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> now that the tables have turned, women might need to make a compromise

Most of us here on HN work in the tech industry, with its notorious sexism and underrepresentation problems. So let's get real here.

To claim that the tables have turned reeks of the same claim to victimhood that the straight white christian men that voted for Trump use to justify their crap.

You claim you don't want to right the "whole mensright bandwagon", but you're already on it.

The tables aren't even close to having been turned, the disappearance of many jobs that men continued to claim for themselves until they stopped existing is just a coincidence.
Job seeking is a sales activity. You sell your labor on labor market. Every sales activity has a cost. If you do not want to bear this high cost of IT industry, you can work at McDonalds. Probably your sales cost would be much less but your profit also.
No, it doesn't show us that. A number of collapse theories (notably many worlds) have non-locality baked in, but we don't know if they're correct.

Entanglement seems to be fundamentally non-local - unless you posit hidden variables - and does not depend on the interpretation.
I think you're partly right, but also, women are attracted to high-performing, financially established men. The opposite could true as well, but generally* women don't want to settle while men are willing to do so. So majority of men are branded undesirable, but only a minority of women.

For you as a random guy, this is pretty simple: you don't have a good job? bye.

*according to some research I don't know where to look for and anecdotal evidence
After 15 years of using a Mac exclusively for my audio recording/editing/mixing tasks, I'm going to probably build a small Windows system for Ableton Live and Protools for at home. Concerts will still use a Mac, but for having an actually powerful and expandable desktop? There simply isn't an option anymore.
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Trump doesn't owe Blackstone a dime.

The Trump Soho 46 story luxury hotel condominium in NYC was the last joint venture branded with the Trump name for a licensing fee and a royalty agreement; Trump has no Capital investment in it. The primary investors who collaborated with Trump are The Blackstone Group, which is a private capital investment group backed by wealthy Russians, and Tamir Samir, a wealthy Russian. Trump Soho may well owe $560 million to its investors, but Trump isn't one of them. His only risk is that they go bankrupt and can't pay him the royalties.
I believe this is responding to a symptom (vacancies) without addressing its primary cause (land speculation.) Housing is viewed as an investment; speculators capture the value of location and public spending by increasing the rent they charge, but don't add any value themselves, essentially siphoning value out of the community. The result is a boom/bust cycle and unaffordable rents. Disincentivizing vacancies may increase supply and lower prices, but occupied properties still have the same fundamental problem. A land tax on the unimproved value of the land is an elegant solution which incentivizes adding value to property rather than using it to park money.

Edit: I'm surprised I'm being downvoted so much - maybe you disagree, but this is at least an attempt to add to the discussion.
It's pretty interesting how bespoke much of this gear was. It's also interesting that lots of the better known studios like EMI/Abbey had their own in house electrical/audio engineers designing and making the house gear rather that purchase off the shelf.
Your overall point is correct, but I would add that there is no such thing as a non-statistical model or prediction in any science or aspect of physical reality IMO. For two reasons: A) reality is inherently statistical at the quantum level, and B) measurement error will always exist.

Thus even our models of planetary orbits are statistical. The inverse-square law, GM1M2/r^2, even if it perfectly describes reality (probably, but not entirely certain! see [1]), will have some degree of measurement error in M1, M2, and r (not to mention G) and so the resulting Fg will be a distribution, not a single number technically speaking.

It seems that the situations where physics can best describe things with very high accuracy is when it can abstract away many relatively homogeneous particles or entities into a bigger "thing" with aggregate properties. For example, in fluid dynamics or gravity, you don't attempt to determine the behavior of individual particles, which would be subject to enormous uncertainty, only the behavior of the system-as-a-whole. By the law of large numbers then the uncertainties decrease dramatically.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modified_Newtonian_dynamics
This makes me wonder:

Is there a strategy such that it can consistently solve every minesweeper configuration?

I always assumed that the 50/50 guess was unavoidable on some maps but I don't know if that's true.
I wouldn't say it's panic time yet, but I do get the feeling that Apple isn't terribly interested in desktop Mac hardware and software. Microsoft could have been said to have been there a few years ago, but they seem to be doing rather better on desktop now.

This article actually prodded me to try out the Windows Subsystem for Linux, and so far it seems pretty nice. Everything I've tried to install has worked so far, and worked fine with my standard Unix config files.
You're right. I'm not a die-hard laissez-faire guy who says markets are godly and should never be manipulated.

But...government isn't usually that logical. They already tried a tax and it didn't work.
What I was responding to was this: "women might need to make a compromise."

Nope, if women are happy, then good for them, they certainly don't need to make a compromise. They don't owe men anything.
I wander between Mac, PC and Linux on a regular cycle of displeasure.
I am all in favor of eliminating rents, as distinguished from investment income (which is not a rent).

Eh, tons of the money made on Wall Street is not really investment income but stuff like management fees, so-called 20 and 2 fees, interest on loans, arbitrage from high-frequency trading, etc.

How are you going to eliminate all of that?
Well, I'd say that Schopenhauer's statement requires a higher level of verification than someone calling him out for BS.

If you're asking for a proof, I'd say that the fact that multiple equally sophisticated musical schema are present across the world in different cultures that he didn't acknowledge (and only _instrumental_ music??).

The point that I think you inadvertently bring up is that an appreciation of mathematics is so far only human (and we tend to focus on the ones that are useful to us right now)... perhaps when we meet alien life we'll actually know how universally interesting our little parts truly are. In any case, they are still mostly consistent sets of postulates, theorems, and axioms.
Recent research shows that a major function for sleep may be to facilitate the brain’s janitorial functions. Waste products and the detritus of daily thinking can be removed during nightly sleep. This cleaning function allows our brains to work properly and may account for why we generally feel brighter and happier in the mornings.

Other organs and tissues are "cleaned" using the lymphatic system that almost works as a sewage system for the body. The lymphatic system does not extend into the brain. The so-called "blood-brain barrier" limits fluid channel exchanges between the brain and the rest of the body to protect the brain.

The extracellular fluid in the brain – the wetness between the neurons – is part of a system that essentially flushes the brain and removes waste. This has been named the glymphatic system. It was previously thought that waste products were metabolized and broken down by the neurons themselves and the results of that breakdown carried away in capillaries and ultimately removed by the kidneys.

http://www.sleepdex.org/reboot.htm
I'm way more than three years with the Mac platform, and I have similar concerns. The impression I get is that Apple are not particularly interested in the computer market as opposed to the mobile (phone/tablet) market.

I think it is a question of emphasis. You've focused on the OS, but not all the innovation was in the OS itself. Remember when they added iLife? That was a big deal. Software you had to pay for on Windows was bundled free, and it was good. Everyone used iPhoto, iMovie was nice, GarageBand was awesome, although probably not everyone needed it.

(Good lord, just checked, iLife debuted (minus GarageBand) on 10.1. Evidently, I've been using MacBooks longer than I realized.)

The sense that they have an exciting vision and plan for the future of how people use and relate to the computer is gone. That sort of vision and the innovation that goes with it is reserved for the mobile space now.

They are still fine computers, particularly the notebooks, but the mobile products are driving the process now. I do think that is a shame.
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No, it's because when there are three main alternatives, and the one with ads has massive market share, you are necessarily going to have some people using it.

Including people who don't actually tolerate the ads, but who need to target that platform.
You must have issue picking up social cues if you fall for every sob story.

The one bad thing about Hacker News is how many sheltered, 1st worlders there are in here that think everyone that isn't happy is an innocent victim of society.

I'm tired of seeing women who openly brag about how they "popped someone's child to get their money" through whatever means necessary: "Oops" babies (intentionally missing birth control pills), faking pregnancy to have unprotected sex and even breaking condoms... but when the man leaves: she's a victim, poor her, what a scumbag.

This happens every day all the time in the real world. And state policy has to be made upon it, unless it is your desire for it to be abused.
Ah. That's helpful. US utility residential practice, for those outside the US, is that pole transformers take in 3 phase at a few KV, at 60Hz, and output 120/240 VAC single phase with a shared neutral. That's what most houses get, supplied over 3 wires, with a 3-wire single phase meter.
Pole-mounted transformers usually serve about 7 houses or so.

Even in apartment buildings, each apartment has its own meter, almost always single phase.
If it's indeed big, it may be a hassle. If it's a few isles of smaller size, it may be no harder than any piece of infrastructure.
NIMBYism itself is just a friendlier way of saying "selfish, greedy, and exclusionary".
Unless you assume that cooperation is more likely than conflict. Maybe conflict is more common than usual on Earth. Imagine for example a group of worlds that were able to survive only due to cooperation. On encountering us they would likely lean towards cooperation as that was their experience. We might lean towards conflict but our experience tells us little about the average experience of other inhabitants of our galaxy.
I've thought of that before, and think it would be really great to know. I love to know which restaurant is simply reheating Sysco pre-prepared foods, and which ones are spending extra on organic free trade ingredients. If the food tastes delicious but the chef is underpaid because they're buying more expensive ingredients relative to the less tasty restaurant which buys cheaper ingredients with a larger markup.

Though; I've also considered how a reverse BlueApron service might work - you bring ingredients to a chef and kitchen, who then cooks the food for you. My cooking ability, limited to the occasional meal prepared after work is nothing compared to a master chef who's gone to school and practiced their art for every day for years as a job, and I'd gladly pay to see a master at work. (I doubt that particular niche is big enough to sustain a business though because, well, restaurants exist.)
Shame the government of Ontario won't even consider the BC foreigner tax.
Some planning seems to work. Portland is one of the most planned cities with its border definition yet it remains very livable. Although I suppose the lack of jobs means pressure is reduced.
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I'd like to remind you all that there's nothing to gain in sticking to a single OS.
Invest in learning some apps that are multi-OS, for example Firefox/Chrome, LibreOffice, Visual Studio Code or even Steam.

Be flexible, use the right tool for the job.
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And in India where all the developers live - Apple MBPs are everywhere
> The UI remains a convoluted Escher'esque nightmare.

Comments like this make it hard to take any side of the discussion seriously.

/Neither/ of the OSes are "Escher'esque nightmare[s]." My elderly mother can kludge her way through both of them, more or less reliably - admittedly, with more trouble than using her phone, but not a lot more.

Nothing that a tech-illiterate can reasonably use on a day-to-day basis qualifies as a "nightmare." Can we please stop pitching hyperbole-for-effect until it nullifies the entire discussion?
> And the progress on Windows's side is what exactly?

Safety, performance, stability, easier UI (for the average user).

Yeah, none of these things feature well in tv advertisements, but compared to its predecessors Windows 10 actually does excel in all of those. Heck, i installed 10 on my parents' cheapo PC and with the same programs and such installed it actually is more responsive.

> It stills sucks majorly at giving you a proper estimate of the time it will take to copy a file.

That's not a software problem, that's a hardware problem. Particularly on SSDs you have to deal with deletions being surprisingly slow, and in the copying process itself you often have a very fast phase at the beginning when it's just slurping the file into ram; and then it drops off when it runs into the write limit of the target medium and/or runs out of ram to use cache. If you're copying to the same medium you get an even stronger drop due to read/write happening on the same thing.

Predicting this is HARD.

The only way to get reliable predictions out of the copy dialog would be to disable memory caching while copying, and uh, you kinda don't want that. It would just be predictably slow.
Welcome to the Internet, where people express their opinions on matters that are often trivial in the grand scheme of things. I trust you are equally annoyed at posts praising Macs?

macOS has never been more stable or developer friendly

The OS is fine, although largely in maintenance mode. The hardware value is poor and has gotten significantly worse in the last few years. I'm typing this on a retina iMac that I'm very happy with, but if I had to replace it there's no Mac that I would consider now that Windows has decent high-DPI support.
I categorically refuse to pay more money to buy something to add on to an already overpriced laptop that sticks out from my computer's form factor and that should be built in.

Fortunately for me I got a new laptop not long before this new abomination came out. If Apple doesn't correct this gigantic mistake, the next time I get a new laptop it won't be made by Apple.
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thanks for the detailed reply.

All that I can say is that Water Lily records sound amazing if you never listened I recommend then highly.
"without addressing its primary cause (land speculation.)"

I don't understand what you mean. We can quibble about the details of this particular tax, but set that aside for a moment.

The best way to fight speculation is to put a tax on it. To see what I mean, imagine these 2 scenarios:

1.) There is a country without any land tax. You see a house that you can buy. You believe prices will be 10% higher within one year. Do you buy the house?

2.) There is a country with a 10% annual land tax. You see a house that you can buy. You believe prices will be 10% higher within one year. Do you buy the house?

In scenario #1 the house is a good investment.

In scenario #2, you would only buy the house if you are going to live in it, or if you can rent it out and make money off of it. In either case, in scenario #2, the house is not vacant.

A land tax forces the owners of land to use the land for productive purposes, rather than just holding it.
macOS and iOS's killer feature, for me, is their focus on my privacy and security.
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This is the view you have in most universities in the US, Canada and the UK http://i.imgur.com/xzEyLQB.jpg
I live in New Zealand (at last check, that was outside North America). I see Macs all the time.
> some treatment

Can I ask what this refers to? SSRI?
Those are all fair points. My point wasn't that any man can simply roll up and get the high paying job and it's never been the case. Many men would have been rejected just based on the color of their skin or because they had a Jewish last name.

By and large, men aren't being denied access to an interview simply based on their gender. If we go back a few decades, women were denied access to an interview simply based on their gender.
I just bought a house in Toronto last June. In Etobicoke, quite literally on the outskirts of what you can still call Toronto before entering the suburb of Mississauga.

We got extremely lucky with our home purchase. We had an amazing agent that we've known for years, and we had only started looking in February. By April, we had our home purchased, with a June closing. We had one offer fall through, which in hindsight, thank God that it did. This was our first home purchase (and property).

We managed to snag our house for $5k under listing, after offering $10k under listing. We managed to avoid a bidding war, as no other offers came in. When we found this home, we moved quickly, making an offer that night, and giving them 24 hours to respond (we extended it to 48 for goodwill). This was a home that was renovated from top-to-bottom, and as an engineer, I'm happy to say was done properly.

With that context, now you know why I say we got extremely lucky. We worked hard to make our own luck, but I can't control the opportunities presented to us.

Anyway, we've watched many of our new neighbours sell their homes for 6-7% higher than what we paid. One of our neighbours has an open house going on right now and there are dozens of families coming in cars to check it out. It's listed $20k higher than what we paid for our home, and it's likely to go for $50k above that. We've seen the pictures, and it does not compare to the quality of our home.

So yeah, we might be in a bubble, but people are trying to buy. Speculators and investors may be the ones driving up the prices, but I think there really is just that much demand. People want to live here, and they'll find a way to pay for it.

Personally, I'm not too bothered by it since I didn't buy it as an investment. Sure, I do care about my home value, I want to make some money when I sell in 10 years to move to another home. But that's my unfair advantage compared to everyone else: I can live in my home as long as necessary to wait until the market recovers if this bubble were to pop.
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If they kill the Mac/MacBook, who is gonna write the apps for their mobile platforms?

I'd be surprised if Apple doesn't have XCode running on both iOS and Windows internally.
As a developer, I find arch slightly more friendly.

Trying to get recent versions of development packages like ruby, java, npm, etc--can be a bitch on Ubuntu, where the repositories lag years behind arch.
My seat-of-the-pants take (which I could qualify linguistically, but I think it's fine to posit these concepts colloquially in this context) on this: Most successful human languages provide a similar complexity space within which to express oneself richly.

You need to be able to communicate mood, underrun expectations, frame or defy relationships ... in English, much of this is done by choice of words (especially adjectives and verbs) and word arrangement. In Korean, instead, while there's a giant repertoire of nouns, sentiment and relationships are more often injected via choice of grammar form and word choice is rather more straight-forward.

For example, Westerners make much of Korean's various speech levels ("politeness") which need to be used correctly depending on age or standing of addressor and addressee, and mostly (but not solely) take the shape of different verb endings. But of course English has a complex register system as well - but it's done via word choice and arrangement instead. It's the difference between "I'm sorry, I'm not able to help" and "F*ck off". In Korean, you can conceivably scale this difference by leaving off a word ending aimed at the wrong person combined with body language.

It's this difference - human interaction and the nature of eloquence remain the same in their essence, but the tools of expression have different mechanics - that's fascinating.

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We've got the same problem here in Auckland (NZ). Now the 4th least affordable place in the world

http://m.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&obj...
If land speculators don't provide value, than why isn't everyone a successful speculator?

Of course, it's because they do provide value: They allow land owners to transform illiquid, risky assets into liquid, reliable cash.
I was setting up a test vps there a couple of days ago and made plans to try out the $5 plan with $20 credit they were giving me on a $5 charge. So I had a runway of about 5 months but when I made payment, this $2.50 plan was right there, and it wasn't there before the payment. Now I have 10 month trial period. Never been happier.

The dashboard is nice, the ram is a bit low (but the price point is killer), I wasn't able to deploy a lets encrypt cert without pooled memory. The service seems to be excellenct in the few days I've used it. It doesn't seem to have a "don't ask for 2FA on this device for n months" option but it's a small complaint.
Sounds like a solid provider, I'll give them a try with my next small project. Especially for that price.
I can empathize. I'm pretty locked into Logic, to the point where I've considered doing a Hackintosh again.

Most of mine is audio mixing for live and live-to-tape video, so I could move to Ableton, but it'll be a lot of reworking stuff that already works.
A very interesting read. I hope you keep blogging!

For what it's worth, I think of the natural numbers not as the simplest concept in mathematics, but as a concept built on top of concepts like "existence vs nonexistence" and perhaps "singular vs plural", which seem like they are pre-mathematics in a sense, built into the grammar of our regular spoken language, perhaps even comprehensible by animals.

Not sure if you are interested in taking your blog in that sort of philosophical direction but I think there might be even more interesting math history before the start of your post.