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> You are describing a drug.

Yeah, so is the article.

> Chris Marcellino, who helped develop the iPhone's push notifications at Apple, told The Guardian last fall that smartphones hook people using the same neural pathways as gambling and drugs.

> Besides, we're not talking about taking them away for good. Just while they are in school.

I didn't say for good. Even during that length of time, it could be seen as a punishment. I'm not arguing that it's good to take them away or good to keep them - I'm not sure. I'm just saying it's important to recognize that taking away something like a smartphone could be a punishing experience for a person.

> When I was a kid, people were into Gameboys. Yet no one took it as a punishment when schools did not allow them.

Gameboys have only one purpose: games. Games and games alone are clearly not useful in the school environment. Smartphones have a billion purposes and have limitless potential for learning - not to mention, various other things that are important, like peace of mind in communication, etc. Again, I'm not saying these kids shouldn't be able to do without. I'm just saying it is a thing: people are attached to their smartphones in a new way, as described in the article, and taking it away can cause harm just as keeping it could.
Not to mention the various payment options for their services, which sometimes integrate with Wallet/Pay and sometimes don't.
They are, however, suboptimal for defending against conquest by larger societies, which historically has been a more important metric.
As I mention in a sibling comment, the RFC to make macros work with the module system like any other item has not only been accepted, but mostly implemented. :)
Yes. There is still variety, though. On PowerPC, for example, there is the concept of segments.

On 32bit systems, the address space is divided into 16 segments of 256MB each. Each of them has a privileged register that can be setup in different ways (e.g. half could be per-process, half machine-wide). The 4 bits from the segment ID eventually map to a 24 bit value (or trigger a protection violation if e.g. the page is kernel-only), so that the original 32bit address becomes a 32 - 4 + 24 = 52 bit virtual address. The MMU, then will look up the higher order bits in the address to convert from 52bit virtual addresses to actual 32bit physical addresses. The virtual address space is larger because in theory you could have processes with completely disjoint addressing (up to 1 million of 4GB each, i.e. 4PB). In the end, you still only have 32 bits to address memory chips, though. :-)

On 64 bit systems, there are many more segments, 236. Instead of having (64 * billion) registers, there is a single register pointing to a hash table in memory that the CPU will walk through. Addresses are translated from 64->80->64 bits in a similar way.
I doubt the bulk of pen and paper is used for playing tic-tac-toe. I find the OP's concern to be valid more or less.
So it sounds like you agree with me that he lacked an understanding of how to behave in a workplace?
Madero's revolution started when it became clear that the democratic process was not working. They overthrow Diaz in just 8 months with minimal bloodshed. An election was done and Madero was democratically elected. Constitutional order had been re-established. However, as you mention, there were still revolts by Orozco and Zapata.

After Huerta's golpe is when the Bloody Civil War started. Death toll estimates are between .5 and 2 million.

Even President Woodrow Wilson was appalled by Henry Lane Wilson's assistance to Huerta's coup d'etat against Madero.
Americans, even those who attend good schools, do not understand statistical claims. This leaves them susceptible to all kinds of flim flam, especially when they are invested in an idea.
Note: Everyone (in the economics world, anyhow) has known that rent control does this for a long time. There's no controversy here; left, right, socialist, Chicago-school, heterodox, mainstream: It's a known thing.

This study is interesting primarily because it tries to put some hard numbers on how much it drives up the cost of housing.
By the time Microsoft caught up with WinXP and Windows Media Player

"Caught up"? The steaming pile that Microsoft call Windows Media Player is the sole reason I ever bought an iPod. Synching was barely worthy of the word, getting music on any of the "Plays for Sure" devices was a pain in the ass, random shit just didn't work (I recall making a playlist was damned near impossible), and to put the cherry on top, all of your Plays for Sure surely didn't play after they shut that store down. Please note for the record that I was a Kool-Aid guzzling Microsoft employee at the time. Any sane person would have given up on the first try.

So one day the wife and I headed to the local Apple Store and hooked ourselves up with a couple of Nanos. The lack of friction made long-term customers out of us.
The numbers suggest that we could live 1950-style lives working only eleven hours per week[0]. Instead, we inflate our consumption and keep working 40 hours, living in houses more than twice as large[1], commuting ever-longer distances[2], paying daily (or more than daily) for others to prepare food we could have prepared ourselves, and just generally choosing to live many times as large. We adapt so quickly that we don't even realize that we've nearly-quadrupled our lifestyles, but that's where the 30-hour work week went.

[0] http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/rauch/worktime/

[1] http://www.moyak.com/papers/house-sizes.html

[2] https://www.thoughtco.com/americans-commuting-over-100-hours...
interestingly the A380 dont seams to be flying with any american airline either(according to airbus http://www.airbus.com/aircraft/passenger-aircraft/a380-famil...).

And looking at the published customer lists for the 777 and 787 the list is dominated by non US based airlines. Particularly Asia seams to be emerging as the dominant market for air travel.
Huh I had quite a miserable time with Project Fi customer service. Phone calls, emails and chat failed to resolve my issue. Only after countless Tweets / Reddit posts / Official Google product support forum posts that went on for nearly a week did I get lucky and finally talk to someone who could help me.[1]

They gave me $50 off a month's bill at the end of all of it but it was such a frustrating ordeal. You couldn't pay me $500 to do it all over again. Their customer service is a joke. After spending time on their product support forums, I was far from alone.

[1] http://www.netinstructions.com/what-the-heck-google-my-proje...
I did say software engineer. It would be equally absurd to claim that a civic engineer or chemical engineer would be responsible for building an engine.
>I have spent many an hour trying to tell them that nearly everything they use isn't agnostic about its behaviour, but that it tries to manipulate them into spending as much time as possible in the app/site and so on.

Very well said. Apps and social media and clickbait-sites are digital Skinner boxes, its creators (dopamine) dealers. As a general rule, if you can't put something away for a week (or even better, an unspecified amount of time), you're addicted; and addictions are never a good thing.
There are many companies with very opinionated managers who are hiring developers: Breitbart as a large website comes to mind, so do some libertarian cryptocurrency companies. His reputation probably limits his research but I can see how his fame might convince some people to reach out to him at the same time.

I was once identified as a chartered statistician, presumably sympathetic, by a fringe group (fun people collecting Nazi memorabilia, something that happens to get you in jail where I was at the time). Several members reached out to me to draft or sign op-eds on things like homosexual parenthood, sexuality transmittable disease and ethnicity, etc. They were clearly well financed and they had an opinion to defend (which actually makes the job easier). I refused because they didn’t have any data to support their claim so I wasn’t sure what I could do other than discrediting myself instantly (I was not very politically savvy at the time). I had a clear feeling there was a path from paid drafts to signed papers, to book deals that would have made me rich.

Whether James Damore is willing to go there is a more difficult question.
From my understanding he was getting death threats and misrepresented. He did the only thing he could do and try and set his name strait.

The person who leaked it to vox should be on the chopping block.
I do think about amish lifestyle a lot.

curing cancer is a worthy endeavor that is not on the same plane as most technology we spend time talking about (believe me I wish I could have saved some family members)

experiencing machu picchu and coming back in a week .. feels pointless to me. time is required to experience things fully. there's a middle ground between risking your life on a boat for 6 months before reaching south america and uber fast tourism.

And in a way I think that only people that really want to go the distance should travel.

The old agricultural system was too demanding it's true, but it's not removing it that makes life better. See how people eat shitty things, waste meat etc ..
Also with proper education, one can go really far if he knows how to use energy, even without heavy industry behind.

It's a shifting plane, new ideas create new societies, they don't make the previous one better.
I think the key thing with programming on the T/Is was that input handling and output was super super simple.

Text display addressable by row/column... something like 8x24 if memory serves?

No mucking about with event loops, window handlers, setup functions...
I wouldn't allow a guitar in the classroom either, except when they are specifically required, like for music classes.
Likewise; to this day I still talk about how Neopets' pet pages were my introduction to building web content.
Define "worse".

An easy explanation for higher quit rates is that the various programs to get more women into tech worked, but the percentage of women who actually want to be in tech hasn't budged.

When you interview both men and women, women actually report higher rates of support from their companies and superiors than the men. It is one of the few areas where there are differences. The other is "enjoy the work", which women rate a lot lower.
Out of curiosity, what lessons would you like Damore to learn from this?
And what happens if you don't?
What T-A said. Moreover, Finland as a country exists because Czar Alexander I conquered some eastern provinces of Swedish Realm (as a weird fluke of Napoleonic wars), and then decided that they would be useful as a buffer zone for defense of St. Petersburg and also decided that it would convenient not to incorporate the government of the conquered area into Russian bureaucracy.

Meanwhile (because of another weird fluke of Napoleonic wars), soon after the loss of Finland, one of Napoleon's capable generals (Bernadotte) was given the crown of Sweden. As a Swedish monarch who had no attachments to the lost territory and possessed the strategic acumen to realize how awesome deal it was not to have Finland around, he did not contest the conquest (plus, he could use it as a point in Congress of Vienna to negotiate Norway to be given for Sweden as "reparations"). Why it was such an amazing deal? For several hundred years, area of Finland used to be a battlefield for numerous wars fought between Sweden and Russia. Ever since Napoleon and the establishment of the buffer country called "Finland", Sweden has enjoyed a remarkably long period of uninterrupted peace.

During same period of time, Finland's history could be summarized as "Finnish people not being fond of the Russian ideas how to deal with the defense of St. Petersburg". I don't foresee this state of affairs changing anytime soon.
That is illegal, according to California law.

It is illegal to prevent people from engaging in politics, in California.
It's not about being politically correct, it's about not implying that your female coworkers don't deserve their jobs.

before someone says "He didn't do that, you obviously never read it", I did and I still believe it's a conclusion that he leads the reader to. Not sure it was intentional.

Also the whole "too neurotic for leadership" bit. WTF was he thinking with that.
I was under the impression that the route used to be very seasonal and is now year round because of the 787s.
There isn't one. That's the point. So don't make claims about it.
While I do understand (and mostly approve) the general criticism, I'm not sure if it really applies to this article specifically. Mostly because the article discusses the operation of Finnish defense forces and the overall military situation in the area, a topic of I feel Sámi are of little relevance. Also I don't see significant unfair characterization of Lapland (as "uninhabited, uncivilized wilderness") in the article.
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What are you talking about? This is completely unrelated to what I said.
I bet it would work in a smaller setting, like a hiring interview where the scandal came up. It wouldn't be worth doing something like now and in public while there's attention on him.
I think you're right. My instincts must be improving because something felt off after I made a few comments, and then I paged down a few times to here. And by a few I mean a few tens. I tried collapsing subthreads to get a handle on it, but it's really just a mess.

How else would several subthreads of subthreads report 40+ replies in an hour once the whole thing is collapsed? There be demons.
The key here is "any question." When did classrooms give you that kind of flexibility? In my experience it was hit or miss between how many on-topic questions an instructor would allow, let alone questions that deviated from the lesson plan.

Modern public schools institutionally are not designed to cultivate the intellect and knowledge of individual students. They're designed to transfer a specific set of ideas to a large group of people at once.
In a strictly literal sense, which might be the best for getting everyone on the same page, that is true.

No question that Damore made mistakes; most sane people would never have let an opinion like that touch paper during office hours, and google will hopefully review the terrible idea of having a 'controversial opinions' forum.

However, his mistake is the debate's gain - the response is clearly disproportionate on several levels. This is an opportunity to identify the people calling for his life to be destroyed and convince them that their definition of various -isms is calibrated a little too high. Or failing that, to try and get some moderates into positions of power rather than the hard left.
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When it comes to super old phones, what would you do about security concerns?
Why is it annoying? If I'm addressing a team of 5 people, I would much rather say that person A is amazing at math than tell 4 others that they suck at math.

Social skills are a thing, even if they're logically equivalent statements.
Structuring the reverse mortgage as a loan with the terms "you never make any payments, and no matter how much the face value of the loan reaches, you will never owe anything other than your house, whatever its value may be at the time of settlement" is a way to let the estate of someone who dies quickly keep ownership, but still pretty obviously a sale rather than a loan, in the same way that Islam-compliant financing is fundamentally still a loan rather than whatever they label it to avoid the Koranic prohibition on things being called "loans".

I'll accept the correction on target retirement funds, but I still think "lose your principal preemptively now to avoid it possibly losing value later" is a misguided approach. The only justification offered for these funds is that you want to pull out of the stock market, with its volatility, before you die, so that you can enjoy spending your money (in my model) or lower returns (in yours). Assuming you have any family members, the point of doing so disappears -- you can't realize the future growth in your crashed stock portfolio after you die, but they can. All the same reasons you want stocks when you're 20 and don't have children suddenly apply again when you're 80 and do.

I will note that kelnos's sibling response to yours takes the same view I've been taking - that the point of a target retirement fund is that you withdraw the money so you can spend it:

> You don't want to be 85 and have to do a major withdrawal due to illness right when the stock market is experiencing a periodic down-swing
There could be a counterparty app that run a webserver to accept these POST requests and save the images.

If the parameters were editable people could use the app to share to imgur and other sites alike.
Because git is easy and proven and a blockchain is complicated.
> There is no user purchase validation step! I just swipe my phone and transaction is done. I get this is the same as using a CC but in theory there is such a huge opportunity to improve the experience. How about popping up a thing where I confirm the purchase, even add a tip or sign for some purchases? WTF???

I disagree with you here. I want the payment to be as fast and painless as possible. A "tip" screen, a "sign" screen, etc. would all be very annoying. I suppose adding these optionally somehow could work though.

On a technical note, it's not quite the same as swiping a CC. There's some authentication to start - you must authenticate on your phone (via fingerprint or pattern or whatever lock mechanism you have) before you can make a payment. In addition, a one-time token is sent instead of your actual CC number, so the retailer couldn't reuse your payment info. In other words, it's much more secure than "signing" ever was and you get some nice security benefits by using your phone as opposed to swiping a credit card.
Damore links to studies in his paper, but ignoring that for a second -- I could post a paper, and you could post a rebuttal, and blah blah blah -- but the point isn't that he's right or wrong, at least to me, the point is that if he intended to say that women, for whatever reason, simply disprefer professions like engineering, that it is a far less acerbic interpretation.

I'll freely offer that nothing in his paper affirms my interpretation of his view any more than yours, but if the only difference is that I'm more willing to assume good faith where you are not, then perhaps that's reason enough to not demand that he be insta-fired from any job he ever get, as many are asking to happen.
Yeah, came here to echo the idea that fasting is MUCH easier on a low carb diet. If you start reading about keto, you'll probably see the classic macro ratio of 75% fat, 20% protein, 5% carbohydrate – sometimes even higher percentage from fat.

My advice is that starting out, I wouldn't get too hung up on the ratio. It's actually pretty hard to get 75% of calories from fat. IMO, the important part is to limit the carbs. If you're hitting something like 60% fat, 30% protein, 10% good carbs (mostly green veggies, maybe some berries), you'll still see most of the keto benefits in terms of fewer mood swings and cravings, ability to fast more easily, etc.

Healthy eating is one of those areas where a lot of people (myself included) let perfect become the enemy of good. Even moderate low-carb, just eating cutting out sweets and starches, can be enough for a lot of people to see waistline and mood stability improvements.
It is hard to measure popular support for a guy that controls the state apparatuses for secret policing and surveillance. I actually like Putin, but i am an authoritarian hawk, so that is no ringing endorsement. I studied under Alex Moytle, a Ukrainian Specialist, and a day didn't go by that Putin wasn't discussed. The joke was always about the official government pollster calling the average Russian and asking them who they support... on their landline which was set up by the official government supported telecom. "Da tovarisch, of course i fully support Putin!" Even funnier is when RF supporters say that the Crimean population supported the invasion. "hello citizen, i am man in unmarked tactical gear with totally Hungarian rifle! Do you support the side with a full air wing of Hind Ds flying over you at this moment?" The argument for majority support is pointless if there is no way to accurately gauge true sentiment. Best to leave the argument out when justifying an illegal invasion of sovereign territory.
The internet has been filtered in the house for years (their Mum is an IT tech in a primary school) - both via the broadband supplier's filtering and also using OpenDNS. It's not a perfect solution (and obviously can be bypassed as soon as they have smartphones with Internet access), but it's another element to think about... plus, of course, educating them in the right way so that they see it as a good thing to be kept safe, rather than a bad thing that they're being kept away from something they covet.
I read what he wrote. It was (mostly) ugly but contained a lot of truth.

Many of the media interpretations of what James Damore wrote were very biased, and effectively amounted to hit pieces. His use of terms like "Trait Neuroticism" were direct uses of psychological terms which just sound bad as everyday English. Evolutionary Biology also tends to have a "dismal" feeling to it, like Economics can.

One can't take fields like Evolutionary Biology and Economics as morally prescriptive. In that direction lies madness, clearly. However, to then take a knee-jerk ideological stance towards science and declare that everyone must be equal inside is just the West's version of Lysenkoism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism

As is usually the case, reality is complex, requires a nuanced understanding, and might sound depressing if you give it a pessimistic read:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blank_Slate

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n691pLhQBkw
Nowadays you can get much cheaper all-purpose computers though; if kids are tinkerers like you were, they will find a way, either on their smartphones or on a raspberry pi or whatever. And if they don't - accept it, they're not you, and they'll probably end up better off than you did.
My understanding is that while many federal politicians are also compromised, the army is mostly clean.
> there will always be people who choose trivial entertainment, and there will always be folks who chase knowledge and self improvement

That's why the entire thing seems like a non-issue to me. If some people don't want to do anything useful with their lives, then who are we to prohibit them from continuing to do-nothing and thereby starving themselves?

(Of course, we already, rightfully, prohibit people from harming&stealing-from each other; that's beside my point.)
I kind of wish HQ would go away. I know that's mean to say however it's really a rather buggy app and the game it's self is only marginally fun. Having to deal with questions not working, the host droning on, the app freezing or stream crashing makes the experience even less enjoyable. Additionally, the prize money is going to have to increase if prize is going to be more than a few $ as they keep getting bigger. Even 10k when split between a few hundred or a few thousand people gives you a pretty minimal reward. I wonder at what point the creators are going to start pivoting to advertising to start underwriting their gameshow.