Non-minority here. IMHO, the question is valid and should not be flagged. It’s ok to look for/ask about a version of it where a particular demographic feels more represented/included. That does not invalidate the site or the people who don’t belong to such groups, and having the question flagged so fast only raises suspicions over the alleged neutrality of the site regarding gender, etc.

I'm of the general opinion that people should be free to make their own sub-communities, and even within reason restrict access to others. Say women in tech want a male-free space? Well fine.

The issue is, what then about "white men in tech"? Do they get to have a group to themselves, to discuss issues from, dunno, "dealing with tech Feminazis", or whatever white men in tech struggle with? What about white supremacists in tech? Elite SEs against influx of cheap junior labour?

I'm personally not a member of any such "selective" groups and for these reasons feel a bit ambivalent about them.

But as i say, go ahead as far as I'm concerned...

> Say women in tech want a male-free space? Well fine.

> The issue is, what then about "white men in tech"? Do they get to have a group to themselves, to discuss issues from [...]

An interesting observation that white men having their own space is an "issue" whereas any other collective is not an issue.

As i say, neither bothers me too much. But I'd imagine various groups that want their own space would not like their complement making a space just for themselves, and not letting them in.

GP's reasoning is by modus tollens.

Concerning this topic I commonly see the logic:

If P, then Q. Not Q. But still, P.

Last paragraph is the reason why I don't have kids

I entered into parenthood with similar trepidation, but my fears turned out to be unjustified. It definitely means having different experiences, but it's waaaay more fun than I thought it would be.

Same for me. I was telling my wife that we have freedom, money and time. No need to plan anything.

We have two kids and I do not regret one second what we have today, and one second what we used to have.

Equally superbe times in our lives, I wild not go back, and I wild not change what we did.

There is nothing from evolutionary point of view more important than having children. It would be highly unusual if nature didn't make that experience overall speaking as one of best things in life.

And yet, all the studies of people with children show that they make you less happy, while they are around, although more happy later in later, presumably once they have moved out. Years of relief built up I guess (just kidding, more likely the benefits of having an extended close family when you are older).

Speaking for myself, I know that I would hate to have my freedom taken away by having children. I also know that my sister, who has a four year old and a one year old, has been miserable and exhausted for much of the last four years.

I think there's a difference between happiness and fulfillment. Parenthood unlocks a new level of feelings I never experienced before.

I cannot accurately describe the joy that fatherhood brings me.... despite the reduced sleep and increased stress.

By a magnitude of 10x, Fatherhood has surpassed anything i have experienced prior.

I'm curious about these studies, how they measure happiness, and the possible confounding factors. I was really happy before kid (singular), and I'm still really happy. Happier, I think, then I would have been otherwise? I don't really know how to measure that.

As a not-yet-made-it startup guy it definitely feels like playing on "expert mode". But with a supportive partner and some careful life choices, it feels pretty good. It helps that my cofounder has a kid almost the same age as mine, and we've been going through this together.

Happiness is overrated. Like picking a food to eat because it's sweeter.

If you could choose between a future where your happiness doubled but one of your loved ones died, or the unadjusted future, which would you prefer?

Moral framings like this are pointless. That's a scenario that's never going to happen, so why worry about it? Instead, we have a real question to ask:

Which of these would you choose?

A. Have children and be less happy, more stressed, and have less money and less free time for your a ~25 year stretch somewhere between ages 20 and 60.

B. Don't have children, be less happy, poorer, much busier, and more stressed during those years, but potentially more happy in your old age.

The point is the realization that happiness is not the most essential thing in thing. My hypothetical is meant to be similar to the choice between two futures, one, where you have one more loved one and maybe less happiness, and the other where you have one fewer loved one and maybe more happiness - i.e the choice to have a child or not.

Happiness is a kind of short term thing. Life has better things to offer in my view.

>If you could choose between a future where your happiness doubled but one of your loved ones died, or the unadjusted future, which would you prefer?

You'd really have to hate your loved ones for that first option to be viable.

Being a parent with two small kids in a foreign country and no family support (plus, you know, the usual global pandemic), it has definitely been the worse experience of my life. My wife doesn't work, money is not a problem but the lack of sleep and freedom to do a lot of things is hard to swallow.

Nature plays a big role in it: I really felt like having kids (which surprised me) and I sure will do everything I can to protect them, but my life is a constant fight with depression.

There is probably the opposite mechanism at play: having invested years of pain in them, you value your kids the more time passes.

I'm sure things will improve once they're 4-5 and they're a bit better behaved / we can start sleeping again / we can start having some time for ourselves as well.

Glad to hear. That comment was in jest, of course!

With kids, the soul crushing happens up front, and then it gets more rewarding.

Sort of the opposite story.

If you really allow me to be honest (and a bit harsh): you seem to believe to be entitled with life being a fair game. It isn't. Human nature is very diversified, and there will be those that won't give a damn to what you consider to be ethical behavior. I can understand that - it took me some time to find the balance between protecting myself against ill-intentioned people while not shutting everyone out.

You seem to worry on the long story with the fact that the "bad guy" is still on the loose. I'll be honest again: this seems like you're unconsciously trying to find justification to get even with him - after all, preventing other from "potentially fall in to his trap" sounds way better than, say, "get personal justice" - or (let's face it) "revenge".

Sorry for the hard tone, but I think mellowing the words will lead you to wasting time, money (and possibly reputation - let's remember how good this person is on that) on a rotten past which already taught you valuable lessons that seem to have helped on your career.

Instead, focus on your present and future. Life is short, and you certainly have people and endeavors that deserve your attention. Move on and have a great day!

Can I buy a server and only pay after I mine its price in bitcoins with it? :-)

(pretty please with sugar, don't take this joke seriously)

I'd love Kinect + Oculus Rift puzzles: you'd have the board surround you, and manipulate the tiles with your hands. This would convince me that the future arrived! :-)

Heh, my current struggle is precisely trying to have tiles with different colors for each value (my last attempt fell 2 cycles short of achieving it). David Crane's DPC chip is indeed impressive (like pretty much everything he did on the Atari), and would at least free one register and shave enough to allow it, but I'd like to do that with "standard" Atari hardware. Thanks for the suggestion anyway!

I get your point, but I must say that the Apple II had LISA (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazer%27s_Interactive_Symbolic_...), which wasn't half bad for the machine - guess I was a luckier 13 year old, because I happened to have stumbled upon a copy :-)

Also, developers who had a bit more of resources (e.g., minicomputers) even used them to emulate 8-bit systems (unlikely to have been done for the Atari, due to the complexity of TIA, but a textbook case is how Bill Gates and Paul Allen developed the Altair Basic using Allen's 8080 emulator for the PDP-10: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altair_BASIC).

Glad you liked it! I spent some (fun) time to squeeze the different width tiles in ways that would work well on different sizes, some working better than the others. If someone wants to improve upon it (the tiles are human-editable here: https://github.com/chesterbr/2048-2600/blob/master/tilegen.r...), I'd be happy to take a look!

Awesome, thanks for the (impressively quick) fix! Already merged and built into the repo binary.