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Not to say that the thing about men vs. women isn't problematic, but that quote is taken out of context. The suffrage part is a completely separate bullet point and isn't saying that women shouldn't have the right to vote as your quote suggests.

Also, the main point preceding the quote that men and women may have different natural dispositions is a reasonable one. He only oversteps by implying men are better leaders, a claim that may be defensible under some very specific definition of "good leadership" but is mostly just inflammatory in this case.
>Does it matter? At what point do we put the failure of the student on the student? Education being unaffordable is a broadly sympathetic position. Not getting an education because you couldn't be troubled to take advantage of a free education is an unsympathetic position.

Sympathy is besides the point. Look at the bigger picture: if US citizens are unprepared for the jobs the world economy demands, the country fails economically, putting it in the position to be exploited by others.

Education is important. This weird attitude that college is worthless somehow is not illustrated in the numbers: earning potential, mate selection, general career advancement.
"cost still is bigger than the money you can afford to put into it." - so spending even more would be super sustainable, so long as it enriches the wealthy shareholders?

"you can never spend enough money on it" - i say again, 'enough' is defined differently, a 'socialist enough' is enough to please the people; where a 'capitalist enough' is the smallest number that can sustain profit. these 'enough's are radically different.

"In a system more driven by market you can actually make money." - only by denying treatment. this is the cornerstone of the market model, those who can't pay don't matter.

"It's finding the right balance between those two" - In the UK, we are bringing private companies into contracts within the NHS, its always been a disaster, costing much more money that the services needed to cost, the inefficiency inherent in private companies (from bloated wages of CEOs to dividends) drag the whole system into financial crisis. The people who pay for the profits at the top are always the poor users of the service.
Possibly, but one that the recent generation of userspace devs are unwilling to acknowledge. Just watch them throw out workable, if gnarly, code in some attempt at reaching programming nirvana.
For me, Safari 10.1 does not show emoji in the address bar for that URL; both the ones listed show up as raw punycode.
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Intellectual dishonesty would be denying it. I make no such denial - I have rejected this person's writings because I can't find any reason to believe that this person entertains discussion (or even the idea of discussion) in good faith.

I do not do this out of hand, or on a whim. I've read this person's writings before, and have made a genuine attempt to read him charitably.

> its always about silencing or shunning people, never about engaging them.

Shunning, maybe. I don't think it's inappropriate to stop a conversation that you know is going to be used as a weapon against you later by someone with truly onerous views. I don't have an obligation to engage with people whose only interest in engagement is to use it a token of their ideological legitimacy. Silencing, never.
Would you say that, today, most people who read quality journalism do so by paying subscriptions? I'm not sure about that. The Guardian is one obvious exception, but I agree the center-right newspapers have moved to subscription.

It's very broken though. The whole idea of paying a subscription for a newspaper is outdated -- it's based on the days when the head of household would select a newspaper and have it delivered to the house before breakfast. Most of the time when I'm reading news online I'm wasting time that I would prefer to be using productively, so there's no way I'm going to pay for that. Additionally, there's so much good free material on the internet that there's not enough incentive to pay for it. I think the major newspapers should accept that the days of a single cathedral-like website for their newspaper where devotees will spend hours are gone; if we could pay a small amount effortlessly on a per-article basis, choosing between many different sources, that might make sense.
He might also have problematic opinions about changing the oil in your car every 3000 miles. Which is about as relevant. (which to be clear, I dont support his viewpoints, but lazy arguments need to be called out)
Yeah, the parent comment basically just described the optimal learning environment for their personality type, and then intentionally or unintentionally ignored the fact that another person's optimal environment may be different from theirs. I've always been naturally inclined to teach things to myself, at my own pace, so online education enabled me to thrive while I would have struggled with conventional schooling structure.

...and I'm not sure what evidence lead them to believe that "most companies" in silicon valley have discovered that remote doesn't work, but I'm willing to bet it's anecdotal.
Would this also work with email? Like, register the Cyrillic fb.com and send emails from mark@fb.com as a valid reply-to address?

The possibilities seem mind boggling
Isn't it generally best get get money from an ATM using a debit card? (Money withdrawal being charged as an immediate cash advance with a high interest rate)
This is probably a result of having a huge team of disempowered developers, each working on delivering a tiny slice of functionality, with a product owner lacking any kind of organizational clout. Most likely the app team is beholden to a much larger, powerful and entrenched backend division that dictates what APIs they have available and when they can use them.
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And you a study of one too.

I know the documentary but what does that have to do with whether the US system have access to more advanced healthcare than most other places.

I don't need a documentary to tell me the many issues with the US system just like I don't need one to tell me the many issues with the Danish system.
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As I explain in this comment [1], Bootstrap is modular, you shouldn't be using the whole thing.

The simple answer why it is larger is because it offers far more features/components (and browser support is considerably better).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14121631
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This assumes an end to speculation which IMO will always exist.
Lisp is not a functional language.
Even if that were true, it's like arguing a good hockey player shouldn't get penalties or ever be suspended.

Taylor did not foster a 'no-holds-barred' culture. Alan Kay has explained this many times, e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14120241.

There were many violations and several warnings.
Right now I'm on a train, browsing with the train wifi along with thousand other users in the middle of the Italian campaigns.

Hn is one of the few sites that loads and works.

There's plenty person that for a reason or another are temporarily or long term broadbandless.
Just as a hypothesis: is it possible that the sheer number of people we're putting through increasingly bureaucratic college curricula (do this busywork, now go sit in this room listening to a topic you don't care about for a while, etc) is creating a feedback system that encourages the creation of tedious drudge work since that's what we've "trained" people to be good at? Though I'm not sure which is the chicken and which is the egg in this situation.
On Debian 9.0 (64-bit), with defaults:

Not affected:
- Chromium Version 57.0.2987.133

Affected:
- Chrome Version 57.0.2987.133
- Firefox ESR 45.8.0
- Tor Browser 6.5.1 (based on Mozilla Firefox 45.8.0)

tested with https://www.xn--80ak6aa92e.com/ -> https://www.apple.com/
> All I want is a generic function that takes a class as the generic type T, and a string as an argument, and returns me a completely filled in object of type T, or throws an error on malformed input.

Well, what you need is a way to enumerate the members of a class. Everything else is already done by something like Cereal or Boost.Serialization.
It has been cited in federal cases, it hasn't been overturned. You're welcome to be more clear about what it says that's incongruent with what I've said, rather than hand waving.
You might not need a static site generator for a single page website. Why not simply author it directly in HTML and CSS? It might actually be faster (and simpler) to code by hand.

Here are two dummy test pages I made a while ago to see if I could create a fast-loading, fairly lengthy text page for slow mobile connections.

There is no table of contents, but you could add that as a simple list of links to the top of the page.

Version A (no font loading): http://interfacesketch.com/test/energy-book-synopsis-a.html

Version B (loads custom fonts - an extra 40kb approx): http://interfacesketch.com/test/energy-book-synopsis-b.html
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I'm of the understanding that many Chinese families are "spiritual" and believe in "traditions" and "folklore" but institutionalize religion as it is known in the west is not really seen in China.

That's why I wonder if the "oh no it's not religion because the government controls religion" arguments are the author jumping to conclusions.

This in fact seems like the patronizing form of Orientalism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orientalism
In the sense that we are forcing our Western understanding of religion onto our understanding of Chinese "religion", and then drawing conclusions from there.

I question the validity of the author's claim that a Chinese person said: "oh no it's not religion because the government controls religion" because it's unlikely for a Chinese person to openly talk against the government like that, especially with a foreigner, especially with a stranger.
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So FloodNet was the ancestor of LOIC?
Overbooking hedges for last-minute cancellations. Wouldn't the airlines need to charge passengers more per flight in a world without it?
This is why I liked the health care system in Belgium, where my wife and I lived for almost eight years.

In Belgium, you are charged based on your income, and they don't ask you how much you can pay when you get admitted.

As US ex-pats, we made enough money that we were in the top payment bracket.

Yet, for a significant surgery that kept my wife in the hospital in a private room for two weeks, we still paid less for the whole surgery plus hospital room WITHOUT insurance, than we would have paid in the US but with insurance.

That kind of social medicine does actually work, and work pretty well.
>$, as a way of getting object metadata out of a class, namespace, etc. (Using $ has been argued out of favor because it is common in legacy code, particularly in code generation and template systems which are not necessarily valid C++ but produce C++ sources.)

you have got to be kidding me, right ?
"$" adding this character too to the C++ ? What left we haven't add ?

Why not use only something like "reflexpr" which is more C++ish than $ character. Why make C++ more difficult to parse and read with every release ?

TBH I genuinely don't understand why we need both ? why not only have "reflexpr".
In other industries you would call health care billing practices fraud. They just make up charges and when you complain they disappear. They just try what they can get away with.
Isn't that because the CCP is against religion?
For me, to be "market driven", you have to have easy entry on the supply side and not have huge amounts of mandated care on the demand side.

The US has all sorts of constraints on the supply side and a lot of the demand side is treated under various mandates.

Without easy entry on the supply side, there can't really be a market response to changes in demand, hence not really market driven.

When care is provided to comply with government mandates and incentives rather than because it can be priced above cost, not a market driven transaction.
Small note, but 3,000 trillion is 3 quadrillion, not 3 quintillion. Which is their total, over a significant amount of time.

The bitcoin network does over 3 quintillion (>3,000,000 trillion) hashes a second. So even if they were doing a significantly harder to compute hash -- they're still only a very small part of the computational power the bitcoin network is using.

So it's probably already more effective to attack wallets than join a mining pool.

Ed: Estimate of numbers --

Assuming that their hashrate was over 3 months (article says nearly a year, but they're also scaling), they had about 300 million hashes per second. Bitcoin had 3 million trillion hashes per second over the same period. So you're talking 1 to 10 billion in raw hashrate, and even with a generous challenge factor, bitcoin is using millions of times more compute power.

There were about 150 thousand bitcoins mined over that period, so 1 in 10 billion of that is 0.000015BTC.

Since they hit 3 in use accounts with the same compute effort, they almost certainly made more BTC attacking wallets with collisions.

Ed2: How much parasitic hashing --

If you figure the average active wallet has between 1 and 5 BTC (very high variance), and the wallet hash takes about 100x as long (over estimate), they made 3-15BTC vs 0.015BTC by attacking the network versus mining, or about 200-1000x as much.

Since colliders are themselves unlikely to collide (and thus competition doesn't starve out colliders), the system will only stabilize if 99%+ of miners drop out of the pool or the difficulty in finding a collision raises 1000x.

Given the sunk costs in dedicated mining rigs and that new hashes would be breaking, it seems like parasitic hashing will continue to be an issue.

On the plus side, only a one-in-a-million chance it wipes one of your accounts.

(Of course, a fluke collision with a high value account might create other problems.)
when I lived in Italy I would always scour a new city for what my friends and I referred to as secret bakeries

one night we closed the bars and were walking home past santa croce in firenze

it was nearly 5am and we suddenly could smell sweet pastries in the air

literally following our noses we wound through labyrinthine alleyways​ until we came across an halfway open garage door

looking in, the garage was full of industrial ovens and wheeled racks full of newly baked pastries prepped to fill the glass counters of every bakery and coffee shop around the city

we got an employees attention and politely asked to buy one of those fresh, warm, straight out the oven pastries

the bakers were happy to sell us any of the pastries all for one euro each

the first time was a magical experience and now i'm always sure to take a night to walk the streets of any italian city at 5am looking for a secret bakery baking the fresh pastries before they are sent out into the city
Ha, this, and not just this but what Italian bakery are you likely to find gelatto and tiramisu in? I think maybe the author has only been to Battale's Eataly in NYC, which is more like "open floor Italian-ish gourmet market" than a bakery.
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It's also nice when you notice a restaurant charging you an extra dollar.
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Woah could you run this over Love 2D? Could also be fun with https://github.com/nikki93/cgame (game live coding + live editing environment).
I am curious to hear, is there any reason not to use them?

As an alternative image format to things like PNG? There aren't many, if it's an image that lends itself to a vector format in the first place. SVGs have been widely supported for some time, often have significant file size benefits as we see here, and scale cleanly to different screen resolutions. You have to go back to versions of IE that even the likes of Microsoft and Google won't support any more or to very old mobile devices to start running into general compatibility problems.

One thing to be aware of is that you are effectively programming your graphics if you're using SVG, not just recording the image itself. If you start playing with the more powerful features, particularly using non-trivial filters, you might occasionally run into issues in the rendering code that turns your program into an on-screen image. Depending on how much of that code is in the browser itself and how much is delegated to the underlying OS/graphics drivers for acceleration, that can cause problems including slow display of images, distortion so the rendered image doesn't look right, or in extreme cases even hanging the browser or graphics driver if you're unlucky enough to trigger some underlying bug (which is obviously a rare result, but I have personally seen it happen in my own development work). For the kinds of very simple SVGs we're looking at here, I can't imagine any of these potential problems being a serious risk, though.
And a nice illustration for why startups often do well focusing on very specific use cases first.

Replacing Excel for the general population is a moon-shot project; replacing it for a well selected set of use cases hard but, as history showed, possible.
Considering they need to answer to, try to communicate with,
and rely on, a bunch of Computer execs, and moreover execs primarily interested in the project for financial reasons...
that's a list of 17 employees who are at high risk of burning out.

Like Steve Zadesky before them:
http://businessinsider.com/apple-steve-zadesky-quits-2016-1

Re: the Tesla names (biased article, but fun):
http://marketwatch.com/story/elon-musk-heres-why-we-call-app...
Yes. You generate bytecode for classes that are loaded by a class loader, and thereby enter the JIT world etc. The tech predates .NET, but it isn't as developer friendly as DynamicMethod etc.
This is simply rubbish; it's based on some circular view of politics in which you just go round in a circle if you go in any one direction. It's silly and ahistorical to think this way. And a horshoe-theory like truism doesn't make your point valid.

Yes, Stalinism shared many elements with fascism, but saying "Communist art looked the same" doesn't really add to your point, and just makes me suspect the credibility of your point.

I'm interested in what you see as the racism existing in the USSR (I'm being charitable and assuming you are referring to the USSR rather than Communism in general, as Communism in general is not a racist ideology). I have to admit that I know very little about racism in the USSR.

How does Communism share totalitarianism in general? It is the very process of advocating the abolition of the state and all unjust hierarchies. It is anarchistic by nature.

>The way individuals just don't matter

In what way? Drawing these parallels is nothing more than saying "fascists and Communists both drink water, that means that they're the same".

Please provide some evidence or credibility to your claims about Communism other than a very restricted view of the political continuum.
The author's cherry picked examples from the 19th century are pretty misleading. The state of the art, as well as society's expectations for most professions have changed significantly since the 19th century.

I wouldn't want to live in a building made to 19th century safety and efficiency standards, and while I'm sure some people can teach themselves how to design and build modern buildings, I'm also sure that a good way to get up to speed is to go to school for architecture or civil engineering. Ditto with law and mechanical engineering.

I'm also wary of anybody claiming software engineers and computer programmers don't need a degree or other training. Software quality in general is really crappy, and I'm skeptical the solution is less education.
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Where are you finding the micro server's for $250? The lowest I can find them for is $379 at Amazon. Not exactly a deal.

I'm deciding between drobo (plug'n'play) and a DIY freeNAS right now. If the price is right I'll do the DIY freeNAS.
Classical mechanics was my favorite course in college. It doesn't get enough fame (everyone always wants to talk about quantum mechanics, because it's "weird").

Check this fun problem out: http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/HistTopics/Brachi...
Anyone up for modifying it to target elisp instead so we can finally run vim in emacs?
My experience in China as a student point me to believe that most Chinese kowtow and go to temples for tradition and spirituality rather than institutionalized religion.

The entire article sounds like a westerner applying their cultural values and their sense of righteousness to China. For example:

>"But I do think that it does create values that are higher than any government's values - ideas of righteousness and justice that people are inspired by and that will inspire them to action if they feel that they are unjustly treated by the government."

(I'm an american born chinese but was brought to China for about 6 years by my mother)

Edit: My grandmother is extremely Buddhist, and both my mother and I are nonreligious. Even so, my mother brought me to the Confucius temple to kowtow and light incense, not because it actually did anything, but because it was a move of ancestral respect and tradition.
There's basically data and functions, so 4 wouldn't really have any methods attached to it and instead you'd just call Number.even?(4). Purely psuedo code example.

It's a deep subject but one of the biggest things is that it's virtually impossible to end up with the untenable monolith that many ruby apps eventually grow into. Since you aren't dealing with crazy inheritance trees attached to data separating things out really just becomes moving code around.

I do both Ruby and Elixir code right now. There are times when I like the convenience of Ruby for command line scripts or monkey patching a quick modification for a 3rd party library...but there are other times when you hit problems that you just can't solve effectively without rewriting in something else and that gets annoying. That's one of the reasons you see so many posts about moving from Ruby to Go or Elixir because both languages are much better at Ruby's weakest points.

But it's always worth noting that Ruby got those projects to market with maturity and helped them grow customer bases with enough traffic to JUSTIFY a rewrite. What gets people so excited about Elixir is that you lose very little in the development time department for full stack while avoiding the long term complications due to the language rules. All that said, it makes you think about problems differently which will be a challenge for people at first.
He's talking about the universe. The entire thing. From what portion of it do you suppose we have been able to gather enough evidence to determine there is no life?