Decay to smaller Vacuum expectation value, resulting in decrease of Casimir effect and destabilization of proton.[6] Decay to vacuum with larger neutrino mass (may have happened relatively recently).[3] Decay to vacuum with no dark energy[4]

It’s not always easy to find the balance between shrugging off offensive messages and counterproductive scolding, but individuals can speak up about ageist generalizations

Make it personal: Use photographs and story to creative a narrative about the product so that consumers feel that they are not just buying an object but becoming part of a story.

I sometimes think about the fact that if my credit card number is compromised, I can quickly get a new number and go on with my life. If my biometric information is somehow compromised, I cannot ever rescind it.

Why, why now?Child of Zeus with the shield ofthunder,why come now?To witness the outrage Agamemnon just committed?1 tell you this, and so help me it's thetruth-he'll soon pay for his arrogance with his life!

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trust is a polarizing strategy, and it's one that is important to apply early on in the relationship before someone becomes important to you. If you trust someone excessively and it goes badly, but they don't matter to you, you can just kick them to the curb. In general, trusting someone at a level that seems slightly excessive for their level of importance to you will help you sort people in your life who you want to be more important to you than they are from those who you want to be less important than they are.

   And some say, too, that we do love the best To be quite free to do our own behest, And that no man reprove us for our vice, But saying we are wise, take our advice.

News can no longer be (only) about the mass update. Stories need to be targeted to those who might be able to improve the situation. And journalism’s products — which are more than its stories — must be designed to facilitate this. News needs to be built to engage curiosity about the world and the problems in it — and their solutions. People need to get lost in the news like they now get lost in Wikipedia and Facebook. There must be comprehensive stories that get the interested but uninformed up to speed quickly. Search and navigation must be improved to the point where satisfaction of curiosity is so easy it becomes a reflex. Destination news sites need to be more extensively hyperlinked than almost anything else (and not just insincere internal links for SEO, but links that are actually useful for the user.) The news experience needs to become intensely personal. It must be easy for users to find and follow exactly their interests, no matter how arcane. Journalists need to get proficient at finding and engaging the audience for each story. And all of this has to work across all modes of delivery, so it’s always with us. Marketers understand this; it’s amazing to me that the news industry has been so slow to catch on to multi-modal engagement.

Byte, in contrast, flaunts its origins in the United States and emphasizes privacy. “Explore what’s loved by the community, handpicked by our human editors, or just served up at random,” its description reads.

Prismatic gets a percentage of the revenue increase that it generates for publishers, while developers pay a flat monthly fee based on usage, Cross says. It’s still working out pricing for hedge fund API usage. (As a point of comparison, the revenue model for the old Prismatic was the same as the current model for publishers. “We just meant for it to be more like Adsense/Adwords where we ran all this in our own consumer products too,” Cross notes.)

The legal system, Horwitz argued, was used to not only change the rules of the game to benefit an increasingly elite class, but also to hide the fact that these changes were being made.  This is a great argument. What it needs is some people in the story to show how it happened and how people reacted, assuming anyone on the short end of the transaction knew it was happening. This raises an interesting question: how do we tell stories about things we now see were happening, but that people of the time were unaware of, either because the evidence was hidden, or they just didn’t see things the way we do? Especially when people knew something was wrong, but couldn’t quite put their finger on it -- or blamed it on the wrong thing? The story isn’t just about unintended consequences, it’s about misunderstood consequences.

Students will prepareand turn in3-5 minute presentations regarding one of the five key issues

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And right now there’s some interesting debate going on about this layer of accessibility, with different voices making conflicting claims about the degree to which it’s possible (and desirable) to change the way scholarship is written and presented so that it will be more accessible to those who read it.

I can care about someone but not have to be responsible for that said person, and that is my right and my choice. The world and everyone who runs it should not make us take that extra responsibility onto our already full plate. I expect myself to obey the laws, pay my taxes, recycle, and help whenever I can, but again, that is a choice, my choice.

that many a christened man has suffered this change, and ran wild in woods, as a Were-Wolf

Effective Headhunting Techniques for Hiring Leave a Comment / Blog Contact Headhunters are individuals who are employed by an organization or enterprise to discover, vet, and present reasonable possibility for a vocation position. The headhunter’s main responsibility is to guarantee the competitor has the right range of abilities for a position and they’re frequently recruited to discover possibilities that have a one of a kind or elusive range of abilities. When in doubt, headhunters are self-employed entities or workers of an enlisting organization. They are recruited and appointed by an organization searching for top notch ability and regularly work for a few organizations at a given time. It’s normal for headhunters to have some expertise in a field, for example, tech or showcasing. Headhunting recruitment permits them to filter through resumes to find the most ideal contender for an occupation speedier and all the more proficiently. At the point when your organization needs new ability, the initial step is to begin selecting exceptionally qualified possibility for the activity. At the point when you realize how to isolate the quality goods from the refuse, it’s simpler to locate the ideal contender for your organization. Sadly, this can now and then be actually quite difficult. By what method can your specialty prevail with regards to finding the most ideal contender for your organization’s vacant positions? Here’s your bit by bit control. You can push all the extraordinary sets of expectations you need, it despite everything won’t get your image the perfect applicant except if your area of expertise knows how to scout. While trusting that up-and-comers will apply is detached, scouting is a functioning procedure that gives your group a superior possibility of finding the ideal contender for your activity. At the point when you figure out how to scout the correct way, finding the most qualified competitors is simpler than any time in recent memory. Here are five hints to help your area of expertise scout the best applicant. Have HR Gotten the Message Out With Workers To discover profoundly qualified contenders for your activity, start by tapping your current representative system. To do this, have your area of expertise spread some verbal data about the position that is open, the sort of up-and-comers you’re searching for, and the necessities for the post. With any karma, your worker system will impart the news to their certified companions with your area of expertise, which serves to bring you preferable ability over you could have in any case gotten to. On the off chance that you’d prefer to make this a stride further, think about posting updates on your accessible opening via web-based networking media. This makes it simple for your current representatives to impart the post to their certified loved ones. Your area of expertise ought to likewise make posts on LinkedIn and Twitter or head to a public exhibition, where your workers can get the message out of your situation to passers-by. Send Representatives into Your Trade Groups To enhance your scouting procedure, urge your HR division to scour the exchange bunches you take an interest in. Since you’ve just got these associations, presently is an excellent opportunity to benefit as much as possible from them. To begin, plan a portrayal of your activity and send it out to chiefs, thought pioneers and industry heads in your specialty. You may likewise decide to utilize phone systems administration to get the message out about your accessible position and get individuals intrigued. While organizing everywhere is a keen method to draw in more contender to your position, organizing inside your trade groups is exceptionally focused on method of arriving at new up-and-comers. Since trade groups draw in a quite certain gathering of individuals, they’re extraordinary spots to search for applicants with exceptional aptitudes or interests. This, thus, chops down the time you’ll spend scouting and guarantees you’ll locate a superior applicant quicker and simpler. Optimize Your Site Your site is your biggest resource, so why not use it to get the message out about your vacant position? In the event that you don’t have a Careers page, your area of expertise should work with the organization’s tech or IT group to make one at this point. In the event that you do have a Careers page, be certain it includes a compact, elegantly composed set of working responsibilities that will interest possible competitors. Recollect that there are many dry, slow sets of expectations out there, which implies you’ll do well to make yours drawing in and captivating – consider recruiting proficient journalists in the event that you need help. The more you can make your set of working responsibilities energizing, the almost certain it is you’ll draw in all around qualified, drew in, intrigued up-and-comers who will smooth out your scouting procedure and make it simpler to fill your vacant position a lot quicker. Catch Up With Intrigued Leads In the event that you have leads intrigued by your task, make certain to catch up with them in like manner. Keeping in touch with the leads who contact your organization about an occupation is a brilliant method to prop the energy up and guarantee these gifted candidates consider your to be as a drew in and dynamic business. While there are many approaches to stay in contact with intrigued up-and-comers, probably the most practical are welcoming possibility to buy into a bulletin, lining up after a meeting with email, and making a pre-programmed message that thanks intrigued contender for their applications. Guaranteeing your area of expertise is dynamic about getting the telephone and calling up-and-comers can help, too. Take advantage of Innovation There are many approaches to enroll new applicants utilizing the web. Notwithstanding making posts via web-based networking media, it’s anything but difficult to utilize the web to post positions on proficient scouting locales, merchant destinations and arranged advertisement locales. The web likewise gives a direct and smoothed out approach to check the viability of your post. In case you’re not getting the candidates you need, consider changing your methodology likewise. At the point when you outfit innovation in your scouting, it’s simpler to arrive at a more extensive choice of up-and-comers, guarantee your activity posting mirrors the quality and commitment of your organization and win yourself a situation among the positions of the most wanted managers. Being Conceivable This is a key point. When directing an official pursuit, high-esteem applicants don’t need their time squandered with theoretical openings for work. On the off chance that the selection representative doesn’t accept that the up-and-comer they’re reaching is directly for the job, in what capacity will the applicant ever trust it themselves? As selection representatives, we make it understood to every competitor we approach that they are an ideal fit. Furthermore, this isn’t simply a mystery. In light of our examination, we realize that each individual we converse with is an ideal choice for the activity. Advocating Straightforwardness We’ve all run over employments that look excessively great to be valid. This absence of genuineness, shockingly, prompts numerous up-and-comers being suspicious about jobs they’re advertised. Talent scouts get this, which is the reason they champion straightforwardness. It bodes well. You wouldn’t have any desire to be told about work that sounded intriguing however was totally unique when you discovered increasingly about it, okay? Since talent scouts are specialists in your industry, they are well prepared to introduce openings for work obviously and answer any inquiries precisely. This gives the competitor certainty and guarantees the enrollment procedure is a smooth one.

With respect to justice, my view is that there are various obtaining states of affairs concern­ing justice, and that when individual people have the property of being just, it is (in part) in virtue of the obtaining of some of these states of affairs.

How much learning occurs when students and teachers operate in a state of  natural default learning?

How much learning occurs when students and teachers operate in a state of  natural default learning?

It’s not specified to be a male or female, as no indication is provided but it also could depict a falling warrior seen by just a helmet on the left side.

Is that pleasant or amusing for them? No, it isn't.

then, sorry, dude, but you're part of the problem. But hey, it's a solveable problem— you can get better!

Reading is like a puzzle when you approach it for the first time. It's easier to solve the puzzle when you approach it from common knowledge. In other words, children can learn to sound out words, but if they don't know the word it takes them longer to understand the meaning, and understanding the meaning is the whole point of reading.

For instance, say you're reading about the state fair. If a child has never been to a fair and has never seen cotton candy or a corndog, it's much harder for them to understand what they are reading than it is for a child who goes to the fair every year. For that child, the words are just describing something they already know. They have a context for the words.

So we ended up having students as old as ninth grade who had never held a pencil. With no school experiences, children don't have a concept of literacy. It's hard to know what a book is for if you've never seen one.

Being bilingual is not the same as being biliterate.

The deplorable condition of the literature of to-day … is due to the fact that books are written for the sake of earning money. Every one who is in want of money sits down and writes a book, and the public is stupid enough to buy it.

I took this as an almost alchemical act. After all, alchemy is more than just transmuting literal lead into literal gold. It's the transmutation of a base substance into something better. Through calcination and dissolution, the base - the *prima materia*, the self, the fox - is broken down. Through separation, conjunction, and fermentation, something new is compiled from what was in rough shapes. Through distillation and coagulation, the new self - the cat - is solidified, completed, made whole. As with a lot of how I experience furry, this is a microcosm, rather than something unique. I am not the only one to be deliberate about changing my species, just as I'm not the only one to read way too much into the furry fandom. Furry, as a whole, is an exercise in self-actualization. It is taking the idea of "this is how I want to be seen" to places and extents not often tread. Through each aspect of ourselves, we choose how we want to interact. We choose a species, we choose a name, we choose what aspects of our personalities to show to each other and the world. We construct and create every day of our lives, and we're made all the better for it. Shameless boosterism aside, we're good at what we do and what we make, whether that's art or fun or just ourselves. The more we create, the better we get at it, too. All that's left to do is to keep on creating, to keep putting our intent and our will to work. Just as I can dig into the intent behind changing a name, a fursona, an identity, I can look for the magic of self-actualization within furry as a whole. After all, furry is magic.

Poor People’s Campaign

Now, for some people, it's getting under their skin.

"Identity ideally is about you and how you feel and what you believe has shaped you," Michelle Ling responds.

Over the last couple of weeks, some major companies have signaled that remote work is here to stay. The heads of three of New York City's largest commercial tenants — JPMorgan Chase, Barclays and Morgan Stanley — have each said it's highly unlikely that all their employees will return to their Manhattan skyscrapers. It's not just banks. Google has axed deals to buy up 2 million square feet of urban office space. Jack Dorsey, Twitter's CEO, told his employees they will be allowed to work remotely forever. With so many high-paid jobs untethered from their urban offices, we've been wondering what this all means for the future of cities. So we called up Harvard University professor Ed Glaeser, the leading scholar of urban economics. In 2011, he published a great book with a title that pretty much sums up decades of research: Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier. Some of his subtitle's adjectives feel very untrue at the moment, and we wanted to know if he still thinks cities will triumph. Glaeser remains a champion of cities, but he says it's possible they're in for a long period of trouble. He remembers the New York City he grew up in during the 1970s. Back then, manufacturers left, poverty got worse, crime and drugs pushed families into the suburbs, property values plummeted and the city almost declared bankruptcy. That dark period for New York and other cities, he says, "should remind us that urban success is not foreordained."

Pressley: How many extremist murders has the FBI linked to Black Lives Matter or similar black activist groups? McGarrity: We don’t work Black Lives Matter it’s a movement. It’s an ideology. We don’t work that. Pressley: So the answer is none. Can you just say that for the record? There has been no killing that the FBI can link to black Lives Matter or similar black activist groups, to your knowledge.McGarrity: To my knowledge—I’d have to go back—but to my knowledge, right now, no.

Learners need to be exposed to what Krashen calls 'comprehensible input' – that is, exposure to interesting and understandable listening and reading material.

Krashen makes the important point that comprehensible input needs to be at the right level for the learner, namely just higher than the learner's own

Post an introduction assignment that is less about content

The right acknowledgment of black justice, humanity, freedom and happiness won’t be found in your book clubs, protest signs, chalk talks or organizational statements. It will be found in your earnest willingness to dismantle systems that stand in our way — be they at your job, in your social network, your neighborhood associations, your family or your home. It’s not just about amplifying our voices, it’s about investing in them and in our businesses, education, political representation, power, housing and art.

Highly will shut down its iOS and Slack app on April 26th, though it promises that “No highlights will be harmed.”

UTF-16 is generally considered a bad idea today. It seems almost intentionally designed to invite mistakes. It’s easy to write programs that pretend code units and characters are the same thing. And if your language doesn’t use two-unit characters, that will appear to work just fine. But as soon as someone tries to use such a program with some less common Chinese characters, it breaks. Fortunately, with the advent of emoji, everybody has started using two-unit characters, and the burden of dealing with such problems is more fairly distributed.

That’s it. That’s the practice. It’s often been said that it’s very simple, but it’s not necessarily easy. The work is to just keep doing it. Results will accrue.

When we think about meditating (with a capital M), we can get hung up on thinking about our thoughts: we’re going to do something about what’s happening in our heads. It’s as if these bodies we have are just inconvenient sacks for our brains to lug around.

Anti-Racist Resources from Greater Good In response to the killing of unarmed black people by police, we gathered Greater Good pieces that explore our potential to reduce prejudice in society and in ourselves. By Greater Good | June 3, 2020 Print Bookmark Our mission at the Greater Good Science Center is to elevate the human potential for compassion. But that does not mean we deny or dismiss the human potential for violence, particularly toward marginalized or dehumanized groups. A demonstration outside the Minneapolis Police Fourth Precinct building following the officer-involved shooting of Jamar Clark on November 15, 2015. © Tony Webster, Black Lives Matter Minneapolis For centuries, African Americans and other communities of color have been subject to this physical and structural violence, denied their humanity and often their basic right to exist. That’s why we are gathering Greater Good pieces that explore our potential to reduce bias and contribute to racial justice. The science we cover reveals the considerable psychological and structural challenges we are up against. But it also gives hope that another world is possible. You can read our latest coverage on racism, diversity, and bridging differences—or start with the key articles below. We’ll continue to update this page with resources for individuals, parents, and educators. Click to jump to a section: Advertisement X Meet the Greater Good Toolkit From the GGSC to your bookshelf: 30 science-backed tools for well-being. –The psychological roots of racism –How to overcome bias in yourself –Confronting racism –Reducing bias in criminal justice –Building bridges –Resources for parents –Resources for educators –More anti-racism resources The psychological roots of racism Understanding Our New Racial Reality Starts with the Unconscious: Egalitarian goals can be undermined by deeply rooted implicit biases, says john a. powell. To address racial discrimination, we need to look inward. Look Twice: Susan T. Fiske has some bad news: Prejudice might be hardwired in our brains. But the good news is that we can still learn to override our prejudices and embrace difference. Racism Is Not a Mental Illness: Many people argue that racism must be a form of mental illness. What does the science suggest? The Psychology of Taking a Knee: The backlash against protests by Colin Kaepernick and other athletes raises scientific questions about body language, power, and group dynamics. Can Threats to Humanity Make Us More Prejudiced?: Research suggests that prejudice increases in the face of threats like climate change, recessions, and epidemics. How the Pandemic Divides Us: Physical distance protects us from COVID-19, but it also gives rise to some of the ugliest human tendencies. What’s Driving Political Violence in America?: Hate crimes are rising, and so is support for political violence. New research explores why—and what we can do to stop it. How to overcome bias in yourselfHow to Stop the Racist in You: The new science of bias suggests that we all carry prejudices within ourselves—and we all have the tools to keep them in check. The Egalitarian Brain: Research on the neuroscience of prejudice is revealing how the brain can overcome our fears and racial biases, reports David Amodio. How to Fight Racism Through Inner Work: Rhonda Magee explains how mindfulness-based awareness and compassion is key to racial justice work. How Mindfulness Can Defeat Racial Bias: There might be a solution to implicit racial bias, argues Rhonda Magee: cultivating moment-to-moment awareness of thoughts, feelings, and surroundings. How to Avoid Picking Up Prejudice from the Media: News, entertainment, and social media shape how we behave toward different groups of people. How can we limit negative influences? How to Beat Stereotypes by Seeing People as Individuals: We often judge people by their group membership—but research suggests other ways to see each other. Shared Identity How to encourage generosity by finding commonalities between people. Try It Now Confronting racism Why Telling Our Own Story Is So Powerful for Black Americans: Andrea Collier reflects on the role of storytelling in black American history—and in her own life. How Can We Stop Prejudice in a Pandemic?: Recent studies reveal how knowledge helps defeats prejudice in the face of a health crisis. Can the Science of Purpose Help Explain White Supremacy?: A sense of purpose makes us physically and psychologically stronger. But what if your purpose is hateful and destructive? Eight Ways to Stand Up to Hate: Hate crimes and hateful language are on the rise. What are you going to do about it? From Othering to Belonging: In a Science of Happiness podcast, we explore racial justice, well-being, and widening our circles of connection and concern. How to Sustain Your Activism: These three principles can help activists avoid burnout and continue working toward a better world. Reducing bias in criminal justiceCan We Reduce Bias in Criminal Justice?: Research explores how unconscious racial biases affect the criminal justice system, and how to mitigate those effects. How to Reduce Racial Profiling: Evidence says that implicit racial bias influences police in deciding which cars to stop. But there’s a better way, argues Jack Glaser. Three Ways to Reduce Implicit Bias in Policing: Can we correct for unconscious prejudice in law enforcement? Former police officer Tracie Keesee says yes. Can Police Departments Reduce Implicit Bias?: Oakland’s assistant police chief says that law enforcement must work hard to reduce implicit bias and create a new path for police-community relations. But the problem is not intractable. How Challenging Stereotypes Can Save Black Lives : When police stereotype African Americans, the results can be deadly. But new studies suggest ways to help all of us see each other as complex human beings. Bridging Differences Playbook Learn research-based strategies to promote positive dialogue and understanding Read It Now Building bridgesWhat Makes a Good Interaction Between Divided Groups?: Intergroup contact can help bridge divides, under certain conditions. What Happens When You Tell Your Story and I Tell Mine?: Sometimes, empathy isn’t enough. New research reveals how taking and giving perspectives can help us to bridge our differences. Five Ways to Have Better Conversations Across Difference: It’s not easy, but we can find common ground in difficult conversations. Thoughts on Awkward Relationships and Bridging Divides: In a Science of Happiness podcast, comedian W. Kamau Bell discusses the challenges of finding common ground, even with people in your own family. What Will It Take to Bridge Our Differences?: Here are some core insights from the GGSC’s virtual summit on dialogue and understanding across our differences. Resources for parents How Adults Can Support the Mental Health of Black Children: Psychologist Riana Elyse Anderson explains how families can communicate about race and cope with racial stress and trauma. Rubbing Off: Allison Briscoe-Smith explains how kids learn about race—and how their parents can help them make sense of difference. How to Talk with Your Kids about Donald Trump: Trump is creating fear and confusion in children, especially kids of color. Here are three suggestions for talking with kids about race and racism in the media. How to Read Racist Books to Your Kids: Should parents ignore or excise racist imagery in children’s books? Jeremy Adam Smith offers another way, guided by research. How Adults Communicate Bias to Children: A new study suggests preschoolers can “catch” prejudice from grown-ups through nonverbal behavior—and it hints at solutions. Five Ways to Reduce Racial Bias in Your Children: How do we combat racial prejudice? New research reveals how parents influence the formation of bias in children. How to Raise Kids Who Are More Tolerant Than You: How can we avoid feeding hate and distrust in our children? Helping Kids Process Violence, Trauma, and Race in a World of Nonstop News, from Common Sense: A conversation with Drs. Allison Briscoe-Smith, Jacqueline Dougé, and Nathan Chomilo. Resources for educators Resources to Support Anti-Racist Learning: Read a message from the Greater Good Education team along with articles, books, practices for teachers and students, organizations to follow, and other resources to support anti-racist educators. 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It's hard to think of anything we do nowadays, from working on projects for work or school to socializing with friends, that is not somehow mediated through digital technologies. It's not just that we're doing 'old things' in 'new ways'

Other than making possible different kinds of social arrangements for participants, media also have an effect on two very important aspects of relationships: power and dis-tance. Technologies can make some people more powerful than others or they can erase power differences between people. For example, if I have a microphone and you don't, then I have power to make my voice heard than you do. Similarly, if I have the ability to pub-lish my views and you don't, then I have greater power to get my opinions noticed than you do. One way the internet has changed the power relations among people is to give every-one the power to publish their ideas and disseminate them to millions of people. This is not to say that the internet has made everyone's ideas equal. It's just that more people have the opportunity to get their ideas noticed.

He envies the comradery of Hrothgar’s men, their closeness as a tribe

With the institution of the Lex Julia, the pater familias’s patria potestas was reduced (although it may not appear so) and transferred to the courts. However, under the new laws, the father was allowed to kill his daughter and her lover under very specific circumstances, whereas the court punished adulterers primarily by relegation to various remote island combined with some loss of property[4]. The complete Lex Julia no longer remains, but sections as well as case law reference the Lex were recorded in the Justinian Digest, a very large 6th century compilation of different parts of Roman law. These are excerpts of the digest that refer specifically to a section of the Lex Julia that primarily focuses on who her family can kill the female adulterer and under what circumstances. The husband was not permitted to kill his wife because it was feared that husbands would murder their wives, claim adultery, and try to take her dowry. It was thought that a father would make a sounder decision, because he would be influenced by his love for his daughter, and would therefore only kill her if it was absolutely necessary.

Academic peer review of scientific manuscripts often falls short. It invariably slows and sometimes prevents the publication of good research. And it sometimes leads to the distribution and amplification of flawed research. Prestigious journals sometimes publish research grounded on shaking theory that used weak measures and inappropriate analyses to reach dubious conclusions. Failings of peer review play a principal role in those problems. Journal editors typically perform journal tasks off the side of their desks, on top of everything else. They may handle manuscripts outside of their expertise. Sometimes it’s difficult for them to know who to ask to review. When they do identify prospective reviewers, many decline the request or don’t reply. When I was Editor of Psych Science, I often sent 6 or more invitations to get 2 acceptances. Thus, it sometimes takes weeks to get a few people to commit to reviewing. Some of those fail to deliver on time or at all, despite multiple prompts (doubtless sometimes for good reasons – one never knows what’s going on in another person’s life). So even under the best conditions, peer review takes a long time. And rarely is the decision to accept as is. Good news for authors is a reject/revise/resubmit decision. Thus, it typically takes many months between initial submission and eventual acceptance. The other day I saw an email about a manuscript submitted to Psych Science in January that had just been accepted. I thought, “Wow! Quick!” Is that time well spent? I believe that generally it is. Many reviewers provide assessments that are detailed, clear, insightful, well-informed, and constructive. Many editors strive to understand the work well enough to fairly assess the manuscript and, if it has potential for their journal, making the manuscript as good as it can be. As an author/co-author I have many times been furious with editors and/or reviewers (indeed, even now it takes me days to steel myself to read an action letter), but very often editors’ and reviewers’ input has (I believe) led to major improvements.

Orientalism, therefore, is not an airy European fantasy about the Orient but a created body of theoryand practice in which, for many rations, there has been a considerable material investment. Continued investment made Orientalism, as a system of knowledge about the Orient, an accepted grid for filtering through the Orient into Western consciousness, just as that same investment multiplied-indeed, made truly productive-the statements proliferating out from Orientalism into the general culture.

They look pretty different. It's the same model, same parameters. Just seeding it at different times means that the epidemics get boosted or suppressed by seasonal changes in R.

It’s not because I’m lazy or that I don’t care if my kids have a good party. I am just not wired in such a way that I can fashion sandwiches, made on my very own homemade, organic, gluten-free, sugar-free bread, into holiday-themed shapes. Nor can I make centerpieces that are totally precious using nothing but dental floss and a milk carton. And I’m perfectly fine with that, even though it’s taken me a long time to get here.

I'm involved in a fair amount of management stuff for the firm but it's stuff that we cover in our internal meetings.

Do you know how to do an undo on an iPhone? Let me ask you that question. I’ll just test you out a little. Suppose you do something on the iPhone and you don’t like it, how do you undo it?FC: Unless you’re within an application, then … I don’t know.AK: So, in theory, you’re supposed to shake the iPhone and that means undo. Did you ever, did anybody ever tell you that? It’s not on the website. It turns out almost no app responds to a shake. And there’s no other provision. In fact, you can’t even find out how to use the iPhone on the iPhone. You ever notice that?

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It’s not about learning all the tools, but about being mindful of how to use which tool for the right purpose at the right time, and knowing when NOT to use the more complicated technology and instead just sending an email or making a phone call.

Today, we’re going to use a lot of data and charts to answer these questions:What is happening in Sweden?How bad is the virus, really? How many people does it infect? Hurt? Kill?Who does it affect? Can we just protect the weak?What’s best for the economy?Here’s what you’re going to learn:Sweden is suffering tremendously in cases and deaths. Yet few people have been infected yet. They are a long way from Herd Immunity.Between 0.5% to 1.5% of infected die from the coronavirus.Left uncontrolled, it can kill between 0.4% and 1% of the entire population.Many more suffer conditions we don’t yet understand.Unfortunately, that death and sickness toll is far from having bought us Herd Immunity anywhere in the world.Only protecting those most at risk sounds great. It’s a fantasy today.Even if Sweden’s economy has remained mostly open, it has still suffered as much as others.From now on, it might start doing worse.Sweden now has regrets. But not enough. It can control the virus without a lockdown if it acknowledges its mistakes and takes the right measures.Other countries, like the US or the Netherlands, are toying with a Herd Immunity strategy. It will only cause more economic loss and death.

I’m quite amazed that I don’t have to change anything by hand: it’s just…nicely presented!

Over the next few months, you are going to see many different predictions about COVID-19 outcomes. They won’t all agree. But just because they’re based on assumptions doesn’t mean they’re worthless. “All models are wrong, it’s striving to make them less wrong and useful in the moment,” Weir said. We’re hungry, so somebody has to do some baking. But be sure to ask what ingredients went into that pie and in what quantities.

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nd, as you just mentioned, COVID-19 is going to exacerbate exponentially the amount of suicide and overdose.

Looking back, I can now see that I didn't wish to be Margaret or Katherine because I was Margaret and Katherine. But I like to think that Hermione and my illusory Hardy sister were reading Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret just as I was. Even if you are having amazing adventures, you still had to figure out how to navigate your period.

Children have a right to good stuff thatmakes them happy

"And then I can use her more in the house," I heard my mother say. She had a dead-quiet regretful way of talking about me that always made me uneasy. "I just get my back turned and she runs off. It's not like I had a girl in the family at all."

"And then I can use her more in the house," I heard my mother say. She had a dead-quiet regretful way of talking about me that always made me uneasy. "I just get my back turned and she runs off. It's not like I had a girl in the family at all."

One thing that instantly annoyed me about Messenger Kids is that there are so many distractions from the core features of messaging and video calls. There are filters, stickers, and mini games (like spinning to choose a llama head during a video chat… go figure… kids love it!). My 6 year old is SO drawn to these features as are her friends. So far, this is their main interest during video calls. They don’t talk very much. They just play. Initially, I kept prompting in the background, “ask them what they’ve been doing”, “stop playing with the effects and talk!” Then I took a step back and thought, this is what they want to do. This is play. They’re only 6/7 and if they were playing together in the same room, they probably wouldn’t be sitting chatting about what they’ve been up to. They’d probably be playing in a way that’s sometimes hard for adults to understand. So my way of thinking now is that it’s okay. Maybe the novelty won’t last. However, when my daughter is talking to her grandparents, for example, I’m insisting that she talks rather than simply playing with the effects. It’s about changing your interactions to suit who you are communicating with; a vital lesson for both online and offline encounters.

Looking back 25 years starts in 1994, when the web was just about to garner mainstream attention.

To me this suggests that, after students are praised for their intelligence, it's too humiliating for them to admit mistakes. 

Let’s be blunt. A huge chunk of the UK government’s coronavirus strategy has never seemed to make any sense. There just hasn’t seemed to be a whole lot of logic to it. In many instances contradictions have appeared obvious. And try as we might, there have been some things we’ve never quite been able to rationalise. But here at FT Alphaville we are firm believers in the concept of Chesterton’s fence. This is the principle conjured up by social commentator and philosopher G.K. Chesterton, which says that before critiquing a certain piece of regulation or arguing for its removal, it’s important to understand why the rule was instated in the first place.

it's simply what you do so you can improve and learn more.

The public too have become wary

"Just say I looked pretty well and was having a good time.""I'll say the first with all my heart, but how about the other? You don't look as if you were having a good time. Are you?' And Laurie looked at her with an expression which made her answer in a whisper...

Reasons You Might Want to change your job! Leave a Comment / Blog Contact If you’re planning on leaving or changing your current job, this blog is going to help you in a certain way. Given what’s going on right now, some of you might be saying that the last thing you’re thinking about is changing jobs. I totally understand. But there are companies hiring today. And they’re looking for the best talent. So, deciding whether to change or leave your job remains a very personal decision. There are three things that I would suggest to someone who’s trying to make the decision about changing jobs. I can’t answer these questions, but I do think the answers will help someone figure it out for themselves. Your job is impacting your health. First and foremost, if your job is making you physically or emotionally sick, you need to step back and think. There are jobs where risks do exist, and individuals take those roles knowing that. Jobs in health care, construction, etc. come to mind. Individuals in these industries are taking as many preventive measures as they can. Your work doesn’t make you happy anymore. This could be one of two things: 1) You love what you do but you don’t love the company (or your boss) anymore. OR 2) You’ve fallen out of love with the work. Maybe you used to love traveling as part of your job and now, not so much. It’s important to understand which one you’re dealing with. (NOTE: It’s also possible that the answer is both #1 and #2.) Your career doesn’t make financial sense. I don’t want to simply say that the job doesn’t pay enough. Because maybe the pay is fine. It’s possible that the benefits package doesn’t suit your current situation. Or the cost of maintaining your professional license is getting expensive and the company isn’t reimbursing. The question is “Does your current position adequately cover your living situation?” Once you honestly and seriously answer the above questions, it might help you decide if you want to make a change AND more importantly, what you might want to make a change to. There is some truth to the saying that the best time to look for a new job is when you have a job. I realize not everyone gets that opportunity which is why it can make some sense to always be thinking about your job wants and needs. If you’re thinking about a new opportunity, I want to give you something else to consider. Now is the time to start planning. Don’t wait until you have to make a move to start planning for it. Here are three action steps that will help you find your next job. Also, there are some other important questions that you might want to ask yourself before taking the big step : What specifically about my current situation is frustrating to me? Pinpointing the issue is the first step towards solving it. Kimberly Bishop, recruiter and chief of her eponymous career management firm based in New York, advises employees to identify how their job is failing them. Is the problem the people, the environment or the work itself? After you’ve defined the frustration, consider the scope. If you decide you’re creatively stifled, for example, you may not need to quit to fill the void. Seek an outlet outside of work or raise your hand for another department or project. Have I taken every action possible to make my current job workable? If you realize your situation is not abusive and could be manageable, consider the steps you might take to improve it. Try taking a positive attitude, altering your time management or work habits, and communicating more clearly with your manager. Perhaps a schedule change or clearing an item off your workload will make a big difference. Ultimately, what do I want for my job, career, and life? “A big mistake: When people decide to quit they think they’ll just update their resume and start networking,” says Bishop, who advises being more thoughtful about what you really want and how you’ll get there. Define your priorities. Going to law school may be intellectually stimulating but will not help you achieve the flexible schedule you’ve been craving. Similarly, if you’d like to make a career change, think about all the necessary steps. They may include more school, a pay cut, or working your way up from the bottom–again. Once you know exactly what you want, you may want to ask: How much do I want it? Have I saved enough to cover nine to 12 months of expenses? Susan Hirshman, financial planner and author of Does This Make My Assets Look Fat?, says a few years ago she told people to save enough for six months of expenses. Now she tells people they need nine to 12 months. “If you’re quitting, you won’t get unemployment,” she cautions. Hirshman suggests mapping out fixed expenses like mortgage, credit card, and loan payments, transportation, and food, as well as factoring in the “what if” costs. You may need a little extra to cushion against the unexpected, like car or appliance repairs. How might I cut expenses or earn income while between jobs? After completing a detailed budget, you may realize you’re coming up short and need to create some cash. Often, income is easily supplanted with a part-time service job. However, Hirshman warns that even waiter jobs are difficult to come by in the current economy. You only have two options: Cut expenses or bring in more money. Figure out what will work for you and be honest with yourself, Hirshman says. Have I timed this appropriately? Agryie suggests that employees who’ve decided to quit consider their timing. Firstly, are you in the midst of the busiest season or working on a big project? You may want to honor your commitments so that your team isn’t left in a bind and you’re able to leave on good terms. Secondly, “maximize the money,” he says. If you’d like to get your quarterly bonus or the holiday vacation, it might be smart to wait a few months. So after answering all these questions for yourself, you’d be able to decide if you’d want to continue with your old job or career or switch to a new one.Put together a job search plan. Grab a notebook and start plotting your strategy. Think about your skills. Make note of the knowledge and skills you want to work on before starting to interview. List your must-haves and nice-to-haves for your next company and job. Start thinking about your professional network, both online and the one on one type. Identify the resources you need. It’s possible that you would benefit from taking a class, joining a professional group, or reading some books. Make a list of everything you need and roughly how much it will cost. Start budgeting for these items. Also, think about if you will be out of work for a while and if you will need to cover health insurance in-between jobs. That needs to be budgeted as well. Ask for support. Once you have a plan, reach out to your network. Start reconnecting with them. If you’ve been doing that all along – fantastic! If you haven’t, it will take some time before you can ask for favors. Also, be sure to speak with your family and make sure they’re prepared to support you through this transition. Changing jobs will impact them too. Regardless of where you are in your career and what’s going on in the economy, the job search process is hard. It takes time. The best suggestions I can give someone is to think about why you’re considering a change and create a plan to get from where you are to where you see yourself. The worst thing someone can do is react too quickly and find themselves in another toxic workplace. I know that the current work situation is tough but remember it’s tough you know. Have a plan and work the plan out. You’ll definitely succeed. All the best!

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it would be better for him that he had a brother, both of one father,

A man is pledge-free and imprudent, malicious and faithless, who does not care for God.

Treasure becomes others— a man must give out gold. God can grant blessed possessions and also take them back.

Efficient operations. Fast food franchises benefit from consistent delivery of both food and experience - look for franchise opportunities with a proven and cost effective system. Effective marketing. As a franchisee you don’t have to handle the marketing - but you sure want to make sure the mother ship knows what they’re doing. With so many options to choose from it’s important that a franchise can effectively market their unique value proposition. Innovative menus. Menu options need to be creative and offer both healthy and indulgent options. New plays on old favorites, healthier versions of classics, or unique flavor profiles like a spicy dessert are just a few examples. Know Your Niche. There is something to be said for the traditional burger joint - some would say don’t fix what isn’t broken - but increasingly specialty or regional food options are gaining in popularity. Figure out what will work in your community. Effective use of technology. Many franchises are using the same exact model of limited service that launched in the 50's. Restaurants with kiosk or automated table ordering help keep costs down. Look for an iPad.

“Can you imagine the kind of cold calls we had to make in the beginning?” says Warinner. “‘Hi, I’m working with this thing on teeth, and it’s about 1,000 years old, and it has blue stuff in it. Can you help me?’ People thought we were crazy. We tried reaching out to physicists, and they were like, ‘I don’t know what you’re talking about.’ We tried reaching out to people working in art restoration, and they were like, ‘Why are you working with plaque?’” She eventually reached physicists at the University of York who helped confirm the blue did indeed come from the mineral lazurite, derived from lapis lazuli.

Figure 4.2: Bias, Coverage and Empirical Standard Error for the Over-estimating, Perfect and Under-Estimating models across all four methods when β=1β=1\beta=1, γ=1γ=1\gamma=1 and η=1/2η=1/2\eta=\;^{1}/_{2}. Confidence Intervals are included in the plot, but are tight around the estimate

direction of causality here – it’s not likely that self esteem causes your height!

It's as simple as night and day; Heaven and Hell ... the difference between survival and--what we are presented with here; it's "doing this." It's ending the ELE of "representative democracy" and "electoral college" and giant screaming grande message about "extinction level event" .... is literally just as simple as "not caring" or thinking we are at the beginning of some long process--or thinking it will never be done--that special "IT" that's the emancipation of you and I.

Don’t go to code academy, go to design academy. Be advocates of the user & consumer. It’s not about learning how to code, it’s about translating real-world needs to technological specifications in just ways that give end users agency and equity in design, development and delivery. Be a champion of user-centric design. Learn how to steward data and offer your help.

Faulkner Press' attorney, says the suit isn't about money for the professors, it's about protecting its intellectual property

On top of this, the conspiracy theorists who contend that original composer Junkie XL has a full, finished alternate Justice League score ready to replace the work of Danny Elfman just simply don't have a leg to stand on.

Over the weekend, The Washington Post published a chilling description of the first day of reopened business at a mall in an upscale suburb of Atlanta, Georgia. Bored rich people wandered the aisles of Anthropologie and Crate & Barrel, pawing at the wares, some with no masks or hand sanitizer in sight. One woman getting a manicure said, “I went to the antique mall yesterday on Highway 9 and it was just like—it was like freedom. We have to get out.” Everyone who is lucky enough not to have to work is chafing at being stuck at home, but one has to laugh at the idea that American Freedom is visiting the antique mall on Highway 9. Then again, maybe she’s right: Maybe that is American Freedom. The right to visit whatever business you please is not one enshrined in the Constitution. There is no constitutional right to go to Arby’s. But from the start, lockdown protesters claimed their constitutional rights were being trampled by the stay-at-home orders. Protest signs in Southern California read: “Pandemics does [sic] NOT cancel our Constitutional rights!! Freedom over fear,” and “No Liberty, No Life, Reopen California.” My colleague Matt Ford is not the only one suggesting tweaks to America’s foundational documents, it seems: The angry bourgeoisie of the “reopen America” movement has invented an entirely new category of civil rights. On Monday, in New Jersey, a protester at a gym that opened despite the shutdown order held a sign that said, “The constitution is essential,” and another held a sign that said, “Right to work/Right to worship/Right to free speech/Right to be free.” A protester in Washington said: “I lost my job as a bartender and now I live on way less income, and I’m upset that my constitutional rights are being trampled all over.” Advocates of a federal job guarantee will be thrilled to hear that there is a constitutional right to a job. This line of criticism might make a little more sense if the issue in question was the federal government enforcing a broad order to physically keep residents inside their homes. But there are no patrols of soldiers forcing citizens to remain indoors, certainly not among the white and wealthy. Take Newport Beach, California, for example: The city said on April 3 that it would not enforce Governor Gavin Newsom’s stay-at-home order, saying the governor “expects Californians to do the right thing” and “self-regulate.” Californians can still go to the grocery store, the pharmacy, the laundromat. They can still shop online. They can still go for walks. They can even go to Arby’s—drive-thru, at least. But the people who took their AR-15s to Subway, citing their “God-given freedoms as Americans,” are not talking about their actual constitutional rights. They are talking about their unique understanding of the mythical promise of this nation, which is a place where a man can drive a big-ass truck, drink a 64 oz Slurpee, and go to the air-conditioned mall to purchase Stuff. Because this is America, and if that’s what America is, that’s what the Constitution must necessarily be protecting. Children are educated in our schools that the Constitution defends the American “way of life.” It’s not that surprising if the end result is that people think this is actually true. In this case, they rage at being prevented from living their normal lives—going to Bed Bath & Beyond, drinking margaritas at Chili’s with friends, golfing—because they consider the conduct of their normal lives to be inseparable from the purpose of America. The right of essential workers not to die of the coronavirus does not seem to enter the equation. White dudes who own big pickup trucks and live in Newport Beach have rarely been at risk of overaggressive policing. The fact remains that even if a mandatory quarantine were harshly enforced by the government, all the available evidence suggests that the white people who feel threatened enough by government overreach to parade around state capitols with guns are not the ones who would be at risk of violence from the police. New York City data revealed earlier this month that 35 of the 40 people arrested for social distancing violations were black, four were Hispanic, and only one was white. White dudes who own big pickup trucks and live in Newport Beach have rarely been at risk of overaggressive policing. This is simply the conservative mentality: a constant state of perceived victimhood. The notion that oppressed groups enjoy being persecuted, because it lets them complain about victimization, becomes a weird sort of envy. This leads the would-be wretches to invent forms of oppression, like having to buy two iced teas instead of getting a free refill, so they get to have a turn at complaining. They may genuinely not realize that actually oppressed groups are not having fun when they object to their situation. The conservative-fear-industrial complex runs on conjuring ever-changing enemies of liberty, each browner and more Marxist than the last, because it makes them feel alive. Hence the outrage directed at Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for noting that we will need to consume less beef if we want to prevent apocalyptic climate change, which was in turn reminiscent of the anger at Michelle Obama for proposing that children should be given healthy food at school instead of pizza and white bread. How dare you, government bureaucrat, suggest that I shouldn’t kill myself with a diet of only red meat and Mr. Pibb? Never mind the millions for whom a diet of processed food and soda is all that’s affordable or available; the real oppression is you criticizing the choices I use to define myself, which, for some reason, now include eating burgers. For anyone, particularly nonwhite women, to suggest otherwise is essentially the new Gestapo. There is no logical connection between your constitutional rights and shopping at businesses you like. But it makes the desire for normality, which we all crave, much more defensible if you frame it as being a martyr for American liberty in the vein of Thomas Jefferson, and not a sad admission that the America of sterile malls, connected by vast freeways and staffed by the underpaid masses, is what you would actually die for.

Directly opposite him, on the other side of the inclosed space, were two doors, exactly alike and side by side. It was the duty and the privilege of the person on trial to walk directly to these doors and open one of them.

Students are seldom given choicesregarding academic tasks to pursue, methods forcarrying out complex assignments, or study part-ners. Few teachers encourage students to establishspecific goals for their academic work or teachexplicit study strategies. Also, students are rarelyasked to self-evaluate their work or estimate theircompetence on new tasks. Teachers seldom assessstudents’ beliefs about learning, such as self-effi-cacy perceptions or causal attributions, in order toidentify cognitive or motivational difficulties be-fore they become problematic.

“Mister John Adams,” Will said, realizing his mistake.“That’s more like it,” Sam smiled. “Now, why do you want to vote?”

Thank you for your work in this class. I know it’s a lot to manage. Just a reminder, make sure you’re taking all the quizzes to help you be successful here. Please contact me if I can help or answer any questions. Thanks!”

It is very important to clearly define what a subscriptions means. First, it’s not a donation: it is asking a customer to pay money for a product. What, then, is the product? It is not, in fact, any one article (a point that is missed by the misguided focus on micro-transactions). Rather, a subscriber is paying for the regular delivery of well-defined value. The importance of this distinction stems directly from the economics involved: the marginal cost of any one Stratechery article is $0. After all, it is simply text on a screen, a few bits flipped in a costless arrangement. It makes about as much sense to sell those bit-flipping configurations as it does to sell, say, an MP3, costlessly copied. So you need to sell something different. In the case of MP3s, what the music industry finally learned — after years of kicking and screaming about how terribly unfair it was that people “stole” their music, which didn’t actually make sense because digital goods are non-rivalrous — is that they should sell convenience. If streaming music is free on a marginal cost basis, why not deliver all of the music to all of the customers for a monthly fee? This is the same idea behind nearly every large consumer-facing web service: Netflix, YouTube, Facebook, Google, etc. are all predicated on the idea that content is free to deliver, and consumers should have access to as much as possible. Of course how they monetize that convenience differs: Netflix has subscriptions, while Google, YouTube, and Facebook deliver ads (the latter two also leverage the fact that content is free to create). None of them, though, sell discrete digital goods. It just doesn’t make sense.

All of us have heard the saying that “students didn’t learn because they just weren’t motivated.”

There is a huge opportunity for URSSI to produce and disseminate a high quality newsletter to keep the community informed about research software news, notable research papers, critical software, events and job openings. The data science community already benefits from such a newsletter that is maintained by Laura Noren and Brad Stegner and financially supported by the Academic Data Science Alliance.

walked away unknown and forgotten into the ghostly daze of Chinatown soup alleyways & firetrucks, not even one free beer,

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Having to rebase and cleanup the commits while actively working on something is time and attention consuming.

The hunting was not good last night. The fellow lost his head. He made a straight trail that offered no problems at all. That's the trouble with these sailors; they have dull brains to begin with, and they do not know how to get about in the woods. They do excessively stupid and obvious things. It's most annoying. Will you have another glass of Chablis, Mr. Rainsford?""General," said Rainsford firmly, "I wish to leave this island at once."The general raised his thickets of eyebrows; he seemed hurt. "But, my dear fellow," the general protested, "you've only just come. You've had no hunting—""I wish to go today," said Rainsford. He saw the dead black eyes of the general on him, studying him. General Zaroff's face suddenly brightened.He filled Rainsford's glass with venerable Chablis from a dusty bottle."Tonight," said the general, "we will hunt—you and I."

Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode?

WhyGeneral infrastructure simply takes time to build. You have to carefully design interfaces, write documentation and tests, and make sure that your systems will handle load. All of that is rival with experimentation, and not just because it takes time to build: it also makes the system much more rigid.Once you have lots of users with lots of use cases, it’s more difficult to change anything or to pursue radical experiments. You’ve got to make sure you don’t break things for people or else carefully communicate and manage change.Those same varied users simply consume a great deal of time day-to-day: a fault which occurs for 1% of people will present no real problem in a small prototype, but it’ll be high-priority when you have 100k users.Once this playbook becomes the primary goal, your incentives change: your goal will naturally become making the graphs go up, rather than answering fundamental questions about your system.

Online education will continue to expand; again, it’s just a question of how much. And perhaps just as important, a question of the quality of the online education that will be available.

The objective of Let’s Encrypt and the ACME protocol is to make it possible to set up an HTTPS server and have it automatically obtain a browser-trusted certificate, without any human intervention. This is accomplished by running a certificate management agent on the web server. To understand how the technology works, let’s walk through the process of setting up https://example.com/ with a certificate management agent that supports Let’s Encrypt. There are two steps to this process. First, the agent proves to the CA that the web server controls a domain. Then, the agent can request, renew, and revoke certificates for that domain. Domain Validation Let’s Encrypt identifies the server administrator by public key. The first time the agent software interacts with Let’s Encrypt, it generates a new key pair and proves to the Let’s Encrypt CA that the server controls one or more domains. This is similar to the traditional CA process of creating an account and adding domains to that account. To kick off the process, the agent asks the Let’s Encrypt CA what it needs to do in order to prove that it controls example.com. The Let’s Encrypt CA will look at the domain name being requested and issue one or more sets of challenges. These are different ways that the agent can prove control of the domain. For example, the CA might give the agent a choice of either: Provisioning a DNS record under example.com, or Provisioning an HTTP resource under a well-known URI on http://example.com/ Along with the challenges, the Let’s Encrypt CA also provides a nonce that the agent must sign with its private key pair to prove that it controls the key pair. The agent software completes one of the provided sets of challenges. Let’s say it is able to accomplish the second task above: it creates a file on a specified path on the http://example.com site. The agent also signs the provided nonce with its private key. Once the agent has completed these steps, it notifies the CA that it’s ready to complete validation. Then, it’s the CA’s job to check that the challenges have been satisfied. The CA verifies the signature on the nonce, and it attempts to download the file from the web server and make sure it has the expected content. If the signature over the nonce is valid, and the challenges check out, then the agent identified by the public key is authorized to do certificate management for example.com. We call the key pair the agent used an “authorized key pair” for example.com. Certificate Issuance and Revocation Once the agent has an authorized key pair, requesting, renewing, and revoking certificates is simple—just send certificate management messages and sign them with the authorized key pair. To obtain a certificate for the domain, the agent constructs a PKCS#10 Certificate Signing Request that asks the Let’s Encrypt CA to issue a certificate for example.com with a specified public key. As usual, the CSR includes a signature by the private key corresponding to the public key in the CSR. The agent also signs the whole CSR with the authorized key for example.com so that the Let’s Encrypt CA knows it’s authorized. When the Let’s Encrypt CA receives the request, it verifies both signatures. If everything looks good, it issues a certificate for example.com with the public key from the CSR and returns it to the agent. Revocation works in a similar manner. The agent signs a revocation request with the key pair authorized for example.com, and the Let’s Encrypt CA verifies that the request is authorized. If so, it publishes revocation information into the normal revocation channels (i.e. OCSP), so that relying parties such as browsers can know that they shouldn’t accept the revoked certificate.

starting data scientists using pandas to build simple data wrangling pipelines (e.g. load this csv, delete this row etc). This is quick but it also means that you now need to install pandas just to do that (and what happens if you want to start doing integrated testing, you are now installing a very substantial lib every time etc).

n 2016, the parents of another unwilling subject sued the image’s creator, a news organization for publishing the image in a story about it, and a dancer on the show “Dancing With the Stars,” who the suit contended contributed to the image’s spread and the subject’s emotional distress by reposting the image with negative comments on social media.

That works, but it's pointless. There's no reason to declare i in that position with a const, since the whole point of such a variable in that position is to be used for counting iterations. Just use a different loop form, like a while loop, or use a let!

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I like design principles that can be formulated as: X, even over Y. It’s not saying that Y is unimportant, just that X is more important: Usability, even over profitability. Or: Profitability, even over usability. Design principles formulated this way help to crystalise priorities.

‘Then what will we do afterwards?’‘We’ll be fine afterwards. Just like we were before.’‘What makes you think so?’‘That’s the only thing that bothers us. It’s the only thing that’s made us unhappy.’

‘I’ll go with you and I’ll stay with you all the time. They just let the air in and then it’s all perfectly natural.’

‘It’s really an awfully simple operation, Jig,’ the man said. ‘It’s not really an operation at all.’The girl looked at the ground the table legs rested on.‘I know you wouldn’t mind it, Jig. It’s really not anything. It’s just to let the air in.’The girl did not say anything.‘I’ll go with you and I’ll stay with you all the time. They just let the air in and then it’s all perfectly natural.’‘Then what will we do afterwards?’‘We’ll be fine afterwards. Just like we were before.’‘What makes you think so?’‘That’s the only thing that bothers us. It’s the only thing that’s made us unhappy.’

But not all disturbances are equal. Remember that Keynes quotation about changing your mind in light of changed facts? It’s cited in countless books, including one written by me and another by my coauthor. Google it and you will find it’s all over the Internet. Of the many famous things Keynes said it’s probably the most famous. But while researching this book, I tried to track it to its source and failed. Instead, I found a post by a Wall Street Journal blogger, which said that no one has ever discovered its provenance and the two leading experts on Keynes think it is apocryphal. 7 In light of these facts, and in the spirit of what Keynes apparently never said, I concluded that I was wrong. And I have now confessed to the world. Was that hard? Not really. Many smart people made the same mistake, so it’s not embarrassing to own up to it. The quotation wasn’t central to my work and being right about it wasn’t part of my identity. But if I had staked my career on that quotation, my reaction might have been less casual. Social psychologists have long known that getting people to publicly commit to a belief is a great way to freeze it in place, making it resistant to change. The stronger the commitment, the greater the resistance.

Supersmart: are they super intelligent? No, but they are generally reasonably smart. Superquants: are the SFs just math geniuses? No, but they are all numerate and they have a good understanding of basic probability, including base rates etc. (something most of us don’t have). Supernewsjunkies: are SFs just good because they consume lots of information? Yes and no. It’s the quality and variety of what they consume; many of the good forecasters did not spend that much time reading material.

Make it clear that signing up is optional. Consent must be “freely given”; you may not coerce users into joining your mailing list or make it appear as if joining the list is mandatory. For this reason, you must make it clear that signing up is optional. This is especially relevant in cases where you offer free white-papers (or e-books) for download. While the user’s email address is required for the delivery of the service, signing up for your newsletter is not. In such a case, you must not make it appear as if signing-up to the newsletter list mandatory and must make it clear that it is optional.

“Just think of ‘let’ as initiating a computational process, with forces defined by the lisp language and interacting via the lisp engine with the outside world. Then letting computers be like cars makes more sense. Do you recall that a lisp program is just a list?” Abu nodded, but interjected. “It’s really a list missing its outermost parentheses, right?” Til’s glint was piercing. “Ah, but there’s an implied pair of outermost parentheses!” Ila fairly stumbled over her tongue trying to blurt out. “And a ‘let nil’ form!” Now it was Abu’s turn to be puzzled. He said, “Wait, why nil?” Ila rushed on, “It just means that your program can be self-contained, with nil extra environment needed to run. Just let it go, let it run!”

Although I was theoretically convinced that radioactivity affects nature, I still could not imagine what it would actually look like

Does a China-based company selling goods over a website only drafted in Chinese need to comply with the GDPR just because it’s possible, from a practical point of view, that some EU-based Chinese persons might purchase something from it? In principle we’d say no, unless it can be proven, that the company is doing relevant business with EU-based customers, or is addressing them expressly (for instance, by informing that “delivery to the EU” or “payment from an EU bank account” are possible etc.).

. It ain't the lecturing I mind. I'll lecture them blue in the face, I will, and not turn a hair. It's making a gentleman of me that I object to. Who asked him to make a gentleman of me? I was happy. I was free. I touched pretty nigh everybody for money when I wanted it, same as I touched you, Henry Higgins. Now I am worrited; tied neck and heels; and everybody touches me for money. It's a fine thing for you, says my solicitor. Is it? says I. You mean it's a good thing for you, I says. When I was a poor man and had a solicitor once when they found a pram in the dust cart, he got me off, and got shut of me and got me shut of him as quick as he could. Same with the doctors: used to shove me out of the hospital before I could hardly stand on my legs, and nothing to pay. Now they finds out that I'm not a healthy man and can't live unless they looks after me twice a day. In the house I'm not let do a hand's turn for myself: somebody else must do it and touch me for it. A year ago I hadn't a relative in the world except two or three that wouldn't speak to me. Now I've fifty, and not a decent week's wages among the lot of them. I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle class morality. You talk of losing Eliza. Don't you be anxious: I bet she's on my doorstep by this: she that could support herself easy by selling flowers if I wasn't respectable. And the next one to touch me will be you, Henry Higgins. I'll have to learn to speak middle class language from you, instead of speaking proper English. That's where you'll come in; and I daresay that's what you done it for.

One of the most promising of the young Negro poets said to me once, “I want to be a poet–not a Negro poet,” meaning, I believe, “I want to write like a white poet”; meaning subconsciously, “I would like to be a white poet”; meaning behind that, “I would like to be white.”

One of the most promising of the young Negro poets said to me once, “I want to be a poet–not a Negro poet,” meaning, I believe, “I want to write like a white poet”; meaning subconsciously, “I would like to be a white poet”; meaning behind that, “I would like to be white.” And I was sorry the young man said that, for no great poet has ever been afraid of being himself.

jazz is their child

The Internet isn't just a network of computers. It's a network of networks. The connection points between networks are called routers, networking devices that route traffic between subnetworks on the Internet. The routers only know how to pass information on to the next router or to the final destination; the routers do not analyze what's inside each packet of data (as long as you live in a country without Internet censorship). Making sense of the information happens at the destination computer. This is called the end to end principle.

You shouldn't be here, but it's okay. It's a dream. She can't find you here. In a minute you're going to wake up, and everything is going to seem like it's the same, but it's not. There's a way out. Are you listening to me? You can't forget when you wake up. You. can't

On that night, the gun is set upon the mantlepiece. The metaphorical gun, of course. If there were a literal gun, you'd probably be dead.

already.  However, what Microsoft does not have is a 1000+ customer base purchasing RPA specifically because it is RPA.  A customer base where the prime customer is not sitting in the CIO's organization.  It's also clear that the tech majors are all waiting to see who blinks first with RPA.  Just buying up some kit (i.e. SAP/Contextor) isn't going to do much.  Partnering only really works when there is real skin in the game and a colossal global services network to implement and support the product.  UiPath can claim is has built a pretty decent global delivery infrastructure and channel to market - and its huge show in Las Vegas was clearly designed to show that off to the world The bigger issue is money, and how m

The amount of attention paid to movies is directly related to pictures of qual-ity. It's the movies that are works of art that create this inter-est, even if they're not on the ten-highest-grosses list too often.

Don't focus too much on the salary. It's just one tiny part of the whole package.Your dev job pays your rent, food and savings. I assume that most dev jobs do this quite well.Beyond this, the main goal of a job is to increase your future market value, your professional network and to have fun. So. basically it's about how much you are worth in your next job and that you enjoy your time.A high salary doesn't help you if you do stuff which doesn't matter in a few years.

Some people will insist that technology is neutral — “it’s just a tool,” they’ll say. “What matters is how you use it.” But a technology always has a history, and it has a politics. A technology likely has a pedagogical bent as well — how it trains people to use it, if nothing else — and even if one tries to use a tool for a radically different task than it was built for, there are always remnants of those political and historical and pedagogical designs. Technologies are never “just tools.” They are, to borrow from the physicist Ursula Franklin, practices. Technologies are systems. Technology “entails far more than its individual material components,” Franklin wrote in The Real World of Technology. “Technology involves organizations, procedures, symbols, new words, equations, and, most of all, a mindset.”

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The one that managed to slow him the longest was a torn left Achilles’ tendon late in the 2012-13 season. Of course, stubborn as he was, Bryant did not want to accept the on-court diagnosis he received from Gary Vitti, the longtime Lakers athletic trainer.“I told him it’s ruptured and he’s done,” Vitti told The Times in December 2017. “He said, ‘Can’t you just tape it up?’”

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School is not only a place for study, but a place to prepare us for future life