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I agree that Scott is worth reading. I don't always agree with his points, but he's always careful and seems clear to highlight data that disagree with his points. I've never understood how he has the time (as an M.D. with a day job!) to write as much as he does, including his fiction works.
Do you imagine that some conclusion about my argument can be drawn from this quotation? Because I do not see the path.

Take a look here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22496180
> You imply bias in the the hiring process is what is causing the gender imbalance in tech. Indicators such university enrollment in CS programs show that this is unlikely to be the case.

Or it implies that the bias has a more profound origin than simply hiring practices

(the funnel tapers earlier in the process)
> The authors note that thousands of studies, conducted by tens of thousands of scientists, have documented climate changes on land and in the air.

The enormous effort put toward finding "confirmations" of the hypothesis has always been a big reason why I'm reluctant to trust the authorities in this case. I don't see the point of going through this again. Where are the falsifiable predictions? Will the Arctic Ocean be ice-free next month? We're back to point number one from Karl Popper's essay:

"It is easy to obtain confirmations, or verifications, for nearly every theory- if we look for confirmations."
It significantly increases the risk of network forks for people who don't have completely correct clocks. If a merchant has a clock that is off by 1 hour (they didn't adjust properly for daylight savings perhaps, or maybe they just have a really crappy clock), then it's possible they will not even be seeing the most recent 6 blocks, as all of them are 2 hours in the future (3 hours as seen by the merchant).

There are consequences to having blocks that are permanently set forwards beyond a one-time difficulty decrease of 0.6%.
I guess the opposing argument would be that the existing policy got there politically, and the only way to oppose it (even with data and sources) will make people uncomfortable. Writing the same manifesto in support of the existing policy would not have rocked the boat.

I agree a manifesto likely isn't the best idea, but you also can't just say informally, "maybe there are biological differences that affect representation at a high level." When you just say that, people assume it's a dog whistle. You have to support it, and you have to make a case for what you're proposing. You also have to state in black and white that sexism still exists, and that you're suggesting there could be other causes, too. By that point, it becomes a manifesto.

To me it ultimately comes down to the context of where it was shared internally and how, but it's tough to find details there.
>I cannot accept this blatant hypocrisy of being so intolerant and even aggressive towards those who dare to divert!

This is not about purging the company of people with different ideologies. This is about a person who thought it was appropriate to publicly question not just the ability of their co-workers, but whether they are fundamentally capable of performing.

Regardless of the accuracy of his statements, this was not the way to push for any change he might have been hoping to achieve
What if the cause is in biology? You will miss it that way. Bear in mind that we are like we are because of our genes. You are not blonde or brunette because something your mother ate or you did in another past life. Genes also impact in intelligence and skills. The environment is another factor but the base is set by genes.
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Any kind of extremism, be it from right or from left, should be banned and legally prosecuted in any civilized and democratic country, by the law enforcement and not by individuals or private companies.

If someone destroys your property during a protest or if he/she puts your family in potential physical danger, this person is an extremist in my book.

Seems that some people take my comment too literally. I meant in a DEMOCRATIC society. If you are living in a Dictatorship all bets are off.
The entire Western world is fractured. Opposing narratives spurred by different values are evolving.
Germany's self-identity has been an exercise in self-shame for 70 years now. Their culture would do well to take some pride in itself, otherwise they'll submissively embrace Sharia.
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The site looks pretty good and it comes up 3rd on Google when I type in "buy used Tesla."

How did you get this off the ground marketing wise?
>This seems to be a perennial topic and folks all over the world eat it up.

Probably because they have also eaten bombs, interventions, pressure etc for a century or so before that.
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I lived it for a couple of years based on the framework from the book. Living on an island in Thailand diving everyday, hanging out in Bali or Barcelona.

Eventually I got a little bored with it and wanted to create bigger companies so I dove back in, but I still attribute a lot of my success to stumbling across that book one day.
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I have experience in Node.js (quite a bit, adore it), python (flask, some django), .NET (MVC) and Java (mostly android not very familiar with Spring).

Yet I decided on Spring for a startup I'm doing with a friend (mostly because I wanted code safety, and the model layer with Node.js isn't that good). Most people nowadays use newer frameworks for a new project mostly to get better development speed, does Spring still have merit for smaller projects in 2017? If so what?
Spencer here, head of content at Edible. You're probably tired of reading about the bitcoin hype cycle (apparently it's mainstream now?), the ever impending impact of autonomous vehicles, and debates about whether robots will kill us or take our jobs first. And since you've been reading Medium posts on self-help all morning but have yet to get any real work done, you're probably hungry by now. Good thing Edible's got you covered with all of the best local menus in one place. Our tech team will be live in the comments, let us know what you think!
I also live in Austria. People look at me very weird when I try to pay with Visa/Mastercard credit cards at retail shops rather than using the worthless Maestro debit cards. I don't have any friends who have credit cards.

The real problem here has nothing to do with credit cards though, but with the unavailability of Visa/Mastercards debit cards in many European countries. For example, in my home country, Romania, very few people have credit cards, possibly even less than in Austria (edit: after your edit, definitely less), but everybody has a Visa/Mastecard debit card. No such thing in Austria. I heard that even in Germany it's hard to get a Visa/Mastercard debit card.

People don't want credit cards for various reasons, that's fine, although personally I don't agree with their reasoning, but Visa/Mastercard should still be available as a platform rather than being restricted to credit cards.
What can Google or any other company do to hire more from one group (example, women) other then by making it easier (lowering the bar) for those groups to be hired?
How about not taught properly?

How many US high school students can pinpoint even fairly known countries on the map?

(Come to Austria, meet the Kangaroos)
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Monad is just an interface with these methods:

pure :: a -> List a
flatten :: List (List a) -> List a
map :: (a -> b) -> List a -> List b

The above types are for lists, but you can substitute your own type constructor for List.

For lists, the implementation is as follows:

pure x = [x]

flatten [] = []
flatten (x:xs) = x ++ flatten xs

map f [] = []
map f (x:xs) = f x : map f xs

A flatMap method can be defined once for all monads:

flatMap f m = flatten (map f m)

This method is sometimes called "bind" and is written ">>=" in Haskell (where pure is also called "return" and flatten is also called "join"):

m >>= f = flatMap f m

The methods are related by the monad laws - you can look them up if you're interested, but they're not required to gain an intuition.
They do not need to work together. DOL would just rely on the information that sees a light of day because of the author's lawsuit.

Without a lawsuit: DOL gets two million "records" (emails/docs/memos) related to hiring/performance evaluation/etc. It needs to sift through those two million records trying to find the ones that support its case.

With this lawsuit: author knows who in the organization deals with this exact issue. Those people probably had emails from their managers/sent emails to others that can be made to support governments position in DOL lawsuit. Now instead of sifting through the two million records that they got, DOL focuses on 20,000 records authored by those likely to have the kind of information.

That's why such dismissals are dangerous to the company engaged in a costly/high-stakes litigation with the government.
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> The "scientific consensus" is that women are inherently genetically hard-coded to not be as good at or interested in computer programming?

I did not say that, did I? The scientific consensus is that there are biological differences that have an influence on job fit and job choices. But we are talking statistics here, there are always people from the other sex that are a good fit for a specific work.

Did you watch the video I linked? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n691pLhQBkw . Really, watch it.

Also, the Google memo explicitly did not say that women should not be coders. If you think that, this is the warped media representation of the memo you are talking about, not its actual content.
You make a good point that I've fought with for a while too. My thinking on this is that unless I can be shown the work for what that % is supposed to be, we're just being wrong by policy, rather than wrong by systemic cultural biases.

I don't believe that a perfect world has every job populated by a even number of persons of all genders. To me, that would suggest that we believe all genders to be the same.

For example, Almost 100% of midwives in Ontario are female. Is this fundamentally wrong and needs to be addressed? What is the correct percentage of male, female, and other midwives? What is the measure of our policy's effectiveness?
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blame but as a way to understand it in context and to start looking at you know what is not only what is my role but what is what happens around myself and attachment and how comfortable am I with intimacy and it starts to move into kind Verutum RX you know the joy and the fear that can arise in creating a new level Verutum RX intimacy with your partner okay so they they really have to sounds like this has also been my experience if they move into this longer-term kind Verutum RX thriving relationship each each the the person who either has a Verutum RX addiction or has done the betrayal or the partner they really have to move into their own work they really have to understand how they attach how they feel close to others it sounds like a lot Verutum RX emotional exploration a lot Verutum RX really understanding themselves and what they bring to the relationship yeah absolutely and I think you know that the idea Verutum RX being individuated in a relationship in other words it's ..

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And who gets to define extremism?
The problem is: who gets to define extremism? It may seem pretty clear cut to you in this particular instance, but it's a slippery slope. In the US, Republicans may want to label Democrats as extremists, and vice versa. We've already seen it happen with groups like Black Lives Matters. This is why -- in the US -- we have the first amendment and defend it so vigorously (ideally).
No idea recently, but even back in the apple PPC days pretty much everything worked.

The things that didn't were typically lesser used desktoppy things or more community written software that didn't take endianness into consideration. If you're not afraid to dig into sources alot of things only took adding an endianness hack / byteswap to certain lines to make things work properly.

Also to check into are some languages/compilers/interpreters simply might not have a backend for your CPU. If you use any of these critically you might double check; common things like perl/python/java/ruby should be fine.

I'd expect most server-side / computation oriented things should be fine- desktop, etc, not so sure especially since noone is making any power based workstations these days, though remote GUI mgmt is still useful in some annoying cases

Overall stability, barring per-platform issues should be fine as well.

basically, if you don't mind getting your hands a bit dirty from time to time, it should be okay; not sure of support for this particular board / firmware/ etc though..

hopefully someone with recent experience can confirm
If your life needs more randomness, I highly recommend having or adopting children. Having three of them 7 and under, I can attest that the entropy in my life is off the charts. I have no need for an app.
What if it lived for 500,000 years? You can solve your problem by assuming the organism lives longer. Maybe the universe is an organism that lives 10^100 years. We have no idea. And, as pointed out other places in the thread, by the time we are pondering about organisms of that scale, the very laws of physics (speed of light, spacetime, etc.) may be different.

Ae could be in it's stomach, where processes slow down the speed of light by a factor of trillions so that we are easier to digest.

None of these are testable hypothesese of course. But one day they may be testable.
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So you're saying that discussing something, a discussion which can lead to cutting it down if deemed appropriate, is never a good thing? The way I see it, you're effectively rallying against a closer examination of a system regardless of whether it's a system that benefits or hinders the environment it exists in.

I hope you'll forgive me for saying it but that is my definition of the "burying your head in the sand" expression.

edit: furthermore, what if he's in fact saying that he wants them to be cut down? Why isn't that a reasonable motive to want something to be more closely examined?
But in reality recursion is an arbitrarily nested context that has nothing to do with loops per se (and that's why sometimes it requires the stack and sometimes it does not).
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that's a very simplistic view of religion and its historical role in society.
This story is a good example:

https://www.indiehackers.com/@yvo/how-ive-lived-the-4-hour-w...

Also I have a couple of friends who have done it for a while.
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I'm stateside, but I've had lots of success paying for things online and at places in person that want a credit card by just giving my debit card (and not saying anything, ofc).

That being said, YMMV.
I actually think the first possibility is more likely than you think. OP said he was previously using a generic patch. Patches can have different dosing instructions, and when switching between generics and name brand the doctor may want to give additional instruction. They may have written DAW to try to continue the same therapy without additional instruction. Usually not a problem, but OP switched plans.

The fact that they wouldn't dispense an alternative when asked until having the doctor update the Rx kind of supports this as well.
Liberal? Founding Fathers were liberals, I wouldn't call these modern oppression-privilege radicals 'liberals'.

Just to clarify: I do have some respect for some ideas of the class-based left, unlike for the identity-based one. Roughly speaking, I do agree (though for a different reason) with the idea that the intellectual property should not exist.
Even having health insurance is not enough to afford healthcare in America these days.
The fragmentation of American Healthcare in to this S##tshow, whos only function is to gouge the consumer, is proof that the US needs single payer, like the rest of the world.
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Any success story is going to have survivorship bias. But yeah, 4 hour work week is really the worst example of it.
Factual fact: The dude doesn't have a PhD. He suggested he had one, but he never completed his PhD program nor did he publish any papers.
Are you sure that is a nuclear plant? It looks like coal to me. The big thick columns are water vapour - you are right there, but the tall thin exhausts are for carbon. They don't look like they are being used, but they are (they often don't produce anything visible even when they are running at a fair clip).
Absolutely right on this first point. I've always suspected my wife would have been a good programmer (she destroyed me on the logic games section of the LSAT, which imo correlates with engineering reasoning ability: http://www.volokh.com/posts/1198455392.shtml). But she never even considered it, partly because she didn't want to choose a field in which she'd be facing all the hurdles of being a minority.
Well, I remember submissions not getting through with the error message that the link was already posted by someone else before.
Strawman. Nobody and especially not the memo made a claim about capacity. It was all about interest on average, which is absolutely backed by research :

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3166361/

Abstract : "There is considerable interest in understanding women’s underrepresentation in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics careers. Career choices have been shown to be driven in part by interests, and gender differences in those interests have generally been considered to result from socialization. We explored the contribution of sex hormones to career-related interests, in particular studying whether prenatal androgens affect interests through psychological orientation to Things versus People. We examined this question in individuals with congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH), who have atypical exposure to androgens early in development, and their unaffected siblings (total N = 125 aged 9 to 26 years). Females with CAH had more interest in Things versus People than did unaffected females, and variations among females with CAH reflected variations in their degree of androgen exposure.

Results provide strong support for hormonal influences on interest in occupations characterized by working with Things versus People."
I've certainly "fallen victim" to this. I label it as that because -- for me at least -- the determination fades very quickly. Maybe I just have to find enough of these books to read consistently so I can keep my determinism up for long enough to succeed?
looks like Airbnb is defining and enforcing it's rules.
Yeah I didn't mean in terms of class but in terms of other status (grades, criminal background) we don't have the "it was either jail or the army" type people as you often hear (perhaps more historically and of course from fiction) about the US.
I mean, the reason I asked is that I can't imagine paying anything for any treatment or medication. The thought that you pay for private health insurance and yet have to pay anything for medicine/treatment is super weird to me.
That doesn't seem to support "everybody has equal opportunity" at all.

It's pretty well established [0] that the circumstances of ones birth - race, wealth and, yes, gender are a key determining factor in your expected life outcomes. Equal opportunities are emphatically not available to all.

[0] - http://www.pewtrusts.org/~/media/legacy/uploadedfiles/pcs_as...
I think there are a lot of misconceptions about diversity programs, and their purpose. Let's use tech leadership as an example:

The problem they're solving shouldn't be "we need more women in tech, so let's lower the bar for them".
The problem they should be solving is "There are two candidates for this leadership position. One tends to use assertiveness and authority to get the job done. The other uses encouragement and persuasion. Who do you hire?". The default response is often to choose the person with the leadership style you've seen many times before, and thus the person who uses unfamiliar, equally effective techniques doesn't get a shot.

You sure as hell shouldn't hire me because I'm female. You should hire me because the set of techniques I employ to do my job are effective, even though they might be less familiar to you. Every tech lead has a different style, and that style has been tailored to that individual. Measure the outcome, not arbitrary characteristics that contribute to the outcome.
> if they evict right wing groups meeting, why don't they do the same to left wing anarchist groups?

They were not evicted for being right-wing; they were evicted for violating the Community Pledge: in order to use the platform, you have to agree to "accept people regardless of their race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, disability, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, or age."

Plenty of right-wing people can do that just fine. Plenty of left-wing people cannot.

Unite the Right has taken it as a point of doctrine not to "punch right," by which they mean that whether or not they personally believe in rejecting people based on race, sex, religion, cultural origin, etc., they will march with those who do against a perceived "common enemy." This is not common right-wing behavior; in fact the Republican primaries featured serious questions on whether to kill baby Hitler, taking it as granted that killing adult Hitler was a moral imperative. Unite the Right would ally with adult Hitler to win the war against their "common enemy," and then maybe consider rationally debating him later.

The ability to follow the Community Pledge isn't a left/right distinction, and you're misrepresenting the right wing (although probably not the "alt-right") by claiming that it is.

> The true is I believe they should not involve themselves in politics as it never ends good.

Airbnb is inextricably involved in politics because their entire business model is literally illegal in most of the places they operate. The process of convincing politicians to change that is called politics.
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That's a coal plant. And not just any - the largest greenhouse gas emitter in the country.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant_Scherer
> Besides being non-pythonic

Could someone please tell me why his code is considered 'non-pythonic'? This statement worries me a little, because his code looks pretty similar to what I write.
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Me: After how many seconds?

Client: About 30.

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Client: But then I'll get even more timeouts!

Me: No you won't. While you're at it, reduce it even further to 10 seconds.

Client: What? That doesn't make any sense!

Me: Let's try 5 seconds then.

... Silence ...

Client: Hey, no more timeouts! But the widget on the sidebar is broken.

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