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I'm a feminist. I've never once asked for or expected equality of outcome. But equality of opportunity? I absolutely want equality of opportunity. And you should, too. Equal opportunity benefits everyone because it allows the market to allocate talent more efficiently.

Professor Iris Bohnet of Harvard wrote a great book called "What Works" that offers some creative solutions to the issue. Here's an interesting article about a small change implemented by orchestras in the 1970's discussed in the book: https://www.theguardian.com/women-in-leadership/2013/oct/14/...

Finally, on a personal level, I've found that even the most well-reasoned argument will be ignored when the person making it comes across as an asshole. I'm not saying you're an asshole and I'm certainly not saying that your argument is well-reasoned. But I am saying it's something you should take into account next time you feel compelled to air your opinion.
> Is deplatforming effective at actually making people less hateful?

Yes. Reddit has the latest real-world example, as far as I know, and the data to back it up. See also Yontan Zounger's writings about the role of moderation on sites like YouTube.
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first off, i don't actually agree with your implicit assumption that an arbitrary parent is doing some charitable service that i ought to be grateful for. i may benefit marginally from an additional birth by the time I reach old age, but the actual parents seem to benefit more, unless my peers are just bullshitting me about what a rewarding experience it is.

if you're in a position where you can afford to shoulder the financial burden of having children, that's great and I wish you the best. if not, don't expect the small sliver of childfree folks to make up the difference for you. if we actually get to the point where society can't replace itself, maybe we can talk again.
what is problematic on aks?
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I'm not really sure how my copy of Excel and Word running on my work laptop (and subscribed to monthly) should qualify as "cloud revenue".. We do host our email on their cloud servers, but according to their own sales team, that is worth $5/month per subscriber for email only. Yet we pay $20/month per user for the full office suite installed on their systems. (and more for people with other tools like Microsoft Visio and Project) Its not a "no true scotsman" its that many of their products have no cloud component at all.
Oh! I see you've been listening to Mitch McConnell! Yeah, that man HATES the poor and lower middle class.
> No ... the data shows that there is actually more equal opportunity, and yet there is gender divergence.

Actually, it shows that there are more of these "opportunity metrics." But we need to ask how reflective of reality these metrics actually are, don't we? If the metrics are bad, that's also another explanation of this "paradox." If someone says, "equal time for paternity and maternity should cause this outcome", but it didn't... well... then we need to examine every reason why that might be? It could be that the law is counterproductive, that men are choosing not to exercise rights, that women are choosing to exercise their rights differently, or that the measures themselves were not actually effective (either by not addressing root causes, or by not actually being deployed effectively).

Why is this question controversial?
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I have an old hardwood floor. We were getting some work done and I asked for some ex demolition flooring to be put in. It was, and looks good but it had no nail holes and I asked about this. It turned out it was new and was wood helicoptered out after a big storm.
I wasn’t that happy as newish wood still shrinks, isn’t as hard and is a bit lighter in colour, quite apart from the dubious method of acquisition.
Seems like the only logical way to compete with Lyft’s offering half off trips (and free rides for underserved populations).

In case you haven’t heard it enough though: go vote tomorrow. :)
Should the landlord be able to terminate the lease of the Taco Bell in the event that they don't kick people out efficiently and effectively enough? Should it be assumed that Taco Bell agrees with the statements of this person who came in screaming?
The point I'm trying to make is that you do seem to be making this A > B comparison without caring about the quality of those hours. Again, it seems to present the argument in a way that echoes the concerns I've heard. "A" simply starts off with an advantage in how you keep presenting it.

There doesn't seem to be room in your opinion or examples for a pilot with 3k hours flying commercial vs someone with 5k hours flying as a hobby on the weekends. 3k is simply less that 5k, right? You don't care _how_ they spent those 5k hours...simply that they have them?

If you agree that this is a ridiculous over simplification in order to prove my point then we may be on the same page.

The very nature of your comments makes me envision a women on the other side of your hiring decision wondering why she couldn't get you to focus on the _quality_ of the work and stop fixating on the _quantity_ of time spent doing it. Because that is exactly what I'm trying to do now.
Equating HN community to "web developers" indicates either trolling or you not being experienced with this community and the quality of discussions around here. Also unsubstantial comments that don't add anything to the discussion aren't welcome here.
>Rational fear, not so much outside maybe Flint Michigan.

You're deluding yourself if you believe Flint is the only location in the US where you need to be worried about contaminated or otherwise unsafe water

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2018/02/12/tens-m...

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/02/millions-americans-dr...
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Don’t buy synthetics is a start.

Vote to pass legislation that taxes synthetics and the money is used for mitigation.

Company’s make what consumers want.
Do people still use email? There are worse interruptions nowadays, slack, messenger, WhatsApp, push notifications etc
Can I see some citations for your first set of claims? Because I know some law enforcement officers would be very happy to learn this.
Position 1 is analytically true.

No scientist believes position 2 in general. Regarding particular subject matters and well-confirmed theories, on the other hand, it's pretty much uncontroversial. No cell phone would work and no plane would fly if the underlying physical theories were flat-out false.

Position 3 is probably analytically true, too. The idea that there is something that can in principle not be explained by taking a close scientific (=skeptic, methodical, experimental, precise) look at it hardly makes any sense.
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I could be wrong but it seems like a simple habit tracker like habitloop would do.
If it's an idea that billions of people like, should someone in power be able to suppress it?
Interesting and thought provoking article(s). They are a bit involved so I'll post some of my thoughts/notes on them here:

-- The background reading article [1]

Disciplinary surveillance . . . was simple: the prisoners would stay in line because they had to assume that they were always being watched. No violence was necessary, the internalized gaze of the surveillance apparatus disciplined the behavior of the prisoner.

So general FUD of the capabilities of nation states keeping citizens in line. This seems to align with current trends.

In Society of the Spectacle, Guy Debord wrote, “The spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images.”

A society of spectacle is one where interactions are not with the people themselves, but with their public image/representation (facebook, Instagram, etc).

Following, a society of disciplinary spectacle is one where individuals interact through lossy representations that are subject to FUD+surveillance. So not only does representation effectively become the self, the representation is subject to an insidious type of control in the form of disciplinary surveillance--meaning the self is subject to this control as well.

-- The actual linked article

Memory, in the ways that historians tend to use it, refers to a group's perception of the past. The word memory is used because this perception does not necessarily represent historical truths--like individual memory does not always represent an individual's past.

Society of disciplinary surveillance is inherently at odds with actual historical truths. This is because of a need for representations to appear to be improving w.r.t. historical memory. This need is for keeping attention focused on the representation of individuals instead of individuals. So obviously the perception of improvement is easy if the memory is altered/controlled. This manipulation is done by individuals who want to show the merit of their representation w.r.t. peers and history.

This may not be the case if attention is controlled in ways other than the trap of representation hierarchy.

---

These notes aren't particularly well written and might have missed the point. I haven't really finished playing with these ideas.

[1]: https://thefrailestthing.com/2018/06/26/eight-theses-regardi...
But in the future you could store them and users wouldn't know something changed, correct?
And they haven’t, so that argument seems to have held up pretty well.
Not saying Blizzard shouldn't, just don't be surprised when people complaint. In 10 years from now, it might not be the case, but as of today, that must be expected.
I was just about to type the same response.

I can also write down passwords (unencrypted) to sites that I use infrequently, and for which I have low security requirements. For many such sites, a password reset is reasonably implemented and fast, and so for a vast number of sites, email security (and thus, email password security) == arbitrary site password security anyway.
No they don't. You just disagree. Stop being dishonest and pro-censorship! I support the parent comment.
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I don't know about OP, but I have a different autoimmune condition and I've been on a modified autoimmune paleo diet for 3+ years with considerable relief of inflammation/symptoms.
Perhaps more appropriately AES keys, as they are a shared secret (shared with the target site even if it's using a decent password hash) rather than a private key.
> But once you ban antisemitism (or racism, sexism, etc.) it becomes possible to censor ideas simply by labeling as such, even when such a label is inappropriate.

This is transparently specious reasoning, because it can be used without modification to delegitimize any law or restriction.

It's OK to say action X is appropriate in context A but not in context B. It's OK to legislate on those differences, even if the difference between A and B is not always perfectly discernable. We can deal with that ambiguity as a species. Not always perfectly, but that's OK. As long as we're always reducing suffering, or trying to, we're making forward progress.
I really don't think this is viable. I grew up on a mostly self sustaining farm. I've seen how inefficient and unpredictable it is at small scale.

There are simply too many of us to revert back to an agrarian society. We have to create food at a very large scale. Which means we have to become better at sharing it.
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One big advantage is in working from home: if you have a laptop you can just take it home and there is your dev environment exactly as it was setup at work.

Also while I desktop at work, I have a P51 at home, which I am typing this on. It is connected to an external mouse and keyboard, plus two external screens (I have no 4k screens, but it does have a real graphics card so it could pull them if I had any). It has a 4 core i7, and 32gb of ram, so you don't necesarily have to compromise if you only occasionally need portability (it is absolutely no ultra-portable).
let's not pretend there isn't some conflict here

Science and religion can get along just fine.

Half of the craters on the moon are named after priests. "Cells" are named for the places where monks live. The Vatican has operated scientific observatories for centuries. There's even one in Arizona that makes important discoveries to this day.

The whole science vs. religion meme is something that the internet has amplified out of proportion by latching onto fringe groups and smaller denominations and holding them up as the only kind of religion that exists, creating artificial levels conflict to justify their position.
Wrong

"Allaire found the amount of violations varied by year, affecting as many as 45 million people in some years, representing about 28% of the U.S. population."

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2018/02/12/tens-m...

"Tainted tap water isn’t just a problem in Flint, Michigan. In any given year from 1982 to 2015, somewhere between 9 million and 45 million Americans got their drinking water from a source that was in violation of the Safe Drinking Water Act, according to a new study"

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/02/millions-americans-dr...
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Very good. For a moment I was worried that desktop development would stay on Framework which from the article seems to slowly being pushed into maintenance mode.
Getting a 508 resource limit is hit but it sounds interesting so will be back in a few hours to try again.
Reverse osmosis also wastes a certain amount of water as it filters, doesn't it? I remember there being a drain line on kits I looked at.
Maybe Snowden was worth more to Russia by not being a traitor. Consider:

* Most of the secrets were probably already known by well running spying organizations of big countries. They have their own real spies working in there, and what Snowden revealed was for a big part already suspected by many. Snowden has demonstrated the smoking gun to the planet, but a lot of people noticed the smell of the corpse before that.

* USA=Bad is a claim that sticks beter if the messenger is a knight in shining armor.

* Russia has a lot more room to mess around if the would-be police of the world iis caught with its pants down every other week.

* Russia is very good at sowing distrust between their enemies. It seems a main point of their current defence against NATO.
> The closest thing we have in the US is Elon Musk's Space-X stunts.

these stunts are basically the only thing going today in the direction of extensive development of our civilization. Almost everything else is in the intensive direction, towards the ultimate imploded state of comfortable absolutely connected ant colony. I mean many people already seriously doubt whether we need to go to Mars. (It is my pet theory why we don't see much of other civilizations - because most of them end up in that state of ant colony and stop development, and probably wiped out by any significant change as they loose the ability to adapt)
Academic publishers also insert IP addresses and other deanonymizing information (about the user) into PDFs of academic papers, which should be removed.

https://github.com/kanzure/pdfparanoia
This is why I have been calling for them to buy SNE. It has everything AAPL needs...all the movie content, music content, Playstation, High Scale TV's, best mobile camera components, etc, etc.

Mr BuyBack Cook could have bought Sony 3 times over already.
That's an awesome solution, thanks!
This is unlikely to happen but I'd certainly like to see it happen, as Duck Duck Go simply does not work as a substitute for me, and I don't know that Bing is any better than Google privacy-wise. If Microsoft can make Bing, Apple can certainly make Apple Search - they have plenty of cash to throw at the problem.
For me the customer. The sites I use most often have better apps than websites.

As for your imagination about tracking, it’s both false and paranoid. Mobile notifications are opt-in, and tracking is limited to behavior within the app, unlike the web where you are tracked across sites wherever you go.
@danaris

The parent comment is pointing out that taking away the megaphone seems to be doing the opposite. Year over year things seem to be becoming more and more polarized. When, with all this deplatforming companies have been doing, it seems to be having no impact at all.

It brings legitimacy to some groups because of reasoning not to dissimilar from "To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize" or, for conspiracy theorists, "they want to hide the truth!"

Not to mention it helps legitimize majority censorship over a minority. I'm sure that'll never come back to bite anyone in the ass in the future when they find themselves no longer in the majority.

@sagichmal

>Yes. Reddit has the latest real-world example, as far as I know, and the data to back it up.

No, they have data that these bans make Reddit "less toxic" for whatever definition it is that they used for "toxic", a term I think is too loosely defined. Not the internet as a whole and not that the group banned ceases to exist. Reddit's study was just "if you take out some of the garbage that has piled up the pile becomes smaller".

E: The study was done to show "If you just ban or quarantine a subreddit they'll make a new one, so it doesn't solve anything." is wrong. But, for example, I'd be interested in if banning a subreddit increases the popularity of alternatives like Voat. Which is much harder to measure without access to the statistics for alternative sites.
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It seems you are advocating outright war between factions and let the strongest win. In this case we should abolish all laws.
Well having an uppity Muslim black guy being elected for president was a wakeup call for a certain segment of society.
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I'm having a hard time following this. Is this cancerous like asbestos is cancerous, or is this cancerous in the same way California says coffee is cancerous?
The danish version of OSHA requires (or used to required) an external moniotor + keyboard if you used a laptop at any location for more than 2 hours, precisely because it has horrible ergonomics.
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KDE Connect is really fantastic. I recently switched to an iPhone and I miss KDE Connect so much :( Now I have to go through all kinds of ridiculous antics just to copy a file over to my phone, when it used to be so easy.
"I believe in science because it works" is not an argumentum ad consequentiam.

What characterizes an AaC is the following structure: if X were true then the consequences would be good/bad; therefore X is (probably) true/false.

So if eli_gottlieb were saying "I believe in science because it would be lovely if science were right", that would be an AaC. But that's not at all what he's saying.

The form of his argument is more like this: "by assuming X we can arrive at a bunch of conclusions, and they consistently seem to be correct ones; therefore X is probably true". And that is (a rough sketch of) a pretty good argument.

(There are nits to pick -- more with my paraphrase than with Eli's original. For instance, science isn't a bunch of propositions so much as it's a way of trying to find truths, so "believing in science" isn't so much "believing that X" as "endorsing X as a method". And "... therefore X is probably true" isn't quite the right thing; "... and this constitutes evidence for X" is better. Etc.)
Looks like his site is not very reliable...

It seems this remote work thing is not working out that well.
I think you are being sarcastic, but I happen to agree with you that there are lots of physics theories based on spherical cow assumption.
Of course, such calculations of suffering are invariably nebulous and highly subjective.

The question is, in your pursuit of the ideal society, will you allow the general population the dignity of their own rational minds? Or will you deny them even that?

Every optimization problem has its boundary conditions. Do you know what yours are?