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And imagine, that for some reason, women are not attracted to your products? That is half the market.

I remember car companies working this out back in the eighties. The companies that understood that women have their own needs in a car that men did not share, yet women are a important part of family purchase decisions, did better.
It is if you stay tuned into these outlets. Pop culture is not healthy, it is exploitative. Its greatest strength is emotional manipulation.

I can't relate with the collective "we" in this article. I feel a lot more stable and closer to reality after disengaging from big social media corporations.
> About 10 years later, at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon, Amy Ko was thinking about another problem. Debugging is like being a detective. Why didn’t the program update the cache after doing a fetch? What was a negative number doing here? Why is it so much work to answer these questions? Amy had an idea for a tool called the Whyline, where you could ask questions like “Why did ___ happen?” in an interactive debugger

Am I just confused, or does it sound like program slicing (1979)?
> people who are equal or lower than you on the oppression hierarchy

This supposed hierarchy of oppression, based on identity characteristics such as race, gender and sexuality, really is the biggest scam going.

Almost all of the oppression we see around us can be explained by wealth disparities, corruption, and abuse of power. Yet, identarians insist on shoehorning everything into their flawed worldview.

The Black Lives Matter movement was a telling example of this - police brutality is indeed an ongoing problem in society, but it doesn't just apply to black people. It's anyone the police feel they can get away with abusing. Just look at how they treat homeless people, drug addicts, and so on, regardless of race.

Another is celebrating people as tokens regardless of their actions. First mixed-race female Vice President of the USA - okay, but what sort of shitty role model is this? Rather reminds me of: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Co90umqUsAAdgQI?format=jpg

We would all do well to be critical of how identity politics is being used to mask the real root causes of oppression in our society. The so-called left wing of politics is the worst for this too, and I say this as a life-long leftist. Why make everything about identity; where has the traditional focus on class gone?
In a sense, what she's describing sounds almost old-timey. A return to stiff propriety between men and women in order to avoid the possibility of scandal.

The entirety of everything leading to this point is complex. That said, half the reason for twitterized scandal politics is hyperbole. It's too easy to think in dichotomies and extremes. This stuff can be true without doom being upon us.

I think twitter mob problems will improve in a few years, or move on to other areas.

On a lower profile scale, bullying-related HR processes and associated cultural dynamics can and do "flare up." Many bullying claims. Fear of bullying accusations. Threats. First strikes. etc. It often happens in environments with a lot of bullying. Unpleasant, but it usually passes eventually... I think.
why continue to work there, buddy? I actually switched careers out of my position because that's what it was like in 2016.
Since no one else seems to be seeing this issue - maybe your facts are not as airtight as you think?
So was I
> one 18th Century doctor and botanist said that they cause diarrhoea

I thought this would have been a prime contributor to its vulgar name!
There's a difference between wordcrafting and giving obviously preposterous advice like "What would a white man do?"

If I was giving advice to someone who was too assertive and taking too much credit, I would never say "Think about what a black woman would do." Things like this are so transparently racist it shouldn't even need to be explained. You are simultaneously characterizing a race and gender of people and also telling someone else to act like a different race and gender.

The reason the advice was poorly received is because it is nonsense. The recipient of the advice asked the perfect question - "what does it mean to act like a white man?" The OP, when asked, also doesn't seem to know what it means. I'd say there is a lesson there - don't repeat something just because it was will received when you originally heard it. You may not understand it. It may be something of an emperor's new clothes situation where nobody can question the person who gave the original advice, but that doesn't make it good.
There's an extreme right, and there's an extreme left. Right now the whole right is an extreme right, whereas the left is divided between more moderate and cancel culture. Apparently tucker said that the right would go into full fascist mode because of BLM/antifa (lol), I'm wondering if the left is going full woke because of the right going fascist. People are being triggered by the other side, and becoming extremists themselves. There's no moving forward with division, this whole thing is probably good for the rest of the world.
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Yes. Thanks for the clarification.
> the modern lingustics community generally ascribes to the theory that all languages are equal in complexity

That doesn't mean the complexity has to be evenly distributed along the learner's path.

Also, I'm not saying one is better than the other. But it's certainly something people experience. When I learned German, it took longer to craft correct sentences because there are more rules to pay attention to. You have to get the cases and its interactions with the genders right in every sentence for example. Same with conjugations. There is no "simple subset" of the language where you can avoid this. While there is a simple English that you can resort to and use almost perfectly with little study.

To build even a simple Hungarian sentence you need to understand vowel harmony, definite and indefinite conjugation, nuanced word order rules etc.

Also regarding this:

> the modern lingustics community generally ascribes to the theory that all languages are equal in complexity

It's very hard to quantify as you say and I don't think they'd be able to say otherwise even if it was otherwise due to fear of misinterpretation (i.e. they'd be accused of racism).
in real life? or youtube? can you share a link
"racist sexist approach"

well ... interpreting everything in the worst way possible will lead to the outcome that the poster will never say anything again. And that will help no one!
I believe when OP says "lower on the oppression hierarchy" they mean we only talk candidly with those who are as oppressed as us or less. i.e. someone higher on the oppression hierarchy would be more oppressed.
> I have been told that I can’t do my job which includes negotiating with LGBTQ+ companies because I am an “old, white, cis guy and there is always an unfair power dynamic there” just because of my identity.

IANAL, and I don't know what "LGBTQ+ company" means, but if you believe that you're not being allowed to negotiate with other companies because of your age, race, and gender, you can (and should) sue for discrimination.
I think your comment perfectly shows to which extreme it has become acceptable to criticize a group of people simply from their skin color
Profiles of "Beeple". For example:

https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/a35500985/who-is-beepl...
My wife grew up in Belgium and has often mentioned medlar as a wonderful and absurd delicacy. I never had it and she seemed to find it strange that I didn't know of it. A few days ago she excitedly sent me this article. Yesterday we found out her parents have just planted medlar in their garden.
So what would a white man do?
I live in the South-east, and Néfles/Medlars start appearing now actually, tend to be ready in May, when they start turning from yellow to orange. In the summer they're all gone, maybe we're speaking about different species, I think here those Néfliers are 'Japan Medlars', so are not in the same cycle

Persimmons are ready between October and December. Agrums (like mandarines, clementines) from January to March.Figs in summer

Basically you can have something to pick all year long, if people can stop replacing trees by concrete

Edit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26612839 said it all, what I'm talking about are loquats, not medlars, we still call them "néfliers" though
Please don't start with this BS again. Every time e-ink is mentioned in this forum, the same. There is absolutely no proof that e-Ink is boycotting their own business, much less using patents. There are eInk devices and manufacturers to spare.

eInk is just expensive to manufacture.

Personally I think there is just no demand.

You could build a large reflective LCD for a fraction of the price; you would have none of the problems of eInk -- such as the bad refresh rate -- and users have a hard time distinguishing an eInk panel from a reflective-LCD panel anyway (see the Pebble). Even accounting for the energy consumption it would probably be a close call in cost, unless you plan on updating the panel only a couple times per week. The fact that no one of the LCD panel manufacturers are doing this even with leftovers from other production lines just shows how little demand there is, outside of HN-welcome hobbyist projects and other low-power areas such as smartwatches.
It is what the clause says, you cut it off just before they say it.

> If you are entitled to a refund of your payment or to a buyback, we reserve the right to refund to you either the exact Bitcoin Price that you provided to us at the time of purchase or an amount of US Dollars that is equivalent to the US Dollar price of the product that you purchased, at our sole and absolute discretion, taking into consideration operational efficiency.
Imagine that as you mine BTC, you’re instantly paying that BTC for someone to drill some oil and put it in a barrel wherever you plan to use it. The system of you and your BTC plus that other person and the oil in the earth is a battery. Ok now just delay the other person’s actions in time.
> What system(s) hate you?

Media, academia, corporate hiring, government policy. Places where “be less white” is official policy. [1]

> And then what will you do?

Form advocacy organizations, lobby groups, PACs, legal defense funds. Same thing every other organized group does.

[1] https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/366132
This is the comment I was thinking of from the founder of visionect https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25067824
It’s worth noting this issue/disutility. But I don’t give it a lot of weight vs. the historical default.

Presumably this doesn’t occur if a female VC is giving that advice to females founders; maybe this will be an additional incentive to actually promote some women to be partners. VC is one of the most male-dominated professions around.

More generally, it’s easy to look at just the costs of a social change, without remembering to weight against the benefits. If this issue is one of the costs, and reduced sexual harassment of female founders is the benefit, then I would ask women who have been in this position how they weigh the two (having not experienced either I wouldn’t presume to know how much the benefit is actually worth to female founders, and since the costs and benefits are both incident on them, it’s not really my place to choose).

But I’d hazard a guess that most women would prefer not to get hit on / harassed as they fundraise, at the expense of sometimes not getting fully candid feedback.
Very impressive. How many seconds of compute time are required for 1 second of video?
I agree selling outrage is a problem, (I like the phrase outrage porn) but you do need some balance. You shouldn't just only focus on your self. Your pretty privileged to do that (take a deep breathe before you freak out about me refering to privilege, or maybe read the article again heh)

The things he mentioned are important, I don't think ignoring societies faults is the right thing to do. Maybe some education. Collective outrage does make change happen too, and things do need to change. I guess outrage is needed, but it needs to actual important topics. Not manufactured packaged and sold to certain audiences like the Dr Seuss stuff
> Almost all of the oppression we see around us can be explained by wealth disparities

Yes, and almost none of the people founding startups in Silicon Valley are oppressed by any reasonable understanding that concept.
>You need to get out more

Ha ha, you put that well. He or she sure does. It shows.

The person didn't get the point from my reply, though I made it fairly clear. Hope they get it, at least from the multiple replies to them, about taste of tomatoes and other produce, etc. The point being, not to make blanket unqualified statements, and not to reply without properly understanding what the person they are replying to, is talking about. That is an all too common failing by Hasty Harry-type people, on many online sites, not just HN. And often, the same people who make that mistake, criticize others for it.
I find simple website extremely fascinating. Just answering one question

Another similar one is
http://www.isnasdaqopen.com/
This tells your if the stock market is open or not
Thanks for the advice! I really appreciate it. I'm pretty fluent in Romanian, at least by American standards. Grew up bilingual because we were always more embedded in the Romanian community around town. :) But I will definitely seek to improve massively so I sound exactly like a native speaker!
> Companies with an explicit diversity and inclusion statement on their job applications get more minority applicants but hire proportionally less minority candidates

I'm curious: do you have a source for that?
Same here, it's not really worth trying. You feel like you're being completely reasonable, but you just know that any mistake in wording, minor details or missteps, is going to be used to attack you. Any relevant comment or question you have will be sidesteps, to attack and label you.
Despite all the contradicting evidence and all the holes in the narrative, mankind continues to stick with the germ theory and viral theory paradigms.

When will smart people start to get curious and start to wonder if virus particles were ever the cause of illness to begin with.
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Great post, I just started my rust journey
An entity could launch a coordinated air strike on well-known mining locations and take over the network at anytime.
How is it? My advice is to avoid telling such bullshit based on how I look.
The other side of this is that mobile networks are national infrastructure.

The concept of "lawful intercept" is baked into the networks from a fundamental standpoint.

This might be a reason why there's less care about these things.
history will not look kindly on Twitter, Facebook and the news media. they're even worse than the tobacco industry.
I noticed it happened a lot on MeFi when I was active there. Vast reams of text about how terrible X is, but ask what we should do about it and... crickets.

Yes, the observation's valid, but... I don't know. When the conversation keeps happening the same way, over may topics, you have to figure there's something deeper going on.
And all kinds of formerly respectable media. Over the last decade newspapers that were either dry and centrist or devoted to particular causes outside of the current culture wars, suddenly began to run daily articles that were strident from either one side of the culture wars or the other. The reason for that is almost solely desire for maximum clicks to ensure ad-based revenue.

People should keep that in mind when they feel outrage at an article and are tempted to say "of course, X publication said that, they are supporters of Y!" In fact, the newspaper’s management may not actually support the political or social cause appearing in its editorials, they simply run that content because advertising revenue is higher with it. This mercenery disingenuousness is one of the greatest crises of our time, I feel.
I think your example helps illustrate how ineptitude is the problem that bias is perceived to be.
This trend isn't going away anytime soon, In fact I think it's just ramping up and is accelerating, especially with the racism narrative the main stream media outlets started to heavily push ~2 years ago and the big identity movement. It will continue until there is consensus, that this climate is bad, for everyone involved. I don't see that happen anytime soon, the cancelations will continue until moral improves.
With the pay being what it is, why else would you go into that field?
In some software markets their is no advantage to employ a woman as the poster said. Backend developing and so on.

BUT you have a point, the market is 50% plus women and you are missing a lot of valuable influence and competence.
But getting bothered, angry and proving someone wrong on the internet ARE my own projects. What would I do without them? :/
Hear hear.

For me at least it's been a vice for decades. First it was discussion/gaming forums, then it was Fark, then Digg, and then Reddit.

It's just as detrimental as being addicted to alcohol/drugs/games to distract you from life. In controlled doses it's okay but when it starts to take over an entire day or periods of a day/week from doing other things that could be giving your mind/body some life, that's when you really have to check in and ask yourself is this worth it?
This seems to the be the norm in tech companies, however I'm not saying it's an easy challenge to solve, since it seems unfeasible that everyone should know how do the coding/engineering job. Inevitably managers have to decide at some point to get off that bus, so to speak, and focus more on management skills, sacrificing the time needed to keep up with tech skills.
I use them too. I love their aggregation and display of news articles across the spectrum.

An interesting tool they built is their “Blindspotter”, which lets you see the bias of who a particular Twitter account follows (their news diet). Interestingly a lot of the left leaning popular media accounts like Trevor Noah’s operate in a complete echo chamber whereas many popular right leaning accounts like Megyn Kelly are actually very balanced. And as you might expect, extremists like Marjorie Taylor Greene are very biased in their news diet: https://ground.news/blindspotter
I think your information is a bit out of date; the party currently in power in Taiwan (the DPP, which has controlled the presidency and legislative branch since 2016) is pro-independence, and the people are strongly not in favor of reunification.

A quick look at Wikipedia suggests that (as of 2019), about 49% of citizens supported independence (though 21% believes that now is not the time due to the political climate), with 31% supporting the status quo. Only 10.3% outright support reunification.

In 2020, support for independence increased, to 54%, though support for reunification also increased to 12.5%.

I think it's pretty safe to say that an overwhelming majority of people in Taiwan do not actively want reunification with China. The DPP has never held that position, and the KMT dropping it would surely splinter their supporters[0], though possibly not a majority of them. Obviously on the PRC side of the equation, allowing Taiwan its independence is a non-starter.

[0] Anecdotally, it does seem that KMT support skews older, so I expect new and future generations to continue to lean more toward independence.
This is a bit rich coming from the CBC. They're institutionally incapable of understanding the problem because they can't comprehend how their perception of themselves as an elite is illegitimate, imo.
Source? I drink a fair amount of coffee every morning (not any after 10am) and never had any sleep issues. The half life for caffeine is somewhere around 6 hours, no?
> The display is 99% more power efficient than a traditional LCD, so the display can run for months without being charged.

Wow! It's not even twice as power efficient as an LCD! I would have thought it would be much more power efficient than that.

The manufacture's web page makes the same claim: https://www.visionect.com/product/place-and-play-32/

How does it run for months on a battery if it's only 99% more efficient than an LCD panel?
You've been faster than me.
Great suggestion. There's tons of free and high quality backgrounds on there.
There are also apps for your favorite smartphone OS avaliable.

https://unsplash.com/apps
> "one protestor/rioter shot by police at the Capital riot"
i.e. one rioter died in the riot.

> "one officer died from suspected injuries sustained",
i.e. one officer died in the riot.

>"two people died in march to capital after trump's speech"
i.e. two people died in the riot

>"two officers commit suicide after being investigated in connection to Jan 6 riot at the Capital"
i.e. two officers died in connection with the riot

> "one rioter on Jan 6 fell to their death and were trampled by the rioters"
i.e. one rioter died in the riot

>"one rioter on Jan 6 fell to their death and were trampled by the rioters"
i.e. one rioter died in the riot

I'm very confused as to where the media claimed that "7 people died" as the result of being gunned down in the street. Obviously if 7 people died by being gunned down in the street, the media headline would be "7 PEOPLE GUNNED DOWN BY INSURRECTIONISTS", not "7 PEOPLE DIED IN THE INSURRECTION".
tulips were not scarce
unfortunately a lot of people have a hard time realizing 99% of the content they're exposed to is pointless and solely meant to waste your time/put you into a heightened emotional state. lot of mental illness on social media/twitter brought on by getting baited into interacting with all the noise

for the people using these platforms to build, I understand using them. for the rest of the users it's probably a net negative to themselves and the ones around them.
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I disagree. I can think of many ways to clarify the remark in a manner that I personally wouldn't see anything wrong with. At the same time, I can imagine a person intent on outrage finding a reason to be mad about any one of them. I generally assume that people I'm engaged with professionally aren't looking for opportunities to be mad.
If only patents covered genuine inventions. If you look at what's getting approved these days, I don't think anyone competent is working in the patent office.
It doesn't actually resolve anything. Just because someone passed a test to see if X was offensive, it doesn't mean they won't find Y offensive. So no, I don't like this 'solution', because it's not a good one. It takes risk where none is needed.
What about race?

I ask because if you took that same attitude towards race, you could easily be accused of colorblind racism.