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We have political movements that are committed to removing basic human rights from 50% of the population, so sure. Maybe when Roosh doesn't have millions of followers we can discuss this stuff openly.

It's an argument for scientific guilds in areas like this.

God I hate writing this. Ten years ago I would have totally had the opposite opinion. That was back when I thought we'd moved past these things. Recent outpourings of racist and fascist ideologies have proven that we have not. Either that or we have profoundly regressed intellectually in the last 10-15 years. In any case the situation with demagoguery is so bad that extraordinary measures may be needed to prevent real and tangible harm.

Edit:

Let me give you a different example. Let's say there's a study that shows a weak link between a vaccine and autism. If it were published, it would be amplified far out of proportion to its findings and used to convince millions of parents not to vaccinate their kids. Such a paper could have a death toll in the hundreds.

A paper like that should not be published unless it's been replicated multiple times, and even then with profound qualifications front and center indicating precisely which vaccine it applies to, etc.
Exactly. It's quite a story, but something in it doesn't ring true.
I think what happened is, liberals learned from conservatives that it's much more efficient in the short term, to make the voicing of an opinion a crime than to fight it on its merits.

Censorship is as old as organized society. Historically, the power to censor belonged to those in power (the Church, royalty, etc.) But it was never exercised openly, it always rested on some higher justification (to prevent offending God or upset the social order). And so, censorship, which is always, in effect, an instrument of domination, somehow became "the moral choice".

At some point (I'd say, fairly recently, sometime in the 70s) minorities fighting "the Good Fight" (tm) discovered the power of moral censorship and they are now basking in it. But it's a double-edged sword and it's very difficult not to cut yourself when using it.
> lifting protectionist policies

Not lifting completely, just enough to facilitate economic growth. Importing anything in the US, EU or China is process full of protectionist policies and tariffs that you must overcome.

The proof is in the pudding. The right amount of protectionism has proven to work in every successfully developed country. There are NO exceptions.

> "Few propositions command as much consensus among professional economists as that open world trade increases economic growth and raises living standards."

Economics would not be the first field with a popular theory that is complete nonsense that whenever tried has only resulted in catastrophe. Because it only works well in mathematical models instead of the read world.

Funny how all those economists have not convinced a single developed country to believe their theories and put them into practice.
I'm not really seeing that part of the argument. From what I can tell, the crux of her argument differentiating it between blackface is that being trans is a theatrical act. She literally says "I think the performative nature of transgenderism itself should allow a woman like Scarlett Johansson to play a transgender person." She bases that argument on the false notion that being trans is an act. Anybody who says that has not had meaningful interaction with the community, because that's a direct insult towards one's own identity. Most people cannot understand how painful it is to have someone insult your own identity.

I rarely see minorities arguing that they're literally no different than anybody else. Co-opting the Riddle scale [0], that sort of view is "you're not X, you're a person!". I believe the differences between people should be celebrated, and absolutely not used to discriminate.
If a story is written about how a Japanese immigrant went through struggles coming to America, it would be disgraceful to have a white woman play that role.

The reality is that the majority of Americans see trans people as different. It would be wonderful if that weren't the case, but until then, any cis (non-trans) person playing a trans person is going to be a caricature of the trans experience (although a cis man playing a trans man would be slightly better). Trans people continually try to argue that they're in the same overall category of cis people of the same gender, i.e. {trans women} ∪ {cis women} ⊆ {women}. It is a uniquely minority experience to see someone who cannot understand your struggles pretend to have them for a day.

A common thing I see amongst "anti-PC" folks is the confidence in arguing a point in fields that they simply don't understand, and the hypocrisy that comes with that. She states that the norms that prevent using racial epithets or using gender as an insult are perfectly fine. Immediately after, she invalidates the experiences of all trans people in a typical fashion - "trans people are a performance and not their gender". If her mind had existed in 1970, she would've been perfectly fine with racial epithets, and argue that the people trying to tell her that's wrong are needlessly PC.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riddle_scale
Some people say Mellotron's 1963 product was a complete rip-off from Harry Chamberlin and his instrument (the Chamberlin) created in 1949. The instruments are identical.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDbNeW9vpBg
I think it might, but not without much more complexity. As you point out we hear phrases and refrains etc. - you'd need to both generate phrases, and then generate structure by making use of and transforming (mutating, transposing, investing etc.) phrases.

Listening to his examples what struck me was exactly that: You could hear the outline of something, but it was killed instantly by the lack of internal consistency: What at first sounded like the outline of phrases were self similar, sure, but there was way too little outright repetition.

It also fell flat at capturing well established rules of chord progressions - I have the same impression as you: individual changes were ok, but even with my very, very superficial understanding of composition I know that certain progressions add tension and others release it, and, and pairs of chords that work well together sound just plain weird if they're not part of a bigger structure that also follows the rules.

I'm reminded of a program printed in Compute! or similar in the 80's that was meant to let anyone play music. It worked surprisingly well. The way it worked was simply to only allow note progressions that were likely to result in something that at least sounded "like music". But you still needed to understand rules for composition to go from something "like music" to something that sounded pleasant.

I feel like his example falls in that category: He's made it sound "like music", but it's something most people can beat by buying a book on improvisation that explains a few simple chord progressions and some very basic rules. Going from that to something that sounds like an actual proper piece of music is another matter.
I know you dream of laws like the GDPR working, but it doesn't and neither did its predecessor

Didn't it? Maybe I'm biased, but I don't remember breaches like Equifax's or Target's in the EU. I also don't remember the records of 154 million EU voters being exposed.

According to this report[1], the "U.S. accounted for 728 of the 974 incidents around the globe in the first half of 2016." They do say part of the difference may be the disclosure laws, but is that all?

[1] https://blog.gemalto.com/security/2016/09/20/data-breach-sta...
Why would an apartment owner want to rent to someone who had been evicted? I would assume that would be the #1 thing they look out for. Applicants who didn't hold up their end of a rental agreement is a strong indicator.

If your employer paid you late because they were "bad at paying their bills" you'd be pretty upset, as would most people.
Wow your comment and mine were flagged. Absolutely amazing. Not a single thing wrong with mine or yours.

Great critical thinking guys, have fun in your complete echo chamber. If you can’t even have a discussion from someone who wants one and is willing to have an open mind and asking questions, not surprised at all that the entire world is slowly rejecting the current orthodoxy that has given us peace and prosperity for 70 years. Let it all go down the drain due to sheer arrogance and stupidity.

If you disagree with anything I said, downvote and reply back. Only flag if I broke any rules or attacked anyone in any way. Cowards.
This is one of the most obnoxious posts I have ever read on HN. I'm actually feeling a buildup of rage reading it.

First, there is never a justification for using the word 'slaves' in anything but the literal context. Please be more cognizant of this country's history.

Of course going back to your country is an option. You are choosing not to take it because you don't want to disrupt your daughter's life, either by leaving her here or taking her there.

H1B was never meant to be an immigration visa or one that entitles you to permanent residency. It is a "temporary worker" visa. Establishing family and a life in the United States while on this visa, you take the risk that you may have to disrupt this life at some point.

I think there are very few people, if any, who will be sympathetic to your post seeing as how your income and current place of residence places you among the wealthiest and most privileged people in the country and the world. If you have been working for 15 years at even close to your current income, you may be in a position to retire and live anywhere you want, with a very high standard of living. At least, you can go work anywhere else and maintain a high standard of living.

I have so much more I could say but... I can't even right now.*

*I finally understand what this phrase means. I have never used it before but I feel it suddenly and deeply after reading this post.
"We can’t meet with other teachers to lesson plan unless"

When I worked as a teacher I had to create a curriculum, monthly plans, weekly plans and lesson plans. The "lesson plan" was a multiple page bullshit orgy. I worked for two years in one of the best schools in the US. They had no "lesson plans" (yet, the best teachers).

If you go to teach a lesson you should be prepared and have a plan. A good teacher is also able to immediately cancel the plan and just to a review. You may have planed to teach a new complex science topic but the kids walk in from a math test into your class room and are "dead". I have seen the worst teachers sticking to their "lesson plans".

I miss the kids. But the administrative bullshit will prevent that I ever teach again.
You’re the perfect use case for the utility of credit reporting agencies by people who care about getting paid on time, which is almost everyone.
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I used to think this, but I don't any more. One argument that swayed me came from Izabella Laba [1], a math professor at UBC and former IMO competitor. The point that stood out to me is that women tend to be socialized away from extremes, for example it is generally more acceptable (to parents, guardians, and affiliated people choosing for children) for gifted boys to skip many grades than for gifted girls to do the same. Along the same lines, obsession and isolation in boys just seems to bother us less than the same thing in girls.

There's no great comcrete evidence backing this up (as far as I know). But Laba is one who should know, having once been a very mathematically gifted girl.

Maybe men really are outliers on a greater scale, but IMO we do enough tamping-down of female outliers that I'm not willing to draw that conclusion from the preponderance of male geniuses we see today.

[1] https://ilaba.wordpress.com/2017/06/24/gifted-while-female/
I believe, at least in California, raising gas tax is frowned upon by voters because the so called highway fund (filled with gas tax money) has been raided to pay for non-road related projects.

No one likes bait and switch.
> I think you misunderstood her. She was saying that being transgender in that role was central to the character. It was the point of the movie. However, whether a character is black or not doesn't really matter (anymore). That's why we don't use blackface masks anymore.

A good example of this may be the US version of "Queer as Folk", a dramatic series on Showtime from 2000-2005 [1].

Most of the main characters were gay, but only a little under half of the actors that played them were gay. Another actor was bi, and the rest were straight.

But you could not tell from the performances which were which. The straight actors were as convincing as the gay actors, even in scenes involving serious erotic action.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queer_as_Folk_(U.S._TV_series)
That largely defeats the point. Almost no one knows what to make of those errors. And just training everyone to ignore them makes HPKP pointless.

How so? Are you suggesting that TLS as a whole is pointless because browsers allow users to skip the error screens ("Proceed to balls.com (unsafe)")?

Even if the error screen is skippable, it makes it clear to the user that something is very wrong and that they're advised to abort their usage of the site.

The problem with HPKP was that it could be used to attack any site on the internet with no way for websites to opt out. Basically, the same problem as with certificate authorities - but worse.

Definitely agreed on that. (One of our BH/DC demos, RansomPKP, showed that you could actually pivot from a server compromise or MitM to deploying ransomware that would brick an entire domain and hold it hostage until you got paid.)

I just think there are much better ways of going about addressing that. Specifically, my proposal to the Chromium team was as follows:

1. Short-term (Chrome 67): Any time dynamic PKP is used, print a console warning that additional requirements are planned to be attached to the use of dynamic PKP with a relevant link.

2. Medium-to-long-term (ecosystem-wide collaboration): Disregard dynamic PKP headers unless the domain in question has some kind of new indicator in the certificate to show that the CA has validated that the site owner is really really sure they want to use HPKP and understands the risks involved (i.e. offload the whitelisting/validation responsibility from individual browser vendors to the broader CA industry).

(And I had some other ideas about roping CAA into the mix to address some specific concerns, but it wasn't critical or the meat of the idea.) The response was kind of handwavy — not so much caring about the footgun aspect (i.e. accidental self-bricking and hostile pinning), but more an entirely unrelated concern about the HPKP implementation being hard to maintain for some unspecified reasons.

Those issues we're know when the spec was written, true. But, it was still a dangerous and extremely difficult to deploy feature. Good riddance.

I hear this repeated a lot, and frankly I think it's nonsense. I just can't see how anyone with a basic knowledge of deploying TLS would be confused about how HPKP works. The idea that only a veteran sysadmin or crypto expert can understand how to use certs, public keys, and hashes just seems really elitist to me.

Obviously people have occasionally screwed up in the wild, but in those cases I think the fault lies more in the tooling and documentation than in the existence of the standard itself. Further, if we do collectively feel that everyone's hands need to be held, attaching additional requirements to its usage as in my proposal would neatly accomplish that while minimally imposing on all of us who already depend on HPKP in production.
Your first point was something I had never thought of until I started teaching Hispanic students last year. Most of them come from Guatemala, though we've gotten a few more from Mexico and Puerto Rico recently, and I never thought of how how difficult math must be until I tried to imagine myself in their shoes, trying to learn math through a second (for some, third) language that they often didn't even know well. Especially daunting when you're even discussing basic vocabulary that English-speaking students have heard forever that they might not know, which is something often taken for granted.

It's much easier this year, in my opinion, as my class consists solely of the Hispanic students, and is co-taught with the ELL teacher. This makes it much easier to go through things slower, and make sure they understand the vocabulary that I'm using, which has facilitated their learning.
That is already described via bankruptcy.
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12564442
Does the pursuit of truth, with no tangible outcomes, count as a perceived positive impact? (I'd argue it does)
The DAW isn't really an instrument. All DAWs are a combination of (tape-like) linear recording, with a sampling rack, a synth rack, and an FX rack attached.

The instruments are the samplers, synthesizers, loops, and FX.

The proportions vary - Ableton plays up the sampling, ProTools plays up the linear tape and FX - but they're all more or less the same product, which is a digital implementation of a late 1980s recording studio with project recall and much more powerful automation.

To use a DAW as an instrument the design would have to be opened up and made much more configurable and programmable. Products that do this a little exist (e.g. M4L in Ableton, which is descended from Max/MSP, which is used by Autechre) but they're always limited and/or clumsy to program and invariably not very popular.

It turns out most DAW users are very comfortable with the studio metaphor and only a tiny minority have any interest in exploring beyond it. They either find their way to modular synthesisers, which are a different kind of dead end, or Max/PD, which (IMO) are a bit of a nightmare to use (PD less than Max), or maybe one of the code based environments like SuperCollider, which are much more open but so user-hostile you need a good grounding in CS and command-line development to use them at all.

To date no one has made a code-based album that has had any mainstream success.
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A lot of advice here is about finding time to work on your product on nights and weekends. You also need allocate some time during the day for marketing and communicating with your target customers
Saw MMW a long while back and now I'm wondering if the thing I thought was a wurlitzer was maybe a mellotron -- standup piano with a big rotating cylinder on the top?
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Where do you go to get informed about Blockchain? We're researchers looking at blockchain applications, and want to have an overview on how people read and learn about the topic.

One half of our research is purely academical publications, but the other is the real world. It would be super nice if you could do a quick comment of where you go to learn mostly about any Blockchains you're interested in.
> That's just fancy language for "stir shit up."

How so?

> I'm with her, there.

With who?
The teachers I remember the best are the ones who lectured well. I learned more from them.
This isn't unheard of. Call AppleCare and request to speak to a senior advisor and explain the situation. They should be able to see the inconsistencies in the repair and sort it out for you.
These are some suspect numbers. An hour to "finish packing in the morning", why not do that before you wake up? An hour to check in? I've flown hundreds of times and think this has taken 30 minutes once or twice. An hour for security? Last few times I went, it was less than 15, even without TSA Pre.

I mean, sure, if we inflate the numbers badly on one side, that side starts looking worse, but what is the point?
> Didn't it? Maybe I'm biased, but I don't remember breaches like Equifax's or Target's in the EU.

So if you don't remember it ever happening, what did the laws curb again? I'm talking about the effectiveness of adding laws... going from 0 to 0 demonstrates no effectiveness much less the effectiveness required to overcome the societal cost of compliance.

If anything, your argument explains the embedded big business cultural differences and laws like the GDPR added nothing wrt data breach enforcement/prevention.
> If attractiveness is relative and based on the average for example, your contextual situation and "top bracket" corresponds to e.g. top 10%, than the group size doesn't change and the subpopulation with greater variability doesn't have an advantage.

"The actual magnitudes of these desirability values are assumed to have no significance, and are used
only to make comparisons between individuals." (page 4)

"To quantify the notion of “selective”, it will be assumed that for each sex in a given sexually dimorphic
species there is an upper proportion
p
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The paper applies exactly to the scenario where the top bracket corresponds e.g. to the top 10%.
While reading this article, I was presented for an ad for AWS. Checkmate.
At least the US, and probably other countries as well, have the issue of no reliable means of /authentication/. I feel like this won't be solved until a proper national ID replaces the thing that __everyone__ is forced to use as one even though it isn't supposed to be; 'social security' numbers. That method would need to be secure, reliable, and traceable.

All contracts / inquiries that require use of the identity signature would also need to register that use; ideally the government would run an observation oracle that mirrors the publicly published signatures each agency hosts on their own (which would be a defacto place to check for use/abuse of the signatures).

This would also oblivate the need for services like equifax to exist at all.
> this typeface

Which?
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Revised revised headline: A year later, we do not have a full accounting of the impact of the data breach, but this weird blog quotes a fraud prevention company saying they saw big increases in online fraud rates: https://www.paymentssource.com/slideshow/data-fraud-after-th...
As long as the known wins are bigger than the known abuses.

There’s also the question of whether people understand and care about potential, or if it would need to happen first.
> all that tracking cookie opt-in/out malarky

Since GDPR, this is really getting out of hand...
Then switch to English. Having multiple world languages is a giant waste of resources on a dubious premise, that slightly different perspectives of speakers bring more on the table.

Not to mention, that this is one of the reasons we still have borders, wars, etc, etc.
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"I was offered retirement, or a choice between me not getting old to see my grandkids growing up or my grandkids never to see me as I will be getting old." -- for those geeks that can't translate it to the language of power; pick one of those choices depending on how much faith you have in those in power. Do you truly think Ma is not considering Alibaba his dearest child?