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Guy can be used in a gender-neutral sense, though it's not really good grammar. Most romance languages use male for a collective group; people often replicate this in English (though not always, as not all our words for groups carry gender). Some people then extend this back to the singular, i.e. "hey (many) guys" -> "hey (one) guy".

Edit: Down-votes care to comment why?

> The attacker can't know if they passed the captcha until an hour has passed.

Naah. The attacker just does batch learning: dump a ton of comments, wait an hour, spend a few minutes training, rinse-and-repeat. Your users also won't tolerate tons of delays.

> You can then slow it down further with some randomization.

So now I wait a few extra hours, and have 99% accurate data. That's still pretty good, honestly. Ideally, a neural network can get a good model from less accurate data than 99%; just tweak the learning rate or use sgd, modify mini-batch size, etc.

The advantage of the site, of course, is that legitimate businesses are likely more able to afford people with this sort of knowledge. The scammers are probably script kiddies who clone a template and tweak a config; they'd have real jobs if they knew more.

Then great for the EU. God willing, y'all will roll back some of that stuff if she leaves.

England will not be less a part of Europe just because she leaves the EU. The EU was never perfectly cohesive to start with [0], and is made up of extremely disparate nations and cultures. Plus, England never adopted the Euro (which is probably for good reason, seeing as interest rates are now even further down because the ECB can't properly conduct monetary policy).

The EU was never comparable to, say, America in terms of unity. Europe had too much history for it to work perfectly - every one was on what had been at some point some one else's land.

[0] https://europedirectemn.files.wordpress.com/2018/02/treaties...

or --

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C--

or #

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_Sharp_(programming_language)

or prefix objective

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objective-C

As mentioned by other comments, we will likely end up in an arms race of adversarial neural networks. Which will be opposed by neural nets driven by manual classification of spam/not spam entries. However, I think the spammers have a decisive advantage. What you are dealing with here is an asymmetric situation: while sites must spend money on people to do classification, the spammers have an oracle against which their neural nets can verify responses. This means improving their bots to fight new anti-spam tech is easier. I can't say what the solution is here.

Trust me, getting VC money isn't magically easier at small scales. There's a reason most businesses die under-capitalized.

> Dr. Stallman

rms has a doctorate? Or is this some sort of honorific I've never heard before?

300k -> 125b is still staggering growth. All though, Andrew Carnegie still has him beat (in terms of inflation-adkusted wealth and starting position).

Same here; appears slashdotted. The Wayback Machine got a snapshot, though: http://web.archive.org/web/20190729011518/https://studyrapp....

How? I used Englishman too. I've never heard it used that way.

I doubt handing over would always work. England has a decent coirt system, but what about, say, a chinese spy? Maybe you could then elect to hand over an Englishman but detain a chinaman? It works in some cases, but not necessarily as a general framework.

Linode is great for cheap VPS. Most people here use DigitalOcean, but I did the comparison and liked Linode. Management console is pretty good (though I haven't tried their new one). The one serious benefit over DO is faster transfer (40gbps down/1 up). Not huge, but that's why I picked it.

I like the look of vultr, and have considered it, but their plans are functionally identical these days and I probably won't bother switching.

I'd disagree with that. Russia seizing foreign territory is an extremely concerning act. The goal could well be to cripple Russia and ideally promote regime change such that she becomes an ally of America; this works towards that.

Yes, I know people who have such issues and have the greatest sympathy for them. Permanent joint damage, heart issues, etc. However, the distinguishing factor is usually that people with serious lingering complications don't run around claiming they're still infected. I wasn't intending to lump your father nor those I know in with the crazies, just trying to make a point that the crazies make the people with real problems look bad.

This is a sort of group version of the boy who cried wolf - if enough people run around fussing about something which isn't, those for whom it is won't be taken seriously.

Some glyphs wouldn't really replicate in the style of comic sans... plus, stuff like powerline glyphs wouldn't match up right.

Another issue is that some have trichotillomania, which causes them to nervously pull out their own hair. Lots of causes. But that aside, there are many more men with hair loss then women [0] [1]. Opinions aside, there are objectively significantly more men than women who have the problem. Women also can cover it more due to longer hair. Not reasonable to call comments "male centric" when the majority of people with hair loss are male.

[0] https://www.webmd.com/skin-problems-and-treatments/hair-loss...

[1] https://www.creditdonkey.com/hair-loss-statistics.html

You're in luck; you can patch your own! https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts#font-patcher

A large part of this is allowing their employees to cash out. When a company goes public, there is often a clause that prevents sales for a certain number of months, and who knows what the share price will do by then. This is actually a really good thing for Unity to do, trying to make the "stock compensation" perk into a meaningful cash-out. It also means employees don't have to deal with holding shares in a public company if they don't want to, as that's hassle.

How could you commit treason against the EU? You don't owe allegiance to her, nor does any one. The EU was never as cohesive as, say, America (an entity to which she has been compared). Different nations are party to different treaties, see this graph: https://europedirectemn.files.wordpress.com/2018/02/treaties...

They very much pick and choose to which treaties they wish to agree, and retain sovereignty. There are more things than treaties that define a nation - the people, culture, history, etc. Or to grab the definition off google, "a large body of people united by common descent, history, culture, or language, inhabiting a particular country or territory." The EU does not really share those, to the extent of a proper nation.

You're largley right, and it infuriates people who actually got it that it isn't taken seriously because of people like these. To be clear, I think they are crazy, not sick. With that said, spme cases are legitimate. The distinguishing factor is this utter bunk about "chronic" lyme disease. You can absolutely get it and have a serious problem, but once it's gone, it's gone (so long as it was treated thoroughly and you didn't stop antibiotics as soon as symptoms stop, but this is true of most or all bacterial illnesses).

Sadly, I think many of these "famous people" (which, funnily enough, I hadn't heard of) are simply attention-seeking d-list personalities.

Because they don't want to allow Russia to use it as a port or for commerce; Russia has been trying to take the Crimea for commercial purposes for the last millenium or so. And because they don't have the guts to sanction all of Russia.

That seems like it would cause size deflation, the opposite of what has been happening? If I'm overweight, I might look, cknsider that I am bigger than that, and get a larger size?

Also, what on God's Green Earth is a "Pineapple Commonwealth"? It's clearly a fake indirect reference to something, but I'm not sure what.

I am probably out of touch, but I wish more people would respond with information, not rebuke.

I thought metrosexual was the politically correct term these days, and that the terms traditionally used for such people are now considered offensive. What is a better word?

I get a perfectly good fit, which is why I don't shop at such places. I asked because I didn't know such things were commonplace for men, precisely because I don't shop at such places. That part of the answer was informational, and something of which I was simply not aware. The "sexist caricature" part was what merited the indignance.

Honestly, it seems as though I'm being rebuked simply because I'm not a fashionista. The first respondant referred to Gap as a "basic" clothing store; I always thought of it as high-end. I didn't grow up in a situation where we shopped at exoensive stores: not poor, just not that rich. I never fell out of those habits, I guess.

I don't go to stores like gap, and don't really buy trendy clothes. I've never seen tons of styles like all those you mentioned, especially not in one place. My jeans are usually $20-25 a pair; I buy on-sale.

I've also never really heard of the "raito of waist to thigh to calf" being used as a measurement.

Maybe these sorts of things are popular among the younger "metrosexual" boys?

> Now you're being a sexist caricature.

How? Caricature of what? I'm relaying the exact things I've heard and seen from others. I'm really just asking a question, more "why is there this expectation of women?", and you cry "sexism"? That term is very overused.

This is one of those "no stupid questions" type questions: why are there so many more sizes for women? Men's sizes don't fit perfectly either, but it seems like women have more sizing options for the same struggle. Are women harder to fit? Do men just not bother with a correct fit? It also seems that at least a good number of guys can wear off-the-rack for a decent fit, but almost no women. Just a guy who doesn't understand trying to understand more.

And while I'm it, many women I know don't wear dresses more than once or twice. Why? This seems wasteful.

I'm not sure e2e-encrypted applications can be reasonably expected to handle this. The bytes they are transmitting are effectively not copywritten, and cannot be deciphered into copywritten information without something which the company does not have. I could also see a huge increase in client-side processing requirements due to this, meaning this could translate to substantial financial loss and an undue burden.

I agree that he's doing a better job, and I think it might actually be for the right reasons. That said, I'm not sure he states why he actually does it. He ought to be starting a trade war with China because she is an unethical colonialist would-be power which has violated numerous treaties to which she is a signatory. She has proven herself a threat to political and individual sovereignty. I would absolutely support the idea of sanctioning her for such actions, but I think Trump doesn't spin his actions that way because it does not fit with his brand of populism. And though he's doing better, that's honestly a pretty low bar. I'm still embarrassed we let them into the WTO in the first place. I remain honestly hopeful we don't reach a trade deal until China rights her wrongs.

And to those who would say, "but sovereignty though!", I would respond that we are free as Americans to vote with our wallets. If we wish to choose with whom we do business, that is our right.

I'm not sure about this one. One of America's virtues is that she tries to play by the rules (emphasis on "tries", though). It's why we follow the Geneva Conventions. I really, really don't like China, but I also have a bit of a visceral reaction to the "two-wrongs-make-a-right" mindset that seems to underlie this statement.

However, the question also becomes important: if China stole American IP to develop these patents, does she have any right to them? I'd analogize this to the legal precedent of "fruit of the poisonous tree". This precedent states that cops can't raid your home without a warrant, find evidence, and use it against you: they obtained that evidence in an illegitimate fashion, so it's no longer valid. I could rationalize that if China stole our tech to develop hers, she has no right to that tech in the first place.

That's sometimes a good strategy, but breaks when you do too much at once. See boeing's recent fiasco where they did basically just that with parts and a fuselage that weren't really compatible. Metaphor extends: try to replace too much in part and something will break.