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Your presumption is that only a conservative can be against alienating conservatives, and a true libertarian would be OK with whatever is done to conservatives - after all, he's not one, so who cares about those people?
Rationality is not what humans are best in. People stay in toxic relationships, or make babies in the middle of a war.

We are driven by chemistry much more than rationality.
It's not even necessarily the advice, it's literally just throwing money at a problem. Even if there are clear instructions, some people would rather throw money at having someone else do it. This service is for these people.
Where's the insurance mandate for cyclists? Bikes are far bigger threat to pedestrians than cars. Cars don't usually travel on sidewalks/trails.
There was a huge spike in pseudo-perfectionists after Steve Jobs died, people seemed to think that if they are picky enough they will be perceived as geniuses.
> That is a really weird theory

Not so weird at all. Codebase and process don't matter to a customer, all they see and judge is the end product. Sometimes even the end product doesn't matter, as the likes of Google can put much more money into ads and marketing than you.

There might be a correlation between what people do and how the project goes if you're NASA or BMW. But for 99% of the software world, nobody cares if you have the most hacky codebase ever as long as it does what it's supposed to do and doesn't have too many bugs.
Same. This reflects very poorly on YC/HN.
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When thinking about such things, you've got to ask yourself: under what circumstances would such a creature appear and under what circumstances could it die? What does it need? What constitutes a good or bad thing for it. How does it learn? How does it perceive? How does it act out its intentions? Does it have a self preserving instinct?

It doesn't make much sense for a creature the size of the galaxy. If it did, it would be extremely slow and alien to us.

A more plausible way would be if a human-scale civilization would create self replicating probes that would spread in the galaxy and bootstrap some sort of large biological or AI civilization.
There's some truth to that. Math is paper computation. But it's also between the usual computation and the metalevel.

Look at how lambda calculus "functions" have been done in Java, who had OO and methods (~function) but had to reify lambdas in crude way. Proper math mindset allowed people to use these functions in a more abstract setting to do more with less.

Also after struggling with abstract algebra for long, I finally view these sorts of things as just another encoding of information as a dual of your problem. Modeling. It's a bit sacralized because either mathematicians are too much in love with their field or the rest of the world looks at it with ignorant eyes. It's beautiful, versatile and powerful, but approached the wrong way, it appears as more than it is.

In the end I believe that the two fields blend into one. I'm very curious to read HoTT for instance.
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Aren't Synology NAS devices also using Brtfs?
You're kind've chasing your tail there. I wasn't aware that libertarians would be against alienating conservatives but then totally ok with alienating women because Hayek.
Yes I agree that cap weighting doesn't over buy the low P/E stocks.

I'm not sure I agree that low P/E means that a stock is undervalued. For example a company that is guaranteed to make $10 every year should probably have a higher P/E than a company that is expected to make $10 with $1 variance.

If we move to a more abstract notion of undervalued then I still agree with you that cap-weighting isn't guaranteed to overweight the undervalued stocks.
Reminds me of a friend mine. When we were teens we’d be reformatting our machines every other month it seemed like. The one time he created the partition and ended up with something like 49.9GB instead of an even 50GB. He proceeded to redo the entire install and partitioning while I stood by dumbfounded that he’d waste all that time.
One problem with runtime checks is that they of course only work at runtime but you also must manually assert against them. A bulk of your test suite now exists just to execute runtime paths through your code to trigger your guards at all. Then your tests often have to duplicate the very assertions that you already specified in your guards.

Another problem is that your runtime guards are often ad-hoc and can drift from your data model, turning into debt that you need to manually reevaluate and clean up. In my experience, there's nothing quite so permanent as a defensive nil guard that everyone is too timid to remove.

But it's not clear what you mean by "is it enough". I definitely use runtime asserts in dynamically-typed languages like Javascript to try and fail as fast as possible in critical functions.
Wow, cool... they have!
http://gizmodo.com/feast-your-eyes-on-the-worlds-largest-spi...

There must be more spiral escalators now. I know there's one in Nordstrom's too.
If it's pleasant, you aren't exercising. 15mph is not "nearly as quick" as 60mph by any twist of the imagination. I ride regularly without dedicated lanes and feel far safer than I do at urban public transit stations. In other words, I don't think I can agree with anything in your post, other than that it's fun.
Not when you're pressing in on them from all sides. Look at arches and chicken eggs.
> It's like a blog written by a 22 year old straight out of college

Also no mention of FreeBSD. Instead he picked the less battle tested ZoL and only mentioned Solaris and licensing, so the author is not even aware of Illumos.
Or, generalized, more people doing X makes X safer for everyone. :)
Analog circuits aren't my area of expertise. However it seems likely that the complexity of a stable and identical spiral scan circuit is either extremely difficult or possibly improbably expensive.

Compare the above to what we have in reality: it seems that there were some vacuum tube tricks that made a grid system much easier. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTSC#Technical_details
How is healthcare in PR now?
Ah, yeah I guess that makes sense :-)
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To boost productivity, wouldn't you want the internet to be really bad most of the time? Like "only good enough to read textual docs and ssh into AWS" bad.
> Shouldn't it be enough to simply use social norms to shame the author into submission without addressing his arguments?

That's exactly what many people are trying to do. Fortunately, some are smarter than that.

It is very pleasant and convenient to declare dominating point of view the eternal truth and any challenge to it taboo. It is done a lot by a lot of people - disagree with them, and you not just disagreeing - you are a hateful bigot and a despicable worm of a person, worthy only of derision. And that works too, especially with good peer support. The only problem with it shaming is good at silencing, but is not so good at convincing. So if you are ok with people being afraid to talk about certain topics and challenge whatever ideas are in power - it works wonders. If you want people to actually get the point, get onboard and not just be afraid to say what they truly think - there's a bit more work needed.
> perhaps it's not completely inconceivable that we could require businesses collecting any personal information from users to be licensed and audited

In Sweden it used to be like this. Starting with a law in 1973 that grew out of fears of big corporation mainframe databases, everyone with a registry of personal information had to register with the government, pay a license fee and comply with a strict data privacy law. Then the 80's and 90's came and the law was slowly weakened and eventually replaced with an implementation of the EU data protection directive which is more self-regulatory.
> Particularly, if cycling on shared streets is so dangerous, then why do we accept that risk for our kids but not ourselves?

Because our kids aren't cycling to and from our jobs 5 days a week in rush hour traffic. You might as well suggest we get rid of all the crossing guards and 15mph school zones if you're fine with your kids cycling through rush hour traffic.
First of all failure of the Google+ shows absolutely nothing important for this discussion. Secondly it's just your personal opinion that the Android is ugly.

Anyway, how can you even compare UX/UI design decisions with the companies ability to handle work-place environment and stuff diversity?

So yes... You are wrong like lightyears away wrong.
It sounds like you expect a lot out of your job. I think the 'as a developer' part is going fine. Not liking people is fine. I don't have any good advice on the picking a hobby part. Most of mine are not things I picked up because I enjoy them. They are things I started doing because I wanted to build something. You sound like you might have that in common. You could try woodworking; it provides you many opportunities to take shortcuts, which would show in the final product. That won't really help with the meaningless part, but it passes the time.
I actually wasn't making an argument about contractors at all, but operators. If you operate something that you've been informed is unsafe, you fix it or stop using it. It gets fixed or you are purposefully endangering people that use it. How it gets fixed and who pays are separate issues.
It seems to be saying that left bias is "people prefer to cooperation over pure self-interest/working on their own." Obviously sometimes cooperation is in your self-interest, but its the difference between thinking that employees will do what's best for the company and employees will do what's best for themselves. The right bias is that they are primarily self-interested while the left is that they see the groups interests as a priority.
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This exactly. Agile allows managers to push all responsibility onto the developers (design, testing, deployment, ops, customer service, spec writing, documentation, training, etc), while simultaneously enabling them to demand milestones every two weeks.

I have seen this taken to the extreme-- the management at one company I worked for would not specify ANYTHING in writing. Nothing. Not even bullet points on what a feature would do. They would then micro manage intensely (I had a non-technical VP doing code reviews on a Senior Architect).

Estimates, however, only included development time, never any other tasks, and were always challenged. Deadlines were always hard. In short, we had all the responsibility of Agile but none of the empowerment. Engineering was to blame for everything.

If you think this was some small crazy startup... This companies revenues are about 500m a year. Almost every American has our products in their homes.
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> I wasn't aware that libertarians would be against alienating conservatives

Because it's only not OK to alienate people who we agree with, but the idea of having civil discussion with people we disagree with... who needs that? Just call them names, chase them out and be done with it! Do you think this is the libertarian way? Where did you meet libertarians like these?

> then totally ok with alienating women because Hayek.

Err what? Who you are arguing with here? Nobody said it's "ok with alienating women" and Hayek has nothing to do with it. Could you please leave that strawman alone, he needs a well-deserved rest.
The OED has redefined it so you literally can't use it incorrectly anymore.

Of course because of that it literally has no meaning now.
forestry + hugo is incredibly amazing. Hugo is a single cross platform binary that generates static websites almost instantaneously.

https://themes.gohugo.io/
It's NSA
I can't speak for its quality, but in terms of cost it's much more affordable than the US equivalent.

According to the article, finding specialists in certain medical fields is apparently beginning to become a problem.
The author of the manifesto declares conservative bias to be pragmatic, by its nature.

Pragmatism, insofar as it is in opposition to idealism, is the absence of a guiding philosophy. Anyone who puts themselves on one side of the liberal/conservative spectrum is an idealist.

This Mary Sue bullshit is unforgivable, and I could not read on.
This is a strawman. Neither I nor the manifesto author has argued in favor of sexism.

Why did you call out "white men" in an article about representation at Google? It doesn't make any sense when white people are underrepresented at Google.

edit: Now the parent has edited their comment to remove "in favor of sexism".
Another take from a Daala developer: https://xiphmont.dreamwidth.org/84214.html
This is not necessarily agile. I think this is cargo cult software engineering: "collaboration", "teamwork" and "agile".

Wasn't Agile about doing less work?

Less unrealistic plans.

Less meetings - including informal.

Shorter meetings - mostly just daily standup - what I did, what I'm doing, any blockers.
Why men should care about gender equality in tech
Human themes (archaeology, art, architecture, urban development, etc) share the commonality of the human. As we learn more about general themes driving our psyche and human groups general themes start to emerge. Of course, the emergent behavior of human societies is really complex. I like Noel Harari's "Sapiens" as he really strives to find the high level themes in humanitys development.

IMO, if a topic sounds overtly complex and focuses on a legion arbitrary seeming minutiae and, most crucially, you can't find the empiric or mathematical root cause for this complexity it's likely the direction of study is more or less bogus and based on academic eminence rather than evidence.
I am also tired even when it's flat after my 40km bike ride back from work to home.
Speaking from my experience in the Northeast US, most cities are still pretty flat. Washington, Philadelphia, New York, and Boston could all be very cycle-able with the right infrastructure in place. A bit cold in the winter, but nothing unbearable.

Suburbs are a bit hillier, as are cities on the West Coast, but even just by selecting for the flattest/most temperate places in the US and building up solid cycling infrastructure, you're still talking about something thats affecting potentially 10's of millions of people.
On the other hand the negative spaces are even.
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note, if i double click some country (with react-motion one e.g.) it also starts to select text from the paragraph below.

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Companies like this have been around for years, and whenever I read about them I'm surprised that people would risk going to prison (or worse) just to get a discounted air fare. I wouldn't even carry a package for a friend unless I could see exactly what was inside, let alone carry a suitcase full of unknown stuff for a total stranger.

Also, an inevitable question when going through security checkpoints in some countries is "did you pack your own luggage". I assume that if you answer "no", you'd be subjected to a very thorough search for bombs or contraband.

Calling a company "Airmule" seems to be a particularly bad choice, since the term "mule" is commonly used to denote a person who carries smuggled drugs (sometimes concealed inside their body).
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Buying farmland and working in your fields 12 hours a day, is still an option :)

Yeap. Or get some sheep and go graze them in the mountains. There are still people doing that in my Western European country. Plenty of free time to think, if that's what you really want.
Nunavut, Patagonia, Lapland, Siberia, etc etc etc
By eliminating programs intended to help increase diversity, by "de-emphasising empathy" and by making Google more of a safe space for people with viewpoints similar to his own. Got it!
> First of all failure of the Google+ shows absolutely nothing important for this discussion.

Depends on what you mean by "this discussion". The manifesto which originated it - certainly not. The broader point raised about interaction between technology and sociological/humanitarian aspect of technology - I think yes.

> Secondly it's just your personal opinion that the Android is ugly.

It's not about "ugly", it's about... being very engineer-like in it's UI? As for my personal opinion, I don't mind it that much - I live in command line, after all. But I kinda learned that UI that engineer is comfortable with and UI that end-user is comfortable with are somewhat different things...

> Anyway, how can you even compare UX/UI design decisions with the companies ability to handle work-place environment and stuff diversity?

I don't and I think you completely misunderstood my point. Or, more precisely, you completely understood nothing about my point. I'm sorry I couldn't explain it better.
Right, that also explains the concepts of 'express' elevators and lobby floors.

Due to the passengers the rate of travel for an elevator is not constant:

* There's a maximum rate of acceleration and deceleration that people are comfortable with.

* A longer travel distance means more time to speed up / slow down.

* Thus an elevator or two which are dedicated to operate at the longer distance travel that distance at a more effective speed and provide more rapid service.

* Even more importantly, it also cuts down on the number of slow elevator shafts necessary to service floors by allowing them to be stacked.
That was my first assumption, and none taken :)
The USD was backed by your trust in the government to give you its gold upon demand, not an intrinsic ability to physically convert a note into gold, so nothing really changed with Nixon.

Mind blown, right? :)
With utmost respect: this isn't a super valuable data point. A "production deployment" with lots of users and/or workloads will see issues you will never encounter in a moderate setting.

FWIW, I use FreeNAS in a similar small but diverse setting with nary a problem, but when I sat it up for a 30+ organization, issue arose that I hadn't expected (not data loss, but usability and performance issues).
Is this for real, or is it a hoax?
Its good and reliable. I pay $65/month for 20Megs. Been working remotely for about 5 years and no major issues.
I wonder how you wonder to use that.

Do you know the principle of a traditional elevator, and the role of a counterweight?
Well, most of the time spiders are idle while waiting for IO operations to complete. Main bottleneck is not CPU, but RAM and bandwidth.
If you need a new head, there are plenty of donors.

Head-icare, and Head-icade.

The gubernment really cares about them peoples.
I do not hold libertarians in any high regard. I generally find that ism to be a flag of convenience and that would definitely be the case with the OP.

Again, the OP is concerned with Google alienating conservatives but then is completely oblivious to his alienating half of the population.

Because what? Would you prefer Edmund Burke?
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I'm sure the women who work with him love that his "viewpoint diversity" considers them to be more neurotic, less able to deal with stress, and less suited to the high demands of a senior Google engineering role than himself!
Sort of tangentially related is the physicist Geoffrey West, who decided to try to apply the thinking of a theoretical physicist to biological systems. His book Scale is excellent, and this is one of the most interesting podcasts I've ever heard:

https://www.samharris.org/podcast/item/from-cells-to-cities
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I don't think the author denied any of that history. The fundamental question posed is why do we see 50/50 male/female in tech as some kind of gold standard to known we've reached gender equality, and why does that discussion often revolve around getting more underrepresented segments of the population to participate in tech.

Fundamentally the whole gender equality thing is about whether any given individual feels that they can live their life to its full potential. If those potentials were to differ in the large between men and women then that is fine.

Alternatively what if the problem had a lot more to do with how ingrained the drive for status is in men compared to women? That women are underrepresented because they're more likely to want work-life balance and they're competing with a horde of men willing to be miserable for years to attain status. The problem in that case isn't that there are too few women, but that there are too many men.
Ok, I think I'm seeing where you are coming from. Vehicular Cycling and the approach of having bikes share the space with other road vehicles is something that has now been pretty much debunked as a way of developing mass cycling.

The evidence is out there. London has had a 60%+ increase in the last couple of years on routes with protected cycle infrastructure.

'Normal' people need visible safety. In fact New York City has found that protected cycle lanes (tracks) also reduce pedestrian injuries. https://www.fastcompany.com/3035580/new-york-citys-protected...

Your final paragraph is also the problem. You are pretty much saying that the road system cannot be compromised to enable people to have the choice to walk and cycle if driving is in some way compromised. You want to get more people out of cars you need to provide good safe alternatives.

I really would ask you to stop thinking only in terms of yourself and what you would do on your roads. The US has cities/towns where there are high levels of cycling. They all have one thing in common. Segregation.

Remember though that cities are not investing in cycling because it is healthy. They are doing it as it solved congestion. A single 12ft lane can carry 2000 cars or 14,000 bikes or 19,000 pedestrians. Removing one lane or reducing lane width, known as a road diet, and installing cycle lanes can increase road capacity by the equivalent of adding 7 car lanes. It is logical to do this.
Light exercise can certainly be enjoyable. "Nearly as quick" certainly doesn't apply to all situations, If you're doing long distances on the highway where you're averaging 60mph, then its definitely not an ideal use-case for a bicycle. But if you're driving in the city during rush hour, you might realistically be averaging closer to 10mph.

For an example, my morning commute in Shanghai takes about 30 minutes by bicycle, 35 by car, or 40 by subway. Traffic lanes are congested, bicycle lanes aren't.

As to riding without dedicated lanes, I can't really speak to that. We have enough bike lanes here that I usually avoid roads without them, but it seems like it would be bad for both cyclists and drivers.
I realize that it is fraud, but it's "lesser of two evils" fraud, which is why I personally favor lighter sentencing.
He was still living near and reliant on other people for food and energy supplies. If shit really hit the fan and those disappeared, it's not clear he would survive either.
Teaching criminal startups to track such planes with lasers from drones, to prevent surveilance?

Also, i guess for gangs the somali option of burning tires is viable.