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I think he makes a valid point on the article, however, I do think all this bad stuff that has happened to it was going to happen anyway, its impossible to stop it from happening, the traditional system does not stop it neither, this is part of human nature where there are large sums of money there will be other people trying to hack into it to benefit themselves and its peers. But the joy of the bitcoin ecosystem, and one that he fails to point out on the article, is that it rewards and encourages players to follow the rules, because in terms of cost of running enough computing power that hacks into the block-chain and a system that mines bitcoins to get the rewards associated with it, the latter is way more viable. I think that the Bitcoin Bloc-Chain is going well, with needs for some updates in the system, as any other software does, but going well so far. What really needs to be done, and the writer recognizes that in the article, is all the businesses built around it must follow best-practices, following the example of established organizations, to increase the overall trust in the ecosystem and people start to accept it more into their daily lives, this is obviously easier said than done, but I think that any serious individual who are starting a Bitcoin related company must have building trust relationship with the rest of the world at its top priority, and to do that he must follow practices that other people know and trust.
What is the end game in a world where an accusation of a crime is accepted as factual, and any questioning of that accusation makes one an apologist for the crime at best?

The legal system is supposed to be a reflection of society's morals. If you challenge the moral framework, by asserting that an accusation should never be questioned, you challenge the legal framework by extension.
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I honestly don't see any pro-feminist articles that are as bad as this article with the exception of the Rolling Stone article he mentioned. I've never even heard of the "geek feminism wiki".

So I think we have different experiences. But regardless, I'm just pointing out the author's biases since he didn't disclose them.

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> How can you say that? So much of the prose in the article is caveats, disclaimers, and admissions of existence. Indeed, these days one cannot state an opinion with out declaring political ties, gender, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, shoe size and height. If this trend continues, disclaimers will make up 90% of any blogpost. If he had admitted/disclosed the nature of the one source you have mentioned, would your opinion of the article change?

[1] Republican Source

That isn't a huge change in the article. Its basically three words.

> If he had admitted/disclosed the nature of the one source you have mentioned, would your opinion of the article change?

I'd have believed some of the claims he made about caring about intellectual honesty. So yes, it would have changed my opinion. Blatant hypocrisy in the very article lambasting "the other side" for engaging in the behavior you are engaging in pretty much places you in category of "Oh, another fundamentally dishonest opinion by a biased source" in my mind.
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Here's a big part of it, and it ain't pretty.

First, while gender may be "a social construct" it tends to recur in similar patterns across most societies. That's not to say that gender roles don't exaggerate the (actually very slight, in biological terms) differences and aren't a source of much injustice. However, there's a recurrent ranking that societies create: high-status men > high-status women > low-status women > low-status men. This is why conversations about gender and "patriarchy" fall flat, it's why feminists and MRAs both have a point, and it's not how things necessarily should be, but it's how things are in at least 90% of the societies that humans create.

High-status men have harems of 10+ wives, in pre-monogamous societies, which means that some men will have zero. Since women have a rate-limiting reproductive resource (i.e. a womb) they have a good chance of getting at least some action. Low-status men don't, because they're the lowest of the low. No one likes them. And in a non-monogamous society, they're recognized as an actual danger. Of course, most young men will start out low in status. When's the last time, in popular culture, you saw a teenage male portrayed in a positive light? Most of the world fears and hates (most) teenage males.

Eventually, the high-status men recognize the threat. They see men who are sex-starved and poor and deprived of opportunities for improvement, but young and fit while they are fading. So they encourage them to raid other tribes, escalate petty conflicts into moral causes, and even glorify the whole thing because it brings the male population down and makes a pre-monogamous society (which would otherwise be unstable and violent) stable for a while.

This pattern is so ingrained in us that we've mythologized it and glorified something that is actually pretty awful. It's also where we get the need to "become a man". Because the gap between high-status (or, at least, realized and mature) men and low-status ones is so severe, we've had to create narratives around it. We've also had to elevate quixotry to a virtue.

You see this not just in war but when the stakes are smaller. Take startups. What do we call those (oddly nostalgic, even if things were awful at the time) narratives about low-status men working 90-hour weeks, debugging others' awful written-to-deadline code, as 0.02%-owners of a startup whose benefits would accrue to high-status men (founders and investors)? "War stories."

As a species, we've had to create this narrative to explain something that we do to each other for Darwinian, reproductive reasons. It continues even in a mostly monogamous and mostly peaceful society.
>The Medium piece conflates social justice and legal justice

>we changed the laws, but the cultural change had to happen first

>This is not a legal argument about what standards we should use in the courts; it’s a moral one, about what happens outside the legal system

So basically you are describing the very means that will be used to change the laws to remove due process. "Morality" will be used change the legal environment.
Wow! Thanks very much guys for all the advice. I actually posted this in the morning just before work, and just checkin on it now, I really just can't believe the amount of time you guys have spent trying to help me out. And this is all very useful. I'm going to get a job now and stabilise for a bit, before I try to start another venture.

Thanks again, I'm most grateful.
Hi! Cis-het white dude here. That you come in arguing is likely part of the problem. That you have constructed your point of view as the intellectually honest one, making your conversational partners the un-intellectual, dishonest ones, is surely another part.

What your approach doesn't acknowledge is the historical inequality, and the system by which that inequality is maintained. Just by virtue of being a comfortable white dude, I already get listened to way more than somebody less historically favored. And if I want, I can use that power to harm discussion of the systemic problems that give me that power.

Anybody in a disfavored group has experience that misuse of power about a zillion times. It's such a popular activity that there are mocking how-to guides for the powerful, like Derailing for Dummies.

So when people pop in to a discussion saying, "Hold on there, ladies; you seem hysterical. Let's calm down and listen to the white men for once," it's infuriating, because a) they are pretty familiar with the dominant perspective, and b) it is an exhibition of the unearned power that they are directly working against.

As a white dude, I get that this sucks. I am used to being heard, so not being heard feels unfair. But because I want real equality, I put on my big boy pants, shut my opinion-hole, and listen to people who are different than me. And in doing that, I've come to a much better understanding of what real equality means and how much hard work it will take us all to get there.
The original article mentions hybrid but does not say the motors are exclusive to hybrid drives, merely that the motor will be flight tested in a series-hybrid DA36. Besides, the MIT article I linked enumerates the benefits of the hybrid drive. The word 'hybrid' is in the subtitle. I suspect Siemens is focusing on hybrid tech at the moment because battery tech is such a moving target and they want to use an existing airframe. Ultimately, I think all-electric aircraft will find their market in short-flight urban transport applications where noise, pollution, and reliability are huge factors.
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I'm stunned to realize how important youth to adult transition, rite of passage are important.
That's exactly what they want you to do. Don't try to form any sort of counter argument against them or you'll immediately be painted as a racist, bigoted, misogynist. And if you use your real name they'll attempt ruin your career and destroy your life.
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Nobody is valuing taxi companies at $40b

A legal Uber already exists (in London): it's called Addison Lee. Smartphone app and everything. It's worth £300M, not $40Bn!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-22230868
If too many users are wrong, it's probably your fault
As a developer, I appreciate having an interest in and using different technical combinations, but as a site maintainer I've been wrestling with how to accommodate different tech stacks with limited time and developer resources. It's lead me to start questioning the developers choice of tech vs. what the right tech choice for the organization. There's an assumption the developer will choose the right tech, but frequently the client has no idea how to access tech decisions and developers are left to pursue whatever they choose. There are use cases where a custom stack is appropriate and other cases where a an off-the-shelf solution (like WordPress, Django, Drupal, etc) has better options for long term support. I'm not saying this is the case at arduino.cc, but the blog post did trigger that reaction.
Relying on a source that is basically a propaganda organ of the hard right elements of the Republican party without disclosing that is what it is falls under "dishonesty" when attempting to use it as a factual representation of reality.

It is IDENTICAL to me going to a SJW and using her as a source without fact checking it. Or the Rolling Stone article. He literally did that. It isn't a fact you can wave away and say "Well, conservative republican views are becoming mainstream so its okay."

All he had to do was add a footnote saying "Hey look at these Republican political operatives".
If OP doesn't want to do it, it would be irrational for ver to do it. That's not true of all decisions, but I think it holds in this case.

But, I'm a little confused, because

> The OP's net present value of future earnings is likely to be much bigger than $10

would seem like an argument against playing. So I'm not sure if you were trying to say something that went completely over my head?
Your argument is simply ad hominem. Either the ideas themselves are wrong, or they're not. It doesn't matter where the information came from. If Hitler told me about gravity that doesn't mean there is no gravity just because I learned about it from him.
Isn't it nirvana (and not moksha) in Buddhism?
>But isn't the problem the fact that if nobody speaks out against them that they'll eventually continue to grow?

No. Tumblr-style "social justice activists" (scare-quotes because Tumblr activists have comparatively little to do with serious professional activism) are insane, unpersuasive, and prone to triggering strong backlashes against their own views.
Yes. I'm not suggesting that it was right for me to look at them. I am arguing that it was not morally neutral, as the poster I responded to suggested, for Wikileaks to publish and advertise them.

It's possible that I could have obtained these emails when the Sony hack was in the news (I think there were some archives on bittorrent). But that takes a lot of time and effort and at least some skill, and I was never interested. By making these emails findable via a mouse click (not to mention indexed by google) Wikileaks ensured that large numbers of people would look at them.
So, your slavery example corroborates what the others in the discussion are accusing the WaPo author of. Slavery was legally just, but socially unjust. Thus "we changed the laws, but the cultural change had to happen first." The WaPo author's position is "doubting the accounts of rape victims is legally just, but socially unjust". Do you see where this is going?
>The title reminds me of a book I used to have years ago called 'Writing Bug Free C Code for Windows'.

Actually this is a link to that book..
You type so much and say nothing at all.
How should regulators measure broadband quality?
Thanks alot, from all the feedback, seems I'm better off applying for a job now, and recovering later. I've actually just sent a quick email to one of my contacts at a company I don't mind working for. Fingers crossed.
The problem here is that there is also an equal opposite force.

Pretty much all of those who use the derogatory term "SJW" turn out to be misogynistic right-wing bullies for whom feminism equals evil, and who think rape threats are free speech. The whole gamergate movement is utterly disgusting and spreading. (For instance, the right-wing bullies are now terrorizing the Hugo awards.)

It's a movement towards intolerant extremism from both sides.
On the other hand, OS X comes with a terrible Japanese IME. The Google one that's available on OS X and Windows makes things better but until that came out Windows was just unquestionably way better for Japanese text input.
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Is this really a millennial thing? While the prominence may be a recent thing, the mindset discussed in the article goes back a long way.
What's the female equivalent to "always suit up"?
I passed a car v. cyclist crash this morning on way to work. Cyclist had evidently been riding in the pedistrian crosswalk, against the flow of traffic. Couldn't tell if he had hit a car turning across the walkway, or the car had hit him. Looked like no injuries, though the bicycle was pretty mangled.
I think it's not just that the dev backdoors will go away, I think the whole OS is going away. It's pretty obvious to me that in the long run only iOS will remain. It makes zero sense to keep two semi incompatible operating systems around, and it's just the sort of radical move apple would do. Yes, there are a gazillion reasons to keep OS X around, but knowing apple none of them will matter enough.
I commute using New York's bike share program Citi Bike. It's about a 20 minute ride each way. I can't over-state how much access to a bike share and a (relatively) safe bike path has improved my every day life. It's faster than most modes of transportation (including even cabs), allows for exercise and most importantly, is actually pretty fun and engaging.

I'm glad that more people are picking up the habit, but I do know that as more people start biking regularly for the first time, there will be a period in which those new riders aren't acclimated to the proper etiquette and law. As a result, I have noticed more and more police at stops pulling over bikers that run red lights. I'm afraid good-will from non-cyclists is declining due to overly aggressive or careless bikers. Hopefully as responsible cyclists, we can help set a positive example and help those new to the road ride responsibly.
Just because the integrations present the data to the user in a chat interface does not make it "just chat."

It's OK though. I know you're just being obtuse.
We had cash coming in, but it just stopped all at once. Like no one renewed their contract, so I guess that's a red light
I nearly always just keep my mouth shut because I know that I can be shot down and 'discredited' purely because I'm white, male, and straight. Part of it is perhaps age (I'm 31 now, and less angry/opinionated than I once was), but it's mostly just that I have, in the past, been repeatedly disregarded or outright abused because of who I am rather than what I'm saying. That kind of response is fundamentally censorious, and it has worked; I'm effectively self-censoring now to comply with the wishes/intentions of this lunatic fringe. From your comment, I get the impression you're doing the same.

The scary outcome of that is a continued chokehold on the narrative and conversation by these extreme fringes, and no change for the better because nobody is willing or able to engage in a reasonable discussion or take reasonable action.
Financial Technology. Google 'fin tech' and look for what excites you.

Most importantly, be honest with yourself about what makes you happy and pursue that.
The NY Times mentioned this in today's article about Lucasfilm: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/18/business/media/for-lucasfi...
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Looking at the prices I'm not sure if I'm seeing realistic things or just the stuff that's left on the market; how do people afford to live there?
Quote from the article:

In the Washington Post, Zerlina Maxwell argued that “we should believe, as a matter of default, what an accuser [of rape] says,” for “the costs of wrongly disbelieving a survivor far outweigh the costs of calling someone a rapist.”

(Which is another quote in of itself)

Is there another way to read these words that I am aware of?
Why are there both TMP and TEMP environment variables, and which one is right?
I wish this were an option in more places. My daily commute is too dangerous for a bike (narrow 55mph road with bridge crossings).
It is not BitBucket vs. GitLab, as nothing is noted on BitBucket, but only GitLab. Their title should have been, "Look, it is GitLab, use it!"

I think GitLab is great, but still prefer GitHub: no need to worry about hardware failures, or management. Someone does that for me, and does it well.
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Be very careful about how you interact with these people, the mere act of following a person on Twitter who disagrees with them can land you up on a list that makes you unemployable. They claim to be feminists, and because that is a real issue today people believe them by default; without ever questioning whether they are the extremists in ways that the article explains.

The sad truth is that they are damaging the very movements that they claim to support: legitimate victims of discrimination are voiceless against the deafening noise of "wolf! Wolf!"
He's also not stupid enough to put US soldiers within shooting distance of accidentally starting literal World War 3.
>> Such a thing has (in modern times) never happened with the normal monetary system, and couldn't happen (because governments wouldn't let it).

Easily trumped once again. Not only have governments let failures happen at a much greater scale - they've facilitated them.

Bear Stearns - when it collapsed was actually relatively well capitalized - it just couldn't get access to the day to day liquidity that all large institutions need access to these days because the markets were spooked. The fed could have just provided them a loan to see them through, and the NY fed were poised to give them funding - but instead at the last moment changed their mind and ordered Bear Stearns to do a deal with JP Morgan to have them bought out. JP Morgan came to the table with an offer of 2 dollars per share. It eventually went up to 10 - but this was a stock that was trading at over a hundred dollars per share not a few months before. Shareholders were effectively wiped out.

Despite this event being part of a catalyst that almost ended modern capitalism as we know it - you state that the failures of Bitcoin seem much bigger. I'm sorry - but this isn't just a matter of perception - this is just false. There were no systemic failures that happened on account of the failure of Mt Gox. People lost money. Trade moved onto the other exchanges. That was it. The fact that you can come to the conclusion that Bitcoin's failures seem bigger somehow proves everything that I've been saying about the absurdity of Bitcoin perception.
>> pretending that employees are contractors is a pretty popular way of screwing workers.

I have a feeling that sooner or later, possibly in a country like France, they're gonna get called on this and dragged through the courts for big bucks.
I will have to disagree with you on that. I don't think this is the reason, I think the reason is that most companies fail to partner with other established financial institutions. Although this companies, such as transferwise and dwolla do a great job around Europe and US, most of them are not even known in the developing countries, in those countries people still rely on the old fashioned, bank transfers and western union mostly. There is a great opportunity out there for serious people to create great companies, and remittance surely is one of them.
Lacking context, that sure does sound scary, but it isn't thirst for bloodsport alone, but the added desire to stop those intent on doing the same to others, especially innocents. The notion of sheep, wolves, and sheepdogs.
Not to mention publicly publishing Seth Rogan's personal email address. Given the context of some emails I would guess he has a new one now.
If you trust the military when that's what they tell you.
..and Feminism is far from the only ideology that believes in equality for all, yet is literally the only one that tries to claim I'm a member because I believe in equality.

Seriously, you did it, to me, in your original post.

Why is that? What is the authoritative definition you use that allows you to presume other people's ideologies in such a way?
Not GJ, but yes, a senior manager who asked similar questions. The getting angry at the answer bit is interesting - I gave an answer to one question that was obviously even better than the canned answer he was expecting, he actively ground his teeth a moment or two, like he was being shown up in front of the junior colleague, and at first refused to discuss the question until I pressed the point.

I have friends still working at BBG, so I get to hear the current interview stories, and it seems things have not really improved.
seemed completely and utterly down in London across a good sample of clients.
cloudirc seem like a decent middle ground when tech ppl can use/setup irc incl. bots and integration s while others just use the web/mobile ui from irccloud.

also this way you own the data/service for the most part.
If the US were just like Euroweenies there would be no Europe.
There are some okay debugging options but I also agree with parent that debuggers are useful. Especially when learning a language and trying to tease out WTF is going on. When you don't understand the meta of the print statement especially. And you don't yet grok the testing framework.
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> "Let's put energy into making multiplexing a success."

In other words, the guy just doesn't want to work on pipelining anymore, not that it doesn't work well. He also said "it's good" and kept it enabled for mobile because "the higher rtts tip the balance in its favor" -- and you're telling somebody with satellite internet not to use it to reduce page load time for the vast majority pages out there that are not SSL (and so not HTTP2) or are on old servers. Really?