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> There's plenty of material out there that isn't remotely touched upon in a traditional education.

Right. I took a logic class for my undergraduate degree. It's actually the source of the "modus" in my username. I guess to me that's a far cry from what people refer to as "critical thinking." Being able to identify textbook logical fallacies isn't the same thing as rationally and objectively forming a judgment about something.

It's certainly a helpful part, but I doubt most would remember it any better than geometry or 1800s history.

> When reading the news, forums, or overhearing conversations, do you not regularly encounter people who obviously have no significant skills in critical thinking?

I do, but it's rarely a clear-cut example of misunderstanding a logical fallacy. More often than not, it's the blind acceptance of supporting evidence while rejecting opposing evidence. Or assigning way too much value to a poorly-sourced news story. Or approaching the issue with a different worldview / values. Or any number of other biases that affect decision-making.

To be clear, though: I agree it's clearly not being taught. I'm just not convinced you can take a bunch of high schoolers, put them in a room, and after X weeks of doing something, they'll be critical thinkers. I agree you could probably teach them logical fallacies well enough to pass a test on them, but that's not the same thing.
>The best explanations I have seen seem to amount to "we got lucky with our universe, the best way to explain that luck is that there are a lot of universes".

Perhaps you haven't looked that hard?

The idea of multiverse as the "best way to explaining our luck with our universe" was in the bottom of the list of concerns to theorize a multiverse - if it appeared at all:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiverse
Exception to the rule and dismissal of the enormous advantage money gives.
COCs are virtue signaling at best (as mentioned in checklist items) and a catch ~~all~~ most for immature behavior at worst.

Really, it would help if we could trust adults to be adults, or at least 16 year olds, but this speaks to bigger industry and societal problems. Recently, I heard conference attendees bragging of how they messed up a presentation by trying to connect to the bluetooth device being demonstrated. And I've been lucky to have never worked at a place where changing the background to pornography or setting an inappropriate facebook status was a thing.

The truth is that the tech industry (among others) still has people who are less mature than the people at lan parties I went to when I was 14-16.
I meant the Apple Store app, where folks can buy Apple products and accessories for them. It is not pre-installed on phones, but it could be (which would be in line with Apple's hardware-first strategy).

I did not mean the App Store. Users rarely use it, according to analysis, and adding non-app assets to it makes little sense here:

"Today’s consumers are spending over 85 percent of their time on their smartphones using native applications, but the majority of their time – 84 percent – is spent using just five non-native apps they’ve installed from the App Store." [1]

"In fact, it said that utilities on iPhone and tools on Android accounted for the heaviest monthly usage, and this was largely due to pre-installed apps like Safari on iOS and Google on Android." [2]

[1] https://beta.techcrunch.com/2015/06/22/consumers-spend-85-of...

[2] https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/04/report-smartphone-owners-a...
No, there is a question on a grant application form to link to the code of conduct if there is one. _Mild_ pressure to have one I should have said maybe.
It's quite common for people to start with just $1k and do well and get to that kind of money. I'd recommend doing some research before just jumping to conclusions:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeff-meyerson-05275716/ - "Parlayed a single small investment into a large bankroll." under Online Poker Player
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That was my first thought. Suddenly everyone is knocking on your door and you may even get threats to your life.
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Nearly all of the Japanese rail system was created directly through the government. Everything JR was once owned by the national government. Even as "private" companies the major subway companies in Tokyo are partnerships between the national and Tokyo government.
Did I just get DNS hijacked?
Start looking for a new gig. Get your money, and leave asap!
I think derefr was inferring (or imagining?) a subconscious need to defend certain decisions, even if C and C++ are not prerequisites.

As a post-structuralist, I generally approve of reading the author's stated intentions and responding, "Yes, well, that's one interpretation." :P
What if the woman is actually an employee of MUSL and faked a ticket, though? Would any of the public be able to find out?
Whatever you choose just make sure that the enforcement is consistent. That seems to be the key. People know when rules exist for the purpose of selective targeting. See this for what happens when CoCs are applied inconsistently https://www.reddit.com/r/node/comments/6whs2e/multiple_coc_v...
But not her gender, apparently.
Nobody is looking at it from that angle because Broadcomm is not a Chinese company. So, yes, you are way off on this. The Trump admin is essentially running on exophobia to push all their trade policies (eg, steel tariff where Canada and Mexico are the top exporters.
Just because he happens across doing something "good" once in a while doesn't mean he's not completely evil man.

It's everyone's birthday once a year.
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You need to read up a bit on recent history if you think there is any record of "integrity" in this field.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_Lotto_fraud_scandal
I started with $100 and built it up, then lost most of it

But also started with a roof over my head, great parents, an internet connection, etc. I would consider myself a trust fund baby in that sense.
They have always been at war with Eurasia.

It's already great that the overall direction of what they say and what they do coincides. And cleaning one's air is always an achievement, let's not debase their work just because somebody else made it faster.
I disagree. Upvoting is like a High 5, downvoting, especially on Reddit, is used to bury something people don't agree with. Downvotes, IMO, should require some sort of intellectual effort as to why you are actively burying a comment or post and thus require a reply.

Dragon, you commented and downvoted on something that you are doing right now which is commenting on a comment system. No? At least you had the decency to reply, which most Redditors don't. Which makes Reddit Toxic.
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This is a well known edge case of Merkle trees; my undergrad security course covered this as an aside and it is prominent on the wikipedia page.[0]

For those not familiar with the specific implementation issue, this post should be a fun read.

I don't know what's more concerning, that pymerkletools advertises itself for use with Bitcoin or that none of the contributors read the wiki page :|

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merkle_tree#Second_preimage_at...
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What do you see as the difference between a trust and the person as far as transparency goes?
Hey just want to note that although that sentence makes him look like just some rich kid with infinite resources, I went to college with Jeff and I actually have personally talked to him when he was starting this project. Regardless of what affluence he had in the past/present, he started this idea from near-zero -- the site looked like shit, he worked on it slowly, and from reading the article it looks like he got the right people on his ship at the right time, and kept doing what he was good at.

Also, he's not tone-deaf -- I'm sure it took some consideration to let that sentence fly (I'd be very surprised if he didn't wonder something along the lines of "are people going to think I'm just some rich kid"), I like to think he leaned to the side of honesty.

I can say at least personally that he did NOT have the silver spoon rich kid vibe. Not at all, he was lost just like the rest of us sometimes are, I'm super jealous and happy for him :)
https://github.com/Lerc/userserv/blob/master/authenticationt...

This looks like something right out of a CTF. I'm pretty sure you can overflow that buffer and smash the stack. It's also vulnerable to a path traversal attack. What happens if the filename is '../../../etc/passwd'?

You should also pass -fstack-protector in your Makefile.
It’s important to remember a conference is not a space, it’s the people in that space.

In a conference there are no safe spaces, only safe people. What we need are social structures to help keep safe people around other safe people, if that’s where they want to be.

We need an effective way of calibrating a person’s safety profile. An individual for instance may be perfectly safe for a minority, but unsafe for all but the most hardened women.
That's a fair angle, but no need to "suspect", the reason has been provided: simply that it threatens being #1.
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"People will be mutually respectful. Those incapable of abiding by this expectation will be escorted off the premises. People who need a detailed explanation of the concept of mutual respect might want to just skip this event. We think it isn't that hard to understand and does not require pages and pages of explanation."
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> building/fixing takes more time than dismantling.

It doesn't take 40 years more time.

The Democrats have controlled both chambers of the California Assembly since 1959 (except for two short periods from 1969-1971 and 1994-1996) and have controlled the governorship several times in that period.

But yeah, the California homeless situation is still totally the fault of Reagan, who hasn't been governor of California for 40 years. Totally.
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My previous employer (Sourcefire) was blocked from being bought by Checkpoint by CFIUS. Though the president didn't sign an order, the deal got a lot of scrutiny and likely would have been blocked.

https://www.securityfocus.com/news/11382

I wonder how many cases there were like this.
> Let’s make it simple - having a diverse and welcoming community makes a project more attractive to contributors, and means that it’s more likely to succeed in the long term.

Sure, I never argued against fostering a welcome environment for contributors. We need more of this especially in open source, where contributions can be sorely lacking.

Instead I question the notion that Rust needs to have some sort or diversity to succeed. The assumption that it does implies that without diversity Rust will fail. However, Rust is not particularly diverse at the moment and it is certainly successful.
> COCs are virtue signaling at best

Well, it's virtue signalling at _worst_. Which is to say, the worst case is you're signalling virtues with no intention of upholding those values.

Secondly, virtue signalling is, you know, useful. If you are clear about your values and the values you expect in others, then you've at least stated an intention to do better.
If you are relying on "profiling" as a precursor to screening then you have made all of it theatre. You either screen everyone or screen no-one. To "randomly" choose someone to screen by the use of "profiling" makes nobody "safe", you may as well not screen anyone.
A $10K lottery is a horrible idea. Most people know that on average you will lose money by buying lottery tickets. What makes it worth playing (for some people) is the (very small) chance of winning fuck you money. If I win $10k, I would be excited and happy about it, but it's going to have very little long-term effect on my lifestyle.
This is just lovely :) I guess I don't really have much to add, other than to say you've delighted me with this
I think people will not go to Apple Music looking for shows.

I think they'll look for their favorite shows (Carpool Karaoke) on YouTube, discover they're on Apple Music, then use that as another reason to pay $10/month for it.
I think emotional maturity is more important than critical thinking. People in our culture have this life or death anxiety over being right, especially in social groups. You see it all the time on social media. Person 1 makes a throwaway facebook post which contains some kind of factual error. Person 2 points this out. Person 1 feels personally attacked and becomes emotionally invested in "winning." The more pushback person 1 gets the more stand their ground and will scorch the earth to save face. Where is all this intellectual insecurity coming from?
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Venezuela's government seems to be pretty able to survive even with open revolt and people fleecing the country at the rate of thousands a day.

Modern governments are way overpowered when compared to starving civilians.
The apportionment amendment was already passed in the eighteenth century, so it just needs to be ratified by the states. No Congressional action necessary.

And while you could try to gerrymander an 11,000 seat House of Representatives, it would be a lot harder.
I'm not quite sure I understand this comment. Can you expand?
Trump is completely devoid of ethics and morals. He had sex with a pornstar when his wife was pregnant. As a father, when my wife was pregnant that was the most surreal time of my life, where every moment of my life was precious to spend with my wife. Trump is that guy who cheats on a pregnant wife. Now evaluate this decision on these parameters and I am sure we will soon find out that this decision was funded by a campaign donation from one of the opponents of this deals
No but who's going to fund the non-commercial streaming videos?

Public (in the American sense, viewer supported) broadcasting like NPR and PBS develop excellent digital content that we would not otherwise have because it's not advertiser friendly.

If you hate clickbait, fake news, and spam, you should support public media.
I've always thought that cities needed to focus on redevelopment as a much broader, city-wide strategy. Instead of following trends of what the next "up and coming" neighborhood is, actually revitalize all areas of the city.

Right now, Chicago has maybe 6 neighborhoods that people from outside of the city consider moving to. This puts a ton of pressure on the rents in those few neighborhoods and their surrounding areas.

But if the whole city had proper services, transportation, properly maintained housing units and relatively low crime, that should ease the demand on those few neighborhoods.

Instead, people just move into one area until it's too expensive to live there, then get pushed into another area until it's too expensive to live there, and so on and so forth.
There can’t be effective learning if there aren’t clear and public post mortems on instances where the Code of Conduct was violated or wrongly invoked and what the correct action should have been. No one really does this. I was at a conference once where someone was arrested and taken away in handcuffs. To this day I have no clue what he could have done to realistically end up in that situation besides physical assault.
If someone feels they aren't capable of handling harassment issues, they're probably correct. Handing off the job to someone incapable does seem like an issue.

In general, telling an organization they need a process for something doesn't work out unless they genuinely buy into the idea. It tends to result in a bunch of process documents getting written, but no practical changes to how things are run.
just fyi I enjoyed your comment and anecdote but the word you're looking for is "segue" not "segway."
The problem is that they don't have to (yet). They do it now and get away with it and currently with impunity. If I recall correctly, there is a case in Texas about the matter, but that is the only one I know of at the moment.
For no compensation? Sure.
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Nearly every form of communication is a form of signaling your values in one way or another ("virtue signaling").

Your post is filled with things that signal your virtues.

Why is virtue signaling bad? How is it not just a standard part of humans communicating with each other?
In Austria, and Europe afaik, it is common practice not to disclose the name of the winner, only the location. It is done so for privacy reasons. I was always wondering why in the US this was different and always found it a bit strange. But I do understand now.
Absolutely.

Perhaps not in those terms, but amateur OPSEC failures have sunk more than one criminal enterprise.
I've seen these anecdotes one way or the other (pro/anti Uber/Lyft/whatever) and I think they're all pretty useless when trying to extrapolate to the broader population. One thing that is abundantly clear, at least in the US city where I live, is that Uber and Lyft are pushing hard for the same pool of drivers; many drivers drive for multiple ride share services. I'm extremely skeptical of "one company's drivers are better" stories given they're all largely the same drivers.
Yeah, for example I would be repulsed by a language that uses something like "x = 1" as a comparator instead of "x == 1".

It's sort of like one of those keyboards where the semicolon key is elsewhere or the PgDn button is bigger.
The only thing that learning music theory will do for you in this case is make you realize that most of what you see in this article is nonsense. Certainly, none of it will help you make music. I say this as a songwriter and student of music theory for 20 years.
> people who believe in conspiracy theories

Is there not such a thing as conspiracy fact? Aren't some conspiracies, in fact, real? It seems both sides of the political aisle have pet conspiracy theories these days, so it's really hard for this to hold water anymore.

> people who don't understand facts

As another commenter said, people will usually agree on the clear and present facts, e.g., Donald Trump won the presidency. Where you'll find more disagreement is on rationale: either he won because he gave a voice to the discontented American working class, or he won because he worked in cahoots with Vladimir Putin to subvert American democracy.

People don't refuse to acknowledge the obvious state of affairs. They have different interpretations, based on different values and credibility heuristics, of the likely impetus for that state of affairs.

>people who are highly opinionated about things they don't understand, etc.

aka virtually everyone. How many of us know enough to hold our own with the experts in something that we're "highly opinionated" on? If we can in anything, it's very narrow. Are all of our other opinions invalid now? Humans use credibility heuristics to try to determine who is right about something, and then they follow based on that.

> are not behaving logically

I dunno, it sounds logical to me, at least in the practical sense. If we pretend we live in a world of infinite resources and time, you might be right, but considering the constraints of reality, the logical approach seems to be to have and express opinions in the moment according to one's best judgment, since everyone else is going to be doing that too. Just gotta try not to be too haughty about it.

> They can have valid concerns and still be behaving irrationally. You clearly think these are mutually exclusive but they aren't.

I agree someone can have a valid concern and also behave irrationally. I don't agree this is what you started out saying, though.

>Appreciate the multiple snide attacks, though.

No offense intended. Edit deadline is passed, but I wasn't thinking I put any such things in. My apologies if you felt I was being condescending or passive-aggressive.
What to do if you win: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/24vo34/whats_the...
In Dutch we have a saying: As is the inkeeper does he trust his guests.

I'm always surprised by this pattern of extreme paranoia. In most of the world lottery winners are anonymous, because people wouldn't even consider cheating with this sort of thing. It would just not come to their mind. Perhaps because we don't all default to immediately assume the worst of each other? Because that pattern of thinking makes it easier to morally justify when you screw some one over as well. If enough people think somebody would cheat like this, enough people would have the moral flexibility to cheat.
Oh dear lord yes. I was struggling to just plot some points on a plane 15 years ago, something I'd done trivially in class years prior. I finally complained to a friend, and that's how I learned about python and pygame. Damn near changed my life.
California seems to have a (huge) added problem of speculative real-estate investment. The median price on a home will skyrocket if there's a significant amount of people who buy up properties for investment and not for use.
> There's a dozen copycats that do it exactly as well as Uber

Can you name 3?
In JS world we got a package lockfile fairly recently. Locking your own package.json version wasn't enough because packages have deps too.

Beforehand running npm install on newly checked out repos was a gamble, especially given that we have packages for every minute "feature" like leftpad (which is a horror story of its own).
From what I understand about this case, she wrote her name on the ticket, and once you do that, the state is in charge of whether or not that name gets revealed because removing the name would invalidate the ticket, legally.

So a judge basically said, "Well, we can break the law here and force the state to keep your name private because I say so; I'm a judge."

All the arguments about privacy and stuff, were really about whether it would be fair to break the law or now, not necessarily because they had some sort of legal standing.

No wonder people don't have faith in the American legal system.
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This (fairly famous) Reddit post is a really interesting read about this: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/24vo34/whats_the...
Agreed. Whether you think it's worth changing your habits for, with the numerous examples of shitty behavior (that their new CEO has even copped to) from Uber it's not hard to see why people wouldn't want to support them.
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See, I knew this was going to happen and then I was going to feel real bad.

One question I do have for you: How did you get Stephen Wolfram, Seth Godin, etc. to come on your early pods?
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If national security doesn't work, interstate commerce has been working pretty well for both parties whenever it suits them too.
The magical part where it solves all of our problems with magic.
> "Well, we can break the law here

What law is being broken? The state not getting it's will doesn't mean a law has been broken.