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Is being devoid of flaws really the standard a system should be held to? Is approval without reservation the only threshold for approval?

The NHS and Swiss systems aren't flawless, they have problems and mistakes get made, but the US system is just appalling by comparison. Things that would be considered utterly unacceptable aberrations and be immediately fixed in those systems are routine occurrences in the US with no sign of them ever being addressed and in fact entrenched interests actively working to ensure that they aren't.
Help get the underrepresented group involved in tech opportunities and activities early on in life that they wouldn't have otherwise.

Create STEM schools and give kids computers in elementary school. Use more fun robotics in the classroom. Teach programming literacy. Let kids make games.

Of course the caveat to these approaches is that it takes ~13-17 years from kindergarten until high school graduation / college graduation to when the candidate can then use the skills by starting a tech job. That said, I think upstream educational opportunities like these are the best long-term solution to diversifying the tech population.
Indeed. We just bought a house and I'm excited to actually invest (in terms of electronic projects). Top thing on my list is to make the doorbell send a notification when our little one is sleeping, instead of sounding.
They do, considering it's their business.

AirBnB should define what Law Enforcement should prosecute? I don't think you've followed the context of the previous post.
I think Obama himself recognized that the Pharma lobby is one of the hardest to beat, and decided to try and sidestep them in trying to improve access to healthcare. Clinton tried and failed due to the Pharma lobby, Bush passed Medicare Part D but wasn't able to give CMS price negotiation power. It's really quite unfortunate for healthcare consumers.
An unconscious bias toward rational thought, how outrageous
As a somewhat obsessive relationship with that book, I'm looking to get into entrepreneurship soon. From everything I've read and researched about the 4HWW, people say its better to first have a working business and/or income stream, then focus on ways to automate or make single processes more efficient; As opposed to trying to start a business using the 4HWW from the 'get-go'.

What would your advice be? As someone who's lived the success, do you think its possible to start from the ground up with 4HWW in mind?
Every company has values, and if you shift on them, you'll get shown the door pretty fast. That's what happened here
In that other study they also made the point that men felt exactly the same way about their job

This rather completely flushes over the issue that the extent of those conditions may not be the same between men and women.

I mean, a key finding is "...the engineering workplace culture (as) being non-supportive of women." and there's the whole equal pay for equal work issue.
As a German, I disagree. I've had many discussions about the upcoming NFC payment options and the main argument was privacy.
ETA for PCI-E 5.0 in consumer equipment is 2020 or 2021. That's actually fairly quick considering that PCIE 4.0 is just starting to trickle out, but I wouldn't call that "right around the corner". I do expect many providers to skip PCI-E 4.0. OTOH the delta from 4 to 5 is a lot smaller than the delta from 3 to 4, so running PCI-E 4 is also a good mechanism for getting a head start on 5.
While that is a nice thought it's in no way supported by any evidence or observation, or really any hope of evidence for observation. MWI or some other multi universal theory could have merit, but in their current formulation they're not even falsifiable.
No. The institutions become untrustworthy.

In a hyperinflation environment your priority is converting cash into assets as quickly as possible.
Generic neurological drugs are not reliably consistent. The allowed variations and additives can and do play havoc in some people. Even something so simple as coloring can be a problem.
My take. She is a journalist. They have to write. She writes. We read.

The old saying is "everybody has one novel in them." updated verson: everyone has a blog post in them.

Her words are ok. Not inspiring whatsoever. Not dramatic. Not new.

I take it for what it is. Let her get better at her job.
I grew up relatively poor; single disabled, unemployed parent. We couldn't afford a computer, because computers are (or were until very recently) expensive things. Programming too was, until very recently, not taught outside of university.

I had no help, I entered university a bit later than most as a mature student, so wasn't pushed towards it at a young age by any means, which is fairly typical for my social class, and yet affirmative action/positive discrimination affects me negatively, simply for being male.

I don't see how that's fair at all.
I'm in the UK, and every debit card I've ever had has been a Visa or Mastercard
Agreed, most places in Berlin won't take cards or only take EC cards.
That has made me use cash, and not fear of any kind.
She's not talking about Turkey as something superior to the US. Quite the opposite!

She notices similarities between Turkish nationalism and American patriotic world view, and that includes being a very aggressive state.
I'll point out that the Half-Life logo is trademarked in the EU in several situations related to video games, including the programming of video games. Be careful attaching it to e.g. a tutorial on using Ferret to write a game, or an integration with a game engine, etc.
Thank you for this honest real-world example. For the sake of context, I am also showing a bit of my bias concerning the issue of masculine frat culture that I myself have had the displeasure of being exposed to at previous start-ups. It was really uncomfortable, I could barely get work done and much of the sales hiring was pushing the culture of the company in that direction.

I perfectly understand the innocence of the question and can empathize with both scenarios: one where the candidate is frustrated by seemingly not being taken seriously, and one where the candidate is genuinely interested in knowing and hoping she can find someone to relate to.

Finding out if you fit into the social norms and groups is really really hard when you're an adult.
> Google failed at doing this.

Implying they cared about false stereotypes. They only failed if they actually wanted to do that.

My bet is this gives them negative PR to their target market, end of story.
Your insight doesn't seem to apply even to the small subset of countries you decided to check it on, which really makes it look more like your preconceived ideal rather than anything you read from this map, no?

I think other explanations (including geographically induced ways of interpreting the question) are rather more likely.
> He's obviously writing from a personal perspective.

He?
I'm talking about the whole server. Erlang has a "let it crash" approach where every process is isolated so the server stays up. Most scripting languages will produce an error in the logs without the need to reboot the server.
Danielle's letter has been discussed on HN several times already in the last two days.
@QUFB just hit pay dirt with this post. It's great to see so much participation.
I've been able to witness the change over the last 5 years in Germany. While gradual, it has been quite noticeable to see more plastic options become available, and my ATM visits have become less frequent.

It's still a far cry from home (Australia) where I hadn't needed cash on hand in quite a long time, but it in terms of convenience it's not a big deal. it certainly beats France where cheques are still in extremely frequent use vs. wire transfers.
This is still the case in the Netherlands. Most stores don't accept credit cards, debit cards are prevalent here.
You seem to be assuming bad faith in place of a more likely explanation.

Various models of funding are predicated on taking equity, either directly in exchange for cash or as collateral for a loan. The problem is that as soon as you issue equity to investors, the business isn't worker-owned (and, crucially, worker controlled) anymore, it's (at least partially) investor owned.
Merely a century?
In America, I would prefer to use a debit card or cash, but many credit card issuers offer 1%-3% cash back, meaning, they give back 1%-3% of the purchases you make.

That amount adds up over time.
Who on Earth suggested anything about what I truly believe or not? I quote, and I point out a specific omission.
One thing I find very interesting is how entertainment media, probably as a result of needing to pander to whatever the mainstream sensibility of the moment is, really works as a barometer for how people in America see themselves.

Back when America could do no wrong, America was Rocky, or one of those glistening 80s heros. Maybe a bit flawed, but generally a family man vs. evildoers, a plucky little upstart.

Then America was Bruce Willis in Die Hard, rough around the edges and divorced but still a good guy, trying to do the right thing. Then America was Keifer Sutherland in 24... somebody's gotta do the torturing! For a good cause, though.

The more and more dirt comes out, the more public sensibilities turn to stuff like Breaking Bad and Game of Thrones and House of Cards, reassuring watchers that nobody's good, that if you try to do the right thing the world will crush you, that all that matters is being top-dog. Sucks, but "that's the way the world really is".

It's super interesting. You'd think the character development in those shows is indicting, but it really is mostly immunizing and pride-preserving.
Thanks, I've corrected it.
While I agree with you, the first point is not as solid as it seems. "Wehrmacht" also means "defense force" :)
Wow! It's a great ressource! I'll have a llok into it, thanks!
Most brick & mortar stores in Germany will not offer debit card payments under 10 Euros, since the fees they have to pay are extremely high. Most clerks will frown upon small card payments for that reason, and sometimes outright decline the payment, even if that means no purchase happening.

Credit cards are rarely accepted in any store but larger ones in malls. Most Germans, and that was pretty spot-on in the article, don't even have a credit card. You can imagine how detrimental that is to building a German SaaS business. Stripe and the like have started going into the ELV market, which is pretty much a direct debit payment - and you need to pass quite a few restrictions to even be allowed to offer ELV as a vendor.

All in all, it is both a consumer, banking and a merchant issue, and it severely limits the German E-Commerce landscape in terms of payment solutions. Paypal has taken over German online payments, since it can be linked with a bank account. Credit cards? Not so much.
Considering everyone is carrying around wads to pay in cash. Are thieves/muggings a big problem in Germany?
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I have experimented with it too, and you may as well, leave your credit cards at home, and only use 'Cash' ... you will think twice before paying for $100 consumer item ... whereas using Credit Card, you barely had noticed the price tag .... so bottom line is, Yes, paying through Cash can 'significantly' cut your expenses on 'extravagant spendings'.
Ah, I see, so when males are underrepresented in a field it's because they have more viable options elsewhere, but when females are underrepresented, it's because they are being discriminated against.
And Hobby Lobby denying healthcare to their employees puts them further down my list of stores to shop at. Chick-fil-a donating money to keep gay marriage illegal puts them further down my list of restaurants to eat at. Hell, Tesla canceled a customer's order because the customer said something negative about the company.

Corporations have literally always done this. The question remains, why is this just now an issue for you? Why is now the point where you draw a line? Because if you ignore all the times companies have been shitty to liberals and/or normal human beings but draw a line in the sand when a company is shitty to a god damned actual Nazi fascist white supremacist, it makes me question a few things.

Left or right does actually seem to be the issue, because you really seem to be okay with every other instance of this happening, until it happens to a nazi.
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Not sure about a pipe dream but there are 30k strong US group in Germany as we speak. Some people might have different views on this fact.
Aha! That's more understandable, though still somewhat surprising.
i found it strange that she was sort of selling a story of the provincial country girl when she grew up in jersey.
Oh, that isn't scary yet.

My most troubling experience regarding Brave New World concerns a short community review of Brave New World on GoodReads I read not long time ago. (The only review in Finnish.) It consistently kept calling it "utopia" and discussed only things like how the savages lived in terrible conditions and the characters and "Shakespeare quotes" were "annoying". Not a word about how book is meant to be a dystopia, or if skipping the fancy words, about a society that is a pretty bad place to live. And I was left wondering if the writer of that review just did not know about the word "dystopia", or simply could not spot anything troubling with the picture Huxley painted.
Here in Brazil most places prefer debit or credit card and always have a hard time finding change.

Money is mostly for buying stuff on the street (bottled water, papers).
One thing about the T440p... You can install the i7-4900MQ in it.

That should help with the conversion...

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i7-4900M...
Don't confuse the employee handbook and share holder value for the US constitution. Google is entitled to have some values that they believe in.

Imagine if an employee at a catholic owned business started an internal conversation on the benefits of abortions.
Your economy is much more stable than mine in the UK yet anecdotally I've observed we use cards to pay for everything. Even silly little things that only cost a couple of £.

In fact it is rare that I ever carry cash. The same is true for a fair number of my friends and family as well.
That's a major crux, though. You're implying that what this fellow did was provide a reasoned complaint, but if I were to distribute manifestos at my workplace, unsolicited and unofficially, I'd be disciplined or terminated regardless of what was written in it.

To add to that, it wasn't a constructive argument with a new solution -- the only proposition was regressive action. I'd posit that it's akin to someone arguing that since civil rights were not smoothly implemented, we may as well roll back the clock because some members of society had it easier that way. It's pretty weak, and certainly not what I'd call a well-reasoned manner.
I wonder if it could also somehow lift the reactive synchronous concurrency bits from Céu[0] in a library. Céu is probably my favourite embeddded language to program in from a "thinking about concurrency" perspective. I'm not sure how one would go about it though, since Céu is imperative, and I'm not sure if that imperative aspect is fundamental to its type of concurrency or if it clashes with idiomatic Clojure.

If it would be possible you'd probably have everything I could want in one embedded language.

[0] http://www.ceu-lang.org/
> insinuating that some of his coworkers are, on average, at a biological disadvantage for the type of work they do

That's not what he actually said. In fact the memo had a chart and a paragraph or two specifically stating that taking average traits of a group of people and applying them to individuals was wrong and misleading due to large overlaps of traits between groups.

He was not implying anything about his colleagues that are already working for Google, rather he was pointing out potential biological differences in averages at the population level that possibly cause fewer women to enter tech (and hence making it difficult to get an even ratio of male/female employees).
This reads like Finland was a willing Nazi ally which is unfair. Finland fought a parallel war to the rest of the world. They spent the whole time defending themselves against invasion from Russia. When Russia was invaded by Germany their former allies stopped supporting them and they had to seek what help they could get.
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he didn't publish it publicly though. it was on the intranet
I'm under the impression that far more people live in a bubble that you'd consider remarkably limited, than not.
Women find it easier to take the family route and possibly make a career change post child rearing

According to the original article, this is only 1/3rd, so it doesn't go very far as an explanation.
They can, except in some cases (protected speech). And being regulated by the government doesn't make you the government.

So again, your entire argument does not apply at all to Google, or any other non-government entity.
I think you may well find a suitable dev job with relocation at https://relocate.me/. Not long ago I saw few Python and FE jobs there.
Because you are paying much more in transaction fees. In the EU, transaction fees are capped at <<1% so there are no silly cash-back programs.
Yes, we must see ourselves in others. My epiphany was when I realized how similar the political decision-making process in Pakistan is to that in USA. Short answer: in both places, the military-industrial complex dictates the "reality" it's acceptable to perceive, and all decisions flow from that.
Yes, but only the Soviets joined in with the Germans in invading Poland!
But at the same time, you have plenty of places where you cannot pay with cash.
I can see why this is problematic for the e-commerce industry, but you seem to be saying this is problematic for the economy as a whole. If that's what you're saying, could you provide some justification for this claim?
Sounds like they are trying to say you can't opt for the GPL if you plan on commercial use.

Not a lawyer, but I don't see how that flies. They could make their own GPL-like license with that clause added in. But using it as-is means it's open for commercial use, subject of course to the GPL terms. https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLCommercially
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As a boy, and a "nerd", I grew up on the VIC20 and C64 from grades 4 to 9 in the 80s, later to become one of the "Amiga generation" I guess. My friends were other boys who liked to tinker / obsess with computers. We weren't amongst the cool crowd then, but it didn't matter (too much). Number of girls I met who ever tinkered with one? None. It just didn't happen. (Asterisk: This was true for a sample size of one Norwegian school; YMMV.)

We would have loved it if anyone did, alas that wasn't the case. I'm glad things have changed and you're no longer an outcast if you're a geeky kid; I feel that I paid a big personal price for being that way inclined, but later on there was a payoff in that it was easy to get into programming as a career, when the Internet started happening in the mid late 90s.

If my next kid is a girl, she'll have no shortage of computer science ahead of her. My son's already way deep. :)
Did you learn about the inflation @ school? In the UK we weren't taught about the Weimar Republic's hyperinflation (in education up to 16 y/o). My friend who did history @ a more advanced level was, however.
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This is very tortured argument. i hope you are misrepresenting it
Normal person doesn't carry around wads of cash during their normal day. From the article:

> On average, wallets in Germany hold nearly twice as much cash—about $123 worth

Not worth a mugging in a Western country that doesn't leave its citizens starving.
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To put it bluntly: Because they stand at risk from invasion by Russia. The notion is that they're too complacent in spite of Russia's invasion of Ukraine and its current propaganda campaign of Novorossia around Lithuania.
In my experience Germans use cash due to privacy concerns — they don’t want anyone knowing what they buy.
This is somewhat frustrating as a tourist to Germany (withdrawing cash usually involves a 3% exchange fee, and bank fees if you use the wrong ATM), but wouldn't be so bad if there was a way to get a reloadable EC card (or bank account with EC card). But as far as I can tell, reloadable EC cards don't exist, and I don't think there's a way to get a German bank account without a permanent residence in Germany.
Sure, the problem is always the idea. I don't know how many more times someone can make another bingo card maker or time scheduling system and have it still work.
I have no facts to back this up (hopefully the other guy does) but intuitively it makes sense to me. If you think about political maps, which areas are almost always blue, and which areas are almost always red? Cities lean democrat, and cities also often have higher density living. If I'm in an apartment, I can't install solar panels. I have no where to install them.

But if I live in a rural or suburban area and have an acre+ of land and a single-family house, I have a roof and a backyard I can fill with solar panels. I probably also have a less reliable electricity grid than in the city, so getting power somewhere else is helpful. I'm also much more likely to vote Republican.
debit cards are more commonly used than credit cards in Germany. I'd expect almost all adults to have a debit card, but there are plenty that don't have a credit card. This might not so much reflect cash usage, but simply that the type of cards used in Germany is also different.
>when social science has already proven that money beyond a certain number doesn't make you happier

I've read that's a media misinterpretation of the results. From what I understand a certain salary satisfies your basic needs, as in Maslow's Triangle, but further income improves happiness. Of course, if you work in a shithole, you're going to be miserable no matter how much you make.
Recursion only begins with the notion of mutual recursion. Transforming imperative loops into recursion (with the constant-space accumulation pattern and TCO) is a nothing-special mechanical operation. Recursion really shines in mutually recursive algorithms, like the famous Hanoi Tower solution.
Damn right. Mid level python dev in my team builds Django views on one screen and programs the embedded micropython board that sits on the drill in the pit on the other, all while cajoling with his millennial tribesman in the chat app du jour. Can't beat that.
$123 is still a lot of money. Pickpockets aren't roaming gangs of starving thieves.
If women are such undervalued workers, someone should start a company that just hires women, and they will do very well.