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Comics just are too expensive to target a young child audience, and as such their story lines reflect that… basically only comic hero with big money behind them aimed at kids is spider man…

On the other hand I don’t know anyone under 20 into American comics, but almost all the kids I know read tons of manga and watch a bazillion anime joints. And most of them got into it off shonen dragon ball and Naruto style cartoons that most have childish themes of friendship and hard work
> words we've been using for decades to describe a concept.

Yeah, and so was calling black men "boy" or using the n-word like 50 years ago.

Language changes because people realize there are better words that more people are okay with.
It looks like the school blood letting is the way to health. And scientists laughed at people using leeches back in the day.
I’ve seen the same anecdotally. Marketing in particular at multiple companies was all white women whereas other departments (even stereotypically non-diverse departments like engineering) where a mix of genders and races.

It was reinforced every time there was a self congratulatory post in the company wide channel referring to the “marketing ladies” great work.
There are more slaves added each year in the US today than at the peak of transatlantic trade:

https://www.britannica.com/summary/Transatlantic-Slave-Trade...

Peak transatlantic: 78,000 new slaves per year.

https://thecurrentmsu.com/2021/01/24/prison-labor-americas-s...

Current US forced prison labor population: 1-2.1 million.
Such is the state of ethics is the world. Some people can justify anything.
I'm sorry about your share price, but speculation is just what the market does.

You'll have better luck asking for prayers.
I can't offer you any more insights other than "it's expensive to make things that are just a few nanometer in size..."
Wildfires and Flooding
>- people in interview panels openly saying "but he's a white man" / "do we want to hire more white men" etc.

Not surprised to hear people saying this, but am surprised that nobody brings that up as a plainly racist/sexist thing when it is said. Bystander effect?
You say this in jest. But how would one actually get rid of blood if you can’t donate?
I don't think the first one is actually obvious. An account was set up. It is on Twitch's computers, and it has a password designed to keep me out. Twitch thinks they have allowed in some other person (who's agreed to their licensing agreements, etc). It seems to me that I'd be circumventing their account system using the fact that I happen to control the password recovery mechanism.

I mean this is essentially silly, because almost certainly what has happened (given my weird name that nobody would normally stumble across) is that my email address has become listed in some database and somebody has decided to use it to sign up for services for shady reasons. So I'm not arguing that I couldn't have gotten away with it. Definitely I could have. But I think it is an interesting reflection on these signup systems and how they might interact with the CFAA, that this weird situation can occur.
I used to work in networking to help define such QoS terms, and clearly you didn't read what I wrote because I'm using QoS as an example of how to properly do Net Neutrality.
I have a friend who pays $15 a month for a dedicated seedbox, with 1-click install of a browser-based torrent app + plex. He set up plex to use the remote torrent folder, then anything he downloads gets immediately listed on plex, streamable anywhere, supports chromecast, etc. Pretty cool and a _little_ harder than using a proper paid streaming site, but not a different order of magnitude. Hardest part is finding the seedbox company and also tracking down the right torrent for the show (the choices can be overwhelming).
Who do I beg to get earlier access?
You might be satisfied, but you only consumed a component of the work that the creator explicitly offers for free while refraining from consuming the component that requires payment. Just like browsing an art gallery: I'm satisfied seeing a painting in the gallery location, which is a freebie, and I don't care about also seeing it in the location of my choice, which has a price tag.
> Are you genuinely serious or were you completely unaware of anti-communist government sanctioned blacklisting of academics suspected of being communist for political clout? Are you unaware of churches excommunicating Galileo for daring to scholarly research into the earth rotating around the sun? Are you unaware of our own Alan Turing, of the Turing award, literally castrated not for his research but because he was a known gay researcher? Are you unaware of why HBSUs exist(black scholars were segregated for being black, their research dismissed because of the race of the researcher)?

Every single one of those was NOT a mob.

The people in authority, using their authority to push their PoV, is very different to people with no authority forming a mob and demanding that the current authority silence other people from speaking their minds is a very different thing.

Whatever your view of the current authority is, it is infinitely better than mob-justice.
For me, it was as simple as "I already have access to FREE news sources without commercials that are higher quality than CNN"

My Roku has channels like SkyNews and Al Jazeera where I can watch both live and pre-recorded stories at no charge. No commercials either. They of course, have their own bias problems, but since I know what those are, I can take any stories on affected topics with an appropriate grain of salt.

I don't know why CNN thinks I would pay them when better is available free.
Find better work. I'm currently on a team with a number of women (and many, many more men) who are great.
The benefit of living in a non-democracy is that you don't need to be informed. You can spend all your time on making money and spending money, and that's your life. No worries.

But if you live in a democracy, you have to spend some of your time being informed about things so you know how to vote. Think of it as a democracy tax. If you didn't live in a democracy, you wouldn't have this tax on your time. Freedom isn't free, eh?

Of course, this democracy tax is totally voluntary. You're only obligated by your own morality. You may choose to opt out of democracy entirely. Not voting or being informed is your choice, if you wish to live your life off the backs of others. No one will make you feel guilty about it at all. Right? ;)
This comment section is gonna be a RIDE...

To actually comment on the topic at hand: the reason there's still male-dominated spaces is that women are weeded out far earlier than the hiring stage. See, for example, statistics about women in STEM and especially computer science and realize that hiring managers don't even have to be sexist for male-dominated fields to exist, even though they still are.
Probably because different people could process the same thing differently, and derive enjoyment from different feelings.

For example, i like movies with really convoluted/branching multi-timeline stories where you dont really have much of an idea of what's going on, and you have to uncover it as you go (e.g., Inception). It makes my head "hurt" in a good way, and i like it because of that. I know plenty of people who dislike those movies for the exact same reason I like it for. And i hear the same "why would anyone want to subject themselves to this" critique about those movies from them.

I couldn't make it through Saw either, and I am not into those types of movies at all. But i can totally see plenty of valid reasons for why a person would enjoy it. It is essentially a really twisted escape room story with death games. And all that violence and gore just ups the stakes of the death games, thus making it feel more grotesque and intense. They might like how uncomfortable that movie makes them feel, similarly to how I like intensely convoluted multitimeline mystery stories that make my head "hurt" in a good way.
Your point makes sense, but it wasn't the official explanation.
How do I do that? For instance imagine I would like to watch Book of Boba Fett (just an example, I saw it mentioned somewhere today). I don't think that Disney allows to purchase it individually, but I can only guess, because in the sticks where I live (EU country), Disney+ isn't even available.

That reminds me, what do you think about geoblocking these services? If one has a choice: buy the content, buy VPN and break the copyright by watching it in unsupported country or just break the copyright by pirating it outright, what should one do?
I've worked in 2 companies that were majority white and asian women. The degree by which they explicitly favored women and minorities probably bordered on illegal, but you'd have to be stupid to bring it up to anyone. Yay, diversity!
Datomic: Not the history you're looking for (2017)
Thanks! Unfortunately I haven't done much with it in a while, just enough to keep it running on modern linux systems, but it still works nicely. (code is here: https://github.com/mempko/firestr)

Data lives on the clients. How multi-writer is handled is up to the app you write but I have built in support for vector clocks. So for example, the built-in app editor uses vector clocks and a merge algorithm.

I thought about adding CRDTs for making syncing data structures easier. Maybe there is someone out there that is motivated...
I think what they are saying is the incentive structure makes it advantageous to not find a job. If they tell you "90 days of severance and if you don't find a job by then, here's an additional 6 months of severance", there's suddenly a huge incentive for you to not find a new job in the initial 90 days.
This is my observation as well. Most women don't want to be hired on account of some eng diversity target. It gets really toxic when a company is simultaneously engaging in this kind of discrimination while also harshly cracking down on anyone who points it out.

In 2015 I worked at Dropbox when DEI discrimination was ramping up. Among other things, we only interviewed boot camp grads if they were diverse. We also have diverse applicants two tries at the phone screen instead of one. The onsites we're pretty fair, save for a couple hiring managers.

If you asked someone in person, nobody would ever admit to anything. But the company did a poll on whether the hiring process was biased against men and 83% responded yes. What did Arden, the head of HR at the time, do? Rant about how offensive this was to women and how we're all sexist.

To reiterate, most women and URM did not want these policies. There was some more support for affirmative action supporting URM, which makes sense to me and I largely agree with: things like lower college attendance and family income are concrete examples of systemic disadvantage. Women, on the other hand, attend college at largely the same rate and the disparity is due to choice rather than lack of opportunities.
There's one challenge with that. Your eyes might not work very well when you're 85
This is why the Civil Rights Act passed when the congressman from Virginia (can't remember the name) tried to kill it by including women in the bill. A law designed to save the endangered black family was instead coopted to boost the career prospects of successful women, so I guess the poison pill worked despite the bill passing.
One or the other or both of these

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I agree.

- I recently realized I had only turned on my TV just about 4 - 5 times in about 6 months and yet I was paying close to $140 per month, so I downgraded my cable subscription to the minimal (combined cable & internet is cheaper than only internet).

- Also realized I rarely watched Netflix (hadn't watched in months) cos I no longer found shows that I liked and I was paying $15.49 per month. And then I saw HBO Max was $9.99 a month. So I canceled Netflix and signed on to HBO Max. There's also the psychological part that HBO Max allows me to pay for the whole year upfront (Netflix doesn't) so I can close my eyes and just pay them $100 and be done with it.

- I also realized I rarely have time to watch long form content except for weekends. This is one advantage that Amazon Prime has - apart from it being 'free' to me since I already paid for prime, I can rent movies for $2.99 for those few times that I need to be 'entertained'. Maybe I spend $6 in one month and $0 in others. It's still better than $15.49 (or $140) without watching at all.

- It's possible that lots of people have a variation of these reasons. I understand that Netflix had to raise their prices given how much they were spending on content. It looks to me like they 'overspent' on content without taking into consideration that they would have to recoup the cost from increased subscription fees and this might not be palatable to their members given that there are now multiple alternatives
>>I respect some people work better remotely. We need to respect that some people genuinely work better in person, and stop accusing them of "just wanting to wield power over others" or something. There are legitimate benefits to the person and to the mission when people are in person.<<

Hybrid is the worst of both worlds. Why don't the offices down size and give people the option, while admitting there are time when people need to come into the office. Training is much more difficult (usually) when done remotely, so - when possible - why not take a month and come in to get the ropes tight and the boards nailed in, then everyone can figure out what's best for them. This saves the company money and makes people (ostensibly) happier.

The team I'm working on is both remote and in the office, right now. A few people get on a conference call at the offices - sometimes in separate rooms, which is odd - and everything gets hammered out. I have a disability, which makes it MUCH easier to work at home, but if I have to, I can work in the office, and I did for years. It just required extra preparation and planning, etc. etc.
Regulatory requirements around insurance for cars, for example, are likely to be higher and more expensive now than they were decades ago. Therefore, someone young is unlikely to go a used car lot and pick one up and tinker.

Likewise, access to uncontaminated nature in large population centres is harder than it was when rural populations outnumbered the people living in urban environments.

Bikes, on the other hand, are great for tinkering and also small enough to be compatible with modern living. These, however, might not be accessible for someone with a low level of fitness and willpower to attain that fitness.
I grew up in the '80s and it was there then, too. Some example episodes from "Diff'rent Strokes," a show about a white industrial magnate who adopts a couple of Black orphans:

* A social worker investigates the boys' home life and tells Mr. Drummond that she believes black children belong in black households.

* Mr. Drummond scolds Arnold for secretly recording other people's conversations. Arnold disobeys him and records Kimberly's boyfriend Roger making racist comments about Willis to his sister.

* Arnold's poor dental checkup has Drummond suspecting that the easy availability of junk food from vending machines at school is to blame. But when Drummond begins a campaign to replace the hot dogs, cookies, potato chips and soft drinks with more healthy foods, Arnold's friends try to convince him to get his father to reconsider.

* Arnold's joy of being transferred to an all-white school (and riding a bus to get there) is shaken to its very core when a racist busing opponent calls the Drummond household warning the pro-busing family patriarch not to send his black children to the new school, or else.

* When it is learned that Drummond's upcoming construction project may be located on top of an ancient Indian burial ground, he faces protest from a Native American who threatens to go on a hunger strike if the land is built on. Arnold and Willis follow suit by going on a hunger strike of their own.

--

And of course, we mustn't forget "All in the Family" from the 1970s; pretty much every episode was about politics in some way.
Cyber Chiefs Try New Tricks to Attract Talent
It's quite annoying to turn it off, you have to do it from a web browser.

Most people don't even know that it's an option. Horrible design for this particular feature's UX.
When you work for the devil, don't be surprised to become collateral damage.

Thinking of all the stealing they've done from the public domain it makes my blood boil. Charging top dollar for artists work that have been dead for decades is a disgrace. How about "stealing" from the public and renting it out in perpetuity... Winnie the Pooh, anyone?
> What's next: Discovery wants to build one scaled, subscription streaming app based around HBO Max's branding that includes a cheaper, ad-supported tier. It will eventually combine discovery+ with the HBO Max app after initially offering them as a bundle. Much of the CNN+ programming will be reallocated to other platforms. Some features like CNN's "Interview Club" will likely live on CNN's free, ad-supported app. Other shows may be included in HBO Max.

Makes sense, but it's astonishing how bad HBO Max's app continues to be, given its strategic importance. The catalog is generally excellent, but the UX and reliability of the app and platform are terrible. I wonder if the new executive team will lop of heads responsible for the current state of the product, or whether they're insulated enough that the dysfunction will continue.
The biggest problem Netflix has is content. When it first came out, it enjoyed a near monopoly and had access to content from every single major network. But as networks have started to roll out their own subscription services, Netflix is suddenly finding itself in a position where it lacks content. It has tried to become a content machine, but hasn’t been very successful at it. Netflix is a tech company and not a media company, and as streaming tech becomes commonplace, Netflix is losing its edge.
Highly doubt there is a silver bullet. There are likely a myriad of reasons because diets and genetics are so diverse. Sugar is the obvious villain though.
>people in interview panels openly saying "but he's a white man" / "do we want to hire more white men" etc.

Isn't this illegal?
I can also attest to this, I just left a pretty well-known tech company who leaned hard into DEI in the wake of the summer 2020 protests. The exec team essentially set up quotas, with every race+gender group getting priority over white males. Execs were given bonuses if they increased the percentage of non-white male employees.

The crazy thing was that white males were NOT over-represented in the first place. 2 years later, they are the most under-represented group, and the overall org is now more unrepresentative of the population than it ever has been. There are 3 times as many asian females as there are white males in the org, even though there are ~10x as many white males in the population at large (which is allegedly what the org cares about), which produces a representation disparity between the two groups of nearly ~30x. Most white males left the org, as they could all see that advancing at the company would be nearly impossible given the incentives put in place.

For the record, I think it's perfectly fine if asians are over-represented in a tech company (i'm asian myself), I just think this type of thinking that is informing hiring practices is pretty gross, and is actually moving things farther away from the stated goals.
I had mentioned this in the previous post about this topic[1], yet some people casually discredit it as nothing. The slippery slope is real folks

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31086310&p=3#31087238
I mean sure, I’d love a scalpel but right now we don’t even have a hammer.

It would be fantastic to do something even as simple as shut off the hunger signal for set intervals.

Imagine if you literally couldn’t feel hunger from say… 10am to 6pm. There’s all sorts of cool hacks we do to improve humanity if we could get a grip on cravings.
This came in just as I was about to submit my HackerNew extension to the store so I added it as an optional extra. Thanks @frabert!

HackerNew [1] adds a 'hideAll' button to the HN top bar and an 'Open in new tabs' control. This is a minimal, non distracting, change which optimizes my workflow of occasionally visiting HN throughout the day to gather a set of interesting stories to drill into but avoiding re-skimming the same stories on every visit. Source available [2]

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hackernew/ehlfambi...

[2] https://github.com/tconfrey/HackerNew
I was willing to listen to your point (that perhaps some companies favor women and so women disproportionately percolate to those companies… at least in theory seems like a possible argument, even if I’m skeptical) until you got here:

>> Also, because the intelligence distribution skews more male at the higher end, a company will be disproportionately male simply by being more technical and having a more difficult hiring bar.

Okay, buddy. Women used to be dominant in computing. Literally were the computers. And when artificial computers came to the fore, many transitioned to writing programs for them. Until it became a more prestigious field and men came to dominate.

And once the personal computer became widespread with computer game culture arising and a culture of harassing women until they leave became common enough to be an issue, why wouldn’t one expect that those who developed an interest in computer programming (ie from contact with computer games, etc) to be predominantly men?
(And I love computer games, but there is an insane amount of harassment. Everyone who plays knows this.)

It has nothing to do with intelligence curves.
As Bill Hicks said, "I think a lot of people could do with discovering their inner adult."