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"A non-nerd reads it as: I want to kick out all X from tech. / I consider X inferior."

I was out on an internet date with Scandinavian woman a few years ago. She was some type of sociological researcher, which interested me. I told her that part of the discrepancy in representation between genders in tech could be biologically oriented and she immediately said, "I don't want to hear arguments from biology!" She said it with the same tone and conviction you'd label someone a racist.

It's as if once we allow these facts into the argument, it means we can say the fight for gender equality is finished, that whenever equality exists, we can all throw our hands up in the air and say, "It's biology!" I can see the danger but at the same time, the alternative--denying reality--is far more insidious.
They are discriminating against a group of people in the same way you're discriminating against them: for their beliefs. You can't choose your birth gender or race or sexuality, but you can choose how you approach the fact that you don't seem to fit society's mold for men/women.

Thanks for the relationship advice.
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The new UCL wallet is even worse. It’s supposed to be launched within the next few weeks. It made me lose $2000 worth of iota because of a loop in the code that resent transactions if you put the app in a background state. You know, a violation of the one canonical rule of using iota, I.e reusing an address.

The iota foundation is a nefarious and bad intentioned bunch of crooks.
I can just totally agree with the author. I had more or less the same experience.

IOTA is totally immature in terms of development, technology and PR (see fake partnerships and absence of public statement for the network status).

Apart from this it just look like a nice and interesting white paper but that does not actually work in reality yet
For older children or adults, "Everyday Miracles" had only 2 episodes but they were both pretty good. Also the presenter was really doing experiments and going around factories where they make stuff showing exactly how things are made.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04fh5tf
It's an important factor, but other factors also come into play. For instance train is way, way more relaxing than any road based commute. And if you struggle to make it to the end of the month because of too high rent, then you are unhappy as well.
Making them deflationary is more of a political statement than anything else I think. The crypto-currency crowd has this libertarian streak and of course those people believe that inflation is the devil, used by governments and banks to rob productive businessmen of their hard earned money.
If you have more to share I'd love to hear it.
I've never heard that this is a taboo opinion?
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The government should not spend money on anything I personally disagree with.
And to deal with this problem, they have "trusted supernodes", with a promise to turn them off when the network is self sustaining.

It introduces a high degree of centralisation - and we don't know the how network shapes up as a consequence.

And the second problem is obviously the unaudited,"quantum resistant" function.
some positions have no nuance though. There's no middle ground to "black people are inferior to white people". There's no difference to split.
The minimum age for a child to be home alone in Ontario is 16? How did that become law?
Why not get a hotel room 1 or night a week, then you can stay there for your 3 day "shift" for one night.
FYI, you meant "fallible". "Infallible" means they don't make mistakes.
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But I'm curious as to the arguments against all gender bathrooms? I've visited tons of restaurants over the years that just had a single restroom, and it's never been a problem. When you have people over they might use your bathroom, and that's also not considered a problem

As someone who grew up watching Ally McBeal, I am pretty sure that noone of my generation really has any problem with unisex toilets. But where the confusion comes from is that I think that the concept of a "bathroom" has somehow been conflated with that of a "changing room", e.g. at a gym or something. I have found that people who are passionately against them, with gently probed, actually mean the latter.
I imagine if his wife was a tennis coach and he practiced tennis every morning, he would have brought up tennis specifically... Crossfit is a workout regiment anyway, not really a sport.
I am not discriminating. Your s.o. is free to hold and promote whatever views they have our want to have. I support their right to do so. I however also have rights. I have the right to defend that people are allowed to be themselves+ without fear of persecution. I also have have the right to choose who to associate with.

+I think for example that gender and sexuality are not choices and that I should not tell other people how to live their lives.
In the end "rulers" are just afraid of being expelled for "bad service" so they reduce risk as much as they can: mass media might pick a particular case (that 1 in 100 million) and distort it until society perceives it as 1 in 10.
Don't know much about Green Arrays. It seems slightly strange in that most tasks that can make use of massive data parallelism are FP-heavy (numerical simulations, ML/AI).

As for REX, I don't really know what to think about it. Here's a recent thread on RWT: https://www.realworldtech.com/forum/?threadid=172976&curpost... . People there seem quite skeptical about the whole thing.
Terribly written article.
Could an attacker not create lots of transactions between wallets they own so the attacker is given more transactions to verify as well?
He's not playing with fire if he invested what he can afford to lose, he's just having fun like people do when they bet on horses or similar gambling (as longs as it's done responsibly obviously).
Skimreading http://www.dickpountain.co.uk/home/computing/byte-articles/t... ( linked from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9806607 , where you yourself commented )

Interesting OS. Its 'VP code' looks like a precursor to Java bytecode/HotSpot, but much more low-level and RISC-ey.

Inferno OS's 'Dis' VM took a similar to approach to VP code, if I understand correctly.

I presume that, in 1991 when the article was written, "JIT" wasn't yet in the techies' parlance. It's not used anywhere in the article.
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It's been a long slog in Norway too, though, and there's still substantial pressure from groups that peddle outright lies about the dangers of drugs. Norway has long had some of the worst drug policies in Europe, in part because there is significant split in Norway between on one hand a focus on a human justice system, and on the other hand a puritan lutheran and evangelical community that sees all drugs (including alcohol) as a moral failing.

So punishments and pressure on police to take drug related crime extra seriously has for a long time been disproportionate to the impacts them have relative to other crimes.
It seems dangerous to isolate a discipline from all other externalities in this way. Transport infrastructure cannot just exist in isolation to other factors. It can have wide reaching effects beyond just transport.
Crime rates are dropping almost everywhere; the exceptions are short term increases during episodes of societal disruption (e.g. wars).

One of the reasons Japan's rate is so low is that they're ahead of other countries in the race to grow old; the vast majority of crime, and especially violent crime, is committed by young people.
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Sure, there's average differences between groups. Between almost any two arbitrary groups you'll find significant differences.

The problem is that there's a very slippery slope between stating a difference, ascribing causality (the difference is due to biology, for instance), and justifying it as a moral imperative (we should treat men and women differently).

It's dangerous because if differences between groups are easy to pinpoint, they're much harder to explain. Even if you can get to a plausible causal mechanism, it doesn't say anything about how things should be anyway.
To comment on this - also living in Poland. The concept exists in Poland, but only in a few private schools, mainly those marked as "American schools".

I think the main reason is that public transit is magnitudes better and more widespread here, than in the US.
If I want an Uber or a coffee, sure, I'll spend BTC. I could make more money by waiting, but I can't live without coffee or transportation.

Why do you waste your dollars on coffee when you could invest them in a deflationary cryptoasset?
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That rather supports gok’s claim that it’s more complicated than just punishment severity.
The article does make some good points but it also comes over as a fluff piece for IOTA while tiptoeing around all IOTA's serious issues and implicitly labelling any criticism as "FUD".
It was kind of a gradual thing. I wonder if i could really summarize right now.

I do know that atm I'm way more concerned with fighting the gender binary where it counts .. ie: cis men. "average" cis men need feel free and safe to express themselves in less "binary" ways. Until they are, it seems like the violence will never stop.

Trans folks make up such a minority and deal with a lot of shit. I don't want them to be hurt as part of somebody elses proxy war.
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These days it's absolutely impossible to get any serious conversation about any of these cryptocurrencies. Maybe you can do something with Bitcoin and Ethereum, but for any of the others all the foruns and chats are just flooded with crazy people.
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While I agree with the majority of the criticisms of this post (I also posted a criticism here[1]), one has to recognise that it's perfectly possible that a cryptocurrency requires no-address-reuse. This may not be a bug but a limitation which is a consequence of its design. I know other cryptocurrency that suffers this problem: Mimblewimble. But I sincerely hope the wallet developers of mimblewimble are smarter enough to never expose addresses, in order to prevent the user to make this mistake (yes, it can be done requiring QR-code-pairing everytime you want to both send and receive funds).

To finish, let me state that I'm not defending IOTA, which I still think is a joke. Maybe I'm wrong but I cannot tell if I'm wrong or not until they shut down the coordinators (the very thing that makes IOTA centralised).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15860046
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And the difference with the current situation is ...
Fun fact: Bitcoin is designed as a hyperinflationary currency that begins to slow down inflation as more users join and time passes.

Why?

To control the supply early and exploit later speculators.
I think there's more to it than that.
> hyperinflationary

I don't think you understand what this word means.
I understand your angle.
That approach is very shortsighted, the inefficiencies created going after such black swan event risk prevention opens up gaps in other services that basically makes society go to hell in a handbasket
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Yes, and the HN news of yesterday got flagged and my account shadow banned.

Apparently, someone should write a "What you can't say on Hackernews" (which will get banned) which lead to a "What People think you can't say on Hackernews"...
You’re conflating. It’s “military/industrial complex” as Eisenhower called it. You’re probably referring to the “prison industrial complex”, the influential lobby of private prisons.
The problem here is not the law, it is the people who think the fact that one person (out of over 100 million families in America) got arrested for doing a thing that sounds reasonable is a reason to change your behavior.

actually it is the law. We can't expect parents to gamble their parenthood and their lives - even if the odds are 1 in 100 million. And i suspect the odds are not that small, just in this thread there are multiple stories of social services being called for what used to be common place attitudes towards children and their autonomy. There's even a person fully admitting they would also put in a report if they witnessed such a thing.

I'm not saying your arguments are bad. In fact, they are on point. But perceived danger vs Actual danger is, from looking at the whole anti-vaccer movement, the big contributor here. But if parents are getting put in handcuffs for having their kids play outside then yeah, they need to be protected from a systemic standpoint.
Yeah I think that's why quasi-Newton methods like BFGS have been developed.
Youth activity is probably a factor. Some anecdata is that, in Sweden, January is usually the month when violent crime is at a very low point in the year. Young people don’t have any money to go out after spending it on Christmas and New Year’s, and it’s super cold so running around in town sucks.
Hmm. So my question was "How do you conclude that paying by use is not going to be a good deal?" and you quoted by fixed cost observation back at me without making any additional argument.

To interpret this charitably, I guess you may be trying to say that it is still a good deal for people who drive a lot in any case and don't mind the fixed cost? I agree, but I think these people are going to be a shrinking segment, in contrast to your claim that it will "never" be a good deal for the consumer.

To reiterate, many people don't want to invest this fixed cost and drive everywhere, but once they have committed to the fixed cost, it's uneconomical to do the daily life the carless way.

All this is in the context of the necessary reduction of private car usage, considering the need recuce CO2 emissions. (Electric cars only cut car lifetime emissions to half, which is still unsustainable).
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Don't forget the Cliqz debacle. And that in privacy oriented Germany. I'm in Berlin right now, and they don't appear to use a NFC card for public transport. In contrast to NL and UK they're still using tickets here.
Same in the UK, which is why people are being arrested for hurting people's feelings on Twitter.
That doesn’t explain why crime is going down across the US and the EU too.

Correlation does not equal causation.
Thanks! The gun smuggling story was really interesting. Shows how quotas can so often have a negative effect
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That does not ring true. I live near Helsinki, use taxis quite a lot - mostly to and from airport but also elsewhere - and half the drivers are dark-skinned people. They are never stopped although I always sit at the back.

If you're an Uber driver (unlicensed taxi) then things are different. A driver in front (of any colour) and a single adult passenger at the back, starting off from the airport in an Uber-looking car, might get attention.
Australian here. I was charged with two counts of Traffic Controlled Drug and one count of Possess Prescription Drug without lawful excuse on the 28th of December 2012. I was carrying only a little bit more that I might typically be in possession of because it was three days before new years eve.

It took two years three months to sort it out in the courts. Fortunately I got referred to a barrister who managed to get the charges dropped. I got all my cash back from the police, that was a pleasant experience.

Point being, in those two years and three months I cleaned myself up, got a job and was ready to buy a house, but still had the charges hanging over me. My god, what a stress.
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You really need to look at trends more than absolute numbers, or you will run into the issue of actually verifying that the numbers are comparable.

E.g. death due to X tends to depend greatly on what the policy is on autopsies and other checks, and whether or not there's any pressure on coroners to speculate about cause of death vs. just pronounce a generic reason.

In Norway for example, an autopsy only happens rarely unless there is a reason to expect foul play, mostly because it's seen as expensive and unnecessary. As a result, a lot of "natural causes" or "heart failure" can obscure more specific causes that will only be recorded if accompanied by e.g. police observations.

Then, even if you do tests, there's the question of how you record deaths where there are multiple possible causes. E.g. you might have heart failure possibly due to a combination of alcohol and other drugs. Depending on your reporting system you might put it down in any number of different ways.

Then on top of this, you have to consider what make people use, not just what potentially make people not use. It could be the differences in legal system, or just that other societal differences makes fewer people predisposed to want to use in the first place.

All of this basically makes it impossible to compare country to country and conclude that changes in a single area such as law enforcement makes a difference.

The reason we look to Portugal is not primarily because it looks good compared to other countries, but because it performs well compared to itself prior to decriminalisation, and because it was a recent change.
Interesting thing is about gender and technology jobs. In „evil“ Iran, about 50% of students of computer science are women. Being a female software developer is common. Cousin of my wife is a programmer, another female friend of the family is a IBM mainframe programmer(now retired), my wife is an engineer with interest in computer science. So its not all about „brain structures“, it is about society. When Iran can do it, how will we westeners?
One more for consideration - does a nice job of showing how the cars work:
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I'm raising kids in Switzerland. Here it will be more-or-less required for them to walk to school (kindergarten) themselves from age 5.
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How about judging what they do in the context of why they do it, rather than judging them for what they are?

Why this need to judge?

It is particularly odd given a country where such a high proportion claim to be Christian, and perhaps ought to follow the instruction to leave it to their God to judge people.
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> US states are more like separate nations in many ways.

Indeed, though less so than before the civil war.

Thus Brexit is an interesting test case for seeing if EU is able to "disassemble" without bloodshed.
I’d rather my tax money go towards huntin aliens than fighting wars TBH. I mean yeah, there’s lot of other things I’d like to see funded but this seems like a drop in the bucket when we’re talking the grand scheme of things.
There's actually an increase in e.g. theft by elders.
Truthfully I'm outraged about a lot of things lately, but the reason I care so much about net neutrality is because for me it's become nearly synonymous with freedom of speech. News organizations barely print newspapers anymore it's all online, magazines likewise. If you allow for the blocking or throttling(which kills it nearly the same) of information it creates a potential method of abuse.

I believe that a democratic society, even a democratic republic such as ours will lose the voice of the people when we lose net neutrality. I'm not sure democracy can survive without a freedom of speech that can be heard.

This is the front lines of our defense for democracy. Other issues are important sure but I have little faith in our ability to solve them if this is broken. So much of our government is already broken, without the means to communicate, to spread information and to let our voices be heard, it can only get worse.

I think the ISP's won't act out too strongly too soon, as there would be riots and also there is a lawsuit to see if the fcc was even allowed to do what it did, I think they will wait to see the courts ruling, and if it goes in their favor then the big changes will come.
>We can't expect parents to gamble their parenthood and their lives - even if the odds are 1 in 100 million

Every day when you strap your kid into your car seat, you are rolling those dice, at odds considerably worse than 1 in 100 million.

You can't face risk by saying "we need to stamp it out, no matter how small the chance or how great the cost" It doesn't help me if you protect me from meteors if I'm millions of times more likely to be killed by a traffic accident, and the same resources could drastically reduce the chance of that death.

You need to look at what resources you are willing to spend on risk mitigation, and then look at where you can spend those resources to most effectively mitigate risk.
So what about whataboutism? They're not a part of the risky buyer / scammy lender scenario. There are loads of issues with the properties market, but this situation didn't apply to all of them. As long as the solution doesn't make the property prices raise even more, renters should not be affected.

Also, I specifically mentioned that some of the blame is on the buyers, so instead of free houses, they could be given the opportunity to continue paying off at the original terms, or a similar form of help. Remember that if the buyers don't get the houses in the end, the banks do instead. And why would we want that to happen?
I can of understand her reaction (I would have had the same) and for me it’s in fact not very dangerous:

- to my knowledge it’s impossible to separate biology and culture with the data we have

- some discriminations were and are made by wrongfully attributing it to biological traits

- since it’s hard or impossible to separate things a lot of people (myself included) adopt « it’s not biology it’s culture » by default because we think if we are wrong it causes less harm and is less dangerous than falsely attributing something to biology, and if it’s right then it helps the society progress.

I understand closing the debate is frustrating for the scientifically minded and rationale people, but my opinion is that it’s not a bad heuristic for society as a whole at least until we make progress. But obviously the debate can happen in the right context, but I find it dangerous to introduce it in the actual climate of crtitical thinking we are in
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I do use a browser to have fun. I still don't want the browser having fun at my expense, and certainly not for advertising.

(the upsidedownternet is over 10 years old at this point - http://www.ex-parrot.com/pete/upside-down-ternet.html is from at least 2006 - awkward out of touch big company advertising isn't fun)
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I've been quite (pleasantly) surprised that the socialists have supported this as when I was still living in Norway, the younger socialists were all rabidly anti-drugs.
How do you figure? I would guess winning a Hugo means the book has a 50% chance of being in the top 10 for that year, but you would expect the yearly contribution to "top 1000 ever" lists to vary wildly.

2015 is too soon to really judge it's staying power and it's hard to judge how much of the praise is because it's non-Western.