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Honestly, funding a research team to develop a science ranking engine that was both being continually developed to thwart gaming and effectively independent of university and science-funding politics would be a truly excellent use of YCombinator's money.

Stop giving them ideas.

But this article is straightforward isolationism, a very old current in American political thought. The implied answer to your question is, 'So what? America is safe, that's all that matters'.

I am tired of terribly slow mobile sites. A demo of the difference would help.

"Violation of the intellectual property and impersonation or deceptive behavior provisions of the Content Policy"

How is that an acceptable removal notice? What intellectual property or deceptive behavior does it refer to?

This looks like it would be insanely difficult to park. Plus, there's nowhere to put your feet, though that's easily remedied.

Moon Festival is not a lantern festival! Lantern Festival is not a harvest festival!

This is my take away from glancing at the box. The adjectives that come floating up in my brain after seeing it are 'dumb', and 'did not do the homework'.

Reading the article doesn't help, since he is aware of this and somehow just papers it away. (No, Ghost Festival is not Lantern Festival either, just like gifts do not make Halloween into Christmas Pt. 2, the Fattening).

Is this what UX designers are always like?

Your point is very well taken. The choice of whose community values to use is an important one. If your goal is to try and exclude some actually popular but perhaps embarrassing opinions, then you are likely to need to incorporate some of the values of other communities where this sort of speech would be filtered.

Applying r/SRS standards to r/RedPill would be an extreme example of this, and a good thought experiment. Could you model what kind of karma score a RedPill post would get on SRS? How would it change what a discussion page looked like?

She didn't identify the other women whose stories she told. It's an assumption that they're all writers.

I think you're reading too much into her tone. The key point is that no skin is thick enough to shrug off this treatment, and it's common for various unidentified women and one identified one in the industry to receive it from the general public. Do you think that's true, or not?

My point is that a comment filtering system is consciously based on the identification and exclusion of a group, which we'll call the out group. Of course it's limits will be debatable, just as the definition of spam is debatable.

If what you're excluding is political speech of a sort, then someone is going to be able to accuse the system of censorship, no matter where the line is drawn. It's inherent in the system's goals.

Personally, I think that's a point where any system is going to be rightfully challenged and examined critically, but I think it's still worth doing on a greater good basis. Spam filtering works, it makes my inbox a more tolerable place. It's a good idea to extend it to other types of crappy speech that makes other peoples' lives worse.

It seems likely, but the whole point of censoring extreme comments is to make those commenters an out group. Comment filtering would have edge cases, just like spam and porn filtering does. Do the dangers outweigh the value of pushing people who speak like this into an out group?

That's not what she said. She described a number of situations. None of them involved coworkers at all. Where are you getting this from?

How are you (or all of us men) being demonized? She describes a few things she and other people have gone through. She says she doesn't feel safe. She asking people not to tell her to have a thicker skin. That's the article, more or less. Where is the demonization?

This looks very useful, but price, RAM and flash sizes are not readily apparent. Am I missing something?

RWBY is actually popular in Taiwan. There are fansubs and I think fandubs.

It's missing the only two locations I've ever been to: one closed (Halifax) and one just opened (Taichung). Given that no dots disappeared, I suspect there were other closures that aren't shown.

I was always dispirited by how conservative in sentiment Bitcoin and most altcoins were. It always felt to me that Bitcoin was mostly redundant to gold, neglecting the inherent advantages of ecurrency. Something more ambitious deserves to be implemented.

That endorsement aside, the inhibition transaction does disturb me. It would seem to encourage mob-like behavior in the culture of early adopters, as heretics of whatever sort were forcibly ejected from the system. I don't trust the dynamics of groups enough to think this will be a good form of self government.

Whatsapp was completely destroyed in the Taiwan market about a year ago, simply because Whatsapp offered one year free while Line was free forever. When the year was up, people switched. People here laughed at the announcement - why would anyone pay 3 bucks for every person on Earth for a turkey like that? We weren't even willing to pay 2 dollars for ourselves.

This is a good use case for Bitcoin. But I think the bits about being able to cash out from hundreds of Bank of the Phillipine Islands branches and the part about disintermediating the banks' role as middlemen are directly contradictary. If this gets any traction I suspect China type rules won't take long in arriving.

Similarly, in Taiwan Line has completely taken over from WhatsApp. Snapchat has no presence at all.

If you are interested in seeing them for yourself, it is quite simple given a small amount of luck.

First, collect dry moss. Soak it in warm for 30 minutes. Squeeze out the moss, and examine the collected liquid closely under magnification, searching for localized motion. Even a 10x hand lens or loupe will be fine for identification, although a microscope would of course be better.

Teachers indeed very often spend their own pocket money to buy things that they feel are useful for class. Paid Dropbox is quite popular among teachers these days.

Very few of the sites that I've seen tackle my key pain and time points. These are test correction, writing correction, and parent communication.

Why isn't there a cheap smartphone OMR program? Of course we all waiting for the Internet and fairies to take over testing, but until then I'd like to have a decent way to make, grade, and store data for paper quizzes. There's not really anything designed for teachers to buy out there.

Writing correction is a hard problem (since handwritten work is privileged in K-12) but perhaps not impossible with OCR advances. If I could unload some of the more mechanical aspects of this it'd be wonderful.

There is a cute and secretly useful free utility called Teacher's Report Assistant. This is the sort of thing that teachers will pay for, and for anyone who plays with things like chatbots its a natural extension. Huge masses of teachers all over Asia are churning out this sort of blather weekly. We could use help.

It's worth mentioning that there are masses of private schools in Asia and in the western world that have much more open policies about reimbursing for software and the like. It's not a bad path to bigger things.

Schools almost universally have overloaded and unreliable networks, so you have to have a reasonable offline path.