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> Blaming men for the creation of gender roles and gender expectations holds no anchoring in reality.

Again, using that word: blame. Where did I blame anyone? Stating something is very different from blaming.

How can you claim "it holds no anchoring in reality" when to this day there are huge swathes of the world where women are considered second class citizens or even property? Explain how female genital mutilation or how "honor killings" are done with the woman's welfare in mind. To this day, most religions don't accept women in positions of power. Even in our secular institutions (like Congress) men are overrepresented by a huge margin. The best example of how lopsided the whole thing is was that famous "Senate health panel" that was in charge of redrawing the whole healthcare policy for Trump... not a single woman in sight. Until very recently women couldn't vote, work or even make decisions over their own health.

Heck, if you want to get whacky, read on the "men rights" movement. You'll realize there's a substantial number of males in our own country that think women should be subservient to men and stop asking to be treated equally. Just look at the crap published by sites like Breitbart talking about "setting limits on how many women should be allowed to study STEM".

I could buy the argument that gender stereotypes evolved together with us, blah blah. But that doesn't explain why in a society like ours where food and shelter are no longer a concern, people are still so reactionary. Seems like a fear of losing power, if you ask me.

> To explain why "women need to look like barbies" and "men need to look like providers" we got to do better than say that its because of men.

What's your working theory? For someone so reluctant to accept that men might have something to do with it, you present very little in terms of alternatives.
I only briefly experimented with WooCommerce, so please correct me if any of this is incorrect.

My general issue with WooCommerce is being locked into Wordpress. I’m not a Wordpress expert, and it’s very difficult to determine when a security vulnerability (http://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list.php?vendor_id=2...) is serious enough to justify upgrading my WP version, which may break compatibility with not-yet-updated plugins.

Small and medium is also in the eye of the beholder I guess. If you’re selling less than a dozen items, with no need for configurable products, advanced pricing rules, bulk discounts etc, then Magento is probably overkill.
But WHATEVER the biggest stupid decision, the focus was (and deserves to be) on the nature of debt-traps. Paying $18k on a $24k loan and the outstanding principle is still $24k… I don't care if the stupid decision was to borrow the money just to gamble it in a casino (or to fund a naive tech startup!) or whatever… even then, it's misguided to look at an article with that focus and say "casinos are the bigger criminals". No, debt runs our system and is the core driver of power and inequity. Debt is what enables the private-colleges and casinos etc. and that's what the article was about for good reason.

Incidentally, she did NOT attend a for-profit college!! She attended a private college, i.e. a non-profit that happened not to be run by the state and get state funding. I mean, there's issues there too, but for-profit colleges are a whole other deal.
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Hi, everyone – wanted to get a sense of how many simultaneous users this setup can handle using with a single Heroku dyno. State management is far from ideal (and very unstable), but was something I could hack away pretty quickly. Let me know your thoughts, and I'd be happy to share the codebase if anyone has interest :)

Thanks!
CBO projects that U.S. debt could equal GDP within a decade
> They do marry other Jews

Other Jews can marry in, but even this is limited. The majority of self-identifying Jews in the US would not have the qualifications to marry in. Any how, they are an insular community.
In my experience, the trick is to let go of the imperative reading since it becomes too complex in the situations you mention.

Instead, focus on declarative properties: Does your predicate (or DCG) succeed in cases it shouldn't? Then your program is too general, and you need to add constraints. Or does your predicate fail in cases it should succeed? In that case, at least one of the goals is too specific. You can use declarative debugging to find out which goals are responsible for the failure.

You can add the following definition to your program to "generalize away" a goal by simply putting a * in front:

:- op(920,fy, *).
*_.

For example:

pred :-
true,
false.

?- pred. now fails. Why? To find out, try to locate the reason for the failure by generalizing away goals. For example:

pred :-
true,
* false.

This succeeds. So the last goal was responsible for the failure.

GUPU finds such fragments automatically for you! In a very precise sense, they are explanations for the problem. I know of no other programming language that admits this approach.
I've been hunting for an e-paper coding solution for a while and have yet to find a solution that works well. The best I've seen is the Onyx Boox Max 2, which has HDMI input:

https://onyxboox.com/boox_max2

Unfortunately, aside from being prohibitively expensive they're apparently difficult to get in the US. Amazon and Wal-Mart both have them listed for sale but refuse to actually ship them to my address.
Still a long shot from black helicopters and cops kicking your doors in.
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Are you joking?

>Under what crimes would you like them charged?

Fraud, obviously.

>What proof do you have to support the charges?

They took investor money and made deals with partners like Walgreens based on a product that didn't work as claimed. Either it was an outright deception and they knew they were hawking bullshit, or they sincerely believed they could eventually deliver what they were promising, but in any case they lied to those investors and partners.

But of course they will never go to jail as any of us would for this massive and blatant fraud, jail is for the little people.
> Under what crimes would you like them charged?

Medicare and securities fraud. If employees there knew of the deception and followed orders to further it, that could be illegal. Furthermore, for employees who sold shares on the secondary market while aware of the deception, that, too, could be illegal.

At the very least, this merits close investigation.
The shape probably comes into it - this wingtip sweeps upward at the end, so it can shed the vortex smoothly. Much like the wingtip airfoils you see on other current planes.
Kind of off topic, but I've always found Japanese domain names to weird. They always seem to be subdomains of someone else's site. Why is this?
> Balwani was also Holmes's boyfriend

How did I miss that so far? That explains a lot, thank you for that factoid.
Has anyone used both or either the previous model, the DPT-RP1, and the reMarkable? If you have, what's your opinion on using them? I'm considering getting one of them for note-taking in classes
Wasn't that mentioned in the second paragraph of the article?
You can get that now with the Onyx Boox Max 2 [1] which as a built in HDMI display input.

[1] - https://onyxboox.com/boox_max2
Is there a way to view your user limit or how long you have had G Suite?

I thought I had it since the beginning and my Gmail account has emails to my custom domain going back to October of 2005 however Google says it launched the service in 2006.
Interesting project. Congrats! Can you link to the GitHub repo?
It's a little ridiculous considering you can't carry around 5000 sheets of paper very easily
I have a Remarkable tablet which I think is the only direct competitor to Sony's writable e-paper tablets. It's really jank! That's to be expected of early adoption. But also, it's nice to use. I love taking math notes in it.

The main stat for these products is the pen latency. Sony's previous product, the DPT-RP1, according to reviews, had worse latency than the Remarkable, which to me is only noticeable if I make a fast stroke and look for it. I don't have any official numbers from Sony though.

I'm watching this space as it develops. I preordered the Remarkable which took a lot off its price tag-- I wouldn't buy any of these devices at their current price points. They would need to be much more polished. A lot of that is on the software side, so such a device with an open, supported platform would be quite exciting.
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This is the paradox: Every new language feature in C++ has, as you say, a rational argument for inclusion. Yet when you combine them, you get a language that I will never use if I have a choice.
> If human spaceflight had the same number of annual fatalities as the current number deaths in the US 48 states while flying homebuilt/kit/light sport aircraft, both NASA and the news media would be freaking out.

What a nonsensical statement. If light sport aircraft had as many fatalities as the current number of deaths in the US 48 states while driving/walking/biking, both the FAA and the news media would be freaking out.

And, as pointed out, spaceflight is actually significantly more dangerous than light sport aircraft, so I'm not so sure that the "standard of safety [...] seems to be much, much higher than the FAA's."
if your house is worth too much to afford the property tax, sell it and move with your new fortune.

eliminating property tax only incentives blocking all new development to drive up property values and encourage rent seeking
>random property owners must provide the safety net

Doing business (which renting out property is) is not a given right. The cost of doing business (taxes and regulations) is what makes possible the existence of the state at all - far from being a 'dysfunctional' concept.
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This response strikes me as mainly "truth through repeated assertion", without any refutation.

> A public employee union is not the government.

I'm not suggesting it is, as such. It is, however, made up of the people who operate the "machinery" of government, and it's the government witholding the dues from the paycheck that funds this union, so, again, of Constitutional significance.

> There should not be distinction between public employee union and private employee unions.

And I say there should. There's my assertion :)

> Unions do not circumvent the normal political process. They are not seizing power from voters. Your view appears a bit extreme.

They may be extreme, but that doesn't make them invalid on their face. I don't have a vested interest here, either.

Here's my vision of public employee unions not circumventing the normal political process:

Instead of "negotiating" with the power to strike, they can just go to the voters (and elected representatives) and campaign for their share of the tax dollars (or working conditions or whatever other legislation), just like every other special interest.
The tenacity is as important as the skill. He knew there was a way, he just had to find it.
Wow I didn't realize Haskell beginners would learn to use Trifecta. Megaparsec is much more beginner friendly (and expert-friendly too). It has tutorials that guide you gently through the process of writing a parser. See https://markkarpov.com/megaparsec/parsing-simple-imperative-...
The problem with investors claiming fraud is that they would have to prove that they did proper due diligence and that is where the whole thing falls down. All Holmes & Co have to do is to claim that they thought it would work and that if there was a critical flaw they only became aware of it long after the investment was made. It is very hard for investors to recover anything from start-ups that fail and it is very hard to prove fraud when it might just as well be self-delusion.

I don't doubt for a moment that it was fraud but proving that is another matter entirely.
I'll be curious to read reviews of this from people who have laid hands on it. I bought a ReMarkable and absolutely love it. I am in graduate school, so I take a lot of notes and read a lot of papers, and the ReMarkable fits this need very well (though it could use a bit more flexibility in file organization). In have used an iPad for papers, but I prefer the B&W, matte, slightly textured screen for extended reading sessions. More options on the market is good IMO.
I think there are 2 reasons (for me at least) for why Mandaeans don't like to discuss their religion.

1. The lack of need for evangelicalism, unlike most religions, you can't become a Mandaean unless you're born with it, other religions want to spread their message to expand.
2. In Iraq (when I was living there at least) Mandaeans were very much prosecuted for being Mandaeans, a lot of them didn't identify as Mandaean in public for fear of being ostracised or prosecuted. Eg. a lot of my relatives that had restaurants/cafes would have to lie about their religion to be able to sell, Muslims wouldn't buy from us otherwise.

I'm not sure how unified Mandaeans are right now, there are different communities in every country, where I live (UK) there's a small number of Mandaeans (around 1000) where there is almost no community, this is the case in most countries, we're pretty much spread out all over the world where's there's a 1000 people in Norway, 1000 in the States, it's really to create a sense of community when the people are so sparsed out. The internet (Facebook especially where there are pages/groups that have tens of thousands of Mandaeans together) is the only thing that brings us together, for example when sending Eid (similar to Christmas) greetings and so on.
Per the article, there is in fact an ongoing federal criminal investigation. So, that's still on the table.
Thanks for the reasonable reply, and sorry for assuming things in your initial question.

I definitely see everything in a much more social context. I rarely make any decision thinking merely about the immediate short-term individual costs and gains. I can only technically but not sympathetically grasp how people can have self-centered, myopic mindsets, but obviously enough people do. I frequently fund myself having to bring up the idea that pro-social thinking is even a concept to consider.

Understanding that everything I personally experience is colored by my pro-social mindset, I feel really differently (positively) about places like Trader Joe's that refuse not only to have loyalty cards but even to have loss-leader discount sales and other such bull crap. The relationship between Trader Joe's and their customers is fundamentally more respectful and honest than these other stores.

Incidentally, I don't mind the sale discounts at places like Grocery Outlet because they are actually based on overstock and so actually pricing to supply-and-demand as opposed to playing some game with prices. Their highlighting of how much you "saved" over "other stores' prices" is annoying though.

Finally, I happen to know that many of the discount sales at other stores are actually forced upon them by outside brands. Brands are pushing their names and provide product at a discount to the store with the requirement that they promote a sale, all to drive the brand recognition etc. and that's part of why Trader Joe's is free from that crap (by not emphasizing outside brand names).
Unfortunately many of these devices from Sony have a few major downsides.

1. Extremely expensive
2. No way to export my work to my system (Linux desktop)
3. No "endless" scratch pad with single-click next-page

These devices would be a godsend for long meetings, technical doodles, and ereading. It could become an integral part of my day to day workflow. I just can't afford this heafty price tag for this restricted feature set and I think many other people have this mindset.
Exactly this: If one group feels harmed and another group asserts that there was no harm then the courts exist to solve this exact problem.
Can I ask what business? I want to make sure I am not doing business with anyone who won't do business under GDPR. Am not an EU citizen, I just wish I had their protection here.
> At the very least, this merits close investigation.

That we agree on. But proving fraud will be very hard, and the investors themselves have a lot of egg on their face in terms of lack of due diligence. In fact, they claimed at some point that they did do their due diligence and Theranos came up all roses.

FOMO is a powerful hypnotic. I've seen it in action a couple of times and it is very interesting how otherwise rational people suddenly let go of all their reserve.
> The problem with investors claiming fraud is that they would have to prove that they did proper due diligence and that is where the whole thing falls down.

That may be an issue for civil fraud complaints by investors, but it has no bearing on any action by the government for criminal fraud, and this subthread was about crimes for which they should be imprisoned, not torts for which they should pay damages.
I don't even see that as a prank but as a way of establishing beyond doubt that the guy was full of shit.
I've never heard of Prolog alongside SCADA. Can you be more specific? Like in a plant or what?
21 years of direct experience all over the country is hardly equivalent to "knows a guy who said a thing."
That line in the paper is actually describing Algorand in the "related works" section. Full quote:

"Algorand [26] uses a verifiable random function to
select a committee of nodes that participate in a novel
Byzantine consensus protocol. It achieves over 360 tps
with 50 second latency on an emulated network of 2000
committee nodes (500K users in total) distributed among
20 cities. To prevent Sybil attacks, it uses a mechanism
like proof-of-stake that assigns weights to participants in
committee selection based on the money in their accounts."
If we're going to do failure modes effects analysis, we'd need to know what the mechanism is in order to enumerate the possible failure modes (along with their likelihoods). For example, if the wing tips are actuated by a worm drive, then there is no "and the locking mechanism...just disappears;" The drive would be the locking mechanism. There are probably also suitable bistable mechanisms that lock in the open and closed positions, requiring actuation to unlock them.

> What happens?

In the large, I'm sure the teams of engineers at Boeing have it covered.
Forgive my ignorance, but is that even possible?

If so, could you point to such lawsuits, especially successful ones?
Ah yes, good point, I totally mixed up the civil/criminal parts of this. Well, here's to hoping.
What I'm saying is that somebody will always be 'less-than' in our society because of a base human instinct to feel like 'more-than' our peers. That need is an inevitability.
We are a greedy, stupid and spiteful species.

Any amount of compassion you have for the downtrodden is not enough (and has never been enough) to overcome this circumstance. Given that there has always been impoverished people, this likely holds true.

The best thing that you can do is to engineer systems that spread the misery around a bit and make it a little bit worse for you and a lot better for them.
The European way of paying rent, e.g. recurring wires, has the benefit that the recipient can't just refuse the physical object. And for legally binding documents the tenant has to deliver within a deadline, he can, if it's that bad (at least in Germany), pay a court bailiff to deliver the document and certify this delivery. That is legally binding on the date it is put in the mailbox.
To save people time: http://www.ectaco.com/onyx-boox-max/

And not to be too cynical. But has anybody ever tried them an found them to work well? $800 is an expensive experiment.
Securities fraud is the easy one to get them on but knowingly putting people’s health at risk is the moral atrocity.
It's usually home and condo owners who oppose density increases not landlords.
You're cool, dude! Definitely not an average person. What you describe is a meditation of a kind (there are many) actually. Have you tried the next level? Given you can silence your inner dialogue/monologue/etc while maintaining awake conscious mind and concentrated attention, "turn around" (your attention) and try staring at the still space that is the background to where endogenous mental stimuli (verbal/conceptual thoughts, images, feelings etc) normally appear, try to find where the point of "you" hides from which you look at all the images thoughts, stare in this direction rather than on a physical object or a thought. It sounds crazy like a camera filming itself without a mirror but it's possible in this realm and feels awesome once you succeed.
AFAIK, this is the first passenger plane with this feature.

Other planes with folding wings have been military, and they may have skipped the redundant locks and warning systems in favor of weight reduction.
Why good riddance? If a person who disagreed with my ideologies was looking for a news source, should I point them to an echo chamber that reinforces their beliefs, or a place that I believe to do good journalism (not necessarily The Intercept, per se)?
The quality of (any) mutable e-paper tablet will boil down to:

1. writing movement-to-pixel latency (should be around 5ms)

2. writing experience (tilting support, pressure levels, anti-aliasing, ...)

3. speed of apps on the device

4. shareability of annotations

5. "stroke-recognition" of diagrams, text, math formula's, etc

6. mashing of touch & pencil gestures

7. apps on the platform

I'd argue that only the Surface 4 solves (1) & (2) completely, with the competition between 75% and 90%. Speed (3) is a solved problem for mobile CPU/GPU/LED/OLED hardware, but e-paper is not close to 50%. (4) is also still quite young, since the "write on digital paper" thing is not even being used by enthusiasts (only some rarae niches show consistent use). (5) is mostly solved for handwriting recognition, and good progress is made on diagrams and math formula's. But it's young, and certainly not yet a commodity. (6) seems quite solved, as most algorithms to distinct between pencils and hand/finger touches work quite well. (7) is not yet solved, there are no good apps. Some exist, but they have "handwriting" as a feature, but not as a core feature.

Color may come in as 8th, but is for most digital authoring not that important. It would certainly increase the potential market for a good e-paper device, but would come last on above list.

In the past 15 years, progress on e-paper display technology has been slow but steady. Is the latency problem solved yet? Or are we still around 100ms?
Yup - in all seriousness, I would have thought most retired folks would just naturally gravitate toward lower cost areas with more pleasant climates such as Boca Raton. Or maybe Myrtle Beach if you still want to visit friends living in NYC...
OK, we'll talk about your specific example and not globally.

Suppose that Alice inherently belongs to some identifiable Group A — based on IQ, artistic- or athletic ability, ethnicity, whatever — but she gets randomly assigned to a school where the majority of students belong to Group B. It's the other way around for Bob, who inherently belongs to Group B but is randomly assigned to a school where the majority of students belong to Group A.

Now suppose that Alice and Bob would each rather be in schools in which the majority consisted of "their own kind." And imagine that there are, say, 50,000 Alices and Bobs in the school district.

In that situation, allowing Alices and Bobs to swap schools at will could easily result in self-sorting that might legitimately be disfavored by the school district, the state government, etc. For example, the school district might well legitimately want students to experience school with a cross-section of students from other groups, not just with "their own kind."
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