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> I've never understood why schools seem so reticent to enforce zero-tolerance policies against bullying.

It's pretty simple, this has a political answer: people believe that life is hard and that "it's tough out there", hence it's important for school to "toughen up" kids. It's as simple as that. Social darwinism is a creeping ideology that nobody really questions or talk about, but it's there, despite the presence of social programs.

If you ask people "should we protect the weak?", at the end of the day, people will answer "no, it's too difficult to protect the weak, if they can't survive or toughen up, they deserve to die or suffer, they cannot pull other people down".

Everybody knows that sending their kids to school generates a lot of anxiety for parents, because parents cannot protect their kids anymore, since bullying and "justice in the classroom" are difficult to do, but also hard for kids to talk about.

School is an excellent description of its society. Kids never lie, and their behavior naively precedes and envision the real spine of society. It's also where values and beliefs are taught.

Bullying exists because society not only tolerates it, but doesn't want to fight it. The "school of hard knocks" meme proves this perfectly.
This is right about the time where someone comes along and talks about how decriminalization and regulation will fix it.
Those kids might have nothing except go outside and assemble together...perhaps another instance of the law of unintended consequences?
I also have positive experience by changing diet. Especially the mental fog part. Better concentration and i can do work without procrastinating too much.
Humans have salamander-like ability to regrow cartilage in joints
About 1970 the first minicomputers were being applied to operations, administration and maintenance functions in the Bell System. The PDP-7 was too expensive and the PDP-8 was too limited to compete favorably with others. The PDP-11 was applied widely and if the Unix OS was to be used by the development groups instead of the DEC operating systems, it had to be ported.
These were used, yes. I am pretty sure Windows in most of 90s used BMPs, e.g. for backgrounds and in MS Paint. [1] Also, GIF is no replacement for BMP.

[1] https://www.fileformat.info/format/bmp/egff.htm
>>I mean, have you ever heard about Americans getting fired because of supporting protest?

Yes... If you support Libertarian or Conservative things
Someone always claims the journal linked on HN is X or Y. What’s a higher prestige journal for management that isn’t very pricey? HBR?
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Not sure what you’re talking about, the Apple logo is pretty great, and has multiple meanings.
Nevermind 65 million years ago, corals survived 400 ft of comparatively rapid sea level rise at the end of the last glacial period 11000 years ago. All the existing reefs drowned. They're hardier than we give them credit for.

They're in trouble again thanks to us, but now they also have us to help. We can plant reefs and engineer heat resistant breeds of coral.
It is not a distraction, because suspicionless electronics searches at borders are becoming increasingly common. Facebook knows a lot about you, but do you really want to give all that information to CBP?
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> "Lightest car on the market, engine and bodywork not included for weight optimisation reasons"

To be fair, we're not that many steps from marketing cars in that way¹. Pesky fatso transmission fluid ;)

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_weight
Super off topic but....

> Which, for the next 2 billion folks in emerging markets, on 2G connections, is like the worst idea ever.

Which emerging markets still use 2G? In almost all of the world 2G is being phased out and it’s in developed economies where it is scheduled to take the longest. Many emerging markets had their infrastructure created after 2G was obsolete and are already on better technology.

https://www.emnify.com/blog/global-2g-phase-out
> Right, which as far as I can tell is essentially the Kacker News guidelines in what to submit.

Or perhaps your (wishful) interpretation of the guidelines?

Quoting [1]:

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon.

> Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. That destroys intellectual curiosity, the value of the site.

(Emphasis mine.) This is also my last post on this subject with you. Have a good one.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I am one of the OS developers for a military vehicle that utilizes vxWorks and Linux. It's honestly no different than other OS work out there. Documentation and help outside of WindRiver's official docs are more scarce, and open source support is smaller, but grasping how an RTOS works vs a GPOS isn't any major mental leap. If you can program in C and understand communication protocols like i2c, UART, SPI, CAN, etc. then it's not terrible.

Right now, we are looking at moving away from vxWorks and onto a Yocto-built Linux with the RT patches to the scheduler. From a requirements standpoint, the RT patches meet our needs for "real time" since our timings require more of a soft real time than a hard one. There's also way more support out there for Linux, and I am also slightly biased in that I am more of a Linux guy than a vxWorks guy simply due to familiarity and ease of troubleshooting.

This latest news with vxWorks is great, however. I actually sent this to management because we are attempting to figure out what direction to take as our current version is reaching EOL.
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Scott Alexander had a compelling argument against this: https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/07/29/against-against-billio...
Yes: the internal tool is Blaze
Thanks for the introduction to Spiral Dynamics; it's an interesting way of thinking about how people think about the world. Of course, in the hands of the sort of people who think rotational development programs are a boffo idea, it is perfectly suited for misuse.

Spiral Dynamics isn't named in the following article, but I'm sure some cheapened version of it is being used out in the wild by mostly-well-meaning gurus and HR people:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/17/style/personality-tests-o...

Which further reminds me: In 2008-9, I told a fellow entrepreneur how I thought about designing Half.com's UX, namely as an exercise in creating a game, in that people don't like to plays games that they don't think are fair, or know they're doomed to never win. (I used a former love's domination in Monopoly, and our friends' hesitancy to play with her, as an example.) This comment led the entrepreneur into an obsession with "gamification," to the point that he took me to eat lunch with a leading gamification guru, IIRC at the Second Avenue Deli.

Gamification, a precursor to everything written about by Nir Eyal in "Hooked," was the antithesis of what I cared about: not about making people want to play, but about making people feel like the cannot help but play.
Of course, but when you have found a proof, verifying that it is correct is fairly trivial (if tedious by human standards, it's only verifying that each statement is correct).

I meant proving in the sense of "checking that the solution works". In a mathematical problem, the solution would be a tentative proof for a theorem. Proof which needs to be verified. I should probably have used "verify" instead of "prove" in this context.
Too many temporarily embarrassed billionaires in our population to push for this from the bottom, and too many billionaires using their version of lunch money on our politicians to get traction from the top.

Great concept, won’t ever actually happen.
He isn't speaking in absolutes - you are interpreting it in absolutes. "whole world" and "noone gives a shit" are not absolute terms in common speak.
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Instances? The only thing that comes to my mind is Brendon Eich at Mozilla. And even then, it wasn’t so much as being fired as being squeezed out of the CEO slot.
Punishment is a deterrent though, at least for somewhat rational and premeditated acts, so it has an effect (though it's hard to quantify exactly). It's not a linear effect (as in threat of twice punishment = twice as effective as a deterrent), but it's certainly not zero.

Additionally, punishment often goes hand in hand with making it harder/impossible to re-offend. If you're in prison, you're not breaking into anybody's house.
Which I wouldnt necessarily mind, but submitting this 3 times in an hour seems excessive.
It's hit and miss for the most part really.

I remember confronting my bully in primary school - he stopped after that.

But my friend from secondary school who one day finally snapped gained nothing from his confrontation.
Who Killed the American Arts?
Have you ever dug a ditch?
Your people invaded Iraq just 15 years ago. No matter what you say, I believe you have a rather large obligation when it comes to Iraq. It is easy to forget history, right?
I find Qt and JavaFX applications are both generally nice to use. Of course anybody can write a bad application with any framework, so the framework alone won't save you.

While I only have firsthand experience developing with JavaFX, if I were doing something in C++ or Python I'd reach for Qt.
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Of course they do, but this is not the real question here.

Zooxanthellae in temperate reef corals like C. Caespitosa are relativelly tolerant to temperature change. Tropical reef corals are machines infinitely more complicated. Having a lot of Acropora growing really fast is not necessarily a good symptom, for example.
> Remember that Pakistan is still an Islamic republic and recently blocked a bill that will allow non Muslims to become PM or President.

> https://www.news18.com/news/world/pak-parliament-blocks-chri....

> The world did not care.

I don't really see the equivalence between India and Pakistan's actions. Also, I'm not up-to-date on Indian politics, but how many non-Hindu leaders have been elected to top positions?
When you are driving, you should be looking outside.
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They should learn about Hanlon's Razor.

Anyway, the denialism movement could be described as a socialengineered conspiracy, and that part is pure malice.
You're wrong about the requirements. It doesn't have to be perfect, just better than us, and that's easily doable for computers that don't get tired, distracted, or drunk.

I'm not sure how long it will take, but I'm sure we'll get there.
As somebody who's attended a North American public school in my life, this is roughly the slap in the face I feel when politicians talk about abolishing vouchers or charter schools, with no mention of the appalling baseline quality of public education, despite dramatically higher spending than most or all other developed nations. Meanwhile, those voucher systems and charter schools have been the thrust of almost all improvement of education in America.

At the end of the day, it is rich to hear from politicians who have literally never attended a public school about how we should send our kids to schools they've avoided. A greater proportion of public educators send their own kids to private schools than the general public, by a long shot.
> I take the profit without earning it.

Honest man.

This is why interest/usury are predatory and parasitic practices, and are banned in several religions.
Your passion for something can also fade, and then you are even more fucked. At least changes in society’s values happen gradually.
>Try giving away $100

That's a day's take home for some of us.
I think the whole concept that law should be enforced at all times is flawed. People should have more ways to resolve conflicts between themselves on their own, without cops getting involved - even if the law was broken.
China isn’t really that different. The people getting offended just have lots of power.
That isn't what they are doing.

They are extracting bone morrow and editing that and then reintroducing it. It's basically a bone marrow transplant using the patient's edited stem cells.

http://www.crisprtx.com/programs/hemoglobinopathies

Words like "credible" and "unexpected" sort of make it impossible to answer the question. The doctors probably expect some editing errors and things like that. They are also doing a really small study to see what happens.
I wrote Gap directly when the sweater incident happened and got some form letter bullshit.

I've been an obstinate asshole when it comes to Taiwan for about six years now. The most obnoxious thing is there's some ISO list somewhere that has Taiwan's name as "Taiwan, province of China." Is Macau or Hong Kong "province of China" in ISO listings? No. But China has the most fragile fucking ego in all the world and goes out of the way to get everyone to buy into its fantasies.

Recently Personal Capital used the ISO country list and I emailed them about it. They mailed back that they chose that list because ISO, but they are talking about it internally and what to do about it. I know people there and apparently it's a rough debate - there are both Chinese and Taiwanese employees, and it is getting weird. On the one hand you have a Chinese woman who has (we aren't sure if this was ironic) claimed that China has no pollution and that it's just Western propaganda, on the other you have employees who have colleagues that are questioning the sovereignty of their own citizenship. Madness.

Gems from random Americans there include "well do we want to offend 30 million people (Taiwan) or 1.2 billion (China)?" Makes me wonder how other companies are handling the situation. As if "being offended" is what is at stake. You either reflect the reality of the world by acknowledging Taiwan's sovereign status, or you parrot the PRC's mentally ill fantasy. There's no other way to express it.
The possibility that someone in the company is secretly (how!?) providing the Chinese government access to the encryption keys is a wildly different claim. There is no evidence that Apple has done it, and an important executive has testified that they have not, and they've publicly stated they haven't, even if you want to speculate that it has happened.
It's the same everywhere: Attacks on Saudi oil refineries got world-wide attention and mention by world leaders, even tho not a single person died.

While around that same time, the US accidentally droned 30+ Afghani farmers [0]. The international response to that? It doesn't exist to this day.

[0] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-afghanistan-attack-drones...
Feel free to ask me any question you don't see answered there.

And Yes, I did some zig-zagging! - https://www.instagram.com/p/Bw4h0X_Fq_G/
HBR (adaptations of academic papers) and Bloomberg Businessweek (high-quality investigative business journalism)
.kkrieger wasn't 64K, it was 96K.
I recently got my hands on a book about the career of a esteemed professor and his students. One of the life lessons of one of his students was: "If you want to be called a mathematician prepare to be funded like a mathematician"

Pure theoretical physicist might be in a comparable budget, but I think it is true that the lower expectations on math research is partly due to how cheap it is to fund.
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The annoying thing is that GUIs don't have to be made this way, the complaints you have are relatively recent inventions.
Did they announce the deprecation date as well?

https://killedbygoogle.com/
> Is there a language that consistently uses codepoints with more than 2 bytes?

There are definitely (small) communities using scripts that lie entirely in the SMP. For example, Mru, Adlam, Takri, Pracalit, Miao, Wancho, etc. Most of these are either historic scripts that have mostly been supplanted by unified ones (esp. Devanagari) but retain usage in some areas, or languages that did not have a pre-colonial writing system that are attempting to reclaim cultural identity with a new script.

But yes, I don't think there are major communities that consistently do so. My anecdata from a few Mandarin- and Japanese-speaking friends is that SIP characters rarely occur.

Really if anything, emoji obsessives, mathematicians using bold/fraktur characters, and historical linguists/anthropologists would have the biggest savings.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mru_language#Alphabet
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adlam_script
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takri_script
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pracalit_script
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollard_script
I was bullied back in middle school, by a bunch of different kids. It was mostly two different groups.

It was due to my funny accent, as we had moved abroad during my formative years, and I was speaking another language when we moved back a couple of years later.

It all ended when I beat the living crap out of one bully. He was a small guy, and I was already a head taller than most in my class. I just blacked out, and used him as a punching bag after one of his regular snide remarks.

He ended up in the hospital with both eyes glued shut, broken nose, and concussion. Teachers and parents were shocked.

But I was never bullied after that.

I don't advocate violence, but for me, that's unfortunately what worked.

(In a interesting twist of faith, years later I actually ended up becoming good friends with some of the bullies, because of shared hobbies, and them maturing)
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The article is misleading. Apple has not given the iCloud encryption keys to the Chinese government. As far as I'm aware, there is currently no evidence that the Chinese government is any more capable of accessing iCloud data than any other government.

From a later article from the same source, Apple states: "Apple has not created nor were we requested to create any backdoors and Apple will continue to retain control over the encryption keys to iCloud data"

https://money.cnn.com/2018/02/28/technology/apple-icloud-dat...

I'm not saying it's not concerning, and China can still request a particular users data, but let's be accurate.
It's probably different in the UK where The Guardian is, but in the USA the bottom 45% of wage earners pay $0 federal income tax while the top 20% pay 87% of it. I'm not sure how much more you should slap on the "evil" job-creating rich before it's "proper", but 87% already seems pretty high to me.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/45-of-americans-pay-no-fed...
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This is a conversation I'm really interested in but upon rereading my original comment I think it was low quality. I didn't mean some of things that I implied.

No I don't think the dream was for left wing ideology. I meant classic liberalism and democracy which aligns well with libertarianism. So regardless of political leaning the dream was that information will free the people. What we're seeing is that information is being used to entrench the establishment. It is the opposite of libertarian today.

Fascism and nationalism were in a time in history attached to left wing ideology rather than right wing. I don't want to imply that those movements are inherently left or right. But I do see that today they are attached to the right, who are using information very effectively to achieve their goals.
Can confirm about it being the odd one out. As one of maybe 5 white kids in my very poor school, I was bullied relentlessly from 6 to 12 years old. I was quite an effeminate kid too with long blonde hair. Soft, quiet and not nearly as athletic as the other kids. They were ruthless both verbally and physically. I'm now 29 years old, 6'4", 90kg and I lift 4x a week and _still_ have gddmn self confidence issues.

I am considering taking up martial arts in an attempt to break this subconscious mindset which I am almost positive was caused by years of bullying as a child.
I just read that Jeff Bezoz will pay a lower tax rate than someone earning $7.25/hr. Incredible.
This is a problem in the US, and probably other places as well. People know the system is rigged against them but they think they'll be rich one day and want to take advantage of the same system.

I like George Carlin's saying: "They call it the American dream because you have to be asleep to believe it."
> So, criminals also, by that logic, themselves need counseling on managing their own needs and emotions rather than punishment ?

The point of prison to rehabilitate so yes. If we are just putting people in prison to get rid of them then why not actually get rid of them? If you don't believe in rehabilitation then life in prison is an expensive and cruel torture in comparison to just ending them.
American Exceptionalism taught us that it's so much different than other places.

In reality, it's not really any different than any other place, and the way the government treats citizens and non-citizens isn't much different than the way any other generally functioning country would. The only difference is that we have especially well-known patriotic freedom-based songs and sayings. You shouldn't be scared to come.

As a non-citizen, I could be detained/searched if I travelled to France or Germany or any other Western European country for next to no reason and it would be legal there as well, wouldn't it?

To be honest, the most rigorous part of the entry process in the USA compared to other countries is the customs agents that are out to prevent you from bringing in foreign agricultural products.
It was better before they removed the colors.
You should give fasting a try.
What dictator is this by the way? Just curious.
They did a 3-month followup: >Of the 33 individuals who were able to be contacted, 7 (21.2%) said they had maintained the diet, 19 (57.6%) reported they had maintained some aspects of the diet and 7 (21.2%) reported they had not maintained the diet. There was no difference in depression outcomes between these 3 groups (chi-square >.05).

They don't seem to have done the 3-month follow up with the control group.
I am no expert but I had been diving with with some marine biologists. They were pretty sure that corals are able to adapt - move to cooler waters with right light / temperature combination.

The problem is that coral reefs grow slowly so if existing reefs die it would be loss for us divers and for the entire ecosystem (fishes etc.) that's irreversible over say 100 years perspective.
OK. How about I suggest scrapping mandatory attendance instead?
Integration errors aren’t the main concern with treating patients - it’s the off target effects. In other words, changes to genes you didn’t expect. You don’t want to fix one problem, only to cause something else.

IIRC, the reason why the integration errors were such a big deal is because they made it to the germline of the animal and could be transferred to offspring. This would have been extensively validated given the amount of press and regulatory pressure.
That this will not be enough to survive long term. Those are really ancient animals in any case and know a few tricks.