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> There's also way too much meta-discussion on Mastodon. Childish phrasing like "that bird site" instead of just saying Twitter. Too much back clapping about how amazing the fediverse is. Too much hand-wringing about what any of it means. Too much bitching about how blocking CP is "as bad as Twitter."

This is exactly the same problem Voat had. Unfortunately it's pretty much inevitable whenever any kind of online space is explicitly founded as "[existing service], but without moderation!". Almost by definition, the people who are going to go there first, and form the basic norms of the community, are going to be the people who felt the impact of moderation on the old service-- i.e., trolls, immature brats, and people who want to post CP.

Freedom of speech is good, but it has to be a "background virtue": any online community explicitly founded on freedom of speech is going to be a garbage fire.
Good point, though I see open source as something people create for pleasure, rather than 'solving someone else's problem'. There is much blur between those two things obviously.
I said clear, not essential. Your pinky finger also does not perform an essential biological function, i.e. you can keep on living without it. But it performs a clear one, providing more grip strength and options.

Please link to the dictionary definition you're using.
I support strong net neutrality of Title II oversight of ISP's. STOP the inexorable destruction of EVERYTHING in this world because of Greed.
By the way, FGM is not an exclusively Islamic tradition in some Muslim-majority countries. There are certain non-Muslim African communities that engage in these awful practices.
Fuck you ajit pai. Everyone sees through your bullshit and knows you dont mean a thing you say. You dont stand for anyone But yourself. Keep title ii net neutrality regulations and go fuck yourself
> And hoisting ever-increasing debt on workers only works for so long.

I think you are underestimating the capacity for greed as well as the effect of globalization. Even if whole nations of workers are eviscerated, it is possible to sit in comfort and growing your wealth and power with little regard to the balance or even efficiency of the overall system.
The same argument could be used to support giving all infants face tattoos at the hospital.
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> And calling it mutilation implies those who have and want to have this engage in mutilation akin to FGM. It's irresponsible.

It is akin to FGM when it's done nonconsensually (which it is, in the vast majority of cases for both sexes). Disclaimer: I understand that FGM is much more sexually debilitating and AFAIK never has a medical need behind it, but victims of circumcision are also being (usually needlessly) deprived of a functional part of their sexual organ.
> freedom of religion is a basic human right.

Freedom of religion means the state can't tell you what to believe. It emphatically does not mean that you have carte-blanche authority to do whatever crazy stuff your religion asks you to do, including murdering infidels or performing cosmetic surgery on babies.
http://broadbandcountrydata.law.upenn.edu/the-facts/
Interestingly, for some people, letting go of the money without a fight is psychologically wrecking as well. It can eat away at you, make you question yourself.

The question in my mind is what kind of person are you, or if you have someone in your circle ( like the wife in question ), and have them do the chasing, just for their own well being. I like that option here - not knowing you or your wife, so maybe I am all wrong - because then she won't be carping after you.
There have always been professions, such as doctors, that require some degree of 24x7 coverage but I wouldn't describe that as shift work.

In the US, probably the biggest change over the past few decades is that pretty much everything that could be closed on a Sunday was closed (with the exception of restaurants which historically closed on Monday). When I went to school and for a number of years thereafter, essentially no stores were open on a Sunday.
> More likely, certain services would be charged tolls upstream

Any service that competes with an ISP's service

> others would be promoted with discounts.

An ISP's or their partner's service.

When you have at most 3 but usually only 2 choices for an ISP in a local market, how do you think this will benefit anyone ither than them?

My only two choices are comcast and at&t DSL. I live in a dense, wealthy area where people would definitely pay for faster internet in a very large city, but the fastest speed i can get is 60 MBps for $80/month. These two companies are not known for innovation or treating their customers well. Comcast is regularly voted the worst company in America because of its terrible service.

Nn removal will add additional costs on trying to get your service noticed since they can arbitrarily put you in the slow lane. How will you be able to compete with an ISP in this landscape?
Sure but if you're in control of the company and it's primarily cloud based, you could be much closer to home.

50 min each way is 100 min per day, 500 min per week. That's an entire work day.

A commute that long isn't for founders, it's for wage slaves!
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This is rather tangentially related, and may be an unpopular opinion, but I think it is silly that drawings of fictional characters who appear to be under the age of 18, nude or engaged in sexual activity, is posing such a legal issue. It's very strange and in my opinion ridiculous that such material is illegal.

Though I can understand the wider application to materials not allowed to be possessed, there isn't much that a single instance owner can do other than to shut out the whole federation aspect of Mastodon, which would be a great loss and simply centralise things again.

If the metadata could somehow be moved from the server to the client, or the client chooses to whom to subscribe and post to, wouldn't that be better? Why is it done on the server side?

Edit: it would be nice if people could please explain downvotes, so I know how to better improve the posts I write. Downvoting itself is not helpful to this understanding.
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That nick is the equivalent of male circumcision and is practiced by the Bohras, an Islamic sect. It makes a tiny incision for girls in the foreskin covering the clitoris and it is not clear that this reduces sexual pleasure in the future.

It is very far from FGM which removes the clitoris etc.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawoodi_Bohra

We have hundreds of years of data on Jewish males and how they fare after this operation at 8 days old, and it is not at all clear that they are medically or psychologically worse off than without it.

The fact that it is considered a requirement in the Jewish religion for membership in the Jewish people plays a major role in the phychological well being of the child and adult, and as the parent comment has said this needs to be considered!
I support net neutrality remaining under title 2 oversight
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Nice, I like automation and Inkscape. Always nice to see free software solutions.

Suggestions - perhaps you could script with another language rather than using a .bat? For example you could use Python to create the commands. With that you might also be able some simple looping instead of successive commands, which would make future changes easier (not that you can't do this with a batch file also, but personally every time I've tried to do anything similar with batch files I've ended up losing the will to live..).
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/mutilation
Protect net neutrality with Title II oversight of ISPs.
I don't think we're being deliberately vague, the answer just varies for different people.

Generically, bad places to pull a spouse from: online dating sites/apps, bars, concerts, large parties, etc. Just about anywhere that attracts people from a variety of social strata and offers zero curation for common values, education or habits of mind, and/or doesn't sort people in any way based on useful proxies for those things.

The trouble is that those sources are tempting if you are socially isolated (from the opposite gender) and perceive yourself to have few options, and/or because you're lazy or fatigued from the ever-frustrating chase.

Always bad? No. But the median outcome is going to be worse than with other, more enlightened dating strategies.
That's not really how it worked. There was a very good mail system in London, to the point where if you wrote a letter to someone in the morning, you could reasonably ask for a reply in the afternoon or evening if they saw the letter in time. You wouldn't dispatch a rider unless there were valuables to deliver, or maybe some kind of top secret message(but really, you would just use a cipher in those cases and send it over the normal post). Mail was the lifeblood of Victorian commerce and society, and was often delivered 3-4 times per day, every day of the week.
It can be. It's a complex balance between processing speed and IO (from disk, ram and network).

GPUs are much more parallel and a great fit for most queries which can be broken up, so combine that with very fast GPU ram and local storage and you can eliminate network/distributed fetches to make scans even faster.
When I got out of the Corps, I did some freelance writing here and there: local newspapers, regional/national magazines, etc.

One of my first stories was with some local firefighters that responded to a car wreck.

When they got there, there was a woman trapped in the wreck.

Then it caught fire. There was nothing they could do but watch the woman burn to death.

Decided then and there that firefighting wasn't in the cards for me.
> any kind of online space is explicitly founded as "[existing service], but without moderation!".

I don't think that's a fair characterization of Mastodon. But that's how many users see it, because that's how it has been advertised to them by media and other users. (And some instances have taken it as a slogan or a goal, e.g. apparently the authors)
> Are you implying that somewhere else, these things are free without someone paying for them?

Free, no, but the rest of the developed world has universal coverage and healthcare that costs half what it does in the US per capita, with similar outcomes.

Someone has to pay, yes. The US's way of paying is just horrendously complex, expensive, and inefficient.
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Profession: Physics graduate student (experimental atomic physics). ~15 people in our group, 5 in our lab.

Workday:

[07:30] Wake up

[08:00] Swim, bike, run or climb for an hour

[09:00] Bike to work, shower, read papers

[10:00] Turn on experiment, align optics

[01:00] Lunch with labmates and advisor

[02:00] Back in the lab, more laser aligning, bug fixing, realizing nothing works.

[07:00] Dinner at student center or Chipotle

[08:00] Data taking starts (sometimes we're lucky and it starts earlier)

[10:00 - 12:00] Data data data. If it's super late (4am), then I'll get up late tomorrow

Meetings can last over 5 hours, especially if it involves writing papers. The schedule usually shifts to later hours as the week progresses. We barely wake up in time before the Friday 11am group seminars. 15 hour days are fairly routine.
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It's also looking pretty good for the rest of the world, compared to the past.

https://ourworldindata.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/ourwor...
"Those increases tended to mean fewer jobs. Of course, lots of factors weigh on manufacturing employment. Foreign competition, overvaluation of the dollar and rising productivity all play a big part, too. But even after taking all those other factors into account, Acemoglu and Restrepo still found that additional robots in an area reduces workers and cuts local wages."

I'd be interested in seeing (paywall, unfortunately) how they took that into account because the last paper I read with this thesis (Michael J. Hicks and Srikant Devaraj, Myth and Reality, CBER, Ball State U) explicitly did not take those factors into account, and in fact deliberately conflated the effect of offshoring, outsourcing and automation to make their point that automation, not outsourcing was to blame.

It's worth noting the exceptionally strong political imperative to blame the effects of trade on automation given the profits involved, the strong desire of business to continue to engage in labor arbitrage & maintain cross continental supply chains. This makes automation a critical scapegoat.

More likely is that the rate of automation-related job destruction (which is about 400 years old, not 10 years old) and automation-related job creation (ditto) hasn't changed over the years, it's just that low skill technology related job creation has been moved abroad to arbitrage the wage differential and is assumed out of this study's model (correct me if I'm wrong).

For example, those million odd people working at Foxconn making iPhones are likely not counted in this study as jobs that "could have been created in America, but weren't" even though that's exactly what they were.
Anytime, friend.

Perhaps you would be interested in "sales engineering", which deals more with the ingest of customer information and needs, and outputs a configuration (from you) that will solve technically whatever challenges the customers is having.

Sales representatives like me are responsible for portraying an image, telling a company story, and manipulating people into doing quickly that which a rational person wouldn't do at all.

The knowledge base can be learned, but soft skills and truly psychopathic levels of manipulative ability can only be cultivated with intensive experience.

It is basically a performance art at that point :)
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From the definition: "make imperfect by removing or irreparably damaging parts" Cutting off the foreskin entirely fulfills that description.
From what I can tell, this is a useful first step towards credential stuffing.

Requests against endpoints like this are going to be unauthenticated, since by their very nature they happen before the user is actually authenticated against the system. So you can burn through a few thousand (or hundred thousand) possibles and find out which ones actually have accounts.

From there, you can use one of many other email/password dumps and try authenticating. Hitting an endpoint where you can use an email and password is (hopefully) going to be much more guarded and will start blocking IPs when the rate or variance is too high.

That being said, I don't really know how you can stop the first step. There are plenty of answers here that say you should just let them "sign up" and then send them an email if they already have an account. But what happens if your signup process includes something like accepting payment? Obviously you don't want the user filling out all of that information again.
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Getting married in September.

Never EVER made any wishlists or purchases related to marriage on Amazon.

Yet they know. New „Add to marriage list“ button just appeared right below the regular add-to-wishlist button.

(not mad. just marketing curious.)
If the LoC is low for that Koa project, you should rewrite it quickly using something that the team familiar with.

Otherwise, it will grow into a monster that nobody want to deal with.
54 years, programming professionally for 32 years, 100% open source. very happy with it still, but I did occasional other work also.

Balance is well, esp. as senior it's getting better and better.
At the pre-MBA level, interviews often just test for the right mindset and approach to problem-solving. Very little hard skills are expected prior, unless you're applying somewhere with strong expertise (life sciences comes to mind).

Post-MBA, they'll still hire from most industries and backgrounds, but take into account prior experience. The interviews will have case questions, where you'll walk through a small case with an interviewer (e.g. a multi-step case on a company, looking at their profit levels, expansion strategy, and similar). There really aren't that many hard skills required. However, the difficulty is in getting an interview. They generally recruit primarily from top 10 business schools, although the largest firms likely cast a wider net. I'm not entirely clear on the post-MBA recruitment process and what exactly they look for. I'd imagine coding skills would not be a negative, provided you could convince interviewers that you were actually interested in consulting, but I'm a little doubtful they would be seen as a strong positive either.
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I support net neutrality under title II of the FCC Act. Please retain this vital foundation of our US democracy.
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It's too bad "psychopathy" remains so ill-defined despite the fact history and life experience show something approximating its popular conception irrefutably exists.

I harbor a pet theory that psychopathy is directly rewarded by capitalism, and that since capitalism forms a semi-closed feedback loop of reproductive success rewards, psychopathy behaviors and genes (if they exist) should be increasing in prevalence.

While my general opinion is that people are more and more psychopathic (ahem, Trump), it sucks that psychology can't get its act together with IMO its second-most important mission (depression being the first mission): limiting the damage of psychopaths whom have wreaked havoc in history past.
Wow, less than 6 hours of sleep. Is that sustainable?
I don't work for MapD. I run my own consulting company in London and all of my clients are British firms and/or have a presence in the UK. MapD doesn't have a UK LTD setup or anything of that kind.

My Bio and CV are right at the side of every blog post, how hard is it to read them?
Its also worth pointing out the scale of the problem, with a simple one stage plant design, like a very stereotypical nuke or coal plant, a cold side around outdoor temps and a hot side around 1000F means 30-something percent efficient. And at 1000F or so, the steam pressure will be handwavy a bit less than 2000 PSI.

So simply running hotter is not a realistic solution to get above 30 or so percent, not at current technology levels. That's where strange staged and cogeneration schemes are applied to boost efficiency.

Low grade process heat is surprisingly useless in practice, unfortunately. Also economics and politics smack up against engineering ideals, where massive vertical integration would result in higher efficiency but short of nationalizing all industry or allowing massive monopolies its hard to integrate a coal generating plant with a steel mill heat treatment plant and a sardine canning plant and a greenhouse all under the same roof. Maybe with infinite scaling nano-technology all industrial plants could do all things to really boost efficiency.
> For someone with health insurance (as is legally mandated under the ACA) this would have cost about $30 ($20 office visit, $10 prescription).

That's not what it costs, that's what they pay at that particular moment. It costs substantially more, which insurance covers out of the premiums being paid.
>The solution is to make the consumer participate in driving costs down.

The insurance companies and hospitals do not want this, and they seem to prefer to have large administrative bureaucracies and collude on pricing. I'm glad there are many comments making the point about price transparency and competition.

Edit: Just found this somewhat recent article:
"those indecipherable medical bills theyre one reason health care costs so much"
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/29/magazine/those-indecipher...
I'm not sure what has confused this subthread for the FCC comment submission page, but we've detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14291757 and marked it off-topic.

Edit: and maybe kill the parent comment to slow things down a little.
Unfortunately, this myopia is and will always be perennial. I think in large part it's a misunderstanding of what the goal of an economy should be; many think it's maximum employment - it's not. Maximum employment is a side effect of a healthy economy, not the goal. The goal of an economy should be maximum productivity. When maximum employment is the priority, you tend to get less of everything. It's a subtle difference, but with it comes an unbelievably strong basis for misunderstanding.

Would the economy be better off if we replaced excavation equipment with spoons? Surely this would create tons of excavation jobs, but would the effect ripple outwards past that specific job type? Would it be a positive ripple or a negative ripple? It's a ridiculous hypothetical, but accurately illustrates the point.
This soo reminds me of Don in The Rosie Project. It is what Don what have read and followed to perfection.
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I'm against circumcision but I can't deny you've made some of the most compelling points I've ever heard regarding the issue. If circumcision is so bad we'd expect poorer life outcomes for the victims of it. Instead we see the opposite.

Assuming the better life outcomes aren't just because of culutural values, I wonder if there are benefits to circumcision we simply don't have the scientific tools to measure.
And vice versa
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As Wittgenstien said many philosophical questions are just examining misuse of language.

In a universe with a well defined casual chain in macroscopic world, is asking "might have been if X", even meaningful? Even considering indeterministic effects in quantum level, is "might have been" meaningful? (I don't think so since if the effects are essentially random, making predictions about it is useless)

I think the question "unasks" itself if the language is examined thoroughly. I think its from simple conclusion that free will is meaningless term, so "might have beens" is misapplication of illusion of free will to make statements on history.
> it has little to no negative impact on a male child.

Really? Please link a study, published in a respectable publication, that compares physical and subjective sex performance parameters of the two type of men.