I'm not a spokesperson for "the left", so all I can tell you is that I very clearly rejected those things in my post and if you still think I support them... Well, there's nothing I can say to convince you, is there?
The only name given in the memo is Ari Balogh, but in the context of "he responded to this essay by saying it was unacceptable". She isn't saying he is the author of the document. No-one was doxxed.
The animal kingdom is full of counter examples too. Many animals live in herds or packs with a very flat structure, often with no leaders at all. The strongest bird doesn't take point or handle navigate, it's a group effort and they rotate.
It's also interesting that animals often behave very differently in captivity or when raised by other species (it's rare but it happens). That confirms that much of their behaviour is learned, and what genetic components exist can be overridden. Good thing too, as we expect people to resist their most primitive instincts to use violence against others.
Anyway, our intelligence separates us from the animals. We don't want to live like Lord of the Files.
It's worth talking about precisely because people are losing their jobs or facing other consequences.
I just hope the people who designed the bridge I drive over every day didn't think that "engineering is all about cooperation, collaboration, and empathy for both your colleagues and your customers."
I sure hope they did! I am an engineer, electronic and software, and a bit of mechanical stuff. Cooperation and collaboration are key to building a good, reliable product because when they break down is when mistakes happen. The wrong material gets used, the contractor building the thing doesn't understand what is required for structural integrity etc.
That's exactly what happened with the infamous Hyatt Regency walkway.
As for empathy, I find it much easier to deal with other human beings, from explaining complex ideas to them (something essential for engineers) to getting them to do what I want and work well with me if I can understand their mindset and how they view things.
I also found interesting his point about how we feel differently about seeking 50-50 gender representation in manual labor occupations and work related deaths.
That bit just demonstrates that he doesn't understand the issue at all, or is making a deliberate straw man.
The goal is not to force people to become engineers, which he actually suggests is happening at one point. The goal is to help people do the things they want to do.
And as such, it's much easier to do that with attractive jobs in tech than it is for unattractive jobs collecting refuse or caring for the elderly. That doesn't mean there aren't efforts to make it happen (women's participation in construction has been increasing, and in my country there are incentives specifically for males to becomes nurses), and it doesn't mean that the expectation is that by working in one area the effect will spread to others in time.
So at best it's a criticism of not taking on the hardest tasks, or of focusing on the ones that people have personal experience with and where they feel they can help. Neither of which is very compelling.
The idea of equality of outcome is a straw man. You won't find many people defending it, because as you say it's silly and outright harmful.
The issue here boils down to if there is something inherent to being female that makes a person less interested in technology, or if the interest is there but there are other reasons why women don't pursue it as a career as often. The latter isn't all about misogyny either, it's way more complex than that.
The essay actually comes close to realizing it at one point. It mentions that women are often more interested in communication and the social aspects of tech. There is some truth in that, but consider how it applies to men. Are most men in tech because they find compilers and low level OS internals fascinating and manly, or mainly because they want to use those tools to build things? A lot of Google's tools are centred around communication and social interaction, and I imagine 50% of their users are women, so even if you accept this slightly dubious generalization about females it doesn't support the argument that women just aren't interested in tech as much as men.
Poor work-life balance, making poor technical or unethical decisions just to "win", and a winner-takes-all attitude where being anything less than the champion, the alpha-male, is failure and shameful. Those are the toxic ideas about masculinity that many men are rejecting, for the better, because being a man is much more than those things. And more importantly, not being those things isn't not being a man.
The encryption would just be upgraded, same as it was with WiFi, SSL and the like.
But the more important point is that it would set the default assumption that every protocol needs to enforce privacy. HTTPS would be the original spec, not HTTP.
400 cycles might be fine for some vehicles, if the cost is low enough and they are designed to have the packs swapped periodically. For comparison typical vehicle cells are rated for 3000 cycles, basically means that the car will probably wear out before they do, e.g. 900,000 miles in a Tesla Model S or 450,000 in a Nissan Leaf 30. And of course the rated lifetime is to 80% original capacity which in a 150+ mile range car is still more than adequate for many uses.
These alkaline cells seem suited to stationary systems where they can easily be swapped periodically and space is less of an issue.
The old TV spectrum is extremely valuable because the lower the frequency, the better the radio wave propagation at a given transmission power. That makes it ideal for low power devices like sensor networks, automated meter reading, and portables.
The trade off is that because propagation is good you need to manage it carefully, because one device hogging a frequency blocks other devices in a wide area. For things like sensors and meter reading that's no problem, as they tend to transmit very small amounts of data anyway. A few bytes an hour, or even a month for something like an electricity meter.
Not sure it's a good idea putting it in the hands of a corporation like Microsoft.
I agree with you, condoms so significantly reduce feeling and there is nothing wrong with enjoying that feeling for what it is...
But all that I posted was said in the context of what the GP posted. If you want to enjoy sex but also don't want pregnancy or STDs then you can either use a condom or find some other method to avoid those things, such as finding someone you trust to do it with or doing stuff other than just penetration to heighten the enjoyment.
What you can't do is what this person wants, which is to have responsibility free sex and walk away from any offspring that might be produced because you think abortions are no big deal or that fertility is the sole responsibility of the woman. If they really cared about the foetus they would not want one parent to be able to abandon it before it was even born.
This idea is from the red pill camp, who basically want to go back to the 1950s.
The real issue with LastPass is that it runs in a browser. The most common way of using it is a browser add-on, and it's been found vulnerable in the past.
Much better to have a separate app and copy/paste. Javascript is not secure.
Also, KeePass is free and you can sync the database via your own server or any number of free services.
I found that getting a properly fitting condom made a huge difference. The "standard" ones are too small, too tight. I'm not bragging or anything, I think they just make them that way so that they work reliably for everyone.
You can measure yourself and then order ones to that exact size from several places online now.
Even with the right fit it's still not as nice as without, but it's much much better than the generic size ones for me, back when I used that method of contraception.
Ignoring your poor understanding of the biology of human reproduction, your argument for so-called "male abortion" where the father refuses to accept responsibility for the child before it is born is flawed.
Your comment about condoms gives your mindset away. You want the pleasurable experience of unprotected sex, without any of the responsibility. Of course you can't really avoid all the risks with unprotected sex, even if she doesn't get pregnant you can still get STDs, but basically you are arguing that you don't want to use contraception because it reduces your physical pleasure and so wish to have an exemption from the potential consequences.
Rather than demanding that women be expected to undergo medical procedures on your behalf, why not get one yourself and have a vasectomy? They are reversible or you could freeze some sperm if you want kids later. You could also use the rhythm method, assuming you aren't going to insist on having sex with random people you barely know... But then again, if you think sex is "ruined" by slightly reduced feeling, it seems like forming relationships or enjoying all the other parts of sex aside from penetration is not high on your priority list.
By the way, women make up 51.5% of the US population, not 60% (source: last US census). between the ages of 15 and 65 it's dead even. And as for voting, back when these rules were introduced in the US, the 1950s through to the 1980s, men voted in greater numbers than women.
Was going to post this, and just want to add that EVs only regen if their batteries are not at full charge. Some have a feature that lets to limit charging to 80 or 90%, which means regen works from the moment you set off.
I'm not sure why you and a few other people thought I'm not feeding my cat meat. I eat meat, my cat eats mostly meat with vegetables and fruit mixed in. Just little chunks. It's proper cat food, out of a tin.
He catches birds and mice sometimes, but never eats them.
Was it the wording I used, or do people just assume I'm a vegan, or what?
My cat eats plenty of meat, including fish and chicken/turkey meant for humans. He likes milk too, I guess he's one of the minority that isn't lactose intolerant.
When I say he loves fruit, I meant he likes cat food that is mostly meat, some gravy and some bits of fruit mixed in with it.
All true, but modern pet foods can provide the nutrients without the high meat content. And the other stuff like fruit, gravy and jelly just provide some extra volume and flavour/smell. Keep in mind that modern meat has a lot more nutrients than what those animals would eat in the wild too.
Obviously we want pets to keep eating meat, it's good for them. I was just suggesting that the reason why it's becoming a problem in terms of emissions now could be due to the changing nature of pet diets, which are generally designed to appeal to pet owners as the primary consideration. Maybe they can be designed to be more sustainable and still provide a good diet.
Pets used to eat mostly left-overs from their owner's plates. Then we started producing food specially for them, which is one of the main reasons hat they live about twice as long as they used to.
Having said that, the stuff in cat and dog food tens to be the stuff that humans don't want. Mechanically recovered head meat, the kind of stuff that only KFC would try to feed you out of one of their buckets.
And my cat loves fruit and vegetables. Western cat food seems to be mostly meat, but Japanese cat food has a lot more fruit, vegetables and seafood in it.
A micropayment system would be great, but the transaction cost is always too high. Even with virtual currencies like Bitcoin the transaction fees make very small payments impractical.
Maybe we could pay with work done. Have some kind of client in the browser that mines cryptocurrency for a pool which is distributed to participating sites. Mining only happens when you are browsing participating sites. That has issues though, like what constitutes "browsing" and what crypto coin is easy enough to mine that phones can do it without a big battery life hit and yet people can't GPU mine the hell out of it to get rich.
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I'm not a spokesperson for "the left", so all I can tell you is that I very clearly rejected those things in my post and if you still think I support them... Well, there's nothing I can say to convince you, is there?
The only name given in the memo is Ari Balogh, but in the context of "he responded to this essay by saying it was unacceptable". She isn't saying he is the author of the document. No-one was doxxed.
The animal kingdom is full of counter examples too. Many animals live in herds or packs with a very flat structure, often with no leaders at all. The strongest bird doesn't take point or handle navigate, it's a group effort and they rotate.
It's also interesting that animals often behave very differently in captivity or when raised by other species (it's rare but it happens). That confirms that much of their behaviour is learned, and what genetic components exist can be overridden. Good thing too, as we expect people to resist their most primitive instincts to use violence against others.
Anyway, our intelligence separates us from the animals. We don't want to live like Lord of the Files.
It's worth talking about precisely because people are losing their jobs or facing other consequences.
I just hope the people who designed the bridge I drive over every day didn't think that "engineering is all about cooperation, collaboration, and empathy for both your colleagues and your customers."
I sure hope they did! I am an engineer, electronic and software, and a bit of mechanical stuff. Cooperation and collaboration are key to building a good, reliable product because when they break down is when mistakes happen. The wrong material gets used, the contractor building the thing doesn't understand what is required for structural integrity etc.
That's exactly what happened with the infamous Hyatt Regency walkway.
As for empathy, I find it much easier to deal with other human beings, from explaining complex ideas to them (something essential for engineers) to getting them to do what I want and work well with me if I can understand their mindset and how they view things.
I also found interesting his point about how we feel differently about seeking 50-50 gender representation in manual labor occupations and work related deaths.
That bit just demonstrates that he doesn't understand the issue at all, or is making a deliberate straw man.
The goal is not to force people to become engineers, which he actually suggests is happening at one point. The goal is to help people do the things they want to do.
And as such, it's much easier to do that with attractive jobs in tech than it is for unattractive jobs collecting refuse or caring for the elderly. That doesn't mean there aren't efforts to make it happen (women's participation in construction has been increasing, and in my country there are incentives specifically for males to becomes nurses), and it doesn't mean that the expectation is that by working in one area the effect will spread to others in time.
So at best it's a criticism of not taking on the hardest tasks, or of focusing on the ones that people have personal experience with and where they feel they can help. Neither of which is very compelling.
I read the entire memo (it's linked in the summary) and it doesn't dox anyone. Stop lying.
The idea of equality of outcome is a straw man. You won't find many people defending it, because as you say it's silly and outright harmful.
The issue here boils down to if there is something inherent to being female that makes a person less interested in technology, or if the interest is there but there are other reasons why women don't pursue it as a career as often. The latter isn't all about misogyny either, it's way more complex than that.
The essay actually comes close to realizing it at one point. It mentions that women are often more interested in communication and the social aspects of tech. There is some truth in that, but consider how it applies to men. Are most men in tech because they find compilers and low level OS internals fascinating and manly, or mainly because they want to use those tools to build things? A lot of Google's tools are centred around communication and social interaction, and I imagine 50% of their users are women, so even if you accept this slightly dubious generalization about females it doesn't support the argument that women just aren't interested in tech as much as men.
Poor work-life balance, making poor technical or unethical decisions just to "win", and a winner-takes-all attitude where being anything less than the champion, the alpha-male, is failure and shameful. Those are the toxic ideas about masculinity that many men are rejecting, for the better, because being a man is much more than those things. And more importantly, not being those things isn't not being a man.
The response memo alludes to this.
The encryption would just be upgraded, same as it was with WiFi, SSL and the like.
But the more important point is that it would set the default assumption that every protocol needs to enforce privacy. HTTPS would be the original spec, not HTTP.
They tend to be rather expensive I think.
400 cycles might be fine for some vehicles, if the cost is low enough and they are designed to have the packs swapped periodically. For comparison typical vehicle cells are rated for 3000 cycles, basically means that the car will probably wear out before they do, e.g. 900,000 miles in a Tesla Model S or 450,000 in a Nissan Leaf 30. And of course the rated lifetime is to 80% original capacity which in a 150+ mile range car is still more than adequate for many uses.
These alkaline cells seem suited to stationary systems where they can easily be swapped periodically and space is less of an issue.
The old TV spectrum is extremely valuable because the lower the frequency, the better the radio wave propagation at a given transmission power. That makes it ideal for low power devices like sensor networks, automated meter reading, and portables.
The trade off is that because propagation is good you need to manage it carefully, because one device hogging a frequency blocks other devices in a wide area. For things like sensors and meter reading that's no problem, as they tend to transmit very small amounts of data anyway. A few bytes an hour, or even a month for something like an electricity meter.
Not sure it's a good idea putting it in the hands of a corporation like Microsoft.
I agree with you, condoms so significantly reduce feeling and there is nothing wrong with enjoying that feeling for what it is...
But all that I posted was said in the context of what the GP posted. If you want to enjoy sex but also don't want pregnancy or STDs then you can either use a condom or find some other method to avoid those things, such as finding someone you trust to do it with or doing stuff other than just penetration to heighten the enjoyment.
What you can't do is what this person wants, which is to have responsibility free sex and walk away from any offspring that might be produced because you think abortions are no big deal or that fertility is the sole responsibility of the woman. If they really cared about the foetus they would not want one parent to be able to abandon it before it was even born.
This idea is from the red pill camp, who basically want to go back to the 1950s.
Meh, Emacs had a daemon decades ago, and a built-in OS.
Wait... Could we use Emacs as an init system too? It's got a heavyweight scripting system and even a half way usable editor.
The real issue with LastPass is that it runs in a browser. The most common way of using it is a browser add-on, and it's been found vulnerable in the past.
Much better to have a separate app and copy/paste. Javascript is not secure.
Also, KeePass is free and you can sync the database via your own server or any number of free services.
I found that getting a properly fitting condom made a huge difference. The "standard" ones are too small, too tight. I'm not bragging or anything, I think they just make them that way so that they work reliably for everyone.
You can measure yourself and then order ones to that exact size from several places online now.
Even with the right fit it's still not as nice as without, but it's much much better than the generic size ones for me, back when I used that method of contraception.
Ignoring your poor understanding of the biology of human reproduction, your argument for so-called "male abortion" where the father refuses to accept responsibility for the child before it is born is flawed.
Your comment about condoms gives your mindset away. You want the pleasurable experience of unprotected sex, without any of the responsibility. Of course you can't really avoid all the risks with unprotected sex, even if she doesn't get pregnant you can still get STDs, but basically you are arguing that you don't want to use contraception because it reduces your physical pleasure and so wish to have an exemption from the potential consequences.
Rather than demanding that women be expected to undergo medical procedures on your behalf, why not get one yourself and have a vasectomy? They are reversible or you could freeze some sperm if you want kids later. You could also use the rhythm method, assuming you aren't going to insist on having sex with random people you barely know... But then again, if you think sex is "ruined" by slightly reduced feeling, it seems like forming relationships or enjoying all the other parts of sex aside from penetration is not high on your priority list.
By the way, women make up 51.5% of the US population, not 60% (source: last US census). between the ages of 15 and 65 it's dead even. And as for voting, back when these rules were introduced in the US, the 1950s through to the 1980s, men voted in greater numbers than women.
Was going to post this, and just want to add that EVs only regen if their batteries are not at full charge. Some have a feature that lets to limit charging to 80 or 90%, which means regen works from the moment you set off.
I'm not sure why you and a few other people thought I'm not feeding my cat meat. I eat meat, my cat eats mostly meat with vegetables and fruit mixed in. Just little chunks. It's proper cat food, out of a tin.
He catches birds and mice sometimes, but never eats them.
Was it the wording I used, or do people just assume I'm a vegan, or what?
Most cats like milk but can't tolerate much lactose, so can't drink much. You can get "cat milk" with reduced lactose.
My cat eats plenty of meat, including fish and chicken/turkey meant for humans. He likes milk too, I guess he's one of the minority that isn't lactose intolerant.
When I say he loves fruit, I meant he likes cat food that is mostly meat, some gravy and some bits of fruit mixed in with it.
All true, but modern pet foods can provide the nutrients without the high meat content. And the other stuff like fruit, gravy and jelly just provide some extra volume and flavour/smell. Keep in mind that modern meat has a lot more nutrients than what those animals would eat in the wild too.
Obviously we want pets to keep eating meat, it's good for them. I was just suggesting that the reason why it's becoming a problem in terms of emissions now could be due to the changing nature of pet diets, which are generally designed to appeal to pet owners as the primary consideration. Maybe they can be designed to be more sustainable and still provide a good diet.
Pets used to eat mostly left-overs from their owner's plates. Then we started producing food specially for them, which is one of the main reasons hat they live about twice as long as they used to.
Having said that, the stuff in cat and dog food tens to be the stuff that humans don't want. Mechanically recovered head meat, the kind of stuff that only KFC would try to feed you out of one of their buckets.
And my cat loves fruit and vegetables. Western cat food seems to be mostly meat, but Japanese cat food has a lot more fruit, vegetables and seafood in it.
The fake news paddlers have created an entire network of fake news sites that they can point to as "alternative sources" to provide "balance".
A micropayment system would be great, but the transaction cost is always too high. Even with virtual currencies like Bitcoin the transaction fees make very small payments impractical.
Maybe we could pay with work done. Have some kind of client in the browser that mines cryptocurrency for a pool which is distributed to participating sites. Mining only happens when you are browsing participating sites. That has issues though, like what constitutes "browsing" and what crypto coin is easy enough to mine that phones can do it without a big battery life hit and yet people can't GPU mine the hell out of it to get rich.