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ok. This is basically what I said, so it seems like I did not explain it well enough.

It's like what Google did in China. They did not want to agree to the censorship terms imposed by the Chinese government so they stopped operating there. (It looks like they are reversing course on this now and may release a censored version soon, but that is neither here nor there)

The Polish government cannot make Twitter do something it does not want to and still permit it to operate in the country. They will have to ban it outright if Twitter does not agree to their terms.

After reading a lot of the feedback here, I spoke to my tech lead.

He admitted that he had been significantly harder on me than others because I was less experienced. He trusted it less and it was easier for him to just rewrite than bother with actually doing a proper code review. Not because my code was "shit".

I came with receipts. He admitted this was deeply unfair and unprofessional agreed to start doing proper code reviews.

Thanks for the feedback, everyone.

>No, it's not.

There is absolutely no way you could know that. However, it speaks volumes about your character that you would declare it so confidently.

This is absurd. Twitter etc are private companies and can do what they want wrt their user's accounts. If they don't want their far-right politicians getting censored, then they can ban those platforms from the country completely. As the saying goes, you can't have your cake and eat it too.

Yep. If he has issues with it, fine. If he does though, I want him to bring this up during the code review process rather than passive-aggressively re-writing it after the fact.

I want him to stop doing it and treat me like the other members of the team. So, I guess I want advice on how to make that happen, if it's even possible.

There's so much to unpack here. I am hoping someone with a legal background can weigh in.

Good for them. It's time for workers stand up for themselves again. I hope the authorities there do an audit to see where all those stolen wages have gone and recover them.

This is an interesting point. The problem, I think, is that as individuals, we only have feelings based on our own experiences.

So, perhaps in an aggregate sense, there is more suffering of all the men men who are slightly stigmatized because they watch too much porn. But, none of them feel this as acutely as the single single sex worker who can 1) probably never get a more "legitimate" job again 2) may not be there of her own free will (yes, even if she is getting paid) 3) may not have any support network because her family has cut her off because of what she does (this is common).

Wow. Are you really saying that the men who consume porn are equally victimized as actual sex workers, because of an algorithm?

In the sense that algorithms do nudge our behaviour in insidious ways, addicted consumers of porn can be seen as victims of a sort. But, to suggest that the social stigma associated with porn usage is equal, much less anywhere near approaching, or in the same order of magnitude of the social stigma that sex workers face, is just so incredibly wrong.

I have the exact opposite experience tbh. It probably depends on the network of people you engage with. Twitter is, for me, mostly about professional networking. I just tweet about software development and follow other developers.

Facebook is where I am "friends" with extended family and random people from high school. This is where all the toxic garbage in my social media life comes from. Thank goodness for the option to "unfollow but don't unfriend" there.

Am I the only one that thinks this is kind of nice? I was just putting together a personal portfolio website and thinking about adding a feature like this. But I hadn't yet because of the work involved. This will make it a lot easier.

If you don't like, you don't have to use it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

She's a data scientist, not a security expert. Holding her to this standard is unfair and very much blaming the victim.

Many good reasons are already mentioned, but I also think a big one is because dang is here full time. This is job and he does it well.

Almost all other internet communities have mods that just do it on a volunteer basis. If those communities are big enough to be vibrant, that also means that a couple volunteer mods can't cut it. Luckily YC has the budget for keeping dang around. I would bet this place would be like most other poorly moderated communities without him.

Unless you are already quite rich, you just are a a bike accident or diagnosis away from bankruptcy, a life of financial stress and misery and even death in the US. It's terrifying.

I'm an American who has been living in Norway for 8.5 years now. I am never moving back, unless there are some serious system changes which will realistically not happen in my lifetime.

You're right -- the new bike paths etc have not affected this. It's more a function of how parking in downtown is virtually non-existent. So if you want to go there, you need to take a taxi or public transport (or have someone drive you, which is a luxury most people don't have).

Taxis here are insanely expensive and, while the public transport system is very good, it doesn't go everywhere. So, even if your destination is only, say, 300 meters from the bus stop, that can effectively be insurmountable distance for someone with mobility issues, especially in the winter.

This is the crux of the problem. There are no economic incentives for this, even if it became very cheap. We would simply have to agree, as a global society, to invest in carbon capture because it's the right thing to do.

Given our track record with this kind of thing, this does not look very likely. It's the tragedy of the commons writ large and I don't think anyone has a sane answer to it, or we would have done it already.

> How do you expect to capture the carbon piece into a stable compound that can be buried without expending more energy?

This is a bit of a strawman. No one is claiming that it will be somehow energy neutral or break thermodynamics. It will obviously require significantly more energy input, not to mention the money. But that doesn't make it impossible or even a bad idea, if the energy fueling the process is nuclear or renewable.

I have been wondering about using this lately too.

Why not set up carbon capture units near alternative energy sources? It is certainly not going to be cheap and there are no real economic incentives for it other than hope for future generations. So, I don't know about the political viability considering this would have to be a massive project run by multiple governments.

But, if we put political viability aside for a second and just think pie in the sky here, technically, why not? As someone else pointed out, nature does this too. But those processes are simply too slow for the rate at which we are emitting. So, I think giving nature some help, at least until we have converted sufficiently to renewable is a good idea and may buy us the time we need.

I live in Oslo and have to say it is pretty great if you are able bodied. If you have trouble walking for any reason, it is really hard because cars have a hard time getting to many places you might need to go. As someone who is periodically in and out of crutches, I have a love-hate relationship with the city.

Anyway, this is 2019 data. It should be noted that there was a tragic accident in early 2020 when a 2-year-old was struck and killed. If there were others this year, I have not heard about it, but I don't know for sure.

So, it still happens. But, it is rare enough that it is really big news when it does.

I don't. It makes me sick to my stomach.

I am speaking as someone who is pro-choice, pro-GMO's and pro-stem cell research, etc. This research has crossed a line that none of the above do. It is creating a new kind of sentience, a new kind of soul.

And, what's the point? To confirm a theory about a gene? So fricking what. That really doesn't matter, not in relation to the possible consequences: someone taking this research to create a race of "sub-human" slaves that think and feel as acutely as we do. Pick your genetic engineering dystopia for where this is leading us- Brave New World, Planet of the Apes, Gattaca, even the Uplift series.

It never should have gotten approved by an ethics review board. The 100 days termination was just so they could claim to have considered ethics. If they actually seriously had done so, this project would have never left the drawing board.

Finally: I wish people would stop staying the genie is out of the bottle. The genie is whatever we humans decide to do. You can't just assume that because something is possible that it will be done. We can have moral boundaries as a society. We can say "this is a bridge too far and no one should cross it". And anyone who does will be excommunicated from the scientific world.

There is nothing inevitable about this dark path. Saying that it is inevitable just removes responsibility from whoever does it, which is just BS.

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Can you explain more about this?

Hi! I am not the OP, but just emailed you about a free online event I am organizing (Flutter Vikings).

I am not sure what your "discrete math courses" were and if you have already taken these but, the Linear Algebra and Differential Equations courses on Kahn Academy are solid intros to the basics of those subjects.

"This ultimately led [Einstein] to the realisation that gravity is best described and understood not as a physical external force like the other forces of nature but rather as a manifestation of the geometry and curvature of space-timeitself." This is in the introduction of the paper you shared...

I recently finished "We Have No Idea" by Jorge Cham and Daniel Whiteson. Its a masterpiece of science communication and I cannot recommend it enough as a way for non-physicists to get a grasp on this concept, as well as related ones.

I'm really happy to see this, they have a great product.

If you need help or someone to ask questions about the material, than it is very valuable to have access to a teacher or tutor. Sure, a lot can be self-taught. But some material is just hard and many people will require a more knowledgeable/experience person in that subject to help them grasp it.

However, if online learning could be paired with effective online tutoring, than I think you are absolutely right.

In that case, you would need to be the only actor who has the technology. Otherwise you have to worry about all the issue you cited again.

Mothers.