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Gravity is measurement of the distortion of space, caused by mass. It is an emergent property. The more massive something is, the more its gravity will distort the space around it.

So, a small piece of rock that you can hold in your hand, will cause a gravitational ripple in the space surrounding it. This is similar to how the Earth causes a gravitational ripple in the space around it, and it keeps us grounded to the ground. But, the Earth causes a much bigger gravitational ripple, than a small rock.

And we as humans, are grounded to the Earth, as if we are at the bottom of this massive and invisible whirlpool. We cannot see it, but this whirlpool is rotating all around us, and we cannot get out. It is easy for us to move around horizontally, but it is very difficult for us to move vertically. Unless we can move horizontally so fast, that we can reach escape velocity, and then, we orbit the Earth.

That said. What is gravity? Why does mass cause a ripple in the space around it?

I wonder if gravity is just some type of neutral electro-magnetic force. Kind of like the magnetic field lines that you see with the North pole and South pole. But instead of being magnetically charged, it is neutrally charged, and it affects everything around it equally.

Or, instead of being magnetically charged like the North or South pole, it is gravitationally-charged, and the direction points in only one way, into the center of your massive object. And unless you are moving faster than that massive object's escape velocity, then you will always be stuck in that object's gravitational ripple.

If we can truly understand what is gravity, then I wonder if we can create a counter gravity. Like, in your spaceship, if you can create a negative mass above you, then it would cause your spaceship to act buoyant in the planet's atmosphere. And you can use thrusters to move around vertically, as easy as you can move around horizontally.

Or, maybe you can create a temporary blackhole above your spaceship, and instead of your spaceship falling into the gravitational ripple caused by the Earth, then it becomes attracted to the gravitational ripple caused by your blackhole. And this causes your spaceship to rise, and defy the Earth's gravity.

Anyways. I'm not a gravitational physicist. Maybe I should take this idea, and write a novel. There has been much worse Sci-Fi ideas created, like Time Travel, or the ridiculous many-worlds-interpretation theory of quantum mechanics.
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Its something I'm a big fan of. A talk like this is inherently a ton of information in a short time and I try to be inclusive and accessible by being conscious of how others process information.
Another clue in the mystery of where insect wings come from
"Differences in distributions of traits between men and women may in part explain why we
don't have 50% representation of women in tech and leadership." He lays the groundwork for that argument there, and then his rhetoric which builds upon this throughout the memo basically argues that, possibly, men are better biologically suited than women for high status/stress/leadership roles, or roles involving "things", as he says men are more into "things", and women more into "people".
This notion that the Alt-right is just another side of the coin is, I think, a misdirection. In fact I think the whole Alt-right label is entirely arbitrary and doing a significant amount of harm by polarizing the discussion. Black and white representations of the world leave us confused and frustrated.

Truth is the world is complex. We're dealing with multi-variate problems to use JBP's term. The societal benefits of free speech and open dialog are harmed by polarization. Reductionist generalizations pollute truth with doubt. Our societal discussions should be liquid and multi-dimensional.
Can you expand more on what, in your opinion, is the difference between a coder and an engineer?
U.K. Appoints a Minister for Loneliness
Tether will end up being the pretext US authorities use to raid various exchangers. It's coming folks. Do not leave your coins at an exchange wallet, ever.
The get_last_error() snippet shows LAST_ERROR as being a static mut (which IIRC requires unsafe access as it's not thread-safe). But the parse_mappings() snippet shows safe access to LAST_ERROR using an API that clearly indicates it's not just an Option. I assume that at this point it's actually a std::thread::LocalKey.
Did anyone else notice problems/errors in the linked Kapor Center study and have more questions about that than the article?

- They list that "Unfairness, however, was the top reason for leaving for women of color (36%)", but their table right below that says that 39% of Women in Color left for "Actively Seeking Better Opportunity".
- The only significant difference between men and women in this results table is in Unfairness. Men actually find their jobs almost 10% more unfair than women do!
- White women seem to be the most unsatisfied with their work environment.
- Why are women having significantly more unfair experiences than men but so much less likely to leave a job for that reason?
> It seems like you're proposing taxing based on the price of the good, not the cost of the negative externalities.

Wrong. I'm proposing that to have the same economic incentive on a luxury version of a certain good you need a higher proportional tax to account for the flattening of personal utility curves.

And that's before we get into the fact that luxury vehicles have even higher negative externalities due to increased engine size, lower fuel efficiency, larger size, etc.
I think you're describing different things. The list of things in your first paragraph is not "behavior", it's... heh, not sure I have a word or phrase for it.

At a very small startup, people are going to expect to have to work hard. While I disagree that this absolutely necessitates a lack of work/life balance, let's say for a moment it does. Sure, you're probably only going to be attracting people who are interested in working as much as possible, in a high risk/reward scenario. In some cases that's also going to be selecting for single people who have no children.

And that's fine, for the most part. What's not fine is engaging in exclusionary behavior related to diversity of gender, race, sexual orientation, etc. E.g. it's not fine to have a bunch of white employees who make racist jokes at work, or a bunch of men who talk at work about their sexual exploits, or a bunch of straight people who marginalize homosexual candidates during interviews.

My initial reaction to the parent's assertion of "any non-zero subset of reasonable people are so offended by a behavior that they'd leave the industry because of it" was also negative, because it sounds super absolutist, and PC (in all the actual negative ways "PC" has been used), and an indictment of being your genuine self. But really it's just about keeping stuff out of the workplace that has nothing to do with work. If work is about building products and figuring out how to sell them, and you focus on that, it eliminates a lot of problems. That doesn't stop you from being friends with people at work, but it does mean you might want to keep certain conversations away from the workplace, and instead have them on your own time. It really isn't that hard, as long as you're committed to examining your unconscious biases and eliminating behaviors that stem from them, at least in the workplace.
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Porting Go Web Applications to AWS Lambda
The answer is not black and white. Most coins are filled with all kinds of illegal activity like wash trading that would never happen at such a scale on a real stock exchange. There are little to no regulations. So pretty much everything in the cryptocurrency sector is being manipulated heavily by people who've invested in the founders' coin or by the founders' themselves.

Most of it comes down to the common sense test: ponzi. Did the founder give themselves 50% of the lions' share of the coin supply? Is the code just a copy of something else but changed to give the founder extra coins or abilities? The list goes on. Pretty much everything out there is a mixture of both. No founder wants to be poor if people will accept these diluted offerings. After all, you take $1 from everybody, and no one screams and shouts, yet you become one of the richest people in the world. Same principle applies with initial supply dilution in some respects.
Debt agreements aren't required to be underwritten in every instance -- it's an entirely optional addition. If you want to see an example of a debt agreement in which there is no underwriter or middleman and collateral is trustlessly secured -- well, it's linked as OP :)
No, I'm saying that nobody is entitled to anything. I love how you bring up the race card.

Please explain to me the system of who gets to suddenly stop a city from changing, and when? Your attitude is based on emotion and illogic. So if I'm talking about South Boston, where it is white Irish Americans being booted out by a much more racially diverse professional class, am I bigoted against whites?

Again, you have an emotional argument and nothing else. Take that same argument, apply it at a national level, and you are in anti immigration territory. If Trump ran for mayor of Seattle and said he'd build a wall to keep newcomers out, it would help your agenda.
> I totally agree with this. If you could create a software submission which efficiently communicated traceability, verification and validation info, and the other key metrics the FDA wanted to see, that would be pretty huge in terms of submission turnaround time. Best of luck guys.

Thanks! Sounds like you’re pretty well-versed in this, if there’s some way you can help you with a future product please reach out!
I've read the complaint and scrolled through the almost 100 pages of screenshots of bad internal memes and social media posts. The memes are bad, yes. But the complaint is a hodge-podge of things that reference "white" or "conservative" or "male" or any such thing, in no particular order.

For instance, under "Anti-Caucasian Postings," there's a screenshot of an employee sharing (on internal G+) a link to Tim Chevalier's blog post "Refusing to Empathize with Elliot Rodger: Taking Male Entitlement Seriously." This tells me two things: first, the people who prepared this complaint were so scattershot in their attempt that they stuck something with "male" under "Anti-Caucasian Postings." (The employee's commentary on the link is "The doc considered formally as abuse springing from an entitled worldview. Excellent essay." - so nothing anti-Caucasian there, either. The post itself, which is on the public internet, does mention race a few times, but focuses on gender.) Second, it tells me that the people preparing the complaint think that a white man's link to a white man's essay expressing opposition to the manifestos of mass murderer Elliot Rodger, mass murderer Marc Lépine, and James Damore is somehow either anti-Caucasian or anti-male (giving them the benefit of the doubt that they miscategorized it).

Now, you may certainly argue that it's distasteful, unprofessional, unacceptable, and perhaps even unconscionable to have your coworkers compare you to two mass murderers simply for having written an article that (in their view) makes similar points. I'd certainly agree that there were and still are attacks on James Damore as an individual at Google. But that is in no way anti-white or anti-male, unless you think that the content of those manifestos, and (in two cases) their direct connection to mass murder, is somehow intrinsic to whiteness or maleness - which seems both wrong and a huge attack on white men, more than anything alleged in the complaint.

Plenty of other posts are similarly not attacks on whiteness or maleness, many of which are miscategorized - other "anti-Caucasian postings" include someone writing that "the creator of Dilbert is ... a paranoid sexist dickbag", a link to an HBR article entitled "Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders?", a truly awful-quality meme conveying "0 days since last ... white male says diversity isn't important," etc.

Finally, remember that this is a lawsuit by one side, which has a story to tell. We don't know that we're not seeing a cherry-picked picture. Maybe these sorts of low-quality memes and overly-political posts on corporate channels affect everyone. It's certainly the case that shortly after Damore's suit, a story came out about an employee with rather diametrically opposed opinions being pushed out by management: https://docs.google.com/document/d/15JokX8thp1TxG_I9aodYUxDw...
I've been researching building the Dollar Shave Club for condoms...I know there has been some recent FDA guidance on relaxing rules around size - would a new condom produced by an OEM be a good candidate for Enzyme?
In other words, they are able to bully individuals, but not corporations.
I recently discover Poi https://poi.js.org/. It’s built on top of webpack. If your issues with webpack are configuration complexity, not speed, then Poi may be appealing to you.
That would be an interesting cycle. Perhaps the hospitals could document the process of setting up the drugs company, so that as soon as the prices are jacked up, they can start up another one. It could be quite a profitable business model: starting up and selling drugs companies.
The Holy Trinity of Cloud Computing
The software industry has few required degrees, certifications or titles. There is no rigid career path or unions forcing companies to retain people they have had influence over for a long time. This is great for people starting out, but like everything else there is no free lunch. It is entirely possible, even likely, to navigate this wrongly.

General experience doesn't mean much since there are few standards. Ones experience would generally be used to take more responsibility, do more important things or in other ways advance ones career. Not as some measurement of quality, since that would be very subjective.

In a changing industry it would even be expected that when things change a certain amount of people won't last, because they get squeezed out between new people coming up and old people already specialized.

So while surely part of the industry focuses to much on youth I think people jump the conclusion that it is widespread too quickly.
I don't know if opinion of residents is that strong? I live here and would welcome Amazon as would a lot of the people I work with from my conversations. But then again my circle is younger, wealthier, white etc.
Larger size, larger engine, more natural resources required (and more pollution).

Also, not only you need to account for the negative externalities, but you also need to provide a disincentive for purchase, which then needs to be progressive due to the decreasing marginal personal utility.
The most likely explanation is that no one is purchasing those Tethers and that they have been printed out of thin air.

* Tether purchases are "temporarily disabled" for regular customers. https://wallet.tether.to/app/#!/signup

* Tether claims that these large purchases are being made by nameless "institutional investors" but didn't name who those investors would be.

* Why would large institutional investors be stupid enough to purchase billions of dollars of useless cryptotokens from a shady company anyway?
Having been around F500's and tech companies - one accusation of violating norms at a tech company can be a career ender - one accusation of same violation of norms at a Fortune 500, is usually deal with thru a discipline process.
Oh please no, exposing those sorts of APIs will quickly be utilized by ad-tech guys to make interstitial video ads that don't go away until you finish watching them.
Can somebody explain, in detail, the conspiracy theory here? Preferably in a way that doesn't emotionally assume some nefarious action?

$450M is a lot of money. Why do you assume that tether is lying about this?

If tether aren't actually backed by anything, isn't that just about the worst ponzi scheme imaginable? Like some sort of reverse ponzi scheme, actually? They give you "fake" tethers, and you get to buy "real" bitcoins with them.
Sometimes I wish I could forget all about integrity and honesty and just use my knowledge to make a quick buck by scamming people like all these cryptoscammers do..
It's really not going to be easy either way.
I disagree. You are responsible for YOURSELF. If you are being ugly or talking shit - you are responsible for your actions. Saying "you are absolutely responsible for someone else's feelings" is the bat-ass craziest thing I have ever heard [It is not lost on me that I'm making a snarky comment
in this thread ;)]. An example: I am talking to someone and make a comment that the other person interprets as threatening or demeaning. They do not ask me about it but they play a narrative inside their mind about how I am threatening them. This is some fictional narrative in their mind. I have no clue this is happening. How could I be responsible for this? It is in their mind.

It is incumbent on the person who feels awkward to ask for clarification. This is not "extra work" or forcing the down-trodden to work harder - it is clarity. We do it all the time in conversation. "I'm sorry, but when you say X are you meaning Y?" And you give the person a chance to clear it up.

Now. Where the adulting comes off the track appears to be in the hyper-Ayn-Randian culture of technology/start-ups where people who are incredibly self-centered feel they can "vent" in the open and expect others to "deal with it". This is absolutely unacceptable. And most people who act this way - are usually so self-centered - they dont KNOW they are acting this way. It is unacceptable but when you ask then "did you mean X?" it gives them some space to be clear. If they really did mean to threaten, demean and provoke someone else -- they will be clear they DID intend for that to be case. But they had an opportunity to be clear about it.

Narcissism is rampant in start-up scene (imho). Likely its just on the rise in general in USA population. One of the things that is great about a narcissist is that THEY WILL OFTEN TELL YOU THEY ARE A NARCISSIST! (google, how to find out if someone is a narcissist) They are quite proud of their eliteness and expectation to entitlements. When you ask them for clarity -- they will be clear. And that is when there is no need to have some fictional narrative being built in your mind -- you will KNOW for sure because you have asked them and they have told you.

Regardless. Be clear. And most importantly -- if you HEAR someone asking for clarification -- give them positive feedback. Clear, kind, and even tempered rational communication is what we need more of in the world and less reactivity.
(FYI, I agree with your views but I think that shifting this thread to the merits of the Damore memo is off-topic and unproductive - it's months old, and everyone who knows about it has made up their minds about it already. I think there's room for productive conversation about the blog post this comment thread is supposed to be about, and I think re-litigating the Damore memo is just going to push this thread in the flameward direction, as 'dang puts it.)
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Sure, on current infrastructure 100MPH is unrealistic in that area, but if they added more roads so you could do 100MPH nobody would call it high speed transit.
The best way to solve this issue at scale is to alter the way people relate to shopping. As a woman, there is a lot of social pressure to show up in new outfits constantly, demand for new styles/designs will remain, and even increase. Millennials these days value access over ownership. We can recirculate high quality fashion with each other, i.e. share our closets at scale, this way, there won't be a need to constantly buy new things from cheap fast fashion stores, as we can simply reuse each others.
> the assumption that people leave tech because they are so offended by a behavior doesn't sound like a reasonable assumption.

The reality is more that they are moderately to highly offended by a series of behaviors. It's usually not one single thing that someone runs into and says "that's it, I'm out", it's a long list of often smaller things that ultimately adds up to an intolerable experience.

> People have jobs because they have to work, not because they would like to do it.

Why can't we have both? Given that most of us spend the majority of our waking hours for the majority of our lives working, wouldn't we prefer to actually like what we're doing? Perhaps we'll never get there, but moving in that direction seems like a worthwhile goal.
Uber is "never-docile-enough" ?
A lot of exchanges only change between USDT and other crypto currencies. If tether is insolvent, the 1:1 backing ratio of USDT to USD doesn't exist, which means that USDT is worthless. Promised USD just evaporates.

The few exchanges that offer USD to crypto and back are probably pretty safe, but if the entire ecosystem crashes, it stands to reason that's not going to stand up for long.
You've worked at a company that had a "must wear ties to the office" requirement (yes, those still exist) and came out thinking that their employees were less "docile" than those of the median SFBA startup?
Users will be able to turn off iPhone battery performance throttling
What changed in 1914 was going from gold backed money to fiat money controlled by a central bank.

> and has to renounce conversion

This problem only happens in a fiat money system. It notably happened in 1930 in the US.
Fake 450 million USD being used to buy up Bitcoin, artificially inflating the value. Then when people want to sell, there isn't actually the underlying USD available, so you can't actually turn your BTC back into USD, leading to a mass sell panic rush and the price craters.
From a physics perspective, the many-world, as ridiculous as it sounds, is a more sound theory (believed to be correct by some top physicists) than negative gravity.

The explanation of why gravity is only positive is a complex one, but physicists believe it's almost axiomatic.

This doesn't mean that you can't have repulsive type of effects, similar to one of the contributions that's believed to make the universe expand more quickly than with the simple 4 fources (often called fifth force, maybe related to dark energy, and to the rate of the universe expansion acceleration).

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There are a number of Sci-Fi stories that use this idea, including a famous one from Asimov, in which if I recall correctly the normal gravitational force was working negatively when traveling in FTL speed. Obviously that seemed fishy but the book was cool (Nemesis).
The problem is that average rent increasing isn't actually a good metric on how it is affecting the cost of living for people that previously lived there. This sounds unintuitive at first, but turns out to be fairly simple.

The first thing to consider is that the density on new construction for these is significantly higher - a lot of land that had 80 units before might now have now have an additional 640. Most of these apartment buildings downtown are building up significantly higher than previous places. Going from 4 stories to 30+. Some seriously tall high rises.

And then it's a good thing that these are targeted as luxury accommodations, because they're making the high income newcomers their targets - that means there are fewer of these newcomers targeting the existing housing increasing that price.

Now, you have luxury housing that exists in much higher quantities than the previous housing - this has a disproportionate impact on the city average, but doesn't say anything about the impact on the majority of existing housing outside of these new constructions.

That isn't to say it hasn't gone up as well, but you have to look at how much the supply of this existing housing has contracted and if that contraction has pushed the demand up enough that those prices have significantly increased as well. This isn't captured in looking at the average rent price of the city.