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I agree that numerical analysis would be helpful, and I'm pretty sure they already released one. As someone who has worked at Google and at other companies, I think some people might just be distressed that Google of all places is being investigated, rather than the litany of workplaces with far worse gender dynamics. I can't speak about specific instances (which inevitably occur everywhere), but in terms of cultural attitudes towards this sort of thing I've never worked at a place more progressively aligned than Google.
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Why all discussions about healthcare reform revolve around money to pay for it? I am sure this is the wrong side of it. Whatever money you pay, you have a limited supply of doctors. So in the end, more money just raises prices, redistributing who gets which care, anyway.

Why not start with supply side? Automatically recognize diploma of doctors from all developed countries (you may start with a limited list - very rich countries with life expectancy higher than U.S. - start with UK, France and Germany, add a few more if it's not enough - no one can say that their doctors are not 'good enough') - and make them instant immigration papers - literally, hand out green cards right at the airport on arrival. Millions will flock and quickly saturate the market. Then you will not have a problem with either new single-payer, or old system.
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He was voted best Go commentator on NHK(I believe) a few years ago (and Japan has a decent amount of professional go games on tv).
Would love to use this with my kids. I'm a VR skeptic, but novel variations of AR are always great to see.
"Given an ideal environment" is a pretty big "given". You might as well say "given an ideal environment, X is purely genetic for any human characteristic X.
Hi! It generally didnt matter too much to me, there were a couple of times where I missed a container that could help, but for such a constrained environment it wasn't too much of a burden.
I don't know if I am offednded, but someone making up a shit title with no basis, and hundreds of people upvoting it without reading the article should be a damned shame. It's almost like some people just want the title to be true disregarding the facts.
It's nice to see all the love for django here. I've been developing with django for many years now and I feel like more and more developers are finally picking it up for various projects. It's remained very popular for quite some time now. I especially love the django developers, as they really seem to put out high quality releases that make updating to the latest version fairly painless.

I would also opt for django, postures and react+redux on the front for any complex hi needs. With django rest framework powering an API, building complex ui's becomes less painful. I've yet to find something quite as powerful as DRF.

Recently started a large commercial project 4 months ago and I'm seriously glad I went with django.
Especially in a <10 person team
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I haven't played Freeciv in a while, but the AI only respects strength. Build lots of ranged units and a few mele units and a lot of mounted units to capture cities. AI is not smart enough to compete with a human player so they give it a lot of bonuses like more science points, etc. AI therefore cheats with rigged bonus points on dice rolls.
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> A big enough tax on fast food could probably cover it, with the added bonus of decreasing the amount needed.

Probably not; it would take a huge chunk of US fast food revenue, and probably more than California's.

https://www.franchisehelp.com/industry-reports/fast-food-ind...

> If that doesn't work, then there are a lot of programs they can cut that are less important than healthcare.

The amount that would need to be cut is pretty much all the non-healthcare spending in the state budget (including the spending that directly produces revenue, yet it requires that the revenue come in anyway.)
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You mean the piano and math pictures? The finish on those surfaces makes both of those easily possible (I also don't think that countertop is marble). You can see the reflection of a white light on a finished marble countertop. Black under ambient light != always black, even under a directed light source.
I like seeing dental included (per the parent comment). Increasingly discovered to be the genesis of numerous systemic problems (e.g. cardiovascular, for one) when not cared for. A really big opportunity for the kind of up front, preventative maintenance that saves big money / expense, down the road.

Dental care needs to be wrapped into the fold of overall healthcare. Its exclusion creates far more trouble than just bad teeth.
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Single payer would be a great improvement on the current nightmare of American healthcare, but let's not kid ourselves that this is an incredible deal. The UK spent 8.5% of GDP on healthcare in 2013 (life expectancy in the UK is marginally higher than in California.) Most European countries spend around 11%.
May have been :). Bitflyer 1 was written in python, so I tried to keep the monty python references in
I must have missed the part where the white man's ancestors were enslaved for generations, and then, even after being ostensibly freed, were segregated, oppressed and prevented from participating in the greatest economic boom the country has known by overtly racist policies that prevented them from accumulating generational wealth.
As an ex-go player (I pretty much stopped completely) I don't agree with your statement. You of course want to maximize your chances of winning but that means getting the most out of the current situation. If there's a play that you believe is a 10 point move and there's an 8 point move you're going to make the 10 point move 99% (probably 100% actually) of the time if they both keep initiative.
> hundreds of people upvoting it

At the time of this comment, there are 101 up-votes on the article. Making no other judgement of your critique, engaging in exaggeration like this weakens it, especially given the volatility of the topic.
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> I challenge you to put a dollar value on the pax Americana

It's been near constant actual war with an entirely constant internal war footing and national security state limiting basic freedoms justified by the war footing. There is no pax Americana.
BTW the author of this article, Stephen Hsu, has a blog which frequently has interesting comments on such things (and AI, and much else):

http://infoproc.blogspot.com/
My bad. I saw it on the front page and made an off the cuff remark.
Because it gets used to paint a picture where white people are only successful because they were somehow privileged, which isn't always true.

It's really quite racist actually, you are using skin color as the defining characteristic when socioeconomic status is far more relevant.
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Every conceptual viewpoint reflects a particular world view, whether an officially accepted world view or an alternative world view. To rest an objection or finding a fault on the basis of a generalized statement like you made anent "world view" is actually proof of nothing and possesses little meaning of any consequence - other than, of course, that we reflect an individual or a collective world view.

As for the origin and global point of emergence of the human species, this could be debated ad nauseam. I would contend that no current view would be entirely correct.
Some people may read it as immediate ancestors. But I don't know how we can clarify that in a succinct manner.
I think it is a little bit of exaggeration to claim Senior Developer title on a project with unfamiliar tech stack.
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And you, and the regulators are very wrong. Since I have eLog in my cab (mandatory for all trucks by the end of the year), I can't cheat in any way. Meaning I'm forced to drive to meet my delivery obligations when I'm falling asleep. I also forced to sit 10 hours during my break, quite often in less than pleasant conditions. I don't need 10 hours for sleep. I need 6. I waste other 4 browsing hacker sites. Then I work 14 hours very much without any meaningful breaks(to browse above mentioned sites). Until recently, before we had elogs, I could juggle a paper log. Now I can't. Now I have the big brother computer, which is totally hackable, thank you government. The monstrosity you so afraid of just became much worse. Now about anyone with little skills can take control over my truck. Trucks are part of IoT nowadays. Just think about it. 40 ton monstrosity connected to Internet
The other western nations can afford to spend more on their safety net because of the military strength of america and the protection it provides against foreign invaders.

America defeated japan essentially by itself while providing enough food and supplied to keep the russian army alive while also providing the majority of the military strength to the western front, essentially being the primary factor in the defeat of fascism.

As for communism, it was the us vs ussr while Europe and China and japan rebuilt after the destruction of world War 2, again, the us provided the bulk of the force against communism.

Your statement about the rest of the world doing more to save the world from fascism and communism is blatantly false.
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I don't find un-moderated forums to be any more low brow than moderated ones.
It actually drops spending significantly; there's lots of friction in healthcare caused by the maze of different payers and their different requirements and processes.

But it's not a job killer; reducing the total cost drag from healthcare and the associated personal uncertainty resulting from the gaps in the status quo system ought to spur pretty much every other industry.
This is a good take which, IMHO, fits the dominant out-of-Africa data

Quote:
>I think we should take seriously that Graecopithecus premolar root morphology may be yet another demonstration that supposed “hominin” characters actually evolved in other branches of apes during the Miocene. This feature is far from alone. Many other features that supposedly link Ardipithecus or Sahelanthropus with hominins are also found in other Miocene fossils. My colleagues and I documented some of these Miocene ape-like features in Sahelanthropus in 2006.

So the tooth-form that appears only in hominins could not be a marker, but a very similar tooth-form could have developed in non-hominins
Then why does it make people so forgetful? These studies should always be taken with a grain of salt on both sides
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much of the knowledge in one stack translates to another.
you can know RDBMS, and pick up, say, spanner.
you can know IIS, and pick up node.

I never cared about what stack someone uses.
Then you need to read more history, because it's happened just about everywhere at various times.

More to the point though, a lot of white people didn't get in on that economic boom either, a lot of Balkan refugees during the 90's for instance, they don't like being told how privileged they are.
It's actually a big deal. We've been sued once and settled. It was Eastern Texas of course. There was no merit to the case, our patent application just matched one the keywords monitored by the NPE.
This time will go in history as "the dark ages of human genetics" because of this reason. Some groups of humans are smarter than other groups of humans, some are more athletic, there are many physical and behavioral differences caused by genes in different easily identifiable groups of people. I know it, you know it, everyone knows it, but because of the toxic political environment, everyone must pretend these differences either don't exist, or they exist because of some magical politically correct reason like socioeconomic status. Even ignoring that the status itself has genetic influence and thus members of one easily identifiable group of people are predisposed to higher/lower status than other.

We are doing nothing but fooling ourselves by pretending we are all equal.
Sorry not comfortable sharing the name, but I can say it's a small startup in Europe. In general you'll find startups to be much more open to these types of arrangements.

European startups also tend to be more chill about working hours than American startups (I'm from SF so I've seen it all).
Your post itself is inciting, because you imply that those up-voting the post did so due to "their world views". I am sure you can think of other, less offensive reasons that are more likely explanations of the votes, like scientific curiosity.
Technically, Sweden doesn't have a minimum wage. Some unions negotiate salary centrally for their members though.
I haven't heard much about AMD's ACML and ArrayFire but I'm not surprised.

On the other hand, I think you're underestimating the fact that OpenCL is an open spec and therefore has support from the FOSS world. CUDA has always been criticized for being closed source.

Even though OpenCL doesn't get much praise, and actually get criticized a bit (I'm personally not a big fan because writing OpenCL code is like bending over backwards). It has a lot of potential with new libraries coming up[1] which can possibly make it atleast on par with CUDA. Once that happens, AMD's cost effective cards will put it in the race.

[1]:https://github.com/clMathLibraries
I have no idea how to play Go but reading his responses are quite and interesting and insightful into the realm. Go does seem very different from other kinds of sport. I guess this stems from the fact that it can't be brute forced so it's very much a game that goes by feel, intuition and experience?
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First of all, getting people together to talk is not doing nothing. It's getting people together and talk. There are companies/departments where people just don't talk to each other anymore, or not about the right things, because many things are so bogged down that people don't bring them up anymore.

Ok, now while I'm typing I see what you might mean: Of course in a management role you actually have to actively "facilitate": You have to challenge things that seem to be stuck, you have to offer solutions by comparing your experience with the situation at hand. Some kind of an "organisational coach with focus on IT teams". But this wouldn't be a permanent position but a freelance one, and 6 months seems to be a reasonable time for an IT team (and its stakeholders!) to resolve a lot of issues and to be able to flourish on their own.

Having the team decide on architectural matters isn't bad management per se in my opinion. At least having most of the ideas - of course management is responsible for the decisions, but if the ideas come from the team, the developers usually feel way more appreciated, and the decisions are supported way better than those that "come from above". But also, management has to facilitate: Have the team explain why they want to do things a certain way, have them lay out alternatives, and challenge their ideas with your experience.

That's just my understanding of an IT manager: You're not a manager because you were the best developer, and so you were promoted - changing into a management role is NOT a promotion, it's taking a different career path, doing a different job. So to my mind an IT manager should not be a lead architect who has all the great ideas, and the team works them off. He's a Servant Leader who helps the team to be the best team they can be.
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Lord help us if intelligent is correlated some how with neanderthal, denisovan, etc genes.
I'd also prefer a stricter definition of "literally", but here we are and there's little chance we can turn back the clock. According to Merriam-Webster, most dictionaries, including the OED, recognize the "metaphoric or intensifying sense of the word literally"[1], and this is not even a recent development. (The situation for enormity is similar.)

[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/misuse-of-lite...
Well, there's two issues I would have with your statement.

The first is that "pointing out" is not where the story ends; like parent said, there is a small minority of people who use this "average man"(an amalgamation of features that doesn't actually exist in reality) to shame specific individuals(e.g. calling out novel authors for being "privileged" and thus shouldn't write characters with a different skin colour). This usage opens you up to an obvious reciprocal attack you would probably object to - one could point out that the average black person is much more likely to be arrested(https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2015/crime-in-the-u.s.-...) and use this to call specific black people "dangerous". In both cases, you are prejudging based on a stereotype.

The second objection is that once you start to delve into the "privileges", the label just doesn't seem to fit the actual things being described. Actually searching for "white male privileges" leads me to articles that are so easy to fight that I feel like I'd be addressing a strawman[0][1][2], so if possible, could you provide a list? My general contention is that the lists of "privileges" end up being a mix of: significant outcome benefits which have controversial correlation-not-causation interpretations(e.g. is blacks being arrested more "white privilege" or simply the amalgamated effect of high poverty, low education and latent racism?); things you would not really describe as "privileges" but simply different choices(e.g. men having longer careers due to spending less family time); things that are incredibly petty("I can if I wish arrange to be in the company of people of my race most of the time." from [0])

[0] - http://www.winnipeg.ca/clerks/boards/citizenequity/pdfs/whit...

[1] - http://everydayfeminism.com/2015/11/lessons-white-privilege-...

[2] - http://www.care2.com/causes/what-exactly-is-white-privilege-...
It seems almost a right of passage for a programmer to build/attempt a lisp/pseudo-lisp implementation. Quite honestly, when I made my (very poor) attempt, it was one of the most fun, and most frustrating projects I had done at the time, and I would highly recommend every developer have shot at building some kind of lisp.

One thing I did notice in this implementation, is the lack of quoting and cons notation. Although, cons is a weird one in the lisp world given it is the only infix operator in the language.
I'm a little confused by both the question and the current answers. Maybe because, when I've had that position, there was a project manager that or similar that dictated what should I do and what was expected from me.

Also being new with a tech stack is enough of a handicap to keep me busy getting to speed, so adding quality and better engineering practices had to wait.

Actually, the first time that I found myself in such a situation, I later regretted I had not invested much more time in learning the framework so I could had detected bad design that later slowed us.
Obviously you get that programming is the process of telling the computer what to do. Without being told what to do a computer is a very capable paperweight.

Frameworks, high level languages and other abstractions are supposed to make it easier for us meatbags to compose and organise our instructions.

Somebody - be that a human, an AI or some other mechanism - still has to compose those instructions in the first place. And if you remove humans from the application programming side, you still need to create and maintain the mechanism for figuring out what instructions to dispatch in any given circumstance.

I think there is much more room to disrupt the process of programming, to remove much of the domain knowledge and break down barriers to entry, but ultimately the core problem of telling a dumb machine which bits to flip won't go away with current architecture.
It gets "used" to "paint" that picture by people who are opposed to the concept. The notion of "privilege", as it's used in academic "social justice" work (and by pretty much everyone I've ever heard from or spoken with who takes "non-toxic" "SJW" values to heart) specifically accounts for that.

(You may not hear about it from the latter, because they're probably sick to fucking death of hearing the same complaint, premised in a complete misunderstanding of the whole concept, from people — usually, surprise!, white men — over and over again. Wouldn't you be?)

But it's so much easier to rail against the straw-man version of a concept that confirms your biases, right?

EDIT: phrasing. And some "This again?" eye-roll. Sorry: not sorry.
Quite a lot to people who are ideologically opposed to taxes and/or government spending irrespective of the cost-effectiveness of the programs they find compared to alternatives.

Which California—Democratic majority notwithstanding—is hardly short on.

And those are exactly the people this Sac Bee headline is aimed at.
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I'm more of a old school web user (started much before the smartphone revolution). And back in the day, I remember this nifty app called - google talk for the desktop, which was leagues ahead in terms of speed and ease of use compared to other apps (ex: yahoo chat). I used it for a long time, and even in the smartphone era, I stuck with it for some time even after it became hangouts. I might still prefer to use it, but most of my friends have moved onto whatsapp or skype for group messaging / one-one messaging. I feel Google had this incredible opportunity, but failed to cash in on it leading to other clones like WA, FB messenger claiming the top spots.

Any particular reason why google neglected the hangouts app ?
That's why I prefer using the context of that intelligence as a prefix. Like Messi is a "soccer" genius. Messi will probably score less than average in general intelligence tests.
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See it like this: You know how the other side has those incredibly stupid people who can't even make a coherent argument, tout a blog post as a credible source and react to rational argument with insults and threats?

Well, your side has them, too. If you care about social issues, they are toxic SJWs. If you are a patriot, they are white supremacists. If you are a Muslim, they are Islamist terrorists.

Arguments are not soldiers [0]. Don't let a disagreement turn into a war. If you see someone support a cause you care about, but for the wrong reasons; and do so in a manner that alienates anyone who disagrees, you should call them out on it.

[0] http://lesswrong.com/lw/gz/policy_debates_should_not_appear_...
I'd just pick a bug/feature that seems short and relatively contained and isn't urgent, probably from the backlog.

Inform management, and make sure it'll be deployed when you fix it - you want to learn the entire process of development and not just the code.

Start learning the architecture, stack and development process with the goal of fixing that single bug. You don't have to learn the entire stack/architecture to fix that single bug.
Try not to refactor the entire system while your fixing a bug - the point is to learn how the system works, not to redesign it.

Make notes of the pain points you have - from setting up a dev environment, to lack of documentation or even communication problems.

When you finish, do another bug, perhaps something more challenging.

If you feel that you need to read a book, or do a tutorial on part of the stack you don't know to fix the bug, then do so.

When your done with a few bugs, you are in a position to know and prioritize what quality and changes could be helpful, try and implement them.
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