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Are you blaming Varoufakis for the capital controls?

"Capital controls were introduced in Greece in June 2015, when Greece's government came to the end of its bailout extension period without having come to an agreement on a further extension with its creditors and the European Central Bank decided not to further increase the level of its Emergency Liquidity Assistance for Greek banks."

( From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_controls_in_Greece )

The FED is the lender of last resort in the USA bank system (if I don't remember wrong that was the main reason of its creation).

The Bank of Greece was the lender of last resort in the Greece bank system.

The ECB should be the lender of last resort for the europeans in the Euroarea. Last time I checked Greeks were european. It's not its job to be an enforcer for foreign interests.

Why we allow the ECB to be used as a political weapon or how that is legal is beyond me. That means that we have given all that power to people who don't care about, for now, the Greeks.

In fact, Varoufakis is disputing the legality of that movement:
https://diem25.org/thegreekfiles/
"equally good at it". I do not think this is where we can jump from that statement.

There was no where a statement saying women are of inferior abilities because scientifically, they are not. There were statements that showed women value some things differently than men. For example, lack of dress code is a big turn off for women, yet men do not care.

If you need to navigate in that kind of culture you should make work positions appealing to women. Is it possible to make CS engineering appealing? Of course it is. Stanford did it. Make it more aesthetically pleasing, less sweat-stinking geeky and women will come.

Can an engineering job be more social? Yes, in some engineering roles. In some it cannot. These roles will on average be less appealing to women. Maybe there's a lack of work processes making use of these social working activities. Maybe there aren't many that could incorporate a social component. This would mean women might not like these kinds of work environments. That is the only thing implied by the text you quoted.

No where in the document was there an implication that women are of inferior abilities. It's just an interpretation that everyone decided to use.
This guy touched a nerve, and now he is the latest football in a really toxic culture war being waged right now. All of the various culture warriors on both sides are now going to be lining up to take their 15 minutes in the spotlight, to wear on their sleeves their commitment to their cause (both sides).

The loser in all of this will continue to be any sense of nuance or rational debate. If he had a point, it's lost now in claims of "anti-diversity". If his opponents had a point, it's lost now in claims of "PC authoritarianism".
Same here, I'm wondering now if I have passed over buying one of these items because it didn't use the Amazon branding I trust. I suspect their marketers have tested this and found it increased conversions overall, and we are outliers.
That is horrible mileage. I remember averaging that on a 1997 Opel Astra.
Firstly, that article itself notes, some of those cases were likely not whistleblowers (they were just relaying government information to news agencies, and even if trying to be transparent I doubt they intended internal negotiations with North Korea and Iran to to transparent while ongoing). Secondly, that's but one aspect of administration transparency, there are many to consider, such as how much other information was released, when it was released, and how complete it was. Looking at one metric, even if it's an important one, and using it as the sole basis for making that judgement, amounts to more of a PR move and clickbait headline than useful assessment.

That said, I agree, Obama didn't appear to run a very open administration. It appeared very secretive. Then again, the prosecuting of of people for leaked information rather than quiet pressure and sanctions is itself a form of transparency (it's also noted in that article that past presidents used many other techniques to pressure reporters instead of the legal system).

In the end, this is a complex enough topic that without a massive investment of time and effort, most arguments are going to have a hefty amount of opinion, making useful discussion hard. It doesn't help that we don't have an easy comparison with Trump's administration. In one respect, it's likely the most open administration there's ever been. I just don't think that's by design...
I think you've made some incorrect assumptions about who I am and what I think about these issues. Maybe I'm wrong but I'll leave a few points so we're on the same page:

I have been involved in the hiring process at more than one tech company and it was apparent that there were far, far fewer women in the pipeline than men. Even if we hired every single person who applied the balance would still lean very heavily toward men. Again, this is just in my personal experience.

I don't believe it is the job tech companies to do extra work to hire more of any underrepresented group in the industry until the problem in the pipeline is addressed.

I think the argument that there is something biological about women that makes them less interested in tech comes from what amounts to pseudoscience at best and that argument shouldn't be validated because it gets in the way of solving the problem with the pipeline.

I have never (and would never) advocated for any group of people to be given "extra marks to pass" in a situation where their ability to do a job is important.

I don't think the author of that memo at Google should have been fired. Though I do understand how from a corporate standpoint they felt that they had to.

I'm not sure what point you're trying to make with the "person interested in equal opportunity would not do..." I didn't do those things. I'm not blind to anything and I think all I did in my comment was ask a pretty simple question that you didn't even attempt to answer.
Has anyone played with the concept of an environment tracker repository? If so, what is your experience?

The use case would be providing a source of truth for all versions of services deployed during a given release.
Even if you had a high degree of confidence that would happen eventually (which I'm not convinced you do), such a play would be absurdly risky, especially given no idea as to the timing.
Controversially and OT but it was in a documentary I saw recently. It's been suggested that the colonial troops were responsible for the the vast majority of the large numbers of rapes of women in the French occupied part of Germany
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Is there an option to show if someone is a virgin?

I'd imagine this would be important to some people.
Totally agree with you. Meritocracy is a great ideal to strive towards, but completely unrealistic.

We wouldn't build a bridge and assume our geometry is perfect. Bridges would fall down. We have to constantly try and measure and adjust for how closely our bridge adheres to the blueprint and adjust or refactor as we go.
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>James Damore, the engineer who wrote the memo, confirmed his dismissal, saying in an email to Reuters on Monday that he had been fired for "perpetuating gender stereotypes"

It's time to start scouring the Twitter feeds of female Google employees searching for tweets that perpetuate stereotypes about the male gender, and report them to Big Brother.
No I get what you're saying.

I'm saying the way you phrased it puts the onus on women. It's fairer to say, "men are worse employees because they can't handle a women being assertive" because men have the problem, not women.
> You can short btc on several platforms, including Bitfinex

There is a horrible counterparty correlation in this trade. If Bitcoin goes up, you're out your short and lose lots of money. If Bitcoin crashes, the exchange runs into problems and you probably lose your original investment. Balanced against those is the limited profit potential from a marginal drop in the price of Bitcoin.
That's exactly the same BS argument as "just give me your product for free and you'll get tons of publicity". Only works if the person proposing it is actually world-famous. Otherwise, it's just scamming. (Not even addressing the copyright infringement issues here.)

You are freeloading on PG's insight and fame, trying to increase yours at his expense. Even if the expense is relatively trivial, it's no less true.

If it were actually OK, you would have already asked PG if it was ok for you to hack up his articles and re-publish them under your name.

Come to think of it, why don't you ask him directly, and see if he thinks it's ok, or what conditions he'd put on it?

Let us know how that conversation goes.
> ability to stop random people from flashing your board

That part in particular seems like a really bold assumption.
Can you fake a reasonably indistinguishable 404 response for content that exists, but should not be publicly discoverable?

In the validation function docs [1], there is an example of HTTP errors being thrown, I'm just not sure if there is something like a `throw({notFound: null})` option.

[1] http://guide.couchdb.org/draft/validation.html
For the most part, I would say paying by contactless is faster than paying in cash because you need to wait for the cashier to find the change for the cash you gave them. Then especially in Germany, people spend ages looking for really small change so if it's 19.64 they can give them 20.14 and get a 50 cent back. Where as contactless you tap the holder and that's it. Even paying by pin is generally faster. The only reason it's sometimes slower is if they use a German bank that wants a signature over the pin or the cashier doesn't know how to use the card machine. (I've had that once or twice in Rewe and Edeka)
I agree. I would also short crypto but it's too dangerous now as the tulip mania could still grow more before it pops. Once the bubble clearly pops then I'd start actively shorting as there will be months of bear market probably after the reversal.
I don't know...based on his writing I'm guessing that under special circumstances he might.
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This is an incredibly well-written article. I wish I had the emotional distance and mastery of english express myself with such grace.

Unfortunately for me (and everyone) it takes me a lot longer to find the exact words for my frustrations in a situation like this. So I end up wanting to say inflammatory accusations like "PC-group-think witch-hunt," which captures my anger but doesn't really convince anybody on the other side (but rather escalates the tension).

The author cleverly brings both sides together by picking a starting point we all agree "Accuracy in journalism matters" and dissecting how that value was compromised [in this particular case] in order to promote another value: "Diversity matters."

Paul Graham describes such a technique in his seminal essay.

[http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html

One way to do this is to ratchet the debate up one level of abstraction. If you argue against censorship in general, you can avoid being accused of whatever heresy is contained in the book or film that someone is trying to censor. You can attack labels with meta-labels: labels that refer to the use of labels to prevent discussion. The spread of the term "political correctness" meant the beginning of the end of political correctness, because it enabled one to attack the phenomenon as a whole without being accused of any of the specific heresies it sought to suppress.

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Scrub/verify/patrols, whatever you want to call it, with RAID all it can do is say, "Well shit, these two copies don't match. What do you want me to do about it, boss?"

ZFS doesn't have to guess which copy is wrong. It knows, and it will automatically replace it.

More, ZFS will even do this on a ZFS mirror when reading half the data blocks from one disk and half from the other, because it reads the cryptographically-strong checksums in with each data block and checks them before delivering the data to the application. If the checksum doesn't match, it rewrites that block from the redundant copy on the other disk(s).

RAID can't do that. If one of a mirror's data blocks is corrupted on disk but with a correct ECC, so that the two blocks don't match but both read cleanly, RAID can't tell which one is correct, so it'll typically just force the system administrator to choose one disk to overwrite the other with. That exchanges astronomical odds against incorrect data for coin flip odds against.
You should try to categorize the games by replayability. Story heavy games will be weighted differently than sandbox games.
For those who want more of this "analysts' insight", I can heartily recommend the blog and podcast, Arms Control Wonk [0]. The researchers and experts there work to perform analysis into most new missile launches in the interest of non-proliferation.

Since the recent ramp-up of NK missile tests, I've found their writing and (largely less formal) podcasting extremely interesting and valuable both as an expert opinion on the capabilities of NK (and other proto-nuclear states), and as a look into the research that feeds journalism like this piece.

[0] http://www.armscontrolwonk.com/
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Oh, I see. You were looking at the attribution notice next to the photo in the article. It certainly refers to the background only. They should have explicitly said that. BHs are just too far away, and our instruments are not powerful enough (yet?) to image them at this kind of scale.

If you watch Interstellar, the imagery in the movie (the giant black hole, and even the wormhole the characters use to travel far away) is actually a physically-realistic simulation of the behavior of light in black-hole-like gravity fields. Kip Thorne, one of the top scientists in the field of general relativity, has collaborated with the movie makers to ensure the special effects were as close as possible to what science tells us right now about these objects.
What do those charts look like for the rest of the world? I don't have the stats handy but I'm fairly confident that the middle class in China, Indonesia, and Malaysia has dramatically expanded over that time period, so it's arguable that the world is a (net) better place. If the author wants to make a nationalistic argument that US workers should have done better than their counterparts elsewhere, I guess that's OK, but I suspect that's not his intent. Either way, ignoring the fact of increased globalization over that time period undercuts the argument.

Rather, his supposition is that middle-income workers in the US have missed out on gains that have instead gone to upper-income workers in the US. That's false, for the same reason that workers in a single company don't "miss out" on the money given to its executives. As defined by skill sets, the labor pools for upper-income workers and lower-income workers don't intersect, globally or otherwise.

This matters because it affects the solutions we choose. Income inequality is a symptom of the deeper problem of reduced American competitiveness 1) relative to our peers, 2) in the middle- and lower-income labor markets. Because so many more middle- and lower-income skill workers have come online, who are delighted to accept lower wages than US workers because it's an order-of-magnitude improvement over what they had before, these US workers would lose ground merely by remaining as productive as they were 34 years ago.

So in order to maintain the globally-superior wages we have become accustomed to, we must maintain and even increase our productivity edge. How do we do that?

That is the challenge, not income inequality itself. "Fixing" the problem by calling the situation "unfair" (and taxing upper-income US workers out of vengeance for their presumed unfairness and exploitation) isn't a fix at all. It's like prescribing painkillers when someone has a broken leg; the problem isn't the pain, it's the broken leg.
I think it's important to differentiate between the potential of crypto-currencies as currency, and the technology that powers them - the blockchain. I think the blockchain has a huge potential to revolutionize many industries. Whether crypto-currencies like Bitcoin actual take off as real currencies is less certain and may have some negative effects. But whatever happens, the blockchain itself (and presumably ether that powers the smart contracts) will be around for a long time.
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You are right. That figure absolutely is a sign of income inequality. The idea that the wealthy's tax burden should increase as a result of that is ridiculous, however.

> X increasing is an indicator that Y is increasing. Therefore we need to increase X more in order to make Y decrease.
>James Damore, the engineer who wrote the memo, confirmed his dismissal, saying in an email to Reuters on Monday that he had been fired for "perpetuating gender stereotypes"

It's time to start scouring the Twitter feeds of female Google employees searching for tweets that perpetuate stereotypes about the male gender.
Probably lacking the ratio of explosions to character development that modern scifi movies and tv audiences demand.
Interesting they mention and get quotes from the author of the Three Body Problem series. I just finished reading that series, and the whole time I had the feeling that it was written more to convince people of something than to actually entertain the reader.

The ideas in the books were pretty amazing, unique, and imaginative; but the story and writing itself was quite sub-par.

edit: I listened (audio books) to the English versions. I thought the translation was excellent. I don't want to spoil anything, but the author has a very dark vision of mankind and kept having his characters ostracized to the extreme which got old pretty quick. I didn't feel like the books were missing anything descriptive from lack of translation.
They gave a solution. You pointed out what's wrong. Can you point out a solution?
I believe Apple Pay works the same in this respect so the virtual account number is not cycled per transaction. I can't remember if it's cycled per vendor or just unique per device.
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> - allows a separate high-performance device to be used for the log. This is important because the cost of journalling can be high when lots of fsyncs are being used to ensure integrity (i.e. try running a write performance test on a database like postgresql using ext4 with and without journalling, you'll see a difference).

In a proper setup (mount options journal=writeback,noatime,relatime, wal configured reasonably wrt max_wal_size/checkpoint_segments) the overhead due to ext4 journaling shouldn't be a major factor. You'll see some overhead initially when the WAL segments are allocated as you go, but after that they'll be recycled.

For OLTP write heavy databases I'd say the intent log is more a liability than an advantage, it's easy to screw over performance and/or storage lifetime with it.
I don't necessarily agree. I think a lot of writers probably read it in full and had a sense of its nuance, flaws, and intentions, and still elected to push the juicy and possibly inaccurate headline for their own, and their publications' own gain.

I think we're just at the point where thinkpieces criticizing the initial wave of thinkpieces are now vogue and profitable.

(FWIW, I believe the wave of misleading or negative coverage of this memo is partly the fault of its means of original publication and distribution. Right, wrong, or indifferent, the way in which unorthodox viewpoints are offered to the public can dictate how they're received and interpreted, and this was not "groomed" to be received well, regardless of the merit of its arguments or lack thereof.)
If this guy changes his pronoun, heads will explode.
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This has been flagged as a dupe, but the other posting didn't rise:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14955319
It's not about your opinion. Of course you think what you're doing is ok, everyone does. Fortunately we have a general consensus (and laws) that say what you did was wrong. Own it.
I wouldn't lump either Google or Youtube with Facebook.

I signed up for Youtube Red, their commercial free subscription. I fill my subscriptions with topics I want to learn more about. It is easier to curate content on Youtube than Facebook.

I would pay Facebook $2-5/month not to show me advertisements.
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I'd like to note that in that article he wrote, he was careful to point out that he did not think government intervention was the primary factor. Specifically, he pointed out to veterinary care as an industry that has very little intervention but has the same cost disease problem as people care.

Its kind of difficult to find the similar strand in all of them to be honest. That's the reason the article ends on such a sour note: he never really figures out what's causing this.
Volvo has a hundred self-driving cars in test in Gothenburg, Sweden. They're driven by selected Volvo customers. They're only self driving on a few freeways, but they don't have a "safety driver", and the customers are not required or expected to pay attention while in automatic mode.
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No such plans. What would be the motivation anyway? A different hash function for the infohash calculation wouldn't change anything since other parts of the protocol would still use sha256 (v2) or sha1 (v1). So if this is about security, you wouldn't be changing the weakest link.

Not to mention that this would not be compatible with other peers, there is no algorithm-negotiation in the network protocols, so how would they know which hash you're using? The magnet link is pretty much the far end of the process, you'd have to change a lot of other things first.
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I'm not sure I understand your point.

Are you saying that Bernie endorsing Hillary is proof that there aren't conflicting views within the Democratic party?

Are you saying that Ron endorsing Trump would've been equal to Bernie supporting Hillary? Qualifications and platform doesn't factor in?

Here's an example of GOP acting as a herd and DNC acting on policy:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-2...