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Why is being "complicit" in same sex marriage any worse than being "complicit" in a marriage for someone who has sinned, possibly grievously, in other ways? The difference is only in the obviousness, and it's not clear to me that that's a good reason.

It appears internally inconsistent in a way I've never heard a sufficient explanation for. And as someone who no longer believes, who does support the explicit non-theocratic nature of American government, I think that's a reasonable bar to hold others to. The major emphasis in Christianity as it was taught to me was never on "enabling," it was on one's own beliefs and fruit.

And to the sibling about "legality should reflect morality": I take a much more conservative stance on that. There you would have to do much more work to convince me that legality should merely reflect a particular snapshot of a particular group's morality, as the American founders - with very good reason based on their experience in Europe - explicitly rejected that. So I think you'll need to develop that thesis a lot before it convinces me to break with American tradition, there. I favor a view that enough concrete harm has to be demonstrated to justify more restrictions, more police, etc.

tldr: many religious Republican views like these are not actually all that conservative ;)
Sure, it will start that way. But we all know how that feature will progress:

1. ads play by default, with an option to pay to remove

then to:

2. forced ads with no option to remove, and the car won't run unless they're playing
>> I've heard all the arguments about students getting ahold of a teacher's gun, accidental discharge, etc. If you're making those sorts of arguments, do you also carry a gun?

>The teachers I know dislike this idea for those reasons: it makes them targets and in a non-prison environment the gun would either be easy for a student to get or too secure for them to get in an emergency situation, especially when they’re supposed to be managing panicked students.

Count in there following accidents: teacher shooting teacher, teacher shooting kid, teacher overreacting (false alarm), teacher misplacing gun, kid getting access to a gun locker, police shooting teacher or kid (kids will decide at that point to play superheroes and go for a gun).

People complain in this country about police officers shooting kids. People that are trained for years and are reviewed (supposedly regularly) for their ability to carry a firearm and play judge, jury, executioner in a stressful situation as a team.

People just don't get how impractical and unrealistic this idea is. You want an average Jane/Joe to coordinate with their peers and dependents (kids) to incapacitate a person armed with an assault rifle (does not matter if it is semi-automatic if you are trained really) armed with a handgun.

You ask superhuman feats from the teachers: i) to be paradigms and caretakers and nurturers for our kids ii) to be trained, tactical and cold blooded killers.

I don't want any kid of mine near a teacher trained to respond to these situations (I accept there are people that are able to cut themselves emotionally and react with cold blooded clarity and precision, while not being on their guard and paranoid: call them naturals and good luck...).
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Public healthcare incentivizes the government to protect people's health; the American system incentivizes politicians to protect the profit margins of the insurance industry.
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VISA officially blames cryptocurrency overcharge scandal on Coinbase
I agree that $10/session does sound better. That's what you pay (at most) for LSD, the traditional longer-term anti-depressive and anti-anxiety effect being there as well (3-6 months).

But: You have to buy a test kit (an additional $25/kit) and be extremely well informed about what do to and what not to do. And plan everything in detail and very carefully. Don't expect miracles if you're not serious about it.
Zelle roughly translates to "cell," as in a room or a component or a group of people. (It's also a town near the Austrian border.)
It seems possible that having to puzzle them out makes it an effective way to learn, at least if you can stand to.
Invective and Intrigue Within the Free Law Movement Over RECAP Changes
Failing to exercise is an area where I think the victim/excuse mentality kinda falls to pieces. Unless you are just entirely ignorant that it's a concern, it is something that anyone can do. Do some yoga/pushups/sit-ups every morning (5-10mins) and then go for a short walk on your lunch-break. There is no way someone cannot do that unless they just 'don't want to'. It is free, takes almost no time, and can be as simple as walking around for 15 minutes.

I don't think it is smug to challenge people to take the smallest, tiniest, bare minimum amount of personal responsibility.
You're confusing the City of Seattle with WSDOT.
https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.10455
Well that's interesting. It's still not clear after reading the FAQ whether or not you'd become a citizen or not. It largely seems to be a way to register your company in the country (and pay taxes to them). Are you still afforded the same protections as citizens of EU countries? (if not, then this obviously wouldn't help GP in the quest to protect themselves from facebook)
nope, A68 unions had hidden tags (strictly speaking the spec didn't say they had tags but it was the only obvious implementation) it did have a case statement to switch on the tags and extract the values as described above
It wasn't that it was sexist, it was that it stereotypically characterized a gender in an effort to get Google to stop being so proactive in their compliance with EEOE laws.

I don't think it said anything about innate superiority - as I recall, it was mostly about innate interests and bell curves, and posited that the reason there were less women in tech than men was because there were less women interested in things than there were men interested in things (with the idea that more women are interested in people rather than things)
For years I've tried to play with Lisp languages: reading books like Beautiful Racket, experimenting with Clojure/ClojureScript, etc. and it's often conflicted with what I'm trying out in other languages to understand different approaches to programming (Rust, F#, Haskell...).

Almost every year I come crawling back to emacs and I start putting the pieces back together (first, by hand, then Spacemacs a couple of times, then by hand again but in a different way). It has such an incredible allure and it's a joy to write. I don't know what else I would write in Lisp right now so I just abandon my config and rebuild it to get that feeling again.
All useful, thanks. Two questions:

1. What does tag manager do that simple analytics can't?

2. What is the lowest traffic amount needed to effectively A/B test?
The only solutions is to somehow find jobs or alternatives that pay more than these destructive actions. The problem is this is simply the best option they have. We can’t save the animals without helping the humans first. Jane Goodall basically says the same thing in her lectures now.
I also think learning to program is getting harder, but at least you can start easy today.
When I started to program in the early/mid 90s it was very difficult for me to start as teenager. I didn't know anybody who did and had a (copy) of a compiler for me. At least I found QBasic (was in DOS included). It was very easy to program and debug something. The program could be as just one line of code. Just hit F5 (as far I remember) and the thing did run. But it was just an interpreter and slow. The included help was pretty good. Later I tryed to program Assembler under DOS. But again, no compiler, I had just the DEBUG function from DOS. With that it was possible to write Assembler direct in memory (but not save to a file). Also no marks for jumps .. you had always to calculate the address by yourself.

My QBasic book had (still has) 416 pages. It included EVERYTHING you could do in QBASIC. My Assembler book was a bit more slim (XT-486, before MMX). A "complete" book today would need over 10000 pages. There are sooo many things you can do. There are almost a infinite number of librarys on github.
So if Paypal can give it to me for free, per the article, the answer just seems to be "we should tell everybody as loudly that we can that this is a shit product."
There are no good outcomes in the current noise. People on both extremes will misread and misuse it.

Silicon Valley's achievement in the last 10 years is to make sure ambiguity is profitable. Resolution of anything or even a path to resolution just produces less clicks, talking heads and outrage.

The proof is in the pudding. Who wants to bet 2-5 years from now the status quo wouldn't have changed? Replace the issue with gun control, climate change or universal health it hardly matters.

If you guys want to see change the noise levels have to reduce.
I accept your argument from the perspective that it would allow social scientists/other interested individuals to assess new data in an easy framework. But, I don't think it would change the political problem that the author is describing.

Some (admittedly weak) examples illustrate this point: despite our knowledge of physics and our exploitation of this knowledge in the form of aircraft and rockets, flat-earth believers and those who don't believe/understand acceleration abound.

We know the mechanisms by which vaccines work - and could go observe the diseases they prevent by simply taking a trip, or reviewing public health data from different countries. But, anti-vaccine belief is also increasing.

There are many more of these stories, where the 'easy' idea beats out the well-established scientific consensus. Thus, I'm not sure that a fundamental understanding of how influence/addiction/personality work would change political support for these ineffective programs.
:D

But now I'm confused. How did your comment go from being #1 for many hours, and then drop to #31, behind a bunch of nothing-special comments? Did you suddenly get a bunch of down-votes? Did the YC team come in and penalize your comment to make this forum have better optics? Also, there were 101 sub-comments to yours, and now there are 86. Smells fishy.
Microsoft also shits all over auto-updates by grinding underpowered computers to a halt and making powerful computers sound like hair driers while their auto-update runs ngen, grinds out msi executions, consumes disk space that isn't later cleaned up regardless of how much space is available, and generally acts like an ill-behaved uninvited guest.
Programmers continue to discover and re-discover APL and array-oriented programming.

If someone is serious about array programming/APL and wants to make a lucrative career in it, study KDB+/Q/K. There's a small but active community around them.

Just to relate an anecdote: I used to be a fairly active KDB+ programmer in finance but left both finance and programming ~8 years ago. Just yesterday, I got an email from my friend who's building a statarb fund around cryptocurrencies. They were going to use KDB+ and offered me a job for "300-500k base with incentives"...

My friends clearly don't know that I now work in sales & marketing :D

Aside: Roger Hui, the creator of J, is a programming sibling of Arthur Whitney, the creator of K/Q and the founder of www.kx.com
fish shell has a vim mode for anyone interested
yeah, how dare people expect their devices to work consistently! /sarcasm

I'd argue that the real problem is that software is eating the world, and companies are becoming less relevant to everyday life, but trying to force ways to stay relevant.
ME = [Intel] Management Engine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Management_Engine
(for instance, any kind of official recognition that men are better suited to software development at Google than women)

This was where Damore's got his words twisted in his mouth: He never claimed that!

The problematic claims he did make are that women - on average - "have a harder time negotiating salary, asking for raises, speaking up, and leading" and are more prone to "neuroticism". Nowhere in the memo does he touch upon women's fitness for SWE jobs -- even though everybody seems to think so.

Whether he promoted stereotypes about women is another story (although most of his claims seem to have some backup by actual science) but the whole thing would have never blown so badly out of proportion if it wasn't for people who circulated a malicious and wrong summary of this memo, either intentionally or by being hanger-ons.
Drop all outgoing traffic by default in Windows firewall. Allow only apps that you need.

No more unwanted updates, no more telemetry.

Once in a while you might want to download a fresh .iso from Microsoft that has all the updates integrated. Re-install & repeat.
Very cool. I am using it now to write this comment!

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Calling Informatica a startup is a bit of a stretch given that they've been around for 25 years, were public for a long time, make ~1 billion in revenue a year,
and have thousands of employees (though I don't doubt that CWIs use of the word predates the company's founding)
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It is probably not generally unlawful for a rank-and-file employee to make discriminatory statements. You can be fired for doing that, but the government is unlikely to step in and do that for your employer.
It's not. Installing a C++ tool chain two decades ago is much harder than any current environment.
This would be tremendously comforting. After reading the book 'Linked', I have been worried. It presents a possibility that I hope no one is immoral enough to pursue. If it's claims of how social networks cluster, and how both important and fragile the most critical edges in those networks are in terms of enabling the society-wide spread of information/viewpoints/etc are all true.... it opens a very dangerous door.

In the book, they claim that something like 'Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon' works not because of those heavily-connected nodes, but primarily because of nodes which bridge mostly-disconnected clusters. So like a member of a biker gang who plays bridge with his elderly aunts knitting circle on Sundays would be an example of that. Ideas can flow from the group of bikers to the group of elderly knitters pretty much only through him. And almost by necessity, those links are weak. Once broken, for information to travel from one of those groups to the other immediately becomes extremely difficult.

So conjecture that there were an organization that had the ability to observe the social network of peoples communications. Conjecture that they also felt that they had a mandate to protect the status quo, at least on the largest scale, and to do what was within their power to prevent things like widespread social unrest, formation of disruptive political movements, etc. If they had the ability to interfere with those communication networks even in a very mild way, they could affect the most successful and quiet oppression in history. By bouncing a few emails, dropping a few packets here and there, communication between these weak links would break down pretty easily. And once mostly-connected clusters only talk amongst themselves primarily, it becomes fundamentally impossible for widespread social change to occur.

Now this is a very 'blind' approach, of course. You don't get to pick which ideas get isolated and which are permitted to spread. But, you do gain a guarantee that even if an idea is very powerful, it can never spread far enough fast enough to gain widespread acceptance. Sure there might be "large groups" that get very loud about it... but they wouldn't have an 'inside man' to introduce the idea in ways acceptable to the mostly-disconnected group, so it simply wouldn't spread. I've been wondering for several years now if this kind of manipulation would leave telltale fingerprints.
> How can I pretend to be from the EU so that I get better protection from Facebook

You don't have to. You can start today by not giving facebook any more information (stop using their service). If facebook bleeds enough users, maybe they'll become motivated to change. I seriously doubt, at least in the US, that we'll see any legislation that forces them to change here.
"... absolute innate equivalence ..."

As was already stated in this thread, this is the null hypothesis. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16397321
That's fantastic news.

I do have a question, how safe is 830 calories/day for a diabetic? For an otherwise healthy person I can see it being safe with medical supervision but for an individual already seeing blood sugar spikes due to diabetes, I wonder about the dangers?

I guess what I am getting at is that this intervention for diabetes might only be safe enough to try in early stage even if it would work for more progressed diagnosis.
I’m not sure it’s that simple, though. There’s an inelastic demand for some of these things. For example, no matter how many other opportunities you provide lion and elephant poachers in Kenya, for every poacher you take away that will drive up the cost of a pelt or tusk, making it more lucrative once more.

It would certainly go a long way to help, though.
I did not. But nor did I write the conversation code. That was an existing python lib.
At a tangent to the Damore issue, on to the more general issue of conservatives claiming a feeling of being discriminated against;

There was this expression that got a bit popular during the early days of OWS: if someone tells you they’re thirsty, don’t tell them they’re not. Give them a glass of water.

I’ve heard concerns about self-censorship from enough actual real-life people, as opposed to Fox News blowhards, that I have to assume there’s at least a seed of truth to that. Something something lived experiences.

We can disagree as to why these people feel that way, and whether that’s a good thing (I’m perfrxtly happy with Nazis feeling like they’re a hated group, for instance), but maybe we should be respectful enough of people not to tell them they’re not living what they’re telling us they’re living.

That said, so much of conservative social policy has become thinly veiled discrimination of one sort or another - or is so closely associated with it that one can’t hear one without thinking the other - that it’s difficult to separate out views that need to be protected and views that need to be censored, without vilifying “conservative” in general.
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I am not white either.

What I am is tired of the phenomenon of using black people and the experience of being black as a stand in, du jur, for when people want to illustrate the objectionable nature of certain arguments.

If a point is objectionable, argue it on the merits of its inherent validity or lack there of.

Black whataboutism doesn't serve this purpose, it unfairly weaponizes the color of my skin.
>There are numerous reports of Orangutans being exploited as sex slaves

WHAT THE FUCK?

Seriously, this is crazy disgusting, how can this possibly be a thing?????? WTF???
> Water does a reasonable job of removing bacteria -- handwashing studies show this.

If I'm not mistaken, the materials I've seen indicate it's the scrubbing for a certain period of time (20 seconds?) that removes the most bacteria in handwashing. Just putting your hands under running water alone doesn't do much, if anything.
> The world has moved on

...A-and we still don't have a single decent map people can use. And positively undoubtedly we don't have a single decent map people can use, that is owned by society and free in a sense Wikipedia is. I use Google Maps on a daily basis, and I hate Google.
What do you think my expectation was?
Yeah, putting it in the middle of a word is very odd.
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Read Crucial Conversations maybe. I'm sure that would help both of you.
> Why is being "complicit" in same sex marriage any worse than being "complicit" in a marriage for someone who has sinned, possibly grievously, in other ways?

If you subscribe to the view that same-sex marriage is a sin against a higher power, then your involvement in the marriage makes you actively involved in the sin.

If sinners get married, the marriage itself is not a sin. This is very straightforward in my mind.

Additionally, some churches have interviews with the bride and groom before marriages and if the pastor feels that they are unworthy of getting married will not marry them.

FYI I personally am not opposed to the legality same-sex marriage.

> tldr: many religious Republican views like these are not actually all that conservative ;)

It's called "social conservatism."
Depends on what you mean by "OK". Is it the conduct I would recommend for everybody as highest example of human virtue? Not sure. Is it conduct commonly happening in the midst of political campaign? Most certainly yes, and much worse. In this case, Veselnitskaya told them "Hillary campaign just committed a federal crime, and I have proof. Want to see it?" Of course they did. The mistake was to believe anything Russians say about anything and sending a figure as big as Trump Jr. without several layers of further verification. That definitely was a screw-up, a rookie mistake. For which they paid dearly.
"it's a big assumption that gun ownership = gun carrying" ... seems like one is an obvious prerequisite to the other, so you'd at least expect some degree of correlation, correct? I'm certainly not suggesting there aren't responsible gun owners (in fact I believe they are a large majority). I personally know many people just like you describe (generally do not carry, otherwise stored unloaded in a safe).

To go back a bit, why didn't a CCL bystander intervene, though, in the Orlando shooting even if nobody was armed in the club? I just think the asymmetry of active shooter situations renders an armed population basically useless most of the time, and people apt to grossly overestimate how effective they would be.

My suspicion is that the risk from death (all cause and homicide only) from firearm is highly correlated with degree of gun ownership. And the real discussion is how much should people give away in the balance of their right to stay alive vs other peoples' liberty to own firearms. It think that is not a bad faith reduction. Firearm deaths will never be zero, and there are and must be restrictions on ownership of weapons (NBC weapons, artillery) at some level.

I'm slightly guilty of bad faith with asking a bad faith question. I know the CDC is prevented by law from doing this sort of epidemiological study, so we are sort of left in a state arguing without facts (and that seems intentional).
> Curious, why do you believe in that? Have you evaluated the evidence and come to that conclusion, or is it a priori for you?

Curious why you question his belief?

All of the half-way reputable studies I've ever heard of have either concluded that there is no difference in male/female intelligence or that there are small differences in certain silos, with men scoring slightly higher on average in visuospatial while women score slightly higher on average in verbal.

Even if you accept the latter as fact (which there is no clear cut evidence-based reason for doing so, if you look at the studies in aggregate) it says basically nothing about suitability to "our profession" as both of those skills are important.

Given the choice between someone with higher than average overall IQ and outstanding visuospatial skills and someone with higher than average overall IQ and outstanding verbal skills, I'd generally prefer the latter as a colleague.
I think that actually adds more weight to the point. Even upgrades with the best of intentions can go wrong, and users should have the power to stop them when they do.