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The only people I know who have rifles or shotguns either work in rural areas or are into wildfowling, or if wealthier, into grouse shooting or deer stalking. These are fairly common in some parts of the country (e.g. Scotland where I am - where large parts of the country are dedicated to shooting one kind of beastie or another) but they are still minority interests.

Most people here just aren't interested in guns.

Ironically, in some areas here in the UK it is common for kids to be taught to shoot at school!
White rice has little fat or protein, and brown rice doesn't store very well. The gold standard for prepper grain is hard red wheat: https://store.lds.org/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Product3_715...
I don't think I could convince you of anything. 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?

There are definitely some political views that should be socially discouraged and attacked and there should be social repercussions for the people who express them. You disagree on whether some particular views fit in this category. You must admit that from your position, it can be very difficult to distinguish between unfair persecution and genuine persecution.

For the record, if a company I work for invited someone as purely evil / anti-intellectual and vapid as Scott Adams to give a speech, I would absolutely resign in protest.
4 hours of sleep and 6 hours of commute, I bet any person doing that is sane and happy.
The [addon page](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/mytwocents/) says it's released under "Mozilla Public License, version 2.0", which is a free software license AFAIK. So... where is the code?
Oh please. If you want to reduce the environmental impact of bitcoin mining, it is very simple. Just increase the cost of energy. It will make absolutely zero difference to bitcoin.
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Homesteaders and preppers aren't mutually exclusive.
I want Silicon Valley to be a place where you can publicly hold extreme views and not be a huge social liability to anyone you associate with (employer, friends).
To be fair, Mozilla had a long history of easter eggs. So do other things that you'd want to take seriously (Tesla and Google for example). Easter eggs are a part of software culture whether you like it or not.

> How can we trust you guys to do the right thing from now on?

The same way you can continue to trust the GNU/Linux system which contains easter eggs.
I'm not sure why something becomes "unacceptable to society" just because it "poses a threat to feminist aims." What's the first principles reason why it should be unacceptable?
Good, but too bad Japan does not let kids be as free to think for themselves at school a little more. If you limit autonomy to walking to school, it won't bring much benefits in the end.
Right. Stupid autocorrect.
Certainly as CTO. If he had stayed on after suddenly having been declared CEO without so much as a review process, our opinions would probably be very different by now.
Heh, this article barely even touches on the full insanity of IOTA. https://medium.com/@neha/cryptographic-vulnerabilities-in-io... has a decent rundown on some of it. It's centralized on a central coordinator because it fundamentally can't work in a decentralized manner. It used a homebrew hash function that was vulnerable to trivial attacks. It uses ternary math just-because of some extremely doubtful efficiency claims for a lot of things, including the mentioned hash function. (Some fun not mentioned in the article: They later replaced the homebrew hash function with SHA-3 ... wrapped in ternary.) Also, it's centralized. That means it has the downsides of a centralized service (entirely halts if the central authority server has connectivity issues, including from DDOS attacks, or if the company ever decides it's not worth it to keep running; central authority could also censor transactions) without any of the upsides of a centralized service (centralized service could work with dollars instead of an artificial currency; centralized services don't need to broadcast transactions to the entire network to work; no kind of mining at all needs to exist; basically think Paypal) because it's a weird frankenstein made somewhat in Bitcoin's image.

When the obvious vulnerabilities about their homebrew hash function came out, the responses on many cryptocurrency forums were disturbingly cult-like. Plenty criticized the people making the announcement as biased. There were many posts calling out people involved with other cryptocurrencies for spreading FUD because they're supposedly scared of competition from IOTA's "innovation". Apparently no one recognized Bruce Schneier; I saw posts calling him out as a small-time snake oil salesman. I've had at least a half-dozen people try to explain to me how IOTA is paving the way forward with ternary computation, optimizing their software for future ternary hardware. ... Man, if you thought general fandom sites were bad with blind frothing fans, then you should see what it's like when money is involved like this.

>My next step was to go to the GitHub repository and take a brief look at the source code. The IOTA source code is written in JAVA instead of C++ like most professional cryptocurrencies are. That did not instill me with confidence.

Heh, this is probably the only positive thing about IOTA I'd agree with. Using a memory-safe language like Java makes it exponentially harder for developers to accidentally write remote-code execution vulnerabilities, and makes it harder for malicious developers to hide remote-code execution vulnerabilities. Most cryptocurrencies are in C++ because they're forks of Bitcoin, which so far thankfully seems to have developers that can keep those issues out and review each other's work. (Granted, if IOTA were just a Bitcoin fork, they probably wouldn't have gone through the effort of making so many insane design choices of their own.)
Curious what those things are, because all I can think of is workaround that exploited out-of-spec behaviour (and, of course, web extensions, which has been covered to such a degree it's not just a dead horse but a fresh patch of grass by now)
So basically, much ado about nothing. I am glad you engaged, thank you. People are too quick to overreact these days.
(I'm going to assume from context you don't mean minority as in population, but rather power dynamics as you talk about for the rest of the post.) The problem distinguishing stronger and weaker sides is that there isn't an objective metric that both sides can agree on. The reason gender issues are so prevalent on this list and are such a hot topic is exactly because it is a debate about which side is weaker, about which measures of power are valid and invalid, and so on.
We so need to acknowledge that drugs won the war on drugs and get on with sensible policy beyond declaring war on nouns, abstract or otherwise.
In Norway it's even worse.

We generally have very few special interests groups, however the narcotics police have formed their own political group that constantly writes for news papers, joins debates and speaks to the politicians, and their agenda is similar to the reefer madness stuff from the US every time someone remotely threatens their jobs (via deregulation / legalisation).

This _is_ a step in the right direction though.
It's not really something that can be well summarized in a hn comment, but basically, it re-enforces the idea that men and women are actually so different that you have to be a certain gender just to do something you want to do (gender essentialism).

My main point is, if it were acceptable, my s.o. would have a blog post about it that I could just link you to.
Only possible in a country without muslims.

Must be a great country to live in.
What I read about the current climate in the US reminds me a lot of how things were in the months after 9/11. While I don't have unbiased data like in the link, I can share a personal anecdote:

In the months after 9/11, if you spoke up and said you didn't agree with US foreign policy (invading Afghanistan) or that you didn't approve of Bush and wanted him to resign, you got blacklisted.

I had a friend, every house in his neighborhood had an American flag except for his, because his dad was an introverted engineer and uninterested in politics. The absence of the flag was obvious, and after a few nights of things like eggs on the door, flaming dog shit, and finally a dead animal left on the door mat, he put up an American flag and all the drama went away.
>"Silicon Valley" is a workplace, and it's generally considered rude to bring your political views into the workplace.

In theory, yes, but in practice it's only considered "rude" when you bring unpopular political views into the workplace. In a partisan locale such as SV people openly talk about the popular political view at work, all the time.

A Googler can go to TGIF Q&A and openly bash Trump/GOP and he'd get sympathetic responses from Larry, if not cheers from the audience (and a bunch of new memegen entries), but I highly doubt the same would be true for someone expressing opposite views.
Totally agree with respect to irrelevant political views.

But sometimes sensitive topics become relevant in the workplace (e.g. diversity in hiring). If any suggested divergence from the party line is repudiated, we risk losing objectivity.

An open mind easily discards a bad idea. A closed mind may miss a good one.
You only record them if you otherwise self assessment for tax. If you do t eve self assessment you do not claim if the gain is below £11k unless the total sale is in excess of £45k
Jesus, that logic just broke my brain, and I'm not saying that dismissively.

Now I need to really think about this...
Just debate the real issue you care about, instead of fighting passive-aggressive proxy wars or whatever.
"ignorance of the law is no defense." that sounds a lot like ignorantia legis non excusat, i.e. just because you didn't know that X is punishable by law does not mean you will not get punished. That's different from not knowing or recognizing the preconditions of a crime.
In Germany, we had cycling safety classes in primary school (and you got a badge at the end, yay!), so we could cycle to school (or anywhere else, really).

In many countries in Asia, kids with parents can just go to a restaurant (for example) and let the kids roam - everyone else (waiters, other patrons) will take care of the kids collectively.
The assertion seems to be that racism -- perhaps even a specific manifestation of racism -- is more prevalent in the south than in other areas of the country. Not that everyone in the south is racist, or that everyone in the north isn't.

Perhaps you would like it if even this more carefully worded thing was something people didn't say. If so, it'd probably be interesting to unpack why.

Also, I'm not sure that geographic location counts as an intrinsic trait. And no matter how diverse your circle of association is, beware of assuming they're representative of what you'd see in a geographic cross section. Based on my survey of my Republican acquaintances in my home state, I would have assumed that Trump wouldn't have won the primary there.
why do you say Scott Adams is purely evil?
At least for personal experiments, how much worse is it to just build a system with a 1080 ti, leave it in a corner where you live and remote in as needed, from a laptop, school, wherever.

Separately it seems with ML price/performance is sometimes less important than how much money do you have to spend?

For example with other development work, I’d probably never buy an 18 core cpu because for most projects it wouldn’t speed up my iterative work much.

However ML is more like VFX work, where it’s common that nothing may be too fast. In other words I would be more often willing ignore price/perf, and for example pay 100% more for only a 50% perf gain, if it were within my means to do so.
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Here's how it works in London: a right-wing racist will call you a racist epithet to your face. A left-wing racist will talk a lot about diversity but work behind the scenes to ethnically cleanse your neighbourhood (aka "gentrification").
How is this a particular attack surface? Changing an about:config value requires quite a bit of effort from an attacker and enabling this extension would not actually pose a security risk either. There's plenty of better about:config values to be changing, too.
There has been a clear betrayal of the people. All the loud claims of freedom and liberalism by techies from the 90s has come to nought and infact moved the other way. Techies have dropped any pretense of ethical behavior and are hiding behind user ignorance to abuse them.

Google, Facebook and others creepy surveillance behavior has been more or less normalized and few seem to have a problem working for them and furthering their agendas. Once the infrastructure for surveillance exists, things change whether you like it or not.

You can't be a victim all the time, at some point you need to take responsibility, if you can behave with integrity you can't expect it from society.
This reminds me of the Netflix series Mindhunter, about the FBI doing the same with serial killers in the 70s. It's based on real life work. Well worth watching both for the complicated but well handled subject matter and for the direction (David Fincher) and performances.

For anyone doubting the 'morality' of this researc or presuming rapists are just vile apathetic scumbags and nothing more, go watch it or better yet read the real life story it's based on. This kind of research has saves hundreds of lives and prevented many men (mostly) from becoming serial killers. Let's hope this new research does the same for rapists.
But they mix inventory in their warehouses, so they are just as likely to ship out an item sent to them for Fulfillment by Amazon by another merchant as the are to ship an item they actually procured. I think mixed inventory is the heart of their problem.
When people clamour about housing development projects destroying their way of life because they increase density etc, this is the other side of the story. The blockade on building might keep some comfort for the fortunate owners of those homes, but forces other, less well off people into pretty terrible living conditions.
Are you implying he doesn't care about this issue? What leads you to this claim?
Try putting up a Ted Cruz sign in Mountain View.
>That's a great description of the mobile market around 2011, with Verizon and AT&T splitting the lion's share. But since then they have hemorrhaged subscribers to T-Mobile<

Where are you getting you numbers? In Q1 2011, AT&T and Verizon controlled 65%, with T-Mobile at 11%. In Q1 2017, T-Mobile lept to 17.4% with AT&T/Verizon at 67.2%. I have to say, you have a very strange definition of “hemorrhage.”

Your overt bias and half-truths in this thread have done a great job of reinforcing my support in NN. I also had not thought about treating home internet as a natural monopoly until now. Kudos to you!

https://www.statista.com/statistics/199359/market-share-of-w...
I can maybe see how Scott Adams is anti-intellectual, although people claiming to be rational should definitely consider his view, but how is he "purely evil"?
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He was using sarcasm.
> Would you (or someone else in the know) please clarify what additional user data (if any) the default-enabled bootstrap add-on caused to be collected when the extensions.pug.lookingglass preference was disabled?

It did not collect anything. It just checked whether that preference was enabled upon startup of the browser and then disabled itself, if it was not.
I don't know if this is the article you're thinking of - it is a similar situation with a family in Vancouver, BC that I believe was discussed here recently:

http://5kids1condo.com/very-superstitious-how-fact-free-pare...
Japan also famously has a very low incidence of rape, though I wonder to what extent that is due to very low levels of reporting it.

No doubt different ways of organising society come with trade-offs; and path dependent optimisation means it's not always possible to "switch" to a different local optimum.

Nevertheless, I think

* looking at how other countries do things and

* realising how contingent some domestic norms are

is rather educational and edifying.
Live in Burundi (Africa) which has been plagued by insecurity since 90s. We used to go by public transport even at age of 10. My little bro and sisters still doing so.

I personally think it's related to culture. How the community like to make kids mature earlier.

I've also lived in Tanzania where communism had made in the 90s, pupils not pay public transportation. So even little kids were riding buses.
Why is this downvoted? It’s a fact.
DAB can handle receiving the signal from multiple broadcasting antennas on one frequency (or reflections of the signal from one antenna), where with FM you get interference.

So if the infrastructure is good using enough base stations you can get much better coverage. That’s how it is more robust.
Welcome to my world in Germany :)
Biggest taboo I've found? The demographics of Google and Facebook are very good for attracting young geeky males. Deliberately vague about the why here. Highly unpopular to state it.
Confused about how this is new information. I remember learning the same thing 12 years ago in biology class.
I think the most interesting thing about the recent debate is our true rulers must be getting worried that things are getting out of control. They have not forgotten about the Reign of Terror [0] or where this sort of thing can lead. There is the real risk the masses actually might not be distracted by the usual left/right pointless bickering and actually follow the money.

0. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reign_of_Terror

Edit. Good to see what the real topic is you can't discuss in SV ;)
I'm very curious about Green Arrays, but at US$450 for a dev board, it's beyond my threshold for weekend projects.

It'd interesting to explore how Arduino and, later, the RPi impacted their respective architectures' presence in the embedded space.
>basically, it re-enforces the idea that men and women are actually so different that you have to be a certain gender just to do something you want to do (gender essentialism)

Do you think there's a difference between thinking you have to be a woman because you want (for example) to be a nurse, and thinking you have to be a woman because you want to be a woman?
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The other day I accidentally left my son at a busy station in Tokyo. He was more annoyed than upset. He just found the right platform to go home and planned to email me when he got back to say where he was.

We underestimate children's ability to navigate, which is silly because if they were really bad at it our species would have died out long ago.
> i have a question: why do any of this?

As far as I can tell, to get Mr. Robot viewers to try Firefox Quantum.

The Mr. Robot episode from Wednesday, as aired in the U.S., had a Firefox ad on a commercial break.

(Note that I'm not endorsing or excusing the ad extension or the manner in which it was delivered, or claiming a positive effect on the number of users. Having contributed to Quantum technically, I'm very upset about this.)
The "taboo" list is surprisingly run-of-the-mill. All of it seems like stuff I see people discussing on the internet all the time. I thought there might be a few original thoughts, but even the things they claim they can't say are things they're kind of supposed to think. Different sides of boring issues.

Anyway rest assured there's no need to stifle heretical ideas with these people. The ones thinking anything truly original were probably either the ones left out of the 108, or never bothered answering or are already in institutions etc.
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That’d be kinda silly since Ted Cruz is a Texas senator. But if you mean for President, probably you’d take some heat.
Is that argument really relevant? Aren't they human beings who don't chose to be transgender? So, their existence is their right. It's not a political position, or a favourite flavour of icecream, it's a human state of being.
> RULE 3: ALWAYS wait for a transaction to be confirmed before sending anything else.

> Rule #3 is just another admission of a broken network. Really not much else to say.

It sounds like an admission of vulnerability to double-spending.
This might be true for a particular city depending on population density and commute habits of the people, but after a certain population density is reached the premise that transportation speed is inversely proportional to density holds true for the most part. Fixed line transport such as trains may not be directly affected by the density but there may be a bottleneck if the density is sufficient to saturate the lines. If the trains are running full - this would lead to increase in wait times and longer commute time.
You could go to the police and ask, if something happens ( neglect), you can reference to the talk with a police officer
And that is why we won't stop fascism - people are too in love with it!
I'm also confused but only because I've learned that cells have varying life spans and the only cells I know that last decades are brain cells.
Yes, you should listen to the Gondolier episode of Radiolab. But if transgender people feel that that is true, and maybe it is true, and maybe it does weaken feminist goals... Why should the impact on feminist goals be relevant to the conversation? I.e., is society's benchmark the advancement of feminism?
As someone living far away from SV, this is fascinating reading. But I think the survey could be more precise about what "can't say" really means. Will you get literally ostracized for holding the viewpoint in private or on a blog, or will you get fired for bringing it up in the workplace?

I personally believe some viewpoints really are inappropriate to bring up in a professional working environment. If I genuinely believe read-headed people have a brain structure which makes them inferior developers, I don't think I should bring this issue up during a meeting. Sure, my red-headed coworkers have the option of challenging my viewpoints and perhaps a fruitful discussion will follow - where I will convince them with rational arguments and evidence that my viewpoint is correct. But I think it is fair if said red-headed colleagues would prefer not to have the discussion at all.

I notice the top taboo subjects are diversity, racism, sexism etc - exactly subjects where you can indirectly question a colleagues competence.
Honestly this article tells more about crypto currency investors in general than about this particular crypto currency.
These cannot be original ideas because they must have been expressed a few times before people learned you shouldn't discuss them.
What’s an extreme view in your book? Extreme views, by definition, must brush up against the limits of what’s legal or ethical.
Looked at the paper, answer: that's what happens when vulgarization of scientific discoveries is so bad that it removes the actual discovery from the paper. Apparently the author discovered the existence of memory t cells when writing that article.
If you really think Scott Adams is "purely evil", as in Hitler level, I have some strong suspicion that you are a troll that is trying to make liberals look ridiculous.

If not, then I have a feeling that you mistakenly equate many opposing ideas to "pure evil ideologies".
I don't think it is that misleading, the bulk of federal tax dollars are spent at the federal level. More of my net tax dollars go to tanks than schools or roads right?
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More like "One reason we need perfect VR".