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I am interested in the question you pose though - about the social utility of the medallion system. Perhaps there's some benefit in keeping the number of cabs limited in order to keep the roads emptier and thus more usable?
* Palantir sued for not hiring enough Asians [0]
* Google sued for not turning over compensation data [1]
* Oracle sued for hiring too many Asians
While it's possible that discriminatory processes have happened at all these places, it seems these lawsuits can be targeted at whoever one wishes. It's always going to be possible to find data that indicates discrimination, unless companies hire in exact quotas (which would also be discriminatory really).
[0]: http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2016/09/26/palantir-...
[1]: http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2017/01/04/google-su...
It seems that the article is stating that one's attachment system is developed primarily in their first year of life? If attachment theory is true, I would've guessed that the first ten or twelve years of life would all contribute.
> [many people] are insecurely attached because their early experiences were suboptimal (their caregivers were distracted, overbearing, dismissive, unreliable, absent or perhaps threatening)...
If the first year is the formative year for one's attachment disposition, the meaning of "overbearing" is much different than say, it would be for a ten year old or early teenager. I'm curious what period of life these studies were looking at.
It's a shame really! A high speed track between Pittsburgh and Harrisburg would really improve accessibility for the city and be well used I think. I know there's been some talk of it, but no real progress made.
I've played skee ball at a couple places where it really is a "pure", fair, game and it's a bunch of fun. I can imagine less ethical places doing the things you've suggested, though I've never seen it myself.
In your command queue pattern, what sort of ways do you handle this? Have certain "chokepoints" where the user must be online to proceed? What if you have an app where that sort of chokepoint seems to occur too frequently to make the queue useful?
Edit: I think this is similar to Fiahil's sibling comment, also relevant points made there. Thanks for the quality thoughts everyone!
Trying to read the generated article gave me a very similar feeling compared to the feeling I get when trying to read an article that's much too difficult for me. I read a sentence or two and try to grasp at the meaning of the sentences and how they relate to each other. I reread these words a few times, and eventually draw out a little bit of understanding and move on to the next sentences.
In this case with the generated text though, eventually my mind concludes that it's all nonsense and gives up on finding any meaning. With a real text, hopefully, I'd derive more meaning little by little as I struggled on.
What's interesting to me here is that a nonsensical text can produce the same "in over my head" feeling as a highly intellectual and difficult text. It seems to imply that we could be fooling ourselves when reading difficult texts - perhaps a text is all nonsense, or perhaps it's brilliant, but we have little way to tell.
As far as I can tell, that's what's going on here: websites want to broadcast the "play-by-play" of the chess game, but not the actual game footage. Now, the play-by-play for a chess game is more important than the play-by-play for a hockey game, so I can see why the organizers of the chess tournament aren't happy, but I think the correct decision was made here.
My point here isn't to start an argument (clearly the definition of "sucking at driving" is relative), but just pointing out that I'm fascinated that our roads work as well as they do, all things considered.
These batched state updates only happen "within React's walls", right?
So for example, say you had an RxJs observable that omitted a list of items to display. When you first subscribe, it emits say, ten items, one by one, but all in the same browser tick. It may emit items later in the future as well.
In this case, each of the initial emitted items triggers a full rerender and you get the O(N^2) behavior, correct? My point here isn't that this is the end of the world, but just that it isn't that crazy to say that it might happen.
Of course, this was possible in various ways before expanding TLDs, but I think the problem, and thus the ease of phishing, is greater now.
[0]: https://github.com/reactjs/redux/issues/891#issuecomment-158...
Also notable though, is that it seems that much of this is about increasing TSA intelligence / data analysis:
The new bill “addresses gaps in TSA’s approach to assessing security risks and will help the agency better fulfill its role as a hub of analysis, planning, and information...”
Edit: To anyone who downvoted this: you're perfectly welcome to disagree or even adamantly disagree with me - but it's much more productive to explain why you disagree than downvote. I'm genuinely curious to hear an argument that consumers should have a legal right to view FB without ads.
It would be interesting to know how this law is really enforced - it could range from legitimate and fair to very authoritarian.
(Note: I've heard the laws in the UAE can be strict, but I have no idea if this is factual.)
> We believe that Stack Overflow should not just be a resource for very specific technical questions, but also for general guidelines on how to solve variations on common problems.
SO is a great website, but I wonder how much more it could've been if this sort of a page was allowed now.
Perhaps it's not the popular opinion, but in a lot of cases I agree with you. Watching over every penny meticulously can become a much too consuming habit that produces little net positive result. It's easy (at least for me) to get caught up in trying to never waste money, and it's really not worth it.
[0]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/05/27/...