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Most often there is no such thing as a "mens" league - ie there is no gender restriction or testing in the NFL, the premier league, etc. I wonder, do mens track and field events in the Olympics even do gender tests?
Virdings law...
the average person can’t create shit

I think you're confusing not being able to create things with not being able to compete with people who are truly good at what they do.

Everyone can create stuff, it's just that most people aren't very good at it because they've not yet mastered what they're doing. The thing is though, that doesn't matter. If they enjoy the creative process then that's more than enough.
A pay cut would be an "over my dead body" issue for many unions.

Edit: Since this apparently does not go without saying, the feedback loops in a union are all wrong for taking that kind of risk (remember, the pay cut does not guarantee company survival). People willing to rock the boat with calculated gambles like that do not rise to positions of authority in a union.
Oh come on. The distinction between men and women in sports has always been based on biology and not identity. There’s no way Mike Tyson boxes in the lightweight classes because he feels skinny on the inside.
Right, because everything was so much better when you could, for no particularly good reason, relate money to a marginally useful-to-jewellers-and-dentists soft metal. I suppose I shouldn't expect economic literacy on Hacker News, but the twist on the standard goldbug narrative ("social credit backed by surveillance") is at least original, if nutty.
It's gotten really bad. There are whole swathes of companies that we deal with that are great if you can deal with their first-party people, but we're just part of a bundle of services provided to that company through a big Tata/Infosys/Cognizant/etc contract. And that part of it is incredibly toxic.

I think if I get another email with less than a sentence describing a problem, no screenshots, nothing, ending in "do the needful", or a high-priority meeting invitation sent at 7 am for 8:30 am, with no agenda or any indication of what is going to be discussed, I'm going to come unglued. The communication and organizational skills of the project managers I've dealt with leaves so much to be desired that I can't even express it, and there always seems to be such a swirl of people with ambiguous authority involved that just trying to mentally keep track of an org chart is a struggle.

I just groan when I see that we've gotten a new lead; it may pay the bills, but I'm not sure the grey hairs and indigestion are worth it.
Congratulations to the champion. It'll get tougher once the disabled win equality and are able to participate too using powered cycles.
Two weeks ago on Saturday morning I was driving my son to his soccer game through Medford MA, when in one of the bus stops I saw Richard Stallman waiting for the bus.

I told my wife, that's Richard! and I stopped right in the middle of the street and jumped out of the car. I ran toward him and hugged him, and told him to take care of himself and be strong. He didn't say a word.

I feel bad for the man, he looked a bit frail, and mind absent.

I can't believe history is being rewritten right in front of my eyes, the man that started it all is being forgotten. Open Source is just a catchy marketing phrase for "free software"
There exists a way to convert CO2 into high-capacity batteries but nobody's looking for it because they think the only way to make batteries is with Lithium
It would be worrying if something as basic as Docker required an expert's worth of arcane procedures, workarounds, tricks, ancillary tools and so on.

In my experience Docker is almost as trouble-free as it should be, with straightforward tools to make mistakes and undo them; it requires good engineers who know what they want, not wizards who know how to get it.
> I can use any half-decent online translation services and the result is totally understandable

But in the case of deepl, the result is not only understandable but also often (but not always) nearly perfect.
Filed first in 2012. I bet theres plenty of prior art. And if that programs from before.... Whoops!

Reminds me of the patent / copyright troll from Silicon Valley. But worse, this guy "invents" things that already exist. I wish we could ban people (and their companies) from owning patents if they are found to be abusing the patenting system purely to not innovate but even worse they financially stall nonprofits who do innovate. Like seriously.
Why are these sports categorized for gender instead of body weight? For example, I'm a below average man in proportions and a 75 kilo biological female would definitely beat me on many competitions.
Even worse is the security model of Unix: Users are considered a threat and are isolated, code is seen as trusted by the user and exploits are not considered.

The reality today are single user systems (And even if there are users, like for web services, the Unix user system is not used), where the code often cannot be trusted and almost always is exploitable.
That's not what I meant, so you mean you disagree.

Sounds like a huge personal bias to me my friend. There's something about these firms which might have affected you directly. I feel sorry for you.

Also, Tata is not TCS. Tata includes Tata Motors which owns the British co. JLR.
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Even with the current train connections, it would be a great improvement to book a single ticket for multi-country journeys.

Right now, I need a ticket for Germany, France and Spain to get to Barcelona. If any of the trains runs late and I miss a train, I'd have to buy a new ticket for the connecting train.

So a single booking agency with guaranteed connecting trains would be great.
Besides for LGBT activists being overrepresented among techies relative to the population at large, this topic isn't really relevant to hn and is just going to invite opinion based low effort posts imho.
Agree, some people will fight for it, some people will fight againts it.
I found a number of them.

Here's how I would go about systematically trying to find them one by one. I suppose this method could be built up to a proof.

First consider the shape of the outside points:
point - no
straight line segment - no, after a little work
triangle - maybe
quadrialteral - yes
pentagon and up - no

For the case of 4 outside points, consider the possible lengths.
aaaa - Yes. Square. Other angles - maybe
aaab, b is longer - Maybe
aaab, b is shorter - Maybe
aabb - Maybe
abab - Maybe

For the case of 3 outside points, consider the possible lengths.
aaa - maybe
aab, b is shorter - maybe
aab, b is longer - maybe
> There are times where you drive 10 miles to pick a passenger and drop them a block (.5 miles) away from their location.

As a daily rider, I agree completely. I get an Uber/Lyft every morning at 5:00 to catch a 5:25 train about 3 miles away in the Chicago suburbs. Sometimes there aren't many drivers out, and it connects to a driver near O'Hare, about 20 minutes away. So, I miss my train, have to wait 20 minutes when I could have asked my wife to take me, and it is a waste of the driver's time as well. But, I'm not going to cancel and get a fee for a ride that is only $6 to begin with. I'd love to be able to filter on drivers that are less than 10 minutes away.

Also, don't get me started on the Pre-Tax commuter program... It can only use Pools, and there are ZERO drivers that accept it now near me. I'd have to wait 30+ minutes, or it just gives up and says no drivers are in the area. I have several hundred dollars set aside in my commuter account for this, and it is useless the way they have it set up. I don't blame the drivers, but it is a shitty situation that they would promote this program, and it is kind of useless.
Or maybe, its so obviously wrong, it must be pure clickbait.
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How is this Hacker News related?
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I must have missed a memo. Why are men being allowed to compete in women’s sports just because they claim to be women? Why would anyone think this was a good idea?
quality != quantity
Not into sports at all, but what do people think the problem is if evolutionary biology dictates that eventually our current sports setup will trend towards being dominated by male athletics and trans athletic competition?
Of course, she never had diplomatic immunity - her husband works for the NSA, and was not on the official list of diplomats (those whose credentials are presented and accepted at the Court of St James).
I've heard that Germans are very skeptical about sharing data and have lots of fears about privacy.

Here in Estonia our government systems work efficiently because our data is shared between government departments and ministries in a safe way. There is only one place that stores the addresses of people, there is only one place that has knows about the cars or properties I own and so on. There is a law against asking people who interact with the state for data that it already has.
I haven't done a double test, so will definitely try it.
Re: device temperature - don't even need to hold the device. It could be just very close to me if the bandwidth is high.

Once I set at the table next to my friend's open laptop and started feeling those head 'cramps' immediately as he started downloading a large ISO. Put on pause - the feeling subsides in a minute.

Doesn't feel like a pain, def. not sharp pain, but a significant discomfort, sort of a little brain earthquake.
I don't know why EMF sensitivity is not properly studied, as it's def. not a myth!
Fair enough, I never said that they were quality. Just that they're nothing similar to Uber or Lyft.
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One way to test whether people will buy consulting in analytics might be to sign up as an “analytics expert” on Instant Coffee and get leads from the OP.

Then Instant Coffee is covering a chunk of the payment & client acquisition overhead you’d otherwise need to duplicate.
From the "about" page, this seems to be a one person project, where the photographer meets with the "face" to shoot the portray. While he may not have wanted to add rms to the gallery, the reverse can also be true: it is well possible that he contacted rms who refused (that would match with the guy's personality!)
Bodyweight still does not control for it. Male and female muscle composition differ, bones differ, organs function differently.
It's her own words, her tweet. The next part says

>If you win because bigotry got your competition banned... you're a loser.

Hard to believe it's real, wonder if she recognizes the irony.
OK, I agree that there's a small percentage of population for whom the binary distinction for make and female fails. I believe that any adult person should be able to do whatever they want to their body, so their transition is they business (and their doctor's). I even agree that just to be civilized, we should call these people with whatever names and pronouns they are comfortable with – it costs nothing to me, and supposedly, it's important for them, so why not.

But is it fair to allow a person with a make level of testosterone and muscles to compete in a category that was created specifically for women?
He was well known 10 years ago and he is well known today. By extrapolation, it is natural to assume that he'll be also in 10 years.
Is it not missing Eric S. Raymond?

EDIT : Yes, he is there - just didn't recognise him.
If there's a knowingly broken process, both sides of it are to blame. One party for using a broken process, the other for exploiting it.

Imagine you own a store with broken locks. A thief learns of that, and comes one night, and plunders your store. Yes, you'd be to blame for being irresponsible and stupid. But the thief would still be liable for theft.
Some people argue that this is a route to hacking female sports. It’s hard to argue this trend will not entirely upend the concept.
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I want to preface this with saying I am fully supportive of LGBTQ+ rights and I believe that people can be born one way but their brain is wired for another.

That being said, if a large majority of your biological self was a man while you were growing up even though a lot of your brain was the opposite, then you will likely have a significant advantage (athletically) over those that grew up biologically as a woman.

This is in the early days of normalcy in society for trans people, so I think eventually this will work out. Perhaps racing events need something like a "weight" class like you find in some martial arts.
According to this page, mixed teams are not allowed in the Premier League: https://sports.stackexchange.com/questions/12206/can-a-woman...
Please ban this garbage article.
Hi guys testing out an AI flight compensation agent, would love to help anybody who got a raw deal with an airline!
By this example, fraud is rampant across business[1], not just outsourcing.

Facebook, VW, Theranos and many many more.
So, you're telling me that watchdogs users (on a payroll I'll add) roam this site and flag anything that they don't like and that is OK for you. Super.

The post on front page was focusing on what a single scientist was saying. This particular scientist has been attacked and defamed repeatedly which in effect rendered _that_ post ineffective to base a serious conversation for that issue. TLDR, people (and keen watchdogs alike) were focusing on _him_ rather than the issue at hand. Which is why I posted the appeal, signed by numerous other scientists, so that the discussion won't focus on the strawman scientist and focus on what might be a hugely important public health issue.

Of course the watchdogs on duty flagged it immediately because it was much harder to attack and defame.

I've said it again. You have a problem in HN. Mobs and lone rangers and downvote armies. You might be innocent (as an admin) and try to let everyone speak but it is evident to me that nothing that _really_ matters can be discussed in this community. That is because things that _really_ matter hurt some big pockets or a few cretins stuck in their adolescent rigid worldviews. In any case the gist of it is that the rules of the site allow them to drown any voice they don't like in a form of public opinion manipulation.

So, thanks for the hospitality all these months. I think I've no business here.
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Add value to the community.

You can add value with spot on comments or interesting and/or relevant submissions. For a newbie it will be difficult, but as soon as you start to understand what the community values (and if these values are aligned with yours), it will become easier. 'Luck' is negligible on comments but on submissions is not (despite not being determinant). If karma is really important to you, there are some 'low hanging fruits' but you have to identify them by yourself or the HN crowd will pick them. Ok, one tip, pick a not crowded ShowHN thread where you can give your honest and construtive opinion, (at least) the poster will often reward you: you are adding value.

Understand also that getting karma here is really difficult. It took me 7,5 years to get 5k karma. Probably, I didn't "win a thread" more than 5 times, there is always somebody in a better position to comment it.
What is the test for being a journalist? Serious question.
Gold's uselessness / rarity is what makes it perfect as money.

The dollars you hold in your wallet are not even useful as toilet paper. Its sole use is to store value - just like gold.

Gold standard created the first motor, railway, steamships. More importantly, wages kept up with productivity, in fact as soon as you decoupled gold from money, wages stagnated.
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woops, didn't realise that. Thanks :D
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“UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.”

— Dennis Ritchie (1941–2011)
Wouldn't work well I think. Women generally have a higher bodyfat percentage than men skewing the weight classes and AFAIK each gender is somewhat better suited to particular sports, e.g. elite weightlifters are male without exception and ultra marathon runners are often female.
IIRC the pre-2.5 menu wasn't just for adding stuff (though it was its most common use).
Women carry more body fat than men. Even adjusting for body weight, the top men are stronger than top women.

https://www.castironstrength.com/elite-strength-sports-ipf-a...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Olympic_records_in_w...
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An injustice commited to one is a threat made to all. This is deffinitely a stain and an open bleeding wound on western powers history and supposed values/principles, this wound will only tend to grow. Sadly it's one those events with a dimension so large that it can go unnoticed because of how big it is, it is an Omen. Julian Assange is the first nonviolent, information activist made a political enemy targeted and persecuted in global scale. He's already being imprisioned and tortured for years without a fair trial and with his human rights denied. God bless him!
I definitely think there is a different level between the president or PM of an independent country to a Mayor of even a much larger city. However, there's also a difference (depending on the country) of the role of President vs. PM vs. Monarch and whether their duties are more promotional/ceremonial versus legislative
Your site says it’s written in Ruby. Check out the OmniAuth gem for adding login providers. It’s probably worth a quick look at similar gems before choosing this one.

https://github.com/omniauth/omniauth
It barely has a million people. You have to compare it with other countries of similar size and population. Comparing it to Spain, Germany, US, UAE, Sri Lanka is like comparing mice to dogs, cows, elephants and blue whales.

That said, ofcourse there are things that can be learnt and applied to similar sized towns, cities, states etc that want these features.
In threads discussing career paths there seems to be an implicit assumption that everyone has agency and the ability to make their own decisions and results are simply a matter of choosing the right advice to listen to and doing the work you need to do at each step of the way. If we were discussing career paths in the context of wealth the assumption would be that nobody has agency and everyone is just a product of the environment they were born into and what you do is predetermined.

So which is is guys? Can we actually choose are own career paths or are we just pissing in the wind here?
Not directly but I would recommend checking out the e-Residency marketplace where they have vetted service providers (1Office is good) and asking in the E-Residents FB group

https://e-resident.gov.ee/marketplace/service-providers/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/eResidents/
It might not have been a toy in the Fisher-Price sense of the word, but in 1998 it was only a couple of years into the mainstream, and had a long history of being the preserve of geeks and hobbyists. Big business was only just starting to take it seriously, and even then, not particularly so.
Don't know about the UK, but you really don't need to do anything on paper here. There may be some special cases, but almost everything can be done over the internet.
Not even the second: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavalese_cable_car_disaster_(1...
Well let's be generous and also include Portugal and Spain for good measure, both of which have seen an entire generation's prospects suffer massive harm due to EU (eurozone) policy. It's always funny to me how blithely the destruction of millions of people's lives and potential is waved away when it doesn't fit the narrative.

And then lets take a look at the North: Germany employs the Euro to support its economy by decreasing the true cost of its exports, resulting in the impoverishment of the southern European countries already mentioned. France's economy has been facing calls for major reform for decades now and - not sure if you've missed it - the latest economy related political problems have led to a minor civil war. Both economies also now face the prospect of integrating millions of low-skilled, penniless new arrivals. Those are the two biggest economies by far in the EU (if UK leaves). And then there's no shortage of other economies snapping at Europe's heels, all perfectly capable of manufacturing products that are equal if not superior to what comes out of Europe. Many think that German automotive engineering dropped off a cliff in terms of quality in the early 2000s and never really recovered, as a consequence of superior quality from Japan and Korea. And now China are just starting to penetrate Western markets with cars that are plenty good enough.

Also don't forget the Euro does not have the privilege of being the world's reserve currency. This gives the US a massive advantage and lessens the impact of deficits.

I live in one of these high benefit economies and having been taxed for years feel I'm owed something in return. But I don't expect it. Given the trends afoot I think anyone below 50 in Europe that thinks the welfare state will continue to be like it is now over their lifetime is utterly delusional.
World records:

>The world record for a conventional wheeled passenger train is held by France's TGV (Train à Grande Vitesse), set in 2007 when it reached 574.8 km/h (357.2 mph) on a 140 km section of track.[1]

>Japan's experimental maglev train L0 Series achieved 603 km/h (375 mph) on a 42.8 km magnetic levitation track in 2015

I daresay it might be a record for China.
A recent major Windows update deleted user documents as well. [0]

Seems like it's chaos everywhere. Maybe a conspiracy by Big Backup.

[0] https://www.google.com/search?q=windows+update+deleted+docum...
No straw men here Greg. Looks like you’ve confused this thread with another.
Lovely to hear the Veni Creator being sung here. An enjoyable diversion on this particular piece: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSneZQ9duE4
And what happened to comrade Trotsky?
How should couples handle joint email addresses?
One more note for your first lesson: you might have a hot product that you sell at a product, but your own salespeople can kill you.

Lucent (AT&T spun them off to commercialize things from Bell Labs) had the absolute best product of the late 90s/early 2000: the Ascend MAX DSLAM/modem bank. Before that, an ISP needed T1 phone lines (24 channels) plugged into a CSU plugged into 24 modems plugged into a chassis that would emit serial that would be plugged into a router, along with a server that would do authentication and logging for billing and IP assignment. The Ascend MAX turned all of that into one box: phone connections to ethernet and all services provided and remotely administrated. Insanely great.

The problem was that Lucent's salespeople were very good, and the market for new ISPs was huge -- everybody was starting one or expanding their available markets -- so Lucent started offering financing.

When you finance your house or car, your loan is backed by the asset: the house or car still has some large percentage of the loan value at any given time, even with depreciation.

When you finance your ISP equipment purchase, Lucent assumed that they could always repo the MAX and sell it at a discount to some other growing ISP.

They didn't count on the ISP market collapsing.
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I'd go with a blue, implying general information instead of some point in the same single dimension where the "all good", "warning" and "error" points also lie on.

Also make this a PNG so it can be used outside of Github too.
And yet there was a thread recently where numerous commenters rolled their eyes at the need for accessibility for the blind on the web, because “Can’t you just call?”

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21188594

For even more irony, Pizza Hut’s and Domino’s pages from the mid-90s are more blind-accessible than the meth-addled versions of today. We’ve somehow regressed.