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Telcos should answer all calls to unregistered numbers with robots of their own. Simple way to prevent spammers from finding real people.
Program Manager[1]. i.e. too many generals and not enough soldiers

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Program_management
Maybe there is pressure to hire from minority groups then. It makes sense that minority candidates are on average less qualified objectively if there is an affirmative action earlier in the process (for example at school admission level).
When was the last time we saw a 50-100% performance gain in cars? airplanes? spacecraft?

Was it the end of those industries?

Welcome to mature technology.
We have exactly what your explaining in the form of taxes, and the outcomes are terrible. We spend $1B on a healthcare website, that other companies have duplicated for a mere decimal point of the price. Not only that, but it actually turned out worse, cause now it's mandatory to have Healthcare, and for those who can't afford the "affordable health care plan", now have an additional payments in "penalties" for not being able to afford it and they STILL don't have health insurance. This is just one point of a thousand were socialistic practices are completely contrary to the original point. Let the people who create enough value to the world decide where they want to spend their money.
> You're holding him to an unbelievably high standard that is never applied to those making the case that gender disparities are due to societal discrimination.

No, this is wrong. Societal discrimination is directly measurable at the point of hiring. There are a mountain of studies measuring this. It simply doesn't require modelling the effect as it propagates through society.

As I've mentioned elsewhere, nobody is claiming that bias is the only factor involved, but it's one we can measure and act on.

> Damore did not target anyone as below the bar... The threat response was immature

Aside from explicitly saying "lowers the bar", explicitly saying "I’m simply stating that the distribution of preferences and abilities of men and women differ in part due to biological causes" and making multiple references to lower drive, mathematical ability, etc. Please.

As you know, threat responses aren't driven by 'maturity' they're driven by percieved threat. Damore's clumsy language caused people at Google to be afraid, and justifiably so. He may have intended to spark a dialog but his words are confrontational. Don't confront people on this topic because you'll often get a fight/flight response. Instead you must engage and build trust.
Likewise, as an EE I studied differential equations, La Place transforms, z-transforms, s-transforms, the fourier transform, and the dft transform. I'm a digital logic designer and have never had to directly do any of that stuff, but understanding the duality of time domain and frequency domain has been invaluable to me over the years.
People can say whatever they want, but Kaspersky RE guys are really good.
> you have two choices. You either lower the bar on the 20% or you raise the bar on the 80%.

Or you solicit more resumes from the 20%. Or you randomly throw out some resumes from the 80%. Neither of those will move the bar.
> because all the other students are doing well the bad students peers are working hard so the bad student sees that example and is likely to succumb to peer pressure and do better

What about the non-troubled kids? How much of a negative effect can a few troubled kids have on non-troubled kids?

One kid acting out in a class can ruin the learning atmosphere for the entire class.
As much as like the new way of distributing wealth in this manner, some of the foundations Christians fundamentals worry me. For example - https://www.gatesfoundation.org/how-we-work/quick-links/gran...

I tried looking for similar grants to religious services organizations from other religions, but my search came up empty. Very happy to stand corrected on this.
I wonder, incidentally, if stopping it at the banking/money transfer level would be effective.
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The danger area is conflating lack of success in a particular social setting with noncognitive skills.

I.e., "this person lacks persistence" versus "this person has given up because this social setting is pathological."

I worry that this trend is used to justify unethical behavior by making trait-based attributions of dissenters.

I say this without denying the importance of social skills--but there's a fine line between "socially skillful" and "psychopath", especially as you move up the ladder.
(but really, the term "cognitive" used in this context boils down to g-loading, so "non-kernel processing" is as apt as anything else — an improvement over "non-cognitive" at the very least.)
It may be a good idea to not pull such a shitty in an EU country from May 2018.

According to the General Data Protection Regulation (2016/679). Appart from regular audits you may run into the following consequences :

a fine up to 20000000 EUR or up to 4% of the annual worldwide turnover of the preceding financial year in case of an enterprise, whichever is greater (Article 83, Paragraph 5 & 6[18]).

Ask companies like Microsoft, Volkswagen, Renault, Daimler or Google and they can you assure you that the responible entities don't look kindly at corporate bullshit PR statements, which the likes of Uber seem so fond of.
Yup, it's nuts. They have turned it into a ultra luxury car. Any one can view one only a privleged few can afford to drive.
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The only time spammers leave me voicemail, it's an automated recording, I doubt any human spammer is evening listening to your "law offices of..." voicemail recording.
It amazes me that most of you don't question the fact that you (north americans?) are paying to receive phone calls. Here (Spain, but I think it applies to all the euro zone) we just do not pay to receive calls, which seems much more sensible to me.

How would you feel if some random mailguy knocked at your door and when you opened it he threw a package at your hands and immediately charged you for (part of) the delivery? This is exactly how charging to receive phone calls feels to me!

How do telcos justify this to you? What's the reasoning behind it?
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It's a QAM signal on a fixed frequency. Old-school techniques will work just fine.
As a combat sports fan who follows the issues with brain trauma (chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, being the condition to watch out for): it's gonna be both.

We used to think it was the major concussions that did the long-term damage, and you'd be fine if you avoided the big shots as a boxer (let's say). Modern research shows that the sustained, repeated, sub-concussive blows are genuinely bad for the brain. Training itself can be a major cause of brain damage.

Soccer doesn't focus exclusively on heading the ball, but practicing heading for years, and pushing your limits in games, definitely adds up and has resulted in soccer players with CTE. Major concussive events, like head-to-head collisions, are decidedly no help on top of those training regimes.
Interesting article. The african american screenshot when searching "american inventors" is particularly clear as daylight there's an agenda. Wow.
You are rambling. I do not mean that as an insult, just as an observation that might help your writing. Maybe you could do it like (1) Get a book on writing. (2) Read the book. (3) Do the exercises. Seems to work for you.

However, the way you learn best doesn't have to be the way that is best for everyone else. See, when I took calculus in high school, I (1) Got the book. (2) Flipped through it in an afternoon. (3) Decided the exercises were too simple to bother. (4) Went to school where the teacher said the book was worthless and he wasn't going to use it. (5) Graduated high school with credit for freshman calculus due to an agreement with the local university. My point: if you are smart and have a good source of knowledge, it doesn't matter whether it's a book or a teacher, you're going to learn something.

Now, what happens to people who aren't smart, but try to do (1)-(2)-(3) anyway?

First they have to do (1) correctly. You mentioned there are plenty of old, good, cheap books available. I mentioned that the book I got was not good. (It wasn't old or cheap either.) Do you know of a place that aggregates recommendations for the right books to get?

Second, they have to do (2) correctly. Reading a book is simple, right? Except if it was written in by someone who knows their stuff, but doesn't really know which parts are hard, because they all seem equally easy. So the average high school student is going to get stuck on a sentence like "Obviously, a convex polytope in R^n is just a finite intersection of closed half spaces." because they have trouble remembering what all those words mean and where they were defined. Add to that that they might not yet be comfortable with intuitively manipulating the underlying concepts, despite doing the exercises.

(3), the exercises. Consistently high-quality exercises are hard to come by. (Again, if you have any recommendations ...) I have seen exercises that introduced a new concept just to be able to define the problem. I have seen exercises that included a hint for an intermediary step to the solution, except the hint could only be arrived at by a mistake in the correct derivation.

If a student gets stuck somewhere along the way of doing (1)-(3), what they need is someone who can find out what the student doesn't yet understand and then explain it to them. Essentially, a teacher. If you have the necessary perseverance, you can probably replace the teacher by trying other books until one has the right explanation to help you across the hurdle. Most students would probably still prefer a good teacher.

Ok, most teachers aren't actually good. But most books aren't actually good either. It all comes down to being able to select the right ones.
Depends on what you're doing. We've used it on at least one production product at work where it works fine and probably will not be replaced. (If it's not broken don't fix it TM)
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Thanks. Very useful info.
I certainly agree with your comment, since it reflects my experience in a lot of cases. But

"We take security seriously"

Why would such a statement legally cover your ass? From a legal perspective it sounds as dubious as warnings on a Truck "Stay back 10 metres. Truck is not responsible for damage"
Google's hiring rate between men and women does seem to match the relative rates that men and women graduate with CS degrees, which suggests that they're at least not discriminating at that level.

There are still arguments to be made that either more aggressively recruiting women (fattening their pipeline, even if it's zero-sum versus other players in the field) or accepting a higher rate (yes, "lowering the bar", which most colleges do quite aggressively and people seem mostly okay with) could be positive moves on many axes.

More productive overall measures involve equalizing the educational pipeline, which IMO is the real solution. Google invests heavily in that, too, though, so I'm pretty happy with their multi-pronged approach.
Ah, that's why they don't say anything for 6 seconds.
As far as I know sawstop will trigger on wood that is lightly damp. And at ~$100 per occurrence it gets expensive fast ($70 for sawstop cartridge and 15-50 for a new blade.)

Yes there is a bypass but you don't always know if the wood is too wet or not.
> People involved with the private high schools liked to brag about the high scores their students scored on standardized tests – without bothering to mention that you had to score well on such a test to get into them in the first place. This is, as I’ve said before, akin to having a height requirement for your school and then bragging about how tall your student body is.

Of course, that's a bad analogy, because average height isn't correlated with the amount of time teachers have to spend on OTHER kids, but average grades of the kids - is (inversely), so parents still prefer schools where other kids are as "smart" as possible, because that indirectly benefits their kids (more attention of teachers for their kid, higher expectations, peer pressure to perform, etc).

So - selection bias is one of the reasons kids do better, but that doesn't mean it doesn't also make teachers do better.

By the way, in my country (Poland) public universities are considered better, than the private ones (because of historical reasons, and the way free university education works). There's still selection bias (best students go to public universities and don't have to pay for education, so these universities have the best students and teachers, and the best results), but it's mostly unrelated to students' wealth (apart from extremes where kids don't have food or time to do homework in primary school, etc).

Do you still consider selection bias in education a bad thing, if it's only about results, not about your family, connections, wealth, etc.? It's easier to teach a group of people on similar skill level, than a group of people where a third is bored, a third is learning, and the rest don't get what's going on.
I can't imagine any benefits from satellites in blockchains unless everyone has access to broadcast their transactions which would seem to necessitate satellite uplink hardware for any node which I highly doubt will become affordable or common anytime soon and until it does, the nodes running sattalite uplinks would be in a position similar to mining pool operators which can MITM your transactions to manipulate for their malicious benefit.

Also latency on satellites is atrocious.
> content creators should have control over what persists and for how long (see: "Right to Be Forgotten").

Strange idea.

The "Right to Be Forgotten" in EU law refers to personal data not to works that you have published, it is about privacy not copyright. See the Commision's factsheet on the subject: http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/files/factsheets...
I'm curious as to why you call it a "side hustle"?

Is the term "hustle" not extremely negative to you?

Merriam-Webster defines "hustle" as to push or shove someone in a rude way.

Urban Dictionary says "Anythin you need to do to make money... be it sellin cars, drugs, ya body. If you makin money, you hustlin."

Obviously, you don't seem to think that the word "hustle" has negative connotations, so I'm wondering how you came to that view?
And then the board selects a CEO to run the day-to-day operations... and we're back to the current system.
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There are a lot of legitimate reasons why a call from a number isn't coming from where you would be directing the call, so it's hard to fix it with a simple policy. What would be useful though is requiring something analogous to email received headers, combined with a real time method to report calls as spam/unwanted.

If spam volume from an interconnecting carrier is too high, cut them off.

Telco routing is a lot of twisty passages, but there are many fewer players than internet routing, so it should be easier to get bad apples off the network, as long as there is desire and some users are willing to provide feedback on calls.
> a thousand cores can brute force its way through anything

Cool! Please factor this very large prime for me <insert some RSA prime>
Only do it if your wife will work and you guys can be dual income. Also, realize a lot of apartments will actively discriminate against renting to couples with kids, mainly because the buildings here are built terribly with just wood frames, so if you get downstairs neighbors they will complain about your kids running around. They won't tell you they're not renting to you because of your kids, you just won't get selected to rent any units.
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Databases already exist which identify cell-phone vs landline.

https://www.neustar.biz/risk/compliance-solutions/tcpa
Super interesting. I'd love to see people in this thread comment on this. It is a little odd how "diversity in tech" is so over represented in the public debate when there are clearly many other jobs that are even more heavily skewed and in both directions, i.e., plenty of jobs with >80% men AND plenty of jobs with >80% women.
Fun to see a link here!

Always happy to describe what's happening underneath w/ connecting GPUs in the browser to GPUs in the datacenter. Likewise, the connection between event data & graph analytics is powerful as data scales, so happy to dig into that too.

Not shown there, we're piloting a 'visual playbook' investigation layer to help teams who investigate through a lot of event data. This has been especially relevant for security (SOC/IR/hunt) and anti-fraud as a team grows and needs to cover more ground. Playbooks let you finally record common multi-step multi-datasource workflows and get real visibility out of them. When your alerting flags something, running the playbook will gather & correlate that data for you, and unique to Graphistry, present it in a full visual (graph) analytics session. Think visually automating multi-step queries across Splunk + Spark + various APIs. And of course, for the advanced analysts, giant GPU-accelerated visualizations. We're actively piloting with interesting teams, so please ping info@graph....com if it may be your team's kind of thing.
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> Why is there no libsvg like libjpeg or libpng?

nanosvg is pretty good:

https://github.com/memononen/nanosvg
>By perpetuating the stereotype that "women are less interested in engineering" and suggesting that your chances of getting a good female candidate are lower, Damore is introducing an unconscious bias against women. After all, "it's likely that she doesn't really like this", "she probably went into engineering because her parents pushed her", "maybe she's great now, but she'll lose interest once anxiety kicks in."

A ("women in general are less interested") does not imply B ("woman job candidates are less interested"). A would only imply B if there were equal numbers of man and woman engineers. But there are fewer. It's entirely possible for "women are less interested in engineering than men" and "women that go into engineering are far more interested than men that go into engineering" to both be true.

So that hiring bias is based on non-logic in the first place. Considering the possibility of A does not legitimize B.
What would be the economic implications of changing US policy to allow Stateside based companies to bring back overseas capital at treasury rate tax costs? I can't really fathom the implications here cause i'm not to privy on the economic theory behind this. Obviously their would be some kind of inflation due to all the money that would flood into the US market, but that would be good for all the corporations with stock, resulting in more money inflooding. But the investment in US based industry would receive a considerable boost, which would be potentially good. I don't really see a downside here, so why does current economic policy dictate such a punishing tax cost to bring overseas cash into the stateside market again?
> Is it free speech to just be mean to someone?

Yes. But thankfully for internet platforms, they are not bound by free speech.

> If toxicity on a platform gets so bad that people don’t even want to post a comment, they don’t even want to share an idea, you’ve actually threatened expression.

No, you've only threatened the appeal of the platform. Expression and free speech lives on outside of it.
I don't see anything in this idea that can't be done without a blockchain. As a matter of fact, organizations based on the same principles have existed for (at least) a couple hundred years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative
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It's either a paltry amount of money to accept a call, or completely free (unlimited talk). Data is what costs the real money.
Affirmative action is strictly a US federal government policy. Google cannot implement affirmative action, however it can implement pro-diversity hiring policies. I honestly don't know what those policies are though, and reading through the thread it's unclear.

Affirmative action isn't actually a specific policy directive, so it's not like a checklist or a set of guidelines for hiring or anything. Every department does it differently. But the main idea is that Kennedy and later Johnson told the government to get its diversity house in order, and it did. Some private institutions choose to implement pro-diversity policies, for hiring and otherwise, but they're not in any way related.

What you're referring to is tokenism, which is an old concept: people of color, LGBTQ people, or women feel like they're only there because of their minority status. It's a familiar trope, especially amongst people of color because they've often been exploited that way.

It's certainly the case that at some point, someone gets a job or gets into a school because they're a minority. That's gotten a lot of play in this thread and in the broader debate. But what I haven't seen, and this happens far, far more often, is that minorities don't get jobs because they're minorities. It is hard to get a job as a software engineer if you're Black, if you're a woman, if you're a Black woman, or at all queer.

This happens far more often than White men losing out to "diversity hires", and I think we should start focusing on the fact that for minorities, you're often occupy a space between discrimination because of who you are, or tokenism because of who you are.

But at least with tokenism you have a job. I'm in no way saying we should settle for this; the situation's unacceptable. But let's stop acting like tokenism is the worst thing in the world for minorities and then use it as an excuse to get rid of pro-diversity policies and affirmative action; policies that have probably done more for minorities than any other policy initiative past like, the Emancipation Proclamation, the Reconstruction Amendments, the 19th Amendment, and the Civil Rights Acts.
I've been in interviews were afterwards the group consensus was to actively not hire the newly engaged woman because people were nervous she'd get pregnant and then take maternity leave. Blatantly illegal, but nobody wrote it down, just said it out loud. She was well qualified and smart, but didn't get an offer. "Culture fit."
Well, now this discussion should give the author of the memo enough data, to make a follow up memo with his arguments backed up by deep research if there is research.

Mission accomplished?
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Isn't the onus on Damore to put forth supported arguments? He made a lot of claims that were completely unsupported.

The worst offense though was that a lot of the assertions were completely disconnected from supporting the original claim that Google's diversity efforts were misguided. In order to have an honest intellectual discussion, first there would have had to have been an honest effort at putting together a coherent argument with such controversial/incendiary points/implications made. Damore failed that miserably.
By "SVG can do that?", it appears they actually just meant "JavaScript can do that?", as all the cool animations and stuff are all just JS-driven.

Unless I misread it?
It most certainly isn't. The Wikipedia article has an accurate description. Google pulls a wrong definition for some reason.
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This isn't true anymore since pretty much all the wireless carriers in the US offer unlimited voice minutes (and often SMS as well) as their standard postpaid plan.
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