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anything specific come to mind?

it is in the post, they are taken in custody of the state

See "Software Engineering at Google" https://abseil.io/resources/swe-book/html/ch11.html, the definition of a "small test".

This is roughly my definition of unit test: "tests run in a single process"

It is true. What your imaginary businessperson is saying is also true.

It's bullshit jobs all the way down.

Article is basically a rant against feminism.

What does this have to do with "gratifying one's intellectual curiosity"?

That's client side. If you load 3rd party content into your browser or fail to block, that's on you. I thought usage of ublock origin/privacy badger could be implicitly assumed among the HN crowd.

This Social Cooling site is nonsense.

If you don't like the idea of someone maintaining a "digital reputation" based on your activity on platform X, don't use platform X. It's that simple.

Also: "We should compare this problem to Global Warming." Similarities? Social cooling is subtle and complex, just like global warming! Such insight.

It's open source. You can always start your own fork, no?

I've established a significant portion of my important friendships through work.

I think it happens more easily in smaller companies for sure. Big corporations seem more hollow.

Finn here. Results have been negative on this so far, at least for students before high school [1]. Most children at that stage aren't yet capable of self-directed learning. Problem is compounded by the distractive effect of digital equipment in class.

[1] https://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/finlands_digital-based_cu...

Is there a way for a small, non-institutional investor to participate in Universa?

I'm not the author, sorry. Just spotted this on the Google Summer of Code projects list. Read through the paper too, quite creative stuff. I suppose Bluetooth was just an example as the project is still kind of proof of concept at present.

I guess that's how most startups get started AFAIK?

Why couldn't you just let the back button be for god's sake? It makes no sense to override it like that.

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/treerover-a-tree-planting...

Not quite 1/second, but imagine having a bunch of these running around in your neighbourhood.

+1 for avoiding frameworks and extensions that don't play along with the IDE. I've only recently realized just how much the supposed productivity gains of those tools evaporate when your workflow gets bogged down.

I think what flyinglizard had in mind were fields where learning occurs through theory first and foremost, and only secondarily through practice. Software obviously is a craft where the act of implementing is really the major part, and thus you are by default learning through practice with theoretical studying being the exception.

Now consider the math courses you take at college for example. Here the important part is to learn and understand deeply abstract concepts, but then you explicitly need to practice in order to tie them together so you are actually able to use this knowledge.

I think both aspects of assimilating knowledge are absolutely crucial in all domains, but often one of them is naturally the default, while the other requires some effort.

I think this is a bit of an oversimplification. You must consider compounding when talking about rounding errors. A single matrix operation with hundreds of rows and columns can easily have millions of multiplications. At every multiplication the previous error gets multiplied. That's why I don't feel the answer was exhaustive.

This might well be what we're looking for: http://www.techtimes.com/articles/93169/20151008/washing-mac...

I liked the idea. Leasing them to some kind of intermediary partially defeats the purpose of what decentralized paying tech enables. The bidding and negotiation will happen naturally as any 14 year old hacker may put out their mowers to run around cutting grass for paying customers, prices will act accordingly.

I truly hope these kinds of changes will happen. The thing is, in the best case scenario it might be a somewhat natural process. For example what you are saying about the attitudes towards lazy people and progressive taxation. I'd definitely see it going to get better as time moves on, as the best jobs seem to unequivocally get progressively more pleasurable for those who want to pursue them. Then there would be no incentive to get fed up about the slackers, as your work gets closer to truly doing what you love for a living.

Also, makes me think a bit differently about companies like Uber etc. They are essentially enabling a part of the mechanisms you're talking about.

I must say I'm not sure if "society having you covered" is quite the issue here. Yes, being a Finn, I can attest on having most of your bullet-point list, as relating to the case at hand, covered. But it doesn't necessarily solve the knee-jerk reaction some people are having for these sorts of innovations.

It always strikes me a bit odd when someone from SV comments on societal questions. People from different backgrounds and different walks of life don't obviously share the same worldview, of course those people well off have a harder time relating to those lower on the economic spectrum. But somehow it feels almost like there's a physical discontinuum between the "tech" people, and other people, who don't breathe and live their work, who are just happy to keep whatever job that keeps food on the table. I believe a big part of this is that most folks, contrary to tech, don't have to actively learn on the job. That's why the common answer to start re-educating yourself isn't really a viable alternative for most average people in their 30s-40s.

Don't get me wrong, I think it's very much unfortunate that societal issues get in the way of progress that in the long run will make everyone better off. I'm just saying that the things you have listed aren't necessarily the only factor in solving this problem. It's like considering people and their lives only as a function of income and expenses, when there are really a host of other factors also at play here.

Yeah, but why would you do that? What would warrant considering that it would just be pure coincidence that the 7 best performers happen to have below average empathy scores? Of course there will be outliers in data. You must consider that there are also outliers on the bottom end of the math scale who seem to score above average on empathy.

What if the math group would have been up in the upper right hand corner? Would you then have made the same observation?

I don't really buy the "my children aren't good at everything but not bad at everything either so lets pick one", which was mentioned earlier. The questionnaire considered both SQ-C and EQ-C, and correlation was found between only one of them. You'd think both would have then been found to correlate.

Pretty sure it would throw some kind of low level error as that would disable all kinds of basic IO.

Somehow i just don't get why this is so popular? Someone care to elaborate on what i may have missed? As far as i understand, it doesn't even simulate the real life condition very well, as some dyslexia sufferers here have pointed out.

But those are just presumptions, thats why we do quantitative studies in the first place.

Can you share the space with other people wearing VR? Collaborating in something like this would really make it for me.

Why was this downvoted? The parent comment clearly shows a lack of familiarity with statistics.

No pesky + or - at line-stars, making for easier copy-paste.

I wonder if easing copypasting is a good or bad thing..

There are studies showing that a lot of the negative health effects can be attributed to just the sitting, regardless of the amount of exercise[1]. Personally I can really recommend looking into the standing desk. Also great if you tend to get kinda restless after sitting up for long periods, like me.

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3404815/