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Tangentially related: I read a book on Project Gutenberg titled A.D. 2000, clearly written by an army engineer from the 19th century. There's no plot to speak of, but it's about a guy who desires to travel into the future. The process for traveling in the future basically involved filling a room full of ozone and encasing one in a sort of coffin to place one in a persistent state of unaging sleep. Funnily, part of the process involved shoving asbestos rags in one's nose and mouth.

The style of dress was just minor differences from what one wore in the late 1800's (e.g. black knee-high stockings instead of white). Some long-distance travel involved zeppelins. Newspapers were nationalized, with print being transmitted through a massive array of typewriters connected by the telegraph system (i.e. pressing a key on a connected typewriter in, say, Boston would send a signal to automatically press a key on a typewriter in, say, Los Angeles).

Of course, global peace was secured, social welfare programs were widely expanded, environmentalism was strong. There was also a description of a massive underground vacuum-tube system of transportation which reminded me of hyperloop.

Ultimately, I wouldn't recommend the text for any sort of story; there are two very lengthy chapters devoted to describing the technical specs of a submarine. But it's an interesting curiosity.
My understanding is that they effectively let these service duke it out to see which one survives and then choose that one.
His mistake was assuming that people would be able to have an abstract, intellectual discussion of the subject. Unfortunately colleges and universities have spent more than a decade churning out graduates who have been taught that a good tool to attain power and status is to have an emotional, overreaction to anything that let's them assert cultural dominance over someone.
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Admitting you were wrong and apologizing in public, specifically.

An individual can be reasoned with, placated. You can make reparations, promises that the other person will believe because of a precedent of mutual trust and forgiveness.

However, you can't do that with an angry mob.
ironically if he had a union he likely would've had the protection of a grievance process and not been subject to summary termination, regardless of how sexist his views were
John Young died 3 days ago.
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I think the point is that for most people, they don't know how to moderate their phone usage, and those same people probably have issues with moderation in general.

But on the other hand, regardless of moderation, social networking has changed the way people interact in loads of different ways, and that change is seemingly isolating people and causing damage too.
Hah, d2jsp... Haven't heard that name in a long long time.
Did your read the memo? It is hardly a far-right opinion piece...
A lucky set of circumstances led to the iPod dominating the digital audio player market: bold marketing, a smaller HDD form factor, high-speed FireWire connection, and a great integration story on Macs.

How is great execution "luck"?
Rent control removes the incentive to build new apartments. There are second order effects that make it counterproductive. Even the socialist economists agree rent control is terrible.
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Again, that's not the argument. Even stating that men are more suited to become programmers* is problematic!
I know they're for illustrative purposes but I really would have appreciated some scales on those graphs.
But before phones, did those folks read books and do nothing? Or is it more likely that they watched football and soap operas on TV?
> Young died on January 5, 2018, at his home in Houston of complications from pneumonia. He was 87.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Young_(astronaut)
You know what bothers me about giants like Google? They can absolutely suck at delivering an app or service for many years but because of their vast resources, they can keep throwing people and money at their projects until something sticks. Makes it very difficult for even very competent startups to compete against them.
He's not "right wing". Hating SJWs and the extreme left isn't right wing. People are complicated and labeling someone as right wing to invalidate someone's every position is as bad as what the right does to the left.

He is if anything fairly moderate with a slight libertarian streak, especially when it comes to drugs.

I don't agree with lots of his positions and he's definitely not some really smart guru, but I like that he's an average guy with an open mind who lets speakers of all viewpoints express themselves in a very welcoming way. I mean hosting Jordan Peterson and Brett Weinstein, both on the 2 ends of the political spectrum and making it a very intellectually stimulating dialogue is a breath of fresh air in today's gotcha media. You know CNN and fox have an agenda when they bring opposing viewpoints on their show, trying to invalidate their ideas. In joe rogan's podcasts that never seems to be the case, instead discussion leads to more moderate viewpoints rather than debates and winners. Only really see that on PBS lately.

That said, I do find many of his guests abhorant and just skip a fair bit of his podcasts.
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The pattern still is constrained by the wavelength.

What is not constrained by wavelength is deposition and etching of layers, that could be (in theory at least) as thin as you like down to a monolayer.

With multipatterning you can place such small features, but the layout still is constrained by the wavelength.
The Guardian interviewed him. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/nov/16/james-dam...

When the memo came out, the Guardian reported that news outlets contacted him and Damore went with anti-feminist youtubers for a more friendly reception.
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Yes, simply optimizing for less state and fewer side-effects, and letting the chips fall where they may, is 80% of the benefit. Most of what I do is realtime and/or robotics. Basically, varitions on:

power_on_self_test()
while True:
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If the only rule you enforce is making sure every piece of state has a damn good reason for existing life is improved.

OK, on re-read this sounds like more like a rant, and less like a philosphy of life. Oh well.
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But rent control manipulates the free market. With rent control, people who might otherwise move, don't. Further, people who might rent a vacant apartment while they're overseas don't. Or people who start a family and move to the suburbs keep their city place as a pied a tier. So supply is suppressed, but demand is not.
Fair enough, I wasn't thinking about the quantum computing side :)
I get your point, but space exploration and robots everywhere aren't the only types of "wildly different" futures. People just have latched onto those two things as facile benchmarks.
I’m currently in the process of building a case for my Raspberry Pi 3 with a 7” LCD (switchable, so one can use the HDMI instead) and a mechanical keyboard, that boots into my own custom “distro” of Linux that is basically a pure TTY, some fonts, a BusyBox shell and Wordgrinder.

While I’m missing the difficult bits (the case, the battery, the switches and so on — I want to be able to use it as a word processsor, a “home computer” plugged into the TV, and a pure keyboard depending on what switches are flipped!) it works wonderfully for distraction free writing.

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10 years from now, he's going to have a hard time finding employment or basic living possible.

Given today's tight labor market, he has plenty of options. If he was good enough to get into Google, at the bare minimum he could do fine in corporate IT. In a lot of red states, his past might even be an asset. If he's willing to keep his head down and feign contrition, he could probably work just about anywhere except the top tech companies.
Yes. 100% it has worked. I've fucked up in the past, apologized, and made things much, much better.

Edit: I feel some might be reading this wrong. I'm did not say it works 100% of the time. I said that I'm 100% certain it has worked because it's worked for me.
> He said exactly that, right there.

You even highlight the word _exactly_ but that is not what he said. That quote says they don't have equal representation and there maybe biological differences to blame.

The main reason for confusion seems to be the quote assumes women might not be as attracted by tech work as men are. That assumption changes the meaning because in your interpretation "Women want to be in tech as much as men and D'Amore is saying they just don't have the genes for it" vs "Women want to be in tech less than men to start with and besides bigotry, hate and marginalization, cultural biases, there could be a biological explanation for it".

I know we all think tech is awesome, we are getting paid to do what we love, etc. But it turns out many people, and maybe women more than men, don't find sitting in a cubicle all day inverting binary trees appealing. I don't think biology is the main driver here [+] but D'Amore does. He might be wrong, but I don't see why it had to become this controversial topic and lead to firing and lawsuits. They could have just said "here is why science doesn't support your view, thanks for starting the discussion, but you're wrong" and leave it at that.

[+] I don't support his view, I'd personally blame culture for women not even wanting to be in tech. Having lived in Eastern Europe where there is less "stigma" against girls liking math and computer science. It's not a cause, or a talking point at least, it's just a profession like accountant or doctor.
I would generally agree that people like to hear about alternatives that are available in a similar field. It's possible that your initial post sounded more like a Plug and less like a Contribution, but that's a wording/tone thing. -shrugs- just food for thought
I guess I didn't phrase it very clearly - why for example Greek is there rather than Arabic or Japanese? For the math symbols?
Actionable things for humans at the moment appear to look like trying senolytic drug candidates in rational self-experimentation, with before/after tests of metrics linked to tissue stiffness, inflammation, kidney and heart function.

Clearing senescent cells very clearly produces a degree of rejuvenation in mice, and can turn back progression of aging and specific age-related diseases via a sizable number of metrics.

Of those senolytic drug candidates, dasatinib plus quercetin if you're fine with short burst of chemotherapeutics, or FOXO4-DRI if you are fine with using peptides lacking human data. Both of which should be filed under the "risk that needs to be well understood" category. Or you could wait a few years for the first human trials to run through and more data and better drug candidates to arrive.

But these things are on the menu of possibilities, and are not expensive at all to carry out as exploratory tests.
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When you get a result like that you should question the measuring tool. IQ tests are horseshit.
I surf with mine all the time. Are you using the mount that came with the camera, or the actual surf mount that they sell?

The actual surf mount comes with a leash that you can tie to the camera. You can also attach one of those orange floaty blocks to your camera to make it easier to find.
I would not be surprised if the technological predictions come about from a solid understanding and application of physics. It makes sense that the Bell Labs director would have had a clear sight of what was possible in networking off into the realm of the internet. Similarly, somebody applying physics knowledge would not make the mistake of supposing gravity belts or suppressed lightning or man-made hurricanes. Meanwhile, some calculations about the amount of CO2 put into the atmosphere by fuel combustion could tell you something concrete about how its chemistry will change.

Socially, it's less clear. It will probably work well to assume that culture is highly mutable, but human nature isn't.
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Huh, I still use wallet for P2P transfers. What do you mean by failed, and is it going away?
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I thought I was being original when I redid my website[0] in a similar style this past summer (right down to the text appearing to come in at 9600 baud). But it appears this repo is at least 2 years old..

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ack has a configuration file, and it's extremely flexible, including the ability to check shebang lines. If you have a shell script without an extension, it's the only way to know what language it is.
> The point is whether those biological differences significantly affect your ability to be a professional engineer.

So, to me this reads as bias. When I read his claim, I don't see it as implying that women are in any way less capable of becoming professional engineers, but (in context to his other assertions) that they are less likely to desire becoming a professional engineer.
But would these supposed kids with "more potential" realize that potential given access to a smartphone during the time when they are being educated? I fail to see the use of a communications/entertainment device in a classroom unless it is part of the instruction.

EDIT: Genuinely curious of your opinion, I grew up right before smartphones exploded when I was in college, so for me I see them more as a distraction from what is going on around you. Yes, they can be a tool, but I feel like they typically are not that in a group learning setting.
Do you think instead of teaching English we should be banning books, because some students read trashy novellas in class and distract themselves?
> What is a supercomputer in your pocket, with access to a significant portion of the sum total of human knowledge, good for, for most people?

> Playing fucking candy crush.

This is my go to rant for the last few years. Not the fact the people do play silly games, but the whole surrounding myth "computing era is paradise of heavens, highway of information to make your life better, only need an better octocore for your digital life !" ..

this computer era is problem trying to find its solutions.
So as to not remove the incentive to build new apartments, in San Francisco, rent control only applies to units built before 1978.

The SF rent control law (like the CA Prop 13) does allow rents to increase, but very slowly. It would be possible to have both without as strong of adverse consequences by changing the ceiling at which both are permitted to increase.
Would it be fair then to describe Google's hiring policy as preferring the best candidate regardless of race / sex?
Yet, he leans on their work that have prevented corporations from discriminating on people, to sue Google.
I wouldn't consider it to be a punishment, but I do think they are missing a big opportunity here. A blanket ban suggests that maybe the kids can't be taught appropriate use of the technology in a school setting even though other schools do just that.
Most of that seems like not much of anything. I made a very specific claim: that political violence was endemic in Latin America before 1973, and that the U.S. did not cause that violence. You did nothing to refute it.
Yeah, even if you look at the comments here damning Damore, it's obvious most commenters didn't bother to read - hell, to even skim the primary source.

The memo was as polite scientificly-backed and clearly written as it was reasonably possible without turning it into an academic publication. The only mistake he made (while at Google; I was really surprised by the on-line crowd that he found itself with after being ejected from his workplace) was not realizing that he's not dealing with a rational audience, in Google or elsewhere.
It doesn't work in the case of moral panics like this.

Apologizing only convinces the people who are called for his head that they were correct. Usually it will lead to further sanctions.
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A dependent type system needn't be able to express that a type is indexed by an even number. You can have dependent types without type-level computation, for example, by requiring that types be parameterized by nonexpansive expressions - which is nevertheless already more powerful than what Haskell's type system offers. This restriction might even be a good thing for type inference.
The cost of poorly designed complexity maybe.

This is the same mentality as people who throw up their hands and say government is broken, so we should deprive it of resources to make it as small as possible. Doing this just winds up makes the problem worse, when there’s plenty of evidence that well-funded governments can work well.

It’s also the same broken mentality behind schemaless databases. Schemas are hard, so let’s get rid of them. This backfires because you haven’t actually rid yourself of schemas, they’re just implicit and now you lack any tools to operate on them meaningfully.

“Hard problems are hard, so let’s just avoid dealing with them” is not a sustainable solution in the long term. Sometimes they’re really hard and ignoring them makes it worse. Sometimes they’re only hard because we haven’t thought about them in the right context. And sometimes hard problems can be sidestepped entirely with a bit of cleverness. But outright ignoring them and hoping they go away just punts the hard problems to others.
Not only is that immaterial, but he certainly lived to see all of those languages I mentioned.
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From what I've read, that's always been the way the company operates. I read on here years ago that Google 'regularly cuts off its own limbs', and never seen it so succinctly put.
The US drug market makes things shittier on the margin, but it is not the main cause. If they stopped buying drugs the gangs would fight over the control of some other resource.

For example, the town of Tancítaro became prosperous (and therefore valuable for organized crime) because they grow lots of avocados. The US doesn't fight a war against avocados.
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No it doesn't. It suggests that abilities may be distributed differently. People are not identical.
Resolving the fee/latency issues seems like a hugely important problem since networks like that: that's closer to the convenience offered by credit cards with e.g. Square/Venmo/etc. or Apple Pay for the web but the main thing is that it presupposes people have accounts, which really means giving small businesses a reason to switch. If the fees could be lower than what Visa et al. are willing to offer, that could happen but otherwise it seems like a hard sell.

> I really want someone far more intelligent than me to explain whether or not a zero-sum instantaneous transaction is formally, logically impossible (via a successor to block chain?) because that really is the killer app, imo.

The hard part is trying to do it without central authorities and pseudo-anonymity. Using PKI makes that a much easier problem.
> Almost all of the women from my social circle are smart, pragmatic, driven and successful yet have zero interest in a technical career. They excel in their given industries but ours they want no part of. I don't believe intelligence is more prevalent in either gender, but I do believe there are some traits that shape who we are.

That's most definitely a cultural thing, and I believe its what diversity programs try to address.

> As far as his "conservative white male" discrimination claims, I've seen that too. My boss specifically requested candidates that are not middle-aged white males. But it's nowhere near the same level of discrimination that people of color or women have endured for decades. Perhaps the reason people don't feel sorry for conservative white males is that if they are rejected by one company they can keep trying and will find an "old school" company that will hire them. We have not had that luxury, for blacks and women it was 100 nos for every 1 yes. It's not that way for white guys, sorry.

I get that, but I think your boss was still wrong to think and phrase of it that way. No one should be disqualified simply because of their race or age. Give more points to minorities? Yes definitely. But reducing points because you're of a certain race and age just sounds icky, and is probably illegal.