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> Why would online dating make offline dating harder?

By de-normalizing offline dating and removing participants from the offline dating pool.

> Unless you're young and in the LGB group most people find their partners offline.

In Australia, online dating is the single most common way that people meet their partners and it's not close (35% online, 21% through friends, 13% at work).[0] I would be surprised if this is dramatically different from other Anglosphere countries.

I don't like online dating because of how completely inefficient it is, but it's hard not to believe in it when it's becoming the de-facto way people pair up.

[0] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-11-26/australia-talks-natio...
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Fair enough. I agree partially: it's a social problem. Thing is, software engineering deals with social problems too: those related to development.

I've never seen DDD successfully used in any company I've worked in, but that's probably a shortcoming of my own experience. (Likewise, I've never seen TDD or Agile or lots of things people often mention in their blogs successfully used. Again, this is probably my own problem!).

addendum: to be fair I've never seen a completely working ESB either. Always a plan to build or deploy one, never the finished thing ;)
Its called emergency measures. And in normal democracies those are correct ways to aggressively combat emergencies.

Closing down street and preventing people from accessing is a violation of your freedom, but its normal if there is a raging fire going on nearby.

Unless you are living in a failing state measures to fight Covid should not be immediately seen as attempt at population control and back-entrance fascism.
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Until the mid-18th century, there were no "working examples" of laissez-faire capitalism, which has since become the dominant global model. Economic circumstances change; in its fairly short history, many examples have shown that laissez-faire capitalism is vulnerable to collapse during periods of economic instability (fascism, authoritarian communism). Don't be so confident that new systems aren't possible when one of the defining traits of laissez-faire capitalism is a tendency to become unstable, fall apart, and be replaced with new systems.

Incidentally, if you'd read the link which the other poster provided on market socialism, you'd have noticed that it scales in exactly the same way that laissez-faire capitalism scales, making your critique unfounded.
I was a kid in the 80s and 90s, and computer user groups gave me a unique and somewhat unusual community where I got to interact with people much older than I was, and who worked in varied professions (there were lawyers, engineers, consultants, etc.). We all bonded over the fact that we were all computer nuts, which was a fairly rare demographic back then.

I think having that community helped to grow up quickly and gave me a view of world that few of my peers had. I had many interesting peer relationships (through email conversations) with adults who weren't my parents. This sounds like a red flag these days, but those days it wasn't because it was a closed-knit moderated community: we would chat about DOS, OS/2, Gravis Ultrasounds, Macintoshes, etc. I was only a kid but people would treat me like an adult.

I know of no other environment where kids and adults could interact as equals (more or less). I say that because in the computer world, competence is not always correlated with age. The sysop of one of the BBS's I hung out at was a brilliant computer guy and it was only when we met in real-life I found out he was only 15.

p.s. I don't know if anyone remembers dialing into a BBS using software like QmodemPro, downloading a mail packet (usually QWK -- a compressed file with unread emails), replying to emails offline using a reader like Bluewave or Offline Express, and then logging in to upload replies. Those were the days.
Hmm. In the beginning on Andorid, there was nothing called chrome. Only a primative, webkit based browser usually called "internet" that OEMs would customize. Other browsers have always worked fine on Android - from Dolphin to yes... Firefox. I'd say that Firefox on Android wasn't suitable for daily use until sometime in 2019... and there's still a lot of work to do.

Chrome on Android is a miserable experience right now because someone at Google thinks that hiding URLS and making it difficult to edit them is a feature.
This year's KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU is a wrap! The conference was virtual but still packed with 4 days of updates, trends and use cases from all the different projects, sponsors, vendors and end users that make up the cloud native ecosystem.

Read this blog post for a summary of the main topics and trends:
How the virtual event worked out
The top news and the most interesting projects that are gaining traction
The increased focus on CNCF end users
Diversity in the open source community
ClusterAPI
GitOps
Telco grade Kubernetes networking / edge native (K3s, Longhorn)
Storage (Vitess, TiKV, Longhorn, Rook, OpenEBS, NATS)
Security (Trivy, OPA, Falco, SOPS, SPIFFE, SPIRE)

We also did a video summary with more details if you like that format: https://elastisys.com/summary-kubecon-cloudnativecon-eu-the-...

If you just want to skim the slides to the video they are available here: https://elastisys.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/KubeCon-Clo...
>This is a lazy take - plenty of systems have been created by "the right" that don't work, even according to their stated goals. Moreover, how do you define "work", and why are things like gender and racial equality framed as extras rather than integral to evaluating whether a system works?

I don't think you understand what the word "prioritize" means.

>Uber/Lyft were shut down for a day

Uber/Lyft is not the only industry impacted.
Then your union is bad and you should work to improve it.

No wonder if US unions always end up so bad if apparently nobody is willing to fix things and let pancilpushers do it.
This is another example of deeply yet inadvertent hostile behavior by a tech company towards artists and creativity.

It is hard to overstate how much this matters, and is overlooked.

I am constantly grateful that I live in a time where I have all these magical creative tools.

At the same time, tech companies have a tendency to internalize ignorance about what artists and musicians actually need, and what is nurturing or destructive to creativity.

I think the best example of this is the YouTube algorithms that favor frequent uploads for discovery. Probably nothing could be more hostile to human creativity, and I’m not sure it’s purely profit seeking. I think it is actually just ignorance.

—edit—

Apple has not made it obvious how to back up all the content from your apps, nor has Adobe, nor has either of them made it easy to do it in a non-proprietary fashion. This is anti-artistic. It makes me not have true control over my creations, and this is discouraging and damaging to creativity.

—edit2–

I believe almost any artist would say: “having control of the durability of my art is extremely important, the latest Lightroom feature is largely insignificant.”
My understanding is that this only applies at long distances. The center of the galaxy can only block things farther away than that (10s of thousands of light years or more). The kill distance is very close at 25 light years, and stars must be quite big and bright to go supernova.
If they give me the option to mute someone (or in this case, something), that's not Slack policing anything. It's simply them enabling me to mute distractions. As I mentioned too, most of the others see no problem with the bot. They actually enjoy it. So muting it for myself would be preferable.

If Slack allowed me to ignore others, then I would be accountable for missing any important messages. I am okay with having that responsibility.
Ye but imagine how dangerous airtravel would be if the safety routines were on level with road travel procedures (i.e. one checkup a year and pretravel routines always ignored).
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PSA: if you get on a support call with Adobe and complain long enough, they will waive the cancelation fee (source: I’ve done it). Not that this excuses Adobe in any way. They still intentionally obscure the fact that you’re signing a year contract when you sign up.
France, UE, Covid, democracry and the research of complete stupidity
Can't say I've ever encountered a startup selling an "Enterprise" plan but their software also ONLY supporting Mac.

Are there enterprises where they use Mac as default over Windows / Linux?
Is it easy to create Roblox games? I know my kids love it but not sure if its possible to try to do somthing yourself.
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Thanks! I hope to generalize this to other backends as well.
The privacy policy of Privacy.com makes me question if they should be trusted with the detailed transaction information of their users. The policy does make it clear that they share personal data with third parties under, what they call, "controlled circumstances":

"With third parties, within the United States and in other countries, who may access data about you to perform functions on our behalf"

Here it would be nice to get a clear picture of what these functions are. If they are only for the processing of payments then this is fine (they actually mention this case in the second bullet point so my example does not hold). If these functions are to data mine my data for reselling to a third party advertisment network that would not be alright.
> work from home becoming the norm

It isn't though. It might seem that way to people in cushy software development positions in the valley, but I don't believe that is happening very many other places.
I wish it was that simple. Questions and alerts come up frequently, and people expect as close to a real-time response as they can get.
> specialize on power users with XUL extension but lag even more behind Chrome - leads quite certainly to drop of users, slide to irrelevancy and the eventual death

Ah yes, if you're reduced to power users your death is inevitable. Which is why Linux, of course, is a myth and does not exist.
Is a Lauraceae if I'm not wrong. A cousin of bayleaf, so should be more seen as a spice than as a dish.
One of my friends I met during college ran his own private and modded RS server. He charged a monthly subscription fee for access, with price tiers that went from simply being able to access the server, all the way up to monthly "gifts" of what were essentially lootboxes.

I thought what a crazy idea, who would pay for that? And a few months later he bought himself a new Alienware laptop with his RS server income.
Oh wow. I didn't know that existed. That sounds like a fascinating cultural experience. I don't know why those odd-ball one-offs are so fascinating, but they are.
> I'm not an expert but I think in the future you will have swarm of drones against another swarm of drones.

Unlikely. You will rather a swarm of drones against an enemy that has no such technology.

A country that can have a swarm of drones would very likely also have nuclear weapons and deterrence is a thing.
Remember when 4chan was a bunch of teens being edgy portrayed as 'far-left' by Fox and a couple years later you'd woken up surrounded by actual Nazis?
I gave you Chiapas elsewhere in the thread as well as a long list [1]. There's also Rojava. But you don't even need to go that far, every worker-owned cooperative, credit union and mutual insurance is mutualist.

Many further examples in history tend to be wiped out by those already in power. Furthermore, there were also no examples of capitalism before capitalism either, so it's not surprising.

[1]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_anarchist_communities
There are many method to evaluate the work.

Sometimes it is just the count the number of published papers, or that dividing by the number of authors, or some weight if you are the first or the last author.

Number of citations, h-index, ...

About the journal, there is the impact factor and many somewhat arbitrary ranks...

A paper in a totally obscure journal that is not cited by other papers, has the same weight than a blog post.
And fighters fall out of the sky quite ofent for no good reason. Luckely the pilots can shoot them self out.
I have also ended my 25+ year relationship with Adobe. I wouldn't feel so miffed about it if it wasn't for buying a full CS3 Master Collection licence for $2.5k thinking I was a "good boy" and this would be a sound investment in my career since I was deep into Flash, Flex, Fireworks and ofc Photoshop and Illustrator.

Then they went full Cloud and did me the "favour" of giving me a discount on this suite of $59.99 to $39.99 (IIRC). Every. Damn. Month.

The thing is I wasn't really using any of it much anymore, so I cancelled, but every now and then I need to whip up a logo/graphic or retouch some image and I don't have the little [Ps] or [Il] in my Dock anymore and I'm not gonna sign up again and pay monthly. That was the point of buying this software in the first, it's there for me when I need it, it's mine.

Nowadays Sketch gets me where I need to go most of the time, gonna have to get Affinity soon.
> Electrolysis went live in spring 2017 (it came with Fx 48 and was gradually activated till Fx54). Around that time was the first massextinction of addons.

Ok, so power users that mess with about:config (or users with zero extensions) were running e10s for more than a year before the WebExtension switch, and e10s was available in the beta and nightly channels long before then (ie. by late 2015).

But what's really important is that the process of enabling e10s was gradual and well-managed from a user perspective, rather than being a singular event that broke almost every extension long before viable replacements could be developed for most of them.
I take a hot bath at the end of my day. Sometimes I will play music, but otherwise no distractions, phone, or reading. Nothing else seems to do the trick.
Hmm, seems strange.. seems easier to start another one. I mean we have a wide range of forum sites.
> I think just a mere existence of flu or cold was a mistake. We should have eradicated those years ago.

It's not clear to me how eradicating these would have ever been possible in the past, or will be in the foreseeable future. The flu has (probably) been around since at least 6000 BC, and numerous strains can be spread by birds & many other species.
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If you don’t get rid of the forest fire, you are screwed either way. Driving less maybe takes you from 60 to 30, it won’t have any impact at 800. Driving less is a good thing, it’s just not something that is going to help with forest fire pollution.

Think about the difference between peeing or not into a clear body of water and a muddy swamp. Either way, you don’t want to drink from the muddy swamp.
Thanks for flagging this service, I just signed up. Looks very sleek and easy to use. Not sure what I would do with it, but nice to have as an option, especially when working with sketchy merchants.
>> because the drivers irrationally refused to work more for the same pay

How is this irrational? You offer me $X for Y hours of work. If X/Y gets too small I say "no" and do something with higher utility, even if that's playing flappy bird. I don't really care that my actions destroy the source of this opportunity because I've already rejected it.

You are right that this is simple, just not in the way you're interpreting it.
To be fair, it is from 2012
Your message is full of cliches.

> when you create a company, you have to pay a separate fee (~200eur) to a private "official journal" to publish the fact that you're creating a company.

Irrelevant, it's a ridiculous amount compared to other costs involved in starting a company.

> just check out the ENS's Nobel prize / admissions ratio

This doesn't tell anything about the French education system.

> Most of the brilliant French minds go to work in other countries where it's possible to create and operate a company.

A lot of brillant minds don't have any interest in creating a company. Besides, the world is a big place with many opportunities. Nowadays it's easy to travel and work abroad. A lot of people, brillant or not, leave their country out of curiosity.

As any places, France has good and bad things. Usually, we understand what we miss after living a few years abroad.
Cinnamon, nutmeg, mace, star anise, ginger, and real pepper all contain small amounts of safrole (the actual chemical) as well. It would be ridiculous to propose banning herbs and spices due to naturally-occurring safrole.
Anti-capitalists would argue that those problems (corporatism, money-in-politics, wealth inequality) are inevitable products of capitalism.

Obviously the Soviet model was a failure, but I think it's a bit silly to use the failure of one competing model as an argument that no other model could ever succeed.
A very interesting point!

Yes, that does make sense -- threat of lawsuit should in theory equal higher quality goods and services.

But, I'm sort of 50/50 on it without a little bit of additional proof... It sounds like it makes sense prima facie, but does it really apply to all fields of economic endeavor?

The counter argument (and I don't really want to make it, because your argument is a good one!), if I were to make it, would go something like this:

If you have a system of production, that is a series of people, workmen, following a series of localized rules (that is the rules and the workflows of the company), then after those are established (and they could very well be initially established by a lawsuit or threat of lawsuit), but after those local rules and workflows are established, then the lawsuit or threat of lawsuit - really doesn't apply anymore.

Most methods of production in this day and age are systems, that is, they employ both humans and machines and a series of rules to produce some good or service of economic value.

Once the rules of the system are established -- the system usually works from that point on -- much like a computer program.

But, this being said, I do like your argument, and I do find merit in it!

I feel it would be highly worthy to consider your argument in debates of this nature in the future! There is something to be said for what you're saying! There's something there that needs to be explored (with evidence and economic data) further!
That works for very niche streamers/creators. Maybe with an older audience as well. If your a streamer on twitch or YouTube chances are your audience isn‘t older than 30. I personally don‘t really use email for actual communication. Twitter is pretty much perfect to communicate to an audience. Yes it isn‘t federated but at least you‘re using a bunch of different platforms to diversify risk.

Generally I would advise new content creators to be present on every possible platform.
Sorry if I wasn’t clear. I was not implying that any a/b where b approaches 0 is always +infinity. I was simply saying that a/0 isn’t defined, but that in the case of 1/x (positive 0), it is somewhat defined as positive infinity.
From the article:

> An article about women engineers, published in 1908, has a promising start: If women are attending technical schools and are not legally blocked from working in a forge or firm, why do they face so many obstacles to employment? A reader in 2020 who discovers such a socially progressive question in the archives of Scientific American anticipates a discussion of sex discrimination.

> Alas, no. Author Karl Drews explains it simply: the obstacles “are inherent in the nature of the case and are due to women's comparative weakness, both bodily and mental.” He elaborates: “The work of the engineer is creative in the highest sense of the word. From his brain spring the marvels of modern industry,” in contrast to women, “whose notable performances have hitherto been confined to the reproductive arts.”

From you:

> In much the same way as we dismiss "racism" today as backwards and scientifically unsound, in 50 or 100 years time, "gender studies" will be considered implausible and frowned upon.

...So are you proposing we're going back to gender essentialism?
In my .bashrc I use

export CFLAGS='-O2 -march=native -mfpmath=sse -fopenmp -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -fno-unwind-tables -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables'
Dr. Michael Munger of Duke was on EconTalk recently and talked about his 'Four Buildings' view of the university. I think that this lens is an incredibly useful way to look at the problem.

Briefly, the Four Buildings of the University are 1) The Clock Tower - It coordinates times for shared experiences, 2) The Stadium - It gives a shared tribal identity to a group of people, 3) The Student Union - A sorting hat for people that are 'in' and further subdivides interests, great for dating and close friendship, 4) The Admissions Office - Very important, tells the rest of the world this person was evaluated and found exceptional.

Note that The Classroom is not on the list.

Some of these buildings can be done remotely-ish (Admissions, the Clock Tower - maybe), but the others absolutely need to be in person (Stadium, Student Union, Clock Tower - mostly).

Justifying these Four Buildings, remotely, at $50k/yr, is a very hard sell, but a great idea for a social-Startup.

https://www.aier.org/article/after-the-virus-universities-wi...

https://www.econtalk.org/michael-munger-on-the-future-of-hig...
I cited the evidence - the links to the WHO meta-study and the oxford center for evidence-based medicine are comprehensive, and results are as I quoted them.

If you think there is additional evidence that they have not covered, cite it.

“Countries with high mask compliance” is not a definable parameter. Japan was held up as a “mask-wearing country”, but is currently in the midst of a major outbreak. Hawaii is locked down again. Singapore has had recurrent outbreaks, despite widespread mask use. Sweden and the Netherlands do not require masks, and have brought their epidemics under control.

Any attempt to draw conclusions based on what happens to a country after passing a mask rule, is an exercise in post hoc fallacious reasoning.
Does the Splitgraph Data Delivery Network allow queries that ORDER BY an unsorted column? This seems like a vector for a Denial of Service attack.
Yep, the magic word is “charge back”.
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I got into a MUD around 2003. Lensmoor. Our high school laptops didn't block Telnet, so it was something to do.

I was obsessed with the game until I gradually realized that the best players were there for thousands of hours, and I didn't have that kind of time for it.
Median is just the arbitrary mid point between the two extremes, that doesn't actually mean anything useful to the average person. If you picked someone at random from the subset of the US population that reports an income (presumably the working population) and asked them what their income is, the most likely answer is the mode value, or in 2014 about $22,000. That's reality. That's why that is important.

The median income ($53,000) is literally pointless except as yet another indicator of how unbalanced the economy is. If the economy was perfectly balanced the median and mean would be the same, but they're nowhere near that. The median was $53,000, while the mean was $75,000. An incredibly large chunk of the US is making significantly less than a handful of massive earners. And that's not even factoring in all the dirty tricks that the richest use to hide their wealth like offshoring bank accounts and shifting most of their assets into capital gains.
> "If you build the client, and a web page/app and also document how you did it and also show us the code, that'd be much more useful."

So a website resume, like literally every other candidate...

I think you've missed the entire point of the idea... which is to stand out with a different approach