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I'm glad I'm not the only person who rolled my eyes at this (and in my case, decided there were other things I could be doing with my browser). Perhaps it's good communication in that it signaled to me that what followed wouldn't be from a perspective that would resonate with me.

I love fermented things on the whole, seriously (including e.g. pickled herring) but despite being outside and having the can opened underwater at a progressive dinner party, the smell was god-awful and the little bits that got on our clothes and skin were following us all through the other places we went. Just couldn't seem to get it off. As a lover of strong cheeses as well I have simply never had anything remotely comparable. We ate with cream and crackers and dill and washed down with aquavit which was necessary to attempt to get the taste out of the mouth.

I wholeheartedly agree with this wikipedia quote: >German food critic and author Wolfgang Fassbender wrote that "the biggest challenge when eating surströmming is to vomit only after the first bite, as opposed to before".

For the record I did have a friend who thought it tasted pleasanter than it smelled, so clearly as with everything people have experience.

But the joke we were told was "In Sweden this is how you let your neighbors know you are having a party before telephones" -- because the smell will travel through the whole neighborhood.

The hosts of this party had also left the can in the basement for a year+ as intended. Perhaps that heightens the effect.

The most interesting suggestion I read about this was: > With the rescuers, doctors and other staff likely to enter the cave, rescuers could open scuba tanks to ensure they had all enough oxygen. “It will create air pressure and the carbon dioxide will filter out through the rock,” Wolf said. https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2018/jul/02/thailand-...

Fantastic resource.

My jaw definitely unclenched seeing that Pinker was not on this list.

+1000 for Kate Bowler, every interview she's done, and her podcast "Everything Happens". https://katebowler.com/everything-happens/

The profound intimacy (not without its joy or laughter, but full of brutal honesty and shocking maturity) that comes from living with incurable cancer and bringing other people into it is truly something apart from the everyday. Though it probably shouldn't be.

She is really a scholar of the human condition (in addition to her profession of religious scholarship-- see her work on the prosperity gospel, really) and her insight is amazing. This is not a "typical" anything.

I cannot let this topic go by without recommending this fantastic interview with an artist who created a model of David Bowie's early-career teeth: http://w.dental-tribune.com/articles/news/europe/21686_inter...

This really makes me want to fire up the BASIC cartridge for my Atari 400.

Self-hosted could be nice, though I don't see any other advantages (aesthetic or otherwise) that this offers over Bear (http://www.bear-writer.com/) - though I assume Bear only appeals to markdown users. Also would be good to have an opened note screenshot on the Umbrella site...

Thanks for linking this. The community response is quite something.

"Even the short amount of time I wrote Eve taught me that programming doesn't need to be so complex.

If Eve didn't come along I wouldn't have believed you could program without loops.

If Eve didn't come along I wouldn't have thought twice about why all of the different layers of the stack communicated and passed data around in different ways.

If Eve didn't come along I wouldn't have believed you could just programming the happy case, because the runtime would run only the blocks of code that work with your state.

Rest assured that rethinking and reimagining programming has a bigger movement now than when you started and you helped drive it.

Ruben" (https://groups.google.com/d/msg/eve-talk/YFguOGkNrBo/r_S9hNc...)

We're not doing enough to understand the environmental factors in a trend like this. As fashionable as it is for each generation to shit on the next, "will power" is clearly not explanatory for a shift of this magnitude.

I have to wonder if our sedentary lifestyle, processed foods (with additives examined under an ignorant lens), stress (income inequality, constant stimulation, glowing objects being the center of our lives), are wrecking our microbiomes and other broader systems from a VERY young age, or causing other systems-level changes that make it hard to correct with behavior changes in adulthood.

Because ultimately, even when people get educated, get active, eat better, etc -- the trends aren't reversing.

There will never be a point at which there is nothing left to invent or discover; it will be preempted by a point at which humanity is no longer around to invent or discover anything.

> The human body is so complex. We can try to gather some knowledge by means of experiments, models and statistical data, but we must realize that the scientific method is a human endeavour and is therefore imperfect by definition. Being a scientist (I study cosmology), I feel deeply embarrassed whenever I hear people professing their irreducible faith in «science».

Hear, hear! And 'faith' in this case is indeed the right term... I have a similar reaction to those who are convinced there is a bright line between 'hard' and 'soft' sciences. Strictly speaking, you can never accumulate all the evidence.

Absent public service loan forgiveness (which we may very well soon be, if Republicans in Congress get their way), the number is actually 30 years and the forgiven amount is taxable income. Additionally, income-based plans often result in payments that don't even cover interest, so the debt continues to pile up quickly. Meaningfully different from the original suggestion.

Pebble definitely does. 1 year into being orphaned, mine is functioning quite well with the exception of the Misfit app being flaky and now-unsupported. And the rebble community makes the future look more promising: https://rebble.io/

It's unfortunate to see laptops conflated with "all electronics" here. I benefitted greatly from using SoundNote on an iPad in grad school, which allowed me to make recordings of lectures that I could then annotate in real time. Rather than taking a transcript or feeling I had to record all key concepts, I could stick to noting where in the lecture was an especially important concept, or where I had spaced out and should re-listen. More valuable than any written notes I could have taken.

When I give feedback on something important in the technology, I have to repeat myself, repeat myself, wait a week while you "think about it," and then finally have a male co-worker go over it with you so you can, in a 5 minutes' conversation, decide you agree ...

Thanks for posting this.

Women don't have a choice as to whether we participate. It comes up everywhere. It comes up in our workplaces, and as the minority group in conversation, we have to be there to contradict the people who take it as justification for the (evidence-based) unlevel playing field in tech, sexism etc, and we will be the ones affected if we don't ensure that our colleagues and people we respect don't go therefore shrug and decide that everyone thinks that way.

This is exactly it. Women in spaces (virtual, in-person, in their workplaces) are being forced into this conversation to defend ourselves, because this "bomb" was dropped/leaked, outside of all relevant context, and now hype and focusing illusions have made it our job to make evolutionary psych-based arguments against it. I don't know what Damore's intent was, but the effect was to put people who disagreed with him, and especially women who disagreed with him, at an immediate disadvantage, rather than to reach out to them for the sake of a conversation.

Right on the nose. And in fact, the proportion of women in computer science was tracking with other sciences until the mid-eighties, when it started to dive, while women's representation in other sciences continued to climb. One of the more glaringly inconsistent observations with Damore's claims. http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/10/21/357629765/when-...

I mean, how nice for you? This article seems to be very much about how there isn't a problem for people like the OP, because people who don't feel they benefit from all-women's tech groups are perfectly free not to go to them.

I attend both all-women(/trans/femme) tech meetups and broader meetups. I get different benefits from each. I don't think anyone advocates for a world in which women in tech don't ever have to associate with anyone else, and most of us work in male-dominated spaces to start with, so it seems a little nonsensical to posit some sort of hyper-separation/man-avoidance or victimization in woman-run groups (many of whom run events that are not woman-only as well).

I find it productive to have spaces where the express goal is to uplift women in tech and to center issues in tech specific to women. The support and comfort level in these groups is often fantastic.

When men at other meetups stop asking questions like "oh, a women's python group? Can I come? I'm into that kind of woman" then let's talk about how we are in some sort of a world where tech groups for women are somehow counterproductive.

This is a fine analysis if you imagine that every road only ever has cars on it. But this is not the reality, and speed of cars has a huge impact on the fatality rates of vulnerable road users when they are hit.

Results show that the average risk of severe injury for a pedestrian struck by a vehicle reaches 10% at an impact speed of 16 mph, 25% at 23 mph, 50% at 31 mph, 75% at 39 mph, and 90% at 46 mph. The average risk of death for a pedestrian reaches 10% at an impact speed of 23 mph, 25% at 32 mph, 50% at 42 mph, 75% at 50 mph, and 90% at 58 mph. Risks vary significantly by age. For example, the average risk of severe injury or death for a 70‐year‐old pedestrian struck by a car travelling at 25 mph is similar to the risk for a 30‐year‐old pedestrian struck at 35 mph. https://www.aaafoundation.org/sites/default/files/2011Pedest...

Please think of everyone on the roads, not just drivers, when making arguments like these.

As a once frequent Farecast user I was initially excited about this, but realized that for the most part airfarewatchdog has completely replaced this use case in my life.