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The part about the Liberty Dollar is fearmongering. It was shut down because it looked and sounded too much like the US Dollar.

Toronto Dollars existed. Bristol Pounds exist now and are thriving. Oakland just opened their own bank. Nebraska had its own banks. There are time banks, Berkshares, and so on.

I used to think local currencies are illegal but as long as they are Complementary Currencies and fiat is still legal tender for all debts, that's not true.

Look it up on wikipedia (virtual currencies, complementary currencies). Congress retains the power to mint coins, that's it. There has never been a court case that tested whether Congress can crack down on complementary currencies. And the USA never did, except in the Liberty Dollar case for sounding too similar.

So the article is wrong about that. You can actually make a centralized currency as a city or even as a community. What do you think payment networks like VISA, PayPal, Patreon etc. do? Sure some need to register as money transmitters. But others are just marketplaces like AirBNB. They do payouts via Stripe etc.
Remember cash isn't free either - armoured cars and the like cost money, I wouldn't be surprised if the overall work involved in handling cash ended up being more costly than card fees.

I guess I don't object in principle to a cash discount (a card fee would annoy me), but those tend to exist for the sake of tax evasion, which I won't support.
> regardless of whether it's true, and if it is, whether the reasons are inherent or cultural - how is that bad?

Because it is bad to lie? The memo says women have a harder time leading. That conclusion is not supported by any of his sources. He is judging their aptitude there, so I think dopamean's example is reasonable.
I will take a look and would you be willing to answer noob kind of questions?
It's the opposite of when Valve hired a Chief Economist in 2012[1]. We've come full circle.

[1]http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2012/06/18/yanis_varoufa...
For one, Obama was the worst president when it comes to prosecute whistle blowers that brought attention to illegal activities within the Government (it's like the opposite of openness)... Yeah, Obama liked to say that he was transparent or open, but actions speak louder. (I don't think that this needs references, it is a well known fact, but here you go: http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2014/jan/10/...)
I do not know their full code of conduct. However, the part referenced by Pichai did not help to decrease uncertainty at all.

This is problematic since the toxic effect of uncertainty and ideological supression at the work place is not mitigated by it being produced through arbitrary executives or an executives arbitrary interpretation of some given code of conduct.

edit: If the purpose of the code of conduct is to create this uncertainty, than that alone should be reason enough for the code to be improved.

edit2: And of course, this specific code of conduct did not generate the legitimicy it should have created, which is why we are talking about this incidence.
That's right. It is actually pretty shocking (to me personally) that there are Pharmacists in the USA who are able to legally give DRUG-B when the prescription written is DRUG-A and they are different molecules, different MOA and they Pharmacists are incentivized to do that.

It is a different molecule. It has a different Mechanism of Action and the pharmacists STILL legally deliver a biosimilar version of a different drug and not only is it legal, they are rewarded for it.

I'm a programmer and in the strategy meeting where I first learned that I asked about three times if that was true. I was stunned and mildly infuriated - but all the other people in the room were just sort of tight-lip wide eyed nodding at me. "yes that is actually what happens"

It's part of the reason why we're focusing on DAW campaigns for so many brands right now. Pharmacies are a "wild west"

Now this is a difference between "Generic" and "Biosimilar" - which I may have used an inaccurate term in my previous post.

> Unlike generic medicines in which the active ingredients are identical to the reference small–molecule drug, biosimilars will not be identical to the reference biologics. ... A generic drug, by legal definition, is an exact copy of its reference medicine and must have the same chemical structure.

Generics must be the exact same molecule.

I definitely know we have numerous common cases of our client's drug being written as BRANDED-DRUG-A and the generic version of BRANDED-DRUG-B is given. Our client owns both A & B.

It's shocking. In the USA it is somehow legal.
No. One of the tenets of the "fair use" standard (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use#3._Amount_and_substan...) is that the more of a work you reproduce within your own, the less likely it is that your reproduction is actually fair use. This is true whether or not you cite the author of the work you're reproducing.

The idea is to give people who just want to quote a line or two leeway to do so, while punishing those who would take someone else's work en masse and publish it under their own name.
The differences are not "unspecified" The research he cites shows that women are typically more agreeable and less aggressive.
Yes. Based on the comments in this thread, it seems to be a commonly held (mis)interpretation, and it's a perception that mars the company. It's in everyone's best interest if it is clarified so that both the asian and white male employees and the minority employees don't feel they're being discriminated against based on their race or gender.
One of the thing that amazed me about wolf3d engine in retrospect is that it uses mipmapping. I dont know if the mipmap level of a vertical segment was computed based on the u-coordinate derivative but my guess is that it could do that quite easily thanks to the raycasting algorithm.
> A) there is a risk as everyone can create a stripe account and buy a charger. Personally I would never notice.

Personally, the convenience of: not having to wear a wallet at all (I just carry the card in my pocket) and not having to deal with coins, negotiate if I'm paying a big bill etc. is just amazing. Even if someone steals $10 from me once in a blue moon, it's well worth it.
How would Amazon know the date you started writing the article?
You can still do that with Uber. Why own a car today?
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Sure. I can't speak to what influenced you or friends, or the girls you knew... just that it's not a worldwide phenomenon, and is restricted to CS rather than other STEM fields... so seems to fit. There may be no way to ever know for sure.
Based on the article about Neil Stephenson that was posted here not long ago I'd been thinking along these lines, didn't realize someone already made a business out of it. Interesting.
We have a lot of agency clients using us (GinzaMetrics) to automate this sort of thing. Feel free to hit me up (ray@).
You buy less useless crap when using cash and it's just nice to have cash. It feels real.
Don't hold your breath. It's easier to regurgitate what you read somewhere else. Which seems like more than half the commenters are doing here.

At just about every opportunity he used words and phrases like "average" and "in general" to make it clear that these metrics are just that, average.

He clearly points out that any individual woman may be more suitable to leadership and tech than any individual man, but when forced to generalize, then we must be honest about the averages.
Even weirder is just the fact that it bases the stack data structure on the Python list, which is already a fully-functional stack. If this is supposed to teach you how to build a stack, it should implement its own stack rather than just wrapping an existing one.
Social norms are more local than national. There are many parts of the US where people would nod their head when they read that, and puzzle at why you got upset. Not everyone who works in Mountain View is actually from Mountain View.

Much of this seems to be about people in positions of power being personally offended at the views of someone with whom they disagree. The proof is in your saying this was "rude" -
who was that statement being rude to, Marxist intellectuals? Are there a lot of Communists at Google?

I don't think this reaction has anything to do with keeping some kind of social decorum, or keeping a company running smoothly. In this case the effect is a real-life ideological echo chamber, where the people in power fire anyone whose views they don't like, and fear of reprisal from voicing alternate views creates a groupthink mentality.

Several people have brought up the idea that because the manifesto author has shown his bias, that means there is no way he could work with someone of a different gender. But this is illogical; tons of people have the same bias! Just because they didn't write a manifesto doesn't mean they don't think some of the arguments might be valid. So really, what difference is there in keeping this guy around, whose bias they know and can clearly identify if it ever affects his work relations? Is it worse than the secret biases held by everyone else?

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Obviously, as a man, I am not going to be subject to the kind of discrimination a woman would be, so if someone's views annoy me and I dismiss them, that's much different than when discrimination against a woman affects her livelihood and state of mind. In this regard we have to consider women as a particularly vulnerable population (in this industry, anyway) and act to protect them from the disproportionate negative effects of bias in the industry.

On top of that, the lack of women in the industry makes it very difficult to have a fair discussion of the issues. We should be trying to help men understand why women need special treatment, in order to help the industry grow out of its biases. But you can't help the industry get better if you fire anyone who questions the process. It's the white-collar equivalent of shooting anyone who doesn't tow the party line. This prevents establishing a dialogue, enforcing culture through fear. And a culture built on fear is never a good thing. It'll end up setting back the whole endeavor.
> This sounds like that weird right-wing notion of "censorship"

I'm not right-wing, whatever that means nowadays. I'm what you would call a liberal from NY.

> When I hear "censorship" I am thinking of government agents sitting in newspaper editorial rooms striking out all statements in an article that does not align with the government's point of view.

Really? So if google blocks all lgbt content, it wouldn't be censorship? Sure there is government censorship, but there is also academic, corporate, cultural, etc censorship. In the US, there was a time when the media refused to show movies/tv shows/etc with interracial or homosexual content. Wouldn't you call that censorship?

> What is happening here, looks more like this: a Google employee publishes an email. Lots of people in the company find the content objectionable.

The unofficial google employee polls seem to indicate he has as much support as he has detractors. But that's besides the point. My argument is that there are many google employees who aren't fans of lgbt, atheist, liberal, etc stances either. Why are only one groups' feelings considered? If many google employees feel offended by some google employee's open lgbt support, should google fire the pro-lgbt employees?

My question is where does it end? If a google employee has a LGBT flag, should that person be fired?

> There is a difference between a right to express your opinion, which I support, and a right not to face any resistance or social consequences for voicing that same opinion.

So you support lgbt and atheists being persecuted in other countries right? They have a right to express their opinions but they deserve resistence and social consequences?

How about everyone deserves the right to their opinion and EVERYONE deserves to be protected from bullying and intimidation?

All this guy did was have a open INTERNAL discussion that was created by GOOGLE ITSELF. Another google employee who was offended leaked this information and then this guy with honest intentions was persecuted.

> You can't cry censorship every time you are criticized for something you said.

Of course not. But the guy lost his job?

I'm all for criticizing the guy. But the mindless attacks against him and him losing a job is what I am against. Okay?

I believe everyone should be able to criticize and be opened to criticize. I don't think anyone should be persecuted, attacked and oppressed over their opinions.

As I said, if this guy got fired for making pro-lgbt statements and it offended a bunch of christian employees and google fired him, would you be defending google? I highly doubt it.
It's only bizarre from your point of view, or mine. These people are making rational decisions. Some blacks voted for Trump because they also believed in the things he espouses over some individually significant issue. Affluent male whites voted for Hillary when the left were saying Republicans only favor rich people, etc. so "voted against their self interest". People are complicated.
My wife watches police "procedural" stories (Law & Order, CSI, NCIS, etc.). I've long thought that some of their plot lines would make for interesting "what if" training cases for real cops.
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With VGA you write directly to video memory don't you?

The only extra indirection SDL adds is that you write directly to system memory instead, and then SDL copies that to video memory for you when you swap buffers.

Like the person you're replying to, I've also never seen how copying 640x480 bytes from system memory to video memory can introduce such a bottleneck. What's the bandwidth between the two? 10 Gbps or something?

There must be more to it than SDL overheads.
As a progressive I have my reasons for disagreeing with the manifesto but don't care if he's fired. It's a matter internal to Google. I can certainly see why Google fired him - he broke team cohesion in a large and public way. It's embarrassing to the company and the leadership is looking to reunify their team, preserve their image, and put this all behind them as quickly as possible.

People are fired for less all the time. When I was young I worked jobs where I would have been fired if I clocked in a minute late three times using a system that didn't allow clocking in early. Some employers monitor their employees' social media to ensure they don't post anything damaging to the business. I'm guessing 80% of workers in the US have constraints greater than what Google fired for here. Right to work laws provide that option to employers. I'm not in CA and I've heard it's a little harder to fire there but I'm sure Google is well within their legal bounds.

Honestly, the outrage from conservatives here feels hypocritical. They are the ones who have rolled back employee protections across the US in the name of business growth. Apparently that doesn't count for conservatives fired for spouting conservative viewpoints.
Whoever authorized the operation decided it was worth the many millions of damage it could do to Juniper.
Probably, because longer-lived and interest in football are not inherent biologically. A male baby is not born interested in football, it is socialized. Men work more dangerous jobs and are socialized into more unhealthy behaviors, diets, etc that can result in lower lifespan than women.
You have to pay a human to take you. Humans are expensive.
I would hardly call it "heroic" to be standing up against political correctness overreach. Everyone is against this, in fact aside from gaming it's the biggest subset of Youtube, even roping in figures as unrelated such as Pewdiepie. Some of the world's largest internet forums are dedicated to being against it. It's just not that impressive any more, and to me he comes across as just another "hey does anyone else think SJWs are bad?" type of person. He acheived fame only by a single incident in which he was recorded dissing some university students, and the typical "I identify as an attack helicopter" jokers are presumably the "young men" you're talking about.

I've seen his polemic rants on Youtube and they appear to be so mean-spirited and ignorant. He can't talk seriously about Marxism without bringing up Solzhenitsyn and confusing Communism with specifically Marxism-Leninism.

It would be better I think if he sticked to something I have heard he is good at doing - helping people out, rather than diverting into a strange strawman of someone extremely ignorant about political philosophy, though I suspect he must continue to do that in order to keep the little bit of fame he has managed to cling to since he was recorded "schooling" some (also ignorant) university students.

People aren't interested in his psychology, because the same people interested in him who weren't before are the people who'd be listening to Ben Shapiro and the philosophically ignorant, scientism-adhering side of Christoper Hitchens (poor Peter is too "normie" for them). He's not the first to so desparately cling to and place empiricism on a pedestal.
Wow, thank you for taking a peek. <3 GitLab
Instead of SDL on a protected windowing OS, hand-optimized assembly with direct hw access.
Autonomous cars should be a cheaper than Uber eventually. Additionally I imagine they will be more reliable, which is something you can't necessarily guarantee with a random uber driver.
Thanks for these references -- I look forward to reading them.
I am skeptical. It sounds way too perfect, like a story manufactured for PR. If it really is that way, then great.

What is the reputation of Cruise in the self-driving community?
> To do that you need three original drug.

Can you rephrase this? I can't grok what you mean.
Russia has waged dozens of aggressive wars during that period, including 2 since 2008
This is the worst story I've read all week. Capitalism is destroying our culture.
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If you think this. Or the dozen times credit card data have been stolen in mass from websites aren't a serious issue you should read more news.

I know I can charge back. But then I need to waste time to check all the charges and go through the charge back process.

Also depit cards. At least in Europe. AFAIK don't offer a easy charge back at all
Remember that many services are running in a cloud computing environment. Attackers can spin up machines right next to those that they are attacking and bypass much of the network related variables.

Timing attacks aren't as simple as often presented. Writers often give a set time for checking each character and ignore all other operations in order to make the issue easy to understand, but most people use this to write off the attack altogether. Surely it can't be that simple.

It isn't trivial to take advantage of timing attacks remotely, but researchers have shown that they are definitely exploitable. [1][2]

[1] https://crypto.stanford.edu/~dabo/papers/ssl-timing.pdf
[2] https://www.blackhat.com/docs/us-15/materials/us-15-Morgan-W...
Except when that isn't a safe thing to do.
So, this is like Lidl, Aldi, Sportsdirect or Poundshops. Pretty normal stuff really.
It was indeed LaTeX. The ACM format creates a 1" box at the bottom of the first column which contains the copyright information. The copyright information on the authors' version (yes, I see the typo in the document now) doesn't take up much space so there's a lot of white space.

The block quote itself is just \begin{quote} ... \end{quote}.

The published version looks like this https://imgur.com/puBzzdZ
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i've never heard meritocracy being associated with ability, to be honest. I've always heard meritocracy associated with accomplishment. I'm not attempting to validate or invalidate this argument. Just pointing it out.
Yeah, they have their own in house maps team.
Dropping Facebook usage is a big gain to my mental well-being, a Chrome extension that has worked wonders for me is "Kill Newsfeed". https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/kill-news-feed/hjo... I've uninstalled the Newsfeed app from my phone.
Where what was said? If you're referring to white men being better at stuff, the manifesto that got this guy fired says straight out that men are better than women, on average, at computer programming.
here you go.

> "Women, on average, have more:"

> - "Neuroticism (higher anxiety, lower stress tolerance). This may contribute to the higher levels of anxiety women report on Googlegeist and to the lower number of women in high stress jobs"

> - "Extraversion expressed as gregariousness rather than assertiveness. Also, higher agreeableness"

> - "Openness directed towards feelings and aesthetics rather than ideas. Women generally also have a stronger interest in people rather than things, relative to men..." (Ironically, this is a good thing for an engineer to have)

He provides no source for this.

> "Google has created several discriminatory practices: Programs, mentoring, and classes only for people with a certain gender or race, a high priority queue and special treatment for 'diversity' candidates, hiring practices which can effectively lower the bar for 'diversity' candidates by decreasing the false negative rate."

And blatant disregard for the social context that these groups exist in.
> I genuinely don't understand how that's supposed to work and would love to hear some suggestions.

The solution is entrepreneurship, that's all. Be your own boss as soon as possible during your career so you can manage your business the way you see fit. If you want to hire more black people then hire more black people. If you want to hire more women then do so as well.

That's also true with the person that got fired. If he thinks Google's policies are detrimental to productivity, then he has to put his money where his mouth is and go start a business where he can implement his own hiring policies. The guy should have quit then publish his paper, because he can't expect some kind of political neutrality in a clearly progressive-leaning business.
Comment like everybody is judging.
This. I wish there official response from Google would have just opened up to their stance and stood ground. Instead of flimsily trying to appease everyone. It would have been more respectable.
That tracking tag is an affiliate ID allowing Quartz to receive a small cut whenever someone clicks through and buys something. Most likely it was added automatically by the Quartz CMS, as is common practice.

Probably just ignore the guy questioning your journalistic integrity.
I didn't even realize that these were supposed to be secret. I vaguely recall getting emails about Happy Belly and Wickedly Prime (I guess the author left out Wickedly Prime...). I'm pretty sure I've also gotten emails and physical mailers about Lark & Ro and Scout & Ro, but maybe Amazon was targeting people (like me) that buys a lot of women's and children's clothing on the site? Amazon Fashion does their own thing all the time.

I also get targeted a lot for Simple Joys by Carter's, which is a baby clothing line made just for Amazon Prime members but not a white label product, which I find very fascinating. And the last thing I bought under that brand was so much nicer than the general Carter's experience of ripping twenty million of those plastic tags off.
Good point. The rendering of "sufficient" probably uses the triple-ligature for "ffi", where all 3 characters are merged.

The author, Peter Cheeseman, is a reputable figure and a solid practitioner. I'm sure he's just as annoyed that, on the second page, his own name is misspelled as "Cheesemart" ;-).

People may recognize him as a co-creator of the AutoClass software for Bayesian clustering, which was very popular in the late 1990s - the explanatory paper has 1700 citations.
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