seriously doubt we even had pictures in the US of Hiroshima before the Nagasaki bomb dropped.

Second, the US suffered terrible casualties in trying to retake Japanese islands before the bombs. Any effort to avoid that was welcome.

Third, people in the US were VERY tired of war. Anything which could bring that to a close sooner would be welcomed.

Fourth, the average person in both the US and Japan had no idea what the leaders were talking about or knew.

There are lots of What-If's? for not dropping the atomic bombs. However, there are just as many the other direction. One could just as easily point out that the hardline faction in Japan might have attempted a coup without the example of the devastation that the bombs caused and that it was the bombs that allowed the emperor to surrender.
Indeed, I mean that the justifications I have heard for the bombing are unconvincing. That includes the claim that it "saved a lot of allied lives." Not only do I doubt that it did save a lot of allied lives, I also don't believe that this would be a sufficient justification for the bombings.
Yes, it is. Captain America is a fictional character, the US didn't 'win' the war, and yes, all 'winners' engaged in war crimes that were just as heinous and cruel as the losers.
> But hey, good job trying to twist my intent! I love a good intellectually dishonest conversation!

Please don't. It's neither civil nor substantive.
Uh... Russia lost 8.8m people during the war, 6.8 of which were troops. The Nazis lost, but I'd hardly call what Russia came out with a "victory".
Its easy to be a keyboard warrior, and judge others from the safety of your home. Maybe one day you'll be given an opportunity to prove to the world just how brave and courageous you are facing up to "horrible, manovelent criminals" in defense of the helpless. Most of those so called "benign spectators" caught up in such situations are women, children and powerless men trying to stay alive (by not standing up to the savages among them ).
"This is Africa we're talking about."

The only reason Christians in the west aren't as barbaric as primitive people in other countries is that the enlightenment happened. Without the age of secular reason building a society to hold them in check, Christians would continue to be as barbaric as they were in the middle ages. To this day, it is easy to find Evangelical Christians with batshit beliefs about demons and people living with dinosaurs, Mormons who believe blacks have the mark of Cain, and Christians in general who believe in hell and that homosexuals are going there. Without our strong enforcement of secular laws, I shudder to think what medieval punishments these people would dole out on unfortunate gays, blacks, and non-Christians.
Actually, simpler metrics are better. It's more obvious, when you game them.
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Correlation != causation, and even if the correlation reveals something, with no explanatory theory, we are still at step one.

This essay was based on these two lines from here: http://10years.firstround.com/#one

> That’s why were so excited to learn that our investments in companies with at least one female founder were meaningfully outperforming our investments in all-male teams. Indeed, companies with a female founder performed 63% better than our investments with all-male founding teams

The comparison is not clear, but is not women versus men, but between companies with X number of males plus at least one female founder, versus those with zero female founders and Y male founders.

If we skip a step and take this fact as having some predictive value, it could be lots of things, including off-the-top-of-my-head:

1. Bias against women - which extends to teams that include men, e.g. the bias against woman exists in the presence of male co-founders.

2. That the personality traits shared by groups where women co-found startups with men are positively correlated with success. It is quite possible that these groups have much better EQ, while still retaining the IQ to impress the required amount to be selected.

3. That startups with at least one female select, and I am using this term in a very stereotyped way, "not-white-male" startups. Many Unicorn startups, from Atlasssian to Dropbox, specialise in problems faced by, again for wont of a better term, "white males". Given the mantra of solving problems we have ourselves, it is possible that mixed groups choose less male subjects. As men have been the founders of the majority of startups to date, there must be a plethora of such startup ideas left untouched. One example is DIAJENG LESTARI who started https://hijup.com/, described as "A pioneering Muslim Fashion store. We sell fashion apparel especially for Muslim women ranging from clothing, hijab/headscarf, accessories, and more." Little to no chance the archetypal "white male hacker founder" has that idea.

That's three ideas off the bat, only one of which is bias. It could still be bias, but I feel that points 2 & 3 are at least good candidates for exploration. Personally, I think there must be a lot of low hanging fruit in ideas not aimed at men, and female founders seem ideally poised to have those ideas.
The vax had 4 modes: kernel, executive, supervisor, user. I just read[0] that kernel and executive had implicit SETPRV privilege (and thus access to those modes would be tightly controlled because SETPRV allows bypassing all access controls); and I think I heard a while back that normal programs ran in user mode but the shell-equivalent ran in supervisor mode (and [1] sort of implies this).

[0] http://h30266.www3.hp.com/odl/vax/opsys/vmsos73/vmsos73/5841...

[1] "If you created the name with a DCL command, the access mode defaults to supervisor mode. If you created the name with a program, the access mode typically defaults to user mode." http://h71000.www7.hp.com/doc/731final/4477/4477pro_007.html
It's simpler than they make it out to be: there is no demand uptick.

People are already spending at 100%+ of their income so they have no way to increase what they are buying even as the economy improves for some people. So, employers have no reason to hire more or extend hours.

This is why we see the minimum wage increases also stimulating the economy where they occur. They result in demand increases.
Does El Nino have an affect Europe?

Maybe a good time to buy wheat futures? Australia's east coast wheat crop is going to have a rough year or three.
Yes!! Strongly agree. Your comment hints on why breadth of shallow knowledge (in web development) is so important: it's hard to apply somebody else's solution to a "solved problem" (e.g. email validation) when you don't know that solution exists in the first place. Often times, in software, gaining knowledge of the existence of a solution is about as useful as gaining knowledge of the application of that solution. The reason is that solutions to many software-related problems - be they data structures or form validation - often come with documentation, and figuring out how to apply the solution is relatively easy.

Knowing that the solution is there to be applied prevents you from reinventing the wheel.
I dunno - maybe I'm wrong, but I got the vibe from all the reports of the Arab Spring that it was largely built on social media for coordination. Well, the Arab Spring was a precursor to ISIS. Throw in de-Baathification policies in Iraq, and...

Slavery, colonialism and to an extent militarism are hallmarks of mercantilism. And the Military Industrial Complex in the US was because people like Eisenhower saw the huge drawdowns after WWI and because now the US was left as some sort of world leader. I don't think this was mostly sought - it happened to us more than it was consciously chosen. And we were terrible at it, and some say we still are. But we had our moments.

I won't pooh-pooh Nordic "socialism". It works for them. The version Canada has seems reasonable as well.These places are poorer than the US as things are measured, but it's not like they're awful places to live.

What I'm doing is to an extent a "no true Scotsman" mess, but if you read Adam Smith, that's what you're left with. It's just that the ethical challenges of being transparent are difficult. People regress to wanting something more akin to Mercantilism, power by fiat.
Do you know something about the GP's experience in this area? (it doesn't seem obviously disclosed)
What Startups Need to Know About the Safe Harbor Ruling in Europe
The Best Pros Won’t Work for You, but You Can Still Engage Them
A breakthrough on QMA(2)
Functional programming and monads open new doors.

Even if you're programming javascript, ruby and python - you will be able to write better code and take all those patterns and incorporate them into things.

What needs to be known is that this involves a deeper level of thinking.

To be blunt, only the very best programmers can truly understand functional programming. Once they do, they can take any programming language and pretty much make it bug free, reuseable and readable like english.

Functional programming is for the top 1% of programmers / highest IQ's in society. So this blog may not be useful and perhaps seen as ignorant by non FP.
The German law says so. Perhaps they don't enforce it much but it's still the law:

" Whosoever publicly or in a meeting approves of, denies or downplays an act committed under the rule of National Socialism of the kind indicated in section 6 (1) of the Code of International Criminal Law, in a manner capable of disturbing the public peace shall be liable to imprisonment not exceeding five years or a fine."

[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laws_against_Holocaust_denial#... ]
Hard isn't the right word - it seems to not currently be officially possible. There is no documented interface for communication with users on Hangouts. Not even XMPP is supposed to work, though I and some other users are still able to use it.

The only API available is for building applications that interact with the existing Hangouts UI.
Being poor is actually not something that can be coped with through consistent social behavior. The chronic stress that defines the experience of poverty have lasting effects on a brain.
> Don't take my word too heavily, as this was just what I saw in a quick test with one Gmail account of my own.

XMPP support with Hangouts is currently very, very weird. Even though they shut down the old Google Talk service, and they say everywhere that Hangouts and XMPP don't mix, I'm still able to sign in to the service using XMPP (via Pidgin) and communicate with other Gmail users. No federation here, just directly signing in.

I'm waiting for it to eventually just stop working, just as MSN kept their servers alive for a while after their formal end of support announcement and the Skype transition...
Well France tried to avoid confrontation and the U.K. was trying to hold on to its empire and contain the German threat, but also had many business interstate in Germany. The allies thought they could diplomatically outmaneuver Hitler.

France and the U.K. then caved to Hitler's demands repeatedly and essentially sold Czechoslovakia and Poland down the river to Hitler at Munich 1938, and during the "phoney war". France was then surprised by the swiftness of the German attack but capitulated very quickly. Her armies were still mostly intact when France fell.

It must also be remembered that the extent of collaboration in France under occupation was very great and the French resistance was always very small.
We know that eugenics efforts cannot produce any remarkable or decisive selection for increased cognitive abilities. We know this because eugenics is a sort of hobby-horse form of evolution, across handfuls of generations, and because evolution cannot, taken over thousands of generations, select any more strongly for increased cognitive abilities than it already has. If it could, it would; thus we must conclude that it can’t.

If this argument were true then it would not have been possible for the evolution of human intelligence to have occurred.

You have assumed that having a higher gca did not have a cost higher in the past than it does now. The environment we live in today is very different to that of even our recent ancestors.
"SIRF reporting reveals that Valeant has been closely involved with Philidor at every stage of its life-cycle, controlling it in all but name, since day one."

http://sirf-online.org/2015/10/19/hidden-in-plain-sight-vale...
Thanks for this comment! The part on Ethernet in particular made me stop and think.

> But for most op amps, that limit is up in the megahertz range, so there's no problem using them for audio. (There is an audiophile cult which denies this, of course.)

As a hobbyist who does a lot of tube audio, I'm happy and sad. Not because you're right---you're definitely right---but because I know why you bother to mention it.

I love the history and the hands on aspect of the big, clunky guitar and kit amplifier circuits of the 50s and 60s. On my time, point-to-point is so much more fun than checking IC pads under magnification. But I often feel left out. The audiophile tube babble makes me queasy, but at the same time, it's all buggy whips to any real pro.

Thanks again.