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> > Some people defend the current contraceptive status-quo by reasoning "the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or the one."

> Yes. This is how modern medicine works. Nearly every medication will cause an adverse reaction to a small number of people and there's really not much we can do about it. They produce a net good though so we use them.

Feminists were making some progress with figuring out how to help women take better control their own fertility in the 1950's and 1960's... I have some of their books. Then the pill came out, and women were like, "why bother figuring out how our bodies work, and how to make them work better, when we can just take a little pill every day!" Or something like that.

It's trivially-easy for men to render themselves temporarily infertile (edit: without resorting to condoms/surgery/pills). But there's no recurring business to the medical industry, so that body of knowledge is ignored.

> [...] incompetent doctor. [...] incompetent doctor.

Both of these doctors are just implementing their training, which is based on pharmacology rather than physiology.

> Also, I'm certainly not a doctor but doesn't Nexplanon release the same hormones in "the pill", used by millions of women around the world?

The various birth control pill formulas use different 'progestins', the class of chemicals that are sort-of similar to the natural Progestogens [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progestogen
They have. All Google related news of the last two days got censored. "The user flagged it", "the algorithm flagged it" - blabla. Disgusting.

Over at NYT, an many other media, one can read the stories from both sides.
Is there any criteria on what can be considered as a copycat? If there is, there should be some law or degulation to regilate this. Do we need some jury?
When my wife was teaching preschool, she said the kids who caused the most trouble also felt that many things other people were doing things deliberately to upset them. It was kind of a reverse of Hanlon's Razor.
I care what the author thinks they were expressing because it matters if you want to know if the did a satisfactory job of expressing it, or why they didn't. But whatever you can do to learn something useful from someone else's work is valuable regardless.

Some people fall in love with things and make their whole life perspective about things like this. I'm sure one could study a rock and learn how to be a great person if they have the mind to do it. On the other hand, people tend to think The Terminator is some kind of prophetic documentary ALA "fiction has some basis in truth" (as though the reality didn't have a better claim to that description.) So I'm wary of anybody who takes a work of fiction too seriously, except in the academic sense of being a good communicator.
@nocoder - He cited his work. Why don't you actually read it and find out? As he has mentioned in several interviews, people have stripped his citations, so make sure you find the original.
I haven't done the math, but I don't know how accurate this is given that 2/3 of their sales are to members who receive 2% cash back ($110 executive members). The executive membership would need to average $5500 in purchases to wipe out any Costco profit on their memberships. $8250 average to wipe out ALL membership profit.

I'll have to come up with a formula based on the numbers in your article. It'll be interesting to see how accurate that "profit from memberships" statement really is.
I'm pretty sure Korean word 빵 was imported from Japanese way later than 1500s. Most likely during the colonial period (1910--1945) or shortly before that.

As other comments explain, Japanese pan is pronounced not with [n] but with a uvular nasal, which is close to "ng" in English "king", so Japanese word-final "n" is commonly imported to Korean as ㅇ ("ng").
> What on earth did Snap need a 1.8 billion for?

because it's available.
TV? The stats are that the average person watches 5 hours and 4 minutes of television per day, every day, for decades.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_consumption
Actually the solar roofs are made to be about the same cost or cheaper than conventional rooftops WITHOUT factoring in the money saved from the electrcity. So anyone that needs a roof replacement (5 million households/yr is the market size iir) might as well get solar roofs. In that sense their ROI is immediate and they have nothing to lose. It only doesn't make sense financially if they weren't planning on roof replacement and they are doing it solely for solar roofs, but Tesla is not marketing it to those folks and even admit that that won't make sense finacially. Those people can get Tesla's regular solar panels and their soon to be released high efficiency(~22%) solar panels.
Ask HN: Books,resources you recommend to a new people manager(Product Manager)?
Just managing a new hire who is a Product Manager. Books/resources you would recommend? I started off with high output management from Andy Grove and the Hard thing about Hard things by Ben Horowitz
> At first blush KDB is orders of magnitude faster

Are there actual benchmarks that show KDB being orders of magnitude faster than Timescale? How many orders of magnitude are we talking about?
The smarter entrepreneurs and angels are using non-equity instruments like SAFE's or old school Convertible notes and letting later money set valuation.
5.3% counts as junk these days? Wow, I miss the 13 - 22% days :-). Certainly shows a lot of confidence in Teslas ability to produce Model 3's. It also is going to squeeze the short sellers a bit harder as the capital is going to push out their 'dead by' dates. I feel no pity for them.
I don't mean to sound too crass, but maybe you should keep calm and hit the pub for a pint, read some literature... something.

"It's known" sounds a little final.

In a more level tone: there are venues for equalizing communication, because of course in society there are hierarchies that we've struggled with for ages. The charge for any individual is being willing to expose themselves to those environments and being willing to engross themselves in the mess of what that kind of interaction can turn up.

Then again, I kind of side with Bohm about the connectedness of people, and yet...

I raise you Bohm on communication problems:

>If each one of us can give full attention to what is actually ‘blocking’ communication while he is also attending properly to the content of what is communicated, then we may be able to create something new between us, something of very great significance for bringing to an end the at present insoluble problems of the individual and of society.

Scratch all the drunk talk that follows and I also raise you this:

http://www.nytimes.com/1974/02/17/archives/the-irish-pub-is-...

There traditionally (in some cultures, anyway) venues where people from various social hierarchies were equals when they passed the threshold, and communication is then wide open. They still exist -- but if you're North American don't count on finding them on the strip.
It's been years since I read it, but I always got the feeling that the world was generally dystopian. Take the TV aspect of it - it's not just that people watch TV instead of reading, but that their attention spans are so shot that TV has become extremely vapid, violent, and rapid fire. The main characters wife runs over dogs for fun, and she almost kills herself taking sleeping pills because she couldn't pay attention to how many she took. The firehouse dog isn't a lovable dalmatian, but a cold and deadly eight legged robot.

If the book is based on a grotesque exaggeration of trends he was seeing in post-war America, then it could well be about censorship, TV, pills, paving over natural beauty, alienation from society, etc. Perhaps Bradbury has just emphasized different aspects at different times.
But those cultures come and go alongside there systems. And those systems that come and go each had unique points of equality and inequality. Just because modern American/European society produces sexist outcomes doesn't mean that the legal systems which govern those societies are fundamentally sexist in the way that ancient Rome could be considered sexist for example. I realize there's a certain amount of pedantry in my rebuttal but, at the same time, your argument reads to me like you feel as though equality hasn't progressed at all since in ancient times. Of course it hasn't progressed at all since ancient times if you're using such a broad, bordering on boolean, definition of sexist.
> The point of having multiple parties is that each of them will block each other and only the laws and regulations that everybody can agree on will actually get through.

Gridlock is part of the design, yes. But consensus or unanimity are not. The simple majority rules, except for the cases defined in the Constitution, such as constitutional amendments. The Senate's filibuster is not how the Senate is supposed to function.
1. Is this mistake somewhere else also?

This a technique employed with great success by OpenBSD. Theo de Raadt says, "Can you imagine if a Boeing engineer didn't fix all instances of a wiring flaw?"
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It's only 30 years if the cost of electricity stays low. Considering electric cars are coming in much faster than utilities are building new electricity generation infrastructure that's likely to be an incorrect assumption. Prices are going to go up a lot.

That doesn't change the solar-city-versus-an-alternative question, but it makes the both more attractive.
You are missing the point.

Tesla customers care about money as much as Apple customers do...they don't.

What they care about is being part of the future...today! Tesla customers look at ICE cars and grid dependence like Apple owners look at feature phones...pity full.
This is really a bad trend. Though people would say that adequate copy with some changes would be micro-innovation, I feel uncomfortable about this.
Just wanted to offer some kind congratulations and best wishes on your endeavors.
> If, as the manifesto’s defenders claim, the population averages do not have anything to say about individual Googlers, who are all exceptional, then why is Google the subject of the manifesto’s arguments at all? What do averages have to do with hiring practices at a company that famously hires fewer than one percent of applicants? In the name of the rational empiricism and quantitative rigor that the manifesto holds so dear, shouldn’t we insist that it only cite studies that specifically speak to the tails of the distribution — to the actual pool of women Google draws from?

This is a great point.
Interestingly, you can do the same in C. For example:

int *x = malloc(sizeof(int)*100);
x = x + 50;

Then you can use negative indexes, and this is actually valid code:

x[-10] = 1337;

I've only had use for that one time, when I was doing some kind of graph processing and it was convenient/efficient to have the origin in the middle of the array (instead of translating on each access).
The key is how the solar is financed. If the customer's monthly electric expenses are the same as before (or close), many would go for it.
This is actually how I've been sitting for the past few months. I didn't recall it was a thing of Japanese culture, though, it just happened out of circumstance/need for me
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My roof is slate and nearly 100 years old. It'll last another 100 with minor maintenance so removing it would be negative ROI because of increased maintenance costs vs what I have today.

Still, I'll gladly swap the asphalt roof on my garage when the early adopters drive the price down enough... As an early adopter of everything from CDs to minidiscs I think I'm sitting this one out for a while longer. I don't need the solar roof equivalent of $5 blank CD-R media or Jaz drives; one is a few cents each now and the other was a failure.

I could be wrong but it seems like the better payoff is in waiting a little longer, like 2-5 years.
I 100/40 Mbps fibre connection to my house in Launceston, Tasmania. Seems to work alright. But I'm lucky.

I've often wondered if I had been castrated as a teenager maybe I would have spent less time in police lockup for stupid behavioural issues.

Castration, as well as the elimination of hormonally-driven behavior associated with a stallion, allows a male horse to be calmer and better-behaved, making the animal quieter, gentler and potentially more suitable as an everyday working animal.[1]

Decreased Aggression: One of the most important behavioral advantages of castration is that as adults, these dogs will tend to be less aggressive both toward other male dogs and also people. The androgen (male) hormones, of which testosterone is the most important, are responsible for the development of many behavioral patterns. When young puppies are sexually mounting their 7 and 8-week old litter mates this is because of androgen surges in their bodies. The same is true with aggressive behavior.[2]

Forced castration is something I don't think anyone should admit to supporting.

I wonder if there is scope for repeat violent offenders be offered the procedure in exchange for early release or more lenient sentencing. Can, meet worms.

I like to imagine that scenario ends up being a footgun when, in the future, we've bred violence out of the human race, the aliens invade and we're too passive to do anything about it.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gelding

2. https://www.petcoach.co/article/benefits-of-neutering-castra...
Hi Schoen,

My name is Lynne and I built Key Values. I wasn't the one who posted my website to HN but I do love discussing it! :D

I don't think you're being overly negative at all. Here are my thoughts:

1. Missing values? The values list will certainly evolve over time. I started working on Key Values in May and this is the curated list of value tags that I put together after interviewing dozens of engineers and drawing from my own personal values. "Promotes Software Freedom" is an incredibly interesting one and who knows, you might see it on there some day ;) I am sure that I've missed several important values (and that I'll need to remove some of the ones I currently have on there).

2. Who assessed these things? I worked with CEOs, CTOs, engineering managers, engineers, and in some cases, technical recruiters to put together their engineering team's profile. They have 100% control over the content of their profile. The issue of accuracy was one that troubled me a lot in the beginning, but at the end of the day, who can trust anything on the internet? And really, when I'm in an interview and ask my interviewer these exact questions (ie. "how do you practice inclusion here?"), who's to say that s/he is telling the truth?

I can't force teams to write anything in their profile but my hope is that limiting teams to 8 values forces them to (a) be thoughtful in describing their culture and (b) implicitly say what they are not. After choosing and ranking their 8 values, teams then have to prove it. If they can't talk at length about why they chose a particular value, they end up re-evaluating and choosing another. Finally, I care about the quality of their profiles (they're on my website!) so I work really hard to get thoughtful, detailed explanations from teams before publishing their profile. If you read some of them, I hope you'll agree that I've done a pretty good job (they list examples, link to individual team members, and provide details about their paid family leave policies, deployment processes, and/or regularly scheduled meetings).

3. Complex problem? Yeah, but so is dating. There are hundreds of dating apps out there (maybe more?!) and finding a job really just like dating, yet there is nothing similar for job-seekers and employers. Just like dating, you don't have time to meet every available employer out there. Just like dating, you can learn a lot about a team based on how they rank their top 8 values from a list of ~40. Just like dating, reading explanations to somewhat tricky questions can illuminate things that resonate (or repel) you.

Anyway, sorry this was a novel! Thanks for your thoughts on the matter and let me know if you have other questions/comments/feedback!
Well, ebay screwed me over with their "no action after 30 days" policy when it took me longer than that to figure out the item was never shipped. Maybe they've gotten better over the last 8 years, but I'm not coming back regardless.
It's clear from downvotes and lack of replies that some parts of this community have a long way to go before deserving the moral high ground the community tries to claim.

There is no justice in mob justice.
Thank you. I really do accept it. :)

This is how I like to think about my journey, stolen directly from the link I posted in these comments from Lyle McDonald (perhaps without the DEGREE of acerbic attitude...):

"Quick note: I’m turning off comments for this series of posts. The first reason is so I don’t have to delete the invariable trolling. The second is that I’m also not interested in atta boys or whatever. I spent the last 5 years pursuing this goal for myself. Whether folks supported it or thought I was an idiot was never relevant to what I was going to do. So neither positive nor negative feedback is needed nor wanted."

I've had to pivot the company twice, both times destroying much of what I thought it was going to be, once breaking my heart. But I've reached a zen-like mode as I grow older with the ability to simply... well, work. As it gets tougher, I get better at churning and slogging and fighting. I think that is the true way to know if something is your life's work, whether it is "successful" by any measure other than your own.

I'm lucky in that it generates revenue and I employ a lot of people and provide for them, and my family. But I can say without a doubt I'd be doing it anyway even if it didn't, because I did do that for 6-7 years not only without pay, but at negative returns given that I self-funded the entire venture.
If he was critical of TV and suspicious of radio for they made people lazy and were satisfied by factoids rather than knowledge, I can only imagine what he'd think about social networks and twitter and even computer games.

I imagine him declaring them utterly corrosive to knowledge and true learning.
Does OO really match the way we think (1997) [pdf]
Amazon's clothing section is generally reasonably priced (especially for delivery) once you've already found what you're looking for elsewhere.

The fact that Amazon's search is essentially unusable is a longstanding criticism.
In Perl, just set "$[ = 17;" to make all of your arrays 17-indexed:

http://search.cpan.org/dist/perl-5.19.0/ext/arybase/arybase....
Let's take my use case into account. Home built in 1974. Currently needs about 40-50k in "greenifying" it. I just put a metal roof and radiant barrier on it. Total spend on this was 70k. My inefficient home in the Houston area costs between 200(winter) and 600(august) to heat/air condition. It's not a mansion but large enough for my family (7) to live in. If the option for a solar city roof existed when I did this I would have jumped at the chance to use their panels. Even if it only subsidized my electric bill I would feel like that is a win. Its easy to get caught up with numbers/profits when it comes to electric tech But I think that people aren't as unforgiving with traditional building materials as they are with new/green tech. I'm not a Tesla apologist but having an option for electric roofing is a win in my humble opinion.
4) whodunit?
Building on this, there's also less anonymity with gossip in my experience. If I trace back a malicious rumor to /u/PeanutCurry on reddit, that's essentially where the trail ends most likely. I have no idea who they are or why they are saying false things about me. Workplace gossip on the other hand can be traced. I'll definitely admit that it can't reliably be traced in the sense that anyone can do it. But if you have friends in the office and participate in the social space then you will probably have an idea of who to pressure for information. And if you have the social capability you've got a good chance of extracting that information.
The evolution of employment and skills in the age of AI
True 3D Mandlebrot-type fractal (2007)
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If you are the victim of ageism in tech (fired/not getting hired, etc): I'm writing an article on the subject. Email me at rhubarbie@protonmail.com if you want to share your story. You can remain anonymous if you like.
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"because of something they can't control" is a dangerous point to me; while I may not be able to change or "control" the fact that I am male, I can certainly gain awareness of my male privilege and behave in a way that does not perpetuate it.

So going to back to the original poster, had he been aware of this privilege he would not make statements about reverse discrimination or some injustice being perpetuated against him or other men due to policies that support women's equal participation in our industry.
people said the same thing about mass production of books. It's ultimately been the major criticism of all pop culture, usually coming from people vested in more "elite" forms of culture. Meanwhile people are probably reading way more than 20 years ago (at least through social networks). And most definitely writing more.

Getting back to Bradbury's points about TV/radio, he talked about how TV/radio addiction makes it harder to read a book.

So what? You've replaced one addiction with another. Books aren't inherently better than other media (except perhaps some ancillary stuff about your brain generating imagery or eyesight). I'm saying this as a person with this lament (more because some stuff is only available in book form).

I wonder what he would have thought about audiobooks.
> Error establishing a database connection
This profoundly misrepresents the statements in the memo.
Yeah I only found this by searching for it after hearing about its existence from another news source. Pretty sad
Can someone ELI5 how can a company raise a $169.5m at a valuation of $150m? How can they raise more than what the company is valued?
When I got in at ~$150/BTC I thought I was late because the last time I looked was < $0.10, & even so I was able to profit enough to perma-grin for weeks. However after having a better look at the landscape I'm not what could be called 'bullish' by any means. I've since decided BTC-type tokens are inately inferior to 'smart contract'-types. I've also developed a personal opinion that distributed computing-types will come to outshine the rest. I've been lurking & watching MaidSafe from before they rewrote everything in rust, & to me at least it's what seems most promising long-term. In the meantime I don't spend my money on speculation, since I already got lucky when BTC hit $1k that first time & I don't want to press my luck.
As an aside, as someone that works in this space (yield curve construction, pricing, risking etc), does anyone know of a forum where news items have this sort of discussion?
The first line of the article and the time this was posted both rule out anything but a personal vehicle in my mind. It's Friday afternoon and I want to leave work early means I'm going camping or something similar. Caltrain won't even get me to a relaxing weekend in Monterey, much less to a camp site in the Sierras.

My commute is what it is. 45 minutes to drive 12 miles sucks, but it only really bothers me when I'm going somewhere other than home.
Going pro depends significantly on the economics of supply and demand, if it's defined as 'finding enough people to pay you to do this for a living'. It's easy to go pro as a plumber. Not so easy when you have to compete vs 300000 people for a PGA slot.