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Calling /r/SJWhate and /r/SJSucks hateful are calling spades, spades. I've said nothing about the moral compass of the movement as a whole. To go way back upthread, I was responding strictly to the point that "those subreddits are disagreeable" and I've evaluated that claim for all of the instances provided. However, If you want your points to be taken seriously, I'd suggest that you not make /r/SJWhate the cross that you hang on. Likewise, I would hope that people espousing pro-[women's/minority/abortion/etc.] rights viewpoints wouldn't make "kill all [men/cops/priests/etc.]" their rallying cry.

I wouldn't and don't excuse "kill all men," and I personally think that opinions should be evaluated on their own merits, and not by [x] feature possessed by they who come up with it. You're projecting these beliefs on to me because I've called out certain subreddits as being stomping grounds for emotionally charged, rather than fact based, content. I think both sides of this debate have salient points, but neither side benefits from the content coming out of /r/*hate subreddits.
But I never implied that this is for children. Once we reach a certain age, and we are/were avid readers we "skip" reading the letters. Children cannot yet do this, of course, it takes training.
They're not really unrelated fields. No two fields are unrelated, especially to sociology and psychology.

HTTPS was invented to solve a security problem -- a completely social issue that wouldn't exist if people just could be trusted with your data. Unicode was invented to solve the problem that not everybody writes with the Latin alphabet, a problem caused only because people don't agree to fix it. Neither of those would have meant anything if someone didn't convince everybody to use them -- another purely social problem. In fact, almost all computer science issues are attempts to solve or make irrelevant certain classes of social problems. They're not unrelated fields at all. Communication and technology are practically the same thing.

>I think that what he means is that he wants the most important criteria to be about technology

The most important criteria for what? For what conferences people should have? For establishing what a given human wants out of life? For determining whether an industry is prejudiced?
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One of the skills that engineering teaches and/or selects for is something like "taking ideas seriously."

If you take chemistry and conservation of linear momentum seriously, you get rocketry. If you take "America is the Great Satan" seriously, you get terrorism. There's a fundamental similarity between the processes.
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BTW the name for this is "false balance".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_balance
"Prices fall"
Why would a latency of 2ms be considered good unless it was for packets traveling across a country?
I might agree that "CS is the great equalizer" if everyone is given an equal opportunity to pursue it. But I don't think they are. Boys are given the focus by default: just watch any Hollywood movie with a "hacker" -- are they a man or a woman? I believe girls are taught from a young age that CS isn't for them.

How many potentially brilliant female computer scientists are we missing out on as a society because our media and culture barrages them with images of male programmers? It's in my selfish interest as a white male to promote CS among underrepresented groups -- because one of them might come up with the next innovation that changes my life. But they don't get the chance, because they're told they can't be programmers.

That's why I think outreach focused on young minorities & girls is important.
It's exactly like hamburgers. At the top, there are actions that are hard to distinguish morally, just as there are hamburgers that are hard to distinguish quality-wise.

But we can all agree that a hamburger with actual shit in it is worse than a hamburger from Smashburger, just as there are certain actions that are clearly morally wrong and don't need to be evaluated with some false fairness.
> Is it that they think the OpenBSD source layout is hard to understand

OpenBSD's source tree layout is almost the same as FreeBSD's.

In both trees the source for the various CLI tools lives in src/bin/, src/sbin/, src/usr.bin/, src/usr.sbin/, and a similar structure in src/gnu/ (eg. src/gnu/usr.bin/)

https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/

http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/
In the implied social contract theory, the consent is what is implied, while the contract's terms may be explicit, implied, or some combination of both.[1]

[1] http://www.iep.utm.edu/soc-cont/
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I suspect my knowledge is behind the times, but I never understood the appeal of putting stuff like "current thread" in the app state at all. To me, it makes much more sense if the stores (or the single data tree, in the redux case) just contain the flat dumb data, and the URL is used to pick the relevant data that the components need. This way, no state is duplicated anywhere, the stores are dumb, and the URL is leading.

This is how most server side MVC frameworks work too, it makes server-side rendering super simple (even with shared app state between users), it fits with RESTful designs, it forces you to design state into URLs so users can share links by definition, and so on. It just seems obvious to me.

But somehow, Flux and most things derived from it seem to disagree and insist on storing the "this is what the user looks at right now" information in the application state. To me, that hopelessly convolutes things. But I've been wrong before and I'd like to learn.

Can anyone explain to me why that's better? I might just be a conservative, grumpy old man here.
In Crime & Punishment Rodya only has to serve 8 years for the double axe murder of two women in the commission of a robbery. It's a fictional tale about justice in 19th century Russia, but still an interesting comparison I think of when reading about modern sentencing.
It's not that people want housing to be more expensive, but they do want that housing to be in demand. Housing is in demand when an area is desirable -- offering good schools, providing efficient social services, vibrant and diverse markets are contributing factors to a desirable area, so when housing prices increase it is a sign that the area is desirable. As an area becomes more desirable, the price of housing goes up as the result.
But in a classroom setting, the students should feel free to debate the composition of the moon.

Very quickly, the proposal that the moon is made of Vince Foster would be dismissed as false. This is critical thinking in action.

The problem today is that students and faculty are self-censoring. This doesn't expand erudition.
They stuck with a syntax that was valid in older versions of Python, and used the function annotation work from Python 3.4. Thus, no "clean slate, choose the ideal syntax" discussion.
That's the draft one but thank you anyway :)
That's interesting. What frequency range are you looking at, and how do you examine it? The charger waits one second after being plugged into the laptop before enabling the output voltage, so that would explain some of the behavior you see.
I recently bought a VESA monitor conversion kit for an apple display (why Apple can get away with charging $1000 for a 27 inch display is beyond me) that turned out to be a knock off. It looked IDENTICAL to the official apple version on the outside but the screws didn't line up perfectly and it was clearly an inferior product. I'm not planning on skimping again, even for essentially just a hunk of machined metal.
I'll just leave this here... https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--HwBqLe3...
I suspect that the parent was saying was that the tenants pay the cost of that advertising spend, eventually. He's absolutely right, though I'm not sure where his response came from.
> This is seriously your argument? That's so fatalistic: this is the way things are, so this is the way things will be. You're also arguing a very "us" vs "them" mentality, which is what makes professions gendered to begin with.

Yeah, seriously. It's my argument. Did I not sound serious enough? Are you addressing the content within my argument or the tone of my argument?

I'm not being fatalistic, I'm genuinely asking those questions. I have a lot of male friends who didn't go into tech or nursing who are really struggling. One might go as far as to say they were "actively discouraged from nursing early on" while my female acquaintances happily slid into comfy and lucrative nursing positions. Yet, not once have I heard of or seen advertisements for Men in Nursing conferences or groups. I'm not making this "us" vs "them" as much as you want to frame my argument that way, and even if I did you'd have to explain why you think that leads to gendered professions.

> You're ignoring the social aspect. Women are often discouraged from tech early on, which makes the profession more male-dominated, which makes women feel less comfortable, etc.

Again, I could make the same (bad) argument by replacing "women" with "men" and "tech" with "nursing". Unless you're also willing to admit the problem exists there and needs to be dealt with, then I'm not sure we have much more to discuss.

If however, you do think the gender imbalance in the field of nursing is a problem, then I need to be educated as to why it's a problem. I've heard arguments about why we need to get more women in tech, but they've never made a whole lot of sense to me.

You know what we need more of in tech? People. Period. Far too few people chose CS as their field of study and as such there's a huge mismatch between supply and demand. If your mission is to increase the volume of people in tech, regardless of their race, gender, age, or creed, then count me in and how can I help?

edit: accidentally a word
In Norway Arnfinn Nesset served 12 years in prison and 10 years on parole for murdering 22 patients: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnfinn_Nesset . He may have killed as many as 138.
People often forget that the last "D" in ADD or OCD stands for "disorder." It means that a behavioral or mental trait is creating enough harm or distress to disrupt a person's life.

Being easily distracted is a trait. But plenty of people with that trait can live productive, happy lives anyway--so they don't have a disorder.

But some people do; I disagree with the article that ADD is "falling out of use." Rather, it is (hopefully) being used more properly to describe actual disorders, which are generally rare.

I also question the degree to which anything can be a "new neurological phenomenon." Our tools for measuring, qualifying, quantifying, or distinguishing neurological phenomena are themselves changing so rapidly that it is almost impossible to tell the difference between a new thing and new detection or awareness of an old thing.
I don't get it, you lived in it for 40 years. Why would it be worth more? Do you buy food?
Wouldn't the fact that the lower priced stuff is usually junk indicate that what it "should" cost is closer to what Apple charges?
Because (at least in part) they commit crime at far higher rates per capita. Black men commit about half of all murders in the USA, despite being about 13% of the population. The statistics are similar for many other crimes. 39% of people arrested for murder, manslaughter, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault were black from 2011-2013 per FBI statistics [1] [3].

In 2010, 62,593 blacks were victims of white violence, while 320,082 whites were victims of black violence. (Bureau of Justice Statistics). 2013 FBI homicide numbers show a similar ratio, with blacks being about 12 times more likely to kill a white person than whites were to kill a black person [2] (~10 blacks per 100k population kill a white, while ~1 white per 100k kill a black).

Some studies have shown that crime is correlated primarily with poverty, while other studies have found that being black correlates to criminality while controlling for other factors [4]:

"As a means to assess these possibilities, I estimate separate regression
equations for the black and white block groups in Atlanta. [...] Consistent with previous research, percent black retains a strong, significant effect on violent crime net of the effects of other controls. [...]" "[...] Although this finding appears to provide partial
support for the racial invariance assumption, the fact remains that for a large proportion of the black neighborhoods, the effect of disadvantage on violence is weaker than is the effect evident among all of the white neighborhoods in the analysis" (However this paper is largely inconclusive on the issue overall, and predominately suggests that previous research into the topic is inadequate to understand it)

Why this is the case is an interesting problem that I hope we can tackle, better understand, and attempt to solve as a society (by solve I mean bring violent crime down to zero generally, across all groups)

[1] FBI crime statistics by race for 2010: https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2010/...

[2] FBI homicide statistics by race for 2013: https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2013/...

[3] http://blogs.channel4.com/factcheck/factcheck-black-american... has additional details and citations.

[4] http://www.udel.edu/soc/faculty/parker/SOCI836_S08_files/McN...
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Hey! Thanks you guys for your feedback. I've been working out some kinks with the site this afternoon, now it should work for all you smoothie lovers aswell :) I hope!

And just so you know I'm not just bullshitting you,
try typing in "I am a smoothie lover" on the rorchach test
and it will know you came from here. Also, it won't be as hurtful in the end, sorry about that.

/Paul
Yeah, I was dissapointed. Article had very scant mention of the mans experience, which was certainly an odd one and probably very interesting.

Title was basically clickbait. Article was really about the politics behind this issue.
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the Chinese don't want to loose that business I guess
If rents always went down there'd be no incentive to build and own supply. I think the thought experiment here is that though this is a seemingly simple supply and demand problem on the surface its also exceedingly complicated to actually plan and adjust for due to all the related inputs to housing (schools, water, fire, political representation, etc.)
I believe we are going in the wrong direction.

The point should not to have more cattle, but to produce food in a more sustainable way.

In my opinion they should aim to produce meat in vitro.
That's not possible right now
> government exists to protect its citizens, not your corporate profits.

That's how it should be. But from observation this seems not to be happening, at all.

I wonder if someone could mention any example from the last years where the US government has clearly chosen against corporate interests, and for protecting its citizens.
> And yet even without a phone call from Larry Page, we all know that we're authorized to point our web browsers at google.com, and not authorized to ssh into Google's internal networks.

...because we see the servers allow us to, and don't allow us to, respectively.

Again, there are unambiguous cases. If you have no normal ssh access but you have an ssh 0-day, the 0-day does not by itself "authorize" you. But those are not the objectionable cases.

> When there are grey areas, the legal system will look at the whole situation and consider what a reasonable person would conclude.

You can't run a legal system exclusively on what a reasonable person would do. People have to have some idea of what that means so they can have some idea ahead of time whether the thing they want to do is legal or not. Which is why we have laws against murder and theft and pollution that specify some details about what the crime entails and let the courts resolve the minutia of specifically what specific parts of the laws mean in a particular context.

But the CFAA is not a law against murder or theft or pollution, it's a law against doing what you aren't allowed to do, without actually specifying what you aren't allowed to do. You might as well pass a law that says "don't be evil" and then shrug and hope the courts will figure it out.
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Everything about this is ridiculous, but this especially so:

"Johnson’s release date was originally scheduled for earlier, but he ended up serving an additional eight months at the age of 69 for a juvenile shoplifting charge he received when he was 17."

How in any reasonable society is this justifiable? I re-read the sentence probably five times because I simply couldn't believe it.
James Rolfe/AVGN has an entertaining take on this. Possibly NSFW.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_MOqHyCUEc
So basically, anyone who disagrees with you is a racist/sexist?
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They should be treated differently because a fist is not considered a priori a deadly weapon. Punching someone isn't the use of lethal force. Death is almost certainly an unintended consequence of a punch.

Whereas, by contrast, the absence of death is the unintended consequence of, say, a shooting or stabbing (in any vital area of the body).

We can't go easy on an attempted murdered just because, luckily, the victim didn't die.

We also can't go easy on someone who killed using a punch just because death was unintended; the fact is that the victim died, and the fact is that not all punches are the same. They vary in intensity and area of delivery. A punch which kills (directly) must be quite a wallop, backed by a lot of rage.
That's nice feature, we would need to look into it, however DNS A or AA does not contain port information limiting us to the 'default' ports.
The impression I get from this site and similar blog posts:

IE 11 ends with Windows 10. Edge the Browser isn't classified as a Windows component, to my knowledge, and so also shouldn't classify for "extended support" like IE has in the past. It certainly sounds like the intention is to drop IE entirely once Edge has feature parity and user adoption on its side.

(Things are a bit trickier when talking about EdgeHTML the Renderer which I would think is a Windows component still, given that it runs some of the Windows Universal Platform, but here also the benefit of forking it from IE is that they can keep the support policies clear from day one as opposed to having to fix up things after the fact like they did here.)
Yes. It's the MacBook Air-like fanless one [1] with only 2 ports: headphone and USB-C. And half a power cable. And no MagSafe. Did I mention I'm a little bitter?

[1] http://www.apple.com/macbook/
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A bit of Sugru works as an alternative to silicone tape IME. I’ve got a bunch of frayed cables which are still going strong thanks to a chunk of Sugru round the frayed part.
I support around 300 Macs for work. In my extensive experience, the deal here is that people are FAR too rough and careless in winding up those charger cables over and over. Apple HAS implemented strain relief here and done their best to make the points of failure less vulnerable. Here's a tip:

Instead of yanking the cable at a 90-degree angle and winding as tightly as possible, let the cable come out of the charger naturally, perpendicular to the charger, make a small loop, and then wind the rest of the cable gently around the two plastic hooks that are provided. If you do this, the charger will last a LOT longer.

The simple fact is that there is no way to make a wire that gets twisted and yanked and bent at a 90-degree angle, and which will nevertheless last forever. That's just not a thing we can do.

Another tip is: own 2 of these chargers, one for home and one for walking around, so that you don't have to wrap up your only charger over and over, every day.
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You can reject (or at least question) the premise.
There's a small confusion in terms here: the "social justice movement" and "a desire for social justice" are not even close to synonymous.
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There's a difference between discussing much a person hates a group of people and discussing why people hate people; There's a difference between discussing why racist halloween costumes are offensive (and perpetuate subconscious hate) and discussing whether or not hate speech has a place on college campuses.
Any sort of work should always be judged based on the actual content, not who likes it or where it has been shared.

To reduce this argument to absurdity, let's say I create a recipe for pecan pie. People love it, including the people at stormfront or other white power sites. Let's say I created this recipe back in the 1920s, and it happens to be Hitler's favorite pie.

Is there anything wrong with that pie?

People with extreme viewpoints will often like things that are a more moderate version of their own viewpoints. Just because you don't agree with the extremists doesn't mean that you should also disagree with the moderates.
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This is the thing Elizabeth Warren spearheaded, and the Republicans have fought tooth-and-nail since before it existed.
It clearly is a joke. I could see myself making the same joke when I'm in a playful mood. His other sentences are excellent, and he doesn't have other writing errors (disclaimer: not the best writer myself), that's enough proof for me. Also, he's communicating in a playful way the whole time. As cpfohl said in a similar vein: I think the joke acts as a disqualification for people who don't appreciate it, i.e. acting as a filter.
Being forced to leave one of the most influential software developers, and go start a new small startup is comparable to being forced out of the major studios and starting your own. I fail to see any significant difference between what happened at Mozilla and the Hollywood blacklist.
> Their argument is demonstrative rather than persuasive (although there is a persuasive component, but they expect interlocutors to be familiar with structuralist theory, which is not unreasonable in an academic setting).

I think this is spot-on.

> They are showing people what it feels like to be unexpectedly and unjustly placed into an out-group.

But I don't think this is the intent. Rather, the goal is to create a place where the structures they oppose are weaker/nonexistent. A consequence may be that people with privilege are made uncomfortable and/or put in an out-group, and that is fine because as you said this "is something that they have a lifetime's experience of." And that discomfort is even seen positively as a sign that the culture is going in the right direction, but it is just a symptom, not the goal.
How do you think a history class should handle a student who wants to discuss Holocaust as a hoax? How about a law student who thinks rape is a victim-less crime?

My answer used to be "why, if you have the truth on your side, just prove 'em wrong and move on! so much the better for your standpoint!". However, it can get extremely tedious. A stubborn student can "plausible deniability" his way into extremely metaphysical arguments, about historical revisionism and psychology, and ultimately about epistemology itself.

I think it's important to phrase the argument not as "the students want these topics to not be discussed", but instead as "the students want these topics to be included in the actually already existing list of topics we don't discuss". And then take it topic-by-topic.

This idea that student-activism is largely composed of completely irrational anti-logic zealots is a caricature.