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>The IOTA source code is written in JAVA instead of C++ like most professional cryptocurrencies are. That did not instill me with confidence.

This made me lose any confidence in a person's capabilities in evaluating the coin. If anything, Java is way more (or any language with modern memory management) robust choice than C++ where security is concerned.

In any case, I am highly skeptical of the IOTA as well.
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Personally I'm most existed about the remote UI api, along the other features, that neovim is offering. I think I've used neovim since even the first release it had and just love it. It has been nice to follow the development and participate the discussion and experiment with the features neovim offers (notably the remote UI api).
I've seen younger-still kids walking around in the mornings, even in the snow at the height of winter, presumably going to day-care.

(Worth noting for others that children start "proper" school at 7 in Finland. Something that surprised me when I moved here.)
Jail Time is in essence rehab without the professional helthia - wellbeing and unrestrict to unsupervised visits, access to learning etc, should be a part of every rehabilitation/Incarceration centre, be it the first step and last for a drug user or a statuatory release programme for prisoners.
I do not consider buying positive reviews with free items an ethical marketing strategy: it deceives people expecting unaffiliated opinions there...

Why should anyone take part in this?

If a company decides to give away free items, and gets nothing in reply that's their problem... I am happy when people do not sell their kidney for pennies: and as a single costumer you usually don't have the power to fight back large corporations: then sometimes the most convenient reaction is to keep both the free gifts and your kidney ;) And if many people do this, it may eventually get them out from business, win-win

edit: Thinking over, I partly agree with the previous comment. If they expect you to update your review, honesty may be the most ethical, so e.g. one can start it with: "They have sent me a free item after I returned mine and gave them a 2 star review..." ;)
>But can I ask: if the other side were right, and some of these views are so abhorrent that the outrage against people who express them is almost entirely justified- would you be able to tell?

Well, on some issues you can always appeal to authorities - for example if people have strong opinions on economic issues you can compare that consensus to IGM Forum polls. People are oftentimes predictably biased.

Alternatively, you can try to get people who disagree with eachother to perform an ideological Turing test. It should be informative if someone basically cannot meaningfully articulate the actual arguments that are being presented that they disagree with.
This is the tempo and candence of city-life as it ought to be.
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Similarly, I don't understand why universities get involved in crimes among or involving students. In other countries, crimes are a matter for the police. The university's job is to teach. This whole "in loco parentis" thing is a bit outdated, surely.
We had this in the US as well in elementary school. They had it every year, and I think all kids could participate (grades 1-6). It was a combination of safety instruction and some skills tests (riding in a figure 8, using turn signals properly etc.)
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This is a joke post right? Very funny. Drugs are rife in prisons and institutions, they’re massive concentrated drug dens.
> some of these views are so abhorrent that the outrage against people who express them is almost entirely justified- would you be able to tell?

Yes, we can tell most of the time, and yes even if it gets difficult sometimes and we fail to distinguish unfair and genuine persecution, we will try our best to discuss it, study it, and get better at it. That's how we should approach the problem. That, is the intellectual way.

Your method of automatically shutting down discussion of controversial ideas just because a small percentage of them are truly evil, is in fact more anti-intellectual than anything Scott Adams has ever said/written.
I think we're all sensitive to malware that installs Add-Ons. I just removed one from a friend's computer the other day.

What % of your users did you think you would frighten -- I guess it was acceptably low?
> working for services like Uber is illegal in Finland (Helsinki is not in Norway)

Not really true. However, you do need a taxi license, and many/most Uber drivers didn't have one.
Here's the thing about decriminalizing drugs in a wealthy Western nation: you have to address the supply side too. Which means raising hemp, coca, poppies etc on Western farms run under Western regulations. Because boosting demand in the West while knowing the conditions under which the drugs are produced, is extremely unethical. Other than that, I have no issue with it.
The kids will only learn that it's okay to sacrifice yourself as well. They will learn to do the same and the cycle continues.

If she really wants her kids to have a better life she should start from herself.
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One of the best comments in this thread.
I thought Bang Goes The Theory was rather good ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bang_Goes_the_Theory ) but I guess it's not really necessarily presented in a way for younger children.
Because whatever it was it was big - hundreds of metres long, and reflecting oddly - as to the range, judged it from the apparent size of the typhoons as they circled it - used to fly, and judging range is one of those things you have to get used to.
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Oh, cool! So, parents let kids cycle, but not take public transport? Is that it?

In Germany, public transport would be considered even somewhat safer than cycling (which has its risks, even with bicycle paths etc.), I'd think.
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I've been tracking the IOTA controversy in the LinkedIn 'IoT Security' group in this thread[¹]. The centralized nature of the technology is a worry especially because they position themselves as a decentralized solution for IoT.

Many other currencies suffer from implementation problems (buggy wallets, etc) but at least in BTC the used cryptography is well tested. In IOTA's case they managed to both reinvented the crypto (e.g. "Curl" / "Kerl" hashes) in a broken way AND made some very dangerous assumptions in the meaning of "decentralization".

[¹] https://www.linkedin.com/groups/4807429/4807429-634451121504...
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I agree with some of the points you make, and I think they're pretty reasonable positions to take.

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. Heck, at all the doctor's offices I recall visiting they always had a single bathroom. I always find it slightly frustrating when I try using the restroom and it's occupied and I'm forced to wait, even though there's a unoccupied bathroom mere feet away. What are people's concerns with shared bathrooms?
It seems like "RPC" is being used pretty loosely in this thread. Whether foo in your example is RPC or not depends on its signature, if it attempts to synchronously return the response from the server, then it is RPC, if it just returns a Promise then it isn't.
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You mean confirmation bias. I don’t have any belief systems whatsoever - I just tend to err towards “highly improbable until proven impossible” with all things.

And I didn’t want to see something that has made me question my sanity for five years...!
I am not sure which NRA pamphlet you have been getting your history lessons from, but the 2A was not about state tyranny but the poverty of the state governments post-revolution.
"Study" is doublespeak for "ad". Let me write that down into my dictionary, thanks Mozilla for the info!
You're making a common mistake. Understanding something is not the same as justifying or accepting it.
Yes, there is a difference. But you really have to think about what being a woman means, if those aspects should really be attributed as those of women, and why you want those aspects (do you really have a fundamental desire to have breasts, or do you really want to be a nurse, and feel alienated by not having them when other nurses do).
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That's an interesting article into the psychology and mind-tactics of crypto fans.

Not sure why you've been downvoted but the article is worth a look.
I don't have a source right now, but I remember reading that drug use in total went down in Portugal after decriminalisation. Probably due to people having better access to help and therefore better chance of kicking the habit
That's an argument that can be just as easily applied to FOSS software, yet I see no one in the FOSS community warning against the slippery slope of evil that is free software.
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There was one case where the mother was arrested for letting the kids play outside.

So, the obvious first step to fixing this problem in the U.S. would be to make it explicitly legal.

Something like "letting children unsupervised in public space for less than 5 hours shall not, by itself, be construed as child abuse or neglect."

Plausible? Any downsides?

Can any town do it by itself, or is an act of Congress needed?
Please read the article or read up on the Portuguese model, it makes points like this clear. Using drugs is not considered fine, it is still subject to psychological evaluations, warnings and escalating sanctions such as fines and passport confiscation aside from medical treatment. It’s treated as an administrative infraction, like a speeding ticket or a parking fine and not a criminal offence.

The other aspect not mentioned in the article is that in Portugal dealing in ‘paraphrenalia’ is not an offence. This is important because it allows charities and clinics to provide clean needles, dramatically reducing drug related infections. Aside from these policies greatly reducing drug use overall, it’s this change that is responsible for a magnified effect in reducing the infection and death rates.
Because Google is an advertisement company.
My impression is that it is not only about topics, but also perceived intentions (and if you step, however unintentionally, on a trigger (of a landmine)).

I wrote Dating for Nerds: Gender differences (http://p.migdal.pl/2017/09/30/dating-for-nerds-gender-differ...) and got no backlash (much to my surprise, though).

From my experience nerds (and aspies in particular) talk mostly to exchange information (learn, share). Same questions are being understood by neurotypicals as expressing intentions, in a covert way.

Nerd: I read that X, on the average, are less interested in tech.

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

A non-nerd disagrees with the perceived intention and fights back, while a nerd perceives it as immunity to facts and unwillingness for a discussion.

That said:

- not all nerds are well-intentioned and open-minded

- workplace is not a place for all possible talks (or other social activities); if it makes people feel bad, excluded or less productive - it may be an argument to keep such discussions outside of the workplace; in particular, workplace is not an evolutionary biology discussion club

And BTW, from "Interpersonal Traits of Aspies Placed in Context": https://gist.github.com/stared/00ce50e95f9bcecc8965feb04650c... see "Not Recognizing 'Yellow Light' Conditions" and even more: "Doesn't Apologize Readily".
> Teaching has been a traditionally female role for many decades now

> Yeah for about 2 decades

I can confirm that for where I live, I've seen the statistics (they're probably public anyway), %male trainee teachers plummeted since the mid 90s across the board. Today the female/male ratio is somewhere between 30 to 1.5. Now, he is correct that the most extreme ratio occurs in primary school and the two basic school tiers, but it's still something like 2.5:1 in higher school. If I remember correctly the most balanced school form is vocational school where it's "only" like 3:2.

And in kindergartens some parents won't even accept male staff. (Other parents start to demand male staff)

Similar issues are on the other side of the interaction. Disciplinary action in schools hits - for all intents and purposes - exclusively male students. Male students at universities and FHs take somewhere between one and four semesters longer to complete their studies than their female fellows. Dropouts and non-participating students are overwhelmingly male across all school forms.
Me too. He may well have valid points but, as someone who has written mission critical software systems in Java, this destroys the credibility of the article for me.
I don't agree with your "way more robust" argument per se, but I also didn't buy that point in the original article. It's unclear to me why the choice of programming language -- unless it was a very obscure and rarely used one, or one that's specifically used in one (unrelated) domain -- should be of any significance.
you mean the few remaining Mr. Robot users? Egads. Never in my life have I struggled to get through a season. Season 2 was just mind-numbingly slow. I quit for a while.
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It is standard for taxi passengers to sit in the front in Finland, though.
I think that this is red herring. Not all techies were bullied, not even majority in my experience. Some were lonely, some had small group of like minded friends and some were average socially. Yes there are people who have social difficulties, but majority of techies can communicate.

There is however something cultural that makes us assume (in these discussions) that techies were all bullied and are all unadjusted. Up to the point where pretending you don't get social nuance occasionally, when it suits you, is a brag point and makes people assume you are smarter. (Of course crutial difference is that people who really don't get social make mistakes when it does not suits them)

People throw around weird techie stereotype, but when I ask names, they can't answer. Because their real world colegues are not stereotypes mostly.
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Yes, you do have the right, but its also about how we conceptualize it as a society. People should be allowed to remove or add breasts to their body, but telling people that they did it because they felt feminine implies that feminine people should be women (and therefore that women should be feminine).

It's not just changing your body, but a redefinition of your identity to something that others were born with.

It's also a solution to something you felt needed to be solved. In the current framework of thinking, if someone feels they feel "feminine" without taking the time to really think about what that is, they might be told to consider that they are transgender. Being transgender is highly costly, associated with depression and suicide, and may make a person who feels not normal in a position where they are now even more of a minority.
That's very nontrivial task, if feasible at all, considering current overcomplicated state of affairs in CSS, HTML, JS, graphical, font-rendering and networking fields of browser's interest.

> Guys, there is a _reason_ why microkernels suck. This is an example of how things are _not_ "independent". The filesystems depend on the VM, and the VM depends on the filesystem. You can't just split them up as if they were two separate things (or rather: you _can_ split them up, but they still very much need to know about each other in very intimate ways).

http://yarchive.net/comp/linux/user_space_filesystems.html
What about the other DAG technologies like the one used by ByteBall? I’m not crypto-intelligent enough to analyze them but could DAG be a credible replacement for the blockchain? Iota is just a very well marketed option in that space. Their execution seems shoddy.
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I would also report neglectment if children are still on their own after this. Done by one whose job is to protect the children, no less.
What about the mining code? Is it still in Java? JNI?
Please read the article or read up on the Portuguese model. Dealing in drugs is still illegal. This has nothing whatever to do with legalising the trade in drugs.

Using them is decriminalised, which among other things enables medical professionals to help drug users without risking prosecution for aiding and abetting, and helps break the cycle of prison and criminal records that trap drug users in their behaviour pattern.
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Why do people persist in the idea that a deliberately deflationary currency is a good idea. It might be a good investment, but as a currency, it doesn't promote commerce and trade, it just promotes hoarding.

Much of crypto-currency holders today either seem to be people seeking to get in at the top of the ponzi pyramid and sell before collapse, or people who need to avoid some legal issue, be it capital controls, drug laws, etc. Many people are using it as an investment vehicle mainly, and rarely as a exchange of value mechanism for payments, except where they actually need to. But would pay Uber with BTC, or buy a coffee? Why? if you simply way a few days, you'll make a lot more money not spending it.

A deflationary currency to replace fiat currency or centralized banking and credit seems like a contradiction. I mean, if my cash is growing at 10%-1000%, but my Visa fee is 3%, and my inflated USD is 2% inflation, I'm gonna go with the fiat currency or Visa fee.
Yes, this whole process could be automated with ML, I don't know why no startup has done this yet in a good product. I'd definitely pay for it. HR is actually not my job, I'm hiring Data Scientists for my team; the reason I'm doing the screening is because I'm doing a gig in the Middle East and the HR people here don't know much about DS or how to screen for it (plus, looking at all these CVs is quite the cultural experience). It has occurred to me several times in the last 1-2 years to take some time out and work on this. Friends at Google told me Google has this internally; I wish the guys doing it would spin off a startup!
The "Dating the film" section of that article is just awe inspiring. Great detective work, and probably the closest to the "hacker" thought for which we come to this website.
> should not be acceptable to society

So .. what level of violence against transgender people does this justify? Or is the hope that they can be bullied into suicide so you can pretend it's their fault?
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In Poland, when I was 7 years old, by the time I had to go to school my parents have already gone to work,so I had to make myself some food, lock the door behind me, and walk for 15 minutes to school. But we also had kids taking buses to school, and they were normal public buses, not a dedicated school bus(never heard of such concept in Poland to be honest).
The word in Japanese is karoshi, literally "death from overwork."

"Death march" as commonly used in English-speaking nations is typically used as hyperbole or dark humour, whereas in Japan "karoshi" is used in a clinical sense for documented cause of death.
It's a great idea for making money.

It's a terrible idea for a currency.
It's pretty great, and the bike lanes just keep getting better.
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When you do a transaction, you must "mine" two others. This is WebGL for some reason and puts my workstation with only an Intel graphics card to its knees.
Jesus man, have some respect for other humans, and some leniency where it's warranted. It's possible to be critical of Mozilla and still be courteous. (Also see: my own criticism of Mozilla in this thread)
Thanks for the Radiolab episode recommendation, I'll take a listen.

>Why should the impact on feminist goals be relevant to the conversation?

Because feminists are members of the society, and they hold those views for a reason. I think you already know why feminists think that feminism is good for society.

Of course, it is a valid opinion to hold that women and men are fundamentally different. The problems arise when this limits people's freedom. As a technologist I look forward to this problem disappearing. When switching genders is like switching an outfit, then all these concerns will become irrelevant :)
That story triggered a lot of angriness towards Mozilla.

Maybe if instead we'd all give a bit of money to Mozilla they wouldn't be trying to do questionable promotional campaigns.

You haven't lost my trust Mozilla, keep up the good work.
Last 2 jobs I was headhunted. But that's because I'm "old" in this industry (10+ yrs of experience) and have the right signals on my Linkedin = worked at good companies (Prezi, Facebook). The biggest signal is what company you worked at, second biggest what school you went to (if it's a big one).

I guess there's some segments where cover letters are a thing, eg. academia. But I've never seen anybody care about cover letters at tech companies.
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I bought Litecoins for 750 Euros from Coinbase, then coinbase delayed my Litecoin withdrawn by 72 hours for my "security" which is unacceptable, for my security to stop me withdrawn my funds??!
Those 72 hours passed and my Litecoins are still there and i cannot withdrawn them. They are stuck in Pending for 5 days since then.
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Coinbase costumer service are awful, Coinbase costumer service doesn't exist, it is just the robot boot which repeating same gibberish which has no point and there are NOT any real human costumer service to talk to. Sent them mail and received nothing!
They are looking to be Mt Gox number 2.
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What if i need the costumer service to report my funds hacked/stolen?? It would be same respond which is NO RESPOND!
Specifically speaking for tech jobs, why are we still commuting? I honestly don't think why a distributed team can't just work. I have seen teams that are entirely distributed, or with a few members remote that work great. The times I have seen it not work is when there are other things that smell, but remoteness of team members becomes an easy scapegoat to pin the blame.

Also, I don't think working from home as a norm is radical. Why do we all have to swarm back and forth to some magical place? Making employees commute is an awfully expensive proposition for quality water-cooler time.
I have no idea why you were downvoted. The GP is basically the dictionary definition of cum hoc ergo propter hoc.
Amen to that. It's a solved problem in statistics, too:

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No licence means that you can't even use the software. This seems very restrictive for a GitHub project