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No, this is not about classes.

This is about organisations exhibiting qualities that none of the individuals who make up those organisations exhibit.

If you're disadvantaged because of your race, then it's racism.

It's important to be clear: the outcome is racist even when no individual is being racist. You can't be reductionist about this, you can't decompose the company into its individual employees and give any of them individually the blame for racist hiring outcomes. It's an emergent phenomenon: it is the company as a whole that is racist and the company as a whole that is at fault.

There is relevant data, but I don't know where it is, sorry.

I am under the impression that this sort of under-the-radar hiring occurs enough to be a significant cause of institutional racism in hiring. (If your existing employees are disproportionately white, and their friends and acquaintances are disproportionately white, then new employees who fill a position before it is publicly advertised will be disproportionately white; and this is without anyone being overtly or consciously racist, and without non-whites being discouraged in any way from applying.)

If you have connections, you can land the job before it is advertised publicly; therefore the job won't be advertised publicly.

If you don't have connections, you can't land a job that isn't advertised publicly.

Publicly advertising a job is tedious.

Of course it makes a difference.

If I am paid annually in arrears, I must live off savings or credit for the first year. I pay off the loans and rebuild my savings at the end of the first year, but must dip into them again to get me through the second year. And so on.

And I run the risk that my employer goes bust just before paying my salary and I lose out on a year's wages (if paid monthly, I only risk a month's wages).

Meanwhile, if I'm paid annually in advance, this will surely cause my employer cashflow issues, leading them to only be able to afford paying a lower salary; but I can't effectively use a paid-annually income, because most of my expenses are monthly. And if/when I move jobs, I will probably have to repay salary.

I am paid monthly in arrears. If I was paid annually in arrears, I would have cashflow issues, would have a greater need of short term loans, and would want a larger salary to compensate me for this.

Most of my expenses (credit card, utility bills, mortgage, ...) are monthly; annual and ad hoc expenses combined are less than this. So it makes sense for my salary to come in monthly as well.

Re haptic feedback:

I'm forever feeling my phone vibrate in my pocket when it isn't vibrating... and still manage not to notice when it does vibrate.

Perhaps I would perceive the signal more accurately if it was on my wrist instead of my thigh.

Personally, I find tv and radio ads extremely annoying. But everyone who's experienced it finds my habit of muting the tv during ad breaks to be very strange.

So I can easily believe that I am in a small minority on this.

On the other hand, I generally don't object to adverts in newspapers and magazines.

For location-timezone, try http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tz_database

For country-currency, scrape Wikipedia?

Adverts opening the App Store without permission.

Windows/MS-DOS had file extensions (which it inherited from CP/M) before it had directories and directory separators.

Did CP/M and Unix independently come up with file extensions with a dot separator, or did they acquire it from the same source? I'm dimly aware of other operating systems that use(d) a different character (AS/400?), but it's outside my ken.

That depends on the website you want to create.

1. Add an entry to ~/.ssh/config instead of adding a bash alias: it works with scp/sftp as well as ssh.

e.g.

  Host dev
  Port 22222
  IdentityFile ~/.ssh/icantreadwhatyourprivatekeyfilescalled
  User dev
  HostName dev.web3box.com

Read man ssh_config.

2. Why in the world are you running sudo? Even if you are logging in as root on the remote server, sudo only has an affect on the local machine.

Credit card, ideally in GBP, with the caveat that I don't want to be forced to care who is processing the payment. e.g. I prefer not to pay by credit card via Paypal, because then I have to go through the hassle of resetting my Paypal password before I am allowed to pay.

It reminds me of websites that insert live stock quotes into their stories.

- generally the information / buy it now link isn't of interest to readers

- more useful generally would be a link to an internal encyclopaedia page: give the reader more information about the company/book, and include stock quotes / buy it now links on that page

- if it's truly useful enough to include inline in the article, the journalist will put it there manually

- a middle ground would be to pull stock quotes / buy it now links out of the main text into the margin

What's the advantage of this over hiding your service behind spiped?

#10 on the front page, 125 point, 64 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8177063

Are you trying to say that their service is implemented using Docker?

The page crashed the tab after I swiped onto the third slide.

Does it name any particular mobile operators at any point, or is it just FUD?

If a comment really is factually incorrect then a downvote is appropriate, but some comments that at first glance appear to be factually incorrect are really just opinions.

1. How much money would the site be paying out?

2. Where would that money come from?

Why are USB controllers reprogrammable?

Is it in the standard? (Why?)

Or is it cheaper somehow?

What happened to IBM?

My droplet is still up (Amsterdam).

Is it just NYC 2 that's down? https://status.digitalocean.com

9.7" is a small display.

No.

Why do you think C might be dead?

Step 1: buy a Mac :-/

Bug report: all cities appear as black text on a white background, regardless of the local time. Safari on iOS.

My cats don't wear collars either, but they've still been chipped.

Why does it need face recognition?

Why can't it detect your cat's chip? Wouldn't that be simpler?

Do cats not get chipped in America?