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Among other things, the chairmen want to know why the bureau publicly said it was investigating Clinton while keeping silent that it was looking into President Donald Trump's campaign associates and their connections to Russia.

...and we fucking told you so. There is just as much evidence to support the idea that Russia had anything to do with anything last year, as there is to Obama having a fake birth certificate or the CIA putting mind-controlling gas in jet fuel.

Eh.

Veh.

Dence.

No, accusations from the same professional liars that got you in Iraq is not evidence. And before one of the rubes starts up with the "go back to RT, Boris" crap, you guys said the same thing about skeptics being Saddam supporters if they questioned Bush's claims in 2003. You were tools then, and you're tools now.

One big problem with 2FA is that they can phished. U2F is the neat solution in this space (I'm not not affiliated with them, just impressed with it). It's a little hardware key that...

-not fooled by phishing
-each site just gets a big random number at registration, so no user tracking from U2F
-integrates SSL to resist MITM
-it's a free standard and the devices are cheap
-Chrome supports it, Firefox is now in beta. Microsoft has made noises about support.
Apple is .... Apple is a no-show thus far.

U2F https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
FAQ: https://medium.com/@nparlante/...

It's been said a million times but companies always want the magic bullet solutions.

He's right that you should expect being compromised, but no safeguards were in place for what he said was inevitable.

Looking at the timeline of events it's clear that getting past the endpoints meant free reign in their network.

https://medium.com/@thegrugq/e...

Over the years the focus of the security industry has changed and it is no longer considered sufficient to have a crunchy shell with a soft interior. From behavioral analysis, to canary systems and binary whitelisting/flagging. There are so many things they could have done differently it's astounding.

By publicly asserting the unavoidability of a breach, and then having no plan of action prepared for that, he's admitting that their security plan is negligent.

In other words ''Cars crash, people die... seatbelts are useless''

IOTA is completely centralized. When this has been pointed out to the project maintainers they have responded quite badly.

Stay away.

https://medium.com/@ercwl/iota...

This particular battle of semantics has been going on for a while now, and much like previous battles (hoverboard, drones, HDR in 4K), it'll be won by advertisers who don't know better.

The point is building interest in a generic marketing term even if it comes at the cost of the original meaning of the word. Scientific or technical terms (and in some cases, terms made up by sci-fi authors) have always been appropriated, it'll keep happening.

But is AI being overhyped? Definitely. Because behind all the AI craze, the real interest for several companies is in user data collection which is becoming the new coin of the day. It is a very convenient way for tech companies to imply that there are some vague gains to be had using their products while not mentioning that they are harvesting your data or saying that they need to do it "because the AI needs it to work better".
Notice how it's also super convenient for companies and services to use vague terms like that because they not only "fancy up" their products, it also serves as a convenient scapegoat when things go south (see how "algorithms" is losely employed by social media networks to put the blame on for mishaps).

For those who didn't see the dimention of this overhyping just yet, here's a comprehensive list of a whole ton of products and services where the term is used, most of which have zero AI in it:
https://medium.com/imlyra/a-li...
Some of them barely have any intelligence on them at all.

Any time you see someone cite claims by Roy Spencer (or his research partner John Christy), be skeptical. This guy is one of the 1.6% found to minimize or reject AGW in the Cook 2013 study.

He seems to be invited to any congressional hearing about climate change, has a very popular contrarian blog, and claims to be part of the oft-mentioned "97% consensus". You'll sometimes see his followers pretend that the consensus is only that humans could cause "some" of the warming, when in fact there's a consensus that humans cause at least "most" of it. He wrote a book on free market economics and once said "I view my job a little like a legislator, supported by the taxpayer, to protect the interests of the taxpayer and to minimize the role of government".

Mike Cernovich is one of the parties being sued, and he pointed out that it's a rather big law firm that charges an arm and a leg that is suing him.

Now let's be serious. Do you honestly think a partner at such a firm wouldn't automatically fire someone for pursuing cases like this without a source of funding? This is damn near SLAPP territory (and probably will be in the case of Cernovich, who is based in CA). There's money behind this because big law firms don't just pursue for altruistic reasons Daily Stormer readers who shitpost and post dank memes.

... are more realistic:

"Ethereum isn't safe or scalable. It is immature experimental tech. Don't rely on it for mission critical apps unless absolutely necessary!"

https://medium.com/@Vlad_Zamfi...

Wake me up when the LS command can show hidden files and folders without crazy hacks that go away after you restart the terminal program.

Um, it's really hard, I know: Try typing "ls -a". See, done!

http://www.mactrast.com/2011/1...

Inet last I looked had a program called netinfo

macOS (OS X) hasn't used NetInfo in, well, in a VERY long time. Like TWELVE years...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Apple was the first to make it fashionable to ban init

They didn't make it "Fashionable". They fucking INVENTED it (launchd) in 2005! And then Open Sourced it. But the FOSSies couldn't just accept a gift from Apple. They just HAD to go and fuck it all up. In a LOT of ways, the abomination that is systemd is a microcosm of all that is wrong with the entire F/OSS "Community".

BTW, macOS has been using launchd essentially trouble-free intstead of that retarded init since 10.4 (Tiger). IOW, WELL over a decade.

Read it and weep:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

All MacOSX is is a dumbed down GUI on top of a Mac kernel. It is not Unix like in spirit more than SystemD is.

"Dumbed-down GUI"? YOU write it!

Not Unix? Sorry. OS X/macOS has been a CERTIFIED Unix since at least 10.5 (around 2007), and maybe even before. Wake me when Linux of ANY flavor is a Certified Unix...

https://www.infoworld.com/arti...

In Unix everything is a text file so you can use the terminal tools. Not so in MacOSX.

In macOS, most config files are a flavor of xml, which is a flavor of text.

I know some people can run mysql under MacOSX but is it easy to install?

Yep. I found and used a one-click Installer that gave me an entire LAMP (well, XAMP) stack in just a few minutes.

Ah, here's one now...

https://www.macupdate.com/app/...

Next!

Is the XCode free?

Yep. Has been since OS X 10.0.0. They no longer include it on the Install Disc (but you can get it here) :

http://www.mactrast.com/2011/1...

Apple got rid of CUPS

Bullshit. Apple purchased CUPS in 2007, and STILL kept it Open Source!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

...Samba or rather a strange proprietary fork of Samba

Again, bullshit, at least sort of. Apple got rid of SAMBA because it had become a dumpster-fire of unmitigated proportions, and, because it became GPLv3, which Apple will not abide. They wrote their own SAMBA replacement, whiich, after a couple of revs, is stable enough and full-featured enough that they actually have DEPRECATED their own AFP sharing system in favor of SMB.

http://appleinsider.com/articl...

...a strange proprietary fork of [...], Apache...

I don't know about you; but this seems to be a standard version of Apache, and it shipped with macOS Sierra, which is still the current version of the OS:

https://medium.com/@JohnFodera...

And the version is ships with it (2.4.23) is also reasonabl

There is no good software for presentations on Linux that compares to Keynote or PowerPoint.

Jupyter Notebooks presentation mode is great.

It is lacking in key features like "Word Art", but for a technical presentation it's pretty good.

Sorry, you are wrong

https://medium.com/@ybergquist...

So the conclusion is that box office gross is not caused by RT scores despite the correlation.

Here's a howto from the perspective of someone who wouldn't normally be a drug user, and was a bit scared and ignorant of the whole process at first: https://medium.com/p/how-to-mi...

Blockchain:

- Unclear accountability (the real reason for popularity)

- You're putting data on lots of computers, in different jurisdictions.

- Can't really delete anything (privacy nightmare)

- Not really anonymous.

- Encryption will be broken in time.

- Power not really distributed, just obfuscated (lies with devs).

- Slow and overly complex.

Sources:

http://estsjournal.org/article...

https://medium.com/enspiral-ta...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/j...

https://www.theatlantic.com/te...

https://blog.ethereum.org/2016...

http://blog.ezyang.com/2011/06...

[citation needed]

Why don't you try posting something like "illegal immigrants are a pain in the ass" on /r/politics. I'll wait for your ban, you could post say "not all illegal immigrants are a pain in the ass" on T_D, people would even tell you to defend your pov. Besides, that, you been paying to the absolute bullshit going on in FOSS communities? Where people have started witch hunting code contributors because they have sexual life styles that the new leftist moral majority don't like. Enjoy the shit show

But you're an anonymous coward. There is no "you", and therefore, no one gives a fuck about "your" opinion.

But you sure got up in arms over it.

That is complete, utter, total, and every other kind of bullshit. The conservative wing is powered by the religious reich, which absolutely opposes free expression.

The religious hold on conservative has been dead around 20-28 years at this point. You might have missed it if you were living in a social bubble, where they kept telling you that though. It was roughly that wingnuts were trying to blow up abortion clinics, and people simply had enough.

You either haven't read up much on the Nazis, or you think they were grand.

So let's look at all that fascist stuff the left is going down with: Free speech walls, making claims that "bad speech is hate speech" with the demands that anything contrary to their opinion must be silenced. Doxing, going after employees of companies(there's even a giant tumblr blog you can find that they still refuse to take down). There was the apparent case of witch hunting on a game developer the other day by leftists(they class themselves as SJW's just a FYI) for holding opinions they didn't like.

Oh and remember the limerick from Pillars of Eternity they didn't like? And got so upset that they started attacking the developers so it got changed...or how about the time when they went after one of the artists for Divinity: Original Sin.

Define useful? Is it something profitable or that needs to be done measured by any plethora of benchmarks?

Example of work that needs to be done: Circuit level diagnosis to fix/recycle a piece of electronics may not have much monetary gain but its a job with purpose. Even if it may be cheaper to buy a new item. 'Useful' can fit a whole bunch of different contexts, it would be useful the item did not entirely/partially end up in land-fill and become a poison to the environment.

http://jobguarantee.org/ https://medium.com/modern-mone...

Here is a challenge, walk into any university, any STEM department and ask the question: 'what could be done better in this field if you have enough manpower to redo a chosen area of your industry?'

The list is miles long for software engineering/computer science for instance. If we had enough engineers we could finally rewrite entire legacy software stacks+standards that haphazardly become de-facto industry standards that are security nightmares. Point is people are a resource to be put to work not to sit idle.

You should read some of the absolute bullshit going on with Rust. Mozilla is infested with socjus, just like google is, just like node.js is. Here's a few examples from node.js and no2 and a bit of backfiller.

Cancer, cancer everywhere, and it's killing FOSS.

You should read some of the absolute bullshit going on with Rust. Mozilla is infested with socjus, just like google is, just like node.js is. Here's a few examples from node.js and no2 and a bit of backfiller.

Cancer, cancer everywhere, and it's killing FOSS.

You should read some of the absolute bullshit going on with Rust. Mozilla is infested with socjus, just like google is, just like node.js is. Here's a few examples from node.js and no2 and a bit of backfiller.

Cancer, cancer everywhere, and it's killing FOSS.

There's a significant amount of wash trading and fake money pumping up the prices of cryptocurrencies and Bitcoin. A marketcap of 175 billion doesn't mean people bought 175 billion worth of cryptos. With 10 million dollars you can increase the market cap of Bitcoin by over 2 billion dollars, and we have at least 320 million dollars of fake money. https://medium.com/@bitfinexed...

Reminds me of an excellent post from an Iranian blogger who was put in prison for six years, from 2008 until an unexpected pardon in 2015. It's worth a read, especially for the younger folks who weren't paying much attention to information theory or internet philosophy prior to the Rise of Social Media.

Instead, there was the web, and on the web, there were blogs: the best place to find alternative thoughts, news and analysis. They were my life.
It had all started with 9/11. I was in Toronto, and my father had just arrived from Tehran for a visit. We were having breakfast when the second plane hit the World Trade Center. I was puzzled and confused and, looking for insights and explanations, I came across blogs. Once I read a few, I thought: This is it, I should start one, and encourage all Iranians to start blogging as well. So, using Notepad on Windows, I started experimenting. Soon I ended up writing on hoder.com, using Blogger’s publishing platform before Google bought it.

- https://medium.com/matter/the-web-we-have-to-save-2eb1fe15a426

See also: https://www.pri.org/stories/2016-01-04/after-six-years-prison-iranian-blogger-sees-very-different-internet and http://www.businessinsider.com/iranian-blogger-hossein-derakshan-internet-changes-6-years-filter-bubble-2015-7

Just to clarify, the problem here is the phone number linked SMS, which customer-service can be badgered into changing. 2FA that stores the secret on the phone are not susceptible to this, with Google Authenticator/TOTP being the most prominent example.

When you upgrade your phone, it all switches around: SMS 2FA convenient just keeps working since it goes with the number, but TOTP is now kind of a pain since you have to set it up again.

The U2F standard gets my vote as the nifty solution to this password madness. I wrote a U2F FAQ: https://medium.com/@nparlante/...

*sigh*

Since Google has changed it's policy from "do no evil" to "do the right (alt-left) thing", the purging of James Damore for a well written, thoughtful document that challenged the alt-left ethos https://medium.com/@Cernovich/... was the last straw for me. I have switched away from Google as my default search engine, removed the Chrome browser from my PC and directed all meaningful email away from my Gmail account. I have also switched from ABP to a pi-hole to deny all ad revenue to the leaches.

Google used to be a great tech company, but it is clear that they are no longer interested in science or the truth if it contradicts their worldview and are only secondarily interested in innovation. For a company through which the vast majority of the information in the world is filtered, that is a very bad thing. They are no longer interested in the most accurate results, they are interested in the right results, whatever they might determine that might be. They were already caught interfering with the autocomplete suggestions when searching for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 elections. I suspect that they will continue to dramatically lose market share until they get a CEO who cleans house of all the SJW types in positions of power and gets back to focusing on the core technology.

if you took the minimum wage of the '60s and '70s and adjusted it for inflation

Partially correct, the minimum wage adjusted for inflation would be $6.65 from 1960, and it is $7 today. http://www.stateofworkingameri... the problem is not the minimum wage, but that some stuff did increase vastly above the inflation. A 2 bedroom in 1980 in San Francisco was $500 / $600, but now it vastly increase to $4000 in some extreme cases. Inflation adjusted rent should be around $1400. https://medium.com/@mccannatro... For all practical intent and purpose, due to housing speculation (which is still frankly going on) and some ancillaries effect which do not help but increase the problem (e.g. airbnb , rent apartment converted to quasi hotel rooms), rent has become nearly 50% or 60% of the monthly cost of people if they stay in city center, so they are relegated far away from their work, which decrease their likelihood of entertainment or self education (it is hard to go to a side course when you spend 4 hours on travel during the day) and increase stress. Basically I agree with you it is jsut that your data is not 100% correct.

Anyone who defends Free Speech these days is called a Nazi and Racist and their words are called "violent".

Make no mistake, your protestations are not about human decency, they are about a creeping authoritarianism from the left that would allow only approved speech. Guess who the people approving it would be...ya...

i'm a fan of freedom of speech. FOR ALL. nazis and racists actively work to deny the freedom of speech of people of color. if you actually believe in freedom of speech, there is NO ROOM for racists who silence folks of color through violence and intimidation. it's the paradox of tolerance.

What a load of utter BULLSHIT you've linked to.

When what we’re asked to tolerate comes at the expense of somebody else’s existence or well-being (for example, ideas that threaten the existence of people on the basis of age, race, gender identity, sex, national origin, race, religion, or disability), showing tolerance for such ideas is in itself deadly

Oh no! Poor widdle "progressive" is afraid of IDEAS and thinks allowing OTHERS the freedom to express whatever damn ideas they want to is somehow "showing tolerance" for those ideas.

You never heard "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"?

Or is that idea too fucking white and European for your close-minded, intolerant, arrogant, IGNORANT ass?

GFY

Again:

GO FUCK YOURSELF AND YOUR TOTALITARIAN INTOLERANCE OF IDEAS AND DISAGREEMENT

Anyone who defends Free Speech these days is called a Nazi and Racist and their words are called "violent".

Make no mistake, your protestations are not about human decency, they are about a creeping authoritarianism from the left that would allow only approved speech. Guess who the people approving it would be...ya...

i'm a fan of freedom of speech. FOR ALL. nazis and racists actively work to deny the freedom of speech of people of color. if you actually believe in freedom of speech, there is NO ROOM for racists who silence folks of color through violence and intimidation. it's the paradox of tolerance.

Have a look at this blog post that Hazelnut linked to.

Engineering isn't mostly about the math, once you get beyond the junior level.

corporate censorship is government censorship...

Jeez this guy thinks he got fired for starting a reasonable discussion. SMH.

I think this pretty much covers it for anyone who is confused why this was so controversial.

https://medium.com/@yonatanzun...

Link to the Context Graph

That is actually true. I know of three specific programs, personally, two of which I know I'm allowed to talk about in public.

Gee, now why is it that you can't talk about the third?

Because I haven't specifically been told I can. The first two were described in the decks I was given for presentations to students when I did university outreach, so I know it's okay to talk about them.

Why the secrecy?

Just general caution. Particularly in the current situation, I arguably shouldn't be posting about this at all, and definitely should not be giving out information about programs that may not already be public knowledge. I'm also not going to tell you what I'm planning to build for Android P, what any new Google Nexus / Pixel devices may be like, etc.

Diversity candidates are offered some extra opportunities

That, alone, is discriminatory. Extra opportunities are huge.

No, they're really not. As I said, they reduce the odds of getting incorrectly rejected; they don't enable people without the required talent / knowledge to succeed.

but at the end of the day either they can pass the interviews and hiring committee, or they can't

Now throw in a culture that puts pressure to hire diversity candidates

There is no such pressure. I do lots of interviews and not only have I not been told to favor anyone, I see absolutely no preference in the eventual hires. My colleagues who sit on hiring committees also deny that they have been given any instructions other than "only hire the people who you think can do the job".

and secret "diversity summit" programs

According to Damore. Although I don't know anything about the supposed summit, I will say that it's not that unusual for meetings not to be recorded. Most are, but a fair number are not.

Do you seriously think that isn't going to skewer your interview process?

I seriously do not, and I'm looking at the interview process from the inside. I'm sure you'll continue to be skeptical, but I have an excellent position from which to see what's going on, and a relatively open and bias-free mind with respect to this topic.

If you want to know where I fall on the nature/nurture question, you should read my essay at https://medium.com/@divegeek/t.... I think Damore got the science largely right, though his focus was off-base; I think gender differences in interest explain a much larger portion of the imbalance than differences in ability. I also disagree with most of his conclusions, for a variety of reasons that I'm not interested in going into here.

Well, I will mention one: I think there's ample evidence that diverse teams perform better. Given that, I think it would actually make sense for Google to reject qualified male candidates in order to hire qualified female candidates. I see no evidence of that happening, mainly because Google has a very difficult time finding enough qualified candidates, period; turning down any qualified candidate would leave a gap. I also think that since women in tech are rare, and since they bring significant diversity value, they should be paid more than their male peers. I wonder if simply paying women, say, 10% more than their male peers might not be a way to address the gender imbalance. It would be addressed initially by stealing female employees from other Silicon Valley firms, which might just end up creating a bidding war that resulted in women being paid more across the entire tech ecosystem... and maybe that would help draw more women into the field. Not so much for the money as for the respect that the money indicates.

She's sadly alive. Surviving off a patron scam, and writing 'think pieces' on the hipster, 10-megs-of-javascript-to-display-a-text-article group blog medium.com. She is also a prolific twitter user who begs for white-knights to buy her stuff off her amazon wishlist. https://www.patreon.com/freebs... https://medium.com/@randileeha...

If you really want it locked down, U2F (2FA device standard) is the way to go. Currently only supported by technically leading sites: google, facebook, github, but jeez it's such a huge improvement over passwords or password managers. One neat side effect of U2F is that with it in place, the password can be super simple, since with U2F the password is not very important. See the U2F FAQ: https://medium.com/@nparlante/...

Apparently you've missed the documented coordination with Russia on releases of private information to influence the u.s. elections. I know it's hard in your bubble but you need to get out more.

What an ex- senior google employee has to say about this nimrod's brain fart.

https://medium.com/@yonatanzun...

So, about this Googlerâ(TM)s manifesto.

You have probably heard about the manifesto a Googler (not someone senior) published internally about, essentially, how women and men are intrinsically different and we should stop trying to make it possible for women to be engineers, itâ(TM)s just not worth it.

Until about a week ago, you would have heard very little from me publicly about this, because (as a fairly senior Googler) my job would have been to deal with it internally, and confidentiality rules would have prevented me from saying much in public.

But as it happens, (although this wasnâ(TM)t the way I was planning on announcing it) I actually recently left GoogleâSâ"âSfor entirely unrelated and actually really-good-news reasons which you can read about here. So when all of this broke, I was just as much on the outside as everyone else, and I know what was written in this only because it leaked and was published by Gizmodo.

And since Iâ(TM)m no longer on the inside, and have no confidential information about any of this, the thing which I would have posted internally Iâ(TM)ll instead say right here, because itâ(TM)s relevant not just to Google, but to everyone else in tech.

So it seems that someone has seen fit to publish an internal manifesto about gender and our âoeideological echo chamber.â I think itâ(TM)s important that we make a couple of points clear.

(1) Despite speaking very authoritatively, the author does not appear to understand gender.

(2) Perhaps more interestingly, the author does not appear to understand engineering.

(3) And most seriously, the author does not appear to understand the consequences of what he wrote, either for others or himself.

1.Iâ(TM)m not going to spend any length of time on (1); if anyone wishes to provide details as to how nearly every statement about gender in that entire document is actively incorrect, and flies directly in the face of all research done in the field for decades, they should go for it. But I am neither a biologist, a psychologist, nor a sociologist, so Iâ(TM)ll leave that to someone else.

2. What I am is an engineer, and I was rather surprised that anyone has managed to make it this far without understanding some very basic points about what the job is. The manifesto talks about making âoesoftware engineering more people-oriented with pair programming and more collaborationâ but that this is fundamentally limited by âoehow people-oriented certain roles and Google can be;â and even more surprisingly, it has an entire section titled âoede-emphasize empathy,â as one of the proposed solutions.

People who havenâ(TM)t done engineering, or people who have done just the basics, sometimes think that what engineering looks like is sitting at your computer and hyper-optimizing an inner loop, or cleaning up a class API. Weâ(TM)ve all done this kind of thing, and for many of us (including me) itâ(TM)s tremendous fun. And when youâ(TM)re at the novice stages of engineering, this is the large bulk of your work: something straightforward and bounded which can be done right or wrong, and where you can hone your basic skills.

But itâ(TM)s not a coincidence that job titles at Google switch from numbers to words at a certain point. Thatâ(TM)s precisely the point at which you have, in a way, completed your first apprenticeship: you can operate independently without close supervision. And this is the point where you start doing real engineering.

Engineering is no

What's his 'dissenting view'? That women make bad engineers - so stop trying to hire them, even though the differences are not large and there's lots of overlap in which some women are much better engineers than some men. There's hardly any point there except to say that "I want to rag on Google's attempts to hire women engineers". Perhaps his 'point' is about groupthink and has nothing to do with women in engineering - but then why focus on that and then make an argument full of disclaimers?

Here's a nicely argued rebuttal from an ex-Googler:

https://medium.com/@yonatanzun...

Here's a result of a 5 second Google search: Could black holes be the dark matter?

The Cernovich cite has hyperlinked text to his external references:

https://medium.com/@Cernovich/...

For example:

https://www.jstor.org/stable/2...

If there is any particular assertion he makes that you find incorrect, can you refute it through argument?

Yes, I did read it. Did you?

https://medium.com/@Cernovich/...

"I hope it's clear that I'm not saying that diversity is bad, that Google or society is 100% fair, that we shouldn't try to correct for existing biases, or that minorities have the same experience of those in the majority. My larger point is that we have an intolerance for ideas and evidence that don't fit a certain ideology. I'm also not saying that we should restrict people to certain gender roles; I'm advocating for quite the opposite: treat people as individuals, not as just another member of their group (tribalism)."

There is nothing in there that is offensive, full stop. Misrepresenting the respectful and dispassionate analysis this man did as bigoted or hateful can only happen through malice or ignorance.

He never called anyone inferior - that's your own personal sexism creeping in. He mentioned that men and women, are on average, different on several scales - he made no value judgements as to which differences or traits were inferior or superior.

Read the whole thing, and try again:

https://medium.com/@Cernovich/...

Quote exactly where he uses the word "inferior".

EXACTLY. His frickin' memo starts with the texts

I value diversity and inclusion, am not denying that sexism exists, and don’t endorse usingstereotypes.
  TL;DR Google’s political bias has equated the freedom from offense with psychological safety,
but shaming into silence is the antithesis of psychological safety.
This silencing has created an ideological echo chamber where some ideas are too
sacred to be honestly discussed.
The lack of discussion fosters the most extreme and authoritarian elements of this
ideology.

• Extreme: all disparities in representation are due to oppression
• Authoritarian: we should discriminate to correct for this oppression

Differences in distributions of traits between men and women may in part explain why we
don't have 50% representation of women in tech and leadership.

Discrimination to reach equal representation is unfair, divisive, and bad for business.

So how the hell can anybody legitimately interpret this memo as indicating the author encourages and wishes to perpetuate stereotypes?

Seems like everyone takes offence to a word they didn't understand the meaning of ...

Oh, they know all right .... they know EXACTLY what was meant, you highfalutin' fancy-pants egghead.

They know exactly what's going on here, don't confuse 'em with facts because they already know all of the important facts. See? Google's getting rid of Teh Evil, just as they originally said.

I'll just leave this here: Niggardly

This one doesn't: https://medium.com/@yonatanzunger/so-about-this-googlers-manifesto-1e3773ed1788

This rebuttal takes the author's premise for granted: it doesn't matter whether biological determinism is right, the manifesto author still farked things up and cost Google - and by extension Googlers - a fuckton of money, and in so doing accomplished exactly the opposite of what he was trying to accomplish by fighting the SJWs in the name of productivity and politics. If you believe in freedom of association, Google would be well within its rights to say "Fuck this guy, he's costing us far more than he's worth."

Yeah, no. It was a poorly-argued mishmash of unsubstantiated stereotypes and bullshit. It revealed an employee who is actively hostile to a large fraction of his coworkers, has a number of bigoted ideas, and a myopic, incorrect view of what it is a software engineer actually does.

I rather appreciated this ex-employee's response, which is spot-on

The simple and devastating response to this of crap is from Yonutan's blog:

"You talked about a need for discussion about ideas; you need to learn the difference between “I think we should adopt Go as our primary language” and “I think one-third of my colleagues are either biologically unsuited to do their jobs, or if not are exceptions and should be suspected of such until they can prove otherwise to each and every person’s satisfaction.” Not all ideas are the same, and not all conversations about ideas even have basic legitimacy."

https://medium.com/@yonatanzun...

That is to say, discussing and promoting diversity of opinion does NOT mean all opinions are equally valid or should be discussed.

This simple fact is something the seems to blow the minds of conservatives and people who think folks on the left are generally intolerant. It's not the fact that conservatives have a different opinion that explains why those of us on the left try to shut down certain opinions; it's WHAT THOSE OPINIONS ARE that matters.

Are these legitimate points of discussions in a modern American inclusive private business organization?

"We need a diversity of opinion. I know some folks say the earth is round; I'd like to talk about the possibility the earth is flat."
"We should promote a safe space for ALL views to be held; black folks should be deported to Liberia"
and
"Let's have a more inclusive and diverse set of viewpoints; Hitler was onto something with his treatment of the Jews."

Now I know there's a fair amount of neanderthals here for whom those would be legitimate points of discussion; for civilized folks they are not, and there's nothing wrong with shutting them down.

Doing that in a corporate environment does not mean that corporate environment does not value diversity of thought IN GENERAL; it DOES mean that SOME ideas are off limits, and rightly so, because they create a fucking hostile workplace.

And stating that approximately half of the population is by default unsuited to do tech work in general is creating a hostile workplace.

Anyway, according to this https://medium.com/war-is-boring/the-u-s-air-forces-most-secretive-squadron-c6bacc520562

Arguably the most secretive flying squadron in the whole U.S. Air Force owns a bunch of small Cessnas and medium-size transports that look pretty much exactly like civilian aircraft.

But the 427th Special Operations Squadron’s mission is anything but mundane.

...

The CN235, for one, “is believed to be used to insert [Special Forces] personnel at small airfields for covert counter-insurgency operations,” according to the Spyflight forum.

So don't worry guys, they aren't spying on you, they just want to deploy Special Forces in your neighborhood.

You really should follow the links. YouTube disagrees with you. Netflix disagrees with you. And so do I.

Netflix use VP9 for download to Androids, not for streaming. There they use HEVC for 4k of course. And so do you if you use Netflix.

why is Netflix not using VP9

Netflix is using V9 and will be using AV1.

The question you should be asking is why is Netflix a member of the Alliance for Open Media if HEVC is so great? Why would they need to be if there wasn't a problem?

Spending money to support VP9 for a few months makes little sense.

It won't be for a few months. It will be a gradual transition from VP9 to AV1. You don't think Netflix is using VP9 for the fun of it, do you?

So why is Netflix not using VP9 but HEVC for streaming?