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by pacala 9y ago
There is no such thing as 0.9... There is 0.9[k], for k as large as you'd like. However, no matter which k you pick, I can squirrel a number between 0.9[k] and 1, for example 0.9[k]5. Your alleged proof is wrong :p
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by pacala 9y ago
"Worker's housing" has been an explicit objective of strategic bombing campaigns since WWII. "Worker's housing" as in "obliterate the enemy's civilian population centers". https://en.w
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by pacala 9y ago
You can run Apple II code in a browser, for example https://www.scullinsteel.com/apple2 . A code format that has survived for 40 years and counting. This holds for plenty other data and code formats that were once popular. D
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by pacala 9y ago
data => $0.1 / GB / Year in a public Cloud, or even $0.01 / GB / Year if using Glacier / Coldline. code => a Docker/CFI image. dependencies => captured in the image. format => the code understands t
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by pacala 9y ago
Yes, life in the East was less stressful. "East German women suffered from the notorious double burden of formal employment and housework.", except work was quite a bit less demanding than you'd think. "We pretend to wor
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by pacala 9y ago
Cool! FWIW, around Pacific North West, I found OpenStreetMap data is significantly more detailed than Google's for hiking and pedestrian points of interest.
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by pacala 9y ago
http://maps.me For mobile, totally offline, uses OpenStreetMap data.
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by pacala 9y ago
I don't know what Google does, I'm merely giving examples of illegal discriminatory hiring practices, which I've heard of in conversations with friends working in academia / industry. Sorry for being unclear. That being
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by pacala 9y ago
> Employment here is based solely upon individual merit and qualifications directly related to professional competence. We strictly prohibit unlawful discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, religion, veteran status, nat
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by pacala 9y ago
* institutionalized discrimination: Policies that explicitly favor one group over another based on phenotype differences. For example, Jim Crow laws or "diversity" hiring policies. * "institutionalized discrimination": T
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by pacala 9y ago
Feel free to work towards changing "bias" towards the distribution you think is more proper and see if it indeed proves the point of "the higher ranks in science and politics would be dominated by women". You'll nee
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by pacala 9y ago
You aren't suggesting that all men are embroiled in Uber-like scandals? Danielle Brown might have a word with you.
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by pacala 9y ago
Site lead boasting on Linkedin: > Part of my work this year has resulted in 42% of the LargeCo engineering staff in WestCoastCity are women.
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by pacala 9y ago
Women have graduated computer science at a less than 20% rate (which is the ratio of women in tech at Google) for more that a decade. Why? https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/rampage/wp/2015/01/27&#x
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by pacala 9y ago
> ability to handle stress gender difference https://www.google.com/search?q=ability+to+handle+stress+gen... First result: http://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/stress/2010/gende
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by pacala 9y ago
> [...] raise into question the fundamental capability of every woman you work with [...] Can you please substantiate? Link to the "manifesto", https://gizmodo.com/exclusive-heres-the-full-10-page-anti-di...
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by pacala 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_African_National_Space_A... > In 1999, South Africa launched its first satellite, SUNSAT from Vandenberg Air Force Base in the USA. A second satellite, SumbandilaSat, was launched
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by pacala 9y ago
Just in case you were reading Gizmodo's version, http://gizmodo.com/exclusive-heres-the-full-10-page-anti-div... , please note that the original document has been edited specifically to remove data and references. >
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by pacala 9y ago
> The manifesto argues that women are genetically inferior and that most women developers shouldn't have their job. Can you please substantiate? Link for the manifesto: https://gizmodo.com/exclusive-heres-the-full-10
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by pacala 9y ago
> And as for its impact on you: Do you understand that at this point, I could not in good conscience assign anyone to work with you? I certainly couldn’t assign any women to deal with this, a good number of the people you might have to w
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by pacala 9y ago
For example, somebody detected (and published) a 53% extrasensory perception effect (ESP, predict the future), using "methodological sound" social sciences techniques, https://slate.com/health-and-science/2017
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by pacala 9y ago
Not Google, but there are tech companies out there that set hiring quotas significantly higher than what the CS schools are producing [~20% female for the past 10 years]. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive&#x2
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by pacala 9y ago
Graduation rates in CS have declined in US, from 37% in the 80's to 18% in recent years. http://www.randalolson.com/2014/06/14/percentage-of-bachelor... . 18% percentage of graduates correlates quite well
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by pacala 9y ago
Actually, we can. Peek behind the Iron Curtain and its late survivors (Venezuela, North Korea). Massive failures. Societal collapse.
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by pacala 9y ago
White with Eastern European accent. I get asked all the time, it's an innocent ice breaker.
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by pacala 9y ago
ObjC, Swift, Java, Kotlin
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by pacala 9y ago
https://github.com/google/leveldb
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by pacala 9y ago
That has to do with the Ponzi scheme that academic life is. Your professor is running a group of ~10 woefully underpaid grad students and he needs fresh blood to keep it running. Your time is now, before you discover that there are way bett
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by pacala 9y ago
What changed: status and money. It will pass.
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by pacala 9y ago
Great point. An elementary feature of a SQL engine is exposing the query plan itself in a compact humanly readably format. Is there an equivalent for Prolog implementations?

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