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If this were the only sort of discrimination that went on, and if people were simple automatons, yes, your "just a trait" thing might have some explanatory power.

However, we have a historical record millennia long with enormous discrimination against women. Were women not allowed the vote until a century ago because their character traits mysteriously changed enough for them to finally be responsible? Did their character traits start changing in 1970 such that they were suddenly suitable for medicine, law, and science (and, briefly, technology)? [1] Because the feminine character was certainly cited as a reason why women shouldn't vote or be allowed to pick particular professions.

Further, we receive all sorts of gender socialization, starting with color-coding infants, moving up through toys and education, and continuing through all sorts of gender expectations during youth. A lot of education is explicitly about building character. A great deal of what you call "character" is learned behavior.

I'd think that you working in an area where you are treated as an idiot because of your gender would make you aware of how arbitrary this stuff is.

[1] http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/10/21/357629765/when-...
It's not that people delay having children, it's that society punishes having children.

My fiancee's pregnant coworker was told (we live in the USA, unfortunately) that she would have six weeks of unpaid leave after giving birth, followed by two weeks of short-term disability insurance, and then she could return to work or lose her job. This is for a salaried, postdoctoral scientist at a biotechnology company. In a related matter, the same HR employee who explained that policy says that he opposes the very idea of paternity leave -- and he's a male homosexual.

Likewise, the largest wage gap between men and women isn't actually a gap between men and women, it's a gap between men and mothers.

It takes two incomes to support a household these days, and yet society punishes women for childbearing as if it only took one. What did they expect would happen under these conditions, that people would stop responding to economic incentives "because babies"?
Unproven hearsay in the New York Times has never led to disaster before <cough>Judith Miller</cough>.
> I find it really amusing that the general sentiment in France towards guns and a 2nd amendment style right is negative when it is not a stretch to say that some lives could have been saved if armed persons of the populace came to the rescue

Please, no. Liberalization of guns (that is, a tool for hurting and killing living beings) doesn't solve terrorism. It doesn't make people safe. It doesn't help.

People in USA don't understand why guns aren't sold freely in Europe just as we do not understand how guns are available to everybody in the States. Unfortunately I can't express that other than "it just feels wrong."

Don't be naive and think that making everybody a vigilante is going to solve terrorism and Middle East crisis. It goes much deeper than that.

EDIT: don't you have crazy people shooting around over there? I would argue that it's much easier given how available guns are to the populace, but the point is: gun liberalization has nothing to do with keeping citizens safe.
I don't understand how living in Belgium I missed that (nitpick: s/president/prime-minister).

But then again these are just polls. And then there needs to be a majority coalition.

But it's a far cry from the Netherlands I knew in the 90's.

Back on the topic: there are some really disturbing messages on social networks and in politician mouths regarding the refugees (who are called migrants here).
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It's not 100% a meritocracy, no, although it seems to be more of a meritocracy than other industries.

And a lot of the gender skew starts real, real early. Anyone who took Computer Science in college could see the gender skew in action. I regularly had between 0 and 1 women in my 30+ student classes. They just weren't signing up for Computer Science classes.

And there used to be quite a few female computer scientists, but that trend changed in the 70s. There was probably a cultural aspect to this (i.e. parents or peers influencing their decisions away from computers because computers are for asocial nerds, and you don't want to be a nerd!).

It does appear that the cultural influence is shifting at least slightly in favor of women being programmers again, with nerd/geek culture becoming more fashionable and so many people using computers/smartphones all day long, so hopefully we will see more women pursuing computer science, but the root of the problem is mostly right at high school/college age, not nearly as much in the workforce.
Breivik wrote a manifesto claiming he was doing it to support Christianity. And yet people don't call him a Christian terrorist.
What do you mean by "debt is meant to be repaid?" Debt is an asset for the lender, and debt service names it in l an income generated asset. Where it is not better for the borrower to pay it off now vs m continuing to pay debt service, and where the terms of the debt alow that (or where the debt service can be transferred by paying off one lender by borrowing from a new one), then it can be mutually beneficial to the parties involved not to pay off the debt. Debt does not have some cosmic purpose outside the interests of the parties involved. You may have a mental model of debt that preferred it being paid off, but that's quite possibly an irrational preference outside the circumstances of as particular debt.
Personally I run dnsmasq on my file server (separate FreeBSD jail), but before then I was running it on my Asus router with pretty much the stock firmware. So I don't think there is a "best" approach specifically - just whatever works for you.

What's your router model?
Is there a reason you can't just delete the wallet that holds the coins and make sure you don't have any backups?

It seems that just removing them from circulation by any means would have the same result as "destroying" them.
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The FBI is concerned about white supremacists: http://thegrio.com/2015/05/12/fbi-white-supremacists-law-enf... (this particular domain isn't the best, but it's a story that was repeated all over the place) And stuff like https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2012/may/extremism_052212/e... , etc.

And they were in fact doing more, but a lot of it (along with funding) has gone by the wayside since 9/11.
True. But for the most part, it is just talk. They don't throw you off a building for being gay as a rule (there are hate crimes committed, but they are unfortunate exceptions, not a rule).
Is there any upside of blocking using a [browser] plugin compared to this ?
It depends. For a long time the UK was happy to call Irish nationalists and the IRA terrorists.

Terrorism is what other groups do.
If your favorite tool is the pervasive surveillance hammer, you try to make everything look like a nail.
It's also worth pointing out that even Salafi jihadism isn't a homogenous whole, with many of the other jihadist movements actively fighting ISIS

A key difference between al Qaeda, which could broadly be defined as trying to "tip the scales eventually toward a Caliphate" whilst battling for certain populist causes and ISIS is that the latter considers itself to be a Caliphate, and is actively pushing for the Islamic equivalent of Armageddon. That means it isn't going to calm down, but it also means that its claims to legitimacy based on fulfilment of prophecies about unification of territories are more readily defeated by military means than other jihadists' claims to be defending the Muslim world from infidels.

Edit: see also this user's point and linked article https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10581489
I found the article pretty hard to read...it did not have a clear structure or narrative, had some weird, pithy quotes [1] [2] [3], and generally felt more like a puff piece written by a breathless admirer than serious journalism.

But the main takeaway seems to be the "very clear" 5-10 year R&D roadmap for Oculus:

> Oculus, then, represents two big bets in one: that VR will be the next major computing platform, supplanting phones the same way that handheld devices usurped desktops—and that human nature won’t change. "If you look at how people spend time on all computing platforms, whether it’s phones or desktops before that, about 40% is spent on some kind of communications and media," Zuckerberg says. "Over the long term, when [Oculus] becomes a more mature platform, I would bet that it’s going to be that same 40% of the time spent doing social interactions and things like that. And that’s what we know. That’s what we can do."

Seems logical that VR is going to be FBs next big play, and their ability to get a good product to market relatively soon will be crucial. It's astounding how much revenue they are still able to pull in from a botspammed, broken advertising model on a product that (from my observations of friends/app store comments) is declining in popularity in the US, one of the most lucrative segments.

[1] "This is not big data," says Bordes, who is wearing a T-shirt depicting a robot boxing a dinosaur. "This is supersmall data."

[2] "I personally called up the guy who’s leading our laser-communications effort, who was working at [NASA’s] Jet Propulsion Laboratory," he recalls. "And he said, ‘What? Why are you calling me?’ And I said, ‘Because we’re connecting the world, and I want you to come in and meet the team, and this is something that’s really important to me, and I think we can make a big difference.’ " Even in the retelling, Zuckerberg makes it sound urgent.

[3] Yael Maguire director, Connectivity Lab: "Our focus is technologies that can advance the state of the art by at least an order of magnitude. We don’t want to make something better by a factor of two or three, because the rest of the industry is going to do that."
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Its exactly what he said, those people should not get a pass either.

However I would also argue that for all of those their are non cultural/religion arguments that can be applied.
It seems you're comparing Google Adwords anno 2001 with Facebook Ads anno 2008.

Today Google ads are everywhere - even in mobile apps and email. And they work with any signal they can get. Facebook Ads on the other hand are now using retargeting ads based on your searches outside of Facebook. Not that any of the two types of ads are inherently more evil than the other in my point of view.
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I just did a side project and used 4 because they finally moved to rems.
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> Is there a reason you can't just delete the wallet that holds the coins and make sure you don't have any backups?

But you can't prove that you did that to anyone else.
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Good article -- slight nitpick: he talks about free writing via typing ( because of his great website 750words) but
Julia Cameron has always advocated writing free hand to slow down and be closer to each letter, each word.

Not sure if Natalie Goldberg had the same restriction.
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One that I know: labs.

Having a calculator next to your precision balance or your micrometer is always useful. Many times, you always need to do the same operation with the quantity you are measuring, so it is worth to even program the calculator for it, if you have the possibility.

In this situation, the phone is usually hidden by a lab coat and you are wearing a pair of gloves . Moreover, the computer is out of reach or you do not want to touch. The calculator gets the job done much faster and you do not have to worry so much when it is soaked in acid.
I have a friend who used to get erotic messages from her mathematician boyfriend steganographically encrypted on postcards. I had to show her how to decrypt them. It was pretty standard cryptanalysis once I guessed that the messages existed. Some of them were filthy.
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Of course my impression is anecdotal (as is yours of HN's sentiment toward Facebook), but I see Google take a lot of flak here. Privacy, sunsetting services that are still used, privacy.

I would also say that in contrast to Facebook Google has used their mountains of cash to try to make meaningful contributions to research (the whole life extension gambit for example).
Astronauts would have been aware of Apollo era automation problems. The most notable the Apollo 11 Rendezvous Radar Switch eating all available CPU and nearly aborting the mission.

There's also a cultural problem here. Many of the early astronauts were test pilots, who came from a "I fly this" culture. Taking away their autonomy was difficult and every screw up that engineers made caused further rifts between the two. Engineers vs astronauts was a common narrative back then.
Hmmm... i wonder if this would be a good use of Facebook and Twitter.

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Like they did before there was an internet to surveill. This is not a novel problem.
I'm not saying it's a like for like replacement, I'm saying they stopped working on JobDSL because they were working on Spinnaker.

This feels like a Jenkins replacement rather than a Jenkins plugin replacement or at least something that sits atop Jenkins in driving your build and deployment activities (it's got support to call and watch Jenkins jobs so it's sensible to assume they use both).

I'm interested to hear that JobDSL is painful for Jenkins masters do you know what the pain points are?
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"Hipsterism", perhaps? Of course classic English words like "snobbery" or "contrarianism" probably also apply.
If so, they should say so. Silently pulling the article and redirecting the URL is a little misleading.
You know what? Never though about the South America example before.

You have convinced me that religion is important here. I will think about it.

Did you convinced somebody before about anything in an Internet forum? ;-)
I vehemently disagree with this. Islam DID modernise; what we're seeing is a regression, and I think a good deal of the blame can be placed on Washington and Moscow.

A half-century ago, very little of what was happening in the Middle East had anything to do with Islam. Most of the leadership in the region was secular; some states were quite democratic.

Egypt is one of the most conservative places today, chafes under the yoke of a secular government, wants to be Islamist. A half-century ago under Nasser, Egypt was the source of secularism in the region and was pulling other Middle Eastern nations towards its secular nationalism. Similarly, Iran was extremely secular in the 50s, and remained so under the Shah; many secular elements were instrumental in pulling him down.

Both of these poles were toppled by American efforts. Egypt was slowly pulled towards the Washington Consensus by buying the government, which became increasingly repressive. The same result was achieved in Iran with a coup that toppled the democratic government. In both of these places the reaction to a repressive secular regime had a strong Islamist component (both Shia and Sunni).

It wasn't just in government that this reversal happened; the primary popular resistance organizations during the 20th century were also secular. The PLO, PFLP, and so on were all secular Marxist organisations, and young radicals fighting against American hegemony, the same space ISIS has colonised now, would not have given a fig for jihad. It was the failure of these organisations to provide the liberation sought that led to the eventual rise of Islamist alternatives, like Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and al-Qaeda.

Contemporary Sunni jihadi ideology, in fact, had its origins in Egypt in the 60s thanks to people like Hassan al-Banna and Sayed Qutb, who developed much of the thinking that fueled al-Qaeda ideologically. This was a modern development, a reaction to the spread of secular thought and colonialism; it is not a continuous expression of Islam.

Finally, let's not forget the active American support of conservative religious Saudi Arabia, to the tune of billions in military hardware and ironclad political alliance, as well as the arming of the Afghan mujahideen against the Soviets, both of which were signal events in fanning the flames of radical Sunni Islamism.
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Hard to see where you're coming from when from your perspective everyone has tons of excess money laying around and simply chooses not to spend it.

Did it ever occur to you that maybe everyone else isn't as affluent as you clearly are? We don't choose not to fly in first because we are saving for a Ferrari or a cruise, or whatever you rich people buy.

If economy wasn't available at the price it is available at then we literally wouldn't be able to fly AT ALL. That's where a lot of people are at financially, they can afford one return ticket a year, in economy.

This only gets more obvious when you look at a family of four... You'll wind up paying as much for the Premium Economy upgrade (4x) as you would for a used car ($5K+).

Did your parents give you a "small one million dollar loan" too?
> The last time we tried that ...

Let's keep things in perspective here. Yes, the rest of the world was too complacent about the rise of the Nazis and Hitler, but that's not the last time we've had to deal with this sort of thing.

Red Army Faction (and Baader-Meinhof), Action Directe, the PIRA, the Corleonesi faction of the Sicilian Mafia, the FSLN, and the Basque ETA are all terrorist groups that essentially no longer exist or have mutated into legitimate political parties.

Still more recently than Hitler was neo-Nazism, which, while it still exists in pockets, has lost almost all of the coordinated criminal/terrorist organizations which existed in post-war Europe.

Suggesting that the narrative of ideological warfare went from the Crusades to WWII to ISIS with no breaks in between and meriting only a single response (military action) is historically naive.
He doesn't care. In his view we're guilty of everything. In the end, sadly, he's just another primitive religious zealot, not unlike the ones who decapitate people.
I have read this some years ago. I really enjoyed diving into this subject. My favourite part is:

> Common wisdom tells us that function types don’t have decidable equality. In fact, e.g. the function type Integer -> Integer doesn’t have decidable equality because of the Halting Problem, as is well known. However, common wisdom is not always correct, and, in fact, some other function types do have decidable equality, for example the type Cantor -> y for any type y with decidable equality, without contradicting Turing [...] This seems strange, even fishy, because the Cantor space is in some sense bigger than the integers. In a follow-up post, I’ll explain that this has to do with the fact that the Cantor space is topologically compact, but the integers are not.
God has little to do with political plays. Not all muslim extremist are believers, just like not all the american politicians who say they're christians are actually christians[0]. More often than not, it's a facade from the leaders to draw in more pawn soldiers who believe in the cause.

You talk a lot about not having a clue on "the reality of the conflicts" and yet, you are unable to take a step back and look from the perspective of someone completely alien to the situation.

America has, time and time again, used and abused its armies for strategic and economical purposes (The "if you have oil..." meme has been beaten to death, hasn't it?). It certainly is willing to sacrifice innocent lives as long as it doesn't make the news - which it doesn't because of how hostile the entire country is to muslim ideals. And I've heard more than once the term "God" being thrown around by US politicians to justify these things. Does all of this ring a bell to you?

One of the sides is certainly a lot more barbaric than the other, what with the beheadings and what not... but whether your family is dying to american bombs or to barbarians doesn't really change squat for the victims. With the exception that one of them is actually less destructive - take a guess which?

[0] Since we're talking about countries with backwards ideologies, how is it that it's political suicide to be an atheist in the US? We have plenty of them in France and nobody gives a shit...

Edit: I'll add to this... It's really hard to take a step back and picture yourself as being the bad guy. It's nearly impossible, in fact. You are raised on one side of a conflict and you simply do not have the full picture unless you've yourself lived on the other side or been with people on the other side. But try to understand this: In these wars, there's no "bad guy and good guy". There's two bad guys and a lot of followers who have been completely brainwashed to think the causes are worthy.

Wars are not about justice. They're not about spreading culture, be that culture islam or democracy. We'd be at war with North Korea if they were about any of those things. Wars are strategic, and always about taking something away from the enemy, be it territory, riches or political power. The two sides are equally bad, and the civilians/soldiers on both sides only see how evil the other side is - they don't get to see the evil of their own.
Generally "Physical growth" and "GDP growth" are not really similar.

A number can grow infinitely. Tree or human population can not.

GDP approximates perceived value prodced by society. In capitalism, saying GDP cannot grow anymore is essentially saying humans don't want anything you can buy with money to be better in any perceivable way. Give average guy huge amount of money, if he burns it for shits and giggles, then GDP cannot grow anymore.
The IRA was not bought down by miltiary operations. Various leaders of it are currentling serving in governments in Northern Ireland. (Martin McGuinness is Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland, Gerry Adams is a TD in Ireland)
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That last line doesn't tell us much, because stealing kidneys essentially never happens.
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