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I fortunately (or unfortunately) was the target of one of the "extended survey" forms in the last US Census.

I ignored the mail. A Census worker came to my address and I would not let him in, multiple times (the first time, he was without any ID).

Fortunately for me, there is a way for the Census worker to complete each blank on his form with "declines to answer" (he did it by pressing Shift-F11 if that helps you).

Of course, that is at the whim of the Census Bureau, and is not the same as legal protection against Census surveys. In other words, I ultimately sat down with the Census worker and we went through the questions outside my address. I had him press Shift-F11 for each answer, he thanked me for my time, and that was that.

It helps to be courteous and considerate (I offered him a cold drink). It probably made the difference in getting him to admit there was a Shift-F11 option.
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This post, which definitely resonates with me and my experience in Silicon Valley and in Seattle, surrounded by very leftist politics, reminds me a lot of Mencius Moldbug's brilliant piece "Technology, communism and the Brown Scare":

http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2013/09/technol...
So, I hung out on a forum called 'stuff white people do' for a while. I wanted to find out more about racism, and the forum host was white, along with the denizens being a mixed group (I didn't want to stick my nose into a place where it wasn't wanted).

Anyway, this exact thing you suggest was something that they explicitly had articles against. "PoC are tired of being asked about their experiences. Go read a book first, don't ask them". I was scolded by the host for suggesting that "asking people as a first resort over picking up a book" was a human thing, not a white thing born of privilege, and I was scolded for it. Several of the PoC in the forum were quite clear on how they felt (poorly) about being asked of their experience by people not familiar with it.

Until I hit that site, I thought 'white apologism' was a myth. But boy, if you self-identified as white and didn't meekly talk cap-in-hand about how you sucked, you were berated. My favourite post was where the moderator asked what could be done to improve the site, and myself (white male) and an asian female said the same thing (both dispassionately): that we felt we held different opinions to the mainstream of the site, and it was difficult to be heard. She had a number of users encouraging her to post more and feel welcome. I got read the riot act and was nearly banned from the site.

It's very much worth noting I did learn a lot from some of the users that site, and I certainly wouldn't tar others in the field from my experiences there, but boy, arseholes can come from all directions. Some of the users were actually interested in discussion and I did learn a lot from those (one of whom was the woman above), but the moderator was an utter moron. I felt sad because these are important issues, and that moderator and his ilk were more interested in shriving guilt and hand-wringing than finding equitable solutions.

Anyway, long waffle short: not all people of colour appreciate being asked about their experiences by well-meaning naifs.
Who are you sharing your views with that you are experiencing so much judgement, etc?

Are these comments on your blog, or real life friends, or both?

>politics are still left of centre

The whole left-right thing is really a false dichotomy. It sounds to me like you associated/associate with extremists of political correctness.

I hold some very progressive ideologies, but I have never faced ridicule if I don't "tow the line" as you are experiencing. But then again I don't blog or share my views that publicly.
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It's worth remembering that one advantage right-side politics have is that they are passionate for the status quo. Left-side politics are passionate for change. And it's when people are passionate that they get into disagreement; it's much easier for lefties to disagree about what kind of change they want, than for righties to disagree about how they want things to stay the same...
Mate, some people think we already FOUND live on Mars
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_on_Mars#Viking_lander_biol...
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most people are idiots, right or left, we're all stupid together!
"The Revolution devours its children"
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This comment is incredibly racist, not to mention problematic on several other counts.

Racism is the view that the content of your mind is determined by your race. The Nazis believed that, and so does the person I am responding to.

Interestingly, Marx said something very similar: that the content of your mind is determined by your class. This is why large swathes of people have to be either wiped out or "re-educated" in Marxist countries.
I'll never match my grandfather's income. That's fine.

I didn't understand the need to be frugal, when I was young, because of this. But dealing with my own money and my own jobs, gave me hands on experience with the value of being frugal. This went well with their sharing of their own experiences - the value they got out of being frugal.

The lessons sunk in well. It's not just "savings are good" and a list of abstract rationalizations - savings feel good because I absolutely get it why they're good to me even this moment.

Understanding my grandfather's wealth taught me other important things beyond frugality, however:

I was able to learn from my grandfather's success about managing money - the value of compound interest, savings, calm and diverse long term investments. The dangers of panicked short term day trading.

I was able to learn from my extended family's failures with managing money - putting all their eggs in one basket, throwing good money after the bad, the disadvantages of lending to family - really underscoring what these mistakes can inflict on people, losing more money than I'll ever earn.

All the frugality in the world won't secure one's financial future if you can't resist shoving a retirement fund all in on the housing market. Or into a tech bubble. Or any number of baskets you couldn't see were going to come to an end eventually.
SMT is still a pretty far cry from type theoretic proof. At the end of the day it's just another kind of exhaustiveness checker.
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Ah ah, fair---certainly never worth reinforcing the turing tar pit argument!
I am not sure if what the Huangs did is considered Insider trading. Majestic Research (Bought by ITG Research) provides anonymized credit card data to Hedge Funds to make investing decisions.

Check out:
http://www.itg.com/intelligence/itg-investment-research/cove...

Also check out this article from the WSJ from June 2010 on Majestic Research:
http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2010/06/30/using-starbucks-du...

Using Starbucks, Dunkin’ Donuts to Track Economy
As economists look for clues on the direction of consumer spending, they may want to look into how much Americans are willing to spend on their coffee.

Consumers have been more willing to spend since the lows of the recession, but recent declines in retail sales and confidence have sparked worries over whether spending can continue to grow in the second half of the year.

Enter the coffee indicator. A “tell-tale sign of how consumers feel about employment, income and the future is where they buy their coffee and whether they step up for the more expensive concoction,” wrote Majestic Research economist Steve Blitz in a recent research note.

Majestic Research tracks anonymous credit-card data, and can see how much consumers spend by category and store. Blitz broke out the average dollar transactions at Starbucks and Dunkin’ Donuts. The data show that during the worst of the recession consumers spent less at the two coffee outlets, but as the employment picture started to improve people were willing to spend more per transaction.

AFP/Getty Images Starbucks may hold a key to consumer spending.
The trend reversed at the beginning of April when transaction size turned down. To be sure, much of that change is likely seasonal. Transaction size at Starbucks, especially, takes a big spike around the holidays as shoppers buy coffee baskets and mugs for those caffeine addicts on their lists. In the last two years, it has bounced back a bit through the late winter, turning down in April and then moving back up in the late summer/early fall.

So far, this year’s transactions at Starbucks and Dunkin’ Donuts is following the pattern. If that bounce back materializes in the late summer, it could indicate that consumers are still willing to open their wallets. But if the average transaction size levels off or continues to decline, it could indicate a more thrifty consumer will dominate the second half of this year.
But ASI is controversial, because of the bugs that can be caused by it. (See "JavaScript, the Good Parts"). I make our devs (myself include) use semicolons with jshint, because I believe it's too easy to screw up.
> Who are you sharing your views with that you are experiencing so much judgement, etc?

You'd be surprised. I left the Bay for a handful of years, and when I came back half of my friends had become political radicals. There is no lack of people who will react badly if you don't share their views in detail.
I'm afraid that our political system is non-responsive to the mainstream opinion of the public. This privacy battle is unfortunately going to only change when something like all of Facebook's private messages end up on torrents
Interesting - I was thinking of public bathrooms, I'm not really familiar with any single-sex private bathrooms, where generally I'd assume women would have a lot more 'stuff' in general so would tend to be messier. You are probably referring to this paper[http://wc.arizona.edu/papers/90/156/07_1_m.html], which seems to be the only study ever done (and I can't find the actual paper, just people citing it). Says that women's bathrooms are tidier and smell nicer but have more germs, possibly because they touch more surfaces, they bring in children who are obviously little germ bombs, and they just use them more often (and the children angle would probably affect traffic numbers too).
Often, the bully is someone who gets off on the feeling of power. That's what defines a bully, not that they disagree with you.
> So while you can't get a single binary with an interpreted language (you need the shared runtime)

Offtopic nitpick: of course you can, just combine the runtime with the code and wrap it all in a single executable. E.g. http://www.py2exe.org does exactly this.
There is one point at which your analogy to pointers breaks down. After having studied pointers, you will never be in a position to disagree.
But you could come away from a class on feminism 101 disagreeing with many things.
I wonder if this is a reaction to Republican party politics of the last 20 years or so? They seem to speak with a single voice, even if that voice is usually saying stupid, hateful, regressive things. That they march in such lockstep is probably their greatest asset as a party, and I really don't know if it's something to be emulated or not (leaning toward 'not', though).
When you hit a certain age, it does have something to do with you. At some point you may need to take financial or physical care of your Mom. That said, it's not an easy topic to broach. But better to do it while she still has her wits. (I've taken care of one parent, and perhaps have another on the way. Much easier to sort through stuff while they still can explain it.)
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but the big eyes can be traced back to Donald Duck of all characters
I was just thinking that a lot of this might be college kids having a better handle on their politics than their social norms.
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Google didn't control the hardware either though so I think that's selling it short.

MS lost because they weren't ruthless is copying iOS. Google won the licensed market because basically they dropped everything else they were doing in mobile (copying blackberry) and put it all behind copying iphone. Samsung did the same thing with their Galaxy line. These are the kind of moves 80's and 90's MS would do without blinking, they understood that "second place is a set of steak knives". But late 00's MS -- spoiled on decades of success and perhaps a bit cowed by EU antitrust -- couldn't pull the trigger.
It seems to me that what we're seeing now is the normalization of Japanese cultural output, rather than the dominance of it. Set against the background of Korean cultural ascendancy mentioned by jpatokal (prevalent moreso in Japan than America it seems), and the widespread derision of Chinese culture, America is more familiar with Japanese tropes, norms, and media, and integrating them into mainstream pop culture.

It's a big step forward from the Otaku subculture that is generally associated with anime, and I think that's a good thing; my biggest impression upon visiting Japan was not the overwhelming craziness usually associated with it, but the fact that they're a society that's already encountered its population peak, and (for the past two decades) a corresponding slide into recession and deflation.

The US and other first world countries would be wise to look at Japan for both a model to follow, and a series of pitfalls to avoid, because we'll all face the same issue in due time. Culture (pop or otherwise) is an important messenger of the values a society holds dear.

Perhaps the most enlightening aspect of Japanese culture is our media's obsession with some of the certain "odd qualities" that it espouses. The morbid fascination we collectively seem to have with the weirder parts of Japanese culture certainly seem to point fingers at weaknesses within our own. Hentai is almost glorified, while the tiny 8 oz beverage cans in almost any vending machine are ignored.

While absolutely not a perfect society in a multitude of ways, the Japanese do get a lot of things right. I think the normalization we're seeing is a good step toward learning more valuable lessons, and more importantly, being receptive toward those lessons.
From my experience at one of the elite public universities:

Something I noticed as a student who spent time around activists (I wouldn't say I am one--I fundamentally agree with many pretty far-left social and economic ideas but I didn't participate in marches/action and was only occasionally involved in their official groups) was that there were sometimes people who used left wing politics and the language of intersectional feminism as a bludgeon to silence any critics and generally prove their superiority. Some groups were kind of dominated by this type of person, and others weren't--it certainly wasn't universal.

The thing is, I saw similar things during my short time in a pretty right leaning debate club, just over different issues. Instead of not speaking the language of intersectional feminism, it was not speaking the language of right leaning economics, but the mechanisms seemed to be the same--an in-group who knew the language and biwords used it to enforce the group's shared values on those outside of that in-group who were interested in joining.

The realization that I had was really that there are people at every point of the political spectrum and in every philosophical movement who police orthodoxy and use it as an excuse to be disrespectful. It happens in the center as well: the people who see the far left and right as crazy demagogues and ignore/berate anyone who uses their language, regardless of their point.

The solution (for the left and the right groups) is probably to demand a certain basic amount of respect from and for other people in your movement. That doesn't mean "let them trample all over you," but instead "When someone seems genuinely interested in your movement, direct them to educational materials." In the cases given, the appropriate thing to do would probably have been to interrupt and explain either why something might be offensive or 'wrong', but defend the person being attacked not on the basis of what they said but on their personhood. And, of course, to not tolerate rabid orthodoxy at the expense of basic compassion for others.

As a side note I wouldn't conclude from this post or the occurrences that I saw that "political correctness" (of either the left or right variety) is totally out of hand or wrongheaded or invalid. As other commentators on the internet have pointed out, a lot of what gets labeled as "abusive leftist social-justice-warrior political correctness" is actually "treating people who are different from you with respect." If someone regularly says things like "Gays are terrible aberrations in the eyes of God" or "All Muslims aren't civilized", then it's fair to conclude that they probably do not respect Gays or Muslims as groups of people, no matter how much they claim otherwise.
My biggest problem is definitely the source maps. It took me forever to get them to "work" and while the stack traces are mostly correct, they're often off by a line number or two. This makes debugging ridiculously hard when the line numbers are just "close".

I know this might not sound like a big deal in the grand scheme of things, but I also don't think CoffeeScript really improves on js all that much, so the annoyances of source maps are just not worth it to me personally.
Winter, A guy with 2k viewers for starcraft said he made $70k in the past year. Forsen who is in that picture usually has 17-30k viewers and pushes donations a lot without ever running ads. Honestly i thought he was making more than what is in that picture. I forget what he said the other day. I think he said he was nearing 3k subscribers which would top that number up a lot.
> why not just # like everyone else?

You mean like CS? '#' actually isn't a very popular choice for this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_interpolation
> I'm pretty sure you can't trade on information you overhear in a bar, for example.

Apparently, you can. Read the following: http://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/when-is-it-legal-to-trade...
I upvoted you. I'm not disagreeing with the OP in regards to the bullies. But you find them everywhere, saying they're the turn off for certain ideas while being on the opposite spectrum of the discussion, which also has bullies, doesnt make much sense.

Basically, if what you agree with is decided by who expresses their ideas in a quieter way, you'd probably agree with nothing.
"Academic politics is so vicious because the stakes are so low." - Henry Kissinger. He'd both been on the Harvard faculty and was Secretary of State, so he knew.

The real trouble with the political correctness thing about sex is that it's a distraction from the real political issues - money, and who gets how much. Most of what government does and can do is about money. The US right has its own problems with sex, but it's a distraction there, too: "God, guns, and gays". None of which the U.S. Government can do much about.

Occupy ran into this. Occupy leaves behind one lasting achievement - the identification of "the 1%" as a problem. They never had a coherent agenda. Basic truth about dealing with political leaders - don't ask them to solve your problem. The most that will get you is a study. You must have all the homework done up to the "sign here" point. Ask any lobbyist.

Thought for today: should people be paid more than they are worth as purely economic units? If not, should incomes go down as automation gets better?
You certainly may be commenting on outdated notions. I have used the .Net and the Ruby SDK's exetensively and have been satisfied with both(other than .Net being a bit behind Java with the KMS stuff).
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One of the last steps is "Repeat", so they form a loop. I'm guessing that 9001 is a statistic from the creation of his website.
I think one of the biggest problems with these types is that they associate opinions with morality. As in, if you hold uninformed / ignorant / bigoted opinions, you are automatically an evil person and should be treated accordingly.

Are some bigoted people evil? Sure. But I think that a lot of people hold various opinions because they just haven't thought about it too hard. They've just gone along with whatever they've been taught from childhood, and they're just kind of parroting their indoctrination. That doesn't make them bad.

Unfortunately, the SJW crowd (to be distinguished from the mostly rational leftist crowd) seems to have decided to elevate themselves based on their enlightenment. "I've devoted the time to make myself more informed, and that makes me a good person." With that black-and-white thinking comes the inverse - you're a bad person because you haven't devoted this time to make yourself more informed.

Such thinking immediately makes people bristle and walk off. Why would they volunteer for abuse? I don't talk to SJWs because it's ridiculous to be treated like subhuman filth for disagreeing with something that the other person treats as Gospel, especially when a huge amount of this material is hugely complicated and up for debate.

The guiding principle should be stop being an asshole. Instead, the SJW crowd resorts to yelling about "tone policing" and drives away people who would normally be allies.

Here's some food for thought. The black civil rights movement in the 60s and the gay rights movement today have enjoyed a lot of success because they emphasized their status as normal people. As soon as you get the kooks who excoriate people for any slight deviation from the One True Faith, you end up failing miserably.
This is an odd view. Right wing politics in the US claims to lean toward reducing/dismantling SS and the welfare state, radically changing immigration and education policy. (In reality they are prevented from doing this, of course.) In contrast, left wing politicians just want to throw more money at the same things.
Yah, we do mostly agree.

A few points:

I've worn shirts for longer than 100 days with no holes. T-shirts are very thin and don't last. Thicker fabric lasts exponentially longer, not just a bit longer. And the dryer is really hard on fabric.

I stand by my 10 year guess-timate - especially when you include repair.

I don't think there was ever any real leisure time. Instead it was low-energy time. For things like spinning and making cloth, but not hard work. So 90 hours a week might actually be right. (100 was too high.)

The Talmud numbers are for a poor person, not an average person. Those are the numbers below which someone should get social help. Most people would spend more I think.

The 1 zuz a day is income from outside work. A person would also work at home, so their income could be another 50% on top of that (not as money but as made at home goods). I assume the 1 zuz a day is for the poor person, not the average.

I do wonder if other people worked 7 days a week, and the Tamlud figures are not representative of the majority.
True. The "big" players that forked it couldn't be explicatived to work together so the project became seriously fractured. I'm hoping this will move swiftly through experimental to release, and that the generated nature doesn't produce yucky to use implementations.
He mentioned in the video how what they've implemented is a subset of css. Sounds like 'CSS the good parts' and may be renderable on older browsers.
People who scream the loudest are always the ones who are the most hypocritical.
Brings back memories of reading the article in PC Gamer. OpenGL has come a long ways
This looks really exciting. The fast code edit to relanch time is a really big deal to me.