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Why in the world is tying all of your assets
[...] a thing?

This started making much more sense to me when I noticed that, among my friends, 95% of people who get married have a baby within 12 months.

Once you think of "get married and have a baby" as a single atomic decision, all the "downsides" of marriage are overshadowed by the _inherent_ downsides to having children.

Marriages are difficult to get out of? Well, children are almost impossible to dispose of. Marriages can be personally costly? Children will take up a lot of time and money, no matter how rich you are. Marriages can involve one partner shouldering more than half the burden? Well, a man can't breastfeed a newborn at 4am no matter how much he wants to. And so on.

pitching the idea of marriage minus mixing
finances, [...] resulted in hours of crying.

The discussion might go more productively if you approach it from a different angle: Start by deciding if you want children together; then discuss the things that follow from that.
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> "Are certain races inferior to others."

Something that always rubs me the wrong way when reading about these issues is that people in (for now) mostly American spheres use both the word and the concept "race" so uncritically [1], with no reflection at all. Heck, if we consider the US Government, then "race" is an official property of humans (see e.g. bop.gov Inmate Locator, which literally has a drop-down labelled "race" with choices like "White" and "American Indian").

[1] It should go without saying that using a different word for the same concept means you're still using the same concept. It's essentially the same as the good-old-fashioned euphemism treadmill.
Being able not talk about politics is privilege. When being a trans person who is treated with respect is somehow a political thing or when being an Iranian whose freedom of movement is somehow a political thing then it becomes impossible to leave politics at home. "Hey can I use the women's restroom" is a question that is filled with politics.
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Annnddddd This is how we get to where we are. Thanks for sharing, I think this is helpful info to give perspective as to why they have these "HR problems" when in fact it's a cultural choice to be exposed to these challenges!

I assume it's been a net positive for them in the past, I wonder if this TGIF policy will get changed.
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What's a China? /s. A superpower is defined as "a county that has the capacity to project dominating power and influence anywhere in the world". I'm assuming he didn't know that before, but now we can all agree, US is far from the only country that can project dominating power and influence.
How do you avoid talking about politics when the contentious item is a decision that must be made by the company? And this same item is up for debate in tons of industries. Just look at the Oscars.
Is it also the "culprit" for the 82 consecutive problem-free launches?
Suggested highway following distance is two seconds. This gives you time to react to a decelerating vehicle. It is not sufficient time to stop if a stationary object appears, either because the vehicle in front dodges out of lane, drives over it with higher clearance than you have, or plows into it.

It is entirely possible for the vehicle ahead to have an escape path to another lane but you to be pinned in your lane.

Our traffic laws don’t provide for a zero accident environment. They just reduce the damage and suffering to a level society will tolerate.
> Or you know, not talk about politics in the work place.

I agree but hard to do when your company pays political lobbyist.
Yes, that was remarkable. That paper says he was a large man with some body fat, but from what I recall (an Icelandic colleague once referred to this), the fat type in his body differed from that usually found in people. Children have "brown fat" which usually changes to "white fat" in adults, but this man had a far higher than normal composition of "brown fat" for an adult.
To be fair, the post is about running your own email server. But yes, if you're running one for a business or other group of people, things become more complicated and demanding.
> Now he’s the obvious choice, but that's almost entirely a result of his own actions.

His own actions being following sound legal advice..?
One of the best professors I ever had, when talking about intractability, would always begin his lectures by pointing out that there are only about 10^80 elementary particles in the universe.

He has a small essay online about the subject: https://www.utdallas.edu/~tfarage/MyPapers/TheBestComputerEv...
Tolerance doesn't solve much. It's hard to tolerate people merely tolerating each other.

Acceptance comes through dialogue, and mutual understanding.

Sadly, there's a lot of "open minded people" who are pretty close minded to openly entertain a viewpoint that isn't their own, let alone be able to look in the mirror.

It can be easier (and lazier) to trivialize, dismiss, degrade the viewpoints of others, or be a crybully, rather than have a sincere look at yourself in a conversation.

Add into the mix reasonable themes of fragility, privilege that one group has been raised with (not entirely their choosing but a responsibility to work on), and in another experience at the expense of others, another group having an unfair go for a number of fair reasons.

The reality is bias exists. The best candidate does not win if the decision makers are not of the best and of the most open temperament.

I read somewhere that some of this may be a majority having the experience of a minority for once - and maybe that can help drive a better conversation and mutual understanding.

One thing is for sure, being quiet won't work, and freedom of speech without being thoughtful with your words won't help either.
Lots of large, multinational, Google size companies have a culture of not discussing politics at work. Or if you do, it's with your friends at work, not random coworkers.
Somewhat OT:

If you click through, you can find the original Twitter conversation that prompted this posting [1]. In that conversation, an interesting point about "optimizing away" string representations was brought up: [2, 3]

> Interesting! How is this better or worse than the usual trick of `JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(obj))` ?

(...)

My idea was that the browser could detect that the string is immediately parsed anyway and just interpret the two function calls as "deep copy this object for me".

I had thought about somethig like this in the context of innerHTML a whole ago. Generally, there are a lot of places in the DOM where can modify an object not by setting properties, but by getting a string representation of the object, modifying that string, then feeding the new string back to the browser for reparsing. Examples are document.cookie, css properties and of course innerHTML.

In those cases, an optimisation like the above sounds like it could actually make sense.

E.g., if someone abused innerHTML like this:

for (let i = 0; i < data.length; i++) {
myList.innerHTML = myList.innerHTML + "<li>" + data[i] + "</li>";
doSomethingWith(myList.lastChild);
}

a naive implementation would have to serialize, parse and recreate the whole object tree for each iteration of the list. However you could probably optimize it by having innerHTML return some special object that only "looks" like a string but somehow keeps track of its mutations internally. When the object is fed back to innerHTML later, the browser could use the internal properties to mutate the DOM instead of recreating it.

I'm curious, does anyone know if optimisations like this are actually used?

[1] https://twitter.com/DasSurma/status/955484341358022657

[2] https://twitter.com/sergiomdgomes/status/955484966313488384

[3] https://twitter.com/moritz_kn/status/956444334970343424
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I've run my own mail server ever since I got something resembling broadband internet in 1996. Back then spam was non-existent, Sendmail was the emperor without clothes about to be dethroned and I hacked sendmail.cf without needing to look at the the bible [1].

I've never regretted running my own server, nor have I ever contemplated moving to a hosted solution. Spam is not a problem either, Spamassassin in combination with a greylist make for a nearly spam-free experience. The whole setup has been migrated from the original Pentium-66 via an aBit-BP6 (SMP for the masses [2], retired in 2009) to the current Intel SS-4200 (upgraded to a dual-core Pentium but still limited to 2GB). In practice a Raspberry Pi would be enough to run a viable mail server so even this rather anaemic setup does its job without breaking a sweat.

The whole setup consists of Debian (Sid) running Exim through a smarthost, feeding through Spamassassin + greylistd into Dovecot. Apart from some auto-manual intervention to cope with Microsoft/Google/... not coping with the greylisting and thus needing whitelisting it more or less just works. In other words, just go ahead and run your own server.

[1] http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596510299.do

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABIT_BP6

[3] http://ss4200.pbworks.com/w/page/5122751/FrontPage
you are spot on, but I doubt that was the plan.

I felt it was that they gave a toy to someone they wanted to keep. that person just started photo training a neural network from scratch when google already have dozen of more mature such projects. his product wil go over the same mistakes as the more mature projects (see: gorila incident) but said person had to write grandiose progress reports to justify their toys and PR loved this one, probably for the reason you pointed out: that naivete that brings such calm and reasurance.
> Altman got a verbal warning for writing on an internal board that certain employees should be fired. “I meant only bigoted white men should be fired. They interpreted it as applying to all white men,” Altman says'

Wow. How can employees believe that this type of language is acceptable in the work place? Is this common in other tech companies on their internal communication channels (like slack)?
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Kessler syndrome is an issue, but not for this particular object. It will stay in orbit for about 9 months before decaying. Residual objects from a collision would decay even faster.

> The most commonly used orbits for both manned and unmanned space vehicles are low earth orbits, which cover an altitude range low enough for residual air drag to be sufficient to help keep the zone clear.
Do we know anywhere in all of this the exact words and context used by Altman?

(I note that Linus seems to manage at least one "people who do X should be fired"-equivalent email every week)
I pretty sure that's not what eebv meant. They're talking about redundancy for high-availability.
I run OpenSMTPD. It delivers my mail to a maildir. I read it in emacs. It's pretty simple. But not everyone's cup of tea.

If I had to worry about IMAP, Webmail, etc. I wouldn't run my own.
Couldn't you just setup a domain with an email hosting provider and then turn on catch-all for that domain? For me I can just use any email @my-domain and it will be forwarded to my actual email address.
That's quite a false equivalency. Fascism is an ideology that at its core has oppression of free speech and political opponents, white supremacy, authoritarianism, colonialism.

Communism as a political theory has none of these things.
You're confusing it with authoritarian socialism (Soviet Russia, Mao's China, ...).
Not TS, but I did pay dyn for several years.

The problem with them however was that they did rack up the price over time and not just a little bit.

In 2006, I had to pay $9.95 for their yearly "Pro" offering. In 2008 the deal became "only $23.00 for 2 years", humm OK.
Two years later in 2010 it was "$30 for 2 years", in 2012 the bill became $40.00 and when 2016 came the price was upgraded again... (yet again without any other benefits from a customer point of view)

That's when I figured that it was too much and moved over to he.net. Which still is free and still works great for the dynamic DNS needed.

For static DNS services I also happen to run my own DNS servers, if needed then the he.net services could be moved over to their, but not seeing the need for now.
Minor Nit: IFF was released in Jan 85 [0], a few months before Amiga was released and several Amiga guys, including RJ, contributed to the spec. It was baked into the Amiga from the very start.

So Commodore's Graphicraft was probably always using ILBM IFF, maybe with new and pre-release chunk types. :)

I'd be very surprised if they weren't alpha IFF or some such. I'd love to see a hex dump of the start of a file.

[0] http://static.lightwave3d.com/sdk/11-6/html/filefmts/eaiff85...
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I could have used better description for the example. But as a tech company, I do think there are merits to discussing how a modified H1B Visa policy affects us.
Mildly off topic but I was a postman for a few years and the advice you linked to will get you almost all the way. Next time you get a letter that isn't for you put a big circle around the label, then put a cross through the circle. Don't write anything on it, but next time you see the postman give it directly to him/her/them and ask them to put it in with the blind letters. That will work. Probably.
Similar to anon, I'd disagree with you that "politics is not a natural part of the Chinese conversational diet". Chinese people talk about politics all the time: America being world police, current reforms the government is trying to push through, etc.

More about individual rights/data privacy though, I'm not convinced that it's something ingrained in the culture. As badly as the Tiananmen square protests went, that was still a significant portion of China advocating for a democratic government.

I do agree that there is an uphill battle where many Chinese are simply apathetic about the government. For many of them, they've just been in the middle of 30 years of pretty unbelievable economic growth. Not exactly the type of environment conducive for anti-government ideals to take hold.
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>Damore’s suit claims Google discriminates against whites, males, and conservatives

The diversity numbers from 2014 show Google is 70% male and 61% white.
Also isn't Google's interview feedback demo blind?
That's the main issue for me. I can't fathom why the NHTSA hasn't stepped in and told them they need to either rename it or disable it.
I am not sure if you can say "no discussing politics at work." while having "diversity advocates" at the same time.
I too had fallen prey to the anti-Soro propaganda, thinking he raided rich Jewish houses as a child. Appears from the article this is incorrect.
And here comes the view of someone that is interested in politics and is reminded daily of how politics makes everyone's lives worse than necessary:

I wish my coworkers (and my fellow citizens for that matter) would be interested in politics just a little more, so they would realize what is happening around them, and know what they are talking about whenever they touch politics and legislature. My opinion is gradually becoming a minority view all over Europe, with people fleeing to either extreme.

The thing is: We were once "politically uneducated" here in Europe. It made the "third Reich" as a mass phenomenon possible, because a lot of people joined this movement blindly and with enthusiasm and did not realize where this train was heading until it was way too late (and they were completely delusional).

When the allies took over they tried to make sure we would be and stay politically educated, so this would never happen again (spoiler: it did not work). How ironic that America is spearheading the movement to normalize extreme views.
Do you know many? I don't mean the janitors at Google who are probably qualified software devs who are also Google fanboys and are using it as a foot in the door. I mean genuine blue-collar never-worked-in-anything-but-manual-labour cleaners. I know a few. They're really good people, but the ones I know aren't book-smart in the same way that we are lucky enough to be, who get to sit around reading everything we can find on the internet.
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I rarely use even basic cruise control as I find it extremly hard to stay engaged with it enabled. Small throttle adjustments seem to be the trigger for my driving routines of checking mirrors, monitoring gaps and watching the horizon for curves. Just making steering adjustments isn't enough to keep my brain engaged; I zone out don't maintain enough situational awareness.

I can easily imagine there are people who can use lane keeping and radar cruise control safely, but I also know I am not one of them. I'll need to stick with manual driving until the car can drive itself in all cases.
Looking at that postfix main.cf gave me flashbacks and not in a good way. Google can have it. Or ProtonMail. Running my own mail server didn't pay enough ($0) for the complaints I got from its users (family). I'll focus on VoIP PBX and home automation until someone gobbles that up too.
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My gut told me this would be downvoted the moment I saw the section you quoted. Engineer Colin McMillen seems to be surprised that rules apply to him.
Here's the part I found most worrisome:

> Some employees see similarities between some of the behavior inside Google and alt-right manuals for fighting advocates for social justice, such as one written by Beale that instructs readers to “Document their every word and action,” “Undermine them, sabotage them, and discredit them,” and “Make the rubble bounce” on your way out the door.

> Beale says they’re right. “I know that there are a number of people there who have read [the guide], I know that they’re using it,” Beale told WIRED. He claims to have had contacts inside the company for years and dozens of followers. He says he doesn’t know if Damore has read his guide, but is following the playbook. Damore says he has not read the manual.

This is a science fiction author, someone outside tech, who admits that he has contacts inside Google following a playbook for sabotaging people with political views opposed to his own. This is an outsider attempting to get Google to prioritize politics over technical merit - and he seems to be succeeding.
Yep. I often try to look 'thru' the windows on the vehicle in front of me to see what's going on in front of it.

Seeing that car plow into the stopped vehicle plays through my head routinely when driving.
I believe it would work fine, configure rspamd as a milter on the first hop and relayhost everything to "Real MTA".
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And I once did the math on how heavy a mylar spherical balloon would need to be to have the apparent size of the Moon from 150 km of altitude and concluded that it could be launched from an Ariane 5 (at about 14000 kg or so).

I'd be a very unpopular person if someone decided to pay for the project.
Did Zunger assign fault in that statement? I didn't read it like that. It's a prediction, not a prescription.

Your summary is misleading. He didn't "justify" violence. Saying that jaywalking is risky is not an ethical statement about cars.
It could be worse : the spam filter you have no control over and no insight into what it is up to can vaporize that important new customer lead email that was going to make you $$$
Misspelled throwaway because want to talk about this and not have people misunderstand and hate me.

There was a similar small bruhaha in the Rust community severals weeks ago. They hired a community manager who has leanings (nothing wrong with that), but had made tweets like "kill all men".

Believe no actual ill will was intended, but you could see why it may trigger people. In the thread announcing this person's new role, a few people brought up issues like this (that wasn't an isolated sentiment, it was a pattern of behavior) and the mods for a while simply deleted any criticism, then they made a hard rule that nobody could talk about it (because that was related to personal issues). This rule was in the interest of preventing harassment (which yeah, legit reason), but it was completely tone deaf. You can't appoint a community manager who has made pointed statements about people in your community and then shut down discussion in the interest of tolerance.

Check out the thread, it looks like a warzone. It turned me off Rust a little bit.

https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/7nx3cm/announcement_a...

I wish we could talk about these things openly, the way we are handling these discussions only isolates us.
Right on. The government in Hungary are scandalous in their treatment of immigrants and their own Roma people. And to think, it was only 13 years ago we let them into the EU. When, in turn, people on their doorstep in trouble come knocking, the door is firmly slammed in their face.
> and small minority of knowledgable retail traders

"What if there are fifty righteous (knowledgeable) people in the city? Will you really sweep it away and not spare the place for the sake of the fifty righteous (knowledgeable) people in it?" :-)

> "Trade fast, die young."

That's hilarious! I mean, until someone actually tries it, but for now, it's hilarious!

Edit: It's still there: https://twitter.com/robinhoodapp/status/756262680537759744
Wait what the Cyanogen OS guys pivoted into self driving...
You could also consider asking for a raise. Your boss might be more comfortable giving you a raise than having you distracted by and spending energy on projects outside of work.
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This also serves a purpose - there had to be a payload to properly test the rocket.

It'll come down in 9 months or so.

Also, from LEO, it's not that visible.
People in this thread are trying to come up with some HR policies which can help mitigate the problem, such as "never discuss politics at work", but that, in turn, means not talking about presidential elections which were, objectively, the most important event of 2016. (quick test -- "what's important/surprising/almost impossible really happened in 2016?" -- we all know the answer, and it's not "Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill met in Cuba", or "Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff was impeached").

It's hard to make people not to talk about main event of the year, happening in their country, in real-time, and probably such ban is counterproductive.

Thinking about it a bit more, the underlying problem here is not politics per se, but exteremely polarized society. Not sure this is something fixable with HR directives.
What do you estimate has been your total investment of time in running your own mail server?
Graffiti artist here. Space junk is a general problem I understand so theres nothing special about this device other than that it doesn't serve as anything but a marketing gimmick/artistic gesture.

Street art / graffiti is done by people who want others to read their names and see their art. It's the ultimate act of hubris to say that others should experience your art unfiltered and without a choice in the matter. You invade public space, upset people's comfort zone, and get them to think. Even if it's just "wow look at all the colors and lines". Just wait till they start projecting ads on the moon then yall will be really pissed off.