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Who said anything about anyone 'caricaturing' people of Arabic origin? They spoke the language. That is not by itself a 'caricature'.

Moreover, blackface was done to be funny (you know, like an actual caricature). This is done to make a political point.

If it was Americans answering a phone line like this with an exaggerated Texas accent, you wouldn't bat an eye. That's how we know you're driven by white guilt.
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tweetdeck (now owned by twitter) officially supports team access to twitter accounts. So you can add someone to the team account and let them tweet using the handle, and revoke the access a week later easily.

However, because tweetdeck isn't available on mobile devices, most of these rotated accounts end up using password sharing.
SRE-SWEs at Google are expected to be able to design and implement the same things that the developers they support are working on. If you are on Blah-SRE you would be expected to be capable of at the very least reading and understanding the code that Blah-Team writes, reviewing their code, etc. You might not _actually_ work on that code (it might be more important for you to be working on the automation, monitoring, or whatever) but you'd be qualified to do so. That's why the SRE-SWE interview is basically the SWE interview: graph coloring and complexity analysis and all that.
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lol, good point
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Well... what kind of evidence could demonstrate a universe isn't simulated?

Continuousness, perhaps, but I don't think it is possible to prove that a universe isn't discrete unless you can measure with infinite precision. Even if it was possible, a simulation could certainly be continuous with the proper hardware. Similarly, a real universe certainly could be non-continuous, so I don't think the question is even relevant either way.
Yes, NYC is different. All for-hire drivers are required to go through the TLC. From Uber, itself: https://get.uber.com/cl/nyc/. TLC also regulates the types of vehicles that must be driven and mandates commercial insurance.
permutation, mapping, zipping and filtering are all completely idiomatic scala.

There is next to no cognitive load in this 4-line solution. Brute-force attack on every permutation. I would say that anyone find there to be an excessive cognitive load would be someone that is not familiar with scala nor functional programming.
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For "softer" subjects, I couldn't agree more, but good luck playing with rockets, brains, buildings, and quanta without school. For the "hard" subjects, a student gains a certain expertise and rigor in an academic environment needed before she can create her works of art.
We have picked up on some of the simulation's oversimplification like fractals at the subatomic level and chaos theory in general.
I feel like the message about sexy abs in this ok cupid post is more in line with the old saying "if you've got it, flaunt it." They even say, "We would never suggest to a Fitzgerald or a Dave Eggers to limit his profile to 100 words, and so why should guys with great bodies keep their best asset under wraps?"

Having a six-pack reflects a certain kind of lifestyle and certain values. Being witty in a profile or conversation or showing pictures of you engaging in things that are meaningful to you convey a different set of values. I don't know your experience, but I do believe that showing your personality via any dating app delivers better results.
This is interesting reading. Such subtle and comprehensive propaganda. Anyone know more about this book? It seems to have been written by an English woman with a target audience of ??? Africans?

I thought it might be a sort of catalogue of the British empire in Africa, but I don't think the British had much presence in the Congo.
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I agree that friend networks can be a good pre-filter. Unfortunately for me, I live pretty far away from my closest friends, and I may be moving even farther away, so it has been hard. Once I am settled, I will have to invest in finding more friends in order to have the network. It's easy to let the salience of online dating seduce you in this kind of situation though ... but really it's like going for a candy bar when you need a meal.

I find your wording very cute: "the climbing man had consistently impressed me" -- I'm imagining some kind of Tarzan character who happened to be out with you when all sorts of freak occurrences happened that were perfectly suited for climbing: getting a cat out of a tree, getting a ball back for some children, getting back into an apartment when you've locked yourself out.
You jest about immunity, but...

We don't prosecute the Department of Transportation when someone transports several hundred million dollars of cocaine across their roads.

Why should we treat digital highways, overpasses, and offramps, any differently?
Yeah plain text is great and everything...until you want to put a table in there.
>at a glance it looks so weak I have to wonder if it's deliberate.

Any suppositions as to why it would be deliberate?
Anecdote : allwinner (or mediatek, cant remember now) developers that showed up at Linaro (last or 2 years ago) all sported iphones - this is all you need to know about support level of chinese SoC vendors.
```I don’t really understand how this is an example of circumventing the dev/ops split. I can see how it’s true in one sense, but the example of stopping all releases because an error budget got hit doesn’t seem fundamentally different from the “sysadmin” example where teams push back against launches. It seems that SREs have more political capital to spend and that, in the specific examples given, the SREs might be more reasonable, but there’s no reason to think that sysadmins can’t be reasonable.```

Seems we don't understand the point of SREs at all.

In a world where "ops" and "dev" are split and sysadmins occupy "ops" it is customary that system admins are not programmers, may not know how to program, do not venture into the VCS for the codebase and may not even have rights to check-in code to the software. It would certainly be unusual to see check-ins to the codebase from the ops/sysadmin team.

This leads to the situation where you have 10 year old codebases running on 10 year old frameworks on 10 year old operating systems. The system admins are naturally tearing their f---ing hair out over this situation. The devs, however, have the platform on life support and are off writing new code for shiny systems because that's a lot more interesting and useful than keeping the old garbage on life support. No progress is made and the problem typically doesn't resolve itself until the old systems become sufficiently problematic that the devs rewrite the entire system.

If you have an SRE model it should never get quite this bad. The Devs will support the code in production until they're ready to hand it over for maintenance. When it is handed over the SREs get all the keys to the kingdom and have the rights, responsibility and ability to fix bugs in the software they're running.

If you have legacy codebases run entirely by ops people who don't have any ability to maintain the codebases then you aren't doing SRE.

This is one of the manifestations of the "chinese wall" between ops and dev (which is what "DevOps" and "SREs" are entirely antithetical to--it may be hard to define what those terms /are/ but it is pretty easy to define some patterns that they definitely /are not/). If "Ops" has to come begging to "Dev" to fix their software then you're not doing it right.
That's a more useful article. Thanks.

The three motor lead colors not matching is amusing. Those are three-phase motors; any connection will work, but half of them will make the motor go backwards. Swapping any two leads will reverse the motor. I wonder if, with the colors correct, one motor is in reverse.
should put contact info in profile.
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Makes sense. Thanks for the info.
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Not to mention, you can easily retire on a third of that if you're willing to move to Asia or Eastern Europe.
Fact is, regardless of her performance, she is now in the executive club, and once you're a member, it's hard to get kicked out.

The biggest thing, in my opinion, to hurt her future career is fighting the large stakeholders on the sale. Showing a willingness to play ball with stakeholders is a positive sign for a future CEO position.

But give it a few years and all investors will remember is that Starboard made a quick 50% (or whatever) on Yahoo and she'll be remembered as "shareholder friendly" for "leading" the sale (a great badge to have if you're in the market for a CEO job).
> What are they using to switch all that current? No heat sinks are visible, so either the switching is really efficient or the drive electronics will overheat.

My guess, pretty well verified by some similar pics in teh teardown by kens in a sibling comment, is that the "the main PCBA was located. There were fourteen screws and washers holding down the board, which was probably done to reduce vibration on the critical components."

is probably the mosfets attached to the backing panel for heat-sinking, rather than specifically for rigidity.

If you look at one of hte middle images[1] you can see what looks like imprints of thermal paste around each of the mounting holes.

[1] https://daks2k3a4ib2z.cloudfront.net/5654e7207deb65b23ea76b7...
Can't stand the cheap shots from reports about others, mostly what they would consider easy targets.

Really, what has this reporter contributed to society? Digging up trash on someone or making some up. Great job.

Mayer, tasked with the difficult job of trying to resurrect a company well into it's decline. Probably had to make a lot of very difficult decisions along the way. And this reporter decides to take a public cheap shot when he has never in his life had the weight on his shoulders Mayer has. Not to mention constant press attacks against her person. Getting tired of press slander.

Classy.
it also imports concepts like "authenticity" that are extrinsic to the simulation. which is absurd.
Hey bestattack thanks! I'm Lucal's other cofounder Anton. Absolutely thats the idea! Its useful for those planning a new trip - by seeing how a particular area in a destination looks like in real-time and through the eyes of those that live there, (giving a local perspective and not just a commercial/tourist one). Also when just wanting to explore the world and find new, remote places and seeing whats happening there and they are all about.

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I hypothesized the same thing myself. I believe it is because men as a whole will sleep with women who are substantially less attractive than them in order to fulfill sexual desire, colloquially referred to as "bussin' down."

I came up with this theory because a bafflingly large number of people have shared their opinions on this very matter as it relates to my relationships. In each relationship, a large number of my heterosexual female friends thought I was punching above my weight. Almost all my other friends thought I was at least as attractive, or more attractive, than my SO at the time. At the time, I thought one of two things:

1.) Men, including homosexual men, weight traits differently when it comes to attractiveness.

2.) My behavior towards women was unattractive in some way, e.g. sexist, overly macho, etc.

Both of those things might still be true, but I reconsidered the main cause, because as time went on more and more women that were middle-aged or older would tell me that I was more attractive than my girlfriend.

In any case, I'm personally of the opinion that outsiders' personal tastes shouldn't matter in a relationship. I've found each of my girlfriends very attractive, and they've found me attractive in turn. I don't believe there is a single positive reason that could motivate someone to tell someone else they are either more attractive or less attractive than their partner. Best-case scenario, they completely ignore your input. It strikes me as a way of enforcing normative behavior.
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One of my favorites is the speed of light is simply how fast information can be passed around processers in a distributed universe simulation.
> extra pay for being on-call (time-off or cash)

This!
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...with even smarter (and larger) turtles running simulations involving the turtles that we think are running ours.

Are they really turtles, though? Or are we subtley being tricked to think of them as turtles when in reality they are dolphins?
> The F-15... was designed to go head-to-head with the Soviet’s MiG-25 and was the top dog for years...

However, the MiG-25 was an interceptor, primarily of the SR-71, so it didn't have the maneuverability of a fighter, but could approach the speed and service ceiling of an SR-71. The West didn't realize this until Victor Belenko defected w/ a MiG-25 in 1976, well after the F-15 had been designed. Belenko's biography is a good insight into the MiG-25 and Soviet life, or @ least that's my recollection from reading it as a teenager.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikoyan-Gurevich_MiG-25

http://www.amazon.com/Mig-Pilot-Final-Escape-Belenko/dp/0380...
It's not necessarily wrong to compare the median to the average once a sufficiently large dataset is reached given LLN, but I'd argue that a z-score is still far too basic to capture the nuances of such a varying dataset with so many points. Some type of hierarchical model would probably be best for this dataset.
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It's not subjective, just disputed. There is a fact of the matter, and we will one day reach a consensus.
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i've read all the same material as everyone else. i wouldn't label myself anything specific though.
All other things being equal I'll go with the service that gives more to the person doing the actual labour.
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Well, I don't need it now because I'm off Windows permanently, and I would use Python 3.x even if I were, but it's good to know that something like this is available. I was sorta wondering if the situation had changed since I looked about 18 months ago.
They were always fighting among themselves, and no one could settle among them until there was peace and safety. At last the European nations made agreements with the chiefs, so that now in nearly every part of Africa there is a European governor to prevent wars and fighting.

Again, in some ways the Europeans, enforcing peace and making many quick ways of travel, such as good roads and bridges, have helped to weaken the power of the chiefs. Nobody likes changes to come, and the old people are always sorry when their children begin new customs; but on the whole it is good for Africans that other nations came to their country, because they have brought peace in the place of war, and safety and freedom instead of the old fear of death or slavery.

In other words, contrary to the nattering on you hear from the Regressives today, colonialism was by and large a good thing for those where it took place.

4. Europeans help Africans
In this chapter we have read about one of the wisest tribes of the dark-skinned African people. The Arabs in the north came to Africa long ago from their own home in Asia, and the Europeans in the south came from their home in Europe. Both these races had learnt by themselves a great deal more than the African race has done. This is partly because their homes were not so hot, and so they had to think hard to get enough food and to keep warm. It is partly due, too, to the way in which for hundreds of years the people of Europe and Asia have been able to read and write, and have met and learnt from one another. The Africans never found out how to write, and so could only learn from each other by listening, never by reading. They were shut off from the rest of the world until one hundred years ago, and all they knew they had found out for themselves. But among the Africans some learnt more than others, and the Baganda are a tribe who used their minds as well as their bodies in becoming strong. So by thinking and learning they grew wise as well as powerful, and now Europeans and Indians have come to their country they are able to learn all these other races can teach them, which is far more than any one race could find out alone.
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It isn't "pseudoscience/creationism". If anything it is philosophy.

Anyway a universe simulation doesn't sound any more stupid (to me) than any other reason for the universe being here.
Unfortunately, they have not been proven useful. The credit reporting agencies do sell it to companies as "useful" to measure a candidate's integrity and ability to succeed. However, if you watch John Oliver's segment you will see at least 1 agency testified under oath that they have no evidence to back up their claims.

All it can be said to do is to weed out poor people or conversely allow terrible employers to pinpoint candidates that they can easily abuse because they are so far in debt.
Dating requires more than physical attraction. To do more than hook up, one must determine compatibility, and Tinder provides nothing but the most shallow and difficult tools to accomplish this. You'd have better luck walking around with a list of your favorite interests and biggest deal-breakers taped to your back.

I can only think of two better ways to meet people online: a referral-approval system for friends-of-friends, and actual interaction in a group setting, but online - like Facebook groups or more old-school chat rooms. Both have their problems, but they also rely on good old human interaction to determine compatibility. Whether a friend thinks you're both a good match, or whether you just like someone's snarky commentary on a forum, you're using your human heuristics to find a match instead of computerized heuristics. It makes more sense to me since you're trying to date a human and not a computer.
The grandparent said: "I'm really surprised how shocked people are when they join startups and aren't happy. What did you expect?"

The parent said: "You seem to be unrelentingly "blaming the victims."

I'm pointing out that some degree of "blaming Dan Lyons" is in order. He's a sophisticated tech insider.

It's as if a professional investor lost all his/her money on a private company that claimed to be a great company in its press releases, after which the investor complains about getting screwed. Yes, the investment is partly to blame for being so shitty. But the professional investor is a "sophisticated investor" and is also partly to blame for his/her own loss.

I would be more sympathetic to someone getting screwed by HubSpot if they were a fresh college grad who got misled and didn't know better.
The Java simulation would be just as fast as the C one in the median case. The two problems with it are that 1) the big bang would have taken forever to start up and 2) the universe would eventually skip a beat for a stop-the-world GC cycle.
This depends on what content you're looking to monetize. For popular fitness trainers I know of SKWOD, which is a mobile app that lets top trainers sell their workout programs direct to their fans who pay a weekly subscription for access. It's hard for trainers who have built an audience on Instagram to monetize in a meaningful way doing what they want to do, being fitness. As Instagram doesn't allow transactions it is best to use third party tools and apps, but leverage the captive Instagram audience. I know my comment is specific to the fitness niche, but hope it helps.
On a similar basis I take some exception to this statement, regarding individual immortality:

> If we’re programs in the computer, then as long as I have a computer that’s not damaged, I can always re-run the program.

You would quite possibly need to dump the entire universe state and re-run it from that point to get anything predictably "you" back out of it - probably not what most people have in mind when they think of a brain in a vat.
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I know lots of people seeking and finding long term relationships on Tinder. I don't think hooking up is everyone's use case.
Fantastic. Thanks for the response.

Our use case is talking to an API, doing a little bit of processing then writing to a database. It's all IO with barely any processing (just a few string substitutions to "normalize" the API responses).
Why does the government have a say on who I pay to drive me someplace and where they can drive me?

Edit: And the exploitation I was referring to was of the taxi drivers under the current system, not myself.
As a (former) non-U.S. CS student (although I still haven't officially dropped out) from a European country (but not a part of the EU), college was a huge waste of time in my case.

There were a couple of hints all over my two years in college, but the biggest one was when I managed to convince my professor that our college FTP server is not secure by showing her a Wireshark packet in which I have submitted the password to the FTP server and convincing her that the server replied to my connection with a password (which, of course, doesn't make any sense what so ever).

Plus I was not able to convince the college staff that a self-signed certificate in our online learning platform is not a good solution. And I found one security exploit in the custom CMS they were using (privilege escalation just by tweaking the URL).

When I got to the point where I had a server administration course taught with the Windows server explicitly, I've decided to freeze my education.

I got into a good tech internship and now I finally have the chance of actually learning something useful (Python / Linux administration / a bit of front end programming / whatever is necessary since it's not a tech organization, but a journalistic organization with a highly skilled tech team) by actually doing some interesting things.
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> I'm not the CBO, but that tax plan would have at least a one trillion dollar larger annual deficit than the current one, maybe closer to two. You would need massive, massive budget cuts.

You mean like all the social assistance programs that sending everyone a $10,000 check every year would make redundant?

Your argument seems to be that if the government wants to spend more money then they have to set a higher tax rate. Of course they do. How does that in any way dispute that a system of flat consumption tax + fixed refund is inherently progressive?

> Plus now you're relying on businesses to collect your revenue instead of the IRS, and so you're going to see rampant sales tax evasion.

Businesses already collect income tax. Waitresses reporting their tips is basically on the honor system. Contractors get paid under the table all the time.

Moreover, VAT solves this easily because each component of the supply chain will insist that its supplier has paid the appropriate VAT, otherwise it won't be deductible from the VAT owed by the purchasing business.