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The opposite of FAE is the actor-observer bias, were we overestimate the role of circumstances and underestimate the role of personality traits in our own behaviour.

Both of these biases are defined in a framework where actions are the effects of a personality operating in specific circumstances. We tend to misunderstand other people a little in one direction and ourselves in the other direction.

> I think the point of FAE is that human action is context dependent, and not some enduring trait.

That is a view people have, it's just not one I find convincing, and it's not the one in which these types of cognitive biases are defined or studied. Personality/Character evolves, often quite a bit, as people age but still exists.

> I think if you assume the hug's outcome was not intentional, or assume the investor was mistaken about OPs wishes/desires/state-of-mind it's quite easy to come up with charitable explanations. Did you try this?

I considered it for quite a while. Did OP not notice he had a prosthetic arm? Did he have severe nerve damage from an old motorcycle accident? Has he left his hand resting on his mothers or grandmothers breast when hugging them? Like I said, nothing we can reasonably assume here.

And I'm a bit disgusted by the second part of your statement. He was being solicited for investment money at a business event, and offered it. It doesn't matter if she was flat out propositioning him, it doesn't matter what the genders involved are. There was a large power differential, it was a business event, he combined making a pass with offering her 50K. There are no circumstances which defend this. And those facts are not in dispute. I an now having a really hard time not making the fundamental attribution error in evaluating what type of person you are. But I assume if you thought about what you just said you would realize the mistake.
Most users probably don't miss features in LO as such. The issue like with much open source software, is UI and stability related.

Joe Marketing ain't going to jump through UI hoops and do complex bug work-arounds, when he can avoid this entirely by buying a MS office license for 200 USD or whatever the price is.
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"how can America spend more on its military than all the other great powers combined and still be unable to impose its will on even moderately sized enemies?"

Aside from the the reasons he cited, you can put up there fighting with both hands ties behind our backs.

The politicians want the military to win the hearts and minds, have surgical strikes to reduce civilian casualties, and spend more time keeping up diplomatic relations then killing our adversaries. The media have never been pro-war, never been able to stomach seeing and reporting the brutality of what war really entails.

Patton once said, "Attack rapidly, ruthlessly, viciously, without rest, however tired and hungry you may be, the enemy will be more tired, more hungry. Keep punching."

We haven't done this since Vietnam. You want to win the wars in the middle east? You throw away the Geneva Conventions, you take off the handcuffs and employ the full force of the military. Like Patton said, you attack rapidly, ruthlessly and viciously. If the US even used a fraction of its full firepower, and instead hunted down and killed the terrorists and then made examples of them, their enemies would shrivel up and put down their weapons.

You wanna know why the Mexican drug cartels are feared? You wanna know why people are scared of ISIS and terrorism here in the states and what they've done in Europe already? Because they don't have rules, they instill fear with violence, something the US Military has been unable to do - because of politicians and the media.

Take off the handcuffs and let the full force of the military come down on these people and you'll see them broken, tired and without refuge.
The problem is that most "wars" the US has been involved in across the recent decades weren't conventional wars, even when the US was treating them as if they were.

The ongoing "wars" in Iraq and Afghanistan (which miraculously have been "ended" unilaterally by the US many times over) aren't wars. They're garrisons.

Even ISIS (ISIL?) isn't a conventional enemy, despite having tanks. These aren't nation states and those aren't, for the most part, soldiers.

The reason the "War on Terror" is still treated as a war is that there is no reason not to. The article explains that quite nicely.
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NSA can figure out the traffic from donate.libreoffice.org (or wherever; I can't see where the downloads are coming from right now because their website isn't loading for me) is not worth of decrypting based on the hostname passed in the clear via SNI. Unless libreoffice makes a habit of also hosting interesting content on their site too.
Most developers can't create something new and original or improve upon what's best out there so they reinvent things with very limited functions with something that people think is cool today (in this case, golang).
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Sadly that's exactly how most companies view their employees. I especially love hearing PM's refer to me and fellow tech team members as "resources" instead of "people". Nothing like being dehumanized on a daily basis.
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At one previous gig we had a product-god query similar to what you're describing, which was the source of neverending sorrow. Eventually, the solution was to write and schedule a stored procedure that built a 'current_product' table with essential fields. Products and catalogs weren't updated that frequently, so it ran nightly, or could be run on demand. Performance increase was immense.
I read Thinking Fast and Slow and also I also read a better summary of the initial study, by the author I think. The 10,000 hour was taking from a study from top music performers (so, no random population), also there was a lot of variance; for ex among chess players some achieved mastery in 5,000 hours, others put in more than 10,000 and didn't achieve it. So lots of deliberate practice is good, arbitrary 10k hours is BS.
Wouldn't full-disk encryption mitigate hard drive firmware attacks?
> I have worked for 3 companies so far and all of them are selling product in overseas and doing development here, by putting someone experienced as a CTO in development office.

That's great (no snark intended) if you have a CTO who wants to move to Central Asia. Most startups probably don't.
> The free version of Win 10 requires mandatory updates from Microsoft, not just security updates but app updates. There is also a variety of user data tracking and integration with cloud services, Bing, storage, etc.

Can you provide a source? First time I've seen someone claim this. Several articles I've read up until now has suggested that the Windows 10 licence which is granted for free would be indistinguishable from the paid version.
>The primary aim of modern warfare is to use up the products of the machine without raising the general standard of living...

>The problem was how to keep the wheels of industry turning without increasing the real wealth of the world. Goods must be produced, but they must not be distributed. And in practice the only way of achieving this was by continuous warfare. The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labour. War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent.
Yeah, I agree that it becomes less well defined. The problem with Berry's paradox is that it refers to itself. I circumvented paradox, by only refering to shorter descriptions of the number, than the description I gave. If that strategy works really depends on what the judge thinks though. Assuming he accepts refering to his own potential judgements of shorter sequences but not longer or equally long, the solution would work and the rules would be paradox free.
I have this quote from Mass Effect written down in my quotes file:

"Your civilization is based on the technology of the mass relays, our technology. By using it, your society develops along the paths we desire. We impose order on the chaos of organic evolution. You exist because we allow it, and you will end because we demand it."

Replace "civilization"/"society"/"organic" with "business", "mass relays" with "platforms", and there you go.

Something that keeps coming back to my mind in cases like this since the Twitter API fiasco of 2012/2013.
Does the UI change prevent you from getting work done? Or make it more difficult to accomplish tasks?
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If you are google scale I would say do whatever you need to do to make your scale work since your very expensive scale experts can know if there is something that is going to bite you, but in most cases that is overkill. Store it in your database, then in some key value database (e.g redis) if you must.
Does it really matter? I'm sure countless Apple II's, etc. were bought and barely used too.
The "don’t invade a country if you are too lazy to learn the language" point is particularly telling. When the post-9/11 wars started, I thought one of the highest priorities would be to get combat units to a point where they didn't need external interpreters for the regions they were going to be operating in. An interpreter is a massively dangerous potential point of failure -- he could be incompetent, as the article suggests, or worse, he could be actively conspiring with the enemy to tip them off about your movements, feed you misleading info and make you look bad to the locals. If you can't speak at least the rudiments of the language yourself, you have no way of knowing. But after a decade of war in Iraq and Afghanistan, American combat units appear to be just as dependent on external interpreters as they were going in.

I suspect part of the reason for this that the article doesn't touch on is the idea of the rotation. Combat units don't see themselves as being stationed in Iraq "for the duration," but as units that happen to be in Iraq today but could be in Afghanistan tomorrow and Korea the day after that. What's the benefit of learning Pashto today if you're leaving Afghanistan in three months and may never rotate back there again?
Great, now I have two things I need to carry around with me. If I forget the wrist device, the phone is useless? No thanks. The phone as it is right now works great. Wearing something on my wrist seems kinda archaic at this point. Having to look at my arm for information seems so dated. A more interesting thing is to have that information come to me when the context deems it. Why do I need to check what time it is? My phone should alert me that my next appointment is in 20 minutes and I need to start walking there. Why are we trying to ape 400 year old technology when we have things ambient, always on internet for every device in our possession?
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For the record, the US didn't win in Vietnam either. Despite not pulling any punches.

But yes, if the US gave a 100%, it may have a chance of actually winning those wars. Considering the collateral damage from decades of "surgical" strikes and drone attacks, I'm not even sure an all-out war would be any worse for the civilians on the receiving end.

It would absolutely ruin any pretence of moral superiority and "clean" warfare, however. And that would make it even more difficult to explain to allies why the US is better than Russia, China or Saudi Arabia.
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No single entity controls it, but that doesn't mean you can do whatever you want. If someone is abusing the blockchain by bloating it with useless garbage, there will be consensus for fixing that. So don't build a business or technology around abusing Bitcoin's blockchain, because you will be left out.
Are you sure it's only burnout? You could be depressed. I feel like the symptoms are kind of interchangeable to me. Mostly I can't tell if I'm depressed because work sucks or if work sucks because I'm depressed. Maybe talking to a therapist would help? Therapy and medication seem to help me a bit but I still wouldn't say I'm 100%.
True, I am making an assumption that it is deterministic.

If we presume that the Big Bang model of the Universe is true, then in the earliest moment of time, can the state of the Universe be measured? If it can be measured, how does it transition from a measurable state to an immeasurable one?

I'll have to give some more thought to what you've said, but I wanted to give you a basis for why I believe it could be deterministic. Clearly I'm making some assumptions, and based on my postulate, this is a state that we could never measure ourselves. I don't know if our inability to make these measurements removes the possibility of determinism.
The repeal took place during the Depression, and then there was World War II. That's not going to help market expansion. Plus, national brands used to be harder to establish. In the early 1900s, transportation costs were much higher. While there were national brands, glass bottles and water are heavy. Plus, bottles used to be reused. See http://refillables.grrn.org/content/americas-experience-refi... :

> As soon as packaged beer became popular in the mid-1930s, cans competed with refillable glass bottles for the market. The figure and table show how the rise of metal cans and a fluctuating but significant demand for one-way bottles concurred with the decline of refillable bottles. One-way containers helped national beer companies conquer the U.S. market, and their conquest further diminished the use of refillable glass bottles.

Marketing national brands also became easier with the rise of popularity of radio and TV in the 1950s. http://www.businessinsider.com/how-budweiser-became-the-king... comments:

> Budweiser had its glory days in the 1950s when Anheuser-Busch helped strengthen its national brand by sponsoring shows featuring Jackie Gleason, Milton Berle, and Frank Sinatra. It also promoted its beer by sponsoring sporting events and branding stadiums. By the 1980s, Budweiser was synonymous with American culture.

Here's an essay about the decline of regional breweries in Cincinnati - http://www.wcpo.com/entertainment/local-a-e/cincinnatis-rise... . It shows that regional brands were popular pre-Prohibition, and my summary of it is that decreasing marketing and transport costs gave more weight to the economy of scale for the national brands.

http://tapsmagazine.com/in-this-issue/the-rise-of-national-b... might be useful, but non-subscribers like me only see "The 1950s witnessed the emergence of national brands, as the nation’s biggest brewers aggressively promoted their flagship beers from coast to coast."
Same. I added myself in the "get early access" and then thought, wait is this even for my OS?
Literally every single product image uses an iPhone, and the real product photo is also clearly an iPhone.

Just because it doesn't have a big image or text with OS compatibility does not mean you can't intelligently determine based on the product photos what OS it's for. If it were for Android, they'd have at least one Android photo, or specifically mention Android compatibility. If it's a completely iOS-centric page, you can guess /quite easily/ it's iOS only.
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No one is arguing that people belong to their employers. Poaching is a standard term to describe the process of strategically hiring people who are already working at a specific company.
In this case (although it wasn't shown very well in the article) it does enable a very different architecture: you can generate the code in one data center and have it work on a computer in any other datacenter.

Unless you are google scale you don't need that, so I am on your side (other than HMACS not actually being that difficult to fuck up, compared to e.g just encrypting the entire thing in AES at which point you are hosed).
Furthermore, it assumes excellent judgement on the part of the closers, who by definition don't have the full context. They are confident in imagining that a particular question will accumulate bad answers etc, but do they have any data to demonstrate that their imagination is any good? It may be, but then again, it may not be. It's not like no one has ever had bad judgement before.

So it might be useful to bias the site toward leaving questions open, and let people make weighted votes for closing. Initially, the weight of a vote would be zero. This would allow the quality of an individual's judgement to be established, and their vote given more weight as it proved to be more predictive of whether or not an issue was eventually closed.
I'm getting kind of tired of the pseudo-scientific smackdowns.

I like my headphones just fine, and I couldn't tell the difference on them! So what? Those are consumer headphones, they're designed to sound _good_ not _accurate_. If you're testing two music players you might use a pair of headphones that's designed to give an accurate representation of the signal they're given.

Is 192kHz a sham? Probably. But so is going lalalala nothing sounds better than an iPhone, you idiots are buying snake-oil
So, how does one completely excise journald from a box running systemd. I'm not talking about passing messages through, I'm talking about complete, utter, wiping out?
>other than some MBA chose a date at random?

I'll bet you 90% of these companies working ridiculous hours are run by programmers.
The problem is that companies like Uber don't want to call you an employee, but they want to treat you like one. They want as much power over you as they can have without taking any responsibility for their relationship as an employer.
You've been downvoted pretty heavily, but I think you're right. Both of mine are sitting in a drawer.

The fanless server I have under my desk has the equivalent storage, processing power, and bandwidth of dozens of Raspberry Pis. Any software I can put on my Pi, I can even more easily put on my server (which is also more reliable than a Pi, in my experience).

Pis running Linux also aren't nearly realtime enough to use for a lot of low-level embedded tasks, so I still use bare-metal AVR or ARM hardware for most hardware projects.

Mostly due to the lack of SATA and gigabit ethernet, the Pi is just really not that useful for me.
For example:

* Wiki-style editing of some kind, along with collaboration tooling, and users can annotate particular pieces of information within an answer.

* Ability to combine/collaborate on multiple answers, such as beginning with introductory information relevant to all the answers, then having some kind of sectioning for specific information for each version.

Two small steps can help toward this:

* Mark an answer as applicable to a specific version number, or range, or date, or implementation.

* Enable the question author to accept an additional new answer that is more current, without subtracting points from the original answer.
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> On the other hand, are the majority of complaints distorted because they are mostly voiced by the Eternal September[2] crowd?

Sometimes I wonder if I'm the sort of person who makes these places bad... but I do ask decent questions, and the only people who ever pay attention to them are the rep farmers hoping to cash in with a Google answer.
> I think expert here is dependent on different people's perspective.

Great - so you agree that to many people he would be considered an expert. And so, to all but the elite players, he is an expert.
Or as Juli Mallett put it on Twitter, "If you can deal with FreeBSD -CURRENT crashing, you can deal with the RNG being b0rked for a few months."

This is indeed a serious issue, and I'm disappointed it was in the source tree for four months. But -CURRENT is the development branch, and is not supported by the FreeBSD security team, or supported for use in production.

From https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/c...:

FreeBSD-CURRENT is made available for three primary interest groups:

Members of the FreeBSD community who are actively working on some part of the source tree.

Members of the FreeBSD community who are active testers. They are willing to spend time solving problems, making topical suggestions on changes and the general direction of FreeBSD, and submitting patches.

Users who wish to keep an eye on things, use the current source for reference purposes, or make the occasional comment or code contribution.

FreeBSD-CURRENT should not be considered a fast-track to getting new features before the next release as pre-release features are not yet fully tested and most likely contain bugs. It is not a quick way of getting bug fixes as any given commit is just as likely to introduce new bugs as to fix existing ones. FreeBSD-CURRENT is not in any way “officially supported”.
I wonder if the surge in military suicides has anything to do with their perception of the 'righteousness' of our warfare. It seems like it would be much harder for a soldier to feel good about what they were doing now as opposed to WWII for instance.
I'm curious about the five vote threshold. Has it been fixed throughout the history of the site? Is it still appropriate given the degree to which the site's popularity and traffic has grown?
I have cited Dijkstra's paper several times of late. Usually, it's because of asynchronous callbacks and the new paradigm of nesting callbacks many, many layers deep until state, thread-safety, and side effects become almost unmaintainable.

Many believe the problems are solved when nesting is concealed using named functions. It alleviates deep indenting, but it may make the code jump around while still dealing with shared state, propagating errors, and threading issues.

I have argued that callbacks are becoming the new GOTO statement-- useful in some contexts, but frequently overused in ways that were never intended. The result is "spaghetti code" that is difficult to follow and maintain. This paradigm has led to the popularization of the term "callback hell."
It's a weird rhetorical position you're putting me in, where to agree with you I'd have to simultaneously accept that -CURRENT isn't widely deployed (reasonable!) and that a broken kernel RNG isn't a game-over flaw (not so reasonable!).