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> Not quite what I'm getting at. My point is more that the value proposition of the undergraduate programs of Ivy Leagues is partly the elite social circle you buy into.

Being trained for an elite social circle is the entire value proposition of a finishing school, not sure where you see a disagreement.

> Secondly, some of these ideas of "fixing" Ivy League admissions would just send those circles elsewhere, because rich families send their kids to schools with the children of other rich families.

These days it's less about meeting your spouse and more a gateway to future income and prestige opportunities; IB, MGMT Consulting, Big Tech or to Law School (Politics). Those tracks and opportunities will still be there and be attractive if more poor people were admitted.
Respawn continues to have DDOS issues with Apex today. Where did you hear it’s a trickle of malformed requests? I don’t understand how DDOSing is still a problem in this day and age…

You start a game, 60 user accounts are in it. You inspect their IPs, give them a token, whatever. If they send too many requests you can drop some, and if it’s inhumanly possible given the games code, you ban them. That’s it?

I could see how a public-facing website could get DDOSed but not a game where people are registered. I must be missing something. Maybe input parsing has to happen faster than IP check?
Wait. I’m not sure I understand what that chart is supposed to show. Are you suggesting because the GDP is only linearly growing productivity is not increasing?
Agreed, it is not to be expected that a doctor is able to follow the scientific literature for hundreds of different topics. However, I would expect a specialist to know their field well enough to assist a patient/guardian in making a somewhat informed decision.

I take your point that companies can falsely advertise their products. I think there is a place for a government body to make sure claims about healthcare products are factual. In this particular case we are talking about a drug that appears to not cause any harm. So I don’t see any reason to prevent an adult to make a decision with the help of a physician to administer said drug.
I am extremely worried about my sons.

Very; very worried. I feel they are being set up to fail by society.

First, the education system has been designed to discriminate against independence and curiosity, personal initiative. These were my traits in school and they were used against me.

Second, I know many professional women. With college degrees. They have literally been taught to despise men. Not a joke. They literally hate them. It’s all caused by our media and politicians.

Third, I interpret most of the “faux diversity” efforts by Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon, higher education as being primarily designed to create a pipeline from India and China directly to America that allows all of the above to systematically exploit and underpay people from the emerging world whose education is much cheaper. If you haven’t been paying attention, half of Silicon Valley’s ceos are now from India. Something more is going on there than “Zomg can’t find talent.” It’s systematic.

I believe our countries institutions are collaborating to avoid paying specifically white males a living wage while pretending there is a talent shortage and diversity problem.

Add it all together: It is bleak and outcomes are awful.
For those lambasting the parent comment, ignore the phrasing and let us go by stats. Count how many women with successful careers you know that are married to unemployed men (to stick to the point the parent makes, let us skip cases where both husband/wife are working). Now do the same count with genders switched. Observe the differential - for the record, it is clear that there are complex reasons behind this difference (children being a big one) but we can't ignore the fact that this choice is much more "socially normal/acceptable" for a woman compared to a married man being unemployed by choice.
and what are you proposing to bank the unbanked of Latin America in what could be months rather than years?

I’ve not seen anywhere that says that Zap is buying USDT; in fact, I would assume they would be using USDC and GUSD and other regulated stablecoin tokens. And also, I am still yet to see the fall of USDT, and the liquidity pools grow deeper…

I appreciate the system of exchange seems convoluted by conventional standards but hey — this is the internet. The On boarding of millions of unbanked in the next few months and giving them access to borderless and decentralized finance will change the world.
You need to be employed in order to get Healthcare in most of the EU countries anyway, so it's not all that rosy as Americans tend to think.
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He had a liver transplant. Which treatment did he reject?
Most of the things described in this post are easy to mitigate without much additional development effort. Rate limiting, role based access etc are commodities now.

Implementing server-side validations is, in my opinion, mandatory. This is even more important for any API with more than 1 client - Android, iOS, Web etc. Not only does it prevent basic security breaches, but also it prevents hard to track bugs. More importantly, why would you not centralise business logic as much as possible instead of having to duplicate it on every client.
have you tried to start a company there?
> There is very much not a direct relationship between absolute number of humans, and technological advancement.

There very much absolutely is a direct and bidirectional link between the two. Technological advancement (esp fetilizers) has been crucial to the increase in the absolute number of humans to its current level.

There is also good reason to think that there are direct effects in the opposite direction. There seems likely to be a minimum population that can support the degree of specialization needed for a given level of technological advancement.

But while there absolutely is a direct relationship, I don't think that your core point is necessarily wrong. The minimum population required to maintain our current level of technology might well be one or more magnitudes less than our current population. Our current population may well be sufficient to achieve the level of technology required to become a space habitating species.
What a harrowing read.
So having more working mothers and stay at home fathers makes tons of sense in this case, would you agree?
Usually visiting your place of local government / library and asking for a copy of local building codes will get you a hard copy at not much more than cost to photocopy.
> There is a thriving tech scene in Europe and we do quite well!

Is there really ? I see attempts at copying the US tech scene, but a lot of it seems structured to suck money out of government funds and programs. I see very little private investment. Just recently I talked to a local VC, in a casual chat about how they started their fund I found out they pulled money out of a EU fund, they had to put up like 25% of the money and the rest was just EU grants to stimulate entrepreneurship. Do I need to say that their portfolio looks like a garbage bin of knockoff attempts and small businesses masquerading as startups.
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Because the rewards just aren't there. Amazon is a company started by some guy in a garage and less than 30 years later it is one of the richest companies in the world. Something like that just isn't going to happen in Europe - you'd be crushed by high taxes and regulation long before you reached that level.

Some Europeans will say that's actually a feature, not a bug. But look at what businesses are being started instead - neighborhood pubs and apartments for rent to tourists. Low-growth, low risk businesses with quick returns. What kind of jobs are these businesses going to create?
Few people know that Google Search also voluntarily censors search results for political reasons. Probably by request of CIA/State department. Such blacklists appeared on wikileaks. Which was esp. ironic that Google employees fought the very same feature on the search product for the Chinese market "Dragonfly" (blacklisting tianmanmen and such)
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If you are fortunate to go to a top tier university, many of the non-STEM classes will (hopefully) be taught by Professors who are active contributors to their fields, and use their lectures as a "rough draft" of a future book they will publish. Of what value being at the "cutting edge" of literary theory is up for debate, but there are some things that aren't easily available at your local public library.

Also sometimes it's just cool to have the guy who wrote the textbook be your professor.
All parties related to a home (owner, occupier, bank, insurer) have an interest in the asset they have a stake in.

Home electric is one of those things that many people claim to know and understand. The reality is that most people are clueless, and can and do make mistakes. If you ever bought an old house, you get this — there’s always some dangerous cob job hiding somewhere.

The evil insurance company doesn’t want to pay when you are seriously injured in a fire. You probably don’t want to get injured. In the end, interests are aligned.
> Swallowed by a whale?

How would you phrase it? "Eaten by a whale?" Is that less victim blame-y?

> Shouldn't have been in the ocean.

You can swim in the ocean just don't go near where the whales are, it might just help with not becoming a victim of whales' constant eating habit and as a result alleviate the tendency to make greatly exaggerated sarcastic remarks.
Caroline Elkins has written on this topic more broadly.

Early next year she’ll have a book out that touches on this area. Here’s a brief summary: “And she makes clear that when Britain could no longer maintain control over the violence it provoked and enacted, it retreated from empire, destroying and hiding incriminating evidence of its policies and practices.” [0]

[0]: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/45877/legacy-of-vio...
> Maybe men are just not inherently less suited to academic success

Maybe. A strong essentialist proposition requires an equally strong evidence, though. Have you got any?

> systematic discrimination in their favor isn’t preventing equal-terms comparisons with women in that domain

What positive systemic discrimination do boys receive in education? Since we are not observing a sudden drop after K-12 but a longitudinal effect, please explain starting from K, if any.
Men are subject to more natural selection pressure than women. There is genetic evidence for this.
You can start a software business in Austria with just a laptop and get health insurance for 32€/month (total social security payments if you don't make profits are about 150€/month). Fees for registering a company are waived/reduced for founders. I had nowhere near $20000 when I started.

Sure, if you want to open a capital intensive business like a restaurant, you'll need more money. But that's the same everywhere.
TECO should be on that list. But I don't know that there are any modern implementations. It dates to 1962 and was DEC specific.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TECO_(text_editor)
A very good example of premature optimization since there is no actual problem. It would be better to start with a real problem and then if it turned out this was a problem then use the int approach.
I use Guix as my daily driver and do occassionally come across software that hasn't been packaged. The big ones for my work that immediately come to mind are:

- slack

- kubectl

- terraform

- azure-cli

- cscope

There have been a several other missing tools for personal use that I just ended up packaging and sharing upstream. For the ones listed above, though, I just haven't gotten around to it, so I let Nix fill in the gap, hehe. FWIW, Guix already has Nix packaged and available as a service, so having parallel stores is really straightforward.
Work for a tech company in Europe. GDPR compliance is costing us massive manpower hours and money spent on compliance consultants. Most of my salary gets obliterated before it reaches me and I make significantly less than tech workers in the US.

There's a lot to like about the security but I'm starting to wonder if I can ever really break out of working until I'm enfeebled here.
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Competitors can already be sued into oblivion with the help of the disparate impact (quota) jurisprudence. That ship has sailed.
Nature vs nurture

If every person of race X who is taught by teacher Y fails, does that mean that race X is the problem or that teacher Y is the problem?

Either male children are born bad or were raised incorrectly. If you accept the first option, what is your evidence? If you accept the second option and there are only women raising the child, how can men be the problem?

According to the US Census, 20% of asian, 34% of white, 42% of hispanic, and 66% of black families are single-mother homes.

In 1980, 30% of teachers were men. Today, it's around 15% (a mere 3-6% male for grades K-6). When you remove sports and PE teachers, it's the low single digits overall. The reason for this shift is rather obvious. Society assumes that men are predators. When a single false accusation will ruin not just your career, but your entire life, why take that risk?

That same risk applies to other male role models as well. A 2 year old drowned in England a few years ago (irresponsible daycare let them into the street IIRC). It was noticed that a van was nearby when the child was walking down the road. The driver was found and asked about what happened. They said they saw the child, but a man in a white panel van stopping to help a kid would face accusations of kidnapping. The man had his own family and did't want to put them at risk if anything should happen to him. The child was a victim of society's demonization of men (I'd add that studies of female predators are almost non-existent and what little research has been conducted indicates that there are tons of female predators who society simply refuses to look into).

Children raised by single mothers are much more likely to have learning issues, bad grades, be in trouble at school, not graduate, and have mental health problems. Single mothers are also much more likely to have mental health and anxiety issues. This is just as true for the 20% of asians and the 66% of blacks, so the inverse proposal of the mothers passing these issues on to their children is not likely (if it were true, then the claims of racists would also be true). These rates also track upward over time. Remember that only around 25% of black mothers were single parents in the 1960s (before the civil rights act). It's even notable that the single mother rates under slavery didn't come close to the rates today.

The most notable and undeniable single mother statistic is crime. Somewhere around 85% of all people in prison had no significant father figure. Incarceration rates per capita per race track single mother rates closely (as a surprisingly large fraction of those homes).

Here's the surprise -- this is NOT true for single father households. Is this because fathers are better parents? I think not. Instead, I'd put forward that female role models are everywhere and women are willing to get close to kids while male role models are very scarce and men are forced by society to remain aloof. I haven't seen studies, but I'd be interested to know if societies where the pedo scare didn't happen have the same issues.
Did you completely fail to parse what he was saying there or something?
>If that’s just your daily life, you’ll meet people who enjoy the same things you do and you can potentially date them (or their friends).

I enjoy reading and occasionally posting comments on Hacker News. u up?
This is entirely accurate from my experience. It's cargo cult "tech scene".
History based English departments might have been more up your alley.

Took a class on Shakespeare centered around recreating the plays as they were meant to be played, and the historical context they were played in. Fascinating stuff, and a lot less susceptible to pure rhetorical analysis nonsense.
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You're at the mercy of powerful actors regardless of whether you consent to it. A law will affect me the same way regardless of whether I believe in it. A rock blocking my path blocks it whether I consent to it being there. Maybe I can go around, or maybe I need to move it, but my consent isn't really important. By the way, most governments do not forbid dropping out.

Hegel is doing the continental thing of waving hands and converting a collection of individuals into a People who Consent. But if you have 80% of the people not consenting, but 80% of the power supporting the government, consent doesn't matter.

I think you're also leaving out the possibility of a Nash equilibrium, where nobody likes the government, but there is not a way to coordinate a transition to something better without a high likelihood of something worse.

But in the end I don't think we disagree too much, just some quibbling around the edges. Maybe I'm wrong though.
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Male teachers who are not retirees have been removed from the teaching pool. Why? Schools do not pay enough to build a career or family. You cannot afford to have male teachers who are not retired and doing it for fun.
I did not say that "women, as a group, choose undesirable and unsuccessful professions". I would say that as a group, women are doing the best they can, it is just that men tend to have greater opportunities than women, even though the capabilities of women and men are comparable. I believe that women have a harder, longer road to professional success in our society, and that this is plainly evident.
There are plenty of startups that are bootstrapped and without investor pressure: https://www.indiehackers.com/
I don't think many people are motivated to do much of anything, and so by consequence they prefer the easier, "fun" option of wasting their time. A motivated person doesn't have to force themselves to work hard, it's the default. That's how I see it.
> Toxic people are toxic.

Yes, and generally when the term "toxic people" is used, few assume that the speaker is saying that "people are toxic" and "people should be shamed for being people."

And yet... you've done pretty much that with the term "toxic masculinity." It's almost as if someone has persuaded you that adjectives are actually appositives.

The phrase "toxic masculinity" no more implies that masculinity itself should be discouraged or shamed than the phrase "toxic food" implies the entire world should fast forever.

And like "toxic food" would suggest there's some subset of foodstuffs one should avoid, it does suggest that there's some subset of masculine-identified behavior that are unhealthy for either those acting those behaviors out, or those on the receiving end of them.
That legislation also has Technical Assistance Requests (TAR) where company isn't compelled but can choose to comply. As not trying to compel they have few safeguards in being issued and less limitations on what can be requested.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/whats-actually-in-australias-e...
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Not for anyone working for a company with ties to China.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/26/john-cena-very...
This will work with both maps and keywords:

iex(1)> foo = %{a: 1, b: "test"}
%{a: 1, b: "test"}
iex(2)> foo[:bar] || :some_default_value
:some_default_value

iex(3)> foo = [a: 1, b: "test"]
[a: 1, b: "test"]
iex(4)> foo[:bar] || :some_default_value
:some_default_value

This looks like some Perl-ism/Ruby-ism.
I personally dislike truth-y/false-y values, as they do more harm than good, and making it harder for dialyzer to infer boolean types.

Also Map.get/3 and Keyword.get/3 are probably faster.
This is not what toxic masculinity means. It's not saying masculinity is toxic, toxic is a qualifier not a description. It's used to talk about those attitudes which are ascribed by some people to be super masculine, but actually are just unhealthy (like hyper aggression, or the idea, ironically, that men shouldn't ask for help or complain about anything)
I've encountered a lot of it before it had that name. It appears as bullying, talking over people, arrogance, aggression, threats of violence, violence, condescension, etc. Generally, efforts gain dominance over others in ways that harm them rather than being genuinely better at dominating constructively.

I think it's fine to call it toxic masculinity as long as people don't get it confused with healthy masculinity (not the same as femininity) or forget that toxic femininity exists or assume all men have toxic masculinity, or all the other misunderstandings that come with simplistic judgements of popular issues.
joe needs to be on that list. probably.

https://joe-editor.sourceforge.io/
the ability to sell more shares matters, and recurring revenue is the most major component of being able to do that

nothing else does

its a dating app made to address issues women have had in other dating apps, founded/made/led by a woman, with the solution being the oxymoron of women messaging male matches first

thats it

thats the whole story

theyre publicly traded now, with a traditional IPO (no SPAC), that is called success
The 2050 version of this will be talking about the Great Plains of the US.
I think the specific application of the CPU here makes it more palettable. It was a nice idea, but it doesn't work out, so scan for it and don't publish games that have that opcode; if possible, issue a microcode update that makes it either a noop or an illegal operation.
> It's reductive to say that developed countries aren't having kids because of condom availability, while ignoring all the underlying social factors that don't go away even if condoms weren't available.

I didn't say that. Many, many other things affect the reproductive rate. However the availability of contraception (and other tools for family planning) has a significant and obvious impact on the size of those effects.
In Sweden you can more or less fire anyone as long as you're a small company, without any long notice. I don't recognize the other negative comments either. Taxes are high, but VAT doesn't matter at all unless you're a B2C company (and really it's the consumer paying for it, not you). Vacation is 5 weeks which I realize is a lot compared to the US (I've worked in US so know how it works). But if those extra 3 weeks are what kills your company?

Tax on salaries are quite high, but salaries are significantly lower (especially compared to the level of competence you get - but it varies).

On the other hand we have free health care (with a quality level similar to the top 20-50% level you get in the US is I'm not mistaken) and great support systems should you fail or something happens.

Admin is not obscene and you actually get a lot of help should you need it from the government agencies like the tax authorities.

Then Sweden has a similar level of entrepreneurship per capita as California or the SF region even I believe.

Access to capital do suck compared to the US (based on my limited perspective).

Fear of getting sued for silly shit is unheard of here compared to the US.

TLDR; It varies a lot between countries in the EU. It can be problematic to be overly generalistic in your description. It's for sure different, but I'm not sure everything just sucks compared to the US.
Somewhat embarrassingly, I was the person that wrote the code that put the gyms into the game and even I forgot that they didn’t function as pokestops in the beginning.

That being said, safety was the number one criteria for placement every time. I spent so much time making sure we didn’t have things showing up in dangerous places like freeways. The idea that I did something wrong and that as a result someone may have been harmed is terrifying.