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Upside is that the queues are usually much shorter and you do not waste as much time waiting in line. Also, as noted in another comment, it may lead to lower prices.

Environment vs genetics is a minefield for anyone who tries to be objective. Just say that differences are in 99% shaped by environment and you are fine and safe for today. However a lie is good for a short time, but really bad for a long term. Especially if it becomes a base for, let's say, a national policy.

Also, saying it is mostly environment makes individuals blame others for their own failures - "I am perfect, the environment is wrong and has to change".

A sad thing is that scientists that study this question get publicly destroyed.

"Every year, American cities and states spend up to $90 billion in tax breaks (...)" Is reducing taxes really equivalent to spending? I do not think so.

The ultimate diversity is individuality. Stop looking at sex, age and skin color and start looking at the competence alone.

The table does not include the "green" domains by default, you have to select it.

I respect him for standing behind his long-time friend. And I am scared of people that react to it as if they were fighting for their lives.

Then how do the banks profit from deposits, if they can't use them for lending?

But is there a "rape culture"? I mean there are criminals that commit rape. But what are the reasons to call it a culture. As far as I know, the rape, at least in the western world, is perceived as a terrible thing and is punished by law.

No, that is not what I meant. I meant that the biological parents should be financially responsible for their child by default. If someone wants to voluntarily take over the responsibility it is fine. But the state should not force you to sponsor someone else biological child as if it was yours. It has nothing to do with funding poor and orphaned children through general taxes, this is a wholly different situation and by the way I'm in favor of that.

I doubt that "for some people the best way to handle their trauma is to never speak of it and pretend it never happened" is actually true. I would like to see some study that proves that.

Otherwise you just empower the rapists for no justifiable reason.

And even if there is some personal net benefit for not telling anyone. Is it more important than saving others from potentially the same harm?

No. If one was raped it should be reported and the perpetrator should be prosecuted. You cannot let these people go unpunished and potentially rape others.

That's terribly oppressive. Honestly no one should be forced to directly support other person child. It must be a voluntary process to be just. The biological parents should be financially responsible by default. It seems obvious to me.

A good lecture that regards IQ:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSo5v5t4OQM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjs2gPa5sD0

> This is why I dislike Damore. I don't care what his manifesto says ... Playing games is pathetic, dude.

Well, according to his statement he was a top performer at Google, so we can assume he was not afraid of being replaced by a woman. Besides he just started a discussion in a response to, according to him, shady moves in regards of equality performed by Google.

It is worth to listen to the other side: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEDuVF7kiPU

It is difficult for American workers to compete with Chinese or Indian people wages. The good thing is that the global inequality is declining.[0] My guess is that when the incomes in low-wage exporter countries get closer to the developed countries, then we may see a wage increase again.

[0] - https://ourworldindata.org/global-economic-inequality

They will not allow that, if that would result in Germans buying less German cars.

>It's like code expecting rectangles wouldn't mind to get squares, but a code expecting squares will definitely do mind getting rectangles.

It is actually not that obvious since in OOP neither a square or a rectangle type is properly a subtype of the other. [0]

I understand how implementation-wise it could be convenient to treat a function as a closure. Although, I would prefer some other type, eg:

    functoid := closure | function

[0] - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1030521/is-deriving-squa...

I do not think it is useful to interpret it as 0 or more. To me it only make sense to assume 1 or more. Otherwise you could say that the programming language that do not support closing variables, has nonetheless closures, as according to that notion every function is a closure that closes nothing.

>A named lambda is still a lambda.

Most commonly a lambda is regarded as an anonymous function. [0] If you name it, it is no longer anonymous.

[0] - https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/1307...

It depends on your definition of the closure. Example: "A closure is the combination of a function and the lexical environment within which that function was declared." [0]

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/JavaScript/Closure...

Thank you, that is correct. I can't delete/change it now though.

According to your technique "mud riddle" should map to 314115. There're two d's. Anyway, the method seems interesting.

I wonder, assuming the computation was instantaneous, how effective it would be for compression.

I once came across "Public Speaking Pro Tips" video series by Google https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkFbmJSyuKk&list=PLOU2XLYxms...

There is a certain flaw in your reasoning - just because Trump said it, it does not make it true. Besides the article is not about fake news. It discusses constant press attacks on Trump and his subsequent counter-attacks in the context of their own benefits.

> ... starts to noticeably flicker annoyingly

It's generally easy to solve problem with activating/implementing double buffering https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_buffering#Double_buff...

I'm curious - why the new identity was needed? And what benefits can it bring? Currently I lean towards the opinion that it's just a mismanagement (especially looking at the final effect). I hope it's not true, because we really need a healthy, independent and privacy concious organization that provides a trustworthy browser.

I don't think that studing chemistry (I like to think about alchemy as a precursor of chemistry) or theology should be stigmatized. I understand that it was just an example to support the core idea of the article, but it still leaves a bad taste.

It's not a surprise as a PC usability-span gets longer the rate of replacement gets lower.

"Promises to restore the databases in return for a ransom payment are dubious, since there's no evidence the attackers copied the data before deleting it."

I guess the high risk of getting nothing in return is affecting the pricing.