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I wonder if Ms. Emily Wilson has ever spent time as a full-time wife and homemaker. It does not sound to me like she has.

I have. I spent two decades at it. I often find the way modern working women portray the traditional female role completely dismissive and scathing, like it is all downside. I did not experience it as all down side.

I spent a lot of years trying to comprehend how to play the feminine role in an empowered way, to stop seeing myself as simply a victim. The gist of what I came to understand can be summed up in the negotiating trope "The first person to name a number loses."

Emotional labor is a hot buzz word currently that seems to be the fashionable new way to say that doing women's work makes you a chump, a victim. But I think it is more complicated than that.

I don't like this trend that I see where modern women translate the stories of traditional women and are as derisive of the woman's role as men are, if not more so. The female slaves were executed, but so we're many men. This write up implies that the death of women has a unique horror to it that we need not feel over the more prosaic deaths of men.

At the time The Odyssey was written, life was generally harder than it is now. This was true for both men and women, rich and poor. Death was pretty common. It was not inherently more wonderful to be an executed male than an executed female.
Just open up the pdf and look on the front page.

> Key insights

> Google has shown the monolithic model of source code management can scale to a repository of one billion files, 35 million commits, and tens of thousands of developers.

> Benefits include unified versioning, extensive code sharing, simplified dependency management, atomic changes, large-scale refactoring, collaboration across teams, flexible code ownership, and code visibility.

> Drawbacks include having to create and scale tools for development and execution and maintain code health, as well as potential for codebase complexity (such as unnecessary dependencies)
Just to put things in perspective, a lot of the world that lives in poverty would also see the lifestyle of the top 10% (household income around $160K) to be extravagant and wasteful.
Cognitive overhead. You have to deal with maintenance, logistics, staffing, planning, design etc yourself. Yes you get exactly what you want but it would likely be a bunch of work whereas this sounds fairly turnkey with everything planned out for you.
oh I didnt know, thanks for the incite :)
Very similar to my experience. That organization is a train wreck. I realized afterwards that joining them is like joining something called the Leg Club. You aren't bound by an interest in anything other than yourself, as opposed to, say, an environmental or tennis club.
Anthony Bourdain wrote a short piece about a stay on this ship. Interesting enough read!
Tax advantages from non-dom status, I'm guessing. And getting to be with the other ghetto kids.
The EDA (Electronic Design Automation) industry is full of such clauses. Every software in that industry is selling based on its quality of results or faster processing time. Every tool claims 10x improvements but there is no way to verify it. To be fair to them, understandably designs are different and may yield different quality of results.
I have a lot of avenues to test but unfortunately testing each one requires setting up a sample app with signposts and recording a bunch of runs in Instruments, so there's a bit of work to do if I want to figure out the right way.

And do you have a 120fps+ monitor? If not I'm not sure what you mean by 120fps unless it's broken or not vsynced at all and painting twice per frame. If you have a proper way of waiting on vsync 120fps is just a waste of power with no benefits and you don't want that.
Second this
The emissions per capita of that thing must be huge.

Hopefully in a couple of decades such energetic excesses will be condemned by humanity.
They’ve already made /Titanic/
If the FCC doesn't know how the internet works, why does the EFF want them regulating it?
Send it to the next cheapest place to dump garbage outside a rich country.

Probably Africa ... someone there will surely be happy to take money to dump first world "recycling" by a roadside.

What's really needed is a ban on exporting garbage/recycling from this country, not a game of musical chairs whilst various countries ban "importing".

Or just dump it in the Pacific Ocean .... oh hang on we already do.
Fuck off CAH, they cut off their nose to spite their face. They clearly are thinking ina zero sum with this tax bill.
If we were to add externalities into the cost of things, it's likely this will have the added effect of bringing some of the previously off-shored jobs back home. Win-win. Environment wins, blue-collar, non-college American workers win. Possibly offsetting some of the "sharing" economy jobs trend and bring back some real jobs.
I suppose that it depends on bank. But not in my experience. As long as you are a client, they will notarize something for you.
Yes.

http://www.bwsailing.com/bw/cruising-news/antarctica-on-our-...
> Recycling does not make much environmental sense and considering it is sort of like a little ritual that washes away your consumption sins

This reminded me of something Slavoj Zizek was talking about. How people need rituals like that to feel like they are saving the environment. So municipalities indulge them and let them read the triangles under each plastic piece of trash and they put it in one of 5 recycling bins, then the trucks pick them up and dump them all in a large dump.
I think some laptops don't have a hardware TPM and use software running on ME instead.
When I see the occasional MR2 MK2 around today, I still consider looking to buy one in decent state.

>It certainly was a car appreciated by many, but I guess if you asked 100 people what an MR2 was, only ~20% of then would know, so I guess in that regard it was a failure.

I wouldn't regard that as failure, it was never intended to compete with a Yaris for example - it wasn't exactly a mass market car, but I think used to elevate the brand among enthusiasts.
Your description of Mensa sounds exactly like the IQ obsession over on quora.com. Every week tons of posts about IQ. It’s the same questions over and over again, I really feel like the community over there has very low self esteem in regards to intelligence because they’re not on track to be the next mark zuckerberg.
To fix poverty among the poor, you'll have to do a whole lot more than just convince them to eat healthy:

1) Healthy food where I live is much more expensive than unhealthy food. I get that in SF and NYC, it's possible to buy such food at Asian grocers for a reasonable cost, but not everyone is fortunate enough to have an Asian grocer on their corner. So they'll need more money.

2) On a related note, many poor neighborhoods don't even have a grocery store within walking distance, and many poor Americans own no car.

3) Unless somehow the food is pre-cooked (unlikely), they'll need the time to prepare it. Many poor people work 2 jobs, and I know of some single mothers working 2 FT minimum-wage jobs. These are investment banker hours. They don't have time to cook.

4) Many poor people also don't have working stoves/ranges, just microwaves or hot plates. It's much harder to cook healthy food in microwaves, although it can be done.

5) The also need to learn how to cook new healthy foods, which isn't always easy.

6) Finally, and this is a big one, but it's very stressful to live life as a poor American. Many people both rich and poor stress eat, so that is another factor here.

Anyway, not sure what you're suggesting, but if it's just that someone needs to tell those poor people to eat better, it's not always so easy. But I do agree with you it would be great if it were possible to work on some of the challenges above.
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I'd like to see the world checked into an rcs.
Also the driving position is great.
Got to be careful - you'd want the terrorists to look like villains and for John McClane to be fighting for the right side.
really excited about this one
I don't see that. It has tools for running the benchmarks yourself, but that doesn't give you permission to publish benchmark results. And even if it did, a blog post from an employee cannot give you permission to do something that the EULA takes away.
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At the higher levels apparently you pay $900k a year for annual maintenance fees. That could cover the full-time salaries of several people to do all those things for you.
Circular pattern UI similar in some ways to the iOS app Figure: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/figure-make-music-beats/id51...
thats more of a recent thing, and more of a google thing. i was going to say I dont know the route apple took, but then again we do know, they did the norm: MBA.

Either way, at any company in the world just about, taking a stanford mba (even at google) is not a unlikely success story.
Haha welcome to gpu programming. You should hit up Warren Moore on Twitter (@warrenm), he’s a real life savior.

Re: 120fps, I questioned it myself but the difference is perceivable. Idk if something is broken or not I was confused too. Re power consumption, that’s why you enable setneedsdisplay.
There would be a lot of jobs created in support an operation like this.

Outside of charity what else are these people going to do with their money? If they are already 60 there isn't much point investing it for the future unless it is about the next generation.

The less wasteful way would have been to have taxation laws that prevented them accumulating that level of wealth to begin with.
Many of the best sales people are introverted. It can be a very strong advantage when you need to ask insightful questions, actively listen, and project integrity. Strong extroverts can be very weak in those areas and many would kill for that last superpower in particular. Having done both roles I have no doubt that every engineer would benefit from learning about sales and having some practise in it. Regardless of whether they pursue it as a career, it is incredibly widely applicable in many areas of life, from selling your ideas, to getting jobs, to dating. If someone really sucks at it, they will benefit immeasurably throughout their life from being slightly less bad. They are basically handicapped without being aware of it.
Re #4:

96.6% of US households below the poverty level have a working stove.

https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/terence-p-jeffrey/censu...
Poor people are allowed to have fun, too.

They "Deserve To Taste Something Other Than Shame", by Ijeoma Oluo: https://theestablishment.co/poor-people-deserve-to-taste-som...
Isn't that a rather pedantic swipe? How many machines do you know which are still big-endian?

DNS resolution is done by your operating system; just because ISPs provide DNS servers doesn't mean that's a service they're solely responsible for considering you can switch DNS servers at any time, with the exception of ISPs who wrongly prohibit such things. In many cases DNS resolution is sped up by changing DNS servers; weird that eh?
> have owned BTC for 5 years and I am enjoying the rally, but with the high transaction fees, back ...

That sir is a first world problem!
Try doing some informational interviews of actual software developers in person. This is the single best way to get some concept of what the job entails short of actually just getting hired to do it. Also, keep in mind that every job is different. Maybe Ruby on Rails in a small shop is a disaster for you, but Python at a corporation is an excellent fit.

I don't think the modern world does a very good job of helping people figure out how to find a good fit. Some people luck into it. Others just miserably muddle through. Others just fail entirely.
Thanks!

I guess when the account was first created a bunch of the defaults were either wrong or not set yet.
> Moore's Law didn't catch up with the vision until the mid 90s, and luckily he and NexT's operating system were brought back into the fold at Apple then.

This is exactly what people don't understand. Jobs had a dream computer and he was adamant on making it. First time he got fired because of it. Second time he became immensely successful because of the same dream.

This is case of perfect hindsight. It's easy to think he was great because second time around he became crazy successful. Nobody is willing to admit that he was repeating the same strategy and failing at it until luck worked in his favour. His rehiring at Apple when NextStep was failing. And then at Apple he got John Ive and team. And finally evolution of technologies like powerful and efficient processors, touch screens, high density storage etc allowed that dream to be realized finally.
For very poor people, just having more money can often make a huge difference in their lives:

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2013/08/23/214210692/the-...

There's actually a mounting volume of convincing evidence that cash grants to poor people are much more effective than random charity programs of equivalent value. Because poor people often know what they need more than some paper pusher in a faraway city.
I guess I'm coming from: I feel like we're in a relatively cushy bubble so maybe let's talk bubble-external impact?

I think this is a good thing that a private company is doing. They're benefitting from PR, but they're also using their stance on the capital and renown front to make a statement that it's cool to help out people who need help. Oh and also they're using their own cash to do that.

They didn't say fuck anyone and they didn't say fuck capitalism.

If anything, they're optimizing for capitalism: "people who care about the emotional plight of individuals in need would probably react positively to us publicly helping them out... and be more likely to buy our product."
The core of the opposition to it comes from monopolists who don't want their abusive monopolistic practices to be held in check. Who else, besides those who are paid off by said monopolists, would willingly side with them?
Excitonium
Try Comcast, Verizon, AT&T and Charter. They spend millions on this.
The survivorship bias in these vids and articles is overwhelming. Spend any time in corporate america and you'll see that the "success" stories are often run behind the fancy public veneer, by tyrannical megalomaniacs who give not a whit for their employees so long as the cog remains working hard for the machine.
Maybe the reason that 120fps is perceivably better is that your draw calls don't line up with vsync, so doubling the number of frames eliminates the dropped frame effect in @jordwalke's diagram!

And thanks for the Twitter recommendation, I followed him.
> The fact that there are no government regulations against such behavior, is precisely what leads people to think that we are living in a Corporatocracy, and not a Free Market.

Amen, brother. Many folks who criticize capitalism don't actually realize that actual bogeyman is cronyism, not the free market.
Re #2:

You are talking about so called food deserts. There are a lot of reasons to be skeptical of this hypothesis. Here is a good academic article that is representative:

http://chicagopolicyreview.org/2015/10/26/if-you-build-it-th...
Is it part of his business to make trash?

Then yes.
This is just the same thing you said in your last comment, reworded. No.
Answer the question please. Who else supports monopoly (besides obvious shills)?
And Google, Facebook, and Netflix are spending millions against. Why should I be excited to be a pawn in a battle between billion dollar multinationals?
I think this is spot on.

I probably won't read Wilson's translation -- I recently read Fagles', and am not keen to re-read for sake of a new translation, although might be interested in a comparison of translation differences. But you are correct that Greek society was very, very different from "modern" society in many ways.

I was debating going into the ways it is different, but it seems that the political climate is too toxic, so I will instead link to a fantastic lecture series on the Odyssey that I personally found enlightening: https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/odyssey-of-homer.htm...
In this case there are fights and guns being drawn. It seems a reasonable description, and the justification for those doing it seems well described. It seems quite a long way from a dogwhistle
Yep agree 100%. It's amazing how bad the general standards are in sales. A lot of people cargo culting off sales as portrayed in the movies and doing the opposite of what they should. Maybe it should be taught in schools.
> Why should I be excited to be a pawn

If you aren't using Internet, you don't need to care about it. If you are, you either care about gatekeepers not abusing their ownership of the network, or you are paid off by them not to. Other option is clueless bystander. Pick yours.
I've written about my experience in the blog. Why and how will you benefit? You won't, because you're not trying to learn Chinese.

"There's zero design" - you just said "You're ugly". What is ugly? Should I lose weight? Plastic surgery? Wear different clothes? Tell me what to fix and I can try! But insults get nowhere.

I also think it's very ironic to criticise my design decision on Hacker News. Is there any "copy" here? Design? It's functional. I like the style of HN. But it sure doesn't follow your "best practices" of design.
Ah, so it's that only Ellison has managed to make such a PR blunder under this modification (and thusly reveal he is modified). Makes sense.
When people talk about a day, they are usually thinking more of a solar day than a sidereal day. A solar day varies, but on average it is about 24 hours. That is after all how hours were originally defined.
I'm using Internet right now and strangely don't find myself excited. This hostile, content-free rhetoric you're deploying isn't very persuasive.
"Why"? Because Google has billions of lines of code.

Does any company not store all their related code in a single repository?
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I don't find your support for monopolies to be something that can't be criticized. If you can't defend your position - too bad.
Don't want to risk breaking all of oncall for the whole company if there's a mistake?
Most unicorns don't have mono repos.
previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11991479
You asked upthread why I wasn't "answering your question". This response is why. Who would discuss anything with you when it's so clear you aren't discussing in good faith?

Not everybody agrees with you.
This is true but packfiles are an implementation detail.

It's still useful and more accurate conceptually to consider every commit as a complete snapshot of the state of code that point.
I'd bet pretty much everything that runs in Google data centers.
The bottom line, you can't answer the question. As expected.
There is a virtuous fervor to recycling -- it's a type of middle class moral purification ritual, something that counterbalances high levels of consumption, even when it wastes more scarce resources than putting trash in a landfill.

This is a great article:
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/04/opinion/sunday/the-reign-...

Certainly recycling some things makes a lot of sense. For example, scrap metal. But the push to recycle everything has lead to exploding costs and mounting subsidies. For example, the article cites New York spending $300 million on subsidizing recycling, about half the park department budget, rather than what it would cost to put waste into landfills.

By lowering recycling costs, China has played the role of enabler, allowing many middle class households to continue to obtain consumption indulgences at below market rates. If China stops subsidizing this stuff, I hope there is some pushback from communities, or at least from most communities, because we've gone full crazy on recycling.
I interpreted it as "don't shut down discussion with low effort comments like 'it doesn't scale'".
Thanks for the input!

I realize I didn't clarify explicitly. While I'd agree that a one-time $15 gamble would be an irrationally exorbitant expense if it was in place of a family meal, I think we're talking about different things.

Even if "poor people" were <$1000 away from financial ruin, $15 towards a reusable entertainment asset is quite different than $15 towards one-off lottery tickets.
Those sound like good points to me. Thanks for sharing. I am not enough educated on biotech to draw a conclusive opinion myself. What I understand about Monsanto’s exploits into corn production seems devastating, though.

Once you have a certain amount of karma, you can downvote comments. I don’t know what the necessary amount is.
1/40,000
The core message of that video seems to be some libertarian wet dream, that it costs more money to recycle X than to build X from scratch, and that instead of government subsidies, we should just throw it all away in a landfill, until natural resources are depleted enough that we will be willing to pick up that trash for money.
Compared to many places in the world, Japan is a relatively easy place to migrate to. Having a university degree makes a massive difference, so if you are serious about it, then I recommend that. Also, if you are young, one area that I think often gets overlooked is that if you have a master's degree, you can get an instructor's visa and teach at college level. If you are under 40 and from an eligible country, I also highly recommend the JET programme, which is the programme I initially came in on. It's a government programme and is an incredibly soft landing into Japan -- visa get's sorted for you, you can bring your spouse, you can stay for up to 5 years -- which, if you are diligent is just enough time to learn a decent amount of Japanese, you are set up with a subsidised, furnished apartment with all the utilities hooked up, you aren't expected to be able to speak much Japanese, etc. But there are many other ways to come to Japan and probably it's more difficult to sort out leaving your home country than it is to actually find a way to work in Japan.

The biggest thing I will caution you is that most people who come here with expectations of what it's going to be like have a bit of a rude awakening. In Japanese culture if you are hammering a nail and it doesn't go in, you hit it harder. If it still doesn't go in, you hit it even harder. If it still doesn't go in, you pull it up and throw it away. This is one of the reasons why you see posts like the OP's.

I have found that people who come from countries with a strong cultural and moral background have a very difficult time in Japan. Japan also has a strong cultural and moral background -- but the culture and morals are different. You may find yourself in the situation where you are thinking, "I'm supposed to do X. X is morally wrong. I refuse to do X." -- and, well, at that point you are kind of screwed. If you have a more relativistic view of morals then it is much easier. Personally I have had to change my attitude from being "This way or no way at all" to constantly thinking, "What action on my part is likely to be successful in this circumstance". I don't give up my morals, but I act/refrain from acting in such a way as to be compatible with my surroundings. A lot of times that ends up with me keeping my mouth shut for a very long time, just waiting for the correct opportunity.

If you understand that you must adapt to Japan and that Japan will not adapt to you, then you will be fine. Either you will find that you can adapt and will have very few problems, or you will decide that Japanese culture is not your cup of tea. Resist the temptation to slam yourself up against the brick wall that is Japan. It hurts a lot.
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