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I have the opposite problem - using cash means it takes more time for me to enter transactions into my finance software (Quicken). With electronic cards (whether credit, debit or presumably EC), I can download a list of my transactions at the end of the day in one go & be up to date. With cash, I'd often fall days behind.
Something like a torrent network is a bunch of IO with some processing which fits perfectly with javascript. WebAssembly might be able to get around some of the performance issues in specific areas (like some of the more complicated hashing stuff) if there are some, but it's more than possible to write performant code in javsacript.
Women are getting paid measurably less, even by Google at the moment. There are a few decades of underpaid women's salaries to make up for before we can call it even.
It triggered the overheated discussion detector, which we've just turned off.
Back in the 80s, the computers (Vic20s/C64s) sold themselves to my group of friends in grades 4-8; we were not subject to any marketing in Norway. Games were not the primary motivator, BASIC programming was.

Alas, I knew no girls who were into this even the slightest.
on 1) Recent touch-based CC terminals are really fast, and often don't require a PIN if the amount is less than 10€. I've stopped using cash since with these terminals CC are faster than paying in cash.
That doesn't work, the odd space isn't closed.

xx = 1
You're eloquent, but I'm sorry - you lose me at "institutionalized racism". That's a very testable thing: find the policy, directive, or law that is racist and cite it. Don't throw out the term as a kind of pervasive but subtly intangible miasm that we have to expunge from our midst like Satan's influence on 16th century New England.
> I believe we should be motivating girls who show interest, but is there harm if no interest is shown?

The question then becomes why interest isn't shown in the first place.

You could argue, as the "manifesto" writer did, that there's some kind of innate biological explanation. To me, that's a pretty extraordinary claim and requires extraordinary proof. It's true that there are some differences between the sexes. Women do a bit better on some mental tests than men and vice versa. But how much of that is biology and how much is upbringing? For instance, from an early age, studies show parents make girls say "please" more than they do for boys, and emphasize sharing. So do women fair better on some emotional tests because of some innate biology or because we've emphasized that kind of thing literally since they could talk? It's really really hard to tease these things apart. And it's so hard because those differences are tiny. If we assumed those differences really are 100% biological (again, a big assumption), it might explain why Computer Science would be 55% men, and 45% women. It wouldn't explain the huge disparity we see today.

So if the reason women don't show interest isn't biological, what is it? A further complicating factor to the whole discussion is we're talking about why women aren't in computer science now. It hasn't always been this way. Historically, the field of computing had lots of women. A lot of women went from "human computers" who did math by hand to programming the early mainframes (the movie Hidden Figures shows a time at NASA when this was happening). While a gender gap has always existed, it used to be a lot smaller. Women made up about 1/3 of people with CS degrees in the late 70s and early 80s. But as the STEM gender gap has been closing everywhere else, it's actually gotten wider in CS, and only CS. Why? The "it's biology and girl brains are different" argument can't account for that. Biology didn't change.

What did change was society. Movies like Weird Science and War Games (my favorite) came out. The "cool hacker" entered Pop culture, and the stereotype they settled on was a boy. Girls were a lot less likely to have computers in the home as well. This is an interesting article (http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/10/21/357629765/when-...) that talks about how early home computers were marketed as a toy to buy for boys.

It's like we as a society decided that computers fell into the "boy stuff" category with GI Joe and baseball, not the "girl stuff" category like Barbie and softball.

I think it all adds up to a pretty convincing argument that biology has nothing (or very, very little) to do with it.
Suppose you decide not to hire someone. That might be OK. What if a coworker recommends not hiring them because they don't like the person? Again, that's probably OK.

But now consider if you read a list created by various people, many of whom you've never met. The person you want to hire is on the list. You neither have the full feason the person is on the list nor the personal relationship with the perso who added the name to the list. Unlike in the previous cases, names can be added for no reason other than a personal vendetta or a political disagreement unrelated to work performance.

And that's why blacklists are far more than jist "not liking to work with some people". You can't know whether you like working with that person if you don't even know why theu're on the list or if the person who added them is lying.

From the worker's perspective, they get into an argument one day with a supervisor, get fired, and suddenly can't find work at any company they apply for. That's a chilling effect.
$123 * 365 ~= 45k/year. So, you would need to mug / pickpocket 1 or more people per day per person involved. At a guess that's not very stable and your very likely to get caught. aka, you might get 100 peoples wallets at moderate risk, but going for 10's of thousands is a lot more risky.

Also, stolen CC can be turned into cash.
The difference between debit cards and credit cards is not so big and not really relevant. You can do almost everything (domestically) with a debit card that you can do with a credit card in other countries. There are tens or hundreds of thousands of business receiving money already. Wire transfers are ubiquitous, can also be initiated by the vendor after some checking, and have no fees. There are also payment processors who help you as a business. Using cards for small payments, just like large bills, is a bit socially frowned upon, but usually no problem anymore. Compared to the US system, i have almoat nothing to complain about the German system.

I sometimes do wonder though why you can't just send money to a telefone number like in China. Like in most countries, banks move slowly here.
I suggest you read up on Godwin's law.
How can you tell the difference between your daughter being pushed by social convention towards gender normative activities, and your daughter's possible innate preferences leading her towards those activities? Likewise, how do you know the tension is not between her peers and society trying to make her girl-like versus her innate preferences towards science, building, etc, and instead between your expectations for your daughter and her innate preferences. In other words, isn't it as likely that your opinions are pushing her towards science as it is that society is pushing her towards girl-toys?

Diversity programs from big businesses have always seemed sick to me. Why does Google want more diversity? Ultimately, because they want to double the supply of engineers and reduce their hiring costs. The idea that I should subvert my daughter's innate interests, and encourage her to follow pursuits that are foreign to her, just so that Google can save money on employee salaries is perverse.

In my view, true diversity is valuing what makes people different. School teachers tend to be female and software developers tend to be male. "Diversity" shouldn't be taken to mean that 50% of developers should be female and 50% of school teachers male. That's not diverse, it's uniform. Instead, diversity should be recognizing that a school teacher isn't inferior to a software developer.
Ah okay, that cashback system doesn't exist here and creditcard usually not used at all. Wondered if it was a loyalty bonus or data sharing.

Not sure why people down vote it? then again who cares.
Thanks for the info. I'm working on a hardware startup at the moment so I need to concentrate on that first :)
This is very dependent on the program. At my university calc, discrete math, java, and data structures were all expected to be completed freshman year.
The allies kinda spent the last ~70 years pacifying Germany so thoroughly that they're not interested in war. All of the German militarism and military adventurism within the armed forces is largely gone
>everyone looking for a life partner should be doing a lot of online dating, speed dating, and other systems created to broaden the candidate pool in an intelligent way.

Anyone ever heard of the paradox of choice?

All of the research I've read hints at relationships that start with a dating website being being much more fragile than relationships that have met more traditional ways and much more likely to end with a bad outcome.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2016/03/15/the-science-of...

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2012/feb/06/is-onli...

One may argue this is good that we are ending "bad" or "not perfect" relationships... the other side of the coin is online dating may not be leading us astray from actually meeting someone we are compatible with and is just a distraction or worse, it may be making us bad at relationships once we met someone.
Part of me suspects he could have stayed had his manifesto not gotten picked up on the front page of CNN. There was only one clear way for the Google brand to distance itself then. The message is clearly think what you want, but if your words end up next to the Google logo on national news...

Edit: thinking about that, he couldn't have gone far in the company though without some serious apologies or something, because I can't see a manager assigning him to work in or lead a team with women on it, and that's 1/3rd the company. Maybe it's also a practical decision to fire him and be done with it even if it didn't leak.
What do you actually do during those couple of hours to pay the bills?
I think developed by same people: Cesanta
(Canada)

As far as I know there are no transaction fees on credit cards. That's one of the reasons to stop using debit and use credit. The only fees are on the merchant (1.5%).

Example : https://www.desjardins.com/ca/personal/loans-credit/credit-c... with no transaction fees (or monthly fees) along with 1% cashback.
after I already finished recovering by going to a private physiotherapy clinic.

So, you're saying the method generally used in the US worked for you, and treated you faster.

Unfortunately, at a cost. But I'm pretty sure that's the way it works.

A same-day appointment to a family clinic (Of which you'd already have an association with - I only say it like that because I don't know of a similar practice in other countries) would get you in and out within an hour. Cost is dependent on your insurance, but probably a $30 or less (even $0) visit.
New Jersey is a very, very diverse place. Things may not be as spaced out as they are in the Midwest, but culturally the New Jersey countryside is very very different from the sections on the Shore, on the Northeast Corridor, and in the affluent North.
Discrimination in the common-sense, against political idealology and permanent factors (race, gender, etc).

It's illegal to retaliate/discriminate (being fired is covered under this definition) on the basis of an employee's political activity.[0]

[0]http://codes.findlaw.com/ca/labor-code/lab-sect-1101.html
People being up in arms about this issue is exactly 'the market punishing or rewarding Google accordingly'.

That said, don't expect the market to give you a solution that's fair to people - the only one you'll get is the one of maximum profitability under implicit rules of the current culture. Those are very much not the same things.
Yeah, forgot to mention to the part where the kid-randomness is not all happy Instagrammable moments. There are lots of less-happy events.
You have a good point. I just got the costco citi credit card, and there was a small pamphlet included with the privacy information and what data is shared. Basically something like 8 line items for different kinds of data, 5/8 were required, the other 3 I had the option to opt-out, but they were automatically opt-in.

At the end of the day, the benefits far outweigh the meta-data that is shared. Ok, sure you can see what I ordered at costco and how much I spend on gas.

Yes, it's a data grab by companies, but what are you gonna do... not take 4% back on gas and 3% on restaurants?
And are next to Russia (except Denmark)
Is it much different from Hacker News deciding what sort of content is appropriate for this forum?

Would you be opposed to an airbnb clone that only rented to white supremacists?
I can't comment about the rate of muggings, but ATMs are everywhere which would promote holding less cash for shorter periods of time. It's not uncommon to visit a bank in the centre city where most of the 5-6 ATMs are full of people withdrawing cash (which is a stark difference between more cash-digitised nations).
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>Strictly speaking caste affiliations today are entirely voluntary. You can by all means absolve yourself of any caste/religion.

They are theoretically voluntary. Practical reality, however, is very different: http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2016/08/13/48988349...

And the previous interview that I had linked to noted how often even in the US, people get asked what caste they're in.

Deeply rooted discrimination doesn't go away just because it is officially outlawed, and the effects of that discrimination don't go away just through hard work. There are plenty of smart African Americans and women in the US who can attest to still getting paid less than white males even if they did get good jobs.
> for most the card fees are built into the prices that you pay even if you're paying cash.

That is unfair, and not all businesses do that. I criticize it and prefer shops that don't.
Most of the world, I would say.
As a German, I think ot's always intersting to get an outsiders perspective. The article strikes me as absurd, though.

There is a deep caution against technology here, especially if it's foreign technology. There were numerous attempts by German banks to reinvent the wheel with incompatible payment systems (Geldkarte, ...) none of which could be used for online payment. All of them failed. I would also counter the efficiency argument: having recently visited Norway for vacation, I'm still impressed with the efficiency of grocery shopping where everyone pays with their credit cards. Imho it's a mixture of privacy concerns and generally negative attitudes towards technology.
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Of course the market will sort it out. Just not in the way you (or anyone) would consider "sorted out". The mistake here is assuming that the market promotes fairness and humanist values.
By 'qualifications', what do you mean? Like professional accreditations? If so, all the more reason to help women and minorities by giving them the opportunities to earn those accreditations!

But if you mean 'innate ability to reach a higher level', then are you implying that women innately are incapable of climbing to the same senior engineering positions as men, and no amount of training or education will change that?

Just trying to understand.
I thought it was the other way around - that the reason German people pay cash is simply because shops and bars refuse to support credit cards. Whenever I visit Berlin I'm so frustrated because I have to plan my spending ahead and make sure I have enough cash in my pocket before I go buy anything.
Sure! Here's a good study.

https://priceonomics.com/are-republicans-or-democrats-more-l...

And that's just the residential sector. If you add in businesses and utilities, who's executives are overwhelmingly Republican, it tips the scale way over to Republican.

Nowadays, people buy solar for economic reasons, not environmental ones.
Also there is a higher proportion of Republican party supporters in some southern states, where being closer to the equator improves the value proposition of installing solar cells - because of lower time to paying off the investment (so there may be a financial gain in having them installed even if you don't accept the overall climate argument).
> TODO - proper formatting for maths-y notation

Hmm
States can be horrible managers too, trust me I am from the US.
>The DHT BEPs specify a network that is only barely related to the bittorrent core protocol

Yeah, if I remember correctly bittorrent DHT ultimately just maps 20 byte hashes to peer-lists (IP + port pairs). It's obviously designed to be convenient for bittorrent swarm discovery, but nothing about it limits it to bittorrent usage. Indeed, I'm surprised it's not more widely exploited for p2p bootstrapping.
> The US has been aggressively non-interventionist in Venezuela

I'm sorry but I don't believe that for a minute.
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Lastschrift works fine for me.
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Thanks for sharing the article!
Frankly, the CEO has more problems than this memo. Breitbart has been a garbage fire for a while, but if the screen shots and messages in the article[1] aren't fake then Google is going to have some problems. This is really not the thing you want going on when you already have a government labor investigation underway. I wish anyone impacted luck.

1) http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2017/08/07/revealed-inside-goo...
It's not a manifesto. It is an opinion on how to make Google better and confront its biases. They are always looking for ways to improve but PC is beyond what is acceptable to look at.
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Honest question: without seeing the reference he used to back his assertion, how did you conclude that his belief about this is wrong? Or did you actually manage to read it?
So what happens when you run out of places to run to? Do you just wave goodbye to your Jewish neighbors? Put a headscarf on your wife and tell her not to go outside without a male relative? Head down to the gulags for your shift? The reason we have nice countries like in Western Europe for you to live in is because they have deterrence against invasion by those who wish to take it from us. You can't just leave and expect to wind up in a similar country with Western values that will be unthreatened by the same threats.
>The workplace is no place for politics like this

Sadly, with the onsluaght of statism in the US, that's no longer the case.

Eric Schmidt (and a whole team from Google) played a crucial role in Team Hillary’s election tech.

https://qz.com/823922/eric-schmidt-played-a-crucial-role-in-...

Given this context, the firing of the guy only confirms his point about Google not tolerating dissenting opinions.
Additionally, they go over this explicitly in the Adam West Batman movie. The press demands to know Batman's identity and credentials, and the commissioner backs him up by saying that Batman's anonymity was for his own safety, and that he had been duly deputized.
I agree. Having read the original memo, if anything in there actually violates Google's Code of Conduct, then they need to have a serious discussion about the CoC itself (and how they interpret it).
The cost of say, moving Miami and New Orleans would more expensive (ok well, impossible), or reversing the global food chain collapse, or de-acidifying the oceans, these are all currently either impossible or we would need to find some inadequate non-solution in the future costing far more. These problems will only get worse. If they were addressed in the 70s when they were first known about, it'd have been much easier.

Yes, halting the destruction of the planet's ecosystem will cost some money darlin'. And it will always be more tomorrow.
> There truly is nothing more disgusting than war

The first counterexample that came to mind: to be exterminated without even putting up a fight.
They don't, you are imagining this.
I don't plan on leaving but there are a few fears that make me think about it. These are: Not being taken as seriously as my male colleagues (by men and women). Worrying about being hired for the wrong reasons. Getting boring grunt work that deadens my brain. Not being asked by the team to join them at beer events. And I like beer.

A lot of these things I mention actually happened to me at a few software corporations where I worked early in my career.

My solution was to code my own products on the side. The products became very popular, made much more than I did at the corporations I worked for, so I started my own business.

In those early days before I left, I was starting to drink the coolaid that I deserved grunt work because I sucked, but that turned out not to be the case in the end.
What tech company would be able to attract top workers if it had an explicit policy against a certain race?

The job market, too, is a market.
Debit card is pretty equivalent to cash, though. When my friends and family from my hometown (Istanbul) visit me the first time, they are usually quite shocked that most shops here do not accept credit cards at all. In Turkey (a place I call micro-USA), many credit cards automatically divide the payments for some transactions to 3+ months, whereas here in Germany, there's always some bureaucracy involved, even if you explicitly ask for it.

11 years ago, when I was living in Istanbul, I had bought bread from a supermarket and I paid with my credit-card, vendor of which had a deal with that supermarket-chain and automatically divided the payment of the bread to 10 months. If I remember correctly, they later banned the postponing of the payment of basic goods because it was getting ridiculous.
If you're using Linux for work, be careful with AMD - I had no end of trouble with the video drivers. Everytime the kernel updated the screen would only be black with the drivers installed. I had to go through an elaborate process of uninstalling the drivers, booting in safe mode so the video settings wouldn't also black out, run updates, and then make several attempts to get the drivers back in. Happened for both Debian and Red Hat distro variants, and I never found a fix despite a lot of forum research. I'll never try an AMD with Linux again.
I have a couple of thoughts about this but this topic is so toxic that it prevents a healthy discussion about it.
I wish I had read it sooner, but I have made small adjustments to my day job to improve things.

For those that cannot work remotely, you can still improve your productivity. I have a DND button on my phone that goes right to voicemail after one ring. I funnel everyone into creating a Jira task instead of trying to email, call, or ask in person for some work.

I document commonly asked questions like his FAQ in Confluence so I can point all new hires in other departments to this introduction training material.
The "end date" will never arrive. If you told a set of people they can get seats at plum places doing 1/4th work the remainder of the population, and you did this with 4-5 generations of their populace, its impossible to do away with this sort of entitlement after a while.

And not to forget there will be enough politicians to fight for them as long as they vote for them.

These sort of things are pretty much one direction. Once done are irreversible. Its impossible to roll back what people think is a right they were born with.
Emacs + CIDER. It's extraordinarily fast, if you're willing to get used to Emacs :)