Afton

I don't see how you can solve the 'financially illiterate people [will be led] astray' with some other metric. Profit is similarly useless without context (e.g. Is this reoccurring, or one-time?). Giving all the metrics you might care to can still lead financially illiterate people astray.

I don't think that's true. If you have revenue from thousands of purchases, and lots of revenue, you have an avenue to reduce costs as your pipeline matures. It's not the only number you should care about, but it's hardly a who-cares item.

Let me repeat my question:

""" The question is, why do you think they take 'extra offense'? What about the structure of their lives would train them to recognize offense? """

Great point! The question is, why do you think they take 'extra offense'? What about the structure of their lives would train them to recognize offense?

Also, why is the solution 'women and minorities need to toughen up' (If that's not the intended reading of your comment, feel free to clarify)? Why isn't it, "if you want an inclusive culture where some people aren't feeling attacked, then let's not attack people."? The male oriented culture does not have to be interpreted as the default/normal/only-sensible culture.

That's just insulting and has no place here.

I had it the first time I switched my diet. Headache, low energy, mild body-ache.

I'm currently a non-strict keto-er, which means I'm really just a high-fat, low carb eater. I think consensus on 'keto-flu' is really just that when you're flushing all the glycogen, it's taking with it a lot of water, and it's upsetting your sodium/potassium levels, I don't really know. I just know that I don't suffer from it when I transition from periods of moderate carbs back to low carbs.

which is what?

Agreed. Many schools (my kid's school) also provide 'weekend packs'. It's hard to know how much of that gets to the kids, but poverty is a hell of a problem.

> However, we have to ask if the school-lunches provided are indeed better than a bag of Cheetos?

I think that we can answer that question with a fairly emphatic 'yes'.

US based, Prime customer here. They seem to want me to sign up for kindle unlimited before I can read/buy it.

You can make delicious hash browns with just potatoes, salt, and butter. Yes, you have to keep it from burning, but it's not that hard, you just use a lower temperature. The result is delicious and crisp.

It's not the only way (Honestly, I prefer duck/goose fat if I'm feeling fancy, beef if not), but it's a perfectly acceptable way of making crispy delicious hash browns.

I think everyone with two monitors has lamented the lack of a 'focus-follows-eyes'. The problem is that you are often reading from window A while typing into window B. So you'd have to be able to switch in and out of ffe. And I don't know about you, but I would never remember to switch. Pretty sure that would defeat the purpose.

I'd love to see someone play with the UI though.

One of the things that makes cyclists safer is having more other cyclists on the road. I'm happy to wear my helmet, but if others don't, I just want them on the road. In aggregate, we'll all be safer, even though some will choose not to wear helmets.

Specifically: Even those that choose not to wear helmets will be safer due to the increase in ridership. The comparison to seat-belts isn't appropriate because my not wearing a seat-belt in a car accident increases risk for others (specifically others in the same car as me).

There is also fairly conflicted evidence that helmets are effective. There is a fairly narrow treatment range where they work well. Be hit by something going faster or slower than that range, and they don't matter much. They are nothing like full-face motorcycle helmets.

There is also evidence (although not well replicated?) that drivers treat helmeted cyclists worse than unhelmeted ones.

I have a BGE as well! I got the steel plate-setter for searing and it's incredible. But TBH, I often just use a skillet and our stovetop for finishing.

Agreed, that book is great. I keep pushing off getting a real sous vide setup because the cooler is 'good enough'.

Last year I went to a fancy steak house in Las Vegas, and my thought was that I prefer my own steak. I was surprised, since I assume that restaurants have access to better cuts and can age it better. I mean, it was a fine steak, but I preferred my own.

I have no way of even beginning to address a comment that claims that we hire on talent. That's just false. Regardless of where you are on the 'women in tech are victims of sexism' dimension, you can't seriously claim that engineering divisions hire on talent. Engineering divisions can't even reliably discern talent.

I wonder how you would study that question (about how much freedom results in optimal happiness across the population). I'd be surprised if it evenly resolved into even thirds.

Would love to hear some of the lessons learned...

Pain doesn't easily divide up in to long-term and short term. What do you call someone who typically manages their pain with tylenol and mental techniques, but sometimes has to use opioids to make it through the day? Many people with chronic pain find themselves in this situation, for the rest of their life.

Also, beware of false causation. The (extremely detrimental) effects of pain were not well circulated in the medical profession in the '80s. The more aggressive pain management that has occurred since is at least in part due to this sea change, and not merely "aggressive marketing". The "changes in government recommendations" did not occur by happenstance, nor were they solely motivated by pharma marketers.

That's just not true. Opioids are a standard part of pain management. There are plenty of people who will be taking opioids as a breakthrough pain management technique for the foreseeable future. That makes it quite different from a "1 and done" type prescription model.

This seems like a strange argument. Suppose that the creators created some simulation. This argument would apply equally no matter which simulation parameters they choose.

Is there more here I'm not getting?

> More interestingly is that Highways England has now recognised you cannot share space safely between vehicles with very different speed profiles and developed design standards for delivering better road networks that support walking, cycling, and driving.

Here in Seattle, the vast majority of bike vs car accidents are (relatively) low speed left and right turns (of cars into bikes) [0]. The issue isn't just speed profiles. This is of personal interest to me as I am typing this up one handed after recovering from (among other things) tendon repair surgery on my right hand from a negligent left turner.

[0] https://www.dugganbikelaw.com/courtesygapequalsdeathtrap

After a few weeks, if you don't address your postural issues, you'll discover that you can have terrible posture on a yoga ball just as easily.

Pretty sure the causation worked the other way, but it's hardly a repeatable experiment in my case.

I taught my daughter about 100 words of ASL (English with and ASL lexicon, to be honest about it). Turned out super useful since she was a late talker (my second child, who I also tried to teach ASL was an early talker and thought ASL was stupid).

In my opinion, it's mostly useful because it's super cute. Typically kids who can sign 'milk' or 'more' can also indicate with grunts, grabs and reaching what the problem is. But it's super cute.

There are lots of opinions that I might hold that would open my company up to lawsuits. In this case, he posted something that dramatically increases the likelyhood that some percentage of people fired will file suit, and this memo and the failure to reprimand/fire him will be part of the legal arsenal used against the company. Firing him is a simple mitigation strategy against this attack vector. ANY company that cares about lawsuits would have to make this move completely independently of the possible merits of his article. If it hadn't been leaked, he might not have needed to be fired. But once it was public news there was no sensible choice that Google could make. Again, I'm not trying to weigh in on his paper's content here, but as a simple legal precaution he needed to be fired.

Note that this isn't just about sexism, but lots of protected class opinions could fall into this category of 'express this openly and you'll be fired'. No company of any size would be able to tolerate it.

It's not that it does, or doesn't exist. It's that the whole common sense notion is literally incoherent.

"100% sure it's safe"

That's not a thing. Life is risk assessment.

The experiment was _continuous_ white noise, rather than 'while the baby is sleeping' or 'while the baby is falling asleep'.

From the article:

"""Both Chang and Paula Tallal, PhD -- a researcher who was not involved in Chang's study -- say it is probably not a good idea to intentionally expose babies and infants to nonstop white noise, but they say everyday exposures are probably not harmful for most children."""

As a Canadian who moved south for work and is rapidly approaching or in middle age, this is my position on the healthcare here: If you have good insurance, it is AMAZING! I understand that others have it worse, but all major software dev employers that I've looked at had really really great HI. In Canada OTOH, the service is much worse for non-emergency things, but everyone gets to have it. From an ethical standpoint, of course I support some kind of 'everyone gets sensible healthcare'. But I pay less out of pocket here than I would in Canada for my family of 5. Financially, moving back to Canada would be a disaster.