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> offered me a pair for free. After I got them, they asked for positive review. I refused.

So they were "very disappointing", but not "very disappointing" enough to refuse a free pair, at their expense?

> That manipulation technique

Perhaps, since you were happy to accept the headphones, they believed your original negative review was not sincere, but itself a manipulation technique to get a freebie or special offer in return for a more positive review. (Which I suspect is not unheard-of for some buyers on Amazon.)

To be clear: Although I don't know you I don't believe that is what you did (most people don't do that), what I mean is the company may be used to some people trying that kind of thing, and accepting the product for free may be a hint that you're willing to do what they asked.

However, what kind of "positive review" did they want? A review where you pretend not to be disappointed, or simply an update to your review stating something like: "while I don't believe these are worth $65, and returned them, I can't fault the customer service in trying to make up for my disappointment"?

Because I don't see anything at all wrong with the latter; and it's certainly more reasonable than leaving a negative review of a product which you were happy to accept at the 'right price'.
This was the craziest part for me, and I have no doubt that such low quantity of sleep would affect a person negatively.
Bribery, corruption, embezzlement.
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The fake review problem is clearly bad, but if it's going to take some fancy machine learning algorithm to solve it, why not start with a simpler improvement to user reviews:
Weighting the Top Rated scores so it doesn't show an item with a single 5-star review above an item with 5000 reviews and a 4.9 star average.
IOTA wallet is full of really bad bugs, just look how bad it is on first pages, the more pages you skip, the worse it is. It still doesn't work on Linux, for many users wallet crashes or shows green screen and nothing more. Doesn't work through Wine either.
https://github.com/iotaledger/wallet/issues

Issues on github have no responses from developers since early November and there were no commits since than, what's surprising, there were a lot of blog posts on their domain and many subreddits how great they are (!!??)

BitFinex two week ago had problems paying out IOTAs, payouts were cancelled without any reason. Didn't try again since that time.

A lot of domains explaining how to buy IOTA look dodgy, like they were made by 14yo in '90s. There are dozens of domains like supportiota, forumiota, iotasupport.com, howtobuyiota.co.uk ? Why do they all exist and duplicate content?

Watch out out there.
True, but without commenting on the merit/justice of it, they've historically focused on targeting themselves/each other.
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A really interesting collection for teaching Data Science.
But the "WorkshopScipy" and the "scientific computation" make reference to something like scipy.org. It seems that this repo has different interests.
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I'm observing a massive decline in children independence in Russia as well compared to the "good old Soviet times" and early (pretty violent though) 90s.

It is a helpless feeling that emerged is the age of kidnappers, organ harvesting etc. Or has nothing really changed since then and it is just that we're exposed to massive amounts of FUD in the new era of mass media?
Sometimes car drivers have to slow down. Maybe on a big, straight street. Maybe on a state highway. Maybe on the main street in town. Even in those situations, if there is a crosswalk in regular use for most of the day, they've got to slow down. If they don't, the street must be changed until they do. That is the most important task a traffic engineer in small-town Utah has. It shouldn't take 15 crashes in 5 years to prompt that action. It shouldn't take an additional fatal crash with a child victim to prompt it.

Anyone who doesn't understand any part of this should never drive on public roads.
Because many people use Firefox precisely because it's not Google?
> that attempt failed (because science)

Nothing to do with science and more about the actual use of Luxembourgese as an official written language by Luxembourg itself. See here
http://termcoord.eu/2015/11/why-letzebuergesch-is-not-an-off...
I don't think you have a need to judge anyone unless you are an actual judge. As a private person you could just decide you want to stay away someone and leave it at that. You have no need to dehumanize anyone by private labeling.

And, I think this is confused labeling. Substance abuse alone does not make anyone a danger to you.

So, substance abuse:
a) person goes to a daily job, drinks a bottle of wine in the evening, does some coke, goes to sleep. repeats ad infinitum.
b) person has a really bad addiction, needs money, so he robs you

I presume your talk about fear and judgement was more about scenario b rather than a, but both are about a person with substance abuse problems. The thing we don't actually like in b) is the stealing, not the substance abuse per se.
dude...Oakland at 3am. despite all of the press Oakland is getting as this new Bohemian paradise for SF exiles, it is still...Oakland...and will remain so for years to come if not forever
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Unless you've found a serious bug / security vulnerability, Docker doesn't mess with your OS. On OSX / Windows (and this is definitely an argument against Docker ux), it's not even running on your OS but a separate VM.
Lol you loser rather than apologizing on the other thread for your mistake you downvoted me. Pathetic, in the very literal sense of the word.
Are you allowed to discuss income equality for male porn actors? Or is that taboo?
> Japan has a very low crime rate, which is surely a key reason parents feel confident about sending their kids out alone.

I grew up in a relatively high crime area but still walked to school and sometimes took public transport. The only thing that made it somewhat unsafe was the bullying by other school kids. Of course there is an overlap there as yesterday's bullies are tomorrow's criminals, but still it wasn't enough to have parents escort me. Sometimes strangers intervened to save me from a few attacks by groups of older kids. So maybe there is an element there as well of people not minding asking kids what's happening, why are they pushing this one kid to the ground.

Now living in US in a much safer area I would think very well before sending my kids to school by themselves at the age when I was going to school by myself. The reason is neighbors who could report me to the police for "child endangerment or neglect". It happened to a co-worker. One of the neighbors reported them to the police while kids were playing out in the front by themselves. It issue was resolved but not without embarrassing calls to work and home visits.
Money. They only care about short term sales. Amazon doesn't care about how much you trust amazon... for now. Once they've lost everyone's trust then they're start to care.
So basically people with opinions on both extremes feel marginalized and unheard. I guess that's maybe a message to consider a more nuanced position.
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Thank you for directing me to the guidelines, I will read them before posting again.

It's difficult watching one of the most promising human inventions take a mortal blow, and I wrote well outside of my normal character. I appreciate you pointing that out.
Related: http://web.kitsapsun.com/archive/1998/06-20/0063_world_cup_s...
> The efficiency and power of modern weaponry far surpasses what the Founding Fathers could dream of

Nonsense.

The Constitution includes provisions for hiring privateers to acts as an adjunct to the nation's navy. There were businessmen who owned ships bristling with cannon floating in Boston harbor - they didn't try to limit that, they made sure they could hire them to go blow stuff up if they felt the need.

Also, the Austian army was using a repeating rifle with a 20-round magazine in 1780 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girandoni_air_rifle
I'm unsure if this was actually callahad's team doing this.

But regardless, basically the entire company is on flights right now, and it's the weekend after an intensive all-company event, and everyone is tired, and it's the freaking weekend. Wait a bit.

(Also, the Gizmodo article is an official response, as is https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/lookingglass. There will probably be more, idk.)
I don't put communal values above my own family's safety, and probably a good ten million others in the US who would agree

basically a full scale gun grab would result in Civil War 2, the harm far outweighing the benefit

you can't jail us all
Isn't the equivalent in the US. "death march"? I am not familiar with Japanese, so maybe it is more direct.
I read through the list.

My only comment is that if you cannot discuss an idea then the idea cannot evolve, and you probably won't change your mind.

Maybe the problem is not oppression of ideas, but the lack of a discussion culture which can tolerate a wider spectrum of ideas for the sake of debunking some of them.
Edit: to answer the actual question: I don't think (that's really subjective and I don't have kids) Russia has reached yet the "typical level of overparenting" in the US.
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Um, the parent addressed your comment's point already, and said "But pushing it out broadly, even in an inert state, was not good.". The comment said that addons are a good way of making this work; but disagrees with the mode of deployment (just flat out installing it everywhere, as opposed to a more conditional approach)

See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15942722
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SV has championed a super toxic, toe-the-liberal-line-question-nothing atmosphere in the workplace for years now. The damage is done.

You'd have to be a total fool to bring up any of the non-left-wing, yet totally valid comments on that post in a tech workplace in 2017.
> I'm sure there are Americans who would rather shoot a police officer than give up their guns, but I believe their numbers are dwindling.

You're wrong.

Furthermore, communities across the US are becoming more locally homogenous. It's not going to be a person here or there you'd have to deal with, it would be entire communities.
> I looked on Amazon, saw some "3rd party" sellers that said they would have it on stock various dates about 1 week in the future, and I didn't believe them.

They're planning to drop ship it when you order it. Only then will they realize it's out of stock (or they'll wait weeks for it from China).

A number of times I've had a reseller dropship from walmart.com or target.com for a few dollars of arbitrage.
we aren't interested in hearing who you think "deserves" a gun, it is a RIGHT
It seems regardless of one’s viewpoint, there is a strong reluctance to digging deeper to examine the roots of one’s beliefs.

A lot of these people might not believe what they believe if they were to attempt to justify their beliefs in a rigorous and intellectually honest way.
Please define "light".

Just a reminder, the lightest config is no config.
"study" is just an internal term for the method of deploying addons that way; they're called "Shield Studies" and usually are for A/B testing. This wasn't an actual study, he's just using the internal term for that kind of addon.
That's what it used to be. Now it's ebay + walmart.
>"And what's with the swipe at Bodega, as if is it a sacred cow."

Bodegas are small family businesses generally run by immigrants. So yeah they are kind of sacred.

Wanting to disrupt small family run businesses is kind of a shitty aspiration. And a good example of being out of touch and tone deaf.

The rapper referenced in the article if from NYC where bodegas are an institution.

bodega.ai's slogan is "Everyday Essentials, Instantly" which is the exact functionality that a real bodega already provides. It's like something right out Mike Judge's "Silicon Valley."
I find your example of installing a package to be somewhat amusing.

The fact that one can install a package in some OS means that somewhere, one or more people sat down and wrote a recipe for building and packaging it, and then hopefully performed some minimal QA on the final product to make sure it actually works.

This is not trivial, particularly not if multiple versions of a compiler may need to coexist (because of other packages depending on a particular version), and it needs to be done for each combination of compiler version and OS.

To me, examples like: "just run <insert package installation command here>", expecting a package to just magically install itself on some OS are the symptoms of a cargo-cult.

Rather, I think that using containers is more like outfitting a cargo container with a fully stocked and staffed workshop, then shipping the container and personnel to where the client needs it to be. The client then only needs to supply the storage space for the container and the goods that need processing (a shared directory in this particular case) and wait for the finished result.
Sure, some of the workers may not speak your language, they may use different tools, but until (if?) the workshop gets rebuilt and staffed on "native soil", the inconvenience should be acceptable.
This all seem bizzare to me. Whenever they install pedestrian lights (often button operated) in my city (not in US) it's always red and green and it's always with red, yellow and green lights for cars.
> the message of that being the case were delivered somehow to our governments,

That would make a fun plot for a movie. But having worked with the government and then also having observed leaks of top secret information and tools coming out the supposedly most secretive government institutions, I cannot believe they would be competent enough to keep that information under a tight lid for long.

Someone, somehow would have ex-filtrated some proof by now.

What I can see happening the government not necessarily encouraging but perhaps not discouraging either these rumors from spreading in order to divert attention from say testing of experimental aircraft.
This one?

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I can think of one taboo opinion - supporting prop 8. Results - being fired. Also it was made effective with back date. The firing of Brendan Eich was as chilling effect as possible.

In the current climate you could get a pitchfork mob after you extremely easy for even stuff perceived as homophobic - as the recent suicide of August Ames showed.
As crime rates dropped the television shows people watched focused more on exploiting the fear around crime against children.
Please, nobody would ever know how difficult it is. The problem is that a century of draconian enforcement has created a MASSIVE private complex that feeds and pays so many people that the interests have rooted in the system.

Don't be fooled, the lack of progress is almost exclusively a product of vested interest in enforcement and this vague intellectual question of "how?"
I'll save everyone else the trouble.

The original data is from
https://www.aaafoundation.org/sites/default/files/2011Pedest...

If you look, on page 9, you can see the plots of impact speed vs risk of death.
They are clearly non-linear, and they you can also read that they tried various fitting methods for missing data (and quadratic best fit things).

I'm just guessing that you are confused because it does not appear the constant for the x^2 term is >1.
betrays values like privacy

I do not (now -- at the time that person made that tweet, I did, but not on the browser) work at Mozilla.

However. The "tiles" concept was literally an experiment in whether it's possible to construct an ad system that does respect privacy.

The basic idea was:

* Advertisers submit their ads to Mozilla. Mozilla wraps them up into "bundles", made up of a bunch of different ads along with metadata to use in determining which to show.

* The browser downloads the "bundles" from Mozilla, and caches them locally.

* The browser, based on local data only it has access to, and the metadata in the bundles, decides which ads to show.

In other words, unlike a Google-style model where the ads are stored remote, loaded on demand, and the decision of what to show is made on the server side, this stored all ad content locally and the decision of what to show was also made entirely locally. So neither the advertiser nor the distributor could know whether a particular person saw an ad or (if they happened to) why the decision was made to show them that ad rather than a different one.

You may not like that, and you're free not to like it. But to argue that it "betrays" privacy is simply factually false. And Mozilla's mission is, in large part, to find ways to advance and sustain the web in ways that respect the users. Trying to develop a privacy-respecting way to deliver ads -- since so much of the web is dependent on ads -- is entirely within that mission.
> Anarchism is a system completely without land ownership (i.e. "property is theft")

Not all forms of anarchism subscribe to this.
Right, that was my point, no one can define consent for someone else.
So am I. Computers looked like the perfect solution to many problems - and perhaps they are, but then things on the human side went very wrong. Too many 'wrong people' in the right place at the right time (Founders with shitty ethics, politicians/lawmaker with zero technological understanding, way too many lobbyists per activist ...)
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There are scientists who claim psychopathy can be detected on brain scans. And since 1-4% of the population are estimated to be psychopaths (most of which end up in prison, and the rest works their way up in society), this could well be a very impactful avenue of further research.
In South Africa you get a mix. Upper middle class and rich driven to school with some parents even walking children into class. Poor and working-class kids catch public transport. They have no other option. Unfortunately, we have a fair amount of violent crime and the result is kids have less freedom to roam.
I don't think I've ever met a drug dealer who wasn't getting high off their own supply (whatever supply that might be). Most dealers are basically dealing to pay for their own habits.
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I've looked for it previously and not found anything. I'm hoping that MS are working on it in secret, but seems unlikely.
Don’t have the reference, but I believe that one of the most universal determinants of happiness is the length of your commute, i.e. in cities across the world people who commute longest are least happy.

I’ve done commutes ranging from 10 minutes walk to 90 minutes by bus, with lots in between, and strongly recommend that minimising your commute should be a top priority.

There’s no point living in a nice place if you don’t see it five days out of seven. Live somewhere convenient and “commute to the country” on the weekend.

You can’t get that time back.
"Silicon Valley" is a workplace, and it's generally considered rude to bring your political views into the workplace. Everyone has met the very passionate on both the left and the right, and having someone stand outside your cube or in the lunch line trying to "win" you over to their view just isn't conducive to getting your work done and making money.
Treating drug use as a medical problem in need of treatment is not necessarily an improvement over treating it as a crime. When we treat it as a crime there are sentencing guidelines. Yes, the guidelines we have now, at least in the US, are draconian, but we could have less draconian guidelines without medicalization.

When we medicalize drug use, the guidelines disappear. People who are involuntarily committed to mental institutions arent prescribed dates for release, they can remain institutionalized for life. If we go down the path of medicalization, we might see some drug users forced into rehab, and then into the equivalent of parole where they return to society but are administered mandatory drug tests periodically. And then back into rehab, cycling forever.

I don't want to be too alarmist. Portugal's been doing this for a while, and I haven't heard of anything like this happening. But drugs like heroin and cannabis were illegal in the United States for decades before the war on drugs started. All it takes to get from current Portugal to my hypothetical scenario is for the political stars to align and suddenly we're calling for a revamp of the drug rehabilitation institutions to have a lower relapse rate, and now we're on the road to life sentences for heroin users. And it's harder to convince people that it's wrong because now we're helping them, not punishing.
Chuck Schumer voted for the Patriot Act, supported SOPA, and supposedly opposed the famous 1991 Gore Bill that played some roll in opening up the internet. At least he's supporting a meaningless political vote? Even when Republicans vote it down, their "the FCC isn't where net neutrality should come from" talking point still works.
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> discouraged drunkenness, discouraged a woman crashing at a male colleague's house instead of being put up in a hotel

Doesn't it seem ridiculous that companies need to have these kind policies or risk lawsuits and being smeared as cultivating a culture of rape? It seems to me that employers shouldn't have to babysit their adult employees or be their parents. Maybe instead of having employers be parents, society could reinforce the idea that parents/family/individuals be responsible. For example, not getting hammered, calling a cab if one can't drive, not going out alone (or as the only female in a group), not staying the night at the home of someone of the opposite sex, not having sex before marriage, courtship is chaperoned, etc. Oh no, how patriarchal! Instead, it's seen as reasonable for one's employer/university/etc to decide if one's sex life is consensual and make sure one has a safe bed to sleep in when one goes out partying!

> discouraged drunkenness

I'm sure this isn't what you meant, but imagine if Microsoft had a policy that punished an employee if they were found to have gotten exceptionally drunk outside work like in this scenario. First, it could only be applied to the accused, never the accuser. Imagine if this purported rape victim were punished because she admits she got very drunk before the rape happened. People would go crazy at that. They'd blame Microsoft for punishing the victim. They'd demand all rape accusers be given immunity from any punishment for misdeeds they did before the purported rape took place, lest the punishment for what they did discourage them from reporting the rape.

Btw, very much enjoyed your thoughtful well-reasoned comments in this thread!
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Sleeping in a van doesn't sound much better to me, when I was contracting away from home I would often stay in some shitty B&B during the week. It was miserable.