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I.e. the authors had to concede to Damore on the science, but proceeded to claim the conclusions where worthless because the science sucks. Note that the Slate Star Codex articles that have addressed the science in detail point out these are actually strong, large N studies and not just nitpicking. (They are, besides, echoed by studies in other fields showing that _gibbon and chimpanzees_ already present similar gender-behavioral differences re: which toys very young individuals prefer.)

Wired even feels the need to add a parenthetical reinforcing climate change is true because this is the general strategy of climate deniers: they have to accept the laws of physics and the general mechanism of GHG warming and hold on to the nonsequitur conclusion of "huh uh but this isn't the consensus/established science/it's just a theory" and come up with their own conclusions.

(Edit: GHG warming, not GHC. GHC is actually getting cooler all the time.)
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This is an excellent and rare ECC primer in that it's aimed at software developers not mathematicians. I know what python looks like, whereas I don't know every mathematical symbol. Bookmarking.
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Why is Russia so good at encouraging women into tech?

"Most of the girls we talked to from other countries had a slightly playful approach to Stem, whereas in Russia, even the very youngest were extremely focused on the fact that their future employment opportunities were more likely to be rooted in Stem subjects."

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-39579321
The problem with this view is that you assert such unconscious biases exist, but provide no evidence. Moreover it's a classic "she's a witch" kind of accusation. Nobody can refute it because the entire theory is that everyone (or every man) is guilty without even realising it.

You should know that unconscious bias training has been shown to make no difference to outcomes. The science is dubious. Of course, you can always try to fix the theory by claiming the impact is minimal but ... if the impact is so tiny, why worry about it?

Diversity initiatives have long since left the realm of debatable science and fact and turned into a new religion. Science is replaced by faith. I don't think I'm biased, I can't perceive any bias in myself, but I KNOW it's true. I must believe.
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> the discomfort they have with defending the first amendment

That's not what it says at all. It says they defended speech that they disagree with. That doesn't mean they were uncomfortable defending it.
Luckily, the creators of this technology also thought of these cases and provide ways to pre-test the safety check (e.g. damp wood) or to override it on specific cuts.
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Excuse my ignorance, 1.4 + US 10Yr Treasury is ~ 4%.

Would it not be better if they issue it with much shorter terms and hence the lower interest rate? ( Penny Saving not worth it ? )

Could the Interest or repayment be counted against Profit? ( Amazon dont like Profits anyway ). And hence no tax.

I have always wonder why some companies dont go Private. I suspect these bonds could only be issued with a Listed Stock Company? How much more, in terms of Interest rate would a private company have to paid to these bonds sold?
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How rich?

The only requirement for what? Financial success? Celebrity?

Seems your example only applies to a very narrow demographic: wealthy socialites. Does it apply to doctors, lawyers and software engineers? How often does it apply and how often does it not?

I think these nuances are important to answer before generalizing.
I don't get it. Is this bidirecrional communication, so users can also send transactions? If not, I don't see it that useful for bitcoin adoption.
The question has been answered. The dimorphism in gender preferences has been demonstrated (a decade ago) in a very similar fashion in primates who are really not inculcated with "traditional values" or "cultural role models":

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2583786/

Is that a "fair" experiment?
That's exactly my point. It's seems the task now with Web UI is adapting to screen sizes and capabilities to build complex layouts of components that IMHO HTML/CSS is fundamentally not suited for. The leap from using SVG just for simple elements that scale to entire UIs that scale and shift their layouts doesn't seem to far fetched to me...Oracle, Google, Adobe, Microsoft all use(d) XML with a schema for their layout engines and yet the Web won't (cant?) While it has in its grasp an XML as well?
> I would expect to see database systems emerging that can GPGPU accelerate operations on tables to be way, way faster than what a CPU can handle.

Why do you expect that? Many DBMS operations that are not I/O limited are memory limited, and a GPU does not help you there (on the contrary, you get another bottleneck in data transfers to the small GPU memory). What can help is better data organization, e.g. transposed (columnar) storage.
None. I applied for internship at a local tech company, I mentioned on my CV that I was working on a WhatsApp desktop client (which didn't exist at the time) by reverse engineering the Android app. That caught their interest. I got the internship. After 6 months they offered me a permanent contract.

The next job I just applied and did exceptionally well on the interview. The one after that was through a friend that I worked with before, he was starting a company and hired me.
I don't see it as being greedy. If you invent something clever, and we have a whole patent infrastructure for protecting inventors, why wouldn't you want to get paid for people using your inventions? No-one is seriously claiming that these patents are bad, or trivial, or obvious. The patents exist, they are available for companies to license, it's just that the competitors don't want to pay for it.
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> should your web host decide whether they approve of your speech?

Yes. It's the same as any publisher deciding whether they approve of your speech - you have no innate right to a public platform for your speech.
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> There are still tons of things to improve in CPUs: power consumption, cost, embedded functionalities (SoC)

Don't forget bugs! We have had buggy silicon, microcode and drivers, all of which probably still need fixing.
Hey, sorry to hear that. It is a nasty disease. I also have people close to me who died of cancer, including a 17 year old girl, and my friend who was 20 at the time.

But it upsets me that so little research is done on high doses of vitamin C, while the research that is done is actually positive.
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Getting additional data from a predefined map is expected, even if it's just for something to test the data coming from the sensors. If the car knows there's a traffic light on the map but it isn't 'seeing' one then it should be handing control back to the human, not just carrying on regardless on the assumption that the map is wrong.

A level 5 self-driving car would work completely autonomously without any prior knowledge of the area it's driving in. We're not there yet.
It was and still is, the name is _getch() from <conio.h>

However, I can see how for a beginner programmer system("pause"); is more intuitive than printf/_getch() combo. Especially if said programmer is already familiar with windows shell and its commands.
The point is that any insurance company asked to provide a policy for table saws would mandate this technology for any saws it covers. Same way we got UL (underwriters laboratories!) listed electrical equipment.
I was about to write a reply saying whilst that might be true I'd never heard of big well funded initiatives to get women into firefighting, but then I decided to double check on Google and found this:

http://nypost.com/2015/05/05/fdnys-unfit-the-perils-of-pushi...

If you’re ever trapped in a burning building, just pray the firefighter climbing up to rescue you isn’t Rebecca Wax. Or someone like her, who’s been given an EZ-Pass through firefighting training for the sake of gender equity.

This week Wax, who repeatedly flunked the rigorous physical test required by the New York City Fire Department, will graduate anyway, The Post reported.

All over the nation, fire departments are easing physical standards, in response to litigation to increase the number of women firefighters.

Disturbing.
> because they grow up with social blockers

Citation needed.

If your theory were correct, that it is "social blockers", then you would predict that as societies get more egalitarian, you would get more equal representation. The opposite happens.

And this is not about absolute levels, this is about the direction of the arrow, which is pretty binary, and the "social pressures" theory makes exactly the wrong prediction.

> interested in tech when only a handful of her peers understand her interest

Doesn't stop the guys interested in tech. Being a "nerd" or a "geek" is the surest way to social ostracism, and yet these guys do it anyway.

> Until you remove social blockers that prevent women from entering tech

Again, this experiment has been done, on a society level, and the outcome is the opposite of your prediction: as "social blockers" are removed, you get fewer women going into tech fields.
That's why all GPU databases I know of are columnar, or at least hybrid (in the case of IBM DB2 BLU)...

The more complex the operations performed on the columns (trasnform), the better the GPU database will be - because of the higher ops/bytes ratio
Paracognitive is good, but I feel it understates the role of emotional/social/etc. skills in performing the tasks we've been over-crediting to cognitive skills altogether. The point that's being made by users of "non-cognitive" is not that emotional skills are good for emotional affairs while cognitive skills are good for computer programming, but rather than being a effective programmer requires dipping on those other skills as well.

I'm beginning to like "non-epistemic". Not everything about being a succesful intellectual or knowledge worker is about discovering the Truth.
No snark. Just puzzled. You can still just make it configurable. Or just pick a random port and communicate it with your child process.
Meanwhile, the average transaction value is approaching $40,000. $5 suddenly doesn't sound so terrible.

Both of those figures are pulled high by exceptionally valuable and exceptionally large transactions, respectively, of course. Medians might be a better statistic, for which the figures are around $700 (median transaction value) and $1.50 (median transaction fee).
AFAIK schools already have these because they're pocket change to a school budget and students are notoriously dumb. It makes sense. So perhaps, we can think about a law but we should first evaluate if it is necessary. I can agree with the sentiment.
Your alternative cannot exist simply because the problem that exist isn't the billionaire but politicians and the governments they run. Gates and his type are able to have the effect they do because being individuals they don't run into problems of the state, there is no threat of imperialism or such. They are also able to do because they live under a government which respects private property rights, whether to self, land, money, or goods.

Government theoretically could solve everything but it requires good government to do so. The first step is what I stated above, respect for private property rights. If people cannot be assured their product of their work is theirs to use you cannot improve the society they live in. They must be able to trust their government.
Use nginx to lie to them so they think they're running at the server root?
He uses high neuroticism as part of his argument against female software engineers, high neuroticism is associated with autism. So it seems that even he isn't being sensitive to his own neurological differences.
You are right, my argument is incorrect.
It seems I can't edit my own post.

"Metacognitive" has problems. My new favorite is "non-epistemic".
The SVGO-GUI has not been updated since 2015. I added out-of-the-box SVG optimization to my Optimage [1]. Fun fact: Node.js binary can be just 3MB compressed. ImageOptim [2] handles SVGs as well if Node.js is installed.

The transparent JPEG-in-SVG files can also be made with nothing but ImageMagick and Bash [3].

[1] http://getoptimage.com

[2] https://imageoptim.com/mac

[3] https://github.com/vmdanilov/svgize
To me this is not that different from state censorship I experience in Russia.

I would argue that the internet is the primary medium for exercizing one's free speech today. The technological change made printed medium outdated. If you are not on the interent, you will not be heard. If the the government decided to configure the crucial internet infrastructure (domain name resolution) in a way that private companies can censor speech(registrars and verisign), then it's effectively a violation of the first amendment. Because what this ammounts to is government saying that the medium of public protesting or sharing printed material is protected, but the medium of electronic communication is not, because we decided to privatize it. It's like saying you can't protest here because we decided to privatize all the public squares and paved roads, their owners don't want to see you, and the fist amendment does not protect you there, you can protest on a dirt road in the forest(TOR etc) where no one sees you.

I feel very uneasy about these events, because it's a precedent. Censorship of the interent in Russia began with pedophile histeria in the media to justify the laws, and now it's used to censor opposition supporting media.
Considering the changing tastes of upcoming college graduates in the US, in terms of interpretation of what constitues free speech and what doesn't, the political censorship could become intstituionalized in the US through "TOS violations". And through this censorial normalcy could eventually pave way to the end of the current absolutist legal interpretation of the first amendment. Which would be very bad IMO.
>Not manual skills, such as those needed for carpentry

Those skills are still cognitive. You need to know what you're doing to do carpentry. It's not like your hand moves by itself.
Okay, let's try another approach.

On what basis do you think that preferences and abilities are two mutually exclusive traits?

We know interest is influenced heavily by environment. We also know that ability is influenced by both interest and environment. Carol Dweck's work is a good source for this type of study.

It also seems intuitive that ability influences interests, although I'm actually not aware of what studies exist in that area.

I don't think you're standing on as solid footing as you think when you're making accusations of others conflating topics.
I still don't know what this is for, all the fluff (inserted to keep the reader's attention when explaining stuff that might be boring) gets in the way.
Agreed. In this case it would "change the game to change the player" as the worst offenders would be motivated to shift to better margin industries.

An (almost) insurmountable problem with the regulatory climate today is if you look at who (generally) set it up, its the same interests that would would lose the most of the playing field were changed. Counter-lobby groups aren't as well funded so they just can't compete using the same tactics.

Can monetary incentives be removed while still motivating people and businesses to work towards the public good (e.g., availability of broad mental health treatments, treating addiction as the disease it is)? In my heart of hearts I hope so, but I'm doubtful that I'll see it in my lifetime.

But I remain hopeful and will do what I can within my capacity as a citizen to forward the idea.
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The context is Primecoin and ability to find primes. Prime factorization is related to that, and it would be obvious to read your statement in absolut for that context and it's relation. At least I did.
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I read the memo and don't really get what his point was. He threw some half-assed acknowledgements in there that there might be a problem, but the rest was a point-by-point dismissal of actual, concrete measurements to counter-weight them.

On the one had, he complained about how biological statistics are ignored and how it's bullshit to introduce 50/50 quotas, on the other he complained about programs to help women overcome their minority-disadvantages. What is it, then? I want to know what _concrete_ event motivated him to write the memo. There must have been something happening, right? Some super talented male engineer getting ignored because a less talented female one took his position? Did that ever happen? For real?
Agreed but I think the confusion comes from the world "ability". Any threat to the opportunity to have equal ability in a particular discipline beyond our control (say because you were born a man and therefore will start with lesser ability in [xyz]), will be a theory met with opposition.

If on the other hand we're talking about differences in preference only, leaving ability out of it, the argument is harder to criticise.

Either way, it's crazy he was fired for the memo, it sets a dangerous precedent for staying silent unless your words are pre-approved.
Passing the Jepsen tests mean they'd say they're addressing the larger part of that market, rather than document stores specifically.

(I still think MongoDB, the company, isn't particularly great for the usual reasons re their past behaviour, I'm just imagining what they'd tell their investors)
Great article, let's hear from other people how they experience the whole serverside stuff with node.
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But that doesn't necessarily mean what you think.

In the west women have more choice. So why do they choose not to do technology once they are free to choose what they want.
> He has a decades-long reputation for being anti-POC.

He has also received awards for his work helping POC. Personally I value someones actions over what others think of them, but maybe I'm just crazy.
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> are all systems and mechanisms and processes etc that are prescriptive for how to produce a positive, healthy functioning adult in [insert] society.

These processes do not produce babies, they come way after the sperm fertilizing the egg.

And there is no top spot in "the" food chain. There are food chains that are separate from ours. And even assuming that's wrong: Do you see all the species of plants and animals just give up because humans exist? It has no bearing on their "aspirations" if you will. If I made a copy of you, a 100% exact clone, would you die peacefully? Or would it change nothing about your desire to live? My answer would be the latter.

> however it is true that people get pleasure in seeing their children grow up and are generally ok dying knowing their children will take on their legacy.

I don't actually believe this. People make their peace with their mortality -- or fail to do so -- on their own. Everybody dies alone. Actually, worrying about the future, and the gulags or world wars one's child might end up in, can have the opposite effect, people being fine about dying but worried about their children suffering.
Women are more "left" than men generally. They're also less violent than men, so a) you'd think that would make the right more violent, and b) it puts his stated goal of more right-wing thought at Google in direct opposition to hiring more women.
But then it's not portable across distros and to BSD's. On FreeBSD, bash is in /usr/local/bin/bash (if it is installed)

Do you also write "if /usr/bin/[ $? != 0 ]; then ..." ?
they would get done exactly as much as the shareholders were incentivized to do
> a lot of those ARM SoC's have proprietary code running on their bootloader too

Usually possible to replace that blob! e.g. https://github.com/christinaa/rpi-open-firmware for the Raspberry Pi
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It seems the author is down the 'deep learning' rabbit hole.

>> It does this at the cost of requiring many, many times the computing power. But much of this computing cost can be parallelized and accelerated effectively on the GPU, so with GPU cores still increasing exponentially, at some point it's likely to become more effective than CPUs.

So can be any matrix. Sadly, there aren't as many algorithms that are efficiently represented by one.
Is this fundamentally a story about bad/criminal actors, or another strange outcrop of an insurance-centric industry?

The facililty described in the article seems to be a criminal racket. But my question in these cases is usually: is this a spectrum? How many places are on the seedy-but-not-criminal portion of that spectrum?

Kickbacks and body brokering might be ilegal, but the ultimate goal of these isn't: find clients with insurance you can bill, bill clients as much as the insurer will pay. There are options that aren't criminal, but also aren't a good allocation of resources.
And because boys are more interested in things... ?
> There's an honored place for the playfully obscure too.

I get enough of this from work, thanks. There's a fine line between decoding twee whimsy and billable hours that most of these submissions stomp past obliviously.

The first rule of writing is: respect your reader's time (or else they won't read you). I'm all for not taking things to seriously, but if I have to spend 5 minutes to work out if this is an entertaining flight of fancy that I might just learn something from, or an untargeted waste of marketing budget, then I'm going to Have Opinions that I want to Share Online.
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So it does affect only Desktop workload right? Because on servers as long as we use virtuals we should be good. Am i right?
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