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"Cultural Marxism" is just the idea that progressivism is a pivot from economic Marxism. That's it. So yeah, I do agree with that because if you look at the academic literature that defines progressivism you'll see that much of it is derived from Marxist thought. So what? Because I can read some academic literature and know the word for this idea I must be a radical anti-semitic white nationalist? A ridiculous idea. You might as well suggest that VW drivers are all Nazis because the company was created by Hitler.

In case I haven't spelled it out for you clearly enough: I'm not anti-Semitic, I don't deny the holocaust, I'm not a fascist or a Nazi, I'm not homophobic or any of that other bullshit. There are plenty of classical liberals like myself who are extremely skeptical of the progressive movement.

[edit] and if you're wondering where I learned the term, it wasn't from the depths of StormFront or some other alt-right cesspool. It's from a video made by Bill Whittle, who is a pretty mainstream conservative. I've equally seen the term used by Joe Rogan and Dave Rubin. None of these people are radical alt-right Nazis.
Perhaps if some one of his fellow men had engaged with Rodgers, not in agreement but with the modicum of respect required to have an honest conversation, he might have been diverted from the course that led him to murder.

Perhaps it might also be worth reserving implicit equation with a murderer for people who have, you know, also killed someone. To the best of my knowledge, Damore has not done so. One also generally finds, in the cases where manifesto and murder coincide, the latter tends to precede rather than follow the former into the public eye.

One might surmise from this that it may make a
difference in outcome whether or not people feel themselves to be heard. I'm not sure that's accurate, and certainly don't imagine it would be so in all cases, but the idea doesn't seem too outré to me. But perhaps I'm merely being foolish in the suggestion.
Sure, but we were specifically discussing Netflix and TV and the use of the word "often."
Yeah, I heard he eats babies by the "progressive media" as well.

Maybe I should believe that too, and be completely ignorant about the contents of the actual document....

<insert rage, anger, mad flailing of arms>

ObOntopic: https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3914586/Googles-I...
In my experience (in the US) it is the one person paying with a check that does that. And checks are extremely common in grocery and other big box stores here. Cash is usually not a significant slow down compared to debit or credit, possibly in part because of time spent fussing with PINs or signing receipts.
This incident confirms tech is indeed a hostile place for women full of insecure men, who will grasp at anything to retain privilege.

And women should be rightfully wary of all these fragile men who will watch them like hawks looking for any excuse to confirm their bias.

The kind of comments these threads are full of are a shocking reflection of a complete lack of understanding of history, sexism, privilege and women.

But the root cause is some people have convinced themselves they are so 'special' and 'superior' only a tiny 'approved' elite can do the jobs they do and anyone who diminishes this supremacist insecure identity will pay with bad science.

The irony is all these self appointed 'geniuses' who can 'decide' all by themselves about their own skill level and 'lowering the bar' do not have anything remotely approaching science or measure to explain how they came to this fruity conclusion about themselves and others. This is beyond absurd.

This is out of control self importance and hubris fuelled by SV culture and is as far away from rational scientific discourse as any self obsessed victimhood peddling supremacist.
It's "comeuppance": https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/comeuppance

And yes, next is internet service. But the unfortunate side-effect of the cable monopolies is that they're currently the best positioned with infrastructure to reach homes with high-bandwidth connections over the same lines which previously served cable TV. I don't want to see these same companies becoming ISPs and continue shoveling the same crap in the future.
> you aren't paid according to the value you bring

As soon as you cost more than the value you bring, the business will lost interest in keeping you anyway.
No, the point of a polling station is so that there's provably no coercion. You fill out your ballot in secret, you're not permitted to take a photograph of it, and you place it in the ballot box without telling anybody what you've voted for.

The more you allow people to vote from their homes, the more likely it is that people can be coerced into voting the way their partner, employer, or otherwise, want them to.
I fear I may have done the man a disservice.
Why not, and here's a thought, just use text?

There's no need for voice or music if you just write out the tutorial. Not everyone needs to be a video star.
> How does this apply to other countries where women are higher in STEM and tech than men? For example, in Iran more than 60% of STEM students are female.

That's because in iran, the government sets the "standards for women's and men's study". Women are FORCED to take these classes.

Also, iranian women outnumber men in STEM within iran because iranian families with money send their male children overseas to study.

The numbers are even more skewed for UAE, Kuwait, etc. There, the women are like 80% of the local university populations because the wealthy arabs send their sons to study abroad in US, UK, Canada, Australia, etc.

There are political scientists/psychologists who say that the lack is choice is why women in iran and middle east are so well represented in STEM. In the west, females have lots of choices and they have a say in what they study. The government/fathers can't tell women you have to study this or that. That's not the case in iran. If iran ever opened up and liberalized, the thinking is that a large portion of the women will choose non-STEM fields, just like they do in the West.

In short, why do they study stem? They study STEM subjects for the same reason they wear burqas. They have no choice.
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I use emacs, but I have similar feelings. I don't notice it much in typing, but sometimes I have a complex edit I need to do, and, as far as I am aware, there isn't a good mechanism to deal with it in an editor like Atom (which I do actually like). Anything more complex than a regex find-and-replace is painful if I'm not using vim/emacs.
They were only successfully accused of poaching in the USA, but the accused are global companies, and it seems unlikely they didn't do the same elsewhere too. They might well still be doing it too.
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Reporting the condemnations without commenting on their truthiness could be considered to be implicity validating them.
Since we're on the topic, anyone know where to find these kinds of individual station diagrams (2D or 3D) for Metrorail in DC? I haven't been able to turn up anything besides system maps.
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Using non dictionary words should help greatly.
Why block anything at all? If I want my password to be unicode and emoji, what's the downside to the site?

I assume they're hashing all the passwords anyway.
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Perhaps what I said was ambiguous. The error message is from the OpenVR support.

The OSVR support wouldn't have such an error message because the rendering support wasn't implemented in the first place.

I understand the reluctance to spend time investing in it, especially when developers say the OSVR-Rendermanager API and the OpenGL context sharing is awkward to use, but what's the point in investing in it in the first place, with a big announcement from Sensics http://sensics.com/osvr-comes-webvr/ etc?

The thing is, at the moment the only OpenVR implementation is the proprietary SteamVR runtime and it looks like it's unlikely that anyone will implement a FLOSS OpenVR runtime. Isn't Mozilla usually all over libre stuff like OSVR?

Not even ideologically, imagine you're buying a Talos II POWER9 Workstation, plop a Vega 64 in, compile firefox, connect your HMD, and what's that? SteamVR is only available on x86? Tough luck, no WebVR for you! Meanwhile you can compile OSVR for whatever architecture you like.

> though certainly if more devices that can only work on OSVR

There's no such thing because with SteamVR-OSVR all OSVR supported devices can be used in SteamVR (they are having some trouble with controllers, e.g. the Nolo controllers, but that's getting sorted out currently).

The point is really more that Mozilla seems to give a lot more love to proprietary platforms like windows and runtimes like steamvr now than to libre ones.

It's funny because in 2014/2015 with the Oculus Rift DK2 we first got a chromium webvr build for linux and then when it got into firefox nightly, it worked on linux too. Then Oculus stopped their linux support and both browsers stopped caring about WebVR on linux too. That announcement from Sensics is a year old and falls in the time where the OSVR SDK was the only major current and working VR SDK on Linux (and Mac OS X!) but it seems nobody wanted to make the effort to actually make it work. Fair enough, the OSVR SDK is an SDK literally nobody on Linux uses, so we could wait for SteamVR. That came out in February and today here we are, wondering what the problem is.
One thing that I'm observing in software engineering students that I have seen over the years is that in the most skilled range (ones who are quite capable of doing all kinds of tasks and also have enough market leverage to get hired for whichever kind of role they'd prefer) wind up on quite different career paths depending on gender.

In particular, the skilled male students went on in all kinds of roles, roughly matching everything that the industry demands, but the skilled female students (with very few exceptions, I've seen two IIRC), as a rule, all chose from the subset of roles that are more, how to say, people focused. Despite having excellent technical skills as well (which I have seen and compared with their male peers), they have chosen not to do the core hands-on technical work and go on to related careers in e.g. system analysis, project management, testing, on-site consulting, technical sales, etc - even if they'd be paid more as a straightforward individual technical contributor.

I've seen them decline "poaching" offers to such positions with superior pay because they prefer what they're doing now and, unlike some (not all, but a large portion) of the men they've understood that they just won't be happy spending almost all of their day fighting code problems, and since they're good and can choose their conditions, they choose something that's more rewarding for them - knowing full well that it limits their salary. Sure, it's anecdotal experience, but it's many anecdotes so the patterns seem visible.
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That Cache-Control header specifies one hour. My resources specify a month or two, and the tool doesn't complain about any.
Agreed, I stopped recommending React to beginners. I still love it and think it's the future, but in the sense that it's the new low-level. Eventually I think it will be standard to compile futuristic, high level, built-for-apps languages into React code. But for now, makes sense to just use a batteries-included framework. I don't know what the most sure shot is there though. Ember? Vue?
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Open source command line clients for specific streaming services inherit the catalog issues, but FYI:

Pandora - https://github.com/PromyLOPh/pianobar

Spotify - https://github.com/plietar/librespot
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> 9/11

What lies are you referring to?
Oh, I didn't get that. If that's the case, I'm sorry for misunderstanding.
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case in point ;-)
I don't believe I have said anything of the sort. But if it's a matter of import to you that your view come to hold sway among those who do not currently subscribe to it, I should think you'd have some interest in finding effective ways to convince them. I'm not sure the methods you seem to be employing here satisfy that criterion.
How do you move someone from junior to the next level? For me if someone has a better performance he/she should move to the next level regardless of the time he/she has been a junior. Are seniors consider that because of their performance?
I think it's safe to say you're underestimating Disney, they don't just knock out a kids film every year or so - they invest heavily in R&D and are pioneering many tech fields, animation, haptic feedback etc.

They know how to do tech, ever heard of the magic band? https://www.wired.com/2015/03/disney-magicband/
I read the whole thing and I think the allegations hold. There is one citation to a scientific article in the memo: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/wol1/doi/10.1111/j.1751-9004..... It's a meta analysis that looks at abstract personality traits (agreeableness, people-orientation) in studies involving socialized adults. The big takeaway is that these studies show that women are more "agreeable" and "people-oriented."

Everything after that is handwaving and ipse dixit. Egregiously, the memo takes it for granted that software is "thing-oriented" rather than "people-oriented." That defies reality. Software development is far more collaborative and social than, say, being a historian (a field where women receive 45% of the PhDs).

The memo also asserts, without proof, that these observed differences are stable across cultures. That's just false. Take education, for example. In India, men are overrepresented in teaching (80% of teachers are men).[1] And gender representation in STEM majors varies dramatically between different countries. Women are 40% of the STEM workforce in China. Over a third of the USSR's engineers were women, even in the 1960s.

In short, the reasoning in the article is so flimsy I'd be embarassed to be that sloppy in an HN post, much less in a company-wide memo. Which brings me to sexism. I have a hard time believing that anyone smart enough to work at Google actually finds such sloppy reasoning convincing. Instead, the memo smacks of the sort of grasping at straws rationalization used to justify existing prejudices.

[1] The underlying study also makes egregious assumptions about whether professions are "people oriented" versus "thing oriented." Figure 1 depicts a people-things axis and an ideas-data axis. It puts "teacher" at the far end of the "people" axis, and characterizes that as a feminine profession. The study also characterizes "biologist" on the masculine side of the column, even though a significant majority of biology majors in the U.S. are women.
While you can do Kotlin development in Eclipse (and others), IntelliJ is basically _the_ IDE for Kotlin, since they are both developed by the same company (JetBrains).
So there is a band and you negotiate your salary?
> I worked all my young life, in Iowa, on a farm.

I'm sorry, but did you just compare working on a farm in Iowa to being a child slave in a war zone? What's happening in the Congo is globalization at it's worst. Millions have been slaughtered in that nation in recent years and you say it's "a hard world." That takes a lot of nerve, man.
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That's a consequence, because one can't be a specialist in most things at the same.
> it's just psuedo-scientific garble

As Julian Assange pointed out, it's been reviewed by a professor of social psychology, a PhD in personality psychology, a professor in evolutionary psychology, and a PhD in sexual neuroscience and in large part it checks out.

http://quillette.com/2017/08/07/google-memo-four-scientists-...

> Why is the tech world turning itself upside down for a mediocre undergrad paper?

Precisely because it accurately reflects the world, but we're seeing a strong backlash to it from a certain segment of the population.
That's Camden Junction, which is not part of the station. The axonometric drawings exist for fire safety reasons AFAIK -- similar drawings are usually displayed somewhere in the ticket hall -- so details of the tunnels are out of scope.

(1927 drawing of the junction on this page: http://districtdavesforum.co.uk/thread/6095/camden-town-junc...)

I like that it's a non-blocking switch. There are alternatives which would restrict concurrent traffic between any two branches.
That I need a ton of libs, frameworks and tools to create a todo app.
Countries in Asia are not too bad either. As a rule, countries with weak laws protecting customers from customer debt are more likely to have good deals on credit card...

Credit cards need to get money and beside the interchange fees, the late fees and interest rates are where they get their money.
I am not sure to understand.

The example 2014 Toyota Corolla at US$122 per week makes in a 130 weeks lease with Xchange some 122x130= 15,860 US$ and a 2.5 years (high mileage) old Corolla may still have some minimal residual value, let's say US$ 1,500.

I.e. roughly total reimbursement of the list price of the car:

http://toyotanews.pressroom.toyota.com/releases/2014+toyota+...

Assuming that cars in such a situation are bought "in bulk" and thus with a 10, maybe 15% discount, very roughly it should mean that in the US$ 15,860+1,500=17,360 of reimbursement some minimal costs for interests and expenses are included on an initial spent sum of around US$ 16,000/16,500.

So, at least in theory it seems like a "side-business" that is going to make even or maybe loose a few hundred dollars each car (for interests on the loaned money), but this only if everyone keeps the car and pays the leases for the whole period.

Now, you get one of those (and you get one of those because you have no money and no good credit record) and after 25 weeks/6 months you give it back.

You pay US$3,300 (25*122+250).

Xchange has in its hands a six month old car with (say) 20,000 miles on it.That still has a market value, but maybe since you sell it wholesale to some second hand dealer and you only get - say - US$8000/9000.

So, 3,300+8500=11,800

So in this case Xchange seems like having lost - roughly - US$ 4,500 per car, half the US$ 9,000 stated.

There must have been some large avoidance of repayment (and repossession of the cars, etc.) to make that number on average.
For the champions of "biological differences" why isn't tech 95% women? Why would men, with their superior physical strength and propensity towards violence, want to spend all day in front of a computer exercising neither? If women don't deal well with stress, why is the percentage of women surgeons increasing and significantly higher than the percentage of women in tech?

There is a trend right now to wrap hate in a little bit of logic and "free speech" and sell it as "an honest discussion".
I don't have it at work, but there's a Chrome extension that allows you to stream directly from a torrent, say, from The Pirate Bay.
There are probably less non dictionary words than dictionary words, perhaps better advice is to use words from a random language other than your own so the password cracker might make a wrong assumption and waste his time?
To protect voting don't use electronic voting.

Paper ballots (the kind with marks read optically, not the ridiculous punch cards at the center of the Florida 2000 debacle) are easy to use and understand with a very low error rate and keep a paper trail, being the actual ballots.

I don't understand why anyone other than the companies who sell e-voting machines actually want electronic voting.
> US students ranked 38th out of 71 countries in math, and 28th in science. Kids in Hungary and the Slovak Republic outranked us.

I understand the spirit of your example, but mentioning esp. Hungary is quite out of place. I work in an international context and have many colleagues from all over Europe - and the Hungarians absolutely kick major ass (Apologies to the HN community for the choice of language).
"Pain is a treasure, for it contains mercies." - Rumi

The point I'm trying to make is, happiness and joy is not in "more", it's in "less". And the "less" requires people to discipline their body to not demand comfort and luxury.
There's some challenging requirements around this. You need to positively identify someone as having the right and ability to vote (no dead people voting like in Illinois). You need to make sure they vote only once (no ballot box stuffing). You need to make sure their vote wasn't coerced (as far as you can). You need to make sure their vote is anonymous (to protect the voters from retaliation). And it needs to be easy enough so that your 80 year old grandmother can do it.
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I didn't say you were. I said that you mentioned "cultural marxism" which you think is a perfectly reasonable thing for someone to mention, as it simply means, according to you, that there is some linkage between modern progressive thought and Marxism.

And I asked if you think the person who wrote the memo was using it in the same way. That seems to be the position the other replies are going for. Just no-one seems to like getting pinned down on this, about what exactly the big bad Marxists are up to with their plans to not discriminate against gay people. Apparently we just mention that Marxists think gay people were oppressed in a footnote to our very sciency memo on what's wrong with diversity and we mean nothing by that at all.

Or he could be intendeding it to be taken in the sense that it is commonly used, in which the jews are held responisble for all the "problems" of modern society, such as environmentalism, gay-rights, civil rights, athiesm and so on.
This feature should be talked about more. I love being able to supplement the service's catalog with music I own.
I think you got your answer early in the thread.

> Is it wrong to be against a rational discussion of (.+)\?

Yes, it is.

The rest is the discussion why - in particular by pointing out that rational discussion does not automatically imply that abhorrent conclusions will be reached or accepted. The primary thing about rational discussion is that some (or all) participants may be wrong. It's also the difference between discussion and shouting through each other.
Yet it is certainly true. More than the professors, I think the peer group matters in pushing students to their full potentials.
Every time I participate in a security audit for some enterprise contract I have to explain and defend why we don't enforce complexity and rotation rules.

Lately citing the NSA's change in position has been convincing enough and we don't get nearly as much push back.
We're not talking about hindsight. The people who got excited in the 30s, then backed away, are easy to forgive.

We're talking about people supporting soviet communism literally for decades after the evidence for the brutality required to sustain it was incontrovertible.
Doesn't it has garbage collection?
Tempted to invest in cryptocurrency, however I'm acutely aware a sure sign a market is in for a fall is when I become tempted to invest, I've been saying that about BTC for a couple of years now, though.
how did that story end? last time I heard the lawyers were trying to low-ball the defendants by accepting a ridiculously low payout
What is the tool/command used to show git graphs in the screenshots of this article?
> Can I (as a non-government entity) fire someone for choosing a certain religion, for example?

Yes. Can you do it without consequences to yourself? No, because that is almost certainly a protected case in law.