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cobalt is being phased out of lithium batteries, at least at tesla.

you did a great job.

why is there no good, fast, open source text editor that is user friendly like vscode but written in a low level language?

no, all of these diversity programs make the assumption that women want to do and can do everything a man wants to do and can do, and they strive to make workplaces half female and half male based on that assumption alone. if want to find people who align with the "men are the same as women" thing, just go to a public area and suggest that women dont like tech as much as men -- they will show themselves rapidly. just say that women arent as X as men and they will show themselves, as i have experienced many, many times, both directly and as a witness. i have tons of liberal friends who full on reject the notion that men are usually stronger than women, just based on muscle and bone mass and density. bill nye recently made rounds on the internet with his video trying to explain that chromosomes dont determine gender, and it went beyond what you identify as -- he claimed that sometimes both chromosomes types are found in the same person. he was suggesting that gender is a construct because thats the popular mantra. if you think that gender and gender differences are handled well in mainstream culture today then you havent looked hard enough.

race does not map onto distinct phenotypes? what exactly do you mean?

genetics is complicated. not only is there so called junk dna, there is also epi-genetics. and even the genes that we correlate with certain diseases are not understood well. we dont understand how our dna translates into our physiology. and at no point have i pretended to understand this.

people of different races, different skin colors, different anything, are in fact different from each other in a genetic way. every person is different from every other person on a genetic basis. i am sorry to be direct, but it is with no hatred or racism that i say the following: if a group of people all share the genetic trait that their skin is a certain color, it is possible they share other common genetic traits. this is simple logic, and it is correct. how deep these differences are, whether or not they are cognitive or psychological, has yet to be scientifically determined or even investigated. personally, i dont think its important for these things to be investigated. as long as all doors of opportunity are open to all people regardless of any genetic quality, i think we will be ok.

it is important that we all broach the ugly subject of racial genetics with rational and compassionate minds. firing or punishing (socially and otherwise) people who try to discuss things such as this will lead to much worse outcomes in my opinion.

i absolutely hate the situation that we have found ourselves in. gender and race politics have become totally divorced from the issues of gender and race. firing people who speak their mind is not going to help women in tech and it wont help black kids from being shot in the street in chicago or oakland. not a single person i have ever known who played the politically correct game has ever lifted a single finger to help black people or a little girls interested in tech. the sad truth is that gender politics is now a game of virtue signalling -- a status game among liberal people to see who is the most virtuous, the kindest and most thoughtful. meanwhile, any person who does not fit into a beneficiary position in this game (for example the entire middle section of the united states) is treated with savage cruelty. it is astonishing to see my ultra liberal friends whine endlessly about how unfair life is, how painful life is for certain people, and then turn around and in the same breath condemn and disparage millions of people for absolutely no reason. the truth is that a truly kind person reserves kindness for everyone, and even someone who might be mean or unpleasant at first -- i have found that kindness is much more effective at changing peoples perspective than anything else, so if you want mid-westerners to stop being racist, remember that being horrible and mean to them probably wont make them see things from your perspective.

i think there is some kind of effect where people who are really good at solving complicated puzzles that are right in front of their faces are not so good at solving logical issues that are less tangible or more long term. thats one of my theories, because a lot of people i know that arent dumb at all seem to totally buy into the gender politics thing, even though their beliefs totally fly in the face of logic. maybe its me who is wrong, and there is some subtle aspect of this whole thing that i am not grasping. either way, we are all in this together. its important to be patient with each other and to never allow ourselves to descend into savagery and hatred. and if you do find yourself behaving like that, its ok. we all make mistakes, dust yourself off and try again. i know i have.

the author of the memo is completely correct and, as others have said, his memo is drastically misrepresented in the coverage it has received. he simply points out that women could have less desire to go into fields such as cs because of their biological makeup. he never says that women should leave google -- he only says that trying to reach a perfectly equal distribution is misguided. perhaps those who are red in the face while reading the memo failed to read between the lines and realize that under this logic, the women who do find themselves wanting to go into cs for passion and not just money should be welcomed. he never once called for anything other than the policy of acceptance and wide open doors that is currently in place. he is merely suggesting that maybe a perfect 50/50 distribution is not needed and, more importantly, liberal people in general need to snap out of the double think where we believe men and women are the same. men and women are not the same.

as a liberal i find that it is important to not shy away from controversy: women and men are biologically different. i am sorry, but they are. you dont need to reject this fact in order to treat women with respect and equality.

you didnt read his memo. please cite the passage where he says that he doesnt believe females should be there. point to where he says this, whether he did so directly or as an insinuation, and explain exactly how it means that he wants females out of google, please.

why is there no effort to make artificial tree mass? this could be done by creating genetically engineered trees that use as little resources as possible to grow as much wood as possible in lab environments. one could even go as far as powering the cells electrically -- it is theoretically possible and has been done in the lab before. or, why is there no effort to synthesize wood itself chemically, industrially?

it actually does in a certain way. if at some point the lone pointer ("pointer") to that memory goes out of scope then the memory is deallocated. happens a lot.

the seriousness that vr and vr social apps are addressed with is dumbfounding to me. watch the video at the bottom of the page -- this is a huge joke. nobody will ever put on a headset and grab their controllers when they could just use skype. skype, which is much less hassle and gives you a real face to face experience with the other persons actual face. vr/ar contact lenses are never coming within a window of time that any of us care about. vr in general will remain a useless gimmick for longer than any of us are willing to wait, probably well past all of our deaths. im sick and tired of vr hype.

this is some self-help guru type of bullshit.

even years ago, a model s was as expensive to own, all costs accounted for over the span of seven to ten years, as a honda odyssey minivan. they are about to release a car that costs 35000 dollars.

whats the best country to retire in the way you have?

even if you took away wind i still win the argument. concentration farms are a footnote, they are going to be phased out. it has nothing to do with panels. panels have no such drawbacks and will form the backbone of domestic energy production all over the world very soon.

sorry

uranium and plutonium dont have to be mined? if you think panels shouldnt be made because they contain elements that need to be mined then you probably also think we should stop making computers because they also contain the same element: silicon?

no, actually they arent. and they dont produce radioactive waste that has be be stored for generations either. and the reactors are sometimes safe. and it only takes on bad one to do huge amounts of damage and kill tons of people. panels have never hurt or killed anyone.

this is always what they fall back on. its good in space. well this is earf mother fucker

fucking please. while in the army you have guaranteed housing and food every day. thats a fucking luxury compared to what people going through actual adversity deal with.

50 dollars is a lot of money. try being poor for a while. try being so poor that you barely survive. like, you have to ration your food. like eating one apple a day for months.

theres a really cool dude on youtube who makes programming videos -- he will implement a raycasting engine or crack old games or do whatever. one very common comment is "why are you not a programmer when you can program so well" and his answer is really interesting. he used to to write web apps but the deadlines were so stressful that he decided to be a bus driver instead. where he lives the government will retrain you and find you a job if you decide to switch (i think he lives in scandanavia) so he did it. apparently hes way happier now.

people need to end this ridiculous obsession with fission for energy. solar and wind. thats all we need. all the nuclear stuff should be limited to research. when fusion is ready then we can do that. solar, wind and batteries are here and ready to go. they are already rolling out. anything else is a complete distraction and waste of time. im so fucking tired of this.

>Shares opened at $24 and traded as high as $25.42 apiece Thursday, giving the company a market valuation of about $29 billion

there is no way for me to look at that and not be dumbfounded. some companies are unprofitable but still have a clear mechanism through which they could make money. tesla sells cars, for example. twitter and snap on the other hand have no way to make enough money to justify the hype. they can sell peoples data -- and that is a form of revenue that may face massive backlash and cooling very soon. this market cap is insane and we are in a huge bubble.

this is a little unrelated but does anyone know where i can find articles or reports that delve into the substance of the podesta emails rather than the circumstances surrounding the podesta emails? ive been looking all day and i can literally count on one hand the number of articles that report on the contents of the emails. and those dont even go very deep!

wow, thank you for posting that.

brave clojure is really straight forward and well written

this is such a good response. i dont think xion would disagree with the notion that rust is well on its way to being great.