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> I've spoken to people like this moderator and they just ramble over any topic they get excited about.

Sure, me too, and they're generally consistent in that between genders. This guy isn't. And people like him are very common too.

> What specifically makes you think he rambled because she was a woman?

By watching the entire video and comparing him to his conduct with the other panelists interviewed. She also wasn't the only non-native speaker, so it's not that either.
Is there anything that gives this socialogist any more credibility than me if I claimed the opposite?
Reed–Solomon codes for coders
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Lots of malware will detect it's running virtualized and change behaviour (generally to "do nothing") and there are mitigations around this detection (removing virtualbox/vmware specific serial numbers, virtualization drivers, etc) but exploits are hard, they are generally tied to a very specific version of very specific software in order to be successful, versions and products the author can't predict (are the hostile analysts running VMWare? Virtualbox? Xen? Mysteries...) and the target surface is likely very low since most malware is just going to be classified by some overworked junior analyst at an antivirus as "GENERIC.W32.RAT" well before it gets any sort of in-depth analysis and binned.

Ultimately you shouldn't worry about VM escapes by any malware you're likely to come across, they're an academic threat.

Weirdly, as a side effect of the first point, simply installing the virtualbox & vmware drivers on your real actual machine can stop a small subset of malware because it thinks it's running virtualized and shuts down
Generously, politics is The Thick of It. All kinds of scheming and malice, but none of it ever amounting to anything.
I read the facebook post and did not see a video link anywhere. I came to the comments to find the video. You could have actually been helpful and linked to the video.

For anyone interested, the link is here.

http://www.worldsciencefestival.com/programs/big-universe-bi...

edit: The moment happens at roughly 1 hour 7 minutes in.
I find that it's at least (usually more) double the work to build the JS-free version of something for a fraction of the user experience.

For example, imagine a forum where clicking the "edit post" button turns your post into a <textarea> editor and saves with AJAX so that you can continue scrolling once you make your edit.

To build the JS-free version, you typically need a separate endpoint, a new template, a redirect, and a less empowering editor. And all this for UI that 99% of your users won't see.

It just doesn't seem like a opportunity cost savvy way to build a website.

Then there are the UIs that take some real backsplits to accomplish without Javascript like a table that lets you mass-modify the rows with checkboxes and a <select> at the top that lets you choose options like Move | Archive | Delete.

You can wrap the entire <table> with a <form> such that all of your checkboxes submit to your mass-modify endpoint. That works without JS.

But since you can't nest <form> within other <form>, your <form method="DELETE" action="/things/{id}"> delete buttons can't appear in each row.

I have a hard time understanding how so many people in these threads can suggest that the opportunity cost of building for the 1% is always worth it. Does everyone just have basic blogs on the mind when they envision the labor involved in what they preach?
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She saw it as questioner trying to put on table his understanding of the theory so she can correct him in his understanding.

e.g. Mam, you tell me if I got this correctly. This is how I think it works...

I think it is actually a position of submission in a discussion, the person who is doing the talking is accepting the higher authority of person doing the listening to find errors in your understanding of the subject.

You explain to see if you got it correctly in front of a teacher.

The audiences would have been better served by hearing from the expert directly, so the moderator clearly failed at moderating. There is a chance that he may not have been sexist, but more student like and in the flow of events forgot the place, audience and his role in the conversation.

I didn't see the video so just exploring possibilities.

The audience may have come to thank the person who yelled "LET HER SPEAK PLEASE" for two reasons...

1. They thought moderator was sexist and one doing yelling was a liberator.

2. They wanted to hear the expert. Moderator was doing a poor job at moderating. This was not classroom. The people were there to hear the experts, they probably paid to attend the event. So, "HER" in this case is referencing the expert, not a woman. e.g. a version of "LET THE PROFESSOR SPEAK PLEASE".
Questions that come to mind..

If I do the math of taking the cash each time, do I end up close to what diluted options would provide, or more?

How many people do I know where options translated to sizeable cash, even after dilution?

Which statistic will I be a part of, where options have actionable worth, or little/nothing?

The questions above we're proposed to me by a founder who had taken funding and was diluted to the point where he realized his worth as a consultant/freelancer/contractor may have ended up ahead.
Radioactive waste often decays into lead. (generally after 30 steps of decay - some of the intermediate steps are a radioactive lead that decays to something else and then back to lead)

Here is the chart for radon http://www.ccnr.org/radon_chart.html (radon is of course natural not waste)
Computer keyboards have LEDs on them that are essentially kind of useless: one to tell you when NUM LOCK is on, one for CAPS LOCK, and a third one whose purpose Randy can't even remember. And for no reason other than the general belief that every aspect of a computer should be under the control of hackers, someone, some where, wrote some library routines called XLEDS that make it possible for programmers to turn these things on and off at will. And for a month, Randy's been writing a little program that makes use of these routines to output the contents of a text file in Morse code, by flashing one of those LEDs. And while all kinds of useless crap has been scrolling across the screen of his computer as camouflage, Randy's been hunched over gazing into the subliminal channel of that blinking LED, reading the contents of the decrypted Arethusa intercepts.

-- Neal Stephenson's http://www.cryptonomicon.com/text.html (2009, as what's left of its custom website shows!). $9 Kindle edition: https://amzn.com/dp/B000FC11A6

Apparently he has a new novel out next week.
I'm confused: would the teens accused of sending their own pictures be both the offender and the victim? Could they (or their parents) just choose to drop charges against themselves?
Doing the math on both sides is incredibly important.
Every time I switch back to Android tricks like that are actually kind of nifty (but not enough to get me to stay for long).

My colleague was really impressed by Google Photo's automatic indexing of pictures being able to find the most obscure objects in pictures
More evidence of Uber's future pivot to rating humans (a la black mirror).
The real world is just not as simple as your bimodal stance.

First off, sexist environments do exist. So that alone should invalidate how you think of this as either competence versus whining. Also, there are varying degrees of sexism, including places where it is not present at all. How can we know this? Zipf's law. Or by just doing a thought experiment, which I'll leave out here (just think about the simplest possible workplace).

On the issue of technical skills, everyone is incompetent at something. Even if you are highly technically skilled in your chosen field, these days almost every field has overlap, including new and emerging areas of overlap, with other fields including new fields. There are also new techniques being developed all the time. Everyone is learning on the job, and that's as it should be. Does that mean it's OK to whine about non-existent sexism? No, but does it mean that sexism does not exist? Also no. And if it does, it should be called out, regardless of whether someone is a Nobel laureate or a student.

Going to the extreme, if you're not at all skilled in any field but are just learning, that doesn't mean that speaking up about sexism is just whining about imagined problems in every case.

I have no doubt that some of what you're talking about is going on. But my point is it just doesn't begin to explain the whole picture.
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The entire plot was absolute crap, but to be fair this isn't the first time we've seen Major defect and become an enemy of her country.
Sony makes one, https://www.sony.com/electronics/digital-paper-notepad for $700 but it's a product being sold to consumers, so tinkering with the underlying OS (reputed to be Linux, in the form of Android) isn't supported.

(There are a number of other 8.5"x11" eink PDF readers out there.)
How would you "go 20 miles north" without JavaScript? The only sensible way would be by clicking a link, at which point you can load your new tiles.
This is one of the only reasons I sometimes end up back at w3schools after reading the mdn docs: when I'm looking for a quick, working, live example. A short example is worth a thousand words.
At the moment that the dilution occurs, you're getting exactly the same size of piece, it's just a smaller proportion of a bigger pie.

But I suppose the idea is that a bigger pie is able to expand larger and faster than it would have been otherwise.
> I'm getting a bit more per paycheck, but on the whole I suspect my tax returns over the next few years will add up to less than I was making before, even if the startup succeeds.

That sounds counter-intuitive -- why would that be? Did you have some expense you could claim at [large corporation] that you can no longer claim?
There doesn't seem to be any binding agreement so it doesn't seem applicable
> [T]hey don't actually make the company more valuable (what the company does with the money they raise does).

Yes they do. In two senses. The obvious one is probably not what you meant to refute - the total value of the company post raise is, in the simple case, the value of the company before the raise plus the value of the new cash. The company is more valuable. What I think you meant to say was that your shares don't get more valuable.

That's more true, but they can be. If the raise was a good idea, the company's prospects are improved (and therefore the value of existing shares) by whatever uncertainty existed about its ability to raise that funding.
Not exactly. It takes determination and some measure of cleverness to get close enough for some people:

http://www.wired.co.uk/article/the-inkjet-counterfeiter
What about the possibility that if someone is being a douchebag, blaming their shitty behaviour on the "bad at social skills" strawman is not an excuse any more (or ever was).
I am guessing a bit but I am understanding 'gain time' to be accrued time.

I think 'score out to' was 'sentenced to'.

If I read it right they are saying (mostly) the time spent in jail does not accrue days off a sentence like the time spent in the prison would.
It's funny how devs feel threatened by a non-JS trend. Even when their favorite frameworks are providing tools to accomplish minimal functionality when JavaScript is off.

Server side rendering has been a big priority in React, Vue, Redux, ReactRouter, etc.
No they can't. I don't doubt that this has happened before and I'm sure someone can dig up an example or two.

However, what you describe is highly questionable and borderline illegal. It's certainly grounds for a lawsuit by other shareholders (including options holders).
I always tell my co-workers that MDN is the de-facto documentation for JavaScript. Whenever asking a JS question, they almost always ask me to look at some crap W3Schools article. The first thing I do is always check MDN first.
Sorry we foreclosed your [Detroit] home. But thanks for fixing our budget
Well, kind of the whole idea is that maybe they will be worth more than the cash in the future.
Is this an example of market failure? I mean, absolutely no customer pressed for this mis-feature, and no customer made a decision to buy a printer with this mis-feature.
Well, Intel kinda paved the way for most of the performance improvement ideas in these CPUs already. The fruit is hanging further and further up the tree.

It's unlikely that the A series would be able to compete with the Intel CPUs at significantly higher TDPs from the get go - especially when you start considering interconnections between cores etc. They might be able to get close to lower TDP desktop i5s, but then just look at the difficulty Ryzen is having at doing just that...
What's the mechanism of action behind the reduced eye strain, and why is e-ink needed to achieve it?

Lack of flicker? True of any non-PWMed monitor.

Reduced brightness or contrast? Conventional displays can be turned down to match e-ink.

Lack of subpixels? High DPI displays make subpixels invisible under normal circumstances.

Smoother spectrum white? I doubt this makes a difference, but it's not completely implausible, because the eye does have some chromatic aberration. But greyscale LCDs are available.

Lack of polarization? Polarization is visible (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haidinger's_brush ), but it's a very minor effect. It seems unlikely that something so difficult to see could cause eye strain. OLED displays don't show this effect.
Please stop forcing those stupid horrible-quality Portuguese translations upon me!
I went from a private office to an open office and worked there for two years a while back. One of my fears going in was that the increased visibility would force people to work more, but in the end it seemed like there was a silent agreement that we'd all turn a blind eye to the fact we were all working six hour days, including the boss...
Somewhat of a social aside, CEOs don't tend to like it when you refer to one's options as a "lottery ticket."
There is Bloc, which is a fully vector based engine that is resolution independent (actually there is Sparta under this which is a recast of Athens).

All tools can use it but are not part of the official Pharo6 release. This does not mean that Bloc doesn't work.

https://github.com/pharo-graphics/Bloc

On top of Bloc is Brick, with the widgets.

This project is meant to have Pharo support whatever surface and resolution one is throwing at it. There are commercial projects underway using it for tabletop style UIs.

http://www.slideshare.net/esug/bloc-a-graphical-user-interfa...

To try this out: https://github.com/pharo-graphics/Tutorials

So, all of Moz2D style stuff is working in Bloc

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Platform/GFX/Moz2D
I've just had to get into the habit of appending mdn to all my web development queries to make it show up at the top. Can't count the number of time's I've done the search "[some new array method] mdn". Invaluable website.
the government in our tech. Lovely. I knew about it before, but this drives home the point that tech people need to work harder and value freedom more than we do today. Otherwise we end up in a police state dystopia.

We need our telecom back, our Internet, our printers, all of it. To hell with all the "but muh terrorism" excuses.
There was a study of the video already?
So, how should I deal with it?

The only way I see is to have an objective definition, which can be objectively applied no matter which glasses I wear. What would that definition of sexism be?
Even then, why would you support a closed, commercial, outdated website instead of MDN which is essentially a wiki?
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Stock options are for kids too stupid to do the math, and young enough to make bad financial mistakes. Right around the time you hit 35 you need to remember Joe Pesci in Goodfellas.

Fuck you, pay me.
It's notre direct light - starring at the sun (extreme example) severly hurt your eyes while watching at shadows is not a problem.
> Negotiate for the best deal on options you can get (I.e quantity, terms like early excercise etc) but treat them as a lottery ticket.

Sure, you can ask for a 100% non-dilutable share, but you're not going to get it. In order to negotiate meaningfully, you need to have a valuation of the things you're negotiating on, so you can decide what tradeoffs are good and which are bad.
if only there were something that you could legally take with you that would help...

When seconds count, police are minutes away.
Sounds like you're (inadvertantly?) making the argument that sexism is purely subjective.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/lexicon_valley/2014/07/23/study_m...

Men are 3x as likely to interrupt women. Women will interrupt women, but rarely men.

Informal study, but decent sample size.
That is incredible poor design. A beefy CPU crippled because it't throttled. Why not use a lower power CPU instead and get better performance.
You won't find an argument with me that the tax system should be fairer, or at least have fewer loopholes (fair is obviously a matter of opinion). But note that we have moved the goalposts here from a discussion about economic opportunity/inequality/what have you to a discussion about government policy and taxes...so I'm unclear if the original point is still being addressed.
My Epson does this, and it's apparently because not having enough ink in the system leads to maintenance issues with heads drying out, etc. Which is understandable, but I wish there was like a 48-hour override so running out of a color didn't prevent me from printing the documents I urgently need RIGHT NOW. So instead, I have to purchase a couple hundred dollars worth of cartridges in advance.
Another easy way to solve that for one's HiDPI support would be to hack the VM a bit to display things properly.

I should do that for my Surface Pro 4. But that would be a specific build.
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There's a valid point somewhere in here that could be made, but this doesn't make it very well.

You see, even as middle-class heterosexual white male... I still very much AM uncomfortable when dealing with police. I AM uncomfortable walking down a street alone at night (even in my own neighborhood). I WOULD feel awkward and self-conscious kissing my spouse in the middle of a street. I'm not sure if my mental wiring matches the majority of white people or not. But it definitely reflects a significant portion, if it's not flat-out "the norm".

If any groups outside of heterosexual white males feel wronged because they don't feel such a level of comfort, then I imagine they will forever feel wronged. Because it doesn't describe MY comfort level, either. When people read stuff that's written this starkly, it is EXTREMELY easy to dismiss the concept of privilege. Because your description of white male life simply doesn't match our experience.
I''m not a sociologist. My phd minor was Anthro and I don't have any citations handy.

But basically you can never know someone's intention with 100% certainty. There is always the possibility that someone has different intentions than you think they are or that they say they have. Even if it is someone you know very well and trust there is the possibility that you are in some sort of Truman Show where everyone you know has been lying to you your whole life. Or, if we want to get into psychology, there is the possibility that a person could think their intentions are really one thing but subconsciously they might be something else.

So if we can't depend on knowing someone's intentions then we only have the act itself and its impact.

Of course, this opens up a deep rabbit hole in that we can't trust anyone's intentions, including the person that wrote this facebook post. Or mine for leaving this comment...
Noticed that too, also on other WSF videos. These is pretty common in the academics world as a rule, even between males (visible on this video)
I'll gladly make that trade for the security of 315 million living in the United States. Note how I'm leaving out Europe because at the moment, it doesn't seem safe.

Stop getting upset. People die. That's life.
>All things being equal, owning more % of a company == more money.

The point is all things are not equal. To restate a sibling comment, dilution means you own a smaller % of a more valuable company.

If it helps, think of "dilution == sell_equity". Dilution is the perspective of the sellers' side (x% - y%). Equity purchased is perspective of the buyer's side (investor's ownership goes from 0% to y%).

>To try to spin dilution in any other way is stretching the truth pretty far, and is rather manipulative IMHO.

Dilution explanation doesn't require "spin" nor mental trickery. It is the natural side effect of how companies sell equity to grow.

E.g. Larry Page's ownership of Google Inc got diluted from 50% in 1998 down to 16% in 2004. That smaller 16% was worth ~$3 billion around the time of the IPO[1]. If Larry insisted on "no dilution", no VC would invest money to help the search engine grow and therefore, he would own 50% of a worthless company.

So all things not being equal:

50% of $0 = $0
16% of $20 billion = ~$3 billion.

Obviously $3 billion is more money than $0. Thinking that 50% is better than 16% doesn't make sense for companies that require outside investors to grow. Similar story for Bill Gates' dilution, Jeff Bezos' dilution, etc.

Let's imagine Larry Page had a different conversation with Sequoia Capital to match this misunderstood fixation over "anti dilution"

>1998: Larry owns 50% + Sergei owns 50% = 100%

>1999: Sequoia: "we'd like to buy 10% of Google Inc for $12.5 million"

>Larry responds: "Yes! Great! We need your $12.5 investment but keep in mind that both Sergei and I have anti-dilution clauses so our ownership both stays at 50%."

> Sequoia responds, "So you want me to buy 0% of the company for $12.5 million? Uh, you guys are idiots"

Somebody in that imaginary conversation doesn't understand "dilution" or "equity" or simple math.

[1] http://www.nbcnews.com/id/5033780/ns/business-stocks_and_eco...
If a sexist makes a comment in the woods and no one hears him (or her), does it matter? I would say no.
I'm glad I'm not going nuts here. ECHELON was public knowledge all the way back in the 1980s, the European Parliament formally investigated in in 2001, but even in 2010 it was something you only joked about or people would look at you like a conspiracy theorist.

Sure, "the NSA listens to stuff" wasn't a revelation, but before 2013 very little of this was taken seriously outside of a few corners of tech and cybersec.
IT procurement professionals need a larger say
I kind of thought we were heading in that direction before the identity politics of the last decade, but maybe I was simply naive before.
I turned off cookies and js for encrypted.google.com, used it as default search engine. works like a charm.
I think most advice on how to start freelancing applies to you despite your age; it's just going to be a little harder for you than for a more experienced and/or older person. There's a ton of advice on this topic in previous discussions here. See https://www.google.com/search?q=start+freelancing+site%3Anew.... I think it's very doable though.

I'd also caution you not to focus on freelancing to the extent that it hurts your schoolwork. If you want to program as a career, graduating from a top 10 CS school will open a lot of doors for you, and I would make laying the groundwork for that your primary goal.
> Or maybe your just a dick and being nice to people in general is a chore. I know that's my problem.

Maybe I am a dick. I don't respect people unless they've earned my respect. I try not to be rude. It may seem like that if I'm in a hurry.

I am rude if someone interrupts me with bullshit.