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Is there anything specific I'm supposed to feel about her to show my open mind? Seems like a nice enough woman who primarily earned her living selling books. Public opinion turned on her, she couldn't sell her books, and she's had a rough go of things. Shelters for victims of domestic violence are a public good, and women can be abusive. Not all feminists are nice people, some of them have political agendas that are meant to replace a patriarchy with a matriarchy and her opinions didn't jive with that, so they likely put pressure to silence her voice.

I'm still a feminist though, and other than learning one woman's story I genuinely don't understand what was supposed to happen here.
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Don't know what you mean, chief. St Petersburg, Florida is quite hot.
The idea was to replace Emacs's embedded Elisp interpreter with Guile's, not to rewrite Emacs in Guile Scheme.
I care a lot about these issues. I tend to give people speaking out the benefit of the doubt -- not everyone is as brilliant in documenting their cases lock-tight as Susan Fowler.

After reading this article, I have to reserve judgement. There aren't specifics yet, just people who I am interested in listening to and wish to hear more from. We may come to know eventually, but we don't know yet.
Something I'd suggest is being a parasite off the commercial businesses and pretend the retail market doesn't exist.

You can't buy a residential clothes washer designed to last longer than five years; laundromats won't tolerate that; solution, pretend Home Depot doesn't exist and buy a Speed Queen that your kids can probably inherit.

An interesting side effect is residential / contractors special type stuff has a very low initial cost of purchase but overall lifetime cost is always lower for commercial grade stuff; this makes sense, if it was cheaper to buy residential garbage the beancounters would force it to officially be commercial...
You mean an ad blocker blocker blocker? It's blockers all the way down.
That's definitely true for vi; but only after you properly remap your ESC key to something else (usually jj or caps lock).

Emacs is a differenet story... By default it uses a lot of alt and ctrl key combinations and also makes heavy usage of the arrow and home/end keys. Of course, there is a vi mode for emacs (evil; this is what Spacemacs uses) to take advantage of vi keys in emacs. But I believe that most emacs users just stick to the alt/ctrl shortcuts.
>You aren't going to gain the skills gained by a four year education in a week.

I know someone who was able to pull it off in 2 weeks, though they were unemployed at the time. They got into Google with 7 years of prior experience at the time. He admits a lot of it was luck. But it's possible.
additionally/alternatively close one road after another for cars and make it exclusively pedestrian/cycling ground.
>Broke, no.

And waste of resources.
But broke no, thanks €!
It really is exceptionally rare that I've reread any book or rewatch any movie, and in those cases it wasn't hard to get another copy of the book from the library or find the movie again on Netflix or wherever. Maybe you reuse all of these things, but I think the 99% DVD is watched exactly once.

Having these physical DVDs or whatever really is a very mild burden, but even that mild burden is larger than the mild benefit provided, people just like having their DVDs on their shelf because of the intrinsic value of owning "stuff".
In the letter, they do address that the problems leading to their resignation are recent.
It is not unsafe if the cracker is an actual company with brand, customer service, etc., because such a thing will at least briefly exist in an environment with no IP protection.

Then it all goes to heck because innovation just grinds to a halt.
I have heard two versions of Easter Island history.

Version 1, in books like Collapse by Jared Diamond, is one of a highly functioning cooperative society that suffered an ecological collapse, that destroyed the society. In this version, at the time that the stones were created, there was cooperation. At the time that they were toppled and population collapsed, cooperation had disappeared due to starvation. The cause of the collapse was a combination of deforestation (some caused by people, some by rats) taking away fishing, wiping out the nesting sea bird population, and then soil erosion ruining agriculture.

Version 2, which can be found in places like http://theconversation.com/the-truth-about-easter-island-a-s... instead says that a sustainable society got exposed to disease, attacked by slavers, and collapsed under external pressure.

It sounds like the Attenborough documentary took the second view.

I have no evidence which version is more likely to be correct. I will submit that which version seems more plausible to you will generally be some combination of which you heard first, which aligns with your political beliefs, and which experts you trust most. The actual truth is a question for anthropologists and I'm not qualified to comment on it.
They do a little bit, but in some cases the federal government has overruled them.

They would if it became unprofitable, between the fines and the costs of compliance. Google was recently fined $5 billion; that's a significant chunk of their annual revenue, of which Europe is probably a minority. Add onto that the cost of updating for GDPR, and the EU is pushing about as hard as they can afford to.

I'm not saying this is a reason for Europe not to take a strong position. I'm just saying their leverage is finite, and less than that of the U.S. government.
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> I use mmj for an autoimmune disease, so it feels pretty ironic to read vaping damages immune system cells; will have to go back to the Volcano.

Pure MMJ extracts are a different beast. This is almost definitely related to PG/VG base used in electronic cigarettes. PG is used to kill airborne bacteria in hospitals for instance.
US tanks use turbine, not Diesel engines. More military could have used those, especially as infra-red signature of turbines is lower, but it is chicken and egg problem. The present market is small and for tanks a turbine initially developed for helicopters were adopted. For other vehicles entirely new development is necessary. And it is very costly.
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The US is one of the hardest working highly-developed countries.

According to [1] for 2015, the US #13/35 (in the top 37%, so not the middle) on the list on the OECD ranking of average hours worked per worker. In 2015, the US had a Human Development Index (HDI) of 0.920 tied for #10/188 in the ranking of HDI [2]. The only 2 countries with a higher HDI than the US that works more hours in 2015 than the US is Ireland and Iceland. Iceland in 2015 had a population of 329,425 [3] and Ireland in 2015 had a population of 4,688,464 [4], while the US had a population of 321,773,631 [5]. Given that Iceland has an extremely low population compared to the US, Ireland is the only country of comparable population and HDI where the workers work _more_ than US workers.

In contrast, Mexico works the longest hours according to the OECD ranking, but is #77/188 on the HDI ranking list [2].

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_time#Average_annual_ho...

[2] - http://hdr.undp.org/en/composite/HDI

[3] - https://www.populationpyramid.net/iceland/2015/

[4] - https://www.populationpyramid.net/ireland/2015/

[5] - https://www.populationpyramid.net/united-states-of-america/2...
Because a motorcycle moving at 40+kph in what is, in effect, an extension of the sidewalk is a terrifying prospect, and a motorcycle going at 15kph just to be in the bike lane would defeat the purpose of owning a motorcycle instead of something less expensive.
Keynesians want to encourage spending in order to keep wages high. That's because an increase in spending causes an increase in aggregate output. However, it's unlikely that the employee will benefit. In the first place, if the marginal propensity to consume is less than 50%, and therefore the Keynesian multiplier less than two, then an increase in consumer spending will not pay for itself in wage growth. Further, the gap between spending and wage growth is increased because wages form a small component of the unit cost of any good. If spending on a good increases by some amount, then the wages increase derived from that spending will be much less. As usual it might be concluded that people are better off saving their money than spending it on things they don't need or want.
Thanks for your thoughts! Cool insights there.
In fact, we do use global ETFs so we do offer diversified exposure. As a regulated entity we are able to allow investment for as low as US$1. We haven't conducted our marketing as Acorns' does, though, because we feel the biggest problem (opportunity) right now is the one that relatively successful professionals in their 30s face: they are able to save money but they have no time to invest it right. You may be right suggesting that getting many small accounts quickly can be a good strategy though, thanks for that idea, will think it through.

About performance, I agree, it will take some time until regular people start noticing the difference.
I used to ride motorcycles and while it's true you have more control thanks to your speed & signals, and you have better safety gear, you have to ride in traffic like a car. IMO that's a huge risk cyclists don't contend with. I don't think "oncoming car turns left into rider" happens to cyclists with nearly the same frequency as it happens motorcycles, for example.
> Then I realize how disturbing it is that these attempts at clarity would seem quaint and surprising, and how any sniff of earnestness from a tech company can feel like a sign of deceit.

This is the line that stuck out to me in the whole article. Is this really where we are? Has tech sunk that low?
Addresses can be used that way to, but an address as a stand alone data item is used for every public land record in existence.

Think of a license plate as an 'address' for a car.
Elon Musk/Grime invited her to their house. And she's not crazy just attention seeking.

It surely has to bring into question Elon Musk's judgement to be involved with her.
This is actually really good advice. You don't have to do a 20 mile bike ride to start, though. I was extremely depressed about two years ago. I started writing poetry just to get my thoughts on paper. As that helped me feel better, I started jogging. First walking most of the 35 min, then running more and more. After I started jogging, I started eating better and losing weight. Each little bit helps.

There's obviously a lot more to mental health than that, and it won't help everyone, but anything's worth a shot.
Swamp coolers are incredibly useful for efficiently keeping cool in 100+ degree days, but are only usable in "dry heat".

Everywhere south of about Pennsylvania, kissing bugs -- carriers for deadly Chagas disease -- become a problem. So even with screens, you're going to want a well-sealed house.
I've never understood the point of those signs that say "Some products in this store are known by the State of California to cause cancer".

What is the law that requires them to tell customers they are at risk but not have to disclose which items put them at risk?
Only if they tax the heck out of mining. How well do you think that is going to work?
I personally want more than two options, and I don't think the potential ramifications are more dangerous than our current model. I don't think the ignorance is entirely willful, either way I'll choose ignorance over malevolence any day.
There's an unspoken thread here that shows the benefit of startup communities, which is that they help you survive failure much more easily. It would appear that the unsuccessful ventures didn't severely limit access to opportunities and compel him to go work for a big company. If his community had been different, or if he had listened to the well-meaning people who undoubtedly recommended that he get a 'real job', this likely wouldn't have been the case.
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I live close to work. It's 4 miles by bike. But living close to work is great until...

1. You have a 2 income household

2. Throw kids and their schools into the mix

3. One or both members of the household change jobs

All of those things happen to most families.

Now it becomes a complete toss-up, and you have to be extremely lucky if both or even one of you can work close to home, school, etc. My spouse and I are in that category, so I know it's possible, but I also know we're lucky.

Things might change if there was enough of a safety net, that it wasn't vital to cling to full time employment at all costs.
The root cause is the same but it's a different kind of page fault, and the effect is that you cannot read data that is not already present in the cache. On the other hand, meltdown doesn't break through the guest-host barrier when EPT is active.

Yes, deep down they happen for the same reason, but then so does Spectre as well.
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Totally feel you on this one, especially when the purpose is to inform/teach. I found this extension that helps: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/play-the-gif/mchec...
I had a job offer from the StatusPage guys a few years ago that I turned down (shortly before their acquisition by Atlassian, d'oh!). The feature set is relatively simple, but the underlying software is very complex. They need to be reliable enough and robust enough to work when other major sites go down, which is no easy feat. I'm sure that like most products they started simple, but to scale to any large meaningful customers they had to put a lot of complex engineering in place.
I saw that - but in their position I would be much more likely to do seemingly drastic things to send a message that I otherwise would not be willing to do if I had more to lose.

To me, what they have done by resigning is not more significant than someone young in their career simply speaking out. It is commendable that they spoke out, but I don't see the resignations as adding much punch.
I read Zoolandia as Zoolander, and was really confused trying to figure out the special effects there!
I think the ad is just taking too long to load. So the web site assumes you are using an ad blocker, and doesn't let you see the article. Just keep trying again and again, and eventually, the slow ad will load.
Do you have kids? do you have other hobbies? are you always working? do you have time to read and not passively listen to books or podcasts? do you really enjoy that time or are you just comforted by the notion it's not all for not?

I'm not trying to say how you should or shouldn't feel. I did lots of commuting over the years and I too said the same things you said...

but now that I'm 42, now that my kids are older and now that life seems to be going by faster and faster, I super regret spending years of my life behind the wheel rather than doing what I really wanted to do.

That bigger house wasn't worth it, the bigger tv wasn't worth it, the bigger commute wasn't worth it.

I had no time for my wife, my friends, my kids, my hobbies. I didn't go kayaking, biking or running as much as I wish...

I thought my commute time was my time, but it was "alone time" but not necessarily objectively "me" time - i was still upset at the traffic, delays, weather, people everywhere and no one talking, everyone just mindlessly going places while being jerks and i had to use books/music to escape...

only to go home to pay a big mortgage, stay up late to have that hour of time, get up early to try and have more time. Before long i was spending all my mental energy trying to justify it all and it became overwhelming.

Today, I live 6 miles from work, a 15 minute drive in worst of traffic. I'm home, i'm not mad, i can still listen to music/audio books but more importantly i'm there - i don't mind driving home to pickup kids to take them to scouts or off to music - because i didn't just spend 1.2 hours commuting. my rage is less, i'm there more, i'm more present and i have time for hobbies/friends/family and ME
Ask HN: How to disagree politely and point out errors?
I have realised that I tend to disagree with people a lot and it doesn't go down well with them. I start it off as a discussion, but many take offence. Learning is something I immensely enjoy and assume many do too, but this isn't always true. Many outrightly ignorant claims make me furious, and I get into heated arguments. Sometimes I learn something, but many times people don't want to discuss and I end up being a jerk in their eyes. Am I wasting time doing this or is it realistic to hope to learn something this way? I just want to know what HN does.
The problem with startups has always been a fundamental one, and not really one you can change without redefining what a startup actually is - people try way too hard to start them.

Let me explain; it's reported very very often on YC that 90% of startups fail, and while a lot of these points in the article are disguised as separate ideas, they're all part of the same problem being that people want to make something from nothing, hence why it is called a startup. Traditional businesses begin by pivoting off an exiting business or product, whereby if you're a chemist working for DuPont and develop a new chemical, they might make a subsidiary to produce that. That process is way easier, the money and infrastructure is already there, and everyone is already neatly on board.

Contrast this with a startup. You're probably young, lacking financial and networking support, education, and many other things. You want to make a product the world has likely never seen before, completely from scratch. Well, of course your management is going to be shit. Of course you're going to find shit employees. Of course it's unlikely to succeed. This article was completely unnecessary because everyone should know by now what a startup entails, and that it is fundamentally unstable, but that doesn't mean it's not important as a venture and concept.
Manuel Blum is my academic great grandfather, i.e my advisor's
advisor's advisor. He is a legend. Very sad to see this happen.
Compare https://rationalconspiracy.com/2016/06/02/radar-detector-det...
In 2014, former Tinder VP Whitney Wolfe, who previously had a "cofounder" title (and would later go on to found Bumble), sued IAC and Match over sexual harassment from another Tinder "cofounder" Justin Mateen, who is one of the plaintiffs in this lawsuit. (I put "cofounder" in quotation marks because it was an internal project at IAC and the history is a complicated.) Mateen was suspended and the lawsuit was settled for $1M.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2014/07/01...

https://techcrunch.com/2014/07/09/whitney-wolfe-vs-tinder/

http://valleywag.gawker.com/every-fucked-up-text-from-the-ti...

Earlier this year Match and Bumble both sued each other in the midst of an attempt from Match to acquire Bumble. I am a little lost but I think Match / Tinder sued for $450M for patent infringement and Bumble countersued for $400M for using the lawsuit to make them look less attractive to potential (non-Match) acquirers?
Interestingly, the American Football NFL Scouting Combine, which can be thought of as roughly a tryout for the NFL draft, involves a test in which athletes must benchpress a set amount of weight (225lbs == ~102kg) as many times as possible [0]. Whether or not this is a good test for athleticism and performance in the NFL is very much debatable, but it is one area in which they're evaluated.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NFL_Scouting_Combine#Bench_pre...
> Civility and basic courtesy is not copyrighted, use it in your public statements.

POTUS would disagree. Civility and basic courtesy are no longer popular. Such is the world we now live in.

Edit: Anyone care to dispute this? I don't agree with it, but I'm also not willing to ignore it.
> Ancient Rome was full of 5-7 story apartment buildings and had a population of around a million. Higher density than a whole lot of modern cities, the vast majority of which are not seas of skyscrapers.

This isn't really true - the Aurelian walls were about 14 square kilometers, but a significant portion of the city's 1 million people lived outside the Aurelian walls. We don't have a good sense of how many people lived within the Aurelian walls, but number that's often cited (1 million people/14 square km = 70,000 people/square km, 2.5 times the most dense city in the world today) is not actually representative of what ancient Rome looked like at any period in history.
There's a range of ways to do that. Weaving through flowing freeway traffic at 100mph? Pretty damn dangerous. Filtering up between lines of stopped cars at a stoplight? Not terribly dangerous & reduces traffic for everyone.
how does one find startups to work for? I enjoy intensity, chaos, and learning in my job and my big corp job is just not providing that. I'm planning on moving to one of the tech hubs next year and trying to work at a startup of sorts, not sure where to start
Yeah, the parent comment is patently BS. I searched for feminist subreddits discussing this article, and every single one of them had people expressing a mix of sadness, disappointment, and anger at this revelation. There were no comments supporting the accuser or decrying the accused. And in my experience, this has also been the case for previous such events.

Say what you want about modern feminism, but the community certainly has integrity.
"her husband came from Wisconsin. He liked a log fire. So they would turn up the air conditioning and light one."

I found myself really unsettled by this. Light a fire, and turn up the air conditioning?
> What I think I want is another row of F-keys above the ones that are there

You mean something like this keyboard from long ago:

http://www.northgate-keyboard-repair.com/ultra.jpg

Note the left side rows and above the QWERTY area.

That top row can be configured to send just F-keys, or Shift+Fkey, Control+Fkey, or Alt+Fkey. It defaults to Shift+Fkey.

Very good keyboard (source: typing this on one of the exact model pictured at that URL), somewhat hard to find now that it has been out of production for about 20 years.
I think it's interesting that the major point is that you will learn a lot, but he also says that you should not expect to be mentored or given any real direction. This is definitely my experience, but it doesn't mean that startups teach you these things, it means that you have to teach yourself these things and you are in an environment where you are forced to do it.

You can also do this and keep your day job if you start your own side project. Obviously it might not be an intense as joining a small startup, but you get to keep your day job pay. Self-motivation is a requirement though.
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The article also mentions developments which affect even those old cities that A/C made possible -- such as the glass skyscraper