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> I will not go buy a movie or see a movie at the theater anymore - no matter what it is. It could be the most anticipated film in a half a decade and I'll still wait for it to be conveniently streamed to me.

I feel much the same way, but I'll add one thing: I find I spend too much time passively consuming, to the point I am trying to bring back a 1 specific night a week to watch something I think will be edifying and entertaining.
Stay out for a year or so and you will likely want to mingle with some westerners. Or maybe not! Everybody's different.
Funny, I feel exactly the same way about your representation of what James Damore wrote. But what I find interesting is that you don't see what you're doing as a form of outrage culture. That you don't see what you're doing as a form of virtue signaling, simply to a different group.

He was fired for poor judgement, for using company services and time to write a broad and controversial memo that contradicts Google's corporate policy and goals as a company. What he wrote is almost immaterial. California law protects him when he does it on his own time. That would have prevented him from being fired, or at least provided a legitimate grievance if he was.
> but the belief that there are some roles than women cannot do due to their differences is consistent with the rest of his essay

The only way I can think of how one could come to this conclusion is a lack of either:

- knowledge of what a statistical average is

- capacity for basic logical thought

You are mixing up your imagination with reality.
I have grown both a lifestyle business and a startup and I still don't know which I prefer. I mean, it's nice to have some flexibility, but it's also nice to find the capital that helps propel your business faster. It really depends on the business, the person, and what you'd like to get out of the venture. At the end of the day it's a preference. I don't think one beats the other.
Are you sure you're interpreting 'macro' correctly? 'Macro' in the context of RTS games isn't the same as 'macro commands' in scripting, but refers to basically all high level decisions. RTS is divided up into Macro, tactics and micro:

- Macro: resource prioritization (army vs expansions vs upgrades), scouting to understand the opponent's macro choices, choosing the right posture in response (defensive, harassment or offensive), and resource optimization (not getting supply blocked, scaling production with income, increasing income at the maximum possible rate, removing bottlenecks, etc), scouting the enemy army composition to prepare the ideal counter army composition

- Tactics: Grand army decisions - flanks, baits, sneak attacks, hiding composition, multiprong attacks, positioning of siege units, timing attacks, knowing when to retreat (hit & run), scouting to gain advance notice of your opponent's tactics

- Micro: optimizing unit lifespan and effectiveness within an isolated skirmish for the given goal (usually to 'win' the engagement) -- pulling back weakened units to avoid aggro while it still deals damage, healing, surface area for melee units, trapping enemy units with terrain or skills, optimizing spellcaster energy usage, prioritizing targets based on multiple parameters (range, damage, cost, count, follow-ups), etc.

AI can "run" macro well, but they are poor at the macro decision-making part, which includes priority model as you mention (the responsive posture choice above and others). Up to low grandmaster tier, being significantly better at macro than your opponent while close in tactics and micro is usually enough to win consistently. It is the most impactful part of an RTS (and is where most of the 'S' lies).
WebAssembly is unlikely to have this issue because it has to run on the web and browsers don't want to break backwards compatibility. Even with these issues the JVM has actually been quite successful as a language platform.
Who do you think defined notions of truth? Scientists? Or were scientists philosophers interested in epistemology?

No, not being a smart ass. "Science" as we know it today is an invention. It hasn't been around forever. It is relatively new. Yes it is political. Yes it is epistemological. Yes it is ideological.

In terms of social sciences, it is far harder than we like to think.

What we choose to measure, how we choose to measure it, what we choose to ignore, diversity of contexts, etc. are political and ideological decisions.

If you would be interested in reading a rather dense and difficult text, Foucault's Discipline and Punish might be of interest.
These sort of things, btw, are a major factor of why I would not consider moving back to Finland any time soon. I have three small kids with my wife, who is not white. I am 100% sure my kids and her would not have a positive experience in Finland.
In Vancouver, I often see homeless bums with tattered clothes ride nice bikes. Trek, Giant, Specialized and such, with decent grade components: not bottom end crap.
I've studied the rules for Greece specifically. Currently for non-EU visitors, ~$24,000 in a bank account will get you a 'self-sufficiency' residence permit for 1 year. There are other permits available for buying property, marriage, and such, but thats probably not what a nomad would do.

That said, there it is not difficult to overstay the standard 90-day EU visa and simply pay the fine when leaving / on the next entry.

As far as taxes go, I would wager that any American in Greece is only paying taxes in the States. The Greek tax system is notoriously insane.
Read that as Netflix the first time. Was confused since Netflix's valuation is well past $50b+
Exactly, which is what the manifesto is fighting against.
I think this is true of any language that isn't Javascript or one of its derivatives. When writing web apps we've had this strange setup where the server side can be any language but the browser side had to be JavaScript. It makes it hard to write your code only once and then use it in both contexts which is useful for things like input validation where you want to run it client side to give good and fast feedback in forms but need to do the same validation server side anyway. It also limits programmers to using JavaScript whether they like it or not. This has led to solutions like Google's GWT and on the reverse direction to the popularity of JavaScript on the server side. Hopefully that limitation is finally lifted and the choice of languages for the web becomes much less constrained. Discussions about the flaws of JavaScript are also often very animated because people that don't like it feel forced to use it to be able to program for the web. Hopefully this fixes that too.
You don't see articles that encourage that because it's the status quo.

Its not though. It's the rarest of companies that even tries to get on the VC train. Most software companies are tiny and servicing only a handful of local companies with things like website design, hosting and SEO.

Go to any industry conference and you will see dozens if not hundreds of niche software services companies that only to some tiny thing for that industry.
>but I have the impression that the US is a particularly violent place, at least when compared to Western countries of similar development.

That impression is right and wrong. Violent crime is more common in Europe but murder is more common in the US

Violent crime in the US (murder included) is mostly confined to drug trafficking and the downstream crime.

Basically unless you or your neighbors associate with those kinds of people who derive their income from illegal drugs you're slightly less likely to encounter violent crime in the US.

I'm summarizing a paper I bookmarked awhile back. I'll try and find the link.
I wonder how well the Nim standard library handles this. D has been controversial with this because the standard library expected GC to be enabled although allowing it to be disabled. I think this story has improved but it may have hurt adoption as a systems programming language that is now hard to restore.
What if Elixir were Homoiconic?
I would offer you the same advice, for your benefit I hope you take it.
Hargreaves Landsdown. I've found the platform easy. They're good at getting the 20% top up, though it takes about 4-6 weeks after each deposit for the extra 20% to be deposited.

Not the cheapest though, but I think they may actually be cheaper than my work place pension! I need to sit down and work it out.

I started with a £20 deposit, and just set up a monthly transfer.
If you don't have a visa, then you get 90 days in the Schengen Area every six months. You can head up through the Balkans (or elsewhere outside of Schengen) when your time is up. I used to go to Greece for three months at a time and then head elsewhere, like Argentina, Taiwan, etc.
The whitepaper is mostly in layman's terms. It isn't hard, think many just refuse to start from the start.

http://nakamotoinstitute.org/bitcoin/
Say I work at a business that uses python exclusively. If I see my coworker get fired for suggesting we use haskell (or some other very different stack) for performance-critical code, how likely is it that I would later suggest we rewrite some stuff in go? or even python 3? or use https?

The opinion that biological differences between the sexes result in different career preferences isn't exactly wildly uncommon, extreme, or nonsensical.
Are there any studies that concludes empathetic people become psychologists (honest question as I do not know)? Or is it an assumption that we make because of the nature of the profession?

Also, is empathy a function of only gender - would not the surrounding environment, role model, religion, books read, experiences in life and various other countless factors affect if a person develops empathy?
Oh BTW there are people manipulating this stock behind the scenes. Is it still easy to predict the price?
I've actually seen that reasoning also used in support of these plans. My experience is that these senior leaders rarely occupy their desks. Instead they have permanently reserved meeting rooms or even private offices in addition to their reserved open area desks.
> he was fired for breaching the company's civil code of conduct.

We've yet to hear details of what this really mean, and if this CoC is applied fairly. It sounds like the violation i a) based on a particular interpretation of the memo, or b) based on the subjective offense of other employees. This sounds like the "cultural fit" loophole of the left.

> That's different than being fired for an idea

Is it? Have all the ideas you want, just don't express them, even in forums than are specifically for that purpose? Why isn't the leaker being punished?

> If I started onto my company's social intranet

There are plenty liberal/left essays floating about the google intranets, this is not you average employer.

> he created a hostile atmosphere

Did he? The leaker, and those who misrepresented the content of the memo seem to be implicit in that.

> This resulted in bad press

So does any whistle-blower. But again - He did not leak the memo.
> Then adds will start creeping back in.

When this happens, I will drop that service, full stop. I don't pay to be advertised to.
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Wow, thanks for that well written response!

I think I understand your point. I haven't really had many jobs and the one I have right now at age 30, I'm allowed to go in when I want, wear literally ANYTHING I want and not questioned very much, and I get paid around £42k a year (including bonuses). Thing is that I can't stand it. I need to experience what a job that I like or I'm interested in is like.
Sure, I agree that he consciously talks about both preference and ability. Why is he talking about preference? Does that have to do with his thesis?

I think it's because he wants to write sentences like that one about "preferences and abilities" in an attempt to pretend that arguments about preferences translate to arguments about abilities.

That is, I would have agreed with a claim that he has two distinct theses (preferences and abilities), except that the actual purpose of the essay is indisputably about abilities, and there's no reason to also add a thesis about preferences other than to muddy the discussion about abilities. A similar essay about preferences alone wouldn't have drawn nearly as much attention because it wouldn't be suggesting that the women already at Google shouldn't be there and it wouldn't be relevant to the Google D&I programs he mentions.
$1B is pocket change. $1B divided over the US population is about $3 (once? or per year? it doesn't matter).

So... US citizens get a $3997 dividend. Or slightly less, if we want to fund research into say, Thorium reactors, smarter power grids, solar cells, power storage, wind, etc.
Honestly, I think these kinds of fears are misguided at a certain level. What you need to be worrying about is regulation and/or incentivization of human behavior, not AI design.

Why?

Because typically people design things to solve a problem, and those problems have constraints. Your automatic vacuum cleaner wouldn't try to kill you because it wouldn't be equipped to do so, and to the extent that it might be potentially deadly, it would be treated as an extension of pre-existing problems (e.g., robotic lawn mowers can be deadly as a side-effect, but so can mowing your lawn with an old-fashioned gas mower).

Underlying these fears I think are two classes of problems:

1. The idea of a general-purpose AI. The problem with this is that this probably won't happen except by people who are interested in replicating people, or as some sort of analogue to a virus or malware (where rogue developers create AI out of amusement and/or curiosity and/or personal gain and release it). I would argue then the question is really how to regulate the developers, because that's where your problem lies: the person who would equip the vacuum cleaner with a means of killing you.

2. Decision-making dilemmas, like the automatic car making decisions about how to exit accident scenarios. This is maybe trickier but probably boils down to ethics, logic, philosophy, economics, and psychology. Incidentally, I think those areas will become the major focus with AI in dealing with these problems: the technical issues about hardware implementation of neural nets, DL structures, etc. are crazy challenging, but when they are developed, I think the solutions about making AI "safe" will be "easy". The hard part will be the economics/ethics/psychology of regulating the implementations to begin with.
See asm.js. This is exactly what you propose.

BTW, asm.js has been superseded by Webassembly which ditches Javascript​ completely.
In an ideal world, I think this would work out. The problem is, I can't trust anyone to create an AI that's truly unbiased.

> the things we find desirable in our legal decisions.

Who is "we"? Everyone has different motives, so having a human create an optimization function won't create a truly unbiased machine. I think any good AI will have to create its own "opinions" to be of any worth.
They should hear about the Pythagoreans' discovery of irrational numbers (in which the discoverer is said to have been drowned at sea for undermining their belief that only positive ratios could exist): https://brilliant.org/discussions/thread/discovery-of-irrati...
The key difference is that you can _learn_ what Bitcoin is. And you can do it on your own, without prestigious colleges and country clubs.
It's not the economics. It's all the other stuff. It's intersectional feminism, Black Lives Matter, gay marriage, abortion, diversity initiatives, and so on. There is one acceptable position on each of those issues.

When somebody says, "Everybody at my company is a leftist!" they're not talking about people who read Marx and support trade unions. They're talking about culture.
Reading the whitepaper isn't really enough since there are non-obvious emergent effects that it doesn't mention.
I agree with everything. But two points. First you cannot measure productivity per employee, it is incredible complicated. Second the difference is not going to be as big as you would expect to have huge differences in terms of salary (like 20% or more). So basically I think when two people with the same job positions have a very different salary you have a clear bias to give one more than the other. If they are really different in their productivity you might consider to fire the less productive or give the other person a better category (in the companies they have Junior I Junior II, Senior I, Senior II, etc).
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"Real capitalism wouldn't have these problems" is No True Scotsman in action.
Your definition of macro is a lot more encompassing than how I see it used in SC2. It normally refers to just spending resources properly (constantly producing units and workers, setting up infrastructure, etc).
Yet another reason I'm glad I use uBlock Origin set to block all 3rd party requests. To get the demo to work, I had to disable uBlock.
Perhaps from one of these sites:

http://www.bnf.fr/fr/la_bnf/anx_dep/a.collections_sonores_en...

https://www.bnfcollection.com/
Didn't SCOTUS recently uphold peoples right to take selfies in the ballot box? Seems that ship has already sailed in the US.

Also, California allows for absentee voting with no particular reason. I've voted in every election I've ever been eligible to vote in and I have never once set foot in a physical polling place.
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You hope some people that know nothing about the topic stumble upon it and this becomes there light bulb moment.
I just moved back to the states after 8 years doing the digital nomad thing and while I totally agree taking a friend or SO with you is ideal, you develop the skill of feeling comfortable opening up to strangers. I used to be completely unable to do this and now I can chat up anyone anywhere. Unfortunately I find that most people can't reciprocate, increasingly so these days. I was severely disappointed when I moved to Austin and got nothing but cold shoulders when trying to start conversations with people in public (I had formed the impression that Austin would be a friendlier place than it is in reality; people talk a big game here but when it comes down to it they are just as self-absorbed as people in any other tech hub). The first six months are brutal but eventually you will get over it out of necessity. I don't want to downplay how rough the adjustment period is, though. It sucks and it reduced me to tears nearly every day.
I've been doing this for almost 15 years now, so I've switched jobs enough to know that it's not always, but there's enough indicators out there and reasons for it to be. Both positions I'm interviewing for also move me into the field I want to be in.
I think this is not fair.

First, many college remedial courses don't achieve their aims. They have high DFW rates (D means you can't progress, as C or better is usually the prerequisite, F is fail, W is withdraw). Their graduates often don't do that well in the next class anyway.

Second, there is a lot of evidence that providing good teaching and targeted intervention in the 101 class (rather than the remedial class) increases achievement and advancement. One really interesting example is the Wisconsin Emerging Scholars program. It is not remedial, but it does take students who are no more prepared for calculus than any other students and ask them to spend more time on the harder material in class, and these students do better. Many WES students are from demographics with lower math achievement in regular classes.

While remedial classes have face value, they don't actually have a track record of success! Why persist with something that does not achieve what it aims for?
There was a joke in communist times about the 5 commendments. I guess James Damore just learned them:

1. Thou shalt not think

2. If thou thought, thou shalt not speak

3. If thou spoke, thou shalt not write

4. If thou wrote, thou shalt not sign

5. If thou signed, thou shalt not act surprised.
Please don't "insist" that it isn't. What would you call the Berkeley rioters?

> your uncivil attempts to create an ethnostate

"Identity politics" better describes such a thing. Tell me, would you describe the actions of historical fascists as "not perfect civility" as well?

> That doesn't make you a victim

What strawman are you projecting here?
> If the main argument is that women do not [by nature of our scientific understanding] have minds tuned to engineering prowess to the extent that men do for whatever cause, then just how does that itself prescribe that we should stop pushing for an expansion there?

It doesn't. There are just different ways to get there.

One way is to eliminate unjust barriers that discourage females from participating in the industry. Another way is to explicitly discriminate against males. The second category has been used in practice and people reasonably object to it.

Not creating bias against men doesn't mean we can't or shouldn't eliminate any existing bias against women.

But it's also possible that even if we do strike down all the unjust barriers, most women would still prefer to be veterinarians or nurses or psychologists. Are we then supposed to pass laws to coerce them to become programmers?
Postman's links would replace the response of your request instead of opening in a new tab/window and you would lose the entire response body. This was incredibly annoying and caused me look for alternatives. It came down to Paw or Insomnia and Insomnia was free. The user experience is _far better_ than Postman's. For example, it saves API requests/responses, so you can always see what the last X requests/responses were. Most of my team has moved from using Postman to Insomnia now.
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Then you link to the full image from an optimized edition - it's not rocket science .. and makes everybody's experience better
I'm sorry but I'm having difficulty understanding what you're trying to say. You still need a body to oversee adding entries, otherwise anyone could add anything? How do you verify exactly, you've just got a bunch of data, which may or may not be legitimate. It still boils down to the best way to protect voting, isn't by the more exotic systems whereby fudging can be done at scale. It's by making the exploits not scale and keeping anonymity by having another process for voter registration.

I'm not sure what the choice of media has to do with anything.

Who has told me what about what now?
I have no time to watch a full video. Who is speaking?

On topic, my suggestion to make a better language is easy: create more tooling and portable libraries for Common Lisp. Port some of the nicer features of Clojure and Racket to Common Lisp and standarize them on a portable lib.
Yes, other apps have ethnicity filters. Grindr, for one.
Usually phrased "The right to life ends at birth." :/

Though as a anti-government-healthcare conservative, I have to say, I do give shits.
If the US doesn't have a tax treaty with the country you are in, pensions become quite difficult.

Even in countries like the UK where there is a tax treaty in place, it can be difficult because the UK offers a wide variety of tax wrappers to encourage people to save money. But those tax wrappers can count as PFICs for US taxes and you won't be getting the paperwork you need to do a QEF, so you have to Mark To Market

I farked up on an ISA because I never knew about any of this and ended up owing over $1000 in back taxes. If I had known enough to declare the PFIC correctly from the date I started it, I wouldn't have owed any where near that amount of tax on it :(