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Heck, you could probably fill all the major cities in the US just with marketing people.

A big part of that is because we evolved to be social animals. A single man alone in the Amazonian jungle would have a hard time surviving for an extended amount of time. A tribe, though, would have better prospects. If you are alone in the wilderness, you're presented all the time with insurmountable trade-offs: Build shelter and you won't be procuring food, prioritize food and then you won't have a shelter to protect yourself. Working in a team means bigger projects can be tackled, that different needed things can be done in the same time. And this is one of most important things for the evolution of humans, not only the intelligence, or the ability to make and use tools, but also the ability to live in society, to communicate and build a culture.

The homo sapiens is indeed a remarkable species. But what really make us what we are is not the individual per-se, but our society. Homo is great, for sure, but what is really impressive is not the individual Homo, but humanity.

This complaint is an eloquent example of the sad result of neglecting the humanities and arts in modern education.

The really big criminals and tax evaders will ever find a way around this kind of restriction. This is useful to control the smaller fish. But, also, the cynic in me thinks that the big sharks have lots of friends in high places and politics and public administration and that those restrictions were never intended to catch them on the first place.

The same thing here in Brasil since 2002. The only difference that there is an artificial restriction that online transfer between banks outside of banking hours will only clear when the banks open again. Other than that most transfer between banks clear in seconds and can be made from your phone. This artificial restriction is probably going to be lifted this year. And of course, if seller and buyer have accounts in the same bank, there's no business hours requirement, it will clear in seconds not matter what the time of the day. Also, depending on the american bank, I usually am able to cash wire transfers coming from the US in the same day, if the american bank sent the wire during brazilian business hours. Everytime I deal with the American banking system I get appaled by its primitiveness. ACH is basically how banking technology worked on the early 90's in Brasil.

Heuristics. Amount of skin tones mostly. Of course, lots of false positives at that age, and some false negatives due to racial biases of the algorithm. It was crude, but kind of worked.

Hardly. High culture takes a level of attention that someone who is struggling in life hardly will be able to attain. Moreover, philosophy is concerned with truth, and truth can sometimes be brutal. It would be almost criminal to recommend reading Nietzsche for someone who lost their job, got cheated and divorced and has some serious disease.

You're right not forcing the issue. But this is something that merits at least a dialogue. You don't have the right to force your partner to do what you want on this, but you have the right to be able to speak about your desires, and having them acknowledged.

Forget about this idea of burden, this is not for you to decide, and if you are serious about that, you should be clear about sharing the workload. And yes, there are also the specific burdens of pregnancy, lactation that you can't share, but also for plenty of women, there is also a reward for those activities. A reward that you as a man can also only reap vicariously. So, for every woman there will be a different balance of perspectives, some value more the rewards and will be happy having kids, others will feel more actually the burdens. Not your business to decide that.

But, what is your business is to understand what is important to you. To understand that if you feel so strongly about it now, it probably won't go away and that you will resent over time, if not right now.

And then, if you have such different attitudes about this matter, maybe, just maybe, it would be best for both of you to free yourselves from each other.

Yes. Probably by design.

I've long suspected that a lot of illegal drug usage is actually an attempt on self-medication

No. Courageous!

Consider yourself lucky they still include a power cable in the box.

Geez. Nuke'em from orbit, it's the only way to be sure.

In a more serious note, any biologist here knows if varying the type of hand sanitizer (e.g. alcohol this week, benzalconium chloride next, then something else, repeat...) would alleviate the problem?

Functionally, I fail to see how Windows 10 is worse than aero.

Aesthetically, Aero is a phenomenal display of bad taste, that we'd all better forget.

When I see this kind of comment, I wonder if the commenter has actually used Windows 10 for any non-trivial amount of time.

He could say the given the limitations on the hardware, that writing the software was something that required a level of technical prowess hardly found in your smartwatch. If we define brilliance as the ability to make every cycle count, every memory location count. Then, I'd agree, that indeed it was an art form. But given the same engineers, with the amount of processing power of a budget scientific calculator today, they would achieve the same results, with faster processing speed, more redundancy, an infinitely better user interface, more safety and in less time with less people.

Funnily enough, I love React. Maybe because I am old enough to have worked with Borland's Delphi in the past. The feeling I have is that React and UI frameworks put programmers with no design background back in the User Interface game. Because, for the love of God, I hate CSS with a passion. I enjoy doing side projects not only for the money, but also because of the good feeling of owning the whole stack of the product.

3, 2, 1 for celebrities accessing this treatments through Hollywood doctors, and then the spawning of a thriving cottage industry of shady tree doctors to satisfy the demand from their social media followers.

It doesn't involve the mouse at all. press windows key. start menu opens, search field is focused automatically. start typing, windows start doing an incremental search, heavily biased towards your most used programs in the list ordering, press enter if your choice is first on the list, or navigate with directional keys on the program.

Your method only works if the program you want is on the PATH, and if you type the full name of the executable.

I am over 40 right now, and, frankly, I don't see too much of this problem right now.

As you get older, you need to understand that you need to adapt. It's easier to get in the trap of thinking that the old ways are better (and sometimes, indeed they are), but it doesn't matter. You have to go with the flow.

Another important thing is that you shouldn't get too attached to technologies. Move with the times, be aggressive with learning.

Appreciate new languages, new paradigms. Yes, it sucks when you spent hours honing your skills with Hadoop and then one day you find out that all the cool kids are doing spark. But, the thing is, the people that are doing spark now are the people that were doing Hadoop yesterday, some of them even older than you. It was you that got in the comfort zone and didn't see that the field was evolving. While you were satisfied doing Hadoop, some people were thinking of how the job could be done in a different way. And I am not telling here that you should be doing open source, but you should have kept yourself on the loop. It is not unfair, and it's not unique to our profession. there was a time where lobotomy was the hot thing on psychiatry, people probably spent hours honing their skills on it, and then, someday, science evolved and we figured out that those skills were not only useless but also dangerous. Maybe this happens way faster in our profession, but also it is a lot easier for us to keep ourselves current on the state of the art than for a surgeon.

just press the window key and search for the program you want.

As a remote worker, I fear the hype. I am glad that remote work is becoming more and more acceptable and normal, but I think that we run the risk of it becoming a new fad, start being adopted in a rush, in a cargo cult fashion, and that the inevitable failures would lead to a backlash against it.

I would hate to see remote work become another agile.

Exactly. That's what happened in the WWII. This nice tesla factory? Well, we need some nice silent patrol vehicles mr Musk, but we need you to come out with some kind of composite armor for it in 60 days. If you can't do it, don't worry, we will take care of your factory for the duration, and when this is over you can have it again.

Metals are far more important because metals provide better tools and weapons.

Better fibers give more comfort, better resistance to the elements. But, in itself, is not as much transformative as better tools and weapons.

If you went back to the distant past with modern clothes, you'd have some marginal survival advantages, but not enough for your tribe if you needed to fight for scarce resources like food.

So yes, Iron is far more relevant than flax. Because Iron gave better tools, and our history is basically the history of our tools (and weapons)

Richard Nixon carries a lot of responsibility for the current situation. He never ever put the human rights issue on the table, he never pressed on the issue, because from the beginning his sole goal was having access to a cheap workforce, and damned the rest. The Communist Party situation at that time rested on the abuse of power. Nixon just strengthened their position by given market access and capital without pressure on the human rights issues.

Actually, the cynic in me thinks that this was by design. By reinforcing the power of the communist party, american corporations wouldn't have to worry about the chinese workers fighting for better labor and environmental conditions, thus keeping costs low.

For the same reason people do research, that also "pays" a pittance compared to what those people could make in the market. And actually, it at least pays better than the academy. Most of the time you will move to some smaller, cheaper town. Sometimes even living inside a base. You can actually buy a house and have a family with defense wages. Try doing the same doing research on the academy.

Enterprises. Too many people doing this on startups already. But lots of money to be done with training and consulting in the corporate world.

well, not sure if that's the case, but some acts do warrant the participation of the investigations team, or maybe even lawyers. The company has the fiduciary duty of defending herself against hostile actions that threaten their business or existence.

Interrogation. A loaded term to call a 1-on-1. And frankly, 20 protesters?

Yeah. If you had a google account was more or less impossible not to be on Google+. The thing is that engagement was pathetically low. We used to joke that the best password manager would be to post all your secrets in a google+ posting, because nobody would ever see your post.

Until the day this thing is done 100% by robots, thanks, I think I will stick to glasses and lenses.