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His other articles are also amazing. Elon Musk asked him personally to write about SpaceX, Tesla, and Neuralink.
This study is consistent with another internal study that I read about. Essentially, working conditions, bosses, crazy hours, generally unreasonable expectations, and lack of appreciation all combine to make an unpleasant work environment. In that other study they also made the point that men felt exactly the same way about their job - but more women had the freedom to take action and leave the job. So this isn't just about women in the workplace. It is about how corporations are allowed to create jobs without any consideration for their employees - we are simply resources to exploit so that they can get rich.
No one is questioning the manifesto writer's right to say what he wishes to say nor others to read what he writes, although if he says what he said while in the employ of Google to others who are also in the employ of Google, he can't hang his future employment there on rights. His right to speak is with respect to the govmint and not his employer.

Again, how does what Hitchens says apply here? I think the good Christopher is on my side, not yours.

Added: I might be wrong about Google's right to fire the manifesto writer [1]. That would be something for lawyers to work over.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/07/it-may-be-illegal-for-google...
I'd say you appear to be already over the idea of love and are more concerned with practical aspects of your current and future life.

That leaves us with the institution of marriage.

You invoke the practical concerns of trust, raising children, being able to laugh with someone, most of which are not tied to marriage and/or monogamy. Let me ask you,

- If your government and/or your lawyer and your friends provide you enough "trust net" that you don't need to rely on trust of a marriage partner.

- If you can have children through surrogate pregnancy, or if you are a woman, you wish to raise your child as a single mother (not to mention, the incoming future of genetically modified babies, so much so that after you've optimized your baby's features, there's hardly anything left in the DNA that relates to the parent).

- If you can laugh with a good number of friends. Maybe one or two of those friends live next door so there's no chance of loneliness. Not to mention social media, entertainment industry, the list goes on.

Do you really think the concept of marriage and monogamy remains as valid as it has been through history?

The validity of a lot of what I'm saying is tied to, not in any arbitrary time in history, but the current state of technology and human progress we're witnessing right in front of our eyes. I mentioned genetically-modified-babies. Forget about that. I'm a big believer of medical progress and the need for healthful longevity. If, in the next few decades, a person is able to live the life of a healthy 25 year old for 200 or 300 years, would that person be even interested in having children? If artificial intelligence can take care of 90% of your trust, and entertainment needs, would you even feel unsafe? lonely?

I believe we're headed towards drastic sociocultural change and the thinking of current populace, no matter how educated, is lagging behind substantially.

The idea of marriage/monogamy/love is getting more and more optional. Not to say people will reject it outright. You have the right to choose love and marriage and monogamy. But it's becoming more of a choice than a practical necessity.
It would be interesting to see how the new version compares to ipfs.
Thanks - I was overlooking that seeds can survive a lot longer than the plants that make them. Also roots and rhizomes can survive the death of their above-ground components. Then there are plants that germinate only in response to fire, plants that undergo mass flowerings, and cyclical insects like cicadas - I imagine any of these things could help small mammals and birds survive.
The worst part about this is the New Yorkers who are fleeing New York City and landing in Hollywood and Silverlake and Echo Park and Eagle Rock. No xenophobia here it's just they're bringing their adjusted economic expectations to LA making the Airbnb inflicted housing crunch seem OK.
The "advanced rumble" is hardly so. It's a gimmick. The accelerometer/gyroscope was present on the Wii and Wii U. What the Switch has going for it is its portability, not any particular feature (although the touch screen is good for a few games).
The idea definitely makes sense, but what is the use of this graph? It only shows past returns based on information we already know. Far more interesting is the realization, which is not news for people who observe these things, that prices cannot go down until there is a crunch on the money supply. After all, the allocation of stocks usually remains constant or goes up when prices are going up, so only money supply can change the dynamic of price escalation. The same happens on the way down, because prices are decreasing, the allocation naturally reduces, even if investors want to keep it constant. Only new money supply can reverse the trend of equity price declines.
> You only need a couple

That's wrong though. Pretty much all high profile, successful tech companies right now have more open positions than they can hire for. My significant other (also a highly successful engineer) and I all get recruitment emails from Facebook/Google/Microsoft/Amazon/Apple/whatever every couple of weeks. They get countless applicants, but most of them are not what they want.

That means if you're trying to diversify, out of those thousands, it would be exceedingly easy to just pick all the ones that match the current flavor of the day in term of diversity, regardless of skill, and be done with it. Even though certain combinations of gender/ethnicity are (relatively) rare, there are a few, especially if you include bootcamps, self taughts, promoting from other departments, etc. If you hired 100% of them, it would probably make a bump in the company statistics.

My current employer is, IMO, doing it reasonably well. They don't lower the bar as far as I can tell, but widen the net (open offices in other regions/countries, have hiring events at more colleges/universities in more cities, organize diversity events to attract people, etc). It's not "enough", but it does move the needle and everyone that I've interacted with have been really good.

One of my previous employers straight up lowered the bar, no ambiguity. We would interview someone from a diverse background, they were obviously terrible (like, by a landslide), and they'd be like "Well...we really don't have many people from <this ethnicity/gender>, maybe we could hire them anyway". And sometimes they did. It did not end well (and gave fodder for racist/sexist people, ugh).

There are a -lot- of companies right now that do the later, and they hurt everyone, because they force those doubts and discussions to happen. It's easy, and if the people who have to pick up the slack end up bitching, you can just call them out for discrimination. I don't work at Google and have no interest to do so, so I don't know where they fall. One of my friends who work there and is a fairly vocal activist tells me its relatively okay /shrug.
That was me. I want to hear from the other side.

My main beef with Google on news is that they're terrible at provenance. I want to see the original source, not the pundit echo chamber. But the pundits probably generate more ad clicks.
The statement is brilliant, I wonder how they could put that up with a straight face:

> We regret to announce that the "White House Overnight Guest Program" will no longer continue under the Trump Administration due to the repeal of the Obama Administration's openness and transparency doctrine. You are welcome, however, to make a reservation to stay at the 5-star Trump International Hotel just down the street.

The $400 a night is per double occupancy though, so really it's only $200 per head.

EDIT: Ok, it's a parody. Shame! :(
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Most likely yes, but that didn't stop 23andme.com haha :)

It is interesting how language morphs over time. Some people will be quite opposed to grammatical errors taking root.

But language has a tendency to not only accept those errors as dual-truths, but eventually replace those errors as sole truths!

This is to the point where "you and I" sounds stunted, overly formal and archaic, compared to "you and me", in my opinion.
Which country has the highest IQ?
In what way did they learn not to piss off open source programmers? I don't see any obvious quantifiable consequences, just some loss of reputation, as you'll get if you piss off any group...
Sure - this is about a definition of wealth. You have two choices: you can buy at your level of income and need to take care of what you buy, or you can buy below your income level and free yourself from those concerns and burdens.

I understand that at a certain income level, you are at or near the bottom rung for certain things. This is always the case.

If you have $4,000 you can buy a functional, durable, used car and take care of it.

If you have $400,000 you can buy the same car and not worry about it if it breaks down. But now you can buy a small, well-built, home and take care of it.

If you have $4,000,000 you can buy the same home, hope for the best, but not be bothered if things happen. But now you can invest in a small, well-built company and take care of it.

And so on and so forth... every level has a new bottom rung. Even Bill Gates has a small, well-built, international organization (like a NATO or WHO).

At some point, however, you have the option to free yourself from bottom-rung consumption if you choose to do so.
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Yeah you're right, it certainly does. I would be curious if it goes mainstream enough to replace IPv4 in the foreseeable future though, which was its intention.
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In fairness, I'm aware of the hypocrisy in using positive discrimination to combat negative discrimination. I just haven't heard any better ideas to fix the problem. And the argument that we owe a debt to continue our forefathers' unfinished work towards a more perfect union is persuasive to me.
When peer pressure transforms into tyranny. Someone send these folks a copy of Black Mirror S3E1.
No. If anything it is the equivalent of writing:

“The major weakness of the paper isn’t that there are studies showing a natural variability in Earth temperatures over time, but it doesn’t convincingly argue why that variability is the cause of recent sharp temperature increases.”

Well, the grammar of the sentence doesn’t really make sense (even in the original), but you get the point.

Intrinsic gender differences exist, like natural temperature changes exist. But in both cases, they do not explain all or even most of the observed variation; the rest is caused by society.
Don't try to gaslight people. Posting terrible arguments for sides you disagree with is lame epistemic pollution.
It's been 11 years and they are still barely flying a not-full-size prototype.
What would be the threshold for calling something "pure acid" (in the acid/base sense ;) )?
I think that it would not be a bad thing to have more diversity of thought in the tech community, or at least to have some basic level of considerate behavior toward people with different opinions.

I grew up in Red America; while I'm politically neutral/apathetic at this point, most of my friends/family are still varying shades of red. It was a drag to have all of my colleagues constantly and casually make insulting remarks about people that I care about.

Once, during an oncall shift, I pulled an all-nighter dealing with PagerDutys trying to keep our team's systems up; came in the next day and had to sit through a presentation where an assortment of republican party figures (no, not just Trump) were used as examples of "low IQ people" as part of some contrived metaphor that speaker was trying to make. Everyone laughed. No one made any comment about how this was unprofessional/inappropriate. Felt pretty angry.

This kind of environment is unhelpful to everyone. Obviously for folks on the right it is unpleasant, but for folks on the left it contributes to a culture of excessive contempt and hatred, increasingly detached from any actual contact with the people that they hate. This is not helpful for building winning coalitions.
I rented (entire) Airbnb places in Berlin for one year because I was looking for a flat.
I used this to scout each part of the city to decide where to look for rentals. I was always traveling during weekends, so I mostly rented during the week.
There are top notch AirBnB apartments in Berlin that you can get for as little as 20€ a day.
Semi-serious question: In the unfortunate circumstance that you find yourself immersed in 100C water with a PH of 0, which condition would be the one that has the higher likelihood that it would kill you first?
>This sounds true, but is actually incorrect. Whenever women speak out on social media, they get at the very least abuse, but also often rape threats and death threats against them. That is retaliation, plain and simple.

Rape threats and death threats are illegal. They should be reported, investigated and prosecuted. (As an aside, I've seen many instances where women claim to have received rape or death threats, with no mention that they reported them to the authorities. I find that perplexing.)

If by "abuse" you mean garden-variety insults and name-calling, well, that's been one of the left's go-to tactics for a long time. And women have certainly engaged in it plenty.

I'm referring to waging public campaigns to have a person fired or otherwise professionally, personally or economically harmed. The left has done this many times to people who have dared express wrongthoughts publicly. And it has had a chilling effect against others who might harbor similar wrongthoughts and are thinking of expressing them publicly.

So far, there's been no downside for the left for employing these tactics; only upside. That needs to be changed. They'll continue these bully tactics as long as they carry no risk.

I want to see this change. I want to see leftists who gin up rage mobs find themselves facing one themselves, more often than not. I want to see companies who capitulate to the demands of leftist rage mobs get besieged by an even more vocal and organized rage mob from the right.

In short, I don't like rage mob tactics, but the only way to fight against them effectively is with opposing rage mobs.
Of course, a theory that only includes the "equality axiom" would be incomplete, there would have to be other axioms that reference the (otherwise undefined) notion of the 'right angle'. Then it will be possible to prove theorems that involve this notion. For example, it will be possible to prove that "the particular object" that lies between the shorter sides of a triangle with side lengths three, four, and five, is, in fact, a right angle!
It can be extremely hard on someone if their parents don't approve of their spouse or vice versa, regardless of the amount of time everyone is in the same room. They can be emotionally torn apart, especially if either the spouse or a parent is manipulative or unyielding.
God forbid any of them gets home in time to eat dinner with their family! I can't think of anything worse than a sustainable work/life balance and employees who work the hours their contract specifies.

/s
I don't see how right angles are relevant to parallel lines, but sure, they're significant in many places, including all the others you mentioned.

But again, all of those things are built on an existing recognition of right angles. You could define a right angle as "an angle equal to half the angle sum of a triangle", but then "all right angles are equal" would be an easily provable theorem, not a postulate.
So you fix the server case by a share nothing design. Put all data on 3 unrelated servers and query the fastest one.

Not sure how you do this with subway tracks...
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Just found its repository here: https://github.com/effinggames/financial-charts
PyTorch is becoming much more popular among researchers, even if TensorFlow use is widespread among data scientists.

Would it be bad if TensorFlow became the default library for deep learning? For companies that aren't Google, yes. Many organizations don't like how Google's controlled Android development.

But I think an important part of Dean's lecture are the slides that talk about making ML/DL expertise obsolete. That's the future, whether you use TensorFlow or not.
In both cases there are gendered cultural associations built into the profession. Nursing is definitely viewed as feminine and software engineering is is still considered a masculine profession, although that perception is slowly changing as software becomes a more important part of everyone's life. Even if you get past that, the active shaming and harassment of people that enter or attempt to enter the respective fields keeps a lot of people out or drives them to quit.

The "men just don't want to be nurses and women just don't want to be programmers" standpoint usually assumes some immutable property (often genetics) that defends the status quo, and ignores mountains of other obvious problems that might lead to gender imbalances in a given profession. Obviously men and women are different, but there are many people that might enjoy and thrive in a profession they wouldn't otherwise consider because it's "not for them."
I get the math, but the reasoning feels unjustified: why should we assume our brains work that way? It would make sense if we remembered the same amount of stuff every year, but reality is, you have fewer memories of the past.

I am on the "routine makes every day the same and days just pass unnoticed" camp.
It's now embedded in huge chunks of internet so I wouldn't call it a failure. The transition could and should have been handled better, and the specification has its flaws (too machine-oriented) which unfortunately will never be fixed, but it's here to stay.
For past 2 years, I have interacted with Directors a bit more and following stood out among the Directors I like.

1) Clarity in vision and ability to articulate it to the team is very important.
2) Engineers will zone out if you sprinkle sales (and/or management) mumbo, jumbo. Engineers (anyone for that matter) appreciate clear communication and reasoning behind management decisions. Many times, management decisions aren't clear cut. That's OK. But calling it out as is is being honest and engineers appreciate that.

Most recently, I had an interesting experience speaking with a Director during a job interview.

I asked for reasons behind building a product by their team. I explained why it's not a good idea. The Director kept throwing sales and marketing terms and was clearly out of his depth. What should have been a 30 min interview was cut short in 10 min and I was walked out. I did not get the job. I'm glad I didn't.

But key take away for me was, as a Director, they will be bridge to many departments (Engineers, Sales, Marketing, Customers). They should have good understanding of the product, how to pitch to everyone.

I hope this will be useful.
I thought pH = -log[H+]? where [H+] is the molarity of the hydrogen ion? That doesn't involve water in the definition... what is the definition you're referring to?

Edit regarding your reply asserting water is necessary (I can't reply now due to throttling):

What about all the acid/base reactions that don't involve water? You can't ascribe any pH to either of them in that case?
Not a great idea to publish private keys for valid certificates. Anyone could probably submit a certificate revocation request to the CA, as the key would be considered compromised.
Everything is relative. In my social circles virtually no one watches broadcast or cable TV any more. The ad industry relies on Neilsen ratings to say everything is wonderful in the world of passive consumption, but do you trust their stats?
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Your dismissive idea about not bothering to 'read a variety of garbage' implies you will only read rubber stamped, verified information. The question there, as we all seek versions of the truth, is who is doing the verifying and what is their agenda...
This is why the internet is such a wonderful thing, don't be fenced in by pre chewed and spun information...
I think the biggest problem with a "let wildfires burn" strategy is that most forests in the continental United States are too small (or too populated) to make it feasible. Any "large" fire will always be near a town or homes.
Until you have a definition of right angles, it is not possible to prove that anything, including the angle opposite the 5 side of a 3,4,5 triangle, is a right angle. Really, that's what a definition is.

It isn't necessary for the statement "all right angles are equal" to include a definition of right angles. But for the statement to have any meaning at all, the logical system that the statement is made in must include a definition of right angles. They cannot be left undefined.
I have to say, that's really impressive.
But are they less interested just because? Or less interested because of things like Uber?
Speaking of eastern Oregon, the environmental lobby has a huge influence on this as they sue the USFS quite often. They never did salvage log from the Canyon Creek fire right?
There is strong scientific evidence of at least a partial genetic/prenatal basis for homosexual expression. If this were a discussion on that topic, the writer would be pointing this out and criticizing discriminatory policies that adversely affect homosexuals.
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I read The Adolescence of P-1 in the late 70s, again in the early 80s and most recently a couple of months ago after re-discovering it.

It's still a good read after all these years.

Does anyone know anything about the author Thomas J. Ryan? Is it a pseudonym? Searches don't turn up much.
I think it's this one https://www.nature.com/nnano/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nnan...
Are you obligated to write that top part that the opinion is your own? What is the point of it? Just wondering.
Does it matter, for Google, whether the gap in interest-in-engineering is biological or social? Either way, there's more men doing the sorts of things that get them the skills they need to succeed as an engineer at Google, and it's in Google's best interest to hire every engineer with the necessary skills.
> Rape threats and death threats are illegal. They should be reported, investigated and prosecuted. (As an aside, I've seen many instances where women claim to have received rape or death threats, with no mention that they reported them to the authorities. I find that perplexing.)

True! They should be, but they frequently aren't because there's a significant amount of time, friction, and effort required to do an accurate police report. Even more importantly, the internet's ability to enable harassment through pseudo-anonymity is unparalleled. It's really easy to send a death threat to someone over Twitter with a burner phone. It's not easy to come to the police and say "hey, throwaway99475 on Twitter posted a picture of my house and said he was going to rape me."

To quote yourself:

> So far, there's been no downside [for] employing these tactics; only upside. That needs to be changed. They'll continue these bully tactics as long as they carry no risk.
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Forgive my ignorance but is that too high or too low?