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Even if we accept your statement as 100% universal truth, there is still the question whether we want our government collecting information about adults vising these sites.

I don't want the government snooping on my porn habits (and probably leaking them, given past government system breaches).

How will that help? Sounds like a behavioral issue that requires correction, not a punitive response. If every rude student got expelled, there wouldn't be many left in school.

Why is that so? Aren't the passwords encrypted?

If you're affluent enough to mitigate the negative effects of no zoning, sure -- i.e., able to afford different housing if needed.

If you lack that financial security, you may be stuck next to all sorts of undesirable properties, like a busy 24-hour shopping center. I saw that sort of thing frequently in Texas.

Of course, poor people get less desirable properties even in cities with zoning. But zoning does discourage some of the more haphazard "jigsaw puzzle" construction where residential buildings frequently abut busy non-residential parcels.

> I don’t believe Joe is a criminal, but my personal opinions about his guilt don’t matter.

Then why bring it up?

> My analysis will treat this as an accident.

Isn't the point of an analysis to determine what happened? Not to start with a preconceived idea and make the analysis fit that?

It's hard to trust a source repeatedly claiming to be neutral after spending the first few paragraphs espousing their biases.

The byproducts of cannabis combustion are certainly not healthy, but the saving grace is that even the heaviest weed smokers inhale far less smoke than cigarette smokers.

And unlike tobacco, safer alternatives exist -- vaping doesn't require combustion, and edibles obviously carry no risk from inhalation.

Not to be a downer, but that sounds nothing like Jay Z. He's not known as a simile rapper ("X like Y"). It's more what your uncle who only listens to country music thinks Jay Z sounds like.

It's still impressive in some ways, but the style transfer aspect didn't work great here.

The BBC has an article that explains:

> The team has not yet issued a full translation, which they are saving for an academic paper.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63757443

I know you're not making those statements in good faith, but I'll still push back against the absurd generalizations. Of the top 20 biggest cities in America, what you said only applies to a couple of them at most.

Of course, crime, housing costs and traffic (caused in large part by bad urban design) are real issues in American cities to varying degrees. But it's not as if all cities are lawless slums without any way to move about.

Maybe if you don't leave a paper trail. If you use a written medium to communicate failure, there is a good chance that will be exposed during discovery in a lawsuit, and now the plaintiffs can show that not only was there a problem, but that employees were aware of the problem and did not fix it.

The news article practically writes itself. "Despite repeated claims that all ice had been cleared, internal documents show multiple employees were aware that only 99% had been cleared. These emails show considerable concern about the remaining 1% of ice, but no further action was ever taken by the company to rectify the dangerous situation."

Sounds like you're describing RT America, which operated unimpeded until fiscal realities forced it to withdraw from the country. Was it a scummy network? Yes. Was it protected by 1A? Also yes.

Where's the hysteria?

Stating that lead pipes are relatively widespread isn't hysteric. In most cases, lead pipes are harmless, although if the chemical composition of the water changes, that can lead to dangerous lead leaching (see Flint, MI).

Don't put words in my mouth. I didn't say anything about fixing human endeavor. I am only asking what alternative explanation you offer for the demographic discrepancy, if not structural inequality.

As for measuring the demographics, well, this is a US-centric article, so the Census would be a good place to start. Or Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_Sta...

Non-Hispanic whites make up about 57% of the US population. Roughly half of those are males, or around 29%.

Now we return to the question at hand: why do white men make up a very high % of puzzle setters, despite being only ~30% of the population?

Yes, much better to blindly believe an anecdote that contradicts known food science.

> The "proof" for structural inequality was that crossword puzzle authors are mostly white men.

If structural inequality is not to blame, how do you explain the discrepancy between the demographics of puzzle setters and the public at large, then?

> So while it's not false to say that "Lead pipes are still used in every US state" it's also not provably true. Right?

All you'd need to do to prove the statement is find one in-service lead pipe in each state. Not exactly a high bar. Not sure what the point of nitpicking this is?

> It sounds like they don't know what they want.

In my experience, including at companies I've worked at, that's the case more often than not. Every department is perpetually short of employees, so the hope is to hire anyone halfway competent and figure out their real responsibilities later.

I suspect employers are more interested in attracting talent by _appearing_ to pay highly than by actually doing so.

While I am supportive of this, I expect a lot (majority?) of listings with ranges like "$40k-200k based on experience". (Or the example from the article, "$17-50/hr")

How does this opinion contribute positively to the discussion at hand? It feels like an excuse to just shoehorn in your hot take.

Yep, that seems like the sales pitch: 5% more profit, plus absolve yourself from any potential guilt caused by your actions!

You aren't contributing to an affordability crisis -- you're simply keeping up with market changes. You aren't choosing to nickel and dime people for all they're worth -- you're taking the recommendation of a sophisticated algorithm. You aren't enriching yourself at the expense of those less fortunate -- you're just getting the most out of your investment.

I'm being a little cynical here, but then owning rental property has been a cynic's game since time immemorial.

It also matters what type of conversation is being had.

I'm more of a waiter than interrupter, who lives with a strong interrupter. If we're having a debate or discussing the newest silly thing in the news or whatever, it's not a big deal -- the topic was never _that_ important that I care about getting interrupted.

However, I find it very rude and annoying to get interrupted while telling a story. Like, event XYZ happened on the drive home, or something that happened with others in our mutual friend group. It's only going to take a minute or two for me to tell the whole story, but 15 seconds in it's been hijacked and the interrupter is off on their own tangent.

I must be missing some context, then. It's unclear to me how pseudocode would be used in e-voting?

> You would need to go over n primes and check them, but you might always finish too early.

I mean sure, but it's pretty simple to at least enumerate the primes < 100 and test those...

I'm a product of one of the shittiest public schools in my state. While I attended, they were forced by the state to convert to an "international baccalaureate" school because the alternative was closing.

I say that because yet, among my peers from that school, I count engineers, astrophysicists, doctors, IT workers, psychologists, pilots, and more.

So I would vigorously argue against the idea that students who attend underfunded public schools are at a disadvantage for life.

The biggest impact I noticed is home life and the involvement of parents. If you are a parent who cares and pushes your child, that is worth way more than the quality of the school as assigned by some ranking system.

Additionally, my exposure to a rough-and-tumble school with people of varying backgrounds (i.e., not a single socioeconomic stratum) gave me empathy and social skills that are extremely useful in everyday life.

I'm not saying your choices are wrong, but I strongly disagree with the premise that a less-than-ideal public school leads to lifelong negative consequences.

Can someone explain how such a simple and easily-testable bug existed in a seemingly-important system like this?

I don't know much about Swiss e-voting, but seems even the most brain-dead unit test of the IsProbablePrime function should have caught this.

> School must get paid for.

You pay for it with your taxes. It's a lifestyle choice if you want to send your kids to a private institution when public school is already covered.

I hope that doesn't come across as rude, because that's not my intention. But private school is not some necessity of life that you're forced to pay for -- definitely not "literally impossible" to survive without.

Ugh, can we please stop with these damaging stereotypes about bi people?

There are plenty of acceptable ways to be bisexual, and while some people might fit the boxes you described, there are lots who don't.

These antiquated views are a large part of why, as a bisexual man, I mostly keep that to myself. Coming out is a big deal with a significant amount of associated emotional stress, doubly so when others try to rationalize how you're not a "real" bisexual ("you've only dated women, how can you be bi!?" or "oh you just like fooling around with dudes, you're not really bi" etc).

I can't relate. I quickly tire of the filler ("B matter", according to the article) in American news stories, and appreciate the simplified nature of Axios-like sites.

I'm not saying I _exclusively_ want hyper-condensed news -- long-form reporting still has its place. But for the basic day-to-day news, yeah, I welcome the brevity.

> Ranked choice voting is like the current tax code, full of exceptions and rules for the elite to manipulate while the common person gets boned.

Really? Which rules and exceptions are you referring to?