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For the record, I am not alleging this in particular. For all I know, it might be true. Although given Breitbart's history reading anything on that site does not hold much value.

After all, they have run stories about Hillary Clinton running a child sex ring and continuously deny the scientifically evident reality of climate change, for example.
Very nice. I enjoyed using d3 before all the Angular and React stuff came along. With this I can now "idiomatically" do d3 stuff in React.
I'm not involved in autonomous vehicles at all but as an engineer, I'm pretty confident we are a long way away from level 4/5.

Without significantly reworking current infrastructure the challenges presented by city driving are too fuzzy to guarantee safety. For example, traffic lights can be obscured, out of order, or spoofed; unless they are modified to support av; I don't think this is solvable.

Although autonomous vehicles will require a safety driver for a while, interim benefits still exist and services like this will potentially provide the momentum needed to make those infrastructure changes.
What is it that makes Germany not have freedom of speech?

Most liberal democracies have freedom of speech even though they have laws against libel/slander/hate speech and so on.

Next you go on to say that countries without freedom of speech are autocracies in disguise - implying Germany is an autocracy... not sure what to make of that. Are you implying that e.g either you live in a democracy and you can hate-speak, or you don't live in a democracy?

From the last paragraph I get the feeling you live in re US and take great pride in it being a true democracy because of its lack of hate speech laws (libel/slander laws exist). I wouldn't worry so much about politicians being able to limit hate speech in a place where elected officials draw the election district lines, effectively choosing their voters, where entire groups of citizens (such as prison inmates) can't vote at all, and where the executive branch of government doesn't have popular support even on Election Day.

I'm no fan of hate speech laws myself, but I consider it quite useless to define democracy as not being able to coexist with them.
"somehow the writer has no integrity because they want money for their work?"

Heck yeah, on this point, I'd much rather the writer get a few cents from anyone who chooses to buy the thing--crowd-source that revenue--than just a lump sum from a manufacturer.
Instead of choosing candidates based on diversity during the interview process the recruiting process select candidates to reach out to by diversity.

You realize that you still are not selecting the most skilled candidate if you filter based on diversity at any level.
My team isn't currently looking for any, and I'm not experienced with those roles. I'd assume yes, but couldn't say for sure.
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I am a German living in the Netherlands right now and find that quite annoying every time I come back to Germany, too. Before NFC I would have agreed that card payments are just much, much slower than cash. Most shops in Germany won't let you pay by card if the total amount is less than 5€, so you would always carry cash around anyway. NFC and self-checkout are quite widely spread in NL; in fact a small supermarket at a university here only has self-checkout systems with NFC.

Often heard (from Germans with some international experience and its point of view) that innovations need around two years to arrive in the heads of Germany. Skepticism towards new ideas tends to impress people more than open-minded consideration of new developments. This may change at the moment as much of the younger generation gains lots of international experience and is exposed to frequent technological developments and innovative start-up culture.
What was the social stigma of using a credit card at a grocery store?

I think I kinda remember some remnants of that when I got my first card and started using it to pay for everyday/trivial purchases. In fact, I remember the real reason for the wait in the line was were most folks taking time to write cheques. It was a lot like waiting for someone to count bus fare on the coinop.
That's a bold claim. Source?
That's a fair point, although those would still constitute breakdowns in a level 4. Further reason for the reporting to focus on these incidents.
By having complex and/or copyleft licensing, it just opens the door wider for the Apache Mynewt OS with its Apache 2.0 license. http://mynewt.apache.org/
Confirmed through several sources that `tag=` links are definitely referral links.
The only reason I paid any attention was because of an impressive demo they put out a few months back. https://youtu.be/6tA_VvHP0-s Still, who knows at this point.
I understand that, but language that doesn't really exisit within the population anymore? Sigh.

Perhaps it's analogous to Latin I that case.
Dumb question, because I'm still trying to grasp bitcoin... Doesn't the recent "split" show that bitcoin still isn't addressing the common need? It still appears that a few central players are controlling how it is created, backed and exchanged.
No, the companies pay the cost of handling cash as well.

There's the labor costs of handling cash - counting it, moving it, organizing it, accounting for it, making sure there's enough change to run a shift; the cost of storing and transporting it - safes, cash draws, key management, money transport/money transport companies; and the cost of loss due to theft, mistakes, and mismanagement.

I'm not saying that the cost of cash is more than the cost of card, I'm simply saying its not anywhere near free.

https://qz.com/123642/physical-money-costs-americans-more-th...

>But new research from Tufts University aims to highlight the pain points of cash, where digital currency can break in. The use of physical bills costs US consumers, businesses and the government at least $200 billion each year—about $1,739 per household. Here are the main reasons why:

>Small businesses don’t lose much money by operating cash-only. But larger businesses spend a significant amount of money dealing with cash—collecting it, sorting it and getting it to the bank without it being stolen. US businesses lose $40 billion a year to cash theft and loss, about 1% of total revenues.

http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2017/02/02/cashless-coffee-sho...

(There's also a potential to increase sales by accepting card.)
> Or get off social media entirely.

Wouldn't that be a bigger red flag?
I don't understand what you mean here. I think "the many worlds case I was responding to" in your comment is justinpombrio's "which way you will see a photon go in a half-silvered mirror", but that's functionally identical to the "indexical coin flip" referred to by the LessWrong article, where the coin flip causes a bifurcation, landing heads in universe A and tails in universe B. From within the multiverse it is impossible to know ahead of time which universe you will observe, same as the photon example. It's "random" in the sense of being absolutely unpredictable (otherwise MWI would not be experimentally equivalent to alternative interpretations of quantum physics).

So, does indexical randomness fit your definition of "fundamental" randomness? And what did you mean when you said "a coin that may well actually be random" if it wasn't the indexical kind of coin?
Funny you say that while every other "expert" says it's pointless to do scrum above around 10 members.

Not that I believe any of that eh, scrum usually devolves to ritualistic, empty blabbering in around six months anyway.
> Those "few occasions" would presumably be accidents without the intervention of the safety driver.

You don't know that. Doesn't the car simply slowly stop if it doesn't know what to do?

> A small corporate shuttle service that "only had a few accidents" would not be considered a very safe service.

As soon as it's safer than a human-operated one, it's already good enough - there's literally no safer option.
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> Mostly, it seems, scientists agree with the "facts" he states that arent' google specific

Really? Yonatan Zunger[1] seems to disagree with you.

[1] https://medium.com/@yonatanzunger/so-about-this-googlers-man...
How would Amazon change the URLs on your article? More likely, if you didn't do it on purpose, is that Quartz's CMS automagically appends that tag into any Amazon.com links.
What if he values his property at more than $2 million? So he said "I wouldn’t sell even if you gave me $2 million" because he was insulted by low ball offer of 200k.
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Waymo is doing this with real, public customers (albeit hand-selected ones) in Phoenix[0]. Uber has been doing this for months with customers in Pittsburgh[1]. This is certainly a sign that Cruise is making good progress, but I wouldn't say it means they've leapfrogged the competition by any means.

[0] https://waymo.com/apply/
[1] https://www.uber.com/blog/pittsburgh/pittsburgh-self-driving...
I am glad, there are some serious privacy issues concerning credit and debit cards. Not to mention that bringing a third party into this causes all kinds of issues, such as their ability to block your card at any time or taking a percentage of the money.

I hope that cryptocurrencies replace cards someday.
When grading based on a metric, it's helpful to know what that metric actually is.

Furthermore, how do you even define grades or metrics for "pure coding ability" or "works well in teams"?

Both have massive subjective components, don't they?

Isn't "works well in teams" really "works well on my team"? Trying to pretend like it's an objective measure of "works well in the platonic ideal of teams" doesn't actually make it an objective measurement.

Same with "pure" in "pure coding ability": adding an objective seeming word like "pure" doesn't excuse that there is no such thing as a platonic ideal of coding ability to measure against. There's "codes well in this problem domain", there's "codes well in this environment", there's "has the baseline experience to code well quickly now", there's "has the learning ability to get up to speed quickly", etc... Where's the objective measurements?

A lot of "meritocracy" talk is built on sandcastles of wish-it-were-objective-metrics without any sort of in depth analysis to how objective the metrics can possibly be, much less actually are in pragmatic, impure reality.
This is the comment I was waiting for the whole thread. I don't want to have to check a huge list of random stupid payments, half of which I can't remember anyway, the other half with obscure names. Just to have a little control and be sure to not be frauded
I hear where you're coming from, and it could very well just be that the term appeared to help explain why Hillary lost the election. However, I believe the term can easily be used to silence independent news sources that are telling inconvenient truths. The motive for this could be that the proliferation of new media news sources (social media, blogs, youtube) is a threat to mainstream establishment news sources' bottom line, as well as their immense power in shaping public dialogue.
Cash might be faster if you have to do Chip+pin.

In most countries, we just tap to pay with NFC (except America, where this only works with Apple Pay or Google Wallet). This is most definitely faster than cash. You can actually go to any store and time it on real customers.
Like today majority of soft drink consumers boycott Coca Cola?

See e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Coca-Cola#Investm...

Actual experience has proven beyond doubt that boycotts don't work, and even if a company has blood on its hand, their deeds are quickly forgotten.
In which case you are mistaken.

It was an internal memo and was leaked. The leaker is somehow not fired.
FYI I see cruise cars all the time in SF. Natural next step.
Thanks for sharing it, it's an amazing resource!
> Turns out they want me to install an app on my phone for this, which is definitely not going to happen.

Why not?
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You can say "the diversity program is harmful and should be stopped" without advancing gender stereotypes (which is what the guy did in his memo). All you need to do is back up that "it's harmful" with evidence.

It's pretty damn simple.
I'm all for hiring based on merit and nothing else. 100%, that's what I'd want to see.

But actually doing so is a fantasy. Building bias-free selection processes is really, really hard. I don't think anyone actually knows how. (At least not useful ones. You can trivially eliminate bias by never hiring anyone, for example.)

It looks to me like this is the fundamental agreement between the two sides here. Both sides want to hire the people who will be best at the job, full stop. People who think James Damore is correct believe that the typical hiring process, or at least some achievable tech hiring process, already achieves this, and any modification is necessarily selecting worse candidates. People on the other side, such as myself, believe that the hiring process selects for far more than just merit, and diversity programs are an attempt to fix that.

So, yes, let's pick the best of the best. How?
It's called marked to market. They will hold properties rather than recognize the loss when it sells for less than the original loan.

This article proves that banks used the homestead exemption to avoid property tax: http://jacksonville.com/business/real-estate/2011-01-30/stor...
Not terribly surprising. People forget that Neuromancer was a commission.
Everywhere you look there's just numbers supporting the cost of the whole system. If they were able to break that down into what a typical family pays, and compare; I'd bet you'd get even more people (gasp! Even conservatives, hell I'm almost on board myself) converted to the idea overnight.
http://jacksonville.com/business/real-estate/2011-01-30/stor...
Not only that, but you also have to either carry your small coins around so you can use them up or you have to collect them and then redeem them all for bills or deposit them. This is a royal pain. I have so much change lying around the house that I haven't bothered to count and redeem.

On the other hand, if you use credit cards, you would ideally be keeping receipts and then reconciling them to the statements you get from your credit card company to make sure there's no fraud and no errors in billing. Some people have the discipline to do that, but many don't.

With credit cards it's easier to overspend. Not only can you perhaps too easily borrow more than you have in the bank with a credit card, but temporarily giving someone a card that you get back right away or giving them a credit card number doesn't have the same psychological impact as permanently and irrevocably giving someone your hard-earned cash. So people are tempted to spend more when using credit cards.

Finally, there's the issue of being tracked. When you use credit, at the very least the credit card company knows where and when you shop and possibly what you buy. With cash you could have more privacy in this respect.
You are forgetting the diversity itself is valuable. For lots and lots of reasons. One is that that the metrics that people who ignore diversity tend to use are easily gamed: GPA, fancy degree, etc., and may correlate more to privilege than capability. So by casting a wider net you put all the candidates in a more competitive setting, and hopefully force interviewers to figure out what they are actually looking for, not just things their gut correlates with good hire.
I'm not a developer but I did once build a prototype that sent text message inquiries throughout the day (within hours configured as "open" on my calendar). The questions were customized around a few goal areas, as a way to measure my progress. I never found much support for it, but the concept was intended to give techies with the hyperactive schedul tools a chance to leave "generic" hours on the calendar while still being accountable to being productive during those times.

Tried a similar idea with a diet-specific set of goals. Aiming for 100% comprehensive tracking of your calories seems a bit crazy to me.
A quick HN search (via Google) didn't turn up the article for me; please link. Thanks in advance!
I'm not sure it's a lie. What he actually says:

> Extraversion expressed as gregariousness rather than assertiveness. Also, higher agreeableness. This leads to women generally having a harder time negotiating salary, asking for raises, speaking up, and leading. Note that these are just average differences and there’s overlap between men and women, but this is seen solely as a women’s issue.

Now, these are discussed in the first paragraphs of the WP article he referenced:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_differences_in_psychology#...
At least one of the sources is reputable (Journal of Personality and Social Psychology). So you can't really accuse him of lying.
A public 'bed car' sounds gross.
The question isn't why germans pay cash. the question is, why would you do it any other way?? I'll tell you why. In other countries we allow credit card companies to tax the masses. By creating regulations that prevent merchants from charging a different price for cash vs credit, you effectively force everyone to pay 2.5% extra for every purchase. That 2.5% goes straight to the credit card companies, even if you pay cash! So, you have no choice but to use a credit card, so you can recover 1.5% on the 2.5% tax your paying.
7th grade is about 13 years old, right? I think I did social geography when I was about 13, I definitely wasn't any older 14 because I didn't do GCSE geography.

Edit: In case you were interested this[0] is an example of the kind of stuff we learn when we're 11-14 in Britain.

[0]: http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/subjects/zrw76sg
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Third or fourth person here to tell you that you're incorrect: There's a huge leap between "biological differences may explain the gender gap" and "women are ill-equipped..." and here's why:

First and most obvious, do you know the difference between the words "may" and "are"? "May" expresses possibility. "Are" expresses existence. They are almost total opposites.

Second and most important, "biological differences" does not automatically equate to women being "ill-equipped". That's just in your mind. It could mean so many things and you're just cherry-picking the one that aligns with your personal view.
This article is basically a "by liberals, for liberals" attempt to inspire some philosophical self-reflection. It kept coming to mind over these last few weeks, and especially last couple days, of stories stirring up so much rage, counter-rage, questionable arguments, emotional triggering, etc. I've always identified left but I'm definitely starting to feel confused by the actions of other leftys. I definitely don't identify with the right so overall I'm feeling tribeless as of late. Thought it worth reposting this.

For completeness, here is last round of discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12906783
He literally says that Google's diversity programs alienate non-progressives.
I think the memo made two mistakes here.

The first, from my perspective, is that it crossed a line that you really have to tread with care when it started talking about "biological IQ". Anyone familiar with the sordid history of eugenics knows that you tread that line really carefully, both because of the sordid history of policy on that sort of thing, the extreme difficulty of separating biological vs. environmental constructs for IQ, and the difficulty of creating a single "IQ test" that measures every single aspect of human intelligence. The quote about "IQ and sex differences" (being something the left ignored) was only supported by a link to conservative think tank Manhattan Institute for Policy Research (which said some things about bias in science grants, but didn't really have anything to say about IQ and sex differences).

This is the point where, to me, the memo went downhill. I am not sure it is the intention (possibly the emphasis was intended to be more the politic), but it is very easy to infer inferior / superior claims at this point, because the whole "IQ and sex differences" thing sort of came out of nowhere.

The other reason it went downhill fast, and unnecessarily so, was because the paper brought in "liberal" vs "conservative" American political dynamics elements. BIG mistake. Any discussion along this line needs to be as apolitical as possible, lest it descend rapidly into toxic left-wing vs. right-wing tribalism territory (as, well, happened). Instead of attempting to skirt around politics, loaded phrases were used, particularly at the end of the memo, like "PC authoritarian", and sourced links typically were op-ed, often with strong bias.

I agree that a lot of the memo is more some of the tribal / "role" paradigms and elements that have been discussed in many sources over time, and there's actually some interesting food for thought in it. I'm not terribly comfortable that what I see as poor communication skills led to the firing. I would not characterize this memo as "polite" though, for the above reasons.
Try this one with your friends. Tell them that if there were no debt, there would be no dollars, because debt and dollars are the same thing.

You can quote the former chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, Marriner Eccles[0]: "That is what our money system is. If there were no debts in our money system, there wouldn't be any money."

This is a simplification, but it's an accurate one, and is widely understood by anyone paying attention[1].

Without even getting into a debate about the merits of our central banking system (or cryptocurrencies), most people are surprised by this fact. Most folks I have spoken to think that the dollar is still backed by gold.

[0] https://mises.org/library/our-money-based-debt

[1] http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2011/10/21/141510617/what-...
Great article. I think a better metaphor than "peace treaty" describing tolerance would be "sect", however. And not in a pejorative sense, but used to recognize that there will be various self-organized groups with different definitions of tolerance and that membership in a group requires close adherence to a particular definition. And various sects may overlap to varying degrees.

For example, a tolerant devout Christian and a tolerant devout Muslim may find themselves defining tolerance differently enough to find themselves in different tolerance "sects".

Peace treaty is an interesting metaphor but falls short on many levels. Primarily because peace treaties are more focused on geographic separation (whether country-level or block-level) and agreeing on borders (keeping people apart), not about rules of behavior within a single community. Tolerance is the latter more than the former and is the preferred alternative to separation where possible. Using examples from the article the white "separatists" want a peace treaty -- well defined border for them to live free of the "threat" of racial diversity. Tolerant people want to find a way to build a community together, but understand the other side's goals are incompatible with this.
Change 5 to 3. It was just an arbitrary number to make a point old people are living in places and have spare bedrooms. Not all old people so parents of the guy in the article might not have extra room in their place?
I mean, I clearly do as that is my profession. And I really don't think the decision is between "nurse" and "software engineer".