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It would take approximately 5,714 balloons to actually lift a 175 lb person into the air thereby obviously strangling them. However, it only takes 11 lbs of force to choke someone to death so it seems that around 357 balloons should do the trick.
> Basically, it (an algorithm) looks for the largest image on the page that is somewhat squareish (it has to be less than 1.5:1). If two or more images are tied for largest, then it does the one that is found last in the html.
From late 2012 tho, the code for it was even available but the GitHub link in the comment is broken so you'll have to find it again
Also to all y'all linking to code on GitHub, read this so ya don't fuck it up
edit: Also also: http://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/3y3rgt/eli5_what_determines_the_picture_you_see_next_to/cyad2p3
They say that nobody can handle their scale.
Back here in reality, it's because their apps are made by hundreds of developers, without any decent oversight and planning. They call this their 'hacker culture'. I call it incompetent fuckery: without a lead developer overseeing the project, without architects planning stuff out, any project of a large size will result in shitty code.
The BBC pays about £7 million (around $10 million) per season of Top Gear. Netflix pays about $9 million per episode of Marco Polo. I'd think snapping up these three and giving them a million bucks an episode to drive subscriptions would be a no-brainer.
Hell, I'd pay $10 a month just to have a Top Gear channel on my Roku. Motor racing coverage, weekly car news, Top Gear specials and reruns available whenever I wanted.
(Brits, please correct me if my placement of the £ symbol was wrong.)
Guy from NASA: >Astronauts spend more than two hours a day exercising. A lot of that time is running on a treadmill. Even though there is no noticeable pull from gravity, there is still inertia. So while they are running on the treadmill, their rib cage is constantly changing its direction of motion and other more delicate parts are resisting those changes. That's a lot of stress, so sports bras are commonly used during exercise. When not exercising, it is up to the preference of the individual astronauts and not really our business.
https://www.quora.com/Do-female-astronauts-wear-bras-in-space
Bringing Matt Damon home is really expensive!
It may require a budget more than a "penny for NASA" to do it :)
Someone on quora.com asked who should be the next POTUS. This is currently the top answer:
> I used to be a proud Texas Republican. Four years ago I moved to Germany with the energy industry. After living in Germany for three years, I came to know first-hand the incredible advantages of living in a Democratic Socialist country. I got to see up close how a single-payer healthcare system works under capitalism -- it's magnificent. I got to see how free university education works under capitalism -- it's terrific. I got to see lots of the Democratic Socialist programs that Bernie Sanders has been fighting for his entire career, and I saw them work under capitalism.
> I'm now a Bernie Sanders supporter. I believe he is the best chance we have.
Nants ingonyama bagithi baba [Here comes a lion, Father]
Sithi uhm ingonyama [Oh yes, it's a lion]
Nants ingonyama bagithi baba [Here comes a lion, Father]
Sithi uhm ingonyama [Oh yes, it's a lion]
Ingonyama [It's a lion]
Siyo Nqoba [We're going to conquer]
Because you have this horrible situation where people believe the US is getting the best healthcare in the world, are terrified of socialism to the point where even beneficial things like single-payer healthcare makes USians clutch their pearls in horror, and people fervently believe that the US is subsidising healthcare for the rest of the world despite that being patently untrue.
In short, marketing has made a large percentage of US citizens believe their healthcare system is a good thing.
According to this in one litre of water, you'd need 300-400 grams to mimic the salinity of the Dead Sea. That's about ~~a quarter of a pound~~ three quarters of a pound of salt to about a quarter of a gallon.
edit: Thanks to /u/WitchHunterNL for the correction!
Try it yourself and get back to us.
No, Mario and Luigi don't have last names. The "Mario" surname is not canon:
https://www.quora.com/What-is-Mario-and-Luigis-last-name
Shigeru Miyamoto: This is an old story, but Hollywood did a film version of the Mario Bros. many years back. There was a scene in the script where they needed a last name for the characters. Somebody suggested that, because they were the Mario Bros., their last name should be Mario. So, they made him "Mario Mario." I heard this and laughed rather loudly. Of course, this was ultimately included in the film. Based on the film, that's [how] their names ended up. But, just like Mickey Mouse doesn't really have a last name, Mario is really just Mario and Luigi is really just Luigi.
Most of the animals on Earth, and all of the vertebrates, are unable to make blue or green pigments. Animals without fur compensate for this by using refraction effects to separate out the blue light, such as micro-barbs on feathers or micro-scales on reptiles or tiny ridges on the skin of amphibians.
But mammals are covered in fur and lack scales or feather, so this method isn't available to us. Fur is a lot like feathers, but a hair doesn't bifurcate; it doesn't have the little barbs that can scatter blue light like bird feathers do. Mammalian fur can be made the right thickness to scatter blue light, as in some breeds of dogs or cats, but it's still not a very intense blue, and even then it doesn't serve as well as insulation or as padding, so there's a trade-off involved, and among wild animals, it generally hasn't been worth it.
Some mammals, like sloths, allow symbiotic green algae to grow in and on their fur to create a green color, but sloths are pretty weird.
https://www.quora.com/Why-is-green-camouflage-so-rare-among-mammals
Costco has a great reputation as a company in general. For employees, they are paid well, have good benefits, and are treated well. Plus their prices are good because they make deals with companies for exclusives - instead of regularly undercutting other stores on the same products, in addition to other good business practices.
What is going to blow your mind is that the Big Mac is exactly the same size it ever was. American's expectations of portion sizes have changed. You are so used to being fed enormous things that the Big Mac is now a shockingly small thing. https://www.quora.com/McDonalds-fast-food-chain/Has-the-size-of-a-Big-Mac-changed-over-the-years
According to Quora:
> What you are seeing in these videos is a test of this Evergreen Supertanker plane ... The early tests are done at altitude to ensure that the jetison method works correctly and also to ensure that the changes in weight/balance occur in a way that is controllable; dumping that amount of water quickly will have an affect on those elements which in turn effect the controlability of the aircraft.
Essentially this is a 747 designed to distinguish wild fires, as it can hold more water than lower-flying aircraft. According to Wikipedia, the 747 Supertanker can carry up to 19,600 gallons (74,200 liters) of retardant or water for 4,000 miles (6,400 km), and is the largest aerial firefighting aircraft in the world.
Any responses to "how much do pornstars make" I can find seem to place $5000 for a no name girl doing fairly tame porn as ridiculously high. That's even without the fact that these guys are bullying her in to it rather than enticing her. They could pay her $500 and it would look legit.
https://www.quora.com/How-much-do-top-porn-stars-make
EDIT: People who are taking this story at face value, I have to ask, are you new to the internet? There's no evidence that this happened and you're all genuinely getting upset? People lie. ALL THE TIME. I'm not saying the girl is a liar. I don't know if she is. But I also have absolutely zero reason to believe the story is true. Do you think the idea that a girl who consensually did porn and later regretted it or was shamed for it might make up a sob story is that outrageous that it's not a possibility? What about a creative writing major making shit up so they can send links to their friends and get pats on the back for how convincing they are? What about some guy was just really bored one time and decided to make some shit up? Someone spending $5000 + plane tickets to film a girl unwillingly when they could pay way less to have an enthusiastic girl is such a valid thing to you that none of these other options occurred as a possibility? You have absolutely no reason to believe this story is true, why the hell are you outraged and "feel sick"? Something being terrible is not evidence that it's true.
You mentioned a kiwi. I used to eat a lot of kiwis as a kid. Sometimes there would be a hard white piece inside at the (stem?) end about the size of your "tooth."
I think that's what you have but cursory googling didn't give me any results.
(Edit) This guy asked a question about a white spear inside his kiwi but no one has answered him. I'm 90% sure you encountered the same thing.
https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-spear-like-white-thing-on-the-inside-end-of-the-kiwi-fruit
Using your $10^18 per day figure, after one day the entire world would be ~1 quintillion(still basically 10^18 ) dollars in debt (if my source and math are correct).
After ~9 seconds, the entire world would hit bankruptcy. And after ~50 milliseconds, the 2015 US entertainment industry would likely hit bankruptcy.
This is some scary civilization-destroying stuff, more of a threat than ISIL... or, it would be if duplicating information actually caused a loss of money.
I don't know how many times this must be stated, but intelligence is not an indicator of morality.
A good quora post about the effects banning Marijuana had in India, it was made illegal because of western pressure in the 80s and clubbed it with harder, more harmful drugs. This fuelled a drug industry because since the risks were equal, people preferred to trade for harder drugs for more profit margins. Many healthy pot smokers became helpless drug addicts.
I dearly hope that it's legalized in India again. I know we have many more severe problems, but tobacco and alcohol take up valuable resources because of their health impact, and many will prefer shifting to the safer drug. To add to it, ganja use is so ancient in India that it can be considered as our cultural heritage.
edit: just noticed that I've used 'because since' together...
Less than 10% of the world's money actually exists in the form of notes and coins.
That's not worrying at all.
During year one, any armor that gave you more heavy ammo caused a bug which would reduce your carried ammo upon death, returning to orbit, or even viewing a cutscene.
This was a prevalent problem during the Crota's End raid, because rockets (and Gjallarhorn especially) were the most efficient means of DPSing Crota to take down his shield in time for the Swordbearer to smash him with the sword.
Many people would wait around in their raids for 5 minutes at a time while the ammo synth cooled down. This was also how the heavy ammo glitch was found, to be able to farm the Acolytes and Knights in the Crystal Room and have plenty of heavy ammo.
People also thought this bug was trivially easy to fix. And that Bungie was purposely not fixing it, because, fuck me, that's why.
It turned out to be a logical race condition with how Destiny handles heavy ammo, and the perks on armor that increased the capacity of that ammo.
That's a very simplified explanation of the bug. But the date on which Bungie confirmed the fix for this bug was January 29, 2015. Destiny released September ~~15~~ 9, 2014. For a lot of people on this subreddit, those four months were a long fucking time.
Read the Weekly Update from that day: https://www.bungie.net/en/News/News?aid=12540
You can also marvel at how stylish and flowery DeeJ's prose used to be.
Jon Cable fixed a ten-year-old bug (not a Destiny bug). Ten fucking years old.
Whenever people assume that shit is easy to fix, and that there is infinite man-hours available to a developer to fix something, I always link them to this thread, which talks about one of the weirdest bugs I've ever seen: https://www.quora.com/Whats-the-hardest-bug-youve-debugged/answer/Dave-Baggett
When I was a kid I don't think weren't any Lego weapons made (we had to build our own). Looking at their product lines page today about half of them show someone holding a weapon.
edit: Found this page with a timeline of Lego weapons.
This may be an example of a classic problem in recommendation systems (a class of machine learning systems) called "the Harry Potter problem."
Essentially, because everyone buys Harry Potter, every book is related to Harry Potter.
https://www.quora.com/Recommendation-Systems/What-exactly-is-Harry-Potter-Problem
Warning to only subscribe if you also watch all of his videos. YouTube has algorithms that will actually penalize him if he has like 100k subscribers but his videos only get 300 views each. You are doing a disservice to his channel if you subscribe and fail to watch his videos.
YouTube also gives bonuses for engagement (likes, comments, and shares), so please make sure you do that to his videos. Otherwise clicking "subscribe" will not help.
Source: have worked in social media marketing for 6+ years
EDIT: Changed the subscriber to view ratio to make more sense
EDIT 2: I should also mention that actually watching Bernie's videos will help him show up in "Recommended Videos" / "Up Next" videos, because YouTube's latest algorithm focuses on displaying videos in those sections that users have watched more of. Source: YouTube partner talking about it on Quora (he says engagement doesn't matter as much anymore, but I still say it can't help to engage with the video via likes/comments/shares, especially for those friends you have who ever look at your Google+ activity): https://www.quora.com/Does-youtube-use-an-advanced-algorithm-for-related-videos
I thought the ISS only had dial-up speed for their Internet connection. Did they get a DVD sent up?
Edit: I looked around and found this article which states:
>According to Mr. Frost, the astronauts say it is like dialup, which makes sense.
So it is like dialup but that is due to the tremendous lag and because they are bouncing image data (for security purposes) around on satellites.
This quote caught my attention, because it provides a substantial justification for not using the term "State":
> 30,000 to 50,000 fighters, Daesh is a relatively small group
In Iraq and Syria, Daesh claims 40000 fighters and about 60000 supporters. How does this compare to real countries on a per capita basis? Giving IS/Daesh the most charitable assumptions, we compare them only to states currently at war or in civil war:
- United States: 1,369,532 people were on active duty; pop 318M (4310 per million)
- ~~Columbia~~ Colombia: 444,518 active; population 48M (9260 per million)
- Ukraine: 280,000 active; 60,000 deployed; population 34M (excluding ethnic Russians)(8200 or 1700 per million)
- Israel: 176,500 active; population 8M (22000 per million)
So if Daesh was organized the same as the Ukrainian military, they would be suitable to defend a country of either 5 million or 21 million people, depending on whether the 40,000 Daesh fighters are considered "deployed". A conservative estimate of Daesh-controlled regions of Iraq puts their population at 7~8 million. So Daesh "military" is quite small compared to that of real countries involved in conflicts, especially when considering the fact that they are fighting on-the-ground conflicts on at least three fronts against actual state militaries.
I'd blame that on the awful education system which promotes rote memorisation over actual understanding of how things work, and also emphasis on grades over actual learning, which means that they don't ask the question on SO to learn, but so that they can copy paste it on their assignment/practical book and be done with it. Who cares how the code works, I'll take that A++ grade, thank you.
A thread on quora about this: https://www.quora.com/How-are-students-in-Indian-colleges-taught-programming
Source : Frustrated college student in India. :(
Edit: Okay, since this is getting upvoted, lemme share a story that happened to me a few months ago.
I was getting ready for my practical exam and my number was about to be called. Outside the practical exam hall, I witnessed two classmates memorising programs word by word, like a rap battle. One would recite it, the other would correct her if she made a mistake. Then they'd switch turns every program until they'd gotten it right exactly.
The thing about ASOIAF that you might not know if you haven't read the books is there are an ABSURD number of characters, and they are almost all fleshed out at least a little bit. I honestly wouldn't doubt if more named characters died in the Red Wedding chapter than in all of Harry Potter.
edit: After some research only 14 named characters died in the RW, 15 if you include Robb's wolf. I may have overestimated, but yeah, ASOIAF easily has more deaths.
Those laptops don't run the station. They are just for communication and experiments. For station-keeping they use very cool redundant hardware: https://www.quora.com/What-are-computers-used-for-on-the-ISS
edit: more info on the MDM
Like the B-52, these aircraft have been bought and paid for. They are well-known quantities to operate and have more than amortized their investment at this point.
Effective? Depends on the mission. Most of these missions are "freedom of navigation" exercises in international airspace and are testing air defenses to gather intelligence. You'd never use a Tu-95 as a bomber now but as a big platform for sensors and gathering information, definitely.
Part of it is symbolism. Flag-waving to say "Hey, we're Russia and we're still here!". The other part is practicality. They have lots of them, know how to maintain and fly them and it is cheap to do so. For the same reason the USA still maintains its fleet of B-52s.
This is deliberate conduct. It has been done for decades. Just the military form of saying "Hello" to your neighbors. The Russians do it. The Chinese do it. The USA does it. Russia is simply one of the few that decides to go a long way to wave the flag sometimes.
In actual conflict, both the Tu-95 and B-52 would be used as standoff missile carriers, well away from opposing air defenses. As in hundreds of nautical miles away. Both aircraft show up like the proverbial barn door on radar and would be easy pickings for most weapons and interceptors. And not modern interceptors. Interceptors in the late 1950s and 1960s had the ability to down them. Along with surface-to-air missiles. The medium and high altitude environment for either bomber would be a death sentence.
> Young people with nothing to do love to rebel. The democratic movement still burns underground in China.
I definitely agree with your first statement but your second statement made me laugh. The Chinese are much more pragmatic than you think. Sure, they might hate the CCP for its rampant corruption, but there's still much work left to be done until China can become a developed country.
Transgenderism is so widely supported by feminism and SJWs because it involves the actual surgical removal and discarding of the principle symbol of patriarchy and male dominance, and that is the penis.
Why do I say this? Because if you look at the stats, the vast, overwhelming majority of transgenders are male to female, not female to male. Trust me, if the majority of trannies was creating a net increase in more male shitlords, this whole phenomenon would be identified as the mental disorder that it is.
This is why the line has been blurred in society. If you notice, if you come out as anti-tranny, you are automatically slapped with the misogyny label. If you don't like trannies, you hate women is the new narrative.
CPU: I can compute a complex task that can't be broken up into independent parts very fast. I can do this very accurately.
GPU: I can compute a lot of dumb independent tasks at the same time very fast, especially if these tasks are all the same but the data differs. I can do this very accurately.
Brain: I combine computation and memory into one for increased efficiency, I'm an extremely parallel processor that can hardly handle any serial execution at all, only up to about 10 steps. I'm not very accurate, you could say I'm probabilistic as I store my data sparsely.
Edit: Explanation of the 10 step thing by one guy on Quora:
> It takes ~100ms for human to recognise a picture. Brain works in 7Hz - 100Hz range so the neurons can fire up to 10x times at most - so not more than 10 layers... simplifying of course as it's much more complicated than that.
There was a very specific plan, and it was introduced as H.R. 2962; the bill is currently in committee.
The plan was announced at the beginning of 2015, so there's no election for Obama to be concerned over (though a success could have value for Democrats generally in the next election cycle). Most bills don't get passed quickly after introduction (an average of over 260 days), and budget-related bills can take even longer.
Dear /u/athiem,
You are in a very vulnerable position at the moment, but by reaching out for help on a public forum shows that you possess a great deal of bravery that many people will never have. That alone makes your life worth living.
First of all, do you have a plan for ending your life, or are you just thinking about it? If it's the former, then you should call the National Suicide Hotline at 1 (800) 273-8255 right away.
If it's the latter, please talk to us. Have your parents explicitly told you they would kick you out of the house if you don't serve a mission? This Quora answer explains your options if this happens. There are options.
Are you still in school? Do you have a psychologist to talk to? Try to get in touch with a non-LDS one. You can tell your parents that you're "searching for relief" or some bullshit. Here's a list of LGBTQ-affirming psychologists in Utah. There are options.
Unless you have a super magical Seer Stone (which don't really work), you have no way of knowing that you'll never meet a man who'll love you back. Don't think about that at the moment. Think about your safety and where you're going to stay in the near future.
We're here.
Edit: PM me if you like. I'm a bisexual man who has suffered from depression and suicidal thoughts and was unable to come out for years.
Tom isn't worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Not even close.
He also wasn't responsible for selling MySpace. Intermix decided that.
By the time MySpace was sold, the founders had been diluted down to a sliver of ownership, and barely had any power over the company. That tweet by Tom, was him lying and over-compensating, which tells you something. The founders sold most of their position in MySpace for a mere $3.3 million to Intermix, one of the dumbest moves in recent tech history.
See the book: Stealing MySpace
The more credible accounts of the sale, indicate Tom got closer to $15 to $30 million from Fox buying the company.
http://content.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1887329,00.html
Good points about him being more damaged.
He should have been able to kill those innocent people as easily as the other Stormtroopers. His conditioning would have justified those actions, possibly convincing him that anyone outside the First Order is evil and deserves death.
I think there has to be more to the story with Finn, because right now the backstory is trivial. Why even have the Stormtroopers conditioned at birth? Why not have them be volunteers or drafted? That would make Finn's transition more convincing.
I assume it's because it's not the empire with many civilians. I think it's suppose to be a post-apocalyptic dystopian version of the empire. Which is really cool. The only way I can conceive that it's going to work is if Finn ends up being someone who has some sort of natural resistance to conditioning.
EDIT: I did a google search and it looks like there is some explanation of Finn and his time as a Stormtrooper before TFA in the prequel novel Before the Awakening. It's been summarized here.
Noam Chomsky was not a Khmer Rouge genocide denialist, that is a persistent fabrication and a poor attempt to disrepute one of the finest and most honest scholars of our time.
He was selectively quoted from his book (that he co-authored with Edward S. Herman) After the Cataclysm (1979) to give the expression that he was a Pol-Pot apologist.
However in reality what he criticised was how Khmer Rouge activities got all media attention possible, according to him because the perpetrator was a communist, but Indonesian invasion of East-Timor that happened around the same time was completely ignored by the media, presumably because Indonesia had become an ally of US. This was his message, he is true in saying that and the whole Khmer Rouge apologist argument is just a pathetic way to try to discredit him.
Please do not spread this lie any further, I understand how you might not have been aware of the true nature of this since practically all established media was spouting the same fabrication of the truth.
Here is an easy-to-access source but if you really want to be convinced please read his book After the cataclysm - his message in there is as clear as a day.
This is plagiarized. I am the author and this experience happened to me. No animals were euthanized. Original post was here: https://www.quora.com/Animal-Behavior/Would-a-lone-adult-wolf-be-able-to-take-down-an-unarmed-athletic-adult-human/answer/Oliver-Starr
I am @owstarr and the person that posted this is scum for ripping off an experience and acting as if it was his own. Hope Reddit has a special place in shamedom for this dupe.
Incidentally, more of my wolf specific content is here: https://www.quora.com/search?q=Oliver+Starr+wolves
I also respond to questions about wolves and wildlife/bushcraft on @wolfwlkr @owstarr and on FB. Incidentally my current critter, is @Aqutaq.
Yishan this past week:
> Thus, I don't think reddit is putting a stop to the mockery of fat people or fat acceptance in general. It's not becoming a "safe space" for fat people or anyone else: if you mention on reddit that you are fat, and a bunch of users then reply with a bunch of mocking comments on reddit, the company will likely take no action. It's not banning distasteful subreddits - the subreddits it is banning may be distasteful, but that's not why they are being banned. I see reddit as taking steps to ban subreddits which have a record of causing direct harm to individuals off-site as a result of their users' or mods' actions. > > In my opinion, this continues to uphold the general "freedom of speech" ethos originated during my time. To make an analogy: The United States does not outlaw groups that discuss, mock, or demonize certain ethnicities. What this situation is more like is if some group in the United States decide to do that and then began organizing trips overseas to other countries to unlawfully attack or harm people of that ethnicity. Those countries would be right to petition the United States to exercise some control over its citizens, and it would be right to outlaw or curtail the activities of that group. > > You are free to be an asshole on reddit (within communities whose mods allow it), but keep it on reddit
Sources vary, but I gather Jupiter has less than 2% of the mass it would need to sustain nuclear fusion. It makes up 77% of the total mass of the planets, so I guess even if they all collided it still wouldn't make a star.
The situation and why France is a target is quite complex, and unfortunately your're going to get largely "because Muslims hate progress" answers. But reality is it's not quite that simple. Part of the issue is that France, while it tries to claim it's progressive, is really not. This question/answer already goes over the issues going on within France: https://www.quora.com/Why-are-there-so-many-more-terrorist-attacks-in-France-than-anywhere-else-in-Europe
So you have France, which is progressive but also has this uncomfortable underlying racism that it would rather not admit to, and you have immigrants realizing that France sucks for them but can't really go anywhere else. Throw in extremists capitalizing on this situation by convincing young men that the situation will never change unless they blow shit up, and you have terrorism.
And what the "Muslim's are bad, M-kay" brigade doesn't realize is they contribute to the recruitment of Muslims by painting the entire religion with the same brush. "There are Muslim extremist terrorists, so therefore all Muslims are extremists."
They fail to realize there are also violent white rightwingers and they'd really hate it if we said anyone who was a right wing conservative in the US was a domestic terrorist due to McVeigh.
So, just remember things are not as simple as people wish they could be.
Well, apparently they don't underpay them, but require them to have high working hours:
> If you're joining Tesla, you're joining a company to work hard. We're not trying to sell you a bill of goods. If you can go work for another company and then maybe you can work a 40-hour work week. But if you work for Tesla, the minimum is really a 50-hour week and there are times when it'll be 60- to 80-hour weeks.
I can only assume, but with so many hours a week, the pay must be really good for people to stay. I get roughly the same impression from reading their employee reviews.
apparently, yes, it's owned by the office. so says quora
Total amount of cows in the world is 1.4 billion. On average we eat 0.047 cows per person per year.
So: 7000000000 times 0.047 = 280 million cows
1400000000/280000000= 5
So in about 5 years there would be no more. Also I guess milk would get in demand pretty quickly.
Sources: https://www.quora.com/How-many-chickens-cows-pigs-and-fish-does-an-average-human-consume-in-a-year http://www.statista.com/statistics/263979/global-cattle-population-since-1990/
I tried to find some legitimate website sources and here are two things I found:
http://blogs.discovery.com/animal_news/2012/09/birds-found-holding-funerals-for-their-dead.html
https://www.quora.com/Sadness/What-is-the-saddest-post-on-internet-that-you-have-come-across
No scientific journals, but at least something that can probably help guide more research on the topic.
I was going to ask what your thoughts were on Blackwater's anti piracy service, but in looking it up I found this. Now it's not so much a question, but posting of something interesting I just learned.
> the racial tension is higher now than I've ever seen it
What are you basing this statement on?
edit: I found this discussion enlightening. https://www.quora.com/Is-America-getting-more-racist-or-is-racism-just-getting-more-attention-now
I think it is just as likely that media attention on racial issues is higher vs an actual increase in racial tension. Simply put, you might be biased based on what you see in the media. I tried to find some data on racism over time. Only found between countries. Maybe someone else knows of some data?
There is a media cycle that ebbs and flows, but a language takes a long time to unfold in its development.
The move to D2 was a real change - happened only a few years back. The downside was it cut off some older work, but it unified the standard libraries and now it's a much superior language. Downloads keep growing, so rumours of its death have been just a little exaggerated ;)
Rust and Go serve different purposes. Languages aren't in a fight to the death - plenty of room for everyone, and the requirements of different domains aren't the same.
Go is a nice and simple language, fast enough for many purposes and with nice networking libraries. For web services it's great for many people. I couldn't use it for my work in finance. Plenty others have written about what's lacking in Go. See also this: https://www.quora.com/Why-didnt-D-language-become-mainstream-comparing-to-Golang/answer/Laeeth-Isharc
Rust is very intriguing too. I am sure if memory safety is critical, and you don't want to have GC and productivity is secondary to some other things, then it will be a fantastic language once it matures.
For me, in what I do, Rust requires a bit too much effort and isn't yet mature enough.
D allows me to be very productive, and I knows that naively written code will be fast. It's easy to maintain, and easy to find people to help. So it's a perfect language for me in finance. Some other hedge funds are finding the same.
For other uses, it may be different.
> My daughter is now 12 months old, and I have been forced to go onto medication to cope with the stress that comes from being a parent. I coped at first, but then I began to quite literally fall apart at the seams. I'm a normal, outgoing, easygoing kinda guy. We live in a nice place, live comfortably. No issues really. I'm someone who never in a million years would have thought that going onto meds would even be an option for anything in my life, for anything. I have been through plenty and pulled through each time, stronger. Becoming a parent is different. It is off a different kind of ledge, and if its not the ledge that you REALLY SURE you want to jump off I would seriously caution you of doing so, even if your "biological urge" is really strong or if you think that having kids is simply the "next thing to do". Do I consider HER a "mistake" ? No I don't, but do I consider having HAVING her a mistake. It was just the next thing that happened, and while I do love her, if I had the opportunity to go back to the way things were? Sure, I would take it. People just don't like to hear that kind of thing.
It's posts like this that make me know that I made the right decision to be CF.
Source: https://www.quora.com/What-is-it-like-to-regret-having-children
I think this answer by Robert Frost is particularly relevant:
> Charlie Hebdo did not mock Islam. Charlie Hebdo did not mock Judaism. Charlie Hebdo did not mock Hinduism. Charlie Hebdo did not mock Christianity.
> Charlie Hebdo mocked, or more accurately - satirized, practitioners of those faiths who were displaying extreme arrogance by not understanding that a religion is supposed to be a guide on how to live one's own life, not a rule book to enforce on others.
> Arrogance deserves to be mocked.
> All over the world, there are practitioners of faiths like Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, and Christianity that strive to live up to the standard defined by their faith. They do so quietly, allowing their actions to represent the virtues of their belief system. Those people deserve respect and encouragement to continue their ways.
> But each of those faiths, along with every other belief system or philosophy - including non-belief systems, has a subset of people that feel the need to proclaim their righteousness and to wield power to force their system on others. Each of those faiths has people that are hypocrites - people that proclaim their righteousness but don't actually live up to the ideals they are evaluating others by.
> Those people deserve to be mocked. Arrogance should be mocked. Hypocrisy should be mocked. Cruelty should be mocked. Willful ignorance should be mocked. Corruption should be mocked.
...It is worth reading the rest of his reply...
I've always wondered why there is that tiny little hole in the bottom of airplane windows. It turns out it's got a couple of purposes!
Sourced the information from airplane manuals and airmechanic forums. One could make the argument that it's for keeping structural integrity on the outer most pane, but I think the way I described it implies that.
http://www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/tech_ops/read.main/170548/
https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/2ee279/why_do_airplane_windows_need_to_have_that_hole/
I'm going to guess that they won't, since a very similar policy existed even during Yishan Wong's tenure, and it worked well. This whole thing was blown way out of proportion.
Basically wherever possible they try to avoid trenches and go around, or go through the parts that are the shallowest. Different countries have different standards for "too deep" when it comes to cable routes, but generally speaking, they tend to try to avoid depths any deeper than around 6000 meters. By the way, I just remembered, despite what I said about them burying cables in trenches (which is accurate), deeper than around 1500 meters, they just leave the cables free on the ocean floor (as no human activity would go that deep really, and the conditions are far more stable). The other reason they try to avoid the trenches is because they are inherently unstable, they're basically faultlines - earthquakes, landslides etc., - not a safe place to lay a cable.
EDIT You should check out this really good, simple primer for undersea cables at Quora.com, it gives a good insight into how it's done, including pictures and video of the sorts of equipment they use.
This is an actual explanation I found- "In order to ‘mansplain’ a speaker must assume his listener is uninformed and unintelligent. The speaker reduces the listener to a child’s status in a condescending, patronizing manner that silences and crushes any further dialogue. Few women, in our society, can attain that level of arrogant pomposity." Because no woman EVER has ever been condescending or patronizing, especially while expressing their views on feminism or cultural appropriation etc.
Just by posting a response, you've become one of the 1%.
99% of users never comment IIRC.
Correction, for reddit, it's closer to 4% of people comment. Many online sites follow the 90:9:1 ratio, of 90% lurk, 10% will 'vote' and 1% contribute.
>reddit pretty solidly follows the 80/20 rule. About 20% of the users vote, and about 20% of those actually comment. At least, that was the trend for the first 5 years or so. I don't have access to the data to tell you what it is today, but based on what I do know I suspect it is the same.
https://www.quora.com/Reddit-website/What-percent-of-Redditors-read-but-rarely-contribute
The best documented explanation reveals that the sign evolved out of the Spanish and Spanish American scribal abbreviation "ps" for pesos. A study of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century manuscripts shows that the s gradually came to be written over the p developing a close equivalent to the "$" mark.
Should probably add: source
Both Bruce Clarke and Omar Bradley got detained on their failure of American trivia during the battle of the bulge. Clarke for baseball. https://www.quora.com/Did-the-Germans-use-spies-dressed-as-American-soldiers-during-the-Battle-of-the-Bulge
I googled the phrase "infrastructure spending growing economy" and this is the first hit
https://www.quora.com/How-does-infrastructure-spending-result-in-economic-growth
> Infrastructure projects - electricity, roads, airports, water systems and telecommunications are the foundations of modern economies. They have a huge multiplier effect (a dollar spent on infrastructure leads to an outcome of greater than two dollars
Your comment made me realize that Americans use automatic transmission. The TIFU makes more sense now. (Because with manual you would shift to neutral before approaching the car so pressing the accelerator would have no other effect than a nasty noise if you pushed it more than a little)
Edit: Since many people apparently reckon that is all right to hold the clutch depressed while waiting for the green light, I'm hijacking this comment to say that it is not because it puts strain on the throwout bearing, reducing the life span of the clutch. detailed explanation on Quora
Overcompensation for how terribly they were treated 40 years ago.
excerpt from this article
>I came late to the war in early 1971 and returned that fall in a stretcher (non-combat injury). I went back in early 1972, sailing under the Golden Gate Bridge. From the bridge, anti-war protesters dumped garbage and red paint on to our ship. But there were also a few small signs of support. When the war had finally ended and I came home in 1973, one of my childhood best friends said to me, “I can’t believe you went to Vietnam. I am so disappointed in you.” Today she remains a close friend, and is also now very supportive of our troops.
>Sadly, those who served in Vietnam were portrayed as baby killers, psychos, drug addicts and warmongers for many years after. Indeed Hollywood carried on this myth in their movies involving Vietnam veterans.
"We used to think of it that way, until we better defined what it meant to be a planet and what it meant to be a satellite, i.e., moon. Now we know that the moon is too small to be considered a planet, so that we don't consider our system to be a double planet.
However, Pluto is a double planet with its main large satellite, Charon. Or,make that a double dwarf planet ever since it got demoted. This is because Charon is so large - just over half the radius of Pluto - that instead of Charon orbiting Pluto, they both orbit a piece of empty space between them. As a counterexample, the moon's gravity is such that it only makes the earth wobble around a bit, but the moon definitely orbits the earth, and not the other way around. However, Charon's gravity is such that it makes Pluto look like a yo-yo as it wobbles around in space."
Well, NASA could use this movie as a training/interview quiz - since there's a a lot right as well as some wrong. (Armageddon is too old and wasn't really used for the 168 things wrong...)
The time between the evacuation of Hoth and the events on Cloud City are between 21 and 29 weeks. Luke's training with Yoda lasted between 17.7 and 21 weeks. The events on Cloud City being the lightsaber duel between Luke and Vader.
Where does the time go though? Luke is training, so that's easy. But how did Han and Leia manage to spend at least 21 weeks?
Let's start with the asteroid field. While it looks like a few hours, we see the shot of the Star Destroyer simply blowing up asteroids. If you were chasing a valuable ship (in terms of cargo), you wouldn't only spend a few hours. You'd spend weeks chasing that down. So we lose a couple there.
Then you add in travel time, which would be a few weeks, as Han Solo has to fix his hyperdrive generator while hiding in the asteroid field.
Finally, we add in that torturing Han Solo would not be a one day process. It would take weeks before they would deduce that he was not going to break. So we lose several there.
Adding in more travel time for Luke to go from Dagobah to Cloud City, it seems like a few events take longer than they should. However, it's not an unreasonable timeline. If space travel takes weeks and not days then it's very easy. The asteroid chase could've been several weeks. Hiding in the asteroid belt could've added a few more. Traveling from Hoth to the asteroid belt to Cloud City could've been monthlong ventures.
This Quora question is quite exhaustive:
> Short answer: of course! > > More sophisticated answer: it is unclear to what extent observed differences are due to biological vs. societal/experiential factors.
Also see this old thread.
You have to think of about duration and memory space. The longest video you will probably take with your phone is a few minutes long. CCTV have to be running 24/7 and storing it somewhere.
If you take a 2 minute video at 1080p (HD), the file can be minimum ~1GB.^^[1] That means over an hour, we are talking at about 25GB. Multiply that by 24 for a whole day, and we're talking 600GB. I don't need to tell you that 600GB is a huge amount. Especially only for one day.
Organisations vary on how long they keep footage but 30 days+ isn't a bad average figure to go on. ^^[2]
30*600 = 18000GB = 18TB.
Now you may be thinking, Organisations can afford 18 1TB HDDs. Perhaps, but the setup and systems admin that is required to setup and maintain the storage also costs money and that 18TB is just for one camera. Multiply 18TB for each camera. Overall, CCTVs don't need to have HD footage.
CCTVs don't necessarily NEED to be able to identify people. That isn't their only purpose. Put on a mask, and the identification goes out the window. CCTVs do a good job at deterrence as well as recording events that may occur. Someone get attacked? The video footage may actually show that it wasn't self defense. High quality footage isn't needed in that case.
Me fucking too. An estimated 10% of women are on their period at any given time. This is something that happens to half of the population every month for about 40 years of their life. Men should get used to this by now. It's not a ~~~weird rare feminine thing. Girls shouldn't feel uncomfortable, having to sneak tampons into the bathroom to avoid embarrassment at school/work, or pretending they're fine so people won't tell them to stop whining about their debilitating cramps.
UGH. Sorry, I'm very passionate about normalizing periods.
Mongo is somewhat notorious for data corruption, "unsafe" writes, etc... It was kind of political for a while, but slowly consensus has built that mongo isn't really a good idea if data integrity is a design goal.
https://www.quora.com/How-much-credibility-does-the-post-Dont-use-MongoDB-have
So, mongo is the snapchat of dbs meaning that your data disappears shortly after storing it. :-)
Reminds me of this one: http://web.archive.org/web/20050402231231/http://lzip.sourceforge.net:80/index.html
[EDIT] Linked to the wrong lzip.
Actually, you're half right. Many species menstruate monthly. We're the only ones who bleed this much, though. It is because, as you said, we are in an arms race against parasitic fetuses which literally try to burrow directly into our vascular system to divert all resources to themselves.
TL;DR: Babies: the internal vampires.
Yep. I came across this Quora post a while ago: What makes students from elite schools so special?
Yes, they're smart, talented, and dedicated students. But they also had guidance and encouragement in their upbringing and education. As one of the Quora answerers pointed out:
> "Every accomplished person I know had a mentor. Usually their parents, sometimes teachers or friends. Kids don't just start thinking "I want to go to MIT in 4 years, so I'd better start doing math contests, and getting research internships, and self-studying AP classes so I can take tests my school doesn't offer." Someone had to tell them those things existed, and that they could actually do them.
> Similarly, most kids don't think "I want to go work at a trading firm" or "I'm going to intern at Google my freshman year" until they go to a top school and see what their classmates are doing, and realize they can do the same things. This alone gives kids from top schools a huge advantage in the job market.
As /u/uojin said, they have a head start because of their backgrounds. Don't let that hinder your ambitions! And if it makes you feel any better, OP, you've made a connection to these prestigious networks via your "Big 4" internship.
It seems a few actors changed for HBP. Although in Crabbe's case it was his involvement in the London riots that led to his cutting from the films.
looks for the largest square image. if multiple; it takes the one found last in the HTML code.
Dubai is infamous for passport confiscation. Most commonly happens with the low-skilled migrants https://www.quora.com/Do-middle-class-white-people-have-their-passports-confiscated-by-employers-in-UAE-or-is-it-just-poorer-migrant-labourers-who-are-affected
EDIT: Just found the relevant part of his story: "I failed the test and later that day I was called into the office and got fired. Now in Dubai if you have outstanding debts they will throw you in jail. They asked for my passport so they could cancel my visa, I said no problem, I'll go home and get it. If I gave them the passport there was a chance that this would give them a chance to check my bank details and not allow me to leave. So I went home, packed as much as I could, and booked the next flight out of Dubai on a rival airline."
They must be planning on people using those low energy bulbs and very little else. Otherwise it wouldn't be viable. You couldn't run an electrical appliance or anything major just from energy converted from human input. Human energy output. List of energy usage for household items. You could run a TV, computer, charge a phone, run some small efficient lights, etc., but you aren't going to be doing any significant heating, cooling, washing, or doing many little things at the same time. It really is a cool idea and would be incredible in combination with cheap wind and solar especially for remote areas off grid. The other thing they have to take in to account, and I can't imagine they aren't, is maintenance. Keeping equipment of any sort running is troublesome. They units have to be repairable and parts be source-able. If they could make a unit that used bike components I think that would work well. Bike parts are already mass produced, relatively cheap, accessible, and the designs are pretty standardized. It will be interesting to see where the project goes. I wouldn't mind something like that for a small cabin or even a small apartment.
found this
It was a bit more complicated than Facebook printing new shares, but there wasn't any "clause" they invoked to dilute Eduardo. Some key points of what happened, mostly based off those IM (instant message) convos that were leaked last year: Mark Zuckerberg wanted to cut out Eduardo, since he was failing at his job. What he did was he created a new entity in Delaware to acquire the existing company in Florida (he had to do this anyway -- Delaware is far more corporate friendly). In the old company, Eduardo owned about 30%. In the new one, he owned 24%. Then Eduardo signed an agreement for his 3 million shares but had to give up intellectual property rights. This was big. Then Facebook pulled the rug from under him. Zuckerberg issued 9 million more shares, none of which went to Eduardo. It kept getting diluted from there. There's quite a good explanation on Gawker that goes into the process into more detail: http://gawker.com/5643915/
Basically though, there were several rounds of dilution before Eduardo realized what happened. There's no clause, though. Still, he's got well over a billion dollars now, so he can't be too upset. You'd think.
https://www.quora.com/What-clause-was-used-to-dilute-Eduardo-Saverins-stake-in-Facebook-Inc
F1 cars are faster at every track, and they brake fast due to high downforce, four fat tires, 4 carbon discs and only 700kg weight. https://www.quora.com/Which-is-faster-F1-car-or-Moto-GP-motorcycle-Why
At Sepang, F1 cars are 25 seconds a lap faster.
.../sigh - I guess I'll bite.
> American dialect is the standard for the English speaking world.
No, in fact, many schools teach British English instead of American English. Particularly in private schools. (source: wife is a teacher in Europe) And if you are referring to the largest, non-native speaking population (India), they learn British English (read: from the Imperial time and all that jazz) and learn more American-styled English through TV shows and because Americans get fussy if they have to hear "non-American" English spoken by those "foreign people" on tech support. (https://www.quora.com/Which-English-do-we-use-in-India-American-or-British)
> American English is much closer to the English spoken 300 years ago
Wrong again... there is a very, very small population in N. Carolina that has some similarities to English of that time, but modern, American English is not similar at all. (source: Foreign Lang. and Linguistics Major and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Modern_English - you'll note that no one speaks like that today, neither in the US nor in England)
Honestly, there's just so much more to it than that. Check out the first answer to this question on Quora by Don Davis...an American veteran. https://www.quora.com/Who-is-responsible-for-the-mess-in-Iraq-today
He does a great job at explaining it all.
NASA tests astronauts for claustrophobia as part of the selection process:
At first I didn't know how to answer this, but I will answer this even though this answer is very hard for me to look at myself. I wish not only that I didn't know but I wish that it was not necessary for me to know (it is) how far down the levels of human depravity and suffering can go. This i dont want to know
The average person produces half a litre of farts per day. That means that from the age of eighteen -- when they're fully grown -- to the day they die (current US life expectancy for men is 78.84 years), the average human male will produce somewhere in the vicinity of 11,100 litres of farts. The Hindenburg, for comparison, contained about 200,000,000 litres of space; if you and eighteen thousand of your buddies band together and eat a lot of beans for the next sixty years, you could just about match it.
Ignoring the issues of thrust, which have been better dealt with elsewhere: what would happen if you just farted into a balloon? After all, you've got to store all of these farts somewhere. Surely that would be less harmful than a rocket-propelled asshole? According to this source, the relative densities are around 1.066 kg/m^3 for farts and 1.204 kg/m^3 for air; that means for every cubic metre of farts you have, you can lift a little less than 0.138 kg. You have 11.1 cubic metres of farts, which gives you a total lift of 1.53 kilograms. Good news! You can fart-lift a human brain, if you're willing to devote your life to intestinal cerebellar aeronautics.
I don't think so. But shitty science requires shitty experimentation.
You need to drink half of your coffee black and then add milk for drinking the second half. Then figure out which half of your mouth is affected by the black coffee and which by the milk coffee and compare stains.
Divorce proceedings and family court are madness and have very little relationship to the law.
>The bottom line is that while certain states, e.g., California, follow a pretty rigid community property regime (that is, separate property goes 100% to individual owner, community property is divided 50/50), other states, even community property states, allow for adjustments to be made on equitable/fairness grounds, which could include whether one spouse was primarily responsible for the end of the marriage. And, as noted above, a number of states allow for one to seek a "fault" divorce, which may impact division of assets. Lastly, if your husband is spending assets belonging to either you or the marital estate to support his mistress(es), that could impact the division of assets, as well. So it is possible, depending on where you live, that adultery could be a factor in how the eventual divorce is resolved.
https://www.quora.com/What-effect-does-evidence-of-cheating-have-on-divorce-court
And this doesn't even get into the child custody nightmare. It also depends on the judge that signs off on the settlement, the lawyers negotiating it, and which party is the first to sacrifice a goat.
Do they actually claim middle out can always compress the size of a file? That theorem is basically saying you can't "zip a zip file". That some files are already as small as they can get for a given algorithm. I think most people more or less take that for granted.
I think the show just claims that it can do lossless compression of arbitrary files more quickly and with a smaller output than any existing algorithm. But the problem is that there was no standard way to measure the "average" performance of a compression algorithm across both speed and output size, so the show invented the metric they use: The Weissman Score .
All that being said I'm pretty skeptical that there will be any major breakthroughs in lossless compression. There have only been incremental improvements to Huffman encoding since the 1950s, and the focus on research today is in lossy encoding (which pretty specific to the domain: video and images pretty much). And despite what Gavin Belson says about "data-geddon", history has told us that adoption of new formats across multiple platforms is much harder problem to solve than increasing storage and bandwidth (e.g. if you want to send compressed videos to a mobile phone you need to get your algorithm in all the apps on the phone that play video before it will work).
Spotify has ~1.9 million users (paying).
5% of 1.9 million is 95,000
650 kilobytes * 95,000 = 61.75 gigabytes
Average cost/GB in 2014 was $.03
$.03 x 61.75GB = $1.8525
I love what Elon is doing with Tesla and SpaceX, but you'd have to pay me a whole lot of money to put up with the stuff I've heard about both those companies. Most of the stuff I've read mention being underpaid in some way, I've heard some crappy stuff from interns about being essentially required to work 60+ hour weeks, and Elon's statements in interviews don't inspire much confidence either....
>If you're joining Tesla, you're joining a company to work hard. We're not trying to sell you a bill of goods. If you can go work for another company and then maybe you can work a 40-hour work week. But if you work for Tesla, the minimum is really a 50-hour week and there are times when it'll be 60- to 80-hour weeks.
Expectation of 50 hours a week minimum? Screw that. Unless they're paying very well above average, I would not want to take that job.
True, note that in this thread there are several posts like "I can't believe he's that old" and "I can't believe she's that young."
I also wouldn't be surprised if this is partly a "the camera adds 10 pounds" situation. By that I mean that cameras and the cinematic world in general can distort perceptions. A good example
This is sad because the genetics for human skin color is actually very complicated. Depending on whether anyone from their past had darker skin, the baby could be considerably darker. https://www.quora.com/How-is-skin-color-determined-in-babies
Chaud :(
J'ai passé un sale collège où j'étais un peu une victime. J'ai pu "redémarrer" en seconde et m'en sortir derrière, mais c'est quelque chose qui laisse des séquelles.
Ton frère a besoin de se trouver des amis. Aide le à se trouver des passions, des hobbys qui lui donneront matière à communiquer, à être intéressant. Explique lui que ce n'est pas sa faute, il n'est pas quelqu'un qui a échoué. C'est juste que les gamins sont cruels et cherchent à montrer qu'ils sont plus forts.
J'avais lu un fil très intéressant sur Quora sur la question de ce que les gens qui se font harceler jeunes deviennent. T'as ceux qui s'en sortent et développent une profonde aversion pour l'injustice, ils deviennent "bons" en ayant vu la cruauté. D'autres sont brisés, à vie, par cette épreuve. Je t'invite à aider ton frère à surmonter ça, il a besoin d'aide.
Perso, je m'en suis sorti pcq j'ai rencontré des gens meilleurs en Seconde. Je m'en suis aussi sorti en devenant le genre d'ami dont j'aurai eu besoin quand j'étais au collège.
Bon courage à toi et ton frère.
Sinon, est que vous comptez lancer une procédure contre les gamins qui ont fait chier ton frère? Ou au moins parler à leurs parents?
Doorzonwoning you mean?
Edit: here is an explanation in English https://www.quora.com/Im-an-architecture-student-I-need-some-files-about-dutch-dwellings-Someone-knows?share=1
>The idea that medieval people would be too stupid to figure out how to boil water to get rid of bacteria is ridiculous
Maybe someone more knowledgeable will correct me if I'm mistaken, but I'm pretty sure that before the microscope nobody knew bacteria even existed. We are talking about a time when scholars thought that spontaneous generation was a reasonable and correct theory.
And yet, you claim that that medieval people boiled water with the intention of not getting sick?
So, I found the answer you talked about (right here, I even had to sign up and go through a colonoscopy in order to see it) and it says that
>But because they had no understanding of bacterial infection they did not know to use these techniques to make all water "safe". These techniques were known to be effective in making water that could be seen to be contaminated or which smelled or tasted bad more palatable.
This means that they didn't go around boiling all the water they drank, only water that smelled/looked unsanitary.
Because they don't actually say Death to America, but our media loves to translate it that way.
It's like if you chanted "Fuck China". It doesn't necessarily mean you long to stick your penis into China's vagina.
yeah, I updated my comment. I found an NPR interview where he said that he'd read as much as possible.
Here's an interesting Quora thread about this too
When you read about why Victoria was fired, it seems more legit to protest. She was the one person most mods liked and trusted. She was resisting upper management pushes to make AMAs more commercial, so they abruptly fired her by removing her position. Seems like they're clearing the way to make Reddit all PR and "viral" marketing.
Edit: Some people requested a source on this, which one should. It's a bit of Silicon Valley insider baseball, but Marc Bodnick put up an answer on Quora saying that a reliable source told him as much yesterday. There's an anonymous source involved, so it requires trusting Bodnick. From my experience, he's a fairly outspoken, transparent guy that wouldn't give an answer unless he trusted it. Still requires trust in him and the perspective of the source. The Quora staff and Reddit folks overlap quite a bit in personal relationships.
When I went back to grab a link, the question Marc answered has been removed completely, which is rare for Quora. My hunch is that he was either completely right or completely wrong, but either way, a personal request got that question removed unless it violated some kind of Quora rumor-mongering rule that I don't know about.
There's still an image of his answer floating around Reddit, but I can't find it. Here's the link to the question about why Marc's answer was removed: https://www.quora.com/Why-was-Marc-Bodnicks-answer-to-Subreddits-Protest-Alleged-Firing-of-Reddit-Employee-July-2015-Why-is-Victoria-Taylor-no-longer-at-reddit-removed
Edit2: Going very far out on a limb, but part of me really wonders if Bodnick's source was Yishan. Yishan is active in the exact same circles. Impossible to know, but a rumor from that source would be more likely to cause the removal of the question itself and would also be high up enough for Bodnick to trust the information.
Not sure why I'm getting downvotes.. or care.. but anyway.. a lot of girls practice their handwriting. At an early age girls also tend to mimic each other's handwriting more than boys. That type of mimicry and caring about handwriting is just more prevalent in girls than boys.
>If a girl receives positive reinforcement (in the form of praise or acknowledgment) for being neat, she's more likely to value pretty handwriting. Moreover, kids are amazingly good at picking up on differences in how you treat people. Even if they can't explicitly say it, it is understood that neatness is something that is valued in GIRLS but not boys. This may even disincentivize neat handwriting in boys.
welcome to programming :)
this is a good doc on this topic: http://space.wccnet.edu/~pmillis/cps120/cps120_pgm_syntax.pdf
some fun reading: https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-coolest-and-or-funniest-programming-errors
I did some digging, best I could find was here. They are ornamental cartridge holes which hold ornamental bullets. They are an imitation of the old paper cartridges used for muskets.
tldr; Decorative ammunition.
The Vietnam ERA saw men who weren't connected enough to avoid the draft get shipped off to a jungle and possibly die. When they returned back broken they were called baby-killers by the same elitists that were lucky enough to avoid the draft by either being born female, or being part of the right family.
A good answer on Quora on how they were treated
We've swung very far in the other direction, and in my opinion it's trying to right the wrongs of the way the Vietnam-era military members were treated.
Hopefully it levels out and people can quit thanking me for my service when they found out I was in the military. It creates an awkward situation, and I didn't do it for them. I did it to set myself up better in life via the GI Bill.
Your problem problem is not with Muslim immigrants, but with immigrants from certain cultures within the Middle East.
There are many different Muslim cultures around the world. For example, Indonesian Islamic culture is much different than Middle Eastern Islamic cultures.
> Indonesian Muslims are more tolerant to other religions and beliefs compared to Muslims in some (if not most) Middle Eastern countries. This can happen because those walis adapted - rather than of confronted or flat-out rejected - local cultures that have their roots in Hinduism and/or animism and dynamism and use them to teach the message of Islam to the common people. Source
Muslim immigrants from Indonesia do not cause the same problems that you describe. The problem is cultural, not religious and that is an important distinction to make.