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The facts are that if your chromosomes are XX you're female, and XY you're male. This directly affects things like strength, size of organs, behavior, and more. Anything else is just mental issues. There are inherent differences between men and women whether people want to admit it or not, biology doesn't care about someones feelings
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Freeman Dyson won this prize too. Is he also now suspect?
>as we learn what is wrong with a specific individual's brain and intervene directly at the circuit level

What is the scientific basis for the theory that mental illness is due to "deranged circuits"?
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> It is very sad that a lot of people in this forum are hoping this never works.

Top level OP here. I am personally rooting for self-driving to succeed and catch on. I just don't think Tesla's current strategy is likely to work, and their cavalier, unjustified overconfidence is either going to sink them or kill people, or both, neither of which is good for the future of self-driving.
I (used to) play this game a lot and that is precisely what is interesting in it imo. In the game you can have some influence on events/characters by doing specific actions: choose the warden of your children with care, try to cultivate alliances with your neighbors through alliances (dynastic alliance etc...) but this is inherently a dynamic system in which the sheer number of factor make it really hard to have a total control of "history".

I frequently find myself playing the game at regular speed and watching events unfold in the neighboring kingdoms, plotting how I could take advantage and by the time my plotting is ready (whether it is engineering a casus belli, assassinating somebody or something else) more often than not the target either changed / disappeared or some more interesting event is taking place (crusades !). Also playing in "watch mode" let's you take the time to read the bios of all the "interesting characters" and learning a lot of stuff.
In Firefox, right-click the search box at developer.mozilla.org and select "Add a Keyword for this search". Put a keyword, something like m.

Then you don't even need a search engine. Just type

m your search term here

in the URL bar to search the site directly.
This is fantastic, and gets a lot of little things right. Just piling on at this point, but you can never have too many compliments. I really like the little added touches like keyboard navigation and the quick, bouncy animations. Makes it feel really friendly. Super cool! I'm bookmarking this.

In the future would there be a way to enter a hex code and have the system work off that? That's the only thing it's missing (for me).
Anecdotally, so many of us do exactly that scroll.

It must be millions of us, but apparently not enough for Google to decide MDN > w3schools.

Tyranny of the majority I guess.
Except that's not how it works. Facebook, Google and Amazon have very similar audience outreach in the US. If you're company in US market with an online advertising budget of 100K, and you were spending that budget on Facebook and Google, you might also start considering Amazon.

Of course it's a threat. Any company in this situation can shift part of their online advertising budget to Amazon, at the expense of ad dollars that were previously spent on Facebook or Google.
To be very honest, count me in as one of these. I am someone who works for a gov't lab, but I do "very pure" scientific research. It's not that our research doesn't have "defense applications," it might eventually, but we are definitely a few steps removed from say CFD modeling of airplane wings.

The thing is traditional sources of funding suck, and gov't labs give researchers a much better environment than the endlessly political academia. Moreover, while the contractor we work with has something like a 30% odd markup for grants, the nearest university (that I got my PhD from) takes a whopping 56% of grant money as "overhead," I imagine to pay the salaries of the President, coaches, and superstar medical faculty salaries, as well as the new development all along the nearby street.

I'm happy for my job, I just am embarrassed when I tell people I work for the military because they think I make bombs or something.
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The large majority of APIs introduced since Windows Vista are COM, even more so with WinRT/UAP/UWP.

Win32 is mostly stuck in how Windows XP used to be.
because it is an enterprise language? Jena originates from Hewlett-Packard labs.
"Okay, you can have a hypothesis, you have to have some evidence against or for that."

I view atheism as the null hypothesis, for which you don't need any evidence. It is the de-facto stance for when there is no evidence to suggest another hypothesis.

edit: "And so an agnostic would say, look, I have no evidence for God or any kind of god (What god, first of all? The Maori gods, or the Jewish or Christian or Muslim God? Which god is that?) But on the other hand, an agnostic would acknowledge no right to make a final statement about something he or she doesn’t know about."

Is this person also agnostic when it comes to Russell's teapot? I'm pretty sure that they would make the statement that there is not in fact a teapot circling the earth, just like there is not a god in heaven. His argument about the agnostic person not being able to make a final decision is a slide into solipsism.
Within the same distance into the future, most of today's knowledge will be gone.

A bunch of it is already gone.

Think of all the music recordings that didn't make the transition from 78's → LP's → CD's → streaming.

Think of all the movies that didn't make the transition from film → videotape → DVD → streaming.

I'm always sad when I see the pile of books being discarded by the Chicago Public Library for 10¢ a piece, knowing that those that aren't picked up by the public end up in the trash. The information in them may be outdated, but it's an important window into what people felt/thought/believed in a particular period of time.

The world loses a metric assload of its history each day.
Anecdotally, Apple ID auth on iOS/macOS has been a mess for me. Changing my password would result in multiple login prompts per device. Sometimes inputting the new password works, sometimes another prompt comes up after a few minutes.

Also, though the flexibility of being able to use a different ID for iCloud, home sharing, iTunes, App Store, Messages, etc. is neat, it's pretty annoying to need to set it in each of those places. (And TBH it seems like being able to share purchases/access/etc between IDs is more useful than being able to have separate ones, yet the iCloud family stuff took a while to arrive.)

The issues I've seen aren't as bad now as they used to be, but they haven't left a good impression.
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How is it a "Panasonic factory" when Panasonic only own a 25% stake in it?
If you're interested the non consumption-oriented music tradition, you'll do well to check out the Clifftop ["old-time music"] Festival [0]. Basically it is a music festival in which the music is made by the attendees, and there are no formally booked or scheduled artists (kind of).

A few things that surprised me (I was totally naive going in, just giving a ride to a friend en route to somewhere else):
- Old time music has become a little bit of a punk scene. It seems like the young people interested in making music socially are "crust punks", because it's rowdy and free and made for acoustic instruments/voice. "Old people"and "hillbillies" make up the other half of the stereotype categories. The dynamic is interesting because you have old-school christian cultists and dreadlocked/pierced crust kids teaching each other tunes, and (almost) nobody finds any reason for conflict.
- I still have songs stuck in my head that I have not heard recorded or played for years and years. Many oral tradition songs are really fucking good, presumably only the most "viral" ones survived. Many of these songs do not have a recording that sounds "right", the only time it sounds the way it crystallizes in a place and time.

[0] http://www.wvculture.org/stringband/
That's pretty great :) I mean, of course there are situations where legal is right and there are situations where a risk is taken because it's worth it, like in that situation. The newegg anti-patent-troll stance comes to mind as well. But being overly risk averse and having lawyers drive the company happens as well, and it might have happened with the comments here.
This isn't objectively true, as evidenced by the decision in US v. Miller. I (and many others) believe that decision to be flawed, but here it is:

> In the absence of any evidence tending to show that possession or use of a "shotgun having a barrel of less than eighteen inches in length" at this time has some reasonable relationship to the preservation or efficiency of a well regulated militia, we cannot say that the Second Amendment guarantees the right to keep and bear such an instrument. Certainly it is not within judicial notice that this weapon is any part of the ordinary military equipment, or that its use could contribute to the common defense.

In other words, they held that the weapon in question was not covered specifically because they did not believe it to be military equipment. It logically follows that "ordinary military equipment" is what is protected by the Second Amendment.
Yeah, I've seen enough of these orgs. They paint themselves as just wanting to help LGBT folks, but it's really all a ruse. They are vile, and have a hatred for anything different.
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He appears to be talking (in this article at least) more about spirituality than religion.

I think it's hard to dispute his basic point: you cannot prove a negative (or as he phrased it, "the absence of evidence is not evidence of absence").

I do find it kinda odd to hear those who profess to a spiritual belief ragging on those who profess a belief in the contrary though. Neither of them has evidence.
Well, in your explanation the shaming part still comes from other people, like parents, who pressure the person to go through with it. They are the ones harming the person, not the Conversion Therapy. It cannot harm anyone on its own at all. People are not that naive, they can understand when it doesn't work. But it also can give a way out to a person, pretend that everything is back to normal, ease the pressure to avoid anxiety. People are resilient like that.
Not really sure why something that adds context to the conversation is downvoted.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Dawkins

Dawkins is known as an outspoken atheist. In interviews, he has called himself an agnostic about many matters of religious faith, instead endorsing reason.[citation needed] He is well known for his criticism of creationism and intelligent design.

Why wasn't he awarded a Templeton prize?
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MMT economists don't support inflation at any level, do they? They support alternative means of controlling inflation. Put differently, it sounds like you're using "MMT" as an incantation to dismiss inflation, which would be unfair to the MMT'ers.
Great question! I don’t know France that well. Perhaps there are no IT companies in France dealing with user content in a significant way? Perhaps debate on the matter is stifled by incompetent media not understanding questions of importance that would make them realise how important news about this is?
I'm not sure the original commenter has a clear idea of the distinction between psychotherapy (talking cures) and psychiatry (doctoring). Beyond that there is psychoanalysis (depth psychology) and at the opposite, shallow end, just talking to a psychologist. All different things.

There is such a thing as "lay psychoanalysis", not involving a professional. I wouldn't dismiss it.

What I would definitely dismiss, as someone who has spent time in a psychiatric hospital as a patient, is the bad faith pseudoscience of psychiatry. Individual doctors may be doing their best, but the profession is very much as described in this article.
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From the article, it seems like this does... Nothing?
Only after a certain score, I think. Also, not the point of policies, or is it?
Amazingly, even packages have started to stablize.
Even though a great many of them are on there own v0.x,
they are both moving towards theire 1.0 releases,
and being more careful about not breaking there v0.x releases.
Julia Reda usually posts the good links, so go to her site and have a look around!
Yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19445855
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It depends. If immediately rushing the shooter would result in fewer casualties, maybe that's the best choice. However, if that would only result in your getting mowed down, then setting up an ambush and waiting for the shooter is arguably better.

My recommendation, if you are in this situation, is to think one more time about your chance of escape. If there is truly no chance of escape, and if there are willing confederates, create a situation where the shooter is distracted and you can get the drop on him. (If possible, such that your confederate stands a chance of escape. They could distract by running and ducking into a doorway in the other direction, for example.)

If there are multiple, determined, trained shooters, it's probably best to run.
This short post has caused a war in my own mind!

On the one hand, sometimes my girlfriend and I tickle each other and sometimes she gets the better of me. She can be relentless. I'll plead for her to stop, and I really truly want her to stop because I can barely breath, but she won't because she's interpreting my laughter as a "keep going" signal. So I've had to resort to ruthless counterattacks or ruins-the-fun physical defense (grab her wrists and force her to stop), which makes me feel like a jerk. Thus I fully support the "no means no" rule when it comes to tickling.

On the other hand, when your kid giggles and says "no..." but clearly wants to be tickled, you should tickle them! Just keep a careful eye out for signals that the fun is over. What kind of heartless monster trains kids to be as literal as possible all the time? Why not strive to teach them about appropriate context instead?

This post has made me realize that I hold these conflicting opinions simultaneously.
For the masses, imho, all round Groovy just isn't polished enough and is too complex. We are bringing someone up to speed now and there is an enormous amount to teach. There are a range of pitfalls that you have to alert them to. Mind you, a lot of other Java replacements are like that (eg. Scala).

Particularly though, the static compilation is just not comprehensive enough. It tries to do type inference but it's limited and invariably you end up having to add type casts in ugly places to convince it that expressions are valid. Occasionally it actually flat out refuses to compile something valid and you have to find a different way to do it. Sometimes it compiles with one version of groovy and then is broken in the next. It works great though to selectively add to hotspots of code and in other places to speed them up and define them better.

Having said that, we are essentially using Groovy as a java replacement and for our team I think the above costs are well worth it. This is partly because we have a heterogenous application that is partly dynamic in its nature and Groovy's dynamic scripting ability is amazing for this. The fact we can code our whole back end in the same language makes it super easy and well integrated.
There's strong evidence that it wasn't even the types of guns that made a difference in Australia.

http://theconversation.com/regulating-people-not-just-guns-m...
Your eyes shouldn't be diverging, just not converging (it's often called "parallel" viewing). It is more difficult to learn, and the offset between the images is more sensitive (since, as you say, actually diverging your eyes is near impossible).

However, when you've mastered it, and when the offset (i.e. size) is correct, it's much easier to snap into than the cross-eyed viewing, and much easier to stay in focus while looking at different parts of the image.
Hi Eric, I also find this theory quite strange, given that UWP is COM.
Ideally there would be a ANI number, which should be the originating number. Which is used to know who to bill as the call goes from telco to telco. Most phones don't use this, it isn't required and can also be spoofed. Then there is the CSID which is what shows up on your caller ID and that can be set to whatever we want. What we really need is to force ANI because that is transmitted before the first ring and the CSID is after the second ring. But hardly anyone wants to have a ANI set, especially the spammers.
I don't Think that 'cause is rediculous...

Until someone proves otherwise
Everyone has to hide who they are to some extent. This is just the world we live in, societies are awful to people.

Again, the harassing, harming and attacking is done by other people, not by the "Conversion Therapy".
~Just run the colorquads through the main optical processor, then reverse the polarity, compress the lightstream in the warp field, and blit the output texels through the main deflector dish. That creates a virtual lightfield holo-display, using the starfield as the light source, with practically infinite resolution. Then all you need to do is point an image recorder at it, and downsample back to 1080p at 60Hz.~
This is fantastic advice.

I have the same issue with my 5 year old. Sometimes no means no and sometimes it means, no but I actually want you to tickle me.

This is a good policy and I'll be using it going forward. It teaches clear communication and I really like that.
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But also, compare the color of Garak's hand to his head. The high-quality one brings out more inconsistencies that break suspension of disbelief.
Star Trek: The Original Series had the opposite problem. They wanted their aliens to be different colors (e.g. green Orions) but:

The technician over at the film lab would receive the film every day and run it through the development solution. As the image formed on the film, he kept saying to himself, ‘My God, this woman is green!’ And so he kept correcting the film developing process in order to turn her back to normal skin color again!

"Imagine everyone’s surprise, upon viewing the developed film the next day, to find the actress’ face just as normally pink skinned as ever! There was no trace of green."

http://www.startrek.com/article/trouble-keeping-her-green
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This isn't really an accurate characterization. It's true that a lot of psychiatrists focus on meds and biological root causes these days but lets not forget that the whole school of psychoanalysis grew out of psychiatry. It's simply wrong to say the whole field is focused on biological issues.

Likewise, clinician psychologists use the DSM regularly and do loads of testing, including tests for things like personality disorders (which, again, tend to be diagnosed using DSM criteria). Psychiatrists certainly can do testing but many of them (at least in private practice) refer out to psychologists for it.
All three have talk therapy within their scope of practice, and "the talking cure" originated with 19th century German doctors. Until the middle of the 20th century it was exclusively the domain of MDs.

In modernity, insurance reimbursement policies incentivize psychiatrists to focus on medication management, but there are still many of the old guard (and cash-only practices that set their own rates) who will perform psychotherapy. Additionally, in certain states, Licensed Psychologists (PhDs and PsyDs) who have completed additional training in psychopharmacology are allowed to prescribed a limited set of psychotropic medications in collaboration with a fully licensed MD (not necessarily a psychiatrist). Also in the prescribing realm are PMHNPs, mid-level providers trained in the nursing model who focus on psychiatric care. As with psychiatrists, they tend to focus on medication management, but are able to provide talk therapy as well.

Psychologists (PhDs and PsyDs) are Doctoral level providers trained in research, talk therapy, and administering psychological assessments such as personality inventories, IQ tests, and capacity determinations for forensic purposes.

Licensed Clinical Social Workers, Counselors, and Marriage & Family Therapists are all Masters-level providers trained to provide talk therapy. There are different histories and underpinnings that have created these distinctions and is reflected somewhat in the specifics of their graduate studies, but it's largely irrelevant to you as a client; much like engineering, therapy is as much art as science, and most of the "real" training comes once you have graduated and begun working in the field.

The current trend in outcomes research indicate that the license and professional background is not a significant factor in the efficacy of psychotherapy. To quote Irvin Yalom, a giant in the field of talk therapy (and a psychiatrist by training), "it is the relationship that heals".
Have you read it? He specifically says that he chose firearms in hopes that it would cause gun control to be passed in the US, which he believes would cause enough internal strife to reduce or eliminate the role of the US in international conflict.
I don't think that it is surprising that children do the "no-with-giggles" right away. It is a learned behavior. As far as teaching them to say yes to tickles or not... I don't think it will have any bearing on language development. Some may benefit from knowing that some people will not adhere to your "no" command.
This applies most in the situation where there is no escape and no one other than the shooter has firearms. If one is able to use tactics to even or upend the odds, then do that. Aggression is just the tactic of last resort.
This is awesome! I see you have tkinter, but could you guys add tcl / tk as a language please! It'd be awesome to have tcl / tk apps on the web.
Ask a current middle or high schooler if they have. Probably, the answer will be yes. Source: I know an awful lot of teachers. IMO the drills are dumb as hell and indefensible considering how traumatic they are (reports of teachers breaking down crying afterward, let alone students) and how unlikely mass indiscriminate shooting[0] is at a school, even in the US. The old less-insane and less "real" teacher-only drills were probably enough, considering how harmful this alternative is.

[0] A distressingly large percentage of students will be near some kind of gunfire while at school, yes—a whole lot smaller percentage will experience the sort that these drills address. The more common variety that way more will hear or see are targeted (gang, grudge, whatever) shootings on or near school property, not the mass shootings these drills are designed to prepare them for.
> People still manage to murder, but that doesn't mean we make it legal.

No, because murder is harmful in itself. Guns are not. Knives are not. Ropes are not. Trucks are not.
HN and Reddit often seem to have very different views and concerns from the general population. Not sure if it's because of the echo chamber effect (reinforcing each other confidence by agreeing), or self-selection (people who share those views are more likely to be engaged on these forums), or something else.
For 1000 dollars you are unlikely to get the assets / IP unless the company has a lot of debt