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Anecdote from my personal experience in daily life, as a German in Germany.

While I can speak English mostly without any special effort, it sometimes surprises me that I need time (up to 2 seconds maybe) to switch, when someone is asking me something. As in at first it doesn't even register as English, more like thinking what was that?. Then, delayed I suddenly understand. Of course it depends on the situation (environment, other sounds, other speakers, and so on, too) and the accent/dialect of the speaker. In other cases no problem at all, like instant switching without any hassle/thinking about it.

It depends/varies in strange ways :)
I'm confused. Aren't these registrations on wifi usually (almost always?) tied to a spoofable mac address? In that case, can't any competent bad actor simply record traffic to pick up mac addresses of others on the network, then impersonate them?
There are no app-stores that are apolitical, that I know of at least. If they are opinionated in setting up barriers of entry for applications, it is a political decision. Even F-Droid choosing to be open-source only, is a political decision.
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> If so it’d turn around a long held belief that STEM education is biased towards men. At least in grade school.

No, you can't infer this conclusion from that paper.

Yes, the paper claims that there exists some bias towards girls (from teachers' grading). And the sentence you quote claims that without that specific bias, the gender gap would be in favor of boys ("12.5% larger"). However, we do not know if this figure is free of bias (IMO, fair to say probably not). Therefore, there might be other biases in STEM in favor of boys that could explain the gender gap in their favor.
I think one of the biggest fallacies is that alcohol "shows who the person really is".

It definitely loosens you up, to a point. Maybe 3-8 drinks in it is definitely closer to "the true self".

But in large amounts it definitely creates an over-emotional person. In it's own way it creates emotional reaction spirals that could cause suicide, or lashing out at people, irrational love or hatred of self, etc.

Like i said, biggest fallacy.
Elementary and middle schools in the United States would welcome more male applicants. The issue is there are not many males that major in education at the undergraduate college level and so there are not many male applicants to choose from.

This is a societal / financial issue.

Societal because boys see education as a woman's job, which is reinforced through their educational experience of having mostly female teachers.

Financial because as much as Americans like to think that they live in a progressive society, males are typically expected to be the primary income earner. Education simply does not pay well; particularly when you consider the education and credentials required. Education in the United States has added increased prerequisites to become a teacher in a public school. In all likelihood, your child's teacher either already has or is working on their master's in education to maintain their teaching credentials. If they have aspirations of being an administrator they are likely working on a doctorate. This to earn a maximum annual salary of less than $100,000 and only after decades of working for a school district.
Speaking three is common, but there is often an appreciable and even obvious erosion in the mastery of some of them (limited vocabulary, misspellings..., mobile phones made lot of damage also in this field). We need to be aware of this point also

Having a logically structured thinking or being good in math (all related with having dementia or not) does not depend on how many times you can say 'street' in different languages.
> We tend to have strong opinions, as is out democratic duty.

How is a strong opinion a democratic duty?
Some of the best features of people are the result of competitive evolution -- it's not just our worst features that come from the struggle for survival.

The iguana's war on algae is definitely hell for the algae. Is not killing other animals such a great distinction, in the grand scheme of things?

If all the animals were vegetarian and weren't getting preyed on, most of them would die of starvation. (Most birds, rabbits, &c die early -- it's not like people where surviving to adulthood is the norm.) The animals that killed the other animals to have more vegetables to eat would have more offspring and be more likely to survive. Killing others not to eat them but to eat their stuff -- that's war.

The iguana situation is one where there's just not much evolutionary pressure. It doesn't generalize.
The fundamentals change much more slowly. Like http has hardly changed at all until 2.0 showed up. So you can take that knowledge to Laravel, Rails, Express, whatever. I've always felt digging a little bit and getting down more into the core of things can really help with the fatigue of tech always changing.
Ah, climate scientists are against nuclear or GMO?

Do you have any link to those papers against nuclear?
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ruqqus.com

It's in beta though.
Follow the money. Who is helping them monetize this behavior?
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I used to work as a technician for a telephony company. My job consisteted in unpacking phones, connect them and label them. Around 2000, Enterprises started replacing their PBX with VoIP While setting up some of those VoIP telephones I met a guy who was happily setting up things in a black screen in the same server room. He explained me that he was using Asterisk PBX project and how he was setting up VoIP and an analog PBx line just using free software. (Our solution was Mitel wchih was a custom BSD distro) I was able to download it and customize it, this requires learning a lot of Linux commands, eventually completed my degree in CS and move from Latam to Silicon Valley to work in UC research
There are a number of misconceptions with that common belief. First, it's a US experience only, there are many countries where females are in similar numbers of other students in engineering courses. Second, it depends widely on course: it is not uncommon to have a male majority in computer science and mechanical eng., and a female majority in chemical eng., physics, math, aerospace eng., medicine, pharmacy, etc
I meant that tongue in cheek.
Exactly. The impression was .. What a complete crap?!
The idea that asking someone to provide their name and phone number (where they can enter anything they want) is going to somehow aid terror investigations seems naive at best, and more likely disingenuous.
I'm not sure if "you turn on a VPN and govt is out" is an accurate representation though, considering not all VPNs also resolve DNS requests, and a number of ISPs resort to deep-packet inspection and a number of tactics that would let them collect information on users. It's a matter of agreement, compliance, or force for the government to get their hands on that data.

But I definitely agree on the point about Google Play Services. For a platform that is often touted as being open, Android isn't quite Android without Play Services, and that wouldn't be the case if Google wasn't systematically ensuring that specific outcome.
This isn't exactly news. This is what democrats have been proclaiming for years.

This has been the talk of antifa and the driver of these anti-gun alt-left types of groups starting to stockpile weapons.
Thank you for your thoughts Andreas!
What I had in my mind was rather a non-linear combinatorial utility function which would allow for global utility comparisons (which would answer not only what the best action is, but also who the most viable actor for a given action given comparable skills is), not an ordinal one. That would enable a framework that gives you maximum societal output and maximum conformity at the same time.
Not everyone is FAANG, or pretends to be one.
> The original implementation used coaxial cable, as it was widely available for TV sets, to be able to act as the physical layer of the network – although with coaxial/10Base2 networks, the end of the co-axial cable run required the use of a terminator to avoid signal reflection.

Reminds me of the early 90s when I convinced our company to try LANtastic instead of the bulky IBM Token Ring network we had at the time. Tiny coax cables with BNC connectors and terminators, and no central server or MAU. Each workstation was its own "server" and we could finally use our IBM AT for actual work instead of having its RAM stuffed full with IBM network management software! Hell of a lot cheaper too!
How are the "key apps" going to move there when the users refuse to install apps from there? If it was so easy, why don't all the "key apps" do this already and stop using Apple's store so that everybody has to switch to Android?
Couldn't this be solved by having the cost of the commercial license flex based on operating income, development budget, or team size?
:( my terminal looks wierd
I have no idea either way, but this amount of data probably shouldn't sway predictions too much.
Your ability to feel sadness evolved from the thing you are sad about.
If Assange isn't being pardoned for the nonsensical "crime" of exposing war crimes by the US Government, there is no chance that Snowden will be pardoned. Snowden willingly stole state secrets whereas Assange only published.

Still, when you consider that Snowden is living in Russia, essentially free, and Assange is in a 3.5x2m cell, I don't think Snowden has anything to worry about, except that the royalties from his book will be taken away....but he has his freedom.

https://www.npr.org/2020/10/01/919261319/court-rules-edward-...
Out of sheer morbid curiosity about how far I could go with optimization. Preact was to be the first step, but the eventual goal was to try to use static analysis to only mount dynamic runtime code that had potential for state change, and make the rest truly static.

For the site in question, everything except a hamburger menu could have been reduced to HTML and never touched by any DOM code, and it felt bonkers to ship the same content as JSX.

It’s been a while so I don’t remember if Preact was part of that effort or just a separate optimization step that seemed like it should be low hanging fruit.
People need to stop heating their homes otherwise you don’t think they believe in climate change?

There are over 100,000 global flights a day. Emissions for the air industry amount to 2% yearly.

We really need to start with the big emitters.

Optimizing the airline industry while coal is 40% of emissions is sort of a “penny wise pound foolish” attitude.
Exactly this. You can not "force" these sessions, they happen to happen, or not. It takes (a lot of open mic) time to get these things rolling.

It is a number game: more contact, more bouncing.

For about 5 years I ran a worldwide (FPS) tournament with a couple of friends. We never met AFK. It had to work online, or it would not work at all.

This is one reason I always ask potential employees if they encage in online communities. I find it a tremendous plus if people are able to collaborate with "strangers" and without financial dependencies.
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Assuming they’re secured and maintained enough to avoid vandalism and damage. Once water/mold start getting into abandoned buildings there’s only one option left eventually.
An (apocryphal!) recent Linear-A decrypt says: "Optimists learn egyptian. Pessimists learn assyrian. Realists learn horsemanship."
When they say the law requires "logs," precisely what information are the referring to? MAC address of the connecting device? Personal info of the device owner? Websites visited? SSH sites connected to? DNS queries? All of the above?
The federal new starts transit programs are an example of this.
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Behavioral interaction is easily reducible to a networking problem with just a few axioms and terms swapped. Simple rules make complex systems.

> draining natural resources dry for generations to come?

That would count as negative production in my model as I define output as (global production-global consumption)/log(global production+global consumption), aka diminished excess product, not as simple global production.

> How does this treat personal autonomy

It explicitly does not, as there is an inherent trade-off between personal pleasure and freedom, versus overall conformity. But you can tune the function by adding overall comfort (total objective satisfaction) as a third parameter, which will unfortunately reduce societal comformity. My model is both non-authoritarian and non-liberalistic. It relies on modern day high speed communication facilities to exchange the input parameters for the utility function instead.
ah, well printed hardcopy certainly changes your base costs significantly. I can now see why you want more than I "expected".

I wonder if there is a market for something like this in corporate IT shops that are looking/hoping to move to linux from windows.

Best of luck with your project.
Great game. In about 4 days the wire update will be released, which includes logic gates into the game: https://shapez.io/wires/
Participate in a Google meet for a few minutes. You’ll hear those lovely fans at full speed once again.
Doesn't necessarily matter if what they're actually doing is tracking an IMEI or SIM connection to the area and are
fishing for evidence of shady intent via entering false information. MAC addresses from a device that doesn't do MAC randomization are also good for that sort of thing. Android devices can also be tracked via advertising id's if the user doesn't reset it and you haven't pissed off Google. I draw the line at assigning what are effectively UUID's to people specifically because they are so often abused in that manner.

Across the pond, things work a bit differently, and the criminal justice systems are a bit lower friction for the authorities as I understand it. Not that I'm criticizing mind. The American System has not endeared itself to me as of late.
The social motivations for saying sth should not be conflated with the truth of that thing. In my experience, usually people shitting on their own group tell the truth.

On another note, I find Western, affluent self-flagellation much more pervasive and deceptive.
Sounds like they're hosting Charm Bundles on SoftLayer or one of their Telco partners' infrastructure.

https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/6793/394568?utm_source=Fa...
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RTMS, gaining traction, good efficacy, and no side effects like medication.
Replacing the arbitrariness of the monarch with the arbitrariness of institutions is a step forward in terms of diluting responsibility. Next up: machine driven decision making.
Mildly off topic:

When entering fake information into captive portals from bar owners who actually comply with bs laws like these, please take care to use something like a `.invalid` tld so that some unsuspecting third party isn't suddenly subject to your emails. <your_handle>@gmail.invalid works basically everywhere.
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The virus is quite small and would have to be in some unconventional state to show up optically (could make an interesting what-if xkcd).
Is that Cambridge? They did that at the Grafton Centre and I went much more often.
> Your argument demonstrates a lack of understanding of websites with/without HTTPS. I assume PG's website is popular which gives weight to the argument that it should have HTTPS.

Except that you've missed that this is an extra overhead for some people and they don't want to deal with it. (if it ain't broke don't fix it). x.com is popular (because Elon) but there isn't https on there. I don't see anyone complaining except tech folk.

You can also apply this to PG himself, as he actively tells people to directly go to non-https, that shouldn't be an issue for his audience.

It takes less time for you to go to a non-https than it is for him to set HTTPS up and maintain it, if you're so concerned you can mirror his content to a https site.
I think some feminists do push for this in the name of gender equality, and caretaking not only being a female responsibility.

At the same time, the idea that mainly women should solve the problem of "young boys need positive male role models" seems ironic. I'm sure many women do care because they want their sons to thrive, but men want their sons to thrive too, right?
“For my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law.” —Field Marshal Óscar R. Benavides, former president of Peru (attributed)
> It feels like this is the defining premise of the US tax code

See also, drug laws
A linked list is a random-memory traversal every time you do "node = node->next".

You can grossly mitigate the random-memory read/write by using unrolled linked lists (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unrolled_linked_list).

Or, instead of using binary-heaps, use d-heaps: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-ary_heap
I don't understand what you are trying to say. YYYY-MM-DD is the reverse of DD-MM-YYYY and the other way round.
That’s great! Thanks for the link. I’ll give it a shot at home today :)
I don't know, the growing wealth is still a good way off from becoming a ground for Apple to become very popular. Especially since the market has been heavily invested in Android devices due to the pricing disparity, it's a big jump and likely not one that can be alleviated simply by waiving some of the extra costs by manufacturing locally.

The most popular phones sold in India are low-midrange devices in the USD $80-400 range. It'll take quite a push from both the public and Apple to bring sentiment to a situation where Apple products have appeal. As it stands I'm not sure the demand will ever be there.
URL parsing is a nightmare. There are lots of RFCs, but the real world is full of quirks. This will lead to edge case differences between the implementations.

Also, which URI standard is part of the spec, what if the URI standard evolves? – It is a complex standard with multiple RFCs and a long history.

What of possible, different length restrictions in language native URI types?

I have no stake in this though, feel free to ignore. I tend to see negatives first.
Yes. And Damon used to come to the Elastica gigs, but because Parklife had suddenly made them mega famous he always had to sneak in the rear doors of venues or climb drain pipes to get into dressing rooms to be with Justine.

Dave did graphic design and 3d work as a hobby but this was much later.
How do you folks think regarding network bandwidth vs disk throughput? I used to think disk was way slower but now if we look at AWS ec2 instances, they are within one order of magnitude of each other:

Network: ec2 instances (except tiny ones)
1-2 Gbit/s Baseline, 10 Gbits/s Burst

disk: EBS volumes, general purpose, throughput
128 MiB/s - 250 MiB/s or ~ 2 Gbit/s (1,000 MiB/s for io optimized)

So the top of the baseline network bandwidth is the same as the top of the disk throughput, or am I wrong?
How can any of this go unnoticed over at Facebook? I can’t believe people working for Facebook would willingly bring so much destruction to their own communities...
SIMs are out of the question for public wifi hotspots - to authenticate a SIM (via EAP-SIM or EAP-AKA) you need an existing relationship with the mobile carrier.

When it comes to MAC addresses, 1) there isn’t a central registry of addresses anyway so having the MAC address alone won’t help much in an investigation, 2) it can be set by the user so malicious users will fake their MAC address and 3) for privacy reasons most devices nowadays will generate unique MAC addresses for each network.
Android version 10 or over uses randomized MAC adresses by default, as well.
Sorry, yes, I meant specifically the California forest ecologies that require fire.
Microdosing implies non psychoactive dose. It would be more like people who left after drinking one beer because they were not under the influence.

Furthermore, how can you be certain that you sober perception is more accurate than the altered one?
How can you be certain that the effects of microdosing are even comparable to full doses?
I am not making claims either way, just asking.
Private contractors aren't a solution to the problem; that's orthogonal. Lots of work goes to private contractors here, with the same results.
What is the best one you've come across?
Why would someone with malicious intentions ever provide their real details? Why would someone provide their real details anyway when they will most likely be used for advertising/marketing tracking and spam?
The suburbs are more popular than ever: https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2019/07/millennials-l....

It's to even really true in cities that people perceive to be growing and vital. New York City, for example, would be shrinking if it wasn't for the influx of foreign immigrants: https://zicklin.baruch.cuny.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/....

> The City of New York grew by over 362,000 residents between 2010 and 2016, a growth rate of 4.4% (Table 1). City officials consider this to be among the strongest periods of growth in the last half century (NYC Planning, 2017a). The population grew by 402,000 people through natural increase, and net foreign migration added an additional 500,000 residents. Net domestic migration was -524,000, as more people moved out of the city than moved in.
Replace "spanish nationalists" by "everybody else" and you have it. The idea that the main language of a nation, the only that everybody share and knows, should be deterred from part of the territory is surrealist.
We already have Americans not maintaining septic systems leading to outbreaks of hookworm.
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> As soon as Apple is constrained, everyone else who can impose requirements will do so.

But that's precisely where the distinction matters -- there can be a hundred stores with onerous requirements, but if there is nothing requiring you to use any of them, you don't.

It's obviously a problem if you're required to use a specific store instead of the one you want to, but that's the problem today -- it's the thing requiring them to allow anyone to open a store would address. If Apple is the only store on your device and the government pressures Apple to reject an app you want, you can't get it. If anyone can open a store and the government pressures Apple to reject an app you want, you get it from a store that government can't pressure, or side load it.

Allowing someone to use another store and forcing them to use it are independent actions.

> Even in the most free market of countries, you’ll end up with a small set of corporations you don’t trust as he only viable stores.

How does that make any logical sense? We already see on Android that there exist stores operated by trustworthy entities, like F-Droid. Opening up to other stores wouldn't cause Apple's store to cease to exist, if you trust them. And if you don't then having alternatives available still wouldn't be any worse than the status quo.
Both have public documentation sufficient to decode a message without applying any secret information, so no.