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> This can hardly be surprising to the authors. People in lower-level technical jobs don’t have as much power over society at large as those in high-level positions. Thus gender inbalances there don’t have the same supposed impact and perpetuating effect on structural inbalances. Thus they are not considered as harmful in the grand scheme of things.

I'm not trying to misrepresent you but are you making the claim that if we had more female PHDs in STEM, that would lead to more female plumbers and car mechanics?

Or is it more, the changes needed to get women into stem would necessarily get women into other "less prestigious" fields?
The question is probably a bit different - if there is a place for a new genere that is not a linear, sequential narrative model.
Why would we evolve to love any longer than we currently do? We obviously need to live long enough to breed (i.e. to about 40) and probably having reasonably healthy grandparents may be an advantage but I can't see why we would be evolving to live any longer than that.
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> What's ping tax?

Google that...

> How is daycare more expensive for women? Surely, a man raising a child on their own will pay exactly the same amount

Most primary care givers are women. Women are hurt by that more.

> In a normal case

Single mother is normal case. Look at stats and trends.
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>Today, Windows is for miserable people who can't afford anything better

As I sit here running Windows on a Macbook...
> Maybe there is some way to run vscode in a VM that is 100% blocked from the internet and that would prevent it from sending tons of data?

Wouldn't these user settings be enough?

"telemetry.enableCrashReporter": false,
"telemetry.enableTelemetry": false,
Probably, considering that domain is HTTP only, but why is this even necessary?

Sometimes I do want to connect to a local network without internet.
> the fact that many sexist anti-STEM cues are given to children at a much earlier stage, way before careers are even on the horizon.

Would you say that is a problem that can or should be fixed after the fact? For instance, if we assume that we know the major cause to be social conditioning at young ages should we then try to correct that after they leave education?
GP could've meant either.
> Huge expected value can also make people fools, without a scrap of real hope of future returns.

See also, Gambler's Ruin.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambler%27s_ruin

That's only an issue if you are making bets such that a large loss will make you go bust. If you are facing that possibility, then you need to move down a level. If you can continue to make bets at your level, then the +EV will increase your roll over time.

Poker lessons.
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I'm sure it starts from before university and careers.

I was lucky enough to take a Mechatronics class (software + electronics) in high school a couple of years ago (Australia, year 11). One (very talented) female chose to take the class along with probably 15 males, though physics & maths seemed about a 50/50 split.

That's an even worse percentage than the engineering faculty at my university, which at 23% has the highest ratio of women in engineering faculties nationally.
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Yeah, I think two very different things are mixed together:

- "Different" always takes getting used to. One's central neural network literally has to rewire new connections (and/or change the impact of existing ones) - for things that one uses often enough to have a dedicated circuit (which does not mean those neurons that are involved doing _only_ one thing, those exist [0], but more often it's a network thing). Heavy daily users of a service probably do have circuitry responding to that service in particular, and it has to reorganize itself a bit after the service changes. However, "different" does not have any bias towards a direction, "better" or "worse". It is just resistance to change because change is costly.

- Whether the change actually _is_ for the worse (difficulty: define objective criteria).

The initial gut reaction alone cannot be used to differentiate between the two scenarios. The additional difference is that the first point always happens and can be traced to real effects, but the second one can be subjective, you first have to define what the overall purpose of something is in the first place, which in the case of some non-(life-)essential website is relative (to whom you ask) and also not static.

Even if a change is for the better by some objective criteria, the effect of the resistance to the change itself will always be there. So initial reactions that are non-specific and only are about "the change is bad" are not all that useful. The magnitude of the reaction also may be a symptom of either the popularity (if people spend more time with something any change will impact them harder), that something really is worse, or a mix of both, hard to tell on its own.

[0] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/one-face-one-neur...
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Neither. I only was critizing what I think is a flawed argument, nothing else. I didn’t make any mental connection to what you bring up. I understand why your impression is that I must have meant something more, as this usually is the case with comments about polarizing topics like this.

That aside (and not meant as criticism against you), it’s super frustrating how when it comes to this specific topic, it’s unbelievably hard to express a thought in a way which is not being misunderstood by others. We all seem to have a mental concept of the debate in mind and then just match everything we read to this existing concept, which leads to all kinds of misrepresentations.
I can also say that I've basically stopped using Last.FM after one of their re-designs.

It's not that I have signed any petitions, it's that with new feature set and presentation, there wasn't any place in my life for this. I still scrobble but I'm not really visiting.

That, and failure to bring in positive change. Instead of addressing problems that I am seeing (e.g. trolls and bitter people spamming broadcasts of artists) they're tweaking colors. Ok, bye.
I went to a talk by one of the materials scientists at JET a few years ago, and he stressed that in terms of that part, the biggest challenge is the neutron bombardment of the steel reactor vessel. He was saying that the biggest problem is that current calculations mean you'd need to replace the entire highly irradiated reactor vessel after 3/4/5 years or so because of structural defects and helium bubbles forming in the cracks.
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If one doesn't want to do daycare he/she should not have children. This applies for both men and women.
You shouldn't touch it for more serious reasons. I can confirm with absolute certainty that Gmail occasionally silently drops mail you send.

This does not seem to be directly related to Google's anti-spam system, neither sender nor recipient are marked as spam originators in those cases, and the mail will not bounce back. It simply disappears.
I suspect that their motivation to push users to upgrade has far more to do with their planned obsolescence than anything to do with keeping users secure.
Maybe they like phone numbers. Nevertheless Google Authenticator's permissions are in another league completely and one should probably be as suspicious of Google as Facebook.

Version 5.00 can access:
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take pictures and videos

Other

create accounts and set passwords
full network access
control Near Field Communication
use accounts on the device
control vibration
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Yes... and I use ”to programme” to denote the activity of planning activities, and ”to program” to indicate the process of coding instructions into a computer. I would probably use ”programme to program” if I ever had to discuss the idea of planning one’s intentions to issue instructions to a machine.
This reminds me of something I was thinking about earlier today.

It's well known that men generally are stagnating economically, while women are catching up. In many metro areas, single women out earn single men.

And so I came across this paper[0], which had some interesting research about that. And what struck me was this: there's an explicit assumption that men have worse socio-emotional skills than women, and that can be used to explain the gap.

By itself, I don't take any issue with it. It's true. But if you turned it around and explained the CS gap starting from the assumption that men are disproportionately represented among the upper levels of spatial and mathematical abstraction skills, there'd be an uproar. Petitions would be signed, scalps would be taken. I say that as someone who thinks much of those differences can be explained by childhood socialization.

And you're not even allowed to talk about it. I'm hesitant to post this comment, for fear someone might hunt me down and dox me to my employer. (Even now, I ponder if I should be making a throwaway account.)

In real life, I had been willing to have conversations about this because I find it an interesting and nuanced topic. But now both sides have taken to treating anyone who doesn't take a stance of complete agreement with their respective ideologies as the Enemy.

It's creating a class of people who know just to shut up and withdraw from any discussion about the topic, because there's clearly no good that can come from it, either socially or professionally. Even academics. And I genuinely don't get why anyone would want that.

[0] http://www.nber.org/papers/w24274
Digs redesign killed them, and caused Reddit to get all their users.
I hate to be rude but I googled for a ping tax and maybe it's because I live in Australia, but all I can find is the ato answering questions about ping-pong tables and otherwise random economics subjects from china that use the word ping (eg: "Ping insurance", Gui Ping Wu).

I can't find anything specific to women.
The authors describe this as microagression.

>Microaggressions are subtle behaviors (e.g., facial expressions) or statements that are not explicitly hostile but are nevertheless interpreted by the receiver as conveying contempt, stereotypical attitudes, or other negative beliefs.
Threads are supposed to have PIDs, the PIDs of the processes that they variously belong to. What they are not supposed to have is different PIDs within a single process.

* http://jdebp.eu./FGA/linux-thread-problems.html

And you are relating this to a mechanism that has been known to be fundamentally flawed, in precisely this way, since the 1980s.
Let's think about it:

- You probably run it on Macbook because native Windows laptops are sub-par and bad value for the buck. Reinforces my point.

- You probably run it because you have to. Reinforces my point partially.

Yes, maybe Win10 is not so awful anymore. Who cares, the damage is done. The trick is not hitting the target once in a blue moon. The trick is hitting it every time, and it's obvious MS can't do that. Between Windows ME, Vista and Win8, can you remember even one comparable failure from Apple?

Win8 was so bad, it made Linux desktop look usable by comparison. Even as it was itself neglected as OSS enthusiasts moved to Mac OS en masse.
> If woman gets high paying job, she makes less money for the same work.

In other words, we have a sexism problem.
Well, the argument feminists make is that inequality=injustice. For car mechanics, there is clearly inequality. Why aren't they rushing to fix the injustice? And by the way, this car mechanic supposed injustice, must affect more people since clearly there are more car mechanics than STEM PhD's.

> People in lower-level technical jobs don’t have as much power over society at large as those in high-level positions.

If you ask me, about the only people who have power in society are celebrities (singers, movie stars), politicians and journalists. And among people in academia, people in STEM fields have less power than economists, sociologists, political science, medical doctors. Notice how all these fields are not male dominated?
"Pink tax": the idea that goods marketed to women are priced higher than equivalents marketed to men.

https://www.google.com/search?q=pink+tax
I think it very much depends on whether the redesign is just a UX/UI "refresher" or if it actually completely changes the way the service works and how you use it.

I am thinking of Digg here which is a good example of a redesign that led to a significant outflow of users.
> Today, Windows is for miserable people who can't afford anything better. This is understood by consumers. This is also understood by hardware makers.

Please, take a look outside of the SV/US bubble. Windows currently has a nearly 90% market share [1], is available to a very wide spectrum of devices. This is not because of "miserable people who can't afford anything better", but due to conscious efforts by Microsoft to make their product accesible. And due to marketing as well

[1]https://netmarketshare.com
One approach would be to have a technology-challenge period.

Everyone who wants to file a patent should first post a challenge. Other parties then have, say, 1 year to come up with a solution. If none is found, the patent is granted.

This would, of course, not solve all patent problems, but it could be a first step to solve the most obvious ones.
Is there any data on your ‘possible partial cause”?Otherwise, it supposition. As the article indicates it is easy to fear causes.
Agree, lots of value can be provided to services in the grey-area. Specifically Coinbase doesn't allow this.

Under "Prohibited Businesses" you can see "Adult Content and Services" being listed. Source: https://www.coinbase.com/legal/user_agreement?locale=en
There's apps like GoSatWatch[1] which uses your phone's accelerometer/gyroscope to show you where satellites are.

I actually mounted an iPhone holder[2] on my Arrow II UHF/VHF satellite antenna[3] for this purpose (though I haven't really had a chance to use it much)

1. http://www.gosoftworks.com/GoSatWatch/GoSatWatch.html

2. https://www.studioneat.com/products/glif

3. http://arrowantennas.com/arrowii/146-437.html
>>Single mother is normal case. Look at stats and trends.

https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2016/cb16-192...

"The Majority of Children Live With Two Parents, Census Bureau Reports"

Maybe I should have said "usual" not "normal" - being a single mother is a normal thing. But so is being a single dad. Claiming that women are somehow worse off because they spend more on childcare is completely bizarre.

>>Google that...

Or you could just tell me - I googled it and there's absolutely nothing that relates to women, several pages of results on google are just taking about filing my taxes with HMRC when I search for ping tax.

>>Most primary care givers are women. Women are hurt by that more.

And? What's the argument here? You were saying that women are paid less for the same work(something which you completely ignored in my reply) and that they have more expenses than men(I would say a subset of people who are raising children on their own have more expenses than people who don't. They don't have more expenses because they are women, they have more expenses because of the choices they made).
This article is a "critique of fusion as an energy source", not a critique of ITER as a research project. Part of its complaint is about the marketing behind ITER, including the "misguided motto" and misleading information about the ITER power balance.

It brings up some of the same benefits you did. "[ITER's] most favorable legacy is that, like the International Space Station, it will have set an impressive example of decades-long international cooperation among nations both friendly and semi-hostile." and "A second invaluable role of ITER will be its definitive influence on energy-supply planning."
> "It's paper, plain and easy. I sometimes find myself wondering: what will Google think of next? Cardboard?"

Keeps you wondering where they get their product names...

https://web.archive.org/web/20141217113440/https://www.gmail...
Just note that believing something because it has nice consequences is just logically wrong.

Formally:

1) A => B

2) I would really like B to be true, because it has some benefits.

3) Therefore A must be true.

If we are in search of truth and want to build a consistent model of the world then we just can't accept this kind of reasoning.

Also, even if A really turns out to be false, it doesn't mean that B can't be true and our world will forever be sad i.e. Even if it turns out that all people are not created equal, we can still live in just and enlightened society which treats everyone fairly.

And of course the implication between A => B may not even exist. Is it really true that if all people were created equal the society would benefit?
I don't think it's a matter of affording something better since GNU/Linux is free.
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The nice thing about Apple products is that they are all the same. This means that fingerprinting probably doesn't really work as well as on other platforms.
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Hey man, email existed before google :) You can use whichever email service you want that's not google and use an open source email client like K-9 Mail or AOSP's Email client :)

Only non-standard emails won't work with POP3 or IMAP protocols. In those cases you need to use their specific program/protocols, yes. It seems Tutanota falls in this category, as does ProtonMail.
It might be that people enjoy living without children for as long as possible in the current western economic/cultural climate.

This age might keep increasing because those who try too late won't reproduce. So it's passive selection for longevity.
Maybe we can still keep the patent tag, but devoid of any other conditions except that this one tech was created by the patent holder. In this case, the "patentable" motivation will still be valid.
We've talked before about FreeBSD's process descriptors and EVFILT_PROC kevents, ne?
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Yes, for example, VMware got sued in Germany a couple years ago: https://sfconservancy.org/news/2015/mar/05/vmware-lawsuit/

But most proprietary vendors these days do comply with the GPL.
Same thing works the other way around but I don't know if it has a name. I frequently see things like yoghurt/juice or shampoo/antiperspirant/shaving accessories to be priced higher if they are branded "for men". You can literally buy the same thing in pink colour and it's cheaper.

The only case where I agree is that stupidly, UK government applies extra tax to sanitary items for women, while cosmetics for men do not have such tax. That is stupid, but that's a literal tax chosen by the government.
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> Yes, you have a higher chance of dying when you get older, is this really a "news" we need on HackerNews?

The nature of this connection can be different. This is what discussed in the article.

> Notice that the article doesn't even offer new facts, only statistical observations.

Statistical observations are facts.
Russia does employ 'Maskirovka' so it is pretty standard for them to deny anything despite being aware of it.
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We are not supposed by anyone. We just happen to be as result of chaotic natural process.
Not sure "afford" has anything to do with it. Hate to be that guy, but Ubuntu has gotten really good....
Someone should tell him that Jobs already hit bottom and came back once.

And as Rushdie put it, to be born again, first you have to die.
Lest we forget, it isn't only charismatically-challenged unfortunates like Damore who get thrown under a tank for daring to speak 'out of turn' wrt the social justice narrative. Just two hours ago, I happened to re-read the various vicious hit pieces written about Paul Graham several years ago, after he had the gall to speak his mind about representation. These are the times. Everywhere I look online, it's men vs. women, black vs. white. To paraphrase Yudkowsky, "Arguments are soldiers, this is war, and it's life or death."

This account began as a throwaway. I used to comment with my real name, in the days before the war broke out. In the days when pg used to comment here regularly. The days when, if someone disagreed with you, they'd tell you so, or why you're wrong, or maybe that you're a dumb-dumb. Now, if you don't follow approved talking points in your social media communiqués, you're in real danger of being pilloried, and - as these things go - you're more likely to be attacked by fellow members of the party. I've identified as left-leaning my entire life, but I've never for a moment feared this sort of personal sabotage from a right-leaning person. This is a pursuit of ideological purity at any cost.
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We are talking about full-stack offering. Laptop + OS + support.

In this market, unfortunately, Linux is non-player. Even Google Pixel is more visible.
Source article: http://www.deepskycolors.com/archivo/2018/02/13/capturing-St...

I'm disappointed with space.com. All they did is reword the original article and while they gave credit, they didn't provide a direct source link. The notice "Original article on Space.com." is just cherry on top.
Hi friend.

If I may? If you want to do footnotes on HN you can use the dagger symbol, like so†. Dagger is Unicode U+2020 which you can read about here[1]. Asterisk is out of bounds because it is typographically significant in Markdown and dagger is the next in the order[2].

It's just that conventionally numbers enclosed by [] are used for non-inline hyperlinks (denoting cited references) in order to not clutter up the text with incomprehensible and long URLs. I think this is from text email culture but it could go back even further, I am not sure about that.

Apologies for the persnicketiness.

[1] http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2020/index.htm

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Note_(typography)#Numbering_an...

† I am a footnote indexed by a dagger. On Linux at least you can enter Unicode by using the key combo Ctlr-Shift-u and keying in the appropriate number. Dagger is easy to remember because it is 2020.
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What's the legal situation for this in the US?

Pretty sure, this is illegal in most of the EU already, but the GDPR will definitely prohibit it on the basis of the data clearly not being used for the originally specified purpose.
This can indeed be a problem but it is more of a class one. To find a job in some location it may be necessary to live there or have means to go there on a regular basis (for job interviews and so on). For somebody without means this can be difficult.
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Because that's the only reliable way I can message my friends. I'm not sure what else would work, people change/lose numbers all the time. Email is the worst. Not really much solutions out there if you want to keep in touch with your friends.

I personally mostly use messenger.com, rarely use the news feed anymore.
Mind you, that $1.1B is money already spent. Google will need to spend more than that to continue R&D for Waymo.