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> The persistent glorification of Russia's role in WW2 (although historically justified)

Nazi Germany lost WWII largely because of the USSR indeed. That does not justify glorification of the USSR. It justifies celebrating liberation from nazism only.
Probably the biggest tells of a UE4 game are in screen space reflections for reflective surfaces, and the use of temporal antialiasing (which can cause minor ghosting artifacts, particularly in reflections). These can be found in other game engines too, but the artifacts of UE4's particular implementation are pretty distinctive (to me).
> And regarding gender - let's consider the example of salary negotiation. Now, if you research, you'll see that statistically women are less likely to negotiate as high a salary as men. It would make sense, given that research, to create a women-only program for teaching salary negotiation skills, right?

No. It would make sense to implement other means of deciding fair compensation rather than through employer-employee negotiation. Because it is not fair that compensation should be based on negotiation skills.

The thing I think we have to accept is that the world is unfair. Evidence seem to be that the world is, on average, more unfair to women and minorities.
To be honest I don't think I'd describe any of our prominent media as leftist. Maybe liberal? Maybe just neurotic. Whatever it is, what you're describing isn't really a left thing.
"Pearson has categorically denied there is anything wrong with its computer-based test or the scoring engine trained to analyse candidates’ responses."

Surely that lack of self-questioning makes them categorically unsuitable to do the job. By refusing to acknowledge that there's room for process improvement, that signals that they don't care about quality.
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Will it support FreeBSD? Of course it would run it, but I don't have time anymore to write my own device drivers.
Finland participated in the WW2, moreover, also on the side that lost the war.
Yet another example of what I was referring to.

Pretty sure DarkKomunalec is being sarcastic, but good job reinforcing your biases.

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=white%20by:DarkKomunalec&sort=...
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Would it be fine if the diversity program was made into national policy, so that every profession with less than 40% women and 40% men are encouraged to have a affirmative action plan to address it. In particular, government hiring policy should lead by example.

I find that if a decision on morality is made into a general rule, they are much easier to assert if they are good or bad. A gender neutral diversity program on a national level would radically change the discussion, and it would be interesting to see if the proponents of diversity programs would still support it.
This is great insight, but it seems a bit silly to act like you don't need a 4D / hypersphere representation when the 4th one is hiding in plain sight. For the not-quaternion to describe a rotation, it needs unit length in 4D, with the two components scaled as a sine/cosine pair.
My take on the topics raised - US innocence, hostility towards the US, patriotism, nationalism... my take is that these are changes in prevailing opinions and notions. The cumulative of subjective opinions. I'm not American, btw.

There are a few big reasons for what the author is observing and commenting on, that get too little attention IMO.

One is the end of the cold war, and the wars preceding it. The cold war was cold, but the psychology was regular war psychology. Fear, demonisation, rallying around your side... Relative evaluation of conduct and goals, rather than idealistic evaluation.

In the corld-war-world, the US represented democracy, personal liberty and its associated human rights, and (very importantly) culturally icons. US and western police forces behaved well relative to Soviet police forces. US Movies & Music were better. Press was more honest. The comparison was not made relative to an idealised concept of democracy or human rights (or music). It was made relative to the Soviet Union associated states. It was also mostly made in Eastern Europe, where the divide was arbitrary, non-national and highly visible.

That dichotomy world is gone. These days, I think people evaluate these things in a more abstract way, relative to abstract idealizations.

A second effect is US politics' global viewership. This is a product of globalized media, the dramatic merits of US political theater, the genuine impacts of big US decisions and other reasons.

This is huge. I live in Ireland. The majority of people are more knowledgeable, vested and opinionated about US politics than local politics. They have a strong opinion on US health policies, but not Irish ones. This is a recipe for insanity. US politicians are pandering to US opinions, not Danish or Georgian or Irish opinions. Of course they feel unrepresented. When one side loses a heated election, large numbers always feel alienated and angry at the country. It passes, a normal part of democracy. Many Danes (and everyone) were involved enough emotionally to get the same feeling but being non-americans aren't as affected by the normalizing effects that bring everything together in the end.

When Europeans express a frustrated criticism of US politics, they are doing it as insiders. They are criticising it the same way they would criticize a local party coming to power, one which they don't like. Imagine how angry Americans would get at the Danish or Mexican parliament if they were following it like this.

A third issue is the "someone must be driving" fallacy. In this sense being angry at the US is like the constant anger at one's own government. There is so much wrong with everything and it has to be someone's fault.

The US has been having a bad run in foreign policy. Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, even N. Korea, ... The US is (rightly or wrongly) held responsible as the guy in charge. Politics rarely rewards successes. The failures are just more visible.

Who do you get angry at for the Syrian civil war? Who's to blame? The UN?
edit: I was wrong regarding Wikipedia's data.

Australia has a cap on permanent immigration per year of around 200,000. That Wikipedia page is claiming 45 per 1,000 inhabitants, which gets you closer to one million net migration. That conveniently ignores the far more important number: how many people are actually allowed to stay on a permanent basis?

Further, about half those ~200,000 allocated per year go to people already in Australia.

Back in reality, Australia is extremely restrictive when it comes to allowing permanent immigration. It has a lot of temporary work immigration.

https://insidestory.org.au/how-many-migrants-come-to-austral...
Quotes from link:

> But it is not clear to me how such sex differences are relevant to the Google workplace. And even if sex differences in negative emotionality were relevant to occupational performance (e.g., not being able to handle stressful assignments), the size of these negative emotion sex differences is not very large (typically, ranging between “small” to “moderate” in statistical effect size terminology; accounting for less than 10% of the variance). So, using someone’s biological sex to essentialize an entire group of people’s personality would be like operating with an axe. Not precise enough to do much good, probably will cause a lot of harm.

> Again, though, most of these sex differences are moderate in size and in my view are unlikely to be all that relevant to the Google workplace (accounting for, perhaps, a few percentage points of the variability between men’s and women’s performances). Sex differences in occupational interests, personal values, and certain cognitive abilities are a bit larger in size (see here), but most psychological sex differences are only small to moderate in size, and rather than grouping men and women into dichotomous groups, I think sex and sex differences are best thought of scientifically as multidimensional dials, anyway.

> Within the field of neuroscience, sex differences between women and men—when it comes to brain structure and function and associated differences in personality and occupational preferences—are understood to be true, because the evidence for them (thousands of studies) is strong. This is not information that’s considered controversial or up for debate; if you tried to argue otherwise, or for purely social influences, you’d be laughed at.

> Sex researchers recognize that these differences are not inherently supportive of sexism or stratifying opportunities based on sex.

The problem in the employee's memo seems to be correlating scientific data (which is accurate) to groups of people (women) at Google and their qualifications (inaccurate).
You might think of Latvia as a counter argument (41%) but keep in mind that the threat is Russia and only 62% of the population is Latvian. It would be nice to know if they narrowed down what "their" country is (Russia or Latvia). Just because you live in a country doesn't mean you identify with it as "your" country.
Assuming that Russians all said no (assuming Latvia was meant) this makes 66% of the Latvians willing to go to war. This is far closer in line with other countries in close proximity to Russia.

For comparison:
Ukraine has 77% Ukrainians
Finland has 89% Fins

I couldn't find ethnic information by age group or how the question was exactly posed and who exactly was interviewed. Depending on each factor the results of this study might be heavily skewed for Latvia.
"Computer says 'no'" is a reference to Little Britain e.g. https://youtu.be/AJQ3TM-p2QI
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This. I was super confused for a second because Germany was dark red.
>the rest of us recognize that the debate is indeed about the severity and consequences of a rapidly changing climate

And yet, your grandparent comment...

>the other says that CO2 has no effect on natural, periodic climate cycles

[Emphasis above mine] No, this absolutely is not what "the other side" says.

This is not about "semantics", it's a fundamental disconnect wherein people are talking past each other because they are stubbornly not acknowledging (or even aware) or what the others are saying. Your comment leads me to believe that it's not a tactic of any kind, but rather an internal perceptual distortion, which can only be solved by effort on the part of the perceiver.

Steelman your opponents, people. You can do so much better than this!
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Shout outs to out-group homogeneity bias.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out-group_homogeneity
A lot of comments already misunderstanding the excellent response by Sundar Pichai in the article.

You obviously can't say anything you like at work.

Google is offering diversity of opinion but there are things you can say that are just stupid and will get you fired.

If you replace women in his essay with African American there would have been about 1 second between it being posted and it being taken down, with an escort out of the building and rightly so.

I loved this talk from Sheryl Sandberg that touches on a lot of these issues, particularly the "joke" near the end, 39 minutes:

https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/sheryl-sandberg-develo...
Where exactly does the author blame "ordinary Americans"? A certain form of "ordinary American spirit" is at fault in their eyes, for sure. Education and cultural experiences, or more precisely lack thereof, seem to be the explaining factors. Hence my question.
> If less than 25% of CS graduates are female, which is currently the case, it strongly suggests that attempting to make the engineering team 50% female will result in a lower hiring bar for women.

If Google is anything like Redacted, that's the case. Redacted pays monthly bonuses to their international offices for each woman on the office's payroll. I have two friends working at Redacted in a relatively cheap region and they say the bonuses are as high as their junior-level salaries - they can afford to hire a second junior developer for each junior woman they have. Your guess what happens. An upside is that this poses no threat to male developers so they don't complain and just have a chuckle when their mandatory diversity training explains how the company's policy improves performance by "tapping into the pool of female talent formerly overlooked due to systemic discrimination".
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>Like many fellow Europeans I don't have a credit card, so if that is the only way to pay, I'd have to jump through a lot of hoops to buy this.

I find this surprising. At least in Portugal it's now common to buy stuff online with a credit card, either with an actual card or with one of those simple services the bank provides where they generate a virtual card on demand for you to use for a single purchase.
> there are 2 levels of understanding the sentencing. One is that he broke the "code of conduct"/law, the deeper is why we consider that to be unlawful (societal harm).

I wholeheartedly agree with this. I'll even stick with your example in asking - is murdering someone a good way to start debating the "why" of the law against murder?

There are certainly examples where breaking the law proves to be a powerful and effective way to start the conversation. But how often does this hold true when breaking the law causes real harm to others? I doubt the answer is "never", but I can't come up with any argument for how this applies to the current situation.
This is a story about how voice recognition has failed and should not have been used in this situation.

I was very surprised to hear that this was even permitted a method for the outsourcing provider, but then again Australia has a poor and somehow still worsening relationship with immigration, so perhaps I'm more accurately "re-dissapointed" by this revelation (as an expat Australian).
> Sat by while coworkers traded stories about sexual conquests. Even if the sexual advances are towards someone else, if they make you uncomfortable, it's still sexual harassment.

Not to belittle your other experiences, but I never understood this. If you hear a conversation about sexual experiences and it makes you uncomfortable, I don't think it's immediately sexual _harassment_. I would probably feel uncomfortable listening to those kinds of talks too but I don't think I'm entitled to claim it's harassment just because I felt uncomfortable.
Yeah. I think the interesting split would be between defending your own soil vs. invading another country (for whatever reason).
Fun fact: Clojure is one of the few languages in which STM is easy!

You're right in the general case - STM incurs significant bookkeeping overhead (at least a word per mutable location, usually more), which is one of the reasons it never took off. (The actual reason is the CPU overhead, which slows down memory accesses so much you've lost all the performance you might gain from parallelism.)

Clojure sidesteps this by having an incredibly small number of mutable locations. With a persistent data structures, every mutation operation already builds its own private version of the structure, and then atomically changes a pointer to point to the new version. So you've got MVCC built in, and you only need transactional metadata on one location (the ref).
>> Edit: I did not think a 'sarcasm' tag necessary.

Poe's Law strikes again :)
I've yet to come across a health insurance scheme that I'd approve without any reservation.

The British NHS that you obviously praise as the single solution is also not without its flaws regarding quality and waiting lists. An acquainted Iranian surgeon who works in England under the NHS remarked that he'd rather fly to Iran in case he should ever get a surgery because the infrastructure is more up to date and the surgeons equally well trained.

The Swiss healthcare system, which I'm more familiar with (universal healthcare, with health insurance being compulsory, while the insurance companies are still private), is also not devoid of flaws. The assumed competition among the insurance companies is not working at all, resulting in rising costs since years.
Bingo. In my opinion, you wouldn't need a diversity program, sensitivity training, or unconscious bias training if you stopped hiring frat boys with no life experience straight out of college.

They have done this to themselves and now have to force policies to make it seem like good PR. It wasn't even until a few months ago they even changed their pay structure because of "extreme" gender gaps.
A company that claims to embrace diversity does not tolerate a diverse opinion - right or wrong. I can understand why San Fran is so anti-conservative, but I cannot accept this blatant hypocrisy of being so intolerant and even aggressive towards those who dare to divert! Companies like Google do something worse than censorship - they induce self-censorship, which is something that even the Commies failed to accomplish! Let people think and say whatever they want and only judge them by their actions. The fragile society of today that can't accept anything, but an applause, is doomed! Okay, women, you disagree with his statement - prove him wrong, don't silence him up! If I ever wasted any effort on paying attention to what people think or say about me, my life would've been mostly wasted! Let people say or think whatever they want - I am personally okay with hate speech, too! I'd prefer somebody exhausting their hatred with words toward me than finding a more destructive outlet! I guess, our society today is less mature than ever! We have a bunch of crybabies that need "participation awards" and "goodie bags" and can't accept the realities of life!
> as long as it doesn't involve directly threatening tweets.

Define "direct". Also, do you even speak German? What's there to debate about starting to gas Jews again, and other such crap? This doesn't have shit to do with ideas, this has to do with fucked up childhoods or brain chemistry or both. Doesn't make them more victims than their actual victims.

> without instantly being shut down if their comment is deemed too controversial.

What? People block each other at the drop of a hat, and Twitter not censoring it doesn't change that, it's not something they can help. So you gain nothing, because the bottleneck is people being uptight about actual ideas (and screaming "Judenschwein" is just another, much worse form of being afraid of thought) which they already are -- and you lose not letting Nazis rampage free, using the tools of people they would prefer to kill for being too intelligent or not fucked up enough.
>To get more women we need to change the image of the profession. I'm of the opinion that females just don't want to do software development and that decision is made really young.

I think the change we need to make is less about the profession and more about the people in the profession. We need to make it a field that seems open to women. Currently it isn't. I don't have a daughter, but I'd be very hesitant to suggest to her to go into the SW field.

BTW, my sister tinkered with PCs as a kid. It is interesting that she went on to get a degree in statistics and me in computer science. She works in policy now, and me in CS -- despite the fact that both of us had very similar achievement paths through HS. To this day she is better at most maths than I am, but most people seem to assume I'm better (at least when it comes up).
Well, the wars in this time may be fewer by number, but not by impact. In this time period, the first truly global conflict was fought. The "Seven Years' War" (1756–1763) was a war between european colonial powers over maritime and colonial hegemony. Some historians call it the "true first world war", because battles took place on all colonial and native frontiers of the participating parties.

This was truly a change of paradigm, regarding the scale of conflicts, not unlike the real first world war.

Also, the two wars that really changed the world (on a ideological level) took place in this time: The American war of independence and the French revolution.
That wikipedia page stats are over a 5 year period, for every country

So the 1,023,107 listed from 2007-2012 is 204,621 per year.

Sounds spot on to me.

>Further, about half those ~200,000 per year go to people already in Australia

Sure, but they are not permanent in Australia, and immigration means they became permanent. It's not really relevant where they started from.

Australia is allowing ~1 million people each 5 years to becoming permanent, which is a huge number... in fact 8th in the world overall.

It's the same for every other country, so the comparison to other countries is still spot on.
Not sure whats so sexist about that statement.

Women traditionally raise children and take care of nest, while men provide resources for family. On average. It can be different, but this is how most families function.

This is the same as women on average are not as tall as man. Its true in most cases, but not always.

Feminist alike always assume that statements like this somehow assume that women are inferior, and to counter this many feminists try to convince women to start acting more masculine. Which is quite ironic actually.

This statement doesnt mean women are inferior. Men actually like women for this traits like patience, compassion, attention to details; because they lack this traits.

There is no need to be upset. Men like femininity at women. On average.
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Biological differences maximize in societies that have achieved both affluence and legal equality between genders. In such societies, women have more options and they tend to choose not to go into tech.
> He demonstrated -in spades- that he wasn't capable of being a professional team player within that environment.

That's a very subjective judgement on your part.

If you scan this discussion here on HN, I think you will find that almost half the posts are in stark disagreement with your position.

Honestly, if you find an email like this triggering to the point that you're calling for others to be fired and keep on insisting that something is "toxic", I'd rather single out you as the problem, not the original person sending the email.

You live in a democracy. People are entitled to different opinions. For your own sake, I say you better get used to it.
I'm an American and I used to say that I'm antiwar but what I really meant is that I'm anti-iraq-war, anti-Afghanistan-war, etc.

I do think there are wars we should fight. We just haven't had any of those in my lifetime.
I was curious as well and it seems the latest Ubuntu LTS has POWER8+ as a supported architecture[1]. Debian should also run just fine I imagine. Hopefully someone else has actual experience on how it runs.

[1] https://help.ubuntu.com/lts/installation-guide/ppc64el/ch02s...
one can point out trends in political groups without implying that they're a hoard of drones.
Only thing I could really point to is a number of incredibly mild winters a few years in a row. But even then, I was under the impression that climate change wasn't particularly measurable on a year-by-year scale. Maybe I'm wrong.