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A "free stuff" is incompatible with unlimited fertility. The bargain has to be that the necessities of life are provided only if you agree to limit yourself to replacement fertility. If we allow unlimited fertility, then no matter the starting conditions, any group that breeds faster than the rest will come to dominate the whole population.

Because we won. The whole "war crime" business is just how we justify in today's oh-so-sophisticated society the ancient custom of the winners imprisoning and executing the leaders of the losing side.

I reject the premise and refuse to feel guilt for my ancestors doing what was necessary to win a total war.

We turned a ton of cities into ashes during WWII without the help of nuclear weapons (except at the very end).

I'm going to take a different tack: a senior developer is a developer with enough experience that if you subject her to the bullshit processes that work on lower-level developers --- things like scrums, status updates, architecture reviews, and other command-and-control measures --- she either performs badly or quits.

Developer seniority is developer autonomy, and autonomy must be matched to skill level and scope.

What can be done to boost basal metabolism? A safer DNP? The current approach, diet and exercise, although it may work in individual cases, is not effective at the scale of public health.

I'm more inclined to report reported differences to bad reporting of inputs. How many studies are conducted under controlled conditions? People lie about everything all the time, especially to themselves.

Can your body just "reduce your basal metabolism"? Where are the energy savings? Is your body temperature lowered? I'm skeptical of the idea that differences in "metabolism" can account for different results arising from the same energy inputs.

Of course it is. Energy input must balance energy output and net changes in storage. What isn't simple is that we don't have the ability to merely will ourselves to eat less. We are not as much in control over our bodies and our consciousnesses as we'd like to believe.

I don't understand why so many people have difficulty accepting that the chemical environment can mediate appetite, and appetite is a key driver of food consumption. Thermodynamics holds. What doesn't hold is the idea that you exist as a consciousness independent of chemical inputs.

Is this Twitter that's fighting racism also the Twitter with this moderation policy? [nsfw] https://i.sli.mg/2V7OlX.jpg

lol no

As long as Twitter applies a double standard to abuse against white men, it'll be a useless political echo chamber. Allowing "#killallmen" posters to get away with their drivel while bringing the banhammer on anyone challenging the SJW narrative is itself taking a strong and IMHO obnoxious political stance. Twitter is unbearable

You are correct. The author is considering the cost of accessing kernel mode code and data, which I don't think is fair

I am extremely skeptical of "full" rows in the table, the ones that purport to measure the overall costs of cache invalidation. These costs are so workload specific that a single number is meaningless and likely to mislead. My own benchmarks show costs that are nowhere near the ones cited.

Private enterprises aren't required by law to uphold a high standard of free speech, but being decent Americans does. The government MUST NOT censor, but private companies SHOULD NOT.

That statement is absolutely protected speech.

> There's a difference between respecting someone's ideological preference, and discouraging hate speech

No there is not. "Hate speech" is what liberals call inconvenient conservative speech. Approving all speech except "hate speech" is just declaring that you will censor speech you find disagreeable.

The only legitimate speech restrictions are viewpoint-neutral no matter what the viewpoint.

> Unfortunately this is an opinionated piece with foul language and it is a bit offensive.

Whenever you read "X is offensive", mentally replace it with "I find X offensive". The substitution emphasizes how little being offended ought to matter.

Your finding this piece offensive does not create an obligation on the part of anyone else. I am growing very tired of social critics attempting to turn the world into inoffensive mush. We need more articles of this kind.

> It is a remarkable for one person to create a language, runtime, repl, debugger, compiler to another quirky language

I agree that the effort is remarkable. The idea that the strength of the author's effort should somehow shield his work from criticism is antithetical to excellence. It's participation trophy culture. If we're to create great work, we have to understand the difference between good and bad work, and we can't do that if misplaced concern for someone's feelings stops our describing reality as it is.

Use IRSO and we all lose. India's government is subsidizing these rockets. SpaceX, on the other hand, is developing technology that really makes space travel cheaper. Only the latter will move us forward in the long term.

And this effect is why Trump will do far better than polls suggest. Lots of people will vote for him, but are afraid of saying so for fear of losing their jobs

Would you host openly racist white supremacist content? (E.g., an American Renaissance mirror?) I understand that you believe you're promoting free speech, but I'm curious where your limits actually are.

Does Project Galileo cover political expression you consider problematic though? It's easy to support free speech with which you agree. The real test is whether you support it when it's reprehensible

It's very simple: I will not purchase a phone with this feature. Period. I don't need technology nannying me.

> MB has scientific issues, but forgetting that

Why? Meaningless test is meaningless. You might as well try to interpret your tarot cards

I find it very difficult to believe that anyone experienced and conscientious enough to work for the FSF "harassed by a transphobic colleague for being trans". Even if someone is anti-trans, it should be clear that in the current political climate, openly expressing these views is a career death sentence.

Is it possible that things went down as the post suggests? Sure. I find it much more likely that the individual involved interpreted neutral comment of some sort as an attack on her gender, then stirred up trouble. Why do I have such a dismal view? Because it keeps happening, over and over. The perpetually offended have ruined too many good careers, and we need to stand up to them.

Wise words. Like anything having to do with identity, this issue is radioactive. It's become very difficult to criticize members of certain groups, because a vocal minority of people will invariably attribute your criticism to your crypto-hatred of the group to which the subject of your criticism belongs, then attempt to ruin your career over the perceived "hate".

That fire pole costs a lot less than the salary increase you'd need in order to achieve the same level of employee retention. Google has quite a bit of engineering talent; you don't want that talent to evaporate for the sake of some short-term cost savings. Your scheme will absolutely affect innovation: it will cause innovators to leave.

If you want to cut datacenter costs, reward engineers for impact, and include cost savings under your definition of impact. Engineers are pretty rational people and will respond to incentives.

It just goes to show that SJW bullshit is what happens when you've solved all your real problems. The JS people got tired of making frameworks every three weeks, so now everything is some kind of oppression.

People who use other languages have real problems.

Exactly. Hardcore languages like C++, Lisp, Haskell, etc. should be safe for a little while longer. SJW presence seems to be inversely proportional to the degree of rigor required to use a language.