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> capital (countable and uncountable, plural capitals)

> 1. (uncountable, economics) Already-produced durable goods available for use as a factor of production, such as steam shovels (equipment) and office buildings (structures).

Join the in-group: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/capital#Noun
Certainly not in Portuguese universities, unless you got the degree with some "help", like a few of our politicians.
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Im pretty sure 'problematic' here is just that this is problematic for women. Not that women are problematic...
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An example I was waiting for him to list was graphic designer/artist. It's a sort of meme to be asked to do things "for exposure". The reason that is a thing is because many people are willing to design for free because many, many people love being artistic.
This just sounds like some random people ranting. Most people seem to like SO (it certainly helps me).
>>The restaurant owner in America does not pay a good wage, because tipping is a thing and the market adjusted.

The market would adjust itself overnight if everyone stopped tipping, and I'm sure even you can see that.

On my end, what can I do to stop this country becoming more like America in terms of tipping? Well, not tip of course, in which case it won't become expected and necessary to support shitty business practices. Amazon has "suggested" tipping for drivers now. Uber suggests tips. Deliveroo expects tips. It is imperative that if you live in UK you select ZERO on all of these. If you enter any value above zero you are sending a clear signal to Amazon etc that they can pay their drivers shitty wages because the customer is willing to subsidise them. Is an Uber driver going to feel sad they got zero tips that day? You bet they will - and I still couldn't care any less, their personal job satisfaction should not be subsidised by me.

But I've gotten away from my original point - yes, I recognize that in US the market is adjusted for tipping. But my original comment wasn't about US - it was about UK, where - to my relief - tipping isn't a requirement. Fortunately I can still pay only as much as the bill says and not feel bad about it in the slightest, because I know the person serving my table does not rely on my tips to survive. And like I said above - I do tip when the service is good at restaurants. I just don't want it to become a norm like in the US of A.
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It's not really SO's goal to be a perfect and immutable repository and publisher of your personal content. If 90% of your content is finding a permanent home on SO, the optimistic, generous interpretation is that you're producing excellent, useful stuff. The converse one is that they're not deleting enough.
What if there's a biological difference that makes women way more apt to take care of small children?
Unless we institute a worldwide, universal commune where all resources are equally available to everyone, people are going to experience localized scarcity. I think it's a fair example.
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Well this is a bummer. While its not mentioned this sound like a casualty of SESTA.
This seems like out-of-context message board drama, with an editorialized title. Why is an openbsd-misc opinion about Stack Overflow at the top of the front page? Are people voting this up because they think it's important that Martin Schroeder called SO "some random website"? Who cares?
>by driving down costs

More typically they do it by monopolizing distribution, not driving down costs, although craft beer probably will not do well in a protracted recession as consumers tighten their belts.
Matthew Garret's blog post on the subject was much more informative.

Link: https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/50577.html

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16761827
Article subtitle mentioned 'problematic', searching the rest of the article found one other usage:

> This seems to be particularly problematic for women building their careers, when they might have to work hardest and prove themselves most, and less so for women who have already established some seniority or who have not yet started careers.

There is no mention of women being problematic for society.
Freeman Dyson has commented on how long and wasteful it is for most people to get a doctorate

I’m very proud of not having a Ph.D. I think the Ph.D. system is an abomination. It was invented as a system for educating German professors in the 19th century, and it works well under those conditions. It’s good for a very small number of people who are going to spend their lives being professors. But it has become now a kind of union card that you have to have in order to have a job, whether it’s being a professor or other things, and it’s quite inappropriate for that. It forces people to waste years and years of their lives sort of pretending to do research for which they’re not at all well-suited. In the end, they have this piece of paper which says they’re qualified, but it really doesn’t mean anything. The Ph.D. takes far too long and discourages women from becoming scientists, which I consider a great tragedy. So I have opposed it all my life without any success at all.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-math-puzzle-worthy-of-freem...
You probably should explain this statement.
> Stuff like this (delaying people) happens with strikes all the time.

It's not the same thing at all. Strikes may delay people, and they do, but they don't involve deception.

Strikes, especially, though not exclusively, transport strikes, are announced - and announced in advance.

Even if - say - your local surgery strikes, surely they won't book you an appointment, then trick you into sitting in their waiting room, while noone is actually going to see you.
Sorry got confused at the C#/Unity part. Did you mean Unity and C# are terrible career choices at the moment as opposed to Python/AWS?
Being anonymous by default (like 4chan) and allow the user to reveal his identity case by case.
I think the implication was more "why don't you incorporate subliminal support into SubSync, getting the best of both worlds?".
I'm a bit surprised you're citing Aadhar in a security related discussion, especially after recent revelations about privacy breaches.
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What are all the bad events that can come along with any progress in this direction?
The result indicates that 25 to 35 is prime career age, not prime child-rearing age (the latter may well be true, but this study doesn't answer that question).

It's somewhat surprising that younger ages, especially 18 to 25, do not have this effect. I would have probably guessed that any hiatus in your professional career (including education) would result in a proportionally-delayed career advance throughout your career. I. e.: spend 2 years with children from 23-25 and your income at 60 is what you'd have made at 58 without children.
This is madness. You can't solve every problem with a technological bandage. Spend the time making a nice IRC client.
I'm using FreeCad for my entire CNC milling pipeline- from modeling down to g-code. It works quite well for me.
The problem with SO is simple:

- many of the questions would actually work better on a forum that was explicitly somewhat transient, rather than somewhere that tries to keep the best answers ""forever""

- there is no such forum

- Jeff Atwood wrote Discourse more-or-less as an attempt to build the right kind of forum software for that purpose. But there is still no such forum, or at least not one that SO questions can be moved to.
>I see Google Reader mentioned a lot when virtually anything RSS-related comes up.

As someone who relied on RSS for years, and did not use Google Reader, this equivalency between RSS and Google Reader annoys me greatly. Google didn't kill RSS. RSS is alive and well - almost all sites have a feed.

I used to have an RSS reader set up on my own server. For people who do not want to do that, just use an RSS software on your machine and update once a day.
In SV, bad kids play and good kids work, but isn't that backwards?
Is it so hard to give us a link to the video?
Good advice if you have family money to fall back on or are independently wealthy. The rest of us need to work for money, philistines that we are.
It's insane that 100MB of ram for a "chat" client is seen as a good result. How did we get there? Is it really that much cheaper to develop desktop apps as slow and bloated web applications?
I never understood why use a browser for doing something that should naturally be done in a native app.

Shutting down Reader had zero effect on my RSS reading habits.
Hey, sorry to hear that my descriptions are not clear enough.

It should indeed serve as a framework for potential investors to reduce the entry barrier of the crypto-sector. It is not my goal to monetize this software in any way.

There are no audits done on it, it is a project I mainly programmed on my own with some feedback of other developers. By publishing it on Github my intention is to collect feedback and maybe achieve some sort of "community-auditing".

But don't get me wrong I would suggest for anyone wanting to use this suite of smart contracts to get a professional audit done if large sums are involved.
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I was surprised that the article didn't cover counter examples: Jobs with high pay to make up for their low delightfulness, low(ish) education level, and low prestige.

1. Mining engineer or technician in a remote region like Northern Canada.

2. Electrician, plumber, or other skilled trade for the oil industry.

3. Real estate agent in a reasonably well off area. Some may argue that this isn't low prestige, but I'd counter that jobs where men have to get hair plugs to stay competitive as they age isn't high prestige even if the work itself is genteel.

4. Taking clothes off for money (stripping, porn, prostitution, etc).
> The group of women who had the biggest post-baby pay gap compared with their husbands was, paradoxically, women who earned more than their husbands before having children.

Yet you ignore that the article goes on to state that the biggest gaps were the ones that started with the women making more. It seems on average the couple is picking the wife to absorb the hit regardless of the paychecks.
It would be absurd for Facebook, a US company, to adopt as a global standard a framework that's entirely decided and enforced by the EU.

Perhaps a global data protection framework can largely conform to GDPR, but it clearly has to be decided in the US.
Way back when, there was some limited experimentation in the US with 6-year combined college/MD programs. They still exist but very few are 6 year--and they're schools you've probably never heard of. My understanding is that part of the issue was that there was a general feeling that students benefited from the additional time even if it wasn't strictly necessary with respect to coursework.
Why would you want to buy such a thing?
I started at a company just before the dot com boom. 50 people. It was like a family. Everyone was friendly and happy, everyone knew who was responsible for what, and what they were like. At the height of the boom it grew to 700, and I can only describe the psychological environment as insanity. I bumped into new strangers in the halls every day. Nobody knew what the company's mission was anymore. Everything was failing, and blame was rampant. The managers hid. Training became next to impossible and most people didn't really understand how to do their job. It was nightmarish.
I've had my jimmies rustled by what felt like over-zealous deletion of my content on SO. A strict moderator culture seems to have developed there. It may well make sense, to prevent the site bloating up with low-quality content, but it was pretty annoying at the time.
Depending on the project there are bugtrackers, archived IRCs/mailinglists, wiki (discussion) pages, forums or blogs and blog comments. And there you even have the chance to get information from contributors to the project in question. Other ideas?
Totally agree on the new platform - absolutely dreadful.

Otherwise, best I have used - and I've been through all the usual suspects.
Pull phone out of pocket, touch the reader, nothing happens.

Theory 1: I’m not touching the reader in the right place. Maybe the sensor is on this side or that. Try hovering the phone all over the POS box.

Theory 2: Maybe my phone is not working. Try waving it around again while cashier has this “get your shit together” look on his face. Pull out CC.

Theory 3: The reader supports NFC but not ApplePay, so now I’ve wasted my time. Pull out CC.

Theory 4: Its not even a NFC reader (because there seems to be no standard way of telling by just looking at them). So, now I’ve wasted my time. Pull out CC.
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My understanding is that lost and stolen cards are a very small portion of fraud compared to industrial scale skimming, cloning, hacking operations. Lost stolen cards only account for 14% of fraud cases. [0]

[0] https://www.nasdaq.com/article/credit-card-fraud-and-id-thef...
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Making parsing easily incrementalizable is a valuable property, because gramars which incrementalize easily also localize parse errors well, and having both of these properties hold lets you offer convenient APIs for IDEs and text editors much more easily.

For this, you want (as much as possible) for local edits to result in local modifications to the syntax tree, and ensuring that can require thinking carefully both about lexical syntax and abstract syntax. At the lexical level, if the literal syntax forbids newlines in string literals, then the changes to the token stream on a single-character edit are limited to changes to the tokens on the same line. Likewise, in the abstract syntax, if top-level declarations have a keyword, then the effect of a single-token change (eg, adding a mismatched paren) are limited to the declaration it occurs in.

There are a lot of tricks like this (eg, setting things up so you can find and parse the type declarations without having to parse a whole expression), but it's reasonable not to want to learn them. In that case, a really good heuristic is to make your language LL(1) parseable. It's not perfect, but it will rule out the vast majority of things that make incrementalization hard.
> - Files not displaying until you navigate away from a directory and return again.

That's strange. I have never seen this and I've been using OS X since day one, every day. In fact I remember being thrilled when the Spotlight hooks where added and I could run “touch test” on Terminal and the file would instantly appear in the Finder.

> - "Recents"

Oh yes, one of the first things I change, Finder -> Preferences -> General -> New Finder Windows Show…
While I think your contention is valid in 2018, it's important to consider how much of this is culturally and historically contingent.

Consider the ages of some key figures in the American Revolution in 1776 (https://kottke.org/13/08/the-surprising-ages-of-the-founding...)

Marquis de Lafayette, 18
James Monroe, 18
Gilbert Stuart, 20
Aaron Burr, 20
Alexander Hamilton, 21
Betsy Ross, 24
James Madison, 25
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"Switching from experimenting a lot and thinking a little to experimenting a little and thinking a lot was a key turnaround in productivity. When debugging with long iteration times, you really need to pour time into the hypothesis-forming step - thinking about what all the possibilities are, how likely they seem on their own, and how likely they seem in light of everything you’ve seen so far."

Not to glorify by-gone days, but isn't there a certain charm to having to wait your turn to plug punch cards into a mainframe?

Having a "single shot", with long iteration cycles, indeed does something strange to the way you approach programming and bugs and program design.

Anecdote: my long iteration cycles were caused by my mom restricting access to my C64. I filled page after page (paper!) with code, anxious for any chance to try it. I like to think I learned something during these "mental dry runs"…

On topic: I wrote a rant about the "Mummy Effect" of trying to reproduce ML papers (which we do regularly): https://rare-technologies.com/mummy-effect-bridging-gap-betw...
I've been using the Ask Ubuntu stackexchange since it came out (Top .3% of users there) and have spent countless hours reviewing. In my experience the deletion is one of the best features.

The mail is making an assumption that every thing that is being deleted is valuable, and the fact is that there's a ton of noise, and there's a lot of time being saved _for everyone else_ by deleting crap.

- Most comments don't add anything useful, if a comment is actually useful then it's better to edit and add it to the answer or question, or to remind the poster to do so.

- By the time SE is automatically deleting something it's clearly been abandoned by the community long before.

- I don't need 50 answers explaining what `/etc/hostname` is for or 15 comments with your opinion on systemd.
These developers are front end developers they should care about that kind of thing.

I guess this is an early release and getting the details right does take time. I sometimes get comments along the lines of 'is that all it does?' when I've spent lots of time getting the details correct.

Plus yes I think it does require some level of sensitivity to it. 99% of people just don't notice, but the details do matter in the long run as it begins to feel right to people, who will never be able to explain to you why or even complement you on it but will carry on using the system because of it.
And these women who prefer to earn less money just happen to be the ones that get children between the ages of 25 and 35, but not before or after?
GDPR isn’t so much a freedom of speech regulation insofar it’s more of setting out the rules on how corporations need to handle personal data. The ideas behind GDPR are good, but I’m unsure of the burden of compliance. Users will enjoy, presumably, an increased level of data control. Companies may need to re-engineer their offerings to fit into this new model, the result of which may mean unforseeable inconveniences and cost to the end user.
I have seen a lot of GDPR critics on HN saying that the right to be forgotten is censorship. That news articles about criminals should not be deleted. The GP is probably reiterating such sentiments.

Strangely, none of these critics ever seem to consider the opposite cases: what if a person was wrongly accused of murder, but was later found innocent? Old articles about his "suspicion for murder" should either be rectified or deleted. What is more important: to prevent an innocent person from being punished, or to be able to punish a legit criminal?

Or let's take something more mundane. If you posted embarassing party photos while you were a teenagers, and some site made a copy of those photos, shouldn't you be able to have them removed?

(Mind you: this particular critique on GDPR wasn't valid in the first place. GDPR article 17 states that the right to be forgotten does not apply "for archiving purposes in the public interest", among others.)

See also my other comment in this thread about the plastic surgery meme, "The only thing you’ll ever have to worry about is how to tell the kids". The meme is false but it ruined the woman's career.
Is there any effort towards a webassembly port?
It's as absurd as Google/Facebook/et al. adopting US cultural norms as global standard of banning ads, YouTube content, social media content and everything else for the whole world.

Meaning: not absurd at all.
When you can't "smell cooking" (as I assume you meant to write), it means their HVAC works, and if you can't "see cooking" (the other reasonable option?), it means they know how to put up a wall. Your friends should be taking you with a grain of salt.

"All their food" at Applebee's is not "microwaved frozen food"; I know plenty of people who got their start as cooks and chefs there. Something like three-quarters is made in-house and you'd have to be blind and unable to feel your tongue to not be able to tell a microwaved steak.
Unemployed desperate people thinking that this will get them a job.
Yeah... but nobody books a trip to India just for medical care either.
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Why do you think that forum is better than SO? I think that SO does its job pretty well: good questions (or answers) are visible, especially via Google while bad or non-interesting questions are vanished forever. Forum is about discussions. Most of programming questions are not about discussions, but rather simple question-answer style. And discussions are not welcome in SO anyway.
Neat tangent: the article refers to polarization of light being "practically indiscernible to the human eye."

You can in fact see the polarization of light, and can train yourself to notice it in various situations. The phenomenon is known as Haidinger's Brush (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haidinger%27s_brush) and one of the easiest ways I've found to see it is to look at an LCD monitor (i'm using a very old macbook pro). Stare at a mostly-white part of the screen and tilt your head from side-to-side while maintaining your gaze at a single area on the screen. When you tilt one way, you should see a weird yellow and blue blob pointing one direction, and when you tilt the other way that blob should be shifted 90 degrees.

The effect is -super- subtle.
And that desire to work on algorithm optimizations and solving fun problems is why we have such utterly complex web development toolchains today.
Wow SO Documentation was, in fact, shut down: https://stackoverflow.com/documentation. I remember reading about it Hacker News not so long ago.
I think if I were writing this piece from whole cloth, I would use different examples. It was mostly a response to the reddit post so I was hoping to resolve confusion for my friends who had read that.

There is a lot more that could be said on this topic, particularly markets with winner-take-most dynamics or positional elements, markets that are outside equilibrium, and markets with rent-seeking behaviors.
> I wouldn't trust a 23yo lawyer or doctor, no matter how smart they appear. Some things are learned only by experience, and not just by books.

I wouldn't trust a 26 year old or 40 year old newly graduated doctor either, for the same reasons.
I don't know if this is as much of a comeback for RSS as a comeback for self-hosted services.

I needed RSS enough to self-host Fever (on A Small Orange which is a POS that I need to migrate from, if anyone can recommend me a simple and user-friendly alternative).

Similarly, I've been waiting for Pinry to release version 2, but this seems to have eluded the team for a few years unfortunately.

It physically hurts when I see people purge their tweet history, because I can't imagine giving up all that history, especially when you can at least export your stuff first - which doesn't include your likes and DMs.

I don't think the latest Instagram/Facebook/Twitter brouhaha has been a vindication for RSS per se, but definitely one for self-hosting, especially as services die or get acquired left and right.

You might be cute and argue that for RSS being such a big deal, there sure aren't any overnight successes 15+ years in the making to migrate to at this point. I know Maciej Ceglowski of Pinboard fame was working on an RSS reader, but that seems to have stalled. And Digg just shut down theirs, which was really good. Fever is also shut down, but that doesn't matter much when it's self-hosted - except for the crazy fees ASO is charging people like me.
Facebook should just go away
I'm very introverted, and have less than 5 close friends. This is a commonly cited feature of introversion. However, I have a rather detailed rapport, of one kind or another, with more than 100 people.