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A passport is probably the most common ID issued by a federal government entity (Department of State) in the US.

A military ID is a also federal document (Department of Defense) but that only applies to a certain subset of the population.

almost sends a negative signal.

Could you expand on that? Is there some common feature of people who have completed nanodegree courses?

Left-wing newspaper reports on actions of left-wing employees of major tech company based in left-wing geographic area.

I'm quite sure this article is going to be unbiased...

"I get freedom of speech, but I don't believe that people should actually have it."

No one is arguing that people should be harassed "literally all the time" (or ever).

Some of the more egregious deployments of "safe spaces" in universities happened in response to controversial campus speakers who were deemed to have views that were threatening to some students. According to some campus radical leftists, the very presence of such speakers was "violence" and a literal "threat" to marginalized students.

Of course, the students could simply refuse to attend the talks of speakers they didn't like, but that wouldn't make as dramatic a statement as creating an explicit "safe space" where they could congregate.

Is that really true?

If you dry out the used pods and their contents, couldn't they be burned for energy?

There are no secrets to weight loss. Eat fewer calories than you burn. It doesn't matter if that involves keto, or vegan, or one meal a day. Thyroid problems also don't change physics.

The point of the article is, the timing of feeding vs fasting leads to differences in fat storage.

The work of Dr Fung, among others, suggests that concentrating eating into a few (4-8) hour period per day causes better outcomes than feeding during the entire waking period.

Same thing with the balance of macronutrients. Tuning the ratio of fat:protein:carbohydrate can make a diet more filling and more sustainable on fewer calories. This enables that "calories in / calories out" rule to actually work and cause reduction in stored body fat.

The lesson is "quantifying the cost of getting killed".

The method by which that lesson is conveyed to the student is the Socratic method.

The point is that the Socratic method of asking leading questions and building agreement at each stage was more effective in getting the point across than "do you understand X? OK, good."

The student constructs the knowledge him/herself and internalizes it better than otherwise.

Now I work from home where my wife and toddler are. Being home to educate her is worth more than just about anything. I don't have to drive 2 hours every day just to be an ass in a seat. Two hours where all I do is sit in a car and wish to be home.

To be fair, an hour by car each way is on the long side of a commute, at least compared to the US average. (For some cities, it's probably pretty good.)

I maintain that the best way to minimize the effect of a lane closure is to use whatever lanes are legal/open for as long as possible -- because leaving an open lane of travel unused only exacerbates the problem.

I agree with you. Fully packing an 'ending' lane until it actually ends is most efficient from a road usage point of view.

(I have lived for 10+ years in the Boston area but did not grow up there.

In my experience, culture fit is exactly that - a nice way of saying that the candidate was "a huge asshole or complete weirdo."

It's shorthand for "I think they could probably do the work, but I don't think that I/we could actually stand working with this particular candidate".

Culture: "we have a billiards table and like craft beer. YOU SIMPLY CANNOT FIND ANOTHER STARTUP LIKE US!" /sarcasm

Do you mean that the candidate is too inclined to say "that's not my job" when they might be called upon to perform tasks that lie outside their narrow area of focus?

Given the apparently coordinated action taken by Facebook, Twitter, Apple, and YouTube (Google), it doesn't seem to be independent, private companies acting independently.

It may not be a violation of the First Amendment, but it could be bumping up against antitrust law. Taken together, these companies have a significant near-monopoly in content distribution.

It's more like the power company or the gas company cutting you off because they don't like your politics. Yes, technically you can use a generator or get propane delivered, but the question is whether they should be legally allowed to cut you off.

If they are truly a public square and common carrier, then these platforms need to permit all content that does not violate the law.

I don't think this woman went through a rational process of "deciding" that she was upset with YouTube because they are alleged to have cut off the income on her videos.

She snapped, identified the target of her rage, and took violent revenge.

Furthermore, assuming that one's 'consciousness' could actually be brought back in some kind of form that roughly approximates what it was like when one was alive, what's to prevent one's body/brain from being used in some kind of terrible medical experiment?

For example, what if an evil scientist or organization were to buy up cryogenically preserved bodies on the cheap in 300 years?

Yeah, you could say it's unlikely, but why is it more or less likely than being unfrozen into some paradise?

There's no dietary or metabolic need for carbohydrate. The human body can survive and thrive perfectly well with only fat and protein as macronutrients. Practically speaking, doing that is challenging and complicated because most foods are a mix of all three macronutrients.

If "over here" is outside of the US, then it's in a different legal jurisdiction, and the laws are going to be different.

Hahaha. Sorry, but this "we're launching a currency that we don't call a currency but that everybody, including us, knows is meant to be a currency <wink>" is ridiculous.

Why is it ridiculous for a small EU nation to pay lip service to EU regulations with regard to this financial experiment? What would be a better way to do what they're doing?

BTC is not "untraceable money". Everybody has (or can have) a copy of the blockchain, which is the cryptographically signed and verified ledger.

If anything, it is more traceable and public than physical cash. The difference is that you don't know who 63dca1f6eddfb659d71ec5244ab950a4 or e3557c1e589e2a687f6afe1a253196ca are. But when you do associate a person with a given key, that association probably persists over time.

I've never bought anything because I saw it on facebook or in a google ad or anywhere else like that.

Can you be certain that this is true? Perhaps you didn't click through (I don't either), but what if your unconscious mind saw an ad that you did not register consciously.

I'm not saying remove the human element entirely, but there's a lot of low hanging fruit in education to consider where technological automation can help improve the productivity of educators.

This x1000. With all the improvement in educational technology, it's weird that the gold standard of elite education apparently remains the lecture.

I am reminded of the quote: College is a place where a professor’s lecture notes go straight to the students’ lecture notes, without passing through the brains of either.

Part of the issue is that college-as-elite-networking-venue needs to remain scarce, by definition, if it is to retain its value. If everyone can "go to Harvard" (through online delivery, enhanced ed-tech, automation, etc) then the scarcity is lessened. When you go to an elite college, you don't just get an education, you get association with a brand that, you hope, retains and increases in value.

What do education and mental health issues have to do with this?

Don't read too much into it.

He's only using "cult" as a provocative term to describe a tribe of fans who passionately like a particular brand. Nobody's going to be committing human sacrifices or burning heretics on behalf of Mr Money Mustache any time soon.

Exactly. And the UI of a phone has become increasingly elementary and unsophisticated compared to even a keyboard and mouse. Being an end user of mobile games or Snapchat or Tinder (swipe-swipe-tap-swipe) simply doesn't prepare you for Emacs or vim.

Exactly right. The unstated but important knowledge of Stupid Computer Shit We All Know was spun by the media as "Evil Bigot Paul Graham Says That Only Suburban White Kids Who Have Used Computers Since Age 6 Can Ever Be Successful Tech Entrepreneurs". Which was not at all what he was saying but ... media gonna media.

Great to read that vector toolbar icons and Gtk3 are on their radar screen. HiDPI devices have been rolling out for 3+ years, so I hope the fixes get in soon.

This happens every year after the Christmas quarter and the tech idiots always proclaim that it's the last nail in the coffin for Apple.

Could a private citizen following a dietary protocol actually be sued for infringement of a patent? Seems absurd, not to mention highly unenforceable.