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It's pretty crazy to me that I fought with my campus 10 years ago for pro-speech issues, it seems the administrations haven't gotten any more tolerant of speech (if anything less tolerant) and the students now seem to be fighting the administration in the opposite direction!

I think there are mix of issues going on here that are getting handled oddly.

1) Debating ideas versus the validity of groups.
In my opinion if there's overt racism, there is room for the campus to intervene to make sure they have an inclusive environment. However if they're debating something (intentionally picking something else) like whether or not there should be dogs on campus or whether or not dog owning is a good idea in the abstract, this is a completely fair discussion. Unfortunately both types of discussions are happening which is making the debate more difficult.

2) Offensive speech
Some people will hold and express ideas that others find offensive. As long as this speech is not designed to directly dehumanize or devalue contributing members of the community this probably has to be allowed to have a healthy dialogue.

3) Lots of poor judgement.
I suspect many of the incidents (other than the overt racism which is separate) that have crossed the line were not intended to be offensive, but I think some of them were deeply offensive. If you do something deeply offensive I think it's reasonable to be received with a somewhat hostile reaction (demands for apology, anger towards group, etc). This is probably not the most effective way to engage people, better to try to explain why what they did is deeply offensive. I think it's completely reasonable for the school to try to encourage a positive, thoughtful interaction between people without trying to police every minor injustice.
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Very true. I guess my confusion comes from the fact that "liberals" is often associated to "left-wing" while "authoritarians" is linked to "conservatism". In the end, they are actually orthogonal concerns.
Why yes...

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But 'organic' only covers a third of that. You can make horrible junk food with organic ingredients.
What worries me is that it is almost entirely intellectually devoid of content. There are these words "privelege" "microaggression" "appropriation" "problematic" and many others which do have some meaning in some cases but generally are used to express group identity and ostracize those who don't use the language of.. social justice? This entire movement isn't really about ideas or arguments it's about group identity -- people who "get it" and people who don't. And group identity is very flimsy here: especially if you're a white male god forbid beware, you can be part of it but if you ever say the wrong word or give someone the wrong look or even take the time to carefully consider any position other than the default your membership card is revoked and let the smearing and hate and abuse begin.

The videos there were particularly poignant and eminently predictable: student expresses group identity with the 'victimization culture' and screams and shouts over careful, thoughtful, measured academic, ignoring his statements and refusing to accept his right to even have an opinion. Student body watches in silence, possibly supporting the abusive screaming student, possibly in support of the professor but absolutely terrified to say anything lest they become a target of hate and abuse and country-wide public harassment. I'm not sure people with this attitude are mature enough to belong at any university, much less one of our best -- learning requires patience, respect, and an openness to other ideas. But maybe there's an opportunity there to teach them if they stay, it would just take a firm and brave stance from college administration -- the cynic in me suspects they'll find a way to fire this professor rather than that.
Primarily just limitations - only applies to chewing surfaces, not sides or between teeth, and can only be applied to non-filled healthy teeth. Approx 5-year lifespan, should be checked at regular dentist visits.

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> The harassers will gladly sign their own name to the actions, with the implication that if anyone should question them then their detractors will be the next target.

> Welcome to the New McCarthyism.

New? How does this differ from the Old McCarthyism?
Not at all.

I experimented 5+ years with it and took on several occasions 100+g per day with regular input between 10-15g per day.

The only problem I had after 5 years is slight pain in esophagus immediately after taking C, but it passed after I switched to taking C on full stomach.

Note: you MUST use pure AA powder, nothing else. Timing of C is essential - you must do it right, or the effects are minimal (you basically have to simulate the liver ancestral production now disabled in humans).

Vitamin C is a miracle thing IMO, especially 4 kids. My daughter was taking 1g since age 1 (now has 5) and she has remarkable health (she is sick once or twice per year for 2-4 days without any complications with being in kindergarten with 30+ kids since age 1, although the non-vitamin-c factors are contributing to this picture quite a bit).

Vitamin C is the most effective virus killer in large doses if you time it right. It is poor antibiotic but you have many options in plant world for that.
I mean... while that may be correct in some semantic sense, it's not a useful distinction. If you took a survey of the groups described in the article, 90% would self-identify as liberal. So the distinction you draw isn't really helpful for clarifying the issue.
> What went wrong all those years ago?

It probably had to do with the general shift towards substantially more jobs requiring a college degree as a condition of employment, regardless of any actual relevance to the position, and at the same time parents pushing children towards college regardless of personal aptitudes or preferences.

The quote from the article is striking:

> It is not about creating an intellectual space! It is not! Do you understand that? It’s about creating a home here.

That's not the attitude of someone going to college because they see it as a method of intellectual development. It's the attitude of someone going to college because they see it as a required phase in their life that has to be done to tick off the checkboxes to enter professional life.
> So when they want to replace some backwards, incompetent administrators, they must turn to activism.

If you're pointing that at the Christakises, I seriously question your judgment. At least in this situation, they acted with considerable patience, forbearance, and restraint.
PCU into the Netflix queue!
Damn, that was rough on that poor guy who had to stand there and be bullied like that. I'm half a globe away from this and at the moment that lady started shouting my blood started to boil. Also, it's absolutely not ok to shout at someone, it's a very dick move.
You're confusing "liberal", the US political affiliation, with "liberal" and "liberalism", the philosophy.
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> The student explodes, “Then why the fuck did you accept the position?! Who the fuck hired you?! You should step down! If that is what you think about being a master you should step down! It is not about creating an intellectual space! It is not! Do you understand that? It’s about creating a home here. You are not doing that!”

Bloom places a heavy emphasis on extolling to college students the virtues of western intellectual tradition, and reactions like this one show why. Willingness to entertain ideas that could cause social disharmony is actually pretty unusual among world cultures. It's unusual in the western world, but even more so nearly everywhere else. It's not the natural order of things. It's a discovery, an achievement, but one that can be lost to time.
The Christakis family is quite powerful at Yale, certainly in comparison to the students trying to get them replaced. They were Co-Masters at a Harvard house, and one of them extended that position to Yale. In 2009, one made Time magazine's list of the 100 most influential people in the world. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_A._Christakis)

Yale students do not get to run their own university. So when they want to replace some backwards, incompetent administrators, they must turn to activism. They can't merely decide to hire better ones.

> "this sort of thing worries me more than any government activity or corporatism."

Thanks for sharing your priorities. Government and corporations are the dominant power structures which lead to international mass murder ("war"), subordination/obedience, surveillance, mass incarceration... But students replacing backwards administrators are most worrying of all.
Weird, I thought all dentists recommended sealing as a matter of course. Maybe I was just lucky.
I have a theory that the Internet has done two things to make people less tolerant of others, instead of more.

First is the echo chamber phenomenon, which I'm sure we are all familiar with and requires no further introduction.

Second, I suspect, is the amazing speed at which technology has upended the world. Where technology can have an impact, it can change things at light speed compared to what our parents and grandparents put up with.

Take TV for example. For decades, televisions were tiny, expensive black-and-white boxes. Then after a while they became affordable, small-but-not-tiny black-and-white boxes. Took a bit longer until color television was the standard, less time for decent resolutions to be expected, even less for HDTV/4K. Not to mention the proliferation of content from 1-5 channels to thousands.

I believe that as technology changes life at a rapidly increasing pace, people's expectation of a rate of change is accordingly affected. We want things now, or tomorrow, or next week if we're really looking forward.

Mix that attitude with an echo chamber and you have a sizable cohort of well-meaning young people who are perturbed - if not outraged - that the societal ills of thousands of years of cultural development haven't been resolved yesterday, and anybody who calls to question the new attitude or the speed of its implementation must have a racist/sexist/pro-refined-sugars agenda.
OK, so now someone has to discover a new eel species and name it 'Epic eel'.
At least part of the blame lies in these colleges' Women and Gender Studies departments. I don't know if any of you have ever taken a WGST class, but at my school (Ivy) it was essentially institutionalized activism. People were taught that they were victims. It had very little intellectual depth, no alternate theories were taught, and the students who did best were the ones who "felt" the strongest about the "injustices".

These students then take these lessons out into the open, and are infernally convinced that they are Right and everyone else is wrong. It is shameful that these pseudo-philosophies are allowed to be taught in school as if they have any intellectual depth. Their only purpose is to radicalize the students into being loud self-righteous people.

So there's that, plus there are completely ineffectual helicopter parents who have coddled their children so much that they grow up spoiled. I saw the video of that person at Yale shouting at the professor - if my mother saw me do that she'd slap me in the face. What a despicable display of disrespect towards a reasonable man.
I had to have a cracked tooth pulled a couple years back after it led to an abscess. They did the procedure under local anaesthetic only.

Oh my god, did it hurt. I have a pretty high tolerance for pain and even I was praying for it to be over as soon as possible. I can only imagine what people who are more sensitive go through.

(I would have happily taken general anaesthetic instead, but they didn't even offer me the option.)
It's their position as victims that lets them get away with these actions in the first place. Further "victimizing" them will only give them more power. It will let them further capitalize on the "David vs Goliath" war against the university itself, and the media will inevitably side with the underdog victims.
If Paul Graham is involved with that account, he's not the only person; there are 'nickb posts that don't sound at all like things PG would write.
Yep yep yep yep. The fact is that this will "heal" the tooth rather than effectively putting a cork in it. This will also eliminate root canals because rather than a cork pushing against the nerve, you will have calcium replacing lost... calcium. Boom. Real healing.

Remember when a bad cut = cut the arm off? Now we have so much treatment that it is very rare to remove healthy tissue.

Similar things are coming with that new artificial eye lens. "Why would we cut off healthy tissue, when we can just replace the bad tissue"
We also understand that people will say anything to get the torture to stop.

When the intelligence community let it be known that Khalid Sheikh Muhammad confessed to planning 9-11, the response from the public was tempered by the almost universal recognition that he had been waterboarded hundreds of times before he "confessed".

At that point, he would have confessed to killing JFK and Lincoln just to stop them from slow-motion drowning him.
very cool, landing page is simple and to the point. and you can always exampand on Bootstrap.

Cool product, I'll definitely share it with my dev friends. If I had space on my wall I would buy it.

One suggestion: maybe have a few smaller sizes both for people that don't want to spend $59 and for people like me (that also doesn't want to spend that much) and doesn't have 44" of wall space to spare.

Maybe offer an 18"x18" for $20?
This is how I feel when I see the "codes of conduct" that are popping up. I know that, even though I am a minority of one type, being a white male means that if I am harassed nothing will happen, but if I disagree with my harasser they will claim that I am harassing them.

The code of conduct doesn't say it (though at least one version did) but the atmosphere currently is that it's impossible for a woman or ethnic minority to be the perpetrator.

The idea that there's some overarching patriarchy or power structure that, due to your gender or race, you are part of, and therefore you are fair game for abuse... is appalling.
This headline is overly sensational — this treatment does not apply for what most people consider cavities (i.e. caries, bacterial decay). It only applies for the very early stage caries process where enamel is just beginning to become demineralized.

Tooth enamel is essentially a matrix that is hardened by mineralization. Caries initially demineralize the enamel, but as they progress they destroy the enamel as well. Once that enamel is gone, there is nothing left to mineralize. You can throw as much calcium, phosphate, electricity, etc at it and you won’t end up with any more enamel. The decay has to be removed and filled with something.

This proposed treatment only works for the very initial stages of demineralization, which are referred to as white spot lesions, since demineralization causes the enamel to become opaque. The current conservative treatment for white spot lesions is to be judicious with cleaning and possibly apply some additional fluoride, as the tooth simply needs to be remineralized. The researchers are claiming to be able to accelerate that remineralization, which is great, but is very, very far from saying that patients won't need fillings.

Source: I’m a 2nd year dental student.

Edit: formatting
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I use mobile devices for 99% of my Hacker News activity.
Patreon.com does exactly that. There must be others, as well, but Patreon gets mentioned a lot on the science channels on YouTube.
It's a resurgence. The old McCarthyism died out after awhile, and he is saying this is it coming back, and thus "new" to distinguish it from the people who were going after "commies".
Yeah, I think you're right. You make a good point about there being plenty of users of interesting tech everywhere, but the creators of interesting tech are rarely in the Southeast. I can't think of any big players really.

To be fair to you, I was partially responding to a general attitude I find on HN that if you're not on the West Coast, then you're clearly not a real/good/respectable software developer – which is not what you were saying.

And I'm probably somewhat biased by the awesomeness of my little town (Charlottesville, VA), which has interesting startups like VividCortex (creating awesome DB monitoring tools using Golang), RoomKey (since purchased but started here as a Clojure shop), Center for Open Science (creating frameworks and doing cool stuff in Python), etc. And people in my circle are committers to Elastic Search, Kafka, etc., but I acknowledge that's uncommon.
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you're assuming that children that don't have the ability to exercise some consciousness of self-responsibility are always accompanied by adults that do.

Any case, cool swing dude. I have to get mine replaced and maybe upholster the seat . I too have the board and want to make it more comfortable.
Sorry, you said "directly", and Patreon clearly isn't direct. But it seems to be effective.
I have a dentist friend that says he should install a soda machine, and if you have a cavity free checkup, you get coupons for free refills of soda... "And have a free piece of sticky candy!"
SJW's are authoritarian, much like distasteful right-wingers. These people are like a secular version of the Christian Right.
As someone from Europe: This looks exactly like the 15h UTC peak in most US websites and chats when all the Americans come on.

The peak starts at 12h UTC, is largest at 18h UTC, and goes down at midnight UTC – exactly what I’m used from US people in the chats I am,

and exactly 4am PST, 10am PST, and 4pm PST.

or 8am Eastern Time, 4pm Eastern Time, and 10pm Eastern Time.

Which is Silicon Valley Morning/Workday, East Coast Workday, and European Evening.

Same as reddit.
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Exactly. The reason UPS and FedEx ceded last mile mail and package delivery to the USPS is that they weren't interested in dealing with the complex logistics of last mile delivery. Its unpredictable and unprofitable. They are interested in the meaty part of mail delivery: charging customers $20 to carry an envelope across the country on a plane, which has a marginal cost approaching zero for them.

Time will tell, but my theory on these last mile businesses that are springing up is that they are cramming into the market at precisely the places where there is the least money to be made, but offers the most convenience to customers. In other words, VC's are subsidizing luxuries that customers themselves have shown they won't pay for. This would be a great business if customers were willing to pay $20 to have food delivered, but the truth is that they aren't. At that point they will look for businesses that have delivery baked into the business model (ie, Dominos), or just go pick it up themselves.

There seems to be an inherent assumption somewhere that these businesses that don't offer delivery are out of touch or not tech-savvy, but the article touched on an important point with this quote: “There were many pages of orders, not just one or two,” he says. Finally, when spotting this phenomenon at a Palo Alto macaroon store on day, Xu asked why these orders weren’t being delivered. The answer was that the owner has opened his bakery to bake, and not deliver stuff. He got similar answers from people in other businesses, ranging from toys to furniture, to restaurants.

Maybe those businesses aren't interested in delivery for a reason. Just because you can build software for a smartphone doesn't mean the fundamental laws of P&L don't apply.
It's cognitive dissonance. People have always sought out ideas and philosophies to justify actions that they knew were wrong and were uncomfortable with. The scary part is sometimes they're not even aware of it or the harm they're causing.
And not just the QA at the lower level, at all levels. The whole VW saga is an epic failure of process, the fact that any of these products could make it out the door without management knowing about it is so incredible that they're guilty simply because they let it happen even if they didn't know about it. It's a company that is totally out of control from a quality and compliance viewpoint.
This line pretty much summarizes the issue:
"They’re behaving more like Reddit parodies of “social-justice warriors” than coherent activists"
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I don't think it hurts or helps really.

Simply because salary is only one small part of a constellation of things that are up for negotiation when you're considering an offer.

If a company has a hard line drawn in the sand in regards to salary, you can still negotiate working hours, working from home, job-title/responsibilities, benefit plans, commuting stipends, free lunches, 401k matching, extra paid time off, faster vesting of your options, etc etc.

So even if you end up with a low salary, that doesn't mean that you're under-compensated overall. It might just be that you're over-compensated in other areas.
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Hello everyone
Do you stalk your friends profiles ? I am asking because i am building an app which let you know whenever your friend changes their profile photo ( or upload an album)
It will be a great help if you give me some feedback about it
Thanks
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I use grep so I can just come back later and do more grep'ing if needed or even do more complicated grips. ;) Just have to remember to update the filelist.txt file every week or so .. anyway its ghetto and I like it.
It depends on the manner of attack. I called out a friend (claimed libertarian views) for his view that "tax is theft", when he was paid by the government with money collected via taxes. His views are antithetical to his work situation, that's criticism.

What I didn't do: I did not call for his firing from his position for his views, that would be intolerance, and not criticism.
> complicated mechanics and harsh trial-by-fire instruction

Super Metroid anyone?
>> "New? How does this differ from the Old McCarthyism?"

I'm not the OP, but I think the OP's claim is that this McCarthyism pretends to be about social issues instead of pretending to be about communism.
Competitive Starcraft is bigger than its ever been outside of Korea right now, as measured by total views.
That's neat. If it's just a few microamps, I wonder if they could create a mouthguard to remineralize your teeth while you sleep?
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As an outside observer, I'm interested in your position. What have (or haven't) the Christakis's done to deserve the "backwards, incompetent administrators" moniker?
> People were taught that they were victims.

As opposed to what? Teaching that we live in a fantasy world where everyone is actually treated equally?
Are we looking at the same article?

Is asking too hard, or are there really that many people lying about allergies?
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Alternate theory: Professors may go on leave accept lucrative private industry jobs then come back 5 years later to a promotion. Mean while people who have social and institutional power will continue to pretend that these students were a threat to the status quo.
One thing few writers focus on, in terms of the post-apocalypse, is dental care. A cavity can literally kill you if it progresses far enough. David Brin actually addressed this in The Postman; maybe this is why everyone in post-apocalyptic television and most films has shiny white teeth - they know!