In other news, they found out that if you bring a forklift to the gym you lift a lot heavier weights, but build less muscle...

Most retail businesses will add the tariffs on their existing inventory. This is normal and it's not to "make a quick buck", but to be able to restock. In some cases they may be able to absorb one restock cycle with profits (to get a price advantage over competitors), but given that retail margins are usually low, if something got stupidly high increases like a 20% or 50% tariff, you need to plan ahead or you'll end up understocked

They turn them on in *picosecond* pulses, about 1000 of them per second. That means that a single millisecond of total operation will happen after 11 days of continuous operation, and they most likely will turn this on only during an electrical thunderstorm rather than all the time. If you do the matt it's about 1W of power usage.

wait, arrow functions? That's not a Python feature, that's something in JS

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To give you one short example, "Unfortunately, the overwhelming majority of humanities and social sciences lean left (about 95%), which creates enormous confirmation bias, changes what’s being studied, and maintains myths like social constructionism and the gender wage gap", which I think you'll agree contains the implied statement [the gender gap is a myth]. In the footnote it says that the well known numbers are a result of bad averaging, but "For the same work though, women get paid just as much as men".

However, there is widely accepted research that even compensating for variables to avoid other factors, there is still a (smaller) pay gap. Not just the "left leaning social sciences" but also the US government, and that's why Google can be sued for such a thing.

So we could leave that at "the essay has a mistake", which probably can happen to anyone writing an essay or a line of code as in your example. But what are the consequences of this specific mistake:
  * It denies the existence of the very thing Google is claiming in court to be trying to address
  * It denies and actual known problem that affects ~30% of the employees of Google. That denial is alienating to that people affected by the problem (as a short sighted person I would feel alienating to hear someone saying "medical insurance shouldn't cover prescription glasses, short sightedness is a myth").
  * Getting public, it alienates also a huge segment of the public (including potential hires)

So, he made a wrong statement, that fuels legal problems to his employer, causes bad PR, and alienates a large percentage of his coworkers making it harder to put it on a team. It would have been surprising if they didn't fire him.

There are actually many other incorrect reasonings in the essay (including taking known correlations which are true data, and giving them causality and meaning that are not known science, and using those to justify applying practices that promote equality.

This happens, placebo effect works as good with alcohol as with other drugs. Not just that, different cultures have different behaviours associated to alcohol intake, and placebo drunk people tend to take the behaviours from their culture, which appears to imply that many (although not all) of the effects of alcohol are cultural.

For a second I read the "Android" in the headline as talking of a humanoid robot instead of the smartphone OS, and it was a really good base for a sci-fi story

Sorry for the summary. I sent this yesterday and sunday looked more like "next week"

I can provide you with this english link. This has not been reported in english speaking media yet, sorry for not having something better but this is breaking news yet. https://gist.githubusercontent...

Just FTR, the group organizing this election is the government of the city of Buenos Aires. which is not run by the Kirchner but one of the opposition parties

I meant... helium