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why would you need public shelter? i have relatively big cellar in basement of my apartment building where I could squeeze my family, so does my mother, while my father's cellar is like 4x5m, he could stay there with many people

only when I think of my sister who built house without basement or same goes for cousin, I guess they don't stand much chance

we really need remake of Threads
Certainly, systemic bias may still be a problem. The issue is that, unless you believe that men and women are exactly the same, and physical and psychological differences somehow stop at what interests they'll pick, the expected distribution of preferred professions wouldn't be 50-50.

If there are innate differences in what men and women find fulfilling, you wouldn't expect to see equal participation in everything. Shooting for 50% quotas is then misguided, because all it means is that you're doing more work to find candidates that will pass your filter, as you're looking in a smaller pool on one of the two sides.
Yeah, an interesting way to change the balance of "if it's free, you are the product".
Well he does other things too. Mark is the chair of the HTTP working group and contributes to the W3C.
This kind of reminds me of this episode: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_Opportunities_(Yes_Minis...

I think the authors have nailed it. There is a lot of posturing, but at the end of the day, most people for whom it is all done, ostensibly, do not want quotas or special favors.
What a masterful troll
you're funny. what special magical noble utility is there? payments for illegal weapons (used for... murders) and drugs? avoiding taxes and hence breaking a law?

maybe it was a noble idea in the beginning, but current cryptocurrency dump is beyond pathetic and all I see are $$ signs in the eyes of involved...
What's an example of a revelation that "confirms" his misogyny?
"the kind of workers' rights that are traditionally the focus of the left."

More than politics, it's the present tense that's bothering me. How long since the US left has focused on worker's rights?
"You are a sexist" is the new weapon for women these days. Just say that and every common sense argument loses and everyone just shuts their mouth.
Same here. I've found that all the other registry and policy methods eventually stopped working for me whereas disabling the update service has worked reliably for 9+ months.
The might require convincing the HTTP working group, chaired by one @mnot...
So this probably isn't a legitimate concern on my part, apologies in advance if this comes out sounding offensive or just plain dumb. But it's an honest thought that I've had as a male in tech...

One of the things that scares me about all of the outreach programs, networking events, mentoring programs, etc. is that I worry it's going to bring in a lot of people into the industry who don't really enjoy programming but are in it for the prestige, money, etc. Computer programming is the only productive thing that I've ever enjoyed doing in my life. I taught myself to program as a teenager, studied CS in college and loved it, and have been working in industry ever since. I don't ever want to manage people, or meet with customers, or do anything else - I only want to write code.

Say what you will about the "frat boy monoculture" - for all of its shittiness at least it's mostly made up of people who are passionate about code, largely self-taught and self-motivated, and enjoy what they do. And almost all of the women programmers that I've worked with (and it sounds like the parent poster as well) have been the same... maybe even more so since they have had to deal with so much more shit along the way and are still here. And I don't want that to change (the part about working with passionate, fun people.. The discrimination and bias part needs to stop).
Does everything need to be about politics?

This is what happens when people start throwing around the phrase "the personal is political". Social entropy in the West seems to be turning skyward asymptotically.
I was not being ironic. And I believe in capitalism, why did you thought the opposite, may I ask? Capitalism advocates the free market and concurrency. If a company become too powerful, it's not good. Once a friend mine had a business that depended of Google Adwords. One day he woke up and his account was blocked. Google did not answered his emails, just automatic responses. His legal online business broke after some weeks.
I read several similar stories related to other companies, like Amazon (Affiliates).
Your are accusing him without providing evidence. Why are you okay with that?
There's ongoing work in adversarial examples for neural networks. This could conceivably be used to exploit self-driving cars, making it see things that aren't there.
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> It's not the NAT that affords privacy - it's the size of the address space which does have enough IP addresses, but not so many that an ISP can avoid reassigning them.

Again, we live in a world where CGNAT is a thing. My own ISP puts all IPv4 connections through CGNAT by default unless you explicitly opt out. Many smaller ISPs do the same - one of the new gigabit broadband services in my country will not allocate IPv4 addresses to customers, instead going for CGNAT and requiring an additional payment of £5 a month for an IPv4 address.

Mobile ISPs all implement CGNAT on IPv4 at this point - if they attempted to buy enough address space for every active mobile phone to have an IP, there'd be a serious problem.

Every single user on each of these networks does not have a routable IPv4 address. You cannot make a direct connection to these devices. IPv6 solves that problem.

> What are those other "significantly better" solutions you are aware of?

Tor. Future protocols should integrate HORNET or similar. If you really want a NAT without onion routing, use a VPN that'll do it.

> Likely because you are on a residential ISP

That's literally the point here. There's a differentiation between a "residential ISP" which can only ever consume and never participate as an equal part of the network, and a "business ISP" which is significantly more expensive because it comes with an SLA that I don't need or want.

IPv6 allows me to be an equal part of the network at the same cost as my current broadband service. I can run a website off my raspberry pi without paying anyone a penny. I can SSH/remote desktop into my home machine without having to create a "jump server". I can participate in peer-to-peer networks without depending on the hope that some other people on the network have machines that I can directly connect to, so that nobody else has to directly connect to me.
For most storage, one needs it to be local to compute or easy to put behind a CDN - e.i. in a datacenter or on a very fast network that is connected to the datacenters.

If not, you are cut out from the main commercial storage market.

What is left is:

- People who want to store stuff that is can not be legally stored on existing networks, such as illegal drug or porn stuff.

- People who need secure stuff stored in a distributed fashion.

- People who want to have a way of backing up their PC? But will this be faster and cheaper than using Backblaze-like solutions that buy storage in bulk and optimize for costs?

Is there enough redundancy to ensure that no data is ever lost?

Could someone actually attack the network to cause data loss?

What are the costs?
- Inbound, new storage per GB.
- Outbound, access per GB.
- Deleting storage.
- Static storage on a per GB/hour.

What is the performance of this?

Can Backblaze make more money being a provider to Filcoin or should Backblaze use Filecoin for it storage? Just like Bitcoin mining Filecoin should, if successful, be dominanted by people like Backblaze.
I also didn't really get the author's point about all the unattractive female engineers on TV. I actually think the opposite is the problem, for both men and women, that the engineers or scientists you see on TV tend to be ridiculously good looking people, only now they're wearing thick framed glasses.
Yeah, like Ctrl-F on output.

I work on website crawlers for fun and being able to search terminal output is something I'd die for. :)
Men and women don’t have to be “exactly the same” to be equally good at programming. Germans and Spaniards are not “exactly the same” on average, but that doesn’t mean we automatically expect there to be more German programmers than Spanish programmers or vice versa. The question isn’t whether men and women are exactly the same, but whether they are, overall, on average, equally good at doing the relevant tasks. Even if men and women have different cognitive strengths and weaknesses (which I doubt that they do, to any significant extent), these might very well balance out. So for example, Federer and Nadal are very different, but about equally good.
It won't make a damn bit of difference for a lot of users. Most of the horrible performance I find for windows file copies (and git/svn checkouts etc) is due to MFT contention in the filesystem rather than the network layer. This is for the "average user" scenario rather than fileserver however. This apparently hasn't gone away with ReFS either but I haven't personally tested it.
I adore UX brutalism.

It's a weird paradox that I enjoy design, but at the same time feel that MOST (caps necessary here) of them are actually faff and pretentious. I keep coming back to brutalist style, as the one I feel the least uncomfortable with, and I'm so glad it's now officially recognised.

(Or maybe give it two years before I start complaining again.)
So... Are bash and vim Brutalist? Have we finally gone full circle?
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

- Viktor E. Frankl, holocaust survivor and author of Man's Search for Meaning
The argument I think generally goes like this:

Either women and men as groups are fundamentally equal and there are no intrinsic differences between the two groups, neither in the averages nor distribution. In that case women should not need any special treatment to advance in the same careers. Any imbalance is either the result of bigotry within the field of work or prior to that at the gatekeepers (i.e. college, K12, family).

Or women and men as groups are different, either in the averages (i.e. on average, X are better at Y than Z) or in distribution (i.e. men and women are equally good at or interested in X but one group has more outliers on both ends of the scale). In this case gender parity can only be gained and maintained artificially because a perfectly fair unbiased selection would always result in a skewed balance.

Some studies seem to suggest the latter. We know this to true in sports (which is why e.g. the Olympics are strictly segregated by gender). It just becomes a political problem as soon as we try to propose that this hold true outside the pure physicality of competitive sports.

It's en vogue to treat humans as brains in a vat as soon as we discuss these issues but I'm not convinced this isn't the same fallacy as economists assuming pure rational actors and physicists assuming spherical cows in a vacuum.

EDIT: Obligatory note: gender discrimination is a thing, not just in tech. Corrective measures may help with that. But if we don't know which one of the two premises holds true (or rather to which extent each one is true in this specific case) we don't know whether we can reach both gender parity AND close the gender pay gap, at the same time.
Well it is a strange road you took.

Normally on highways in Italy you take a ticket when enterng the highway and pay when you exit, the toll boxes every few kilometres is something that was removed everywhere in the 70's (though I cannot exclude that a specific road somewhere in Italy still has them).
As an anecdotal data point, in Greece (where there is some, but not much gender pressure), lawyers are around 80% female. I'm not sure which way this skews in the US, or what it means, but I thought it was interesting enough to mention.

Education is also free regardless of socioeconomic status, and rich and poor students attend the same universities.
It sounds like he might already have made a filing with the NLRB well before he was fired (going off the first 5 minutes of his interview with Molyneux) - that might bolster his case for anti-retaliation (depending on their response, I guess - if they sent it straight back with "LOL" on page 1, it'll probably hurt his case instead.)
just checked it on Beijing where I used to live and it seem only tourist city center would be eliminated with regular weapons, while most of the population outside would be untouched, I was surprised how weak is supposed to be nuclear bomb, I remembered always it was like 10-20km deadly and 50km run away zone, but maybe I am confusing it with nuclear power plant
It starts to matter once the winners of the race get serious amounts of money.
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>If he wants to win a legal case, he should hire a good lawyer.

He did.

This is who filed the complaint on his behalf.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Hastings

Clients, of course, can ignore good advice.
One of the latest slate star codex article (http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/08/07/contra-grant-on-exagger... ) mentions how there is still gender disparity in medical specialties. Do you have any statistics about this in law?

Maybe to have more women in tech you'd have to devise tech specialties which are more about humans and less about negotiating with machines.
That's a great point, I think a brutalist data entry website would be a giant table of input boxes without labels, only hover over text. Something like that, where it looks efficient... but in reality it's kinda ugly and a pain to use and it would benefit greatly from just a tad more UI friendliness, but they value purity over functionality.
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Mixcloud founder here, thanks its appreciated. Theres one big different on engagement, we tend to see lower play counts, but higher number of minutes listened per play. You'll start to see us surfacing this data more in the upcoming months, and I expect everyone to be pleasantly surprised.
if it's encrypted, i don't think anyone can prove it's porn, which probably makes you immune
> often taking an strong side in either extremes of the debate.

His memo is very firmly left-wing and liberal though, hardly an 'extreme'.
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This discussion is predicated on the concept that function size is calculated by the number of lines which is completely wrong.

function size (function complexity actually) is measured primarily by indent levels not length and when there are multiple indent levels with nested branches and loops this is when you are supposed to create functions. length is not really an issue in most cases.
After 25 years of typing I decided to switch to the vi style of editing. Now, about 1 and a half years later, I use it everywhere and I regret that I haven't started earlier. I find it relaxing and it keeps me in a more content state while programming.

Btw. I'm not using Vim, except for some small edits from the terminal. But there is a vi plugin for the most important tools that I use: (JetBrains:ideavim, Firefox:Vimperator, ZSH:vi-mode, Emacs:evil-mode, Atom:vim-mode)

I think a lot of what the author tries to solve could be solved by switching to vi-style editing. He introduces two new modifier keys to increase the number of actions you may bind to a key, Vi uses modes (normal-mode, insert-mode,..) to achieve the same thing.

But I really like what the author does with the brackets! Putting the opening brackets on one hand and mirror the closing brackets onto the other makes a lot of sense to me. I think I'll try out something similar by switching ! with {, + with }, @ with [, _ with ] , etc.
I agree that my analogy was flawed, but it doesn't matter, since you responded with a bunch of arguments that you hopefully think are convincing. I will now proceed to invert them right back at you. Maybe you don't think they actually apply in that way (some definitely don't). That would be totally fine, I just want to know what you think about that.

I'm not sure what your assumptions are. That James Damore, who is politically conservative but who asserts themselves to be pro-diversity, is not objectively pro-diversity, but is just a sadly confused/deluded conservative? That I'm not obligated to believe that James Damore is pro-diversity, nor acknowledge that identity to him other than out of polite consideration?

OK, we don't need to get into a debate about political discrimination issues and laws. Your analogy feels deeply flawed in several other ways, though. If someone's best friends are all conservatives, that has...what exactly to do with whether that person is a liberal or a conservative? If you see someone voting for universal healthcare who claims to be a conservative, you'd still think that them voting for universal healthcare is evidence that they might possibly be a liberal? Seriously?

In any case, someone's political affiliation is not something likely that directly impacts me. If someone claims to be a liberal, I have the option of being "polite" and to "go along with it", whatever the hell that means. Or I don't even have to bring the issue up at all.

But if I'm a woman whose fitness club member keeps suggesting having a football game and uses the showers with obviously male anatomy, the situation isn't one where politeness is part of my decision making process. My fitness club member's behavior and beliefs, unlike Damore's political affiliation, affects my comfort and virtue as a loving wife. I don't have to believe she is truly a woman on the basis of her stated gender, or her pointing out her choice of dress even as she engages in all kinds of inappropriate behavior.

Likewise, the National Organization for Women's management does not have to believe that Pat is sincerely a woman, if they believe what she actually does reflects someone hostile to NOW's female empowerment efforts and goals. It is not "inconsiderate" for NOW's execs to read between the lines of Pat's various activities. Pat is a NOW employee who believes she is doing the right thing by taking a moral stand against NOW's management, she didn't ask to be politely coddled.
I dunno, I'm pretty sure defense* would easily be able to paint the picture that employee spent hours researching and writing an article because he cared about the culture. If you didn't care, you wouldn't be bothered to invest effort into carefully addressing the topic. Heck, you could even go as far as to pull the google doc authoring logs and show (theoretically) that the employee worked on it in off hours (I dont know this to be true, but if it was, even a stronger defense).

His actions after the firing could easily be explained away as hurt feelings for trying to be open and honest, and being publicly shamed?

* it's not the defense I suppose if he originated the suit, but you know what i mean
After watching Ozark, I'm actually convinced that software is amazing for money laundering, it's stupid easy to generate huge amounts of fake data.

"Look, our food delivery app delivered 10,000,000 meals and everyone paid by cash!"

"Wow, we rented 10,000 homes through our short term rental app this month and everyone paid by cash!"

"Hey, we have an ATM that lets you convert money into NameCoin, sooo many people are using it, look at all this cash!"
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From your competitors! I'm not kidding.

If there's a market for your product, there will be an alternative product for it. Like for me, I had a recipe app. My competitors were recipe blogs, Facebook pages, and groups. If you're building something SaaS, there might be a WordPress plugin doing the same thing.

Your product should be 10x better than the solution they hacked together. If no solution was hacked together, it's possible there's no market for it or that you haven't done enough research before building the product.

There might be some exceptions though, like a note taking app, where the competitor is a piece of paper with no community.
Avoiding "another other version" issue I'm hoping that this Workstation version will dispense many of the software limitations .vs the server, thus should be a benefit to many pro-user types especially developers.
Agreed. His conclusions might have been disagreeable, but hardly worth the outrage.

The media and the echo chamber it feeds is, once again, to blame.
I liked how the site gave me the feeling that it is like a learn startup type method of design.

I signed up for the newsletter to just see, and plenty of the previous content they make available seems intriguing.
Not sure the term "alt-right" will grow as much as it will dilute as it's applied to everyone who doesn't conform to the mainstream liberal platform.

Just associating the term to James Damore is ridiculous. A couple weeks ago, Linda Sarsour called Jake Tapper a member of the alt-right for criticizing her.

It's become a meaningless catch-all term for the left.
From a financial damage-control perspective - exactly this. The money they'd have to pay out to him is far less than the social (and financial) cost of being blackballed in the media and by various groups.
The weirdest part about all this is that they have to keep it frozen the whole time and then at the end of it all fly it back down to Antarctica, trek it out to the hut and then leave it there.

They did the same with a crate of whiskey they found a couple of years ago.
https://www.nzaht.org/pages/shackletons-whisky
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If it is about money than im disappointed.
EDIT: I'll just post a bunch of quotes from the memo, and let you judge if that sounds left-wing.

> the Left tends to deny science concerning biological differences between people (e.g., IQ and sex differences)

> Stop alienating conservatives: Viewpoint diversity is arguably the most important type of diversity and political orientation is one of the most fundamental and significant ways in which people view things differently.

> conservatives tend to be higher in conscientiousness, which is require for much of the drudgery and maintenance work characteristic of a mature company.

> I would start by breaking down Googlegeist scores by political orientation

> Google’s left bias has created a politically correct monoculture

> which makes it clear why it’s a phenomenon of the Left and a tool of authoritarians

> Considering that the overwhelming majority of the social sciences, media, and Google lean left, we should critically examine these prejudices

> Google’s left leaning
It happened to me a year ago , I suggest you use Long Path Tool, it works great in this errors.
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The trick/idea the guy used can be used in any kind of business. That's pretty innovative idea for 12 years guy tbh.
I originally used bootstrap 3 for my food side project. I did have some issues with customizing and sheer size.

I eventually moved over to bourbon.io with the help of one of the core contributors.
That was a very good and level headed article about a difficult topic. To those scrolling by this later, it's worth the read.
http://www.viktorfrankl.org/e/quote_stimulus.html
Same, except Laravel was new to me in that thread. Looks pretty similar to what you get with Rails but for PHP.

Given the criteria I laid out in that post it looks viable. I’m honestly surprised since I left PHP for Ruby about 12-13 years ago. I think Cake was the wannabe at that point which must have been PHP 4 or 5. There was much I disliked then but Laravel seems better.

So I’ll pose the question, does Laravel have a compelling feature which you think makes it better than Rails or do you think they’re about even?