Agreed. Harris is a horrible person and if she ran for president her record in California will be front and center for everyone to see.

Basically, you are defending the murder of children and the rape of women because "they had it coming".

Depends on what you define as the underlying problem.
If the underlying problem is that women are grossly underrepresented in the industry as a whole, then job fairs for women absolutely won't fix the issue. You'd need to attack it at the middle school level, and you wouldn't see any effects for a decade.

But if the underlying problem is that big notable tech companies, who show up at major job fairs and who publish widely-distributed gender/diversity statistics, are severely lacking in their numbers of women tech employees... Then providing a job fair where they can directly recruit from a large number of viable candidates will absolutely help their own numbers.

So will this directly get more women in technical fields overall? Not really. But will it get more women in technical fields at the companies everyone pays attention to? Most likely.

As someone who used to work for the sort of company who would be on the other side of the table at this event, I think everyone is looking at this from the wrong angle.

There are very few women in tech to begin with, and yet the court of public opinion is constantly trying to beat up big tech companies over this. As if they can somehow snap their fingers and suddenly hire a much larger percentage than they already do. I think they would if they could, but its kinda a pipeline problem.

As such, I don't think events like this are really about making it easier for women to get ahead in line and find jobs in tech.

Rather, its about giving these companies, who are desperate to increase the numbers of women in tech on their payrolls, an environment where they can actively and directly recruit from the small pool of qualified women that are out there.

The Tri-valley is a good choice. Except the rent here has been growing steadily and is becoming unaffordable for many.

It wasn't their infrastructure. They stole that. The oil company paid for the rights to extract the oil and invested heavily in creating the necessary infrastructure. The Venezuelan government could have argued that the contract made by the previous government was not made in good faith and taken it to international court for arbitration. Instead, they stole everything and kicked out all the people who knew how to run and maintain things.

Venezuela nationalized (stole) the oil industry from private businesses and kicked out all the foreigners. They then drained all the money, leaving nothing for maintenance. Even if they had left money for repairs, it would not have mattered since they had kicked out most of the people who knew how to do the job. Oil infrastructure is not something you can just let run without constantly working to keep it running. As time went by, more and more of the equipment broke down, causing their overall output to drop at a steady pace.

For other types of businesses, they instituted price controls. The problem was, price cap on goods were below cost. So a small business had the choice of operating at a loss or not operating at all. Shops were seized by the government for hoarding because they refused to sell at a loss. This effectively destroyed what middle class remained.

But sure, blame the USA.

Who has a reason to cover for the lab leak? Only China since no one else has anything to gain from a coverup. For this to be possible would require that they have infiltrated our intelligence offices at the highest level, which is absurd. So either the claim is bullshit or our country is already controlled by the CCP. Which seems more likely?

When you're deploying E2EE at scale, how you handle and recover from the myriad of error conditions almost becomes more important than the success path. There are so many things that can break E2EE in the wild, and if you don't pay enough attention to those (or handle them in a user-unfriendly way) its only a matter of time before a lot of ordinary people in countries you've never visited suddenly start to complain that the product is completely broken.

AFAIK, the OMEMO spec doesn't talk much about this at all. The only mentions of this in the spec appear to range from "don't handle it gracefully" to "its a TODO for this other spec we haven't published or accepted yet."

Imagine an iterative development process going something like this:
- Start with XMPP as a baseline
- Develop an efficient binary encoding, because sending large chunks of XML between low-end smartphones was stupid circa 2010
- Redesign the login/setup process because you paid dearly for every round-trip packet back in those days
- Continue to add features all on your own, for a decade, not looking to someone else's protocol implementation as a guide

At this point, it probably only resembles XMPP if you're looking at a debug dump of the protocol messages as only a WhatsApp-side app developer would even be able to. Even if XMPP now has many common features, the implementations have diverged so far that there's likely nothing in common anymore.

Also, when you're running a system with millions to billions of users, you tend to find and solve issues in ways that might not actually match how someone chatting with their 10 friends would have done it.

That suggests the original charge was bogus. Probably a case of the cop demanding ID for no reason and the guy refusing because California is not a stop and identify state.

The arson and looting during BLM protests would like a word with you.

Good point. If it was federal property, that's an issue. Though I believe if that prohibition is ever seriously challenged, the law would be tossed. Not something I've ever been concerned with since I don't have a CCW, though I clearly need to avoid making a side trip to the post office on range day.

Knowing the San Francisco Chronicle and Police, they were probably standard ball ammo and standard size magazines, instead of reduced capacity magazines sold with newer guns. Standard capacity magazines are not illegal. Using the "expanded magazine" description is to make it sound scary. Also, having a gun in your car is not necessarily illegal. It has to be unloaded and locked up (in a case or other means).

Neither were you, you fucking donut.