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> But then the numbers are completely different. If you look at something like gender balance at the 20th or 30th percentile income level for full time employees, there are more men at those below-median income levels than women. Then men are underrepresented around the middle, but women are highly underrepresented at the top.

This is an excellent deflection, and it's also a relatively recent phenomenon. A surge in health care worker requirements which involve a lot of traditionally gendered roles has caused this outcome.

If you control for that, this effect is substantially less pronounced.

> The people making millions or hundreds of millions a year bring the male average way up but that does nothing for the bottom 90+% of men who on average are actually making less than the average woman.

And once again, we get to a phrasing of the problem that implies that it's a problem when men are at a disadvantage but inevitable when a woman is at a disadvantage.

> The argument is that there should be consistency. If it's a problem in one case then it should be a problem in every case. We have laws against employer sex discrimination and a slew of programs to try to help women advance their careers. The wage gap is smaller now than it was 20 years ago, and smaller 20 years ago than it was 40 years ago.

And these laws are largely toothless because of forced arbitration and Non-disparage agreements. The month California nullified these, a flood of class action lawsuits against major employers opened up. New York is considering such a law as well. I wonder if other states will have the courage to actually let the law come into play>

> What analogous thing is actually being done to keep men out of prison? What progress has been made there?

This is a common MRA talking point I encounter. I absolutely agree with you that incarceration rates are absurd and dehumanizing. It's a travesty of justice and in many cases a systemic attack on citizen's rights. This does not have any bearing on our current conversation, and we as a society _MUST_ be able to pursue more than one social justice issue at a time.

> You're also apparently claiming that going to prison is a choice in the same way that choosing a profession is.

No, you did that. I claimed it was the same as doing poorly in primary school. To be clear: I think that argument is as absurd as suggesting that it's strictly women's choices that disadvantage them.
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This isn't isolated to doctors sadly. You see this in any medium to large organization: schools, cities, companies, etc. The problem, the way I see it, is that management is the one really being sold to.

The actual people who do the day to day work have no real say in which software systems they use. Only management has any real say, so sales people tailor their pitch towards management. Unfortunately, managers only have a high-level overview of what the people below them actually do, and no understanding of software, so they have no idea what they need their software to do.

And situations like this are where sales people shine brightest. Sure, the new "cloud-based, totally-super-secure, widget producer 9000" won't actual be useful at anything, but it sure looks cool to management.

Look at companies like Oracle, and Microsoft for good examples: Their actual products are awful, but that doesn't matter. What matters is that their sales team can sell a shit product.
because that sovereign state agreed to an economic union with other nations.
Chiming in to agree that it wasn't a problem here. Though I also never understood why someone would be crazy enough to leave ESC as the default keybinding anyhow.
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I don't know a lot about compilers but as far as I can tell from a compilation complexity standpoint Rust is C++ on steroids. Like C++ (and unlike higher level ML languages) Rust does most of the type system heavy lifting statically at compile-time. That results in potentially faster and simpler machinecode with fewer runtime dependencies but it also means that the compilation "tree" can become extremely complex since you need to resolve all types at compile-time and emit code for it. You can't just emit dynamic code that will dispatch at runtime.

Heavily templated C++ code is notoriously slow to compile so it's no surprise that heavily genericized Rust code doesn't fare much better.

On top of that Rust builds one crate at a time basically, it's not like C where you typically have plenty of smaller compilation units that are black-boxes to one-another. C++ has the same compilation model but as mentioned above templates need to be resolved completely at compile-time so all templated code ends up in headers and therefore in copy/pasted by the processor every compilation unit it's used in.

And then after all that in Rust you have the borrow checker which probably ads a non-negligible runtime overhead.

I agree that it's an interesting evolution as far as programming languages are concerned. I consider that Rust is overall superior to C but at the same time in the seventies nobody could have run a Rust compiler on anything more than a Hello World. Meanwhile I've just compiled (with optims) an auto-generated C file of about 20k lines almost instantly on my 2018 computer.
It seems to me that in general culture, people just mean "virus-based gene editing" when talking about CRISPR.

The precise virus used typically is only interesting when you're actually doing it, and I suspect that in the next years, we'll see more uses of other viruses for comparable purposes.
I am a paramedic. If someone with a crushing injury to their hand is otherwise stable, I am not going to be headed to the hospital with the lights and sirens on.

If the injury is higher (with the potential for compartment syndrome distal to the injury site, or closer to major blood vessels), then sure, I may be in a bit more of a hurry (a "bit" being the operative word there... slow is smooth, smooth is fast).
> WSL allows you to install a bunch of popular flavours of linux on top of Windows. I personally run Arch Linux

Oh, I didn't know that, that does make it a bit more interesting to me!

I still think I'd be frustrated (as I am on Mac) with the lack of a configurable (or even of a choice of) window manager though.
Problem is education. There is prolly literally little to none courses about computers in medical school in most part of the world.
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"everything is the same as last year"

Offtopic: That reminds me of a change I submitted for an in-house time tracker which was for a button that did "Same as last week but with some plausible minor random differences".

I was deeply disappointed that this was rejected.
How much graphics processing power does your text editor demand? How about your build server?

Apple made it pretty clear in their keynote they're focussing this product to be attractive to the 'pro' market that gives zero fucks about a whiz-bang graphics card.
I don't think the popularity of these low rates is a justification. It just highlights how it has become a race to the bottom.
For the record, rent subsidies are the thing that actually accomplishes the thing that rent control tries to do, but is often a much harder sell because the costs are much more upfront compared to something like rent control.
> France and Germany take endless steps to protect their domestic economic interests

It's not even that in this case, because it's not like there are serious European competitors to these companies (except maybe the odd Samwer clone here and there) that could even be protected. This is purely an attempt to rip these companies off, because the governments can.
The way you worded this implies that it helps a very small number compared to how much housing it takes away. Isn’t it the same number?
The parent article discusses the idea of a partial halting oracle (PHO), which decides for an undecidable subset of problems. A TM cannot meet this requirement, by definition. It seems like humans are in the category of PHOs.
It's still a little weird. I think a lot of people would have a separate A/V receiver and speakers; maybe this is changing as old equipment gets replaced, but I suspect there are still far more homes with optical-capable A/V receivers than HDMI-capable ones.

This is just a standard annoying thing with Apple though. Their designs are very 'forward looking' in that they don't consider what potential customers already have so much as they do what their own future peripherals are going to need.
>Hong Kong and Russian authorities knew he wasn't allowed to board that plane.

AFAIK there was no HK warrant or even an Interpol notice issued for Snowden at the time. Why would he not have been allowed to board that plane?
Ignore what these negative commenters are saying. That's a perfectly good idea for a student project, and I would've loved to have a project like that in my university courses.

But I would agree that if someone uses something else like vim or emacs as their primary editor, they should have the option of writing a plugin for their editor of choice. (As long as they accept that the rest of the class will be taught how to write Atom/VS Code extensions and they'll have to do most of the learning on their own.)
Honestly, I feel pain when I read most of job adverts/postings. They have a lot of text, they're too verbose, etc.. Why can't recruiters just specify things what developers interested in? These things can be found in different surveys like the Stackoverflow's one.
Their web site[0] claims they've already had 60MM in revenue. Curious why that impressive number pre-A round wasn't included in this article.

[0]: https://www.engineer.ai/customers
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I'm also in the "really need faster compile times" camp. You may be interested in this thread on rust internals https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/next-steps-for-reducing-ov...
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Yup, we should term this "the .ai bubble".
Interesting, but, are there any practical reasons for it, beyond status and psychology? Specifically, air pollution. Where do the fumes go? Are they negligible, or not?
Yes. Rust does not have objects. Method call syntax isn’t inherent to objects.
Data centers can be anywhere. They just need cheap energy and high speed data connections.

They certainly don't need to be near the upper management or big engineering teams of HQ2.
Where does the tax paid by the company come in to play? And the tax paid by their employees? The real math is total company paid tax + total employee tax - societal costs of presence. That's rarely less than 0 and surely not less than the negative societal costs of unemployment if they, as you mention, are better off unemployed.

The folly so many keep making is they think every tax dollar is necessary to support every company present. That type of thinking makes even one cent of avoidance appear to be a net negative, when amount paid overall can still be a net positive compared to impact of presence.
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Your original parent used the unit both for absorption and exposure; you replied claiming it wasn't a unit of exposure.
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Alternatively - if all the engine mechanics decided they could no longer afford to live in the city and moved away, what do you think would happen to engine mechanic wages?
Couchbase, a similar document database, has many advantages over MongoDB such as being able to query with a flavor of SQL as well as clusters having P2P nodes that share the same services and structure. This means you get a familiar query language and you don't have to worry about configuring and managing different node types in your cluster. A while ago I wrote a guide for quickly and easily migrating your data and application code from MongoDB. http://labs.couchbase.com/mongodb-to-couchbase-cookbook/
>I wouldn't say it's a particularly small number:

It's not the number of sales alone that tells the story. It's also the profit margin. Apple is well known for allowing very low margins to their suppliers. It's not clear to me how much of Intel's revenue comes from Apple.

Well, Googling, I see this:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2017/10/04/in...

Very rough math, but to the tune of $3B a year from Macs. It's not nothing, but is less than 5% of Intel's revenue.

This site says $4B: https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/intel-stock-...

Intel's revenue growth per year these days is around this amount.
> This benchmark is essentially Intel's 2015 design on 14nm vs Apple's 2018 design on 7nm.

Except it's what Intel is selling in 2018.
What are the large externalities to rental contracts ending?
If you are only looking at the email From: header value, that is trivial for a phisher to fake.

You really need to read all of the Received: headers to see where the email transited (and, note, a phisher can insert fake Received: headers as well, so you have to be careful analyzing them to detect something amiss).
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I'm curios about this too, does the Mac Mini offer "scaled" options, like MacBooks do with their built-in display, when connecting to an external 4k monitor? I think it does some supersampling, resulting in higher effective resolution.
This is an absurd complaint by a millionaire who is too important to document his work. Boo hoo.
I agree that tech companies do not pay their fair share of tax.

But this is an EU tariff against US companies. Will any EU company be affected?
It's not an eye sore, but I say "ugly" because I don't like the organization, everything is misplaced in my opinion. Also thick lines and rounded corners galore.
Great. So let’s have some academic papers on the front page instead of this junk.
Geez, do people sue for anything in America?
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Firstly, what you are describing is nothing short of a disaster for society. It’s not just SF either - many urban centers are plagued by this problem.

Unfortunately, if as a society we insist on continuing to concentrate, we have to build denser housing. SF is very behind the building needs, as are most West Coast cities.

Rent control has made the situation a lot worse in Santa Monica because you have a lot of old single story multifamily housing that cannot be redeveloped because it’s too expensive to buy out the existing tenants and the tenants have zero incentive to agree to a buyout. This locks out most development.

In Santa Monica, we could literally triple the density within existing laws, but this will not happen because of rent control laws.
Aren’t the costs of evictions borne primarily by the two parties? I’m not saying there are no externalities, but that’s not the same as "evictions are expensive", and you have to weigh them against the costs of the alternative.
I wasn't thinking of the moral implications for the individual (which is of course volunteering) I was thinking of the moral implications for the society.

Of course it is removable, the "easily" is debatable.

In a society where many (most) people have this chip implanted a small scar just over your left thumb is a signal you have something to hide (or if you prefer you are "different").

On the other hand if many (most) people have this chip implanted those that decide to have it NOT implanted from the beginning will be seen as "queer" (or however again "different").
Where there is rent control, there is less incentive to build housing, therefore fewer houses.
I've seen higher numbers elsewhere, something like 60+%, though I'm not sure where it stands with the 2008 housing crash. What's more concerning is that most people with medical bankruptcies had health insurance at the time they initially got sick. This bit[1] from the 2009 in the NYT says 3/4 had health insurance, but I just remember reading it was more than half in the last few years.

[1]https://prescriptions.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/07/insured-b...
Correction. You believe everybody pays tax.

> Traditional tax systems have so far failed to capture revenue from companies with global reach but limited physical presence, fueling anger from voters disgruntled after years of austerity and meager wage growth.
Ireland's corporation tax rate is purely an internal matter, even in the single market. In fact, Ireland rejected by referendum the Lisbon Treaty in 2008, and only voted for it the following year after a series of clauses known as the Irish Guarantees were added. One of those guarantees is:

> Nothing in the Treaty of Lisbon makes any change of any kind, for any Member State, to the extent or
operation of the competence of the European Union in relation to taxation.

It's legally binding, and ensures that Ireland retained the right to set our its corporation tax rate.

All the other EU nations at the time (some have joined since) unanimously ratified the Irish Guarantees, so if anything, it's rich of them to now complain about an agreement that they willingly and knowingly signed up to.
Rather than imposing arbitrary price caps which cause shortages, another alternative would be for blue collar workers to band together and demand higher wages so that they can afford market rate housing. Union strikes do work. After a couple months without buses, garbage pickup, or emergency services I suspect urbanites would be willing to pay higher taxes in order to give mechanics a living wage.
Where is the AI in this?
"The most valuable businesses of the coming decades will be built by entrepreneurs who seek to empower people rather than try to make them obsolete."

"When a cheap laptop beats the smartest mathematicians at some tasks, but even a supercomputer with 16,000 CPUs can’t beat a child at others, you can tell that humans and computers are not just more or less powerful than each other – they’re categorically different."

"Palantir takes a hybrid approach: the computer would flag the most suspicious transactions on a well designed user interface, and human operators would make the final judgement as to their legitimacy."

- Peter Thiel, "Zero to One", Chapter 12

Thiel is going long on these AI+human startups.
the problem is there is market failure. The Housing Asset is more valuable as a financial instrument than the actual utility it provides. This is why you see homes sitting empty in Manhattan.
You mean bullshit companies?
Amazon trotting out HQ 2,3,4,5,6, etc like the Cat in the Hat
Did a rent write this?
Are you really willing to believe that if the medical doctor thought and ambulance was required for the supposed injury, they will choose to have someone die on their watch, with full legal liability for the death. What do you think the doctor has to gain by arranging other no ambulance medical transport here.
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> There were no folks reaching out from IBM saying, “Psst. Hey, man. RUN FOR YOUR LIFE! GO GET HELP!”

That doesn't mean that there aren't folks who feel that way. There could, for example, be people within IBM afraid to speak out, even privately. There could also be people who have already left IBM who felt that way prior to leaving.
The MacMini is a near perfect computer in its category; only thing was it wasn't updated for years. Now it is.
I think it depends on where you are in the company.

For some areas change is immediate, others much slower.
I think they recently increased salary cap to $180k specifically for Bay Area. It varies by location.
The piece was authored by two employees of the Cato institute, which was founded as the Charles Koch Foundation.

The Kochs appear to have at least a 50% ownership of the Institute, although as this article says, "who knew a nonprofit can have shareholders?" https://www.forbes.com/sites/lauriebennett/2012/03/02/who-kn...
It was meant as a joke. I'm just pointing out how silly this all sounds. E.ai looks like just another agency with really fancy marketing and an inflated valuation.
That comment is obviously wrong, proven easily by taking the extreme case of the policy applying to all employers: none of them paying taxes would quickly ruin any country, yes. But everyone being unemployed would get you to the same miserable state even faster.

But the argument doesn't have to be as extreme as that to support enforcement of some sort of equitable taxation: Take, again, the extreme case of the policy applying to all employers. That's broadly equivalent to abolishing corporate taxation PLUS that corporate windfall accumulating not in the countries they operate in, but whatever happens to be the go-to tax haven.

This being taxes on profits, there's zero effect on the company's activity (i. e. investment, hiring etc.) in the country. That's because Facebook will let someone in, say, Brasil, spend $5000 on ads irregardless of them having to give half of that to the local government. It's either $2500 or $5000 in profits, produced with 0 marginal costs.

Net result therefore is a zero-sum game between that government, and Facebook's shareholders. Even ignoring the geographic aspect (very little of Facebook's shareholders being likely to spend that money in Brasil), it seems rather intuitive that the public is better served by the money taking another lap paying for some school, rather than allowing some retired VC to improve the decorations on his next yacht.
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Do you have any evidence that Lindbeck is a socialist? I looked and all I found was the same phrase Swedish economist (and socialist) Assar Lindbeck repeated over and over on right wing websites.
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If it costs twice as much per socket but the same per core, and allows me to use half as much space, half as much cooling, 25% less energy to run the same workloads for the next five years, I'm in.
I bought a 1TB Samsung 840 Evo in September 2013, and it just died last month. So it was in operation for around 5 years.

I used it for development type stuff. It outlasted the 2011 MBP I bought it for. In fact, I ran it on 3 different computers during its life span.

Overall, I'm pretty happy that it got the 5 years. With spindles, I prefer to replace them every 2 years to avoid headaches.
The article uses layman's language with no reference to an authority, so indeed, we should be skeptical.
I mean human+AI companies.

"When a cheap laptop beats the smartest mathematicians at some tasks, but even a supercomputer with 16,000 CPUs can’t beat a child at others, you can tell that humans and computers are not just more or less powerful than each other – they’re categorically different."

- Peter Thiel, "Zero to One", Chapter 12

Further discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18381723
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The bit I can't see on the FAQ is about how it is as fast as RAM but protects against data loss using disk.

I think most engines guarantee Durability by assuming that once on disk, it won't go anywhere but if it's in RAM, it is susceptible to power outage? If it gets written to disk, it's not as fast as RAM?
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