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Its legal when a whole bunch of suits standing behind the politician who uses there media priveledge to amplify an issue, are able to syphon without scrutiny, as many tax paying dollars as possible.
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This. I have seen and experienced how a radical view of vegetarianism (or veganism) deters people from doing anything about their meat consumption. Specially people who likes meat.

After meeting a couple of "relaxed vegetarians", who said something like "I'm vegetarian, but if there is no vegetarian option, I can eat meat too" my partner became pseudo vegetarian: she allows herself to eat meet one weekend per month. As myself, I became indoors vegetarian, as we do not consume meet indoors.
Because you treat others as you expect to be treated, and respect your fellow human kind. We do this because if we have an issue we want to raise to everyone there will be people to help empower that.

Given that the individuals protesting are employees about their workplace there is information we may not know, and given the history of mega corps violating rights it would be unreasonable to automatically trust the company over the workers putting themselves out there.

If you have reason or evidence against, then by all means don't support the protest, but you should look at this from their perspective and at workers rights in general.
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I'm talking about the RSVP box for integrated calendar invites. Not a right-click context menu.
Men under 30 earn much less than women under 30. No one cares either.
The nuclear explosions would send massive clouds of dust high into the stratosphere, blocking so much sunlight that a nuclear winter would result. Global temperatures would plunge 20°C to 40°C for several months, and remain 2 - 6°C lower for 1-3 years. Up to 70% of the Earth's protective stratospheric ozone layer would be destroyed, allowing huge doses of ultraviolet light to reach the surface. This UV light would kill much of the marine life that forms the basis of the food chain, resulting in the collapse many fisheries and the starvation of the people and animals that depend it. The UV light would also blind huge numbers of animals, who would then wander sightlessly and starve. The cold and dust would create widespread crop failures and global famine, killing billions of people who did not die in the nuclear explosions. The "nuclear winter" papers were widely credited with helping lead to the nuclear arms reduction treaties of the 1990s, as it was clear that we risked catastrophic global climate change in the event of a full-scale nuclear war.

https://www.wunderground.com/resources/climate/nuke.asp
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LLVM in particular lacks many improvements done by embedded OEMs, one of them being Sony which has only contributed parts of the PS4 toolchain.
There is an ethical difference yes, but it’s still a net negative. We don’t need to kill in order to eat. We just choose to.
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China produces nearly twice the carbon dioxide emissions as the second largest carbon dioxide producer, USA. China is a communist state.

https://www.ucsusa.org/global-warming/science-and-impacts/sc...
Barn swallows may indeed have evolved alongside humans
Your "whataboutism" comment is an obvious troll and is unwelcome. No one is pretending there is nothing wrong with Guantanamo, so please stop throwing up strawmen to derail this topic.
I wasn't entirely serious.

There is just a lot of churn in the library/framework space for JS. There are constantly people trying to invent "like X but better", where X can be absolutely anything in your JS workflow.

If you don't use npm and only rely on the builtin node APIs this would not apply to you as much, though.

On top of that there are always new language features being introduced to EcmaScript and implemented in V8. This means that if you're not using those latest features, some might say your code is outdated.
That is true (no at will employment in at least most if not all of Europe, thankfully). And of course it applies to Google employees in the respective countries because it is the law.
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> I would be genuinely interested to see what kind of difference there is between the sexes when comparing like-for-like jobs.

There really aren't any differences. Just do a simple mental exercise.

Imagine if the gender gap is real. Male programmers demand $100K while female programmers demand $77K for the same exact quality of work. What would this mean? It would mean all tech companies would only hire females.

For comparison look at seasonal farm work. Imagine if migrant workers deman $7.70 per hour while citizens demand $10 per hour for the same quality of work. What do you think the composition of the labor foce on farms would be? I'd imagine it would be mostly migrants. Right?

If the wage gap truly existed, clever feminists would start companies exclusively composed of women and would be putting everyone out of business because they have a 23% profit margin built in.
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I think if every single person on Earth went vegan it would have a significant impact. It would force the meat industry to change.
That's why it must be ethical and sustainable!
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I think "folder" is a more practical name than "directory". Group or fileset or collection, etc., would probably work, too. The problem with directory is that it is describing the implementation instead of the result.

The result you're after as an ordinary user is a container holding a group of files, not a "directory" that lets you look up a filename and be told where to go find it. As an implementation, of course, the latter is closer to what a file system "directory" really does, but that's not the most useful metaphor to present to the ordinary user.

And does a phone directory contain individual listings plus other phone directories? No, but that's what "directory" meant to most people back when the name was changed to "folder". And the name change happened when GUIs were first created and needed icons to represent a thing to drop files into. You don't drop files into directories, you drop them into folders or file drawers or something. (Of course, my father can't stop calling a folder a "file", because file folders were so often called "files" at the office way back when. Oh, well.)

I've called them "directories" since before the Mac existed, so the word was long ago defined in my head by the thing itself and could be called a watermelon for all the difference it would make to me, but if I look at it with a beginner's mind, "directory" doesn't seem like a very good name.
It's not just the problem domain though - there are issues that are very specific in the 'real world' that are not apparent to those even who understand the problem domain well, especially if it's a true B2B style product. Second, is understanding the mindset and uses cases of buyers. Tech people tend to way over-estimate the sophistication of users, and also underestimate how hard it often it is to do basic things.

I once worked for a huge high tech company in Product Marketing, we wanted to run this simple program to reach out to some users. Our problem? We had to host a few images and bits of content and we literally had nowhere to host them. Seriously. Just a few images. We had no production capability for that ... even working with the marketing ops teams ... they have complicated tools and content management systems unsuited to 'just hosting a file'.

We reached out to our customers (carriers like AT&T) so that maybe they could host. Same problem! We're talking business unites of major high tech corporations here unable to just host a file.

Want to use S3? Or whatever? Enter 'legal'. Make a request to the legal department, maybe get a response in a month. Maybe.

It was eerie and funny and sad ... but it was a real eye opener.
Spot on. Glassdoor is paid by companies so it's not surprising it became very biased towards low salaries.
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Protonmail is great but doesnt offer custom domains. If you need domains people mostly mention fastmail but i think there are far better choices like mailbox.org and kolabnow. Mailbox does not look like much from their homepage but it has awesome web client and it extremly reliable private provider thats in bussiness from 90s. I had account there for last 5 years without single problem.
> this would be like Google not having a process to investigate and resolve site outages - it would be unthinkable, so why aren't they treating their organisation with the same rigor they treat their website.

Because, Google is a company that builds products. I am interested in their products and in the fact that their products work, not much in the behaviour of the people building them- given the fact that they are located in a supposedly civilized country anyway, where serious misconducts should be prosecuted by law. The internal squabbles and complaints of the company are of very little relevance for their users, as it should be.
LIGO measurements are performed in ultra-high-vacuum[0], so it's not a "speed of light in a medium" it's "speed of light in the vacuum", AKA c.

[0]: https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/page/vacuum
Exactly. We need a carbon tax, or a fee-and-dividend system. And we need it yesterday.

Doing the above can't hurt (and while you're at it you could forego long distance travel too).

But it will be much better/more-useful to be the annoying person who contacts your federal representatives every month and more importantly will not shut up about it to friends, family, and colleagues.

(I am sad to say that I have not been such a person myself, but I've resolved recently to be better about that. Let's hope I'm not too weak.)
Then remember me (Volodymyr M. Lisivka) and this moment, when you will need to quote.
> In short we need a global WWII-level effort.

I agree.

"It’s been a couple of weeks now since the IPCC report came out. You know what it says. If the whole damn species pulls together in a concerted effort “without historical precedent”— if we start right now, and never let up on the throttle— we just might be able to swing the needle back from Catastrophe to mere Disaster. If we cut carbon emissions by half over the next decade, eliminate them entirely by 2050; if the species cuts its meat and dairy consumption by 90%; if we invent new unicorn technologies for sucking carbon back out of the atmosphere (or scale up extant prototype tech by a factor of two million in two years) — if we commit to these and other equally Herculean tasks, then we might just barely be able to keep global temperature from rising more than 1.5°C.[1] We’ll only lose 70-90% of the word’s remaining coral reefs (which are already down by about 50%, let’s not forget). Only 350 million more urban dwellers will be exposed to severe drought and “deadly heat” events. Only 130-140 million will be inundated. Global fire frequency will only increase by 38%. Fish stocks in low latitudes will be irreparably hammered, but it might be possible to save the higher-latitude populations. We’ll only lose a third of the permafrost. You get the idea.

We have twelve years to show results.

If we don’t pull all these things off— if, for example, we only succeed in meeting the flaccid 2°C aspirations of the Paris Accords— then we lose all the coral. We lose the West Antarctic Ice Sheet and the Greenland Ice Shelf (not that it isn’t already circling the bowl, of course). Twice as many people suffer “aggravated water scarcity” than at 1.5°C; 170% more of the population deals with fluvial flooding. The increase in global wildfire frequency passes 60% and keeps going. Marine fisheries crash pole to pole. The number of species that loses at least half their traditional habitat is 2-3 times higher than would have been the case at 1.5°C. It goes on." [1]

(Edit) Yet in my experience nobody is talking about this. A few weeks ago the IPCC told us we have a gun to our head and a decade to solve the problem. A few days ago we learned that "population sizes of wildlife decreased by 60% globally between 1970 and 2014" [2]. And now we're on to the next thing and everyone is walking around like things are normal. People should be focussed on this and nothing else, but they're not.

And also: how exactly do I explain to my children that the world they're growing-up in is in a dire state and soon may not even be able to support anything like a normal life for them? Ideas anyone?

[1] The Adorable Optimism of the IPCC, by Peter Watts https://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=8433

[2] https://www.wwf.org.uk/updates/living-planet-report-2018
> either physical or more witnesses

This makes rape un-prosecutable.
I hate to break it to you, but everything that you eat is killed for your plate.
This is the most accurate comment so far.

Also note that we need all of the above in place within the next 10-15 years.
I’m not sure that people who think ”containers are just like VMs” should have any business working with containers.
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I have two coworkers like that. No matter how much communication we have seemingly nothing ever gets settled nor progress made. The one calls himself an anarchist. There’s a large difference between constructive “skepticism” and destruction of progress - but so much can hide under the false umbrella of “just trying to understand.”
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FWIW I don't think that moral complexity necessarily makes a work great. Harry Potter will always be one of my favorite series of all times, and it has very little moral depth. I'm currently playing Dragon Quest 11, which is an amazing video game but it's at it's core, a very, very good fairy tale with extremely straightforward morals, and I think it's a masterpiece. Meanwhile, John Green's work is all about the emotional depth and moral complexities of teenagers and they're just not that interesting to me.

Ultimately authors have chosen for whatever reason to tell the story they want to the way they want to. George RR Martin famously likes to get on Tolkien's case for not answering the question of what exactly does it mean for Aragon's rule to be peaceful. I don't think that that criticism is entirely fair. In LOTR, Tolkien had a specific story he wanted to tell. He did it to amazing effect, with thorough character development and world depth. You could not look at his work and say that any of his characters did not behave logically to what was established within themselves. Particularly with the Hobbit I think you can tell that he chose to tell a specific story and to do that erred towards moral simplicity. But that doesn't make the story any less beautiful -- in fact, I would argue that the innocence and purity of the hobbits against this unknowable and extreme evil is part of LOTR/Hobbit's charm. It allows him to tell a story that is fundamentally different from the story JY or GRRM wants to tell -- which is how your innate goodness, if you continue to tap into it and grow it, can help you triumph over corruption and evil. Frankly, I find that this kind of story is something that we are quick to want to discredit because we think it lacks "depth" and is too much of a fairy tale. So, that he can tell this kind of story so effectively and meaningfully is something to be cherished.
And only a few short decades ago I could fire someone for being gay, or forbid my wife from opening a bank account. And it was a mere century ago that women literally couldn't vote.

I don't see why the fact that social mores change invalidates the social standard we have today.

Furthermore, why do you folk always jump straight to the "b..b..but false harassment!" argument? All it does is demonstrate that you actually don't care at all about the original problem.

Experts place false sexual misconduct allegations at 2-10% (https://qz.com/980766/the-truth-about-false-rape-accusations...), and estimate that that number would be even lower if you include all the women who were harassed and never report to start with.

So why are you willing to throw 90-98% of harassed women to the sharks, in order to protect 2-10% of accused men? Plus there's the whole strawman that allegations are always believed. Of course there should be fact checking. In fact, even in the #metoo era, men almost never face repercussions for false allegations (and often not for real ones.)

Your statement that unfounded harassment claims do not lead to repercussions is flat out false. There is no company that would not discipline someone for bringing a harassment claim that was demonstrated to be false.

In short: this argument demonstrates that what you really want to do is only to preserve the status quo and do in fact not give a shit about a major problem in our culture.
The frustrating thing with Neo4j is that they have two modes - a fairly neutered open source version, and a ~$35k/node enterprise version, with absolutely nothing inbetween. They're apparently doing a cloudy hosted enterprise version somewhere inbetween but that's some time out and not a self-hostable option.
A global nuclear war will certainly reduce the subsequent CO2 emissions, even if nuclear winter model is incorrect
The key difference is I do not care if companies use AGPLv3 software I have written. MongoDB predicated their business model on getting companies to license their code rather than use the AGPLv3 version of the codebase.

> IANAL, but depending on who you ask, AGPL is deemed unenforcable or even misusing copyright legislation.

No clue wrt AGPL (an old, crusty license), but GPLv3 was written with heavy involvement of the Software Freedom Law Center. The Affero paragraph (which is the only difference between AGPLv3 and GPLv3) was written by this same team at the same time.

As a non-lawyer, I would presume the lawyers that were tasked with reviewing the various forms of the third revision of GPL licenses did their job.
Neo4J has been around so long -- is anyone here using it in production and really happy with it, where it's like really crushing a use-case?

I feel like 90% of the applications in existence can go so far with a regular RDBMS that they never try out Neo4j... I know that's the case with me. Half the time I think I'd just try throwing Agensgraph[0] at the problem instead of jumping to the community version of Neo4J.

[0]: https://github.com/bitnine-oss/agensgraph
> Worst case someone extends one of my AGPLv3 projects, adding features and improving it. I'll accept a pull request with no CLA so long as the code is of decent quality.

Notice that it is perfectly fine to be "open source" without being "open development". Many free software projects do not actually accept pull requests as a matter of principle.
Going vegan is essentially "Stop buying stuff" where "stuff" is meat. You should stop buying anything that pollutes a lot and/or has low value compared to alternatives: diesel cars, disposable plastic items, useless gadgets, etc.

If you still want meat in your diet, start buying less beef and more eggs or chicken. That'll be a good start. https://timeforchange.org/eat-less-meat-co2-emission-of-food
These are basically village home-stays with 3G/4G internet, and when people realize this they abandon the prospect. ;)

Also there are some visa restrictions - in some places you could stay up to 60 days, Indian visa is usually just 3 months.

Nevertheless, remote Indian and Nepalese hilly areas are absolutely wonderful.
>Governments always lag society - they never lead.

Eh? I have many examples that prove otherwise.

Like, government mandating solar panels on new buildings. People aren't happy with those because of how expensive they are. Or government mandating certain cars cannot go through cities certain days. People aren't happy because they'd rather use their SUVs. Or government mandating you have to pay for plastic bags and in the end they will be banned altogether. Which sucks and is inconvenient.
I think this is part of the perception that machine learning is magical. This problem is as difficult as getting an accurate IQ.

If you’re going to base pay- something really serious- on such an algorithm, it must be open and reproducible.

Google is really good at this and that it doesn’t exist in a useful way is a signal that there is no algorithm. It would be extremely valuable to companies to know this like a credit score.

I think when there are natural incentives, resources, and open problem it means that we don’t really have resources or doesn’t exist and needs more time and innovation to solve the problem.
It gets ethically weird for me when I contemplate hypothetical pigs that had happy lives but would not have existed if they were not farmed. Kinda Logan’s run? But pigs.

The utilitarian in me wants to see the existence of the pig as an ethical net positive overall.
"I think if every single person on Earth went vegan it would have a significant impact."

It will never happen.

We need more practical solutions.

Only 10% of people in developed countries would even think of making major changes to their lifestyle for such reasons ...

And there are 5 billion people in poor countries who are rapidly becoming 'consumers' and they don't care, at all. They want cars, appliances and 'stuff' now.

There's hope but I think it'll have to be really quite pragmatic, and more focused on supply and less on demand, i.e, solar, wind, a lot more nuclear and I wish we'd invest more in Fusion research.
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Thank you very much. I would certainly love to read more and more about Pandas (or anything) written this style and go deeper in the subject.

Are you going to write more? Can you (or anybody) recommend where (a book, a YouTube channel, a website or whatever) do I continue from the point where you intro ends? As for now all I use of Pandas is a datetime-indexed array of real numbers + simple vector operations on its columns but I feel like I would like to take a learning/career path to becoming a Pandas expert.
Presumably if LIGO fell victim to a statistical fluke of noise in the data because they underestimated the likelihood of such a fluke then those flukes should have happened during the decades when they were running multiple detectors at lower sensitivity. Is it possible that the probability of these flukes occurring sits just within the window of "likely enough to happen and still be mistaken for a true signal" and "not so likely that it would have happened more than once in the last 10 years". My question is, are the Danish considering the fact that this kind of noise will occur regardless of the sensitivity of the detectors?
So because Asia Argento has sexually harassed someone, the MeToo movement is discredited? Some of the comments in this thread are unbelievable
I think all of these things are set in motion by people making efforts like going vegetarian.
Typing is a skill that can be painful to learn, and so students take shortcuts, like looking at the keys instead of the screen.

Just like with sports, a typing "coach" can be very helpful to correct these errors, particularly with children who may need help choosing short term pain for long term gain.
I don’t see how JavaScript is anything more than a bandaid for that. The assumption is the attacker has the usercode and password combination and then you want to prevent him from logging in.
Yes, younger women friends post on Facebook how they're stopping work for the year in October (?) to make up for the pay-gap. I assume maybe that's true to some extent in USA -- they're certainly sold on the idea all the men around them are getting an easy deal.
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Recently joined a startup that has predominately junior software developers who name projects after memes, use emojis in logs, and do other unprofessional things (anti-social behavior, arrogance, etc.). Have you dealt with something similar? If so, what advice would you give somebody who is not management on how to improve the situation?