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What I find most fascinating about groups like the FARC and the IRA in Irland is that although on the face of it, they are categorized as being communist, in reality they are more "pragmatically "communist" due to circumstances that prevent alternatives and communism sounds like community, which is what we are about".

Reality is that these types of groups are really just people who want to be free to rule their own affairs from of the yoke of the ruling class tyranny, and thereby make them unequivocally a natural simile to the US Revolutionaries, far from actual enemies of the USA.

Things in the USA have devolved so much over the years, especially following the destruction of the real USA through the Civil War, that we now find ourselves in a situation where the US government is using the military assets of the state to fight people who are far far more like the American Revolutionaries were than not. The USA has essentially been co-opted over the decades, by the very systems that it fought against to gain its independence, which was essentially shattered to pieces by no later than the Civil War.

But please, make a counter argument for why I am wrong and people struggling against an oppressive continent spanning power structure with a simple dream of regulating their own affairs free of oppression and dictate is not in line with what the American Revolutionaries were doing.
People didn't listen to Carl Sagan, James Hansen, or other big-name scientists who spoke up. Putting another scientist up there will just get them dismissed like all the others, because at the core of the issue is that we have a huge voting block that doesn't want to change and doesn't want to listen, and will contort whatever any movement leader says so that they can ignore it.
False. At least provide some kind of citation for such an exceptional claim.

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Open office, very little productivity. Individual office,a lot of productivity. The employer chooses what it wants. I see open office as a request to slack off. I'm still using 100% of my mental energy, but not on productive stuff.
At a guess, are you a foreign student? Most post graduate degrees are being gotten by foreigners, because that’s how the economics works as the education ponzi scheme collapses.

The sweet spot, in terms of ROI, is to get a bachelors degree and go immediately into industry. The student shows they are competent enough to succeed on their own at a school environment where they have a nonzero probability of failure. For foreigners they stay in school for as long as possible so their green card can process. It’s not worth the risk of working for a company where they can be fired immediately and sent home, and it’s likewise not worth the cost of an h1b to companies for an undergrad. Since we graduate more phds every year than academia can absorb into teaching positions the green card process is effectively subsidizing postgrad programs, where the product is Indians and Chinese (primarily) who are desperate to get a high paying job in industry. Look up the numbers if you’d like.

At a societal level this is disastrous as it means that we have many foreign born who disproportionately hold the highest paying positions in society. Prosperity gospel and American exceptionalism aside this just leads to mass discontent and nationalism. It’s hard to argue they are wrong - why should a native born American allow a foreigner to take the highest paid jobs if given a choice? This leads (among other ways the country ignores and marginalizes poor native born citizens) to the election of people like Donald Trump.

This is not to say foreigners are bad - they often come from hard places where life isn’t easy. The real villains in this story are the aristocrats of the education empire. “More money for me and fuck everyone else,” seems like a common refrain these days.
That's obviously false. If you send a rocket outside solar system (as in giving it exactly the escape velocity) then you just wait until it's velocity with respect to sun drops close to zero and then just nudge it back directly at the sun. This takes a lot of time of course, but it does not require you more energy than what is required to leave solar system.

I am only picking at you because you mentioned a rocket. If you said "shoot it to burn in sun" then you would be (mostly) right.
They would be protected by meaningful government action on climate change. A comfortable childhood will mean nothing to these kids if their adulthoods are ruined by the consequences of the inaction of older generations, and the kids know it and want to do something about it.
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You don't have to convince me. I know all this and I'm not an anti-vaxxer.

> It's not in the best interest of other children to let your children not be immunized.

This doesn't change my point at all.

First, the idea that my child should be subjected to something harmful because it's better for other children doesn't fly with me. I doubt it flies with anyone. I vaccinated my kid for her benefit and for everyone else's, but if the choice is "everyone else" or "my kid"... I don't think you have to be a parent to see how that one shakes out.

Second, that's not how anti-vaxxers see it. They see it as bad for those children as well.
I'm not sure why you wouldn't blame the trolls? There are clear antagonists here.
The Paul Le Roux theory is extremely plausible.
In a world where most “adults” seem self-serving, complacent, or corrupt, I think we should be thankful that our young people are unwilling to embrace this nihilistic state of affairs and demand change. And they’re among the few that are listening to the scientists instead of their narrow self-interest.
> The fact that crypto coins in a free market tend towards increasing volatility makes them not very good as a medium of account to negotiate contracts and conduct business.

Crypto volatility is not solely or even primarily because of the coins' deflationary natures. In fact some cryptos ("shitcoins") are not deflationary at all, and have their value regularly inflated by a central authority.

Note that my comment said Bitcoin specifically and not crypto in general. The ultimate deflationary currency, gold, is not volatile at all, which leads me to believe that crypto volatility is because of external factors like market manipulation, shady ICOs, etc.

> It's indirectly, a huge subsidy to people shutting down projects, laying off people and hoarding government paper instead.

As a counterpoint, consider how an inflationary currency causes income equality. Poor people typically hold their net worth in cash whereas the rich have the ability to invest in income generating assets. An inflationary currency ensures that the poor remain poor, because their primary asset is being constantly depleted.
>but this is child exploitation for political purposes. These movements should be led by scientists, not children. Is it any wonder people are still skeptical?

I know climate change is a huge problem, but using young children like this feels creepy and cult-like.
Same for me. See the point of the sibling comments though.
So maybe I prefer an open office because I don't procrastinate (which would leave me with a feeling of unproductive guilt in the evening) to a private office, even though the latter might be actually more productive.
Apps already do this in the background without end users knowledge. Not saying this is right but it seems odd that it's okay for an app to do this to its users but not a user doing this to themself?

It would be nice if these automations could run automatically but perhaps, notify the user that said automation has run and allow them to easily disable the automation.
You are aware of how a community driven site works? If its wrong, then go ahead and put your "right" implementation there.
Beyond that, you're inferring threading into the problem. There is no mention of thread-safety in that example, nor does it claim to be. If you want to over-analyze the problem statement, that's your prerogative- that doesn't make that answer wrong however.
> If millennials really didn't like the urban lifestyle then wouldn't prices be dropping instead of staying high?

A million times this. I don't want to (and can't afford to) pay for the ultra luxury downtown destination living experience. But urban living is more than luxurious downtown destinations.

I want my day-to-day trips (bringing kids to school, going to the grocery store, going to work) to be safe and accessible without a car. Just starting there implies a lot about the built environment, and your stereotypical suburb just can't offer that.
I agree, though I wouldn't single out scientists.

It doesn't say much at all for the generation that's ignoring the issue.
Remote situations are also difficult to manage. I'm in management role at a new (to me) company and despite having a virtual meeting with one of my reports virtually every day, I've got a better understanding of the psychology of people that I see around the office casually even though they are in a completely different and unrelated department. Those interactions are unscheduled, have no agenda, and have no goals. And I'm realizing those interactions are invaluable at understanding what makes people tick.

And that's not even opening the can of worms regarding remote productivity. To be Captain Obvious for a moment, it seems much easier for remote employees to hide a lack of productivity, especially in roles where productivity is hard to quantify (like software development). Sure, people like Nilay Patel (who was mentioned in the story) work from home with great success because it allows them to control their environment. But people like Nilay Patel are extremely unique in their motivation, commitment, and aptitude. Companies should be extremely cautious to extrapolate success stories like his onto their own resources.

We moved to open workspaces because of success stories and consultant pitches and hip office trends despite its obvious flaws. The move to everyone being remote has the ingredients of a fad, too.
Remember "The office space" where they were making laughs on cubicles? Guess what, now we're dont even have this.
What category? The examples you used are formally relational databases. We can certainly talk about common use-cases for certain specific database vendors and products but that's not the same as the underlying type.

For example, here's Pinterest handling time-series data on Hbase: https://medium.com/pinterest-engineering/pinalyticsdb-a-time...

There's a big difference and muddying the definitions with marketing jargon ends up causing too much confusion in this industry.
Kids are routinely enthused about things and desire to do good.

Having a genuine, important and understandable cause is likely to amplify that.
At one point in ~2009 I put together a business plan for a wework-esque office space company that was centered around each worker having their own most self-sustaining space, minus restrooms, but including sinks. I still like the idea, because the more I have worked in unicorns the more I have hated their push for open office spaces.
I will add, I've undergone various security-focused corporate trainings over the years, once our trainer was a retired Airman, formerly attached to the NSA.

Had had one and exactly one story he was allowed to share with us, and that was incredibly vague like the article. "We infected the target's mother's PC, when the target was fixing the machine we had an asset fake a crisis prompting the target to (stupidly) access a target machine from the mother's infected PC." As he explained, this was all he was authorized to share. The reality is there is very little they can share without prior clearance from the agency, and this is a non-trivial process.
I am not going to be baited into bashing specific people or universities. Feel free to arrive at whatever conclusion satisfies your thinking. I don’t care.
civilized discussion breaks down when civilized actions are suppressed.
Of course the trolls are wrong for trolling, but trolling is a fact of life on the web.

When I was a kid I was told to never link any online account with my real identity and to always regard every person encountered on the web as a potential bad actor. The article begins with the story of an 11-year-old whose identity is linked to a public Twitter account.

There is a distinct lack of recognition for the failures in parenting taking place here. Personal safety and privacy are necessities for a healthy childhood, a public soapbox is not.
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You have it backwards. The policy goal is to avoid starving and rioting in the streets.
Not only that, but their age and lack of development is actively used as a shield for the ideas they're representing: "How dare you attack a child!" It's so duplicitous I'm surprised more people aren't condemning it.
For sure although the iPhone 11 sets a pretty high bar.
To state an obvious reason: because the "throwaway society" is killing our planet and humans along with it.

Also it would cost you less money to buy better quality clothes in the long run.
> surely you'd agree that someone trolling kids online ... should be ashamed of themselves and driven out of polite society, yes?

I think pretty much everyone involved here, aside from the children, ought to be ashamed of themselves. I don't buy into the idea that people ought to be driven out of society though.
The temptation to slack off depends on the quality and quantity of work to do, not on your office.

You are probably more productive at slacking off (for example, reading fast and with full concentration), in addition to more productive at actually working when you get around to it.
"If I could craft the perfect job for me, the one I work at would be it".

Seeing that neither my company nor my manager are hypothetical, the term "he" is appropriate.
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> You're going to be able to sail over the Guggenheim. Maps of the US will have to be re-drawn to remove Florida.

You made my point for me. Sorry, that's just NOT going to happen. The extreme hyperbole of the climate change side is not helping matters.
Is Trump, a billionaire from New York, a coastal elite?
Let's see if we can apply this to finding a job. You need to do marketing.

Let's see if we can apply this to filling a job. You need to do marketing.

Let's see if we can apply this to selling a watches in a store? You need to do marketing.

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Why would you think that dating would be different?

Dating sites are the top of the funnel. You still need to close the "sale". To do that one has one of the two options: time to experiment and develop sales tactics or have the needed resources. I do not know what Evan's "style" was if any but him being a billionaire definitely helped to close the deal with Miranda.
I never saw this discussed before but I experience the same.

I tried different noise cancelling cans and the effect is more or less the same:

Audio wise they are great but it feels like I am on a airplane with the need to 'pop' my ears.

Like you describe as if there is a stationary positive pressure wave.

Anyone know the reason for this? Can it be eliminated?
Part of the problem is that people feel creepy for being interested in the opposite sex in the first place. And that society on some twisted level condones that idea. A lot of guys have responded to modern feminism and the MeToo movement by turning into sexless soyboys who are so hung up on not being creepy (which is itself kind of creepy) that they are incapable of hitting on girls.

As for attractiveness, people have a lot more control over it than they realize. Lose weight, get fit, get your teeth fixed, find your best hair/beard style and develop a cool look, and you can probably be hot unless you have a face like Sloth from The Goonies.

I will admit though, even as a hot guy with good game, I still have a hard time on Tinder. I get a decent number of likes, but not many matches, as the vast majority of them are from women that don't meet my standards. I can pull 1-2 new dates a week from OkCupid, but I've never met a top tier woman there. Thankfully I'm in a relationship now with a drop-dead gorgeous woman I met due to common interests, so I can put all that behind me now.
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longer-lasting items does not necessarily mean ten years; it also means t-shirts I can wear the entire summer, or blue jeans I can wash more than 5 times...
It seems like the problem you want to solve is how to increase the amount of physical and sexual intimacy with your wife.

Are you sure the problem is pornography? The vast majority of the male population consumes an enormous amount of pornography and is still intimate with their partner. I think you should be open to the idea the problem might exist elsewhere.

Is the problems a lack of mental or physical arousal?

If it's physical you could try getting prescribed viagra, if it's mental a sex therapist might help.

Also if your wife is open to it, you could watch porn together.

If you're wanting to quit porn for its own sake(usually religious) then probably other people's advice would be more beneficial.
I'm interested in seeing that talk, if you can remember who it was. Or have a link.

I had thought the opposite was true. Announcing was supposed to be like committing. Curious if it just became a form of virtue signaling.
> We should be extremely wary of highly educated technocrats who attempt to impose a "scientific" viewpoint on political events, always fail, and yet remain utterly convinced by their oversimplified models.

Could you detail that one? Is it arguing for more emotional driven decisions over data based ones?
The model of driving every profitable company out of business by undercutting on price to a massive per unit loss, funded by venture capital, in an attempt to corner the market and have a pseudo-monopoly is bad for "the public" in the long run.
I'm pretty sure that's a given and I think its pretty expected their not going to put details on some news article
I agree, but it's also disgusting to troll, harass, and personally attack children who are thrown (or throw themselves, she's a teen) into the political cesspool. Everyone involved should be ashamed.

I must point out that the larger problem here is that our politics is such a cesspool of trolling and sensationalism and personal attacks. We have lost the ability to even have a rational discourse about issues with the dialogue now being dominated by shrill fanatics and attention whoring trolls on all sides.
What makes you think that this child abuse is good for the cause? I see a lot of negative reactions
If you're going to be so obtuse that you can't understand a logical analogy, please never debate people on the internet.
Hi. Thanks for sharing this. I suspect that would be true for foreign students within programs across the board in the US, because you tend to learn as an outsider through an application of “rigor” and more raw memorization than higher order types of learning. I’m speaking this from experience as a foreigner who moved to the US early on. I’ve always doubted many higher order learning methods precisely because they didn’t ever distill the discipline to work better...
His Age of Longing is worth a look, I think. I haven't read either book in years, but it seems to me that it was better than Darkness at Noon.

I also think that quite a few writers gave better accounts of the purges and trials than Koestler.
These types of educational programs seem just as a way to tap into Americans' propensity for acquiring debt now with the hopes of a financial payout later. It still seems like the much better deal is with a traditional university, particularly in California where you're talking about the UC and CSU systems.

I'm from the very same demographic, to a T, you claim to be targeting. I've been working long enough in tech that, looking back, there's no way I -- in good conscience -- recommend your program over a traditional university's to others who come from a similar background.
Our? Were you involved in the operation?
Recovery/rehabilitation always is painful, but that doesn't mean painful = the right thing for recovery.

I respectfully disagree that interest rates of 10-15% would be good for the economy, in either the short or long term.
I guess what I'm trying to say that is that kids, whether they're right or wrong, aren't really qualified to promote a public opinion on any issue.
You also have to remember that they're being allowed to skip school to do this. When I was a kid, I would have gone to practically any rally if it meant skipping class..
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> a little girl who is being misused by cynical politicians and environmental organizations to make unscientific claims

Ridiculous right wing smears. Is this what the pro-nuclear lobby has sunk to?
If the kids WANT to participate, why not let them? This girl started protesting by herself.She took initiative, raised her voice and dis something. Should we stop her from doing that?
Even if the parents have failed in some way, I hope you'd agree that the people trolling children online are far worse. Including President Trump.