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I don't see how you could read that from my reply. I don't think girls we can know if girls have more potential "independently of the world around them".

It is true girls currently, on average, do significantly better at exams at many levels, in particular to get into University (at least, in the UK). Why is open to debate.
Don't watch it than, Dyslexic Atheist! Let me put on my Sherlock Holmes hat....Identity Politics hat on.
Since majority of Atheists are gay, and most gays are liberal. It follows that a dyslexi gay atheist, would not appreciate literature, especially a conservatives take on Pinocchio.
Isn’t the big question how matter exists at all?

My outlook is that things just exist in some higher dimension but because we perceive things in 3D we wrongfully assume there needs to be a start/end.

Look inside a box of mirrors at the infinitely repeating pattern and ask yourself where it begins/ends?

Curious to hear how other people rationalize the irrational.
There’s nothing here to say it wasn’t. Further, how can you be sure the universe wasn’t created as it appeared last Thursday and everything since has simply been some higher dimension’s cellular automata set up with that as its initial state and an update algorithm encoding what we call “physics”?

The fact of the matter is that the existential question cannot be answered with any degree of certainty, so to accept any single explanation as truth while ridiculing valid competitors (all that cannot be disproven) is a close minded approach.
I only know the UK -- in standardised exams to go to University, and then at University, girls do better on average.
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Someone at every company has clearly done the math and decided the security conscious customers they alienate/lose will be massively offset by the amount of revenue they can generate by harvesting data. I'm no longer surprised to find [random simple device] is sending any data it can find off to third parties anymore.
> The problem is it's chicken and egg. To get users you need apps, to get app developers you need users.

I didn't say it would be easy. :-) It is a huge can of worms to declare the current smartphone + app store design as a public utility to be preserved for 50 years, when this industry is barely 12 years old at this point.

> To overcome that you don't just need something which is as good as the status quo, you need something so much better that people will switch to it despite the apps conundrum.

Yes. I don't think it will come from "the smartphone" market which has already been won. It will come by some disruptor that eats into adjacencies: AR, VR, wearables, etc. Apple actually has a good chance to retain their position because everyone has underestimated how important Apple Watch could become, plus their investments in AR.

> Who do you propose has the resources to unseat the incumbents at this point?

Alibaba group, Facebook, Valve, Tencent, Huawei, Amazon, and Microsoft.

> That's a big part of the problem -- the users lack visibility into the inner workings. How many iPhone customers even realize that competing stores are prohibited, or that Apple bans things they may want?

I think most users are broadly aware that Apple control things and take a cut. Most people have to deal with Kindle or Audible and having to buy that content via a different app or the browser. IMO the current legal argument is broadly not about banned apps, it's about profit margins.

> The developers can't even show the users how much they're paying, or offer discounts for purchases made through other channels, because Apple prohibits it.

So does every other platform provider though. Publishers and retailers can't discount Nintendo switch games unless Nintendo approves it. This goes back 40 years to Atari.

> And the lack of user awareness is another impediment to establishing a new competing platform.

I think the bigger issue is if users actually prefer the current curated arrangement.
> Considering how many papers I read that still are easily misunderstood even by smart readers... I think "defensive writing" is better understood as "good writing".

I agree 100%.

One thing I HATE HATE HATE is when research articles use unnecessary synonyms. Ie, plasma membrane in one sentence and then phospholipid membrane in another and then cell membrane in another. For someone just trying to get a grasp on a topic, it is REALLY fucking confusing. And even if you're an expert on the topic, it's still annoying. Just pick one and stick with it.

OR uses stupidly complex words just to appear smart. Ie, ameliorates, a term I've ONLY ever seen in biology research articles and yet is a completely unscientific/unnecessary word. This isn't your creative writing class. Just fucking say that you found that your drug decreases lipid synthesis, NOT that it ameliorates it you big dunce.

ALSO one more thing that annoys me - when people only use a term 3 or 4 times in a paper, but still INSIST on using the acronym. Ok, I get it - if it's something WAY more commonly referred to by its acronym like DNA or COPD, it's acceptable and probably preferable. But if it's central pontine myelinolysis, just fucking type it out instead of writing CPM so I don't have to waste mental energy trying to decipher what it means.

If anything, scientific writing should be dumbed down more.

PS. While I'm on my biomed-academia soapbox, I'd like to point out that the correct pronunciation of constitutive is just as it's written - similar to constitution. It's TUTIVE not TUITIVE.
Did you read the article?

> They found a widespread pattern of illegal misconduct in which Purdue systematically misled doctors (and the general public) about the risks associated with OxyContin
> If we can believe the research that there is a gender bias against males at the middle school level surely the opposite may also be true at the high school / college level where there are more male teachers.

The sex/gender of the teacher didn't play a role at the middle school level though. I find it hard to keep up the narrative of "society doesn't want girls to go into STEM" when there's a lot of affirmative action, selective media representation, lots of programs etc. "But it's only to offset the invisible bias" I'm sure some might argue, but I think they overlook the possibility that there is nothing keeping them down and they just make different choices.

I didn't downvote your previous comment, but it did sound like you were a bit reaching for straws to turn an observation into the desired outcome by filling in the middle.
A pet theory of mine is that they simply were out-competed. If these processes require chemical concentration 100X over timespan 100X to form de-novo, but a basic prokaryotic structure may only require concentration 1X over timespan 1X, that could make de-novo synthesis entirely unfavorable. Once those prokaryotic structures propagate enough, it could be reasonable that the conditions for de-novo genesis would no longer be routine enough that it would play an observable role today. This also helps make sense of why more complex organisms would form de-novo - they would be entropically more stable ("Filling a niche").
No, and I do miss them. The important ones are with people I don't normally have direct interaction with COO, CFO, VPs I can catch then in the kitchen, or on the way to the train to get 1on1 time that is otherwise impossible to get.

There are not that many random conversations in the office normally. Open plan so everyone has headphones on and conversations are via Slack even before Covid.
By your definition, I don't think I could sneak the east india trading company as an example of a monopoly.

We we speaking in a context. If we can't agree that any of these industries are monopolized... If we have to start by assuming that the market dynamics of a pin factory are at play in commercial banking... IDK where to go exactly.

Besides that, the other examples I gave were explicitly of non monopolies. Market dynamics like competition, creative destruction and such are not in operation. Monopoly (extreme concentration, trusts, oligopoly, monopsony, oligopsony, captive bottlenecks... do we really have to do this or can we just use "monopoly" as shorthand like normal people?)

>> we have to be real about what works where, and what doesn't.

We have to be real about what is a market, in the Smithian sense is, and what isn't. Military industry is not a market. There are a few big players with most of the market. One buyer. Political dynamics are many times more important than market dynamics. Same for commercial banking, pharmaceuticals etc.

In 2020 it is simply trite to look to the relative efficiency of government vs private (non-market) as the lens through which everything is seen. If we have to look through that lens, lets at least look through it honestly. Private vs Public has nothing to do with market discipline because market discipline doesn't exist for most of the economy... particularly if you measure it by market cap. Monopolism (using the term widely) is just one of the reasons, but there are others. The world is complicated and commercial banking is not subject to the same dynamics as local plumbing businesses. Pretending that they are is madness.

BTW, Adam Smith would have been on my side of this debate, as would have most of the old liberals. Market ideology has gone so far that people don't even need a market to apply it to.
Not making excuses for this issue, but it seems to me that keeping a company like Sonos (upscale audio hardware) alive & prosperous with the crazy megalithic competitive forces that lurk on all sides must be a nightmare.

On the one hand you have Apple and their half-hearted (for now) entry, and at the low end you have Alexa/"Talk to it" speakers. These alternatives seem destined to encroach on the Sonos turf come hell or high water.

I will say that for their intended purpose--streaming music to a network connected speaker, Sonos speakers just work great! Their app interface, while not a great experience, functions. When I click "Play," stuff immediately comes out of my speakers. NOW. There is never a delay, never a spinning pizza, never, never NEVER! (anecdata, of course)

So I (me, not you) can't blame them for wildly thrashing a bit on the data collection side. I get it. They are terrified they are going to get squeezed eventually.

Do I wish they would reconsider advertising and related marketing shenanigans as business models? Yes, I do. For now they meet my needs and they just work. It's a trade off I'm (me, not you) are willing to make for now.
Pushed by the company AND(!!!) also by doctors. The company spent a lot of money on spreading lies and belittling negative information. Same what the tobacco guys did. Doctors aren't faultless either. A lot of them must have seen what was happening.
>false pretense of violence

It was pretty real

https://archive.is/XrqOC
Exposing the phone meta data program would expose it both domestically and internationally. That exposure would limit the US ability to keep doing it internationally and open him to exactly the critism made above.

The issue here is that none of these programs care about national boundaries (or citizenship etc). So exposing domestic surveillance exposed it internationally as well. There was no way to avoid that. So criticism of it seems unfair to me...

Also, 99% of the programs he exposed were Illegal. Some have been legalised after the fact, others semi legalised.

SCOTUS has refused to rule on any of it, so the ultimate compatibility with the constitution remains unclear...
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Yeah - I own a consulting company helping suppliers navigate the procurement process of state, local and federal procurement. None of these numbers check out and since it's municipal data it's all subject to a FOIA request.

This is my first article i've read by this company and it didn't really seem to have a conclusion besides spreading obviously false data.
You can also collect code coverage statistics from this canary deploy. I don't know if this is possible with EBS but I've done it with JVM apps where you can connect a debugger remotely. Keep running the canary until 100% of code paths are hit. If a code path isn't hit, find out why and repeat.

It's also a great way to empirically find dead code.
Different aerodynamics probably had a little impact but it's mostly just a much better power to weight ratio. It helps that you didn't launch a raspberry pi and battery :)
I had a bad concussion when I was 12 that ended up tanking my testosterone levels (and god knows what else). I was extremely tired all the time. I didn’t get it properly diagnosed for nearly 15 years, and in that time I turned down going to Ivy League schools and a bunch of other opportunities. I have to admit going on HN can be a bit of a bummer as I always thought I was destined for the lives a lot of people have here (Silicon Valley, startups, etc).

I still got a degree in computer science but with that path I was put on... I’m now a photographer and still live in the same area I grew up in.

I realize you have more years “wasted” but I’ve had quite a bit of time to come to terms with all of that. I think it’s important to keep in mind we all have advantages and disadvantages in life, and chances are if you’re on here you’ve still had a pretty charmed life. You’re intelligent, in a developed country, etc. Most people don’t have that.
Not sure what unified response would change. It's not diplomacy.
You’d have to write not only a terminal, but a FUSE layer or something, because when an MPW tool opens a file, it’s actually opening the live editor buffer for the file (if there is one). You can even give a filename to a tool that represents the editor selection in the file. Which was all awesome, and I have also thought of trying to figure out how to do it in newer MacOS or Linux.

I always figured this was inspired by Smalltalk, with its “DoIt” command, but never asked the MPW folks.
After studying both ODEs and PDEs, it did strike me that teaching this subject is incredibly counter-productive and outdated.

The most important skill in this area is ability to compose differential equation from the description of the problem.

That includes ability to correctly identify and define initial conditions.

And then instead of attempting (and failing) to solve the DE analytically through the algebraic methods, apply modern numerical methods (Runge-Kutta, etc).

Because in this way you can obtain solution to any DE with any degree of precision (within reasonable assumptions about complexity of the problem).
Because peer-reviewed ist often also friend-reviewed. If you attend conferences you know most of the time who is pushing which topic and in your field. And seen the draft version at the conference.
"Based off Work by Nicky Case", in particular:

https://ncase.me/ballot/
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There are so many rules. It's as though the rules are specifically set up to discourage you to provide something for the community.

But my point is that the €15/month solution is not actually €15/month because of the reasons I outlined.
The OP writes that Sonos speakers can function without an internet connection which is entirely untrue and what differentiates the product from others in the market. Sonos speakers access the net and your streaming music accounts by themselves without using your phone and you can demonstrate this by turning off the phone while they're playing. Logically, therefore, the cloud service on which this relies must keep that personal info about you. Location is used to find the speakers around you when you're using the phone app.

I'm very against unnecessary data collection and even more opposed to companies selling my data, but I'm very happy with my Sonos and I don't see any evidence that they're doing either of those things.
it sounds like you’re just confused. neither one of them is a russian asset. maybe you are by intentionally spreading misinformation
I understood the comment you replied to as sexism being the only cause acceptable to society at large. If you suggest different reasons, you'd get in trouble if you worked at Google for example.
Stuff like this is why I keep cobbling together my own systems out of open source components. It’s less slick than a turnkey solution like Sonos, but it makes me feel less like a resource that’s being exploited by another big company.
Immensely, thank you. I guess I should have read more carefully. I'll leave my unwarranted snark so others can laugh at me.
They have a coupon, just so you know. I believe it’s just a form on their website. It brings to copay down considerably.
You are missing the point, by quoting out-of-context from the section with this big header: We optimize papers for the referee, not for the (intended) audience.

The author's issue is not with defensive writing. It's with writing to defend against the wrong audience.

Perhaps you haven't been in academia, and haven't experienced it yourself, but the author's problem is very real. Your intended audience will understand a point, and want you to go further. But the referees are often not the intended audience.

Imagine trying to explain the value of a new type of N95 mask to an anti-masker. You'll be spending your time writing defensively to try to argue for the most basic aspects of wearing a mask, when you would really just like to go into details on what's cool about the new type of mask, for people who actually care about better masks.
Not to mention the fact that their app is constantly bugging me to turn on the "recently played" feature, which will store my listening history on their servers.

There is a "Hide" button which dismisses it for a few days, but then it just comes back. I keep denying it every single time, but the app doesn't care how often I have denied it already.
> (since resistance is DC)

Resistance is actually a frequency-dependent quantity as well. It's the component of impedance that dissipates power (ie, current and voltage are in phase).

A very simple example of a frequency-dependent resistor is a solid copper wire. DC currents flow through the whole cross-sectional area; AC currents flow through an area that excludes an increasing fraction of the interior as the frequency increases.

Magnetic hysteresis and eddy current losses also behave as frequency-dependent resistances (although you might alternatively think about the latter as a frequency dependent coupling to a resistor).
Thant's great! Missing parts are assembler and linker, which of course are out of the scope of a C compiler per se, though make complete toolchain. I'm interested in this stuff because I'm toying with my own simple machine coined for tiny FPGAs and I concidered writing my own C compiler, but I need an assembler first.
In other words, taking Al Capone down for tax evasion.

But as I understand it, taking down Al Capone in that way was only necessary because at the time the laws now used to attack organized crime (RICO for instance) didn't yet exist. If France doesn't presently have laws that allow the government to attack these sort of organizations [doubt], they really should be writing such laws instead of leaning on selective enforcement of chickenshit violations.
> So far as I can tell, this doesn’t use [ or ] in its syntax at all

Yes, that's why the GP chose those characters to delimit their example strings. I'll try again using ` characters to delimit the example strings.

> so all the values you give would be represented exactly as strings without any problem.

But what would those string representations hold? If I parse the below strings in a javascript context, what would I get?

` a`, `a `, `"a"` and `""`

Do I get this?

" a", "a ", "\"a\"" and "\"\""

Or do I get this?

"a", "a", "a" and ""

Or do I get something inbetween?
As a kid, I think it's in my blood to do something technical or systematic. We have a lot of males in my family and a lot of mechanics, engineers, handy people. Out of 4 siblings they've had a combined number of 5 boys and no girls. Only in the 2nd line do the girls start appearing. Just an observation. The line before that on my fathers side was 3 boys and 1 girl. All boys became some type of engineering profession later, before computers took over.

We were poor though, all it took was my mom working as a nurse at the hospital and the hospital had a subsidizied computer leasing program for all their workers. It was a contract thing that renewed after 2-3 years so for 3 periods their leasing computer was my only computer.

Before that my older brother had left his c64 with me but I only knew how to play some games on it.

First leasing computer I gamed on and let my older brother overclock for me. 2nd one is when I discovered script kiddie stuff, cracking programs, pirating. 3rd one is when I first installed Linux and got hooked. That was around 2000, i was 15.

Later in life I've described myself as a control freak and Linux gave me control and insight into things I was fascinated by.

By chance it also gave me a wonderful career where my knowledge is so valued that I can work where I want, when I want and can say no to anything without feeling fear for my job.
Another thing is that the current world is more hostile to RNA. Anyone who has ever worked with RNA will tell you that you need to be very careful during the preparation to avoid contamination with ribonuclease enzymes that degrade RNA. We're covered in them.
Isn't reuse the best version of recycling? Who could have thought Apple was so anti-environmental.
It’s pretty hard to hide when you’re a doctor. Not so much when you’re a software engineer and honor is a tough meal to eat when you’re out of a job.
I recognize what you're saying about trusting yourself. Part of having experienced psychosis is regaining trust in my own mind, afraid of 'the bottom falling out'. I feel I'm doing well there.
I'm also wondering if they have diagnosed me correctly. I pretty much haven't had any depressive symptoms for at least five years now, it stopped a long time before I ever had a psychotic episode. In fact, the depression was in line with my living conditions, it was something that made perfect sense at the time. Sounds like a question for a psychiatrist.

Unfortunately, like you experienced too, part of the healthcare industry still has a parent-child relationship between doctor and patient. I notice that the doctors which worked out, never really had that aspect, but treated me as someone with valid input. Especially for me, I like to understand things, dive into them, see what the mechanics of medication, disease and diagnosis are all about. It doesn't really work well with a doctor that just wants to prescribe whatever they think is right. I'm sure you can relate to that.

Thanks for the well wishes. I can say that I've been pretty much completely symptom free for a year now, and it does feel like I've only now started to really explore myself, and find out what I want out of life. All the best to you as well.
I knew that Big Hero 6 was originally a Marvel comic. Quite frankly, it was lame, and originally intended as a way for Marvel to capture the weeaboo dollar. Disney was looking through the back catalog of their acquisition, Marvel, for properties to adapt into animation, came across BH6, and set it in its own universe which in many ways is even more grounded than the MCU. Sometimes, an adaptation -- even a Disneyfication -- brings out the best elements of the original and leaves behind the junk.
Can confirm. Having dropped my mobile in the bath (...) I needed wifi yesterday and only the fifth café I tried in provincial France had wifi available. (And that didn't work until I adjusted my settings to use the DHCP server's provided DNS...)

Now I wonder if it's this law that made it not worth the effort for them.