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> So the black martyr thing I don't really care to touch since that's pretty unrelated to the other statement of inequality between races.

I have to ask:

1. Why do you say it is unrelated? The author is making a direct connection between the first two sentences and the claim in the parentheses.

2. Are you saying you don't care to touch it because a) you don't feel comfortable making a nuanced argument in a hostile environment, or b) it is indefensible?

> It seems you are calling that statement crazy.

I asked two questions assuming respondents would have read the article. I may have missed something, but AFAICT the article in no way implied the blogger from my first quote is Urs.

What I found crazy is that somewhat that high up at Google would interrupt the usual HR process and attempt to get an employee in line using a Nazi metaphor. Especially when the metaphor implies to ignore whether your colleagues are Nazis. And most especially given how badly it turned out for tech companies that literally ignored the consequences to humanity that came from working with Nazis.

So, another question-- does my characterization of the alleged statement seem level-headed to you?

To characterize the first quote-- I don't find that statement crazy, but I do find it sad and alarming. Sad because the loose reasoning and fallacious argument is easily avoidable by iterating over a list of names, which is presumably something everyone poster here knows how to do. Alarming because I'm starting to get the sense there is some kind of underground racism railroad in tech where people whisper and reinforce opinions with each other, but without subjecting them to the same rigor and potential public ridicule that, say, sloppy patches to the kernel would receive.
Non-citizens effectively have zero rights. Your rights increase as you go through different visa types and get to citizens. The appearance of actions like these can make you appear deceptive, or uncooperative at the very least. CBP can easily put you on a plane back after making things uncomfortable for a while.
I heard from my colleague that he had boot issues with a server (new Centos7 kernel) and a RAID he set up today.
Why do you consider anorexia to be self-inflicted?
I don't know. I've got a bunch of biological kids, and while propagating my genes is not the only reason I care for them, it's an explicit strong positive for me.
Life is not about self pleasure, it is about making sure that you try to make as many people that you encounter in your life as happy as possible.

On what sacred tablet did you find this meaning of life?
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Well, what if our current economic structure in itself bears a fairly large responsibility for the declining birthrate though? It's something I wonder at times.

Declining birth rates may not be a problem per se. But if they are, many economies I think need to adjust some of their policies. Certain countries seem to have paradigms that are not terribly friendly towards the idea of families and raising children.

This paper (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4255510/) identified some socioeconomic factors that might cause a delay of, or even outright rejection of, having children:

Lack of affordable housing

Lack of flexible and part-time career posts for women

Lack of affordable and publicly funded (free) child care

I'll add that education expenses are rapidly rising for some countries. Also, said career paths often come with a financial penalty for mothers (particularly for college women -- it is well known that motherhood in itself is a big reason for the pay gap between the sexes -- https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/13/upshot/the-gender-pay-gap...).

Small wonder that the birthrate is declining. In fact, in some countries, you might postulate that the economic system in itself is actually hostile towards having children.
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Personally I'm just gonna skip the USA altogether for holidays and work - the world is pretty huge and full of interesting places. I know it's not an option for US citizens and it's a shame for the rest of us but I've decided it's not worth it.
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Just as an anecdote, I know of at least one person in my company who uses it, without being anywhere near a professional typist. I suspect older generations may be much more likely to use it.

In any case, even though mostly everyone prefers the IME on their computers, I haven’t seen any Japanese people who prefer romaji input on their smartphones.
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Other online communities. I haven't really met any violent holligans in football so I can't compare to that.
I'm also originally from rural Scotland (around Tomintoul), for us it was "Breakfast", "Dinner" and "Supper".

Upon moving to the central belt, and ingratiating myself into more middle class circles of friends I then discovered:

Breakfast - eaten usually when you get up in the morning, say early morning until ~1030am

Lunch - eaten from 12pm until ~2:30pm

Afternoon Tea - taken from around 3:30pm until 4:30pm (cakes/biscuits [cookies] and would also include some kind of sandwich - often cut into triangles)

Tea - 5pm until 6pm - usually a lighter two course meal (say an omlette) and some pudding (desert).

Dinner - taken from 7pm until perhaps 9pm - this would be a fully laiden two or three course meal.

Supper - taken from around 10pm until around 11pm (or just before bedtime) - likely cheese on toast or crackers & cheese and a cuppa.

Obviously you don't need to have every one of these meals every day of the week.
Apropos of anything else, my arrival in the US from Australia (as a K-1) has cost over the years, at last count, coming up on $25,000...
Yeah because most people are putting fun money into the alt-coins.

As long as people bought bitcoin and ethereum, they probably will end up positive.

The people that are riding on 3 month old coins like IOTA or TRON will lose. Those risking everything on the future of Ripple or BCH or 1-2 specific coins will lose.

Those that diversify impartially will come out major winners.
Fellow Keralite here. I can relate to this. Chaaya in Kerala is tea made with tea leaves and milk. Black Tea is called "Kattan Chaaya", literally translates to "strong black tea".
Thank you for the reply, I was a little worried that people would think the question too unpleasant and just downvote to oblivion!

I was trying to think of explanations for the apparent callous nature of the emergency doctor who tried to discharge him from A&E and the nurses who gave equally brusk treatment. The first thing that came to mind was that they treated him effectively as a self-inflicted "slow" suicide case and it must be some ethical resource allocation issue.
ie. hypothetically "Why am I treating this self-inflicted injury when there's a kid in the next ward who's been hit by a car and needs 24/7 monitoring"
This was my reaction. I was surprised to see all the sentiment in these comments that this is _counter_ to the popular narrative. I see articles like this all the time, and hear it expressed by friends in person.

I think this might be one of those things like atheism, where your ideology becomes generally accepted enough that you forget you're not being rebellious anymore.
Oh our old barn cat would come out of the barn door carrying a dead rat so large she couldn't hold it off the ground.
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While I agree with your general point about being careful with treating accusations as facts, this is how every major news outlet does headlines.

<h1>Famous person murders family member</h1>

<h4>court case alleges</h4>
I know I will likely catch a lot of downvotes for this, but I found the teachings of Jesus to answer questions of how to run life. As well as the Proverbs of the old testament, and many other scriptures.

Seek and you will find. When I get stuck, I found in the past I would look for excuses on why something isn't working, or why is this happening to me, or when will this end. But when I started to actually "seek" I always found an answer. It may take time and effort, but I always found it.

It's like smoking, drinking or drugs. If you want those things, you seek them out until find them. Why not do the opposite? Seek a way to change how you feel about them.

This worked in my family life too, I was very tired, and I blamed one of my kids for something (he actually did it, but I was brutal in my accusation) he fired back and we started fighting. At the end of the fight, I was angry because he couldn't admit his error. Despite this, I sought an answer in my mind and heart on how I could have changed the outcome. Me, not him.

I was so angry, even hurt by his disrespect, but I kept looking and looking. Then it hit me, a very obvious answer, if I had talked to him quietly, he would not have fought with me about how I treated him.

I found an answer. Then I applied it. I told him I was sorry for accusing him so harshly, and that I should have come to him more reasonably. That was it. I couldn't change what happened, but I got to replay the event halfway. A while later he came to me and acknowledged his own error, but I didn't demand this of him.

Seek an you will find is a generic answer though, as you can seek things that are bad for you as well. But then wisdom must come into the picture no matter what.

Once you have studied enough self-help stuff, you will find that distilling them down, they all end up in a similar place. Change yourself, you have control over this, and it will change your life. Just be careful what guidelines you use to change by.
In Québec and French Canada in general déjeuner/dîner/souper kept its original meaning too!
I always do.
This can be used to rePly to any comment anywhere.
I hope our descendants put a couple dents in the universe.

So far, we seem to be the only technological civlization in a couple dozen light years and, if we never make a mark, it'd be an enormous waste of potential.
In America, at least, having children is most definitely a sacrifice. "Noble" is a subjective qualifier that's actually irrelevant. The fact is without kids the thing that fuels our economy, consumption, disappears. In many ways parents are subsidizing the childless. It isn't a bad thing to note that.

Also, nobody knows the extent of what one must give up to parent. No matter how prepared a person thinks he or she is, they aren't. Having kids is very abstract right up to the point that it's not. The concrete realization starts to happen earlier and more intimately for the mother because of the gestational period, but that realization sets in eventually for both parents.
I'm not a physicist but the discovery of the Higgs boson probably put paid to a number of competing theories [0].

Some papers probably are well-reviewed and evaluated. But as a small experiment, I picked a paper at random (Artificial Intelligence, Automation and Work [1]) from this year's AEA conference and had a look through it. Despite having a promising title, there is (to my mind) no content in there. Nothing but unjustified assumptions about 'production functions' and 'productivity'.

I don't see how a paper like that tells us anything about artificial intelligence or automation or work.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternatives_to_the_Standard_H...

[1] https://www.aeaweb.org/conference/2018/preliminary/paper/HZr...
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Yep, that's a defining feature of Patois that are transmitted only orally and informally.
"I find t hard to believe anyone genuinely doesn’t want to. I suggest they’re wrong about their feelings."

Consider that this is a failure of cognitive empathy on your part. When other people don't feel the same way we do, it's natural to believe that ours is the only reasonable perspective, and maybe even that it's our duty to enforce it on others. But it is possible to develop empathy, and discover that maybe we don't actually have access to all the data like we thought.
Not exactly. According to Bruckner, it comes from simplification of herba thea, which means "plant of tea", not "herbal tea". Then the cluster of Polish herbata, Belarusian harbata, and Lithuanian arbata grows from the same te-, even if it sounds so different, so the article is not THAT wrong. Though, I agree the statement "the world has..." is still technically incorrect as there are more languages around, than just English, and words for tea are many even if they are all of the same roots.
Doesn't really matter because it's too short. Crackable in 10 seconds if the password hashing is poorly implemented. (I assume Amazon implements good hashing, but that's besides the point. Your algorithm generates passwords that are just a bit too short.)

https://lowe.github.io/tryzxcvbn/

https://blog.codinghorror.com/your-password-is-too-damn-shor...
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I wonder how many young, talented, technology-minded people will be set back if this "bubble" does pop.
Nah, built over years most likely. Like getting divorced because "he throws his socks on the floor." That's the match that lights the fire of hay gathered over decades
And (as covered in the article, but bears repetition), confusingly also in many areas simply means the dessert course. You can have apple pie for pudding.
That's interesting, cause my impression was that warfarin causes vitamin K deficiency and makes animals very thirsty. Maybe the rat poison is actual making the rat problem worse...
The USD is one of the most centralized currencies in the world. Just because everyone has some does not mean its decentralized. It is still minted and distributed through centralized silos owned by the government, and policy enacted by the government ON the currency is still effective.
I'm sure the regexp /[gG]od/ shows up in corporate Hotel Lobby email, and I wouldn't be surprised to hear that Friday night fellowship is organized via Hotel Lobby company email lists (to discuss how better devote yourself to the Lord).

The same way that after work alcohol parties (colloquially known as "drinks") or board games at the office after a hard day of coding are organized via Slack; humans are going to talk to each other about idle activities.
Yes, I believe this must be a priced-in risk. You just cancel the payment at this point, of course (no items will have shipped in that short time span anyway) but you still have to take the exchange risk.

If you look at OTC trades on distributed exchanges, you will see that this strategy takes place there too. Make a trade, and finalize only if the exchange rate moves in that favor, otherwise cancel. Most places have reputation systems in place to suppress that behavior but they have their own problems. There's likely no ideal solution.

(Also do note that one confirmation is likely not enough anyway if you want to avoid rolled back transactions. Orphan blocks aren't really that uncommon.)
> but nobody ever talks about just how much work it is with any kind of detail.

I don’t think I’ve ever heard young parents talk about anything else. If I am to believe the stories, until the age of 3 it’s not blood running through a child’s veins, but pure high-grade Colombian roast.

To the point where I’m considering sardonically suggesting we suspend driver’s licenses for new parents.
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You will need a lot of dogs. Rats can breed like crazy if they have enough food.
As my old buddy John McGinty put it "I knew having kids would be a big job; I just didn't know it would be relentless!"
I don't live in the bay area, but...

- You are doing a startup where you teach Chinese online?

- Do you have a website?
I lost my dad when I was 18. I've lived now over half my life without him. You're being downvoted because you can't differentiate wisdom from naivete.

Appreciate your parents.
If you are a U.S. person they cannot deny you entry for not giving them your passwords, though they can keep your devices for some time.
It really depends what you mean by that. If you compare it to currency in a game which can be removed with a bug that sets a few bits then USD it's quite decentralized in some respects.
Also want to add incase anyone is reading that you don't want to set your systems security based on some lowest denominator that you can't even secure / control.

Seems unreasonable and insecure.
Seems to me that's the digital equivalent of showing up on a tourist visa (or via the visa waiver program) with a bunch of resumes printed in your luggage.
Browser compatibility section at the end of TFA states that it isn't supported by FF (Gecko), so why is it on MDN then?
AFAIK mega.nz was founded by Kim, but later bought out by investors.

It is fully laws and DMCA compliant. It is not about piracy anymore.
As far as in my experience, no. Comments can be Chinese for ease of reading, but Chinese developers work with the usual programming languages out there: C, C++, c#, .NET, Java/Scala, Python, Javascript. Honestly there is no reason to use a Chinese programming language (there are such). If you work for an international companies, then English is the preferred language for comments.

Back in 2000s, text editors often did not default to UTF-8, so if you are from Taiwan for example, your file might be in big5 encoding, and would require a change if open by an editor in utf-8. Now this is a rare practice.
Scottish git here....rolls (or maybe morning rolls if posh). But where I'm from in Scotland you'd ask for "softies" otherwise you'd get a slightly harder well-fired roll if there was a choice.
Personally I don't. I was trying to imagine the thoughts going through the doctors and nurses heads when he reported their apparent callous behaviour (turning him away from A&E, poor treatment on ward etc.)
Ecclesiastes does have a Zen feel about it but it doesn't go far enough and, therefore, comes off as a bit depressing. ;)
Here is the same in 10 lines of pseudo-code

http://zergo.me/meltdown.html
Two wrongs don't make a right.

One can argue that both almonds and cannabis take a harmful share of water in drought-prone areas and that both will be controlled.
Yeah there's obviously some tension from the kids and the stepmom. But if you read the article everything was starting ok enough until the kids thought she was using his miles which they were entitled too (as an aside, what a stupid thing to throw a fit over)
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Am I supposed to feel bad for the tax evading repeat substance abuser who's still sitting on 8 figures but didn't get to cash in on the nepotism fueling his family's fortune? Everyone involved in this story sounds like a horrible person.
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Sorry, but it has everything to do with herbs. As well as Belarusian harbata, and Polish herbata it comes from "herba thea" as mziel wrote.
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I rode in a bunch of autonomous cars so you don’t have to
tbh I never considered academic to be the real world. the real world is outside the academia.
> for me the solution was to find social circles beyond work. For me I have my church community and also meetup groups with other developers in a similar field.

I think you are exactly right. Additionally, I think having a variety of social circles beyond work can help broaden one's support network, which can reduce the disruption of changing jobs or being let go. And it's fun to have a wider variety of friends with common interests.
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That's hugely misleading. It's one of those things that sounds reasonable if you're not a lawyer, but a lawyer will have questions:

1) Will cases be decided according to the same principles as currently? (No, the bill specifically strikes out specific principles, including the animal rights one.)
2) What will the status of existing EU case law be? (Unclear.)
3) What will the status of post-exit EU case law be? (Unclear.)

In other words, it'll be similar, but different enough that it's going to cause problems.
There is a growing anti-natalist movement, lately.
Both ECJ and ECHR, but Theresa May has been fighting a long war against the ECHR:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/theresa-may-ca...

And given that many times ECHR was the court that sided with individuals against either corporations or states, it's really hard to frame this as supporting individual freedom.

Yes, European courts are able to override British courts and British law, because the UK agreed to that. That's the mysterious element of UK's relation to anything European: the UK agrees to some rules and then complains about the consequences.

As for homemade jam:

- what laws banning DIY? Are they UK laws? Are you sure it's the EU who mandated the precise letter of the law?

- Yes, the British have the HS2 to tender out to the whole EU (which it is still a part of you know), because that is actually a way to save money and decrease local connections between builders and politicians, also known as corruption. These are rules the UK has agreed to. But they don't have to build an inch of HS2 against their will, as the HS2 is not financed by Brussels and therefore they don't have the say.

- laws promoting 'green' energy are a mixed bag, I agree with that. But they are getting better, Euro 6 for example has hit diesel car manufacturers hard. And not everything is about cars.
Mother Earth News had an article about this: https://www.motherearthnews.com/green-transportation/green-v...
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It's aggressively reinforced on a cultural level. There's a huge stigma against not having children, let alone advocating that other people should consider following suit. If you've consciously made the decision to not have children, people feel quite free to call you selfish or immature. You're likely to be bombarded by relatives asking "when are you going to have children?" People with children often take your decision as a personal attack on their choice. The top comment on this thread can be surmised as "Having children is hard, but ultimately worthwhile", but the commenter felt the need to use a throwaway account. A lot of people find it easier to lie and say that they're infertile.

http://www.readcube.com/articles/10.1007/s11199-016-0606-1?s...
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Yet another illustration that bitcoinz is a joke of a ecosystem.
Yeah, but I don't think it's a routine thing (I'll check with my pal who runs a borders team to be sure). I think you need to have been a specific target and person of interest for things to go that far.
Mercatox has XRB/DOGE which has a whopping $9k 24hr volume.
Perhaps it has more to do with us (i.e. humans) not having a deep understanding of mental health treatment? I mean, we really don't understand the mind very well at all.

It's not just a clinical understanding either. We culturally approach mental health differently than other health. Get cancer and everybody rushes to your aid. Have anorexia and people ask questions about why we should pay for "self-inflicted" injuries (devil's advocacy couched, but still the question is posed).

Thankfully the cultural stance is changing. It wasn't long ago that the question about "self-inflicted" injuries wouldn't have even had to be couched in devil's advocacy.
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I think the age thing is because we're all coached to wait until we're "ready", but in reality no one is ever ready. You just have to dive in.
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