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Why do people continue to start smoking?

I grew up in the US in the 80s and 90s, where we were bombarded with anti-smoking ads, the health effects were well known, and the prices were high.

It blows my mind that I have peers who smoke. They would have seen the same ads, had the same facts available, and mostly come from similar backgrounds (middle-class).
This should enlighten you why: https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2015/12/15/an-introductio...

Basically, he's big on Kerf because he's involved in the development. The above blog post will tie it with Kx and other APLs.

https://getkerf.wordpress.com/ is the official Kerf blog. And Kerf is not meant to be free...
Aww, I'm so sorry that your horrible vice that ruins the air for everyone else, makes you look like a billion years old, and inflates my dry-cleaning bill when I'm around you costs you more money. Really, can't express how sorry I am.

Honestly wish the tax on smoking was 200x what it is now. Fucking disgusting habit that needs to be eradicated.
I also work in a similarly "diverse" office (east coast, household name software company) but I don't see things nearly as rosey as you do I think. As a white software engineer I'm typically in the extreme minority (I'd say it's a 70/30 split, and of course unless I am in a meeting with mostly management types) and the majority being asians and southeast asians here on work visas.

As this relates to the article I find it incredibly sad that my employer can't find citizens of any color to fill positions and instead chose to hire people coming from countries with dubious education systems.

Instead of bringing over "the best and brightest" to do low quality work at 70k/yr, I'd much prefer our industry and government focus on training its citizens to fill these positions first.
It isn't so hard to establish. Colemak and its variants are clearly among the most efficient out there, and there are plenty of metrics one can use to judge, such as finger travel distance, alternating distribution of right and left hand use, and concentration of the most commonly used characters on the home row.

The problem is mainly that it isn't default, which can make it annoying unless you don't mind buying native colemak keyboards.

Changing your caps lock key to a backspace provides most of the finger travel benefits of colemak with much less annoyance.
It is/was in Singapore through LKY.

As usual, perfect lies in the middle through pragmatism.
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As for the "full" planet/dwarf planet debate, a more precise explanation that has been seen recently in many talks is "gravitational dominance of the orbit". This arises from the case of Jupiter and its trojans. The criteria is "it dominates the gravitational interactions in its neighbourhood", which such an object (affecting practically everything in the Kuiper Belt) does.
It would be uncouth of me to say "I doubt that this comment is a literally accurate transcription of something which happened in consensual reality" but if anyone is hanging around the phone wondering "That's funny, Uber never called me": unless you happen to run a VC firm, it's highly, highly unlikely that a late-stage startup raising e.g. a D round at a multi-billion dollar valuation is interested in making your acquaintance as an investor. At seed stage or maybe an A, sure, a $25~$50k check from a technologist is still a meaningful amount of money (and valuations would probably be single-digit millions), but even if there were no legal issues at play, no firm raising on a billion dollar valuation will speak to you because the time it takes to close you would be better spent on convincing someone who can write a check that matters.
I thought the same. Perhaps we can think of a way to do it? The only thing coming to mind is either using a markov chain or a char-RNN to generate code files. The latter has been done here: http://karpathy.github.io/2015/05/21/rnn-effectiveness/
China hemorrhaged $676B last year
It's making 2 points. (1) They are more likely to smoke and (2) It costs them more.
Best guess: Howard is ranked #391 in CS nationally

Source: http://computer-science-schools.com/howard-university
Antenna length and placement certainly is a huge factor in wireless performance. But those specific antennas on the linked router are thick and huge mostly because of the plastic decoration around them. As the GP said, it's marketing.
This isn't always a fair comparison. Some of the UK pits were high quality anthracite. Also some cost savings could surely have been made if the two political sides had been able to actually make meaningful compromises.
This crap has spread to the Linux community now too? Christ.
Good riddance! But we've yet to see what they come up with as a replacement. Besides, I'm not sure a different keyboard will help with people laziness and spelling deficiencies.

Personally, I'm perfectly fine with my qwerty keyboard, and it doesn't prevent me from typing specific French letters "é, è, ç, à, É ...". It's actually very easy to type these letters on a mac keyboard. Apple did a good job on this.

"option - e e = é" "option ` - a = à"... I don't know how to type "oeuf" or "oeil" though.
I also stumbled over this, but later in the article it's explained with more numbers.
People should stop liking what you don't like, right?
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Because it makes them happy.

Tobacco activates the pleasure centres of the brain. Just like food, sex, drinking, or some illegal drugs. So you get a "reward" each time you partake, with smoking being particularly rewarding.

A lot of poor people are trying to "treat" underlying unhappiness or stress, sometimes without knowing it (sometimes fully aware). It isn't a lack of understanding about the health risks, it is both an addiction, and the "least bad" alternative for what they're trying to accomplish (improve happiness, treat depression, decrease stress, etc).

It may surprise the smug but there are a lot of very intelligent people who have addictions (e.g. drinking, drugs, eating, smoking, etc), including doctors, PhD holders, and award winning theorists. You're seriously misguided if you think it is because they lack information/health warnings.
> What I do know is, you can't compensate for that by handing people undeserved opportunities.

How do you know this?

Not that I agree with your framing, but even if I accept it for the sake of argument, that black culture is lazy and underachieving in a way white culture isn't, it still seems to me that if you hand black people undeserved opportunities (leaving aside that the word "undeserved" is a huge stretch here, given that you've just admitted that it's for no fault of their own), they'll move into a culture of good white traits like being smart and competitive and creative, and they'll have kids who grow up looking up to their parents' hard-working, humble, humorous white coworkers at Google.

Doesn't that have measurable positive results?
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How about this?

Black engineers would prefer to work in IT at a big bank with high steady pay than opt for the highly variable risk/return profile of being an engineer in SV.

And why do they do this? If you look at poverty being an overriding theme for blacks in America, even if they themselves are not poor, then one would clearly prefer a lower risk med/high reward job than an a high risk low or super-high reward job.

Now the above only explains why black Americans underparticpate in start-culture. It says nothing for why they are underrepresented at high paying low risk shops like FB, Google, YHOO, Salesforce, ORCL, etc. Unless, of course, if you need to have first slugged it out at a few start ups before getting a job at a bigger shop. I'd say that's maybe only true for parallel hires and not kids right out of university.
It's just one more straw. I don't think there's a single class of investment in any pension fund that would alone make a bailout necessary. But I wouldn't be at all surprised to hear that a tech sector bust would cost several funds upwards of 10%. Add a few more failures of that kind to the mix, and we'd be talking bailout.
I came down harder than I wanted to. An acquisition like this definitely moves the ball forward. I'm excited to see what comes of it!
How does the color of the person affect this situation?
>>and no, they aren't all living with their families or have spouses helping out

Honestly curious...what are they doing then? Isn't the typical rent cost higher than the entire salary of a low level employee at a charitable org?
> I feel like there should be some clever practical applications but I'm drawing a blank.

I wouldn't want to maintain any clever practical applications that break any time one of these web services subtly change the way they mangle HTML.
I started in high school because of peer pressure. I've since quit, but I think that the majority of people that start only do so because their friends do.

Plus, smoking a cigarette feels really good. Once you're addicted, they don't, but until then they just feel really nice.
Valuations are fake from one perspective: that they don't reflect anything more than a handful of investors' decisions to pay for a slice of the company.

They have very real meaning when it comes to things like employee options and ability to raise money to pay for employees. If a year ago a company raised $10m at a $50m valuation, but now they want another $50m to scale, they'll have to give up a much bigger percentage of stock to do that, which can essentially wipe out any employee stock (founders likely have a different class of stock that isn't as affected).

And along the same lines, maybe the company can't raise as much cash as they want/need. In this case, they have to cut back on what they pay employees. In these cases, the money starts to tighten up, and people don't see the reason to stick around SV paying $4k/mo in rent if they're only being paid $8k (before taxes), so they start to look for other places to go. This can lead to a spiral where an otherwise good company can't retain or attract talent, and so the cycle continues (don't hit growth targets, can't raise money at good rates, etc)
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More than anything, this thing shows the sad situation of CSS support in different email clients.
I guess there is just a limited solution space for the current problems, and many possible points have been farmed at a certain point of time. Until legislative or technologic changes come in, the eco-system will go more and more into bubble mode.
Yes, there's not a big black community in San Francisco. There's an unusually large southeast asian community though, which is uncommon in many other parts of the US.

Still, even smaller divides can be stark. I am white and I live in St Louis. There are a lot of black people in St Louis. However, there's parts of the city where it's very uncommon to see black people, while in others, black people have asked me if I got lost or something, because I am the only white guy around. There's the famous Delmar Line, where two blocks separate an expensive white neighborhood from some of the poorest black areas of the city. In the middle two blocks, there's a lot of men in blue.

I mean, I've done software in this town for 15 years. That gives me hundreds of work acquaintances. Out of those, FOUR are black, and one is a first generation immigrant from Kenya.

The biggest work contrast is a company that ran a call center in premises. HR, Accounting, IT... one black guy. The call center, paying $10/hr? 75% black.

I am not sure of how much of all of this is racism vs socioeconomic barriers (although I am sure there's some of all), but segregation is so very real.
Conservancy won't publicly name anyone, but we do know that LF has given donations to SFC but will not give them one now. You can see this by looking at SFC's list of donors in archive.org. Bradley Kuhn, without naming anyone in particular, has also publicly said that several companies have said told him that they would not give SFC money if SFC kept up its work on GPL compliance.

We also know that the LF has at least VMWare and AllWinner in its ranks, and perhaps other companies with a vested interest in declawing the GPL. That, at least, seems to me like a conflict of interest.

At least one person associated to LF has publicly denied that LF is punishing SFC, but I remain skeptical:

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/41x5ec/linux_foundat...
Self-Medication.

Nicotine is a stimulant that elevates the mood almost like magic.

The numbers are particularly telling if you look at schizophrenia sufferers. People with schizophrenia are about 2.5 time more likely to smoke than people without.
Vice-versa IMHO, as this is the official statement.
I really don't see any hyperbole there. The first three quotes are accurate, and the fourth is an obvious Star Wars quote, which is fine for a blog post.

And are you serious about this rewriting history thing? Yeah I guess the author should have used the word "create" rather than "restore", but does that matter at all? The point is that there should be a balance, and working towards that is a worthwhile goal. I don't think there's any industry on the planet that started with a gender-neutral playing field, so "there's never been a balance" is not a valid argument.

>people are legitimately concerned about this Karen Sandler character

Yes, legitimate concerns are fine, but you can easily find examples that go way beyond that.

http://irishnationalist.tumblr.com/post/82729838321/feminism...

http://www.mgtowhq.com/viewtopic.php?f=43&t=10187

http://www.antifeministtech.info/2014/04/the-gnome-foundatio...

Do these count as "hate" and "public slandering" to you? Obviously these are cherry-picked examples, but they're easy to Google, they weren't buried in the depths of the internet somewhere.
That, sir, is totally awesome. Well played.
The lottery taxes the poor in a very similar way. http://metrocosm.com/could-the-lottery-be-the-largest-tax/
I still don't understand why tech media (and the rest of the industry) are still not calling out these silly valuations for what they are - marketing spin.

With term sheets the way they are with liquidity preferences if I as a VC invest $100 million in a startup for a 10% stake at a 1X liquidity pref, the valuation I'm placing on that startup is $100 million and that is therefore what its reported valuation should be.

No need for any repricing of these startups - just report their true valuation as largest amount invested with liquidity preferences.

Edit: Just an additional point to add - If I really valued it at $1 billion I wouldn't need the liquidity preference.
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> where we were bombarded with anti-smoking ads

You've answered your own question: rebellion.

That was the main reason I was sneaking cigs in the alley after school.
A ton of factors, but there is some reason for hope. The smoking rate among US adults has been dropping at about 0.5% per year more-or-less consistently for decades, and is currently well under 20%! The ads, regulations, and outreach you're talking about are working, but major societal change is slow. Remember, in the 50s, the smoking rate was nearly 50%! Dropping that rate by half in less than one lifespan is pretty good, I think.

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0762370.html
EVERYTHING taxes the poor.
On some level people start smoking because it's dangerous and bad for your health. They want to signal to others that they have a risk-taking personality, rebel against their parents, etc.
I'm certainly not excited about the idea of all the random USB devices I plug into my machine having a PCIe lane with DMA capabilities available to it. Random vendor-provided USB mass storage sticks being able to read all the system memory? What could possibly go wrong?

In theory, IOMMU can mitigate these risks. In practice, barely any OS actually enables those protections, and AFAIK the CPU manufacturers (at least Intel) are still using availability of IOMMU as a differentiating factor for high-end CPUs.
Your "sources" are dubious (at best). Why don't you link to some studies that back up your imgur you got from chimpout or some other fine upstanding white nationalist blog.
If this is true then no wonder meteor hasn't gained the popularity they were hoping for. Webforms just tries to put this layer of abstraction over the web, which severely limits its flexibility, and means you are developing against webworms as opposed to the web itself. I know some people and companies are willing to make that trade off because they want the rapid development benefits, but I think the majority of experienced developers understand the long-term drawbacks to this scenario.

re: popularity of jquery... jquery makes it easier for you to interact with the DOM. WebForms (and maybe meteor? I don't know) makes it HARDER to interact with the DOM.
The choice "raised or underground highways, take your pick" is a false dichotomy. The correct choice for urban health is to not build the highway in the first place, or to remove intra-city highways. The trouble is that once they are built the demand for their use becomes self-perpetuating.

Compare San Francisco and Oakland - SF stopped the building of cross-town freeways in the famous "freeway revolt." Oakland was bi-sected by freeways which destroyed neighborhoods, many of which have still not recovered. The worst is the CA-24/I-980 connector.
As a rails dev this one is probably pretty standard but I appreciated DHH's ideas about being small and still able to take on the giants.
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I'd say that Finn is the heart of the movie. He ends up doing the right things because he cares, not because of a destiny (Rei) or sense of obligation (Han).
I thought OSv is dead?
JavaScript has grown up; it's got one of the best package managers anywhere, rapidly improving syntax and semantics, a large passionate community, loads of great tooling and a well maintained cross-platform binary in the shape of Node. It's no less deserving than any other language to be run on a server, as part of a build, generic scripts, whatever. Browser security issues arise because it's hard to resolve total user security across the public web coupled with highly interactive scriptable web pages ... its got nothing to do with the JavaScript language per se. It's fair enough to argue against the level of control scripts happen to have over the browser, but web page scripting could be implemented in <insert some other language here> and the same issues would be present. Your comment comes across as ignorant and prejudiced I'm afraid.
Yes I'm already reading that. Thanks for the hint!
America is undisputedly the best country at assimililating immigrants. It comes from doing it for centuries. We are one of the only countries with complete mixed ethnicities and a strong nationality.

But that doesn't really work for blacks because they aren't a different culture, they are a subculture. Their culture has been a part of American culture from the beginning. For almost all of American history they were essentially banned from mainstream culture.

So nobody can make them assimililate. They didn't come here as an immigrant. Their ancestors were kidnapped and enslaved here.

FYI the world thinks France is particularly bad at assimilation. I don't know if that is just a stereotype but that's how it's viewed.
> Most web apps I work with daily have highly sophisticated in-browser interactions that are built with JavaScript and can only be built with JavaScript: Flickr, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, GMail etc.

There is truly nothing about any of those that couldn't be done with a simple page refresh. Especially YouTube. Generally I find most of what JavaScript adds just irritating.
Thats just pointless argument to make, it serves as nothing other then your personal critic of defense spending.

The US already has a significant amount of spending on infrastructure. Instead of finger point at some other expense, you should ask why the current money is not giving you good results. Schooling has the same issue in the US.
You can be bi-keyboardial. On my home computer I use a modified version of swedish dvorak (svdvorak). I thought that since svdvorak isn't available anywhere I might as well go full obscure.

I type almost as fast with qwerty, but vastly prefer not having to move my fingers that much.

On a separate note: you don't have to be that smart to modify dvorak to something better. Just switching u and i and d and h brings a lot.
I've met some people that have moved away from SF who are both intelligent hackers and arrogant. It's possible that your intelligent hackers were transformed by the SF atmosphere.
> grew up without cable, that could certainly make a cultural difference

I don't understand. This would happen to anyone who grew up in poverty. What does it have to do with race?
Well it doesn't mirror my experience at all, at school or at work, but yes I'm pretty sure it does happen.

I didn't say there wasn't racism in France, more that the concept of belonging to a definite community depending on your color is probably less present as in the States.

The job application problem is a terrible one, as getting a job is the best way to use the social ladder.

That's the thing I don't understand, I thought capitalism only cared about money, if an Afro-French cannot find a job, surely it would be be advantageous to hire him, at a slightly lower market price. Still not good, but better than nothing, and once the minorities are in, we can expect the inequalities and hiring problems going away or at least being reduced with time...
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Different races are exposed to different cultures and when everyone knows about some aspect and you don't, you will feel left out and experience culture shock.

My elementary school and middle school were about 95% black with rest mostly being white and my high school was about 85% white with the next largest percentage being Asian. The kinds of music, tv shows, and activities people did on the weekend had barely any overlap. Its not that those part of the culture are only for one race, or that you think one culture is better than another, its just what you are used to. I was exposed to and learn to like a lot of new things, but theres plenty I learned about and just didn't like. It just took time to figure those things out.

What bothered most of the other minority students the most is that just because we would sit together at lunch, somehow we were being racists, when in fact it was just wanting to talk about things that most of the other school had either no clue or no interest in talking about. It wasn't closed off, but usually the only people that would come sit at the "black" table were other students who had attended an inner city school like the rest of us.
Really? I smoked a couple packs of cigarettes in my life and had no problem quitting. In my opinion cigarette addiction is blown out of proportion.
NPM and the community that surrounds it is a nightmare. I guess you could be talking about Bower but either way they are far from good,let alone best.
No, it may look a bit different but it has the same aims. And they are not intending to kill us. Disclaimer: I work for Unikernel Systems, now Docker.
That does not matter if you talk about it in % of GDP.
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Cigarette taxes are powerfully regressive. It's completely true.

But when cigarette taxes go up, youth smoking goes down. Reductions in youth smoking mean permanent, ongoing reductions in overall cigarette consumption, as young people fail to take up the habit.

This is not a controversial assertion. Even priceonomics' cherry-picked sources primarily discuss price inelasticity in adult smokers, who have been addicted for decades.

These taxes are cruel, but necessary. It's a pigouvian tax that literally saves lives.