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Depends on the invader? What if it's the USA "liberating" Belgium from it's evil government? Who says the current government is better than the one taking over?

What are countries anyway, most of them don't align with cultural or language barriers.

Fuck patriotism, fuck flags, fuck any tribalism that powerful people are using to get others to do what they want.
Thank you for writing this comment. I'm a conservative/classicial liberal and I also find HN to be rather hostile place. I'll put you on my "liked comments" list.
> this is a very intimidating thing to do.

It should be. If violating the CoC has no consequences then there should be no CoC in the first place.

The CoC makes it clear that some actions and some types of speech are entirely unwelcome at the company.

The memo also makes it clear that if you have a minority viewpoint that does not violate the CoC, then you should be encouraged to express those viewpoints. It even gave specific examples of the parts of the original memo that do not violate the CoC.
> don't think I've ever heard that "the market" will deal with unfair internal HR policies.

Really cause that's a boilerplate libertarian argument.
There are enough real luxury brand conglomerates (LVMH, Luxottica, Richemont, etc.) to be aware of without making things up.
I realize this is a touchy topic, but people keep echoing a similar sentiment about inappropriate generalizations.

However, I read the original document the (now ex-) Googler wrote and from what I can see he presented his claims in a reasonable and carefully worded manner. Many people seem to be misquoting him or taking it out of context.

Could you please provide example(s) of these inappropriate generalizations? I am curious if I am misreading the original text, or if you are perceiving it from a perspective that I cannot see (in which case, it would be nice to understand where you're coming from).
> "You cannot discuss a social problem unless you have a solution to it, or else you will be fired"

This isn't what happened though; this guy circulated an authoritative sounding memo accusing the women in Google's workforce as being held to a lower bar as the men, and outright stating that their "biological differences" was holding back engineering productivity.
>> It doesn't even matter what you write because most people won't even read the original source

I have to wonder if the artificial urgency that social media has created doesn't have something to do with this. Everyone these days wants to be the first to respond, which results in a "shoot first, ask questions later" mentality. You end up with a giant, unstoppable snowball of knee jerk reactions to other knee jerk reactions rolling down a bottomless hill.
I (German) have never used NFC payments and was curious how that would work with my bank. Turns out they want me to install an app on my phone for this, which is definitely not going to happen.
Did you need to make any changes to get it to 200mb? If I can get it to that point, I would switch from Ubuntu. (Ubuntu takes about 750mb~ starting)

Every time I've tried KDE recently, the starting RAM usage is closer to 800-900mb and it anecdotally felt laggier than Unity. (I tried KDE Neon)
I think UE4 brings a lot to the table for certain genres and game designs. If you need really nice animation, nice character locomotion, vehicles etc... UE4 seems like it is easier in the long run despite it being daunting when you boot it up. I like unity for more experimental work and grid based games. Kind of like programming languages, learning UE4 has taught me interesting things that I would not have learned just by playing around in unity.

I guess there is also the issue of licensing costs which are substantial, but that requires actually shipping for that to matter :)
The market is also skewed in their favor as the article point out by keeping property taxes really low for long time owners:

"Property-tax exemptions for longtime residents keep older Americans from moving. Zoning rules make it harder to build affordable apartments attractive to senior citizens."

Ex: "Under the almost-40-year-old ballot measure Proposition 13, they are tied to the property’s value when the house was purchased in the 1970s."

It's debatable if they should be pushed out of their homes due to property taxes but probably needs to be balanced with the impact on the overall market and availability of housing.
It becomes a lot simpler once you get the bankers off your back. Being mortgage free and having your own house is very liberating feeling.
However German banks like to charge you if you use the wrong machine. There are various different networks and you have to use the right one to make sure you aren't charged. This is quite different from the UK where most machines are free.
The tone of this article is terrible. It's blaming old people for not wanting to sell their homes they've paid off. The whole point of mortgaging a home purchase is the hopes that one day, when you're old, you'll have it paid off and you can chill. I'm sad I gave this piece a click. It may encourage the author to keep doing journalism.
HN Threads on articles unrelated to technology matters tend towards the dumpster-fire end of the spectrum. The aforementioned classification is orthogonal to the (insert leftist news site here)/(insert rightist news site here) axis.
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What he's saying is that embedded devices a lot of the time statically link the kernel, libraries, and application all into on bare metal program. A GPL licence on the kernel and libraries would affect the application.
It's not so surprising when you realize that Sunglass Hut is owned by that company.
Unless I mis-read or mis-understood you seem to invert the meaning of compression ratio half way through ?

> (100 / 200) = 0.5. Protip: compression ratios less than 1 are frowned upon.

> Unfortunately, it's not that simple. Say we had an algorithm (let's call it A) that, given any input whatsoever, was capable of achieving a compression ratio of strictly less than 1.
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Interesting, not to get too far off topic but empowering subordinates to question leaders when they know something wrong is now a huge part of crew management in planes too due to some awful disasters.
So Europe is racist and sexist? Sounds like that's what you are getting at.
The very best option right now (and dirty cheap, ~$200 new) is to get an Asus C201P / Flip Chromebook. It uses a Rockchip ARM CPU, and if you disable 3D acceleration (which is slow anyway) and use an external wireless antenna, you don't have any closed firmware in your computer. Not even CPU microcode firmware.

This is unique. Of course, it's a machine targeted by Libreboot:

https://libreboot.org/docs/hardware/c201.html

I guess that if you install GuixSD, given all binary packages can be verified against the source, and there are some decent sandboxing facilities you can get pretty great security.
Which constitutional rights? The right that guarantees the government will not interfere with your free speech? Or some other right?
In Austria the price is 5,85€ for whatever the doctor prescribes (pharmacist is not allowed to substitute a generic).

And if you need lots of meds and you reach some annual threshhold (depending on income), you don’t have to pay anything after that.
Ok, so Amazon is doing what grocery stores have done for 30+ years with their own store brands. Big deal. If the product is good, sells for a reasonable price, and I have a need for it, I will buy it.

What's actually shady is the practice common among electronics and mattress sellers of having exclusive model numbers for what amounts to the same product at other retailers. This is done to deter price matching and comparison shopping.
The idea is because you have to pay a little bit out of your own pocket you are less likely to run to the doctors and get a prescription when nothing is wrong. Since it is your money that you could spend on something fun instead of a pill you will ask do you really need to buy the pill, or will a cheaper pill work just as well. Note that the above is the idea - there are various problems with it, but the idea makes some sense.

There is a real problem with some people going to the doctors and demanding a pill to fix some problem, doctors get tired of seeing this person and prescribe something relatively harmless just to get them to go away.

Doctors used to prescribe antibiotics for viral illness as well because people expected a pill from the doctor.

Some old people have no friends left so talking to the doctor is the only social life they have.

Do not confuse the above with with cases where there is something wrong and the doctor cannot figure out what.
And what of purchases made on websites?
In america prices are always cent-specific (2.85, 3.78). Berlin, much like Argentina (cash strong markets) have rounded prices for everything, its actually much faster. What ist errible is the waste of time going to an atm frequently, or handling lots of petty coins or bills.

Cards are definitely more convenient.
Of course the Finns are at the top :)

Interesting to see Turkey included as a European country. Not that it matters any more than semantically, but is it considered European now, by other Europeans? Different from what I was taught in school. Obviously a political issue.
Those incentives go away if you use a debit card though.
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My neighborhood is like that, and they have a hilariously contradictory slogan.

"Keep Seattle Livable", by apparently opposing higher building zoning laws so that only short single family homes can be built. They have it in their head somehow that the current housing stock is affordable, despite the fact that a small 3br single family here sells for like a million, and rent is like >$2k/month.

Keep Seattle Livable for people who already own their homes in the area, so other people can't move in.
Owning a brand and licensing the brand name for a specific product line (in this case watches) is an important distinction.
Fossil Group does neither own Burberry nor Adidas as a brand, but rather licensed it to use their name to produce watches.
This is prevalent in fragrance/cosmetics where a branded perfume is rarely produced 'in-house'.
Speaking of watches, these are the brands that make up the Swatch Group:

Balmain
Blancpain
Breguet
Calvin Klein
Certina
Flik Flak
Glashütte Original
Hamilton
Harry Winston
Jaquet Droz
Léon Hatot
Longines
Mido
Omega
Rado
Swatch (of course)
Tissot
Union Glashütte

Swatch movements (ETA) are also used in Hublot, IWC, Jaeger-LeCoultre, Panerai, Piaget, Tag Heuer, Vacheron Constantin, and others.
> the original author was spouting debunked “biotruth” arguments

C.f. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14956592, where an actual scientist is quoted to say "The author of the Google essay on issues related to diversity gets nearly all of the science and its implications exactly right."

See also http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/08/07/contra-grant-on-exagger... for plenty of good references on the topic.

But generally, I mean, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. I don't expect to see peace over this topic any time soon.
I disagree. The tone seems very sympathetic to the home-seeker. I got a "hard-working, salt-of-the-earth carpenter white kid hustles to attain the American dream." While old, prickly, angry black people jealously hold onto their homes. And by the way, for balance, an Italian guys feels the same way. This article sucked.
Uhh Pichai repeats exactly what the memo claimed: that women are

>being “agreeable” rather than “assertive,” showing a “lower stress tolerance,” or being “neurotic.”

Go ahead and claim women are more neurotic and have a lower stress tolerance. Don’t expect everyone to pat you on the back and claim you’re just expressing a minority viewpoint... because you clearly aren’t. James Damore didn’t bother to do any research on the topic - I guess he just assumed his feelings were correct? And he assumed he wouldn’t suffer any consequences for claiming 1/3 of his coworkers were meek easily spooked neurotics?
He can't be put into teams. At least in my office, all work is done in teams.
> It's not worth to take part in such worthless philosophical debates in my opinion. They do not add anything to the society or solve any important modern day problems.

I agree, but I was not defending these debates, just giving evidence for my claim that a common position in the mainstream right wing is that Hitler is worth fighting.

> If that's true their website should be shut down in countries where it's banned.

I agree with this too, but law enforcement is not always effective at stopping well-funded companies blitzing through regulations (VCs call this phenomenon "disruption").
Really? It's standard in Portugal, as part of the context of WWII. My textbook even had a picture of people with a pile of bills.
1.

He boils down the sides do absurd minimal values that understandably cause offense. He calls the people the "left" support as "weak" and says the left worldview prefers an "unstable" approach.

2.

He jumps directly into generalizations about men and women. THe subject has hardly been breached at this point and he's already stirring discomfort among any readers for whom his generalizations do not hold.

3.

He says that women have a harder time negotiating for salary et al as part of their inherent nature.

4.

He directly states that women are neurotic and indirectly states that women cannot handle high-stress work. These terms were called "scientific" by the parent comment, but so is "retarded", and calling someone a retard is pretty fucking rude.

I empathise with the idea that men are being marginalized in order to accomodate for others. Supressing the views of conservatives is equally troubling and worth addressing. Many of his other points hold as well. But he goes too far and throws a rotten egg into the whole document.
But the memo wasn't a political document, it was a document about google's diversity policies that was geared towards starting a discussion and changing those polices:

Here is a copy of the memo

https://gizmodo.com/exclusive-heres-the-full-10-page-anti-di...
i think not. any publications you could point to?
My armchair opinion on this position is that it tends to serve developers and employers more than the 'younger folks' you mention. Employers in particular need to start increasing wages, opening satellite offices, and encouraging remote work whenever possible.
We'd have to compare medication to determine whether that "most" is 51% or 99%.

I'm not saying it's better or worse, don't get me wrong.

Is there data out there that extrapolates Single-Payer tax revenue to relate to insurance premiums? We need that to really compare the overall costs.

I'd be interested in seeing that, because some days I'm all for adopting an "everyone gets it" mentality, especially if the costs are comparable. If I didn't have to deal with miscellaneous billing after the insurance pays them would negate the need for my mailbox.

However, as brought up in another comment of mine, I'd still like to be able to see someone same-day for something (employers too), even if it's non-life-threatening.
Contactless payments don't need PIN (up to some small but comfortable amount) and go through almost instantly.
I never understood the outrage behind referral links.

If somebody is linking to Amazon and users start shopping, why is it so bad that they get a slice of the pie?
Actually, you may be joking but in all seriousness what message indeed.
It's part of the GCSE curriculum, which is examined at age 16.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/history/mwh/german...

(Please write "at".)
Why not Racket? It has a similar emphasis on immutable, functional programming, it's also a Lisp-1 (I assume that's what you mean by "syntax for function parameters"), and the different syntax for data-structure literals I have to imagine is a pretty minor point.
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We have them in all major brand stores, all gas stations as well as all big supermarkets.
Depending on where you are people might not have seen wireless terminal usage (especially if you are far away from a bigger city). A cashier once tried to force me to sign the bill when I payed contactless without a pin or signature (which is possible in germany if the total is below 25-30€).
Of course he does... he's just turned into a troll now.
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By populism I meant popular democracy. Often referendum based democracy. Not the rhetorical device any political speaker uses regardless of leaning.
Isn't the entire point of a brand name to mean something?
Don't take my comment to mean that Purism is evil, just that you aren't getting some ironclad security guarantee. This explains the "controversy" better than I can (http://www.pcworld.com/article/2960524/laptop-computers/why-...). Purism is certainly a step up from Lenovo that was shipping computers with rootkits installed.

If you wear a tinfoil hat then you're going to be better off with a libreboot laptop, but you have to accept that you will never use a computer made after 2008.

I think that the niche that a Purism laptop fills isn't worth the price premium. A laptop from a main vendor plus a security conscious OS install (full disk encryption, two factor authentication) is fine for me.
The advantage is time. Many (most?) embedded environments are overly difficult (IMHO), and/or proprietary. Also, even in a good environment, C/C++ typically requires more lines of code than dynamic languages like Python or JS.

Therefore, the industry has been looking for ways to combat both the below par developer experience, and the development time. Samsung's Jerryscript [1] is another example.

That said, I think these things are aspiration more than they are practical.

[1] http://jerryscript.net/

Note: Edited to clarify C++ vs. dynamic languages.
Once a certain cultural trait is established, inertia can keep it alive for a long time after the original reason is gone.

As a cash-paying German I think that the main appeal to me is that cash payments are a process you can easily understand in its entirety, whereas everything else comes with an infinite supply of unknowns big and small. Sure, it's easy to grasp the basic and get adequate working knowledge, but there will always be lines in the fine print, lines in the code and lines in the physical specs of the hardware that you never read and even if you did you may not have understood correctly. You don't have to worry about these things, but you could, and that seems to be enough for many to stick to what they know.

Also, not paying cash feels lazy, some stereotypes might apply. (Now I wonder about the possibility of a correlation between cash and the protestant/catholic divide still present as a cultural shadow of the past even amongst decidedly atheist Germans - payment customs in the nordics suggest otherwise though)
I think the author was calling it "sneaky" because they haven't once publically associated themselves with these new brands. Many of the examples you've attached are products that are associated with the company, even if it's through minor press statements or warranty support. There's no page for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Amazon_brands :)
This one is the best named of the 3. It's actually a simple contraction of Mongo + Moose, the two key libraries used in the project.
I feel a little differently here.

1. Amazon most likely does want to keep it quiet that these are house brands, only because they have to walk the line between third party sellers, traditional retail and their house brands.

There are examples of Amazon straight up copying items and putting them under their "Amazon Basics" brand - check out their laptop stands vs the Rain Design mStand.

2. I suspect that it's just a script that adds the Amazon Affiliate tag to the URLs. This is pretty typical for large publication CMS's.
> it's for Adderall, so the pharmacy and doctor cannot exchange the prescription over the phone or computer--I have to do all the back and forth in person with paper

This is somewhat off-topic, but I've always thought that the requirement for using a paper prescription for controlled substances was counter-intuitive. To me, it would make more sense to do this electronically and not involve the patient at all in the transfer of the prescription itself. Plus, the electronic system should be able to verify the identity of the prescribing physician and dispensing pharmacist to both parties involved as well as a central authority if necessary, which is more difficult to do with a paper prescription.
Please save your worthless comments for another community. We don't exist to boost your ego and laugh at lowbrow sarcasm
"may not be interested in a subject that was denied to them until very recently"

No TV ad is from 15 years ago was denying anyone anything. They were playing to certain stereotypes, yes, but thats completely different from denying someone a job in tech.
But now it looks like the article only exists to get people to click Amazon links, and not because there's any actual news.
I was saying that the fratboy culture wasn't a prerequisite for racism and sexism. And that Europe has their own issues with both. Or do you disagree?
It should be noted that inn that article, the FDA concluded that this meant that the two drugs were no longer bioequivalence. At that point, you don't have a brand and a generic drug but rather two different drugs that just happen to have similar ingredients.

The article do bring up a major issue when the FDA changed their decision in regard to a generic. The market and even the FDA itself is having a problem to address the problem. The doctor is quoted: “If the F.D.A. rules it’s not the same, how can it be sold? I don’t understand the rationale for that happening.”. It is indeed odd and a major complaint about how the FDA managed this case.
Yep, the market is skewed by policy. You get to buy a house using the mortgage interest deduction and then you get artificially low property taxes as your property value increases over time (in CA). Meanwhile renters don't get any sort of "rent deduction" and get stuck paying higher rent when property values go up even though the landlord's property taxes don't go up much.
Read my link ( https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-poli... ) - their democracy has failed.

I find it hard to blame Americans for all the misinformation their media and politicians feed them.
Depends what you consider significant. The UK's Financial Services Compensation Scheme, which handles depositor protection, paid out over 26 billion pounds in the 2006-2011 period.

At the same time, though, the govt did push Lloyds TSB to take over HBOS in 2008 rather than let the latter fail.
It's not scummy at all. I would do the same thing if I had the capital. And logically, older people will have access to more capital than young people so they will scoop up houses and rent them out.

It's rational in current market and conditions. To make this less appealing you need to change legislature, increase interest rates etc.
Adding support for unicode line drawing characters would be cool
They don't demonstrate that no one is willing to work with him. Moreover, there are a number of people claiming to be hearing cries of dismay from within google that he was fired. He's not quite the pariah you've painted him to be.

When you get laid off, they give you 30 days to find another department to work in. There's no reason why he wasn't afford the same, if his departure was due to co-workers not wanting to work with him any more.
As you can see, the engine is evolving quite rapidly, so a book might not be a great format. Thankfully the course has active forums at gamedev.tv and the instructors go back to annotate videos if something is completely different.

re:Humble Book Bundle: no offense intended to Packt writers, but the books they publish are somewhat hit and mostly miss :/
This is gonna ruffle some feathers in BJP and RSS.