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I agree we should be able to give evolution the middle finger. But I disagree we can do so in any effective way in the timespan of 5 years, unless we somehow hit the Singularity by then. You overestimate man's intelligence and strength of will. I mean in general, let alone people with IQs in the 80s. Until we actually have either the knowledge and technology to do genetic engineering or mind uploading so that we can make modifications against living human mind architectures, or as a longer-term solution the sustained political will to do eugenics (the kind where we don't kill everyone impure or force people not to have sex, just the normal kind we do with every other plant and animal species besides humans where we restrict what breeding outcomes are available), we will remain slaves to our adaptions, with the most intelligent and self-reflecting among us only slightly more able to control themselves. From a predictive standpoint, knowing through evolution what is can tell us that, barring eugenics in some form or another, there's no way we can get to what ought to be for certain values of what ought to be, and so many attempts by liberal-minded people predictably fail while wasting resources and upsetting the social order. The best we can do now is take what is and align the incentives for the greatest amount of people so that things can be relatively stable and peaceful until we get to the point we can truly give evolution the middle finger. When I look at the culture that kick started the industrial revolution through a liberal lens, I see a lot of evil people with a twisted social order. But from a non-liberal lens, I see order, order instead of chaos (the inverse of what I see when I look at the typical results of liberal interventions through a non-liberal lens) and I see aligned incentives, and I wonder if that sort of society is what it's going to take to get to the Singularity.
"Having no political agenda" often turns out to mean agreement with/uncritical acceptance of the dominant political agenda. The status quo is perceived as a natural order or default state of the world, instead of the result of the current distribution of influence and the ideology of those in power. Thus proclaiming "neutrality" is often in fact a statement of conservativism / siding with the currently privileged / rejecting any motive for progress. If you (fail to) calibrate your world view like that, criticizing the progressive left or at least equating the left and the right-of-what's-mainstream as equally unnecessary/hysterical/dismissable "extremes" follows.
If you gist the snippet beforehand, the experience is almost identical. This is obviously an extra step, but then your snippet isn't 100% tied to Slack. I have an app installed that gists my clipboard with a keyboard shortcut, and copies the link to my clipboard, so it's just an extra key chord.
How did you have a choice about being deployed?
> A corporation is worth the discounted present value of all the dividends it will ever pay.

Only if you can't cash out at the higher price first :), but joking aside I think your point is an important one that gets overlooked a lot when people talk about tech companies.
Past societies found ways to incorporate, normalize, redirect, celebrate that will - now we pathologize it.

Any examples? Blood sport and dueling comes to mind, though I am skeptical of their desirability. Perhaps the latter might be reinstated as a voluntary contract for consenting adults, but it's treading a fine line.
If you're looking for a company to be the poster child of semantic versioning, Apple ain't it :)
> “I have friends who are anthropologists and primatologists and evolutionary psychologists … [who are under] an enormous amount of pressure to generate data that shows that all gender differences are cultural.”

You would think that, no matter what your goals for the roles of gender (or sex) in society are, you would achieve these goals best by deliberately seeking out and investigating the properties of the underlying biology (and culture) with the utmost of academic and intellectual integrity, and only afterwards pushing for the policies you prefer to realize that world. Then you would have the advantage of using a position of Enlightenment, instead of Ignorance.

Maybe in a few more generations when people look back at us the way we look back on the Victorian era.
Yeah, I took it as a very topical jab. That stuff has been in the news a lot recently.
"Your second paragraph seems callous to me. Going to war for the sake of not wasting one's hard training, so to speak, is not moral. At least as I look at it."

Don't waste good.
No, nobody has to go, there's no actual need for war unless actual soldiers come marching on your homes. Which has like NEVER happened in the US (and who would dare anyway!). And it's not like US Allies are in deep danger either. Most of the current wars are of the "preventive" nonsense type.
It could be a callous viewpoint, but intent certainly matters. Just going to war to use your training is wholly callous.

But take any of the recent genocides (Rwanda) or even ISIS - innocent people are unquestionably being killed. A soldier hears about this in the news, prepares every day to stop large forces like that, and instead is being asked to stand down. The media obviously plays a large role in shaping the perspective of horrors being done in the world, and I wouldn't argue war is the solution to all but a few problems. However, it is fairly straightforward and morally defensible that innocent people would be alive if other people were killed, and soldiers are prepared and ready to kill.
I think they are good tools. I use them frequently, e.g. converting PDF to JPG. Thanks.
"No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame"

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/IPod
> because of old men

Erm, Because of old, blood-thirsty politicians. Do not basket all peace-loving old men along with them, please.
What about the people who have the mindset where "The thing is not desirable" means they must deny at all costs "The thing is truth", and lose their empathy as a result? If you can't see through the people' perspective and find out what they want, how will you persuade them not to do what you don't want them to do? YC's motto is "Make something people want" after all.[1] The war reporter has traveled into a war, mingled with soldiers, and came back to share his experience, to tell us what is. And here you accuse, without having met him, of having a "fundamentally "Christian right" paradigm.". If you were more accepting of the truth of his experience, you'd be explaining what things men could do instead to differentiate themselves from women and achieve the manhood they so desire, instead of going to war.

[1] http://paulgraham.com/good.html
It is unlikely that you'll make hundreds of dollars an hour.

I will post a strong disagreement to this.
> Now prove to an insurer/PBM that this type of packaging saves more than it costs (e.g. improved compliance) and they will come knocking on your door.

Emphasis mine.

I think this is often the key to healthcare startups. You need to generate hard evidence to really make a case. To begin you don't necessarily need to actually have the evidence, but you may need to conduct a clinical trial just to have room at the table to talk. People want to see, ultimately, ROI, and they're used to a standard of evidence where people have to sink considerable resources into objective proof before anything can move forward.

So there's a barrier here. How does a small company conduct clinical trials? It's not impossible, but it's very difficult, and your power is likely to be small.
It won't be catastrophic but it could affect them. Most pacemakers have a mode that if you put a magnet on them they revert to pacing at 60 beats per minute (VVI mode) like a metronome rather than more advanced adaptive modes (like DDD mode). That's how if a doctor suspects it's malfunctioning due to bad sensing they can get it into a basic mode. I've done it in the ER when a pacer was freaking out and going way too fast due to bad sensing.
Do you have a link for "the left wing" demanding a 50% gender quota in the military?
Well, 66% of the men in WW2 and 38% of those deployed to Vietnam went to war because the government forced them into the military under threat of imprisonment.
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> everyone wants to partner with the existing players, but they're all basically profiteering bastards.

I was thinking this while reading refurb's comment and pleasantly surprised to get down to yours where its explicitly called out.
I'm assuming it's because the T variable isn't generalized over within the definition of Foo, so you can't use (test) at arbitrary types until Foo is closed?
Related question: is there an elite conspiracy to keep the USA at war? "There has been no decade in which the USA has not been at war."

http://www.loonwatch.com/2011/12/we-re-at-war-and-we-have-be...
A bit OT, but I have never understood how AMD can win both the XBox and the PS4 chipset contracts and yet not be profitable. Not to mention the numerous PCs that have their chips in them.

AMD's "Enterprise, Embedded and Semi-Custom" division made a profit, but it was more than wiped out by losses in other divisions. Consoles are a seasonal business and Q1 is a slow quarter after all the holiday sales in Q4. AMD's PC processors are so bad they generally have to sell them below cost to sell any at all.

give any cash they have to lobbyists to get the DOJ to go all antitrust on Intel's ass.

AMD won[1] two antitrust lawsuits against Intel already, but a billion-dollar settlement doesn't go very far when you're competing against Intel. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Micro_Devices,_Inc._v.....

[1] Spare us the pedantry.
> "You would think that, no matter what your goals for the roles of gender (or sex) in society are, you would achieve these goals best by deliberately seeking out and investigating the properties of the underlying biology (and culture) with the utmost of academic and intellectual integrity, and only afterwards pushing for the policies you prefer to realize that world."

That is how it is supposed to work, but reality is never so clean.

One of the best modern examples of doing it backwards (starting with a conclusion, and then working backwards from there), is so called "intelligent design"/"creation science". Many different groups and movements are guilty of it, but the ID scene is relatively unique in the lengths that they went to present themselves as legitimate scientists. See: Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitzmiller_v._Dover_Area_School...) Those nutjobs insisted that they were real scientists, despite the glaring contradictions with their nonsense and the scientific method.

His comparison was rather apt.
I volunteered.
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Do you think a typical person from 1995 would be happy to hear what the state of civil liberties would be in 2015? I would have been shocked.
Could be useful for airships, and for long-endurance solar drones, where the weight is costly.

I really expected this to be about high-temperature superconductor motors. Whatever happened to those?
It is funny how the whole argument of masculinity is based on the American experience. A good control study would be somewhere where male rites of passage still exist, but men also still go to war (most conservative Asian societies for example).
My old Nexus 4 has been lunching itself recently. The degradation past the 2 year mark has been pretty shocking, and this is one of the many symptoms of its old age I've experienced, sadly.
I don't think that's an entirely accurate depiction, given the article. I believe this is strictly in a modern context, and given that every soldier, sailor, Marine, and airman is a volunteer, it misses the point. We can point at Cheney and Rumsfeld and Halliburton, but as the article states, this robs every service member of his or her agency.

The reason every one of my friends from high school went to war is because they wanted to. Some wanted to serve their country, defend it's freedoms. Some wanted to spill blood. I very nearly went down that path myself, and some nights I wonder why I didn't. Sometimes I think it's not too late. Perhaps they were hypnotized and lack free will, maybe our NJROTC instructors indoctrinated them in a way that didn't have an affect on me. Why is it so pervasive?

I'm young, make a killing writing software - something I've loved doing since a young age - and yet I can't help but think I should enlist (I simply lack the desire to complete my degree, so getting a commission is not a reality). I lust for the thought of besting other young men, I want to win, I want to be the one standing when the dust settles. Maybe it will sate that appetite, maybe it will give me some appreciation for the world that I lack. Who is to say? I don't feel the desire to go out and slay my fellow man, except in that one specific context.

I shared the article because it rang very close the home, and I suspect it would for each and every one of my friends.
I have never even heard of the emacs things. Can you explain further?
And even in cases where compatibility is broken, there's still the possibility on Windows or GNU/Linux or even OS X to fire up something along the lines of DOSBox or VirtualBox or somesuch and be able to recreate the necessary environment to play 15, 20, even 30-year-old games. Last I checked (which was admittedly a long time ago, seeing as my ship-jump from iOS to Android was a few years ago), you have to jailbreak an iOS device in order to achieve similar functionality thanks to Apple's rather-draconian restrictions on such things.

Apple's attitude toward iOS - move fast and break things - is in stark contrast to even OS X, where a lot of software made for OS X versions as old as 10.5 will still run relatively happily (though apparently Yosemite broke quite a few things).

That said, there's a time and a place. On my servers, for example (which are typically running OpenBSD or some GNU/Linux distro), I'm at least somewhat-okay with backwards-compatibility breaking (within reason) if it means having better performance or security. In that context, I'm relying far less on closed-source software (if I'm using closed-source software at all, which is incredibly rare for me when it comes to servers), which means that most of the software I actually rely on will at the very least usually have community-supported patches up the wazoo to support those backwards-compatibility-breaking changes (like OpenBSD's switch to a 64-bit time_t, which basically just amounted to recompiling a bunch of stuff - most of which was already done by the ports tree maintainers when creating binary packages).
KISSMetrics does the reverse, they bring your DB data into their service directly. But it's essentially the same setup.

http://support.kissmetrics.com/integrations/mysql/index.html
I have a (lefty) colleague who sincerely believes that testosterone does not significantly affect personality[0].

I understand that human history has been overwhelmingly male dominated, and that this has undesirable consequences and side effects. I think these effects and ideas should be counteracted "with prejudice"[1] to use a policing term.

I don't think counteracting the horrible facts of the past should include re-writing scientific facts we now know.

0. Perhaps it is prejudice and incorrect teaching that leads me to think that testosterone has effects on personality, if so, please correct me.

1. I mean that women and men (and others) should be considered morally, politically, socially, and economically equal (and probably some others); any argument to the contrary can be discounted immediately.

I personally think that men and women (and others) are "not the same" emotionally or physically, but that these differences are A GOOD THING.
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> "virtual machines and garbage collection which when java first appeared were still ridiculous concepts" So I'm listening to a guy's thoughts on programming languages who apparently never heard of lisp and is seemingly unaware of Guy Steele.

He clearly states that they were considered ridiculous because of their (perceived) performance - he didn't say people doubted their existence.
Perhaps that is mostly because Junger's documentaries are all around American troops. I also highly recommend Restrepo, and the follow up, Korengal.
I love Java-style generics! Any other popular languages have anything similar? Besides C# of course.
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Put them on a B52 and you got yourself Protoss' Carrier... well, almost :)
Good points, but who said it had to be done in 5 years?

I was thinking more like 50 years, or maybe even 250 years. Without some sort of eugenics or singularity as you said, it will take a long time and a lot of effort to work around a psychological trait that has been ingrained in us for thousands of years. This is exactly the kind of progress that takes place most effectively at funerals.
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I don't necessarily see why MS would purchase Slack instead of delivering their own solution. Unlike Skype it's not really key to have a large-user base on the service, all that matters is that your entire business is running the same solution - and Microsoft already makes and sells other related enterprise tools which gives them an advantage both in terms of sales and integration. Perhaps it's even more surprising that they haven't already delivered a competing solution.
Wars are planned by rich old men and fought by poor young men.
Many OS X keyboard shortcuts are Emacs-inspired, though they aren't extensible in the way that Emacs is.

http://www.cultofmac.com/247681/use-these-emacs-legacy-keybo...
Bad UX in an Apple component is not a "dark pattern". It's just, well, bad UX.

Knowing Apple, knowing its history and people that work there and the things they care about, I think Apple is incapable of deliberately producing a bad UX. When it happens, it's caused by other factors rather than being an explicit decision. In the case of App Store discovery being broken, I think it's caused by the fact that the App Store seems to be run largely the way the Music Store is run (with the addition of app review), and nobody complains about search / discovery in the Music Store, but it just so happens that the infrastructure and design around the music store doesn't work quite so well when applied to apps.
I do have a link for Kara Hultgreen, the first female F-14 fighter jet pilot. She was the best possible female candidate for the role, however, due to [political incorrect sentence], she made mistakes where other male pilots would have been disqualified. Due to political pressure to include females in more military roles, the military pushed her to continue even when she didn't want to. During one flight, she made a mistake while flying the jet, and she died as a result.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kara_Hultgreen

The Center for Military Readiness (CMR) suggests that Hultgreen "may have been the victim of a flawed policy" which overlooked her mistakes in training, two of which were similar to those that caused her death.[2] The Navy conceded that the material on which the CMR based its report was "largely accurate".

An Accuracy in Media report quotes Cmdr Tom Sobiek, commanding officer of Fighter Squadron VF-124, as saying of the 4 female pilots in his squadron that "the women are going to graduate regardless of how they performed" and reports that "the Navy was in a race with the Air Force to get the first female fighter pilot".[7]

I concede there is no 50% quota and should not have written "equal number" in that sentence.
Would driving one of these engines concurrently with the power generated by a turbine engine make sense?

Does the thrust generated by a turbine engine hit some point of diminishing returns that converting the engine energy to electricity and powering this engine be more efficient?

I know Boeing have made advancements in the efficiency of drawing electric power from a turbine engine with the 787, the generators are now directly connected to the transmission of the engine.
Of course, but price doesn't just mean money. I think I read somewhere that AMD was willing to grant Microsoft & Sony more rights over the chips than their competitors. I don't know how much that was a factor though.
To be clear, I say that as a west coast person who has visited the south.
Ugh, I agree with zak_mc_kracken.

The Pharo community needs to knock it off, with that kind of arguments. (And I say that, being a part of that community).

Pharo is NOT too cool and too well designed for the mainstream. :(
It /is/ cool, and has a lot of good work put into it. But it still needs a lot more work (especially in documentation and tutorials) before it's really useable by people without extensive Smalltalk experience.
So, everybody shut up and roll up your sleeves and work. And be humble.
Nice. They are partially getting it here.

The modular aspect is good; the ones that are not modular, and not of a style you like, meh.

But more importantly there's so much more that could be done. Let's home they take this much farther. Networking, sensing, energy management, displays, ergonomics, use of vertical space...

Seems like furniture is hugely ripe for disruption, and this will at least open some eyes to the possibilities.
People have been assuming Apple's success depends on one or two minor features that someone else will copy and destroy their business for, well, ever.
ID was nuts because it tried to present itself as a description of the past.

But if you're trying to issue prescriptions for the future (i.e. what kind of world do you want to create?), there's nothing fundamentally wrong about first identifying where you want to go and then cherrypicking biological and psychological traits to manipulate in order to get there. It would be just like writing a program to get the results you want.
It's Bruce Eckel. He's selling whatever's flavor of the month. The guy switches languages more often than some people chance socks.
Perhaps, but I really don't know if that would solve it either. I've done rather well thus far in my career, and continue to do so. Yet something feels missing, I don't know what, but I still have some recurring desire to enlist. That the whole software thing - and this is something I've been doing since a very young age - is not enough. That I should be doing something _more_.
That sure is a lot of words trying to disguise the fundamental truth that there is basically no difference between the effects of LoL boosts and gems. Both advance your summoner/base in exchange for money. They are both time "cheats"that you pay for to avoid a grind in each game.

You say flatly that 'LOL boosts do not increase competitiveness' but this is frankly completely false. An identical clone of myself playing on an account after $300 worth of xp and IP boosts will simply be much stronger than I am with f2p account. Eventually I may catch up but 'eventually' happens in clash of clans too.
Kanye is a moron and not even a good rapper. He should be relegated to making beats for the better artists like he used to back in the day.
I was a military wife for a lot of years. Also, my dad was career military and fought in two wars.

When you get trained to deal death, yes, you tend to become somewhat callous.

Being exposed to that culture helped me effectively combat a serious medical condition. I don't think it is somehow inherently evil.
Yeah, the whole article, subject matter, and journey he explores is American. It's investigative at its best in that it explores why people make these decisions, and their decisions are strongly rooted in the ever-changing American society.

Tangentially, I might be alone in this, but I consider great journalism to be like great science - it's able to discern the fundamental mechanics of an issue, but they're also notoriously terrible at applying those mechanics in a constructive way. As a result, when a journalist shares their perspective, I put a lot of weight on their analysis and little weight on their solutions.