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For whom does this produce the desired result?
> people voluntarily
Which people?
Again with the generalizations that lead to stereotyping.
Beyond that, you must realize that a platform(environment) can reinforce and even encourage a particular behavior. To say that they are all 100% rational actors is not accurate. Research has shown many times that people react differently based upon their environment.
One may see Tindr's popularity happening for a different reason. Dating sites are a network effect business like no other. Tindr was very effective at their initial marketing push at colleges. Could it actually be Tindr's very effective network building and marketing at the early stages that has to do with it's success? Could it be that Tindr is closer to how college age daters work? And once the network effect took hold it spread to other demographics the mechanics were not the reason for it's growth? I'm sure some will agree that much of OkCupid's early success had to do with the fact that people just thought the quizes were fun. Plenty of people go to clubs with music they don't really like because they want to meet new people and that is where the people are right now.
All of a sudden we might discover a situation where a platform is reinforcing gender stereotypes proactively. In many cases against the wishes of non trivial portions of their users simply because that is where the people are? This reinforcement can actually change the views of people outside an environment once they have spent significant time inside of it.
Unfortunately, all of this is a lot more complicated just like stereotypes are. And is why we should take a step back and be careful when saying things that might reinforce them.
I should have clarified more explicitly that I was discussing the way the article appeared and not trying to make a statement about the authors aptitude or understanding of the US situation. My apologies to the author.
> Tell your employees to stop creating fake profiles on OkCupid and spamming our users.
Seems to be what the poster really means.
>Please tell your employees to stop creating fake profiles on OkCupid and spamming our users.
That means the poster is begging the person stop? Does that really make sense? It sounds like someone is directly telling someone something, but is adding "Please" to get themselves off the hook for being seen as directly telling someone something.
As a native English speaker, I cannot remember anyone, except maybe an old person at dinner saying "Please pass the salt", say the world "Please" at the start of a phrase where it wasn't an aggressively postured order. Like this obviously was.
Serious question: Could you tell me what I'm missing with that?
> Men will swipe right on the majority of "matches"
Great stereotyping you have going there. Could you share some more insight into your "Women as the gatekeepers and men will hit on anything" life view? Maybe some men would prefer not to have to "swipe right" and face constant rejection? Maybe some women might prefer to approach men first instead of waiting on a man to present himself? Naw, what am saying? Gender roles were defined for a reason. Let's all just stay in our places.
>> As a Westerner, getting a credit card is only slightly more complicated than tying my shoes. My world is raining with opportunities to borrow money to go to school, open a store, consolidate loans, or buy an iPhone 6.
A little under 10% in the US are without a bank. And the "Underbanked", people have some type of banking but still use Money Orders and stuff like Payday loans, is over 20%. I wouldn't say "Raining with opportunities" lines up too closely with those people.
Like I said, it's great to see what Bayes Impact is trying to help, but just needed to clarify a bit about the US.
https://www.fdic.gov/householdsurvey/2012_unbankedreport.pdf
Edit: Updated to clarify that this was directed to the tone of the article opening, not the author. I had previously used the word "author" instead of "article"
When you use a browser on the web, you are literally voting for who gets the most control of those discussions.
Example: "Thanks for sending this in. I'm busy right now but will look into it later. If I haven't responded in a week or two, do me a favor and ping this thread."
See "Foreign key support" in MyISAM
Also, in my experience a lot of people do not always use the underlying database constraints even in InnoDB.
Not sure if that was the intent of the authors, but just so that others may understand that it could be more than just "PHP land". Might be a little closer to "MySQL land".
When your boss tells you that you have to do something, you can text your Rep and ask them. It sounds simple but it is really incredible peace of mind to have. They might say "I know it stinks but you do", but at least you have that peace of mind knowing that you are working within the bounds of the contract you and your fellow workers agreed to.
A logging platform that lists 1 of their 2 major requirements as "To not drop any data, ever" is using round robin DNS for fault tolerance? I can't see too many people on HN upvoting this for being insightful or impressive.
Edit: I just can't help myself. How are you going to send syslog when any server fails and not "drop any data, ever"? Even over TCP the in transit messages are lost when the connection is broken. So like, their business is basically syslog and they don't know that?
This story is really, really glossing over what is happening in home health hospice as a whole. For profit hospice organizations are crippling the non profit organizations by taking all the cheap and easy patients offering them slightly better services than the non profits, while dumping all the expensive and unprofitable patients on the non profits who typically try to take every patient regardless of their ability to pay, regardless of Medicaid and Medicare. These non profits are being killed off one by one because of it.
Yet another example of finance style arbitrage damaging the lives of Americans.
I used a catch all DNS wildcard with a dnsmasq rule which I set up on a DD-WRT flashed router.
address=/#/192.168.11.2
That IP was the IP of my server. The nice part of that rule is that many people will type in google.com or something similar when they find your open wifi spot assuming they are connected to the web. The wildcard will resolve that the the IP of the local server and send them there automatically. That can be the landing page of the network that introduces things, provides links etc.
There are economies of scale on external battery packs that run 12v(common wifi router DC voltage) and marine batteries also can run 12v. You could create a new power cable that never does the dc to ac conversion and use that battery pack for the wifi. Then you could run the raspberry pi or other system as the server itself.
Nice idea and don't worry about the Africa haters. Plenty of stuff is originally made for mid 20s SF techies that ends up being useful for a whole lot of other people.