Trombone12

There is still civil war in Libya, it barely gets any mentioning so I don't know how much less the killings are.

Furthermore, non-intervention only meant no actual American troops in Syria, not staying out of the conflict: the US has funded, armed and trained much of the opposition from the start of the conflict, and US made and supplied anti-tank weapons are prominent in the rebels ability to counter the armoured forces of the Syrian army.

Well, it's weird to call the foreign policy decisions of bordering nations "naturally arising". They are quite obviously very different consequences compared to pollution or traffic jams following heavy car subsidies.

No, daylight saving is the perfect example of someone's opinion forced upon us.

There is a general case to be made for regulating toxic substances and the examples given are of people arguing over if particular substances really are toxic enough.

No, not at all. People started following Fidel during a US supported dictatorship, which is quite distinct from the situation in which people started following Trump.

A yes, one bucket holds all evil, and the bool is the only integer the honest man needs, that's your position I take it?

For a second I though you where talking about the renditions to Guantanamo, but no, of course that is different.

There is still substantial reasons to be quick about it when you are out in public if you are gay, with exception for a few small geographical areas.

There is still one icq contact occasionally online for me! And I think I talked to a friend using icq less than three years ago ;)

Though with all the closing of networks these last years I sometimes neglect starting pidgin at all since I'll need some tabs open fore messaging regardless :(

The comparison is between a model and a software implementation, not with a model of the software. The point being that there are tools for helping with the implementation but not with the model.

Also, evolution selects for robust code.

How is it similar? The tax Vancouver is introducing applies if the house is empty, and the tax you describe is concerned with differentially taxing non-empty houses.

Seems like an important and expected increase in capability. Bit late though, original plan seems to have been 2014: https://www.iter.org/newsline/-/1916

Weird, as far as I can tell this result was essentially achieved in February; at least that's when the register reported on it: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/02/06/china_shows_how_fusi...

EAST seems to be connected to ITER, and is testing confinement methods like those planned for ITER. Here is an ITER press release about EAST hitting that 32 s H-mode confinement: https://www.iter.org/newsline/291/1783

And here is a later article about EAST receiving an upgrade and shooting for those 100 seconds in 2014: https://www.iter.org/newsline/-/1916

I didn't know you could charge over wireless! That's really cool!

This is the fourth instalment of the series, so these weren't the first question asked to the engineers.

But yes, a lot of comments have been from people not seeing the reference to the earlier parts in the beginning of the post, or seen the earlier threads on HN, and reacting like you.

Eh, the fact that historians have revised downwards how nasty the early middle ages were as they've learnt more about it does not mean the label "dark ages" has lost its utility. For one it does somewhat convey the decline in trade and population in a way "early middle ages" does not, which is useful when exemplifying periods of decay in history for a popular audience.

Could you edit the posts so its easier to navigate the series? Currently one has to search HN to find posts other than the first one.

This is the fourth instalment of the series, the first question answered was actually:

"On a typical day, how conscious are you of being a female engineer and can you tell us about the ways in which you feel (or are made to feel) this way?"

Honestly I upvote this simply because women get asked and can reply uninterrupted, I don't actually care all that much about what they say just that they have been given the space to say it (as none of these engineers are the one I married).

Wow, that your comment got downvotes is baffling! Well, not really. But it should be!

I certainly agree with you, its really weird that people think its wrong to ask women for their opinion. Maybe they just had a really bad experience on a date when they asked what she wanted to eat? (badom-tsh!)

Going along on that tangent, who here has a male spouse that has a really hard time deciding what to eat? (I know enough examples in the other direction, thank you for asking. You are of course welcome to come with examples outside the binay, the more diverse the merrier)

I don't think that restriction changes anything beyond making it easier for women to appear to be manly enough, and that the instances of a user being discovered to be female are lower than the actual prevalence of females among the users.

My points where general statements, applying equally to the wider culture in IT and to the specific subset tied to HN.

I don't know, I think there are two issues: first the field is very masculine, that a participant is male is the standard and rarely incorrect assumption that permeates almost every aspect of IT development. So an average woman must adjust herself in a more masculine direction to fit in.

Secondly, many men absolutely treat women "worse" than men purely because of their gender (sometimes they even think they are being accommodating to the real differences that exist).

Man it feels weird reading 3), its not often I come across a text that is so coarsely generalizing about me solely on the basis of my gender. I frequently see people complain about how they feel uncomfortable with generalizing descriptions about them, and you gave me a glimpse of that experience!

Though thinking about it, I've seen that sort of blunt, obtuse language about "how men think" before, it just didn't occur to me that the "men" being refereed to was intended to include me!

Of course, since I don't identify with the behaviour described (or indeed think many non-assholes would), I rather confidently exclude myself from the set of "men" being refereed to.

In any case, here's to the idea that men tend to treat women differently from men will one day not be such a contentious issue!

Try reading the rest of the comment, you'll see that your questions are answered with "People will still form relationships, they just won't talk about it and things will be much worse than if they had."

Because not everyone is poor yet, and rent is among the last things you can save on.

Lets be honest: memes aren't high quality content when compared to the types of free content available on the net.

4chan has spawned a lot of memes because it was one of the earliest places people appreciated that sort of low-effort anyone-could-do-it content, but to say it drives high quality content is to decry any competently drawn stick figure as bourgeois.

On the other hand there is a limit on the amount of Oil we can take up per the not-doom-the-world requirement, and current known reserves surpass this limit meaning that its better to sell now before you don't get to sell at all.

I guess a deeper problem than homeless people being "scary" is that they remind the engineers that all their work driving ad impressions doesn't really improve the world.

yeah, phys.org as a source always make me slightly suspicious, clocking in at about the level of a university press release in terms of trustworthyness.

NASA's own press release at least specifies how unusual this event is, and the answer is "a bit less unusual than new years"

Of course, you can't have very much social mobility in high income variance countries anyway if you want to preserve those precious income inequalities.

Well, I think the problems with interpreting fMRI scans have been at least vaguely known since that time a dead salmon activated its neurons when asked to judge the of a person from a photo, this was in 2009.

http://www.wired.com/2009/09/fmrisalmon/