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Neither do they require pizza. They are just functions which must be performed within a company, and their existence doesn't require that the people in charge of them have authority over, say, the programmers. I mean, the sales folk don't boss you around, nor you the accountant, right?

> Benefits: "This is an offer I received from corp X for pension funds. Yay or Nay?"

There's a bit more paperwork involved in that than just that where you live, I'm sure. There should probably be someone who knows it, and files the business-end of it. Hell, with their knowledge, they could even offer you advise about the different conditions and regulations as you are seeking pension funds and insurance!

Also, individual employees may have had agreed different terms and conditions in their work contracts that someone should deal with and keep track of them.

> Training: Ms Alice. Meet your mentor Bob.

You'll meet him at the meeting room as he arrives from Big Training Corp, Inc. We took care of the cookies and the billing, don't worry.

Also, who calls the plumber when the sink gets clogged and pays him? Oh, and somebody needs to find a new cleaner when Joe retires next month (you knew that Joe retired next month, right?)

> Accounting: I don't know why orders and invoices could not be handled in the way I prescribed.

It sounds rather hard and it's probably just something that should be handled by a few qualified people anyway as you say?
I find it incomprehensible why paid maternal leave would be mandatory.

Why should companies (in particular the ones who hire women) be forced to pay for the life choices of their employees? And why maternity specifically, as opposed to all sorts of other life choices?
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The correct title for the map is “Countries where employers are fined or threatened with jail time for not providing maternity leave”.

Despite what our ‘enlightened’ friends the world over think about the dark, backwards, USA, it is not, in fact, illegal to provide paid maternity leave in the US.

This map, and the comments in this thread, support mandatory, government-backed maternity leave in the amount and style which the government believes is appropriate. Honest differences in preferences or opinions are subject to government punishment.

In the USA, we are skeptical of the benefits of the government making it a law to do mothering the way the government wants you to. We ask “Why is it noble to force people to forgo higher wages and other benefits for an in-kind contribution to a particular type of maternal care?”

The argument against government-mandated benefits has been made elsewhere in great detail. Facts, evidence, history, and common sense indicate that forcing people to consume their wages the way the government wants, in the the style the government wants, decreases the success of the overall community. That’s why every people who has ever had the chance to overthrow communism, has. And that’s why the children of all these states in Europe find that jobs are very difficult to get, and many of them, particularly the entrepreneurial ones, come to America.

Fewer rules imposed on people lead to greater growth, which leads to greater health, happiness, wealth, and longevity.

Further, there is something immoral about threatening to throw people in jail, or fine them, if they don’t do exactly what the government says on something as basic as raising your children.

To those who say that we should go ahead and follow “The Man” and be happy for these gifts, you have to realize that we are paying for the benefits, not the government, so forcing us to do it the way “they” want it, in a one-size-fits-all manner is not really a benefit to anybody.

You may say that it is only fair, or right, or just, that there be 3 months, or 12 months, or 24 months of paid maternity leave. 24/7/365 child care is bliss for many mothers — perhaps most. But for others, they may prefer to spend those dollars on better daycare, or weeklong breaks interspersed with work, or a 4-day week, or they may be just fine with working a full week and spending a more focused, quality time with their child on their days off.

Demanding that one size fits all, that the government has figured out the correct style of maternal care once and for all time, (when, it should be noted, every government legislature in the world is still majority male), and that those who disagree should be fined or thrown in jail, is not, in fact, a kind or compassionate policy, but a kind of abuse.

Incorrectly titled maps may be great for click bait, but they shouldn’t pass for deep analysis here on HackerNews.
The site is not the official site of those who made the documentary by the looks of it. The official site is http://earthlings.com/. So discounting the film because someone promoting it advocates veganism is probably misguided.

At for environmental impact, a meat diet is generally more environmentally expensive than a vegetable diet. Animals either directly eat vegetables or indirectly (eating other animals that eat other animals that eat vegetables, etc.). Through the life of the animal it's burning the calories from the vegetables. Eat the vegetable calories directly and you're not eating them through an animal conduit that consumed much of them while existing.
That is how SSL is meant to work. Do you have your own SSL keys to your banks website? Of course not.
Well, there might be good reasons for having that amount of cash - but you can't help wondering what the processes and systems there were for controlling what it was all used for..

Edit: This attitude by a US general doesn't exactly come across well:

Q: "But the fact is billions of dollars have disappeared without trace."

Oliver: "Of their money. Billions of dollars of their money, yeah I understand. I'm saying what difference does it make?"
I was on the phone to British Gas complaining that I suddenly stopped receiving paper statements. The agent on the phone got really helpful all of a sudden when I told him I needed the paper bills for proof of identity.

Turns out he had just gone through the whole debacle himself. He had to show a bank statement, but he only has an online account. Went to the bank to get a statement printed and stamped, and whoever he went to turn it in to still refused it because it hadn't been mailed.

Personally, I don't want to give the BA any easy reason to reject my visa applications, I get all the mailed proof of address I can.
>manipulative propaganda film from the anti-meat lobby

You seem to have a real emotional problem with the idea of vegans existing. Why does that cause you so much distress that you make up bizarre nonsense like a "anti-meat lobby"?
If this goes live, at least, maybe, there still will be a bit of good side to that - admitting the fact one's watching porn won't be considered too embarrassing. :)

(Not that I say censorship is good by any means.)
Yes, however it's not a completely bogus indicator since pulling a good shot is probably difficult to perfect if you don't care, and if you do care probably not so hard that you can't learn to do it reasonably properly and consistently.
They would have to prove his info was false, and I doubt they can do that, given that Snowden can release secret info but RSA can't.
It's absolutely hilarious for you to ascribe this definition to feminism, because it actually derives from the common law definition of rape, which is hundreds of years old and predates modern feminism by more than quite a bit. The common law definition is an anachronism in more ways than one--it excludes rape against men in the same breath as it excludes spousal rape against women.

The most deeply ironic thing about your post is that it was feminists who led the effort to reform rape laws in the 1970s-1990s, which included making them gender neutral in addition to applying within marriages and eliminating degrees that made rape by acquaintances less severe than rape by strangers.
Not in the racing itself. However nascar has been pushing to modernize it's race tracks with things like Solar Panels.
Stop for a second and re-read what you just wrote. Think about the feelings and motivation that led to you writing what you did. Put practicality to one side too; Try not to get distracted by the myriad justifications and nuances of the debate itself, and think about why you hold these beliefs. Does it stem from somewhere cold and rational? Or does it feel "right" on some biological level? Why do you feel the way that you do? Is it too early for me to point to your writing and say "QED"? What do you think?
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I'm not defending the practice, I'm just saying it's the argument that gets used. "We're an oracle shop, we've spent $N Million on getting set up as an oracle shop, and we'll always be an oracle shop. Let's use ADF[1]."

[1]:http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/developer-tools/adf/overvi...
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You also can't deduct the cost of pants as the "cost of doing business", even if showing up in your underwear would get you fired.
BS. Divorced fathers and feminists understand each other well.
Maxima and Axiom have been around since the 60s, and have had a crucial influence on the development of Lisp. More generally, higher mathematics has had an inseparable effect on the development of Lisp, especially Common Lisp. To me it seems absurd to say that Lisp culture is hostile to math.
Never done this myself, but have done worse really. I was working at Sun a long time ago and we had a big shared development server. Being familiar with linux killall I suggested to my boss that he use killall instead of killing processes one by one. So he tried it out. Whole team had to wait quite a while for the server to restart. :-)
>Demanding that one size fits all, that the government has figured out the correct style of maternal care once and for all time

The countries mandated by legislation do not force parents to take leave. As you say, many parents prefer to work part time or scatter time across a period of months/years. Legislation affords worker rights, as much as legislating fair working conditions in general is a benefit to workers. Can you give me an example of a country with a free market where workers and employers get along without legislation?
A one arg closure to the P6 sort builtin (eg { .lc }) is a key function, not a comparison function. Imo the P6 sort builtin is an elegant rethink of P5's Schwartzian Transform, which was invented in 1994 to address precisely the point you make.
Now it's on us to bring them down ...
I do not think Formula E will ever amount to much more than an interesting side show. As soon as the technology in Formula E is mature enough, I fully expect it to be folded into F1. Where they will go all Electric, or balance of performance rules will be put in place to allow electric and internal combustion will compete against each other.
> Because it seems that feminists say men can't take care of children, particularly by so convincing the US judicial system that only women can care for children that it takes extraordinary circumstances for a father to get custody.

This is not true at all. In cases where fathers seek custody, they have a good chance of gaining custody or arriving at a shared custody arrangement.

> Modern, vocal feminists have, by and large, become severely anti-men in many of their policies. From convincing the world that all men are rapists and manipulating definitions of rape to induce male perpetrators.

Are you serious? When someone points out that most rapes are committed by men they aren't saying all men are rapists. Also, there has been tremendous effort to expand definitions of rape, esp. from a legal standpoint, to be more inclusive of sexual assault as it happens, whether it be to men or women and whether committed by a man or woman.

> To the lovely Tumble feministas /SJW who spread vile, hate-filled messages against men.

Please, tell me more about how someone venting about men oppresses you.

> To a court system and public that's been convinced by the feminist political machine that women need to be protected and there's no way they could possibly rape someone or lie about being raped.

This is the exact opposite thing that feminist and activist communities are fighting against. The notion that women are fragile and need special protections is highly misogynistic and patriarchal. That consideration of woman has been generally used against women and to prevent their access to equality over the last 100 years+.

Further, nobody is arguing that women cannot commit rape. If somewhere were to argue that, they would be discounting the experiences of many sexual assault survivors. Also, yes women can lie about rape, but that is not the primary issue with sexual assault and catching those that commit sexual assaults as the majority of sexual assaults go without a conviction and sexual assault continues to be a large scale social problem.

> There's no such thing as the patriarchy in modern culture. Feminists like using that word as a scapegoat and explanation for everything they do and don't like.

You are so obsessed with straw feminists that this is ridiculous. Like anything, there are many different voices and opinions that use the label feminism, but you seem to rather want to ignore any social problems in favor of blaming women.
A BRIC country will announce and maybe release a serious Intel processor competitor for the desktop and server based on a 64bit ARM design.

It will be a serious effort to move their technology stack off American technology, not an Arm on a blade type play
You have Lisp knowledge, so maybe Haskell is not the best candidate for "a new way you think". Given your background I would say you probably would enjoy Scala more than Java (targeting the same JVM). I am not sure if one can learn enough from Smalltalk to justify the effort it takes to learn an in-practice useless language. If you don't speak JavaScript yet, that's a good candidate, especially if you use your FP experience in it and not just go the OO way most people do.
Just in the last week a few prominent and influential figures have said just that:

“I think giving him amnesty is idiotic,” Former CIA Director James Woolsey said. “He should be prosecuted for treason. If convicted by a jury of his peers, he should be hanged by his neck until he is dead." [1]

Former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton: Edward Snowden 'Ought To Swing From A Tall Oak Tree' [2]

That's not the administration's official line of course, and might be Fox News or the administration just floating the idea, but these are very senior figures in the Washington establishment.

[1] http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/12/17/ex-cia-director-s...

[2] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/17/john-bolton-edward-...
Its a fair trade. The cost to society of a large dilbertian corporation is very high in terms of lowered quality of life. Yes some rich people get richer, but that doesn't mean quality of life isn't, on average for the society, reduced. So it seems perfectly fair that a tax or charge or bill be presented.

The USA situation relates to only about 60% of the population having a job, so 40% don't need "leave" anyway, and the percentage of people having a job is in permanent multi decade decline. So if there's not enough jobs right now to keep two parents fully employed at their appropriate level, there seems little point in encouraging both to work. If the powers that be do not permit your social group to have a career then there seems little point in complaining about a minor detail standing in the way of a career, which you can't have anyway regardless of popping out kids or not.

The USA situation for paternal leave is also screwed up for multicultural reasons and history of racism reasons. We have ethnic groups where the percentage of babies born to unwed mothers is way over majority, and uncle sam is the sugar "daddy". So allowing married fathers to take paid time off is going to make a huge mess where certain minorities are going to complain about their unmarried men not getting time off, but the white guys do get time off. I suppose you could demand a copy of the birth cert, so at least one baby couldn't result in ten guys claiming vacation time as father for each kid? Regardless of details and stats, there would be racial / socioeconomic friction in the USA about the whole topic that doesn't exist in a monocultural nation like, say, Japan.

Some cultures are built around the idea of supporting that culture, whereas the USA is built around the idea of convincing everyone that its an optimum strategy for every subculture to screw over every subculture; of course that means everyone gets screwed over in the end, but as long as you can convince the idiots its scalable, it'll be a profitable scam to run. Divide and conqueor, baby!
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There's a massive difference between high-status men and low-status men.

High-status men are almost certainly part of a patriarchy, but as you've probably noticed are loved and admired by millions of women.

Low-status men in contrast have very little power and wealth, but get almost all of the flak for the patriarchy and in contrast significantly less access to women.

This term patriarchy is rarely used by a woman against men that she respects or admires even if they are extremely privileged. Most of the time it's a rationalisation for why she hates the average man that is uninteresting to her sexually.

So, yes, there is a patriarchy, but it's an integral part of the sexual politics which forces men to aggressively shoot for the top or receive nothing; it's not something that you can get rid of without the macro desires of women changing considerably; we're all part of the same system - one which orders men and women around masculine elitism.
I don't know the history of this site, but it seems unlikely that most of the 'passionate teenagers' volunteers of the site throughout it's history didn't see any of the money that exchanged hands in 2004. It's usually got nothing to do with whether it was sustainable without a sale or not, it's just minority that owns 'the rights' deciding they can cash in, right?
So women have the opportunity to give birth and raise children in a safe, welcoming society, so you have a healthy population and grandkids around to pay for elderly social services? Is 'paying it forward' anathema?
Sorry if this is a bit personal, but why do you have .uk blocked?
That's great. So my mom doesn't have to put it on her list of things to avoid because they "contain chemicals".
>Also talks about speciesism: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speciesism comparing it to racism.

That's a nonstarter for me and makes me want to avoid this film.

Speciesism is a perfectly reasonable position. Assigning the exact same values and rights to cockroaches/jellyfish/ants as we do to humans is ludicrous. Any number of moral thought experiments should immediately demonstrate how absurd that would be (e.g. would you refuse to sacrifice 2 ants to save 1 human?).
That will almost certainly be O2's whitelist opt-in blocklist option, which only allows access to sites that have been explicitly flagged as safe. This is not the blocklist that you'd be signed up to as the default option.
> They know people will feel kinda embarrassed to call their ISP and say "I want porn".

Some ISPs have been filtering "adult" content for some time.

Turning it off is simple - you visit a page and have a credit card checked (no charge to you); or you ask for content lock to be turned off.

The filters are so poor that most adults ask for them to be removed.

Asking for the filter is not saying "I want to see porn", it is saying "I want to visit a bunch of normal sites that you are wrongly filtering" and they know this.
>> "They know people will feel kinda embarrassed to call their ISP and say "I want porn""

I'm against these filters but that's not how it works. Filters are only added to new accounts. I've been through this with a provider who has offered the feature for a while. When I was signing up they asked something like, "Do you want our child protection/home safety filters enabled". I said no. So really it isn't embarrassing and it's easy to choose to have them not enabled. I doubt the ISP's would sink to the level of referring to them officially as 'porn filters' and requiring customers to disable 'porn filters'.
I almost feel bad for upvoting this on HN, because it's just funny. But I really did think about how creepy some parts of the video made me feel. I think I've been conditioned by movies to associate that kind of German accent with "bad guys". It's such a common trope that a movie doesn't really have to introduce a character - just a military uniform and a German accent and hey presto, a bad guy. I wonder how much cool stuff I've been overlooking because my filters were tuned by stupid stereotypes!
Not sure about lightening the labels and removing bolding. Contrast and readability goes down.
I'd like to see that comparison between a F1 car and LMP1 car. considering that the LMP1 actually produces more downforce than a F1 car it should be interesting.
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I don't know what stereotypes you are referring to, but Perl is actually one of the better loosely typed languages for not causing the aforementioned bugs. And also one of the best languages for not overloading operators too (which is one of the reasons it looks like executable line noise)
Retail Indoor Locationing (aka iBeacons) and their applications in stores will become mainstream. We are moving towards the intelligent store that talks back to you and offer personalized service.
I actually quite like the Blackberry hardware (with the qwerty keyboards). But the software is absolutely dire, they should try putting Android on it.
> How can you even be sure that the opting out will still truly allow you access to the full, unfiltered internet?

We already know that opting out of this filter does nothing about other filtered content - stuff the IWF has filtered will be hard to find; stuff that courts have ordered ISPs to filter (at the request of the companies asking for the court order) will be harder to find.
The countries mandated by legislation do not force parents to take leave

They force parents (as well as people who choose not to become parents) to pay for that leave whether they take it or not.
The root of the problem isn't using or not using COTS.

The root of the problem is the government keep hiring consultants they pay by the hour. They they act surprised when the consultants respond rationally to the incentives.

Or they agree to a fixed price contract where everyone knows the government will pay you more if you say you can't deliver and threaten to go bankrupt. Then they act surprised when the contractors respond rationally to the incentives.

The government needs to break projects down into smaller chunks, to mitigate the losses if a supplier doesn't deliver, you don't pay them, and they go bankrupt. Then they need to establish and enforce an incentive system where suppliers are punished, not rewarded, for failing to get the job done.
Whats does the header of the E-Mail look like?
You seem woefully misinformed. Paid parental leave exists in the US, it's just not legally mandated.
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What if the filters are so poor that many people will want to opt in even if they have no interest in online pornography?
Er, what I meant is that Android already does this. All apps' data stores are private to that app by default. The only way for any other app to access them is for the owning app to specifically set up an interface and permissions to access it, and the accessing app to request those permissions at install time.

I don't have much experience with iOS, but I expect it does something similar.
This (rather old) paper is still worth reading: Cleveland, W. S. (1984), "Graphical Perception and Graphical Methods for Analyzing Scientific Data"

http://courses.ischool.berkeley.edu/i247/f05/readings/Clevel...