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Comment Kickstarter Goals? (Score 3, Interesting) 98

Reading TFA is seems by 'Kickstarter Goal' they mean getting funded.
Once you've got funded you have to actually do the thing you said you were going to do with the money.

If people are using gender to determine who they are funding, they are presumably displacing more rational metrics, like "does the project make any sense?", or "Does this person seem competent to do what they claim they can do?'.

Thus in those areas where gender bias is measurable in funding, I would assume the odds of eventual successful delivery to be reduced.

Comment Re:As a chrono-American, I can remember... (Score 3, Informative) 112

America is closer to a penal colony these days.

From the internetz: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U...

The incarceration rate in the United States of America is the highest in the world. As of October 2013, the incarceration rate was 716 per 100,000 of the national population.[2] While the United States represents about 5 percent of the world's population, it houses around 25 percent of the world's prisoners.[3][4] Imprisonment of America's 2.3 million prisoners, costing $24,000 per inmate per year, and $5.1 billion in new prison construction, consumes $60.3 billion in budget expenditures.

Comment Re:This seems like a good time to meniton these (Score 1) 168

Every D-flip flop is an async circuit. W.

How's that then? Would you care to explain, please, what you mean?
My D-FFs here are totally synchronous: The D-input pops up at the output exactly with the rising clock edge + processing delay. And the latter is unavoidably indefinably. .

A DFF is the basic element of a synchronous circuit, yes. But look inside a DFF and it's a basic async circuit with two (or 3 or 4) inputs and one (or two) outputs. That's why it requires you to maintain at least a minimum time gap between certain transitions on the inputs.

Don't they teach async design at college these days?

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