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There's a fundamental tension between competition/choice and low friction. On the internet it seems like whatever has the lowest friction wins.

Examples...

People hate the fact that there are so many paid streaming services now, they just want one, that has everything and pay about $15 a month for it.

People don't and won't switch away from twitch.tv, mixer tried to compete by poaching two of the biggest streamers in the world, their own audiences wouldn't follow them from twitch to mixer.
lots of pentest jobs available

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You definition of microagression isn’t usual or useful. That’s why the rest of the argument made sense, but missed the point.
I think this is an accurate summary of certain conservative or puritanical stances on sexuality. Of course there are also decades of progressive literature that argue why this is essentially bullshit. Also, if you follow this line to its logical conclusion, you end up with inceldom.

I think there is also another mechanism at work in why many modern societies seem at the same time oversexualized and prude: By raising and restricting sexual desire you end up with some very effective carrots and sticks to control behaviour: You can sell the promise of sexual fulfillment directly (porn), you can link it to completely unrelated products through advertising (scantily-clad women that advertise cars, mattresses or mortgage contracts). You can also use it as a stick by either presenting unrealistic beauty standards ("You look unattractive! What is wrong with you?! Buy product X to fix that!") or by declaring the very desire that was raised before as immoral and therefore shaming people into compliance.
This reads like an advert. Almost completely lacking in any useful detail. Just a gushing puff piece for how great Affinity Studio is, with [apparently] no downsides whatsoever.
Agreed. They carried it over to their own computers, too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memotech_MTX
Using «the book of Why», which is a book of popular science, not an academic book, as a reference is a bit troubling though.
If you meant unborn children or fetuses you should've said that, because the most obvious interpretation of your original words is that you meant postnatal children. That is typically how the word "Child" is defined: "A person between birth and puberty"[1] - not a person before birth.

Nevertheless, what you cited and attacked is uncontroversial. IQ is heritable, whether it's due to genetics or prenatal nutrition or some combination. You then turned such a scientifically uncontroversial statement into an emotional straw-man attack.

[1] https://www.thefreedictionary.com/Child
Gotta contact the suicide hotline, man
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In the next issue, the journal published a bunch of letters noting that she had rediscovered the trapezoid rule.

https://kconrad.math.uconn.edu/math1132s20/handouts/taicomme...

Mary Tai herself also replied and explained the background to the paper a bit more:

> While a doctoral candidate working on my dissertation at Columbia University in 1981, I needed to calculate total area under a curve. During a session with my statistical advisor, and after examining several alternative methods, I worked out the model in front of him. The concept behind it is obviously common sense, and one does not have to consult the trapezoid rule to figure it out. [...]

> Why I call it Tai's model. I never thought of publishing the model as a great discovery or accomplishment; it was not published until 14 years later, in 1994. Because of its accuracy and easy application, many collegues at the Obesity Research Center of St Luke's-Roosvelt Hospital Center and Columbia University began using it and addressed it as "Tai's formula" to distinguish it from others. Later, because the investigators were unable to cite an unpublished work, I submitted it for publication at their request. Therefore, my name was rubber-stamped on the model before its publication. [...]
oh man i just tried to use our site: https://usajobs.gov

for every single job you have to answer 30+ questions. no getting around it. my friend who is a vet just thinks this is normal. lol
No, I don't think so. I think it's perfectly appropriate to say stuff like "Hey, comments about my skin color are kind of uncomfortable for me. I'd prefer we not discuss it." If the person keeps talking about your skin color you can say - "Hey, remember we talked before about how I feel this is inappropriate?" And if they can't stop bringing it up it seems like you've ruled out good intent, or based on how they react when you bring it up you might rule out good intent.

Assuming good intent at first doesn't mean you're infinitely gullible or a doormat for people to walk on. It just means not being a landmine that is going to try to get people in trouble.
Sounds like it’s time for you to exercise the end-game move you smartly prepared for since day 1: move your email to a new service and begin the painful but necessary task of decoupling yourself from Google. Their suite of consumer services is a RNG at this point, not to be relied on.
It sounds like you’re feeling on edge after a very tough year.

HN isn’t only for tech and building things.

> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

I’m guessing under normal circumstances you wouldn’t curse at somebody who shared a worrisome story you didn’t want to see.

This pandemic has us all a little feral, doesn’t it?
I am missing Germany in this diagram, Europe’s strongest economy.
This is kind of nitpicky though. That was (sort of) fine, but telling him to take mental health leave and then using it as a way to push him out of the company is the real story here. They seem to systemically do that to people who make complaints about sexism or racism. Or this article is just cherry picking examples to make it seem that way.
"Steam Link, implemented as both hardware and software solutions, enables the streaming of Steam content from a personal computer or a Steam Machine wirelessly to a mobile device or other monitor."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_Link
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Short answer is an absolute yes! Would recommend building programming skills and experience in areas that build on whatever professional, academic experience/credentials you already have. For example, Python+Data Science if you have some math background or have worked in industries that use analytics a lot. Embedded systems if you have worked in auto, hardware/electronics, aviation industries etc. In general, try and use your age and experience to project a well rounded technical ability. Programmers are easy to find, but coders with good domain expertise are more valuable and hard to find. Also very valuable are demonstrable communication skills, especially written. So, if you have maintained any blogs or have had a journalistic stint you can use that to your advantage.
Ageism exists no doubt, but a) tech industry continues to be one of the biggest drivers of jobs worldwide b) freelance/remote work based careers to some extent provide 'age irrelevant' opportunities.
Overall, welcome and good luck!
> you don't look at your family in a sexual way.

Like the parent commentor said, it's probably about experiencing nudity from day one. I grew up in a family where you'd never see someone naked, but then, as a teen, was exposed to a family that's comfortable with being naked around each other. I had some readjusting to do, because for me nakedness had become something super private, dirty and sexual. Now that I think about it it makes me kind of angry that I grew up with such a stupid outlook on the human body.
I moved to Germany and learned that the "Where are you from" question is not a good icebreaker. As an immigrant working in an industry with lots of other immigrants, I thought it's okay to ask, but once you ask a German person of foreign descent this question they might perceive it as if I said they are not really German (sometimes context can make it even worse).
Bizarre line of reasoning. If you want "something to be done", pity is one of the first steps to motivating that. It's not an either/or.
PJON supports mesh networking too, it is open-source and free to use, check it out: https://github.com/gioblu/PJON

its address space may be beneficial (more flexible, lower overhead) for many use cases.
By and large they aren't full apps, they're small shims, but ultimately this a decision that Google took when they started misusing the system designation for apps to mean all of "should come back on hard reset" and "should have full admin permissions beyond userland" and "should be difficult to remove because you'll bork the OS services" at the same time.
Nothing to do with COVID though, food production and distribution in India has always been horrendously inefficient. Crops rotting in trucks stuck in multi-day customs queues at interstate borders, etc.
30% of Australia's rainforests have been destroyed. Flying from Brisbane to Cairns was just heart-breaking, to see the roads criss-crossing everywhere and the estates going up in the middle of pristine rainforest. I'd wager 75% is degraded. The national parks were theme parks pre-corona.
Inflation can be created, basically, by two things, an excess of demand respect to what the economy can produce or problems of supply.

Personally, I'm surprise at how robust are the global supply chains that have been able to keep things more or less normal despise what we have been through the last year.

The quantity of reserves created by the Central Banks are irrelevant if they are not spend in the economy. There are two effects to this "printing money": one is that the interest rate goes down facilitating borrowing from the private sector. The second is that governments have the ammunition to spend in stimulus. If the two things happen we could see inflation, but, notice that this the desired effect: compensate for a fall in the normal demand in the economy.

>" [..] central banks over the world have printed an astronomical amount of money. Even though they may state there is no significant inflation, I dont buy it [..]"

It seems to me that, in your model of the world, this should be leading to hyperinflation. If this is the case, my model of the world is wrong and I will make an effort to change it. I wish all the people has been predicting hyperinflation the last 30 years did the same if it doesn't happen. Somehow, I doubt it.

By now, the quantity theory of money based in the fractional reserve banking model should be discredited.
Amusingly, the final video embedded on the page seems to have be taken down for copyright reasons:

> This video contains content from UFC, who has blocked it on copyright grounds.
No, but no one could truly quantify the cost.

The same was true for Covid at the beginning, no one could quantify how bad it actually would be with wild figures in the 5%+ mortality rate. So we screamed for shutdown.

Problem though is that now it's very much clear that Covid was nowhere near that level of mortality, still bad but not the doomsday scenario. Now we we'll have to see what the cost of maintaining the reaction to the initial Covid doomsday estimation; with lockdowns and short term shoring of the economy through fiat currency production.
Arguably a fusion reactor has a much higher chance of harming the population around as a breach in containment could release highly radioactive gases.

> But even with the low hanging fruit type of fusion with tritium & deuterium, you don’t get these long lived transuranic isotopes.

You don't get these in a good fission cycle either.

> Also, fusion has some important very long term applications in human spaceflight (& interstellar travel).

Yes but and fission has a lot of applications in human spaceflight too. And not some theoretical interstellar travel, but rather in things that are actually useful and that we need now.

Mars surface power most importantly. Nuclear Electric Propulsion second most importantly.

Its all fine to dream of interstellar travel, but by any logical view to world, Mars is a closer term thing then interstellar space travel.

Also, if we just want to send interstellar probes. Lasers driven by fission are much more likely to be a good solution in the next 100 years.
I like RDS because I don't have to think about backups, replication etc but if I colocate the app server (web server, application code) and the database server on the same machine I see 1-2 orders of magnitude performance improvement in database-intensive apps.

Replication is the same as usual; have another machine setup to replicate onto. The restriction is you can't fan out hundreds of application servers and half a dozen database servers if you need that - but I don't need to.

I haven't done this with clients but I'm doing it with my own (cost-sensitive) side projects and appreciate removing the internal network latency.
NL, UK.
After spending many years editing wikis with a similar policy, I've found good faith is roughly synonymous with Hanlon's razor - never attribute to malice what can be attributed to ignorance. It's something to apply in spades for newcomers who may have made a best effort but unfortunately broke something.

However, pleading ignorance on rascism or sexism does not hold water. You may think racism or sexism is normal, but if I allow you to claim ignorance, then I implicitly tolerate that behaviour. Tolerating such behaviours can destroy a community, and past experience has taught me to call them out as soon as I see them if you want the community to benefit long term.
That's because you aren't adding the human perspective into the equation. Who is doing the scamming and why?
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That is literally true though: https://www.bloomberg.com/markets/rates-bonds/government-bon...

Thirty year rates at 1.28%!
I don’t think there’s anything here for mathematicians. The only nontrivial fact in the paper is that the approximation works well in medical practice (which is not something that Leibniz or Newton would have been able to tell you since there could be complicated biological factors confounding it - what if the ‘real curve’ has a bunch of spikes that don’t show up in measurements?).

However, the original paper really is incomplete because of its seeming ignorance of the real “trapezoidal rule.” It really needs a discussion along the lines of “the trapezoid rule from ordinary calculus can be used by diabetes practitioners with surprising accuracy” and explained that sources of error, discontinuity, etc., aren’t likely to affects the approximation.

But don’t worry about M.M. Tai’s feelings too much :) The paper is almost 30 years old and it’s world-famous for the silly error, Tai has already been throughly roasted.
“Naysayers”? Technologies do not prove themselves in a court of opinion. They prove themselves in the field. Critics are essential to any emerging technology; their criticism gives us a chance to fix its weaknesses.

That being said, The Paris Agreement and I hope you’re right.
The BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill and Boeing 737 Max, both of which have killed more people, come to mind.
Interesting, because at the same time sex in tv-shows have become much, much more free. In the 7 seasons of Buffy there wasn't a single nude, and even in bed everybody was completely covered up (even as adults, even when they were in long-term relationships) and that is not just one franchise, that is how I remember it in almost all media as a teenager.

I would be easy to compare with Game of Thrones, but almost all new streaming services have nudity now.
I wouldn't have thought "testing is always good" would be a controversial claim! I could make the claim that dogs shouldn't eat potting soil and most folk would probably agree with me. I don't have any proof that it's actually bad though. My dog gobbled up some potting soil today and he will probably be just fine. I still think he's a doofus, though.

I personally write significantly higher quality code, faster, when I spend a few hours thinking through the problem in a document beforehand. One of the things to think about is how to best test it, and most of the time that means a unit test. Knowing that when starting to write the code influences the interfaces and structures that I come up with.

Anecdotally, one recent project at work required writing a relatively small, 100% self-contained program with significantly less serious / more silly requirements than the typical type of code I write. I initially didn't plan on writing any unit tests, and about 500 lines of code later I had the program working 99% correctly. There was one bit of overtly complex code that was a bottleneck, though, and it made the overall program 30x too slow for its purpose. The fix was to replace a conceptually simple iterative solver with some brain-melting closed form equations. About 8 hours of iteration and manual testing later, I was pretty sure I had correctly handled all the edge cases. My brain was melted, though, and I couldn't even remember half of the edge cases I had encountered. It took me another 20 minutes to write a unit test that compared the output of the iterative solver with the output of the closed-form solver. Had I done that from the beginning, I probably would have saved 4 hours and not melted my brain.

The thing with writing code and testing is that, if you're in the habit of it, unit tests typically take a less-than-linear amount of effort vs. writing the actual code. Once you have tests, they decouple code complexity from development and maintenance, and you can therefore achieve a more sophisticated overall solution than otherwise with the same resources. If you don't develop testing as a skill, though, then those benefits don't materialize because you're inefficient at it. So, while it may be true that a given project or team wouldn't benefit from prioritizing test coverage, it's seemingly due to lack of expertise rather than a lack of obvious benefit. If I'm working on a home improvement project and my toddler wants to help tighten a screw, I wouldn't hand her my impact driver and expect her to successfully use it let alone not hurt herself, despite it being an unambiguously more efficient tool for driving screws than her little green plastic hammer.
> At this point I just don't discuss my personal life with anyone I work with (...) I'm a nice person but that any comment is potentially a landmine to me professionally, I'd just rather not expose myself like that

If potentially anything you say will blow up on you, you should consider if it's you that are in the wrong in how you conduct yourself and what's coming out of your mouth when you're not self censoring, or if everyone else is wrong.

Edit: Never had such a down voted comment before. What are you all saying about your weekend to co-workers that makes people so offended?
> Android is a mess.

TBH, so is iOS if you start actually worrying about services running on the device that may not be necessary or helpful, but iOS just doesn't tell a regular user they exist.
That's just propaganda by grievance activists, though. "Where are you from" is standard German small talk. Notice how effectively this method destroys communities, nobody dares to talk to each other anymore, for fear of saying something wrong.
+1 here on an ongoing UK government project.

It's like a nightmare where you can't move and nobody can hear you scream. You can only watch the inevitable disaster unfold.
> That tit-for-tat is the optimal strategy in iterated prisoner's dilemmata matches intuition about human cooperation.

It certainly doesn't match my intuition because it's a quite mechanistic view of things. But speaking in mathematical terms, I have the suspicion that it's a solution for a very specific situation that generalizes with negative side-effects to social life. In any case, I've read that governments use this strategy when it comes to foreign affairs.
Google defines microagression as -

"a statement, action, or incident regarded as an instance of indirect, subtle, or unintentional discrimination against members of a marginalized group such as a racial or ethnic minority"

That is consistent with the definition I had in mind when I wrote my comment. I do think trying to document unintended offenses is a bad idea. The recipient of the microagression should instead learn not to dwell on minor slights, ignore them, and/or assume good intent instead. It seems very toxic to live as if the people you talk to are secretly hurting you. Better to think of them as nice people with different methods of communication until they prove otherwise.
"The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.

Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.

But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.

This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness.”

< https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/72745-the-reason-that-the-r... >

So in short: no. Everyone is wasting.
Temporary is a bit of an understatement, to this day there are large numbers of people in the Ukraine and in Eastern Poland as well as areas of Russia that ended up with Thyroid cancer due to this.
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You're confused about how GDP is calculated.

The GDP difference between the US and Europe is fifty times larger than one rich person's own income? This isn't actually a great argument dismissing the suggestion that US wealth is extremely concentrated.
Offense is taken, not given. Counterpoint: we are devolving into a hyper-sensitive society (or rather a small but vocal minority is imposing such a culture onto the rest of us) and bending over backwards to pretend we're all identical is going to lead to an resurgence of racism as people lose faith in our institutions, becoming aware that we are effectively being gaslit.

>And that kind of toxic-then-deny people are very, very common in workplaces.

Or perhaps you are looking for issues where they do not exist.
>You might be in a bubble.

You’re right. It’s mostly a city thing, places with major business centers (but bleeds out into the suburbs).
All children start off as fetuses and inherit things that affected them before they were children.

> IQ is heritable, whether it's due to genetics or prenatal nutrition or some combination.

Yes, and I said it wasn't genetic. A "heritable" effect can only last one generation - all you have to do is invest in lead abatement.

In fact, even if it is genetic it can still be treated. Phenylketonurics have a "genetic condition that reduces intelligence" that affects them when they drink Coke, and the treatment is to not do that.

People who discuss this in SSC and marginalrevolution comments don't care about this - what they want is to have secret knowledge that society won't acknowledge that says they're morally superior to Mexicans so they can complain about immigration.
We already have politesse, "microagressions" is either misperception of impolitesse or a means to reframe perceived slights as far more malicious than they usually are.