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> An interface on linux has only one ip address.

absolutely not true. Neither for IPv4 nor IPv6, where it's even the default to have a multitude of addresses on an interface.

> The "localhost" interface will either designate the ipv4 127.0.0.1 interface or the ipv6 ::1 interface. That's the realm of undefined behavior and system specifics.

no it won't. My loopback (lo) interface has both 127.0.0.1 and ::1 as its addresses.
> If gender-based diversity programs are responsible...

> If...

Nothing empirical in that sentence just assumption. And even if we assume that statement is true, on the other side of same coin are qualified men that didn't get job solely because of their genitalia.
It's funny how utterly incapable most are to actually directly and specifically answer your question.

- I have grievance X, how should I safely discuss it?
- I can't possibly have grievance X!
Below are links to the two other images from this poll (only images are provided, no raw data or polling questions).

All 64 countries polled: http://gallup-international.bg/images/Fight_0515/2.jpg

Variations by regions and religions: http://gallup-international.bg/images/Fight_0515/3.jpg
I'm relatively new in Germany. As far as I can remember, the doctors always prescribe the generic drug, but I can't verify because I never keep the prescriptions. Can someone confirm?
I still don't see why this would need to piggyback on a breaking change of the metadata file format. "Please use UDP by default" is fairly orthogonal to the metadata format and could be added to the spec at any point if we want to.

HTTP trackers are considered fine for medium-scale torrent deployments. UDP trackers were originally introduced to cope with the traffic caused by running an open tracker that manages 100k+ infohashes for the whole world.

Also, both BEP3 and 52 already forward-reference the tracker extensions (compact and UDP), so someone who writes a new bittorrent implementation should already be aware of them.

Maybe we could make it more clear that some BEPs are almost-mandatory.
I personally find that KDE has too many settings and it's a pain. BUT, I use KDE Neon for 6 months now and I like (maybe too much) the new look of it. Also they refined a lot the bottom status bar with NetworkManager etc, very simple, clean.

I still use Gnome on my personal laptop, but at work I find KDE more usable.
Haha. Clearly you are not a woman. I've heard many, many women express this. Do you know how insulting it is to be a diversity hire?
> The employees at Google are overwhelmingly white and male. According to this article Google employee makeup is as follows; -70% male/30% female -61% white / 30% Asian, 4% identifying as two or more races, 3% Hispanic, 2% black, and 1% other.

61% white is quite a bit lower than the white percentage in the general US population, so it's hard to see how Google is "overwhelmingly" white.
You download 32 bytes hash and check it using 20 byte hash from the magnet link.
Mental associations do have weight and it does take significant effort to dispel negative associations.just like you could've just gone with selling crack on the corner but you had to throw in black for what i assume is a pretty obvious(to you) association of being black and selling crack and being rightfully fired.

this isn't an interesting point but i thought the idea that we needed more diversity in an industry that thrives on a diversity of ideas was also not an interesting point. yet here it is being debated hotly.

people don't see what they don't see
Asking the first three questions of a German is some serious WW2 history trolling.

You forgot one: would you join in a war to protect people of your ethno-linguistic background who live in a country who are (you are told) under threat as second-class citizens? I believe that was the stated reason for invading Czechslovakia.
So if people that were appointed to these positions had a blue tie, that would somehow make them "not wealthy people who don't belong to a higher income bracket than the vast majority of America" ?
It's rather unfair to call Ferris out as disingenuous or a snake-oil guy. I believe he genuinely thinks he is helping people, and there are actually some pretty fascinating interviewees and conversations on his podcast. If I have to fast-forward over some ads then so be it.
> > Have an open and honest discussion about the costs and benefits of our diversity programs.

To which the diversity proponents are quick to rally a mob and get the guy fired. Open and honest discussion indeed.

If you are so insecure in your ideological position that you can't even have a discussion about it without calling foul, I'd consider that the best possible sign that you actually need to have that discussion.

It's the only way to make sure that it's properly rooted and based on fact, and to legitimize it, and by proxy, the means you use to further it.

Sticking your head in the sand to avoid criticism will probably do the exact opposite, and sure as hell wont further your cause.
Britain is a bystander in online privacy battle
I am just shocked at block chain euphoria. Bitcoin's total market share is too small to be resilient to these attacks.

A lot of people are about to go bankrupt in this mad rush and regulations and Government control are just around the corner.

So that will beg the question what does these currencies are accomplishing apart from causing wasting electricity. Another naive idea of trying to fight Government monopoly with technology is about to cause major economic havoc.
5 Most Interesting and Easy Manual Computer Tricks
The X Files – Window managers, desktop environments and widget libraries
Not to mention Japan was the lowest with 11%...
When deep learning mistakes a coffee-maker for a cobra
I agree, I would answer differently to both questions, defend yes, attack no.
I honestly don't know how Moscow does it. I never saw a garbage can while at the same time never seeing any garbage laying around.
v1: O(path-depth * number of files + number of bytes)

v2: O(log(path-depth) * number of files)

that is assuming some constantish branching factor in your directory structure

> Merkle tree roots will only be unique for each piece length.

Merkle trees are independent of piece size, which means you can use them to dedup across torrents.
> this is a scam

I disagree with this part.

They are literally saying "you give us money, we will give you nothing". So, it can not be considered a scam.
>I just can't relate that to the people I know in the military at all. Most people are skilled professionals who are keen to do the best job they can in what are almost always complex situations.

I imagine you're talking about Navy/Airforce? They tend to be normal intelligent folks for sure. Line units in the Army are a completely different world.
(adding to the Confusion) WP.com Now Supports Plugins and 3rd-Party Themes
> Bitcoin nodes verify transactions. You can run a Bitcoin node off your home PC. It doesn't use much energy.

You basically answered a different question, because this doesn't tell me how it scales

I'm sure I'm off a little bit in my understanding, but I thought part of the idea whole blockchain thing was being a decentralised ledger. How does that scale if everyone is on it? Is the energy use better or worse than a centralised bank, by how much, and is it significant?
Are there any major usability differences for Unreal compared to Unity for less experienced developers? I am a big fan of Unity's ease of use when prototyping and Unreal has always seemed more daunting
Metamath project proves Dirichlet's theorem on arithmetic progressions
> If you have 8GB+ RAM,

or even if you have 4 or 2. Plasma itself uses roughly 300 megabytes of RAM.
http://bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0009.html#magnet-uri-format
Once upon a time I made a Github repo with the same name and intention https://github.com/ssijak/pygoritm

It is sitting there alone... abandoned... Sorry poor repo that I never made something big from you. You deserve much more stars (p.s. don't tell him that the only one is from me) :(
How 6 B2B Brands Climbed to New Heights with Content Marketing
This exchange is unreal. You made a false claim about what Damore wrote. Another poster refuted you, explaining that Damore never wrote those things. And then you defend yourself by explaining that the person who refuted you is wrong because he's looking only at what Damore wrote?

What kind of post-truth, post-logic universe is this? I want off this fucking planet.
> Don't know anything about Window Maker. Is it any good?

it's a clone of NeXT's UI in the 1990's.
If "mass immigration" makes war in Europe less likely then that's yet another thing in its favour.

But I don't think there's much of a correlation. People forget that migration was much easier administratively before WW1. Austria-Hungary was a multicultural state with a dozen languages whose residents could live anywhere within the borders: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austria-Hungary#/media/File:Au...

Similarly the British Empire had free movement of people within it.
>>Why are these "diverse opinions" valued and others are not?

Social acceptance is largely a function of majority vote. Though some social values might be absurd, if the majority feels comfortable doing it, it does get a huge degree of acceptance.

Plus some absurd social values have acceptance for largely cultural reasons. Marriage among castes in India is one such thing. There are so many caste related things you do in everyday life, belonging to different castes can constantly lead to "My X values are better than your Y values" kind of friction. So people keep to their castes.

Horoscopes are one of those "Why take a risk?" kind of basic hygiene related rituals you do before Indian marriages.

None of this makes sense, but the majority of the people are perfectly happy doing it.
Would a "vice president for diversity, integrity and governance" be indicating Google considers itself lacking some of these?
I think this is remnants of the Windows/MacOS holy wars that keep people focused on the wrong things, while making the interesting approaches seem scary.

Talking about the differences between “traditional” desktop environments seems mindless to me, while introducing newcomers to tiling WMs is refreshing and fun.
I second your sentiment. Even assuming we live in a perfect world were no-one is biased and hiring is perfectly fair based on skills etc, things like commuting time and accessibility of living spaces restricts what job people with impaired mobility can actually accept and as result they compete in a smaller job market.

This applies to the majority of protected categories one way or another, but people forget it's not "just because people are biased" - while many sadly are, at an explicit or implicit level, even if they weren't there are good reason to keep certain quotas around.

Edit: enlighten me naysayers, why protecting special categories with objective limitations a priory even in absence of cultural bias would be so bad?
I just wanted to record my position on this because I in no way support what you're saying. I fully support reservation for people who belong to traditionally marginalized communities when it comes to education. The only way you can make me reconsider is to make education free of cost and open to all candidates regardless of merit.

However, you do raise a good point. Reservation policy should not extend into the work force. I am more in favor of literal handouts of cash rather than forced diversity in the workplace. Come to think of it, basic income can't come soon enough. I don't mean we need to end diversity programs in the workplace but the way it was explained to me was these were recruitment programs and not hiring programs. Considering gender or caste or color of skin as one of the conditions for employment should be illegal in all nations.
Thats not what I said. Of course there is gender diversity in genetics alone, but it's not as important or meaningful as claimed and it's ironically the opposite of what you want it to mean i.e. it's not simply a question of bias against women.

Biases are affecting men, women, red haired, young people, old people, gays, lesbians, fat people, short people, people with too much education, people with almost none etc their whole life.

Singling out gender is exactly what's so wrong with this whole discussion.

Try and get a job in SV after you turn 45.

The actual problem if you really want to focus on something that would naturally bring more women into the industry, is that less women start companies or get into tech early on.

If you for some reason want to solve the problem of gender diversity, get more women to start a tech company.

It's really that simple.
I wonder if this is due to copying (to some extent) MacOS? I didn't realise how similar everything was until I used MacOS for a few years and then went back to GNOME - the behaviour of Nautilus and missing configuration options for part of the system was very MacOS-like. That is, you can't change the default font size for anything on MacOS without installing TinkerTool or something like that.

I stopped using GNOME after they decided that a toolbar was too distracting during the gedit rewrite, necessitating clicking a button first in order to see any useful buttons: https://blogs.gnome.org/nacho/2014/01/15/gedit-has-a-new-fac...

It seemed to be simplifying for the sake of simplification, but that could have been just me.
I think the question is too generic, and therefore not much conclusion can be derived from it. Is it defending or attacking, on European territory or outside, for your countries gain or Europe's gain, etc.?

It would be interesting to ask: Are you willing to fight a war to defend European countries against an outside threat, such as Russia.
I would expect very different results if the question was "willing to defend your country in war if attacked". For most West Europeans, "fighting a war" brings to mind more going to Iraq or something similar.
Elon Musk: Vision for a Human Civilization
Thanks for this. I used to express similar sentiment with every changelog, but started sounding like a broken record in short order.

Epic definitely has one of the most productive and effective teams in software development. I just marvel at it every time.
The cold, hard facts prove that unless we force a change, it will not change.

The simple counter argument to this, and what changed my mind utterly, was that the number of woman on boards never changed. "Women will setup companies" was what they said in the 70s, 50 years ago.

It never worked until we started forcing it. There's still a ridiculously small percentage of female chairs. There's still a ridiculously small percentage of female board members.

If they're just as good, as you say, and I also believe, why didn't it change? Because gender discrimination is rife.

Without positive discrimination, the status quo did not change, will not change.

Doesn't matter anything you said above, it's all noise. It doesn't correct itself like you say it will.
Smart people, combined with piles of cash, gets you ahead at almost anything...

Sadly there's still a lot of smart people without access to cash (academics), and piles of cash without smart people to get the value out of it.
> Sure, if you define diversity as having nothing to do with gender,

I would have sworn that this would be "Not being sexist 101", but apparently words do not mean what I think they should…
I just don't understand medical care in the USA. Medical treatment seems enormously expensive, if you are not insured and you get ill, you die and yet getting insurance seems to be resisted (Obama-care).

Would someone be able to explain (or point to an existing layman's explanation) how medical care works in the USA, the issues with insurance and strengths and weaknesses.
A professor of social psychology at Rutgers said:

> The author of the Google essay on issues related to diversity gets nearly all of the science and its implications exactly right.

An evolutionary psychology professor said:

> For what it’s worth, I think that almost all of the Google memo’s empirical claims are scientifically accurate. Moreover, they are stated quite carefully and dispassionately. Its key claims about sex differences are especially well-supported by large volumes of research across species, cultures, and history. I know a little about sex differences research. On the topic of evolution and human sexuality, I’ve taught for 28 years, written 4 books and over 100 academic publications, given 190 talks, reviewed papers for over 50 journals, and mentored 11 Ph.D. students. Whoever the memo’s author is, he has obviously read a fair amount about these topics. Graded fairly, his memo would get at least an A- in any masters’ level psychology course. It is consistent with the scientific state of the art on sex differences. (Blank slate gender feminism is advocacy rather than science: no gender feminist I’ve met has ever been able to give a coherent answer to the question ‘What empirical findings would convince you that psychological sex differences evolved?’)

http://archive.is/z6xxP

The author of the Google memo did cite primary sources such as:

https://is.muni.cz/el/1423/jaro2011/SPP457/um/23632422/Hakim...
Absolutely. I'm using a Lenovo t61 thinkpad with 1GB RAM. However, the live USB shines if you have more. You can install anything like the latest node js from their own Ubuntu without committing to anything. You'll run out of space if you don't have much RAM.
Would subscribing and reading articles from various RSS feeds be a reasonable substitute to that elusive weekly print journal?
There are groups that have been more marginalized than "white males" on average. But that was the whole point of the original document in question.

White/black/male/female/etc is a really bad proxy for a person's history and character. Something along the lines of "don't judge me by the color of my skin but by the content of my character" rings a bell.

If you are concerned about socio-economic advantages, look at tax returns, not skin color. I know a number of white males that had extremely rough histories and disadvantages, living homeless for a few years or growing up in a cult in Utah and being abused by the leaders of the cult. I have black friends from school who were growing up in one of the richest neighborhoods in the US and attending one of the best schools in the area, going on to Stanford.

Don't dance around the disadvantages you want to correct by using race/gender as a proxy. Measure the disadvantages directly. Broken home? Poverty? Juvinile criminal record? Non-contiguous educational history? All of these are directly measurable/verifiable.

If you want to give the less advantaged individuals more of a chance to fulfill their potential I'm all for it. But measure more accurately than skin color or gender, where the spread and distribution around the averages is far too wide to be valuable, and will exclude a large group of people that have suffered disadvantages and let in a significant number of people who haven't really suffered the disadvantages their group has suffered on average.
I dunno, pharma companies paying middlemen to screw over consumers sounds like a pretty typical market based solution to me...
It's the same reasoning that Russia uses today, this isn't as much of an excuse as a pretty common cause through history.
Android is a very closed opensource project. For example, if you write a pull request to add a feature as an outsider, the chances of it getting into the main project is very low.

Chromium is very open. In many cases, Google has to ask permission from outside contributors to commit code, since the outside contributors are the "boss" of part of the codebase.

Tensorflow is closer to chromiums model. There are a lot of external contributors.
No I'm talking about my experience in line units in the British Army.

I think you're working off ancient stereotypes. Modern land warfare is highly technical and extremely mentally and physically demanding. A modern professional army doesn't have any room for psychopaths, brainwashed people, or scared kids.

Look at all the effort the military goes into in combating 'brainwashing' - mission command and encouraging people to use as much initiative as possible.
I always wondered about the same thing as the PP. But I still have trouble understanding your explanation. Can you be a little more explicit?
Depends on those other people. I've worked with plenty of those people, and most of the time they can get along really well with other technical people, but not at all with all kinds of project managers, functional analysts, sales people, etc.

If you make sure they only need to interface with other technical people, they can work pretty well in such an environment. And the technical colleagues sometimes like working with geniuses where they can learn a lot from.
Bittorrent already had an obfuscation protocol wrapper for years. It was effective for a while but the companies that implement traffic shaping equipment stepped up their game and probably rely on traffic flow matching now.

It is an arms race that is not won by updating a slowly evolving core protocol.
Actually, you can absolutely use social science methods to attempt to demonstrate (or in this case, disprove) these kinds of links. But let's put that aside for a moment, and discuss what is objectionable about the memo.

What are the costs/benefits of having this "debate" at work over a hypothesis that cannot be proven, as you state?

Look again at what the author was doing. He was using scientifically demonstrated biological and psychological differences between men and women (women have "higher agreeableness") to hypothesize about how that affects their work choices and, notably, their performance ("This leads to women generally having a harder time ... speaking up, and leading.").

What this is doing is connecting a gender stereotype (which, sure, is scientifically supported in aggregate - that's true for a lot of stereotypes!) to work practices and outcomes. The authors claimed benefits of presuming that this connection is true are basically a) this will make conservatives feel more accepted at work, and b) diversity is "bad for business" (which is just provably wrong by an enormous amount of evidence that the author ignores). I think a) is absolutely a worthy benefit, but there are lots of other ways to do this without linking gender stereotypes to work performance!

Now let's look at the harms of having this "debate", particularly at work, which are numerous and measurable. While there are no studies demonstrating the link between biology and STEM job performance, there are many studies demonstrating the impact of widespread gender bias in STEM fields (classic recent reference: http://www.pnas.org/content/109/41/16474.abstract) and how it affects hiring and advancement. The memo's author correctly acknowledges these types of biases. So the harm is perpetuating gender biases in the workplace that affects people's careers. Not to mention the harms of opening up Google to gender discrimination lawsuits (ala https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_Waterhouse_v._Hopkins), the productivity cost of employees who don't want to work with people with publicly broadcasted unproven gender biases that could affect their decision making ("hostile work environment"), etc. And not to mention losing the many economic benefits that a company reaps with a diverse, inclusive workplace.

So no, I don't think it's worth having this "debate", especially at work, where the benefits are negligible at best, and the harms are clear. If you want to have this debate, go write a medium article or something. Don't send this around your workplace. It's not that hard, really. People call this thought policing, or groupthink or whatever, but it's just harmful and a waste of time at work.
This will be an unpopular opinion here but it's true in my experience.