I don't think it's the talk about biological differences per se that offend. More likely it's the naive tendency to ignore any influence from social causes and then arguing all differences must arrive from biology through some plausible sounding, pseudo-science mumbo-jumbo.
Torvalds's decision to step aside came after The New Yorker asked him a series of questions about his conduct for a story on complaints about his abusive behavior discouraging women from working as Linux-kernel programmers.
So is Torvalds being exceptionally abusive toward women and discouraging them from contributing, or is he equally abusive toward everyone and that is seen as more likely to discourage the women than men? Because in the latter case it makes the sexist assumption that women are fragile little things that need to be protected more so than the rest of us.
The real enemy is Western civilization and specifically white people.
Given the political climate in the US, I'd be considered on the Left here. I don't believe that. None of my many friends on the Left believe this.
For example, when Osama bin Laden was killed by US Navy Seals, America held spontaneous celebrations and the Left looked down their nose at it.
Again, I'm on the Left. I don't look down on that. I relish the deaths of all murderous authoritarians be they Nazis, Communists (not the people who see value in social programs "communists" - actual Communists) and people who want to establish theocratic Islamic (or other) societies.
It is apparent that you are using a logical fallacy where you cherry pick all the worst qualities you can find in the Left and conclude that those qualities must define all people from that group. Now consider, what if you gave me the same latitude in defining what it was to be on the Right? How badly do you think I could make your side look?
The left managed to swing the GOP nomination to the worst of the candidates,
Eh? Because the Dems chose Hilary the Republicans were convinced that Trump was the correct choice for the job? How does that work? You yourself didn't vote for him in the primaries, so you could probably argue why those who did were foolish.
...but their own was still so bad he beat her easily.
Again, what? As a candidate running for office without the ability to gain enough enthusiasm to win despite Trump's obvious failings, yeah. But to actually run the country? Despite it leaving such a bad taste in people's mouths, we can do a lot worse than an entitled, competent, policy wonk as president. In fact, we just did. It's hilarious to me that the Right was able to cast such a meh candidate as Clinton as some reprehensible devious evil that needed to be defeated at all costs. And that enough voters were stupid enough to buy into it to elect an infantile incompetent incapable of thinking of anything outside of his own personal gain.
And an "easy" win is a bit of a stretch. Getting 304 vs 227 electoral votes with many of those key battleground states won at a razor's edge while losing the popular vote is not the same as beating her easily. A fair win, yes, but not easy.
I certainly didn't vote for him in the Primaries, but in the general election, he was the far better option and I had no qualms about voting for him.
So in a choice between two candidates with the analogous qualities of a bad cold and possibly terminal cancer you chose cancer. Well congratulations and fuck you.
Why not leave 12 o'clock remain its intended 12 o'clock (lining up roughly to the middle of the day) and adjust business hours so that they are reasonable within that framework if need be? Permanent daylight savings time is like saying, "We screwed up the times when everything should be open, and so we're going to adjust the basis of time-keeping from something simple and straightforward to needlessly complicated because we're fuck-ups."
You're assuming that such a model must necessarily exist, which is a huge assumption to make. Especially considering that there are many results in mathematics indicating that self-referential systems (say, for example, a complete model of reality created from within said reality) tend to be problematic.
Nope. The article makes a solid argument based on linked citations. That's why it's more reliable than other sources of news that do not. It names the specific claims made to justify that there is some emergency at the border that must be dealt with by extreme means and argues why they are false.
Yeah, the "MSM" said something that doesn't jive with your world view. Tough shit. It doesn't mean it must be wrong.
Well you don't cite any sources, so I'd have to take you at your word. But even if we assume you are correct, which sources are worse at mis-reporting, glazing over facts, blatantly creating lies, whatever. Sources like the Washington Post, NY Times, Frontline, The Atlantic, NPR, BBC, or the so-called "alternatives"? And if people have a problem with inaccuracy in reporting, what is logical about them embracing sources that are far worse perpetrators of the very things they abandoned them for?
I mean, the sources I mentioned definitely will make mistakes or have their own bias (they're run by human beings after all) but at the very least you get a sense they have an interest in how the world works.
I'm sorry, but anyone who replaces something problematic with another thing that is a thousand times worse has no one to blame but themselves.
And really, going to any American cable news aside from C-SPAN as a primary source of information is idiotic. CNN gets knocked for being biased plenty, but real issue is that their coverage is incredibly light-weight and shallow.
One day, Su Dongpo felt inspired and wrote the following poem :
I bow my head to the heaven within heaven, Hairline rays illuminating the universe, The eight winds cannot move me, Sitting still upon the purple golden lotus.
The "eight winds" in the poem referred to praise, ridicule, honor, disgrace, gain, loss, pleasure and misery - interpersonal forces of the material world that drive and influence the hearts of men.
Impressed by himself, Su Dongpo sent a servant to hand-carry this poem to Fo Yin. He was sure that his friend would be equally impressed. When Fo Yin read the poem, the Zen Master wrote "fart" on the manuscript and had it returned to Su Dongpo.
When Su Dongpo saw "fart" written on the manuscript, he was shocked . He burst into anger: "How dare he insult me like this ? Why that lousy old monk ! He's got a lot of explaining to do!"
Full of indignation, he rushed out of his house and ordered a boat to ferry him to the other shore as quickly as possible. He wanted to find Fo Yin and demand an apology. However, Fo Yin's door closed. On the door was a piece of paper, for Su Dongpo. The paper had following two lines :
The eight winds cannot move me, One fart blows me across the river.
Yup. Also, consider the person with extremely low self-esteem. Someone who walks around constantly thinking, "Whoa is me. I'm so terrible." etc. would, in the Buddhist sense, have a terrible problem with their ego. They're always focused on themself.
Or we could just change our work hours accordingly. That way we don't need DST temporarily or otherwise and 12pm and 12am would still approximate noon and midnight.
For one, the left are far more sympathetic to fundamentalist islam than the right. Fundamentalist islam (not necessarily terrorists) identifies and associates far more with the left than the right as well. The idea that islamic terrorists can simply be lumped in with the far right extremists is ridiculous beyond belief... a bit like saying that the actual Nazis were left wing ("National Socialism, says so right there on the tin!")
It's not ridiculous at all to label Islamic terrorists as far right extremists. Strict fundamentalists within their religion who want to enforce their morality through an authoritarian government? They'd be right at home as a more violent version of the Religious Right here in the US; it's just that the details of their religious beliefs are a bit different. But nothing that wouldn't exclude them from the right wing.
I agree that the radical Islamists like to play the victim to appeal to the left wing, and the left wing tends to be more sympathetic. It's really too bad that the left can't see more often what they are as they push for violence against homosexuals and many restrictions specific to women. It's unfortunate that the Western right wing can't reflect what they hate about the radical Islamists and consider that it's in them also. Oh well.
Do we really need to invoke Catherine the Great's name to help explain who Leonhard "one-of-the-greatest-mathematician's-of-all-time" Euler was? For me it would be more like "Catherine the Great, a sponsor of the legendary Euler, also happened to do some notable things while leading Russia".
From my short visit to Belgium it didn't even seem like the main choice of condiment for fries anyways, but just one possibility of many. After I followed a local's lead and tried tartar sauce with fries I think I found a winner.
Not inserting - insertion sort. Reading more about this insertion sort and bubble sort would perform exactly the same on an already sorted list; they'd basically be doing the exact same thing. On a list that is nearly sorted, insertion sort tends to do better as well. See the Performance section on the Wikipedia entry to bubble sort for details.
My bad. Unlike what I said earlier the running time for bubble sort is O(N) for an already sorted list. However, I was correct that insertion sort is still better in the case of sorting such a list. See here.
No moves in memory happen with either bubble or insertion sort. The difference is the number of comparisons, which also count towards N. With bubble sort on a sorted list the numbers of comparisons, and thus steps, are O(N^2). With insertion sort for the same list the comparisons (also without moves) are O(N).
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I don't think it's the talk about biological differences per se that offend. More likely it's the naive tendency to ignore any influence from social causes and then arguing all differences must arrive from biology through some plausible sounding, pseudo-science mumbo-jumbo.
So is Torvalds being exceptionally abusive toward women and discouraging them from contributing, or is he equally abusive toward everyone and that is seen as more likely to discourage the women than men? Because in the latter case it makes the sexist assumption that women are fragile little things that need to be protected more so than the rest of us.
Given the political climate in the US, I'd be considered on the Left here. I don't believe that. None of my many friends on the Left believe this.
Again, I'm on the Left. I don't look down on that. I relish the deaths of all murderous authoritarians be they Nazis, Communists (not the people who see value in social programs "communists" - actual Communists) and people who want to establish theocratic Islamic (or other) societies.
It is apparent that you are using a logical fallacy where you cherry pick all the worst qualities you can find in the Left and conclude that those qualities must define all people from that group. Now consider, what if you gave me the same latitude in defining what it was to be on the Right? How badly do you think I could make your side look?
Eh? Because the Dems chose Hilary the Republicans were convinced that Trump was the correct choice for the job? How does that work? You yourself didn't vote for him in the primaries, so you could probably argue why those who did were foolish.
Again, what? As a candidate running for office without the ability to gain enough enthusiasm to win despite Trump's obvious failings, yeah. But to actually run the country? Despite it leaving such a bad taste in people's mouths, we can do a lot worse than an entitled, competent, policy wonk as president. In fact, we just did. It's hilarious to me that the Right was able to cast such a meh candidate as Clinton as some reprehensible devious evil that needed to be defeated at all costs. And that enough voters were stupid enough to buy into it to elect an infantile incompetent incapable of thinking of anything outside of his own personal gain.
And an "easy" win is a bit of a stretch. Getting 304 vs 227 electoral votes with many of those key battleground states won at a razor's edge while losing the popular vote is not the same as beating her easily. A fair win, yes, but not easy.
So in a choice between two candidates with the analogous qualities of a bad cold and possibly terminal cancer you chose cancer. Well congratulations and fuck you.
Why not leave 12 o'clock remain its intended 12 o'clock (lining up roughly to the middle of the day) and adjust business hours so that they are reasonable within that framework if need be? Permanent daylight savings time is like saying, "We screwed up the times when everything should be open, and so we're going to adjust the basis of time-keeping from something simple and straightforward to needlessly complicated because we're fuck-ups."
Well good luck with your sober good time.
Can't tell if this post is a joke, or you are.
You're assuming that such a model must necessarily exist, which is a huge assumption to make. Especially considering that there are many results in mathematics indicating that self-referential systems (say, for example, a complete model of reality created from within said reality) tend to be problematic.
Nope. The article makes a solid argument based on linked citations. That's why it's more reliable than other sources of news that do not. It names the specific claims made to justify that there is some emergency at the border that must be dealt with by extreme means and argues why they are false.
Yeah, the "MSM" said something that doesn't jive with your world view. Tough shit. It doesn't mean it must be wrong.
Better question: Why so much grief, hatred, and outrage over a relative non-issue?
Well you don't cite any sources, so I'd have to take you at your word. But even if we assume you are correct, which sources are worse at mis-reporting, glazing over facts, blatantly creating lies, whatever. Sources like the Washington Post, NY Times, Frontline, The Atlantic, NPR, BBC, or the so-called "alternatives"? And if people have a problem with inaccuracy in reporting, what is logical about them embracing sources that are far worse perpetrators of the very things they abandoned them for?
I mean, the sources I mentioned definitely will make mistakes or have their own bias (they're run by human beings after all) but at the very least you get a sense they have an interest in how the world works.
I'm sorry, but anyone who replaces something problematic with another thing that is a thousand times worse has no one to blame but themselves.
And really, going to any American cable news aside from C-SPAN as a primary source of information is idiotic. CNN gets knocked for being biased plenty, but real issue is that their coverage is incredibly light-weight and shallow.
One day, Su Dongpo felt inspired and wrote the following poem :
I bow my head to the heaven within heaven,
Hairline rays illuminating the universe,
The eight winds cannot move me,
Sitting still upon the purple golden lotus.
The "eight winds" in the poem referred to praise, ridicule, honor, disgrace, gain, loss, pleasure and misery - interpersonal forces of the material world that drive and influence the hearts of men.
Impressed by himself, Su Dongpo sent a servant to hand-carry this poem to Fo Yin. He was sure that his friend would be equally impressed. When Fo Yin read the poem, the Zen Master wrote "fart" on the manuscript and had it returned to Su Dongpo.
When Su Dongpo saw "fart" written on the manuscript, he was shocked . He burst into anger: "How dare he insult me like this ? Why that lousy old monk ! He's got a lot of explaining to do!"
Full of indignation, he rushed out of his house and ordered a boat to ferry him to the other shore as quickly as possible. He wanted to find Fo Yin and demand an apology. However, Fo Yin's door closed. On the door was a piece of paper, for Su Dongpo. The paper had following two lines :
The eight winds cannot move me,
One fart blows me across the river.
Yup. Also, consider the person with extremely low self-esteem. Someone who walks around constantly thinking, "Whoa is me. I'm so terrible." etc. would, in the Buddhist sense, have a terrible problem with their ego. They're always focused on themself.
Here is what "underwater aesthetics" looks like.
Yeah, they look peaceful.
The Pasta Nostra?
There's an excellent article on this very topic here.
Or we could just change our work hours accordingly. That way we don't need DST temporarily or otherwise and 12pm and 12am would still approximate noon and midnight.
It's not ridiculous at all to label Islamic terrorists as far right extremists. Strict fundamentalists within their religion who want to enforce their morality through an authoritarian government? They'd be right at home as a more violent version of the Religious Right here in the US; it's just that the details of their religious beliefs are a bit different. But nothing that wouldn't exclude them from the right wing.
I agree that the radical Islamists like to play the victim to appeal to the left wing, and the left wing tends to be more sympathetic. It's really too bad that the left can't see more often what they are as they push for violence against homosexuals and many restrictions specific to women. It's unfortunate that the Western right wing can't reflect what they hate about the radical Islamists and consider that it's in them also. Oh well.
Do we really need to invoke Catherine the Great's name to help explain who Leonhard "one-of-the-greatest-mathematician's-of-all-time" Euler was? For me it would be more like "Catherine the Great, a sponsor of the legendary Euler, also happened to do some notable things while leading Russia".
From my short visit to Belgium it didn't even seem like the main choice of condiment for fries anyways, but just one possibility of many. After I followed a local's lead and tried tartar sauce with fries I think I found a winner.
Not inserting - insertion sort. Reading more about this insertion sort and bubble sort would perform exactly the same on an already sorted list; they'd basically be doing the exact same thing. On a list that is nearly sorted, insertion sort tends to do better as well. See the Performance section on the Wikipedia entry to bubble sort for details.
My bad. Unlike what I said earlier the running time for bubble sort is O(N) for an already sorted list. However, I was correct that insertion sort is still better in the case of sorting such a list. See here.
No moves in memory happen with either bubble or insertion sort. The difference is the number of comparisons, which also count towards N. With bubble sort on a sorted list the numbers of comparisons, and thus steps, are O(N^2). With insertion sort for the same list the comparisons (also without moves) are O(N).