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> Plus, from a probabilistic point of view, wouldn't equal chances mean that for large numbers of trials (people) the outcome would also be equal?

Only if human properties are statistically independent.

If they are not, then a policy that depends on equality of outcome will screw someone over.

This has happened before, e.g. in medicinal research. Turns out, generalizing to the general population from a medicinal trial that consists only of men results in worse treatment for women.

It seems to me that you argue from a POV that basic human properties are statistically independent. Now... Why do you think that is so?
> “silence, pre-ticked boxes or inactivity” should not constitute consent

Could you give a reference for that?

I found this with a couple of examples[0] but my understanding so far is that as long as it's a separate isolated step dedicated to that question with clearly worded language explaining the collection, followed by a very explicit "I agree" button or checkbox, then it's fine. The step itself (not the checkbox) constitutes wilful agreement, as it requires action for that dedicated step: it's definitely not "inactivity" nor "silent". Here I assume the button to move to the next step is not simply labeled "next step", nor is it actionable by simply pressing the enter or space key, possibly by mistake.

[0]: https://dma.org.uk/article/gdpr-in-practice-tick-box-consent...
Thank you for clarifying. Let’s not characterize programming as masculine or feminine (since that would begging the question and stereotyping). Let’s characterize it in terms of properties that have been scientifically studied.

I would characterize programming as very far on the “Things” side of the axis that is “People vs Things”.

See: Men and Things, Women and People:
A Meta-Analysis of Sex Differences in Interests

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/47af/4a7e87267aba681fb69715...

The fundamental task of programming – sitting in front of a computer, reasoning about the machine and the system, and writing code and debugging systems for hours on end — is about as “thing”-oriented as I can conceive of. One needs to do a great deal of this to get a CS degree.

Another dimension to consider is Systematizing versus Empathizing (citations omitted). Programming seems to be far on the systematizing side.

As a thought experiment, what jobs might be further on the side of “things“ and “systematizing” than programming?

(I don’t know of any studies that characterize the programming in these dimensions. I’m providing my intuition.)

I’m not super familiar with the practice of law, but I would guess that it’s actually fairly close to the middle of both of those spectrums. The law itself is systematic but practicing it involves working with people at every level (client, counterparty, judge, regulator). It’s possible to write and deliver code, or root-cause and fix a bug report, without interacting with another soul.
I mean the well credentialed seem to be doing more than their fair share of rabble rousing. Also like half or more of social psychology research can't be replicated, so clearly that particular credential is not highly correlated with being correct...
Traction is brilliant.

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> what is your point?

Well, "That's US-centric".

Racism doesn't even translate well to other countries today: not every country has the situation that a significant part of the population has ancestors that were relocated by force and had to work as slaves in recent history, and are easily distinguishable by skin color ("race").

Different countries, different problems. Hence, different delineations in the various culture wars all over the world.
So being critical of critical theory is anti-semitic now? How very convenient!
I'm not sure that actually answers my question (which was admittedly rhetorical), if this has been going on since the 70s, (and longer!), what's changed that it is such a problem to you now as part of the left, while say 10 years ago it didn't bother you?

Reply to reply, so I'm out.
This is almost nothing compared to what Microsoft with Windows 10 collects. And beyond that, Canonical is honest and presents an opt out, while Microsoft does waaaay more without even telling, and hides all the many opt-out's in loads of hidden setting dialogs.

Still, it's good to keep a sharp eye on Canonical. I have not forgotten about the "lens" sending your local query to 3d parties like amazon by default..
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Dapps might run on decentralized infrastructure but that doesn't change the fact that somebody needs to write the app in the first place.
I don't think this is what they did - but this sounds like a good way to build a karma bot. Whenever a youtube link is posted automatically reply with the top YouTube comment.
Maybe they reproject the view onto the screen in order to have (effectively) passthrough VR while still looking like they have AR?
He got political at the end though. Does this statement ("the Left tends to deny science
concerning biological differences between people (e.g., IQ and sex differences)") really ring true? What are "extremely sensitive PC-authoritarians" and how do they advance an argument? Why is one of the citations a Wordpress blog (https://becauseits2015.wordpress.com/) with an explicit anti-feminist bias? These may not be 100% false things to link to or say, but they are very contentious.

I see the memo personally as more young-and-naive and I'm not one who thinks naivety is something that should get you fired, per se (though, much of his whines at the end were directed directly at Google being explicitly anti-conservative; rightly or wrongly, employees who noisily complain in public about their employer do often get dismissed). But he certainly wade into some touchy waters armed more with opinionated commentary sources versus hard science. There is a century's worth of troubling eugenics-oriented history on that "IQ and biological differences" quote that should inform one that this is not a remark to toss off lightly, and merely semi-support that with a link to a conservative think-tank link (that itself IMHO was pretty naive).

Chop the last bunch of the manifesto and it would be more interesting, but as it stands, the memo was not just "men and women are different" and how that applies to STEM careers. In the end, it was also a whine about how Google is Capital-L
Left and "alienating conservatives" too.
It would actually be more interesting if someone made a list of useful systems that cannot perform general computation. Some examples:

(0) Parsers for context-free grammars

(1) Relational algebra, and the subset of SQL that maps to it

(2) Hindley-Milner type inference
Coinbase can easily take care of this. They can have a small reserve and sell the bitcoin as soon as the transaction is published/sent to the mempool. No need to wait for any confirmations. If the transaction happens to be fraudulent†, they just buy the bitcoin back and realize the earning/loss (in the long run they will tend to even out).

†Not sure what the attack vectors are here.
Someone wrote an article demonstrating that Magic: The Gathering is Turing Complete: https://www.toothycat.net/~hologram/Turing/HowItWorks.html
That never works. Just take RED's interview.
Not to mention that there's nothing touchy-feely about biochem, which is chem except you take orgo almost immediately. But the prefix "bio" in it allows them to dismiss it.
There is no fixed list - AFAIK you need to prove that it's a first name in use somewhere in the world, with a few exceptions. "Jesus" is one I know about, it's a valid first name in Spain but not in Germany.
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It is the essence of meritocratic nature of programming.

Programming is not meritocratic. Writing great code probably doesn't even make the top 10 in things you need to do to succeed as a startup.
Will it still have adverts and all that candy crush shit in the start menu?
I am actually not really sure if those people really believe that IPv6 will EVER replace IPv4, which in my opinion will never happen.
I'm surprised they decided to modify the old code, I expected them to make a clean start and re-create the original experience from there.
I think some hosting providers are wasting a bit of the address space. For an example I have 15 linodes each with their own public IP, but I actually only need one or two of the IPs to be accessed publicly for the loadbalancers, the rest I actually prefer not to be routable from the public.
Given its elliptical orbit, when is the next time the vehicle will be close enough to earth so that it can be observed with hobby telescopes etc.? I can imagine in the years/decades to come, this will become as significant as seeing Halley's comet returning etc.? It will also be interesting to see how the car holds up to the rigours of space (effect of sunlight and the extreme cold on the paintwork, rubber tyres etc.)
But once you finish writing the app, you no longer own it. You don't own the database, you are basically an employee of the blockchain or ICO earnings if you collected that.
I understand that this is probably not the ideal way to use Vue.js, but I love the clear examples and the guide to baby steps into Vue.js. I've got a lot of legacy sites that I work on, where a full build system and conversion isn't tenable, but something as shown here, totaly is.
I could take a sabbatical, yes. However, I fear my skills would completely collapse, and then I would not be employable at all. It would certinly be very hard to come back to the industry.

I have enough money to take time off, but not enough to retire.

My fear is therefore that I would take time off, would really struggle to get back to work, and if I were able to, would earn a tenth of what I was making before and would feel like I've regressed a lot.
They can already get an approximate number by counting downloads of package updates. It's deceptive to send any information if the user opted out.
"Any user can simply opt out by unchecking the box"

They should at least do it the other way round and have people opt in instead of opt out. Still I would prefer a distro that does not have such functionality in the first place.

Since Ubuntu did their first "phone home" experiments in 2015, I stayed away from it. And I will keep it that way. It was just too much of a user hostile action. Shuttleworth even defended it. Showed me that his values are not compatible with mine.

Linux Mint has been a very user friendly replacement so far.
I feel like AWS and the Cloud in general have to be helping with this issue, because people no longer need to lock down individual IPs or ranges of IPs to get work done. Without the need to lock down an IP that you may or may not need to use, and with load-balancers that are able to expose boxes on a private subnet, the demand for IPv4 should be going down.
"Caucasian" is a category that's or or less unknown in Germany, so "caucasian males" having advantages (or disadvantages) doesn't mean anything to us. That range of your categorization is much more nuanced around here. OTOH the US seems to have tons of categories that are simply called "Asian" here.

That's a big part in making that conversation US centric.
> Nothing in the collected data is "relating to an identified or identifiable natural person", so the checkbox is not even necessary.

The data collected could be used to identify a single person.

How many people have the exact same combination of CPU, amount of RAM, location, disk sizes,GPU vendor/model, disk layout and installed applications ?

If the data is unique enough, it's PII.
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Yelp has one of the worst and most spiteful mobile websites, too. Most of the features are removed, you’re limited to a handful of pictures and I don’t think you can even read all the reviews. It’s enough to make me not want to use them at all.
There was no real alternative for facebook. There is one for snapchat and it's called instagram stories. The way I see it, snapchat will lose even more users to instagram while at the same time increasing their per-user revenue. What's left to be seen is whether the increase in per-user revenue will make it up for the lost users.
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What does “cognitively more demanding“ mean?
Maybe women just see CS for what it is - 'simly not that hard, wiring form fields to databases', and think, let others tap away at the keyboards, I'll be a surgeon or whatever.

So, if that were the case, would you say that it's fair to now force these would be neuro surgeons, doctors, lawyers, microbiologists, etc.. to 'wire fields to databases', because in 2018 some people believe that has a somewhat high status in (mostly american) society?
It is not the quality of the code, it is the functionality of the code. If you find a niche/function/demand in the market, code has power to fill that need. I am not necessarily talking about tech value of the code, but the business value of it.

Try solving a problem in furniture industry, you will just be a innovative carpenter. Business spinoff chance in other activities are far less compared to programming IMHO.
They do actually have a "delete" switch, but it's harder to find than the "deactivate" one. I've made this mistake before, then with a quick google for "deactivate vs delete facebook" I learned how to do it right.
Bytes being signed is the ultimate Java oddity. Can't say how many times I've been bitten by this.
Hmm that's interesting. Do you think it would stay that way in future?
If browser mining was a good deal for the end user the vast majority of its proponents wouldn't feel the need for stealth.

Paul Graham might disagree;

"The two most important things to understand about startup investing, as a business, are (1) that effectively all the returns are concentrated in a few big winners, and (2) that the best ideas look initially like bad ideas." (emphasis mine) [From http://www.paulgraham.com/swan.html]

Stealth is not necessarily a sign something is bad; it might just be hard to persuade people that it's good, and that's a reason to be stealthy.
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It's right there in the regulation under (32) [0]

I find your workflow reasonable, but it would fall short under 'free'. Negative and positive action are two different things and in this case the wording is quite clear ("clear affirmative act", "pre-ticked box [..] should not").

[0] http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX...
Don't they license pretty much everything to Sky? NowTV costs about the same as Netflix, UX/UI is rubbish but you should get all their current HBO content.
I agree that they are not collecting personal information. They are collecting information about your computer system. According to the ICO definition of personal data, it means "any information relating to an identifiable person who can be directly or indirectly identified in particular by reference to an identifier." (https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-the-general-da...).

Nothing like that is being collected.
> In contrast, the expenditure necessarily must be evaluated in money and time, and it's an age old problem: who gets the research allocations?

Sure, but a) when does the evaluation occur (after one year, after two years, after ten years, or after a new or accidental technology has been demonstrated to save humanity from certain destruction)?

> In contrast [to genome projects], what can we learn form ITER?

Experimental physics experiments have always suffered this comparison. I can't address your question, sorry.

Your suggestion that it may all be about the end goal (as if there's always and only a single end goal for research) is perhaps intentionally misguided - as you then hint at in your subsequent paragraph.
Canonical is no saint,

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/10/privacy-ubuntu-1210-am... (Amazon Ads and Data Leaks in ubuntu 12.10)

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/12/richa...
(Richard Stallman calls Ubuntu “spyware” )

https://www.wired.com/2013/11/fixubuntu/ (Linux Outfit Canonical Launches Campaign to Silence Privacy Critic)
A much closer application in Jiu Jitsu would be replacing the rash guard that many people wear under their gi, or in nogi. Or replacing a surfer's rash guard, for that matter. Tons of applications for this.
If Netflix becomes only independent content, then won’t they just be HBO? And if so, will they still command their current market valuation?
No, lightning (not lightening, btw) addresses the relatively long delays in confirming transactions. Merchants who are unwilling to accept unconfirmed transactions must wait tens of minutes (depending on risk they want to accept). With lightning it's as fast as you can transmit packets through the internet (order of milliseconds).
I don't see an answer to 'how bad' in the article. I thought I'll get some recent numbers but instead i got... some generic text that was valid even 3 years ago?
Interesting. Recent Airbnb problems with hidden cameras makes me wish for a product that could detect hidden cameras (non cia level). Is that in any way possible?
Not sure how from

> those fields are cognitively more demanding than commercial software development or, for that matter, undergraduate computer science

... you arrive at

> No cognitive ability or innate affinity explains the degree of disparity in computer science as practiced in industry.

Even if software development is "cognitively less demanding" in every sense (though I'm not convinced there is just one universal kind of cognitive ability), it may still be that women do not possess the "innate affinity" for it - namely, they do not like working in it, preferring other fields instead. To my understanding, there is nothing to contradict this explanation, and it makes perfect sense.
Ok, I see your point now.

And I think you are right. CS is not that special imho, and the gender imbalance should be more similar to e.g. maths.

> The term for an argument gerrymandered around the data to the degree "CS participation disparity is innate" is is special pleading.

I'm curious, though... Do you have any kind of research that would back your point up? Anything that would refute this "special pleading"?

I mean... I think you are right, but then again I (and you?) are CS experts and not experts at chemical engineering. Could it be that we underestimate the difficulties in CS, and overestimate these in chemical engineering?
In Estonia and likely Sweden and Finland you can already do this. I use the Swedbank mobile app, and can send anyone money same-day. If it's a known account and under a user-specifiable limit (eg 30 eur) I don't even need to authenticate other than opening the app; to add a new person and account, or a large amount, I need to authenticate.
Whenever this comes up, I like to mention this video [0]. The video speaks for itself, but generally it advances the position that human behavior and preferences are a distribution, and the distributions for women are in some cases different from the distributions for men (in the sense that summary statistics like mean and variance differ), but there is always significant overlap. The position that men and women are indistinguishable behaviorally and in their preferences is not taken seriously.

A notable point advanced in the video is that there is a difference in the summary statistics (not the entire distributions) which indicate men prioritize status and family different from women (with men more likely to prioritize status at the expense of family, the opposite of women). Another notable difference (again in the summary statistics, not the entire distribution) is that men prefer careers that are thing-centered over people-centered.

I wish statistics were better understood by the general population.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n691pLhQBkw
For the proposed mechanism to work there doesn't need to be anything actually "touchy-feely" about biochem, it's enough if the prefix "bio" makes it appear as such in the minds of men and women who consider going into it as opposed to some other field.
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How about disabling on battery devices then?
Is this the "anti-semitism" to which you refer?

Quote:
Communism promised to be both morally and economically superior to capitalism, but every attempt
became morally corrupt and an economic failure. As it became clear that the working class of the liberal
democracies wasn’t going to overthrow their “capitalist oppressors,” the Marxist intellectuals transitioned
from class warfare to gender and race politics. The core oppressor-oppressed dynamics remained, but
now the oppressor is the “white, straight, cis-gendered patriarchy.”
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Yep, that’s right. The well informed lead society, not the idiots. If you wanna go back to the dark ages make your point, but mine is that a biology major working for a technology company making commentary on psychology is a slam dunk case of someone who should just shut up. Certainly not someone who should be egged on.

BTW: the original comment was based on his job. Google didn’t hire him to make comments like that, they hired him to code. That’s all I meant, don’t shit where you eat, if you’re hired to code do that job and focus on that. I don’t know what this generations problem is with not being able to keep it together in a professional workplace, but the problem is this generation, not the rules.
A unique random cookie is not PII automatically. It is only PII if it can be associated with something like a name (not limited to a name). Anonymous data with unique identities is not under the consent requirements of the GDPR.
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"Cultural marxism" and "marxism" are different things. One was a conspiracy theory with anti-semitic roots and one is a framework of academic inquiry. Guess which one damore mentions.
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