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I would certainly agree that there are outliers in each gender. I believe the bell curve is _much_ less slight than you.
That's just really weird, because no where else is it that slow. I know others says 10 seconds, but it is much much faster than that. Here in Denmark tap to pay with credit card, well debit cards mostly, is practically instant. Honestly it's often to fast. I find myself think that I didn't pay because it to fast for me to register.
Both tap and chip and pin are so fast now in Canada that it's great. The US payment infrastructure is still mostly terrible. In many cases, even with chip cards it's chip and signature!
Well it would probably push me back to cash. I don't bring my phone if I'm going to be wet, or theres a chance of it getting damaged (swimming, moshpits) but I still might want or need to buy something. I also find it a chore to keep my phone charged all day, and will regularly have it die, and leave it somewhere to be charged while I go out.
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While this does demonstrate a 51% attack, I think there's a key difference here. With the 2010 Bitcoin fork, the problem was a bug in the core infrastructure which was broken. The 51% attack broke the core infrastructure, but that core infrastructure was already broken. In that case it was a matter of choosing which way the core infrastructure breaks.

In the current Ethereum situation, the core Ethereum infrastructure isn't broken. The problem is with the contracts in the DAO. So creating an intentional fork is breaking the core infrastructure--which isn't broken--to fix the problem of a single majority stakeholder.

I don't mean to indicate the Bitcoin fork wasn't a problem--the fact that bugs can break core infrastructure also concerns me. But it's a very different problem from the one the DAO is creating here.
Yes, those numbers are correct, see e.g. http://ec.europa.eu/competition/sectors/financial_services/e... and http://ec.europa.eu/competition/sectors/financial_services/p... for an overview.

Reward programs always have been a bit less pronounced here in Europe and mostly have been reduced after the regulation of interchange fees.
Apple Pay generates a unique credit card # for every transaction, ensuring a compromise of one merchants system will never end up in the ability for hackers to use your card for any other transactions.

Unique card # per transaction is the holy grail of security.

Your claims of somehow compromising confidentiality are also provably false.
The problem is it's self-reinforcing. When you have a gender imbalance of something like 10:1, everything bad that happens in the 1:1 case now happens ten times as often even if all the men behave exactly the same. A bad experience that would have occurred to 3.5% of women then occurs to 35%, assuming exactly identical behavior. And worse than that if the bad actors become more aggressive for lack of prospects.

Which means you can't solve it there. You're not going to reduce the number of bad acts to 10% of the general-population level because the good methods of inhibiting bad acts are going to be widely deployed. You can't use them to get a relative advantage.

Probably the only way to fix it is over-representation at the start of the pipeline. Make it so that 75% of high school seniors applying to CS programs are female so that by the time a third of them drop out the gender balance is right, and in ten or fifteen years that will no longer be necessary because then the gender balance at the end of the pipeline is fixed and the female dropout rate goes down.
How does Palantir's response stack up?

Having read the article, I'm not sure whether to read it as: "The extent to which the red team was able to exploit the network is a sign that Palantir's network security is bad"
or,
"Despite Palantir following best practices and having a lot of smart people on their security team, the red team was still able to do a lot, which bodes really badly for other companies that don't have the same internal resources"?
Where did you get the figure that Rick Ross made a billion dollars?

He was dealing drugs before the Iran-Contra affair.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22Freeway%22_Rick_Ross

Thanks for mentioning him, though. I didn't know much about this particularly interesting part of history.
Credit cards don't run out of battery.

If your phone is almost out of juice, you can order an Uber. But if your battery is flat, you can always ask the cabby if they take cards (or just withdraw cash using your card if you're in a city where most of the cabs don't).
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Fun fact: The contractual obligation says they can't charge you more for using a credit card. But it doesn't say they can't charge you less for using cash. This is how gas stations get around it. The gas is the higher price, but you get a 10 cent discount for using cash.
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Thanks! Looks very interesting!
I had forgotten about PanDoc! That's true, for some time I was pondering going Asciidoc vs Markdown+Pandoc. I liked the "purity" of Asciidoc (most things you will ever want to do are built-in), and Pandoc felt like it was a non-portable collection of hacks to get Markdown to do useful things.

I wish I had time to evaluate them in more detail, but so far I've stayed with LaTeX, which I feel is not the right tool for the job for material that's not going to be printed on paper.
Ah, Apologies there were some changes to this recently (2013) which had slipped my mind (they mostly don't affect New England due to state-based restrictions - which is probably why I'd forgotten):

https://usa.visa.com/dam/VCOM/download/merchants/surcharge-c...
Attempting to enforce the spirit of the law is a problem in its own right though. The flexibility of written law is repeatedly abused. Whether it's politicians taking land from their constituents, or drug laws being used to drive racism, we really shouldn't be looking at the flexibility of written law as a good thing. Or at the very least, we should be acknowledging that it's a double edged sword.

Ethereum's smart contract language is not one which makes it easy to write secure smart contracts. There are dragons everywhere, and the DAO is far and away not the only smart contract to incur their wrath.

In general I am in favor of moving to programatic, unforgiving law. But we need to do so at a pace that matches our technological progress. Today, the technology is not there to make advanced contracts. Simple ideas like 'this coin is owned by this person until a signature from this key transfers ownership to someone else' are pretty easily enforceable. Bitcoin has a scripting system with a variety of safe scripts in widespread use.

But as soon as you start aiming at things like 'this investment fund is owned by this group of people and is able to make investments under conditions X, Y, Z, and can split... etc.', you've outpaced what we currently know how to do safely.
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I think you are both right. This discussion reminds me of the classic C vs. C++ discussion.

> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/57643...

Ultimately, I lean towards rST since you can combat complexity with "good practices" (as a Python guy this is akin to being Pythonic) but the opposite is not true for less complex implementations.

But there are merits to both approaches.
For me, the extra time isn't too much of a burden. It does take longer than a few seconds but that's not my beef with it. My beef is with the problem of "so, what do I do? Insert or swipe?"

Some places require inserting. Some places still use swiping. There's a swipe area and an insert slot. The cashier looks at you like you're new to using credit cards when you don't guess the right method, even though it's different everywhere you go. It's a mess and apparently the chip isn't even a requirement. Screw the chip.
It's been years of improvement in Canada and we started much earlier. Chip and PIN used to be noticeably slower (but I wouldn't call it slow) but now it's very fast. Tap is instantaneous.
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In the country of my current residence, there are government plans running that provide additional benefits beyond simple salaries. These are food-tickets, leisure and vacation credit that are allocated on plastic cards. I loathe these. They are a way of faking actual payment. These credits and tickets are not accepted everywhere, unlike the currency of the country is. They carry second-class monetary value, and the system is set up in a way so that these leisure credits time-out after 2 years of allocation. Imagine your dollars or euros disappearing due to expiration. Nonsense.

Beyond their inconvenient use, they are not valid outside of the country either. In essence, they have created a closed ecosystem, making sure that you can only spend this 'money' within their own system. You cannot transfer these funds outside of walled gardens, in this case the country's legislative boarders. I see cryptocurrency the same way. If everyone starts using it, it will have universal value. However, to use it, everyone would need to have access to internet and mobile devices. I do not see that happening anytime soon. And please don't reference the number of mobile devices. Internet infrastructure is much more expensive to build than to supplement everyone with cheap phones. [1]

I cannot really relate to your vending machine example either. In case of a vending machine example you are quoting that 'anybody with coins can participate in an exchange with the vendor.' This only works if the universally agreed currency is the one expected by the vendor. Your vending machine would not accept my Eastern European Monopoly Money whereas the expected input is in Euro. Same for cryptos: where the expected input is that of a currency backed by financial institutions trading in the same currency, I will laugh at you when you attempt to pay in bitcoin, dogecoin, ether (literally the primordial Greek deity of pure air), whatever.

With point three you suggest that the real value of these systems are for people who got into the Pyramid Scheme early. Again, I think these institutions are frauds, and I would not be surprised if it surfaced that the creators of this blockchain system planned to pull off such a scam in the first place.

[1] http://paiwandgah.af/personal-data-leaked-from-smartphones-n...
In other words, this contract is too big to fail?
In my observation, the differences are in what is found intrinsically rewarding.

If I may over-generalized, men have a tendency to find the math itself, the technology itself, solving the puzzle itself, to be rewarding. Women find it more rewarding to see the impact/result of their work.

There is also a difference in how they view competition/challenges. I've seen this with girls in robotics. A robot competition is more likely to get the boys excited. Reframing the task as a "challenge", ie: "Can you make a robot to solve this problem?" with the challenge being more open-ended and the result being an objective demonstration instead of a head-to-head run-off is much more motivating.

So I think it is worth looking at what intrinsic rewards girls find motivating, and connecting those possibilities back into the technology is important.
Looks like the repo hasn't been updated in over a month. This project looks interesting. Anyone know if this is still being developed?

In fact, every crate I can find in this category (Helix, ruru, rurust, mrusty, and ruby-sys) is looking a little abandoned. rurust was updated 25 days ago, and that's the most recent.
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>I don't think that's a good stance to take.

You're probably right, but it's also no good to sweep the shortcomings of a technology under the rug and forget about them. With Electron and similar web-wrapper technologies becoming more popular, these issues should be put out in the spotlight and consistently pointed out so that they might be addressed. Brushing them aside is a disservice to everyone, developers using Electron included.
Is "probably" there meant to be "provably"? I assume so, but I'm not sure.
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What happens if you include LaTeX in Markdown and select a different output format, such as docx? is it just ignored?
Are physical sciences a category of Engineering? If so then your graph proves your point, if not then I don't see it. What am I missing?

This is what Google told me it was. http://study.com/directory/category/Physical_Sciences.html
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I think you meant this one - http://i.imgur.com/nzEulzf.png

It shows the growth trend as typically being positive for all fields, while computer science is the negative outlier.
Before reaching for explanations to reinforce hackneyed oppression tropes, there might be a more economic reason women leave engineering and STEM fields in general.

Engineering is about developing skills, and all technical skills have a relatively early inflection point of diminishing marginal returns on effort.

Engineering has a high barrier to entry, and women who are in engineering are necessarily in the 80th percentile of intelligence, so let's say they are smart. Smart people have a different apprehension of risk than less smart people.

Roles that involve management, finance, and relationships, have infinite upside, where the benefits of roles that involve skills tend to have a fairly well defined peak.

A woman who is ambitious enough to pass the high bar for engineering is probably smart enough to recognize that for an equal investment of time and effort, if she switches to management or a non-technical role, she can achieve a management role with greater perceived stability, a multiple of salary, bonuses and eventually equity.

Depending on her motivation in regard to having children, a job that requires skill maintenance requires much more effort if she is caring for a child, but _with the same limited upside_. The divided commitment means she has to work some coefficient of effort harder toward the same result. Can she? Of course, but why would she?

Some women are content with this, but I think women avoid STEM work because, decades as a code monkey is not the most productive use of their time. If boring aspies and loud talkers chased women out of jobs, they wouldn't have stuck with "traditional" jobs that include handling rooms full of 40 screaming children, caring for violent drug addicts, serving drunks, etc. Outside academia, women aren't delicate flower petal snowflakes.

The more plausible explanation is that if it were worth it to them, they would do it. For some reason, engineering is still not worth it, and the answer is likely more uncomfortable for men than it would be for women.
Umm they (TheDAO) were very loud about the fact that they had a security audit from a famous firm.
Alternate discussion : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11923123
My only problem with Apple Pay and the like is that my cards work perfectly fine and are simple to use. That and I keep forgetting to use it and then when I do I probably cannot.

With regards to merchant fees, I have actually had some merchants say they would be glad to take a check
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Huh. Definitely keeping this one in mind, thanks!
While a service that doesn't allow chargebacks is very, very merchant friendly, it is super not consumer friendly.

Chargebacks are frequently last resorts for dealing with unscrupulous businesses or places that just don't give a shit once they've sold you what they want to sell you.

That said, chargebacks can also be used vindictively and/or fraudulently. And Visa/MC/etc could do a better job in dispute handling.
Then prove them as false?

There is a reliance on the security of the local device that isn't an issue with cards. Primarily this is more of a social engineering concern anyway, rendering most technical solutions useless.
> Since globals defined in different JavaScript files share a common namespace, I often found it convenient to reference globals...I knew all along that these were bad habits

This line resonated with me. In my first CS course (Intro to programming), I learned about why using globals can be problematic.

A good reminder that engineering is all about trade-offs. Sacrifice future maintainability for present day productivity.
> fakaked

'Verkakte'.
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It's worse because everyone considers Vitalik as some god of decentralization
When I think of "chip and PIN" my first thought is of the UK for some reason, and the UK is one of those that tries to put some liability on the cardholder.

In the US, our experience with PINs is mostly around debit cards. Those have significantly weaker fraud protections for debit transactions with a stolen PIN, up to $500 if you don't notice the fraud until after two days, and unlimited if you manage to miss it for two months.
> Fraud is much higher

Is it? From what I understand they basically use their fraud-detection algorithms to determine whether the transaction should go through. That's why, every so often, the tap will fail and you have to do chip & pin.

I once had a chip&pin transaction refuse to go through because I was out of town and used a gas station brand that I almost never use. I called the CC company and they said pretty much that was reason. They monitor all transactions for behaviors out of the norm.
I see a big issue is that you were encouraging STEM activity at the high school level, there was likely a multitude of years where those same girls were pushed in other directions. I believe it has to start earlier and not as a forced thing but as an acceptable and encouraged and praised choice.
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In New Zealand, almost all terminals have had chip readers for years and I've never had any of those issues. In almost every case I just insert a card, type my pin and I'm good.

The German systems are a bit slower than others (and also everyone there, young and old, uses cash more than cards, which is odd), but they essentially work the same way.

America's credit and banking systems are over two decades behind the rest of the planet (including parts of India).

In NZ, Australia, Germany and Indian, people can make person-to-person transfers to anyone, on any bank, within 24-hours, for free, using just their account number and full name (and in Germany a one time use TAN number, which other countries are trying to implement). This is all taken care of at the government banking level. No Square. No PayPal. No Facebook. Just state mandated person-to-person transfers.
One solution would be for (some) individual contracts to be programmed to have "curators" with an expanded role. These curators would have dictatorial powers (via a supermajority vote of the curators) to nullify and replace the entire contract. However, they would promise to do this only in case of a genuine software bug, or if ordered to do so by a court with jurisdiction over them, not for any other reason. There would be many curators. Many of them would be professional curators, similar to professional accountants or trust executors, who work for huge firms which, like Big Four accounting firms, have a lot to lose if any of their members are caught misusing their power.
Typical process with chip card in Germany:

1) Insert card
2) Wait 2 seconds
3) Enter code
4) Wait one second
5) done

Overall max 20sec, all combined, and it’s also amazingly secure.
Once you set up 2fa via their code generator, you can remove the phone number from your account.
Even if it were true that women just aren't interested in math and science, that's a different issue. Even if somehow our DNA mandated the situation that only 13% of engineers were women, there's no reason for those 13% to put up with the bullshit they're subjected to. So if you start with 13% women through some natural process, then a lot of those women have to put up with the issues the article mentions, wouldn't a lot of the them leave the industry and lower the percentage further? I think that's a big part of what's happening.
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> More cards = higher credit limit = lower utilization percentage when you carry a balance.

Just want to mention that, at least some card companies report the current balance and not the carried balance. I have never carried a balance on my card, always pay in full every month, and my report still shows an amount for that card, which is basically whatever random amount I have on the card when they report.
I find signing these days utterly pointless. I literally draw a line on every signature asked for these days.
Indeed. However in a normal contract, the implementation is specified fairly loosely the laws (and enforcement mechanisms) can change drastically over the life of the contract.

There ought to be a way to have highly vetted primitives. In meatspace legalese, boilerplate words and phrases are the closest we get to this... once a contract (or open source license, etc.) has been through litigation, its vulnerabilities become better known.

If a dispute gets decided the "wrong" way because a few clarifying words were absent, the contract is modified and future deals use the new contract.
Most CC companies made the liability flip for POS terminals in October 2015, some even sooner. They all seem to have held off until October 2017 for gas pumps though.
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These all focus on long endeavors (over 3 hours) which is not very relevant for the majority of the Olympics.
Why would I ever want to find every reference to a loop or lambda variable with a given name in a file? Such variables repeat frequently with distinct meanings, and each has a narrow scope.

In any case, I wouldn't use an IDE that was so glitchy unless I was forced by necessity; I certainly wouldn't adopt a coping mechanism for it into other languages. Also, for a typical compiled language, deleting the declaration gives you all usages as long as you can (attempt to) build.

Are there any other reasons?
Edit: Is this advice perhaps intended to be specific to a particular context?
> Your claims of somehow compromising confidentiality are also provably false.

What's the point of saying something is provably false and then completely leaving out any reference to that proof?
Last year there was an article how Apple Pay was making it easier for scammers to use cards. I believe this particular vector was patched by having to authenticate that you are trully adding your card via bank authorization. However, Mobile Payment is susceptible to fraud and thieves will find a way.

http://mashable.com/2015/03/02/apple-pay-scammers/
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"Combining the equations for the Fermi paradox and the mediocrity principle, the authors suggests Earth might hear from an alien civilization when approximately half of the Milky Way Galaxy has been signaled in about 1,500 years."

Not sure where the paper is, but the Milky Way galaxy is much bigger than that. The Milky Way is expected to be from 100,000 to 120,000 light years in diameter. A ~3200ly diameter sphere isn't "half" that.