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genofon··on It’s not that London is too big, but that other large UK cities are too small
no, what eh was saying (correctly) is that even if it's true that London need to import the things you listed from other countries it would not make a big difference in his prosperity. For example it's laughable that you mentioned farming, as UK heavily relay on imports already and the sector constitutes only 0.5% of the GDP. So basically London would be better off without the rest of the UK
genofon··on Madrid cracks down on 'manspreading' on public transport
I guess I disagree on your arbitrary definition of "human", but this is a bit off topic.

This campaign is teaching people how they should ask, which is much more efficient and effective that asking one person at the time (moreover if you are the only one ask chanses are you will be seen as an unreasonable person on the train).

For the sexiest part I think it's laughable,as they are not suggesting it's a problem with all men, but that is prominent in men, which for my experience it's true. Btw also their claim as "manspreading" being sexiest is laughable in my opinion, but I agree that it should be stopped (and I am a male).

genofon··on Madrid cracks down on 'manspreading' on public transport
Yours is a totally different issue, here we are talking about people occupying much more than the space they need and invading other people personal space.

I am bother by this behavior and I feel it should something people learn when they are kids, not something I should ask for.

genofon··on Why American Workers Now Dress So Casually
reading the last line with my AC/DC tshirt made me think a bit, and yes, I am a "boss" (well just lead, maybe doesn't count), but at least I have shoes.
genofon··on What's Really Warming the World?
I assume you intend evolution denialism.
genofon··on Mark Zuckerberg's manifesto for Facebook offers a social dystopia
I'm not afraid of being seen as an uncool geeky, but I would never use it as I don't like to broadcast what I am looking for to all my neighbors, even when I am alone I prefer silence, typing now requires basically the same amount of time.
genofon··on Germany Considers Fining Facebook $522,000 per Fake News Item
just out of curiosity, how many of you actually checked this news?
genofon··on Germany Considers Fining Facebook $522,000 per Fake News Item
Also Reddit algorithm decides what is shown to people.

And, beside the fact that you can choose if you want the algorithm ordering or just the normal one, if you scroll down enough your news feed you will see all the post, so it's not actually filtering out content, beside for content that break their T&C

genofon··on Pipfile for Python
maybe I misunderstood your comment, but it's pretty straightforward to get the exact version, if you do

  pip freeze > requirements.txt
it will have all the files' versions specified
genofon··on Japan's Unprecedented Warning to UK Over Brexit
except that immigrants were not allow to vote for Brexit.
genofon··on Deep Neural Networks for YouTube Recommendations
if they don't have any good information about you other than your location what else would you recommend rather than the most popular in that location?
genofon··on How We Designed Our Interview Process
even more, some companies might claim the rights on their work, depending on the country and company. In my experience (UK) there are a few like this.
genofon··on Facebook AI Research Team Open Source DeepMask and SharpMask
well that's not "contributing to the field", is just being a developer using libraries. The OP is talking about creating something new, which is like contributing to physics: quite hard, and requires a lot of knowledge. Maybe you don't need to be a genius (although the field attract quite a bit of them, tough competition) but surely a lot of effort.
genofon··on One Month on the World’s Longest Train Ride for $1,000
Can you elaborate in the Argentinian part? I traveled a bit in some rough part and although I was quite worried I never had problem
genofon··on The Benefits of a Quiet Ego
Not necessarly, now our enviroment evolves much quicker than us, so sometimes our "scripts" don't tell us the best solution to nowadays problems(e.g. overeating because now you have food, tomorrow who knows).
genofon··on Fiber-Famished Gut Microbes Linked to Poor Health
>heart disease, diabetes, cancer, etc rates have all been climbing like crazy for the last 50 years I'm not sure about that, in the past the diagnosis were really different from now so you can't really compare them.

Also the lifespan was much shorted at that time, so people had less changes to get these illnesses.

genofon··on Best way to handle interviewer asking me out on a date after tech screen?
I've read the post, except the screening interview (that went well, otherwise she wouldn't be there) the only direct interaction she had was with this (creepy) guy so they rely on him for the final decision.
genofon··on Best way to handle interviewer asking me out on a date after tech screen?
if he could hire her before the email, he can hire her after.
genofon··on Best way to handle interviewer asking me out on a date after tech screen?
based on the information we have he didn't do anything to test her experience.
genofon··on Best way to handle interviewer asking me out on a date after tech screen?
> What power? He's both unprofessional and socially inept, but he holds no power over her at that stage.

he can still hire her

EDIT: changed citation

genofon··on Best way to handle interviewer asking me out on a date after tech screen?
>I don't believe she would have gotten then job with another interviewer (the "more experience" part sounds plausible).

please don't speculate, as she said if they were looking for "more experience" why would he interviewed her in the first place? He also admitted that her cv was interesting

>(If he's that creepy, he'd get her the job and hit on her then) hitting on a co-worker is much more complicated than hitting on someone outside the company. that's the point.

He is clearly abusing his position of power, it's not ethical and probably also against the company's policy.

genofon··on Thepiratebay.se is back online
and what about the injustice of governments (at least in Europe, don't know elsewhere) that make you pay extra-taxes on any digital support with the excuse that people use them to store pirated material.

I'm pretty pissed off that I have to pay this tax despite storing only legitimate material, but not enough to do something directly. I cheer if someone else is fighting against the way the copyright industry works right now.

genofon··on Why Some Teams Are Smarter Than Others
taking an outlier as representative of a population si never a good ideaq
genofon··on All cameras are police cameras
>I appreciate the flip side of the coin but personally now feel much safer when in an area with CCTV.

it reminded me Benjamin Franklin's quote: "He who gives up freedom for safety deserves neither."

despite it's arguable that we are giving up freedom with more CCTV, but it scary what will happen if (when) Google Glasses will be more popular.

genofon··on What makes for a stable marriage? Part 2
humans are animal and as such we have the instinct to procreate. Maybe this is not true for all humans but most of them will feel that urge. Natural selection works pretty well on this: the one that don't feel that urge will be less likely to procreate and so to pass their genes to the next generation.
genofon··on Microsoft Band
I'm not serious about exercise but I'll buy one. I work with data and I'm curious about what my measurements look like. i tried other apps but they required too much effort, so the cost/benefit wasn't right for me.
genofon··on Quest to Track Every Shot in the NBA Changed Basketball
software: depends on the team, device: most of them use stats http://www.stats.com/sportvu/sportvu.asp to track games and various wearable technology (which is not allowed in games ) on training. They are not as far behind as media portrait them, all these tracking devices (sleep. HR, GPS..) have been around for a long time. You wouldn't believe the stuff they tried, there are some snakeoils salesman but they usually end up pretty badly.

Also for software there is a lot of variance, I feel that they prefer people that know personally or have previous experience. There are a few people making the decision to adopt a platform for a team to track all the data floating around, usually few high managers of physio, that's your audience. Usually it's highly customized and there is a lot of support as the user (coach, physio stuff, athlete...) is not a tech person

genofon··on Quest to Track Every Shot in the NBA Changed Basketball
I have worked with some NBA teams and they are already using software to track ball, players, referee, training, sleep, Heart Rate etc.. there is really nothing revolutionary in this article
genofon··on Should people be eating more fat?
After I realized how little we know about the human body I stopped worrying about these things and I now eat what makes me feel better. The reality is that in a lot of areas medicine don't' have an answer but they just guess given some observations. SO I started paying attention to how I feel after eating certain food. For example I noticed that a nice breakfast and rich salad for lunch keep me lucid for the day. I also avoid ingesting a lot of sugar at once and caffeine, with this I feel less tired at the end of the day. I don't track long term effects but for the past six months it worked pretty well, and without eating like a monk.
genofon··on I was asked to crack a program in a job interview, part 2
you do realize that he was not cracking a normal program but one made to be cracked right?
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