They all waive unvested stock under our nose. For a lot of engineering it's a way for us to retire early. Missing deadlines can tank this kind of tech startup.
Besides, most people don't want to feel like they are letting down other people on the team. And management counts on our good nature to squeeze the most out of labor.

Yeah I know every single religion has pedophile sex scandals. All of them even the Buddhists. Gandhi used to sleep with young girls supposedly as a test to keep himself chaste but let's not kid ourselves.

Extremist religions need to have warped views about sex because that creates a guilt feedback loop that keeps you coming to the church for absolution so that they can hit you up for money. This and the 4 to 14 pipeline are two of the most gruesome examples of how the sausage is made among the religiously extreme.

I said people who are heavily repressed and emotionally broken by a false religious teaching put forward by right-wing extremists can be broken in other ways especially when they're worse impulses are actively being encouraged and protected by those extremist religious organizations.

Or to put it more bluntly religious extremism encourages pedophilia.

Evolution over a single generation is a new one on me. But I firmly believe that people should be free to practice their religious beliefs how they see fit.

Oops. We software developers have been assuming you have infinite memory. Kind of explains a lot about this industry, doesn't it.

Jokes aside my Kid's an adult, and the politicization of religion in America killed the last vestiges of faith I had, but I gotta say I wouldn't leave my kid alone with a preacher.

the problem's actually pretty basic and fucked up. Because of mistranslations in 1946 the church has gone whole hog against the LGBTQ community. And they weren't exactly pro-LGBTQ before then.

So let's say you're raised during the "4 to 14" in a religious context. So you genuinely believe the church's teachings. But you're also Gay. So you're forever cut off from fulfilling romantic involvement, a basic human drive. What do you do?

You join the Church as a celibate preacher. And now you're around vulnerable young boys all day.... Then the church catches you and rather than pass you to the police they move you around to other parishes because they're afraid you're crimes will undermine their authority.

TL;DR; the Church is creating and attracting pedophiles.

The entire thing comes down to the Church shitting all over Gay people and breaking their brains, then covering up the damage they're doing.

there's zero evidence that letting trans people use their correct bathrooms hurts anyone. There's *lots* of cases of trans men getting the shit kicked out of them when they're forced to walk into a women's bathroom or vice versa for trans women.

And that's the point. It's supposed to put trans people at risk in public spaces so they're forced to detransition for safety. A kind of genocide. This dispite the fact that trans healthcare has a 98% success rate with most of the remaining 2% detransitioning because of social pressure, not because they felt they shouldn't transition.

I've got a bad back. Surgery was offered. It has a 60% success rate. I skipped it because it was difficult and painful and 60% was a low success rate. I'm doing physical therapy. But you can bet your *ass* if my doctor said "98% and by the way most of that remaining 2% is because people with back surgery have to use the wrong bathroom" I'd have done it.

Facts don't care about your feelings. I get it. Trans people weird you out. Uncanny valley effect kicks in. But that's a you problem, not a them problem.

PhDs are expected to publish. The old saying of "publish or perish" applies here. Each contributor likely has their own funding and own motives for participating in this research. But given that contributor is part of a "media lab" and another is part of a "parrot kindergarten" makes me suspect that very little money was required to fund this particular research.

What scientific value does it have? Well it's not a missile or bomb, so it doesn't help the war effort. I guess we'll have to be satisfied that this is merely the expansion of human knowledge. Perhaps the "parrot kindergarten" can use the information during their training and psychological evaluation or whatever they are doing over there.

We know of these people because they were lucky. Not because they are superior specimens.

Sorry if my earlier reply was too terse and misinterpreted.

This is interesting. I've noticed that most of my parrot's senses seem duller than mine (unlike with, say, dogs) - not as picky with taste (except staleness), no meaningful signs of a significant sense of smell, has trouble seeing things that are right near him sometimes, etc - but he seems more atuned to having rapid reactions to anything unusual than I am. Like, at my old place, whenever a chunk of ice would break off the roof and crash down to the ground below, he'd be reacting before my senses even registered the event. I wonder if the "high framerate" thing is in general a "fast communication with the senses" in parrots. Certainly there's a very short distance between most of their sensory organs and the brain. And it's certainly useful for a prey animal to be able to react to sudden events (like, say, a striking snake, or a diving hawk glinting through the branches)

Lucky.

"I'm here live . I'm not a parrot." ;)

They're intelligent social animals. Even just a change in eye contact from me alters my Amazon's behavior. He's incredibly attuned to my posture, tone of voice, mannerisms, etc, to clue in whether he's going to e.g. be getting a treat or scolded for misbehavior or whatnot. I can't imagine that a video without that back-and-forth would stimulate him.

I don't watch TV anymore, but he used to just tune it out. Rather, he'd tune into *me*. He'd laugh at the funny parts of shows and the like, not because he understood the humour, but because he was paying attention to me, and I was laughing, so he wanted to join in. And then I'd react amusedly to his taking part, he'd get attention, and getting attention was in turn a reward to him. They like getting reactions to the things they do. A video won't do that.

And yeah, he understands what screens are - same as mirrors. Some smaller psittacines are known to strongly interact with mirrors as if they're other birds, but in my experience, the larger ones don't do that; they quickly learn it's their reflection and stop caring. As a side note, I actually tried the mirror test with my Amazon twice, but each time I got a null result. You're supposed to put an unusual mark or lightweight object on their head where they can't see it, put them in front of a mirror, and if they interact with the mirror like it's another animal, they don't recognize it's their reflection; while if they use it to try to preen the hidden mark/object, it's a sign of recognition. But my Amazon didn't give a rat's arse. I might as well have put him in front of a wall for all it mattered; he gave the mark zero attention. Didn't care about the reflection of a bird. Didn't care about the mark on his head. Just sat there waiting for me to put him back on his cage :P I couldn't get him to interact with the reflection at all. Nor does he react to birds on TV. By contrast, he'll VERY MUCH interact with a real bird (he hates them all... he's very antisocial with nonhumans).

Don't put words in my mouth. I never said batteries were cheap. I said wind is cheap. It's very very cheap. Both land-based and off-shore, but the $/MWh for land-based wind has fallen below natural gas and solar concentrator. Solar photovoltaic is roughly the same or a little cheaper than wind now, but the two can complement one another in regions that have reliable winds that come in just as solar is ramping down for the evening.

As to your battery question. Feel free to look it up if you want to know the economics of batteries, specifically when used for large-scale energy storage. There's not a lot of large scale sites up and running (there are a few notable ones). In the last two years come to a point where the prices for batteries have dropped enough that building more of them becomes attractive.

For us home users. The whole house batteries prices have dropped noticeably over the last few years. But having no battery and being grid-tied is cheapest, and I'd recommend that unless you have other reasons for a whole house battery than trying to time shift your solar or wind generator.

P.S. I was pretty deep into installing wind at home, but I backed out. so I'm solar only. Even though I have the paperwork approved for my site.

Agreed. I think the whole argument is difficult to swallow. Here's a "solution" I pulled out with 5 minutes of thought: Use an AM/FM 1-chip radio or SDF radio placed in a module within the antenna pod near the outside of the vehcile. And route the digital outputs back to your entertainment center, and tuning controls over a bus, CANbus for example. Now instead running a beefy coax cable for your antenna around motors and controllers, you can route some cheap little ribbon of noise immune anywhere you want.

I mean, seriously. These auto companies hire thousands of engineers way smarter than me to work on this full-time. I need some solid proof that they can't make AM radios work before I'd accept their excuses.

  If a stereo store's techs could put a CD changer in my trunk in the 1990's, I think actual engineers could solve a slightly more difficult problem when designing a vehicle from the ground up.